"Additionally, they recommend the State establishes a centralised technology division to handle all their IT needs reducing redundancy and generating further savings."
Does that mean that they did not have an IT department before? I quess they had one for each location/unit, but even that thought seems rediculously ludacrus.
This raises the question of the range of what clolors thei own. Can I start selling my own soda with a logo that is a bit darker than the one from Coke? How about purple? And technically, doesn't wight light include red wavelenghts as well? My point: Where do you draw the line?
What does this article have to do with IT? Bad enough allready that regular IT articles have this stupid color, now they even try to use it for "other" stuff as well.
All that intro, and then you thorw that in there? No reason, no reference, no link, just that? I was all ready to read about WHY and HOW, but you didn't bother with that.
'At present, P2P software has too many times been hijacked by those who use it for illegal purposes to which the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed.'
It is rediculouse to say this about P2P, when there are tons of other examples, such as Guns, where their argument applies a 100 times more, but they don't do anything about it there!
Next thing you should do, is take a marketing claass. Its so obvious they are trying to attract investors, and if there is ANY chance at all that they get government funding for their project, they would be stupid not to persue it. That is also the reason why "national Security" is an overused buzzword, as you put it.
Actually, I did this while in school too, but that's a different matter. I know my spelling isn't the best, nor is my locomotion with my fingers, while I'm tired or drunk. But taking into account that English is my 2nd language, and that you understood what I said, is big enough of an accomplishment allready. I actually take it as a compliment that you imply that I went to school in the US (must be a pritty lousy school system, judging by your expectations).
Do they also provide free Electricyt, Phone, Water, and Garbage Removal up there? I don't understand why people think that having FREE wirless internet access is something that is a required thing of the future. It wouldn't surprise me of seeing wirless companies picking up the trend and offering wirless internet service (either through the same band as the voice service, or a different one), and people would pay a monthly subscrcription. That sounds more plausible than FREE.
We used to draw things on slides, and then project them with a slide projector out of our windows, when I was a kid.
We would draw swirfly ligns and project them onto the road at night to confuse cars driving by.
We would also draw funny faces and project it on our neighbours house. He would always open his window and yell at us. We drew the pictures such that him opening the window would be the "animated" part of our picture. I'll leave the themes we chose up to your immagination.
Bikes are no more affected by drugs than Baseball, Football, Soccer, track and field, swimming, you name it, there are drugs. It's only the sports that crack down on drug use that fight with the immage problem, such as the Olympics and Tour de France.
Would be nice if they used some sort of extrapolation of the original data points to make the animation more smooth. Currenlty, they just place a picture of the rider at each data point, which doesn't looke very attractive. Would be nice to see an animated picture of the pike and rider as well. But then again, this is a proof of concept for the Galileo project, and not a tool for the media.
I wonder if you could use generic RFID Tags (aka non-Unique) to track the progression of cars, and then use computers to adjust traffic lights such that the least time is lost waiting. Each intersection would have to know the cars approaching it from each side for about the next minute or so, and then on top of that a layer of algorithms that finds the best interconnected rythm for all traffic lights. The goal should be: As long as you go straight, you only have to stop once (in the beginning). Once you are in a bulk of cars that goes straight, you should always have green, untill you turn. At that point, you have to wait to move into the other pack of cars allready going straight. You can then use speed limits to to regulate saftey concerns, and at some points where timing is impossible to force a small delay. Any person speeding would only have to wait at the next traffic light, so that's another benefit. How hard would it be to do something like that, with the help of RFID?
Claiming that stability with an OS is something to brag about is stupid! That should be an inherrent task of an OS. You don't go around selling cars saying that it starts every time you try, and never randomly turns off while you are driving it (nor that the windows turn blue)! The ONLY reason why you say Windows 2000 is stable is b/c it's predecessores weren't, so it looks like a big thing.
Any windows operating system has the HUGE security issue. The only reason why we have more problems today then before is that Windows 95 and ME crashed before they could get infected (together with the fact of less broandband and internet in general). And once MS has fixed thier mistakes, they will turn around, and market that as a feat of their technology. That's like selling a car with a lock!
Now to a point where I agree with you: I've been running Windows 2000 since the day it was released as well, and I have regreted every day of it. However, it still wasn't enough to make me switch permanently to Linux. But that's due to my extreme lazyness.
Oh Great! Now we are at the point where we have NO WAY to distinguish between a GOOD SPAM and a REAL Bussines. This is one of the next big issues on the internet: Credibility. I know it has been an issue all along, but it is slowly moving more into the forground of the battles fought out in public.
Well, I'm sure if you are thinking of places like Alaska, sure, warehousing is cheap. Try the East or West coast metropolitan areas, and you might reconsider.
I think this would allow for a new market segment to be opened up to consumers. I could live in any part of the world that has one of those machines, and buy that last book from my favorite German author, for example. So especially for international puplishing, this is great. I wonder if it will do magazines as well?
Will stores such as Barns & Nobels or Borders addopt these machines, or try to prevent them? Looks like this is a great way for them to reduce inventory and floor display size, but this might in the long run open up more competition by stores such as UPSStore or Kinkos, or even Walmart.
To make it even more interesting, would Amazon benefit by just printing the book, and automatically shipping it, w/o the need for a warehouse, profit from this kind of operation? I know that this produciton mechanism can't be as cheap as mass printing, but if Amazon can eliminate (or not needing) a few (new) warehouses, that can cancle that cost difference quickly.
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... that was Sept. 1 of this year, or next year? Just wondering.
Does that mean that they did not have an IT department before? I quess they had one for each location/unit, but even that thought seems rediculously ludacrus.
This raises the question of the range of what clolors thei own. Can I start selling my own soda with a logo that is a bit darker than the one from Coke? How about purple? And technically, doesn't wight light include red wavelenghts as well? My point: Where do you draw the line?
What does this article have to do with IT? Bad enough allready that regular IT articles have this stupid color, now they even try to use it for "other" stuff as well.
All that intro, and then you thorw that in there? No reason, no reference, no link, just that? I was all ready to read about WHY and HOW, but you didn't bother with that.
I'm not sure if I want a computer that the review lables as ripe for a museum!
It is rediculouse to say this about P2P, when there are tons of other examples, such as Guns, where their argument applies a 100 times more, but they don't do anything about it there!
Ok, get a clue!
Next thing you should do, is take a marketing claass. Its so obvious they are trying to attract investors, and if there is ANY chance at all that they get government funding for their project, they would be stupid not to persue it. That is also the reason why "national Security" is an overused buzzword, as you put it.
Actually, I did this while in school too, but that's a different matter. I know my spelling isn't the best, nor is my locomotion with my fingers, while I'm tired or drunk. But taking into account that English is my 2nd language, and that you understood what I said, is big enough of an accomplishment allready. I actually take it as a compliment that you imply that I went to school in the US (must be a pritty lousy school system, judging by your expectations).
Do they also provide free Electricyt, Phone, Water, and Garbage Removal up there? I don't understand why people think that having FREE wirless internet access is something that is a required thing of the future. It wouldn't surprise me of seeing wirless companies picking up the trend and offering wirless internet service (either through the same band as the voice service, or a different one), and people would pay a monthly subscrcription. That sounds more plausible than FREE.
We used to draw things on slides, and then project them with a slide projector out of our windows, when I was a kid.
We would draw swirfly ligns and project them onto the road at night to confuse cars driving by.
We would also draw funny faces and project it on our neighbours house. He would always open his window and yell at us. We drew the pictures such that him opening the window would be the "animated" part of our picture. I'll leave the themes we chose up to your immagination.
Is Bittorrent the only thing that goes FASTER as it gets slashdotted, or are there other examples of this?
Bikes are no more affected by drugs than Baseball, Football, Soccer, track and field, swimming, you name it, there are drugs. It's only the sports that crack down on drug use that fight with the immage problem, such as the Olympics and Tour de France.
Would be nice if they used some sort of extrapolation of the original data points to make the animation more smooth. Currenlty, they just place a picture of the rider at each data point, which doesn't looke very attractive. Would be nice to see an animated picture of the pike and rider as well. But then again, this is a proof of concept for the Galileo project, and not a tool for the media.
Well, maybe I should have spelled out my conclusion, for people like you: This won't work, b/c of what I said above!
So if that's true, how will Mac users or *nix admins in any size company be able to read their E-mails?
I wonder if you could use generic RFID Tags (aka non-Unique) to track the progression of cars, and then use computers to adjust traffic lights such that the least time is lost waiting. Each intersection would have to know the cars approaching it from each side for about the next minute or so, and then on top of that a layer of algorithms that finds the best interconnected rythm for all traffic lights. The goal should be: As long as you go straight, you only have to stop once (in the beginning). Once you are in a bulk of cars that goes straight, you should always have green, untill you turn. At that point, you have to wait to move into the other pack of cars allready going straight. You can then use speed limits to to regulate saftey concerns, and at some points where timing is impossible to force a small delay. Any person speeding would only have to wait at the next traffic light, so that's another benefit. How hard would it be to do something like that, with the help of RFID?
Is this an event that could potentially be used to bring my friends who I want to convince to switch to Linux, of is this only for hardcore users?
Hey, wait a minute!
Claiming that stability with an OS is something to brag about is stupid! That should be an inherrent task of an OS. You don't go around selling cars saying that it starts every time you try, and never randomly turns off while you are driving it (nor that the windows turn blue)! The ONLY reason why you say Windows 2000 is stable is b/c it's predecessores weren't, so it looks like a big thing.
Any windows operating system has the HUGE security issue. The only reason why we have more problems today then before is that Windows 95 and ME crashed before they could get infected (together with the fact of less broandband and internet in general). And once MS has fixed thier mistakes, they will turn around, and market that as a feat of their technology. That's like selling a car with a lock!
Now to a point where I agree with you: I've been running Windows 2000 since the day it was released as well, and I have regreted every day of it. However, it still wasn't enough to make me switch permanently to Linux. But that's due to my extreme lazyness.
I wonder if that machine could make a life-sized sculputure of myself? Where shall I put it?
Since when do Airports come with audio cables? That's like dodging points for a graphics card w/o a speaker.
Oh Great! Now we are at the point where we have NO WAY to distinguish between a GOOD SPAM and a REAL Bussines. This is one of the next big issues on the internet: Credibility. I know it has been an issue all along, but it is slowly moving more into the forground of the battles fought out in public.
Well, I'm sure if you are thinking of places like Alaska, sure, warehousing is cheap. Try the East or West coast metropolitan areas, and you might reconsider.
I think this would allow for a new market segment to be opened up to consumers. I could live in any part of the world that has one of those machines, and buy that last book from my favorite German author, for example. So especially for international puplishing, this is great. I wonder if it will do magazines as well?
Will stores such as Barns & Nobels or Borders addopt these machines, or try to prevent them? Looks like this is a great way for them to reduce inventory and floor display size, but this might in the long run open up more competition by stores such as UPSStore or Kinkos, or even Walmart.
To make it even more interesting, would Amazon benefit by just printing the book, and automatically shipping it, w/o the need for a warehouse, profit from this kind of operation? I know that this produciton mechanism can't be as cheap as mass printing, but if Amazon can eliminate (or not needing) a few (new) warehouses, that can cancle that cost difference quickly.