Dishes can be painted to match with the existing surrounds - making them blend in fairly easily.
I was in Siena, Italy - a city that didn't develop during the Renaissance after losing a war to Florence - and there were dishes all over that were painted to match the stone and brick work of that city.
If a city that old can have dishes without looking bad or distracting, I think a house in New York will be okay.
Never give up on the easy solution - it's probably the best one.
Wow, two knighted musicians with completely different views of this new fangled contraption.
Sir Paul McCartney, you might remember him as the one with weird haircut from the Beatles, thinks record companies don't get the internet and are killing music. He's abandoned his label and is pushing forward on his own.
A trip to Mars would not be very different than, say, boarding one of three old wood ships to sail due west. We know that Columbus lied to his crew and faced some pretty serious consequences before stumbling onto the West Indies. We also now that a lot explorers just out and out FAILED, usually paying with their lives and the fortunes of those that had backed them.
None of the readers of these pages really expects NASA to get every planetary exploration right, do they? We've all read about the failures caused by human error - hell, we've mocked them with reckless abandon. If an organization cannot get everyone to agree to metric or english measurements, how can we expect them to get the crew component right every time?
As for all the comments about sub crews - does that give us an idea of how the entire operation should go? A large ship, capable of handling a large and diverse group of individuals. Give them enough room to have their cliches or swinger parties - whatever. It will be more expensive, but sometimes added cost is directly proportional to probability of success (Vista notwithstanding).
Elevator pitches are supposed to be short - you have less than a minute to make someone invest more time in understanding you product or proposal.
Bill states that he needs minutes to sit us down and explain blah, blah, blah.
For F**k's sake, at least throw out "We've learned to copy better," "We admit that XP will always be full of holes and changed everything to give ourselves a head start to the bad guys," "It's pretty." Anything other than giving us a pie chart where the light grey shows the amount of time of hanging out and the dark grey shows the amount of time "kickin' it."
I'm not sure Bill would be a convincing sales guy at CompUSA.
If five years down the road the hardware (or even software) part of the business isn't contributing, it can easily be jettisoned.
It would seem that this device is a testament to the company's skill in hardware and software. Have not a lot of people pointed out that this is essentially a Mac computer in a smaller package? This isn't a app layer on top of Symbian or Palm OS - this is a variant of the OS running on millions of computers today. And I wouldn't say that Apple, Inc. is exactly losing money on the computer business. Weren't people complaining a year ago that the move to Intel was a sign of the end? Seems like there were a lot of MacBooks sold the 2nd half of last year.
If your point is that it appears Apple is trying to turn a corner, I agree. It wouldn't be the first time they took a gamble at reinventing themselves, and this looks like a good way to start.
All the jokes about call centers and slurpee machines on the moon aside, this "promise" by the Indian government says something for that generation of American engineers working in the 60s. With little of the know-how or technology available, those folks went from politician soundbite to one giant step in less than a decade. If the Indians start today, they're promising to take 14 years. Any of originals still alive will be celebrating the 51st anniversary! Simply amazing.
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Dishes can be painted to match with the existing surrounds - making them blend in fairly easily.
I was in Siena, Italy - a city that didn't develop during the Renaissance after losing a war to Florence - and there were dishes all over that were painted to match the stone and brick work of that city.
If a city that old can have dishes without looking bad or distracting, I think a house in New York will be okay.
Never give up on the easy solution - it's probably the best one.
Wow, two knighted musicians with completely different views of this new fangled contraption.
Sir Paul McCartney, you might remember him as the one with weird haircut from the Beatles, thinks record companies don't get the internet and are killing music. He's abandoned his label and is pushing forward on his own.
History would be a good guide here.
A trip to Mars would not be very different than, say, boarding one of three old wood ships to sail due west. We know that Columbus lied to his crew and faced some pretty serious consequences before stumbling onto the West Indies. We also now that a lot explorers just out and out FAILED, usually paying with their lives and the fortunes of those that had backed them.
None of the readers of these pages really expects NASA to get every planetary exploration right, do they? We've all read about the failures caused by human error - hell, we've mocked them with reckless abandon. If an organization cannot get everyone to agree to metric or english measurements, how can we expect them to get the crew component right every time?
As for all the comments about sub crews - does that give us an idea of how the entire operation should go? A large ship, capable of handling a large and diverse group of individuals. Give them enough room to have their cliches or swinger parties - whatever. It will be more expensive, but sometimes added cost is directly proportional to probability of success (Vista notwithstanding).
Elevator pitches are supposed to be short - you have less than a minute to make someone invest more time in understanding you product or proposal.
Bill states that he needs minutes to sit us down and explain blah, blah, blah.
For F**k's sake, at least throw out "We've learned to copy better," "We admit that XP will always be full of holes and changed everything to give ourselves a head start to the bad guys," "It's pretty." Anything other than giving us a pie chart where the light grey shows the amount of time of hanging out and the dark grey shows the amount of time "kickin' it."
I'm not sure Bill would be a convincing sales guy at CompUSA.
...he just can't fling chairs as far.He's not as sweaty either
It would seem that this device is a testament to the company's skill in hardware and software. Have not a lot of people pointed out that this is essentially a Mac computer in a smaller package? This isn't a app layer on top of Symbian or Palm OS - this is a variant of the OS running on millions of computers today. And I wouldn't say that Apple, Inc. is exactly losing money on the computer business. Weren't people complaining a year ago that the move to Intel was a sign of the end? Seems like there were a lot of MacBooks sold the 2nd half of last year.
If your point is that it appears Apple is trying to turn a corner, I agree. It wouldn't be the first time they took a gamble at reinventing themselves, and this looks like a good way to start.
The runways.
All the jokes about call centers and slurpee machines on the moon aside, this "promise" by the Indian government says something for that generation of American engineers working in the 60s. With little of the know-how or technology available, those folks went from politician soundbite to one giant step in less than a decade. If the Indians start today, they're promising to take 14 years. Any of originals still alive will be celebrating the 51st anniversary! Simply amazing.
to give the people who like to argue about politics a forum to do so.