Now imagine some way to plug your iPad into a docking station of some sort, for all the functionality you'd be looking for at home. A home computer that even your mom could upgrade would certainly have a market.
Commercials? Oh yeah, those pesky things they show on TV that I don't see anymore because I stream pretty much everything I watch these days off of Netflix:-P
Diplomats also damn well better be using secure ways to communicate, otherwise the "other guys" will find out things they shouldn't know. If anything this points a big neon arrow at problems in that area that most certainly need to be addressed, because if wikileaks was able to gain access to this info you can pretty much guarantee other countries can too.
Huh, I was under the impression that the only reason the robots on the Axiom didn't become sentient is because they were "fixed" when they started showing aberrant behavior, which in Wall-e's case led to him becoming sentient.
Then again there are plenty of things to nitpick about the movie reality-wise (I mean seriously, the Axiom just jettisoned trash into space instead of recycling?) but at least for me the heart of the story overcame all that. And IMO the "dancing in space" scene was one of the most beautiful scenes I've ever seen in a movie.
So every couple days someone asks "can I _please_ switch to Linux on my desktop? Please??"
Linux with a virtualbox install of a Windows OS would probably work great for all the Windows specific stuff, and would easier to maintain over the long haul.
Now the fun part starts: how much would it cost your company to make your mail service as reliable as Gmail? And from the fine article posted by the AC above:
It may sound bad, but Gmail does appear to have a reasonable amount of uptime, all considered. Following last fall's series of outages, a Google rep told the IDG News Service that Gmail suffers only about 10 to 15 minutes of downtime per month, giving it an average uptime rate of 99.9 percent. He noted that, according to some independent reports, on-premise e-mail systems tend to see twice the amount of offline time--anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes, on average, every 30 days.
Is Gmail for everyone? No, but it certainly is worth looking at for some companies.
Having used a Wacom tablet quite a bit to draw with, perhaps there are some form of grip available that he could wear to hold the stylus? Or perhaps he could grip the stylus with his working hand, and guide it with his burned hand?
Kind of off topic, but I thought I would mention that after watching a guy in class with no arms work in Maya (a 3D application made by the same folks who make 3dsmax) I will never complain about any software package being hard to use ever again. As hard as it is to learn Maya, I just can't imagine working with it using only my feet.
FYI, Netflix works just fine from Firefox running under Windows (at least it does on my home XP box). And no, aside from inside of a virtual host there is no way to watch Netflix instant streaming movies with Linux.
Or there'd be intelligent oceanic life, or something along those lines.
There is intelligent oceanic life, but it just has pretty much no need for tools, and aside from those crazy octopi, no real way to create/wield tools anyway.
Ahh but see, they are simply narrowing things down to an upper bound. So now we can say there are between 1 and X billions of habitable planets out there!
We look at the other parts of life around us that are just beginning to use tools...
Actually I would put forth that we are just really really good at killing anything that might even remotely be a (tool using) competitor. Take Neanderthals for example; they had cave art, tools, and bigger brains than us, and I'd guess that we are a big reason why they no longer exist.
Well, a surface that doesn't immediately kill us while we wear minimal life support apparatus would be a good start. Even if we can't breath the air, being able to wear regular clothing and no bulky gloves would be a big step up.
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Now imagine some way to plug your iPad into a docking station of some sort, for all the functionality you'd be looking for at home. A home computer that even your mom could upgrade would certainly have a market.
Don't forget that some are forced into it:
http://articles.cnn.com/2004-07-26/world/iraq.bombers.force_1_suicide-bombers-suicide-car-bomb-attacks-attack-missions?_s=PM:WORLD
I recently bought a standard def roku box on ebay that I use to watch Netflix streaming through my tv capture card on linux; works like a charm!
Commercials? Oh yeah, those pesky things they show on TV that I don't see anymore because I stream pretty much everything I watch these days off of Netflix :-P
This is what we get for cutting (nyuk nyuk) shop classes from school curricula.
Stretch? Wait, just how invasive has the Freedom Patdown gotten anyway?
Diplomats also damn well better be using secure ways to communicate, otherwise the "other guys" will find out things they shouldn't know. If anything this points a big neon arrow at problems in that area that most certainly need to be addressed, because if wikileaks was able to gain access to this info you can pretty much guarantee other countries can too.
The O stands for orificer, right?
Huh, I was under the impression that the only reason the robots on the Axiom didn't become sentient is because they were "fixed" when they started showing aberrant behavior, which in Wall-e's case led to him becoming sentient.
Then again there are plenty of things to nitpick about the movie reality-wise (I mean seriously, the Axiom just jettisoned trash into space instead of recycling?) but at least for me the heart of the story overcame all that. And IMO the "dancing in space" scene was one of the most beautiful scenes I've ever seen in a movie.
...with the exception of Macs in one department...
Of course if that one department just happens to contain the CEO, who is a big fan of gmail and google calendar....
So every couple days someone asks "can I _please_ switch to Linux on my desktop? Please??"
Linux with a virtualbox install of a Windows OS would probably work great for all the Windows specific stuff, and would easier to maintain over the long haul.
Now the fun part starts: how much would it cost your company to make your mail service as reliable as Gmail? And from the fine article posted by the AC above:
It may sound bad, but Gmail does appear to have a reasonable amount of uptime, all considered. Following last fall's series of outages, a Google rep told the IDG News Service that Gmail suffers only about 10 to 15 minutes of downtime per month, giving it an average uptime rate of 99.9 percent. He noted that, according to some independent reports, on-premise e-mail systems tend to see twice the amount of offline time--anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes, on average, every 30 days.
Is Gmail for everyone? No, but it certainly is worth looking at for some companies.
When was the last time Gmail was taken down by a virus? Or a power outage? Or a hardware failure?
Actually I always thought this would be a great way to mess with people. "Look, my computer is possessed!"
Maybe they could harness all that useless button pushing to generate electricity?
Having used a Wacom tablet quite a bit to draw with, perhaps there are some form of grip available that he could wear to hold the stylus? Or perhaps he could grip the stylus with his working hand, and guide it with his burned hand?
Kind of off topic, but I thought I would mention that after watching a guy in class with no arms work in Maya (a 3D application made by the same folks who make 3dsmax) I will never complain about any software package being hard to use ever again. As hard as it is to learn Maya, I just can't imagine working with it using only my feet.
FYI, Netflix works just fine from Firefox running under Windows (at least it does on my home XP box). And no, aside from inside of a virtual host there is no way to watch Netflix instant streaming movies with Linux.
Why the amount of water that weighs 1kg of course!
Or there'd be intelligent oceanic life, or something along those lines.
There is intelligent oceanic life, but it just has pretty much no need for tools, and aside from those crazy octopi, no real way to create/wield tools anyway.
Ahh but see, they are simply narrowing things down to an upper bound. So now we can say there are between 1 and X billions of habitable planets out there!
Or even better, someplace that a genetically altered human could live?
We look at the other parts of life around us that are just beginning to use tools...
Actually I would put forth that we are just really really good at killing anything that might even remotely be a (tool using) competitor. Take Neanderthals for example; they had cave art, tools, and bigger brains than us, and I'd guess that we are a big reason why they no longer exist.
Well, a surface that doesn't immediately kill us while we wear minimal life support apparatus would be a good start. Even if we can't breath the air, being able to wear regular clothing and no bulky gloves would be a big step up.
Except of course the simple fact that perhaps they are just like us, and are too timid to leave their own solar system?
Just wait until the elevator to the top is finished in 2018.