...does impact on security (real and perceived, which impacts on trust).
One can say that it is more important to trust the provider of the data storage than to trust the location. What makes any particular location untrustworthy if not the security that one can bring to bear? One provider may simply not be able to be as disciplined with their security protocols than another, while being in an area that is deemed to be more secure...like comparing Palo Alto and Namibia.
Some users are also sysadmins or tech support...like me. IMHO all "power users" would highly appreciate that list, and the insight provided by the comments following in the original article.
..is what this is when one looks at it objectively. As such, it will have its niche in business and education where user "interference" is less desireable.
...and why should we care to not make the rest of his existence insignificant except as a footnote in history? He has already achieved all the historical significance he "deserves".
So far as being easy to use goes, I give Mepis more marks than its more popular cousin Ubuntu. Those that have tried it will understand. And I am not a KDE fan boy, not with my fond memories of RH 7.2
IMHO some categories of consumers have more use for "standalone" PDA's than convergent devices (Doctors, coaches and PE teachers come to mind. You can include any group that need to access & input information during their job more than make/take calls). This is not to say that the phone part of the convergent device isn't good to have, but as a person who coaches, I have more need for databases and note-taking from my device than multi-tasking...though how the PRE does it is too sweet.
I'm still using my TX, and won't switch to an i-anything until it: a. Has a gradebook and lesson planning program with a desktop companion, and please, don't tell me to use FMTouch. b. Multi-tasks like the PRE. c. Plays ogg without jailbreaking. Why should I "rip over"?
I AM waiting for a GSM Pre in the "West", with the unlocked option of course. I am certain some who have i-loped will go back home:)
The value of Palm's IP is what will decide who "gets" it, and what happens next. Those of us who have migrated elsewhere, will be back....
You could also look at using Mepis as the iso of choice. It even has the option while running as a live cd to install on to a usb drive. I have found that it has superior hardware recognition. KDE is the window manager, so if you are partial to gnome, you have been warned!
This type of technological development is certain to have military applications for both the "trench" soldiers, as well as for unguided/drone flights. That will be one type of "progress". Another will be in the automotive and airline industry with regard to automatic pilots/piloting. It is easy to conceive that this type of tech advance could be converged with GPS technology to give a more realistic and safer experience in this regard.
Progress: sure it is conceivable that this is what it could very well be in the long run. It is more likely that the "other" applications will see the light of day first.
If any home grown yokels actually register, they deserve all that they will get from the Federal Government. It brings to mind those questions on customs forms about having certain items.
This is plenty different from cable tv. The media types are different as well as original method of content delivery, expectations by the consumers of the media, and lastly, the infringement on the flow of cognition within the reader, as originally planned by the (original) author/s and copyright holders.
So they are saying basically that since it is a "computational service" that they have the rights to the question that I used in order for them to do that particular computation? How does that work exactly?
Isn't that a little like saying that since you are a chef and I give you the ingredients for chicken pot-pie and tell you to make it since I don't know how, and you do so, you have the rights to the pie you made?
As far as attribution, I don't have a problem saying that they helped me, once they can also state their attributions.
Depends what kind of team setting you are talking about. If you are talking about team sports, IMHO a lessening of creativity will make a team less likely to succeed. Communication of ideas tend to be burst/spontaneous and situation oriented especially when presented with a shifting/changing situation (opposing team changing defense or offense) and being more focused will not necessarily help that: the focus may only be on the route to be run and its expected variations, and therefore may not be aware of the opponent just ever so slightly tipping their hand at a novel approach.
Then again...it might help the superior performer go through various permutations of the situation quicker. Imagine a more "focused" Michael Jordan in his hey-day (yipes! Cavs fans) or Ronaldo (from Manchester united, if u don't know who he is, replace with Tom Brady).
Could be something to it...and then there will be one more thing to ban.
I was struck by the comment at the end of the article by a trademark attorney that no-one had opposed it when it was initially published. I think that points to a fundamental flaw in the process: who knows of or sees these things in order to oppose them?
Perhaps that is the clouded thinking that permeates the USPTO and the tech entities that use them to further their cause.
Microsoft, for Zune. Or Apple. Don't look too shocked by the latter. We can see how much it wants to lock you into iTunes... and how many of us so willingly let them.
It is true that paying teachers more will not by itself work. Disclaimer: my mother and a few of my cousins are/were teachers.
One of the "problems" is that less Arithmetic is being taught, and "mental arithmetic" in particular, you know, when you actually had to do calculations in your head. That type of mental ability is important in gauging the relative speed of an incoming projectile as well as keeping several bar tabs "in your head" as a bartender.
In our (western world) desire to make things easier for our children, we have made it harder for ourselves. Imagine not being able to figure out how many laps on the track to run if you had to go 3000 metres...or if your team scored 68 points in a basketball game, but your starters only contributed 12,4,5,2, and 7 points respectively and you had to take 5 minutes to work out how much the bench contributed?
Imagine growing old in a society where the children that are raised in households where the ability and value of making change for a dollar is not done are the ones that are contributing to Social Security/National Insurance... shudder....
That is the society that most in the western world currently exist.
Let us look in the mirror and see the problem. Then get off our behinds and make sure that our kids do work that will make them smarter.
Please correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't Google within their rights to criticize whomsoever they choose? Their "stature" may influence the relative importance of whatever they are saying, but citizens of the internet world should be able to speak up about what they feel like without being judged by the fact that they spoke. If the hullabaloo is about the content or points of what was said, then fine, so be it. But that is not what is going on here.
Any one who has studied arousal levels and their relationship to performance would have been able to tell them that relationship to creativity. In fact, anyone who has a reasonable knowledge of sports would tell you the same.
Think about the occasions when the best performances tend to be seen (not "are seen", for you nit-pickers out there, but "tend") and it would be in the occasions when the athlete was highly motivated. Also, the times when you utterly destroyed your previous scores in (your favourite game here) you would have been at your creative best.
No new news here, Move on.
It may be that Microsoft is serious about supporting ODF, but I would not be surprised if it is somehow "crippled" or poorly implemented within the word processor and spreadsheet.
Somehow I don't feel that you will be able to open an.odf made in Word with OpenOffice and there will be no "artifacts" or some loss of formatting, and vice versa of course. There are already issues with odf's opening across operating systems (usually a font issue causing discrepancy in formatting), and I am sure that Microsoft will use this opportunity to "make its case" for the "superiority" of its native format, whatever that format may be.
If this will not be, it will be a most astute business move. Making their office suite cost less would be even better.
And to your knowledge the average user normally interacts with the "ALT" key enough to be comfortable, right. Same thing for the up arrow that most people don't even know exists in XP, nor can figure out what it does by seeing the icon.
Remember the days of DOS when you needed a book to figure things out? Today the book is known as the Help File, and is as widely read the Constitution.
This is only a "non-story" only if one is not alarmed at the great potential lapse in border protection shown in this particular card. The second to last paragraph of the referred to article reads:
"Last year, the Government Accountability Office reviewed technology similar to that used in the passport cards. The report found low read rates and said the technology should be used only to track goods, not to identify people." Elsewhere in the article it is clearly stated that these cards can be read at up to 40 feet away, and could be cloned. If that last part doesn't bother you or make this a "real story" then, if you don't mind, kindly send me one of your bankcards so I can help monitor your financial situation.
Most comments are missing the "point" made in the end of the article about mobile devices, which IMHO means that this "technology" is better suited for that type of device, NOT "regular" computer terminals. Perhaps not even ATM's at this time because shoulder surfers will probably remember your password easier too.
For those who use mobile devices as an integral part of their job (accessing databases, records, etc.), this technology makes sense.
"In a blog posting, Jason Matusow, director of corporate standards at Microsoft, said the new controversy over ODF proves that what really matters are the desktop applications, not the file formats. "When you are speaking about document formats, you are really speaking about an adjunct technology to the applications, which are the real 'solutions' in this discussion," Matusow wrote."
So I suppose that Microsoft also shares Sun's position about desktop applications, and experience bears this out. See what are Microsoft's greatest sources of cash, and greatest sphere of influence: Their OS, and their flavours of Office. That latter is what the common man, and the common business worldwide have an exceedingly hard time withdrawing or migrating from. It helps that the document created with said applications cannot be 100% reliably opened with anything other than their applications. it's called "vendor lock", and MS is the item in the dictionary next to the word.
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...does impact on security (real and perceived, which impacts on trust).
One can say that it is more important to trust the provider of the data storage than to trust the location. What makes any particular location untrustworthy if not the security that one can bring to bear? One provider may simply not be able to be as disciplined with their security protocols than another, while being in an area that is deemed to be more secure...like comparing Palo Alto and Namibia.
Any guesses about when, and HOW this will this will be picked up by mainstream media?
Which network will do the first Orson Wells voiceover?
Maybe I'm a little slow,,,but could anyone tell me how come Microsoft isn't being sued/has not violated any of those patents?
Some users are also sysadmins or tech support...like me. IMHO all "power users" would highly appreciate that list, and the insight provided by the comments following in the original article.
L0ser, you are seriously trolling....
..is what this is when one looks at it objectively. As such, it will have its niche in business and education where user "interference" is less desireable.
...and why should we care to not make the rest of his existence insignificant except as a footnote in history? He has already achieved all the historical significance he "deserves".
So far as being easy to use goes, I give Mepis more marks than its more popular cousin Ubuntu. Those that have tried it will understand. And I am not a KDE fan boy, not with my fond memories of RH 7.2
IMHO some categories of consumers have more use for "standalone" PDA's than convergent devices (Doctors, coaches and PE teachers come to mind. You can include any group that need to access & input information during their job more than make/take calls). This is not to say that the phone part of the convergent device isn't good to have, but as a person who coaches, I have more need for databases and note-taking from my device than multi-tasking...though how the PRE does it is too sweet.
I'm still using my TX, and won't switch to an i-anything until it:
a. Has a gradebook and lesson planning program with a desktop companion, and please, don't tell me to use FMTouch.
b. Multi-tasks like the PRE.
c. Plays ogg without jailbreaking. Why should I "rip over"?
I AM waiting for a GSM Pre in the "West", with the unlocked option of course. I am certain some who have i-loped will go back home :)
The value of Palm's IP is what will decide who "gets" it, and what happens next. Those of us who have migrated elsewhere, will be back....
You could also look at using Mepis as the iso of choice. It even has the option while running as a live cd to install on to a usb drive. I have found that it has superior hardware recognition. KDE is the window manager, so if you are partial to gnome, you have been warned!
This type of technological development is certain to have military applications for both the "trench" soldiers, as well as for unguided/drone flights. That will be one type of "progress". Another will be in the automotive and airline industry with regard to automatic pilots/piloting. It is easy to conceive that this type of tech advance could be converged with GPS technology to give a more realistic and safer experience in this regard.
Progress: sure it is conceivable that this is what it could very well be in the long run. It is more likely that the "other" applications will see the light of day first.
If any home grown yokels actually register, they deserve all that they will get from the Federal Government. It brings to mind those questions on customs forms about having certain items.
This is plenty different from cable tv. The media types are different as well as original method of content delivery, expectations by the consumers of the media, and lastly, the infringement on the flow of cognition within the reader, as originally planned by the (original) author/s and copyright holders.
Or were you being sarcastic?
Good point on Android. We don't see the rate of development on it as we thought. Can they say why?
And double karma for the points about the kernel and Gnome & Kde
So they are saying basically that since it is a "computational service" that they have the rights to the question that I used in order for them to do that particular computation? How does that work exactly?
Isn't that a little like saying that since you are a chef and I give you the ingredients for chicken pot-pie and tell you to make it since I don't know how, and you do so, you have the rights to the pie you made?
As far as attribution, I don't have a problem saying that they helped me, once they can also state their attributions.
Depends what kind of team setting you are talking about. If you are talking about team sports, IMHO a lessening of creativity will make a team less likely to succeed. Communication of ideas tend to be burst/spontaneous and situation oriented especially when presented with a shifting/changing situation (opposing team changing defense or offense) and being more focused will not necessarily help that: the focus may only be on the route to be run and its expected variations, and therefore may not be aware of the opponent just ever so slightly tipping their hand at a novel approach.
Then again...it might help the superior performer go through various permutations of the situation quicker. Imagine a more "focused" Michael Jordan in his hey-day (yipes! Cavs fans) or Ronaldo (from Manchester united, if u don't know who he is, replace with Tom Brady).
Could be something to it...and then there will be one more thing to ban.
I was struck by the comment at the end of the article by a trademark attorney that no-one had opposed it when it was initially published. I think that points to a fundamental flaw in the process: who knows of or sees these things in order to oppose them?
Perhaps that is the clouded thinking that permeates the USPTO and the tech entities that use them to further their cause.
Microsoft, for Zune. Or Apple. Don't look too shocked by the latter. We can see how much it wants to lock you into iTunes... and how many of us so willingly let them.
sad but true, eh.
It is true that paying teachers more will not by itself work. Disclaimer: my mother and a few of my cousins are/were teachers.
One of the "problems" is that less Arithmetic is being taught, and "mental arithmetic" in particular, you know, when you actually had to do calculations in your head. That type of mental ability is important in gauging the relative speed of an incoming projectile as well as keeping several bar tabs "in your head" as a bartender.
In our (western world) desire to make things easier for our children, we have made it harder for ourselves. Imagine not being able to figure out how many laps on the track to run if you had to go 3000 metres...or if your team scored 68 points in a basketball game, but your starters only contributed 12,4,5,2, and 7 points respectively and you had to take 5 minutes to work out how much the bench contributed?
Imagine growing old in a society where the children that are raised in households where the ability and value of making change for a dollar is not done are the ones that are contributing to Social Security/National Insurance... shudder....
That is the society that most in the western world currently exist.
Let us look in the mirror and see the problem. Then get off our behinds and make sure that our kids do work that will make them smarter.
Please correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't Google within their rights to criticize whomsoever they choose? Their "stature" may influence the relative importance of whatever they are saying, but citizens of the internet world should be able to speak up about what they feel like without being judged by the fact that they spoke. If the hullabaloo is about the content or points of what was said, then fine, so be it. But that is not what is going on here.
Any one who has studied arousal levels and their relationship to performance would have been able to tell them that relationship to creativity. In fact, anyone who has a reasonable knowledge of sports would tell you the same. Think about the occasions when the best performances tend to be seen (not "are seen", for you nit-pickers out there, but "tend") and it would be in the occasions when the athlete was highly motivated. Also, the times when you utterly destroyed your previous scores in (your favourite game here) you would have been at your creative best. No new news here, Move on.
It may be that Microsoft is serious about supporting ODF, but I would not be surprised if it is somehow "crippled" or poorly implemented within the word processor and spreadsheet. Somehow I don't feel that you will be able to open an .odf made in Word with OpenOffice and there will be no "artifacts" or some loss of formatting, and vice versa of course. There are already issues with odf's opening across operating systems (usually a font issue causing discrepancy in formatting), and I am sure that Microsoft will use this opportunity to "make its case" for the "superiority" of its native format, whatever that format may be.
If this will not be, it will be a most astute business move. Making their office suite cost less would be even better.
And to your knowledge the average user normally interacts with the "ALT" key enough to be comfortable, right. Same thing for the up arrow that most people don't even know exists in XP, nor can figure out what it does by seeing the icon.
Remember the days of DOS when you needed a book to figure things out? Today the book is known as the Help File, and is as widely read the Constitution.
Most comments are missing the "point" made in the end of the article about mobile devices, which IMHO means that this "technology" is better suited for that type of device, NOT "regular" computer terminals. Perhaps not even ATM's at this time because shoulder surfers will probably remember your password easier too. For those who use mobile devices as an integral part of their job (accessing databases, records, etc.), this technology makes sense.
"In a blog posting, Jason Matusow, director of corporate standards at Microsoft, said the new controversy over ODF proves that what really matters are the desktop applications, not the file formats. "When you are speaking about document formats, you are really speaking about an adjunct technology to the applications, which are the real 'solutions' in this discussion," Matusow wrote." So I suppose that Microsoft also shares Sun's position about desktop applications, and experience bears this out. See what are Microsoft's greatest sources of cash, and greatest sphere of influence: Their OS, and their flavours of Office. That latter is what the common man, and the common business worldwide have an exceedingly hard time withdrawing or migrating from. It helps that the document created with said applications cannot be 100% reliably opened with anything other than their applications. it's called "vendor lock", and MS is the item in the dictionary next to the word.