I'm not saying that wouldn't be great, but based on their patent, I'm fairly certain they believe they've solved the problem for now. You know how much helium costs, especially the amount you need for an MRI machine?
MRI machine is only going to need one pass around the book. The rest of the work is the data processing. Costs would have to come down *drastically* though for this to be feasible on a large scale. Probably still much cheaper to cut the bindings off books and run them through a high-speed scanner.
If we've purchased the hardware, we should not be required to join any sort of program (in your example, Apple's Enterprise program) to deploy apps to the phones. My language may not be eloquent, but the argument stands. You own the hardware once the sale is made, and shouldn't need anything from Apple to get your own apps on to it.
Or you have the user submit the data online and print out a barcode (1/2D) they can bring in and have scanned by someone at the DMV or where ever to lookup the record. Or the barcode is sent to their mobile device to be shown and scanned.
Isn't it smart to take advantage of a country's wage disparity to get cheap goods until the point comes (no more cheap oil) where it's cost effective to manufacture back at home? It's not like we've forgotten how to manufacture here in the US, it's just not cost effective yet (you know we have millions of pounds per year of chicken wings shipped from China to the US because the farm labor is cheaper?). In the end, China's quality of life will rise, the costs to the US will rise, and equilibrium will be reached again (you'll see manufacturing move back to US soil).
Which works fine until the lower 90% can't support themselves in a first-world country that only had jobs that pay third-world salaries.
If somebody can do something cheaper than you can, and is willing to do it, then there is nothing wrong with it.
And if the government steps in and creates barriers to unrestricted free trade (as it should), there's nothing wrong with that. Only a fool supports unrestricted capitalism.
Don't be surprised if someone comes out with an unsupported patch for XP that fixed the ADF problem. There's enough money riding on the issue with millions of installed XP boxes that someone is bound to do it.
But some of us who are doing well *are* particularly interested in supporting Wikileaks. I've already emailed offering dedicated servers and rackspace at several major POPs in the US, Asia, and Europe.
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I'm not saying that wouldn't be great, but based on their patent, I'm fairly certain they believe they've solved the problem for now. You know how much helium costs, especially the amount you need for an MRI machine?
This method is for books in academic libraries where it isn't feasible to saw the binding and use a traditional scanner.
MRI machine is only going to need one pass around the book. The rest of the work is the data processing. Costs would have to come down *drastically* though for this to be feasible on a large scale. Probably still much cheaper to cut the bindings off books and run them through a high-speed scanner.
On a long enough timeline, the rate of survival always drops to zero. Stop worrying so much.
The Mobile Defense app provides this functionality on several smartphone platforms: http://www.mobiledefense.com/
If you didn't know (I just stumbled on this the other day): http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
If we've purchased the hardware, we should not be required to join any sort of program (in your example, Apple's Enterprise program) to deploy apps to the phones. My language may not be eloquent, but the argument stands. You own the hardware once the sale is made, and shouldn't need anything from Apple to get your own apps on to it.
For now Android is a toy while the iphone is well ahead as a tool to get work done
A toy that lets us develop our own datacenter management tools and deploy them to our employees without having to suck Apple's App Store dick.
Check out the battery capacity (1400mAH) but how long it lasts. Power savings is one of the awesome features of snapdragon.
Or you have the user submit the data online and print out a barcode (1/2D) they can bring in and have scanned by someone at the DMV or where ever to lookup the record. Or the barcode is sent to their mobile device to be shown and scanned.
It causes that economy to invest heavily in economical local manufacturing.
Isn't it smart to take advantage of a country's wage disparity to get cheap goods until the point comes (no more cheap oil) where it's cost effective to manufacture back at home? It's not like we've forgotten how to manufacture here in the US, it's just not cost effective yet (you know we have millions of pounds per year of chicken wings shipped from China to the US because the farm labor is cheaper?). In the end, China's quality of life will rise, the costs to the US will rise, and equilibrium will be reached again (you'll see manufacturing move back to US soil).
If somebody can do something cheaper than you can, and is willing to do it, then there is nothing wrong with it.
And if the government steps in and creates barriers to unrestricted free trade (as it should), there's nothing wrong with that. Only a fool supports unrestricted capitalism.
Gotta pay the bills somehow. Equipment/servers/etc. isn't free.
This sounds like a job for Wikileaks to host.
Because I trust the disk's ECC over that provided by ZFS?
My god man! Are you not slipstreaming SP3, all the hotfixes, etc into your install disk? That should cut your install time down to 30 minutes.
Don't be surprised if someone comes out with an unsupported patch for XP that fixed the ADF problem. There's enough money riding on the issue with millions of installed XP boxes that someone is bound to do it.
But some of us who are doing well *are* particularly interested in supporting Wikileaks. I've already emailed offering dedicated servers and rackspace at several major POPs in the US, Asia, and Europe.
Agreed. It was awesome when Unobtanium was mentioned, as if James Cameron was winking at the audience.
I went with 11 friends to go see it, so I'm sure we'll make up for your ticket ;)
Even in 2D it's an amazing film visually. You stay 'till the credits and see how many texture artists there were? And their IT department was huge!
That's just as bad as running SQL Server under a virtual machine (SQL Server thinks it has committed the data to disk when it hasn't). *shivers*