To those (many, many)/.ers shaking their heads in disgust over the "only winner" comment...
I think it is fair to say that one of the big selling points for hyrbrids would be that you can save some money. People are hyper-aware of fuel prices right now. The idea is whatever helps move people to cleaner and more efficient transportation is a good thing. By touting "savings" you can get people on board who don't give a rat's rear end about the environment. As long as it works, do you really care if they don't have the proper attitude?
Or you can be like a lot of/.ers and tax gas until it's $8.00 a gallon, or just issue a decree that all the citizenry will be issued 2 Segways per family, and that's it...
You're telling me, brother! We have a similar situation (about 10-15 "real" users in the whole place). Our needs are actually very simple, the primary one being a shared contact/customer list for email and phone purposes. However, the boss wants the "latest and greatest" from Microsoft. Oh, well, he's paying for it...
God Forbid the student's may run across people who might post ideas that run counter to the church.
I thought the idea was to curtail their writing blogs, not reading them. I think I see your point, in that they may see negative responses to their blogs? (Disclosure: I have not RTFA yet.) If that's the case, what the school really needs to do is ban their Internet access. Or maybe ban reading off school property.
You know what's worse than his opinions, and how he forms his ideas? I'll tell you.
It's taking those opinions and ideas, and chopping them up into tiny paragraphs. Paragraphs that contain 2 to 3 lines each. Then these paragraphs stretch over the width of the page.
The Header that is not a Header
Another pet peeve: text that is clearly a header, but is in the same font size and style as all the other text. I guess they have yet to master the <H1> tag.
I used the Amiga Workbench 1.2 for a few years. The Amiga offered multi-tasking at the time and, whaddya know, overlapping windows. Wow! Here are 3 actual screenshots of my old Workbench. (Sorry about the lame ads and stuff.)
Bad things
4 colors unless you had the RAM to spare, and then I think you could only use up to 16 on the workbench
horrible "skinny" pixels, unless you had some kind of VGA adaptor/card, and a VGA monitor of course
very few applications lent themselves to actually windowing on the desktop; most would use a separate screen (where you could have more colors, different resolutions, etc.) which you could switch to with a key combination (like Alt-Tab)
The Amiga made somewhat a home for itself in the video industry. Back in the late '80s, the conventional wisdom was that IBM compatibles were business oriented, Macs were print and publishing oriented, and the Amiga was video oriented. It was not that long ago (2-3 years) that one of my cable channels "blanked out" for a moment, leaving an image of Amiga Workbench 3.x on the screen:)
My post will be off topic, and I expect to be modded down and perhaps have my karma negatively affected, but that's OK.
BUT how could people modify this, this... whatever it is Insightful, and/or Informative? I think there are some things in there I could agree with, but I'm just not sure.
I'm glad you're teaching your kid not to talk to strangers, but maybe you need a few more beers on that back porch, or maybe a lot less.
Ah, I see now - this is how Google is going to add to online books collection. Imagine, now authors' works can be indexed, searched and read even before they're finished!
(Since it's hard to determine demeanor from a post - I meant this to be funny).
But the were beaten to the WWW, too. Microsoft was pulled into it dragging their feet, kicking and screaming. MS is really good at playing catch up, though, basically by buying (and assimilating:) whatever they need. So, if "served" apps takes off, watch for MS to buy some existing technology, and offer that.
I remember reading (maybe in Wired) about a fellow who announced that he was creating a blog about pain medications, like Vioxx etc. This was just after the news came out that such drugs had caused serious heart problems. He was hoping to make some good money off the context-sensing ads, since trial lawyers were supposedly paying big bucks for click-thru traffic from people looking to sue. He made it quite plain that it was a most cynical ploy; he cared nothing for the subject, but just wanted the ad dollars. I can't find anything about this kind of thing now. If anyone knows much about the subject, I would be interested.
I am aware that companies but up "blogs" about their products to supposedly generate interest, but this was a case of just one guy out to cynically make some money.
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I think it is fair to say that one of the big selling points for hyrbrids would be that you can save some money. People are hyper-aware of fuel prices right now. The idea is whatever helps move people to cleaner and more efficient transportation is a good thing. By touting "savings" you can get people on board who don't give a rat's rear end about the environment. As long as it works, do you really care if they don't have the proper attitude?
Or you can be like a lot of /.ers and tax gas until it's $8.00 a gallon, or just issue a decree that all the citizenry will be issued 2 Segways per family, and that's it...
I'm always fascinated by the capacity of the US citizen to asked to be taxed further.
I think you meant : 50|\|7...?
You can always use my model: "write anywhere, run once!"
If only you would synergize your paradigms, you would get it...
What does this mean exactly? When I want to edit a Word document I have to be online?
Don't worry, you will have an off-line version called, um, Word.
You're telling me, brother! We have a similar situation (about 10-15 "real" users in the whole place). Our needs are actually very simple, the primary one being a shared contact/customer list for email and phone purposes. However, the boss wants the "latest and greatest" from Microsoft. Oh, well, he's paying for it...
...I squandered all my mod points on various topics, when I could have used all them them on you: -5, Lame
I thought the idea was to curtail their writing blogs, not reading them. I think I see your point, in that they may see negative responses to their blogs? (Disclosure: I have not RTFA yet.) If that's the case, what the school really needs to do is ban their Internet access. Or maybe ban reading off school property.
In Soviet Russia, anyone who owned a typewriter was required to send a sample page to the government.
No.
In Soviet Russia, writer types you.
You know what's worse than his opinions, and how he forms his ideas? I'll tell you.
It's taking those opinions and ideas, and chopping them up into tiny paragraphs. Paragraphs that contain 2 to 3 lines each. Then these paragraphs stretch over the width of the page.
The Header that is not a Header
Another pet peeve: text that is clearly a header, but is in the same font size and style as all the other text. I guess they have yet to master the <H1> tag.
Thing like that just cheese me.
Just pop it in the microwave, should be good.
I used the Amiga Workbench 1.2 for a few years. The Amiga offered multi-tasking at the time and, whaddya know, overlapping windows. Wow! Here are 3 actual screenshots of my old Workbench. (Sorry about the lame ads and stuff.)
Bad things
The Amiga made somewhat a home for itself in the video industry. Back in the late '80s, the conventional wisdom was that IBM compatibles were business oriented, Macs were print and publishing oriented, and the Amiga was video oriented. It was not that long ago (2-3 years) that one of my cable channels "blanked out" for a moment, leaving an image of Amiga Workbench 3.x on the screen :)
Ah, yes - Sid Meier's "Water Baron." What a classic! Played it for hours...
My post will be off topic, and I expect to be modded down and perhaps have my karma negatively affected, but that's OK.
BUT how could people modify this, this... whatever it is Insightful, and/or Informative? I think there are some things in there I could agree with, but I'm just not sure.
I'm glad you're teaching your kid not to talk to strangers, but maybe you need a few more beers on that back porch, or maybe a lot less.
...was physicists around the world collectively slapping their foreheads.
Ah, I see now - this is how Google is going to add to online books collection. Imagine, now authors' works can be indexed, searched and read even before they're finished! (Since it's hard to determine demeanor from a post - I meant this to be funny).
But the were beaten to the WWW, too. Microsoft was pulled into it dragging their feet, kicking and screaming. MS is really good at playing catch up, though, basically by buying (and assimilating :) whatever they need. So, if "served" apps takes off, watch for MS to buy some existing technology, and offer that.
I am aware that companies but up "blogs" about their products to supposedly generate interest, but this was a case of just one guy out to cynically make some money.
...I plan to file suit against any /.ers that disagree with my posts.
Soon to be available at a WalMart near you!
I agree with some of the child posts - oil companies are really energy companies, one would hope.
You know, if you ask them if they're a sex bot, and they are, they HAVE to tell you!
If it's that bad, why should I care about 880 free megs of file hosting?
...can it run Linux?