An elevator with a Google interface would be similarly easy to use, if slightly more text heavy, and there'd be some buttons off to the right hand side advertising what's on other floors based on the floors you've already visited, what you were talking about when you came into the elevator and what you're carrying.
Reportedly, Ballmer now prefers to take the stairs
Sir, the Karma Police would like to speak with you. Seems you've been spreading ill will throughout teh interweb. Please hand over your online ID immediately;o)
/wanders off blathering on about how Thom Yorke was correct and humming Karma Police in his head.
Yea but their TV service sucks the sweat off of a donkey's balls around here- they've got a shitty remote control and user interface, their programme guide only goes to midnight that night (even if it's 11.30 at night you can only see the next programme or two), their video quality on some minor stations is quite frankly shocking and they accidentally cut me off in the middle of a Grand Prix weekend when they went to disconnect someone else at the same box.
The eircom line was something I got to get broadband on when NTL weren't doing digital services in our area. I've had so much trouble trying to get decent information services here it makes me cry....
It is stealing, morally 100% and probably by law, too. They didn't find the phone in a public place, they found it in the back of a NY taxi. They had the means of returning the phone to the owner sitting 3 feet in front of them (the driver would surely have taken care of it) but they decided to hang on to the phone and to even stupidly start using it.
There are countried with very harsh penalties for this kind of stupid shit, and I find it hard to criticise them when I see shit liek this.
I've been saying for a long time that the means by which data will go in and and out of our homes and businesses is going to just boil down to one means, and that'll either be a single copper or optical wire with a router at the end, or a dish that communucates with a mast a few miles away.
Living in Ireland at the moment , I've got a telephone line (which i'm soon dropping), cable internet, and a satellite TV dish all sending and receiving data at various times. They're all branded under different names etc- NTL, Sky, Eirom etc, but they;re all just doing the same thing. All these people are doing is selling me different ways of getting information in and out of here, and they're charging me a combined total of about 100 a month to do it, too.
The sooner someone can give me a line that will serve my internet, telephony and TV needs with one 50 a month connection the better.
It seems we pay so much for our data connections, and very little for the content. That missing 50 that would no longer be leaving my pocket for the shareholders of various telecoms every month would do very nicely in the pockets of content providers, whose channels I would be able to subscribe to and whose programmes would be downloaded to my hard disk while I sleep. Maybe then they'll be more content to let me watch their content without watching the commercials.
Anyway my bottom line is- simpler infrastructures means less money paying for various telecoms, and more money left over every month to pay for subscriptions and content.
It'd be nice to see what Google do with this- what if they created a kind of API for spreadsheets that lets you use them as a data source. For example, if you have an ecommerce site, you might want to calculate product prices on a spreadsheet (which would be easier to develop than creating a web-based solution), or the cost of some other commodity times handling costs etc, and just save those online for your site to pull as XML.
Administrative workers in general are quite used to spreadhseets, and this might give them a familiar base to work from if they have to administer prices or other online data regularly, and should hopefully reduce error rates (though not according to one other story about spreadsheets posted last night).
I know that you can already pull spreadsheet data to a site (using ODBC I think) but this'd provide an adminstrative function as well via google spreadsheets.
1. Google went evil.
2. Google cared how much you earned, and could use that in some way, assuming you weren't lying on the spreadsheet.
3. You and everyone else used some kind of standard way of laying out your finances, with standard colums and names that could then be crawled by an engine. And even then how's the engine supposed to determine if you're totting up your expense account, or a global business merger.
RTFC. I didn't say that ads weren't currently skippable, I just suggested that if it did eventually happen in mainstream players, then increased relevance and decreased volume of ads would at least be something.
"It's nice now, no more tampax fliers in my mailbox, but it's handy to know Staples has a new SD 1G card available for my camera at less than $100"
And Amen to that - also, I wish this kind of selectiveness could be applied to TV. It might even assuage any eventual non-skipability of ads in mainstream players, something which makes me grind my teeth.
If advertisers could show me one thirty second ad that actually interested me every, oh 15 mins or so, instead of shotgun-blasting me with Hair, Perfume, Nappy, Toilet Roll, Personal Finance, Cars, Personal Finance, Hair, Insurance, Personal Finance........... and instead hit me with ads for computer parts, movies, techie magazines, websites, jobs sites, games, furniture, design magazines, TVs and gadgets (and if it has to be personal grooming, at least make it male stuff).
They'd get me watching a lot more TV, they'd probably sell me more stuff (meh) in the long run, and everyone'd be happier (kinda).
An added feature might be the ability to add your penis size and how long you can maintain an erecion to your personal profile. That'd save the spam companies a fuckload of bandwidth, and keep my inbox near empty.
Hmm, I don't want to dive in and be too pig headed about this, but I reckon PDF adoption and acceptance as a standard is something that Adobe are doing pretty well at all by themselves. I mean, there is no other universally acceptable document type that does what PDF does.
What I'd be afraid of if I were Adobe (and it's been echoed a few comments back up the page) is what would happen if MS started tugging on the chain a bit too hard and started bending and shaping PDF to it's own end- creating some kind of Office-PDF format and basically fucking the whole standard up. It wouldn't be the first time they took a standard *cough*HTML*cough* and made the world see things through MS's eyes.
/goes back to 'fixing' web page so it views ok in IE.
Same boat here, curent machine is a P4 2.8 and 256mb Geforce FX5700 and a gig of RAM. I need my new machine for editing HD video (guaranteed to bring any PC to it's knees) and the obligatory gameagé (can't wait for spore, if it's half the game it looks), so yup, sounds good to me too:)
Exactly- there's a danger that you may be associated with a crime or criminality because of your relationship.
What happens if someone goes for a job in, um let's just say a security firm, or a bank, or the army, and they get turned down because your estranged half brother committed credit card fraud 5 years ago on the other side of the country.
Even worse, that pervy loner uncle that no-one ever talks about much rapes and kills a girl, and they come looking for you because you're a match.
Even worse in some ways (you can always get an alabi for the occasional criminal accusation, burglary etc) is when big business gets it's hands on the records (which is pretty much inevitable), and withold mortgages from honest people with dishonest relatives.
Compulsory DNA database? Pffffft. I'm glad I'm Irish, and not for the first time.
Hmm, as far as I can work out, there's a teeny doppler for our instance here; when a body is moving at even, say 25% the speed of light and emits an electromagnetic wave in the opposite direction to travel, the wave still travels at 100% of the speed of light- it's speed or wavelength isn't changed by the emitted object.
If i'm right, the speed at which the plane is moving does not affect the speed at which the light is emitted from it....... so in effect the emitter may as well be stationary and the receiver is moving towards it, giving us a tiny doppler, about a 10th or a hundredth of a waveform.
Hehe, okay I reckon that the poster was joking, but forgot to hint with a smilie. Anyway about the plane travelling about a milimeter in that time , I thought in my head it'd probably be closer to hundredths of a milimeter rather than milimeters, so geek that I am, I did the maths:
speed of light = 299 792 458m/s
speed of passenger plane = about 400 knots = 205.777778 meters / second
(according to boeing, then google conversion tools)
Time it takes light to go 100 m = 100/299,792,458 = 1/299,792.458 second
Distance a plane travels in that time = 205/299,792.458 = 6.83e^-4 m , 0.000683 m = 0.683mm
Looks like you were right on the money (or in the right order of magnitude) talking about moving a mm or two.
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An elevator with a Google interface would be similarly easy to use, if slightly more text heavy, and there'd be some buttons off to the right hand side advertising what's on other floors based on the floors you've already visited, what you were talking about when you came into the elevator and what you're carrying.
Reportedly, Ballmer now prefers to take the stairs
'It's time to kick ass and chew gum, and i'm all outta....... oh wait'
Meh
I won't use Macromedia Flash because it turns the microphone on.
.swf that uses the mic or cam must get permission every time.
Bullshit, the mic is set to be off as default, and each
Two months late? More like 5 years early!
Sir, the Karma Police would like to speak with you. Seems you've been spreading ill will throughout teh interweb. Please hand over your online ID immediately ;o)
/wanders off blathering on about how Thom Yorke was correct and humming Karma Police in his head.
True, though they're not anywhere in Ireland AFAIK. That said, NTL and teh 'west are merging aren't they?
*goes off to check facts*
Yea but their TV service sucks the sweat off of a donkey's balls around here- they've got a shitty remote control and user interface, their programme guide only goes to midnight that night (even if it's 11.30 at night you can only see the next programme or two), their video quality on some minor stations is quite frankly shocking and they accidentally cut me off in the middle of a Grand Prix weekend when they went to disconnect someone else at the same box.
The eircom line was something I got to get broadband on when NTL weren't doing digital services in our area. I've had so much trouble trying to get decent information services here it makes me cry....
*runs off sobbing*
It is stealing, morally 100% and probably by law, too. They didn't find the phone in a public place, they found it in the back of a NY taxi. They had the means of returning the phone to the owner sitting 3 feet in front of them (the driver would surely have taken care of it) but they decided to hang on to the phone and to even stupidly start using it.
There are countried with very harsh penalties for this kind of stupid shit, and I find it hard to criticise them when I see shit liek this.
I've been saying for a long time that the means by which data will go in and and out of our homes and businesses is going to just boil down to one means, and that'll either be a single copper or optical wire with a router at the end, or a dish that communucates with a mast a few miles away.
Living in Ireland at the moment , I've got a telephone line (which i'm soon dropping), cable internet, and a satellite TV dish all sending and receiving data at various times. They're all branded under different names etc- NTL, Sky, Eirom etc, but they;re all just doing the same thing. All these people are doing is selling me different ways of getting information in and out of here, and they're charging me a combined total of about 100 a month to do it, too.
The sooner someone can give me a line that will serve my internet, telephony and TV needs with one 50 a month connection the better.
It seems we pay so much for our data connections, and very little for the content. That missing 50 that would no longer be leaving my pocket for the shareholders of various telecoms every month would do very nicely in the pockets of content providers, whose channels I would be able to subscribe to and whose programmes would be downloaded to my hard disk while I sleep. Maybe then they'll be more content to let me watch their content without watching the commercials.
Anyway my bottom line is- simpler infrastructures means less money paying for various telecoms, and more money left over every month to pay for subscriptions and content.
This isn't supposed to be a rival to the internet, but instead to make telephony and other data services (including TV) more like the internet. RTFA.
I'd say a large, large chunk of the weight is batteries alone, balancing things out a bit
That said, at 17lbs, it's much less the Acer Aspire as the Acer Perspire.
Maybe they can get Sure to sponsor them.
They're missing some vital informtion from their observations........what's the damned weather like?
It'd be nice to see what Google do with this- what if they created a kind of API for spreadsheets that lets you use them as a data source. For example, if you have an ecommerce site, you might want to calculate product prices on a spreadsheet (which would be easier to develop than creating a web-based solution), or the cost of some other commodity times handling costs etc, and just save those online for your site to pull as XML.
Administrative workers in general are quite used to spreadhseets, and this might give them a familiar base to work from if they have to administer prices or other online data regularly, and should hopefully reduce error rates (though not according to one other story about spreadsheets posted last night).
I know that you can already pull spreadsheet data to a site (using ODBC I think) but this'd provide an adminstrative function as well via google spreadsheets.
Sounds like it'd be an interesting way to work.
They could only do that if
1. Google went evil.
2. Google cared how much you earned, and could use that in some way, assuming you weren't lying on the spreadsheet.
3. You and everyone else used some kind of standard way of laying out your finances, with standard colums and names that could then be crawled by an engine. And even then how's the engine supposed to determine if you're totting up your expense account, or a global business merger.
Aha, okay, didn't get what you meant by go climb a mountain _^^. I'm not that lazy :p
*is just back from swim in sea*
RTFC. I didn't say that ads weren't currently skippable, I just suggested that if it did eventually happen in mainstream players, then increased relevance and decreased volume of ads would at least be something.
"It's nice now, no more tampax fliers in my mailbox, but it's handy to know Staples has a new SD 1G card available for my camera at less than $100"
And Amen to that - also, I wish this kind of selectiveness could be applied to TV. It might even assuage any eventual non-skipability of ads in mainstream players, something which makes me grind my teeth. If advertisers could show me one thirty second ad that actually interested me every, oh 15 mins or so, instead of shotgun-blasting me with Hair, Perfume, Nappy, Toilet Roll, Personal Finance, Cars, Personal Finance, Hair, Insurance, Personal Finance........... and instead hit me with ads for computer parts, movies, techie magazines, websites, jobs sites, games, furniture, design magazines, TVs and gadgets (and if it has to be personal grooming, at least make it male stuff).
No more Shiela's Wwheels ads for this male, 23, non-driver.
They'd get me watching a lot more TV, they'd probably sell me more stuff (meh) in the long run, and everyone'd be happier (kinda).
An added feature might be the ability to add your penis size and how long you can maintain an erecion to your personal profile. That'd save the spam companies a fuckload of bandwidth, and keep my inbox near empty.
5. Profit!!
6. Want it? Fuck off, it's Mine!
Hmm, I don't want to dive in and be too pig headed about this, but I reckon PDF adoption and acceptance as a standard is something that Adobe are doing pretty well at all by themselves. I mean, there is no other universally acceptable document type that does what PDF does.
/goes back to 'fixing' web page so it views ok in IE.
What I'd be afraid of if I were Adobe (and it's been echoed a few comments back up the page) is what would happen if MS started tugging on the chain a bit too hard and started bending and shaping PDF to it's own end- creating some kind of Office-PDF format and basically fucking the whole standard up. It wouldn't be the first time they took a standard *cough*HTML*cough* and made the world see things through MS's eyes.
I knew the revolution wasn't gonna be televised :p
Same boat here, curent machine is a P4 2.8 and 256mb Geforce FX5700 and a gig of RAM. I need my new machine for editing HD video (guaranteed to bring any PC to it's knees) and the obligatory gameagé (can't wait for spore, if it's half the game it looks), so yup, sounds good to me too :)
Exactly- there's a danger that you may be associated with a crime or criminality because of your relationship.
What happens if someone goes for a job in, um let's just say a security firm, or a bank, or the army, and they get turned down because your estranged half brother committed credit card fraud 5 years ago on the other side of the country.
Even worse, that pervy loner uncle that no-one ever talks about much rapes and kills a girl, and they come looking for you because you're a match.
Even worse in some ways (you can always get an alabi for the occasional criminal accusation, burglary etc) is when big business gets it's hands on the records (which is pretty much inevitable), and withold mortgages from honest people with dishonest relatives.
Compulsory DNA database? Pffffft. I'm glad I'm Irish, and not for the first time.
Hmm, as far as I can work out, there's a teeny doppler for our instance here; when a body is moving at even, say 25% the speed of light and emits an electromagnetic wave in the opposite direction to travel, the wave still travels at 100% of the speed of light- it's speed or wavelength isn't changed by the emitted object.
If i'm right, the speed at which the plane is moving does not affect the speed at which the light is emitted from it....... so in effect the emitter may as well be stationary and the receiver is moving towards it, giving us a tiny doppler, about a 10th or a hundredth of a waveform.
In my math induced excitement, i forgot my manners and my
tags. Here are the missing tags.
Hehe, okay I reckon that the poster was joking, but forgot to hint with a smilie. Anyway about the plane travelling about a milimeter in that time , I thought in my head it'd probably be closer to hundredths of a milimeter rather than milimeters, so geek that I am, I did the maths: speed of light = 299 792 458m/s speed of passenger plane = about 400 knots = 205.777778 meters / second (according to boeing, then google conversion tools) Time it takes light to go 100 m = 100/299,792,458 = 1/299,792.458 second Distance a plane travels in that time = 205/299,792.458 = 6.83e^-4 m , 0.000683 m = 0.683mm Looks like you were right on the money (or in the right order of magnitude) talking about moving a mm or two.