One advantage you might want to consider is that one day Microsoft may "be forced" into an agreement with a digital rights enforcement organisation and have to prevent windows media centre from playing stuff that was not rented or licensed via Zune Market or one of the legal app stores. With XBMC running on some variant of Linux, the music and videos you can play today are likely to be playable 10 years from now.
Occasionally there are news about how sperm can become redundant and some unpleasant banter about men becoming extinct comes along. Can we conclude from these news that the opposite could happen, ie: stem cells from a man being set up to generate his own egg?
Slashdotters would then be able to reproduce asexually, which would be clear progress:)
If you are interested in "alternative" types of organisations, be sure to check out the Social Enterprise movement in the UK. Essentially, they are like cooperatives. They are meant to be profitable from selling their services, but a part of the profit needs to be reinvested in the community where they belong. www.socialenterprise.org.uk/
Some of these organisations are healthcare companies, started by doctors and nurses who get their funding from the National Health Service for the first year or 2 and then are expected to become self-sufficient from their sales to individuals and to the NHS. The NHS becomes smaller and hopefully easier to manage, and the local branches independently provide health care within their community.
I would be very interested in seeing photos of those dormitories, to compare them to the dormitories that Apple supplies to their workforce in the USA. Then they would be in a position to say that offshoring the work was beyond the matter of costs.
The less well off can still use the existing routes on the conventional lines, which will take longer and on older trains but will still exist once the high speed project is live. If the high speed train is a great success, then some capacity on existing lines can be made spare or re-allocated for regional and suburban services that currently run on the same lines as the intercity service. What I actually worry about is that the added capacity encourages more people and companies to have more trips into London, where they will use the tube to get to their final destinations and that is really hard to upgrade.
If we could go further in this out of the box thinking, changing the work hours to 7 a day and then 6 a day, with different people starting and ending work at different times would surely improve the overcrowding in all sorts of transport. If having a 4 day work week is too radical to consider, just changing the routine to having a day week with 6 hours work day with a minor or no stop for lunch would have a major impact in the quality of life.
no, not really. I was thinking of a labelling effort that could be made by the consumer, organised more or less in the same way as Slashdot has moderators and Reevoo has product reviews. Your point is taken though.
Well they don't make their own operating systems for PCs, but they both provide desktop software that syncs the contents of the PC with the mobile phone. I've used both and once given the admin rights to install and self-update, I really have no means of knowing what else they read from my drives and copy to the mobile phone and/or to a Nokia/RIM server.
I think it highlights the importance of a common labelling for software in the same way that other consumer products have. In the past I thought it was important to have software labelled for "phones home", "displays adverts", "closed source", now this would require "has government mandated backdoors".
The macbook air is not much bigger than 10" tablets, it's more expensive because it is a more complete product and it feeds Apple because they built it first. I'm sure there are other small laptops out there with long life batteries and SSDs, which I'd pick over any tablet out there if I were shopping with Perljedi.
Just get over the tablet fad and buy a MacBook Air or something similar. Saying "I want a tablet" as a starting point and then going on about how all the computer-y things that you want to do with the device just shows that you started off the wrong foot. Keep tissue at hand if you really feel compelled to poke the screen of all your gadgets.
It is possible that with VAT, income tax and other stuff the overall tax burden is more than 50% but the highest rates only apply to some of the income of some of the people.
People buying this kind of software and the services that go with it tend to become advocates of their choice. If you look for the Gartner Magic Quadrant analysis for small to medium enterprise ERPs you'll get the names of the most popular choices. You can investigate stuff starting from there and from the user communities that each product has. Gartner tends to work a lot for Microsoft in this kind of research so they will say that Dynamics AX is awesome. YMMV.
Just like with all things, time and a compelling reason is needed to adopt new practices. My mother disliked it when computers were introduced in her job and after retirement was not interested in using the home PC for leisure purposes. When the nest became empty, Skype became a necessity. Last time I visited, she was looking at the camera and saying "hmmm, this photo is too dark but I'll adjust the brightness when I get home"...once at home she was complaining the computer was "too damn slow!" to get anything done...
It just goes to show that "the long tail" can be reaaaally long. There's probably much more games and publishers than anyone imagined. I've spent just above the average and got more games than I have time to play.
"So, what do you think is broken about TV right now? "
I'm a spectator so maybe that question could be answered by a different type of stakeholder. The stakeholder who might be interested in using the Kinect to ensure that adverts stop while the spectators go to the toilet; or that stakeholder who wants internet streaming to be protected from skipping the commercials. That stakeholder will find plenty things broken in the current state of the TV technology.
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There is now consensus that it sucks to be poor, to live on small island states and arid regions.
Some change should become take place when richer countries start getting hit more regularly.
One advantage you might want to consider is that one day Microsoft may "be forced" into an agreement with a digital rights enforcement organisation and have to prevent windows media centre from playing stuff that was not rented or licensed via Zune Market or one of the legal app stores. With XBMC running on some variant of Linux, the music and videos you can play today are likely to be playable 10 years from now.
If the elephant goes extinct, what womb will be used to recreate them and their woolly cousins? hamsters'?
Occasionally there are news about how sperm can become redundant and some unpleasant banter about men becoming extinct comes along. Can we conclude from these news that the opposite could happen, ie: stem cells from a man being set up to generate his own egg?
Slashdotters would then be able to reproduce asexually, which would be clear progress :)
You can also get some immediate cash by selling that subsidised phone brand new in box while paying for it during the next 24 months.
If you are interested in "alternative" types of organisations, be sure to check out the Social Enterprise movement in the UK. Essentially, they are like cooperatives. They are meant to be profitable from selling their services, but a part of the profit needs to be reinvested in the community where they belong. www.socialenterprise.org.uk/
Some of these organisations are healthcare companies, started by doctors and nurses who get their funding from the National Health Service for the first year or 2 and then are expected to become self-sufficient from their sales to individuals and to the NHS. The NHS becomes smaller and hopefully easier to manage, and the local branches independently provide health care within their community.
Some have even suggested that it was on purpose.
The problem is the lectures, not the laptop.
There's an app for that.
well, they did get a biscuit and a cup of tea as bonus for their extra hours at night...
I would be very interested in seeing photos of those dormitories, to compare them to the dormitories that Apple supplies to their workforce in the USA. Then they would be in a position to say that offshoring the work was beyond the matter of costs.
How about that "some sort of an indicator" be shaped like a paperclip with big eyes?
The less well off can still use the existing routes on the conventional lines, which will take longer and on older trains but will still exist once the high speed project is live. If the high speed train is a great success, then some capacity on existing lines can be made spare or re-allocated for regional and suburban services that currently run on the same lines as the intercity service. What I actually worry about is that the added capacity encourages more people and companies to have more trips into London, where they will use the tube to get to their final destinations and that is really hard to upgrade.
If we could go further in this out of the box thinking, changing the work hours to 7 a day and then 6 a day, with different people starting and ending work at different times would surely improve the overcrowding in all sorts of transport. If having a 4 day work week is too radical to consider, just changing the routine to having a day week with 6 hours work day with a minor or no stop for lunch would have a major impact in the quality of life.
no, not really. I was thinking of a labelling effort that could be made by the consumer, organised more or less in the same way as Slashdot has moderators and Reevoo has product reviews. Your point is taken though.
Nokia and Rim don't make desktop software
Well they don't make their own operating systems for PCs, but they both provide desktop software that syncs the contents of the PC with the mobile phone. I've used both and once given the admin rights to install and self-update, I really have no means of knowing what else they read from my drives and copy to the mobile phone and /or to a Nokia/RIM server.
I think it highlights the importance of a common labelling for software in the same way that other consumer products have. In the past I thought it was important to have software labelled for "phones home", "displays adverts", "closed source", now this would require "has government mandated backdoors".
Why? Because an invitation to go on a date to the movies is more likely to be accepted than one to go to your home cinema.
The macbook air is not much bigger than 10" tablets, it's more expensive because it is a more complete product and it feeds Apple because they built it first. I'm sure there are other small laptops out there with long life batteries and SSDs, which I'd pick over any tablet out there if I were shopping with Perljedi.
Just get over the tablet fad and buy a MacBook Air or something similar. Saying "I want a tablet" as a starting point and then going on about how all the computer-y things that you want to do with the device just shows that you started off the wrong foot. Keep tissue at hand if you really feel compelled to poke the screen of all your gadgets.
However, average tax rates are quite high: about 50% of the gross income, including social security contributions
woah, calm down there. the income tax rates there are progressive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Germany#Income_tax_rate_in_2010
It is possible that with VAT, income tax and other stuff the overall tax burden is more than 50% but the highest rates only apply to some of the income of some of the people.
People buying this kind of software and the services that go with it tend to become advocates of their choice. If you look for the Gartner Magic Quadrant analysis for small to medium enterprise ERPs you'll get the names of the most popular choices. You can investigate stuff starting from there and from the user communities that each product has. Gartner tends to work a lot for Microsoft in this kind of research so they will say that Dynamics AX is awesome. YMMV.
Just like with all things, time and a compelling reason is needed to adopt new practices. My mother disliked it when computers were introduced in her job and after retirement was not interested in using the home PC for leisure purposes. When the nest became empty, Skype became a necessity. Last time I visited, she was looking at the camera and saying "hmmm, this photo is too dark but I'll adjust the brightness when I get home"...once at home she was complaining the computer was "too damn slow!" to get anything done...
It just goes to show that "the long tail" can be reaaaally long. There's probably much more games and publishers than anyone imagined. I've spent just above the average and got more games than I have time to play.
No worries. BBC says "Astronomers confirm 'Earth twin'"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16040655
Let's get going.
"So, what do you think is broken about TV right now? "
I'm a spectator so maybe that question could be answered by a different type of stakeholder. The stakeholder who might be interested in using the Kinect to ensure that adverts stop while the spectators go to the toilet; or that stakeholder who wants internet streaming to be protected from skipping the commercials. That stakeholder will find plenty things broken in the current state of the TV technology.
700000 years of bad luck?