1) Slideshare is kind of like flickr, but for presentation files instead of single photos. Useful for sharing that kind of file without requiring an installed client software. Good for SEO and to publish the presentations nearly in the same way they were made with your favourite office suite, instead of adapting them to HTML for publishing on the www.
2) YMMV
3) there's a significant amount of content there that will no longer require adobe flash. It's therefore more likely to be made available for ever and ever, instead of expiring if Adobe changes their corporate direction or something like that. Also a good example of what people think is a global trend, to replace flash with HTML 5.
Imagine a system where, when a plane touches down, the energy is absorbed by a ground-based system that is then used to assist in takeoff for the next plane.
I believe that you'll struggle to defend ownership of that idea. Reasonable as it sounds, I think it brings the disadvantages of rental to an industry with millions of consumers used to owning their stuff. Do we need more financial services getting in the way of good technical solutions?
I would prefer to have always the same battery pack installed, having an internal combustion engine feeding the battery when needed and then having buried power rails installed in locations in the city where many minutes and hours are spent waiting for the traffic to move. It would be a mix of an induction hob with the Opel Ampera (AKA Chevrolet Volt).
It's not the mobile phone hardware that is catching up with desktop PCs. It's the expectations of the consumer that have been getting comfortable with a watered-down computing experience, one that feels like a reasonable trade of lower complexity for lower capability.
Speaking of ZX Spectrum, one of odd the things that I like about going through www.worldofspectrum.org (and its scandinavian mirror) is that the VBspec emulator will read the.tap files at the same pace the real life tapes would. This means you can actually type LOAD "" , get a cup of tea, and wait 4 minutes for the thing to load while the funny tape loading noise comes out of the home-cinema speakers that are plugged in to the PC:)
Print to PDF, I guess. You might also want to keep an eye on future developments at www.readitlaterlist.com Maybe someone finds the motivation to port that application to your ebook reader.
Try thinking about where do your salespeople's work ends and when should other client-facing people be the main interface between client and company. Agree on a deadline and ensure the client relationship is "owned" in a way that complies with that deadline. I think it's important to ensure that commission is paid a fairly long time after the actual contract signature, so that salespeople are kept honest. On the other hand, I think it's important that account managers and support are given sales targets to keep them aligned with the needs of the business.
I have worked in companies where the first sale is handled by a specific team, who hands over the client to support and account managers, who will take all the commission thereafter. As long as the deadline is clear for everyone involved and the commissions are based on margin, people can live with this kind of agreement without losing sight of the long term goals of the company.
[...]It sounds like they were supported by two Chinooks, that came in a bit later, and those *were* seen by the Pakistani air defense, but the first group in weren't seen. A lot of other countries are going to want to figure out how we did this.
I suspect that a phone call from Obama might make a few helicopters 100% invisible to radar for a reasonable period of time.
In my friend's case there's truth in that. Since he learned how to copy only the main feature of a DVD to a hard disk losing the menus, FBI warnings and trailers in the process, he will not consider changing to a medium that prevents him from retaining that home-cinema experience.
It does not take a lot of thinking and researching what competitors do to find that the only thing these guys need to do is add a sticker to every box stating that copying copyrighted material without permission is illegal and therefore this device is for copying other kinds of CDs. Life will then carry on as normal. Apple does the same in the UK and other places and the difference is all in the fine print.
Yes, Nokia sells more cellphones than most other cellphone manufacturers COMBINED...however, a large majority of those sales are S40 devices, simple dumbphones that can't do much more than call and receive texts, but have a week plus battery life.
Interesting point this one. The photo on Wikipedia shows a Nokia 6300 as an example of hardware running S40. It clearly shows the "Apps" button, and since I used to have one of these phones, I know it also has a built in media player, web browser, navigation, and photo+music+video files gallery. It may not have multitasking and a big touchscreen but it certainly is more than just a dumb phone. Were Nokia+MS to sell this kind of product with a sticker "Runs on Windows Mobile x" from this day on, why should it not count towards the smartphone market share figures that TFA is trying to guess?
Windows (Windows applications), Office (Office documments) and X-Box (X-Box games) are the main successful Microsoft products and all three follow this lock-in scenario.
I suspect that if you went back in time before Xbox360 you might find yourself saying the same things about how Xbox would never gain traction, MS is not a go-to company for savvy customers wanting cool and good stuff, etc. Today, Xbox is a serious player in their field and probably will remain so for the next generations of consoles and other entertainment.
I easily see the same thing happening with WP7, especially when Nokia starts pushing their new products with MSWindows. Slashdot readers may be really clever, but the markets involve a lot more people than just Slashdot readers. Microsoft and Nokia are established brands of enormous value and for that reason what these companies say has a good chance to stand. It's great that every now and then there are companies building a product from 0% share to 10% in a couple of years, but seriously people should know that this is not the way it is for many other products.
OK, people don't use their computers all in the same way. I don't know what made the author think that the majority deletes everything immediately after dropping files in the recycle bin. I don't. Can't tell if I'm with the majority, but I can tell that my behaviour changed as the hard drive space increased. With my current PC, it is not unusual that I have several gigabytes of stuff in the recycle bin. Occasionally I see total free space getting low-ish and I remember that I haven't purged the bin for months. 64x64 pixels wasted out of a total 1600x900 in my case. So what?
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If electric cars get customisable running sounds, I'll want the mahna-mahna song.
bzzzut alors!
1) Slideshare is kind of like flickr, but for presentation files instead of single photos. Useful for sharing that kind of file without requiring an installed client software. Good for SEO and to publish the presentations nearly in the same way they were made with your favourite office suite, instead of adapting them to HTML for publishing on the www.
2) YMMV
3) there's a significant amount of content there that will no longer require adobe flash. It's therefore more likely to be made available for ever and ever, instead of expiring if Adobe changes their corporate direction or something like that. Also a good example of what people think is a global trend, to replace flash with HTML 5.
Imagine a system where, when a plane touches down, the energy is absorbed by a ground-based system that is then used to assist in takeoff for the next plane.
Prior art
I believe that you'll struggle to defend ownership of that idea. Reasonable as it sounds, I think it brings the disadvantages of rental to an industry with millions of consumers used to owning their stuff. Do we need more financial services getting in the way of good technical solutions?
I would prefer to have always the same battery pack installed, having an internal combustion engine feeding the battery when needed and then having buried power rails installed in locations in the city where many minutes and hours are spent waiting for the traffic to move. It would be a mix of an induction hob with the Opel Ampera (AKA Chevrolet Volt).
A future where more people have more time dedicated to the top parts of Maslow's pyramid rather than the bottom sections.
It's not the mobile phone hardware that is catching up with desktop PCs. It's the expectations of the consumer that have been getting comfortable with a watered-down computing experience, one that feels like a reasonable trade of lower complexity for lower capability.
Speaking of ZX Spectrum, one of odd the things that I like about going through www.worldofspectrum.org (and its scandinavian mirror) is that the VBspec emulator will read the .tap files at the same pace the real life tapes would. This means you can actually type LOAD "" , get a cup of tea, and wait 4 minutes for the thing to load while the funny tape loading noise comes out of the home-cinema speakers that are plugged in to the PC :)
I don't know about the envy of the rest of the world, but a project like that would certainly deserve my admiration.
"Roigl" is probably the acronym.
Print to PDF, I guess. You might also want to keep an eye on future developments at www.readitlaterlist.com Maybe someone finds the motivation to port that application to your ebook reader.
Try thinking about where do your salespeople's work ends and when should other client-facing people be the main interface between client and company. Agree on a deadline and ensure the client relationship is "owned" in a way that complies with that deadline. I think it's important to ensure that commission is paid a fairly long time after the actual contract signature, so that salespeople are kept honest. On the other hand, I think it's important that account managers and support are given sales targets to keep them aligned with the needs of the business.
I have worked in companies where the first sale is handled by a specific team, who hands over the client to support and account managers, who will take all the commission thereafter. As long as the deadline is clear for everyone involved and the commissions are based on margin, people can live with this kind of agreement without losing sight of the long term goals of the company.
closing up shop in 2 months over there hey Ballmer?
[...]It sounds like they were supported by two Chinooks, that came in a bit later, and those *were* seen by the Pakistani air defense, but the first group in weren't seen. A lot of other countries are going to want to figure out how we did this.
I suspect that a phone call from Obama might make a few helicopters 100% invisible to radar for a reasonable period of time.
I think you're not doing the Maxwell Smart joke the correct way...
In my friend's case there's truth in that. Since he learned how to copy only the main feature of a DVD to a hard disk losing the menus, FBI warnings and trailers in the process, he will not consider changing to a medium that prevents him from retaining that home-cinema experience.
It does not take a lot of thinking and researching what competitors do to find that the only thing these guys need to do is add a sticker to every box stating that copying copyrighted material without permission is illegal and therefore this device is for copying other kinds of CDs. Life will then carry on as normal. Apple does the same in the UK and other places and the difference is all in the fine print.
Yes, Nokia sells more cellphones than most other cellphone manufacturers COMBINED...however, a large majority of those sales are S40 devices, simple dumbphones that can't do much more than call and receive texts, but have a week plus battery life.
Interesting point this one. The photo on Wikipedia shows a Nokia 6300 as an example of hardware running S40. It clearly shows the "Apps" button, and since I used to have one of these phones, I know it also has a built in media player, web browser, navigation, and photo+music+video files gallery. It may not have multitasking and a big touchscreen but it certainly is more than just a dumb phone. Were Nokia+MS to sell this kind of product with a sticker "Runs on Windows Mobile x" from this day on, why should it not count towards the smartphone market share figures that TFA is trying to guess?
Your guess is as good as mine. Let's look at this again in 3 years.
Windows (Windows applications), Office (Office documments) and X-Box (X-Box games) are the main successful Microsoft products and all three follow this lock-in scenario.
I suspect that if you went back in time before Xbox360 you might find yourself saying the same things about how Xbox would never gain traction, MS is not a go-to company for savvy customers wanting cool and good stuff, etc.
Today, Xbox is a serious player in their field and probably will remain so for the next generations of consoles and other entertainment.
I easily see the same thing happening with WP7, especially when Nokia starts pushing their new products with MSWindows. Slashdot readers may be really clever, but the markets involve a lot more people than just Slashdot readers. Microsoft and Nokia are established brands of enormous value and for that reason what these companies say has a good chance to stand. It's great that every now and then there are companies building a product from 0% share to 10% in a couple of years, but seriously people should know that this is not the way it is for many other products.
Canada: Lots of air assets (not clear what yet)
I believe they are farting in that general direction.
Who is this guy/bot/troll?
Can't decide between Mr Goatse or Rick Astley...
We, along with Russia, simply do not have the money for such a frivolous project,
well print some more then.
OK, people don't use their computers all in the same way. I don't know what made the author think that the majority deletes everything immediately after dropping files in the recycle bin. I don't. Can't tell if I'm with the majority, but I can tell that my behaviour changed as the hard drive space increased. With my current PC, it is not unusual that I have several gigabytes of stuff in the recycle bin. Occasionally I see total free space getting low-ish and I remember that I haven't purged the bin for months. 64x64 pixels wasted out of a total 1600x900 in my case. So what?