Backing up barefoot_professor on this. Monolithic domes can stand up to almost anything and are reasonably priced to construct. Now that I am living within an hour of the factory, I am thinking about taking one of their courses in dome construction...or may just buy some land and have them put one up.
The only problem...how do you hide the dust bunnys in the corner?
A tablet will probably do most of what you want in a small enough form factor.
That said, I've been looking into building a computer such as you describe but more to get great performance, knowing that I will have a screen and keyboard at the other end.
I work for an overseas company. When I get there I have an office. When I am at home I have an office. But I don't like the performance on my laptop, so I was looking into building a small box that has SSD drive for boot, lots of RAM, good sized HD..knowing that would have a screen on the other end.
The idea isn't as far fetched as some are indicating. In the pre-9/11 days I used to travel with a full computer/keyboard/monitor that fit into a roll-on bag. That's back when laptops were VERY expensive to get any performance. I did get to have lots of nice conversations with the security guys, but I'm not sure it'd be taken as well now.
I run VMs (different versions of Linux and Windows) on top of a Windows host all the time. Ubuntu won't have much of a performance hit.
You can run them using VMPlayer (I did that for months until I finally upgraded to VMWorkstation) and installing is a two step...install VMPlayer, then copy the VM.
Just an idea.
"The study also found that men are nearly twice as likely as women to have posted updates, comments, photos or videos that they later regret "
or
"Men more impulsive than women"
Hmmm. Big surprise there.
You'll find that your skills, assuming you can put together a decent website, will do fine if you work with a local organization.
There are tons of organizations near you/anyone who need help with their web sites, but who would feel very uncomfortable working with an eLance or an overseas company...and they don't have the budget to really pay the costs of what most consulting firms would charge.
This means you are going to have to get out and make some contacts. The easiest thing you can do, assuming you can present at all, is to put together a talk (approx 20 minutes) that you can give with power point and without on "Promoting your company on the web" and then offer it to your local chamber of commerce and Rotary and women in business organizations.
The information has to be useful whether they hire you or not. But there will be leads that come from that and off you go.
I have no votes. I am voting this up. Suarez captures "near future" possibles...a thriller that doesn't require a lot of new technology to make it happen.
Adding on Corey Doctorow "Makers" and "Little Brother"
If an object large enough to cause a global catastrophe was on it's way toward us, we would have way more advance warning than 3 days with these kinds of efforts.
So we'd have plenty of time to get out of the way....whew!
No flame, but there are a lot of front ends that can work with SQL backends, including PostgreSQL. Depends on what you are looking for and what you are trying to create. Many web frameworks can use PostgreSQL as the backend. Heck, you can even make VB talk to PostgreSQL if you want. Java does just fine. Delphi, since you are obviously willing to pay something.
But it comes down to what language(s) you want to work in and then looking around a little bit.
Agreeing with parent...Installing on Linux and Windows is for people who want or need flexibility and are willing to put up with some effort to make that happen.
If said 67 year old clueless dad wants to use a computer, he's probably clueless enough to just buy a box with what he needs installed already on it. Or if he REALLY wants to be limited, he can buy an Apple iPad.
Since he's clueless, he won't mix the flexibility.
And since he's clueless, he'd never figure out multi-touch anyway, so it's a non-issue for him.
If all we are trying to do is serve aforementioned clueless dad, then we can stop all research and development now. You've taken a lot of pressure off the computer industry. Thanks.
"Fixing" (as in "fixing your dog") crappy parents would eliminate the problem at its source. The problem is you don't know if they are going to be crappy parents beforehand. Maybe we could check to see if they got a D in high school.
Absolutely correct. If you are putting the files on a USB drive without encrypting you are setting yourself up to become a news story, and not a good one. I'm going to assume that you are not in a facility that is planning on getting any of the incentive money from ARRA because any time you move outside the network (copying to USB, CD, DVD, another computer not constrained by the network) you HAVE to encrypt....you should anyway, but to qualify for meaningful use you must.
If you have lots of files to share all the time, you might consider getting a PACS; there are open source PACS that have a lot of capability and would let you share, notate, and track access (HIPAA again). Take a look at dcm4chee
Agreed and this is a strong argument in favor of the Fair Tax. http://fairtax.org/ Elimination of business taxes, payroll taxes, and all the other myriads of taxes that make business owners and their minions spend millions of dollars and hours just to comply means that business can concentrate on business. It's not just a matter of lower taxes (Fair Tax is actually revenue neutral) but a lowering of the cost of operating legally.
Because I don't post often and had never gone to the effort to figure out where I'd change this.
Monotype came up. Probably was a default somewhere back when they switched something. I've changed it now.
Nothing like a little helpful criticism to get one rolling.
You are the owner of a company called you. You are experiencing feature creep from your main and only client, your employer. Assuming you are still responsible for what you were originally hired for, you need to point out that you are now being asked to do a lot more than you originally signed on to do, and that you need to reach a new understanding that will work for both of you.
Be professional. Be firm. You might want to read some back blogs by Bob Lewis, as he covers this kind of stuff all the time.
A couple of examples http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/when-raises-dry-negotiate-hard-get-what-you-deserve-404 http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/be-your-own-boss-even-if-you-have-boss-037
Because human beings in a group (mob rule), or in a situation of anonymity (anonymous coward), or under the direction of authority (just following orders) act VERY differently from human beings in a one-to-one interaction. There are gobs of studies on this phenomenon. It is not paranoia to recognize this.
Apparently your notion of fear is more extreme than mine. My representative represents me (me being a voting majority of his constituency) because he fears that if he doesn't he won't get reelected. If he ever thought he could get away with not representing enough people to get reelected and would still retain his power and position, he would cease to represent me, and represent his own wishes. THAT is human nature. In rare cases, individuals, even in government, transcend that. However, it is very rare, and not to be counted on.
There's a difference in the way a person treats the people in his life and the way the government treats people in its life.
Original poster's point is that a government that doesn't fear consequences as a result of mistreating the governed will do pretty much what it wants. There is no other reasonable motivator. Altruism in government is seen even more rarely than in everyday life, and I'm hoping you won't try to make the point that my government loves me.
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Backing up barefoot_professor on this. Monolithic domes can stand up to almost anything and are reasonably priced to construct. Now that I am living within an hour of the factory, I am thinking about taking one of their courses in dome construction...or may just buy some land and have them put one up. The only problem...how do you hide the dust bunnys in the corner?
And anyone reading "Makers" will realize how effective the DRM will be. Sigh...doncha wish they'd just give up on this kind of thing.
A tablet will probably do most of what you want in a small enough form factor. That said, I've been looking into building a computer such as you describe but more to get great performance, knowing that I will have a screen and keyboard at the other end. I work for an overseas company. When I get there I have an office. When I am at home I have an office. But I don't like the performance on my laptop, so I was looking into building a small box that has SSD drive for boot, lots of RAM, good sized HD..knowing that would have a screen on the other end. The idea isn't as far fetched as some are indicating. In the pre-9/11 days I used to travel with a full computer/keyboard/monitor that fit into a roll-on bag. That's back when laptops were VERY expensive to get any performance. I did get to have lots of nice conversations with the security guys, but I'm not sure it'd be taken as well now.
Hey, I just gave a solution and I've never done this exact thing before, so, uh....wait a minute....never mind.
I run VMs (different versions of Linux and Windows) on top of a Windows host all the time. Ubuntu won't have much of a performance hit. You can run them using VMPlayer (I did that for months until I finally upgraded to VMWorkstation) and installing is a two step...install VMPlayer, then copy the VM. Just an idea.
"The study also found that men are nearly twice as likely as women to have posted updates, comments, photos or videos that they later regret " or "Men more impulsive than women" Hmmm. Big surprise there.
You'll find that your skills, assuming you can put together a decent website, will do fine if you work with a local organization.
There are tons of organizations near you/anyone who need help with their web sites, but who would feel very uncomfortable working with an eLance or an overseas company...and they don't have the budget to really pay the costs of what most consulting firms would charge. This means you are going to have to get out and make some contacts. The easiest thing you can do, assuming you can present at all, is to put together a talk (approx 20 minutes) that you can give with power point and without on "Promoting your company on the web" and then offer it to your local chamber of commerce and Rotary and women in business organizations. The information has to be useful whether they hire you or not. But there will be leads that come from that and off you go.
I have no votes. I am voting this up. Suarez captures "near future" possibles...a thriller that doesn't require a lot of new technology to make it happen. Adding on Corey Doctorow "Makers" and "Little Brother"
That would be Moses. The baby Jesus would walk on it.
So are you arguing that OpenID is sending inaccurate information? What's your point?
Not sure where you are, but in the USA you can call yourself anything you like, even change your name to it, as long as it's not for fraud. TTY PuTTY
If an object large enough to cause a global catastrophe was on it's way toward us, we would have way more advance warning than 3 days with these kinds of efforts.
So we'd have plenty of time to get out of the way....whew!
No flame, but there are a lot of front ends that can work with SQL backends, including PostgreSQL. Depends on what you are looking for and what you are trying to create. Many web frameworks can use PostgreSQL as the backend. Heck, you can even make VB talk to PostgreSQL if you want. Java does just fine. Delphi, since you are obviously willing to pay something. But it comes down to what language(s) you want to work in and then looking around a little bit.
Agreeing with parent...Installing on Linux and Windows is for people who want or need flexibility and are willing to put up with some effort to make that happen.
If said 67 year old clueless dad wants to use a computer, he's probably clueless enough to just buy a box with what he needs installed already on it. Or if he REALLY wants to be limited, he can buy an Apple iPad. Since he's clueless, he won't mix the flexibility.
And since he's clueless, he'd never figure out multi-touch anyway, so it's a non-issue for him.
If all we are trying to do is serve aforementioned clueless dad, then we can stop all research and development now. You've taken a lot of pressure off the computer industry. Thanks.
"Fixing" (as in "fixing your dog") crappy parents would eliminate the problem at its source. The problem is you don't know if they are going to be crappy parents beforehand. Maybe we could check to see if they got a D in high school.
The longer version is:
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Those who can't teach, consult.
Those who can't consult, criticize.
Absolutely correct. If you are putting the files on a USB drive without encrypting you are setting yourself up to become a news story, and not a good one. I'm going to assume that you are not in a facility that is planning on getting any of the incentive money from ARRA because any time you move outside the network (copying to USB, CD, DVD, another computer not constrained by the network) you HAVE to encrypt....you should anyway, but to qualify for meaningful use you must. If you have lots of files to share all the time, you might consider getting a PACS; there are open source PACS that have a lot of capability and would let you share, notate, and track access (HIPAA again). Take a look at dcm4chee
You insensitive clod! That's Native Amer....oops. Sorry, My Bad.
Agreed and this is a strong argument in favor of the Fair Tax. http://fairtax.org/ Elimination of business taxes, payroll taxes, and all the other myriads of taxes that make business owners and their minions spend millions of dollars and hours just to comply means that business can concentrate on business. It's not just a matter of lower taxes (Fair Tax is actually revenue neutral) but a lowering of the cost of operating legally.
Because I don't post often and had never gone to the effort to figure out where I'd change this. Monotype came up. Probably was a default somewhere back when they switched something. I've changed it now. Nothing like a little helpful criticism to get one rolling.
You are the owner of a company called you. You are experiencing feature creep from your main and only client, your employer. Assuming you are still responsible for what you were originally hired for, you need to point out that you are now being asked to do a lot more than you originally signed on to do, and that you need to reach a new understanding that will work for both of you.
Be professional. Be firm. You might want to read some back blogs by Bob Lewis, as he covers this kind of stuff all the time.
A couple of examples
http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/when-raises-dry-negotiate-hard-get-what-you-deserve-404
http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/be-your-own-boss-even-if-you-have-boss-037
mmmmmm....Pork!
Because human beings in a group (mob rule), or in a situation of anonymity (anonymous coward), or under the direction of authority (just following orders) act VERY differently from human beings in a one-to-one interaction. There are gobs of studies on this phenomenon. It is not paranoia to recognize this.
Apparently your notion of fear is more extreme than mine. My representative represents me (me being a voting majority of his constituency) because he fears that if he doesn't he won't get reelected. If he ever thought he could get away with not representing enough people to get reelected and would still retain his power and position, he would cease to represent me, and represent his own wishes. THAT is human nature.
In rare cases, individuals, even in government, transcend that. However, it is very rare, and not to be counted on.
There's a difference in the way a person treats the people in his life and the way the government treats people in its life.
Original poster's point is that a government that doesn't fear consequences as a result of mistreating the governed will do pretty much what it wants. There is no other reasonable motivator. Altruism in government is seen even more rarely than in everyday life, and I'm hoping you won't try to make the point that my government loves me.