I'm selling something, via ebay, classified ad, craigslist etc. I receive a phone call from some random interested party who has some questions about the item for sale. I figure the best way to answer his question is to send him a picture.
I have his number, so it's easy to send him an MMS. all I have to do is ask if he can receive MMS.
Without MMS, I have to ask him for his email address, and have to remember/write it down somewhere (no copy/paste on iPhone), or get him to send me a text message with his email address. This just adds more steps to the equation.
Additionally, they may not be able to receive email on their phone, or even if they can, they may not have it set up to do so. which means they have to wait until they get to a computer to see the pic, by which time, the item may have already been sold.
When the "lady with the cat" (link) was complaining about street view, I created an pseudo anti-googlevan design (link). I've always wondered if Google would actually respect it, in the unlikely event that they happened to find it in one of their pictures.
NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW would probably work just as well.
Disclaimer: it's my design, and my cafepress shop. I am NOT trying to influence anyone to buy anything, I linked to the shop because it's the only online version I have.
Opera mini is more than just a browser. They have a proxy server that grabs the page, and re-renders it to suit your phone's screen. That causes a very slight delay, while their server re-renders the page, but it saves a heck of a lot of bandwidth. All images are resized. Long lists are collapsed etc.
I'm not sure that Firefox will be able to compete in this arena without creating a proxy server system of their own. I'm not against them trying, I just want to make it clear to those of you who haven't used Opera Mini, that it is more than just a browser.
Traditional iPods have had no wireless support until now because of battery life issues. (Same reason the iPhone has no 3G). As this is a new technology with low power-consumption, it may be included in the next versions.
Additionally, if you look at the latest iPods, (iPod Touch, and iPhone) they DO have wireless support.
Sorry to disappoint you Will, and I regret being a pedantic grammar-nazi here, but Brandybuck was correct in his usage of "Doommonger"
-monger has no sexual connotations whatsoever. The sexual part of Whoremonger relates only the the whores.
-------------- -monger |mg| combining form denoting a dealer or trader in a specified commodity : fishmonger | cheesemonger.
a person who promotes a specified activity, situation, or feeling, esp. one that is undesirable or discreditable : rumormonger | warmonger. ORIGIN Old English mangere, from mangian [to traffic,] of Germanic origin, based on Latin mango 'dealer.' ---------------
This only sprung to mind because I visited an ironmongers yesterday.
More kids are born in September than any other month of the year.
There are two reasons for this.
1. September is Nine months after December, which is winter for many countries, and winter tends to have long cold nights which lead to sex.
2. December also has a lot of drinking due to Christmas and New Year parties. Drinking often leads to sex.
The important thing to remember is that Google is a large corporation, and can get away with things like this.
Try mounting a camera on the roof of your car, drive through any big city, and see what happens to you.
Even worse, try taking Panoramic photographs of a public area, either by rotating a tripod mounted camera, or by using a professional panoramic lens. (Panoramic lenses make you crouch below them, or remotely operate the camera, which makes you look even more suspicious.)
While I believe Google should obscure the faces of people caught by it's lens, I don't feel that photographs taken by individuals, for personal use, should require the same treatment. However, if you distribute personal photographs online, have a care for those people inadvertently caught by your lens, and obscure their faces.
Hmm, so I guess we should start filtering all employees based on what they spend their money on.
Cindy, You live with your parents, next door to our offices and don't pay rent, food or transport so we are cutting your salary by 75%.
Bob, You wear expensive armani suits, and drive a BMW, which costs a lot to run, so here is a 30% pay rise.
Mark, you inherited your house, and don't pay rent so we'll drop your by 40%
It shouldn't matter what the individuals costs are, people should be paid for the value of their work.
Just my 2 pennies.
Could be useful for people with disabilities
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None of the comments so far have mentioned this, but I just had a thought.
In several cases of "paralysis", the brain is still sending out messages, but either the muscles have atripohed, or the nerves have been severed, or have deteriorated.
Could this "Robot" not be used in such cases? Obviously, a lot of work will have to go into the "Brain -> Robot" interface, but I think that it could be useful. There is a story I read somewhere about a young man, who can move a mouse pointer on screen using just his mind, haveing undergone an implan operation. If the tech can be worked out, many people would appreciate it, as it would allow them to lead a fuller more active life than just sitting in a bed/chair.
Coupled with an ambulatory body, and at least one functioning arm, I think this should be seriously persued.
I do occasional emergency support for a recruitment firm.
They have 1000's of CV's (Resume's) emailed to them every day. Are you honestly suggesting that their staff go through this process for each and every one? They don't know these people, (Until they read the CV) and even if they did, most of the people sending CV's would not go through such a process, prefering instead to send their CV's to an organistation that was "easier to deal with".
Fortunately, the firm in question is a 100% Mac establishment, and.doc files can be opened without using MS Office. But I'd be very interested to hear your suggestion for this type of scenario.
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Yes, I shared my whole drive. The system files are on this drive. No reall security in place, just a reckless fellow. All my MP3's are backed up onto recordable DVD's, and there is nothing else on that machine that I'm really interested in. Oh, and the iPod is MAc Formatted, and can't tell that the files are actually on a PC. You are right that it is safer just to share the relevant folder, and I wouldn't recommend doing my (reckless) way.
Glad to be of some help. I just did a standard share of the C Drive on the PC, and connected to it from the iBook. Once the PC Drive is mounted on the iBook, then tell iTunes (on the iBook) to use whichever folder you want as it's library. Depending on the sped of your network, loading/syncing songs may take a just little bit longer than reading from the iBooks drive, but the space saving makes it worth it, and it isn't really that noticable anyway.
Heya,
Your problem is fixable. I was in the same situation, and figured it out.
I have an iBook with a 20GB hard drive but I have 27Gigs of MP3's. I also have a 30GB iPod Photo. Here is what I did
All the MP3's are on a PC which I can see from my iBook over the network.
In the preferences for iTunes on the iBook, Change the location of the iTunes Library to the parent folder of the MP3's on the PC (obviously you must be networked when doing this)
Now, when I add music to iTunes (on the iBook) it stores the mp3's on the PC's Hard Drive. There are no mp3's on my iBook, but I can connect my iPod to the iBook, and everything syncs perfectly. and I have "lots" of free space on the iBook. This suits me fine, as I only ever use the PC for playing solitare, and the occasional test run of some win software that I'm trying to port to Mac.
I hope this helps
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I'm selling something, via ebay, classified ad, craigslist etc. I receive a phone call from some random interested party who has some questions about the item for sale. I figure the best way to answer his question is to send him a picture.
I have his number, so it's easy to send him an MMS. all I have to do is ask if he can receive MMS.
Without MMS, I have to ask him for his email address, and have to remember/write it down somewhere (no copy/paste on iPhone), or get him to send me a text message with his email address. This just adds more steps to the equation.
Additionally, they may not be able to receive email on their phone, or even if they can, they may not have it set up to do so. which means they have to wait until they get to a computer to see the pic, by which time, the item may have already been sold.
Another hillarious take on that was the Six Million Rupee Man
Actually, they must have some rights to distribute outside of the US, as they are quite willing to charge me £ 45:99, for access!
£45:99 - NHL Season Pass
£11:99 - NHL Monthly Recurring
£54:99 - All Access Year Pass
£ 7:99 - All Access Month Pass
If you dig deeper, there is an option for a day pass at £ 6:99! I can't see anyone opting for that when you can get a whole month for £1:00 extra.
Being a non-profit doesn't mean you can't make a profit. It just means that you can't take the profit out of the organisation.
Try Pathfinder http://cocoatech.com/
"No driver deaths at all occurred in single-vehicle crashes of the Volvo 240 during 1990-94."
http://www.usroads.com/journals/aruj/9702/ru970207.htm
NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW would probably work just as well.
Disclaimer: it's my design, and my cafepress shop. I am NOT trying to influence anyone to buy anything, I linked to the shop because it's the only online version I have.
GP is correct. A billion is either a THOUSAND Million, or a MILLION Million. It has never been 100 Million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
I'm not sure that Firefox will be able to compete in this arena without creating a proxy server system of their own. I'm not against them trying, I just want to make it clear to those of you who haven't used Opera Mini, that it is more than just a browser.
Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
This is already being done. Check out this BBC Story about an outfit called Re-Captcha
Additionally, if you look at the latest iPods, (iPod Touch, and iPhone) they DO have wireless support.
Sorry to disappoint you Will, and I regret being a pedantic grammar-nazi here, but Brandybuck was correct in his usage of "Doommonger"
-monger has no sexual connotations whatsoever. The sexual part of Whoremonger relates only the the whores.
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-monger |mg|
combining form
denoting a dealer or trader in a specified commodity : fishmonger | cheesemonger.
a person who promotes a specified activity, situation, or feeling, esp. one that is undesirable or discreditable : rumormonger | warmonger.
ORIGIN Old English mangere, from mangian [to traffic,] of Germanic origin, based on Latin mango 'dealer.'
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This only sprung to mind because I visited an ironmongers yesterday.
More kids are born in September than any other month of the year. There are two reasons for this. 1. September is Nine months after December, which is winter for many countries, and winter tends to have long cold nights which lead to sex. 2. December also has a lot of drinking due to Christmas and New Year parties. Drinking often leads to sex.
Try mounting a camera on the roof of your car, drive through any big city, and see what happens to you.
Even worse, try taking Panoramic photographs of a public area, either by rotating a tripod mounted camera, or by using a professional panoramic lens. (Panoramic lenses make you crouch below them, or remotely operate the camera, which makes you look even more suspicious.)
I have my own concerns about Google Street View, but then again, that's because I'm paranoid and don't like having my photograph taken.
While I believe Google should obscure the faces of people caught by it's lens, I don't feel that photographs taken by individuals, for personal use, should require the same treatment. However, if you distribute personal photographs online, have a care for those people inadvertently caught by your lens, and obscure their faces.
Cindy, You live with your parents, next door to our offices and don't pay rent, food or transport so we are cutting your salary by 75%.
Bob, You wear expensive armani suits, and drive a BMW, which costs a lot to run, so here is a 30% pay rise.
Mark, you inherited your house, and don't pay rent so we'll drop your by 40%
It shouldn't matter what the individuals costs are, people should be paid for the value of their work.
Just my 2 pennies.
None of the comments so far have mentioned this, but I just had a thought. In several cases of "paralysis", the brain is still sending out messages, but either the muscles have atripohed, or the nerves have been severed, or have deteriorated. Could this "Robot" not be used in such cases? Obviously, a lot of work will have to go into the "Brain -> Robot" interface, but I think that it could be useful. There is a story I read somewhere about a young man, who can move a mouse pointer on screen using just his mind, haveing undergone an implan operation. If the tech can be worked out, many people would appreciate it, as it would allow them to lead a fuller more active life than just sitting in a bed/chair. Coupled with an ambulatory body, and at least one functioning arm, I think this should be seriously persued.
They have 1000's of CV's (Resume's) emailed to them every day. Are you honestly suggesting that their staff go through this process for each and every one? They don't know these people, (Until they read the CV) and even if they did, most of the people sending CV's would not go through such a process, prefering instead to send their CV's to an organistation that was "easier to deal with".
Fortunately, the firm in question is a 100% Mac establishment, and .doc files can be opened without using MS Office. But I'd be very interested to hear your suggestion for this type of scenario.
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Yes, I shared my whole drive. The system files are on this drive. No reall security in place, just a reckless fellow. All my MP3's are backed up onto recordable DVD's, and there is nothing else on that machine that I'm really interested in. Oh, and the iPod is MAc Formatted, and can't tell that the files are actually on a PC. You are right that it is safer just to share the relevant folder, and I wouldn't recommend doing my (reckless) way.
Glad to be of some help. I just did a standard share of the C Drive on the PC, and connected to it from the iBook. Once the PC Drive is mounted on the iBook, then tell iTunes (on the iBook) to use whichever folder you want as it's library. Depending on the sped of your network, loading/syncing songs may take a just little bit longer than reading from the iBooks drive, but the space saving makes it worth it, and it isn't really that noticable anyway.
Heya, Your problem is fixable. I was in the same situation, and figured it out. I have an iBook with a 20GB hard drive but I have 27Gigs of MP3's. I also have a 30GB iPod Photo. Here is what I did All the MP3's are on a PC which I can see from my iBook over the network. In the preferences for iTunes on the iBook, Change the location of the iTunes Library to the parent folder of the MP3's on the PC (obviously you must be networked when doing this) Now, when I add music to iTunes (on the iBook) it stores the mp3's on the PC's Hard Drive. There are no mp3's on my iBook, but I can connect my iPod to the iBook, and everything syncs perfectly. and I have "lots" of free space on the iBook. This suits me fine, as I only ever use the PC for playing solitare, and the occasional test run of some win software that I'm trying to port to Mac. I hope this helps