The examples given are more like pseudo-reality than pseudo-science... I was thinking more along the lines of the show 24, where they can track a suspect from their cell-phone to the exact room they are in.
This always annoys me. Why do you think it's top 40? Most people like that form of music. Just because YOU don't doesn't mean everyone is clamoring for other music, otherwise the "indie" labels would be much more successful.
Maybe this means Earthlink will stop blocking he email from my home computer. I use Postfix on my home computer to send email from my genevish.org domain (also hosted at home), and Earthlink blocks it because it's from a Dynamic IP.
How long until someone is arrested for terrorism because their SUV was parked at a fertilizer store, a diesel station, and an airport in the same day?
Please. The government has had the ability to tap phone calls for years, and abuse of this ability is hardly rampant. Are there abuses? Sure. Will there be abuses to a vehicle monitoring system? Probably. But that doesn't mean we should abandon all technological advances and hide in a 10x10 shack in the woods...
I gave up caffeine a few years ago. As others have mentioned, it only takes a few days for the headaches to go away. I took an occasional Tylenol or Advil and it was fine.
The reason I quit? I used to have a REALLY hard time getting up in the AM, but now it's much easier. Also, I don't have those tired moments, when you need a soda to pick you up. And the best part: If you ever need to stay awake for an extended period of time (or just want to freak out your co-workers with your hyperactivity), a Mountain Dew will send you to the moon.
The only drawback is the lack of drink options (I drink Sprite now), plus I really miss Mountain Dew...
What about the iHub? A sub $400 home server, that streams iTunes and iPhoto to your TV(s), records TV (Tivo-like), acts as an airport base station, and is configurable via an application on your home Mac or via a web browser.
How about a built in Dynamic DNS client (tied into an Apple.mac account)? Have it serve your home web site, with photos of the family.
It'd have "module" support, so third party add-ins could be created. (Want to stream a webcam over the 'net? Buy the new Belkin netCam for the Apple iHub! How about the new Apple ePic. A digital picture frame, showing auto updating photos of the grandkids from iPhoto.)
All of this is quite doable, with the possible exception of the $400 price tag. Apple would want to bump the price for the added value and it probably would get too expensive for the masses.
I don't see how MS can reconcile having a division writing an OS, and another division writing software for other OSes. The two sides would not be cooperating much, and would be effectively separated.
I have said for years that I would gladly pay for a browser when they become as good, or preferrably better, than my current browser. So far, no one has been able to meet the challenge.
The single biggest problem has been simply viewing pages. Some browsers crash on certain pages, others don't display them properly. Omniweb has gotten closest so far, but it's still not good enough.
I would have to disagree with the stability statement. I use Win95 at work while most of the other computers have been upgraded to Win2K (mine will be upgraded in a month). They need to re-boot the Win2K machines as much as my 95 box (several times a day).
The first exposure I had to the Internet was when I bought the first edition "Internet Starter Kit" in 1992 or so. It had a grand total of three pages about the web. It came with a free (for thirty or ninty days) ISP account, but the dial-up was in Seattle (I lived in San Francisco).
I reemberng "fingering" the CSU Coke machine and being instantly amazed. I saw the coffee cam back then too, but I don't remember if it was a seperate application, or on the web.
Isn't the GUI the packaging? And if you think the average consumer won't think another OS that looks like OSX won't be confused and believe it must have the same features (ease of use, etc), you need to work on a help desk for a while.
I imagine they will come out with a two button mouse, since Mac OSX currently supports two button mice by default. I'm curoius as to how many/.ers use the default mice anyway. I gave up mice years ago and currently use the MS Trackball Explorer under OSX...
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Can someone post it's IP address so we can show the folly of using MS products?
The examples given are more like pseudo-reality than pseudo-science... I was thinking more along the lines of the show 24, where they can track a suspect from their cell-phone to the exact room they are in.
Maybe this means Earthlink will stop blocking he email from my home computer. I use Postfix on my home computer to send email from my genevish.org domain (also hosted at home), and Earthlink blocks it because it's from a Dynamic IP.
How long until someone is arrested for terrorism because their SUV was parked at a fertilizer store, a diesel station, and an airport in the same day?
Please. The government has had the ability to tap phone calls for years, and abuse of this ability is hardly rampant. Are there abuses? Sure. Will there be abuses to a vehicle monitoring system? Probably. But that doesn't mean we should abandon all technological advances and hide in a 10x10 shack in the woods...
I gave up caffeine a few years ago. As others have mentioned, it only takes a few days for the headaches to go away. I took an occasional Tylenol or Advil and it was fine.
The reason I quit? I used to have a REALLY hard time getting up in the AM, but now it's much easier. Also, I don't have those tired moments, when you need a soda to pick you up. And the best part: If you ever need to stay awake for an extended period of time (or just want to freak out your co-workers with your hyperactivity), a Mountain Dew will send you to the moon.
The only drawback is the lack of drink options (I drink Sprite now), plus I really miss Mountain Dew...
Good joke, but I think the word is, "Newt".
Mac OS X gets one flaw and it's suddenly on par with the truckload of Windows security problems? What a funny little man...
What about the iHub? A sub $400 home server, that streams iTunes and iPhoto to your TV(s), records TV (Tivo-like), acts as an airport base station, and is configurable via an application on your home Mac or via a web browser.
How about a built in Dynamic DNS client (tied into an Apple .mac account)? Have it serve your home web site, with photos of the family.
It'd have "module" support, so third party add-ins could be created. (Want to stream a webcam over the 'net? Buy the new Belkin netCam for the Apple iHub! How about the new Apple ePic. A digital picture frame, showing auto updating photos of the grandkids from iPhoto.)
All of this is quite doable, with the possible exception of the $400 price tag. Apple would want to bump the price for the added value and it probably would get too expensive for the masses.
It seems to work fine now.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/
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Good stuff...
-Scott
Well, it's not exactly a frivolous patent. Fast user switching is a fairly cool idea, and probably deserves patenting.
The question is, does Apple deserve to be the one to patent it, since they did not come up with it first?
Apple has recently been awarded patents relating to improved speech recognition. Could this be the next "insanely great thing"?
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-Scott
I have said for years that I would gladly pay for a browser when they become as good, or preferrably better, than my current browser. So far, no one has been able to meet the challenge.
The single biggest problem has been simply viewing pages. Some browsers crash on certain pages, others don't display them properly. Omniweb has gotten closest so far, but it's still not good enough.
I'm no handwritting expert, but comparing the signature from this SEC filing to the one on the cover of the magazine seems to show it's a fake.
I would have to disagree with the stability statement. I use Win95 at work while most of the other computers have been upgraded to Win2K (mine will be upgraded in a month). They need to re-boot the Win2K machines as much as my 95 box (several times a day).
One co-worker in my department was pregnant and she didn't want her picture up, so I scanned her ultrasound and put that up as her picture.
If they're smart, that's exactly what they're doing. If they move too fast, "the Evil One" will be on them...
John C. Dvorak is the technology version of Jerry Springer. Show the people something outrageous and people will watch your show.
The first exposure I had to the Internet was when I bought the first edition "Internet Starter Kit" in 1992 or so. It had a grand total of three pages about the web. It came with a free (for thirty or ninty days) ISP account, but the dial-up was in Seattle (I lived in San Francisco). I reemberng "fingering" the CSU Coke machine and being instantly amazed. I saw the coffee cam back then too, but I don't remember if it was a seperate application, or on the web.
It'll drag out for a bit more... 2001-04-02 17:01:01 -Scott
Isn't the GUI the packaging? And if you think the average consumer won't think another OS that looks like OSX won't be confused and believe it must have the same features (ease of use, etc), you need to work on a help desk for a while.
I imagine they will come out with a two button mouse, since Mac OSX currently supports two button mice by default. I'm curoius as to how many /.ers use the default mice anyway. I gave up mice years ago and currently use the MS Trackball Explorer under OSX...
OK, I'm sure that the technology is considered safe, but then again so was DDT and Asbestos at one time.
What if it simply erodes these peoples vision to nothing, then they can't have "true" perfect vision when something better comes along in a few years?
Or the same difference as between alcohol (legal) and marijuana (illegal). -Scott