Not only are people going to not want to do this, but does buying a new power supply realyl save that much power than using an old inefficient one? This might make sense for larger appliences like fridges, but how much power does it take to make a new power supply (not to mention the power used to DESIGN a new, more efficient one). Hard to believe that the brake even point on this is that close that it would actually help.
If people realyl cared (which is what would nede to happen for them to even buy new devices), they would just SWITCH OFF the power strips these devices are all plugged into.
If you realyl want to solve this problem, design devices like TVs to keep the programming even if turned off. I would hit the power strip off if I didn't have to reprogram the channels every time I plug it back in!
Or you could provide a digg to the Digg about slashdot, which links back to this story. What happens if you Digg/. and/.-effect Digg? It's like some infitinate loop (of course, since nobody ever RTFAs, I guess it doesn't matter much).
It's even worse when you are already sorta famous! I made this video one time, with my girlfriend, and it was just supposed to be for us. I mean, it was just us driving around, relaxing on the boat and stuff, but then someone stole it, and posted it on the internet. Man, the guys in my band (I don't want to name them because this is embarrassing enough already) made fun of me, I couldn't do a public apperance without someone commenting about my physique... It was horrible.
Next is a/. story that links to Digg, which of course links to some sort of blog, which links back to the original/. story.
One of my comp sci teachers once said something the effect of "You don't need to understand how it works to do recursive programming." Of course, I replied that I outta do great in the class then, cause I hadn't understood much up until that point. I ended up taking the class twice.
"Maybe/.ers should start a movement to create an alternate net down there"
Why stop with "down there"? Why don't we have one everywhere? Who needs the telcos at all if everyone jsut routes their data through their neighbor, and that neighbor does with the next, and so on...?
Their real fear is that it is becoming easier and easier for people to make THEIR OWN CONTENT and distribute it for free, aka youtube.com. Some of the best movies have been low budget movies produced by a few people with vision.
no, it means you there is one more reason to search/inspect your car when you get pulled over. They'll just touch your license, which lives in your wallet with all that tainted money, and next thing you know, you'll be in jail. Sounds far-fetched? they can already search your car just for having stickers and a big exhaust.
Actually, the tC has a scroll/click knob that acts like the dial on the ipod and lets you scroll through the menus and playlists on the head unit just like you do on the ipod. It's not a USB interface; it's a proprietary cable, although I have heard some other MP3 players offer an accessories that let them inerface like an ipod.
This is modded as Funny, but the truth is the DUH actually has some pretty cool features, a few of which I plan on retrofitting to my place and incporporating if/when I get around to building a house.
My girlfriend's tC came with an iPod dock. The list of new cars that don't offer ipod integration (at least as an option)is quickly becoming shorter than the list of cars that do. For that reason alone, I think the iPod is not going anywhere, and to many people, the ability to plug it into their car and then pick songs and control it vie their stereo (and, in most case, right off the steering wheel) without having to look away from the road is a HUGE selling point.
I think the only way ANY manufacturer could overcome that is if a large number of companpiens developed some interface standard, or made some easy way to integrate their players to car stereos (and other acessories) out of the box. That would also let companies make interfaces to things like older CD changers to retrofit the new standard on older vehicles, too. Then they might have a chance of putting a dent in iPod sales.
As it is, the only people I know buying non-iPod players are parents whose kids want an iPod but don't want to spend the money on it, and figure an mp3 player is an mp3 player.
If only we could make people wear (Score:-1, Troll) T-shirts, it would save us a ton of time, especially at work. Better yet, a tattoo... -1, redudant T-shirt for twins...?
or, a (Score:-1, OffTopic) bumper sticker for distracted cell phone talking SUV drivers...
I would RTFA, but it's blocked by my work filter. So, not only does my job interfere with my offline life, but also with my online one...
You know, when someone makes a decent/funny/unique commerical, I find myself watching. Half the time, I see them on the internet before I see them on tv (take the VW unpimp my ride commercials), and if they're any good, I find myself actually saving them on the Tivo to show my friends....
Narrow it down to one laptop type, or better yet, a particular model, and offer a standard configuration for it, and only offer "official" support for that. Try to find a supplier that is willin g to offer the students discounts on it, since there will likely be a large number buying the "prefered" model. Otherwise, you better make sure that all of the apps you will require run on all the possible configurations that meet your spec. Good luck trying to support finicky applications accross different OSs'.
So, insurance companies seem to be finding more and more ways and reasons to increase rates. They already check your credit, and charge you more since, according to them, peopel with bad credit are more likely to get into accidents.
I wonder if this will be used as a reason to charge a higher rate on vehicles that come with Nav as a factory option. Could be a good thing for aftermarket nav systems, but not such a good thing for those peopel who are smart enough to have the passenger program it, do it while stopped, or program it via voice (although, that might arguably be almost as distracting). Of course, I am sure if the insurance companies chagre more for it, they'll offer a discount if you give them access to any GPS data stored in the units....
Very few people will probably crack any of the versions, and those are the people that probably won't pay for the basic version. You also assume that the feature are present and can be unlocked; more than likely they won't even be there in the cheaper versions.
I think part of the reason MS is doing this is so that people will feel like they have more "choices" and feel like they can get just what they need without all that "stuff only businesses need" and get the cheaper version of windows. Then they'll realize later they need to upgrade, and spend more on that than if they would've just bought the Uiltimate version to begin with.
And plenty of businesses will upgrade after MS stops supporting whatever they are running now, or when any new PCs they buy will come with OEM versions of Vista and they don't want to support multiple OSs accross the company...
She would've had one of this disclaimers at the end of her email that read something along the lines of:
This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. (I stole the disclaimer from my friends email; hope that doesn't count as 'use')
And, in this case, the ??? step would be "sue for unauthorized distribution). Quote the business plan; quite job, send snippy email, then sue if the boss passes it on.
This post is for the sole use of the intended/. recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, distribution, or reply/rebuttal is prohibited.
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I am patenting recursive suing. Unfortunately, now I have to sue myself.
That's not fucking funny.
Not only are people going to not want to do this, but does buying a new power supply realyl save that much power than using an old inefficient one? This might make sense for larger appliences like fridges, but how much power does it take to make a new power supply (not to mention the power used to DESIGN a new, more efficient one). Hard to believe that the brake even point on this is that close that it would actually help. If people realyl cared (which is what would nede to happen for them to even buy new devices), they would just SWITCH OFF the power strips these devices are all plugged into. If you realyl want to solve this problem, design devices like TVs to keep the programming even if turned off. I would hit the power strip off if I didn't have to reprogram the channels every time I plug it back in!
In FSU,
Oil exports you!
Joke is old,
but must be told,
Mod funny, +2.
The second rule of NOSOAP is you do NOT TALK ABOUT NOSOAP!
There already is an Oprah game out there, but to my knowledge, no video game. Yet.
Or you could provide a digg to the Digg about slashdot, which links back to this story. What happens if you Digg /. and /.-effect Digg? It's like some infitinate loop (of course, since nobody ever RTFAs, I guess it doesn't matter much).
It's even worse when you are already sorta famous! I made this video one time, with my girlfriend, and it was just supposed to be for us. I mean, it was just us driving around, relaxing on the boat and stuff, but then someone stole it, and posted it on the internet. Man, the guys in my band (I don't want to name them because this is embarrassing enough already) made fun of me, I couldn't do a public apperance without someone commenting about my physique... It was horrible.
Next is a /. story that links to Digg, which of course links to some sort of blog, which links back to the original /. story.
One of my comp sci teachers once said something the effect of "You don't need to understand how it works to do recursive programming." Of course, I replied that I outta do great in the class then, cause I hadn't understood much up until that point. I ended up taking the class twice.
"Maybe /.ers should start a movement to create an alternate net down there"
Why stop with "down there"? Why don't we have one everywhere? Who needs the telcos at all if everyone jsut routes their data through their neighbor, and that neighbor does with the next, and so on...?
Their real fear is that it is becoming easier and easier for people to make THEIR OWN CONTENT and distribute it for free, aka youtube.com. Some of the best movies have been low budget movies produced by a few people with vision.
is one of the only ones my gf will play, besides really old ones like frogger... Or DDR and Kareoke revolution.
I've always wondered where it goes.
Maybe they should be out of work... Apparently hot dogs are all it takes to make them indicate something.
no, it means you there is one more reason to search/inspect your car when you get pulled over. They'll just touch your license, which lives in your wallet with all that tainted money, and next thing you know, you'll be in jail. Sounds far-fetched? they can already search your car just for having stickers and a big exhaust.
Actually, the tC has a scroll/click knob that acts like the dial on the ipod and lets you scroll through the menus and playlists on the head unit just like you do on the ipod. It's not a USB interface; it's a proprietary cable, although I have heard some other MP3 players offer an accessories that let them inerface like an ipod.
This is modded as Funny, but the truth is the DUH actually has some pretty cool features, a few of which I plan on retrofitting to my place and incporporating if/when I get around to building a house.
I think the only way ANY manufacturer could overcome that is if a large number of companpiens developed some interface standard, or made some easy way to integrate their players to car stereos (and other acessories) out of the box. That would also let companies make interfaces to things like older CD changers to retrofit the new standard on older vehicles, too. Then they might have a chance of putting a dent in iPod sales.
As it is, the only people I know buying non-iPod players are parents whose kids want an iPod but don't want to spend the money on it, and figure an mp3 player is an mp3 player.
If only we could make people wear (Score:-1, Troll) T-shirts, it would save us a ton of time, especially at work. Better yet, a tattoo... -1, redudant T-shirt for twins...? or, a (Score:-1, OffTopic) bumper sticker for distracted cell phone talking SUV drivers... I would RTFA, but it's blocked by my work filter. So, not only does my job interfere with my offline life, but also with my online one...
You know, when someone makes a decent/funny/unique commerical, I find myself watching. Half the time, I see them on the internet before I see them on tv (take the VW unpimp my ride commercials), and if they're any good, I find myself actually saving them on the Tivo to show my friends....
This site has a much better (i./e. non-alarmist) summary, and another link to the actual regulations spelled out.
Narrow it down to one laptop type, or better yet, a particular model, and offer a standard configuration for it, and only offer "official" support for that. Try to find a supplier that is willin g to offer the students discounts on it, since there will likely be a large number buying the "prefered" model. Otherwise, you better make sure that all of the apps you will require run on all the possible configurations that meet your spec. Good luck trying to support finicky applications accross different OSs'.
So, insurance companies seem to be finding more and more ways and reasons to increase rates. They already check your credit, and charge you more since, according to them, peopel with bad credit are more likely to get into accidents. I wonder if this will be used as a reason to charge a higher rate on vehicles that come with Nav as a factory option. Could be a good thing for aftermarket nav systems, but not such a good thing for those peopel who are smart enough to have the passenger program it, do it while stopped, or program it via voice (although, that might arguably be almost as distracting). Of course, I am sure if the insurance companies chagre more for it, they'll offer a discount if you give them access to any GPS data stored in the units....
I think part of the reason MS is doing this is so that people will feel like they have more "choices" and feel like they can get just what they need without all that "stuff only businesses need" and get the cheaper version of windows. Then they'll realize later they need to upgrade, and spend more on that than if they would've just bought the Uiltimate version to begin with.
And plenty of businesses will upgrade after MS stops supporting whatever they are running now, or when any new PCs they buy will come with OEM versions of Vista and they don't want to support multiple OSs accross the company...
And, in this case, the ??? step would be "sue for unauthorized distribution). Quote the business plan; quite job, send snippy email, then sue if the boss passes it on.
This post is for the sole use of the intended /. recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, distribution, or reply/rebuttal is prohibited.