I'm not denying your statement, just pointing the silliness of that strategy.
I am not denying the silliness of the strategy. But nevertheless, they do these things. That is how they race to the bottom leading to this silliness.
One marketing dept of one hard disk manufacturer gets a little creative and defines 1000bytes as 1 kB. If the other disk makers do not follow suit they lose. And in Baghdad every store hires criers to shout, call, please and beg the passers by to come into the store. It is ridiculous, it is silly. But the businesses do it. As long as one is doing it, others must follow suit or lose marketshare.
The e-Ink displays work by reflected light. So they should photograph quite nicely. So why bother with scanner? Set a digital camera on a tripod, set it to take one picture per second. Click on the next button one click per second. Should be easier than scanner.
Almost all the TVs and Laptop screens and monitors are all use factory defaults that make it look brighter and more colorful than the monitor sitting next to it in the display line in the stores. True color rendition is secondary to them. Ability to work staring at that thing is not in their list of priorities.
The ten seconds a prospective customer looks at it before the sale is given million times more weight that the several hundred hours the actual customer spends staring at it after the sale.
I am not anti-ads, I am anti-eyesore and anti-slow-flash-crap.
Well said. I wish there is a way I can state my own ad preferences so that the web sites know what kind of ads I will accept. Like browser sends a string that says, "Will accept text ads, static image ads. No animation, no flash ads, so sound, no pop-ups or pop-unders. Currently in the market for: Digital camera, scuba vacation, college visits"
I want only the obnoxious advertisers to go out of business. I want to provide a carrot for the sites that are willing to play nice.
It is a dumb idea to take the site down. If it has bomb making recipes, just mildly alter the recipe so that some key ingredient is missing. Or add a key ingredient or change the cooking temp that will explode prematurely killing the bomb maker. The terrorists protect their bomb maker at all costs. Truck drivers and suicide bombers are dime-a-dozen for them. Bomb maker is the key.
Or add an innocuous ingredients that will act as a tip off. Like 25Kg of UltraBrite tooth paste. Then work with the retailers to detect a spike in these honey-pot tip-off ingredients to watch fewer number of people instead of all the 330 million people in the USA.
At least in USA, the schools have been exposing children to computers from fourth grade. Have been doing so for years. So how many people who have not used computers before are starting to use computers now? The digital divide is flipped in the mobile computing platforms. People in the lower educational and economic strata are actually using more mobile phones and more cutting edge phones.
So why get hung up on the fig leaf DELL is using to justify its deep discounts from MS?
How many times it has happened to you? Not the unstoppable Toyota juggernaut. Minor thing like, you think you are in drive (or reverse) but the car moves the other way, you recognize it instantly, brake it and shift the gear and continue nonchalantly as if nothing has happened.Probably such in incident would not linger in your memory if it is more than a day or two old. Or even mistakenly gunning the engine instead of the brakes, but there was sufficient road space ahead of you and you quickly corrected the problem? This might linger in the memory for a longer period. Just use that as a sample and multiply it by millions of people and thousands of hours of driving. Suddenly 75 people mistakenly flooring the gas pedal instead of jamming the brakes does not seem all that unrealistic.
The saddest part of this story for us, nerds, is that our strongest weapon - our knowledge, superior understanding of facts, digging deeper into matters than cheap news stories, is in fact totally inefficient against "joe average". The more you argue your case the worse your chance to -really- win the argument, convince the other side. More often they will admit defeat to get you off their neck and keep believing their falsehood even stronger.
That is why John Hodgeman's punch line "Glen Beck makes a lot of sense if you think about it. If you don't think about it, he makes even more sense" makes me quite sad.
Guys, he finally found a way to actually shake the earth. He is going to initiate a series of small earthquakes to release all the strain energy in the San Andrea's fault in a controlled way and actually tap it to provide renewable carbon free energy for the next 100 years.
oh, something like the anti abortion activists who put up photos, license plate numbers of anyone seen entering a building that has planned parenthood offices?
So you were working on DEC. I have been waiting to ask this question to some DEC for long long time. The default behavior in DEC for any violation seems to be to crash the executable, without warning, without stack trace, nothing. Have to laboriously insert debug/print statements and find the location of the crash. It was a nightmare of a platform to work with. We were basically using DEC as our hardware bounds checker. If it runs on DEC, you don't have to run bounds checker, purify etc. But very painful to develop in that platform.
1. It is the methane that is extracted! Not spent.
2. The technology is ridiculously simple. I was teaching Indian villagers to build bio gas plant ages ago when I was just a sophomore in college. Essentially dig a 25' deep 10' dia well. Cover it with plastic/metal sheets. There is a rudimentary stirrer turned once a day by the cows themselves. That is all that is needed to handle about 10 dairy cows.
3. The manure has methane, organic fertilizer and smelly substances mixed up together. All you need to do is to separate them. In the well the bacteria breaks down manure, release methane which is collected at the top vent, and the fertilizer settles at the bottom and is drawn out. The smell is contained and vented near the rim of the dome like cover.
4. In India we dont have much use for the heat generated in this process. In USA you could actually use the heat of decomposition to heat the barns for the cows in the winter.
5. USA has 100 million cows and 300 million pigs. If their waste is properly handled, you get renewable energy, organic fertilizer, odor pollution abatement, green house gas containment and enough waste heat to heat barns and farm houses.
6. We could be reducing our oil imports by 30% if we use the methane captured from these cow-gas plants to run cars.
It is basically the light from our own galaxy, Milky Way, when it was formed. The light went out on a curved path bent by our own gravity and it has finally turned around and returned to us. Stop eating that burger. We dont want to get any heavier.
Tesla was a great genius and a man well ahead of his time, but still to think he would have achieved what present day scientists could not yet achieve is not justified.
If it is possible to beam power, we should be able to lift cell phone repeaters using balloons and power the transponders using a beamed from earth. Or launch solar power stations in low earth orbit and get the power to the ground via microwave power. We still can't do it.
No even if his investors had continued to fund him, he would not have achieved wireless transmission of power.
... Tesla was preoccupied with wireless transmission of power, not information. He devoted his entire later half of his life and millions of dollars from his investors on that elusive dream. Even today wireless transmission of power, without attenuation has not been achieved.
At the turn of the century, Marconi, Tesla and Jagdish Chandra Bose demonstrated wirelessly turning on a switch over a distance. Marconi could never get the resonance circuit working right (what he called coherer). Got the idea from Bose in a conference, (or stole Bose's notebook depending on where you hear it from). Bose was an idealist and never thought of commericializing his inventions, and was stuck in Calcutta, India anyway. Marconi went into wireless signal propagation and Tesla went into wireless power transmission.
Despite his visionary predictions about wireless communications, Tesla's dream of wireless transmission of power has not yet been realized.
Believing some chip or something is implanted in them and it is being activated by satellites, cell phones, aliens or something is a very common symptom of schizophrenia.
I am not a doctor, but my best understanding of the situation is this. In most normal people, when we imagine things we know we are imagining things. Like you are reading a description of iPad and you have a mental image of iPad, and you know you created this mental image of iPad because one part of your brain is reading about it.
But in some brains this connection is lost. Suddenly the image of iPad pops up, or some voices are heard, but the brain does not know what caused it. It is very very confusing, interferes with the perception. Most of the time it is sound, rather than images. Most people have "the tune stuck in the head" and all day the same song plays over and over. For these abnormal brains, the sound track that is being played back would be some old conversation or a movie dialog or even an imagined conversation they have had. They hear the voice, very distinctly, over and over again, and there is no one around saying these things. The only way the square their sensory input from ears and eyes is to come up with wacko theories like implanted micro chips. In another era they would imagine radio waves are doing, and before that they would blame black magic or possession by the devil.
I know it is quite funny to hear her testimony and imagine the faces of the senators hearing it. But she just needs medical care. And let us not be too hard on that lady. Given the advances in medecine, we all might live long enough in the shell of our bodies long after our brains have decayed to nothing. We could be that lady, when we are 80 or 90 years old.
The county called for an emergency meeting and unanimously adopted a resolution reducing their guidelines for yellows on 45mph zones from 4.5 sec to 2.25 sec. County spokeswoman Aimal Aiyer said, "It is the county that made the regulation calling for 4.5 sec yellows on 45mph zones. What it made it can unmake. 4.5 sec rule made sense in the sedate traveling era of the horse and the buggy. Now everything is fast, internet, highways, drugs everything is fast. So to move with the times we have reduced the yellows to 2.25 sec"
Because the native desktop is managed by a typical user who is not really dumb, but has no inclination to manage the machine correctly. They usually lack the security implications of their actions. They have a nebulous understanding of how the computer works. They don't get the difference between their local computer, their files in their machine, the web site they visit. They don't even know the difference between the OS and the browser and the applications.
The situation is so bad, the shills are actually touting the advantages of the closed software, saying that is the only way to get secure applications without viruses and worms. The shift to cloud essentially forces the user to learn a new security paradigm.
Yes, it is buggy and inefficient. But that is now. As technology improves, the simple browser will serve the 95% of the needs of 95% of the population.
So why don't you do something instead of constantly griping? Find some open source project that comes close to what you want and contribute to it. Even if you are not a developer, work on documentation, testing, bug reporting or something.
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One can use stock symbols, stock option strike prices and number of granted options that makes you gloat every time you log in. 2500000GOOG@1.25
I'm not denying your statement, just pointing the silliness of that strategy.
I am not denying the silliness of the strategy. But nevertheless, they do these things. That is how they race to the bottom leading to this silliness.
One marketing dept of one hard disk manufacturer gets a little creative and defines 1000bytes as 1 kB. If the other disk makers do not follow suit they lose. And in Baghdad every store hires criers to shout, call, please and beg the passers by to come into the store. It is ridiculous, it is silly. But the businesses do it. As long as one is doing it, others must follow suit or lose marketshare.
The e-Ink displays work by reflected light. So they should photograph quite nicely. So why bother with scanner? Set a digital camera on a tripod, set it to take one picture per second. Click on the next button one click per second. Should be easier than scanner.
The ten seconds a prospective customer looks at it before the sale is given million times more weight that the several hundred hours the actual customer spends staring at it after the sale.
Without cryptic comments like 1750 ; RIP JSB the source code is not very entertaining.
I am not anti-ads, I am anti-eyesore and anti-slow-flash-crap.
Well said. I wish there is a way I can state my own ad preferences so that the web sites know what kind of ads I will accept. Like browser sends a string that says, "Will accept text ads, static image ads. No animation, no flash ads, so sound, no pop-ups or pop-unders. Currently in the market for: Digital camera, scuba vacation, college visits"
I want only the obnoxious advertisers to go out of business. I want to provide a carrot for the sites that are willing to play nice.
Or add an innocuous ingredients that will act as a tip off. Like 25Kg of UltraBrite tooth paste. Then work with the retailers to detect a spike in these honey-pot tip-off ingredients to watch fewer number of people instead of all the 330 million people in the USA.
So why get hung up on the fig leaf DELL is using to justify its deep discounts from MS?
Especially when they have 12 year old daughters? Cant understand it.
Would a kind soul with silverlight installed view it, make screen captures in jpg and upload it for everyone to see?
How many times it has happened to you? Not the unstoppable Toyota juggernaut. Minor thing like, you think you are in drive (or reverse) but the car moves the other way, you recognize it instantly, brake it and shift the gear and continue nonchalantly as if nothing has happened.Probably such in incident would not linger in your memory if it is more than a day or two old. Or even mistakenly gunning the engine instead of the brakes, but there was sufficient road space ahead of you and you quickly corrected the problem? This might linger in the memory for a longer period. Just use that as a sample and multiply it by millions of people and thousands of hours of driving. Suddenly 75 people mistakenly flooring the gas pedal instead of jamming the brakes does not seem all that unrealistic.
The saddest part of this story for us, nerds, is that our strongest weapon - our knowledge, superior understanding of facts, digging deeper into matters than cheap news stories, is in fact totally inefficient against "joe average". The more you argue your case the worse your chance to -really- win the argument, convince the other side. More often they will admit defeat to get you off their neck and keep believing their falsehood even stronger.
That is why John Hodgeman's punch line "Glen Beck makes a lot of sense if you think about it. If you don't think about it, he makes even more sense" makes me quite sad.
Guys, he finally found a way to actually shake the earth. He is going to initiate a series of small earthquakes to release all the strain energy in the San Andrea's fault in a controlled way and actually tap it to provide renewable carbon free energy for the next 100 years.
oh, something like the anti abortion activists who put up photos, license plate numbers of anyone seen entering a building that has planned parenthood offices?
Belated thanks for the response.
So you were working on DEC. I have been waiting to ask this question to some DEC for long long time. The default behavior in DEC for any violation seems to be to crash the executable, without warning, without stack trace, nothing. Have to laboriously insert debug/print statements and find the location of the crash. It was a nightmare of a platform to work with. We were basically using DEC as our hardware bounds checker. If it runs on DEC, you don't have to run bounds checker, purify etc. But very painful to develop in that platform.
2. The technology is ridiculously simple. I was teaching Indian villagers to build bio gas plant ages ago when I was just a sophomore in college. Essentially dig a 25' deep 10' dia well. Cover it with plastic/metal sheets. There is a rudimentary stirrer turned once a day by the cows themselves. That is all that is needed to handle about 10 dairy cows.
3. The manure has methane, organic fertilizer and smelly substances mixed up together. All you need to do is to separate them. In the well the bacteria breaks down manure, release methane which is collected at the top vent, and the fertilizer settles at the bottom and is drawn out. The smell is contained and vented near the rim of the dome like cover.
4. In India we dont have much use for the heat generated in this process. In USA you could actually use the heat of decomposition to heat the barns for the cows in the winter.
5. USA has 100 million cows and 300 million pigs. If their waste is properly handled, you get renewable energy, organic fertilizer, odor pollution abatement, green house gas containment and enough waste heat to heat barns and farm houses.
6. We could be reducing our oil imports by 30% if we use the methane captured from these cow-gas plants to run cars.
It is basically the light from our own galaxy, Milky Way, when it was formed. The light went out on a curved path bent by our own gravity and it has finally turned around and returned to us. Stop eating that burger. We dont want to get any heavier.
Which means, according to *IAA, trillions of dollars of lost revenue.
If it is possible to beam power, we should be able to lift cell phone repeaters using balloons and power the transponders using a beamed from earth. Or launch solar power stations in low earth orbit and get the power to the ground via microwave power. We still can't do it.
No even if his investors had continued to fund him, he would not have achieved wireless transmission of power.
At the turn of the century, Marconi, Tesla and Jagdish Chandra Bose demonstrated wirelessly turning on a switch over a distance. Marconi could never get the resonance circuit working right (what he called coherer). Got the idea from Bose in a conference, (or stole Bose's notebook depending on where you hear it from). Bose was an idealist and never thought of commericializing his inventions, and was stuck in Calcutta, India anyway. Marconi went into wireless signal propagation and Tesla went into wireless power transmission.
Despite his visionary predictions about wireless communications, Tesla's dream of wireless transmission of power has not yet been realized.
I am not a doctor, but my best understanding of the situation is this. In most normal people, when we imagine things we know we are imagining things. Like you are reading a description of iPad and you have a mental image of iPad, and you know you created this mental image of iPad because one part of your brain is reading about it.
But in some brains this connection is lost. Suddenly the image of iPad pops up, or some voices are heard, but the brain does not know what caused it. It is very very confusing, interferes with the perception. Most of the time it is sound, rather than images. Most people have "the tune stuck in the head" and all day the same song plays over and over. For these abnormal brains, the sound track that is being played back would be some old conversation or a movie dialog or even an imagined conversation they have had. They hear the voice, very distinctly, over and over again, and there is no one around saying these things. The only way the square their sensory input from ears and eyes is to come up with wacko theories like implanted micro chips. In another era they would imagine radio waves are doing, and before that they would blame black magic or possession by the devil.
I know it is quite funny to hear her testimony and imagine the faces of the senators hearing it. But she just needs medical care. And let us not be too hard on that lady. Given the advances in medecine, we all might live long enough in the shell of our bodies long after our brains have decayed to nothing. We could be that lady, when we are 80 or 90 years old.
Well, that is how the bureaucrats think.
Seriously, who cares?
Because the native desktop is managed by a typical user who is not really dumb, but has no inclination to manage the machine correctly. They usually lack the security implications of their actions. They have a nebulous understanding of how the computer works. They don't get the difference between their local computer, their files in their machine, the web site they visit. They don't even know the difference between the OS and the browser and the applications.
The situation is so bad, the shills are actually touting the advantages of the closed software, saying that is the only way to get secure applications without viruses and worms. The shift to cloud essentially forces the user to learn a new security paradigm.
Yes, it is buggy and inefficient. But that is now. As technology improves, the simple browser will serve the 95% of the needs of 95% of the population.
So why don't you do something instead of constantly griping? Find some open source project that comes close to what you want and contribute to it. Even if you are not a developer, work on documentation, testing, bug reporting or something.