Why wouldn't people want to live 150 years or more? What else have you got going on? Personally a couple billion would not be too long. I got things to do.
My wife's work is going to all thin clients. The PC's are all being removed. I think the era of the PC at every desk is going away sooner than I had imagined. Pretty soon everyone will have a small smart device that you carry with you and when you get to work the device will automatically sync to the work server, monitor, keyboard and mouse. There will be no more need for PC's. There is more than enough computing power in the average smart phone to do what is required at most businesses.
Like the 60 billion wasted of the 240 billion given to private contractors in Iraq and Afganistan. That has been the largest fraud perpetrated on we taxpayers so far.
Government contracts aren't so much a joke as are the thieves who steal from the taxpayers and the government officials too embedded with multinational corporations to look after the interests of the taxpayers. We need better oversight for the citizens.
Nope, but my cell phone does all the time. Guess my inane life doesn't worry me much. Not much drama so most spies would get bored and decide they don't want to waste their life watching mine.
I am looking at doing it gradually over time. One Ipad for the kids this year..... then after a few more people tend to cast off some first generation stuff and as prices go down I might be able to get a $30-50 first generation iPad in a couple of years. I tend to get stuff well after the price curve has gone down, but I do think I need something before that this time because I am planning to head up an iPad deployment in my kids school in the next couple years.
I want one that just tucks into the 1/2' under the upper cabinet in a swing out cradle. I love the touch screen access to things with no cracks or crannies for junk to fall into it. I also like it not sitting in a puddle of spilled something. The netbook we use currently sits on the countertop and tends to get knocked around by the kids and get flour and other food stuff rained on it by our 3 wee ones. The netbook screen doesn't allow as easy viewing of our entire recipes or web based recipes because you have to always be scrolling . Epicurious looks great on an iPad. We have a nice squeezebox for accessing all the music on our server.
Kindle is a ripoff? I don't think so for what it does. Ever buy about 10-12 books.... = the price of a kindle. Ever carry 10-12 books= 100 times the weight of a kindle.
Exactly, no scope for the imagination. The medical field has needed this type of tech for eons and now it is here in a form that is quite functional. It is fantastic for entertainment functions. It is fantastic for educational functions.
Each day I hear of people using these devices in new ways... ways a computer simply can't do.
I thought it was 70k contractors. I know that the ones where I live are not working and this is during the best time of year to finish up. We have 6 months of snow on the ground and it isn''t so lovely to work in the winter conditions.
I wish congress would get off their lard-donkeys and get to work for those who need the work at this critical time. They need to get their pay cut until they fix this mess.
True, but tablets and phones are in their infancy technologically. I can envision a day where people carry such devices around and when they get to the office, their wireless flatscreen, mouse and keyboard sync with their device automatically and they go about doing business with the device they already have.
I still think the days of the big box are really gone for the most part. The tech of the lightweight powerful mobile devices will only increase over the next 10 years and how they are used today will morph as well.
With all of the explosion of micro pc's (aka smartphones and tablets becoming prevalent) I don't see linux as gaining in the desktop arena much. But handhelds based upon linux hold great promise. They will come to dominate most of the market I believe. Android phones and tablets will become a large chunk of the tech people use and not desktops. Many of the older people I know are going for a tablet and a smartphone and not bothering with the whole PC upgrade anymore. Most of what they need to do can easily be accomplished using a tablet with much less headache. They don't have to call someone everytime they can't figure something out since there is nothing really to figure out.
"not only do mac owners have multiple Macs, they on average pull down $100,000 a year. Wow. Who do you think has a juicier CC? The guy making $100k a year pisslefarting on his Mac? Or Becky the Wally world checkout girl who just got that $400 Dell out of lay-away? I know who I would be going after, and it sure wouldn't be Becky. Windows will be the target for botnets, and Macs will be the targets of those wanting them CC digits." -------------- Hmmm. I certainly don't fit this image. My last tax year I ran just north of 23K. I have 7 year old mac mini, a hackintosh dell mini 10v I picked up for $240, and a newer mac mini I recently got for $600 bucks.
I suppose you are right I do own multiple macs, but I don't think my credit card wold do a thief a whole lot of good.
Didn''t the US turn away a whole boatload of Jews fleeing germany. I seem to remember a movie about that some 10 or more years ago. I think bad things happened to the people on that boat.
Perhaps in theory, but I have not had a rise in my internet access cost. If I go by my pocketbook. I am not actually paying anything extra for ESPN3, itemization or not.
What do large collections of sticks have to do with sports? Ah....you have it backwards Faggots are for sports meaning a collection of hockey sticks or baseball bats or something... very clever. AC's are so SMRT sometimes.
Yeah. I watch all of my football on ESPN3.com. Just College ball, but it is nice not having to pay for crappy cable that never seemed to work right at my house anyhow.
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Why wouldn't people want to live 150 years or more? What else have you got going on?
Personally a couple billion would not be too long.
I got things to do.
My wife's work is going to all thin clients. The PC's are all being removed.
I think the era of the PC at every desk is going away sooner than I had imagined.
Pretty soon everyone will have a small smart device that you carry with you and when you get to work the device will automatically sync to the work server, monitor, keyboard and mouse. There will be no more need for PC's. There is more than enough computing power in the average smart phone to do what is required at most businesses.
Like the 60 billion wasted of the 240 billion given to private contractors in Iraq and Afganistan. That has been the largest fraud perpetrated on we taxpayers so far.
Government contracts aren't so much a joke as are the thieves who steal from the taxpayers and the government officials too embedded with multinational corporations to look after the interests of the taxpayers. We need better oversight for the citizens.
Nope, but my cell phone does all the time.
Guess my inane life doesn't worry me much. Not much drama so most spies would get bored and decide they don't want to waste their life watching mine.
I am looking at doing it gradually over time.
One Ipad for the kids this year..... then after a few more people tend to cast off some first generation stuff and as prices go down I might be able to get a $30-50 first generation iPad in a couple of years. I tend to get stuff well after the price curve has gone down, but I do think I need something before that this time because I am planning to head up an iPad deployment in my kids school in the next couple years.
Tucking the screen would be a great idea:
Something like this might do it for you.
http://www.amazon.com/VideoSecu-Under-Cabinet-monitor-LCD-CM/dp/B00153U1Z0
or this
http://www.dailyhack.net/2009/04/kitchenet-project-cabinet-mounted.html
I want one that just tucks into the 1/2' under the upper cabinet in a swing out cradle. I love the touch screen access to things with no cracks or crannies for junk to fall into it. I also like it not sitting in a puddle of spilled something.
The netbook we use currently sits on the countertop and tends to get knocked around by the kids and get flour and other food stuff rained on it by our 3 wee ones.
The netbook screen doesn't allow as easy viewing of our entire recipes or web based recipes because you have to always be scrolling . Epicurious looks great on an iPad.
We have a nice squeezebox for accessing all the music on our server.
ditto.... compiling and recompiling
makes me weepy.
Kindle is a ripoff?
I don't think so for what it does.
Ever buy about 10-12 books.... = the price of a kindle.
Ever carry 10-12 books= 100 times the weight of a kindle.
Exactly, no scope for the imagination.
The medical field has needed this type of tech for eons and now it is here in a form that is quite functional.
It is fantastic for entertainment functions.
It is fantastic for educational functions.
Each day I hear of people using these devices in new ways... ways a computer simply can't do.
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away!
I want another for each of the kids in the car and during travel so they can watch movies or listen to their music.
I want another one for a large multimedia remote and household controller.
I want another for my kids educational software.
I just want one in the kitchen for recipes.
I was taught that Creation was an exact account of reality handed down from God.
There are a lot of people for whom this is so.
I thought it was 70k contractors. I know that the ones where I live are not working and this is during the best time of year to finish up. We have 6 months of snow on the ground and it isn''t so lovely to work in the winter conditions.
I wish congress would get off their lard-donkeys and get to work for those who need the work at this critical time. They need to get their pay cut until they fix this mess.
True, but tablets and phones are in their infancy technologically. I can envision a day where people carry such devices around and when they get to the office, their wireless flatscreen, mouse and keyboard sync with their device automatically and they go about doing business with the device they already have.
I still think the days of the big box are really gone for the most part. The tech of the lightweight powerful mobile devices will only increase over the next 10 years and how they are used today will morph as well.
With all of the explosion of micro pc's (aka smartphones and tablets becoming prevalent) I don't see linux as gaining in the desktop arena much. But handhelds based upon linux hold great promise. They will come to dominate most of the market I believe. Android phones and tablets will become a large chunk of the tech people use and not desktops. Many of the older people I know are going for a tablet and a smartphone and not bothering with the whole PC upgrade anymore. Most of what they need to do can easily be accomplished using a tablet with much less headache. They don't have to call someone everytime they can't figure something out since there is nothing really to figure out.
I concur.
"not only do mac owners have multiple Macs, they on average pull down $100,000 a year. Wow. Who do you think has a juicier CC? The guy making $100k a year pisslefarting on his Mac? Or Becky the Wally world checkout girl who just got that $400 Dell out of lay-away? I know who I would be going after, and it sure wouldn't be Becky. Windows will be the target for botnets, and Macs will be the targets of those wanting them CC digits."
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Hmmm. I certainly don't fit this image. My last tax year I ran just north of 23K. I have 7 year old mac mini, a hackintosh dell mini 10v I picked up for $240, and a newer mac mini I recently got for $600 bucks.
I suppose you are right I do own multiple macs, but I don't think my credit card wold do a thief a whole lot of good.
Didn''t the US turn away a whole boatload of Jews fleeing germany. I seem to remember a movie about that some 10 or more years ago. I think bad things happened to the people on that boat.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110518/od_afp/usreligionanimalsoffbeat_2011051
Perhaps in theory, but I have not had a rise in my internet access cost. If I go by my pocketbook. I am not actually paying anything extra for ESPN3, itemization or not.
What do large collections of sticks have to do with sports? Ah....you have it backwards Faggots are for sports meaning a collection of hockey sticks or baseball bats or something... very clever.
AC's are so SMRT sometimes.
Yeah. I watch all of my football on ESPN3.com. Just College ball, but it is nice not having to pay for crappy cable that never seemed to work right at my house anyhow.