111–120 of 191 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That certainly seems doable with todays technology, but how many people need it?
It would be nice to know in advance not to be sitting in my underwear when the UPS guy knocks on the door.
I would like to see a digg/reddit/HN site where in order to post, vote, or comment your IQ must be greater than 3 standard deviations from the mean (ie: Mensa).
One click install java IDE and compiler. One click install C IDE and compiler. One click install Erlange IDE and compiler. And so on and so forth.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was just doing customer service help with someone today actually. IE 6.0. I wanted to throw the guy into a lake. Of fire.
"Ok, here's what I want you to do.. Go to mozilla.com/firefox"
My fiancee was fixing up an old computer to give to our nephew, and when she tried to install Firefox, it refused, essentially saying, "Your computer is too old." * She grabbed a 2.x install file from OldApps.com, but many of the people still running IE6 won't be tech savvy enough to do that, and are likely to be running really old computers. (And even when FF can be installed, it tends to suck up memory. What do you do with a computer that maxes out at 128MB ram?)
* I think it was a memory issue, but mainly I remember that it was unexpectedly off-putting.
I got flamed for suggesting this recently, but I'd like to see it: Equal wages/prices for all regardless of geography, brought on by a single world currency and the internet? That would solve world hunger (which is a money issue, not supply issue). edit: Awesome. It's getting downvoted here too? What the hell is wrong with the concept? edit 2: Oh I was completely blind to the obvious here...I mean equal wages in term…
Of course, the wealth still needs to come from somewhere, but for sake of argument.
* Say $10-20,000, though setting this to something realistic will actually depend on a lot of variables, both personal and regional. Defining "equal wages" is tricky. (Also, the possibility of sudden, huge medical costs, for example, can sabotage the entire system, but that's true now.)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Ok, here's what I want you to do.. Go to mozilla.com/firefox"
What if the computer is too old to run Firefox 3? Serious question. My fiancee was fixing up an old computer to give to our nephew, and when she tried to install Firefox, it refused, essentially saying, "Your computer is too old." * She grabbed a 2.x install file from OldApps.com, but many of the people still running IE6 won't be tech savvy enough to do that, and are likely to be running really old computers. (And ev…
Pentium II class system with 64 MB of RAM and at least 50 MB of free disk space
I got flamed for suggesting this recently, but I'd like to see it: Equal wages/prices for all regardless of geography, brought on by a single world currency and the internet? That would solve world hunger (which is a money issue, not supply issue). edit: Awesome. It's getting downvoted here too? What the hell is wrong with the concept? edit 2: Oh I was completely blind to the obvious here...I mean equal wages in term…
I would like to see a digg/reddit/HN site where in order to post, vote, or comment your IQ must be greater than 3 standard deviations from the mean (ie: Mensa).
I see that sort of site just turning into a mutual-masturbation forum with people continuously trying to justify their intelligence and not discussing anything worthwhile.
A modification on the idea would be to only allow a site with people who have a net worth greater than a certain amount or who are in certain positions of responsibility or power (like CEOs of companies with a market cap greater than 10 million). You could extend this for any classification system: people with doctorate degrees, people with X many years of experience in Y field, etc.
Basically I would be interested to see what sort of news and discussions would evolve from a meritocracy-based community. Think of the benefit that comes from the TED speaker's community.
After the TED thread and watching a few inspired presentations there, I'm thinking "Kill PowerPoint."
Definitely. Ideas?
* I'd like something more cinematic like Animoto. Not constrained to the 10-12 slides, 4-5 bullet points each.
* I'd also like a tool that could help with just talking (no slides).
Just throwing it out there.