When will the internet bubble "2.0" pop? I cant freakin wait. Words like "blog" and social networking make my skin crawl.
Looking back at the last bubble burst, it seems that another one should be due around 2009.
Here's an idea.. How about they turn web based email in to email that just works?
Taking 2 or 3 times more time to read my email on gmail as it took with pine/mutt is not a step forward. Now they want to add even more crap to it.
indeed, but adding features is their way of fighting their web2.0 war and simplicity is the first casualty. Their train of thought centers on the idea that more features is better when in reality, that isn't really the case. There isn't a point in making things needlessly complicated just to out do the competition. Google should have learned this from Yahoo but they didn't, they are getting greedy.
Dear Google, please do not fubar your email system my making it "web2.0" as it is currently not as broken as you seem to want it to be. I use your services because they are relatively clean, non-intrusive and most importantly not like Myspace. That is all.
Bonus points if necessary DRM/windows media player updates are forced to install through the famous windows "critical" update system.
no, it will probably be touted as a new feature in windows7.
DRM will somehow have to be involved, such that even if you could save the stream your browser is playing, the content would be useless.
that's almost a given looking at Vista's support of DRM and the fact that the MPAA/RIAA seem to have some sort of deal with MS on the issue. In a few years if things keep up as they are, most people will learn to tolerate DRM's nonsense in their OS and it won't be too much trouble to incorporate it in this software's first release.
There's not really much you can do about it other than require an ID for everyone regardless of age. In that case, you'd still have a problem with faked ids which this system wouldn't solve anyways.
it's a list of things ballmer is envious about other OSes and internet browsers. He's also developing a new model of chair for the release of windows 7 deadly sins edition.:)
the higher financial bar doesn't translate into better programming, as you said- 300 channels and very few of them are worth watching. the more channels that are able to be aired should be a good thing if it was combined with a system that lets you choose which shows you want and which you don't rather than getting a big package of mostly garbage just to watch a few good shows.
I suppose this change will make The Reality TV Rerun Channel cheaper to provide
I don;t think those kind of shows made by very large media companies qualify as being limited in their finances. They shouldn't be benefiting from these proposed rules at all- that's the whole point of the rules- not to benefit the companies that are already filthy rich but the ones that could offer something original to watch if only they could be aired. although I highly doubt any of this will actually happen, big companies have a lot of lobbying power- certainly enough to make this change in fcc regulations null and void. perhaps spin it to their advantage somehow...
how many AOL users bother to change their OS to linux? how many people use the features in MS office that OpenOffice doesn't support? how many would even notice the difference?
Can you build atmospheric pressure comparable to earth with lower gravity?
No, but you wouldn't need to. A terraformed Mars isn't going to be like Africa or South America. It'll be more like living up in the mountains.
so Titan doesn't exist? an atmosphere onyl escapes when the atmos in the upper part of the atmosphere attain a high enough energy to escape. The amount of energy available to do this is dependant on how warm the atmosphere is and the amount required to break free of the planet is dependant on the mass and radius of the relevant atmosphere. it takes millions of years for the atmosphere to erode, not thousands as has been suggested, so it's probably doable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon)
Isn't the problem with mars a lack of a magnetic field which allows the solar wind to strip away the atmosphere? I don't see how we could jump-start a magnetic field, so whats the point of even trying to rebuild the atmosphere if it's all going to blow away?
it takes several million years for a sizable atmosphere to be sufficiently eroded without a magnetic field. We don't need to jump start the entire magnetic field on the planet, just create an artificial one- like say a *ton* of orbiting satillites using a thin helium plasma to extend the magnetic field generated several miles out in a large bubble, send up enough of them with each bubble overlapping and voila! a nice protective magnetic field. it's well beyond our current technology to pull it off but hey what will we be able to do in the few million years it takes the atmosphere to erode anyways?
How about the lack of gravity? Can you build atmospheric pressure comparable to earth with lower gravity?
yes. Mars at least might have a cool enough atmosphere and large enough mass to retain a thick atmosphere for several million years at the least. with our help it can last as long as we like when and if we get the proper technology. Venus on the other hand has far too much CO2 and too little hydrogen atoms available to be terraformed without some *serious* work and by serious I mean super-civilization capable of moving quadrillions of tons of material to and from different planets.
So pilots in these aircraft won't have as many blindspots as are in current aircraft? Are they planning on using this on current aircraft or as an add-on to future ones because I thought the F-22 Raprtor was the last plane in future production that actually had a pilot rather than a UAV type craft or was that just for testing?
55 Cancri has produced "a rat's nest of radial velocity data," Fischer said. "We probably still don't have all the planets. We are pulling out one thread at a time, disentangling all these orbits, and it has taken a lot more data and time than we predicted.
by the sounds of it, the wobble on this thing is just a mess- probably a lot like what our solar system's wobble looks like from the outside.
Seriously, what do AV companies have to do with phishing scams? The proper counter-attack to phishing is user education, and proper security practices at various sites
If the user population were sufficinetly educated, spyware, viruses, trojans and phishing wouldn't be nearly the problem it is today. Antivirus software is for defending after the fact- by the time it comes into play you've already lost. Notice that there are few if any AV companies that specialize in OSes that are not frequently targets of viruses trojans etc.. no money to be made. That being said, antiphishing software could very well be merged with AV or antispyware software and sold as such. A lot more of a reason for joe average to buy more software.
I assume that they calculate their viditor @ by looking at unique Ip+ useragent string combos that indicate the OS. Therefore, they probably have a record of both going back for at least several months. I would think that they would use statistical methods to determine a more accurate value for traffic that accounted for the slashdot effect. Like this example: 832 926 781 12324 49807 18266 5377 1216 1082 1109 988... the middle spikes would indicate an abnormal amount of traffic. they would be outliers and probably wouldn't be useful for determining an accurate value for Linux users visiting the site.
yep, your story sounds a lot like a friend of mine and his laptop. The genius reinstalled his OS without doing a backup and surprise!! all his files are gone. Always keep a back upo and never ever simply move a directory unless it is absolutely impossible to do otherwise. DVD back-ups are your friend.
You know what is ironic? Computer hardware is a major limiter of research; imagine that. Calculating the most stable structure and interactions between proteins is very computationally intensive. Excluding super-efficient mathematical methods [unlikely] we are stuck with *his* hardware to do the job. If he wants to attack something for his perceived lack of medical progress, he better start cracking on the better hardware so that we can do our work.
Had his opinion been a comment he'd be rightfully modded -1 troll or something to that effect because there is no -1 factually inccorect mod. He assumes that medical science is anything at all comparable to computer science as far as progress. Even if it was, he seems pretty ignorant of how far medical science is advancing. When it was first possible to record the entirety of a genome we were limited to a few hundred or less base pairs a day. Now we can decode over a hundred million per day. I would call that one heck of an improvement. We can figure out the structure of proteins and enzymes a lot faster and more accurately than in the past and are making decent progress modeling and designing new proteins. We now have the capability to encode for numerous artificial amino acids and aree working on developing artificial lifeforms using more than the 4 standard nucleotide bases. DNA-based computers are on the drawing board and simple prototypes have been built. The predicted storage capacity of these kind of systems is TRILLIONS of times what Intel could dream of making. Time to catch up Intel.
but likewise people who do that shouldn't look down their noses at people like me with quad-core 7GB systems just because we aren't 100% efficient with our hardware. (Not that you do this, but many do.)
What takes you to run a single OS I can run 10. 100 with openbox. There's nothing wrong with the way you do things it is just that for me it is mcu heasier to have a choice of clean, usable operating system GUIs that don't require me to buy hundreds of dollars of upgraded hardware or constant fighting with the interface. Really as far as technology I take the easy way out; I don't even bother to reboot for another OS, I just run it through a VM and go. All I need to do is keep a copy of/home handy and I never need to reconfigure settings no matter what *nix system it is and wouldn't touch Windows with a ten meter pole.
I did in fact use Windows back then quite a bit. It worked well for what I needed it to do [and is in fact not a bad gaming OS due to its speed] It helps a lot running older OSes through a VM too because even though modern VMs are pretty good, it never hurts to use an OS with a relatively small memory footprint. Now as for the "extra features" I usually turn off most of the animations, tooltips and other settings anyway. They only really help if you have a fairly non-intuitive interface that you haven't customized. If you have your files organized and program shortcuts in the right places you don't need that much in the way of tooltips etc.. As far as hardware goes, you may have a point except for the fact that every time a new Windows OS comes out, a lot of hardware drivers are invariably useless. Hardware support isn't really something that should increase the amount of RAM a system uses if the software is designed correctly. It only tends to increase the amount of hard disk space used.
Basically, my point is, in my opinion ease of use of computers has improved beyond measure, and the RAM and CPU cycle cost is more than worth it.
I agree although it seems to be a growing trend where software is not being coded as lean as it should be because heck, they've got a few gigs to work with right?
Yes, computers are more powerful and doing similar tasks. But they also tend to be more user friendly and over all the user experience is much nicer. They also have to cater to a much broader audience then they used to.
I think that's mostly true of *nix systems, usability has gotten a lot better as of late- especially debian-based *nix systems. But looking at Windows OSes this doesn't seem to be as much the case. Are Windows Vista or Windows XP easier to use than say Windows 95? Why not when Windows 95 only needs 1/20th the RAM to run? Are the new versions that much easier to use? Security? no that's not it either, Vista and XP still get infected with viruses and spyware like the prior versions. Software compatibility? No not that either, there is actually a version of WINE for Windows that emulates later versions that isn't that bad. So where exactly was that code used to good effect?
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indeed, but adding features is their way of fighting their web2.0 war and simplicity is the first casualty. Their train of thought centers on the idea that more features is better when in reality, that isn't really the case. There isn't a point in making things needlessly complicated just to out do the competition. Google should have learned this from Yahoo but they didn't, they are getting greedy.
Dear Google, please do not fubar your email system my making it "web2.0" as it is currently not as broken as you seem to want it to be. I use your services because they are relatively clean, non-intrusive and most importantly not like Myspace. That is all.
In this case, I don't think it mattered what OS was being used, they'd find something to charge him with.
There's not really much you can do about it other than require an ID for everyone regardless of age. In that case, you'd still have a problem with faked ids which this system wouldn't solve anyways.
it's a list of things ballmer is envious about other OSes and internet browsers. He's also developing a new model of chair for the release of windows 7 deadly sins edition. :)
half that stuff on their list is already a part of firefox and either a part of many linux distros or easily addable- what is new here exactly?
how many AOL users bother to change their OS to linux? how many people use the features in MS office that OpenOffice doesn't support? how many would even notice the difference?
So pilots in these aircraft won't have as many blindspots as are in current aircraft? Are they planning on using this on current aircraft or as an add-on to future ones because I thought the F-22 Raprtor was the last plane in future production that actually had a pilot rather than a UAV type craft or was that just for testing?
why bother spoofing an IP from your own machine when there's a nice botnet called storm that could in principle, do the work for you?
by the sounds of it, the wobble on this thing is just a mess- probably a lot like what our solar system's wobble looks like from the outside.
if you change the useragent string it will work. now where's that botnet slice you were talking about...
I assume that they calculate their viditor @ by looking at unique Ip+ useragent string combos that indicate the OS. Therefore, they probably have a record of both going back for at least several months. I would think that they would use statistical methods to determine a more accurate value for traffic that accounted for the slashdot effect. Like this example: 832 926 781 12324 49807 18266 5377 1216 1082 1109 988 ... the middle spikes would indicate an abnormal amount of traffic. they would be outliers and probably wouldn't be useful for determining an accurate value for Linux users visiting the site.
They used Excel to calculate the first set of figures
yep, your story sounds a lot like a friend of mine and his laptop. The genius reinstalled his OS without doing a backup and surprise!! all his files are gone. Always keep a back upo and never ever simply move a directory unless it is absolutely impossible to do otherwise. DVD back-ups are your friend.
You know what is ironic? Computer hardware is a major limiter of research; imagine that. Calculating the most stable structure and interactions between proteins is very computationally intensive. Excluding super-efficient mathematical methods [unlikely] we are stuck with *his* hardware to do the job. If he wants to attack something for his perceived lack of medical progress, he better start cracking on the better hardware so that we can do our work.
Had his opinion been a comment he'd be rightfully modded -1 troll or something to that effect because there is no -1 factually inccorect mod. He assumes that medical science is anything at all comparable to computer science as far as progress. Even if it was, he seems pretty ignorant of how far medical science is advancing. When it was first possible to record the entirety of a genome we were limited to a few hundred or less base pairs a day. Now we can decode over a hundred million per day. I would call that one heck of an improvement. We can figure out the structure of proteins and enzymes a lot faster and more accurately than in the past and are making decent progress modeling and designing new proteins. We now have the capability to encode for numerous artificial amino acids and aree working on developing artificial lifeforms using more than the 4 standard nucleotide bases. DNA-based computers are on the drawing board and simple prototypes have been built. The predicted storage capacity of these kind of systems is TRILLIONS of times what Intel could dream of making. Time to catch up Intel.