I am willing to bet 1 USD on the fact that this invention will not turn out to be churning out energy using nuclear fusion.
Payments will be done through paypal if anyone is willing to bet 1 USD on that this invention will prove to be generating energy from nuclear fusion.
When my dad was a teenager, an ad popped up in the media which promised money to those who could pick the three most beautiful women in it. He won the prize money, but so did everyone. And the prize money was split into irrelevant amounts.
It is obvious how the is going to work out. As more and more people start signing up for this scheme, the less money each of them get. MS hopes that at least some of the new users will stick to their search engine like mud thrown onto a wall.
But suckers will still keep flocking in.
I think this is another huge signpost that even in our modern era, ultra-powerful empires fall prey to their own delusional spin and slowly disintegrate into a drooling heap of superstition. This is the dying of the US as a superpower..
Picrotoxin, a poisonous crystalline plant alkaloid that kills living things with brains was used to make neurons fire in a specific pattern.
BTW, Is it true that developments in neuroscience are mostly hype and at snails pace?
Yeah.. may be it will be some western covert organization that pollutes the wiki first. But in an important sense, this is not the point. The fact is that, it will get polluted.
FYI, this is from the Wikileaks FAQ:
Aren't some leaks deliberately false and misleading?
..misleading leaks and misinformation are already well placed in the mainstream media, as recent history shows, an obvious example being the lead-up to the Iraq war. Peddlers of misinformation will find themselves undone by Wikileaks, equipped as it is to scrutinize leaked documents in a way that no mainstream media outlet is capable of. An analogus example is this excellent unweaving of the British government's politically motivated additions to an intelligence dossier on Iraq. The dossier was cited by Colin Powell in his address to the United Nations the same month to justify the pending US invasion of Iraq.
Is Wikileaks concerned about any legal consequences?
Our roots are in dissident communities and our focus is on non-western authoritarian regimes. Consequently we believe a politically motivated legal attack on us would be seen as a grave error in western administrations. However, we are prepared, structurally and technically, to deal with all legal attacks.
So one this is for sure: It will be more polluted than wikipedia
There is every indication that this project will fail. If the wiki is un-censor-able, and it gets really popular, I bet the some non-western covert organization would be the first to pollute it with false information.
People like me like to think there is something wrong with every company that cares more about money & future prospects of making money instead of focusing on the advancement of technology & betterment of human lives.
I could be wrong in thinking all Microsoft wants to do is stay in monopoly. But when I see a Microsoft logo on every keyboard & CPU because the manufacturers get "bribed" (a.k.a payed for advertising MS logos); I get this gut feeling that Microsoft is an evil empire.
Actually those are not my words. Except the last sentence about VOIP, everything else was plagiarized from a speech by minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew at the 37th Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture on Monday, 21 November 2005, New Delhi.
BTW, The average know it all/. poster likes to believe that everything microsoft does is evil which contradicts the claim that/. posters think that everything business does is good.
The average Indian civil servant still sees himself primarily as a regulator and not as a facilitator. He has not yet accepted that it is not a sin to make profits and become rich. The average Indian bureaucrat has little trust in India's business community. They view Indian businessmen as money grabbing opportunists who do not have the welfare of the country at heart; and all the more so if they are foreign businessmen.
Thus VOIP is bad and must be banned according to the Indian government because it helps the "evil" businessmen make money.
This gif shows a massive solar flare from October 2003, captured by the SOHO satellite. Note the burst of high-speed particles after the flare creating a snowstorm effect. The stellar flare that Swift detected from a star system called II Pegasi was millions of times more powerful. Credit: NASA-ESA/SOHO/EIT
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Good artists copy, Great artists steal.
I am willing to bet 1 USD on the fact that this invention will not turn out to be churning out energy using nuclear fusion. Payments will be done through paypal if anyone is willing to bet 1 USD on that this invention will prove to be generating energy from nuclear fusion.
Ahm.. Google Books is not a product, it is advertising, just like Java is advertising from Sun.
When my dad was a teenager, an ad popped up in the media which promised money to those who could pick the three most beautiful women in it. He won the prize money, but so did everyone. And the prize money was split into irrelevant amounts. It is obvious how the is going to work out. As more and more people start signing up for this scheme, the less money each of them get. MS hopes that at least some of the new users will stick to their search engine like mud thrown onto a wall. But suckers will still keep flocking in.
I think this is another huge signpost that even in our modern era, ultra-powerful empires fall prey to their own delusional spin and slowly disintegrate into a drooling heap of superstition. This is the dying of the US as a superpower..
May be because my slashdot nick sounds like my real name.
Picrotoxin, a poisonous crystalline plant alkaloid that kills living things with brains was used to make neurons fire in a specific pattern. BTW, Is it true that developments in neuroscience are mostly hype and at snails pace?
From: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_200 70105_001440.html:
Yeah.. may be it will be some western covert organization that pollutes the wiki first. But in an important sense, this is not the point. The fact is that, it will get polluted.
FYI, this is from the Wikileaks FAQ:
So one this is for sure: It will be more polluted than wikipedia
There is every indication that this project will fail. If the wiki is un-censor-able, and it gets really popular, I bet the some non-western covert organization would be the first to pollute it with false information.
Whether Novell forks out first or some one else forks out first it is still division of effort which could otherwise be used against MS.
So MS is winning.
People like me like to think there is something wrong with every company that cares more about money & future prospects of making money instead of focusing on the advancement of technology & betterment of human lives. I could be wrong in thinking all Microsoft wants to do is stay in monopoly. But when I see a Microsoft logo on every keyboard & CPU because the manufacturers get "bribed" (a.k.a payed for advertising MS logos); I get this gut feeling that Microsoft is an evil empire.
Actually those are not my words. Except the last sentence about VOIP, everything else was plagiarized from a speech by minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew at the 37th Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture on Monday, 21 November 2005, New Delhi. BTW, The average know it all /. poster likes to believe that everything microsoft does is evil which contradicts the claim that /. posters think that everything business does is good.
The average Indian civil servant still sees himself primarily as a regulator and not as a facilitator. He has not yet accepted that it is not a sin to make profits and become rich. The average Indian bureaucrat has little trust in India's business community. They view Indian businessmen as money grabbing opportunists who do not have the welfare of the country at heart; and all the more so if they are foreign businessmen. Thus VOIP is bad and must be banned according to the Indian government because it helps the "evil" businessmen make money.
You know what? Somehow, 'I told you so' just doesn't quite cut it.
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This gif shows a massive solar flare from October 2003, captured by the SOHO satellite. Note the burst of high-speed particles after the flare creating a snowstorm effect. The stellar flare that Swift detected from a star system called II Pegasi was millions of times more powerful. Credit: NASA-ESA/SOHO/EIT
Actually... I think Element 118 is really a big deal considering the fact that we started of with just 5
For the record... I got to say this: Only losers still keep using Windows.