While a risky move, Microsoft just needs to pull out of the EU and say "Piss off"
Wait, hold on. Why is this modded +5 Insightful? Did everyone on/. collectively go insane? It seems too obvious to me that pulling out of the EU would be one of the poorest business decisions ever.
Seriously, they should have the right to bundle their browser with their OS. It's not like they are keeping other browsers from being installed.
No, they shouldn't have the right to do that. That's the whole point. You didn't give any valid reason to support your opposing view.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadets
Yes, they managed to fool everyone in there into thinking that they were actually in space (until they led them out to their first space walk to an audience). The space ship had a gravity generator in it which is why there was no change in gravity strength. They didn't go insane.
It's bad enough listening to people talk on their cell phones, I don't need to listen to them talking to their laptops too.
I've never understood this. If you hate hearing people talking on their cell phones, do you also therefore hate hearing people talk face to face? The only difference I can see is that you can hear more people talking to each other.
Why does it cost more for adverts per person during the Simpsons? It could be the case that Hulu is charging more per viewer because those who watch the Simpsons are more receptive to advertisements, but I doubt that. I think that Hulu just uses a poor pricing model for advertisers.
Each VOIP call uses less bandwidth than a voice call, so it's a transition to get people to do this. You still have a monthly contract, so expect the price of that to go up as people use it more...
Nope. http://threestore.three.co.uk/payg/default.aspx clearly shows these phones NOT on contract which have free skype calls. And it's being marketed as FREE CALLS FOREVER (so don't expect any price to appear). Three is a pretty cool company.
We've seen this with so many things, including solar cells - Constant assurance that they are getting cheaper easier to make, more efficient, etc; people ranting about how it is finally feasible and will be seen in mass quantities soon... yet we still don't.
From http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Stolen_picture_used_on_a_huge_billboard_in_another_country "Her blog post and most of the comments here are retarded. That image was not stolen.
There's no way that large format print was produced from a 500 pixel wide Facebook rip. If you read her post she says a professional photographer "friend" took the image. The friend most likely sold it to a microstock agency which is where the design agency for the Czech supermarket chain bought it and is now denying it.
With tens of thousands of decent quality high resolution images taken on pro/semi-pro equipment available for a few dollars each on microstock sites, there's no way any designer would troll blogs to find a usable random photo of a family among point&shoot and low rez photos."
If it takes an equal amount of resources for the body to grow a finger without fingerprints then it makes sense that they not meant for anything. Not everything has to have a purpose.
Screwing themselves over? How? In the real world you can use any software you wish. The only people screwing themselves over are those who waste their time learning how to do the things that wolfram alpha can do instantly for you. Knowing how to do very large sums is just as useless as knowing how to integrate.
It'll have to be around 40% of the cost of a standard solar cell (since many are around 20% efficient). It doesn't seem much when you consider that these solar panels are extremely thin. The amount of materials needed to create them will be very small and these solar panels are printable. If only they showed us a price we'd know if they were the future or not.
You know, in a world without iPods - these insiders might be right. However that's not even remotely like the real world we live in. It does seem to bear a striking resemblance to the world U.S. cellphone company executives are trying to pretend we live in, though - that world where we pay them some amount of money to buy a service that duplicates what we can do for free without their hardware (yeah, Verizon, I'm looking at YOU).
I for one listen to a heck of a lot more music while I'm out and about than when I'm sitting at/near my computer. I realize I'm probably in the minority in that regard - but I think it's a safe bet that almost everyone that purchases music nowadays wants to listen to it on the go at least part of the time. Without ubiquitous, unlimited, cheap internet access that's not going to be music that's streamed.
Technology, especially regarding computers, changes very quickly in today's world - much faster than 14 years ago. Mobile phones will soon eclipse mp3 players. They have a significant amount of storage on them now (enough to store a very large number of songs on) and they do also have another feature: internet access. Mobile phones will be the key to the success of streaming music.
Those games were terrible compared to today's standards. Extremely dull. However, people seem to rate games according to how good they were for their time, rather than how good they are now. That's why the "best games of all time" lists should really be renamed "best games of their time".
Methinks you dont know what a viral marketing campaign is. Announching a product before its release isn't viral. Besides, it's released on the 18th of May - that's hardly half a centuary.
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Do you honestly believe that forecasting technology is useless? How about weather forecasts?
Idiots like you are the reason so many stupid laws exist.
Developers. We would rather learn from other people's mistakes than our own.
While a risky move, Microsoft just needs to pull out of the EU and say "Piss off"
Wait, hold on. Why is this modded +5 Insightful? Did everyone on /. collectively go insane? It seems too obvious to me that pulling out of the EU would be one of the poorest business decisions ever.
Seriously, they should have the right to bundle their browser with their OS. It's not like they are keeping other browsers from being installed.
No, they shouldn't have the right to do that. That's the whole point. You didn't give any valid reason to support your opposing view.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadets Yes, they managed to fool everyone in there into thinking that they were actually in space (until they led them out to their first space walk to an audience). The space ship had a gravity generator in it which is why there was no change in gravity strength. They didn't go insane.
I doubt it needs to run for long to reach its maximum FLOPS.
It's bad enough listening to people talk on their cell phones, I don't need to listen to them talking to their laptops too.
I've never understood this. If you hate hearing people talking on their cell phones, do you also therefore hate hearing people talk face to face? The only difference I can see is that you can hear more people talking to each other.
If you hate typing, you could try using speech recognition software. It's come a long way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHg5txXOOkY
...They're EXTREME scientists!
Why does it cost more for adverts per person during the Simpsons? It could be the case that Hulu is charging more per viewer because those who watch the Simpsons are more receptive to advertisements, but I doubt that. I think that Hulu just uses a poor pricing model for advertisers.
Each VOIP call uses less bandwidth than a voice call, so it's a transition to get people to do this. You still have a monthly contract, so expect the price of that to go up as people use it more...
Nope. http://threestore.three.co.uk/payg/default.aspx clearly shows these phones NOT on contract which have free skype calls. And it's being marketed as FREE CALLS FOREVER (so don't expect any price to appear). Three is a pretty cool company.
We've seen this with so many things, including solar cells - Constant assurance that they are getting cheaper easier to make, more efficient, etc; people ranting about how it is finally feasible and will be seen in mass quantities soon... yet we still don't.
Maybe you should take a look at these graphs: http://www.frozennorth.org/C197109377/E20080427143258/index.html and http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2008/12/387-world-photovoltaic-pv-production.html
From http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Stolen_picture_used_on_a_huge_billboard_in_another_country "Her blog post and most of the comments here are retarded. That image was not stolen. There's no way that large format print was produced from a 500 pixel wide Facebook rip. If you read her post she says a professional photographer "friend" took the image. The friend most likely sold it to a microstock agency which is where the design agency for the Czech supermarket chain bought it and is now denying it. With tens of thousands of decent quality high resolution images taken on pro/semi-pro equipment available for a few dollars each on microstock sites, there's no way any designer would troll blogs to find a usable random photo of a family among point&shoot and low rez photos."
[Can't wait to] watch those 1080p movies on my smart phone screen.
There are already phones which can play 780p (and record too). Why the sarcasm? Would you rather watch a lower quality movie?
If it takes an equal amount of resources for the body to grow a finger without fingerprints then it makes sense that they not meant for anything. Not everything has to have a purpose.
Using traditional slashdot logic, I have arrived at the conclusion that this must be bad... somehow.
Screwing themselves over? How? In the real world you can use any software you wish. The only people screwing themselves over are those who waste their time learning how to do the things that wolfram alpha can do instantly for you. Knowing how to do very large sums is just as useless as knowing how to integrate.
Are you kidding me? Helping out the people you like the most first isnt very professional.
Anyway, if you really do want respect read Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power. There's no substitute.
It'll have to be around 40% of the cost of a standard solar cell (since many are around 20% efficient). It doesn't seem much when you consider that these solar panels are extremely thin. The amount of materials needed to create them will be very small and these solar panels are printable. If only they showed us a price we'd know if they were the future or not.
You know, in a world without iPods - these insiders might be right. However that's not even remotely like the real world we live in. It does seem to bear a striking resemblance to the world U.S. cellphone company executives are trying to pretend we live in, though - that world where we pay them some amount of money to buy a service that duplicates what we can do for free without their hardware (yeah, Verizon, I'm looking at YOU).
I for one listen to a heck of a lot more music while I'm out and about than when I'm sitting at/near my computer. I realize I'm probably in the minority in that regard - but I think it's a safe bet that almost everyone that purchases music nowadays wants to listen to it on the go at least part of the time. Without ubiquitous, unlimited, cheap internet access that's not going to be music that's streamed.
Technology, especially regarding computers, changes very quickly in today's world - much faster than 14 years ago. Mobile phones will soon eclipse mp3 players. They have a significant amount of storage on them now (enough to store a very large number of songs on) and they do also have another feature: internet access. Mobile phones will be the key to the success of streaming music.
The G1 can not capture video.
Those games were terrible compared to today's standards. Extremely dull. However, people seem to rate games according to how good they were for their time, rather than how good they are now. That's why the "best games of all time" lists should really be renamed "best games of their time".
Yeah, exactly. Who the hell wants to know details about a product before its released?
Methinks you dont know what a viral marketing campaign is. Announching a product before its release isn't viral. Besides, it's released on the 18th of May - that's hardly half a centuary.
RTFA. No pig or pig genes are patented.