I don't know. Search engines had been done for a while, and then someone comes out of no where with a system that works way way better. And even if it wasn't that much better, the minimalism of their interface, and their attitude towards advertising are just as important to the mindshare and market share that they have now. So why should we be upset when those same intelligent and successful people?
The reason that all of the portals and whatnot failed so miserably is not just because they tried to do so many things, it's because they tried to do so many things incredibly quickly. They were all running full speed ahead, making it all up as they went, and it didn't meld together like they hoped. Now that doesn't mean it can't. If Google takes their time, really thinks about what they're doing, and stays true to the simplicity and straight-forwardness that they're known for, they just might make it work. They're probably smart enough to learn from other's failures, and thanks to the dot com days, there are lots of those to examine.
Human history is full of examples of people trying to make flying machines. Eventually someone got it right, and it changed the world.
It's manageable now by us geeky types, but the average person just does not have the time to figure it all out. And if this stuff evolves like the article predicts, it'll become too much for anyone to handle, at least if they want to use the devices for any purpose other than just for the geek factor.
That being said, I don't really think a pre-emptive initiative like this can really hope to solve the future problems they're aiming for. Technology is just too unpredictable, not to mention all of the economic and other reasons that the companies creating this technology will have for doing their own thing.
if you're going for cheap and easy, a plain old wood frame would probably be the way to go. As long as you have access to a shop. Veeneer is not very cheap, attaching it to metal is bound to cause problems, and any conditions that will damage a plain old wood frame will probably wreck the LCD anyways.
I don't think it'd be a last resort as much as a starting point. I'd imagine an engineer trying to find someone more of a particular widget via this tool would go like this. Do a quick model, use the search tool to find matches. Browse through the matches individually, pick the ones that look the most similar. Call up someone responsible for each of those good matches, and find out all the detailed specs, eliminate ones that won't work. If none of them work, at least you've tracked down some people who have made similar items, maybe you can work a deal out with them.
Because it's too hard to play games or watch movies while I'm walking through the city to a friend's house, or while I'm sitting at my desk doing some drafting. I like listening to music while I do those (and other) things, and I want something that does that very well, and doesn't have a big color screen to eat up battery life.
this is the 21st century. They could just sell it on their website. Put a few ads on some strategic websites, and you'll probably do alright. There are much smaller software houses selling that way, and doing alright, without nearly as much hype abound as lucasarts has.
What format would you have suggested Apple use? The RIAA would never let them go sans-DRM, so vanilla MP3's are out. Since Apple would have to tack on some DRM, backwards compatibility with all the existing stuff out there becomes an non-issue, because there isn't any standard DRM format yet. So Apple chooses AAC, which is an open standard, and which most people would agree is better quality in general than MP3. They stick some DRM on it, and there ya go.
What else would they use? WMA? And just give MS that much power over their brand new shiny business idea? Avoiding long and pointless discussions over sound quality, ogg doesn't offer apple much of anything over AAC.
Exactly. The article mentions things like flight schedules and classified ads. Those sorts of rapidly and constantly changing infor sources need a completely different system to effectively search them. Fortunately, they've already been invented. Orbitz, and cheap tickets, and expedia are a few of many that handle flight schedules. Any website for a local newspaper probably does a decent job with classified ads.
If I want to find cheap airline tickets, I put "airline tickets" into google, and it'll give me a list of websites that are designed to help me find airline tickets. It doesn't try and find the actual flights for me, and that's ok.
This deep web browser idea is going to end up being a feature bloated search engine that does lots of things, but does them all poorly, and does nothing particularly well.
Predicted does not equal invented. Heinlein is great and all, but don't pretend that he deserves the credit for all the work engineers have put into this thing.
You protect the DB by not allowing anyone who wants it access. If someone breaks into your computers and takes it, there's laws against computer crimes to cover that.
I'm no expert on these sorts of things, but here's how I see it. Imagine I'm wearing a shirt that you really don't like. So you hit me in the chest with a hammer. The hammer crushes through my ribcage and creates a nice hole. My shirt gets stretched down into this new hole by the hammer, and eventually tears from the tension of it stretching. As I slowly bleed to death and whine, you notice another shirt, exactly like the one I was wearing, sitting in the street behind me. (Maybe I'm selling them and I dropped one when you hit me). So it a fit of rage, you try to destroy the shirt laying in the road. The hammer smashes the cloth against the ground before bouncing back up, but probably doesn't do any real damage to the cloth.
Now, a bullet probably has a bit more energy in it than a hammer swung by most people, but I imagine it'd work in a similar fashion. And Superman's body seems to be made of something even stronger than asphalt.
But I could be very wrong. and the article could explain it infact. It's too busy for me to read at the moment.
You build a huge tube from venus to mars, throw in a few pumps, and move the CO2 over to the red planet! Viola! Two planets terrarformed for the price of one!
Indeed, I'll agree with all of that to some degree. It's just important to realize that technology has a hard time moving forward or benefitting anyone without a decent social structure to deal with it. For example, there's more than enough food available to feed the world, yet thousands of people die each day of malnutrition. There are all sorts of social barriers that keep us from distributing food to people who really need it.
I think science is awesome and great and such too, but things like welfare, tax reform, and social security are also parts of the advancement of our society. Whether or not they're successfully implemented is debatable, but that doesn't mean they aren't important to furthering the human race. Systems of government and economic policies are just as big a part of our existence as is science. Society is far more than what we know, it's how we live.
Ah, speakerphone is the most horrid evolution of the phone. My mom has a portable phone that she always uses on speakerphone, even though she's walking all over the house and holding the receiver up to her ear anyways. I only spend a couple of weeks per year visiting her, but that drives me insane within a couple of days every time.
I don't think much of SCO will exist after IBM is finished with them. And I don't think anyone else will be dumb enough to try and pick up the pieces of what's left and attempt another lawsuit based business plan. But I could be wrong.
I remember the early space sets, and I think they were pretty cool. There were some pieces with stuff painted on, but they were for the most part pretty generic. Control panels and such. It could work for a space ship controls, or an airport control tower, or part of a machine to crush other lego men, whatever. And they were rare enough that they became almost precious.
The spaceship/moon logo I wasn't too thrilled about. Maybe painting the pieces to make them more representative of functional objects, things that couldn't be built at a lego figure's scale otherwise is where it should stop.
Definitely. Lego is hella expensive. I'm 23 and would love to have more lego, but I can't convince myself that they're worth so much money. If they were this expensive when I was a little kid, my parents must've loved me a lot more than I thought, cause they bought me a ton of sets.
At least Apple has some real R&D costs that they can blame prices on.
Super Smash Bros. Melee is also like this. The levels and characters are all 3D models, but the game play all happens from a 2D perspective. All the benefits of having 3D models, but the restraint to keep a mostly 2D experience.
You don't even have to be a professional to stop having fun, it's just when these things become such a huge part of your life that when they don't go well, you're depressed.
I went bowling yesterday with a couple friends, and we all suck, but we had lots of fun. A couple lanes down, there was a teenager there all by himself, scoring 230+, but getting all pissed off at himself whenever he missed a strike. He didn't look like he was having a good time.
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I don't know. Search engines had been done for a while, and then someone comes out of no where with a system that works way way better. And even if it wasn't that much better, the minimalism of their interface, and their attitude towards advertising are just as important to the mindshare and market share that they have now. So why should we be upset when those same intelligent and successful people?
The reason that all of the portals and whatnot failed so miserably is not just because they tried to do so many things, it's because they tried to do so many things incredibly quickly. They were all running full speed ahead, making it all up as they went, and it didn't meld together like they hoped. Now that doesn't mean it can't. If Google takes their time, really thinks about what they're doing, and stays true to the simplicity and straight-forwardness that they're known for, they just might make it work. They're probably smart enough to learn from other's failures, and thanks to the dot com days, there are lots of those to examine.
Human history is full of examples of people trying to make flying machines. Eventually someone got it right, and it changed the world.
That being said, I don't really think a pre-emptive initiative like this can really hope to solve the future problems they're aiming for. Technology is just too unpredictable, not to mention all of the economic and other reasons that the companies creating this technology will have for doing their own thing.
if you're going for cheap and easy, a plain old wood frame would probably be the way to go. As long as you have access to a shop. Veeneer is not very cheap, attaching it to metal is bound to cause problems, and any conditions that will damage a plain old wood frame will probably wreck the LCD anyways.
I don't think it'd be a last resort as much as a starting point. I'd imagine an engineer trying to find someone more of a particular widget via this tool would go like this. Do a quick model, use the search tool to find matches. Browse through the matches individually, pick the ones that look the most similar. Call up someone responsible for each of those good matches, and find out all the detailed specs, eliminate ones that won't work. If none of them work, at least you've tracked down some people who have made similar items, maybe you can work a deal out with them.
It fell down the stairs.
Because it's too hard to play games or watch movies while I'm walking through the city to a friend's house, or while I'm sitting at my desk doing some drafting. I like listening to music while I do those (and other) things, and I want something that does that very well, and doesn't have a big color screen to eat up battery life.
this is the 21st century. They could just sell it on their website. Put a few ads on some strategic websites, and you'll probably do alright. There are much smaller software houses selling that way, and doing alright, without nearly as much hype abound as lucasarts has.
What else would they use? WMA? And just give MS that much power over their brand new shiny business idea? Avoiding long and pointless discussions over sound quality, ogg doesn't offer apple much of anything over AAC.
Exactly. The article mentions things like flight schedules and classified ads. Those sorts of rapidly and constantly changing infor sources need a completely different system to effectively search them. Fortunately, they've already been invented. Orbitz, and cheap tickets, and expedia are a few of many that handle flight schedules. Any website for a local newspaper probably does a decent job with classified ads.
If I want to find cheap airline tickets, I put "airline tickets" into google, and it'll give me a list of websites that are designed to help me find airline tickets. It doesn't try and find the actual flights for me, and that's ok.
This deep web browser idea is going to end up being a feature bloated search engine that does lots of things, but does them all poorly, and does nothing particularly well.
Predicted does not equal invented. Heinlein is great and all, but don't pretend that he deserves the credit for all the work engineers have put into this thing.
You protect the DB by not allowing anyone who wants it access. If someone breaks into your computers and takes it, there's laws against computer crimes to cover that.
Now, a bullet probably has a bit more energy in it than a hammer swung by most people, but I imagine it'd work in a similar fashion. And Superman's body seems to be made of something even stronger than asphalt.
But I could be very wrong. and the article could explain it infact. It's too busy for me to read at the moment.
You can still call him a dick, and be right about it.
You build a huge tube from venus to mars, throw in a few pumps, and move the CO2 over to the red planet! Viola! Two planets terrarformed for the price of one!
Indeed, I'll agree with all of that to some degree. It's just important to realize that technology has a hard time moving forward or benefitting anyone without a decent social structure to deal with it. For example, there's more than enough food available to feed the world, yet thousands of people die each day of malnutrition. There are all sorts of social barriers that keep us from distributing food to people who really need it.
How can you sit in one place for 10 hours?
I think science is awesome and great and such too, but things like welfare, tax reform, and social security are also parts of the advancement of our society. Whether or not they're successfully implemented is debatable, but that doesn't mean they aren't important to furthering the human race. Systems of government and economic policies are just as big a part of our existence as is science. Society is far more than what we know, it's how we live.
yes yes, that caused me much headache the first time I ran into it. Everyone in any way responsible for IE should have a brick impact their face.
Ah, speakerphone is the most horrid evolution of the phone. My mom has a portable phone that she always uses on speakerphone, even though she's walking all over the house and holding the receiver up to her ear anyways. I only spend a couple of weeks per year visiting her, but that drives me insane within a couple of days every time.
I don't think much of SCO will exist after IBM is finished with them. And I don't think anyone else will be dumb enough to try and pick up the pieces of what's left and attempt another lawsuit based business plan. But I could be wrong.
I remember the early space sets, and I think they were pretty cool. There were some pieces with stuff painted on, but they were for the most part pretty generic. Control panels and such. It could work for a space ship controls, or an airport control tower, or part of a machine to crush other lego men, whatever. And they were rare enough that they became almost precious.
The spaceship/moon logo I wasn't too thrilled about. Maybe painting the pieces to make them more representative of functional objects, things that couldn't be built at a lego figure's scale otherwise is where it should stop.
At least Apple has some real R&D costs that they can blame prices on.
Super Smash Bros. Melee is also like this. The levels and characters are all 3D models, but the game play all happens from a 2D perspective. All the benefits of having 3D models, but the restraint to keep a mostly 2D experience.
I went bowling yesterday with a couple friends, and we all suck, but we had lots of fun. A couple lanes down, there was a teenager there all by himself, scoring 230+, but getting all pissed off at himself whenever he missed a strike. He didn't look like he was having a good time.
They sell you the same device, but with one of the components upgraded. Of course, you pay to replace the whole thing.