I have been using fingerprint scanners for years, even on laptops. Recently they added them at my gym. They work for me about 15% of the time, and my finger is pressing against it. I have also read about retinal scanners that work at 5 meters. Perhaps like many products, these work well in the lab but not in the wild.
Isn't this what police arrest people for just to get them off the street? As I recall, the charge almost never gets a conviction (of course that assumes you have a lawyer and not a public defender who will plea bargain any charge, even "breathing air while alive").
Throughout history, we have given a wide berth to those who have made great leaps in technology. This is nothing compared with the railroads' liberties with property and human lives, same goes for mechanized automation, commercial shipping, and, of course, weaponry. We are entitled to get all verklempt over these things, but the world moves on anyway. Just feel lucky if you have not (yet) been crushed under the wheels of progress.
BTW, there is a benefit to falsifying everything about yourself on your Facebook page.
After hearing endless warnings about species extinction, coastal flooding, and a apocalyptic weather, I am finally relieved to hear about something that effects me. Oh wait, my connection is twisted pair, not WiFi. Darn!
The only relevant question in business. Mr. Hastings says that he will not sell out, which means his price is very high. However, there is too much money out there hunting too few deals like this, and Netflix's position is too valuable to remain a wildcard. Somebody will make him an offer he cannot refuse. The only question is, "How much?" Investors want to know.
No problem here. Suicide wipes away liabilities from employers, insurers, even the governments. Here, we just RIF them; though having employees kill themselves might be cheaper than firing them. We need to consult the Japanese on that one.
It would be nice to have a free, open source, secure email server that could prevent spam, verify senders, validate content, and still not break the existing SMTP network. I know that sounds utopian. Just because I don't know how to do it, it doesn't mean somebody might find not a way. There is certainly a market opportunity.
Planes can transmit "in real time" much more information than what they record by using the same satellites used for those fancy global radio phones. That way, everything is captured at the moment it happens, including coordinates, which makes the plane easier to find.
They (e.g., Dell, HP) were selling P4s in 2006. Five years might seem like ten or even a hundred to some people, particularly those with fat wallets. However, there is not a big difference between a hyperthreading 2.4GHz P4 with 400MHz DDR memory and a new quad-core Core7 running 2.4GHz with 8GB of 1600 DDR3 if you are just running XP and a browser. Almost all the latency will be in the network. Adding a gigabyte of DRAM would solve the problem for $30 -- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820178282. I know that cracking cases can be expensive, time wise, but so can tweaking software that doesn't quite fit.
Duh, I guess they figure that those thousands of Windows Mobile developers, whose apps are now worthless, can fend for themselves. Actually, many of them went to the iPhone.
Photographic film does not have this problem, though their prints can. Film contains a holographic image, albeit not like the dramatic ones you generally see. It has always been impossible to fake it.
There are two reasons to go to college. First is to learn something. Now that universities such as MIT put their entire curriculum on the web, the access to knowledge is not expensive. Second is integrating into society. This is where the grades, recommendations, internships, and social institutions such as fraternities pay out in terms of jobs that become careers. Failure to realize the latter reason is why students do not get enough value and college tends to be a waste of time. If you are really motivated to learn something, you will find a way. Bill Gates did not need Harvard to learn how to build Microsoft. He did find people like Steve Ballmer there. Harvard embraces Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, the dropouts, because they understand their value as a social network. Most schools do not promote this enough, and most students never realize the true value of it.
It is not what you know but who you know. This should be the motto of every college.
What if all religious texts were under strict copyright since their inception? What if the churches restricted publication to its clergy? Would the world be worse off?
Co-Op Datacenters. Instead of Rackspace or Amazon, customers buy a piece of the datacenter, just like a co-op. It can still be run by Amazon or Rackspace, but the financial risk is spread across its customer base. Additionally, Amazon or Microsoft or Rackspace no longer has to carry the assets on their books. Hence, better operating margins. Win-win.
Pot has been the largest "off the books" agriculture in America for decades For several states it is the largest cash crop.. It takes a lot to hide that kind of money. I suspect the big growers have ERP systems they could license in competition with Oracle, unless they are just using Oracle's. Ask Larry.
Almost, an IQ test is the best way to tell how well you will do on an IQ test. Obviously, this will be self-evident to anyone who has taken an IQ test or looked up 'self-evident' in the dictionary, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-evident. Beyond the obvious, it is the quickest way to see if you can join Mensa (score 135 or better). As for everything else in life, the IQ test may tell you how big your blade is, but it will never tell you how sharp.
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I have been using fingerprint scanners for years, even on laptops. Recently they added them at my gym. They work for me about 15% of the time, and my finger is pressing against it. I have also read about retinal scanners that work at 5 meters. Perhaps like many products, these work well in the lab but not in the wild.
P.T. Barnum underestimated the birth rate.
Isn't this what police arrest people for just to get them off the street? As I recall, the charge almost never gets a conviction (of course that assumes you have a lawyer and not a public defender who will plea bargain any charge, even "breathing air while alive").
The people who stand the most to gain from this are the same who gained the most from Linux --
* IBM
* Oracle (MySQL)
* Every other large company that needed an easy way to implement a small product (e.g., LinkSys, a.k.a. Cisco)
BTW, try getting any Linux open source code from IBM, you know, the stuff they are obligated to make public.
Throughout history, we have given a wide berth to those who have made great leaps in technology. This is nothing compared with the railroads' liberties with property and human lives, same goes for mechanized automation, commercial shipping, and, of course, weaponry. We are entitled to get all verklempt over these things, but the world moves on anyway. Just feel lucky if you have not (yet) been crushed under the wheels of progress.
BTW, there is a benefit to falsifying everything about yourself on your Facebook page.
After hearing endless warnings about species extinction, coastal flooding, and a apocalyptic weather, I am finally relieved to hear about something that effects me. Oh wait, my connection is twisted pair, not WiFi. Darn!
The only relevant question in business. Mr. Hastings says that he will not sell out, which means his price is very high. However, there is too much money out there hunting too few deals like this, and Netflix's position is too valuable to remain a wildcard. Somebody will make him an offer he cannot refuse. The only question is, "How much?" Investors want to know.
No problem here. Suicide wipes away liabilities from employers, insurers, even the governments. Here, we just RIF them; though having employees kill themselves might be cheaper than firing them. We need to consult the Japanese on that one.
What better way is there to learn about a competing processor (i.e., A5) than to make it for them?
Did his Tom Tom rat him out or did his iPhone's location tracking identify him?
It would be nice to have a free, open source, secure email server that could prevent spam, verify senders, validate content, and still not break the existing SMTP network. I know that sounds utopian. Just because I don't know how to do it, it doesn't mean somebody might find not a way. There is certainly a market opportunity.
Planes can transmit "in real time" much more information than what they record by using the same satellites used for those fancy global radio phones. That way, everything is captured at the moment it happens, including coordinates, which makes the plane easier to find.
They (e.g., Dell, HP) were selling P4s in 2006. Five years might seem like ten or even a hundred to some people, particularly those with fat wallets. However, there is not a big difference between a hyperthreading 2.4GHz P4 with 400MHz DDR memory and a new quad-core Core7 running 2.4GHz with 8GB of 1600 DDR3 if you are just running XP and a browser. Almost all the latency will be in the network. Adding a gigabyte of DRAM would solve the problem for $30 -- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820178282. I know that cracking cases can be expensive, time wise, but so can tweaking software that doesn't quite fit.
Duh, I guess they figure that those thousands of Windows Mobile developers, whose apps are now worthless, can fend for themselves. Actually, many of them went to the iPhone.
Rationing. That is what a monopoly does when it can't/won't keep up with demand. The good news is, uh, well, there isn't any good news.
Photographic film does not have this problem, though their prints can. Film contains a holographic image, albeit not like the dramatic ones you generally see. It has always been impossible to fake it.
There are two reasons to go to college. First is to learn something. Now that universities such as MIT put their entire curriculum on the web, the access to knowledge is not expensive. Second is integrating into society. This is where the grades, recommendations, internships, and social institutions such as fraternities pay out in terms of jobs that become careers. Failure to realize the latter reason is why students do not get enough value and college tends to be a waste of time. If you are really motivated to learn something, you will find a way. Bill Gates did not need Harvard to learn how to build Microsoft. He did find people like Steve Ballmer there. Harvard embraces Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, the dropouts, because they understand their value as a social network. Most schools do not promote this enough, and most students never realize the true value of it.
It is not what you know but who you know. This should be the motto of every college.
It is a noble idea. Actually, most of the features in Microsoft Windows were noble ideas, too. Now they are called exploits. Sad but true.
What if all religious texts were under strict copyright since their inception? What if the churches restricted publication to its clergy? Would the world be worse off?
http://www.hackerdojo.com/
Co-Op Datacenters. Instead of Rackspace or Amazon, customers buy a piece of the datacenter, just like a co-op. It can still be run by Amazon or Rackspace, but the financial risk is spread across its customer base. Additionally, Amazon or Microsoft or Rackspace no longer has to carry the assets on their books. Hence, better operating margins. Win-win.
1) Rotation wobbles more on Friday nights
2) Neon light from dark side
3) Traces of THC in the upper atmosphere
4) SETI calls go into voicemail
Pot has been the largest "off the books" agriculture in America for decades For several states it is the largest cash crop.. It takes a lot to hide that kind of money. I suspect the big growers have ERP systems they could license in competition with Oracle, unless they are just using Oracle's. Ask Larry.
At $11.25 per address, that extrapolates to $40B ($48.3B minus private, multicast, and government addresses). Isn't that what Bill Gates is worth?.
Almost, an IQ test is the best way to tell how well you will do on an IQ test. Obviously, this will be self-evident to anyone who has taken an IQ test or looked up 'self-evident' in the dictionary, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-evident. Beyond the obvious, it is the quickest way to see if you can join Mensa (score 135 or better). As for everything else in life, the IQ test may tell you how big your blade is, but it will never tell you how sharp.