There is a heartfelt intention among certain members of standards bodies to want to produce something that is 'right' or 'robust' or 'logically consistent' or any number of other noble qualities that characterize enduring standards. In committee, these people carry a lot of weight with sound arguments and endless examples of lesser works. They often prevent huge holes or flawed assumptions from undermining these long and complex works. Of course, they slow things down, too. The problem comes down to continuing performance. In this world, whatever is approved now will probably be partially obsolete before it can become a big enough problem to matter. In this case, as with life, perfection means being to be able to adapt as quickly as things change.
As Facebook went off-line, I witnessed the unthinkable at an Internet cafe. Young men and women, innocently engaging in social networking intercourse, were suddenly thrown out of their Facebook world and into the reality of the real world, as though all had taken the red pill. Images distorted into 3D with a startling range of colors, sounds beyond stereo, and smells -- odors for the new fifth sense. Everyone looked around to witness "super high def" of each other, and some actually stood to experience a new perspective. Then, as if in concert, the unplugged Facebookers began to touch each other. Immediately untapped hormones raged as ancient primal urges emerged for the first time. Just as it was about to become an orgy of primal lust, the Cafe manager flipped on a You Tube video of Elmo, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZHSDjtD-dg, and a disaster was avoided.
In the 1920's, AT&T, who was growing like a weed by gobbling up LECs, determined that it would eventually need two million operators to service the hundred million domestic and international customers. Using humans as switches meant that average call setup times were in minutes, not seconds. This prompted them to invent the panel switch, which eventually eliminated thousands of operators. That may have prompted the Senators' response.
Just like illegal drugs, there is an entire industry around illegal sex trade, probably a trillion dollar business. Just like drugs, rich and powerful people who control prostitution at many levels would be irreparably harmed by legalization. The virtuously moral people who work hard to keep drugs and prostitution illegal because they are immoral are fully supported by the people who profit the most from the illegal activity. Together, they make a united front that perpetuates their self interests, sort of like the tyrant and the terrorist.
It would give them a damn fine direct sales force and a way to sell Dell servers into the enterprise --http://www.brocade.com. No, I don't work for them. Frankly, I doubt if they can afford them ($2.5B plus 80%), but, in reality, they can't afford not to have them either.
I thought Apple's ePub let you do this too. Not to slight Stephenson's work, the concept seems well established. So, there is probably a market for it, but it does not need to replace books or movies or even PowerPoint to succeed.
Their carbon footprint is the size of their feet. They recycle things, like food, that are not considered recyclable. They are the model of future green. They are also the fastest growing segment of the population.
Yeah, the 'machines' are smarter and do not call themselves 'machines'. They also do not get 'insulted' by being called 'machines' and do not really care about 'talking' to humans any more than we care about shooting the breeze with bacteria.
Apologies to all of you who already dismissed this as way too obvious -- the head of Military Intelligence might want to plant a lot of false information about suspected friends of enemies. A really good place to plant it would be amidst incriminating and embarrassing facts and have it leak out to some unsuspecting third party organization like, uh, WikiLeaks! Yeah. Of course a great way to build credibility is to have the FBI and CIA go after WikiLeaks in earnest, even try some stupid dirty tricks like unsubstantiated sexual harassment. As a result, the Taliban or Al-Qaida suspect their friends to be moles and either kill them or torture them or whatever.
That is the problem with deceit, you never know where it ends or where it began. In fact, I could be deceiving everyone now. I could be Mr. Gates, either Robert or Bill, planting this suspicion to either further enhance the deception or undermine the evidence or both or neither. Who really knows?
BTW, I am neither Gates. However, I can’t be sure that I was not tricked into writing this by some clever inception (yes, I saw the movie).
Does it make a difference that PC's can have much faster processors and graphics cards than the XBox360? Or is the 5-year-old 3.2GHz PowerPC 970 really still on par with current multi-core Intel CPUs?
Watching my PTF tabletop fusion reactor generate neutrons that occasionally bombard the tiny bit of palladium in my scope (mostly bombarding me and my bedroom). I get a warm feeling while watching, not to mention memory lapses and occasional retinal flares. I also have problem with the memory and CPU in my computer sudde
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Good point. Having the glass provide structural support increases the chance that the glass will crack due to torsion.
Blonds with huge missile silos, known to be the favorites of Slashdotters, who blog at them incessantly.
There is a heartfelt intention among certain members of standards bodies to want to produce something that is 'right' or 'robust' or 'logically consistent' or any number of other noble qualities that characterize enduring standards. In committee, these people carry a lot of weight with sound arguments and endless examples of lesser works. They often prevent huge holes or flawed assumptions from undermining these long and complex works. Of course, they slow things down, too. The problem comes down to continuing performance. In this world, whatever is approved now will probably be partially obsolete before it can become a big enough problem to matter. In this case, as with life, perfection means being to be able to adapt as quickly as things change.
As Facebook went off-line, I witnessed the unthinkable at an Internet cafe. Young men and women, innocently engaging in social networking intercourse, were suddenly thrown out of their Facebook world and into the reality of the real world, as though all had taken the red pill. Images distorted into 3D with a startling range of colors, sounds beyond stereo, and smells -- odors for the new fifth sense. Everyone looked around to witness "super high def" of each other, and some actually stood to experience a new perspective. Then, as if in concert, the unplugged Facebookers began to touch each other. Immediately untapped hormones raged as ancient primal urges emerged for the first time. Just as it was about to become an orgy of primal lust, the Cafe manager flipped on a You Tube video of Elmo, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZHSDjtD-dg, and a disaster was avoided.
In the 1920's, AT&T, who was growing like a weed by gobbling up LECs, determined that it would eventually need two million operators to service the hundred million domestic and international customers. Using humans as switches meant that average call setup times were in minutes, not seconds. This prompted them to invent the panel switch, which eventually eliminated thousands of operators. That may have prompted the Senators' response.
The President of Yahoo at the time was Tim Koogle.
The curse of being first. It will pass.
Just like illegal drugs, there is an entire industry around illegal sex trade, probably a trillion dollar business. Just like drugs, rich and powerful people who control prostitution at many levels would be irreparably harmed by legalization. The virtuously moral people who work hard to keep drugs and prostitution illegal because they are immoral are fully supported by the people who profit the most from the illegal activity. Together, they make a united front that perpetuates their self interests, sort of like the tyrant and the terrorist.
It would give them a damn fine direct sales force and a way to sell Dell servers into the enterprise --http://www.brocade.com. No, I don't work for them. Frankly, I doubt if they can afford them ($2.5B plus 80%), but, in reality, they can't afford not to have them either.
The only question remaining -- why did it take 15 billion years to figure that out?
That law was repealed six billion years ago! Didn't you get the memo?
I bet nothing comes of this. There are no deep pockets anywhere.
I thought Apple's ePub let you do this too. Not to slight Stephenson's work, the concept seems well established. So, there is probably a market for it, but it does not need to replace books or movies or even PowerPoint to succeed.
. . . if it doesn't get what you want? Of course, how you spend it says more about you than what you get for it.
Their carbon footprint is the size of their feet. They recycle things, like food, that are not considered recyclable. They are the model of future green. They are also the fastest growing segment of the population.
Recorded human history is exclusively about the times we ignored fears of our perceived limitations.
Yeah, the 'machines' are smarter and do not call themselves 'machines'. They also do not get 'insulted' by being called 'machines' and do not really care about 'talking' to humans any more than we care about shooting the breeze with bacteria.
Apologies to all of you who already dismissed this as way too obvious -- the head of Military Intelligence might want to plant a lot of false information about suspected friends of enemies. A really good place to plant it would be amidst incriminating and embarrassing facts and have it leak out to some unsuspecting third party organization like, uh, WikiLeaks! Yeah. Of course a great way to build credibility is to have the FBI and CIA go after WikiLeaks in earnest, even try some stupid dirty tricks like unsubstantiated sexual harassment. As a result, the Taliban or Al-Qaida suspect their friends to be moles and either kill them or torture them or whatever. That is the problem with deceit, you never know where it ends or where it began. In fact, I could be deceiving everyone now. I could be Mr. Gates, either Robert or Bill, planting this suspicion to either further enhance the deception or undermine the evidence or both or neither. Who really knows? BTW, I am neither Gates. However, I can’t be sure that I was not tricked into writing this by some clever inception (yes, I saw the movie).
Does it make a difference that PC's can have much faster processors and graphics cards than the XBox360? Or is the 5-year-old 3.2GHz PowerPC 970 really still on par with current multi-core Intel CPUs?
If you are going to do something like that, then do it all the way -- http://www.nikonusa.com/Assets/Camera-Lenses/2173_AF-S-NIKKOR-600mm-f-4G-ED-VR/Views/2173_AF-S-NIKKOR-600mm-f-4G-ED-VR_FRONT.png .
Watching my PTF tabletop fusion reactor generate neutrons that occasionally bombard the tiny bit of palladium in my scope (mostly bombarding me and my bedroom). I get a warm feeling while watching, not to mention memory lapses and occasional retinal flares. I also have problem with the memory and CPU in my computer sudde
Perhaps some of the proton's 'mass' shifted to the muon, maybe a gluon.
That joke is 15 billion years old, and it took almost that long to get a laugh out of it.
Domino's delivers
Wives are now obsolete.