In the midst of our determination to outsource or automate any job of our society, including sex, what makes anyone think that Obama's privatization of space will lead to putting a 'man' anywhere in space? Who could build a case for the added cost of sending a human through at least 50 million miles of space and back again, when a machine will be able to do it at 1/100th the cost and, BTW, does not necessarily need to return? By the projected time of sending a 'man' to Mars, machines will be capable of doing more than a human astronaut in a phone-booth size space suit. Sure, they will not have the wisdom and judgment of a human, but how has that wisdom helped us with things like the economy or programming a VCR (I date myself)?
Earlier this week, I attended Web 2.0, a conference in San Francisco. One of the big exhibitors is Microsoft. At their booth was a beautiful woman demonstrating a preview of IE9. At the time, she was demonstrating the graphics performance of IE9, highlighting the fact that they used the graphics controller directly to render the spinning graphics (which looked like a Windows-NT-3GL-screen-saver) much faster than Firefox and slightly faster than Chrome. She mentioned that it was “HTML5 rendering” and pointed to the site where you or I could prove it to ourselves -- http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/. As she stood their beaming, I innocently asked if I could try, and she foolishly agreed to let me browse http://html5test.com/ which gave IE9 a score of 19/160 (BTW, that is what IE8 shows too). Then I tried it with Firefox and got 101/160, and Chrome 118/160. The beautiful woman was taken aback, obviously never having seen this site or acting as such. After learning what the site was about then generally questioning its motives, she dismissed the tests out of hand, saying they were basically irrelevant when compared to Microsoft’s. A gentleman standing next to me replied something like, “browser compatibility has been the biggest issue in developing applications, and now that most other browsers seem to have converged on a common standard, you dismiss it as irrelevant. You demonstrate a new version that will not be out for a year but does not feature any movement toward compatibility with anything but yourself.” The beautiful woman went into damage control, replying that what was being demonstrated was a preview, not even beta, and implied that many things may be added by the time it ships. I hope so, but I doubt it. BTW, others at the kiosk demonstrating Windows Mobile 7 were saying that will ship by the end of the year with IE8 and , of course, Silverlight.
If you are tired of blaming Microsoft and don't have the heart of twisted logic to blame Apple, then Cisco is your company. They practically own the Internet with a market share that Juniper, Foundry, or Extreme Networks would "die for" (and they almost have; Foundry is now owned by Brocade). Their consumer business, Linksys, has enough DSL routers to make any cracker happy for life. Unfortunately, their CEO is a charming salesman who actually has principles, which makes him hard to demonize. But what the hell, go for it.
. . let's get those naked motherboards off the net! I am SICK of seeing pages filled with the sight of fully exposed motherboards, their slots wide open and connectors exposed. It is DISGUSTING! NewEgg is the worst, with close-up views of their back sides and I/O ports. However, NewEgg has more lawyers than ASUS M4A79XTD 'Extreme' has USB ports. I am ready to go in there and delete every motherboard fucking obscene picture!
I remember when the NYSE first traded a billion (10^9) shares in one day. It was a really big deal that defined the value of the 'Market'. Now private exchanges trade more shares than that in an hour. Hell, there are some automated exchanges, dealing mostly in arbitrage, that trade over a million (10^6) shares per second.
The real problem with less efficient electricity generation is that is it is much more expensive to scale even if you have the space. The lower voltages and greater resistance distances add up to much less total energy generation. 1.5% at the panel might only be.05% at the consumption point.
The Internet is a huge opportunity to grab enormous power, like the railroads in the 19th Century. No government is going to stop the rich and powerful from taking it over. Just the thought of controlling the discourse and commerce of society will drive powerful men to do anything -- lie, cheat, steal, kill. People will be damned, of course,
What happens when you cover a Florida-size portion of the Gulf of Mexico with a thin oil layer just as the summer solstices approaches? A method to reduce water evaporation that rivals Bill Gates patented hurricane stopper (http://www.usatoday.com/weather/research/2009-07-15-gates-hurricanes_N.htm)? Maybe. Of course, it will heat up the Gulf, too, acting like a solar collector. That may offset the reduced evaporation and amp-up a mega hurricane, which could wash away the Gulf Coast.
I find it amazing that fear of the submarine patents have seriously inhibited adoption of Ogg Theora. It just proves the power of a threat -- the bigger the perceived threat, the much less likely it has to be. Of course, it does not hurt a threat to have the support of people who stand to gain from the alternatives.
Microsoft is now producing a 'consumable' that cannot be easily consumed. I believe it was never their original intention, but the market has evolved, and they did not adapt. Internally, they probably feel obligated to support their installed base for compatibility reasons, but I suspect the team senses they are on the Titanic. It is rare, but sometimes you get to watch the inevitable unfold in slow motion before your eyes. It is tragic and spectacular to witness. Wait until MW7 releases with an IE8-compatible browser, it will sadly make their current situation seem bearable by comparison.
I have been in a iPhone SDK group that has been testing out iPhone's implementation of HTML5 in Safari, and it looks like Steve Jobs has delivered on much of the Flash-like capabilites, especially in graphics. That means you can have peristence data (read: book) too. All told, someone could implement a web application that Apple cannot control which serves books much like the iPad's app. BTW, you could run it easily on Android too. At first, this might seem inadequate. But if you write a generic iPhone application that uses the SDK's WebView to read public domain works, you can customize it more and even put the DRM (if you want it) solely on the server. The point is that the web (and HTML5) may be the thing that gets the Genie out of the iBottle.
While this method would also work for Android and Palm, it probably would NOT work for Windows Mobile 7 which will use IE8, LOL!
Martin Luther King might have suggested having every citizen of color in Arizona go to their local police station without their papers. If the police had to process two hundred thousand people who otherwise can easily prove citizenship AND the courts had to give them their due court time, it would clog the system for decades and cost the state a fortune.
Zig-zag and all those other supporters of "reefer madness" must be suffering dearly too. Back when Earth Day was a new idea, I preferred a bong. I guess I was ahead of my time ecology-wise. Of course, Wall Street papering over the biggest scam since the Depression must have used a lots of trees. One hand taketh away, and the other hand shoves it up your ass. Alas, I digress again.
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Plus a lube job and, definitely, Window cleaning.
In the midst of our determination to outsource or automate any job of our society, including sex, what makes anyone think that Obama's privatization of space will lead to putting a 'man' anywhere in space? Who could build a case for the added cost of sending a human through at least 50 million miles of space and back again, when a machine will be able to do it at 1/100th the cost and, BTW, does not necessarily need to return? By the projected time of sending a 'man' to Mars, machines will be capable of doing more than a human astronaut in a phone-booth size space suit. Sure, they will not have the wisdom and judgment of a human, but how has that wisdom helped us with things like the economy or programming a VCR (I date myself)?
Earlier this week, I attended Web 2.0, a conference in San Francisco. One of the big exhibitors is Microsoft. At their booth was a beautiful woman demonstrating a preview of IE9. At the time, she was demonstrating the graphics performance of IE9, highlighting the fact that they used the graphics controller directly to render the spinning graphics (which looked like a Windows-NT-3GL-screen-saver) much faster than Firefox and slightly faster than Chrome. She mentioned that it was “HTML5 rendering” and pointed to the site where you or I could prove it to ourselves -- http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/. As she stood their beaming, I innocently asked if I could try, and she foolishly agreed to let me browse http://html5test.com/ which gave IE9 a score of 19/160 (BTW, that is what IE8 shows too). Then I tried it with Firefox and got 101/160, and Chrome 118/160. The beautiful woman was taken aback, obviously never having seen this site or acting as such. After learning what the site was about then generally questioning its motives, she dismissed the tests out of hand, saying they were basically irrelevant when compared to Microsoft’s. A gentleman standing next to me replied something like, “browser compatibility has been the biggest issue in developing applications, and now that most other browsers seem to have converged on a common standard, you dismiss it as irrelevant. You demonstrate a new version that will not be out for a year but does not feature any movement toward compatibility with anything but yourself.” The beautiful woman went into damage control, replying that what was being demonstrated was a preview, not even beta, and implied that many things may be added by the time it ships. I hope so, but I doubt it. BTW, others at the kiosk demonstrating Windows Mobile 7 were saying that will ship by the end of the year with IE8 and , of course, Silverlight.
If you are tired of blaming Microsoft and don't have the heart of twisted logic to blame Apple, then Cisco is your company. They practically own the Internet with a market share that Juniper, Foundry, or Extreme Networks would "die for" (and they almost have; Foundry is now owned by Brocade). Their consumer business, Linksys, has enough DSL routers to make any cracker happy for life. Unfortunately, their CEO is a charming salesman who actually has principles, which makes him hard to demonize. But what the hell, go for it.
. . let's get those naked motherboards off the net! I am SICK of seeing pages filled with the sight of fully exposed motherboards, their slots wide open and connectors exposed. It is DISGUSTING! NewEgg is the worst, with close-up views of their back sides and I/O ports. However, NewEgg has more lawyers than ASUS M4A79XTD 'Extreme' has USB ports. I am ready to go in there and delete every motherboard fucking obscene picture!
More cores? Imagine how many 8051s you could put on a Phenom die, then imagine what you could do with it. You have an incredible imagination!
. . . and you will not need a key - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/greathomesanddestinations/05gh-costarica.html
I remember when the NYSE first traded a billion (10^9) shares in one day. It was a really big deal that defined the value of the 'Market'. Now private exchanges trade more shares than that in an hour. Hell, there are some automated exchanges, dealing mostly in arbitrage, that trade over a million (10^6) shares per second.
The real problem with less efficient electricity generation is that is it is much more expensive to scale even if you have the space. The lower voltages and greater resistance distances add up to much less total energy generation. 1.5% at the panel might only be .05% at the consumption point.
The Internet is a huge opportunity to grab enormous power, like the railroads in the 19th Century. No government is going to stop the rich and powerful from taking it over. Just the thought of controlling the discourse and commerce of society will drive powerful men to do anything -- lie, cheat, steal, kill. People will be damned, of course,
What happens when you cover a Florida-size portion of the Gulf of Mexico with a thin oil layer just as the summer solstices approaches? A method to reduce water evaporation that rivals Bill Gates patented hurricane stopper (http://www.usatoday.com/weather/research/2009-07-15-gates-hurricanes_N.htm)? Maybe. Of course, it will heat up the Gulf, too, acting like a solar collector. That may offset the reduced evaporation and amp-up a mega hurricane, which could wash away the Gulf Coast.
I find it amazing that fear of the submarine patents have seriously inhibited adoption of Ogg Theora. It just proves the power of a threat -- the bigger the perceived threat, the much less likely it has to be. Of course, it does not hurt a threat to have the support of people who stand to gain from the alternatives.
Microsoft is now producing a 'consumable' that cannot be easily consumed. I believe it was never their original intention, but the market has evolved, and they did not adapt. Internally, they probably feel obligated to support their installed base for compatibility reasons, but I suspect the team senses they are on the Titanic. It is rare, but sometimes you get to watch the inevitable unfold in slow motion before your eyes. It is tragic and spectacular to witness. Wait until MW7 releases with an IE8-compatible browser, it will sadly make their current situation seem bearable by comparison.
Perhaps, many never even ran Vista.
I have been in a iPhone SDK group that has been testing out iPhone's implementation of HTML5 in Safari, and it looks like Steve Jobs has delivered on much of the Flash-like capabilites, especially in graphics. That means you can have peristence data (read: book) too. All told, someone could implement a web application that Apple cannot control which serves books much like the iPad's app. BTW, you could run it easily on Android too. At first, this might seem inadequate. But if you write a generic iPhone application that uses the SDK's WebView to read public domain works, you can customize it more and even put the DRM (if you want it) solely on the server. The point is that the web (and HTML5) may be the thing that gets the Genie out of the iBottle.
While this method would also work for Android and Palm, it probably would NOT work for Windows Mobile 7 which will use IE8, LOL!
The mantra that made the company now appears to be where much of their development goes -- out the window.
. . . is another man's ham. Both are dead pigs.
It was an afterthought when they first got together, via the US Robotics acquisition. I guess HP is where Silicon Valley legends go to die.
Just ask Eve or her witless companion, Adam.
1,808 disks beats 4,994 miles of punched paper tape.
Martin Luther King might have suggested having every citizen of color in Arizona go to their local police station without their papers. If the police had to process two hundred thousand people who otherwise can easily prove citizenship AND the courts had to give them their due court time, it would clog the system for decades and cost the state a fortune.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to sue.
What is fair and what the fare is. You can pay for freedom on the installment plan or in one huge balloon payment. Either way, freedom is not free.
"I hear that Monsanto is asking for recount -- http://www.monsanto.com/foodinc/." he said satirically.
Zig-zag and all those other supporters of "reefer madness" must be suffering dearly too. Back when Earth Day was a new idea, I preferred a bong. I guess I was ahead of my time ecology-wise. Of course, Wall Street papering over the biggest scam since the Depression must have used a lots of trees. One hand taketh away, and the other hand shoves it up your ass. Alas, I digress again.