Before the iPhone or even the existence of Google, Microsoft was developing and selling millions of mobile devices and created many patents on them. Sure, most were nonstarters or even lame, but they showed a lot of people, including Steve Jobs, what might work and what to avoid. If Microsoft tries to recoup their investment, can you really blame them?
. . . but their head will not sustain a business like this. The trend for eyewear is durability (e.g., memory metal) and discreteness (e.g., rimless). These have neither. Perhaps a better use for this material would be disposable flatware. Chew on that for a while.
He has predicted a lot of things but seemed far too optimistic about the time lines. This one seems more reasonable. The real prediction is whether any humans will still be reading enough to care.
I cannot count the number of times that Microsoft has tried something and then dropped it. It goes way back to OS/2. It is the nature of rapidly evolving technology. Remember Apple's Lisa? Newton? Apple TV? Perhaps the last one is premature. You make your sales numbers on the hits, not the misses.
. . . from Cisco, a true-blue American company with $40 billion in offshore profits that will be used to expand, hire, and acquire outside of the United States in order to avoid U.S. income taxes.
I seem to recall they were in business in the nineteenth century, not as IBM of course. I was working for one of their large customers in 1980, and they said something about being 100 then. I guess they will say they became 'IBM' 100 years ago in 2024. too. Any excuse for a marketing campaign.
I happen to be on it right now (in another window). The only difference seems to be in the "Watch Instantly" tab. The "Browse DVDs" tab is the same, as is the "Your Queue" and "Suggestions for You" tabs. In either the "Browse DVDs" and "Suggestions..." tabs, you can see the movies you can watch instantly. In the 'new' "Watch Instantly" tab, you can mouse over an image to get the rating, title, and summary. Frankly, their selection is far more important that their menu tweaks, which seem very minor.
As a former Windows Mobile developer, who refused to learn Silverlight and those "X-Box like" APIs for gaming to move to Windows Phone 7, I am unfazed by the silence on Silverlight in Windows 8. Such a logical progression would be inconsistent with their recent befuddling of their chief asset -- their independent developers. I suspect Microsoft has an executive with an agenda to implode the company. If so, then there is at least one person at Microsoft who is on plan.
I suspect that the Apple datacenter in Maiden, North Carolina will run mostly Linux with VMWare and their vSphere hypervisor. iCloud may be the best implementation of a cloud architecture since SalesForce.com.
Stonewall and obfuscate until they are willing to hire additional help or give you an obscene raise. Once they recognize your unique ability to set priorities, they will promote you to manager.
As I recall, this happened in Colorado, where they tried to get Amazon to collect sales tax for their affiliates who had a presence in the state. Amazon responded by dropping all those affiliates. California is a bigger business, but Amazon may not cave. Soon, the business model for affiliates will be to sell into every state except the one in which they reside.
It amazes me how much work businesses will perform to avoid taxes. It is usually on the top three questions in the vetting of any business plan. More bad business decisions have resulted from factoring in the "tax consequences" than from all other things, except stupidity, of course.
If you want to understand consciousness in terms of vector space and probabilities, quantum theory is a good context. If you want it in terms of neurons and dendrites, then neurology would probably be better. You could also look at it in the context of organic chemistry or theology.or that we are not smart enough to understand how dumb we really are. The article refers to a physicist at LHC, musing about his big banger while drinking. My limited understanding of consciousness is that alcohol limits and even eliminates consciousness. Before he lost his he behaved like any expert. A carpenter sees every problem as a nail and every solution as a hammer. The LHC guy's tool is his big banger. The problem doesn't matter. Chopra is trying to promote his book, and Penrose is British (need I say more?).
At what frequency would you need to have laser light in order to use it to detect an electron diameter (2 * 10^22), which is moving around at the speed of light. Even gamma rays have a wave length that is about 10^10 bigger than an electron. If you try to measure 'wobble' of a particle with a classical radius that is seven orders of magnitude larger than its quantum radius, then how could you assume that it 'wobbles' at all?
It may not be round; it may just be a perfectly symmetrical charge.
The industry has decided to make this commitment for DRM (harder to copy in 3D theater with a video recorder) and margin reasons (higher ticket prices). The problem is that the 2D versions with the right lens look brighter and, in some cases, much better. The solution is never show the brighter 2D version. Of course, it cost money to change lenses, too. Bottom line, there in no incentive for the industry to go back to 2D anything, except that, maybe, people will not go to see dark screens.
I see it coming any minute -- some lawyer is going to say Zombies are a protected class and the government is showing prejudice. A lot of undead are going to get rich off this, if they file to be part of the claimant pool (a.k.a. undead pool). Of course, Zombies are notorious slackers when it comes to paperwork. So, lawyers will get most of the award yet again.
The first machine that could reproduce itself was a lathe. One of the oldest machine, now some are computer controlled but still take a human to operate.
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Before the iPhone or even the existence of Google, Microsoft was developing and selling millions of mobile devices and created many patents on them. Sure, most were nonstarters or even lame, but they showed a lot of people, including Steve Jobs, what might work and what to avoid. If Microsoft tries to recoup their investment, can you really blame them?
Sure you can!!! Have at it.
The flying car gets approved -- http://online.wsj.com/video/news-hub-flying-car-cleared-for-takeoff/5E00D599-345F-4E25-95EE-7915F9D2FE7F.html .
. . . but their head will not sustain a business like this. The trend for eyewear is durability (e.g., memory metal) and discreteness (e.g., rimless). These have neither. Perhaps a better use for this material would be disposable flatware. Chew on that for a while.
It is the libraries, frameworks, and targets. These are the difference between just learning a language and having grown up with it.
He has predicted a lot of things but seemed far too optimistic about the time lines. This one seems more reasonable. The real prediction is whether any humans will still be reading enough to care.
I cannot count the number of times that Microsoft has tried something and then dropped it. It goes way back to OS/2. It is the nature of rapidly evolving technology. Remember Apple's Lisa? Newton? Apple TV? Perhaps the last one is premature. You make your sales numbers on the hits, not the misses.
. . . from Cisco, a true-blue American company with $40 billion in offshore profits that will be used to expand, hire, and acquire outside of the United States in order to avoid U.S. income taxes.
Actually, lots of scratches on my back by my wife, who then carried our son to term. Does that count?
I seem to recall they were in business in the nineteenth century, not as IBM of course. I was working for one of their large customers in 1980, and they said something about being 100 then. I guess they will say they became 'IBM' 100 years ago in 2024. too. Any excuse for a marketing campaign.
By comparison, Orwell was an optimist, and the Terminator was much too charming. These really make Hell pointless.
It is like playing chess without the board . . . or the pieces.
. . . one of the penultimate journalistic institutions. Therefore, we are all fucked.
I happen to be on it right now (in another window). The only difference seems to be in the "Watch Instantly" tab. The "Browse DVDs" tab is the same, as is the "Your Queue" and "Suggestions for You" tabs. In either the "Browse DVDs" and "Suggestions..." tabs, you can see the movies you can watch instantly. In the 'new' "Watch Instantly" tab, you can mouse over an image to get the rating, title, and summary. Frankly, their selection is far more important that their menu tweaks, which seem very minor.
As a former Windows Mobile developer, who refused to learn Silverlight and those "X-Box like" APIs for gaming to move to Windows Phone 7, I am unfazed by the silence on Silverlight in Windows 8. Such a logical progression would be inconsistent with their recent befuddling of their chief asset -- their independent developers. I suspect Microsoft has an executive with an agenda to implode the company. If so, then there is at least one person at Microsoft who is on plan.
I suspect that the Apple datacenter in Maiden, North Carolina will run mostly Linux with VMWare and their vSphere hypervisor. iCloud may be the best implementation of a cloud architecture since SalesForce.com.
My thanks to macs4all, who reminded me that I left out "rant, insult, and be obnoxious, too." That will get you promoted to IT executive.
Stonewall and obfuscate until they are willing to hire additional help or give you an obscene raise. Once they recognize your unique ability to set priorities, they will promote you to manager.
As I recall, this happened in Colorado, where they tried to get Amazon to collect sales tax for their affiliates who had a presence in the state. Amazon responded by dropping all those affiliates. California is a bigger business, but Amazon may not cave. Soon, the business model for affiliates will be to sell into every state except the one in which they reside.
It amazes me how much work businesses will perform to avoid taxes. It is usually on the top three questions in the vetting of any business plan. More bad business decisions have resulted from factoring in the "tax consequences" than from all other things, except stupidity, of course.
If you want to understand consciousness in terms of vector space and probabilities, quantum theory is a good context. If you want it in terms of neurons and dendrites, then neurology would probably be better. You could also look at it in the context of organic chemistry or theology.or that we are not smart enough to understand how dumb we really are. The article refers to a physicist at LHC, musing about his big banger while drinking. My limited understanding of consciousness is that alcohol limits and even eliminates consciousness. Before he lost his he behaved like any expert. A carpenter sees every problem as a nail and every solution as a hammer. The LHC guy's tool is his big banger. The problem doesn't matter. Chopra is trying to promote his book, and Penrose is British (need I say more?).
At what frequency would you need to have laser light in order to use it to detect an electron diameter (2 * 10^22), which is moving around at the speed of light. Even gamma rays have a wave length that is about 10^10 bigger than an electron. If you try to measure 'wobble' of a particle with a classical radius that is seven orders of magnitude larger than its quantum radius, then how could you assume that it 'wobbles' at all?
It may not be round; it may just be a perfectly symmetrical charge.
The industry has decided to make this commitment for DRM (harder to copy in 3D theater with a video recorder) and margin reasons (higher ticket prices). The problem is that the 2D versions with the right lens look brighter and, in some cases, much better. The solution is never show the brighter 2D version. Of course, it cost money to change lenses, too. Bottom line, there in no incentive for the industry to go back to 2D anything, except that, maybe, people will not go to see dark screens.
I am going to guarantee that at least one person will be in rapture tomorrow.
I see it coming any minute -- some lawyer is going to say Zombies are a protected class and the government is showing prejudice. A lot of undead are going to get rich off this, if they file to be part of the claimant pool (a.k.a. undead pool). Of course, Zombies are notorious slackers when it comes to paperwork. So, lawyers will get most of the award yet again.
Virulent pathogens have got rights, too!
The first machine that could reproduce itself was a lathe. One of the oldest machine, now some are computer controlled but still take a human to operate.