It is not the amount of money that is spent but what it is spent on! Paying $175 million for power is OK as they consume power, but paying for licence is NOT OK from the P.O.V. of mc$ft!
Hydrogen fuel cells look great on paper if you assume that the hydrogen and the infrastructure to distribute it will magically appear out of thin air.
What are you implying? If I understand it correctly, going by your logic people will have to buy new cars when a new technology replaces the petrol powered cars so it's a waste researching into those technologies?? Obviously when they were researching into Hydrogen fuel cells the one thing on their mind was *Zero Carbon emission*, but the infrastructure is also coming up and once cars start rolling in full scale things will start catching pace.
Well not until the last two years in the last 30 years that the people on this planet realized that we are _really_ going to have a shortage of fossil fuels. You can see a lot of investment starting to pour into the area of Hydrogen cell powered cars because people have realized the issues we will face shortage come ten years from now. Similarly the amount of research going on in the fusion power generation has multiplied 10 times or so in the last 5 years. I think we can surely have some kind of commercial production of power using nuclear fusion by 2035 for sure!
Seriuosly! It is high time they moved to something that was difficult to break. IIRC there was an image comparison technique where you are supposed to match two images of similar objects or animals. I think here if the environment, color, zoom and other factors are different then there is no way this can be broken. Although you cannot generate such images, if you have a photo gallery of 10k pics and continuosly growing I think that should be good enough till we have humanoid robots that can look at the pictures and correctly match them.
I can tell you exactly what will happen. A quite hiss. You can not create a fiery disaster on a plane with a handgun, or a shot gun. Also, the person being shot at will die. First of all, when you fire a weapon there is a good enough chance that you will miss the target and your bullet peirces the ceiling. Not to mention that the chances increase exponentially if you have never fired before and it increases 5 fold if its a shotgun.
All this ignoring the fact the O2 masks are useless. They ahve never saved a life. Any aircraft incident large enough to cause deployment means the aircraft will desend rapidly, preferably under control, but not always. Now, assume the bullet hits the ceiling and almost immediately the aircraft will start de-pressurizing (venting oxygen too) which is a very bad thing (read Hypoxia). In general, commercial aircraft are pressurized at a maximum cabin altitude equivalent to about 8,000 feet, where it is possible to breathe normally without an oxygen mask. This is when the oxygen masks come in handy as you are venting oxygen into the atmosphere.
Since there is air at the altitude the plane is flying, and the fact that in about 90 seconds you will be at an altitude with sufficient air, they really aren't need. Are you kidding me? Why do you think people who climb mountains carry oxygen masks? What is this air that you are talking about? The air is so thin at high altitudes you can hardly breathe. And no, the plane will not descend so rapidly if it was just a bullet hole. What makes you think the plane will descend within 90 sec? The ceiling hull will surely hold if its just a bullet hole.
Well, nobody in finland will protest as there is an old joke about extrovert Finns - "How do you identify an extrovert Finn? -- When he looks at your feet when talking to you instead of looking at his own":)
Microsoft expanding their monopoly into new areas?
What monopoly? Except for Windows which is the only one in which they have an upper hand, and in which Linux and Mac are fast reducing the gap, I cannot see any other area where they are a threat.
1. Browser - Usage of Firefox is rocketing up. 2. Game console - Pleeease, its Wiiiiii all the way! 3. Mail - Hotmail, what is that? gimme Gmail! 4. Search Engine - Live ?? jfgi! 5. Hardware ( keyboard, mouse etc etc) -- Logitech roXXs !
I still don't get why they do it, if I get a computer, I should be able to run whatever program I want on it, change the OS, overclock it ETC.
The restrictions on third-party apps is always done in the interest of the user. Imagine you open stallman.jpg and the next thing you know is that all your contacts and sms are wiped off and you had not backed them up. The same applies to third-party apps that look innocent but if they were given full access to the phone they can harm the flash disk or cause infinite reboots etc etc.. which is why even Nokia has the "capabilites" thingy and "symbian signed" thingy for all apps.
Now, when some app causes your phone to not boot up you will obviously go to apple, if your phone flash disk is not readble you will go to apple, if everytime you call someone an sms is sent to them then you will go to apple and get it re-flashed/repaired. So, apple has to come up with some kind of security check for the application and this was probably the fastest way.
Now that Nokia has got the OpenC and the PythonForS60 community growing rapidly, there was need for a better UI which I think will be provided by Qt. More developers -> more apps -> high user base.
This is exactly the kind of bullshit that I cannot take. Your sister comes to India and expects everything here to be like USA(going by your contact info at your homepage)? Would you have taken the same kind of comment from me if I was in the US and was asking for something that we Indians did over here? You would've have said -" If you want that then stay the fuck in your country". So, you get my point.
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It is not the amount of money that is spent but what it is spent on! Paying $175 million for power is OK as they consume power, but paying for licence is NOT OK from the P.O.V. of mc$ft!
In Soviet Russia, robots control YOU!
First we need technology that can help us (or robots) fly faster in space!
This is /. , not fark! Most of us have a radioactive pet in our basement. So, not funny! ;)
Hydrogen fuel cells look great on paper if you assume that the hydrogen and the infrastructure to distribute it will magically appear out of thin air.
What are you implying? If I understand it correctly, going by your logic people will have to buy new cars when a new technology replaces the petrol powered cars so it's a waste researching into those technologies?? Obviously when they were researching into Hydrogen fuel cells the one thing on their mind was *Zero Carbon emission*, but the infrastructure is also coming up and once cars start rolling in full scale things will start catching pace.
Well not until the last two years in the last 30 years that the people on this planet realized that we are _really_ going to have a shortage of fossil fuels. You can see a lot of investment starting to pour into the area of Hydrogen cell powered cars because people have realized the issues we will face shortage come ten years from now. Similarly the amount of research going on in the fusion power generation has multiplied 10 times or so in the last 5 years. I think we can surely have some kind of commercial production of power using nuclear fusion by 2035 for sure!
Ah yes. I remember now -- It's KittenAuth (http://www.thepcspy.com/kittenauth)
Seriuosly! It is high time they moved to something that was difficult to break. IIRC there was an image comparison technique where you are supposed to match two images of similar objects or animals. I think here if the environment, color, zoom and other factors are different then there is no way this can be broken. Although you cannot generate such images, if you have a photo gallery of 10k pics and continuosly growing I think that should be good enough till we have humanoid robots that can look at the pictures and correctly match them.
...you stole the thunder from Bill gates! He was gonna step down soon and now you ruined it!
I can tell you exactly what will happen. A quite hiss. You can not create a fiery disaster on a plane with a handgun, or a shot gun. Also, the person being shot at will die.
First of all, when you fire a weapon there is a good enough chance that you will miss the target and your bullet peirces the ceiling. Not to mention that the chances increase exponentially if you have never fired before and it increases 5 fold if its a shotgun.
All this ignoring the fact the O2 masks are useless. They ahve never saved a life. Any aircraft incident large enough to cause deployment means the aircraft will desend rapidly, preferably under control, but not always.
Now, assume the bullet hits the ceiling and almost immediately the aircraft will start de-pressurizing (venting oxygen too) which is a very bad thing (read Hypoxia). In general, commercial aircraft are pressurized at a maximum cabin altitude equivalent to about 8,000 feet, where it is possible to breathe normally without an oxygen mask. This is when the oxygen masks come in handy as you are venting oxygen into the atmosphere.
Since there is air at the altitude the plane is flying, and the fact that in about 90 seconds you will be at an altitude with sufficient air, they really aren't need.
Are you kidding me? Why do you think people who climb mountains carry oxygen masks? What is this air that you are talking about? The air is so thin at high altitudes you can hardly breathe. And no, the plane will not descend so rapidly if it was just a bullet hole. What makes you think the plane will descend within 90 sec? The ceiling hull will surely hold if its just a bullet hole.
Pirate Bay's reply to George W. Bush - "Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
Well, nobody in finland will protest as there is an old joke about extrovert Finns - "How do you identify an extrovert Finn? -- When he looks at your feet when talking to you instead of looking at his own" :)
Given that it was hungry enough to eat a whole other star
I hope my _sun_ does not do that!~
Microsoft expanding their monopoly into new areas?
What monopoly?
Except for Windows which is the only one in which they have an upper hand, and in which Linux and Mac are fast reducing the gap, I cannot see any other area where they are a threat.
1. Browser - Usage of Firefox is rocketing up.
2. Game console - Pleeease, its Wiiiiii all the way!
3. Mail - Hotmail, what is that? gimme Gmail!
4. Search Engine - Live ?? jfgi!
5. Hardware ( keyboard, mouse etc etc) -- Logitech roXXs !
Previous research by the same team demonstrated that nanotubes can be used to fight cancer
As soon as I read that I knew - _I.am.Legend_!!
Do not underestimate the power of the 'tubes!
Exactly! He is shit scared that if U2 go the radiohead way with their next album, he will be without a job.
I still don't get why they do it, if I get a computer, I should be able to run whatever program I want on it, change the OS, overclock it ETC.
The restrictions on third-party apps is always done in the interest of the user. Imagine you open stallman.jpg and the next thing you know is that all your contacts and sms are wiped off and you had not backed them up. The same applies to third-party apps that look innocent but if they were given full access to the phone they can harm the flash disk or cause infinite reboots etc etc.. which is why even Nokia has the "capabilites" thingy and "symbian signed" thingy for all apps.
Now, when some app causes your phone to not boot up you will obviously go to apple, if your phone flash disk is not readble you will go to apple, if everytime you call someone an sms is sent to them then you will go to apple and get it re-flashed/repaired. So, apple has to come up with some kind of security check for the application and this was probably the fastest way.
Nokia's interest does not lie in KDE, but in Qt! RTFA!
Now that Nokia has got the OpenC and the PythonForS60 community growing rapidly, there was need for a better UI which I think will be provided by Qt. More developers -> more apps -> high user base.
The tag no longer exists!
Pirate Bay now has more users than Sweden, which is at about 9 million.
TPB : All you sweedish are belong to us!
nah.. In Soviet Russia, 10 million people are pirates!
Foreigners will never get a chance because there is always some indian who will work for less.
This is exactly the kind of bullshit that I cannot take. Your sister comes to India and expects everything here to be like USA(going by your contact info at your homepage)? Would you have taken the same kind of comment from me if I was in the US and was asking for something that we Indians did over here? You would've have said -" If you want that then stay the fuck in your country". So, you get my point.