Because he made a company that's richer than most sovereign nations.
True, if he were born today he'd just be a cocky asshole with little or no future. But he WAS born in the right time with the right skills, and did something notable. Which is true for all billionaires.
The U-2 is a fascinating aircraft. Its wingspan is so large that it can't take of or land the way normal jets do. When it takes of it has little "training wheels" that fall away when it lifts off, and landing it needs two chase vehicles to guide the pilot down. After which it sort of tips over and skits on its wings (on specially designed replaceable skid plates.)
A hybrid drive would be great in my laptop. It doesn't have room for "storage" drives and a 600GB SSD would be heinously expensive. You could also put one in a USB 3.0 external enclosure (I assume they can work like that.) That would give you a nice trade off between speed, capacity and, most importantly, portability.
That seems to be what Seagate is thinking too. Since the drive is in the 2.5" form factor.
The only thing I don't like about Windows is how scatter-brained it is. It is very clearly corporate designed by committee with no final "vision" in mind like Mac OS X. Other than that, what's so torturous about it? The fact that pretty much all software and hardware run on it with no issue?
As for Chromium, we'll see. iOS and Android have proven that new OSes can take off pretty quick as long as there's good app support (Angry Birds.) Whether or not that model will work on a big, clunky laptop is very questionable. Especially when it ventures into the spooky, dark forest of hardware support. Which from what I've read so far, is going to be absolutely pathetic. To the point of being practically unusable.
Shouldn't we... I dunno... invent sustainable fusion first? It's kinda like buying the cart before the horse. If the cart was three hundred thousand kilometers in space.
USB was driven by the entire industry to be a standard. Apple had nothing to do with it. Firewire was sort of a success, but it's higher licensing fees meant USB was more desirable by 3rd part manufacturers. Just try to go to any electronics store and find an external Firewire hard drive. They hardly exist anymore.
I'm a filmmaker so I definitely want Thunderbolt to succeed. But I was burned by the failed promises of Firewire and eSata. Now I see the exact same mistakes being made with Thunderbolt. Apple may be a driver of some standards, but unless this thing appears on a $300 notebook at Best Buy, it's going nowhere.
The only thing that exclusivity deals accomplish is to limit consumer choice and allow competitors the opportunity to get ahead (see: the iPhone.) From a marketing standpoint limiting Thunderbolt to Apple increases the value of the Mac, when in reality it chokes off the 3rd party ecosystem, and makes the port into a mostly useless esoteric novelty. Like Firewire-800.
Oop, it wasn't published 2 years ago, it was last February. Damn European date format. Oh, well, argument still holds. The press release from Oak Ridge is deliberately misleading.
"With this approach at the laboratory scale, Xu and colleagues were able to obtain a light-to-power conversion efficiency of 3.2 percent compared to 1.8 percent efficiency of conventional planar structure of the same materials."
3.2% is pathetic. A quick Google search reveals some polycrystalline Cadmium Telluride cells developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory that achieved 15% efficiency. It was published TWO YEARS AGO.
For once, FOR ONCE I'd like to see a genuine solar cell breakthrough that changes the industry. Not some BS press release that's only a thinly veiled attempt to generate some capital investment. I understand that science usually progresses in baby steps (especially in chemistry) but there's got to be a higher standard for informing the public about your research.
Okay, I'm going to skip the obvious argument. Suffice it to say it is irresponsible to have your network open.
I don't think you can really do anything. I have never seen a consumer router that is smart enough to throttle or block services competently. You could talk with your neighbors about keeping the usage down, but human nature being what it is, they're unlikely to listen. Remember that they are exploiting you. They may be nice to you in person, but they will happily take advantage of you and rape your badwidth if it means they get to save some money. That's just the way our brains are built.
Because the imperial system was such an unbelievable bitch to learn in the first place that we don't want to know anything else. We're like the emotionally scarred wife who stays with her abusive husband.
Wow, the paint job and vacuum-molded parts are amazing. This is truly a piece of contemporary art. I like how it speaks to the University of Bielefeld's futile desire to build a working robot.
Wow, it's just like a being in the Navy. Except you have no training, no clue what's going on, no personal investment, and you ram their multi-million dollar tracker drone into fishing boats just to punctuate the tedium.
I'll wait for Light Peak (or whatever the hell they call it.) It has a lot better features for situations where you actually need high throughput, and not just filling up a hard drive really quick.
No. Not by itself. But if you installed one of these batteries in your home (of equal or greater capacity than the one in your car) then you could charge your car without much fuss.
That's how an electric "gas station" would work. They'd have a large bank of these batteries underground so that they could spread the load over a 24-hour period instead of demanding huge amounts of current from the grid in spikes.
Having lived through a major disaster (wildfire) I can safely say that you are 100% right. Having a stocked-up pantry with non-perishable foods is smart, but not going to be very useful if your house is destroyed or inaccessible.
The only things I'd say that are absolutely indispensable are knowing first aide and CPR. They're such simple things to learn yet can mean the difference between life and death.
Beyond that, here's a list of things I found useful when I had my natural disaster hullabaloo:
1) LED Flashlight. That $2 impulse buy at checkout may be the smartest investment you ever made. 2) If you can afford a smartphone/PDA, then have one. They can be invaluable for getting information. 3) Don't be afraid to ask for help. This seems obvious but people's pride can get in the way. Being a victim is very humbling. 4) Have ID on you at all times with your CURRENT ADDRESS. This will save you from so much bullshit you have no idea. It can expedite getting financial aide from Red Cross or get you past emergency crew blockades.
The real breakthrough we need isn't growing bacterial to produce fuel. We already know how to do that quite well. The trick is scaling it up to practical volumes. Generally speaking bacterial who waste energy on producing fuel for us humans tend to be pretty fragile and finicky.
I purchased an essay once, but only because I didn't want to write a bullshit 20-page paper on how the Matrix (yes, the movie) contextualizes modern political and social boundaries. I was not doing well in the class, so it literally came down to either failing the class or cheating and passing with a C.
I understand the idea behind getting a "well-rounded education", but some of these required courses are ridiculous. I'd rather spend my effort in classes that actually matter. That may diminish my degree in some way, but seeings how it's in Fine Arts, I think I can live with that.
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Because he made a company that's richer than most sovereign nations.
True, if he were born today he'd just be a cocky asshole with little or no future. But he WAS born in the right time with the right skills, and did something notable. Which is true for all billionaires.
I can see that side of the argument. However, movies cost about the same or more to make, and a blu-ray doesn't go for more than $30 USD.
Personally I never pay more than that for games. Unless it's Portal or Half Life, otherwise I wait for the sales.
The U-2 is a fascinating aircraft. Its wingspan is so large that it can't take of or land the way normal jets do. When it takes of it has little "training wheels" that fall away when it lifts off, and landing it needs two chase vehicles to guide the pilot down. After which it sort of tips over and skits on its wings (on specially designed replaceable skid plates.)
Try having VOIP with 600ms of latency, or just a video chat. It is incredibly annoying.
I hate this because it means Apple wants to start selling consumable fuel cartridges.
I love this because it means I won't have to play retard roundup with power outlets and adapters when traveling.
A hybrid drive would be great in my laptop. It doesn't have room for "storage" drives and a 600GB SSD would be heinously expensive. You could also put one in a USB 3.0 external enclosure (I assume they can work like that.) That would give you a nice trade off between speed, capacity and, most importantly, portability.
That seems to be what Seagate is thinking too. Since the drive is in the 2.5" form factor.
Yes, but Sony stored customer data as PLAIN TEXT. Their security was a joke and they deserved all the bad press they got.
Valve on the other hand had all sensitive data encrypted. Which means that the hackers likely got nothing but useless gobbledygook.
Rename it to The Federal Bereau of Investigation. Because it's their fucking job anyway.
Gosh, thunderbolt sounds just super fine. I'll go out and buy a Thunderbolt expansion card today! Oh, yeah, I CAN'T.
The only thing I don't like about Windows is how scatter-brained it is. It is very clearly corporate designed by committee with no final "vision" in mind like Mac OS X. Other than that, what's so torturous about it? The fact that pretty much all software and hardware run on it with no issue?
As for Chromium, we'll see. iOS and Android have proven that new OSes can take off pretty quick as long as there's good app support (Angry Birds.) Whether or not that model will work on a big, clunky laptop is very questionable. Especially when it ventures into the spooky, dark forest of hardware support. Which from what I've read so far, is going to be absolutely pathetic. To the point of being practically unusable.
Shouldn't we... I dunno... invent sustainable fusion first? It's kinda like buying the cart before the horse. If the cart was three hundred thousand kilometers in space.
USB was driven by the entire industry to be a standard. Apple had nothing to do with it. Firewire was sort of a success, but it's higher licensing fees meant USB was more desirable by 3rd part manufacturers. Just try to go to any electronics store and find an external Firewire hard drive. They hardly exist anymore.
I'm a filmmaker so I definitely want Thunderbolt to succeed. But I was burned by the failed promises of Firewire and eSata. Now I see the exact same mistakes being made with Thunderbolt. Apple may be a driver of some standards, but unless this thing appears on a $300 notebook at Best Buy, it's going nowhere.
The only thing that exclusivity deals accomplish is to limit consumer choice and allow competitors the opportunity to get ahead (see: the iPhone.) From a marketing standpoint limiting Thunderbolt to Apple increases the value of the Mac, when in reality it chokes off the 3rd party ecosystem, and makes the port into a mostly useless esoteric novelty. Like Firewire-800.
Oop, it wasn't published 2 years ago, it was last February. Damn European date format. Oh, well, argument still holds. The press release from Oak Ridge is deliberately misleading.
Let's get the facts straight:
"With this approach at the laboratory scale, Xu and colleagues were able to obtain a light-to-power conversion efficiency of 3.2 percent compared to 1.8 percent efficiency of conventional planar structure of the same materials."
3.2% is pathetic. A quick Google search reveals some polycrystalline Cadmium Telluride cells developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory that achieved 15% efficiency. It was published TWO YEARS AGO.
For once, FOR ONCE I'd like to see a genuine solar cell breakthrough that changes the industry. Not some BS press release that's only a thinly veiled attempt to generate some capital investment. I understand that science usually progresses in baby steps (especially in chemistry) but there's got to be a higher standard for informing the public about your research.
That's quickly going the way of unprotected networks in hotels. At my library you must use a login tied to your library card.
Okay, I'm going to skip the obvious argument. Suffice it to say it is irresponsible to have your network open.
I don't think you can really do anything. I have never seen a consumer router that is smart enough to throttle or block services competently. You could talk with your neighbors about keeping the usage down, but human nature being what it is, they're unlikely to listen. Remember that they are exploiting you. They may be nice to you in person, but they will happily take advantage of you and rape your badwidth if it means they get to save some money. That's just the way our brains are built.
Because the imperial system was such an unbelievable bitch to learn in the first place that we don't want to know anything else. We're like the emotionally scarred wife who stays with her abusive husband.
Wow, the paint job and vacuum-molded parts are amazing. This is truly a piece of contemporary art. I like how it speaks to the University of Bielefeld's futile desire to build a working robot.
Wow, it's just like a being in the Navy. Except you have no training, no clue what's going on, no personal investment, and you ram their multi-million dollar tracker drone into fishing boats just to punctuate the tedium.
I'll wait for Light Peak (or whatever the hell they call it.) It has a lot better features for situations where you actually need high throughput, and not just filling up a hard drive really quick.
No. Not by itself. But if you installed one of these batteries in your home (of equal or greater capacity than the one in your car) then you could charge your car without much fuss.
That's how an electric "gas station" would work. They'd have a large bank of these batteries underground so that they could spread the load over a 24-hour period instead of demanding huge amounts of current from the grid in spikes.
Having lived through a major disaster (wildfire) I can safely say that you are 100% right. Having a stocked-up pantry with non-perishable foods is smart, but not going to be very useful if your house is destroyed or inaccessible.
The only things I'd say that are absolutely indispensable are knowing first aide and CPR. They're such simple things to learn yet can mean the difference between life and death.
Beyond that, here's a list of things I found useful when I had my natural disaster hullabaloo:
1) LED Flashlight. That $2 impulse buy at checkout may be the smartest investment you ever made.
2) If you can afford a smartphone/PDA, then have one. They can be invaluable for getting information.
3) Don't be afraid to ask for help. This seems obvious but people's pride can get in the way. Being a victim is very humbling.
4) Have ID on you at all times with your CURRENT ADDRESS. This will save you from so much bullshit you have no idea. It can expedite getting financial aide from Red Cross or get you past emergency crew blockades.
The real breakthrough we need isn't growing bacterial to produce fuel. We already know how to do that quite well. The trick is scaling it up to practical volumes. Generally speaking bacterial who waste energy on producing fuel for us humans tend to be pretty fragile and finicky.
I purchased an essay once, but only because I didn't want to write a bullshit 20-page paper on how the Matrix (yes, the movie) contextualizes modern political and social boundaries. I was not doing well in the class, so it literally came down to either failing the class or cheating and passing with a C.
I understand the idea behind getting a "well-rounded education", but some of these required courses are ridiculous. I'd rather spend my effort in classes that actually matter. That may diminish my degree in some way, but seeings how it's in Fine Arts, I think I can live with that.