Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
30 bucks... Plus you have to put it on a Mac computer, which is marked up at least ten percent compared to a comparable computer from any other manufacturer. Some brands are even offering free upgrades to Windows 7 from Vista if you buy a computer from them now rather than waiting for the OS switch. That price tag looks less appealing when you consider those attached strings.
Yeah, just the other day I had my multibillion dollar corporation download some illegal patents off TPB so I could throw them into full scale production without giving the inventors and researchers any credit or any money.
This will be the gimmick in the next Mirror's Edge. Sure, free running around a distopian future is fun, but wouldn't it be more fun if you were also a deadly, deadly robot?
Hell, at 10,000ft most firearms won't make the trip. Hopefully, these things are orders of magnitude cheaper to produce, as well. It would be advantageous to cover a battlefield in hundreds of cheap sensors communicating to provide a comprehensive image, rather than sending up one or two UAV's to scan the area with a limited perspective for the same price.
I agree, but I also spend well over $180 on textbooks every semester, and that's with buying used and international edition texts. The price of games is falling behind their production cost.... Then again. No LAN? Seriously...
So how does the field mouse tell the Logitech Mouse where the imperfections in the surface are? Presumably Logitech has decoded the language of the tiny mammals.
While NASA is plainly losing its edge, we shouldn't be so quick to turn to commercial means of space travel. Corporations are ultimately concerned only with turning a profit, not with the exploration of the Universe. We need NASA to be a science and research-centric agency. I don't want to live in a world where I must pay for the Hubble's incredible images, or one in which the Hubble doesn't exist at all due to a lack of profitability. If NASA were to end their manned missions program, I wouldn't shed a tear, but its robotics are invaluable.
Ion engines would be impractical for a launch system, since they don't function in an atmosphere. I imagine that the vast majority of fuel used by a rocket is used escaping from Earth's gravity, rather than outside of the atmosphere where ion drives are viable.
Well, projectors are shrinking and making their way into devices like digital cameras. When someone figures out how to make green laser diodes consistently and with efficiency to match blue and red diodes, I expect projectors may replace LCD screens entirely in devices for which size is such a big factor.
As for functionality, there's no reason why your cell phone shouldn't be able to do everything your computer can (in the future), and costs of old technology will continue to fall as new technology becomes available.
In MY day, we had to draw every letter individually, then manually arrange them into words! And there weren't no spell check either! If you spelled a word wrong, the only person what would underline it with a red zig-zags was your teacher!
This is Slashdot. We assume that there are thousands of shadowy, cloaked data thieves digging through our garbage, and each and every one of them has a Magnetic Force Microscope and thousands of man hours at his disposal.
You forgot to mention that every game magazine is at least two months behind the news you can get on the internet for free, except when it's an exclusive, in which case they're only one month behind. Not to mention if you get your news from the internet, you get to watch high quality video teasers and gameplay footage.
Your technology sounds extremely promising, but how do you plan to keep track of multiple DIR files? I've invented a technology that we're calling "Folder" around the office. With it, we can create complex trees of digitally organized music, video, and even ebooks. The major advantage here is that you can use "Folder" to create repositories for all your digital media ranging in specificity from artists down to albums. You can even launch the media directly from your "Folder" viewer with two clicks! We expect the major bugs to be worked out fairly soon, and you might see "Folder" on your computer in the first quarter 2010.
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Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
30 bucks... Plus you have to put it on a Mac computer, which is marked up at least ten percent compared to a comparable computer from any other manufacturer. Some brands are even offering free upgrades to Windows 7 from Vista if you buy a computer from them now rather than waiting for the OS switch. That price tag looks less appealing when you consider those attached strings.
Doesn't SUSE come with Zypper and YaST?
Yeah, just the other day I had my multibillion dollar corporation download some illegal patents off TPB so I could throw them into full scale production without giving the inventors and researchers any credit or any money.
This will be the gimmick in the next Mirror's Edge. Sure, free running around a distopian future is fun, but wouldn't it be more fun if you were also a deadly, deadly robot?
Hell, at 10,000ft most firearms won't make the trip. Hopefully, these things are orders of magnitude cheaper to produce, as well. It would be advantageous to cover a battlefield in hundreds of cheap sensors communicating to provide a comprehensive image, rather than sending up one or two UAV's to scan the area with a limited perspective for the same price.
So what if you create a unit, then send that unit back in time and kill the structure that created him?
I agree, but I also spend well over $180 on textbooks every semester, and that's with buying used and international edition texts. The price of games is falling behind their production cost. ... Then again. No LAN? Seriously...
X-gene? I think you mean the Y-chromosome.
So how does the field mouse tell the Logitech Mouse where the imperfections in the surface are? Presumably Logitech has decoded the language of the tiny mammals.
While NASA is plainly losing its edge, we shouldn't be so quick to turn to commercial means of space travel. Corporations are ultimately concerned only with turning a profit, not with the exploration of the Universe. We need NASA to be a science and research-centric agency. I don't want to live in a world where I must pay for the Hubble's incredible images, or one in which the Hubble doesn't exist at all due to a lack of profitability. If NASA were to end their manned missions program, I wouldn't shed a tear, but its robotics are invaluable.
Ion engines would be impractical for a launch system, since they don't function in an atmosphere. I imagine that the vast majority of fuel used by a rocket is used escaping from Earth's gravity, rather than outside of the atmosphere where ion drives are viable.
Well, projectors are shrinking and making their way into devices like digital cameras. When someone figures out how to make green laser diodes consistently and with efficiency to match blue and red diodes, I expect projectors may replace LCD screens entirely in devices for which size is such a big factor.
As for functionality, there's no reason why your cell phone shouldn't be able to do everything your computer can (in the future), and costs of old technology will continue to fall as new technology becomes available.
In MY day, we had to draw every letter individually, then manually arrange them into words! And there weren't no spell check either! If you spelled a word wrong, the only person what would underline it with a red zig-zags was your teacher!
And get off my lawn!
According to the latest psychological theories, this means you wish to wed thy mother and kill thy father.
I'm more in favor of letting nature take its course when it comes to Creationists, sharp objects and steep dropoffs.
I hear your-mother is always going down on the admins.
There's no such thing as a needless upgrade. Someone will use it. I, for one, welcome our 64 bit overlords.
(Yes, there's a 64 bit XP, and yes, it has horrible driver support)
This is Slashdot. We assume that there are thousands of shadowy, cloaked data thieves digging through our garbage, and each and every one of them has a Magnetic Force Microscope and thousands of man hours at his disposal.
You can be sure the drive has reached the Curie temperature when it has melted into a glowing pool of metal. Apply thermite liberally.
No, but they might watch the (fucking) articles.
You forgot to mention that every game magazine is at least two months behind the news you can get on the internet for free, except when it's an exclusive, in which case they're only one month behind. Not to mention if you get your news from the internet, you get to watch high quality video teasers and gameplay footage.
The guy also seems to be remembering history through rose colored glasses.
Do those glasses produce eye-strain-inducing three dimensional images as well?
Your technology sounds extremely promising, but how do you plan to keep track of multiple DIR files? I've invented a technology that we're calling "Folder" around the office. With it, we can create complex trees of digitally organized music, video, and even ebooks. The major advantage here is that you can use "Folder" to create repositories for all your digital media ranging in specificity from artists down to albums. You can even launch the media directly from your "Folder" viewer with two clicks! We expect the major bugs to be worked out fairly soon, and you might see "Folder" on your computer in the first quarter 2010.
I think most would agree that right now the markets are sucking.