Does anyone, in any country use SMS for more than "meet in bar at 7"? It's 140 characters. It's expensive per tiny unit of information (UK). It spawned a whole degenerate sub language, and it's just about the lamest way that two humans can communicate.
In china it's cheap, but I still wouldn't use it for my revolution planning. Encrypted XMPP/self run multi-protocol gateway (MSN, ICQ etc)/VOIP over 3G FTW.
Interesting thanks. I joined the party mid to late browser wars, so that was a bit before my time, but I do remember reinstalling windows, 5 times in a day because IE4 was so volatile.
IE (4-5-6) has always been a complete disappointment, and the day someone told me about the plucky little upstart Firebird 0.6, I never had to use it as my main browser again.
Why be fair to Microsoft in this case? Bashing where bashing is due; IE is a highly dangerous lump of toxic/radioactive waste, with a half life of over 20 years.
Microsoft did everything wrong. Wrote the piece of shit in the first place. Tightly integrated it into windows, for leveraging purposes. Didn't even try to keep on top of updates letting it stagnate. It will have a damaging effect on the web, web standards, and general computing, long after Microsoft drops support for any given version.
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that Mozilla thunbird would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a drunken weekend and $12 billion on Microsoft Outlook and Exchange licensing to develop a mail server that works in zero gravity, upside down, covered in stale beer, and old pizza boxes, and at temperatures ranging from below 10 to 25 degrees Celsius.
Why would you advertise AOL or hotmail, when you have a chance to plug your own site? I often chop off the username@ of interesting domains, and for a job application it can provide extra space to impress.
I guess I'm Net generation. Except that doesn't sound right for anyone I know of my age group. Furthermore, I've always adopted the best tools for the job, and ignored blatant fads such as twitter.
As for multi-tasking; Again, not a generation issue, as task switching just interrupts. Texting and facebook updating is a leisure activity, and doesn't mix with work at all.
DRM and P2P won't mix because it's a huge popularity contest. There is selection pressure against really bad, really big, or password protected/DRMed content.
Whoa! Your daughter is off the rails, and your soft approach to parenting is not helping. Install linux on her system right now, and don't give her the root password until she's 18!
Won't be needing 3D TV... ever. Just saw my first full length film in 3D, and I don't need that in my house. It just doesn't add that much to the viewing experience. I'll be skipping blu-ray.
Passengers book flight online, and program their flight int an RFID tags. Passengers enter the airport naked, and in small groups. No worldly possessions will be allowed. Muslims are winnowed at this stage. (The last mile must be walked to the terminal because of the dragons teeth protecting the airport from demo-trucks.)
Passengers are rendered unconscious using anaesthetic gas. Robotic staff, load the unconscious passengers into special crates that deal with feeding and excretion. Passengers are hooked up to neutral interface, and last years crappy films are played directly into their minds.
In case of emergency, all crates have auto-ejectors. First-class passenger crates have parachutes.
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letting it grow into it's own intelligence
This is still weak AI. It isn't going to grow into anything, let alone strong AI.
Only as good as current machine learning algorithms.
So not very.
Does anyone, in any country use SMS for more than "meet in bar at 7"?
It's 140 characters. It's expensive per tiny unit of information (UK). It spawned a whole degenerate sub language, and it's just about the lamest way that two humans can communicate.
In china it's cheap, but I still wouldn't use it for my revolution planning. Encrypted XMPP/self run multi-protocol gateway (MSN, ICQ etc)/VOIP over 3G FTW.
Interesting thanks.
I joined the party mid to late browser wars, so that was a bit before my time, but I do remember reinstalling windows, 5 times in a day because IE4 was so volatile.
IE (4-5-6) has always been a complete disappointment, and the day someone told me about the plucky little upstart Firebird 0.6, I never had to use it as my main browser again.
Why be fair to Microsoft in this case? Bashing where bashing is due;
IE is a highly dangerous lump of toxic/radioactive waste, with a half life of over 20 years.
Microsoft did everything wrong. Wrote the piece of shit in the first place. Tightly integrated it into windows, for leveraging purposes. Didn't even try to keep on top of updates letting it stagnate.
It will have a damaging effect on the web, web standards, and general computing, long after Microsoft drops support for any given version.
That's just going to blur the lines between TLD, domains and subdomains.
http://sport.sport.sport/
Without the protocol, I'm not going to parse that as a URL at all.
and no pirates.
I want to order pizza and ice cream on earth, delivered by cannon.
Yes, the inductors and transformers for Macs are hand-rolled on the thighs of virgins.
How to pass any interview
Drift around in a small ship until you get assimilated.
Don't worry. In time, India will outsource its jobs to America.
Jenny, I got your number
I'm gonna make you mine
Jenny, I got your number
3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that Mozilla thunbird would not work in zero gravity.
To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a drunken weekend and $12 billion on Microsoft Outlook and Exchange licensing to develop a mail server that works in zero gravity, upside down, covered in stale beer, and old pizza boxes, and at temperatures ranging from below 10 to 25 degrees Celsius.
The Russians used Mutt.
After the epic battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray, I bought an up-scaling DVD player with USB mass storage/Xvid support.
HD DVD and Blu-ray are the new betamax.
Same answer for a totally different reason.
Why would you advertise AOL or hotmail, when you have a chance to plug your own site?
I often chop off the username@ of interesting domains, and for a job application it can provide extra space to impress.
I guess I'm Net generation. Except that doesn't sound right for anyone I know of my age group.
Furthermore, I've always adopted the best tools for the job, and ignored blatant fads such as twitter.
As for multi-tasking; Again, not a generation issue, as task switching just interrupts. Texting and facebook updating is a leisure activity, and doesn't mix with work at all.
Optimizegoogle
NOT
Customizegoogle
Same code base, except customizegoogle is no longer updated.
Ninjas don't scare me because I am a pirate.
You should register the /. name EquineAnaologyGuy if you're planning to do that often.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitrate_peeling but with DRM.
DRM and P2P won't mix because it's a huge popularity contest. There is selection pressure against really bad, really big, or password protected/DRMed content.
How about taxing run-on sentences.
Whoa! Your daughter is off the rails, and your soft approach to parenting is not helping.
Install linux on her system right now, and don't give her the root password until she's 18!
Won't be needing 3D TV ... ever.
Just saw my first full length film in 3D, and I don't need that in my house. It just doesn't add that much to the viewing experience.
I'll be skipping blu-ray.
Passengers book flight online, and program their flight int an RFID tags.
Passengers enter the airport naked, and in small groups. No worldly possessions will be allowed.
Muslims are winnowed at this stage.
(The last mile must be walked to the terminal because of the dragons teeth protecting the airport from demo-trucks.)
Passengers are rendered unconscious using anaesthetic gas.
Robotic staff, load the unconscious passengers into special crates that deal with feeding and excretion.
Passengers are hooked up to neutral interface, and last years crappy films are played directly into their minds.
In case of emergency, all crates have auto-ejectors. First-class passenger crates have parachutes.