Office is key. A phone that runs a real, full filesystem etc version Office AND has a one-plug docking solution that always works would indeed get MS back in the mobile game.
We'll have a phone-sized computer that can dock and provide a complete desktop experience from any compatible monitor / keyboard / charging setup. The upshot is that you can port your life around from place to place without actually carrying much hardware, with enormous rewards to the hardware firm who controls the most popular standard, because it'll be in every workplace, hotel, school...
This has been tried and sucked. Same as tablets circa 2004. This will require some tight standards and UX design to make the transitions from mobile to desktop really stable and seamless, which points to a certain control-obsessed fruit company having a decent shot.
Given hardware trends, we're less than 5 years away from a mass-market phone-sized desktop replacement.
The 1950s were saucer crazy. And apparently the US government was too, at about the same time. So was this leakage from inside the weapons program showing up in Hollywood or were the engineers looking at Ed Wood movies and saying, "Yeah, let's give that a shot"?
It's all fatal. Some faster than others, I admit, but everyone eventually becomes infirm and dies and causality is pretty firm linked to existing in the world and doing things.
So, can we have good regulators to worry about stuff like Chromium in tap water and just start ignoring the really subtle stuff?
Head injuries aren't rare in serious bike accidents. In fatalities, 2/3 had head injuries. Fortunately bike fatalities are rare, but it's false to say head injuries aren't relevant.
Designing a specific test doesn't prove anything. Want a specific outcome in test scenario? Relatively easy. Testing real products against the actual environment, in which many accidents are unavoidable even with ideal driver input and comparing the failure rate and quality of those failures. It's not all quantitative either: is this a car accident, or a terrifyingly creepy car accident that makes people afraid of the cars?
If there's going to be a company that blends math and design like this to create something life-or-death important, I'd rather have Google do it, than say, GM. I'd also want regulators to create clear rules for how results will be evaluated by the public. Which it sounds like we're doing. Getting this regulatory stuff right now is critical, because there aren't bazillions of dollars at stake yet and rational decisions have a chance of becoming law.
Yes, but there's a presumption of future crimes that seems problematic. Note the final phrase in this quote from TFA:
"We are thankful that police departments are working together and without the information from Bristol, maybe this wouldn't have been able to be stopped."
Yes. The "set up to fail" has more to it than that. Charter school advocates donated $12 million to Mayor Emmanuel's election bid. His nearest rival raised $2 million total. It was an enormous sum of money. Then, surprise, comes this testing regime, which will be the justification used to shut down "failing" schools and reopen them as charter schools.
Why are very rich people giving all this money to back charter schools? Well, charter schools are usually not union.
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Office is key. A phone that runs a real, full filesystem etc version Office AND has a one-plug docking solution that always works would indeed get MS back in the mobile game.
Perhaps we can have a grand challenge for clever ways to stop pouring millions of dollars into subsidies for the oil industry?
Sometimes the best new ideas are to stop doing the bad old ideas.
We'll have a phone-sized computer that can dock and provide a complete desktop experience from any compatible monitor / keyboard / charging setup. The upshot is that you can port your life around from place to place without actually carrying much hardware, with enormous rewards to the hardware firm who controls the most popular standard, because it'll be in every workplace, hotel, school...
This has been tried and sucked. Same as tablets circa 2004. This will require some tight standards and UX design to make the transitions from mobile to desktop really stable and seamless, which points to a certain control-obsessed fruit company having a decent shot.
Given hardware trends, we're less than 5 years away from a mass-market phone-sized desktop replacement.
The 1950s were saucer crazy. And apparently the US government was too, at about the same time. So was this leakage from inside the weapons program showing up in Hollywood or were the engineers looking at Ed Wood movies and saying, "Yeah, let's give that a shot"?
1950: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Saucer
1956: crazy USAF saucer design
1959: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space
In America, reactor burns through funding. In Soviet Russia, funding burns through reactor!
Ignite interest? Hell, the National Ignition Facility fails to ignite anything.
I call that a fusion burn.
> Monsanto's seed got onto that farmer's land without his knowledge or consent
Sure, I'll just have my legal team write up a complaint. They're all over it. Oh wait, I'm a fucking farmer.
I'm sure most of the readership is tallying up the last time they got laid, and wondering if they were in fact the last of their kind to do so.
Google's variety of Chromium is a nutrient. Just don't open six tabs at once.
It's all fatal. Some faster than others, I admit, but everyone eventually becomes infirm and dies and causality is pretty firm linked to existing in the world and doing things.
So, can we have good regulators to worry about stuff like Chromium in tap water and just start ignoring the really subtle stuff?
The numbers I cited come from the US government stats. Aggregated with an agenda, but the aggregator is the not primary sources.
And I drink enough that by your logic, I should probably be wearing a helmet whether I'm on a bike or not.
Head injuries aren't rare in serious bike accidents. In fatalities, 2/3 had head injuries. Fortunately bike fatalities are rare, but it's false to say head injuries aren't relevant.
http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm
The data: http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm
Short version: helmets reduce incidence of serious head injuries by ~90 percent. Face injuries by ~75 percent.
Quoting:
In bicycle crashes, 2/3 of the dead and 1/8 of the injured suffered brain injuries.
95% of bicyclists killed in 2006 reportedly were not wearing helmets.
If you're thinking about launch technology, keep an eye on that 6000g acceleration. Smoosh.
Spectacular for the defense contractors, yes. It's fucking fantastic.
This. How about a post on the battery issue in the last OSX update? Or, failing that... news?
Somewhat famous person uses profanity in ambiguously sourced Internet flame war, details as they emerge!
Designing a specific test doesn't prove anything. Want a specific outcome in test scenario? Relatively easy. Testing real products against the actual environment, in which many accidents are unavoidable even with ideal driver input and comparing the failure rate and quality of those failures. It's not all quantitative either: is this a car accident, or a terrifyingly creepy car accident that makes people afraid of the cars?
If there's going to be a company that blends math and design like this to create something life-or-death important, I'd rather have Google do it, than say, GM. I'd also want regulators to create clear rules for how results will be evaluated by the public. Which it sounds like we're doing. Getting this regulatory stuff right now is critical, because there aren't bazillions of dollars at stake yet and rational decisions have a chance of becoming law.
If only these guys had designed the World Wide Web!
Amazing story. Thanks for posting.
Yes, but there's a presumption of future crimes that seems problematic. Note the final phrase in this quote from TFA:
"We are thankful that police departments are working together and without the information from Bristol, maybe this wouldn't have been able to be stopped."
Well there's your problem right there! Try it someplace less smokey.
> If you were really a libertarian, you would know these things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Yes. The "set up to fail" has more to it than that. Charter school advocates donated $12 million to Mayor Emmanuel's election bid. His nearest rival raised $2 million total. It was an enormous sum of money. Then, surprise, comes this testing regime, which will be the justification used to shut down "failing" schools and reopen them as charter schools.
Why are very rich people giving all this money to back charter schools? Well, charter schools are usually not union.
Galileo, Galileo...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5smPcN8AoE