------------ While the software is being marketed as an improvement for desktop computer users, it could have just as big a future in powering a yet-to-be announced Apple hand-held computer-phone ------------
I like how the article contradicts itself by saying that Apple would use a third party OS for the phone, but then saying that the features of OS X would be great for a phone. Which is it? Its not like they could actually USE any of their OS X software on the phone, and they certainly wouldn't be able to run OS X itself. I get the feeling the author doesn't have a clue.
check out this article at new scientist. A little more balanced about what this might mean. Two things I noticed right away. a) The Larson A Ice Shelf, which is nearly as big as this one dropped off in 95. b) this ice shelf is only 1800 years old. Where I am sitting now was under a mile of ice 15,000 years ago. Perhaps the Ice shelf's existence is the abnormality, not the fact that it has dropped off! These are MODELS people. Models can be wrong. Until these guys can predict the weather accurately one month from now, I'll save my money betting either way. Watching these guys "predict" events is like watching Jack Ryan predict Crazy Ivans. Its a guess, but you might just get it right some time...
The problem with the penny-a-page, or micropayment schemes in general is that they all fall under the ruberic of electronic cash, which is patented to hell and gone by one individual - which has a company called digicash (or some such). It is a classic case of a great idea being ruined by the United States Patent Office. The only way something like this works is through decentralization, and the patents make it a given that everything must go through one company.
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Check out Carmack's latest entry at Armadilla Aerospace. Ironically enough, he talks about orbital flights...
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While the software is being marketed as an improvement for desktop computer users, it could have just as big a future in powering a yet-to-be announced Apple hand-held computer-phone
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I like how the article contradicts itself by saying that Apple would use a third party OS for the phone, but then saying that the features of OS X would be great for a phone. Which is it? Its not like they could actually USE any of their OS X software on the phone, and they certainly wouldn't be able to run OS X itself. I get the feeling the author doesn't have a clue.
check out this
article at new scientist. A little more balanced about what this might mean. Two things I noticed right away. a) The Larson A Ice Shelf, which is nearly as big as this one dropped off in 95. b) this ice shelf is only 1800 years old. Where I am sitting now was under a mile of ice 15,000 years ago. Perhaps the Ice shelf's existence is the abnormality, not the fact that it has dropped off! These are MODELS people. Models can be wrong. Until these guys can predict the weather accurately one month from now, I'll save my money betting either way. Watching these guys "predict" events is like watching Jack Ryan predict Crazy Ivans. Its a guess, but you might just get it right some time...
The problem with the penny-a-page, or micropayment schemes in general is that they all fall under the ruberic of electronic cash, which is patented to hell and gone by one individual - which has a company called digicash (or some such). It is a classic case of a great idea being ruined by the United States Patent Office. The only way something like this works is through decentralization, and the patents make it a given that everything must go through one company.
I once read that you could change the MAC address of a card in software - am I dreaming this, or is it only with specific hardware?