Those talking about the hike into the mountains are missing the point of the chase.
If you want to do this and have fun, you need to be an international traveler that is posting your blogs just before you get on a train or plane or boat. They have to actually catch you. Go ahead and post and tweet. Just keep moving quickly so they don't know where you are for more than a few seconds.
The advantage that a driver has is the cognitive ability to observe the road in front of them and make adjustments in prediction of what the conditions will be.
If a computer is responding to programmed route and responding to sensed changes (reaction), it will be too late for the car to adjust. If their computers are looking ahead and making the same kind of informed estimates (road surface type, side-slope, etc...), then I'll be really impressed!!
I can't believe we're this far and nobody is dreaming about how they can play their favority games at highest resolution. This will effect GPU as well.
I don't think the 9th circuit will ever take spam back, if the only penalty is loss of money. Now, add the death penalty to SPAMming and maybe they'll think twice.
If they really wanted to help us, give us a universal timestamp in reverse so we can sit and watch the end coming in real time. Keeping a clock stationary for several years really doesn't excite the masses.
The iPhone has multi-gesture apps because Apple first came to the broad market with such a device. People will build software to what hardware manufacturers make popular, ont the other way around.
I can imagine how the pointer moving ever so slightly away from where you are looking causes you to try to move your focus to where the cursor now is causing a cascading effect of chasing the cursor that is just out of focus and moving. It will eventually cause us all to have spastic eye movements constantly circling the page. That will be fun!
Will be the shout of everyone trying to read a document and having the cursor automatically and constantly position itself right in the center of your vision. You be begging for the mouse to get that out of your way.
Glad to hear they have an Exchange server running the heavy load of emails. I imagine they really need it to schedule all those meetings on their calendars with each other. We all know have disconnected people can get when they never see each other face to face while working on the Space Shuttle. You constantly got people on either the upper or lower level, but you can never find them when you want them.
I'm sure this is just meant to poke fun at the serious scientists that are feverishly working on transporter technology so physical items can be moved instantaneously from point A to point B...unless of course, you are traveling at warp speed at present.
With our new push toward green, you'll see less travel in the blue. My bet is that the carbon footprint of any flying car will be perfect for Gore to replace his plane, but be prohibitive for us common folks. Unless this flies producing only water vapor as a result of any combustion, of course.
It would be a funny way to describe a girlfriend. Most guys here don't have girlfriends and are holding something else with one hand. Sorry for not clarifying that.
If you need two hands to hold it, you shouldn't be here on Slashdot. Most guys here seem to be perfectly capable of using just one hand to hold it. Many probably dream of a 2-handed PDA that sucks too.
I'm not claiming to be an expert in this field, but have a simple question...
If this is GPL, can SUN stop it from continuing to be GPL? Even if they purchase SUN, doesn't the GPL have to be maintained on software once placed in the public domain? Even if Oracle took it and if they stopped development of it, it wouldn't mean that the public would have to stop developing and using it, would it? Couldn't separate efforts, much like Linux, continue this on as if nothing happened, OR is this what can happen to any GPL in the future?
Internet by cell phone is becoming viewed as a right. In the US, the longer we have a service or something more and more people use, eventually people see it as a right to their existence in the US.
Soon will come the time when our senators will tell us that too many people in the US are unable to get affordable internet at reasonable and competitive prices. We can then look forward to a new government agency that will help bring the Internet to everyone in the country via their cell phone...and of course, only the rich in America will have to pay for it.
Come on!!! Let's stop being spoiled brats and simply go to the services that treat us the way we want and get what we can afford. If we can't afford it, then spend your wasted hours without internet thinking about the 2 billion people in this world that live on less than $2/day.
Your skepticism is warranted, but I downloaded Win 7 last summer and was VERY surprised with my custom built desktop that Win 7 (after asking, of course) got online and downloaded every driver I needed for everything inside and plugged into the computer without a hitch.
I never went to Vista, but have been very pleased with Win 7. They simplified numerous things, redid options and the way windows handles a lot. MUCH BETTER than Vista.
OK sure, it is not a whole new operating system that throws everyone backwards and makes it difficult to find what you were looking for. How often has Apple or Linux done that? What makes this new is that they changed most of the items that people complained about, streamlined it, and made it solid (using it for 5 months without BSOD or locking).
Everyone is still welcome to throw mud at MS as they see fit for everything they don't do well, but Win 7 doesn't perform or behave like Vista in numerous ways.
The data doesn't matter. If any of you have looked at a cross section of a Redwood tree that was 2000 years old (which you can do within a 30 minute drive of the SillyCon Valley), you will see decades and even hundreds of years with small rings and large period of time with big rings. You can see simply there that our planet (without the help or cause of man) goes through cycles and does not have a constant balance. The climate ebbs and flows over centuries.
Even with data, the scientists will still admit that they cannot definitively state WHY the temperature goes up or down. It is the rash decision of some to throw billions of dollars at a solution when they don't have confidence of the cause. I hope my grandchildren will be able to laugh at the history books that show we had nothing to do with the temperature changes and though we take drastic steps, the temperature will raise or fall on its own.
The problem goes far beyond building a school. I know this from living in poor countries around the world.
The problem with literacy in Africa, for example, is not as simple as there is no school but actually no job that cares about you reading that you could find.
Sure there is a job here and there that would be great, but educate the whole population and they will quickly see that it didn't help their situation, for the most part. My friend in Madagascar just finished her degree in the university there. She knew before starting that there would be absolutely no job available for her and all of her classmates in the same major. At times she wondered why she went at all. They have the schools, but no jobs.
The misconception that simple education leads to less religious wars is no the case either. The people leading those efforts are highly educated men. They are not uneducated idiots. There has to be a balance in any development that develops an entire culture evenly....and NOT JUST INTO A WESTERN WORLDVIEW OR PERCEPTION OF THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.
Here some things to surprise you. I lived in Worcester, South Africa from April of 2007 until July of 2008 and helped hundreds of people in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and Madagascar. I've also devoted the last year of my life working for non-profit in development of a program that is seeking to provide help to people around the world by engaging people online. Won't go into details, you wouldn't believe it anyway.
Go get out sites like HopeVault.org and see their wealth ranking system. You can find the statistical model in lots of sites and a formula developed years ago for wealth distribution. Go to the UN, UNICEF or Worldbank for details on the poverty statistic, since you weren't aware of that either.
The conclusion drawn are obviously not in agreement with yours, and that is fine. I've seen a lot of the world that you obviously haven't. I'm sure you dedicated several years to help less fortunate people just like I have. My approach is not to give everything to them, but provide them the opportunity to help themselves. Ask anyone who has worked in Africa. That is what the people of that continent really want.
In America, we have more than enough opportunity already. Our schools are free (or very close to it). My friends in South Africa have to pay for their public school. In madagascar, you don't get to go to college and seek a degree in what you want. You submit your top choices and they tell you what is available and what you'll be allowed to study.
What does this have to do with it all. Simple. We already have enough and spend enough on schools. We can't just buy nice shiny Macs for every classroom and think kids will just jump on the science bandwagon. Provide an excellent school with more things and you'll still have kids that simply don't care and don't try because their parents don't care and don't push. That is where I started and where I'll finish.
I can see that the smudge of superiority on your rose colored glasses will keep you from ever seeing any other side of things. I have very poor friends in several countries in Africa and Asia. I've lived in Africa. I know what people have to struggle through. You don't seem to know of it except from what you've seen on TV.
The friends I have in Africa (because I lived there and was helping them because I'm conservative and do want to help people) try much harder than the average American because we don't have to. They work harder and for less money. People on welfare in America are still in the top 15% of wealthiest people in the world. Boohoo for us.
I do get a little irked (like you appear to be) when we Americans get all up in arms about not getting everything we want when we want it when 1.4 Biliion people are living on $1/day and 1.6 Billion on $2/day. I do know this because I know people in that situation, they don't want our hand-outs, they want to retain their dignity and simply be given a chance. In America, we don't just want a chance, we want it rolled out before us and as easy as it possible can be....then we might try a little.
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Can't imagine why this is on here and why any of us are wasting our time replying. Dang! Just lost 30 seconds of my life.
There are lots of smart people here on /.
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Smart people all think they are smarter than everyone else.
Google has more money than anyone here on
Google has already hired so many smart people (I mean REALLY SMART!!!) that if any company can make this work, it will be Google.
Let's see it happen before all of the smart people put them down. BTW...have you seen the translator on Google Wave. Its simply that with a vox.
Those talking about the hike into the mountains are missing the point of the chase.
If you want to do this and have fun, you need to be an international traveler that is posting your blogs just before you get on a train or plane or boat. They have to actually catch you. Go ahead and post and tweet. Just keep moving quickly so they don't know where you are for more than a few seconds.
The advantage that a driver has is the cognitive ability to observe the road in front of them and make adjustments in prediction of what the conditions will be.
If a computer is responding to programmed route and responding to sensed changes (reaction), it will be too late for the car to adjust. If their computers are looking ahead and making the same kind of informed estimates (road surface type, side-slope, etc...), then I'll be really impressed!!
I can't believe we're this far and nobody is dreaming about how they can play their favority games at highest resolution. This will effect GPU as well.
I don't think the 9th circuit will ever take spam back, if the only penalty is loss of money. Now, add the death penalty to SPAMming and maybe they'll think twice.
Now they don't have to peddle to work each day. The nanites can make a cool ride with one of these motors.
Next time, buy a piece of land that is not a toxic waste site. No wonder it was cheap land.
If they really wanted to help us, give us a universal timestamp in reverse so we can sit and watch the end coming in real time. Keeping a clock stationary for several years really doesn't excite the masses.
The iPhone has multi-gesture apps because Apple first came to the broad market with such a device. People will build software to what hardware manufacturers make popular, ont the other way around.
I can imagine how the pointer moving ever so slightly away from where you are looking causes you to try to move your focus to where the cursor now is causing a cascading effect of chasing the cursor that is just out of focus and moving. It will eventually cause us all to have spastic eye movements constantly circling the page. That will be fun!
Will be the shout of everyone trying to read a document and having the cursor automatically and constantly position itself right in the center of your vision. You be begging for the mouse to get that out of your way.
Glad to hear they have an Exchange server running the heavy load of emails. I imagine they really need it to schedule all those meetings on their calendars with each other. We all know have disconnected people can get when they never see each other face to face while working on the Space Shuttle. You constantly got people on either the upper or lower level, but you can never find them when you want them.
I'm sure this is just meant to poke fun at the serious scientists that are feverishly working on transporter technology so physical items can be moved instantaneously from point A to point B...unless of course, you are traveling at warp speed at present.
With our new push toward green, you'll see less travel in the blue. My bet is that the carbon footprint of any flying car will be perfect for Gore to replace his plane, but be prohibitive for us common folks. Unless this flies producing only water vapor as a result of any combustion, of course.
It would be a funny way to describe a girlfriend. Most guys here don't have girlfriends and are holding something else with one hand. Sorry for not clarifying that.
If you need two hands to hold it, you shouldn't be here on Slashdot. Most guys here seem to be perfectly capable of using just one hand to hold it. Many probably dream of a 2-handed PDA that sucks too.
I'm not claiming to be an expert in this field, but have a simple question...
If this is GPL, can SUN stop it from continuing to be GPL? Even if they purchase SUN, doesn't the GPL have to be maintained on software once placed in the public domain? Even if Oracle took it and if they stopped development of it, it wouldn't mean that the public would have to stop developing and using it, would it? Couldn't separate efforts, much like Linux, continue this on as if nothing happened, OR is this what can happen to any GPL in the future?
Duh! Look at the number of GPU's...13...try 12 or 14 and your luck will change.
Internet by cell phone is becoming viewed as a right. In the US, the longer we have a service or something more and more people use, eventually people see it as a right to their existence in the US.
Soon will come the time when our senators will tell us that too many people in the US are unable to get affordable internet at reasonable and competitive prices. We can then look forward to a new government agency that will help bring the Internet to everyone in the country via their cell phone...and of course, only the rich in America will have to pay for it.
Come on!!! Let's stop being spoiled brats and simply go to the services that treat us the way we want and get what we can afford. If we can't afford it, then spend your wasted hours without internet thinking about the 2 billion people in this world that live on less than $2/day.
Your skepticism is warranted, but I downloaded Win 7 last summer and was VERY surprised with my custom built desktop that Win 7 (after asking, of course) got online and downloaded every driver I needed for everything inside and plugged into the computer without a hitch.
I never went to Vista, but have been very pleased with Win 7. They simplified numerous things, redid options and the way windows handles a lot. MUCH BETTER than Vista.
OK sure, it is not a whole new operating system that throws everyone backwards and makes it difficult to find what you were looking for. How often has Apple or Linux done that? What makes this new is that they changed most of the items that people complained about, streamlined it, and made it solid (using it for 5 months without BSOD or locking).
Everyone is still welcome to throw mud at MS as they see fit for everything they don't do well, but Win 7 doesn't perform or behave like Vista in numerous ways.
The data doesn't matter. If any of you have looked at a cross section of a Redwood tree that was 2000 years old (which you can do within a 30 minute drive of the SillyCon Valley), you will see decades and even hundreds of years with small rings and large period of time with big rings. You can see simply there that our planet (without the help or cause of man) goes through cycles and does not have a constant balance. The climate ebbs and flows over centuries.
Even with data, the scientists will still admit that they cannot definitively state WHY the temperature goes up or down. It is the rash decision of some to throw billions of dollars at a solution when they don't have confidence of the cause. I hope my grandchildren will be able to laugh at the history books that show we had nothing to do with the temperature changes and though we take drastic steps, the temperature will raise or fall on its own.
The problem goes far beyond building a school. I know this from living in poor countries around the world.
The problem with literacy in Africa, for example, is not as simple as there is no school but actually no job that cares about you reading that you could find.
Sure there is a job here and there that would be great, but educate the whole population and they will quickly see that it didn't help their situation, for the most part. My friend in Madagascar just finished her degree in the university there. She knew before starting that there would be absolutely no job available for her and all of her classmates in the same major. At times she wondered why she went at all. They have the schools, but no jobs.
The misconception that simple education leads to less religious wars is no the case either. The people leading those efforts are highly educated men. They are not uneducated idiots. There has to be a balance in any development that develops an entire culture evenly....and NOT JUST INTO A WESTERN WORLDVIEW OR PERCEPTION OF THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.
Here some things to surprise you. I lived in Worcester, South Africa from April of 2007 until July of 2008 and helped hundreds of people in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and Madagascar. I've also devoted the last year of my life working for non-profit in development of a program that is seeking to provide help to people around the world by engaging people online. Won't go into details, you wouldn't believe it anyway.
Go get out sites like HopeVault.org and see their wealth ranking system. You can find the statistical model in lots of sites and a formula developed years ago for wealth distribution. Go to the UN, UNICEF or Worldbank for details on the poverty statistic, since you weren't aware of that either.
The conclusion drawn are obviously not in agreement with yours, and that is fine. I've seen a lot of the world that you obviously haven't. I'm sure you dedicated several years to help less fortunate people just like I have. My approach is not to give everything to them, but provide them the opportunity to help themselves. Ask anyone who has worked in Africa. That is what the people of that continent really want.
In America, we have more than enough opportunity already. Our schools are free (or very close to it). My friends in South Africa have to pay for their public school. In madagascar, you don't get to go to college and seek a degree in what you want. You submit your top choices and they tell you what is available and what you'll be allowed to study.
What does this have to do with it all. Simple. We already have enough and spend enough on schools. We can't just buy nice shiny Macs for every classroom and think kids will just jump on the science bandwagon. Provide an excellent school with more things and you'll still have kids that simply don't care and don't try because their parents don't care and don't push. That is where I started and where I'll finish.
I can see that the smudge of superiority on your rose colored glasses will keep you from ever seeing any other side of things. I have very poor friends in several countries in Africa and Asia. I've lived in Africa. I know what people have to struggle through. You don't seem to know of it except from what you've seen on TV.
The friends I have in Africa (because I lived there and was helping them because I'm conservative and do want to help people) try much harder than the average American because we don't have to. They work harder and for less money. People on welfare in America are still in the top 15% of wealthiest people in the world. Boohoo for us.
I do get a little irked (like you appear to be) when we Americans get all up in arms about not getting everything we want when we want it when 1.4 Biliion people are living on $1/day and 1.6 Billion on $2/day. I do know this because I know people in that situation, they don't want our hand-outs, they want to retain their dignity and simply be given a chance. In America, we don't just want a chance, we want it rolled out before us and as easy as it possible can be....then we might try a little.