Fortunately some people are willing to think outside the square.
While that is a cool problem to solve, the biggest hurdle they are going to face is getting those damn things to stay in one place.
Individual units do not need to stay in the one absolute place. They need to stay in one place relative to the entire formation only. The formation can move around quite a bit.
I think they have their work cut out for them. I predict this project won't get very far. In 10 years they will either still be working on it or the project will be dead.
I guess you'll never start a challenging project then.
Some people around here seem to think the Pope is in charge of all of the Christian world. A post like that getting modded insightful shows the audiences ignorance in this regard. The truth of the matter is that the most fervent bible bashing, science hating, ultra-conservatives come from the ranks of American new age evangelicals.
The Catholic Church does not preach creationism. I went to Catholic schools and there was no blurring of the line between religion and science education.
I too am worried when people start giving scientific reasoning and religious dogma equal weight. I hate when people think they can solve their problems just by saying a prayer. Worst of all is when people look to trivial tricks and oddities and claim they are miracles as though the universe around them isn't miraculous enough as it is. I am not however too worried about the Catholic Church trying to take down science and reasoning as it doesn't have a recent history of doing so and even if it did most Catholics would resist that because they haven't been brought up that way.
Not redundant. Seriously, think before you mod. You may not like the post but it's definitely not redundant as no one else has made the same comment.
Try to mod good posts up, rather than look for ones you disagree with and mod down. If you must, then a -1 Flamebait or Overrated would be more appropriate here.
I'm glad the devs allow you to switch the old toolbar back on. Much better than the Mozilla Firefox attitude of forcing you into changes you don't want to make.
The research by postdoctoral researcher Gustavo Wiederhecker, Long Chen, Ph.D. '09, Alexander Gondarenko, Ph.D. '10, and Lipson appears in the online edition of the journal Nature and will appear in a forthcoming print edition.
Is it just me or does the term "single milliwatt of power" sound odd? It seems to imply something discrete that comes in ones and twos and threes and so on. Why wouldn't you just say "a 1 mW light beam"?
Now let's see if I get the -1 Off-topic that this post surely deserves.
You can download the Android SDK run the emulator and see it in action. Of course the emulator won't have apps like Market and you won't be able to make calls.
As for messaging, it uses a very intuitive conversation oriented layout. My phone has a physical keyboard, but even so I find myself using the on-screen keyboard more and more these days.
Of course, the big plus on the Android side is the growing developer community. It is extremely developer friendly as a platform and as a market-place. It is also nice to know that I can buy a phone from another manufacturer and keep the same software and not need to worry about synchronising contacts or calendar.
You can't be serious on this one. LDAP + Kerberos can easily take on that role plus some.
Exchange
Email is easy enough to offer but shared address books and calendaring may give Exchange the edge. No harm in deploying Exchange on the back-end and using Evolution or Thunderbird or web based Exchange on the front-end.
Terminal Services
This is the most outrageous of your claims. Linux, Solaris, *BSD all come up trumps in this. You've got X11, NX, VNC, and the most advanced thin client solution at the moment, Sun Ray.
If you want to be buzz-word compliant, then yes, kind of.
More to the point, GFS and HDFS are distributed file-systems that are designed to run on potentially very large clusters of commodity hardware. The potential applications are quite diverse. Hadoop itself involves more than just the file-system, but HDFS is really at the core of any application you would want to build with it. This list gives you a good idea of who uses Hadoop and for what purpose.
If you succeed in pulling off the project before anyone else.
I don't understand your point. The project will require massive sums of money to get it to completion. There is a risk of failure. There is a risk of being beaten to it by someone else. So the question remains, who puts up the money to begin with and why?
How did that get a +5 mod? How will any organisation fund such a venture?
I can't see any private group being able to raise the capital needed to complete the project given the risks. Government needs to fund this and no free-market wishful thinking will get around that.
But the thing is... why is Microsoft a Monopoly and Apple isn't?
The way it looks to me is that Apple holds WAY more control over their OS and other such products, while Microsoft tends to be much more open about letting developers actually..... develop..... and manufacturers actually..... manufacture.
That has nothing to do with monopoly status. Microsoft is a monopoly because of the vast market share that it holds and the power that it gains from that.
If you ask me, Apple is a monopoly, and Microsoft is not. And I have yet to find an explanation as to why nobody sees it that way.
I urge you to do some serious reading of economics texts to try to understand what economists mean by monopolies. I think you are missing an important angle here. I really think it should be self-evident that Microsoft has far more power to negatively impact consumer value than any other software company.
Monopolies get special treatment as far as the law is concerned, and for good reason.
Microsoft, if given freedom to trade as it pleases, is in a position to stifle competition by making interoperability impossible and by not allowing competitor's software to work on its systems. This is great for Microsoft shareholders in the short to medium term, but it is terrible for society as a whole. That is why anti-competitive practices are regulated and prosecuted, especially when it comes to large monopolistic corporations.
As a side note, I believe anti-competitive behaviour is bad for shareholders in the long term too. It is no guarantee against failure, but more likely when a monopoly really doesn't innovate its products and services, then the inevitable failure will come along in a catastrophic way. Also, shareholders being members of society should want progression for society as a whole, not just a progression of their net worth relative to everyone else.
Shows your prejudice. Not your fault I guess. The many years of brainwashing by Hollywood and the news media are to blame. Before making these sorts of highly inflammatory remarks, perhaps it is worth doing a little bit of your own research first.
This video might help you understand why you think the way you do, even though Iranians are not actually Arabs, but I guess that distinction would be lost on you anyway.
FWIW, it is plausible that the elections were not rigged. Also, rigged or not, it is most probable that Ahmadinijad would have won anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
That would get modded insightful here instead of funny because the mods live in Star Trek reality.
Accurate submeter 3D positioning is quite hard.
Hard but solved.
While that is a cool problem to solve, the biggest hurdle they are going to face is getting those damn things to stay in one place.
Individual units do not need to stay in the one absolute place. They need to stay in one place relative to the entire formation only. The formation can move around quite a bit.
I think they have their work cut out for them. I predict this project won't get very far. In 10 years they will either still be working on it or the project will be dead.
I guess you'll never start a challenging project then.
Some people around here seem to think the Pope is in charge of all of the Christian world. A post like that getting modded insightful shows the audiences ignorance in this regard. The truth of the matter is that the most fervent bible bashing, science hating, ultra-conservatives come from the ranks of American new age evangelicals.
The Catholic Church does not preach creationism. I went to Catholic schools and there was no blurring of the line between religion and science education.
I too am worried when people start giving scientific reasoning and religious dogma equal weight. I hate when people think they can solve their problems just by saying a prayer. Worst of all is when people look to trivial tricks and oddities and claim they are miracles as though the universe around them isn't miraculous enough as it is. I am not however too worried about the Catholic Church trying to take down science and reasoning as it doesn't have a recent history of doing so and even if it did most Catholics would resist that because they haven't been brought up that way.
Did you mean 3.34192092 * 10^25?
You so set that up for yourself.
Wow. Three wooshes in a row. Must be a record.
Try to mod good posts up, rather than look for ones you disagree with and mod down. If you must, then a -1 Flamebait or Overrated would be more appropriate here.
I'm glad the devs allow you to switch the old toolbar back on. Much better than the Mozilla Firefox attitude of forcing you into changes you don't want to make.
They force you to upgrade?
Agreed. Since when did "cloud" mean multi-core computer or CPU?
So the guy wants to write a web server to scratch an itch or something. No big deal there. The question is WHY THE FUCK DID IT MAKE SLASHDOT?
The research by postdoctoral researcher Gustavo Wiederhecker, Long Chen, Ph.D. '09, Alexander Gondarenko, Ph.D. '10, and Lipson appears in the online edition of the journal Nature and will appear in a forthcoming print edition.
Here is an article much closer to the source.
Now let's see if I get the -1 Off-topic that this post surely deserves.
You can download the Android SDK run the emulator and see it in action. Of course the emulator won't have apps like Market and you won't be able to make calls.
As for messaging, it uses a very intuitive conversation oriented layout. My phone has a physical keyboard, but even so I find myself using the on-screen keyboard more and more these days.
Of course, the big plus on the Android side is the growing developer community. It is extremely developer friendly as a platform and as a market-place. It is also nice to know that I can buy a phone from another manufacturer and keep the same software and not need to worry about synchronising contacts or calendar.
So "One Zero to the One Zero Zero" and not "Ten to the Hundred".
Name some specific policy and I will give you a solution. To say that there is no analogue of Windows group policy is begging the question.
Active Directory
You can't be serious on this one. LDAP + Kerberos can easily take on that role plus some.
Exchange
Email is easy enough to offer but shared address books and calendaring may give Exchange the edge. No harm in deploying Exchange on the back-end and using Evolution or Thunderbird or web based Exchange on the front-end.
Terminal Services
This is the most outrageous of your claims. Linux, Solaris, *BSD all come up trumps in this. You've got X11, NX, VNC, and the most advanced thin client solution at the moment, Sun Ray.
If you want to be buzz-word compliant, then yes, kind of.
More to the point, GFS and HDFS are distributed file-systems that are designed to run on potentially very large clusters of commodity hardware. The potential applications are quite diverse. Hadoop itself involves more than just the file-system, but HDFS is really at the core of any application you would want to build with it. This list gives you a good idea of who uses Hadoop and for what purpose.
If you succeed in pulling off the project before anyone else.
I don't understand your point. The project will require massive sums of money to get it to completion. There is a risk of failure. There is a risk of being beaten to it by someone else. So the question remains, who puts up the money to begin with and why?
I can't see any private group being able to raise the capital needed to complete the project given the risks. Government needs to fund this and no free-market wishful thinking will get around that.
But the thing is... why is Microsoft a Monopoly and Apple isn't?
The way it looks to me is that Apple holds WAY more control over their OS and other such products, while Microsoft tends to be much more open about letting developers actually..... develop..... and manufacturers actually..... manufacture.
That has nothing to do with monopoly status. Microsoft is a monopoly because of the vast market share that it holds and the power that it gains from that.
If you ask me, Apple is a monopoly, and Microsoft is not. And I have yet to find an explanation as to why nobody sees it that way.
I urge you to do some serious reading of economics texts to try to understand what economists mean by monopolies. I think you are missing an important angle here. I really think it should be self-evident that Microsoft has far more power to negatively impact consumer value than any other software company.
Monopolies get special treatment as far as the law is concerned, and for good reason.
Microsoft, if given freedom to trade as it pleases, is in a position to stifle competition by making interoperability impossible and by not allowing competitor's software to work on its systems. This is great for Microsoft shareholders in the short to medium term, but it is terrible for society as a whole. That is why anti-competitive practices are regulated and prosecuted, especially when it comes to large monopolistic corporations.
As a side note, I believe anti-competitive behaviour is bad for shareholders in the long term too. It is no guarantee against failure, but more likely when a monopoly really doesn't innovate its products and services, then the inevitable failure will come along in a catastrophic way. Also, shareholders being members of society should want progression for society as a whole, not just a progression of their net worth relative to everyone else.
A link to the announcement from Google.
Shows your prejudice. Not your fault I guess. The many years of brainwashing by Hollywood and the news media are to blame. Before making these sorts of highly inflammatory remarks, perhaps it is worth doing a little bit of your own research first.
This video might help you understand why you think the way you do, even though Iranians are not actually Arabs, but I guess that distinction would be lost on you anyway.
FWIW, it is plausible that the elections were not rigged. Also, rigged or not, it is most probable that Ahmadinijad would have won anyway.