Remember back in the day, every other story was about Palm Pilots and Linuxworld, an individual sponsored event in North Carolina. Research Triangle Park and Malaysia were going to replace Silicon Valley.
One theory says the parallel universes occupy different spaces in a single infinitely large space. This theory says the universes occupy the same space but we only perceive one at a time.
Since 2003, the stars once above this dumpy apartment have almost disappeared as runaway housing inflation has forced all the land 2 B built over. Since no-one can see the stars anymore, the likely effect is less interest in what's out there.
It's a tradition in Silicon Valley to know exactly what you have to do, but not make it and instead focus on weird derivatives until Apple finally does what needs to be done. Then when Apple finally corners the market, say "We had no idea."
Once again, a bare touch screen on a tablet for $300 was what everyone wanted. HP, OQO, Slimdevices, Palm, Blackberry, Nokia knew it but chose to beat around over priced, stupid keyboards, stupid graffiti pads, excessive buttons, and funky plastic pieces.
Now that Apple once again did what needed to be done, the media acts like Steve is a genious.
Comca$t can't break the law. They are the law. Blocking local channels, forging torrent traffic, doubling rates every 3 years. It's all in a day's work for the Com.
Saw his flying saucer demo from the 70's that everyone else has seen. That thing is so unstable, has so many moving parts, it looks like it would flip over or malfunction at any minute. Sticking to the good old fashioned helicopter.
The fact is humans are out of space and natural resources. All the land and natural resources which humans can live on without significant environmental destruction or significant cost are gone.
The only way for the number of humans to grow significantly is to move into space. It may not be U.S.'s interest to achieve that goal.
It may be more practical for China or Russia to expand human colonies into space while US and Europe focus on robotic missions. Exactly what each country does should be a function of their capital reserves and the desired population growth.
In 2010 US won't have a human launch vehicle for at least 5 years. Then we'll see if humans in space is really valuable to them or if it's better left to other countries.
This was proven in Idiocracy. It only applies to 1 country, however. Smart Europeans have the same amount of sex as dumb Europeans. Smart terrorists have 100x the sex as dumb terrorists. So who is going to run the planet in 1000 years?
This is such a tiny amount of functionality, it's hard to believe it got ahead of a story about helicopters on space.com. If they had bittorrent downloads to the cell phone through http proxies, that would be worth something, but how often do you start, stop, and pause bittorrent downloads? And when they finally get downloads to the cell phone, they're not going to support http proxies.
If clockspeed per ounce of gold per year is measured instead of clockspeed per dollar per year, you still get impressive speed increases.
The problem is dollars are losing half their value every 3 years. A thing measured in dollars is going to become worthless faster than a thing measured in units that don't lose value. If you measure clockspeed vs. ounces of gold, you get a better relation between clockspeed and time than if you use dollars.
Unfortunately Moore wasn't an economist. He didn't understand the value of currency in measuring technological improvements.
The fuel cell laptop was supposed to appear a few years ago. Still waiting for that one. Coal liquefaction was supposed to appear a few years ago. Still waiting for that one. Now a startup is promoting cellulose liquefaction.
But how much of the billiance of Java due to the fact that it's Java and not the way a consortium defined the API layers? The Java APIs work because they were designed by consortiums spending many years in meetings around the world to define specs. The internet enabled more collaboration with the Java specs than any language before it, but these API's have to be implemented in C.
Everything Java does has to be done in C first. Until operating systems are written in Java, that's always going to be the case. OpenGL has been available in C for over 15 years, and by the time it was implemented in Java it wasn't a novelty anymore. Maybe there's some benefit to Java memory management in scene graphs, but all that functionality had to be written in C first before Java would run it.
In the old days every movie was like starting from scratch. Every scene took a different approach, a lot of building from scratch, and imagination to pull off. Lots of people with different skills were involved. Today exactly 1 person does everything: the 3D artist. 3D artists aren't paid as much as the modellers, stuntmen, programmers, water experts, fire experts, lighting experts of the past. There isn't any building from scratch or standing around wondering how to pull off a scene. Today the movies are an assembly line. Shoot, chroma key, model, composite, next scene.
Java is our best chance of getting these advanced algorithms running on Linux. Once again, whatever happens in Java is being done in C first, and years earlier. Now the best compressor which runs on Linux is barely even on the list.
It's amazing 10 years after bzip2, to see progress still being made in data compression, even though the steps are much smaller.
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Remember back in the day, every other story was about Palm Pilots and Linuxworld, an individual sponsored event in North Carolina. Research Triangle Park and Malaysia were going to replace Silicon Valley.
Wonder what encryption Sony will standardize for this one and how long it'll take for all the satellite studios to agree to it.
One theory says the parallel universes occupy different spaces in a single infinitely large space. This theory says the universes occupy the same space but we only perceive one at a time.
Still waiting for a hard drive which reads over 20MB/sec in the real world.
Since 2003, the stars once above this dumpy apartment have almost disappeared as runaway housing inflation has forced all the land 2 B built over. Since no-one can see the stars anymore, the likely effect is less interest in what's out there.
Why can't U just link the product page instead of making us search around the store?
It's a tradition in Silicon Valley to know exactly what you have to do, but not make it and instead focus on weird derivatives until Apple finally does what needs to be done. Then when Apple finally corners the market, say "We had no idea."
Once again, a bare touch screen on a tablet for $300 was what everyone wanted. HP, OQO, Slimdevices, Palm, Blackberry, Nokia knew it but chose to beat around over priced, stupid keyboards, stupid graffiti pads, excessive buttons, and funky plastic pieces.
Now that Apple once again did what needed to be done, the media acts like Steve is a genious.
Comca$t can't break the law. They are the law. Blocking local channels, forging torrent traffic, doubling rates every 3 years. It's all in a day's work for the Com.
One 70's video of this one is on http://www.moller.com/videom200x.htm
B sure 2 have a helicopter ready to rescue the pilot after he crashes.
Saw his flying saucer demo from the 70's that everyone else has seen. That thing is so unstable, has so many moving parts, it looks like it would flip over or malfunction at any minute. Sticking to the good old fashioned helicopter.
Funny how the less relevant managers become, the more they need 2 pull rules out of thin air to maintain their power.
Who would think those lemon batteries would B the power source of the future.
They never supported BD in the first place. They're restating their policy to get attention.
The fact is humans are out of space and natural resources. All the land and natural resources which humans can live on without significant environmental destruction or significant cost are gone.
The only way for the number of humans to grow significantly is to move into space. It may not be U.S.'s interest to achieve that goal.
It may be more practical for China or Russia to expand human colonies into space while US and Europe focus on robotic missions. Exactly what each country does should be a function of their capital reserves and the desired population growth.
In 2010 US won't have a human launch vehicle for at least 5 years. Then we'll see if humans in space is really valuable to them or if it's better left to other countries.
This was proven in Idiocracy. It only applies to 1 country, however. Smart Europeans have the same amount of sex as dumb Europeans. Smart terrorists have 100x the sex as dumb terrorists. So who is going to run the planet in 1000 years?
When is it going to fly now. 2011? 2015?
It's been 3 years since the last private space flight.
This is such a tiny amount of functionality, it's hard to believe it got ahead of a story about helicopters on space.com. If they had bittorrent downloads to the cell phone through http proxies, that would be worth something, but how often do you start, stop, and pause bittorrent downloads? And when they finally get downloads to the cell phone, they're not going to support http proxies.
If clockspeed per ounce of gold per year is measured instead of clockspeed per dollar per year, you still get impressive speed increases.
The problem is dollars are losing half their value every 3 years. A thing measured in dollars is going to become worthless faster than a thing measured in units that don't lose value. If you measure clockspeed vs. ounces of gold, you get a better relation between clockspeed and time than if you use dollars.
Unfortunately Moore wasn't an economist. He didn't understand the value of currency in measuring technological improvements.
That's what happens to people who expect 2 B told what to think instead of thinking for themselves.
Kind of funny going back to propeller planes after 60 years of jets. Maybe they'll go back to horses next.
The fuel cell laptop was supposed to appear a few years ago. Still waiting for that one. Coal liquefaction was supposed to appear a few years ago. Still waiting for that one. Now a startup is promoting cellulose liquefaction.
But how much of the billiance of Java due to the fact that it's Java and not the way a consortium defined the API layers? The Java APIs work because they were designed by consortiums spending many years in meetings around the world to define specs. The internet enabled more collaboration with the Java specs than any language before it, but these API's have to be implemented in C.
Everything Java does has to be done in C first. Until operating systems are written in Java, that's always going to be the case. OpenGL has been available in C for over 15 years, and by the time it was implemented in Java it wasn't a novelty anymore. Maybe there's some benefit to Java memory management in scene graphs, but all that functionality had to be written in C first before Java would run it.
In the old days every movie was like starting from scratch. Every scene took a different approach, a lot of building from scratch, and imagination to pull off. Lots of people with different skills were involved. Today exactly 1 person does everything: the 3D artist. 3D artists aren't paid as much as the modellers, stuntmen, programmers, water experts, fire experts, lighting experts of the past. There isn't any building from scratch or standing around wondering how to pull off a scene. Today the movies are an assembly line. Shoot, chroma key, model, composite, next scene.
Java is our best chance of getting these advanced algorithms running on Linux. Once again, whatever happens in Java is being done in C first, and years earlier. Now the best compressor which runs on Linux is barely even on the list.
It's amazing 10 years after bzip2, to see progress still being made in data compression, even though the steps are much smaller.