Wonder if he ever thought about these string theorists who say there are infinite parallel universes. Does he think there are infinite parallel universes, all popping into existence from nothing?
HDCP is probably the first case where the value of the product outweighs the cost of the encryption. People love HDMI. They love it so much they're willing to ignore HDCP. HDCP has become the friendly encryption. The encryption with a heart.
How about an auto-commenting compiler. All you have to do is put tags in it where you want comments and it automatically comments them.
Seriously, Sieve sounds so trivial and meaningless, it's the ultimate silicon valley startup. How about something more valuable like an auto-vectorizing compiler that really works.
The middle aged, lifetime single, Silicon Valley engineers would like to know how Oefelein, in a world of 99% men, managed to get 2 heroines to fall over for him. Not counting the hundreds of others who swooned over him, that guy must be some kind of sexual genius.
The fact that he's the real life incarnation of Maverick doesn't cover it. Having a full head of mane doesn't cover it. It takes serious cash to impress nowadays but swabbies don't make nearly enough. Was it rocket exhaust #5?
Unless the spaceship is extraordinarily busy, they should be capturing movies of their orbits over the poles. On at least one orbit, they should capture color, wide angle mosaics of the entire planet during the entire orbit and reconstruct a wide field orbit movie. Such a movie would be over 4000x4000 resolution and when projected in IMAX, possibly the most amazing sight humans have ever had.
The same thing should be done on Mars, with the rovers shooting an entire day of wide angle mosaics to reconstruct a timelapse movie of a day on Mars.
Of course, they won't have the imagination or the clockcycles to do it.
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Given the freedom to build any portable computer of their choosing, to build what everyone wants: a tablet computer with just an LCD and no buttons, to build exactly what everyone knows Steve Jobless is going to do in the future but no-one is doing today: a tablet computer with just an LCD, humans choose to immitate exactly the same creation that every corporation is putting out now: a folding keyboard and LCD. The lengths to which they go out of their way to immitate their corporations is unbelievable.
> Then I want to make a three-dimensional gyroscope, to measure > rotation around three different axes.
> We want to do this in less than a 30-millimeter cube, to serve as an > image stabilizer in cameras
This guy can't be this clueless. Invensense has been making gyros for that purpose for years and they've been used in cameras for years. 3 axis gyroscopes already fit in 10mm cubes.
Interesting how ST made him a general manager. Can his subordinates afford to live in houses? American companies just fire you because you're too much of a threat to the VP when you make discoveries.
What's this new ID going to accomplish that the driver's license, social security card, birth certificate, passport, and credit card didn't accomplish?
Wonder if the male gigelow, Bigelow, had anything to do with this. He claimed the inflatable material could withstand more micrometeoroid hits than space station materials but never said what impact it could withstand from inside.
Gumstix is a popular flight data recorder for models because it contains the highest computing power in the smallest space, but it's expensive. So could the cheapest $80 iPod be used as a Gumstix replacement? Can a $50 non-iPod mp3 player be used as an embedded computer or does it have to be iPod?
The voters in that country are a rare few who actually believe the name of the tax describes its use, long after everyone else figured out their "recycling", "environmental", "welfare" taxes only funded government pensions. They just keep paying more and more taxes, forever thinking the next tax is the one that's going to do what the previous taxes couldn't.
In terms of the cost of recycling, more money can be made on recycled materials than is lost on the cost of recycling. What's really happening is the waste is being sent to other countries, where it can be dumped in their landfill and pollute their water supply, the water of less important voters. That's what costs money.
Calif* once charged water rationing fees, earthquake recovery fees, transportation fees, all of which ended up feeding pensions instead. This new tax is destined for the same place. What 7.25% couldn't do, 8.25% couldn't do, and 9.25% couldn't do, now 20% won't be able to do.
Funny how everyone goes through the same learning experience.
Age 25: Hooray for free music downloads!
Age 30: It's hard to find the good songs with so much noise.
The money you spend on managed content is a reflection of the value of the distribution process. If everyone had the time and effort to find the good songs on their own, they would all be free. The fact is you pay a fee in exchange for a much higher chance of getting a good song. Without the economic filter, the good songs would never get discovered.
Even mp3.com eventually had to start charging money to weed out the noise.
So now that Goog got the rental web application seed in your head, it's time for MS to hit you with another rental PC application press release. MS's model is to locate the data on your computer. Goog's model is to locate the data on their server. As much as everyone loves the Goog, let's do a test:
Enter "I'm a terrorist" in Google Apps 5000 times. Enter "I'm a terrorist" in MS Office 5000 times. See what happens.
The same idea repeated thousands of times by thousands of search results. Billions of people grouped together. A handful of sources providing all the original information. Sounds like a description of the internet. Did humans get less creative when they created the internet?
Funny how after 30 years of listening to people say "when will we go back and who will that be?" now people are saying "Is it worth going back to the lunar surface?" How did this reversal of thinking happen?
We have a lot more information than the last 3 moon attempts. Time was the only answer you could know about right and wrong was what you could think of on your own based on what you saw in the sky and how much spare cash you had.
Now the answers for everything are downloadable. You don't need to come up with your own answers because the internet has the answers for you. The change in where our information comes from has changed our opinions.
The only conclusion you can see from these benchmarks is that quad is better than dual is better than single. Between different CPU's of identical number of cores, the difference is negligible. They're all limited by memory bandwidth.
Is Google NY as tough as NY? How many fights break out in the cube farm? Do they have anger relief facilities? You'd think they would have more privacy. Or perhaps the NYorkers are chained to their desks, literally.
Was amused by a portrait of the directors being provided but no portraits of developers. These are the guys who can live in houses, own apartments in Manhattan, and own 25 acres in upstate NY. All the subordinates, not pictured, could work all they wanted and never ever have the means to own anything.
2000 is a distant memory. In 2000, VA Linux and Redhat were the it companies. Work at one and you could work at the other and the world would kill tthemselves for your autograph. Now no-one even knows what VA Linux was and Redhat is a troll. Hard to believe in 4 years we'll probably forget what Google was.
Technology is forcing people there by eliminating anything that doesn't require face to face communication. To be employed, you have to do things that require physical presence in the same place as your peers. Otherwise, you might as well be in Siberia.
Fascinating that a story purporting to be about supercomputers is actually a summary of Weightless Economy theory. The theory is that the wealthiest countries can't achieve more wealth by implementing things anymore. They can't increase their net worth by manufacturing or solving math problems. They have to turn instead to philosophical goals like people management, interpreting literature, creating works of art.
The supercomputer function is still the same. It still solves algebra, n-body methods, structured grids, and finite state machines. The user of the supercomputer is different. The user is now living on $1 a day in Mongolia.
For the wealthiest countries to stay wealthy, they have to focus on not the computing part but marketing the computing, creating the interface to the math, managing the business around the computing.
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It isn't just aggregating content that other people researched, earning a ton of money on it, and demanding yet still more money. No sane person with IT employment goals would even think of starting an IT startup in Fl*rida, owning a house in Fl*rida and working there, yet Tim insists on massive donations so he can fund a lifestyle that no-one even dreams about. It isn't that no-one even thinks of creating their own kiwipedia.
It's another example of our generation repeatedly insisting that the only way to survive is to provide outrageous lifestyles to a tiny number of leaders. They cling to it like air.
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Wonder if he ever thought about these string theorists who say there are infinite parallel universes. Does he think there are infinite parallel universes, all popping into existence from nothing?
HDCP is probably the first case where the value of the product outweighs the cost of the encryption. People love HDMI. They love it so much they're willing to ignore HDCP. HDCP has become the friendly encryption. The encryption with a heart.
No-one is trying to break HDCP. No-one ever will.
How about an auto-commenting compiler. All you have to do is put tags in it where you want comments and it automatically comments them.
Seriously, Sieve sounds so trivial and meaningless, it's the ultimate silicon valley startup. How about something more valuable like an auto-vectorizing compiler that really works.
The middle aged, lifetime single, Silicon Valley engineers would like to know how Oefelein, in a world of 99% men, managed to get 2 heroines to fall over for him. Not counting the hundreds of others who swooned over him, that guy must be some kind of sexual genius.
The fact that he's the real life incarnation of Maverick doesn't cover it. Having a full head of mane doesn't cover it. It takes serious cash to impress nowadays but swabbies don't make nearly enough. Was it rocket exhaust #5?
Unless the spaceship is extraordinarily busy, they should be capturing movies of their orbits over the poles. On at least one orbit, they should capture color, wide angle mosaics of the entire planet during the entire orbit and reconstruct a wide field orbit movie. Such a movie would be over 4000x4000 resolution and when projected in IMAX, possibly the most amazing sight humans have ever had.
The same thing should be done on Mars, with the rovers shooting an entire day of wide angle mosaics to reconstruct a timelapse movie of a day on Mars.
Of course, they won't have the imagination or the clockcycles to do it.
Given the freedom to build any portable computer of their choosing, to build what everyone wants: a tablet computer with just an LCD and no buttons, to build exactly what everyone knows Steve Jobless is going to do in the future but no-one is doing today: a tablet computer with just an LCD, humans choose to immitate exactly the same creation that every corporation is putting out now: a folding keyboard and LCD. The lengths to which they go out of their way to immitate their corporations is unbelievable.
> Then I want to make a three-dimensional gyroscope, to measure
> rotation around three different axes.
> We want to do this in less than a 30-millimeter cube, to serve as an
> image stabilizer in cameras
This guy can't be this clueless. Invensense has been making gyros for that purpose for years and they've been used in cameras for years. 3 axis gyroscopes already fit in 10mm cubes.
Interesting how ST made him a general manager. Can his subordinates afford to live in houses? American companies just fire you because you're too much of a threat to the VP when you make discoveries.
What's this new ID going to accomplish that the driver's license, social security card, birth certificate, passport, and credit card didn't accomplish?
Wonder if the male gigelow, Bigelow, had anything to do with this. He claimed the inflatable material could withstand more micrometeoroid hits than space station materials but never said what impact it could withstand from inside.
Gumstix is a popular flight data recorder for models because it contains the highest computing power in the smallest space, but it's expensive. So could the cheapest $80 iPod be used as a Gumstix replacement? Can a $50 non-iPod mp3 player be used as an embedded computer or does it have to be iPod?
The voters in that country are a rare few who actually believe the name of the tax describes its use, long after everyone else figured out their "recycling", "environmental", "welfare" taxes only funded government pensions. They just keep paying more and more taxes, forever thinking the next tax is the one that's going to do what the previous taxes couldn't.
In terms of the cost of recycling, more money can be made on recycled materials than is lost on the cost of recycling. What's really happening is the waste is being sent to other countries, where it can be dumped in their landfill and pollute their water supply, the water of less important voters. That's what costs money.
Calif* once charged water rationing fees, earthquake recovery fees, transportation fees, all of which ended up feeding pensions instead. This new tax is destined for the same place. What 7.25% couldn't do, 8.25% couldn't do, and 9.25% couldn't do, now 20% won't be able to do.
Since you still need to buy a player to read the keys, it's hardly circumventing anything.
Funny how everyone goes through the same learning experience.
Age 25: Hooray for free music downloads!
Age 30: It's hard to find the good songs with so much noise.
The money you spend on managed content is a reflection of the value of the distribution process. If everyone had the time and effort to find the good songs on their own, they would all be free. The fact is you pay a fee in exchange for a much higher chance of getting a good song. Without the economic filter, the good songs would never get discovered.
Even mp3.com eventually had to start charging money to weed out the noise.
So now that Goog got the rental web application seed in your head, it's time for MS to hit you with another rental PC application press release. MS's model is to locate the data on your computer. Goog's model is to locate the data on their server. As much as everyone loves the Goog, let's do a test:
Enter "I'm a terrorist" in Google Apps 5000 times.
Enter "I'm a terrorist" in MS Office 5000 times.
See what happens.
Has anyone written "Dubya sux" or "terrorist's rule" 5000 times in Google Apps? What happened?
The same idea repeated thousands of times by thousands of search results. Billions of people grouped together. A handful of sources providing all the original information. Sounds like a description of the internet. Did humans get less creative when they created the internet?
It seems since the first year, the rovers have been more useful as a means of testing robotics software than as a means of studying geology.
Startupstartupping, dedicated to helping entrepreneurs who help entrepeneurs. Silicon Valley business is fun, isn't it.
Funny how after 30 years of listening to people say "when will we go back and who will that be?" now people are saying "Is it worth going back to the lunar surface?" How did this reversal of thinking happen?
We have a lot more information than the last 3 moon attempts. Time was the only answer you could know about right and wrong was what you could think of on your own based on what you saw in the sky and how much spare cash you had.
Now the answers for everything are downloadable. You don't need to come up with your own answers because the internet has the answers for you. The change in where our information comes from has changed our opinions.
The only conclusion you can see from these benchmarks is that quad is better than dual is better than single. Between different CPU's of identical number of cores, the difference is negligible. They're all limited by memory bandwidth.
Is Google NY as tough as NY? How many fights break out in the cube farm? Do they have anger relief facilities? You'd think they would have more privacy. Or perhaps the NYorkers are chained to their desks, literally.
Was amused by a portrait of the directors being provided but no portraits of developers. These are the guys who can live in houses, own apartments in Manhattan, and own 25 acres in upstate NY. All the subordinates, not pictured, could work all they wanted and never ever have the means to own anything.
2000 is a distant memory. In 2000, VA Linux and Redhat were the it companies. Work at one and you could work at the other and the world would kill tthemselves for your autograph. Now no-one even knows what VA Linux was and Redhat is a troll. Hard to believe in 4 years we'll probably forget what Google was.
Technology is forcing people there by eliminating anything that doesn't require face to face communication. To be employed, you have to do things that require physical presence in the same place as your peers. Otherwise, you might as well be in Siberia.
Fascinating that a story purporting to be about supercomputers is actually a summary of Weightless Economy theory. The theory is that the wealthiest countries can't achieve more wealth by implementing things anymore. They can't increase their net worth by manufacturing or solving math problems. They have to turn instead to philosophical goals like people management, interpreting literature, creating works of art.
The supercomputer function is still the same. It still solves algebra, n-body methods, structured grids, and finite state machines. The user of the supercomputer is different. The user is now living on $1 a day in Mongolia.
For the wealthiest countries to stay wealthy, they have to focus on not the computing part but marketing the computing, creating the interface to the math, managing the business around the computing.
It isn't just aggregating content that other people researched, earning a ton of money on it, and demanding yet still more money. No sane person with IT employment goals would even think of starting an IT startup in Fl*rida, owning a house in Fl*rida and working there, yet Tim insists on massive donations so he can fund a lifestyle that no-one even dreams about. It isn't that no-one even thinks of creating their own kiwipedia.
It's another example of our generation repeatedly insisting that the only way to survive is to provide outrageous lifestyles to a tiny number of leaders. They cling to it like air.