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I admire him for trying to bring computing to poor third world kids, even if a competitor eventually succeeds. He created this market, while big-assed companies ignored it until Nick showed it might be possible.
More practically, Al Gore probably used up the American & techie "peace prize quota" for five years. And the Bill Gates Foundation is ahead of Nick in this queue. Plus Nick's brother is considered an assh*l* by many Europeans for his lapdog service to George Bush (UN ambassador, Rice undersecretary).
The MIT CS and EE degrees required a programming course (6.001) based on a descendent of LISP called SCHEME. They started this around 1970 and just dropped it for 2008. SCHEME had a very wide set of computer language elements. It was only commercially practical in the early 1980s when A.I. Lisp machines were the first graphics workstations, quickly subplanted by UNIX/C. [6.001 "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Porgrams" is replaced by 6.005 "Principles of Software Development" and 6.006 "Computer Algorithms". Since these are new courses, I havent seen details yet.]
Russia has been the worlds largest producer for a couple years, producing nearly a billion dollars worth per day. They also have excellent scientists. Sounds like a great combination.
Maybe the miltary or JPL would adopt these first, willing to pay $10-20K for a terabyte solid-state non-violatile memory. Its still cheaper to have a company do these for you than to have them custom built.
Maybe peeked or seen sound bytes on the network news. Seems to be a lot of hoopla about something no ones ever seen. Dead silence when Jay Leno asks the audience to clap if they've watchone of the 24 debates.
Where scientists create a universe inside a bottle which evolves much faster than our own. Eventually its inhabitants perceive the "outer-verse" (our universe) and escape to it in a spaceship.
It screams "toy" all over, like PC Jr.
The functionality is similar to iPod Touch at 2/3rds the price. If Apple puts this in a larger screen, say an iTablet Touch- that could be a competitor.
They've topped Saudi Arabia the past couple of years.
Saudi has more reserves but nto the incentive to greatly increase production.
Both are raking it it in.
Most one-year predictions are simple extrapolations of current trends, or guessing which pre-announced products will be hits. Even so they can be wrong. Subprime collapse was not in the 12/31/2006 prediction lists.
Ten years out is a lot harder. In the late 1980s you had the feeling computer networks would be important, especially if you used them at an university. But the huge onrush in of the InterNet and browsers in 1994 was somewhat of a surprise. It was hard to foresee the quantum jump in use and that exact year.
Ditto for internet video. There was a lot of "toy" video stuff since 2000, but the 2006 youtube rush was a surprise to me. Thta turn it from a toy into a utility.
Lets see, when I first enter the library I see the computers. Then I see the shelves of DVDs. Then I see the CDs. Then i see the childrens playroom. Once I had to go to the bathroom way in the back and I did see rows of vertical rectangle thingees. I wondered what they could be?
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I admire him for trying to bring computing to poor third world kids, even if a competitor eventually succeeds. He created this market, while big-assed companies ignored it until Nick showed it might be possible.
More practically, Al Gore probably used up the American & techie "peace prize quota" for five years. And the Bill Gates Foundation is ahead of Nick in this queue. Plus Nick's brother is considered an assh*l* by many Europeans for his lapdog service to George Bush (UN ambassador, Rice undersecretary).
In Russia computers program you.
Just send them out on the road.
The MIT CS and EE degrees required a programming course (6.001) based on a descendent of LISP called SCHEME. They started this around 1970 and just dropped it for 2008. SCHEME had a very wide set of computer language elements. It was only commercially practical in the early 1980s when A.I. Lisp machines were the first graphics workstations, quickly subplanted by UNIX/C. [6.001 "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Porgrams" is replaced by 6.005 "Principles of Software Development" and 6.006 "Computer Algorithms". Since these are new courses, I havent seen details yet.]
Russia has been the worlds largest producer for a couple years, producing nearly a billion dollars worth per day. They also have excellent scientists. Sounds like a great combination.
Maybe the miltary or JPL would adopt these first, willing to pay $10-20K for a terabyte solid-state non-violatile memory. Its still cheaper to have a company do these for you than to have them custom built.
Maybe peeked or seen sound bytes on the network news. Seems to be a lot of hoopla about something no ones ever seen. Dead silence when Jay Leno asks the audience to clap if they've watchone of the 24 debates.
Its wonderful all this info will make it to professionals and amateurs alike thats to Google and MicroSoft alumni.
Where scientists create a universe inside a bottle which evolves much faster than our own. Eventually its inhabitants perceive the "outer-verse" (our universe) and escape to it in a spaceship.
The Upanishad questions if the universe is just the vivid imagination of God.
This hypothesis needs to explain who the little feather dinosaurs survived and the others didnt.
With an impressive servo-mechanism to turn the pages and push them real close to the screen class.
We just have to find him.
It screams "toy" all over, like PC Jr.
The functionality is similar to iPod Touch at 2/3rds the price. If Apple puts this in a larger screen, say an iTablet Touch- that could be a competitor.
They've topped Saudi Arabia the past couple of years. Saudi has more reserves but nto the incentive to greatly increase production. Both are raking it it in.
Cant pee, cant get it up, will have anemia and permanent heartburn. Im going to end it at 40 then.
News is about the only thing I regularly watch on TV - network, local, and the weekly magazines.
2nd Life is peanuts compared the under-market in countries even as advanced as the US. As much as 20% of US economy (trillions here) is off the books.
I wonder if a eastern monk who learns to meditate on peaceful thoughts has peaceful dreams. This is not easy to achieve and takes some monks decades.
Maybe all the negative impulses are repressed into dreams then.
Thirty years of crappy articles in computer magazines. When to pull the plug?
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Most one-year predictions are simple extrapolations of current trends, or guessing which pre-announced products will be hits. Even so they can be wrong. Subprime collapse was not in the 12/31/2006 prediction lists.
Ten years out is a lot harder. In the late 1980s you had the feeling computer networks would be important, especially if you used them at an university. But the huge onrush in of the InterNet and browsers in 1994 was somewhat of a surprise. It was hard to foresee the quantum jump in use and that exact year.
Ditto for internet video. There was a lot of "toy" video stuff since 2000, but the 2006 youtube rush was a surprise to me. Thta turn it from a toy into a utility.
Lets see, when I first enter the library I see the computers. Then I see the shelves of DVDs. Then I see the CDs. Then i see the childrens playroom. Once I had to go to the bathroom way in the back and I did see rows of vertical rectangle thingees. I wondered what they could be?
or like two people in the same airline seat. I flew 18 segments in 2007 and only two of them had empty seats.
Yes, I saw John at the Homebrew Computer Club and the Mac Developers Club.