It's still unclear that Flash is going to be available. Ostensibly the motivation behind sticking with Silverlight is security, so that kind of goes out the window if they add Flash.
Seems like even the letter version could be useful if you train it.
I would expect this sort of technology could be trained by typing, and gradually learn enough that you don't need to move your hands, you just think similarly to how you do when you type.
But unlike the other companies in the industry, when it rehashes titles, Nintendo usually creates games you haven't played before.
Actually, they're sort of the exception to the rule that game companies abuse their trademarks to basically do nothing of any value. Nintendo uses their trademarks to make good games sell even better.
Let's replace 50 year old, time-tested technology with something that conks out regularly and is reliant on giant hunks of metal falling through the sky.
Adding GPS is a great idea. Replacing radar totally is beyond ridiculous.
Near as I can tell we've exceeded the useful range of pixel density increases for all but the most high-powered applications, so there's no reason to look for better resolution.
Most of the reports I've seen say that China is not a great profit booster if you're in the advertising business. Microsoft will put a lot of work into a substandard engine which will never be as useful as Baidu.
I'm very skeptical of claims that an OS can make multicore problems more manageable. Most of the issues are I/O level, and those that aren't are too specialized for a general-purpose OS to aid all of them equally. You can come up with an OS that will make some things faster, but for the majority of problems, the standard paradigm will work better.
Don't know how many phones they make a year, but in a phone market that sells hundreds of millions of phones each year, 3,000 is a pretty isolated incident. Even 10,000 isn't that much.
That's how democracy functions. You have tradeoffs to get different competing groups on board. You don't like it, go build a banana republic. I'll take consensus any day of the week.
The seniors that "made this country great" have put us over 10 trillion in debt. It's only fair that have their retirement docked until that's paid down.
I've been picking up some decent work as a contractor, but that still doesn't get me health care. The current system is simply broken, and getting people jobs will not fix it.
I always test on Opera because I can't install Chrome at work. (Well, I can, but it insists on ignoring my organization's Windows policies, and installs itself to Documents & Settings, which is wiped every time I log out. )
So I test on Firefox 3.6, Opera, and IE7. (Because my organization hasn't moved to IE8.)
I've never run into an instance where Opera didn't match either IE7 or Firefox 3.6. (this is mostly testing other people's shit.)
No, it's probably not ever going to be the first thing I test. But I always hit all four major rendering engines before shipping things out the door (Gecko, Webkit, Presto, and Trident.) If it works on all of those, it's highly unlikely that your design will ever break. And that's worth a final test.
I expect it will at least mitigate my issues getting health insurance after getting kicked off my parents' plan, so there's that.
As for the Republicans' complaints, I'm not really clear on what there is in this bill the Republicans didn't argue for. If the left had written the bill, it would dismantle the insurance industry and set up single payer. The only thing it's missing is tort reform, and the fact is that tort reform is a red herring. It accounts for 1-2% of healthcare expenditures, and that sounds about right. There should be a process for handling legitimate malpractice claims, and it's never going to be free.
As I said, subtract the screen, keyboard, and battery, and in the next 8 - 20 months, they could push this down to the $50 price point where Hulu, Netflix, and the Internet are worth that cost. All 6 of the machines you have are more expensive.
Or they could make a consolidated box for $200 running the same basic hardware with DVD and full wireless/bluetooth to boot. Obviously if Google doesn't do this right, they don't do this right. But as you've said, there are no technical barriers. And as for political ones, I think Google might be able to get around them.
Of course, this administration has been more proactive about releasing data, so it's at least possible that the decline was a result of much of the data that might have been requested being readily available, masking the actual stats.
It's clearly designed for highway driving where it's very easy to miss people nearby, cars turning out, and speed limit signs.
Obviously in the city it's not feasible for an automated system to tell you what's important.
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This is real convergence. A PC that is also a TV. I want that. I don't know if this is going to be the perfect expression of that, but if they can build a set-top box for $50 (and that sounds like it could be coming soon) I'd pick one up in a heartbeat.
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It's still unclear that Flash is going to be available. Ostensibly the motivation behind sticking with Silverlight is security, so that kind of goes out the window if they add Flash.
Seems like even the letter version could be useful if you train it.
I would expect this sort of technology could be trained by typing, and gradually learn enough that you don't need to move your hands, you just think similarly to how you do when you type.
Don't block ads. Use NoScript. Blacklists are easily compromised. Whitelists are much more difficult.
Designing a browser not to require admin rights will never prevent users from running it as admin.
I'm looking forward to the studies which prove 3D causes health issues, because that shit really screws with my vision.
But unlike the other companies in the industry, when it rehashes titles, Nintendo usually creates games you haven't played before.
Actually, they're sort of the exception to the rule that game companies abuse their trademarks to basically do nothing of any value. Nintendo uses their trademarks to make good games sell even better.
No, they've banned laptops, so the pilots will be able to check their visuals.
Let's replace 50 year old, time-tested technology with something that conks out regularly and is reliant on giant hunks of metal falling through the sky.
Adding GPS is a great idea. Replacing radar totally is beyond ridiculous.
Near as I can tell we've exceeded the useful range of pixel density increases for all but the most high-powered applications, so there's no reason to look for better resolution.
Most of the reports I've seen say that China is not a great profit booster if you're in the advertising business. Microsoft will put a lot of work into a substandard engine which will never be as useful as Baidu.
While PDFs are searchable, they are a PITA to search, and this is using any of the major PDF software.
I actually think the bill should just mandate XML and PDF for all documents, with CSV also available when applicable.
Leaving such horribly vague wording in there will only cause problems.
I'm very skeptical of claims that an OS can make multicore problems more manageable. Most of the issues are I/O level, and those that aren't are too specialized for a general-purpose OS to aid all of them equally. You can come up with an OS that will make some things faster, but for the majority of problems, the standard paradigm will work better.
Don't know how many phones they make a year, but in a phone market that sells hundreds of millions of phones each year, 3,000 is a pretty isolated incident. Even 10,000 isn't that much.
That's how democracy functions. You have tradeoffs to get different competing groups on board. You don't like it, go build a banana republic. I'll take consensus any day of the week.
The seniors that "made this country great" have put us over 10 trillion in debt. It's only fair that have their retirement docked until that's paid down.
I know you're trolling, but just a bit of perspective shows that tort reform is 1-2%, while overall administrative costs (most of which are claims adjusters, evidenced by Medicare's superior administrative margins.
I'm paying for healthcare. It was a pain in the ass to get, and I still don't have anything resembling what I would have if I had a full-time job.
Furthermore, I'm paying into Social Security and medicare, money that I will never see back (unlike you.)
There are quite a few artists whose new albums I want to pay $20 for. The majority however is cheap cookie-cutter crap.
Not if you refuse to pay the artists!
I've been picking up some decent work as a contractor, but that still doesn't get me health care. The current system is simply broken, and getting people jobs will not fix it.
I always test on Opera because I can't install Chrome at work. (Well, I can, but it insists on ignoring my organization's Windows policies, and installs itself to Documents & Settings, which is wiped every time I log out. )
So I test on Firefox 3.6, Opera, and IE7. (Because my organization hasn't moved to IE8.)
I've never run into an instance where Opera didn't match either IE7 or Firefox 3.6. (this is mostly testing other people's shit.)
No, it's probably not ever going to be the first thing I test. But I always hit all four major rendering engines before shipping things out the door (Gecko, Webkit, Presto, and Trident.) If it works on all of those, it's highly unlikely that your design will ever break. And that's worth a final test.
But then everyone knew that already.
I expect it will at least mitigate my issues getting health insurance after getting kicked off my parents' plan, so there's that.
As for the Republicans' complaints, I'm not really clear on what there is in this bill the Republicans didn't argue for. If the left had written the bill, it would dismantle the insurance industry and set up single payer. The only thing it's missing is tort reform, and the fact is that tort reform is a red herring. It accounts for 1-2% of healthcare expenditures, and that sounds about right. There should be a process for handling legitimate malpractice claims, and it's never going to be free.
As I said, subtract the screen, keyboard, and battery, and in the next 8 - 20 months, they could push this down to the $50 price point where Hulu, Netflix, and the Internet are worth that cost. All 6 of the machines you have are more expensive.
Or they could make a consolidated box for $200 running the same basic hardware with DVD and full wireless/bluetooth to boot. Obviously if Google doesn't do this right, they don't do this right. But as you've said, there are no technical barriers. And as for political ones, I think Google might be able to get around them.
Of course, this administration has been more proactive about releasing data, so it's at least possible that the decline was a result of much of the data that might have been requested being readily available, masking the actual stats.
It's clearly designed for highway driving where it's very easy to miss people nearby, cars turning out, and speed limit signs.
Obviously in the city it's not feasible for an automated system to tell you what's important.
This is real convergence. A PC that is also a TV. I want that. I don't know if this is going to be the perfect expression of that, but if they can build a set-top box for $50 (and that sounds like it could be coming soon) I'd pick one up in a heartbeat.