Unless you're at IBM's TJ Watson reserach center, and have access to the Watson project. It could do this without breaking a sweat. In fact, I'd love an "ask Watson" app!
Paypal mapped it out years ago. The fact that Visa (and AmEx, Discover, etc) haven't been all over this idea by now makes me wonder if they're even paying attention.
I, for one, welcome competition amongst our financial overlords
You're an editor at some network-central industry rag. One of your staff writers heads up to Boston to attend the Sports Analytics Conference. He rubs elbows with big names in professional sports, attends a few break-out sessions that discuss gathering data to reduce player injuries and data acquisition inside basketballs, and then writes up a rambling article to justify his expense account. What's are you to do? Still hung over from the "Watson vs. the humans" Jeopardy! party, you write the headline: "Go for it on fourth down? Ask Coach Watson." This creates such a media firestorm on/. that all coaches in all major sports retire simultaneously. Talk about march madness!
So, to claim the $20 million, all I have to do is drive my robot out to an abandoned warehouse in Arizona, let it drive around and take a picture of one of the LEMs (they left them in the warehouse, didn't they?) and then publish the picture?
What manned craft do we have that can go out to L2 and back?
That would be MUCH farther than any manned craft has ever traveled. Even if we had a spare Apollo system laying around, even that couldn't get there (and get back - there's no body to slingshot around). I'm not saying it's impossible, but at least with Hubble, we already had something built that could go visit it.
Not that I'm expecting some catastrophic screw-up on the scale of the Hubble, but if there is a problem with the JWST, once it is sitting out at the Earth-sun L2, we won't be able to go visit it and repair it. I haven't heard of any contingency to allow it to come back to earth, so they've really got one shot to get it right.
VirtualBox wasn't mentioned in the article, but when the acquisition was announced, I was really worried about that project. However, the release of VirtualBox 4.0 seems to show that they're still hard at work - not just fixing bugs, but developing new ideas.
I can only hope other Sun projects are doing as well as VirtualBox.
Unlike thermal grease, which I can't wait to get off my hands... and everything else I touch. I'm all for something that lets me handle a CPU without needing a roll of paper towels.
Are they assuming a real trip to Mars will include artificial gravity the whole way? Sitting in a can for nearly a year is tough (made tougher by the one-shower-per-week Frenchman sitting next to you), but doing the same without the benefit of gravity would be a whole other ballgame.
Did they at least simulate the unblinking red eye and monotone voice of their mission computer?
Not that being president qualifies you in any way to light anyone else's cigar, but why argue over which former president is better than another? Is there any doubt as to which president is the most improtant? The answer is simple:
OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT! He is the only one that matters - he is the only president who can have an impact on the lives of all living Americans (and a large portion of the citizens of the earth). Debating about past presidents is a waste of time. Pay attention to the one sitting in the oval office, and spend a few extra minutes wondering who will take his place when he's done.
it depends on how big your lot is. You're going to need enough land to construct a pretty large mirror array, and then you'll need a power tower to collect all that heat. If you can't get away with building a tall structure, you could use a parabolic trough. The main reason you wouldn't want this on a small scale is you can't shut it off. If the salt cools into a solid, you'd never get it flowing again.
For your safety, as well as the safety of your neighbors, I'd say it's best to leave that 800-degree (Celsius) salt out in the desert where it belongs.
I read this story ages ago. It won the first Hugo award for best novelette. "The Darfsteller" tells of a time when actors sell their likeness and are replaced by robots (apparently, Keanu Reeves did this early in his career).
George Lucas must've dusted off his copy of this story and said, "Hey, I can do this!"
You have a unique and valuable natural resource. You have been selling it at a deep discount so you could get a firm grasp on the balls of every modern nation on earth. Let's call that mission accomplished. You can now start raising the price, and using the increased profits to clean up your country before you kill off the very resource that has created all this wealth. Sure, some bottom-feeders will go elsewhere, but those who stick with you will pay more, and allow you to actually improve your country.
Don't do it all at once - just practice boiling a frog by slowly warming the water. A small increase every quarter will do. However, don't let me catch you pocketing the profits. If you don't start buying scrubbers for your smokestacks, and water treatment plants, I might have to come down and smite your ass.
With Love
God, Buddha, or whatever higher power is in style this week
If I can run Win7 (or another current OS of my company's choosing), I get the new browser on my system. This allows the folks who wrote the browser-based app to update it so it runs natively on my new platform. For those apps that aren't migrated, I can run XP in a VM and access it through IE6.
If all the workstations are running XP, what incentive is there to update that app? If they update the app, then migrate all the desktops, what happens when something goes wrong? Using the old OS in a VM is a great way to ease into a migration.
I keep XP on a VM on my personal system for those times when I need to run an app that doesn't work on my current OS. I don't think I've used it in a couple of weeks, but it's nice to know it's there (along with a Vista VM - for laughs, and even a couple of OS/2 VMs).
...for some other browser maker to work with these companies to create a compatibility module that would let them use a NEW browser with their old applications. If Mozilla wasn't so busy on Firefox 4.0, they could probably get something coded up to help these companies put IE6 where it belongs (trash bin).
Has anyone from these companies tried running XP in a VM to maintain compatibility, while giving them an avenue to load a new OS, and start rolling out new applications? It would seem like the smoothest way to get over this problem.
Once the power was cut, the missiles were supposed to interpret that as an attack, and carry out their last orders (launch toward Russia, North Korea, and David Hasselhof). So why aren't we sitting in a post-apocalyptic wasteland right now? I want an inquiry started immediately!
I think I already covered this, but it's an important economic lessen, so I'll say it again.
There's got to be some reason the corporation isn't charging higher prices already
It's called competition. If you try to raise your prices just to make more profit, your competitor is free to undercut you, and your customers become their customers. If the government taxes your industry, both you and your competition get hit, and not wanting to lose money, you both raise your prices. It's called market equilibrium.
Slashdot Mirror
Good luck implementing AI in a couple of days.
Unless you're at IBM's TJ Watson reserach center, and have access to the Watson project. It could do this without breaking a sweat. In fact, I'd love an "ask Watson" app!
Rear projection (ok, bottom projection) and a flat screen (the mirror is flat, isn't it?). Next you're going to tell me it is high def!
Paypal mapped it out years ago. The fact that Visa (and AmEx, Discover, etc) haven't been all over this idea by now makes me wonder if they're even paying attention.
I, for one, welcome competition amongst our financial overlords
You're an editor at some network-central industry rag. One of your staff writers heads up to Boston to attend the Sports Analytics Conference. He rubs elbows with big names in professional sports, attends a few break-out sessions that discuss gathering data to reduce player injuries and data acquisition inside basketballs, and then writes up a rambling article to justify his expense account. What's are you to do? Still hung over from the "Watson vs. the humans" Jeopardy! party, you write the headline: "Go for it on fourth down? Ask Coach Watson." This creates such a media firestorm on /. that all coaches in all major sports retire simultaneously. Talk about march madness!
Perhaps Watson could just replace editors?
So, to claim the $20 million, all I have to do is drive my robot out to an abandoned warehouse in Arizona, let it drive around and take a picture of one of the LEMs (they left them in the warehouse, didn't they?) and then publish the picture?
SCORE!
What manned craft do we have that can go out to L2 and back?
That would be MUCH farther than any manned craft has ever traveled. Even if we had a spare Apollo system laying around, even that couldn't get there (and get back - there's no body to slingshot around). I'm not saying it's impossible, but at least with Hubble, we already had something built that could go visit it.
Not that I'm expecting some catastrophic screw-up on the scale of the Hubble, but if there is a problem with the JWST, once it is sitting out at the Earth-sun L2, we won't be able to go visit it and repair it. I haven't heard of any contingency to allow it to come back to earth, so they've really got one shot to get it right.
I'm hoping everything is nominal.
VirtualBox wasn't mentioned in the article, but when the acquisition was announced, I was really worried about that project. However, the release of VirtualBox 4.0 seems to show that they're still hard at work - not just fixing bugs, but developing new ideas.
I can only hope other Sun projects are doing as well as VirtualBox.
How do you think they're going to recover the cost of that super bowl commercial?
and all of those white hoodies?
Would those be African or European rockets?
Unlike thermal grease, which I can't wait to get off my hands... and everything else I touch. I'm all for something that lets me handle a CPU without needing a roll of paper towels.
Are they assuming a real trip to Mars will include artificial gravity the whole way? Sitting in a can for nearly a year is tough (made tougher by the one-shower-per-week Frenchman sitting next to you), but doing the same without the benefit of gravity would be a whole other ballgame.
Did they at least simulate the unblinking red eye and monotone voice of their mission computer?
Not that being president qualifies you in any way to light anyone else's cigar, but why argue over which former president is better than another? Is there any doubt as to which president is the most improtant? The answer is simple:
OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT! He is the only one that matters - he is the only president who can have an impact on the lives of all living Americans (and a large portion of the citizens of the earth). Debating about past presidents is a waste of time. Pay attention to the one sitting in the oval office, and spend a few extra minutes wondering who will take his place when he's done.
to all of the Marilyn Monroe film and photos?
"Hide your wife, hide your kids, 'cause they're rapin' everybody up in here."
...and another star is born.
You mean, pay for it yourself? WTF?
it depends on how big your lot is. You're going to need enough land to construct a pretty large mirror array, and then you'll need a power tower to collect all that heat. If you can't get away with building a tall structure, you could use a parabolic trough. The main reason you wouldn't want this on a small scale is you can't shut it off. If the salt cools into a solid, you'd never get it flowing again.
For your safety, as well as the safety of your neighbors, I'd say it's best to leave that 800-degree (Celsius) salt out in the desert where it belongs.
I read this story ages ago. It won the first Hugo award for best novelette. "The Darfsteller" tells of a time when actors sell their likeness and are replaced by robots (apparently, Keanu Reeves did this early in his career).
George Lucas must've dusted off his copy of this story and said, "Hey, I can do this!"
implant that provides...stimulation. Battery operated? I hope they're rechargeable.
I just called my broker. This is one IPO I don't want to miss.
Dear China,
You have a unique and valuable natural resource. You have been selling it at a deep discount so you could get a firm grasp on the balls of every modern nation on earth. Let's call that mission accomplished. You can now start raising the price, and using the increased profits to clean up your country before you kill off the very resource that has created all this wealth. Sure, some bottom-feeders will go elsewhere, but those who stick with you will pay more, and allow you to actually improve your country.
Don't do it all at once - just practice boiling a frog by slowly warming the water. A small increase every quarter will do. However, don't let me catch you pocketing the profits. If you don't start buying scrubbers for your smokestacks, and water treatment plants, I might have to come down and smite your ass.
With Love
God, Buddha, or whatever higher power is in style this week
How is this smoother?
If I can run Win7 (or another current OS of my company's choosing), I get the new browser on my system. This allows the folks who wrote the browser-based app to update it so it runs natively on my new platform. For those apps that aren't migrated, I can run XP in a VM and access it through IE6.
If all the workstations are running XP, what incentive is there to update that app? If they update the app, then migrate all the desktops, what happens when something goes wrong? Using the old OS in a VM is a great way to ease into a migration.
I keep XP on a VM on my personal system for those times when I need to run an app that doesn't work on my current OS. I don't think I've used it in a couple of weeks, but it's nice to know it's there (along with a Vista VM - for laughs, and even a couple of OS/2 VMs).
Has anyone from these companies tried running XP in a VM to maintain compatibility, while giving them an avenue to load a new OS, and start rolling out new applications? It would seem like the smoothest way to get over this problem.
Once the power was cut, the missiles were supposed to interpret that as an attack, and carry out their last orders (launch toward Russia, North Korea, and David Hasselhof). So why aren't we sitting in a post-apocalyptic wasteland right now? I want an inquiry started immediately!
The video includes several images of cars, showing suspicious cargo. No pictures of a scanned house, however.
There's got to be some reason the corporation isn't charging higher prices already
It's called competition. If you try to raise your prices just to make more profit, your competitor is free to undercut you, and your customers become their customers. If the government taxes your industry, both you and your competition get hit, and not wanting to lose money, you both raise your prices. It's called market equilibrium.