A big problem with broadband is that there is no real competition with cable as the nation is primarly suburban. DSL remains a much more difficult install than cable, and even though DSL vendors themselves tend to throw in more niceties like fixed ips, the normal networking nature of cable seems superior to the oft employed PPPOE of DSL.
I would love to have fixed IP for cable modems, and even a business level cable service, and then I would be one happy camper. But you'll never get that in my territory (former Bell Atlantic), because there is no real way the COs are distributed well enough to effectively deploy DSL. Sans that incentive, the cable modem is a defacto monopoly, and, thus, broadband stagnates.
2 way satellite internet fails for gamers because of latency.
RIAA does suck but for promotion you absolutely cannot top the work done by record companies. Justin Timberlake can barely hold a note and the only instrument he can probably play is the flesh flute, but, thanks to outstanding marketing the record industry turned him and a few other pseudo singers into a bankable megastars for a time. They put together the posters, the artwork, the image, the stadium tours, the album, the promotional tie ins, everything. An Indy company might appreciate your desire to avoid writing a song that could help go with a "Happy Meal", but, then again, they'd never give you the fat check for doing it.
Most of us who are developers have no problem selling out our sense of code purity to make deadlines and cash a check, and I suspect that if we each thought that writing even the shareware version of the Office PaperClip could make us a buck, we would.
So let's at least cut the artist some slack and not be so critical of the music industry that we drive it out of existence. Support the right of the artist to sell out and cash in, and hopefully, they'll make music that recognizes our own god given right to do the same.
There is a code documentation tool in Visual Studio.NET that does the thing of extracting xml comments out, using them to annotate your class hiearchy, and then dumps the whole lot into a set of html pages.
The result is absolutely beautiful, and I prefer it to JavaDoc.
I don't know what the guy is saying. Video games are already more popular than movies and music combined. The entire video gaming industry is larger and healthier, and the biggest hits of the gaming industry draw in more bucks than do blockbuster movies.
The Sims game has sold nearly 11,000,000 copies. Take that at $40 a pop
I'm wondering if the right tack is to just make boosters cheap. It seems to me that it is fundamentally difficult, considering the requirements for reuse and reentry survivability, to make any sort of SSTO cost effective given not only today's technology, but, tomorrow's as well.
Instead of trying to solve the hard problems via a pseudo commercial program, invest instead in the basic research for things like material sciences so that reusable space materials might be mass produced for other applications, driving down the cost of space.
In the mean time, we should be looking at how to simplify and reduce the construction cost of rockets so they can be made cheaper - since they are throway, and, while we are at it, if we can't keep the space "capsule" itself from being throwaway, at least design rack mounted stuff so all of the expensive avionics can be swapped out into another shell.
Right now they have to assume that a word document is unaltered upon receipt from a client. Now, with DRM, they can guarantee it. They also need to control distribution of documents and readability.
Pretty much every major corporation will want this feature once they understand it.
So, instead of fighting DRM, jump on the bandwagon, and have --better-- rights management in Open Office.
I'm not actually convinced that you need to have compatability between Office suites. Really, most people can use their existing MS Office to edit their Office documents and their new Office to edit their new documents. That way, if the old Office license is expired by Microsoft, everyone can complain to MS about how they can no longer read their documents, whereas, Open Office would theoretically never have that problem.
So, I would educate customers that file compatibility is not particularly necessary.
The Toyota Prius that backed over an old lady because she was small and wearing something that absorbed the signature. The Toyota Prius that smashes itself on Philadelphia curbs... The Toyota Prius...
Now if everyone was going around on flying segways that would be something to see... (thud... thud... from drunk segway drivers falling off thud )... well, or dodge at least.
Oh my gosh. I just spent 3 years writing an application for Windows, and now Windows is done. Before that, I spent a year on OS/2, and OS/2 was killed by Windows. Before that, I spent a few years working on Commodore Amiga, and that was killed by PC Clones, and before that, I was big into Atari 800, and that was killed by Apple...
If I write something else for Windows, christ, MS will file bankruptcy...
If you want to explore, you'll have to start risking your life. Is it worth it? For some, it is.
$/pound for space flight continues to drop. Right now it's about $3000-$10000 for LEO. Give it another decade and we'll hit $1000 or even $500/lb. Then life starts to get really interesting...
I am STILL getting replies from random people indicating that my address is being hijacked.
I am STILL forwarding requests to get IPs from the original SMTP requests, if available, and then tracing back to the ISP.
email is so hopelessly broken it is beyond compare.
Authenticated email would at least mean that if an email came from my address, it actually came from my computer(s), and I can keep control of my own address. Right now, I have none, and I am completely po'd.
To pull off that kind of a fraud would be impossible.
Too many people would have to lie. If a handful of people are secretly disgruntled, you are dead, and the people that order the fraud would definately go to jail.
By storing electricity, I mean, providing a facility that efficiently captures power produced by base load generation during offpeak hours for use during the next days peak hours.
What's ignorant? Of course I know that companies are outsources and overseas out the wazoo. But I need a car and so I try to buy the car that is a compromise between what is best for me and my community.
I used to work for RCA. Believe me I know that there has not been a picture tube manufactured in the United States since RCA went down the tubes 20 years ago. Still, were there a decent screen made in the USA, I would buy it.
The issue for me is that I was a staunch believer in free trade - I supported Reagan in a liberal high school, and I believed that at some point the promises of a better society would happen. They simply have not. None of the promises of globalization and rampant capitalism have yet to materialize despite having 20 years to run this experiment.
I'm waiting for the world to get a better standard of living, but, every indicator out there shows the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and at a rate higher than they did in the supposedly oppressive 1960s. It used to be that everyone could afford college, and now it is moving more and more out of reach. It used to be that everyone could afford a new car, and those are moving out of reach. To own a house, both the mother and father must work.
There used to be a notion in the United States, that, if you worked hard enough, you could get ahead. That was the American dream. Now, if you work hard enough, your job will get shipped overseas. I can't understate the corrosive effect that this will have on our society, and if you can't see that, then you are the one that is ignorant.
Seems like OSP is a winner all the way around. Have a cheap way to get people in space, use existing booster technology, means, more manned space flight.
The shuttle costs, according to FY2000, 759 million dollars to launch. By comparison Atlas V and Delta IV are in the range of 100M to launch.
The expendable vehicles have a better turnaround time, are cheaper to operate. Fundamentally, exendable vehicles don't have to solve a lot of the complexity a reusable vehicle does. They don't have to deal with re-entry. They don't have to have reusable engines. They don't have to reusable fuel tanks.
The monitor is ViewSonic, which is a private label of a screen made in Japan.
The car is a Chrysler, but my next car will be either a Ford or a GM.
I avoid buying things made in China. However, since Walmart has no problem waving the flag while it subdizes the export of US jobs, I guess sometimes I do get stuck.
I vote with my wallet, and I vote with my vote as well. Free trade is a joke.
As advanced as we think we are, it takes the discovery of how to do what seems like the mundane of how to make diamonds and silk to realize that we have such a long way to go.
Yet again an Asian country is deciding to use government action to fund an attack on an existing market. Why is our government never going to do anything to respond? Why is it that we have to compete with a culture that lets its people work for 2 cents a day cloning other people's products with government money?
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Like all major cities, Philadelphia suffers from a large population with a declining property tax base as middle class people move to the suburbs.
I may not be entirely comfortable with Microsoft running a school, but right now, Philadelphia is in such rough shape that any help will do.
A big problem with broadband is that there is no real competition with cable as the nation is primarly suburban. DSL remains a much more difficult install than cable, and even though DSL vendors themselves tend to throw in more niceties like fixed ips, the normal networking nature of cable seems superior to the oft employed PPPOE of DSL.
I would love to have fixed IP for cable modems, and even a business level cable service, and then I would be one happy camper. But you'll never get that in my territory (former Bell Atlantic), because there is no real way the COs are distributed well enough to effectively deploy DSL. Sans that incentive, the cable modem is a defacto monopoly, and, thus, broadband stagnates.
2 way satellite internet fails for gamers because of latency.
RIAA does suck but for promotion you absolutely cannot top the work done by record companies. Justin Timberlake can barely hold a note and the only instrument he can probably play is the flesh flute, but, thanks to outstanding marketing the record industry turned him and a few other pseudo singers into a bankable megastars for a time. They put together the posters, the artwork, the image, the stadium tours, the album, the promotional tie ins, everything. An Indy company might appreciate your desire to avoid writing a song that could help go with a "Happy Meal", but, then again, they'd never give you the fat check for doing it.
Most of us who are developers have no problem selling out our sense of code purity to make deadlines and cash a check, and I suspect that if we each thought that writing even the shareware version of the Office PaperClip could make us a buck, we would.
So let's at least cut the artist some slack and not be so critical of the music industry that we drive it out of existence. Support the right of the artist to sell out and cash in, and hopefully, they'll make music that recognizes our own god given right to do the same.
There is a code documentation tool in Visual Studio.NET that does the thing of extracting xml comments out, using them to annotate your class hiearchy, and then dumps the whole lot into a set of html pages.
The result is absolutely beautiful, and I prefer it to JavaDoc.
The real question is how many midgets does an elephant weigh? If have 48 midgets per elephant, and I have 600 elephants per cloud, then....
I don't know what the guy is saying. Video games are already more popular than movies and music combined. The entire video gaming industry is larger and healthier, and the biggest hits of the gaming industry draw in more bucks than do blockbuster movies.
The Sims game has sold nearly 11,000,000 copies. Take that at $40 a pop
'nough said.
I'm wondering if the right tack is to just make boosters cheap. It seems to me that it is fundamentally difficult, considering the requirements for reuse and reentry survivability, to make any sort of SSTO cost effective given not only today's technology, but, tomorrow's as well.
Instead of trying to solve the hard problems via a pseudo commercial program, invest instead in the basic research for things like material sciences so that reusable space materials might be mass produced for other applications, driving down the cost of space.
In the mean time, we should be looking at how to simplify and reduce the construction cost of rockets so they can be made cheaper - since they are throway, and, while we are at it, if we can't keep the space "capsule" itself from being throwaway, at least design rack mounted stuff so all of the expensive avionics can be swapped out into another shell.
Law firms, especially, need this feature.
Right now they have to assume that a word document is unaltered upon receipt from a client. Now, with DRM, they can guarantee it. They also need to control distribution of documents and readability.
Pretty much every major corporation will want this feature once they understand it.
So, instead of fighting DRM, jump on the bandwagon, and have --better-- rights management in Open Office.
I'm not actually convinced that you need to have compatability between Office suites. Really, most people can use their existing MS Office to edit their Office documents and their new Office to edit their new documents. That way, if the old Office license is expired by Microsoft, everyone can complain to MS about how they can no longer read their documents, whereas, Open Office would theoretically never have that problem.
So, I would educate customers that file compatibility is not particularly necessary.
i bet the plug in patent forced this delay.
I can just see it now... autoupdate feature of self driving car gets hijacked by hackers...
The Toyota Prius that backed over an old lady because she was small and wearing something that absorbed the signature. The Toyota Prius that smashes itself on Philadelphia curbs... The Toyota Prius...
Yeah, bring this car on.
Scripting on handhelds? For action games surely you jest.
Now if everyone was going around on flying segways that would be something to see... (thud... thud... from drunk segway drivers falling off thud )... well, or dodge at least.
Oh my gosh. I just spent 3 years writing an application for Windows, and now Windows is done. Before that, I spent a year on OS/2, and OS/2 was killed by Windows. Before that, I spent a few years working on Commodore Amiga, and that was killed by PC Clones, and before that, I was big into Atari 800, and that was killed by Apple...
If I write something else for Windows, christ, MS will file bankruptcy...
If you want to explore, you'll have to start risking your life. Is it worth it? For some, it is.
$/pound for space flight continues to drop. Right now it's about $3000-$10000 for LEO. Give it another decade and we'll hit $1000 or even $500/lb. Then life starts to get really interesting...
I am STILL getting replies from random people indicating that my address is being hijacked.
I am STILL forwarding requests to get IPs from the original SMTP requests, if available, and then tracing back to the ISP.
email is so hopelessly broken it is beyond compare.
Authenticated email would at least mean that if an email came from my address, it actually came from my computer(s), and I can keep control of my own address. Right now, I have none, and I am completely po'd.
To pull off that kind of a fraud would be impossible.
Too many people would have to lie. If a handful of people are secretly disgruntled, you are dead, and the people that order the fraud would definately go to jail.
By storing electricity, I mean, providing a facility that efficiently captures power produced by base load generation during offpeak hours for use during the next days peak hours.
I bought my Chrysler before the merger.
What's ignorant? Of course I know that companies are outsources and overseas out the wazoo. But I need a car and so I try to buy the car that is a compromise between what is best for me and my community.
I used to work for RCA. Believe me I know that there has not been a picture tube manufactured in the United States since RCA went down the tubes 20 years ago. Still, were there a decent screen made in the USA, I would buy it.
The issue for me is that I was a staunch believer in free trade - I supported Reagan in a liberal high school, and I believed that at some point the promises of a better society would happen. They simply have not. None of the promises of globalization and rampant capitalism have yet to materialize despite having 20 years to run this experiment.
I'm waiting for the world to get a better standard of living, but, every indicator out there shows the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and at a rate higher than they did in the supposedly oppressive 1960s. It used to be that everyone could afford college, and now it is moving more and more out of reach. It used to be that everyone could afford a new car, and those are moving out of reach. To own a house, both the mother and father must work.
There used to be a notion in the United States, that, if you worked hard enough, you could get ahead. That was the American dream. Now, if you work hard enough, your job will get shipped overseas. I can't understate the corrosive effect that this will have on our society, and if you can't see that, then you are the one that is ignorant.
The russians had working remote control on their shuttle effort. I actually have the priviledge of working with one of the guys that did it.
Seems like OSP is a winner all the way around. Have a cheap way to get people in space, use existing booster technology, means, more manned space flight.
The shuttle costs, according to FY2000, 759 million dollars to launch. By comparison Atlas V and Delta IV are in the range of 100M to launch.
The expendable vehicles have a better turnaround time, are cheaper to operate. Fundamentally, exendable vehicles don't have to solve a lot of the complexity a reusable vehicle does. They don't have to deal with re-entry. They don't have to have reusable engines. They don't have to reusable fuel tanks.
I have this piece of wood in the back yard covered with spiders. Guess they should have called me...
The monitor is ViewSonic, which is a private label of a screen made in Japan.
The car is a Chrysler, but my next car will be either a Ford or a GM.
I avoid buying things made in China. However, since Walmart has no problem waving the flag while it subdizes the export of US jobs, I guess sometimes I do get stuck.
I vote with my wallet, and I vote with my vote as well. Free trade is a joke.
As advanced as we think we are, it takes the discovery of how to do what seems like the mundane of how to make diamonds and silk to realize that we have such a long way to go.
We still can't store electricity efficiently.
Yet again an Asian country is deciding to use government action to fund an attack on an existing market. Why is our government never going to do anything to respond? Why is it that we have to compete with a culture that lets its people work for 2 cents a day cloning other people's products with government money?
The US should not even trade with these people.