Google take ZERO unless you want to publish your app on the android market. Unlike Apple and MS, you don't have to do that in order for your users to be able to install said app without having to hack their own phones.
Apologies if this offends you, but I find 'suspension of disbelief' to be an excuse of a terrible author. It's basically saying 'stop thinking and focus on the explosions'. While a little less intolerable in movies, I just don't see any reason we should tolerate it in written works, at all. Reactionless drives? FTL? Sound magically carrying through vacuum? Blatant disregard for thermodynamics and conservation laws? Either explain it away in a way that doesn't poke a thousand other holes in your idea of 'science', or stick to less 'speculative' (read: bullshit) fiction.
For example, take the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds. A perfectly reasonable hard sci-fi story that is nonetheless very interesting, and not boring at all - which, if the general public is to be believed, is impossible. All sci-fi should be written by actual physicists and engineers, and reviewed by committee before being released in non-written form. There should be an internationally accepted rating body like the ESRB to rate works of science fiction, with ratings ranging from "reverse the tachyon deflector polarity" to "relativistic kill-vehicles doppler-shifted into the x-ray band".
That's just the beginning. The real fun begins when you start replacing inefficient, organic computing substrate - the nervous system - with a synthetic one.
I don't know, comparing IT security measures to "the minimal required safety so people don't die horribly in their cars due to mechanical failures" seems kind of a stretch of me.
I just can't wait to fully "jail break" a Chrome OS tablet and install Android on it (I already develop for Android... Google, STOP FRAGMENTING THE MARKET).
Chrome OS is for netbooks, Android is for smartphones and tablets. There won't be an official Chrome OS tablet.
Chromium OS is open source and you're free to try it on any hardware you can get it to run on. Chrome OS is Chromium OS + hardware-specific firmware + Google branding.
Actually, you can use a solar sail to accelerate yourself out of earth orbit. It's just a matter of orienting the sail parralel to the sun's radiation vector when it's head on, and perpendicular to it when it's in a position to increase your orbital velocity.
We're told since early youth that death is something that happens to us all and we shouldn't fear it - for some of us, this kind of nonsense is also supported by threats to accept this lest we come into conflict with a loving god that somehow condemned every human to death. What would happen if people were suddenly to realise aging is but a disease, prevalent and persistent but ultimately treatable or maybe even curable? Why is it such a taboo to discuss aging treatments? Why aren't there "IT ISN'T NATURAL! YOU SHOULDN'T BE TREATING THIS!" trolls when any other disease is cured, yet they seem to be in the majority when human senescence is being discussed? I don't care if it's natural. Aging is as natural as smallpox and AIDS, using this argument to make people accept it is flawed.
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Jesus christ, it's just an IDE. You can still develop Mac apps with vim and gcc.
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What is wrong with these people?
Prolonged radiation exposure.
Never a miscommunication.
Google take ZERO unless you want to publish your app on the android market. Unlike Apple and MS, you don't have to do that in order for your users to be able to install said app without having to hack their own phones.
Columbia burned up on re-entry, Challenger was "rapidly disintegrated" (read: exploded) shortly after launch.
Apologies if this offends you, but I find 'suspension of disbelief' to be an excuse of a terrible author. It's basically saying 'stop thinking and focus on the explosions'. While a little less intolerable in movies, I just don't see any reason we should tolerate it in written works, at all. Reactionless drives? FTL? Sound magically carrying through vacuum? Blatant disregard for thermodynamics and conservation laws? Either explain it away in a way that doesn't poke a thousand other holes in your idea of 'science', or stick to less 'speculative' (read: bullshit) fiction.
For example, take the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds. A perfectly reasonable hard sci-fi story that is nonetheless very interesting, and not boring at all - which, if the general public is to be believed, is impossible. All sci-fi should be written by actual physicists and engineers, and reviewed by committee before being released in non-written form. There should be an internationally accepted rating body like the ESRB to rate works of science fiction, with ratings ranging from "reverse the tachyon deflector polarity" to "relativistic kill-vehicles doppler-shifted into the x-ray band".
FUCK soft sci-fi.
Wouldn't praying for them in a spirit of love work better?
Nope, praying is just a way of doing nothing and feeling like you're actually helping.
whoosh...
(em) is the new (i). (replace parentheses with less than/greater signs than at your convenience)
It just works!
Apple has a similar deal with iOS. Android, however, lets you load whatever the hell you want, including third party or your own apps, for free.
(Provided it wasn't locked down by your wireless provider. You should check that before buying.)
It's also an English family name.
and he has a plan?
That's just the beginning. The real fun begins when you start replacing inefficient, organic computing substrate - the nervous system - with a synthetic one.
I don't know, comparing IT security measures to "the minimal required safety so people don't die horribly in their cars due to mechanical failures" seems kind of a stretch of me.
Ethics only applies to animals whose nervous systems are complex enough to be considered as "brains".
Or not, because it kant -1, Groan-incuding pun
Two of the nastiest regimes ever to run countries are facing off over eastern Europe. Which one do you support?
The one that didn't declare war on the USA. If neither did, don't get involved in the war.
We don't HAVE TO police the world, you know.
Your signature is ominously relevant here.
And for the saxon dogs to stop calling Wolfram "Tungsten". Schweinerei!
It's a netbook, and it's basically a locked-down Linux OS with Chrome on top. I'm pretty sure it supports usb keyboards.
I just can't wait to fully "jail break" a Chrome OS tablet and install Android on it (I already develop for Android... Google, STOP FRAGMENTING THE MARKET).
Chrome OS is for netbooks, Android is for smartphones and tablets. There won't be an official Chrome OS tablet.
Chromium OS is open source and you're free to try it on any hardware you can get it to run on. Chrome OS is Chromium OS + hardware-specific firmware + Google branding.
Actually, you can use a solar sail to accelerate yourself out of earth orbit. It's just a matter of orienting the sail parralel to the sun's radiation vector when it's head on, and perpendicular to it when it's in a position to increase your orbital velocity.
We're told since early youth that death is something that happens to us all and we shouldn't fear it - for some of us, this kind of nonsense is also supported by threats to accept this lest we come into conflict with a loving god that somehow condemned every human to death. What would happen if people were suddenly to realise aging is but a disease, prevalent and persistent but ultimately treatable or maybe even curable? Why is it such a taboo to discuss aging treatments? Why aren't there "IT ISN'T NATURAL! YOU SHOULDN'T BE TREATING THIS!" trolls when any other disease is cured, yet they seem to be in the majority when human senescence is being discussed? I don't care if it's natural. Aging is as natural as smallpox and AIDS, using this argument to make people accept it is flawed.