If MS bundles a search function into IE, it will become the same "standard", just as IE became the standard when they bundled it with windows.
If this happens, and if IESearch works easily, then Google will slowly be replaced on he Desktop, just Like Netscape was replaced. (By standard, I mean most used by default, good or bad)
So you fly it for 10-15 minutes max and then come in for a 30 minute recharge. Seems like ghe ground crew are going to be very busy for the anticipated "flock".
With enough battery power to run for 10 minutes or even one hour, there has to be a fast and convenient way to re-charge or re-fuel. In-flight would be good. Consider a larger battery filled helocopter flying nearby. When a plane or copter needed recharging it would fly nearby and couple itself with the re-charger. How to transfer energy from one to the other is left up to the reader.
The problem is not the speed of light's round trip. The problem is that to move a beam of light, the light controller must sense position, tell the controller to move the light and then tell it when to stop and where it is at the time. Even if you are traveling along a straight line, the feedback mechanism still has to be there. The speed of the control electronics will be much slower than the speed of light traveling from a source to the reflections surface and back to the sensor. The speed of the electronics will be much faster than any type of mirror control available, including the microscale mirrors. And as the previous poster mentioned, you also have to position a sensor along with positioning the light source. This requires a lot of analog and digital circuitry and the speed/time envolved
Perhaps the biggest advantage would be the ability to treat the array as random access instead of rotational access with the inherent rotational delay.
We have been very lucky to observe this phenomenon. Here, two billion years later, we are staring at the sky just in time to see a 50 millisecond event. How many times in the last 15 years have we read articles about astronomers observing the formation of a star, or some other event that happened millions or billions of years ago. We are only around for a hundred years or so, and we have only had optics and electronics for some 50 years. So in this short span of 50 years we hear multiple stories of stars forming or exploding or dying. Such a time coincidence. If we had been born 60 years earlier or later, we would have missed it. If we were not looking at the time, we would have missed it. Satellites and other space probes saw it and sent back information quickly for an email to be sent round the world and astronomers got to their instrumentation just in time to record this millisecond event. Heck, once the satellite detected it ----Wait! Doesn't light and X-rays travel past he satellite to earth faster than a microprocessor can setup and send an email?---Did I miss something when I studied physics?
What did this celestial event look like? Luckily, we get to see an artist's rendition of what we think the x-rays must have shown.
I must admit, I am not really sure I agree with all the assumptions and timing from things like this. Do astronomers get lucky at lottery also?
The main difference between a yard sale and yard trash is the distance from the curb.(unknown)
When you obtained your abandoned lawn mower from the roadside, was it by some coincidence still running and a lawn only partially cut?
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Although it was trivial to uninstall, I thought it very interesting and irritating that a right click on the tray icon did not offer any way to exit or close it temporarily. It just kept popping up until I went to Control Panel and uninstalled it.
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Yep, that's the part of Google I downloaded; the Inter Web part.
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Don't laugh and make fun of me. I am very sensitive, and my girlfriend hates it when I cry. (Actually I only downloaded a little bit of google.)
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I use Mozilla, but the MSSearch showed in the system tray, right side. I don't remember what activated it, but it suddenly popped up when I was accessing the internet.
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Based on one of the other responses, it came in bundled with one of the "patches" but the patch did not mention it and gave no option to install or not install. Perhaps somewhere in the middle the EULA I agreed to install it. Get your story straight next time. And I don't ever troll. I just state the facts as I see them, and in this case, I wondered how MS managed to get the program on my computer. So far as I know, there has been no mention of any spyware that installs MS programs on anyone's computer. I expect that would irritate MS somewhat terribly.
If technology alone was the battle, then AMD would be the dominant leader in the uP battle already. However the little "Intel Inside" logo, caught the eye of consumers and managers years ago. In my evaluation at the time, AMD came out ahead in both technology and price, however the manager said the box had to say "Intel Inside" because that's what the customers knew and would buy.
AMD, Cyrix, Via and others have had processors that were as good is Intel's for a few years, but Intel has beat them severely with the advertising. I, for one, do not believe that AMD, Cyrix, or VIA have a process to make a lower cost processor than Intel's process, yet AMD has always had lower cost.
Now that AMD has started having processors with some technical superiority (and lower cost) the engineers are beginning to have more influence on managers and customers to convince them that suppliers other than Intel may be a better choice, and "Intel Inside" is a bygone logo.
Intel is at the point where their lead in microprocessors for PC's may be eroding, and "Intel Inside" is no longer a good enough reason for buying their parts.
Intel may be down, but don't even think about counting them out,(that's a boxing term for non USA people). The company makes a lot more components than just processors.
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I downloaded and installed Google because I wanted to try it and use it if I wanted to. Recently, MS Search showed up in my task bar without my knowledge. I uninstalled it, not because it is bad, but because MS did not give me the option of saying yes or no.
It took me a while to find uninstall instructions. I knew I could have used control panel, but I was wondering how the home user with no knowledge of computers could get rid of it.
I don't know if users of XP (I use 2000) have had the same problem, but if MSSearch is automatically installed on users' computers, it may get used more by the unsuspecting and those that don't care what they use. If MS can put MSSearch on all XP computers without the users' permission, it will gain market share. This would be another similar case to the IE-Bundled to give it market share, but this time MS would be able to say the users have choices.
The student chose a website name almost like the Wal-Mart name. He (or she) then made it look almost like the Wal-mart website.
This was a college class. It was not necessary to put it up for the world to access. Although it might or might not fall under the DMCA or be copywrite infringement, there was not reason to do what he did.
Perhaps he or she could write a letter to the ISP to get the case dropped or changed, but I suggest changing to a different website name.
I am presently looking at the H1-B visa cap from both sides of the fence. I was out of work (design engineer with 20 years good experience) back in the early '90s. Yet during that time frame, a lot of work was going to "foreign" engineers who would work at lower wages (per the various engineering studies). I knew that many of the jobs could have been filled by the high percentage of out-of-work engineers from the USA, but the companies claimed that there were no "qualified" engineers to fill the jobs. The problem was mainly that the jobs were not well advertised and very difficult to find. The job requirements were sometimes so specific that only the "intended" applicant could be considered. This was mainly when jobs were placed by headhunters.
I am presently working at a university with graduate students from USA and foreign countries. These students are here to do research and fill positions that USA students do not apply for. Many of them come to the USA in hopes of finding permanent jobs and becoming USA citizens. They have to start with H1-B visas, and with the cap, and because of their non-USA citizenship, they have trouble finding jobs. I am sure that many would accept low salaries in order to find anything, just like many of the out-of-work/. readers.
These students are considered the best from their respective universities, and graduate in the USA with some of the best grades as engineers with Masters and PhD degrees. As a mentor for many of them, I would like to see them get jobs in the USA.
Changing or removing the H1-B cap would give these students a better chance at jobs, and after gaining citizenship, they would also be competing for jobs and salaries the same as any of us. However, during the initial years before citizenship, they will probably be working at inferior wages and keep the salary rate down for the rest of us.
Should students that we have educated at USA universities (including tuition waivers and research salaries) and who ultimately will make good citizens, be given a different visa from the normal H1-B so that they don't have to fear deportation and do not have to accept the lower salaries that hurt all engineers?
Should companies be required to show that they have published the jobs sufficiently and so that qualified people from the USA can compete for the jobs? Publishing job requirements that only their "already designated" foreign employees can meet, circumvents the competition and the intent of the H1-B visa, and allows the employers to claim that there are not enough USA applications to fill the jobs.
I got here just in time to copy all the images of Longhorn so that I can email them to all my email list. Then on second thought, why would anyone really care what Longhorn is going to look like? It will come your way soon enough when MS stops support for XP and says that Longhorn is their only safe product.
I don't care if it is open source as long as it is better, and that includes better price and performance. Open source is only valuable to programmers. Non-programmers do not know the difference. The real reason for open source is that the support worldwide allows it to be better, and since most packages are free or relatively low cost compared to Windows, it allows people to have a good system without paying the company whose main goal is to make more money with a forced upgrade computer system.
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Even my stopped clock is right twice a day.
If this happens, and if IESearch works easily, then Google will slowly be replaced on he Desktop, just Like Netscape was replaced. (By standard, I mean most used by default, good or bad)
You didn't read that on slashdot!
Anybody that stupid does not have to work. He can be declared mentally disabled and get disability checks paid for by all the rest of us.
With enough battery power to run for 10 minutes or even one hour, there has to be a fast and convenient way to re-charge or re-fuel. In-flight would be good. Consider a larger battery filled helocopter flying nearby. When a plane or copter needed recharging it would fly nearby and couple itself with the re-charger. How to transfer energy from one to the other is left up to the reader.
No one here is old enough to remember pepsodent!
Do you have a source for that quote?
Perhaps the biggest advantage would be the ability to treat the array as random access instead of rotational access with the inherent rotational delay.
What did this celestial event look like? Luckily, we get to see an artist's rendition of what we think the x-rays must have shown.
I must admit, I am not really sure I agree with all the assumptions and timing from things like this. Do astronomers get lucky at lottery also?
When you obtained your abandoned lawn mower from the roadside, was it by some coincidence still running and a lawn only partially cut?
Although it was trivial to uninstall, I thought it very interesting and irritating that a right click on the tray icon did not offer any way to exit or close it temporarily. It just kept popping up until I went to Control Panel and uninstalled it.
Yep, that's the part of Google I downloaded; the Inter Web part.
Don't laugh and make fun of me. I am very sensitive, and my girlfriend hates it when I cry. (Actually I only downloaded a little bit of google.)
I use Mozilla, but the MSSearch showed in the system tray, right side. I don't remember what activated it, but it suddenly popped up when I was accessing the internet.
Based on one of the other responses, it came in bundled with one of the "patches" but the patch did not mention it and gave no option to install or not install. Perhaps somewhere in the middle the EULA I agreed to install it. Get your story straight next time. And I don't ever troll. I just state the facts as I see them, and in this case, I wondered how MS managed to get the program on my computer. So far as I know, there has been no mention of any spyware that installs MS programs on anyone's computer. I expect that would irritate MS somewhat terribly.
AMD, Cyrix, Via and others have had processors that were as good is Intel's for a few years, but Intel has beat them severely with the advertising. I, for one, do not believe that AMD, Cyrix, or VIA have a process to make a lower cost processor than Intel's process, yet AMD has always had lower cost. Now that AMD has started having processors with some technical superiority (and lower cost) the engineers are beginning to have more influence on managers and customers to convince them that suppliers other than Intel may be a better choice, and "Intel Inside" is a bygone logo.
Intel is at the point where their lead in microprocessors for PC's may be eroding, and "Intel Inside" is no longer a good enough reason for buying their parts.
Intel may be down, but don't even think about counting them out,(that's a boxing term for non USA people). The company makes a lot more components than just processors.
You could soon have an abundance of programmers to work on OSS.
120 pounds! He's been out of work quite a while!
It took me a while to find uninstall instructions. I knew I could have used control panel, but I was wondering how the home user with no knowledge of computers could get rid of it.
I don't know if users of XP (I use 2000) have had the same problem, but if MSSearch is automatically installed on users' computers, it may get used more by the unsuspecting and those that don't care what they use. If MS can put MSSearch on all XP computers without the users' permission, it will gain market share. This would be another similar case to the IE-Bundled to give it market share, but this time MS would be able to say the users have choices.
When we first started talking about that prize, we, the boys in Noble Hall, did not relate it to that kind of software.
Perhaps he or she could write a letter to the ISP to get the case dropped or changed, but I suggest changing to a different website name.
I am presently working at a university with graduate students from USA and foreign countries. These students are here to do research and fill positions that USA students do not apply for. Many of them come to the USA in hopes of finding permanent jobs and becoming USA citizens. They have to start with H1-B visas, and with the cap, and because of their non-USA citizenship, they have trouble finding jobs. I am sure that many would accept low salaries in order to find anything, just like many of the out-of-work /. readers.
These students are considered the best from their respective universities, and graduate in the USA with some of the best grades as engineers with Masters and PhD degrees. As a mentor for many of them, I would like to see them get jobs in the USA.
Changing or removing the H1-B cap would give these students a better chance at jobs, and after gaining citizenship, they would also be competing for jobs and salaries the same as any of us. However, during the initial years before citizenship, they will probably be working at inferior wages and keep the salary rate down for the rest of us.
Should students that we have educated at USA universities (including tuition waivers and research salaries) and who ultimately will make good citizens, be given a different visa from the normal H1-B so that they don't have to fear deportation and do not have to accept the lower salaries that hurt all engineers?
Should companies be required to show that they have published the jobs sufficiently and so that qualified people from the USA can compete for the jobs? Publishing job requirements that only their "already designated" foreign employees can meet, circumvents the competition and the intent of the H1-B visa, and allows the employers to claim that there are not enough USA applications to fill the jobs.
I got here just in time to copy all the images of Longhorn so that I can email them to all my email list. Then on second thought, why would anyone really care what Longhorn is going to look like? It will come your way soon enough when MS stops support for XP and says that Longhorn is their only safe product.
Anybody notice that that is the wrong link to the recycle bin?
I don't care if it is open source as long as it is better, and that includes better price and performance. Open source is only valuable to programmers. Non-programmers do not know the difference. The real reason for open source is that the support worldwide allows it to be better, and since most packages are free or relatively low cost compared to Windows, it allows people to have a good system without paying the company whose main goal is to make more money with a forced upgrade computer system.