Sure, in 20 years those sort of implants will be available, but having one will make you look like the fat guy wearing his shirt tucked in, comfortable socks under sandals with his trusty treo attached to his belt. The vocal minority will now say "why do i need a holographic projector and full size keyboard in my cell phone? all i need is a 8mp camera, web browser, day planner! oh, and voice." and everyone else will just follow the trends of the uber computer that also still makes voice calls. It's going to take a lot longer than 20 years for implants to become the norm, IMO.
20 years from now the mobile computer of the future will have 100+mbps wimax, be the size of a RAZR, contain a holographic projector (that also works in 2D to save on battery), and a built in laser keyboard. We're halfway there, with the upcoming 3G iPhone. Bluetooth laser keyboard is already avalible, and the iPhone has audio/video out via the port on the bottom. The Mini-Note has a son-of-PCMCIA slot for wireless internet everywhere already. You can't really get much practically smaller than that without losing durability or keyboard size (IBM thinkpad butterfly keyboard, anyone?) The age of the "anywhere PC" has arrived - just bring extra batteries. The home PC will always exist in some fashion, be it the XBOX 980 or PS9 for more immersive content, the workstation for creation of such content, but I think the personal machine will be be a laptop of EEE size with capability to sync with the multi/mega-terabyte home server (which may or may not be hosted remotely, say, as part of your gmail account). A chubby thin client.
That's an excellent point, but if you have to travel 4 hrs a day to make a living, maybe that means your skillset isn't high enough that they can pick the location of their job. Companies recruiting people for $200,000 a year are getting people from 2 hours away because the quality talent can choose jobs closer to their home. If you're a B rate employee, it might be worth it to take the 140,000 paycut and work for 60-65K a year and work 10 minutes from work.
Honestly, unless your kid is a supergenius that can't somehow get the scholarship to go to Harvard, and you're not saving the extra money you're making by commuting those extra 3 1/2 hours a day towards early retirement, you're getting an awful return on your time. Throwing your money away on a giant house you hardly ever see doesn't make sense - you can make a much better return on other investments in the long run.
I commuted an hour each way for six months. Because I was starting out and needed the experience to get the job. Once I got the job/raise, I moved 8 minutes from work, and next month will be walking distance from work.
Didn't they specifically make it blindingly clear that by buying google stock you're agreeing that you're in it for the long run? I thought that was the whole point behind the google stock value was that they're looking at the long term and not worrying about short term gains.
What? If I suspect you're a telemarketer, you've got about 3 seconds to explain why you're not a telemarketer, and another 10 seconds to qualify that statement. The second I get any grief I hang up. You're letting them waste way too much of your life if they get to the point where they can try and guilt you about something.
Also: Being able to adjust the cropping area after creating it is hugely usefulin photoshop. I use gimp at work and photoshop at home and I can crop both equally fast. But the cropping adjustment is really helpful in avoiding having to recrop 2 or 3 times.
Congratulations, you're either an excellent troll with nothing better to do, or are the most consistently negative person on slashdot, looking at your other comments, who ads absolutely nothing to the discussion. Kill yourself now. Mods, feel free to mod this to oblivion, but first I challenge you to look at his posting record and mod him accordingly first.
Agreed. Education helps enormously, but while you can force-educate, you can't force-motivate. Also, it's hard to see the forest from the trees. On the flip side, there was a study done that many people continue their way of life due to the fact that their family and safety net are all blue collar workers, and would rather stay with them than risk alienating them. Like the 4% unemployment rate being a steady factor, the lowest quintile is always going to rate drastically lower than the other four. Yay humanity.
...And until the Supreme Court rules on owning weapons, we have the right to overthrow the government by force if we decide it becomes too greedy. That assumes the dollar doesn't depreciate so much that $100 is almost pocket change. Heck, in 1998 $20 mostly filled up your tank. Now $40 fills your tank. $100 is about 80% of a month's worth of gas if I don't travel out of town or go visit family uptown.
and was screaming his head off the week before about how he was gonna "kill the b_tch". That 99.9% match goes a LONG way toward removing reasonable doubt
Either you've never seen "12 angry men", or you're making a really subtle reference to that movie/story. I'm hoping it's the latter, 'cause otherwise you're an idiot.
Schools also buy complete tables, chairs, etc, but that doesn't stop them from specifying X years more warranty on them than already comes from the factory. When ordering radios you say "we want them to last X amount" i.e. better transistors and the manufacturer says "sure, we can do that (for X + 45% markup)" and then charge the government for any additional holdups involved in building and testing a non-standard product.
more rant on: Some of the larger carriers do offer calculators, such as ABF, SAIA and... well I'm drawing a blank now. A couple others. We negotiated a really good deal with another carrier, who USED to have an app, but it is no longer supported and their freight calcluation model changed enough that we can't simply plug it's old numbers into an excel spreadsheet to figure out what it should be. UPS, one of two primary carriers for nominal size freight 100 lbs used to have a freight calculator, but discontinued it in 1999 and require you to use their web site instead. Fortunately we figured out that the (old app's freight rate * 1.5)+ $3.50 is just about spot-on. I personally do about 15 freight quotes a day right now, and it's the slow season. I'll probably do that in an hour once June hits, plus actual orders that come in over the phone. Having one html page that shows all 15 carriers we use and breaks down the shipment by manufacturer (we ship factory direct) would pretty much eliminate the need for the hold button on the phone and get me down to 3 min per call. Secondly having this information on hand makes it easier to store freight quotes, which are currently held in two giant lateral file cabinets, cycled every six months and are ridiculously easy to lose during peak season. Right now we're developing a freight calculator that rolls all this in to one page and we're in beta. Exciting stuff, but freight companies still lose/damage stuff ALL THE TIME. Compared to UPS/FedEx, they're terrible and if there were any alternative, they'd have been put out of business decades ago. Someday Berkshire Hathaway will buy out CBF or some other major carrier and basically destroy all but the short route local carriers./rant off.
Ah-ha. Surely there is a graphical representation to explain this. Google image search to the rescue!
So are the digital channels being moved from the gaps between the current analog stations to other frequencies? Or are these "micro frequencies" inbetween everything, and if so, why weren't they included in the original auction? The way the article paints it, it sounds like there's Very Large Swaths to be siezed still, and that google is So Clever for noticing these before everyone else. I feel like there's a large portion of the picture missing here.
I was under the impression that the recent auction was for this exact spectrum that was being freed up. If this spectrum isn't forecast to be used with anything new, why are we turning off analog transmission again?
Wow, kudos. I don't think I've ever seen that combination of dots next to someone's name before. [Red][Blue][Green/Green][Green/Red]. I guess at least you make statements that get people's attention. You should be a radio talk show host.
rant on: Holy christ the freight industry is lost in the dark ages. I have to deal with these fuckers every day at work and they are the biggest group of imbeciles I've ever had the pleasure of speaking with. Not only do they damage 20% of their goods, but they grief you over random and petty bullshit to pad their bottom line. In our office of 20 people we have one lady whose unofficial title is deGriefer and spends 20 hours a week fixing problems the freight companies create with either petty bullshit or damaged goods. Christ I hate the freight industry. It's a miracle that they implemented tracking numbers and online tracking at all. 99% of freight companies don't provide an API to build your own freight calculator and you end up having to quote outrageous freight prices to customers and then go hunting for a better freight rate by hand on their websites. What a load of bullshit. The other day they wanted a $18 change of BOL fee to change from zip code 77066 to 77076 plus $56 redelivery fee (on an $83 shipment) so they could deliver freight from their other transit center in houston, even though the delivery site was less than 8 miles down the same road and the center they wanted to move it to first was 12 miles further away; rant off.
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Sure, in 20 years those sort of implants will be available, but having one will make you look like the fat guy wearing his shirt tucked in, comfortable socks under sandals with his trusty treo attached to his belt. The vocal minority will now say "why do i need a holographic projector and full size keyboard in my cell phone? all i need is a 8mp camera, web browser, day planner! oh, and voice." and everyone else will just follow the trends of the uber computer that also still makes voice calls. It's going to take a lot longer than 20 years for implants to become the norm, IMO.
20 years from now the mobile computer of the future will have 100+mbps wimax, be the size of a RAZR, contain a holographic projector (that also works in 2D to save on battery), and a built in laser keyboard. We're halfway there, with the upcoming 3G iPhone. Bluetooth laser keyboard is already avalible, and the iPhone has audio/video out via the port on the bottom. The Mini-Note has a son-of-PCMCIA slot for wireless internet everywhere already. You can't really get much practically smaller than that without losing durability or keyboard size (IBM thinkpad butterfly keyboard, anyone?) The age of the "anywhere PC" has arrived - just bring extra batteries. The home PC will always exist in some fashion, be it the XBOX 980 or PS9 for more immersive content, the workstation for creation of such content, but I think the personal machine will be be a laptop of EEE size with capability to sync with the multi/mega-terabyte home server (which may or may not be hosted remotely, say, as part of your gmail account). A chubby thin client.
That's an excellent point, but if you have to travel 4 hrs a day to make a living, maybe that means your skillset isn't high enough that they can pick the location of their job. Companies recruiting people for $200,000 a year are getting people from 2 hours away because the quality talent can choose jobs closer to their home. If you're a B rate employee, it might be worth it to take the 140,000 paycut and work for 60-65K a year and work 10 minutes from work.
Honestly, unless your kid is a supergenius that can't somehow get the scholarship to go to Harvard, and you're not saving the extra money you're making by commuting those extra 3 1/2 hours a day towards early retirement, you're getting an awful return on your time. Throwing your money away on a giant house you hardly ever see doesn't make sense - you can make a much better return on other investments in the long run.
I commuted an hour each way for six months. Because I was starting out and needed the experience to get the job. Once I got the job/raise, I moved 8 minutes from work, and next month will be walking distance from work.
I think the term "god machine" is very fitting.
Didn't they specifically make it blindingly clear that by buying google stock you're agreeing that you're in it for the long run? I thought that was the whole point behind the google stock value was that they're looking at the long term and not worrying about short term gains.
If you figure out how to override it, please share the solution with me, or make a firefox plug in. This is really awful. Yikes.
Why do my "reply to this" links now have an awful black button around them??? Oh god my eyes!!!
+9, old school
+15, hates any change to his beloved slashdot
??? What does that matter? I find this a lot more interesting than most things DARPA funds. I don't understand your response.
What? If I suspect you're a telemarketer, you've got about 3 seconds to explain why you're not a telemarketer, and another 10 seconds to qualify that statement. The second I get any grief I hang up. You're letting them waste way too much of your life if they get to the point where they can try and guilt you about something.
Also: Being able to adjust the cropping area after creating it is hugely usefulin photoshop. I use gimp at work and photoshop at home and I can crop both equally fast. But the cropping adjustment is really helpful in avoiding having to recrop 2 or 3 times.
Congratulations, you're either an excellent troll with nothing better to do, or are the most consistently negative person on slashdot, looking at your other comments, who ads absolutely nothing to the discussion. Kill yourself now. Mods, feel free to mod this to oblivion, but first I challenge you to look at his posting record and mod him accordingly first.
Where can I sign up to fund this sort of science? Fuck DARPA, this is what's important to me. This, and most of what EFF does.
Agreed. Education helps enormously, but while you can force-educate, you can't force-motivate. Also, it's hard to see the forest from the trees. On the flip side, there was a study done that many people continue their way of life due to the fact that their family and safety net are all blue collar workers, and would rather stay with them than risk alienating them. Like the 4% unemployment rate being a steady factor, the lowest quintile is always going to rate drastically lower than the other four. Yay humanity.
...And until the Supreme Court rules on owning weapons, we have the right to overthrow the government by force if we decide it becomes too greedy. That assumes the dollar doesn't depreciate so much that $100 is almost pocket change. Heck, in 1998 $20 mostly filled up your tank. Now $40 fills your tank. $100 is about 80% of a month's worth of gas if I don't travel out of town or go visit family uptown.
and was screaming his head off the week before about how he was gonna "kill the b_tch". That 99.9% match goes a LONG way toward removing reasonable doubt
Either you've never seen "12 angry men", or you're making a really subtle reference to that movie/story. I'm hoping it's the latter, 'cause otherwise you're an idiot.
Schools also buy complete tables, chairs, etc, but that doesn't stop them from specifying X years more warranty on them than already comes from the factory. When ordering radios you say "we want them to last X amount" i.e. better transistors and the manufacturer says "sure, we can do that (for X + 45% markup)" and then charge the government for any additional holdups involved in building and testing a non-standard product.
Sup?
Florida elections are only funny when you're not the one receiving annonomous "Chad Happens" bumper stickers on your car.
more rant on: Some of the larger carriers do offer calculators, such as ABF, SAIA and... well I'm drawing a blank now. A couple others. We negotiated a really good deal with another carrier, who USED to have an app, but it is no longer supported and their freight calcluation model changed enough that we can't simply plug it's old numbers into an excel spreadsheet to figure out what it should be. UPS, one of two primary carriers for nominal size freight 100 lbs used to have a freight calculator, but discontinued it in 1999 and require you to use their web site instead. Fortunately we figured out that the (old app's freight rate * 1.5)+ $3.50 is just about spot-on. I personally do about 15 freight quotes a day right now, and it's the slow season. I'll probably do that in an hour once June hits, plus actual orders that come in over the phone. Having one html page that shows all 15 carriers we use and breaks down the shipment by manufacturer (we ship factory direct) would pretty much eliminate the need for the hold button on the phone and get me down to 3 min per call. Secondly having this information on hand makes it easier to store freight quotes, which are currently held in two giant lateral file cabinets, cycled every six months and are ridiculously easy to lose during peak season. Right now we're developing a freight calculator that rolls all this in to one page and we're in beta. Exciting stuff, but freight companies still lose/damage stuff ALL THE TIME. Compared to UPS/FedEx, they're terrible and if there were any alternative, they'd have been put out of business decades ago. Someday Berkshire Hathaway will buy out CBF or some other major carrier and basically destroy all but the short route local carriers. /rant off.
On my old Gateway 2000 CrystalScan display
I have one of those! Great, compact monitors with good color that lasts forever.
Score: -1, No Funny Bone
Ah-ha. Surely there is a graphical representation to explain this. Google image search to the rescue!
So are the digital channels being moved from the gaps between the current analog stations to other frequencies? Or are these "micro frequencies" inbetween everything, and if so, why weren't they included in the original auction? The way the article paints it, it sounds like there's Very Large Swaths to be siezed still, and that google is So Clever for noticing these before everyone else. I feel like there's a large portion of the picture missing here.
I was under the impression that the recent auction was for this exact spectrum that was being freed up. If this spectrum isn't forecast to be used with anything new, why are we turning off analog transmission again?
Wow, kudos. I don't think I've ever seen that combination of dots next to someone's name before. [Red][Blue][Green/Green][Green/Red]. I guess at least you make statements that get people's attention. You should be a radio talk show host.
Yeah, but are they a beowulf cluster of computers? It's not really bragging rights on slashdot until those computers are part of a beowulf cluster.
rant on: Holy christ the freight industry is lost in the dark ages. I have to deal with these fuckers every day at work and they are the biggest group of imbeciles I've ever had the pleasure of speaking with. Not only do they damage 20% of their goods, but they grief you over random and petty bullshit to pad their bottom line. In our office of 20 people we have one lady whose unofficial title is deGriefer and spends 20 hours a week fixing problems the freight companies create with either petty bullshit or damaged goods. Christ I hate the freight industry. It's a miracle that they implemented tracking numbers and online tracking at all. 99% of freight companies don't provide an API to build your own freight calculator and you end up having to quote outrageous freight prices to customers and then go hunting for a better freight rate by hand on their websites. What a load of bullshit. The other day they wanted a $18 change of BOL fee to change from zip code 77066 to 77076 plus $56 redelivery fee (on an $83 shipment) so they could deliver freight from their other transit center in houston, even though the delivery site was less than 8 miles down the same road and the center they wanted to move it to first was 12 miles further away; rant off.