I often heard that rats are used so much as test animals in laboratories because they react similarly to humans when you expose them to chemicals, lack or abundance of food etc.
All these so-called 'predictions' are useless. No-one can look into the future and especially in the fast moving world of hard- and software the Next Best Thing is always just around the corner, so why do people take the time even to read predictions like this?
I always wonder what MS spends their incredibly high R&D budget on. I never see new products from MS that justify these amounts. Hell, they can't even do simple things like basic security right, so what are they spending all that money on?
Good point. Hey, maybe they can sell their software to the people in the Western world. Maybe it's easier to convert software to speak English (or whatever Western language) from Chinese than vice versa.
That, and the fact that you can only surf in a vertical position, while many people prefer to surf for prOn in a horizontal position.
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She certainly can't sit behind the desk since they forgot to create any legspace. But hey, design is more important than functionality of course. Three buttons and a wheel are ugly too.
Yes. Considering all the odds, space travel is surprisingly safe. Only 161 people died in 43 years of space travel. I don't know how many percent that is I find it a miracle that not many more people died during the space race of the 60's and 70's considering how little time they took designing and testing their equipment.
Where did you get these numbers? I don't know what the Indian poverty line is but I can't believe that America has 50 million homeless people. I also thought there were more then 200 million people living in America. And I presume the 10/100 infant mortality is a typing error, but 10/1000 is still quite high for a developed country. In Holland only 5.2 children per 1000 die in their first year.
Have you seen the very weird picture of a woman with no head and a deformed right arm on page 2 of the article? I wonder if she stood too close when the engine was switched on.
Who cares about security. Games are more important! Truly random numbers can enhance the gameplay for some games no end. And another good use: I have xv pick a random picture from a directory to use as background image every time I start my machine up. I soon noticed that some pictures appear more often than others. So maybe someone can use this random number generator in xv, please!
It looks a bit like the joysticks I have for my Commodore 64. I always thought they were better than what you get with your average game console nowadays. Those tiny buttons may be much cheaper to make but they do not add much more to gameplay than a keyboard does.
If Seatlle gets submerged then maybe the US will finally realize that they have a responsibility to the environment just as all the other nations in the world. Doing nothing to protect the environment because it hurts the economy (as Dr. Shrub claims) is plain stupid and will backfire eventually.
We'll have 8 GB RAM, 80 TB harddisk memory and the processor will be about a hundred times as fast as we have now. And we'll still be running wordprocessors that take forever to start and eat up huge chucks of memory. However, I hope that by then we will have a choice in what word processor we use because the document file formats are open and can be read and written by every word processor on the market.
Interesting point. Recently I heard that M$ has bought a company that makes anti-virus software. So now they can earn more money by selling their crap. Now they can even hire people to write new virii (viruses? we had this discussion long ago...) for them!
That's very interesting. Now I can finally find out if I suck just as much in succeeding in a virtual world as in the real one.
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We tried to build a machine from Lego in our research group a few years ago, when Mindstorm had just hit the shelves, but we found the accuracy of the movement was quite bad. So it can only be used for a limited range of experiments. On the other hand, it is very cheap compared to custom-build machines and therefore certainly worth taking a look at.
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I often heard that rats are used so much as test animals in laboratories because they react similarly to humans when you expose them to chemicals, lack or abundance of food etc.
Because I get really annoyed by posts like this, and it's sunday and I have nothing better to do :-)
All these so-called 'predictions' are useless. No-one can look into the future and especially in the fast moving world of hard- and software the Next Best Thing is always just around the corner, so why do people take the time even to read predictions like this?
He's right you know. And if you happen to get a glass full of foam you just wait for it to turn into beer again.
...dangerous and evil full of back doors and bugs and such things could bring a business to a crushing hault....
MSBlaster anyone?
Sorry, couldn't resist
I always wonder what MS spends their incredibly high R&D budget on. I never see new products from MS that justify these amounts. Hell, they can't even do simple things like basic security right, so what are they spending all that money on?
Good point. Hey, maybe they can sell their software to the people in the Western world. Maybe it's easier to convert software to speak English (or whatever Western language) from Chinese than vice versa.
Why are businesses willing to pay so much more? Hell, next time I need a desk, I think I'll buy a sheet of MDF and stick a leg on each corner.
I did that. I now have a desk of 2 x 1 m2. By the way, multiplex looks better than MDF.
That, and the fact that you can only surf in a vertical position, while many people prefer to surf for prOn in a horizontal position.
She certainly can't sit behind the desk since they forgot to create any legspace. But hey, design is more important than functionality of course. Three buttons and a wheel are ugly too.
Yes. Considering all the odds, space travel is surprisingly safe. Only 161 people died in 43 years of space travel. I don't know how many percent that is I find it a miracle that not many more people died during the space race of the 60's and 70's considering how little time they took designing and testing their equipment.
Where did you get these numbers? I don't know what the Indian poverty line is but I can't believe that America has 50 million homeless people. I also thought there were more then 200 million people living in America. And I presume the 10/100 infant mortality is a typing error, but 10/1000 is still quite high for a developed country. In Holland only 5.2 children per 1000 die in their first year.
Have you seen the very weird picture of a woman with no head and a deformed right arm on page 2 of the article? I wonder if she stood too close when the engine was switched on.
Who cares about security. Games are more important! Truly random numbers can enhance the gameplay for some games no end. And another good use: I have xv pick a random picture from a directory to use as background image every time I start my machine up. I soon noticed that some pictures appear more often than others. So maybe someone can use this random number generator in xv, please!
It looks a bit like the joysticks I have for my Commodore 64. I always thought they were better than what you get with your average game console nowadays. Those tiny buttons may be much cheaper to make but they do not add much more to gameplay than a keyboard does.
What an enormously cool thing! It's like a Segway on steroids. I'd almost chop off a leg for one of these!
If Seatlle gets submerged then maybe the US will finally realize that they have a responsibility to the environment just as all the other nations in the world. Doing nothing to protect the environment because it hurts the economy (as Dr. Shrub claims) is plain stupid and will backfire eventually.
We'll have 8 GB RAM, 80 TB harddisk memory and the processor will be about a hundred times as fast as we have now. And we'll still be running wordprocessors that take forever to start and eat up huge chucks of memory. However, I hope that by then we will have a choice in what word processor we use because the document file formats are open and can be read and written by every word processor on the market.
Interesting point. Recently I heard that M$ has bought a company that makes anti-virus software. So now they can earn more money by selling their crap. Now they can even hire people to write new virii (viruses? we had this discussion long ago...) for them!
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Because we were on vacation.
That's very interesting. Now I can finally find out if I suck just as much in succeeding in a virtual world as in the real one.
We tried to build a machine from Lego in our research group a few years ago, when Mindstorm had just hit the shelves, but we found the accuracy of the movement was quite bad. So it can only be used for a limited range of experiments. On the other hand, it is very cheap compared to custom-build machines and therefore certainly worth taking a look at.
Terry Pratchett wrote an excellent Discworld novel about this. It's called The Truth.
Health workers in Africa -- the only place the few outbreaks have occurred -- might be the most likely recipients of an approved Ebola vaccine.
Let's hope the medicine will be so cheap that the locals can afford it too. Sadly this will most probably not be the case.