Microsoft waited until the Feds and seven of 12 states let them off the hook for monpoly noncompliance. Then they flexed the monopoly muscle. And why wouldn't they?
Read Alvin Toffler's 1980 book _The Third Wave_ which predicted with uncanny accuracy just how this would play out. Stay ahead of the next 10,000 years.
The two most private sets of data that you have are your DNA, and your private thoughts.
All that's stopped the British government from invading your DNA privacy was the arrival of the technology. Now it's cheap enough for the government to afford it - by charging you taxes - your innermost privacy is history.
Once there's tech for reading your mind, like scanning your neurons with a "wireless SQUID", the government will require reading your mind, too.
Or we can draw the line by defending our bodies and minds from government invasion now. If we wait for the mindreading tech to arrive, it'll be too late.
So now all we have to do is pay a doctor a lot of money to punch big holes in our sides, through our bones, to harvest our stemcells, a painful core sample.
Why can't we use some of the 400,000 blastocysts discarded by fertility clinics every year?
Then we'd just need the expensive second surgery to implant them, or the tissue externally grown from them in a lab. Eventually maybe we'll get a stemcell pill, or better yet, some kind of herbal tea that stimulates our own stemcells. But first let's get rid of the bone puncher.
Is that a measure of how much more easily you can by a non-Windows PC, or a measure of how much more mightily strongly people want a non-Windows PC?
Between MS stagnation, price hikes, security and other high-profile bugs, and the growing (if still low) sophistication/informedness of PC buyers, plus Apple's tremendously popular brand (mostly boosted by iPods and iTunes), is MS any less a monopoly abuser? Or are they just keeping down an overwhelming percentage of a much larger demand, so the non-MS growth would be much, much larger without their abuse?
Is anyone else nervous that these clowns are armed to the teeth, with enough firepower to destroy the world and make the rubble bounce several times?
They're not just too incompetent to defend their systems (I'm sure the US penetrates the Chinese, too). But they're too dumb to refrain from penetrating each other, or just not get caught.
These are the kinds of "brinksmanships" that keep us all close to the edge of destroying each other ("ourselves"). The kinds of stupid, complicated slap-happiness that gets out of hand. And gets into killing.
Sharp has developed a LCD display with optical sensors built into the displays pixels,
Yes! I've been asking for that exact feature since I got my first notebook PC in 1997.
without requiring a touch-sensitive film to be bonded on top of the regular screen
NO! I've been asking for that exact feature, a touchscreen scanner, since I got my first notebook PC in 1997.
Add the touchscreen.
And, since I've been asking for it since I got my first notebook PC in 1997, please include a "shape memory" layer that physically interacts with my finger on the touchscreen. So onscreen "G"UI widgets get real edges and real 3D interaction, to cue my fingertip gestures.
If they make it a printer on standard (uncoated) A4 (or arbitrary sized) paper, then they're almost done. I'd settle for it projecting a 500W, 5m wide image on a desk, wall or floor. Plugged into AC, of course. I'll get to the battery people later.
Whenever this "land grab" by copyright owners and corporate mass media is reported, on Slashdot or anywhere else, no one cares to even discuss it. Slashdotters will get all up in arms over DRM and other copyright abuse, but directly extorting independent content publishers into extinction doesn't even generate a yawn.
Then the nerds complain when the "free stuff" disappears.
Why bother with a lot of stories and discussions of why the corporations act like they own all our content and media, when we ignore them whenever they grab it?
When Google's map webpages are speedy and interactive enough to offer a flight simulator, with even the most rudimentary features, Google will finally have arrived at a "Web platform" that competes with desktop platforms. And when all its functions are available as an API (including downloadable scripts and objects) for anyone to bundle, they'll actually have the beginnings of a "Web OS".
Of course the test is whether it can run games like a flight sim. But as a truly native network platform, the games should be even more interesting, whether P2P, client/server, or whether we can't even tell the difference.
How does that work, where there are Swedish sequences embedded into the Norwegian text, without any indication that the language has suddenly switched midstream?
prominent science fiction names (like 'Asimov' and 'Silverburg') was used to determine which documents were to be singled out
Asimov has been dead for over a decade, while Silberberg hasn't written anything worth copying in about as long.
Unless they get a holographic C&D from Hari Seldon, or send a Skandar around to explain things, they should just treat these threats like a 4th Law of Robotics: ignore it.
AFAICT, one of the best features of the PS3 Cell is that DMA is zero overhead, and that the chip itself parallelizes tasks into a "black box" pool of SPEs as they become available (if requested to do so). It seems to be possibly the most streamlined parallel processors I've ever seen (described), mostly revolving around its "magic bus".
Also in 2003, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications built the PS 2 Cluster for about $50,000.
A $500 PS3 has 20 of the 26.5 GFLOPS the $2800 MicroWolf has. MicroWulf runs Ubuntu, which can also run on PS3. If people can port Linux libraries like Mesa/OpenGL/X to the PS3 SPEs, where most of the power lies, then we'd be looking at $25:GFLOPS, not the $94:GFLOPS on the MicroWulf.
And while taking a break, you can play Gran Turismo 5, and 40 more games you can afford with the money you save on HW.
Next we will learn that the Pentagon used the "Microsoft Torture" app at Abu Ghraib just because some jerk private downloaded it without telling anyone.
How many elliptical galaxies are there? There are about 130 billion galaxies in the observable universe, so 200,000 is just about 1.5 millionth of all of them. The paper started with 390,000 galaxies, for reasons I couldn't decipher, from which it selected these uniformly oriented galaxies. But if the odds of them being mutually aligned is about 1 in a million, and the resolution of all their possible alignments is less that 1 per million, than this ordering seems inevitable, and just a self-selection from a randomly oriented large sample.
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Microsoft waited until the Feds and seven of 12 states let them off the hook for monpoly noncompliance. Then they flexed the monopoly muscle. And why wouldn't they?
And why should we stand for it?
Is there anything that any iPod does that the iPhone does not do?
Read Alvin Toffler's 1980 book _The Third Wave_ which predicted with uncanny accuracy just how this would play out. Stay ahead of the next 10,000 years.
The two most private sets of data that you have are your DNA, and your private thoughts.
All that's stopped the British government from invading your DNA privacy was the arrival of the technology. Now it's cheap enough for the government to afford it - by charging you taxes - your innermost privacy is history.
Once there's tech for reading your mind, like scanning your neurons with a "wireless SQUID", the government will require reading your mind, too.
Or we can draw the line by defending our bodies and minds from government invasion now. If we wait for the mindreading tech to arrive, it'll be too late.
So now all we have to do is pay a doctor a lot of money to punch big holes in our sides, through our bones, to harvest our stemcells, a painful core sample.
Why can't we use some of the 400,000 blastocysts discarded by fertility clinics every year?
Then we'd just need the expensive second surgery to implant them, or the tissue externally grown from them in a lab. Eventually maybe we'll get a stemcell pill, or better yet, some kind of herbal tea that stimulates our own stemcells. But first let's get rid of the bone puncher.
Is that a measure of how much more easily you can by a non-Windows PC, or a measure of how much more mightily strongly people want a non-Windows PC?
Between MS stagnation, price hikes, security and other high-profile bugs, and the growing (if still low) sophistication/informedness of PC buyers, plus Apple's tremendously popular brand (mostly boosted by iPods and iTunes), is MS any less a monopoly abuser? Or are they just keeping down an overwhelming percentage of a much larger demand, so the non-MS growth would be much, much larger without their abuse?
I know, it's just another Slashstalker. Still a sign of the sickness among us.
That's almost exactly what I meant. 5200 nukes is 5200 too many, especially in the hands of these jokers.
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Mention that the Pentagon tortured people at Abu Ghraib, and the Republican TrollMods come out with their mod points. Sick fascists.
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What, exactly, was the response I was "trolling" for? TrollMods think they're armed to the teeth with mod points.
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94 comments, and one stupid TrollMod. Nerds care about the stupidest things, not self preservation.
Is anyone else nervous that these clowns are armed to the teeth, with enough firepower to destroy the world and make the rubble bounce several times?
They're not just too incompetent to defend their systems (I'm sure the US penetrates the Chinese, too). But they're too dumb to refrain from penetrating each other, or just not get caught.
These are the kinds of "brinksmanships" that keep us all close to the edge of destroying each other ("ourselves"). The kinds of stupid, complicated slap-happiness that gets out of hand. And gets into killing.
Yes! I've been asking for that exact feature since I got my first notebook PC in 1997.
NO! I've been asking for that exact feature, a touchscreen scanner, since I got my first notebook PC in 1997.
Add the touchscreen.
And, since I've been asking for it since I got my first notebook PC in 1997, please include a "shape memory" layer that physically interacts with my finger on the touchscreen. So onscreen "G"UI widgets get real edges and real 3D interaction, to cue my fingertip gestures.
If they make it a printer on standard (uncoated) A4 (or arbitrary sized) paper, then they're almost done. I'd settle for it projecting a 500W, 5m wide image on a desk, wall or floor. Plugged into AC, of course. I'll get to the battery people later.
Do all printing press operators work to end print piracy?
Whenever this "land grab" by copyright owners and corporate mass media is reported, on Slashdot or anywhere else, no one cares to even discuss it. Slashdotters will get all up in arms over DRM and other copyright abuse, but directly extorting independent content publishers into extinction doesn't even generate a yawn.
Then the nerds complain when the "free stuff" disappears.
Why bother with a lot of stories and discussions of why the corporations act like they own all our content and media, when we ignore them whenever they grab it?
When Google's map webpages are speedy and interactive enough to offer a flight simulator, with even the most rudimentary features, Google will finally have arrived at a "Web platform" that competes with desktop platforms. And when all its functions are available as an API (including downloadable scripts and objects) for anyone to bundle, they'll actually have the beginnings of a "Web OS".
Of course the test is whether it can run games like a flight sim. But as a truly native network platform, the games should be even more interesting, whether P2P, client/server, or whether we can't even tell the difference.
/rolls eyes
And invention without risk promieses no financial return.
CEOs don't like risk. They do like guaranteed competitive profit for free.
How does that work, where there are Swedish sequences embedded into the Norwegian text, without any indication that the language has suddenly switched midstream?
Asimov has been dead for over a decade, while Silberberg hasn't written anything worth copying in about as long.
Unless they get a holographic C&D from Hari Seldon, or send a Skandar around to explain things, they should just treat these threats like a 4th Law of Robotics: ignore it.
Between games and Blu-Ray movies, there's probably about 41 worthwhile titles ;).
AFAICT, one of the best features of the PS3 Cell is that DMA is zero overhead, and that the chip itself parallelizes tasks into a "black box" pool of SPEs as they become available (if requested to do so). It seems to be possibly the most streamlined parallel processors I've ever seen (described), mostly revolving around its "magic bus".
The PS3 comes out of the box with a Cell uP that gets something like 20 GFLOPS on each $500 PS3. It's already networked into clustered supercomputing like this MicroWulf.
A $500 PS3 has 20 of the 26.5 GFLOPS the $2800 MicroWolf has. MicroWulf runs Ubuntu, which can also run on PS3. If people can port Linux libraries like Mesa/OpenGL/X to the PS3 SPEs, where most of the power lies, then we'd be looking at $25:GFLOPS, not the $94:GFLOPS on the MicroWulf.
And while taking a break, you can play Gran Turismo 5, and 40 more games you can afford with the money you save on HW.
Next we will learn that the Pentagon used the "Microsoft Torture" app at Abu Ghraib just because some jerk private downloaded it without telling anyone.
How many elliptical galaxies are there? There are about 130 billion galaxies in the observable universe, so 200,000 is just about 1.5 millionth of all of them. The paper started with 390,000 galaxies, for reasons I couldn't decipher, from which it selected these uniformly oriented galaxies. But if the odds of them being mutually aligned is about 1 in a million, and the resolution of all their possible alignments is less that 1 per million, than this ordering seems inevitable, and just a self-selection from a randomly oriented large sample.