It may be stupid, but that doesn't keep it from happening.
Being afraid of your oppenents superiority is not the only thing that causes this though. The fear that the competition will become more superior also affects people.
If you were to re-design a product every time you find a better way to do something, you would never be finished.
Take for example a website. If you were to redesign the layout everytime you had a better idea, you would never have a finished product. When designing something such as a website, finish with what you have. Get something that out there that works, then redo it.
Just make sure it's not shoddy though. Otherwise it won't be accepted by the consumer and any idea for a re-design would be practically put to it's death. You would lose way too much of the customer-base if the initial release sucks.
It doesn't fly to well with me either. The thing is, it's in the contract when buying the unit.
God, for some reason I just thought about Office 10. I guess it's kinda like that, sorta in a way. You physically have the binary for the program, but it's just a service. The saddest thing about that too, is they'll make loads of money just because 'Office' is a heavily marketed brand name. Just like the 'Pentium'. Everybody seems to have one yet half of them don't know what the hell it is.
Anyways... I should keep my fingers away from the keyboard. It'll keep me from going offtopic - So in conclusion, I don't like that fact that you don't own the H card either:)
Hehe... Anyways. This seems pretty cool. Hopefully the replays last longer. I can use the bathroom less often if I can just get it all done at one time:)
I'm just hoping I can get a new H card by Sunday...
But uh, yeah. I'd have to say this was a very elegant and masterfully planned attack on the hacking community. It was not just a feat of programming prowess, but also a powerful application of applied psychology.
Don't I know it:( I'm probably going to buy a new IBM 30gig ata100 though, so I can get rid of my noisy little WD.
But anyways, These microfans sound like they'd be very useful. Think of how much you could probably overclock an athlon when it's supercooled by hundreds of little fans:)
Space is permeated with radiation. 90-percent of all the matter in the universe emits radiation that we cannot even perceive. Do you think a few megatons would destroy the earth and end life as we know it?
If you do, I'm truly sorry. But the fact of the matter is, the energy would dissapate. Albeit not as fast as some would want; but in a few thousand years you wouldn't be able to detect a difference.
Just how many manned rocket launches do think there have been. Not that many. There are literally thousands of people riding Amtrak's rail-ways a year. It's insane to compare rocket's to Amtrak. Even more so to compare it to the individual passengers.
A single train alone holds more passengers than the amount of manned rocket launches the United States has ever had.
There are engines that are much more efficient than what we currently have; it's just that YOU don't know about them.
As was previously stated, "innovation" in the mind of the articles author is when society becomes widely aware of an invention and accepts it and uses it. There are a wide number of inventions from the early portion of the last century that I'm sure not too many people know about; just as there are many inventions today that those same people don't know about.
Given time, many of today's inventions will gain popularity and in some way effect our society.
Technology such as plumbing (albeit not exactly sanitary) is millenia old and lightbulbs can trace their roots to somewhere around 200 years ago. I'd say that's a little bit more than half a century:)
Ummm... that's not much of a problem. In space you don't have to worry about forces like friction or others that will push and pull on the satalites (except for the rare debris collision every once in a while).
It's more of an exercise in testing the accuracy of the propulsion/navigational systems they have on the satalite.
There's not much to worry about. Just think about it, a 250 million year old bacterium? It's had plenty of time to evolve and more likely than not is the ancestor of a few thousand different species of bacterium.
One of its decendents could even be the stuff in yogurt!
How the human brain perceives signals from the eye, makes shadows stand out. This is because light is the most abundant form of radiation and we have evolved to respond to it or the lack of. Since we live our lives constantly surround by large amounts of light, this makes the shadows more noticeable on a primarily lighted environment.
Hence, black text on a white background. A shadow amidst a sea of light.
(Notice how the bolded text stood out? It wouldn't stand out as much with a white on black scheme) OKAY.. Now, as I was previously thinking... I'm really glad NVidia has apologized. They actually have some quality products out there. Heck! I'm still amazed with how Quake3 runs on my Permedia2 based card!
If I remember my Physical Science class any, the waste would be pulled down into the mantle and would be dispersed throughout a large volume of space. This would decrease the overall radioactivity aspect of the magma per given unit cubed. The mountain range resulting from the subduction fault would then spread the semi-radioactive waste over a large area of land (in the case of a volcanic eruption). This would lessen the overall radioactive material per cubed unit. This overall is pretty good idea, But I say we just throw it all in a black hole;) (Now, just remember I got all of this stuff from my 8th grade physical science class. So don't do anything stupid, like base a report on it. Just remember what you would do during class when you where in 8th grade:P )
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It may be stupid, but that doesn't keep it from happening.
Being afraid of your oppenents superiority is not the only thing that causes this though. The fear that the competition will become more superior also affects people.
Thanks for the link. The story was quite enjoyable :)
If you were talking on one of these phones, or using one of the laptops outside, and it started to rain?
This is of course, making the assumption that these will be made bio-degradable. Even if not initially, but later on.
Real programmers don't document their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand :)
(That's a quote a picked up somewhere here on slashdot)
If you were to re-design a product every time you find a better way to do something, you would never be finished.
Take for example a website. If you were to redesign the layout everytime you had a better idea, you would never have a finished product. When designing something such as a website, finish with what you have. Get something that out there that works, then redo it.
Just make sure it's not shoddy though. Otherwise it won't be accepted by the consumer and any idea for a re-design would be practically put to it's death. You would lose way too much of the customer-base if the initial release sucks.
It doesn't fly to well with me either. The thing is, it's in the contract when buying the unit.
:)
God, for some reason I just thought about Office 10. I guess it's kinda like that, sorta in a way. You physically have the binary for the program, but it's just a service. The saddest thing about that too, is they'll make loads of money just because 'Office' is a heavily marketed brand name. Just like the 'Pentium'. Everybody seems to have one yet half of them don't know what the hell it is.
Anyways... I should keep my fingers away from the keyboard. It'll keep me from going offtopic - So in conclusion, I don't like that fact that you don't own the H card either
So, how did Joe Hill get his name?
:)
Hehe... Anyways. This seems pretty cool. Hopefully the replays last longer. I can use the bathroom less often if I can just get it all done at one time
I'm just hoping I can get a new H card by Sunday...
Yeah.. But when's the last time you checked?
But uh, yeah. I'd have to say this was a very elegant and masterfully planned attack on the hacking community. It was not just a feat of programming prowess, but also a powerful application of applied psychology.
The H card is considered part of the service.
Lol... Yeah! Where can I found out more about em? I'm uh, doing a research project *evil grin*
Don't I know it :(
:)
I'm probably going to buy a new IBM 30gig ata100 though, so I can get rid of my noisy little WD.
But anyways, These microfans sound like they'd be very useful. Think of how much you could probably overclock an athlon when it's supercooled by hundreds of little fans
Oh my... Some people *sighs*
Space is permeated with radiation. 90-percent of all the matter in the universe emits radiation that we cannot even perceive. Do you think a few megatons would destroy the earth and end life as we know it?
If you do, I'm truly sorry. But the fact of the matter is, the energy would dissapate. Albeit not as fast as some would want; but in a few thousand years you wouldn't be able to detect a difference.
Just how many manned rocket launches do think there have been. Not that many. There are literally thousands of people riding Amtrak's rail-ways a year. It's insane to compare rocket's to Amtrak. Even more so to compare it to the individual passengers.
A single train alone holds more passengers than the amount of manned rocket launches the United States has ever had.
There are engines that are much more efficient than what we currently have; it's just that YOU don't know about them.
As was previously stated, "innovation" in the mind of the articles author is when society becomes widely aware of an invention and accepts it and uses it. There are a wide number of inventions from the early portion of the last century that I'm sure not too many people know about; just as there are many inventions today that those same people don't know about.
Given time, many of today's inventions will gain popularity and in some way effect our society.
Technology such as plumbing (albeit not exactly sanitary) is millenia old and lightbulbs can trace their roots to somewhere around 200 years ago. I'd say that's a little bit more than half a century :)
For some reason when I saw the little smidget saying "they should allow future internet users to control satellites from their desktop"...
...I thought of Battle Bots. Interesting.
Ummm... that's not much of a problem. In space you don't have to worry about forces like friction or others that will push and pull on the satalites (except for the rare debris collision every once in a while).
It's more of an exercise in testing the accuracy of the propulsion/navigational systems they have on the satalite.
There's not much to worry about. Just think about it, a 250 million year old bacterium? It's had plenty of time to evolve and more likely than not is the ancestor of a few thousand different species of bacterium.
One of its decendents could even be the stuff in yogurt!
How the human brain perceives signals from the eye, makes shadows stand out. This is because light is the most abundant form of radiation and we have evolved to respond to it or the lack of.
Since we live our lives constantly surround by large amounts of light, this makes the shadows more noticeable on a primarily lighted environment.
Hence, black text on a white background. A shadow amidst a sea of light.
(Notice how the bolded text stood out? It wouldn't stand out as much with a white on black scheme) OKAY.. Now, as I was previously thinking... I'm really glad NVidia has apologized. They actually have some quality products out there. Heck! I'm still amazed with how Quake3 runs on my Permedia2 based card!
If I remember my Physical Science class any, the waste would be pulled down into the mantle and would be dispersed throughout a large volume of space. This would decrease the overall radioactivity aspect of the magma per given unit cubed. The mountain range resulting from the subduction fault would then spread the semi-radioactive waste over a large area of land (in the case of a volcanic eruption). This would lessen the overall radioactive material per cubed unit. This overall is pretty good idea, But I say we just throw it all in a black hole ;) (Now, just remember I got all of this stuff from my 8th grade physical science class. So don't do anything stupid, like base a report on it. Just remember what you would do during class when you where in 8th grade :P )
You sir, give Anonymous Cowards the world around, a bad name.