Unless they're planning to elaborate on the existing flight simulator built into Google Earth by implementing a first person shooter, I'm afraid having trees doesn't seem like a particularly useful development.
You guys complain about auto installing software and the lack of control over it, AND you complain about Windows's User Account Control telling you when something is happening on your computer without its own warning. So which is it? Pick one. Or write your own operating system and make it do what you want.
Why are people saying things about Google killing Wave? It's still there, people. Still fully functional. They just don't advertise it because it's still being developed.
Definitely a feature! Stew up them critters and feed the whole family.
But seriously, those populations have to be maintained. If the neighborhood cats aren't taking care of them something else will move in and do the job. I'd rather not have to deal with large birds and snakes, so I was comfortable scooping a dead bird on occasion. The morning I awoke to the sound of him chewing the ass off a rabbit outside my bedroom window was a bit weird, but I didn't have to feed him that day so it all worked out fine in the end.
That may be the case in urban families, but cats do have a role. The reason they were domesticated in the first place was to combat rodents. The only thing they received in return was shelter from weather and predators. Through the course of our joined evolution they've moved into our homes and become the lazy bastards they are today.
One of my cats was actually born in a horse barn where he learned to be a proper cat. When he came to live with me he provided an endless supply of mice, squirrels, birds, and even rabbits. It's only been in the past couple years that he's gotten lazy, but we forgive him because he's getting rather old.
As far as intelligence is concerned, we have another cat and two dogs. They're each intelligent in their own way. And they're each really stupid in their own way. I typically think of intelligence as the ability to solve problems. This usually requires the capacity to learn new things. My cats don't learn new things very quickly, but my dogs acclimate in a matter of hours. Though, my girl dog would rather sit in the cold rain at the back door on the off chance someone might let her in than go get in her doghouse.
Just for clarification, everyone is aware that WOZ is a bit loony, yes? I mean, the guy is brilliant. But the most brilliant people are often quite loony and difficult to understand. Their thoughts are so out there and constantly hopping between one stream of consciousness and another that often times things get jumbled up. That's actually how they come up with new radical ideas and improve old technologies so rapidly. But it's difficult for them to purvey their ideas to others because, honestly, they often have difficulty sorting things out for themselves.
Also, he very likely could have convinced himself of one Earth shattering revelation and spoke it to the media then moments later realized how preposterous it was and made more dramatic claims. He co-founded Apple, became famous, retired, and now he's your crazy uncle that every geek loves because they want to be him.
I hate it when people talk on the phone while driving. I hate it when people have their dog in their lap while driving. I hate lots of things about how people operate their vehicles. But I don't have statistics about the effects of these activities on real world automobile incidents. I also don't care to look it up. Could someone do the work and post back here? You'll probably find that talking on the phone and dogs running around in the car aren't reported to be significant accident causers. Texting, drinking, falling asleep, etc, are probably the vast majority of automotive tragedies.
Now, wanting to shoot someone in the face because they won't get off the damn phone and drive, where it does happen in the car, isn't necessarily an automotive incident.
Sure would be nice to see some specs on this new electric critter. I've said for a while that the Tesla Roadster power train could be great on SUV platforms that are designed for extra weight, and the Roadster's output is higher than most SUVs anyway, including my 2008 Wrangler.
So moving forward with assumptions...
2010 RAV4 is 3360 pounds with the V6 producing 269HP for a power to weight ratio of 12.49 (smaller is better, Viper is 6.7, Mini Cooper S is 14.5).
CEO Lentz estimated the EV would be 220 pounds heavier putting it at 3580 pounds, and assuming it's using the same motor from the Roadster that's 288 HP for a power to weight ratio of 12.43 (the Roadster's PWR is 9.45). So essentially the same as the V6, with more initial power, better power control, and no guilt for driving it.
Hey, sounds like dynamite to me. Plug it in at night, buy tires and brake pads every two years, wash it on the weekends. It should have a range of about 180 to 200 miles. Plenty for anyone's day with the family. For a lot of people it would even get them to grandma's house where it could charge overnight. If they can get it on the road for under $40K I think they might have a winner.
Firstly I agree with gothzilla's statements about user comfort and productivity.
But to answer the question about making the different OSes work together, it's just a matter of administration. The tools are all existing. One thing to keep in mind is a slow migration. If you're moving users from OS X or Windows to a Linux distribution I suggest starting with providing them software packages on their current OS that they will be using in Linux. Things such as Firefox, Chrome, Open Office, etc. That way they can get used to the new software on their familiar OS before having everything change.
I like the notion of migrating offices from Windows and OS X to Linux, but if I were personally to do so I wouldn't do it because of financial reasons. I'd have the company make contributions to the appropriate developers and organizations involved - especially if it's a for-profit business using the FOSS technology.
This 'story' smacks of hooey. An entire crock's worth, you might say. Opacity of plastic is not determined by its hue, to my knowledge. I think it has more to do with other performance faults they want to fix before delivering a 'new' product. Or perhaps sales of the previous white iPhones were stellar enough for them to care about doing it again.
That has to give a whole new meaning to being afraid in the dark. I bet there were a few hundred people messing their pants on Saturday, and a lot of people who haven't stopped working non-stop since the incident.
Actually, if the game has a halfway decent match making system then you'll likely end up laying people near your skill level on a much more frequent basis. More wage slaves duking it out instead of getting torn to shreds by lifeless basement dwellers.
Granted you'll still end up head to head with those people on occasion, but greater than 9 times out of 10 you'll be in a sufficiently matched game for it to be enjoyable. I had this experience in Halo 2 for a brief time and again in StarCraft 2. The match making actually works. You just have to stick with it long enough for it to learn your level.
The massive amount of network equipment like switches, wireless access points, routers, embedded firewalls... they all run an OS too and the vast majority of them don't run Android or even Linux.
This is so unbelievably unintelligent that if it weren't so long I might think it was a joke.
I often resort to extreme examples when explaining the ability for variations to people who deny variations exist. So with that in mind, an extreme example of a different kind of brain would be the autistic mind. Clearly it is different. It has little to nothing to do with the way the person was raised or educated over time. It is how their brain was created. If a brain can be created to that extreme of difference why not changed in more subtle ways that allow enhanced mathematical capabilities or greater empathy.
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen or exist.
The whole point of science and these studies is to figure these things out. To learn about the things we can't see but effect our daily lives.
I still think the Dreamcast controllers were the worst ever produced. Worse than the GameCube controllers, and worse than the N64 controllers.
But more to the point, I don't know what the minimum reliable specs are for emulators in the popular desktop OSes, but I bet it doesn't take much to run Dreamcast games. Why go to all the trouble of hardware hacks and improvements on technology that is that old? There are better ways.
The process of producing stop motion video is very similar to producing time lapse, which I have much more interest in. I wonder if these tools would work well for time lapse as well...
True, but on all the Dells and Lenovos I've deployed over the past few years the first thing I always do is format the drive into one large partition. The 10GB+ they use for recovery is a waste of my pr0n storage!;D
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This was a spectacular use of Google's resources.
Unless they're planning to elaborate on the existing flight simulator built into Google Earth by implementing a first person shooter, I'm afraid having trees doesn't seem like a particularly useful development.
That is a film I don't want to see at 11.
You guys complain about auto installing software and the lack of control over it, AND you complain about Windows's User Account Control telling you when something is happening on your computer without its own warning. So which is it? Pick one. Or write your own operating system and make it do what you want.
Why are people saying things about Google killing Wave? It's still there, people. Still fully functional. They just don't advertise it because it's still being developed.
http://wave.google.com/
That sounds exciting. And expensive ...
I see some gender consistency here. Perhaps it's just females that are nuts? :D
Definitely a feature! Stew up them critters and feed the whole family.
But seriously, those populations have to be maintained. If the neighborhood cats aren't taking care of them something else will move in and do the job. I'd rather not have to deal with large birds and snakes, so I was comfortable scooping a dead bird on occasion. The morning I awoke to the sound of him chewing the ass off a rabbit outside my bedroom window was a bit weird, but I didn't have to feed him that day so it all worked out fine in the end.
That may be the case in urban families, but cats do have a role. The reason they were domesticated in the first place was to combat rodents. The only thing they received in return was shelter from weather and predators. Through the course of our joined evolution they've moved into our homes and become the lazy bastards they are today.
One of my cats was actually born in a horse barn where he learned to be a proper cat. When he came to live with me he provided an endless supply of mice, squirrels, birds, and even rabbits. It's only been in the past couple years that he's gotten lazy, but we forgive him because he's getting rather old.
As far as intelligence is concerned, we have another cat and two dogs. They're each intelligent in their own way. And they're each really stupid in their own way. I typically think of intelligence as the ability to solve problems. This usually requires the capacity to learn new things. My cats don't learn new things very quickly, but my dogs acclimate in a matter of hours. Though, my girl dog would rather sit in the cold rain at the back door on the off chance someone might let her in than go get in her doghouse.
Just for clarification, everyone is aware that WOZ is a bit loony, yes? I mean, the guy is brilliant. But the most brilliant people are often quite loony and difficult to understand. Their thoughts are so out there and constantly hopping between one stream of consciousness and another that often times things get jumbled up. That's actually how they come up with new radical ideas and improve old technologies so rapidly. But it's difficult for them to purvey their ideas to others because, honestly, they often have difficulty sorting things out for themselves.
Also, he very likely could have convinced himself of one Earth shattering revelation and spoke it to the media then moments later realized how preposterous it was and made more dramatic claims. He co-founded Apple, became famous, retired, and now he's your crazy uncle that every geek loves because they want to be him.
I hate it when people talk on the phone while driving. I hate it when people have their dog in their lap while driving. I hate lots of things about how people operate their vehicles. But I don't have statistics about the effects of these activities on real world automobile incidents. I also don't care to look it up. Could someone do the work and post back here? You'll probably find that talking on the phone and dogs running around in the car aren't reported to be significant accident causers. Texting, drinking, falling asleep, etc, are probably the vast majority of automotive tragedies.
Now, wanting to shoot someone in the face because they won't get off the damn phone and drive, where it does happen in the car, isn't necessarily an automotive incident.
Sure would be nice to see some specs on this new electric critter. I've said for a while that the Tesla Roadster power train could be great on SUV platforms that are designed for extra weight, and the Roadster's output is higher than most SUVs anyway, including my 2008 Wrangler.
So moving forward with assumptions ...
2010 RAV4 is 3360 pounds with the V6 producing 269HP for a power to weight ratio of 12.49 (smaller is better, Viper is 6.7, Mini Cooper S is 14.5).
CEO Lentz estimated the EV would be 220 pounds heavier putting it at 3580 pounds, and assuming it's using the same motor from the Roadster that's 288 HP for a power to weight ratio of 12.43 (the Roadster's PWR is 9.45). So essentially the same as the V6, with more initial power, better power control, and no guilt for driving it.
Hey, sounds like dynamite to me. Plug it in at night, buy tires and brake pads every two years, wash it on the weekends. It should have a range of about 180 to 200 miles. Plenty for anyone's day with the family. For a lot of people it would even get them to grandma's house where it could charge overnight. If they can get it on the road for under $40K I think they might have a winner.
It's linked in the article.
Vadem Clio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadem_Clio
Firstly I agree with gothzilla's statements about user comfort and productivity.
But to answer the question about making the different OSes work together, it's just a matter of administration. The tools are all existing. One thing to keep in mind is a slow migration. If you're moving users from OS X or Windows to a Linux distribution I suggest starting with providing them software packages on their current OS that they will be using in Linux. Things such as Firefox, Chrome, Open Office, etc. That way they can get used to the new software on their familiar OS before having everything change.
I like the notion of migrating offices from Windows and OS X to Linux, but if I were personally to do so I wouldn't do it because of financial reasons. I'd have the company make contributions to the appropriate developers and organizations involved - especially if it's a for-profit business using the FOSS technology.
That is impressively not funny.
This 'story' smacks of hooey. An entire crock's worth, you might say. Opacity of plastic is not determined by its hue, to my knowledge. I think it has more to do with other performance faults they want to fix before delivering a 'new' product. Or perhaps sales of the previous white iPhones were stellar enough for them to care about doing it again.
That has to give a whole new meaning to being afraid in the dark. I bet there were a few hundred people messing their pants on Saturday, and a lot of people who haven't stopped working non-stop since the incident.
Actually, if the game has a halfway decent match making system then you'll likely end up laying people near your skill level on a much more frequent basis. More wage slaves duking it out instead of getting torn to shreds by lifeless basement dwellers.
Granted you'll still end up head to head with those people on occasion, but greater than 9 times out of 10 you'll be in a sufficiently matched game for it to be enjoyable. I had this experience in Halo 2 for a brief time and again in StarCraft 2. The match making actually works. You just have to stick with it long enough for it to learn your level.
The massive amount of network equipment like switches, wireless access points, routers, embedded firewalls ... they all run an OS too and the vast majority of them don't run Android or even Linux.
This is so unbelievably unintelligent that if it weren't so long I might think it was a joke.
I often resort to extreme examples when explaining the ability for variations to people who deny variations exist. So with that in mind, an extreme example of a different kind of brain would be the autistic mind. Clearly it is different. It has little to nothing to do with the way the person was raised or educated over time. It is how their brain was created. If a brain can be created to that extreme of difference why not changed in more subtle ways that allow enhanced mathematical capabilities or greater empathy.
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen or exist.
The whole point of science and these studies is to figure these things out. To learn about the things we can't see but effect our daily lives.
Absolutely serious when I say this, my college Fraternity used pledges to do just that (probably still do).
All the guys taking a given class would throw in a few bucks for one copy of the text, then as if by magic we would receive an electronic version.
Terrible copyright infringement, pyramid scheming, slavery, hazing, and all that. But it was so convenient.
You mean righteous distribution of knowledge?
I still think the Dreamcast controllers were the worst ever produced. Worse than the GameCube controllers, and worse than the N64 controllers.
But more to the point, I don't know what the minimum reliable specs are for emulators in the popular desktop OSes, but I bet it doesn't take much to run Dreamcast games. Why go to all the trouble of hardware hacks and improvements on technology that is that old? There are better ways.
The process of producing stop motion video is very similar to producing time lapse, which I have much more interest in. I wonder if these tools would work well for time lapse as well ...
True, but on all the Dells and Lenovos I've deployed over the past few years the first thing I always do is format the drive into one large partition. The 10GB+ they use for recovery is a waste of my pr0n storage! ;D
You think it was an accident? Shit, they've even got Slashdot putting her name in lights. Looks like a rather well played marketing tactic to me.
And probably picked up thousands of new Twitter followers in the process.
I'd probably just punch you both in the face.
What?