Hello! Inspiration for patterns! Gang of four! "A Pattern Language"? "The Timeless Way of Building"? Hello? Anyone out there?
Sorry. I got snotty ther efor a moment. One of the points of his books is that modern bureaucracy specifies building codes that demand the end results this study sees. It's been out there for decades at this point. How sad.
The day's going to come when people will refuse to accept this. All the intelligence being added is being added in order to *limit* the user experience.
I can remember (old man crotchety voice on) when systems used to compete on things like S/N ratio, fidelity, color, etc. Back then (you know, this past Christmas), you bought components and high-grade (gold-plated, even) component connectors, expecting that the traffic on those connectors had everything to do with rendering the media, and nothing to do with anything else.
Now you find you have to be concerned with bios versions.
Any/. geek can deal with this, but others - my wife, as an example - would return the lot as defective, and demand cash back.
"Honey, I have to reboot the TV because it's just gotten a security bios update and TiVo won't record until it sees the update. Oh, and I'm sorry the DVD player doesn't work: the last automatic update turned it into a spam-bot and I had to turn it off or get sued under CAN-SPAM 2.1"
After reading the paper, I'm inclined to work up a little trading program that starts polling finance.yahoo.com as soon as I get a pump-and-dump spam e-mail, and buys/sells at a statistically predicted top.
I mean, the paper has about 20 pages of analysis, a couple of pages of references, and, what?, something like 15 pages of statistics. More than enough to start working a model.
Our civil servants are committed to being our uncivil masters.
The one upside to the US is that the process is documented and public *as* *it* *happens*.
I would encourage all/. members who can to vote "NO" to *anything* regarding McCain, and hope that this poor little non-accomplisher can exit to the well-deserved status of non-entity.
Moore's "Law" is actually a prediction that's been remarkably accurate.
I think, though, that's what happening here is employing the technology is causing positive feedback loops in the design and development of the technology, which is accelerating the improvement of the technology.
It's only going to get faster from here. Human consciousness executing on "silicon" by 2030.
I can go into any shop in Moycullen and ask them to slice me a pound of bacon. I'll get 500 grams of bacon, but they will take the order in avoirdupois.
What has Microsoft ever done profitably, apart from its office suite and its operating system? There may be products out there, but they don't jump out, do they?
Over a decade ago Doug Coupland - in the book "Microserfs" - pointed out that Microsoft had grown in size at the cost of quality. This is just the latest indicator.
Not satisfied with his first assault on our First Amendment rights, he's doing this to undermine the blogosphere. By imposing commercial-style constraints on bloggers, he makes it likely many of them will shut down, reducing the amount of criticism he has to face.
The latter module is key, because the OScar project is also meant to be an exploration of alternative designs for individual and collective mobility. While he believes in the right to mobility for everyone, Merz explains, "this doesn't need to translate into individual car ownership". For instance, an efficient system for distributing information about who needs a car when to go where could enable more car sharing. Technology could also be used to recommend optimal routes, etc. The OScar will be from the onset a "connected" car.
This might make car-pooling possible, even in Atlanta.
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Is anyone else having that reaction?
Why not just hang a USB-based satellite antenna off a laptop? They're doing it for HDTV, why not this?
I predict utter failure for this. Years from now it'll figure in a PCWorld article listing the 100 worst tech products ever.
The trip down memory lane is sort of nice, but who really cares?
That said, I was happy to find a link to the CVT Avant Stellar keyboard.
Hello? Anybody in there? Rio is known for Chicks! And tiny thongs! And Ipanema! And Copacabana! And Samba!
Geeks. Geez.
13,000 channels of shit on the TV to choose from?
We call it a "Belgian Dip."
The first copies to the US will arrive in a Boeing 777.
"There are certain parts of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try and invade."
He's a retired military guy who trims the edges of my lawn when he thinks I've let them go too long.
You know. As a sign. To get cracking. On the rest.
Hello! Inspiration for patterns! Gang of four! "A Pattern Language"? "The Timeless Way of Building"? Hello? Anyone out there?
Sorry. I got snotty ther efor a moment. One of the points of his books is that modern bureaucracy specifies building codes that demand the end results this study sees. It's been out there for decades at this point. How sad.
I was having an imagined conversation with my wife! Nice one though.
The day's going to come when people will refuse to accept this. All the intelligence being added is being added in order to *limit* the user experience.
/. geek can deal with this, but others - my wife, as an example - would return the lot as defective, and demand cash back.
I can remember (old man crotchety voice on) when systems used to compete on things like S/N ratio, fidelity, color, etc. Back then (you know, this past Christmas), you bought components and high-grade (gold-plated, even) component connectors, expecting that the traffic on those connectors had everything to do with rendering the media, and nothing to do with anything else.
Now you find you have to be concerned with bios versions.
Any
I guess I take you point, but I do believe that the point will come when people will get sick of "coercive" gadgets.
There was a post a few days back about Sixteenth century button makers that puts this whole thing in perspective.
"Honey, I have to reboot the TV because it's just gotten a security bios update and TiVo won't record until it sees the update. Oh, and I'm sorry the DVD player doesn't work: the last automatic update turned it into a spam-bot and I had to turn it off or get sued under CAN-SPAM 2.1"
Is test an ASAT missile.
(I'm sure that's coming.)
After reading the paper, I'm inclined to work up a little trading program that starts polling finance.yahoo.com as soon as I get a pump-and-dump spam e-mail, and buys/sells at a statistically predicted top.
I mean, the paper has about 20 pages of analysis, a couple of pages of references, and, what?, something like 15 pages of statistics. More than enough to start working a model.
Our civil servants are committed to being our uncivil masters.
/. members who can to vote "NO" to *anything* regarding McCain, and hope that this poor little non-accomplisher can exit to the well-deserved status of non-entity.
The one upside to the US is that the process is documented and public *as* *it* *happens*.
I would encourage all
As soon as they can fire more than 5 per day, the civilian-tech generator will be driving my car.
0-to-60 in 4 seconds, with no noise, on railgun tech. Yeah baby!
...as in the completely undefined "technology risk".
(I mean, as in, let me go combine hydrogen with carbon and oxygen, and see what happens......)
Moore's "Law" is actually a prediction that's been remarkably accurate.
I think, though, that's what happening here is employing the technology is causing positive feedback loops in the design and development of the technology, which is accelerating the improvement of the technology.
It's only going to get faster from here. Human consciousness executing on "silicon" by 2030.
Welcome to the singularuty.
I can go into any shop in Moycullen and ask them to slice me a pound of bacon. I'll get 500 grams of bacon, but they will take the order in avoirdupois.
"Stix nix hix pix" to you!
What has Microsoft ever done profitably, apart from its office suite and its operating system? There may be products out there, but they don't jump out, do they?
Over a decade ago Doug Coupland - in the book "Microserfs" - pointed out that Microsoft had grown in size at the cost of quality. This is just the latest indicator.
I know Holland has a muslim population that is increasingly numerous and belligerent (ask Theo van Gogh), but *kill*?
Not satisfied with his first assault on our First Amendment rights, he's doing this to undermine the blogosphere. By imposing commercial-style constraints on bloggers, he makes it likely many of them will shut down, reducing the amount of criticism he has to face.
What a scummy little man.
This might make car-pooling possible, even in Atlanta.