Discusses this concept precisely...guy goes around dreaming up random ideas, then immediately patenting them and donating to Open Source organisations.
Fun singularity-related read. Creative commons too, so it's free.
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The MSN start page appears to steal your settings from your Google start page, because all my google RSS feeds automatically showed up...I highly doubt that my exact combination is the default for everyone.
Top engineering school...I don't think so. Not compared to the University of Waterloo. Their solar car, the Midnight Sun, http://midsun.uwaterloo.ca/www/, has won several races and currently holds the world record for the longest purely Solar-powered tour around North America.
This is most untrue. In Europe, there is a wonderful understanding between most countries allowing one to travel through borders without being stopped. The current, and by current I pre-2001, setup between the States and Canada was nice, being able to drive across with just your drivers licence...something most drivers possess. Last week when I went down to New York by bus, I had to show my passport, birth certificate, drivers licence, return bus ticket and to top it all off, the phone numbers and addresses of the friends I was going to visit! I think that is going a bit overboard. All this beefing up of the Can/US border is probably to stop pot from being smuggled out of BC...
I think we should be able to get away without having a passport to travel between the US and Canada. Tracking of each individual traveller who is just going down to visit his friends is inconvienent and, I think, an unnecessary breach of my privacy.
No, actually you are wrong. This is a great idea. For an extremely minimal fee ($5000), they are providing a useful service to the city centre: free connection for office workers, people in transit and local businesses. This is exactly the direction I think wireless internet should be taking, the idea of blanketing regions with free internet and then seeing if a 'killer app' sprouts up that can take advantage of it. When more cities implement systems like this, hardware developers will feel more comfortable included wifi in PDAs and gadgets, sercure with the knowledge that there is actual network that users can take advantage of. Think GPS with Wifi that will give you a local map. Think VOIP cell phones. Think about the whole city toting OQOs and being mobile.
In this case, I think it is very smart on behalf of the city to be providing this service and more cities should think about implementing similar plans.
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Check out the novel Accelerando.
Discusses this concept precisely...guy goes around dreaming up random ideas, then immediately patenting them and donating to Open Source organisations.
Fun singularity-related read. Creative commons too, so it's free.
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Dude....Where's my podcast?
I thought the best thing that ever happened to Free Software were Developers? Oh right, that was Windows...
Nono. AC's are varelse: when we are unable to deal with them, the only solution is complete and total annilation. Moderation war is unavoidable.
The MSN start page appears to steal your settings from your Google start page, because all my google RSS feeds automatically showed up...I highly doubt that my exact combination is the default for everyone.
Top engineering school...I don't think so. Not compared to the University of Waterloo. Their solar car, the Midnight Sun, http://midsun.uwaterloo.ca/www/, has won several races and currently holds the world record for the longest purely Solar-powered tour around North America.
What the hell is this shit? Did /. just become livejournal?
The country in which this rover was made does not exist anymore.
when they start Power over Wifi...
I crushed his trachea with my mind.
3. ????
4. Profit
This is most untrue. In Europe, there is a wonderful understanding between most countries allowing one to travel through borders without being stopped. The current, and by current I pre-2001, setup between the States and Canada was nice, being able to drive across with just your drivers licence...something most drivers possess. Last week when I went down to New York by bus, I had to show my passport, birth certificate, drivers licence, return bus ticket and to top it all off, the phone numbers and addresses of the friends I was going to visit! I think that is going a bit overboard. All this beefing up of the Can/US border is probably to stop pot from being smuggled out of BC...
I think we should be able to get away without having a passport to travel between the US and Canada. Tracking of each individual traveller who is just going down to visit his friends is inconvienent and, I think, an unnecessary breach of my privacy.
No, actually you are wrong. This is a great idea. For an extremely minimal fee ($5000), they are providing a useful service to the city centre: free connection for office workers, people in transit and local businesses. This is exactly the direction I think wireless internet should be taking, the idea of blanketing regions with free internet and then seeing if a 'killer app' sprouts up that can take advantage of it. When more cities implement systems like this, hardware developers will feel more comfortable included wifi in PDAs and gadgets, sercure with the knowledge that there is actual network that users can take advantage of. Think GPS with Wifi that will give you a local map. Think VOIP cell phones. Think about the whole city toting OQOs and being mobile.
In this case, I think it is very smart on behalf of the city to be providing this service and more cities should think about implementing similar plans.
Sucks in a metaphorical way...unlike a vacuum...
Because then it makes you look like a rapist and since the courts are too busy attacking college students, they won't bother to investigate