Ha, what's new? My state government already makes me buy car insurance, the state and federal government make me pay taxes so they can spend my money on whatever crap they like (incl wars that I don't support), and everywhere I turn there is some fine or fee for something. I'll just add this one to the pile.
I've always maintained that the CIA has done more to damage to the U.S. over the years than any terrorist could ever dream of. Their work has built us up quite a long list of enemies too.
Companies have been working on computer-driven cars for as long as I can remember. I can remember experiments on this similar to what Google is doing now even back in the 70's and 80's. Hell, they were talking about the idea even back before DARPA existed (anyone ever seen those old "What life will be like the future" shorts from the 50's?). They even made a TV show about it.
How much of the tablet and phone market do they represent?
MS will be in for more trouble if they stop no MS Software from running on hardware that is produced by other makers when Windows 8 comes out. Apple don't stop you from installing Windows or Linux on their Hardware.
I have no idea what that first sentence even means. But MS has never stopped you from installing anything you want in Windows, either. And no PC maker has ever stopped anyone from installing an alternate OS. The only company that does this is Apple--which stopped you from installing an alternate OS before bootcamp, stops you from installing OS X on anything other than Apple hardware, and stops you from installing non-App-Store software on any iOS device.
If it's typical Pentagon work, it will be contracted out to a bunch of Senators' favorite contractors, will end up costing 10x the original projection in just the first year, and after several years of failures and cost overruns they'll either quietly scrap the program entirely or end up spending an order of magnitude more to refurb a single satellite than to just launch a new one--all to produce a refurb which will be wonky, useless, and failure prone.
You mean back when it was a handful of uber-geeks at a few universities talking to each other via text-only? Before we had Wikipedia, Google, and the hundreds of other useful internet sites that make daily life so much better now?
I was one of those handful of geeks, mind you, and I'm the first to admit that things SUCKED back then compared to now. No way would I trade the modern internet for the days when gopher was the best we had. You go back to your "original internet culture" if you want to. I'm staying here.
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Ha, what's new? My state government already makes me buy car insurance, the state and federal government make me pay taxes so they can spend my money on whatever crap they like (incl wars that I don't support), and everywhere I turn there is some fine or fee for something. I'll just add this one to the pile.
I've always maintained that the CIA has done more to damage to the U.S. over the years than any terrorist could ever dream of. Their work has built us up quite a long list of enemies too.
Hey, don't blame them. They were just following orders from their FBI superiors.
"Helen Winkelmann Arrested on Rape Charge"
Considering I got modded into Troll oblivion above for saying it, I'm glad to know that there is at least one other sane person here.
Sounds more like Salvage 1.
Companies have been working on computer-driven cars for as long as I can remember. I can remember experiments on this similar to what Google is doing now even back in the 70's and 80's. Hell, they were talking about the idea even back before DARPA existed (anyone ever seen those old "What life will be like the future" shorts from the 50's?). They even made a TV show about it.
I hope you can do better than one success 40 years ago.
Apple represent approx 10% of the PC market.
How much of the tablet and phone market do they represent?
MS will be in for more trouble if they stop no MS Software from running on hardware that is produced by other makers when Windows 8 comes out. Apple don't stop you from installing Windows or Linux on their Hardware.
I have no idea what that first sentence even means. But MS has never stopped you from installing anything you want in Windows, either. And no PC maker has ever stopped anyone from installing an alternate OS. The only company that does this is Apple--which stopped you from installing an alternate OS before bootcamp, stops you from installing OS X on anything other than Apple hardware, and stops you from installing non-App-Store software on any iOS device.
If they dont pay up, they can be barred from trading in Europe
Yeah, good luck switching to Linux, Europe. Or maybe you could go Apple. They would CERTAINLY never abuse their monopoly over you.
Oh, it's DARPA? Well in that case let me revise it:
It will never materialize at all.
If it's typical Pentagon work, it will be contracted out to a bunch of Senators' favorite contractors, will end up costing 10x the original projection in just the first year, and after several years of failures and cost overruns they'll either quietly scrap the program entirely or end up spending an order of magnitude more to refurb a single satellite than to just launch a new one--all to produce a refurb which will be wonky, useless, and failure prone.
but is there research showing that giving every student an iPad improves something?
Yeah, it improves your chance of getting a federal or state grant to give every kid an iPad.
A smug sense of superiority requires constant maintenance.
I think there's a dozen or so of those on sourceforge that were made for significantly less than $1.2bil.
And how many of those have licenses that let you incorporate them into proprietary commercial software without making the code available?
his hasnt been proven beyond reasonable doubt.
Jesus, will you EVER remove your head from the sand? I bet you think all those Iranian nuclear scientists assassinated *themselves* too.
Don't be silly. Jesus rides a Harley.
Obviously those aren't real. They're not in the Bible.
we can't find a huge moving sea monster in a lake with less than 2 cu mi volume, less than 450 ft average depth?
He's hiding in a cave. He's very clever that way.
For once, my home state of Georgia looks positively enlightened by comparison.
Silly Jimmy. Don't you know that U.S. law *is* international law?
the original internet culture
You mean back when it was a handful of uber-geeks at a few universities talking to each other via text-only? Before we had Wikipedia, Google, and the hundreds of other useful internet sites that make daily life so much better now?
I was one of those handful of geeks, mind you, and I'm the first to admit that things SUCKED back then compared to now. No way would I trade the modern internet for the days when gopher was the best we had. You go back to your "original internet culture" if you want to. I'm staying here.
And why the hell is zero install so bleeping important?
Because it's what people expect now that they're used to Flash and Facebook games.
Adobe has to be the most annoying updater in the software world. I think I see that update screen for Flash and Reader more than I do my login screen.
Didn't they get Steve Jobs' memo?