Definitely. The "final" living being is the product of genetics and environment (sorry, last time I studied this was in high-school, over 10 years ago, I think its called genotype x environment interaction theory or something like that).
I'd really love to see how much the different environments affect the development of the average human(not counting tanned and over/underweight/bodybuilding people).
Nowadays it's pretty clear that anything with a processor will be connect to some cloud some time in the future, like it or not. What I don't get is the logic in the middle of the summary: how is having a touch screen a hint for cloud computing on the car? Not only having to take the eyes of the road just to change a radio station or increase the AC quite dangerous due to the lack of mechanical feedback, but the Amazon/Ford and Google efforts seem a lot more concrete when it comes to cloud uses. It just feels out of place not being relevant to the article and it's there just for the sake of being trendy.
I guess you mean IBM Watson medical libraries entirely coded in DNA and working inside a cell. I'd mod you interesting or insightful if I had points. I Just hope, assuming this technology actually becomes practical, that the cells inside my body coded with an advanced A.I. don't try to take over my stupid mind.
Also windows mobile and RT only use ARM(AFAIK), while there are a few Intel Android phones and it's expected to see Ubuntu phones using both architectures as well. Linux actually has a need for new OpenGL ES version support.
4. Even if you could compare the numbers directly, not every copy of MS Office is bought at full price. I got mine for free from my IEEE Communications Society student membership(albeit it's office 2007)
As much as I respect Open/Libreoffice, 7.6 billions is just too much. I wonder if even MS office itself is worth that much.
Google didn't remove a competing service, they removed a law breaking service. Kindle, Nook, SonyReader along side tens of publishers from all over the world still have their legal ebook selling apps available at Google Play. Regardless what is your opinion on the ethics of pirating, it's still a crime. Google having an app designed for buying pirated material would make it nothing a culprit in the crime. Removing such apps are decisions that any sane appstore businesses make.
That is correct. And this FACT begs the question: why the hell do they even bother making consoles? The only reason I can think of is to try to get some extra money from the hardware sale, which ironically is pretty much the reason they've been on the red for the last few quarters. Selling 3DS at a loss and now the wiiU as well just for the sake of the numbers don't really seem like a smart idea. And please don't come with that "unique experience" bullcrap, because all the good Wii and DS games I've played were perfectly playable with more traditional home console and handheld interfaces. Competition is a good thing? Yes as long as there are common standards. In the proprietary format cursed world of gaming consoles I'm rather pay $599 for a single console that can play everything then buying two $299 weaker consoles with fragmented libraries,
I'd really love not having to use emulators to play nintendo 1st/2nd party games(and thank the gaming god for letting nintendo making easily "emulatable" systems), but I'm not spending money, set up time and rack space on a overpriced, outdated hardware piece, with horrendous online and multimedia capabilities.
Needless to say, while I'd rather have nintendo becoming a software developer for Sony and MS consoles, ideally I'd love if they just embraced PC and mobile gaming.
I live in Japan and while I have a hybrid light car(K-car Japanese Standard), I try to save money by walking(when it's raining/snowing) or riding my bicycle(on sunny/cloudy days). However, honestly, I don't exactly enjoy bicycles(nothing wrong with them, just personal preferences). Motorcycles are great but I'm not comfortable with the idea to share the road with cars that weight at least 10 times more and a segway is way too overpriced(and fugly). If you lived about 5km( 3 miles) from your work, would you use it daily instead of a bicycle? How usable the Solo Wheel is for daily life? Do you consider it just a toy or an actual transportation mean for short distances?
Recently found that bluetooth support is pretty poor too. Good luck find games/apps (outside the ones on Cydia) that work with a PS3/Wii/generic wireless controller. Not even talk about the lack of a file manager and gimped WebKit. That is notebook territory only for people who just use facebook and watch youtube videos.
But enough of Apple bashing from my part as that is beyond the point. The fact is that this article is awfully written. If storage is the necessary condition to be a notebook competitor does that mean that the 160GB iPod classic(do they even make those anymore?) is also on ultrabook territory?
First off Mobile Safari and all the other reskins(the other iOS browsers). A huge chunk of internet porn is perfect visible by just having a browser. And with the adoption of HTML5 in the next few years, I'd go as far as saying 99% of the porn will be visible by just having a web browser(even with a gimped javascript engine on iOS). If Apple was really serious about porn, they wouldn't have a browser in first place. Or maybe they'd use something like Opera mini, that goes through their server, gets censored, and then goes to the client device. The only porn that I don't think will be visible using a browser are a few Japanese 3D erogames(the visual novels can be done using HTML5. actually I'm surprised they haven't done so yet)
Then there is also offline viewing. iOS may not have file managers and it's codec selecting is limited, but its more than enough to view a video/pics uploaded uploaded through iTunes.
The apps. Apple policies are BS. DeviantArt is filled with artistic nudes, softcore porn and furry and it has multiple apps on itunes. Pixiv(japanese deviantart like site) is about 30% hardcore hentai porn and it has apps as well. Reddit and its japanese great grand father 2ch have several native clients for iOS, and they are filled with porn. Twitter already had links to porn and its integrated on iOS. It's not very hard to find youtube videos with some nudity or obscene language and there is an app for that. The only popular website with NSFW content that seems to be banned from the Appstore is 4chan.
Finally, the hypocrisy: their music and video stores have tons of potentially offensive content(not just nudity and sexual terms) that would be banned from the AppStore right off the bat. Never really understood the fuss about the apps.
I kind of like sony, I have a Vita(not because of Sony but because it has reasonable third party support here in Japan, I really enjoy the library so far) and a Xperia phone(decent phone with great looks). But holy crap, their security setup pre-hacking was something a baby could build better. Considering the amount of DRM they put on their products, I would at least expect they take server side security and data encryption seriously. The PS3 took 5 years to get hacked, but the PSN goes down in a few days by a bunch of script kids? WTF!? $400000 is pocket money even for sony, the penalties should be much harsher so that sony doesn't not ever decide to commit the same mistake ever again but also to scare other lazy companies in to upgrading their cloud services.
Yes, but only tech savy people will install the necessary drivers. Most likely your ext4 formated USB drive will only work with the SOME machines you administrate(things that you can't customize the OS/firmware such as game consoles, external HDD compatible TVs, several professional measurement instruments are some of the devices I use that have only some for of FAT or NTFS support). Good luck in the real world. I HATE microsoft because of that. Using the "monopoly" on the OS to basically dictate which file systems hardware makers all over the world will use is, IMO, as bad as having trying to force everybody in to developing only for IE6 back in the 90s. No, scratch that, it's actually worse because you have to pay patents. And virtually nobody does anything about it.
Yeah, automated production lines are great for factories and centralized production centers. The problem is that, since every thing is cooked locally, each fast food restaurant would need a production line, which cost tens of thousands of dollars.Plus if you count maintenance and administration staff you probably reduce only 2 or 3 employees from 8~15 depending on the size of the restaurant. Plus you going to need a higher level of skill as well.
However, while for business these robots may not be efficient, a general purpose robotic arm cooking robot could be of big help for people like me, who hate cooking and kitchen work, but still want to eat healthy.
Whatever you do, if want your marriage to last, do NOT play Mario Party or Super Smash Bros games with her.
Keep those games for friends you don't care very much about.
I don't think the lag will be horrendous. Nowadays, we can stream movies and even play video games(gaikai, onlive, Playstation remote play) over the cloud. VNC servers are also pretty common on a professional environment and they work great. Considering the great majority of people just use their computers for social networking and office, both activities in which the screen barely changes and only require low frequency input, from a technical point of view I just don't see the problem. There is definitely a market for oversimplified computing devices. The only reasons I can think of for this product not to succeed are the infamous DELL support and built quality(not a Dell user, that is only what I hear).
Can the Chinese children earning just enough to eat buy the products they produce?
Using robots is not about creating jobs in the US or any other country. Its about stopping outsourcing. Stopping technology theft and secret leaks, stopping the financing of potential rivals and even enemies, and by producing locally, increasing distribution speed.
And while automatization may not create as many jobs as outsourcing took, it will create more than we have right now: thousands of technicians, programmers and engineers will be needed to set up and maintain this robotic infrastructure.
If you want to teach the children to build 3d objects in front of a computer then why not just teach blender?
The results are better, the interface is much better, it's an actual skill that can get you a job in the future, you get all the basics to to 3d modeling that can be transfered to other software suits(MAYA in particular), it's free, and you can even learn some programing if you start messing with the game engine. If computer power is the problem, I can say that if their computers can run MC at 30fps, then blender will run as smooth as a hot knife in butter.
Personally I never understood why world creation games are so popular, when you can have a much better experience using a artistic software suit. I personally tried all these games: Minecraft, Terraria, Dwarf fortress you name it. If there was at least real challenge, depth and interesting rewards, just like a real game, I would understand. DF is the only one that has SOME of those atributes but Minecraft/Terraria just fells like pure work and boredom. If sparking interest in computers and digital arts is the reason they chose MC, I have a list of much better games such as Deus EX or Xenogears(amongst a few others, that yet to be released Cyberpunk2077 game looks good too). They may not directly stimulate the creative side of the brain but their storyline/settings/lore are awe-inspiring(they played a huge role in my later childhood and had a directly influence in determining who I am now).
But that is how it should be: not just every movie studio should be able to make a Superman movie, because this would undermine the "real"/canonical Superman line.
Does that really matters? I'm more of a japanese manga guy, but according to my limited knowledge about american comics, superman is 70+ years old already, has been rebooted several times, has multiple writers, multiple artists, multiple timelines, movies, video games, cartoons. I seriously have no idea what is cannon in the Superman world. Considering everything that is officially by DC/WarnerBros release doesn't feel right. That would be like considering (the majority of the) Dragon Ball Z movies cannon, which they obviously aren't.
Superman is just one example, the US seems to love those really old comic characters with multiple plot lines, reboots, adaptations etc. I tried to keep up with X-men during high-school but no, there is just too much convoluted stuff by too many people.
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Definitely. The "final" living being is the product of genetics and environment (sorry, last time I studied this was in high-school, over 10 years ago, I think its called genotype x environment interaction theory or something like that).
I'd really love to see how much the different environments affect the development of the average human(not counting tanned and over/underweight/bodybuilding people).
Nowadays it's pretty clear that anything with a processor will be connect to some cloud some time in the future, like it or not. What I don't get is the logic in the middle of the summary: how is having a touch screen a hint for cloud computing on the car? Not only having to take the eyes of the road just to change a radio station or increase the AC quite dangerous due to the lack of mechanical feedback, but the Amazon/Ford and Google efforts seem a lot more concrete when it comes to cloud uses. It just feels out of place not being relevant to the article and it's there just for the sake of being trendy.
I guess you mean IBM Watson medical libraries entirely coded in DNA and working inside a cell. I'd mod you interesting or insightful if I had points. I Just hope, assuming this technology actually becomes practical, that the cells inside my body coded with an advanced A.I. don't try to take over my stupid mind.
Also windows mobile and RT only use ARM(AFAIK), while there are a few Intel Android phones and it's expected to see Ubuntu phones using both architectures as well. Linux actually has a need for new OpenGL ES version support.
4. Even if you could compare the numbers directly, not every copy of MS Office is bought at full price. I got mine for free from my IEEE Communications Society student membership(albeit it's office 2007)
As much as I respect Open/Libreoffice, 7.6 billions is just too much. I wonder if even MS office itself is worth that much.
That sounds extremely familiar
Google didn't remove a competing service, they removed a law breaking service. Kindle, Nook, SonyReader along side tens of publishers from all over the world still have their legal ebook selling apps available at Google Play. Regardless what is your opinion on the ethics of pirating, it's still a crime. Google having an app designed for buying pirated material would make it nothing a culprit in the crime. Removing such apps are decisions that any sane appstore businesses make.
That is correct. And this FACT begs the question: why the hell do they even bother making consoles? The only reason I can think of is to try to get some extra money from the hardware sale, which ironically is pretty much the reason they've been on the red for the last few quarters. Selling 3DS at a loss and now the wiiU as well just for the sake of the numbers don't really seem like a smart idea. And please don't come with that "unique experience" bullcrap, because all the good Wii and DS games I've played were perfectly playable with more traditional home console and handheld interfaces. Competition is a good thing? Yes as long as there are common standards. In the proprietary format cursed world of gaming consoles I'm rather pay $599 for a single console that can play everything then buying two $299 weaker consoles with fragmented libraries,
I'd really love not having to use emulators to play nintendo 1st/2nd party games(and thank the gaming god for letting nintendo making easily "emulatable" systems), but I'm not spending money, set up time and rack space on a overpriced, outdated hardware piece, with horrendous online and multimedia capabilities.
Needless to say, while I'd rather have nintendo becoming a software developer for Sony and MS consoles, ideally I'd love if they just embraced PC and mobile gaming.
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Not according to Terminator 3.
I live in Japan and while I have a hybrid light car(K-car Japanese Standard), I try to save money by walking(when it's raining/snowing) or riding my bicycle(on sunny/cloudy days). However, honestly, I don't exactly enjoy bicycles(nothing wrong with them, just personal preferences). Motorcycles are great but I'm not comfortable with the idea to share the road with cars that weight at least 10 times more and a segway is way too overpriced(and fugly). If you lived about 5km( 3 miles) from your work, would you use it daily instead of a bicycle? How usable the Solo Wheel is for daily life? Do you consider it just a toy or an actual transportation mean for short distances?
Recently found that bluetooth support is pretty poor too. Good luck find games/apps (outside the ones on Cydia) that work with a PS3/Wii/generic wireless controller. Not even talk about the lack of a file manager and gimped WebKit. That is notebook territory only for people who just use facebook and watch youtube videos.
But enough of Apple bashing from my part as that is beyond the point. The fact is that this article is awfully written. If storage is the necessary condition to be a notebook competitor does that mean that the 160GB iPod classic(do they even make those anymore?) is also on ultrabook territory?
First off Mobile Safari and all the other reskins(the other iOS browsers). A huge chunk of internet porn is perfect visible by just having a browser. And with the adoption of HTML5 in the next few years, I'd go as far as saying 99% of the porn will be visible by just having a web browser(even with a gimped javascript engine on iOS). If Apple was really serious about porn, they wouldn't have a browser in first place. Or maybe they'd use something like Opera mini, that goes through their server, gets censored, and then goes to the client device. The only porn that I don't think will be visible using a browser are a few Japanese 3D erogames(the visual novels can be done using HTML5. actually I'm surprised they haven't done so yet)
Then there is also offline viewing. iOS may not have file managers and it's codec selecting is limited, but its more than enough to view a video/pics uploaded uploaded through iTunes.
The apps. Apple policies are BS. DeviantArt is filled with artistic nudes, softcore porn and furry and it has multiple apps on itunes. Pixiv(japanese deviantart like site) is about 30% hardcore hentai porn and it has apps as well. Reddit and its japanese great grand father 2ch have several native clients for iOS, and they are filled with porn. Twitter already had links to porn and its integrated on iOS. It's not very hard to find youtube videos with some nudity or obscene language and there is an app for that. The only popular website with NSFW content that seems to be banned from the Appstore is 4chan.
Finally, the hypocrisy: their music and video stores have tons of potentially offensive content(not just nudity and sexual terms) that would be banned from the AppStore right off the bat. Never really understood the fuss about the apps.
More like trying to spying on a real threat like China. NK is hardly a threat.
I aprove this new terminology.
I kind of like sony, I have a Vita(not because of Sony but because it has reasonable third party support here in Japan, I really enjoy the library so far) and a Xperia phone(decent phone with great looks). But holy crap, their security setup pre-hacking was something a baby could build better. Considering the amount of DRM they put on their products, I would at least expect they take server side security and data encryption seriously. The PS3 took 5 years to get hacked, but the PSN goes down in a few days by a bunch of script kids? WTF!? $400000 is pocket money even for sony, the penalties should be much harsher so that sony doesn't not ever decide to commit the same mistake ever again but also to scare other lazy companies in to upgrading their cloud services.
For a worldwide known top kernel developer to switch to ubuntu and leave development, Fedora 18 must be obscenely bad.
Yes, but only tech savy people will install the necessary drivers. Most likely your ext4 formated USB drive will only work with the SOME machines you administrate(things that you can't customize the OS/firmware such as game consoles, external HDD compatible TVs, several professional measurement instruments are some of the devices I use that have only some for of FAT or NTFS support). Good luck in the real world. I HATE microsoft because of that. Using the "monopoly" on the OS to basically dictate which file systems hardware makers all over the world will use is, IMO, as bad as having trying to force everybody in to developing only for IE6 back in the 90s. No, scratch that, it's actually worse because you have to pay patents. And virtually nobody does anything about it.
Yeah, automated production lines are great for factories and centralized production centers. The problem is that, since every thing is cooked locally, each fast food restaurant would need a production line, which cost tens of thousands of dollars.Plus if you count maintenance and administration staff you probably reduce only 2 or 3 employees from 8~15 depending on the size of the restaurant. Plus you going to need a higher level of skill as well.
However, while for business these robots may not be efficient, a general purpose robotic arm cooking robot could be of big help for people like me, who hate cooking and kitchen work, but still want to eat healthy.
Whatever you do, if want your marriage to last, do NOT play Mario Party or Super Smash Bros games with her.
Keep those games for friends you don't care very much about.
of emulating the sony design process or German designers from the 50s
I don't think the lag will be horrendous. Nowadays, we can stream movies and even play video games(gaikai, onlive, Playstation remote play) over the cloud. VNC servers are also pretty common on a professional environment and they work great. Considering the great majority of people just use their computers for social networking and office, both activities in which the screen barely changes and only require low frequency input, from a technical point of view I just don't see the problem. There is definitely a market for oversimplified computing devices. The only reasons I can think of for this product not to succeed are the infamous DELL support and built quality(not a Dell user, that is only what I hear).
Can the Chinese children earning just enough to eat buy the products they produce?
Using robots is not about creating jobs in the US or any other country. Its about stopping outsourcing. Stopping technology theft and secret leaks, stopping the financing of potential rivals and even enemies, and by producing locally, increasing distribution speed.
And while automatization may not create as many jobs as outsourcing took, it will create more than we have right now: thousands of technicians, programmers and engineers will be needed to set up and maintain this robotic infrastructure.
If you want to teach the children to build 3d objects in front of a computer then why not just teach blender?
The results are better, the interface is much better, it's an actual skill that can get you a job in the future, you get all the basics to to 3d modeling that can be transfered to other software suits(MAYA in particular), it's free, and you can even learn some programing if you start messing with the game engine. If computer power is the problem, I can say that if their computers can run MC at 30fps, then blender will run as smooth as a hot knife in butter.
Personally I never understood why world creation games are so popular, when you can have a much better experience using a artistic software suit. I personally tried all these games: Minecraft, Terraria, Dwarf fortress you name it. If there was at least real challenge, depth and interesting rewards, just like a real game, I would understand. DF is the only one that has SOME of those atributes but Minecraft/Terraria just fells like pure work and boredom. If sparking interest in computers and digital arts is the reason they chose MC, I have a list of much better games such as Deus EX or Xenogears(amongst a few others, that yet to be released Cyberpunk2077 game looks good too). They may not directly stimulate the creative side of the brain but their storyline/settings/lore are awe-inspiring(they played a huge role in my later childhood and had a directly influence in determining who I am now).
I guess that is because it's not called Retina(TM) Display.
But that is how it should be: not just every movie studio should be able to make a Superman movie, because this would undermine the "real"/canonical Superman line.
Does that really matters? I'm more of a japanese manga guy, but according to my limited knowledge about american comics, superman is 70+ years old already, has been rebooted several times, has multiple writers, multiple artists, multiple timelines, movies, video games, cartoons. I seriously have no idea what is cannon in the Superman world. Considering everything that is officially by DC/WarnerBros release doesn't feel right. That would be like considering (the majority of the) Dragon Ball Z movies cannon, which they obviously aren't.
Superman is just one example, the US seems to love those really old comic characters with multiple plot lines, reboots, adaptations etc. I tried to keep up with X-men during high-school but no, there is just too much convoluted stuff by too many people.