If my company have been spending millions of bucks and as many working hours to develop and manufacture such a thing as the P4, and someone just took it and copied it without my consent, ofcourse I would sue. Don't tell me there is anyone in here that wouldn't!
I may not know the latest in this, but where I live (Sweden), broadband is becoming availible more and more. I do remember that some of the broadband companies had problems with not expanding fast enough, or too few signed up, but I am not sure how it is right now... cause I know more and more people are getting broadband, and some companies are really trying to expand, building their own high capacity nets and so on. But I mean, I'm not saying *all* the broadband providers are doing great.
I wish to give the american people and others who have suffered from this horrible attack my condolences. It was a huge blow against americans and other innocent people, it was a mockery against the value of human lives, it was a strike against freedom and democracy.
Please do never let these cowardly bastards get away with this. Never let freedom and democracy lose. Show the world and the cowards that noone can ever get away with murder - murder on humans, murder on civilization, murder on freedom.
Reminds me of that story about pens in space. NASA found out that pens did not work very well in zero gravity, so they decided to develop a pen that actually did work in zero gravity. After a long time and hundreds of thousands of dollars, they finally presented a pen working in zero gravity. The russians, facing the same problem, used a pencil.
I wonder how much scientific value will come out of this, compared to the cost of $12 million. I mean, they say they have to almost make a guess on where to point the camera and to set the exposure. They could have used those bucks on other space crafts or missions, perhaps. But then again, $12 million is not a lot in this business.
I'm not sure i ever solved one of those, myself. Too bad this Mindstorms stuff iwas too expensive for me. I guess I just have to start saving... I got so inspired now.
No, I haven't even heard of this until I saw the website today. I think it would be very cool if my university got a license for the source code, for research or maybe for the "Operating systems" course:) I am not sure what I can do as a student but I could always ask, who knows?
I've tried StarOffice a few times just to see what it was all about... I must say that MS Office is still my favorite, no doubt about it. Perhaps in the future it will compare to MS Office? Microsoft do have a lot of resources though, and this research lab too... their Office applications will only get better and better and I wonder if any other office applications will beat them any time soon.
I didn't know about this site. But it looks really very interesting, and something that is even more interesting is that they have special licensees for universities and other non profit research institutes to have access to the source code for NT and CE. This is some of the most interesting things I've seen.
But not right now or even in a near future. Russia is too poor and too unstable to achieve something like this. They should concentrate on getting their eceonomy and society in working order before they even consider spending any money they don't have.
The software for millions of home PCs doesn't have to be that bugfree, really. There is no catastroph if a computer crashes now and then. The prices are kept pretty low, but instead it's not perfect. The better and more error free code you want, the more expensive will it be. For example, the software running at a nuclear power plant or in the space shuttle is probably very error free and has very few bugs. However, the time to develop it and the cost, must be way higher than any other system. It's all about how many errors you can tolerate in a system.
when lawyers attourneys and judges have been replaced by computer programs.
Lawyer Eliza: (Walks up to the witness) So how are you today?
Witness: I am fine thank you.
L Eliza: How long have you been fine thank i?
Witness: I don't understand the question...
L Eliza: Don't you really understand the question?
Witness: That's right.
L Eliza: Is it really that right?
Prosecutor Eliza: Objection Your Honor! She is harassing the witness!
Judge Eliza: Why are you concerned about my honour she is harassing the witness?
I just started my Realtime systems course at my university, and in that course, for the lab assignments, we will use LEGO Mindstorms to build cars or robots and control them with a realtime operating system. I can't wait.
"[t]he Web was supposed to subvert corporate domination of culture by giving a global soapbox -- or printing press, or television station -- to anyone with a computer and a modem" and takes off from there. Was the Web ever "supposed to be" anything, much less a subversion of "corporate domination of culture?"
Yes, I think that is how it was. Just look at the millions and millions of personal homepages, corporate and organization websites, blogs and everything you can think of. This is how it is, and I think that whether it was supposed to be this way or not, I can only see how this is good.
"Isn't the reduction of idle surfing and the increase of a "more direct, predetermined approach to the Web" just a "reflection" of an educated user base that knows what it wants?"
Yes, I believe that is true, but I think that it is not only a reflection of a user that knows what he/she wants and also knows how to get it. Perhaps people aren't that fascinated by surfing around randomly anymore, and they go to the websites they see being presented in the media. It is easier to go there directly than to search around only to grow tired of it.
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If my company have been spending millions of bucks and as many working hours to develop and manufacture such a thing as the P4, and someone just took it and copied it without my consent, ofcourse I would sue. Don't tell me there is anyone in here that wouldn't!
You should violate some patents,
Before some pantents violates you.
I may not know the latest in this, but where I live (Sweden), broadband is becoming availible more and more. I do remember that some of the broadband companies had problems with not expanding fast enough, or too few signed up, but I am not sure how it is right now... cause I know more and more people are getting broadband, and some companies are really trying to expand, building their own high capacity nets and so on. But I mean, I'm not saying *all* the broadband providers are doing great.
I wish to give the american people and others who have suffered from this horrible attack my condolences. It was a huge blow against americans and other innocent people, it was a mockery against the value of human lives, it was a strike against freedom and democracy.
Please do never let these cowardly bastards get away with this. Never let freedom and democracy lose. Show the world and the cowards that noone can ever get away with murder - murder on humans, murder on civilization, murder on freedom.
Reminds me of that story about pens in space. NASA found out that pens did not work very well in zero gravity, so they decided to develop a pen that actually did work in zero gravity. After a long time and hundreds of thousands of dollars, they finally presented a pen working in zero gravity. The russians, facing the same problem, used a pencil.
I wonder how much scientific value will come out of this, compared to the cost of $12 million. I mean, they say they have to almost make a guess on where to point the camera and to set the exposure. They could have used those bucks on other space crafts or missions, perhaps. But then again, $12 million is not a lot in this business.
That would be quite a lot of languages. And yes, even LISP!
I'm not sure i ever solved one of those, myself. Too bad this Mindstorms stuff iwas too expensive for me. I guess I just have to start saving... I got so inspired now.
It would probably be because I couldn't make any money out of it, ofcourse... If I could do that, I would.
Perhaps you both are right, and that could make for some entertaining Star Trek for sure.
I didn't know that, that is really interesting, and I thank you for the link!
No, I haven't even heard of this until I saw the website today. I think it would be very cool if my university got a license for the source code, for research or maybe for the "Operating systems" course :) I am not sure what I can do as a student but I could always ask, who knows?
I've tried StarOffice a few times just to see what it was all about... I must say that MS Office is still my favorite, no doubt about it. Perhaps in the future it will compare to MS Office? Microsoft do have a lot of resources though, and this research lab too... their Office applications will only get better and better and I wonder if any other office applications will beat them any time soon.
No, seriously. IBM researchers have been involved in this kind of research. I've found this page.
I didn't know about this site. But it looks really very interesting, and something that is even more interesting is that they have special licensees for universities and other non profit research institutes to have access to the source code for NT and CE. This is some of the most interesting things I've seen.
Here is a link.
Somehow, I don't think Harry Mudd-like characters will be that common in this show...
Will the captains be like those from TNG or VOY, or will they have that attitude, more like Kirk had?
But not right now or even in a near future. Russia is too poor and too unstable to achieve something like this. They should concentrate on getting their eceonomy and society in working order before they even consider spending any money they don't have.
The software for millions of home PCs doesn't have to be that bugfree, really. There is no catastroph if a computer crashes now and then. The prices are kept pretty low, but instead it's not perfect. The better and more error free code you want, the more expensive will it be. For example, the software running at a nuclear power plant or in the space shuttle is probably very error free and has very few bugs. However, the time to develop it and the cost, must be way higher than any other system. It's all about how many errors you can tolerate in a system.
when lawyers attourneys and judges have been replaced by computer programs.
Lawyer Eliza: (Walks up to the witness) So how are you today?
Witness: I am fine thank you.
L Eliza: How long have you been fine thank i?
Witness: I don't understand the question...
L Eliza: Don't you really understand the question?
Witness: That's right.
L Eliza: Is it really that right?
Prosecutor Eliza: Objection Your Honor! She is harassing the witness!
Judge Eliza: Why are you concerned about my honour she is harassing the witness?
and so on...
I either just keep them somewhere, or I use them again in the one computer I use mostly, like old HDDs, CD-ROMs, etc.
Lego Online Shop - here you can choose your country, or here is the shop with all the products.
I just started my Realtime systems course at my university, and in that course, for the lab assignments, we will use LEGO Mindstorms to build cars or robots and control them with a realtime operating system. I can't wait.
"[t]he Web was supposed to subvert corporate domination of culture by giving a global soapbox -- or printing press, or television station -- to anyone with a computer and a modem" and takes off from there. Was the Web ever "supposed to be" anything, much less a subversion of "corporate domination of culture?"
Yes, I think that is how it was. Just look at the millions and millions of personal homepages, corporate and organization websites, blogs and everything you can think of. This is how it is, and I think that whether it was supposed to be this way or not, I can only see how this is good.
"Isn't the reduction of idle surfing and the increase of a "more direct, predetermined approach to the Web" just a "reflection" of an educated user base that knows what it wants?"
Yes, I believe that is true, but I think that it is not only a reflection of a user that knows what he/she wants and also knows how to get it. Perhaps people aren't that fascinated by surfing around randomly anymore, and they go to the websites they see being presented in the media. It is easier to go there directly than to search around only to grow tired of it.
Well it was a great opportunity to once again attack Microsoft... and that's all there is to it, actually.
Hardly. It is one of the things this site lives on: Attack Microsoft for all sorts of things... and only Microsoft!