Start worrying about SMSs that warns about future events. The "avoid seeing that movie" sms could have been because a limited preview somewhere, but im still a bit worried about the "the alien landing on Jan 8 will be real" sms.
Chrome displaces Safari that displaced Konqueror. But in the end, what matters is what runs behind. Webkit is gaining ground, and more important, web standards are too, Javascript is gaining speed. Unsafe/slow/nonstandard/closed browsers are losing ground, so all win.
Having most actual mines don't mean that in the country is the only resource of the mineral, just the place that have in this moment most mines of it. If you can't build new mines for it in your own country or in a willing to sell country, you can try alternate approachs if can be done in an efficient way. Not sure if there is feasible to mine under the ocean (if could be there) or filtering it from the ocean itself, but in both places should be enough "rare" resources to make them look abundant.
There are ways around. Just dont even think in the usual historic way to get resources from "others".
Cheap, small, foldable screen or keyboard (so you can use it as touchscreen or laptop), good (not great, just enough) resolution and speed, Thats the point to which a lot of things seems to be converging, from the cellphone arena (i.e. the Nokia N900, Palm Pre or some Android based phones ) or the note/net books arena (like the Asus T91, Fujitsu Lifebook and a lot of others) and probably more around (iSlate?). 3G connection, gps, even tv receiver are usual extras.
So netbooks have a future, at least if can be used as tablets too.
Microsoft had been hit by hardware bugs (faulty hardware, pentium bug, etc), software bugs (don't know from where to start) and they are ensuring now they will be hit by bugs by the old definition. A simple fly could force you to move a lot of muscles, and your corporate database will be gone.
And could be far worse. You face some critical app, you know that you should not even think on moving that muscle and, of course, you will..
And will be interesting to see what happens with people that can't move certain muscles or do some combos, like i.e. doing the vulcan greeting, or closing just one eye... the new generation of computer disabled people is in the making.
Depend how you read "Decade of", probably in absolute numbers in personal computers Microsoft could had it. Apple did big this decade with OS/X, iPod and iPhone. And Linux and open source got a great decade in internet servers and improvement of public perception, The other big player that could be claimed to be the "Decade of" is Google. If trends continue this way im not sure who will own next decade, but probably wont be Microsoft.
If i remember well, it will be able to "fix" itself if some rogue app gets installed. Probably something in BIOS will check integrity of OS, and undo changes if something got modified, and that probably includes installing another OS. Also will have automatic OS updates, making this even harder yet.
About trying to run applications, is supposed to be an internet device, no local applications, just the browser and most that runs on it.
But will be 2 potential problems: - Games meant for internet, with local/native clients (no google ads on them, so probably wont be a priority). NaCl could be a way, but the OS must get wildly popular to ever gets noticed by game developers. - Plugins. Ok, you surely will have flash, ability to see pdf documents, and movies. But the plugin universe don't ends there. There are several that are windows or mac only that don't work yet (or ever) in linux. And that is internet content, meant for browser, and in pages that maybe even have google ads in.
Also is in development, maybe a lot under the surface. The final/public version dont have to be that heavy (but i agree that watching very populated weaves is a resource hog).
Regarding Chrome OS not doing anything without an internet connection, is mean to be an internet device, no more, no less. Is like complaining that car sucks because can't do anything without gas or batteries, or desktop computers sucks because they can't do anything without electricity. If you want something to work with in places without internet, try something that is not only an internet device, could be more expensive, have less battery life, and maybe more security risks, but will work in the subway.
Define intelligent. Sometimes brute force is the only viable design, sometimes the ingenuos approach is the successful one. The smartest way is also the dumbest one in a lot of cases.
You can enhance the crusader, till it start having undesirable side effects. Taking away internet freedom and privacy and doing full inspection of everything could end with botnets, but probably noone want that.
Only the really strong, and the ones that managed to evolve will survive. And without the competition of the "weak" ones, they will prevail, and leaving you with no tool to get rid of them. Darwin have precedence over Moore.
More important than that, at least in the ones deployed in Uruguay, they include already TurtleArt (logo), Squeak (to do from 2d animations to games, even includes an example tetris, and looks similar to logo in programming, but you are doing multitasking as controlling all the actors in the presentation), those 2 with a puzzle-like programming interface, and Pippy (python, not explored yet the implementation or how intuitive it could be for children). Those 3 are a good progression for learning programming to even younger children. And you can install that components in a "normal" windows/mac/linux computer.if you can't get the XO.
That software, coupled with the (ok, Hanlon should be right) stupidity of the ones believing in this software was right and acting according should be punished. They were doing the work of terrorists, spreading panic between people.
In the other hand, should be a lesson to government between the difference of open and closed source. Snake oil is harder to sell if you can peek at the formula.
Each new technology have the potential of turning into a weapon. In the movie there are at least 2 major new technologies, ftl (?), and improved biology (and not just human biology, alien one too). If they want just to kill everyone probably will be faster to just poison or mutate a virus or something similar that probably should not affect us. Linguistic should have been improved too, and even that could be turned into a weapon (at least according with Babel 17)
Didnt saw the movie yet, but the weapons i saw in trailer at least didn't impressed me a lot, all what must be advanced just to be there, and one of the fastest evolving technologies in history changed so little? Last week reread Hyperion, and finishing Endymion, and the military advancement pictured there (specially how you fight getting to that point of technology) looks more like the evolution rate that it should have.
A movie that is purely plot and not so much visuals don't suffer a lot watching it in low quality, but one where visuals are one of the critical pieces? Even 2012 (ok, the 1st hour) deserved to be seen in a theater.
For normal people could be slower than typing. You should think on a letter, and for long enough. Alone letters usually dont have associations that could make very complex determining in which one is thinking,
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Think in Firefox's extensions ecosystem. Being open means more people develop things around it, things for every imaginable use, so more people use it, and whatever is attached in the first end on the chain gets a good revenue opportunity. So openness could mean profit, at least, if manage to generate a sizeable enough ecosystem around.
Saying so, for something like Google things work in another scale. The ecosystem is internet itself, more than any of their products in particular. If internet gets even more used (with open protocols, so they, and noone else, don't get excluded by some propietary/non-standard big use) then they will win even more. Is a big market, they have a big presence there, and making that market even bigger make them get more profit. Is a bubble, but still have a lot of potential to grow
"Target.com's Agressive SEO Tactic Spams Slahdot". Probably will have hundreds of more visits just managing to be published in slashdot frontpage than with playing with Google algorithms. And after this history is enough discussed and linked everywhere, google algorithms do their normal work putting it to the roof. Why trick robots when people is more than willing to do the dirty work?
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Start worrying about SMSs that warns about future events. The "avoid seeing that movie" sms could have been because a limited preview somewhere, but im still a bit worried about the "the alien landing on Jan 8 will be real" sms.
Chrome displaces Safari that displaced Konqueror. But in the end, what matters is what runs behind. Webkit is gaining ground, and more important, web standards are too, Javascript is gaining speed. Unsafe/slow/nonstandard/closed browsers are losing ground, so all win.
Having most actual mines don't mean that in the country is the only resource of the mineral, just the place that have in this moment most mines of it. If you can't build new mines for it in your own country or in a willing to sell country, you can try alternate approachs if can be done in an efficient way. Not sure if there is feasible to mine under the ocean (if could be there) or filtering it from the ocean itself, but in both places should be enough "rare" resources to make them look abundant.
There are ways around. Just dont even think in the usual historic way to get resources from "others".
Cheap, small, foldable screen or keyboard (so you can use it as touchscreen or laptop), good (not great, just enough) resolution and speed, Thats the point to which a lot of things seems to be converging, from the cellphone arena (i.e. the Nokia N900, Palm Pre or some Android based phones ) or the note/net books arena (like the Asus T91, Fujitsu Lifebook and a lot of others) and probably more around (iSlate?). 3G connection, gps, even tv receiver are usual extras.
So netbooks have a future, at least if can be used as tablets too.
Microsoft had been hit by hardware bugs (faulty hardware, pentium bug, etc), software bugs (don't know from where to start) and they are ensuring now they will be hit by bugs by the old definition. A simple fly could force you to move a lot of muscles, and your corporate database will be gone.
And could be far worse. You face some critical app, you know that you should not even think on moving that muscle and, of course, you will..
And will be interesting to see what happens with people that can't move certain muscles or do some combos, like i.e. doing the vulcan greeting, or closing just one eye... the new generation of computer disabled people is in the making.
Can you imagine a civilization with only Sheldon Coopers? Is the kind of things that ends with a big bang.
Peter Jackson was knighted too this days, in Middle Eart... i mean, New Zealand.
Once upon a time, Russia had the best Chess players of the world. Now will be have the Billiards ones.
The surviving terrorists probably are engineers.
Depend how you read "Decade of", probably in absolute numbers in personal computers Microsoft could had it. Apple did big this decade with OS/X, iPod and iPhone. And Linux and open source got a great decade in internet servers and improvement of public perception, The other big player that could be claimed to be the "Decade of" is Google. If trends continue this way im not sure who will own next decade, but probably wont be Microsoft.
If i remember well, it will be able to "fix" itself if some rogue app gets installed. Probably something in BIOS will check integrity of OS, and undo changes if something got modified, and that probably includes installing another OS. Also will have automatic OS updates, making this even harder yet.
About trying to run applications, is supposed to be an internet device, no local applications, just the browser and most that runs on it.
But will be 2 potential problems:
- Games meant for internet, with local/native clients (no google ads on them, so probably wont be a priority). NaCl could be a way, but the OS must get wildly popular to ever gets noticed by game developers.
- Plugins. Ok, you surely will have flash, ability to see pdf documents, and movies. But the plugin universe don't ends there. There are several that are windows or mac only that don't work yet (or ever) in linux. And that is internet content, meant for browser, and in pages that maybe even have google ads in.
Also is in development, maybe a lot under the surface. The final/public version dont have to be that heavy (but i agree that watching very populated weaves is a resource hog).
Regarding Chrome OS not doing anything without an internet connection, is mean to be an internet device, no more, no less. Is like complaining that car sucks because can't do anything without gas or batteries, or desktop computers sucks because they can't do anything without electricity. If you want something to work with in places without internet, try something that is not only an internet device, could be more expensive, have less battery life, and maybe more security risks, but will work in the subway.
Define intelligent. Sometimes brute force is the only viable design, sometimes the ingenuos approach is the successful one. The smartest way is also the dumbest one in a lot of cases.
You can enhance the crusader, till it start having undesirable side effects. Taking away internet freedom and privacy and doing full inspection of everything could end with botnets, but probably noone want that.
Only the really strong, and the ones that managed to evolve will survive. And without the competition of the "weak" ones, they will prevail, and leaving you with no tool to get rid of them. Darwin have precedence over Moore.
Start worrying when one new macro named T1000 appears by itself, will be a killer one.
More important than that, at least in the ones deployed in Uruguay, they include already TurtleArt (logo), Squeak (to do from 2d animations to games, even includes an example tetris, and looks similar to logo in programming, but you are doing multitasking as controlling all the actors in the presentation), those 2 with a puzzle-like programming interface, and Pippy (python, not explored yet the implementation or how intuitive it could be for children). Those 3 are a good progression for learning programming to even younger children. And you can install that components in a "normal" windows/mac/linux computer.if you can't get the XO.
Apple's version of the entity?
That software, coupled with the (ok, Hanlon should be right) stupidity of the ones believing in this software was right and acting according should be punished. They were doing the work of terrorists, spreading panic between people.
In the other hand, should be a lesson to government between the difference of open and closed source. Snake oil is harder to sell if you can peek at the formula.
Each new technology have the potential of turning into a weapon. In the movie there are at least 2 major new technologies, ftl (?), and improved biology (and not just human biology, alien one too). If they want just to kill everyone probably will be faster to just poison or mutate a virus or something similar that probably should not affect us. Linguistic should have been improved too, and even that could be turned into a weapon (at least according with Babel 17)
Didnt saw the movie yet, but the weapons i saw in trailer at least didn't impressed me a lot, all what must be advanced just to be there, and one of the fastest evolving technologies in history changed so little? Last week reread Hyperion, and finishing Endymion, and the military advancement pictured there (specially how you fight getting to that point of technology) looks more like the evolution rate that it should have.
A movie that is purely plot and not so much visuals don't suffer a lot watching it in low quality, but one where visuals are one of the critical pieces? Even 2012 (ok, the 1st hour) deserved to be seen in a theater.
For normal people could be slower than typing. You should think on a letter, and for long enough. Alone letters usually dont have associations that could make very complex determining in which one is thinking,
Think in Firefox's extensions ecosystem. Being open means more people develop things around it, things for every imaginable use, so more people use it, and whatever is attached in the first end on the chain gets a good revenue opportunity. So openness could mean profit, at least, if manage to generate a sizeable enough ecosystem around.
Saying so, for something like Google things work in another scale. The ecosystem is internet itself, more than any of their products in particular. If internet gets even more used (with open protocols, so they, and noone else, don't get excluded by some propietary/non-standard big use) then they will win even more. Is a big market, they have a big presence there, and making that market even bigger make them get more profit. Is a bubble, but still have a lot of potential to grow
"Target.com's Agressive SEO Tactic Spams Slahdot". Probably will have hundreds of more visits just managing to be published in slashdot frontpage than with playing with Google algorithms. And after this history is enough discussed and linked everywhere, google algorithms do their normal work putting it to the roof. Why trick robots when people is more than willing to do the dirty work?