And Apple's success is because there is such a wide selection of iPhones on a wide selection of providers, at a wide selection of price points?
No, WinMo's success is. The iPhone's success is due to a rabid Apple fanbase, and a very nice interface (graphically and with the capacitive touchscreen, both of which are coming to Android phones within the next quarter). There are multiple competitors in the field. Android doesn't have to beat iPhone, it has to beat everyone BUT the iPhone, and I'm quite confident it will, given a few years. The hardware side will be ready to take on anyone by the end of this year. Once there are Android phones with capacitive touchscreens, that's the end of the one hardware bit the iPhone had that noone else does. A sexy interface can be made a lot easier than that, and an open marketplace is going to be a 'killer app' (pardon) for mobile app developers.
So Android should be competing with WinMo instead of the iPhone?
Android should start by taking out WinMo, Symbian, etc. It can't replace OS X mobile on the iPhone because, hey, it's Apple - that's not gonna happen. It needs to replace WinMo in WinMo's marketplace niche. Competing against the iPhone is easy - make a nice interface and don't lock out and unfairly compete against developers like Apple is doing. The hardware from HTC & Samsung that are scheduled to be coming out over the next quarter or so will compete handily with the iPhone's hardware (the iPhone's hardware isn't really that great, except for the type of touchscreen it uses). It's a fairly low-resolution screen, at that, compared to the WVGA phones HTC has been producing for awhile outside of the U.S. market. Cameras with higher resolution & LED flash are also common on smartphones outside of the U.S., as well.
You can't kill the iPhone entirely on quality or price. Apple fans will buy overpriced/underpowered technology simply because it's cool to do so. Getting Android on multiple phones & providers will incentivize developers to make stuff even cooler than the iPhone is doing now, especially when it's the only place for some developers to go after Apple denies their app entry to the store. Apple is the newest entrant to the IBM/Microsoft club (as in 'club you over the head, you get to pay what we want for what we want to provide').
Nobody ever seems to learn this lesson; it's inevitable for Apple to go down the same path; they're already fairly far down it with the iPhone.
Wow, just stunning. If the lack of an idealized phone were the problem, WinMo wouldn't have anywhere near the marketshare it has. For Android to take over, one simple thing needs to happen - a wider selection of Android phones on a wider selection of providers, at a wide selection of price points.
While I agree with you, the producers believed the Guide segments were slowing down the narrative pace, especially in the beginning where lots of Guide segments were used.
It worked quite well in the tv series, I thought, but oh well, I guess it was more important to make an unfunny movie with great narrative pacing. *shrug*
gt; If you paid attention, they showed Ford using a towel in many of the appropriate ways, they just didn't call attention to it, which, to me, wasted a great opportunity.
You think it is a wasted opportunity to be subtle?
I think making a movie ONLY for the fans of the books, and removing the parts of the book that IS THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE is perhaps not the best idea. If they wanted to only please the fans of the books, they should've refused to make the movie in the first place. If they wanted to make a faithful cinematic version of the book, they should've put in the funniest parts of the book, which to me, are the excerpts of the Guide itself. It worked well in the tv series; there's no reason why maybe 5 minutes tops of screen time couldn't have been made to work.
They said the same thing about the Hollywood movie, and look how that turned...
You know, the movie is definitely not as _funny_ as the books, but I think they definitely made the main characters more _likeable_, especially Arthur. If you paid attention, they showed Ford using a towel in many of the appropriate ways, they just didn't call attention to it, which, to me, wasted a great opportunity.
For me, the funniest parts of the books are the excerpts from the Guide (especially the part about how the Babel Fish has been used for the non-existence of God). If they had added just a couple of minutes to put those into the movie, I think I would've liked it much, much more.
I love how they slipped the Marvin costume from the old tv show into the scene where there're a lot of people standing in line. Plus you've got to admit Alan Rickman *IS* Marvin. Who knew Marvin and Professor Snape had so much in common?
I was reading about MIT OpenCourseWare in the latest Popular Science, and the references they made about the costs not being totally free because of textbooks, etc. really intrigued me - perhaps you could contact an MIT professor who teaches a course that your proposed textbook would be appropriate for, and ask for advice on what would help open-minded professors use open source/free textbooks.
I think an education-minded billionaire would be very helpful in providing some free textbook and other materials to go along with this fantastic trend of free online education.
Diesel engines have always been where hybrid cars should go
I've recently been reading about the content of a jet turbine-hybrid, and it seems like this might be even better. If you use the proper configuration, you can get much higher efficiency out of the jet turbine than you can out of a diesel engine, plus you get the benefit of being multi-fuel capable. Hopefully this will pan out into something feasible for small cars.
At the budget... well, JULIE & JULIA cost $10 million more. How big could this really be?
That District 9 was made for only $30 million IS remarkable, to be sure, but the half of Julie & Julia that has Meryl Streep playing Julia Childs is a FAR better movie than all of District 9. Too bad they made the other half of the movie with that Julie chick - that part kinda sucked. I defy any sci-fi geek to see Julie & Julia and not come away incredibly impressed with Meryl Streep's Julia Childs performance.
I'm sorry, but once you get past the "apartheid, only with aliens this time" metaphor (which is difficult to do because the movie clubs you over the head with it every fifteen seconds)
Until we manage to create real zombies and release them on the population, we'll never be able to test the model.
There are already three different test cases that have been released into the populace: teabaggers, birthers and deathers.
In all cases, mental activity is absolutely zero, yet they keep moving around, menacing the living, going after anyone who looks like they have a brain. The teabagger test case flamed out fairly quickly, the birthers took quit a bit longer, and the deathers are still going.
There's even a new game coming out, a sequel to the Left 4 Dead franchise, to be called 'Jingos 4 Jesus'. Can't wait!
One should be careful giving out fake SSNs, as you may be accused of attempted identity theft or fraud or whatnot. But, who's to say you or some data entry person didn't make a mistake and mistype one of the numbers, or transpose two of the numbers? Looks like an innocent mistake, I say! If you do it consistently enough, you can even use the excuse, "God, that typo has been following me around forever!"
I'm just sayin'.
I also use my old phone numbers and addresses for those who require such information. "Oh, that's my _old_ number!":)
They'll mix in approximately the same way as chocolate and peanut butter in a Reese's peanut butter cup.
*smash*
"Hey, you got people parts in my drone!" "You got drone parts in my people!"
Mmmm!
Unmanned trains? Sure. Planes? Not so much.
That's not to say that flying planes can't be made vastly easier. NASA's "Highway in the Sky" program is encouraging the development of some pretty nifty stuff. Think about the computer display in the Nostromo from Alien. The view of the flight path the pilot simply keeps it within the optimal path, no problem for most situations. But it's those unusual situations you gotta have the real deal for.
> Using the special URL, the old password is removed and a new one generated in its place with no confirmation required.
While you're right in saying the attacker can't access the admin's account, the admin themselves also can't access it, because their password has already been reset to something else, and they'll have to get the new one. It seems more like a minor inconvenience to me, then a massive bug which will end the world, but still a flaw.
The admin still gets the password change notification, though, so the net effect is that someone is changing their password for them, notifying them of that, yet the attacker still can't get access to the admin login info unless they have access to the admin's email account. The admin can simply check their email for the new password, though, so they're not really locked out. Annoying, yes, but a pretty minor issue, and it's already been fixed.
A plugin like Flash should not be ABLE to lock up the browser. No, that's not the fault of Flash, it's the fault of the browser that _allows_ it to happen. The browser should be in control of the plugin, not the other way around.
They were a big force behind CSS, and look how awful their support has been for that. Leave them behind. They probably won't even notice for about 6 or 7 years, anyway.
What I remember from my days in aerospace engineering classes at Univ. of MO - Rolla ("Where the men are men, the women are scarce and the sheep are nervous."), the factors involved are: lift vs gravity, thrust vs drag.
Ultra-light weight Plug-in Serial electric hybrid
Choose engine optimized for efficiency/weight
Perhaps jet turbine?
Choose light-weight batteries Solar panels on wings (lightweight ones!) Super-low coefficient of drag Advanced wing design Advanced propeller design
No A/C or pressurization or retractable gear will also drop a lot of weight, but you'll have to be careful in designing your wheel fairings to reduce drag as much as possible. That's a first-year class to play with the wind tunnel, though. Fun times. No pressurization will limit your ceiling, but oh well, we're going for efficiency here! No retractable gear will lower your max speed, but again, we gotta drop the weight for the sake of efficiency. (I'd like to see some #'s about the efficiency tradeoffs of going with lower coefficient of drag with retractable gear vs less weight due to fixed gear. My gut tells me the weight is more important, but my gut could easily be wrong.)
This would be a very fun project. I wonder if Rutan is going to participate.
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And Apple's success is because there is such a wide selection of iPhones on a wide selection of providers, at a wide selection of price points?
No, WinMo's success is. The iPhone's success is due to a rabid Apple fanbase, and a very nice interface (graphically and with the capacitive touchscreen, both of which are coming to Android phones within the next quarter). There are multiple competitors in the field. Android doesn't have to beat iPhone, it has to beat everyone BUT the iPhone, and I'm quite confident it will, given a few years. The hardware side will be ready to take on anyone by the end of this year. Once there are Android phones with capacitive touchscreens, that's the end of the one hardware bit the iPhone had that noone else does. A sexy interface can be made a lot easier than that, and an open marketplace is going to be a 'killer app' (pardon) for mobile app developers.
So Android should be competing with WinMo instead of the iPhone?
Android should start by taking out WinMo, Symbian, etc. It can't replace OS X mobile on the iPhone because, hey, it's Apple - that's not gonna happen. It needs to replace WinMo in WinMo's marketplace niche. Competing against the iPhone is easy - make a nice interface and don't lock out and unfairly compete against developers like Apple is doing. The hardware from HTC & Samsung that are scheduled to be coming out over the next quarter or so will compete handily with the iPhone's hardware (the iPhone's hardware isn't really that great, except for the type of touchscreen it uses). It's a fairly low-resolution screen, at that, compared to the WVGA phones HTC has been producing for awhile outside of the U.S. market. Cameras with higher resolution & LED flash are also common on smartphones outside of the U.S., as well.
You can't kill the iPhone entirely on quality or price. Apple fans will buy overpriced/underpowered technology simply because it's cool to do so. Getting Android on multiple phones & providers will incentivize developers to make stuff even cooler than the iPhone is doing now, especially when it's the only place for some developers to go after Apple denies their app entry to the store. Apple is the newest entrant to the IBM/Microsoft club (as in 'club you over the head, you get to pay what we want for what we want to provide').
Nobody ever seems to learn this lesson; it's inevitable for Apple to go down the same path; they're already fairly far down it with the iPhone.
Wow, just stunning. If the lack of an idealized phone were the problem, WinMo wouldn't have anywhere near the marketshare it has. For Android to take over, one simple thing needs to happen - a wider selection of Android phones on a wider selection of providers, at a wide selection of price points.
While I agree with you, the producers believed the Guide segments were slowing down the narrative pace, especially in the beginning where lots of Guide segments were used.
It worked quite well in the tv series, I thought, but oh well, I guess it was more important to make an unfunny movie with great narrative pacing. *shrug*
gt; If you paid attention, they showed Ford using a towel in many of the appropriate ways, they just didn't call attention to it, which, to me, wasted a great opportunity.
You think it is a wasted opportunity to be subtle?
I think making a movie ONLY for the fans of the books, and removing the parts of the book that IS THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE is perhaps not the best idea. If they wanted to only please the fans of the books, they should've refused to make the movie in the first place. If they wanted to make a faithful cinematic version of the book, they should've put in the funniest parts of the book, which to me, are the excerpts of the Guide itself. It worked well in the tv series; there's no reason why maybe 5 minutes tops of screen time couldn't have been made to work.
They said the same thing about the Hollywood movie, and look how that turned...
You know, the movie is definitely not as _funny_ as the books, but I think they definitely made the main characters more _likeable_, especially Arthur. If you paid attention, they showed Ford using a towel in many of the appropriate ways, they just didn't call attention to it, which, to me, wasted a great opportunity.
For me, the funniest parts of the books are the excerpts from the Guide (especially the part about how the Babel Fish has been used for the non-existence of God). If they had added just a couple of minutes to put those into the movie, I think I would've liked it much, much more.
I love how they slipped the Marvin costume from the old tv show into the scene where there're a lot of people standing in line. Plus you've got to admit Alan Rickman *IS* Marvin. Who knew Marvin and Professor Snape had so much in common?
I Want My Country Back! Death Panels! Death Panels! Death Panels!
*ahem*
Sorry, I've been watching too much tv...
I was reading about MIT OpenCourseWare in the latest Popular Science, and the references they made about the costs not being totally free because of textbooks, etc. really intrigued me - perhaps you could contact an MIT professor who teaches a course that your proposed textbook would be appropriate for, and ask for advice on what would help open-minded professors use open source/free textbooks.
I think an education-minded billionaire would be very helpful in providing some free textbook and other materials to go along with this fantastic trend of free online education.
Diesel engines have always been where hybrid cars should go
I've recently been reading about the content of a jet turbine-hybrid, and it seems like this might be even better. If you use the proper configuration, you can get much higher efficiency out of the jet turbine than you can out of a diesel engine, plus you get the benefit of being multi-fuel capable. Hopefully this will pan out into something feasible for small cars.
At the budget... well, JULIE & JULIA cost $10 million more. How big could this really be?
That District 9 was made for only $30 million IS remarkable, to be sure, but the half of Julie & Julia that has Meryl Streep playing Julia Childs is a FAR better movie than all of District 9. Too bad they made the other half of the movie with that Julie chick - that part kinda sucked. I defy any sci-fi geek to see Julie & Julia and not come away incredibly impressed with Meryl Streep's Julia Childs performance.
I'm sorry, but once you get past the "apartheid, only with aliens this time" metaphor (which is difficult to do because the movie clubs you over the head with it every fifteen seconds)
There, I fixed that for you.
Until we manage to create real zombies and release them on the population, we'll never be able to test the model.
There are already three different test cases that have been released into the populace: teabaggers, birthers and deathers.
In all cases, mental activity is absolutely zero, yet they keep moving around, menacing the living, going after anyone who looks like they have a brain. The teabagger test case flamed out fairly quickly, the birthers took quit a bit longer, and the deathers are still going.
There's even a new game coming out, a sequel to the Left 4 Dead franchise, to be called 'Jingos 4 Jesus'. Can't wait!
I'm pretty sure someone already made Flock. :)
One should be careful giving out fake SSNs, as you may be accused of attempted identity theft or fraud or whatnot. But, who's to say you or some data entry person didn't make a mistake and mistype one of the numbers, or transpose two of the numbers? Looks like an innocent mistake, I say! If you do it consistently enough, you can even use the excuse, "God, that typo has been following me around forever!"
I'm just sayin'.
I also use my old phone numbers and addresses for those who require such information. "Oh, that's my _old_ number!" :)
yeh, like aliens at the destination.
Only if we're lucky.
They'll mix in approximately the same way as chocolate and peanut butter in a Reese's peanut butter cup.
*smash*
"Hey, you got people parts in my drone!"
"You got drone parts in my people!"
Mmmm!
Unmanned trains? Sure. Planes? Not so much.
That's not to say that flying planes can't be made vastly easier. NASA's "Highway in the Sky" program is encouraging the development of some pretty nifty stuff. Think about the computer display in the Nostromo from Alien. The view of the flight path the pilot simply keeps it within the optimal path, no problem for most situations. But it's those unusual situations you gotta have the real deal for.
> Using the special URL, the old password is removed and a new one generated in its place with no confirmation required.
While you're right in saying the attacker can't access the admin's account, the admin themselves also can't access it, because their password has already been reset to something else, and they'll have to get the new one. It seems more like a minor inconvenience to me, then a massive bug which will end the world, but still a flaw.
The admin still gets the password change notification, though, so the net effect is that someone is changing their password for them, notifying them of that, yet the attacker still can't get access to the admin login info unless they have access to the admin's email account. The admin can simply check their email for the new password, though, so they're not really locked out. Annoying, yes, but a pretty minor issue, and it's already been fixed.
Wolphram Alpha calls it 58.4
so much for significant figures.
You only get significant figures from significant search engines.
"Begs the question" is not a synonym for "raises the question".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begs_the_question
Nicely done. Pedantic-Man(tm) approves!
Remember, kids, pedantry is its own reward.
"Average two-year-old children as stupid as dogs."
A plugin like Flash should not be ABLE to lock up the browser. No, that's not the fault of Flash, it's the fault of the browser that _allows_ it to happen. The browser should be in control of the plugin, not the other way around.
They were a big force behind CSS, and look how awful their support has been for that. Leave them behind. They probably won't even notice for about 6 or 7 years, anyway.
I hear the Ubuntu extension also has a feature for euthanasia of old people.
And I *still* haven't seen it's long-form birth certificate!
I'm for _anything_ that gets more people to stop using IE6. :)
What I remember from my days in aerospace engineering classes at Univ. of MO - Rolla ("Where the men are men, the women are scarce and the sheep are nervous."), the factors involved are: lift vs gravity, thrust vs drag.
Ultra-light weight
Plug-in Serial electric hybrid
Choose engine optimized for efficiency/weight
Perhaps jet turbine?
Choose light-weight batteries
Solar panels on wings (lightweight ones!)
Super-low coefficient of drag
Advanced wing design
Advanced propeller design
No A/C or pressurization or retractable gear will also drop a lot of weight, but you'll have to be careful in designing your wheel fairings to reduce drag as much as possible. That's a first-year class to play with the wind tunnel, though. Fun times. No pressurization will limit your ceiling, but oh well, we're going for efficiency here! No retractable gear will lower your max speed, but again, we gotta drop the weight for the sake of efficiency. (I'd like to see some #'s about the efficiency tradeoffs of going with lower coefficient of drag with retractable gear vs less weight due to fixed gear. My gut tells me the weight is more important, but my gut could easily be wrong.)
This would be a very fun project. I wonder if Rutan is going to participate.