While these may be expensive, they might be well worth the investment for a hospital. At least in the U.S. (I'm not up to speed worldwide) there is an increasingly nasty shortage of nurses. Keeping the ones you have healthy is important and perhaps cool technology like this might make the field more attractive. But really, it's probably time for some sweeping pay scale raises.
Very cool stuff though which could be useful in a number of professions. Hopefully, when these suits get cheap enough, we'll seem them protect much of the manual labor in industrial contries. Next task, how to help the worldwide working poor.
What I was trying to say is that we have problems here but its not that bad. We have rights. While I did say that other parts of the world had problems, I'm not so naive as to believe that we are the only respectable country in the world. Frankly, if I had infinate money, I would by a home in Breckenridge Colorado (good skiing) and Switzerland - my favorite place in the world. Furthermore, I believe Americans should get out and improve their country.
The Legal system here has its problems, but I believe that if threw a few thousand random African Americans in the legal system, damn near all of them would be sent home because there wouldn't be anything to charge them with. The death penalty is somewhat slanted here - not qute as bad as some statistics imply though. Personally, I would argue for getting rid of the death penalty all-together as it is risky, barbaric and more expensive than life in prison.
And again, there are many places around the world that are wonderful places to live. I apologize if implied differantly. I also believe there are atrocities that going on that are beyond my comprehension. By enlarge, these aren't happening in anymore in Western Europe than than they are in the U.S., but looking at Sudan and (some) countries ruled outside of democracies there are problems which may the U.S. and countries with simliar standards of living and freedom look like heaven.
Because Tom is bored. Seriously, he just went off ranting about how slow the releases of new and interesting hardware have been this summer. So, he's probably just out looking for things he hasn't tried and is reviewing them.
I doubt it as well, but I don't see what the judiciary (not the FCC) allowing private organizations to discriminate against gays has to do with what happens with Microsoft here. Btw, I tend to agree with the legal findings in those cases and simply hope that those organizations change thier minds. And yes, some congressmen are obsessed with stopping flag burning - we elected them, deal with it. Cable merging is a semi-legit point. It's borderline monopolistic but I don't think the deal is set in stone yet, and without it being set in stone, I don't believe the FCC can step in and evaluate it.
Now, I'd like to see some justification for your final statements. Which people are blaming gays and lesbians for ruining the country? I think there might be 2% of the public who would say that. There are more who dissapprove.. but I won't go there. Privacy is pretty much shot, you're right there. There are efforts going on in congress to address this. Deal with your local congressmen. "No rights to freedom" - in the face of what people in other countries face, this is an insult. You can travel wherever you like (talk to the palestinians), you can worship freely (talk to half the world), you can get internet access and communicate political views freely. There are problems in our country, but damn it, we're doing alright. Starvation is pretty low, the government ain't killing lots of people and we are by enlarge rich. By this I mean our poverty line - while presenting MANY difficulties for the folks under it - is far above the average incomes in many countries. I know, I'm setting a low standard here, but I'm trying to show how bad things can be. Anyway, on the whole we're a pretty decent place to live. We do have many freedoms - including the right to leave the country and move somewhere else. Ug, how could you say we "have no rights to freedom"? Tell that to a Chinese dissident or a Sudanese Slave. Please explain your arguement or apologize.
Doubt it. If Microsoft actually required Passport to use the internet, they would get into even deeper trouble. Instead they merely imply it. So if I'm a normal user, that's what I think and so I sign up for passport. If I'm a Microsoft lawyer, I happily do a demo by clicking no and then use the internet. Slimy is the appropriate word here. The goal here is to make everyone who isn't well informed choose yes and you all know what follows after that.
Here's what I read: AOL is looking to spend money to replace Microsoft options: MSN, IE, MultimediaThingamagig with AOL backed options: AOL, Netscape, Real. While I wouldn't trust AOL with a monopoly, I am more than happy to see computer makers given at least 2 viable options. That means there is at least SOME competition. Competition == Good Thing.
Very well put. The P4 was designed with Rambus type memory bandwidth in mind. Making a PC133 chipset is almost silly from a technical view. I'll be interested to see how P4 on RDRAM compares to P4 on DDR. We should be able to see which technology is stronger at that point.
If you were going to sink a large amount of cash into bonds in a small software company, don't you think you might look into who the bond judges were? This might not be practical for the average investor, but the big boys have the resources to do this. I'm not sure this loophole would exist considering how skeptical folks are of startups after the dotBust.
This could certaintly work - assuming people aren't scared stiff by small software companies already. One thing which is required by bonds is paying people back. To actually pay people back, you need to make money. The only companies who are going to get decent bond ratings are those which are seeking to make money in the relatively near term - at least within the term of the bond. I think the market may be able to sort this out better than it handled the wizbang ideas of folks who floated stock.
A boycott would only work if we could get the general public on board. I doubt this could be pulled off. What I have been trying to do is educate people of the dangers of Passport and Hailstorm. I hope they spread the word since the dangers are fairly straight forward. That way, while Microsoft might extend their monopoly to include instant messaging and streaming audio, they won't totally control the internet. Good luck to us all.
I played some of these games and enjoyed them. However, I can't say that I ever really got into them and I certaintly never came close to beating them. I'm 21.
Excactly why I hope this non-bundling of a bad JRE from microsoft will be good. If, big if, OEMs decide to bundle modern 1.3 or 1.4 JREs. Some developers might consider the 100% java application more seriously. Since Mac should have a decent JRE with OSX, and Linux users are generally skilled enough to go get one, folks might be able to exploit write once, run anywhere (with a few minor changes). Of course, the moment THAT happens in a serious way, Microsoft's barrier to entry goes away and the desktop no longer belongs to them.
I wouldn't be so quick there. First, it shows that GPL has to be taken seriously and can't simply be ignored. Further, it shows that GPLed code can be utilized by business as long as it is encapsulated. In other words, GPL be can be contained and doesn't infect IP in the way that Microsoft would have you believe. Now, I would hope that companies would have the decency to give back to the open-source community by working on the GPL code and not just exploiting it. It is with a differant binary, that's true. Unless I misunderstand things though, they stopped distributing the infringing binary and simply released the new split up ones. Overall, we really don't want to see companies that goof with GPL to go out of business. We want them to give back to the community while making some money and keeping any IP they find precious.
I'm not quite as pessimistic. They have reached the point where they are getting significantly more energy out than they are putting in. The seems to be a legitimate chance that the process is close to correct and merely needs more tech and more efficient processes. I don't have the physics background you appear to though, so I won't be too strong in my statements.
For the last few decades, we've heard that fusion was going to be a real power source in "about ten years." If we are actually getting lots more out than we put in, getting there cheaply is all that remains. MAYBE, we are only ten years away now. Personally, I'm waiting 'till someone says five.
While in a sense, I'd have to agree with many of you that big fat private pipes make the differance, I think there is more to it. They're experimenting with new protocols and routing rules as well. I'm not sure, but I'd think this would be difficult to test well in a production environment with legacy equipment (the current internet). This is really just a massive research project which facilitates other research projects. Sounds like a sweet deal all around. The question is, when do I get fiber in my house?
Not to pick on you, but everyone here is giving Sun hell for this. Their main markets are workstation and server hardware as well as developement tools. Where does developing office applications for the Mac fall in? Seems to me, Sun did a decent thing in bringing StarOffice into respectable shape and largely opening it up. It's not like Sun is asking for devel help and then intends to charge $200 for the product.
On another note, I'm surprised that there hasn't been more OSX support here. It's guts are fairly open, and it is an unix based OS which is in competition with Windows. It even brings an easy to use, pretty ui to unix. Sounds pretty darn good. Not to be flamebait, but is there some bitterness from the Linux community that Apple brought Unix to the common man first? It's not free, but it works. Anyways, I'll sit and wait for the -1.
I know its lame to respond to my own post, but I had another thought. If you are distributing free music or software which makes music exchange free and easy and also have a legal budget, does it make sense to divert some small percentage of that budget to help Napster? Of course, this question assumes what I said above is correct.
Napster pretty much sits out there and gets beat up on. Then it gets back up and fights again. That takes some guts. More importantly, as long as Napster is fighting, the RIAA lawyers have work to do. When Napster finally concedes defeat, the lawsuits will start targetting distributers of Gnuetella and other sharing tools. That, or they'll start actively targetting individuals. Go Napster! Keep on getting beat on, the rest of us love ya for it.
Before an entity can strongarm and ISP into revealing your identity, it has to make some effort to notify you and show a court that it has a reasonable case against you. The article seems to say the ruling goes a bit beyond this, but I think at least that much will stand up across the country. Overall, this is a good privacy-rights ruling. It also gives me hope that the backlash against privacy invasion is having some success.
My understanding was that Microsoft was trying to force certain behavior from AOL. Useing the threat of removal from the desktop (where AOL gets many of its customers) Microsoft was its classic tactics to get what it wanted from AOL. AOL now has options which are more promising than trying to convert AOLites to Linux.
There is a decent review at the NY times. From what I've seen and read, it seems like the renderer is there for creating photorealistic humans. That is just beyond cool. However, I get the feeling that the project was somewhat lacking in compute power. While some of the characters look amazing and almost make you think you are watching a real person, some of the shots of seen of more minor characters are weak by comparision. The detail just isn't there. Either the artists didn't take the time to do the model or there were limitations on compute power. Either way, the movie has some weakness, but displays some awesome technology.
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Very cool stuff though which could be useful in a number of professions. Hopefully, when these suits get cheap enough, we'll seem them protect much of the manual labor in industrial contries. Next task, how to help the worldwide working poor.
The Legal system here has its problems, but I believe that if threw a few thousand random African Americans in the legal system, damn near all of them would be sent home because there wouldn't be anything to charge them with. The death penalty is somewhat slanted here - not qute as bad as some statistics imply though. Personally, I would argue for getting rid of the death penalty all-together as it is risky, barbaric and more expensive than life in prison.
And again, there are many places around the world that are wonderful places to live. I apologize if implied differantly. I also believe there are atrocities that going on that are beyond my comprehension. By enlarge, these aren't happening in anymore in Western Europe than than they are in the U.S., but looking at Sudan and (some) countries ruled outside of democracies there are problems which may the U.S. and countries with simliar standards of living and freedom look like heaven.
Of course you and me will create an account with fake information. What do you think the average user will do?
Because Tom is bored. Seriously, he just went off ranting about how slow the releases of new and interesting hardware have been this summer. So, he's probably just out looking for things he hasn't tried and is reviewing them.
Now, I'd like to see some justification for your final statements. Which people are blaming gays and lesbians for ruining the country? I think there might be 2% of the public who would say that. There are more who dissapprove.. but I won't go there. Privacy is pretty much shot, you're right there. There are efforts going on in congress to address this. Deal with your local congressmen. "No rights to freedom" - in the face of what people in other countries face, this is an insult. You can travel wherever you like (talk to the palestinians), you can worship freely (talk to half the world), you can get internet access and communicate political views freely. There are problems in our country, but damn it, we're doing alright. Starvation is pretty low, the government ain't killing lots of people and we are by enlarge rich. By this I mean our poverty line - while presenting MANY difficulties for the folks under it - is far above the average incomes in many countries. I know, I'm setting a low standard here, but I'm trying to show how bad things can be. Anyway, on the whole we're a pretty decent place to live. We do have many freedoms - including the right to leave the country and move somewhere else. Ug, how could you say we "have no rights to freedom"? Tell that to a Chinese dissident or a Sudanese Slave. Please explain your arguement or apologize.
Doubt it. If Microsoft actually required Passport to use the internet, they would get into even deeper trouble. Instead they merely imply it. So if I'm a normal user, that's what I think and so I sign up for passport. If I'm a Microsoft lawyer, I happily do a demo by clicking no and then use the internet. Slimy is the appropriate word here. The goal here is to make everyone who isn't well informed choose yes and you all know what follows after that.
Here's what I read: AOL is looking to spend money to replace Microsoft options: MSN, IE, MultimediaThingamagig with AOL backed options: AOL, Netscape, Real. While I wouldn't trust AOL with a monopoly, I am more than happy to see computer makers given at least 2 viable options. That means there is at least SOME competition. Competition == Good Thing.
Very well put. The P4 was designed with Rambus type memory bandwidth in mind. Making a PC133 chipset is almost silly from a technical view. I'll be interested to see how P4 on RDRAM compares to P4 on DDR. We should be able to see which technology is stronger at that point.
If you were going to sink a large amount of cash into bonds in a small software company, don't you think you might look into who the bond judges were? This might not be practical for the average investor, but the big boys have the resources to do this. I'm not sure this loophole would exist considering how skeptical folks are of startups after the dotBust.
This could certaintly work - assuming people aren't scared stiff by small software companies already. One thing which is required by bonds is paying people back. To actually pay people back, you need to make money. The only companies who are going to get decent bond ratings are those which are seeking to make money in the relatively near term - at least within the term of the bond. I think the market may be able to sort this out better than it handled the wizbang ideas of folks who floated stock.
A boycott would only work if we could get the general public on board. I doubt this could be pulled off. What I have been trying to do is educate people of the dangers of Passport and Hailstorm. I hope they spread the word since the dangers are fairly straight forward. That way, while Microsoft might extend their monopoly to include instant messaging and streaming audio, they won't totally control the internet. Good luck to us all.
I played some of these games and enjoyed them. However, I can't say that I ever really got into them and I certaintly never came close to beating them. I'm 21.
Excactly why I hope this non-bundling of a bad JRE from microsoft will be good. If, big if, OEMs decide to bundle modern 1.3 or 1.4 JREs. Some developers might consider the 100% java application more seriously. Since Mac should have a decent JRE with OSX, and Linux users are generally skilled enough to go get one, folks might be able to exploit write once, run anywhere (with a few minor changes). Of course, the moment THAT happens in a serious way, Microsoft's barrier to entry goes away and the desktop no longer belongs to them.
I wouldn't be so quick there. First, it shows that GPL has to be taken seriously and can't simply be ignored. Further, it shows that GPLed code can be utilized by business as long as it is encapsulated. In other words, GPL be can be contained and doesn't infect IP in the way that Microsoft would have you believe. Now, I would hope that companies would have the decency to give back to the open-source community by working on the GPL code and not just exploiting it. It is with a differant binary, that's true. Unless I misunderstand things though, they stopped distributing the infringing binary and simply released the new split up ones. Overall, we really don't want to see companies that goof with GPL to go out of business. We want them to give back to the community while making some money and keeping any IP they find precious.
We'll never be ruled by machines - that's why we've got the three laws of robotics, right? Right? ..gulp..
I'm not quite as pessimistic. They have reached the point where they are getting significantly more energy out than they are putting in. The seems to be a legitimate chance that the process is close to correct and merely needs more tech and more efficient processes. I don't have the physics background you appear to though, so I won't be too strong in my statements.
For the last few decades, we've heard that fusion was going to be a real power source in "about ten years." If we are actually getting lots more out than we put in, getting there cheaply is all that remains. MAYBE, we are only ten years away now. Personally, I'm waiting 'till someone says five.
While in a sense, I'd have to agree with many of you that big fat private pipes make the differance, I think there is more to it. They're experimenting with new protocols and routing rules as well. I'm not sure, but I'd think this would be difficult to test well in a production environment with legacy equipment (the current internet). This is really just a massive research project which facilitates other research projects. Sounds like a sweet deal all around. The question is, when do I get fiber in my house?
On another note, I'm surprised that there hasn't been more OSX support here. It's guts are fairly open, and it is an unix based OS which is in competition with Windows. It even brings an easy to use, pretty ui to unix. Sounds pretty darn good. Not to be flamebait, but is there some bitterness from the Linux community that Apple brought Unix to the common man first? It's not free, but it works. Anyways, I'll sit and wait for the -1.
I know its lame to respond to my own post, but I had another thought. If you are distributing free music or software which makes music exchange free and easy and also have a legal budget, does it make sense to divert some small percentage of that budget to help Napster? Of course, this question assumes what I said above is correct.
Napster pretty much sits out there and gets beat up on. Then it gets back up and fights again. That takes some guts. More importantly, as long as Napster is fighting, the RIAA lawyers have work to do. When Napster finally concedes defeat, the lawsuits will start targetting distributers of Gnuetella and other sharing tools. That, or they'll start actively targetting individuals. Go Napster! Keep on getting beat on, the rest of us love ya for it.
Before an entity can strongarm and ISP into revealing your identity, it has to make some effort to notify you and show a court that it has a reasonable case against you. The article seems to say the ruling goes a bit beyond this, but I think at least that much will stand up across the country. Overall, this is a good privacy-rights ruling. It also gives me hope that the backlash against privacy invasion is having some success.
My understanding was that Microsoft was trying to force certain behavior from AOL. Useing the threat of removal from the desktop (where AOL gets many of its customers) Microsoft was its classic tactics to get what it wanted from AOL. AOL now has options which are more promising than trying to convert AOLites to Linux.
It was midnight, I didn't care to check my spelling. Please forgive me.
There is a decent review at the NY times. From what I've seen and read, it seems like the renderer is there for creating photorealistic humans. That is just beyond cool. However, I get the feeling that the project was somewhat lacking in compute power. While some of the characters look amazing and almost make you think you are watching a real person, some of the shots of seen of more minor characters are weak by comparision. The detail just isn't there. Either the artists didn't take the time to do the model or there were limitations on compute power. Either way, the movie has some weakness, but displays some awesome technology.