Say that fuelcells start powering everything, and their exhaust is going to be water.
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What is going to happen to all that water that we create? Isn't that going to have reaching enviromental implications as well?
As a side note, it's nice to see them pumping money into US fabs.
I totally agree with you. Does anyone know how much chip production actually goes on inside the US these days? Is it not cheaper to do it all in China?
I owe my current apartment, kick ass roommate, and my job all to Craig. If you are living in an urban area, you really can't go wrong. Let's hear it for grassroots, baby!
Yeah, but if he's looking for the mac version, he might have a harder time finding it in the bargin bin... I love macs, but there are so few games that come to eh platfor I think games keep their initial resale value longer.
I normally agree. However, Gmail is an exception. I was really excited when they started to offer POP3, and I could use Outlook, but after a few days, I just found myself using the web interface again. I like it too much.
I'll agree with that. I have tried countless times to explain to people that there is an internet outside of AOL, but they don't seem to get it.
This is why AOL still has business. People are not educated enough to know that there is an Internet outside of AOL, or they are too scared to try something new. Why has AOL been plumeting? People are waking UP.
AOL's biggest fault was not growing with the Internet. They were not paying attention to what people outside of AOL were capable of doing. A change to the business model in 2001 or 2002 MIGHT have saved AOL if they come up with a better system, but I think it's too late for them to do anything. Free email is just stupid at this point. Too little, too late.
IIRC, Bush's plan looked good for jump starting missions to Mars, but hurt NASA in a lot of other areas, such as deep space probe missions.
I would love to see a man on Mars in my lifetime, but NASA does have a lot of other programs going on that should not be forgotten for one high profile project.
The user interface had better be clear, simple and easy to use while driving, or no one is going to get one of these. Based on my small iRiver experiance, I don't see that happening.
True- the Dot-com thing was a lot of stupid people throwing money at other stupid people... I was talking more in terms of the frenzy of investing that would be AMAZING to see happen because of this...
They had better keep going...
Number 1: They have all thrown tons of time/money into it.
Number 2: This is JUST the first step. The X Prize was to kick the Private sector into gear and start a competition... it's not like the X Prize guys said "Hey Burt! We'll give you, and only you, $10 Mil to get to space!" No, they wanted to see copmetition.
And not that competition is going to move into the investor market... Virgin made their stake in Scaled, and now that's going to make others kick in to onto the other competitors... Like with any new market, people will throw a ton of money into it, there will be a ton of new companies trying to get their business off the ground (no pun intended)...
Think Dot-Com bubble... only this one (hopefully) won't end up the same way.
I hope that in 50 years, the X-Prize is remembered as well as Scaled and SSO will be.
M$ has gotten so big, they need to start functioning as the government for the internet. (I know that sounds scary, but seeing as how they control the software that controls the majority of PCs, they are in the drivers seat) and they need to start acting like one...
If the US government said that it was no longer going to support states that were not as beneficial tothe whole as others, I'm pretty sure we'd be pretty pissed as a country... or maybe they are doing this, I don't know.
I JUST GOT LAID OFF.
Company is going under.
Anyone hiring in the NYC area?
(Yes, this post is TOTALY offtopic... please, be that jerk that mods me down)
you got a contract when you signed up for service.. if it fails to specify a bandwidth limitation, this is a scare tactic and nothing more..
I don't know about "scare tactics". If they want to terminate hi service, they can. If you want to travel down a road of costly litigation, then maybe you could have your service re-instated. But why bother, as most people do have access to several providers these days. Just go with another one.
I'm sure that eventually there will be a regulation on this sort of thing, as more and more people slowly start to use more bandwidth on a regular basis (Us geeks will always be in the forefront, though). Right now it's not a major issue for most people. There is a mean about of usage, and ISPs go by those figures. As the about of bandwidth required rises, so will that mean.
I agree with your thoughts in a lot of ways, but it's raising a questoin for me- Why the hell do people fight over their OS's so much, alwasy trying to say that theirs is the best there ever was?
I'm reminded of the Ansel Adams article a couple weeks ago. Someone pointed out that Adams used lots of different media for different things, and he would have used digital photography in instances where it suited his purpose. Why can't we all think of an OS the same way? There are things that XP does that I'm very happy with, so i use it. OS X offers me other things that I like, so I use it for certain things. Same with Linux (though I use it much less frequently)(And now I just gave all your linux-heads a reason to dismiss me; Linux is not my primary OS, so I must be stupid). Seriously, can't we all just get along?
I told my office (with the exception of me, it's an all female, under 35 urban bunch) and they all really loved the new iPods. It took some explaining (these are not tech savvy people) about the size difference to get them to look away from the mini's.
They will sell better than we geeks think they will. Apple is in fashion right now. The cuter it looks, the more your upper-middle class people will throw money at it. The Mini's will sell at $250, and when sales slump, their price will drop. Trust me.
Games really are no more violent than Rugby or Boxing.
I'm playing Vice City right now. It's a great game. However, I have had to do a reality check while I'm driving a couple of times because I've wanted to speed up and swind between cars and do things that would get me killed... all normal fare in VC.
As games get more and more "real" it makes it harder for the subconscious mind to differentiate between games and real life... I don't know how many people I've talked to that have had dreams that they are in whatever game they have been playing.
It's not that games are not any more violent than boxing or rugby, it's that the human interaction with the games is more intense. You are not kicking back and watching a couple of guys punch each other in the face, you are (virtually, mind you) one of the guys doing the punching.
That's where a lot of the crying about games is coming from. In games, you get to act out whatever fantasy the game is set up to let you act out, and they keep getting better and better at it.
Now, i'm not about to say that games lead to Columbine or any bullshit like that, but saying that games don't have an effect on people is ridiculous. I know they effect me and other people I've talked to. It's something that any gamer should be conscious of.
Speaking of jobs, what do people here know about Goldman Sachs? I've been thinking of applying for a job there.
I'm not a programmer, though. I'm just looking for some steady job, and GS is looking pretty attractive right now.
That's what Steve jobs said last week to Rolling Stone (yeah, I know, ancient news...). Jobs said people don't want to pirate, they want a quick way to get music. That's part of the reason iTMS is doing as well as it is.
Now, get the prices down on the songs, and I'll start buying. $1 is too much for a song I will listen to for a week and then delete.
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'After 22 designs, 320 man-years, a 50% staff of Ph.Ds, and $50 million, you end up with a design that works.'
This is how we got Pamela Anderson.
Here's a question I've never had answered fully-
Say that fuelcells start powering everything, and their exhaust is going to be water.
BR> What is going to happen to all that water that we create? Isn't that going to have reaching enviromental implications as well?
As a side note, it's nice to see them pumping money into US fabs.
I totally agree with you. Does anyone know how much chip production actually goes on inside the US these days? Is it not cheaper to do it all in China?
I owe my current apartment, kick ass roommate, and my job all to Craig. If you are living in an urban area, you really can't go wrong. Let's hear it for grassroots, baby!
Yeah, but if he's looking for the mac version, he might have a harder time finding it in the bargin bin... I love macs, but there are so few games that come to eh platfor I think games keep their initial resale value longer.
Anyone remember Oni? Another great Bungie game that never got the honors it deserved... the game play was a lot of fun, and the story was pretty good.
the thing that really got me was the load times- it took almost no time from clicking the icon to get to beating the crap out of guys.
I normally agree. However, Gmail is an exception. I was really excited when they started to offer POP3, and I could use Outlook, but after a few days, I just found myself using the web interface again. I like it too much.
I'll agree with that. I have tried countless times to explain to people that there is an internet outside of AOL, but they don't seem to get it.
This is why AOL still has business. People are not educated enough to know that there is an Internet outside of AOL, or they are too scared to try something new. Why has AOL been plumeting? People are waking UP.
AOL's biggest fault was not growing with the Internet. They were not paying attention to what people outside of AOL were capable of doing. A change to the business model in 2001 or 2002 MIGHT have saved AOL if they come up with a better system, but I think it's too late for them to do anything. Free email is just stupid at this point. Too little, too late.
IIRC, Bush's plan looked good for jump starting missions to Mars, but hurt NASA in a lot of other areas, such as deep space probe missions. I would love to see a man on Mars in my lifetime, but NASA does have a lot of other programs going on that should not be forgotten for one high profile project.
and hereis the attourney that sent the letter... though, and I'm surprised no one else has done this, I question if it's real or not.
I know someone in Last Starfighter, and I'm seeing it free next week. w00t.
The user interface had better be clear, simple and easy to use while driving, or no one is going to get one of these. Based on my small iRiver experiance, I don't see that happening.
True- the Dot-com thing was a lot of stupid people throwing money at other stupid people... I was talking more in terms of the frenzy of investing that would be AMAZING to see happen because of this...
They had better keep going... Number 1: They have all thrown tons of time/money into it. Number 2: This is JUST the first step. The X Prize was to kick the Private sector into gear and start a competition... it's not like the X Prize guys said "Hey Burt! We'll give you, and only you, $10 Mil to get to space!" No, they wanted to see copmetition. And not that competition is going to move into the investor market... Virgin made their stake in Scaled, and now that's going to make others kick in to onto the other competitors... Like with any new market, people will throw a ton of money into it, there will be a ton of new companies trying to get their business off the ground (no pun intended)... Think Dot-Com bubble... only this one (hopefully) won't end up the same way. I hope that in 50 years, the X-Prize is remembered as well as Scaled and SSO will be.
M$ has gotten so big, they need to start functioning as the government for the internet. (I know that sounds scary, but seeing as how they control the software that controls the majority of PCs, they are in the drivers seat) and they need to start acting like one... If the US government said that it was no longer going to support states that were not as beneficial tothe whole as others, I'm pretty sure we'd be pretty pissed as a country... or maybe they are doing this, I don't know.
I JUST GOT LAID OFF. Company is going under. Anyone hiring in the NYC area? (Yes, this post is TOTALY offtopic... please, be that jerk that mods me down)
I'm right there with yo, buddy! I'm about to get canned in about 5 minutes, I think!
you got a contract when you signed up for service.. if it fails to specify a bandwidth limitation, this is a scare tactic and nothing more..
I don't know about "scare tactics". If they want to terminate hi service, they can. If you want to travel down a road of costly litigation, then maybe you could have your service re-instated. But why bother, as most people do have access to several providers these days. Just go with another one.
I'm sure that eventually there will be a regulation on this sort of thing, as more and more people slowly start to use more bandwidth on a regular basis (Us geeks will always be in the forefront, though). Right now it's not a major issue for most people. There is a mean about of usage, and ISPs go by those figures. As the about of bandwidth required rises, so will that mean.
... /. killed their server.
I agree with your thoughts in a lot of ways, but it's raising a questoin for me- Why the hell do people fight over their OS's so much, alwasy trying to say that theirs is the best there ever was?
I'm reminded of the Ansel Adams article a couple weeks ago. Someone pointed out that Adams used lots of different media for different things, and he would have used digital photography in instances where it suited his purpose. Why can't we all think of an OS the same way? There are things that XP does that I'm very happy with, so i use it. OS X offers me other things that I like, so I use it for certain things. Same with Linux (though I use it much less frequently)(And now I just gave all your linux-heads a reason to dismiss me; Linux is not my primary OS, so I must be stupid). Seriously, can't we all just get along?
I told my office (with the exception of me, it's an all female, under 35 urban bunch) and they all really loved the new iPods. It took some explaining (these are not tech savvy people) about the size difference to get them to look away from the mini's.
They will sell better than we geeks think they will. Apple is in fashion right now. The cuter it looks, the more your upper-middle class people will throw money at it. The Mini's will sell at $250, and when sales slump, their price will drop. Trust me.
Games really are no more violent than Rugby or Boxing.
I'm playing Vice City right now. It's a great game. However, I have had to do a reality check while I'm driving a couple of times because I've wanted to speed up and swind between cars and do things that would get me killed... all normal fare in VC.
As games get more and more "real" it makes it harder for the subconscious mind to differentiate between games and real life... I don't know how many people I've talked to that have had dreams that they are in whatever game they have been playing.
It's not that games are not any more violent than boxing or rugby, it's that the human interaction with the games is more intense. You are not kicking back and watching a couple of guys punch each other in the face, you are (virtually, mind you) one of the guys doing the punching.
That's where a lot of the crying about games is coming from. In games, you get to act out whatever fantasy the game is set up to let you act out, and they keep getting better and better at it.
Now, i'm not about to say that games lead to Columbine or any bullshit like that, but saying that games don't have an effect on people is ridiculous. I know they effect me and other people I've talked to. It's something that any gamer should be conscious of.
Speaking of jobs, what do people here know about Goldman Sachs? I've been thinking of applying for a job there. I'm not a programmer, though. I'm just looking for some steady job, and GS is looking pretty attractive right now.
The best part is, everyone in the comments is calling him Josh, too.
That's what Steve jobs said last week to Rolling Stone (yeah, I know, ancient news...). Jobs said people don't want to pirate, they want a quick way to get music. That's part of the reason iTMS is doing as well as it is.
Now, get the prices down on the songs, and I'll start buying. $1 is too much for a song I will listen to for a week and then delete.