Consumer goods like phones "do not have platforms" in spite of the best intentions of Apple, Google, etc. They are like refrigerators and come with Brand, Features and Price differentiators.
Third parties can sell some add-ons but the core features will be protected by the brand. And in any case the sales of phones are not determined by availability of third party apps. Unlike computers, which are almost useless without third party applications.
Many managers in IT shops might not be able to write "hello world" in C or perl, but they can do the equivalent in other languages or use Google to figure it out.
It is only at the very top, people who lead organizations come from backgrounds like Sales, Accounting, etc. These people cannot write code.
But people who write code might not know sales or accounting basics and that also can kill an organization, even a technical organization. People who are praising Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are really admiring their business acumen, which is what is needed for business success. Business basics remain same for IT and non-IT business.
There is paid software on the desktop - It is a poor financial decision because it does not make sense to pay for licenses not being used. Unless you have floating/site licenses for everything (unlikely).
All development tools are free - create a minimal standard set and provide freedom to developer to add more.
In principle, the idea that languages are tools for the programmer is good. I would not go to a mechanic who claims he will solve all my car problems only with his favorite wrench.
To a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail.
These are not "laptops" or "computers". They are educational aids to help children learn different subjects in an interactive and interesting manner. The main objectives are
a) To make education fun and interesting so children will stay in school. b) Make distribution of new educational material easy and reduce the number of books and text books needed. c) Help the next generation stay connected with the world, where possible.
That it runs an operating system based on linux, has RAM or HDD or any technical stuff is irrelevant to the school child. A school child will be more than happy to call one of these their own and it will generate interest in education and learning. That is the goal.
I see that slashdot is using "evil" advertisements but slashdotters dont seem to mind it. Sad that websites have expenses. I wish they would invent a website that ran for free.
I have read hundreds of articles which claim improvements of 50-100% over all previous solar cells. Based on my understanding, a single solar cell (2 inches by 2 inches) should be enough to light up the entire world. Somehow, I get a feeling that we are still mostly using other non-renewable forms of energy. I wonder why!!
What we see around the world today is that the poor have higher fertility than the rich for the following reasons.
1. The rich have lots of entertainment to choose from. For the poor, sex is a form of entertainment. 2. The poor in expectation of lower life expectancy and higher child mortality tend to over compensate by producing more children. Remember we are talking about fertility here. 3. The rich men are generally afraid of their children who more than the poor tend to usurp parent's property. So to reduce the chances, rich folks have fewer children. 4. Rich countries today have lower fertility than poor countries. India, China, Bangladesh, etc have much higher fertility rates than rich countries whose population is actually reducing.
Maybe he is not a clueless idiot. There are a hundred thousand clueless idiots who keep trolling. How come there is no discussion about their views. If he truly was a clueless idiot, the world would not be discussing him. Does it occur to you, we might be the clueless idiots who keep arguing about his intelligence while he laughs all the way to the bank. If all it took to be talked about was being clueless, I will start writing a blog:-)
The Reva from India boasts of 50 Miles range with top speed of 50 MPH and cost per Mile of 2 Cents. It can carry two folks only though. I guess if they can just improve the battery to get to 100 Miles and top speed to 100 as well, I think it will become very viable to own one. Of course, the car is very small and flimsy but I guess those things can be improved over time.
Imagine the laser gets smaller and becomes shoulder held. If the people on the otherside get one of these cuties you can kiss the aviation sector goodbye. Better start selling your stocks in aviation and aviation insurance.
This assumes that the quality of research in all papers are average. The only indicator of quality being used is citation. But the visible technological impact is derived from application of research rather than quantity or quality of research. For e.g. the country that first creates a quantum computer is going to obsolete lot of the research that is going on in the silicon world. A 1000 papers on current computer hardware might not be worth the one paper that explores application of quantum computing. How do you measure this and determine quality of research. It is highly likely that these 1000 papers have more citations as well. R&D outfits that are developing applications of quantum computing might not really spend more time on writing research papers for publishing.
If a mall is popular and you stop retailers in the mall from stocking your products, you are the loser. Not the mall. There are ten other manufacturers who will supply the mall's customers. Unless your product is so great that customers cannot do without it. Or you have patented it that others cannot copy its functions/features.
Meanwhile a new legislation bans keyloggers and people involved in the manufacture, development, distribution of keyloggers will be sentenced to a minimum of 5 years in prison.
This is law supported by NRA that does not want kids to believe they can make do with simulated guns. They want to introduce a new law that makes it easy for schoolkids to own guns. Especially as defense against other schoolkids who carry guns to school.
Coraid Storage Products connect to the network using standard Ethernet. With EtherDrive Storage you can create a shared storage system from a few Terabytes to multiple Petabytes for under $0.70 per Gigabyte.
Can I get a single script/installable/whatever to tweak all these in one shot?
Chinese vulnerable as long as they run Windows
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China Crafts Cyberweapons
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The Chinese are the vulnerable ones as long as they run Windows. Technically speaking, the US Govt can ask MS to provide a backdoor in Windows/Vista. In case of war, the backdoor can be used to format all hard disks by a simple patch Windows downloads all the time from the internet. The effect of millions of computers in the country crashing at the same time. Or even worse, doing crazy things will leave the military in a very vulnerable position where they cannot depend any longer on their computers. Which leaves them with what??
My research shows that on that day there were actually 3,303,929,675 Urban people and 3,303,952,767 rural people. This is because some of the urban people were actually rural folks who had come to gawk at the cities and went back that night.
22 of my patents are being misused by Microsoft. 18 of them are being misused by Apple and 12 of them by Linux. I will not tell you what those patents are since it would make me a millionaire and put all users through lot of pain.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought slashdot's main purpose was to criticize the guys on top (MS)!
Consumer goods like phones "do not have platforms" in spite of the best intentions of Apple, Google, etc. They are like refrigerators and come with Brand, Features and Price differentiators.
Third parties can sell some add-ons but the core features will be protected by the brand. And in any case the sales of phones are not determined by availability of third party apps. Unlike computers, which are almost useless without third party applications.
The simplest and best way to learn this stuff quickly and with help is attend a Redhat training course and try to get an RHCE certification.
Try www.redhat.com/training/ for more information. Redhat and CentOS are close enough to be interchangeable.
Many managers in IT shops might not be able to write "hello world" in C or perl, but they can do the equivalent in other languages or use Google to figure it out.
It is only at the very top, people who lead organizations come from backgrounds like Sales, Accounting, etc. These people cannot write code.
But people who write code might not know sales or accounting basics and that also can kill an organization, even a technical organization. People who are praising Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are really admiring their business acumen, which is what is needed for business success. Business basics remain same for IT and non-IT business.
A horny lady wants to "enter" and editor wants to "escape".
There is paid software on the desktop - It is a poor financial decision because it does not make sense to pay for licenses not being used. Unless you have floating/site licenses for everything (unlikely).
All development tools are free - create a minimal standard set and provide freedom to developer to add more.
In principle, the idea that languages are tools for the programmer is good. I would not go to a mechanic who claims he will solve all my car problems only with his favorite wrench.
To a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail.
1. Preprocess - outsource this process to eliminate frivilous and easy to eliminate claims. Speed up the next two steps.
2. Process the patent applications.
3. Validate - check, verify, grant.
These are not "laptops" or "computers". They are educational aids to help children learn different subjects in an interactive and interesting manner. The main objectives are
a) To make education fun and interesting so children will stay in school.
b) Make distribution of new educational material easy and reduce the number of books and text books needed.
c) Help the next generation stay connected with the world, where possible.
That it runs an operating system based on linux, has RAM or HDD or any technical stuff is irrelevant to the school child. A school child will be more than happy to call one of these their own and it will generate interest in education and learning. That is the goal.
I see that slashdot is using "evil" advertisements but slashdotters dont seem to mind it. Sad that websites have expenses. I wish they would invent a website that ran for free.
I have read hundreds of articles which claim improvements of 50-100% over all previous solar cells. Based on my understanding, a single solar cell (2 inches by 2 inches) should be enough to light up the entire world. Somehow, I get a feeling that we are still mostly using other non-renewable forms of energy. I wonder why!!
What we see around the world today is that the poor have higher fertility than the rich for the following reasons.
1. The rich have lots of entertainment to choose from. For the poor, sex is a form of entertainment.
2. The poor in expectation of lower life expectancy and higher child mortality tend to over compensate by producing more children. Remember we are talking about fertility here.
3. The rich men are generally afraid of their children who more than the poor tend to usurp parent's property. So to reduce the chances, rich folks have fewer children.
4. Rich countries today have lower fertility than poor countries. India, China, Bangladesh, etc have much higher fertility rates than rich countries whose population is actually reducing.
Maybe he is not a clueless idiot. There are a hundred thousand clueless idiots who keep trolling. How come there is no discussion about their views. If he truly was a clueless idiot, the world would not be discussing him. Does it occur to you, we might be the clueless idiots who keep arguing about his intelligence while he laughs all the way to the bank. If all it took to be talked about was being clueless, I will start writing a blog:-)
The Reva from India boasts of 50 Miles range with top speed of 50 MPH and cost per Mile of 2 Cents. It can carry two folks only though. I guess if they can just improve the battery to get to 100 Miles and top speed to 100 as well, I think it will become very viable to own one. Of course, the car is very small and flimsy but I guess those things can be improved over time.
http://www.revaindia.com/worldwidegallery.htm
Imagine the laser gets smaller and becomes shoulder held. If the people on the otherside get one of these cuties you can kiss the aviation sector goodbye. Better start selling your stocks in aviation and aviation insurance.
This assumes that the quality of research in all papers are average. The only indicator of quality being used is citation. But the visible technological impact is derived from application of research rather than quantity or quality of research. For e.g. the country that first creates a quantum computer is going to obsolete lot of the research that is going on in the silicon world. A 1000 papers on current computer hardware might not be worth the one paper that explores application of quantum computing. How do you measure this and determine quality of research. It is highly likely that these 1000 papers have more citations as well. R&D outfits that are developing applications of quantum computing might not really spend more time on writing research papers for publishing.
If a mall is popular and you stop retailers in the mall from stocking your products, you are the loser. Not the mall. There are ten other manufacturers who will supply the mall's customers. Unless your product is so great that customers cannot do without it. Or you have patented it that others cannot copy its functions/features.
Sriram
Meanwhile a new legislation bans keyloggers and people involved in the manufacture, development, distribution of keyloggers will be sentenced to a minimum of 5 years in prison.
This is law supported by NRA that does not want kids to believe they can make do with simulated guns. They want to introduce a new law that makes it easy for schoolkids to own guns. Especially as defense against other schoolkids who carry guns to school.
Actually BP Solar is one of the large solar energy companies. And they have practical technology that is being used in the real world.
http://www.bp.com/modularhome.do?categoryId=4260
www.coraid.com
Coraid Storage Products connect to the network using standard Ethernet. With EtherDrive Storage you can create a shared storage system from a few Terabytes to multiple Petabytes for under $0.70 per Gigabyte.
Can I get a single script/installable/whatever to tweak all these in one shot?
The Chinese are the vulnerable ones as long as they run Windows. Technically speaking, the US Govt can ask MS to provide a backdoor in Windows/Vista. In case of war, the backdoor can be used to format all hard disks by a simple patch Windows downloads all the time from the internet. The effect of millions of computers in the country crashing at the same time. Or even worse, doing crazy things will leave the military in a very vulnerable position where they cannot depend any longer on their computers. Which leaves them with what??
My research shows that on that day there were actually 3,303,929,675 Urban people and 3,303,952,767 rural people. This is because some of the urban people were actually rural folks who had come to gawk at the cities and went back that night.
The reports of death of unix and c are greatly exaggerated.
22 of my patents are being misused by Microsoft. 18 of them are being misused by Apple and 12 of them by Linux. I will not tell you what those patents are since it would make me a millionaire and put all users through lot of pain.