There's a bit of a gap between the headline stating that Kinect is "revolutionizing robotics" and the article stating that the project has been "announced" and that there "will likely be a torrent of robots".
We'll see. In the mean time I will be revolutionizing the Internet with an idea that I will announce in the near future.
Old school IE: Make own standards to try to vendor lock-in people with the MS platform
Standards compliant IE: Try to closely adhere to standards and basically render like all the other browsers
I don't think the first strategy will work anymore. People learned what IE6 really costs in the long run. That leaves strategy two. But why bother? It a huge investment development wise, and I don't see them gaining anything from it without the vendor lock-in. So is this just "we want a browser too", or what?
The democratic principle is that the ultimate authority is the citizenry, and that is limited by the principle of civil rights, in which there are individual rights that are not to be taken away.
Such as "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."?
No! If they never created Facebook and Twitter then MySpace (which had more users than Facebook at one point and launched 6 months earlier) or Orkut (launched a month before Facebook) would have been used. You can't exactly claim they were unique ideas, just good executions.
The funny thing is that I thought academics would lean towards the free will argument, but I guess sometimes they take "there must be an explanation for everything" too far and convince themselves that human behaviour is easily explained with statistical models with ridiculously weak premises.
Or maybe it's based on evidence. Controversial notion, I know.
The Republicans might actually be playing this angle on purpose. Think about it. They've gotten tax cuts under Obama that they couldn't get under Bush, and if (or when) it causes a deficit meltdown Obama will take the blame. Running Palin or any of the other... candidates is a complete win win for them. If Palin wins who knows what will happen. If Obama wins they can keep voting in reckless bills and have the Democrats take the blame for it.
Just wait and see what happens with Social Security.
Those are them nutjobs thinking that the climate is changing, and that it's our fault. Now they want us to fly "energy efficient" airplanes. That's code for socialist airplanes! And they'll probably be serving vegan food on them as well. Don't fall for it!
Besides, Microsoft, Apple and the rest are perfectly free to release plug-ins for Chrome that handle their desired formats.
Yes, but only one of the involved companies gets to decide the codec used on YouTube. That, and the fact that Firefox cannot ship H.264 IMHO will be the deciding factor (in WebM's favor).
There's no debate in the scientific literature. Obviously, there's a debate among laymen.
Which begs the question: why is "the majority of scientists agree" not enough when it comes to climate change. It's enough when it's there's fear of creating black holes at the LHC. It's enough when it's NASA sending satellites into space. These places have just as much motivation for being "grant seeking" and all the other accusations that have been flying around.
But when it's climate change the majority of scientists, the IPCC, and even NASA isn't enough. They're all part of a conspiracy, and there is only a handful of very specific people in the entire world that we can trust.
Regarding the consequences of climate change take a look at this website. You should care. But I guess they're also part of the socialist hippie lobby trying to get more funding or reelected or something.
The browser market share in Europe is FF 38.11%, Chrome 14.58%, Opera 4.57%, all of which either support or will support WebM. That's 57% of the browser market, and if YouTube goes WebM IE and Safari will have no choice but to support it as well.
Also since FF cannot include H.264 that means encoding your video in H.264 instead of WebM costs you nearly 40% of users.
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There's a bit of a gap between the headline stating that Kinect is "revolutionizing robotics" and the article stating that the project has been "announced" and that there "will likely be a torrent of robots".
We'll see. In the mean time I will be revolutionizing the Internet with an idea that I will announce in the near future.
There are two strategies MS can play:
I don't think the first strategy will work anymore. People learned what IE6 really costs in the long run. That leaves strategy two. But why bother? It a huge investment development wise, and I don't see them gaining anything from it without the vendor lock-in. So is this just "we want a browser too", or what?
The democratic principle is that the ultimate authority is the citizenry, and that is limited by the principle of civil rights, in which there are individual rights that are not to be taken away.
Such as "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."?
No! If they never created Facebook and Twitter then MySpace (which had more users than Facebook at one point and launched 6 months earlier) or Orkut (launched a month before Facebook) would have been used. You can't exactly claim they were unique ideas, just good executions.
Wonder why they never put Gandhi on that list.
At high altitudes there's much less friction from air to dampen oscillations.
The funny thing is that I thought academics would lean towards the free will argument, but I guess sometimes they take "there must be an explanation for everything" too far and convince themselves that human behaviour is easily explained with statistical models with ridiculously weak premises.
Or maybe it's based on evidence. Controversial notion, I know.
The Republicans might actually be playing this angle on purpose. Think about it. They've gotten tax cuts under Obama that they couldn't get under Bush, and if (or when) it causes a deficit meltdown Obama will take the blame. Running Palin or any of the other ... candidates is a complete win win for them. If Palin wins who knows what will happen. If Obama wins they can keep voting in reckless bills and have the Democrats take the blame for it.
Just wait and see what happens with Social Security.
Apparently* it's an external problem and there will be "no need for a system software update.".
Makes you wonder about who can do what with your Windows Phone 7...
*As I noted in my submission. Which was earlier. WTF editors!?
You must be new here. If all the news on /. was well researched, well cited, traceable, and factual there would be no need for the discussions.
+1 Epic lol
Start with vi and go from there.
Real men use, oh never mind.
Those are them nutjobs thinking that the climate is changing, and that it's our fault. Now they want us to fly "energy efficient" airplanes. That's code for socialist airplanes! And they'll probably be serving vegan food on them as well. Don't fall for it!
Freedom is hard.
No it's not. Take a look at the rest of the Western world.
* Guaranteed free distribution on the web for free content, minor free for paid content.
What exactly does minor free mean?
* Free to use, but questionable future if challenged by MPEG LA and others.
Guess it will become minor free then. And I'm sure Google hasn't checked any of this.
Firefox has h264 added on with the MS WMP plugin
By the MS in the above I'm guessing that it's Windows only.
Besides, Microsoft, Apple and the rest are perfectly free to release plug-ins for Chrome that handle their desired formats.
Yes, but only one of the involved companies gets to decide the codec used on YouTube. That, and the fact that Firefox cannot ship H.264 IMHO will be the deciding factor (in WebM's favor).
There's no debate in the scientific literature. Obviously, there's a debate among laymen.
Which begs the question: why is "the majority of scientists agree" not enough when it comes to climate change. It's enough when it's there's fear of creating black holes at the LHC. It's enough when it's NASA sending satellites into space. These places have just as much motivation for being "grant seeking" and all the other accusations that have been flying around.
But when it's climate change the majority of scientists, the IPCC, and even NASA isn't enough. They're all part of a conspiracy, and there is only a handful of very specific people in the entire world that we can trust.
But do WE have an impact on this variation. That is the question.
Answered here.
Even before we ask that question: if the earth gets both hotter and cooler, does it matter?
Who cares if we have an impact if it doesn't matter?
Answered here.
Queue knee jerk dismissal of website.
Just a small error, but otherwise correct:
"All too often people let their emotions / politics / media-lust get in the way of listening to people who understand the planet we live on.
Regarding the consequences of climate change take a look at this website. You should care. But I guess they're also part of the socialist hippie lobby trying to get more funding or reelected or something.
That's standard practice...
This argument applies to Gitmo as well. Doesn't make it valid.
The browser market share in Europe is FF 38.11%, Chrome 14.58%, Opera 4.57%, all of which either support or will support WebM. That's 57% of the browser market, and if YouTube goes WebM IE and Safari will have no choice but to support it as well.
Also since FF cannot include H.264 that means encoding your video in H.264 instead of WebM costs you nearly 40% of users.
...once IE9 becomes mainstream...
How long are you willing to wait for that? *
* as noted elsewhere IE's share is 37.52%.
All of a sudden a lot of people became totally in favor of the government snooping on Twitter users.