We will offer products based on this next generation RIP technology and make them available under license to printer manufacturers and software integrators worldwide.' Yes, I can see it now - entire industries undoing their time-tested, battle hardend PDF-based workflows with free and open files all for the chance to use patented, pay-for-use Microsoft proprietary workflows, software, and files.
Surely that's the same strategy Adobe uses. Adobe Acrobat Professional, for example? Just guessing here...
I'd love to see Windows come loaded with OpenOffice and Mozilla, and a ton of Open Source software. It would be a great sign of stregnth, to give away those products and then tell people "You have Open Office which is good, but for something really great come and buy Office".
Well I'm relieved now, even the/. editors don't RTFA! For a while there I was starting think what a lame asshole I must be for posting without reading the article, but it's alright now.
Except the services we sell to all the other countries who have no clue how to efficiently produce their goods., build their power plants, feed their ever growing populations, and cure their sick.
And once they learn how to do all that stuff, what will they need us for? Or do you think they'll never catch up?
We currently have the best university system available
That depends on government funding for research, funding which is being cut across the board left and right these days. DARPA, NSF, etc, are all cutting funding, especially for pure university-based research which is the most crucial in maintaining America's long-term technological leadership, academic quality, and even tax base that is required for additional funding. Without pure research, technological advancement and the steady stream of neato gadgets we take for granted will dry up.
and that translates into the best educated country in the world.
Sure, that's why American students are always at the top of every published academic ranking and consistently win international contests. I won't bother to link to the recent/. stories on this.
Which translates into valuable services.
An economy can't survive on services alone. There is only one way of creating wealth, and that is by taking raw materials and applying work and ingenuity to turn them into something worth more than the sum of their parts. We used to do take wood and iron and turn it into ships and trains; now we take sand, aluminum, and copper and turn it into microchips. Voila, wealth is created. At best services allow you to ween a little more value out of the products you've created, especially if you see custom software (eg IT consulting) as an enabler of hardware, or something that helps you get more value out of your hardware. At worst, services are simply a wealth transfer, with no additional wealth created at all.
Don't buy into the malarky that America can prosper as we have without actually making anything. As funding is diverted from pure research to military expeditions and whatnot we undermine our base of future product innovation and development, while China learns our manufacturing techniques through outsourcing and educates hundreds of thousands of engineers and scientists in our universities, who are capable of bringing their education, research, and innovativeness home and away from the US.
As American CEO's sometimes cannibalize their companies' future for immediate stock price gains and golden parachutes, so our recent presidents, CEO's, and financiers seem to be doing to our entire country.
Not to mention IBM has some incredible hardware and software people on staff that would be far better employed helping those with problems in a consulting role.
Keep wishing. Researchers of that calibur rarely want to work as business/IT consultants, and if IBM tries to assign them to such a role, they'll go elsewhere.
Amusing how an aquatically evolved organism has roughly the same appendages and organs as humans do - two legs with toes, two arms with fingers, and breasts??? And having your dress straps run through your gill slits must sure be uncomfortable...
CDMA is the better technology, but GSM's advantage is the portability provided by the SIM card and that it is not proprietary. Too bad there's no Open CDMA that uses SIM card equivalents for the world to standardize on. VHS vs. Betamax redux...
They're about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get.
That's great for OS hackers, but what about us hardware hackers on a budget? The only thing keeping me from switching to OS X is that it only works on PPC, and there's relatively no custom aftermarket for that. If you could buy your own PPC parts and build your own kit, then buy OS X for it, I'd switch in a heartbeat. What I wouldn't give for a dual G5 nForce4 mobo... Granted, nothing compares to the coolness of Apple hardware, yet even that isn't enough make me give up the joys of building my own kit, and with a limited budget that precludes me from buying both a Mac and a custom rig, I'll always go with the latter.
Though this idea has the potential to bomb in a variety of ways, I for one think it would be cool to at least see the episode with Kirk's Kobayashi Maru test. Of course, since this is the most famous incident in starfleet academy history, the show would probably save it for the last episode finale (or two). Then again, if the show bombs, maybe I won't have to wait that long for it after all...
Obviously from the clued-in news services who realize that staying with Google means more viewers directed to their sites, thus more ad revenues, especially when all their competition are willfully removing themselves from the game. Watch the free market work.
On another note, anyone want to wager on how long it will be till AFP quietly allows their content to be reinserted into Google search results?
and consider those lawyers top grade on the morals scale,
FYI, any time a lawyer sues a big corporation for whatever reason, he or she is well aware of the potential for a big payoff, either through settlement, court-decision, and/or putative damages. I'm not saying morality has nothing to do with it, but it certainly isn't the only motivating factor involved, and "top-grade on the moral scale" should be reserved instead for Ghandi, Mandela, and the like.
Can any photogs out there tell me how Flickr is better than PBase? I've been using PBase for over a year, tried flickr when it first came out and didn't see a reason to switch. Pbase is also a community-oriented site, with nice design, and provides a high degree of control over gallery design and layout to its members (good example: any of the featured galleries on its home page. I log onto flickr and it feels more like a dating site than a photo gallery site. Anyone, anyone?
What, is even the Master Chief getting an iPod now too? Didn't think that tough sob even listened to music. At least the white headphone jack won't clash too badly with his green and orange...
might not lead to the USA eventually falling beind in key sciences, and, as a consquence, losing its edge in the world of technology.
It's already happening, but not b/c of religion, at least not directly. The problem is that most government research grants are now given only to projects with a perceived immediate technological or economic benefit. Those who hold the purse strings do not seem to understand the value of pure research, the kind that takes decades to translate into technological advances and tangible benefits.
One obvious symptom of this is the cancellation of the superconducting supercollider back in '93. 8.25 billion to find a little thing called a Higgs Boson. Too much money for something so little and so useless...
OUR universe appears to be unfathomably uniform. Look across space from one edge of the visible universe to the other, and you'll see that the microwave background radiation filling the cosmos is at the same temperature everywhere. That may not seem surprising until you consider that the two edges are nearly 28 billion light years apart and our universe is only 14 billion years old.
Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, so there is no way heat radiation could have travelled between the two horizons to even out the hot and cold spots created in the big bang and leave the thermal equilibrium we see now.
Er... the universe is 28 billion lightyears wide, and 14 billion years old. 14 = 1/2*28, so wouldn't the radiation have had enough time to populate the universe, assuming it does not need to travel all the way across, but only to the middle? As long as radiation from all sides of the universe travels halfway across the universe, 14 billion lightyears, and if the universe is uniformly populated by stars and other radiation-producers (eg, no side/sector of the universe with significantly more stars than the other sides), and all sides of the universe expanding at roughly the same rate, then why wouldn't 14 billion years be enough time for the universe to be uniformly populated by same-temp radiation? Go easy, IANAS.
Well this is certainly an interesting unintended consequence of Page Rank. What was initially an acclaimed method of organizing the world's information, has now caused changes in the way the world's information is organized, or at least is labeled. Just goes to show you can't escape the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal - you cannot measure a system without affecting it.
I wonder if Brin & Page foresaw this back at Stanford... I also wonder what solutions they may come up with. rel=nofollow is one, but it depends on website operators, not Google. Any ideas anyone?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, ehm, how many people was that again?
Found these posted on the airliners.net forum. I hate to /. this guy's PC, but hopefully somebody will be able to mirror these:
flyby & landing video
We will offer products based on this next generation RIP technology and make them available under license to printer manufacturers and software integrators worldwide.' Yes, I can see it now - entire industries undoing their time-tested, battle hardend PDF-based workflows with free and open files all for the chance to use patented, pay-for-use Microsoft proprietary workflows, software, and files.
Surely that's the same strategy Adobe uses. Adobe Acrobat Professional, for example? Just guessing here...
I'd love to see Windows come loaded with OpenOffice and Mozilla, and a ton of Open Source software. It would be a great sign of stregnth, to give away those products and then tell people "You have Open Office which is good, but for something really great come and buy Office".
BWAAAHAHAHAHA!!! Good one! ROTFLMFAO!
Oh, you were serious... Ahem, sorry.
I doubt Windows will do any of those things.
Yeah, me too...
Well I'm relieved now, even the /. editors don't RTFA! For a while there I was starting think what a lame asshole I must be for posting without reading the article, but it's alright now.
Except the services we sell to all the other countries who have no clue how to efficiently produce their goods., build their power plants, feed their ever growing populations, and cure their sick.
/. stories on this.
And once they learn how to do all that stuff, what will they need us for? Or do you think they'll never catch up?
We currently have the best university system available
That depends on government funding for research, funding which is being cut across the board left and right these days. DARPA, NSF, etc, are all cutting funding, especially for pure university-based research which is the most crucial in maintaining America's long-term technological leadership, academic quality, and even tax base that is required for additional funding. Without pure research, technological advancement and the steady stream of neato gadgets we take for granted will dry up.
and that translates into the best educated country in the world.
Sure, that's why American students are always at the top of every published academic ranking and consistently win international contests. I won't bother to link to the recent
Which translates into valuable services.
An economy can't survive on services alone. There is only one way of creating wealth, and that is by taking raw materials and applying work and ingenuity to turn them into something worth more than the sum of their parts. We used to do take wood and iron and turn it into ships and trains; now we take sand, aluminum, and copper and turn it into microchips. Voila, wealth is created. At best services allow you to ween a little more value out of the products you've created, especially if you see custom software (eg IT consulting) as an enabler of hardware, or something that helps you get more value out of your hardware. At worst, services are simply a wealth transfer, with no additional wealth created at all.
Don't buy into the malarky that America can prosper as we have without actually making anything. As funding is diverted from pure research to military expeditions and whatnot we undermine our base of future product innovation and development, while China learns our manufacturing techniques through outsourcing and educates hundreds of thousands of engineers and scientists in our universities, who are capable of bringing their education, research, and innovativeness home and away from the US.
As American CEO's sometimes cannibalize their companies' future for immediate stock price gains and golden parachutes, so our recent presidents, CEO's, and financiers seem to be doing to our entire country.
Not to mention IBM has some incredible hardware and software people on staff that would be far better employed helping those with problems in a consulting role.
Keep wishing. Researchers of that calibur rarely want to work as business/IT consultants, and if IBM tries to assign them to such a role, they'll go elsewhere.
who then spill all sorts of happy, wonderful, everything is awesome, best thing since sliced bread reviews...
And the result of showing it to the MTV audience first instead will be different how? Same marketing model, different implementation.
Will it be backwards compatible with Xbox?
Amusing how an aquatically evolved organism has roughly the same appendages and organs as humans do - two legs with toes, two arms with fingers, and breasts??? And having your dress straps run through your gill slits must sure be uncomfortable...
CDMA is the better technology, but GSM's advantage is the portability provided by the SIM card and that it is not proprietary. Too bad there's no Open CDMA that uses SIM card equivalents for the world to standardize on. VHS vs. Betamax redux...
Nice website. I just love opening pr0n at work.
They're about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get.
That's great for OS hackers, but what about us hardware hackers on a budget? The only thing keeping me from switching to OS X is that it only works on PPC, and there's relatively no custom aftermarket for that. If you could buy your own PPC parts and build your own kit, then buy OS X for it, I'd switch in a heartbeat. What I wouldn't give for a dual G5 nForce4 mobo... Granted, nothing compares to the coolness of Apple hardware, yet even that isn't enough make me give up the joys of building my own kit, and with a limited budget that precludes me from buying both a Mac and a custom rig, I'll always go with the latter.
Though this idea has the potential to bomb in a variety of ways, I for one think it would be cool to at least see the episode with Kirk's Kobayashi Maru test. Of course, since this is the most famous incident in starfleet academy history, the show would probably save it for the last episode finale (or two). Then again, if the show bombs, maybe I won't have to wait that long for it after all...
Until the courts decide that student P2P activity is permitted
Innocent till proven guilty? Nope, never heard of it...
Where shall we get our news from?
Obviously from the clued-in news services who realize that staying with Google means more viewers directed to their sites, thus more ad revenues, especially when all their competition are willfully removing themselves from the game. Watch the free market work.
On another note, anyone want to wager on how long it will be till AFP quietly allows their content to be reinserted into Google search results?
and consider those lawyers top grade on the morals scale,
FYI, any time a lawyer sues a big corporation for whatever reason, he or she is well aware of the potential for a big payoff, either through settlement, court-decision, and/or putative damages. I'm not saying morality has nothing to do with it, but it certainly isn't the only motivating factor involved, and "top-grade on the moral scale" should be reserved instead for Ghandi, Mandela, and the like.
Wow, and only 10 years after Sun's UltraSPARC, 13 years after the DEC Alpha, and 14 years after the MIPS R4000
But only 4 years after the Itanium!
Er, wait...
Can any photogs out there tell me how Flickr is better than PBase? I've been using PBase for over a year, tried flickr when it first came out and didn't see a reason to switch. Pbase is also a community-oriented site, with nice design, and provides a high degree of control over gallery design and layout to its members (good example: any of the featured galleries on its home page. I log onto flickr and it feels more like a dating site than a photo gallery site. Anyone, anyone?
What, is even the Master Chief getting an iPod now too? Didn't think that tough sob even listened to music. At least the white headphone jack won't clash too badly with his green and orange...
might not lead to the USA eventually falling beind in key sciences, and, as a consquence, losing its edge in the world of technology.
It's already happening, but not b/c of religion, at least not directly. The problem is that most government research grants are now given only to projects with a perceived immediate technological or economic benefit. Those who hold the purse strings do not seem to understand the value of pure research, the kind that takes decades to translate into technological advances and tangible benefits.
One obvious symptom of this is the cancellation of the superconducting supercollider back in '93. 8.25 billion to find a little thing called a Higgs Boson. Too much money for something so little and so useless...
Before posting any comments... ..please read this:
:)
Dude, none of us have even read the article, and now you want us to read three more before posting? You must new around here...
From the article:
OUR universe appears to be unfathomably uniform. Look across space from one edge of the visible universe to the other, and you'll see that the microwave background radiation filling the cosmos is at the same temperature everywhere. That may not seem surprising until you consider that the two edges are nearly 28 billion light years apart and our universe is only 14 billion years old.
Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, so there is no way heat radiation could have travelled between the two horizons to even out the hot and cold spots created in the big bang and leave the thermal equilibrium we see now.
Er... the universe is 28 billion lightyears wide, and 14 billion years old. 14 = 1/2*28, so wouldn't the radiation have had enough time to populate the universe, assuming it does not need to travel all the way across, but only to the middle? As long as radiation from all sides of the universe travels halfway across the universe, 14 billion lightyears, and if the universe is uniformly populated by stars and other radiation-producers (eg, no side/sector of the universe with significantly more stars than the other sides), and all sides of the universe expanding at roughly the same rate, then why wouldn't 14 billion years be enough time for the universe to be uniformly populated by same-temp radiation? Go easy, IANAS.
Google has made this so, I'm afraid.
Well this is certainly an interesting unintended consequence of Page Rank. What was initially an acclaimed method of organizing the world's information, has now caused changes in the way the world's information is organized, or at least is labeled. Just goes to show you can't escape the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal - you cannot measure a system without affecting it.
I wonder if Brin & Page foresaw this back at Stanford... I also wonder what solutions they may come up with. rel=nofollow is one, but it depends on website operators, not Google. Any ideas anyone?
What happens when they open Googledot.org ;)
Given the relative size of the servers/farms, Slashdot might get Googledotted.