This is exactly why I have set my Karma-bonus modifier to 0. The so-called "Self-moderation" is a myth. Most people simply use their bonus every time they post, regardless of wheter its really insightful, funny, interesting etc. or just a "me-too" post or some random babbling like this.
Faster planes that fly about 10-20% faster than existing planes (like Boeing's late Sonic Cruiser) would mess up airline schedules, for example an overnight flight from East Asia to Europe would arrive too early in the morning, before the airports open, or would have to leave late to be convenient for departures. Planes that fly an order of magnitude faster are a whole different story. Forget overnight flights... forget tight schedules. The 35 min that it takes to fly from LA to NY is much shorter than the time it would take to prep the plane and load/unload passengers.
Sonic boom is a non-issue with this plane because it flies between the upper atmosphere and space. There's not enough air up there to create a sonic boom.
That said there will be some big issues with this. Two hours from Tokyo to LA means it will be like being teleported from night to day. NASTY jet lag. The aircraft will alternate between 1.5g and 0g every two minutes. Guess that rules out any kind of in-flight service, trips to the restroom or anything. You get in, strap yourself to the seat and unless you feel up to a two hour roller-coaster ride and have had a light meal you take air-sickness pills. I doubt most people will even be able to sleep under these circumstances.
Realistically, I see this being used for cargo and military applications more than anything else for a while. Maybe they will be able to increase the period of the oscillation to, say, 30 minutes instead of 2 minutes and then it will be fit for passeger travel.
Am I the only one who thought the "parody" was not clever, but rather juvenile and stupid? If this is what they come up with in 4 years, I'm distinctly unimpressed.
Just because we don't agree with most of what MS does doesn't mean we're blind to the fact that there may be instances where MS is, in fact, in the right. Lindows is designed to look similar, act smiliar, smell similar to Windows. Their name would have no brand recognition if it weren't for Windows. Microsoft IS right on this one ***choke*** ***goes and rinses mouth***.
Besides, like some other people have pointed out, "window" is a very common word in english, but not in European languages. While one could argue that MS can't trademark Windows in English speaking countries, the certainly doesn't hold true elsewhere.
WTF are you talking about? The two look NOTHING like each other. Sure they both have blue and white bottles, but so do millions of other products. They don't even seem to be the same shade of blue. The way the name is printed, design of the label or even design of the bottles are not even remotely similar. Sanex and Sanicur don't even sound that similar to each other.
I'm sure Sanex would be happy to sue any of its competitors out of oblivion, but if they're to win an injunction for that "blatent cloning" they'd better make sure the judge is kept well stocked with crack.
Let me be a "usenet troll" and address your post point-by-point. Forbes is not the same magazine as Fortune. An you didn't get modded +5 insightful?!!! Fortune and Forbes cater to the same audience and are very similar in content and purpose.
Please don't use Forbes's name to slander Fortune. It slander if its its untrue. But I just cited several examples to prove, that didn't I? Where's the slander?
Learn to take criticism. Fortune printed a contrarian view to Google's next-big-thing hype. Rather than trying to rebut the article line by line with snappy comebacks like a Usenet troll, perhaps you should examine your conceptions of Google. Personally, I agree with the article: Google is the most overhyped company since Netscape, and its IPO will rise and fall with similar magnitude.
Learn to read my posting before criticising it. I said that Fortune and Forbes always speak condescendingly about engineers. To make that point I cited several examples. However, since you were so awed by this article, you obviously don't believe that an article needs to back up its assertions with facts, so that point may have escaped you.
Let me respond anyway. The one good point I think the article made was about people showing up late for meetings. I think that is disrespectful and unprofessional, especially if they don't pay attention when they're there.
Other than that everything they point to is not a "contrarian" view, but an inability to understand a different corporate culture... especially one where money is not the #1 priority. I refuse to give credence to any of the quotations from "unnamed CEOs"... we aren't talking about some middle manager afraid of getting fired for criticising the company or getting harassed by coworkers. If you won't let your words attached to your name, I don't want to read them.
Am I the only offended by condescending tone of the article when it comes to computer scientists and engineers?
I suspect these people are merely shocked that someone without an MBA degree and who doesn't walk around in a $2000 suit can call the shots in a company, and greatly exaggerate the degree of "arrogance"
--engineers and other geeks attending a conference Yeah... all those weirdos
..."It's a distraction from pure technology, which is what I love...."....Brin will become a billionaire. Make that a multibillionaire. So to hear him pining for the good old days sounds strange-- What? There are things more important than money???!!!
roller-hockey-obsessed doctoral students in computer science Computer Science gradstudents must be obsessive, right?
an unspoken caste system has emerged. At the top are the engineers, people in the mold of Brin and Page. They have people who actually make the product at the top????!!! Why can't they be like every other company and have all those TPS report-demanding MBAs at the top.
...wrote off SCO as a bunch of sleazebags and went back to playing live-action roleplaying (LARP) games in their mothers' basements, or whatever it is they do when they're not writing device drivers and complaining about clueless end users. From Forbes... linked to in another posting
NO! I would take them all to the toughest of judge to ensure that all our procedures are put through the srictest of scrutiny so no innocent person't privacy in inadvertently violated.
If they can spy on you in your car by flipping a switch,
Correction getting a court order and then flipping a switch. I don't see this as being as horrible as people are making it out to be. Its just an easier option for them to install the bug having gotten the court order than having some guy sneak around an plant a physcical one... potentially risking the life of an agent if this was a dangerous criminal they were tailing... or certainly at much greater cost to taxpayers.
So long as they can't do this thing without a court order, I do not think there are major privacy issues.
What's most disturbing is that they only passed this because it prevented the saftey features from working, and not because it was infringing on rights of privacy. Crap, if they have a bug order anyway, can't they just bug the car?
IANAL, but my guess is the laywer handling the case saw an easy way to win, and decided to stick with that rather than making complex arguments about rght to privacy and stuff. It doesn't imply that they would not have won otherwise.
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This is exactly why I have set my Karma-bonus modifier to 0. The so-called "Self-moderation" is a myth. Most people simply use their bonus every time they post, regardless of wheter its really insightful, funny, interesting etc. or just a "me-too" post or some random babbling like this.
I find it somewhat strange that a page about Small Form Factor PCs has no information on the DIMENSIONS!
Faster planes that fly about 10-20% faster than existing planes (like Boeing's late Sonic Cruiser) would mess up airline schedules, for example an overnight flight from East Asia to Europe would arrive too early in the morning, before the airports open, or would have to leave late to be convenient for departures. Planes that fly an order of magnitude faster are a whole different story. Forget overnight flights... forget tight schedules. The 35 min that it takes to fly from LA to NY is much shorter than the time it would take to prep the plane and load/unload passengers.
Sonic boom is a non-issue with this plane because it flies between the upper atmosphere and space. There's not enough air up there to create a sonic boom.
That said there will be some big issues with this. Two hours from Tokyo to LA means it will be like being teleported from night to day. NASTY jet lag. The aircraft will alternate between 1.5g and 0g every two minutes. Guess that rules out any kind of in-flight service, trips to the restroom or anything. You get in, strap yourself to the seat and unless you feel up to a two hour roller-coaster ride and have had a light meal you take air-sickness pills. I doubt most people will even be able to sleep under these circumstances.
Realistically, I see this being used for cargo and military applications more than anything else for a while. Maybe they will be able to increase the period of the oscillation to, say, 30 minutes instead of 2 minutes and then it will be fit for passeger travel.
RTFA:The g forces would vary between 1.5g and weightlessness
RFID concerns are overblown, except when the tags are on YOU.
Don't make snide remaks about his preferences, ok? Its not PC
a cold, frosty bear?
You mean like a Polar Bear?
they are the equivalent of brain-dead humans
Aaaaahh. NOW I understand why Bush feels so strongly for them
On the other hand I'm very impressed with their server. With links the 25 MB videos on slashdot, I'm still able to dowload it and get 180 kb/sec.
Am I the only one who thought the "parody" was not clever, but rather juvenile and stupid? If this is what they come up with in 4 years, I'm distinctly unimpressed.
Just because we don't agree with most of what MS does doesn't mean we're blind to the fact that there may be instances where MS is, in fact, in the right. Lindows is designed to look similar, act smiliar, smell similar to Windows. Their name would have no brand recognition if it weren't for Windows. Microsoft IS right on this one ***choke*** ***goes and rinses mouth***.
Besides, like some other people have pointed out, "window" is a very common word in english, but not in European languages. While one could argue that MS can't trademark Windows in English speaking countries, the certainly doesn't hold true elsewhere.
WTF are you talking about? The two look NOTHING like each other. Sure they both have blue and white bottles, but so do millions of other products. They don't even seem to be the same shade of blue. The way the name is printed, design of the label or even design of the bottles are not even remotely similar. Sanex and Sanicur don't even sound that similar to each other.
I'm sure Sanex would be happy to sue any of its competitors out of oblivion, but if they're to win an injunction for that "blatent cloning" they'd better make sure the judge is kept well stocked with crack.
And he's coded what is obviously the *worst idea ever!*
Does he work for Verisign?
Every CD-ROM drive can be opened even if power fails. The didn't think to build an override into the car systems?
And hope you don't get mod points either, if you intend to use them to mod down people you disagree with instead of posting replies.
Let me be a "usenet troll" and address your post point-by-point.
Forbes is not the same magazine as Fortune.
An you didn't get modded +5 insightful?!!!
Fortune and Forbes cater to the same audience and are very similar in content and purpose.
Please don't use Forbes's name to slander Fortune.
It slander if its its untrue. But I just cited several examples to prove, that didn't I? Where's the slander?
Learn to take criticism. Fortune printed a contrarian view to Google's next-big-thing hype. Rather than trying to rebut the article line by line with snappy comebacks like a Usenet troll, perhaps you should examine your conceptions of Google. Personally, I agree with the article: Google is the most overhyped company since Netscape, and its IPO will rise and fall with similar magnitude.
Learn to read my posting before criticising it. I said that Fortune and Forbes always speak condescendingly about engineers. To make that point I cited several examples. However, since you were so awed by this article, you obviously don't believe that an article needs to back up its assertions with facts, so that point may have escaped you.
Let me respond anyway. The one good point I think the article made was about people showing up late for meetings. I think that is disrespectful and unprofessional, especially if they don't pay attention when they're there.
Other than that everything they point to is not a "contrarian" view, but an inability to understand a different corporate culture... especially one where money is not the #1 priority. I refuse to give credence to any of the quotations from "unnamed CEOs"... we aren't talking about some middle manager afraid of getting fired for criticising the company or getting harassed by coworkers. If you won't let your words attached to your name, I don't want to read them.
the russian agency think might the other way around!
Dude... it isn't the Soviet Russian agency anymore!
Am I the only offended by condescending tone of the article when it comes to computer scientists and engineers?
..."It's a distraction from pure technology, which is what I love...." ....Brin will become a billionaire. Make that a multibillionaire. So to hear him pining for the good old days sounds strange--
...wrote off SCO as a bunch of sleazebags and went back to playing live-action roleplaying (LARP) games in their mothers' basements, or whatever it is they do when they're not writing device drivers and complaining about clueless end users.
I suspect these people are merely shocked that someone without an MBA degree and who doesn't walk around in a $2000 suit can call the shots in a company, and greatly exaggerate the degree of "arrogance"
--engineers and other geeks attending a conference
Yeah... all those weirdos
What? There are things more important than money???!!!
roller-hockey-obsessed doctoral students in computer science
Computer Science gradstudents must be obsessive, right?
an unspoken caste system has emerged. At the top are the engineers, people in the mold of Brin and Page.
They have people who actually make the product at the top????!!! Why can't they be like every other company and have all those TPS report-demanding MBAs at the top.
From Forbes... linked to in another posting
RosAviaKosmos (the company that built IIS =)
Wasn't Microsoft the company that built IIS?
But a life saver in case of an emergency!
NO! I would take them all to the toughest of judge to ensure that all our procedures are put through the srictest of scrutiny so no innocent person't privacy in inadvertently violated.
Oh I'm also Santa Clause, btw.
According to the product specs, it is a Unix system with X Windows."
I told you to switch to windows. Call 1-800-SELLURSOUL now! Our operators are standing by. Except during their hourly reboot that is.
If they can spy on you in your car by flipping a switch,
Correction getting a court order and then flipping a switch. I don't see this as being as horrible as people are making it out to be. Its just an easier option for them to install the bug having gotten the court order than having some guy sneak around an plant a physcical one... potentially risking the life of an agent if this was a dangerous criminal they were tailing... or certainly at much greater cost to taxpayers.
So long as they can't do this thing without a court order, I do not think there are major privacy issues.
What's most disturbing is that they only passed this because it prevented the saftey features from working, and not because it was infringing on rights of privacy. Crap, if they have a bug order anyway, can't they just bug the car?
IANAL, but my guess is the laywer handling the case saw an easy way to win, and decided to stick with that rather than making complex arguments about rght to privacy and stuff. It doesn't imply that they would not have won otherwise.
You could pick one or two spams to read a day and attack them if they are selling something.