Seems unrelated, but guess what software changes and evolves. The biggest reason to upgrade to windows 8 is that 8 is higher than 7. People still running XP are like people running a linux kernel 2.4 because 2.6 doesn't really have anything you need...of course it doesn't...its about the long term aggregation. XP doesn't run IE 9...why we have so much IE 8! Just upgrade already or buy a new machine or whatever...just do it. Yah your 1997 honda civic might run "fine", but I bet it has a tape player.
Having an OS that can run well on a tablet and well when in traditional PC use is going to be hard and it's going to take a few versions for anyone to get right.
MS is NOT apple. They don't need people standing in line on release day clapping at one another to be successful. No one gives a crap about some big line outside of a Best Buy. MS will sell this OS just like Windows 7....slow and steady. Apple wishes they sold even a fraction of the number of Windows 7 licenses of anything. Windows 7 = 670 million total, Ipad = 84 million.
This idea that Windows 8 is going to be Vista is sort of silly. Enterprises will likely have a Software Assurance or whatever MS is calling it these days and so the upgrade is just a matter of when not if.
Windows in the home? Windows in the dorm room? Harder to predict, but probably less often, but not less. You might get an Ipad every year and a PC every three. I ain't paying thousands more for a damn silver laptop I use every 3 months...some shitty 500 dollar Acer ultra book will do just fine. For the college student maybe a Chrome book is good nough.
MS is essentially the new IBM. They will come up with new products and people everytime will try and compare them to Apple...and everytime it will be for a different market no stupid day trader or CNet reviewer will ever understand. You never see "DB2 10 wil be a SQL Server 2012 killer"
p.s. If I hear another the "ribbon" in office is worse I'm going to shoot someone. The ribbon is better, if you don't think so your just old and stubborn. Your probably reading this in Chrome...u see a file menu? Even the three line menu is just a vertical ribbon. If your in FF do you see a file menu? Why do you think FF feels clunky? Techies love to hate Windows new GUIs and so there will be Metro haters...MS is smart enough to not care about techies and haters, but to care about average users.
Why are they storing CCs plain text on the terminals. Do they really need anything other than the last four digits...or can they store them encrypted locally or even better on a server.
The question is did they realize this threat and ignore it? Could they have forced their software vendor to fix it? Did they just not want to spend the money? If they didn't see the risk why?
you must hate Youtube... HTML 5 is still not there yet...how long have we been talking about it? I turned on HTML 5 support on my Linux Chrome install for Google music and it just didn't work..and that is just AUDIO!!!! Went back to flash and it worked fine.
You might hate flash, but I think it's because you know it is every second of every day filling a void that should have been part of HTML 3.2
So the laws intention is really to prevent bullying.
Freedom of speech certainly protects me from saying something bad about the president, but it does not protect me from threatening him.
The language is always tricky, but I feel like a law could be passed that stated that posting a comment was the equivalent to going to park and talking it aloud. I don't see why electronics matter.
If I went into a school, broke into the intercom, and started saying untrue things about a student...potentially harmful things would I not get in trouble with the law.
Is it really all that different to go on Facebook and do it? Perhaps worse?
In IE iframes will block cookies if you don't have the right P3P policy. There where other bugs that would prevent your site's cookies from being read.
I've "faked" a P3P header just so users of certain IE browser versions could use my site.
At the end of the day the standard is a proposal and only MS thinks it's worth a hill of beans.
Last time I checked our star isn't going to die for several billion years.
I think it is cool to go to mars, but you know what else would be cool.... a cure for cancer(s).
Work on robotics, work on materials, work on computers, work on getting into space cheaply, work on better rockets.... the list goes on and on.
We are simply not ready to go to mars and quite frankly just doing it isn't a real good reason. I don't see the real scientific progress that would be made. I'd rather work on getting a base built there that we could land and just live.
Then why is their still so much piracy in music. Many of these sites started after iTunes, after Amazon MP3, after Google music.
There are a thousand ways to preview music before buying it. 99 cents to buy the main track of an album from a legitimate site should not be that much to ask. Turn on the radio, ask friends, hit the preview button. Is it really that hard to figure out if you like Brittany Spears or not?
So why do people still pirate music? Because they don't want to pay!!! It is not to "experience" more.
People download "game of thrones" not because they want to see if it is good...it is good...they download because they don't want to pay for cable and hbo. You might think it is too expensive, but that is no excuse. Game of thrones isn't like photoshop that is going to help you in your career. If the person isn't willing to pay for HBO today they are not in 5 years...not when they can get it for free.
Painting piracy as a good thing across the board is just as bad as painting it bad across the board.
If you upload an app to the market place that needs access to the users bookmarks I think that a more in depth review process is in order.
At the very lest the user should be see an alert that says something like "This app seems to want a lot on your phone and hasn't been verified by Google...only use it if you really want to "....
So your an honest person. That's great....most people are not.
Trailers are not misleading. You've got Rotten Tomatoes and countless other critic sites for virtually every medium. Ever heard of Gamespot and the million other game rating sites.
You download and then buy. The idea that this is the vast majority of "piracy" is at best naive and self fulfilling at worse. I'm special...I buy after I pirate...therefore we should just not give a crap about piracy. We don't write laws based on what "you" want. We write laws based on protecting us all.
Stop with the corporate bashing while your at it. You just claimed you will download quality products from these same "evil" companies. I don't like StarCraft...but it is a good game. My brother in law loves "The proposal" with Sandra Bullock...to me it is a steaming pile. The same studio, investors, employees have put out good works.
Youtube should call law enforcement when someone put something bad on their site, Youtube should be giving law enforcement a web service so they can flag content and take it off. It is pretty clear when stuff is put up illegally. We need an industry ( big websites ) funded approach to take down illegally hosted content. Give the law the tools they need so they don't try and solve the problem with the only tools they have...taking down a site.
The last point I will make is that most of the services like Youtube that could have pirated materials run ads either or alongside them. You simply can't make money by showing people someone elses work without their permissions.
I imagine that most of the people reading this has used napster back in the day or has pirated music\movies in some fashion. I certainly did years ago.
As long as the internet itself just shrugs this off we will continue to get these crappy laws.
The congress has a responsibility to enforce copyright law...like it or not. Is it any different then them not enforcing it?. We are not only talking about mega corps, but plenty of other smaller content people. Even if it was only mega corps they still have a write to be protected. Walmart gets police support at their locations as much as a small hardware store.
Congress will always get it wrong. There is simply no way to write this law...so make the law unnecessary.
Is Brittany Spears starving because of piracy, no, but it is simply not an excuse. If I stole a box of cookies from Walmart the CEO would not starve, but I still can't steal cookies.
Smaller fines like speeding tickets maybe part of the solution, but ultimately how do you enforce it without the support of ISPs, etc.
Come on open source community, write some scanning tools that help Youtube, etc detect piracy...let them rank it. Let the end user watching some illegally uploaded video know they are getting the content in an improper fashion. Share ad revenue with the content. Do something!
Finally pirate bay has to get shutdown. They are simply profiting off of piracy. If you were writing the law how would you go about blocking them?
Lastly, Wikipedia is still up if you disable javascript or hit the mobile site. I love the idea of blacking out the site, but I can't help feeling as a donator that they should have just had a link to turn off the black screen for the average user. Imagine if someone who looked up CPR today ends up not getting the info in time...
Their is some value in understanding just how powerful iterative learning tied with reward is.
Of course this is way easier to apply to a game then to real life subjects, but we could try.
Imagine a computer programming tutorial game. Problems are thrown at your to solve by writing a function, class, whatever. Successful unit tests bring rewards and so on.
Functions written in the early parts of the game could be used in subsequent challenges if not required. Use of them brings bonuses, achievements, etc. The faster your code runs the better...so replay would include rewriting older versions of your functions as to improve performance.
There are plenty of games out there for children around school subjects, etc, but I rarely see them marketed at adults. Could modern warfare 3 not actually teach something as the game play goes....seems like language would be a good fit. You have to interact with characters in the game with more and more complicated version of some language to proceed. Start with having to say hi to a guard in whatever language, end the game having to convince him your not a spy.
I guess the real point is creating a better sense of achievement and combining entertainment to overcome the usual tediousness associated with learning. I liked learning how to code because every time the compiler reported no errors it was like completing a level of angry birds. I can't say the same for economics and for many I'm sure they got no pleasure from cracking a calculus problem.
Then I might. I'd love to have my watch show little recaps of emails, caller id, etc. How many times do you hear your phone and don't want to go digging for it.
I'd rather this be just a dummy terminal with great battery life that my phone can control via bluetooth or whatever.
I would have loved google maps while walking around there. Disney's app was pretty poor. GPS isn't super accurate, but enough to kind of let you know where you are in the park. Being able to "navigate" to space mountain would have been pretty cool. I'm sure Disney would give them access before or after the park opens. It also be cool if Google maps had Bluetooth or some other kind of wireless access so towers could give your phone even more accurate location.
Where is the wonderful open market when it comes to this thing?
I would love for my ISP to offer virus\porn blocking services to certain members of my family.
If the ISP goes to an end user and says do you want the safe package? And they block certain sites with possible a way around it this would be acceptable.
Why does the government have to get involved if customers are clamming to block porn? Sounds more like a small group of anti-porn people who just can't stand me seeing it so they go to the government in some last effort.
I don't do either. I use sorting. Often I can remember a crucial piece of information... the sender.
It still kills me that gmail doesn't have the way to say show me all email from user X in the order they where sent. I read my gmail alongside my work email in outlook.
I often find emails where others fail with this simple strategy. Searching requires you to know the word(s) that are in the email or subject. It is usually something completely different than what your brain remembers. Searching works well on the web because the web pages have tons of content that might match what your trying to hit...or many sources of the same information. Email is more precise....searching for Geese won't return Goose.
Combine this with search you might get a general date that the "subject" was being discussed in your company. Then sort by date and start scrolling. If you delete stupid emails or catalog them away you get even better.
At the end of the day email is a horrible way to store data. Use a wiki or something. If you are searching your email it is usually an indication that the information is not stored somewhere better.
Since the SSD is non volatile I'm not really sure what a system lockup would do. If the byte(s) writes to the SSD and the system fails it is still on the SSD. When the system boots up the thing would be considered dirty and would write it out to the hard drive. I'm sure they will have to reserve blocks of data for dirty bits... a byte can store 8 bits each bit representing a much large...like 64k block in the cache. A 1 means dirty a 0 clean or vice versa.
The same basic thing has been around for SCSI RAIDs for a while. The PCI card has high speed memory with a battery. If you enable write ahead cache it writes into this memory and then returns to the OS. Then it write out to the hard drive. If the system fails upon boot up the card would still have the cache because of the battery and could recover.
For db servers I would probably turn off write ahead cache, but for a normal computer even if there is corruption it probably would be easily recoverable.
Write your republican reps, write your republican friends, or if you are a republican realize this is why we need a CPA.
Someone in the government needs to say "Hey, stop f'ing you customers."
In the long run people will get overage charges like they used to with long distance, local news and national news ( 20/20, dateline ) will "expose" it. Then someone will come along and say hey don't like caps, don't like overage's come to us.
I'm actually more interested in abstracting the actual network. If there are companies that can sell tower time then perhaps Google could just offer direct Internet access.
I'm just as exited about finding these answers as anyone, but what are the real ramifications and are we actually creating new technology or just struggling to use existing to solve a complicated problem.
I lost my mother to cancer a few years ago now. So yes this is a bit emotional, but I rather this 5 billion go to cancer research. This will have real ramifications.
If you look at say the Apollo program it was pretty obvious that solving the problem ( going to moon ) would solve many problems that would spread out in the rest of society. The list is long from material science to better computer. Not to mention better rockets.
I guess I need the case to be pitched as to what are potential overall gains we might see. The real return from this national R&D. If it just a bunch of scientists trying to prove the big bang theory I think it could wait...until we have health care costs and other things under control . If the world could spread the costs or we could think of a cheaper way to solve this problem and others that would be a better use of cash.
I suppose you could make the same case for Hubble telescope. The end result is a little more accessible I suppose. The pictures from Hubble have inspired people in ways we can't replicate. I just wonder if the Webb scope would have the same kind of effect.
The cable set top box wouldn't really stay in Google's control. The cable companies themselves have to drive them.
Do you think they want Netflix running on your cable box that they subsidize?
If Google can get some kind of profit sharing model with the cable companies when it comes to advertising then they will get some traction.
Google also got into the whole ad scheduling space as well. This might give google the ability to insert local ads into youtube streams, which could be a decent revenue stream and really start getting way more customized ads into the streams.
Cisco is the other big holder by buying scientific atlanta a while ago.If google started doing dumb things cable providers could plop back to their products.
Could you incorporate a transparent battery and transparent solar panel to create a window with some sort of a plugin in it?
I wish we would standardize on a standard DC power cord, but I guess USB is as good as any in this combination. Put you phone on the window seal and charge it up.
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How about Google just asking Apple to not charge Samsung a billion dollars and call it even.
Seems unrelated, but guess what software changes and evolves. The biggest reason to upgrade to windows 8 is that 8 is higher than 7. People still running XP are like people running a linux kernel 2.4 because 2.6 doesn't really have anything you need...of course it doesn't...its about the long term aggregation. XP doesn't run IE 9...why we have so much IE 8! Just upgrade already or buy a new machine or whatever...just do it. Yah your 1997 honda civic might run "fine", but I bet it has a tape player.
Having an OS that can run well on a tablet and well when in traditional PC use is going to be hard and it's going to take a few versions for anyone to get right.
MS is NOT apple. They don't need people standing in line on release day clapping at one another to be successful. No one gives a crap about some big line outside of a Best Buy. MS will sell this OS just like Windows 7....slow and steady. Apple wishes they sold even a fraction of the number of Windows 7 licenses of anything. Windows 7 = 670 million total, Ipad = 84 million.
This idea that Windows 8 is going to be Vista is sort of silly. Enterprises will likely have a Software Assurance or whatever MS is calling it these days and so the upgrade is just a matter of when not if.
Windows in the home? Windows in the dorm room? Harder to predict, but probably less often, but not less. You might get an Ipad every year and a PC every three. I ain't paying thousands more for a damn silver laptop I use every 3 months...some shitty 500 dollar Acer ultra book will do just fine. For the college student maybe a Chrome book is good nough.
MS is essentially the new IBM. They will come up with new products and people everytime will try and compare them to Apple...and everytime it will be for a different market no stupid day trader or CNet reviewer will ever understand. You never see "DB2 10 wil be a SQL Server 2012 killer"
p.s. If I hear another the "ribbon" in office is worse I'm going to shoot someone. The ribbon is better, if you don't think so your just old and stubborn. Your probably reading this in Chrome...u see a file menu? Even the three line menu is just a vertical ribbon. If your in FF do you see a file menu? Why do you think FF feels clunky? Techies love to hate Windows new GUIs and so there will be Metro haters...MS is smart enough to not care about techies and haters, but to care about average users.
Why are they storing CCs plain text on the terminals. Do they really need anything other than the last four digits...or can they store them encrypted locally or even better on a server.
The question is did they realize this threat and ignore it? Could they have forced their software vendor to fix it? Did they just not want to spend the money? If they didn't see the risk why?
Wouldn't it be better to have the browser support zip/tarball path.
Now
would look thru the zip file.
I suppose there could be some security issues here, but it seems like it would be easier than chunking protocols if not much faster.
Further ...
Now we've got cached apps as well.
you must hate Youtube... HTML 5 is still not there yet...how long have we been talking about it? I turned on HTML 5 support on my Linux Chrome install for Google music and it just didn't work..and that is just AUDIO!!!! Went back to flash and it worked fine.
You might hate flash, but I think it's because you know it is every second of every day filling a void that should have been part of HTML 3.2
So the laws intention is really to prevent bullying.
Freedom of speech certainly protects me from saying something bad about the president, but it does not protect me from threatening him.
The language is always tricky, but I feel like a law could be passed that stated that posting a comment was the equivalent to going to park and talking it aloud. I don't see why electronics matter.
If I went into a school, broke into the intercom, and started saying untrue things about a student...potentially harmful things would I not get in trouble with the law.
Is it really all that different to go on Facebook and do it? Perhaps worse?
Is literally the new name. Am I the only one that thinks this is lame. Would Steve have ever okay this?
In IE iframes will block cookies if you don't have the right P3P policy. There where other bugs that would prevent your site's cookies from being read.
I've "faked" a P3P header just so users of certain IE browser versions could use my site.
At the end of the day the standard is a proposal and only MS thinks it's worth a hill of beans.
Last time I checked our star isn't going to die for several billion years.
I think it is cool to go to mars, but you know what else would be cool.... a cure for cancer(s).
Work on robotics, work on materials, work on computers, work on getting into space cheaply, work on better rockets.... the list goes on and on.
We are simply not ready to go to mars and quite frankly just doing it isn't a real good reason. I don't see the real scientific progress that would be made. I'd rather work on getting a base built there that we could land and just live.
"was in"????
Then why is their still so much piracy in music. Many of these sites started after iTunes, after Amazon MP3, after Google music.
There are a thousand ways to preview music before buying it. 99 cents to buy the main track of an album from a legitimate site should not be that much to ask. Turn on the radio, ask friends, hit the preview button. Is it really that hard to figure out if you like Brittany Spears or not?
So why do people still pirate music? Because they don't want to pay!!! It is not to "experience" more.
People download "game of thrones" not because they want to see if it is good...it is good...they download because they don't want to pay for cable and hbo. You might think it is too expensive, but that is no excuse. Game of thrones isn't like photoshop that is going to help you in your career. If the person isn't willing to pay for HBO today they are not in 5 years...not when they can get it for free.
Painting piracy as a good thing across the board is just as bad as painting it bad across the board.
If you upload an app to the market place that needs access to the users bookmarks I think that a more in depth review process is in order.
At the very lest the user should be see an alert that says something like "This app seems to want a lot on your phone and hasn't been verified by Google...only use it if you really want to "....
So your an honest person. That's great....most people are not.
Trailers are not misleading. You've got Rotten Tomatoes and countless other critic sites for virtually every medium. Ever heard of Gamespot and the million other game rating sites.
You download and then buy. The idea that this is the vast majority of "piracy" is at best naive and self fulfilling at worse. I'm special...I buy after I pirate...therefore we should just not give a crap about piracy. We don't write laws based on what "you" want. We write laws based on protecting us all.
Stop with the corporate bashing while your at it. You just claimed you will download quality products from these same "evil" companies. I don't like StarCraft...but it is a good game. My brother in law loves "The proposal" with Sandra Bullock...to me it is a steaming pile. The same studio, investors, employees have put out good works.
Youtube should call law enforcement when someone put something bad on their site, Youtube should be giving law enforcement a web service so they can flag content and take it off. It is pretty clear when stuff is put up illegally. We need an industry ( big websites ) funded approach to take down illegally hosted content. Give the law the tools they need so they don't try and solve the problem with the only tools they have...taking down a site.
The last point I will make is that most of the services like Youtube that could have pirated materials run ads either or alongside them. You simply can't make money by showing people someone elses work without their permissions.
I imagine that most of the people reading this has used napster back in the day or has pirated music\movies in some fashion. I certainly did years ago.
As long as the internet itself just shrugs this off we will continue to get these crappy laws.
The congress has a responsibility to enforce copyright law...like it or not. Is it any different then them not enforcing it?. We are not only talking about mega corps, but plenty of other smaller content people. Even if it was only mega corps they still have a write to be protected. Walmart gets police support at their locations as much as a small hardware store.
Congress will always get it wrong. There is simply no way to write this law...so make the law unnecessary.
Is Brittany Spears starving because of piracy, no, but it is simply not an excuse. If I stole a box of cookies from Walmart the CEO would not starve, but I still can't steal cookies.
Smaller fines like speeding tickets maybe part of the solution, but ultimately how do you enforce it without the support of ISPs, etc.
Come on open source community, write some scanning tools that help Youtube, etc detect piracy...let them rank it. Let the end user watching some illegally uploaded video know they are getting the content in an improper fashion. Share ad revenue with the content. Do something!
Finally pirate bay has to get shutdown. They are simply profiting off of piracy. If you were writing the law how would you go about blocking them?
Lastly, Wikipedia is still up if you disable javascript or hit the mobile site. I love the idea of blacking out the site, but I can't help feeling as a donator that they should have just had a link to turn off the black screen for the average user. Imagine if someone who looked up CPR today ends up not getting the info in time...
Stop doing this and make my car drive itself first..thx
Seriously I need that sort of thing like I need another whole in my head. Make my be a better car, not try to turn it into a smartphone.
You want to augment my reality...make some sunglasses that do...make my eyes better.
Their is some value in understanding just how powerful iterative learning tied with reward is.
Of course this is way easier to apply to a game then to real life subjects, but we could try.
Imagine a computer programming tutorial game. Problems are thrown at your to solve by writing a function, class, whatever. Successful unit tests bring rewards and so on.
Functions written in the early parts of the game could be used in subsequent challenges if not required. Use of them brings bonuses, achievements, etc. The faster your code runs the better...so replay would include rewriting older versions of your functions as to improve performance.
There are plenty of games out there for children around school subjects, etc, but I rarely see them marketed at adults. Could modern warfare 3 not actually teach something as the game play goes....seems like language would be a good fit. You have to interact with characters in the game with more and more complicated version of some language to proceed. Start with having to say hi to a guard in whatever language, end the game having to convince him your not a spy.
I guess the real point is creating a better sense of achievement and combining entertainment to overcome the usual tediousness associated with learning. I liked learning how to code because every time the compiler reported no errors it was like completing a level of angry birds. I can't say the same for economics and for many I'm sure they got no pleasure from cracking a calculus problem.
Then I might. I'd love to have my watch show little recaps of emails, caller id, etc. How many times do you hear your phone and don't want to go digging for it.
I'd rather this be just a dummy terminal with great battery life that my phone can control via bluetooth or whatever.
I would have loved google maps while walking around there. Disney's app was pretty poor. GPS isn't super accurate, but enough to kind of let you know where you are in the park. Being able to "navigate" to space mountain would have been pretty cool. I'm sure Disney would give them access before or after the park opens. It also be cool if Google maps had Bluetooth or some other kind of wireless access so towers could give your phone even more accurate location.
Where is the wonderful open market when it comes to this thing?
I would love for my ISP to offer virus\porn blocking services to certain members of my family.
If the ISP goes to an end user and says do you want the safe package? And they block certain sites with possible a way around it this would be acceptable.
Why does the government have to get involved if customers are clamming to block porn? Sounds more like a small group of anti-porn people who just can't stand me seeing it so they go to the government in some last effort.
I don't do either. I use sorting. Often I can remember a crucial piece of information... the sender.
It still kills me that gmail doesn't have the way to say show me all email from user X in the order they where sent. I read my gmail alongside my work email in outlook.
I often find emails where others fail with this simple strategy. Searching requires you to know the word(s) that are in the email or subject. It is usually something completely different than what your brain remembers. Searching works well on the web because the web pages have tons of content that might match what your trying to hit...or many sources of the same information. Email is more precise....searching for Geese won't return Goose.
Combine this with search you might get a general date that the "subject" was being discussed in your company. Then sort by date and start scrolling. If you delete stupid emails or catalog them away you get even better.
At the end of the day email is a horrible way to store data. Use a wiki or something. If you are searching your email it is usually an indication that the information is not stored somewhere better.
Since the SSD is non volatile I'm not really sure what a system lockup would do. If the byte(s) writes to the SSD and the system fails it is still on the SSD. When the system boots up the thing would be considered dirty and would write it out to the hard drive. I'm sure they will have to reserve blocks of data for dirty bits... a byte can store 8 bits each bit representing a much large ...like 64k block in the cache. A 1 means dirty a 0 clean or vice versa.
The same basic thing has been around for SCSI RAIDs for a while. The PCI card has high speed memory with a battery. If you enable write ahead cache it writes into this memory and then returns to the OS. Then it write out to the hard drive. If the system fails upon boot up the card would still have the cache because of the battery and could recover.
For db servers I would probably turn off write ahead cache, but for a normal computer even if there is corruption it probably would be easily recoverable.
Write your republican reps, write your republican friends, or if you are a republican realize this is why we need a CPA.
Someone in the government needs to say "Hey, stop f'ing you customers."
In the long run people will get overage charges like they used to with long distance, local news and national news ( 20/20, dateline ) will "expose" it. Then someone will come along and say hey don't like caps, don't like overage's come to us.
I'm actually more interested in abstracting the actual network. If there are companies that can sell tower time then perhaps Google could just offer direct Internet access.
I'm just as exited about finding these answers as anyone, but what are the real ramifications and are we actually creating new technology or just struggling to use existing to solve a complicated problem.
I lost my mother to cancer a few years ago now. So yes this is a bit emotional, but I rather this 5 billion go to cancer research. This will have real ramifications.
If you look at say the Apollo program it was pretty obvious that solving the problem ( going to moon ) would solve many problems that would spread out in the rest of society. The list is long from material science to better computer. Not to mention better rockets.
I guess I need the case to be pitched as to what are potential overall gains we might see. The real return from this national R&D. If it just a bunch of scientists trying to prove the big bang theory I think it could wait...until we have health care costs and other things under control . If the world could spread the costs or we could think of a cheaper way to solve this problem and others that would be a better use of cash.
I suppose you could make the same case for Hubble telescope. The end result is a little more accessible I suppose. The pictures from Hubble have inspired people in ways we can't replicate. I just wonder if the Webb scope would have the same kind of effect.
The cable set top box wouldn't really stay in Google's control. The cable companies themselves have to drive them.
Do you think they want Netflix running on your cable box that they subsidize?
If Google can get some kind of profit sharing model with the cable companies when it comes to advertising then they will get some traction.
Google also got into the whole ad scheduling space as well. This might give google the ability to insert local ads into youtube streams, which could be a decent revenue stream and really start getting way more customized ads into the streams.
Cisco is the other big holder by buying scientific atlanta a while ago.If google started doing dumb things cable providers could plop back to their products.
Could you incorporate a transparent battery and transparent solar panel to create a window with some sort of a plugin in it?
I wish we would standardize on a standard DC power cord, but I guess USB is as good as any in this combination. Put you phone on the window seal and charge it up.
Should you not have bought a brand new shiny pair of shoes for this demo? :)