I wouldn't want this on my laptop, even if it can power it for 10h straight (which would be awesome for the long overseas flights that I have to take on occasion). I would imagine a gas turbine exploding would be worse than exploding lithium batteries.
I would bet a lot of the employees at Google have Electrical Engineering degrees. Don't underestimate the brain power Google has in its employee base. But the power supply issue they're trying to address isn't a technical challenge, but a political challenge.
File-sharing is devastating for the big music companies. But it's a real stretch to say that the whole industry has been hurt. The Internet is here to stay, and there's really nothing that can be done to stop file sharing. Every dollar spent fighting it, is a dollar wasted.
There's no way that the the big music companies can sustain the current way they do busness. The reason they exist is that it's very expensive to make and distribute CDs across the country and around the world. It used to be very expensive to produce the music. With computers and the Internet, distribution is very cheap. These companies are now at the end of their useful life.
Wasn't it Bill Gates that said 640KB of memory ought to be enough? Provided that the cost is reasonable, people will find a way to use the increasing amounts of computing power.
An nForce4 430 + GeForce 6150 motherboard costs around $100. Add hard drive, memory, CPU, case, DVD+/-R drive, you're looking at $400. It's not that expensive.
Do you think this will ever make it to North America? All the phone lines and cell phone towers are owned by a very small number of very large corporations. I don't see them allowing us to make phone calls cheaper. Even if we eventually are able to get full internet access via our cell phones, I'm sure they will make sure to block all VOIP technology.
If you look at the current situation, the cell phone companies have already considerably restricted consumer choice with respect to the physical cell phones. Everywhere else in the world, you buy a phone, then choose a provider. Here, the phone is locked to a provider, so you're forced to buy the phone with the provider.
For example, I'm with Virgin Mobile in Canada, which is on a CDMA network. However, there's only 4 phones available with Virgin Mobile, which really blows. I'd really like a samsung flip phone, but I'm stuck with a Nokia (the other choice was Audiovox).
I can see this program being considered a "fix" for the masses. Most people don't understand what DRM is and how it limits their use. So when their content stops working, this will be viewed as a fix. I don't believe in FRM, but I understand why it exists. I can't wait until there's a killer app mp3 player that's non-iPod, and people want to copy their music from their iPod into this new device. There'll be a ton of pissed of people.
Why does Hexus give an award for not crashing after 12 hours? Shouldn't that be expected? I would expect that this would go at least a week without crashing. It's like giving a car a special award for not breaking down after a month.
I don't agree that their reasons are complicated. I'm sure their reasons are quite simple. They want to do something challenging and get some props for their hacks.
This is bad news for those poker sites and poker players around the world. A lot of online gamblers are American (which means a lot of fish are American), and taking those players out of online gambling will make it less profitable to play poker online, which will drive away poker players from the online sites. If you're into stocks, I would imagine there'll be a lot of money to be made on shorts.
I think everyone should travel to a country which don't have the freedoms that the US enjoys. I've been to Malaysia, where the government is technically a democracy, but the same party gets elected to power everytime. I enjoyed my experience there, but there were a few times where I felt really lucky to be Canadian. I was discussing politics with the locals, in a private room, and they said that the conversation would get them in trouble if the wrong ears heared it. To anyone is a first world country, criticizing your government is part of normal conversation. But in Malaysia, people are afraid to criticize openly.
And why doesn't the goverment do more to protect the honest man trying to get some poontang, who gets humiliated by some prankster pretending to be a woman.
I would be in full support of the government forcing MySpace to verify gender...
"During Wednesday's hearing, politicians also claimed that social-networking sites were not doing enough to verify that their users who claimed to be a certain age were telling the truth."
I wonder how politicians expect MySpace to verify a person's age. Perhaps they're going to force them to use the age verification that was used on those OLD Leisure Suit Larry games. If you don't know what I'm talking about, the old Leisure Suit Larry games (I'm talking 286 era) used to ask general knowledge questions before the game started, assuming that a person of 18 years of age or older would be able to answer them, and allow you to play the game if you answered a few questions correctly.
I seriously doubt someone would give up their life in the US just so they can write OSS. What's more likely is that the contributors to an OSS project will be "Anonymous", in the sense that the identity of the contributors cannot be traced to a Country. Couple that with moving the OSS source to a non-US location, and it will make it incredibly tough to for US companies to sue OSS.
This is unfortunate for the US. If the US doesn't do something about their patent system, it is very likely that they will fall behind China and India in terms of innovation.
It's not efficient for a company to have to hire a team of lawyers to defend themselves against companies looking to make a quick buck via the patent system. The resources are better spent on research and development, where the US has been a leader in for a long time.
I think this would be useful in developing internal corporate web-apps, where people don't want to spend a lot of time developing, and where everyone in your company would be using the same web browser (or at least where everyone has access to the same web browser).
I use Firefox mostly at work, but I use IE to view the internal corporate website, since some things don't work with Firefox. Actually, now that I think about it, it's really stupid that I have to change browsers to make a website work.
If the RIAA can't figure out why people aren't buying over-priced, purposely crippled products, it's not MY responsibility to tell them.
That's why capitalism is great. You start losing money, then you figure out why, and try to win the customers back.
If they're going to be implementing something similar to google's ads, then I think they might run into a little trouble. Unlike google, eBay web pages are quite busy, and a google-like non-flashy ads would be easily missed. Hopefully they won't put in those annoying ads that "float" on top of the web pages. Those are really annoying. I see them sometimes while I'm reading articles on some news sites.
I beg to differ. Intel and AMD pretty much own 90% of the PC/laptop market, and 90% of those boxes have Windows installed. The PC world revolves around these companies. Also, what do you mean "growup"? Did I make a poop joke?
AMD and Intel have to stop with this ridiculousness. They keep coming out with faster processors, allowing Microsoft to create increasingly bloated software. I'm sure one day, when we have 16 processors per core, running at 20GHz, MS will have system processes that are purely wasteful, such as the following:
while (true)
{// do nothing
}
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I wouldn't want this on my laptop, even if it can power it for 10h straight (which would be awesome for the long overseas flights that I have to take on occasion). I would imagine a gas turbine exploding would be worse than exploding lithium batteries.
Let's be real here. Apple likes to make money. If this deal is good for Apple, then good for them.
I would bet a lot of the employees at Google have Electrical Engineering degrees. Don't underestimate the brain power Google has in its employee base. But the power supply issue they're trying to address isn't a technical challenge, but a political challenge.
File-sharing is devastating for the big music companies. But it's a real stretch to say that the whole industry has been hurt. The Internet is here to stay, and there's really nothing that can be done to stop file sharing. Every dollar spent fighting it, is a dollar wasted.
There's no way that the the big music companies can sustain the current way they do busness. The reason they exist is that it's very expensive to make and distribute CDs across the country and around the world. It used to be very expensive to produce the music. With computers and the Internet, distribution is very cheap. These companies are now at the end of their useful life.
Wasn't it Bill Gates that said 640KB of memory ought to be enough? Provided that the cost is reasonable, people will find a way to use the increasing amounts of computing power.
An nForce4 430 + GeForce 6150 motherboard costs around $100. Add hard drive, memory, CPU, case, DVD+/-R drive, you're looking at $400. It's not that expensive.
Do you think this will ever make it to North America? All the phone lines and cell phone towers are owned by a very small number of very large corporations. I don't see them allowing us to make phone calls cheaper. Even if we eventually are able to get full internet access via our cell phones, I'm sure they will make sure to block all VOIP technology.
If you look at the current situation, the cell phone companies have already considerably restricted consumer choice with respect to the physical cell phones. Everywhere else in the world, you buy a phone, then choose a provider. Here, the phone is locked to a provider, so you're forced to buy the phone with the provider.
For example, I'm with Virgin Mobile in Canada, which is on a CDMA network. However, there's only 4 phones available with Virgin Mobile, which really blows. I'd really like a samsung flip phone, but I'm stuck with a Nokia (the other choice was Audiovox).
I can see this program being considered a "fix" for the masses. Most people don't understand what DRM is and how it limits their use. So when their content stops working, this will be viewed as a fix. I don't believe in FRM, but I understand why it exists. I can't wait until there's a killer app mp3 player that's non-iPod, and people want to copy their music from their iPod into this new device. There'll be a ton of pissed of people.
Maybe by "fine-tuned" drivers, they meant the default windows drivers. Ha, so they're not lying.
Why does Hexus give an award for not crashing after 12 hours? Shouldn't that be expected? I would expect that this would go at least a week without crashing. It's like giving a car a special award for not breaking down after a month.
I don't agree that their reasons are complicated. I'm sure their reasons are quite simple. They want to do something challenging and get some props for their hacks.
This is bad news for those poker sites and poker players around the world. A lot of online gamblers are American (which means a lot of fish are American), and taking those players out of online gambling will make it less profitable to play poker online, which will drive away poker players from the online sites. If you're into stocks, I would imagine there'll be a lot of money to be made on shorts.
I think everyone should travel to a country which don't have the freedoms that the US enjoys. I've been to Malaysia, where the government is technically a democracy, but the same party gets elected to power everytime. I enjoyed my experience there, but there were a few times where I felt really lucky to be Canadian. I was discussing politics with the locals, in a private room, and they said that the conversation would get them in trouble if the wrong ears heared it. To anyone is a first world country, criticizing your government is part of normal conversation. But in Malaysia, people are afraid to criticize openly.
And why doesn't the goverment do more to protect the honest man trying to get some poontang, who gets humiliated by some prankster pretending to be a woman.
I would be in full support of the government forcing MySpace to verify gender...
Terrorism is their trump card.
They'll keep spewing this BS to get what they want. In the cold war days, it was communism, now it's terrorism. I wonder what's next...
"During Wednesday's hearing, politicians also claimed that social-networking sites were not doing enough to verify that their users who claimed to be a certain age were telling the truth."
I wonder how politicians expect MySpace to verify a person's age. Perhaps they're going to force them to use the age verification that was used on those OLD Leisure Suit Larry games. If you don't know what I'm talking about, the old Leisure Suit Larry games (I'm talking 286 era) used to ask general knowledge questions before the game started, assuming that a person of 18 years of age or older would be able to answer them, and allow you to play the game if you answered a few questions correctly.
I seriously doubt someone would give up their life in the US just so they can write OSS. What's more likely is that the contributors to an OSS project will be "Anonymous", in the sense that the identity of the contributors cannot be traced to a Country. Couple that with moving the OSS source to a non-US location, and it will make it incredibly tough to for US companies to sue OSS.
This is unfortunate for the US. If the US doesn't do something about their patent system, it is very likely that they will fall behind China and India in terms of innovation. It's not efficient for a company to have to hire a team of lawyers to defend themselves against companies looking to make a quick buck via the patent system. The resources are better spent on research and development, where the US has been a leader in for a long time.
I think this would be useful in developing internal corporate web-apps, where people don't want to spend a lot of time developing, and where everyone in your company would be using the same web browser (or at least where everyone has access to the same web browser). I use Firefox mostly at work, but I use IE to view the internal corporate website, since some things don't work with Firefox. Actually, now that I think about it, it's really stupid that I have to change browsers to make a website work.
Does it have a "I'm feeling lucky" feature, where it will deploy your project for the first time without bugs?
If the RIAA can't figure out why people aren't buying over-priced, purposely crippled products, it's not MY responsibility to tell them. That's why capitalism is great. You start losing money, then you figure out why, and try to win the customers back.
If they're going to be implementing something similar to google's ads, then I think they might run into a little trouble. Unlike google, eBay web pages are quite busy, and a google-like non-flashy ads would be easily missed. Hopefully they won't put in those annoying ads that "float" on top of the web pages. Those are really annoying. I see them sometimes while I'm reading articles on some news sites.
What are you talking about? This is standard PR. Intel does it, AMD does it, ATI does it, nVidia does it...
I beg to differ. Intel and AMD pretty much own 90% of the PC/laptop market, and 90% of those boxes have Windows installed. The PC world revolves around these companies. Also, what do you mean "growup"? Did I make a poop joke?
AMD and Intel have to stop with this ridiculousness. They keep coming out with faster processors, allowing Microsoft to create increasingly bloated software. I'm sure one day, when we have 16 processors per core, running at 20GHz, MS will have system processes that are purely wasteful, such as the following: while (true) { // do nothing
}