Technology doesn't have limits, biology does. If we didn't have to worry about safety many "technical" challenges would fade away. Radiation and chemical toxicity are two of the biggest issues. There are others but these will suffice to make the point clear. Think about it.
Smart is not the same as intelligent. Smart people lay low, hold on to some key strategic tool or resource and then exploit it when the time is ripe. Intelligent people try to fix all the problems and end up getting blamed, lynched by the mob in your example.
Hmm, my experience is completely opposite. I barely notice going from WiFi to 3G. Often the only clue is low quality on YouTube hosted video (if I happen to open one). I am in the Dallas area, both ATT and Verizon have major corporate interests here - could explain it. Sorry your experience is so poor.
10 years from now this will be ancient history much like Eolas, the dotcom bubble, European nations having their own currency and products from China being called cheap knockoffs. America will get it sorted out, the cash flow from all this crazy stuff will find it's way into the economy somewhere and we'll be talking about Gay marriage and drugs again.
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Wierd. I've got 10 people working with SVN and the only time it's been disturbed is when we had a contractor come in and try to use Dreamweaver to manage his checkouts. Disaster over and over.
With SVN use Eclipse if you don't know any better. As long as you don't mess with the filesystem directly it will just work. CLI is fine of course and Cornerstone 2 on Mac is like a gentle breeze soothing away all your problems. TortoiseSVN is asking for trouble (Windows).
Huh? Best of? You lost me completely. You don't read Twitter. You consume it daily. The shelf life is in the neighborhood of 24 hours. After that the content has been blogged to death elsewhere.
Twitter is like a broadcast IM, it's not RSS, blogging, or posts in a forum.
Sure you can archive it to see a point in time slice of the stream or chart the trends themselves but an individual tweet is rarely useful more than a few hours later.
What you want is to see Who is on Twitter, your heros, your local news, your fav sports teams, etc - follow them for a day or two. Did you get value out of it? Yes, great - No, oh well it's not for you, move along.
Companies that do business internationally or those suppliers or vendors to said companies are doing great. Retailers with international sales are fine, those without are hurting. Apple for instance makes 50% or more of it's sales internationally.
China's economy is booming, as is Korea, Germany, Australia, Brazil.
If you want to find work, look at the companies with greater than 30% of revenue coming from outside the US. The company I work for has 200+ open positions in the US. The majority of those are not tech related, ~40 are (ecom, IT, logistics and data). We just hired a language specialist for QA we're doing so much translation work.
There are jobs, and yes you may have to relocate to find them. Sign on with a staffing company and check that travel box. Agreeing to travel is your best bet to get work.
You're not supposed to RTFP! That's cheating and besides the point that patents are evil.
I'd mod you insightful if it wasn't just common sense to be an informed commenter. Oh well. Thanks for being at least one ray of hope in a wasteland of self indulgent mediocrity.
Solar works everywhere to some degree. It needs to be 100% subsidized however. The local electric co should install, gov subsidies (taxes) should pay for it over time. Any extra power goes back to the local grid and can be resold. Do this with all homes and the local electric cos could be supplying power to industry from just residential sources in ten years. They need good storage to maintain a base load back up source and gas/fuel generators to cover peak times. With enough installed solar on residential and retail locations we'd be free of the great need for big power plants. Operating a power company would become less big business and more like the water company (a good thing).
It may be more effort the first time (and maybe that is more effort than getting Netflix maybe not - depends on having a credit card, etc). Internationally it may be the easiest/only way to access this content After that it's just a browsing exercise.
Actually there are two alternatives. Opera and Safari!
Both of these browsers follow very traditional release schedules. Safari is probably the most traditional, well behind the curve of latest features, limited support for "plugins" and generally secure. Opera is a little more cutting edge on features but takes it's time (or did under it's most recent management - who knows what their future holds at the moment) with releases.
Would be hilarious to see Safari on Windows become a corporate standard;)
They aren't building in the phone, they are building in a way for others to build a phone. The phone I build could be very different from the phone you build. Google may build a reference phone in their labs or implement it in gchat. That does not mean that the browser is a phone only that it can be one when desired.
It could also be a music studio, a translator's tool, a telegraph, a sensor monitor, an alert system, a door answer service, etc.
Not all digital copies are DRM'd. Certainly the publishers themselves have a vested interest in maintaining quality golden masters on archival backup. This isn't about YOU having a copy, it's about US having one.
Agree completely. A hash signature is certainly enough. It would be nice to verify the accuracy of the digital version as well as the edition (often new editions add and sometimes remove content). A physical copy of many texts would be useful during that process. That should done by The Library of Congress IMHO as they as an org are in a good position to do so, with oversite by several third parties if possible with sensitive topics like history which can not be verified through any other means.
I've read hundreds of books. I used to have boxes and boxes. Then I got tired of storing them, now I have hundreds of ebooks. A few gigs of data. I'm in my thirties. Books are just data. I'd rather just see MD5 hashes or something better to verify the data. Paper can be corrupted like anything else.
I would love to have all my records. Could store them all on a 4 GB keychain drive. Would be better if the health system had a public key to access the data (which would be encrypted). They could share that public key around. I'd have some way to update my private key in case they got hacked.
Thinking you're the only one to comment while understanding the historical insignificance of this. It's not new. Obama is continuing a legacy of Executive prerogative. The media are using the discussion as an excuse to beat up on the Pres. as they always have (it sells ads). The public is using it as an excuse to complain about whatever they can (it's what we do).
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Technology doesn't have limits, biology does. If we didn't have to worry about safety many "technical" challenges would fade away. Radiation and chemical toxicity are two of the biggest issues. There are others but these will suffice to make the point clear. Think about it.
Smart is not the same as intelligent. Smart people lay low, hold on to some key strategic tool or resource and then exploit it when the time is ripe. Intelligent people try to fix all the problems and end up getting blamed, lynched by the mob in your example.
Look into line of sight microwaveor laser. Those services seem to not require nearly as much regulatory red tape.
Exactly. I wonder if he also uses a Mustang to tow his trailer instead of a work truck. Different tools for different jobs.
Hmm, my experience is completely opposite. I barely notice going from WiFi to 3G. Often the only clue is low quality on YouTube hosted video (if I happen to open one). I am in the Dallas area, both ATT and Verizon have major corporate interests here - could explain it. Sorry your experience is so poor.
10 years from now this will be ancient history much like Eolas, the dotcom bubble, European nations having their own currency and products from China being called cheap knockoffs. America will get it sorted out, the cash flow from all this crazy stuff will find it's way into the economy somewhere and we'll be talking about Gay marriage and drugs again.
Wierd. I've got 10 people working with SVN and the only time it's been disturbed is when we had a contractor come in and try to use Dreamweaver to manage his checkouts. Disaster over and over.
With SVN use Eclipse if you don't know any better. As long as you don't mess with the filesystem directly it will just work. CLI is fine of course and Cornerstone 2 on Mac is like a gentle breeze soothing away all your problems. TortoiseSVN is asking for trouble (Windows).
YMMV.
Huh? Best of? You lost me completely. You don't read Twitter. You consume it daily. The shelf life is in the neighborhood of 24 hours. After that the content has been blogged to death elsewhere.
Twitter is like a broadcast IM, it's not RSS, blogging, or posts in a forum.
Sure you can archive it to see a point in time slice of the stream or chart the trends themselves but an individual tweet is rarely useful more than a few hours later.
What you want is to see Who is on Twitter, your heros, your local news, your fav sports teams, etc - follow them for a day or two. Did you get value out of it? Yes, great - No, oh well it's not for you, move along.
Companies that do business internationally or those suppliers or vendors to said companies are doing great. Retailers with international sales are fine, those without are hurting. Apple for instance makes 50% or more of it's sales internationally.
China's economy is booming, as is Korea, Germany, Australia, Brazil.
If you want to find work, look at the companies with greater than 30% of revenue coming from outside the US. The company I work for has 200+ open positions in the US. The majority of those are not tech related, ~40 are (ecom, IT, logistics and data). We just hired a language specialist for QA we're doing so much translation work.
There are jobs, and yes you may have to relocate to find them. Sign on with a staffing company and check that travel box. Agreeing to travel is your best bet to get work.
You're not supposed to RTFP! That's cheating and besides the point that patents are evil.
I'd mod you insightful if it wasn't just common sense to be an informed commenter. Oh well. Thanks for being at least one ray of hope in a wasteland of self indulgent mediocrity.
Water is as heavy as fuel. Much cheaper to generate the fuel on earth. This would only make sense sonewhere with a local source of water.
Solar works everywhere to some degree. It needs to be 100% subsidized however. The local electric co should install, gov subsidies (taxes) should pay for it over time. Any extra power goes back to the local grid and can be resold. Do this with all homes and the local electric cos could be supplying power to industry from just residential sources in ten years. They need good storage to maintain a base load back up source and gas/fuel generators to cover peak times. With enough installed solar on residential and retail locations we'd be free of the great need for big power plants. Operating a power company would become less big business and more like the water company (a good thing).
Even easier is subscribing to an rss feed of latest movies / episodes torrents.
It may be more effort the first time (and maybe that is more effort than getting Netflix maybe not - depends on having a credit card, etc). Internationally it may be the easiest/only way to access this content After that it's just a browsing exercise.
Can't do it. Too much junk. Too dangerous.
Yes, much like JavaScript in a browser, plugins should be checking for capabilities not version numbers.
Actually there are two alternatives. Opera and Safari!
Both of these browsers follow very traditional release schedules. Safari is probably the most traditional, well behind the curve of latest features, limited support for "plugins" and generally secure. Opera is a little more cutting edge on features but takes it's time (or did under it's most recent management - who knows what their future holds at the moment) with releases.
Would be hilarious to see Safari on Windows become a corporate standard ;)
They aren't building in the phone, they are building in a way for others to build a phone. The phone I build could be very different from the phone you build. Google may build a reference phone in their labs or implement it in gchat. That does not mean that the browser is a phone only that it can be one when desired.
It could also be a music studio, a translator's tool, a telegraph, a sensor monitor, an alert system, a door answer service, etc.
Web developers are cheap. Go out and advertise C++ development for $50/hour and you'll soon see a lot more native apps getting built.
Or if they made so that only "partner" webcam makers products would work.
Not all digital copies are DRM'd. Certainly the publishers themselves have a vested interest in maintaining quality golden masters on archival backup. This isn't about YOU having a copy, it's about US having one.
Agree completely. A hash signature is certainly enough. It would be nice to verify the accuracy of the digital version as well as the edition (often new editions add and sometimes remove content). A physical copy of many texts would be useful during that process. That should done by The Library of Congress IMHO as they as an org are in a good position to do so, with oversite by several third parties if possible with sensitive topics like history which can not be verified through any other means.
I've read hundreds of books. I used to have boxes and boxes. Then I got tired of storing them, now I have hundreds of ebooks. A few gigs of data. I'm in my thirties. Books are just data. I'd rather just see MD5 hashes or something better to verify the data. Paper can be corrupted like anything else.
I would love to have all my records. Could store them all on a 4 GB keychain drive. Would be better if the health system had a public key to access the data (which would be encrypted). They could share that public key around. I'd have some way to update my private key in case they got hacked.
Thinking you're the only one to comment while understanding the historical insignificance of this. It's not new. Obama is continuing a legacy of Executive prerogative. The media are using the discussion as an excuse to beat up on the Pres. as they always have (it sells ads). The public is using it as an excuse to complain about whatever they can (it's what we do).