The biggest benefit described from a manufacturing POV is that it's all on the sensor chip.... meaning that you can get greater fidelity with a less accurate lens... which lowers the cost considerably. Often the lens of a camera is what costs the most and certainly chip manufacturing can become way more efficient, especially with the process they describe where sensors overlap each other so that even if a pixel is DOA there will be no loss in quality overall.
They did address this... the pixels are organized into 256 pixel arrays, each the same color, which sit behind their own lens (or are focused at the same point within the greater lensed image lightfield - depending how you want to set it up. This means there won't be what they called 'cross-talk' between pixels/sensors for different colors/wavelengths resulting in less noise.
Actually it would work for the 3D fly around models... you'd just need one camera for every 5 degrees (your number not mine)... so 72 cameras on a track, all taking a picture at the same time or if it's a static object, just put it on a turntable and do it at your leisure with one camera.
What's awesome about that is you get the full depth of the scene available to you and don't even have to worry about having the other cameras in the picture... just edit them out after since they'll all be at the same distance... ie: same depth, so it can be automated, even leaving whatever background might be behind the cameras in the picture as well (with a slight gap where the cameras used to be).
Yeah but with that sort of payload, they can outfit this one with armor.... can your mule take a bullet?
The noise can be taken care of with a nice advanced battery... the same ones being worked on for vehicles would work here as well.
Now that they have the mechanics worked out they should really fork the dev effort and put a nice veneer on that thing and get it a battery supply.. then it will truly be creepy... nearly silent, all black and shiny (I think it needs a black/blue/purple/green iridescent carapace)...
The only American *NEWS* outlets they mention are the same old same old sources. I don't even read those sources anymore cause they don't have any news I'm interested in. I check my Google News home page once in the morning each day to see if anything interesting pops out but other than that I go straight to New Scientist, Science Daily,/., Macrumors, TreeHugger, and a few blogs that have topics I care about.
There's very little that happens day to day in the world that I consider a new event. The protests in Tibet are an example but only for a few minutes. Every year there are protests. Every year the Chinese gov. reacts horribly and every year it gets about a week of coverage.
Why would I read *world events* in the mainstream media when I can read these much more interesting stories on Science Daily:
Genes That Reduce 'Bad Cholesterol' And Protect Against Atherosclerosis Identified
Speed Of Light: Sub-femtosecond Stop Watch For 'Photon Finish' Races
Light Waves Can Detect Alzheimer's Disease Early On, Study Suggests
Soy Compound May Halt Spread Of Prostate Cancer
Huge Iceberg Splits In Southern Atlantic Ocean
New Bird Species Discovered
Pain-free Childbirth? Get Real
Rare North Island Brown Kiwi Hatches At Smithsonian's National Zoo
Regular Low Dose Aspirin Cuts Asthma Risk In Women, Study Finds
Nanomaterials Show Unexpected Strength Under Stress
Toddlers Affected Most By Secondhand Smoke Exposure At Home, Study Shows
p.s. 90% of these stories will eventually make it to the mainstream media outlets as sidebars or 5 minute commentaries on the 11 0'clock news... after they've been misunderstood or converted to fluff pieces
I will offer that it really takes an external leadership to recruit and organize militants during times of artificial hardship, typically one with their own agenda...
I was also thinking that if it's all above board and coordinated via ISPs there should really be some good data available regarding bandwidth utilization.... as in they can positively shape the traffic to point to those who are not currently uploading and utilize their available bandwidth over someone who is already uploading (a different file) a sort of P2P load-balancing routine.
CUPERTINO, California--February 26, 2008--Apple® today announced that iTunes® (www.itunes.com) is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group*. Apple also announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers. iTunes has sold over four billion songs, with an incredible 20 million songs sold on Christmas Day 2007 alone, and offers the world's largest music catalog of over six million songs from all of the major and thousands of independent labels.
It might keep you rich but it will never put you in the position to beat out the competition... cause they also have access to the tried and true and probably have as much expertise at it.
Obviously each industry has different tools that they need to be on the cutting edge with for competition... but there are efficiencies to be had by adopting new tools in non-core areas. IT is one of these areas for ANY industry.
It certainly is an opportunity cost scenario. If you are a 3 man operation and don't need an IT infrastructure to improve communications, then new IT tech doesn't make sense UNLESS you want to grow beyond a 3 man operation.
The biggest problem with sticking to tried and true is that you don't know what you're missing out on. you have no idea what opportunities new tech or new methods will bring to your business. You are ignorant, possibly blissfully so but still ignorant. This means you have no room for growth as an individual as a professional or as a member of your community... and that means we all lose out on your potential. You could be the person who introduces incredible new innovations in productivity or quality of service but we'll never know since you ignored the opportunity to find out.
In conclusion... you'll never get rich by being ignorant of new ways to become rich (financially and culturally and professionally). Too bad, I was looking forward to reading about your various breakthroughs and further enriching my own life by hearing of your accomplishments and being inspired to achieve my own.
I do see what you're trying to get at but you're not quite following my logic.
I'm saying that all those factors DO have an impact and you probably are a slightly different person due to the radiation from that HAM radio... you will never know, there are too many variables at play.
but why discount that possibility when you don't have enough data to say yes or no. why not believe it is possible that your gut reactions and baseline personality may be influenced by cosmic relationships? do you have a better source for why you might do things differently than your siblings who share your genetics and family life but whose personality veers dramatically from your own? Recessive or dominant genes? Impactful chance encounters as a child (phobias, etc)...
Again.. it is the effect on a developing zygote/fetus's brain which is at question... where negligible amounts of a variety of things will have a dramatic effect on the development of that person.
a slight bit of alcohol which in an adult has no lasting effect can devastate a developing brain. The mass of a fetus's nearby family is really just part of an existing background mass of the earth which is fairly constant... we're talking about the effect of extrasolar bodies which are only a factor when they are a factor, as in we change position relative to them as our solar system and galaxy orbits and spins...
Womens' cycle is ~28 days regardless of when it starts... why this period of time? coincidence?
yes but mountains and local effects don't change... we orbit and our solar system orbits within our galaxy pretty quickly compared to the movement of mountains... even compared to tectonic plates.
sorry but it's pretty easy for me to believe that shifting our position within the universe as a whole could have a distinct effect on the development of an organism. all your precepts are based on the idea that the effects are negligible... but if you removed all the effects entirely our planet would change orbit and we'd all die, so they are pretty important after all.
If venus disappeared in a puff earth's orbit would change right? Just because the effect is miniscule does not mean it isn't very important in a tightly balanced system of competing forces.
I stated in another comment that I think it is an evolutionary adaptation. These archetypes of personalities have been around for a long long time. It's likely that they stem from genetic adaptations which occurred long before there were so many external stimuli facing people.
Much like other more noticeable adaptations in genetic lines which are now divested from their origins through population drift... these would be nuanced effects on brain chemistry which could result from something as simple as the brain forming in the manner requiring the least effort while being hit by external energy particles which would tend to disrupt electrical signals, especially before complex neural pathways have been fully formed.
Our universe is not a vacuum... there are gas clouds everywhere, solar systems everywhere
Imagine if all those planets and stars out there suddenly vanished. Even if a few million vanished. What do you think would happen? Is our solar system or even our galaxy independent of relationships with those other galaxies and solar systems?
You say they have no effect on individual humans on earth... I say they have an effect. I say we're a product of our environment... including relationships with matter and energy which come from remote places. I say that when you are differentiating from a zygote into a fetus that various small energy particles which happen to be in an increased number during this phase of our relationship on earth with the sun, the solar system, the galaxy and other galaxies HAS an effect on the development of that fetus, especially the way it's brain organizes various sub-routines of memory and processing. I say that this effect is one which repeats itself and has become adapted to through evolution and may in fact be a key aspect of biological development of the brain at least if not the entire body.
No wikipedia has tags.... I'm talking about subdomains where the rules are different for each. Different levels of accuracy required, different levels of moderation implied.
facts can be fact checked.... opinions, hearsay, current events and new theories can not be fact checked. Factual information should have a more rigorous approval process applied.
YES... a much cooler show IMHO though I'd give them 3 days to do it not 1 and it would have to be a well stocked garbage dump... ie: buy out an old FRY's electronics store with all the parts still there;-p
On ideas for weapons... how about a capacitor that discharges when your bot gets touched by another bot.... very passive aggressive but effective... just send your bot into the kill path of another and see if you can withstand the first hit long enough to totally disable the other bot. Maybe a little boring to watch though... unless it ends up setting the other bot on fire or exploding it's battery supply;-p...
Wikipedia needs to classify information better. Rather than just having one big repository there should be multiple....
Science, Religion, Culture, Literature, People, Events, Geography, etc.
Articles can still cross-link but when you go off to culture.wikipedia.com you need to take off your analyst visor and get a bag of popcorn... yes it's serious stuff but it's also in the eye of the beholder and if you want facts about something in Culture - follow the links to the events section or the people section where the information is objective.
Unfortunately for all of us Astrology is one of those concepts that can't be proven/debunked over night or even over a year or 10 years. If it could be done in a reasonable amount of time - we don't have the technology or the science to do it. You are correct about it not being *spiritualism* though I wouldn't relegate it to parlor trick status either... in the same way that electricity or magnetism was probably once thought of as a parlor trick - but wasn't.
We all know that the moon does in fact have an effect on us (the easiest scientific theorem is that since we are 90+% water there should be a tidal effect and then there is the eerie connection with a women's menstrual cycle). Also it is quite obvious that the sun has an effect on us (radiation, solar flares, etc.) and that our proximity to it due to the earth's elliptical orbit can change the amount though imperceptible in day to day life unless you're looking for it.
So given these examples, why would the other planets not have an effect upon us? or better yet, specific alignments of these forces which act upon us in concert? Especially significant would be the effect any forces might have on our developing psyche during our gestation period and immediately after our birth... environmental factors can have a huge impact on a child in the infant stage.
So I'm agreeing with your statements but attempting to provide more evidence that reality may be closer to the "astrology does measure a significant effect" side of things than not.
Now OTOH the individuals who claim to practice Astrology would likely be sacrificed on an altar for fraud if we lived in the Druidic or Mayan societies (the Druids less likely - they'd probably let the misinformation enhance their mystique). Point being that there are very very few people alive today, possibly none, who actually practice Astrology the way it has to be practiced... every day for your entire life and the lives of your ancestors, recorded in perpetuity so as to establish a statistical model of events. I highly doubt that any such records still exist without there being a huge 200-500 year gap up to the present day.
Personally I like to compare it to Meteorology... you're attempting to study a highly dynamic and chaotic system of interrelationships but you don't even have doppler radar or satellites working for you, it's like trying to guess at weather based on geography and historical event modeling alone.... so you might get some general trend information out of it but nothing concrete about what IS going to happen - just what might happen based on where you live and what has happened to others who lived there before you... and as stated earlier, this data is sketchy at best for the last couple centuries. Good luck with that Astrologists.
Disclaimer - I am a Pisces. I work as am Interactive Director in a creative agency, I tend to go with the flow but won't let anything stop me once in motion, I am slightly bi-polar and a romantic idealist (though i cover it up with a veneer of pragmatism). OTOH I am an Earth Horse in Chinese zodiac so that explains a lot as well.... or does it?
Google doesn't yet have a carrier signed up (yes they are on the working groups), so we don't really know what sort of limitations those carriers will impose. android may be open but the carrier network is not and then OEM or even the distributor of the phones made to run Android may have a different take on it.
If google makes the phone AND provides the service then of course they could open the whole thing BUT that will certainly limit their distribution channels and that would kill the platform before it even gets started. Google will not be able to set up the type of coverage that people expect for a cellphone without going through an existing carrier. The costs are too prohibitive in the short term so it could be several years before you see a fully open cell network in operation.
Personally I think Apple and Steve are being very conservative right now just as they were even more conservative when the launched iPhone.... they will open it more over time. Right now there are several reasons to be conservative, some technical and quality of service related ("Apple will ensure that everything you get is of premium quality") and some are pure marketing as in *premium* status related ("You can only get it through Apple").
This all will change over time as iPhone gets competition and as it becomes more of a household item rather than a luxury item (and something else Apple make will take it's place).
I'll open it up a little... for every Mick Jagger, Britney Spears or Trent Reznor out there there are literally thousands of sound engineers, movie, TV and radio musical talent (Commercial Jingles, background scores, etc.) and orchestral musicians...
I'm saying that you can make a decent living in music without being a superstar as well... people waiting tables and playing at bars SHOULD be attending community college or University and getting degrees in music theory, MBAs w/ focus on entertainment, etc. which is what we should be getting as professional musicians, rather than teen agers who can sing and dance...
Becoming a celebrity by being *found* is a dicey proposition. It's like a guy who learns to program incredible console games in his basement and then attends a Game convention and shows his stuff to someone who decides to offer him a multi-million dollar deal to sell his game. He had no real plan... he just got lucky - if he hadn't been found he would end up working at Blockbuster or something and be an underground hero but with no financial success.
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The biggest benefit described from a manufacturing POV is that it's all on the sensor chip.... meaning that you can get greater fidelity with a less accurate lens... which lowers the cost considerably. Often the lens of a camera is what costs the most and certainly chip manufacturing can become way more efficient, especially with the process they describe where sensors overlap each other so that even if a pixel is DOA there will be no loss in quality overall.
They did address this... the pixels are organized into 256 pixel arrays, each the same color, which sit behind their own lens (or are focused at the same point within the greater lensed image lightfield - depending how you want to set it up. This means there won't be what they called 'cross-talk' between pixels/sensors for different colors /wavelengths resulting in less noise.
Actually it would work for the 3D fly around models... you'd just need one camera for every 5 degrees (your number not mine)... so 72 cameras on a track, all taking a picture at the same time or if it's a static object, just put it on a turntable and do it at your leisure with one camera.
What's awesome about that is you get the full depth of the scene available to you and don't even have to worry about having the other cameras in the picture... just edit them out after since they'll all be at the same distance... ie: same depth, so it can be automated, even leaving whatever background might be behind the cameras in the picture as well (with a slight gap where the cameras used to be).
Yeah but with that sort of payload, they can outfit this one with armor.... can your mule take a bullet?
The noise can be taken care of with a nice advanced battery... the same ones being worked on for vehicles would work here as well.
Now that they have the mechanics worked out they should really fork the dev effort and put a nice veneer on that thing and get it a battery supply.. then it will truly be creepy... nearly silent, all black and shiny (I think it needs a black/blue/purple/green iridescent carapace)...
Good show to say the least.
Did you watch it climb the concrete block pile? It was very selective... trying several locations before putting it's weight down. Very impressive.
OTOH I actually thought it took too much time. It's a robot and shouldn't be so worried about turning an ankle... just climb the damn hill already.
There's already a free alternative well supported on mobile phones... SVG Tiny
What is needed there is a good free Authoring tool. The only one that is worth anything right now is Ikivo Animator... you can see a demo here
InkScape is good for creating SVG artwork but it doesn't have a timeline or scripting support for animations or interactivity.
This is called out on an SVG compliance comment on their wiki
The other authoring tool mentioned there is Beatware but it has disappeared... possibly purchased by another company and all references pulled.
The only American *NEWS* outlets they mention are the same old same old sources. I don't even read those sources anymore cause they don't have any news I'm interested in. I check my Google News home page once in the morning each day to see if anything interesting pops out but other than that I go straight to New Scientist, Science Daily, /., Macrumors, TreeHugger, and a few blogs that have topics I care about.
There's very little that happens day to day in the world that I consider a new event. The protests in Tibet are an example but only for a few minutes. Every year there are protests. Every year the Chinese gov. reacts horribly and every year it gets about a week of coverage.
Why would I read *world events* in the mainstream media when I can read these much more interesting stories on Science Daily:
Genes That Reduce 'Bad Cholesterol' And Protect Against Atherosclerosis Identified
Speed Of Light: Sub-femtosecond Stop Watch For 'Photon Finish' Races
Light Waves Can Detect Alzheimer's Disease Early On, Study Suggests
Soy Compound May Halt Spread Of Prostate Cancer
Huge Iceberg Splits In Southern Atlantic Ocean
New Bird Species Discovered
Pain-free Childbirth? Get Real
Rare North Island Brown Kiwi Hatches At Smithsonian's National Zoo
Regular Low Dose Aspirin Cuts Asthma Risk In Women, Study Finds
Nanomaterials Show Unexpected Strength Under Stress
Toddlers Affected Most By Secondhand Smoke Exposure At Home, Study Shows
p.s. 90% of these stories will eventually make it to the mainstream media outlets as sidebars or 5 minute commentaries on the 11 0'clock news... after they've been misunderstood or converted to fluff pieces
So would you become a militant in this scenario?
I will offer that it really takes an external leadership to recruit and organize militants during times of artificial hardship, typically one with their own agenda...
I was also thinking that if it's all above board and coordinated via ISPs there should really be some good data available regarding bandwidth utilization.... as in they can positively shape the traffic to point to those who are not currently uploading and utilize their available bandwidth over someone who is already uploading (a different file) a sort of P2P load-balancing routine.
"Now ask yourselve just how many people actually use iTunes to BUY music"... just an fyi:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/02/26itunes.html
CUPERTINO, California--February 26, 2008--Apple® today announced that iTunes® (www.itunes.com) is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group*. Apple also announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers. iTunes has sold over four billion songs, with an incredible 20 million songs sold on Christmas Day 2007 alone, and offers the world's largest music catalog of over six million songs from all of the major and thousands of independent labels.
It might keep you rich but it will never put you in the position to beat out the competition... cause they also have access to the tried and true and probably have as much expertise at it.
Obviously each industry has different tools that they need to be on the cutting edge with for competition... but there are efficiencies to be had by adopting new tools in non-core areas. IT is one of these areas for ANY industry.
It certainly is an opportunity cost scenario. If you are a 3 man operation and don't need an IT infrastructure to improve communications, then new IT tech doesn't make sense UNLESS you want to grow beyond a 3 man operation.
The biggest problem with sticking to tried and true is that you don't know what you're missing out on. you have no idea what opportunities new tech or new methods will bring to your business. You are ignorant, possibly blissfully so but still ignorant. This means you have no room for growth as an individual as a professional or as a member of your community... and that means we all lose out on your potential. You could be the person who introduces incredible new innovations in productivity or quality of service but we'll never know since you ignored the opportunity to find out.
In conclusion... you'll never get rich by being ignorant of new ways to become rich (financially and culturally and professionally). Too bad, I was looking forward to reading about your various breakthroughs and further enriching my own life by hearing of your accomplishments and being inspired to achieve my own.
Out of curiosity... what do your employees DO with DOS on OS/2?
;-p or browse the interweb on breaks.. nice and slacker proof...
CAD? Spreadsheets? Invoicing?
I'm betting they don't play any LAN games
I do see what you're trying to get at but you're not quite following my logic.
I'm saying that all those factors DO have an impact and you probably are a slightly different person due to the radiation from that HAM radio... you will never know, there are too many variables at play.
but why discount that possibility when you don't have enough data to say yes or no. why not believe it is possible that your gut reactions and baseline personality may be influenced by cosmic relationships? do you have a better source for why you might do things differently than your siblings who share your genetics and family life but whose personality veers dramatically from your own? Recessive or dominant genes? Impactful chance encounters as a child (phobias, etc)...
Again.. it is the effect on a developing zygote/fetus's brain which is at question... where negligible amounts of a variety of things will have a dramatic effect on the development of that person.
a slight bit of alcohol which in an adult has no lasting effect can devastate a developing brain. The mass of a fetus's nearby family is really just part of an existing background mass of the earth which is fairly constant... we're talking about the effect of extrasolar bodies which are only a factor when they are a factor, as in we change position relative to them as our solar system and galaxy orbits and spins...
Womens' cycle is ~28 days regardless of when it starts... why this period of time? coincidence?
yes but mountains and local effects don't change... we orbit and our solar system orbits within our galaxy pretty quickly compared to the movement of mountains... even compared to tectonic plates.
sorry but it's pretty easy for me to believe that shifting our position within the universe as a whole could have a distinct effect on the development of an organism. all your precepts are based on the idea that the effects are negligible... but if you removed all the effects entirely our planet would change orbit and we'd all die, so they are pretty important after all.
If venus disappeared in a puff earth's orbit would change right? Just because the effect is miniscule does not mean it isn't very important in a tightly balanced system of competing forces.
I stated in another comment that I think it is an evolutionary adaptation. These archetypes of personalities have been around for a long long time. It's likely that they stem from genetic adaptations which occurred long before there were so many external stimuli facing people.
Much like other more noticeable adaptations in genetic lines which are now divested from their origins through population drift... these would be nuanced effects on brain chemistry which could result from something as simple as the brain forming in the manner requiring the least effort while being hit by external energy particles which would tend to disrupt electrical signals, especially before complex neural pathways have been fully formed.
uh... consider the maths...
Our universe is not a vacuum... there are gas clouds everywhere, solar systems everywhere
Imagine if all those planets and stars out there suddenly vanished. Even if a few million vanished. What do you think would happen? Is our solar system or even our galaxy independent of relationships with those other galaxies and solar systems?
You say they have no effect on individual humans on earth... I say they have an effect. I say we're a product of our environment... including relationships with matter and energy which come from remote places. I say that when you are differentiating from a zygote into a fetus that various small energy particles which happen to be in an increased number during this phase of our relationship on earth with the sun, the solar system, the galaxy and other galaxies HAS an effect on the development of that fetus, especially the way it's brain organizes various sub-routines of memory and processing. I say that this effect is one which repeats itself and has become adapted to through evolution and may in fact be a key aspect of biological development of the brain at least if not the entire body.
No wikipedia has tags.... I'm talking about subdomains where the rules are different for each. Different levels of accuracy required, different levels of moderation implied.
facts can be fact checked.... opinions, hearsay, current events and new theories can not be fact checked. Factual information should have a more rigorous approval process applied.
YES... a much cooler show IMHO though I'd give them 3 days to do it not 1 and it would have to be a well stocked garbage dump... ie: buy out an old FRY's electronics store with all the parts still there ;-p
;-p...
On ideas for weapons... how about a capacitor that discharges when your bot gets touched by another bot.... very passive aggressive but effective... just send your bot into the kill path of another and see if you can withstand the first hit long enough to totally disable the other bot. Maybe a little boring to watch though... unless it ends up setting the other bot on fire or exploding it's battery supply
Wikipedia needs to classify information better. Rather than just having one big repository there should be multiple....
Science, Religion, Culture, Literature, People, Events, Geography, etc.
Articles can still cross-link but when you go off to culture.wikipedia.com you need to take off your analyst visor and get a bag of popcorn... yes it's serious stuff but it's also in the eye of the beholder and if you want facts about something in Culture - follow the links to the events section or the people section where the information is objective.
Unfortunately for all of us Astrology is one of those concepts that can't be proven/debunked over night or even over a year or 10 years. If it could be done in a reasonable amount of time - we don't have the technology or the science to do it. You are correct about it not being *spiritualism* though I wouldn't relegate it to parlor trick status either... in the same way that electricity or magnetism was probably once thought of as a parlor trick - but wasn't.
We all know that the moon does in fact have an effect on us (the easiest scientific theorem is that since we are 90+% water there should be a tidal effect and then there is the eerie connection with a women's menstrual cycle). Also it is quite obvious that the sun has an effect on us (radiation, solar flares, etc.) and that our proximity to it due to the earth's elliptical orbit can change the amount though imperceptible in day to day life unless you're looking for it.
So given these examples, why would the other planets not have an effect upon us? or better yet, specific alignments of these forces which act upon us in concert? Especially significant would be the effect any forces might have on our developing psyche during our gestation period and immediately after our birth... environmental factors can have a huge impact on a child in the infant stage.
So I'm agreeing with your statements but attempting to provide more evidence that reality may be closer to the "astrology does measure a significant effect" side of things than not.
Now OTOH the individuals who claim to practice Astrology would likely be sacrificed on an altar for fraud if we lived in the Druidic or Mayan societies (the Druids less likely - they'd probably let the misinformation enhance their mystique). Point being that there are very very few people alive today, possibly none, who actually practice Astrology the way it has to be practiced... every day for your entire life and the lives of your ancestors, recorded in perpetuity so as to establish a statistical model of events. I highly doubt that any such records still exist without there being a huge 200-500 year gap up to the present day.
Personally I like to compare it to Meteorology... you're attempting to study a highly dynamic and chaotic system of interrelationships but you don't even have doppler radar or satellites working for you, it's like trying to guess at weather based on geography and historical event modeling alone.... so you might get some general trend information out of it but nothing concrete about what IS going to happen - just what might happen based on where you live and what has happened to others who lived there before you... and as stated earlier, this data is sketchy at best for the last couple centuries. Good luck with that Astrologists.
Disclaimer - I am a Pisces. I work as am Interactive Director in a creative agency, I tend to go with the flow but won't let anything stop me once in motion, I am slightly bi-polar and a romantic idealist (though i cover it up with a veneer of pragmatism). OTOH I am an Earth Horse in Chinese zodiac so that explains a lot as well.... or does it?
Google doesn't yet have a carrier signed up (yes they are on the working groups), so we don't really know what sort of limitations those carriers will impose. android may be open but the carrier network is not and then OEM or even the distributor of the phones made to run Android may have a different take on it.
If google makes the phone AND provides the service then of course they could open the whole thing BUT that will certainly limit their distribution channels and that would kill the platform before it even gets started. Google will not be able to set up the type of coverage that people expect for a cellphone without going through an existing carrier. The costs are too prohibitive in the short term so it could be several years before you see a fully open cell network in operation.
Personally I think Apple and Steve are being very conservative right now just as they were even more conservative when the launched iPhone.... they will open it more over time. Right now there are several reasons to be conservative, some technical and quality of service related ("Apple will ensure that everything you get is of premium quality") and some are pure marketing as in *premium* status related ("You can only get it through Apple").
This all will change over time as iPhone gets competition and as it becomes more of a household item rather than a luxury item (and something else Apple make will take it's place).
Uh that's because :last-child is an Acid3 test
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/webkit-unassigned/2008-January/061575.html
See that the bug is listed as acid3 bug... couldn't find a better reference quickly on webstandards.org
I'll open it up a little... for every Mick Jagger, Britney Spears or Trent Reznor out there there are literally thousands of sound engineers, movie, TV and radio musical talent (Commercial Jingles, background scores, etc.) and orchestral musicians...
I'm saying that you can make a decent living in music without being a superstar as well... people waiting tables and playing at bars SHOULD be attending community college or University and getting degrees in music theory, MBAs w/ focus on entertainment, etc. which is what we should be getting as professional musicians, rather than teen agers who can sing and dance...
Becoming a celebrity by being *found* is a dicey proposition. It's like a guy who learns to program incredible console games in his basement and then attends a Game convention and shows his stuff to someone who decides to offer him a multi-million dollar deal to sell his game. He had no real plan... he just got lucky - if he hadn't been found he would end up working at Blockbuster or something and be an underground hero but with no financial success.