With all the chatter about net neutrality, the other question is, what's going to be out there in a few years if the telco's win? yeah, maybe you can get multiple Mbps actual speeds to google or CNN but anything else is going to timeout on you.
How 'bout the surgeons slow down to improve patient safety, and check to make sure they didn't leave a coffee/wristwatch/golf club/hemostat in the patient?
OK, will somebody please find the receptionist, have her pay this pizza guy or whoever he is from the petty cash drawer so we can all get back to work??
MS has been rumored to be fiddling around with selling music for years.
There ain't no money in it... Apple sells music at a loss to encourage sales of ipods.
The "wildly successful" xbox also sells at a loss (correct me if I'm mistaken).
So, unless they're determined to burn thru all their cash, what does this mean, if not a perpetuation of overpriced OS & apps to pay for the other stuff?
You don't have to go so far as to blow the galaxy up. You can merely make it unliveable by having too many fast food joints, shitty cable tv, idiot politicians, Wal-Mart as the only remaining employer, and $1000 for a drugfu of gasoline.
Really, who owns Windows now? If M$ can't fix it, it sounds like it belongs to the hackers.
I spent about a week recently trying to clear malware off my wife's PC - ended up wiping/reinstalling. I tried about 6 different pkgs including our paid-for copy of NAV (what a joke that is), the free version of M$ cleanup, etc.
If this newfangled M$ package can really truly clean up the malware mess off an average PC I'll eat my hat.
Seems that to die in a martyrdom operation is the true benchmark of extremist Islamic manhood. But tapping away at keyboards at a cafe? Where's the excitement in that? Where's the spectacle?
No, these kinds of attacks are too abstract for these guys, otherwise we'd already have seen it. Cyber attacks might be a supporting role for terrorists but not the main dish.
This project assumes that people and things will be pretty much the same 20,000 years from now as they are today. More likely, and barring planetary scale catastrophe, more change will happen in the next 200 years than in the past 2 million. Look at the emerging fields of nanotech, info science, biotech, etc. It's doubtful that homo sapiens will still be around in even in 200 years, much less 20,000. This project looks to warn future generations who will be less vulnerable to the danger, and far better able to deal with the problem.
Chicago traffic/parking laws are cleverly designed to trip up & get a few bucks out of the uninitiated. Examples:
1. no left turn at some intersections
2. other intersections, no right turn on red between 7am-7pm. The notice is posted on the signal closest to your car, so it's harder to see unless you look for it.
3. No street parking during the afternoon rush hour. Signs poorly visible
4. At some intersections, right turn or left turn only on an arrow signal.
5. No parking after 5pm in some downtown areas. Tow trucks wait around the corner to snatch up cars where the driver didn't see the sign.
6. In some neighborhoods, only permit (windshield sticker) parking at certain times. Signs not always where they should be.
7. No parking on some streets after 2" snowfall between Nov 1 - April 1.
I could go on but you get the point. Maybe a robot could navigate a modest size downtown area but a major metro area? No way.
Instead of cracking the nag to shut it up on bootleg copies, how 'bout turning it on on legitimate copies? What a great April Fool's joke for your Fortune 100 company's IT dept!
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With all the chatter about net neutrality, the other question is, what's going to be out there in a few years if the telco's win?
yeah, maybe you can get multiple Mbps actual speeds to google or CNN but anything else is going to timeout on you.
How 'bout the surgeons slow down to improve patient safety, and check to make sure they didn't leave a coffee/wristwatch/golf club/hemostat in the patient?
If telepathy were real and useful, the multi-billion-dollar cell phone industry would not exist.
OK, will somebody please find the receptionist, have her pay this pizza guy or whoever he is from the petty cash drawer so we can all get back to work??
Don't be. They just bumped his salary to $55K.
What happens when 50,000,000 PC's in China won't boot?
I've stopped going to best buy... too many piss poor customer service experiences.
Geek Squad techs are best buy droids period.
I don't deny that the money will be happily spent,
Money??
Dream on. Microsoft pays fines in software vouchers.
What do they mean "would"?
They wrote "would" but meant "wood".
The High Price of Innovation!
MS has been rumored to be fiddling around with selling music for years.
There ain't no money in it... Apple sells music at a loss to encourage sales of ipods.
The "wildly successful" xbox also sells at a loss (correct me if I'm mistaken).
So, unless they're determined to burn thru all their cash, what does this mean, if not a perpetuation of overpriced OS & apps to pay for the other stuff?
welcome our shitty CD-producing overlords.
You don't have to go so far as to blow the galaxy up. You can merely make it unliveable by having too many fast food joints, shitty cable tv, idiot politicians, Wal-Mart as the only remaining employer, and $1000 for a drugfu of gasoline.
... on second thought ...
Yeah! Cover it in squrimy slimy day-glo plastic, it'll be the hit of 5th graders everywhere! Eat it! Eat it!
Really, who owns Windows now? If M$ can't fix it, it sounds like it belongs to the hackers.
I spent about a week recently trying to clear malware off my wife's PC - ended up wiping/reinstalling. I tried about 6 different pkgs including our paid-for copy of NAV (what a joke that is), the free version of M$ cleanup, etc.
If this newfangled M$ package can really truly clean up the malware mess off an average PC I'll eat my hat.
Seems that to die in a martyrdom operation is the true benchmark of extremist Islamic manhood. But tapping away at keyboards at a cafe? Where's the excitement in that? Where's the spectacle?
No, these kinds of attacks are too abstract for these guys, otherwise we'd already have seen it. Cyber attacks might be a supporting role for terrorists but not the main dish.
This is s'posed to be a new thing? What about disney animatronics? Or did they not do facial expressions?
This project assumes that people and things will be pretty much the same 20,000 years from now as they are today. More likely, and barring planetary scale catastrophe, more change will happen in the next 200 years than in the past 2 million. Look at the emerging fields of nanotech, info science, biotech, etc. It's doubtful that homo sapiens will still be around in even in 200 years, much less 20,000. This project looks to warn future generations who will be less vulnerable to the danger, and far better able to deal with the problem.
Cloak of Stupidity Already Here!
obey traffic laws
Chicago traffic/parking laws are cleverly designed to trip up & get a few bucks out of the uninitiated. Examples: 1. no left turn at some intersections 2. other intersections, no right turn on red between 7am-7pm. The notice is posted on the signal closest to your car, so it's harder to see unless you look for it. 3. No street parking during the afternoon rush hour. Signs poorly visible 4. At some intersections, right turn or left turn only on an arrow signal. 5. No parking after 5pm in some downtown areas. Tow trucks wait around the corner to snatch up cars where the driver didn't see the sign. 6. In some neighborhoods, only permit (windshield sticker) parking at certain times. Signs not always where they should be. 7. No parking on some streets after 2" snowfall between Nov 1 - April 1. I could go on but you get the point. Maybe a robot could navigate a modest size downtown area but a major metro area? No way.
.. we've been hearing the death rattle of remakes for years.
Instead of cracking the nag to shut it up on bootleg copies, how 'bout turning it on on legitimate copies? What a great April Fool's joke for your Fortune 100 company's IT dept!
It's like the RIAA, but for patents! Yaaay!!
was it a p-bar or an h-bar?