They've been here in China since I got here (5 years ago), and they can easily be had for under 150 bucks US. There are all kinds of models with different ranges. They are already mainstream and not a trend.
Yeah but the people patenting a specific technology usually aren't the same people that put in the hard work to make that specific technology possible - all that hard work is actually an ecosystem of countless technologies to create an environment for that one further step forward. And most of the truly foundational work was done by governments and universities that didn't patent their work (at least until recently, because of patent trolls such as yourself).
.... program that never dies. It runs continuously..... It's not that the program couldn't stop running; the idea is that there's no fixed end-point
Wow I didn't even think that was physically possible! Maybe google should borrow this tech for their web crawlers. Must be a pain to restart them every day...
As someone working in Beijing I can tell you that you are wrong, firstly because everyone here is already aware of and use to the situation, and secondly because most high-end Chinese companies have proxies, so there is no "wondering why".
Anyone could easily come up with a bunch of randomlinks about fucked up environmental stuff happening in any country, but it doesn't mean they've actually said anything interesting or insightful.
This dude was the epitome of "digerati" poser hype acting as some kind of digital prophet spouting buzzwords and hot air during the web 1.0 bubble. He's been riding the 15 minutes he got from his work on the failed VRML for way too long.
Anyone could sit back and smoke a lot of joints and come up with new ways of talking about old things, but it doesn't mean they are necessarily interesting. This dude is the poster boy for what everyone hated about the dotcom era - a lot of hype and no substance.
Every damn time there is a story about OnLive or other similar services, you see dozens of messages by people speculating that it's impossible and latency will kill it. This conversation is get BORING. We get your point, and we got it the 500th time we heard it. You all sound like people having a heated argument over whether some comic book character can jump over a building or not. Unless you have tried the system, then STFU. At this point it's just vaporware! Maybe you are right; maybe you are wrong - these guys are working with the big boys - major ISP and hardware providers, and may be working to change the actual structure of the network itself to support the game, as opposed to changing the system to work on the current network. In any case, just wait and see and quit boring us with your armchair network admin speculations.
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If there were people killing each other over stamps and forcing others to be collectors, then I promise you there would be not collecting stamp organizations
Half the people on Slashdot would be able to clone that website in a couple of months (working alone!), and the user base is *not* worth half a billion (BILLION!!!).
Your user name is appropriate. Despite what armchair entrepreneurs such as yourself may think, building a highly usable and tuned website, while not difficult, takes a lot more effort than you think, even for "reviewing restaurants and shit". As someone who's spent more than two years building a site similar to Yelp for Beijing, and hearing everyone say "can't anyone just build that and take your business?", I can tell you that you are grossly underestimating the effort involved.
Secondly, getting as many users as Yelp is not as easy as you think. Speak to people with lots of money. DAUs are still important these days.
Taking the fruits of your neighbors labor to supply for yourself would be called stealing if it was done directly and without the government as a middle man.
Nice platitude, but it's more complex than that. Not all resources are generated purely out of individual effort and separable into chunks, and humans aren't solitary animals. Anyway not advocating one way or the other, but drawing lines in the sand and taking sides doesn't enlighten anyone.
You could switch the form of idealism and it would still make sense:
"I fail to see what is so evil about libertarian ideas. They don't work in practice but that doesn't make them evil."
Uh, not to defend communism or anything, but China's pollution problems began precisely when it started moving to capitalism. It is arguable that China is more capitalistic that the US at this point. Any vestiges of communism are just imagery and tourist attractions.
A lot of people use browsers a languages other than their own, for instance at work or at an internet cafe. Also, there are governmental restrictions; for instance, I think that google is required to pop up the chinese version of their site in China. Also, what if you first used a service in a browser of one language, but then switched browser languages? Should the setting be based on your first session, your settings, or based on your browser?
I get your point, it's a solvable problem, but not as simple as it first appears.
No, he said it very clearly: He's trying to render a framebuffer OS GUI like bitmaps when instead he should be using vector based information, using a Synergy2 client with cloud-based actionscript pseudo-code, reverse-compiled on a middle-endian pdp-12 zipdisk array. You thought Web-2.0 was easy. Don't be so condescending....
Stop! You are scaring the shit out of me... I don't think you intended it, but your post is creepy. I truly believe those fucks would do everything you suggested if they were capable of it. They are sick!
Yahoo's latest embarrassment seems like a sign that the company is just trying too hard to be cool.
Wait, weren't we just trashing Microsoft for their goofy attempt at trying to be cool with their "party packs" and videos? This actually IS cool, yet they are trying too hard too. I guess you just can't win...
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They've been here in China since I got here (5 years ago), and they can easily be had for under 150 bucks US. There are all kinds of models with different ranges. They are already mainstream and not a trend.
Yeah but the people patenting a specific technology usually aren't the same people that put in the hard work to make that specific technology possible - all that hard work is actually an ecosystem of countless technologies to create an environment for that one further step forward. And most of the truly foundational work was done by governments and universities that didn't patent their work (at least until recently, because of patent trolls such as yourself).
.... program that never dies. It runs continuously ..... It's not that the program couldn't stop running; the idea is that there's no fixed end-point
Wow I didn't even think that was physically possible! Maybe google should borrow this tech for their web crawlers. Must be a pain to restart them every day...
As someone working in Beijing I can tell you that you are wrong, firstly because everyone here is already aware of and use to the situation, and secondly because most high-end Chinese companies have proxies, so there is no "wondering why".
Anyone could easily come up with a bunch of random links about fucked up environmental stuff happening in any country, but it doesn't mean they've actually said anything interesting or insightful.
This dude was the epitome of "digerati" poser hype acting as some kind of digital prophet spouting buzzwords and hot air during the web 1.0 bubble. He's been riding the 15 minutes he got from his work on the failed VRML for way too long.
Anyone could sit back and smoke a lot of joints and come up with new ways of talking about old things, but it doesn't mean they are necessarily interesting. This dude is the poster boy for what everyone hated about the dotcom era - a lot of hype and no substance.
Sound of sarcasm flying over your head? wooooooooooooooooooooosh!
Also there's tons of prior art. Anyone have an answer to this question? Why aren't other touch screen phones supporting multitouch?
Every damn time there is a story about OnLive or other similar services, you see dozens of messages by people speculating that it's impossible and latency will kill it. This conversation is get BORING. We get your point, and we got it the 500th time we heard it. You all sound like people having a heated argument over whether some comic book character can jump over a building or not. Unless you have tried the system, then STFU. At this point it's just vaporware! Maybe you are right; maybe you are wrong - these guys are working with the big boys - major ISP and hardware providers, and may be working to change the actual structure of the network itself to support the game, as opposed to changing the system to work on the current network. In any case, just wait and see and quit boring us with your armchair network admin speculations.
If there were people killing each other over stamps and forcing others to be collectors, then I promise you there would be not collecting stamp organizations
Half the people on Slashdot would be able to clone that website in a couple of months (working alone!), and the user base is *not* worth half a billion (BILLION!!!).
Your user name is appropriate. Despite what armchair entrepreneurs such as yourself may think, building a highly usable and tuned website, while not difficult, takes a lot more effort than you think, even for "reviewing restaurants and shit". As someone who's spent more than two years building a site similar to Yelp for Beijing, and hearing everyone say "can't anyone just build that and take your business?", I can tell you that you are grossly underestimating the effort involved.
Secondly, getting as many users as Yelp is not as easy as you think. Speak to people with lots of money. DAUs are still important these days.
LS
Good point, Israel and Iran are both fanatical countries....
Yeah. Because they can't install a pilots' toilet and store food in a larger cockpit.
Taking the fruits of your neighbors labor to supply for yourself would be called stealing if it was done directly and without the government as a middle man.
Nice platitude, but it's more complex than that. Not all resources are generated purely out of individual effort and separable into chunks, and humans aren't solitary animals. Anyway not advocating one way or the other, but drawing lines in the sand and taking sides doesn't enlighten anyone.
You could switch the form of idealism and it would still make sense:
"I fail to see what is so evil about libertarian ideas. They don't work in practice but that doesn't make them evil."
LS
nice try troll
This "pervasive" problem you speak of is human nature, and through appeals to power certain individuals are allowed to take advantage of it.
People want to see random strangers hung in the streets for witchcraft.
Murdoch is not to be defended.
Only very few animal type make up most of human consumed meat
You haven't been to china have you
That's called paranoia man.
That's called foresight, man.
You are both right, men.
Uh, not to defend communism or anything, but China's pollution problems began precisely when it started moving to capitalism. It is arguable that China is more capitalistic that the US at this point. Any vestiges of communism are just imagery and tourist attractions.
[they were supposed to replace worker's PCs for word processing, spreadsheets, etc].
Um they have for a large portion of the working populace. The last two companies I've worked at use Google docs.
LS
A lot of people use browsers a languages other than their own, for instance at work or at an internet cafe. Also, there are governmental restrictions; for instance, I think that google is required to pop up the chinese version of their site in China. Also, what if you first used a service in a browser of one language, but then switched browser languages? Should the setting be based on your first session, your settings, or based on your browser?
I get your point, it's a solvable problem, but not as simple as it first appears.
No, he said it very clearly: He's trying to render a framebuffer OS GUI like bitmaps when instead he should be using vector based information, using a Synergy2 client with cloud-based actionscript pseudo-code, reverse-compiled on a middle-endian pdp-12 zipdisk array. You thought Web-2.0 was easy. Don't be so condescending....
Stop! You are scaring the shit out of me... I don't think you intended it, but your post is creepy. I truly believe those fucks would do everything you suggested if they were capable of it. They are sick!
Yahoo's latest embarrassment seems like a sign that the company is just trying too hard to be cool.
Wait, weren't we just trashing Microsoft for their goofy attempt at trying to be cool with their "party packs" and videos? This actually IS cool, yet they are trying too hard too. I guess you just can't win...