I just can't wait to see Casablanca colorized, with simulated surround sound, in fake 3d. With any luck they'll replace Humphrey Bogart with Jar Jar Binks and we'll be all set.
that's the only thing I can think of at the moment that will actually allow a qualitative change in the power of wireless technology - everything else is just bigger-numbers-BS.
Well I disagree. The problem is that in Wireless there are often some number of users sharing the airwaves, so what starts off sounding like a big number diminishes quickly.
Plus, if you want to use repeaters to extend the range (e.g. wireless mesh), the total bandwidth required is multiplied once again.
When a trainload of people can all watch different streaming video feeds on their way to work, then maybe we can talk about "good enough."
The article is also one-sided, because they talk about what spammers do without interviewing anybody from a search engine to see how they fight back. At a colloquium I asked David Cohn, google's director of search results, how much they worried about Microsoft, and he said they worry more about spammers. His job, and of those who work for him, is to fight in this arms race.
That doesn't mean google is winning or will win, but search engines are not static targets like this article implies. People talk about PageRank as if it were really how google works. I'm sure PageRank is still in there somewhere, but I strongly suspect it's only part of the overall technique, buried under layers of tweaks and countermeasures to combat spammers.
You have to remember who this Greg Boser is. When he talks as if he has web search wrapped around his little finger, it's partly because that's what he is - an advertiser, a spammer, a liar. I doubt there was ever a spammer or real-estate agent born that didn't brag about how much money they make, regardless of whether they do.
...the Accord Hybrid's output numbers jump from 240 to 255 hp, and from 212 to 232 lb.-ft. of torque. In a seeming paradox, Honda's figures show this added muscle cuts 0-60 mph time from 8.0 to 7.5 seconds compared to a normal Accord V-6 while bumping EPA numbers from 21/30 mpg city/highway to 29/37 mpg and raising cruising range from 513 to 633 miles.
I bought an Echo for half the price of a Prius, and I only get (officially) 3 less miles per gallon than I would if I was driving a Prius.
Huh? For city driving, the score is 60 to 35.
60 MPG in the city!! Out on the highway, it's closer at 51 to 42. That's still a difference of 9 MPG.
And, better yet (IMHO) are cars that trade off some of the increased efficiency for increased performance. The 2005 Accord Hybrid has both more power and better fuel economy than its prececessors.
Daimaou could potentially be held liable for any damages the company could prove due to the IP release.
It would seem so. Daimaou, have you contacted the owners of the GPL code to see if they will re-license it to you commercially? You might get out of this whole mess by encouraging your employer to pay the original authors.
The Comcast / TiVo boxes aren't even going to be available for over a year from now, so we can't draw too many conclusions from TiVo's current offerings.
I think the only question is whether you'll need a cable modem and LAN, or whether the Comcast/Tivo boxes will have built-in DOCSIS so you just plug them into the cable and go, even if you don't subscribe to Comcast Internet. I'd imagine the latter.
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To be honest, I rather doubt that the average Amish would be able to explain, at a fundamental level, how a mirror reflects light, or how propane burns.
It seems like raytracing would be ridiculously easy to run in parallel. If they're only 90 mhz chips, they probably don't take much power anyways. They should slap 8 of them on a board.
This may come as a shock to you, but some people like having live conversations. If the phone rings a couple hundred times per day, that will be impossible. Even checking the caller ID for every call will be infeasible.
I suppose we'll have to resort to some annoyance, like a priority scheme where the phone only rings out loud for certain numbers (i.e. degrees of whitelisting). But that's not OK. It's a big nuisance and expense on a national scale.
Forget billing and authentication! All that hassle is the problem, and it's not worth it for a few cents. I'm sick of giving out an email address just to spend money.
What we need is online cash. It must be as universal as the US dollar. From a technical standpoint it's not that hard to do, if you accept a single clearing house. The last thing we need is another PayPal. I nominate the US treasury.
But does that prove anything? If there were inherent differences, it would be very strange if the differences were not manifest in culture.
As a father of both a boy and girls, I have found I can't treat them the same, because they don't respond in the same way. I could be criticized for spanking the boy and never the girl, but a harsh word to her is like 5 spanks to him.
I'm not saying my own experiences are conclusive about gender differences in general (in fact, I have one daughter who is a princess, in all the good and bad ways, and one who is not). I'm just making this point: proving that two people or groups are treated differently does not prove that they're intrinsically the same.
As for your assertation that it's cool for men to be geeks, I disagree strongly. Personally I would rather have been John Glenn. But I'm not.
Some say there have been several waves of women in management. The first generation were ball busters because those who werent didn't make it. (Think of Margaret Thatcher.) Supposedly those of the first wave may be particularly competitive with women who come along later, because they threaten the elite, pioneering self image.
I wonder if you can pop in a fresh CDR at shutdown and have it burn a copy of Puppy + the current state of all your files? The media cost of CDR itself is hardly a concern.
Wow, so this "hack" requires a valid login name an password? Or was it a simple case of "visit this url and log in," and some administrators who assumed a URL was suuuuper secret?
I'd take exception to this if it were just a matter of the owner once having a website done up and then forgot about it.
I wonder if all trouble might have been avoided simply by including a message on the page originally: "prices valid until 1/1/2004" (or whatever).
As for "rights online", I suppose it could have huge implications if interpreted just a little more broadly. How many websites are "guilty" of providing out of date information? Most, I'd wager.
Freedom of speech, as the saying goes, does not mean freedom from consequences.
I guess invading Iraq was a waste of time them. After all, Iraqis under Saddam were perfectly free to express their opinions. They just weren't free to choose the consequences. Right?
Especially since this vapochill has to expel the heat somewhere, right? So you've got a little cooler (this device) cooled by a bigger cooler (air conditioning). Now if you could vent the vapochill directly outdoors (like a clothesdryer) that might be neat.
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I just can't wait to see Casablanca colorized, with simulated surround sound, in fake 3d. With any luck they'll replace Humphrey Bogart with Jar Jar Binks and we'll be all set.
Does Bluetooth take less power than UWB per byte? The UWB transmitter need only be turned on for a fraction as long as Bluetooth.
Plus, if you want to use repeaters to extend the range (e.g. wireless mesh), the total bandwidth required is multiplied once again.
When a trainload of people can all watch different streaming video feeds on their way to work, then maybe we can talk about "good enough."
That doesn't mean google is winning or will win, but search engines are not static targets like this article implies. People talk about PageRank as if it were really how google works. I'm sure PageRank is still in there somewhere, but I strongly suspect it's only part of the overall technique, buried under layers of tweaks and countermeasures to combat spammers.
You have to remember who this Greg Boser is. When he talks as if he has web search wrapped around his little finger, it's partly because that's what he is - an advertiser, a spammer, a liar. I doubt there was ever a spammer or real-estate agent born that didn't brag about how much money they make, regardless of whether they do.
And, better yet (IMHO) are cars that trade off some of the increased efficiency for increased performance. The 2005 Accord Hybrid has both more power and better fuel economy than its prececessors.
I don't think running under an emulator off a CDROM will give the best impression of linux speed!
That is my question, how do you get in?
I think the only question is whether you'll need a cable modem and LAN, or whether the Comcast/Tivo boxes will have built-in DOCSIS so you just plug them into the cable and go, even if you don't subscribe to Comcast Internet. I'd imagine the latter.
It seems like raytracing would be ridiculously easy to run in parallel. If they're only 90 mhz chips, they probably don't take much power anyways. They should slap 8 of them on a board.
Or send out messages using spam zombies - virus infected computers under the control of spammers.
I suppose we'll have to resort to some annoyance, like a priority scheme where the phone only rings out loud for certain numbers (i.e. degrees of whitelisting). But that's not OK. It's a big nuisance and expense on a national scale.
What we need is online cash. It must be as universal as the US dollar. From a technical standpoint it's not that hard to do, if you accept a single clearing house. The last thing we need is another PayPal. I nominate the US treasury.
As a father of both a boy and girls, I have found I can't treat them the same, because they don't respond in the same way. I could be criticized for spanking the boy and never the girl, but a harsh word to her is like 5 spanks to him.
I'm not saying my own experiences are conclusive about gender differences in general (in fact, I have one daughter who is a princess, in all the good and bad ways, and one who is not). I'm just making this point: proving that two people or groups are treated differently does not prove that they're intrinsically the same.
As for your assertation that it's cool for men to be geeks, I disagree strongly. Personally I would rather have been John Glenn. But I'm not.
Some say there have been several waves of women in management. The first generation were ball busters because those who werent didn't make it. (Think of Margaret Thatcher.) Supposedly those of the first wave may be particularly competitive with women who come along later, because they threaten the elite, pioneering self image.
I wonder if you can pop in a fresh CDR at shutdown and have it burn a copy of Puppy + the current state of all your files? The media cost of CDR itself is hardly a concern.
Dual layer media is cheap now? Where? At newegg.com it's still $6 per disk.
Wow, so this "hack" requires a valid login name an password? Or was it a simple case of "visit this url and log in," and some administrators who assumed a URL was suuuuper secret?
As for "rights online", I suppose it could have huge implications if interpreted just a little more broadly. How many websites are "guilty" of providing out of date information? Most, I'd wager.
Why can't people just see the obvious - many freedoms are mutually incompatible. Redefining words to avoid the dilemma doesn't change anything.
So the only question is whose freedoms trump whose.
Whoever modded that a troll, I'm sure we'd all be most interested to hear what features Microsoft added to Office for you.