According to the article, the "giant computer" is really a crap-ton of racks, meaning 67.1 million "computers" with some networking to run perhaps as a single logical "system". Makes me want to ask: isn't the internet already millions of computers with networking? Why would we need this?
There is no chance that a mach 5+ aircraft would be in operation for consumer travel before there is a military version, otherwise the thing would be the biggest hijack target ever. Therefore, we can conclude that if this is seriously in development, then there must already be a similar version in production for the military, right?
I'm sure what they'd like to say is, if your site generates a lot of traffic, then it infringes on our copyright because people are 1) exposed to our advertising, 2) expecting to get to our site, 3) landing on yours by mistake, and 4) anxious to get out of there and back to the site they were looking for originally. It's a bit like having one really good pizza hut in town in a large office building with 900 other piza hutt's and pizzo hot's, etc. and then them trying to bust people who wander into the wrong one.
"The only thing you need to hijack a plane is a heart of stone and a baby (which almost every plane seems to have). You pick up the baby, and break a finger on the baby, and say either we're going where i want or I break another one. Guaranteed reroute of plane because no one likes hurt/screaming babies, and no baby screams more than one with a broken finger. No one can tackle and hogtie you because then you drop the baby."
How does bag screening, no liquids, shoe checks, etc. prevent that from happening?
People posted tons of obvious changes for the TSA to "consider"... but I'd assume that if these silly and obvious issues haven't been changed yet while most at the TSA must have already been aware, then hearing that it pisses off a few hundred other people probably isn't going to cause any extra pressure to change.
I've been to tens of zoos hundreds of times, as I'm sure many of us have, and I always look at the tigers. They are almost always sleeping, or maybe moving to where the food is, eating it, and then sleeping. Once I saw one playing with a ball or a tree trunk and looking excited... and then it got its food that it was waiting for, ate it, and layed down to sleep again. In all of these situations the tigers seemed to care less that there people present, including typical zoo noise like kids "roaring" at the tigers. I shudder to think the amount of contact/irritation/etc. that would be necessary to have the following happen: 1) distract the cat from sleeping, 2) make it get up, 3) make it target you, 4) make it risk its own safety to jump out of its "den" to attack you, 5) make it actually attack, and 6) make it track you hundreds of feet past many other potential targets, now that it's free.
Also, taunting a tiger is a lot different than taunting a shrew, a turtle, or any other animal at the zoo. Those other ones don't have a reputation as man-eaters. Who's to say that a tiger couldn't get out of pretty much any enclosure, given that it felt pissed off enough? the 12-footx30-foot distance is supposed to remind you that this cat means business.
Taunting a tiger is a bit like running down the street screaming the N word in Harlem: there are much, much safer ways to be a jackass.
I dunno, I know the broad principles of fireworks (explosives + chemicals + paper tube + fuse), but I really wouldn't be comfortable "launching" a homemade one.
I thought the faults and crustal weirdness on Mercury was from the Sun's insane gravity warping and distorting the planet as it rotates and revolves around the sun (also - the super-hot temperature causes expansion on the hot side, compression on the cool side).
Yeah, ever play that game "Lunar Lander"? Now imagine that if you land wrong, you actually die on the first try. I don't know anyone that landed that thing on the first try, and all it has is dumb little 2-d zigzag mountains. Imagine high-voltage lines, trees,etc. and this thing is a one-way trip to the rube goldberg/darwin award winner's list... the most scientifically advanced way to do something extremely risky.
And now, cue thousands of replies from people who have personally created microkernels and have sensible observations to make on their validity as a base for an OS...
It appears the manager is super confused. From TFS, U2's manager bashed Apple -- but isn't there a U2 branded ipod that has basically all their albums on it? Isn't that allowing people to "steal" all their albums, same as the bad radiohead analogy?
This is a great example with sudoku expert vs. math expert -- my dad is a retired math professor, and (along with many others) he figured out how to solve any generic sudoku with some kinda algorithm/formula. Sure, being able to quickly solve one in your head is great, but having the general solution is way more practical.
If you look down the weekly box office totals, you see numbers like 40 million for #1, on down to 1 million for #10. Even if the take was only 100 million for a week, that's still not a shortage of cash to any business I know about. How many industries gross 100 million per week?
I'd think that if downloading were really having a huge impact, that number would be more like 10 million a week total for the box office top 10 movies.
I dunno, if someone said I had to choose between wimax and say, toilet paper, I'm going with toilet paper. (My sister recently went to India, and to her surprise, in most of India there is no toilet paper.)
So, if we knew for a fact that all of those 700,000 were unlocked, the estimate of unlocked phones would skyrocket to maybe 50% and we'd have no more unaccounted for phones, right?
Microsoft has multi-billions in cash, and an unfathomable regular revenue stream. Even if Vista totally tanked, Microsoft could write it off and keep rolling. Now if enough stuff tanks, any company would have serious problems, and the aforementioned events may indicate the beginning of these plagues, but Microsoft still isn't going to just go away like so many dot-com's did.
To Mr. Gates: Helping poor people sounds like a great idea. There are lots of "poor" (compared to you) people that need help... me for example. Could you shoot me five or six, maybe seven million bucks? Thanks bro!
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According to the article, the "giant computer" is really a crap-ton of racks, meaning 67.1 million "computers" with some networking to run perhaps as a single logical "system". Makes me want to ask: isn't the internet already millions of computers with networking? Why would we need this?
There is no chance that a mach 5+ aircraft would be in operation for consumer travel before there is a military version, otherwise the thing would be the biggest hijack target ever. Therefore, we can conclude that if this is seriously in development, then there must already be a similar version in production for the military, right?
So is there any evidence that this is some kind of coordinated attack, perhaps by laser beam-equipped sharks or something?
I'm sure what they'd like to say is, if your site generates a lot of traffic, then it infringes on our copyright because people are 1) exposed to our advertising, 2) expecting to get to our site, 3) landing on yours by mistake, and 4) anxious to get out of there and back to the site they were looking for originally. It's a bit like having one really good pizza hut in town in a large office building with 900 other piza hutt's and pizzo hot's, etc. and then them trying to bust people who wander into the wrong one.
I, for one, welcome our new Yahoogle-powered Anti-Microsoft overlords.
I heard this from an ex-military guy.
"The only thing you need to hijack a plane is a heart of stone and a baby (which almost every plane seems to have). You pick up the baby, and break a finger on the baby, and say either we're going where i want or I break another one. Guaranteed reroute of plane because no one likes hurt/screaming babies, and no baby screams more than one with a broken finger. No one can tackle and hogtie you because then you drop the baby."
How does bag screening, no liquids, shoe checks, etc. prevent that from happening?
People posted tons of obvious changes for the TSA to "consider"... but I'd assume that if these silly and obvious issues haven't been changed yet while most at the TSA must have already been aware, then hearing that it pisses off a few hundred other people probably isn't going to cause any extra pressure to change.
I've been to tens of zoos hundreds of times, as I'm sure many of us have, and I always look at the tigers. They are almost always sleeping, or maybe moving to where the food is, eating it, and then sleeping. Once I saw one playing with a ball or a tree trunk and looking excited... and then it got its food that it was waiting for, ate it, and layed down to sleep again. In all of these situations the tigers seemed to care less that there people present, including typical zoo noise like kids "roaring" at the tigers. I shudder to think the amount of contact/irritation/etc. that would be necessary to have the following happen:
1) distract the cat from sleeping,
2) make it get up,
3) make it target you,
4) make it risk its own safety to jump out of its "den" to attack you,
5) make it actually attack, and
6) make it track you hundreds of feet past many other potential targets, now that it's free.
Also, taunting a tiger is a lot different than taunting a shrew, a turtle, or any other animal at the zoo. Those other ones don't have a reputation as man-eaters. Who's to say that a tiger couldn't get out of pretty much any enclosure, given that it felt pissed off enough? the 12-footx30-foot distance is supposed to remind you that this cat means business.
Taunting a tiger is a bit like running down the street screaming the N word in Harlem: there are much, much safer ways to be a jackass.
I dunno, I know the broad principles of fireworks (explosives + chemicals + paper tube + fuse), but I really wouldn't be comfortable "launching" a homemade one.
I thought the faults and crustal weirdness on Mercury was from the Sun's insane gravity warping and distorting the planet as it rotates and revolves around the sun (also - the super-hot temperature causes expansion on the hot side, compression on the cool side).
I remember listening for that damned lockpick noise on wolfenstein while being shot at by Nazi's... ah, the glory of an Apple childhood.
Yeah, ever play that game "Lunar Lander"? Now imagine that if you land wrong, you actually die on the first try. I don't know anyone that landed that thing on the first try, and all it has is dumb little 2-d zigzag mountains. Imagine high-voltage lines, trees,etc. and this thing is a one-way trip to the rube goldberg/darwin award winner's list... the most scientifically advanced way to do something extremely risky.
And now, cue thousands of replies from people who have personally created microkernels and have sensible observations to make on their validity as a base for an OS...
(crickets)
It appears the manager is super confused. From TFS, U2's manager bashed Apple -- but isn't there a U2 branded ipod that has basically all their albums on it? Isn't that allowing people to "steal" all their albums, same as the bad radiohead analogy?
This is a great example with sudoku expert vs. math expert -- my dad is a retired math professor, and (along with many others) he figured out how to solve any generic sudoku with some kinda algorithm/formula. Sure, being able to quickly solve one in your head is great, but having the general solution is way more practical.
If you look down the weekly box office totals, you see numbers like 40 million for #1, on down to 1 million for #10. Even if the take was only 100 million for a week, that's still not a shortage of cash to any business I know about. How many industries gross 100 million per week?
I'd think that if downloading were really having a huge impact, that number would be more like 10 million a week total for the box office top 10 movies.
So is XP SP3 officially out? If so, where is it?
I dunno, if someone said I had to choose between wimax and say, toilet paper, I'm going with toilet paper. (My sister recently went to India, and to her surprise, in most of India there is no toilet paper.)
So, if we knew for a fact that all of those 700,000 were unlocked, the estimate of unlocked phones would skyrocket to maybe 50% and we'd have no more unaccounted for phones, right?
Somewhere deep in the bowels of a server room at 2:14 am...
clickety clickety (SIGH) clickety (beep)
clickety clickety (beep)
clickety (beep)
clickety clickety (beep)
click- OHHHH SH**! F***!
Microsoft has multi-billions in cash, and an unfathomable regular revenue stream. Even if Vista totally tanked, Microsoft could write it off and keep rolling. Now if enough stuff tanks, any company would have serious problems, and the aforementioned events may indicate the beginning of these plagues, but Microsoft still isn't going to just go away like so many dot-com's did.
Google: Hey Sprint/Nextel, trade you my 700 Mhz for your 2.5Ghz! ... damn!
(awkward pause)
Sprint/Nextel: nah.
(awkward pause)
Google:
That guy in the 60's saying "damn hippies" is probably dead by now, that was 39-48 years ago!
To Mr. Gates:
Helping poor people sounds like a great idea. There are lots of "poor" (compared to you) people that need help... me for example. Could you shoot me five or six, maybe seven million bucks? Thanks bro!