If NASA weren't shortchanged so much on budget, there wouldn't be any of these problems. The original Viking landed successfully on Mars, but the budget for that was ~1 billion dollars -- back then! Not coincidentally, the 250 million (in today's dollars) craft from a few years ago crashed. I think the bureaucracy should be fixed, but also you then need to pump some cash into there, so we get more cool consumer spinoff products.
So a 4-year patent just means you have to pay them 4 times, and then you have procured the patent for the approximage 17 years of a regular patent. Or, perhaps longer... assuming pressure from all the companies to whack this once it goes into effect, so that they can keep their patents for cheaper. Any patent system's original rules will be altered by pressure from the largest patent holders. What we need to have happen is to force accountability for patent fees, i.e. force some kind of license limit on the amount you can ream people for off of them.
What a surprise, a good game is fun with or without 3d bitmapped whatever and tons of graphics horsepower. Er, wait... geometry wars does use a fair amount of graphics horsepower. So, it's the APPROPRIATE use of graphics to make a cool game, and not just graphics for the sake of "mommy-wow". I remember a paper airplane game on the Macintosh that was totally awesome, even though it was black+white, with simple cartoon style graphics. Heck, what graphics did the game 3 in Three have, and how great was that? Good games are still fun and will always be fun, graphics or not.
What if in 10 years, the internet and Google are almost exactly the same as right now, but with slightly more features? I guess that's way too obvious, either they must invent warp drive, or they will drag the entire internet offline in a Vesuvian meltdown... I don't think it will be that dramatic. Look at the internet 8 years ago, and aside from much more powerful desktops, some new mapping software, etc. the internet was approximately the same idea. Thus, I predict it will remain the same general concept for at least another 10-20 years (kinda like cars since 1920, gotten better but still 4 wheels, doors, etc.)
I wonder if even Google's servers could've handled the load fired at that poor site. Then again, I wonder what they were thinking, to make a WoW interactive app, post it on the internet, and then allow just everyone to go use it. Of course, now that all the WoW people know about it, it'll just be slammed forever. I'd love to see a graph of their traffic: satuday: 9 hits sunday: 10 hits monday: 9999999 hits tuesday: 999999 hits wednesday: 9999 hits + holding, ka BOOM! goes the server...
I assume this is referring to some kind of other free WiFi access, besides the 8 zillion free access points already in the valley. Aren't there some more remote places that need this? This is like giving away chocolate bars to Willy Wonka... pretty sure there's enough to go around already.
Also, Santa Cruz has always had those pesky mountains in the way, so I assume this will be an airborne solution, i.e. satellite or balloon, right? How else will my friends in the SC mountains get it?
I was going to Elementary school in San Jose, CA, and our whole class watched it live on TV. I will never forget watching it 1) explode, and 2) the shock on my teacher's face. This guy is totally false on #1 and #2. I watched it on TV. Technically it may not have exploded, but have you seen the feed? It didn't exactly go into space. We all saw it straight through, sure they cut away but after it exploded, genius.
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You get into a dangerous cost game when you host a MMOG. Suppose you have 10000 people pay 50 bucks, so now you have 500k. However, over the course of a year, those people don't have to pay anything extra, and you have to give them access to the server, which costs money to maintain, bandwidth costs, etc. Where does the money for that come from? If you get new subscribers, that can stave it off for a little while, but eventually you need more cash from the existing customer base to maintain the system access, capacity, and reliability... right?
The previous generation saw American Graffiti on theaters, and despite the fiery crash in the movie, went on to even more hot-rodding, street racing action. Perhaps the problem is hmmm... NOT VIDEO GAMES?
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone... we're obviously dealing with the direct effects of global warming that have been talked about forever. Over the past few years, we've had more severe weather (hurricanes), higher average temperature, melting ice (Ross ice shelf). Perhaps the most telling sign is the slump in SUV sales (Ford cuts jobs)... are people finally getting the point? I hope so!
So the entire internet, including the RIAA's own website, are in violation of this, since every site has folders that we can all access, and contains files (webpages) that are copyrighted. Good job, RIAA. Now shut off your own website, or else be sued by yourselves!
This may be a way for writers to work out some jokes, etc. before they hit prime time. Additionally, they can use feedback from the web-based show to drive the overall direction of the TV series. It's good to see that they know who their audience is, to some extent...
Come on, they can't put "peanut butter jelly time" into a cartoon on TV without realizing that they should reciprocate with some TV character-based internet cartoons.
If you want to put tons of dancing Jesus's on your page, and you get hacked, is it really that big a surprise? I'd be tempted to hack someone's blog just to shut off the Dancing Jesus on every post.
But if you get hacked for Peanut Butter Jelly Time, now there's a travesty!
"It's like any environmental problem," he said. "It's growing. If you don't tackle it now, it will only become worse, and the remedies in the future are going to be even more costly than if you tackle it today."
So like all the other environmental problems, a tiny percentage of the population will change it for the better, but the overwhelming majority will still contribute to the problem until it's so bad that, well, most environmental problems are still getting worse, so the outcome of that scenario has yet to be determined. Not good, though, I'd bet.
Just make feeds and tags for everything on your site and that should about do it. Anything else web 2.0 requires will be picked up by the jerk On Rails(tm) in the article's automated web 2.0-based robot. It comes to your site and integrates with everything, disables your browser's back button, and leaves a pile of buzzwords in your guestbook.
King Kong took how many scores of computers to render? There's no chance the cell processor will be able to do what King Kong looks like in real-time for gameplay, sorry Sony.
Can't you have a WMF automatically load at startup if you have active desktop turned on? I think there are a fair number of windows machines where when you VERY FIRST turn the machine on, or on a fresh install of windows, it plays a WMF automatically. How's that for scary?
There's a huge female market for a device that is both a phone and an i-pod, for example. Why? Because if women's handbags come in lots of sizes, but mostly they are small. Any real estate in the handbag is valuable, and a device that performs the function of 2 devices, with a slick, obvious interface, plus that you can get a pink case for, will destroy the competition.
I can't imagine how many more kids would learn math and be good at it if it weren't for the whole "math is hard and dumb" attitude of the general public in the USA. I don't think kids go into math thinking it's all that hard, but teachers even tell them it is. When that kid goes home, his parents tell him it is. The media makes math "stupid" and even in cartoons, portrays people that are good at it as social outcasts. How is this helping us in any way? I think the best advance that Math could take is to achieve a positive image in society. If that happened, then its advancements in science could only increase faster.
Back in the day, when people first started hearing about E-mail browsing by the FBI/CIA/whomever, we just started posting a list of words at the bottom of every e-mail to overwhelm their computers so they would stop doing that to regular citizens. While I don't really condone that activity, I can see a scenario where people might adopt saying "jihad" for hello and goodbye, just so that the wiretaps start getting applied to everyone. Of course, if a top campaign contributor's son/daughter gets wiretapped, all of a sudden there will be justice again.
It doesn't bother me that they want to wiretap suspected terrorists, but why the no-warrant stuff? Can't they just get a classified warrant? I wouldn't care at all except that they appear to be going around the law that I had thought applied to everyone. I guess it applies to everyone except for enemies of the state, or anyone that is unfortunate enough to be flagged as one. For instance, that professor corresponding with his friend in the Phillipines that had his mail opened, read and re-sealed. Isnt' that a federal offense?
I'm not susceptible to IM viruses, ever since my friend X_Cindy_X_12345 IM'd me with this link to a special program I had to install. It prevents any kind of issue with the(##*@JN#IN#F____+++ NO CARRIER
The most critical thing I can see is that these type of questions aren't asked that often. I would like to see a once per week, or at a minimum once per month, question from the editors like, "how are we doing, what changes, etc." It doesn't mean you have to implement them, but we'd like to know that you at least halfway care what the readers think. When you take out a story from someone with a rep, that can be considered censorship, so print that pig and watch the fur + mod points fly. That's what the internet is for. However, you can go out of your way to make sure that people starting to earn a bad rep get steered clear of that, by telling them early and often when things are going south. If they continue to be jerks, or post ad after ad, that's when it's time to step in. The New York Times doesn't run ads masquerading as articles. I'm not saying this is the NYT, but you can understand our frustration as readers to click a link and get an online store.
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If NASA weren't shortchanged so much on budget, there wouldn't be any of these problems. The original Viking landed successfully on Mars, but the budget for that was ~1 billion dollars -- back then! Not coincidentally, the 250 million (in today's dollars) craft from a few years ago crashed. I think the bureaucracy should be fixed, but also you then need to pump some cash into there, so we get more cool consumer spinoff products.
So a 4-year patent just means you have to pay them 4 times, and then you have procured the patent for the approximage 17 years of a regular patent. Or, perhaps longer... assuming pressure from all the companies to whack this once it goes into effect, so that they can keep their patents for cheaper. Any patent system's original rules will be altered by pressure from the largest patent holders. What we need to have happen is to force accountability for patent fees, i.e. force some kind of license limit on the amount you can ream people for off of them.
What a surprise, a good game is fun with or without 3d bitmapped whatever and tons of graphics horsepower. Er, wait... geometry wars does use a fair amount of graphics horsepower. So, it's the APPROPRIATE use of graphics to make a cool game, and not just graphics for the sake of "mommy-wow". I remember a paper airplane game on the Macintosh that was totally awesome, even though it was black+white, with simple cartoon style graphics. Heck, what graphics did the game 3 in Three have, and how great was that? Good games are still fun and will always be fun, graphics or not.
$1000 of Google stock won't attract women, but a Rickenbacker bass can, assuming you know how to play it :)
What if in 10 years, the internet and Google are almost exactly the same as right now, but with slightly more features? I guess that's way too obvious, either they must invent warp drive, or they will drag the entire internet offline in a Vesuvian meltdown... I don't think it will be that dramatic. Look at the internet 8 years ago, and aside from much more powerful desktops, some new mapping software, etc. the internet was approximately the same idea. Thus, I predict it will remain the same general concept for at least another 10-20 years (kinda like cars since 1920, gotten better but still 4 wheels, doors, etc.)
I wonder if even Google's servers could've handled the load fired at that poor site. Then again, I wonder what they were thinking, to make a WoW interactive app, post it on the internet, and then allow just everyone to go use it. Of course, now that all the WoW people know about it, it'll just be slammed forever. I'd love to see a graph of their traffic:
satuday: 9 hits
sunday: 10 hits
monday: 9999999 hits
tuesday: 999999 hits
wednesday: 9999 hits + holding, ka BOOM! goes the server...
I assume this is referring to some kind of other free WiFi access, besides the 8 zillion free access points already in the valley. Aren't there some more remote places that need this? This is like giving away chocolate bars to Willy Wonka... pretty sure there's enough to go around already.
Also, Santa Cruz has always had those pesky mountains in the way, so I assume this will be an airborne solution, i.e. satellite or balloon, right? How else will my friends in the SC mountains get it?
I was going to Elementary school in San Jose, CA, and our whole class watched it live on TV. I will never forget watching it 1) explode, and 2) the shock on my teacher's face. This guy is totally false on #1 and #2. I watched it on TV. Technically it may not have exploded, but have you seen the feed? It didn't exactly go into space. We all saw it straight through, sure they cut away but after it exploded, genius.
You get into a dangerous cost game when you host a MMOG. Suppose you have 10000 people pay 50 bucks, so now you have 500k. However, over the course of a year, those people don't have to pay anything extra, and you have to give them access to the server, which costs money to maintain, bandwidth costs, etc. Where does the money for that come from? If you get new subscribers, that can stave it off for a little while, but eventually you need more cash from the existing customer base to maintain the system access, capacity, and reliability... right?
The previous generation saw American Graffiti on theaters, and despite the fiery crash in the movie, went on to even more hot-rodding, street racing action. Perhaps the problem is hmmm... NOT VIDEO GAMES?
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone... we're obviously dealing with the direct effects of global warming that have been talked about forever. Over the past few years, we've had more severe weather (hurricanes), higher average temperature, melting ice (Ross ice shelf). Perhaps the most telling sign is the slump in SUV sales (Ford cuts jobs)... are people finally getting the point? I hope so!
So the entire internet, including the RIAA's own website, are in violation of this, since every site has folders that we can all access, and contains files (webpages) that are copyrighted. Good job, RIAA. Now shut off your own website, or else be sued by yourselves!
This may be a way for writers to work out some jokes, etc. before they hit prime time. Additionally, they can use feedback from the web-based show to drive the overall direction of the TV series. It's good to see that they know who their audience is, to some extent...
Come on, they can't put "peanut butter jelly time" into a cartoon on TV without realizing that they should reciprocate with some TV character-based internet cartoons.
If you want to put tons of dancing Jesus's on your page, and you get hacked, is it really that big a surprise? I'd be tempted to hack someone's blog just to shut off the Dancing Jesus on every post.
But if you get hacked for Peanut Butter Jelly Time, now there's a travesty!
"It's like any environmental problem," he said. "It's growing. If you don't tackle it now, it will only become worse, and the remedies in the future are going to be even more costly than if you tackle it today."
So like all the other environmental problems, a tiny percentage of the population will change it for the better, but the overwhelming majority will still contribute to the problem until it's so bad that, well, most environmental problems are still getting worse, so the outcome of that scenario has yet to be determined. Not good, though, I'd bet.
Just make feeds and tags for everything on your site and that should about do it. Anything else web 2.0 requires will be picked up by the jerk On Rails(tm) in the article's automated web 2.0-based robot. It comes to your site and integrates with everything, disables your browser's back button, and leaves a pile of buzzwords in your guestbook.
King Kong took how many scores of computers to render? There's no chance the cell processor will be able to do what King Kong looks like in real-time for gameplay, sorry Sony.
Can't you have a WMF automatically load at startup if you have active desktop turned on? I think there are a fair number of windows machines where when you VERY FIRST turn the machine on, or on a fresh install of windows, it plays a WMF automatically. How's that for scary?
There's a huge female market for a device that is both a phone and an i-pod, for example. Why? Because if women's handbags come in lots of sizes, but mostly they are small. Any real estate in the handbag is valuable, and a device that performs the function of 2 devices, with a slick, obvious interface, plus that you can get a pink case for, will destroy the competition.
I can't imagine how many more kids would learn math and be good at it if it weren't for the whole "math is hard and dumb" attitude of the general public in the USA. I don't think kids go into math thinking it's all that hard, but teachers even tell them it is. When that kid goes home, his parents tell him it is. The media makes math "stupid" and even in cartoons, portrays people that are good at it as social outcasts. How is this helping us in any way? I think the best advance that Math could take is to achieve a positive image in society. If that happened, then its advancements in science could only increase faster.
Back in the day, when people first started hearing about E-mail browsing by the FBI/CIA/whomever, we just started posting a list of words at the bottom of every e-mail to overwhelm their computers so they would stop doing that to regular citizens. While I don't really condone that activity, I can see a scenario where people might adopt saying "jihad" for hello and goodbye, just so that the wiretaps start getting applied to everyone. Of course, if a top campaign contributor's son/daughter gets wiretapped, all of a sudden there will be justice again.
It doesn't bother me that they want to wiretap suspected terrorists, but why the no-warrant stuff? Can't they just get a classified warrant? I wouldn't care at all except that they appear to be going around the law that I had thought applied to everyone. I guess it applies to everyone except for enemies of the state, or anyone that is unfortunate enough to be flagged as one. For instance, that professor corresponding with his friend in the Phillipines that had his mail opened, read and re-sealed. Isnt' that a federal offense?
I'm not susceptible to IM viruses, ever since my friend X_Cindy_X_12345 IM'd me with this link to a special program I had to install. It prevents any kind of issue with the(##*@JN#IN#F____+++ NO CARRIER
And now, the stream of p0rn related jokes in 3...2...1...
... CLIPPY! You little pervert!"
"Hey, looks like Clippy found 5000 new videos, let's see what
The most critical thing I can see is that these type of questions aren't asked that often. I would like to see a once per week, or at a minimum once per month, question from the editors like, "how are we doing, what changes, etc." It doesn't mean you have to implement them, but we'd like to know that you at least halfway care what the readers think. When you take out a story from someone with a rep, that can be considered censorship, so print that pig and watch the fur + mod points fly. That's what the internet is for. However, you can go out of your way to make sure that people starting to earn a bad rep get steered clear of that, by telling them early and often when things are going south. If they continue to be jerks, or post ad after ad, that's when it's time to step in. The New York Times doesn't run ads masquerading as articles. I'm not saying this is the NYT, but you can understand our frustration as readers to click a link and get an online store.