I like the roll of gaffer's tape sitting on the console @ 1:17 in trailer 2 - if this is any indication of what's coming, the editing in the movie is going to be a distraction.
> "However, I now live 5 minutes from the center of a capital city and due to archaic telephone infrastructure cannot get ADSL, and even line noise is too great for dialup!"
Must have taken hours just to type that sentence. That's what I call d e d i c a t i o n!!
Except that the table MS built had nothing to do with touch - it uses several cameras that are inside a box, right below the glass table-top, which track & triangulate motion on/above the glass. The 'surface' is simply a boundary...there is no touch sensitive grid such as used on the iPhone etc.
Many ISPs outside of China, ban entire blocks of addresses that originate inside China.
If you happen to be browsing from a computer that has an IP address corresponding to a range that has been banned in North America, as an example, you will find it hard to reach various sources that people in NA can reach without issue. Example: GoDaddy hosted sites.
This has nothing to do with anything related to 'The Great Firewall'...
> "...makers like Asus who are trying to take some of the pain of waiting computers, especially laptops, to boot up.
Take my iBook, for example. I just sleep it, and when I open the lid and hit a key, it wakes up. It can go days before it needs to be recharged. I put it to sleep and bag-stash it before going thru airport security, and if they want to see it work, I just wake it up...bam...done.
I think more work should be done towards improving sleep-state longevity and run-time rather than towards rapid booting, but hey, that's just me:)
Perhaps Arizona's an even closer match to the moon's surface than is Texas, or Moses Lake, WA
It puts them closer to the University(s) that have been taking over many of the projects. For NASA, it is a budget thing - for the Unis', it works as a recruitment tool when the public is looking, and play-time when not...
And that new car out in the driveway, which happily rats out it's location so they can tow it away when you become 'uncooperative' about making payments towards the balance you owe.
> "What is the best way for humans to deal with the inconsistent amount of light over the year and still foster coordination over disparate time zones?"
Russia has a dozen time zones and fares just fine - as does China, with only one. This business of claiming that 'light' is a problem needing a solution is the only issue here...
>and have spent years doing the research to make it actually buildable
After spending the last few years riding the maglev train the Chinese built (w/a little help from the Germans) in Shanghai, of course. I swear they must get on board and stay for hours, going back and forth between the airport and Pudong, as if they were on a ride in a theme park...
"...which would allow any police officer 'who sees a Mongol wearing this patch... to stop that gang member and literally take the jacket right off his back'..."
RS: "Piracy is an issue for some publishers, but if you sat down and you talk to Blizzard or Funcom or the guys at EA about Warhammer, about all the noise that was made about Spore and the reaction to the DRM, but they're still selling games and they're selling them well."
Despite the cryptic grammar, the key words 'selling' and 'games' are clear... When/if that process is put at risk, then there'll be an issue over piracy. As it stands now, piracy is most likely helping to simply sell more games.
Upon following a river to the sea, ancient man may have thought, "Look! The blue blood of the Mother Earth flows in, but nothing comes out! There is no way to escape the giant hole in our world!"
The concept of going out into such a massive and unyielding force would have seemed like welcoming death itself. "Don't go! You will never come back!"
Today, we take the same myopic and uninformed view. "Don't go into the black hole at the center of our galaxy! You'll disappear forever!"
Theres a hole in my heart That can only be filled by you And this hole in my heart Cant be filled with the things I do
Hole hearted Hole hearted
This heart of stone is where I hide These feet of clay kept warm inside Day by day less satisfied Not fade away before I die
Rivers flow into the sea Yet even the sea is not so full of me If Im not blind why cant I see That a circle cant fit Where a square should be
Theres a hole in my heart That can only be filled by you And this hole in my heart Cant be filled with the things I do Theres a hole in my heart That can only be filled by you And this hole in my heart Cant be filled with the things I do
Windows latest OS, code named 'GOBI', was unveiled today - A crack team of testers, invited to preview Gobi, were later seen running from the building, screaming and tearing at their clothes and hair.
When asked to comment on Gobi, one volunteer replied, "It is just like jumping out of an airplane with your hair on fire!"
I have a, eh, 'friend'....that used to work for M******** Aircraft many years ago in Long Beach. He had full area access due to his job, and that part was unusual, but it meant he could come and go as he pleased - his job also meant driving a van full of equipment on a regular basis.
His method was to first move equipment around inside the plant, waiting to see if anyone noticed. When the stuff went unnoticed for a period of time (say after an audit), he would load up and drive off base to his home, where the van would be unloaded.
This went on for years and he eventually changed jobs.
It was almost three years later that investigators came to his new home, hundreds of miles away. When they walked up to his door, they could see the open garage that was stuffed to the ceiling with everything from o'scopes to monitors to cameras...on and on and on.
In the end, the company got it all back (he kept and took very good care of everything), and only charged him with theft of one almost worthless item, since that was the only piece they felt like parting with long enough to prosecute. They later told him they were shocked to find him with so much stuff...they said their research told them it would take more than a dozen people to pilfer so much equipment.
>They've already found wreckage [bloomberg.com], so this is basically a sure thing
Having actually searched for, and found, missing persons and aircraft wreckage on the ground in that general location in the Sierras, I can tell you that there are many more undiscovered crash sites than you might believe. The odds are good that it could be any of dozens of aircraft that have gone missing in recent years, including the one that carried Fossett, but not good enough to be a 'sure thing'. This is why they have to go in and make sure.
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Look it up...
I like the roll of gaffer's tape sitting on the console @ 1:17 in trailer 2 - if this is any indication of what's coming, the editing in the movie is going to be a distraction.
>" - he can use when he leaves."
Wow...just, 'wow'....
'Ghost in the Machine'
'I-Robot Trilogy'
Languages come and go, but these will help with a foundation they can use for decades.
> "However, I now live 5 minutes from the center of a capital city and due to archaic telephone infrastructure cannot get ADSL, and even line noise is too great for dialup!"
Must have taken hours just to type that sentence. That's what I call d e d i c a t i o n!!
Except that the table MS built had nothing to do with touch - it uses several cameras that are inside a box, right below the glass table-top, which track & triangulate motion on/above the glass. The 'surface' is simply a boundary...there is no touch sensitive grid such as used on the iPhone etc.
Many ISPs outside of China, ban entire blocks of addresses that originate inside China.
If you happen to be browsing from a computer that has an IP address corresponding to a range that has been banned in North America, as an example, you will find it hard to reach various sources that people in NA can reach without issue. Example: GoDaddy hosted sites.
This has nothing to do with anything related to 'The Great Firewall'...
> "...makers like Asus who are trying to take some of the pain of waiting computers, especially laptops, to boot up.
:)
Take my iBook, for example. I just sleep it, and when I open the lid and hit a key, it wakes up. It can go days before it needs to be recharged. I put it to sleep and bag-stash it before going thru airport security, and if they want to see it work, I just wake it up...bam...done.
I think more work should be done towards improving sleep-state longevity and run-time rather than towards rapid booting, but hey, that's just me
Perhaps Arizona's an even closer match to the moon's surface than is Texas, or Moses Lake, WA
It puts them closer to the University(s) that have been taking over many of the projects. For NASA, it is a budget thing - for the Unis', it works as a recruitment tool when the public is looking, and play-time when not...
And that new car out in the driveway, which happily rats out it's location so they can tow it away when you become 'uncooperative' about making payments towards the balance you owe.
And since Ms. Ileana Buhan is on Facebook, we have her photo along with her friends...say 'cheese!'
> "What is the best way for humans to deal with the inconsistent amount of light over the year and still foster coordination over disparate time zones?"
Russia has a dozen time zones and fares just fine - as does China, with only one. This business of claiming that 'light' is a problem needing a solution is the only issue here...
>and have spent years doing the research to make it actually buildable
After spending the last few years riding the maglev train the Chinese built (w/a little help from the Germans) in Shanghai, of course. I swear they must get on board and stay for hours, going back and forth between the airport and Pudong, as if they were on a ride in a theme park...
Since that many lines = approx. 125,000 pages, which = approx. 0.0175 terabytes, and... a LOC is approx. 18 TB, I'd say they have a ways to go...
"...which would allow any police officer 'who sees a Mongol wearing this patch... to stop that gang member and literally take the jacket right off his back'..."
Like that's going to happen.
RS: "Piracy is an issue for some publishers, but if you sat down and you talk to Blizzard or Funcom or the guys at EA about Warhammer, about all the noise that was made about Spore and the reaction to the DRM, but they're still selling games and they're selling them well."
Despite the cryptic grammar, the key words 'selling' and 'games' are clear... When/if that process is put at risk, then there'll be an issue over piracy. As it stands now, piracy is most likely helping to simply sell more games.
Upon following a river to the sea, ancient man may have thought, "Look! The blue blood of the Mother Earth flows in, but nothing comes out! There is no way to escape the giant hole in our world!"
The concept of going out into such a massive and unyielding force would have seemed like welcoming death itself. "Don't go! You will never come back!"
Today, we take the same myopic and uninformed view. "Don't go into the black hole at the center of our galaxy! You'll disappear forever!"
Theres a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
And this hole in my heart
Cant be filled with the things I do
Hole hearted
Hole hearted
This heart of stone is where I hide
These feet of clay kept warm inside
Day by day less satisfied
Not fade away before I die
Rivers flow into the sea
Yet even the sea is not so full of me
If Im not blind why cant I see
That a circle cant fit
Where a square should be
Theres a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
And this hole in my heart
Cant be filled with the things I do
Theres a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
And this hole in my heart
Cant be filled with the things I do
Hole hearted
>One way around it could be to locate datacenters at locations with natural cooling available like rivers and larger lakes.
Google has a large data center on the bank of the Columbia River in Oregon now...
> Does the IP address indicate a Chinese intrusion, or is that just a spin?
Just a spin. Look for WB information to be sold soon on Craigslist Seoul.
Windows latest OS, code named 'GOBI', was unveiled today - A crack team of testers, invited to preview Gobi, were later seen running from the building, screaming and tearing at their clothes and hair.
When asked to comment on Gobi, one volunteer replied, "It is just like jumping out of an airplane with your hair on fire!"
Wait until Apple's (liti)gators surface - CNN will wish that 'besmirched' was the extent of the damage.
A Microsoft press release distributed courtesy SlashDot...who would have thought.
I have a, eh, 'friend'....that used to work for M******** Aircraft many years ago in Long Beach. He had full area access due to his job, and that part was unusual, but it meant he could come and go as he pleased - his job also meant driving a van full of equipment on a regular basis.
His method was to first move equipment around inside the plant, waiting to see if anyone noticed. When the stuff went unnoticed for a period of time (say after an audit), he would load up and drive off base to his home, where the van would be unloaded.
This went on for years and he eventually changed jobs.
It was almost three years later that investigators came to his new home, hundreds of miles away. When they walked up to his door, they could see the open garage that was stuffed to the ceiling with everything from o'scopes to monitors to cameras...on and on and on.
In the end, the company got it all back (he kept and took very good care of everything), and only charged him with theft of one almost worthless item, since that was the only piece they felt like parting with long enough to prosecute. They later told him they were shocked to find him with so much stuff...they said their research told them it would take more than a dozen people to pilfer so much equipment.
>They've already found wreckage [bloomberg.com], so this is basically a sure thing
Having actually searched for, and found, missing persons and aircraft wreckage on the ground in that general location in the Sierras, I can tell you that there are many more undiscovered crash sites than you might believe. The odds are good that it could be any of dozens of aircraft that have gone missing in recent years, including the one that carried Fossett, but not good enough to be a 'sure thing'. This is why they have to go in and make sure.