The laws of thermodynamics hold perfectly true, but it's not a simple closed system. This system sounds as if it is harvesting waste energy. (the running that the soldier is already doing) The extra effort exists in the weight of the unit, but since it replaces another, chemical battery system, the tradeoff will likely be negligible.
The problem with statements like "Don't let big [evil] corporations run anything" is that there isn't really an alternative. Who do you propose runs the telecom grid? Ma Bell so we can get another hundred years of rotary phones? The government that pays $20,000 for a hammer and holds fake press conferences? The sad fact is that there aren't any alternatives to letting a corporate entity run things. Not only that, but the gouging that has transpired over the last 20 years has financed the R&D that allows stuff like wireless internet.
While I sit here and defend the obvious, I do not own a cell phone, and probably never will again. I realized that I REALLY don't need one. If you sit down and think about it, 90% of you probably don't either.
Yes, Ignorant Self-Aggrandizing Fanboy Bullshit. I don't quite understand the phenomena yet, but the anti-microsoft zealotry that you and so many other douchebags on this site present to the world is hurtful to innocent people, (much of it libelous) threatening to the masses that MIGHT be inclined to try OSS, and fundamentally irrelevant to the topic of discussion. Had your post been modded down to -1 offtopic, I'd have been fine. As it turned out, it became a +5 informative.
Let me put this a different way. Let's say that you watch Fox News for an afternoon and they (as they sometimes do) spew an hour or so of right-wing propagnada. Thousands of people get up in arms and point out that they 1)Didn't know what they were talking about and 2) Didn't care to correct themselves when they were made to look like dumbasses. THAT is what slashdot is turning into. It's Propaganda. It's Passion. It's Bullshit. I can get news aggregators anywhere. I used to come here for the intelligent, or at least comedic insight a the users. Your post had NOTHING to do with the article. It was a psuedo-commie tirade about how the bougesois tyrants are keeping you down. You shouted "viva la resistance" and assumed that people would follow you because you sound fiery. This is anti-news, and I no longer will partake.
Seriously, this type of ignorant bullshit gets modded to +5 Informative?
It's jackholes like the poster and the Mods that supported him that that make it so people like me aren't taken seriously when they propose open source solutions.
One key reason that OSS has a hard time penetrating the commercial world is that there is typically no guarantee that the product will always be around, and kept updated. If thunderbird dies (likely) it will be a MAJOR blow to open source adoption. The idea that OSS software dies "when the developers get bored of it" will be reinforced, and rightfully so. You can't build a business around software that could lose support at any time.
As I sit here on my iBook, I have to defend MS on this one. Microsoft invented the PC as we know it. Before windows, the PC world was a compatibility nightmare stuck in neutral. MS created a unified PLATFORM from which people could be creative. You might not LIKE that windows is a "standard" but developers do. I can write an app once and 90% of the world's users have the technical capability to use it out-of-the-box. (Number made up) This IMHO is a primary failing of Linux.
But he's not using Linux. He's using tivo. (or comparable) Tivo is the Linux user. Counting appliances using linux is about as fruitless as counting me as a reader of the Minneapolis star-gazette because their headline appeared on Google News one day.
This is a bit sleazy, but the places where they are laying fiber are also places where there are PLENTY of other options via cable, wireless, or even satellite.
Perhaps Justin needs to look at himself. Does he have good power? Good Ventilation? Does he just leave it on all day and night? Does he submerge them in water?
The only consistent feature in all your unsatisfying relationships is YOU. (Despair)
Most of the cutting edge of technology is driven by people in their 20's
Most voters unfortunately are in their 40's. Youtube, Facebook, wikipedia, all of these are essentially a waste as the 20somethings don't vote in any great numbers.
Sun has always been good at crafting products for that top 2% of customers who really, really need that high-availability or high-performance component that isn't going to make a difference for the other 98%. And Sun can charge for them.
Let's rephrase a tad. Sun has been good at SELLING products for that top 2% of customers who really, really need that high-availability or high-performance component that isn't going to make a difference for the other 98%. And Sun REALLY REALLY charges for them.
Sun is in their own little world. Their stuff is way overpriced, geared to specific uses, and completely out of touch with users. Supercomputers are EXACTLY the right market for them to be in.
Consider this. In times of natural disaster/terrorist attack/power outage the FM radio is FAR AND AWAY the best mechanism for information dissemination. The only functioning long-range systems will be generator powered amateur radio. So, a network of FCC licensed HAM operators with LPFM stations can be an extremely effective tool for spreading important information in times of crisis.
I would also suggest that the radio is FAR more effective than the internet for reaching a geographically concentrated target audience. Think of small town USA, not just the urban megalopolis.
If someone has important information, why does their age/gender/religion/culture matter?
It matters because bias is a psychological mechanism of self-preservation. People like to chalk up biases to "ignorance, anger, and hatred" but we all have them because they are typically correct for the situations in which we formed them. Our mind processes the information different based on the source.
If a stately man his 60s wearing a suit and an 18 year old with a Green Day shirt start talking about global economic policy, who do you tend to believe? Chances are fairly good that you believe the old fart, irrespective of the fact that he may be a janitor and the teenager could be some kind of economic prodigy. We have those biases because probabilistically, they are usually correct for a familiar situation.
As such, an 11 year old may be a VERY capable gamer, but we don't mentally endow them with the required wisdom and experience needed to be an effective leader. In "virtual reality" he is portrayed as an old mage with leadership ability. On some level, you anticipate the person to posses the attributes of the character they are playing, and when you perceive that they don't, you feel lied to.
You have an interesting perspective, but I question your reasoning. The leap from "god makes fire" to Heat + Fuel + Oxygen makes fire wasn't quite as simple as all that. As we as a species matured into the good looking chaps we are today, our perspective has fundamentally changed, not in reaction to events, but through having a greater perspective on the universe. As we (hopefully) grow smarter, wiser, and better looking, our perspective will also improve, and what was once complex seems easy, and the "hard stuff" revolves around concepts that we haven't got the psychological the ability to comprehend.
My point is that the rate at which our collective knowledge expands is growing exponentially. People are smart, and capable of things that nature doesn't do by itself. (Nuclear Fission, rockets, corndogs, etc)
WE ALl like to think of the web and it's empowering access to knowledge and information, but that isn't always what happens.
It starts with an idea. I have the idea that Linux is all kinds of great, super. I generally gravitate on the web towards other people that think the same way about Linux. Pretty soon, I have surrounded myself with nothing but Linux lovers, a group that I now want to join, distorting my ideas into beliefs and those beliefs get built with a prepackaged lifestyle. (I like Linux therefore I must hate Microsoft, etc, etc)
Now substitute the idea of "liking linux" with "not liking America for perceived transgressions." What you have at work with the fanboys is, at a fundamental level, the same societal forces that radicalize terrorists. People are social and want to belong to a group, and they can gravitate towards self-radicalizing groups. Fanboys, communists, terrorists, hippies, yuppies, ravers, goths, ballerz, and so on are all product of their surroundings, especially when you can choose your own surroundings.
Are you honestly suggesting that we have reached the "end of science?" While I tend to agree that at some point we likely will know everything about everything, I get the feeling that we're a looooong way from that. Classical physics and the known fragments of quantum mechanics only gets us so far. What if all the models are wrong? Everything we know about the fundamentals of the universe is an educated guess, modified to fit reality. I've always proposed that the universe is a simple place, bound by simple rules, but even I am not naive enough to believe that we know them all yet, and when we do, we may very well find engineering "hacks" that let us do "unintended things."
Let's pretend that Jules Verne in 1895 was asked about the feasibility of destroying a city with a single bomb. His calculations would invariably conclude that he needed 7 million (?) tons of dynamite, or more dynamite than had been produced since it was invented, and enough to fill the 50 Roman Colosseums, presenting invariable logistic problems requiring 1,000,000 trucks bridges, ships, etc, OR, a "Magic Wand." The next 50 years saw the creation of powered flight, twinkies, and Nuclear weapons. In the following decades, we can now fit something like 100 mt of nuclear power onto an ICBM/bomber. (and the yield estimate he links to has to be way off)Mp>My point is that Magic Wands are the safe bet here.
(a) the iPhone is a flop; or (b) the iPhone is a success, but mobile browsing never really takes off. Would you want to bet against either one?
I will bet against both for the forseeable future. Mobile "browsing" is now and always will be a novelty. Access to mobile information services is another thing altogether. With the possible exception of messaging (blackberry, sms, etc) that is an idea ahead of it's time. (immature application base)
The iPhone will fail because it too is a luxury novelty product. In an age of $50 feature rich cell phones, why would consumers choose a $500 option? Sure there will be those that like "cool" stuff, but business users are about the only demographic that can (en masse) justify a $500 phone, but they won't if it won't sync to Outlook. Even the novelty market may not accept it if the keyboard isn't accurate and responsive enough for rapid SMSing. (Touch screens never are) Plus there's a deluge of cheaper, (better?) competitive products from more established or more fashionable companies. (like the Samsung or Prada)
1)Drop the attitude 2)Fight Dirty 3)Ensure long-term product continuity
There is no valid reason whatsoever for MS to open source anything. They have customers willing to pay them a reasonable price to ensure that they have good long term support from 1st and 3rd parties, cross application integration, and an accepted standard of quality. $500 for software people already know is cheaper than a day of training.
This is making a REALLY bad assumption that an ISP generated email address is used by the account holder. Problem is, once there became multiple ways to get online about 10 years ago, LOTS of people switched to web-mail for the permanence and convenience. (Hotmail, Gmail, yahoo, etc) I would guess that any major ISP has less than half of their accounts use their provided email services.
I'm surprised that some nutjob asshat hasn't yet barged into their offices and raked 'em all down with machine gun fire
Perhaps you have lost your perspective from too much time on the net. When all is said and done it's just music were talking about. People go nuts for lesser reasons, sure, but I question if the issues surrounding the RIAA has had anywhere NEAR the exposure it would take to have the statistical nutjob appear. Ask 100 people about the RIAA and 95 will have no idea what you're going on about, while the other 5 think it some kind of STD. The strong moral issues that create nutjobs don't exist with net radio. (unlike abortion, joblesness, etc)
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The laws of thermodynamics hold perfectly true, but it's not a simple closed system. This system sounds as if it is harvesting waste energy. (the running that the soldier is already doing) The extra effort exists in the weight of the unit, but since it replaces another, chemical battery system, the tradeoff will likely be negligible.
While I sit here and defend the obvious, I do not own a cell phone, and probably never will again. I realized that I REALLY don't need one. If you sit down and think about it, 90% of you probably don't either.
Let me put this a different way. Let's say that you watch Fox News for an afternoon and they (as they sometimes do) spew an hour or so of right-wing propagnada. Thousands of people get up in arms and point out that they 1)Didn't know what they were talking about and 2) Didn't care to correct themselves when they were made to look like dumbasses. THAT is what slashdot is turning into. It's Propaganda. It's Passion. It's Bullshit. I can get news aggregators anywhere. I used to come here for the intelligent, or at least comedic insight a the users. Your post had NOTHING to do with the article. It was a psuedo-commie tirade about how the bougesois tyrants are keeping you down. You shouted "viva la resistance" and assumed that people would follow you because you sound fiery. This is anti-news, and I no longer will partake.
It's jackholes like the poster and the Mods that supported him that that make it so people like me aren't taken seriously when they propose open source solutions.
One key reason that OSS has a hard time penetrating the commercial world is that there is typically no guarantee that the product will always be around, and kept updated. If thunderbird dies (likely) it will be a MAJOR blow to open source adoption. The idea that OSS software dies "when the developers get bored of it" will be reinforced, and rightfully so. You can't build a business around software that could lose support at any time.
As I sit here on my iBook, I have to defend MS on this one. Microsoft invented the PC as we know it. Before windows, the PC world was a compatibility nightmare stuck in neutral. MS created a unified PLATFORM from which people could be creative. You might not LIKE that windows is a "standard" but developers do. I can write an app once and 90% of the world's users have the technical capability to use it out-of-the-box. (Number made up) This IMHO is a primary failing of Linux.
I have forgotten my own phone number many times. I don't call it enough to remember, and i don't even have a Cell Phone
But he's not using Linux. He's using tivo. (or comparable) Tivo is the Linux user. Counting appliances using linux is about as fruitless as counting me as a reader of the Minneapolis star-gazette because their headline appeared on Google News one day.
This is a bit sleazy, but the places where they are laying fiber are also places where there are PLENTY of other options via cable, wireless, or even satellite.
The only consistent feature in all your unsatisfying relationships is YOU. (Despair)
Most voters unfortunately are in their 40's. Youtube, Facebook, wikipedia, all of these are essentially a waste as the 20somethings don't vote in any great numbers.
Let's rephrase a tad. Sun has been good at SELLING products for that top 2% of customers who really, really need that high-availability or high-performance component that isn't going to make a difference for the other 98%. And Sun REALLY REALLY charges for them.
Sun is in their own little world. Their stuff is way overpriced, geared to specific uses, and completely out of touch with users. Supercomputers are EXACTLY the right market for them to be in.
And they almost all got cameo roles on Stargate!
70% of users streaming video? I guess that includes me if you include the annoying ads on slashdot
I would also suggest that the radio is FAR more effective than the internet for reaching a geographically concentrated target audience. Think of small town USA, not just the urban megalopolis.
It matters because bias is a psychological mechanism of self-preservation. People like to chalk up biases to "ignorance, anger, and hatred" but we all have them because they are typically correct for the situations in which we formed them. Our mind processes the information different based on the source.
If a stately man his 60s wearing a suit and an 18 year old with a Green Day shirt start talking about global economic policy, who do you tend to believe? Chances are fairly good that you believe the old fart, irrespective of the fact that he may be a janitor and the teenager could be some kind of economic prodigy. We have those biases because probabilistically, they are usually correct for a familiar situation.
As such, an 11 year old may be a VERY capable gamer, but we don't mentally endow them with the required wisdom and experience needed to be an effective leader. In "virtual reality" he is portrayed as an old mage with leadership ability. On some level, you anticipate the person to posses the attributes of the character they are playing, and when you perceive that they don't, you feel lied to.
My point is that the rate at which our collective knowledge expands is growing exponentially. People are smart, and capable of things that nature doesn't do by itself. (Nuclear Fission, rockets, corndogs, etc)
It starts with an idea. I have the idea that Linux is all kinds of great, super. I generally gravitate on the web towards other people that think the same way about Linux. Pretty soon, I have surrounded myself with nothing but Linux lovers, a group that I now want to join, distorting my ideas into beliefs and those beliefs get built with a prepackaged lifestyle. (I like Linux therefore I must hate Microsoft, etc, etc)
Now substitute the idea of "liking linux" with "not liking America for perceived transgressions." What you have at work with the fanboys is, at a fundamental level, the same societal forces that radicalize terrorists. People are social and want to belong to a group, and they can gravitate towards self-radicalizing groups. Fanboys, communists, terrorists, hippies, yuppies, ravers, goths, ballerz, and so on are all product of their surroundings, especially when you can choose your own surroundings.
Are you honestly suggesting that we have reached the "end of science?" While I tend to agree that at some point we likely will know everything about everything, I get the feeling that we're a looooong way from that. Classical physics and the known fragments of quantum mechanics only gets us so far. What if all the models are wrong? Everything we know about the fundamentals of the universe is an educated guess, modified to fit reality. I've always proposed that the universe is a simple place, bound by simple rules, but even I am not naive enough to believe that we know them all yet, and when we do, we may very well find engineering "hacks" that let us do "unintended things."
Let's pretend that Jules Verne in 1895 was asked about the feasibility of destroying a city with a single bomb. His calculations would invariably conclude that he needed 7 million (?) tons of dynamite, or more dynamite than had been produced since it was invented, and enough to fill the 50 Roman Colosseums, presenting invariable logistic problems requiring 1,000,000 trucks bridges, ships, etc, OR, a "Magic Wand." The next 50 years saw the creation of powered flight, twinkies, and Nuclear weapons. In the following decades, we can now fit something like 100 mt of nuclear power onto an ICBM/bomber. (and the yield estimate he links to has to be way off)Mp>My point is that Magic Wands are the safe bet here.
I will bet against both for the forseeable future. Mobile "browsing" is now and always will be a novelty. Access to mobile information services is another thing altogether. With the possible exception of messaging (blackberry, sms, etc) that is an idea ahead of it's time. (immature application base)
The iPhone will fail because it too is a luxury novelty product. In an age of $50 feature rich cell phones, why would consumers choose a $500 option? Sure there will be those that like "cool" stuff, but business users are about the only demographic that can (en masse) justify a $500 phone, but they won't if it won't sync to Outlook. Even the novelty market may not accept it if the keyboard isn't accurate and responsive enough for rapid SMSing. (Touch screens never are) Plus there's a deluge of cheaper, (better?) competitive products from more established or more fashionable companies. (like the Samsung or Prada)
2)Fight Dirty
3)Ensure long-term product continuity
There is no valid reason whatsoever for MS to open source anything. They have customers willing to pay them a reasonable price to ensure that they have good long term support from 1st and 3rd parties, cross application integration, and an accepted standard of quality. $500 for software people already know is cheaper than a day of training.
This is making a REALLY bad assumption that an ISP generated email address is used by the account holder. Problem is, once there became multiple ways to get online about 10 years ago, LOTS of people switched to web-mail for the permanence and convenience. (Hotmail, Gmail, yahoo, etc) I would guess that any major ISP has less than half of their accounts use their provided email services.
Perhaps you have lost your perspective from too much time on the net. When all is said and done it's just music were talking about. People go nuts for lesser reasons, sure, but I question if the issues surrounding the RIAA has had anywhere NEAR the exposure it would take to have the statistical nutjob appear. Ask 100 people about the RIAA and 95 will have no idea what you're going on about, while the other 5 think it some kind of STD. The strong moral issues that create nutjobs don't exist with net radio. (unlike abortion, joblesness, etc)
I love it, Sid Meier tries to build Simcity (CivCity) and Simcity Does Civilization. I truly hope they call it SimCiv.