One struggles to call paleontologists scientists any more than you would call craneology a branch of medicine.
Paleontology is full of crazy speculations that have very tentative grounds. When I was a kid, the biggest dinosaur known to man was the brontosaurus, which we later find was a mix of two or more sets of bones. Watch any Discovery Channel dinosaur documentary and you'll see that a fragment of a tooth gets extrapolated into an animal.
Nobody is saying that the open source community is to blame for the individual attempts. What it is saying is that the open source availability of information/code is to blame for the increase in the number of rootkits. It's a bit like saying that if Edison & Tesla had not made electricity widely available, then less people would be electrocuted therefore we could blame them for the increase in numbers of electrocution. That does not make them culpable for each electrocution.
The real problem with any intrusive system is that software & electronics are far more complex than mechanicals and can break in far less obvious ways.
How much do you trust a chunk of software driving your car? If you live in a cube farm in a software development outfit, take a walk for some coffee and look at the people you work with. Also look in the mirror to include yourself in the sample. Then think this: "Lowest bidder".
I have a friend that has a car with microprocessor controlled gearbox. When it overheats the micro seems to crash and the box stops shifting. You need to cycle power to get it working again. Now that's not exactly the sort of performance you want out of a steering system or similar.
Back when most/.ers were diaper-fillers computation was done by mainframes. There were not many of these (More than 5, IBM) and many companies bought time from computer service centres. Some customers ran their own software (ie computer as a service), but in the commercial sector most used the service provided software (ie. software as a service).
For example a few small banks might all use the same service centre and the proved software, but just load their own data. The user model would be load disk for Bank A, run software till done; load disk for Bank B, run software till done;...
This is not very practical advice. Most people don't understand any of this stuff and adding a firewall will only have limited effect unless tuned by someone with significant understanding.
Yet again, MS proves themselves to be untrustworthy.
Adhesive properties are measured as **pressure** (ie. force per area) not force.
The cars on a quarter example is a bit silly too. If you put a quarter on the ground and park a car on it, then you'll get the same pressure as tyre pressure (ie. approx 30 psi) and three times that would be approx 100psi. If you managed to balaance all three cars (~5 tons) so that all their weight was on the quarter, then that would be approx 7 or so tons per square inch which would be quite strong.
Dumb terminals are far more robust for this sort of use. They are far easier to administer and upgrade too (patch the app server, not each box).
Mainly though, the dumb fuckwits^h^h^h^h^hskilled operators don't get a chance to load porn/itunes/email/IM and use the box for uncontrolled purposes which cause all kinds of problems (overloaded networks, IT headaches,...).
All up, this could only lead to improved productivity and better security.
... and they have comms back to infor servers etc to provide location aware services.
Given that you pretty much need a phone, it makes very little sense to duplicate the comms capabilities in a PDA. As the copmms capabilities improves (better comms at lower cost), we're going to see more of a move towards a "thinner client" phone. Why have a whole lot of storage etc on your phone when you can just pull it off a backend server?
Phones are also far lower cost to the user because they can often be amortised as part of a phone plan.
You can measure "sub-resolution" size by taking repeated measurements and averaging (eg. count the number of pixels ten times and average). This is quite commonly done with a wide variety of sensors to get better resolution than the sensors can provide on a single measurement. Sometime noise is added to the measurements to help improve the resolution.
Energy density is what does the damage. Enough energy delivered into a small enough volume to vapourise or whatever.
Lasers used to mark ICs etc deliver a high energy density into the surface of the chip. You can get them to write on your fingernail (as I have done) by cooking just a few cells. They wont cook your whole finger.
Getting whammed by high wattage for a very short amount of time is not going to hurt you much and nor will it knock a satellite out of orbit or kill a missile.
I recently bought an ipod for my wife and immediately grew to hate the way itunes runs on a PC. Maybe it's the PC, iTunes or the combo, but it really sucks. The software hangs for up to 30 seconds while waiting for gawd knows what. I rank it with other turdware like IE and Outlook.
RTFA. Redberry uses an existing cellphone as the device and does not require special Blackberry-style hardware. All this does is mail forwarding to an existing cell phone. All this is involved is a small incremental service cost. No need for the huge Blackberry costs.
The branding copycatting charge is a bit thin. Most people should be easily able to tell the difference between the two. It's certainly less confusing than Lindows.
The strongest navigation sensors on a fly are those used to find carrion etc to lay their eggs. If you want search, without the rescue, then a fly will do well, unless it happens to fly near a http://www.gordys-flytrap-fitting.com/.
I think it is caused by the cost of gas. As the gas price goes up, laptops get stolen.....
Or maybe it is global warming...
The real reason is most likely that there has been a big upswing in the use of private laptops. The number of laptops has increased, so more get stolen. Further, in the early days, laptops were mainly exec toys and were well cared for and probably well guarded. Now they're very common and being lost/stolen more often.
Yup, as you say cell call dropping when hop from cell to cell is not a GSM issue, but a congestion issue. If the new cell cannot take a new call then it falls on the floor. We're now at a state in most places that we don't see more cell sites being put in, just more capacity being added to existing sites.
Job cuts are down by 40% but that still means jobs were cut which still means that there is less employment.
Our fantastic contributors are not the only people that are this stupid. The same trick is used to manipulate national debt news. There is a diffierence between debt and deficit. When the deficit decreases then the government crows about having control of debt. Not so. Deficit is the amount that the debt grows by. Therefore even if the deficit reduces, the debt is still increasing.
It's the clean in-call handover that is hard and will require a Skype-like service that is tied in with the telco's cell handling to get the call handover to happen. That is going to lock you in to your telco so they'll still be able to screw you for the call.
Ericsson demoed some Bluetooth handsets that could do clean handover a long while back. THese would use BT to BT for short distance and could then switch to BT--POTS and finally cell. I don't think this was ever commercialised.
My GSM phone works fine from cell to cell, but what does not work for me is a moving Wifi, even just boring old data. For example, I recently started an ftp while I was walking to a meeting. As I walked, the AP changed but the network was the same (and I was always within AP reach). Still, dropped the ftp connection.
Seamless handover from cell to wifi is non-trivial and will require that the telco provide the skype-like service to deal with the call and the handover. This means that you're still going to get charged big time.
Frankly, I can't see the need. Everywhere I can get Wifi I can get cell, but then I live in New Zealand.
There has been a large rise in start ups with hyped ideas (well at least if/. is your regular newsfeed) that starts to look a bit like another dot.bomb.
Dot bombs are not about technically feasible ideas. They are not even about technology. They are all about putting together something that will appeal to venture capitalists. What really drove dot.bomb was that the VCs got into a feeding frenzy and all rational business plan/idea vetting went out of the window. For that to happen again means that a whole lot of people that got badly burnt, or that know someone that got badly burnt, must forget their bad experiences and get stupid and greedy again.
The last dot.bomb had a fundamentally solid foundation: widescale adoption of internet. It was all the frilly bits that really were overhyped and caused the bomb. In the new wave, we seem to be seeing all the frilly bits and no solid core. Unless there's a solid core I expect the wave will implode long before things can get to the feeding frenzy stage.
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About the best language I've ever seen for multi-threading is occam, the language used with Transputers. occam allows threading to be done as a language primitive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_programming_lan guage
Paleontology is full of crazy speculations that have very tentative grounds. When I was a kid, the biggest dinosaur known to man was the brontosaurus, which we later find was a mix of two or more sets of bones. Watch any Discovery Channel dinosaur documentary and you'll see that a fragment of a tooth gets extrapolated into an animal.
Well if iTunes was portable (eg. written in Java) there'd be no problems. iTunes is the worst part of the whole iPod experience IMHO.
Nobody is saying that the open source community is to blame for the individual attempts. What it is saying is that the open source availability of information/code is to blame for the increase in the number of rootkits. It's a bit like saying that if Edison & Tesla had not made electricity widely available, then less people would be electrocuted therefore we could blame them for the increase in numbers of electrocution. That does not make them culpable for each electrocution.
Humans are definitely imperfect but are adaptable. Darwin (or ID if you prefer) helps weed out those that are too dumb to drive.
How much do you trust a chunk of software driving your car? If you live in a cube farm in a software development outfit, take a walk for some coffee and look at the people you work with. Also look in the mirror to include yourself in the sample. Then think this: "Lowest bidder".
I have a friend that has a car with microprocessor controlled gearbox. When it overheats the micro seems to crash and the box stops shifting. You need to cycle power to get it working again. Now that's not exactly the sort of performance you want out of a steering system or similar.
For example a few small banks might all use the same service centre and the proved software, but just load their own data. The user model would be load disk for Bank A, run software till done; load disk for Bank B, run software till done;...
This is not very practical advice. Most people don't understand any of this stuff and adding a firewall will only have limited effect unless tuned by someone with significant understanding.
Yet again, MS proves themselves to be untrustworthy.
The cars on a quarter example is a bit silly too. If you put a quarter on the ground and park a car on it, then you'll get the same pressure as tyre pressure (ie. approx 30 psi) and three times that would be approx 100psi. If you managed to balaance all three cars (~5 tons) so that all their weight was on the quarter, then that would be approx 7 or so tons per square inch which would be quite strong.
Mainly though, the dumb fuckwits^h^h^h^h^hskilled operators don't get a chance to load porn/itunes/email/IM and use the box for uncontrolled purposes which cause all kinds of problems (overloaded networks, IT headaches,...).
All up, this could only lead to improved productivity and better security.
Given that you pretty much need a phone, it makes very little sense to duplicate the comms capabilities in a PDA. As the copmms capabilities improves (better comms at lower cost), we're going to see more of a move towards a "thinner client" phone. Why have a whole lot of storage etc on your phone when you can just pull it off a backend server?
Phones are also far lower cost to the user because they can often be amortised as part of a phone plan.
You can measure "sub-resolution" size by taking repeated measurements and averaging (eg. count the number of pixels ten times and average). This is quite commonly done with a wide variety of sensors to get better resolution than the sensors can provide on a single measurement. Sometime noise is added to the measurements to help improve the resolution.
Lasers used to mark ICs etc deliver a high energy density into the surface of the chip. You can get them to write on your fingernail (as I have done) by cooking just a few cells. They wont cook your whole finger.
Getting whammed by high wattage for a very short amount of time is not going to hurt you much and nor will it knock a satellite out of orbit or kill a missile.
You need a Aplle-fanboy lobotomy to live itunes.
The branding copycatting charge is a bit thin. Most people should be easily able to tell the difference between the two. It's certainly less confusing than Lindows.
The strongest navigation sensors on a fly are those used to find carrion etc to lay their eggs. If you want search, without the rescue, then a fly will do well, unless it happens to fly near a http://www.gordys-flytrap-fitting.com/.
Which reminds me... Why not send a witch? If she drowns then you know there's water.
Or maybe it is global warming...
The real reason is most likely that there has been a big upswing in the use of private laptops. The number of laptops has increased, so more get stolen. Further, in the early days, laptops were mainly exec toys and were well cared for and probably well guarded. Now they're very common and being lost/stolen more often.
Yup, as you say cell call dropping when hop from cell to cell is not a GSM issue, but a congestion issue. If the new cell cannot take a new call then it falls on the floor. We're now at a state in most places that we don't see more cell sites being put in, just more capacity being added to existing sites.
Job cuts are down by 40% but that still means jobs were cut which still means that there is less employment.
Our fantastic contributors are not the only people that are this stupid. The same trick is used to manipulate national debt news. There is a diffierence between debt and deficit. When the deficit decreases then the government crows about having control of debt. Not so. Deficit is the amount that the debt grows by. Therefore even if the deficit reduces, the debt is still increasing.
Ericsson demoed some Bluetooth handsets that could do clean handover a long while back. THese would use BT to BT for short distance and could then switch to BT--POTS and finally cell. I don't think this was ever commercialised.
Seamless handover from cell to wifi is non-trivial and will require that the telco provide the skype-like service to deal with the call and the handover. This means that you're still going to get charged big time.
Frankly, I can't see the need. Everywhere I can get Wifi I can get cell, but then I live in New Zealand.
This is just another dupe.
Dot bombs are not about technically feasible ideas. They are not even about technology. They are all about putting together something that will appeal to venture capitalists. What really drove dot.bomb was that the VCs got into a feeding frenzy and all rational business plan/idea vetting went out of the window. For that to happen again means that a whole lot of people that got badly burnt, or that know someone that got badly burnt, must forget their bad experiences and get stupid and greedy again.
The last dot.bomb had a fundamentally solid foundation: widescale adoption of internet. It was all the frilly bits that really were overhyped and caused the bomb. In the new wave, we seem to be seeing all the frilly bits and no solid core. Unless there's a solid core I expect the wave will implode long before things can get to the feeding frenzy stage.
why did I bother?