My wife has an ipod and I have the task of updating it with podcasts etc. using itunes. What sucky software! It "thinks" for long periods (sometimes almost 1 minute) while it is not doing anything useful. It frequently says "OK to disconnect" when it has notactually completed the updates.
This is not reallyt good for software that should be stable by now.
It is nuts to arrest somebody for a "crime" committed elsewhere (where it is not a crime). For example, in many parts of the world civilians are not permitted to own or carry handguns. Should somebody be arrested on landing in the UK because they happened to own/carry a handgun while in the US?
This is either harrassment or just the US thinking it has rights to push the rest of the world around.
It probably gathers a user profile (SSN, banking details, passwords etc) to build a statistical user model that is used to generate cross-correllated weighting data for the best fit matrix.
If you really want to do some programming of a robot, then Mindstorms is a lot better than this dopey toy. Mindstorms is easy to get going with, yet has significant depth and you can keep learning..... Hit the wall of the Mindstorms UI and you can add Lejos or similar and go to a whole new level of complexity.
Gravity had not yet been invented, so those blocks were much lighter back then. A couple of slaves could probably have done it in a day.
Well that about an absurd a statement as linking them to nanotech. Just because a process they used generated nano particles does not mean that they understood what they were doing and made concious engineering decisions to build nano particles.
If you wanted to hack the card, you could likely just do that by popping a cable inside the uinit and not have to remove it from the system.
The whole retaining tab thing is just there for cosmetic purposes: to make it seem secure. It also does prevent a card-swap by anybody who has casual access to the device.
Everything has its natural life, and WAAS is now a good replacement for beacon. So what if beacon differential goes away? WAAS is better: it is easier to add to a system (it uses L1 and typically needs no extra hardware vs beacon needs a special receiver etc), is cheaper, and is easier for customers to use.
I didn't mind punch cards being phased out either....
In my day, we had to walk through 6ft of snow and sit on stone benches in unheated lecture theatres. We wrote with goose-quill pens and had to keep ink bottles under our clothing to stop it from freezing. We did all our calculations with tables & slide rules. Ever since calculators and ball-point pens came in, students are getting soft. Half the reason to come to university is to build the moral fibre needed to be a a leader in industry. We had to sit through lectures and so should the kids of today..... blaah, blaah blaah.
It does not necessarily produce better results, it just makes the students attend class.
The only motivation to force students to attend class seems to be some sort of puritanical argument or something like "We had to attend class, so why shouldn't we force the students to?".
Radianted power drops off according to the square of distance. A 10kW transmitter 100m away is equivalent to a 1W transmitter at 1 metre. My cell phone is currently 0.25 cm from my 'nads. Assuming that it is emmitting 10mW (at times), that's equivalent to 1.6W at 1 metre or 16kW at 100m.
Now my cell phone is only ~900MHz which is pretty low frequency, and well studied. Wtf is going to happen if we're using a 5+ GHz signal and the device on-time increases?
Once one set of people (eg prisoners held under suspicion of terrorism) are held with no hearing, then it is just a small step to treading on others because they just look perverted. Where does this stop? When all citizens are placed under house arrest because they might be criminals of some sort or other.
Perhaps Apple & Google have been tight for years, so this is not news for MS. However, for Joe Sixpack this **is* news and Apple & Google are now two well known names (which they really weren't a year or so back).
I think a lot of people bought and listened to MS because they were the biggest and seemed to be leading the way, so you bought their stuff and did things their way because that was the easiest... Now with two giants providing a different path, MS will start to look far weaker and people will feel that they are now entitled to make non-MS decisions.
Cell companies will likely not directly sabotage this, but they won't fund it either.
Many/most premium phones are subsidised by the cell companies to customers on plans. Give 'm an email phone and they'll send emails, give 'em a camera and they'll send photos.
There is no incentive to include Wifi to bypass the carrier.
Apple's mindset is surely reflected in in their newest, and most popular, products, the ipods. Having a non-removeable, non-replacable battery surely reduces the greenness of an ipod since it encourages a throw-away culture. Battery stuffed? Buy a new ipod.
A huge %, if not most, Linux systems are embedded and mobile devices like phones etc. Mobile/embedded space is the fastest growing area and if it isn't the biggest already, it will soon be.
This list is only looking at servers etc and none of these projects/companies would be of any interest in embedded space.
I lived in Africa for over 30 years (was born there). I can speak two African languages (seriously rustry now though). The first thing I think is very stupid is that the internet & computers have little relevance to most Africans. Even in South Africa, probably the most literate and equipped country in Africa, most African people don't have internet, computers, phones etc. A significant % have no power and no bank accounts etc and live a subsistence life. The vast majority are extremely poor and if they had a few hundred bucks to throw around, they would not be spending it on computers, but far more basic stuff.
The second major point I'd like to raise is the absurdity of geekdom and the crazy notion that a geek solution is what is needed. No need for clean water, roads and basic education. Nope: give them computers & wikipedia. If you really want to help an African, go to him and ask him what he needs first.
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This is not reallyt good for software that should be stable by now.
nuff sed.
This is either harrassment or just the US thinking it has rights to push the rest of the world around.
It probably gathers a user profile (SSN, banking details, passwords etc) to build a statistical user model that is used to generate cross-correllated weighting data for the best fit matrix.
If you really want to do some programming of a robot, then Mindstorms is a lot better than this dopey toy. Mindstorms is easy to get going with, yet has significant depth and you can keep learning..... Hit the wall of the Mindstorms UI and you can add Lejos or similar and go to a whole new level of complexity.
Well that about an absurd a statement as linking them to nanotech. Just because a process they used generated nano particles does not mean that they understood what they were doing and made concious engineering decisions to build nano particles.
The whole retaining tab thing is just there for cosmetic purposes: to make it seem secure. It also does prevent a card-swap by anybody who has casual access to the device.
I didn't mind punch cards being phased out either....
You wasted your cowshit like that??? We'd all huddle together and share it out like bread, or sup if it had been raining.
That's basically what this all boils down to.
The only motivation to force students to attend class seems to be some sort of puritanical argument or something like "We had to attend class, so why shouldn't we force the students to?".
This is showbiz news, not science news!
Now my cell phone is only ~900MHz which is pretty low frequency, and well studied. Wtf is going to happen if we're using a 5+ GHz signal and the device on-time increases?
Once one set of people (eg prisoners held under suspicion of terrorism) are held with no hearing, then it is just a small step to treading on others because they just look perverted. Where does this stop? When all citizens are placed under house arrest because they might be criminals of some sort or other.
Don't you get worried when one of these things is in your pocket slowly microwaving your gonads?
Explains a few things.
I think a lot of people bought and listened to MS because they were the biggest and seemed to be leading the way, so you bought their stuff and did things their way because that was the easiest... Now with two giants providing a different path, MS will start to look far weaker and people will feel that they are now entitled to make non-MS decisions.
Many/most premium phones are subsidised by the cell companies to customers on plans. Give 'm an email phone and they'll send emails, give 'em a camera and they'll send photos.
There is no incentive to include Wifi to bypass the carrier.
Apple's mindset is surely reflected in in their newest, and most popular, products, the ipods. Having a non-removeable, non-replacable battery surely reduces the greenness of an ipod since it encourages a throw-away culture. Battery stuffed? Buy a new ipod.
This list is only looking at servers etc and none of these projects/companies would be of any interest in embedded space.
Being struck on the ground is far worse, but you'd hope they have adequate lightning protection built into the tower etc.
Many/most DVD players can be made to play any region by accessing a hidden menu. 5 minutes with Google should find you the magic keystrokes.
The second major point I'd like to raise is the absurdity of geekdom and the crazy notion that a geek solution is what is needed. No need for clean water, roads and basic education. Nope: give them computers & wikipedia. If you really want to help an African, go to him and ask him what he needs first.
Why do we keep hearing the myth that we need GE for more food?
There is absolutely no evidence that MS has changed its intentions, but it will likely have learnt to appear to be open and consultative.
Almost all statements of the form "Surely MS could stoop so low..." have been proven wrong.