Are you kidding? I think if they make it commercially available I'll replace every light in the house with these!
Glow in the dark lightbulbs is one of the best ideas I've ever heard. Think about when you're leaving a room and someone has left before you and turns out a light. No big deal you can still see. And how about everything that the blurb mentions? So quick to dismiss all of that?
These things even glow when broken, which is just mega cool. Innovation at its best.
There are a billion and two ways to get atomic hydrogen, and this is just one of them. Sure, it's ineffecient, but so is burning carbon fuels.
Besides, electricity can be derived from anything these days. Put a few solar panels on your roof, and you've got a self contained hydrogen producer. Step it up another notch with rain water collection and filtration and it's competely autonomous.
But oh, I guess you'll argue that photovatalics are terrible and that silicon hurts the environment and that oil's the best fuel we got.
Next up, Biofuel. It's cheap! It's effecient! And if you were truly worried about the world farmlands, you'd be *advocating* this. The more biofuel that goes into production, the more the need for farmlands, and farmlands will grow in size. Thus, overall food output will increase and we will be able to transport that same food further, for cheaper than oil.
I know, I know, it's rough I don't wanna give up my old beater jeep either, but the fact is that oil is unsustainable and the sun IS sustainable. Well, unless you want to get pedantic on me and say the sun will go away in 5 billion years.
Hydrogen's a great idea as long as it's implemented correctly, which is where the research is currently going on. Oil was a terrible idea; just look at the middle east today!
AMD hasn't left the Chipset business at all. In fact, they're so wrapped around the chipset business, they're moving the whole damned chipset inside of the processor! Memory controllers, tomorrow brings PCI Express. The day after that? You get the picture eh?
AMD's strategy is "throw the baby out with the bathwater"; make a platform where every release requires you to buy a new motherboard, which means huge revenues for all involved. But this is alright, because nobody cares to open up a PC and drop in a new processor into their ancient machines anymore. People just throw away computers when they don't work.
I'm pissed that both AMD and Intel are starting to adapt this behavior..
The idea is to get people to notice that they're doing the same, not to reply with "clever" comments such as yours.
Just so you know, I'm a heavy supporter of the EFF, and I sit down and write my congressmen about once or twice a month, which is really all the time I have as a college student. Sadly, my words alone can't convince anyone, but get enough people noticing what they can do about it, and things happen.
If I had the ability to schedule a march on the captial, I would in a heartbeat, but I'm no leader, and can barely support myself as it is. I'm sure if their was a march, I would go, but it does take quite a bit of work to organize one, and that's something nobody can do alone.
I guess what I'm getting at is that a person is just that, a person. They can do whatever they want and can, but no more. But people are capable of much, much more. Teamwork is something that matters. The OSS philosophy doesn't work too well politically; no supporters, no movement.
I've been reading through these posts and I haven't seen anything that none of us hasn't seen before. But what do we do about it? We sit on our asses, yelling at a website because our rights are being violated left and right.
What happened to the days when a country's movements were so offensive that people would march? That people would have sit ins and public readings and such? Words are just words people, unless any of us is willing to stand up for our rights, we're just blowing hot air.
Perhaps all of those users of P2P programs, software developers, people who feel like their rights are being encroached on should get off their asses and go to DC for a day, sit down on the captial lawn, and get some influential people to talk and unite us. I'm sure RMS would have no problem, nor would Linus or anyone; a day out of their lives to support such an important cause isn't going to hurt anyone.
I'm just tired of hearing about this on Slashdot and having no outlet than to whine about it on here. It's far past time we actually *do* something about it.
Exactly the point I was getting at. They're being extremely pedantic this time around, and a lot of it's just idiotic. But thanks for letting me know about the subframe in that area; I didn't feel like looking it up this time around;).
Yeah well none of that can equal up to what a good IDE does. Just because you like to program in the shell, doesn't help those of us who like to program in the GUI.
Autotools are a crime when it comes to building projects.. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent tweaking those scripts until I heard about Scons, and it's not even an ideal solution; A good IDE allows you to click one button and have your software project built. Wanna customize the build? Don't worry about memorizing those archaic tags, simply click a checkbox and get everything you want.
And how about inline completion? A good debugger (GDB is alright, but once again, lots of fighting with archaic shell commands that you have to memorize, ugh)? There are just so many things a graphical utility can do to help someone that would require a million seperate tools.
In finality, when I'm developing, I like to block out other distractions; running a single application that takes up the entire desktop blocks out distractions and I get my work done faster. But that's my personal preference.
Totally Agreed. XCode's just the same way for the Mac.
I don't think a GUI platform can call itself complete until it's got an IDE that's worthy for programming.
The only one I've seen so far for Linux that's up to par (and just barely) is KDevelop, which is entirely useless to you if you don't use Qt, like myself.
And yes, I know about a lot of the alternatives, they just all suck so bad they aren't worthy of mentioning by name. Eclipse is better than most, but is java, and slow....
I'm worried they are actually doing more damage by removing materials than just leaving them be.
Those gap fillers came out when some guy pulled on them, you'd think the force of re-entry would have pushed them right back into place with no problem. By pulling it out they've left a gaping, but small, hole in their thermal protection system. I'm still convinced that they should have just left it alone, and that the orbiter's completely ready for re-entry.
Whatever they decide to do, I hope they hurry up and get it done, so that when they come back unscathed everyone can breathe easier.
I've always wondered why someone doesn't implement an algorithm that actually *listens*, rather, looks at the bit pattern's of the "song" and figures out if it's noise, or whether it's not. Of course, some music will hit false positives, but if you re-enforce the system with people, it'll get better. Neural networks and genetic algoritms could be used here.
The system's only gotta look at a few bits of the file to tell whether it's good or not, and as long as there are more people rating good music than people rating noise as good, then it'll work. It'd be worthy of an experiment at least.
If these pictures are your only evidence, I'm convinced I'd never want you to serve on a jury. I could take a picture of an ICBM and say "HEY LOOK WHAT I HAVE IN MY BACK YARD", and using the same logic, you'd have to believe it.
Don't wave around pictures unless you can prove where they came from.
You can run Windows without a virus scanner.. sure you can, for about 5 minutes or so.
I came home from college about a week ago and decided to sue my mom's computer. There were about 18 viruses, and my mom has both ClamWin and McAfee installed. Not to mention the fact that even after I removed the viruses, the machine crawls and has all kinds of problems with sound and such. And this is a Dell machine.
More simply it's called "Don't run Windows".
So quit your bitching that something is actually *better* than Windows. Just because it's not free for you to use, doesn't mean you should trash talk it. If you had saved up an extra two hundred bucks you could have gotten a machine that's equally as fast and will last you a few years longer.:)
Well, the *only* reason the chip is there is so they can track the development machines, which is right there in the opening article. Basically, they want to have the ability to know that whoever's breaking the NDA, which in my opinion is perfectly fair. If you sign an aggrement that says you would not leak the operating system, then fates be damned if you do.
So to tell you the truth, I don't even care what the development Macs have or don't have. They could have a full-scale implementation of Palladium on-board for all I care, mainly because these machines are not intended for me (as I don't have an application to port from MOSX/PPC to MOSX/x86). If they were selling these as general intent machines, I'd have a problem, but instead of bitching and moaning on this website about it, I'd buy a Dell or build my own again, both of which I'd rather not do.
Apple has a good policy of listening to its public and building products that work for them. I have faith they'll make the right decisions when the official x86 macs come out a year or so from now
Now can we please, please put this discussion to bed for a few months at least?
Nope, x86 is still terrible, but they're simply a lot faster and run a lot cooler than any of the other options at this point in time. If IBM wasn't such a fuck-up, or if Freescale wanted to build a strong corporate relationship with someone, we'd be seeing a lot faster Macs with PowerPC processors in the future instead of Intel. But, when you've made a promise and fall back on it because someone you were depending on failed to uphold their end of the bargain, that's the cost of business.
Could that possibly be, oh I dunno, because Start is an experiment ran on experimental servers, where as Google's start page is a Beta ran on production servers?
Could it not also, possibly be because of a well known effect that's named for this very website?
And they will continue writing laws that you go against, no matter who you vote for, because all of the higher ups and re-electees are getting paid by the companies and all of the young guns are learning from the higher ups.
Meanwhile, the average American is getting fucked in the ass, while the upperclass American politican is pulling down a cool hundred grand or two doing nothing more than arguing why their company should get a tax break.
I'm so sick to death of American politics, but there's nothing, and I literally mean nothing, we can do about it until we get competent people into the legislator, which simply can't happen because the people who are voting are the people being swayed by the political pressures that may be, which, once again, are controlled by the big companies.
As more and more American jobs get outsourced to other countries, I hope more Americans realize the driving force behind this migration. They realize they simply can't pay you any less and get the same amount of work done, so they pay someone else who can do the work for less.
The real truth of the matter is, no matter how pissed we get about things, the very corporations we support by buying into them are the very corporations who keep us down. It's like paying an endentured servant to come to your house and work for you, but then turning around and charging them rent at your house.
Sadly, we're at the point where not even a new American Revolution could take care of the problem. Our military's so advanced that if the general public were to turn out to fight it, the American war machine would be able to keep the American people at bay. So much for the "Right to bear arms".
We've got one last right to support us now, and that's our freedom of speech, and for goodness sake we had better exaust it before the policitians can.
Uh lawmakers couldn't give a shit about code, this is about making songs, books, Mickey Mouse, their movie scripts, etc, last as long as possible. American corporations have gone so incredibly IP happy that absurd lengths of 75 years are almost required, as things that are close to going out of copyright (like Mickey Mouse for a good example) might lose the company a few bucks..
I call horseshit to the whole thing, as "intellectual property" was meant to eventually be turned over to the public domain anyways.. this is why the Copyright and Patent system were devised.
*scratches head*.. I thought the Russians tried to replicate our shuttle designs, and then threw it away because they realized it was retarded, expensive, and the Soyuz system worked a charm?
The Russian's never got to the moon because we beat them there, and when we were there, we realized that there's not a whole lot of reason to want to be there. It's a giant rock. It might have some water, which will be good for getting to the rest of the solar system, but that doesn't help us now. It might have some Helium 3 that we could use for nuclear fusion experiments, but harvesting it may prove expensive.
No, the real research is done right in our own Low Earth Orbit, where it's cheap to fly to, and cheap to work with.
Oh, by the way, the Soviet's shuttle was called Buran, and it was originally designed to use a launch system called Energia, which to this day is probably the most effecient lifting platform ever built. And they were ahead of us with the lifting body designs too, they just cancelled those programs because of the want for "strategic parity".. *sigh*.
Those "bastardize projects" will be capable of lifting a pound into space for 3k, three times cheaper than has ever been done with the shuttle. They will also be much better at securing the crew, allowing for escape. And they will be more reusable than the Shuttle, since an SRB can be completely refurbished, and generally, that's all that the new medium-lifting model is. The heavy lifting model will be several times more effiecient than the shuttle, as *all* of that excess weight those heat shields, tail fins, rudders, wings, mechanical arms, etc, won't be included. That means the new launch vehicle is capable of launching four times what the shuttle could, for 40% off what the shuttle costs to fly!
You're either incredibly shortsighted, or very young.
I think it's more important to me that someone gets a reciept for voting.. come on, you buy groceries all the time and they give you a reciept that half of the time you don't even keep, but for something as important as voting you don't get one? And that doesn't smell like corruption to you?
An electronic voting system isn't that fucking hard people. But if you contract a company to do it, it's up to the company to be honest and that's not something we should rest on any one company.
So why don't we just make a national standard electronic voting machine, and modify the standard until it works!? It's cheap (hell, you could vote on an ARM processor, nobody needs a pentium 4 and a touch screen to choose what politician they want), and pretty infallable (printed reciept: "Here's who you have just voted for: xxxx", a copy kept inside of the machine, and a copy dispensed to you). At this point the only way to fuck it up is if someone tampers with the machine, which would be pretty evident if anyone tried. Hell, print the results on a paper that's hard to counterfeit (like what our money's printed on).
In fact, why don't we just turn the whole damned thing over to the department of the treasury to take care of, since they are so good at fighting this kind of thing?
P.S. Florida fucked up because they required people to put holes in paper, which is simply retarted, because sometimes holes in paper don't exactly punch well. Printing on a piece of paper isn't exactly something that can fuck up nearly as easily.
I disagree, I rather like the idea of it. Hell, if they wouldn't have put that dumb ball in the center of it and allowed me to move my finger up down and around to scroll, it'd be even better. Seems like it'd feel just like the iPod's interface, which I adore.
I always thought clicking was a huge annoyance of my mouse. Not only does it make sound, after a few hours of holding most mice, my hand gets cramped and fingers are exausted. This eliminates two dis-features with one fell swoop.
Now if only they'd release a keyboard using this technology, I'd be set for life..
Except that if you read this post, Apple *paid* to *look* at the PARC stuff XEROX was working on.
Besides, Microsoft knows the fundamental rule of business: If you're the best, and you know it, clap your hands and pat yourself on the back. If you're not the best, steal from those who are.
Lastly, I'm not even as upset that Microsoft stole from Apple early on. I'm terribly upset that they stole DOS for the measly price of a few thousand dollars, and turned around and made their original business on top of it (All through Windows ME, mind you). At least Apple paid a million dollars (which was subject to increase drastically in just a few years time) to just LOOK at the PARC stuff; they didn't even get to take one home like the Microsoft crew did with the Macintosh.
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But that'd make your house a little bit too Star Trek-ish for me..
Hallways would be the best use for these, but also in rooms where you don't want to get stuck if the power goes out, like a storage room or a kitchen.
It may be cheaper the low-tech way, but damned if it wouldn't look cool.
Are you kidding? I think if they make it commercially available I'll replace every light in the house with these!
Glow in the dark lightbulbs is one of the best ideas I've ever heard. Think about when you're leaving a room and someone has left before you and turns out a light. No big deal you can still see. And how about everything that the blurb mentions? So quick to dismiss all of that?
These things even glow when broken, which is just mega cool. Innovation at its best.
Well well, we can tell who's a right winger.
There are a billion and two ways to get atomic hydrogen, and this is just one of them. Sure, it's ineffecient, but so is burning carbon fuels.
Besides, electricity can be derived from anything these days. Put a few solar panels on your roof, and you've got a self contained hydrogen producer. Step it up another notch with rain water collection and filtration and it's competely autonomous.
But oh, I guess you'll argue that photovatalics are terrible and that silicon hurts the environment and that oil's the best fuel we got.
Next up, Biofuel. It's cheap! It's effecient! And if you were truly worried about the world farmlands, you'd be *advocating* this. The more biofuel that goes into production, the more the need for farmlands, and farmlands will grow in size. Thus, overall food output will increase and we will be able to transport that same food further, for cheaper than oil.
I know, I know, it's rough I don't wanna give up my old beater jeep either, but the fact is that oil is unsustainable and the sun IS sustainable. Well, unless you want to get pedantic on me and say the sun will go away in 5 billion years.
Hydrogen's a great idea as long as it's implemented correctly, which is where the research is currently going on. Oil was a terrible idea; just look at the middle east today!
Whhhhhattttt?
AMD hasn't left the Chipset business at all. In fact, they're so wrapped around the chipset business, they're moving the whole damned chipset inside of the processor! Memory controllers, tomorrow brings PCI Express. The day after that? You get the picture eh?
AMD's strategy is "throw the baby out with the bathwater"; make a platform where every release requires you to buy a new motherboard, which means huge revenues for all involved. But this is alright, because nobody cares to open up a PC and drop in a new processor into their ancient machines anymore. People just throw away computers when they don't work.
I'm pissed that both AMD and Intel are starting to adapt this behavior..
Yeah.. that might work. But a "Platinum" version.. so passe. Let's go with another metal.. ah I've got just the name.
Microsoft Windows Longhorn, Palladium Edition.
Think anyone will buy it?
The idea is to get people to notice that they're doing the same, not to reply with "clever" comments such as yours.
Just so you know, I'm a heavy supporter of the EFF, and I sit down and write my congressmen about once or twice a month, which is really all the time I have as a college student. Sadly, my words alone can't convince anyone, but get enough people noticing what they can do about it, and things happen.
If I had the ability to schedule a march on the captial, I would in a heartbeat, but I'm no leader, and can barely support myself as it is. I'm sure if their was a march, I would go, but it does take quite a bit of work to organize one, and that's something nobody can do alone.
I guess what I'm getting at is that a person is just that, a person. They can do whatever they want and can, but no more. But people are capable of much, much more. Teamwork is something that matters. The OSS philosophy doesn't work too well politically; no supporters, no movement.
I've been reading through these posts and I haven't seen anything that none of us hasn't seen before. But what do we do about it? We sit on our asses, yelling at a website because our rights are being violated left and right.
What happened to the days when a country's movements were so offensive that people would march? That people would have sit ins and public readings and such? Words are just words people, unless any of us is willing to stand up for our rights, we're just blowing hot air.
Perhaps all of those users of P2P programs, software developers, people who feel like their rights are being encroached on should get off their asses and go to DC for a day, sit down on the captial lawn, and get some influential people to talk and unite us. I'm sure RMS would have no problem, nor would Linus or anyone; a day out of their lives to support such an important cause isn't going to hurt anyone.
I'm just tired of hearing about this on Slashdot and having no outlet than to whine about it on here. It's far past time we actually *do* something about it.
Exactly the point I was getting at. They're being extremely pedantic this time around, and a lot of it's just idiotic. But thanks for letting me know about the subframe in that area; I didn't feel like looking it up this time around ;).
Yeah well none of that can equal up to what a good IDE does. Just because you like to program in the shell, doesn't help those of us who like to program in the GUI.
Autotools are a crime when it comes to building projects.. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent tweaking those scripts until I heard about Scons, and it's not even an ideal solution; A good IDE allows you to click one button and have your software project built. Wanna customize the build? Don't worry about memorizing those archaic tags, simply click a checkbox and get everything you want.
And how about inline completion? A good debugger (GDB is alright, but once again, lots of fighting with archaic shell commands that you have to memorize, ugh)? There are just so many things a graphical utility can do to help someone that would require a million seperate tools.
In finality, when I'm developing, I like to block out other distractions; running a single application that takes up the entire desktop blocks out distractions and I get my work done faster. But that's my personal preference.
Totally Agreed. XCode's just the same way for the Mac.
I don't think a GUI platform can call itself complete until it's got an IDE that's worthy for programming.
The only one I've seen so far for Linux that's up to par (and just barely) is KDevelop, which is entirely useless to you if you don't use Qt, like myself.
And yes, I know about a lot of the alternatives, they just all suck so bad they aren't worthy of mentioning by name. Eclipse is better than most, but is java, and slow....
I'm worried they are actually doing more damage by removing materials than just leaving them be.
Those gap fillers came out when some guy pulled on them, you'd think the force of re-entry would have pushed them right back into place with no problem. By pulling it out they've left a gaping, but small, hole in their thermal protection system. I'm still convinced that they should have just left it alone, and that the orbiter's completely ready for re-entry.
Whatever they decide to do, I hope they hurry up and get it done, so that when they come back unscathed everyone can breathe easier.
I've always wondered why someone doesn't implement an algorithm that actually *listens*, rather, looks at the bit pattern's of the "song" and figures out if it's noise, or whether it's not. Of course, some music will hit false positives, but if you re-enforce the system with people, it'll get better. Neural networks and genetic algoritms could be used here.
The system's only gotta look at a few bits of the file to tell whether it's good or not, and as long as there are more people rating good music than people rating noise as good, then it'll work. It'd be worthy of an experiment at least.
If these pictures are your only evidence, I'm convinced I'd never want you to serve on a jury. I could take a picture of an ICBM and say "HEY LOOK WHAT I HAVE IN MY BACK YARD", and using the same logic, you'd have to believe it.
Don't wave around pictures unless you can prove where they came from.
You can run Windows without a virus scanner.. sure you can, for about 5 minutes or so.
:)
I came home from college about a week ago and decided to sue my mom's computer. There were about 18 viruses, and my mom has both ClamWin and McAfee installed. Not to mention the fact that even after I removed the viruses, the machine crawls and has all kinds of problems with sound and such. And this is a Dell machine.
More simply it's called "Don't run Windows".
So quit your bitching that something is actually *better* than Windows. Just because it's not free for you to use, doesn't mean you should trash talk it. If you had saved up an extra two hundred bucks you could have gotten a machine that's equally as fast and will last you a few years longer.
Well, the *only* reason the chip is there is so they can track the development machines, which is right there in the opening article. Basically, they want to have the ability to know that whoever's breaking the NDA, which in my opinion is perfectly fair. If you sign an aggrement that says you would not leak the operating system, then fates be damned if you do.
So to tell you the truth, I don't even care what the development Macs have or don't have. They could have a full-scale implementation of Palladium on-board for all I care, mainly because these machines are not intended for me (as I don't have an application to port from MOSX/PPC to MOSX/x86). If they were selling these as general intent machines, I'd have a problem, but instead of bitching and moaning on this website about it, I'd buy a Dell or build my own again, both of which I'd rather not do.
Apple has a good policy of listening to its public and building products that work for them. I have faith they'll make the right decisions when the official x86 macs come out a year or so from now
Now can we please, please put this discussion to bed for a few months at least?
Yeah, it might be good and all that Office is switching word over to XML, but it's such an ugly format. Readable, but very, very bloated.
Would probably be more effecient to use straight XHTML to make documents...
Nope, x86 is still terrible, but they're simply a lot faster and run a lot cooler than any of the other options at this point in time. If IBM wasn't such a fuck-up, or if Freescale wanted to build a strong corporate relationship with someone, we'd be seeing a lot faster Macs with PowerPC processors in the future instead of Intel. But, when you've made a promise and fall back on it because someone you were depending on failed to uphold their end of the bargain, that's the cost of business.
Could that possibly be, oh I dunno, because Start is an experiment ran on experimental servers, where as Google's start page is a Beta ran on production servers?
Could it not also, possibly be because of a well known effect that's named for this very website?
And they will continue writing laws that you go against, no matter who you vote for, because all of the higher ups and re-electees are getting paid by the companies and all of the young guns are learning from the higher ups.
Meanwhile, the average American is getting fucked in the ass, while the upperclass American politican is pulling down a cool hundred grand or two doing nothing more than arguing why their company should get a tax break.
I'm so sick to death of American politics, but there's nothing, and I literally mean nothing, we can do about it until we get competent people into the legislator, which simply can't happen because the people who are voting are the people being swayed by the political pressures that may be, which, once again, are controlled by the big companies.
As more and more American jobs get outsourced to other countries, I hope more Americans realize the driving force behind this migration. They realize they simply can't pay you any less and get the same amount of work done, so they pay someone else who can do the work for less.
The real truth of the matter is, no matter how pissed we get about things, the very corporations we support by buying into them are the very corporations who keep us down. It's like paying an endentured servant to come to your house and work for you, but then turning around and charging them rent at your house.
Sadly, we're at the point where not even a new American Revolution could take care of the problem. Our military's so advanced that if the general public were to turn out to fight it, the American war machine would be able to keep the American people at bay. So much for the "Right to bear arms".
We've got one last right to support us now, and that's our freedom of speech, and for goodness sake we had better exaust it before the policitians can.
Uh lawmakers couldn't give a shit about code, this is about making songs, books, Mickey Mouse, their movie scripts, etc, last as long as possible. American corporations have gone so incredibly IP happy that absurd lengths of 75 years are almost required, as things that are close to going out of copyright (like Mickey Mouse for a good example) might lose the company a few bucks..
I call horseshit to the whole thing, as "intellectual property" was meant to eventually be turned over to the public domain anyways.. this is why the Copyright and Patent system were devised.
*scratches head*.. I thought the Russians tried to replicate our shuttle designs, and then threw it away because they realized it was retarded, expensive, and the Soyuz system worked a charm?
The Russian's never got to the moon because we beat them there, and when we were there, we realized that there's not a whole lot of reason to want to be there. It's a giant rock. It might have some water, which will be good for getting to the rest of the solar system, but that doesn't help us now. It might have some Helium 3 that we could use for nuclear fusion experiments, but harvesting it may prove expensive.
No, the real research is done right in our own Low Earth Orbit, where it's cheap to fly to, and cheap to work with.
Oh, by the way, the Soviet's shuttle was called Buran, and it was originally designed to use a launch system called Energia, which to this day is probably the most effecient lifting platform ever built. And they were ahead of us with the lifting body designs too, they just cancelled those programs because of the want for "strategic parity".. *sigh*.
Those "bastardize projects" will be capable of lifting a pound into space for 3k, three times cheaper than has ever been done with the shuttle. They will also be much better at securing the crew, allowing for escape. And they will be more reusable than the Shuttle, since an SRB can be completely refurbished, and generally, that's all that the new medium-lifting model is. The heavy lifting model will be several times more effiecient than the shuttle, as *all* of that excess weight those heat shields, tail fins, rudders, wings, mechanical arms, etc, won't be included. That means the new launch vehicle is capable of launching four times what the shuttle could, for 40% off what the shuttle costs to fly!
You're either incredibly shortsighted, or very young.
I think it's more important to me that someone gets a reciept for voting.. come on, you buy groceries all the time and they give you a reciept that half of the time you don't even keep, but for something as important as voting you don't get one? And that doesn't smell like corruption to you?
An electronic voting system isn't that fucking hard people. But if you contract a company to do it, it's up to the company to be honest and that's not something we should rest on any one company.
So why don't we just make a national standard electronic voting machine, and modify the standard until it works!? It's cheap (hell, you could vote on an ARM processor, nobody needs a pentium 4 and a touch screen to choose what politician they want), and pretty infallable (printed reciept: "Here's who you have just voted for: xxxx", a copy kept inside of the machine, and a copy dispensed to you). At this point the only way to fuck it up is if someone tampers with the machine, which would be pretty evident if anyone tried. Hell, print the results on a paper that's hard to counterfeit (like what our money's printed on).
In fact, why don't we just turn the whole damned thing over to the department of the treasury to take care of, since they are so good at fighting this kind of thing?
P.S. Florida fucked up because they required people to put holes in paper, which is simply retarted, because sometimes holes in paper don't exactly punch well. Printing on a piece of paper isn't exactly something that can fuck up nearly as easily.
I think Apple's starting to like names with the letter "M" in it..
Microsoft.
Mighty Mouse.
Mac Mini.
Money!!
(and now, for the troll who replies "AMD?".)
I disagree, I rather like the idea of it. Hell, if they wouldn't have put that dumb ball in the center of it and allowed me to move my finger up down and around to scroll, it'd be even better. Seems like it'd feel just like the iPod's interface, which I adore.
I always thought clicking was a huge annoyance of my mouse. Not only does it make sound, after a few hours of holding most mice, my hand gets cramped and fingers are exausted. This eliminates two dis-features with one fell swoop.
Now if only they'd release a keyboard using this technology, I'd be set for life..
Except that if you read this post, Apple *paid* to *look* at the PARC stuff XEROX was working on.
Besides, Microsoft knows the fundamental rule of business: If you're the best, and you know it, clap your hands and pat yourself on the back. If you're not the best, steal from those who are.
Lastly, I'm not even as upset that Microsoft stole from Apple early on. I'm terribly upset that they stole DOS for the measly price of a few thousand dollars, and turned around and made their original business on top of it (All through Windows ME, mind you). At least Apple paid a million dollars (which was subject to increase drastically in just a few years time) to just LOOK at the PARC stuff; they didn't even get to take one home like the Microsoft crew did with the Macintosh.