It's a new acronym I'm starting: Not Another Freaking Social Network! I have taken your acronym, made it into a copyright and will send the RIAA, MPAA, and any other badness agency after you for it! MAWAHAHA!!! j/k.
This seems interesting that something is taking over where flock left off. I always liked flock too.
While I do think this machine is awesome, and would love to have one... I am just wondering what applications out there would take full advantage of having 8 cores and 2 processors in the machine? I am sure NASA or some physics departments at some random university could, but what else? Anyone have any examples of what such a powerful computer could be used for business wise? I'm sure it would cut down the application issues I deal with on older mal-formed code I work on everyday to try to enhance... lol.
From what I have read and heard airline employees saying, the signals can mess up internal electronics on the plane. I always thought that that was bull, and now I am proven right. LOL. Cell phone use on a plane will also be much nicer than paying $87562847 a minute with those back of the seat phones that never seen to work in the first place... Plus if they allow VOIP in the future, it will be even more awesome, cause then I will not be using my cell minutes heh.
I can't say how happy reading this made me. I tend to travel a lot, and as such, I never get to use my laptop in flight because really... airlines suck at technological upkeep. out of the 25 flights I have taken in the last 18 months, I have been on ONE plane with some sort of airline adapter to plug into for power... Hopefully now when I get into first class I will be able to be online, and actually have power to keep my energy hungry machine going for awhile. Woohoo!
I hear you on airline woes... I tend to fly a lot... I have NEVER in the past 2 years left on time from my departure... or had accurate gate information, and even when I flew back to NY in December for Christmas, NWA told me I *HAD* to check my laptop bag... end result... smashed laptop screen, Wonderful huh? But these trains are the way of the future. I would love to be able to head on out to CA and be there in an hour and not have to worry about airline garbage.... Maglev and vacuum tunnels all the way man!
I saw something on ITunes... Maybe Extreme Engineering or Modern Marvels or something along those lines having to do with that for a tunnel going between NYC and London... Vacuum sealed and mag lev. They said the train could travel at close to 5000 mph IIRC... Its a very interesting idea. The episode is worth purchasing on ITunes.
While I don't doubt that these people are having fun playing WoW and all that, but I need to ask... isn't going just a little too far to get corporate sponsorship for a game guild? I mean come on, just have fun playing the game, why do we need to commercialize the gaming worlds that are out there? I just find it sad. What is going to come next, McDonalds ads inside my D&D Books, and dating ads in the middle of Star Trek XI when it comes out? I mean come on...
It sure would be nice to see this go through. If I had a dollar for everytime I have gotten an email from some fake paypal scheme I would be rich. Hopefully ISP's and Email providers will go along with this, because quite frankly, I hate it.
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I am unfortunately forced to agree with you on the apple TV. When I saw the announcement for it at work yesterday I instantly checked it out and was extremely disappointed to see that it will not support divx and such. It seems all this $299 piece of hardware is, is a TV output device for ITunes and pure mpeg4's that apple will like. I asked in the support sales chat about all this stuff and it won't support much. My Radeon 9800 all-in-wonder provides me with much better options... the only thing that the apple TV provides is wireless connections for your downloads. And will it even work with Amazon Unbox videos you download?
With the new version of Media Player for Windows, you can easily hook up your XBox 360 wirelessly have games to play and serve divx movies/videos with aftermarket software from your PC and is only what? $100 more... what exactly am I getting for the $299 that I can't get better with the XBox 360. I love Apple, but I hope to god that they improve upon this device, as I would really love to purchase it and use it with everything I have on my mac and various PCs.
Personally, I think the best innovation of 2006 was the YouOS. I started using this thing and I think it is probably the best way to share files between computers than anything else I know of besides VNC, terminal services etc... Its definately the most innovative thing I have seen all year.
I am happy to see a parrot on there. I own 6 myself... although their vocabulary is limited to "Hello", "night night" and at 2 in the morning when I get home the conu8res tell me "Goto sleep" thats about it. Wish they were geeky parrots:(
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I think after checking this out more on Amazon.com I am going to pass on this particular book. Not only is it $65... $15 more than usual Wrox books (which I personally like) but it also seems to have a lot of condensed information with potentially useless programming situations...
I find it hard to believe that the reviewer did not find much wrong with the book and only gave it an 7/10? If we convert that into a grading scale, obviously thats 70%... thats struggling to get points across, and will be adequate for basic points ofr JAVA 5.
As a suggestion, I would love to see a review of a good JAVA 6 book, so I know what others have checked out, so I can make an educated decision on what my nice shiney new JAVA 6 book will be.
While I find this interesting, it is nothing new to see mountains on planetary objects besides Earth. The thing I find most interesting is the organic compounds that have been found/thought to be on Titan. It makes a very interesting spot to create a waystation in the distand future. Titan, and well as Io and Europia are very interesting moons that we should explore more. But I doubt the American public is very willing to fund more in depth explorations of these places... I can only hope. Although, I wonder what the new probe on its way to Pluto will find.
I would like to suggest Tracy Hickam... He works for Nasa... Not really a scientist but almost. You can easily put the movie based on him in the Library, its "October Sky"
Yes it is inside Earth, they both wobble on their orbit because of it. I think the definition should include a minimal gravity constant... for instance if you jump on the surface and float off into space, how could that be a planet? Although I guess you cannot do that on Pluto, but if you provide enough force to a person you would break the gravity with little effort on it. I dunno, it will be interesting to see what comes out of this conference.
As I concurrently submitted this I had to put in my 2 cents... By the article here If you use the new definition proposed... there would be up to 53 known planets in this Star System... Quite a lot of them to remember. Also by the definition since Charon would be a planet... wouldn't the moon need to be its own planet? And the 9580723409875 moons of Staurn/Jupiter etc? I think this will go back to the drawing board eventually.
At first I was very wary of reading the article, thinking how could it possibly sense that? Then I watched the video... very very nifty it barely cut into the hotdog they used as a test. Now, I would think this technology would be VERY welcome in all industries where moving parts like saw blades, robotics etc are used... Why wouldn't they want to embrace safety technology like this?
I am a HUGE fan of the county/city wide wireless programs that are popping up all over the U.S. And Canada. While I do love this, I do have a few reservations. One reason why I do not live out where I want to (The Catskills in NY) is I cannot get broadband service without paying a huge amount of money. However, I am wondering how well a system like this would work in a mountainous area such as the Adirondacks or the Catskill Plateau... Does anyone have any information on a town/county/state implmenting a wireless network over ruggard terrain to reach the rural people where wireless might be blocked by hills, mountains etc? I would be very interested to see how something like this would be put into good use.
This can be very useful. Scan a barcode while at a store for a TV for instance, and have your phone go out and check amazon.com, bestbuy circuit city compusa and price shop through your phone while at the store and decide whether or not you will buy there. Thats an awesome idea. Heh.
This Matrix also seems to say that if you spent the extra money in the past for the professional software you MUST pay more again in the future. I don't like that.
I am very happy to see that the nearly perfect mission of STS121 is over. It is now time to look to the future of the Space program with STS115 next month. Congrats to Nasa, and the crew of STS121 for returning the United States to space and beyond! Now I just need to cross my fingers about Atlantis next month for STS115 on August 28... hehe.
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I have taken your acronym, made it into a copyright and will send the RIAA, MPAA, and any other badness agency after you for it! MAWAHAHA!!! j/k. This seems interesting that something is taking over where flock left off. I always liked flock too.
While I do think this machine is awesome, and would love to have one... I am just wondering what applications out there would take full advantage of having 8 cores and 2 processors in the machine? I am sure NASA or some physics departments at some random university could, but what else? Anyone have any examples of what such a powerful computer could be used for business wise? I'm sure it would cut down the application issues I deal with on older mal-formed code I work on everyday to try to enhance... lol.
From what I have read and heard airline employees saying, the signals can mess up internal electronics on the plane. I always thought that that was bull, and now I am proven right. LOL. Cell phone use on a plane will also be much nicer than paying $87562847 a minute with those back of the seat phones that never seen to work in the first place... Plus if they allow VOIP in the future, it will be even more awesome, cause then I will not be using my cell minutes heh.
I can't say how happy reading this made me. I tend to travel a lot, and as such, I never get to use my laptop in flight because really... airlines suck at technological upkeep. out of the 25 flights I have taken in the last 18 months, I have been on ONE plane with some sort of airline adapter to plug into for power... Hopefully now when I get into first class I will be able to be online, and actually have power to keep my energy hungry machine going for awhile. Woohoo!
I hear you on airline woes... I tend to fly a lot... I have NEVER in the past 2 years left on time from my departure... or had accurate gate information, and even when I flew back to NY in December for Christmas, NWA told me I *HAD* to check my laptop bag... end result... smashed laptop screen, Wonderful huh? But these trains are the way of the future. I would love to be able to head on out to CA and be there in an hour and not have to worry about airline garbage.... Maglev and vacuum tunnels all the way man!
I saw something on ITunes... Maybe Extreme Engineering or Modern Marvels or something along those lines having to do with that for a tunnel going between NYC and London... Vacuum sealed and mag lev. They said the train could travel at close to 5000 mph IIRC... Its a very interesting idea. The episode is worth purchasing on ITunes.
While I don't doubt that these people are having fun playing WoW and all that, but I need to ask... isn't going just a little too far to get corporate sponsorship for a game guild? I mean come on, just have fun playing the game, why do we need to commercialize the gaming worlds that are out there? I just find it sad. What is going to come next, McDonalds ads inside my D&D Books, and dating ads in the middle of Star Trek XI when it comes out? I mean come on...
It sure would be nice to see this go through. If I had a dollar for everytime I have gotten an email from some fake paypal scheme I would be rich. Hopefully ISP's and Email providers will go along with this, because quite frankly, I hate it.
I am unfortunately forced to agree with you on the apple TV. When I saw the announcement for it at work yesterday I instantly checked it out and was extremely disappointed to see that it will not support divx and such. It seems all this $299 piece of hardware is, is a TV output device for ITunes and pure mpeg4's that apple will like. I asked in the support sales chat about all this stuff and it won't support much. My Radeon 9800 all-in-wonder provides me with much better options... the only thing that the apple TV provides is wireless connections for your downloads. And will it even work with Amazon Unbox videos you download? With the new version of Media Player for Windows, you can easily hook up your XBox 360 wirelessly have games to play and serve divx movies/videos with aftermarket software from your PC and is only what? $100 more... what exactly am I getting for the $299 that I can't get better with the XBox 360. I love Apple, but I hope to god that they improve upon this device, as I would really love to purchase it and use it with everything I have on my mac and various PCs.
Personally, I think the best innovation of 2006 was the YouOS. I started using this thing and I think it is probably the best way to share files between computers than anything else I know of besides VNC, terminal services etc... Its definately the most innovative thing I have seen all year.
I am happy to see a parrot on there. I own 6 myself... although their vocabulary is limited to "Hello", "night night" and at 2 in the morning when I get home the conu8res tell me "Goto sleep" thats about it. Wish they were geeky parrots :(
I think after checking this out more on Amazon.com I am going to pass on this particular book. Not only is it $65... $15 more than usual Wrox books (which I personally like) but it also seems to have a lot of condensed information with potentially useless programming situations... I find it hard to believe that the reviewer did not find much wrong with the book and only gave it an 7/10? If we convert that into a grading scale, obviously thats 70%... thats struggling to get points across, and will be adequate for basic points ofr JAVA 5. As a suggestion, I would love to see a review of a good JAVA 6 book, so I know what others have checked out, so I can make an educated decision on what my nice shiney new JAVA 6 book will be.
While I find this interesting, it is nothing new to see mountains on planetary objects besides Earth. The thing I find most interesting is the organic compounds that have been found/thought to be on Titan. It makes a very interesting spot to create a waystation in the distand future. Titan, and well as Io and Europia are very interesting moons that we should explore more. But I doubt the American public is very willing to fund more in depth explorations of these places... I can only hope. Although, I wonder what the new probe on its way to Pluto will find.
1) Israel... 2) Money unfortunately.
Personally, I believe it is their creative ability to solve the problem at hand in new and innovative ways. But thats just me.
I would like to suggest Tracy Hickam... He works for Nasa... Not really a scientist but almost. You can easily put the movie based on him in the Library, its "October Sky"
Yes it is inside Earth, they both wobble on their orbit because of it. I think the definition should include a minimal gravity constant... for instance if you jump on the surface and float off into space, how could that be a planet? Although I guess you cannot do that on Pluto, but if you provide enough force to a person you would break the gravity with little effort on it. I dunno, it will be interesting to see what comes out of this conference.
As I concurrently submitted this I had to put in my 2 cents... By the article here If you use the new definition proposed... there would be up to 53 known planets in this Star System... Quite a lot of them to remember. Also by the definition since Charon would be a planet... wouldn't the moon need to be its own planet? And the 9580723409875 moons of Staurn/Jupiter etc? I think this will go back to the drawing board eventually.
At first I was very wary of reading the article, thinking how could it possibly sense that? Then I watched the video... very very nifty it barely cut into the hotdog they used as a test. Now, I would think this technology would be VERY welcome in all industries where moving parts like saw blades, robotics etc are used... Why wouldn't they want to embrace safety technology like this?
I am a HUGE fan of the county/city wide wireless programs that are popping up all over the U.S. And Canada. While I do love this, I do have a few reservations. One reason why I do not live out where I want to (The Catskills in NY) is I cannot get broadband service without paying a huge amount of money. However, I am wondering how well a system like this would work in a mountainous area such as the Adirondacks or the Catskill Plateau... Does anyone have any information on a town/county/state implmenting a wireless network over ruggard terrain to reach the rural people where wireless might be blocked by hills, mountains etc? I would be very interested to see how something like this would be put into good use.
In related news, there is an article at ITWire about Intel admitting to a security flaw with their wireless technology as well. Check it out at http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2161539/intel-ad mits-centrino-wi
No you can but a nifty java app would be able to allow you see other store's prices after you scan the UPC.
This can be very useful. Scan a barcode while at a store for a TV for instance, and have your phone go out and check amazon.com, bestbuy circuit city compusa and price shop through your phone while at the store and decide whether or not you will buy there. Thats an awesome idea. Heh.
This Matrix also seems to say that if you spent the extra money in the past for the professional software you MUST pay more again in the future. I don't like that.
I am very happy to see that the nearly perfect mission of STS121 is over. It is now time to look to the future of the Space program with STS115 next month. Congrats to Nasa, and the crew of STS121 for returning the United States to space and beyond! Now I just need to cross my fingers about Atlantis next month for STS115 on August 28... hehe.