Laser loses coherence with distance, and becomes like any other form of light. The distance it can travel is related to the size of the ressonant chamber, and thus with its weight.
For spam to be usefull, not only the targeting must become good, but companies must refrain from sending messages to people that are not their target audience.
The targeting part we can solve with technology. The refrainning part, I wouldn't bet on being solved.
Well, for the sake of IBM, I hope they are not really focusing the company on them:
(1) "People power" may be usefull, but nobody wants to plug cables on theit shoes. If Steve Jobs were still here he could help making it fashionable, but he isn't, and it is not IBM that will do that.
(2) Biometrics won't be widely used. They are worthless unless you have security personel to check the sensor. The new meaning of "hack" will be to collect trash around and impersonate the owners...
(3) Mind reading is waaay of. We will probably get better at it, but won't probably see any use outside of medicine in 5 years.
(4) "The digital divide will cease to exist". The poor may get connected (seems likely), but there will still be a digital divide. It they are betting they'll be able to sell for the poor, they are probably right.
(5) People liking spam? That requires companies to stop advertizing for people that don't want their products in the hope of finding a false negative. No chance.
So, you need a couple of months to get used to a completely different language. You can still learn thait while writting in other languages, and you can contribute code even before you are completely fluent on it. You'll write some slightly bad code, but it is much worse to get some random "programmer" (it's in quotation marks because more than 90% of the people that call themselves so don't deserve the name) that have no theoretical concepts at all.
Unless the Big Rip comes earlier, then it will be no more.
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I guess you are right. There are plenty of keyboard cases available for them, you can't search a tablet at Amazon without it recommending you one of those. (Even for the EEE.) Also, it makes the keyboard removable, for whatever you want to do without a keyboard (reading a book probably).
But that is not the "only" difference between them. Netbooks must run windows, so their battery life is way lower, and I've not seen a netbook that connects to 3G yet.
I approximated it to a linear to make a point. The approximation leads to highter timespan than the actual calculation, so those 800 years are less in practice, and in no way 9500. But the exact numbers aren't the problem anyway.
Did YOU read the link you sent me? I've read it, it doesn't explain why there is any use on equating 1 ton of methane emited today to 800 (800, 9500, whatever number you care to put here) tons of CO2 emited in 2100. Do you know any use for that number?
A ton of methane contributes more than a ton of CO2 for 12 years (a bit less). Yet, it would take 864 years (not 9500) for the CO2 to reflec the same amount of light that the methane reflectd on those 12 years, but each of the remeaining years the methane would just contribute as CO2. Of course, that ton of methane will turn into more than 3 tons of CO2, so keep your measurement units on sight.
What you are missing is the difference between AVERAGE temperature (averaged over a century, or decades) and INSTANTANEOUS temperature. For discussing global warming, the first is nearly useless, yet everybody measures it because it is a nice number.
And nobody needs more than 640kB either. People will start needing another open mobile OS if anybody starts offering something that is better than Android. If not, they won't.
But I agree with the asking for drivers. By the way, can they distribute a GPLed kernel without releasing the drivers? (All that ends in a rant about political system and the injustices of the judicial system...)
There is definitively a need for tablets. I don't know what it is, but I see people carrying those things around everywhere. I have no idea what they are used for (except if they are reading books - that'd be kinda a bad use for LCD tablets), but people wouldn't take them out of home if they were useless.
I can't avoid thinking "how silly is to integrate the heat" every time I see methane and CO2 compared.
Are we really concerned about the total energy retained by the gases? Because last time I saw it, the actual concern was about the temperature, that depends on the ratio of change of that total energy, and care nothing about past greenhouse effects.
But yeah, talking about total heat leads to a nice simple (and useless) number, like counting the lines of code a developer writes.
You don't have to maintain it, does you? When the instalation of Sharepoint you use loses a disk, you'll see one of the problems with it.
It is nearly impossible to take data out of Sharepoint. That is great for Microsoft, because it ensures lock-in, but is not that good for making backups... (Oh yeah, there is a procedure for backup, supported by Microsoft. Seems to work as well as Exchange backups, that is, almost always fails. Also, it is incredibly complex, so hire an expert.)
I've already decided to not migrate somebody out of MS-SQL.
All the problem is lock in. Corporations invest a lot in custom software, and not all programmers are good enough to write DBMS portable code, sometimes you need that 1% of extra performance and use DBMS specific tricks, or people simply use the builtin tools of their IDE and language, that happen to be made by the same company that makes the DBMS. Anyway, the end result is that some of the code can only run on a specific DBMS Not most code, but some of it.
Now, how do you migrate? You can rewrite the DBMS dependent code, but that would be a huge project, and all your personel is already busy working on things you need NOW, not later. You can't just migrate the DBMS agnostic code, not even if entire systems are agnostic, because all the systems talk to each other, and you can't migrate just part of the data.
All that evaluated, my conclusion was that the licensing of MS-SQL was cheap enough to not warrant a migration. And efforts to reduce licensing costs (of what one of the biggest is auditing) were better applied on other domains (with emphasis to application development, that would reduce the lock-in at the future).
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A bit better, but not by a huge margin.
Laser loses coherence with distance, and becomes like any other form of light. The distance it can travel is related to the size of the ressonant chamber, and thus with its weight.
Keep the close where it is, move everything else to the top-left corner.
Not everybody has virtual memory.
Phones, tablets and even full PCs with SSD have no space to spare on swap.
You insert the serial data into the outgoing sensor cable, like everybody else.
Some snake-oil salesmen like to pretend that biometric info can't be falsified. They are liars.
For spam to be usefull, not only the targeting must become good, but companies must refrain from sending messages to people that are not their target audience.
The targeting part we can solve with technology. The refrainning part, I wouldn't bet on being solved.
Well, for the sake of IBM, I hope they are not really focusing the company on them:
(1) "People power" may be usefull, but nobody wants to plug cables on theit shoes. If Steve Jobs were still here he could help making it fashionable, but he isn't, and it is not IBM that will do that.
(2) Biometrics won't be widely used. They are worthless unless you have security personel to check the sensor. The new meaning of "hack" will be to collect trash around and impersonate the owners...
(3) Mind reading is waaay of. We will probably get better at it, but won't probably see any use outside of medicine in 5 years.
(4) "The digital divide will cease to exist". The poor may get connected (seems likely), but there will still be a digital divide. It they are betting they'll be able to sell for the poor, they are probably right.
(5) People liking spam? That requires companies to stop advertizing for people that don't want their products in the hope of finding a false negative. No chance.
They have been a major player for 100 years. They stopped being a leader by the time personal computers come out.
So, you need a couple of months to get used to a completely different language. You can still learn thait while writting in other languages, and you can contribute code even before you are completely fluent on it. You'll write some slightly bad code, but it is much worse to get some random "programmer" (it's in quotation marks because more than 90% of the people that call themselves so don't deserve the name) that have no theoretical concepts at all.
Maybe he couldn't find a zenner that could dissipate enough power.
Or maybe he just didn't know that much about electronics.
It is in the cloud because it is encrypted. Thus the sensitivity of the information doesn't matter.
Or maybe they are having problem to keep spare drivers at stock, so they don't expect to be able to replace all the faulty drivers 2 years from now.
In a long time, it will decay into iron.
Unless the Big Rip comes earlier, then it will be no more.
I guess you are right. There are plenty of keyboard cases available for them, you can't search a tablet at Amazon without it recommending you one of those. (Even for the EEE.) Also, it makes the keyboard removable, for whatever you want to do without a keyboard (reading a book probably).
But that is not the "only" difference between them. Netbooks must run windows, so their battery life is way lower, and I've not seen a netbook that connects to 3G yet.
I approximated it to a linear to make a point. The approximation leads to highter timespan than the actual calculation, so those 800 years are less in practice, and in no way 9500. But the exact numbers aren't the problem anyway.
Did YOU read the link you sent me? I've read it, it doesn't explain why there is any use on equating 1 ton of methane emited today to 800 (800, 9500, whatever number you care to put here) tons of CO2 emited in 2100. Do you know any use for that number?
A 45 square meters area is quite easy to conceptualize. If you make a pool 2 meters deep, that changes into a 22.5 m2 area.
Way more usefull a measure than 45000 litters (that I'd convert into 45m3 to understand anyway).
You misunderstood.
My problem is with people equating a ton of methane now with 800 tons of CO2 at 2100 just because they are at the same century.
No. It doesn't.
A ton of methane contributes more than a ton of CO2 for 12 years (a bit less). Yet, it would take 864 years (not 9500) for the CO2 to reflec the same amount of light that the methane reflectd on those 12 years, but each of the remeaining years the methane would just contribute as CO2. Of course, that ton of methane will turn into more than 3 tons of CO2, so keep your measurement units on sight.
What you are missing is the difference between AVERAGE temperature (averaged over a century, or decades) and INSTANTANEOUS temperature. For discussing global warming, the first is nearly useless, yet everybody measures it because it is a nice number.
You can't compare methane with CO2 in a universal manner. Any kind of comparison leads to information that is only usefull on a few contexts.
But yet, people go with the least usefull kind of comparison, and don't even bother to say that the metric has limitations.
And nobody needs more than 640kB either. People will start needing another open mobile OS if anybody starts offering something that is better than Android. If not, they won't.
But I agree with the asking for drivers. By the way, can they distribute a GPLed kernel without releasing the drivers? (All that ends in a rant about political system and the injustices of the judicial system...)
There is definitively a need for tablets. I don't know what it is, but I see people carrying those things around everywhere. I have no idea what they are used for (except if they are reading books - that'd be kinda a bad use for LCD tablets), but people wouldn't take them out of home if they were useless.
I can't avoid thinking "how silly is to integrate the heat" every time I see methane and CO2 compared.
Are we really concerned about the total energy retained by the gases? Because last time I saw it, the actual concern was about the temperature, that depends on the ratio of change of that total energy, and care nothing about past greenhouse effects.
But yeah, talking about total heat leads to a nice simple (and useless) number, like counting the lines of code a developer writes.
You don't have to maintain it, does you? When the instalation of Sharepoint you use loses a disk, you'll see one of the problems with it.
It is nearly impossible to take data out of Sharepoint. That is great for Microsoft, because it ensures lock-in, but is not that good for making backups... (Oh yeah, there is a procedure for backup, supported by Microsoft. Seems to work as well as Exchange backups, that is, almost always fails. Also, it is incredibly complex, so hire an expert.)
Yes, they were delusional.
I've already decided to not migrate somebody out of MS-SQL.
All the problem is lock in. Corporations invest a lot in custom software, and not all programmers are good enough to write DBMS portable code, sometimes you need that 1% of extra performance and use DBMS specific tricks, or people simply use the builtin tools of their IDE and language, that happen to be made by the same company that makes the DBMS. Anyway, the end result is that some of the code can only run on a specific DBMS Not most code, but some of it.
Now, how do you migrate? You can rewrite the DBMS dependent code, but that would be a huge project, and all your personel is already busy working on things you need NOW, not later. You can't just migrate the DBMS agnostic code, not even if entire systems are agnostic, because all the systems talk to each other, and you can't migrate just part of the data.
All that evaluated, my conclusion was that the licensing of MS-SQL was cheap enough to not warrant a migration. And efforts to reduce licensing costs (of what one of the biggest is auditing) were better applied on other domains (with emphasis to application development, that would reduce the lock-in at the future).
It's an improvement.
When the software grows up and stops crying for attention all the time, we can start asking users to pay attention.