Chevy has been promising the Volt for years now. *IF* it ever does come out, it might be interesting - but by now their marketing campaign seems to be run by Duke Nukem.
Exactly. You need a semantic context for text searches as well - if you google "mole", you are unlikely to find the chamistry term. Small furry animals and delicious mexican sauce are more popular than chemistry any day of the week.
To make it even more silly: Acura exists only in the USA (and Canada). Everywhere else in the world, those "Acura" cars and trucks are sold as Hondas, with Honda badges and nameplates. Same cars, same components, different stick-on logos.
If the new UI is a user-selectable option, I can't see anyone having an issue with it. It may even help the adoption rate of Open Office, since it would be an easier transition for people used to MS Office.
If the new UI is the only UI, I predict a lot of yelling and screaming. Changing an existing UI is never a pleasant thing.
Actually I think his viewpoint is more like, "Since I live within walking distance of work and walk to work, NOBODY in the world needs a car".
While he may have a valid viewpoint for his own uses, generalizing that viewpoint based on a sample size of one is pretty much guaranteed to be invalid.
Especially since there are other Smartphones that are open source and easy to modify. If I were intentionally trying to screw with the cellphone infrastructure, I'd start with Android.
And besides - if every AT&T tower melted into a heap of slag tomorrow, wouldn't we all be cheering?
Every gamer I know keeps their consoles indefinately. With newer ones not being 100% backwards compatible, you need to keep your old consoles in order to play your older games. I'd bet very few ever get tossed into the landfills.
New games are still being developed for some "old" consoles as well, e.g. PS2.
I don't know about you, but if *I* went to Mars, I'd sure as hell want to come back to Earth afterwards. So let's say 180 days there + 180 days return = basically one entire year spent in transit.
Sure, *after* there is a base constructed on Mars, things will be easier - but it will take many working trips until such a base could be completed. Before that, you're not only travelling to and fro in cramped quarters, you're living in cramped quarters while you're there.
It is much, much easier to back up digital for 100 years than it is to back up film.
Film stock is extremely unstable. One of the major problems in preserving old motion pictures is that the reels of film fuse together. (In fact, most active film restoration projects involve carefully digitizing the movies for preservation). If you have carefully separated your negatives, and store them in a temperature and humidity controlled environment, you can slow down the deterioration, but not stop it altogether.
Prints from both digital and film sources are essentially identical - if you use the best technologies (pH neutral paper, etc) your prints from both medium will last about the same time. Unfortunately, of course, people tend to use the cheapest solution, not the best available solution - but that is a market choice, not a failing of the technology involved.
Property on a gravel road is worth less than property on a paved road. So, by their actions, the government has reduced the value of a landowner's property. Usually this triggers a lawsuit - which, if successful, could easily wipe out any savings.
Also, since the properties on the road are worth less, they will be able to collect less tax revenue.
Well, the Pre will just respond with 'sure, upload the new firmware!' and pipe it over to the Pre equivalent of/dev/null. Then it will respond with the 'upgrade worked! Thanks alot!' code.
I sure hope so. If the Pre takes the firmware update and burns it into the Pre firware flash, there are going to be a lot of extremely pissed Pre owners....
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Chevy has been promising the Volt for years now. *IF* it ever does come out, it might be interesting - but by now their marketing campaign seems to be run by Duke Nukem.
Exactly. You need a semantic context for text searches as well - if you google "mole", you are unlikely to find the chamistry term. Small furry animals and delicious mexican sauce are more popular than chemistry any day of the week.
To make it even more silly: Acura exists only in the USA (and Canada). Everywhere else in the world, those "Acura" cars and trucks are sold as Hondas, with Honda badges and nameplates. Same cars, same components, different stick-on logos.
If the new UI is a user-selectable option, I can't see anyone having an issue with it. It may even help the adoption rate of Open Office, since it would be an easier transition for people used to MS Office.
If the new UI is the only UI, I predict a lot of yelling and screaming. Changing an existing UI is never a pleasant thing.
If internet addition is now punishable by death, Slashdot is going to become a very, very lonely place.
Actually I think his viewpoint is more like, "Since I live within walking distance of work and walk to work, NOBODY in the world needs a car".
While he may have a valid viewpoint for his own uses, generalizing that viewpoint based on a sample size of one is pretty much guaranteed to be invalid.
So, why didn't Russia buy SGI earlier this year? Instant membership to the supercomputer club.
Plus, the chance to screw up the SGI logo yet again.
Especially since there are other Smartphones that are open source and easy to modify. If I were intentionally trying to screw with the cellphone infrastructure, I'd start with Android.
And besides - if every AT&T tower melted into a heap of slag tomorrow, wouldn't we all be cheering?
I wonder if he has a microwave in his place... or even a bluetooth adapter somewhere.
Or, racks and racks of electronic DJ gear....
Every gamer I know keeps their consoles indefinately. With newer ones not being 100% backwards compatible, you need to keep your old consoles in order to play your older games. I'd bet very few ever get tossed into the landfills.
New games are still being developed for some "old" consoles as well, e.g. PS2.
Finding 40 women willing to eat chocolate daily: easy.
Finding 40 women that will agree to NOT eat ANY chocolate for a year, as a control: yeah, good luck with that.
I don't know about you, but if *I* went to Mars, I'd sure as hell want to come back to Earth afterwards. So let's say 180 days there + 180 days return = basically one entire year spent in transit.
Sure, *after* there is a base constructed on Mars, things will be easier - but it will take many working trips until such a base could be completed. Before that, you're not only travelling to and fro in cramped quarters, you're living in cramped quarters while you're there.
Nothing says that hackers can't drive down your street, and pick up the RFID from your passport while it is sitting "securely" in your home.
it's basically a tutorial on Twitter.
If you need a tutorial on Twitter, maybe computers just aren't your thing.
I thought all new legislation was based on 'thinking of the children'
Thinking of the children is insufficient. Pedophiles "think of the children" all the time, but not in a way that most parent approve of.
If a foreign government blocked Bing, would anyone even notice?
And if they did, would it be newsworthy?
After all, Google is a household word almost everywhere on the planet. Most people think that Bing is a kind of cherry, or a movie star from the '40s.
I can buy off-the-shelf parts to decode MPEG4. Where are the chips to decode Theora available?
It is much, much easier to back up digital for 100 years than it is to back up film.
Film stock is extremely unstable. One of the major problems in preserving old motion pictures is that the reels of film fuse together. (In fact, most active film restoration projects involve carefully digitizing the movies for preservation). If you have carefully separated your negatives, and store them in a temperature and humidity controlled environment, you can slow down the deterioration, but not stop it altogether.
Prints from both digital and film sources are essentially identical - if you use the best technologies (pH neutral paper, etc) your prints from both medium will last about the same time. Unfortunately, of course, people tend to use the cheapest solution, not the best available solution - but that is a market choice, not a failing of the technology involved.
For $699 you can install any Microsoft OS on as many machines as you own for one year. Then after that it's $499 per year.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/subscriptionschart.aspx (scroll down to "MSDN Operating Systems")
Alternate translation: "Hey, Steam is a pretty good business model. Let's copy that".
Property on a gravel road is worth less than property on a paved road. So, by their actions, the government has reduced the value of a landowner's property. Usually this triggers a lawsuit - which, if successful, could easily wipe out any savings. Also, since the properties on the road are worth less, they will be able to collect less tax revenue.
Did anyone really think they were going to give away their content for free forever?
What, you mean like broadcast television?
Well, the Pre will just respond with 'sure, upload the new firmware!' and pipe it over to the Pre equivalent of /dev/null. Then it will respond with the 'upgrade worked! Thanks alot!' code.
I sure hope so. If the Pre takes the firmware update and burns it into the Pre firware flash, there are going to be a lot of extremely pissed Pre owners....
Auto makers are required to support their cars for 7 years after the last new one is sold, not from the date of introduction.
XP was available until 2008 (if I remember correctly), which would mean that if it was a car, it would have to be supported until 2015.