Personally, I would have preferred some scaled down on-board processing with a wireless connection to a laptop/desktop doing the bulk of the processing. I don't really see why the laptop has to go for the ride. I guess their way gets them the minimum sticker price.
I ride a bike, and I recommend it, but not for rubber conservation. I change the tires on my bike about four times as often as those on my pickup, so I suspect the rubber pollution is about a push. The active meditation is where it's at.
Well, I'll tell you one thing, the household income figure was way off. You couldn't buy a house in my zip for that. I think I did recognize at least one neighbor, though.
I suspect M$ will be rather generous in their initial licensing package for cellphones. They have been known to use their size for competitive advantage. Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for Symbian, and will vote with my checkbook if I get a new phone.
I thought Palm had the advantage in the handheld market, but it looks to me like PocketPC is winning that battle now. M$ will be very difficult to defeat in any market they enter.
The article did mention bone as part of what would be transplanted. Chances are if your face is destroyed, the bone is destroyed with it. IMO the recipient of a transplant would look neither like the donor nor his old self, but something in between.
I think the biggest ethical problem is someone having this done for aesthetic reasons, regardless of who or what they will look like.
I have to think it would be pretty ugly if the recipient rejected the transplant. If that happened, what could be done? With what remained of your original face gone, you'd be left with a collection of grafts and prostheses. I wouldn't take that chance. I certainly wouldn't take the chance for aesthetic reasons.
The reason the Russians don't have any money is all their commercial ventures are falling apart. From the article:
One contributing factor to the budget crisis was the failure in recent months of commercial flights aboard Soyuz vehicles. Although some seats have been sold to European astronauts, the financial collapse of the project to fly pop singer Lance Bass, and the apparent inability of the Russians to find a paying customer for the third seat on the Soyuz that is set to launch next April, have resulted in losses of between $20 million and $30 million. Each Soyuz spacecraft costs $10 million, with additional costs to launch and operate.
Current demand for space tourism does not match the cost. There aren't even enough requests to fill the lockers with experiments or other cargo. The ISS provides very little value, and I don't blame the Russians, especially with their economy, for not wanting to pour any more money into this thing. Especially with their recent spectacular failure trying to launch a comm sattelite.
"Both the satellite and the booster will after a while fall back to Earth. Both will burn with maybe small bits reaching the Earth's surface, depending on what materials the satellite was made of," Kreidenko said. "But there is no danger."
Just how sure are they that there is no danger? I'd rather not be hit by a 200mph pebble of debris...
I'm surprised this hasn't been thought of before, it's reasonable solution to what I have always seen as one of the major holes in the open source movement. Beats nagware any day.
C# is java, with M$ extensions. So if the code will be running on Wintel box, you can probably be more productive with C#, because it was designed for that.
As far as language doesn't matter, that's true as far as it goes, but I don't think you can do the windows forms in java, and that's part of the productivity.
Yeah, you can do it all with C, but if you're building enterprise applications you can build them much faster with C#. I'm no M$ fan, but you can be very productive with this language. Being able to easily port the stuff to linux would be a major bonus.
It's got some gee-whiz factor, but really, does anybody need one of these? There's nothing new about the technology, and I don't see consumers scrambling to lay down there hard-earned clams just so they can start the coffee pot from the internet. Another poster makes a good point about security...
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what on that list is impressive? He could've at least gone out on a small limb and mentioned fuel-cells.
Watch out for the coin-op, skiing robot.
Personally, I would have preferred some scaled down on-board processing with a wireless connection to a laptop/desktop doing the bulk of the processing. I don't really see why the laptop has to go for the ride. I guess their way gets them the minimum sticker price.
I ride a bike, and I recommend it, but not for rubber conservation. I change the tires on my bike about four times as often as those on my pickup, so I suspect the rubber pollution is about a push. The active meditation is where it's at.
Well, I'll tell you one thing, the household income figure was way off. You couldn't buy a house in my zip for that. I think I did recognize at least one neighbor, though.
I suspect M$ will be rather generous in their initial licensing package for cellphones. They have been known to use their size for competitive advantage. Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for Symbian, and will vote with my checkbook if I get a new phone.
I thought Palm had the advantage in the handheld market, but it looks to me like PocketPC is winning that battle now. M$ will be very difficult to defeat in any market they enter.
I think the biggest ethical problem is someone having this done for aesthetic reasons, regardless of who or what they will look like.
I have to think it would be pretty ugly if the recipient rejected the transplant. If that happened, what could be done? With what remained of your original face gone, you'd be left with a collection of grafts and prostheses. I wouldn't take that chance. I certainly wouldn't take the chance for aesthetic reasons.
One contributing factor to the budget crisis was the failure in recent months of commercial flights aboard Soyuz vehicles. Although some seats have been sold to European astronauts, the financial collapse of the project to fly pop singer Lance Bass, and the apparent inability of the Russians to find a paying customer for the third seat on the Soyuz that is set to launch next April, have resulted in losses of between $20 million and $30 million. Each Soyuz spacecraft costs $10 million, with additional costs to launch and operate.
Current demand for space tourism does not match the cost. There aren't even enough requests to fill the lockers with experiments or other cargo. The ISS provides very little value, and I don't blame the Russians, especially with their economy, for not wanting to pour any more money into this thing. Especially with their recent spectacular failure trying to launch a comm sattelite.
"Both the satellite and the booster will after a while fall back to Earth. Both will burn with maybe small bits reaching the Earth's surface, depending on what materials the satellite was made of," Kreidenko said. "But there is no danger."
Just how sure are they that there is no danger? I'd rather not be hit by a 200mph pebble of debris...
I think I'm working on one of your old projects. Damn you.
As long as the supreme court upholds this judgement, we have some small hope.
Sure, it's a lousy model for the really big projects, but it's a nice alternative for some smaller utilities and such.
I'm surprised this hasn't been thought of before, it's reasonable solution to what I have always seen as one of the major holes in the open source movement. Beats nagware any day.
As far as language doesn't matter, that's true as far as it goes, but I don't think you can do the windows forms in java, and that's part of the productivity.
Well, Hejlsberg works for M$, so yeah, I think M$ gets a lot of the credit. I know my company takes credit (and blame) for the code I write.
Yeah, you can do it all with C, but if you're building enterprise applications you can build them much faster with C#. I'm no M$ fan, but you can be very productive with this language. Being able to easily port the stuff to linux would be a major bonus.
It's got some gee-whiz factor, but really, does anybody need one of these? There's nothing new about the technology, and I don't see consumers scrambling to lay down there hard-earned clams just so they can start the coffee pot from the internet. Another poster makes a good point about security...
At minimum you can choose cell service with another provider, but I do think the phone companies are required to open their lines to other providers.
Also, I was under the impression that federal guidelines required everyone to be offered a choice of providers, have you asked?
It was rejected.
BTW I agree with everything you say, the system sucks, but you are not without choices.
And it doesn't affect the areas you list, as it is a state law being challenged. Washington state.
If you're going to be arrogant, at least be right.
You have the right to choose a different phone company. Even if they win you will have the right to opt-out of the data sharing program.