No Subscription? Licenses are revoked all the time.
Routers and switches don't need maintenance?
There is no subcription to the road? Heard of taxes? Toll Roads?? Tickets?
Law Enforcement is there to make money as well as ensure safe driving. They would simply suspend our licenses for a few days instead of giving us $300 tickets if they just wanted roads safer.
My reading of your post...
Is the job of the government to provide high speed freeways to citizens? As much as I like the sound of easy commuting, if it's directly the government's service, there is a large potential for speed limits or other restrictions on access, and a much greater threat for highway patrols. I do not like this idea.
San Diego recently outsourced all of its IT to four companies in a first of its kind deal. That's a good thing. This Utah plan is different. There is no real alternative if cities want to prepare for the inevitable bandwidth demands that are coming.
We didn't rely on corportation to build the Interstate Highway System in America because of the costs and risks involved. Nobody will argue that it was bad for the economy in the long run. In fact, in hindsight, we didn't build enough freeways. We have small time villagers paving the roads but it's time for an interstate info-highway.
It's all about easy to use front ends. Right now DIY HTPCs on linux have two problems. Linux is a pain to configure for media apps and the front ends are very rudimentary right now. I have yet to find a way to get Linux running at 1280x720 on my HDTV but it's a snap with Windows XP.
Remember that this broadcast flag is here to stay. We have a nice fat slow target to work around. The last piece of the puzzle is open source hardware. We need a better look at that video driver code to create crash free Linux HTPC apps.
Go here to check out what's new in the Linux HTPC world.
Bravo! A voice of reason, on Slashdot no less. I guess I should have made it clear that I condone torching only as a last resort. I'm not even in favor of capital punishment though I did pop a few ants with a magnifying glass back in my youth.
Give me a break, a rogue government is much more likely to buy a briefcase sized nuke than construct trillion dollar space laser.
If we can torch a terrorist in a car in the middle of traffic without killing innocent civilians nearby then I say more power to them.
In business school they taught us that every investment has some level of risk. Everything is "what if" If we invest that money in education instead we'll have a lot more capable scientists in the future to make something like this possible.
I'm sure cars could have been invented earlier than they were but it made a lot more sense to wait until technology could catch up with our ideas.
Sure we could spend billions on a new space program but what if the year after we have our new spaceship we invent nanobots that could have done the whole job for a fraction of the cost. In the grand scheme of things I think we should focus on core technologies rather than their fancy applications that grab the headlines.
I use google because I trust the results. They limit the advertising too. What on earth were they thinking It's like the Kobe case, even if he's innocent, his image has been tarnished forever. Bad move Google.
You know how those guys at MIT are constantly trying to figure out ways to teach their robots how to interact with people? Let the robots roam the Internet with a topic in mind.
If I'm at a party with a bunch of dog groomers I'm probably not going to say much. I'm sure robots have the same issue; they have nothing in common with us. If we start by making a Cancer-Expert-Bot then let it try to have a conversation with an oncologist I think AI will have more success.
My vision is a distribution install option that comes with a precompiled kernel ONLY for installation purposes. It might get the latest kernel version source automatically and build a kernel right then and there based on your hardware and a clearly explained list of kernel options available to the user.
Yeah, Linux would take a long time to install if it included a compile but in a couple of years we'll be compiling the kernel in a matter of seconds instead of minutes or hours.
The beauty of Linux (IMO) is the ability to tweak the kernel. Why not take advantage of the fact that there is source code to be modified and make it simple for the average user to recompile the kernel? It's an ugly, ugly process right now and a lot of people are running distro kernels that aren't as optimized as they could be.
In a couple of years computers are going to be fast enough that even bloated XML will be good enough. Not only that but I just tried out the 2.6 test kernel and X is a lot more responsive. It's noticably better on slower machines.
IBM should help out with the marketing of this, it's really great. Get better icons, etc. here -> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7 131
It seems faster than 1.0, more polished.
Lat/Long works on bigger communities such as counties in America because you already have approximate geographic data for any address which is embedded in the zipcode. My search engine uses lat/long and the end user doesn't have to know that that's the reason you can do radius searches.
Here's a (hopefully) non-slashdotted site that does the same thing although it only works in San Diego. SDcommunities.net
I got the latitude and longitude data from the Census for zip codes and created a HUGE reference tables for the distances between zip codes. Lots of math in the search code.
Uh, this KrackHouse guy doesn't have a stake in the company and this KrackHouse guy has driven both Racer and LiveForSpeed and there is no competition. Racer just isn't there yet.
Doncha love it when some doofus rambles on condescendingly for a few pargraphs with the wrong facts?:p
It's cheaper stupid. You're willing to pay 30% more for something because a person handed you your change? I'm not and all of the future unemployed sure won't be willing to pay more for the privledge(?) of human interaction.
Sure people make less money in the future but think about how much less everything will cost. We won't need to export jobs to foreign countries if our own robots are doing the work which will make us more competitive with the Indians and thier robots. Every country will face this problem. Governments will be forced to raise corporate taxes to fund the coming welfare system. So in the end, productivity is good, the fact that people are getting paid to do jobs that should be done by robots is a form of welfare! The money is going to be funneled to those same people but the routing will change. The upside is that the dramatic increase in productivity will mean a higher standard of living for everybody as long as we vote Democratic and keep progressive taxation alive and well.
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I pay for an upgraded version of Yahoo mail and I still got the message.
No Subscription? Licenses are revoked all the time. Routers and switches don't need maintenance? There is no subcription to the road? Heard of taxes? Toll Roads?? Tickets? Law Enforcement is there to make money as well as ensure safe driving. They would simply suspend our licenses for a few days instead of giving us $300 tickets if they just wanted roads safer.
My reading of your post... Is the job of the government to provide high speed freeways to citizens? As much as I like the sound of easy commuting, if it's directly the government's service, there is a large potential for speed limits or other restrictions on access, and a much greater threat for highway patrols. I do not like this idea.
San Diego recently outsourced all of its IT to four companies in a first of its kind deal. That's a good thing. This Utah plan is different. There is no real alternative if cities want to prepare for the inevitable bandwidth demands that are coming. We didn't rely on corportation to build the Interstate Highway System in America because of the costs and risks involved. Nobody will argue that it was bad for the economy in the long run. In fact, in hindsight, we didn't build enough freeways. We have small time villagers paving the roads but it's time for an interstate info-highway.
It's all about easy to use front ends. Right now DIY HTPCs on linux have two problems. Linux is a pain to configure for media apps and the front ends are very rudimentary right now. I have yet to find a way to get Linux running at 1280x720 on my HDTV but it's a snap with Windows XP. Remember that this broadcast flag is here to stay. We have a nice fat slow target to work around. The last piece of the puzzle is open source hardware. We need a better look at that video driver code to create crash free Linux HTPC apps. Go here to check out what's new in the Linux HTPC world.
Yes, I made a funny.
Bravo! A voice of reason, on Slashdot no less. I guess I should have made it clear that I condone torching only as a last resort. I'm not even in favor of capital punishment though I did pop a few ants with a magnifying glass back in my youth.
Give me a break, a rogue government is much more likely to buy a briefcase sized nuke than construct trillion dollar space laser. If we can torch a terrorist in a car in the middle of traffic without killing innocent civilians nearby then I say more power to them.
In business school they taught us that every investment has some level of risk. Everything is "what if" If we invest that money in education instead we'll have a lot more capable scientists in the future to make something like this possible.
I'm sure cars could have been invented earlier than they were but it made a lot more sense to wait until technology could catch up with our ideas. Sure we could spend billions on a new space program but what if the year after we have our new spaceship we invent nanobots that could have done the whole job for a fraction of the cost. In the grand scheme of things I think we should focus on core technologies rather than their fancy applications that grab the headlines.
I use google because I trust the results. They limit the advertising too. What on earth were they thinking It's like the Kobe case, even if he's innocent, his image has been tarnished forever. Bad move Google.
... made a lot of cash, thoughts?
You know how those guys at MIT are constantly trying to figure out ways to teach their robots how to interact with people? Let the robots roam the Internet with a topic in mind. If I'm at a party with a bunch of dog groomers I'm probably not going to say much. I'm sure robots have the same issue; they have nothing in common with us. If we start by making a Cancer-Expert-Bot then let it try to have a conversation with an oncologist I think AI will have more success.
My vision is a distribution install option that comes with a precompiled kernel ONLY for installation purposes. It might get the latest kernel version source automatically and build a kernel right then and there based on your hardware and a clearly explained list of kernel options available to the user. Yeah, Linux would take a long time to install if it included a compile but in a couple of years we'll be compiling the kernel in a matter of seconds instead of minutes or hours.
The beauty of Linux (IMO) is the ability to tweak the kernel. Why not take advantage of the fact that there is source code to be modified and make it simple for the average user to recompile the kernel? It's an ugly, ugly process right now and a lot of people are running distro kernels that aren't as optimized as they could be.
In a couple of years computers are going to be fast enough that even bloated XML will be good enough. Not only that but I just tried out the 2.6 test kernel and X is a lot more responsive. It's noticably better on slower machines.
IBM should help out with the marketing of this, it's really great. Get better icons, etc. here -> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7 131
It seems faster than 1.0, more polished.
Lat/Long works on bigger communities such as counties in America because you already have approximate geographic data for any address which is embedded in the zipcode. My search engine uses lat/long and the end user doesn't have to know that that's the reason you can do radius searches.
Here's a (hopefully) non-slashdotted site that does the same thing although it only works in San Diego. SDcommunities.net
I got the latitude and longitude data from the Census for zip codes and created a HUGE reference tables for the distances between zip codes. Lots of math in the search code.
I hate to say it but sometimes MS is just better. DX is better than OGL, discuss amongst yourselves.
Uh, this KrackHouse guy doesn't have a stake in the company and this KrackHouse guy has driven both Racer and LiveForSpeed and there is no competition. Racer just isn't there yet. Doncha love it when some doofus rambles on condescendingly for a few pargraphs with the wrong facts? :p
It's cheaper stupid. You're willing to pay 30% more for something because a person handed you your change? I'm not and all of the future unemployed sure won't be willing to pay more for the privledge(?) of human interaction. Sure people make less money in the future but think about how much less everything will cost. We won't need to export jobs to foreign countries if our own robots are doing the work which will make us more competitive with the Indians and thier robots. Every country will face this problem. Governments will be forced to raise corporate taxes to fund the coming welfare system. So in the end, productivity is good, the fact that people are getting paid to do jobs that should be done by robots is a form of welfare! The money is going to be funneled to those same people but the routing will change. The upside is that the dramatic increase in productivity will mean a higher standard of living for everybody as long as we vote Democratic and keep progressive taxation alive and well.
Anybody remember this thing? almost as fast as the DNA computer.
I can't install a new bios because my battery died. Linux won't install, OpenBSD and NetBSD won't install. Fortunately FreeBSD works.