This is slashdot, what your seeing is Microsofts secret underwater HQ; looking closer through the skylight of the ballroom you can just make out Bill Gates having tea with several of his puppet CEO's that will be in charge after "regime change" at some unnamed pro-linux companies. Over to the left you can see the 2000 box cluster of G4's running the beta of Longhorn, and on the screen you can almost see what his word document says, but the 5 new Clippy wizards are obscuring too much text.
Some useful links to go with this: History Of Atlantis Atlan is a pretty good summary, Searching for Atlantis Interesting account of the hunt throughout history, Lbr>
possibly the most important info:
Atlantis was said to be a land of fruitful plains, extensive timber, rich flora and fauna, and great herds of elephants. According to the story, the ground was seamed with gold, silver and other metals including a mysterious one called orichalcum. This was a copper that sparkled like fire, according to Plato
Sounds like Orichalcum would make a cool pc case:)
A free internet wifi connection... but then you are buying coffee and a muffin, so you ARE paying. The cost is absorbed by the cafe. A big business might be able to run at a loss to gain customers, your local cafe sure as hell can't. And really, if you think about it, how much is a coffee and muffin? Is it cheaper than 1 paid hour for web access? Sure, you might have bought a cappacino anyway, but its the little extras you buy that make it worth the cafes while to offer *free* internet.
This is being done outside of the W3C, with the hope of getting a viable alternative to Longhorn's XAML available soon
Okay, Microsoft are trying to develop some standards. If history says anything about how the web has evolved its that the users define the standard. If it works, we use it. XML works. Macromedias Flash app is a defacto standard, created outside the W3C. If it works, we use it. Suns Java is pretty popular too. A lot of stuff is created outside the W3C, it all works, if its good we install it. simple really.
considering that the price for buying 3G bandwidth financially crippled many Telco's, wifi with VOIPcould be a good way to deliver on the promise of high bandwidth phone technologies.
I think that community is coming back. With the Web, blogs, e-mail, and cell phones, we're seeing a resurgence in community. Technology is now something for bringing people together.
Visiclac kicked off ebusiness, email gave us instant global communications, mobile phones let us do that on the move, whats next?
NASA will use these teams of autonomous robots to build space systems like 10 km-long arrays of solar panels and other huge spatial structures.
How long before the AI is advanced enough for the computer/robots are able to identify flaws in their design and reprogram themselves accordingly. This kind of intelligence will allow 'robots' to evolve, superceding humans as the dominate species on earth. The will have all the assets that belong to humans, ie technology, brainpower, but none of the weaknesses, such as the neccesity of oxygen to exist.
Probably not in our lifetimes, but then the pace of technological development seems to be increasing exponentially...put it this way: take all the scientists that lived from year x to 1900: there are more scientists on earth today than in this total period.
While you were working on this, what surprised you the most?
I was actually surprised about how much the scientific community knows about the history of climate change, and how little it knows about the future of climate change...
You are correct, but I think the public perception of Linux as "okay to use compared to microsoft" is very important. So any pro Linux publicity is going to damage Microsofts income base.
It will be interesting to see what happens from Redmond HQ...if you cant beat em, join em?
Oracle switches to Linux because its "less expensive and faster", but im sure a bonus factor is the pro-Linux news this will generate, which will be a body blow to Microsoft.
Oracle isn't alone in embracing the open-source movement. Oracle are not alone, from the article: Dell is switching internal servers to Linux, while Novell is dropping Windows in favor of its own Linux desktop software for PCs.
Also various governments around the world have rejected Windows for Linux lately, the tide is turning.
Pixar have tapped into something thats been missing from stories for a long time: originality. They feature insects or the undersea world, or retired superheros, and put them in engaging circumstances... a journey to rescue a fish captured by divers, or a band of aging heros coming back together to save the world.
Then Pixar wraps it all up in a team rescue at the end.. as wired puts it:
It's that rousing moment of collective action close to the movie's end: The Frankentoys rally to save Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story; the ant colony in A Bug's Life, inspired by the circus insects, stands up to grasshopper thugs; the netted fish in Finding Nemo pull together to swim, ingeniously, down. This is Pixar's own take on the rescue story: the point when everybody rescues one another.
Can you see how much appeal this has? Children go nuts for this, its saying they are as equally important in helping us as we are in helping them. It speaks about a family bond, a lesson that we try and teach but is understood on a primal level anyway.
Of course, it helps that the animation is so wickedly good, renderman is an industry legend and used by everybody - but in the article they mention how the STORY is tested on a group of kids as a rough sketch animation to see if it works - kids dont need the cgi to like it.
Nice to see it runs Linux. But then, Linux dominates in so many area's and runs so efficiently that its invisible to most users, despite what other desktop OS producers would have you believe. Although probably out of reach this year, it will be tomorrows tech soon enough, and that 480 x 640 LCD will be AWESOME for pretty much any app you can imagine.
this isnt that surprising really, video games are a lot more interesting to some kids than sport. Its great to see some measurable positive results from gaming. Next we could have super fast text scrolling across our screens to 'train' us in speed reading.
And Microsoft could build software into its desktop version of Windows to harness the power of PCs, letting companies get more value from their computers. It's a technology that's applicable to tasks such as drug discovery and microchip design.
sounds a lot like seti@home, folding@home, or the grid project. Another example of embrace and extend. It's definitely going to be interesting when pc's are networked for spare cpu cycles as a normal everyday event. Maybe the can use all that cpu power to get some AI to rewrite windows code so its bulletproof.
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it still looks like a cheese grator.
I dont know about you, but if someone tried to fine me 497.2 million i would be happy to wait three more years before paying.
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This is slashdot, what your seeing is Microsofts secret underwater HQ; looking closer through the skylight of the ballroom you can just make out Bill Gates having tea with several of his puppet CEO's that will be in charge after "regime change" at some unnamed pro-linux companies. Over to the left you can see the 2000 box cluster of G4's running the beta of Longhorn, and on the screen you can almost see what his word document says, but the 5 new Clippy wizards are obscuring too much text.
oops, that second link should be Searching for Atlantis, it contains the quote in italics above.
History Of Atlantis Atlan is a pretty good summary,
Searching for Atlantis
Interesting account of the hunt throughout history, Lbr> possibly the most important info:
Atlantis was said to be a land of fruitful plains, extensive timber, rich flora and fauna, and great herds of elephants. According to the story, the ground was seamed with gold, silver and other metals including a mysterious one called orichalcum. This was a copper that sparkled like fire, according to Plato
Sounds like Orichalcum would make a cool pc case :)
A free internet wifi connection... but then you are buying coffee and a muffin, so you ARE paying. The cost is absorbed by the cafe. A big business might be able to run at a loss to gain customers, your local cafe sure as hell can't. And really, if you think about it, how much is a coffee and muffin? Is it cheaper than 1 paid hour for web access? Sure, you might have bought a cappacino anyway, but its the little extras you buy that make it worth the cafes while to offer *free* internet.
This is being done outside of the W3C, with the hope of getting a viable alternative to Longhorn's XAML available soon
Okay, Microsoft are trying to develop some standards. If history says anything about how the web has evolved its that the users define the standard. If it works, we use it. XML works. Macromedias Flash app is a defacto standard, created outside the W3C. If it works, we use it. Suns Java is pretty popular too. A lot of stuff is created outside the W3C, it all works, if its good we install it. simple really.
considering that the price for buying 3G bandwidth financially crippled many Telco's, wifi with VOIPcould be a good way to deliver on the promise of high bandwidth phone technologies.
I think that community is coming back. With the Web, blogs, e-mail, and cell phones, we're seeing a resurgence in community. Technology is now something for bringing people together.
Visiclac kicked off ebusiness, email gave us instant global communications, mobile phones let us do that on the move, whats next?
Just assume you have no privacy, at least not in the classical sense of the word.
what did geeks look like before computers?
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How long before the AI is advanced enough for the computer/robots are able to identify flaws in their design and reprogram themselves accordingly. This kind of intelligence will allow 'robots' to evolve, superceding humans as the dominate species on earth. The will have all the assets that belong to humans, ie technology, brainpower, but none of the weaknesses, such as the neccesity of oxygen to exist.
Probably not in our lifetimes, but then the pace of technological development seems to be increasing exponentially...put it this way: take all the scientists that lived from year x to 1900: there are more scientists on earth today than in this total period.
I was actually surprised about how much the scientific community knows about the history of climate change, and how little it knows about the future of climate change...
sounds like we need a whole bunch of Earth Simulators asap!
It will be interesting to see what happens from Redmond HQ...if you cant beat em, join em?
Oracle isn't alone in embracing the open-source movement. Oracle are not alone, from the article: Dell is switching internal servers to Linux, while Novell is dropping Windows in favor of its own Linux desktop software for PCs.
Also various governments around the world have rejected Windows for Linux lately, the tide is turning.
Pixar have tapped into something thats been missing from stories for a long time: originality. They feature insects or the undersea world, or retired superheros, and put them in engaging circumstances... a journey to rescue a fish captured by divers, or a band of aging heros coming back together to save the world.
Then Pixar wraps it all up in a team rescue at the end.. as wired puts it:
It's that rousing moment of collective action close to the movie's end: The Frankentoys rally to save Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story; the ant colony in A Bug's Life, inspired by the circus insects, stands up to grasshopper thugs; the netted fish in Finding Nemo pull together to swim, ingeniously, down. This is Pixar's own take on the rescue story: the point when everybody rescues one another.
Can you see how much appeal this has? Children go nuts for this, its saying they are as equally important in helping us as we are in helping them. It speaks about a family bond, a lesson that we try and teach but is understood on a primal level anyway.
Of course, it helps that the animation is so wickedly good, renderman is an industry legend and used by everybody - but in the article they mention how the STORY is tested on a group of kids as a rough sketch animation to see if it works - kids dont need the cgi to like it.
so its 'dont worry about what you don't know; worry about what you don't KNOW you don't know!'
Nice to see it runs Linux. But then, Linux dominates in so many area's and runs so efficiently that its invisible to most users, despite what other desktop OS producers would have you believe. Although probably out of reach this year, it will be tomorrows tech soon enough, and that 480 x 640 LCD will be AWESOME for pretty much any app you can imagine.
luckily his website doesnt have a 2.6 gigabyte image file...slashdot crowd + 2.6gb file = *shudder*
if anyone has a sample of the mountain picture post a link.
this isnt that surprising really, video games are a lot more interesting to some kids than sport. Its great to see some measurable positive results from gaming. Next we could have super fast text scrolling across our screens to 'train' us in speed reading.
And Microsoft could build software into its desktop version of Windows to harness the power of PCs, letting companies get more value from their computers. It's a technology that's applicable to tasks such as drug discovery and microchip design.
sounds a lot like seti@home, folding@home, or the grid project. Another example of embrace and extend. It's definitely going to be interesting when pc's are networked for spare cpu cycles as a normal everyday event. Maybe the can use all that cpu power to get some AI to rewrite windows code so its bulletproof.