kind of like this story about the 800 lbs gorilla of myspace and a smaller wannabee... facebook. Friendster begat MySpace begat Facebook begat someone new. Sure, I agree it won't be Diaspora because they have a terrible name and haven't even started writing code yet, but there is no such thing as too big to fail on the interwebs.
People never thought Yahoo could be displaced in the search engine market in the late 90s either.
Flamingo pink, canary yellow, "red factor" coloring. Lots of the brighter colors like those are diet based. That dinosaurs whites could be neon pink if it has the right diet!
Also, some of those melanosomes degrade chemically fairly quick and will never show in a fossil record.
Are you two kidding?... I want to see blemishes on skin, blades of grass moving and reflections in water. I want to hear footsteps on metal, birds tweeting
Look around, see that door? Yeah, that one with the sunlight behind it. Close the computer, and walk out it.
It sounds fantastic in theory, but once in the real world, Cloud Computing falls flat on its face.
Try explaining that to the 11 million people who play FarmVille. Or to Google. Sure, you don't like cloud computing, I don't love it either, but falls on its face? Nah. Epically popular? Yup.
Multitouch is there in the hardware, you just have to turn it on. Same as the other Google phones that are out now. G1/MyTouch/Droid can all multitouch if you so desire.
If Apple does indeed hold this patent, they would be laughed out of court if they tried to enforce it.
Things besides the iPhone that support multitouch:
Windows Linux That HP touchsmart computer Droid Eris (Verizon phone) HTC Hero (sprint phone)
Those are just the ones I can think of without a google search. Also, most 'of your "stock" Android phones (HTC G1, HTC MyTouch3g, Motorola Droid/Milestone, Nexus One) do indeed support multitouch, it's just not enabled out of the box. With a pretty easy hack (thanks Cyanogen) my MyTouch can pinch zoom. I'm guessing the reason it's not enabled stock is more to do with zoom features not really being standardized. While the pinch zoom works great in the browser, Google Maps doesn't support it. Probably more of a keeping a standard interface thing. It will come, give it time.
As a siderant, What does it matter? I use my phone with one hand. To use multitouch requires you to hold the phone with one hand and operate it with the other. It's just awkward. Maybe the next iPhone will incorporate special toe controls as well so I can bring another limb into the equation. Killer feature there.
I have a t-mobile android phone. I live on the east coast and get 3g most everywhere. Perhaps you live in Nebraska? Careful of the map kool-aid. Also, last I checked Verizon and AT&T's unlimited usage plans were $150/month as opposed to T-Mobiles $90. Getting 3G in Nebraska isn't worth that premium to me, despite cool tv spots telling me otherwise.
Nanosolar looks great! I'd love to purchase some for my house and boat. Except it's not available yet. Call me when it's ready.
The grid parity is indeed news worthy, and I would not refer to that as vaporwear.
I'm just saying articles like this one, or the human hair to solar power etc. etc. etc. are nothing but PR crap that will most likely never see the light of day (no pun intended). I like the idea of solar power and agree that it has a fantastic future. Just better moderation of obvious vaporwear PR would make my slashdot viewing a little better.
1. Don't make the coward part true. If it's worth arguing it's worth using your name.
2. I don't care what manufacturing costs are. I have a small sailboat and would love to use solar when not docked, but the prices for such applications still are prohibitively high (yes, I own a boat and am not wealthy. Weird, I know.). If manufacturing costs have indeed become immensely cheaper, then the "revolution" is only benefiting manufacturers wallets, because it's not benefiting me.
3. Giant paragraphs are hard to read, line breaks are your friend. If English is not your native language I apologize, but your rant is borderline incomprehensible.
100 times less material to generate the same amount of electricity as standard solar cells made from 6-inch square solar wafers
from the article: As of now the solar cells are producing energy with 14.9 percent efficiency, which is pretty great compared to off-the-shelf commercial modules which range from 13 to 20 percent.
Does anyone else notice every few months an amazing breakthrough in solar cells that will increase solar efficiency by 10^x power or lower the cost to nearly free? Meanwhile, the solar panels for useful applications are still expensive and space consuming?
Sure, lakes of oil are cool, but ultimately not of any use. Based on how we think life starts, there probably is no life there. Europa on the other hand? Oxygenated oceans of water. Best chance for life of anywhere we know. Can we put this to a vote or something?
That bot is based on actually clicking. It requires a fullscreen zoomed out application of farmville running for it to work. Farmvillebot.net has a free application that doesn't need a screen of farmville. It will happily run in the taskbar, and it's free.
Reminds me of the old trick from when DVD writers were new and expensive. Buy a DVD writer, switch the faceplate on it with one on an old cd drive. Return the cd drive with a make over and keep the incognito DVD writer. Just don't pay with a credit card.
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kind of like this story about the 800 lbs gorilla of myspace and a smaller wannabee... facebook. Friendster begat MySpace begat Facebook begat someone new. Sure, I agree it won't be Diaspora because they have a terrible name and haven't even started writing code yet, but there is no such thing as too big to fail on the interwebs.
People never thought Yahoo could be displaced in the search engine market in the late 90s either.
When a product runs faster via wine than its native code, I'm not too excited about running it.
Your car analogy is kind of flawed. You can easily get out of automated speeding tickets in many places by placing the burden of proof on the state.
Example: this guy in Arizona got 37 tickets but because he was wearing a mask in the photos probably will never pay them.
There is that annoying innocent until proven guilty bit getting in the way.
The only thing it restricts is your ability to fork a open project and close the source. I don't know if I'd call changing that an improvement...
And don't give me the "viral" lie. Boxee closed the code it wrote and left the GPL XBMC guts open just fine. You just can't close already open code.
The obligatory annoying irc channel of people asking questions already answered via a web search.
Try using the exact colors of a US university for anything vaguely related and see what happens.
you sir, spend far too much time in an office!
Flamingo pink, canary yellow, "red factor" coloring. Lots of the brighter colors like those are diet based. That dinosaurs whites could be neon pink if it has the right diet!
Also, some of those melanosomes degrade chemically fairly quick and will never show in a fossil record.
Not only is 10 million much easier to understand than 10^7, but 0.01 cubic millimeters is a MUCH more common number, and measurement.
Not exactly hidden information either.
I heard he's boycotting a haircut until he can get GNU/Scissors
Are you two kidding? ... I want to see blemishes on skin, blades of grass moving and reflections in water. I want to hear footsteps on metal, birds tweeting
Look around, see that door? Yeah, that one with the sunlight behind it. Close the computer, and walk out it.
Fixed that for you.
Using notepad for your word processing and not using wifi on a netbook? Have you ever thought about using paper and pencil?
For a normal person checking email and doing the other things normal people actually use a computer that eee runs for about 6 hours.
It sounds fantastic in theory, but once in the real world, Cloud Computing falls flat on its face.
Try explaining that to the 11 million people who play FarmVille. Or to Google. Sure, you don't like cloud computing, I don't love it either, but falls on its face? Nah. Epically popular? Yup.
Multitouch is there in the hardware, you just have to turn it on. Same as the other Google phones that are out now. G1/MyTouch/Droid can all multitouch if you so desire.
If Apple does indeed hold this patent, they would be laughed out of court if they tried to enforce it.
Things besides the iPhone that support multitouch:
Windows
Linux
That HP touchsmart computer
Droid Eris (Verizon phone)
HTC Hero (sprint phone)
Those are just the ones I can think of without a google search. Also, most 'of your "stock" Android phones (HTC G1, HTC MyTouch3g, Motorola Droid/Milestone, Nexus One) do indeed support multitouch, it's just not enabled out of the box. With a pretty easy hack (thanks Cyanogen) my MyTouch can pinch zoom. I'm guessing the reason it's not enabled stock is more to do with zoom features not really being standardized. While the pinch zoom works great in the browser, Google Maps doesn't support it. Probably more of a keeping a standard interface thing. It will come, give it time.
As a siderant, What does it matter? I use my phone with one hand. To use multitouch requires you to hold the phone with one hand and operate it with the other. It's just awkward. Maybe the next iPhone will incorporate special toe controls as well so I can bring another limb into the equation. Killer feature there.
I have a t-mobile android phone. I live on the east coast and get 3g most everywhere. Perhaps you live in Nebraska? Careful of the map kool-aid. Also, last I checked Verizon and AT&T's unlimited usage plans were $150/month as opposed to T-Mobiles $90. Getting 3G in Nebraska isn't worth that premium to me, despite cool tv spots telling me otherwise.
Nanosolar looks great! I'd love to purchase some for my house and boat. Except it's not available yet. Call me when it's ready.
The grid parity is indeed news worthy, and I would not refer to that as vaporwear.
I'm just saying articles like this one, or the human hair to solar power etc. etc. etc. are nothing but PR crap that will most likely never see the light of day (no pun intended). I like the idea of solar power and agree that it has a fantastic future. Just better moderation of obvious vaporwear PR would make my slashdot viewing a little better.
1. Don't make the coward part true. If it's worth arguing it's worth using your name.
2. I don't care what manufacturing costs are. I have a small sailboat and would love to use solar when not docked, but the prices for such applications still are prohibitively high (yes, I own a boat and am not wealthy. Weird, I know.). If manufacturing costs have indeed become immensely cheaper, then the "revolution" is only benefiting manufacturers wallets, because it's not benefiting me.
3. Giant paragraphs are hard to read, line breaks are your friend. If English is not your native language I apologize, but your rant is borderline incomprehensible.
100 times less material to generate the same amount of electricity as standard solar cells made from 6-inch square solar wafers
from the article: As of now the solar cells are producing energy with 14.9 percent efficiency, which is pretty great compared to off-the-shelf commercial modules which range from 13 to 20 percent.
Gotta read them things!
Does anyone else notice every few months an amazing breakthrough in solar cells that will increase solar efficiency by 10^x power or lower the cost to nearly free? Meanwhile, the solar panels for useful applications are still expensive and space consuming?
I'm kind of getting tired of it.
Sure, lakes of oil are cool, but ultimately not of any use. Based on how we think life starts, there probably is no life there. Europa on the other hand? Oxygenated oceans of water. Best chance for life of anywhere we know. Can we put this to a vote or something?
Thanks Captain Obvious!
That bot is based on actually clicking. It requires a fullscreen zoomed out application of farmville running for it to work. Farmvillebot.net has a free application that doesn't need a screen of farmville. It will happily run in the taskbar, and it's free.
Reminds me of the old trick from when DVD writers were new and expensive. Buy a DVD writer, switch the faceplate on it with one on an old cd drive. Return the cd drive with a make over and keep the incognito DVD writer. Just don't pay with a credit card.
After a year of using Vista I think most people would be ready to battle!