"Billion to One..."? Maybe not so much, given the vastness of the Universe. Its entirely possible with found parameters that there are other carbon-based intelligent life forms somewhere out there.
Bad Security? An employee of the lab was overheard speaking the information. They could have the best security in the world, and all it takes is one idiot employee to ruin it.
Thus we have bad security. It needs to be better. I don't know what the solution is, but a user name/pw is inherently insecure.
It's not about the government. It's all about the useless IT consulting companies.
Funny, having worked with many consultants over the years my company hasn't had problems with them to this extent. If they were universally bad you'd think private companies would dump them. Which of course we do when they screw up. You're barking up the wrong tree. The problem is lax government oversite, its not thier money, they don't give a shit.
they slap together a few subsystems and call it a day
Still doesn't explain why customer info is sent to developers. This is acwillful greach of consumer trust on the part of google. I don't see how else it could be spun.
Real Time Systems: a certain PLC vendor (won't name whom, but they're American, and huge) only provides 16-bit drivers to one of their backplane products, if things haven't changed in 3 years, and I bet they haven't. If it wasn't for FreeDOS, third party licensors would be screwed. With FreeDOS and a real time ASIC, these licensors can create products that work with the main vendor.
I predicted Siri by 12 months (no, seriously, I did), so I feel duly empowered to answer and predict all questions on the HID front.
I love Android, but I don't want it on my desktop.
Not as long as desktops are around, which won't be forever. Prounouncing the death of the desktop now would be premature, but lets face it, 20 years from now, 10 even, people aren't going to be using a mouse, dude. Lets get real.
Is it going to be that "Metro" horror? I doubt it. Applications like Siri will be ubiquitous, they will be more intelligent and there will be an ansi standard for the protocol that describes them. They will have a generic name, in a short sci fi story I wrote (wherein I made the "Siri" prediction) I called these applications and called them "Digital Butlers", but I have no idea what the actual designation will be. But I do believe they will be infinately customizable, including looks and and persoalities. You want a sexy Geisha to be your digital assitant? Done. Three Headed Hydra that speaks French? You got it.
And for direct manipulation of digital objects, gestures a la Minority Report, but no need for special gloves. Just reach out and manipulate the objects that will be shown from a 3d projector that your cell phone is equiped with.
Quick portrait of the future; an engineer is walking around downtown when he gets a call from his boss that a change needs to be made to a product design asap. The engineer ends the conversation using his cell phone and then whips out a can of instant LCD and sprays it on a convinient wall in a rough 32x32 box. The spray contains nanite machines that assemble the components of the spray into the LCD + a wifi (or bluetooth or other, new gen, interface). The engineer then tells his digital buter application (in his phone) to connect to the display that he just sprayed on the nearby wall, and to bring up the product plans. He then makes changes using his hands to manipulate directly the product parts. Then tells his digital assistant to save the changes, puts his cell phone in his pocket, and moves on. The connection to the spray-on LCD terminated, the nanites from the spray can dissassemble the spray-on LCD, rendering the wall the same as it was before.
At issue are the large fans within the Mac Pro. Since they are unprotected, it would be possible to touch the fan blades.
Which means you would need to be unretarded enough to unscrew the case, then retarded enough to purposely touch the spinning blades, presumably while the machine is plugged in and powered up. I guess they're insisting some kind of finger guard, like a mesh, is required around a fan that housed inside a computer case. Which of course would comprise the amount of space available in the case. Kind of retarded.
No, that doesn't work. You're obviously not aware of the situation. This phone, a Samsung, actually has THREE measures of memory, one of them is "system" memory (which is similar to ram), its like "working" memory, the other two being static storage and the external multi media storage (the storage you're talking about.) On this phone, though advertised as having 4 gigs internal, only has one gig of "RAM", and its constantly complaining that its running low on system resources (that RAM). Digging in to the process manager app shows most of that space is taken up by those apps I don't want or need. And the only way to get rid of them is to root the phone, something I don't really care to do but Samsung has forced my hand and I'll probably end up doing it.
I don't think they should be required to advertise how much space is actually available...Wrong answer. It sickens me to watch my Samsung phone complain about low system memory when 70% of it is taken up by preinstalled apps I don't want.
The Fed Reserve bank is complicate in the on-going money laundering schemes, along with the major private institutions, that have been going on for the last 20 or so years, washing clean the money from drug cartels and terrorists networks, they're not all sweetness and light at all. Stop fooling yourself.
Altruistic pursuits aside, personal profit is the only real driving motive for 99.9% of all humans everywhere, to deny that is to deny human nature. When that drive crosses established rules it becomes a problem. Before that though, removing that motive would be a mistake.
1) Because the UN would (or at least should) condemn it.
No one gives a damn what the UN thinks, least of all the US, and you're fooling yourself if you want to put your faith in the UN as the world's police force. After the travesties in Eastern Europe and Africa over the last 20 years its laughable to even consider that the UN is some kind of force for "good" in the world. At best they're a clown car crew.
2) Because all you'll succeed in doing is redoubling NK's efforts to create ICBM nukes to defend themselves.
FROM WHAT? THE US? 1) Believe me, we do not care what the hell they are up to, other than the stupid, niggling pain in the asses they are with regard to terrorism, which they love to commit all over the world. Other than that; do you really believe that being able to muster up one nuke test every few years can compare to the constant testing and planned deployment of THOUSANDS of nukes in over 40 years of the cold war makes any difference to Us? You're dreaming. This rhetoric is for their own people. The only thing they do externally is annoy the US, China, and Japan. As an external threat? Meaningless. The NK would be swapped like a bug in a hot war.
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Not far left. Big mixture there.
Chicago is notoriously democratic, and corrupt, however.
"Billion to One..."? Maybe not so much, given the vastness of the Universe. Its entirely possible with found parameters that there are other carbon-based intelligent life forms somewhere out there.
The still scenes on thier website are really nice, some the most detailed and realistic renders from a game engine I've ever seen.
You didn't really read my post, did you...?
Bad Security? An employee of the lab was overheard speaking the information. They could have the best security in the world, and all it takes is one idiot employee to ruin it.
Thus we have bad security. It needs to be better. I don't know what the solution is, but a user name/pw is inherently insecure.
It's not about the government. It's all about the useless IT consulting companies.
Funny, having worked with many consultants over the years my company hasn't had problems with them to this extent. If they were universally bad you'd think private companies would dump them. Which of course we do when they screw up. You're barking up the wrong tree. The problem is lax government oversite, its not thier money, they don't give a shit.
they slap together a few subsystems and call it a day
Still doesn't explain why customer info is sent to developers. This is acwillful greach of consumer trust on the part of google. I don't see how else it could be spun.
Calculating statistically what a group might do
I believe you are referring to psychohistory from 'The Foundation' by Isaac Asimov.
I believe you are referring to the behavioral research of Skinner, Watson, Hull, Tolman, et. al.
Is Woz still with Apple? I thought he was retired and doing guest appearences on Sitcoms.
Real Time Systems: a certain PLC vendor (won't name whom, but they're American, and huge) only provides 16-bit drivers to one of their backplane products, if things haven't changed in 3 years, and I bet they haven't. If it wasn't for FreeDOS, third party licensors would be screwed. With FreeDOS and a real time ASIC, these licensors can create products that work with the main vendor.
I love Android, but I don't want it on my desktop.
Not as long as desktops are around, which won't be forever. Prounouncing the death of the desktop now would be premature, but lets face it, 20 years from now, 10 even, people aren't going to be using a mouse, dude. Lets get real.
Is it going to be that "Metro" horror? I doubt it. Applications like Siri will be ubiquitous, they will be more intelligent and there will be an ansi standard for the protocol that describes them. They will have a generic name, in a short sci fi story I wrote (wherein I made the "Siri" prediction) I called these applications and called them "Digital Butlers", but I have no idea what the actual designation will be. But I do believe they will be infinately customizable, including looks and and persoalities. You want a sexy Geisha to be your digital assitant? Done. Three Headed Hydra that speaks French? You got it.
And for direct manipulation of digital objects, gestures a la Minority Report, but no need for special gloves. Just reach out and manipulate the objects that will be shown from a 3d projector that your cell phone is equiped with.
Quick portrait of the future; an engineer is walking around downtown when he gets a call from his boss that a change needs to be made to a product design asap. The engineer ends the conversation using his cell phone and then whips out a can of instant LCD and sprays it on a convinient wall in a rough 32x32 box. The spray contains nanite machines that assemble the components of the spray into the LCD + a wifi (or bluetooth or other, new gen, interface). The engineer then tells his digital buter application (in his phone) to connect to the display that he just sprayed on the nearby wall, and to bring up the product plans. He then makes changes using his hands to manipulate directly the product parts. Then tells his digital assistant to save the changes, puts his cell phone in his pocket, and moves on. The connection to the spray-on LCD terminated, the nanites from the spray can dissassemble the spray-on LCD, rendering the wall the same as it was before.
So they use the EU as an excuse to replce product? Stupidest theory I've ever read.
At issue are the large fans within the Mac Pro. Since they are unprotected, it would be possible to touch the fan blades.
Which means you would need to be unretarded enough to unscrew the case, then retarded enough to purposely touch the spinning blades, presumably while the machine is plugged in and powered up. I guess they're insisting some kind of finger guard, like a mesh, is required around a fan that housed inside a computer case. Which of course would comprise the amount of space available in the case. Kind of retarded.
Not all plea deals are bad, and I don't believe the court system would handle everything going to trial.
No, that doesn't work. You're obviously not aware of the situation. This phone, a Samsung, actually has THREE measures of memory, one of them is "system" memory (which is similar to ram), its like "working" memory, the other two being static storage and the external multi media storage (the storage you're talking about.) On this phone, though advertised as having 4 gigs internal, only has one gig of "RAM", and its constantly complaining that its running low on system resources (that RAM). Digging in to the process manager app shows most of that space is taken up by those apps I don't want or need. And the only way to get rid of them is to root the phone, something I don't really care to do but Samsung has forced my hand and I'll probably end up doing it.
I don't think they should be required to advertise how much space is actually available...Wrong answer. It sickens me to watch my Samsung phone complain about low system memory when 70% of it is taken up by preinstalled apps I don't want.
The Fed Reserve bank is complicate in the on-going money laundering schemes, along with the major private institutions, that have been going on for the last 20 or so years, washing clean the money from drug cartels and terrorists networks, they're not all sweetness and light at all. Stop fooling yourself.
Altruistic pursuits aside, personal profit is the only real driving motive for 99.9% of all humans everywhere, to deny that is to deny human nature. When that drive crosses established rules it becomes a problem. Before that though, removing that motive would be a mistake.
As if there was any question?
What exactly is the advantage to the developer?
You're trying to tell me that your tab w/a headset is as convenient as whipping out my handset? You're dreamin' pal.
OH- and as I said; if you think the UN is your saviour, you're an idiot.
Typical response from some one who gets all their news from MSNBC- and I do not watch fox news.
1) Because the UN would (or at least should) condemn it.
No one gives a damn what the UN thinks, least of all the US, and you're fooling yourself if you want to put your faith in the UN as the world's police force. After the travesties in Eastern Europe and Africa over the last 20 years its laughable to even consider that the UN is some kind of force for "good" in the world. At best they're a clown car crew.
2) Because all you'll succeed in doing is redoubling NK's efforts to create ICBM nukes to defend themselves.
FROM WHAT? THE US? 1) Believe me, we do not care what the hell they are up to, other than the stupid, niggling pain in the asses they are with regard to terrorism, which they love to commit all over the world. Other than that; do you really believe that being able to muster up one nuke test every few years can compare to the constant testing and planned deployment of THOUSANDS of nukes in over 40 years of the cold war makes any difference to Us? You're dreaming. This rhetoric is for their own people. The only thing they do externally is annoy the US, China, and Japan. As an external threat? Meaningless. The NK would be swapped like a bug in a hot war.
Stopped that war. Maybe prevent another.