Article's not too clear. My guess is that you can't get to the card directly, and they use some sort of super-secret connector to actually get the data from the camera to their computer at CVS, then they burn the video to a DVD for you.
Don't get me wrong, this is not how things should be, but to turn your question around: What happens when your parents/friends/@other_close_ones get hit by a phisher, and "due process" doesn't protect them, because the industry is still "searching" for a solution?
We would rather see the industry itself find solutions.
And while your industry is sitting around doing nothing about these fake sites set up in countries where the local police care more about rounding up dissidents than stopping fraud, people are losing their life savings. I'll take my chances with the vigilantes. Even if they make mistakes, at least they're doing something
This kind of pessimism isn't going to help the situation. The fact is, outdated as it is, the shuttle is the only means we have for getting massive equipment to the ISS, which we're obligated to do.
Space flight is risky, and the shuttle is even riskier than it has to be, but we have to finish the job. In this case, that means putting people's lives at risk, even though we know the shuttle is basically a huge mistake. Giving up on the ISS now will leave us out in the cold when the next space race heats up, and this time, it's not going to be us vs. one other country, it's going to be a whole lot of countries, probably forming alliances. If we don't do our part now, we'll be left out of all those alliances, and it will be us against the world.
Speaking of imperialism, how long do you think it will take after the first offworld colony is formed for the first interplanetary war to start (ala Red, Green and Blue Mars)? I'm betting 75-100 years if the colonial powers don't have a plan right from the start for the space colonies to become independent once they're ready.
With all the advances they're making in prosthetics these days, I'm guessing within 50 years, we'll be treating our bodies more like cars, and we'll regularly upgrade ourselves to be faster and stronger.
To say nothing of the mass hysteria that occurs when the words "life" and "mars" are randomly strung together in the same sentence, then repeated secondhand to an over-eager journalist.
I agree that Hubble is a great scientific instrument, but I also think everyone here agrees that the space shuttle is inherently more dangerous than it should be. I'd like to talk to the scientific panel that recommended reinstating the shuttle mission to service the Hubble, and ask them, "If the (not-so)unthinkable happened, and the crew sent up to repair Hubble died in another shuttle accident, would you ever be able to sleep again?"
I seriously don't mean this as a troll or flamebait. Personally, I think we should scrap the shuttle program right now, and to hell with the ISS, because another seven dead astronauts will really kill the enthusiasm for space flight around the world. I don't believe stopping U.S. government funded space flight while we develop the CEV would dampen the enthusiasm that much, especially now that the private space race is finally showing some signs of life.
Back on the topic of the loss of the Hubble, we've got Chandra and JWST (in the not-too-distant future) to deal with the wavelengths that don't penetrate the atmosphere, and adaptive optics are going to give us just as good a view as Hubble ever did of the wavelengths that do come down to our level.
Fantastic idea. But no need to send him to Mars to watch him suffer so. Just explain to him that the agriculture that feeds him required the destruction of pristine woodland. Do the math, and show him how many hundreds of acres he's personally responsible for destroying, just by eating to remain alive.
I'll pay for his funeral if he then acts on his convictions, and starves himself to death.
What about a blimp probe? Since Titan has a substantial atmosphere, it should be possible to send a blimp with cameras and such to float around and take measurements. With Titan's 200 MPH winds, you probably wouldn't be able to steer it too well, but if you gave it long enough battery life, you'd probably get a good look at most of the surface, right?
Since it would be moving unpredictably, you'd need a mothership capable of listening for some sort of constant tone, then locking onto the blimp probe and requesting a data upload, or something like that.
Venus is the planet which was supposed to have jungles.
You make a valid point about over-speculating, but at least the speculation about Titan is based on the fact that the temperatures at Titan are in the right range for methane to be liquid, solid, and gas. So it's not just some dreamer's wild vision.
I'd say there's definitely some sort of liquid action going on though, because there aren't that many impact craters from what they have been able to tell, which indicates that the surface has been recently eroded. It could be volcanism too, I guess, but I would think we'd have detected some chemical signatures of that even without being able to see the surface that clearly. Any chemists in the audience, please feel free to prove me wrong.
Signifying Nothing.
The early adopters of any technology tend to be tech-savvy. A side effect of tech-savvy, in this case, is being less likely to click on ads. It's not as though a Firefox user would visit a friends house, use IE, and start mindlessly buying crap just because his friend had IE. As Firefox (hopefully) expands to more joe six-pack type users, the ad-click rates will go up.
Problem with music is, since it's traded mostly on p2p, the source is the user, more often than not, whereas MS seems to believe/know that the source is different from the user in a large chunk of the population they're interested in.
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I'll admit I did not know about the adverts/feature-lists regarding tabbed browsing on IE's home-page. All I was going on was that the Microsoft Australia's managing director flat-out said that users did not want tabbed browsing in the article I linked to.
So, the Microst Australia guy's statements appear to simply be a case of communication breakdown (if that term doesn't seem too severe) within Microsoft, not uncommon in any corporation that big.
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Hadn't thought about it like that. You're probably right that they believe it's better like it is. Let me change my tune a little bit, though, and say I think they're wrong =) (I know, I know, I'm not the one Microsoft is paying to think about this, but I still get to say what I want about it).
The tab interface makes it just as easy to find the document you would have previously "lost", but it also makes it quicker than adding another window block to the task bar. You have to move the mouse less to get to the tab list than to the task bar (on average, anyway), and if you have grouping turned on in XP, it takes two clicks to find the window you're looking for once the blocks combine.
Also, somebody at Microsoft does like the tab interface. Have you used VStudio.Net yet? It uses (surprise) a tabbed interface for you to access all the open documents in your solution.
According to ABC Australia, Microsoft doesn't believe people want tabbed browsing. This seems to indicate they're waiting for users to tell them what they want. This is the kind of attitude that will cost them more than any onslaught of viruses and security gaffes. If you're not looking to exceed your customer's expectations, somebody else will come along and do it for you. Of course nobody thought to ask Microsoft for tabbed browsing, if it was obviously needed it wouldn't be an "innovation".
So does this mean that microsoft.com is the single most linked to page on the internet, or what? It's just a strange result. Maybe Google's algorithm is incorrectly interpreting the 'http' in the href as a keyword, or something?
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I'd rather have extra arms than this suit. If that kind of thing pans out, we could create our own custom limbs.
Article's not too clear. My guess is that you can't get to the card directly, and they use some sort of super-secret connector to actually get the data from the camera to their computer at CVS, then they burn the video to a DVD for you.
Don't get me wrong, this is not how things should be, but to turn your question around: What happens when your parents/friends/@other_close_ones get hit by a phisher, and "due process" doesn't protect them, because the industry is still "searching" for a solution?
"This server ain't big enough for the two of us"
That doesn't appear to be their method. They're taking the more old-school path of actually breaking into and defacing these sites.
Agreed. From the end of TFA:
And while your industry is sitting around doing nothing about these fake sites set up in countries where the local police care more about rounding up dissidents than stopping fraud, people are losing their life savings. I'll take my chances with the vigilantes. Even if they make mistakes, at least they're doing something
This kind of pessimism isn't going to help the situation. The fact is, outdated as it is, the shuttle is the only means we have for getting massive equipment to the ISS, which we're obligated to do.
Space flight is risky, and the shuttle is even riskier than it has to be, but we have to finish the job. In this case, that means putting people's lives at risk, even though we know the shuttle is basically a huge mistake. Giving up on the ISS now will leave us out in the cold when the next space race heats up, and this time, it's not going to be us vs. one other country, it's going to be a whole lot of countries, probably forming alliances. If we don't do our part now, we'll be left out of all those alliances, and it will be us against the world.
Speaking of imperialism, how long do you think it will take after the first offworld colony is formed for the first interplanetary war to start (ala Red, Green and Blue Mars)? I'm betting 75-100 years if the colonial powers don't have a plan right from the start for the space colonies to become independent once they're ready.
Sure, autopilot can take me place to place through the air, but taking off and landing, the most dangerous parts, still have to be done by a human.
With all the advances they're making in prosthetics these days, I'm guessing within 50 years, we'll be treating our bodies more like cars, and we'll regularly upgrade ourselves to be faster and stronger.
To say nothing of the mass hysteria that occurs when the words "life" and "mars" are randomly strung together in the same sentence, then repeated secondhand to an over-eager journalist.
I agree that Hubble is a great scientific instrument, but I also think everyone here agrees that the space shuttle is inherently more dangerous than it should be. I'd like to talk to the scientific panel that recommended reinstating the shuttle mission to service the Hubble, and ask them, "If the (not-so)unthinkable happened, and the crew sent up to repair Hubble died in another shuttle accident, would you ever be able to sleep again?"
I seriously don't mean this as a troll or flamebait. Personally, I think we should scrap the shuttle program right now, and to hell with the ISS, because another seven dead astronauts will really kill the enthusiasm for space flight around the world. I don't believe stopping U.S. government funded space flight while we develop the CEV would dampen the enthusiasm that much, especially now that the private space race is finally showing some signs of life.
Back on the topic of the loss of the Hubble, we've got Chandra and JWST (in the not-too-distant future) to deal with the wavelengths that don't penetrate the atmosphere, and adaptive optics are going to give us just as good a view as Hubble ever did of the wavelengths that do come down to our level.
Fantastic idea. But no need to send him to Mars to watch him suffer so. Just explain to him that the agriculture that feeds him required the destruction of pristine woodland. Do the math, and show him how many hundreds of acres he's personally responsible for destroying, just by eating to remain alive. I'll pay for his funeral if he then acts on his convictions, and starves himself to death.
ESA told NASA which bits to flip on Cassini, but left out the channel A bit.
What about a blimp probe? Since Titan has a substantial atmosphere, it should be possible to send a blimp with cameras and such to float around and take measurements. With Titan's 200 MPH winds, you probably wouldn't be able to steer it too well, but if you gave it long enough battery life, you'd probably get a good look at most of the surface, right? Since it would be moving unpredictably, you'd need a mothership capable of listening for some sort of constant tone, then locking onto the blimp probe and requesting a data upload, or something like that.
You make a valid point about over-speculating, but at least the speculation about Titan is based on the fact that the temperatures at Titan are in the right range for methane to be liquid, solid, and gas. So it's not just some dreamer's wild vision.
I'd say there's definitely some sort of liquid action going on though, because there aren't that many impact craters from what they have been able to tell, which indicates that the surface has been recently eroded. It could be volcanism too, I guess, but I would think we'd have detected some chemical signatures of that even without being able to see the surface that clearly. Any chemists in the audience, please feel free to prove me wrong.
Signifying Nothing. The early adopters of any technology tend to be tech-savvy. A side effect of tech-savvy, in this case, is being less likely to click on ads. It's not as though a Firefox user would visit a friends house, use IE, and start mindlessly buying crap just because his friend had IE. As Firefox (hopefully) expands to more joe six-pack type users, the ad-click rates will go up.
Problem with music is, since it's traded mostly on p2p, the source is the user, more often than not, whereas MS seems to believe/know that the source is different from the user in a large chunk of the population they're interested in.
I'll admit I did not know about the adverts/feature-lists regarding tabbed browsing on IE's home-page. All I was going on was that the Microsoft Australia's managing director flat-out said that users did not want tabbed browsing in the article I linked to. So, the Microst Australia guy's statements appear to simply be a case of communication breakdown (if that term doesn't seem too severe) within Microsoft, not uncommon in any corporation that big.
Hadn't thought about it like that. You're probably right that they believe it's better like it is. Let me change my tune a little bit, though, and say I think they're wrong =) (I know, I know, I'm not the one Microsoft is paying to think about this, but I still get to say what I want about it). The tab interface makes it just as easy to find the document you would have previously "lost", but it also makes it quicker than adding another window block to the task bar. You have to move the mouse less to get to the tab list than to the task bar (on average, anyway), and if you have grouping turned on in XP, it takes two clicks to find the window you're looking for once the blocks combine. Also, somebody at Microsoft does like the tab interface. Have you used VStudio.Net yet? It uses (surprise) a tabbed interface for you to access all the open documents in your solution.
According to ABC Australia, Microsoft doesn't believe people want tabbed browsing. This seems to indicate they're waiting for users to tell them what they want. This is the kind of attitude that will cost them more than any onslaught of viruses and security gaffes. If you're not looking to exceed your customer's expectations, somebody else will come along and do it for you. Of course nobody thought to ask Microsoft for tabbed browsing, if it was obviously needed it wouldn't be an "innovation".
Plot straight from the game? What secret brick was I supposed to push to find that?
He's not just doing it for the chicks, he's doing it for the alien chicks. From the Article:
As for ET? Rutan hopes there is local life on other planets, because it would be fun to do what holidaymakers do: "interface them".
So does this mean that microsoft.com is the single most linked to page on the internet, or what? It's just a strange result. Maybe Google's algorithm is incorrectly interpreting the 'http' in the href as a keyword, or something?
When will cars be able to drive themselves down the freeway? Anyone heard anything about research in that area? That would be really cool.