Imagine a 9/11 style aeroplane hijacking scenario, wouldn't it be cool for the tower to take over the steering and landing of the aeroplane to get it down safely by remote control regardless of what its pilot is either forced to or intends to do?
I'm suspecting this could be the prime motive out of testing this technology right now.
Privacy fears aren't "overblown"; just look at all the information they try to collect when you fill in the forms for Orkut, by far the most extensive and penetrating data-collection i have seen on the web. They sure are trying to build a massive database of comprehensive personal information about their users. Now add to that your emails and your search/surfing habits and the picture is complete.
I only have one device that has a blue LED. If you don't like blue LEDs, don't but them; I personally avoid them. I think in one way what struck me about this article is that either this guy has a lot of high end devices bought at some time, or a lot of recently bought gear, and he's showing off all his "my" this and "my" that.
They already have the software that they already sell to corporations for a fee, so why not sell it everywhere they could. Mitac will be doing everything necessary, so it probably won't cost sun anything.
I guess some would have little sympathy for the fashion conscious ipod-o-philes... but my ipaq!!! i don't want anyone stealing my ipaq; and i guess i'm gonna have to think twice about using it in public now. Damn muggers, they should be roasted in hell.
Add to that an excessive insistence on political correctness. I once heard from an African female that one of the reasons AIDS is so widespread between Africans was that culture of promiscuous polygamy where an African male would have a wife in the village, a mistress in the city... etc etc and would still frequent prostitutes. I heard that it wouldn't be uncommon for an African male to have up to 5 simultaneous sexual partners. It seems okay that the average life expectancy of some nations would drop down to less than 40 years but it's NOT okay to be politically incorrect when discussing these things.
"I think it's still too risky. think about it, someone going up that's not an astro flowing around accidentally kicking some switch on a panel breaking something"...
i don't know why my mental picture of that featured Homer Simpson...
you're not kidding... this stuff is for real... i know someone whose step-daughter is a 16 year old mtv-styled greenpeace-enthausiast white kid with a website... and on account of this he's been put on some list and it showed up when he failed to get clearance from the government for a job he was applying to...
"100,000 pre-orders alone [...] the biggest buyer of the iPod mini has in fact been those female tech geeks out there"
I totally deplore this statement... it reeks of macho sexism especially that the poster states that the price is a mistake... what are you saying about female tech geeks... you're implicitly, though obviously, suggesting they're idiots! idiots en masse... no wonder that this male geek crowd has a reputation of being unattractive to females, especially with such attitude!....
The ipod, and even more the ipod mini, is no longer a "GEEK" product... it's a mass market and mass popular culture product now... in fact, it probably never was a intended by apple as a geek product, considering their efforts to make it easy to use... Recently, a British tabloid had a feature about the falling dollar and how much cheaper it is now to shop from the US for UK consumers... they used 3 products as an example; the first was the levi's 501, which is the classic example that as far back as i can remember has always been used as the yardstick for sure features, the second product was apple's ipod!... like it or not, apple's ipod now has the mass recognition that levi's 501 has... not a geek product, it's a popular culture product!
"I want to make sure (a user) can't get through... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad," he said.
He's not talking about the online experience a user gets from searching a current or future microsoft search engine technology... read the previous 2 one-sentence-paragraphs and you'll see that he's clearly talking about microsft advertising their products and services ELSEWHERE as they do now... he's talking to a crowd of online advertisers so it's about microsoft benefitting others, it all makes sense... also keep in mind that the butchered half-quote is within an article posted on a rival website that's according to the article stands to lose from microsoft future search efforts... yahoo! I think it's naughty of them to spin things to confuse people.
- "Because many distros will not ship non-free software by default. This greatly limits the usefulness of Java as a general development language for Linux applications."
- "Doesn't that say more about Linux than it does about Sun?"
i totally agree with you... this comment shows the total idiocy, lack of commonsense, that many in the linux crowd have...
"Later that day, Williams could have used those pictures to figure out where she'd left her car keys, or to show a friend the sweater she saw in a window."
I keep a video diary, ~1-2 hours daily or more as needed, and i know that's not how it'd work... i'd like to see her find her keys in those 2000pics/day
"...or even notify the authorities if the owner doesn't move for more than a specified time." I totally love this one... I love you man, i'm ur fan from now on
u troll... the logo totally rocks!... i love it... the platform is neat... it's already there... mozilla works perfectly, at least more perfectly than any other windows app... it does not stall on my machine...
Our kitten has a habit of attacking that stranger of a cat that lurkes behind mirros and reciprocates his display of aggressive intent... I have no need for that swanky screen...
"terrorism" is becoming such a category of convenience; if you can't find a convincing *justification* for your case then squeeze something about terrorism into ur arguments...
Last time i was in the cinema there was some RIAA related anti-piracy infomercial that said "piracy funds terrorism"...!!!!!!!!!!!!....
I have the money but i wouldn't buy this one 'cos i frankly don't see the point... I currently am testing quite a few technologies and i've settled on a setup of an AMD 64 desktop, and PPC handheld to act as a desktop-extension-device for 100m bluetooth internet around the house and mobile multimedia, and a palm OS 4 handheld for PIM functions (long battery life, mature third-party apps).
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Imagine a 9/11 style aeroplane hijacking scenario, wouldn't it be cool for the tower to take over the steering and landing of the aeroplane to get it down safely by remote control regardless of what its pilot is either forced to or intends to do?
I'm suspecting this could be the prime motive out of testing this technology right now.
Privacy fears aren't "overblown"; just look at all the information they try to collect when you fill in the forms for Orkut, by far the most extensive and penetrating data-collection i have seen on the web. They sure are trying to build a massive database of comprehensive personal information about their users. Now add to that your emails and your search/surfing habits and the picture is complete.
I only have one device that has a blue LED. If you don't like blue LEDs, don't but them; I personally avoid them. I think in one way what struck me about this article is that either this guy has a lot of high end devices bought at some time, or a lot of recently bought gear, and he's showing off all his "my" this and "my" that.
Aren't they just getting too obsessed with finding ice and water? how about looking for something else?
They already have the software that they already sell to corporations for a fee, so why not sell it everywhere they could. Mitac will be doing everything necessary, so it probably won't cost sun anything.
seriously, what's wrong with matte black
I did a little investigation and found out that the website is consumptionjunction.com
most insightful comment i have seen for days.
With looks like that, they're sure to intimidate anyone who stands in their way.
I guess some would have little sympathy for the fashion conscious ipod-o-philes... but my ipaq!!! i don't want anyone stealing my ipaq; and i guess i'm gonna have to think twice about using it in public now. Damn muggers, they should be roasted in hell.
Add to that an excessive insistence on political correctness. I once heard from an African female that one of the reasons AIDS is so widespread between Africans was that culture of promiscuous polygamy where an African male would have a wife in the village, a mistress in the city... etc etc and would still frequent prostitutes. I heard that it wouldn't be uncommon for an African male to have up to 5 simultaneous sexual partners. It seems okay that the average life expectancy of some nations would drop down to less than 40 years but it's NOT okay to be politically incorrect when discussing these things.
"I think it's still too risky. think about it, someone going up that's not an astro flowing around accidentally kicking some switch on a panel breaking something"...
i don't know why my mental picture of that featured Homer Simpson...
you're not kidding... this stuff is for real... i know someone whose step-daughter is a 16 year old mtv-styled greenpeace-enthausiast white kid with a website... and on account of this he's been put on some list and it showed up when he failed to get clearance from the government for a job he was applying to...
"100,000 pre-orders alone [...] the biggest buyer of the iPod mini has in fact been those female tech geeks out there"
I totally deplore this statement... it reeks of macho sexism especially that the poster states that the price is a mistake... what are you saying about female tech geeks... you're implicitly, though obviously, suggesting they're idiots! idiots en masse... no wonder that this male geek crowd has a reputation of being unattractive to females, especially with such attitude!....
The ipod, and even more the ipod mini, is no longer a "GEEK" product... it's a mass market and mass popular culture product now... in fact, it probably never was a intended by apple as a geek product, considering their efforts to make it easy to use... Recently, a British tabloid had a feature about the falling dollar and how much cheaper it is now to shop from the US for UK consumers... they used 3 products as an example; the first was the levi's 501, which is the classic example that as far back as i can remember has always been used as the yardstick for sure features, the second product was apple's ipod!... like it or not, apple's ipod now has the mass recognition that levi's 501 has... not a geek product, it's a popular culture product!
"I want to make sure (a user) can't get through
He's not talking about the online experience a user gets from searching a current or future microsoft search engine technology... read the previous 2 one-sentence-paragraphs and you'll see that he's clearly talking about microsft advertising their products and services ELSEWHERE as they do now... he's talking to a crowd of online advertisers so it's about microsoft benefitting others, it all makes sense... also keep in mind that the butchered half-quote is within an article posted on a rival website that's according to the article stands to lose from microsoft future search efforts... yahoo! I think it's naughty of them to spin things to confuse people.
- "Because many distros will not ship non-free software by default. This greatly limits the usefulness of Java as a general development language for Linux applications."
- "Doesn't that say more about Linux than it does about Sun?"
i totally agree with you... this comment shows the total idiocy, lack of commonsense, that many in the linux crowd have...
why are they playing in tokyo.. why don't two US teams play in the US
"Later that day, Williams could have used those pictures to figure out where she'd left her car keys, or to show a friend the sweater she saw in a window."
I keep a video diary, ~1-2 hours daily or more as needed, and i know that's not how it'd work... i'd like to see her find her keys in those 2000pics/day
"...or even notify the authorities if the owner doesn't move for more than a specified time."
I totally love this one... I love you man, i'm ur fan from now on
u troll... the logo totally rocks!... i love it... the platform is neat... it's already there... mozilla works perfectly, at least more perfectly than any other windows app... it does not stall on my machine...
Our kitten has a habit of attacking that stranger of a cat that lurkes behind mirros and reciprocates his display of aggressive intent... I have no need for that swanky screen...
"terrorism" is becoming such a category of convenience; if you can't find a convincing *justification* for your case then squeeze something about terrorism into ur arguments...
Last time i was in the cinema there was some RIAA related anti-piracy infomercial that said "piracy funds terrorism"
Apart from it being Apple hardware and OS... how does the G5 compare to the AMD athlon 64, which is available on many laptops now...
I have the money but i wouldn't buy this one 'cos i frankly don't see the point... I currently am testing quite a few technologies and i've settled on a setup of an AMD 64 desktop, and PPC handheld to act as a desktop-extension-device for 100m bluetooth internet around the house and mobile multimedia, and a palm OS 4 handheld for PIM functions (long battery life, mature third-party apps).