Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, won praise in January when he trumpeted a company agreement to give $1 billion in software and cash to the United Nations as part of a job-training program for the developing world.
So as a humanitarian, he contributed a very generous sum towards education, but the question now remains, what will the job-training program be pertaining to, MCSE or.NET srvices?
The people get jobs, that helps, but it's only temporary and helps our good friend Mr. Gates strengthen his monopoly.
I don't know, you be the judge.
You're some what right about this, I've been hearing plenty of reports about how spectacular venus looks in the night sky now-a-days. Here's just one of the many links, but yes, the images that were there in the link were prety suprising. The only ground based venus images I can remember of is this Discovery channel programme about space, in it there were snowflakes of sulfuric acid if I remember correctly.
I wasn't referring to it in terms of being black and so...
Even if you look at Hubble's images, they're no so spetacular.
Try putting in context, largest lens, images...
I agree, search quality will definitely take a hit, and the competition is building to such a degree that it won't be long before some startup from Stanford/MIT will do what google did to altavista/yahoo.
When it comes to survival, nobody cares if their great-grandparents followed a certain procedure to maintain sustenance, if you don't adapt, darwin will get to you...
You know I had read somewhere that our brains (individual processes) run at around 200MHz (as it is all electro-chemically done), now if you say that we have hundreds of billions of neurons, so do we have billions of transistors on chips.
The difference here is that our brains use the 3rd dimension effectively (and also work in parallel, I think). Now I'm not sure if the latest breakthrough uses electro-chemical processes to communicate, but if it's faster than 200MHz, it definitely has huge potential.
With more than 50% of them not even aware of what google is.
If a few hundred million people can generate more than 6 billion pages, just imagine what number all of humanity can produce?
The article is pretty sketchy on details, so here's something that will help a little. Now here's the most important part from that article, "Rhyniognatha could have had wings, say the authors, but this is impossible to confirm since the wings themselves are missing."
What about life forms based on silicon and sulphur (as opposed to carbon and oxygen). I'm not sure that we might even be able to recognize it as life despite observing it. We are living in a universal time period where there have been enough supernovae explosions to create an abundant supply of carbon and oxygen, plenty more will be required before there will be enough to chemically kickstart silicon based life.
There's no way of knowing if that kind of life will work on an evolutionary platform, maybe it will maybe it won't, for us it's DNA, what will it be for them?
I agree, but let's look at this from sir Cameron Mackintosh's perspective, he is more interested in flawlessness and accuracy, which the automation will give him without fail.
Why do you even bother posting, RTFA, it takes hundreds of millions of years for an exploding nova to cool down to the state that the white dwarf mentioned is in.
Hundreds of millions of years ago, who do think was alive on this planet to witness the nova explosion? Next time try asking your parents before posting trollish replies.
Yes, and add to that all the density and intense gravitational pull and we would probably do better here on earth to synthesize diamonds.
50 light years is pretty close, wonder if the early reptiles may have witnessed the nova explosion, in fact it would be interesting to find out if it had any effect on life here on earth.
The reactor is a relatively tiny 2-foot-high apparatus of tubes and wires that creates hydrogen from corn-based ethanol.
What this means is that production of hydrogen will compete directly with traditional farmland, so if there is some way of getting ethanol without using precious arable land...
I was referring to common nouns, so Macintosh dosent really count, but yes, point well taken.
I still feel that trademarking common nouns cannot be legally justified, and fighting over owning them is too stupid to be classified as a human activity.
Yeah, I know, how can an organisation trademark a word that's a common noun? If it were a proper noun (like Microsoft) I can, I guess, accept the fact that there is some room to negotiate.
If tomorrow some guy comes up with an OS called Blue hat, I don't think it will create too much noise other than a +5 Funny comment.
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Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, won praise in January when he trumpeted a company agreement to give $1 billion in software and cash to the United Nations as part of a job-training program for the developing world.
.NET srvices?
So as a humanitarian, he contributed a very generous sum towards education, but the question now remains, what will the job-training program be pertaining to, MCSE or
The people get jobs, that helps, but it's only temporary and helps our good friend Mr. Gates strengthen his monopoly.
I don't know, you be the judge.
You're some what right about this, I've been hearing plenty of reports about how spectacular venus looks in the night sky now-a-days. Here's just one of the many links, but yes, the images that were there in the link were prety suprising. The only ground based venus images I can remember of is this Discovery channel programme about space, in it there were snowflakes of sulfuric acid if I remember correctly.
I wasn't referring to it in terms of being black and so...
Even if you look at Hubble's images, they're no so spetacular.
Try putting in context, largest lens, images...
Not! This isn't about manned spaceflight, more about national prestige, anyway, if you really want to feel sad today, read this.
Well, it's plague, so I'm sure the buboes will be plenty colourfull...
It's not like I don't have appreciation for the fine arts, but this is taking it too far, it is almost to the extent of patronizing virus writers.
Ok fine, what if someday, a student doing research in microbiology decides, just for the sake or fine arts, I'll release a mutant plague bacteria...
I agree, search quality will definitely take a hit, and the competition is building to such a degree that it won't be long before some startup from Stanford/MIT will do what google did to altavista/yahoo.
Has anyone noticed that 'servers running on MAC-OS' article is from MACWORLD.co.uk...
Forgot to add this.
I wanted to incorporate the details, but just didn't know how to, anyway, if you want details, here you go.
When it comes to survival, nobody cares if their great-grandparents followed a certain procedure to maintain sustenance, if you don't adapt, darwin will get to you...
I wonder how you're planning on getting the raw materials for all that, this isn't about turning straw into gold.
You know I had read somewhere that our brains (individual processes) run at around 200MHz (as it is all electro-chemically done), now if you say that we have hundreds of billions of neurons, so do we have billions of transistors on chips.
The difference here is that our brains use the 3rd dimension effectively (and also work in parallel, I think). Now I'm not sure if the latest breakthrough uses electro-chemical processes to communicate, but if it's faster than 200MHz, it definitely has huge potential.
With more than 50% of them not even aware of what google is.
If a few hundred million people can generate more than 6 billion pages, just imagine what number all of humanity can produce?
The article is pretty sketchy on details, so here's something that will help a little. Now here's the most important part from that article, "Rhyniognatha could have had wings, say the authors, but this is impossible to confirm since the wings themselves are missing."
What about life forms based on silicon and sulphur (as opposed to carbon and oxygen).
I'm not sure that we might even be able to recognize it as life despite observing it. We are living in a universal time period where there have been enough supernovae explosions to create an abundant supply of carbon and oxygen, plenty more will be required before there will be enough to chemically kickstart silicon based life.
There's no way of knowing if that kind of life will work on an evolutionary platform, maybe it will maybe it won't, for us it's DNA, what will it be for them?
I agree, but let's look at this from sir Cameron Mackintosh's perspective, he is more interested in flawlessness and accuracy, which the automation will give him without fail.
Why do you even bother posting, RTFA, it takes hundreds of millions of years for an exploding nova to cool down to the state that the white dwarf mentioned is in.
Hundreds of millions of years ago, who do think was alive on this planet to witness the nova explosion? Next time try asking your parents before posting trollish replies.
Yes, and add to that all the density and intense gravitational pull and we would probably do better here on earth to synthesize diamonds.
50 light years is pretty close, wonder if the early reptiles may have witnessed the nova explosion, in fact it would be interesting to find out if it had any effect on life here on earth.
The reactor is a relatively tiny 2-foot-high apparatus of tubes and wires that creates hydrogen from corn-based ethanol.
What this means is that production of hydrogen will compete directly with traditional farmland, so if there is some way of getting ethanol without using precious arable land...
Didn't know that, and all this while I thought it was a just a name.
I was referring to common nouns, so Macintosh dosent really count, but yes, point well taken.
I still feel that trademarking common nouns cannot be legally justified, and fighting over owning them is too stupid to be classified as a human activity.
Yeah, I know, how can an organisation trademark a word that's a common noun? If it were a proper noun (like Microsoft) I can, I guess, accept the fact that there is some room to negotiate.
If tomorrow some guy comes up with an OS called Blue hat, I don't think it will create too much noise other than a +5 Funny comment.
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