Why haven't you yet removed the spring that actually forces 'step-by-step'? (with some provisions, paper duct tape for example, to give the wheel some slight resistance)
Sure, UIs are a separate issue...even smooth scrolling is just a visual gimmick, taking normal step input.
Such movies are awfully unbalanced. On one hand - insane material science or energy densities, not to mention generally new physics required for interstellar travel in such style. OTOH your favorite moment was part of underlying IT, UI, etc. landscape which wasn't all that different... Yeah, "cool" - but remember, this stuff is meant to look good on a movie screen (preferably while being not too mysterious, usually?)
But where was, say, really augmented reality? (personal displays and UIs everywhere visible only to you, with synchronization between many viewers of course possible, etc.) Oh, right, IRL precursors are only starting to show up, no time to integrate it in Avatar yet. Also, showing it in a non-distracting way would be damn hard
I'm not even sure if very optimal for netbooks - they are supposed to be, well, ultraportable. Suddenly you better find decently large, flat and solid surface, one that would have enough space for "mousing area"?
Those goods, when imported, are a quite small part of such high levels of consumption though. And since they seem to all revolve around products of agriculture...this field is so messed up we can't be certain what the outcome would be (considering how, say, the developed world, and among it US to a large degree, exports also agricultural products to developing places, which is certainly not universally seen as a good thing; all the while agricultural production in developed world is quite unsustainable, greatly contributing to mentioned levels of resource consumption)
So how come Skype programmers can't bring video to any mobile platform they support? How come Jingle VoIP and videocalls (what Gtalk/Gmail uses) work much better on "lesser" connections, ones that don't hide the suckage of given protocol/application?
That's unfair, give them credit for great forward thinking; on the timescale of around 3 decades, it would seem. You don't see that too often from corps nowadays.
Yeah, well, Soviets are out of my place quite a long time, too, but you still see effects / rebouncing one way or the other; certainly still far from a decently stable equilibrium (and no, it doesn't mean only "it goes way too much to the right" - for 10 years (two terms with reelection) out of the last 15 we had an ex-Party atheist president ffs, and ex-Party also having the majority in parliament; not it seems to be temporarily more towards the "right", but the results of "let" at election day are again getting better). That's to be expected such a long, either way, rule of thugs relying on external forces.
Anyway, now "clearly" rejecting Chavez (huh? Did you expect him to become S. American dictator?) is rejecting "left"? What?
And that's not even strictly about iOS4 - Fring is quite popular, from what I see, also on Symbian; where there is also an official Skype client, also without Skype videocalling (which Fring brought to the table last year)
Nokia has 37% of all mobile phones sold; that 37% is a bit over 450 million IIRC. Only close 20% of what they sell is Symbian, around 80 million last year. That number was 45% of smartphones.
That's it; S40 (or S30...) that's on their "feature phones" isn't Symbian. Where did you get "70%" from? Your phone is very much counted as a smartphone, if it's Symbian.
Price isn't the determining factor (or at least shouldn't be) - capabilities matter; and anyway, "computer industry" was historically also about lowering prices...
Heh. Balkans certainly wasn't an Iraq-style intervention - NATO actually stood behind the former!
Ans by saying constantly "US/NATO" you just illustrate part of the reasons why it probably won't be NATA in Iraq-style interventions anywhere (it is more about geopolitical reality also regarding practical stuff you mention; heck, some places not belonging to its structures are far closer to what you would consider as a "model" implementation than many NATO members)
Ehh...they are doing it for few decades (granted, US was / perhaps is a bit late with bringing those systems to any notable number of airports, but...)
(but seriously, US of course trades primarily with very much developed economies; everything would probably find similar equilibrium fairly quickly, and long-term it might actually end up fine, considering the overblown levels of resource consumption per capita at the place (X axis), nearly the farthest from what this rock can actually provide)
I'm not sure if we can expect much good from "new, revolutionary launch system" - wasn't Shuttle supposed to be one already? (inexpensive, too...)
Especially if we have an almost 70-year old example of what can be accomplished by proper design, production and launch campaign (yes, orbit requires minimum an order of magnitude more work from a rocket, but manufacturing/etc. are less dissimilar)
Hm, OTOH aren't we (probably) getting maybe too close, for comfort of some politicians (and their electorate), to some interesting "real science" results? And human spaceflight is glorious, or smth...
Passenger airliners routinely land without pilots touching direct control inputs. UAVs supposedly not doing it is not exactly a case of technological obstacles, more procedural / etc. ones. Spotting wreckage is not that far off, too...it might be just as well a specific way of using various sensors.
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Why haven't you yet removed the spring that actually forces 'step-by-step'? (with some provisions, paper duct tape for example, to give the wheel some slight resistance)
Sure, UIs are a separate issue...even smooth scrolling is just a visual gimmick, taking normal step input.
Such movies are awfully unbalanced. On one hand - insane material science or energy densities, not to mention generally new physics required for interstellar travel in such style. OTOH your favorite moment was part of underlying IT, UI, etc. landscape which wasn't all that different... Yeah, "cool" - but remember, this stuff is meant to look good on a movie screen (preferably while being not too mysterious, usually?)
But where was, say, really augmented reality? (personal displays and UIs everywhere visible only to you, with synchronization between many viewers of course possible, etc.) Oh, right, IRL precursors are only starting to show up, no time to integrate it in Avatar yet. Also, showing it in a non-distracting way would be damn hard
I'm not even sure if very optimal for netbooks - they are supposed to be, well, ultraportable. Suddenly you better find decently large, flat and solid surface, one that would have enough space for "mousing area"?
If only more of them had a clit...
Those goods, when imported, are a quite small part of such high levels of consumption though. And since they seem to all revolve around products of agriculture...this field is so messed up we can't be certain what the outcome would be (considering how, say, the developed world, and among it US to a large degree, exports also agricultural products to developing places, which is certainly not universally seen as a good thing; all the while agricultural production in developed world is quite unsustainable, greatly contributing to mentioned levels of resource consumption)
So how come Skype programmers can't bring video to any mobile platform they support? How come Jingle VoIP and videocalls (what Gtalk/Gmail uses) work much better on "lesser" connections, ones that don't hide the suckage of given protocol/application?
That's unfair, give them credit for great forward thinking; on the timescale of around 3 decades, it would seem. You don't see that too often from corps nowadays.
Somebody ought to laugh at Jobs with the spoof of that 1984 commercial, featuring him on the screen.
It...is...prepaid; without any contract whatsoever. How many times do I have to repeat that?
Yeah, well, Soviets are out of my place quite a long time, too, but you still see effects / rebouncing one way or the other; certainly still far from a decently stable equilibrium (and no, it doesn't mean only "it goes way too much to the right" - for 10 years (two terms with reelection) out of the last 15 we had an ex-Party atheist president ffs, and ex-Party also having the majority in parliament; not it seems to be temporarily more towards the "right", but the results of "let" at election day are again getting better). That's to be expected such a long, either way, rule of thugs relying on external forces.
Anyway, now "clearly" rejecting Chavez (huh? Did you expect him to become S. American dictator?) is rejecting "left"? What?
And that's not even strictly about iOS4 - Fring is quite popular, from what I see, also on Symbian; where there is also an official Skype client, also without Skype videocalling (which Fring brought to the table last year)
Nokia has 37% of all mobile phones sold; that 37% is a bit over 450 million IIRC. Only close 20% of what they sell is Symbian, around 80 million last year. That number was 45% of smartphones.
That's it; S40 (or S30...) that's on their "feature phones" isn't Symbian. Where did you get "70%" from? Your phone is very much counted as a smartphone, if it's Symbian.
Price isn't the determining factor (or at least shouldn't be) - capabilities matter; and anyway, "computer industry" was historically also about lowering prices...
Heh. Balkans certainly wasn't an Iraq-style intervention - NATO actually stood behind the former!
Ans by saying constantly "US/NATO" you just illustrate part of the reasons why it probably won't be NATA in Iraq-style interventions anywhere (it is more about geopolitical reality also regarding practical stuff you mention; heck, some places not belonging to its structures are far closer to what you would consider as a "model" implementation than many NATO members)
NATO? They aren't so readily convinced into Iraq-style interventions.
And yeah, sure, the launchers and radars will be simply killed off...
Ehh...they are doing it for few decades (granted, US was / perhaps is a bit late with bringing those systems to any notable number of airports, but...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system#ILS_categories - CAT IIIb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgeT-F9-1KI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNtlS_HUKU
(also, searching CAT IIIb or autoland brings generally lots of results; I have no idea how could you miss it)
How does the code moving the flaps, etc. influence the emergence of Skynet? ;p
Well, since you stressed "in dollars"... ;p
(but seriously, US of course trades primarily with very much developed economies; everything would probably find similar equilibrium fairly quickly, and long-term it might actually end up fine, considering the overblown levels of resource consumption per capita at the place (X axis), nearly the farthest from what this rock can actually provide)
Hardly anybody uses or even has heard about those "other tons" by now.
I'm not sure if we can expect much good from "new, revolutionary launch system" - wasn't Shuttle supposed to be one already? (inexpensive, too...)
Especially if we have an almost 70-year old example of what can be accomplished by proper design, production and launch campaign (yes, orbit requires minimum an order of magnitude more work from a rocket, but manufacturing/etc. are less dissimilar)
If only it was the capitalization... Also - so many people writing about SI, etc.; nobody putting the damn space between values and units.
...This has already been done for unmanned launch for a couple decades now...
Yeah, by loosing most of it overseas. Even what is left relies partially on, say, foreign main engines.
Hm, OTOH aren't we (probably) getting maybe too close, for comfort of some politicians (and their electorate), to some interesting "real science" results? And human spaceflight is glorious, or smth...
So, certainly not "all the good SAMs will have been used in the first few days of the war on F-16s, F-18G"?...
Such long flights wouldn't work very well for manned aircraft anyway - and we do have an idea, there's air refueling after all.
One of the things which killed nuclear-powered aircraft.
It gives a lot of energy per weight, but not per density; which is a problem / a matter of trade-offs in an aircraft.
"threats"?
Passenger airliners routinely land without pilots touching direct control inputs. UAVs supposedly not doing it is not exactly a case of technological obstacles, more procedural / etc. ones.
Spotting wreckage is not that far off, too...it might be just as well a specific way of using various sensors.
"classical AI"?