Of course they thought they could make Mapping software over night. They only did that because they didn't want Google's name to feature more prominently within their phone.
Sometimes even big companies make stupid decisions based more on ideology VS common sense.
All it takes is a CEO that wants to make a name for themselves or some think tank to dream up some sort of strategic advantage.
I think it is very much like MAD when they get really entangled, but if one starts to achieve a superior mine shaft numbers...
Also the RTG has a half-life of 87 years. It has been going for about 36 years. Wiki says it will have enough power until 2025. Though it seems that the power will drop, and at what point certain systems start failing and which they are isn't clear. If the transmitter stops, it might as well be dead. So with about 12 years left it can travel about another 6,445,337,920 km before the lights turn off. A relatively short distance.
Of course it will still keep going (unless it hits something) after that. We just won't hear about it (unless it hits an advanced alien civilization with anger issues who doesn't appreciate us flinging our junk at them).
Microsoft intentionally would tie the kinect to the Xbox One, because they know by forcing the inclusion of the device will likely create an overabundance of kinect devices that are not being used that people will want to get rid of. If they are also trying to sell them for PC, they had to make them non-interchangeable as otherwise the cheap secondhand marke that will come into being due to the forced inclusion with the Xbox One will generate would totally cannibalize all their potential sales.
I think a better analogy (already did a house) is that of a telemarketer. Now that I think of it, that is really what MS is, a pusher salesman, more so than anything technological.
Think of your talking on the phone to some telemarketer, and you are trying to tell them "No, I am not interested". Do they give up? No, they start to repeat the same sad sack pitch line they just told you, or try to highlight what you are currently doing wrong and how their product will fix it. You keep telling them, "No thank you" being the polite person you are, but the marketer is not going to be deterred, and will simply keep going with more and more BS, regardless of whatever objections you may have over their product/service, until ultimately in the end you hang up on them.
More people need to "hang up" on MS before they will finally get the message.
Actually I am pretty sure that is what the BIOS is for, a system for handling basic input/output.:)
Anyway I get what you are saying however. It is a fundamental flaw, that consumers are actually causing.
House Analogy: You want to sell your house. Your basement foundation is falling apart and leaks. Your kitchen is a bit dated. Rather than fix your basement, you decide to renovate your kitchen, because that is what people see, makes the biggest impact to the sale, increases the value of what you can get for your home. However when some poor sod buys your house they are left with a useless basement. Problem is that the homeowner has never known anything but houses with useless basements, and thus isn't all that angry about the transaction... Thus the endless cycle of MS not giving a shit about what your basement looks like.
Yes using oats and other gains for over land travel using this thing called a "horse". For multiple traveler capacity scientists have come up with a device called a "buggy".
The best part is the the transport itself can be used as a foodstuff, and is a renewable resource, and the "buggy" itself is recyclable!
While I wasn't a huge fan of the deal, Canada sold its nationalized nuclear reactor program CANDU to a corporation. For peanuts (15$Million), royalty rights (so I guess if the manage to turn a profit we get some return), but did retain the IP.
So technically the IP is still Canadian. However now that a corporation has it, I am not sure how much pure R&D is going to be done now generating IP as I am sure it will be refocused to simply building more less current designs.
CANDU has build much more abroad than actually in Canada to begin with, likely now with a focus on China and India (who has built a bunch of them already in the past).
And Wind and Solar are not? Not sure about the US, but at least in Ontario it has HUGE subsidies.
Not only do they get the same loan guarantees, and the like, they also get massive contract deals with set electrical pricing at FAR above the norm for long periods of time.
The deal in Ontario gives some of these operators 20x the going rate for 20 years of operation. Basically ensuring no risk.
Nuclear projects have been large enough they require government involvement in the process. However with Wind Solar, it is require for viability of existence.
Finally someone who understands what he is talking about.
I will make one amendment: Solar and Wind MAY be used for base load in conjunction with Hydro reservoirs. Using the Solar and Wind generation to power pumps to displace water into reservoirs as potential energy, then using the excess through the hydro dam as required.
However: A) Solar and Wind are a pittance in terms of volume of power, and B) As you pointed out there are only so many suitable Hydro stations, and most of them have already been built by now.
The only thing stopping small scale nuclear I think is public fear (generated by really different technology chosen mostly for its waste products in the US), as you get rid of both the huge capital costs as well as the decades long build times.
However using Wind and solar in the same sentence and integrating poorly makes so little sense as to be laughable. They are not even remotely comparable, nor even in the same class. Wind and solar could not exist without nuclear.
Traditional Nuclear is as you say inflexible in that is costs a lot to build, takes a long time to do that, and doesn't shut off on a dime. However the benefits are: A) It is ALWAYS on, peak power, unless a reactor is down for maintenance or something, and B) It produced a LOT of power, and uses a relatively small foot print of land to do it. Try producing 5GW (one plant) using solar or wind, I'll let you do the math. A large wind turbine does 3.2MW, and the largest solar farm I have seen does like 10MW (3rd largest in NA).
However what about all those small scale reactors we keep hearing about. Technology has been around for awhile. You get all the benefits, except you lose the huge capital costs, and length or build, though you likely can't shut them down on a dime either, but then again why would you. All the old massive plants in the US were made to produce weapons. That trend need not continue. However what is preventing it now? Mostly fear and misinformation I think.
Reminds me of the news story years ago about the Canadian woman that was caught trafficking cocaine in Vietnam. She as sentenced to death by firing squad AND fined 100,000$ dollars.
As a comedy news show commented "If I were her, I wouldn't pay the fine..."
Show me a review that shows a 20% real world boost from going to 1066 to 1333. I have looked up going from 1333 and 1600, and it makes almost no difference whatsoever (about the only thing it might give you is some extra OC headroom, which you won't be able to do on a console anyway).
You would be hard pressed to find a real world review of going from DDR to 2, or even 3, without platform changes requiring other cpu/apu or other technology dictating the change.
That said, it was the minute amount of memory that both the Xbox360 and the PS3 had that dictated gaming challenges, so the faster you could potentially swap data in and out would seem to be critical. However this does not appear to be the case with the new systems (though I am sure time will tell), as both seem to be addressing the issue.
"they are improving at a more rapid rate than networks in most developed countries."
Analysis: Most developed countries already have better networks, thus less room to improve. The USA having backwater level networks, are able to improve to a much greater degree as the current "Can with String Attached" technology is much slower than your typical 2400 baud modem.
Joking of course, and exaggerating (is there anything else on Slashdot), but I always get a kick out of these PR type statements which are "technically" valid, but only because of careful wording. Also known as, statistics, is there anything you can't solve?
Another way to look at this, you just won the "Most Improved Player" on your little league baseball team, Congratulations! Your kid is fat and untalented, and we all felt sorry for them, have a trophy for participation... (I say this as someone with a closet full of them!)
As the title suggests this is a Canadian Law. A common one. One that everyone is subject to. I see this all the time (commercially at least) though my work, where companies are burdened with the cost/time of the exploration. It is the cost of doing business. If this happens on your private property you are subject to the same law.
As for those to glibly say, oh well this will just make sure the next one goes into the garbage... Well that can describe a lot of laws. That is why there are severe punishments for those that do. You could use the same example of finding an endangered species on your private property, and rather than report/protect it (or whatever is required of the landowner) you destroy it, well you face the possible legal consequences.
What are the chances of you getting caught? Probably low. However if you face large enough fines or jail time, well that is your decision to make.
Most of what I see is companies finding artifacts during excavation, arrow heads and the like. Those can prompt this kind of response. The fact that it was actual human remains, means that likely there was no way around it. Is it unlucky from a personal money sense, ya. However you don't live in Cambodia or Sudan, you live in Canada and a citizen should be expected to follow the laws, you live a pretty privileged life compared to most people in the world. If you don't like it, then feel free to move to Liberia or where ever and see how much you like the "Laws" there. There are risks involved with buying anything, including property, or construction, and sometimes you have to pay a bit more than you might have expected.
However I was in Rome a few years back and it sure seemed like they did. Perhaps it was that they didn't use concrete like we do today, i.e. entire poured structures. To increase the stability and structural strength of stone blocks iron bars were used to connect them, or at least they did in the Colosseum. Roman concrete was also used, but not as a stand alone product in the most part, but rather in conjunction with stone blocks, and bricks.
Also the primary problem with the iron bars being used, was that it was incredibly expensive at the time (which perhaps why not widely used), and looters would dig out the iron rods (destroying/ruining(literally!) the structure to sell them.
So while not rebar in totally the same sense as we use it today, it was used by Romans. You could also examine where it was dug out, and where they only got partially through, but exposed the iron to view.
Slashdot Mirror
Make a big scene.
Demand the Theatre refund everyone's money.
Theatre is encouraged to recoup they losses from offending party.
2000-3000$ or talk on the phone, your call... :)
Of course they thought they could make Mapping software over night. They only did that because they didn't want Google's name to feature more prominently within their phone.
Sometimes even big companies make stupid decisions based more on ideology VS common sense.
All it takes is a CEO that wants to make a name for themselves or some think tank to dream up some sort of strategic advantage.
I think it is very much like MAD when they get really entangled, but if one starts to achieve a superior mine shaft numbers...
Also the RTG has a half-life of 87 years. It has been going for about 36 years. Wiki says it will have enough power until 2025. Though it seems that the power will drop, and at what point certain systems start failing and which they are isn't clear. If the transmitter stops, it might as well be dead. So with about 12 years left it can travel about another 6,445,337,920 km before the lights turn off. A relatively short distance.
Of course it will still keep going (unless it hits something) after that. We just won't hear about it (unless it hits an advanced alien civilization with anger issues who doesn't appreciate us flinging our junk at them).
That way there might be a state where there are no cats on the internet. Maybe.
Just make sure no one actually looks at the internet...
Texas, where saying something in bad taste is a felony?
Hope they have a lot of prisons! ;)
jk lol
This is what I see.
Microsoft intentionally would tie the kinect to the Xbox One, because they know by forcing the inclusion of the device will likely create an overabundance of kinect devices that are not being used that people will want to get rid of. If they are also trying to sell them for PC, they had to make them non-interchangeable as otherwise the cheap secondhand marke that will come into being due to the forced inclusion with the Xbox One will generate would totally cannibalize all their potential sales.
Are we not all aware that the NSA is scanning all of our data now?
I think a better analogy (already did a house) is that of a telemarketer. Now that I think of it, that is really what MS is, a pusher salesman, more so than anything technological.
Think of your talking on the phone to some telemarketer, and you are trying to tell them "No, I am not interested". Do they give up? No, they start to repeat the same sad sack pitch line they just told you, or try to highlight what you are currently doing wrong and how their product will fix it. You keep telling them, "No thank you" being the polite person you are, but the marketer is not going to be deterred, and will simply keep going with more and more BS, regardless of whatever objections you may have over their product/service, until ultimately in the end you hang up on them.
More people need to "hang up" on MS before they will finally get the message.
"...basic I/O tasks..."
Actually I am pretty sure that is what the BIOS is for, a system for handling basic input/output. :)
Anyway I get what you are saying however. It is a fundamental flaw, that consumers are actually causing.
House Analogy: You want to sell your house. Your basement foundation is falling apart and leaks. Your kitchen is a bit dated. Rather than fix your basement, you decide to renovate your kitchen, because that is what people see, makes the biggest impact to the sale, increases the value of what you can get for your home. However when some poor sod buys your house they are left with a useless basement. Problem is that the homeowner has never known anything but houses with useless basements, and thus isn't all that angry about the transaction... Thus the endless cycle of MS not giving a shit about what your basement looks like.
The extra heat is a feature. What do you expect when you buy a Canadian graphics card company?
Yes using oats and other gains for over land travel using this thing called a "horse". For multiple traveler capacity scientists have come up with a device called a "buggy".
The best part is the the transport itself can be used as a foodstuff, and is a renewable resource, and the "buggy" itself is recyclable!
Its a miracle!
While I wasn't a huge fan of the deal, Canada sold its nationalized nuclear reactor program CANDU to a corporation.
For peanuts (15$Million), royalty rights (so I guess if the manage to turn a profit we get some return), but did retain the IP.
So technically the IP is still Canadian. However now that a corporation has it, I am not sure how much pure R&D is going to be done now generating IP as I am sure it will be refocused to simply building more less current designs.
CANDU has build much more abroad than actually in Canada to begin with, likely now with a focus on China and India (who has built a bunch of them already in the past).
And Wind and Solar are not? Not sure about the US, but at least in Ontario it has HUGE subsidies.
Not only do they get the same loan guarantees, and the like, they also get massive contract deals with set electrical pricing at FAR above the norm for long periods of time.
The deal in Ontario gives some of these operators 20x the going rate for 20 years of operation. Basically ensuring no risk.
Nuclear projects have been large enough they require government involvement in the process. However with Wind Solar, it is require for viability of existence.
Finally someone who understands what he is talking about.
I will make one amendment:
Solar and Wind MAY be used for base load in conjunction with Hydro reservoirs. Using the Solar and Wind generation to power pumps to displace water into reservoirs as potential energy, then using the excess through the hydro dam as required.
However: A) Solar and Wind are a pittance in terms of volume of power, and B) As you pointed out there are only so many suitable Hydro stations, and most of them have already been built by now.
The only thing stopping small scale nuclear I think is public fear (generated by really different technology chosen mostly for its waste products in the US), as you get rid of both the huge capital costs as well as the decades long build times.
What you said about gas is true.
However using Wind and solar in the same sentence and integrating poorly makes so little sense as to be laughable. They are not even remotely comparable, nor even in the same class. Wind and solar could not exist without nuclear.
Traditional Nuclear is as you say inflexible in that is costs a lot to build, takes a long time to do that, and doesn't shut off on a dime.
However the benefits are: A) It is ALWAYS on, peak power, unless a reactor is down for maintenance or something, and B) It produced a LOT of power, and uses a relatively small foot print of land to do it. Try producing 5GW (one plant) using solar or wind, I'll let you do the math. A large wind turbine does 3.2MW, and the largest solar farm I have seen does like 10MW (3rd largest in NA).
However what about all those small scale reactors we keep hearing about. Technology has been around for awhile. You get all the benefits, except you lose the huge capital costs, and length or build, though you likely can't shut them down on a dime either, but then again why would you. All the old massive plants in the US were made to produce weapons. That trend need not continue. However what is preventing it now? Mostly fear and misinformation I think.
Reminds me of the news story years ago about the Canadian woman that was caught trafficking cocaine in Vietnam. She as sentenced to death by firing squad AND fined 100,000$ dollars.
As a comedy news show commented "If I were her, I wouldn't pay the fine..."
Damnit! I just switched to Android!
Anyway XCOM being available on a mobile device was the most important part of the article I felt.
Citation needed.
Show me a review that shows a 20% real world boost from going to 1066 to 1333.
I have looked up going from 1333 and 1600, and it makes almost no difference whatsoever (about the only thing it might give you is some extra OC headroom, which you won't be able to do on a console anyway).
You would be hard pressed to find a real world review of going from DDR to 2, or even 3, without platform changes requiring other cpu/apu or other technology dictating the change.
That said, it was the minute amount of memory that both the Xbox360 and the PS3 had that dictated gaming challenges, so the faster you could potentially swap data in and out would seem to be critical. However this does not appear to be the case with the new systems (though I am sure time will tell), as both seem to be addressing the issue.
"they are improving at a more rapid rate than networks in most developed countries."
Analysis: Most developed countries already have better networks, thus less room to improve. The USA having backwater level networks, are able to improve to a much greater degree as the current "Can with String Attached" technology is much slower than your typical 2400 baud modem.
Joking of course, and exaggerating (is there anything else on Slashdot), but I always get a kick out of these PR type statements which are "technically" valid, but only because of careful wording. Also known as, statistics, is there anything you can't solve?
Another way to look at this, you just won the "Most Improved Player" on your little league baseball team, Congratulations! Your kid is fat and untalented, and we all felt sorry for them, have a trophy for participation... (I say this as someone with a closet full of them!)
As the title suggests this is a Canadian Law. A common one. One that everyone is subject to. I see this all the time (commercially at least) though my work, where companies are burdened with the cost/time of the exploration. It is the cost of doing business. If this happens on your private property you are subject to the same law.
As for those to glibly say, oh well this will just make sure the next one goes into the garbage... Well that can describe a lot of laws. That is why there are severe punishments for those that do. You could use the same example of finding an endangered species on your private property, and rather than report/protect it (or whatever is required of the landowner) you destroy it, well you face the possible legal consequences.
What are the chances of you getting caught? Probably low. However if you face large enough fines or jail time, well that is your decision to make.
Most of what I see is companies finding artifacts during excavation, arrow heads and the like. Those can prompt this kind of response. The fact that it was actual human remains, means that likely there was no way around it. Is it unlucky from a personal money sense, ya. However you don't live in Cambodia or Sudan, you live in Canada and a citizen should be expected to follow the laws, you live a pretty privileged life compared to most people in the world. If you don't like it, then feel free to move to Liberia or where ever and see how much you like the "Laws" there. There are risks involved with buying anything, including property, or construction, and sometimes you have to pay a bit more than you might have expected.
What, can she (or her parents) actually read or something? Amazing! Seriously, nothing revolutionary here, all of these were invented by someone else.
"I call it a Wind-mill!"
"I call it biome-diesel"
next:
"I call it a photo-panel!"
According to this Roman's didn't use rebar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete
However I was in Rome a few years back and it sure seemed like they did. Perhaps it was that they didn't use concrete like we do today, i.e. entire poured structures. To increase the stability and structural strength of stone blocks iron bars were used to connect them, or at least they did in the Colosseum. Roman concrete was also used, but not as a stand alone product in the most part, but rather in conjunction with stone blocks, and bricks.
Also the primary problem with the iron bars being used, was that it was incredibly expensive at the time (which perhaps why not widely used), and looters would dig out the iron rods (destroying/ruining(literally!) the structure to sell them.
So while not rebar in totally the same sense as we use it today, it was used by Romans. You could also examine where it was dug out, and where they only got partially through, but exposed the iron to view.
Its already got a wiki link under lidar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar#Archaeology
So is that the reason why they picked the name "Maria" so they wouldn't have to change the acronym? :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)
Linux, Apache, MARIA, Python/Perl/PHP
OK you just ruined Slashdot for like a year.