Your post is very informative. I think I see an obvious solution from what you've posted.
Most industrialized countries don't have access the the abundant geothermal resources Japan has (due to their location on the edge of the "ring of fire").
On demand energy storage can be in the form of batteries, super capacitors, gravity reservoirs (e.g. pump water uphill to a reservoir during periods of excess generation, release it through turbines when needed), etc.
Let's use the ground as a battery and then geothermal to recapture it!
Let's make our own "ring of fire"!!!! It worked for Johnny Cash.
I believe WebOS had sufficient Android compatibility, at least on the tablet. I think this is a smart move for HTC - they can finally differentiate themselves and control their own destiny. For a while during the Windows Mobile/early iPhone era, they were kind of screwed.
I recently made a 'quiet-ish' gaming HTPC. It has all top-of-the-line hardware in a smaller form-factor case (antec nsk24800). I had to mod the case, the VGA card, and the heatsink to get everything fitting and decently cooled. Was it worth it? Probably not... but it makes the geek in me happy. My final build photos are here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=62147
Solution: Use Objective C. It's a better language. It makes more sense. It has a better design philosophy. There is usually only one or two correct ways to do something, rather than C++ where you have a million options and a hundred third party libraries and each has its own object model.
People have enough crap that they play with instead of paying attention to the road, now they're going to be swiping through multiple cards on their in-dash systems looking for things while careening down the highway? Wonderful....
My 2009 "luxury" car has a terrible UI where the radio should be. If the next generation has good software, I'd be more than happy. What I would like to see, though, are touch screens in the middle of the steering wheel so you don't have to turn your head to navigate through the menus. People are going to do this anyway, so may as well make it less dangerous.
Nice pun. Sorry, bud, you're in the minority and I will be glad not to have a bunch of stock heatsinks sitting around - both for me and the environment.
I bet a few Twitter project managers have been sleepless lately.
Apple just integrated Twitter into iOS 5 (which is still in beta, but soon to be released). Considering Apple's antagonism with Google, G+ probably will not receive such first-tier treatement.
I think the problem is that more people would put up with that kind of crap for "their dream job programming teh games". Just like illegal immigrants put up with crap to "live in teh americas".
And possibly also the personality type that's attracted to making games. That's usually the type that "I like games, so I will learn how to program" rather than "I like to program, so maybe I will program games". In my experience the former ain't as smat.
Agreed. It's not *that* complicated for anyone familiar with using a mouse and a GUI. It's probably all one person with a million sockpuppet accounts doing the complaining.
Enterprise, yes. Personal, maybe/probably not. Lemme answer for him since I work on "enterprise" applications.
In the enterprise, you have two options for deploying to hundreds of users: installing local apps on every workstation, or using Citrix (which is nice, but pretty flakey sometimes). Citrix is basically Windows Remote Desktop, but more tuned to the task. In fact, MS licensed the technology from them.
Anyhow, when you need to perform maintenance or upgrades, you have to touch hundreds of workstations. Yes, there are ways to do this more easily, but it's easier with Citrix. And it's most easy if you just have web server software to upgrade.
Now, none of this actually relates to Microsoft per se, but this is how large ISV enterprise-oriented companies are moving. Hope that helps!
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Those purposes are already legal? Well, then my health insurance is already breaking the law.
Ignoring the oxygen deprivation, I'm not sure anyone riding that coaster would be the same again, anyway.
Tech companies are just giving consumers what we want - less complexity. Perhaps our government is, as well. Scary.
Your post is very informative. I think I see an obvious solution from what you've posted.
Most industrialized countries don't have access the the abundant geothermal resources Japan has (due to their location on the edge of the "ring of fire").
On demand energy storage can be in the form of batteries, super capacitors, gravity reservoirs (e.g. pump water uphill to a reservoir during periods of excess generation, release it through turbines when needed), etc.
Let's use the ground as a battery and then geothermal to recapture it!
Let's make our own "ring of fire"!!!! It worked for Johnny Cash.
I believe WebOS had sufficient Android compatibility, at least on the tablet. I think this is a smart move for HTC - they can finally differentiate themselves and control their own destiny. For a while during the Windows Mobile/early iPhone era, they were kind of screwed.
And their forums are an awesome resource.
I recently made a 'quiet-ish' gaming HTPC. It has all top-of-the-line hardware in a smaller form-factor case (antec nsk24800). I had to mod the case, the VGA card, and the heatsink to get everything fitting and decently cooled. Was it worth it? Probably not... but it makes the geek in me happy. My final build photos are here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=62147
Indeed. He said that drinking helps. So working causes him to drink...
Still not caring all that much. Google+ is keeping Facebook in line.
They can have them. Who cares? Particularly, who on Slashdot cares?
Getting rid of crappy facebook applications is actually doing the opposite of evil. Google is doing Good here. Thanks Google!
Mandriva 2011 supports KDE only, no GNOME mess here.
I'm a huge Mandriva fan. I've been using it for 8+ years in some way or another. And I'm also a huge Gnome fan.
Will I hate my life if I try to stick with Mandriva + Gnome? Am I better off switching distros?
Solution: Use Objective C. It's a better language. It makes more sense. It has a better design philosophy. There is usually only one or two correct ways to do something, rather than C++ where you have a million options and a hundred third party libraries and each has its own object model.
People have enough crap that they play with instead of paying attention to the road, now they're going to be swiping through multiple cards on their in-dash systems looking for things while careening down the highway? Wonderful....
My 2009 "luxury" car has a terrible UI where the radio should be. If the next generation has good software, I'd be more than happy. What I would like to see, though, are touch screens in the middle of the steering wheel so you don't have to turn your head to navigate through the menus. People are going to do this anyway, so may as well make it less dangerous.
Nice pun. Sorry, bud, you're in the minority and I will be glad not to have a bunch of stock heatsinks sitting around - both for me and the environment.
I bet a few Twitter project managers have been sleepless lately.
Apple just integrated Twitter into iOS 5 (which is still in beta, but soon to be released). Considering Apple's antagonism with Google, G+ probably will not receive such first-tier treatement.
Why bother paying for an invalid license?
Windows Update is easier if you have a valid-looking license. Not that I am recommending one way or the other.
I have not found VMWare video/sound to be up to par in the past, but it's great for VPN to work, remote desktop, and whatnot.
Personally, I just have a machine for each purpose. Windows HTPC, Linux general workstation, Windows DAW, Linux file server...
He's mistaking "elected" with "electrocuted". Yes, they elect retards in Texas.
So... I just installed this and it makes Firefox freeze-up. I had to revert to that old alpha... anyone else having this problem?
I think the problem is that more people would put up with that kind of crap for "their dream job programming teh games". Just like illegal immigrants put up with crap to "live in teh americas".
And possibly also the personality type that's attracted to making games. That's usually the type that "I like games, so I will learn how to program" rather than "I like to program, so maybe I will program games". In my experience the former ain't as smat.
He just said stop bitching. You don't have to like it.
Agreed. It's not *that* complicated for anyone familiar with using a mouse and a GUI. It's probably all one person with a million sockpuppet accounts doing the complaining.
Only if I can pay with cash.
OP made it sound like you doubt the transition to web apps. Apparently I'm arguing for nothing. Good night!
Enterprise, yes. Personal, maybe/probably not. Lemme answer for him since I work on "enterprise" applications.
In the enterprise, you have two options for deploying to hundreds of users: installing local apps on every workstation, or using Citrix (which is nice, but pretty flakey sometimes). Citrix is basically Windows Remote Desktop, but more tuned to the task. In fact, MS licensed the technology from them.
Anyhow, when you need to perform maintenance or upgrades, you have to touch hundreds of workstations. Yes, there are ways to do this more easily, but it's easier with Citrix. And it's most easy if you just have web server software to upgrade.
Now, none of this actually relates to Microsoft per se, but this is how large ISV enterprise-oriented companies are moving. Hope that helps!