Did it because they can. That is the great thing about open source software. The bottom line is that are in more control of your computing experience (if you access to the skills necessary ) I hope the are able to get their government to take hold of this project and run with it.
I personaly do not see any problems with this. If someone want the latest and greatest in the current version of the kernel. They can either port it themsevles or pay someone to do it for them. This is the beauty of opensource. In any case the major vendors of linux will do this at times the featues is really wanted by thier customer base.
This is just one of the uses I can see for such a system. But being the way humans are since we have more bandwidth will use more bandwidth. We will never have the enough bandwidth to satisfy our needs. Because we will always find a use to the increase of bandwidth.
I have came across people's Social Security many times. By putting a value to people's information you will hopefully decrease the leaking of this data to the world. Now the only question is what is the number we need to put on it.
>>I'm surprised Boeing is taking a risk though with such a strange new craft
Well when you have you have a 24 million dollar contract to develop a plane for the US Governemnt you can take that risk to develop two concept planes for them.
It's intended to float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. I guess but what I enjoy about this
new type of airship is the fact it is combining the best of different technologies. To create an interesting new. A supersonic helicopter anyone?
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AOL needs to keep their name in the game this why they are doing this. Also this is the best time to do this. With the holiday season they will really rack up.
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Did it because they can. That is the great thing about open source software. The bottom line is that are in more control of your computing experience (if you access to the skills necessary ) I hope the are able to get their government to take hold of this project and run with it.
"They are smoking crack" It is short simple and to the point.
I personaly do not see any problems with this. If someone want the latest and greatest in the current version of the kernel. They can either port it themsevles or pay someone to do it for them. This is the beauty of opensource. In any case the major vendors of linux will do this at times the featues is really wanted by thier customer base.
This is just one of the uses I can see for such a system. But being the way humans are since we have more bandwidth will use more bandwidth. We will never have the enough bandwidth to satisfy our needs. Because we will always find a use to the increase of bandwidth.
I have came across people's Social Security many times. By putting a value to people's information you will hopefully decrease the leaking of this data to the world. Now the only question is what is the number we need to put on it.
>>I'm surprised Boeing is taking a risk though with such a strange new craft
Well when you have you have a 24 million dollar contract to develop a plane for the US Governemnt you can take that risk to develop two concept planes for them.
It's intended to float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. I guess but what I enjoy about this new type of airship is the fact it is combining the best of different technologies. To create an interesting new. A supersonic helicopter anyone?
AOL needs to keep their name in the game this why they are doing this. Also this is the best time to do this. With the holiday season they will really rack up.