Motorola's next SuperDroid will be available in November.
Verizon has been quietly but massively ramping up retail sales positions in time for Christmas.
GoogleTV is slated for a November release.
I don't think the initial market for GoogleTV is going to be cable-over-broadband, if it ever was.
My prediction (if I'm not wrong about the hoax) is that Google will announce the initial offering of GoogleTv as a mobile service over the Verizon network on android powered devices. GoogleTV ® is still slated for a November release, and while it was initially (pre- the April court finding for Comcast) touted as a replacement for residential cable over broadband, I think that a deal with Verizon would show the actual target market (at least at first) is mobile devices, using the android framework. There is no established 'cable' in the mobile arena, the closest would be Apples' offerings and smaller one-offs like zulu -but they are no Comcast or Dish/DirectTV in terms of always-on, multichannel, live, scheduled, 'network' programming. Google would own the Verizon segment of the market, and I'm guessing there's a whole stack of patents to protect the T-mobile and AT&T segments for a while (as would lead time to market).
Having a deal closed ahead of time for guaranteed bandwidth would be crucial for the project to succeed, & after the April FCC-Comcast ruling they need to be first in line with at least one mobile carrier.
...And I want a billion dollars! (waits expectingly...).
What you are describing is a true hypervisor. One based in firmware. Not too hard to do, really. Just get a CompactFlash to IDE adapter for your first HDD and a big old spinning disk for your second HDD. Then just load up LinuxBIOS on the motherboard and your universal hypervisor on the CF...oh, wait.
I'm thinking that people are seriously so far removed from nature that they don't realize just how ridiculous this is. A frog in water, with no solid support to push off of *cannot* jump out of a pot of water, hot or cold...anyone that has raised tadpoles has seen it first hand. Their webbed feet and back legs are made for *swimming*, as in "pushing a neutrally buoyant body through the water" and for hopping on land when absolutely necessary. Most of the time they crawl. As the temperature gets higher, being 'cold-blooded', they move faster becuase they can...until they reach some threshold above which it is *too* hot. Remember the last few years of people buying, buying, buying, often on over extended credit *because they could*? Well, I think we've reached the edge of the threshold. There won't be any "jumping out of the pot", just a bunch of cooked frogs and a few hungry predators higher up on the food chain.
From the mid-1950's to now, here is the lineage of what was essentially the same car, updated every few years and given a new name to match the current market:
Ford Crestline
Ford Fairlane
Ford Fairlane Skyliner
Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria
Ford Fairlane Ranch Wagon
Ford Fairlane Ranch Custom Wagon
Ford Fairlane Squire
Ford Fairlane 500
Ford Fairlane Country Squire
Fairlane XL, GT and GTA
Ford Ranchero
Ford Torino
Ford Fairlane Cobra
Ford Fairlane LTD
Ford LTD
Ford LTD II
Ford LTD Crown Victoria
Ford 500
...and that's not counting the badge derivatives such as those by Mercury.
Think about what you are saying. Think about your boss. Think about your boss making the decision of which batteries to purchase. Consider that he knows next to nothing about technology. Consider that he knows everyone under him knows *everything* about technology. Now tell me which ones he'll choose: The old-fashioned, slow ones or the faster ones labeled as 'advanced'? C'mon, everyone knows that when it comes to technology, faster is *always* better. The marketing folks (with whom your boss identifies more than with you) say so!
Perhaps it is because this one appears to have about as much chance of flying out of ground effect as any other non-skirted hovercraft? Note: IANAPAE (I am not a professional aeronautic engineer), but I was once a ACV hobbyist. Look at the total fan area and calc out how much air can be moved without the fan tips at maximum pitch exceeding a good percentage of the speed of sound; there is simply no way this would ever create enough thrust to actually "fly". As a high pressure air cushion vehicle (which is all it has the potential to be), it's pretty cool looking, but even then it would be highly unstable since it has no plenum to lower the kg/m2, and provide in this case width, to prevent rollover. Sure, modern computer thrust control could be implemented in order to provide roll stability, but it would still be a GEM. It would appear, however that this vehicle is proof that given good enough salesmanship gifts, you *can* make a 25-year career out of soliciting investment capital...besides, to really make it work, they should have gone through the usual steps of starting with a DeLorean, adding the time travel ability in order to retrofit a Mr Fusion and then it would have been trivial to integrate the VTOL and flight capabilities...
Perhaps they weren't anti-satellite "tests" at all. By that I mean that they've accomplished at least two goals: made the space over China less habitable to spy satellites and by having to maneuver more often our spy satellites become easier to detect. Move well played, China!
Actually, skunks are the Typhoid Mary of the Rabies world, able to carry without showing symptoms or dying of it. Of course, you'd have to get close enough, but that's kind of the point with the fear factor being pushed, is it not?
"Or as the old Pope hold, science provides a description of how God created the world, while religion provides a description of why God created the world."
Cute trick of words, but that still implicitly states that God did indeed create the world, leaving Science the sub role of merely *describing* the world
I would highly recommend Dawkins' writing, "Viruses of the Mind". It's conveniently included in "A Devil's Chaplain". Then again, no education of Evolution would be complete without at least a few of RD's witty, clear , cutting-through-the-postmodern-crap books starting with, "The Selfish Gene" and continuing on to his more contemporary works.
Not much of an incentive to lower prices if they are being subsidized by $40...and you *have* to have one (and by *have*, I obviously mean, "want to waste your time watching really crappy programming instead of living life).
Let's also not forget who owns the bulk of the radio stations...and, in many markets, the live venues as well, either directly or via ticket management a la 'ticketmaster'. This lockdown is what makes it very difficult for bands to get above the level of nightclub / bar / 150 seat venue without signing on to a major label. Of course, the impact of say, a Clear Channel Communications radio station monopoly is lessened when internet sites can stream music at an affordable rate...oh, wait; there we go again, better sign up with the big boys. The Mafia analogy just goes on and on...hey, who does the RIAA contribute to, politically, anyway?
Funny how that '50 years' of increased genetic diversity correlates with the beginning of the 'Atomic Age', whereupon we started scattering radioactive dust across the globe...
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Yes, but you really, really like smalltalk.
I only stopped in to see what the user numbers are up to, haven't been here more than a handful of times since the AOL takeover.
Pretty sure the first ARPANET nodes were UCLA and Stanford Research Institute, followed by UCSB and the U of Utah.
Motorola's next SuperDroid will be available in November.
Verizon has been quietly but massively ramping up retail sales positions in time for Christmas.
GoogleTV is slated for a November release.
I don't think the initial market for GoogleTV is going to be cable-over-broadband, if it ever was.
My prediction (if I'm not wrong about the hoax) is that Google will announce the initial offering of GoogleTv as a mobile service over the Verizon network on android powered devices. GoogleTV ® is still slated for a November release, and while it was initially (pre- the April court finding for Comcast) touted as a replacement for residential cable over broadband, I think that a deal with Verizon would show the actual target market (at least at first) is mobile devices, using the android framework. There is no established 'cable' in the mobile arena, the closest would be Apples' offerings and smaller one-offs like zulu -but they are no Comcast or Dish/DirectTV in terms of always-on, multichannel, live, scheduled, 'network' programming. Google would own the Verizon segment of the market, and I'm guessing there's a whole stack of patents to protect the T-mobile and AT&T segments for a while (as would lead time to market).
Having a deal closed ahead of time for guaranteed bandwidth would be crucial for the project to succeed, & after the April FCC-Comcast ruling they need to be first in line with at least one mobile carrier.
http://www.vintage-computer.com/
...I blame La Sage! If it weren't for him, everyone would just accept the whole warped-space idea and be done with it...
What you are describing is a true hypervisor. One based in firmware. Not too hard to do, really. Just get a CompactFlash to IDE adapter for your first HDD and a big old spinning disk for your second HDD. Then just load up LinuxBIOS on the motherboard and your universal hypervisor on the CF...oh, wait.
I'm thinking that people are seriously so far removed from nature that they don't realize just how ridiculous this is. A frog in water, with no solid support to push off of *cannot* jump out of a pot of water, hot or cold...anyone that has raised tadpoles has seen it first hand. Their webbed feet and back legs are made for *swimming*, as in "pushing a neutrally buoyant body through the water" and for hopping on land when absolutely necessary. Most of the time they crawl. As the temperature gets higher, being 'cold-blooded', they move faster becuase they can...until they reach some threshold above which it is *too* hot. Remember the last few years of people buying, buying, buying, often on over extended credit *because they could*? Well, I think we've reached the edge of the threshold. There won't be any "jumping out of the pot", just a bunch of cooked frogs and a few hungry predators higher up on the food chain.
Ford Crestline
Ford Fairlane
Ford Fairlane Skyliner
Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria
Ford Fairlane Ranch Wagon
Ford Fairlane Ranch Custom Wagon
Ford Fairlane Squire
Ford Fairlane 500
Ford Fairlane Country Squire
Fairlane XL, GT and GTA
Ford Ranchero
Ford Torino
Ford Fairlane Cobra
Ford Fairlane LTD
Ford LTD
Ford LTD II
Ford LTD Crown Victoria
Ford 500
Never attribute to incompetence that which you can attribute to managment best practices.
Think about what you are saying. Think about your boss. Think about your boss making the decision of which batteries to purchase. Consider that he knows next to nothing about technology. Consider that he knows everyone under him knows *everything* about technology. Now tell me which ones he'll choose: The old-fashioned, slow ones or the faster ones labeled as 'advanced'? C'mon, everyone knows that when it comes to technology, faster is *always* better. The marketing folks (with whom your boss identifies more than with you) say so!
Perhaps it is because this one appears to have about as much chance of flying out of ground effect as any other non-skirted hovercraft? Note: IANAPAE (I am not a professional aeronautic engineer), but I was once a ACV hobbyist. Look at the total fan area and calc out how much air can be moved without the fan tips at maximum pitch exceeding a good percentage of the speed of sound; there is simply no way this would ever create enough thrust to actually "fly". As a high pressure air cushion vehicle (which is all it has the potential to be), it's pretty cool looking, but even then it would be highly unstable since it has no plenum to lower the kg/m2, and provide in this case width, to prevent rollover. Sure, modern computer thrust control could be implemented in order to provide roll stability, but it would still be a GEM. It would appear, however that this vehicle is proof that given good enough salesmanship gifts, you *can* make a 25-year career out of soliciting investment capital...besides, to really make it work, they should have gone through the usual steps of starting with a DeLorean, adding the time travel ability in order to retrofit a Mr Fusion and then it would have been trivial to integrate the VTOL and flight capabilities...
Perhaps they weren't anti-satellite "tests" at all. By that I mean that they've accomplished at least two goals: made the space over China less habitable to spy satellites and by having to maneuver more often our spy satellites become easier to detect. Move well played, China!
Actually, skunks are the Typhoid Mary of the Rabies world, able to carry without showing symptoms or dying of it. Of course, you'd have to get close enough, but that's kind of the point with the fear factor being pushed, is it not?
...anyone else read that as "X-ray your carrion"?
Or, perhaps WinCE (or whatever is the current name; I've not kept up with it since the Jornada 720 days)?
Cute trick of words, but that still implicitly states that God did indeed create the world, leaving Science the sub role of merely *describing* the world
I would highly recommend Dawkins' writing, "Viruses of the Mind". It's conveniently included in "A Devil's Chaplain". Then again, no education of Evolution would be complete without at least a few of RD's witty, clear , cutting-through-the-postmodern-crap books starting with, "The Selfish Gene" and continuing on to his more contemporary works.
Not much of an incentive to lower prices if they are being subsidized by $40...and you *have* to have one (and by *have*, I obviously mean, "want to waste your time watching really crappy programming instead of living life).
But it would expose lots of lower layers, a great place to send the next pair of rovers...wait, what do you mean there's no "next pair of rovers"?
That would be a low-IQ retort.
2. Said banner ad space is sold to an company that sells it to the highest bidder.
3. Highest bidder is a malware filled porn site.
4. Banner ad fills your IE cache with goat porn that you've never viewed. Then it seduces your goat.
5. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Let's also not forget who owns the bulk of the radio stations...and, in many markets, the live venues as well, either directly or via ticket management a la 'ticketmaster'. This lockdown is what makes it very difficult for bands to get above the level of nightclub / bar / 150 seat venue without signing on to a major label. Of course, the impact of say, a Clear Channel Communications radio station monopoly is lessened when internet sites can stream music at an affordable rate...oh, wait; there we go again, better sign up with the big boys. The Mafia analogy just goes on and on...hey, who does the RIAA contribute to, politically, anyway?
Funny how that '50 years' of increased genetic diversity correlates with the beginning of the 'Atomic Age', whereupon we started scattering radioactive dust across the globe...
(sorry...couldn't resist)