Cell phones are nice but I would not jump to conclusion of where the "central point" of convergance will be. Its the product ideas you havent thought of that end up taking the market by storm. A friend of mine heard rumors on IRC about the iPod saying "imagine a pack of cigarettes, now imagine your music collection". He told me about this and I asked: "so are we going to start smoking our music?"
We have read about the possible opening of the Solaris operating system. Opening up some of the technology involved is a nice step but falls short in my eyes. I think that sun should come out with a new open version of Solaris that is fully compatible with the current version but integrates some flavor of BSD. (I am personally favorable to UNIX)
Just a thought...
Free BSD as the name suggests IS free. Unix is not a valad trademark beacause beacause of its many forks and variations it has become a generic term. IMHO I think the people at SCO and Sony (with its joke of a digital music player) fell off the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down. Protecting your copyrights has become difficult these days. In a world of convergance, reverse engineering and "hey that was my idea" tactics A review of copyright laws and procedures needs to take place. If we come together and decide on open and fair standards that make things work. Things are going to change, biusness models that were viable before will no longer work. But its time to evolve.
Good point about digitizing, you could unleash a team of wifi enabled autonomous robots into a library and come back a few days later and everything would be digitized, saved and put back where it was found. The CIA should also develop this technology to allow them to covertley and remotley scan sensitive meterials and put them back exactly as there were found and leave little to no evidice behind.
I see this as unlikley. Google has technology so advanced it is surrounded by "top secret" style secrecy. In other words we have no idea what Google is working on. What we do know is it is always something revolutionary and suprising. Only time will tell but it is reasonable to expect that Google is already working on the next big thing and is more likley than not to continue to be on the razor edge of technology
The playstation II runs linux AND plays DVDs... Most people know this but I felt like pointing it out anyway. Also I am pretty sure the M$ XBox that also plays dvds runs linux as well.
Just another example of how the government and private compinies don't know how to properley use technology. Haven't they ever heard of BitTorrent? If they used that then there would be no problem making this information available.
The true radness in this is how cost effective it is to biuld xserve clusters. Not only will they save lots of money biulding the thing they will save lots of money supporting it. RAD!
Thats because it dosen't need it. The craft does have a thermal protection system. But it dosen't need to do a hard reentry, not that I fully understand the technology involved but this is a big step forward in the development of space related technology.
You my friend are a troll. The big deal about this is that the spaceship one is that it allows for a gentle reentry into the earth's atmosphere. This is a revolutionary thing and i am sure that the astronaut involved was fully aware and excepting the risk he was undertaking. A worthwile risk for the future of mandkind.
CSS is perfec for this application. Movable type is a perfect expample of the technology in action. There pages stay cnentered in browser winsows no matter the size. Its amazing how much technology is available today and how much ignorange big companys have of harnessing this technology.
Insist on being given given an armored car (such as a BMW 760HS) and a highly trained driver to get around in. I see so many stories on the news of even high level diplomats that have been killed in there cars. I see the bullet holes and think to myself "why the fuck werent these people driving armored cars". If you can get this garantee then by all means do it. Other than that tell them to where to stick the job offer.
This is a perfect example of convergence gone all wrong. Who in there right mind would ride something like this? Besides wifi has a limited range and is not well suited to such applications. Surfing is all about getting away from the bump and grind of life and becoming one with nature. What were the people who designed this thing thinking?
Sounds extremley similar to the way the james bond wristwatch stun gun is supposed to work. Yet another piece of science fiction that is turning into real science.
Yes this is true, the insparation for my comment lies in a number of mediocre multifunction devices on the market. Specificially the sd card based video camera/still camera/voice recorder/mp3 player.
I think often devices that try to do many things succed in doing many things less well than specialized devices. Not only are we going to see a lot of innovation but we are going to see a lot of failed products in the years to come.
Or you willl end up with a cuncussion on the floor. You will end up bashing yourself into invisible walls. Sounds like the only application ot invisible walls is to fuck with people's heads. Good luck!
Hopefully Microsoft is on there hit list, I have seen stories of many questionable patents on Slashdot like the double click. Way to go, STOP THIS MADNE$$!!
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M$ will finish cannibalizing the code soon...
This sounds a little bit hard to beleve. [Cow007s-Computer:~] c0w% Bullshit check completed.
Cell phones are nice but I would not jump to conclusion of where the "central point" of convergance will be. Its the product ideas you havent thought of that end up taking the market by storm. A friend of mine heard rumors on IRC about the iPod saying "imagine a pack of cigarettes, now imagine your music collection". He told me about this and I asked: "so are we going to start smoking our music?"
NO!
We have read about the possible opening of the Solaris operating system. Opening up some of the technology involved is a nice step but falls short in my eyes. I think that sun should come out with a new open version of Solaris that is fully compatible with the current version but integrates some flavor of BSD. (I am personally favorable to UNIX) Just a thought...
Free BSD as the name suggests IS free. Unix is not a valad trademark beacause beacause of its many forks and variations it has become a generic term. IMHO I think the people at SCO and Sony (with its joke of a digital music player) fell off the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down. Protecting your copyrights has become difficult these days. In a world of convergance, reverse engineering and "hey that was my idea" tactics A review of copyright laws and procedures needs to take place. If we come together and decide on open and fair standards that make things work. Things are going to change, biusness models that were viable before will no longer work. But its time to evolve.
Good point about digitizing, you could unleash a team of wifi enabled autonomous robots into a library and come back a few days later and everything would be digitized, saved and put back where it was found. The CIA should also develop this technology to allow them to covertley and remotley scan sensitive meterials and put them back exactly as there were found and leave little to no evidice behind.
All that stuff is very cool, what it makes me wonder is how much cooler the stuff they don't make public is.
I see this as unlikley. Google has technology so advanced it is surrounded by "top secret" style secrecy. In other words we have no idea what Google is working on. What we do know is it is always something revolutionary and suprising. Only time will tell but it is reasonable to expect that Google is already working on the next big thing and is more likley than not to continue to be on the razor edge of technology
It runs on linux so it is always booted into it.
The playstation II runs linux AND plays DVDs... Most people know this but I felt like pointing it out anyway. Also I am pretty sure the M$ XBox that also plays dvds runs linux as well.
Just another example of how the government and private compinies don't know how to properley use technology. Haven't they ever heard of BitTorrent? If they used that then there would be no problem making this information available.
I am partial to the term "celestial bit bucket' And thats my 2 cents.
The true radness in this is how cost effective it is to biuld xserve clusters. Not only will they save lots of money biulding the thing they will save lots of money supporting it. RAD!
Thats because it dosen't need it. The craft does have a thermal protection system. But it dosen't need to do a hard reentry, not that I fully understand the technology involved but this is a big step forward in the development of space related technology.
You my friend are a troll. The big deal about this is that the spaceship one is that it allows for a gentle reentry into the earth's atmosphere. This is a revolutionary thing and i am sure that the astronaut involved was fully aware and excepting the risk he was undertaking. A worthwile risk for the future of mandkind.
CSS is perfec for this application. Movable type is a perfect expample of the technology in action. There pages stay cnentered in browser winsows no matter the size. Its amazing how much technology is available today and how much ignorange big companys have of harnessing this technology.
Insist on being given given an armored car (such as a BMW 760HS) and a highly trained driver to get around in. I see so many stories on the news of even high level diplomats that have been killed in there cars. I see the bullet holes and think to myself "why the fuck werent these people driving armored cars". If you can get this garantee then by all means do it. Other than that tell them to where to stick the job offer.
This is a perfect example of convergence gone all wrong. Who in there right mind would ride something like this? Besides wifi has a limited range and is not well suited to such applications. Surfing is all about getting away from the bump and grind of life and becoming one with nature. What were the people who designed this thing thinking?
Sounds extremley similar to the way the james bond wristwatch stun gun is supposed to work. Yet another piece of science fiction that is turning into real science.
Yes this is true, the insparation for my comment lies in a number of mediocre multifunction devices on the market. Specificially the sd card based video camera/still camera/voice recorder/mp3 player.
The cell phone is the pocket watch of the 21st century.
I think often devices that try to do many things succed in doing many things less well than specialized devices. Not only are we going to see a lot of innovation but we are going to see a lot of failed products in the years to come.
Or you willl end up with a cuncussion on the floor. You will end up bashing yourself into invisible walls. Sounds like the only application ot invisible walls is to fuck with people's heads. Good luck!
Hopefully Microsoft is on there hit list, I have seen stories of many questionable patents on Slashdot like the double click. Way to go, STOP THIS MADNE$$!!