It's a question of smart not of evil. If the bandwidth increases we have all seen over the last 15 years continue in their exponential way then all communication tech TV,radio,phone etc will inevitably be subsumed by this. Google are building for that.
I too was perplexed by that. Was the article stating that Dr Van Allen was working up to a month before his death or a month before Mr Sullivan wrote it? As I get older, and undeniable decay sets in, the idea of Dr Van Allen being active right up to the end is quite comforting. Regardless I am heartened to see you mourn him, arguing for unmanned exploration when he made that argument seems both brave and prescient. Dr Van Allen, a great man who will be remembered.
Imagine a cash grab where all of a sudden toll booths appeared all over the place on what were once public roads. Cisco and its ilk in this scenario are people expecting to sell toll booth hardware. That they are lobbying for their interests and against yours is not surprising.
There is nothing wrong with that, they are responsible only to their shareholders and should do all they can to maximize profits. It is the elected goverments job, as our representatives, to regulate and oversee them so they can operate competitively in a fair enviroment that serves the interests of all people. It is ridiculous to elect people who let corporations write laws in secret but it is also ridiculous to demonize corporations. Fire good. Uncontrolled fire bad. Electing arsonists just plain stupid.
diebolds owner famously promised to deliver ohio to bush and even the mafia commit crimes for other motives then pure pursuit of money e.g. vengence killings.
I think that converting to an absolute unit like the number of hits is an important part of any useful discussion, pedantry implies uselessness, I disagree.
Each result is a decision:
investigate : skip : fuck that,I'm looking at porn now.
Once you've seen even 60 results to consider your doing a lot of work.
Well said. Evolution is a theory the way 2+2=4 is a theory. What it means I'll let others say but it's existence is demonstrated by countless short lived species. e.g. microbes resisting antibiotics. Sure it's a theory not a 'handed down by god' fact but it just makes sense and is supported by all kinds of randomly selectable evidence.
I see the mind as an emergent property of the physical brains complexity.
I see the soul as a mind plus the eye of god, permanent in the fourth dimension but finite in all dimensions.
My opinions on these matters are also subject to change without written notice:)
yes,yes,yes! My company uses windows for the front end client and I would love to have the very simple adminstrative control we have with our linux servers.
Given Microsofts history of underhanded sabotage against competetion it would take a large leap of faith to trust any software of theirs to run another O.S. honestly. At the very least there will be some windows specific 'feature' that the virtualisation software requires to get maximum performance.
I would suggest a third option.
A demonstration of the new bombs power, one that didn't involve killing a citys worth of people, might have been tried first.
It wasn't like japan had any capability to counter-attack by that time.
How important is backwards-compatible?
Very, I believe,in the general purpose computer realm e.g. all our business apps! , my thesis! etc.
If you own game-software that exists for a specific hardware platform, then you own that platform ( or your nuts;) )
I think PS2 being able to play PS1 games, I never tested this but I've been told it can, was mostly about eliminating problems with having multiple devices plugged into one TV. How many people bought a PS2 to play PS1 games on? not many I would bet.
This said, I think if a new system can take advantage of an existing library of titles then that is a huge advantage.
BUT people will not buy more expensive new hardware to run stuff that works on cheaper hardware.
Maybe nintendo might create a value proposition right at the start, where if you buy the new hardware you get a bunch of the old stuff (software they own ) bundled in ( and at least one new thing that shows off new capabilities)
If they did that they could launch with a bang and make backwards compatibility pay off.
My understanding is they want to continue the current product after the launch of the new one so this idea seems unlikely.
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Damn,My mod points just run out and you made me laugh out loud!
I expect there are also single accounts shared by multiple people.
13%? With software the last 10% takes 90% of the time.
and a vile communist plot to undermine commercial baby mulching
the newly builtin insecticide perhaps?
It's a question of smart not of evil. If the bandwidth increases we have all seen over the last 15 years continue in their exponential way then all communication tech TV,radio,phone etc will inevitably be subsumed by this. Google are building for that.
"My eventual plan is to move to a warmer climate" my eventual plan is to have a warmer climate move to me - go global warming!
Somebody running a sociology experiment
I had all of those for my Atari 800! Yes it was a very long time ago ;)
In those days EA was a name I looked for.
I too was perplexed by that. Was the article stating that Dr Van Allen was working up to a month before his death or a month before Mr Sullivan wrote it? As I get older, and undeniable decay sets in, the idea of Dr Van Allen being active right up to the end is quite comforting. Regardless I am heartened to see you mourn him, arguing for unmanned exploration when he made that argument seems both brave and prescient. Dr Van Allen, a great man who will be remembered.
Imagine a cash grab where all of a sudden toll booths appeared all over the place on what were once public roads. Cisco and its ilk in this scenario are people expecting to sell toll booth hardware. That they are lobbying for their interests and against yours is not surprising.
There is nothing wrong with that, they are responsible only to their shareholders and should do all they can to maximize profits. It is the elected goverments job, as our representatives, to regulate and oversee them so they can operate competitively in a fair enviroment that serves the interests of all people. It is ridiculous to elect people who let corporations write laws in secret but it is also ridiculous to demonize corporations. Fire good. Uncontrolled fire bad. Electing arsonists just plain stupid.
diebolds owner famously promised to deliver ohio to bush and even the mafia commit crimes for other motives then pure pursuit of money e.g. vengence killings.
game machines not servers are what makes IBM care little about the apple loss
This is the reason the entire discussion is moot. "Reformulate query, search again" that's what we do.
I think that converting to an absolute unit like the number of hits is an important part of any useful discussion, pedantry implies uselessness, I disagree. Each result is a decision: investigate : skip : fuck that,I'm looking at porn now. Once you've seen even 60 results to consider your doing a lot of work.
Well said. Evolution is a theory the way 2+2=4 is a theory. What it means I'll let others say but it's existence is demonstrated by countless short lived species. e.g. microbes resisting antibiotics. Sure it's a theory not a 'handed down by god' fact but it just makes sense and is supported by all kinds of randomly selectable evidence.
I see the mind as an emergent property of the physical brains complexity. I see the soul as a mind plus the eye of god, permanent in the fourth dimension but finite in all dimensions. My opinions on these matters are also subject to change without written notice :)
It's all about the lock in
well argued my friend.
yes,yes,yes! My company uses windows for the front end client and I would love to have the very simple adminstrative control we have with our linux servers.
look up what happened Ohio last presidential election.
Given Microsofts history of underhanded sabotage against competetion it would take a large leap of faith to trust any software of theirs to run another O.S. honestly. At the very least there will be some windows specific 'feature' that the virtualisation software requires to get maximum performance.
I would suggest a third option. A demonstration of the new bombs power, one that didn't involve killing a citys worth of people, might have been tried first. It wasn't like japan had any capability to counter-attack by that time.
How important is backwards-compatible? Very, I believe,in the general purpose computer realm e.g. all our business apps! , my thesis! etc. If you own game-software that exists for a specific hardware platform, then you own that platform ( or your nuts;) ) I think PS2 being able to play PS1 games, I never tested this but I've been told it can, was mostly about eliminating problems with having multiple devices plugged into one TV. How many people bought a PS2 to play PS1 games on? not many I would bet. This said, I think if a new system can take advantage of an existing library of titles then that is a huge advantage. BUT people will not buy more expensive new hardware to run stuff that works on cheaper hardware. Maybe nintendo might create a value proposition right at the start, where if you buy the new hardware you get a bunch of the old stuff (software they own ) bundled in ( and at least one new thing that shows off new capabilities) If they did that they could launch with a bang and make backwards compatibility pay off. My understanding is they want to continue the current product after the launch of the new one so this idea seems unlikely.