....but the cost of builting these are just too high for the population density here.
You don't get much chance to ride on the ground at that speed. The price of the ticket probably going to cost similar to a plane ticket, but I will definite try it when I go to Tokyo.
The technical aspert certainly sound interesting too, I remember reading a japanese comic about a teenage who live in a neightbodhood that are ruinned by the noise of a bullet train. So from my understanding Japanese might not be too happy about the bullet train situation in their homeland. The speed actually isn't what I most interested in. I wonder what kind of noise these would make when it is on surface!
.... when people are not required to be responsible to their own action. If I slips, just blame the landlord there are no sign to warn me of being slippy. If I steal software, just blame the company who made those software available to me!
The entire system just sorta... fail when people don't need to be responsible.
but blocking ad that are in the website, simply blanking out the ad that would have been sitting there beside the news are a little excessive. I personaally use Firefox full time, and I don't see any need to actually strips out some of the content the website is presenting to you. For one, ad might actually be interesting, and secondly, you are technically modifying their original work and the way they wish to present the story to you. I understand that some ad are pretty annoying, but most of them in major website are smart enough not to include any sound and excessively flashy graphic. Protesting as a adverisment company might not do much, but the community have a lot to think about when they are overriding the webmaster code by automatically modifying the original content. Doing so is a little selfish in my opinion, if you do not think it is fair to read content on the website without adveristment. You should simply not visit that site.
Using adblock will only force company to find way around it, increasing the circle and the annoyance of Adveristment. In turns, nobody wins.
Someone made a key maping program that will let me switch keyboard layout as easy as a click of a button. Maybe something of a hardware switch on the keyboard, or in between the keyboard and the computer like an extension cord. OR better yet, make a residant program translates key stroke in real time so every login to window/linux can be using a different keyboard layout without physcial change. (I peronsally don't care if the printing on the keys are wrong. I never look at the keyboard anyway.)
but until those thing are available I simply can't just swithc. I need to use my computer at friends, at work, and at home. It would be difficult to change back and forth... and force people who use one of my computer to switch back and forth.
Better yet, have a website that I can visit that will immediatley translate keyboard layout. This is probably impossible but I can always dream!
Until those thing happens I can not see Dvorak going anywhere.
I have to say I'm not that impressed. Not that I'm not a fan of Hayao. In fact, being born in Hong Kong, we were used to see his film every so often. What I can say is that the style have changed a lot from the "Vally of wind" and "The castle in the sky". The main character is still always going to be a girl, there will always be flying and transformation, but it is getting more and more difficult to understand how the world in the film works. What I'm saying is that the film will need to be rewatched to truely appericate the depth. Technical wise, it is as good as an animation need to be. Perhaps it will win in the box office, but a film with such different style can't possibly replace what Disney stands for in the late 60' till 90'. Waltz bring the soul of Disney with him.
In my opinion, this service can not complete with iPod/iTune at all. iTune is still the only service out there that have a productes specially design for the service. Everyone else just sorta hang onto the rest of the markt. Until a company come out with a comparable product to iPod in combination with a comparable service like iTune. They are not in the same league.
What I'm saying is that companies are fighting all over that 18% of market share all over the place. This will not make Apple dominates any less, in fact, many tiny little services who each have 3% of the market is a lot easier to defeat then one single service who have 18% of the market.
In summary, those remaining player who try to defeat iTune will need to allies together and make a standard that can actually complete with Apple, instead of introducing yet more different format. Thinning out the support for this side of the market even more.
Oh great. One more attempt...
At least we won't need to worry too much about Apple monopolying the market? (!?)
Seriously, do we need yet another music provider? I like to see some number or a pie chart as in who are taking the majority of the market and at what precentage.
And mind I add. There are no way to easily put "Quality" on the flyer or other adverstiment. They certainly can't say "We spend more time building this notebook then the other".
Until you can put a number on Quality and compare it to other, an advancing technology like this might not be the best place to put your effort in build quality. Word of mouth will still work, but by the time the early adaptor got comfortable with the product and starting to tell people how great they are. Model with more battery life, faster process or lighter case will be available. Buying 2nd hand product doesn't benifies the company one bit.
Maybe we need to have a standardize torture test for consumer products to ensure their quality are comparable. When enough people are aware of that number, then companies might not just find the cheapest supplier available and try to find someone who actually build a better product. In my experience IBM have the most durible notebook around, ironically enough. They are the one who outsource the least.
means at least the saving are pass onto the consumer. Admittedly though, there are not a whole lot of choices when you buy a laptop. More often then not you will not be told where the laptop are made unless you can see the underside of it.
Since customer perfers price over quality in general, it is not really the companies fault to find the cheapest supplier.
There are barebone notebook with just the case and motherboard these day (Many avaialble at www.newegg.com for instant) and let you have some flexiablity in setting up a notebook yourself as far as component goes. Brand like Acer, ECS are very popular.
Still much more limiting then a desktop PC, but it is a far cry from a few years ago where you can only have one model of video card and one properity casing CD-Rom drive you can upgrade to a writer for $200.
I for one am interested to see what kind of patent it is to have the power to demand 450 millions. Is it called "Device that send out e-mail wirelessly" or is it just the thumb keyboard? After reading the story it doesn't seem to give me the full picture.
No, because the map are a tool to help you find out where you are and how to get somewhere. Not a tool to let you know how it look like before you get there.
It will not be a prefect model of 3D, but the exact depth of the road and the exact shape of a building should not make much of a different in term of making it a map.
Obviously Google want it to be as accurate as possible. We can only see how well they can do by glue up a lot of technologies together to find new use for them.
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I don't get it, How is this informative and insightful?
....but the cost of builting these are just too high for the population density here.
You don't get much chance to ride on the ground at that speed. The price of the ticket probably going to cost similar to a plane ticket, but I will definite try it when I go to Tokyo.
The technical aspert certainly sound interesting too, I remember reading a japanese comic about a teenage who live in a neightbodhood that are ruinned by the noise of a bullet train. So from my understanding Japanese might not be too happy about the bullet train situation in their homeland. The speed actually isn't what I most interested in. I wonder what kind of noise these would make when it is on surface!
.... when people are not required to be responsible to their own action. If I slips, just blame the landlord there are no sign to warn me of being slippy. If I steal software, just blame the company who made those software available to me!
The entire system just sorta... fail when people don't need to be responsible.
Then Intel will need two bolt of lightning.
AMD only have about 15% of the market after beating Intel numerious of time tell you how smart the general public are.
Thank you for the correction!
but blocking ad that are in the website, simply blanking out the ad that would have been sitting there beside the news are a little excessive. I personaally use Firefox full time, and I don't see any need to actually strips out some of the content the website is presenting to you. For one, ad might actually be interesting, and secondly, you are technically modifying their original work and the way they wish to present the story to you. I understand that some ad are pretty annoying, but most of them in major website are smart enough not to include any sound and excessively flashy graphic. Protesting as a adverisment company might not do much, but the community have a lot to think about when they are overriding the webmaster code by automatically modifying the original content. Doing so is a little selfish in my opinion, if you do not think it is fair to read content on the website without adveristment. You should simply not visit that site.
Using adblock will only force company to find way around it, increasing the circle and the annoyance of Adveristment. In turns, nobody wins.
Doesn't 25% of Google staff time are allocated to discover things from new ideas?
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Do you realise you asked people who visit slashdot to work out?
Someone made a key maping program that will let me switch keyboard layout as easy as a click of a button. Maybe something of a hardware switch on the keyboard, or in between the keyboard and the computer like an extension cord. OR better yet, make a residant program translates key stroke in real time so every login to window/linux can be using a different keyboard layout without physcial change. (I peronsally don't care if the printing on the keys are wrong. I never look at the keyboard anyway.) but until those thing are available I simply can't just swithc. I need to use my computer at friends, at work, and at home. It would be difficult to change back and forth... and force people who use one of my computer to switch back and forth.
Better yet, have a website that I can visit that will immediatley translate keyboard layout. This is probably impossible but I can always dream!
Until those thing happens I can not see Dvorak going anywhere.
I have to say I'm not that impressed. Not that I'm not a fan of Hayao. In fact, being born in Hong Kong, we were used to see his film every so often. What I can say is that the style have changed a lot from the "Vally of wind" and "The castle in the sky". The main character is still always going to be a girl, there will always be flying and transformation, but it is getting more and more difficult to understand how the world in the film works. What I'm saying is that the film will need to be rewatched to truely appericate the depth. Technical wise, it is as good as an animation need to be. Perhaps it will win in the box office, but a film with such different style can't possibly replace what Disney stands for in the late 60' till 90'. Waltz bring the soul of Disney with him.
I foresee the value of PSP with Japanese Firmware actually go UP.
Thanks for the correction. English is not my first language. I apologies ahead of time for any short coming.
In my opinion, this service can not complete with iPod/iTune at all. iTune is still the only service out there that have a productes specially design for the service. Everyone else just sorta hang onto the rest of the markt. Until a company come out with a comparable product to iPod in combination with a comparable service like iTune. They are not in the same league.
What I'm saying is that companies are fighting all over that 18% of market share all over the place. This will not make Apple dominates any less, in fact, many tiny little services who each have 3% of the market is a lot easier to defeat then one single service who have 18% of the market.
In summary, those remaining player who try to defeat iTune will need to allies together and make a standard that can actually complete with Apple, instead of introducing yet more different format. Thinning out the support for this side of the market even more.
Remeber Apple had iPod first. Not iTune.
You must build a portable music player that will beat iPod first!
Oh great. One more attempt...
At least we won't need to worry too much about Apple monopolying the market? (!?)
Seriously, do we need yet another music provider? I like to see some number or a pie chart as in who are taking the majority of the market and at what precentage.
The one who have the foresight to question build quality base on price are the minority.
The only reason why they dominating the laptop supplier business is because of their price. If consumer have a good idea of quality. They would fails.
And mind I add. There are no way to easily put "Quality" on the flyer or other adverstiment. They certainly can't say "We spend more time building this notebook then the other".
Until you can put a number on Quality and compare it to other, an advancing technology like this might not be the best place to put your effort in build quality. Word of mouth will still work, but by the time the early adaptor got comfortable with the product and starting to tell people how great they are. Model with more battery life, faster process or lighter case will be available. Buying 2nd hand product doesn't benifies the company one bit.
Maybe we need to have a standardize torture test for consumer products to ensure their quality are comparable. When enough people are aware of that number, then companies might not just find the cheapest supplier available and try to find someone who actually build a better product. In my experience IBM have the most durible notebook around, ironically enough. They are the one who outsource the least.
means at least the saving are pass onto the consumer. Admittedly though, there are not a whole lot of choices when you buy a laptop. More often then not you will not be told where the laptop are made unless you can see the underside of it.
Since customer perfers price over quality in general, it is not really the companies fault to find the cheapest supplier.
There are barebone notebook with just the case and motherboard these day (Many avaialble at www.newegg.com for instant) and let you have some flexiablity in setting up a notebook yourself as far as component goes. Brand like Acer, ECS are very popular.
Still much more limiting then a desktop PC, but it is a far cry from a few years ago where you can only have one model of video card and one properity casing CD-Rom drive you can upgrade to a writer for $200.
I for one am interested to see what kind of patent it is to have the power to demand 450 millions. Is it called "Device that send out e-mail wirelessly" or is it just the thumb keyboard? After reading the story it doesn't seem to give me the full picture.
No, because the map are a tool to help you find out where you are and how to get somewhere. Not a tool to let you know how it look like before you get there.
It will not be a prefect model of 3D, but the exact depth of the road and the exact shape of a building should not make much of a different in term of making it a map.
Obviously Google want it to be as accurate as possible. We can only see how well they can do by glue up a lot of technologies together to find new use for them.