Upon reading the write-up once more, suddenly all my warning LEDs turn red: "Intellectual Ventures" ?? That is a patent-monger! If there is any link between this project and Intellectual Ventures, it is doomed to stay in a box. Which would really, really be too bad.
Although I have at least an idea of the engineering difficulties, I still wonder why this technology is not in a more advanced state, as power beaming has the potential to solve so many problems ?
but is it really worth it? Of all the things you could have spent that money on, it went to the hard drives?
Yep. I work on-site at my client's ( code generation, compiling, then running & sending data to my remote server ). Together with an i7 XM processor, SSDs make an enormous difference.
That is an Alienware M17x. I live in Europe, ordered it in the US. May sound funny, to use a gaming laptop for work. But it works ! Clients and prospect are astonished to see the thing, and gawk at its speed. Gawking prospect = nearly 100% a new client.
"aspirational more than affordable" ? For business ( on-site programming ) purposes I just ordered a new laptop with two 256-Gb SSD drives. Only a few hundred bucks more expensive than one with disks. Wait a year or two, and 1 Tb SSD drives will be perfectly normal items on a medium to high end computer.
Google had to, sooner or later, start fighting such a fight. Interesting is that European, and not Asian or American, ISPs are engaging it. Who wins this fight ? It could have a big impact upon how the internet looks in a few years.
Not as funny as the kiddies on the Register who act out Brian de Palma's Scarface, but almost. Laughed a good deal about this. The only thing still missing is a CowboyNeal permanent webcam....
From the Draft Bill:
"(...) as software patents can stifle innovation and competition, and can be granted for trivial or existing techniques. In general we accept this position."
Why am I not living in NZ, yet ?
Having been an enthusiastic user of Solaris-on-Intel from the very beginnings on, this is sad news to me and many of my colleagues. Now get off my lawn, darn corporate capitalists and patent-wielding punks !
Of all places, the conference met in MANILA, for crying out loud. Wonder how many participants came home with their nice personal version of the claps. "Look, mommie, without hands !"
"the seeds of fascism". One of the most well-coined expressions I met this year in a political debate. I will be using that one when arguing against the current security hype. Thanks, mate.
Very well seen. If the 20th century taught us anything, then it was this: any innocent-looking, peaceful society can almost without prior notice degenerate into a self-destructing monster, ruled by a tyrant. Which is a terrible and sad thing to say, but - alas - a true one.
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Upon reading the write-up once more, suddenly all my warning LEDs turn red: "Intellectual Ventures" ?? That is a patent-monger! If there is any link between this project and Intellectual Ventures, it is doomed to stay in a box. Which would really, really be too bad.
Although I have at least an idea of the engineering difficulties, I still wonder why this technology is not in a more advanced state, as power beaming has the potential to solve so many problems ?
Praise Gawd - and may the winds be fortunate to our pirate brothers' sailing in Canuckistan !
The phone war IS on, isn't it ?
I laughed. Really, I did. But I didnot decide yet if I laughed at the song or at the guy's head. Anyways - shouln't this have been on Idle ?
...welcome our new anthropologic overlords.
but is it really worth it? Of all the things you could have spent that money on, it went to the hard drives?
Yep. I work on-site at my client's ( code generation, compiling, then running & sending data to my remote server ). Together with an i7 XM processor, SSDs make an enormous difference.
That is an Alienware M17x. I live in Europe, ordered it in the US. May sound funny, to use a gaming laptop for work. But it works ! Clients and prospect are astonished to see the thing, and gawk at its speed. Gawking prospect = nearly 100% a new client.
"aspirational more than affordable" ? For business ( on-site programming ) purposes I just ordered a new laptop with two 256-Gb SSD drives. Only a few hundred bucks more expensive than one with disks. Wait a year or two, and 1 Tb SSD drives will be perfectly normal items on a medium to high end computer.
Google had to, sooner or later, start fighting such a fight. Interesting is that European, and not Asian or American, ISPs are engaging it. Who wins this fight ? It could have a big impact upon how the internet looks in a few years.
I know. Why do you think more and more scientists and engineers in my age group are turning into political radicals ?
Anything working only and mainly thanks to and through people's fears and worries is, to my experience, a bad idea.
Not as funny as the kiddies on the Register who act out Brian de Palma's Scarface, but almost. Laughed a good deal about this. The only thing still missing is a CowboyNeal permanent webcam....
Everything sounds better in Latin
Amen, frater !
it's very likely that SOMETHING strange would have happened in the area around the time of the earthquake.
Finally someone who does not mix up causality and concurrency. Pfew.
I wondered who the f*ck modded THAT as "insightful". Hopefully not a seismologue...
...utterly shaken by this news.
...for an early 1st-of-April prank....
You forgot slutload.com ....
Hmmm, well - to my N-th generation offspring ( N > 3 ), "terraformation.com" is going to be worth a lot more than that...
From the Draft Bill: "(...) as software patents can stifle innovation and competition, and can be granted for trivial or existing techniques. In general we accept this position." Why am I not living in NZ, yet ?
Having been an enthusiastic user of Solaris-on-Intel from the very beginnings on, this is sad news to me and many of my colleagues. Now get off my lawn, darn corporate capitalists and patent-wielding punks !
Of all places, the conference met in MANILA, for crying out loud. Wonder how many participants came home with their nice personal version of the claps. "Look, mommie, without hands !"
is this good ? or is it bad ?
"the seeds of fascism". One of the most well-coined expressions I met this year in a political debate. I will be using that one when arguing against the current security hype. Thanks, mate.
Very well seen. If the 20th century taught us anything, then it was this: any innocent-looking, peaceful society can almost without prior notice degenerate into a self-destructing monster, ruled by a tyrant. Which is a terrible and sad thing to say, but - alas - a true one.