These guys seem to have borrowed some ideas from the latest electronics & software releases. They claim the plants will be operated as a service where russia retains the ownership, control of the plant and the like while the power plant is just hooked up to the grid of the native country. It's also pretty amazing that the cost of this plant is estimated to be $200,000. That's pocket money compared to the sums spent on current stations (although this one does claim to be 'small').
Its a great thing that CA is giving open source these patents to help secure itself, but the long term solution here should be to avoid giving validity to software patents and fighting their existence. There has been success in europe on this front (although not entirely, I believe) and surely not having to deal with the patent minefield would be better than having a collection of defensive patents...
Ok, so Marvel have secured a deal for these titles, but what happens when there are no more of their series left to take to the big screen? Is it then a case of moving the porfolio onto the next media format and repeating? Surely this money would be better spent on funding original and creative films that could bring something more exciting to our screens than a remake of a comic book story. I mean, its nice being able to see the comics on the big screen, but at the expense of original works?
"Newell says he believes that Steam-like systems will be extremely helpful for developers on the new consoles due to their ability to provide updates and new content."
This is to be expected, he has funded the creation of Steam from scratch, of course he is going to sign it's praises and say software like it is the future. The thing that he doesn't have control over is the customers, and they will decide what the future is.
As much as Katamari is a revolutionary game, and extremely fun, contiunally making sequels for it will make it loose it's originality, and eventually it will fall into line with the rest of games.
Companies need to be continually innovating with new games, along with their best games coming back for sequels. Not relying on one game every so often to be successful then make tons of sequels for it.
At first glance, this would appear to be a direct copy of Google's AdWords style keyword bidding on search result pages. However, whats more suspicious is how information on search users is being used to target the ads. If they choose to mine the profile data available to them through MSN passport (and this seems to be in line with their intentions, given that age and gender are already available to advertisers), Microsoft could try to exploit people's personal information to gain a targetting advantage over Google (at the expense of user's privacy..)
Obviously people don't like having to trail wires and connect peripherals to their PC every time they want to get data from them. Bluetooth solved this problem for PDA's, phones and the like and WiFi seems like the sensible choice for the kind of volume data transfer required for todays digital cameras. If they've equipped this thing with a good enough battery that it can make standard camera running times, it should be a useful step forward for consumers. If they haven't managed to overcome that problem, it could be a costly mistake (I don't the inconvenience of connecting devices outweighs significantly shorter battery life on a camera..)
Its obvious that in this case, the state of the Linux market has changed dramatically in 2 years. Alongside its increasing acceptance within corporations, Linux has been getting a lot more attention, bringing to light increased security risks (due to market share) and legal/patent issues that may have been previously unconsidered (SCO lawsuit, risks from Software Patenting). What's interesting to see is that Linux is now fighting on a level playing field along with the other contenders (like Microsoft and Unix companies), something that waas far less the case 2 years ago...
It seems as if the ultimate (admittedly, far off) goal of such developments is to establish a virtually automated mass transit system using today's road networks. When cars automatically take the correct routes, make correct lane changes, and communicate with each other to ensure safe distances and traffic queues the joy of driving, for those who value it, will be essentially lost. I can't help but wonder if the joy of driving will be entirely lost in 20-50 years.
The new release strategy being introduced as of this kernel, with two weeks before a feature freeze is an interesting step. The kernel development process has been changed a lot, and as much as some people may complain about these frequent changes, I believe it is in the search for a better way of working/more productivity. Surely exploring the problem for better solutions is a better way of trying to improve releases than putting up with a good-enough release method..
it seems like the main selling points on that bundle are Quake 4, Perfect Dark Zero and PGR3. All of which are not confirmed to be available on the exact release day yet, which is kind of worrying.
Looking at the screenshots, Enlightenment seems to be bringing amazing eye candy to the standard X server. As they haven't yet leveraged the additional transparency & acceleration features present in some developmental X servers, its exciting to think how far they can speed up and enhance these visual effects even further. Despite being in development for so long, I think this presents an interesting design/style challenge to the more conservative KDE & Gnome desktops.
It should be interesting to see the effect on Yellow Dog post-x86 macintosh, to see how the PPC Linux platform can compete on its own merits. Of course the comparison will be affected by the existing base of PPC hardware and the potential of stalled development given reduced demand for the platform. IBM have been using PPC in their own products, and its possible that their own demand will continue to drive desktop PPC chip development at the same pace as current.
I'm sure theres a market out there somewhere for this, and those people will graciously recieve this product as exactly what they've been looking for. However I'm more interested in smaller, quieter PC's as the next evolutionary step. Given the processing power of today's PC's, the need to keep pushing hardware to obtain that last piece of performance has been removed, and its more beneficial to see if the computer can run more slightly more slowly but with very little noise.
Its amazing that something like this can have lain undiscovered for so long, and a good thing that we can use modern technology to archive it and preserve it for future generations. It's all very well knowing what Einstein theorized, but to see the actual work is something different and humanises the achievement.
Independantly sell advertising for top spot banners and other links, if spots aren't bought up fill them with Adsense or other PPC advertising programs until they are
With a PR8 and that much traffic, you would have people lining up to buy text links alone to help them in the search engines. You must exploit all aspects of your site when trying to make revenue, not just the content.
They are right when they say the games are a social replacement, but when the people playing them do not socialise in any other way than the game, it is worrying
You will have a nation of people who would rather play Starcraft than go out, spend money, reproduce... all things the country needs
Being able to get good image quality in tiny cameras is becoming increasingly useful because of the adoption of cameras into phones and similarly small devices. The amount of times I've see something I want to take a picture of, but don't have my camera is pretty significant, and I've found that since getting a camera phone its filled this void nicely. Being able to get a high quality image from a phone would be a great step forward for those who are using phone cameras for this kind of role. (Especially as the amount of storage available increases)
Its a shame to see this department go, given the great contributions made by it to the state of modern operating systems. Of course Unix lives on in other forms, and its testament to the strength of the operating system that its free workalikes and variants have been as rampantly successful in developing and thriving. I can't help but wonder whether Plan 9 is affected at all by the demise..
A lot of people already have IM networks that they're locked into because their friends/contacts are happy with that network and use it. In europe, its extremely common for people to have MSN, whilst the trend stateside seems to be more toward AIM (with MSN still significant there too). Google could do better by adopting something like XMPP/Jabber and either using a client that supports MSN/AIM/ICQ protocols or the server-side protocol translation that Jabber supports. A solid Google IM client based on XMPP might be just what the standard needs to build profile (whilst still allowing easy adoption through MSN/AIM compatibility)
The problem is, that most spammers are seen in the 'industry' (so to speak) as some of the best paid, their earnings from the illegal mailings dwarf what some porn websites make in a day, and that can be huge
As long as their is money in it, people will try their hardest to do it. It will be very hard to stop in the end, as for every spammer who goes down... 10 new kids with a copy of a mailing script pop up.
What would be better is taking down the companies who fund the illegal mail by paying comissions on the products advertised, no spammer would risk jail if they weren't getting paid.
At first, the fact that this device shows up as a CD-ROM despite having a USB connection seemed odd, but its possible this is some kind of step around the need for an administrator account to install mass storage devices on the windows platform. The suggestion by the company that this could be used as a portable VPN client seems strange, due to the need to carry the hardware around. Modern ultraportable laptops would seem to meet the needs of those travelling with remote access issues more than this device, which obviously requires a host to piggyback on.
As much as people dislike Microsoft, they have a good thing with the Xbox. Although the first one lost out on market share to the PS2 in the beginning, people have now realised that the Xbox can handle a lot more graphically and may (arguably) be the better console out of the two.
If they can get the xbox360 out there fast enough before the ps3 is launched, and show people that it is a great console, they will have no worries about it being beaten like some say the xbox was.
If this is true you can predict some 3rd party manufacturers to go out of business, their profits aren't huge anyway, and licensing and royalties needing to be paid will just drag them down further, I can see a lot more 3rd party accessories being available for the revolution and the PS3, which may enhance the gaming expierence and gain it a better market share.
Microsoft are playing it down the line here, it's hard to say at this point whether it is a good move or a bad move for them and the Xbox360
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These guys seem to have borrowed some ideas from the latest electronics & software releases. They claim the plants will be operated as a service where russia retains the ownership, control of the plant and the like while the power plant is just hooked up to the grid of the native country. It's also pretty amazing that the cost of this plant is estimated to be $200,000. That's pocket money compared to the sums spent on current stations (although this one does claim to be 'small').
Its a great thing that CA is giving open source these patents to help secure itself, but the long term solution here should be to avoid giving validity to software patents and fighting their existence. There has been success in europe on this front (although not entirely, I believe) and surely not having to deal with the patent minefield would be better than having a collection of defensive patents...
Ok, so Marvel have secured a deal for these titles, but what happens when there are no more of their series left to take to the big screen? Is it then a case of moving the porfolio onto the next media format and repeating? Surely this money would be better spent on funding original and creative films that could bring something more exciting to our screens than a remake of a comic book story. I mean, its nice being able to see the comics on the big screen, but at the expense of original works?
"Newell says he believes that Steam-like systems will be extremely helpful for developers on the new consoles due to their ability to provide updates and new content."
This is to be expected, he has funded the creation of Steam from scratch, of course he is going to sign it's praises and say software like it is the future. The thing that he doesn't have control over is the customers, and they will decide what the future is.
As much as Katamari is a revolutionary game, and extremely fun, contiunally making sequels for it will make it loose it's originality, and eventually it will fall into line with the rest of games.
Companies need to be continually innovating with new games, along with their best games coming back for sequels. Not relying on one game every so often to be successful then make tons of sequels for it.
At first glance, this would appear to be a direct copy of Google's AdWords style keyword bidding on search result pages. However, whats more suspicious is how information on search users is being used to target the ads. If they choose to mine the profile data available to them through MSN passport (and this seems to be in line with their intentions, given that age and gender are already available to advertisers), Microsoft could try to exploit people's personal information to gain a targetting advantage over Google (at the expense of user's privacy..)
Obviously people don't like having to trail wires and connect peripherals to their PC every time they want to get data from them. Bluetooth solved this problem for PDA's, phones and the like and WiFi seems like the sensible choice for the kind of volume data transfer required for todays digital cameras. If they've equipped this thing with a good enough battery that it can make standard camera running times, it should be a useful step forward for consumers. If they haven't managed to overcome that problem, it could be a costly mistake (I don't the inconvenience of connecting devices outweighs significantly shorter battery life on a camera..)
Its obvious that in this case, the state of the Linux market has changed dramatically in 2 years. Alongside its increasing acceptance within corporations, Linux has been getting a lot more attention, bringing to light increased security risks (due to market share) and legal/patent issues that may have been previously unconsidered (SCO lawsuit, risks from Software Patenting). What's interesting to see is that Linux is now fighting on a level playing field along with the other contenders (like Microsoft and Unix companies), something that waas far less the case 2 years ago...
It seems as if the ultimate (admittedly, far off) goal of such developments is to establish a virtually automated mass transit system using today's road networks. When cars automatically take the correct routes, make correct lane changes, and communicate with each other to ensure safe distances and traffic queues the joy of driving, for those who value it, will be essentially lost. I can't help but wonder if the joy of driving will be entirely lost in 20-50 years.
The new release strategy being introduced as of this kernel, with two weeks before a feature freeze is an interesting step. The kernel development process has been changed a lot, and as much as some people may complain about these frequent changes, I believe it is in the search for a better way of working/more productivity. Surely exploring the problem for better solutions is a better way of trying to improve releases than putting up with a good-enough release method..
it seems like the main selling points on that bundle are Quake 4, Perfect Dark Zero and PGR3. All of which are not confirmed to be available on the exact release day yet, which is kind of worrying.
Looking at the screenshots, Enlightenment seems to be bringing amazing eye candy to the standard X server. As they haven't yet leveraged the additional transparency & acceleration features present in some developmental X servers, its exciting to think how far they can speed up and enhance these visual effects even further. Despite being in development for so long, I think this presents an interesting design/style challenge to the more conservative KDE & Gnome desktops.
It should be interesting to see the effect on Yellow Dog post-x86 macintosh, to see how the PPC Linux platform can compete on its own merits. Of course the comparison will be affected by the existing base of PPC hardware and the potential of stalled development given reduced demand for the platform. IBM have been using PPC in their own products, and its possible that their own demand will continue to drive desktop PPC chip development at the same pace as current.
I'm sure theres a market out there somewhere for this, and those people will graciously recieve this product as exactly what they've been looking for. However I'm more interested in smaller, quieter PC's as the next evolutionary step. Given the processing power of today's PC's, the need to keep pushing hardware to obtain that last piece of performance has been removed, and its more beneficial to see if the computer can run more slightly more slowly but with very little noise.
Its amazing that something like this can have lain undiscovered for so long, and a good thing that we can use modern technology to archive it and preserve it for future generations. It's all very well knowing what Einstein theorized, but to see the actual work is something different and humanises the achievement.
Independantly sell advertising for top spot banners and other links, if spots aren't bought up fill them with Adsense or other PPC advertising programs until they are
With a PR8 and that much traffic, you would have people lining up to buy text links alone to help them in the search engines. You must exploit all aspects of your site when trying to make revenue, not just the content.
They are right when they say the games are a social replacement, but when the people playing them do not socialise in any other way than the game, it is worrying
You will have a nation of people who would rather play Starcraft than go out, spend money, reproduce... all things the country needs
Being able to get good image quality in tiny cameras is becoming increasingly useful because of the adoption of cameras into phones and similarly small devices. The amount of times I've see something I want to take a picture of, but don't have my camera is pretty significant, and I've found that since getting a camera phone its filled this void nicely. Being able to get a high quality image from a phone would be a great step forward for those who are using phone cameras for this kind of role. (Especially as the amount of storage available increases)
Its a shame to see this department go, given the great contributions made by it to the state of modern operating systems. Of course Unix lives on in other forms, and its testament to the strength of the operating system that its free workalikes and variants have been as rampantly successful in developing and thriving. I can't help but wonder whether Plan 9 is affected at all by the demise..
A lot of people already have IM networks that they're locked into because their friends/contacts are happy with that network and use it. In europe, its extremely common for people to have MSN, whilst the trend stateside seems to be more toward AIM (with MSN still significant there too). Google could do better by adopting something like XMPP/Jabber and either using a client that supports MSN/AIM/ICQ protocols or the server-side protocol translation that Jabber supports. A solid Google IM client based on XMPP might be just what the standard needs to build profile (whilst still allowing easy adoption through MSN/AIM compatibility)
The problem is, that most spammers are seen in the 'industry' (so to speak) as some of the best paid, their earnings from the illegal mailings dwarf what some porn websites make in a day, and that can be huge
As long as their is money in it, people will try their hardest to do it. It will be very hard to stop in the end, as for every spammer who goes down... 10 new kids with a copy of a mailing script pop up.
What would be better is taking down the companies who fund the illegal mail by paying comissions on the products advertised, no spammer would risk jail if they weren't getting paid.
How many times has an FPS came out with videos portraying it to be revolutionary, and then dissapointed people and not lived up to it's claims
I think I will reserve judgement on whether this is "amazing" until I get my grubby mits on it.
At first, the fact that this device shows up as a CD-ROM despite having a USB connection seemed odd, but its possible this is some kind of step around the need for an administrator account to install mass storage devices on the windows platform. The suggestion by the company that this could be used as a portable VPN client seems strange, due to the need to carry the hardware around. Modern ultraportable laptops would seem to meet the needs of those travelling with remote access issues more than this device, which obviously requires a host to piggyback on.
As much as people dislike Microsoft, they have a good thing with the Xbox. Although the first one lost out on market share to the PS2 in the beginning, people have now realised that the Xbox can handle a lot more graphically and may (arguably) be the better console out of the two.
If they can get the xbox360 out there fast enough before the ps3 is launched, and show people that it is a great console, they will have no worries about it being beaten like some say the xbox was.
If this is true you can predict some 3rd party manufacturers to go out of business, their profits aren't huge anyway, and licensing and royalties needing to be paid will just drag them down further, I can see a lot more 3rd party accessories being available for the revolution and the PS3, which may enhance the gaming expierence and gain it a better market share.
Microsoft are playing it down the line here, it's hard to say at this point whether it is a good move or a bad move for them and the Xbox360