The international community was very upset when we decided to pull support for this project. They were still going to put it in Canada just to be close to all of the experts in the US.
First Bush gives a huge plug for hydrogen in his State of the Union and now this. He's either up to something or is not the evil oil baren everyone thinks he is.
Interesting thought: What if the United States government, which is the largest single purchaser of MS software (if you include the military) spent all of their IT dollars on Open Source solutions?
They could invest in nailing the problems they wish to solve with no worries about future price hikes and inter-op.
What could 100s of millions a year (I'm guessing) properly invested do for big Open Source projects?
If it is made from some biomass then it lets off only as much C02 as was recently absorbed from the atmosphere by the plants that it is made from. If it is made from fossil fuels then it is introducing new C02 that hasn't been around for millenia, a serious shock to the global balance.
CO2 isn't like wine. It doesn't get more potent with age.
The fact that the other nasties get removed is good, though. Thanks NASA!
"a massive overhaul in Outlook that makes messages easier to read and manage and lets users switch between online and offline modes without restarting."
"Also, because information workers aren't always working online or from the office, Outlook includes an improved mobile e-mail experience that is more consistent across the range of today's networks and data connections. By introducing a new cached e-mail system and intelligent connection settings, Outlook allows mobile workers to get to their e-mail more quickly and transfer between data connections with little or no interruption."
boys should not be able to get their drivers licences until they have the valve installed. It will be closed by default. It can only be openned once the man is out of college and has a job.
We should invest money is this! Big brother at it's best. Imagine how few losers would be around!
Sydney's monorail is a bad example. It is very low capacity and it just goes in a loop. Tourists are the only ones who use it because it's a tourist system.
Of course we all know that Microsoft did little or no optimization for the "shared-source" CLI.
It's pretty clear that this work is purely acedemic. Having a base infrastructure that can be compiled and run on many platforms is a great way for people in Research to play with, cretique, extend, and break the CLI.
It also gives them something to play with besides that silly Java stuff.:-)
I'm glad I'm not the only one. We did 30 hours straight once. The horrible thing was that when it was all over and I could go to bed I couldn't sleep! I kept running code paths through my head...it was freaky.
One of the best reasons to avoid caffine in every day life. When you really need it, it kicks you in the ass!
Media Companies, Communications Companies, Oil Companies...they all yell about how new technologies will ruin their business models and how they need to be protected!
Who fucking cares!?!?
Governments exist to protect the people, not to forward corporate interests. I'm so sick and tired of companies using legal bull shit to protect their business model. Why don't we have bloody subsidies for horse shoers?
To quote the Amazon review: "To the uninitiated reader, the accounts of what goes on behind the scenes at major news organizations are shocking. Executives regularly squelch legitimate stories that will lower their ratings, upset their advertisers or miff their investors. Unfortunately, this dirt is unlikely to reach unknowing news audiences, as this volume's likely readership is already familiar with the current state of journalism."
Hey, can you post a link to that story about the buffer overflow in.NET?
What is that? You DON'T know of one? You're post couldn't have been un-educated MS flame.
Wow. I'm so suprised.:-)
I hope we'll see other technologies first...
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If you think about it, air travel is only good for long distances or where speed is vital.
I think (and hope) that we will see more innovation around different land transportation, such as Segway-like devices for personal transport, monorail for intracity, and maglev for high capacity intercity/interstate transport. The last two are ideal because you don't the waste of having to carry the fuel they use or going fast enough to maintain lift.
Air will still be more cost/time effective for transcontinential and transoceanic travel.
I read this article about the EU stroing arming US companies to comply with EU privacy guidelines. I can't believe this wouldn't be the case for India as well.
A lot of US companies were upset about this, as was the federal government, but I think the US ended up enacting laws that mirror the EU to ease tensions. Anyone has info on this?
Fifty years ago people thought that we all would be flying around in personal airplanes by now.
It's not usually valid to stretch a trend out beyond a decade. Unlike the last 20 years of computing, we are running into the fundamental limits of physics: the size of the atom and the speed of light. Not saying that we won't come up with something clever.:-)
This is more of an issue of programming language support.
There are languages (well, mostly modifications to existing languges) that allow one to create a program that will scale to any number of processors.
It's actually a very tough problem, because most coders thing in terms of doing x, then y, then z. You really need to think in terms of I need these things done and they have these dependencies, but other than that, divide and concor any way you want.
I second giving up TV. Smartest thing I did when I moved was not getting cable.
Splurge and get the extra 256k download and you'll still be money a head.
I have a lot of friends that say "Yeah, but there are great shows on." True, but for every 1 good show I watch 3 horrible ones. It's too damn easy to come home and hit the power button. You just sit and watch and suddenly 2 hours is wasted out of an already short day. After 3 months, I'm over $100 richer and I've read more than I have in the past year. I go to my friends place on Monday for the important shows on Fox. It's amazing how annoying commercials are after not seeing them.
Try it for a few months! If you need an entertainment fix, listen to radio streaming off the net.
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There are three stations I listen to in Seattle:
2 are NPR. 1 is a free hip-hop channel done by a local high school.
I'm happy to donate $100 a year to keep these going while not supporting this commercial BS.
You don't have to support this crap.
This is so amazing!
The international community was very upset when we decided to pull support for this project. They were still going to put it in Canada just to be close to all of the experts in the US.
First Bush gives a huge plug for hydrogen in his State of the Union and now this. He's either up to something or is not the evil oil baren everyone thinks he is.
This rocks!
Interesting thought: What if the United States government, which is the largest single purchaser of MS software (if you include the military) spent all of their IT dollars on Open Source solutions?
They could invest in nailing the problems they wish to solve with no worries about future price hikes and inter-op.
What could 100s of millions a year (I'm guessing) properly invested do for big Open Source projects?
Hmm...
The fact that the other nasties get removed is good, though. Thanks NASA!
Terrarium (http://www.gotdotnet.com/terrarium/) is a similiar .NET application. It's actually pretty cool, if you're into AI stuff.
.NET, Evil...blah blah blah...
Yeah, MS,
From an article at PCMag:
"a massive overhaul in Outlook that makes messages easier to read and manage and lets users switch between online and offline modes without restarting."
from a MS PressPass article site:
"Also, because information workers aren't always working online or from the office, Outlook includes an improved mobile e-mail experience that is more consistent across the range of today's networks and data connections. By introducing a new cached e-mail system and intelligent connection settings, Outlook allows mobile workers to get to their e-mail more quickly and transfer between data connections with little or no interruption."
boys should not be able to get their drivers licences until they have the valve installed. It will be closed by default. It can only be openned once the man is out of college and has a job.
We should invest money is this! Big brother at it's best. Imagine how few losers would be around!
(No, I'm not serious. But i think it's funny.)
1) The track is almost a mile long.
2) KPLU had a great write up about 'a day on the monorail'. A lot of commuters us it everyday.
Sydney's monorail is a bad example. It is very low capacity and it just goes in a loop. Tourists are the only ones who use it because it's a tourist system.
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For more info on the Seattle monorail project.
http://www.elevated.org
http://www.riseaboveit
This topic is interesting to me. Anyone have info about Windows being I/O-bound?
Of course we all know that Microsoft did little or no optimization for the "shared-source" CLI.
:-)
It's pretty clear that this work is purely acedemic. Having a base infrastructure that can be compiled and run on many platforms is a great way for people in Research to play with, cretique, extend, and break the CLI.
It also gives them something to play with besides that silly Java stuff.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. We did 30 hours straight once. The horrible thing was that when it was all over and I could go to bed I couldn't sleep! I kept running code paths through my head...it was freaky.
One of the best reasons to avoid caffine in every day life. When you really need it, it kicks you in the ass!
From our friends at MIT: Kerberos: The Network Authentication Protocol
Ahhhh! The anger swells in me...
Media Companies, Communications Companies, Oil Companies...they all yell about how new technologies will ruin their business models and how they need to be protected!
Who fucking cares!?!?
Governments exist to protect the people, not to forward corporate interests. I'm so sick and tired of companies using legal bull shit to protect their business model. Why don't we have bloody subsidies for horse shoers?
*Sigh* I feel better now.
Read the article.
The problem with SCSI is heat and noise, things that work fine in a server room, but are bad for the home user.
I had SCSI for a while in college. It was cool to show off, but having to turn up my TV to hear over the jet engine in my PC was annoying.
I was listening to NPR on my way home and heard about this book:
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press
To quote the Amazon review: "To the uninitiated reader, the accounts of what goes on behind the scenes at major news organizations are shocking. Executives regularly squelch legitimate stories that will lower their ratings, upset their advertisers or miff their investors. Unfortunately, this dirt is unlikely to reach unknowing news audiences, as this volume's likely readership is already familiar with the current state of journalism."
Power of the free market, eh?
Hey, can you post a link to that story about the buffer overflow in .NET?
:-)
What is that? You DON'T know of one? You're post couldn't have been un-educated MS flame.
Wow. I'm so suprised.
If you think about it, air travel is only good for long distances or where speed is vital.
I think (and hope) that we will see more innovation around different land transportation, such as Segway-like devices for personal transport,
monorail for intracity, and maglev for high capacity intercity/interstate transport. The last two are ideal because you don't the waste of having to carry the fuel they use or going fast enough to maintain lift.
Air will still be more cost/time effective for transcontinential and transoceanic travel.
I read this article about the EU stroing arming US companies to comply with EU privacy guidelines. I can't believe this wouldn't be the case for India as well.
A lot of US companies were upset about this, as was the federal government, but I think the US ended up enacting laws that mirror the EU to ease tensions. Anyone has info on this?
The cool thing about hydrogen fuel cells: you really don't need fuel stations to start deploying.
Anyone can make hydrogen. Get a bucket of water and apply some voltage.
Do technologies exist to do electrolysis today? Yup.
Can I do it *safely* and *cheaply* in my garage at night? I have no clue. Anyone have an answer?
There was a time in my life when I would have been excited by this. ...but then I saw 'Signs'.
I'm going to go home and start filling up water glasses.
Our tax dollars at work: The guys on the space station are reading /.
Geeze.....
Slow down turbo.
:-)
Fifty years ago people thought that we all would be flying around in personal airplanes by now.
It's not usually valid to stretch a trend out beyond a decade. Unlike the last 20 years of computing, we are running into the fundamental limits of physics: the size of the atom and the speed of light. Not saying that we won't come up with something clever.
This is more of an issue of programming language support.
There are languages (well, mostly modifications to existing languges) that allow one to create a program that will scale to any number of processors.
It's actually a very tough problem, because most coders thing in terms of doing x, then y, then z. You really need to think in terms of I need these things done and they have these dependencies, but other than that, divide and concor any way you want.
parallel programming languages on Google
I second giving up TV. Smartest thing I did when I moved was not getting cable.
Splurge and get the extra 256k download and you'll still be money a head.
I have a lot of friends that say "Yeah, but there are great shows on." True, but for every 1 good show I watch 3 horrible ones. It's too damn easy to come home and hit the power button. You just sit and watch and suddenly 2 hours is wasted out of an already short day. After 3 months, I'm over $100 richer and I've read more than I have in the past year. I go to my friends place on Monday for the important shows on Fox. It's amazing how annoying commercials are after not seeing them.
Try it for a few months! If you need an entertainment fix, listen to radio streaming off the net.