"It's not that FOSS has had a bad press, it has had no press because there is no company that 'owns' it,"
Until now? I mean this is on the BBC, which isn't just a major news source in the US or Britain, but the entire world. The continual adoption of Open Source software by developing countries is starting to give me hope that we might actually have a chance of escaping the Monocrosoft empire.
What I meant was that Microsoft was a lot more public about Vista before they even really had anything to show for it (remember longhorn.) But they waited with CE6 until they had something to show for, rather than creating a lot of hype for something still on the drawing board.
I never meant that they placed more importance on one over the other, or that focus on one effected the other. Microsoft is a big corp with a lot of divisions, and I've got a feeling what one division does isn't going to have a whole lot of effect on what another is doing.
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The one time I go to actually read the artical and it's been Slashdotted.
Here is an alternative artical for anyone interested:
Meanwhile Microsoft's Major new consumer operating system has been pushed back several times, and talked up every chance they get. I think this says a lot about the order of importance of the mobile OS to people. Having worked in retail I can honestly say nobody ever asked me if that palm I was selling them came with a windows based OS or which OS it came with, yet with people who bought desktops I'd always get this question: "Does it come with XP?". This was, of course, years after XP was common, and computers really weren't packaged with anything else.
I don't think this release was so much a secret as it was an unadvertised release. If microsoft thought there would be a huge public reaction to this, they would have talked it up publicly before they even started work on it.
Yes, but the end results are still the same. If we can do more with the resources we have this way, then there are tangible benifits to the field. That's the whole point of countries teaming up like this.
United we rise, divided we... stretch our budget a little thinner to rise.
Since progress in this field is really beneficial to all of humanity, it's really good to see more countries joining forces to move progress along. I think in the long run privitization of the space industry is the way to go, but until that industry takes off a world wide coalition to push things forward might be our best bet for progress.
Because if they did, wouldn't that just make life so easy. Either way, this is a fantastic step in the right direction. It looks like nature was able to do what our science has yet to accomplish.
I think they tried too hard to make these look like regular sun glasses. I think they should add borders to the lenses, or something to proclaim that "No this guy isn't just wearing the most retarded sunglasses you've ever seen, but actually a nifty piece of technology."
They got the something light right, but until they can actually make these look like fashion wear, they shouldn't even try. It's like trying to make the ipod look like an earing. It would be big clunky, and ugly, but just trying to make the ipod look like an ipod has created a fashion trend in and of itself.
So far the only piece of wearable technology that can actually add cool points is something that's centuries old - The Wrist Watch
It may be speedy, but is this car going to be of any practical use, or is it simply going to be a novelty item, used for racing or showing off your newest toy to the other bajillionaires?
Also, as an obligatory point... Where are they getting the electicity to run this thing? Most of the US still get's it's power from Gas run power plants. It's good to see improvement in the tech though, so when we do have other methods of power generation we'll be ablt to take full advantage of them.
ZSpade: "Could you encrypt your old land line telephone? Can you encrypt your cellphone calls? For the most part no."
TubeSteak: "For 99% of people, it isn't worth the cost."
I know this, but as you pointed out yourself it isn't worth it for most people. What VoIP had the potential to do was to make it easy for people to encrypt. Now with these new laws it will probably be about as difficult and costly as it was before with other aforementioned technologies.
Yet they've been doing this for years. Nothing has really changed. Could you encrypt your old land line telephone? Can you encrypt your cellphone calls? For the most part no. The government has been doing this for years, why should things change now.
Just don't say they're getting worse without really looking at our past. Nothing has gotten worse, only the means to which our "rights" are negated as changed.
I was just driving home the point that nothing has changed with China, despite the information age.
Also, name one instance where 1 million people died in an earthquake. It holds no importance, I understand your point, but it was a rather silly example.
I don't think so. This is the same thing that China has been doing for ages, only now electronically instead of on paper. Information (and it's free release) have not changed at all in China, only the means by which it is censored.
For anyone who has read 1984 though, it makes sense. The only way to control a mass ammount of people, the only way to subdue them and hold at bay their very rights to speech, it to keep them ignorant. If you can keep a people ignorant, they won't know any better and they certainly will not rise up against you. Like I said though, this isn't news. Because you can't spell NEWs without NEW.
He would make OSX available for the masses, and not tied down to MAC computers alone. How is letting MAC owners put windows on their MAC going to make them switch to MAC?
But have they got any better suggestions. The federal government is a *Joke* about bringing any kind of justice down on this filth, and so the masses remained *outraged* and *victimized*. To me a (A computer tech) I see people's computers every day that have been turned into Zombies. Some so bad that they have to be reformated. They are bringing in their computers to me, and paying hard cash for me to fix it and prevent it from happening again. That's real money, real damages everyone is having to pay every day. I guess you could spin it in a positive light and say it's good for the tech industry, but not if people start becoming afraid to even get on the internet because of what might happen to their computer. This is theft, this is vandilism and the governements of the world are practically standing by and watching it happen.
So, do you have any better suggestions, if not then I kindly ask you to ommit your views until you can add something to the cause.
When it is more than simple theory. They've worked it out mathmatically, but still have no idea of how they'll actually build it. There are no prototypes, or indeed any labwork. Even when they are done with it they stated it would only block one wavelength of light, and that is a short one. So if someone get's really close to you they might not be able to see you *as well* as they could when they were further away.
This still has some pretty interesting implications, but I'd like to see this theory proven before I'll get my hopes up.
You know it strikes me that if things this big can escape our detection on a daily basis, just what else are we missing that may lie right in front of us. I mean this is of utterly rediculous proportions and yet it escaped both our vision, and our history? I think this must be added to the list of world wonders, word wonders how we missed it!
It's good to see Intel fall behind what used to be an underdog, however don't get too excited all. While I know AMD is usually the geeks choice, there will only be negagive consequencs if Intel's market share falls too much lower. We need competition to drive innovation, else we will halt to a technological standstill.
As the artical points out, Google is pretty much going right where all have gone wrong in the past with traditional business models before. This is what makes them so innovative. The tremendous openess in the company, along with their creedo to do no wrong has also given them a squeky clean public image. The world loves Google and wants to see the friendly Giant smash the mean people eating one.
All that said, how long can Google really maintain it's unorthadox business methods while allowing VERY orthadox investors to buy stocks in the company. I'd say it's only a matter of time, and the price for become a truly large corporation. I can only hope that I am wrong.
Especially at the beginning. Every once in a while you would have a brief break from the cutscenes, where you might be given the choice to walk into the right area (and no other area, lest a text box come up saying, "no not this way!"), and just as soon as you walk into that area, BAM, new cutscene.
It honestly feels like you have absolutely no control whatsoever. As has been stated earlier, it's also a little too easy. All that said, this is still a pretty good game. Just a warning to those who don't like to ride the RPG rails (ie. fallout and morrowind fans), minus some minor character modification, this game allows 0 degrees of freedom.
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"It's not that FOSS has had a bad press, it has had no press because there is no company that 'owns' it,"
Until now? I mean this is on the BBC, which isn't just a major news source in the US or Britain, but the entire world. The continual adoption of Open Source software by developing countries is starting to give me hope that we might actually have a chance of escaping the Monocrosoft empire.
What I meant was that Microsoft was a lot more public about Vista before they even really had anything to show for it (remember longhorn.) But they waited with CE6 until they had something to show for, rather than creating a lot of hype for something still on the drawing board.
I never meant that they placed more importance on one over the other, or that focus on one effected the other. Microsoft is a big corp with a lot of divisions, and I've got a feeling what one division does isn't going to have a whole lot of effect on what another is doing.
The one time I go to actually read the artical and it's been Slashdotted.
Here is an alternative artical for anyone interested:
AGEIA PhysX tested with GRAW and Cell Factor
Meanwhile Microsoft's Major new consumer operating system has been pushed back several times, and talked up every chance they get. I think this says a lot about the order of importance of the mobile OS to people. Having worked in retail I can honestly say nobody ever asked me if that palm I was selling them came with a windows based OS or which OS it came with, yet with people who bought desktops I'd always get this question: "Does it come with XP?". This was, of course, years after XP was common, and computers really weren't packaged with anything else.
I don't think this release was so much a secret as it was an unadvertised release. If microsoft thought there would be a huge public reaction to this, they would have talked it up publicly before they even started work on it.
Yes, but the end results are still the same. If we can do more with the resources we have this way, then there are tangible benifits to the field. That's the whole point of countries teaming up like this.
United we rise, divided we... stretch our budget a little thinner to rise.
Since progress in this field is really beneficial to all of humanity, it's really good to see more countries joining forces to move progress along. I think in the long run privitization of the space industry is the way to go, but until that industry takes off a world wide coalition to push things forward might be our best bet for progress.
Because if they did, wouldn't that just make life so easy. Either way, this is a fantastic step in the right direction. It looks like nature was able to do what our science has yet to accomplish.
I think they tried too hard to make these look like regular sun glasses. I think they should add borders to the lenses, or something to proclaim that "No this guy isn't just wearing the most retarded sunglasses you've ever seen, but actually a nifty piece of technology."
They got the something light right, but until they can actually make these look like fashion wear, they shouldn't even try. It's like trying to make the ipod look like an earing. It would be big clunky, and ugly, but just trying to make the ipod look like an ipod has created a fashion trend in and of itself.
So far the only piece of wearable technology that can actually add cool points is something that's centuries old - The Wrist Watch
The fin-shaped mass is about 300 feet tall and growing 4 feet to 5 feet a day
Just what exactly is your definition of "nothing heppening right now"? Geologically, 5 feet a day is pretty rapid change.
thanks for the info, even worse! I should have been generic and said fossil fuels.
It may be speedy, but is this car going to be of any practical use, or is it simply going to be a novelty item, used for racing or showing off your newest toy to the other bajillionaires?
Also, as an obligatory point... Where are they getting the electicity to run this thing? Most of the US still get's it's power from Gas run power plants. It's good to see improvement in the tech though, so when we do have other methods of power generation we'll be ablt to take full advantage of them.
ZSpade: "Could you encrypt your old land line telephone? Can you encrypt your cellphone calls? For the most part no."
TubeSteak: "For 99% of people, it isn't worth the cost."
I know this, but as you pointed out yourself it isn't worth it for most people. What VoIP had the potential to do was to make it easy for people to encrypt. Now with these new laws it will probably be about as difficult and costly as it was before with other aforementioned technologies.
Yet they've been doing this for years. Nothing has really changed. Could you encrypt your old land line telephone? Can you encrypt your cellphone calls? For the most part no. The government has been doing this for years, why should things change now.
Just don't say they're getting worse without really looking at our past. Nothing has gotten worse, only the means to which our "rights" are negated as changed.
I was just driving home the point that nothing has changed with China, despite the information age.
Also, name one instance where 1 million people died in an earthquake. It holds no importance, I understand your point, but it was a rather silly example.
I don't think so. This is the same thing that China has been doing for ages, only now electronically instead of on paper. Information (and it's free release) have not changed at all in China, only the means by which it is censored.
For anyone who has read 1984 though, it makes sense. The only way to control a mass ammount of people, the only way to subdue them and hold at bay their very rights to speech, it to keep them ignorant. If you can keep a people ignorant, they won't know any better and they certainly will not rise up against you. Like I said though, this isn't news. Because you can't spell NEWs without NEW.
He would make OSX available for the masses, and not tied down to MAC computers alone. How is letting MAC owners put windows on their MAC going to make them switch to MAC?
But have they got any better suggestions. The federal government is a *Joke* about bringing any kind of justice down on this filth, and so the masses remained *outraged* and *victimized*. To me a (A computer tech) I see people's computers every day that have been turned into Zombies. Some so bad that they have to be reformated. They are bringing in their computers to me, and paying hard cash for me to fix it and prevent it from happening again. That's real money, real damages everyone is having to pay every day. I guess you could spin it in a positive light and say it's good for the tech industry, but not if people start becoming afraid to even get on the internet because of what might happen to their computer. This is theft, this is vandilism and the governements of the world are practically standing by and watching it happen.
So, do you have any better suggestions, if not then I kindly ask you to ommit your views until you can add something to the cause.
haha, simple genius. Mod parent up.
When it is more than simple theory. They've worked it out mathmatically, but still have no idea of how they'll actually build it. There are no prototypes, or indeed any labwork. Even when they are done with it they stated it would only block one wavelength of light, and that is a short one. So if someone get's really close to you they might not be able to see you *as well* as they could when they were further away.
This still has some pretty interesting implications, but I'd like to see this theory proven before I'll get my hopes up.
You know it strikes me that if things this big can escape our detection on a daily basis, just what else are we missing that may lie right in front of us. I mean this is of utterly rediculous proportions and yet it escaped both our vision, and our history? I think this must be added to the list of world wonders, word wonders how we missed it!
It's good to see Intel fall behind what used to be an underdog, however don't get too excited all. While I know AMD is usually the geeks choice, there will only be negagive consequencs if Intel's market share falls too much lower. We need competition to drive innovation, else we will halt to a technological standstill.
If you're going to make outstanding claims like this, you need to be able to back it up or everyone will simply laugh at you, like me... ha...ha.
As the artical points out, Google is pretty much going right where all have gone wrong in the past with traditional business models before. This is what makes them so innovative. The tremendous openess in the company, along with their creedo to do no wrong has also given them a squeky clean public image. The world loves Google and wants to see the friendly Giant smash the mean people eating one.
All that said, how long can Google really maintain it's unorthadox business methods while allowing VERY orthadox investors to buy stocks in the company. I'd say it's only a matter of time, and the price for become a truly large corporation. I can only hope that I am wrong.
Especially at the beginning. Every once in a while you would have a brief break from the cutscenes, where you might be given the choice to walk into the right area (and no other area, lest a text box come up saying, "no not this way!"), and just as soon as you walk into that area, BAM, new cutscene.
It honestly feels like you have absolutely no control whatsoever. As has been stated earlier, it's also a little too easy. All that said, this is still a pretty good game. Just a warning to those who don't like to ride the RPG rails (ie. fallout and morrowind fans), minus some minor character modification, this game allows 0 degrees of freedom.