At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mile to the gallon."
Jack Welch (General Motors) replied: "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart. In which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. You'd press the 'Start' button to shut off the engine."
Say what you want about America, our propaganda system is the best in the world.
No it only works for US citizens, the rest of us despise the American government.
When you think your IT job is shit, you're just not doing it right..
Ofcourse customers complain, but you have to close a good contract with them first and you should be able to easily achieve what you have promised to them.
And that is where the problem is.. they know shit about either defining rules, applying technology or managing a project.
The only way to create error-free software is using a guaranteed error-free interface (I'm not talking Java, we should go much further), which has to be the base of the operating system to be actually error-free. As a nice by-product, developing applications will be much easier.
The greatest problem is making sure we will prevail; atom bombs and climate changes are the bigger threat imho. Hunger is not a global threat and CAN be solved if we weren't such lazy hypocrites.
The REAL problem is that people need things that are distant to them in the current environment (work, food, tourist attractions), perhaps there will be a better way of getting people to those places (or vice versa?). Of course people shouldn't do things they don't have to (like controlling cars), but even so it doesn't have to be a car at all. You need to understand this thoroughly if you want to innovate.
If conventional science will finally accept that matter is made purely out of waves, not little marbles or strings, we could produce a machine which could transfer (or copy) anything with the speed of light, or maybe even faster if we could produce a wormhole.
Now that's a feature I would actually like on my mobile phone!
P.S. Some guy has already made an anti-gravity device using this theory. It works and it has proven Newton wrong (check his movies).
Well, yes. A lot of perfumes are based on the liquid that cats produce with an organ behind their anus. It is also supposed to stick to their poopies for reproduction purposes.
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Light travels about 10x faster than electrons in their optimal medium, so the potential processing speed limit is increased.
Also, light processing does not necessarily generate heat, so there is no cooling needed to preserve the hardware, unlike the electro solution.
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mile to the gallon."
Jack Welch (General Motors) replied: "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart. In which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. You'd press the 'Start' button to shut off the engine."
Next time, you can take the ISO to the shop and try it out before you buy ;)
Say what you want about America, our propaganda system is the best in the world. No it only works for US citizens, the rest of us despise the American government.
I, for one, welcome our pill swallowing overlord!
But it's reuuuusable!
..genetic diseases..
I, for one, welcome our X-men overlords!
It was essentially a robot, since it had actuators that could push people into space etc.
When you think your IT job is shit, you're just not doing it right..
Ofcourse customers complain, but you have to close a good contract with them first and you should be able to easily achieve what you have promised to them.
And that is where the problem is.. they know shit about either defining rules, applying technology or managing a project.
The only way to create error-free software is using a guaranteed error-free interface (I'm not talking Java, we should go much further), which has to be the base of the operating system to be actually error-free.
As a nice by-product, developing applications will be much easier.
The greatest problem is making sure we will prevail; atom bombs and climate changes are the bigger threat imho. Hunger is not a global threat and CAN be solved if we weren't such lazy hypocrites.
The REAL problem is that people need things that are distant to them in the current environment (work, food, tourist attractions), perhaps there will be a better way of getting people to those places (or vice versa?). Of course people shouldn't do things they don't have to (like controlling cars), but even so it doesn't have to be a car at all. You need to understand this thoroughly if you want to innovate.
If conventional science will finally accept that matter is made purely out of waves, not little marbles or strings, we could produce a machine which could transfer (or copy) anything with the speed of light, or maybe even faster if we could produce a wormhole.
Now that's a feature I would actually like on my mobile phone!
P.S. Some guy has already made an anti-gravity device using this theory. It works and it has proven Newton wrong (check his movies).
Do people like smelling cat shit?
Well, yes.
A lot of perfumes are based on the liquid that cats produce with an organ behind their anus. It is also supposed to stick to their poopies for reproduction purposes.