All they have to do is make the speed trap locations expire in 24 hours. As people drive past the speed traps, they can stop texting and report the speed trap. Then the next day, if the speed trap is still there it will get reported again. If they really want this to work, they should make it so you can report a speed trap in 1 tap of your iPod screen and it uses GPS data to report the location about 1 block behind you.
I think in some cases, staying closed-source makes a company more competitive against open source alternatives. I'm thinking of cases like Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Mathematica. They've been closed source from the beginning, have outrageous prices, and remain very competitive against the open source competition. If they went open source there would be a free clone version of each of them released in a few days, and there would be no competitive advantage to the originals. But as long as they stay closed source and there is nobody both willing and able to make a comparable free product, they remain profitable. So my suggestion to the person asking the question is, in the future, do only closed-source.
I think the problem with this system is the same problem with the non-live video cameras installed in police cars. The police have complete control of the video. So they can just delete it if it shows something they don't want, but the suspect doesn't get to do that.
I remember seeing a news story recently of a police brutality case. As usual, the cop who did it had erased his own car's tape. Unfortunately, another cop was on the scene and failed to erase his car's video. So the offending cop got fired.
They'll just have to offer upload and/or download speed that is faster than the free service and some people will be willing to pay the price for the higher speed... if the company actually delivers the speed they paid for...
Maybe they could use people who are sentenced to life in prison. Living free on Mars might be better than being a prisoner on Earth. Of course, if they manage to establish a very successful colony, we'll have to deal with the revolt that ultimately turns into a revolution and an independent Mars nation.
Yes indeed, you first! I'll be satisfied to have myself cryogenically frozen (Did I happen to mention you first for that too?) and thawed out in a generation or three when the colonization effort is well under way. Guess I'm not much for a.) getting slowly cooked by solar radiation b.) constantly worrying about a hole the size of a pinprick sucking all the atmosphere out of the ship, c.) either losing my sanity in the confines of ship I can't leave for months on end or waiting for my fellow shipmates to do the same and d.) finally arriving at my destination which is even less hospitable and almost certainly more dangerous than life on the ship.
Seriously, the first people to go to Mars would almost have to have a deathwish to do so.
Yes, when they streamline the production of mammoths, production costs will go down. But the real question is, are they going to pass the savings on to us or just keep more profits for themselves? And we all know the cost of the premium mammoths isn't going down any time soon. Can you imagine me hanging out with my friends at the Starbucks and everybody else has the good mammoth while I have the regular mammoth? Not going to happen.
Suppose a Tesla driver is cruising toward a red light, and a blind person is standing at the corner preparing to cross. The light turns green. The Tesla driver keeps going. The blind person hears no car engine, and starts moving forward. The blind person gets hit by the Tesla. What happens next?
A. Tesla driver gets blamed for running down a person, even if there was a green light and the person suddenly stepped in front of the vehicle.
B. Blind person gets blamed, even though there was no indication of a car coming.
It's possible that with everyone scared about the economy these days, Google will finally do what every other company does and seek to monetize all of its offerings. If it has something that costs a lot of money without bringing any revenue in, that thing will be gone. Even Google will run out of cash eventually if it spends all its money supporting every dumb idea its employees come up with.
So what's that going to do to the Android phones if the G1 doesn't take off?
Maybe they think, rather than donating to a non-profit, Google is actually paying for ad space in the browser. And that would mean Google shouldn't be using the donation as a tax deduction. And maybe, depending on where that money ends up, they would question rather Mozilla is really acting as a non-profit.
It could also fund aids or cancer research. Or feed a large number of those people who could eat for 60 cents a day, if that's for real. Or provide full-ride scholarships for millions of students. Or it could buy an insane number of OLPC's and actually make the organization viable. I'm with you in questioning whether the Big Three auto makers should get the money, but I have a long list of causes I'd rather see get 400 billion before I get to NASA.
Since I'm a relatively poor college graduate, #1 on my list would be paying off people's student loans and mortgages. For me, that would be better news than the RIAA being declared a terrorist organization.
Telecommuters can flick the switch and literally get on with something completely not work related - eat breakfast, shower, masturbate, or have sex while the computer boots. Last i checked that was frowned at work, but I guess it depends on the industry.
Remember the dot-com bubble, when you could put all of that on your timesheet?
I have just patented a method of transferring data between planets, wherein a party at location A launches a carrier pigeon with a message attached, and a party at location B has a giant baseball mitt to catch the pigeon.
And if that doesn't work out, I am copyrighting my list of ingredients for my Finger-Licking Fried Pigeon recipe...
It didn't crash Opera, and on my computer, Opera and Firefox are using the same Flash plugin. So maybe it's more a Firefox problem than an Opera problem?
When we were in CS classes, we did not consider our male classmates to be scary, and some of them even seemed fairly cool. We'd flirt, and even exchange jokes with them that only a CS major could find to be funny. But we were all about making money. There may be men who are into computers just because it's fun, but women go to college to further their careers, and ever since outsourcing, CS doesn't seem to be the way to do that. If a CS degree becomes likely to result in a high-paying job, the women will come.
I don't think he's saying it's bad because they haven't found aliens yet. I think he's saying saving lives might be a bigger deal than discovering alien lives. I would agree that saving lives is a bigger deal, but I would disagree with how he implies that discovering alien life is not useful at all. Just maybe not as useful as saving our own lives.
Out of interest, what do you consider the smallest possible user base that any concession should be made with regard to support? How much effort should be put into supporting either Sparc or Itanic, or indeed any other minority platform?
So, when there's no Linux support because not enough people use Linux on the desktop then that's bad. But after we get Linux support, then not supporting other platforms because they're even smaller targets is okay. Because we're all pots and we hate all those black kettles out there. And there's enough pots out here to get you modded +5 Insightful in spite of you being a hypocritical jackass... or am I missing something?
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All they have to do is make the speed trap locations expire in 24 hours. As people drive past the speed traps, they can stop texting and report the speed trap. Then the next day, if the speed trap is still there it will get reported again. If they really want this to work, they should make it so you can report a speed trap in 1 tap of your iPod screen and it uses GPS data to report the location about 1 block behind you.
I think in some cases, staying closed-source makes a company more competitive against open source alternatives. I'm thinking of cases like Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Mathematica. They've been closed source from the beginning, have outrageous prices, and remain very competitive against the open source competition. If they went open source there would be a free clone version of each of them released in a few days, and there would be no competitive advantage to the originals. But as long as they stay closed source and there is nobody both willing and able to make a comparable free product, they remain profitable. So my suggestion to the person asking the question is, in the future, do only closed-source.
I think the problem with this system is the same problem with the non-live video cameras installed in police cars. The police have complete control of the video. So they can just delete it if it shows something they don't want, but the suspect doesn't get to do that.
I remember seeing a news story recently of a police brutality case. As usual, the cop who did it had erased his own car's tape. Unfortunately, another cop was on the scene and failed to erase his car's video. So the offending cop got fired.
They'll just have to offer upload and/or download speed that is faster than the free service and some people will be willing to pay the price for the higher speed... if the company actually delivers the speed they paid for...
What if there's more water, deeper down? Maybe it's warmer.
Maybe they could use people who are sentenced to life in prison. Living free on Mars might be better than being a prisoner on Earth. Of course, if they manage to establish a very successful colony, we'll have to deal with the revolt that ultimately turns into a revolution and an independent Mars nation.
Yes indeed, you first! I'll be satisfied to have myself cryogenically frozen (Did I happen to mention you first for that too?) and thawed out in a generation or three when the colonization effort is well under way. Guess I'm not much for a.) getting slowly cooked by solar radiation b.) constantly worrying about a hole the size of a pinprick sucking all the atmosphere out of the ship, c.) either losing my sanity in the confines of ship I can't leave for months on end or waiting for my fellow shipmates to do the same and d.) finally arriving at my destination which is even less hospitable and almost certainly more dangerous than life on the ship.
Seriously, the first people to go to Mars would almost have to have a deathwish to do so.
What if they throw in a free mammoth?
Yes, when they streamline the production of mammoths, production costs will go down. But the real question is, are they going to pass the savings on to us or just keep more profits for themselves? And we all know the cost of the premium mammoths isn't going down any time soon. Can you imagine me hanging out with my friends at the Starbucks and everybody else has the good mammoth while I have the regular mammoth? Not going to happen.
Suppose a Tesla driver is cruising toward a red light, and a blind person is standing at the corner preparing to cross. The light turns green. The Tesla driver keeps going. The blind person hears no car engine, and starts moving forward. The blind person gets hit by the Tesla. What happens next?
A. Tesla driver gets blamed for running down a person, even if there was a green light and the person suddenly stepped in front of the vehicle.
B. Blind person gets blamed, even though there was no indication of a car coming.
C. Profit.
D. Other _____________________________
It's possible that with everyone scared about the economy these days, Google will finally do what every other company does and seek to monetize all of its offerings. If it has something that costs a lot of money without bringing any revenue in, that thing will be gone. Even Google will run out of cash eventually if it spends all its money supporting every dumb idea its employees come up with.
So what's that going to do to the Android phones if the G1 doesn't take off?
Maybe they think, rather than donating to a non-profit, Google is actually paying for ad space in the browser. And that would mean Google shouldn't be using the donation as a tax deduction. And maybe, depending on where that money ends up, they would question rather Mozilla is really acting as a non-profit.
It'll taste great after we launch one into a giant baseball mitt.
But I'd settle for the RIAA being declared a terrorist organization...
It could also fund aids or cancer research. Or feed a large number of those people who could eat for 60 cents a day, if that's for real. Or provide full-ride scholarships for millions of students. Or it could buy an insane number of OLPC's and actually make the organization viable. I'm with you in questioning whether the Big Three auto makers should get the money, but I have a long list of causes I'd rather see get 400 billion before I get to NASA.
Since I'm a relatively poor college graduate, #1 on my list would be paying off people's student loans and mortgages. For me, that would be better news than the RIAA being declared a terrorist organization.
Windows HPC 2008 is on 4 machines out of 500. (+1 is windows 2003 if you want to count that) Linux is on 454 out of 500 super computers
I would think if a team of 5 competes against a team of 454 and beats all but 9 of them, they deserve some credit.
Somewhere out there, there's a girl for him, and she's converting his screen name to decimal right now...
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Telecommuters can flick the switch and literally get on with something completely not work related - eat breakfast, shower, masturbate, or have sex while the computer boots. Last i checked that was frowned at work, but I guess it depends on the industry.
Remember the dot-com bubble, when you could put all of that on your timesheet?
You can, now that Microsoft has lowered the requirement for Vista Capable...
If you ever get those kids off your lawn, I may be willing to pay big dollars for the right to put a giant baseball mitt there.
I have just patented a method of transferring data between planets, wherein a party at location A launches a carrier pigeon with a message attached, and a party at location B has a giant baseball mitt to catch the pigeon.
And if that doesn't work out, I am copyrighting my list of ingredients for my Finger-Licking Fried Pigeon recipe...
It didn't crash Opera, and on my computer, Opera and Firefox are using the same Flash plugin. So maybe it's more a Firefox problem than an Opera problem?
When we were in CS classes, we did not consider our male classmates to be scary, and some of them even seemed fairly cool. We'd flirt, and even exchange jokes with them that only a CS major could find to be funny. But we were all about making money. There may be men who are into computers just because it's fun, but women go to college to further their careers, and ever since outsourcing, CS doesn't seem to be the way to do that. If a CS degree becomes likely to result in a high-paying job, the women will come.
I don't think he's saying it's bad because they haven't found aliens yet. I think he's saying saving lives might be a bigger deal than discovering alien lives. I would agree that saving lives is a bigger deal, but I would disagree with how he implies that discovering alien life is not useful at all. Just maybe not as useful as saving our own lives.
Out of interest, what do you consider the smallest possible user base that any concession should be made with regard to support? How much effort should be put into supporting either Sparc or Itanic, or indeed any other minority platform?
So, when there's no Linux support because not enough people use Linux on the desktop then that's bad. But after we get Linux support, then not supporting other platforms because they're even smaller targets is okay. Because we're all pots and we hate all those black kettles out there. And there's enough pots out here to get you modded +5 Insightful in spite of you being a hypocritical jackass... or am I missing something?