Even if you own a LOT of guns, odds are, you don't own the majority of them. So while the gun you carry is the one most likely of all guns to shoot you, I'd take a 50% chance of being shot by my own gun over the millions of other guns each at 0.0001% chance.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
I don't own a gun anyway, as my 'trigger finger' (right index) is permenently damaged anyway. and my wrists wouldn't like impacts from target practice.
The next big format will take a different physical form, we went from audio/video on spools (loose tape, film) to cassettes to discs to...
solid state
SD, Compact Flash, etc. why not a movie on a chip in a credit card sized package? easy enough to make a secure ROM card, and each one can have it's own custom DRM hardware, or not.
Just slap it into the slot, pull it out when you are done, no moving parts, no optical surfaces to get scratched, worst case use some contact clearer like old NES cartridges.
Carry your favorite movie in your wallet, to enjoy at home or on the go (players built into public transportation seat-backs)
Even if the technology dosn't allow a whole HD movie on a card, the card could be the license key for on-demand download of the high quality version, with the portable version built in.
If you can't say it in less than a thousand words, it should be broken into seperate bills.
Of coarse, then they would adopt german-style words...
Indistinguishable, Internationalization, Incomprehensibilities are nothing compared to DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFAHRTSELEKTRIZITAETENHAUPTBETRIEBSW ERKBAUUNTERBEAMTENGESELLSCHAFT
back around '99 I worked for a very short time for an 'e-commerce website development' company. I was their very first dedicated tester.
When I pointed out that users could enter javascript as a user name to be displayed to other users, they didn't care, the response was "Why would anyone want to hack a website?".
The last website this company produced before then was for a major gaming company that produced a VERY popular collectable card game and had bought out another company that made a paper RPG game featuring underground prisons and large reptiles.
Which is a completely different demographic group than those who enjoy 'exploring' other peoples computer systems.
They basically let me go because I wouldn't give up arguing they needed to fix security issues.
Why would you not want a full feature multimedia experiance on your wireless device? It may not have a display, or a speaker, or a keyboard, or a mouse, but you could still... ok, maybe you could make the embedded CPU 'leak' a radio signal like the old Altairs... and play.WMA files that way.
bits of the back end may be handy, if you are for example, sharing digital media from your Windows PC to your XBox 360, but that should all be handled by QoS features of the network.
But yeah, only MS can kill MS, like any large Org/Empire, the greatest threat is internal decay. Otherwise even if Windows dies, nothing (from a legal standpoint) could stop 'Microsoft Linux' (Optimized for Office, with IE, etc.) Windows makes a lot of money, but so did DOS.
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but there are HUGE GAPING HOLES in the ongoing plot.
In one of the first few episodes their career chips are taken from an envelope labeled "Contents of Space WASPS Stomach", while in the later episodes they try to complete the previous failed misson, and find the last ship in a hive of "Space BEES".
(I suppose that the envelope may have been mislabeled, or as Lucy Lawless said: "It was a wizard.")
I figure sometimes Lisa just acts dumb, I do it ALL the time for so many reasons.
Neices asking for help with homework, I instantly know that 24*8 is 192, but I think it through, slowly, aloud, so that my neices learn something from the process.
Also, for the 'Scotty' method, if you make it look easy, they'll think your job is easy.
And nobody likes a smart-ass. I bet most of the people reading this are thinking "He's not that smart, he's just trying to look smart"
I take it this is not the same Craig Ferguson as the character on "Malcolm in the Middle"? (the overweight neighbor who worked with Lois at Luckyaide had that name, yes?)
'cause I could tottally see him running an animated TV show fansite. Except he's fictional.
Does all MS web traffic originate from IP's labeled Microsoft.com? should they route employees web requests through the same pipes as their web site? do they want to be obviously tracked in detail? remember, Microsoft was a little slow to get started on the web, didn't support it fully until 1995, but there were already on the internet long before that.
(Historial Note, The Internet is much, much older than The Web, other services existed before the web, like Gopher, WAIS, and such. HTML over HTTP becoming the defacto standard was NOT obvious back in the very early 1990's. NCSA Mosaic was cool, but so was the 3DO.
The other implication is that Microsoft not only 'allows' its workers to use the services they choose, maybe they encourage it? maybe the IE team is testing to be sure Google's services work on IE? There was a major change in the way Windows 95 allocated memory, just to keep AOL's client from crashing. Imagine the outcry if G-Mail didn't work in Vista for some reason. Obviously Microsoft HAS to access Google often.
I'd also wager that a large number of web access from Google actually uses Internet Explorer (*gasp!*) for the same reason, compatibility testing, heck, Google even publishes add-ins for Windows and Internet Explorer!
Google may be activly disallowing it's employees from accessing other services from their connection, 100% sounds artifical, you'd think they at least see how well the competition works.
This is all assuming these statistics are accurate. and even if they are, are the web sites being analysed purchasing Google ads, but not MSN ads? Does it accuratly count the referalls?
Perfect couch potato UI, would be a single button to see more about the topic currently (or just previously) on. pushing the button queues the topic link, so that at the next mark in the video stream (so as not to jump-cut) the stream is pushed down a stack, and the sub-stream on the sub-topic starts. when the sub topic is done, pop the last stream off the stack and continue.
Navigation would be the way web sites should have been, instead of next/back, next/back/up/deeper.
but please, no sound effects for the button pushes =P
I'm really torn, I like electric cars in principle, but as you say, lacking 'oompm' (power) is my reason not to get one. Along with statistics that show more powerful cars are less likly to get into accidents. but then, the only reason I have to think that they are weak is from what other people say in side comments like yours. Maybe their acceleration is better than gas powered cars. Maybe you own a gas station, and are telling lies to stay in business, maybe... YOU killed the electric car!
They need better ads, depicting them zooming along, speed of a dead dinosaur vs. speed of a lightning bolt... meanwhile, last I heard, people were selling Hybrids for more than they paid, and some delivery/shuttle fleets are getting them. Like with Natural Gas vehicles, they may be more economical if your business is willing to provide the infrastructure themselves.
Cable does suck more (Comcast vs. Qwest) According to the 'cable guy' we are the only house in the neighborhood on Comcast data service (which, I suppose is why they don't take care of our lines), anyway, if the price of Cable and DSL go down, my plan is: Get Both.
I'm assuming a little linux box could take care of splitting the traffic between two connections, depending on which is 'shorter'/better for that traffic at that time, and with p2p/torrent type applications, ideally allowing both connections to be used for different segments of a transfer. Also log the failures/performance to see if one is drastically better, in which case cancel the other service.
Since Windows Media Player has a web-browser control built in, there is no reason you couldn't do that now, except that as far as I know non of the store that are in by default sell movie tickets (you can buy/rent DVD's though)
Should there only be one way to do things?, should you be unable to type numerals in Word, since that's what Excel is for? what if an online radio station is playing a song from a soundtrack of a current movie, shouldn't you be able to click a few links to get tickets?
But I wouldn't want to balance my checkbook in WMP =)
(note, I work for an iTunes rival, grain of salt, and all that)
""They have been developing technologies that have really good music discovery and community," another source said. "iTunes is the 7-11 (of music stores). You don't hang out there.""
Well, I didn't hang out at the local 7-11 because that's where the local child molester picked up boys (why our parents forbid it AFTER he was arrested and jailed...), and they got rid of the video game machines.
I'm sure there is no connection between on online community and an offline community in that reguard...
(I do work for an iTunes rival, but that's not revelant I think)
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If you don't trust their updates, why would you trust the OS in the first place?
I think I trust MS to not install intentional backdoors more than I trust crack publishers...
Need to have a new Slashdot section, with Jack Sparrow as the icon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009YD2L Q/qid=1151436258/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/203-2846940-7 714335
or is the API thing the main issue?
Even if you own a LOT of guns, odds are, you don't own the majority of them. So while the gun you carry is the one most likely of all guns to shoot you, I'd take a 50% chance of being shot by my own gun over the millions of other guns each at 0.0001% chance.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
I don't own a gun anyway, as my 'trigger finger' (right index) is permenently damaged anyway. and my wrists wouldn't like impacts from target practice.
The next big format will take a different physical form, we went from audio/video on spools (loose tape, film) to cassettes to discs to...
solid state
SD, Compact Flash, etc. why not a movie on a chip in a credit card sized package? easy enough to make a secure ROM card, and each one can have it's own custom DRM hardware, or not.
Just slap it into the slot, pull it out when you are done, no moving parts, no optical surfaces to get scratched, worst case use some contact clearer like old NES cartridges.
Carry your favorite movie in your wallet, to enjoy at home or on the go (players built into public transportation seat-backs)
Even if the technology dosn't allow a whole HD movie on a card, the card could be the license key for on-demand download of the high quality version, with the portable version built in.
Does it have little tractor treads for going 'uphill'?
Heisenbidding: You can know how much you will pay, OR if you'll get the item or not, but you can't know both.
Registers, CPU cache, on-chip cache, RAM, local disk, Network/Removable Media, Paper/Human memory...
It's all about feeding that data hungry CPU, as quickly as possible.
There should be a size limit on legislation.
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If you can't say it in less than a thousand words, it should be broken into seperate bills.
Of coarse, then they would adopt german-style words...
Indistinguishable, Internationalization, Incomprehensibilities are nothing compared to DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFAHRTSELEKTRIZITAETENHAUPTBETRIEBS
back around '99 I worked for a very short time for an 'e-commerce website development' company. I was their very first dedicated tester.
When I pointed out that users could enter javascript as a user name to be displayed to other users, they didn't care, the response was "Why would anyone want to hack a website?".
The last website this company produced before then was for a major gaming company that produced a VERY popular collectable card game and had bought out another company that made a paper RPG game featuring underground prisons and large reptiles.
Which is a completely different demographic group than those who enjoy 'exploring' other peoples computer systems.
They basically let me go because I wouldn't give up arguing they needed to fix security issues.
Why would you not want a full feature multimedia experiance on your wireless device? It may not have a display, or a speaker, or a keyboard, or a mouse, but you could still... ok, maybe you could make the embedded CPU 'leak' a radio signal like the old Altairs... and play .WMA files that way.
bits of the back end may be handy, if you are for example, sharing digital media from your Windows PC to your XBox 360, but that should all be handled by QoS features of the network.
But yeah, only MS can kill MS, like any large Org/Empire, the greatest threat is internal decay. Otherwise even if Windows dies, nothing (from a legal standpoint) could stop 'Microsoft Linux' (Optimized for Office, with IE, etc.) Windows makes a lot of money, but so did DOS.
but there are HUGE GAPING HOLES in the ongoing plot.
In one of the first few episodes their career chips are taken from an envelope labeled "Contents of Space WASPS Stomach", while in the later episodes they try to complete the previous failed misson, and find the last ship in a hive of "Space BEES".
(I suppose that the envelope may have been mislabeled, or as Lucy Lawless said: "It was a wizard.")
Or they digitally edited the first episode before rebroadcasting it.
I figure sometimes Lisa just acts dumb, I do it ALL the time for so many reasons.
Neices asking for help with homework, I instantly know that 24*8 is 192, but I think it through, slowly, aloud, so that my neices learn something from the process.
Also, for the 'Scotty' method, if you make it look easy, they'll think your job is easy.
And nobody likes a smart-ass. I bet most of the people reading this are thinking "He's not that smart, he's just trying to look smart"
I take it this is not the same Craig Ferguson as the character on "Malcolm in the Middle"? (the overweight neighbor who worked with Lois at Luckyaide had that name, yes?)
'cause I could tottally see him running an animated TV show fansite. Except he's fictional.
and "30 percent Iron Chef"
155% so far.
Yeah, everyone knows there is no money to be made on the internet.
Does all MS web traffic originate from IP's labeled Microsoft.com? should they route employees web requests through the same pipes as their web site? do they want to be obviously tracked in detail? remember, Microsoft was a little slow to get started on the web, didn't support it fully until 1995, but there were already on the internet long before that.
(Historial Note, The Internet is much, much older than The Web, other services existed before the web, like Gopher, WAIS, and such. HTML over HTTP becoming the defacto standard was NOT obvious back in the very early 1990's. NCSA Mosaic was cool, but so was the 3DO.
The other implication is that Microsoft not only 'allows' its workers to use the services they choose, maybe they encourage it? maybe the IE team is testing to be sure Google's services work on IE? There was a major change in the way Windows 95 allocated memory, just to keep AOL's client from crashing. Imagine the outcry if G-Mail didn't work in Vista for some reason. Obviously Microsoft HAS to access Google often.
I'd also wager that a large number of web access from Google actually uses Internet Explorer (*gasp!*) for the same reason, compatibility testing, heck, Google even publishes add-ins for Windows and Internet Explorer!
Google may be activly disallowing it's employees from accessing other services from their connection, 100% sounds artifical, you'd think they at least see how well the competition works.
This is all assuming these statistics are accurate. and even if they are, are the web sites being analysed purchasing Google ads, but not MSN ads? Does it accuratly count the referalls?
In sum: slow news day.
Perfect couch potato UI, would be a single button to see more about the topic currently (or just previously) on. pushing the button queues the topic link, so that at the next mark in the video stream (so as not to jump-cut) the stream is pushed down a stack, and the sub-stream on the sub-topic starts. when the sub topic is done, pop the last stream off the stack and continue.
Navigation would be the way web sites should have been, instead of next/back, next/back/up/deeper.
but please, no sound effects for the button pushes =P
Is this only for still images, or can it be used for moving images? (over time, like a movie, not emotionally, like a childs tear)
Obviously you'd need a heck of a data transfer rate for motion, but how fast could this pump data out, clear, and capture the next image?
I'm really torn, I like electric cars in principle, but as you say, lacking 'oompm' (power) is my reason not to get one. Along with statistics that show more powerful cars are less likly to get into accidents. but then, the only reason I have to think that they are weak is from what other people say in side comments like yours. Maybe their acceleration is better than gas powered cars. Maybe you own a gas station, and are telling lies to stay in business, maybe... YOU killed the electric car!
They need better ads, depicting them zooming along, speed of a dead dinosaur vs. speed of a lightning bolt... meanwhile, last I heard, people were selling Hybrids for more than they paid, and some delivery/shuttle fleets are getting them. Like with Natural Gas vehicles, they may be more economical if your business is willing to provide the infrastructure themselves.
I know about 'Search Engine Optimization'
but, you still use Google, right?
dosn't have to be perfect to be better.
Cable does suck more (Comcast vs. Qwest) According to the 'cable guy' we are the only house in the neighborhood on Comcast data service (which, I suppose is why they don't take care of our lines), anyway, if the price of Cable and DSL go down, my plan is: Get Both.
I'm assuming a little linux box could take care of splitting the traffic between two connections, depending on which is 'shorter'/better for that traffic at that time, and with p2p/torrent type applications, ideally allowing both connections to be used for different segments of a transfer. Also log the failures/performance to see if one is drastically better, in which case cancel the other service.
Since Windows Media Player has a web-browser control built in, there is no reason you couldn't do that now, except that as far as I know non of the store that are in by default sell movie tickets (you can buy/rent DVD's though)
Should there only be one way to do things?, should you be unable to type numerals in Word, since that's what Excel is for? what if an online radio station is playing a song from a soundtrack of a current movie, shouldn't you be able to click a few links to get tickets?
But I wouldn't want to balance my checkbook in WMP =)
(note, I work for an iTunes rival, grain of salt, and all that)
From the Article:
""They have been developing technologies that have really good music discovery and community," another source said. "iTunes is the 7-11 (of music stores). You don't hang out there.""
Well, I didn't hang out at the local 7-11 because that's where the local child molester picked up boys (why our parents forbid it AFTER he was arrested and jailed...), and they got rid of the video game machines.
I'm sure there is no connection between on online community and an offline community in that reguard...
(I do work for an iTunes rival, but that's not revelant I think)