HTML/HTTP were never designed as a method for running remote applications and shouldn't be used as such. We spent all these years upgrading to the latest Core 2 Trio so we could make the internet connection the new bottleneck.
Well yeah. It was designed to serve content but to downplay server side content is to discount the whole reason PHP, CGI, and ASP was made.
There is a dramatic need for web hosts and web developers to control the platform in which your application will run. Your only alternative is to create an app which may or maynot run on your user's hardware and OS platform.
Sure a lot of people have fast CPUs but you have no guarantee that they all do and not only that but issues with drivers and almost infinite problems with OS issues that go with creating and maintaining source for multiple platforms.
Logistically it would be easier for the developer to run all the code server side and send only pertinent information to the user which usually reduces the problem with the bandwidth.
From a support standpoint, thin clients are easier to support since if you need to do troubleshooting you don't have to mess with the client computer that much. (Go Terminal Server/Citrix!)
He's worked hard and he's added a lot to society. If we tried to cut him down so things were more fair, then it would be a loss to all of us.
I don't think the idea is to cut everyone down (including Steve) down so that we all have poor health care.
The idea is to raise it up to a higher standard so we can have at least Canada's or Cuba's (basically a 3rd world nation) health care system where people don't die or suffer over the long term due to lack of health insurance.
I'd suggest watching Sicko sometimes. Yeah Micheal Moore is a douche but I'm envious of the French system.
Three thousand dollar savings per year on a 38000 investment is a 7.8 percent rate of return on investment-- not bad, as long as the investment itself dosn't depreciate in value
Investment into solar panels is like investing in a computer.
The technology itself is going to depreciate in value simply because newer models will be more efficient and cheaper, but the real value is the what the device does in the meantime between upgrades.
Lets say a business saves $1,000 a year on a $10,000 investment in computers for their employees.
In 4 years, going by Moore's law, the same amount of computer power will be $2,500 and they can take the $4,000 they saved and give their employees all upgrades and pocket the rest.
Same thing with Solar... In 4 years he can most likely buy a system that was one $40,000 for $10,000 and might even be more efficient so he can use some of that money he saved for the 4 years and put it towards that and continue the process.
It's quite clear what Apple approved was selling individual C64 games or apps individually that used an emulator underneath. Not a full fledged emulator that would let you program your own games, or play whatever C64 software you have.
Which is why smart developers create "Easter Eggs" in their iPhone apps.
I've never seen one proper city that didn't feel like a very suffocating place, full of busy little bees who have no idea what it is to take the time to smell the roses. I could never live in one.
If you have a car: Yes
If you walk and take public transportation: No
I used to be stressed all the time living in a city with over 5 million people simply because of the horrible traffic everywhere all the time.
So, one day I decide to get rid of my car. I got a job closer to home and now I take the bus everywhere and I feel less stressed and have more money.
I still visit friends (though I have to plan accordingly) and I can always rent a truck if I need to move anything big.
Overall city life ain't bad when you don't have to drive in it.
Though, word of warning... Your city needs to be made for public transportation. I don't think Atlanta or LA is going to be friendly for that.
As far as people are concerned, photography is basically an attempt to evade death, and not one that works well. I'm guessing most digital photos probably last about as long as they actually should.
Well photography was an extension of portrait painting except that it made it affordable to the masses.
Ironically (now that you mention the whole immortality thing), the first famous use of film in the United States was to take pictures of dead soldiers in the American Civil War.
True, but even so, TFA's author's actions are very much those of an optimist. He could easily have been shot or had the crap kicked out of him.
Good thing he didn't run into any cops.
But seriously, most people (except people on crack) won't mess with you for no good reason. Drug dealers in particular aren't interested in causing trouble or having trouble in there area.
But I take Miller's central question to heart - how to preserve man's scientific knowledge so that we're not doomed to rediscover electricity (or whatever) again and again? Forever is a long, long time.
I think when people say that we need to store our knowledge in non-electricity forms because we are doomed to loose our technology someday are missing the point.
If we loose our knowledge in the first place to make electricity then chances are the offline versions will be lost as well because the loss of scientific knowledge probably coincided with something similar to meteor hit or nuclear war or something that would have destroyed the offline knowledge as well.
And over the long run we're doomed anyways considering the lifespan of our sun and the universe in general.
Personally, I have only seen one satellite launch as a kid when visiting Florida and I wouldn't mind coming by to gawk at any launches they may have.;)
To be fair, Philadelphia has gone through some major gentrification since 2000.
Take Fishtown, South Street, West Philly by Penn State or any other place that had major Ghetto problems going on.
Now your hard pressed to find a house in those areas less than $400,000 and there is a Starbucks on every street corner.
A lot of it had to do with the housing bust boom that happened recently but unlike the rest of the nation, housing prices stayed up here due to the fact of location value (and the fact that Penn State bought a crap load of land and redeveloped it because they were tired of their students getting murdered)
Still a high murder rate, but its no where near Detroit or Camden.
We did not understand the global bio-sphere to begin with so we are in the Global-Environment change state. Now we propose attacking the symptoms without a full understanding of the dynamics.
To be fair, once we start tinkering, we'll have a better understanding of what does what.
Its like those old 1960's films of the doctors who crack open patients skulls and put the electric prod onto spots of the brain saying "What does this do? How about now?"
Geo-engineering may make people think that we can carry on as now with no sacrifices.
"A technical solution will always trump a political one." -Me
The reasoning behind this is that political solutions never really address the root core of the problem and usually does not change the fact that some people say they will go along with the compromise and then not do it after all.
With a technical solution, the involved parties are made moot because their participation is no longer needed for a solution.
If bad guys get hand on this technology which seems likely because these flying creatures will be ubiquitous and in close contact then no one will be safe even presidents of countries.
Unless your President is also a robot who is impervious to small arms fire.
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Are you implying that a non-broken OS is completely immune to viruses and malware or are you just spewing typical anti-Microsoft vitriol?
Yes.
Take my iPhone for example.
But more seriously, it is possible to create a complete secure OS that is immune to viruses and malware if you sandbox or sacrifice usability.
The question is how much usability do you want to give up?
So it takes a picture of a map and makes a ... map?
*sigh*
The first thing I thought when I saw this piece of technology was chess (remember to let the Wookie win), Warhammer, Close Combat, and AD&D.
If you can't correlate AR potential with table top games then you need to turn in your geek card over there ---->
There are some tech demos out on youtube (here and here) that have AR running at 10fps on an iPhone.
Combined with gaming the potential is huge.
Imagine a D&D table top where the characters are alive or even augmented reality chess.
And yeah... I had thought about an FPS laser tag game way back when as well. Hopefully we'll see that soon.
Versus zombies pirates.
HTML/HTTP were never designed as a method for running remote applications and shouldn't be used as such. We spent all these years upgrading to the latest Core 2 Trio so we could make the internet connection the new bottleneck.
Well yeah. It was designed to serve content but to downplay server side content is to discount the whole reason PHP, CGI, and ASP was made.
There is a dramatic need for web hosts and web developers to control the platform in which your application will run. Your only alternative is to create an app which may or maynot run on your user's hardware and OS platform.
Sure a lot of people have fast CPUs but you have no guarantee that they all do and not only that but issues with drivers and almost infinite problems with OS issues that go with creating and maintaining source for multiple platforms.
Logistically it would be easier for the developer to run all the code server side and send only pertinent information to the user which usually reduces the problem with the bandwidth.
From a support standpoint, thin clients are easier to support since if you need to do troubleshooting you don't have to mess with the client computer that much. (Go Terminal Server/Citrix!)
He's worked hard and he's added a lot to society. If we tried to cut him down so things were more fair, then it would be a loss to all of us.
I don't think the idea is to cut everyone down (including Steve) down so that we all have poor health care.
The idea is to raise it up to a higher standard so we can have at least Canada's or Cuba's (basically a 3rd world nation) health care system where people don't die or suffer over the long term due to lack of health insurance.
I'd suggest watching Sicko sometimes. Yeah Micheal Moore is a douche but I'm envious of the French system.
He is obviously an early adopter, so I also wonder if he'll continue to just upgrade his equipment before getting a return from his investment.
When is the last time you or the company you worked upgraded their computers?
Same difference.
Three thousand dollar savings per year on a 38000 investment is a 7.8 percent rate of return on investment-- not bad, as long as the investment itself dosn't depreciate in value
Investment into solar panels is like investing in a computer.
The technology itself is going to depreciate in value simply because newer models will be more efficient and cheaper, but the real value is the what the device does in the meantime between upgrades.
Lets say a business saves $1,000 a year on a $10,000 investment in computers for their employees.
In 4 years, going by Moore's law, the same amount of computer power will be $2,500 and they can take the $4,000 they saved and give their employees all upgrades and pocket the rest.
Same thing with Solar... In 4 years he can most likely buy a system that was one $40,000 for $10,000 and might even be more efficient so he can use some of that money he saved for the 4 years and put it towards that and continue the process.
When did all of this disrespect for the position of our President start?
When people tried to make the position a king above normal citizens.
When people start to think of Presidents as Emperors or Popes that are above common man, then they start acting like it.
It's quite clear what Apple approved was selling individual C64 games or apps individually that used an emulator underneath. Not a full fledged emulator that would let you program your own games, or play whatever C64 software you have.
Which is why smart developers create "Easter Eggs" in their iPhone apps.
I wouldn't mind working in Alaska - lots of fresh seafood, cheap real estate, small town feel - if I can be sure my job is secure.
Deal Breaker: Lack of broad band
How else am I going to spend those 6 weeks of darkness in 50 degree below weather.
I've never seen one proper city that didn't feel like a very suffocating place, full of busy little bees who have no idea what it is to take the time to smell the roses. I could never live in one.
If you have a car: Yes
If you walk and take public transportation: No
I used to be stressed all the time living in a city with over 5 million people simply because of the horrible traffic everywhere all the time.
So, one day I decide to get rid of my car. I got a job closer to home and now I take the bus everywhere and I feel less stressed and have more money.
I still visit friends (though I have to plan accordingly) and I can always rent a truck if I need to move anything big.
Overall city life ain't bad when you don't have to drive in it.
Though, word of warning... Your city needs to be made for public transportation. I don't think Atlanta or LA is going to be friendly for that.
And... How much energy will it take to create these wind turbines?
How much energy did it take to create the Hoover dam?
Its not about how much, but how much it will return and how soon.
As far as people are concerned, photography is basically an attempt to evade death, and not one that works well. I'm guessing most digital photos probably last about as long as they actually should.
Well photography was an extension of portrait painting except that it made it affordable to the masses.
Ironically (now that you mention the whole immortality thing), the first famous use of film in the United States was to take pictures of dead soldiers in the American Civil War.
Just paint the copper wires white.
Pacemakers lol?
If you think replacing a battery on an iPhone is hard, try replacing your own pacemaker battery.
Not having a pin lock is a sign of foolishness.
True, but even so, TFA's author's actions are very much those of an optimist. He could easily have been shot or had the crap kicked out of him.
Good thing he didn't run into any cops.
But seriously, most people (except people on crack) won't mess with you for no good reason. Drug dealers in particular aren't interested in causing trouble or having trouble in there area.
But I take Miller's central question to heart - how to preserve man's scientific knowledge so that we're not doomed to rediscover electricity (or whatever) again and again? Forever is a long, long time.
I think when people say that we need to store our knowledge in non-electricity forms because we are doomed to loose our technology someday are missing the point.
If we loose our knowledge in the first place to make electricity then chances are the offline versions will be lost as well because the loss of scientific knowledge probably coincided with something similar to meteor hit or nuclear war or something that would have destroyed the offline knowledge as well.
And over the long run we're doomed anyways considering the lifespan of our sun and the universe in general.
Personally, I have only seen one satellite launch as a kid when visiting Florida and I wouldn't mind coming by to gawk at any launches they may have. ;)
To be fair, Philadelphia has gone through some major gentrification since 2000.
Take Fishtown, South Street, West Philly by Penn State or any other place that had major Ghetto problems going on.
Now your hard pressed to find a house in those areas less than $400,000 and there is a Starbucks on every street corner.
A lot of it had to do with the housing bust boom that happened recently but unlike the rest of the nation, housing prices stayed up here due to the fact of location value (and the fact that Penn State bought a crap load of land and redeveloped it because they were tired of their students getting murdered)
Still a high murder rate, but its no where near Detroit or Camden.
We did not understand the global bio-sphere to begin with so we are in the Global-Environment change state. Now we propose attacking the symptoms without a full understanding of the dynamics.
To be fair, once we start tinkering, we'll have a better understanding of what does what.
Its like those old 1960's films of the doctors who crack open patients skulls and put the electric prod onto spots of the brain saying "What does this do? How about now?"
Geo-engineering may make people think that we can carry on as now with no sacrifices.
"A technical solution will always trump a political one." -Me
The reasoning behind this is that political solutions never really address the root core of the problem and usually does not change the fact that some people say they will go along with the compromise and then not do it after all.
With a technical solution, the involved parties are made moot because their participation is no longer needed for a solution.
If bad guys get hand on this technology which seems likely because these flying creatures will be ubiquitous and in close contact then no one will be safe even presidents of countries .
Unless your President is also a robot who is impervious to small arms fire.
Hrm... See where this is leading?
I've heard some of the earlier SSD are crap because the controllers are crap.
They say the new Intel ones have been getting rave reviews because it has a quality controller.
Of course they are more expensive than everyone else's.
Which brand did you father get you?