I think the real question is, why would they want to build an office suite application that nobody would buy? They're not stupid. I think if there were enough corporations using Linux on the desktop, Microsoft would do more to accomodate those customers.
But the form factor is nice and it allows me to have a single small device. And the keyboard is nice. And it has the traditional palm applications. It is really the first convergence piece IMHO.
I thought that until a few weeks ago. Then I saw someone with an iPod Nano, and ever since my Treo 600 feels like a big clunky brick. I'll bet they could make them smaller.
And before anyone says anything, yes I have huge thumbs and I have no trouble typing on the thing, and I'm sure they could shrink the keyboard too, as long as the keys bump out enough.
You could send extra fuel and supplies there before the humans and hope they aren't destroyed. Or it would be easy enough to send an extra rover with cameras to make sure the supplies aren't broken by the landing.
It would suck to get there and realize there's a hole in the tank that was supposed to store your return fuel.
Depends on where the Earth and Mars are in their orbits. Also depends on where Earth and Mars are in their daily rotations, as for a lot of the day your servers would be on the wrong side of the planets. You would need to set up a satellite relaying system, and a global radio network in order to be able to have constant communication. And even with that, there may even be times when the Sun is in the way, and communication doesn't really work. That is why some people propose using the Lagrange points as good places to put communications relays.
This is all actually important for if we ever want to actually send astronauts there.
If you want to be as happy as possible, I suggest you experiment with drugs. Start off with weed or ecstacy, and then work your way up to more potent substances.
That steers us into an ugly subject, because then what eventually happens is that smart people only mate with other smart people, which by definition introduces a new species, doesn't it?
It could perhaps produce a new species if the two groups were isolated from each other and did not breed at all across tens or hundreds of thousands of generations. But human populations don't work that way.
Personally, I wish everyone would just shut up for a while and help somebody out. Even Bill Clinton said the other day that now is the time to act. We can point fingers later.
Why can't we act and point fingers at the same time? Would you rather wait until after hurricaine season is over to figure out what went wrong?
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I'm a twenty-something college student and not a single one of the people I know uses MSN.
You must not know anyone from Europe or Asia. Even though most in the US perfer AIM, most of the non-US world uses MSN.
I think the real question is, why would they want to build an office suite application that nobody would buy? They're not stupid. I think if there were enough corporations using Linux on the desktop, Microsoft would do more to accomodate those customers.
Someone try this, I'm in Manhattan now, and I'll write back if it works.
We have political parties.
But the form factor is nice and it allows me to have a single small device. And the keyboard is nice. And it has the traditional palm applications. It is really the first convergence piece IMHO.
I thought that until a few weeks ago. Then I saw someone with an iPod Nano, and ever since my Treo 600 feels like a big clunky brick. I'll bet they could make them smaller.
And before anyone says anything, yes I have huge thumbs and I have no trouble typing on the thing, and I'm sure they could shrink the keyboard too, as long as the keys bump out enough.
Simply coming up with a quip that gets a giggle and a "+1, Funny" mod out of the Slashdot crowd is a challenge.
It's really not.
Your search for fuckmeintheass.uk.com yielded 0 results.
Did you mean: fuckmeinthearse.com?
Surely it's an indication of the fact that Sun has lost it's engineering focus and is now being driven by marketing people.
I dunno, being driven by marketing has worked out pretty well for Dell.
Do you think you might be taking all of this a bit too seriously?
You could send extra fuel and supplies there before the humans and hope they aren't destroyed. Or it would be easy enough to send an extra rover with cameras to make sure the supplies aren't broken by the landing.
It would suck to get there and realize there's a hole in the tank that was supposed to store your return fuel.
Depends on where the Earth and Mars are in their orbits. Also depends on where Earth and Mars are in their daily rotations, as for a lot of the day your servers would be on the wrong side of the planets. You would need to set up a satellite relaying system, and a global radio network in order to be able to have constant communication. And even with that, there may even be times when the Sun is in the way, and communication doesn't really work. That is why some people propose using the Lagrange points as good places to put communications relays.
This is all actually important for if we ever want to actually send astronauts there.
If you want to be as happy as possible, I suggest you experiment with drugs. Start off with weed or ecstacy, and then work your way up to more potent substances.
It's much cheaper than actual space exploration.
A site that actually has News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters ?
sheesh this place is getting lame...
I get most of my news from Digg.com now... Usually a few days before it hits slashdot.
Anymore on slashdot, I mostly just troll and call people retarded. Oddly, it's actually gotten me better karma and more fans..
That steers us into an ugly subject, because then what eventually happens is that smart people only mate with other smart people, which by definition introduces a new species, doesn't it?
It could perhaps produce a new species if the two groups were isolated from each other and did not breed at all across tens or hundreds of thousands of generations. But human populations don't work that way.
If the're "loosely bound together" how is that there were an impact at all? Wouldn't the probe just sunk into the comet?
It DID sink into the comet - at 23,000 MPH.
Personally, I wish everyone would just shut up for a while and help somebody out. Even Bill Clinton said the other day that now is the time to act. We can point fingers later.
Why can't we act and point fingers at the same time? Would you rather wait until after hurricaine season is over to figure out what went wrong?
What a retarded idea.
If you put things inside a faraday cage then you don't have to worry about outside interferance.
You don't have to worry about measuring radio signals from space either..
Or how about this: we already press citizens into jury duty yes? Why not press them into reviewing patent applications?
Congratulations. That's the most retarded suggestion I've ever heard.
I think there are a few examples of prior art even older than that...
Would you want to buy 5000 extra Windows licenses for machines that pretty much just perform background calculations?
As far as a business traveller, I can tell you that I packed a 50' chunk of cat5 RJ45 and a 100' chunk of cat 3
what are you, a cable salesman?
The WiFlyer is a brilliant device,
No, Guiness in a bottle is a brilliant device. This thing is just a wifi access point and a modem.
Have you ever read any of the proceedings from SIGGRAPH? Yes, people do get their Ph.D's in that stuff.
for fucks sake, what kind of geek doesn't have an extra ethernet cable lying around?