The concept is good, but it would be better suited if it were tied to major highways or railways. If 28k human foot steps can only run a train for a second, then imagine the power produced by 10's of thousands of 3,000lb cars driving on them every day.
According to another Yomiuri article, BMW, DaimlerChrysler and other European automakers are jointly developing a next-generation OS and are expected to complete a prototype in 2008....a year earlier.
LOLFTA: The very fact that the Unix world is so full of self-righteous cultural superiority, "advocacy," and slashdot-karma-whoring sectarianism while the Windows world is more practical ("yeah, whatever, I just need to make a living here")
FTA: in the Unix culture, which Raymond calls "Silence is Golden," that a program that has done exactly what you told it to do successfully should provide no output whatsoever. It doesn't matter if you've just typed a 300 character command line to create a file system, or built and installed a complicated piece of software, or sent a manned rocket to the moon. If it succeeds, the accepted thing to do is simply output nothing. The user will infer from the next command prompt that everything must be OK.
This is *so* true of my UNIX brethren.
While windows programmers arguably have better tools with which to develop, the UNIX users rely on "just get it done and tell me if there are issues".
The most important quality IMO is to create an environment with HIGH interoperability. Let your Windows users do what they do, while giving your UNIX and mainframe users have their world like they want it.
If I wanted zero security for my website, I should be allowed to have zero security and not have anyone hack in.
I don't know the anwser.
Hacking and devious behavior is a part of life. It always has been and always will be.
The days of Wally and The Beaver are long gone.
If you have something worth protecting, you'll need to protect it.
According to the CIA world fact book China's economy is worth 7.2 trillion and is growing at 9.1%, the Us economy is worth 11.8 trillion and is growing at 4.4%. At that rate China overtakes the US in 10 years time.
This has been a popular theme for politicians to rally behind for the last 3 decades.
The fact is, nobody will sustain the growth that they are at for the long term. Eventually, China will even out and start facing the same issues that the US has been working out since the '70's.
The same applies to India, both nations are starting to get their piece of the global market and when they start to catch up, their economies will change drastically (just like the US's economy has with the upturns and downturns through the 70's 80's and 90's with recessions, gas shortages etc.) This is what is on the horizon for up and coming national players.
Take a look at China's natural resources and what do they have that the rest of the world needs? (besies rice) They have a heavily 'services' oriented economy. This is prone to severe highs and lows based on the rest of the worlds ability to pay them for their services.
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The concept is good, but it would be better suited if it were tied to major highways or railways. If 28k human foot steps can only run a train for a second, then imagine the power produced by 10's of thousands of 3,000lb cars driving on them every day.
According to another Yomiuri article, BMW, DaimlerChrysler and other European automakers are jointly developing a next-generation OS and are expected to complete a prototype in 2008. ...a year earlier.
This is what Amazon is really attempting to patent. This isn't really that far fetched.
Timmah!
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This is *so* true of my UNIX brethren.
While windows programmers arguably have better tools with which to develop, the UNIX users rely on "just get it done and tell me if there are issues".
The most important quality IMO is to create an environment with HIGH interoperability. Let your Windows users do what they do, while giving your UNIX and mainframe users have their world like they want it.
You mix it all together and have a nice product.
You'd usually have a few welts on your backside after an after school invasion.
This is before our friendly PC police informed us that we could "put someone's eye out" with these things.
Bah! We had fun though.
Agreed! But still...
FTA: As many as thirty components can now be fitted into a capsule approximately one-third of a cubic centimetre in volume...
I would imagine you could fit the entire room (page 2) of machines hardware and processing power inside a laptop or even a PDA.
This is yet another instance of 1984 exposing itself. It is all around us, we only need to be observant to see Big Brother developing.
Hacking and devious behavior is a part of life. It always has been and always will be. The days of Wally and The Beaver are long gone. If you have something worth protecting, you'll need to protect it.
You hit the nail on the head. It isn't about "first move advantages" at all. It's about post launch supporting content, ie, entertaining titles.
If you have a printer/fax, then why would you want WalMart printing your documents?
Lots of high tech 1st's coming from Arizona, ie, The University of Phoenix was one of the first schools to offer a completely 100% online degree.
Cancelling my subscription as well.
This has been a popular theme for politicians to rally behind for the last 3 decades.
The fact is, nobody will sustain the growth that they are at for the long term. Eventually, China will even out and start facing the same issues that the US has been working out since the '70's.
The same applies to India, both nations are starting to get their piece of the global market and when they start to catch up, their economies will change drastically (just like the US's economy has with the upturns and downturns through the 70's 80's and 90's with recessions, gas shortages etc.) This is what is on the horizon for up and coming national players.
Take a look at China's natural resources and what do they have that the rest of the world needs? (besies rice) They have a heavily 'services' oriented economy. This is prone to severe highs and lows based on the rest of the worlds ability to pay them for their services.
...that The Gipper was buddy buddy with China and made an under the table deal with them to *not* pursue any SDI projects until after Ronnie cashed in his chips.
That is SO condescending...