Large amounts of cans, rope, microphones and speakers an a dailup modem. On each point a can, with builtin speaker and microphone and that connected to an old 56K8 dailupmodem. Cross talk might be an issue, but that will probably very easy to fix;)
They should give the diplomats and foreign intelligence also these devices and change the name to youtubeleaks. Than we at least have some nice footage to see the gory details of what is done in the name of the US citizen..
The show had an unprecedented less is more approach to quality. It baldly went beyond to the edge where even Uwe Boll wouldn't dare to go. This level of film-crap-nirvana is cult. You either love it or (most probably) hate it. Though I think it would be nice if they would cast Noo-Noo from the Teletubbies (a vacuum cleaner with eyes) and give him the voice of a Daleks. Maybe some characters from other SyFy series to have a guest role (in their role of the series they belong too) as a way to make commercials for the other shows.. And put a celebrity also in it, like they do in the muppetshow.That should revive interest a lot;)
First Moscow or anyone else might want to focus on Wikileaks now, and probably Assange will be killed to set an example. However there will be always surpressed minority groups etc, who will copycat this kind of journalism for their own interests. So the Rubicon has been crossed already. This is the spirit of the internet, people will always find ways to circumvent all kinds of government control to get the real stories out in the open. So as it is unevitable that a murder of Assange will bhe used to set an example and demotivate such copycats, but despite that people with enough motivation van't be stopped. Also this is also a foreign intelligence weapon (that may backfire) which will be used by foreign intelligence services of countries witch have the intrest to stir things up in their own sovereign interest. And the latter can't be stopped in anyway.
Secondly Assange is not an American, so American laws do not apply to him. If the American government doesnt like these thing to leak outside their jurisdiction, they should not made all of these documents accessable by a normal soldier (and also the US army treat their soldiers a bit better, or at least account for disgruntled employees). Secondly if there were no double speak and meddling in others foreign affairs such documents wouldn't be so dangerous. The latter is not on the account for Assange but to the US itself. Third if the security is so crap, it's the US responsibility that seems to be lacking as well (at a laughable level). Fourth Assange has the rare honor to be on the interpol list for rape, which by itself is very questionable too. Of course it is a smear campaign.
The biggest achievements for all mankind have been driven by unreasonable people with a extreme drive to achieve something for the greater good. I think he fits into that picture. If he is willing to put his life at stake for this kind of transparency, I think such thing is honorable! He has balls of steel.
There are a lot of companies talking about quality and innovation, while making more or less the shame shit as the competition. What makes a company shine these days, is not doing something different (some detail that no real person actually cares about) is the "wow" factor and Apple still has it, Microsoft is just as sexy as porridge. HP, Acer, Microsoft, etc. No excellence in imagination in a constant way.
So how does Apple has that? They have been about design of their products for decades. The old days when people where only still saying "wow" by seeing a computer. Now that we are past seeign those dull grey boxes that they called pc's, when companies act as if they have forgotten what the first p (personal) means. So why a grey dull box in the living room, working exactly the same way as we would use them on their work? Why not something that blends in nice with what people do in their lives, also besides working? Why not something that has a very good user experience and in some caes is even fashionable? Apple thought of that decades ago. Now it seems to work.
But now I see an Apple drunk of its success during their last presentations. I really lost the count of all the superlatives they used in their keynotes to appraise their own products. People will eventually get tired all these superlatives. When superlatives are used to decribe things that people don't care anymore about, then Apple becomes porridge too, maybe not grey but apple white. I don't care about some AA battery from Appel with included loader, and even less to hear superlatives about that.
I only hope the money and the power doesn't kick out the imagination, fantasy and innovation of Apple. That they will not become porridge. I rather see them making products with some technological child deseases than becoming a design company for AA cell batteries
I quote" We are looking for yield engineers for all kinds of new technologies so we can become #1 in the following technologies..." Who needs competitors if you got such PR!!
What linux they talk about? The kernel? Or some distribution? I mean there isn't exactly a revolution on kernels at hand, is there? So this is just hollow marketdroid speak. Unless someone can really point to some revolution to kernel development I cannot take this seriously, nor does anyone else.
In the end we will end up with fiber, but not necessarily because of the obvious reasons. In Negroponte's book "Being Digital" he writes about the Chinese destroying the network because of theft of the copper. So the Chinese had to use fiber because copper based network became very expensive in numerous ways. I don't say the Dutch or citizens of any other country will steal the copper, but if there is so much speculation in the commodities prices might become so high fiber will become most attractive. I am Dutch. Just before the dot com boom I moved to a rented flat. This new flat had fiber everywhere and not yet cable. Then the dot com bubble exploded and neither the cabling, telephone or fiber company wanted to do further investments on their networks. I ended up living above a fiber network which wasn't finished and no cable, so I had to resort to my old 56K dailup modem, while most people had cable or adsl. I remember the price of downloading a debian iso image. My telephone cost where often around 800 euro's that time. Ofcourse I moved again shortly. But I still hear that on my old flat they don't have fiber, though they do have cable.
Microsoft was a successful fast growing me-too company, especially during the windows 95 and office. But they have became so big, because they were trying to control every software market. Now they're just me-too company with organisation-obesitas, and that doesn't bode well for innovation (which they sure need). Google and Apple are the booming innovative companies of late. Me-too ideas just happen not work so well for them anymore.
Microsoft has a swat load of Phd's working for them, this is no mediocre size R&D however it is in using those smart peoples research to be innovative. Second microsoft has tons of ideas they start and they don't follow up on it (being politics or whatever). Even Microsoft admits they never get it the first time, they get it the third time... Or at least at some point to be more realistic.
But despite they low ratio new projects and succeeded projects is so incredibly low (ofcourse it's what it was never meant to be a IBM sized kind of company), they crank out something innovative at times. App store, they want one. didn't work, never hear from it again. Apple store, they want one so they can sell zunes that noones wants to buy. Etc etc.
They are just a dull big company burning huge sums of money and once in a while you get that intelligent Microsoft that they actually did something of importance. Those projects you call is the only part where they are succesful. I can name a huge pile of things that didn't work, so for both consumers and businesses they are losing their edge big time. In some ways Microsoft is nothing more than just dumb money running the show.
Come on the editors of Slashdot should know about the difference between the word hacker and cracker. A hacker has only a negative sound to those who don't know the history about the word or know what they are talking about, you know the way Hollywood uses the word for example. Crackers are the criminal oness. Or at least say something like "black hats" instead of hacker, when it's the criminals you are writing about.
More and more articles seems to suffer from the same lack of geekyness in multiple different ways..
Here some facts from 2006 about internet content:
Total Growth of the Internet 43.6%
Violence and Crime 14.4%
Porn and Sex 12.8%
Computer Crime 10.0%
Illegal Drugs 8.7%
I think NELL should be very fast to learn what's important in life.. Well the internet builds character
Patent offices have loads of work because of all these patents. Where two dogs fight over a bone the third one takes it. In this case thats the patent office. So to game the system, look to business processes as they can be patented too. Some small patent office, only setup for the sole purpose to spoil the patent industry, should patent patent-processes and sue every patent office that can be found. Also patent useless stuff of certain software parts that happen to be used also on the average patent office website. And gather funding of some small software companies behind a smokescreen. Than we sure see how the patent industry benefits from the thing called software patents and business process patents.It is ofcourse big news if a patent office loses suits on patents. Than put the news on Slashdot with some links to several patent office websites and than they have enough PR like there is no tomorrow...
Ok what then? Do you want to take the protectionist approach? Well this topic has nothing to do with the recession for crying out loud.
I think the American invention of the internet and all the investment is definately something to be proud of. It has brought the best of America to the world, freedom of speech, better media, etc. It has brought without any doubt more freedom than any premptive war has done...
I also think it had brought more jobs to America that if they would have patented it or used some form of protectionism. I think the investment in the free, sharing and open qualities of the net has not only payed out itself financially, but also intellectually and morally.
The reason America once prospered as worlds wealthiest creditor nation.
They had a comparative advantage in economic freedom. Taxes were much
lower and the government was less intrusive. They borrowed a lot of money
from the Europeans in the 19th century. America used that money for like
infrastructure and factories; they did capital investments. And by
building factories they became the worlds leading manufacturer and
exporter of high quality, low cost consumer goods, also even when the paid
the highest wages in the world. And because they made productive use of
the money they borrowed of the Europeans, they were able to repay the debt
by selling those manufactured consumer goods to Europeans. By 1980
Americans owned more foreign assets than all the creditor nations in the
world combined, they were the worlds most wealthy lenders with a high
savings rate.
Today is the exact opposite. They no longer flood the world with low cost
high quality goods, but they flood the world with dollars. The United
States routinely borrows from the poorest nations in the world. The
relationship is now: America consumes and everybody else produces. America
borrows and everybody else saves. Without American consumption, what would
all these Chinese do for jobs? Well it's not about jobs. You don't want
jobs so you can work, you want jobs so you can consume; a higher
standards of living. The fact that the Chinese get jobs in exchange for
the products they give us doesn't do any good for the Chinese. The Chinese
are perfectly capable of consuming their output themselves. They don't
need their government to artificially suppress the exchange rate of the
Yuan so that they can artificially elevate the value of the Dollar so that
the Americans get to consume all the goods that the Chinese could have
consumed had it not been for that monetary policy.
This current dynamic where Americans don't save and not produce is not
viable. America convinced the foreigners painting their fence and pay them
is a privilege. But the minute the Chinese, the Japanese stop buying
these Dollars, the show is over.
All this borrowed consumption is going to have to be paid. American
consumers are now loaded up with debt to their eyeballs, and the very
nature of that debt.
It is stupid from the governent to stimulate ownership of residential property by stimulating people and banks to use NINJA-mortgages(No Income, No Jobs or Assets). Credit for people with no money is insane, ofcourse they cant pay back. Ofcourse that means trouble for banks, and so on. Predatory lending also took a part of the blame. Also not wise was to use the value of a house as a kind of slot machine. It was a mania on the housing marktet that made it to a bubble bound to collapse.
I can strongly advice you to read the standard economic work of Niall Ferguson: "The Ascent of Money" . Innovation in financial products has always followed a bust and boom cycle.
Having no supervision on complex financial products like derivations is insane, even by any measure of common sense. The innovated product of securitizes mortgages in trenches for mortgages give to people with no income, no jobs or assets is also insane. Especially when it gets a AAA stamp fr
I don't agree with you. Internet maybe first started at ARPA to have a communication network system that could still work if some catastrophe would happen. However later it was used to share information between universities and later businesses. Since we all like freetrade and don't like tight government control over business, it is America who has to keep up or lead. A way to lead is by creating products cheaper and of higher quality than others (the combination of those two). If you can't do it cheaper, you must do better. Preventing by putting a lock on it is called protectionism. And protectionisme only leads to tradewars.
Better it would be to invest in education institutions, in Reasearch and development. Stimulate smart people to share information and learn. maybe Americans will never work for a low incomes like those people in outsourcing countries. However better quality, better process technologies, leading on cutting edge science, etc will bring America to the frontwave. This is how it always worked, and it will still keep working that way.
If you really want a secure internet and like government control, the best you can do is tax Microsoft for damage to productivity of businesses and use that money to sponsor the open source movement, especially business applications and open source operating systems;) That will sure make things better;)
Well seeing is believing, calculations can always be wrong;) Show a real picture of a proton and I am convinced (please no photoshopping on that picture grrr).
The appearance of a phone and the practical usefulness (stuff that has no hick-ups for basic phone functionality) are two qualities. Apple has made statements in fashionably designed electronic consumer products, but they have a track record in putting stuff on the market that after the hype seems to lack, and does contradict the company's promise to deliver products that "just work". Apple doesn't seem to care enough about producing predictable quality products during their manufacture. Maybe everyone has become bleeding edge geeks. To me I rather have an unfashionable phone than a awesome 3d sculpture that doesn't deliver the promise, and especially not from a company that lies when it says "it just works".
Apple historically has produced many products which were fashionable looking but suffering all kinds of problems. For computers the biggest problem is heat, so why is it possible for Apple to mass produce integrated system which doesn't seem designed to really solve heat issues (cube, etc)? And one of the biggest problems of phones is signal strength, so how does it comes Apple designes products that have so much problems with it?
Maybe we buy because we are just so bored to death by the ugly designs of the stuff of other manufacturers who deliver on basic quality?
Who cares if Microsoft lies, they don't know what they are doing, anyway. Their long term vision lacks anyway. Apple has a store MW wants a store. Apple has an App store, Microsoft wants an App store, Apple has Ipod, Microsoft wants an Ipod. Etc. They want to be the best, but each time they just give up. If Microsoft ever had the edge of vision, they have lost in anyways. They are already have become the boring IBM Gates never wanted to be. And Gates is gone. There is no leadership, there is no focus. They just want to do everything, and they do everything.... Poorly
You're right germany ahs to be on the list as well. Anyway, i wonder how America can keep it's datacentres if the bandwidth competition is so low paced
My answer is No. In Holland much faster median ISP's, the fastest is XMP and has 200 MB/s down- en upload. Compare that with America's fastest of a mere 1.23 Mbps: America's fastest is 163 times slower. And XMP's bandwidth is relatively low considering the architecture. If demand required higher speeds XMP can using its current architecture easily increase to 1000 Mb/s. That's 813 times faster. The average Dutch ISP speed is 16.19 Mbps, still 13 times higher.
Holland is not the only one, there are more countries with even much more speed: Japan (Nippon Telegraph) has 1Gbps (FTTH) and just for $40 in 2009.
And consider:
Finland - 110Mbps
Sweden - 100Mbps
Korea - 100Mbps
Iceland - 100Mbps
France - 100Mbps
Denmark - 100Mbps
Spain - 50Mbps
And why should the US citizens care about the speed of their bandwidth i hear you ask... Fast communications will encourage more employees and employers to make greater use of teleworking. This can deliver benefits both to the firm and the worker, as well as the wider economy, society and the environment. I would day instead of bailing out AIG, consider a bandwidth upgrade that put's America out of the digital equivalent of the stone age !!
Flash has opposition now from two technologies, one is SVG and the other is Silverlight. The timing is very logical since Apple doesn't support flash on it's IPhone and Ipad. Microsoft first has to remove Flash from it's dominant position. If that plan would work out in the future Microsoft can always choose to drop SVG support and pushing forward it's Silverlight.
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Large amounts of cans, rope, microphones and speakers an a dailup modem. On each point a can, with builtin speaker and microphone and that connected to an old 56K8 dailupmodem. Cross talk might be an issue, but that will probably very easy to fix ;)
They should give the diplomats and foreign intelligence also these devices and change the name to youtubeleaks. Than we at least have some nice footage to see the gory details of what is done in the name of the US citizen..
The show had an unprecedented less is more approach to quality. It baldly went beyond to the edge where even Uwe Boll wouldn't dare to go. This level of film-crap-nirvana is cult. You either love it or (most probably) hate it. Though I think it would be nice if they would cast Noo-Noo from the Teletubbies (a vacuum cleaner with eyes) and give him the voice of a Daleks. Maybe some characters from other SyFy series to have a guest role (in their role of the series they belong too) as a way to make commercials for the other shows.. And put a celebrity also in it, like they do in the muppetshow.That should revive interest a lot;)
Mod down for unoriginal taste of humor
First Moscow or anyone else might want to focus on Wikileaks now, and probably Assange will be killed to set an example. However there will be always surpressed minority groups etc, who will copycat this kind of journalism for their own interests. So the Rubicon has been crossed already. This is the spirit of the internet, people will always find ways to circumvent all kinds of government control to get the real stories out in the open. So as it is unevitable that a murder of Assange will bhe used to set an example and demotivate such copycats, but despite that people with enough motivation van't be stopped. Also this is also a foreign intelligence weapon (that may backfire) which will be used by foreign intelligence services of countries witch have the intrest to stir things up in their own sovereign interest. And the latter can't be stopped in anyway.
Secondly Assange is not an American, so American laws do not apply to him. If the American government doesnt like these thing to leak outside their jurisdiction, they should not made all of these documents accessable by a normal soldier (and also the US army treat their soldiers a bit better, or at least account for disgruntled employees). Secondly if there were no double speak and meddling in others foreign affairs such documents wouldn't be so dangerous. The latter is not on the account for Assange but to the US itself. Third if the security is so crap, it's the US responsibility that seems to be lacking as well (at a laughable level). Fourth Assange has the rare honor to be on the interpol list for rape, which by itself is very questionable too. Of course it is a smear campaign.
The biggest achievements for all mankind have been driven by unreasonable people with a extreme drive to achieve something for the greater good. I think he fits into that picture. If he is willing to put his life at stake for this kind of transparency, I think such thing is honorable! He has balls of steel.
There are a lot of companies talking about quality and innovation, while making more or less the shame shit as the competition. What makes a company shine these days, is not doing something different (some detail that no real person actually cares about) is the "wow" factor and Apple still has it, Microsoft is just as sexy as porridge. HP, Acer, Microsoft, etc. No excellence in imagination in a constant way.
So how does Apple has that? They have been about design of their products for decades. The old days when people where only still saying "wow" by seeing a computer. Now that we are past seeign those dull grey boxes that they called pc's, when companies act as if they have forgotten what the first p (personal) means. So why a grey dull box in the living room, working exactly the same way as we would use them on their work? Why not something that blends in nice with what people do in their lives, also besides working? Why not something that has a very good user experience and in some caes is even fashionable? Apple thought of that decades ago. Now it seems to work.
But now I see an Apple drunk of its success during their last presentations. I really lost the count of all the superlatives they used in their keynotes to appraise their own products. People will eventually get tired all these superlatives. When superlatives are used to decribe things that people don't care anymore about, then Apple becomes porridge too, maybe not grey but apple white. I don't care about some AA battery from Appel with included loader, and even less to hear superlatives about that.
I only hope the money and the power doesn't kick out the imagination, fantasy and innovation of Apple. That they will not become porridge. I rather see them making products with some technological child deseases than becoming a design company for AA cell batteries
I quote" We are looking for yield engineers for all kinds of new technologies so we can become #1 in the following technologies..." Who needs competitors if you got such PR!!
windows XP ;)
What linux they talk about? The kernel? Or some distribution? I mean there isn't exactly a revolution on kernels at hand, is there? So this is just hollow marketdroid speak. Unless someone can really point to some revolution to kernel development I cannot take this seriously, nor does anyone else.
In the end we will end up with fiber, but not necessarily because of the obvious reasons. In Negroponte's book "Being Digital" he writes about the Chinese destroying the network because of theft of the copper. So the Chinese had to use fiber because copper based network became very expensive in numerous ways. I don't say the Dutch or citizens of any other country will steal the copper, but if there is so much speculation in the commodities prices might become so high fiber will become most attractive. I am Dutch. Just before the dot com boom I moved to a rented flat. This new flat had fiber everywhere and not yet cable. Then the dot com bubble exploded and neither the cabling, telephone or fiber company wanted to do further investments on their networks. I ended up living above a fiber network which wasn't finished and no cable, so I had to resort to my old 56K dailup modem, while most people had cable or adsl. I remember the price of downloading a debian iso image. My telephone cost where often around 800 euro's that time. Ofcourse I moved again shortly. But I still hear that on my old flat they don't have fiber, though they do have cable.
Microsoft was a successful fast growing me-too company, especially during the windows 95 and office. But they have became so big, because they were trying to control every software market. Now they're just me-too company with organisation-obesitas, and that doesn't bode well for innovation (which they sure need). Google and Apple are the booming innovative companies of late. Me-too ideas just happen not work so well for them anymore.
Microsoft has a swat load of Phd's working for them, this is no mediocre size R&D however it is in using those smart peoples research to be innovative. Second microsoft has tons of ideas they start and they don't follow up on it (being politics or whatever). Even Microsoft admits they never get it the first time, they get it the third time... Or at least at some point to be more realistic.
But despite they low ratio new projects and succeeded projects is so incredibly low (ofcourse it's what it was never meant to be a IBM sized kind of company), they crank out something innovative at times. App store, they want one. didn't work, never hear from it again. Apple store, they want one so they can sell zunes that noones wants to buy. Etc etc.
They are just a dull big company burning huge sums of money and once in a while you get that intelligent Microsoft that they actually did something of importance. Those projects you call is the only part where they are succesful. I can name a huge pile of things that didn't work, so for both consumers and businesses they are losing their edge big time. In some ways Microsoft is nothing more than just dumb money running the show.
mod this down if you don't like surfer speak
Come on the editors of Slashdot should know about the difference between the word hacker and cracker. A hacker has only a negative sound to those who don't know the history about the word or know what they are talking about, you know the way Hollywood uses the word for example. Crackers are the criminal oness. Or at least say something like "black hats" instead of hacker, when it's the criminals you are writing about.
More and more articles seems to suffer from the same lack of geekyness in multiple different ways..
Here some facts from 2006 about internet content: Total Growth of the Internet 43.6% Violence and Crime 14.4% Porn and Sex 12.8% Computer Crime 10.0% Illegal Drugs 8.7% I think NELL should be very fast to learn what's important in life.. Well the internet builds character
Patent offices have loads of work because of all these patents. Where two dogs fight over a bone the third one takes it. In this case thats the patent office. So to game the system, look to business processes as they can be patented too. Some small patent office, only setup for the sole purpose to spoil the patent industry, should patent patent-processes and sue every patent office that can be found. Also patent useless stuff of certain software parts that happen to be used also on the average patent office website. And gather funding of some small software companies behind a smokescreen. Than we sure see how the patent industry benefits from the thing called software patents and business process patents.It is ofcourse big news if a patent office loses suits on patents. Than put the news on Slashdot with some links to several patent office websites and than they have enough PR like there is no tomorrow...
Ok what then? Do you want to take the protectionist approach? Well this topic has nothing to do with the recession for crying out loud.
I think the American invention of the internet and all the investment is definately something to be proud of. It has brought the best of America to the world, freedom of speech, better media, etc. It has brought without any doubt more freedom than any premptive war has done...
I also think it had brought more jobs to America that if they would have patented it or used some form of protectionism. I think the investment in the free, sharing and open qualities of the net has not only payed out itself financially, but also intellectually and morally.
The reason America once prospered as worlds wealthiest creditor nation. They had a comparative advantage in economic freedom. Taxes were much lower and the government was less intrusive. They borrowed a lot of money from the Europeans in the 19th century. America used that money for like infrastructure and factories; they did capital investments. And by building factories they became the worlds leading manufacturer and exporter of high quality, low cost consumer goods, also even when the paid the highest wages in the world. And because they made productive use of the money they borrowed of the Europeans, they were able to repay the debt by selling those manufactured consumer goods to Europeans. By 1980 Americans owned more foreign assets than all the creditor nations in the world combined, they were the worlds most wealthy lenders with a high savings rate.
Today is the exact opposite. They no longer flood the world with low cost high quality goods, but they flood the world with dollars. The United States routinely borrows from the poorest nations in the world. The relationship is now: America consumes and everybody else produces. America borrows and everybody else saves. Without American consumption, what would all these Chinese do for jobs? Well it's not about jobs. You don't want jobs so you can work, you want jobs so you can consume; a higher standards of living. The fact that the Chinese get jobs in exchange for the products they give us doesn't do any good for the Chinese. The Chinese are perfectly capable of consuming their output themselves. They don't need their government to artificially suppress the exchange rate of the Yuan so that they can artificially elevate the value of the Dollar so that the Americans get to consume all the goods that the Chinese could have consumed had it not been for that monetary policy.
This current dynamic where Americans don't save and not produce is not viable. America convinced the foreigners painting their fence and pay them is a privilege. But the minute the Chinese, the Japanese stop buying these Dollars, the show is over.
All this borrowed consumption is going to have to be paid. American consumers are now loaded up with debt to their eyeballs, and the very nature of that debt.
It is stupid from the governent to stimulate ownership of residential property by stimulating people and banks to use NINJA-mortgages(No Income, No Jobs or Assets). Credit for people with no money is insane, ofcourse they cant pay back. Ofcourse that means trouble for banks, and so on. Predatory lending also took a part of the blame. Also not wise was to use the value of a house as a kind of slot machine. It was a mania on the housing marktet that made it to a bubble bound to collapse.
I can strongly advice you to read the standard economic work of Niall Ferguson: "The Ascent of Money" . Innovation in financial products has always followed a bust and boom cycle.
Having no supervision on complex financial products like derivations is insane, even by any measure of common sense. The innovated product of securitizes mortgages in trenches for mortgages give to people with no income, no jobs or assets is also insane. Especially when it gets a AAA stamp fr
I don't agree with you. Internet maybe first started at ARPA to have a communication network system that could still work if some catastrophe would happen. However later it was used to share information between universities and later businesses. Since we all like freetrade and don't like tight government control over business, it is America who has to keep up or lead. A way to lead is by creating products cheaper and of higher quality than others (the combination of those two). If you can't do it cheaper, you must do better. Preventing by putting a lock on it is called protectionism. And protectionisme only leads to tradewars. Better it would be to invest in education institutions, in Reasearch and development. Stimulate smart people to share information and learn. maybe Americans will never work for a low incomes like those people in outsourcing countries. However better quality, better process technologies, leading on cutting edge science, etc will bring America to the frontwave. This is how it always worked, and it will still keep working that way. If you really want a secure internet and like government control, the best you can do is tax Microsoft for damage to productivity of businesses and use that money to sponsor the open source movement, especially business applications and open source operating systems ;) That will sure make things better ;)
Well seeing is believing, calculations can always be wrong ;) Show a real picture of a proton and I am convinced (please no photoshopping on that picture grrr).
The appearance of a phone and the practical usefulness (stuff that has no hick-ups for basic phone functionality) are two qualities. Apple has made statements in fashionably designed electronic consumer products, but they have a track record in putting stuff on the market that after the hype seems to lack, and does contradict the company's promise to deliver products that "just work". Apple doesn't seem to care enough about producing predictable quality products during their manufacture. Maybe everyone has become bleeding edge geeks. To me I rather have an unfashionable phone than a awesome 3d sculpture that doesn't deliver the promise, and especially not from a company that lies when it says "it just works". Apple historically has produced many products which were fashionable looking but suffering all kinds of problems. For computers the biggest problem is heat, so why is it possible for Apple to mass produce integrated system which doesn't seem designed to really solve heat issues (cube, etc)? And one of the biggest problems of phones is signal strength, so how does it comes Apple designes products that have so much problems with it? Maybe we buy because we are just so bored to death by the ugly designs of the stuff of other manufacturers who deliver on basic quality?
Who cares if Microsoft lies, they don't know what they are doing, anyway. Their long term vision lacks anyway. Apple has a store MW wants a store. Apple has an App store, Microsoft wants an App store, Apple has Ipod, Microsoft wants an Ipod. Etc. They want to be the best, but each time they just give up. If Microsoft ever had the edge of vision, they have lost in anyways. They are already have become the boring IBM Gates never wanted to be. And Gates is gone. There is no leadership, there is no focus. They just want to do everything, and they do everything.... Poorly
You're right germany ahs to be on the list as well. Anyway, i wonder how America can keep it's datacentres if the bandwidth competition is so low paced
Holland is not the only one, there are more countries with even much more speed: Japan (Nippon Telegraph) has 1Gbps (FTTH) and just for $40 in 2009.
And consider:
And why should the US citizens care about the speed of their bandwidth i hear you ask... Fast communications will encourage more employees and employers to make greater use of teleworking. This can deliver benefits both to the firm and the worker, as well as the wider economy, society and the environment. I would day instead of bailing out AIG, consider a bandwidth upgrade that put's America out of the digital equivalent of the stone age !!
That bite from the Apple logo is bitten out by Adobe.
Flash has opposition now from two technologies, one is SVG and the other is Silverlight. The timing is very logical since Apple doesn't support flash on it's IPhone and Ipad. Microsoft first has to remove Flash from it's dominant position. If that plan would work out in the future Microsoft can always choose to drop SVG support and pushing forward it's Silverlight.