Sounds like an interesting toy, but aren't we twisting the measurements a bit here? Quake 3 came out in 1999. Any modern graphic chip has the graphics power to render Q4 at much faster than 40 FPS. You are missing the point. It's not as much about how fast it can run Quake 3, but rather that it is capable of doing so reasonably well. You cannot compare it to modern graphics engines simply because this is a processor that promises to deliver reasonable performance at incredibly low voltages.
As for the resolution, I agree that it's rather strange that they left out the details on this, but we can assume that it's going to be something like 640x400, which is still very impressive.
There is no 'night' and 'day' for a worldwide internet-based organization such as google. When you have night, someone else has day. Both of you use google. Google consists of dozens of data centers spread out over the planet. Therefore, Asian Google users connect to Asian data centers and not American ones. Because of this, traffic will obviously vary greatly over a 12 hour period.
And even if you think of Google as a whole, it is significantly more popular in Europe and the US than it is in Asia, so you would still have uneven traffic rates.
Oh boy, they're giving the world really greasy, dirty screens and cute, useless time wasters! Good thing they're working on that instead of security, useability, or generally making it not suck. I think it's a healthy sign when Microsoft tries experimental technologies like this. Maybe it's not for everyone, but at least it adds some dimension to a computer. I can think of many applications and games that could make good use of this. And as for security, usability and such, they obviously have more people and more departments doing that stuff. And last time I checked, Vista security was actually very high.
I like neatness, not fun looking chaos. They were obviously just demonstrating the technology. While the examples may not have been the best, it's more about the availability of the technology, not the applications that are provided in a pre-alpha release. Just like with the iPhone, people will find useful things to do with such tech.
I think they're actually determined to turn windows into an idiot's OS for new computer users and 10 year olds and all the serious people will use Linux. I am not sure what you're referring to here. If by idiot you mean easy to use, then why is that a bad thing? In fact, they better make sure that even idiots can use their operating system. Anything else would be a huge failure. Also, I doubt that users will switch to Linux that easily. OSX, maybe. Linux, doubtful.
Overall, I think your approach is too aggressive. Although Vista is far from what we hoped it would be, it's certainly not a terrible operating system. It's just not justifying the upgrade from XP. At the same time, Microsoft sure as hell know that OSX, Ubuntu (and other dists) will advance, so if anything, they feel more threatened than ever before. I'm confident that they will try to get itself together.
Any success stories you can share where people have finally got the bandwidth they crave? That's the thing.. If you live in the middle of nowhere and outside of the urbanized areas, it becomes too costly to provide broadband connections because of a) the distance and b) the small number of people you're targeting.
Fortunately, these small towns were blessed with satellite connections, but choosing to eliminate a solid alternative will cost you. If they hate the dish so much, why not put it 40 yards (or so) off location and provide a radio link or dig down a TP cable all the way home?
If that won't cut it, then look for a satellite dish made out of carved stone.
Linux and OSX releases are hyped regardless of the version number because every piece of such release is a major one. And since a lot of OSX users follow these releases, and since Linux techies do the same, it's no wonder that they don't need it.
PHP is obviously a strong product but sure as hell not of the same importance as Linux and OSX.
I don't see why this is a major update (5 => 6). If I had a software development business, I would do this if I wanted to push a release a little extra. People don't care as much about decimals as much as they care about entirely new release numbers.
[..] they want to have a closed system that noone can pull the plug on come WW3. Until you point your missiles at the satellites. No plug is unpluggable.
He would also make an excellent GTA hooker since you'd most definitely feel obliged to blow his brains out after the session, thus getting the $5 back.
I definitely agree that it should feel like the old '80s MacGyver. You're basically saying that you don't want to see McGyver hacking Pentagon with a paper clip.
Honestly, do you possibly think you could recover that much money with goods from Yahoo? This crazy idea to buy Yahoo was a combination of two things: ignoramus upper management and pressure from Google. As it looks now, neither Microsoft nor Yahoo can take on Google as their rival is expanding heavily and innovating at a faster pace. Together, this could obviously turn for the better as such a giant could pose a serious threat to Google, which is what it's all about.
Pressure from Google? Of course! Would they be any better if they completely ignored the fact that they are being run over by stronger competition?
Last but not least, I don't think Microsoft bid so much money in panic, but rather after a lot of business meetings with analysts, lawyers, strategists and whatnot. I doubt you have enough knowledge to justify your claims that this was caused by an ignoramus upper management.
It was interesting to see how they tried to set up an anti-war message without being critical of the US military. I had a different impression. Stark Industries is a large contractor to the US military, which in turn lost and/or sold some of its arsenal to militant groups (as seen in the movie).
Stark then witnesses the horrendous effects of his life-long project and announces that he wants out of the business. His wish to dismantle all factories that provide the US with state of the art weaponry is obviously as clear as a message can get.
You said it yourself. Florida has twice as many citizens. That is twice the bandwidth required. That means the "pipes" have to be twice as big to deliver the same level of service as Sweden. Which stands to reason that maybe the cost will already be twice the cost of Sweden?/quote>
You are not making sense at all. You claim that the main reason the US is behind is because of its size. Now you are basically saying that providing broadband to larger populations (although over the same size) will cost more per customer? It's actually the other way around.
You also assume that the costs of the bandwidth are entirely limited to Florida. What about the fiber linking Florida to the rest of the US? And Sweden isn't connected to other countries? And for that matter, Sweden must connect most of its broadband via sub-oceanic cables which is far more expensive.
What about just the SIZE of the US? When some new fiber cable comes out that can dramatically increase the speed, or some other sort of technology, it takes a HECK of a lot longer to deploy in the US. If Japan, South Korea, Norway, Sweden, etc. did not catch up to us AND then start passing us, I would think there would be something wrong with them. Yes, what about the size of the US? Maybe you should take the following into account:
- Most of the countries listed above the United States are European. Most states of the United States would still be dominated even if they were compared directly as smaller pieces of the US to the smaller pieces of Europe.
- The size of the country doesn't matter as much as you may think. The US is heavily urbanized which means that the network isn't as much webbed as you may think.
- The price per Mbps in the US is $2,83. How do you justify your claims when you look at Sweden, which is down at a low $0,35 per Mbps, yet is the size of Florida and only 9 million citizens? Florida has more than twice as many citizens and not even close to Sweden.
I think your nationalistic thoughts got in the way of all reasoning here.
yeah but I doubt it can play Ogg files. It runs on a 400 MHz AMD/Raza MIPS chip. You can certainly play ogg files, but the lack of a sound card is probably going to make it into a pointless mission.
Whats the problem here? We want to look for alien life so we cant sit around forever trying to figure out what form it has and how it communicates. We have to start somewhere and from our own (albeit very limited experience of life) water and radio waves currently seem to be two very good indicators. You ask what the problem is but you also answer your own question (unintentionally). The problem is obviously that if we look for places with similar conditions, not only is it like looking for a needle in a billion haystacks, but at the same time knowing that the needle may not be a needle, but in fact a button, string or something else.
First we should find out how life started, prove it and then see if there are other ways of creating life. Only then can we know what the needle really looks like.
Stephen Hawking is a brilliant man who once claimed to be fortunate to suffer from ALS, because it gives him far more time to think and do things that normal people would instead spend on other activities (because they can).
The only problem I have with his statements at GWU is that he is focusing too much on radio waves. He is speculating that since we haven't detected any radio waves, it is unlikely that any intelligent civilization exists close to earth (and by close, I mean in astronomical measures).
In my opinion, scientists are taking too much for granted when looking for life. We assume that it is more likely to find life wherever water exists and we constantly assume that the conditions must be earth-like. And regarding the radio waves, I don't understand why an extraterrestrial civilization would even need to use such technology. It is just as likely that they communicate in entirely different ways. After all, hearing and seeing is just one way of living, but not a necessity.
I realize that radio waves occur from more than just television shows, but this is mainly the type of signals we look for since the odds of intended communications from other planets are insanely small.
Two boat anchors fall twice as fast. I think our friend Newton that would disagree with that. And our friend Darwin would question the existence of the first poster.
What we need is a reliable way of determining the age of an account. I would like to refuse mail from any account created less than a week ago. Same for domains. Maybe have a way for finding out that a domain has moved to 10 different IP addresses in the last year as a negative score in spamassassin. Interesting idea but not very functional since such data could probably be manipulated and therefore bypassed.
One good way is to force users to enter cell phone numbers and require a validation code to be sent to the phone. Of course, this has its downsides since it would cost money, raise privacy issues and lock out people who don't possess a phone.
There is obviously no easy way of preventing mail spam, but hopefully ISP:s will team up (globally) and work this out together. And maybe the UN should force nations to enforce stricter laws, which could at least scare off a few spammers. After all, the vast majority of all spam comes from only a few sources. Squelch one major source and things already look a lot better.
Give me a break. For starters, your reply is absolutely irrelevant to my previous post. Second of all, people don't hate RIAA because they protect copyright, but because of the way they are doing it. Last but not least, the music industry is widely responsible for not being able to cope with technological breakthroughs. They'd much rather sell CD:s for 1,000 years instead of dealing with the marvel we call the internet.
Why does the public not have any say in where this money goes? People in the United States seem less vigilant on privacy and security topics nowadays. The Bush paradigm annoys me so much that I sometimes wonder why I still live in a country that put GWB in power (twice). And perhaps even worse, I wonder why the administration gets away with so many perplex decisions that led to so much suffering.
As for the $30bn, I guess it's the same story as always; the administration will appoint some politicized corporations to do this, let their executives fly back and forth in expensive jets, and so forth. Of course insanely large projects cost far more than smaller ones. They require more administrative profiling, more room for mistakes, etc.
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As for the resolution, I agree that it's rather strange that they left out the details on this, but we can assume that it's going to be something like 640x400, which is still very impressive.
And even if you think of Google as a whole, it is significantly more popular in Europe and the US than it is in Asia, so you would still have uneven traffic rates.
Overall, I think your approach is too aggressive. Although Vista is far from what we hoped it would be, it's certainly not a terrible operating system. It's just not justifying the upgrade from XP. At the same time, Microsoft sure as hell know that OSX, Ubuntu (and other dists) will advance, so if anything, they feel more threatened than ever before. I'm confident that they will try to get itself together.
In related news, I just heard a bottle of champaign pop over in Cupertino.
So Calista Flockhart was in fact just caring for the environment? Who knew.
Fortunately, these small towns were blessed with satellite connections, but choosing to eliminate a solid alternative will cost you. If they hate the dish so much, why not put it 40 yards (or so) off location and provide a radio link or dig down a TP cable all the way home?
If that won't cut it, then look for a satellite dish made out of carved stone.
Linux and OSX releases are hyped regardless of the version number because every piece of such release is a major one. And since a lot of OSX users follow these releases, and since Linux techies do the same, it's no wonder that they don't need it.
PHP is obviously a strong product but sure as hell not of the same importance as Linux and OSX.
He would also make an excellent GTA hooker since you'd most definitely feel obliged to blow his brains out after the session, thus getting the $5 back.
Pressure from Google? Of course! Would they be any better if they completely ignored the fact that they are being run over by stronger competition?
Last but not least, I don't think Microsoft bid so much money in panic, but rather after a lot of business meetings with analysts, lawyers, strategists and whatnot. I doubt you have enough knowledge to justify your claims that this was caused by an ignoramus upper management.
Stark then witnesses the horrendous effects of his life-long project and announces that he wants out of the business. His wish to dismantle all factories that provide the US with state of the art weaponry is obviously as clear as a message can get.
- Most of the countries listed above the United States are European. Most states of the United States would still be dominated even if they were compared directly as smaller pieces of the US to the smaller pieces of Europe.
- The size of the country doesn't matter as much as you may think. The US is heavily urbanized which means that the network isn't as much webbed as you may think.
- The price per Mbps in the US is $2,83. How do you justify your claims when you look at Sweden, which is down at a low $0,35 per Mbps, yet is the size of Florida and only 9 million citizens? Florida has more than twice as many citizens and not even close to Sweden.
I think your nationalistic thoughts got in the way of all reasoning here.
Practical use, probably 15 to 20 years.
Insanely expensive prototypes with virtually no functionality in modern use, probably 4 to 10 years.
First we should find out how life started, prove it and then see if there are other ways of creating life. Only then can we know what the needle really looks like.
Stephen Hawking is a brilliant man who once claimed to be fortunate to suffer from ALS, because it gives him far more time to think and do things that normal people would instead spend on other activities (because they can).
The only problem I have with his statements at GWU is that he is focusing too much on radio waves. He is speculating that since we haven't detected any radio waves, it is unlikely that any intelligent civilization exists close to earth (and by close, I mean in astronomical measures).
In my opinion, scientists are taking too much for granted when looking for life. We assume that it is more likely to find life wherever water exists and we constantly assume that the conditions must be earth-like. And regarding the radio waves, I don't understand why an extraterrestrial civilization would even need to use such technology. It is just as likely that they communicate in entirely different ways. After all, hearing and seeing is just one way of living, but not a necessity.
I realize that radio waves occur from more than just television shows, but this is mainly the type of signals we look for since the odds of intended communications from other planets are insanely small.
Which airport is that? I am yet to see a child in underwear at any airport.
One good way is to force users to enter cell phone numbers and require a validation code to be sent to the phone. Of course, this has its downsides since it would cost money, raise privacy issues and lock out people who don't possess a phone.
There is obviously no easy way of preventing mail spam, but hopefully ISP:s will team up (globally) and work this out together. And maybe the UN should force nations to enforce stricter laws, which could at least scare off a few spammers. After all, the vast majority of all spam comes from only a few sources. Squelch one major source and things already look a lot better.
Give me a break. For starters, your reply is absolutely irrelevant to my previous post. Second of all, people don't hate RIAA because they protect copyright, but because of the way they are doing it. Last but not least, the music industry is widely responsible for not being able to cope with technological breakthroughs. They'd much rather sell CD:s for 1,000 years instead of dealing with the marvel we call the internet.
As for the $30bn, I guess it's the same story as always; the administration will appoint some politicized corporations to do this, let their executives fly back and forth in expensive jets, and so forth. Of course insanely large projects cost far more than smaller ones. They require more administrative profiling, more room for mistakes, etc.