Well, I voted for Obama, but if we make first contact with the Ferengis, I think we should send Dick Cheney instead. That way, we won't even need a universal translator.
Smell-o-vision is right. This idea has been cropping up every few years or so since at least the 1960's, and every time they start trying to list practical applications, the concept veers off into ridiculousness. Maybe the medical uses are valid (I don't know how many diagnoses are odor-critical), but as far as online shopping is concerned, smell is simply not an important enough factor in 99% of my purchases, and I don't know how much I would trust a machine to reproduce the sublties of, say, a fine wine, or something where smell was particularly telling or vital.
These cookies smell like porn.
I think it's more likely that Sony and Apple will want to collaborate in the future. I don't see Sony going gently nto that good night, and they've been more than willing to deal with Apple in the past. In case you missed it, Jobs demoed the new mac mini on a Sony brand television, which isn't saying much, but it does speak to a general affability between the two.
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Yeah.
Thanks to Mark Shuttleworth for comparing a tech industry issue to a social issue. That always ends in healthy debate. Godwin's law in 3... 2... 1...
All these worlds are yours, except Titan. Attempt no landings there.
Such as ? Who would make a hardware product without XP support and instantly lose all that market ?
Apple.
Well, I voted for Obama, but if we make first contact with the Ferengis, I think we should send Dick Cheney instead. That way, we won't even need a universal translator.
Yes, this is actually a fairly common comp assignment where I teach (Purdue), and it's been assigned for at least the last couple of years.
NPR, because reading is dumb: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=5583668
Smell-o-vision is right. This idea has been cropping up every few years or so since at least the 1960's, and every time they start trying to list practical applications, the concept veers off into ridiculousness. Maybe the medical uses are valid (I don't know how many diagnoses are odor-critical), but as far as online shopping is concerned, smell is simply not an important enough factor in 99% of my purchases, and I don't know how much I would trust a machine to reproduce the sublties of, say, a fine wine, or something where smell was particularly telling or vital. These cookies smell like porn.
I think it's more likely that Sony and Apple will want to collaborate in the future. I don't see Sony going gently nto that good night, and they've been more than willing to deal with Apple in the past. In case you missed it, Jobs demoed the new mac mini on a Sony brand television, which isn't saying much, but it does speak to a general affability between the two.
Who's Steve?
The last time I checked, satellites could be used as effective satellites.
Can we please call any Apple branded tablet the "Applet" from now on? I want to so bad.