You can't just scale a 14-inch model to insect size and expect it to work like the big model.
Making things smaller brings a whole lot of different problems to deal with.
Just like insect can walk on water but you can't, you can expect that it'll just a whole different design to operate. So the basic claim of the article is non-sense.
"As long as they keep giving their software stupid names by sticking a "microsoft" or a "i" on the front of it this software will never appeal to anyone but the Windows and Mac OS zealots (a.k.a. "Least Common Denominator" users)."
Oh so using Windows makes me part of the Least Common Denominator guys, great. Where's the holy temple I can praise you, oh almighty Linux user?
"Interestingly, almost 80 percent of teens indicated that they intend to spend less time playing video games in 2006"
Research among growing kids show a consistent tendency of them learning to use the toilet and therefore not pooping their pants. Pampers manifacturers in shock.
"Why build a fancy flight system to be swatted when we could just take a real fly, attach 2 tiny cameras (four if they're small enough, one for each direction) and a little zapper to zap its brain when it goes the wrong direction we want."
If a fly with 4 cameras, a zapper and an antenna flies in, won't you become kinda suspicious?
"This antitrust isn't about being successful, It is about being successful by cheating and underhanded tricks. It is about abusing a monopoly psoition to squelch any competition that could be better for the consumers."
You can save me that same old, you know. Last time they sued them for having WMP in Windows. All other OS come with some sort of media player.
Yes the result is it becomes pretty much a standard, since it comes with the OS. Should Windows be sold as a bare OS without any multimedia functionality because it's the top OS on the marker, while the rest bundle tons of crap inside?
Just as dangerous, system analysts discovered an intruder can come with a CD, install malware and run it.
To protect yourself from an attack, it's recommended to never install anything on your computer and remove all sort of input devices such as USB ports, CD-ROM-s, floppies.
"Linux runs on tons more platforms and configurations than Windows does, and it has never had a problem with stability as far as I'm aware. The biggest problem with Linux is drivers"
So what you just said is despite drivers causing the stability issues in Windows, Linux doesn't have that problem, since it doesn't have a lot of drivers to run it with in first place.
the presence of cars increases car theft the presence of tv sets increases tv set theft the presence of jewelry increases jewelry the presence of [valuable object] increases [valuable object] theft
Data Mining is still a frontier for the same reason monkeys are still having trouble reproducing Hamlet despite all the theoretical knowledge of all the incredible opportunities.
Too much assumption, too much possibilities, too little knowdledge, and not enough monkeys. You can never have enough friggin' monkeys.
I don't think anyone buys DELL products because of some misconceived idealism or the charisma of their CEO. They buy it since they need Intel machines with Windows (mostly for business).
DELL is no Apple. They don't need to defend their orientation or claim they are or aren't Wintel's lapdog, since noone of their clients care.
This comes more as a personal irritance from the CEO who's had enough of coleagues and clients kid him on the subject.
"I really can not believe that the rovers are still running at all. NASA did a bang up job on these. Build more and recover the economies of scale!"
Not long from now people will start speculating that the rovers are CGI animation and start finding hundreds of "deffects" in the Mars shots that demonstrate they've been "Photoshopped".
It's kinda already happening in the form of humor and parody.
It happened with the Moon landing.
People are cruel, people are doubtful. You can respect the latter but pitty the former.
"Sorry Nintendo, if you aren't going to support at least 720p its going to be very hard for me to buy this. Old school low res games just aren't going to look their best on large screen hidef tv's."
Totally agreed. It's like audio CD-s, I mean just measly 16-bit stereo 44k?
I've high def 7.1 surround ears capable of intercepting 192kHz 32-bit sound, my noise level is minus thousands of decibels, my head acts as a subwoofer mic that reads down to -100 Hz (that's like 100 hertz lower than zero, it's very sophisticated I don't think you can even begin to understand).
I won't settle for crappy quality!
Gimme DVD Audio or I'll sit with ear caps all day long and refuse to listen!
"Ok, I give up, I've been searching for about 5 minutes in those drop down boxes, and I can't find the -1 Stupid moderation. Since when is Google required to give up the algorithms that they developed at *any* cost?"
Since the patent system was invented. Did you know patents were supposed to force sharing of ideas (well it doesn't work like that today), and if you do not patent your idea, competition is allowed to reverse engineer it?
"Maybe it's just me, but I would think that the preference would be for wifi first, THEN cellular. You'd burn less minutes that way."
But then that'd be pretty bad for the cellular service providers no. Think of it this way: customers need an incentive to thrash their old cells and buy new ones, and cool new features is that incentive most of the time.
Celllular service providers need a really good incentive not to.. you know.. ensure something 'appens with the phone makers' management, that'd be a shame, right...
Look at it this way: a friggin' MIDI of a populat tune goes for 2-3 dollars on most cells as a ringtone. WHO in their right mind would spend that, if they could, like, beam it from their PC as an mp3?
"Biggest surprise? The cell phone conversation is not dropped when the switch between cellular network and WiFi hotspot takes place."
That'd be the only surprize, since there are phones that use wifi for walkie talkie emulation for some time now.
One could really wonder how is this supposed to work at all, after all the whining from big telcos, how VOIP support needs special quality of service (QoS)to ensure low latency, no skipping, mangling etc. to work.
"This is more likely than not the motiviation behind this move."
You'd have to acknowledge that if Google starts requiring incredible license fees or outright refuses to license the algorithm to Yahoo, MSN etc. that'd be pretty evil, no.
Think about it like this: if MS did that, people would be mouthing the evil Bill Gates and his minions 24/7 over here.
.. my friggin ADSL modem runs linux and a web server. My friggin modem!
I mean, come on, it's like, I don't know, based on Apple II or a pocket calculator processor with, uhmm, like 100-200kb RAM or something? dunno, but it was cheaper than $100 and it's friggin modem.
A friggin modem... a fri.. a fr..
Oh ok... I rest my case anyways.
Linux isn't fat, most popular distros are, but noone forces people to use them.
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You can't just scale a 14-inch model to insect size and expect it to work like the big model.
Making things smaller brings a whole lot of different problems to deal with.
Just like insect can walk on water but you can't, you can expect that it'll just a whole different design to operate. So the basic claim of the article is non-sense.
"As long as they keep giving their software stupid names by sticking a "microsoft" or a "i" on the front of it this software will never appeal to anyone but the Windows and Mac OS zealots (a.k.a. "Least Common Denominator" users)."
Oh so using Windows makes me part of the Least Common Denominator guys, great. Where's the holy temple I can praise you, oh almighty Linux user?
"Interestingly, almost 80 percent of teens indicated that they intend to spend less time playing video games in 2006"
Research among growing kids show a consistent tendency of them learning to use the toilet and therefore not pooping their pants. Pampers manifacturers in shock.
"But it could one day be shrunk to insect size"
With, like, a shrink ray or somethin'?
"Why build a fancy flight system to be swatted when we could just take a real fly, attach 2 tiny cameras (four if they're small enough, one for each direction) and a little zapper to zap its brain when it goes the wrong direction we want."
If a fly with 4 cameras, a zapper and an antenna flies in, won't you become kinda suspicious?
"This antitrust isn't about being successful, It is about being successful by cheating and underhanded tricks. It is about abusing a monopoly psoition to squelch any competition that could be better for the consumers."
You can save me that same old, you know. Last time they sued them for having WMP in Windows. All other OS come with some sort of media player.
Yes the result is it becomes pretty much a standard, since it comes with the OS. Should Windows be sold as a bare OS without any multimedia functionality because it's the top OS on the marker, while the rest bundle tons of crap inside?
Just as dangerous, system analysts discovered an intruder can come with a CD, install malware and run it.
To protect yourself from an attack, it's recommended to never install anything on your computer and remove all sort of input devices such as USB ports, CD-ROM-s, floppies.
Real Networks to Linux: DRM or Die!
Linux to Real Network: Oh shut the hell up, retard. Damn it, one of those days, one of those days...
"Microsoft will learn a lesson this time around.....I doubt they will though."
It'll teach them all right. That if you become wildly successful, you'll be undoubtedly sued as hell.
"Linux runs on tons more platforms and configurations than Windows does, and it has never had a problem with stability as far as I'm aware. The biggest problem with Linux is drivers"
So what you just said is despite drivers causing the stability issues in Windows, Linux doesn't have that problem, since it doesn't have a lot of drivers to run it with in first place.
Good point...
... A shocking discovery concluded that:
the presence of cars increases car theft
the presence of tv sets increases tv set theft
the presence of jewelry increases jewelry
the presence of [valuable object] increases [valuable object] theft
Data Mining is still a frontier for the same reason monkeys are still having trouble reproducing Hamlet despite all the theoretical knowledge of all the incredible opportunities.
Too much assumption, too much possibilities, too little knowdledge, and not enough monkeys. You can never have enough friggin' monkeys.
"A county official says there's no problem, since the postings are in compliance with state law requiring public availability of records."
If all things in compliance with the law are perfect, then what the hell we need politicians to change/update the laws for? Fire the bastards.
I don't think anyone buys DELL products because of some misconceived idealism or the charisma of their CEO. They buy it since they need Intel machines with Windows (mostly for business).
DELL is no Apple. They don't need to defend their orientation or claim they are or aren't Wintel's lapdog, since noone of their clients care.
This comes more as a personal irritance from the CEO who's had enough of coleagues and clients kid him on the subject.
"I really can not believe that the rovers are still running at all.
NASA did a bang up job on these. Build more and recover the economies of scale!"
Not long from now people will start speculating that the rovers are CGI animation and start finding hundreds of "deffects" in the Mars shots that demonstrate they've been "Photoshopped".
It's kinda already happening in the form of humor and parody.
It happened with the Moon landing.
People are cruel, people are doubtful. You can respect the latter but pitty the former.
"maybe they should offer some of these episodes the day *before* they air. "
Offer it a finger & it'll eat your hand.
"Sorry Nintendo, if you aren't going to support at least 720p its going to be very hard for me to buy this. Old school low res games just aren't going to look their best on large screen hidef tv's."
Totally agreed. It's like audio CD-s, I mean just measly 16-bit stereo 44k?
I've high def 7.1 surround ears capable of intercepting 192kHz 32-bit sound, my noise level is minus thousands of decibels, my head acts as a subwoofer mic that reads down to -100 Hz (that's like 100 hertz lower than zero, it's very sophisticated I don't think you can even begin to understand).
I won't settle for crappy quality!
Gimme DVD Audio or I'll sit with ear caps all day long and refuse to listen!
Let me say a naive thing: domain landrush? Screw all greedy corporations and cybersquatters.
Eat all you can, it doesn't matter. There will always be a free domain left for the next great idea.
"Ok, I give up, I've been searching for about 5 minutes in those drop down boxes, and I can't find the -1 Stupid moderation. Since when is Google required to give up the algorithms that they developed at *any* cost?"
Since the patent system was invented. Did you know patents were supposed to force sharing of ideas (well it doesn't work like that today), and if you do not patent your idea, competition is allowed to reverse engineer it?
"DOC, iTunes, SWF, MOV, etc, etc."
:P
DOC and iTunes ok but, name me open standard alternatives to SWF and MOV... If there's no *good* open standard, companies fill the void.
BTW don't tell me SVG is the alternative of SWF since I'll laugh really hard and tell you 50-60 reasons why not
"Maybe it's just me, but I would think that the preference would be for wifi first, THEN cellular. You'd burn less minutes that way."
But then that'd be pretty bad for the cellular service providers no. Think of it this way: customers need an incentive to thrash their old cells and buy new ones, and cool new features is that incentive most of the time.
Celllular service providers need a really good incentive not to.. you know.. ensure something 'appens with the phone makers' management, that'd be a shame, right...
Look at it this way: a friggin' MIDI of a populat tune goes for 2-3 dollars on most cells as a ringtone. WHO in their right mind would spend that, if they could, like, beam it from their PC as an mp3?
Uh... wait a bloody minute...
"Biggest surprise? The cell phone conversation is not dropped when the switch between cellular network and WiFi hotspot takes place."
That'd be the only surprize, since there are phones that use wifi for walkie talkie emulation for some time now.
One could really wonder how is this supposed to work at all, after all the whining from big telcos, how VOIP support needs special quality of service (QoS)to ensure low latency, no skipping, mangling etc. to work.
But then again who believes telcos anyway.
"This is more likely than not the motiviation behind this move."
You'd have to acknowledge that if Google starts requiring incredible license fees or outright refuses to license the algorithm to Yahoo, MSN etc. that'd be pretty evil, no.
Think about it like this: if MS did that, people would be mouthing the evil Bill Gates and his minions 24/7 over here.
If phone makers, PDA makers, modem makers and even some calculator makers managed to run Linux on their devices, what kind of laptop finds it too fat?
Ah yea, the $100 "laptop"...
.. my friggin ADSL modem runs linux and a web server. My friggin modem!
I mean, come on, it's like, I don't know, based on Apple II or a pocket calculator processor with, uhmm, like 100-200kb RAM or something? dunno, but it was cheaper than $100 and it's friggin modem.
A friggin modem... a fri.. a fr..
Oh ok... I rest my case anyways.
Linux isn't fat, most popular distros are, but noone forces people to use them.