> Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear.
It sounds sooo easy. Why didn't anyone think of this before?
So, this is Safari with Google Gears and their logo stuck on the front?
I buy the idea that they want to scatter the browser market, but personally,
it would take much more for me to switch.
Just a simple thing like right-clicking on a dollar amount in your browser and choose "Convert to local currency" would be a huge improvement of what's already available. Or being able to have your browser dynamically recognize dates and format them from American to European format, client-side.
First off all, I think our best chances of detecting a signal is if they MEANT us to hear from them.
Secondly, we are too impatient. We need to listen to the signal EXACTLY as they get to us, meaning
we have to "sync" with the time they start sending radio waves.
And lastly, I often imagine that some day in the future, after discovering some kick ass advanced
communication technique, we tap into this "universal quantum fluctuation net" and discover a kabillion
inter-galactic irc channels.
C++ being a complex is a real issue. It means you cannot easily write a small parser (like "lint") yourself. It means that getting compilers
to produce clean and understandable error messages is hard. It means that metaprogramming is extremely limited.
P.S. I like programming in C++, but it *is* messy. I honestly think coding in C is more enjoyable.
The IPv4 addresses are a subset of the IPv6 space -- you can get to all of the IPv4 systems from an IPv6 network.
No! And that's the really BIG problem with moving over to IPv6. You should read up D.J. Bernstein's
run-down of the miserable state of matters at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
And after all, what's wrong with the name "Apple Phone" ?
They did it with the iTV (of course, emphasizing that it was just a code name), and they changed the company name from Apple Computers Inc. to Apple Inc..
I'm not at all worried about the Apple vs Cisco thing.
On page 140 (type in page 154 in Acrobat Reader) in his book
you can read a letter he has written to the future fleet of elite androids, powered by his super-Turing machine (which he calls a "perspex").
An excerpt:
I am not a god. I am not your creator. I am an ape of the species homo sapiens.
I proposed to create you. I tried, within the span of my life, to create the simplest of
you. You know, better than I, what you have become.
[...]
If you harm my kind, take comfort from this: I forgive you. I hope that your kind
will have the wisdom and power to atone for the evil you have done.
This alone is enough for doomed failure. Some bonus reasons:
and you don't gain access to all of the content
Doesn't sound good. I want the same content I get on my PC.
Whatever the mobile industry tells you, video streaming is too darn slow to start up
(not to mention the numerous steps you usually have to go through to even get to
the video in the first place).
I will never use such a service until:
It's free (paying for just being "on the air" is expensive enough)
I can start streaming videos within 5 secs
I can send links to videos to my friends in e.g. SMSes.
I've talked with some people in the industry, and many of the suits seem to believe
that if they can just get those kidz start using their crappy
mp3/video/jambalaia/whatever-service they will all earn truckloads of bucks faster
than you can spell GREED.
Doh!
Fortunately, there _are_ other people with two Nobel prizes in science:
John Bardeen (two-time Nobel laureate in physics)
Frederick Sanger (two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry)
Slashdot Mirror
That also means that displaying PDF or Postscript files is a violation of the SDK license.
It's not the oil companies that are evil. These creatures are the ones that really control the world's oil market.
> Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear. It sounds sooo easy. Why didn't anyone think of this before?
"Device to allow one or more persons use a computer for recreational activity"
ultrasmooth
No, no, the security question was "What is the difference between a hockey-mom and a pitbull?".
Everybody knows it's full of spots on the back side.
Ivor Horton, is that you?
So, this is Safari with Google Gears and their logo stuck on the front? I buy the idea that they want to scatter the browser market, but personally, it would take much more for me to switch.
Cool, try searching for "How tall was Napoleon?".
Just a simple thing like right-clicking on a dollar amount in your browser and choose "Convert to local currency" would be a huge improvement of what's already available. Or being able to have your browser dynamically recognize dates and format them from American to European format, client-side.
First off all, I think our best chances of detecting a signal is if they MEANT us to hear from them.
Secondly, we are too impatient. We need to listen to the signal EXACTLY as they get to us, meaning we have to "sync" with the time they start sending radio waves.
And lastly, I often imagine that some day in the future, after discovering some kick ass advanced communication technique, we tap into this "universal quantum fluctuation net" and discover a kabillion inter-galactic irc channels.
C++ being a complex is a real issue. It means you cannot easily write a small parser (like "lint") yourself. It means that getting compilers to produce clean and understandable error messages is hard. It means that metaprogramming is extremely limited. P.S. I like programming in C++, but it *is* messy. I honestly think coding in C is more enjoyable.
"Sweeeeeeeeeet". Har har.
No, it's an OS on top of an OS (your webbrowser) on top of an OS (your uhm OS).
If they would make logic gates run by steam, then we would have real vapourware!
An economist gives an interesting view on the cost versus effect of reducing CO2 emissions: http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key =b_lomborg
And after all, what's wrong with the name "Apple Phone" ?
They did it with the iTV (of course, emphasizing that it was just a code name), and they changed the company name from Apple Computers Inc. to Apple Inc.. I'm not at all worried about the Apple vs Cisco thing.
Anderson is somewhat of an avid writer.
On page 140 (type in page 154 in Acrobat Reader) in his book you can read a letter he has written to the future fleet of elite androids, powered by his super-Turing machine (which he calls a "perspex").
An excerpt:
... but my RealPlayer divided by zero and crashed.
- It's free (paying for just being "on the air" is expensive enough)
- I can start streaming videos within 5 secs
- I can send links to videos to my friends in e.g. SMSes.
I've talked with some people in the industry, and many of the suits seem to believe that if they can just get those kidz start using their crappy mp3/video/jambalaia/whatever-service they will all earn truckloads of bucks faster than you can spell GREED.Darn it you guys! The world was supposed to change to fit my view of it!
Doh! Fortunately, there _are_ other people with two Nobel prizes in science: John Bardeen (two-time Nobel laureate in physics) Frederick Sanger (two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry)