Airplane flight on Mars has been simulated many times and is often suggested when it is time to dream up the next rover project. So far what we know indicates that it is more difficult than on Earth but still quite possible. I won't go out and say it IS possible until it has been done but current expectations are that it is.
I agree with you that the payment option is a significant difference but I disagree that it is a novel one. People have been paying for things since before recorded history. In a sane world I don't think adding a payments system would pass the non-obvious test. Although I do realize that we do not live in a sane world. I see the addition of a payment system as an obvious side-effect of the repository model which had been developed in the free and open source world being adopted by commercial companies, not an invention.
I'm also not sure that payments in an 'app store' did or didn't hit the smartphone market first either. Lindow's "Click and Buy" did that in 2003. I don't know exactly what their arrangement was with the software authors but I'm pretty sure they didn't get to just sell copies of the product without paying the copyright holders. The money must have been funneled back somehow. Maybe some of the non-Apple smartphones running java apps already did that before "Click and Buy"? I'm not entirely sure.
I still say that the only thing that is novel about that is that the user has to pay for some things. Repositories have been around longer than smartphones and mobile interent and other than charging the user the good ones have everything you mention here. It's like an app store where everything is free. Ok, the ease of having the provider take care of all the billing is nice but not nicer than free! I would be willing to grant that billing is a novel new feature added to repositories for the smartphone market, that it is an upgrade to allow the commercial vendors to participate. That doesn't make app stores a whole new idea that Apple, or as you point out the smartphone market invented. It's just a new take on the older repository concept.
There is no such thing as 2 to 10 times less, it's 1/2 to 1/10!! Leave times for things that are bigger, not smaller! I hate reading times and then having to stop and translate it in my head that they are saying something is less. It's like reading a string of double negatives! Are people really too stupid for simple fractions these days? Even on Slashdot, news for 'nerds'?
Agreed! The "Apple's App Store" barb really added nothing to the overall point of the summary. Furthermore, it is incorrect. The AppStore is hardly an Apple invention. It is just a crappy copy of the repositories that Linux distros have been using since the late 90s. There are only three things to the app store which MIGHT be an Apple invention. Locking the user into only using the app store, using the name 'App Store' and actually charging for things in the store as opposed to being all free. I'm not sure Apple is even original on that last point, I think Lindows may have done that but I'm not sure. You can't even make the argument that Apple was the first to do this on a mobile device, OpenZaurus and later Familiar Linux did that. Those mostly ran on PDAs but I bet someone somewhere had them on a cellphone at some point. GPE did have a phone edition after all.
At least the Apple fanbois can still claim Apple invented the GUI... er.. wait... or did they Xerox it?
I never said he should. Only that if he can't do what he was elected to do he should tell the people why. And name names. If they really want it then it will show in how they vote.
I'm not sure exactly what this bill would allow the government to do for good or bad but how is the GP's example anything like what happened in Egypt? Telling Twitter to block an account which is going to be used to synchronize a terrorist attack or even shutting down Twitter altogether isn't exactly the same as completely removing all internet access (or trying to anyway) for the whole country.
AT&T is limited now? What's the limit? All the carriers have limits and always have, they just don't publish them. The limits are set to only hit the heaviest 5% or less of users who are mostly just heavy bittorrent movie downloaders. If all you can see someone using tethering for is high bandwidth stuff like bittorent then I can see why having a limit would kill it's usefulness. Depending what you do tethering can be a very useful feature if you have work that needs to be done without requiring more than a few hundred megabytes a month. It can also be nice sometimes if you just want to see a site on a screen bigger than the palm of your hand.
As for Verizon allowing tethering... They charge just as much money to 'allow' you to tether as they charge for the dataplan itself. You have to buy this in addition to the dataplan and you are still under the same 5GB cap that the dataplan is on w/o the tethering. To tether with Verizon's blessing you are paying twice for the same bandwidth! That's BS, just root/jailbreak the phone and use your bandwidth however you want to. You already paid for it once!
Other people posted already an answer to why one would want to jailbreak. As to the hassle of jailbreaking - that is why I like Android. Since it is based on an OSS project you can always go around the carrier/handset manufacturer to get updates. I have a nice easy to use App installed on mine that lets me choose between a number of 3rd party roms. It alerts me when there are updates available and almost entirely automates the process. I just have to click install and then answer yes, I do want it to perform a backup first. You can never get that from an Apple product. It's either their updates plain and unmodified or a painful hack with fears of bricking.
I guess some of these newer Android phones have been giving people issues with the fuse bits and all. I wouldn't know much about that, my Motorola Droid (first version) was easy to root and is still easy. With overclocking I don't miss much from the newer phones. Actually, they are underclocked from the factory so pushing it up to a more up to date speed isn't that big of an overclock.
Plenty of countries have complied with what the US has done and/or done the same. If you are leaving to somewhere better may my family and I ride in your rocketship with you?
I don't know that and neither do you. Unless you have some sort of really high up clearance that you actually are privy to what happens at Gitmo in which case I hardly believe you would be posting on Slashdot. It could be true, they could all be captured enemy combatants but so long as this happens in secret there is no possible way of assuring that is true. Power corrupts and to maintain a free country we must always assume the worst of our government. Otherwise it will be too late.
First.... This was the case before he ever made the promises so it doesn't change the fact that it was all BS.
Second... If we ever had a president that actually had balls he would address the people and say... I promised you A, you voted for me.. The ball currently lies with congresspeople B-Z, they told me to go to hell, now go tell them what you want.
Of course anybody with that kind of balls would never make it that far in politics. What I don't get though is why don't they grow them once they become president? It's a dead end job anyway. Since when do former presidents go back into office in some other position? I guess I could see waiting until a second term but that is no guarantee to get re-elected. Wouldn't it be better to go down in a one term blaze of glory making huge waves then be just another 8 year pansy?
Hah! 6! Every university in my area had buses trucking loads of people who believed that crap to the polling booths. And they came back for additional trips!
The US possesses a pretty big desert that is nobody's back yard. It also possesses islands big enough for a penitentiary that are US soil and yet in nobody's back yard.
The people happened. While I wouldn't say we have a perfect democracy I will say that our government can only exist within the will of it's people. If there were a million people marching on Washington today demanding the closing of Guantanamo AND the closing of the other more secret locations AND expedient, fair trials for all do you think Guantanamo would be open another week? What would they do shoot everybody? No, the people are complacent at best but many actually support this behavior. They think their government is actually doing something to keep them safe in their little lives by locking people up and torturing them.
I'm sure some of those people actually are guilty. I have no problem with our government hanging those ones. Others probably never got the chance to hurt anyone but are dangerous and would have if they hadn't been locked up. I'm glad I don't have to decide what to do with them. But are they all? Really? Did no one ever just spit out a random name to make the torture stop? Was nobody just in the wrong place at the wrong time or simply guilty of keeping the wrong company? Wikileaks has shown us quite well that those two offenses will get you killed! Even if you are just a child! Is nobody locked up just for disagreeing with someone? Until there are fair and open trials we will never know and we should be assuming the worst of the government that doesn't show us!
In Europe? I was born, raised and live today in the USA but I think that is a perfectly reasonable fear for him to have at this point. What has this government done right to make anyone believe otherwise?
Not really. The problem is still the same, if you code the perfect browser using the best possible standard today it is still meaningless until you get enough people using it. The difference is now you have to pull users away from 3 or 4 different browsers instead of just going up against one. I suppose if you are a browser coder and the IT head of a some large corp that uses their own internal web apps then maybe your browser can see some use there. That's it. Website coders put in a lot of work building sites now so that people will see them now. If they code for your browser and end up with something that doesn't work in the others then no one sees their content/ads/whatever until your browser gets a market share. And... if it doesn't then their work is wasted forever.
Picturing this I imagine the ant doing the splits due to the fact that the balloon beneath it's feet is also stretching. How does this affect matter? If the space that a particle occupies expands does it apply any stretching force on the particle? Or does gravity prevent space from expanding wherever there is mass?
I would like to try Linux on the PS3. The Cell processor seems very intriguing. Sounds like too much trouble and uncertainty though. Guess I won't be buying a PS3!
So, if I made a browser that used a flavor of html which made your job easier you would automatically begin coding your html for it? Really? And who would your customer be?
The sad thing for web developers is that it doesn't matter whose html standard is techically better or which one better enables development. It's which one/ones are being used by your target audience that matter. Otherwise you are coding a site just for yourself! It really comes down to a browser marketing issue, not an html standards one. Whoever markets their browser better gets to set the standard.
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Speaking of gravity, don't forget that the moon has lumpy gravity which makes even orbiting it more difficult.
Airplane flight on Mars has been simulated many times and is often suggested when it is time to dream up the next rover project. So far what we know indicates that it is more difficult than on Earth but still quite possible. I won't go out and say it IS possible until it has been done but current expectations are that it is.
Do you think you can get your rover control app approved at the app store? Better go Android to be safe.
I agree with you that the payment option is a significant difference but I disagree that it is a novel one. People have been paying for things since before recorded history. In a sane world I don't think adding a payments system would pass the non-obvious test. Although I do realize that we do not live in a sane world. I see the addition of a payment system as an obvious side-effect of the repository model which had been developed in the free and open source world being adopted by commercial companies, not an invention.
I'm also not sure that payments in an 'app store' did or didn't hit the smartphone market first either. Lindow's "Click and Buy" did that in 2003. I don't know exactly what their arrangement was with the software authors but I'm pretty sure they didn't get to just sell copies of the product without paying the copyright holders. The money must have been funneled back somehow. Maybe some of the non-Apple smartphones running java apps already did that before "Click and Buy"? I'm not entirely sure.
I still say that the only thing that is novel about that is that the user has to pay for some things. Repositories have been around longer than smartphones and mobile interent and other than charging the user the good ones have everything you mention here. It's like an app store where everything is free. Ok, the ease of having the provider take care of all the billing is nice but not nicer than free! I would be willing to grant that billing is a novel new feature added to repositories for the smartphone market, that it is an upgrade to allow the commercial vendors to participate. That doesn't make app stores a whole new idea that Apple, or as you point out the smartphone market invented. It's just a new take on the older repository concept.
There is no such thing as 2 to 10 times less, it's 1/2 to 1/10!! Leave times for things that are bigger, not smaller! I hate reading times and then having to stop and translate it in my head that they are saying something is less. It's like reading a string of double negatives! Are people really too stupid for simple fractions these days? Even on Slashdot, news for 'nerds'?
Agreed! The "Apple's App Store" barb really added nothing to the overall point of the summary. Furthermore, it is incorrect. The AppStore is hardly an Apple invention. It is just a crappy copy of the repositories that Linux distros have been using since the late 90s. There are only three things to the app store which MIGHT be an Apple invention. Locking the user into only using the app store, using the name 'App Store' and actually charging for things in the store as opposed to being all free. I'm not sure Apple is even original on that last point, I think Lindows may have done that but I'm not sure. You can't even make the argument that Apple was the first to do this on a mobile device, OpenZaurus and later Familiar Linux did that. Those mostly ran on PDAs but I bet someone somewhere had them on a cellphone at some point. GPE did have a phone edition after all.
At least the Apple fanbois can still claim Apple invented the GUI... er.. wait... or did they Xerox it?
I never said he should. Only that if he can't do what he was elected to do he should tell the people why. And name names. If they really want it then it will show in how they vote.
I'm not sure exactly what this bill would allow the government to do for good or bad but how is the GP's example anything like what happened in Egypt? Telling Twitter to block an account which is going to be used to synchronize a terrorist attack or even shutting down Twitter altogether isn't exactly the same as completely removing all internet access (or trying to anyway) for the whole country.
AT&T is limited now? What's the limit? All the carriers have limits and always have, they just don't publish them. The limits are set to only hit the heaviest 5% or less of users who are mostly just heavy bittorrent movie downloaders. If all you can see someone using tethering for is high bandwidth stuff like bittorent then I can see why having a limit would kill it's usefulness. Depending what you do tethering can be a very useful feature if you have work that needs to be done without requiring more than a few hundred megabytes a month. It can also be nice sometimes if you just want to see a site on a screen bigger than the palm of your hand.
As for Verizon allowing tethering... They charge just as much money to 'allow' you to tether as they charge for the dataplan itself. You have to buy this in addition to the dataplan and you are still under the same 5GB cap that the dataplan is on w/o the tethering. To tether with Verizon's blessing you are paying twice for the same bandwidth! That's BS, just root/jailbreak the phone and use your bandwidth however you want to. You already paid for it once!
Other people posted already an answer to why one would want to jailbreak. As to the hassle of jailbreaking - that is why I like Android. Since it is based on an OSS project you can always go around the carrier/handset manufacturer to get updates. I have a nice easy to use App installed on mine that lets me choose between a number of 3rd party roms. It alerts me when there are updates available and almost entirely automates the process. I just have to click install and then answer yes, I do want it to perform a backup first. You can never get that from an Apple product. It's either their updates plain and unmodified or a painful hack with fears of bricking.
I guess some of these newer Android phones have been giving people issues with the fuse bits and all. I wouldn't know much about that, my Motorola Droid (first version) was easy to root and is still easy. With overclocking I don't miss much from the newer phones. Actually, they are underclocked from the factory so pushing it up to a more up to date speed isn't that big of an overclock.
Plenty of countries have complied with what the US has done and/or done the same. If you are leaving to somewhere better may my family and I ride in your rocketship with you?
I don't know that and neither do you. Unless you have some sort of really high up clearance that you actually are privy to what happens at Gitmo in which case I hardly believe you would be posting on Slashdot. It could be true, they could all be captured enemy combatants but so long as this happens in secret there is no possible way of assuring that is true. Power corrupts and to maintain a free country we must always assume the worst of our government. Otherwise it will be too late.
First.... This was the case before he ever made the promises so it doesn't change the fact that it was all BS.
Second... If we ever had a president that actually had balls he would address the people and say... I promised you A, you voted for me.. The ball currently lies with congresspeople B-Z, they told me to go to hell, now go tell them what you want.
Of course anybody with that kind of balls would never make it that far in politics. What I don't get though is why don't they grow them once they become president? It's a dead end job anyway. Since when do former presidents go back into office in some other position? I guess I could see waiting until a second term but that is no guarantee to get re-elected. Wouldn't it be better to go down in a one term blaze of glory making huge waves then be just another 8 year pansy?
Hah! 6! Every university in my area had buses trucking loads of people who believed that crap to the polling booths. And they came back for additional trips!
The US possesses a pretty big desert that is nobody's back yard. It also possesses islands big enough for a penitentiary that are US soil and yet in nobody's back yard.
The people happened. While I wouldn't say we have a perfect democracy I will say that our government can only exist within the will of it's people. If there were a million people marching on Washington today demanding the closing of Guantanamo AND the closing of the other more secret locations AND expedient, fair trials for all do you think Guantanamo would be open another week? What would they do shoot everybody? No, the people are complacent at best but many actually support this behavior. They think their government is actually doing something to keep them safe in their little lives by locking people up and torturing them.
I'm sure some of those people actually are guilty. I have no problem with our government hanging those ones. Others probably never got the chance to hurt anyone but are dangerous and would have if they hadn't been locked up. I'm glad I don't have to decide what to do with them. But are they all? Really? Did no one ever just spit out a random name to make the torture stop? Was nobody just in the wrong place at the wrong time or simply guilty of keeping the wrong company? Wikileaks has shown us quite well that those two offenses will get you killed! Even if you are just a child! Is nobody locked up just for disagreeing with someone? Until there are fair and open trials we will never know and we should be assuming the worst of the government that doesn't show us!
In Europe? I was born, raised and live today in the USA but I think that is a perfectly reasonable fear for him to have at this point. What has this government done right to make anyone believe otherwise?
Not really. The problem is still the same, if you code the perfect browser using the best possible standard today it is still meaningless until you get enough people using it. The difference is now you have to pull users away from 3 or 4 different browsers instead of just going up against one. I suppose if you are a browser coder and the IT head of a some large corp that uses their own internal web apps then maybe your browser can see some use there. That's it. Website coders put in a lot of work building sites now so that people will see them now. If they code for your browser and end up with something that doesn't work in the others then no one sees their content/ads/whatever until your browser gets a market share. And... if it doesn't then their work is wasted forever.
AOL buys SCO!
It's like rats deserting a sinking pirate ship.
Picturing this I imagine the ant doing the splits due to the fact that the balloon beneath it's feet is also stretching. How does this affect matter? If the space that a particle occupies expands does it apply any stretching force on the particle? Or does gravity prevent space from expanding wherever there is mass?
NT was built on Multics code, extended with concepts from VMS
I would like to try Linux on the PS3. The Cell processor seems very intriguing. Sounds like too much trouble and uncertainty though. Guess I won't be buying a PS3!
So, if I made a browser that used a flavor of html which made your job easier you would automatically begin coding your html for it? Really? And who would your customer be?
The sad thing for web developers is that it doesn't matter whose html standard is techically better or which one better enables development. It's which one/ones are being used by your target audience that matter. Otherwise you are coding a site just for yourself! It really comes down to a browser marketing issue, not an html standards one. Whoever markets their browser better gets to set the standard.