Do you think it's targeted towards university students and hobbyists? I wouldn't think so (since it would be a huge waste of our tax money) but perhaps I am wrong.
You could type on glass if you are wearing a force feedback glove of some sort, which can range from just giving you a satisfying "click" (through actuators strapped to your your digits) to actually reproducing keboard texture through a smaller equivalent of something like this with a greater feel-el resolution.
I bet you future notebooks will not have a screen either, but a single stalk with a laser projector that tracks your eyes and beams the image onto you retina (we have the technology right already for this, though not portable).
I think future laptops will not actually be laptops at all, but rather a wearable exoskeleton-like suit that can support your body and provide faux feel of an office chair, a desk, a keyboard in the middle of nowhere. Something based losely on this: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/14/1621258
Taiwan is not the same thing as China. They are at war with each-other, so it's unlikely they'd actually hand over any of this to the Chinese. Besides, they are among our strongest allies and already have a lot of the advanced missile tech just like Japan for example.
So yeah, they should have better controls over where our nuclear tech is shipped, but in this particular case there's no problem.
Easy (as long as you remember that the hobbyist/academic Free software community existed long before Linux did). Thanks for setting up a strawman by lumping together hobbyists and academic researchers. The latter are among the strongest supporters of intellectual property rights and restrictions, universally demanding at least a citation and an attribution any time you use any of their stuff. That's how they get paid, you know: you cite them, they get grants, tenures, taxpayer funds, invites to lecture circuits. Even BSD ain't Free as in Beer, boy...
Academia guards their intellectual property rights even more than companies: steal a copy of Windows, and you'll probably get off easy. Steal a copy of an academic paper or some published research, and your name will be shot to shit, and you will never work at a decent job again.
You are just supporting the point that the Microsoft guy made. People don't write cutting-edge software out of charity. Academic and/or company researchers and coders drive innovation because they get paid.
The World Wide Web (you cretin) Your insults just the reflect the level of your erudition, boy. Berners-Lee and Cailliau were paid for their research. By taxpayer dollars and companies. Paid as in "non-hobbyist," "employee," a "gun for hire," a "non-free" kind of way. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN
Well, how much innovation came out of Linux lately (or ever)?
All they do is make very good copies of software and methods implemented by for-profit companies: varous VMS/UNIX implementations, xwindows, MacOS, Microsoft Windows, etc. How much innovation is there in office apps (OOO== an inferor MSOffice copy), graphics editors (GIMP, a vastly inferor copy of photoshop), window managers (Gnome, an inferor copy of MacOS Finder, or KDE, a superior but still a copy of Windows explorer)?
List two software innovations (i.e. something not copied) done by the linux/hobbyist community please.
They'll do that as soon as you "geeks" start shaving, showering, and changing socks/t-shirts/underwear daily. In fact, lose the silly t-shirt and get yourself something nice. Just because you are a geek doesn't mean you need to look like a hobo.
Well, they could actually be doing something else that works: measuring blood flow in skin (temperature gradient changes) or amounts of prespiration, or muscle tension or something like that.
In fact, that's how I would do it. For example, the instructions would tell kids to think hard and concentrate to cause some action, but the machine would only look at their eyebrow position (which tends to change while kids concentrate).
I think the device might work in theory, but not in a way advertized. But yeah, I agree that it's most likely a vaporware.
The whole point of having a GPS unit is so that you know your starting location.
If the result apply to 3D spaces, I would say it'll probably have some implication for biotech or nanotech assembley as guidance clues for stem cells or nannites. I'd say it's more likely to be nanotech though, since we already have better ways to guide cells.
I am not sure about your point number 3. Anyone remembers that case where a teacher got sentenced to 20 years in jail for a spyware porn popup during class?
"Think of the children" seems to short-circuit logical reasoning and common sence of most people out there (or at least those of us that have kids).
Recall that the original auction specs had a mandate to re-sell bandwidth in bulk (costs + reasonable fees), but Verizon lobbied hard to get it dropped for some reason. My random guess is that they wanted to have monopoly and set their own prices (translation: you are screwed).
Also, Verizon is making a killing selling those $100/month "unlimited" plans and $2 ringtones. Therefore, there is no way in hell they would undercut that by allowing something like a reasonably priced VoIP over their network.
Gotta point back to the age-old supply v demand question... It would help if you understood how supply and demand work. Namely, both supply and demand depend on price. There is a lot of demand for STEM grads willing to start at $80,000/year. There is about zero demand for those willing to start at $2,000,000/year, even though there is a lot of supply. Almost no engineer is worth millions fresh out of college.
There's a skill shortage at the rate the employer wants to pay. Well, no shit, Sherlock. Companies have to stay both competitive and profitable. If you don't let them hire the people they need at prices that are right, the companies will move on elsewhere, the economy will shrink, and the jobs will be lost for good. Is that what you want?
Microsoft's taxes already pay for your welfare and well-being. They don't owe you a job on top.
Microsoft no longer hires US workers for entry level positions Any other facts you'd like to pull out of your ass? They hire as many as they can get, it's not their fault that 60% of US-educated STEM graduates are foreign-born. Engineering, math, and science are hard; if you aren't willing to study hard, stay up late, and work your butt off in college, it's not Microsoft's fault.
Microsoft paid many billions of dollars in taxes, with Bill paying over US$ 5 billion personally. It's very impressive considering that the only thing they sell is a bunch of abstract 0's and 1's produced by their workers' brains. New engineering hires start off at $80k/year, H1B or not.
If you are any good, they'll hire you. If you aren't, you can take your xenophobia somewhere else.
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Would give a whole new meaning to catfish noodling.
Do you think it's targeted towards university students and hobbyists? I wouldn't think so (since it would be a huge waste of our tax money) but perhaps I am wrong.
What are those obvious reasons?
You could type on glass if you are wearing a force feedback glove of some sort, which can range from just giving you a satisfying "click" (through actuators strapped to your your digits) to actually reproducing keboard texture through a smaller equivalent of something like this with a greater feel-el resolution.
I bet you future notebooks will not have a screen either, but a single stalk with a laser projector that tracks your eyes and beams the image onto you retina (we have the technology right already for this, though not portable).
I think future laptops will not actually be laptops at all, but rather a wearable exoskeleton-like suit that can support your body and provide faux feel of an office chair, a desk, a keyboard in the middle of nowhere. Something based losely on this: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/14/1621258
Keyboard would be better than any of these.
Godwin didn't make German trains run on time, Hitler did.
Taiwan is not the same thing as China. They are at war with each-other, so it's unlikely they'd actually hand over any of this to the Chinese. Besides, they are among our strongest allies and already have a lot of the advanced missile tech just like Japan for example.
So yeah, they should have better controls over where our nuclear tech is shipped, but in this particular case there's no problem.
Academia guards their intellectual property rights even more than companies: steal a copy of Windows, and you'll probably get off easy. Steal a copy of an academic paper or some published research, and your name will be shot to shit, and you will never work at a decent job again.
You are just supporting the point that the Microsoft guy made. People don't write cutting-edge software out of charity. Academic and/or company researchers and coders drive innovation because they get paid. The World Wide Web (you cretin) Your insults just the reflect the level of your erudition, boy. Berners-Lee and Cailliau were paid for their research. By taxpayer dollars and companies. Paid as in "non-hobbyist," "employee," a "gun for hire," a "non-free" kind of way. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN
Right! Too bad it took them 4 years to copy the original
Well, how much innovation came out of Linux lately (or ever)?
All they do is make very good copies of software and methods implemented by for-profit companies: varous VMS/UNIX implementations, xwindows, MacOS, Microsoft Windows, etc. How much innovation is there in office apps (OOO== an inferor MSOffice copy), graphics editors (GIMP, a vastly inferor copy of photoshop), window managers (Gnome, an inferor copy of MacOS Finder, or KDE, a superior but still a copy of Windows explorer)?
List two software innovations (i.e. something not copied) done by the linux/hobbyist community please.
Not in public, at least.
What's to explain? Just go Yeah, bring out the hot chicks 'cause I am a hot stud.
They'll do that as soon as you "geeks" start shaving, showering, and changing socks/t-shirts/underwear daily. In fact, lose the silly t-shirt and get yourself something nice. Just because you are a geek doesn't mean you need to look like a hobo.
Well, they could actually be doing something else that works: measuring blood flow in skin (temperature gradient changes) or amounts of prespiration, or muscle tension or something like that.
In fact, that's how I would do it. For example, the instructions would tell kids to think hard and concentrate to cause some action, but the machine would only look at their eyebrow position (which tends to change while kids concentrate).
I think the device might work in theory, but not in a way advertized. But yeah, I agree that it's most likely a vaporware.
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Never.
The whole point of having a GPS unit is so that you know your starting location.
If the result apply to 3D spaces, I would say it'll probably have some implication for biotech or nanotech assembley as guidance clues for stem cells or nannites. I'd say it's more likely to be nanotech though, since we already have better ways to guide cells.
And how long before some smartass comes finds a 127.0.0.1 in such log. Imagine the breadth of that subpoena...
I started this as a joke, but I am scared now.
I am not sure about your point number 3. Anyone remembers that case where a teacher got sentenced to 20 years in jail for a spyware porn popup during class?
"Think of the children" seems to short-circuit logical reasoning and common sence of most people out there (or at least those of us that have kids).
Because it's not a funny joke.
And for my liberal friends out there, JFK also had a Yale degree.
But George W. Bush also has a Yale degree.
Short answer is YES, you are gonna get screwed.
Recall that the original auction specs had a mandate to re-sell bandwidth in bulk (costs + reasonable fees), but Verizon lobbied hard to get it dropped for some reason. My random guess is that they wanted to have monopoly and set their own prices (translation: you are screwed).
Also, Verizon is making a killing selling those $100/month "unlimited" plans and $2 ringtones. Therefore, there is no way in hell they would undercut that by allowing something like a reasonably priced VoIP over their network.
There is a lot of demand for STEM grads willing to start at $80,000
Well, I understand what you are saying, but I also believe there is a real shortage of skilled workers in this country.
For example, Microsoft has 4643 open positions right now. Check for yourself here (might need to get a free Live/hotmail account): http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/default.aspx
Microsoft paid many billions of dollars in taxes, with Bill paying over US$ 5 billion personally. It's very impressive considering that the only thing they sell is a bunch of abstract 0's and 1's produced by their workers' brains. New engineering hires start off at $80k /year, H1B or not.
If you are any good, they'll hire you. If you aren't, you can take your xenophobia somewhere else.