The novelty of motion control quickly wore off for me after a couple of days of Wii bowling.
Since "novelty" means new, perhaps Wii bowling was a novelty, in the same way "Stanley Steamer" must have seemed novel, as is all emerging technologies. I'm not suggesting Kinect will be the breakthrough product, but it has promise in a transformational way in the world of digital media. I hope Microsoft executes well on Kinect, and that competition really pushes motion control to a new level.
To reduce it to annoying contortions is to miss the real potential, IMO. You may not like it, but I think many will.
Sure. My guess is: your dad wasn't involved in a conflict "so secret" that no one else knew about it--including the US and Vietnam governments, the American public, journalists, and every credible historian since. My guess is, your dad was jerking your chain, or you're making it up. Technically that's 2 guesses, but I'll take the liberty.
P.S. Floating around in the Gulf of Tonkin does not count as "conflict".
They've been in the pocket of big business ever since, Theodore Roosevelt the exception.
So, your thesis is, that since Abraham Lincoln, every GOP politician (except one) has been corrupt.
Interesting. I'll let that argument stand on it's own merit (none).
Politics are sleazy and corrupt across party lines: it's human nature to accede to one's own interests. The Republican Party has been a lackey for big business--no doubt, but the Democrat Party is like the Gambino mob, but with matching federal funds.
But you just go on believing that one party is "lookin' after the folks" while the other is trying to destroy America.
You clearly know nothing of the history of the Vietnam War. During the Eisenhower administration, there were a handful of CIA propagandists serving the Diem regime, that's it. Kennedy, who basically bought into the Cold War policy of Eisenhower, drew the line against Communism in Vietnam since the Bay of Pigs was a colossal failure, as was the Berlin Wall and Cuba. In 1960, Kennedy sent the first 1500 troops into Vietnam, and it is accepted by most historians that the US involvement in actual combat was from 1963-1975.
If you think the '54 election Diem canceled (not Eisenhower) resembled democracy, you are a living a fantasy. Ho Chi Mihn had a peasant revolt on his hands, and was becoming increasingly unpopular.
You wanted to slime Republicans but just made yourself look ignorant instead. Use facts next time. Oh, and here's another fact: it was a Republican president who finally withdrew all American troops from Vietnam.
A cursory search for "Klausner Technologies" doesn't easily locate their corporate site, but is certainly a long laundry list of all their legal deeds.
I am all for the space program, but there have been some major issues lately
Being "for the space program" requires some acceptance of the massive risks inherent in manned space travel. If mechanical systems are design-simplified it may reduce points of failure.
KERMIt, a "Kit for External Repair of Module Impacts", is one of those simple systems being developed at Marshall Research to seal punctures in the ISS. It will enable crewmembers to seal punctures from outside damaged modules that have lost atmospheric pressure. Delivery of the kit is scheduled for next year. KERMIt is also useful for sealing leaking atmospheric seals as TFF article describes (more info here).
First, let's define the problem: Facebook is winning the social network wars. Even though Myspace has a trillion users, it is passe and Facebook is The New Thing. As more people join Facebook, switching costs get lower, leading to a cascade effect. In terms of the diffusion of innovations curve, Facebook is now being heavily adopted by the "Early Majority", indicating they've got a good one or two years left of substantial growth. In Google's eyes, this is a major problem because it can't really afford to "lose" at social networks for the next two years.
The OpenSocial value proposition goes something like this: Adopt opensocial, push your data into more places, and everyone wins. Consumers get their information needs answered in more places, and companies get their footprint in more places. And more or less, I think more relevant social services in more places is a win, but not in the Facebook-killing way.
To put it bluntly, OpenSocial isn't an anything "killer." And OpenSocial isn't going to save Myspace.
Privacy is about more than legal compliance, it's fundamentally about user trust. Be transparent with your users about your privacy practices. If your users don't trust you, you're out of business.
Hey, I know you're trolling, but your comment was so full of inaccuracies I just couldn't help myself.
tides are caused by the moon
Common misperception. Tides are influenced by the moon but are caused by the rotation of the Earth and many other factors.
you don't think a bunch of *GREEDY* companies who's hunger for MORE
Companies feed the hunger of consumers. They may be greedy, but we demand the energy.
thus over time dwindling it's MASS
You do realize the moon is quite large (would fit into the Pacific ocean), correct? How very knee-jerk of you.
I won't give them the benefit of the doubt that they wouldn't cause irrevocable harm while we are still alive
I think you underestimate the difficult proposition of even getting to the moon and mining a single truckload of He3 in your lifetime, let alone a significant portion.
If you are, someone ought to fire you, out of a cannon, into the sun!
Flamebait. I'm not taking it, but isn't the "do it for the children" a pretty ridiculous argument in this (very hypothetical case)?
GPP was not a retard, examine yourself before calling others names pls.
The prospect of either Helium 3 fueled fusion or space based solar power or a combination of both replacing fossil fuels should excite people who express concern for the Earth's environment
It's a big, dead rock in space, boys. I doubt that the ridiculous cost of space travel will ever fall enough to make it worthwhile, but in case that happens, the lunar environmentalists will be there to file EPA complaints against anyone trying to make the moon economically productive.
If you looked at the sky through a telescope and saw a tiny robot mining plant there, mining the moon for energy resources, would you be filled with a sense of wonder and pride about the ingenuity and courage of your fellow man, or with forbidding and dread that the moon was being raped?
The high valuation also represents a belief that Facebook is creating an important new operating system -- one that exists on the Web instead of on personal computers.
I'm not sure how a valuation is capable of representing a belief, but it does reflect an acknowlegement of important trends. Facebook's platform is similar to other "Web 2.0" RESTful APIs but is pretty simplistic (i.e. CanvasPages--which is basically an IFRAME, alerts, feeds, and privacy settings, etc.). Don't expect a RoR framework or anything close to Google's API.
I know you're trolling, but GP ask an interesting (if somewhat reactionary) question:
What are they doing with all the information that they are already collecting?
Are there answers to his question in the EULAs? Should we pay careful attention to Terms of Service and Privacy Policies before agreeing to the terms? I think so. Even the "do no evil" guys can do evil and call it good.
Microsoft should be ashamed that their shiny new OS needs an 800+ page book for people to use it effectively.
Remember, Vista is an OS built for consumers, not tinkerers, hobbyists or sysadmins. Your concept of effective use is vastly different from Microsoft's targeting Joe and Jane Average, who wouldn't think for a moment of tweaking DRM, system services, reghacks, etc.
May Steve Jobs and Bill Gates rot in hell for spoiling what should be a Golden Age of personal computing.
What a load of crap. Who would win the "Golden Age" award in your idealistic dreamworld? I suppose you'll say Torvalds or Stallman.
First, the Mississippi does not carry "basically all" of the fertilizer used in the midwest.
Second, the volume of the world's oceans are enormous.
the world ocean covers 71 percent of the earth's surface, or about 361 million sq km (140 million sq mi). Its average depth is 5,000 m (16,000 ft), and its total volume is about 1,347,000,000 cu km (322,300,000 cu mi).
The Gulf of Mexico has ~1,592,800 square/km of volume, at an average depth of 4,874 metres. (reference)
The average discharge of the Mississippi River system is 12,740 cubic meters/sec... and if even 0.0035% (a liberal estimate) of that volume is agricultural, it can be argued that it is in fact a miniscule runoff.
I read where researchers have long suspected that fertilizer runoff from big farms can trigger sudden explosions of marine algae capable of disrupting ocean ecosystems and even producing "dead zones" in the sea. It's hard to imagine that the huge oceanic volume can be affected by such relatively miniscule runoffs, but apparently that is the case.
They're jusr repeaters that run on solar energy...
True, but it's beauty is it's simplicity. Remember Teledesic? A low-earth-orbital (LEO) sattelite system capable of bringing internet access to the world through "spread-slotted Aloha" algorithms, etc. Even McCaw, Gates and al-Talwaleed's big money couldn't produce results, and Teledesic is (by all accounts) a dead idea.
So, I tend to like seeing these "brick-and-mortar"--and workable--solutions actually come to market.
Thurrott isn't a Microsoft shill--and this isn't the first article of his which has been critical of Microsoft and Vista (his was one of the first highly skeptical, less-than-anticipatory, looks at the Longhorn Project).
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Since "novelty" means new, perhaps Wii bowling was a novelty, in the same way "Stanley Steamer" must have seemed novel, as is all emerging technologies. I'm not suggesting Kinect will be the breakthrough product, but it has promise in a transformational way in the world of digital media. I hope Microsoft executes well on Kinect, and that competition really pushes motion control to a new level.
To reduce it to annoying contortions is to miss the real potential, IMO. You may not like it, but I think many will.
Sure. My guess is: your dad wasn't involved in a conflict "so secret" that no one else knew about it--including the US and Vietnam governments, the American public, journalists, and every credible historian since. My guess is, your dad was jerking your chain, or you're making it up. Technically that's 2 guesses, but I'll take the liberty.
P.S. Floating around in the Gulf of Tonkin does not count as "conflict".
I said, "involvement in actual combat". Your father was not certainly not involved in a combat operation in 1955.
So, your thesis is, that since Abraham Lincoln, every GOP politician (except one) has been corrupt.
Interesting. I'll let that argument stand on it's own merit (none).
Politics are sleazy and corrupt across party lines: it's human nature to accede to one's own interests. The Republican Party has been a lackey for big business--no doubt, but the Democrat Party is like the Gambino mob, but with matching federal funds.
But you just go on believing that one party is "lookin' after the folks" while the other is trying to destroy America.
You clearly know nothing of the history of the Vietnam War. During the Eisenhower administration, there were a handful of CIA propagandists serving the Diem regime, that's it. Kennedy, who basically bought into the Cold War policy of Eisenhower, drew the line against Communism in Vietnam since the Bay of Pigs was a colossal failure, as was the Berlin Wall and Cuba. In 1960, Kennedy sent the first 1500 troops into Vietnam, and it is accepted by most historians that the US involvement in actual combat was from 1963-1975. If you think the '54 election Diem canceled (not Eisenhower) resembled democracy, you are a living a fantasy. Ho Chi Mihn had a peasant revolt on his hands, and was becoming increasingly unpopular. You wanted to slime Republicans but just made yourself look ignorant instead. Use facts next time. Oh, and here's another fact: it was a Republican president who finally withdrew all American troops from Vietnam.
I've done it. I'd be more than happy to send you the OSE Win binaries if you want them.
It can only be attributable to human error.
A cursory search for "Klausner Technologies" doesn't easily locate their corporate site, but is certainly a long laundry list of all their legal deeds.
KERMIt, a "Kit for External Repair of Module Impacts", is one of those simple systems being developed at Marshall Research to seal punctures in the ISS. It will enable crewmembers to seal punctures from outside damaged modules that have lost atmospheric pressure. Delivery of the kit is scheduled for next year. KERMIt is also useful for sealing leaking atmospheric seals as TFF article describes (more info here).
First, let's define the problem: Facebook is winning the social network wars. Even though Myspace has a trillion users, it is passe and Facebook is The New Thing. As more people join Facebook, switching costs get lower, leading to a cascade effect. In terms of the diffusion of innovations curve, Facebook is now being heavily adopted by the "Early Majority", indicating they've got a good one or two years left of substantial growth. In Google's eyes, this is a major problem because it can't really afford to "lose" at social networks for the next two years.
The OpenSocial value proposition goes something like this: Adopt opensocial, push your data into more places, and everyone wins. Consumers get their information needs answered in more places, and companies get their footprint in more places. And more or less, I think more relevant social services in more places is a win, but not in the Facebook-killing way.
To put it bluntly, OpenSocial isn't an anything "killer." And OpenSocial isn't going to save Myspace.
Dear online marketer,
Privacy is about more than legal compliance, it's fundamentally about user trust. Be transparent with your users about your privacy practices. If your users don't trust you, you're out of business.
GPP was not a retard, examine yourself before calling others names pls.
If you looked at the sky through a telescope and saw a tiny robot mining plant there, mining the moon for energy resources, would you be filled with a sense of wonder and pride about the ingenuity and courage of your fellow man, or with forbidding and dread that the moon was being raped?
I'm not sure how a valuation is capable of representing a belief, but it does reflect an acknowlegement of important trends. Facebook's platform is similar to other "Web 2.0" RESTful APIs but is pretty simplistic (i.e. CanvasPages--which is basically an IFRAME, alerts, feeds, and privacy settings, etc.). Don't expect a RoR framework or anything close to Google's API.
Steve?
Are there answers to his question in the EULAs? Should we pay careful attention to Terms of Service and Privacy Policies before agreeing to the terms? I think so. Even the "do no evil" guys can do evil and call it good.
That's very interesting, thanks for taking the time to comment. Just curious, though, what it a "QQ number"?
Classic! I wondered where you were, if that's you s/SCO/Novell troll guy.
I don't see Novell clawing for its very survival using the legal system to extort F/OSS users. Well, I hope I'm right anyway.
I think OP *was* insightful. Caffeine makes working insane hours a bit more plausible for me.
What a load of crap. Who would win the "Golden Age" award in your idealistic dreamworld? I suppose you'll say Torvalds or Stallman.
Second, the volume of the world's oceans are enormous.
The Gulf of Mexico has ~1,592,800 square/km of volume, at an average depth of 4,874 metres. (reference)
The average discharge of the Mississippi River system is 12,740 cubic meters/sec... and if even 0.0035% (a liberal estimate) of that volume is agricultural, it can be argued that it is in fact a miniscule runoff.
A bit off topic? ... and yes, I'm well aware of this.
I read where researchers have long suspected that fertilizer runoff from big farms can trigger sudden explosions of marine algae capable of disrupting ocean ecosystems and even producing "dead zones" in the sea. It's hard to imagine that the huge oceanic volume can be affected by such relatively miniscule runoffs, but apparently that is the case.
So, I tend to like seeing these "brick-and-mortar"--and workable--solutions actually come to market.