So, when I break down on the highway, in the middle of the night, with no one else around, and call AAA, the traffic monitor will inform the public that the turnpike is gridlocked? Brilliant!
And if I break down at rush hour where by some strange feat of fate, no one in the quickly passing cars is on their phone, it will again register as gridlock. Dubbly brilliant!
And unless my phone has built-in GPS, all that can be monitored is the hand-offs between towers, which complicates thing just a bit.
And of course NOBODY lives within the cell-tower's footprint of the highway, and they never use their cell phones at home, or while driving on frontage and neighborhood roads.
They'd be better off installing radar guns on signs and overpasses, and reading traffic speed and volume that way.
Simple. If Google sees YOUR ISP's customers try to use their services (Search, Earth, Maps, Froogle, anything), it can inform them of how greedy you are, and of what alternatives they have in the area. Besides, Google's been going around buying up dark fibre for some time now, so hold on to that last shred of relevance while it lasts.
I, for one, have long ago given up on land-line phone service. The only thing it's cost me, besides a phone bill, is the ability to initially configure a Tivo.
There's also a bit of complaining about the poor state of advanced education, which has some validity as well.
While there is always room for improvement, there is a reason why a full two-thirds of all science and engineering graduate students in the US are NOT FROM the US.
Extrapolating recent trends, Pokemon will be President of the United Corporations of America. The United Middle East will be America's closest friend. Together, we will have obliterated the EU. No one will care about poverty and disease in Africa.
Computers will be so small, they'll be ingestable, with music players and cell phones being implanted in teeth. But DRM will be so pervasive that the RIAA will be allowed to inspect your mouth with toothpicks. The weakest link in computer security will still be the human being.
Stupid people are still breeding, yes, but consider that, from an evolutionary perspective, the range of human intelligence isn't sufficient to be a deciding factor in choosing a mate.
Also bear in mind that we're talking about a pretty broad environment here - the average human is what we're looking at, not Einstein or the inverse. Statistically speaking, more intelligence is still preferable to less intelligence, so an upward swing is perfectly reasonable.
To think evolution has halted at the present human form is hubris indeed. It presumes evolution intended for us to be the product of the process - this is almost as dangerous as buying into Intelligent Design.
Shocked and outraged, I say, that no one, NO ONE, has made the obligatory quip about the Microsoft gateway having a hole big enough to drive a truck through.
What sort of geeks and dorks are you people?!
Not even "In Soviet Redmond, the virus infect YOU!"?
Man, this place has really gone down hill. Not only in stories but in witty comments. narf!
What's so great about a "spaceplane"? I fail to grok the true value, besides the sci-fi "wow factor", of a winged thing going into space.
Wings make sense in the atmosphere, and if we're going into space, we'd like to deal with the atmosphere as little as possible, in either direction. Right?
Second, why bother with sending people and cargo in the same vehicle? We can do the heavy lifting without endangering lives.
We can build, in orbit, a vehicle for capturing and servicing satellites. Has the shuttle ever been used to bring anything back down to Earth? I honestly don't know, but I seriously doubt it. Bringing something back, fixing it, and launching it again can not be cheaper than just building another one. And without the overhead of the shuttle, that ratio only improves.
Sure, heavy transport from orbit is something we should be researching, but it should not be the next immediate step. We've places to go, planets to see, and so on. We need to lift things into orbit cheap and fast, and the shuttle ain't doing it. Rockets will. And by the time bringing hardware or products back down to the surface, we'll likely have more than one surface to go to. Then it will be a priority, but now? Rockets.
Rockets that carry up small, reusable lift-bodies that can be manuvered in space and controlled on landing, to be sure, but still hoisted up on a cheap and mostly disposable rocket.
Why, for the discounted rate/right of use to the content I choose to host, of course. I should get something - other than a bill or a lawsuit - for being part of their distribution network.
Sounds like a racket between the content providers and playback device manufacturers.
I mean... Under this scheme, all I have to do to be a successful pirate is have enough money to afford "compatible" hardware. Running a private, subscription torrent system should cover those costs in little time.
So, Intel engineers put in more time, and had more knowledge and experience, on how to optimize code for Intel processors than for "Intel compatible" ones? Shocking! What is this world coming to?
The line between Art and Science is very blurred. Science can be and Art and Art a Science. Programming can be either, or both, or neither. Given this, please, disclose your assumptions and pose the question again.
Yes, Linus is an expert on running a successful and profitable business.
Transwhata?
Don't get me wrong, or call this "flamebait" as it's not. Linux is a great thing, but the reasons it's as successful as it is have nothing to do with marketing, sales, creating perceptions, or anything else. It's simply a cheaper, ergo the corporate darling status, and some damned talented people are amused enough by it to lend their talents to the effort. These reasons in no way make Torvalds an authority - he simply has an opinion and happens to be a famous geek.
I'd sooner hear Steve Jobs' more sophisticated thoughts on the subject - yet Apple's barely holding a candle to MS. Maybe Andy Grove could take a moment to ponder this?
If you don't like the Patriot Act, sue to have it reviewed for Constitutionality. Use the power of the "activist judges" - that's what they're there for.
Oh, the irony of you complaining about the virtual worth of your lame comment, on a website where nobody actually knows you. That's down-right artistic!
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Poor criminals, suspected criminals, and people in general - deprived of their privacy in public spaces. How utterly Orwellian...
;) I kid, I kid...
To wit, folks, the license plate on the car belongs to the government. They're not tracking YOU, they're tracking their property.
Any crook truly determined to elude the police would just peel the layers of contact paper off of their car, each time they were spotted.
It would never get past the censors. It glorifies premarital sex, gang violence, and teen suicide.
So, when I break down on the highway, in the middle of the night, with no one else around, and call AAA, the traffic monitor will inform the public that the turnpike is gridlocked? Brilliant!
And if I break down at rush hour where by some strange feat of fate, no one in the quickly passing cars is on their phone, it will again register as gridlock. Dubbly brilliant!
And unless my phone has built-in GPS, all that can be monitored is the hand-offs between towers, which complicates thing just a bit.
And of course NOBODY lives within the cell-tower's footprint of the highway, and they never use their cell phones at home, or while driving on frontage and neighborhood roads.
They'd be better off installing radar guns on signs and overpasses, and reading traffic speed and volume that way.
Simple. If Google sees YOUR ISP's customers try to use their services (Search, Earth, Maps, Froogle, anything), it can inform them of how greedy you are, and of what alternatives they have in the area. Besides, Google's been going around buying up dark fibre for some time now, so hold on to that last shred of relevance while it lasts.
I, for one, have long ago given up on land-line phone service. The only thing it's cost me, besides a phone bill, is the ability to initially configure a Tivo.
I don't know about the playability of such a game, but it's got Summer Blockbuster written all over it!
Can we get The Rock to star, and Peter Jackson to direct?
So says the guy from the country with the best medical care system in the world.
;)
You get what you pay for, you Capitalist Pig!
There's also a bit of complaining about the poor state of advanced education, which has some validity as well. While there is always room for improvement, there is a reason why a full two-thirds of all science and engineering graduate students in the US are NOT FROM the US.
Chinese zoologists report a surge in native butterfly populations unseen since 1933.
Extrapolating recent trends, Pokemon will be President of the United Corporations of America. The United Middle East will be America's closest friend. Together, we will have obliterated the EU. No one will care about poverty and disease in Africa.
Computers will be so small, they'll be ingestable, with music players and cell phones being implanted in teeth. But DRM will be so pervasive that the RIAA will be allowed to inspect your mouth with toothpicks. The weakest link in computer security will still be the human being.
Stupid people are still breeding, yes, but consider that, from an evolutionary perspective, the range of human intelligence isn't sufficient to be a deciding factor in choosing a mate.
Also bear in mind that we're talking about a pretty broad environment here - the average human is what we're looking at, not Einstein or the inverse. Statistically speaking, more intelligence is still preferable to less intelligence, so an upward swing is perfectly reasonable.
To think evolution has halted at the present human form is hubris indeed. It presumes evolution intended for us to be the product of the process - this is almost as dangerous as buying into Intelligent Design.
I have a BUNCH of Gmail invites. Ya wan'em?
Come on... You were ALL thinking it.
Shocked and outraged, I say, that no one, NO ONE, has made the obligatory quip about the Microsoft gateway having a hole big enough to drive a truck through.
What sort of geeks and dorks are you people?!
Not even "In Soviet Redmond, the virus infect YOU!"?
Man, this place has really gone down hill. Not only in stories but in witty comments. narf!
Now, you may not know it, but Guy Fawkes was one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament, on November 5th, 1605.
So, what you're saying is that the significance of an 11/5 release will be entirely lost on all the non-British.
What's so great about a "spaceplane"? I fail to grok the true value, besides the sci-fi "wow factor", of a winged thing going into space.
Wings make sense in the atmosphere, and if we're going into space, we'd like to deal with the atmosphere as little as possible, in either direction. Right?
Second, why bother with sending people and cargo in the same vehicle? We can do the heavy lifting without endangering lives.
We can build, in orbit, a vehicle for capturing and servicing satellites. Has the shuttle ever been used to bring anything back down to Earth? I honestly don't know, but I seriously doubt it. Bringing something back, fixing it, and launching it again can not be cheaper than just building another one. And without the overhead of the shuttle, that ratio only improves.
Sure, heavy transport from orbit is something we should be researching, but it should not be the next immediate step. We've places to go, planets to see, and so on. We need to lift things into orbit cheap and fast, and the shuttle ain't doing it. Rockets will. And by the time bringing hardware or products back down to the surface, we'll likely have more than one surface to go to. Then it will be a priority, but now? Rockets.
Rockets that carry up small, reusable lift-bodies that can be manuvered in space and controlled on landing, to be sure, but still hoisted up on a cheap and mostly disposable rocket.
Why, for the discounted rate/right of use to the content I choose to host, of course. I should get something - other than a bill or a lawsuit - for being part of their distribution network.
First they said eggs were bad for you, now they say they're good for you.
Then they said alcohol was bad for you, now they say a little is actually healthy.
Then they said that you shouldn't put sugar in your gas tank. And now...
Sounds like a racket between the content providers and playback device manufacturers.
I mean... Under this scheme, all I have to do to be a successful pirate is have enough money to afford "compatible" hardware. Running a private, subscription torrent system should cover those costs in little time.
They're not "editors" per se, more like "gate-keepers". But yes, of late all they seem to do is hold that gate open for the crap.
So, Intel engineers put in more time, and had more knowledge and experience, on how to optimize code for Intel processors than for "Intel compatible" ones? Shocking! What is this world coming to?
The line between Art and Science is very blurred. Science can be and Art and Art a Science. Programming can be either, or both, or neither. Given this, please, disclose your assumptions and pose the question again.
God is contractually bound by the word of the Church.
Yes, Linus is an expert on running a successful and profitable business.
Transwhata?
Don't get me wrong, or call this "flamebait" as it's not. Linux is a great thing, but the reasons it's as successful as it is have nothing to do with marketing, sales, creating perceptions, or anything else. It's simply a cheaper, ergo the corporate darling status, and some damned talented people are amused enough by it to lend their talents to the effort. These reasons in no way make Torvalds an authority - he simply has an opinion and happens to be a famous geek.
I'd sooner hear Steve Jobs' more sophisticated thoughts on the subject - yet Apple's barely holding a candle to MS. Maybe Andy Grove could take a moment to ponder this?
If you don't like the Patriot Act, sue to have it reviewed for Constitutionality. Use the power of the "activist judges" - that's what they're there for.
Oh, the irony of you complaining about the virtual worth of your lame comment, on a website where nobody actually knows you. That's down-right artistic!