"Light is good, its the fastest thing we can "control" in our universe and therefore ideal for data transfer. But in a cable makes sense because optic fibre can carry the light and there are no issues with line of sight. But wireless, all you'd need to do to corrupt a file is throw a mirror in the way."
Excuse me, you're standing in my network.
Also, how are you going to power the 'bulb' when you cut power to the socket?
Re: "Many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine"
"Is it just me, or does that comment remind anyone else of the "Paperless office" comments of the '80's and '90's? I think it's going to be a while before people do everything on their phones and/or tablets."
Depends on whether he meant desktop as in desktop OS (Windows, OS X, etc.) or desktop PC (iMac, tower+monitor, etc.). Desktop OS is BS, but if you think about it, there's an interesting point about desktop PC vs. laptop, in that you can pick up your 'computing life' and take it with you, something far less common 10 years ago.
"Actually any space-faring culture would have to be industrial [1], and any industrial culture is going to leave traces that should still be visible - even after 65 million years."
Duh, the earth was a hunting preserve with a very strict "Leave no trace" policy. :)
"No programmer should ever make a program that does what this program does as humans do not need to be hounded down by twatter & facecrack feeds at all hours of the day and night."
"The Big Pile of Stupid is the fact that the domestic production costs would be only very slightly higher - probably no more than a grand total of $30 - but there would be more money floating around in the US or Euro economies from taxes and discretionary worker spending."
While I don't disagree with the last statement, $30 x 10 million iPhones == $300 million. That's not exactly chump change.
"In a recent press conference given in Hawaii (the US state where Mr Obama was born), the president said "here in Asia", a statement which – had he been correct – would have disqualified him from office."
Not true. Any person born within the borders of the US *OR* to a parent that is a US-citizen is considered a natural-born citizen. Obama's mother was born in Kansas, QED. This comes up most often births on overseas military bases.
"Remember, kiddies, F=MA ... It doesn't matter how many chunks you cut it into, the mass and vector remains the same. If it hits the Earth, the total energy transfer will also be the same. Think about it."
While true, the increased surface area means much more will burn up in the atmosphere.
"Personaly dumpstering ex-MOD kit would not be wise on many levels, heck one day those storage modules for milatary could very well have tampering explosives in which if connected to a normal controller would cause the storage module to explode. Not that I'm aware of such items, but they are certainly not beyond the realms of reality in some MOD situations."
You've seen too many movies, I think. Data storage devices are taken out of the machines and send to the shredder, the rest is recycled or junked.
And, have none of you heard of DBAN? http://www.dban.org/
"Yes, no way I'm going to have a bare piece of glass lying around in my pocket amongst the coins, keys etc. I'll wait until the stupid non clamshell fad passes thanks."
I've had a original Droid (milestone UK and other places) for nearly two years now, and put the first scratch in the screen yesterday. By dropping the phone face-down on pavement and sliding. Gorilla glass is really, really tough.
""LiMo 4, under LiMo’s proven collaborative governance model, enables flexible disaggregation of the device platform and the service propositions such that operators and device manufacturers can more freely shape attractive user propositions and secure sustainable long-term value," said Morgan Gillis, LiMo executive director, in a canned statement announcing version 4 earlier this year."
That's pretty terrifying, frankly. I think operators and device manufacturers have pretty much proven they shouldn't be allowed to design interfaces in the Android world.
"For Android users having a social network that actually works on their phone AND gets realtime (most of the time) notifications is a big win for Google."
That's pretty interesting. On my phone (US Verizon Droid Classic, I think that's the Milestone in .eu), after installing the Plus app I noticed all my Google stuff suddenly had delays getting to my phone. I mostly noticed it on Gmail and Gtalk, where it would take between 1 and 20 minutes for stuff to show up. After I uninstalled, everything seems to have gone back to normal.
Haven't had time to go back and retest to see if I can replicate the behavior.
"i see the wheel tracks of the LRV, going towards it's final resting place... but there's no footprints returning to the landing site?? is the astronaut still sitting in the driving seat? or maybe, they forgot to photoshop in the footprint tracks"
Perhaps the driver walked back in the wheel tracks, like you'd do if you were walking in deep snow.
"Cryptographic licensing ins't that hard, but none of the major software only players use it - because a pirate copy still has positive value on their business plan, it promotes the software, and perpetuates lock-in."
Exactly. That's why in the good old days, 1234-1234567 was a valid product key for Windows NT.
"Windows has always allowed its taskbar to be dragged to any edge of the screen, but I've never seen anyone move it from the bottom edge - so it's a solution looking for a problem."
I use it that way right now. Granted, I just started within the last few months, but I was getting sick of having no veritcal resolution. It only makes sense with todays wider and wider screen displays.
That being said, I used of WindowMaker and Afterstep (set up with one column of buttons along one side of the monitor) for quite awhile. I see to remember running a command to move the Apple dock to the left side of the screen on my housemate's Mac some years ago too.
"why has no one developed a modern day variomatic yet? surely that would cane anything else, set the engine to its optimum RPM and let the infintely adjustable 'gearbox' (two cones on a belt) do the rest?"
Nissan, Subaru, Dodge, and Ford (at least) do CVTs (constantly variable transmission) over here in the US, do they not sell those in the UK?
Ex-gf had an Nissan Altima with one, it's the only automatic I've ever liked. Not enough for me to not buy a manual, but it worked pretty much as you describe. A Dodge Caliber CVT I had as a rental was less interesting. Apparently Dodge thought that people still need 'gears' so it would (very lazily) pretend to have gears unless you had the throttle pinned.
"Widescreen came about because t.v.'s were using the same 4:3 aspect ratio that films were using. To distinguish itself from television and maintaining it's market, the film industry began to move to widescreen. It also began to expand the use of colour.
Hard to justify the cost of taking the family to see the newest film when you can just wait and either rent or own it for much less."
I think you give the movie industry far too much credit to have forseen video rentals in 1953 (when 'widescreen' format appeared in major pictures).
""Note that the vibrations can be generated in a non-audible frequency range (less than 20 Hz or greater than 20K Hz) to prevent users from hearing the acoustic charging signal," the filing says, answering the question that we're sure was on your worried mind."
I dunno, what's on my mind is I don't really want ear buds producing more emag fields next to my brain.
"I'm still so going once they've refilled it, filling up on the poor excuse for beer that they have, and taking a pee in the biggest flushing toilet in the world! :D"
You clearly haven't had Oregon beer, or frankly any of the other non-mainstream beer in the US.
I'm sure that cornering performance doesn't mean more are G's better, right? :) It would be rather fun to have a high score chart for particular parts of the road to see who made it thru the fastest though.
There's another way to read the results, since the company that did the survey is selling cross-platform tools. Perhaps they're seeing a downtick in interest in Android due to developers giving up on cross-platform and just coding for Android directly. Android is starting to pass everyone in market share, it could very much be that giving up on the other platforms.
The 3G service on Verizon wasn't all that useful unless you were making international calls. It dialed a number (408 area code) and then did some Skype magic to connect the phone to the Internet user. What was really awful was you needed two apps, the 3G 'Skype Mobile' and regular 'Skype' if you wanted to use Skype on both Wifi and 3G.
"I'd say this is more of a challenge than what they did before; mathematically I don't see what they can come up with beyond the effect of a diorama filled with flat cardboard cutouts, so I'm intrigued if it's better than dire."
If the special '3D' version of Harry Potter 5 I saw in a theater is anything to go by, yes, it'll be a set of cardboard cut-outs in 3D.
"he should be offered a job, not a prison sentence! He'd be a great asset to have on board for security testing!"
So you're going to hire a convict with a gambling problem and just trust that he's not going to pull something on you when he has a string of bad luck?
"Kubuntu? Xubuntu? They are both extremely competent distros in their own right. what happens to them?"
Neither of those are, strictly-speaking, Ubuntu distributions. They're official side-project 'spins' that don't really come into this discussion. So I think the answer is, 'they stay the same'.
Are you running some sort of redundant cluster file system or something? With a SAN or filer, if one of my ESX servers dies another can just restart the VM within a minute or two. How do you do that with DAS?
"Is there anyone who is in the market for a grand's worth of laptop who has any need for a permanently fitted DVD drive? What do people use these things for?"
I'm in the middle on this one: while I don't really use the drive in my laptop all that often, I'm pretty sure I don't want to carry around an external drive just in case. So I guess I'm saying I'd rather carry a little extra weight/size than a seperate item.
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Re: I predict ultrasonic networking
"Light is good, its the fastest thing we can "control" in our universe and therefore ideal for data transfer. But in a cable makes sense because optic fibre can carry the light and there are no issues with line of sight. But wireless, all you'd need to do to corrupt a file is throw a mirror in the way."
Excuse me, you're standing in my network.
Also, how are you going to power the 'bulb' when you cut power to the socket?
Re: "Many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine"
"Is it just me, or does that comment remind anyone else of the "Paperless office" comments of the '80's and '90's? I think it's going to be a while before people do everything on their phones and/or tablets."
Depends on whether he meant desktop as in desktop OS (Windows, OS X, etc.) or desktop PC (iMac, tower+monitor, etc.). Desktop OS is BS, but if you think about it, there's an interesting point about desktop PC vs. laptop, in that you can pick up your 'computing life' and take it with you, something far less common 10 years ago.
Re: Size?
"quote "1708 x 85mm"
Is this thing really nearly 2m long?"
That's a big banana.
B&N not announced, shipping
A friend recieved her GlowNook last week, so it's shipping not announced. :)
Re: And then...
"Actually any space-faring culture would have to be industrial [1], and any industrial culture is going to leave traces that should still be visible - even after 65 million years."
Duh, the earth was a hunting preserve with a very strict "Leave no trace" policy. :)
"No programmer should ever make a program that does what this program does as humans do not need to be hounded down by twatter & facecrack feeds at all hours of the day and night."
What if that's exactly what the user wants?
Audience
"No argument there, but maybe they are simply playing to their audience, which in this case is Facebookers."
Or, you know, kids. As in trying to get kids excited about space so they'll think about working at NASA when they grow up?
"The Big Pile of Stupid is the fact that the domestic production costs would be only very slightly higher - probably no more than a grand total of $30 - but there would be more money floating around in the US or Euro economies from taxes and discretionary worker spending."
While I don't disagree with the last statement, $30 x 10 million iPhones == $300 million. That's not exactly chump change.
That's it.
Android just can't compete with high quality apps like this, I'm switching.
"A car almost entirely designed for London?"
Considering how large a percentage of people live in and around large cities in the world, kinda makes sense to design cars for them, no?
US-born
"In a recent press conference given in Hawaii (the US state where Mr Obama was born), the president said "here in Asia", a statement which – had he been correct – would have disqualified him from office."
Not true. Any person born within the borders of the US *OR* to a parent that is a US-citizen is considered a natural-born citizen. Obama's mother was born in Kansas, QED. This comes up most often births on overseas military bases.
@ Chris Wilson - Dell laptops have TrackPoints too
But only the Latitudes.
Sigh.
Really, we're not all like that.
"Remember, kiddies, F=MA ... It doesn't matter how many chunks you cut it into, the mass and vector remains the same. If it hits the Earth, the total energy transfer will also be the same. Think about it."
While true, the increased surface area means much more will burn up in the atmosphere.
Boom
"Personaly dumpstering ex-MOD kit would not be wise on many levels, heck one day those storage modules for milatary could very well have tampering explosives in which if connected to a normal controller would cause the storage module to explode. Not that I'm aware of such items, but they are certainly not beyond the realms of reality in some MOD situations."
You've seen too many movies, I think. Data storage devices are taken out of the machines and send to the shredder, the rest is recycled or junked.
And, have none of you heard of DBAN? http://www.dban.org/
RE: Clamshell
"Yes, no way I'm going to have a bare piece of glass lying around in my pocket amongst the coins, keys etc. I'll wait until the stupid non clamshell fad passes thanks."
I've had a original Droid (milestone UK and other places) for nearly two years now, and put the first scratch in the screen yesterday. By dropping the phone face-down on pavement and sliding. Gorilla glass is really, really tough.
Custom
""LiMo 4, under LiMo’s proven collaborative governance model, enables flexible disaggregation of the device platform and the service propositions such that operators and device manufacturers can more freely shape attractive user propositions and secure sustainable long-term value," said Morgan Gillis, LiMo executive director, in a canned statement announcing version 4 earlier this year."
That's pretty terrifying, frankly. I think operators and device manufacturers have pretty much proven they shouldn't be allowed to design interfaces in the Android world.
"For Android users having a social network that actually works on their phone AND gets realtime (most of the time) notifications is a big win for Google."
That's pretty interesting. On my phone (US Verizon Droid Classic, I think that's the Milestone in .eu), after installing the Plus app I noticed all my Google stuff suddenly had delays getting to my phone. I mostly noticed it on Gmail and Gtalk, where it would take between 1 and 20 minutes for stuff to show up. After I uninstalled, everything seems to have gone back to normal.
Haven't had time to go back and retest to see if I can replicate the behavior.
tracks
"i see the wheel tracks of the LRV, going towards it's final resting place... but there's no footprints returning to the landing site?? is the astronaut still sitting in the driving seat? or maybe, they forgot to photoshop in the footprint tracks"
Perhaps the driver walked back in the wheel tracks, like you'd do if you were walking in deep snow.
There are some problems with your post.
"Cryptographic licensing ins't that hard, but none of the major software only players use it - because a pirate copy still has positive value on their business plan, it promotes the software, and perpetuates lock-in."
Exactly. That's why in the good old days, 1234-1234567 was a valid product key for Windows NT.
Sidebar
"Windows has always allowed its taskbar to be dragged to any edge of the screen, but I've never seen anyone move it from the bottom edge - so it's a solution looking for a problem."
I use it that way right now. Granted, I just started within the last few months, but I was getting sick of having no veritcal resolution. It only makes sense with todays wider and wider screen displays.
That being said, I used of WindowMaker and Afterstep (set up with one column of buttons along one side of the monitor) for quite awhile. I see to remember running a command to move the Apple dock to the left side of the screen on my housemate's Mac some years ago too.
CVT
"why has no one developed a modern day variomatic yet? surely that would cane anything else, set the engine to its optimum RPM and let the infintely adjustable 'gearbox' (two cones on a belt) do the rest?"
Nissan, Subaru, Dodge, and Ford (at least) do CVTs (constantly variable transmission) over here in the US, do they not sell those in the UK?
Ex-gf had an Nissan Altima with one, it's the only automatic I've ever liked. Not enough for me to not buy a manual, but it worked pretty much as you describe. A Dodge Caliber CVT I had as a rental was less interesting. Apparently Dodge thought that people still need 'gears' so it would (very lazily) pretend to have gears unless you had the throttle pinned.
Really?
Really? I friend of mine couldn't call his daughter in Philly (from the Philly suburbs) for at least an hour. That sounds like a failure.
Slack
Who knew these guys were astronomers so in tune with modern developements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my05ssEhcZQ
(music video)
Pity?
Why, they can get on Same Name!
http://www.cbs.com/shows/same_name/
Title!
"Widescreen came about because t.v.'s were using the same 4:3 aspect ratio that films were using. To distinguish itself from television and maintaining it's market, the film industry began to move to widescreen. It also began to expand the use of colour.
Hard to justify the cost of taking the family to see the newest film when you can just wait and either rent or own it for much less."
I think you give the movie industry far too much credit to have forseen video rentals in 1953 (when 'widescreen' format appeared in major pictures).
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Academy_ratio
Wheelbase
Looking at the article, the wheelbase is 160", but that's not the width. The wheelbase is the distance between the axles.
We Americans have big cars, but even a 1965 Lincoln isn't *that* wide.
@AudiGuy
"And just one more reason I have no desire to ever own a "smartphone"."
Don't worry, with that failure of logic you might not be able to use one. :)
(I kid! I kid!)
It's all tingly
""Note that the vibrations can be generated in a non-audible frequency range (less than 20 Hz or greater than 20K Hz) to prevent users from hearing the acoustic charging signal," the filing says, answering the question that we're sure was on your worried mind."
I dunno, what's on my mind is I don't really want ear buds producing more emag fields next to my brain.
Hello Moto
So how do I forward this to Motorola et al. with a not so subtle hint that this puts HTC towards the top of my list for any future phone purchases? :)
Clearly
"I'm still so going once they've refilled it, filling up on the poor excuse for beer that they have, and taking a pee in the biggest flushing toilet in the world! :D"
You clearly haven't had Oregon beer, or frankly any of the other non-mainstream beer in the US.
http://www.rogue.com/awards/awards.php
http://www.calderabrewing.com/Page.asp?NavID=7
http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/brews/accolades
Egypt
Take a note from the egyptians and use a complex system of mirror to direct the sun's rays to the panel.
Performance
I'm sure that cornering performance doesn't mean more are G's better, right? :) It would be rather fun to have a high score chart for particular parts of the road to see who made it thru the fastest though.
Second Angle
There's another way to read the results, since the company that did the survey is selling cross-platform tools. Perhaps they're seeing a downtick in interest in Android due to developers giving up on cross-platform and just coding for Android directly. Android is starting to pass everyone in market share, it could very much be that giving up on the other platforms.
Pants
The 3G service on Verizon wasn't all that useful unless you were making international calls. It dialed a number (408 area code) and then did some Skype magic to connect the phone to the Internet user. What was really awful was you needed two apps, the 3G 'Skype Mobile' and regular 'Skype' if you wanted to use Skype on both Wifi and 3G.
Syfy
I'm sure the Syfy channel is firing up Movie Generator 8.7i as we speak.
A sample for the non-US folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFfqMxjOZQU
Lift up your heart
Valid Autotune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW6jW9y59JY
And, the most legit cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW6jW9y59JY
RE: porn
"4k resolution porn..............................mmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......."
I happen to know someone who airbrushed still-picture porn for awhile, you really don't want to see porn actors in high detail.
("eww, herpes scars")
Even
Even slower day for comments if you need to comment on it.
Tittle
"I'd say this is more of a challenge than what they did before; mathematically I don't see what they can come up with beyond the effect of a diorama filled with flat cardboard cutouts, so I'm intrigued if it's better than dire."
If the special '3D' version of Harry Potter 5 I saw in a theater is anything to go by, yes, it'll be a set of cardboard cut-outs in 3D.
Spicy
"In South Africa you could be prosecuted for using the word "k*ffir" which is regarded as a racist and demeaning term."
There goes my dream of opening a Thai restaurant there.
http://www.amazon.com/Kaffir-Oz-grown-Organically-Natural-Pesticides/dp/B000MWKQRS
Er...
"he should be offered a job, not a prison sentence! He'd be a great asset to have on board for security testing!"
So you're going to hire a convict with a gambling problem and just trust that he's not going to pull something on you when he has a string of bad luck?
SD card?
What's the point of using an SD card, other than it being a bit easier to hide? I'd think to be leet[0] she'd use Live CDs.
[0] I use that word to demonstrate how un-leet I am.
Paris, because I'm trying to make some tenuous joke so the people on the internet think I'm cool, interesting, and/or funny.
Xubuntu, Kubuntu
"Kubuntu? Xubuntu? They are both extremely competent distros in their own right. what happens to them?"
Neither of those are, strictly-speaking, Ubuntu distributions. They're official side-project 'spins' that don't really come into this discussion. So I think the answer is, 'they stay the same'.
Hm
So it's olympic-length, just not sized. Simple enough.
In a similar vein:
Child's Play set up by the guys at Penny Arcade.
http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
Er, DAS
Are you running some sort of redundant cluster file system or something? With a SAN or filer, if one of my ESX servers dies another can just restart the VM within a minute or two. How do you do that with DAS?
dongle
"Is there anyone who is in the market for a grand's worth of laptop who has any need for a permanently fitted DVD drive? What do people use these things for?"
I'm in the middle on this one: while I don't really use the drive in my laptop all that often, I'm pretty sure I don't want to carry around an external drive just in case. So I guess I'm saying I'd rather carry a little extra weight/size than a seperate item.
A rose
That *has* to be an assumed name.
Old Hat
So when is the QUADROPHONIC mission scheduled to launch?
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