Posts by rciafardone

Yep...LG whole lot better than Golden Star.... :p

Nothing goes here.

mmm...

Do i detect sarcasm? Nah, brits dont even know what that means...

Actually...

He is probably thinking about it... And someone, somehow, in a not too far future will remake all six movies in all pure CGI 3D Glory... and all we be good.

Is all an ilusion...

Light is not made of lines but of individual pieces.. photons.. so

Thats why...

I use the ocean neutral term TRANS-OCEANIC. Is easier to hide ones ignorance behind general terms :p.

Baffling is the fact that on the article itself it says trans-pacific... so this lad didn't even read the article it seams. Maybe because it was too long?

Yes, but thats not the point.

There is no argument against the increase of CO2 emissions caused by man. But that is one thing and another is to be 100% sure that THAT will cause "climate change". Remember how this started as "global warming"? It started as such because the consensus was that the increased CO2 emissions would cause (and were causing) the average temperature of the planet to increase, or so the models showed. Thing is the models where wrong, avg temp is nor increasing, so now they are spinning it as "well, is not really that we are getting hotter, is just that THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING".

Earths climate is always changing, the Egyptians new a much more greener land that today just to cite an important local variation in human recorded history, and it will keep changing. we will get another ice age and another very warm age but it is very unlikely that will be in our lifetime or that of the next few generations. The sea level will go up and down, rain will stop in some places and start in others, is inevitable. We should focus our energy (pun bloody intended) in developing the food production techniques that will allow humanity as the global culture that is today to survive.

I was thinking exactly the same.

Thousands of apps? I think is more likely that he is talking about half a dozen on thousands of machines, otherwise it is really mind blowing such strategy.

100% agree.

Nothing else to add, since that almost exactly word by word what i would have said.

But this is not what the article is about...

This article is not about your personal pictures and mp3 collection, is about iCloud as a platform for SaaS for real business. The small crumbs Apple is letting you get for free, is just a more refined variation on DropBox system.

No

no, it didn't.

it has a lot of Potential aplications.

With it you could theoretically test any program for one OS AND architecture on top of another.

Heck you could automatize testing by running a program with deferent virtual peripherals.

Imagine if a game companies could taste their games on any imaginable hardware configuration without having to actually buy and set the irons.

A small farm of computers could easily reproduce the performance of a high end machine.

and toped with...

a totalitarian regime that is not very picky on ecological matters...

You do know that nuclear is limited too.... right?

Nuclear fuel will get us in the same problem than oil, but with a lot more troubles and for a shorter time (if we go full nuclear).

nuclear energy is a crazy stupid solution.

That would be even better...

nuff said.

Maybe if we paint them? :p

Seriously. Nuclear energy is a waste of time.

Time travel (to the past) is BS.

The fact that serious scientist have to come with the alternative universes theory to reconcile paradoxes shows it by it self.

Think of it, Even if alternative universes were real, and the time travel was possible from the POV of the people on the original time line nothing had happened, the "time traveler" just disintegrated out of existence. It is a unfalsifiable hypothesis and therefore an invalid theory.

Plus is the lousiest plot devise/deus ex machina ever thought about.

GOD I HATE STAR TREK!!!!

I would still get the Fiat Uno.

Because when the time for a service come you will feel the difference.

In any case...

Calling your politic group SEX PARTY is the most stupid thing ever. Its completely juvenile, if your party is about FREEDOM the name it accordingly. how you want to be taken seriusly if your party name is a in joke...

Global Warming IS bollocks...

Why do you thing they have started to call it "climate change", sooner or later they will have to come clean and say the planet is not actually warming up, but will still say that the climatic variations are being affected by human activity...

Me dont need no stinking tittle.

indeed, this comparisons are getting more silly each day. I mean, analog music cds can contain only 80 mins, mut if u use a lossless compression format u can stores 10x more...

No simulation needed.

Its being observed in real life already.

She is wrong unless...

Those are Strings, then 1 + 1 = 11 is totally correct. After all type was never stated.

It was not Louis Gossett Jr.

It was Delroy Lindo.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/

Thats the point dude.

In Italy good and bad food does not depend on the prices on the menu, this means that even in the cheapest restaurants you can find culinary jewels. This goes even more so on small "poor" towns, and yes there are poor town in Italy.

In England of course, food is kind of gray everywhere no matter the conditions, not bad, not good just meh.

Another tech limitation

i think the same way. Instead of charging the batteries they should be swapped. That would render mute the problems or recharging time and battery wear/lifetime. For example when they start performing under 75% of their original specs, they are retired of the cycle and recycled.

But alas batteries are HUGE right now (most weight well over 100 kg). a mechanical replacement system would be changing a limitation for another. Swapping batteries is a winning strategy only if the user can swap them manually and safely.

Of course changing the WHOLE battery may not be necessary, or maybe fuel cells may be better for this purpose.

And of course that will only be meaningful if hydrogen is obtained out of the fossil fuel ecosystem...

Is a big complex problem.

You nailed!

Exactly. Flash and H264 are in 2 different categories.

People seam to forget what "royalty" means...

Examples:

If I have to develop a program using VS2008, I have to acquire the license for it, once. If tomorrow I have to make another program that requires me to use VS2008 I don't have to buy it again.

If i were a music company, i would have to pay a percentage of each song sold, always. If that is not bad enough, i would also have to pay a percentage to the owner of the "encoding" FOR EACH SONG SOLD, not just for the right to encode it the first time...

Whitch begs the question...

Why AMD did not wait until a successor was selected to make Meyer step out?

Preferably combining it with Meyer saying is He who wanted out, instead of the board axing him...

This "temp CEO" thing is just bad press no matter how you put it.

Funny you said that...

Because more than one i have used OOo as a sort of quick fix for corrupted excel files. I dont know why it works but it does.

A couple of year ago a worker asked me for help in trying to recover a damaged excel file. Long story short the standard recommendations failed, then i contacted a friend who gave me the advice to try to open it with OOo and save it again. Not only did it open it without even a warning, but the data was there, untouched except for a formatting in the titles.

How can a third party open your damaged files and restore them better that the very application they were made in???

USA is NOT a democracy.... not in name or anything

USA is a REPUBLIC, not a DEMOCRACY. That is has democratic elements is a different matter altogether, in fact there are probably no real democracies in the World right now, and that is a good thing.

Hint: All nations that have actually added the word "democratic" to their names have all been totalitarian regimes.

A "real" full fledged democracy is as nonviable for a nation of any size as a "real" communist state. Plus democracy doesn't guaranty the rights of minorities per se. Separation of powers, checks and balances does.

Apparently?

We have irrefutable video records that show she is indeed flexible.

Mmm, I gree with you but....

I gree with you 100%, but i think Jimmy Floyd is non the less also correct, and Apple knows this and beahaves accordingly. That why you dont see Apple laptops blowing up, and at the same time ask yourself this:

Do you imagine any other phone making company that makes a phone which bateries cant be replaced?

Batteries is the shorttest living element in any phone. Make it irreplaceble and you know your user will switch to a new model as soon as possible.

SNAP! Nice one

Good for you. Sadly I did like apple, as I did like MS, long time ago, before the dark times, before the Empire....

Now somehow MS seems to me just some big company, not particularly good or bad while Apple is really starting to look all an out nasty.

Evolution of my perception of Apple:

At the beginning I thought “Wow that company really thinks different and doesn’t compromise”.

When Jobs was out it was more like “Yea, those expensive and irrelevant machines”.

When Jobs returned was like “Still expensive but got a lot of cool air”.

Just a couple of years ago it was more like "Yea that company that specializes in trendy stuff for rich snubs or wannabes, but cant deny is cool stuff”.

Now I think “Those greedy pompous bastards”.

not so much...

You seem to confuse failure to innovate and improve with actual economic failure. They are quite different.

Linux is great in the innovation department but fails badly on the economic one.

M$ is making as much money today as ever and despite the whole hype about Apple surpassing it they still have MORE NET INCOME at the end of the year, and by several billions.

Microsoft will not try a new strategy for their OS line until the money REALLY starts to go down, when they REALLY start to lose market share. Do you remember the netbook debacle? MS acted smart allowing OEMs to ship with XP again and all the market they lost to LINUX distributions like UBUNTU was almost totally recovered, without investing 1 penny in R&D because they just used and old product that they knew will move the netbooks well. After all “weak” netbooks today are way more powerful than the average desktop 10 years ago so…

Apple isn’t going to take that market share away from them, Apple knows it, that is why they have shifted to this super closed hardware/software ecosystem aimed to people with medium-high to high level of income, which mean never getting over the 20% market share in any field (OS, phones, etc) But they don’t care, because it makes them a lot of money anyway.

And back to Linux distros, the problem is not the system, and is not the unwillingness of people to change, IT IS THE APPS STUPID!!! (no that you are stupid, I am just appropriating an old joke). Only when developers start to create apps for linux (COMERCIAL APPS THAT MAKE MONEY) will average Joe start to consider have it on his business and home. Problem is, developers will not create apps for a system that has such a small market share, is a vicious circle.

As SaaS evolves, MS iron grip may loosen, but there is a danger that just like Apple did, MS could (will?) try to develop a close ecosystem to capitalize in their current dominance, which would trap us even more in this situation.

Solution? Grab the market share by cheating. Forfeit this nonsense about not allowing proprietary code on your free systems, keep the forks, but make it sure that they are still compatible. And more important: Develop a true transparent sandboxed windows/DOS emulator capable of running any windows game or general app on Linux, as a integral part of the system, not a program you have to install or God´s forbids “configure”, which is a geek code word for: “it aint gonna do shit until you learn how to make it do it”.

By being able to run all the old and new apps and games, and that ONE app that keeps Joe under the tyranny of MS. And when a decent market share is in Linux hands (maybe something like 15-25%, but a % of distros that can all work together, it is no use if we have 20% but divided in 1% each that are not compatible with each other) THEN AND ONLY THEM may developers listen and start making native apps for Linux, because EVERYONE FOLLOWS THE MONEY.

Heck if this succeeds even MS will star making stuff for Linux, they may even launch their own fork.

Then you will see true innovation again… because EVERYONE FOLLOWS THE MONEY.