"Open" API's are the new include files to proprietary libraries.
At least in the good old bad days the library (usually) didn't stop working after the you compiled & distributed your program.
These days.. no such guarantees.
New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006, directly into an Earth-and-solar-escape trajectory with an Earth-relative velocity of about 16.26 km/s (58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph) after its last engine shut down. Thus, the spacecraft left Earth at the greatest ever launch speed for a man-made object. It flew by Jupiter on February 28, 2007, the orbit of Saturn on June 8, 2008; and the orbit of Uranus on March 18, 2011. (Source: Wikipedia)
Nice!
> The day Fikri drives to Orlando, he gets a speeding ticket,
Speeding ticket information is hard to get for the USA as a whole, but in 2011 the NYPD alone has issued:
As for individual Boroughs, Brooklyn saw the most traffic tickets issued (141,971), followed by Queens (128,098), Manhattan (115,428), Bronx (71,786), and Staten Island (27,388). (source
So the chances of an analyst checking this particular drivers information are.... close to zero probably. Another useless system.
You only need very few pixels to make a working digital clock.
So first application: digital eye watch.
>> which are often confiscated by troops in war zones
Translation: confiscated by the IRS when visiting your office.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.
Can be found on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/American-Atlas-Expanded-5th/dp/0935127380
Note the various negative comments on the Atlas regarding this case, maybe mod those up a little.
There will be a very big opportunity for something that ties all these platforms together in the near future.
My iPhone has its own development platform
My wife's Android phone the same
My LG TV has its own App API
My Philips Blue ray player has its own App API
Samsung just announced its going to develop yet another OS for mobile phones...
The market is fragmenting so fast its with all these "App" platforms, that there will be a great incentive for the first to create the "write once" , "run everywhere" tool chain. This will of course take a few years, but so many different platforms cannot be sustained.
First comment on the original article regarding getting their money back....
Oh, and here's a nice bit of dodginess:
"The costs of the venture should have been lessened by the contracts signed by the IT providers making them liable for huge sums of money if they withdrew from the project; however, when Accenture withdrew in September 2006, then Director-General for NPfIT Richard Granger charged them not £1bn, as the contract permitted, but just £63m. Granger's first job was with Andersen Consulting, which later became Accenture."
When would be about the right time to do an AT&T on Google and split is up into baby google's?
1 year, 5 year, 10 years, never?
- Pay teachers more to get better quality
Two ways to read this:
Give the current teachers better pay
or
Sack the lousy ones and hire better ones for higher pay?
Which one is it?
Even seen the rain during the rainy season ? That little toy copter isn't even going to get off the ground.
Wrong budget, instead of trying to get money from the medical development people, they should just get it from the spooks/black ops people.
They are probably making lots of money from bored housewifes playing "casual" games -- not from the Real software that was once their core product.
They sued Microsoft ages ago, settled in 2005 for 76mln and bought several online gaming sites from the cash.
An example of horrific Kenyan police abuse is captured on video and quickly spreads through a young population with internet enabled phones.
Youth violently riot -- demanding better opportunities for themselves.
Army moves in -- thousands die. President is toppled.
Likely scenario?
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
