I think that saying that car sharing will be limited to the privileged metropolitan residents is short sighted, too. Services like Zipcar don't work well in less populated areas, because the cars are exactly where the previous person dropped them off. Autonomous cars would be able to relocate themselves to areas where they are needed, and could optimize their deployment very well especially if people scheduled in advance.
I don't know if I could adapt to Emacs with another input device. Part of being good at Emacs is training your muscle memory. I probably can't even describe half of the inane chords I do unless I was able to observe my hands performing them.
I don't know why this is so hard or requires such significant investment up front. How is making a decentralized Twitter service more of a challenge than, say, IRC or Jabber? I know that the problems aren't exactly the same, but I would hazard to guess that they are on the same order of magnitude in terms of implementation difficulty.
This is the brave new world of SEO in our media. Once reputable news sources are more than willing to throw all their credibility out the door so that they can be the louder wall of an echo chamber for the sake of impressions.
It's pretty refreshing to see cases where a government doesn't stay the course when the facts contradict it. I wonder if it is in less of a thrall of France's IP lobby?
Can't it be Hotmail v2? There looks to be vestiges of Hotmail/Live Mail everywhere. So, a better question is: is this just added features and a reskinning on top of Hotmail?
It's still copying strings and passing them between functions, which is still a type of "reading" if you want to play by the fast and loose definitions of Microsoft's marketing teams.
Quoted for posterity. One of the most amazingly crappy articles I've seen come out of the SEO content mills.
"1. Coffee and cigarettes.
2. For nonsmokers, coffee and a donut.
3. Chew gum.
4. Doodle.
5. Red Bull.
6. Think about college professors. Don't think about morons.
7. Sniff rosemary.
8. Do NOT take an IQ test or be ranked by intelligence.
9. Have good relationships, be social and adopt other people's perspectives.
10. Exercise.
11. Listen to some Bach or Mozart.
12. Better yet, learn how to play some Bach or Mozart. Or learn any new skill.
13. Stop multitasking.
14. Guys, stay away from pretty girls. Don't even think about them.
15. Get enough sleep every night.
16. Finish what you start.
17. Lay down to improve problem solving.
18. Believe you can become smarter.
19. Try out certain nutritional supplements.
20. Feed your superstitions.
21. Talk to yourself.
22. Stay away from the color red.
23. Avoid situations where you feel out of control or powerless.
24. Avoid rejection.
25. Get a boss who thinks you're a genius."