They are movies, with fictional stories! The holographic or transparent screens allows to take shots of the actors face. The crazy gestures are so the actors can be emotionally expressive to the viewers.
If durring the 80s we had a movie of 2013, that got it right it would seem comical in the sense where teenagers are getting bullied over a tiny glowing box. And they are all just crouched tapping the little box. There is no emotion for the movies.
That is why they had 2013 with big screen tv that video conferences, it made the antagonist seem larger than life and someone for the actor to react too.
As a setup option you get you choose your color schemes. I don't see the UI as unpolished but using a different design methodology. From Windows 3.1 to 7 they were trying to give a more realistic desktop look to the OS. Fancier buttons shadows and depth. While such changes looks good for the first impression after a while it just gets old and you end up disabling a lot of these features. Windows 8 is much faster without the useless eyecandy.
If you thought Active X was cool, you deserve any of the punishment that you can get.
I am quite happy that Flash kept ActiveX out of the picture. ActiveX was one of Microsoft Knee Jerk reactions to Java Applets. They figured they could make their brand more popular by making it so it runs faster by allowing it to run on one platform, and add more features that Sun decided not to add because of security concerns.
What happened... When we migrated to 64 platforms some Active X apps begin to break, and opened a new slue of security problems. Because the Microsoft Mantra for security it we told you that we are going to install this, anything bad that happens is your own damn fault.
Windows 3.1- No Don't give me a GUI I want my DOS and Command Line interface. If I wanted windows I would have gotten a Mac. Windows 95 - After all that hype it is mostly still windows 3.1 execpt that it boots up with a graphical interface and you don't need to put win in autoexec.bat. It still trails Linux in terms of multi-tasking and stability. Windows 98 - How dare they embed IE into the OS. No one wants to use their web browser to navigate their files. Windows ME - Yea this was just crap. Windows 2000 - What you switching us to the NT Kernel, what about all my DOS games they will be useless. Windows XP - The UI it looks like it is from Phisher Price. And even more forcing us to use the NT kernel. We want to keep our old DOS apps running Windows Vista - Look at that New UI, More EYE CANDY, how am I going to to work when I don't have my Start Windows 7 - You still kept the Windows Vista UI that I hated. Windows 8 - They changed the start menu so it looks different again, why can't we stay at XP?
Ok you guys dislike Windows 8, we know. You guys hated Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 when it came out too. When windows 9 comes out you guys are going to go why change Windows 8 windows 9 add whatever features that makes my life so much harder. This will be the version people will finally shift to Linux in droves.
His personality has changed. He has become far more grumpy in his older age.
But that is often the price you pay when a group of people in essence elect you as a super star.
Sure many people find the new more aggressive Linus favorable, however it is akin to the republican party going, the reason why we lost the election was we just wasn't conservative enough.
The aggressive personality will often get a strong following, however at a point you need to dial it down to get in the rest who need it. Being crude will not help you in the long run.
Exactly, Besides most companies don't like saying what they did wrong so they probably fix the problem, then tried to keep it quiet. Being that social media now adays spreads and exadurates every bad news, there is no insentive to make their problems public, unless they really have too.
We have a large supply of educated work force, combined with a low demand for work.
That means Workers are Cheap to hire. So if you are going to pick from a pool of people you might as well pick the better educated ones.
In contrast to the 1990's during the tech boom. We had a smaller supply of educated workers and a High Demand for jobs. So you could get a good paying tech job without a high school education if you could show that you know what you are doing, or at least navigate FrontPage.
I have to count myself lucky that I have a good job. However I have a Masters Degree and the work I am doing Any Undergrad student could do the work.
If the economy was better, I probably would be in a much better position.
That is how you know if your an expert on something, you need to have something negative to say about it. If you have something nice to say about something you are obviously been brainwashed to like it.
The real problem is the the USPS is designed as a letter carrier. Not a shipping company. So electronic communication is reducing the needs for letters (envelope based mail), and online shipment of stuff is being processed by Shipping companies like FedEx and UPS, who are better organized for shipping packages. No so much letters.
They are going to need to move from Mail Men either walking door to door, or in small cars and trucks. To a larger trucking service where they can handle more boxes and less envelopes.
If you have insurance money, I would say get less but nicer things.
For me I would be happy with the following.
A nice 42" TV LED A good Stereo System with iPod dock. connected to a Surround Sound and nice speakers. A good quality Wi-Fi A nice fast Laptop A new Phone that doubles as an iPod
Save the rest of the money for retirement, or to upgrade in 4 or 5 years.
Actually management tends to work a lot. Even if they are not at work they are working. Now I am not saying that CEO current rates are fair, they are too high right now. But it is fare for the management to get paid more, as they do work verry hard, even if you don't see it.
Or the Conservative party is less willing to do stupid ass ideas.
We really do need both types of thinking.
If you are too liberal and keep trying to fix everything that isn't perfect. You create a society of uncertainty, as well replace a lot of good ideas with lesser ones, just to try to reach an impossible state. Conservatives try to slow liberals down from making a knee jerk reaction to every problem.
If you are too conservative you hinder progress. The status quo is met and no problems are solved. Existing stupid ideas continue. Liberals try to keep things moving to a new normal. And fix the problems.
We really need the conflict.
What is the problem in the US is that we have groups imbedded in the political parties that are liberal in nature but call themselves conservative and vice versa.
Marketing isn't bad, without it no one knows your product exists. The problems usually happens when the sales and advertising groups get their hand and often over exadurate or lie about your product. Sometimes the clash is due to IT nature to want to under state our product. To us it is just a program that queries a database and gives a result. To sales it is a business process workflow improvement.
10 years ago it seems like the same thing, thinking the previous generation had it harder... However I doubt that is the case.
The simple truth is the High School Guidance Counselors lie about college. They make it seem much harder than it is, that way they can send a bunch of kids to trade schools.
Your education is what you make out of it. There are a bunch of slackers who just get buy to get the paper, there are others who work hard and actually get an education.
If you are judging yourself with other students it isn't a fair deal. Because the bar is bent. Getting the C is easy, you show up and do the work you can usually pull off a C. If you want a B or an A then you will need to work much harder. For example, in my Operating Systems Class, I worked hard on a program and got 1 point taken off because a comment was a space unaligned, while other students got a C and the program didn't even work. But they turned in source code that vaguely looked like it was the solution.
In technology a product can be dead and still widely used. When we say it is dead it means there are little to none development for it, and anything that does work that is new is by chance and not by design.
This what I don't get. Shift the car into Neutral. Then coast or break to a stop. You can do this on manual and automatic transmissions. Heck you can do it on a hybrid. You may burn your engine out, but that is better than racing out of control.
If you are an automobile journalist, You tend to do this because they are into cars. People who are into cars tend to like the cars that are Big, Fast, Powerful, Make a lot of noise. While Telsa is a Fast and Powerful car, it stands as a Flagship for other cars that are no so. Those little electric care and hybrids. I have a Prius myself, but I am not into cars, I just want to get from point A to point B and spend as little money as possible. I work 35 miles from home, so The all electric doesn't have the range, And other cars like the Volt would be the same in Gas Mileage but costs more.
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They were advertising them as Digital back in the 1990's
They are movies, with fictional stories!
The holographic or transparent screens allows to take shots of the actors face.
The crazy gestures are so the actors can be emotionally expressive to the viewers.
If durring the 80s we had a movie of 2013, that got it right it would seem comical in the sense where teenagers are getting bullied over a tiny glowing box. And they are all just crouched tapping the little box. There is no emotion for the movies.
That is why they had 2013 with big screen tv that video conferences, it made the antagonist seem larger than life and someone for the actor to react too.
I actually do like Windows 8.
As a setup option you get you choose your color schemes. I don't see the UI as unpolished but using a different design methodology. From Windows 3.1 to 7 they were trying to give a more realistic desktop look to the OS. Fancier buttons shadows and depth. While such changes looks good for the first impression after a while it just gets old and you end up disabling a lot of these features. Windows 8 is much faster without the useless eyecandy.
If you thought Active X was cool, you deserve any of the punishment that you can get.
I am quite happy that Flash kept ActiveX out of the picture. ActiveX was one of Microsoft Knee Jerk reactions to Java Applets. They figured they could make their brand more popular by making it so it runs faster by allowing it to run on one platform, and add more features that Sun decided not to add because of security concerns.
What happened... When we migrated to 64 platforms some Active X apps begin to break, and opened a new slue of security problems. Because the Microsoft Mantra for security it we told you that we are going to install this, anything bad that happens is your own damn fault.
Windows 3.1- No Don't give me a GUI I want my DOS and Command Line interface. If I wanted windows I would have gotten a Mac.
Windows 95 - After all that hype it is mostly still windows 3.1 execpt that it boots up with a graphical interface and you don't need to put win in autoexec.bat. It still trails Linux in terms of multi-tasking and stability.
Windows 98 - How dare they embed IE into the OS. No one wants to use their web browser to navigate their files.
Windows ME - Yea this was just crap.
Windows 2000 - What you switching us to the NT Kernel, what about all my DOS games they will be useless.
Windows XP - The UI it looks like it is from Phisher Price. And even more forcing us to use the NT kernel. We want to keep our old DOS apps running
Windows Vista - Look at that New UI, More EYE CANDY, how am I going to to work when I don't have my Start
Windows 7 - You still kept the Windows Vista UI that I hated.
Windows 8 - They changed the start menu so it looks different again, why can't we stay at XP?
Ok you guys dislike Windows 8, we know. You guys hated Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 when it came out too. When windows 9 comes out you guys are going to go why change Windows 8 windows 9 add whatever features that makes my life so much harder. This will be the version people will finally shift to Linux in droves.
His personality has changed. He has become far more grumpy in his older age.
But that is often the price you pay when a group of people in essence elect you as a super star.
Sure many people find the new more aggressive Linus favorable, however it is akin to the republican party going, the reason why we lost the election was we just wasn't conservative enough.
The aggressive personality will often get a strong following, however at a point you need to dial it down to get in the rest who need it. Being crude will not help you in the long run.
Exactly,
Besides most companies don't like saying what they did wrong so they probably fix the problem, then tried to keep it quiet. Being that social media now adays spreads and exadurates every bad news, there is no insentive to make their problems public, unless they really have too.
Economics 101. Supply and Demand.
We have a large supply of educated work force, combined with a low demand for work.
That means Workers are Cheap to hire. So if you are going to pick from a pool of people you might as well pick the better educated ones.
In contrast to the 1990's during the tech boom. We had a smaller supply of educated workers and a High Demand for jobs. So you could get a good paying tech job without a high school education if you could show that you know what you are doing, or at least navigate FrontPage.
I have to count myself lucky that I have a good job. However I have a Masters Degree and the work I am doing Any Undergrad student could do the work.
If the economy was better, I probably would be in a much better position.
That is how you know if your an expert on something, you need to have something negative to say about it.
If you have something nice to say about something you are obviously been brainwashed to like it.
The real problem is the the USPS is designed as a letter carrier. Not a shipping company.
So electronic communication is reducing the needs for letters (envelope based mail), and online shipment of stuff is being processed by Shipping companies like FedEx and UPS, who are better organized for shipping packages. No so much letters.
They are going to need to move from Mail Men either walking door to door, or in small cars and trucks. To a larger trucking service where they can handle more boxes and less envelopes.
If you have insurance money, I would say get less but nicer things.
For me I would be happy with the following.
A nice 42" TV LED
A good Stereo System with iPod dock.
connected to a Surround Sound and nice speakers.
A good quality Wi-Fi
A nice fast Laptop
A new Phone that doubles as an iPod
Save the rest of the money for retirement, or to upgrade in 4 or 5 years.
Dag nabbit! We want easy answers to complicated problems. Better if it can fit in a line of twitter.
Actually management tends to work a lot. Even if they are not at work they are working.
Now I am not saying that CEO current rates are fair, they are too high right now. But it is fare for the management to get paid more, as they do work verry hard, even if you don't see it.
A 35 hour work week is fine, as long as you work during this time.
With an hour for lunch that is 6 hours of work a day 5 days a week.
Being able to find smaller things far away is good.
While there is high hope of finding Life elsewhere is slim to none, at least it gives us better places to look and send out messages too.
That is because you don't a multi-touch sensitive device.
My Laptop has a multi-touch display, and I really do like Windows 8... However I can see if I was stuck to the mouse, it would be a step back.
However online app stores tend to sell/rent/license new games at a cheaper rate.
Or the Conservative party is less willing to do stupid ass ideas.
We really do need both types of thinking.
If you are too liberal and keep trying to fix everything that isn't perfect. You create a society of uncertainty, as well replace a lot of good ideas with lesser ones, just to try to reach an impossible state.
Conservatives try to slow liberals down from making a knee jerk reaction to every problem.
If you are too conservative you hinder progress. The status quo is met and no problems are solved. Existing stupid ideas continue.
Liberals try to keep things moving to a new normal. And fix the problems.
We really need the conflict.
What is the problem in the US is that we have groups imbedded in the political parties that are liberal in nature but call themselves conservative and vice versa.
Marketing isn't bad, without it no one knows your product exists.
The problems usually happens when the sales and advertising groups get their hand and often over exadurate or lie about your product.
Sometimes the clash is due to IT nature to want to under state our product. To us it is just a program that queries a database and gives a result. To sales it is a business process workflow improvement.
Has the bar been lowered. Well from when?
10 years ago it seems like the same thing, thinking the previous generation had it harder... However I doubt that is the case.
The simple truth is the High School Guidance Counselors lie about college. They make it seem much harder than it is, that way they can send a bunch of kids to trade schools.
Your education is what you make out of it. There are a bunch of slackers who just get buy to get the paper, there are others who work hard and actually get an education.
If you are judging yourself with other students it isn't a fair deal. Because the bar is bent. Getting the C is easy, you show up and do the work you can usually pull off a C. If you want a B or an A then you will need to work much harder. For example, in my Operating Systems Class, I worked hard on a program and got 1 point taken off because a comment was a space unaligned, while other students got a C and the program didn't even work. But they turned in source code that vaguely looked like it was the solution.
In technology a product can be dead and still widely used. When we say it is dead it means there are little to none development for it, and anything that does work that is new is by chance and not by design.
No not unless you put your car on neutral.
I have mistakenly driven with the hand break on. It just feels like you are driving up hill
This what I don't get. Shift the car into Neutral. Then coast or break to a stop.
You can do this on manual and automatic transmissions. Heck you can do it on a hybrid.
You may burn your engine out, but that is better than racing out of control.
If you are an automobile journalist, You tend to do this because they are into cars.
People who are into cars tend to like the cars that are Big, Fast, Powerful, Make a lot of noise. While Telsa is a Fast and Powerful car, it stands as a Flagship for other cars that are no so. Those little electric care and hybrids. I have a Prius myself, but I am not into cars, I just want to get from point A to point B and spend as little money as possible. I work 35 miles from home, so The all electric doesn't have the range, And other cars like the Volt would be the same in Gas Mileage but costs more.