Movies were always about the gimmick. Back in the black and white silent moving pictures film. They wern't great films most of them were crap. However people went to them to see moving pictures. Then they started to go to the talkies, then color, then with better picture and sound. They had 3D for a bit but the 2 colors messed up the experience. So they went for more effects. Now today with the average Joe having a 57 inch tv with surround sound. 3D is the best way to get people to the movies. The good movies, people wait for DVD
Turning Traffic can be solved with a traffic light system where normal cars are stopped before the bus needs to turn. As well a spot for the bus to stop while the cars turn. Also the terminals for stopping can be placed in non-intersections areas of the traffic and people get off from overhead. It really does seem like a good and practical idea if they can get the busses to work. Expanding the roads will take some work however it is a lot easier then other mass transit systems. Adding say 20 more feet to a road is rather easy.
The game is still early... I wouldn't put too much in these numbers. For one the iPhone 4 was just released. And you are comparing 6 months of sales data with 1 month of iPhone sales. Apple sells products in spurts the iPhone 3 and 3g more or less was getting dated, for this sales cycle. Now with the iPhone 4 out and the antenna issues fading away from the media it will go ahead and sell a bunch again. The iPhone is actually a very nice and elegant device, and I am sure it will capture a lot of the blackberry market, as it a more "Professional" Phone.
Secondly the iPhone is by only one company and one carrier. Vs. a bunch of Android phones which are offered by different carriers and by different manufacturers.
Third new players are getting in the market. Windows 7 Phones, Blackberry OS 6. Which may also fight with Android more then it will fight against iPhone.
Forth if Malware get common in Android Apps (just being Linux based doesn't really help) then they will get more trouble.
Fifth a killer app could end up on any of these platforms and trump the other phone market
Sixth someone can make a phone to do what is needed and cheaper.
There are a lot of things going on in this market. I wouldn't count victory for the Android yet. I wouldn't count victory for the iPhone either. Apple got a 2 year head start and for the most part got the phone market caught with their pants down on consumer smart phones. Giving them a few years to catch up. Now that Android caught up to Apple it will be interesting to see what happens next.
No one was really debating that Linux couldn't do it, and I would put more praises to Google then on Linux.
Some guy got to rant his opinion on a popular newspaper. So what does that mean... Not much... That is a neat thing about our government people have the rights to express their opinion however there is a process that goes on before action is takes on his opinion if at all.
There is a big gap between lab results and making a product out of it.
1. There is the price to produce. 2. Are the materials robust enough for real life. 3. Is the research funded by an organization who will actually give it to industry. Oddly enough there are some groups who are so Anti-Business after there research is done they don't want to sell it to a big company as they would be selling out. 4. Can the technology be reproducible. 5. Is it safe.
I don't think it is Starcraft killing the Video Card, Either the Card was already broken and StarCraft triggered it... OR it was improbably setup or covered with so much stuff it would burn out... I once burned out a Matrix Millennium II card with just Text.
#include #include
void main() { printf("hello"); fork(); main() }
I had duel processors at the time I am guessing the card couldn't deal with that much information... The card after about 10 minutes died... So did my early Linux...
I never found problems in finding developer jobs. The problem is so many good developers are just bad employees. Who think their IT skills are the only factor in employment. Durring the dot com boom in the 90's companies tolerated many of our quarks and sometimes celebrated then as skill of the "new economy". However after the pop the survivors were people who can handle the business and technical side of things. The ones who treat sales and marketing as key and an intelligent component to the business. And use their insight as inspiration to male a netter product. Verses just taking there ideas as a mindless rant. We as software developers are not actually any smarter on the average as anyone else in the organization with a Bacharach degree. We just have different skill sets
So you just hate technology used for new application. Guess what people can't be good at everything. That is why technology exists. It spent need to replace the expert but it alows the novice to get the jobs done easier
While good to know that most people don't use that much data over cell connection. But Apple could use it to show that Android phone are so difficult to use that people don't know how to install wifi with it. Or it could be that there are more apps for the iPhone so less need to download web content for UI. Or it could be that more techy people use Android feature. Or it could mean AT&T has bad service in heavy use areas
Wow! You are able to pin point the problem where a bunch of other economist couldn't get a full picture. This mess that we are in now is really everyones fault. The democrat controlled us leadership are using corporations as mostly a skapegoat for all their problems. While the mess we are in are is everyones fault. We have been bouncing from bubble to bubble trying to make easy money. For those who remember the 1990's where tech was the cool place to be. Then the tech bubble popped and a lot of these same people went to real-estate.
A key issue causing this the fact we get too much information more then we can logically process. And 90% of the information we get we respond emotionally to. I am guilty of this and so is almost everyone. Don't think because we are keen to all this info that we are really logically processing the information we are taking in.
Although the Geek In me hates the Apple iStore Model. However its strict app approval process really does help remove most of the bad stuff for the phone...
However Open Source is not a service... It is a licensing model. Now they may make an Open Specification for sharing this information across multiple sites. And that may work for a bit until you get too much crap. Or a new method deals with handling that much crap better.
I am not a big supporter for Open Source. I am though a big supporter of Open Specification. Why? Open Source is focused on the software... In the most part no one really cares about the source code. Often the time it takes for you an analyze the source and do a fix would be less then creating a new solution. Also your changes to the Open Source version will be under public scrutiny, and if it under GNU you loose rights for your changes. In a Utopian world this sounds good and all... However we don't live their, commercial closed source software exists, and they will be maintained and supported and have their niche that open source will not fill in.
Open Source isn't a superset of Open Specification. You can have Open Source but use some odd standard that no one is willing to follow, or just coded in a way that isn't obvious to someone who is basing their code or moving to a different platform. Open Specification gives the end users the tools to make new applications based on the specifications which can be compatible with other tools that follow the same specification as well it allows them to have competitive advantages over others so they can actually make money doing their work, or make it work with different things that may normally have legal problems with say with the GPL, trying to connect to a Patented Subsystem.
Exactly... I really hate the Bad Energy/Good Energy debate... The issue is much more complicated.
I am wondering how much Carbon we would have saved if we environmentalists would actually be scientists and not activists. Oh Lets protest this new nuclear reactor in the mean time the old soft coal plant is spewing pollutants for decades.
Renewable Energy is great... However they have problems too.
Solar is only effective on an average of 12 hours a day and Batteries have their own enviomental impact, and takes up a lot of land, weather too will very your output. Wind needs to be in the right location and still not predictable. Tidal you need to be in the right location. Geothermal for power generation you need the right location.
Nuclear has the key problem of its deadly radioactive wast that needs to be treated and disposed of for thousands of years.
Coal and Fossil Fuels give off a lot of pollutants to the atmosphere.
We really can't get cleaner energy with any one solution, we need to keep all the options as well as new ones on the plate. Lets get new Nuclear Power in locations were other sources will not work. Put renewable energy in places where it can fit. Even keep the old coal and fossil fuel and work on getting cleaner output from them, where it makes the most sense.
If we need energy it will be a tradeoff. It always is, it is called life.
You slow down your car to perhaps 1 mph. You look Both Ways and enough time to determine if there is any traffic that would cause you an issue, Then you speed up if you deem it safe.
You are actually being a safe driver Just as Safe as if you did a full stop then started inching up to a point where you can see the traffic anyways.
Yes Executives Must Pay with Jail TIme. Because they Micromanage Everything to such a detail level that they know about Everything that is going on at all times. Usually at the Executive Level for Large Corporations they are just looking at the final set of numbers... Unit Produced Revenue earned... The Real people responsible are the Middle Managers who are trying to fight their way up to the top cut safety just to get the impressive numbers to make the CEO happy. That isn't to say the CEO isn't responsible at all... He should have demanded safety as a measurable priority, but these accidents will happen again and again because there will be some weasel in middle management who knows how to manipulate the numbers to make him look good.
Secondly there is a fact that Mistakes do happen. Looking back you may have prevented it, but I don't know anyone who can predict all possible outcomes, to prevent disasters. If that was the case everyone will be paralyzed in fear. Having solutions to fix such disasters and clean up the mess is just as important as prevention. As it is easier to predict the final outcome of a disaster then the cause to prevent for each disaster.
Third the guy who really messed up is probably the best guy to make sure it doesn't happen again. Firing the person who made the mistake is often the stupidest thing you can do, as they are often the one who now has the most experience in dealing with it. Otherwise you will replace him with a person who never experience the pain and may become lax to the rules as there is no emotional memory of the mistake.
That is why they are not stolen. The Cars that are Rendered Pink also have an SEP (Someone Else's Problem) field around it, thus made invisible. You may only spot it from the corner of you eye when you are not looking. But once you realize what it is you then realize it is someone else's problem then you cannot see it, and you forgot you ever saw it.
Perl is not New Fangled. I am sorry to say Perl is one of those.COM languages that has sparked peoples interest for a few years but have settled down to niche language. So it is now an Old School Language... Sorry...
Lines of code doesn't equate to easy. I could write almost any program with one line of code of APL. However there is a steep learning curve to APL, Debugging APL code is near impossible and what is worse is trying to add updates to it. Perl can be coded very Dense as well with heavy use of Regular Expressions... However Regular Expressions come at a cost of readability and upgradability as well.
And Linux/Open Source Zealots are any different. Any Statics against Open Source are obviously false. Any stats for get a bunch of "About Time!" posts. Zealotry/Fan Boyism will lead to endless debates and complaints.
Apple is Evil Linux is Lame Windows is washed up.
They all have their weeknesses zealotry on any product really hurts the product you are zealot about. Because you turn a blind eye on many of its faults and failed to see the other sides strengths.
Storage Size has been growing faster then our ability to fill it.
I Remember back in them good old days where I filled up Hard Drives quite easily. My old 80 Meg drive when it was new, could be filled up rather quickly.
Now that we have terabytes drives it is getting less of a factor to fill it up. Combined with the fact that network speeds are getting faster our need for storage is being limited. Sure RMS Followers thing that Cloud SaaS solutions will doom us all and that rest of that nonsense... However If it is faster to download a file then get it off your drive then you will just download and run the program off the network. So the issue isn't about the size of the drive but the speed of the drive that counts.
1. The over careful... Don't do it. 2. If you get permissions you should be Ok 3. Go ahead it is X fault for having it unsecured anyways. 4. People who lie just to punish people who asks slashdot these questions 5. Just get so many responses that you cannot make an informed decision. As usually the most authoritative post will win... However it may not be the right one.
You must not have used early versions of X11. Back in the old days you needed to enter in the horizontal and vertical refresh rates and resolutions... Improper configuration could damage some CRT screens.
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Movies were always about the gimmick. Back in the black and white silent moving pictures film. They wern't great films most of them were crap. However people went to them to see moving pictures. Then they started to go to the talkies, then color, then with better picture and sound. They had 3D for a bit but the 2 colors messed up the experience. So they went for more effects. Now today with the average Joe having a 57 inch tv with surround sound. 3D is the best way to get people to the movies. The good movies, people wait for DVD
Turning Traffic can be solved with a traffic light system where normal cars are stopped before the bus needs to turn. As well a spot for the bus to stop while the cars turn. Also the terminals for stopping can be placed in non-intersections areas of the traffic and people get off from overhead. It really does seem like a good and practical idea if they can get the busses to work.
Expanding the roads will take some work however it is a lot easier then other mass transit systems. Adding say 20 more feet to a road is rather easy.
The game is still early... I wouldn't put too much in these numbers.
For one the iPhone 4 was just released. And you are comparing 6 months of sales data with 1 month of iPhone sales. Apple sells products in spurts the iPhone 3 and 3g more or less was getting dated, for this sales cycle. Now with the iPhone 4 out and the antenna issues fading away from the media it will go ahead and sell a bunch again. The iPhone is actually a very nice and elegant device, and I am sure it will capture a lot of the blackberry market, as it a more "Professional" Phone.
Secondly the iPhone is by only one company and one carrier. Vs. a bunch of Android phones which are offered by different carriers and by different manufacturers.
Third new players are getting in the market. Windows 7 Phones, Blackberry OS 6. Which may also fight with Android more then it will fight against iPhone.
Forth if Malware get common in Android Apps (just being Linux based doesn't really help) then they will get more trouble.
Fifth a killer app could end up on any of these platforms and trump the other phone market
Sixth someone can make a phone to do what is needed and cheaper.
There are a lot of things going on in this market. I wouldn't count victory for the Android yet. I wouldn't count victory for the iPhone either. Apple got a 2 year head start and for the most part got the phone market caught with their pants down on consumer smart phones. Giving them a few years to catch up. Now that Android caught up to Apple it will be interesting to see what happens next.
No one was really debating that Linux couldn't do it, and I would put more praises to Google then on Linux.
Except for the fact that Google Earths pictures are months/years old.
And some of the pools that look like offending the rules are actually not.
Sure the differences are easy...
WWI we went against Germany.
WWII we fought Germany and Japan (2 countries so world war 2)
Korean War we went in Korea.
Vietnam Ware we went in Vietnam
Gulf War we whined and complained how nasty BP is. Because the CEO wasn't a good political speaker.
Some guy got to rant his opinion on a popular newspaper. So what does that mean... Not much... That is a neat thing about our government people have the rights to express their opinion however there is a process that goes on before action is takes on his opinion if at all.
There is a big gap between lab results and making a product out of it.
1. There is the price to produce.
2. Are the materials robust enough for real life.
3. Is the research funded by an organization who will actually give it to industry. Oddly enough there are some groups who are so Anti-Business after there research is done they don't want to sell it to a big company as they would be selling out.
4. Can the technology be reproducible.
5. Is it safe.
There are a lot of details to be worked out.
Why you didn't think Pokahon... Err Umm Avatar was a good movie.
I don't think it is Starcraft killing the Video Card, Either the Card was already broken and StarCraft triggered it... OR it was improbably setup or covered with so much stuff it would burn out... I once burned out a Matrix Millennium II card with just Text.
#include
#include
void main() {
printf("hello");
fork();
main()
}
I had duel processors at the time I am guessing the card couldn't deal with that much information... The card after about 10 minutes died... So did my early Linux...
I never found problems in finding developer jobs. The problem is so many good developers are just bad employees. Who think their IT skills are the only factor in employment. Durring the dot com boom in the 90's companies tolerated many of our quarks and sometimes celebrated then as skill of the "new economy". However after the pop the survivors were people who can handle the business and technical side of things. The ones who treat sales and marketing as key and an intelligent component to the business. And use their insight as inspiration to male a netter product. Verses just taking there ideas as a mindless rant. We as software developers are not actually any smarter on the average as anyone else in the organization with a Bacharach degree. We just have different skill sets
So you just hate technology used for new application. Guess what people can't be good at everything. That is why technology exists. It spent need to replace the expert but it alows the novice to get the jobs done easier
If they do. It will be at home over wi-fi
While good to know that most people don't use that much data over cell connection. But Apple could use it to show that Android phone are so difficult to use that people don't know how to install wifi with it. Or it could be that there are more apps for the iPhone so less need to download web content for UI. Or it could be that more techy people use Android feature. Or it could mean AT&T has bad service in heavy use areas
Wow! You are able to pin point the problem where a bunch of other economist couldn't get a full picture. This mess that we are in now is really everyones fault. The democrat controlled us leadership are using corporations as mostly a skapegoat for all their problems. While the mess we are in are is everyones fault. We have been bouncing from bubble to bubble trying to make easy money. For those who remember the 1990's where tech was the cool place to be. Then the tech bubble popped and a lot of these same people went to real-estate.
A key issue causing this the fact we get too much information more then we can logically process. And 90% of the information we get we respond emotionally to. I am guilty of this and so is almost everyone. Don't think because we are keen to all this info that we are really logically processing the information we are taking in.
Although the Geek In me hates the Apple iStore Model. However its strict app approval process really does help remove most of the bad stuff for the phone...
However Open Source is not a service... It is a licensing model. Now they may make an Open Specification for sharing this information across multiple sites. And that may work for a bit until you get too much crap. Or a new method deals with handling that much crap better.
I am not a big supporter for Open Source. I am though a big supporter of Open Specification. Why? Open Source is focused on the software... In the most part no one really cares about the source code. Often the time it takes for you an analyze the source and do a fix would be less then creating a new solution. Also your changes to the Open Source version will be under public scrutiny, and if it under GNU you loose rights for your changes. In a Utopian world this sounds good and all... However we don't live their, commercial closed source software exists, and they will be maintained and supported and have their niche that open source will not fill in.
Open Source isn't a superset of Open Specification. You can have Open Source but use some odd standard that no one is willing to follow, or just coded in a way that isn't obvious to someone who is basing their code or moving to a different platform. Open Specification gives the end users the tools to make new applications based on the specifications which can be compatible with other tools that follow the same specification as well it allows them to have competitive advantages over others so they can actually make money doing their work, or make it work with different things that may normally have legal problems with say with the GPL, trying to connect to a Patented Subsystem.
Exactly... I really hate the Bad Energy/Good Energy debate... The issue is much more complicated.
I am wondering how much Carbon we would have saved if we environmentalists would actually be scientists and not activists. Oh Lets protest this new nuclear reactor in the mean time the old soft coal plant is spewing pollutants for decades.
Renewable Energy is great... However they have problems too.
Solar is only effective on an average of 12 hours a day and Batteries have their own enviomental impact, and takes up a lot of land, weather too will very your output.
Wind needs to be in the right location and still not predictable.
Tidal you need to be in the right location.
Geothermal for power generation you need the right location.
Nuclear has the key problem of its deadly radioactive wast that needs to be treated and disposed of for thousands of years.
Coal and Fossil Fuels give off a lot of pollutants to the atmosphere.
We really can't get cleaner energy with any one solution, we need to keep all the options as well as new ones on the plate. Lets get new Nuclear Power in locations were other sources will not work. Put renewable energy in places where it can fit. Even keep the old coal and fossil fuel and work on getting cleaner output from them, where it makes the most sense.
If we need energy it will be a tradeoff. It always is, it is called life.
Do you know what a Rolling Stop means?
You slow down your car to perhaps 1 mph. You look Both Ways and enough time to determine if there is any traffic that would cause you an issue, Then you speed up if you deem it safe.
You are actually being a safe driver Just as Safe as if you did a full stop then started inching up to a point where you can see the traffic anyways.
Yes Executives Must Pay with Jail TIme. Because they Micromanage Everything to such a detail level that they know about Everything that is going on at all times. Usually at the Executive Level for Large Corporations they are just looking at the final set of numbers... Unit Produced Revenue earned... The Real people responsible are the Middle Managers who are trying to fight their way up to the top cut safety just to get the impressive numbers to make the CEO happy. That isn't to say the CEO isn't responsible at all... He should have demanded safety as a measurable priority, but these accidents will happen again and again because there will be some weasel in middle management who knows how to manipulate the numbers to make him look good.
Secondly there is a fact that Mistakes do happen. Looking back you may have prevented it, but I don't know anyone who can predict all possible outcomes, to prevent disasters. If that was the case everyone will be paralyzed in fear. Having solutions to fix such disasters and clean up the mess is just as important as prevention. As it is easier to predict the final outcome of a disaster then the cause to prevent for each disaster.
Third the guy who really messed up is probably the best guy to make sure it doesn't happen again. Firing the person who made the mistake is often the stupidest thing you can do, as they are often the one who now has the most experience in dealing with it. Otherwise you will replace him with a person who never experience the pain and may become lax to the rules as there is no emotional memory of the mistake.
That is why they are not stolen. The Cars that are Rendered Pink also have an SEP (Someone Else's Problem) field around it, thus made invisible. You may only spot it from the corner of you eye when you are not looking. But once you realize what it is you then realize it is someone else's problem then you cannot see it, and you forgot you ever saw it.
Perl is not New Fangled. I am sorry to say Perl is one of those .COM languages that has sparked peoples interest for a few years but have settled down to niche language. So it is now an Old School Language... Sorry...
Lines of code doesn't equate to easy. I could write almost any program with one line of code of APL. However there is a steep learning curve to APL, Debugging APL code is near impossible and what is worse is trying to add updates to it. Perl can be coded very Dense as well with heavy use of Regular Expressions... However Regular Expressions come at a cost of readability and upgradability as well.
And Linux/Open Source Zealots are any different. Any Statics against Open Source are obviously false. Any stats for get a bunch of "About Time!" posts. Zealotry/Fan Boyism will lead to endless debates and complaints.
Apple is Evil
Linux is Lame
Windows is washed up.
They all have their weeknesses zealotry on any product really hurts the product you are zealot about. Because you turn a blind eye on many of its faults and failed to see the other sides strengths.
Storage Space isn't always the limiting factor...
Storage Size has been growing faster then our ability to fill it.
I Remember back in them good old days where I filled up Hard Drives quite easily. My old 80 Meg drive when it was new, could be filled up rather quickly.
Now that we have terabytes drives it is getting less of a factor to fill it up. Combined with the fact that network speeds are getting faster our need for storage is being limited. Sure RMS Followers thing that Cloud SaaS solutions will doom us all and that rest of that nonsense... However If it is faster to download a file then get it off your drive then you will just download and run the program off the network.
So the issue isn't about the size of the drive but the speed of the drive that counts.
Hire a Lawyer.
On slashdot you will often get the following.
1. The over careful... Don't do it.
2. If you get permissions you should be Ok
3. Go ahead it is X fault for having it unsecured anyways.
4. People who lie just to punish people who asks slashdot these questions
5. Just get so many responses that you cannot make an informed decision. As usually the most authoritative post will win... However it may not be the right one.
You must not have used early versions of X11. Back in the old days you needed to enter in the horizontal and vertical refresh rates and resolutions... Improper configuration could damage some CRT screens.