Isn't most innovation in computers about cost? Mainframes replaced by Minis replaced by Workstations replaced by PCs replaced by Phones. The driver is cost.
There was some non-cost innovation, but you have to go back decades for it.
Partly, it could be a way to get early-adopters started with a seriously multi-core CPU. Getting some some cool apps developed and tested with it will validate the platform, and will invite the next stage of adopters. By the time the proper CPU line has 32 cores (in a few short years), the platform will be ready - or, at least, more ready than alternatives (like the IBM/PS3 Cell processor).
Whoever gets real traction with multi-core will win. This discontinuity is an opportunity for a new manufacturer (ie. that no one has ever heard of) to "own" computers.
that's why microsoft was *unprecedentedly* successful.
But microsoft was very successful before DOS, with its BASIC language. So successful that vendors of new computers used the existence of MS BASIC as a selling point.
Intel calls the eee PC and clones "netbooks", identifying the market as "internet access", and not "general purpose PC".
If they're right, and people buy these for internet access, then the phone analogy makes perfect sense. Although they can do anything a PC can do, the crucial thing is if enough people buy it for that specific purpose (it doesn't have to be everyone).
20 years ago, I heard Canada was paying teachers much more, while here (Australia), wages were falling. I thought it would have a significant impact on Canada's productivity, long-term.
Come on, HDD and SDD have different seek/read/write characteristics.
I'm sure several algorithms that affect filesystem performance were written with the former's characteristics implicitly in mind.
Maybe some new approaches become plausible, given this underlying change? Historically, being the first to understand and exploit the advantages of a new technology makes a huge difference.
Voice acting in a video game is not comparable to TV or movies. It is comparable to voice acting in an animation.
IANAAVA, but I've heard that when big name actors play voice parts in Disney films, they aren't very well paid - it's more of an honour to get to do it.
Mind you - great voice acting makes a tremendous difference, and it takes real talent and experience - it should be well paid. The real issue is that the audience doesn't identify the voice with the actor, so it is not acting as a trademark. Therefore, the voice actor doesn't have anything to "own", and he can trivially be replaced with another (equally talented) voice actor. He's a commodity. Just like excellent programmers (who also are paid a high salary, but not royalties).
To avoid this, voice actors would have to make their voice distinctive to audiences, so audiences identify it as that voice actor. They haven't done this in many decades of opportunity (maybe too easy to mimic?), so I can't see it happening now.
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You painstakingly gather data, and have some initial insights about it. You publish all the data immediately.
Someone else sees the data, and because they are coming to it fresh, not so close to the data, and not exhausted by hard work (unlike you...), they instantly see something that you haven't yet seen.
Note that this is definitely better for the world... but who gets the credit? The accolades? The grants? The promotions?
And who gets the feeling of discovering something?
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With technology being so important today, they should be hiring proper geeks for their top aides.
Then they wouldn't have this kind of security lapse.
> Cost, not innovation
Isn't most innovation in computers about cost? Mainframes replaced by Minis replaced by Workstations replaced by PCs replaced by Phones. The driver is cost.
There was some non-cost innovation, but you have to go back decades for it.
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Partly, it could be a way to get early-adopters started with a seriously multi-core CPU. Getting some some cool apps developed and tested with it will validate the platform, and will invite the next stage of adopters. By the time the proper CPU line has 32 cores (in a few short years), the platform will be ready - or, at least, more ready than alternatives (like the IBM/PS3 Cell processor).
Whoever gets real traction with multi-core will win. This discontinuity is an opportunity for a new manufacturer (ie. that no one has ever heard of) to "own" computers.
ever had a friend get into Amway?
Sales and Marketing guys are 100% pointless, apart from the money and customers they bring in.
We're not planning to introduce a competing product
We're not planning to introduce a competing product
We're not planning to introduce a competing product
OK, now we're planning to introduce a competing product
Can MS sue them, too?
I guess it's priced by the value the buyer gets, not by what it costs to produce.
I try to think in terms of myself: i.e. what I get for my money; not what profit they make.
Personally, I like it that there's a discount if you buy both (i.e. it's cheaper to get both together than to buy them separately).
if they follow the "pragmatic programmer's" approach:
hard copy: $36.95
pdf: $22.50
http://pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang/programming-erlang
Also, they do "social DRM", adding "Prepared exclusively for YOUR_NAME" as a small footnote on each page. I kinda like it.
that's why microsoft was *unprecedentedly* successful.
But microsoft was very successful before DOS, with its BASIC language. So successful that vendors of new computers used the existence of MS BASIC as a selling point.
Intel calls the eee PC and clones "netbooks", identifying the market as "internet access", and not "general purpose PC".
If they're right, and people buy these for internet access, then the phone analogy makes perfect sense. Although they can do anything a PC can do, the crucial thing is if enough people buy it for that specific purpose (it doesn't have to be everyone).
20 years ago, I heard Canada was paying teachers much more, while here (Australia), wages were falling. I thought it would have a significant impact on Canada's productivity, long-term.
Anyone know how that worked out?
"...PageRank, an algorithm developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin..."
Not true.
PageRank was invented by Page (note the name), according to the patent. If the patent is incorrect on that, then the patent is invalid.
Come on, HDD and SDD have different seek/read/write characteristics.
I'm sure several algorithms that affect filesystem performance were written with the former's characteristics implicitly in mind.
Maybe some new approaches become plausible, given this underlying change? Historically, being the first to understand and exploit the advantages of a new technology makes a huge difference.
Voice acting in a video game is not comparable to TV or movies. It is comparable to voice acting in an animation.
IANAAVA, but I've heard that when big name actors play voice parts in Disney films, they aren't very well paid - it's more of an honour to get to do it.
Mind you - great voice acting makes a tremendous difference, and it takes real talent and experience - it should be well paid. The real issue is that the audience doesn't identify the voice with the actor, so it is not acting as a trademark. Therefore, the voice actor doesn't have anything to "own", and he can trivially be replaced with another (equally talented) voice actor. He's a commodity. Just like excellent programmers (who also are paid a high salary, but not royalties).
To avoid this, voice actors would have to make their voice distinctive to audiences, so audiences identify it as that voice actor. They haven't done this in many decades of opportunity (maybe too easy to mimic?), so I can't see it happening now.
Could be. It depends on if they can absorb fewer mistakes and greater complexity.
That is, they currently are making significant mistakes, and that there are more complex operations that they'd like to do but currently cannot.
Those assumptions sound reasonable to me.
In 5, 10 or 20 years, there will be some other technology that is hot, in some particular industry.
If remember to you look into its history, you'll find it was first began, by one person, today: Monday May 19, 2008.
Why do I think so? It's how all new technology begins.
It's a boon for microsurgery. But is it for microsurgeons, if their special talents become valued less?
Next thing, it will be offshored - then automated. That is, unless the "surgeon unions" have something to say about it...
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OpenOffice was pre-installed on my Eee PC - it's standard.
However, my experience is that Word has its problems, but OpenOffice is worse.
HDD -> SDD in the background. There's data inconsistency, but it's a form of caching, so I expect there's already an efficient solution.
You painstakingly gather data, and have some initial insights about it. You publish all the data immediately.
Someone else sees the data, and because they are coming to it fresh, not so close to the data, and not exhausted by hard work (unlike you...), they instantly see something that you haven't yet seen.
Note that this is definitely better for the world... but who gets the credit? The accolades? The grants? The promotions?
And who gets the feeling of discovering something?
as far as size goes, Venus is Earth-like