All of these media "giants" became giants because they offered alternatives. Yet, they all think that their business model will be eternal. The studios fought against cassette tape recorders, VCRs, video rentals, streaming TV, MP3s, torrents, iTunes, time shifting. In other words, anything that made it more convenient for viewers to -- you know -- view their content was seen as something horrible. If they had their way, we would adjust our schedules around the 6PM Tuesday timeslot to watch some sitcom. Why do they fight technology so fiercely when they should be embracing it? Find out what people like to do and offer a solution... Or, develop a new way and people will flock to it.
Oh, wow. TFA looks more than just noise, but we don't know how true it is yet. That said, I've seen so many articles about companies disclaiming liability because the crimes were committed by a partner or subsidiary. I want to do that too. After all, if companies get the benefits of personhood, I think people should get the benefits that corporations do too. I'll spin off a subsidiary person. He'll do all the crimes (cutting off mattress tags, walking on the "Don't Walk", eating oatmeal without a spoon) and I can benefit. When someone bothers to check, I can raise up the mini-me and have them throw him in jail. I'll keep the profits.
I run lots of statistical analyses. Most of the code is in R with some wrappers in Perl and some specific libraries in C. The R and Perl code is pretty much all my own. The C is almost entirely open source software with very minor changes to specify different libraries (I'm experimenting with some GPU computing code from NVidia). Most of the people who are doing similar things are using Python with R (or more specifically, the people I know who are doing the same thing are using Python/R).
An average run with a given data set takes approximately 20 minutes to complete on an 8-core AMD 8160. About 80% of the run is multi-threaded and all cores are pegged. The last bit is constrained mainly by network and disk speed.
You may consider using something like Java/Hadoop depending on your data and compute requirements. Though my Java code is just a step above the level of a grunting walrus, I've found that the performance is actually not that bad and can be pretty good in some cases.
Yeah.. It's a fine line between telling an interesting story and just annoying half the audience. I don't mind so much if it's not central to the plot, but when a lynch pin device is so horrible, I get mad such as in the Angelina Jolie movie about bullets that could curve around in flight. That was one the worst, but there are so many.
Good points, but Linux works great in my household.
I'm running mainly CentOS and Linux Mint. My GPUs are all Nvidia running the proprietary drivers. I flirted for a while with AMD/ATI but still too much nonsense getting them to work right. Wireless cards are from ThinkPengiun mainly, with one system using an Atheros driver. This Atheros system occasionally needs to be reset, so I added a script that does a module reload whenever the network glitches. Yes, I don't expect the average person to be able to do that, but I also had to Google how to shutdown a Windows 8 machine.
The hardware was chosen based on what got the most number of good reviews on Newegg.
All this is meaningless without an application stack. Most of my work is done either with a browser or a shell. Google Play and Amazon Prime movies work fine, as does Pandora, Slacker and the Google Music site. Netflix, notably, does not work though I am streaming Netflix to a Chromecast device as I speak. I disabled one Netflix account after I converted a Windows system over and it no longer worked. If Netlix is reading, I hope they note that they lost at least one subscription because Linux was not supported (yeah, I can get it to work via Wine trickery, but not worth my effort).
The wife uses some Java based financial software. She's still a Windows user, but the OS is pretty much irrelevant to her. I got her app stack working on CentOS (the Java software, browser apps and desktop links to some URLs.
The daughter uses some web apps, Minecraft (Java based), YouTube and other miscellany. She also plays Nexuiz occasionally and Left4Dead. All work fine.
There's a similar rule in many places. Supposedly the law is to stop folks who use their front yard as a business. I once lived a few houses away from someone who did this often and it was a nuisance. The family also sold cars and every few weeks there was a new vehicle with a 'For Sale' sign on their lot.
The way I'd do it is to create a dummy printer driver that just writes to a file. Print the PDF to the dummy printer, which in turn creates a new PDF without all the junk.
I do have a first person account of a similar mixup...
Years ago I worked for a company called Metro Link (not the railway, but a Linux/Unix software development shop). We owned the metrolink.com domain name, which in itself caused a lot of confusion. At the recent Red Hat Summit I met a few railroad folks (IT engineers, not railroad *engineers*) and they all knew the railroad.
There was another company that made a fish finding device called a HummingBird Fish Finder. As luck would have it, our 800 number was off by one digit from the Hummingbird company.
So MetroLink made graphics and X server products. Among the different X-server products in existence at the time was one called Hummingbird. They made a product that provided a PC X-server. That was a recipe for all sorts of calls.
One of my current cell phone numbers was once owned by someone who skipped out on a lot of bills. I've had the number for a couple years but *still* get calls asking for him. Because these are invariably rude, I have tons of fun with them. I don't think (or intend to) to cause any grief for the former number holder, but it's more than fun playing with creditors with attitudes.
So for years I've been hearing that it's much cheaper to throw faster hardware at a problem rather than tuning an application or a server. It's finally coming back to bite us. Imagine if tuning had gained a 10% or 15% improvement. How much power and millions of dollars does that translate to?
It looks like it will be the rest of the industry versus Microsoft and Oracle. IBM, HP, Cisco, Red Hat and hundreds of smaller companies are getting behind OpenStack and Linux based infrastructure. At recent talks I've attended, Oracle and Microsoft were barely mentioned. The OS is Linux and the databases are mongodb, nosql.. No one is talking about MS/Oracle solutions except in a VMWare talk I attended a month ago, and even then it was mainly about licensing models. Oracle and Microsoft are in big danger of becoming irrelevant in the cloud.
Pull the logs and other supporting information including client notes, change orders, SOWs, source code revision history, etc. and present it. . You can explain that it's a matter of principle that you're doing it because you value your good name. I think it's unlikely that you'll be retained by that company, but clearing it up may give the thief a bit of heat.
It has happened to me while working at UPS. One of the admins there stole my training guides and put his name on them.
My company issued laptop is a Windows 7 system. This was a requirement as some of the tools I use only run on Windows (e.g., VMWare VSphere Client, some IE specific apps, miscellaneous other tools). Much to my embarassment, I'm actually the only one on my team still running Windows on my laptop. The others are running RHEL6 Workstation builds. Within a month I'll be joining them (my desktop is already RHEL6).
At home my main workstations are all CentOS 6 with KDE desktops. The main apps I run are the Chrome browser, konsole, Firefox, R, VLC Media Player, Pidgin, Octave and VMWare Workstation and Player. I fire up Nexuiz every so often, but I'm not much of a gamer. Other occasional apps are Blender, Gimp, GnuPlot, some Java apps, LibreOffice and occasionally a Fortran compiler. The only thing I can't do easily on Linux is video editing.
There's no compelling reason for me to have a Windows workstation or laptop any more. I always build my desktops and paying another $120 for a Windows license just seems a waste. If it was $30-$40, I'd probably have bought three or four licenses by now for running the occasional Windows-only software in a VM. Many of my apps are web based including my email, chat, spreadsheets, image management, etc..
Call it "Lexi Diamond - Ronda Rousey mud wrestle" and share it on a torrent and soon the whole world will back it up for you....
Seriously though, even if you were a previous email hoarder, you will likely be able to comfortably archive all your emails *and* the tools needed to access them on a USB stick. Start by finding all the tools you need, source included, and place them on your storage medium. Compress it. Send it to the cloud.
Mail files can be stored by year (easy enough to do with awk or other mail tools). It will a lot smaller then some may think when you consider the size of your mail spool to the typical Library of Congress (10 Terabytes around 2002). Newegg currerntly has a 3TB drive for $140...
This game will be called "Patent War"... The object is to collect as many patents growing around the landscape stuff them in your pocket. The more patents you collect, the better are your chances against the Innovation Monster. Defeat the Innovation Monster and collect Gold Coins. Use the Gold Coins to buy Senators who can help build fences to keep the Innovation Monster away. Once you level up, defeat the Consumer Rights Beast and collect even more Gold Coins and even the Vorpal DRM which can stave off the Indie Media Goblin and the DIY Music Devil.
It's not a new concept, but as we get more massive filesystems on all sorts of backend storage, there should be a way to abstract the backend. Certain types of operations are expensive from a traditional filesystem standpoint but trivial from a database. For example, metadata on files often requires a multi-step process of looking up the filename in an index then opening each file to query the data. I have multiple computing devices with local storage. When I want to search for a file, it is sometimes a tedious process of searching multiple systems to try to recall where I wrote the file (It happens more often than you'd imagine; many of my systems are accessible only via ssh so there are no other memory cues such as "I was at my home desk"). Imagine if the files from all my systems could be searched from one interface? I have thought of using map-reduce or even a combination of locatedb and mysql to do this, but what I really want is metadata to be stored automatically and natively in the database.
The downstream utility would be interesting and could change how we approach storage (e.g., for de-duplication, multi-tier storage based on cost, streamlining of layered applications, etc.).
I love the Top Gear show, but they're more a comedy show than a proper car review show. As far as Tesla was concerned, Google the lawsuit and you'll understand why Tesla turns on all logging. They caught Top Gear in a bit of a lie.
Cyberspace, though the term itself is dated, is becoming even more real. The real world has physical and political boundaries, laws, and interactions. The physical world also has arbitrary boundaries (note that there is no black line on the earth at the US/Mexico border). We exist in the physical world and are governed by a set of arbitrary laws (do not "steal" this set of bits, pay more for this widget because it has a fruit logo, this person is beautiful and therefore gifted with wealth and adoration). I work with people in the real world that I have never met. I purchase goods and services from businesses that may or may not have a physical address and stockrooms.
When I enter "Cyberspace" there is no distinction between a physical store and a virtual one. Some online stores even show a picture of their checkout clerk (she's cute and looks a lot like the girl who helps me pick insurance and the girl from my cellular carrier). Some stores even show a picture of their physical store, but everyone knows that this can merely be clever marketers that know that people are slightly more likely to buy from physical stores with an online-presence than a purely online store.
When I interact with avatars in my fake world, and we're all in the same virtual room, it's no different than interacting with people over a conference call.
In a larger sense though, the virtual worlds act as an amazing proxy and model for real world issues. In the virtual world there are runs on banks, inflation, speculation. Life models art and art models life. In fact, we can also learn about interesting market conditions from studying virtual worlds.
Anyhoo.. I'm going back to watching my Caprica. Ciao.
I read the Bible in the original Klingon. The part about turning the other cheek has been seriously misinterpreted. It's funny how many passages have been modified from the original Klingon over the millennia.
I am, however, a disciple of the Incredible Hulk, the most powerful being in the Universe and agree that the skeptics are tools with their blathering about, "Gamma radiation doesn't do that!" I'm so sick of hearing it.
Dell's problem is not Linux. Their problem is that they no longer desire to sell computers to anyone. I tried three times last year to buy a laptop and their absolutely useless sales people completely ignored the features I requested. It was comical. I'd been a Dell customer for many years but last year I switched to Asus.
I'm reading this two minutes after pulling apart a Peavey RAGE guitar amp and showing my daughter how to play Marissa Paternoster's shred near the middle of "I Don't Mind It".
If you've out of the game for a while, make sure to stress knowledge of network virtualization in addition to traditional/legacy networking. It's a good time as any to get in because there are relatively few people that are experienced in that aspect. It's not that it's particularly new, but new enough that most enterprises haven't completely adopted it (outside of cloud providers).
I recently used Google Drive with directory sync to "collaborate" with two others on a presentation. It's not true collaboration in the sense of how multiple developers could use something like CVS and merge, but it was useful enough. LibreOffice will create a lockfile that is also synched, so at least can tell you if someone else has the document open.
The process was: 1) Create a shared directory in Google Drive. 2) All team members installed Google Drive and synched that folder. 3) One member uploaded images to a subdirectory, another generated a layout in Scribus, another created copy. 4) Finally everyone uploaded PDFs to another subdir so everyone could view.
Normally we'd do this over a local fileserver but even though we were all sitting around the same table, it was just easier to do it via Drive because everyone was using their own laptops.
I'm not a professional writer so LibreOffice is good enough for me. This is why feature creep happens in Word. Without all those "pro" features, there would be no reason for most folks to pay a premium for Word when LibreOffice suffices.
I have seen a pretty convincing 3D demo using glasses. The eyeglasses had sensors that tracked your head movement and correlated with the on-screen demo. Moving your head allowed you to see different sides of an object. For example, there was a 3D cube scene. Not only did they have stereoscopic "depth", but they also shifted as you moved around. It was pretty convincing versus the fixed camera that we have on current fake 3D.
With gadgets similar to Kinect, I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to replicate the effect without the expensive head tracking equipment.
You could always alias your man command to do a wget with the proper GET to a Google search page.
So a 'man kudzu' would do a 'wget www.google.com?q=kudzu'.. maybe return the full page, run it through html2txt and then display.. Now that would be a cool script...
But of course, 'man man ' and 'man snmp' would likely get your system locked out from the GoodNiceQuery proxy...
And don't even get me started on 'man gimp', 'man latex', 'man size', or 'man dump'.
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All of these media "giants" became giants because they offered alternatives. Yet, they all think that their business model will be eternal. The studios fought against cassette tape recorders, VCRs, video rentals, streaming TV, MP3s, torrents, iTunes, time shifting. In other words, anything that made it more convenient for viewers to -- you know -- view their content was seen as something horrible. If they had their way, we would adjust our schedules around the 6PM Tuesday timeslot to watch some sitcom. Why do they fight technology so fiercely when they should be embracing it? Find out what people like to do and offer a solution... Or, develop a new way and people will flock to it.
Oh, wow. TFA looks more than just noise, but we don't know how true it is yet. That said, I've seen so many articles about companies disclaiming liability because the crimes were committed by a partner or subsidiary. I want to do that too. After all, if companies get the benefits of personhood, I think people should get the benefits that corporations do too. I'll spin off a subsidiary person. He'll do all the crimes (cutting off mattress tags, walking on the "Don't Walk", eating oatmeal without a spoon) and I can benefit. When someone bothers to check, I can raise up the mini-me and have them throw him in jail. I'll keep the profits.
I run lots of statistical analyses. Most of the code is in R with some wrappers in Perl and some specific libraries in C. The R and Perl code is pretty much all my own. The C is almost entirely open source software with very minor changes to specify different libraries (I'm experimenting with some GPU computing code from NVidia). Most of the people who are doing similar things are using Python with R (or more specifically, the people I know who are doing the same thing are using Python/R).
An average run with a given data set takes approximately 20 minutes to complete on an 8-core AMD 8160. About 80% of the run is multi-threaded and all cores are pegged. The last bit is constrained mainly by network and disk speed.
You may consider using something like Java/Hadoop depending on your data and compute requirements. Though my Java code is just a step above the level of a grunting walrus, I've found that the performance is actually not that bad and can be pretty good in some cases.
Yeah.. It's a fine line between telling an interesting story and just annoying half the audience. I don't mind so much if it's not central to the plot, but when a lynch pin device is so horrible, I get mad such as in the Angelina Jolie movie about bullets that could curve around in flight. That was one the worst, but there are so many.
Good points, but Linux works great in my household.
I'm running mainly CentOS and Linux Mint. My GPUs are all Nvidia running the proprietary drivers. I flirted for a while with AMD/ATI but still too much nonsense getting them to work right. Wireless cards are from ThinkPengiun mainly, with one system using an Atheros driver. This Atheros system occasionally needs to be reset, so I added a script that does a module reload whenever the network glitches. Yes, I don't expect the average person to be able to do that, but I also had to Google how to shutdown a Windows 8 machine.
The hardware was chosen based on what got the most number of good reviews on Newegg.
All this is meaningless without an application stack. Most of my work is done either with a browser or a shell. Google Play and Amazon Prime movies work fine, as does Pandora, Slacker and the Google Music site. Netflix, notably, does not work though I am streaming Netflix to a Chromecast device as I speak. I disabled one Netflix account after I converted a Windows system over and it no longer worked. If Netlix is reading, I hope they note that they lost at least one subscription because Linux was not supported (yeah, I can get it to work via Wine trickery, but not worth my effort).
The wife uses some Java based financial software. She's still a Windows user, but the OS is pretty much irrelevant to her. I got her app stack working on CentOS (the Java software, browser apps and desktop links to some URLs.
The daughter uses some web apps, Minecraft (Java based), YouTube and other miscellany. She also plays Nexuiz occasionally and Left4Dead. All work fine.
There's a similar rule in many places. Supposedly the law is to stop folks who use their front yard as a business. I once lived a few houses away from someone who did this often and it was a nuisance. The family also sold cars and every few weeks there was a new vehicle with a 'For Sale' sign on their lot.
The way I'd do it is to create a dummy printer driver that just writes to a file. Print the PDF to the dummy printer, which in turn creates a new PDF without all the junk.
The parents are supporting the hermits and have been over sheltering of them to get them to that point
My mom goes for her pistol should I set foot on her property, thank you.
I do have a first person account of a similar mixup...
Years ago I worked for a company called Metro Link (not the railway, but a Linux/Unix software development shop). We owned the metrolink.com domain name, which in itself caused a lot of confusion. At the recent Red Hat Summit I met a few railroad folks (IT engineers, not railroad *engineers*) and they all knew the railroad.
There was another company that made a fish finding device called a HummingBird Fish Finder. As luck would have it, our 800 number was off by one digit from the Hummingbird company.
So MetroLink made graphics and X server products. Among the different X-server products in existence at the time was one called Hummingbird. They made a product that provided a PC X-server. That was a recipe for all sorts of calls.
One of my current cell phone numbers was once owned by someone who skipped out on a lot of bills. I've had the number for a couple years but *still* get calls asking for him. Because these are invariably rude, I have tons of fun with them. I don't think (or intend to) to cause any grief for the former number holder, but it's more than fun playing with creditors with attitudes.
So for years I've been hearing that it's much cheaper to throw faster hardware at a problem rather than tuning an application or a server. It's finally coming back to bite us. Imagine if tuning had gained a 10% or 15% improvement. How much power and millions of dollars does that translate to?
It looks like it will be the rest of the industry versus Microsoft and Oracle. IBM, HP, Cisco, Red Hat and hundreds of smaller companies are getting behind OpenStack and Linux based infrastructure. At recent talks I've attended, Oracle and Microsoft were barely mentioned. The OS is Linux and the databases are mongodb, nosql.. No one is talking about MS/Oracle solutions except in a VMWare talk I attended a month ago, and even then it was mainly about licensing models. Oracle and Microsoft are in big danger of becoming irrelevant in the cloud.
Pull the logs and other supporting information including client notes, change orders, SOWs, source code revision history, etc. and present it. . You can explain that it's a matter of principle that you're doing it because you value your good name. I think it's unlikely that you'll be retained by that company, but clearing it up may give the thief a bit of heat.
It has happened to me while working at UPS. One of the admins there stole my training guides and put his name on them.
My company issued laptop is a Windows 7 system. This was a requirement as some of the tools I use only run on Windows (e.g., VMWare VSphere Client, some IE specific apps, miscellaneous other tools). Much to my embarassment, I'm actually the only one on my team still running Windows on my laptop. The others are running RHEL6 Workstation builds. Within a month I'll be joining them (my desktop is already RHEL6).
At home my main workstations are all CentOS 6 with KDE desktops. The main apps I run are the Chrome browser, konsole, Firefox, R, VLC Media Player, Pidgin, Octave and VMWare Workstation and Player. I fire up Nexuiz every so often, but I'm not much of a gamer. Other occasional apps are Blender, Gimp, GnuPlot, some Java apps, LibreOffice and occasionally a Fortran compiler. The only thing I can't do easily on Linux is video editing.
There's no compelling reason for me to have a Windows workstation or laptop any more. I always build my desktops and paying another $120 for a Windows license just seems a waste. If it was $30-$40, I'd probably have bought three or four licenses by now for running the occasional Windows-only software in a VM. Many of my apps are web based including my email, chat, spreadsheets, image management, etc..
Call it "Lexi Diamond - Ronda Rousey mud wrestle" and share it on a torrent and soon the whole world will back it up for you....
Seriously though, even if you were a previous email hoarder, you will likely be able to comfortably archive all your emails *and* the tools needed to access them on a USB stick. Start by finding all the tools you need, source included, and place them on your storage medium. Compress it. Send it to the cloud.
Mail files can be stored by year (easy enough to do with awk or other mail tools). It will a lot smaller then some may think when you consider the size of your mail spool to the typical Library of Congress (10 Terabytes around 2002). Newegg currerntly has a 3TB drive for $140...
This game will be called "Patent War"...
The object is to collect as many patents growing around the landscape stuff them in your pocket. The more patents you collect, the better are your chances against the Innovation Monster. Defeat the Innovation Monster and collect Gold Coins. Use the Gold Coins to buy Senators who can help build fences to keep the Innovation Monster away. Once you level up, defeat the Consumer Rights Beast and collect even more Gold Coins and even the Vorpal DRM which can stave off the Indie Media Goblin and the DIY Music Devil.
It's not a new concept, but as we get more massive filesystems on all sorts of backend storage, there should be a way to abstract the backend. Certain types of operations are expensive from a traditional filesystem standpoint but trivial from a database. For example, metadata on files often requires a multi-step process of looking up the filename in an index then opening each file to query the data. I have multiple computing devices with local storage. When I want to search for a file, it is sometimes a tedious process of searching multiple systems to try to recall where I wrote the file (It happens more often than you'd imagine; many of my systems are accessible only via ssh so there are no other memory cues such as "I was at my home desk"). Imagine if the files from all my systems could be searched from one interface? I have thought of using map-reduce or even a combination of locatedb and mysql to do this, but what I really want is metadata to be stored automatically and natively in the database.
The downstream utility would be interesting and could change how we approach storage (e.g., for de-duplication, multi-tier storage based on cost, streamlining of layered applications, etc.).
I love the Top Gear show, but they're more a comedy show than a proper car review show. As far as Tesla was concerned, Google the lawsuit and you'll understand why Tesla turns on all logging. They caught Top Gear in a bit of a lie.
Cyberspace, though the term itself is dated, is becoming even more real. The real world has physical and political boundaries, laws, and interactions. The physical world also has arbitrary boundaries (note that there is no black line on the earth at the US/Mexico border). We exist in the physical world and are governed by a set of arbitrary laws (do not "steal" this set of bits, pay more for this widget because it has a fruit logo, this person is beautiful and therefore gifted with wealth and adoration).
I work with people in the real world that I have never met. I purchase goods and services from businesses that may or may not have a physical address and stockrooms.
When I enter "Cyberspace" there is no distinction between a physical store and a virtual one. Some online stores even show a picture of their checkout clerk (she's cute and looks a lot like the girl who helps me pick insurance and the girl from my cellular carrier). Some stores even show a picture of their physical store, but everyone knows that this can merely be clever marketers that know that people are slightly more likely to buy from physical stores with an online-presence than a purely online store.
When I interact with avatars in my fake world, and we're all in the same virtual room, it's no different than interacting with people over a conference call.
In a larger sense though, the virtual worlds act as an amazing proxy and model for real world issues. In the virtual world there are runs on banks, inflation, speculation. Life models art and art models life. In fact, we can also learn about interesting market conditions from studying virtual worlds.
Anyhoo.. I'm going back to watching my Caprica. Ciao.
I read the Bible in the original Klingon. The part about turning the other cheek has been seriously misinterpreted. It's funny how many passages have been modified from the original Klingon over the millennia.
I am, however, a disciple of the Incredible Hulk, the most powerful being in the Universe and agree that the skeptics are tools with their blathering about, "Gamma radiation doesn't do that!" I'm so sick of hearing it.
Green One go with you.
Veritas est Viridis.
Dell's problem is not Linux. Their problem is that they no longer desire to sell computers to anyone. I tried three times last year to buy a laptop and their absolutely useless sales people completely ignored the features I requested. It was comical. I'd been a Dell customer for many years but last year I switched to Asus.
I'm reading this two minutes after pulling apart a Peavey RAGE guitar amp and showing my daughter how to play Marissa Paternoster's shred near the middle of "I Don't Mind It".
If you've out of the game for a while, make sure to stress knowledge of network virtualization in addition to traditional/legacy networking. It's a good time as any to get in because there are relatively few people that are experienced in that aspect. It's not that it's particularly new, but new enough that most enterprises haven't completely adopted it (outside of cloud providers).
I recently used Google Drive with directory sync to "collaborate" with two others on a presentation. It's not true collaboration in the sense of how multiple developers could use something like CVS and merge, but it was useful enough. LibreOffice will create a lockfile that is also synched, so at least can tell you if someone else has the document open.
The process was:
1) Create a shared directory in Google Drive.
2) All team members installed Google Drive and synched that folder.
3) One member uploaded images to a subdirectory, another generated a layout in Scribus, another created copy.
4) Finally everyone uploaded PDFs to another subdir so everyone could view.
Normally we'd do this over a local fileserver but even though we were all sitting around the same table, it was just easier to do it via Drive because everyone was using their own laptops.
I'm not a professional writer so LibreOffice is good enough for me. This is why feature creep happens in Word. Without all those "pro" features, there would be no reason for most folks to pay a premium for Word when LibreOffice suffices.
I have seen a pretty convincing 3D demo using glasses. The eyeglasses had sensors that tracked your head movement and correlated with the on-screen demo. Moving your head allowed you to see different sides of an object. For example, there was a 3D cube scene. Not only did they have stereoscopic "depth", but they also shifted as you moved around. It was pretty convincing versus the fixed camera that we have on current fake 3D.
With gadgets similar to Kinect, I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to replicate the effect without the expensive head tracking equipment.
You could always alias your man command to do a wget with the proper GET to a Google search page.
So a 'man kudzu' would do a 'wget www.google.com?q=kudzu'.. maybe return the full page, run it through html2txt and then display.. Now that would be a cool script...
But of course, 'man man ' and 'man snmp' would likely get your system locked out from the GoodNiceQuery proxy...
And don't even get me started on 'man gimp', 'man latex', 'man size', or 'man dump'.