Except for the DRM, which Mr. Jobs has mostly figured out, physical media has no reason to exist. It's a shame that the most popular formats are so compressed, but that will improve with more bandwidth and Moore's law. Ultimately, the quality of your DAC and transducers (i.e. speakers) determines the quality of your playback level. Vinyl has a certain appealing sound characteristic when enough money is spent on the playback but will never become mainstream again, relegated to hobby status.
It's in its "nascent" stages, years away from reality, and they mention that even a single pixel could be beneficial - already managing expectations downward. Seems like pretty good PR to me.
BTW, I'm working on teleportation. It too is in its nascent stages.
You try and try to teach your child about how knives can cut them. Keep them pointed away from you, cut carefully, blah blah blah. But until it actually cuts them, they won't know for sure the threat. if anything, they will hear your annoying voice and that's the only reason they won't act foolishly.
If you really want the general population to react, get them to feel the pain. Perhaps simulate a security breach for each individual?
Alternatively, lecture them until they hear your annoying voice in their head 24 x 7.
China's leaders still live in a world of controlled information flow to the masses. This works well if the masses have to come to you for their information and culturally accept this form of government.
The more Chinese that return home after being abroad and experiencing a free flow of information, the faster these policies will no longer be tolerated by the masses. Government will have to change with the times. But the change will have to come from within and it will take another generation or two.
For now, Google has to play by the rules of those in power. The business opportunity is too great to ignore, so we can predict they will conform.
unlimited supply e.m.i. there is no reason why e.m.i. i tell you it was all a frame e.m.i. they only did it 'cos of fame e.m.i. i do not need the pressure e.m.i. i can't stand those useless fools e.m.i.
How good care you receive and how much is spent while you are dying is a result of caste and privilege. Do you think children in Laos are getting this kind of care?
...and the robot ACTUATES the solution. You enter the starting state of the cube and the program figures out the solution. Different than the robot solving the puzzle.
Set your status to away, park your car down the block, get out the "home defense" technology guaranteed under the second amendment. Vigilante justice, baby!!!
...if you can put up with the crappy AT&T network. If you're in a major metropolitan area and won't travel much you'll be fine. The sync features of the iPhone, including the camera/photos, are really nicely implemented.
This guy, and everybody else who thought the threat was only on New Year's Eve, 1999, are sadly misinformed. The problem happens primarily when calculations occur that span the century boundary. The media reports this garbage then when it doesn't come true the credible alarmists are called fools.
I was an analyst for Gartner in the years leading up to Y2K. As usual, the real story is nothing like what is reported in the press.
First of all, the systems failed not because the date itself rolled over to January 1, 2000, but when systems attempted to do a calculation that spanned both centuries and thus did the math wrong. In 1970, 30-year mortgages started having glitches because they calculated into the year 00, and started calculating interest based on 99 years’ worth of time. Called, the “Time Horizon to Failure,” these types of failures increased on a log scale in the 90s as we approached 1/1/2000. Few if any systems based on microcontrollers (say, elevators) care at all about the date, much less that the year is 2 digits.
The bug was very real. There was literally billions of lines of mainframe code written in the 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s that used two digits for dates. There was actually a 1970 bug, where some systems used only one digit for the date in the 60s. Remember we are talking 80 byte punch cards and memory that was hundreds of dollars per byte. The fixes weren’t hard but there was a LOT of code to slog through, much of which was not documented and in some cases they didn’t even have the source.
Why weren’t there more visible problems? in the early and mid 90s, all the IT departments alerted their managers to the problem, showed where in the code it needed to be fixed, and what the consequences were. But few managers acted, because nobody believed the “hype” and budgets were needed for more pressing initiatives.
Enter the Wall Street Journal, who wrote an article, I think it was in late 1996 or 1997, that said to company executives that their Errors and Omissions insurance would not cover them if their company experienced Y2K failures because the bug was widely publicized and the threat was well known. This means that the executives were personally liable (e.g. they could lose their houses) for Y2K failures that happened in their companies.
The next day, thousands of companies started Y2K projects, and fixed the issues. So, no serious bugs were reported, and those who labeled it hype had all the evidence they needed to support their theory. But it took a legal threat for managers to act.
Web retailers charge close to or full retail prices for things without the overhead of brick and mortar storefronts or high priced commissioned salespeople. The tax payment is a lookup table and electronic transfer. Gee, they might have to hire a programmer or two to keep up. Your argument falls in the "whaaah" category because online retailers are cleaning up.
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Except for the DRM, which Mr. Jobs has mostly figured out, physical media has no reason to exist. It's a shame that the most popular formats are so compressed, but that will improve with more bandwidth and Moore's law. Ultimately, the quality of your DAC and transducers (i.e. speakers) determines the quality of your playback level. Vinyl has a certain appealing sound characteristic when enough money is spent on the playback but will never become mainstream again, relegated to hobby status.
It's in its "nascent" stages, years away from reality, and they mention that even a single pixel could be beneficial - already managing expectations downward. Seems like pretty good PR to me.
BTW, I'm working on teleportation. It too is in its nascent stages.
You try and try to teach your child about how knives can cut them. Keep them pointed away from you, cut carefully, blah blah blah. But until it actually cuts them, they won't know for sure the threat. if anything, they will hear your annoying voice and that's the only reason they won't act foolishly.
If you really want the general population to react, get them to feel the pain. Perhaps simulate a security breach for each individual?
Alternatively, lecture them until they hear your annoying voice in their head 24 x 7.
I never knew that quote, but it's a classic! Explains everything!
The Onion once did a little seen op-ed entitled "All My Religion Needs Now is a Snazzy Post Death Scenario."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33382
...Jediism carries the same credibility as other religions directly based on science fiction stories. Just ask Tom Cruise.
Why don't more private rich guys step up and fund moon missions?
Now instead of teaching an Indian my job so it can be outsourced to India I'll teach a robot so it can be robo-sourced.
China's leaders still live in a world of controlled information flow to the masses. This works well if the masses have to come to you for their information and culturally accept this form of government.
The more Chinese that return home after being abroad and experiencing a free flow of information, the faster these policies will no longer be tolerated by the masses. Government will have to change with the times. But the change will have to come from within and it will take another generation or two.
For now, Google has to play by the rules of those in power. The business opportunity is too great to ignore, so we can predict they will conform.
unlimited supply e.m.i.
there is no reason why e.m.i.
i tell you it was all a frame e.m.i.
they only did it 'cos of fame e.m.i.
i do not need the pressure e.m.i.
i can't stand those useless fools e.m.i.
Sign me up for one of these AFTER the deaths per hour rate has been well-established.
How good care you receive and how much is spent while you are dying is a result of caste and privilege. Do you think children in Laos are getting this kind of care?
...and the robot ACTUATES the solution. You enter the starting state of the cube and the program figures out the solution. Different than the robot solving the puzzle.
Set your status to away, park your car down the block, get out the "home defense" technology guaranteed under the second amendment. Vigilante justice, baby!!!
Umm, just to confirm, I'm kidding...
Quick, which movie is this line from?
High risk behavior. Seemed to work out and impress though.
It could unleash a whole evil dental underworld.
Tell the seller you don't need their product unless they agree to your terms. This is not school - this is hardball.
Apple is certainly clear on what they want control over. Flash on the iPhone anyone? NOT!
Did you ever notice that if a movie shootout occurs between a guy with an Uzi and a guy with a handgun, the guy with the Uzi always loses?
...if you can put up with the crappy AT&T network. If you're in a major metropolitan area and won't travel much you'll be fine. The sync features of the iPhone, including the camera/photos, are really nicely implemented.
Sent from Longh Whang...
Is that a replacement bone in your leg, or are you just happy to see me?
This guy, and everybody else who thought the threat was only on New Year's Eve, 1999, are sadly misinformed. The problem happens primarily when calculations occur that span the century boundary. The media reports this garbage then when it doesn't come true the credible alarmists are called fools.
I was an analyst for Gartner in the years leading up to Y2K. As usual, the real story is nothing like what is reported in the press.
First of all, the systems failed not because the date itself rolled over to January 1, 2000, but when systems attempted to do a calculation that spanned both centuries and thus did the math wrong. In 1970, 30-year mortgages started having glitches because they calculated into the year 00, and started calculating interest based on 99 years’ worth of time. Called, the “Time Horizon to Failure,” these types of failures increased on a log scale in the 90s as we approached 1/1/2000. Few if any systems based on microcontrollers (say, elevators) care at all about the date, much less that the year is 2 digits.
The bug was very real. There was literally billions of lines of mainframe code written in the 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s that used two digits for dates. There was actually a 1970 bug, where some systems used only one digit for the date in the 60s. Remember we are talking 80 byte punch cards and memory that was hundreds of dollars per byte. The fixes weren’t hard but there was a LOT of code to slog through, much of which was not documented and in some cases they didn’t even have the source.
Why weren’t there more visible problems? in the early and mid 90s, all the IT departments alerted their managers to the problem, showed where in the code it needed to be fixed, and what the consequences were. But few managers acted, because nobody believed the “hype” and budgets were needed for more pressing initiatives.
Enter the Wall Street Journal, who wrote an article, I think it was in late 1996 or 1997, that said to company executives that their Errors and Omissions insurance would not cover them if their company experienced Y2K failures because the bug was widely publicized and the threat was well known. This means that the executives were personally liable (e.g. they could lose their houses) for Y2K failures that happened in their companies.
The next day, thousands of companies started Y2K projects, and fixed the issues. So, no serious bugs were reported, and those who labeled it hype had all the evidence they needed to support their theory. But it took a legal threat for managers to act.
Web retailers charge close to or full retail prices for things without the overhead of brick and mortar storefronts or high priced commissioned salespeople. The tax payment is a lookup table and electronic transfer. Gee, they might have to hire a programmer or two to keep up. Your argument falls in the "whaaah" category because online retailers are cleaning up.