Still waiting for India to offer us those dramatically cheaper software costs they've been promising. Where's the $100 laptop that India said it would have in Walmart by 2004?
It's amazing such a fine detail was recognized by the NASA managers. In a typical IT project, details like that are so far down the chain of command and the employee turnover so high, that they just get forgotten or buried.
There's not a shortage of workers. There's a shortage of salaries which can provide a decent living. Been at the same job for 5 1/2 years because the modern salaries are nowhere near what they were in 2001.
Sony needs to capitalize more on their music and movie assets and less on their high profile failures. Most of the attention is on a small number of high profile failures, despite the fact that Sony has had the most successful movie and music releases of our time.
Software is killing the release dates on this. Has anyone who said "shortage of blue lasers" actually seen the BD spec? All 4000 pages of it? BD-J is the single biggest thorn in this project. The maze of extensions and native interfaces required to make that work continue to plague engineers.
Everything the HDMV runtime does has to be replicated by the BD-J runtime, like 2 products in one. Furthermore, you just can't do everything BD-J needs to do in pure Java. As they learned more about the BD-J spec and what the 300Mhz CPU could do, it's become more like a trans-gaming emulator with most functions done natively. Now every memory allocation, graphics blit, networking function has to be done once in Java and again natively.
Studio executives tell us consumers are going to put down their Wii's, XBox 360's, and PS3's to play games in BD-J instead. They won't release BD titles unless the BD-J runtime is able to run their titles perfectly, and that means missed deadlines.
BD hardware, Home Networking, HDMV, DVD: DONE BD-J: good luck
A few years ago VA I.O.U. was laying off by the hundreds. What do you mean you can't find enough people?
It isn't a shortage of talent but a shortage of people who can afford to live in Fremont on a sourceforget programmer's income. Salaries are 20% lower than they were in 2000 and that's without the VA I.O.U. discount. Most people are content to stay at their 2000 jobs than taking a paycut at one of the new jobs.
It costs $500 for 1 square foot of land in most of the world. Compared to the cost of open space, the cost of the solar panel is nothing. It's far cheaper to use more expensive and efficient solar panels than printing enourmous amounts of money for more land. In terms of the raw materials, the energy required to make a solar panel, and the land to store it on, you're better off still using natural gas and dumping the solar panels.
HD-DVD has been out for almost a year. BD has been out for a few months. No breaches of encryption. Millions of 128 bit keys on each disk. No software players being sold. No interest from users in watching movies on their PC. These formats probably won't be cracked.
What would you rather watch? Talladega nights or King Kong? First betamax, then memory stick, and after making all those proprietary formats cost twice as much and have 1/10th the users, Sony has created the world's first proprietary audience.
Sony is putting every dime they have into BP-06. Judging by the buzz on the internet and the complexity of the BD spec, it's the biggest product they've ever launched. It's like Howard Hughes putting every dime into Hell's Angels or George Lucas putting every dime into Starwars. Usually if they gamble this much on a product it's because they know they're right and they're usually right.
This article isn't about where we would move and why we don't but why US SUX. Let it out. Welfare state and institutionalism are the biggest problems with IT. Canadia would probably offer a better standard of living, but it's really cold up there. Kuwait and United Arab Emirates have the highest standard of living in the world but have terrorist problems. Europeans have even more welfare problems than US. Russians keep tripping over themselves and never finish anything. Japan is almost as crowded as Silicon Valley. Antarctica is too cold. Everyone's trying to escape Mexico.
Indeed, US is the peak of human civilization, but a civilization is only as good as the human condition allows it to be. Human nature always leads to the mindless worship of a few strong leaders and our own enslavement. We can only do so well in the limitations of the human brain.
My greatest fear of Austin is the work environment. Your bosses are the living incarnation of satan. You have to come in on Saaaaaturday and umm, yeah, on Sunnnnnnnnday. You live in dumpy apartments where your construction worker neighbors hear you breath. You drink coffee at Chotshkies every 5 minutes.
This is a Russian prediction of what Russians are planning to do some day in the future. In other words, it's never going to happen. There's never going to be a shift to ad support or a DRM laden player.
The Blu-Ray player plays Blu-Ray disks just fine, you can rest assured. The problem is BD-J and home networking. That 66% of the BD spec is a bitch to get compliant.
It isn't Apple which imposes DRM. It's the content creators. It's the same way with Blu-Ray. The studios won't release anything unless they're certain the DRM works. The only advantage gained by Apple is the ability to lock out competing players by controlling access to the DRM. That's why Blu-Ray players won't go down in price the way DVD players did.
It's owned by Paul Allen. Saying it's owned by women is like saying those giant SUVs roaring around during weekdays are owned by the housewives who drive them. Don't believe every survey Oxygen puts out.
With highly redundant networks, the destruction of one command center isn't as important as it was when information was limited to one location. Also there may be a new super secret command center no-one knows about.
Less time is being spent in front of the PC and more time is being spent in front of the iPod, the set top box, and the plasma TV. With less time to devote to the PC, there's less need for an operating system which can run forever and more need for booting up for 5 minutes, doing something computationally light as quickly as possible, and shutting it down.
Not suprising that high school students looking for that first programming experience are shifting back to windows software.
India is supposed to launch all of NASA's moon probes under the "vision for space exploraration" but clearly their solid fueled rocket is almost as unreliable as the space shuttle. What are they going to do now, hire Americans to launch their moon probes?
The future really is an aggregating network like bittorrent, not physical media. You'll have 1 terrabyte cell phones aggregating content all day to be played back on PC's throgh a local wireless connection to the cell phone.
Unfortunately download services have been bulletproof on content protection. If anyone ever breaks into cinemanow, they can change the keys, which they can't do completely even with blu's millions of keys. That's going to keep it expensive.
tends to be a favorite line among American authors.
If u.s. wants China to launch its satellites, make its cars, make its motherboards, and finance its debt, things are going to have to be different t.h.e.r.e. too.
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Still waiting for India to offer us those dramatically cheaper software costs they've been promising. Where's the $100 laptop that India said it would have in Walmart by 2004?
Proving once again that if your leaders aren't doing a good job, just pay them more money.
It's amazing such a fine detail was recognized by the NASA managers. In a typical IT project, details like that are so far down the chain of command and the employee turnover so high, that they just get forgotten or buried.
There's not a shortage of workers. There's a shortage of salaries which can provide a decent living. Been at the same job for 5 1/2 years because the modern salaries are nowhere near what they were in 2001.
Sony needs to capitalize more on their music and movie assets and less on their high profile failures. Most of the attention is on a small number of high profile failures, despite the fact that Sony has had the most successful movie and music releases of our time.
Software is killing the release dates on this. Has anyone who said "shortage of blue lasers" actually seen the BD spec? All 4000 pages of it? BD-J is the single biggest thorn in this project. The maze of extensions and native interfaces required to make that work continue to plague engineers.
Everything the HDMV runtime does has to be replicated by the BD-J runtime, like 2 products in one. Furthermore, you just can't do everything BD-J needs to do in pure Java. As they learned more about the BD-J spec and what the 300Mhz CPU could do, it's become more like a trans-gaming emulator with most functions done natively. Now every memory allocation, graphics blit, networking function has to be done once in Java and again natively.
Studio executives tell us consumers are going to put down their Wii's, XBox 360's, and PS3's to play games in BD-J instead. They won't release BD titles unless the BD-J runtime is able to run their titles perfectly, and that means missed deadlines.
BD hardware, Home Networking, HDMV, DVD: DONE
BD-J: good luck
A few years ago VA I.O.U. was laying off by the hundreds. What do you mean you can't find enough people?
It isn't a shortage of talent but a shortage of people who can afford to live in Fremont on a sourceforget programmer's income. Salaries are 20% lower than they were in 2000 and that's without the VA I.O.U. discount. Most people are content to stay at their 2000 jobs than taking a paycut at one of the new jobs.
It costs $500 for 1 square foot of land in most of the world. Compared to the cost of open space, the cost of the solar panel is nothing. It's far cheaper to use more expensive and efficient solar panels than printing enourmous amounts of money for more land. In terms of the raw materials, the energy required to make a solar panel, and the land to store it on, you're better off still using natural gas and dumping the solar panels.
HD-DVD has been out for almost a year. BD has been out for a few months. No breaches of encryption. Millions of 128 bit keys on each disk. No software players being sold. No interest from users in watching movies on their PC. These formats probably won't be cracked.
What would you rather watch? Talladega nights or King Kong? First betamax, then memory stick, and after making all those proprietary formats cost twice as much and have 1/10th the users, Sony has created the world's first proprietary audience.
Sony is putting every dime they have into BP-06. Judging by the buzz on the internet and the complexity of the BD spec, it's the biggest product they've ever launched. It's like Howard Hughes putting every dime into Hell's Angels or George Lucas putting every dime into Starwars. Usually if they gamble this much on a product it's because they know they're right and they're usually right.
This article isn't about where we would move and why we don't but why US SUX. Let it out. Welfare state and institutionalism are the biggest problems with IT. Canadia would probably offer a better standard of living, but it's really cold up there. Kuwait and United Arab Emirates have the highest standard of living in the world but have terrorist problems. Europeans have even more welfare problems than US. Russians keep tripping over themselves and never finish anything. Japan is almost as crowded as Silicon Valley. Antarctica is too cold. Everyone's trying to escape Mexico.
Indeed, US is the peak of human civilization, but a civilization is only as good as the human condition allows it to be. Human nature always leads to the mindless worship of a few strong leaders and our own enslavement. We can only do so well in the limitations of the human brain.
My greatest fear of Austin is the work environment. Your bosses are the living incarnation of satan. You have to come in on Saaaaaturday and umm, yeah, on Sunnnnnnnnday. You live in dumpy apartments where your construction worker neighbors hear you breath. You drink coffee at Chotshkies every 5 minutes.
This is a Russian prediction of what Russians are planning to do some day in the future. In other words, it's never going to happen. There's never going to be a shift to ad support or a DRM laden player.
Did google ban this from being published until Sunday? Now that it's over, what's the point?
The Blu-Ray player plays Blu-Ray disks just fine, you can rest assured. The problem is BD-J and home networking. That 66% of the BD spec is a bitch to get compliant.
You might as well write an essay on how Pluto has the highest salaries because there's no competition for real estate on Pluto.
It isn't Apple which imposes DRM. It's the content creators. It's the same way with Blu-Ray. The studios won't release anything unless they're certain the DRM works. The only advantage gained by Apple is the ability to lock out competing players by controlling access to the DRM. That's why Blu-Ray players won't go down in price the way DVD players did.
It's owned by Paul Allen. Saying it's owned by women is like saying those giant SUVs roaring around during weekdays are owned by the housewives who drive them. Don't believe every survey Oxygen puts out.
With highly redundant networks, the
destruction of one command center isn't as important as it was when
information was limited to one location. Also there may be a new super
secret command center no-one knows about.
Less time is being spent in front of the PC and more time is being spent in front of the iPod, the set top box, and the plasma TV. With less time to devote to the PC, there's less need for an operating system which can run forever and more need for booting up for 5 minutes, doing something computationally light as quickly as possible, and shutting it down.
Not suprising that high school students looking for that first programming experience are shifting back to windows software.
India is supposed to launch all of NASA's moon probes under the "vision for space exploraration" but clearly their solid fueled rocket is almost as unreliable as the space shuttle. What are they going to do now, hire Americans to launch their moon probes?
With small houses costing $4 million in that country and rent prices racing ahead, more of those guys should be looking to arcades for more space.
The future really is an aggregating network like bittorrent, not physical media. You'll have 1 terrabyte cell phones aggregating content all day to be played back on PC's throgh a local wireless connection to the cell phone.
Unfortunately download services have been bulletproof on content protection. If anyone ever breaks into cinemanow, they can change the keys, which they can't do completely even with blu's millions of keys. That's going to keep it expensive.
> things are different in China.
tends to be a favorite line among American authors.
If u.s. wants China to launch its satellites, make its cars, make its motherboards, and finance its debt, things are going to have to be different t.h.e.r.e. too.