It shows how much we depend on the blogs to know what the real world is. According the last few years of blogs, Aibo was a huge hit and if we didn't buy them, we were complete losers. Obviously, by the pitches, it must have been making lots of money for Sony.
Now we're told, oh by the way, Aibo didn't make any money for Sony and no-one was actually buying them so they're being cancelled.
What other products, being shoved down our throats by the blogs, are really on their way out? Can't believe hybrid cars are any more profitable for Toyota than Aibo was for Sony, yet these seem to be the latest must-have items according to all the blogs.
Theoretically you could make fusion practical by throwing money at the problem, building such a huge reactor that it doesn't need as much fancy physics as what they need in Europe to make tiny reactors. China is the only country with enough industrial machinery to build such a reactor.
There was a time when we thought no-one would ever use Excel again, let alone write a book about it. Internet Explorer ran on SunOS, Star Office just came out, students were writing lots of free spreadsheet programs with perfect build systems and half finished usability.
Some C net writers said with the number of half finished free programs coming out, there would surely be a replacement for Excel one day.
Here we are 8 years later, Excel is king, and the free stuff has evolved into spreadsheets with perfect, finished build systems but still half finished usability.
That sounds the same as other countries with much higher labor costs. What are they paying these ISRO employees? Enough for a house?
If it's a NASA article, the cost is mainly from retaining the permanent staff between launches. If it's an ISRO article, the only explanation besides Indians being independantly wealthy is the hardware costing 10 times more.
For a good time, go to geocities.com/heroineworshipper/sharpened.jpg. The faint line in the sky is the spaceship re-entering as seen from Antioch, Calif*.
So where are the pictures of the HTPC? What format is the media stored in? What movies does it have? How many movies does it have? How much does it cost to have a dedicated NFS server, a separate dedicated HTPC, a monitor for the NFS server and a second monitor for the HTPC? In what country can you afford to have 2 of everything? Is it supposed to play movies or just mount a filesystem over NFS? How many times have you set up NFS anyway?
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Maybe we should first raise taxes to build all the antigravity gyroscopes, antigravity superconductors, and static electricity lifters which have ever been invented before we solve all our problems when the helium-3 fusion on the moon.
Want to work 80 hour weeks to rent a dumpy apartment in east LA? Go ahead and compete in game programming contests. Interesting to see both sides of an industry: the previous generation of students who hate their jobs, hate not being allowed a life, and complain about getting laid off because of age and the next generation students who are eager to get into crunch mode and make huge sacrifices for their bosses.
So that makes China and u.s. as the only 2 governments to ban mentioning intelligent design in some way or another. Why do all the religion fanatics head for u.s. and China?
Sound like Steve Jobless is actually making marketing sexy and a lot of computer science students would be better off in marketing. What would you rather do: design the iPod or read about the iPod sales figures? According to this story, the engineering is merely a path to what you really want, getting great sales figures.
You're probably experiencing old fashioned old age. Your vision is going to deteriorate until you hit 25, then stabilize for 20 years, then deteriorate again. It probably has nothing to do with computers.
5 hours of sleep won't do it. You need an average of 8 hours until you hit 40. Then you can think about 7 hours.
Interesting how the mighty DeCSS, once hailed as the victory of hackers over the corporate suits, is now dead. Not only is DeCSS dead, but no source code capable of defeating media encryption has been produced since 1999 and consumers have now been convinced they don't even want copies of media when they can get video on demand for a monthly fee.
The problem is we have the most powerful magnet on Earth. It's in Gainesville FL and it doesn't change gravity. The most powerful magnet ever detected was a magnetar of many billions of tesla and that didn't change gravity. We've observed very powerful magnets for years they have never ever slipped into alternate dimensions or changed gravity.
It looks like holographic storage may be the winner. VHS lasted 20 years. DVD lasted 5 years. Even when Blu-Ray replaces DVD, it's going to be the shortest lived format ever.
If you divide the personnel costs evenly among the bosses of this place, and assume the "part time" part means they'll put $11,000 into the "part time", whatever number of hours that is, you get an annual income of $53,000 for these guys.
In reality the CTO probably gets a bigger cut than the other "permanent" employees. Even at $53,000 with no "benefits" whatever a benefit is, that's an incredible amount for someone living in Fl*rida to make. There are a lot of people in this world who would be grateful to make $15,000 a year and these guys act like $53,000 in donated money is "pleading".
By the way, we don't think disclosing executive salaries is as much of a "private" matter as kiwipedia says it is. Most companies list their executive compensation in order to be listed on a stock exchange.
7 years ago we got tired of Mr. Softy and NBC, and 1 or 2 media elites from dictating what we saw on TV, so we made personal web pages and blogs and said now the masses have unfiltered media.
Now it's 2006 and we're saying, gee, having a couple of guys take care of the distribution of our information is real convenient and it's kind of cool that someone can make enough money off of free media to buy a house. Ok, so what if they had to start filtering it a little. Ok, so what if they had to start taking a small amount of money for their services. Ok, so now instead of investing that $5 in our own web server they're "begging" us to invest in their portal.
It just feels like a familiar cycle keeps repeating.
If this guy can't make enough money to sustain his collaboration portal, why doesn't everyone start their own Kiwipedias?
It was once said that the average CEO shouldn't make 120 times the earnings of their employees, so we made a new system out of "collabware" so everyone could be their own CEO.
Now we're being told no, you can't be your own CEO, you need to pay someone 120 times what you make from your work to be on this site.
Funny how no matter how many times we start over with a new concept of information owned by the people, we humans keep ending up swearing our allegiance to individuals or else.
First of all, most laptops are Clevos. The high end Clevos are the best of the best high performance laptops, but expect all the usual defects you live with in modern gadgets.
Don't be suprised if the ethernet fails after 6 months and you have to use ethernet over 1394, the keyboard drops a lot of keypresses, and the touch pad is over sensitive due to the high heat.
Other than that, it's held up better than the Dells and Sonys due to its size. Of course, there is no Linux support on this chipset for AGP, power management, DV over 1394 and there never will be. That's part of the cost of bleeding edge.
So with HDTV on the PC proving a flop, does this mean the suits are going to ease up on the copy protection?
DVD's were broken into during a unique time when every kid wanted to do computer programming for fun, kids first discovered they could watch low definition video on their PC, and the idea that you shouldn't be able to copy content that you paid for was new.
Today, programming is once again seen as a money source, not a hobby. Watching TV on a PC is out and buying proper appliances is in. Copy protection is old news and it isn't a big deal compared to the value of an appliance like the iPod.
We've had many encryption standards like digital cable TV, digital satellite TV, WMA encryption, and no-one has shown any interest in breaking those. The WMV9 encryption was only barely broken in Windows and never in Linux.
The BDR-101A is the best optical recorder and it hasn't even hit stores yet. If you're wondering why we're still discussing DVD recorders, maybe it's because BDR-101A is depressing DVD recorder sales.
This is probably going against the corporate googledot sanctions, but microdrives have been a better experience than flash 4 me. Spent 3 years using flash cards. The flash cards started dropping bits after 3 years, long before the rated erase cycles and they cost a rediculous amount. It's been the same with all flash devices including embedded, microprocessor, and digital cameras.
While being just as unreliable as flash, microdrives have been a much better deal because of the cost. Although I never had bad sectors with the 2 gig microdrive, the electronics failed after 6 months at which time Hitachi replaced it with a new 4 gig drive.
Most importantly, why would you pay a rediculous amount of money for a smaller amount of flash storage than a microdrive, if something even better than both these solutions is just around the corner?
Remember 9 years ago when the democrats were running the show, news media was a great business, and MS announced their venture into MSNBC. Everyone cried conspiracy and thought the world was going to end because of MS. 9 years later MS discovered that it's not easy to play the news business when the democrats are losing. Now MS is out and it's time to find the next conspiracy.
He lasted longer than most of them but was fired after 2 years. Morale is a function of a lot more than a preprinted sheet of funny interview questions or a corporate approved list of funny movies.
Better morale techniques are giving people the opportunity to get more out of their day job than a dumpy apartment or a better quality of life than they had 5 years ago. A popular technique in consumer electronics is to let people design things they'll actually want to use.
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It shows how much we depend on the blogs to know what the real world is. According the last few years of blogs, Aibo was a huge hit and if we didn't buy them, we were complete losers. Obviously, by the pitches, it must have been making lots of money for Sony.
Now we're told, oh by the way, Aibo didn't make any money for Sony and no-one was actually buying them so they're being cancelled.
What other products, being shoved down our throats by the blogs, are really on their way out? Can't believe hybrid cars are any more profitable for Toyota than Aibo was for Sony, yet these seem to be the latest must-have items according to all the blogs.
Theoretically you could make fusion practical by throwing money at the problem, building such a huge reactor that it doesn't need as much fancy physics as what they need in Europe to make tiny reactors. China is the only country with enough industrial machinery to build such a reactor.
Didn't Disney get rid of Pixar last year? Sounds like symbolic buyouts are the future.
There was a time when we thought no-one would ever use Excel again, let alone write a book about it. Internet Explorer ran on SunOS, Star Office just came out, students were writing lots of free spreadsheet programs with perfect build systems and half finished usability.
Some C net writers said with the number of half finished free programs coming out, there would surely be a replacement for Excel one day.
Here we are 8 years later, Excel is king, and the free stuff has evolved into spreadsheets with perfect, finished build systems but still half finished usability.
> Perhaps we should be more understanding
> with our moody bosses?
Perhaps you need to get out of America and get a life. Your bosses make up for that stress by being able to afford things you'll never have.
That sounds the same as other countries with much higher labor costs. What are they paying these ISRO employees? Enough for a house?
If it's a NASA article, the cost is mainly from retaining the permanent staff between launches. If it's an ISRO article, the only explanation besides Indians being independantly wealthy is the hardware costing 10 times more.
For a good time, go to geocities.com/heroineworshipper/sharpened.jpg. The faint line in the sky is the spaceship re-entering as seen from Antioch, Calif*.
So where are the pictures of the HTPC? What format is the media stored in? What movies does it have? How many movies does it have? How much does it cost to have a dedicated NFS server, a separate dedicated HTPC, a monitor for the NFS server and a second monitor for the HTPC? In what country can you afford to have 2 of everything? Is it supposed to play movies or just mount a filesystem over NFS? How many times have you set up NFS anyway?
Maybe we should first raise taxes to build all the antigravity gyroscopes, antigravity superconductors, and static electricity lifters which have ever been invented before we solve all our problems when the helium-3 fusion on the moon.
Want to work 80 hour weeks to rent a dumpy apartment in east LA? Go ahead and compete in game programming contests. Interesting to see both sides of an industry: the previous generation of students who hate their jobs, hate not being allowed a life, and complain about getting laid off because of age and the next generation students who are eager to get into crunch mode and make huge sacrifices for their bosses.
So that makes China and u.s. as the only 2 governments to ban mentioning intelligent design in some way or another. Why do all the religion fanatics head for u.s. and China?
Sound like Steve Jobless is actually making marketing sexy and a lot of computer science students would be better off in marketing. What would you rather do: design the iPod or read about the iPod sales figures? According to this story, the engineering is merely a path to what you really want, getting great sales figures.
You're probably experiencing old fashioned old age. Your vision is going to deteriorate until you hit 25, then stabilize for 20 years, then deteriorate again. It probably has nothing to do with computers.
5 hours of sleep won't do it. You need an average of 8 hours until you hit 40. Then you can think about 7 hours.
Interesting how the mighty DeCSS, once hailed as the victory of hackers over the corporate suits, is now dead. Not only is DeCSS dead, but no source code capable of defeating media encryption has been produced since 1999 and consumers have now been convinced they don't even want copies of media when they can get video on demand for a monthly fee.
The problem is we have the most powerful magnet on Earth. It's in Gainesville FL and it doesn't change gravity. The most powerful magnet ever detected was a magnetar of many billions of tesla and that didn't change gravity. We've observed very powerful magnets for years they have never ever slipped into alternate dimensions or changed gravity.
It looks like holographic storage may be the winner. VHS lasted 20 years. DVD lasted 5 years. Even when Blu-Ray replaces DVD, it's going to be the shortest lived format ever.
If you divide the personnel costs evenly among the bosses of this place, and assume the "part time" part means they'll put $11,000 into the "part time", whatever number of hours that is, you get an annual income of $53,000 for these guys.
In reality the CTO probably gets a bigger cut than the other "permanent" employees. Even at $53,000 with no "benefits" whatever a benefit is, that's an incredible amount for someone living in Fl*rida to make. There are a lot of people in this world who would be grateful to make $15,000 a year and these guys act like $53,000 in donated money is "pleading".
By the way, we don't think disclosing executive salaries is as much of a "private" matter as kiwipedia says it is. Most companies list their executive compensation in order to be listed on a stock exchange.
7 years ago we got tired of Mr. Softy and NBC, and 1 or 2 media elites from dictating what we saw on TV, so we made personal web pages and blogs and said now the masses have unfiltered media.
Now it's 2006 and we're saying, gee, having a couple of guys take care of the distribution of our information is real convenient and it's kind of cool that someone can make enough money off of free media to buy a house. Ok, so what if they had to start filtering it a little. Ok, so what if they had to start taking a small amount of money for their services. Ok, so now instead of investing that $5 in our own web server they're "begging" us to invest in their portal.
It just feels like a familiar cycle keeps repeating.
If this guy can't make enough money to sustain his collaboration portal, why doesn't everyone start their own Kiwipedias?
It was once said that the average CEO shouldn't make 120 times the earnings of their employees, so we made a new system out of "collabware" so everyone could be their own CEO.
Now we're being told no, you can't be your own CEO, you need to pay someone 120 times what you make from your work to be on this site.
Funny how no matter how many times we start over with a new concept of information owned by the people, we humans keep ending up swearing our allegiance to individuals or else.
First of all, most laptops are Clevos. The high end Clevos are the best of the best high performance laptops, but expect all the usual defects you live with in modern gadgets.
Don't be suprised if the ethernet fails after 6 months and you have to use ethernet over 1394, the keyboard drops a lot of keypresses, and the touch pad is over sensitive due to the high heat.
Other than that, it's held up better than the Dells and Sonys due to its size. Of course, there is no Linux support on this chipset for AGP, power management, DV over 1394 and there never will be. That's part of the cost of bleeding edge.
So with HDTV on the PC proving a flop, does this mean the suits are going to ease up on the copy protection?
DVD's were broken into during a unique time when every kid wanted to do computer programming for fun, kids first discovered they could watch low definition video on their PC, and the idea that you shouldn't be able to copy content that you paid for was new.
Today, programming is once again seen as a money source, not a hobby. Watching TV on a PC is out and buying proper appliances is in. Copy protection is old news and it isn't a big deal compared to the value of an appliance like the iPod.
We've had many encryption standards like digital cable TV, digital satellite TV, WMA encryption, and no-one has shown any interest in breaking those. The WMV9 encryption was only barely broken in Windows and never in Linux.
The BDR-101A is the best optical recorder and it hasn't even hit stores yet. If you're wondering why we're still discussing DVD recorders, maybe it's because BDR-101A is depressing DVD recorder sales.
Have a feeling most of that "majority" are really men who worship heroines and call themselves "heroine" on blogs.
This is probably going against the corporate googledot sanctions, but microdrives have been a better experience than flash 4 me. Spent 3 years using flash cards. The flash cards started dropping bits after 3 years, long before the rated erase cycles and they cost a rediculous amount. It's been the same with all flash devices including embedded, microprocessor, and digital cameras.
While being just as unreliable as flash, microdrives have been a much better deal because of the cost. Although I never had bad sectors with the 2 gig microdrive, the electronics failed after 6 months at which time Hitachi replaced it with a new 4 gig drive.
Most importantly, why would you pay a rediculous amount of money for a smaller amount of flash storage than a microdrive, if something even better than both these solutions is just around the corner?
Remember 9 years ago when the democrats were running the show, news media was a great business, and MS announced their venture into MSNBC. Everyone cried conspiracy and thought the world was going to end because of MS. 9 years later MS discovered that it's not easy to play the news business when the democrats are losing. Now MS is out and it's time to find the next conspiracy.
He lasted longer than most of them but was fired after 2 years. Morale is a function of a lot more than a preprinted sheet of funny interview questions or a corporate approved list of funny movies.
Better morale techniques are giving people the opportunity to get more out of their day job than a dumpy apartment or a better quality of life than they had 5 years ago. A popular technique in consumer electronics is to let people design things they'll actually want to use.