In Colorado we had at least twenty minutues of previews- probably of fantasy films to appear in the next months. They began with the UA "America,
the Beautiful" video, then showed Harry Potter,
Ice Age, a long Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars.
And a humorous Pixar short about mean birdies who get their due.
I could swear some things flashed by quickly
during the initial factory walk-through scene
and the street store-front scene that were jokes,
or quick reference to Lucas or Disney works.
I caught the produce names, but some of the wall
posters went by so fast, that I'd have to wait for DVD stop motion.
Going to be pretty tough this year with Shrek
and Monsters, and two decent entries Final
Fantasy and Atlantis. In an average year I'd be
happy to just have one of these.
I'd give it to Shrek by a sliver. It had a little more interesting story, humor and computer graphics techniques. I also have a soft spot for musical numbers, a few which were in Shrek.
I recall this was the case. This was supposed to
avoid Apple patents by reverting to a Xerox look.
No one really bought Windows until version 3.1
and MS Office requiring it.
earlier globalization 1844-1914
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Globalization
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· Score: 2
Many of these issues came up during the 19th century. I chose 1844 as the starting point because that was the invention of the first world-wide-web, otherwise called the telegraph.
And around that time came the railroads with that caused the modern form of the corporation- an economic organization that could manage something that large. Close behind followed banks, steel, petroleum, and so on.
Europe was at relative peace between Napolean's defeat in 1815 and 1914 except for a skirmish here and there. Likewise America found peace after 1865 and became a global force. At the turn of 1900 economist were talking about the end of real war. International trade was at levels not seen until the 1980s. This was the golden age of those silly Ivory-Merchant films.
Then came the one-two punch of the Great World War and the Great Depression almost eliminated global trade. People couldn't believe that this could happen after the glorious start of the 20th century. Will the 21st century begin with a global collapse too.
As Santayana said, ignoramouses like Katz are doomed to repeat history?
the dead rise on Halloween
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Netscape 6.2
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· Score: 3, Troll
Ghosts of dead software companies haunt us again for a few hours on All Hallow's Eve, before returning to their graves.
MIT LCS other "big" operating system?
OS by committee that did everything and nothing well. Used by Honeywell. Was a negative inspiration for the bare-bones OS from Bell labs wil parody name UNIX.
The XP TV commercial reminds of Peter Pan or a Clariton commercial. The new user of XP flies around the world like Superman. Sort whimsical like the long-gone dot.com commercials.
I've seen dozens of these stories:
retrain prisoner/welfare/vetern/disabled to become IT wizard.
The training companies then get big grants from the government.
Tech how to use all of MS-Office or program in Visual Basic or hmtl.
Late night and day time ads on TV.
I hope it helps.
I hope these companies are realistic to students about the saturated market.
Low end PCs are a cheap as appliances, because of economies of scale.
All you need to do is to put a really simple
start up interface on it in place of the MS-OS-from-hell. Could be Linux-based or something else.
The near-disaster Galileo Jupiter probe has been
operating satisfactorily for six years at a 10 bps
transmission rate. About once a month it makes a
close moon flyby, snaps a few dozen pictures and
records them on tape. Then during the empty parts
of its orbit it tranmits the pictures back to
earth at about two per day.
The main Galileo antenna which was over a thousand
times faster failed to open- a near embarassment to NASA. The mission was re-programmed enroute to
use the slow antenna, and achieve 70% of the original objectives.
Assuming through Moore's law, any desktop size computer of today can be shrunk to thumbnail size in few years, then the question becomes what is the most convenient human interface to use it?
The answer might be in jewelry-like accessories.
These would include wristwatches, rings, eyeglasses, medallians, necklaces, belts, headbands, etc. The MIT Media lab has addressed this in their "wearable computing" devices.
But those bulking device are like the Osborne portable computer, compared to palmtops.
I know Liberty Island has been closed due to the proximity of the 9-11 terrorism and a potential target itself. However I see this as a metaphor for the tightening of freedoms in USA.
(1) The first scientific workstations were LISP-based. Symbolics and Texas Instruments sold graphics workstations in the early to mid 1980s. My recollection is that in the late 1970s Mead & Conway developed elegant software for circuit design that made it easier for programmer types to design their own computer chips. Prof. Sussman of the MIT A.I. Lab and others used this to develop a LISP-accelerating CPU (mainly typed memory and instructions). T.I. got some commercial rights and Symbolics spun off of M.I.T.
A few years later commodity chip UNIX workstations from Sun and DEC took over the workstation market. Custom LISP processors could not evolve new generations as fast as commodity chips. Furthermore, clever LISP interpreters learned to emulate LISP hardware in coventional machine languages almost as fast as the custom hardware.
(I have worked on some oil-industry software with LISP at its core because it was first developed in the 1980s when LISP machines were the only viable workstations.)
(2) The second pulse was the "Expert System" frenzy of late 1980s. Applied A.I. was going to take over the world. Japan was going leap-frog the USA in doing this first. The expert system stock bubble and bust resembled the internet stock bubble on a smaller scale. There are a couple of survivors doing interesting things such as the CYC (enCYClopedia) project in Austin TX.
The first language of the expert system frenzy was LISP. Then a language specifically designed for logic inference called Prolog was used. And finally very fast implemntations in conventional languages such as C.
The early media pundit Marshall McLuhan divided media into "hot" and "cold" depending on how actively the audience participates. Video games are at one end- very hot- while daytime TV is very cold- TV is mainly a background noise.
Net news is "warmer" than TV news. You pretty much take TV news as they dish it out. While the web you can hunt for detail and diverse opinion.
Although disks are dropping to a couple of bucks
per hour of programming ( one hour = two gigabytes => $4 ), tape cost is also dropping ( six hours per $1 tape => $0.15 ). Tape will always
be an order of magnitude cheaper.
OpenCourseWare will also help professors to improve the quality of courses by exposing them to the world. The mechanism for doing this in scientific research is the peer-reviewed paper. The mechanism for doing this in teaching is not as thoroughly developed. Except for published textbook and external seminar, the professor is only rated by their students and other profs in the department. OpenCourseWare will "pull their pants down" so to speak.
Slashdot Mirror
Works very well.
You have a shippable system every 2-4 week cycle.
Each new cycle nets more features.
In Colorado we had at least twenty minutues of previews- probably of fantasy films to appear in the next months. They began with the UA "America, the Beautiful" video, then showed Harry Potter, Ice Age, a long Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars. And a humorous Pixar short about mean birdies who get their due.
I could swear some things flashed by quickly
during the initial factory walk-through scene
and the street store-front scene that were jokes,
or quick reference to Lucas or Disney works.
I caught the produce names, but some of the wall
posters went by so fast, that I'd have to wait for DVD stop motion.
Going to be pretty tough this year with Shrek and Monsters, and two decent entries Final Fantasy and Atlantis. In an average year I'd be happy to just have one of these.
I'd give it to Shrek by a sliver. It had a little more interesting story, humor and computer graphics techniques. I also have a soft spot for musical numbers, a few which were in Shrek.
I recall this was the case. This was supposed to
avoid Apple patents by reverting to a Xerox look.
No one really bought Windows until version 3.1
and MS Office requiring it.
Many of these issues came up during the 19th century. I chose 1844 as the starting point because that was the invention of the first world-wide-web, otherwise called the telegraph. And around that time came the railroads with that caused the modern form of the corporation- an economic organization that could manage something that large. Close behind followed banks, steel, petroleum, and so on.
Europe was at relative peace between Napolean's defeat in 1815 and 1914 except for a skirmish here and there. Likewise America found peace after 1865 and became a global force. At the turn of 1900 economist were talking about the end of real war. International trade was at levels not seen until the 1980s. This was the golden age of those silly Ivory-Merchant films.
Then came the one-two punch of the Great World War and the Great Depression almost eliminated global trade. People couldn't believe that this could happen after the glorious start of the 20th century. Will the 21st century begin with a global collapse too.
As Santayana said, ignoramouses like Katz are doomed to repeat history?
Ghosts of dead software companies haunt us again for a few hours on All Hallow's Eve, before returning to their graves.
MIT LCS other "big" operating system? OS by committee that did everything and nothing well. Used by Honeywell. Was a negative inspiration for the bare-bones OS from Bell labs wil parody name UNIX.
The XP TV commercial reminds of Peter Pan or a Clariton commercial. The new user of XP flies around the world like Superman. Sort whimsical like the long-gone dot.com commercials.
I've seen dozens of these stories: retrain prisoner/welfare/vetern/disabled to become IT wizard. The training companies then get big grants from the government. Tech how to use all of MS-Office or program in Visual Basic or hmtl. Late night and day time ads on TV.
I hope it helps. I hope these companies are realistic to students about the saturated market.
Low end PCs are a cheap as appliances, because of economies of scale. All you need to do is to put a really simple start up interface on it in place of the MS-OS-from-hell. Could be Linux-based or something else.
The near-disaster Galileo Jupiter probe has been operating satisfactorily for six years at a 10 bps transmission rate. About once a month it makes a close moon flyby, snaps a few dozen pictures and records them on tape. Then during the empty parts of its orbit it tranmits the pictures back to earth at about two per day.
The main Galileo antenna which was over a thousand times faster failed to open- a near embarassment to NASA. The mission was re-programmed enroute to use the slow antenna, and achieve 70% of the original objectives.
I always though the NSA was doing this already. So why worry?
Its easier to recognize tonal changes than constanants. Its easier for humns to use full words than isolated vowels.
Assuming through Moore's law, any desktop size computer of today can be shrunk to thumbnail size in few years, then the question becomes what is the most convenient human interface to use it? The answer might be in jewelry-like accessories. These would include wristwatches, rings, eyeglasses, medallians, necklaces, belts, headbands, etc. The MIT Media lab has addressed this in their "wearable computing" devices. But those bulking device are like the Osborne portable computer, compared to palmtops.
How about a ring camera?
From $1.19 to $2.25.
If Wil always looked the same, I'd guess it would matter. But his it has changed from when a
pre-teen in Stand and a teen in Trek to being an adult.
You worked at the animation software shop NewTek
for a while. What did you do there? Do you thing you'll get back into tech again someday?
No, the closure was due to a mysterious fluid leaking from eyes and flowing down the cheeks. Engineers are uable to find the cause of leakage.
I know Liberty Island has been closed due to the proximity of the 9-11 terrorism and a potential target itself. However I see this as a metaphor for the tightening of freedoms in USA.
(1) The first scientific workstations were LISP-based. Symbolics and Texas Instruments sold graphics workstations in the early to mid 1980s. My recollection is that in the late 1970s Mead & Conway developed elegant software for circuit design that made it easier for programmer types to design their own computer chips. Prof. Sussman of the MIT A.I. Lab and others used this to develop a LISP-accelerating CPU (mainly typed memory and instructions). T.I. got some commercial rights and Symbolics spun off of M.I.T.
A few years later commodity chip UNIX workstations from Sun and DEC took over the workstation market. Custom LISP processors could not evolve new generations as fast as commodity chips. Furthermore, clever LISP interpreters learned to emulate LISP hardware in coventional machine languages almost as fast as the custom hardware.
(I have worked on some oil-industry software with LISP at its core because it was first developed in the 1980s when LISP machines were the only viable workstations.)
(2) The second pulse was the "Expert System" frenzy of late 1980s. Applied A.I. was going to take over the world. Japan was going leap-frog the USA in doing this first. The expert system stock bubble and bust resembled the internet stock bubble on a smaller scale. There are a couple of survivors doing interesting things such as the CYC (enCYClopedia) project in Austin TX.
The first language of the expert system frenzy was LISP. Then a language specifically designed for logic inference called Prolog was used. And finally very fast implemntations in conventional languages such as C.
The early media pundit Marshall McLuhan divided media into "hot" and "cold" depending on how actively the audience participates. Video games are at one end- very hot- while daytime TV is very cold- TV is mainly a background noise.
Net news is "warmer" than TV news. You pretty much take TV news as they dish it out. While the web you can hunt for detail and diverse opinion.
Although disks are dropping to a couple of bucks per hour of programming ( one hour = two gigabytes => $4 ), tape cost is also dropping ( six hours per $1 tape => $0.15 ). Tape will always be an order of magnitude cheaper.
Thats still a factor of 30!
Only since 9-11, I haven't RAM less than $100.
OpenCourseWare will also help professors to improve the quality of courses by exposing them to the world. The mechanism for doing this in scientific research is the peer-reviewed paper. The mechanism for doing this in teaching is not as thoroughly developed. Except for published textbook and external seminar, the professor is only rated by their students and other profs in the department. OpenCourseWare will "pull their pants down" so to speak.