As Sam Morse said "What has God wroth?" when the electric telegraph connected the world nearly instaneously in 1844 (plus about 15 years to wire up much of the world). This first phase led to the daily newspaper. It had a financial mania not unlike the dotcoms.
Subsequently came other electronic media revolutions: motion pictures, radio, TV, computer, the Web... Each had its social change and investment mania.
The utltimate end will be point-to-point video anywhere, anytime, drawing on vast stored archives of human culture (I hesitate to call it electronic, because it may be optical or something else).
As for the final social impact, it is still hard to tell. There have been many experiments with different types of governments and means of production, with liberal democracies and selfish-incentive capitalism currently winning. Orwell predicted a different end for an information-centered society.
I suggest Katz's view is myopic, magnifying the current millieu which is a hyperactive blip on a two to three century process.
NeXT did not fail. It just took a while to succeed. Steve Jobs and Alex Tevian (sp?) took over Apple during the merger. The Mac Cube with Mac X OS are the successors to the NeXT Cube and NeXTStep, with some Apple compatibility.
When you got Steve's millions, plus millions from Cannon and Ross Perot, you can take a while.
The first commercial XWindows came out in 1987 from DEC on the MicroVAX. Sun and SGI did not adopt until early 1990s, though there were academic ports. NeXT started UI in 1985.
The problem with NeXT was that by the time it came to market in 1988 (two years late), the rest of the workstation market had caught up. NeXT was only incemental compared to these products:
1) The Mac made the first significant commercial jump to bitmap graphics. NeXT just had a larger screen.
2) Sun, MicroVax, HP, and Apollo had defined the UNIX workstation market by then. In 1984 when NeXT began, this market was still unformed.
Other problems included price/perfomance:
3) $6,000 commercial, about $4,000 for students. Very high then and now.
4) The CDROM was extermely slow. You had to wait forever on disk ops. And of course, Steve J. banned the waiting-clock icon as "bad design". So you could click several times and really screw yourself.
A sign of large-scale life would chemical inequilbrium of its renewable waste products. For example, the free oxygen on Earth is unstable and a sign of life. Anomlous chemistry hasn't been seen on Titan yet.
People have been talking about putting a web node in every major appliance- vending machine, atm, car, refrigerator. When a full-featured computer becomes small and cheap, this is possible. The web protocol is not the best, but is is standard and cheap.
I've enjoyed SIGGRAPH as the most fun annual computer conference in the world. EVERYONE brings their latest hardware and software including the mainstream scientific supercomputing companies to the garage startups. Lots of techies, hackers, artist, eggheads as the article notes. In the mid-1990s when every hollywood studio was trying to replicate the billion dollar success of Disney's Lion King, there were wild hospitality parties all over the place. But that as calmed down a bit as the animation market has saturated.
SIGGRAPH used to be a incredible bargain. An exhibits pass for $50 (often free with vendor coupon) got you into everything except for the technical talks and evening film theater. However it is now a three-tier price system- floor exhibits for $50, exhibits plus art, jobs, 2nd tier films, excluding talks for $250, and about triple that for the full conference. In fact, I try to work SIGGRAPH into a vacation when my employer won't pay during a given year.
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There is a new generation of teenagers and young adults who have lived their lives in unparalleled prosperity, never knowing an economic downturn like their GenX slacker brothers, boomer parents, WWII grandparents exprienced. When this Eden ends, how will they deal with it?
DOJ sued Intel in 1999 and Intel settled. Had to do with anti-chip actions against DEC (R.I.P.) and Intergraph, among other things. Not all companies are obstinate like MicroSoft and fight the government forever.
The most expensive calculation is band-limited autocorrelation to pick out frequency periodicies which are then corrected for earth motion doppler. Billions of these have to be done for billions of spots in the sky. Custom supercomputers have been part of the SETI project for the past decade.
The computer F/X industry in the 1980s came to nearly a standsill in the late 80s after cheese and failures in the mid 80s such as Tron and the Last Star Fighter. One F/X house even bought a top end super computer (Cray XMP) of the time and went bankrupt.
1990s saw a renaisance in the Abyss creature (which was hard to tell it was a computer) and digital editing in Back to the Future II.
I recall about three attempts on the Shuttle to use them, none great successes. They've had mechanical problems deploying. Once, the electrostatic gradient fried the equipement.
Doesn't mean they should be used. Just there are issues left to work out.
Jobs/Tevian(?) carried the idea of reusable toolboxes from MacOS to UNIX & OOP. The first iteration was NeXT based on ObjectiveC. It has since migrated back to the Mac.
That was pivital in Woz dominating the PC field. Maybe it was the emotional drive, a little bit of his mental capacity, or re-evalution of what was important in life. He never really pushed as hard after that.
However the core Woz- the good guy, the visionary- still remains to inspire us.
The price of retail NG has increased even faster than gasoline, as people will be surprised this winter.
The infrastructure to find and produce NG is similar to petro. NG has half the energy density as petro per weight, so cars don't go as far. Still beter than batteries and current fuel cells.
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As Sam Morse said "What has God wroth?" when the electric telegraph connected the world nearly instaneously in 1844 (plus about 15 years to wire up much of the world). This first phase led to the daily newspaper. It had a financial mania not unlike the dotcoms.
... Each had its social change and investment mania.
Subsequently came other electronic media revolutions: motion pictures, radio, TV, computer, the Web
The utltimate end will be point-to-point video anywhere, anytime, drawing on vast stored archives of human culture (I hesitate to call it electronic, because it may be optical or something else).
As for the final social impact, it is still hard to tell. There have been many experiments with different types of governments and means of production, with liberal democracies and selfish-incentive capitalism currently winning. Orwell predicted a different end for an information-centered society.
I suggest Katz's view is myopic, magnifying the current millieu which is a hyperactive blip on a two to three century process.
Just asking.
NeXT did not fail. It just took a while to succeed. Steve Jobs and Alex Tevian (sp?) took over Apple during the merger. The Mac Cube with Mac X OS are the successors to the NeXT Cube and NeXTStep, with some Apple compatibility.
When you got Steve's millions, plus millions from Cannon and Ross Perot, you can take a while.
The first commercial XWindows came out in 1987 from DEC on the MicroVAX. Sun and SGI did not adopt until early 1990s, though there were academic ports. NeXT started UI in 1985.
The problem with NeXT was that by the time it came to market in 1988 (two years late), the rest of the workstation market had caught up. NeXT was only incemental compared to these products:
1) The Mac made the first significant commercial jump to bitmap graphics. NeXT just had a larger screen.
2) Sun, MicroVax, HP, and Apollo had defined the UNIX workstation market by then. In 1984 when NeXT began, this market was still unformed.
Other problems included price/perfomance:
3) $6,000 commercial, about $4,000 for students. Very high then and now.
4) The CDROM was extermely slow. You had to wait forever on disk ops. And of course, Steve J. banned the waiting-clock icon as "bad design". So you could click several times and really screw yourself.
As the late Dr. McCoy would say to Captain Kirk.
Slash-rot is too infatuated with a dead product.
A sign of large-scale life would chemical inequilbrium of its renewable waste products. For example, the free oxygen on Earth is unstable and a sign of life. Anomlous chemistry hasn't been seen on Titan yet.
People have been talking about putting a web node in every major appliance- vending machine, atm, car, refrigerator. When a full-featured computer becomes small and cheap, this is possible. The web protocol is not the best, but is is standard and cheap.
I've enjoyed SIGGRAPH as the most fun annual computer conference in the world. EVERYONE brings their latest hardware and software including the mainstream scientific supercomputing companies to the garage startups. Lots of techies, hackers, artist, eggheads as the article notes. In the mid-1990s when every hollywood studio was trying to replicate the billion dollar success of Disney's Lion King, there were wild hospitality parties all over the place. But that as calmed down a bit as the animation market has saturated.
SIGGRAPH used to be a incredible bargain. An exhibits pass for $50 (often free with vendor coupon) got you into everything except for the technical talks and evening film theater. However it is now a three-tier price system- floor exhibits for $50, exhibits plus art, jobs, 2nd tier films, excluding talks for $250, and about triple that for the full conference. In fact, I try to work SIGGRAPH into a vacation when my employer won't pay during a given year.
There is a new generation of teenagers and young adults who have lived their lives in unparalleled prosperity, never knowing an economic downturn like their GenX slacker brothers, boomer parents, WWII grandparents exprienced. When this Eden ends, how will they deal with it?
DOJ sued Intel in 1999 and Intel settled. Had to do with anti-chip actions against DEC (R.I.P.) and Intergraph, among other things. Not all companies are obstinate like MicroSoft and fight the government forever.
The most expensive calculation is band-limited autocorrelation to pick out frequency periodicies which are then corrected for earth motion doppler. Billions of these have to be done for billions of spots in the sky. Custom supercomputers have been part of the SETI project for the past decade.
The computer F/X industry in the 1980s came to
nearly a standsill in the late 80s after cheese
and failures in the mid 80s such as Tron and the
Last Star Fighter. One F/X house even bought a
top end super computer (Cray XMP) of the time
and went bankrupt.
1990s saw a renaisance in the Abyss creature
(which was hard to tell it was a computer) and
digital editing in Back to the Future II.
Animation will come too.
I recall about three attempts on the Shuttle to
use them, none great successes. They've had
mechanical problems deploying. Once, the electrostatic
gradient fried the equipement.
Doesn't mean they should be used. Just there are issues left to work out.
As in airplane design, you don't need to build every model and test them, but you have to do some of them to verify the computations.
When NeXT bought Apple (or was it the other way around) a couple of years ago, the two companies softwares started merging.
Jobs/Tevian(?) carried the idea of reusable toolboxes from MacOS to UNIX & OOP. The first iteration was NeXT based on ObjectiveC. It has since migrated back to the Mac.
I've seen the larger drives coming in about $6-$7
a gigabye. In a year or two we'll break a buck a gigabyte.
Else we'd put legs on our automobiles and
feathers on airplanes.
Offered by physicist Penrose who says "I'm too stupid to figure out the complexity of the brain, so I'll confound things with mumbo-jumbo physics".
They have an abysmal uptime record.
You are lucky to have 50% uptime on a given week.
That was pivital in Woz dominating the PC field. Maybe it was the emotional drive, a little bit of his mental capacity, or re-evalution of what was important in life. He never really pushed as hard after that.
However the core Woz- the good guy, the visionary- still remains to inspire us.
Lets see, we'll give a bunch of strange creatures unusual powers and set them off against one another. Pokeman or X-Men?
There is a problem determining who will win in X-men battles because the strength of the powers are unknown.
Usual schlocky sci-fi dialogue, however delivered by Shakespearean actors. (Stewart & McCellan) That is the best part of the movie.
The price of retail NG has increased even faster than gasoline, as people will be surprised this winter.
The infrastructure to find and produce NG is similar to petro. NG has half the energy density as petro per weight, so cars don't go as far. Still beter than batteries and current fuel cells.