- is going to eat his words - the words he spake in response to the AMP rumors several years ago: People watch TV to turn off their minds, and use computers and the internet to turn them on. There will be no internet/tv convergence.
Well, Microsoft is starting to prove them wrong - if developers are flocking to XBox like they seem to be, (bought or not).
Carmack was one of the key figures in Apple's "serious about gaming" strategy. Bungie's lost to XBox, and now Carmack? That coupled with the lack of a serious 3d card for Macs (STILL!), does not bode well for the future of gaming. Apple should have done the AMP.
And, of course, because the idiot paid like $60k for a tiny micro subcompact, their attitude is: "I paid a buttload of money, and I'm going to make it up in gas savings, I'll be damnned if I drive this thing to get 50 mpg!!"
None of this technology will EVER see the inside of a mass-produced car's engine compartment. Not one bolt. It's not profitable for the manufacturer, it ain't gonna happen. Cry all you want.
That's actually pretty depressing. Between 5.0, 5.01, 5.5, we're talking about 40%. Look at the adoption rate, how old is 5.01? How much longer until the 5.0 and 5.01 users migrate to 5.5?
If reaching the other 20% of users doubles their operating costs, then they sure as hell CAN drop the 20%. They do it all the time.
Especially when they're a company who's target market is people using Microsoft Operating Systems (like Microsoft's web site). This may not be real important to Linux users, but it's just another brick in the wall.
You mean, a cross between Judge Dredd, and The Matrix?
I do use Netscape, and I keep IE around for the one or two sites that don't work in Netscape, and also two corporate apps we use that were coded in Java (they install the Sun JVM), that for some reason require IE.
Bullshit! I remember Netscape getting lambasted in the press and taken to task over not being compliant, and attempting to turn the web into a proprietary wasteland. (especially with the layers crap).
Microsoft SAVED US from Netscape.
Out of the frying pan, and into the fire. We should not go gently into the cold night with MS, just because Netscape also tried to butt-rape the web first.
Yeah, it would be nice if the W3C could sue Microsoft - then we'd have another lame-ass trial to watch, that took years to solve, and ended up being reversed on appeal once the lawyers all had enough fees to buy new Lexuses.
For a word processor to "perfectly support".doc, it would have to open a.doc file, present NO additional choices to a user ("do you want to translate this? y/n" dialogs), and do the translation, silently, on the fly, and as quickly as it would open the native format (give or take 20%), and it would have to display every feature in an identical fashion. It would have to be able to discern different revisions of the format, on the fly, correctly, including the latest and greatest revision. Anything less will be perceived by the users as an "additional pain in the ass", and that's a reason for them to just install Word, instead of whatever WP software they were using instead.
Step 1.5. Embed "feature X" by default in development tools. Give development tools away free to non-developers (pro-sumers), and sell them to developers, but make it a very compelling deal - put a lot of effort into making it a very good product, (unlike the crap OS it runs on), make it as easy to use as possible. Lower the bar on brainpower required to use it at the professional level (BisualVasic), to increase the number of people using your "feature X" by default. You don't even have to tell those people about "feature X", better if you don't, they'll use it by default, and not care what the standards are, "it works in my Win98/IE5.5 browser - that's good enough for me".
Now, I really appreciate dreamers. I really do. But this just - no way. Sorry. Helicopters are about the most complex, tricky aircraft there are, period. But we have to design one to fly in an environment we can't even simulate? We can't do a test-flight. We can't be sure how the materials will react in that environment. Then there's the eight-year space journey, the temperature extremes, radiation, micrometeorites - all the lubricants and hydraulics will remain intact, ready to function? Then there are all the issues with Jupiter's radiation belts, rings, tidal forces, - you get this thing there, assume every working part of the vehicle still functions within operable parameters, then you fire up the AI system to pilot it, we don't even know the atmospheric conditions at the surface - whether there will be visibilty, high winds, whether enough of a flat area exists ANYWHERE for the thing to land without clipping the rotors - then there are the inevitable programming glitches, etc.
I just don't believe that this is within mankind's present technical capabilities. We need at least one, maybe several landers there first, so we know what the conditions are really like. This will take several decades, so maybe by then, we'll have the materials science and computer science issues worked out - but I don't see Year 2000 humanity as being advanced enough to try this yet. Maybe by then, someone will have discovered some kind of anti-gravity device or technology that would take much of the risk and complexity out of this venture. I think hoping for that is more realistic. And that's not very.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
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I just don't know if I'm satisfied by a simple video image. I've studied the pictures of Mars, even the 3d QTVR's, and there's just something wierd about the colors - I think it has to do with the dust, coloring all the low-angle light red, and the high-angle light comes down more bluish. I just can't get a feel for what it really "looks like" to be standing on Mars. Mabye it's all computer-generated anyway;-).
Didn't I mention that the conditions under which I would eat a human would be to avoid starvation? Health, nastiness, toxicity has nothing to do with immediate survival concerns. You'd eat dirt if you were hungry enough.
Have you ever been "stuck" behind one of these 80+ MPG cars on the highway?
I was on a road trip up to San Francisco on HWY 101, we were all breezing along at a leisurely 85 MPH, when all of a sudden, everyone was tapping their brakes. The problem was, a long line of Semi-trucks were slowly threading their way, one by one, in the left lane, past this little Honda hybrid, maxxed out at 50.
The good Lord only gave me so many seconds of life on this world. I don't want to spend them in transit, waiting behind slow cars.
When fuel cells or electrics produce cars that are PRACTICAL, then we'll see it. Otherwise, Gasoline is the only viable alternative right now. Yes, the seven sisters (oligopoly of Oil companies) have done their best to buy off any alternatives, especially including mass transit - and their distribution network is unbreakable. It's sad really. Electric is probably the only technology that's going to compete because it has a comparable distribution network (anyone's home is a potential filling station). But for now, electrics' performance, range, cost, and negative environmental impact are all inferior to gas.
Are there any TROLLS in the audience tonight? Get them up against the wall. ('gainst. the. wall) And that AC in the spotlight, he don't look right- Get him up against the wall. ('gainst. the. wall) And that one looks like an MCSE, And that one looks French, Who let all this rifraff cause such a stench? There's one talkin' bout drugs, and downloading MP3's, If I had my way, I'd have all of them BSOD'd!
Actually, the first kills that homo habilis likely ate were kills that cheetahs made, and stored up in trees, as homo habilis was about the only meat-eater that could get at them after the cheetah had left. h. habilis certaily wasn't as well equipped to MAKE the kill.
The fact is, SOY is key. If you are allergic to soy, you cannot be a vegan, and get proper nutrition.
In fact, a lot of the vegan propaganda actually originates from the ISFI (International Soybean Farming Illuminati). Who would LOVE to take beef's place in the market, as well as all the cattle-ranchers' land.
In Tahiti, you'll see wild dogs roaming the island. The original inhabitants brought chickens, pigs, and dogs, all they needed to survive. Yes, they ate dogs.
Then the missionaries came, and forbade them to eat dogs. Now they have wild dogs. Having dogs as a pet is still largely and alien concept.
My question is, where the fuck in the bible does it say not to eat dogs? Cultural imperialism. I think I would eat my precious Shiloh, if I was starving. I'd probably have to get VERY hungry to eat another human, but to avoid death, I would do it.
Cows, on the other hand, are very tasty, and I'll even eat a steak if I'm nearly stuffed.
I am utterly convinced that the creators of Napster figured that there chances of success would be better if they just went ahead and wrote the free-trading software, and set it loose on the net.
This way, with 20 million users, they have nice leverage when they go to the RIAA companies and say, "we've got a really nice distribution tool here, give us a piece of the action." Napster *could* have been originally written to support SMDI instead of MP3.
If they had gone to the record companies firsthand, do you think the RIAA would have listened to them, or do you think the RIAA would have hired a few programmers themselves and done their own distribution system? (which is what they are doing - they're resisting Napster's extortion attempt).
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- is going to eat his words - the words he spake in response to the AMP rumors several years ago: People watch TV to turn off their minds, and use computers and the internet to turn them on. There will be no internet/tv convergence.
Well, Microsoft is starting to prove them wrong - if developers are flocking to XBox like they seem to be, (bought or not).
Carmack was one of the key figures in Apple's "serious about gaming" strategy. Bungie's lost to XBox, and now Carmack? That coupled with the lack of a serious 3d card for Macs (STILL!), does not bode well for the future of gaming. Apple should have done the AMP.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
shit daddy! That must be it!
And, of course, because the idiot paid like $60k for a tiny micro subcompact, their attitude is: "I paid a buttload of money, and I'm going to make it up in gas savings, I'll be damnned if I drive this thing to get 50 mpg!!"
This does not bode well for the future.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
This is rocket science.
None of this technology will EVER see the inside of a mass-produced car's engine compartment. Not one bolt. It's not profitable for the manufacturer, it ain't gonna happen. Cry all you want.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Companies suing to protect trademarks, patents, trade secrets, etc. . . Consumers shafted - but not always:
$145 billion judgement against the tobacco companies. (just announced)
Wow. I wish I was a smoker with Emphysema right about now.
Will Microsoft be paying out $145 billion to all the RSI-injured out there?
Well, I guess this stuff works both ways. I'm holding out for the giant asteroid to come and put an end to it.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
That's actually pretty depressing. Between 5.0, 5.01, 5.5, we're talking about 40%. Look at the adoption rate, how old is 5.01? How much longer until the 5.0 and 5.01 users migrate to 5.5?
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
If reaching the other 20% of users doubles their operating costs, then they sure as hell CAN drop the 20%. They do it all the time.
Especially when they're a company who's target market is people using Microsoft Operating Systems (like Microsoft's web site). This may not be real important to Linux users, but it's just another brick in the wall.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
You mean, a cross between Judge Dredd, and The Matrix?
I do use Netscape, and I keep IE around for the one or two sites that don't work in Netscape, and also two corporate apps we use that were coded in Java (they install the Sun JVM), that for some reason require IE.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Bullshit! I remember Netscape getting lambasted in the press and taken to task over not being compliant, and attempting to turn the web into a proprietary wasteland. (especially with the layers crap).
Microsoft SAVED US from Netscape.
Out of the frying pan, and into the fire.
We should not go gently into the cold night with MS, just because Netscape also tried to butt-rape the web first.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Yeah, it would be nice if the W3C could sue Microsoft - then we'd have another lame-ass trial to watch, that took years to solve, and ended up being reversed on appeal once the lawyers all had enough fees to buy new Lexuses.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
It's already a common attitude. Where have you beeen for the past 5 years?
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Worse yet; define "perfect support".
.doc, it would have to open a .doc file, present NO additional choices to a user ("do you want to translate this? y/n" dialogs), and do the translation, silently, on the fly, and as quickly as it would open the native format (give or take 20%), and it would have to display every feature in an identical fashion. It would have to be able to discern different revisions of the format, on the fly, correctly, including the latest and greatest revision.
For a word processor to "perfectly support"
Anything less will be perceived by the users as an "additional pain in the ass", and that's a reason for them to just install Word, instead of whatever WP software they were using instead.
This is an almost impossible game.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
All that seems to do is make them change the "does not support Netscape" message from regular to bold typeface.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Step 1.5.
Embed "feature X" by default in development tools. Give development tools away free to non-developers (pro-sumers), and sell them to developers, but make it a very compelling deal - put a lot of effort into making it a very good product, (unlike the crap OS it runs on), make it as easy to use as possible. Lower the bar on brainpower required to use it at the professional level (BisualVasic), to increase the number of people using your "feature X" by default. You don't even have to tell those people about "feature X", better if you don't, they'll use it by default, and not care what the standards are, "it works in my Win98/IE5.5 browser - that's good enough for me".
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
they're just meat. cook 'em!
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Now, I really appreciate dreamers. I really do. But this just - no way. Sorry.
Helicopters are about the most complex, tricky aircraft there are, period. But we have to design one to fly in an environment we can't even simulate? We can't do a test-flight. We can't be sure how the materials will react in that environment. Then there's the eight-year space journey, the temperature extremes, radiation, micrometeorites - all the lubricants and hydraulics will remain intact, ready to function? Then there are all the issues with Jupiter's radiation belts, rings, tidal forces, - you get this thing there, assume every working part of the vehicle still functions within operable parameters, then you fire up the AI system to pilot it, we don't even know the atmospheric conditions at the surface - whether there will be visibilty, high winds, whether enough of a flat area exists ANYWHERE for the thing to land without clipping the rotors - then there are the inevitable programming glitches, etc.
I just don't believe that this is within mankind's present technical capabilities. We need at least one, maybe several landers there first, so we know what the conditions are really like. This will take several decades, so maybe by then, we'll have the materials science and computer science issues worked out - but I don't see Year 2000 humanity as being advanced enough to try this yet. Maybe by then, someone will have discovered some kind of anti-gravity device or technology that would take much of the risk and complexity out of this venture. I think hoping for that is more realistic. And that's not very.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
I just don't know if I'm satisfied by a simple video image. I've studied the pictures of Mars, even the 3d QTVR's, and there's just something wierd about the colors - I think it has to do with the dust, coloring all the low-angle light red, and the high-angle light comes down more bluish. I just can't get a feel for what it really "looks like" to be standing on Mars. Mabye it's all computer-generated anyway ;-).
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Didn't I mention that the conditions under which I would eat a human would be to avoid starvation? Health, nastiness, toxicity has nothing to do with immediate survival concerns. You'd eat dirt if you were hungry enough.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Have you ever been "stuck" behind one of these 80+ MPG cars on the highway?
I was on a road trip up to San Francisco on HWY 101, we were all breezing along at a leisurely 85 MPH, when all of a sudden, everyone was tapping their brakes. The problem was, a long line of Semi-trucks were slowly threading their way, one by one, in the left lane, past this little Honda hybrid, maxxed out at 50.
The good Lord only gave me so many seconds of life on this world. I don't want to spend them in transit, waiting behind slow cars.
When fuel cells or electrics produce cars that are PRACTICAL, then we'll see it. Otherwise, Gasoline is the only viable alternative right now. Yes, the seven sisters (oligopoly of Oil companies) have done their best to buy off any alternatives, especially including mass transit - and their distribution network is unbreakable. It's sad really. Electric is probably the only technology that's going to compete because it has a comparable distribution network (anyone's home is a potential filling station). But for now, electrics' performance, range, cost, and negative environmental impact are all inferior to gas.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Are there any TROLLS in the audience tonight?
Get them up against the wall.
('gainst. the. wall)
And that AC in the spotlight, he don't look right-
Get him up against the wall.
('gainst. the. wall)
And that one looks like an MCSE,
And that one looks French,
Who let all this rifraff cause such a stench?
There's one talkin' bout drugs,
and downloading MP3's,
If I had my way, I'd have all of them BSOD'd!
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
cc# is required to sell, not to set up a buying account. . .
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Violating his civil rights as a sufferer of Tourette's syndrome.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
Actually, the first kills that homo habilis likely ate were kills that cheetahs made, and stored up in trees, as homo habilis was about the only meat-eater that could get at them after the cheetah had left. h. habilis certaily wasn't as well equipped to MAKE the kill.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
The fact is, SOY is key. If you are allergic to soy, you cannot be a vegan, and get proper nutrition.
In fact, a lot of the vegan propaganda actually originates from the ISFI (International Soybean Farming Illuminati). Who would LOVE to take beef's place in the market, as well as all the cattle-ranchers' land.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
In Tahiti, you'll see wild dogs roaming the island. The original inhabitants brought chickens, pigs, and dogs, all they needed to survive. Yes, they ate dogs.
Then the missionaries came, and forbade them to eat dogs. Now they have wild dogs. Having dogs as a pet is still largely and alien concept.
My question is, where the fuck in the bible does it say not to eat dogs?
Cultural imperialism.
I think I would eat my precious Shiloh, if I was starving. I'd probably have to get VERY hungry to eat another human, but to avoid death, I would do it.
Cows, on the other hand, are very tasty, and I'll even eat a steak if I'm nearly stuffed.
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
I am utterly convinced that the creators of Napster figured that there chances of success would be better if they just went ahead and wrote the free-trading software, and set it loose on the net.
This way, with 20 million users, they have nice leverage when they go to the RIAA companies and say, "we've got a really nice distribution tool here, give us a piece of the action." Napster *could* have been originally written to support SMDI instead of MP3.
If they had gone to the record companies firsthand, do you think the RIAA would have listened to them, or do you think the RIAA would have hired a few programmers themselves and done their own distribution system? (which is what they are doing - they're resisting Napster's extortion attempt).
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!