Obviously nobody knows anything if CNN is putting sentences like this in their articles: "buildup of hydrogen gas, which is the highly flammable, lighter-than-air gas used in the Hindenburg."
Oh jeez. While true, it really shows the expectations of science education in the US. I mean who is a sentence like that aimed at? Kids? They don't know what the Hindenburg is? Seniors? They invented the hydrogen bomb. People should know what hydrogen is.
What they really need to do is make it so that your instant queue can have directories or something. For a company that says they were planning on the direct stream thing all along, they sure don't have that sophisticated of a saved queue.
I'm surprised nobody said "Sim0ne". Although the subject matter was interesting, the part where he pulls and open hard drive (platters exposed) out of a chest that was under water was #1 on my list of stupidest computer movie moments.
need i say more? WarGames is probably the most cheezy movie of them all.
Silly troll, I guess you weren't born until the 90s. Wargames was the most accurate sci-fi computer movie made. Period. The portrayal of the technology and even the way the geeks acted in that movie was very realistic. It was practically a documentary. For someone to call it cheesy just means that someone has been too influenced by other computer movie dreck.
That's a nice email storm infographic they have. One time back in the 90s at Indiana University when people were mostly still using pine, a secretary at the College of Arts and Sciences sent out an email to several thousand students and put all their addresses in the two line. The headers themselves were a megabyte alone and it took a minute to open the message. Several people started replying to all and asking to be removed. It culminated with UCS terminating the mail in the queues and inboxes and suspending several user accounts. One guy replied saying something like "I just wanted everyone to know that Jim Smith takes it in the rear".
I'm also a father and can say that this is one of the things I was most curious about. How kids learn to start talking. There really is a lot of trial and error at first and it takes a while before kids say anything intelligible. Parents of course become good at decoding what kids want.
Mmmm, dark bits. I wonder how much data could be stored in latency. In other words, how much data you could store in saturating all the cables of the world before the data gets to where its going. Like a token ring network, you just have to wait for your data to come back to you. Might be waiting a while though.
Is this a joke? He holds up a watch that looks about 20 years old. I guess that's how out of touch this guy is. I thought it was funny that this was in fact a "Fossil" watch.
Besides, people don't want to be reminded that they've been suckered into buying so many gadgets that don't work together and that their laptop didn't replace their desktop and their phone didn't replace their laptop and that their tablet didn't replace their need for a phone, laptop or desktop. They still have them all. A company like HP can't hope to do what I think they are hoping to do and make them work together. They would end up not supporting "everything". Maybe a smaller company could.
Don't feel bad, my first PC (after my Amiga) was a Pionex. We went to Sam's Club and I saw the Digital brand Pentium 75 and wanted that because I knew that the Digital would be "cooler", but my dad insisted on paying even more money for the Pionex Pentium 90 (with flaw) that looked like it had more, but was secretly a curse in disguise. It died the next week and I had to drive 6 hours back from college to exchange it for a new piece of crap. I think this computer actually took a few years off my life. But of course it was the computer that made me hate Windows and drove me to Linux so I guess it wasn't all that bad. Sometimes you need a crazy girlfriend so that you know not to do that anymore.
I think there needs to be a fresh new marketing campaign that reintroduces the concept of open source software to people (including the geeks) because it seems that a lot of the efforts have fizzled out or become misunderstood by the latest generation.
The totally separable keyboard concept alone was really cool. If there was a laptop out there using that, Id buy.
No its not. Just buy a wireless keyboard. The fact of the matter is, the only things that a consumer can't replace in a laptop is the screen, CPU and mainboard. I mean easily. The harddrive and ram are easily replaceable by anyone who cares to. This is basically just a feel good video of a trio of college students who don't understand the market well enough to make something useful.
Ok, but what I'm wondering, is why I've seen so many technical people say that they are not interested in it. I mean this article itself is in the "yeah-i-think-i'll-pass" dept. My question is what's with the disinterest among tech folk?
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What are you talking about? Facebook is the Internet.
Obviously nobody knows anything if CNN is putting sentences like this in their articles: "buildup of hydrogen gas, which is the highly flammable, lighter-than-air gas used in the Hindenburg."
Oh jeez. While true, it really shows the expectations of science education in the US. I mean who is a sentence like that aimed at? Kids? They don't know what the Hindenburg is? Seniors? They invented the hydrogen bomb. People should know what hydrogen is.
Not to take aware from the obvious serious problem of nuclear fallout, but the connection with NTT is out too: http://www.internetpulse.net/
What they really need to do is make it so that your instant queue can have directories or something. For a company that says they were planning on the direct stream thing all along, they sure don't have that sophisticated of a saved queue.
One point you forgot to obviously include.
- People are too lazy to read whole articles that explain everything and instead base their opinions on someone else's summary.
I'm surprised nobody said "Sim0ne". Although the subject matter was interesting, the part where he pulls and open hard drive (platters exposed) out of a chest that was under water was #1 on my list of stupidest computer movie moments.
"Greetings Professor Falken"
need i say more? WarGames is probably the most cheezy movie of them all.
Silly troll, I guess you weren't born until the 90s. Wargames was the most accurate sci-fi computer movie made. Period. The portrayal of the technology and even the way the geeks acted in that movie was very realistic. It was practically a documentary. For someone to call it cheesy just means that someone has been too influenced by other computer movie dreck.
This was a long time ago. In old English the To: header line was actually spelled Two:
That's a nice email storm infographic they have. One time back in the 90s at Indiana University when people were mostly still using pine, a secretary at the College of Arts and Sciences sent out an email to several thousand students and put all their addresses in the two line. The headers themselves were a megabyte alone and it took a minute to open the message. Several people started replying to all and asking to be removed. It culminated with UCS terminating the mail in the queues and inboxes and suspending several user accounts. One guy replied saying something like "I just wanted everyone to know that Jim Smith takes it in the rear".
I'm too lazy to look it up. Do they encrypt the SIP data or can anyone in the middle listen in with WireShark?
You can always speak in Swahili. Oh wait, Google Translate knows Swahili. Damnit!
I'm also a father and can say that this is one of the things I was most curious about. How kids learn to start talking. There really is a lot of trial and error at first and it takes a while before kids say anything intelligible. Parents of course become good at decoding what kids want.
Mmmm, dark bits. I wonder how much data could be stored in latency. In other words, how much data you could store in saturating all the cables of the world before the data gets to where its going. Like a token ring network, you just have to wait for your data to come back to you. Might be waiting a while though.
Is this a joke? He holds up a watch that looks about 20 years old. I guess that's how out of touch this guy is. I thought it was funny that this was in fact a "Fossil" watch.
Besides, people don't want to be reminded that they've been suckered into buying so many gadgets that don't work together and that their laptop didn't replace their desktop and their phone didn't replace their laptop and that their tablet didn't replace their need for a phone, laptop or desktop. They still have them all. A company like HP can't hope to do what I think they are hoping to do and make them work together. They would end up not supporting "everything". Maybe a smaller company could.
Don't feel bad, my first PC (after my Amiga) was a Pionex. We went to Sam's Club and I saw the Digital brand Pentium 75 and wanted that because I knew that the Digital would be "cooler", but my dad insisted on paying even more money for the Pionex Pentium 90 (with flaw) that looked like it had more, but was secretly a curse in disguise. It died the next week and I had to drive 6 hours back from college to exchange it for a new piece of crap. I think this computer actually took a few years off my life. But of course it was the computer that made me hate Windows and drove me to Linux so I guess it wasn't all that bad. Sometimes you need a crazy girlfriend so that you know not to do that anymore.
Isn't this like finding a jury for the OJ Simpson trial?
Weren't you the guy yesterday who tried to tell us that Slashdot is the Fox News of tech?
If anything, John Dvorak is the Bill O'Reilly of the tech news world.
I think there needs to be a fresh new marketing campaign that reintroduces the concept of open source software to people (including the geeks) because it seems that a lot of the efforts have fizzled out or become misunderstood by the latest generation.
Yeah and how dare america claim to be the land of the free when I can't walk into your house and steal your stuff!
Isn't it free?
The totally separable keyboard concept alone was really cool. If there was a laptop out there using that, Id buy.
No its not. Just buy a wireless keyboard. The fact of the matter is, the only things that a consumer can't replace in a laptop is the screen, CPU and mainboard. I mean easily. The harddrive and ram are easily replaceable by anyone who cares to. This is basically just a feel good video of a trio of college students who don't understand the market well enough to make something useful.
Um, you do know that the fi in sci-fi stands for fiction right?
The other 5% have a subscription and read it 45 minutes before everyone else. ;-)
This just in. Studies show that as much as 95% of scientists don't get the moral presented in most sci-fi movies.
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Ok, but what I'm wondering, is why I've seen so many technical people say that they are not interested in it. I mean this article itself is in the "yeah-i-think-i'll-pass" dept. My question is what's with the disinterest among tech folk?