Because of things like this. Sometimes it's good to have a current, real-time discussion with a range of knowledgable people, rather than searching the entire fucking WWW and figuring out for yourself who got what right and wrong.
> There are no file permissions. > That all by itself makes it a joke, honestly.
No, it just had different aims. What you call a "joke" was in fact a (paraphrased from Wikipedia) "... a modern 64-bit capable journaling file system... it includes support for extended file attributes (metadata), with indexing and querying characteristics to provide functionality similar to that of a relational database. [In other words, you do a search and the results appear pretty much instantly because they came from a DB query, not from walking the whole FS.] It supported volumes up to 2 exabytes."
Also files could be larger than 2 GB (though I forget how big) and it used MIME types.
Years ago I had the idea to make a site or wiki to gather all the movies from the past once we reach that point. As you pointed out, BttF is just 3 years away. 2001 and 2010 have already passed. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man* was supposed to take place in 1996 and Judgement Day in T2 was supposed to be in 1997.
Inspiration came from one of my favorite books, Yesterday's Tomorrows but I wanted to focus specifically on the future as predicted in movies and TV shows that were set in the "future".
But, like everyone else, I'm too busy and have too many projects in mind to pursue this. If anyone wants to, I'd love to see it happen.
* not that that's the best movie ever, just one of the first that popped into my mind.
> Harvard law prof Jonathan Zittrain said the Obama > app does represent a significant shift. While voter > data has been 'technically public,' it is usually > accessed only by political campaigns and companies > that sell consumer data.
"But the plans were on display..." "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them." "That's the display department." "With a flashlight." "Ah, well, the lights had probably gone." "So had the stairs." "But look, you found the notice, didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ten years ago Apple applied for a patent for a color-changing device case and the entire Internet was almost swept away in the ensuing geekgasm. However, in the decade since, we have never seen it in production. There have been many other "Apple has a patent on..." stories since then for plenty of products that have not been made.
See also the Apple Product Cycle which has been very accurate in the decade since it was first published.
I was at Siggraph in 1998 (in Orlando) and a vendor there (no idea who) had a pretty cool setup: a set of off-the-shelf glasses that were totally reasonably sized, held onto your head with an elastic strap, and on the back was a gyro pack (that they made) that was about 1" x 2" maybe. They had it hooked up to a fast machine running GL Quake and it looked PERFECT. Or, at least, worlds better than some other crappy VR games I had seen where you had a thing the size of a bike helmet that ran at about 5-10 fps.
You could look and aim in Quake faster than you could with a mouse--literally, just as fast as you could (normally) move your head. I don't remember there being any lag at all. You would run and shoot with the keyboard and aim by looking. It was awesome. So why did they never take off? I'm sure they were expensive at the time but a year or two would have made them reasonable, especially back then when a computer that was even halfway decent for gaming started at well over a grand.
- Hocky-puck mouse - G4 Cube - The iPod shuffle without buttons
Seriously people -- they're doing pretty well but they aren't perfect.
Besides, who gives a fuck what CRITICS think of ads? In 3 months, Apple will know if the ads worked or not, and then we'll see more of them, or we won't.
Why would your first thought be "Let me make a couple hundred of these creatures that are OBVIOUSLY potentially dangerous" (they weigh many tons and/or are all muscle and claw) when it should be...
> Doesn't it come across as "never do anything because > there might be unintended consequences", though?
To me it comes across as "don't try to do too much, too fast." Why would your first thought be "Let me make a couple hundred of these creatures that are OBVIOUSLY potentially dangerous" they weigh many tons and/or are all muscle and claw" when it should be "let me make a couple small ones and see what happens over the course of a few years"? The intro to the book warns of the dangers of gaining power too easily. Stand on the shoulders of giants, sure, but take your time, learn, and think.
> the point of unintended consequences is you can't predict > whether anything you do will have bad ones or not.
Right. So basic common sense should tell you to limit your exposure to danger. Growing a dinosaur the size of a dog or cow = a great idea. A couple dozen T-Rexs and Raptors, all at once, with no experience... not so much.
When I hear those ads on the radio about how I can make money on my computer at home even though I'm totally retarded, is what you're doing what they're talking about?
"my OS X"? LOL.
"On top of that Windows Phone 7/8 supports the fantastic developer tools that is Visual Studio."
"tools... is" -- basic English fail.
And the punchline, because I'm sure your MS shill trainers didn't actually tell you anything about the industry: Windows Phone 8 is going to flop, partially because every single phone out there with Windows Phone 7 can not be upgraded to 8. I don't think there has been an iOS device yet that didn't get at least two major OS upgrades, and even Android users have a good shot at getting an update or two.
Cash your check quick... there might not be many more.
I assume the other 351 comments here are all saying "no" so I hope I don't get modded "redundant" for supplying the 352nd.
Most cities in the US have a tech startup or two. They are not exclusive to Silicon Valley. That does not mean those cities will become the "next" Silicon Valley. What does Silicon Valley have to offer?
- History. It got its name because so many of the early tech greats--Intel, HP, Apple--started out there. - School. Stanford attracts a lot of bright people. From Wikipedia: "Stanford alumni have started many companies including Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Nvidia, SGI, MIPS Technologies, Yahoo!, Google, Logitech, Instagram, and Sun Microsystems." - Money. The venture capitalists on Page Mill are legendary. Wikipedia says "Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States and the world, Silicon Valley continues to be the leading hub for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for one-third (1/3) of all of the venture capital investment in the United States." - Weather. Mild climate and it never snows. (Snow is great, but it's for visiting, not living in.) - Geography. Within a four-hour drive you have beaches, mountains, and forests. You can surf and ski in the same day.
Put that all together, let it stew for 70 years (HP was founded in 1939) and you'll get Silicon Valley.
Yeah, it's so much better to have an "Arrange by" button that leads to a dropdown menu instead of clickable column headings. Fucking retards.
Still, better than Gmail, which doesn't let you sort at all. But fuck, why is everyone so in love with change-for-the-sake-of-change? Some things are just RIGHT. Like sorting by clicking on column headings.
From the welcome email:
Along the way, if you've got any questions, comments, or concerns, please submit that feedback via the options menu in our header.
THERE IS NO OPTIONS MENU. If you mean "click the picture of the gear", then say "click the picture of the gear"!
I hated that term since the first time I heard it. I don't know why anyone calls it "cord cutting" when it's really just "cord switching."
And if anyone thinks those in control are going to let millions of subscribers save millions of dollars this way, they've never heard of "equilibrium." Or "greed." They'll throttle you, or cap you, or charge more, or all of the above, until it's not worth it.
And yeah, long story short: for some people, it'll work great; for others, it won't. It depends how much TV gets watched in your household. If it were just me, watching my small handful of shows, I could have switched years ago. But it isn't, so I haven't and won't.
I finally had time to load it up and check it out on my phone this morning. Initial findings: 1) It is pretty freaking amazing. 2) The gestures for navigation are perfect. 3) It is awesome and makes me want a tablet. 4) I hope they figure out a way to make trees not look like round-topped posts. 5) Lucky for me, I'm happy to look at SF all day. They did a good job on the sunken plaza at the Powell Street BART station, but I wish they would have been able to perfectly render the sculpture at Justin Herman Plaza (which, ironically, is made up of rectangular prisms.) But I'm just picky. GREAT JOB GUYS!
In a few years, once phones and tablets--really personal computers--outnumber traditional computers by one or two orders of magnitude, "Personal Computer" will be a quant anachronism, like "minicomputer" is now.
Naming hardware based on its relative size is as dumb as naming your software based on the year.
> But today I just edit Wikipedia articles. There's little reason for me to > create Trepidity's Ancient Greek Temples Homepage when there's no > way it could ever compete with the information Wikipedia already has > on them.
Actually, you create Trepidity's Ancient Greek Temples Homepage first, then go make the page on Wikipedia and cite it.
Yeah, because there's no chance that someone with the handle "Adult film producer" is making up a story about his big-breasted machine-gun-wielding soldier wife.
Like they say on Reddit, "Ask the OPs to provide proof, and upvote those who do!"
I will give them credit for making Windows 7 as good as it is--which is why I'm so pissed that they didn't focus on making it better for version 8, rather than the change-for-the-sake-of-change that we're seeing now. Look at what Apple did: when they added the iOS-like Launch Center, they didn't take away the Dock. In fact, Launch Center is 100% optional.
That. I absolutely can't believe anyone at MS ever thought dead-ending their mobile OS in this day and age--when people have gotten used to new updates from Apple for 2-4 years after shipping--was a good idea.
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Because of things like this. Sometimes it's good to have a current, real-time discussion with a range of knowledgable people, rather than searching the entire fucking WWW and figuring out for yourself who got what right and wrong.
> There are no file permissions.
> That all by itself makes it a joke, honestly.
No, it just had different aims. What you call a "joke" was in fact a (paraphrased from Wikipedia) "... a modern 64-bit capable journaling file system... it includes support for extended file attributes (metadata), with indexing and querying characteristics to provide functionality similar to that of a relational database. [In other words, you do a search and the results appear pretty much instantly because they came from a DB query, not from walking the whole FS.] It supported volumes up to 2 exabytes."
Also files could be larger than 2 GB (though I forget how big) and it used MIME types.
All of that over fifteen years ago.
... the first one had a Prince song playing in the background. New one will be up soon.
Years ago I had the idea to make a site or wiki to gather all the movies from the past once we reach that point. As you pointed out, BttF is just 3 years away. 2001 and 2010 have already passed. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man* was supposed to take place in 1996 and Judgement Day in T2 was supposed to be in 1997.
Inspiration came from one of my favorite books, Yesterday's Tomorrows but I wanted to focus specifically on the future as predicted in movies and TV shows that were set in the "future".
But, like everyone else, I'm too busy and have too many projects in mind to pursue this. If anyone wants to, I'd love to see it happen.
* not that that's the best movie ever, just one of the first that popped into my mind.
> Harvard law prof Jonathan Zittrain said the Obama
> app does represent a significant shift. While voter
> data has been 'technically public,' it is usually
> accessed only by political campaigns and companies
> that sell consumer data.
"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ten years ago Apple applied for a patent for a color-changing device case and the entire Internet was almost swept away in the ensuing geekgasm. However, in the decade since, we have never seen it in production. There have been many other "Apple has a patent on..." stories since then for plenty of products that have not been made.
See also the Apple Product Cycle which has been very accurate in the decade since it was first published.
I was at Siggraph in 1998 (in Orlando) and a vendor there (no idea who) had a pretty cool setup: a set of off-the-shelf glasses that were totally reasonably sized, held onto your head with an elastic strap, and on the back was a gyro pack (that they made) that was about 1" x 2" maybe. They had it hooked up to a fast machine running GL Quake and it looked PERFECT. Or, at least, worlds better than some other crappy VR games I had seen where you had a thing the size of a bike helmet that ran at about 5-10 fps.
You could look and aim in Quake faster than you could with a mouse--literally, just as fast as you could (normally) move your head. I don't remember there being any lag at all. You would run and shoot with the keyboard and aim by looking. It was awesome. So why did they never take off? I'm sure they were expensive at the time but a year or two would have made them reasonable, especially back then when a computer that was even halfway decent for gaming started at well over a grand.
- Hocky-puck mouse
- G4 Cube
- The iPod shuffle without buttons
Seriously people -- they're doing pretty well but they aren't perfect.
Besides, who gives a fuck what CRITICS think of ads? In 3 months, Apple will know if the ads worked or not, and then we'll see more of them, or we won't.
Jeez. Slow news day?
Rats... missed some parentheses. Should be...
Why would your first thought be "Let me make a couple hundred of these creatures that are OBVIOUSLY potentially dangerous" (they weigh many tons and/or are all muscle and claw) when it should be...
> Doesn't it come across as "never do anything because
> there might be unintended consequences", though?
To me it comes across as "don't try to do too much, too fast." Why would your first thought be "Let me make a couple hundred of these creatures that are OBVIOUSLY potentially dangerous" they weigh many tons and/or are all muscle and claw" when it should be "let me make a couple small ones and see what happens over the course of a few years"? The intro to the book warns of the dangers of gaining power too easily. Stand on the shoulders of giants, sure, but take your time, learn, and think.
> the point of unintended consequences is you can't predict
> whether anything you do will have bad ones or not.
Right. So basic common sense should tell you to limit your exposure to danger. Growing a dinosaur the size of a dog or cow = a great idea. A couple dozen T-Rexs and Raptors, all at once, with no experience... not so much.
When I hear those ads on the radio about how I can make money on my computer at home even though I'm totally retarded, is what you're doing what they're talking about?
"my OS X"? LOL.
"On top of that Windows Phone 7/8 supports the fantastic developer tools that is Visual Studio."
"tools... is" -- basic English fail.
And the punchline, because I'm sure your MS shill trainers didn't actually tell you anything about the industry: Windows Phone 8 is going to flop, partially because every single phone out there with Windows Phone 7 can not be upgraded to 8. I don't think there has been an iOS device yet that didn't get at least two major OS upgrades, and even Android users have a good shot at getting an update or two.
Cash your check quick... there might not be many more.
I assume the other 351 comments here are all saying "no" so I hope I don't get modded "redundant" for supplying the 352nd.
Most cities in the US have a tech startup or two. They are not exclusive to Silicon Valley. That does not mean those cities will become the "next" Silicon Valley. What does Silicon Valley have to offer?
- History. It got its name because so many of the early tech greats--Intel, HP, Apple--started out there.
- School. Stanford attracts a lot of bright people. From Wikipedia: "Stanford alumni have started many companies including Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Nvidia, SGI, MIPS Technologies, Yahoo!, Google, Logitech, Instagram, and Sun Microsystems."
- Money. The venture capitalists on Page Mill are legendary. Wikipedia says "Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States and the world, Silicon Valley continues to be the leading hub for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for one-third (1/3) of all of the venture capital investment in the United States."
- Weather. Mild climate and it never snows. (Snow is great, but it's for visiting, not living in.)
- Geography. Within a four-hour drive you have beaches, mountains, and forests. You can surf and ski in the same day.
Put that all together, let it stew for 70 years (HP was founded in 1939) and you'll get Silicon Valley.
Yeah, it's so much better to have an "Arrange by" button that leads to a dropdown menu instead of clickable column headings. Fucking retards.
Still, better than Gmail, which doesn't let you sort at all. But fuck, why is everyone so in love with change-for-the-sake-of-change? Some things are just RIGHT. Like sorting by clicking on column headings.
From the welcome email:
Along the way, if you've got any questions, comments, or concerns, please submit that feedback via the options menu in our header.
THERE IS NO OPTIONS MENU. If you mean "click the picture of the gear", then say "click the picture of the gear"!
> We'll soon find out whether Microsoft has what it
> takes to take on the seemingly indomitable iPad.
Spoiler: No.
I hated that term since the first time I heard it. I don't know why anyone calls it "cord cutting" when it's really just "cord switching."
And if anyone thinks those in control are going to let millions of subscribers save millions of dollars this way, they've never heard of "equilibrium." Or "greed." They'll throttle you, or cap you, or charge more, or all of the above, until it's not worth it.
And yeah, long story short: for some people, it'll work great; for others, it won't. It depends how much TV gets watched in your household. If it were just me, watching my small handful of shows, I could have switched years ago. But it isn't, so I haven't and won't.
... Professor Frink's Virtual Chili!
I finally had time to load it up and check it out on my phone this morning. Initial findings:
1) It is pretty freaking amazing.
2) The gestures for navigation are perfect.
3) It is awesome and makes me want a tablet.
4) I hope they figure out a way to make trees not look like round-topped posts.
5) Lucky for me, I'm happy to look at SF all day. They did a good job on the sunken plaza at the Powell Street BART station, but I wish they would have been able to perfectly render the sculpture at Justin Herman Plaza (which, ironically, is made up of rectangular prisms.)
But I'm just picky. GREAT JOB GUYS!
In a few years, once phones and tablets--really personal computers--outnumber traditional computers by one or two orders of magnitude, "Personal Computer" will be a quant anachronism, like "minicomputer" is now.
Naming hardware based on its relative size is as dumb as naming your software based on the year.
> But today I just edit Wikipedia articles. There's little reason for me to
> create Trepidity's Ancient Greek Temples Homepage when there's no
> way it could ever compete with the information Wikipedia already has
> on them.
Actually, you create Trepidity's Ancient Greek Temples Homepage first, then go make the page on Wikipedia and cite it.
That's a well-know old comment that has been posted many times over the years.
Half a million matches on Google.
20 on Slashdot alone.
... and many more that didn't get modded up enough for Google to see, or didn't use that exact whole line. It has also been parodied a lot.
Yeah, because there's no chance that someone with the handle "Adult film producer" is making up a story about his big-breasted machine-gun-wielding soldier wife.
Like they say on Reddit, "Ask the OPs to provide proof, and upvote those who do!"
I will give them credit for making Windows 7 as good as it is--which is why I'm so pissed that they didn't focus on making it better for version 8, rather than the change-for-the-sake-of-change that we're seeing now. Look at what Apple did: when they added the iOS-like Launch Center, they didn't take away the Dock. In fact, Launch Center is 100% optional.
Nah, it'd be too depressing. I live a live-action Dilbert. :-)
Also, print ads didn't get exponentially more annoying year after year.
> 29. Cannot be upgraded to Windows Phone 8
That. I absolutely can't believe anyone at MS ever thought dead-ending their mobile OS in this day and age--when people have gotten used to new updates from Apple for 2-4 years after shipping--was a good idea.