After I posted my question, I remembered the How Stuff Works website, and I found this same answer there:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/lcd5.htm
So, I guess the limiting factor is how much they can improve the manufacturing quality. Hmmm, it would be cool if they could develop a modular process, where they could produce 4" mini-panels, test them, and then fuse the good ones together seamlessly. But maybe I'm dreaming.
Or maybe someone will produce my 50" LCD screen and just allow for a certain small percentage of defects. How bad could that be?
Does anyone out there know about the future of LCD display technology? I've been curious about this. With CRT's, it seems intuitive to me that a small increase in screen size (say, going from 19" to 21") would result in a large cost increase. The technology doesn't scale well, so a linear increase in screen area doesn't translate to a linear increase in cost.
But is this necessarily true with LCD screens? It seems to be based on the way they are priced. But technologically speaking, why can't I have an LCD screen with 4 times the area of a 17" screen, for 4 times the cost?
I'm curious because I'd love to be able to buy a nice 50" widescreen LCD monitor for my home computer in ten years or so, for maybe $400 or so. Will it happen?
Well, I bet it's alot cheaper to just link to Cringley every week and let PBS pay him. And it's not like Katz could cost all that much. (Ba-dum, ching)
If you open that ZDNet article, there is a link in the first paragraph, at this point:
"Oracle's Version 8 database that Oracle claims exists today."
If you click that link, you go to the same article you're already reading! Get it? Oracle claims it exists today, because they claim it exists today, because they claim it exists today... another huge claim by Oracle with no real evidence to support it!
Probably it was just a goof by ZDNet, but I prefer to think of it as clever commentary.
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This could happen to you: "j00 got 0wN3d by ResearchMonkey38"... how humiliating!
Well, we don't want to give the monkeys too much power, they might cause some damage, or accidentally write some Shakespeare or something. We just need to give them toy computers. Something cute. Maybe something that looks like a flower or something. Hey, wait a minute...
Another unbeatable method of defeating content control would be to hire an army of ninja space monkeys to beat up all those monopolistic corporations.
You may think it's not realistic, but then again neither is the idea that you're going to get so much as 0.1% of people to even reduce their consumption of this content. It's a nice thought and all, but it's a pipe dream. Even on Slashdot many people are all excited about the upcoming Star Wars and Spiderman movies. Do you think they're going to stay home just to stiff some big company of $7.50? It's not even a drop in the bucket, it's a freaking molecule.
I really agree with many of the arguments about why this is dumb, but I could see one positive side to it. I would love it if there was a "remove me from your list" link in the spam I receive which I could trust. Right now, I never click on those links, because I'm afraid they're just going to see that my email account is active, and add me to 50 more lists. But if I knew that any remove link to "http://verisign.com/remove/..." was trustworthy, and it would remove me and do nothing else, I would like that quite a bit.
The worst thing about spam to me is how powerless I feel to do anything to control it.
Wow, those are pretty awesome... looks just like Windows! No, wait, the buttons and boxes are a little different. Well, as long as it runs Office I don't mind.
I can't help thinking about Jon Katz's artice about iMacs yesterday. I think his point was that Apple should abandon their strategy of trying to create a digital hub for entertainment, and instead be more like Microsoft? Hmmmmm....
Ya know, piracy is such a harsh way to put it... So there's like a million Kazaa users out there, moving these files back and forth, but really all they're doing is barrowing each other's CD's.
Think about it... on average I'd bet a Kazaa user owns at least 50 CD's. Some own less, but some own hundreds more. But how many songs can you listen to at once? One! But you own 500 songs, so why not let other people barrow the other songs you're not using? Barrowing the physical CD's would be too much hassle to be practical, so we just move some backups around instead.
So, those million Kazaa users are listening to a million songs, but together they own 500 million songs. And they own many more copies of any given song as compared to the number of copies being played at a given time. I don't see a problem.
I think that sums it up pretty nicely. You can have normal mode, or binary (abnormal; screwed up; what the hell do you want a binary watch for you freak?) mode.
This is such a myth... replacing labor with robots doesn't mean less work for people. It just means that as a society we can afford a better average lifestyle. Yes, it does suck in the short term for some people, but that seems to be unavoidable. In the long term it's best. Here's how this works:
1. Ford replaces 25% of it's employees with robots. Say that's 10,000 jobs.
2. 10,000 jobs were lost, but 2,000 jobs were created to manufacture, sell, operate, and maintain the robots.
3. All the other companies are using robots too, so in the competitive auto industry the cost savings get passed on to consumers.
4. Consumers are saving 15% on their car purchases, so they have that much more money to spend on either more expensive car options, or on any products or services they like.
5. Since consumers are spending more money, we need more people to make goods and provide services. 8,000 new jobs are created.
So, the net result is that (a)people can get more with their money and (b)hard and boring factory jobs are replaced with other jobs which are probably better.
That "official homepage" looks extremely unofficial. But it has good news... Jar Jar will only make a brief appearance! Maybe I won't hate this movie after all.
Here is CNET's review, which gives a quicker summary of the bottom line. Probably the most important piece is the improved feature set for working on a Windows network, which will make the Mac much more friendly in a corporate MS-owned environment.
I think if this had only been released sooner, the Cue Cat could've made it financially. Hopefully other companies will learn from this the perils of ignoring the Linux userbase!
Well, we're always going to be putting our music onto other things than our primary terabyte hard drives, so space will always be an issue. I want to put my music on my laptop, on a CD (or DVD) for my car MP3 player, on my PDA, on my cell, on my digital watch, on my fingernail...
The best compression will probably work out to about one MB/minute of music. I would like to keep 1000 CD's worth of music with me on any given system, so this means for compressed music I will need 60GB of storage. But since I only want to devote 10% of my storage to music, so the rest is available for other apps/storage, I will need a 600GB drive before I am content.
So, for uncompressed music, which takes up 10 times the space, I will need a 6TB drive to be content. So, I will switch to WAV files when I upgrade my fingernail drive to 6TB's. Until then, compression=good.
IBM sells microdrives, which we'll assume are close enough to fingernail drives. They hold about 5G I think. If we misapply Moore's law and assume that doubles every 18 months, then we still need compression for 15 years.
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Want to shut down your entire company? You only have to break one machine! :)
After I posted my question, I remembered the How Stuff Works website, and I found this same answer there:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/lcd5.htm
So, I guess the limiting factor is how much they can improve the manufacturing quality. Hmmm, it would be cool if they could develop a modular process, where they could produce 4" mini-panels, test them, and then fuse the good ones together seamlessly. But maybe I'm dreaming.
Or maybe someone will produce my 50" LCD screen and just allow for a certain small percentage of defects. How bad could that be?
Does anyone out there know about the future of LCD display technology? I've been curious about this. With CRT's, it seems intuitive to me that a small increase in screen size (say, going from 19" to 21") would result in a large cost increase. The technology doesn't scale well, so a linear increase in screen area doesn't translate to a linear increase in cost.
But is this necessarily true with LCD screens? It seems to be based on the way they are priced. But technologically speaking, why can't I have an LCD screen with 4 times the area of a 17" screen, for 4 times the cost?
I'm curious because I'd love to be able to buy a nice 50" widescreen LCD monitor for my home computer in ten years or so, for maybe $400 or so. Will it happen?
Well, I bet it's alot cheaper to just link to Cringley every week and let PBS pay him. And it's not like Katz could cost all that much. (Ba-dum, ching)
Well, that's because the only channel you watch is the Playboy channel.
"Oracle's Version 8 database that Oracle claims exists today."
If you click that link, you go to the same article you're already reading! Get it? Oracle claims it exists today, because they claim it exists today, because they claim it exists today... another huge claim by Oracle with no real evidence to support it!
Probably it was just a goof by ZDNet, but I prefer to think of it as clever commentary.
This could happen to you: "j00 got 0wN3d by ResearchMonkey38"... how humiliating!
Well, we don't want to give the monkeys too much power, they might cause some damage, or accidentally write some Shakespeare or something. We just need to give them toy computers. Something cute. Maybe something that looks like a flower or something. Hey, wait a minute...
You may think it's not realistic, but then again neither is the idea that you're going to get so much as 0.1% of people to even reduce their consumption of this content. It's a nice thought and all, but it's a pipe dream. Even on Slashdot many people are all excited about the upcoming Star Wars and Spiderman movies. Do you think they're going to stay home just to stiff some big company of $7.50? It's not even a drop in the bucket, it's a freaking molecule.
I really agree with many of the arguments about why this is dumb, but I could see one positive side to it. I would love it if there was a "remove me from your list" link in the spam I receive which I could trust. Right now, I never click on those links, because I'm afraid they're just going to see that my email account is active, and add me to 50 more lists. But if I knew that any remove link to "http://verisign.com/remove/..." was trustworthy, and it would remove me and do nothing else, I would like that quite a bit.
The worst thing about spam to me is how powerless I feel to do anything to control it.
Wow, those are pretty awesome... looks just like Windows! No, wait, the buttons and boxes are a little different. Well, as long as it runs Office I don't mind.
I can't help thinking about Jon Katz's artice about iMacs yesterday. I think his point was that Apple should abandon their strategy of trying to create a digital hub for entertainment, and instead be more like Microsoft? Hmmmmm....
This is pretty good, but not excellent. It deserves exactly the score it has received. Please do not mod parent either up or down!
Ya know, piracy is such a harsh way to put it... So there's like a million Kazaa users out there, moving these files back and forth, but really all they're doing is barrowing each other's CD's.
Think about it... on average I'd bet a Kazaa user owns at least 50 CD's. Some own less, but some own hundreds more. But how many songs can you listen to at once? One! But you own 500 songs, so why not let other people barrow the other songs you're not using? Barrowing the physical CD's would be too much hassle to be practical, so we just move some backups around instead.
So, those million Kazaa users are listening to a million songs, but together they own 500 million songs. And they own many more copies of any given song as compared to the number of copies being played at a given time. I don't see a problem.
All this bragging aboot Canada makes me want to go download that Molson beer commercial from AdCritic...
I think that sums it up pretty nicely. You can have normal mode, or binary (abnormal; screwed up; what the hell do you want a binary watch for you freak?) mode.
So then, what about smacking? Where does smacking fit in to the picture?
Any bets we're going to see one of these "Flying Boats" in an upcoming Bond flick? (Maybe the name will fit the boat better then.)
This is such a myth... replacing labor with robots doesn't mean less work for people. It just means that as a society we can afford a better average lifestyle. Yes, it does suck in the short term for some people, but that seems to be unavoidable. In the long term it's best. Here's how this works:
1. Ford replaces 25% of it's employees with robots. Say that's 10,000 jobs.
2. 10,000 jobs were lost, but 2,000 jobs were created to manufacture, sell, operate, and maintain the robots.
3. All the other companies are using robots too, so in the competitive auto industry the cost savings get passed on to consumers.
4. Consumers are saving 15% on their car purchases, so they have that much more money to spend on either more expensive car options, or on any products or services they like.
5. Since consumers are spending more money, we need more people to make goods and provide services. 8,000 new jobs are created.
So, the net result is that (a)people can get more with their money and (b)hard and boring factory jobs are replaced with other jobs which are probably better.
That "official homepage" looks extremely unofficial. But it has good news... Jar Jar will only make a brief appearance! Maybe I won't hate this movie after all.
Here is CNET's review, which gives a quicker summary of the bottom line. Probably the most important piece is the improved feature set for working on a Windows network, which will make the Mac much more friendly in a corporate MS-owned environment.
I use just a standard cat for this and it works perfectly well. I don't need one of these fancy hi-tech models!
I think if this had only been released sooner, the Cue Cat could've made it financially. Hopefully other companies will learn from this the perils of ignoring the Linux userbase!
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Well, we're always going to be putting our music onto other things than our primary terabyte hard drives, so space will always be an issue. I want to put my music on my laptop, on a CD (or DVD) for my car MP3 player, on my PDA, on my cell, on my digital watch, on my fingernail...
The best compression will probably work out to about one MB/minute of music. I would like to keep 1000 CD's worth of music with me on any given system, so this means for compressed music I will need 60GB of storage. But since I only want to devote 10% of my storage to music, so the rest is available for other apps/storage, I will need a 600GB drive before I am content.
So, for uncompressed music, which takes up 10 times the space, I will need a 6TB drive to be content. So, I will switch to WAV files when I upgrade my fingernail drive to 6TB's. Until then, compression=good.
IBM sells microdrives, which we'll assume are close enough to fingernail drives. They hold about 5G I think. If we misapply Moore's law and assume that doubles every 18 months, then we still need compression for 15 years.