This is sort of similar to the trick Intel did with MMX. Certain Photoshop filters rendered much faster when certain common settings were used, and not others.
This created a big stink at the time.
Of course, there is the question of how much of that sort of thing was really hardware dependant, vs a minor feature update that justified another round of hardware upgrades.
And so the tactics of the marketing monster enter the picture once again. What can you do, what can you get away with, and how much does it cost...
How are they going to enforce this on the rest of Planet Earth?
I hate to say this, but it almost sounds like someone's been in the outback a bit too long. I am waiting to see someone try to do the same as the French have done in the Yahoo case.
I would want to have a big review commitee, made up of people from all the states in the suit, so you have a nice big committee of 50 or 60 people, to pass on Micorsoft Decisions _in advance_.
Micromanage the hell out of them. Hire IRS agents to do the auditing. You get the idea.
If Microsoft is on Probation, then run a _tough_ probation program
Oh god. What a waste of TV space. I'm a hug fan of the original series and sure, the dubbed version on the Food Network is a little odd but that's what makes Iron Chef.
They obviously went for camp. I mean, the the Idea of "American cuisine" has only begun to be specable in recent years.
There is, for example. this guy, who claims to be Iron Chef Kentucky:
http://jeffholland.tripod.com/food.html
Worth checking out on his own. - - Some of the recipes are truly scary.
The effects of this sort of infighting vary somewhat depending on the group.
If you take a group of true fruitcakes, say, the UFO Investigators, they basically "eat their own young" when it comes to competition, grandstanding, ego trips, etc.
Software developers are not so flakey, of course, although some folks would argue otherwise.
Many folks are rather ignorant of this sort of thing, and get blindsided by it. Of course, management books and courses sort of assume that every one is on the same team, and rarely look at the angle where there are competing interests, some of them sometimes rather juvenile.
is developing software that will fool audiences into believing they're seeing Bruce Lee in the flesh.
I can just imagine that what Hollywood wants is to be able to by the rights to the images of famous actors from their estates, so that they can pump out endless movies with familiar faces on the cheap. Just think of those commercials from a few years ago where bogart and wayne were seen to be pushing coca cola.
If they had a chance, they would likely jump at the chance. Never mind someone who looks like some celebrity, but isn't quite. I can just see the law suits now!
I recall some story on slash a while back about the chance of thise sort of thing happening down the road with digital actors on your computer desktop. (I think this was about using a gaming system as a movie production tool) A movie file then would in some way be sort of similar to a MIDI file, specifying the actors actions. There are obvious applications for all varieties of "Home Entertainment" projects (quit leering!)
I am thinking specifcally thinking of Sigfreid. This raised all kinds of uproar at the time of it's premier because of the way that it it went counter to the morals of the day (regarding forbidden loves, etc).
Fuel Cells look like a promising technology, the US should dump a bunch of money into this, get us out of the current junkie/pusher relationship we have with the Middle East.
Actually, we don't need the Middle East at all. There are the Alberta Oil Sands which are insanely huge, and which just had an advance in extraction technology to become a lot more competitive.
But we add in things like Fuel cells, etc. And then we can let them all go fight each other with rocks and sticks and stuff.
When shipping from overseas, it is possible that many of the package handlers will not read english, and maybe only speak broken english in grunts. Add in a few that feel like taking out revenge on the US for some weird reason, and you have a problem.
That being said, if it is that valuable, from that far a distance, then the added expense of wooden crates with lots of extra padding inside may be worth it.
Although it almost looks like it got dropped from a severe height, like inside a shipping container from about 5 + yards/meters of the ground, and got slightly crushed.
Our handsets are not meant to compete head-on with classic voice-centered mobile phones," Telepong's CEO Christoph Atzwanger, emphasizes. "They are closer to game and messaging consoles and are focused on enabling and supporting non-voice 2.5 G and 3 G services."
If they're going to go as far as start mining on Mars, then why not just colonize it and start up some industry and communities there?
I suspect that more resources are going to be needed. And a bit of terraforming to make it much more sustainable. You want to be able to have the thing last on it's own, sustain itself and grow.
This gets into things like altering the paths of comets so that they crash into Mars depositing all kinds of extra water into the place. But that raises all kinds of questions. For example there is this old debate on if the earth is being constantly pelted on by mini-comets. If this is happening on Earthe, what is going on at mars?
Many direct mail marketing companies are seriously thinking about switching to e-mail for their spam^Wmarketing.
Which is why federal regulation of this is needed. Let the government make money off this, and let service providers bill spam handling charges to the spammers, and let customers bill spammers for the convenience of receiving spam.
If spammers actually paid me for receiving spam, at MY rates, heck, it might even pay for my connection, and a lot more.
and as noted before, all licensed spammers deserve an bright and shiny orange ear tag or something. [smile]
Even if someone _could_ make all service providers switch over (not likely) the odds are that the first adopters would get creamed on this.
As I've said before, charging the spammers a penny per message is a far more viable idea. This ties in with mandatory spam licensing with a federal register of spammers, where people can bill the spammers for traffic.
IBM Japan is paying over $166,000 a year for Asimo to be a receptionist? Looks like our futurist fantasies were half right ? robots will do the menial jobs for us
Like anything else, right now this is just a PR move. eventually the cost will come down. The cost sounds like it is in line with the Mini computers that were destroyed in the market by the PC
You will know that they have become ubiquitious when you can have a robot rock band, complete with robots actually playing guitars, piano, etc. doing the dancing, etc
If fact that is a rather decent prediction. Robot Rock as a Craze.
It's global govenment -- meaning the whole globe. With global government, the world doesn't have to contend with democracy causing problems for commerce.
We need to look at this as seen from outside of the USA.
In this column in the Indian Online Magazine Tehelka, Swami Agnivesh warns the West that it would be dangerous to attempt a global, unilateral regime of the sort envisaged by the World Trade Organisation without a corresponding willingness to give up its parochial mindset. As he notes 'the Western commitment to equality remains suspect to the rest of us because they have not upheld this, in any real sense, in dealing with our societies. In its transactions with non-Western societies, the West has operated on the privileges and profits of inequality."
He warns the West that it would be dangerous to attempt a global, unilateral regime of the sort envisaged by the World Trade Organisation without a corresponding willingness to give up its parochial mindset.
The whole article is insightful, but rather unsettling to a usian who has never been out of country.
The idea that somehow the USA is better than everyone elsemight even have some truth in it, but too often it breeds a certain contempt and disrect.
In a similar area, look at Microsoft. They argue they have the best in the world, but this does not always promote respect from users of other technologies.
And so it is probably for the better that the US does not become the equivalent of Microsoft in the nations of earth.
Some place out there on the net I remember seeing a computer that was built into a common suitcase with a screen riveted or something to the lid. had the back cut out to allow access to the cards and plugs.
Sort of retro in its own way.
So something like this would be viable if you do not mind re-inventing the luggable;-)
when it came to real e-commerce or real e-business companies quickly learned that these projects were much more complicated. The notion that you could throw together an Internet project without any planning, without any processes, and without experienced professionals was foolhardy.
Your basic brochure is something that a lot of people can do, but even there, a good eye for design is needed to get the balance right.
Design philosophies for websites are probably available by the dozen in the bazillions of books that have been published on the subject.
Key point being: Don't Drive the Customers Away.
of course when people want site that will actually do something, that requires a whole additional level of expertise. This is an obvious point to most readers here, but often the technical view is radically missing from managers.
We have all known the type that says "just make it happen"
This makes no sense. On one hand I think "While maybe it's a classic Slashdot slam at patents?", but in this case the innovators are the students, rather than the professors, so...it just makes no sense.
Very simply, the person who does the work gets the credit.
Also, this had nothing to do with software, and was about a victory for college students. Since many slash readers are college students, I can see the original article getting cut out and sent anonymously to many a college professor who has acted like a jerk over the years. Many of them will take advantadge of a students naivete.
And many will just blatantly say "everything you do is mine", which is something we do not want to encourage.
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This created a big stink at the time.
Of course, there is the question of how much of that sort of thing was really hardware dependant, vs a minor feature update that justified another round of hardware upgrades.
And so the tactics of the marketing monster enter the picture once again. What can you do, what can you get away with, and how much does it cost ...
I hate to say this, but it almost sounds like someone's been in the outback a bit too long. I am waiting to see someone try to do the same as the French have done in the Yahoo case.
I would want to have a big review commitee, made up of people from all the states in the suit, so you have a nice big committee of 50 or 60 people, to pass on Micorsoft Decisions _in advance_.
Micromanage the hell out of them. Hire IRS agents to do the auditing. You get the idea.
If Microsoft is on Probation, then run a _tough_ probation program
They obviously went for camp. I mean, the the Idea of "American cuisine" has only begun to be specable in recent years.
There is, for example. this guy, who claims to be Iron Chef Kentucky:
http://jeffholland.tripod.com/food.html
Worth checking out on his own. - - Some of the recipes are truly scary.
Kentucky Bourbon Deviled Crab
Bacon-Burger-Fried Okra
Chocolate Steak
Survival Biscuit Casserole
Bubblegum Sauce
and there's more!
And I wonder if the chairman in the original Iron Chef was the Japanes equivalent of William Shantner from an earlier Japanese TV show
I am sure that someone will come up with the software that will do just that trick.
If you take a group of true fruitcakes, say, the UFO Investigators, they basically "eat their own young" when it comes to competition, grandstanding, ego trips, etc.
Software developers are not so flakey, of course, although some folks would argue otherwise.
Many folks are rather ignorant of this sort of thing, and get blindsided by it. Of course, management books and courses sort of assume that every one is on the same team, and rarely look at the angle where there are competing interests, some of them sometimes rather juvenile.
I can just imagine that what Hollywood wants is to be able to by the rights to the images of famous actors from their estates, so that they can pump out endless movies with familiar faces on the cheap. Just think of those commercials from a few years ago where bogart and wayne were seen to be pushing coca cola.
If they had a chance, they would likely jump at the chance. Never mind someone who looks like some celebrity, but isn't quite. I can just see the law suits now!
I recall some story on slash a while back about the chance of thise sort of thing happening down the road with digital actors on your computer desktop. (I think this was about using a gaming system as a movie production tool) A movie file then would in some way be sort of similar to a MIDI file, specifying the actors actions. There are obvious applications for all varieties of "Home Entertainment" projects (quit leering!)
I am thinking specifcally thinking of Sigfreid. This raised all kinds of uproar at the time of it's premier because of the way that it it went counter to the morals of the day (regarding forbidden loves, etc).
Actually, we don't need the Middle East at all. There are the Alberta Oil Sands which are insanely huge, and which just had an advance in extraction technology to become a lot more competitive.
But we add in things like Fuel cells, etc. And then we can let them all go fight each other with rocks and sticks and stuff.
That being said, if it is that valuable, from that far a distance, then the added expense of wooden crates with lots of extra padding inside may be worth it.
Although it almost looks like it got dropped from a severe height, like inside a shipping container from about 5 + yards/meters of the ground, and got slightly crushed.
That's for sure
And Yes, there is a Telepong.com with a truly large picture (1700x1700) for your closeups of the device
but otherwise the site is still a bit content lite.
There were these links:
-
Consumer Hydrogen Fuel Cells by michael with 518 comments on 05:14 PM -- Friday September 28 2001
- Motorola Makes Gasoline Powered Cell Phones by CmdrTaco with 242 comments on 10:19 AM -- Wednesday October 03 2001
- The (Possible) Future of Alternative Energy by michael with 450 comments on 10:56 PM -- Tuesday November 06 2001
- Fuel Cells For (Military) Portable Computing by timothy with 141 comments on 10:56 PM -- Saturday April 14 2001
- Portable Fuel Cell Technology by Hemos with 286 comments on 06:52 PM -- Wednesday January 19 2000
Looks like you might just have to fuel it up (nb the motorola story). Just don't be a heavy smoker. [smile]Which brings up the question of what is the highest resolution available out there? And how practical is it?
I've gotten upset at the number of promising links that take me right to eBay, as far as looking for a laptop comparison site.
I suspect that more resources are going to be needed. And a bit of terraforming to make it much more sustainable. You want to be able to have the thing last on it's own, sustain itself and grow.
This gets into things like altering the paths of comets so that they crash into Mars depositing all kinds of extra water into the place. But that raises all kinds of questions. For example there is this old debate on if the earth is being constantly pelted on by mini-comets. If this is happening on Earthe, what is going on at mars?
All kinds of things to talk about.
Which is why federal regulation of this is needed. Let the government make money off this, and let service providers bill spam handling charges to the spammers, and let customers bill spammers for the convenience of receiving spam.
If spammers actually paid me for receiving spam, at MY rates, heck, it might even pay for my connection, and a lot more.
and as noted before, all licensed spammers deserve an bright and shiny orange ear tag or something. [smile]
As I've said before, charging the spammers a penny per message is a far more viable idea. This ties in with mandatory spam licensing with a federal register of spammers, where people can bill the spammers for traffic.
This kills several birds with one stone.
Like anything else, right now this is just a PR move. eventually the cost will come down. The cost sounds like it is in line with the Mini computers that were destroyed in the market by the PC
You will know that they have become ubiquitious when you can have a robot rock band, complete with robots actually playing guitars, piano, etc. doing the dancing, etc
If fact that is a rather decent prediction. Robot Rock as a Craze.
The article author also pulls no punches on his opinions of these fine folks.
I think I have some email to send, my self.
http://www.cuttingtheedge.com/qtakes/2001/foldable _lcd/foldable.shtm
Going to the list of articles you can see that this was featured back at the end of July. Sometimes it takes a long time for neat stuff to leak out.
but are rather expensive for that purpose.
We need to look at this as seen from outside of the USA.
In this column in the Indian Online Magazine Tehelka, Swami Agnivesh warns the West that it would be dangerous to attempt a global, unilateral regime of the sort envisaged by the World Trade Organisation without a corresponding willingness to give up its parochial mindset. As he notes 'the Western commitment to equality remains suspect to the rest of us because they have not upheld this, in any real sense, in dealing with our societies. In its transactions with non-Western societies, the West has operated on the privileges and profits of inequality."
He warns the West that it would be dangerous to attempt a global, unilateral regime of the sort envisaged by the World Trade Organisation without a corresponding willingness to give up its parochial mindset.
The whole article is insightful, but rather unsettling to a usian who has never been out of country.
The idea that somehow the USA is better than everyone elsemight even have some truth in it, but too often it breeds a certain contempt and disrect.
In a similar area, look at Microsoft. They argue they have the best in the world, but this does not always promote respect from users of other technologies.
And so it is probably for the better that the US does not become the equivalent of Microsoft in the nations of earth.
Sort of retro in its own way.
So something like this would be viable if you do not mind re-inventing the luggable ;-)
Your basic brochure is something that a lot of people can do, but even there, a good eye for design is needed to get the balance right. Design philosophies for websites are probably available by the dozen in the bazillions of books that have been published on the subject.
Key point being: Don't Drive the Customers Away.
of course when people want site that will actually do something, that requires a whole additional level of expertise. This is an obvious point to most readers here, but often the technical view is radically missing from managers.
We have all known the type that says "just make it happen"
[insert diatribe against clueless managers here]
Very simply, the person who does the work gets the credit.
Also, this had nothing to do with software, and was about a victory for college students. Since many slash readers are college students, I can see the original article getting cut out and sent anonymously to many a college professor who has acted like a jerk over the years. Many of them will take advantadge of a students naivete.
And many will just blatantly say "everything you do is mine", which is something we do not want to encourage.
www.httpads.com
Basically he allows other people to do impulse buying of ads on his website. Very Interesting, and useful
And yes, he is making money on this angle.