Now THAT'S odd, I was just reading about this yesterday in the latest SMPTE Journal on my to-read pile. I think it was the July issue. Alas, it's not online and I finished it and threw it out.
Anyway, just like DVD-A and SACD are/will be failures, this 32 megapixel technology will be a failure. 1.44 Mbps CD audio is Good Enough for 99% of the people (and far better than the analog format previously available), and 19 Mbps HD video is Good Enough for 99% of the people (and far better than the analog format previously available). I don't think it'll even succeed as a studio/production format, it just struck me as too kludgy, like some of the original early 80's HDTV attempts.
Thank god this has Slashdot's attention, maybe now someone can tell me where Charles Manson is imprisoned?
It's the first step in one of the sequences, and I could not find it. I tried 4 different major California prisons, each of which had been indicated by some research (via Google, natch).
On a related note, how does hinting work? I turn it on but I see no effect.
I am so tired of this story. Every 22 months it comes back and I have to explain it to all the non-technical members of my extended family who ask me about it, expecting a freaking flash in the sky or a moon sized UFO or some crazy crap like that.
Think about this: all of these people are voters. Now extrapolate to environemental policies, energy issues, stem cell research...
Skinner:... Let's have a look.
[quietly to Miss Hoover] Get the ribbon ready.
[pulls sheet off]
Oh...a little...sterile...no _real_ insight. What do you
think, Miss Hoover?
Hoover: Ehh. Skinner: Ooh, now we're into the dregs. Here's Ralph Wiggum's entry.
[pulls sheet off]
Pre-packaged "Star Wars" characters, still in their display
box? Are those the limited-edition action figures?
Ralph: What's a diorama? Skinner: Why it's Luke, and Obi-Wan, and my favorite, Chewie! They're
all here! [to Miss Hoover] What do you think?
Hoover: [bored] I think it's lunch time. Skinner: We have a winner!
194,250 yen is more like 1,720 US dollars. Still in striking range of $2K, but still far off from the original quoted dollar value. I noticed this because I'm going to Japan this week, and the original numbers in this post implied that my trip would be 25% more expensive than I was planning:)
You meant 10:23pm EDT, and really you should just say "ET" or "Eastern time" and avoid the mistake altogether. I am amazed how often technical people get this wrong. A favorite website of mine won't fix their code to correct this... it's sloppy, lazy, et cetera.
Calculating the chip cost this way but leaving out "marketing and development" is like saying that your car's cost is simply the cost of the fuel to run the engine, about 15 cents per mile. Neglecting the fact that you had to spend many thousands of dollars to buy the car in the first place, and continue to spend hundreds of dollars to maintain it, et cetera. Do we have to endure trolling on the front page posts now?
That post had truly awful grammar and spelling, even by Slashdot's dismal standards. I guess this is where we are heading when everyone gets their familiarity with written English from online flame wars.
Note: I'm not a liberal arts major -- I have two engineering degrees. Being a technologist does not excuse you from knowing your language. Cue arguments for why knowing your language matters...
The post office is the main hold up in terms of 1 day turn arounds, if you happen to be in the same city as a distribution center you should get 1 day turnarounds pretty frequently, though...
Absolutely. I reliably get 2 day turnarounds with Netflix (e.g. send back DVD on Monday, get replacement Wednesday). I am in a large metro area with a Netflix warehouse in it (somewhere).
One thing to watch out for is when Netflix sends you an email asking you to tell them exactly what day you received a DVD from them, so they can verify that delivery is working well. That's not quite true -- they're calibrating their system in order to SLOW it down. If it only takes 1 day for a DVD to get to you, they'll actually DELAY shipping the DVD by a day, thus slowing the turnaround time for you significantly. That saves them money (how so is left as an exercise for the reader). The extra delay doesn't annoy you enough to quit (or even complain)...
This is a topic that I've personally followed very closely for over decade. If anyone out there is interest in the issues and events surrounding fraud and ethics in journalism, let me point out two sources:
Book: Hard News : The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media, by Seth Mnookin
Beyond the obvious fraud commited by Jayson Blair, Mnookin delves into what was wrong in the NYT newsroom and managerial organization that allowed Blair to get away with it. In short: an imperious Howell Raines alienated his subordinate editors and the communications process broken down, allowing a "charismatic crook" to slip past the checks and balances that normally would catch him.
Movie: Shattered Glass, starring *cough* Hayden Christensen
At the New Republic, Stephen Glass was able to subvert their fact checking process -- starting with occasionally making up quotes, he ended up fabricating entire stories out of whole cloth. The Forbes Digital investigation that finally brought him down will likely be interesting to readers here...
I'm purposely not reading the comments on this thread, because the naivety exhibited will certainly make my head spin, and I need to get back to work. In short, just like the typical Slashdot reader knows a hell of a lot more about the subtleties of IT than a journalist, the journalism professional knows a hell of a lot more about the subtleties of journalism ethics than 99% of Slashdot readers.
And above all, spend a little time reading "hard" journalism once in while (even online versions of the old media, like NYT, WP, etc.) and get a feel for what rigorous journalism looks like. Blogs have their own set of problems that you may be blind to if you never read "real" reporting...
A real competition would give 2 (or more) teams identical budgets, not identical hardware. They would need to PAY all consultants at market rates. No free consultation from Microsoft (or Red Hat) R+D allowed, unless they are paid, and paid at market rates.
The budget has to buy software, hardware and setup labor.
This eliminates the problem of "that hardware favors Microsoft" or "that team had better engineers". It all comes down to money and value.
Of course the competition would need to state up front exactly how performance would be measured and how the various different tasks (static pages, cgi, etc.) would be weighted to come up with any overall scores. That would dictate the design choices made by each team.
If you read the article, I think you'll see that the key point of the article isn't the usual NIMBY issues, it's that the town basically rejected the cell tower so Verizon used federal law (and the appelate courts) to trump them and get it put in anyway. The locals were willing to live with spotty coverage, but the cell tower was forced on them anyway.
19 Mpbs is the standard (ATSC) for US digital terrestrial HD broadcasts. But trust me, HD looks a lot better at 270 Mbps (HDCAM) rates...
Nonsense. You haven't seen HD until you've seen it at 1.5 Gbps (HD-SDI) rates, preferably through a Sony 4K projector.
I'm joking, of course, you smartass:) Great username, by the way...
Iomega Micro Mini drives are even smaller/better
on
USB Flash Drive Round-up
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
I wonder why the Iomega Micro Mini drives were not included in the review. If you include the PQI's somewhat necessary enclosure, the Iomega model is smaller than the PQI and a better form factor (can't lose the Iomega's swivel cover). As far as I know this is the smallest drive on the market right now, and they're priced to move. Still I'm looking forward to more models that use the low profile USB jack like the PQI.
Now that DOS compatibility is pretty much gone from Window they can't even run the old code (not supported though it is); except - - hey - - is dosemu still around on Linux????
I've been balancing my checking account in Lotus 1-2-3 since 1987. Like your receipt entry example, it just works and I can get things done very very quickly. Currently I run it on a 350 Mhz PC running Windows 95 (my primary home desktop machine!). I wanted the next machine to be Linux (Debian) and getting Lotus to work in it was critical -- simply a dealbreaker if it didn't work. Happily, dosemu Just Worked (once I got past the hilariously obtuse license query -- type y-e-s!) and I had Lotus running minutes later. What a relief! That was the last hurdle -- since this is all GPL'd, I now know that I'll be able to run my Lotus 1-2-3 forever, no matter what machine I end up on! (cause everyone knows that by now, Linux is unstoppable and will be runnable on every machine hence, except perhaps those of a few misguided vendors who put up Trusted Hardware roadblocks -- buh bye!)
Oh Jesus, another Star Trek post... OK, I should be able to suppress the display of these on my SlashDot home page. Lessee, this story was posted under the topic "Sci-Fi" -- sure, I'll be happy to suppress those. Hmmm, how do I do that? There is no "Sci-Fi" or even "Entertainment" section listed on the preferences page where I would expect to set this. Even if it's just that the Entertainment section is missing from that code, I wouldn't want to suppress all Entertainment stories, just the Start Trek ones, and if that means throwing out Sci-Fi then so be it...
This is really interesting. I noticed that Titan results were extremely difficult to come by (especially more than the occasional press release image) and would like to hear if there's some objective truth behind that.
If you're still in high school, then pay attention in math class now before it's too late. Don't miss class, sit up front, and take good notes. It's your only hope.
If you're already out of high school, then I'm sure DeVry or some other fine institution will be happy to take your money and make you feel better about the situation for a while.
Then we have things such as Exchange, which at first everyone will swear that they need because it has integrated scheduling functions, despite the fact that most corporations hardly ever use the functionality
Just because you don't use Exchange's scheduling, and you don't know anybody who uses it without being annoying, doesn't mean it's not a valuable feature. We use it all the time at my extremely large corporation. My group is all spread out and it's the only way to schedule a group meeting without endless phone calls / emails. You need to come up with a better argument than "nobody uses this feature".
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Now THAT'S odd, I was just reading about this yesterday in the latest SMPTE Journal on my to-read pile. I think it was the July issue. Alas, it's not online and I finished it and threw it out.
Anyway, just like DVD-A and SACD are/will be failures, this 32 megapixel technology will be a failure. 1.44 Mbps CD audio is Good Enough for 99% of the people (and far better than the analog format previously available), and 19 Mbps HD video is Good Enough for 99% of the people (and far better than the analog format previously available). I don't think it'll even succeed as a studio/production format, it just struck me as too kludgy, like some of the original early 80's HDTV attempts.
Thanks, but Alcatraz stopped being a prison [checks via google] in 1963, before Manson even committed his crimes. But I tried it anyway -- no dice.
Thank god this has Slashdot's attention, maybe now someone can tell me where Charles Manson is imprisoned?
It's the first step in one of the sequences, and I could not find it. I tried 4 different major California prisons, each of which had been indicated by some research (via Google, natch).
On a related note, how does hinting work? I turn it on but I see no effect.
I am so tired of this story. Every 22 months it comes back and I have to explain it to all the non-technical members of my extended family who ask me about it, expecting a freaking flash in the sky or a moon sized UFO or some crazy crap like that.
...
Think about this: all of these people are voters. Now extrapolate to environemental policies, energy issues, stem cell research
Freedom is on the march!
Simpsons 1F17 [Diorama-rama Day]:
... Let's have a look.
Skinner:
[quietly to Miss Hoover] Get the ribbon ready.
[pulls sheet off]
Oh...a little...sterile...no _real_ insight. What do you
think, Miss Hoover?
Hoover: Ehh.
Skinner: Ooh, now we're into the dregs. Here's Ralph Wiggum's entry.
[pulls sheet off]
Pre-packaged "Star Wars" characters, still in their display
box? Are those the limited-edition action figures?
Ralph: What's a diorama?
Skinner: Why it's Luke, and Obi-Wan, and my favorite, Chewie! They're
all here! [to Miss Hoover] What do you think?
Hoover: [bored] I think it's lunch time.
Skinner: We have a winner!
It should be a +5! I was going to post the same link but searched existing comments first, including low-rated ones ...
194,250 yen is more like 1,720 US dollars. Still in striking range of $2K, but still far off from the original quoted dollar value. I noticed this because I'm going to Japan this week, and the original numbers in this post implied that my trip would be 25% more expensive than I was planning :)
You meant 10:23pm EDT, and really you should just say "ET" or "Eastern time" and avoid the mistake altogether. I am amazed how often technical people get this wrong. A favorite website of mine won't fix their code to correct this ... it's sloppy, lazy, et cetera.
Calculating the chip cost this way but leaving out "marketing and development" is like saying that your car's cost is simply the cost of the fuel to run the engine, about 15 cents per mile. Neglecting the fact that you had to spend many thousands of dollars to buy the car in the first place, and continue to spend hundreds of dollars to maintain it, et cetera. Do we have to endure trolling on the front page posts now?
Don't miss the little dropdown at the very bottom of the linked page.
Note: I'm not a liberal arts major -- I have two engineering degrees. Being a technologist does not excuse you from knowing your language. Cue arguments for why knowing your language matters ...
Absolutely. I reliably get 2 day turnarounds with Netflix (e.g. send back DVD on Monday, get replacement Wednesday). I am in a large metro area with a Netflix warehouse in it (somewhere).
One thing to watch out for is when Netflix sends you an email asking you to tell them exactly what day you received a DVD from them, so they can verify that delivery is working well. That's not quite true -- they're calibrating their system in order to SLOW it down. If it only takes 1 day for a DVD to get to you, they'll actually DELAY shipping the DVD by a day, thus slowing the turnaround time for you significantly. That saves them money (how so is left as an exercise for the reader). The extra delay doesn't annoy you enough to quit (or even complain) ...
Book: Hard News : The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media, by Seth Mnookin
Beyond the obvious fraud commited by Jayson Blair, Mnookin delves into what was wrong in the NYT newsroom and managerial organization that allowed Blair to get away with it. In short: an imperious Howell Raines alienated his subordinate editors and the communications process broken down, allowing a "charismatic crook" to slip past the checks and balances that normally would catch him.
Movie: Shattered Glass, starring *cough* Hayden Christensen ...
At the New Republic, Stephen Glass was able to subvert their fact checking process -- starting with occasionally making up quotes, he ended up fabricating entire stories out of whole cloth. The Forbes Digital investigation that finally brought him down will likely be interesting to readers here
I'm purposely not reading the comments on this thread, because the naivety exhibited will certainly make my head spin, and I need to get back to work. In short, just like the typical Slashdot reader knows a hell of a lot more about the subtleties of IT than a journalist, the journalism professional knows a hell of a lot more about the subtleties of journalism ethics than 99% of Slashdot readers.
And above all, spend a little time reading "hard" journalism once in while (even online versions of the old media, like NYT, WP, etc.) and get a feel for what rigorous journalism looks like. Blogs have their own set of problems that you may be blind to if you never read "real" reporting ...
The budget has to buy software, hardware and setup labor.
This eliminates the problem of "that hardware favors Microsoft" or "that team had better engineers". It all comes down to money and value.
Of course the competition would need to state up front exactly how performance would be measured and how the various different tasks (static pages, cgi, etc.) would be weighted to come up with any overall scores. That would dictate the design choices made by each team.
If you read the article, I think you'll see that the key point of the article isn't the usual NIMBY issues, it's that the town basically rejected the cell tower so Verizon used federal law (and the appelate courts) to trump them and get it put in anyway. The locals were willing to live with spotty coverage, but the cell tower was forced on them anyway.
So much misinformation to reply to, so little time.
Nonsense. You haven't seen HD until you've seen it at 1.5 Gbps (HD-SDI) rates, preferably through a Sony 4K projector.
I'm joking, of course, you smartass :) Great username, by the way ...
I wonder why the Iomega Micro Mini drives were not included in the review. If you include the PQI's somewhat necessary enclosure, the Iomega model is smaller than the PQI and a better form factor (can't lose the Iomega's swivel cover). As far as I know this is the smallest drive on the market right now, and they're priced to move. Still I'm looking forward to more models that use the low profile USB jack like the PQI.
A newsmagazine show on PBS called "Now" last week did a feature story on municipal efforts to provide free wifi and industry efforts to thwart them via state legislatures.
I've been balancing my checking account in Lotus 1-2-3 since 1987. Like your receipt entry example, it just works and I can get things done very very quickly. Currently I run it on a 350 Mhz PC running Windows 95 (my primary home desktop machine!). I wanted the next machine to be Linux (Debian) and getting Lotus to work in it was critical -- simply a dealbreaker if it didn't work. Happily, dosemu Just Worked (once I got past the hilariously obtuse license query -- type y-e-s!) and I had Lotus running minutes later. What a relief! That was the last hurdle -- since this is all GPL'd, I now know that I'll be able to run my Lotus 1-2-3 forever, no matter what machine I end up on! (cause everyone knows that by now, Linux is unstoppable and will be runnable on every machine hence, except perhaps those of a few misguided vendors who put up Trusted Hardware roadblocks -- buh bye!)
Damn.
Oh Jesus, another Star Trek post ... OK, I should be able to suppress the display of these on my SlashDot home page. Lessee, this story was posted under the topic "Sci-Fi" -- sure, I'll be happy to suppress those. Hmmm, how do I do that? There is no "Sci-Fi" or even "Entertainment" section listed on the preferences page where I would expect to set this. Even if it's just that the Entertainment section is missing from that code, I wouldn't want to suppress all Entertainment stories, just the Start Trek ones, and if that means throwing out Sci-Fi then so be it ...
This is really interesting. I noticed that Titan results were extremely difficult to come by (especially more than the occasional press release image) and would like to hear if there's some objective truth behind that.
If you're already out of high school, then I'm sure DeVry or some other fine institution will be happy to take your money and make you feel better about the situation for a while.
Just because you don't use Exchange's scheduling, and you don't know anybody who uses it without being annoying, doesn't mean it's not a valuable feature. We use it all the time at my extremely large corporation. My group is all spread out and it's the only way to schedule a group meeting without endless phone calls / emails. You need to come up with a better argument than "nobody uses this feature".