The thing is: as demand for a country's products decreases, demand for its currency decreases, and the currency devalues -- making buying that country's products and services more appealing since another country's currency will buy more of the first country's currency, and thus more goods and services.
Eventually, if demand in India takes off too much and demand for U.S. products decreases, the dollar will devalue and then software or manufacturing jobs in the States become more appealing and more worthwhile, versus the rising costs of stuff in India as their currency gets stronger.
With manufacturing and some high-tech stuff as well, China is playing the system: instead of letting their currency float like other currencies, they fix yuan to the dollar -- making it artifically low so that other countries can buy Chinese merchandise for less.
I just read an article in The Economist this morning about each dollar moved offshore for employment from U.S. companies generates $1.12 to $1.14 in net benefit.
I think I'm a little worried -- I'm still in school now, but the software and Internet jobs that looked extremely promsing 3 years ago are looking more perilous. But I think that the United States will keep its place in the world economy and relative prosperity will continue: historically, the U.S. has been at the forefront of R&D and of innovation. The article in the Economist pointed this out as well: America's cultural environment is much more encouraging to innovation than that of India or China.
Of course it will be -- check out the graph of Internet use vs. age and gender -- almost 100% of "pupils" use the Internet.
The Internet is still relatively new, but it's becoming so entrenched both practically, affecting how we do things at almost every level, as well as culturally.
I don't really think that there's any need to force people into Internet use or encourage it -- eventually it'll just become the definative way to do things. It's the first place I look for most information, and I think that that's becoming increasingly true of young people in general. Some people aren't used to using the Internet, and I think some people won't ever get used to it. But the thing is that those people are most likely relatively old. Like the article said, it might take a generation for 9/10 of the population to regularly use the Internet, but it will happen.
He's spot-on. People (at least large numbers of people) will only pay for content if there's no free alternative. That's why subscription music services don't fare well -- KaZaA is right there, and it's free.
I subscribe to Vindigo 2.0, the city guide program for Pocket PC and Palm. This is because Vindigo owns. Nowhere else can you get a program that's as easy to use and helpful for knowing where to go in a city. Plus, at $24.95 a year, it's fairly cheap.
I don't think I'd pay $10/month for something unless it was absolutely indispensable.
The key to pay-based online stuff is lots of content, available cheaply, in a way that you can't get anywhere else.
But they won't know or care. The guts of the GUI and Linux kernel will be hidden, so Joe TV can't screw it up.
Hm.. a bit like TiVo;-) The problem is that if anything like this gets big, but based on a more open system than TiVo (free program listings, copy to PCs over the network, watch divx, burn to DVD, etc.), the MPAA and friends will raise a fuss.
Sadly, I think the only way to get a totally open PVR box will be home-built and hacked-together for the next while.
I believe that Macs need a different BIOS on the vid card in order to boot. So theoretically, it should be possible to just flash a PC card with the Mac BIOS and ta-da.
Here's a quick link I found Googling for Mac BIOS flashing on the R8500 -- I guess the PCB is actually sometimes different on the Mac too.
I was looking into this awhile ago, trying to sell my r8500 to a friend with a G4 Cube, but it seemed too risky.
I went into it expecting a big, dumb action festival.
I got it, and a bit more. Even the one liners didn't bother me.
"Relax." "We require a new vehicle." "You're terminated!"
I liked the movie. I liked Arnold. I liked the CG effects, more so than those in the Matrix Reloaded, or even LotR. The truck chase ruled. Funny Terminator-doesn't-get-it-jokes were good. There were lots of bullets and explosions.
Did anyone else get a big kick out of how at the end, the T-X crashes into the bunker with a helicopter, and then Arnold comes in in a BIGGER helicopter?! Genius. Absolutely genius.
I think that movies, first and foremost, are entertainment. They can be artful, thought-provoking, or profound. But just because they aren't doesn't mean you can't just sit back, flip your brain into standby, and enjoy it!
Right after watching the movie, my friends immediately began to speculate about what could happen in T4, if there is to be one.
Now don't get me wrong, I'd like to find out what happens as much as the next guy, but I don't really think that T4 would fit with the other movies. Terminator movies, as much as they're about the plot, they're more about great invulnerable-robot-laying-waste-to-stuff action.
Something post-apocalyptic, as T4 would have to be, couldn't have any of that. IMHO, it'd be just another post-apocalyptic movie without capturing any of the real charm that Terminator movies have.
Agreed about the Terminatrix being cool, though. I liked how they didn't overplay the sexiness angle. I mean, sure, the T-X is a babe, but she's still a Terminator.
I think it was more of a comment on general ease-of-install nowadays versus back in the good ol' days of DOS 6.22, not cliched MS-bashing.
Windows XP, 2k, as well as Red Hat 9 and Mandrake all intalled flawlessly on my computer with no configuration needed. All of them compare quite favorably to nightmares with managing IRQs and finding obscure drivers back with Windows 3.1 or somesuch.
I think PCs do get equal attention, but since all the parts in Dell's, HP's, etc. machines are all industry standard parts manufactured by other companies, the speculation isn't about their offerings but the offerings of their suppliers.
There's a lot of speculation about AMD's chips, or new motherboard chipsets, or nVidia or ATI's new graphics cards -- probably just as much or more in total as that which surrounds Apple's products. Apple just has a lot of relative speculation surrounding it since it's the only provider for a particular platform.
Movietickets.com always has worked flawlessly for me. The $1.00 fee sucks, but there's not much to be done about that.
The trick is to never stand in a line. Always go right for the ticket ATM machines. I buy ahead with my card on movietickets.com, and then just swipe my card in the machine in the theater. It spits out however many tickets I've ordered for the show, end of story.
It sounds like some theaters have been slow to adopt the machines, but it all the theaters I've been in, if they let you buy online, they have machines.
I think it's worth it for the peace of mind you get knowing you'll get into a movie -- I usually only cough up the money for it for first-day releases, but at most of those releases, it's been really popular. I saw Episode II first day at a theater in Lowell, MA, and just about everybody in line had inkjet-printed tickets from movietickets.com
I read this and immediately remembered when Brian Henson (Jim Henson's son, of Muppets fame) came and gave a talk at my school last year.
One of the things "The Creature Shop," the company he runs, is working on, is digitally animated puppets which are played in real-time the way that a normal puppet would be.
He didn't give too many technical details then, but I found this press release, check it out: http://www.henson.com/company/press/html/060601.ht ml
The Idrema console, if done right, has the possibility to REALLY do well. Look at TiVo -- It runs linux, but the general public is blissfully ignorant of that. Linux gaming is a niche market of a niche market, about the worst situation available...
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The thing is: as demand for a country's products decreases, demand for its currency decreases, and the currency devalues -- making buying that country's products and services more appealing since another country's currency will buy more of the first country's currency, and thus more goods and services.
Eventually, if demand in India takes off too much and demand for U.S. products decreases, the dollar will devalue and then software or manufacturing jobs in the States become more appealing and more worthwhile, versus the rising costs of stuff in India as their currency gets stronger.
With manufacturing and some high-tech stuff as well, China is playing the system: instead of letting their currency float like other currencies, they fix yuan to the dollar -- making it artifically low so that other countries can buy Chinese merchandise for less.
I just read an article in The Economist this morning about each dollar moved offshore for employment from U.S. companies generates $1.12 to $1.14 in net benefit.
I think I'm a little worried -- I'm still in school now, but the software and Internet jobs that looked extremely promsing 3 years ago are looking more perilous. But I think that the United States will keep its place in the world economy and relative prosperity will continue: historically, the U.S. has been at the forefront of R&D and of innovation. The article in the Economist pointed this out as well: America's cultural environment is much more encouraging to innovation than that of India or China.
Looking at the photos, I don't even see a standard ATX power connector, so they must be doing something different and crafty for Nano-ITX.
Maybe the yellow connector near the VGA?
Very nifty stuff..
Of course it will be -- check out the graph of Internet use vs. age and gender -- almost 100% of "pupils" use the Internet.
The Internet is still relatively new, but it's becoming so entrenched both practically, affecting how we do things at almost every level, as well as culturally.
I don't really think that there's any need to force people into Internet use or encourage it -- eventually it'll just become the definative way to do things. It's the first place I look for most information, and I think that that's becoming increasingly true of young people in general. Some people aren't used to using the Internet, and I think some people won't ever get used to it. But the thing is that those people are most likely relatively old. Like the article said, it might take a generation for 9/10 of the population to regularly use the Internet, but it will happen.
I mean, seriously. The Internet rules.
The pirated copy of WinXP that doesn't update is only the one with the massively-pirated FCKGW- serial number.
Other serial numbers will auto-update just fine.
I think that this kind of hardware swashbuckling is pretty neat. I think I would probably just have accepted defeat and called it a day.
But what's even cooler is that the guy went and got his own domain for his dead hard drive. Nice.
I first readt that not as Point-of-Sale, but Piece-of-Shi...
Oh, never mind..
Mod this man up!
He's spot-on. People (at least large numbers of people) will only pay for content if there's no free alternative. That's why subscription music services don't fare well -- KaZaA is right there, and it's free.
I subscribe to Vindigo 2.0, the city guide program for Pocket PC and Palm. This is because Vindigo owns. Nowhere else can you get a program that's as easy to use and helpful for knowing where to go in a city. Plus, at $24.95 a year, it's fairly cheap.
I don't think I'd pay $10/month for something unless it was absolutely indispensable.
The key to pay-based online stuff is lots of content, available cheaply, in a way that you can't get anywhere else.
But doesn't TiVo already run Linux?
But they won't know or care. The guts of the GUI and Linux kernel will be hidden, so Joe TV can't screw it up.
Hm.. a bit like TiVo ;-) The problem is that if anything like this gets big, but based on a more open system than TiVo (free program listings, copy to PCs over the network, watch divx, burn to DVD, etc.), the MPAA and friends will raise a fuss.
Sadly, I think the only way to get a totally open PVR box will be home-built and hacked-together for the next while.
I believe that Macs need a different BIOS on the vid card in order to boot. So theoretically, it should be possible to just flash a PC card with the Mac BIOS and ta-da.
Here's a quick link I found Googling for Mac BIOS flashing on the R8500 -- I guess the PCB is actually sometimes different on the Mac too.
I was looking into this awhile ago, trying to sell my r8500 to a friend with a G4 Cube, but it seemed too risky.
Amen. Everybody stop hating all over T3!
I went into it expecting a big, dumb action festival.
I got it, and a bit more. Even the one liners didn't bother me.
"Relax."
"We require a new vehicle."
"You're terminated!"
I liked the movie. I liked Arnold. I liked the CG effects, more so than those in the Matrix Reloaded, or even LotR. The truck chase ruled. Funny Terminator-doesn't-get-it-jokes were good. There were lots of bullets and explosions.
Did anyone else get a big kick out of how at the end, the T-X crashes into the bunker with a helicopter, and then Arnold comes in in a BIGGER helicopter?! Genius. Absolutely genius.
I think that movies, first and foremost, are entertainment. They can be artful, thought-provoking, or profound. But just because they aren't doesn't mean you can't just sit back, flip your brain into standby, and enjoy it!
Right after watching the movie, my friends immediately began to speculate about what could happen in T4, if there is to be one.
Now don't get me wrong, I'd like to find out what happens as much as the next guy, but I don't really think that T4 would fit with the other movies. Terminator movies, as much as they're about the plot, they're more about great invulnerable-robot-laying-waste-to-stuff action.
Something post-apocalyptic, as T4 would have to be, couldn't have any of that. IMHO, it'd be just another post-apocalyptic movie without capturing any of the real charm that Terminator movies have.
Agreed about the Terminatrix being cool, though. I liked how they didn't overplay the sexiness angle. I mean, sure, the T-X is a babe, but she's still a Terminator.
I think it was more of a comment on general ease-of-install nowadays versus back in the good ol' days of DOS 6.22, not cliched MS-bashing.
Windows XP, 2k, as well as Red Hat 9 and Mandrake all intalled flawlessly on my computer with no configuration needed. All of them compare quite favorably to nightmares with managing IRQs and finding obscure drivers back with Windows 3.1 or somesuch.
I think PCs do get equal attention, but since all the parts in Dell's, HP's, etc. machines are all industry standard parts manufactured by other companies, the speculation isn't about their offerings but the offerings of their suppliers.
There's a lot of speculation about AMD's chips, or new motherboard chipsets, or nVidia or ATI's new graphics cards -- probably just as much or more in total as that which surrounds Apple's products. Apple just has a lot of relative speculation surrounding it since it's the only provider for a particular platform.
Movietickets.com always has worked flawlessly for me. The $1.00 fee sucks, but there's not much to be done about that.
The trick is to never stand in a line. Always go right for the ticket ATM machines. I buy ahead with my card on movietickets.com, and then just swipe my card in the machine in the theater. It spits out however many tickets I've ordered for the show, end of story.
It sounds like some theaters have been slow to adopt the machines, but it all the theaters I've been in, if they let you buy online, they have machines.
I think it's worth it for the peace of mind you get knowing you'll get into a movie -- I usually only cough up the money for it for first-day releases, but at most of those releases, it's been really popular. I saw Episode II first day at a theater in Lowell, MA, and just about everybody in line had inkjet-printed tickets from movietickets.com
I read this and immediately remembered when Brian Henson (Jim Henson's son, of Muppets fame) came and gave a talk at my school last year.
One of the things "The Creature Shop," the company he runs, is working on, is digitally animated puppets which are played in real-time the way that a normal puppet would be. He didn't give too many technical details then, but I found this press release, check it out:t ml
http://www.henson.com/company/press/html/060601.h
The Idrema console, if done right, has the possibility to REALLY do well. Look at TiVo -- It runs linux, but the general public is blissfully ignorant of that. Linux gaming is a niche market of a niche market, about the worst situation available...