Only when I can sit outside, reading my magazine, with a beer (martini, glass of wine, cup of coffee) in my hand, not having to move the screen around the page to view it, will I be happy. Then, I will really want one of these devices and replace my National Geographic and New Scientist subscriptions with digital ones.
But the battery has to last for days. This display has to be full color, readable outside. None of this flickering stuff that we have now. It has to be Letter sized (A4 for the Europeans).
is, whether someone who can jump to any conclusion can be trusted not to conclude on a scientific issue where there is insufficient evidence to draw a conclusion.
Almost by definition, a scientist should not believe. If s/he does believe then they are only practicing science, they are not a scientist.
Perhaps, if we have less believers and more scientists then the facts of 'global warming/oil disaster/insert issue here' would be more obvious and less disguised behind various dogma.
Try watching a football game here in the US and you will see what crap quality can be. The turf turns into squares of blur when the camera moves, then returns to blades of grass when the picture is stationary. As soon as you spot it you will hate it. If you don't see it then OK for you.
I used to have a friend who could spot the two little circles in the top right of a movie in the theater telling the projectionist to change the reel. Once he saw them the movies were never the same again.
This could be seen as a test case. Software which is out in the open and freely available for download (that is the web by definition) cannot be stolen.
Medicine - Doctors are slaves to the insurance industry. Aviation - Pilots are slaves to the commercial pressures of cheap air flight. Law - Was there ever a time when a Lawyer was respected?;-)
IT - The run is over, we have reached the pinnacle of mediocrity. That is the way of the free market.
It would be easy would it not, to apply two passwords to any encrypted partition of the TrueCrypt type. A large file mounted as "Z" for example. One password would access the Z drive as the intended (eg 10GB drive). The other would access the Z drive as a fresh, possibly empty 10GB drive. A small change in the encryption technique or file system handling algorithm could render this whole discussion moot.
This will go the way of DVD encryption. Useless folly.
I hit the same wall in Oakbrook Mall in the spring. I was taking a picture of the fountain through the mist being sprayed in the breeze. The security guard, very politely, asked me to desist for security purposes. WTF?
Having a faster bus speed will enable our CPU to talk to more devices at the same time. How about USB RAID? Or, perhaps build another groupware protocol on top of USB if it can be made faster/cheaper than 10^n BaseT Ethernet (silly idea)
Faster speeds means more possibilities for our next gen VR body suits or whatever.
If I'd lost a laptop with all this sensitive data on it and I wanted to ensure that the Clear system continued to work, I would probably "find" the laptop again.
Each time I go to our local appliance stores (Chicago) and look at the HDTVs I despair. The picture is awful. Theses are HD transmissions not just lousy digital transmissions (tx) of 4:5 pictures which can be even worse.
I really want to buy an HDTV but the number of visible artifacts in the tx makes the image unwatchable for me. This goes the same for my RCN supplied digital converter box. Watching a movie can look like watching a downloaded VCD. The MPEG artifacts can be huge. You could tell that trying to en(de)code the pouring rain scene in Red October just confused the hell out of everything. How can we have reached this state of affairs?
Is Europe/Japan any better or are they in the same state?
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I used to have by satellite dish on the side of the shed at the bottom of the yard. Almost invisible.
As long as it has a clear line of sight to the satellite you are fine.
Ask your ISP for the lat and long, or just ask them for the bearing and azimuth from your location.
I agree. I have enjoyed using lots of IBM HW since post 1992. There was a little junk in that time frame and some seriously bad HDs. But, on the whole, SOLID!
There have also been some RS6K laptops and from HP, some PA-RISC. They sold, but not many.
"The idea of things like SGML and HTML--interchangeable, standardized file formats--didn't really take hold until the Internet made it practical to interchange documents in the first place"
Actually this idea has been around a lot longer then MS Word. It did not com from the age of the internet. ASCII was invented just for this reason. Along the same lines so was EBCDIC.
The ideas have always been there. They just get polluted occasionally.
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Only when I can sit outside, reading my magazine, with a beer (martini, glass of wine, cup of coffee) in my hand, not having to move the screen around the page to view it, will I be happy. Then, I will really want one of these devices and replace my National Geographic and New Scientist subscriptions with digital ones.
But the battery has to last for days. This display has to be full color, readable outside. None of this flickering stuff that we have now. It has to be Letter sized (A4 for the Europeans).
We just wait for the hardware to catch up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language)
is, whether someone who can jump to any conclusion can be trusted not to conclude on a scientific issue where there is insufficient evidence to draw a conclusion.
Almost by definition, a scientist should not believe. If s/he does believe then they are only practicing science, they are not a scientist.
Perhaps, if we have less believers and more scientists then the facts of 'global warming/oil disaster/insert issue here' would be more obvious and less disguised behind various dogma.
If you want the absolute best then go military spec. Husky has been making water,disaster proof computers for years. Looks like they were bought.
http://www.gd-itronix.com/index.cfm?page=Products:Duo-Touch_II
Try watching a football game here in the US and you will see what crap quality can be. The turf turns into squares of blur when the camera moves, then returns to blades of grass when the picture is stationary. As soon as you spot it you will hate it. If you don't see it then OK for you.
I used to have a friend who could spot the two little circles in the top right of a movie in the theater telling the projectionist to change the reel. Once he saw them the movies were never the same again.
Just an FYI but Star Trek First Contact was filmed here.
This could be seen as a test case. Software which is out in the open and freely available for download (that is the web by definition) cannot be stolen.
Medicine - Doctors are slaves to the insurance industry. ;-)
Aviation - Pilots are slaves to the commercial pressures of cheap air flight.
Law - Was there ever a time when a Lawyer was respected?
IT - The run is over, we have reached the pinnacle of mediocrity. That is the way of the free market.
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It would be easy would it not, to apply two passwords to any encrypted partition of the TrueCrypt type. A large file mounted as "Z" for example. One password would access the Z drive as the intended (eg 10GB drive). The other would access the Z drive as a fresh, possibly empty 10GB drive. A small change in the encryption technique or file system handling algorithm could render this whole discussion moot.
This will go the way of DVD encryption. Useless folly.
I hit the same wall in Oakbrook Mall in the spring. I was taking a picture of the fountain through the mist being sprayed in the breeze. The security guard, very politely, asked me to desist for security purposes. WTF?
Having a faster bus speed will enable our CPU to talk to more devices at the same time. How about USB RAID? Or, perhaps build another groupware protocol on top of USB if it can be made faster/cheaper than 10^n BaseT Ethernet (silly idea)
Faster speeds means more possibilities for our next gen VR body suits or whatever.
Yep, same at MSP. Chilis (sp) gives you a nice steak knife!. Serrated edge and everything. Designed for cutting flesh deeply.
If I'd lost a laptop with all this sensitive data on it and I wanted to ensure that the Clear system continued to work, I would probably "find" the laptop again.
Wouldn't want confidence to drop now would we?
because the nvidia sata drivers just are not stable enough. A box that crashes every month or so is not reliable enough.
Now the lovely 64bit Intel replacement board is as solid as a rock.
I thought the Nazis lost the War???
It just runs...
Each time I go to our local appliance stores (Chicago) and look at the HDTVs I despair. The picture is awful. Theses are HD transmissions not just lousy digital transmissions (tx) of 4:5 pictures which can be even worse.
I really want to buy an HDTV but the number of visible artifacts in the tx makes the image unwatchable for me. This goes the same for my RCN supplied digital converter box. Watching a movie can look like watching a downloaded VCD. The MPEG artifacts can be huge. You could tell that trying to en(de)code the pouring rain scene in Red October just confused the hell out of everything.
How can we have reached this state of affairs?
Is Europe/Japan any better or are they in the same state?
I used to have by satellite dish on the side of the shed at the bottom of the yard. Almost invisible.
As long as it has a clear line of sight to the satellite you are fine.
Ask your ISP for the lat and long, or just ask them for the bearing and azimuth from your location.
Go into the yard with a compass and protractor.
http://www.ossmann.com/protractor/
I don't think that Mr. Clarke would like to be remembered for inventing a weapon.
I agree. I have enjoyed using lots of IBM HW since post 1992. There was a little junk in that time frame and some seriously bad HDs. But, on the whole, SOLID!
There have also been some RS6K laptops and from HP, some PA-RISC. They sold, but not many.
The market just ain't big enough!
Yep. I can see one of these puppies in my laptop.
The 160W power supply might cost a pretty penny. But then, if we need the PSU for Blu Ray? What's the difference?
FTA
"The idea of things like SGML and HTML--interchangeable, standardized file formats--didn't really take hold until the Internet made it practical to interchange documents in the first place"
Actually this idea has been around a lot longer then MS Word. It did not com from the age of the internet. ASCII was invented just for this reason. Along the same lines so was EBCDIC.
The ideas have always been there. They just get polluted occasionally.
Would Yahoo enjoy the same Microsoft decisions that so guided Hotmail down the wonderful route of internal server migration?
Will they join the other service and take their place in the collective?
If you sell to MS, you know where your product is going in this space. If you are not badged MS then you are pretty much doomed to obscurity.
Just display it via webcam - might lack a little resolution here and there.