I've wondered about the same thing for the last ten years. The best idea I have is they figured very small computers were getting so good that you'd just run things like Mathematica on them, so high-end calculators would become obsolete.
Also, way back when, HP was so far ahead of the game (in its niche), they may have felt they could sit back for a while and just enjoy the profits.
Here's an excerpt where Deseret News critic Chris Hicks makes a couple of interesting points about editing:
Over the years, a number of companies -- some based right here in Utah -- have tried to persuade movie studios to release the versions of their movies that are already edited for airlines and commercial television, and therefore apparently sanctioned by the filmmakers and studios. But it's always fallen apart, usually over "artistic reasons."
Filmmakers think of themselves as artists, but how can they argue that removing profanity or nudity or gore harms a film when it's done all the time for airlines and TV? How are video versions any different?
What's more, they already release videos of movies edited in the other direction. There are harsher, "unrated" video versions of "Basic Instinct," "Nutty Professor II," "American Pie" and many others lining video shelves right now. (http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405025852 ,0 0.html)
I have an invention that really isn't going to get noticed unless I get millions of dollars worth of free marketing. Can you tell me how to get millions of people interested in my idea?
Another class action settlement. No doubt this will be like most others in which consumers get nothing but the recognition they've been cheated (and maybe a 75 cent check), and a few lawyers get to buy cliff houses in Miami.
So the rich will raise children on WWF, Martha Steward, and boy bands. After a generation or so, rich IQs will be cut in half, and the poor will begin to replace them in the high-paying jobs until they too can afford TV...
USB is just for peripherals, use firewire if you need to shift loads of data from one place to another _FAST_.
True. However, the article is talking about USB 2.0, which moves data at 480 Mb/s, vs. the current (?) firewire speed of 400.
It's too bad firewire didn't catch on more. Had Apple not been greedy with the name, I think it would have become the standard in the PC world too. People just have a hard time understanding/remembering "IEEE 1394."
Yeah. I was quite amused at some of the things the Voyager team found in the alpha quadrant. A space probe from present day Earth. Based on how far voyager was from home, it seems it had been drifting at many times the speed of light.
Thanks for pointing me to inkjetmall. I had looked around a while back, but was unable to find 3rd-party inks that interested me. Now, there are some really interesting offerings.
Sadly, the figure isn't that unreleastic. Your local Staples or Circuit City will probably charge that much for the cable, knowing that most people, having just paid a lot for a printer, will pay the premium rather than shop around.
Same goes for their extended warrantees and a number of other "useful" accessories.
A bunch of corn will germinate that cannot reproduce, which it will pass on to its children, and so on, until the world is completely filled with infertile corn.
if the "Internet Service Providers Association of India" is going to do this as a group, then let the "Internet Content Providers Association of America" declare that if any of their members are blocked, then the others will also block themselves.
India will then choose to have the big sites on the Internet or not.
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As they so often are,/.'s summary of the article is ambiguous where it matters most. You can shoot an ultrasonic signal at my head, but will I hear it? Is that what the article is about?
Well, I think we're all thinking one-dimensionally. There are other ways to attack a computer than flood it with packets. The bottom line is, if this bill passes, it's open game on your computer. No search warrant is required.
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If you just want more USB ports, wouldn't it be easier to drop $20 at the store for a USB hub?
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Employees who are unworthy of their posts will be unable to see what is on the screen, even with the glasses.
I've wondered about the same thing for the last ten years. The best idea I have is they figured very small computers were getting so good that you'd just run things like Mathematica on them, so high-end calculators would become obsolete.
Also, way back when, HP was so far ahead of the game (in its niche), they may have felt they could sit back for a while and just enjoy the profits.
Does Linus use Linux?
Here's an excerpt where Deseret News critic Chris Hicks makes a couple of interesting points about editing:
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Over the years, a number of companies -- some based right here in Utah -- have tried to persuade movie studios to release the versions of their movies that are already edited for airlines and commercial television, and therefore apparently sanctioned by the filmmakers and studios. But it's always fallen apart, usually over "artistic reasons."
Filmmakers think of themselves as artists, but how can they argue that removing profanity or nudity or gore harms a film when it's done all the time for airlines and TV? How are video versions any different?
What's more, they already release videos of movies edited in the other direction. There are harsher, "unrated" video versions of "Basic Instinct," "Nutty Professor II," "American Pie" and many others lining video shelves right now.
(http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,40502585
No.
she's waited for all her life and get her a ring that she can show her friends and family, then meet her at the end of the aisle
Often true, but I find this somewhat shallow. Lucky is the man who finds a woman who thinks on a much higher plane.
I have an invention that really isn't going to get noticed unless I get millions of dollars worth of free marketing. Can you tell me how to get millions of people interested in my idea?
Another class action settlement. No doubt this will be like most others in which consumers get nothing but the recognition they've been cheated (and maybe a 75 cent check), and a few lawyers get to buy cliff houses in Miami.
So the rich will raise children on WWF, Martha Steward, and boy bands. After a generation or so, rich IQs will be cut in half, and the poor will begin to replace them in the high-paying jobs until they too can afford TV...
USB is just for peripherals, use firewire if you need to shift loads of data from one place to another _FAST_.
True. However, the article is talking about USB 2.0, which moves data at 480 Mb/s, vs. the current (?) firewire speed of 400.
It's too bad firewire didn't catch on more. Had Apple not been greedy with the name, I think it would have become the standard in the PC world too. People just have a hard time understanding/remembering "IEEE 1394."
Yeah. I was quite amused at some of the things the Voyager team found in the alpha quadrant. A space probe from present day Earth. Based on how far voyager was from home, it seems it had been drifting at many times the speed of light.
Well said. I did my part by not visiting the site. Maybe someone will post a few sample images on a robust mirror site.
You name a robot "Grace" and look what happens.
Thanks for pointing me to inkjetmall. I had looked around a while back, but was unable to find 3rd-party inks that interested me. Now, there are some really interesting offerings.
Sadly, the figure isn't that unreleastic. Your local Staples or Circuit City will probably charge that much for the cable, knowing that most people, having just paid a lot for a printer, will pay the premium rather than shop around.
Same goes for their extended warrantees and a number of other "useful" accessories.
In quantity...
I thought the biggest users of filters were clueless parents who heard some horror story of the internet, bought a filter and installed it...
Or, as I heard it put once, the parents buy the filter, but their children won't show them how to install it.
blammo!
A bunch of corn will germinate that cannot reproduce, which it will pass on to its children, and so on, until the world is completely filled with infertile corn.
Oh wait.
Well, that depends what you're doing with them. They might be useful for crushing buildings, for instance.
For the differently clued (moderator, listen up):
1) Every sentence of my post was about the article.
2) I was making a point there.
if the "Internet Service Providers Association of India" is going to do this as a group, then let the "Internet Content Providers Association of America" declare that if any of their members are blocked, then the others will also block themselves.
India will then choose to have the big sites on the Internet or not.
As they so often are, /.'s summary of the article is ambiguous where it matters most. You can shoot an ultrasonic signal at my head, but will I hear it? Is that what the article is about?
Well, I think we're all thinking one-dimensionally. There are other ways to attack a computer than flood it with packets. The bottom line is, if this bill passes, it's open game on your computer. No search warrant is required.