Do you think any marriage could survive the couple being together 24 hours a day in an enclosed space for several years? Well keeping in mind the regular day to day conflict initiators would not be there, like taking out the trash, picking up dirty socks, complaining about how life could be better, etc, it shouldn't be all that bad. They also wouldn't have outside interference like old college buddies, secretaries, and mailmen causing more serious problems - though theres high likelihood for some swinging action between couples. I think the biggest issue would be handling pregnancy and birth. Might be cool to tackle that one, but I don't think it needs to happen right away, and you KNOW somebody is going to want to be first.
My wife and I actually seem to do better in isolation than we do in everyday life. On weeks long driving trips, and weekend hiking trips, we get along possibly the best we ever do. We are able to focus more on each other and really enjoy being together. I don't think the conflicts of extended space missions would spur from being married, specifically, I think they would come from being in space for extended periods of time.
Researchers at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL) have devised a 'dumb' surveillance system that monitors the movements of workers without identifying them individually. Are we getting a little paranoid about being watched?
It looks like when you ask a geek community to 'define' the internet they instead try to explain how it works. I don't think that's the case when you ask people to define similar systems, like the USPS, or the telephone system. What about defining the US interstate system, or hell the legislative system. Don't explain how it works, define it more as what it is or what it does .
The Internet is the networking of computer networks, worldwide.
Beyond that you're either describing how it works, what it's used for, or some intricate detail that isn't necessarily universal. The Internet can run across copper, or fiber, or through the air. It can use a variety of protocols stacked upon each other in a variety of ways. It can be fast, it can be slow, it can be redundant, it can secure, or it could just be two autonomous devices telling each other that they are each working properly. It can be used for private, public, or professional purposes. It can be used for good, or it can be used for EVIL;) It can be used for education, communication, and entertainment.
But it's just computers talking to each other, worldwide.
... but for the cost of a BluRay burner, you'd think it would be worth it to people to figure it out. HA HA HA Ha... you obviously don't spend much time with the rich inept group;)
Seriously, though, most people I run across would rather spend money (even money they don't have) than learn how to do something in a more cost effective way.
"Why would I learn how to do that when I can just pay more money and it works?"
This is actually one of the driving factors in Macintosh sales. They use Macs because they don't want to learn how to use something more do-it-yourself in nature (Linux and even Windows to an extent).
"Sure it costs more, but I don't have to learn how to do anything."
And it doesn't even take the slowness of dial-up to render an internet connection inadequate. We have photographers mail us DVD-Rs with upwards of 3GB of photography on a regular basis. Assuming he has enhanced DSL or cable he's still getting at best less than 1mbit outbound. That's nearly 7 hours of transfer time that he otherwise can't use his internet connection, best case scenario.
Another way to look at this, though, is if you're moving that much data, 50+GB, whatever it is is worth enough money to put it on a portable hard drive and pay the extra shipping. That way the receiving end doesn't require an HD/BR player to get the data back.
A lot of interesting stuff to think about. I personally, nor professionally, won't be purchasing the next gen disk writer for such uses. We stopped archiving to CDs before DVDs even became an option, and we're stopping with DVDs as a mailing solution./me puts his foot down.
I want to see some very heavy results from independent testing labs that give me an idea that if I put data on such disks that it will be readable in at least 5 years @ 99.99% reliability.
If not, hard drives are way better as they read and write at far higher speeds. Hard drives will ALWAYS be more reliable than any flat piece of plastic. But you can't throw a hard drive in an envelope and mail it for $0.41 in the US like you can a CD / DVD / HD|BR-DVD. Families enjoy this because they can send home movies around the nation very easily, and business find it useful for mailing out data that would otherwise take a long time to send over their already busy internet connection.
But for all my archival needs I use big ass external hard drives.
So when these players (of unofficial English press release) all crap out less than a year after they've been purchased and a replacement has been purchased do the members of that format count both units toward their "total players sold"? Because if I were them I'd just make one even shitter than the ones Wal-mart will be selling that has to be replaced every couple months and sell it really cheap - that way my total units in use will sky rocket and more media shops will want to use my format.
Quality before quantity is a completely foreign concept to Wal-mart. I'm not impressed.
Or instead of getting ripped off by buying ink after you run out, or it dries up you could just buy a laser printer instead. Toner is inexpensive per page, doesn't dry out, and laser printers produce excellent quality.
People think they need color for some reason. Why I'm not exactly sure. I bought a used HP laser jet 4 several years ago off ebay, and have used the same toner cartridge since I bought it. The old HP laser jets are tanks that can spit 20,000 pages without a hitch. The components are all replaceable, and really quite easy to change the pickup rollers, etc. Hooray! With the exception of printing photographs I rarely see the need for color. And photographs should be printed at a local professional print shop because no ink jet, even the high dollar ones, do a job worth a damn. Personally I stole* my LJ 5MP from work, but the story is the same - been using it for a couple years and haven't replaced the toner cartridge yet.
But the real answer is "Don't Print". The only thing I've been required to print in recent memory was tickets to a concert and tickets to a baseball game, both of which were purchased online. That happened twice each. I know people, including my mother, who print emails and read them in front of the computer. %&@#$!!! WHY DO YOU DO THIS!?! My boss brings me stacks of printed websites, to which I often reply, "Couldn't just email me the link?" It's not like he's highlighted anything. Which by the way could be done if he printed it to PDF.
There's just no honestly good reason to print documents. Photographs I can get behind - I print my photography all the f'ing time. But I do that at work on a $45K color laser printer, not a $200 disposable desktop ink printer.
Personal printers are like personal scanners. They were cool in the 90s but now they're useless.
*It was in the junk pile - 'stole' just makes it sound more interesting.
The color bar codes, consisting of red, green, yellow, and black triangles, will appear on XBox 360 games and other products beginning later this year. I think they've been examining the DualShock controller a bit too closely.
Consumers reject Sony. Yes, but it's not because of the price of the PS3. I wouldn't buy it if it were $250. There's still aren't any games I want to play on it!
I'm no expert on inflation and exchange rates, but by estimating this tunnel at $10-$12 billion aren't they saying that a tunnel that is twice as long as the Channel Tunnel will actually cost less to build? Is there any reason to believe this will actually be so? Somebody else already figured out how. All these people have to do is repeat the process.
I'm sorry, but I don't see why Sony is wasting their time on this. The hardware on the PS3 has *never* been the problem. Every complaint about the PS3 has been related to the games themselves and how there isn't really a single "killer app" for the system. AMEN! I've got my $660 ready to go for a PS3 and a full release of Gran Turismo. Where's my game? Same as every other GT title, still being worked on.
When there are ten PS3 titles I want to play I'll buy a PS3. But frankly there are zero currently. Either I've changed or the game industry has - either way I have no reason to buy a PS3. I don't have much of a reason to buy an XBox 360 right now either. And I'm told the Wii games aren't overwhelming either - somewhat gimmicky.
I want good party games like Fuzion Frenzy, good racing games like Gran Turismo, great story games like Ico and Prince of Persia, and a few shooters like Halo and Ghost Recon. First to provide gets my money.
5: Windows vista costs more than two dozen weeks wages for the average worker, so its expensive even to the rich. Probably the best point. Even though China is, what, 1/5 the World's population I bet 9 out of 10 don't own a computer. In the UK and USA I believe we are approaching 1:1 computers on the internet to human beings old enough to operate them. I personally have five computers running right now.
When giving presentations, Internet access is rarely provided or is flakey at best. I disagree. Anyone who comes to my company to present gets internet access. And practically every time my people have gone somewhere else they're provided internet access. And if there is a computer in the presentation center already it most likely will have internet access.
That doesn't mean that this product doesn't need export capabilities, I'm just arguing against your internet comment (:
First Apple says they don't want their office app to compete with MSOffice, now Google says they don't want to compete with MSOffice. When will someone man up and compete? OpenOffice is nice but it has a HUGE number of flaws still. We NEED competition here. By not declaring that they are competing they can not fail to compete. Truth is, their product has the same end result as the Microsoft product - they are competing.
I don't think any one group can say that we're going to scrap the internet and start over. Hell, the US government couldn't convert its citizens to the metric system and they're the ones that control the measurements. No entity controls the internet and that's what makes it so great. If someone thinks they have a better idea of how it should work let them create their own networks of computers and run their own protocols and standards and we'll see which one the consumers prefer. Probably the one they already have thousands of dollars invested in, are familiar with, and have *freedom* to navigate.
Can anyone reference a national system that was successfully replaced? I heard rumor that a very small country changed which side of the road they drove on in the past ten years. The Internet is a global system - fat chance of any cold turkey changes.
Besides which, lets assume that there is a massive change to the internet. There are plenty of geeks in the world with the knowledge and capabilities to set up their own networks and build an internet of their own. How many of us have wired and wireless internetworks between apartments, dorms, and neighboring houses already? It would just become even more prevalent.
Am I wrong in thinking that Maxis's original SimCity was first launched on Amiga? I ran it on my Tandy 1000 RL (with Hard Drive) in the early nineties (same computer is currently my monitor stand). SimCity has even had a modern release.
Populous I can get onboard with. That game rocked. The second was pretty good as well. And surprisingly the third one is one of my all time favorite games - I've even played it in the past year.
Ok, so AMD aren't doing this because it makes their customers happy. Given the choice between two identically performing chips, one of which restricts your ability to do something, I'd bet most people would choose to get the unrestricted one. Keep in mind that consumers aren't hardware manufacturer's only customers. People like Sony use AMD's hardware also, and rely on such hardware to sell their own products. Sony makes the content consumers want to see and AMD wants Sony to cater to AMD so AMD caters to Sony.
If such a system would allow me to get credit for the work my PS3 does for these corporations, and if I could use said credit to buy downloads, then I can see how this could be a very attractive proposition for gamers and corporations. Absolutely! But why does it take a console to get it going? Are there any PC clients that provide this service already? I've got a few spare CPU cycles here at work that could be adding spare dollars to my PayPal account;)
Why does it have to be the entire rack? Wouldn't it be easier to just use oil in a liquid radiator system and deliver the fluid to the hot spots? Sure would make it simpler to get to the computers when something fails.
SUre my computer is 5 years old. But could they not at least admit they don't play on 800Mhz computers? My peers agreed years ago that in Windows land a 600mhz machine was "good enough for daily tasks" and in Macintosh land an 800mhz machine fit the bill. So I figure the software and content providers have come up with ways to force new hardware requirements when really they aren't necessary. Apple seems to be more notorious for this than anyone else. Sell hardware, then shortly after release software products that require something more. The OS being the primary source.
When you try to make it as expensive as possible..
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"The Apple website is announcing the availability of an 8-core Mac Pro. The machine will ship with two 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 processors. Older models with the Dual-Core chips remain available. Base model with two 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Xeon processors start at $3997, (albeit with unacceptably minimal RAM or HD space; fully spec'd with dual 30" monitors and tons o' RAM/HD still over $10K... bummer)" I know I'm redundant on this one but...
You've got $3,600 in displays alone - that's more than 1/3 of the price. Also, Apple is notorious for overpricing hard drives and memory. Buy the fastest CPUs and get everything else from someone else, including the displays (get'em from Dell), and you'll save 20%+.
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My wife and I actually seem to do better in isolation than we do in everyday life. On weeks long driving trips, and weekend hiking trips, we get along possibly the best we ever do. We are able to focus more on each other and really enjoy being together. I don't think the conflicts of extended space missions would spur from being married, specifically, I think they would come from being in space for extended periods of time.
It looks like when you ask a geek community to 'define' the internet they instead try to explain how it works. I don't think that's the case when you ask people to define similar systems, like the USPS, or the telephone system. What about defining the US interstate system, or hell the legislative system. Don't explain how it works, define it more as what it is or what it does .
;) It can be used for education, communication, and entertainment.
The Internet is the networking of computer networks, worldwide.
Beyond that you're either describing how it works, what it's used for, or some intricate detail that isn't necessarily universal. The Internet can run across copper, or fiber, or through the air. It can use a variety of protocols stacked upon each other in a variety of ways. It can be fast, it can be slow, it can be redundant, it can secure, or it could just be two autonomous devices telling each other that they are each working properly. It can be used for private, public, or professional purposes. It can be used for good, or it can be used for EVIL
But it's just computers talking to each other, worldwide.
... but for the cost of a BluRay burner, you'd think it would be worth it to people to figure it out. HA HA HA HaSeriously, though, most people I run across would rather spend money (even money they don't have) than learn how to do something in a more cost effective way.
"Why would I learn how to do that when I can just pay more money and it works?"
This is actually one of the driving factors in Macintosh sales. They use Macs because they don't want to learn how to use something more do-it-yourself in nature (Linux and even Windows to an extent).
"Sure it costs more, but I don't have to learn how to do anything."
And it doesn't even take the slowness of dial-up to render an internet connection inadequate. We have photographers mail us DVD-Rs with upwards of 3GB of photography on a regular basis. Assuming he has enhanced DSL or cable he's still getting at best less than 1mbit outbound. That's nearly 7 hours of transfer time that he otherwise can't use his internet connection, best case scenario.
Another way to look at this, though, is if you're moving that much data, 50+GB, whatever it is is worth enough money to put it on a portable hard drive and pay the extra shipping. That way the receiving end doesn't require an HD/BR player to get the data back.
A lot of interesting stuff to think about. I personally, nor professionally, won't be purchasing the next gen disk writer for such uses. We stopped archiving to CDs before DVDs even became an option, and we're stopping with DVDs as a mailing solution.
If not, hard drives are way better as they read and write at far higher speeds. Hard drives will ALWAYS be more reliable than any flat piece of plastic. But you can't throw a hard drive in an envelope and mail it for $0.41 in the US like you can a CD / DVD / HD|BR-DVD. Families enjoy this because they can send home movies around the nation very easily, and business find it useful for mailing out data that would otherwise take a long time to send over their already busy internet connection.
But for all my archival needs I use big ass external hard drives.
Basically the United States is by no means an internet forerunner. We are being dragged into the past by the telcos. Cancel your landline today!
So when these players (of unofficial English press release) all crap out less than a year after they've been purchased and a replacement has been purchased do the members of that format count both units toward their "total players sold"? Because if I were them I'd just make one even shitter than the ones Wal-mart will be selling that has to be replaced every couple months and sell it really cheap - that way my total units in use will sky rocket and more media shops will want to use my format.
Quality before quantity is a completely foreign concept to Wal-mart. I'm not impressed.
People think they need color for some reason. Why I'm not exactly sure. I bought a used HP laser jet 4 several years ago off ebay, and have used the same toner cartridge since I bought it. The old HP laser jets are tanks that can spit 20,000 pages without a hitch. The components are all replaceable, and really quite easy to change the pickup rollers, etc. Hooray! With the exception of printing photographs I rarely see the need for color. And photographs should be printed at a local professional print shop because no ink jet, even the high dollar ones, do a job worth a damn. Personally I stole* my LJ 5MP from work, but the story is the same - been using it for a couple years and haven't replaced the toner cartridge yet.
But the real answer is "Don't Print". The only thing I've been required to print in recent memory was tickets to a concert and tickets to a baseball game, both of which were purchased online. That happened twice each. I know people, including my mother, who print emails and read them in front of the computer. %&@#$!!! WHY DO YOU DO THIS!?! My boss brings me stacks of printed websites, to which I often reply, "Couldn't just email me the link?" It's not like he's highlighted anything. Which by the way could be done if he printed it to PDF.
There's just no honestly good reason to print documents. Photographs I can get behind - I print my photography all the f'ing time. But I do that at work on a $45K color laser printer, not a $200 disposable desktop ink printer.
Personal printers are like personal scanners. They were cool in the 90s but now they're useless.
*It was in the junk pile - 'stole' just makes it sound more interesting.
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When there are ten PS3 titles I want to play I'll buy a PS3. But frankly there are zero currently. Either I've changed or the game industry has - either way I have no reason to buy a PS3. I don't have much of a reason to buy an XBox 360 right now either. And I'm told the Wii games aren't overwhelming either - somewhat gimmicky.
I want good party games like Fuzion Frenzy, good racing games like Gran Turismo, great story games like Ico and Prince of Persia, and a few shooters like Halo and Ghost Recon. First to provide gets my money.
That doesn't mean that this product doesn't need export capabilities, I'm just arguing against your internet comment (:
Did he ask to have the radio waves beamed into his car? I'd sue the AP owner for illegally entering his vehicle. Trespassing!
Can we please blame this on video games? Maybe the educator assumed that since he played video games he was a bad kid.
The Australian government banned Grand Theft Auto also. They actually had it pulled from the shelves.
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I don't think any one group can say that we're going to scrap the internet and start over. Hell, the US government couldn't convert its citizens to the metric system and they're the ones that control the measurements. No entity controls the internet and that's what makes it so great. If someone thinks they have a better idea of how it should work let them create their own networks of computers and run their own protocols and standards and we'll see which one the consumers prefer. Probably the one they already have thousands of dollars invested in, are familiar with, and have *freedom* to navigate.
Can anyone reference a national system that was successfully replaced? I heard rumor that a very small country changed which side of the road they drove on in the past ten years. The Internet is a global system - fat chance of any cold turkey changes.
Besides which, lets assume that there is a massive change to the internet. There are plenty of geeks in the world with the knowledge and capabilities to set up their own networks and build an internet of their own. How many of us have wired and wireless internetworks between apartments, dorms, and neighboring houses already? It would just become even more prevalent.
Am I wrong in thinking that Maxis's original SimCity was first launched on Amiga? I ran it on my Tandy 1000 RL (with Hard Drive) in the early nineties (same computer is currently my monitor stand). SimCity has even had a modern release.
Populous I can get onboard with. That game rocked. The second was pretty good as well. And surprisingly the third one is one of my all time favorite games - I've even played it in the past year.
Why does it have to be the entire rack? Wouldn't it be easier to just use oil in a liquid radiator system and deliver the fluid to the hot spots? Sure would make it simpler to get to the computers when something fails.
You've got $3,600 in displays alone - that's more than 1/3 of the price. Also, Apple is notorious for overpricing hard drives and memory. Buy the fastest CPUs and get everything else from someone else, including the displays (get'em from Dell), and you'll save 20%+.