Sadly, that's how economist think and work. The Exxon Valdez disaster, for example, was a boon to the US economy according to standard models of economics, because it created lots of jobs.
That's like saying the WTC destruction was good for real estate in NYC. Where that may be true it's rather far from a good thing.
They're working on GT5. Every release they say something like "We'd like to include feature X" and the community goes freaking nuts with it so they work even harder to make it work which delays the project until they decide it won't happen. Then they have a late product without the feature that everyone talked about for a year (or LONGER).
Is it not possible to just wait until the product is in production before you start telling everyone about it? I understand they want to know if it's going to sell before they go to the trouble of making it, but vaporware and over-hype is killing my innergamer. I'm to the point now that I don't even think about new games. Everything I play is a year old simply to avoid hype, delays, and general disapointment.
Shouldn't there be a cutoff on old computer technology patents? With the rate of 'innovation' the old stuff isn't being used / developed anymore and some people could make use of its outrageously cheaper solutions. This is a perfect example. These people aren't going to be able to afford anything that is currently selling so let someone make out of production parts for cheap computers that these consumers can actually afford. It's obvious Intel / IBM / AMD / etc don't care about the uber cheap markets.
Imagine a 5' screen on the wall which anyone who walks into the room can use (as long as it is not already in use). You could use it to display films, presentations, etc. from your laptop without having to connect up any wires.
But after the initial connection the wire is not in the way - nothing is trying to move around. Also, a device like that would most likely have a stationary computer attached to it (or it attached to...) that could be controled remotely. In our presentation center we have floor jacks for bring-in laptops, but we also have a dedicated presentation machine for the room. It has a wireless keyboard and mouse so that they may be passed around the large table.
The keyboard can be taken to the other side of the room and used to skip to the next track while listening to music, or to control a movie being played.
You can do the same thing with a mouse;)
I think the 'use of wireless' is the discrepancy. I use wireless as a replacement for the wire that tethers me or my devices together, allowing them to move freely (or to avoid running wires throught the building). The use of wireless in other posts on this thread is to avoid the task of physically connecting and disconnecting devices when needed. And that's just lazy! Heh heh (:
the point is I only have 1 computer - a laptop I take with me to work and home every day.
at home I have wireless: keyboard mouse internet speakers phone (sync + remote)
why NOT have everything wireless if it can be? my laptop is only 3 feet from the monitor because it HAS to be to use the monitor.
and if it makes my computer easier to use and I'm willing to pay for it who the fuck are you to stand in the way of progress?
Wow, what's with the negative attituide? I just think it's stupid to want a wireless monitor and you're all blowing up at me. I also think it's stupid to have a wireless keyboard and speakers.
Things that could honestly take advantage of being wireless are those that tend to move around and don't need to be plugged in for power or have their batteries recharged or replaced frequently. Good candidates are mice and phones. Beyond that there's no outstanding reason to eliminate wires. More likely the user needs to better organize their workspace.
Why not have everything wireless? Waste of resources. RF saturation. Time better spent developing other technologies. Who the fuck am I? Just a guy who disagrees with you. Get used to it.
if the latter then hopefully there'll be an Airfoil equivalent, but I hope it turns out to be wireless monitor and speakers./dream
What is the value in a wireless monitor? Unless you're referencing a monitor that has touch screen and can be carried around the house. Because a monitor on a desk less than 3 feet from the workstation doesn't need to be wireless. That's just stupid. Same with speakers - absolutely no point in wireless speakers.
... every USB device I've bought - wired and wireless network adaptors, hard disks, etc - has come with a USB cable.
Now that I think about it, the trend has changed. But printers and scanners and such used to not include such cables. I suppose cameras, Mp3 players, and hard drives I've purchased recently all came with cables though.
So I retract my USB statement, but I still think the HDMI cable doesn't need to be included with the PS3.
How many USB devices do you know of that come with a cable? The problem, as I see it, is that first of all less than 10% of consumers are going to use HDMI anyway. Why make the other 90% pay for a $60 cable they're not going to use.
And for the ones that do use it they probably have some notion that whatever come with the system isn't good enough and will buy a Monster cable anyway. Or the one it came with won't be long enough, or what-have-you.
I have no problem with connecting cables not being included. It's a very customized component. No blame or ridicule here.
What Apple should do is buy Sun and put those hardware engineers to work on making the worlds best game console. That console should be a server with thin clients around the house, it should serve up great games and movies to the tv, and also let you wirelessly connect a Monitor and keyboard thin client and use Googles internet office suite for working on all your work like needs. TV and music on demand would be served up through Apples iTunes store. With this strategy Apple/Google/Sun could take over the entire household computing needs. And you know it would be cool because it comes from Apple.
Why would they buy Sun when they could buy Nintendo? Google, Apple, Nintendo... shit, throw in TiVo. Together they take over the living room. And I bet you no one would complain about the result.
All's fine until your friend's PC is compromised or stolen, and your backups are lost in the process. I'm all for offsite backup storage, but I would not trust my personal information and files to another user, network, or computer without a comprehensive contract that clarifies rights and responsibilities on both sides.
Well I guess the first thing you do is make friends with people you trust. Then you use all these wonderful security tools we have redily available to make your data secret.
Each brick can communicate with three others? Well, those three don't need to communicate with the same three, do they? You should be able to create a cube topology by forwarding messages to set up an 8-way system, or even set up a hexagonal mesh or a binary tree for an n-way topology. For example, you could have a forebrain-hindbrain "backbone" with two intelligent "limb" processors off each "brain"... or even build a version of Bob Forward's "Christmas Bush".
So what you're saying is, NASA needs to invest in Lego to build asteroid mining robots using NXT?
Otherwise, buy a separate HDD and just periodically run a script that recursively copies all files on one drive to the other.
This is exactly how I do backups at work. I have four active file servers and one server with a big damn hard drive on another floor that updates a copy of everything on all the other servers twice a day. I'm using XXCopy, http://www.xxcopy.com/ and it works pretty well - even generates log files similar to BackupExec. Then on the weekends it runs a PowerArchiver script and dumps everything with a modification date less than 7 days old into a zip file and shoots it across the internet to another computer that extracts the zip file onto its own dupe of all the servers, keeping the zip for incremental purposes.
All this for under $100 in software and two 300GB drives each thrown in their ownn old ass desktop. And it's completely automated - no room for human error.
We all have friends (surely?) - we could be doing the same thing across the internet to eachother's houses. Two guys buy big hard drives to be hosted in eachother's desktop (or extra computer) and a script on each computer that dump changed files to a zip and shoots them across the net.
We used to use CD-Rs for archival purposes, have since moved on to large HDD arrays. But I still have the CD-Rs, simply replaced back to the spindles they were shipped on. A simple spreadsheet or database could be made to keep track of which spindle each CD is on. You can't get much more dense than having them laying on top of eachother.
Narrator (Jack): When deep space exploration ramps up, it will be the corporations that name everything: the IBM stellar-sphere, the Microsoft galley, the planet Starbucks.
I've been a Macintosh admin for nearly 9 years now. Pre-OS X everything was voodoo to the users. I hoped with all my heart that maybe they'd just 'get it' with OS X and a computer would be a computer. But no, it's all still voodoo to the Mac user. I guess that's the way Apple wants it. Everything is done for the 'user's experience'.
Hell some of it is still voodoo to me. And half the time I think it's voodoo to the Apple support staff as well.
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Sadly, that's how economist think and work. The Exxon Valdez disaster, for example, was a boon to the US economy according to standard models of economics, because it created lots of jobs.
That's like saying the WTC destruction was good for real estate in NYC. Where that may be true it's rather far from a good thing.
They're working on GT5. Every release they say something like "We'd like to include feature X" and the community goes freaking nuts with it so they work even harder to make it work which delays the project until they decide it won't happen. Then they have a late product without the feature that everyone talked about for a year (or LONGER).
Is it not possible to just wait until the product is in production before you start telling everyone about it? I understand they want to know if it's going to sell before they go to the trouble of making it, but vaporware and over-hype is killing my innergamer. I'm to the point now that I don't even think about new games. Everything I play is a year old simply to avoid hype, delays, and general disapointment.
Shouldn't there be a cutoff on old computer technology patents? With the rate of 'innovation' the old stuff isn't being used / developed anymore and some people could make use of its outrageously cheaper solutions. This is a perfect example. These people aren't going to be able to afford anything that is currently selling so let someone make out of production parts for cheap computers that these consumers can actually afford. It's obvious Intel / IBM / AMD / etc don't care about the uber cheap markets.
If you're having trouble maxing a CPU you obviously haven't visited distributed.net.
Apple + Nintendo + TiVo!!
Come on guys! Get together! Make even cooler stuff!
Yeah I'm off topic. Screw the karma.
Imagine a 5' screen on the wall which anyone who walks into the room can use (as long as it is not already in use). You could use it to display films, presentations, etc. from your laptop without having to connect up any wires.
...) that could be controled remotely. In our presentation center we have floor jacks for bring-in laptops, but we also have a dedicated presentation machine for the room. It has a wireless keyboard and mouse so that they may be passed around the large table.
;)
But after the initial connection the wire is not in the way - nothing is trying to move around. Also, a device like that would most likely have a stationary computer attached to it (or it attached to
The keyboard can be taken to the other side of the room and used to skip to the next track while listening to music, or to control a movie being played.
You can do the same thing with a mouse
I think the 'use of wireless' is the discrepancy. I use wireless as a replacement for the wire that tethers me or my devices together, allowing them to move freely (or to avoid running wires throught the building). The use of wireless in other posts on this thread is to avoid the task of physically connecting and disconnecting devices when needed. And that's just lazy! Heh heh (:
the point is I only have 1 computer - a laptop I take with me to work and home every day.
at home I have wireless:
keyboard
mouse
internet
speakers
phone (sync + remote)
why NOT have everything wireless if it can be?
my laptop is only 3 feet from the monitor because it HAS to be to use the monitor.
and if it makes my computer easier to use and I'm willing to pay for it who the fuck are you to stand in the way of progress?
Wow, what's with the negative attituide? I just think it's stupid to want a wireless monitor and you're all blowing up at me. I also think it's stupid to have a wireless keyboard and speakers.
Things that could honestly take advantage of being wireless are those that tend to move around and don't need to be plugged in for power or have their batteries recharged or replaced frequently. Good candidates are mice and phones. Beyond that there's no outstanding reason to eliminate wires. More likely the user needs to better organize their workspace.
Why not have everything wireless? Waste of resources. RF saturation. Time better spent developing other technologies.
Who the fuck am I? Just a guy who disagrees with you. Get used to it.
Please give us a good media center application. I want to connect a mac to my tv and record tv shows, play my dvds and everything else from itunes.
PLEASE, blow away windows media center and mythtv!
Beyond blowing away WinMCE and MythTV I'd like to see them blow away TiVo.
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if the latter then hopefully there'll be an Airfoil equivalent, but I hope it turns out to be wireless monitor and speakers. /dream
What is the value in a wireless monitor? Unless you're referencing a monitor that has touch screen and can be carried around the house. Because a monitor on a desk less than 3 feet from the workstation doesn't need to be wireless. That's just stupid. Same with speakers - absolutely no point in wireless speakers.
Care to elaborate?
All Dell monitors I have dealt with include both cables, for future reference. Though I only deal with their high-end line. (:
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It costs a lot and replaces walking. Give me a break. It's WALKING. Get off your lazy ass and walk.
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... every USB device I've bought - wired and wireless network adaptors, hard disks, etc - has come with a USB cable.
Now that I think about it, the trend has changed. But printers and scanners and such used to not include such cables. I suppose cameras, Mp3 players, and hard drives I've purchased recently all came with cables though.
So I retract my USB statement, but I still think the HDMI cable doesn't need to be included with the PS3.
How many USB devices do you know of that come with a cable? The problem, as I see it, is that first of all less than 10% of consumers are going to use HDMI anyway. Why make the other 90% pay for a $60 cable they're not going to use.
And for the ones that do use it they probably have some notion that whatever come with the system isn't good enough and will buy a Monster cable anyway. Or the one it came with won't be long enough, or what-have-you.
I have no problem with connecting cables not being included. It's a very customized component. No blame or ridicule here.
What Apple should do is buy Sun and put those hardware engineers to work on making the worlds best game console. That console should be a server with thin clients around the house, it should serve up great games and movies to the tv, and also let you wirelessly connect a Monitor and keyboard thin client and use Googles internet office suite for working on all your work like needs. TV and music on demand would be served up through Apples iTunes store. With this strategy Apple/Google/Sun could take over the entire household computing needs. And you know it would be cool because it comes from Apple.
... shit, throw in TiVo. Together they take over the living room. And I bet you no one would complain about the result.
Why would they buy Sun when they could buy Nintendo? Google, Apple, Nintendo
All's fine until your friend's PC is compromised or stolen, and your backups are lost in the process. I'm all for offsite backup storage, but I would not trust my personal information and files to another user, network, or computer without a comprehensive contract that clarifies rights and responsibilities on both sides.
Well I guess the first thing you do is make friends with people you trust. Then you use all these wonderful security tools we have redily available to make your data secret.
My post wasn't necessary and neither was yours.
Each brick can communicate with three others? Well, those three don't need to communicate with the same three, do they? You should be able to create a cube topology by forwarding messages to set up an 8-way system, or even set up a hexagonal mesh or a binary tree for an n-way topology. For example, you could have a forebrain-hindbrain "backbone" with two intelligent "limb" processors off each "brain"... or even build a version of Bob Forward's "Christmas Bush".
So what you're saying is, NASA needs to invest in Lego to build asteroid mining robots using NXT?
BRILLIANT!
With the thousands of edits that happen on wikipedia per second, I don't see how this change will do anything but create an impossible backlog.
Because when people quickly realize that their changes are being monitored and filtered they'll stop making defacement changes to the site.
Otherwise, buy a separate HDD and just periodically run a script that recursively copies all files on one drive to the other.
This is exactly how I do backups at work. I have four active file servers and one server with a big damn hard drive on another floor that updates a copy of everything on all the other servers twice a day. I'm using XXCopy, http://www.xxcopy.com/ and it works pretty well - even generates log files similar to BackupExec. Then on the weekends it runs a PowerArchiver script and dumps everything with a modification date less than 7 days old into a zip file and shoots it across the internet to another computer that extracts the zip file onto its own dupe of all the servers, keeping the zip for incremental purposes.
All this for under $100 in software and two 300GB drives each thrown in their ownn old ass desktop. And it's completely automated - no room for human error.
We all have friends (surely?) - we could be doing the same thing across the internet to eachother's houses. Two guys buy big hard drives to be hosted in eachother's desktop (or extra computer) and a script on each computer that dump changed files to a zip and shoots them across the net.
There will finally be a new game release which Gabe and Tycho won't bitch about.
....
Surely you're joking
We used to use CD-Rs for archival purposes, have since moved on to large HDD arrays. But I still have the CD-Rs, simply replaced back to the spindles they were shipped on. A simple spreadsheet or database could be made to keep track of which spindle each CD is on. You can't get much more dense than having them laying on top of eachother.
Except that you're giving him that many more drones to add to his collective. He needs to be scrubbing toilets in the local jail.
Wow, so close.
Narrator (Jack): When deep space exploration ramps up, it will be the corporations that name everything: the IBM stellar-sphere, the Microsoft galley, the planet Starbucks.
w00t!
I've been a Macintosh admin for nearly 9 years now. Pre-OS X everything was voodoo to the users. I hoped with all my heart that maybe they'd just 'get it' with OS X and a computer would be a computer. But no, it's all still voodoo to the Mac user. I guess that's the way Apple wants it. Everything is done for the 'user's experience'.
Hell some of it is still voodoo to me. And half the time I think it's voodoo to the Apple support staff as well.
Don't watch TV.
Done. End of discussion. Can we move on now?