I was listening to some old Geeks in Space episodes last week and in one of the earlier ones Hemos and CmdrTaco had some funny comments about "The Great IP Crunch of 2010." This was back in 1999, I think.
Ah, here's a link to the CNN story from 1999: CNN.com
I'm not sure it would be worth the expense, since theft alarm systems consume so little power from the battery anyway, but it would be a simple matter to have a system with diodes or some other switching system which drew power from the solar cells when there was sufficient light, and drew from the car's battery when there wasn't.
Well, even if the platform shift turns out to not be as good as we'd like, what's the alternative? I think that many, if not most, Mac users have chosen the OS X platform for specific reasons which weren't addressed adequately by competing platforms.
Before switching to OS X, I was a longtime Linux user, running it for 11 years as the primary OS on my home system (1994-2004). I finally tired of the lack of consistent user interface behavior and tight integration between the applications I used, which is one of the things I like best about OS X apps. Also, I wanted to get into video editing. Nothing on Linux satisfies this to the degree I want, and Windows has other major problems that preclude me from choosing to use that on my personal hardware. (Such as security vulnerabilities and the need to reinstall the OS every few months to deal with registry bloat or corruption.)
I think part of it is the integration of students across international boundaries at university. This is even more true if you go to graduate school. For example, when I was in graduate school studying electrical engineering (in the USA), more than half of my fellow students weren't native English speakers.
Since the curriculum focuses on technical aspects, and not our English, and so much time is spent with people with varying commands of English grammar, everyone's English gets kind of averaged together. I know my grammar was more "correct" before I went to college than afterward, because I had gotten used to the "lower" level of English used amongst the students in the much less homogenized environment (compared to high school). We all tend to pick up habits of speech from around us.
Now that I've worked at a major tech company for about 10 years, I routinely use silly idiomatic phrases like "bandwidth" to talk about my time and preface everything with the word "so," simply because they're habits learned from the company culture.
No, analog over-the-air broadcasting is going away. There is still analog cable. I'd be very surprised if all the cable companies shut off their analog cable systems when that's a chance to pick up customers who don't want to go digital yet.
Those phones look pretty big, which is probably desirable for many people, such as the elderly. I would like something along the same lines, but in a very small form factor, so it doesn't take up much room in my pocket. Why should I shell out for a bunch of features I never use in order to get something so small?
After all, they probably want to give people an incentive to migrate their servers, but realize that servers with WinFS will be adopted more quickly if the large installed base of WinXP clients can work with it. But if Server 2003 can support it as well, then there goes one reason to migrate.
But with cable TV you are limited to the small subset of the entire content library (all the movies & shows ever made) that are broadcast while your subscription is active. You can't just decide to watch a specific movie or show and then tape it, unless it happened to be on the schedule already. With the new Napster service, you'd have access to their entire library at once, which is an important difference. The closest cable TV currently gets to Napster's model is pay-per-view, but this is still limited to a very small number of programs.
I don't have satellite radio, but I have considered it. For me, the attraction isn't music (which is available anywhere these days), but listening to live sporting events outside of their locale. For example, I am a fairly die-hard fan of my alma mater (Washington State University), and even though I only live one state away in Oregon, it is difficult to tune in broadcasts of the (American) football and basketball games. If I moved across country, I wouldn't have a hope of receiving the game broadcasts.
I've tried using an internet broadcast solution (based on RealPlayer), but found it to be very unreliable. To me, being able to listen to broadcasts from other locales than your own is the real promise of satellite radio.
That said, one of the iPod's strengths is its size and form facter, and integrating a receiver would probably kill that advantage. But Apple could always introduce a range of models, some with a receiver and some without.
The point of your message is spot on, but I do need to dispute one thing: inkjet printer ink is not a "generic fluid." There is a lot of chemistry involved in developing inks that have good colors, don't fade, don't bleed on a variety of different types of paper, etc. A lot of R&D is spent on ink development.
Even if by some miracle enough money was raised by fans, that may not be enough for the network to continue to produce the show. If they think they can make more money by showing something else, even if it costs more to make, then Enterprise is dead. Remember that a network isn't in the business to show the best TV, it's in the business to make money.
Given these hypothetical numbers, if you were the network, which investment would you rather make?
Enterprise
Cost = $0
Revenue = $100 million
Profit = $100 million
Show X
Cost = $50 million
Revenue = $200 million
Profit = $150 million
The United States Democratic Party is considered to be slightly right of center of every other western country on this planet. So I would have to disagree with you about our education system being "liberal."
Except that the majority our education system is considerably more liberal than most of the Democratic party. Most of the Democratic party is moderately liberal, not extremely liberal, just as most of the Republican party is moderately conservative. But the vast majority of college professors, especially those that are politically active, are somewhat further left than the mainstream Democrats.
I agree that going through college has a tendency to move people's views to the left somewhat, but then they often moderate a bit after living in the "real world" for a while.
I've been reading this a lot, but don't understand it. Could someone with that view explain why the U.S.'s liberal party is considered so conservative by other countries? What exactly about the party positions are not as liberal?
They used to have very good technical articles back then, too, like tutorials on 8088 assembly language using DEBUG as the assembler. That was a truly great geek magazine in the 1980s.
It became somewhat less technical in the 1990s. Alice & Bill's column was still great, but I really did miss the older more detailed articles in the Tech Section. The magazine remained interesting and useful until the web obsoleted it several years ago.
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The Zaurus is from Sharp, not Toshiba, but you're correct in that the C3000 was the first PDA with an internal HDD.
I was listening to some old Geeks in Space episodes last week and in one of the earlier ones Hemos and CmdrTaco had some funny comments about "The Great IP Crunch of 2010." This was back in 1999, I think.
Ah, here's a link to the CNN story from 1999: CNN.com
I'm not sure it would be worth the expense, since theft alarm systems consume so little power from the battery anyway, but it would be a simple matter to have a system with diodes or some other switching system which drew power from the solar cells when there was sufficient light, and drew from the car's battery when there wasn't.
but I doubt it has a use in the "real" world besides chick-magnet
No, I don't think it will work for that, either.
Well, even if the platform shift turns out to not be as good as we'd like, what's the alternative? I think that many, if not most, Mac users have chosen the OS X platform for specific reasons which weren't addressed adequately by competing platforms.
Before switching to OS X, I was a longtime Linux user, running it for 11 years as the primary OS on my home system (1994-2004). I finally tired of the lack of consistent user interface behavior and tight integration between the applications I used, which is one of the things I like best about OS X apps. Also, I wanted to get into video editing. Nothing on Linux satisfies this to the degree I want, and Windows has other major problems that preclude me from choosing to use that on my personal hardware. (Such as security vulnerabilities and the need to reinstall the OS every few months to deal with registry bloat or corruption.)
So if I abandonded OS X, then where would I go?
Texas and Alberta are both big oil-producing regions.
I think part of it is the integration of students across international boundaries at university. This is even more true if you go to graduate school. For example, when I was in graduate school studying electrical engineering (in the USA), more than half of my fellow students weren't native English speakers.
Since the curriculum focuses on technical aspects, and not our English, and so much time is spent with people with varying commands of English grammar, everyone's English gets kind of averaged together. I know my grammar was more "correct" before I went to college than afterward, because I had gotten used to the "lower" level of English used amongst the students in the much less homogenized environment (compared to high school). We all tend to pick up habits of speech from around us.
Now that I've worked at a major tech company for about 10 years, I routinely use silly idiomatic phrases like "bandwidth" to talk about my time and preface everything with the word "so," simply because they're habits learned from the company culture.
No, analog over-the-air broadcasting is going away. There is still analog cable. I'd be very surprised if all the cable companies shut off their analog cable systems when that's a chance to pick up customers who don't want to go digital yet.
Those phones look pretty big, which is probably desirable for many people, such as the elderly. I would like something along the same lines, but in a very small form factor, so it doesn't take up much room in my pocket. Why should I shell out for a bunch of features I never use in order to get something so small?
"With any luck, we'll all meet again in the sequel: The Quest for More Money."
After all, they probably want to give people an incentive to migrate their servers, but realize that servers with WinFS will be adopted more quickly if the large installed base of WinXP clients can work with it. But if Server 2003 can support it as well, then there goes one reason to migrate.
And my personal favorite, "West The Dalles" (I think it's the exit with the salmon art on the railings).
But with cable TV you are limited to the small subset of the entire content library (all the movies & shows ever made) that are broadcast while your subscription is active. You can't just decide to watch a specific movie or show and then tape it, unless it happened to be on the schedule already. With the new Napster service, you'd have access to their entire library at once, which is an important difference. The closest cable TV currently gets to Napster's model is pay-per-view, but this is still limited to a very small number of programs.
I don't have satellite radio, but I have considered it. For me, the attraction isn't music (which is available anywhere these days), but listening to live sporting events outside of their locale. For example, I am a fairly die-hard fan of my alma mater (Washington State University), and even though I only live one state away in Oregon, it is difficult to tune in broadcasts of the (American) football and basketball games. If I moved across country, I wouldn't have a hope of receiving the game broadcasts.
I've tried using an internet broadcast solution (based on RealPlayer), but found it to be very unreliable. To me, being able to listen to broadcasts from other locales than your own is the real promise of satellite radio.
That said, one of the iPod's strengths is its size and form facter, and integrating a receiver would probably kill that advantage. But Apple could always introduce a range of models, some with a receiver and some without.
I'd say the biggest distraction is access to the Web.
For example, posting on Slashdot.
The point of your message is spot on, but I do need to dispute one thing: inkjet printer ink is not a "generic fluid." There is a lot of chemistry involved in developing inks that have good colors, don't fade, don't bleed on a variety of different types of paper, etc. A lot of R&D is spent on ink development.
Even if by some miracle enough money was raised by fans, that may not be enough for the network to continue to produce the show. If they think they can make more money by showing something else, even if it costs more to make, then Enterprise is dead. Remember that a network isn't in the business to show the best TV, it's in the business to make money.
Given these hypothetical numbers, if you were the network, which investment would you rather make?
Enterprise
Cost = $0
Revenue = $100 million
Profit = $100 million
Show X
Cost = $50 million
Revenue = $200 million
Profit = $150 million
I can just imagine how much these ink cartridges will cost!
Good luck.
The United States Democratic Party is considered to be slightly right of center of every other western country on this planet. So I would have to disagree with you about our education system being "liberal."
Except that the majority our education system is considerably more liberal than most of the Democratic party. Most of the Democratic party is moderately liberal, not extremely liberal, just as most of the Republican party is moderately conservative. But the vast majority of college professors, especially those that are politically active, are somewhat further left than the mainstream Democrats.
I agree that going through college has a tendency to move people's views to the left somewhat, but then they often moderate a bit after living in the "real world" for a while.
> ./ers know that whatever has a processor HAS linux in it's genes.
Try porting Linux to the Apple IIgs sometime.
That's easy. For a real challenge, port it to an Apple ][+.
http://www.the-trades.com/trailers/ep3.html
I've been reading this a lot, but don't understand it. Could someone with that view explain why the U.S.'s liberal party is considered so conservative by other countries? What exactly about the party positions are not as liberal?
They used to have very good technical articles back then, too, like tutorials on 8088 assembly language using DEBUG as the assembler. That was a truly great geek magazine in the 1980s.
It became somewhat less technical in the 1990s. Alice & Bill's column was still great, but I really did miss the older more detailed articles in the Tech Section. The magazine remained interesting and useful until the web obsoleted it several years ago.
Ack, sorry for the typos. I need to read the preview better before I post!