Convergence and specialization both have their uses and must be balanced against each other. Most likely this is a non-issue, anyway: chances are that there will always be gadgets that cater to both tastes.
I am glad that my Palm has a music player, but I only used it as a last resort.
It's nice that the Palm I have has SD card slots, but I couldn't just put it in my pocket as the touch surface had several points that act as control buttons. I could put it to "hold", but that's a control that is hidden in the drop-down menu. An alternative media player, TCPMP, doesn't seem to have this hold function, and I would like to control it without having to look at it.
In a phone, the problem I would have is that I can't control its playback easily just by feeling the buttons, because there are over a dozen closely spaced buttons, and a mistake in button presses might mean that it will dial something. I don't want to have to look at the device to determine what to press to skip a track or pause it.
I think you are missing out the point that a lot of research is being done and money being spent on all the points you stated. I think it is shortsighted to stop all pure science just because there are problems "at home". There will always be problems "at home".
I wish humans would quit giving each other debilitating but preventable diseases. There isn't much that money can do to stop that. I'm not sure why humans should be wasting so much money curing a disease that people shouldn't be contracting.
And building infrastructures for impovershed nations, well, the problem is that impovershed nations are generally caused by not necessarily lack of money, the root of the lack of money is corrupt governments and/or lawlessness. There's little point in building necessary infrastructure if thugs are going to be allowed to remain and destroy that infrastructure.
Why does every minor insignificant politician have to weigh in on this crap? Do they really think that their constituents believe they have influence over giant multinational corporations?
Because they think it might get them more votes? Being seen as "for the people" seems to be one of those ways, even if the post in question has no real power.
Wow. I know what's going into my trusty old Archos mp3 player real soon now...
Does it really take the 2.5" laptop drives? I thought the going standard for portable media players are the 1.8" drives. You maybe already know this, it's just that it helps to make sure.
More like, "isn't it cheaper to just buy the book?".
Of course, that said, there are niches that this printer fills that some other posters elaborate on. I don't think IBM would develop this printer without having some idea what the market for it is, personally, I recently spent $80 for a used duplexing laser printer and couldn't be happier, even if it is HP.
Now, if this IBM unit could trim & arrange pages, bind paperback books, then I think this would be extraordinarily nifty, but alas, it appears trimming and such is done by an add-on machine.
More lives will be lost and more suffering will be created than any CO2 emissions can create.
Please back up the claim that Kyoto compliance will kill people.
Exactly what Kyoto supporters want. Bring the middle class into the lower class through regulations and taxes rather than uplifting the lower class through opportunity and expansion of the industry base.
Please back up your claim that Kyoto supporters want this.
Not only that, I think it is also the matter of making sure the patches don't conflict with the plethora of existing software that the corporations use, rather than just blindly updating every computer. I had one computer which would use 100% of CPU power while doing nothing if a certain patch was applied, for reasons I didn't understand. I think it would be a very bad thing to have if this happened on nearly every one of an organization's fleet of nearly identical computers.
At best, it doees seem to be an odd use of "correct". I suppose it is a butchery of the "price is right" butchery. This and the previous sentence might be a... butchery as well.
The problem is that there's a bigger safety net for stupid people when there is a welfare state. Also, smarter people seem to reproduce a lot less. Dumber people reproduce a lot more, it seems, and infant mortality doesn't seem to make up the difference.
Have you actually tried that? Cheap paint, or any paint for that matter, doesn't feel right for this.
And paint wears off. I don't think the letters go away with solvent on a good keyboard, otherwise finger oils would just smudge it away, which I think has something to do with why painted keyboards feel horrible, it softens the paint a bit, making them a bit sticky.
I've never cared for gambling in either form. In a building, it involves tacky lights, usually tacky architecture (though the non-gambling floors of The Venitian is cool) and so on. Online, there's the issue of trust, how does a user know the program isn't cheating them? Actually, there's a point about the computer machines in Vegas, but Nevada tries to prevent that.
Still, shouldn't have problem getting $20m. There are people who watch everything-comic, or just couldn't buy seats for their intended movies.
If that $525M gets split evenly into 10 movies, that means $52.5M goes to Ant Man's production. A $20M take means a $32.5M loss for a movie that probably shouldn't have been made. I'm thinking this will be an Electra but won't have the pull of Jennifer Garner, which, for many, was the only reason to see it.
I understand your reasoning though, but I don't think it should be treated as a batch-gamble, where they seem to throw piles of money, small ideas and big names at a vat-o-projects and hope a few get a blockbuster.
They're just remaking the same movies over and over, with different names for the characters, different actors, and in different cities.
Worse in some cases. Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail were basically the same movie but they forgot to replace the same actors! One comment I've heard was "It wasn't as if the Empire State Building collapsed that they needed to make a new one!"
Antz and Bug's Live didn't try forcing an unknown comic book hero to the screen. Spider-Man is incredibly well-known and actually was made into a couple decent movies. I just don't see Ant-Man as being very marketable.
You've managed to own an HL2 capable system without a DVD drive? Also, I hope you have some other means of backing up.
i didn't have to leave my room,
As if shipping was prohibitively expensive. I think some stores shipped free, and if they did it properly, they should be allowed to ship early such that you'll get the package on official release date.
Also, you sound as if leaving the dungeon was a hardship.
and played at the day of release..
You sound like one of the lucky ones. Some people had incredible wait times due to server issues.
I now enjoy patches without having to pay for fileplanet to download it,
Sounds like a horrible system. Valve should be providing all patch downloads themselves to all buyers, disc or download. There should be no reason for users to resort to downloading official patches from third parties.
Because audio reproduction is still governed by the same laws of physics as it was 30 years ago.
Yes!
"subwoofer" cabinets on most computer sound systems are the size of my bookshelf speakers.
I think it's funny that people expect 6" speakers on ~30W amps to perform decently on bass frequencies when they are comparing it to the performance of 12" speakers with 150W+ amps.
Both standards are for interlaced video. TVs are 30frame/s (~60 field/s) devices. Until you get into the HDTV 'p' resolutions, everything is interlaced for TVs.
DVD discs can be 480p but this is not HDTV. Some call it EDTV for Enhanced Definition TV.
The DVD standard defaults to 480i and the 480p encoding is designed to tell the player what the duplicated fields are. Progressive scan playback drops the duplicated fields.
It does cost money to make the optical mechanism, it's a little more complex than the DVD mechanism, and blue lasers are harder to make reliably.
Still, $100 more is still better than a $1000 separate machine. Some companies are announcing HD disc machines and $1000 is what the cost will be price for the first ones.
The problem is that there doesn't seem to be any third-party review of whether the secrecy is justified. In your body armor example, will the secrecy be used to just cover up the flaw indefinitely to protect the manufacturer and leave soldiers in danger, or will the flaw be fixed with due haste?
It seems like way too many wrongs were commited in the name of national interests, national security and so on.
I really don't have trust or faith in this system that it would be properly used.
I think the reason I stick around is to watch people mock the submitters and the editors. The problem is that they are setting themselves up as such easy targets that it's not really a sport anymore.
Isn't the row-column limit basically a signed int, being 32k rows & 32k columns?
I wonder how many people have really run into this, it would seem that some other data handling system would be better for handling such large amounts of data.
I thought chickens peck at anything bleeding too. Leading to a frenzy because the birds not bleeding sometimes get blood splashed on them, and other chickens attack those too, and it turns into a gross "last chicken standing" event which I don't think any of them survive.
Not what I would call intelligent.
Of course, this could be some other kind of farm-raised bird, my Grandpa raised a few different kinds of birds in the past decade or more.
I thought higher prices were the effect of higher taxes on them. The huge social programs that Europeans love have to be paid for somewhere, and higher gas prices is one of the ways Europeans pay for them.
Note, I'm not saying anything for or against those social programs, just that the money has to come from somewhere.
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Convergence and specialization both have their uses and must be balanced against each other. Most likely this is a non-issue, anyway: chances are that there will always be gadgets that cater to both tastes.
I am glad that my Palm has a music player, but I only used it as a last resort.
It's nice that the Palm I have has SD card slots, but I couldn't just put it in my pocket as the touch surface had several points that act as control buttons. I could put it to "hold", but that's a control that is hidden in the drop-down menu. An alternative media player, TCPMP, doesn't seem to have this hold function, and I would like to control it without having to look at it.
In a phone, the problem I would have is that I can't control its playback easily just by feeling the buttons, because there are over a dozen closely spaced buttons, and a mistake in button presses might mean that it will dial something. I don't want to have to look at the device to determine what to press to skip a track or pause it.
I think you are missing out the point that a lot of research is being done and money being spent on all the points you stated. I think it is shortsighted to stop all pure science just because there are problems "at home". There will always be problems "at home".
I wish humans would quit giving each other debilitating but preventable diseases. There isn't much that money can do to stop that. I'm not sure why humans should be wasting so much money curing a disease that people shouldn't be contracting.
And building infrastructures for impovershed nations, well, the problem is that impovershed nations are generally caused by not necessarily lack of money, the root of the lack of money is corrupt governments and/or lawlessness. There's little point in building necessary infrastructure if thugs are going to be allowed to remain and destroy that infrastructure.
The number of registers only double to 16 programmer-addressable general registers. Many RISC architectures have 32 or more, some 128.
Why does every minor insignificant politician have to weigh in on this crap? Do they really think that their constituents believe they have influence over giant multinational corporations?
Because they think it might get them more votes? Being seen as "for the people" seems to be one of those ways, even if the post in question has no real power.
Wow. I know what's going into my trusty old Archos mp3 player real soon now...
Does it really take the 2.5" laptop drives? I thought the going standard for portable media players are the 1.8" drives. You maybe already know this, it's just that it helps to make sure.
War and Peace was only 330 pages?
More like, "isn't it cheaper to just buy the book?".
Of course, that said, there are niches that this printer fills that some other posters elaborate on. I don't think IBM would develop this printer without having some idea what the market for it is, personally, I recently spent $80 for a used duplexing laser printer and couldn't be happier, even if it is HP.
Now, if this IBM unit could trim & arrange pages, bind paperback books, then I think this would be extraordinarily nifty, but alas, it appears trimming and such is done by an add-on machine.
More lives will be lost and more suffering will be created than any CO2 emissions can create.
Please back up the claim that Kyoto compliance will kill people.
Exactly what Kyoto supporters want. Bring the middle class into the lower class through regulations and taxes rather than uplifting the lower class through opportunity and expansion of the industry base.
Please back up your claim that Kyoto supporters want this.
Not only that, I think it is also the matter of making sure the patches don't conflict with the plethora of existing software that the corporations use, rather than just blindly updating every computer. I had one computer which would use 100% of CPU power while doing nothing if a certain patch was applied, for reasons I didn't understand. I think it would be a very bad thing to have if this happened on nearly every one of an organization's fleet of nearly identical computers.
It is good to have correct prices...
At best, it doees seem to be an odd use of "correct". I suppose it is a butchery of the "price is right" butchery. This and the previous sentence might be a... butchery as well.
I'd settle for "fair".
The problem is that there's a bigger safety net for stupid people when there is a welfare state. Also, smarter people seem to reproduce a lot less. Dumber people reproduce a lot more, it seems, and infant mortality doesn't seem to make up the difference.
I too was avoiding IGN for those reasons. I'd think it should be easy to find better reviews on web logs.
Have you actually tried that? Cheap paint, or any paint for that matter, doesn't feel right for this.
And paint wears off. I don't think the letters go away with solvent on a good keyboard, otherwise finger oils would just smudge it away, which I think has something to do with why painted keyboards feel horrible, it softens the paint a bit, making them a bit sticky.
I've never cared for gambling in either form. In a building, it involves tacky lights, usually tacky architecture (though the non-gambling floors of The Venitian is cool) and so on. Online, there's the issue of trust, how does a user know the program isn't cheating them? Actually, there's a point about the computer machines in Vegas, but Nevada tries to prevent that.
Still, shouldn't have problem getting $20m. There are people who watch everything-comic, or just couldn't buy seats for their intended movies.
If that $525M gets split evenly into 10 movies, that means $52.5M goes to Ant Man's production. A $20M take means a $32.5M loss for a movie that probably shouldn't have been made. I'm thinking this will be an Electra but won't have the pull of Jennifer Garner, which, for many, was the only reason to see it.
I understand your reasoning though, but I don't think it should be treated as a batch-gamble, where they seem to throw piles of money, small ideas and big names at a vat-o-projects and hope a few get a blockbuster.
They're just remaking the same movies over and over, with different names for the characters, different actors, and in different cities.
Worse in some cases. Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail were basically the same movie but they forgot to replace the same actors! One comment I've heard was "It wasn't as if the Empire State Building collapsed that they needed to make a new one!"
You left out A Bug's Life.
Antz and Bug's Live didn't try forcing an unknown comic book hero to the screen. Spider-Man is incredibly well-known and actually was made into a couple decent movies. I just don't see Ant-Man as being very marketable.
I didn't have to buy a DVD-drive
You've managed to own an HL2 capable system without a DVD drive? Also, I hope you have some other means of backing up.
i didn't have to leave my room,
As if shipping was prohibitively expensive. I think some stores shipped free, and if they did it properly, they should be allowed to ship early such that you'll get the package on official release date.
Also, you sound as if leaving the dungeon was a hardship.
and played at the day of release..
You sound like one of the lucky ones. Some people had incredible wait times due to server issues.
I now enjoy patches without having to pay for fileplanet to download it,
Sounds like a horrible system. Valve should be providing all patch downloads themselves to all buyers, disc or download. There should be no reason for users to resort to downloading official patches from third parties.
Because audio reproduction is still governed by the same laws of physics as it was 30 years ago.
Yes!
"subwoofer" cabinets on most computer sound systems are the size of my bookshelf speakers.
I think it's funny that people expect 6" speakers on ~30W amps to perform decently on bass frequencies when they are comparing it to the performance of 12" speakers with 150W+ amps.
Both standards are for interlaced video. TVs are 30frame/s (~60 field/s) devices. Until you get into the HDTV 'p' resolutions, everything is interlaced for TVs.
DVD discs can be 480p but this is not HDTV. Some call it EDTV for Enhanced Definition TV.
The DVD standard defaults to 480i and the 480p encoding is designed to tell the player what the duplicated fields are. Progressive scan playback drops the duplicated fields.
It does cost money to make the optical mechanism, it's a little more complex than the DVD mechanism, and blue lasers are harder to make reliably.
Still, $100 more is still better than a $1000 separate machine. Some companies are announcing HD disc machines and $1000 is what the cost will be price for the first ones.
The problem is that there doesn't seem to be any third-party review of whether the secrecy is justified. In your body armor example, will the secrecy be used to just cover up the flaw indefinitely to protect the manufacturer and leave soldiers in danger, or will the flaw be fixed with due haste?
It seems like way too many wrongs were commited in the name of national interests, national security and so on.
I really don't have trust or faith in this system that it would be properly used.
Ah, yes.
I think the reason I stick around is to watch people mock the submitters and the editors. The problem is that they are setting themselves up as such easy targets that it's not really a sport anymore.
Isn't the row-column limit basically a signed int, being 32k rows & 32k columns?
I wonder how many people have really run into this, it would seem that some other data handling system would be better for handling such large amounts of data.
I thought chickens peck at anything bleeding too. Leading to a frenzy because the birds not bleeding sometimes get blood splashed on them, and other chickens attack those too, and it turns into a gross "last chicken standing" event which I don't think any of them survive.
Not what I would call intelligent.
Of course, this could be some other kind of farm-raised bird, my Grandpa raised a few different kinds of birds in the past decade or more.
I thought higher prices were the effect of higher taxes on them. The huge social programs that Europeans love have to be paid for somewhere, and higher gas prices is one of the ways Europeans pay for them.
Note, I'm not saying anything for or against those social programs, just that the money has to come from somewhere.