You're right that the distance is important. I don't know about their web site, but Jobs mentioned in his presentation that it is assuming a distance of about 10 to 12 inches, which is a reasonable distance. Whether or not it really stands up for someone with 20/20 vision, I don't know. I don't expect that it's really equivalent to the pitch on the retina, because the lens in question is also a limiting factor.
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The support deadlines aren't rigid. Microsoft has extended support for Windows in the past. I was using Windows 2000 until late last year and was still occasionally getting security updates.
You have a point on working on a migration plan, getting the pieces in place, though the actual migration doesn't have to happen for a few years.
That sounds like the case already with many pages that have dozens of buttons to "share" the web page via dozens of social networking sites. Heaven forbid it's one of those mouse over things where it exposes a pop-open panel festooned with social media buttons, usually covering up something that I wanted to read.
The people that want this button either are doing it for the attention, or haven't thought it through. If someone has reason to believe a crime is happening, they can place a phone call with the local dispatcher.
The thing is, if you are using both cellular and wired internet, you are paying for multiple pipes. The cost of wired infrastructure is almost completely unrelated to the cost of wireless infrastructure. There are very few shared resources for the last mile, towers don't help DSL or cable, and DSL or cable don't help towers, except maybe shared backhaul. Yet people want to pay one low fee to use either as you see fit. Not only that, the airwaves can only pass so much data as you're sharing more constrained bandwidth with more people than you would with wired internet, so the data doesn't necessarily have an equal cost.
Would there be an appropriate chain of evidence for visual speed estimation? We don't even know how accurate the officer is until we calibrate him/her. An interesting test would be to see how many people can guess the speed of a car within 5mph without known distances between landmarks and such.
IIs was probably a business printer. If Best Buy sells a printer in their stores, you probably shouldn't buy it. When it comes down to it, if cost is a major factor, you really need to be careful. If you really need a printer, you are often better served with a more expensive unit. A cheap printer is likely to have more corners cut than one that's a step or two up the scale.
I do have a 10 year old HP business LaserJet that still works, I bought it from my sister's employer. I don't use it much now because it is a little slow. I have since bought a newer LaserJet 2055dn, so far I've printed 8000 pages without problems or excessive per-page costs.
epub has already been around for a little while. It's an open format, you don't need proprietary readers to read it, you don't need proprietary writers to make them. It is device form factor agnostic too, at least to an extent.
If we made a website declaring Jesus Christ was a homosexual, wouldn't this anger Christians in this country and don't you think that certain individuals would want the website banned?
For one, most of them really wouldn't be bothered to the point of calling for a ban, and you're not going to see Christian leaders calling for the death of the webmaster, even Pat Robertson isn't that crazy.
Power is a major problem. That's why I'm not putting hopes on supersonic passenger flight. Transatlantic supersonic flights costed $10,000 a ticket, $300 for regular subsonic travel.
The power to overcome drag in a fluid is supposed to be related to speed to the third power. Mach 2 would require 8 times more power than mach 1. Mach 6 should require 216 times the power as mach 1. Given the cost of fuel, I don't see a lot of people being willing to pay 200x as much to save a few hours of flight time.
The availability of Google and Wikipedia doesn't excuse clumsy article summaries. If most of your audience doesn't know what X device is, taking a sentence to explain it makes it a much better article summary. I would say it is pretty fundamental to good writing. I would grant that Slashdot editors don't know much about good writing, but that's not a good excuse.
Maybe PLATO was very important, but despite having actually read about computer technology history in the past, I don't remember ever having heard of it. That, and based on other comments to this story, I'd say that PLATO must have been pretty obscure.
The inkjet has been around for decades. I think it's well beyond the point of calling it a fad.
If there are any good digital picture frames, that would be news to me, I haven't seen any. The ones I've seen all use the lowest grade TN panels possible short of having stuck pixels, are very low res, poor viewing angle and bad colors.
I'm down with monochrome laser, but I haven't found another color laser that I'm willing to risk money on. I need something that is networked and duplex. I had bought an HP 2605dn, one problem is that its optical path isn't sealed so I have to disassemble it every other cartridge set to keep it printing nicely. Newer HPs have more expensive toner cartridges and seem to not offer as much printing at that. None of the other brands seem that confidence-building either, reviews seemed to have too many red flags.
I don't see how the existence of large SSD invalidates the hybrid drive. What can invalidate the hybrid drive is if it does not deliver on its performance claims. Previous incarnations didn't, but maybe Seagate has something. If they can deliver a good percentage speed increase that beats the increase in cost, then they have something. Most files don't need SSD-like speeds, if the commonly used boot and application files are on SSD portion, then that would provide most of what I want on SSD without requiring that I buy a $1000 drive to get an SSD that meets my capacity needs when a $120 could have done the job almost as well.
A 10TB portable SSD is roughly five years away yet. We'll see by then whether the costs are competitive or not. We'll also see then how much data storage needs scale up then.
I'm not sure it will do anything with civilian air transport. I don't see this as cutting air drag, which goes up to the fourth power as speed increases, and increases fuel consumption. It probably wouldn't go transcontinental because of noise & sonic boom issues.
Concorde tickets were $10,000 from NY to Europe and the operators often lost money flying it. The manufacturers lost money building the airplanes. A regular sub-sonic flight is $300. Unless scramjet can somehow manage to fly around $1000 a passenger, I don't know if it can really succeed. The extra expense could buy you more days of vacation, it's not going to buy you another day of a fixed length vacation, less time in the air.
I would be against the flash, that would only annoy those around you. It's possible to take good pictures without flash, and take pictures pretty quickly. I suggest that food bloggers learn how to not use flash, for one, for the annoyance, another, flash distorts the appearance of the surroundings with light that's only there for a fraction of a second, it's not the restaurant's normal lighting. It helps to learn how to be discrete too. Have the camera set up already, when no one is looking, take it out of the bag, snap a few quick shots and put it away before anyone notices.
Another idea of the "fly-back" booster is something that has already been done - launch a Pegasus from an actual jet. The Space Shuttle's boosters just used parachutes, I didn't see that addressed, I suppose maybe they didn't want salt water in a liquid fueled rocket engine. But it seems like wings are still an issue, those wings are huge, and I don't think they're light. It seems like too much expense that could drag down the real cost savings
All these little half-steps are getting pretty lame though. The industry doesn't seem to be trying to get these updates ready until we really need them, at which time the update is most disruptive. And I don't think it's as if people are willing to go out and buy new computers to go with the new drive, that sort of collusion doesn't really make sense with hard drives.
Just a minor point, you can upgrade the memory on Macs.
I think the iPad has its place, but the number of people that can simply dump their computers for a "post-PC" device seem small, most people seem to be using them in conjunction with PCs, not replacing PCs altogether.
Apple does seem to have a plan to improve on the platform's limitations. I don't think it's a post-PC world yet. It looks like there are about a billion computers in use right now, 90 million iPhone OS devices doesn't quite compare yet. Not only that, the iPad requires a cable hook-up to a computer to activate it, which seems pretty unnecessary and I think shows that the platform isn't really post-PC if it's still stuck with a PC umbilical cord.
Worrying about NASA's budget is like complaining an employee dropped a penny when someone walked off with a laptop, NASA's budget almost inconsequential. The three big entitlement/pork programs are Social Security, Medicare, and military, each roughly $600 billion a year. NASA? $17 Billion. You can axe NASA and sell it off clean and the needle on US deficit won't even twitch.
As it is, it looks like we're spending $1.8 trillion dollars this year solving (or maybe even causing) social problems in one form or another and the return on the money just isn't there compared to infrastructure and research. The problem is, people that advocate fiscal competence generally aren't elected. Maybe things will change after this year's elections, certain primaries have had surprising results lately.
I think the robots are great, they make me wish I was working on robots, I hadn't gotten that far. Maybe I'll take it up as a hobby a few years from now.
If there isn't continued study in how to do this colonization there, there might be considerable technology gaps should colonization or transplantation be deemed desirable or necessary. And we do seem to benefit from that research technologically here as well. We may also benefit from the ability to mine asteroids too.
I am on YouTube's side, but I've never heard of a web site being called an internet service provider (ISP). I've always heard it used the type of company that sells you a connection to the internet. For most people, Google doesn't actually connect you to the internet in that manner.
It seems pretty naive to expect legislation against moneyed interests. They have the campaign donations and lobbyists to push against any bill that would hurt their interests, and they have plenty of money for lawyers to fight any law that gets passed tooth and nail. I really don't see a solution for this.
I would suggest that for most buyers, netbooks are goof-off devices too. The fact that you had to attach a separate monitor, keyboard and mouse would seem to suggest that netbooks really aren't intended for work either, you can do it, but without slinging some peripherals into the mix, it's not very comfortable for work use.
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Basic phones are getting rarer, but they aren't that hard to find. I found this article a few minutes ago, supposedly updated today:
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-basic-phones/
Oddly, the top entry has a camera, a goof on their part.
The thing is that people that reject the cameras are a small enough market that it might not be worth giving much attention to.
You're right that the distance is important. I don't know about their web site, but Jobs mentioned in his presentation that it is assuming a distance of about 10 to 12 inches, which is a reasonable distance. Whether or not it really stands up for someone with 20/20 vision, I don't know. I don't expect that it's really equivalent to the pitch on the retina, because the lens in question is also a limiting factor.
The support deadlines aren't rigid. Microsoft has extended support for Windows in the past. I was using Windows 2000 until late last year and was still occasionally getting security updates.
You have a point on working on a migration plan, getting the pieces in place, though the actual migration doesn't have to happen for a few years.
That sounds like the case already with many pages that have dozens of buttons to "share" the web page via dozens of social networking sites. Heaven forbid it's one of those mouse over things where it exposes a pop-open panel festooned with social media buttons, usually covering up something that I wanted to read.
The people that want this button either are doing it for the attention, or haven't thought it through. If someone has reason to believe a crime is happening, they can place a phone call with the local dispatcher.
The thing is, if you are using both cellular and wired internet, you are paying for multiple pipes. The cost of wired infrastructure is almost completely unrelated to the cost of wireless infrastructure. There are very few shared resources for the last mile, towers don't help DSL or cable, and DSL or cable don't help towers, except maybe shared backhaul. Yet people want to pay one low fee to use either as you see fit. Not only that, the airwaves can only pass so much data as you're sharing more constrained bandwidth with more people than you would with wired internet, so the data doesn't necessarily have an equal cost.
Would there be an appropriate chain of evidence for visual speed estimation? We don't even know how accurate the officer is until we calibrate him/her. An interesting test would be to see how many people can guess the speed of a car within 5mph without known distances between landmarks and such.
Somewhere, there are LaserJet IIs still printing.
Not all HP printers are consumer grade junk.
IIs was probably a business printer. If Best Buy sells a printer in their stores, you probably shouldn't buy it. When it comes down to it, if cost is a major factor, you really need to be careful. If you really need a printer, you are often better served with a more expensive unit. A cheap printer is likely to have more corners cut than one that's a step or two up the scale.
I do have a 10 year old HP business LaserJet that still works, I bought it from my sister's employer. I don't use it much now because it is a little slow. I have since bought a newer LaserJet 2055dn, so far I've printed 8000 pages without problems or excessive per-page costs.
epub has already been around for a little while. It's an open format, you don't need proprietary readers to read it, you don't need proprietary writers to make them. It is device form factor agnostic too, at least to an extent.
If we made a website declaring Jesus Christ was a homosexual, wouldn't this anger Christians in this country and don't you think that certain individuals would want the website banned?
For one, most of them really wouldn't be bothered to the point of calling for a ban, and you're not going to see Christian leaders calling for the death of the webmaster, even Pat Robertson isn't that crazy.
Power is a major problem. That's why I'm not putting hopes on supersonic passenger flight. Transatlantic supersonic flights costed $10,000 a ticket, $300 for regular subsonic travel.
The power to overcome drag in a fluid is supposed to be related to speed to the third power. Mach 2 would require 8 times more power than mach 1. Mach 6 should require 216 times the power as mach 1. Given the cost of fuel, I don't see a lot of people being willing to pay 200x as much to save a few hours of flight time.
The availability of Google and Wikipedia doesn't excuse clumsy article summaries. If most of your audience doesn't know what X device is, taking a sentence to explain it makes it a much better article summary. I would say it is pretty fundamental to good writing. I would grant that Slashdot editors don't know much about good writing, but that's not a good excuse.
Maybe PLATO was very important, but despite having actually read about computer technology history in the past, I don't remember ever having heard of it. That, and based on other comments to this story, I'd say that PLATO must have been pretty obscure.
The inkjet has been around for decades. I think it's well beyond the point of calling it a fad.
If there are any good digital picture frames, that would be news to me, I haven't seen any. The ones I've seen all use the lowest grade TN panels possible short of having stuck pixels, are very low res, poor viewing angle and bad colors.
I'm down with monochrome laser, but I haven't found another color laser that I'm willing to risk money on. I need something that is networked and duplex. I had bought an HP 2605dn, one problem is that its optical path isn't sealed so I have to disassemble it every other cartridge set to keep it printing nicely. Newer HPs have more expensive toner cartridges and seem to not offer as much printing at that. None of the other brands seem that confidence-building either, reviews seemed to have too many red flags.
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I don't see how the existence of large SSD invalidates the hybrid drive. What can invalidate the hybrid drive is if it does not deliver on its performance claims. Previous incarnations didn't, but maybe Seagate has something. If they can deliver a good percentage speed increase that beats the increase in cost, then they have something. Most files don't need SSD-like speeds, if the commonly used boot and application files are on SSD portion, then that would provide most of what I want on SSD without requiring that I buy a $1000 drive to get an SSD that meets my capacity needs when a $120 could have done the job almost as well.
A 10TB portable SSD is roughly five years away yet. We'll see by then whether the costs are competitive or not. We'll also see then how much data storage needs scale up then.
I'm not sure it will do anything with civilian air transport. I don't see this as cutting air drag, which goes up to the fourth power as speed increases, and increases fuel consumption. It probably wouldn't go transcontinental because of noise & sonic boom issues.
Concorde tickets were $10,000 from NY to Europe and the operators often lost money flying it. The manufacturers lost money building the airplanes. A regular sub-sonic flight is $300. Unless scramjet can somehow manage to fly around $1000 a passenger, I don't know if it can really succeed. The extra expense could buy you more days of vacation, it's not going to buy you another day of a fixed length vacation, less time in the air.
I would be against the tripods too, tripods distract from the atmosphere and are pretty disruptive in close quarters.
I would be against the flash, that would only annoy those around you. It's possible to take good pictures without flash, and take pictures pretty quickly. I suggest that food bloggers learn how to not use flash, for one, for the annoyance, another, flash distorts the appearance of the surroundings with light that's only there for a fraction of a second, it's not the restaurant's normal lighting. It helps to learn how to be discrete too. Have the camera set up already, when no one is looking, take it out of the bag, snap a few quick shots and put it away before anyone notices.
Another idea of the "fly-back" booster is something that has already been done - launch a Pegasus from an actual jet. The Space Shuttle's boosters just used parachutes, I didn't see that addressed, I suppose maybe they didn't want salt water in a liquid fueled rocket engine. But it seems like wings are still an issue, those wings are huge, and I don't think they're light. It seems like too much expense that could drag down the real cost savings
All these little half-steps are getting pretty lame though. The industry doesn't seem to be trying to get these updates ready until we really need them, at which time the update is most disruptive. And I don't think it's as if people are willing to go out and buy new computers to go with the new drive, that sort of collusion doesn't really make sense with hard drives.
Just a minor point, you can upgrade the memory on Macs.
I think the iPad has its place, but the number of people that can simply dump their computers for a "post-PC" device seem small, most people seem to be using them in conjunction with PCs, not replacing PCs altogether.
Apple does seem to have a plan to improve on the platform's limitations. I don't think it's a post-PC world yet. It looks like there are about a billion computers in use right now, 90 million iPhone OS devices doesn't quite compare yet. Not only that, the iPad requires a cable hook-up to a computer to activate it, which seems pretty unnecessary and I think shows that the platform isn't really post-PC if it's still stuck with a PC umbilical cord.
Worrying about NASA's budget is like complaining an employee dropped a penny when someone walked off with a laptop, NASA's budget almost inconsequential. The three big entitlement/pork programs are Social Security, Medicare, and military, each roughly $600 billion a year. NASA? $17 Billion. You can axe NASA and sell it off clean and the needle on US deficit won't even twitch.
As it is, it looks like we're spending $1.8 trillion dollars this year solving (or maybe even causing) social problems in one form or another and the return on the money just isn't there compared to infrastructure and research. The problem is, people that advocate fiscal competence generally aren't elected. Maybe things will change after this year's elections, certain primaries have had surprising results lately.
I think you're talking about Little Bobby Tables:
http://xkcd.com/327/
I think the robots are great, they make me wish I was working on robots, I hadn't gotten that far. Maybe I'll take it up as a hobby a few years from now.
If there isn't continued study in how to do this colonization there, there might be considerable technology gaps should colonization or transplantation be deemed desirable or necessary. And we do seem to benefit from that research technologically here as well. We may also benefit from the ability to mine asteroids too.
I am on YouTube's side, but I've never heard of a web site being called an internet service provider (ISP). I've always heard it used the type of company that sells you a connection to the internet. For most people, Google doesn't actually connect you to the internet in that manner.
It seems pretty naive to expect legislation against moneyed interests. They have the campaign donations and lobbyists to push against any bill that would hurt their interests, and they have plenty of money for lawyers to fight any law that gets passed tooth and nail. I really don't see a solution for this.
I would suggest that for most buyers, netbooks are goof-off devices too. The fact that you had to attach a separate monitor, keyboard and mouse would seem to suggest that netbooks really aren't intended for work either, you can do it, but without slinging some peripherals into the mix, it's not very comfortable for work use.