I am sure that there are IP issues because outdoor presentations are likely to be classified as public, and not private. Fortunately for those that do guerilla drive-ins, they are still somewhat under the radar, filesharing is a bigger boogieman for the ??AAs.
Normal multimedia projectors are a LOT cheaper now and are quieter, smaller and likely accept a broader range of inputs. Mine can accept component video even at HD resolutions (it is downscaled to native though), RGB, newer ones accept DVI.
You can get a decent XGA projector for around $1000 now.
While overhead projectors have cheaper bulbs, IIRC, those bulbs die a lot quicker too. Some multimedia projectors have bulbs that go as many as 5000 hours, making the operational cost only around a dime per hour.
I'm with some others. The problem isn't money, supposedly more money per student is spent by the US than Germany or Japan, and obviously it isn't getting the job done.
When we get to actually teaching and not worrying about "feelings", social promotions, graduating illiterate students then we might get somewhere. Also, require some basic discipline might help too. Part of it is that parents don't care, they treat schools as a day care system more than a way to help their kids get ahead. Removing excessive administration would help, some districts have only two teachers per one person on administrative staff. Also, schools are too afraid of getting sued because a parent thinks their dumb kid doesn't deserve a failing grade.
The educational system has gone through many a fad idea to try to improve learning and none of them had really improved anything.
"Well-managed brands have extraordinary economic value and are the most effective and efficient creators of sustainable wealth."
The real problem is that the brands are poorly managed. One of the reasons brands became powerful is that the products made stood up to a certain level of quality. If they cannot retain that level of quality, buyers will buy something else.
They mentioned Sony DVD players, well, they've been hit by stupidly making a couple models (330 and 560, I think) that not only couldn't read CD-Rs, CD-RWs, had only a 90 day warranty, they also had a very rediculous failure rate, especially with the crap they make in Mexico. Other Sony products have had sketchy reliability, and have long had an uncompetitive warranty length or absurdly priced.
Note, I do own some Sony products, but I only buy them after a good amount of research.
I dunno. With my Palm m100, I change the batteries, like, never, and I'm using alkalines. I'm not sure if B&W Palms are still being sold though. It is kind of disappointing to almost have to have a battery sucking backlight for the color displays, it's often not even necessary on a B&W display. A color display is pretty, but I don't necessarily need that, and the performance of what I have is good enough.
Given the posts elsewhere, I'd question the numbers.
The article says Microsoft shipped a lot of WindowsCE licences without being clear if all of them really are PDA licences, but WinCE is used in a lot of non-PDA devices too, and it doesn't look like they are counting the Palm smartphone devices.
IIRC, you need to buy printers intended for the corporate market. Printers made for the consumer market are shit boxes supposedly sold at a loss so they can rip people off buying cartridges, much like the Gillette razors. They can literally give away the printers and still make a profit on cartridges.
Or matter accurately: I'd rule them out except they still have one line left and it actually fairly succesful: Pentium M.
Isn't it all the desktop and low end server lines that are still good for them? Uh, Intel isn't trailing that much in performance to count it out and dead, they still have a a fast chip (folks, being 5% slower on average doesn't mean it is useless), just not as quite as fast, and they still have a significant market share advantage to carry them to the next CPU generation.
IIRC, Pentium M wasn't as successful in the market as Intel hoped, rather, it has taken longer to get successful because too much of the mobile market still clung to desknotes and not real laptops because of the GHz myth that they perpetrated.
If you pretend that the websites are the channels, and that you are doing a bitstream record like DirecTivo, then it might be considered a PVR even if it doesn't capture over-the-air or conventional cable.
I must say, this would require a fat connection to get good download times AND good video quality, even using one of the MPEG-4 variants or WMV. If the video is 1.5Mbps, then that would require a better connection than some DSL services can provide for many areas.
Uh, because the future chips were very much the same thing in a different package format and very minor tweaks?
Most idiots that benchmarked it thought it would be cute to only benchmark it with Windows 9x and 16 bit code when the chip was basically designed for NT. Basically it was a bit ahead of its time to be relevant to the consumer world, but the Pentium Pro is the point where businesses started taking Intel seriously for server chips.
IIRC, it works fine and does very well for the clock - IPC (an odd benchmark that many slashdotters like). IIRC, depending on the benchmarks, a 1.5GHz Itanium2 performs as well as a 2.0GHz to 2.4Ghz Opteron.
The problem isn't technical, although I do bet that there were significant technical hurdles to overcome, I think they were overcome but at a heavy development cost and time to market. The problem is that it costs a lot of money for the power and they came too late to be a serious contender in the "big iron" market. Its market is being eaten alive by Opteron and Xeon.
CLIs assume perfect typing skills, any time correcting errors is time wasted. then there's the not remembering the rarely used flags.
I really don't see such a strong benefit to CLI to switch exclusively to it, I think the power users that advocate GUI to the exclusion of CLI, or CLI to the exclusion of GUI need to learn that a) their choice is not for everyone and b) their choice isn't necessarily the best choice to make in every situation.
Of course, CLI is IMO useless outside of the power user realm, I think it would be arrogant to expect a casual user to touch CLI and be proficient in it, any more than I expect a Linux geek to know how to tune up their own automobile, much less overhaul the engine.
To me, time spent in the Word help files to find an option probably equals the time spent fiddling with the pipes and reading the man pages to make sure I am using the right options.
IMO, plain text files have limited usefulness outside of configuration, and IIRC, wc assumes plain text. I wouldn't type a document as a text file as it doesn't have any formatting or typesetting features, something relegated to a more sophisticated format.
I think for Japanese, each sentence might count as one word, two words if it wraps onto a new line. But you certainly are correct, you can't count spaces, carraige returns, etc. as the only means of marking word boundaries. For Japanese, it is somewhat complex as you need to detect character set shifts, from kanji to katakana to hiragana to romaji and back to any of them, and not all of those character shifts necessarily mean a new word, verb endings change too. Then you'd also have to account for the character coding of the file, there are three dominant codes, I think.
Ouch, I hadn't considered how complex it would be to program such a simple thing.
It's faster. find ~/ -type f | wc -l is easier finding my mouse, plugging it in, waiting for usb to init, then navigating around.
Wow. I think you'd make a great benchmark designer. Pick an obscure task that almost nobody needs done, stack the "other" side with an unusual configuration for modern computers and use it as a case in declare that "your" way is a lot better in general.
OR a an athlon64 4000 to find its an overclocked 3800?
That's not much of a jump (unless there's a cache difference), and a lot computer "enthusiasts" seem to do this anyway to pretend they bought a more expensive computer.
My understanding is that to make the re-marking most profitable, they use middle-to-cheapest chips and re-mark it as high as they can, say a 3000+ gets marked 4000+, again, assuming cache is the same, but maybe not many are cluefull to test this.
There are commercial grade services and devices right now and have been available for a while. I am currently using such a service/device to patch in an AT&T multi-line Merlin system into a T1 service. Of course, I don't get ALL the cost benefits of VoIP, but the basic service is basically free for me and long distance is dirt cheap.
I'm pretty sure that was the PR spin of a pretty rabid anti genetically-modified-foods group. Some people did have poor reaction, but IIRC, it wasn't much worse than standard potato chips.
Even if the altitude was low, a quick transoceanic flight might be attractive.
The problem here is cost, the Concorde was crushed by the cost of running supersonic speeds. I think it was something like $10k for a NY to France or NY to London trip.
1) The new color iPod does not have video because the hardware can't support it.
The posted story seems to show otherwise.
2) Apple does not have a way to sell movies and videos on iTunes.
Uh, weren't there a couple generations if iPods before iTMS was rolled out? I understand iTunes was released with the first iPods (I think), but the music store itself came a couple years later.
I don't think it will work. Too much innovation is being stifled by excess litigation. Then there's the stuff being patented that, by any reading of patent law, shouldn't be patented due to prior art, being obvious to anyone in the trade and other reasons.
What we need is to export the litigiousness such that everyone is bogged down.
IIRC, electricity isn't required. You can get hydrogen from several hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbon conversion to hydrogen is probably cleaner than burning it.
Copies can be made of digital files, but the thing is, they require more maintainance than a printout would. Yes, ink fades, but I would bet that a printout will last longer than a hard drive would. The contents of the hard drive would have to be transferred to a new one before the standard is out of date. As it is, a new computer's compatibility with a 10 year old hard drive is spotty, assuming the hard drive survives that long.
The operational cost of keeping them powered is often pretty high, and if you get too old of a unit, then they are easily outpowered by a desktop computer. Then you have the special purpose vs. general purpose machine, as vector machines don't do so well in many mundane tasks.
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I am sure that there are IP issues because outdoor presentations are likely to be classified as public, and not private. Fortunately for those that do guerilla drive-ins, they are still somewhat under the radar, filesharing is a bigger boogieman for the ??AAs.
Normal multimedia projectors are a LOT cheaper now and are quieter, smaller and likely accept a broader range of inputs. Mine can accept component video even at HD resolutions (it is downscaled to native though), RGB, newer ones accept DVI.
You can get a decent XGA projector for around $1000 now.
While overhead projectors have cheaper bulbs, IIRC, those bulbs die a lot quicker too. Some multimedia projectors have bulbs that go as many as 5000 hours, making the operational cost only around a dime per hour.
I'm with some others. The problem isn't money, supposedly more money per student is spent by the US than Germany or Japan, and obviously it isn't getting the job done.
When we get to actually teaching and not worrying about "feelings", social promotions, graduating illiterate students then we might get somewhere. Also, require some basic discipline might help too. Part of it is that parents don't care, they treat schools as a day care system more than a way to help their kids get ahead. Removing excessive administration would help, some districts have only two teachers per one person on administrative staff. Also, schools are too afraid of getting sued because a parent thinks their dumb kid doesn't deserve a failing grade.
The educational system has gone through many a fad idea to try to improve learning and none of them had really improved anything.
You do have a point.
"Well-managed brands have extraordinary economic value and are the most effective and efficient creators of sustainable wealth."
The real problem is that the brands are poorly managed. One of the reasons brands became powerful is that the products made stood up to a certain level of quality. If they cannot retain that level of quality, buyers will buy something else.
They mentioned Sony DVD players, well, they've been hit by stupidly making a couple models (330 and 560, I think) that not only couldn't read CD-Rs, CD-RWs, had only a 90 day warranty, they also had a very rediculous failure rate, especially with the crap they make in Mexico. Other Sony products have had sketchy reliability, and have long had an uncompetitive warranty length or absurdly priced.
Note, I do own some Sony products, but I only buy them after a good amount of research.
I dunno. With my Palm m100, I change the batteries, like, never, and I'm using alkalines. I'm not sure if B&W Palms are still being sold though. It is kind of disappointing to almost have to have a battery sucking backlight for the color displays, it's often not even necessary on a B&W display. A color display is pretty, but I don't necessarily need that, and the performance of what I have is good enough.
Given the posts elsewhere, I'd question the numbers.
The article says Microsoft shipped a lot of WindowsCE licences without being clear if all of them really are PDA licences, but WinCE is used in a lot of non-PDA devices too, and it doesn't look like they are counting the Palm smartphone devices.
Many are called, but few are chosen
Many people ask how many of the chosen are paying customers, like Roland Piquepaille.
I don't think so.
HD has so much more detail that it's not funny. An ATSC bitstream is 20Mbps. A half hour fills up one DVD.
IIRC, you need to buy printers intended for the corporate market. Printers made for the consumer market are shit boxes supposedly sold at a loss so they can rip people off buying cartridges, much like the Gillette razors. They can literally give away the printers and still make a profit on cartridges.
Or matter accurately: I'd rule them out except they still have one line left and it actually fairly succesful: Pentium M.
Isn't it all the desktop and low end server lines that are still good for them? Uh, Intel isn't trailing that much in performance to count it out and dead, they still have a a fast chip (folks, being 5% slower on average doesn't mean it is useless), just not as quite as fast, and they still have a significant market share advantage to carry them to the next CPU generation.
IIRC, Pentium M wasn't as successful in the market as Intel hoped, rather, it has taken longer to get successful because too much of the mobile market still clung to desknotes and not real laptops because of the GHz myth that they perpetrated.
If you pretend that the websites are the channels, and that you are doing a bitstream record like DirecTivo, then it might be considered a PVR even if it doesn't capture over-the-air or conventional cable.
I must say, this would require a fat connection to get good download times AND good video quality, even using one of the MPEG-4 variants or WMV. If the video is 1.5Mbps, then that would require a better connection than some DSL services can provide for many areas.
Uh, because the future chips were very much the same thing in a different package format and very minor tweaks?
Most idiots that benchmarked it thought it would be cute to only benchmark it with Windows 9x and 16 bit code when the chip was basically designed for NT. Basically it was a bit ahead of its time to be relevant to the consumer world, but the Pentium Pro is the point where businesses started taking Intel seriously for server chips.
Incomplete chip?
IIRC, it works fine and does very well for the clock - IPC (an odd benchmark that many slashdotters like). IIRC, depending on the benchmarks, a 1.5GHz Itanium2 performs as well as a 2.0GHz to 2.4Ghz Opteron.
The problem isn't technical, although I do bet that there were significant technical hurdles to overcome, I think they were overcome but at a heavy development cost and time to market. The problem is that it costs a lot of money for the power and they came too late to be a serious contender in the "big iron" market. Its market is being eaten alive by Opteron and Xeon.
Uh, the CLI people try to act annointed too.
CLIs assume perfect typing skills, any time correcting errors is time wasted. then there's the not remembering the rarely used flags.
I really don't see such a strong benefit to CLI to switch exclusively to it, I think the power users that advocate GUI to the exclusion of CLI, or CLI to the exclusion of GUI need to learn that a) their choice is not for everyone and b) their choice isn't necessarily the best choice to make in every situation.
Of course, CLI is IMO useless outside of the power user realm, I think it would be arrogant to expect a casual user to touch CLI and be proficient in it, any more than I expect a Linux geek to know how to tune up their own automobile, much less overhaul the engine.
To me, time spent in the Word help files to find an option probably equals the time spent fiddling with the pipes and reading the man pages to make sure I am using the right options.
IMO, plain text files have limited usefulness outside of configuration, and IIRC, wc assumes plain text. I wouldn't type a document as a text file as it doesn't have any formatting or typesetting features, something relegated to a more sophisticated format.
I think for Japanese, each sentence might count as one word, two words if it wraps onto a new line. But you certainly are correct, you can't count spaces, carraige returns, etc. as the only means of marking word boundaries. For Japanese, it is somewhat complex as you need to detect character set shifts, from kanji to katakana to hiragana to romaji and back to any of them, and not all of those character shifts necessarily mean a new word, verb endings change too. Then you'd also have to account for the character coding of the file, there are three dominant codes, I think.
Ouch, I hadn't considered how complex it would be to program such a simple thing.
It's faster. find ~/ -type f | wc -l is easier finding my mouse, plugging it in, waiting for usb to init, then navigating around.
Wow. I think you'd make a great benchmark designer. Pick an obscure task that almost nobody needs done, stack the "other" side with an unusual configuration for modern computers and use it as a case in declare that "your" way is a lot better in general.
OR a an athlon64 4000 to find its an overclocked 3800?
That's not much of a jump (unless there's a cache difference), and a lot computer "enthusiasts" seem to do this anyway to pretend they bought a more expensive computer.
My understanding is that to make the re-marking most profitable, they use middle-to-cheapest chips and re-mark it as high as they can, say a 3000+ gets marked 4000+, again, assuming cache is the same, but maybe not many are cluefull to test this.
Sun had planned to put Solaris onto Itanium but the slow sales is their reasoning to drop that plan.
There are commercial grade services and devices right now and have been available for a while. I am currently using such a service/device to patch in an AT&T multi-line Merlin system into a T1 service. Of course, I don't get ALL the cost benefits of VoIP, but the basic service is basically free for me and long distance is dirt cheap.
If that isn't a joke...
I'm pretty sure that was the PR spin of a pretty rabid anti genetically-modified-foods group. Some people did have poor reaction, but IIRC, it wasn't much worse than standard potato chips.
Even if the altitude was low, a quick transoceanic flight might be attractive.
The problem here is cost, the Concorde was crushed by the cost of running supersonic speeds. I think it was something like $10k for a NY to France or NY to London trip.
1) The new color iPod does not have video because the hardware can't support it.
The posted story seems to show otherwise.
2) Apple does not have a way to sell movies and videos on iTunes.
Uh, weren't there a couple generations if iPods before iTMS was rolled out? I understand iTunes was released with the first iPods (I think), but the music store itself came a couple years later.
I don't think it will work. Too much innovation is being stifled by excess litigation. Then there's the stuff being patented that, by any reading of patent law, shouldn't be patented due to prior art, being obvious to anyone in the trade and other reasons.
What we need is to export the litigiousness such that everyone is bogged down.
IIRC, electricity isn't required. You can get hydrogen from several hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbon conversion to hydrogen is probably cleaner than burning it.
Copies can be made of digital files, but the thing is, they require more maintainance than a printout would. Yes, ink fades, but I would bet that a printout will last longer than a hard drive would. The contents of the hard drive would have to be transferred to a new one before the standard is out of date. As it is, a new computer's compatibility with a 10 year old hard drive is spotty, assuming the hard drive survives that long.
Lovely to look at is pretty much it.
The operational cost of keeping them powered is often pretty high, and if you get too old of a unit, then they are easily outpowered by a desktop computer. Then you have the special purpose vs. general purpose machine, as vector machines don't do so well in many mundane tasks.