Let's see - that would cover depth (Z=1), width (X=4), height (Y=9) and ???=16 I get three physical dimensions, but let me change the batteries in my calculator and I'll get back to you...
I was wondering why an epileptic patient - one seizure and from you clear the board? From TFA is sounds like this happened in the spare time they were waiting for a seizure to happen and they had him wired anyway - good example of either dovetailing or serendipity.
McNealy on PRI's Marketplace last night...
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The Relevance of Windows
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He reiterated the basic difference in philosophy between Sun and MS take on what your computer is. He did a demo of his JavaCard and walked up to a random workstation what became his within a few seconds. he went on to explain that MS believes the physical computer you hold is all your informatio, Sun believes the network is the computer. His analogy was that you don't carry all your money around in a briefcase, you put it in a bank and then access it when you need some of it. But we're perfectly happy carrying all our information around in a box, typically with little or no safety net. It looks like it may not be Sun who points us towards the information appliance with their name on it, but maybe Web 2.0 services that make it so that I can have my info (where-ever) and get it where I need to. I have to say with NeoOffice and Google Writely and Spreadsheets available, not to mention possible links to new Mac apps and.mac services, I can't imagine why I'll be paying full price for Office 2007 Now With Ribbons. And I'd love to see my Java Ring gain all that functionality.
Cuz this nascent podcasting thing has only been in the hands of Rupert Murdoch? The instant podcast deal in Garageband was causing rickets? Only $9,000 you say? They must figure it's a bargain cuz adopting a tech-savvy 13-year-old would cost at least twice that in today's adoption market. These guys must be onto something here.
This series made my head snap around, which is more than I can say about 80% of the scifi in the past ten years. Geez, the guy could suck the vampire franchise dry (sorry), you'd think he could soldier on without the likes of Wash and make it more/better/shinier. Even with the resolutions of the movie and all. One of my favorite quotes about anything creative is from Joss: "Restrictions are great because they make you more imaginative. They make you rethink things, they make you not-do the obvious." I'd say he set lots of restrictions on his existing story line and had no where to go but massively creative. These characters were as salty / grounded / lofty / eye-twinkling / inventive as my favorite Heinlein characters. Even the trademark behaviors were just tweaked enough and were gently dashed often enough to keep you thinking "what's next?"
To quote Wash, this series told the rest of the scifi world "Here's something you can't do..."
We live in a world "Head of the Class" stays on the air for five seasons. Ya'd think they could keep this stuff rolling for more than one.
(1) The shuttle is inspected with magnifiers after every flight for such hits. Most are tiny, but the windows are the most common part in need of replacement from these hits / pits. This is not the first time, it's not the last. Impacts by micrometeorites make up about half the critical things that could end a flight. They always have. They've known the risk for some time now. The astronauts all understand it. The shuttle flies tail-first in order to minimize the risk to reentry-critical parts. It's mostly news now because of the hype and drama about the return to flight.
And (b) the other previous US and Russian major mishaps didn't end the manned program, the next one won't either.
I'll have to go spin up my trusty Media Lab laserdisc, but I recall Barry Vercoe demo-ing this or something very much like it. They had a virtual performer (piano, IIRC) that could follow / learn / accompany live individual human performer (violin, again IIRC) and cope with changes in phrasing. So this would date to when laserdiscs were cool. Of course there was probably a Cray at the other end of a telltale cable, but hey.
"Pressing paper or Braille can launch videos"
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A GUI For Books
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Jeez, the least they could do is just launch the audio from Braiile - at least spare the sight-impaired from the chorus of "Duuuude, did you see that?!" from the other kids. One of the schools I work with has braille directory signs. They're 25 ft deep into the foyer, past several other hallways. Nice work.
So they're targeting Apple, who has the arguably most servicable DRM. If the users don't hit the limits and object, then these guys are simply arguing principle with no tangible effect. In which case this is a severly detached campaign, the 2000 version of the turtleneck caucasian beatnik ranting how "It's all about the Man keeping me down." Art has handcuffs. Business puts them there. Art today barely survives outside of commerce. The Mona Lisa is in a big vault, and you have to pay to get into the vault anbd look at it. You can look and hold at a lossy copy of it for less money, but it's no comparison to the original. You can look at a near-lossless copy of it if you pay more to do so. You can own a near-lossless copy of it if you pay a lot more. You aren't solving that part of the situation, so you're likely not having any effect.
Gaming consoles are selling largely because of three reasons (1) they're entrenched since the days of $2000 computers and $200 consoles; (2) they beat the pants off a reasonably priced PC for gaming performance; (3) they play games.
The same "people hate computers and will gladly pay to avoid using them" theme was supposed for WebTV / MSNTV. At their best, this service had a million users. MS isn't looking for WebTV numbers here, they're looking for iPod numbers.
Or in your comparison, Xbox numbers - which is upwards of 6 million per year.
The kids won't get access argument doesn't work if the parents use the parental controls. Which they do. Which iTunes includes and MS would too if they do the inevitable feature matching.
Can you imagine peeking thru a music player screen to shop for songs online?
Old people in fact can use computers and are the largest growing segment. People who never had them still likely don't use them, but the baby boomers, all wired - are about to become seniors - the "silver tsunami" is about to hit. Those who can't or won't use a computer are likely not pining for a standalone network device complete with networked subscriptions just to listen to music.
I was a grad student once too. They often don't have home PCs becuase they get use of one for free in the lab and we all lived on $0.50 top ramen for far too long.
Anyone who can spell "Microsoft" and has enough scratch lying around to drop $300 on a music player is interested in paying and $1 per song likely has a computer already. Otherwise you'd be looking at the universe of people who own only a standalone CD player and buy CDs exclusively. (Cuz if they had MP3s they'd already have the computer cuz that's where you get the files...) I believe you could get all those people together in the main lobby of Redmond. If they can ignore the Mac and Linux community, they can ignore these folks.
... 20% will be sold on the internals. It's Windows and it costs a lot. The average Windows user isn't caring about or using what XP TRULY does different than 98SE except it looks better.
I remember back in the Reagan / Star Wars heyday seeing a clip of an excimer laser vaporizing the middle chunk of a Titan II booster. Damnedest thing - the video was a closeup of the shell - looked like Gemini-era, so 10? 12? ft diameter, maybe the same height - and that chunk just vaporized, and the top fell straight down onto the bottom. All that was missing was the little "Yikes" sign the Coyote holds when the same sort of thing happens to him. Excimer lasers are now used with different power and tuning for common eye surgery. Point being, that with the right power and tuning, you could likely fry the chip(s), or in general pick and choose which component you wish to remove.
"In fact, they usually do in a subtle way via "Tonight's special is..."" The waiter isn't trying to concert you out of principle. The specials usually mean "we got a good deal | this stuff fell off a truck | the chef's in a state | it's easier to make one dish than seven"
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Um, yeah, endless speculation. The monolith itself has the physical dimensions in the ratio 1:4:9
Let's see - that would cover depth (Z=1), width (X=4), height (Y=9) and ???=16
I get three physical dimensions, but let me change the batteries in my calculator and I'll get back to you...
The BlackBox is built with its dimensions in the ratio 1:4:9, and when touched emits a strong radio signal back to its creators.
I can do this for no additional charge on my XM. And the XM radio cost $24 net last xmas.
Howard stopped being funny when he stoped shocking New Yorkers in a novel way and just started amusing himself.
You haven't discovered video editing yet?
;-)
yes, just prior to discovering external drives...
two 30's sitting just starboard
Extinctions Linked to Changes in Earth's Orbit.
Or was I the only one who read it as a paucity of mammoths might cause a tilt...?
- What happened today?
- Radioactive snails crawled up from underground.
- That's it - right there. That's a game. See? It's perfect.
- Uh - huh...
That'd be a 12GB home directory on my iBook G4 - better pony up for the non-flash iPod.
I was wondering why an epileptic patient - one seizure and from you clear the board? From TFA is sounds like this happened in the spare time they were waiting for a seizure to happen and they had him wired anyway - good example of either dovetailing or serendipity.
He reiterated the basic difference in philosophy between Sun and MS take on what your computer is. He did a demo of his JavaCard and walked up to a random workstation what became his within a few seconds. he went on to explain that MS believes the physical computer you hold is all your informatio, Sun believes the network is the computer. His analogy was that you don't carry all your money around in a briefcase, you put it in a bank and then access it when you need some of it. But we're perfectly happy carrying all our information around in a box, typically with little or no safety net. It looks like it may not be Sun who points us towards the information appliance with their name on it, but maybe Web 2.0 services that make it so that I can have my info (where-ever) and get it where I need to. I have to say with NeoOffice and Google Writely and Spreadsheets available, not to mention possible links to new Mac apps and .mac services, I can't imagine why I'll be paying full price for Office 2007 Now With Ribbons. And I'd love to see my Java Ring gain all that functionality.
Cuz this nascent podcasting thing has only been in the hands of Rupert Murdoch?
The instant podcast deal in Garageband was causing rickets?
Only $9,000 you say?
They must figure it's a bargain cuz adopting a tech-savvy 13-year-old would cost at least twice that in today's adoption market.
These guys must be onto something here.
This series made my head snap around, which is more than I can say about 80% of the scifi in the past ten years.
Geez, the guy could suck the vampire franchise dry (sorry), you'd think he could soldier on without the likes of Wash and make it more/better/shinier. Even with the resolutions of the movie and all. One of my favorite quotes about anything creative is from Joss: "Restrictions are great because they make you more imaginative. They make you rethink things, they make you not-do the obvious." I'd say he set lots of restrictions on his existing story line and had no where to go but massively creative.
These characters were as salty / grounded / lofty / eye-twinkling / inventive as my favorite Heinlein characters. Even the trademark behaviors were just tweaked enough and were gently dashed often enough to keep you thinking "what's next?"
To quote Wash, this series told the rest of the scifi world "Here's something you can't do..."
We live in a world "Head of the Class" stays on the air for five seasons. Ya'd think they could keep this stuff rolling for more than one.
In other words,
(1) The shuttle is inspected with magnifiers after every flight for such hits. Most are tiny, but the windows are the most common part in need of replacement from these hits / pits. This is not the first time, it's not the last. Impacts by micrometeorites make up about half the critical things that could end a flight. They always have. They've known the risk for some time now. The astronauts all understand it. The shuttle flies tail-first in order to minimize the risk to reentry-critical parts. It's mostly news now because of the hype and drama about the return to flight.
And (b) the other previous US and Russian major mishaps didn't end the manned program, the next one won't either.
George Lucas has been out of the movie making business for some time now.
I'll have to go spin up my trusty Media Lab laserdisc, but I recall Barry Vercoe demo-ing this or something very much like it. They had a virtual performer (piano, IIRC) that could follow / learn / accompany live individual human performer (violin, again IIRC) and cope with changes in phrasing. So this would date to when laserdiscs were cool. Of course there was probably a Cray at the other end of a telltale cable, but hey.
Jeez, the least they could do is just launch the audio from Braiile - at least spare the sight-impaired from the chorus of "Duuuude, did you see that?!" from the other kids.
One of the schools I work with has braille directory signs. They're 25 ft deep into the foyer, past several other hallways. Nice work.
... down to the millisecond.
"and over here you see the exit apetu-" *KLANNNNG!*
So they're targeting Apple, who has the arguably most servicable DRM.
If the users don't hit the limits and object, then these guys are simply arguing principle with no tangible effect.
In which case this is a severly detached campaign, the 2000 version of the turtleneck caucasian beatnik ranting how "It's all about the Man keeping me down."
Art has handcuffs.
Business puts them there. Art today barely survives outside of commerce.
The Mona Lisa is in a big vault, and you have to pay to get into the vault anbd look at it.
You can look and hold at a lossy copy of it for less money, but it's no comparison to the original.
You can look at a near-lossless copy of it if you pay more to do so.
You can own a near-lossless copy of it if you pay a lot more.
You aren't solving that part of the situation, so you're likely not having any effect.
oops - wrong Smoot. My bad.
I'm in education.
Gaming consoles are selling largely because of three reasons
(1) they're entrenched since the days of $2000 computers and $200 consoles;
(2) they beat the pants off a reasonably priced PC for gaming performance;
(3) they play games.
The same "people hate computers and will gladly pay to avoid using them" theme was supposed for WebTV / MSNTV. At their best, this service had a million users. MS isn't looking for WebTV numbers here, they're looking for iPod numbers.
Or in your comparison, Xbox numbers - which is upwards of 6 million per year.
The kids won't get access argument doesn't work if the parents use the parental controls. Which they do. Which iTunes includes and MS would too if they do the inevitable feature matching.
Can you imagine peeking thru a music player screen to shop for songs online?
Old people in fact can use computers and are the largest growing segment. People who never had them still likely don't use them, but the baby boomers, all wired - are about to become seniors - the "silver tsunami" is about to hit. Those who can't or won't use a computer are likely not pining for a standalone network device complete with networked subscriptions just to listen to music.
I was a grad student once too. They often don't have home PCs becuase they get use of one for free in the lab and we all lived on $0.50 top ramen for far too long.
Anyone who can spell "Microsoft" and has enough scratch lying around to drop $300 on a music player is interested in paying and $1 per song likely has a computer already.
Otherwise you'd be looking at the universe of people who own only a standalone CD player and buy CDs exclusively.
(Cuz if they had MP3s they'd already have the computer cuz that's where you get the files...)
I believe you could get all those people together in the main lobby of Redmond.
If they can ignore the Mac and Linux community, they can ignore these folks.
... 20% will be sold on the internals.
It's Windows and it costs a lot.
The average Windows user isn't caring about or using what XP TRULY does different than 98SE except it looks better.
I remember back in the Reagan / Star Wars heyday seeing a clip of an excimer laser vaporizing the middle chunk of a Titan II booster. Damnedest thing - the video was a closeup of the shell - looked like Gemini-era, so 10? 12? ft diameter, maybe the same height - and that chunk just vaporized, and the top fell straight down onto the bottom. All that was missing was the little "Yikes" sign the Coyote holds when the same sort of thing happens to him. Excimer lasers are now used with different power and tuning for common eye surgery. Point being, that with the right power and tuning, you could likely fry the chip(s), or in general pick and choose which component you wish to remove.
How hard a map can that be. You can likely download it from the manufacturer.
"In fact, they usually do in a subtle way via "Tonight's special is...""
The waiter isn't trying to concert you out of principle.
The specials usually mean "we got a good deal | this stuff fell off a truck | the chef's in a state | it's easier to make one dish than seven"