It's amazing how much people like it when you either stay true to the source material (LoTR, Punisher, Spiderman, etc.), or declare that "this is new, don't compare" (Battlestar Galactica, etc.).
I'm wondering though how they are going to be able to tell a story in a universe that has such a well-established time-line, story and characters. Will it be like "Signs", in which the main story is off playing elsewhere, while our characters are involved with their own struggles?
For that matter, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING WITH THE METROID MOVIE? I mean, I'm glad Woo is off of it...I don't think I'd like to see white doves flying off while Samus fires in slow-motion.
However, seeing metroid attacking white doves would kick ass....hmm....what a quandry...
Since Mainframes, I've always thought it makes more sense to modularize hardware.
While studying for my EE, I often wondered what the purpose of having a clock was, since so much of the individual chips often had finished their calculations before the next clock cycle came around.
I think we are going to see the clock go away, replaced with "Data Ready" lines, which will also help heavily in determining the bottlenecks in a given system (Hint: it's the system that is taking the longest to put up the "Data Ready" flag).
I also think that optics will be the way of the future. Quantum will be like Mechanical Television: cute idea, but impractical for mass production.
Optics. Think of it this way: Imagine a bus that can address individual I/O cards with full duplex, simply by using different colors for the lasers. Motherboards are going to get a lot smaller.
One of the ONLY games I have ever walked away from was Pirates of the Caribbean. It violated almost every HSI rule out there: obtuse item manipulation tools, poor indications of possible problems, ambiguous cause/effect rules, etc.
Terrible terrible game.
Let's hope they learn a thing or three before this comes out.
Note: I am an engineer and refuse to use corporate speak at any level. I will translate and use the english-variant at any meeting. I passed out randomized buzzword bingo sheets at a meeting with our client. And won.
That said, your comment has me a little confused:
Web 2.0 Dead on -- Buzzword. Gots ta' go.
Enterprise Besides the USS variant, when I used to work IT, "Enterprise" meant anything over 10,000 users. it was assumed that at that level, you needed to have something that had that kind of load in mind when installed over a network.
Solution That one I'm kinda iffy on. As a freelance IT guy for a while, most of my clients would start with "I have a problem" "Solution" was the answer to their problem. Whatever I told them to go buy. I was told it is a military derivative: a "firing solution" is a case where the shooter is almost guaranteed a hit.
Mission-Critical Buzzword. Use "Urgent" "Immediate attention" etc.
Partner I was told this is used because virtually nobody goes to business together much anymore. So, "Business Partner" on a project wouldn't apply. "Partner" indicates that for this certain project, they are with us, even though for other projects, they might be a competitor.
Ok, That's my $.02. (That's 1.3 canadian, ya damn canucks!:) )
TCP/IP. I was a network admin at a place that rhymes with Brue Closs of California. They were primarily a Novell shop. Until Novell held out their IPX/SPX as the one true protocol. When applications didn't support it much anymore, we were forced to upgrade (After all, Unix is only for big-iron, right?).
Incidently: One of the largest mainframes ever belongs to them. It has every California medical information ever. From the results of your Uncle Jimbo's rectal exam to your sister's emergency pregnancy check. MASSIVE. And I've seen it. Come Y2K, they hired many many many COBOL programmers. And they were using phrases like: "Well, tomorrow, when we get processor time..." Very very very cool.
I got one...kinda similar. I used to be a network engineer for a company that rhymes with Brue Closs of Califermia.
At one point, network-wide, we had: IPX/SPX, TCP/IP.
Not bad, right?
Well, they brought in GTE (Now Verizon) services. Their ticket tracking system consisted of a MODEM-ONLY (as in "dial-tone") system (Even within the building) that ran over Banyan Vines (So: Banyan Vines over PPP).
*sigh* I miss when that was popular...I was in college, dating a total bitch, living off of ramen, playing CS until my grades started to suffer, and getting four hours of sleep a night...good times, good times.
If there is one thing I've learned as an engineer, it's that no matter how innovative your engineers, if your management is nothing but bottom-line looking buzzword spewers, you are going to be twisting in the wind.
I swear, the next time a manager tells me that I need to leverage my win-win situation to think outside the box synergisticly, I'm going to mail the CEO the christmas party pictures I took...it graphically proves that our admin used to be a gymnast...
I was 12. She was 25, and married...happily...to the biggest jock you have ever seen in your life...even had the 80s "big hair" thing going on...both of them.
It seems like only yesterday I got my 8 bit nintendo. One of the friends of the family who worked at Circuit City said, "You should stick to Super Mario Brothers. Zelda is just TOO hard!"
I was sooo intimidated when I opened that golden cartridge on my birthday.
But, I beat it in under two weeks after school. Dumb blonde was lying...
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Fine...let them create the tiered internet...then sue them the next time you get spammed through their connection.
1 million lawsuits the day after should convince them otherwise.
All you need are lawyers....
Oh Yeah?
Well, I own a patent on "Heat applied to a Mixture of Infertile Chicken Fetus, Sucrose, Cow Lactate, and Fungus"
Expect a visit from my lawyers.
It's amazing how much people like it when you either stay true to the source material (LoTR, Punisher, Spiderman, etc.), or declare that "this is new, don't compare" (Battlestar Galactica, etc.).
I'm wondering though how they are going to be able to tell a story in a universe that has such a well-established time-line, story and characters. Will it be like "Signs", in which the main story is off playing elsewhere, while our characters are involved with their own struggles?
For that matter, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING WITH THE METROID MOVIE? I mean, I'm glad Woo is off of it...I don't think I'd like to see white doves flying off while Samus fires in slow-motion.
However, seeing metroid attacking white doves would kick ass....hmm....what a quandry...
Someone showed me it's already been done.
Someone showed me it's already been done.
Someone showed me it's already been done.
Since Mainframes, I've always thought it makes more sense to modularize hardware.
While studying for my EE, I often wondered what the purpose of having a clock was, since so much of the individual chips often had finished their calculations before the next clock cycle came around.
I think we are going to see the clock go away, replaced with "Data Ready" lines, which will also help heavily in determining the bottlenecks in a given system (Hint: it's the system that is taking the longest to put up the "Data Ready" flag).
I also think that optics will be the way of the future. Quantum will be like Mechanical Television: cute idea, but impractical for mass production.
Optics. Think of it this way: Imagine a bus that can address individual I/O cards with full duplex, simply by using different colors for the lasers. Motherboards are going to get a lot smaller.
That's my opinion, anyway.
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One of the ONLY games I have ever walked away from was Pirates of the Caribbean. It violated almost every HSI rule out there: obtuse item manipulation tools, poor indications of possible problems, ambiguous cause/effect rules, etc.
Terrible terrible game.
Let's hope they learn a thing or three before this comes out.
Note: I am an engineer and refuse to use corporate speak at any level. I will translate and use the english-variant at any meeting. I passed out randomized buzzword bingo sheets at a meeting with our client. And won.
:) )
That said, your comment has me a little confused:
Web 2.0
Dead on -- Buzzword. Gots ta' go.
Enterprise
Besides the USS variant, when I used to work IT, "Enterprise" meant anything over 10,000 users. it was assumed that at that level, you needed to have something that had that kind of load in mind when installed over a network.
Solution
That one I'm kinda iffy on. As a freelance IT guy for a while, most of my clients would start with "I have a problem" "Solution" was the answer to their problem. Whatever I told them to go buy. I was told it is a military derivative: a "firing solution" is a case where the shooter is almost guaranteed a hit.
Mission-Critical
Buzzword. Use "Urgent" "Immediate attention" etc.
Partner
I was told this is used because virtually nobody goes to business together much anymore. So, "Business Partner" on a project wouldn't apply. "Partner" indicates that for this certain project, they are with us, even though for other projects, they might be a competitor.
Ok, That's my $.02. (That's 1.3 canadian, ya damn canucks!
Maybe it's just me, but I would think that the preference would be for wifi first, THEN cellular. You'd burn less minutes that way.
But, heck, what do I know? I still think that that coyote is gonna get that RoadRunner some day.
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TCP/IP. I was a network admin at a place that rhymes with Brue Closs of California. They were primarily a Novell shop. Until Novell held out their IPX/SPX as the one true protocol. When applications didn't support it much anymore, we were forced to upgrade (After all, Unix is only for big-iron, right?).
Incidently: One of the largest mainframes ever belongs to them. It has every California medical information ever. From the results of your Uncle Jimbo's rectal exam to your sister's emergency pregnancy check. MASSIVE. And I've seen it. Come Y2K, they hired many many many COBOL programmers. And they were using phrases like: "Well, tomorrow, when we get processor time..." Very very very cool.
I got one...kinda similar. I used to be a network engineer for a company that rhymes with Brue Closs of Califermia.
At one point, network-wide, we had: IPX/SPX, TCP/IP.
Not bad, right?
Well, they brought in GTE (Now Verizon) services. Their ticket tracking system consisted of a MODEM-ONLY (as in "dial-tone") system (Even within the building) that ran over Banyan Vines (So: Banyan Vines over PPP).
Talk about the network map from hell....
Can we please avoid the "Gentoo and LFS" vs. "Everyone else" flamewar that will ensue?
Just in case, though, I'm getting my asbestos suit...
Bigger than a newton, less powerful than a laptop, touch sensitive so you have to shield it when not in use, not a large battery life, and running XP.
Wow. What demographic are they trying to hit?
And it's good to know that SBC/Verizon/Comcast/whoever has shills on these boards.
We welcome you.
Now go play dodgecar in traffic...
Pilotwings was for SNES
Pilotwings 64 was for N64
Nit-picking, but hey....
But imagine a a beowulf cluster of these.
*sigh* I miss when that was popular...I was in college, dating a total bitch, living off of ramen, playing CS until my grades started to suffer, and getting four hours of sleep a night...good times, good times.
Comments like that make the case for a (-1, Groan) mod point...
It would appear that Nintendo has learned its lesson from its monopolistic past.
You ever wonder if we are going to see the same thing out of Mickeysoft in 7 years?
If there is one thing I've learned as an engineer, it's that no matter how innovative your engineers, if your management is nothing but bottom-line looking buzzword spewers, you are going to be twisting in the wind.
I swear, the next time a manager tells me that I need to leverage my win-win situation to think outside the box synergisticly, I'm going to mail the CEO the christmas party pictures I took...it graphically proves that our admin used to be a gymnast...
Boldly going where I surely don't belong...
I was 12. She was 25, and married...happily...to the biggest jock you have ever seen in your life...even had the 80s "big hair" thing going on...both of them.
Nerd cred is all I wanted outta that.
It seems like only yesterday I got my 8 bit nintendo. One of the friends of the family who worked at Circuit City said, "You should stick to Super Mario Brothers. Zelda is just TOO hard!"
I was sooo intimidated when I opened that golden cartridge on my birthday.
But, I beat it in under two weeks after school. Dumb blonde was lying...
And thus began my addiction...
*sniff* memories....
Dai Katana.