Yes, perhaps you don't absolutely have to now, but I don't think anyone will build an office without phone lines for at least 5 years.... IP telephony needs to become more common than traditional phone products first.
Can't afford cell phones for every worker? How much does it cost to set up a land line for every worker? I'm curious to see some actual figures since it seems like setting up wired phones would be rather expensive. There's the cost of your own voicemail software, salaries for whatever staff maintains your phone system, the line leases themselves, long distance charges, equipment, etc. In new offices you even have to figure in the cost of running the wire. (At some point in the distant future, perhaps we won't need to run phone wire everywhere in the office?)
If you try leasing a single office, a single line with voicemail etc. is about $110/month.
Of course the downside to wireless is that it's less reliable, but you get a worry-free voicemail system, you don't have to administer your own telecom staff, and you can let the wireless company worry about upgrades and maintenance.
It's not my opinion that a director adds nothing to the film. I just don't think anyone should think that they have to experience a work of art the way an artist intended.
"If you accept the logical premise that cutting out parts of the film is analagous to adding noise (read; static) one, I think, without resorting to argument over opinion, quantitatively and conclusively say that less static is 'better.'"
Actually, the problem is that your premise is not necessarily logical, and rather is a matter of opinion. While most reasonable people may have the same opinion (myself included) would agree it's better to leave a film intact, it's still a reasonable point to make an argument over. In a related example, you'd think that less THD in audio amplifiers is "better". But in some cases, listeners comparing amplifiers (tube vs. transistor, for example) actually find that they prefer the amplifier that distorts more. So does this mean they've done something "wrong"? Perhaps the artist intended that the track should only be listened to on a particular transistor amplifier and with a certain set of speakers. I'd argue that the artist's intent has no bearing on an individual's enjoyment of the art.
We're talking about entirely two different things here. Art is not destroyed by modifying a COPY of the original. Rather, if anything, new art is being created. If I take a Picasso painting and cut it into pieces, perhaps for making a puzzle, is this some sort of sacrilege? I doubt it. I'm not storming a studio and destroying the original. I'm just saying that I should be able to view a movie the way I want to. If I like to watch a movie standing on my head, is this wrong because I'm not watching it the way the director intended? Or what if I just burn a DVD for myself and cut out some tiresome chase scenes?
"...it's cutting off sizeable chunks of what the director intended you to see."
I don't understand why there is all this furor over "what the director intended". Really, who cares what the director intended? If you're interested in your own viewing pleasure, the movie should be watched in the way that is most enjoyable to you and not the director. If that means 16:9 for you, then great. But just because a director may have "intended" for something to be seen a certain way doesn't mean that he/she knows how the audience will want to see it. Nobody has to tell me what I like and don't like.
Who knows. Maybe Kubrick would be all the more profound if you only watched half the picture.
Yes. It might not be a bad idea to side-step the issue and just leave planet as an ambiguous term. Another nomenclature can be devised for greater precision where it's needed.
My Palm III was stolen by Calgary airport security. They require every bit of electronics to be turned on before it goes through the security checkpoint, and the batteries were dead on my Palm. I had enough time to either 1) catch the last flight out or 2) buy some batteries to liberate my Palm. I chose the former. Given that the batteries were dead you can figure how much I was using that PDA anyway.
The whole "turn it on" thing at airport security always irked me. Seems like false security. I mean, how hard is it to generate a static video signal and wire it to the display? At least they don't do it in the US any more.
If it's going to get bigger for phones, it's got to be faster. Have you ever tried to use one of these T68s? It takes 15 seconds to bring up the phone book.
Why not? Some folks fix up their civics, others work on their computer cases. Nothing wrong with a little creativity--Let the people have their little corner of individuality in a mass-produced world.:^)
I'm not sure whether it's the cable, connector, or the lack of termination in the standard but IDE is notoriously bad. There's a reason they're limited to 18 inches--the reactance of longer cables would be unmanageable without termination.
Can't you just do;, t, a, yourstringhere then maybe hit z? Just won't let you recurse folder structures as far as I can tell. Make sure you have your aggregate command set turned on.
If you get quick with this you'll have no problem sorting and filing your mail in seconds flat. ; t a f yourname a s Foldername. Or use tab completion and save yourself the keystrokes on the foldername. Or change the selection criteria to whatever you need.
Eventually we'll probably see analogs to pre-paid plans, peak and off-peak rates, etc. The only difficulty is knowing how big a web page is before you download it.
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Man, AIM is a piece of crap. It doesn't even allow for message logging, let alone delving into the innovative (like Yahoo! Messenger's IMVironments). The only reason I can see to use AIM is that some of my friends are still using it. I figure this story eventually won't even be relevant: forced to use the AIM interface, nobody will want to continue using such a backwards IM client.
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Funny... I thought it would be playing Vanilla Ice. "Yo VIP, let's kick it!"
Yes, perhaps you don't absolutely have to now, but I don't think anyone will build an office without phone lines for at least 5 years.... IP telephony needs to become more common than traditional phone products first.
Can't afford cell phones for every worker? How much does it cost to set up a land line for every worker? I'm curious to see some actual figures since it seems like setting up wired phones would be rather expensive. There's the cost of your own voicemail software, salaries for whatever staff maintains your phone system, the line leases themselves, long distance charges, equipment, etc. In new offices you even have to figure in the cost of running the wire. (At some point in the distant future, perhaps we won't need to run phone wire everywhere in the office?)
If you try leasing a single office, a single line with voicemail etc. is about $110/month.
Of course the downside to wireless is that it's less reliable, but you get a worry-free voicemail system, you don't have to administer your own telecom staff, and you can let the wireless company worry about upgrades and maintenance.
$15.00/3 years? lawsuitsfromthegrave.com is still available ;-)
--baldeep
you do not talk about mad scientist club!
Yes, I don't have access to the studio master. But I still have access to the original DVD I bought.
Yeah, we're pretty much in agreement I think.
It's not my opinion that a director adds nothing to the film. I just don't think anyone should think that they have to experience a work of art the way an artist intended.
Actually, the problem is that your premise is not necessarily logical, and rather is a matter of opinion. While most reasonable people may have the same opinion (myself included) would agree it's better to leave a film intact, it's still a reasonable point to make an argument over. In a related example, you'd think that less THD in audio amplifiers is "better". But in some cases, listeners comparing amplifiers (tube vs. transistor, for example) actually find that they prefer the amplifier that distorts more. So does this mean they've done something "wrong"? Perhaps the artist intended that the track should only be listened to on a particular transistor amplifier and with a certain set of speakers. I'd argue that the artist's intent has no bearing on an individual's enjoyment of the art.
We're talking about entirely two different things here. Art is not destroyed by modifying a COPY of the original. Rather, if anything, new art is being created. If I take a Picasso painting and cut it into pieces, perhaps for making a puzzle, is this some sort of sacrilege? I doubt it. I'm not storming a studio and destroying the original. I'm just saying that I should be able to view a movie the way I want to. If I like to watch a movie standing on my head, is this wrong because I'm not watching it the way the director intended? Or what if I just burn a DVD for myself and cut out some tiresome chase scenes?
I don't understand why there is all this furor over "what the director intended". Really, who cares what the director intended? If you're interested in your own viewing pleasure, the movie should be watched in the way that is most enjoyable to you and not the director. If that means 16:9 for you, then great. But just because a director may have "intended" for something to be seen a certain way doesn't mean that he/she knows how the audience will want to see it. Nobody has to tell me what I like and don't like.
Who knows. Maybe Kubrick would be all the more profound if you only watched half the picture.
My point? Preaching preferences is pointless.
Yes. It might not be a bad idea to side-step the issue and just leave planet as an ambiguous term. Another nomenclature can be devised for greater precision where it's needed.
My Palm III was stolen by Calgary airport security. They require every bit of electronics to be turned on before it goes through the security checkpoint, and the batteries were dead on my Palm. I had enough time to either 1) catch the last flight out or 2) buy some batteries to liberate my Palm. I chose the former. Given that the batteries were dead you can figure how much I was using that PDA anyway.
The whole "turn it on" thing at airport security always irked me. Seems like false security. I mean, how hard is it to generate a static video signal and wire it to the display? At least they don't do it in the US any more.
Hmm, maybe my sources were wrong. How do you know this?
If it's going to get bigger for phones, it's got to be faster. Have you ever tried to use one of these T68s? It takes 15 seconds to bring up the phone book.
I'd take that over "Cal-Poly-what??"
Ever read Robert Axelrod? Evolution of Cooperation? He ran an experiment very similar to yours.
Here, have a non-sponsored Amazon link.
--baldeep
Why not? Some folks fix up their civics, others work on their computer cases. Nothing wrong with a little creativity--Let the people have their little corner of individuality in a mass-produced world. :^)
Yeah. It's obvious someone just threw together a website to try to get $100 license fees from silly speculators.
It might be easier if we switched from 60Hz to something around 20kHz.
I'm not sure whether it's the cable, connector, or the lack of termination in the standard but IDE is notoriously bad. There's a reason they're limited to 18 inches--the reactance of longer cables would be unmanageable without termination.
Can't you just do ;, t, a, yourstringhere then maybe hit z? Just won't let you recurse folder structures as far as I can tell. Make sure you have your aggregate command set turned on.
If you get quick with this you'll have no problem sorting and filing your mail in seconds flat. ; t a f yourname a s Foldername. Or use tab completion and save yourself the keystrokes on the foldername. Or change the selection criteria to whatever you need.
Yeah, just like with mobile phones.
Eventually we'll probably see analogs to pre-paid plans, peak and off-peak rates, etc. The only difficulty is knowing how big a web page is before you download it.
Man, AIM is a piece of crap. It doesn't even allow for message logging, let alone delving into the innovative (like Yahoo! Messenger's IMVironments). The only reason I can see to use AIM is that some of my friends are still using it. I figure this story eventually won't even be relevant: forced to use the AIM interface, nobody will want to continue using such a backwards IM client.
That would be KPMG Consulting, not KPMG. (Two different companies).
I can't help but wonder... how much time until "slashdot effect" becomes a mainstream word?
It already is.
Uh, yeah. FM also tolerates noise better since it's more difficult to corrupt the frequency of a radio wave than it is to corrupt the amplitude.