Why does this remind me of the spoof commercial I saw somewhere for the 12 blade facial razor, for the ultimate in close shaves? The thing looked like a damn textbook attached to a Bic razor handle. 62 speakers sound like extreme overkill in any environment outside a professional theater.
And never mind this is a completely digitally produced picture, with all sound coming from in the studio/electronics somewhere.
The 302 and 350 cubic inch V8s (5 & 5.7 litres respectively) were far more common than the 400s or 427s. Your point still stands IMO. Though the double-whammy of fuel prices and increased safety standards didn't help Detroit out either.
True, 289, 327, 330, 351, etc. were common, but the flagships were driven by 454 (Chevy), 455 Olds, 430 (Buick), 400, 429 (Ford), 500.1 (Cadillac). Such focus on multi cores and large memory resources to hand the shear bloat of operating system and applications -- if it weren't for an operating system which tries so hard to be all and do all, the market would have been more focused upon lower current draw / tighter code / better peformance, but all Microsoft and their buddies were doing were selling us more demand upon resources. That's fine, if your work requires massive resources, but many people don't. With the web and a few apps some people get everything done without needing a big machine.
It's entertaining, in some ways, but sad in others. I'm sure someone at IBM is looking at Microsoft, in light of how the PC eclipsed the mainframe, and thinking "Didn't see it coming, did you?"
The universe is suddenly replaced with something more inexplicable.
Just goes to show, we're not half clever enough to figure out how everything happens and what really is possible when you are talking about billyuns and billyuns of stars.
On the other hand, this keeps astrophysicists theorising and arguing for years! Like having to explain what '42' could mean by a couple of philosophers who went on to futures beyond their wildest dreams.
"Sources close to Microsoft have told us that the software giant built Surface because it was unhappy with the way its traditional partners [such as HP and Dell] weren't innovating around its next-generation operating system."
I wonder why manufacturers might not be "innovating around" windows mobile, or whatever they call it these days. Because there isn't any demand...? Because MS is 5 years too late to the party...?
cough PCs are commodity resources cough
Seriously, this is like 1973, but with tablets and phones rather than cars - price of gas suddenly goes sky high (from 0.25$US/gallon to about 1.30$US/gallon, shortages abound) the GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Motoros only focused on big V8 engines (think 6L or more displacement) Meanwhile the automakers of the rest of the world, who made cars which could stretch a gallon to 25 or more miles ate their lunch. Took about 10 years for Detroit to sort their junk out.
PCs have been more cores, more clock, more memory, but basically the same old sh*t operating system, just more confusing from release to release. Then the iPhone shows up and reveals not everyone is in love with being chained to a desktop or laptop (which can only choke out a few hours on battery.) Paradigm change.
Early Win XP tablets are clunky and problematic, because the operating system isn't geared to the interface. Most tablets are useless without a keyboard. Then the iPad launches and people find they don't need no steenking keyboard (though still nice to have sometimes, it's not entirely necessary.)
Now the war is in full swing between Google and Apple, which have trampled the laptop and desktop markets, largely because people want to be more portable and more mobile. And there are loads of apps which work great, Android promotes development more openly than Apple. And Microsoft has no answer but some abandoned Slate thingie.
Lot of water under the bridge and now iOS and Android rule the roost, with large customer bases, app stores, consumer acceptance (even lust in some cases.) Microsoft thinks they're going to walk in with these things and get it right on the first try, because their OEM buds were dropping the ball? Not quite.
Fewer people need Microsoft and many are happy to be free of that enigmatic and often incompetent company (Hey, what's a few security holes here and there? How about a few botched OS releases?) Honestly, adios MS.
Not for much longer - they're moving all their manufacturing to China in desperate attempt to remain competitive. Might be too late for them.
Horrible mess for Microsoft, if they bought them. More likely they'll just wait for the fire sale and see what they can get -- though if it's liquidation the may find the choice bits have more competition for bidders.
Don't see why not. The dev tools are the same, the OS at least at the app layer is identical or nearly so. Assuming people like Surface I'm sure a Surface Phone version wouldn't be that hard to fire out.
And with enough mortar you could build a house out of them.
This is true. I think Microsoft realizes that they need to have a mobile OS that actually has some demand before they erect a manufacturing operation.
Part of their strategy is probably around this half tablet, half laptop supposedly driving demand toward the mobile OS - they think people who are largely using Android or iOS will be floored by the Surface, buy one, and then want to replace their other devices so they all work with Windows...?
Not bloody likely.
Further, iOS and Android are generations ahead of Microsoft -- they're settling down, with comfortably large app bases. Microsoft owners will have to go through all that terrain and waiting to see what works well and not well and what gets improved by MS, the same company which can take MONTHS to issue patches to known exploits. MS has to be far more quick to upgrade, patch and address issues because they're alreay starting at least two years behind, if not more.
As for an owner, you'll be attracted if the price is right (read: CHEAP), otherwise you'd much rather be using what everyone else is. Microsoft missed the boat and it'll be having a hell of a time attracting any real customer base. It's effectively the Zune all over again.
MIGHT have ice....anywhere from 0-22%....inconclusive results which suggest further study is needed to figure out where in this range it really is.
Sure plays havoc with my feedble understanding of chemistry, physics and time. That ice has to have been there for hundreds of millions of years. Yet it didn't sublimate in that time.
Also, is this just like the Courier or will we one day actually see these devices like the Zune?
Pronounce it "SURF-ASS" then, from the sounds of it you could use it as a surfboard anyway.
Late to the party and with a half-cocked solution of Windows on TWO plaftorms (ARM & x86) this is sure to sow confusion.. but that's the Microsoft way, right? Honestly, they got this whole thing WRONG years ago with tablets running XP (I have one, slow only begins to describe it, quirky and hard to work with) So why put a desktop/laptop OS on a tablet AGAIN? Ah, so when it conks out you can still use it as a boogie board.
This should have been a law a while ago. Not because sugary drinks are bad for you but because I don't want the guy sitting next to me having to decide between going to the bathroom (and disturbing my viewing experience) and pissing his pants (and disturbing my viewing experience.) Any drink, sweet or otherwise, should be limited to courtesy-cup size out of respect for other theatergoers alone.
Complete mystery to me where these sizes come from. Why not charge the same for half as much? Honestly, it could be Safeway Cola for all the audience cares, they're in the theatre for the movie, not for the "quality of life argument" of Coke or Pepsi.
Geez, would you look at that monster eating all those overweight people, it has no concern for its own health! There oughta be a law!
I love this. They charge a premium for 3D that half of everybody hates. Now they'd like to charge another premium for 3D that will suck a bit less.
I look forward to the next article bleating about the mysterious decline in box office attendance. What could it possibly be?
Won't happen. People are cattle and will go to the theatre to watch films which are utter pants, why should they stop because the price inched up a couple more dollars?
It's really a matter of the cinemas own survival that they need to move past the old technology to digital projection systems, particularly those which are capable of 48fps, 3D. The flicker in one film I watched in the past few months, as the camera panned a cityscape at night, was HORRIBLE, seriously. Television has been using 30fps for decades, now everyone wants to go to 60 fps, I imagine to remove flicker and achieve seemless transition from frame to frame. Cinema has to get out of the old 24fps technology as it's laughable when they film digitally in 24fps and try to project it.. like those dang curveballs on TV where you can't see the path of the ball, as an old vidicon captured (with blur effect), but you can see it in perfect detail from position to position (one reason I can't stand to watch sports done with digital imaging.) So, suck it up. Your optics should remain the same, you just need to replace the projection unit.
I bet the clearance interviews are interesting and probably resemble a job interview. Have fun with the EQIP form!
RESUME
IMA HACKER
221 C BREAKER ST
LONDON, OH
Hai! I hakked vidio gamez, mobile fones, ipadz, and, can crack most browzers easly with some scriptz. Hire me or mi botnet will dsetroy you're company!
MEMO: Ms. Swanson, hire this one, let's see what she can really do. Starting salary $90,000.
I don't much mind if a private company profits on it. That's not a bad thing.
Just so long as the job gets done properly, it doesn't cost us more and we can fire a company that does it poorly. Because it's clear that's not something the government can manage.
BIG newspaper headlines, or lack thereof aside, how are you going to know they're doing a good job? Government monitoring for compliance... gee, might as well just leave it where it is. My problem is most of what they are doing is unproductive. All these scanners and pat-downs. Hire some smarter people, pay them better, promote those who do a good job when unannounced testing happens and they catch things.
No more security. Put the doors to the cockpit on the OUTSIDE of the plane. Give all passengers a large knife.
The plane WILL be going to its destination. guaranteed. any terrorists pop up in flight.. well. we have garbage bags.
Problem solved. Dirt cheap. And we can even reuse the knives.
Take off and landing is the only part the pilot plays now. Small matter of having remotely-flown jets if their hijacked. The plan becomes less clear, which results in a lot of spineless back-seaters not wanting to be responsible for the outcome of a decision, when you have someone claiming to have a bomb on board and want the jet diverted. Defy them, call their bluff and it goes off.. we won't hear the end of it for over a decade.
Nothing radical about privatizing stuff which should remain in the government, though run much better than it currently is, it's typical of the right side of the aisle.
What I worry about is when our safety is a matter of profit for someone, perhaps eyeing a new house or boat or something.
Sad how disfunctional goverhment has become since 1999. It's all about posturing and then getting as much for your campaign donors as you can get. Hard to believe we once had a pretty effective government, split between parties, in Washington DC in the mid to late nineties. Even with their faults considered they did a pretty darn good job. Recovering from the innattention of the one-party dominated government of the early to late 2000's decade is taking a back seat to playing more divisive politices than ever. Opportunity lost.
It can snap you out of an infinite brain loop though. I've lost count of the number of times I've been stuck on a problem, but solved it pretty quickly after having a smoke. Ditto alcohol, adrenalin and caffeine, anything to get your brain out of the rut it's in. I've also had some insights while using the strongest hallucinogen known, dreaming. Agreed, being perpetually stoned isn't going to help in the long run, but many people working on logic based problems will admit to moderate drug use when they hit a mental block.
Not really. The spooks want to attack the platform the enemy is using and will have high value in comprimising.
Linux and Mac computers don't manage the SCADA system in Iran's enrichment plants, nor do their military commanders, bureaucrats, and etc. use Linux or Mac computers on a day to day basis.
Both Linux and Mac OS have had their share of embarrassing exploits.
That's the point. If all these developers are going to hack for $$$, without risk of going to the pokey, that's that many less who will be sitting around hacking Mac or Linux. Besides, Stuxnet succeeded because idiotic Iran bought a load of commodity PCs all loaded up with Windows and didn't have a lick of sense to isolate them from the outside world. If they had any competency they'd stay away from commodity garbage and be using dedicated hardware with specifically coded firmware, for the job, not a load of boxes which can run office, games, web browsers, play music or video, etc, on something as critical as a Nuclear Centrifuge.. geez, that's just amazing they did that. Probably coded all their controling software in VB, too.
Who would better know how to defend against these attacks than someone who knows how to develop and implement them?
How about people with enough sense to write code which sits there, unobtrusively doing nothing, until such time as it is called upon to do its dirty work? These are the people you want, not just someone who knows today's weakness, which may not be there tomorrow.
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Nethack 3D! 8^)
let's see sound fee on top the 3d fee ontop of others fees and do you want a $4 coke with that?
You throw a bug into it and they knock half off when you show them the cockroach doing the backstroke.
But it's still full price for the popcorn with genuine simulated butter kinda-sorta-flavored grease which puts you in mind of melted crayons
Why does this remind me of the spoof commercial I saw somewhere for the 12 blade facial razor, for the ultimate in close shaves? The thing looked like a damn textbook attached to a Bic razor handle. 62 speakers sound like extreme overkill in any environment outside a professional theater.
And never mind this is a completely digitally produced picture, with all sound coming from in the studio/electronics somewhere.
To prevent another run on UK banks.
The 302 and 350 cubic inch V8s (5 & 5.7 litres respectively) were far more common than the 400s or 427s. Your point still stands IMO. Though the double-whammy of fuel prices and increased safety standards didn't help Detroit out either.
True, 289, 327, 330, 351, etc. were common, but the flagships were driven by 454 (Chevy), 455 Olds, 430 (Buick), 400, 429 (Ford), 500.1 (Cadillac). Such focus on multi cores and large memory resources to hand the shear bloat of operating system and applications -- if it weren't for an operating system which tries so hard to be all and do all, the market would have been more focused upon lower current draw / tighter code / better peformance, but all Microsoft and their buddies were doing were selling us more demand upon resources. That's fine, if your work requires massive resources, but many people don't. With the web and a few apps some people get everything done without needing a big machine.
It's entertaining, in some ways, but sad in others. I'm sure someone at IBM is looking at Microsoft, in light of how the PC eclipsed the mainframe, and thinking "Didn't see it coming, did you?"
The universe is suddenly replaced with something more inexplicable.
Just goes to show, we're not half clever enough to figure out how everything happens and what really is possible when you are talking about billyuns and billyuns of stars.
On the other hand, this keeps astrophysicists theorising and arguing for years! Like having to explain what '42' could mean by a couple of philosophers who went on to futures beyond their wildest dreams.
Sure does beat predictable, doesn't it? (c:
"Sources close to Microsoft have told us that the software giant built Surface because it was unhappy with the way its traditional partners [such as HP and Dell] weren't innovating around its next-generation operating system."
I wonder why manufacturers might not be "innovating around" windows mobile, or whatever they call it these days. Because there isn't any demand...? Because MS is 5 years too late to the party...?
cough PCs are commodity resources cough
Seriously, this is like 1973, but with tablets and phones rather than cars - price of gas suddenly goes sky high (from 0.25$US/gallon to about 1.30$US/gallon, shortages abound) the GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Motoros only focused on big V8 engines (think 6L or more displacement) Meanwhile the automakers of the rest of the world, who made cars which could stretch a gallon to 25 or more miles ate their lunch. Took about 10 years for Detroit to sort their junk out.
PCs have been more cores, more clock, more memory, but basically the same old sh*t operating system, just more confusing from release to release. Then the iPhone shows up and reveals not everyone is in love with being chained to a desktop or laptop (which can only choke out a few hours on battery.) Paradigm change.
Early Win XP tablets are clunky and problematic, because the operating system isn't geared to the interface. Most tablets are useless without a keyboard. Then the iPad launches and people find they don't need no steenking keyboard (though still nice to have sometimes, it's not entirely necessary.)
Now the war is in full swing between Google and Apple, which have trampled the laptop and desktop markets, largely because people want to be more portable and more mobile. And there are loads of apps which work great, Android promotes development more openly than Apple. And Microsoft has no answer but some abandoned Slate thingie.
Lot of water under the bridge and now iOS and Android rule the roost, with large customer bases, app stores, consumer acceptance (even lust in some cases.) Microsoft thinks they're going to walk in with these things and get it right on the first try, because their OEM buds were dropping the ball? Not quite.
Fewer people need Microsoft and many are happy to be free of that enigmatic and often incompetent company (Hey, what's a few security holes here and there? How about a few botched OS releases?) Honestly, adios MS.
Maybe it's a Finnish thing.
Not for much longer - they're moving all their manufacturing to China in desperate attempt to remain competitive. Might be too late for them.
Horrible mess for Microsoft, if they bought them. More likely they'll just wait for the fire sale and see what they can get -- though if it's liquidation the may find the choice bits have more competition for bidders.
Don't see why not. The dev tools are the same, the OS at least at the app layer is identical or nearly so. Assuming people like Surface I'm sure a Surface Phone version wouldn't be that hard to fire out.
And with enough mortar you could build a house out of them.
This is true. I think Microsoft realizes that they need to have a mobile OS that actually has some demand before they erect a manufacturing operation.
Part of their strategy is probably around this half tablet, half laptop supposedly driving demand toward the mobile OS - they think people who are largely using Android or iOS will be floored by the Surface, buy one, and then want to replace their other devices so they all work with Windows...?
Not bloody likely.
Further, iOS and Android are generations ahead of Microsoft -- they're settling down, with comfortably large app bases. Microsoft owners will have to go through all that terrain and waiting to see what works well and not well and what gets improved by MS, the same company which can take MONTHS to issue patches to known exploits. MS has to be far more quick to upgrade, patch and address issues because they're alreay starting at least two years behind, if not more.
As for an owner, you'll be attracted if the price is right (read: CHEAP), otherwise you'd much rather be using what everyone else is. Microsoft missed the boat and it'll be having a hell of a time attracting any real customer base. It's effectively the Zune all over again.
MIGHT have ice....anywhere from 0-22%....inconclusive results which suggest further study is needed to figure out where in this range it really is.
Sure plays havoc with my feedble understanding of chemistry, physics and time. That ice has to have been there for hundreds of millions of years. Yet it didn't sublimate in that time.
The very first Lego device to be slashdotted
Waiting for the first Lego Botnet...
Isn't "Surface" the name of their SDK for both devices and Windows 7 computers that's been available since 2009?
Also, is this just like the Courier or will we one day actually see these devices like the Zune?
Pronounce it "SURF-ASS" then, from the sounds of it you could use it as a surfboard anyway.
Late to the party and with a half-cocked solution of Windows on TWO plaftorms (ARM & x86) this is sure to sow confusion .. but that's the Microsoft way, right? Honestly, they got this whole thing WRONG years ago with tablets running XP (I have one, slow only begins to describe it, quirky and hard to work with) So why put a desktop/laptop OS on a tablet AGAIN? Ah, so when it conks out you can still use it as a boogie board.
They should do a deal with Microsoft. Then they could have Badabing.
Yes, and... to increase the chances for the deal, they should feature more their co-national Boom in their ads.
Nah, just need one of those great battery suppliers - phone/tablet go BOOM and then they gets all kinds free press! 8^)
This should have been a law a while ago. Not because sugary drinks are bad for you but because I don't want the guy sitting next to me having to decide between going to the bathroom (and disturbing my viewing experience) and pissing his pants (and disturbing my viewing experience.) Any drink, sweet or otherwise, should be limited to courtesy-cup size out of respect for other theatergoers alone.
Complete mystery to me where these sizes come from. Why not charge the same for half as much? Honestly, it could be Safeway Cola for all the audience cares, they're in the theatre for the movie, not for the "quality of life argument" of Coke or Pepsi.
Geez, would you look at that monster eating all those overweight people, it has no concern for its own health! There oughta be a law!
This will totally work, because there is no place else to launch a rocket except within the continental US.
Right.
In other news: Somolian Space Pirates increase launches
I knew it! Theater managers are one-eyed pirates with wooden legs!
Nah, that's only when they charge you $10 for a bucket of popcorn and 32 oz cup of fizzy sugar water.
I love this. They charge a premium for 3D that half of everybody hates. Now they'd like to charge another premium for 3D that will suck a bit less.
I look forward to the next article bleating about the mysterious decline in box office attendance. What could it possibly be?
Won't happen. People are cattle and will go to the theatre to watch films which are utter pants, why should they stop because the price inched up a couple more dollars?
It's really a matter of the cinemas own survival that they need to move past the old technology to digital projection systems, particularly those which are capable of 48fps, 3D. The flicker in one film I watched in the past few months, as the camera panned a cityscape at night, was HORRIBLE, seriously. Television has been using 30fps for decades, now everyone wants to go to 60 fps, I imagine to remove flicker and achieve seemless transition from frame to frame. Cinema has to get out of the old 24fps technology as it's laughable when they film digitally in 24fps and try to project it .. like those dang curveballs on TV where you can't see the path of the ball, as an old vidicon captured (with blur effect), but you can see it in perfect detail from position to position (one reason I can't stand to watch sports done with digital imaging.) So, suck it up. Your optics should remain the same, you just need to replace the projection unit.
I bet the clearance interviews are interesting and probably resemble a job interview. Have fun with the EQIP form!
RESUME
IMA HACKER
221 C BREAKER ST
LONDON, OH
Hai! I hakked vidio gamez, mobile fones, ipadz, and, can crack most browzers easly with some scriptz. Hire me or mi botnet will dsetroy you're company!
MEMO: Ms. Swanson, hire this one, let's see what she can really do. Starting salary $90,000.
I don't much mind if a private company profits on it. That's not a bad thing.
Just so long as the job gets done properly, it doesn't cost us more and we can fire a company that does it poorly. Because it's clear that's not something the government can manage.
BIG newspaper headlines, or lack thereof aside, how are you going to know they're doing a good job? Government monitoring for compliance... gee, might as well just leave it where it is. My problem is most of what they are doing is unproductive. All these scanners and pat-downs. Hire some smarter people, pay them better, promote those who do a good job when unannounced testing happens and they catch things.
No more security.
Put the doors to the cockpit on the OUTSIDE of the plane.
Give all passengers a large knife.
The plane WILL be going to its destination. guaranteed. any terrorists pop up in flight.. well. we have garbage bags.
Problem solved. Dirt cheap. And we can even reuse the knives.
Take off and landing is the only part the pilot plays now. Small matter of having remotely-flown jets if their hijacked. The plan becomes less clear, which results in a lot of spineless back-seaters not wanting to be responsible for the outcome of a decision, when you have someone claiming to have a bomb on board and want the jet diverted. Defy them, call their bluff and it goes off .. we won't hear the end of it for over a decade.
Nothing radical about privatizing stuff which should remain in the government, though run much better than it currently is, it's typical of the right side of the aisle.
What I worry about is when our safety is a matter of profit for someone, perhaps eyeing a new house or boat or something.
Sad how disfunctional goverhment has become since 1999. It's all about posturing and then getting as much for your campaign donors as you can get. Hard to believe we once had a pretty effective government, split between parties, in Washington DC in the mid to late nineties. Even with their faults considered they did a pretty darn good job. Recovering from the innattention of the one-party dominated government of the early to late 2000's decade is taking a back seat to playing more divisive politices than ever. Opportunity lost.
It can snap you out of an infinite brain loop though. I've lost count of the number of times I've been stuck on a problem, but solved it pretty quickly after having a smoke. Ditto alcohol, adrenalin and caffeine, anything to get your brain out of the rut it's in. I've also had some insights while using the strongest hallucinogen known, dreaming. Agreed, being perpetually stoned isn't going to help in the long run, but many people working on logic based problems will admit to moderate drug use when they hit a mental block.
And here I was just going out for a walk...
Not really. The spooks want to attack the platform the enemy is using and will have high value in comprimising.
Linux and Mac computers don't manage the SCADA system in Iran's enrichment plants, nor do their military commanders, bureaucrats, and etc. use Linux or Mac computers on a day to day basis.
Both Linux and Mac OS have had their share of embarrassing exploits.
That's the point. If all these developers are going to hack for $$$, without risk of going to the pokey, that's that many less who will be sitting around hacking Mac or Linux. Besides, Stuxnet succeeded because idiotic Iran bought a load of commodity PCs all loaded up with Windows and didn't have a lick of sense to isolate them from the outside world. If they had any competency they'd stay away from commodity garbage and be using dedicated hardware with specifically coded firmware, for the job, not a load of boxes which can run office, games, web browsers, play music or video, etc, on something as critical as a Nuclear Centrifuge .. geez, that's just amazing they did that. Probably coded all their controling software in VB, too.
Who would better know how to defend against these attacks than someone who knows how to develop and implement them?
How about people with enough sense to write code which sits there, unobtrusively doing nothing, until such time as it is called upon to do its dirty work? These are the people you want, not just someone who knows today's weakness, which may not be there tomorrow.