If we could predict technology that far out, it also implies we could predict the stock market that far out. Given that no one can generally predict a stock even for today, just one day, means this Gartner report exists only to make themselves feel important.
I don't know about tomorrow, but I predict the stock market will be up in 20 years.
Well, the author mentioned that the majority of people had the Segway mastered in about 15 seconds (which I have to admit is pretty amazing, if true).
I had a chance to use one and can say that's fairly accurate. I wouldn't say ldquo;mastered, but it's easy enough that it's hard to call it learning. If you get a chance, give it a try. Useful or no, it's a cool piece of technology.
As a disgruntled former owner of that monitor, I must beg to differ. The one I got and the four that Dell sent me as possible replacements all had alternating brightness (gamma actually) between pixel rows. See a closeup of the screen. After countless hours struggling with Dell tech support I finally got it returned. I went to Amazon and bought a Samsung SyncMaster 213T and am a happy customer.
I have to counteract your raving about Dell's 20" monitor. I had one, got an exchange, another exchange, another exchange, and finally returned it due to its poor image quality. The problem was that alternate pixel rows had different gamma values, so for midtones you get horizontal stripes. This is sometimes incorrectly attributed to the screen-door effect. This is happens on some other 20" LCDs but not on other monitors in the Dell UltraSharp line. For my money, the Samsung SyncMaster 213T is the way to go.
As for latency, the 2001FP does have the lowest you can get for an LCD. Perhaps you could post some timestamped stills from the video you made so as not to overload your server.
For those concerned with image quality, I would not reccomend this. I got one, then, when I saw that every other row of pixels alternated gamma which produces alternating brightness for midtones like this (black arrows point to bright rows). I had Dell sent me a replacement, and another, then I asked for my money back and they sent me another replacement. Then I sent that right back, reiterated my desire for my money; they sent me a fourth replacement (fifth monitor). All five of them behaved this way. After two hours on the phone, I got permission to return my monitor for a refund. I still don't have my refund.
I've since gotten a Samsung SyncMaster 213T from Amazon, which had the best price considering no tax, and free shipping. Unfortunately it was $1056 rather than the $770 that the refurbished Dell did, but the Samsung is beautiful.
Why don't companys offer vomit comit-like flights? At the drop of a hat I would pay $1000 for such an experience. I gather each zero-G arc is similar to a takeoff/landing cycle for the arframe, but still, a company could strip out just one plane to do it, then go city to city offering rides.
Start with an ETA every minute or so. There's nothing worse than "your call is important to us, we'll be with you shortly" every thirty seconds for tens of minutes.
After that, the minimalist in me says just play enough white noise to make it clear that the line isn't dead.
That sounds like textbook ADD symptoms. Treatment may help you to excel traditionally as well as in unconventional, broad ways.
You may be thinking "but I specifically mentioned an ability to direct my attention on things I like", but in fact, that is part of suite the ADD symptoms.
You may not need an SLR. You can get fully-manual digital cameras for less than half the price that take great pictures. I've been very happy with my Canon G3 (4MP). I haven't touched my analog SLR since. I will get a DSLR eventually, but as an amature, it just doesn't make sense at the moment.
The Wikipedia random page is great. Half the time it's a random town, other time it's random people, but then every few days it's something really cool that I never knew before.
Before that, it was news.google.com for a few months, and before that it was Slashdot for many years.
Personally I can't really see how the artwork should fall under open source. They're binary files, right?
Raster graphics are just binary files, but that doesn't mean there's no source. Most raster icons are made with multiple layers and with paths, so a GIMP.xcf file would be the source. Vector graphics generally are already in an editable "source" format.
Set your home page to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage instead of Slashdot.
Sign up for classes. Any classes. Cooking, SCUBA, basket weaving, learn a language, learn a new subject, join a choir.
Now is the time. Carpe Diem.
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Same here. I can hear the three Boxx-brand blades in the other room, and the PC on the desk across from me, and the HVAC, but not the dual 2GHz G5 under my desk. I suspect the poster has a faulty box, or the clear plastic air guide inside is misplaced.
I have only owned a laptop for years, including all of college, and I have to agree. The primary reason, I think, is that I'm not straining to keep my fingers up. Most keyboards slope towards you; you have to pull your fingers and hands back just to keep from pushing a key. This is particularly true with ergonomic keyboards. Laptops are flat, plus have a hand wrest. (On occasion I've propped up the near side of my laptop to relieve strain even more.)
So: Flat. Built-in hand rest at the height of the keytops. No reaching for the mouse. Small keyboard (no reaching).
Also, the idea with the split keyboards is that you don't have to twist your wrists outwards, but I don't see the problem. At my laptop my arms come in at about 22 degrees from center, and my fingers continue in that direction.
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Don't forget hockey, always popular at my alma mater.
If we could predict technology that far out, it also implies we could predict the stock market that far out. Given that no one can generally predict a stock even for today, just one day, means this Gartner report exists only to make themselves feel important.
I don't know about tomorrow, but I predict the stock market will be up in 20 years.
I had a chance to use one and can say that's fairly accurate. I wouldn't say ldquo;mastered, but it's easy enough that it's hard to call it learning. If you get a chance, give it a try. Useful or no, it's a cool piece of technology.
That said, it's the wrong thing for most people.
As a disgruntled former owner of that monitor, I must beg to differ. The one I got and the four that Dell sent me as possible replacements all had alternating brightness (gamma actually) between pixel rows. See a closeup of the screen. After countless hours struggling with Dell tech support I finally got it returned. I went to Amazon and bought a Samsung SyncMaster 213T and am a happy customer.
Bribing Ralph to withdraw
I have to counteract your raving about Dell's 20" monitor. I had one, got an exchange, another exchange, another exchange, and finally returned it due to its poor image quality. The problem was that alternate pixel rows had different gamma values, so for midtones you get horizontal stripes. This is sometimes incorrectly attributed to the screen-door effect. This is happens on some other 20" LCDs but not on other monitors in the Dell UltraSharp line. For my money, the Samsung SyncMaster 213T is the way to go.
As for latency, the 2001FP does have the lowest you can get for an LCD. Perhaps you could post some timestamped stills from the video you made so as not to overload your server.
For those concerned with image quality, I would not reccomend this. I got one, then, when I saw that every other row of pixels alternated gamma which produces alternating brightness for midtones like this (black arrows point to bright rows). I had Dell sent me a replacement, and another, then I asked for my money back and they sent me another replacement. Then I sent that right back, reiterated my desire for my money; they sent me a fourth replacement (fifth monitor). All five of them behaved this way. After two hours on the phone, I got permission to return my monitor for a refund. I still don't have my refund.
I've since gotten a Samsung SyncMaster 213T from Amazon, which had the best price considering no tax, and free shipping. Unfortunately it was $1056 rather than the $770 that the refurbished Dell did, but the Samsung is beautiful.
Bah! Unlike scientists, engineers are bilingual. Just remember, there are about 0.1554slugs of flour in a five-pound bag.
Why don't companys offer vomit comit-like flights? At the drop of a hat I would pay $1000 for such an experience. I gather each zero-G arc is similar to a takeoff/landing cycle for the arframe, but still, a company could strip out just one plane to do it, then go city to city offering rides.
Numerous companys make scientific-grade cooled CCDs for astronomy and microscopy. One of those is probably what you should be using.
Start with an ETA every minute or so. There's nothing worse than "your call is important to us, we'll be with you shortly" every thirty seconds for tens of minutes.
After that, the minimalist in me says just play enough white noise to make it clear that the line isn't dead.
That sounds like textbook ADD symptoms. Treatment may help you to excel traditionally as well as in unconventional, broad ways.
You may be thinking "but I specifically mentioned an ability to direct my attention on things I like", but in fact, that is part of suite the ADD symptoms.
Because raytracing point-samples the scene, so just like polygon rendering you'll get jaggies all around your objects if you don't antialias.
You may not need an SLR. You can get fully-manual digital cameras for less than half the price that take great pictures. I've been very happy with my Canon G3 (4MP). I haven't touched my analog SLR since. I will get a DSLR eventually, but as an amature, it just doesn't make sense at the moment.
If you loose weight, where are you going to go? Down?
This was on the radio last night. See here: http://nextbigthing.org/ (the third item)
The Wikipedia random page is great. Half the time it's a random town, other time it's random people, but then every few days it's something really cool that I never knew before.
Before that, it was news.google.com for a few months, and before that it was Slashdot for many years.
Raster graphics are just binary files, but that doesn't mean there's no source. Most raster icons are made with multiple layers and with paths, so a GIMP
Set your home page to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage instead of Slashdot.
Sign up for classes. Any classes. Cooking, SCUBA, basket weaving, learn a language, learn a new subject, join a choir.
Now is the time. Carpe Diem.
Same here. I can hear the three Boxx-brand blades in the other room, and the PC on the desk across from me, and the HVAC, but not the dual 2GHz G5 under my desk. I suspect the poster has a faulty box, or the clear plastic air guide inside is misplaced.
If you want to use Maya in an advanced way, you do have to study. For example, there's MEL scripting.
--Ben
Let them know.
I have only owned a laptop for years, including all of college, and I have to agree. The primary reason, I think, is that I'm not straining to keep my fingers up. Most keyboards slope towards you; you have to pull your fingers and hands back just to keep from pushing a key. This is particularly true with ergonomic keyboards. Laptops are flat, plus have a hand wrest. (On occasion I've propped up the near side of my laptop to relieve strain even more.)
So:
Flat.
Built-in hand rest at the height of the keytops.
No reaching for the mouse.
Small keyboard (no reaching).
Also, the idea with the split keyboards is that you don't have to twist your wrists outwards, but I don't see the problem. At my laptop my arms come in at about 22 degrees from center, and my fingers continue in that direction.
I agree. There is more than one way to make a Linux distro. One such way is to include only one desktop environment.
Why not just use a USB or FireWire hard drive? I can't imagine a robotic CD system being cheeper or more convenient.