They have a bilion people to move around bilions of square km's and they build a 20 mile line for 600 people?
I live in the Netherlands, and over here they will not build a maglev from one side of the country to the other because the distance is to short! Thats 300 km! (Yes, I know, small country:-) )
To have "terminator glasses" you would still need some backlight. This is available plenty in the daytime, but how will you organise a readable display at night?
Same thing goes for car windshields, window panes etc. As long as these objects do not produce light on their own, You will still have problems like this.
Of course, HUD's are fun stuff, and there is existing technology to have them, but that's another story...
It looks like these are all US examples. I have not yet heard of these things in europe or my own country (the netherlands). Is it going on over here as well?
Furthermore I would like to congratulate Jon Katz by once again filling my screen top to beyond bottom. I would be happy to find a course in compact writing for you.
... and because they used open source, there was a backdoor, and nobody would ever find out. So the prince switched to Windoze and lived happily ever after
I posted it because I wanted to know. I thought it would probably be the case but I was not sure. I learn the most by asking "stupid questions". Just because there are always people around who know more or who think differently.
Seeing the different reactions taught me that:
There are more lines of reasoning then just the one I postulated
People tend to react on something I already stated: this could be a stupid question
I can immagine you are supprised this got modded up. So was I. However, simple questions by people who want to check their assumptions in order to gain deeper understanding are not trolls. Maybe they should be modded up, since they show that what is clear to the majority of/. is not neccesarily clear to all.
if they claim they can heve the same quality in half the data, does this also maen they have better quality in the same ammount of data?, e.g. is this going to improve the quality of a 128 kbps compression?
We control computers with our eyes (see recent article). We control computers with our brainwaves. All I am waiting for now is controling computers with my earlobes.
From the marketing angle, this does not make sense. Effort in online marketing should be spent on permission e-mailing (NOT spamming, certainly not!!), affiliate programs and syndicating. These are proven to be the most valuable means of attracting customers, as opposed to attracting their attention and the losing them 'cause you annoyed them. The last seems to be the risk in the desribed new approaches, and it seems more likely customers will boycott you instaed of buying your product.
This supposedly is invented since bannering is dead. But it isn't, really!! Bannering is much cheaper in cost per mille than conventional (off-line) communications media!. The clickthrough ratios have only fallen because there was more offered. A TV commercial doesn't have the same effect as it had when there was only one TV-chanel.
If a company would choose to allocate their off-line campaign budget to bannering, they'd make the biggest imptression in internetmarketing so far. If they would spend it on customer-agreeable sollutions (i.e. something the customer actually needed or askd for), they would be the hit of the town!
In online marketing conferences, you see a tendency towards listening to the cusomer more often and not just porting TV or other conventional media methods to the web. Maybe we'll get there someday
Maybe the situation in the US is different from the Netherlands, but I think the principles apply globaly.
Many companies have not used Linux for lots of reasons, but not wanting to be the first was definately one reason. Being first screams "risk".
Now, Shell is setting a "first" in the eye of many uninformed decision makers. Doing this in an environment which has few and very well trained persons working the system makes it relatively "safe", but the example is set anyway: You can use Linux for hassle-free and powerfull computing.
This is just the marketing the linux-community needs to make the break for Linux in the corporate world!
Actually, the process you describe is very advanced and does make human coders look shitty. Otherwise, why do't they use the same model? It's just to complicated and took several years (some bilion and change) to develop, but it's by farv the most code-effective way of making something happen!
Of course, if you count everything Intel stops before shipping, they can make this progress too. But then again, I made a 1 Thz chip. I just recalled it before shipping:-)
If Opera would be true to its name, it would be showing us unwanted Pavarotti and friends. We could do with a bit of extra classical music now, couldn't we? Or is it going to show adds for the Pavarotti CD?
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They have a bilion people to move around bilions of square km's and they build a 20 mile line for 600 people?
:-) )
I live in the Netherlands, and over here they will not build a maglev from one side of the country to the other because the distance is to short! Thats 300 km! (Yes, I know, small country
So now my silent box and I are stuck next to a noisy highway. Now what? Silent cars?
I am already awake in Europe. So are many others. /. is not USA-only.
To have "terminator glasses" you would still need some backlight. This is available plenty in the daytime, but how will you organise a readable display at night?
Same thing goes for car windshields, window panes etc. As long as these objects do not produce light on their own, You will still have problems like this.
Of course, HUD's are fun stuff, and there is existing technology to have them, but that's another story...
Furthermore I would like to congratulate Jon Katz by once again filling my screen top to beyond bottom. I would be happy to find a course in compact writing for you.
Wow, I've gotta tell my boss about this!!
So much for that story. "They" will find it!!
OK, if I had half an ounce of common sense I would have clicked the right reply button, replying to the first comment instead of to my own post
Seeing the different reactions taught me that:
- There are more lines of reasoning then just the one I postulated
- People tend to react on something I already stated: this could be a stupid question
I can immagine you are supprised this got modded up. So was I. However, simple questions by people who want to check their assumptions in order to gain deeper understanding are not trolls. Maybe they should be modded up, since they show that what is clear to the majority ofif they claim they can heve the same quality in half the data, does this also maen they have better quality in the same ammount of data?, e.g. is this going to improve the quality of a 128 kbps compression?
No, it's 600 GB. I know, sorry for my math...
- D-VHS holds 4 hrs of digital video
- 30 min == 75 GB
Does this mean we have a 300GB backup system?Does this mean I'll have to walk through a maze and when I find the application I like, I shoot it?
Seriously, that would be intuitive to lots of people nowadays
We control computers with our eyes (see recent article). We control computers with our brainwaves. All I am waiting for now is controling computers with my earlobes.
And blowing someone skyhigh is just a blink away...
If they fit a M$ box with this, you can't even look at it anymore without crashing it...
Mmmm. So how is this new?From the marketing angle, this does not make sense. Effort in online marketing should be spent on permission e-mailing (NOT spamming, certainly not!!), affiliate programs and syndicating. These are proven to be the most valuable means of attracting customers, as opposed to attracting their attention and the losing them 'cause you annoyed them. The last seems to be the risk in the desribed new approaches, and it seems more likely customers will boycott you instaed of buying your product.
This supposedly is invented since bannering is dead. But it isn't, really!! Bannering is much cheaper in cost per mille than conventional (off-line) communications media!. The clickthrough ratios have only fallen because there was more offered. A TV commercial doesn't have the same effect as it had when there was only one TV-chanel.
If a company would choose to allocate their off-line campaign budget to bannering, they'd make the biggest imptression in internetmarketing so far. If they would spend it on customer-agreeable sollutions (i.e. something the customer actually needed or askd for), they would be the hit of the town!
In online marketing conferences, you see a tendency towards listening to the cusomer more often and not just porting TV or other conventional media methods to the web. Maybe we'll get there someday
Maybe the situation in the US is different from the Netherlands, but I think the principles apply globaly.
Sounds like something Asimov should have written. Sure it's non-fiction??
..also survived a dive from a high building. Maybe it wouldn't have if I'd let go of the cord though. Hmmm.
Many companies have not used Linux for lots of reasons, but not wanting to be the first was definately one reason. Being first screams "risk".
Now, Shell is setting a "first" in the eye of many uninformed decision makers. Doing this in an environment which has few and very well trained persons working the system makes it relatively "safe", but the example is set anyway: You can use Linux for hassle-free and powerfull computing.
This is just the marketing the linux-community needs to make the break for Linux in the corporate world!
So now I could view all of my data in just 1 hr! Some movie, huh!
Actually, the process you describe is very advanced and does make human coders look shitty. Otherwise, why do't they use the same model? It's just to complicated and took several years (some bilion and change) to develop, but it's by farv the most code-effective way of making something happen!
OK, so it's:
:-)
Intel:
2000,5: 1 Ghz
2002 : 2 Ghz
2003,5: 4 Ghz
2005 : 8 Ghz
But also, it's:
AMD:
2000,5: 1,5 Ghz
2002 : 3 Ghz
2003,5: 6 Ghz
2005 : 12 Ghz
Of course, if you count everything Intel stops before shipping, they can make this progress too. But then again, I made a 1 Thz chip. I just recalled it before shipping
If Opera would be true to its name, it would be showing us unwanted Pavarotti and friends. We could do with a bit of extra classical music now, couldn't we? Or is it going to show adds for the Pavarotti CD?
Maybe I can get an account there! Fast Internet would only be my transatlantic phonecall away!
Somebody wake me when they reach Europe, Please?