What about putting a bracket coming out of the back/bottom (think of one of those "monitor arms" businesses used to use to keep 15" displays off their desks, but without the swivel). It could clip to your coffee table, leaving you a solid platform to type on, but allow you to hook your fingers under the edges when you use the D-pad.
I doubt that there are enough people that are l33t enough for this to seriously affect Microsoft. It's not not my grandma is going to run Linux/Apache/Etc. on the X-Box; it'll be Slashdot readers and other assorted geeks-- maybe a couple thousand at most. That won't hurt MS too bad, and even if, say, 10,000 people buy an X-Box for this purpose, Microsoft's PR Department can spin it to the game developers as "We sold thousands more units than expected! You should develop for our console instead of Playstation2 or GameCube."
It seems to me that this is an entry level product that won't blow the industry leader out of the water, but a product designed to prove that the company is good/worthy of venture capital/a place other companies' top designers should leave to work at. It reminds me a bit of nVidia's riva 128 four or five years back; not the best thing out there (3dfx) but established nVidia as the second best video card maker, garnering support and helping it get as big as it is today.*
All in all, this is bad news for ATI. They're losing their OEM business to nVidia not only in low cost PC's but in Macs as well. They decided to reinvent themselves with the Radeon's swank environmental bump-mapping and stuff, a high-end 2d card for graphic designers who fired up Quake on the office LAN after hours. This would (they hoped) put them in the #2 spot and help ATI move into the 3d gamer market. But looking at the benchmarks for the Kyro II, the new chip beats the DDR Radeon in several benchmarks, impressive considering the newcomer's lack of T&L rendering. Unless the Kyro has horrible image quality, I would guess ATI is not pleased.
* I realize that Power VR et al have been around for years making chips for consoles and arcade games. So was nVidia before the riva 128; I'm talking about entry into the PC graphics card market.
Um, no. The advantage of being a monopoly is that the company can absorb the risk involved in abstract/theoretical research: if the research lab doesn't create an immediately saleable product, the company won't go under. As a result, Bell's phone monopoly gave us valuable research into operating system structure (UNIX) and packet switched networking (TCP/IP for one). Other research led to conceptual breakthroughs in hypertext indexing systems well before hypercard or the WWW (things like "Superbook" and "WebBook" are closer to Ted Nelson's vision than Berners-Lee's). Similarly, Xerox's position as copy machine leader allowed it to foray into computer research leading to the developments at PARC, centering around ethernet and the modern mouse and CRT based GUI. And regardless of my feelings for Microsoft, their research facilities are some of the best in the world (read some of their RFC's on 3d user interface design). So tech company monopolies can have some benefits, even though they aren't immediately obvious to the consumer.
The problem as I see it is that there is little demand for high speed Internet. Admit it-- we are geeks. I pay $80 a month for DSL, which I have routed to (a) a Linux box, (b) a Win 98 box, (c) a tri-boot Solaris / Win 2000 / BeOS box. I build my own machines and run a web server off one of the above comps. I idle on IRC and download iso's and 600 meg avi files.
On the other hand, my sister uses her HP computer for (a) e-mail, (b) web surfing, (c) AOL instant messanger, and (d) mp3s. She has no idea how to use wsftp, let alone ftp from a command line. Her computer-oriented friend taught her how to telnet to her school's mail, but other than that, she's not particularly l33t.
If she got broadband, it would only affect one of her four main computer activities (mp3 downloading). And since she usually only downloads the latest MTV pop single rather than entire albums, the speed doesn't matter much. The promised "killer app" of streaming video doesn't matter to her; why watch a smallish window on your computer when you can watch TV? Unlike us geeks, to her a computer is only a tool to accomplish a small subset of things, things that can be accomplished without DSL or cable.
For cable and DSL to thrive, the companies have to market it towards people like my sister. In fact, the best ad I saw for broadband was for Media One's cable service a few years ago (this was before they merged with ATT and became Comcast): a young lady on some shopping web site. She picks up the phone and calls her mom. They chat for awhile. Then the woman asks, "mom, I'm on [URL] looking at sweaters. Which do you think will look best on me?" Her mom (offscreen) surfs to the site and renders an opinion. "Thanks, mom. Love you, goodbye."
The important thing wasn't speed or "always on"; it was the ability to talk on the phone while you surf the web. And to do that, you could get a second phone line ($20) and a dial-up ISP ($20) or broadband ($39.95). And, by the way, broadband is faster, always on, etc.
So, to market this whiz-bang-ain't-it'cool technology, we geeks need to better understand Joe and Nancy Consumer better. Once we do this, we create demand for broadband, which will make it profitable for companies, causing it to spread.
we're getting used to fast computer specs, but stop and think about it for a moment: for less than $2000 it's possible to get a 1500 MHz P4, gobs of ram, gobs of fast disk space and still have money left over for a sweet monitor... But at the same time, it's almost impossible to get (consumer priced) broadband above 5 Mbit/sec to the average home in America
Computers are cheap because more people want them, therefore they can be mass produced, bringing the cost of manufacture down. However, broadband is not a manufacturable good the way a PC is; it is an infrastructure, and requires a multimillion (or multibillion) dollar investment up front. Think of it this way: fifteen years ago cellular phones were expensive as hell. Why? Because while you and I and our buddy Bill might want cellular access, very few other people wanted it. It was expensive to erect towers for a cellular network, so the companies limited it to big cities where there were enough potential users for the company to recoup their investment. Small-town people eventually saw the big city users and demanded the way-cool city slicker cell phone service. By this time, the companies not only had the consumers' demand as incentive to move into smaller areas, but they had years' experience in creating and maintaining the infrastructure, so they could roll out the product cheaper. This let them invest in even smaller markets, since they had less to lose. We now have fairly ubiquitous cell phone access in the U.S., though it took some time. I assume that the same will be said of broadband in ten years ("man, this sucks: I live out in the sticks and my ISP only gives me 384k.")
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I think I see where this is going: "Hi nVidia, the company you're buying your fans from ripped off our patented technology. We'll be going after them in court soon and will shut them down. By the way, once they're shut down, where do you plan on getting your fans? Since we invented the technology behind the fans you've been using, maybe you'll install our fans on the thousands of graphic cards you'll be shipping next year. Have your people call my people; we'll do lunch."
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It appears we are in a conundrum. We can manufacture all manner of materials, polluting the environment with waste products. Or we can genetically modify animals to produce goods. Either way, we are doing irreparable harm to the natural world, so which choice to we make? Are we respecting the sanctity of all life more by ruining a habitat or by changing lifeforms' genetic makeups for our benefit? WWBD - What would Buddha do?
The article says that the goats don't actually weave webs (the first thing to cross my mind when I saw the article), but they produce the proteins which are filtered from the milk and are spun into silk by machine. My question is this: In a few years, why will we need the goats? Now that we can produce the proteins in quantity we should have enough to research, which should lead to a technique for artificial synthesis, right? And by artificially synthesizing the protein, we (a) should get a bigger yield (we wouldn't have to have an enormous herd of goats to meet demand), and (b) wouldn't have to worry about many of the ethical questions brought about by genetic modification. Perhaps one of you biochem people could let us know if I'm barking up the wrong tree or just ahead of my time =)
I wouldn't be surprised if the league's top players see this as a springboard to the NFL. I'm specifically thinking of former NFL players like Vaughan Dunbar and John Avery. These two guys could be the XFL rushing leaders this season for small money to prove that they still can play, then be NFL back-ups for a few hundred grand per year.
The cheerleaders actually got very little airtime.
Part of that was because the first games were outdoors at night in February. Sunday's 1 pm game in sunny California more prominently featured scantily-clad cheergirls. Some were attractive and some were overdone silicon-boobified skankmuffins.
This whole "putting your nickname on your jersey" idea is all right, but that "He Hate Me" guy bugs me: if you're going to give yourself a stupid nickname, at least get the grammar right. This will probably start a trend of misspelled jersey nicknames. It might be amusing, however, when some team gets a former Stanford player who goes by the moniker "L33t H4x0r."
45 grand for 4 months of work? Tell the guy who refills your mocha at Starbucks how rough those players have it. I'm sure he will weep for them.
But if he is a step slow in getting you a steaming cup of caffeinated goodness, a 300 pound man-mountain doesn't beat him about the head, shoulders, and neck most savagely.
Actually, I had a Shakespeare teacher a number of years ago who told us that what we thought was some throw-away lines of humor in Romeo and Juliet was actually an exploration of this. In the scene, one of the servants is told a long list of people to invite to a party (IIRC*). He repeats it and leaves. The professor said that Shakespeare's audience would have recognized this as the use of mnemonics to remember lists of things, the 'old way' of remembering, while writing things down was the 'new way'. This exchange, then, played off the tension caused by England moving toward widespread literacy.
Remember the/. article the other day about Brazil rolling out $200 pcs to the poor? This is even better! The Dreamcast is only $99, has a broadband connection, and best of all, it runs UNIX. So not only can the poor surf the web and check their e-mail, but they get the skill set needed to be sysadmins! Talks about escaping from a life of poverty...
I have to disagree with Disch about Mary Shelley not being "real" science fiction. While Frankenstein wasn't hard sf by any streatch of the imagination, it set up certain patterns that would emerge in European (esp. the UK) science fiction. Frankenstein is primarily concerned with the relationship of the individual to the community and ethical questions that concern society at large. These themes were continued in Wells, Huxley, etc. Nathaniel Hawthorne's scifi stories like "Rappaccini's Garden" also fall in this category. However, most American scifi was based on the tradition of low budget serials, e.g. "Steam Man From the Plains," which focuses on the inprobable adventures of a frontier boy and his steam-powered robot. The attitude of self-reliance and coming of age that defined the American West leaked into the American scifi genre and into the short stories published in Hugo Gernsback's "Amazing Stories" and other magazines, which influenced almost all American scifi authors of the first half of the twentieth century.
In short, British/European science fiction is rooted in late Romanticism and is often concerned with the community. American science fiction is formed by a self-reliant streak that was part of the 19th century national character. Neither one is "better" in an objective sense, just different.
I would like to consider software End User Licensing Agreements for a moment. A common criticism of EULAs is that they are included inside the box or in a screen during the install, giving no notice to the consumer that they must enter a contract in order to use it. As a result, the market exchange of money for a good is complete, and any new rights and restrictions cannot be added to the purchase. I'm not sure how far this argument gets in court, but some smart people (tm) seem to think it has merit.
Now in this Juno example, the list of policies (which can change at any time) is on their web page, and by using their service to get online to view this page you are subjecting yourself to any changes that have taken place. When you first use the service, this is legally dubious. However, this seems a bit more complex than the EULA example in that software is a one-time purchase while Juno offers a continuing contract for a service. However, there must be clearly defined boundaries on the contract's duration, and it must be "billed" so a person is (a)informed of the new conditions before s/he continues using the service, and (b)is not subject to the contract conditions once s/he opts out.
Of course I could be wrong on a Brobdignagian scale. Any lawyers care to comment on this?
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What about putting a bracket coming out of the back/bottom (think of one of those "monitor arms" businesses used to use to keep 15" displays off their desks, but without the swivel). It could clip to your coffee table, leaving you a solid platform to type on, but allow you to hook your fingers under the edges when you use the D-pad.
I doubt that there are enough people that are l33t enough for this to seriously affect Microsoft. It's not not my grandma is going to run Linux/Apache/Etc. on the X-Box; it'll be Slashdot readers and other assorted geeks-- maybe a couple thousand at most. That won't hurt MS too bad, and even if, say, 10,000 people buy an X-Box for this purpose, Microsoft's PR Department can spin it to the game developers as "We sold thousands more units than expected! You should develop for our console instead of Playstation2 or GameCube."
All in all, this is bad news for ATI. They're losing their OEM business to nVidia not only in low cost PC's but in Macs as well. They decided to reinvent themselves with the Radeon's swank environmental bump-mapping and stuff, a high-end 2d card for graphic designers who fired up Quake on the office LAN after hours. This would (they hoped) put them in the #2 spot and help ATI move into the 3d gamer market. But looking at the benchmarks for the Kyro II, the new chip beats the DDR Radeon in several benchmarks, impressive considering the newcomer's lack of T&L rendering. Unless the Kyro has horrible image quality, I would guess ATI is not pleased.
* I realize that Power VR et al have been around for years making chips for consoles and arcade games. So was nVidia before the riva 128; I'm talking about entry into the PC graphics card market.
Naw, not really. Consider:
Super Man
aka The Man of Steel. An alien humanoid who wore blue and red and kicked the bejeezus out of the bad guys.
Semi Man
aka Optimus Prime. Made of steel. An alien robot who wore blue and red and kicked the bejeezus out of the bad guys.
Um, no. The advantage of being a monopoly is that the company can absorb the risk involved in abstract/theoretical research: if the research lab doesn't create an immediately saleable product, the company won't go under. As a result, Bell's phone monopoly gave us valuable research into operating system structure (UNIX) and packet switched networking (TCP/IP for one). Other research led to conceptual breakthroughs in hypertext indexing systems well before hypercard or the WWW (things like "Superbook" and "WebBook" are closer to Ted Nelson's vision than Berners-Lee's). Similarly, Xerox's position as copy machine leader allowed it to foray into computer research leading to the developments at PARC, centering around ethernet and the modern mouse and CRT based GUI. And regardless of my feelings for Microsoft, their research facilities are some of the best in the world (read some of their RFC's on 3d user interface design). So tech company monopolies can have some benefits, even though they aren't immediately obvious to the consumer.
On the other hand, my sister uses her HP computer for (a) e-mail, (b) web surfing, (c) AOL instant messanger, and (d) mp3s. She has no idea how to use wsftp, let alone ftp from a command line. Her computer-oriented friend taught her how to telnet to her school's mail, but other than that, she's not particularly l33t.
If she got broadband, it would only affect one of her four main computer activities (mp3 downloading). And since she usually only downloads the latest MTV pop single rather than entire albums, the speed doesn't matter much. The promised "killer app" of streaming video doesn't matter to her; why watch a smallish window on your computer when you can watch TV? Unlike us geeks, to her a computer is only a tool to accomplish a small subset of things, things that can be accomplished without DSL or cable.
For cable and DSL to thrive, the companies have to market it towards people like my sister. In fact, the best ad I saw for broadband was for Media One's cable service a few years ago (this was before they merged with ATT and became Comcast): a young lady on some shopping web site. She picks up the phone and calls her mom. They chat for awhile. Then the woman asks, "mom, I'm on [URL] looking at sweaters. Which do you think will look best on me?" Her mom (offscreen) surfs to the site and renders an opinion. "Thanks, mom. Love you, goodbye."
The important thing wasn't speed or "always on"; it was the ability to talk on the phone while you surf the web. And to do that, you could get a second phone line ($20) and a dial-up ISP ($20) or broadband ($39.95). And, by the way, broadband is faster, always on, etc.
So, to market this whiz-bang-ain't-it'cool technology, we geeks need to better understand Joe and Nancy Consumer better. Once we do this, we create demand for broadband, which will make it profitable for companies, causing it to spread.
Good point. There's a good introduction to "the last mile problem" and how it relates to the Telecom Act of 1996 at
http://www.reason.com/tcs/022001.html
http://www.reason.com/tcs/020501.html
LOL. I can use it to download Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw mp3s.
Computers are cheap because more people want them, therefore they can be mass produced, bringing the cost of manufacture down. However, broadband is not a manufacturable good the way a PC is; it is an infrastructure, and requires a multimillion (or multibillion) dollar investment up front. Think of it this way: fifteen years ago cellular phones were expensive as hell. Why? Because while you and I and our buddy Bill might want cellular access, very few other people wanted it. It was expensive to erect towers for a cellular network, so the companies limited it to big cities where there were enough potential users for the company to recoup their investment. Small-town people eventually saw the big city users and demanded the way-cool city slicker cell phone service. By this time, the companies not only had the consumers' demand as incentive to move into smaller areas, but they had years' experience in creating and maintaining the infrastructure, so they could roll out the product cheaper. This let them invest in even smaller markets, since they had less to lose. We now have fairly ubiquitous cell phone access in the U.S., though it took some time. I assume that the same will be said of broadband in ten years ("man, this sucks: I live out in the sticks and my ISP only gives me 384k.")
That is the coolest thing I have ever seen.
I think I see where this is going: "Hi nVidia, the company you're buying your fans from ripped off our patented technology. We'll be going after them in court soon and will shut them down. By the way, once they're shut down, where do you plan on getting your fans? Since we invented the technology behind the fans you've been using, maybe you'll install our fans on the thousands of graphic cards you'll be shipping next year. Have your people call my people; we'll do lunch."
I knew a kid in high school named Pat McGroen (pronounced McRowan, though we never pronounced it that way).
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How's this; use the spam generator to send your pgp key to someone. This way your public key only falls in the hands of those you want (not too "public" then, but I don't want to argue semantics). It's an extra paranoia layer, but then again, this is Slashdot...
It appears we are in a conundrum. We can manufacture all manner of materials, polluting the environment with waste products. Or we can genetically modify animals to produce goods. Either way, we are doing irreparable harm to the natural world, so which choice to we make? Are we respecting the sanctity of all life more by ruining a habitat or by changing lifeforms' genetic makeups for our benefit? WWBD - What would Buddha do?
The article says that the goats don't actually weave webs (the first thing to cross my mind when I saw the article), but they produce the proteins which are filtered from the milk and are spun into silk by machine. My question is this: In a few years, why will we need the goats? Now that we can produce the proteins in quantity we should have enough to research, which should lead to a technique for artificial synthesis, right? And by artificially synthesizing the protein, we (a) should get a bigger yield (we wouldn't have to have an enormous herd of goats to meet demand), and (b) wouldn't have to worry about many of the ethical questions brought about by genetic modification. Perhaps one of you biochem people could let us know if I'm barking up the wrong tree or just ahead of my time =)
I wouldn't be surprised if the league's top players see this as a springboard to the NFL. I'm specifically thinking of former NFL players like Vaughan Dunbar and John Avery. These two guys could be the XFL rushing leaders this season for small money to prove that they still can play, then be NFL back-ups for a few hundred grand per year.
Part of that was because the first games were outdoors at night in February. Sunday's 1 pm game in sunny California more prominently featured scantily-clad cheergirls. Some were attractive and some were overdone silicon-boobified skankmuffins.
This whole "putting your nickname on your jersey" idea is all right, but that "He Hate Me" guy bugs me: if you're going to give yourself a stupid nickname, at least get the grammar right. This will probably start a trend of misspelled jersey nicknames. It might be amusing, however, when some team gets a former Stanford player who goes by the moniker "L33t H4x0r."
But if he is a step slow in getting you a steaming cup of caffeinated goodness, a 300 pound man-mountain doesn't beat him about the head, shoulders, and neck most savagely.
*Yes, I realize the irony.
Remember the /. article the other day about Brazil rolling out $200 pcs to the poor? This is even better! The Dreamcast is only $99, has a broadband connection, and best of all, it runs UNIX. So not only can the poor surf the web and check their e-mail, but they get the skill set needed to be sysadmins! Talks about escaping from a life of poverty...
And we thought we had a problem when Iraq was buying the Playstation 2s...
In short, British/European science fiction is rooted in late Romanticism and is often concerned with the community. American science fiction is formed by a self-reliant streak that was part of the 19th century national character. Neither one is "better" in an objective sense, just different.
Now in this Juno example, the list of policies (which can change at any time) is on their web page, and by using their service to get online to view this page you are subjecting yourself to any changes that have taken place. When you first use the service, this is legally dubious. However, this seems a bit more complex than the EULA example in that software is a one-time purchase while Juno offers a continuing contract for a service. However, there must be clearly defined boundaries on the contract's duration, and it must be "billed" so a person is (a)informed of the new conditions before s/he continues using the service, and (b)is not subject to the contract conditions once s/he opts out.
Of course I could be wrong on a Brobdignagian scale. Any lawyers care to comment on this?