How can someone really say that VOIP is just the beginning of providing services over IP networks? I have been receiving services such as web, ftp, radio and video over IP networks. This whole voice calling thing, for me, came after all of that.
That's like saying that HDTV is just a beachhead and there will be AMAZING services offered over RF in the future.
Maybe that's why I can't understand marketing. To me technologies like RSS aren't exciting enought o get my attention since XML over HTTP has been around for ages. The whole difference is how you package it and sell it.
I guess if they can "sell" the internet to people all over again as SOIP then he's right. Intead of hooking your computer up to the internet, you really need to buy a web appliance, a VOIP phone and a set top box for downloading movies. Your computer does the internet, but these new devices from Intel do SOIP! There's a HUGE difference!
I don't understand people who refuse to socialize with co-workers. I can understand not wanting to talk shop, but I have had the pleasure to work with some great people that I enjoy seeing at and outside of work. Knowing these people from a social standpoint has helped us work together better.
Trying to keep your work life completely separate from your home life is like trying to have two separate families. It's possible to do, but more difficulty than it's worth. It's hard for people at work to really trust you when they don't know a thing about you.
A man who's work is both his vocation and his advocation is truly blessed.
Unless they are EDS. Perot and friends used to send people to employee's houses to verify they were not living in sin and maintaining an acceptable lifestyle.
Given that your home life can DEFINITELY negatively impact your work life (anyone ever worked with a divorce-zombie?) where should an employees draw the line?
EBay was originally set up to allow individuals to sell merchandise to other individuals. That's why the feedback system was so important. Before PayPal and BidPay you had to use personal check or money order. Do you buy from a seller business with a feedback score of 65322 over one with 4352? When people had feedback 100 it mattered.
People started selling so much they started businesses. Then Ebay started jacking up the fees because they saw businesses making money off their website. Ebay was supposed to be for used merchandise. Now everytime I do a search for used merchandise I can barely find any because I have to wade through businesses that post 20 ads a day because they have 500 units in stock. Ebay just isn't made for that.
The moral of the story is there is a progression that goes from being an individual seller to a company that sells on ebay. If you continue to grow...it just makes sense to get off ebay.
Now photo finishers can do the same thing they've always done: if you have the negative, you are authorized.
I alway shoot in Raw (NEF) which can be converted to DNG. My only concerns is that since there is no encryption on DNG files, can you prevent people from turning JPGs into DNG files?
Between photo quality ink jet and dye sub printers to serve immediate printing needs and online photo finishers like shutterfly to print on the cheap... I thought only people taking snapshots went to Walmart and the like. There's no chance of someone mistaking your snapshots of Timmy's birthday party as professional work.
Is that like an animation cel? Since cel came from cellulous I am assuming this new phone is made from plant matter and recyclable. So while these people are polluting the environment with their monsterous SUVs at least they are being environmentally conscious with their phone choice.
One thing that isn't taken into account by most toll schemes is vehicle weight. To imply that a 400lb motorcycle causes as much road wear as a 4000lb SUV per mile is ridiculous. Why this fascination with per mile charges instead of per weight charges?
Most toll roads charge based on the number of axels, but I don't see how that matters for anything less than 18 wheelers.
Does anyone know if the rates charged by tollroads are simply to recoup costs or to encourage certain types of usage?
Doesn't it seem like the answer should be both? Do things like raise the toll during rush hour, give discounts the longer you go (to discourage hop-ons, hop-offs) etc...
You can't weigh the issues now either. The only difference is with the Chaintech's of the world you have anger towards them because they failed to meet a "promised" ship date and therefore you either have to put off your purchase or purchase a different product.
With Apple, every new product is a "surprise" (unless you read the rumor boards. Then only 1/2 of them are a surprise). The mere fact that Apple has all these rumor boards is so much better PR than any "roadmap". The products that people imagine Apple is working on are so much more fantastic than the ones they actually produce.
About the portion on "it's a shame that NVidia and AMD are having product issues". It just seems to be that Chaintech is unable to collaborate better with their vendors to make sure they don't release products that cannot be shipped in volume. I think the reason we don't see this from other manufacturers (think ATI/Intel...) because they have ways to collaborate and make sure these kind of snafu's don't happen.
I like the way Apple releases products. You hear NOTHING until every vendor is producing in volume and they are shipping or about to ship assembled units. This whole idea of announcing products 3-12 months before they can ship is just FUD trying to keep customers from buying right now.
Isn't seven years an awfully long time to spend in school to be an engineer? Even an MS can be accomplished in 5-6 years if your school has a fast track program.
I think careers in engineering fields require a degree of career management from the individual. They can no longer expect to be given success and wealth just because they have an engineering degree. They need to guide their career so they can grow into different positions as time goes on.
While this is no different than other disciplines, I guess it's a new idea for the technologically inclined.
From what I remember the major different between the HP inkjet cartridges and the Epson is that the HPs have built in nozzles and the Epson cartridges are merely ink tanks. The Epson printers have semi-permanent nozzles that only need to be replaces once in a long while (or get a new printer). This seems to drastically effect the cost of the cartridges.
From the Epson store the black cartridge is only $33 and each color cartridge is $12 respectively. On the HP webpage the prices are are less (except no individual colors) . $30 for the black cartridge and $35 for the "tri-color" catridge.
It seems to me that people should be complaining more about the Epson printers because their refills are simply ink tanks, but cost more.
People rarely complain about the razor/blade strategy of giving the razors away and marking up the blades.
Here's some examples: Microsoft giving you $400 to sign up for 3 years worth of MSN. Remember that deal?
Etailers taking a loss on merchandise, but making it up on shipping (not so nice).
Cell phone carriers giving away phones with a year service contract
Microsoft selling XBoxes at a loss, but providing no pack-in game. Games cost $50 and you need at least 2;-)
The low price of the inkjet printers is obviously offset by the high price of ink refills. I know how much it costs me to print out a glossy photo on my Epson C80. It's around $1.50 with ink and the expensive glossy paper. It can go down to just a dollar with the cheaper paper. I can get a few small prints on page. Assuming I only get a few good shots on a roll it's still cheaper buying film and photo processing.
Of course my Epson has individual ink tanks so I have the ability to save some money by only replacing the empty ones.
My biggest fear is the more data we keep putting on these drives the more we stand to lose when they crash. If only MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) ratings doubled every year. If you had your whole life's video diary on a huge petabyte drive and it crashed, it would be devestating. For that reason I think consumer grade data backup technologies are very underrated. My personal favorite right now is my Iomega Peerless Drive . 20 gigs of data on one cartridge!
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Have you tried 1) Microsoft Terminal Services (now called "Remote Desktop Connection") 2) Remote Xterms 3) KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) switch
Any of those solutions would allow you to use one stationary monitory.
Jules Verne wrote about nuclear submarines a long time before their invention. Even though this is not your typical "science fiction" book it did have an influence on people.
Personally I wish high speed internet was more expensive. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that I don't have to pay too much, but the current low price seems to come with a low level of service. High speed internet is very important to me and I'd be willing to pay more if it meant better performance, uptime, and service. I think the low price is the reason why DSL and Cable Modems are penetrating the geography so slowly. Right now, I can't get high speed internet at any price where I live. That doesn't seem to make any sense. A block away, cable modems are ~$40. Where I am, I can't get DSL or Cable for $200+.
I think it's important for the public to realize that NASA is not an ends based machine. For most of these projects, the journey is more valuable than reaching the destination. As everyone well remembers the Apollo missions lead to some amazing scientific discoveries. Getting to the moon was a one time deal, but the scientific advancements that took us to the moon will remain with us forever. Necessity is the mother of invention, and NASA's exploration goals provide that "necessity". Provided we never manage to send another successful Mars mission, we will still learn an invaluable amount in the process.
What is wrong with all these slashdotters that think NASA needs to be cut all together. Exploration is at the heart of what the human race does. If the same attitude was taken hundreds of years ago, the USA would never have been discovered (ok..the Native Americans already knew it was here and we basically took it from them...bad example), Magellan would never have proved categorically the earth was round etc... Astronomers predict that there is only 100,000 years before a cataclysmic event (probably an asteroid) will make this planet uninhabitable for many years. Simply put, we need space exploration to give us options. Even if no other habitable planet was found, the possibility of waiting out disaster in a space station in orbit is a viable one...especially after a few thousand years of research.
I ask you, what better way can our money be spent than to possibly prevent the extinction of the human race?
The shuttle itself is more expensive than simply using one-use rockets. Most of the missions the shuttle performs have secondary and tertiary goals. While a rocket just shoots a satellite in space the shuttle usually does that and then performs many important experiments while in orbit. Zero-G has a lot of potentials from growing certain helpful bacteria to producing perfect ball bearings. You cannot look at NASA from an ends-based approach.
I hope this means that the USPO is going to start reviewing the patents more closely. Since patent law is so litigious I don't think the USPO can ever be able to completely judge the quality of a patent application. I think patents are only something that the courts can decide. Why not make the application for a patent the same as when the police want to use a new device to stop speeders.
Basically the police department has to get a guinea pig. They use the new device (maybe a new Laser gun or something) and then they give some poor fool a ticket. As long as this ticket stands up in court and the person pays it, then all-of-a-sudden the use of the new device is sanctioned by the courts.
The problem, for me, isn't big companies suing big companies. They'll all sort it out in court. The problem is big companies suing little companies and/or individuals who have no means to fight a long court battle.
If patents were not legal until they had been upheld in court then big companies would not be able to push around the little guy until the patent was actually challenged and defended by another company.
Have their been any studies on how a microkernel may perform under RISC processors like StrongARMs, SH3, and MIPS? It's possible that HURD's shortcomings are only in the CISC world. Anyone have any info?
With all the news about the PS/2 reduced availability and people standing in lines to buy it it seems it all boils down to whether people can buy the thing. In this great economy everyone seems to have excess cash, but the supply of these seemingly great devices is so low only a few of the many people that want to buy the item can. Had Sony been able to produce 2x as many PS/2s they would have sold 2x as many.
I worry that this new company will not have the production power to meet demand and will get swamped by the larger companies that can. The game system popularity is only partially influenced by technical specifications. The #1 factor is the available games. If a system has the "best" game it will be more popular than other technically more advanced systems. Look at the Sega Saturn or the Atari Jaguar.
If creating a device to circumvent copyright controls is illegal according to the DMCA when I assume a device is characterized as a program as well as a hardware device. If someone wrote a program that once executed would produce and compile the source code for a circumvention device would that be legal? Basically it's a device that CREATES a device to circumvent copy controls.
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How can someone really say that VOIP is just the beginning of providing services over IP networks? I have been receiving services such as web, ftp, radio and video over IP networks. This whole voice calling thing, for me, came after all of that.
That's like saying that HDTV is just a beachhead and there will be AMAZING services offered over RF in the future.
Maybe that's why I can't understand marketing. To me technologies like RSS aren't exciting enought o get my attention since XML over HTTP has been around for ages. The whole difference is how you package it and sell it.
I guess if they can "sell" the internet to people all over again as SOIP then he's right. Intead of hooking your computer up to the internet, you really need to buy a web appliance, a VOIP phone and a set top box for downloading movies. Your computer does the internet, but these new devices from Intel do SOIP! There's a HUGE difference!
I don't understand people who refuse to socialize with co-workers. I can understand not wanting to talk shop, but I have had the pleasure to work with some great people that I enjoy seeing at and outside of work. Knowing these people from a social standpoint has helped us work together better.
Trying to keep your work life completely separate from your home life is like trying to have two separate families. It's possible to do, but more difficulty than it's worth. It's hard for people at work to really trust you when they don't know a thing about you.
A man who's work is both his vocation and his advocation is truly blessed.
Unless they are EDS. Perot and friends used to send people to employee's houses to verify they were not living in sin and maintaining an acceptable lifestyle.
Given that your home life can DEFINITELY negatively impact your work life (anyone ever worked with a divorce-zombie?) where should an employees draw the line?
EBay was originally set up to allow individuals to sell merchandise to other individuals. That's why the feedback system was so important. Before PayPal and BidPay you had to use personal check or money order. Do you buy from a seller business with a feedback score of 65322 over one with 4352? When people had feedback 100 it mattered.
People started selling so much they started businesses. Then Ebay started jacking up the fees because they saw businesses making money off their website. Ebay was supposed to be for used merchandise. Now everytime I do a search for used merchandise I can barely find any because I have to wade through businesses that post 20 ads a day because they have 500 units in stock. Ebay just isn't made for that.
The moral of the story is there is a progression that goes from being an individual seller to a company that sells on ebay. If you continue to grow...it just makes sense to get off ebay.
Adobe is proposing a digital negative format: http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/main.html
Now photo finishers can do the same thing they've always done: if you have the negative, you are authorized.
I alway shoot in Raw (NEF) which can be converted to DNG. My only concerns is that since there is no encryption on DNG files, can you prevent people from turning JPGs into DNG files?
Between photo quality ink jet and dye sub printers to serve immediate printing needs and online photo finishers like shutterfly to print on the cheap... I thought only people taking snapshots went to Walmart and the like. There's no chance of someone mistaking your snapshots of Timmy's birthday party as professional work.
Is that like an animation cel? Since cel came from cellulous I am assuming this new phone is made from plant matter and recyclable. So while these people are polluting the environment with their monsterous SUVs at least they are being environmentally conscious with their phone choice.
One thing that isn't taken into account by most toll schemes is vehicle weight. To imply that a 400lb motorcycle causes as much road wear as a 4000lb SUV per mile is ridiculous. Why this fascination with per mile charges instead of per weight charges?
Most toll roads charge based on the number of axels, but I don't see how that matters for anything less than 18 wheelers.
Does anyone know if the rates charged by tollroads are simply to recoup costs or to encourage certain types of usage?
Doesn't it seem like the answer should be both? Do things like raise the toll during rush hour, give discounts the longer you go (to discourage hop-ons, hop-offs) etc...
You can't weigh the issues now either. The only difference is with the Chaintech's of the world you have anger towards them because they failed to meet a "promised" ship date and therefore you either have to put off your purchase or purchase a different product.
With Apple, every new product is a "surprise" (unless you read the rumor boards. Then only 1/2 of them are a surprise). The mere fact that Apple has all these rumor boards is so much better PR than any "roadmap". The products that people imagine Apple is working on are so much more fantastic than the ones they actually produce.
About the portion on "it's a shame that NVidia and AMD are having product issues". It just seems to be that Chaintech is unable to collaborate better with their vendors to make sure they don't release products that cannot be shipped in volume. I think the reason we don't see this from other manufacturers (think ATI/Intel...) because they have ways to collaborate and make sure these kind of snafu's don't happen.
I like the way Apple releases products. You hear NOTHING until every vendor is producing in volume and they are shipping or about to ship assembled units. This whole idea of announcing products 3-12 months before they can ship is just FUD trying to keep customers from buying right now.
Talk about a worthless article. How did this get posted?
Isn't seven years an awfully long time to spend in school to be an engineer? Even an MS can be accomplished in 5-6 years if your school has a fast track program.
I think careers in engineering fields require a degree of career management from the individual. They can no longer expect to be given success and wealth just because they have an engineering degree. They need to guide their career so they can grow into different positions as time goes on.
While this is no different than other disciplines, I guess it's a new idea for the technologically inclined.
From what I remember the major different between the HP inkjet cartridges and the Epson is that the HPs have built in nozzles and the Epson cartridges are merely ink tanks. The Epson printers have semi-permanent nozzles that only need to be replaces once in a long while (or get a new printer). This seems to drastically effect the cost of the cartridges.
From the Epson store the black cartridge is only $33 and each color cartridge is $12 respectively. On the HP webpage the prices are are less (except no individual colors) . $30 for the black cartridge and $35 for the "tri-color" catridge.
It seems to me that people should be complaining more about the Epson printers because their refills are simply ink tanks, but cost more.
People rarely complain about the razor/blade strategy of giving the razors away and marking up the blades.
;-)
Here's some examples:
Microsoft giving you $400 to sign up for 3 years worth of MSN. Remember that deal?
Etailers taking a loss on merchandise, but making it up on shipping (not so nice).
Cell phone carriers giving away phones with a year service contract
Microsoft selling XBoxes at a loss, but providing no pack-in game. Games cost $50 and you need at least 2
The low price of the inkjet printers is obviously offset by the high price of ink refills. I know how much it costs me to print out a glossy photo on my Epson C80. It's around $1.50 with ink and the expensive glossy paper. It can go down to just a dollar with the cheaper paper. I can get a few small prints on page. Assuming I only get a few good shots on a roll it's still cheaper buying film and photo processing.
Of course my Epson has individual ink tanks so I have the ability to save some money by only replacing the empty ones.
My biggest fear is the more data we keep putting on these drives the more we stand to lose when they crash. If only MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) ratings doubled every year. If you had your whole life's video diary on a huge petabyte drive and it crashed, it would be devestating. For that reason I think consumer grade data backup technologies are very underrated. My personal favorite right now is my Iomega Peerless Drive . 20 gigs of data on one cartridge!
Have you tried
1) Microsoft Terminal Services (now called "Remote Desktop Connection")
2) Remote Xterms
3) KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) switch
Any of those solutions would allow you to use one stationary monitory.
Jules Verne wrote about nuclear submarines a long time before their invention. Even though this is not your typical "science fiction" book it did have an influence on people.
Personally I wish high speed internet was more expensive. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that I don't have to pay too much, but the current low price seems to come with a low level of service. High speed internet is very important to me and I'd be willing to pay more if it meant better performance, uptime, and service. I think the low price is the reason why DSL and Cable Modems are penetrating the geography so slowly. Right now, I can't get high speed internet at any price where I live. That doesn't seem to make any sense. A block away, cable modems are ~$40. Where I am, I can't get DSL or Cable for $200+.
I think it's important for the public to realize that NASA is not an ends based machine. For most of these projects, the journey is more valuable than reaching the destination. As everyone well remembers the Apollo missions lead to some amazing scientific discoveries. Getting to the moon was a one time deal, but the scientific advancements that took us to the moon will remain with us forever. Necessity is the mother of invention, and NASA's exploration goals provide that "necessity". Provided we never manage to send another successful Mars mission, we will still learn an invaluable amount in the process.
What is wrong with all these slashdotters that think NASA needs to be cut all together. Exploration is at the heart of what the human race does. If the same attitude was taken hundreds of years ago, the USA would never have been discovered (ok..the Native Americans already knew it was here and we basically took it from them...bad example), Magellan would never have proved categorically the earth was round etc... Astronomers predict that there is only 100,000 years before a cataclysmic event (probably an asteroid) will make this planet uninhabitable for many years. Simply put, we need space exploration to give us options. Even if no other habitable planet was found, the possibility of waiting out disaster in a space station in orbit is a viable one...especially after a few thousand years of research. I ask you, what better way can our money be spent than to possibly prevent the extinction of the human race?
The shuttle itself is more expensive than simply using one-use rockets. Most of the missions the shuttle performs have secondary and tertiary goals. While a rocket just shoots a satellite in space the shuttle usually does that and then performs many important experiments while in orbit. Zero-G has a lot of potentials from growing certain helpful bacteria to producing perfect ball bearings. You cannot look at NASA from an ends-based approach.
I hope this means that the USPO is going to start reviewing the patents more closely. Since patent law is so litigious I don't think the USPO can ever be able to completely judge the quality of a patent application. I think patents are only something that the courts can decide. Why not make the application for a patent the same as when the police want to use a new device to stop speeders. Basically the police department has to get a guinea pig. They use the new device (maybe a new Laser gun or something) and then they give some poor fool a ticket. As long as this ticket stands up in court and the person pays it, then all-of-a-sudden the use of the new device is sanctioned by the courts. The problem, for me, isn't big companies suing big companies. They'll all sort it out in court. The problem is big companies suing little companies and/or individuals who have no means to fight a long court battle. If patents were not legal until they had been upheld in court then big companies would not be able to push around the little guy until the patent was actually challenged and defended by another company.
Have their been any studies on how a microkernel may perform under RISC processors like StrongARMs, SH3, and MIPS? It's possible that HURD's shortcomings are only in the CISC world. Anyone have any info?
With all the news about the PS/2 reduced availability and people standing in lines to buy it it seems it all boils down to whether people can buy the thing. In this great economy everyone seems to have excess cash, but the supply of these seemingly great devices is so low only a few of the many people that want to buy the item can. Had Sony been able to produce 2x as many PS/2s they would have sold 2x as many. I worry that this new company will not have the production power to meet demand and will get swamped by the larger companies that can. The game system popularity is only partially influenced by technical specifications. The #1 factor is the available games. If a system has the "best" game it will be more popular than other technically more advanced systems. Look at the Sega Saturn or the Atari Jaguar.
If creating a device to circumvent copyright controls is illegal according to the DMCA when I assume a device is characterized as a program as well as a hardware device. If someone wrote a program that once executed would produce and compile the source code for a circumvention device would that be legal? Basically it's a device that CREATES a device to circumvent copy controls.