The vast majority of females are completely uninterested in tech because of how they grow up. NOT because of the industry. If you keep raising your girls to be the mother of the white picket fence nuclear family, then they won't want to be anything else.
The problem is the same as it always was. Our women are raised to be interested in Barbie and MTV. Stop blaming us and give your children a god damn heathkit instead of parking them in front of the idiot box. There is no underlying misogynistic culture driving women away from the industry. Fashion, pop culture, MTV. THESE are the things driving women away from IT.
End of story.
Citation: the last time you spoke to a female about what version of cyanogen mod your phone is running or your blown 427, or even about what a capacitor does.
The chroma 4:2:2 issue is nearly irrelevant when you consider that these displays are not meant to be used on a desktop with the user within arms reach. This type of color bleed just is not visible if you are outside the displays minimum viewing distance.
1920x1080 or even 1920x1200 just isn't a high enough pixel density to justify sitting two feet away from a 46" display.
Try not sitting three feet away from the display. It helps. These things aren't built to be mounted right in front of your face. They do have a minimum viewing distance.
The one consistent thing I've seen with the vast majority of HDTVs is that many of them cannot show a basic computer image without messing up the display in some way.
Someone please downmod this. This is asinine and quite frankly, patently untrue. Almost all HD LCDs and Plasmas have long ago replaced standard VGA with DVI or HDMI inputs which can both take a VGA signal with cheap adapters and run up to the displays own max resolution as long as the computer supports those resolutuions. If OP has a true 1080 or better capable HD display and the display can't run off his machine at 1920x1080 (or higher) it's likely either a bad port on the display, bad cable, bad port on the vid card, or a miss configuration. OP may also want to consider that his TV may in fact max out at 1280x768(1024x768 when in a 4:3 format), which is quite common for early "high end" HD plasmas and LCDs. Pioneer PDP-4330HD and PDP-5030HD are great examples of this. Even these TVs that were manufactured in 2003 have a PC DVI input directly on the display. Modern 1080P HD tvs make FANTASTIC displays.
Even a crap Walmart blulight special 1080P HD with a standard VGA PC input can display 1920x1080 over VGA. There is just flatly no basis for this comment and it should NEVER have been upmoded. SHAME ON YOU COMMUNITY.
Incorrectly included this as part of the first quote....
*speculation* They are not just building a television with an ATV in it. Why would the consumers go for an over priced television with a $99 box duct taped to it? Apple will make it much more. It's how they roll.
Apple devices are designed around the mover and shaker life style. You plug them in; they work, they work fast, they work reliably. The less user focus required, the better. Siri is a clear indication of Apple's model to reduce how much a user must focus on a device to interact with it, thus increasing the seemless transparency of the enduser experience. The best devices will be ones that you are hardly consciously aware of at all. This means that we will not be reaching for a remote or another Apple device unless we have good reason. This device will have touch or gesture. Probably both IMO
It'll be controllable from iPad/iPhone. You can do that now with the current AppleTV box. It's pretty nice, actually. Having the *TV* panel be touch makes no sense. Who sits a foot from their TV? Well, I do when gaming, but I'm weird.
*speculation* They are not just building a television with an ATV in it. Why would the consumers go for an over priced television with a $99 box duct taped to it? Apple will make it much more. It's how they roll.
Apple devices are desgined around the mover and shaker life style. You plug them in; they work, they work fast, they work reliably. The less user focus required, the better. Siri is a clear indication of Apple's model to reduce how much a user must focus on a device to interact with it, thus increasing the seemless transparency of the enduser experience. The best devices will be ones that you are hardly consciously aware of at all. This means that we will not be reaching for a remote or another Apple device unless we have good reason. This device will have touch or gesture. Probably both IMO.
What percentage of the market are you?
I'm the percentage that has been driving Apple's development and sales goals for the last decade+. I'm also the guy who hated the hell out of everything I thought Apple and Steve Jobs stood for until I got sick of having to tweak every device I purchased/built after unboxing, just to get the original advertised functionality out of it.
I'm so glad people who don't know anything about the market and do nothing but post snarky trash get upmoded.
Why not touch...or even better...gesture? No one is going to to shell out $2k for a television with JUST a built in apple TV. I would however drop $2k on a wall mountable 46" ipad without even flinching. Apple does have recent patents on gestures in front of cameras built into display bezels and Siri requires some kind of secondary input. Most don't have the time to be fumbling for their phone or tablet when they want directions or quick information on the way out the door. Not without a better secondary than a hand held device that you may have to go out of your way to grab.
Unless this thing is a touch display I fail to see the point of such a specialized device. Apple tv units can be upgraded to support things like Siri if they chose to go that route in the next gen. Why would anyone assume Apple would release a niche device like this?
If anything, Apple iTV is a myth perpetrated by Foxconn to increase their own market value. The market clearly indicates that people like the hockey puck set top boxes but are not interested in televisions with built in premium functionality. I'm not even sure the iPad 7" is legit. Wouldn't a Bluetooth 4.0 enabled smart watch based off the nano make more sense? A major iPhone overhaul? AR glasses?
Any of these things make more sense to me than iTV. The future is in the personal wireless network. Not an Apple branded television.
Pure hyperbole. What this guy refers to as "conventional thinking" in most of his articles is the trash he was programed with through "higher education." This is what happens when someone who is heavily business minded tries to interpret the writing on the walls and instead fills a piece with common buzz phrases to make it sound like he knows what's what. However he did bring up one correct point; we don't need managers any more.
Frankly, the paradigm Eric Jackson exists in is the exact same shared by those executives slowly dragging all our big industries into the ground. There are far to many corporations run by hack executives who have no clue what is happening in the real world. They sit on their pedestals and listen to the yes men they surround themselves with. Rather than researching and understanding global trends for THEMSELVES.
Fogey business and fogey politics have to go. The new age of globalization is here and there is no room for the middle men any more. God I hope I pissed off some MBAs.
"This sounds awesome — but is it really a good idea to give a computer company (IBM is not an urban planner!) so much control over one of the world's biggest cities?"
I feel this question is moot considering the number of professionals likely consulting on these jobs. Just as it has been with the computer automation of any industry. You can't expect a group of computer scientists / engineers to slap this together on their own.
I also highly doubt that this is a centralized system with single attack vectors as some have speculated. This system is the culmination of multiple points of reference collected from multiple sub systems and quite intelligently parsed. It isn't as if the network that controls the traffic lights is wired directly into the water and electrical grids.
The NYT article is nothing but a flame piece. EVERY other major electronics manufacturer is either heavily contracted with Foxxconn, a subsidiary there of, or a company somehow connected with their plants via contractual obligations held by parts suppliers. There is no way around it. Some part of the device you are reading this on was likely manufactured by Foxxconn or inside one of their plants at some point.
Guess what? Parts in your kid's Little Mermaid themed MP3 player and digital camera were made in the same places. Your camera. Your TV. Your stereo head unit. So were pats of your computer monitors, motherboards, graphics cards, USB hubs, power supplies, cable/dish set tops, blu-ray....need I go on?
Steve Jobs said it best. It's not Apple's job to fix what's wrong with this country, It's their job to produce high quality products.
We get a choice here. We can either have sweet gadgets for cheap...or we can bring fair manufacturing practices back to the states. We don't get both in our current ecosystem and we sure as hell won't be forcing China's hand on the issue any time soon.
This ruling is CLEARLY in the spirit of copyright law. The defendant used someone else's work illegally, was caught. Tried to create his own version of the same image, and was caught. There is no question of parallels here. His trail is well documented. You know, id assume the coders here would have figured this one out. And the musicians. Wtf guys.
Nonsense. What kind of fixed load did they define? How does this fixed load utilize available system resources? I could define a code payload targeted at technologies present in early 90s Pentium CPUs, and then run this code on a modern machine for a much greater overall gap in efficiency. Producing any target number I want, thus correlating or wildly disproving this law.
This hardly qualifies as a constant, let alone a "law." There are just to many factors involved to make any kind of statement like this. Moore's law isn't wrong...it just didn't take into account all the variables. Neither does Koomey's.
People seem to be ignoring this huge point. Motorola Mobility also includes their video hardware division. This is the group that designs, distributes, and supports headend hardware for cable video systems, and the set top cable boxes made to connect to those systems...not just set tops as some have commented. Think encrypted QAM video services from the sat down to the customer. Think VoD servers for storing and streaming digital video content to set tops. Motorola and Cisco (Cisco owns Scientific Atlanta, SA) produce the most widely used video headend systems in the states. Moto's DAC is still the most widely used in most cable system footprints here. Now think about how video service is evolving today and mash these new properties in with Google TV/Android.
Don't forget about all the fiber Google has been buying up over the years. Yeah, shit is about to get real.
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The vast majority of females are completely uninterested in tech because of how they grow up. NOT because of the industry. If you keep raising your girls to be the mother of the white picket fence nuclear family, then they won't want to be anything else.
The problem is the same as it always was. Our women are raised to be interested in Barbie and MTV.
Stop blaming us and give your children a god damn heathkit instead of parking them in front of the idiot box. There is no underlying misogynistic culture driving women away from the industry. Fashion, pop culture, MTV. THESE are the things driving women away from IT.
End of story.
Citation: the last time you spoke to a female about what version of cyanogen mod your phone is running or your blown 427, or even about what a capacitor does.
The chroma 4:2:2 issue is nearly irrelevant when you consider that these displays are not meant to be used on a desktop with the user within arms reach. This type of color bleed just is not visible if you are outside the displays minimum viewing distance.
1920x1080 or even 1920x1200 just isn't a high enough pixel density to justify sitting two feet away from a 46" display.
Try not sitting three feet away from the display. It helps. These things aren't built to be mounted right in front of your face. They do have a minimum viewing distance.
The one consistent thing I've seen with the vast majority of HDTVs is that many of them cannot show a basic computer image without messing up the display in some way.
Someone please downmod this. This is asinine and quite frankly, patently untrue. Almost all HD LCDs and Plasmas have long ago replaced standard VGA with DVI or HDMI inputs which can both take a VGA signal with cheap adapters and run up to the displays own max resolution as long as the computer supports those resolutuions. If OP has a true 1080 or better capable HD display and the display can't run off his machine at 1920x1080 (or higher) it's likely either a bad port on the display, bad cable, bad port on the vid card, or a miss configuration. OP may also want to consider that his TV may in fact max out at 1280x768(1024x768 when in a 4:3 format), which is quite common for early "high end" HD plasmas and LCDs. Pioneer PDP-4330HD and PDP-5030HD are great examples of this. Even these TVs that were manufactured in 2003 have a PC DVI input directly on the display. Modern 1080P HD tvs make FANTASTIC displays.
Even a crap Walmart blulight special 1080P HD with a standard VGA PC input can display 1920x1080 over VGA. There is just flatly no basis for this comment and it should NEVER have been upmoded. SHAME ON YOU COMMUNITY.
Incorrectly included this as part of the first quote....
*speculation*
They are not just building a television with an ATV in it. Why would the consumers go for an over priced television with a $99 box duct taped to it? Apple will make it much more. It's how they roll.
Apple devices are designed around the mover and shaker life style. You plug them in; they work, they work fast, they work reliably. The less user focus required, the better. Siri is a clear indication of Apple's model to reduce how much a user must focus on a device to interact with it, thus increasing the seemless transparency of the enduser experience. The best devices will be ones that you are hardly consciously aware of at all.
This means that we will not be reaching for a remote or another Apple device unless we have good reason. This device will have touch or gesture. Probably both IMO
It'll be controllable from iPad/iPhone. You can do that now with the current AppleTV box. It's pretty nice, actually. Having the *TV* panel be touch makes no sense. Who sits a foot from their TV? Well, I do when gaming, but I'm weird.
*speculation*
They are not just building a television with an ATV in it. Why would the consumers go for an over priced television with a $99 box duct taped to it? Apple will make it much more. It's how they roll.
Apple devices are desgined around the mover and shaker life style. You plug them in; they work, they work fast, they work reliably. The less user focus required, the better. Siri is a clear indication of Apple's model to reduce how much a user must focus on a device to interact with it, thus increasing the seemless transparency of the enduser experience. The best devices will be ones that you are hardly consciously aware of at all.
This means that we will not be reaching for a remote or another Apple device unless we have good reason. This device will have touch or gesture. Probably both IMO.
What percentage of the market are you?
I'm the percentage that has been driving Apple's development and sales goals for the last decade+. I'm also the guy who hated the hell out of everything I thought Apple and Steve Jobs stood for until I got sick of having to tweak every device I purchased/built after unboxing, just to get the original advertised functionality out of it.
I'm so glad people who don't know anything about the market and do nothing but post snarky trash get upmoded.
This is nice. Isn't it nice?
Why not touch...or even better...gesture? No one is going to to shell out $2k for a television with JUST a built in apple TV. I would however drop $2k on a wall mountable 46" ipad without even flinching. Apple does have recent patents on gestures in front of cameras built into display bezels and Siri requires some kind of secondary input. Most don't have the time to be fumbling for their phone or tablet when they want directions or quick information on the way out the door. Not without a better secondary than a hand held device that you may have to go out of your way to grab.
Unless this thing is a touch display I fail to see the point of such a specialized device. Apple tv units can be upgraded to support things like Siri if they chose to go that route in the next gen. Why would anyone assume Apple would release a niche device like this?
If anything, Apple iTV is a myth perpetrated by Foxconn to increase their own market value. The market clearly indicates that people like the hockey puck set top boxes but are not interested in televisions with built in premium functionality. I'm not even sure the iPad 7" is legit. Wouldn't a Bluetooth 4.0 enabled smart watch based off the nano make more sense? A major iPhone overhaul? AR glasses?
Any of these things make more sense to me than iTV. The future is in the personal wireless network. Not an Apple branded television.
Pure hyperbole. What this guy refers to as "conventional thinking" in most of his articles is the trash he was programed with through "higher education." This is what happens when someone who is heavily business minded tries to interpret the writing on the walls and instead fills a piece with common buzz phrases to make it sound like he knows what's what. However he did bring up one correct point; we don't need managers any more.
Frankly, the paradigm Eric Jackson exists in is the exact same shared by those executives slowly dragging all our big industries into the ground. There are far to many corporations run by hack executives who have no clue what is happening in the real world. They sit on their pedestals and listen to the yes men they surround themselves with. Rather than researching and understanding global trends for THEMSELVES.
Fogey business and fogey politics have to go. The new age of globalization is here and there is no room for the middle men any more.
God I hope I pissed off some MBAs.
"This sounds awesome — but is it really a good idea to give a computer company (IBM is not an urban planner!) so much control over one of the world's biggest cities?"
I feel this question is moot considering the number of professionals likely consulting on these jobs. Just as it has been with the computer automation of any industry. You can't expect a group of computer scientists / engineers to slap this together on their own.
I also highly doubt that this is a centralized system with single attack vectors as some have speculated. This system is the culmination of multiple points of reference collected from multiple sub systems and quite intelligently parsed. It isn't as if the network that controls the traffic lights is wired directly into the water and electrical grids.
The NYT article is nothing but a flame piece. EVERY other major electronics manufacturer is either heavily contracted with Foxxconn, a subsidiary there of, or a company somehow connected with their plants via contractual obligations held by parts suppliers. There is no way around it. Some part of the device you are reading this on was likely manufactured by Foxxconn or inside one of their plants at some point. Guess what? Parts in your kid's Little Mermaid themed MP3 player and digital camera were made in the same places. Your camera. Your TV. Your stereo head unit. So were pats of your computer monitors, motherboards, graphics cards, USB hubs, power supplies, cable/dish set tops, blu-ray....need I go on? Steve Jobs said it best. It's not Apple's job to fix what's wrong with this country, It's their job to produce high quality products. We get a choice here. We can either have sweet gadgets for cheap...or we can bring fair manufacturing practices back to the states. We don't get both in our current ecosystem and we sure as hell won't be forcing China's hand on the issue any time soon.
This ruling is CLEARLY in the spirit of copyright law. The defendant used someone else's work illegally, was caught. Tried to create his own version of the same image, and was caught. There is no question of parallels here. His trail is well documented. You know, id assume the coders here would have figured this one out. And the musicians. Wtf guys.
Nonsense. What kind of fixed load did they define? How does this fixed load utilize available system resources? I could define a code payload targeted at technologies present in early 90s Pentium CPUs, and then run this code on a modern machine for a much greater overall gap in efficiency. Producing any target number I want, thus correlating or wildly disproving this law. This hardly qualifies as a constant, let alone a "law." There are just to many factors involved to make any kind of statement like this. Moore's law isn't wrong...it just didn't take into account all the variables. Neither does Koomey's.
People seem to be ignoring this huge point. Motorola Mobility also includes their video hardware division. This is the group that designs, distributes, and supports headend hardware for cable video systems, and the set top cable boxes made to connect to those systems...not just set tops as some have commented. Think encrypted QAM video services from the sat down to the customer. Think VoD servers for storing and streaming digital video content to set tops. Motorola and Cisco (Cisco owns Scientific Atlanta, SA) produce the most widely used video headend systems in the states. Moto's DAC is still the most widely used in most cable system footprints here. Now think about how video service is evolving today and mash these new properties in with Google TV/Android. Don't forget about all the fiber Google has been buying up over the years. Yeah, shit is about to get real.