My daughter has Autism. She has what some would call 'highly-functioning' autism. While I understand your point of view in that inept parents hit the panic button whenever a new 'disorder' gets a name - My girl's problem was VERY difficult to diagnose. It took several years of clinical visits for them to finally say, "Yes... She has a pervasive developmental disorder." - Which we needed to get her the special help she needs in school.
She's a very smart girl. She's in 1st grade now. She can read, do math, spell and comprehend things much like any other kid her age... But it's very difficult to communicate with her. Her speech consists mainly of movie quotes, things she has heard other people say and such. If I ask her a question sometimes I get an answer that indicates that she understood the question - sometimes I don't. It's almost like her sense of hearing and gift of speech is more closely connected to her memory than the cognative centers of her brain. As was described to me by an Autism expert, "Autistic people experience the world in a different way." I would sacrifice a lot to have my daughter be able to communicate with me the way I am communicating with you now.
As for the increase in occurances - It's probably because it is simply more widely known now. If my daughter had been born when I was - she would probably have been classified as mentally retarted, placed in special education, and delegated to a life where she would be entirely dependant upon others to care for her. My hope is that a cure will be found - or at least better treatments - and will enable her to live a more normal and independant life.
are there LCD's that can reproduce color as accurately as a Trinitron CRT?
I'm sure there are, but is it worth 10 times the cost of your CRT to have a cute little flat monitor? You'll pay... dearly.... for an LCD device that performs half as well as your CRT.
LCD screens are a fad. They look cool, but they don't work nearly as well as existing CRT technology... and it's much more expensive.
I've often said that there's a REASON that CRT technology has endured for so many years. I'm glad to see somebody is using resources to improve it instead of abandoning something that works so well.... and that is far superior in image quality than LCDs (IMHO).
You guys need to chill out. Everything that Microsoft does is not necessarily automatically evil.
In everything Microsoft does it has, number 1, it's own interests in mind. 2, it's shareholders, 3 it's employees, then somewhere down the line they have my interests in mind...
While this is not necesserily evil, a sow as big as Microsoft squashes the little ones around it and it does not care.
If this did nothing to promote their market-share and monopoly and did nothing to diminish competition Microsoft wouldn't do it.
SURE! This is a great idea - not!
Let's say I have a business with a website. I sell some sort of synthetic-fiber housing insulation. Fiberglass is my competitor. Somewhere in my website I have a paragraph that speaks of the DISadvantages of fiberglass. Microsoft's new browser links the word Fiberglass to another website that trumpets it's value above other alternatives...
That's bad for my business. That torks me off!
This is a bad idea.
-Sigmon
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"Kids aren't stupid."
You obviously ARE a kid or never were a kid. I think most adults would admit to being immature and doing some stupid things when they were younger. I do.
Heh... As if ANY VCR manufactured within the past decade COULD last that long anyway. I bought a VCR last year. I don't expect the thing to last more than 3 or 4 years before it breaks. Regardless, you can still use your good old VCR with digital television. All DTV set-top receivers are going to have composite outputs and/or RF-modulators so you can hook your old NTSC TV up to them and watch the digital signal. You could also hook your VCR to them! It just won't be in high definition. (Digital doesn't necessarily mean high definition anyway.)
I used to work for the public television station in Arkansas and I got a lot of exposure to digital television. This new encoding scheme is never going to happen. It sounds like a good plan, but it's too little too late. Too many companies have invested too much money in existing systems for them to go and re-engineer their entire setup at this point. You are correct, however about color TV. The FCC mandated that B&W TVs must still be able to receive the color signal, and we have basically done the same thing again with DTV. I forsee even more problems for DTV in the future because, IMHO, we are trying to cram today's modern technology into technology from the 1920s!
I work for a high-tech company based in Little Rock, Arkansas. We have in our data center what is what is most likely the largest database in the world. We also host many large companies' core databases. Most of which are Oracle.
From my perspective, it's an issue of reliability and support. (and the security of having somebody to point a finger at if things don't work right) It's true that open-source developed database projects are getting better and better, and in most cases, they would work fine for small and medium-sized companies. The catch is that the company has to hire somebody (usually a lot of people) to develop, setup, and maintain these platforms. While this is also somewhat true even for a large RDBMS like Oracle, Oracle is still responsible for making the thing work. Furthermore, if I am the CEO of company "X", and I am going to spend hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of dollars on a machine to hold the database, you had better believe that I want the OS on that machine to come with a guarantee and support, not to mention the database software.
As for Microsoft solutions. They suck. You don't have to spend much time on Microsoft's website before you get a big fat sql database error, or.asp errors. You would think that THEY would be the first to make sure their own stuff worked right, but they don't and they never will.
Also, good as open-source options may be, for large-scale operations you can't beat Oracle. When you begin to look at a large company's database needs today, you have to look at a database that can handle millions upon millions of records. I would surely like to know if ANYBODY in the world has implemented a several million+ record database with mysql on Linux. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big open-source supporter, but at the company I work for, they call a 50 Million record database a small one. The larger databases that Acxiom has developed contain hundreds of thousands of records, and can be on the order of SEVERAL PEDA-bytes! That's beyond huge!
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My daughter has Autism. She has what some would call 'highly-functioning' autism. While I understand your point of view in that inept parents hit the panic button whenever a new 'disorder' gets a name - My girl's problem was VERY difficult to diagnose. It took several years of clinical visits for them to finally say, "Yes... She has a pervasive developmental disorder." - Which we needed to get her the special help she needs in school.
She's a very smart girl. She's in 1st grade now. She can read, do math, spell and comprehend things much like any other kid her age... But it's very difficult to communicate with her. Her speech consists mainly of movie quotes, things she has heard other people say and such. If I ask her a question sometimes I get an answer that indicates that she understood the question - sometimes I don't. It's almost like her sense of hearing and gift of speech is more closely connected to her memory than the cognative centers of her brain. As was described to me by an Autism expert, "Autistic people experience the world in a different way." I would sacrifice a lot to have my daughter be able to communicate with me the way I am communicating with you now.
As for the increase in occurances - It's probably because it is simply more widely known now. If my daughter had been born when I was - she would probably have been classified as mentally retarted, placed in special education, and delegated to a life where she would be entirely dependant upon others to care for her. My hope is that a cure will be found - or at least better treatments - and will enable her to live a more normal and independant life.
A-men.
Actually, NCAs are not enforceable in most of the 50 United States.
I'm sure there are, but is it worth 10 times the cost of your CRT to have a cute little flat monitor? You'll pay... dearly.... for an LCD device that performs half as well as your CRT.
LCD screens are a fad. They look cool, but they don't work nearly as well as existing CRT technology... and it's much more expensive.
-SIGmon
-SIGmon
In everything Microsoft does it has, number 1, it's own interests in mind. 2, it's shareholders, 3 it's employees, then somewhere down the line they have my interests in mind...
While this is not necesserily evil, a sow as big as Microsoft squashes the little ones around it and it does not care.
If this did nothing to promote their market-share and monopoly and did nothing to diminish competition Microsoft wouldn't do it.
-Sigmon
SURE! This is a great idea - not! Let's say I have a business with a website. I sell some sort of synthetic-fiber housing insulation. Fiberglass is my competitor. Somewhere in my website I have a paragraph that speaks of the DISadvantages of fiberglass. Microsoft's new browser links the word Fiberglass to another website that trumpets it's value above other alternatives... That's bad for my business. That torks me off! This is a bad idea. -Sigmon
HEY! What's wrong with all black atire?!
"Kids aren't stupid." You obviously ARE a kid or never were a kid. I think most adults would admit to being immature and doing some stupid things when they were younger. I do.
Hear! Hear!
Heh... As if ANY VCR manufactured within the past decade COULD last that long anyway. I bought a VCR last year. I don't expect the thing to last more than 3 or 4 years before it breaks. Regardless, you can still use your good old VCR with digital television. All DTV set-top receivers are going to have composite outputs and/or RF-modulators so you can hook your old NTSC TV up to them and watch the digital signal. You could also hook your VCR to them! It just won't be in high definition. (Digital doesn't necessarily mean high definition anyway.)
I used to work for the public television station in Arkansas and I got a lot of exposure to digital television. This new encoding scheme is never going to happen. It sounds like a good plan, but it's too little too late. Too many companies have invested too much money in existing systems for them to go and re-engineer their entire setup at this point. You are correct, however about color TV. The FCC mandated that B&W TVs must still be able to receive the color signal, and we have basically done the same thing again with DTV. I forsee even more problems for DTV in the future because, IMHO, we are trying to cram today's modern technology into technology from the 1920s!
I work for a high-tech company based in Little Rock, Arkansas. We have in our data center what is what is most likely the largest database in the world. We also host many large companies' core databases. Most of which are Oracle. From my perspective, it's an issue of reliability and support. (and the security of having somebody to point a finger at if things don't work right) It's true that open-source developed database projects are getting better and better, and in most cases, they would work fine for small and medium-sized companies. The catch is that the company has to hire somebody (usually a lot of people) to develop, setup, and maintain these platforms. While this is also somewhat true even for a large RDBMS like Oracle, Oracle is still responsible for making the thing work. Furthermore, if I am the CEO of company "X", and I am going to spend hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of dollars on a machine to hold the database, you had better believe that I want the OS on that machine to come with a guarantee and support, not to mention the database software. As for Microsoft solutions. They suck. You don't have to spend much time on Microsoft's website before you get a big fat sql database error, or .asp errors. You would think that THEY would be the first to make sure their own stuff worked right, but they don't and they never will.
Also, good as open-source options may be, for large-scale operations you can't beat Oracle. When you begin to look at a large company's database needs today, you have to look at a database that can handle millions upon millions of records. I would surely like to know if ANYBODY in the world has implemented a several million+ record database with mysql on Linux. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big open-source supporter, but at the company I work for, they call a 50 Million record database a small one. The larger databases that Acxiom has developed contain hundreds of thousands of records, and can be on the order of SEVERAL PEDA-bytes! That's beyond huge!