Mod this up. This is a really good question. But one difference is that it's much easier to transmit a document via an IM client than faxing it. I wonder if the faxes are logged.
That is harsh. Have a look around his site. His views are based on having a lot of experience (he's a former MS developer) and he knows what he is talking about.
Thinking about why people are supporting Open Source and what use for companies Open Source is is something that has to be done. Also, I don't think his myths are meant to be taken too literally. And let's face it, IBM's marketing team is trying to push the idea that IBM has some how become a nice gentle company. You don't come up with Peace, Love and Linux as a slogan if you're not trying to push that message at least to some degree. Sun and HP are also into marketing to developers along these lines.
If you look at the simultaneous global relase of AOTC I think you can actually see a reaction to *wide spread* piracy.
Episode I was released in the US months ahead of the European, Australasian and Asian releases. The result was that a demand was created, and fulfilled, for high quality pirated net copies were available within 24 hours of the initial release. I was in Europe at the time and faced with waiting for 3-4 months for a release and watching a lower quality film, the lower quality easily won out.
In the European holiday belt from Spain to Greece, pirated videos of Episode I ran all summer before the official relase.
The film presumably did quite well at the box office regardless, but it is interesting to wonder if the altered release for Episode II was designed in part to combat piracy, and in particular internet piracy.
The problem with this is that the quality of DVDs is so high anyway that they are beyond the quality of most televisions at the moment.
Just look at the failure ( perhaps I speak too soon ) of attempts at producing higher quality audio than CD and turning them into standards. For 90% of the world on 95% of the world's audio equipment going beyond CDs is a waste of money.
Finally, for all their hopes and dreams, people can't just decree a new standard, these things take a lot of time before they take off. DVDs took about 5 years to catch on.
Absolutely. I've been working in the computer graphics industry and it still pains me that artists don't have any good version control software.
Really, it's quite appalling that programmers have been using this kind of technology for at least 20 years and yet all the people we work with haven't been added to the system. After recently preparing a large word document, I realise most office workers don't have a good way of work either. It's really shocking.
The approach of using an object oriented database is really interesting.
I'd like to know how the big games development shops handle the problem, from my limited contact with them it seems pretty haphazard.
There are rumours at the Inquirer here with sources from Digitimes here that the price will be pushed down on the components and something new will be released in September.
Perhaps with the use of such commodity parts it might be possible to have a new Xbox out each year.
The would have strange consequences for a console, would consoles have to say for Xbox 2004 only ? PS 1 or 2 is one thing, but one every year would be another.
What will drive people to upgrade ? The same thing that drives people to upgrade their cars now.
Newer cars tend to be slightly more fuel efficient, quieter and faster. And of course cars wear out more quickly than silicon ( although keyboards and mice wear out more quickly than cars ).
It won't just be the game market, there will be new apps. For example if people want to do good quality video editing, which is becoming a reality, then they will need better and faster computers with DVD writers that work well.
Point out the relative size of the IT industry against the entertainment industry and point out that these type of incredibly restrictive laws are unlikely to be followed in other developed countries.
Secondly, point out that computer games, which are one of the most copied things of all time, are a flourishing industry whose revenue is a large fraction of the film industry's despite all the copying that goes on.
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Lost productivity figures are a strange and inexplicable number, like budget surplusses.
It's silly. I mean, lets say you're paid $50/hour when expenses are included. That means you're at about $1 / minute. Now - to lose $1 in productivity you'd have to spend 1 minute deleting the spam. I mean, 1 minute. Here in our office our most inexperienced computer user wouldn't even spend 5 seconds deleting spam. I don't see how bandwidth or storage space could even get you to that $1.
Spam is a problem, but these statements like $1 of lost productivity are pretty dubiuos. If you measure it like that the cost of my window would be enourmous, and the price of slashdot on the world economy billions per day.
Like the Wildcat II series we have reviewed in the past, the XVR-1000 is targetted towards the workstation market, and as such, there is a great deal of emphasis on image quality and accuracy. The board features 38-bit RBGA color (30-bit RGB + 8-bit Alpha), a 116-bit framebuffer, and 26-bit floating-point Z buffer.
The Z buffer precision might actually be of use. There are people who do visualisation who care about this stuff. As for the color, does anyone know if you can actually see any difference there ? I mean - 24 bit color is 16M colors ?
CVS does have some problems. In particular, there should be a way of checking in all the files of a change at once, and having the check in built to see if it actually works properly. The complete check in should be an ACID transaction. There should also be nicer ways of browsing the repository.
Comparisons between the systems are few and far between. I've never seen a good one. But that's like most tools because most of these questions wind up being quite specific to the task at hand. But really high quality technical comparisons are really hard. I've written poor ones myself and had to admit that what I'd looked at did not really capture the differences. One's I've had to deal with recently are Direct 3D vs OpenGL, Visual C++.NET vs Borland. And even thinking about language comparisons makes my head hurt. There are reports in other fields ( think Jane's ) that are really high quality and high cost.
But anyway - if you do the comparison it'd be great to see it up on a web page.
They are. At least the smart ones are. Ani Difranco in particular. As well as being a very good songwriter she runs her own label.
Rather than getting the small fraction of the price of a CD that most artists get she is getting a good share.
It's a lot more than most other whinging artists get. Instead of whining ( ala Courtney Love ) she's gotten her act together and promoted herself through relentless touring and the quality of her music.
Ani Difranco is the future of music. EMI and all the rest are bankruptcies waiting to happen.
An LCD that size must use a fair amount of batteries and be reasonably large.
If you really want to make you're GameCube or PS2 portable ( Xbox's themselves aren't portable so I'll skip them ) you can get a pair of Sony Glasstrons. These are glasses that do TV resolution. Unfortunately they have been discontinued.
You can pick them up on Ebay for ~$350. I've used these things once or twice and I was quite impressed. Has anyone else used them for any length of time ?
The deal for Excite was not that bad in some ways, when they bought Excite it had positive cash flow and was about number 3 or 4 in the portal game. The problem was that they synergy didn't happen.
Cringely wrote a good column about it months before all this happened.
His prognosis was also remarkably sharp, about how AT and T would come back and get the network, although it seems people are justifiably annoyed at their tactics.
This is a good point. The big examples of a system of authentication that are vast and work are Visa and Mastercard.
The two do kind of collaborate, but they provide a global standard that has worked really well. Why not extend these as well for internet identification ? They are already the most important method of internet payment.
The theory that AIDSs was created via a polio vaccine which used Monkey tissue and from which AIDS developed is highly likely to be false.
Here is one link that discusses it. At the end of this article there is reference to work being done on earlier AIDS cases. I even recall reading something that said this had been done, but I could be wrong.
The point about Nuclear Energy is interesting, however presumably there has also been concern about the creation of huge electronic brains that would rule the earth. What if people had banned research on computers because of these fears ?
A quote from Gamastra.com :
"Square's CEO Quits after Poor Showing by Final Fantasy
Game software maker Square announced that president and chief executive officer, Hisashi Suzuki would resign after the company reported its worst-ever loss for the first half due to a disappointing showing by its Final Fantasy The Spirits Within mo Square reported a group net loss of $106.8 million for the six months through September 30. The film has generated revenue of about $30 million in the U.S. market, well below the targeted $80 to 90 million, and interest among Japanese consumers has also been weak. The earnings news came as no surprise to the market as the company issued a profit warning last week.
Chief operating officer Yoichi Wada will take the top position on December 1, while Suzuki will remain as the chairman."
from this page.
It's sad to see that people who worked so hard on something that was quite something technically have not succeeded, at least financially.
The problem with VR was the hype and our own phenomenal ability to imagine what we'd like.
VR is alive in slightly different ways. While we don't have the display hardware, the hardware for the construction of these images has benefitted from VR. VR helped drive the demand for high end SGI systems. These improved a lot during the 90's, with the end being NVIDIA and ATI's monster cards.
As for VR being used, well, the VR application that predates VR - the flight simulator is still there and an integral part of learning to fly in most commercial and military situations.
The military is also sponsoring other VR work for simulations like Quake for various combat and peace keeping situations.
In medicine, VR training is coming. There is a conference called MMVR that keeps growing.
In a number of niche applications, mining, 3D sculpting and various other things, VR tools are being used in a production environment every day.
AR, augmented reality, is a field that has arisen and used knowledge gained from VR.
Really, it's like AI. In the 80's AI was going to solve everything and we'd have intelligent machines doing many tasks that require consciousness today. It didn't happen as simply as we would have liked, but the technology developed in expert systems and reasoning is being used all over the place in various ways. The same is true for VR, the hype has gone but the technology continues to go on and finds applications.
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What about ueberMuenchen, seeing it's soccer wouldn't that be appropriate ?
Mod this up. This is a really good question. But one difference is that it's much easier to transmit a document via an IM client than faxing it. I wonder if the faxes are logged.
Thinking about why people are supporting Open Source and what use for companies Open Source is is something that has to be done. Also, I don't think his myths are meant to be taken too literally. And let's face it, IBM's marketing team is trying to push the idea that IBM has some how become a nice gentle company. You don't come up with Peace, Love and Linux as a slogan if you're not trying to push that message at least to some degree. Sun and HP are also into marketing to developers along these lines.
Hey, what kind of gateway do you use to get to the phone system ?
4. Does it taste good ?
Episode I was released in the US months ahead of the European, Australasian and Asian releases. The result was that a demand was created, and fulfilled, for high quality pirated net copies were available within 24 hours of the initial release. I was in Europe at the time and faced with waiting for 3-4 months for a release and watching a lower quality film, the lower quality easily won out.
In the European holiday belt from Spain to Greece, pirated videos of Episode I ran all summer before the official relase.
The film presumably did quite well at the box office regardless, but it is interesting to wonder if the altered release for Episode II was designed in part to combat piracy, and in particular internet piracy.
Just look at the failure ( perhaps I speak too soon ) of attempts at producing higher quality audio than CD and turning them into standards. For 90% of the world on 95% of the world's audio equipment going beyond CDs is a waste of money.
Finally, for all their hopes and dreams, people can't just decree a new standard, these things take a lot of time before they take off. DVDs took about 5 years to catch on.
Really, it's quite appalling that programmers have been using this kind of technology for at least 20 years and yet all the people we work with haven't been added to the system. After recently preparing a large word document, I realise most office workers don't have a good way of work either. It's really shocking.
The approach of using an object oriented database is really interesting.
I'd like to know how the big games development shops handle the problem, from my limited contact with them it seems pretty haphazard.
Perhaps with the use of such commodity parts it might be possible to have a new Xbox out each year.
The would have strange consequences for a console, would consoles have to say for Xbox 2004 only ? PS 1 or 2 is one thing, but one every year would be another.
The simpler remedies for TB and Polio ! Genius !
But the SIG was a bit strong. Was it a take on Malthusian ?
Newer cars tend to be slightly more fuel efficient, quieter and faster. And of course cars wear out more quickly than silicon ( although keyboards and mice wear out more quickly than cars ).
It won't just be the game market, there will be new apps. For example if people want to do good quality video editing, which is becoming a reality, then they will need better and faster computers with DVD writers that work well.
I hope the ASCI machine is capable of tasteful color selection. It might not be so bad if the people could be color coordinated.
Secondly, point out that computer games, which are one of the most copied things of all time, are a flourishing industry whose revenue is a large fraction of the film industry's despite all the copying that goes on.
That is really pretty funny.
Lost productivity figures are a strange and inexplicable number, like budget surplusses.
It's silly. I mean, lets say you're paid $50/hour when expenses are included. That means you're at about $1 / minute. Now - to lose $1 in productivity you'd have to spend 1 minute deleting the spam. I mean, 1 minute. Here in our office our most inexperienced computer user wouldn't even spend 5 seconds deleting spam. I don't see how bandwidth or storage space could even get you to that $1.
Spam is a problem, but these statements like $1 of lost productivity are pretty dubiuos. If you measure it like that the cost of my window would be enourmous, and the price of slashdot on the world economy billions per day.
Shouldn't that be GNUclear submarine ?
CVS does have some problems. In particular, there should be a way of checking in all the files of a change at once, and having the check in built to see if it actually works properly. The complete check in should be an ACID transaction. There should also be nicer ways of browsing the repository. Comparisons between the systems are few and far between. I've never seen a good one. But that's like most tools because most of these questions wind up being quite specific to the task at hand. But really high quality technical comparisons are really hard. I've written poor ones myself and had to admit that what I'd looked at did not really capture the differences. One's I've had to deal with recently are Direct 3D vs OpenGL, Visual C++ .NET vs Borland. And even thinking about language comparisons makes my head hurt. There are reports in other fields ( think Jane's ) that are really high quality and high cost.
But anyway - if you do the comparison it'd be great to see it up on a web page.
They are. At least the smart ones are. Ani Difranco in particular. As well as being a very good songwriter she runs her own label.
Rather than getting the small fraction of the price of a CD that most artists get she is getting a good share.
It's a lot more than most other whinging artists get. Instead of whining ( ala Courtney Love ) she's gotten her act together and promoted herself through relentless touring and the quality of her music.
Ani Difranco is the future of music. EMI and all the rest are bankruptcies waiting to happen.
An LCD that size must use a fair amount of batteries and be reasonably large.
If you really want to make you're GameCube or PS2 portable ( Xbox's themselves aren't portable so I'll skip them ) you can get a pair of Sony Glasstrons. These are glasses that do TV resolution. Unfortunately they have been discontinued.
You can pick them up on Ebay for ~$350. I've used these things once or twice and I was quite impressed. Has anyone else used them for any length of time ?
The deal for Excite was not that bad in some ways, when they bought Excite it had positive cash flow and was about number 3 or 4 in the portal game. The problem was that they synergy didn't happen.
Cringely wrote a good column about it months before all this happened.
His prognosis was also remarkably sharp, about how AT and T would come back and get the network, although it seems people are justifiably annoyed at their tactics.
This is a good point. The big examples of a system of authentication that are vast and work are Visa and Mastercard.
The two do kind of collaborate, but they provide a global standard that has worked really well. Why not extend these as well for internet identification ? They are already the most important method of internet payment.
The theory that AIDSs was created via a polio vaccine which used Monkey tissue and from which AIDS developed is highly likely to be false.
Here is one link that discusses it. At the end of this article there is reference to work being done on earlier AIDS cases. I even recall reading something that said this had been done, but I could be wrong.
The point about Nuclear Energy is interesting, however presumably there has also been concern about the creation of huge electronic brains that would rule the earth. What if people had banned research on computers because of these fears ?
A quote from Gamastra.com :
"Square's CEO Quits after Poor Showing by Final Fantasy Game software maker Square announced that president and chief executive officer, Hisashi Suzuki would resign after the company reported its worst-ever loss for the first half due to a disappointing showing by its Final Fantasy The Spirits Within mo Square reported a group net loss of $106.8 million for the six months through September 30. The film has generated revenue of about $30 million in the U.S. market, well below the targeted $80 to 90 million, and interest among Japanese consumers has also been weak. The earnings news came as no surprise to the market as the company issued a profit warning last week.
Chief operating officer Yoichi Wada will take the top position on December 1, while Suzuki will remain as the chairman."
from this page.
It's sad to see that people who worked so hard on something that was quite something technically have not succeeded, at least financially.
The problem with VR was the hype and our own phenomenal ability to imagine what we'd like. VR is alive in slightly different ways. While we don't have the display hardware, the hardware for the construction of these images has benefitted from VR. VR helped drive the demand for high end SGI systems. These improved a lot during the 90's, with the end being NVIDIA and ATI's monster cards.
As for VR being used, well, the VR application that predates VR - the flight simulator is still there and an integral part of learning to fly in most commercial and military situations.
The military is also sponsoring other VR work for simulations like Quake for various combat and peace keeping situations.
In medicine, VR training is coming. There is a conference called MMVR that keeps growing.
In a number of niche applications, mining, 3D sculpting and various other things, VR tools are being used in a production environment every day.
AR, augmented reality, is a field that has arisen and used knowledge gained from VR.
Really, it's like AI. In the 80's AI was going to solve everything and we'd have intelligent machines doing many tasks that require consciousness today. It didn't happen as simply as we would have liked, but the technology developed in expert systems and reasoning is being used all over the place in various ways. The same is true for VR, the hype has gone but the technology continues to go on and finds applications.