Actually, this opens up some interesting possibilities for people like the RIAA and MPAA. When you can download a whole CD or DVD in seconds, there's no longer much point to someone who's system is connected, in having physical media, or even a copy of the media, on their own machine. Whatever type of business model they'd wind up with could take that into account, and they could come up with a Netflix-type model, or something new and appropriate to the new reality (when have they ever done THAT, though?) - pay $x/mo, or $x/mo/bitrate/resolution, or whatever. The online rental business could be huge.
There's also the benefit of being able to do real-time offsite storage. The people who would care about needing massive amount of storage for their movie collection - no longer need to store their movies locally. Your whole machine could wind up being nothing more than an online access point with it being customized to be the HCI that you prefer: curvy keyboard (w/ or w/o lights) or not, big-ass widescreen display... or not, your choice of colour, and a big honkin' net connection. Lots of RAM and a SSD boot drive, and something (magnetic card, keyfob, whatever, or nothing - just swipe your retina across a scanner or something) you can take with you to plug into whatever other machines you use to let that machine know it's you and to configure to your preferences. And nothing more. No moving parts other than the keyswitches and GP/CPU fan.
This is the kind of technology advancement that can change almost everything in its field if enough people with vision can take advantage of it and work together to make it seamless.
The technology required to terraform another planet will probably come along about the same time as making our own planetary-scale magnetic fields. I'll worry about it if we actually get to the point of being able to terraform and *can't* make a huge magnetic field. We should probably speed up the rotation of Venus while we're at it.
And by that time, I expect we'll be able to download our consciousnesses into artificial bodies, so we could probably live in just about any physical environment, anyway.
Still, all these theoretical abilities are insignificant next to the power of the Force.:)
Truly, they're boldly going where no Trek film has gone before - a *plot*?! Abrams sure has guts. I dunno is the hardcore trekkers are gonna go for that plot stuff. Maybe if he puts in enough phasers and green dancing alien girls, they won't notice the plot.
What exactly is the BIG DEAL? I would still need to buy...
Anyone truly deserving of the label 'geek' already has all of that stuff laying around from previous machines. I know I've got a 20-pin PC Power & Cooling PSU just itching to get back in the game, and some old DDR2 RAM as well. They're crying out, I tells ya!
Wow. Wotta guy. Let's see, I want to marry an intelligent, highly educated doctor and then turn her into a brood mare who stays in the kitchen making cookies. Yeah, that'll work.
Moore's law won't apply to harddrives, true, but the poster said 'storage,' and SSDs are already here, and while they're not cheap, they are approaching somewhat-affordable, depending on your use. Doubling the complexity of flash RAM every 18 months pretty much means doubling the capacity, and I think it might be going a bit faster than that currently. The jump from 32GB to 64GB was pretty quick. I'm much more interested in faster and unlimited writes for such chips at the moment, than I am in capacity. Didn't someone last year announce 10x speed improvements with unlimited writes, 'coming soon'?
I was a former AT&T customer, as well, and switched to Sprint initially. It worked well when it worked, but all to often, I couldn't get a signal, or got dropped calls, so I switched to Verizon, and haven't had many problems since (I also have a much better phone now). I want my next phone to be a data phone, so I'm waiting for the next crop to drop.
I'm also waiting to see how the Google phone thing goes. Apparently they acquired GrandCentral.com, so I'd say they're looking into doing some interesting things. I just hope they put out a phone with a nice qwerty keypad (to me a 'nice' one means having keys that have some space between them). A open Linux-based phone would be pretty great if it was of a good design. I wouldn't mind creating some Flex-based stuff on a platform like that, if it had enough horsepower to handle it.
And let's not forget they've got much worse coverage (in most areas) and a much worse data network than Verizon.
I wouldn't switch to AT&T just for the iPhone - there will be plenty of non-AT&T iPhone competition in 1Q2008. I'm especially interested in what Google may be doing. My Verizon contract was up last month, so it's just a waiting game for me for now...
I know in larger turbines they've found that moving the blades farther away from the mast reduces that sound; it would probably work the same way with a microturbine, assuming you're designing your own.
Didnt they once say that it wasnt even possible to backport things since the vista kernel was 'so revolutionary' ?
Sure, just like they said IE couldn't be removed from Windows, and we all know how true that was.
Instead of seeing this and saying, "Might as well upgrade to Vista," I'm thinking many people might wind up saying, "Might as well upgrade to Linux." One can hope, anyway. Ubuntu 7.10 is due on the 18th, isn't it?:)
But *do* they own it? They're bringing in a new service. If Verizon isn't the one who laid down the copper originally, I'm not sure it's Verizon's to pull out.
It wouldn't matter to me personally as I use my cellphone for my only phoneline, anyway.:)
Also, they don't offer FiOS in my area (Bellevue, WA).:(
They not only cut our copper, but they dug up and removed most of the copper cabling from the neighborhood. They said that with the price of copper, it would be recycled and it would keep it from being stolen since it wasn't being used anymore.
I hope you got a rebate for the exchange of the copper on your next bill.:)
For anyone else, when this happens, tell them to leave the copper with you, so YOU can recycle it for a buck or two.:)
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Actually, this opens up some interesting possibilities for people like the RIAA and MPAA. When you can download a whole CD or DVD in seconds, there's no longer much point to someone who's system is connected, in having physical media, or even a copy of the media, on their own machine. Whatever type of business model they'd wind up with could take that into account, and they could come up with a Netflix-type model, or something new and appropriate to the new reality (when have they ever done THAT, though?) - pay $x/mo, or $x/mo/bitrate/resolution, or whatever. The online rental business could be huge.
... or not, your choice of colour, and a big honkin' net connection. Lots of RAM and a SSD boot drive, and something (magnetic card, keyfob, whatever, or nothing - just swipe your retina across a scanner or something) you can take with you to plug into whatever other machines you use to let that machine know it's you and to configure to your preferences. And nothing more. No moving parts other than the keyswitches and GP/CPU fan.
There's also the benefit of being able to do real-time offsite storage. The people who would care about needing massive amount of storage for their movie collection - no longer need to store their movies locally. Your whole machine could wind up being nothing more than an online access point with it being customized to be the HCI that you prefer: curvy keyboard (w/ or w/o lights) or not, big-ass widescreen display
This is the kind of technology advancement that can change almost everything in its field if enough people with vision can take advantage of it and work together to make it seamless.
2. To turn Stephen Hawking into a mobile, indestructible cyborg of incomprehensible power.
Well, I think it's actually to simply turn him into Davros.
The technology required to terraform another planet will probably come along about the same time as making our own planetary-scale magnetic fields. I'll worry about it if we actually get to the point of being able to terraform and *can't* make a huge magnetic field. We should probably speed up the rotation of Venus while we're at it.
:)
And by that time, I expect we'll be able to download our consciousnesses into artificial bodies, so we could probably live in just about any physical environment, anyway.
Still, all these theoretical abilities are insignificant next to the power of the Force.
Probably not due to the 243 day rotation.
And the vampires thought Barrow, Alaska was a great place to vacation...
Truly, they're boldly going where no Trek film has gone before - a *plot*?! Abrams sure has guts. I dunno is the hardcore trekkers are gonna go for that plot stuff. Maybe if he puts in enough phasers and green dancing alien girls, they won't notice the plot.
Clearly I've been using Bittorrent to watch too much tv; I first read that subject as Season 1, Episode 7. :)
What do you mean old DDR2?
It'll be old when you use this as an excuse to get a new system, and thus have old DDR2.
You need to learn to think creatively. You'll get more new toys that way.
What exactly is the BIG DEAL? I would still need to buy...
Anyone truly deserving of the label 'geek' already has all of that stuff laying around from previous machines. I know I've got a 20-pin PC Power & Cooling PSU just itching to get back in the game, and some old DDR2 RAM as well. They're crying out, I tells ya!
Wow. Wotta guy. Let's see, I want to marry an intelligent, highly educated doctor and then turn her into a brood mare who stays in the kitchen making cookies. Yeah, that'll work.
Doctors make better cookies.
"It's not much of a firewall, is it?"
"Finest on this subnet, sir!"
"And how to you come to that conclusion?"
"Well, it's so *clean*!"
"It's certainly uncontaminated by security!"
Where's NT 3.1, NT3.5 ?
:)
They came right after OS/2 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3.
They skipped 2 because IBM took over then, so MS went with 3.1 (because 3.0 was bad luck). Simple.
No, they don't. And SHUT UP.
*horrors*
Let's hope they don't go after web.com and ftp.com next!
Moore's law won't apply to harddrives, true, but the poster said 'storage,' and SSDs are already here, and while they're not cheap, they are approaching somewhat-affordable, depending on your use. Doubling the complexity of flash RAM every 18 months pretty much means doubling the capacity, and I think it might be going a bit faster than that currently. The jump from 32GB to 64GB was pretty quick. I'm much more interested in faster and unlimited writes for such chips at the moment, than I am in capacity. Didn't someone last year announce 10x speed improvements with unlimited writes, 'coming soon'?
So...the complexity of the chips on the logic board of harddrives will double in complexity every 18 months.
:)
That's a useful law.
No matter what you do, realise the Mathematics is not a spectator sport.
Not yet, but it sure would be more interesting than watching golf!
I was a former AT&T customer, as well, and switched to Sprint initially. It worked well when it worked, but all to often, I couldn't get a signal, or got dropped calls, so I switched to Verizon, and haven't had many problems since (I also have a much better phone now). I want my next phone to be a data phone, so I'm waiting for the next crop to drop.
I'm also waiting to see how the Google phone thing goes. Apparently they acquired GrandCentral.com, so I'd say they're looking into doing some interesting things. I just hope they put out a phone with a nice qwerty keypad (to me a 'nice' one means having keys that have some space between them). A open Linux-based phone would be pretty great if it was of a good design. I wouldn't mind creating some Flex-based stuff on a platform like that, if it had enough horsepower to handle it.
And let's not forget they've got much worse coverage (in most areas) and a much worse data network than Verizon.
I wouldn't switch to AT&T just for the iPhone - there will be plenty of non-AT&T iPhone competition in 1Q2008. I'm especially interested in what Google may be doing. My Verizon contract was up last month, so it's just a waiting game for me for now...
I know in larger turbines they've found that moving the blades farther away from the mast reduces that sound; it would probably work the same way with a microturbine, assuming you're designing your own.
Didnt they once say that it wasnt even possible to backport things since the vista kernel was 'so revolutionary' ?
:)
Sure, just like they said IE couldn't be removed from Windows, and we all know how true that was.
Instead of seeing this and saying, "Might as well upgrade to Vista," I'm thinking many people might wind up saying, "Might as well upgrade to Linux." One can hope, anyway. Ubuntu 7.10 is due on the 18th, isn't it?
That's a half man, half chimp. I want a half man, half monkey. It's gotta have a tail.
One step closer to the half-man, half-monkey-type creature!
But *do* they own it? They're bringing in a new service. If Verizon isn't the one who laid down the copper originally, I'm not sure it's Verizon's to pull out.
:)
:(
It wouldn't matter to me personally as I use my cellphone for my only phoneline, anyway.
Also, they don't offer FiOS in my area (Bellevue, WA).
They not only cut our copper, but they dug up and removed most of the copper cabling from the neighborhood. They said that with the price of copper, it would be recycled and it would keep it from being stolen since it wasn't being used anymore.
:)
:)
I hope you got a rebate for the exchange of the copper on your next bill.
For anyone else, when this happens, tell them to leave the copper with you, so YOU can recycle it for a buck or two.
I prefer Amazon because I will not touch DRMed music, tied to a platform even with a 10 foot pole!
... an *11* foot pole?
What about if it was a nice shiny white plastic pole with an Apple logo on it? Brushed metal?
Perhaps you would consider
Still no?
Okay, then, what about if there was a RED version endorsed by Bono?