While I can see the desire to make money like Netflix and Amazon Prime, I don't know if new services like Disney and Warner have really thought through the business model that will make them successful. What makes Netflix and Amazon Prime interesting to me is the ability to search around and find some unusual movie (I'm always looking for Roger Corman's stuff from the '60s) or documentary as well as take in their main fair.
I don't see new comers being able to provide a very wide range of interesting content that competes with the established big two. Disney will have their kid shows, MCU and Star Wars and...? Warner, if they bring in HBO, will have a bit more adult depth but I'm still not sure I would opt for it (if they included TCM selections in the mix, I might be very interested). In either case, they'll be niche players and I don't think they'll be able to successfully compete against Netflix and Amazon Prime and I can see them closing down/changing the services in a couple of years.
What I would expect studios like Disney and Warner doing would be to provide content to the big two but work out a different/preferential fee structure that helps promote their content.
Nicely done and I was surprised at how usable it was (for the most part) - the keyboard is what I would consider the biggest kludge and I would think there would be better ways to implement it.
The big question is what types of applications would this be good for? I could see it being good for point of sales as well as teaching. Adding a bar code scanner would probably be a prerequisite though. While it wouldn't be that usable for most people, I suspect that there are some situations where a computer/input device like this would be ideal.
I've seen worse/dumber things that people have put together.
This is so impractical from the certification perspective that it's not even funny - I can't see it happening for years simply through trying to get permission from the FAA/NTSB to even try the idea.
I think this is Mr, Musk just trying to stay relevant and being talked about in mainstream media.
I've been using them since DOS 1.0. NT 3.51 was the best that I can remember in terms of stability but it was a snap to break into (it was do that or fight with our IT department to install software). But I've always had to deal with applications which can break the system/violate the core functions.
I'm reasonably happy with the current version of Ubuntu - although I guess if it were truly "stable" there would be no updates and no reason to.
Doc Savage and his crew had individual radios that could "call" out to regular phones and were described in books written in '33-'34.
The Mote in God's Eye describes connected smartphones/tablets.
I'm sure there are even earlier references. The cell phone/personal communications we have today is something that "futurists" and writers have seen the need for/advantages of for a long time.
Rather than concentrate on making displays that are bigger/collapsible, what is the state of the art for getting displays that cause icons/information to appear in the air around the phone?
Is that complete pie in the sky or is there some way to get molecules of oxygen/nitrogen in the air to fluoresce and provide information outside the area of the phone and its physical display?
The big thing that TFA seems to miss is that I find that older people don't tend to understand that basically anybody can put together a professional looking website with articles that seem to be written by journalists. For most of their lives, they've only had three TV networks, major newspapers and other media outlets that have been invested in the copy and its presentation.
It's hard for them NOT to believe stories like "Hillary and Oprah had an affair in the 1970s" when they can find it on http://abcnews.go.corp/ - which is a an actual article I got forwarded from an elderly family member during the 2016 election and we had to explain to her that the URL wasn't actually ABC News even though it had the actual ABC logo which means the story wasn't true.
If I link back to the original article from September, I can see that with the Windows desktop, you will be able to run Office 365 and some Windows Apps but I think there's a lot of hubris on Microsoft's and TFA's writer to assume that the iPad needs a Windows desktop or would be better because of it.
I'm sure there are some people and companies out there that with this desktop will consider the iPad over Android and Surface tablets but I would have to think there are a lot of people and corporations would just as happy being able to run their apps, businesses, etc. without a Windows Virtual Desktop (especially one that you have to pay for).
I would think a better subject line would be "New Windows Virtual Desktop Provides iPad With Windows Capabilities".
Saying that this desktop *finally* makes the iPad useful is marketing hype at its worst.
Unfortunately, the world has gotten to a place where you really need one to survive.
I was out with my dad for dinner (who absolutely refuses to own one) the other night and he wanted to know: - What did the Dow Jones ended off at - Read the article about the guy in England who saw and photographed Air Force 1 when Trump was going to Iraq on Christmas day - Use the scientific calculator on the phone to figure out the angular width of Air Force 1 when it is 25 miles away and flying at 31,000 feet (it's 0.08 degrees if you care) - Confirm that the angular width of the moon and the sun was 0.5 degrees (actually it's just over 0.5 degrees) - If a Facebook friend had replied to him - Check the status of my wife's aunt who was in the hospital
There are two things you can conclude from this: 1. We're a geeky family 2. Too much of modern life has moved onto mobile platforms to make not having a smartphone a realistic proposition
I can respect people who only want a dumb phone - personally, I primarily use my iPhone for phone calls and texts but it's nice to have a browser available and a lot of apps do make our lives more efficient and allow us to be more mobile.
Here are top 50 big movies of 1974 (according to IMDB): - The Godfather: Part II - Black Christmas - Blazing Saddles - Chinatown - Airport 1975 - Death Wish - Young Frankenstein - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Murder on the Orient Express - The Conversation - The Man with the Golden Gun - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three - Zardoz - The Towering Inferno - The Great Gatsby - The Arena - Foxy Brown - Phantom of the Paradise - Lenny - The Longest Yard - The Night Porter - A Woman Under the Influence - Flesh Gordon - Emmanuelle - The Sugarland Express - The Odessa File - Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Dark Star - Claudine - We All Loved Each Other So Much - The Tamarind Seed - Swallows and Amazons - The Lords of Flatbush - Gone in 60 Seconds - Female Trouble - Arabian Nights - The Land That Time Forgot - Earthquake - It's Alive - Benji - Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - Vampyres - Mame - The Little Prince - The Teacher - Truck Turner - Undercovers Hero - Deep Throat Part II
There are great dramas, horror, comedies, chick flicks, kids movies, Thrillers/heist movies, James Bond/disaster movies (which were the bubble gum movies of the time - today it's superhero movies).
The only big difference that I see is that looking back, porn seems to have been more mainstream back then.
In terms of the "big movies", I only really liked First Man. Nice adaptation of the book. As for the other "Block Busters", I enjoyed Black Panther, Deadpool 2, Incredibles 2, The Mule. Ant Man and the Wasp. Solo & Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. There were quite a few I could have lived without ("Mission Impossible: Fallout", comes to the top of the list).
Where I was really impressed was with (streaming) shows including: - Altered Carbon - Westworld (Second Season) - Preacher - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (this seems to be straddling the line between "Movie" and "Streaming") - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Maniac - Better Call Saul - The Good Place - Glow - Orange is the New Black - The Orville (it's a lot better than I would have expected)
With a good big-screen setup at home, there's a lot more, better and cheaper entertainment out there than going to the movies.
It takes place on Christmas Eve with a guy that has gone to LA to spend Christmas with his estranged wife and their kids. Unfortunately, things get in the way that makes a happy Christmas for the family problematic.
Great movie by the way - much better than the book (if the book had been followed then Frank Sinatra would have been a better John McClane than Bruce Willis).
I think the OP has gotten more replies to anything else I've put up with the overwhelming response being "You're an idiot; Rober was justified and no where will the thief be able to sue him".
Get out your Google machines and look up "Criminals Sue Victims" - they may all not be successful but a lot of criminals do try to sue their victims.
I'm curious because I would think that the majority of people that come to this site can probably remove backgrounds it themselves with photoshop/Paint.net/Gimp/Krita/etc. I guess it's less work but I would think that most people here would pride themselves on being able to do it themselves.
Secondly, I don't see any privacy/ownership statements on this - couldn't this be a way for the owners of the site to collect personal pictures or even gain access to a user's computer?
While I applaud Mr. Rober, I would think that he has set himself up for a huge lawsuit by whomever took the package. The glitter being thrown about the car is definitely a danger to eyes as well as the respiratory system, the chemicals in the fart spray could trigger anaphylactic shock. This could be big money for the perpetrator and their lawyer.
IIRC, in South Africa you can booby-trap your car (or at least you could) to deter/punish theives, but I don't believe you can do anything like it anywhere else.
Maybe the police don't care but I suspect Mr. Rober could be out a lot more than just an Amazon package.
It's statements like this from Amiga proponents that I always felt was one of contributing reasons for its downfall. The Amiga was an excellent machine for its time and groundbreaking in terms of its graphics and sound capabilities relative to its contemporaries.
By saying you had to use it properly (and you're nowhere near the first person I've heard say this) means that the machine can only be used for certain tasks that it's best at and that you need to be either specially trained or uniquely intelligent to be able to use it. These types of statements turned many people off who just wanted a computer they could use.
I was going to say that it's OS and UI were ahead of its time, but then I remembered the Lisa...
What I would say about it is that at $599 for the 500 (the first model sold) it was the first system to offer premium performance at lower brand cost - note that this includes very good sound & graphic capabilities that would be extras on IBM and clone systems. Going with the 68k as its processor meant that it had a better growth path than the IBM systems at the time.
At the time, I had a friend that was absolutely nuts about it and thought it would overtake the market - but early manufacturing/availability stumbles really did it in.
Excuse me, but if you are using Windows 10 because it is production level code which means no surprises - shouldn't you always get production level code?
I just did a quick Google search on "High Pressure Operations" and couldn't find anything that was within two or three orders of magnitude of this level of pressure. To make artificial diamonds, you need around 8.4gPascals. Maybe somebody with experience with high pressure operations can provide references to other operations at this pressure level.
TFA references "USOs" (Unidentified Superconducting Objects" and I would argue that this is one of them.
Maybe it helps the author to develop a narrative, but the long and short of it is, the author's non-volatile storage unit died, he needs to replace it to get the system back and he can send it back to where he bought it from because it died under warranty. Or, he might want to have it destroyed locally if it contains proprietary information.
If you're in IT, I'm sure you'll see everything eventually break (including things like cases which don't make any sense at all) so why sweat it?
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While I can see the desire to make money like Netflix and Amazon Prime, I don't know if new services like Disney and Warner have really thought through the business model that will make them successful. What makes Netflix and Amazon Prime interesting to me is the ability to search around and find some unusual movie (I'm always looking for Roger Corman's stuff from the '60s) or documentary as well as take in their main fair.
I don't see new comers being able to provide a very wide range of interesting content that competes with the established big two. Disney will have their kid shows, MCU and Star Wars and...? Warner, if they bring in HBO, will have a bit more adult depth but I'm still not sure I would opt for it (if they included TCM selections in the mix, I might be very interested). In either case, they'll be niche players and I don't think they'll be able to successfully compete against Netflix and Amazon Prime and I can see them closing down/changing the services in a couple of years.
What I would expect studios like Disney and Warner doing would be to provide content to the big two but work out a different/preferential fee structure that helps promote their content.
Nicely done and I was surprised at how usable it was (for the most part) - the keyboard is what I would consider the biggest kludge and I would think there would be better ways to implement it.
The big question is what types of applications would this be good for? I could see it being good for point of sales as well as teaching. Adding a bar code scanner would probably be a prerequisite though. While it wouldn't be that usable for most people, I suspect that there are some situations where a computer/input device like this would be ideal.
I've seen worse/dumber things that people have put together.
Nothing more.
This is so impractical from the certification perspective that it's not even funny - I can't see it happening for years simply through trying to get permission from the FAA/NTSB to even try the idea.
I think this is Mr, Musk just trying to stay relevant and being talked about in mainstream media.
I've been using them since DOS 1.0. NT 3.51 was the best that I can remember in terms of stability but it was a snap to break into (it was do that or fight with our IT department to install software). But I've always had to deal with applications which can break the system/violate the core functions.
I'm reasonably happy with the current version of Ubuntu - although I guess if it were truly "stable" there would be no updates and no reason to.
Doc Savage and his crew had individual radios that could "call" out to regular phones and were described in books written in '33-'34.
The Mote in God's Eye describes connected smartphones/tablets.
I'm sure there are even earlier references. The cell phone/personal communications we have today is something that "futurists" and writers have seen the need for/advantages of for a long time.
Rather than concentrate on making displays that are bigger/collapsible, what is the state of the art for getting displays that cause icons/information to appear in the air around the phone?
Is that complete pie in the sky or is there some way to get molecules of oxygen/nitrogen in the air to fluoresce and provide information outside the area of the phone and its physical display?
The big thing that TFA seems to miss is that I find that older people don't tend to understand that basically anybody can put together a professional looking website with articles that seem to be written by journalists. For most of their lives, they've only had three TV networks, major newspapers and other media outlets that have been invested in the copy and its presentation.
It's hard for them NOT to believe stories like "Hillary and Oprah had an affair in the 1970s" when they can find it on http://abcnews.go.corp/ - which is a an actual article I got forwarded from an elderly family member during the 2016 election and we had to explain to her that the URL wasn't actually ABC News even though it had the actual ABC logo which means the story wasn't true.
If I link back to the original article from September, I can see that with the Windows desktop, you will be able to run Office 365 and some Windows Apps but I think there's a lot of hubris on Microsoft's and TFA's writer to assume that the iPad needs a Windows desktop or would be better because of it.
I'm sure there are some people and companies out there that with this desktop will consider the iPad over Android and Surface tablets but I would have to think there are a lot of people and corporations would just as happy being able to run their apps, businesses, etc. without a Windows Virtual Desktop (especially one that you have to pay for).
I would think a better subject line would be "New Windows Virtual Desktop Provides iPad With Windows Capabilities".
Saying that this desktop *finally* makes the iPad useful is marketing hype at its worst.
is that they harass those of us who do.
Unfortunately, the world has gotten to a place where you really need one to survive.
I was out with my dad for dinner (who absolutely refuses to own one) the other night and he wanted to know:
- What did the Dow Jones ended off at
- Read the article about the guy in England who saw and photographed Air Force 1 when Trump was going to Iraq on Christmas day
- Use the scientific calculator on the phone to figure out the angular width of Air Force 1 when it is 25 miles away and flying at 31,000 feet (it's 0.08 degrees if you care)
- Confirm that the angular width of the moon and the sun was 0.5 degrees (actually it's just over 0.5 degrees)
- If a Facebook friend had replied to him
- Check the status of my wife's aunt who was in the hospital
There are two things you can conclude from this:
1. We're a geeky family
2. Too much of modern life has moved onto mobile platforms to make not having a smartphone a realistic proposition
I can respect people who only want a dumb phone - personally, I primarily use my iPhone for phone calls and texts but it's nice to have a browser available and a lot of apps do make our lives more efficient and allow us to be more mobile.
I define "Streaming" as a story told over multiple installments (four or more) as opposed to a "movie" which is just a single installment.
Buster Scruggs has six installments which is why I labeled it the way I did.
Here are top 50 big movies of 1974 (according to IMDB):
- The Godfather: Part II
- Black Christmas
- Blazing Saddles
- Chinatown
- Airport 1975
- Death Wish
- Young Frankenstein
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The Conversation
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
- Zardoz
- The Towering Inferno
- The Great Gatsby
- The Arena
- Foxy Brown
- Phantom of the Paradise
- Lenny
- The Longest Yard
- The Night Porter
- A Woman Under the Influence
- Flesh Gordon
- Emmanuelle
- The Sugarland Express
- The Odessa File
- Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Dark Star
- Claudine
- We All Loved Each Other So Much
- The Tamarind Seed
- Swallows and Amazons
- The Lords of Flatbush
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- Female Trouble
- Arabian Nights
- The Land That Time Forgot
- Earthquake
- It's Alive
- Benji
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
- Vampyres
- Mame
- The Little Prince
- The Teacher
- Truck Turner
- Undercovers Hero
- Deep Throat Part II
There are great dramas, horror, comedies, chick flicks, kids movies, Thrillers/heist movies, James Bond/disaster movies (which were the bubble gum movies of the time - today it's superhero movies).
The only big difference that I see is that looking back, porn seems to have been more mainstream back then.
In terms of the "big movies", I only really liked First Man. Nice adaptation of the book. As for the other "Block Busters", I enjoyed Black Panther, Deadpool 2, Incredibles 2, The Mule. Ant Man and the Wasp. Solo & Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. There were quite a few I could have lived without ("Mission Impossible: Fallout", comes to the top of the list).
Where I was really impressed was with (streaming) shows including:
- Altered Carbon
- Westworld (Second Season)
- Preacher
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (this seems to be straddling the line between "Movie" and "Streaming")
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Maniac
- Better Call Saul
- The Good Place
- Glow
- Orange is the New Black
- The Orville (it's a lot better than I would have expected)
With a good big-screen setup at home, there's a lot more, better and cheaper entertainment out there than going to the movies.
Just finished her "The Last Planet" 1953 - really quite enjoyed it.
You'll probably have to find it as a used book.
Personally, I find her stuff hit and miss, she tells a great tale of journey, but often the ending/conflict leaves much to be desired.
The Last Planet is one of the best and well rounded books of hers that I've read.
If I summarize the plot as:
It takes place on Christmas Eve with a guy that has gone to LA to spend Christmas with his estranged wife and their kids. Unfortunately, things get in the way that makes a happy Christmas for the family problematic.
Great movie by the way - much better than the book (if the book had been followed then Frank Sinatra would have been a better John McClane than Bruce Willis).
Merry Christmas everybody!
Big Laugh. Thank you.
I think the OP has gotten more replies to anything else I've put up with the overwhelming response being "You're an idiot; Rober was justified and no where will the thief be able to sue him".
Get out your Google machines and look up "Criminals Sue Victims" - they may all not be successful but a lot of criminals do try to sue their victims.
I'm curious because I would think that the majority of people that come to this site can probably remove backgrounds it themselves with photoshop/Paint.net/Gimp/Krita/etc. I guess it's less work but I would think that most people here would pride themselves on being able to do it themselves.
Secondly, I don't see any privacy/ownership statements on this - couldn't this be a way for the owners of the site to collect personal pictures or even gain access to a user's computer?
Hopefully I won't get slammed like my last post.
While I applaud Mr. Rober, I would think that he has set himself up for a huge lawsuit by whomever took the package. The glitter being thrown about the car is definitely a danger to eyes as well as the respiratory system, the chemicals in the fart spray could trigger anaphylactic shock. This could be big money for the perpetrator and their lawyer.
IIRC, in South Africa you can booby-trap your car (or at least you could) to deter/punish theives, but I don't believe you can do anything like it anywhere else.
Maybe the police don't care but I suspect Mr. Rober could be out a lot more than just an Amazon package.
It's statements like this from Amiga proponents that I always felt was one of contributing reasons for its downfall. The Amiga was an excellent machine for its time and groundbreaking in terms of its graphics and sound capabilities relative to its contemporaries.
By saying you had to use it properly (and you're nowhere near the first person I've heard say this) means that the machine can only be used for certain tasks that it's best at and that you need to be either specially trained or uniquely intelligent to be able to use it. These types of statements turned many people off who just wanted a computer they could use.
The Amiga 500 was $599 - probably $2k less than somebody could get a comparably equipped Wintel machine at the time.
I was going to say that it's OS and UI were ahead of its time, but then I remembered the Lisa...
What I would say about it is that at $599 for the 500 (the first model sold) it was the first system to offer premium performance at lower brand cost - note that this includes very good sound & graphic capabilities that would be extras on IBM and clone systems. Going with the 68k as its processor meant that it had a better growth path than the IBM systems at the time.
At the time, I had a friend that was absolutely nuts about it and thought it would overtake the market - but early manufacturing/availability stumbles really did it in.
Now, you don't even have to sign up for it!
Excuse me, but if you are using Windows 10 because it is production level code which means no surprises - shouldn't you always get production level code?
And my dad asks why I don't trust Windows 10.
170 gPascals ~= 1.68 Million atmospheres.
I just did a quick Google search on "High Pressure Operations" and couldn't find anything that was within two or three orders of magnitude of this level of pressure. To make artificial diamonds, you need around 8.4gPascals. Maybe somebody with experience with high pressure operations can provide references to other operations at this pressure level.
TFA references "USOs" (Unidentified Superconducting Objects" and I would argue that this is one of them.
Maybe it helps the author to develop a narrative, but the long and short of it is, the author's non-volatile storage unit died, he needs to replace it to get the system back and he can send it back to where he bought it from because it died under warranty. Or, he might want to have it destroyed locally if it contains proprietary information.
If you're in IT, I'm sure you'll see everything eventually break (including things like cases which don't make any sense at all) so why sweat it?
Please give me a link to am elementary school that teachers C++ as a first programming language.