Much like a TV. That's what Intel/MS wants to do, make the PC into a "proper" consumer device.
Barring any os and hardware pro/con rhetoric, we have a long way to go to turn the PC into a "proper" consumer device. Look at the level of maintenance for all your household consumer devices. These devices are, by nature, special use. From what I see, consumers tend ignore as best they can, complexities in consumer goods, A good example being the rich features in new digital camcorders.
If our current roundup of myriad consumer products is any indicator of what consumers want, they really don't want the PC or anything resembling it. Like the Sesame Street picture of four items where one doesn't fit, the PC stands out as an anomoly of disparate functionality globbed into one box.
You don't blend juice in your toaster. But that is exactly what we do with the general purpose Von Neumann machine incarnated as the personal computer. It is a data manipulating catch all the likes that Rube Goldberg would be proud.
I don't think that anyone can turn the PC into a "proper" consumer device. Ideas from this technology will make its way into what will become standard information appliances, but it will resemble the PC only as close as a BBQ lighter resembles a blast furnace.
that battlefield medicine of the last two centuries has lead to great advances in first responder, emergency room treatment, and reconstructive surgery. What would our medical care be like without these traumatic events to push medicine along?
Pattern of a metacarpus with digits curled with the exception of the digit between the index digit and the digitus annularis, which is extended in a plane to the main structure of the aforementioned metacarpus.
wipe baby's behind, roll up diaper and drop bundle of stinky poo into the trash.
You may not be able to recycle bad movies, but you can try to compost them.
It is said that 9 out of 10 new businesses fail. I see the analogy to all creative efforts. Mabye the movie industry should that that into account and think about the viability of a new production before throwing money at these dogs the movie industry trys to call entertainment. But that would be the reasonable thing to do which flys in the face of their established "revenue model"
Why do we do anything challenging and not particularly useful?
Why do we climb the mountain, why do we run webservers on 6502 processors? Because its there, man, because its there.
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After watching eBay auctions for a while, I notice that a lot of sellers just plain flat out refuse to ship outside the U.S. Some of them add comments that they do this because of credit card fraud.
His homepage is here),
Although I could not find it on his homepage, as far as I know, the quote goes:
"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year's model."
Apparently it is from his book, Computer Networks.
We'll be telling our grandkids that the US actually had an H1B visa program to encourage tech workers from other countries to work here, not the other way around. And they'll say "Grandpa, you're pulling my leg!"
What I think would be a good solution would be a shredder with a built-in printer -- it will print random text over the sheet before shredding it, to make the text unreadable even if reassembled.
If anyone hasn't patented it, it's too late now - I hereby declare the idea public domain and knowledge.
Then why not toss in William Shatner and David Hasselhoff?
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It's difficult to review fiction well
This does seem to be the case, but it really shouldn't. Anyone who paassed college freshman english lit and who does not possess some memory lapse of the time should be able to evaluate literature on several grounded factors:
Some criteria most reviews cover such as:
who are the protaganist(s) and antagonist(s)
What is the conflict (person v person, person v nature, person v self)?
What is the plot?
What is the setting?
What is the point of view?
Other criteria seem to be ignored such as:
Is it imterpretive or escapism?
Are the characters stock characters or do they exibit depth?
Is there character development, how do the characters evolve in the story?
Use of irony?
What is the theme? Not to be confused with plot, theme is a reaccuring or implied idea. Simplistically, we can consider this the "moral of the story"
I'm no English major. The above are just bits and pieces from English Lit from more than 10 years ago.
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And here I thought paired programming was a way for a company to save on hardware.
The new law requires that manufacturers disclose the existence of such boxes in the vehicle's operators' manual
Who reads the manual?
Perhaps it should be changed from the lightweight-louie-vs-the-data-behemoth dept. to the shameless plug dept.?
It it aliens beaning an interplanetery "slow death ray" at us?
If they are little green men, then is it the green bean death ray?
Much like a TV. That's what Intel/MS wants to do, make the PC into a "proper" consumer device.
Barring any os and hardware pro/con rhetoric, we have a long way to go to turn the PC into a "proper" consumer device. Look at the level of maintenance for all your household consumer devices. These devices are, by nature, special use. From what I see, consumers tend ignore as best they can, complexities in consumer goods, A good example being the rich features in new digital camcorders.
If our current roundup of myriad consumer products is any indicator of what consumers want, they really don't want the PC or anything resembling it. Like the Sesame Street picture of four items where one doesn't fit, the PC stands out as an anomoly of disparate functionality globbed into one box.
You don't blend juice in your toaster. But that is exactly what we do with the general purpose Von Neumann machine incarnated as the personal computer. It is a data manipulating catch all the likes that Rube Goldberg would be proud.
I don't think that anyone can turn the PC into a "proper" consumer device. Ideas from this technology will make its way into what will become standard information appliances, but it will resemble the PC only as close as a BBQ lighter resembles a blast furnace.
that battlefield medicine of the last two centuries has lead to great advances in first responder, emergency room treatment, and reconstructive surgery. What would our medical care be like without these traumatic events to push medicine along?
I for one, welcome our nocticulent cloud masters!
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I'm worrying about the retinal scan and blood sample.
So it may be OT, but that is a HELL of a lot of selling activity.
Sign me up, I hate resetting my clocks!
Or it comes back in a couple of hundred years looking for whales.
Pattern of a metacarpus with digits curled with the exception of the digit between the index digit and the digitus annularis, which is extended in a plane to the main structure of the aforementioned metacarpus.
wipe baby's behind, roll up diaper and drop bundle of stinky poo into the trash.
You may not be able to recycle bad movies, but you can try to compost them.
It is said that 9 out of 10 new businesses fail. I see the analogy to all creative efforts. Mabye the movie industry should that that into account and think about the viability of a new production before throwing money at these dogs the movie industry trys to call entertainment.
But that would be the reasonable thing to do which flys in the face of their established "revenue model"
as in:
I'm here defending deese two youts...
Just call it the "project formerly known as XFree86."
Why do we do anything challenging and not particularly useful?
Why do we climb the mountain, why do we run webservers on 6502 processors?
Because its there, man, because its there.
After watching eBay auctions for a while, I notice that a lot of sellers just plain flat out refuse to ship outside the U.S. Some of them add comments that they do this because of credit card fraud.
I'm waiting for someone to combine the iDesk and the Segway
His homepage is here),
Although I could not find it on his homepage, as far as I know, the quote goes:
"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year's model."
Apparently it is from his book, Computer Networks.
We'll be telling our grandkids that the US actually had an H1B visa program to encourage tech workers from other countries to work here, not the other way around. And they'll say
"Grandpa, you're pulling my leg!"
I'm not sure what to do about the ones they're putting in car tires now, though.
Get a really BIG microwave?
What I think would be a good solution would be a shredder with a built-in printer -- it will print random text over the sheet before shredding it, to make the text unreadable even if reassembled. If anyone hasn't patented it, it's too late now - I hereby declare the idea public domain and knowledge.
Better yet, submit it to the Halfbakery
Then why not toss in William Shatner and David Hasselhoff?
It's difficult to review fiction well
This does seem to be the case, but it really shouldn't. Anyone who paassed college freshman english lit and who does not possess some memory lapse of the time should be able to evaluate literature on several grounded factors:
Some criteria most reviews cover such as:
who are the protaganist(s) and antagonist(s)
What is the conflict (person v person, person v nature, person v self)? What is the plot?
What is the setting?
What is the point of view?
Other criteria seem to be ignored such as:
Is it imterpretive or escapism?
Are the characters stock characters or do they exibit depth?
Is there character development, how do the characters evolve in the story?
Use of irony?
What is the theme? Not to be confused with plot, theme is a reaccuring or implied idea. Simplistically, we can consider this the "moral of the story"
I'm no English major. The above are just bits and pieces from English Lit from more than 10 years ago.