If only someone would high capacity flash memory or, perhaps, tiny hard disks.
Could you imagine the possibilities? You could store lots of large photos. You might even be able to use the little hard disks to create little portable pods which carried digital music. Perhaps they could get music from the internet and we could call them "internet Pods."
Well, one can dream. Until that happens there is absolutely no way to store high resolution photos on a camera.
If you're concerned about loosing valuable data make duplicates of a disk. That's what I tend to do.
Moreover, having even larger disks would make that process a LOT more efficient. I'd much rather make multiple copies of a few large disks then multiple copies of dozens of smaller disks.
No doubt, putting all your eggs in one big basket is dumb, and putting all your eggs in multiple little baskets is a better thing to. Yet, if you can make copies of that big basket all your huevos are going to be pretty damn safe.
If you're doing something for a small print piece you want a high DPI (ie 300). If it's a poster you can use a lower DPI. If it's a Billboard you can use a significantly lower DPI.
I'm a graphic designer and I recently committed the industry's cardinal sin the other day... I had a comp printed at Kinkos. I was printing a fairly large bus shelter poster that was 150dpi. The newb behind the counter had the audacity to bitch about DPI, even though (I would imagine) it was fairly obvious that I did this for a living.
If you're developing something large in Photoshop you do -not- want to play around in 300 DPI. People read those things from a few feet away and, I don't care if you have a new dual-core dual g5, you do -not- want to wait for a 30x40in bitmap to rotate on a multilayered 300 DPI document.
That said, high res photography is important. You may only want to highlight a small piece from a large image, and you can't do that unless you have good source material.
Wow.. double the price for non interlaced video!!! What a compelling feature! AND they toss in dynamically updating DRM for FREE. Sign me up!
But seriously, screw BluRay. I think Sony is seriously overestimating the influence of the videophile. At least in this country (the US), most people don't know HD from a hole in the ground. It's -so- rare that I actually find someone with an HDTV that's actually using the damn thing properly... even if they have access to content.
Heck, forget HDTV, just look a widescreen TV in general. How often to do you see people watching ugly a** stretched content because they simply want to fill the whole display and avoid vertical letter boxes? You'd think if people actually cared about picture quality they'd refuse to watch an episode of 24 where everyone is short and has giant fat heads. But nope, people view TV like that ALL the time.
But in 'merica most people just want to see sh*t bigger and on a flatter screen. What's actually on that screen is a different story.
Good luck on selling everyone on 1080p. Perhaps one might find a market with the 20 people who have 5.1 DVD audio collections.
If Apple merged with Nintendo they would undoubtedly create an army of super fanboys that could threaten economies and bulletin boards all over the world. The illogical brand loyalty and corporate **** sucking would ensure the success of even the shittiest of products.
An addition takes place when you keep doing something despite known and persistent consequences.
An if my undergrad psyc classes serve me correct, it is absolutely possible to become addicted to something that is not an ingested chemical of some sort. It's not like you experience a video game, sex, passively. You're brain released serotonin, dopamine, etc through experiencing things.
That said, to become addicted to something like a game or sex you usually have some other problems in your life. You usually need to be set up for an addition like that. At least that's what Dr. Drew would have me believe while I'm listening to Love Line while being a workaholic at midnight.
Of course they own patents and copyrights. Heck, as a grad student I protect my research and work all the time. I've even seen faculty at ivy league universities flat-out steal and publish work that has not been protected (and get away with it).
That said, you can't really equate the use policies of an academic institution with those of a large private corporation. That's just silly.
Nice try though. Plus, it could be argued that the wording in your linked page was on their American website, while the censoring occurs on their Chinese webpage. Then, as a previous poster stated, right on the Google.cn results page, it lets you know if there are any results that have been censored.
What are you talking about? Google.cn censors without notifying users that content is being removed. For example...
Watch part 6, "The struggle to control information." A journalist hands a picture of the tank man to several Chinese university students, and they have -no- idea what the picture is about. That's crazy.
This story (and many others) revolve around academic stem cell research... not private research. Furthermore, we're also not talking about pharmaceuticals. We're talking about research that will probably be published for all to see.
We need to get rolling on this stuff with out being inhibited by politicians pandering to uniformed voters.
And even if this does lead to a private company eventually developing a procedure or medication for a serious illness, we'll can deal with pricing fixing and patent abuse if it arises. Look at AIDs medication. If you come up with something that saves a lot of lives and you make the drug unattainable - people march in the streets. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/view/
I'm not saying that it's a good thing for people to be forced to do that, yet if something is important enough, people don't remain idle.
I don't quite know if socialism has ever really been given a chance on a macro scale. Although nations like China, Cuba, the former USSR, etc get labeled as "socialist" and or "communist," they've been totalitarian dictatorships and have not really adhered to Marx's model.
One could argue that many socialist and communist societies have existed over the course of history, yet they have tended to center around small community structures (ie certain tribal societies). But, of course, those are usually plowed over by expanding capitalist nations.
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How do you have a list of tech people who don't matter with out leading off with John Dvorak?
If only someone would high capacity flash memory or, perhaps, tiny hard disks.
Could you imagine the possibilities? You could store lots of large photos. You might even be able to use the little hard disks to create little portable pods which carried digital music. Perhaps they could get music from the internet and we could call them "internet Pods."
Well, one can dream. Until that happens there is absolutely no way to store high resolution photos on a camera.
If you're concerned about loosing valuable data make duplicates of a disk. That's what I tend to do.
Moreover, having even larger disks would make that process a LOT more efficient. I'd much rather make multiple copies of a few large disks then multiple copies of dozens of smaller disks.
No doubt, putting all your eggs in one big basket is dumb, and putting all your eggs in multiple little baskets is a better thing to. Yet, if you can make copies of that big basket all your huevos are going to be pretty damn safe.
Yup, viewing distance is important.
If you're doing something for a small print piece you want a high DPI (ie 300). If it's a poster you can use a lower DPI. If it's a Billboard you can use a significantly lower DPI.
I'm a graphic designer and I recently committed the industry's cardinal sin the other day... I had a comp printed at Kinkos. I was printing a fairly large bus shelter poster that was 150dpi. The newb behind the counter had the audacity to bitch about DPI, even though (I would imagine) it was fairly obvious that I did this for a living.
If you're developing something large in Photoshop you do -not- want to play around in 300 DPI. People read those things from a few feet away and, I don't care if you have a new dual-core dual g5, you do -not- want to wait for a 30x40in bitmap to rotate on a multilayered 300 DPI document.
That said, high res photography is important. You may only want to highlight a small piece from a large image, and you can't do that unless you have good source material.
Ya, but what hardware revisions are you referencing? Semiconductors shrink, components get replaced, etc.
Actually, iBooks / Macbooks have generally been known for being able to take some abuse.
But, hey, rev 1 hardware... what'd ya expect.
Wow.. double the price for non interlaced video!!! What a compelling feature! AND they toss in dynamically updating DRM for FREE. Sign me up!
But seriously, screw BluRay. I think Sony is seriously overestimating the influence of the videophile. At least in this country (the US), most people don't know HD from a hole in the ground. It's -so- rare that I actually find someone with an HDTV that's actually using the damn thing properly... even if they have access to content.
Heck, forget HDTV, just look a widescreen TV in general. How often to do you see people watching ugly a** stretched content because they simply want to fill the whole display and avoid vertical letter boxes? You'd think if people actually cared about picture quality they'd refuse to watch an episode of 24 where everyone is short and has giant fat heads. But nope, people view TV like that ALL the time.
But in 'merica most people just want to see sh*t bigger and on a flatter screen. What's actually on that screen is a different story.
Good luck on selling everyone on 1080p. Perhaps one might find a market with the 20 people who have 5.1 DVD audio collections.
Nah, it the most secure because of it's endless piles of dialog box warnings and dialog box warnings for other dialog box warnings.
In the future everyone will wear silver suits. We've already established that... ask any Slashdot reader.
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Dvorak posts shit to get hits... and the more hits we give him, the more shit he's going to post.
Why this site encourages him time and time again, I have no idea.
If Apple merged with Nintendo they would undoubtedly create an army of super fanboys that could threaten economies and bulletin boards all over the world. The illogical brand loyalty and corporate **** sucking would ensure the success of even the shittiest of products.
An addition takes place when you keep doing something despite known and persistent consequences.
An if my undergrad psyc classes serve me correct, it is absolutely possible to become addicted to something that is not an ingested chemical of some sort. It's not like you experience a video game, sex, passively. You're brain released serotonin, dopamine, etc through experiencing things.
That said, to become addicted to something like a game or sex you usually have some other problems in your life. You usually need to be set up for an addition like that. At least that's what Dr. Drew would have me believe while I'm listening to Love Line while being a workaholic at midnight.
Video game console... a computer? no way!
Now, what video games don't run on a computer of some sort?
Ohh wait... they don't exist.
Of course they own patents and copyrights. Heck, as a grad student I protect my research and work all the time. I've even seen faculty at ivy league universities flat-out steal and publish work that has not been protected (and get away with it).
That said, you can't really equate the use policies of an academic institution with those of a large private corporation. That's just silly.
Nice try though. Plus, it could be argued that the wording in your linked page was on their American website, while the censoring occurs on their Chinese webpage. Then, as a previous poster stated, right on the Google.cn results page, it lets you know if there are any results that have been censored.
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What are you talking about? Google.cn censors without notifying users that content is being removed. For example...
Here's a Google.com search for "tiananmen"
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
Here's a Google.cn search for "tiananmen"
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
creepy huh?
Frontline did a piece about this a few months ago. It was called "The Tank Man" and it's viewable online.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/v
Watch part 6, "The struggle to control information." A journalist hands a picture of the tank man to several Chinese university students, and they have -no- idea what the picture is about. That's crazy.
damn... typos galore.
Oh well.
This story (and many others) revolve around academic stem cell research... not private research. Furthermore, we're also not talking about pharmaceuticals. We're talking about research that will probably be published for all to see.
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We need to get rolling on this stuff with out being inhibited by politicians pandering to uniformed voters.
And even if this does lead to a private company eventually developing a procedure or medication for a serious illness, we'll can deal with pricing fixing and patent abuse if it arises. Look at AIDs medication. If you come up with something that saves a lot of lives and you make the drug unattainable - people march in the streets.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/view
I'm not saying that it's a good thing for people to be forced to do that, yet if something is important enough, people don't remain idle.
With the '06 elections coming up and the '08 elections 2 years away, I'd say this is the -perfect- time to start making some bold moves.
This is a major medical advancement and we need to elect people who are going to treat it as such.
I second this idea.
Dvorak is as funny as his technology and market trend predications are insightful.
And by that I mean the guy's not funny.
But seriously, what do we need to do to get a Dvorak filter around here?
And by "one" you mean "three" ...right?
...one of which is half the price.
Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers, and Paramount.
I imagine that number will grow once consumers are presented with two types of new "dvd player" set tops
I don't quite know if socialism has ever really been given a chance on a macro scale. Although nations like China, Cuba, the former USSR, etc get labeled as "socialist" and or "communist," they've been totalitarian dictatorships and have not really adhered to Marx's model.
One could argue that many socialist and communist societies have existed over the course of history, yet they have tended to center around small community structures (ie certain tribal societies). But, of course, those are usually plowed over by expanding capitalist nations.
It's a bit more like OnDemand cable.... still cool though.
Seriously man.
Could you imagine if car companies did this?
$30k for the car... but it's -going- to break... so you'd better buy the $5k maintenance program.
what does this response have to do with my post on product development?