While I know that a p.a.d.d. is a Personal Access and Data Device* and a p.d.a. is Personal Digital Assistant, I really wish the article's author had observed convention and common courtesy by defining 'e.r.p.' and 'c.r.m.' But, I suppose he couldn't gloat about knowing something I don't know then.:(
Where I come from e.r.p. stands for 'effective radiated power' (useful to know for the wireless portion of your p.d.a.) and c.r.m. stands for "can't remember much".
Frank
*I'd like to see a p.d.a. or a p.a.d.d. with a display tough enough to get thrown down on the table or ground as often as they did in Star Trek. Not to mention that one that Harry Kim left on that frozen planet after he managed to get Voyager wrecked there. Those things really took a beating!
Why is everyone okay with production systems and equipment that crash and fail when it comes to information technology? BTW, I believe the phone was running WinCE.
It seems that you answered your own question: MicroSoft's fine family of stable, reliable products. M$ has lowered the bar so low that it seems that most users will accept a fairly large amount of trouble from their software.
By the way, the female host would be known as a 'hostess'. This eliminates the need for the male/female denotation.
Cost will certainly be a consideration in the overall production of features, I'm sure. Business is still business, after all.
As a metric for your prediction, though, I saw a 2-minute short film at the Aspen Film Festival this past Winter. Talking with the man (singular) who created it in its entirety, it took about 2 years to make in his spare time as a graphics artist at Sony Films.
It definitely looked computer generated, but it was very well done, I must say. There were no Humans rendered, rather trees in a forest anthropomorphised with some Human features.
My impression is that Hollywood definitely should be quaking in its boots as the technology gets immer closer to allowing John Q. Browser to create his own little movies, all by himself, without rows and rows of artists, writers, key grips, best boys, boom operators, etc., etc., amen.
I can't wait to see what kind of copy-protection mechanism is employed in rendering software to prevent us from creating our own private models of Iman or Brad Pitt or whomever!:)
Our primary message is this--be careful with your Social Security number and your card to prevent their misuse...
...since the government was so incredibly short-sighted as to devise a system that is transparent and fraught with holes that can allow others to make your life a living Hell.
Gee, thanks for that sage advice!
I remember Ashton-Tate's practice of burning a laser hole into their 5-1/4" floppy discs was effective at preventing copying. So effective that customers bitterly complained that they had rendered their only copy of dBase executable unreadable by laying it down on top of the magnetic field around the display monitor or boom box speakers.
They dropped that method not long after it was instituted.
Frank
p.s. Floppy drives? You had floppy drives??! Why, in my day we had to load programs from the cassette port. And boy, if the batteries were low in the cassette player, the thing would slow down and it might load a Trojan instead of tn#&gi*70...sorry, my dentures fell into my glass of Ensure...now, where was I?
3G? What's that? 2.5 G? If you want to call c.d.p.d. '2.5 G' that might count.
The big boys have no spectrum, and from the looks of the Nextwave mess they won't have any for quite some time, so nothing will even be designed until there can be some hope of payback. I'm talking about the U.S. here. Other countries are leaps and bounds ahead of U.S. (that's 'us') in spectrum management and deployment of wireless data infrastructure.
I'm afraid we will not be watching movies over our handheld's wireless link while riding the train to town for quite some time, boyz and grrlz. Looks good in commercials though, doesn't it?
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While I know that a p.a.d.d. is a Personal Access and Data Device* and a p.d.a. is Personal Digital Assistant, I really wish the article's author had observed convention and common courtesy by defining 'e.r.p.' and 'c.r.m.' But, I suppose he couldn't gloat about knowing something I don't know then. :(
Where I come from e.r.p. stands for 'effective radiated power' (useful to know for the wireless portion of your p.d.a.) and c.r.m. stands for "can't remember much".
Frank
*I'd like to see a p.d.a. or a p.a.d.d. with a display tough enough to get thrown down on the table or ground as often as they did in Star Trek. Not to mention that one that Harry Kim left on that frozen planet after he managed to get Voyager wrecked there. Those things really took a beating!
It seems that you answered your own question: MicroSoft's fine family of stable, reliable products. M$ has lowered the bar so low that it seems that most users will accept a fairly large amount of trouble from their software.
By the way, the female host would be known as a 'hostess'. This eliminates the need for the male/female denotation.
Cost will certainly be a consideration in the overall production of features, I'm sure. Business is still business, after all.
:)
As a metric for your prediction, though, I saw a 2-minute short film at the Aspen Film Festival this past Winter. Talking with the man (singular) who created it in its entirety, it took about 2 years to make in his spare time as a graphics artist at Sony Films.
It definitely looked computer generated, but it was very well done, I must say. There were no Humans rendered, rather trees in a forest anthropomorphised with some Human features.
My impression is that Hollywood definitely should be quaking in its boots as the technology gets immer closer to allowing John Q. Browser to create his own little movies, all by himself, without rows and rows of artists, writers, key grips, best boys, boom operators, etc., etc., amen.
I can't wait to see what kind of copy-protection mechanism is employed in rendering software to prevent us from creating our own private models of Iman or Brad Pitt or whomever!
Gee, thanks for that sage advice!
I remember Ashton-Tate's practice of burning a laser hole into their 5-1/4" floppy discs was effective at preventing copying. So effective that customers bitterly complained that they had rendered their only copy of dBase executable unreadable by laying it down on top of the magnetic field around the display monitor or boom box speakers.
They dropped that method not long after it was instituted.
Frank
p.s. Floppy drives? You had floppy drives??! Why, in my day we had to load programs from the cassette port. And boy, if the batteries were low in the cassette player, the thing would slow down and it might load a Trojan instead of tn#&gi*70...sorry, my dentures fell into my glass of Ensure...now, where was I?
Surely you jest?
3G? What's that? 2.5 G? If you want to call c.d.p.d. '2.5 G' that might count.
The big boys have no spectrum, and from the looks of the Nextwave mess they won't have any for quite some time, so nothing will even be designed until there can be some hope of payback. I'm talking about the U.S. here. Other countries are leaps and bounds ahead of U.S. (that's 'us') in spectrum management and deployment of wireless data infrastructure.
I'm afraid we will not be watching movies over our handheld's wireless link while riding the train to town for quite some time, boyz and grrlz. Looks good in commercials though, doesn't it?
Most here don't seem to care what o.s. it runs, as long as they can watch movies on it.
Are they independently wealthy or just off-center?
Besides, if it's not connected, it cripples the effectiveness of any unix variant.