Scientific investigation takes places in many areas at once. It should come as no surprise that we have people investigating quantum phenomena while others are still exploring the properties of physical behaviour on a larger scale.
I'd rather I never had to watch anyone sell me anything at all and I could make my mind up purely based on consumer feedback but that's a bit idealistic.
"In fact this slashdot page is the only thing that told me it was a honda advert."
That's the point! This Slashdot page just did some of Honda's marketing for them. The ad is such that at least a fair number of people will discuss it and even if you don't remember which car manufacturer it was, you'll be reminded by someone else.
The ad is really very brilliant. Great entertinament, but also a very effective way to spread the brand image.
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When they said ATRAC they meant MiniDisc. ATRAC is the data format used on MD....
I use Thunderbird and have trained its filter with literally hundreds of thousands of spam emails and yet I still get enough getting through. Sometimes nearly 100 a week. Of course I am getting a minimum of 1000 emails a day...
Well I hope we continue to persecute him then. it can only be a good thing for everybody (apart from his bank) if he gives away massive amounts of his fortune to help the world's neediest people. That's a pragmatic view - there's no moral spin that I am trying to overlay. it really is a beneficial thing for him to give away loads of cash.
A good reply to the OP. Gates isn't quite as much of a shitbag that some people wish to make him out to be. He's made money out of all of us, and out of plenty of people in the developing world too, but he's putting such a tremendous amount back in to the developing world in areas where the money really is needed that you have to admire that in him.
The Korg OASYS project has been around for years though. They demonstrated this back at NAMM in the mid 90s IIRC. They said they were shelving the plans after a while because hardware was not fast enough to bring the performance they wanted. Now they have bogomips coming out of their ears it is good to see them eventually follow through.
Korg, Yamaha, Roland etc. have been selling embedded systems that act like synthesizers for years. They won't die out because they will continue to utilise their experience to make software for PCs (as they do) and all-in-one units that are very easy to use in studios.
The value of a tool is how easily it allows the musician to create and that's why I'm still using Creator on an Atari ST. Some stuff is not easy to do but then creativity can flourish when faced with restrictions on working practices. You find innovative ways around things.
"Yes races are different. Races have genetic predispositions to certain diseases, character & physical traits are influenced but not fully determined genetically. Do you really think the black male is dominating prison and arrests due to social differences? Get real... their ancestors that came here with primarily POWs and physically larger people for field work.
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If you're going to insult black people just do it. Don't fall back on psuedo-science - you look like an idiot. The best troll is one that is 99% truth, and 1% fiction. This is similar.
It is true that genetics can make some people susceptible to certain diseases. Character? Now that's dangerous ground. You probably don't understand the beginnings of the science behind how genetics may influence behaviour. Then you use this shaky grasp of biology to say that black people being in prison more often than white people is down somehow to genetics.
A great troll - very good indeed, but of course like all trolls there is a bullshit element to it and in this case it has a nasty racist smell to it. Shame really.
Not everyone has to be there and back in eight hours, and for those that do - well they pay the more expensive air-fares and get a plane.
This is why it's a non-starter. The "not everyone" group is really quite small compared to those who are not happy to take an extra day, even with nicer facilities on board.
If they can do something via teleconferencing they'll do it from the office. If they travel somewhere it is for a good reason and they will want to get there as fast as possible.
Businesses must plan in work to fit around long transit times and the longer it takes the more overhead there is. The extra cost for an airline ticket is worth it.
You may take offence at my suggestion that someone else must have thought of it already and decided not to bother, but it's an entirely valid point in this case becasuse we have not seen any significant improvement in airship technology to make them commercially viable as alternatives to aircraft.
So where could they come in? You do make a good point about them going over land - and luxury travel is really the only commercial option.
OK, let's assume your hypotheses are correct. This begs the question: why has no one seen this gap in the market and taken it up yet?
The answer is that airship travel doesn't measure up to modern day requirements.
Try selling airship travel to businesses.
"We can send Steve from New York to London on United Airlines business class or by airship. United get him there in 8 hours. The airship gets there in 3 days."
"3 days??"
"Yeah it travels at 55mph but it's a lot more comfortable than business class"
"I wanted him back within 3 days - there's a meeting here at the end of the week. Go ring United."
A total non-starter.
What about over land? Airlines are again a direct competitor for business users. Trains are also a competitor. They let you sleep in beds, they let you use broadband and they can have proper sit-down meals. And they're faster.
So what about holiday makers?
Cruise liners have the market for luxury slower travel sewn up right now. Why go on some stuffy airship when you can be on an ocean liner with cinemas, many bars, swimming pools etc. that is designed to cater for people travelling for days on end?
OK so the cruise liner is slightly over half as fast as the airship but they are catering for the market who aren't bothered about the speed of travel.
Airships cannot possibly hope to compete in terms of facilities.
Do you now see why as yet nobody has developed a successful airship travel business? Or did you think it was because nobody had had the idea before you...?
Useless - no one wants to take ages getting about. Teleconferencing is useless in this situation. If business people are travelling to somewhere to meet someone they obviously value face to face talks. They can teleconference from their office! Holidaymakers are unlikely to want to teleconference with the barman at the beach bar. Airships can onyl make money when carrying passengers for whom the flying is the experience they wanted, not the mere travelling.
You can find airline legroom comparisons on some websites. If airlines who give more legroom end up getting more custom because of it then this will hopefully influence companies in the end. But it's never quite as simple as that...
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Scientific investigation takes places in many areas at once. It should come as no surprise that we have people investigating quantum phenomena while others are still exploring the properties of physical behaviour on a larger scale.
Oh there's always one, isn't there?
I'd rather I never had to watch anyone sell me anything at all and I could make my mind up purely based on consumer feedback but that's a bit idealistic.
"In fact this slashdot page is the only thing that told me it was a honda advert."
That's the point! This Slashdot page just did some of Honda's marketing for them. The ad is such that at least a fair number of people will discuss it and even if you don't remember which car manufacturer it was, you'll be reminded by someone else.
The ad is really very brilliant. Great entertinament, but also a very effective way to spread the brand image.
When they said ATRAC they meant MiniDisc. ATRAC is the data format used on MD....
Does the software you're running take advantage of the dual cores for multithreading though?
Yes they were shit even when they came out, weren't they?
He posted it on cam.misc and it seemed to spread from there...0 239a9bdae854818
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/cam.misc/msg/
OK, off-topic, but is there some other way of saying it?
Not so sure - isn't it close to the doubling of transistors?
I use Thunderbird and have trained its filter with literally hundreds of thousands of spam emails and yet I still get enough getting through.
Sometimes nearly 100 a week.
Of course I am getting a minimum of 1000 emails a day...
That would be so cool.
Well I hope we continue to persecute him then. it can only be a good thing for everybody (apart from his bank) if he gives away massive amounts of his fortune to help the world's neediest people.
That's a pragmatic view - there's no moral spin that I am trying to overlay. it really is a beneficial thing for him to give away loads of cash.
A good reply to the OP.
Gates isn't quite as much of a shitbag that some people wish to make him out to be. He's made money out of all of us, and out of plenty of people in the developing world too, but he's putting such a tremendous amount back in to the developing world in areas where the money really is needed that you have to admire that in him.
There is already a music keyboard that runs Windows!p en_Labs/PR/OpenSynth-neKo.html
Has a touch sensitive screen plus loads of hardware controllers on the huge front panel which makes it a great all-in-one production studio.
http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM04/Content/O
The Korg OASYS project has been around for years though. They demonstrated this back at NAMM in the mid 90s IIRC.
They said they were shelving the plans after a while because hardware was not fast enough to bring the performance they wanted.
Now they have bogomips coming out of their ears it is good to see them eventually follow through.
Korg, Yamaha, Roland etc. have been selling embedded systems that act like synthesizers for years. They won't die out because they will continue to utilise their experience to make software for PCs (as they do) and all-in-one units that are very easy to use in studios.
The value of a tool is how easily it allows the musician to create and that's why I'm still using Creator on an Atari ST.
Some stuff is not easy to do but then creativity can flourish when faced with restrictions on working practices.
You find innovative ways around things.
Now all I need is some talent!
Is he dressed as an arab in other pictures?
"Yes races are different. Races have genetic predispositions to certain diseases, character & physical traits are influenced but not fully determined genetically. Do you really think the black male is dominating prison and arrests due to social differences? Get real... their ancestors that came here with primarily POWs and physically larger people for field work. "
If you're going to insult black people just do it. Don't fall back on psuedo-science - you look like an idiot. The best troll is one that is 99% truth, and 1% fiction. This is similar.
It is true that genetics can make some people susceptible to certain diseases. Character? Now that's dangerous ground. You probably don't understand the beginnings of the science behind how genetics may influence behaviour. Then you use this shaky grasp of biology to say that black people being in prison more often than white people is down somehow to genetics.
A great troll - very good indeed, but of course like all trolls there is a bullshit element to it and in this case it has a nasty racist smell to it. Shame really.
I hope they made her pay more. The vast majority of people who are overweight eat too much and exercise too little.
Not everyone has to be there and back in eight hours, and for those that do - well they pay the more expensive air-fares and get a plane.
This is why it's a non-starter. The "not everyone" group is really quite small compared to those who are not happy to take an extra day, even with nicer facilities on board.
If they can do something via teleconferencing they'll do it from the office. If they travel somewhere it is for a good reason and they will want to get there as fast as possible.
Businesses must plan in work to fit around long transit times and the longer it takes the more overhead there is. The extra cost for an airline ticket is worth it.
You may take offence at my suggestion that someone else must have thought of it already and decided not to bother, but it's an entirely valid point in this case becasuse we have not seen any significant improvement in airship technology to make them commercially viable as alternatives to aircraft.
So where could they come in? You do make a good point about them going over land - and luxury travel is really the only commercial option.
Oh yes, there are no fat Europeans. Well spotted.
The answer is that airship travel doesn't measure up to modern day requirements.
Try selling airship travel to businesses.
"We can send Steve from New York to London on United Airlines business class or by airship. United get him there in 8 hours. The airship gets there in 3 days."
"3 days??"
"Yeah it travels at 55mph but it's a lot more comfortable than business class"
"I wanted him back within 3 days - there's a meeting here at the end of the week. Go ring United."
A total non-starter.
What about over land? Airlines are again a direct competitor for business users. Trains are also a competitor. They let you sleep in beds, they let you use broadband and they can have proper sit-down meals. And they're faster.
So what about holiday makers?
Cruise liners have the market for luxury slower travel sewn up right now. Why go on some stuffy airship when you can be on an ocean liner with cinemas, many bars, swimming pools etc. that is designed to cater for people travelling for days on end?
OK so the cruise liner is slightly over half as fast as the airship but they are catering for the market who aren't bothered about the speed of travel.
Airships cannot possibly hope to compete in terms of facilities.
Do you now see why as yet nobody has developed a successful airship travel business? Or did you think it was because nobody had had the idea before you...?
Useless - no one wants to take ages getting about.
Teleconferencing is useless in this situation. If business people are travelling to somewhere to meet someone they obviously value face to face talks. They can teleconference from their office!
Holidaymakers are unlikely to want to teleconference with the barman at the beach bar.
Airships can onyl make money when carrying passengers for whom the flying is the experience they wanted, not the mere travelling.
You can find airline legroom comparisons on some websites. If airlines who give more legroom end up getting more custom because of it then this will hopefully influence companies in the end.
But it's never quite as simple as that...
I don't mind the lack of legroomas I'm not super-tall but I pity anyone who is really fat - seats aren't designed for really heavy people.