Um, until people start writing the SOFTWARE to utilise the hardware, you're still talking about current level equipment being 'good enough'.
I got an Xbox because It's got GF3 level support and software to USE it. I can't say the same thing for the GF2MX400 on my desktop computer. I _still_ don't see a bunch of games to utilise even it's capabilities, much less the GF3 that's been the hot card to get OR the GF4 which just came out.
Further, programmers won't spend the time to fully utilise the capabilities of the GF4 for quite some time as it represents a tiny fraction of the installed based. On the _XBOX_ on the other hand, they CAN devote the time as every single unit can support the code.
And those 'others' feel better with tinfoil on their heads.
Golly it's IMPRESSIVE how forthright us nerds are. It's equally impressive how much rhetoric we can spew.
Golly. When a Nigerian Fraud ring got ahold of my SSN and name, got $10k worth of computer equipment, a gas card and a checking account in my name, I didn't have ANY of the problems you alluded to in cleaning my credit record.
It took a few phonecalls and THAT was IT.
When I had two bad marks on my credit record by companies that ceased to exist 6 years ago (one of which I had no known working relationship with) it took two clicks in two checkboxes at Equifax's website saying 'I want you to investigate this' and poof! They were gone.
I don't WANT another Lilo. Joe Sixpack doesn't give a rat's patoot what Lilo is, or why he'd want the source for it.
I've futzed with Linux for over a decade off and on (mostly off) and it bugs me that I _still_ have to know the mount command, that I've got to figgure out print queues on my own, and that I've got to have comfortable knowledge of TCP/IP theory to configure anything more than a minimal ethernet connection.
Really. Joe Sixpack....eth0, printcap, and fstab...the mind boggles.
Here's hoping OSX is what insulates the computer USERS from the gears of the OS.
I don't understand how people who are so 'smart' try to disseminate a message so stupidly.
Case is point:
'Austin acknowledged that he vandalized the Web sites and that he knew it was illegal to do so. But he defended the act by saying it was necessary to get his message out.'
and
'"If I go to jail, then I will go to jail not based on my actions, but based on what I think," he said. '
If he's smart enough to collect this kind of following, why is it that he ISN'T smart enough to figure out how to peacefully make his desires come about?
And why isn't he smart enough to realise that by calling attention to himself THIS way will just get him squashed.
America is a pretty cool place. Pretty big things have been changed in pretty peaceful ways. It also has the resources and desire to prevent folks like this from causing [much] damage.
It's one thing to get your way by trying to break a toy, it's another thing entirely to redesign the environment so that the toy works for you. (and all that 'reed bending in the breeze' Kung Fu crap.)
Well, yes. That was me using a little Artistic License. a) A Palm III has _2_kb RAM, and b) it subtly inferred that 'aside from pr0n and the Simpsons, there isn't much happening on USENET.'
How bout a system with NO architectural improvements in three years. A $450 device that's still Black and White and runs at what? (It's not mentioned, but I doubt it's more than 33 Mhz. Don't gimmie 'it doesn't NEED more' If it's got more, somebody will USE it.)
Having a TON of CRAPPY software is not an improvement. The CE devices have the same amount of QUALITY software as the Palm's do. Name any Palm application, I bet there's a PPC2002 equivalent.
Where's this thing's 802.11 connectivity? Where's it's ability to connect to network drive shares? PPC with 802.11 can _natively_ communicate with a SQL database. What databases do Palm talk to...off the device? What's the quality of it's sound output?
Looking at the Expansion tab on the mockup, they've got a dictionary description of innovation. Um. WHAT innovation? Sony's got higher res, more memory and color. The only thing this has over a Palm 7 is a memory slot and constant on- slow- expensive- wireless.
I reactivated my palm 7 to play around with it...9600 baud IS like pulling teeth, without a bullet or whiskey. I note the conspicuous absence of any DETAILS of the wireless capabilities of this device...I suspect it too uses the same connectivity.
So, at the office, I've got CF 802.11b for the ipaq (LOVE IT) and I've got a nokia 8290 to infrared connect it in the field (but, alas, also at 9600 baud.)
And this thing is B&W? Nothing to see here, move on.
I got a BS in Civil Engineering then took a left turn. I discovered that, if you're designing bridges as a Civil Engineer, you design your first one in College, then every other bridge you design for the rest of your life is a scale model of that one. (a simplification, but I didn't see it as a particularly EXCITING career).
That and I didn't want to build something that might fall over and KILL someone.
Computers were always a passion, but I didin't take CS because I didn't want to hear some Grad Student tell me I was wrong.:)
So I got a job writing Software for Civil Engineeers. It used my background, and got me doing something I liked. Then that job migrated to Network Administration, then Website design. (Now it's moving back into Enterprise server design and Security Analysis....now THERE'S a job that's not going away any time soon!)
I'm not unusual. LOTS of people get jobs that have nothing to do with their major. The BS piece of paper shows that you're CAPABLE of learning, and have learned the discipline to do so.
That aside, ANY Engineering degree will be worth more than a Psychology degree. (The most popular and easiest to get piece of paper at CSU.)
Show of hands here, who actually wanted to SEE pics of the new engine in action?
What's the point of saying 'Gee these are really nifty in this demo' if we've got no visual point of reference?
A major part of a GPU benchmark is how well the display _appears_
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I read half way through the second sentence, then looked up at the submitter. Yup, another JonKatz diatribe. As sensational as it is empty calories.
What's never mentioned in these sensational diatribes on how TV, the Internet, Automobiles, Reading, and Fire isolate us from our community is how social people tend to be social and non-social people tend to be non-social.
Geeks have their own social groups and operate just FINE there, with robust interactions and healthy communications.
I've found the Internet allows me to discuss and communicate with folks I'd never have a chance to in the photographic community.
I've found that email and IM makes communication with my parents cheap and effortless, even though they're 1200 miles away.
I've run a local Corvette club for YEARS that wouldn't have occurred had I not met these folks on the internet.
The internet allows for some loosely connected groups that WOULDN'T EXIST without it. A continual subscription to ThinkNIC allows me to get the support from the company directly, as well as talk to an audience of like minded folk that use the NIC. That social group is tenuous enough that there would never be a Denver ThinkNIC group worth attending, much less a thinknic club of lower North Dakota. There's maybe 50 people NATIONWIDE on that list.
Further, the Corvette Forum may have 1200 folk, but if you're looking for Automatic-1989-convertible-owners-who-are-rebuildi ng-their-engines. I'd bet I was the only person in the State of Colorado. Yet, that group provides valuable insight, as the collective has the knowledge I need to complete the restoration.
Don't blame the Internet. Non-social people would be that way with or without the Internet just as repeated handwashing is not the cause, nor facilitator, of obsessive-compulsive behavior.
Here is my axample, First they tell you their price (par for the course) then they tell you their markup from *their cost* (perhaps a note about cost of running the business, with a reference to their standard markup).
Then the markup would not be based on some artificial standard, but on a real hard dollar value of the product and the cost of getting it to the consumer. Then you would really know if your were getting a bargain or just their regular sale price. No hype, no sales pitch, just a smart business with informed customers.
That would then be followed by a larger business selling the same product at a loss to undercut the competition.
The lemminglike masses would throng to the cheaper product because money is money and lemmings, as a population, have no loyalty.
Be honest now, how many of you signed up for the eService to only get the $2 DVD then canned the account and never bought from there again?
There are examples where loyalty can be depended on, (Harley Davidson and Chevy Corvette have a very loyal following.) but there are very few businesses that can operate that way.
State Government worker moves on to another position (with Feds)
10 REM Start of process
Documenting what they did takes 2 months, entering it into the system takes another month, It's advertised for a month, another month goes by for interviews, oral exams, second interview takes some time.
We weeded it down to three people: One who we didn't want, one who was looking to bounce from this job immediately to management, and the third who would have been a GREAT person on the job...but we couldn't meet on price. (Mid-$70k with mediocre health benefits and a killer retirement plan; 80% of the average of your top three years if you hang around long enough)
He passed on the deal, so what do we have to do?
20 GOTO 10
The media port on the back of the Xbox is labelled Video Input/Output. If it had a method of storing PVR info on a network share, it might have everything it needs now.
Golly, this is the first pro Xbox message in this article...hope it doesn't get modded into oblivion!
"middle-class consumers aren't the least bit
interested in the coolest new new thing. They want computing that works like
TV does -- that's easy to use, takes little space, costs relatively little
money and works every time you turn it on, year after year."
Why, that sounds like a game console, doesn't it? And the unhip, uncool
Microsoft just got into WHAT consumer related business? I turned my Xbox around
the other day and noted that, along with the ethernet and power jacks, the third
plug was Video Input/Output.
To make this related to the thread, Apple HAD a Mac based home console that
had a limited release in Japan. Looking for the link, Bah!
The Pippin! So is that another groundbreaking trend that Apple was too soon on? (pssst, Newton!)
In Word, got to Help, Product Updates, it goes to the website that had it...I believe you could also download it from either the Word website or Office 2000 website.
"If MS get their grubby paws on XML, they'll only go and "extend" it with MS proprietary bits, so that the XML that people use in practice can only be viewed on a Microsoft machine!"
Does anybody see the humor in this statement, It's _EXTENSIBLE_ Markup Language fer chrissakes!
There's an add-on download for word2000 to cut and paste clean HTML from it's document source...in Word2002 (XP) the feature's been incorporated into the Application directly. (Using format: Save s web page, filtered)
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Um, until people start writing the SOFTWARE to utilise the hardware, you're still talking about current level equipment being 'good enough'.
I got an Xbox because It's got GF3 level support and software to USE it. I can't say the same thing for the GF2MX400 on my desktop computer. I _still_ don't see a bunch of games to utilise even it's capabilities, much less the GF3 that's been the hot card to get OR the GF4 which just came out.
Further, programmers won't spend the time to fully utilise the capabilities of the GF4 for quite some time as it represents a tiny fraction of the installed based. On the _XBOX_ on the other hand, they CAN devote the time as every single unit can support the code.
(And swap utilize for utilise if it's mispelled.)
If you can't read someting Asian, at least you can look at the pretty pictures here: http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/stapa/0,161 6,4140,00.html
What's ALSO interesting is the 'Private Key' Hardware shown partway down the apge.
Tell that to the Mac community, which I'm pretty sure is the largest group of 'Photo Retouchers'.
Actually, One ring says I'm committed to my wife. The other Ring shows my commitment to technology!
And those 'others' feel better with tinfoil on their heads. Golly it's IMPRESSIVE how forthright us nerds are. It's equally impressive how much rhetoric we can spew.
Golly. When a Nigerian Fraud ring got ahold of my SSN and name, got $10k worth of computer equipment, a gas card and a checking account in my name, I didn't have ANY of the problems you alluded to in cleaning my credit record.
It took a few phonecalls and THAT was IT.
When I had two bad marks on my credit record by companies that ceased to exist 6 years ago (one of which I had no known working relationship with) it took two clicks in two checkboxes at Equifax's website saying 'I want you to investigate this' and poof! They were gone.
That's also it's biggest flaw.
I don't WANT another Lilo. Joe Sixpack doesn't give a rat's patoot what Lilo is, or why he'd want the source for it.
I've futzed with Linux for over a decade off and on (mostly off) and it bugs me that I _still_ have to know the mount command, that I've got to figgure out print queues on my own, and that I've got to have comfortable knowledge of TCP/IP theory to configure anything more than a minimal ethernet connection.
Really. Joe Sixpack....eth0, printcap, and fstab...the mind boggles.
Here's hoping OSX is what insulates the computer USERS from the gears of the OS.
I don't understand how people who are so 'smart' try to disseminate a message so stupidly.
Case is point:
'Austin acknowledged that he vandalized the Web sites and that he knew it was illegal to do so. But he defended the act by saying it was necessary to get his message out.'
and
'"If I go to jail, then I will go to jail not based on my actions, but based on what I think," he said. '
If he's smart enough to collect this kind of following, why is it that he ISN'T smart enough to figure out how to peacefully make his desires come about?
And why isn't he smart enough to realise that by calling attention to himself THIS way will just get him squashed.
America is a pretty cool place. Pretty big things have been changed in pretty peaceful ways. It also has the resources and desire to prevent folks like this from causing [much] damage.
It's one thing to get your way by trying to break a toy, it's another thing entirely to redesign the environment so that the toy works for you. (and all that 'reed bending in the breeze' Kung Fu crap.)
Sorry. The Newton had 2 kb of ram....or was it 16kb? I'm getting too old to remember machines that had too little memory. :)
Well, yes. That was me using a little Artistic License. a) A Palm III has _2_kb RAM, and b) it subtly inferred that 'aside from pr0n and the Simpsons, there isn't much happening on USENET.'
Fud? You're telling HIM to stop with the FUD?
How bout a system with NO architectural improvements in three years. A $450 device that's still Black and White and runs at what? (It's not mentioned, but I doubt it's more than 33 Mhz. Don't gimmie 'it doesn't NEED more' If it's got more, somebody will USE it.)
Having a TON of CRAPPY software is not an improvement. The CE devices have the same amount of QUALITY software as the Palm's do. Name any Palm application, I bet there's a PPC2002 equivalent.
Where's this thing's 802.11 connectivity? Where's it's ability to connect to network drive shares? PPC with 802.11 can _natively_ communicate with a SQL database. What databases do Palm talk to...off the device? What's the quality of it's sound output?
Looking at the Expansion tab on the mockup, they've got a dictionary description of innovation. Um. WHAT innovation? Sony's got higher res, more memory and color. The only thing this has over a Palm 7 is a memory slot and constant on- slow- expensive- wireless.
I reactivated my palm 7 to play around with it...9600 baud IS like pulling teeth, without a bullet or whiskey. I note the conspicuous absence of any DETAILS of the wireless capabilities of this device...I suspect it too uses the same connectivity.
So, at the office, I've got CF 802.11b for the ipaq (LOVE IT) and I've got a nokia 8290 to infrared connect it in the field (but, alas, also at 9600 baud.)
And this thing is B&W? Nothing to see here, move on.
I got a BS in Civil Engineering then took a left turn. I discovered that, if you're designing bridges as a Civil Engineer, you design your first one in College, then every other bridge you design for the rest of your life is a scale model of that one. (a simplification, but I didn't see it as a particularly EXCITING career).
:)
That and I didn't want to build something that might fall over and KILL someone.
Computers were always a passion, but I didin't take CS because I didn't want to hear some Grad Student tell me I was wrong.
So I got a job writing Software for Civil Engineeers. It used my background, and got me doing something I liked. Then that job migrated to Network Administration, then Website design. (Now it's moving back into Enterprise server design and Security Analysis....now THERE'S a job that's not going away any time soon!)
I'm not unusual. LOTS of people get jobs that have nothing to do with their major. The BS piece of paper shows that you're CAPABLE of learning, and have learned the discipline to do so.
That aside, ANY Engineering degree will be worth more than a Psychology degree. (The most popular and easiest to get piece of paper at CSU.)
Show of hands here, who actually wanted to SEE pics of the new engine in action?
What's the point of saying 'Gee these are really nifty in this demo' if we've got no visual point of reference?
A major part of a GPU benchmark is how well the display _appears_
I read half way through the second sentence, then looked up at the submitter. Yup, another JonKatz diatribe. As sensational as it is empty calories.
i ng-their-engines. I'd bet I was the only person in the State of Colorado. Yet, that group provides valuable insight, as the collective has the knowledge I need to complete the restoration.
What's never mentioned in these sensational diatribes on how TV, the Internet, Automobiles, Reading, and Fire isolate us from our community is how social people tend to be social and non-social people tend to be non-social.
Geeks have their own social groups and operate just FINE there, with robust interactions and healthy communications.
I've found the Internet allows me to discuss and communicate with folks I'd never have a chance to in the photographic community.
I've found that email and IM makes communication with my parents cheap and effortless, even though they're 1200 miles away.
I've run a local Corvette club for YEARS that wouldn't have occurred had I not met these folks on the internet.
The internet allows for some loosely connected groups that WOULDN'T EXIST without it. A continual subscription to ThinkNIC allows me to get the support from the company directly, as well as talk to an audience of like minded folk that use the NIC. That social group is tenuous enough that there would never be a Denver ThinkNIC group worth attending, much less a thinknic club of lower North Dakota. There's maybe 50 people NATIONWIDE on that list.
Further, the Corvette Forum may have 1200 folk, but if you're looking for Automatic-1989-convertible-owners-who-are-rebuild
Don't blame the Internet. Non-social people would be that way with or without the Internet just as repeated handwashing is not the cause, nor facilitator, of obsessive-compulsive behavior.
The lemminglike masses would throng to the cheaper product because money is money and lemmings, as a population, have no loyalty.
Be honest now, how many of you signed up for the eService to only get the $2 DVD then canned the account and never bought from there again?
There are examples where loyalty can be depended on, (Harley Davidson and Chevy Corvette have a very loyal following.) but there are very few businesses that can operate that way.
State Government worker moves on to another position (with Feds)
10 REM Start of process
Documenting what they did takes 2 months, entering it into the system takes another month, It's advertised for a month, another month goes by for interviews, oral exams, second interview takes some time.
We weeded it down to three people: One who we didn't want, one who was looking to bounce from this job immediately to management, and the third who would have been a GREAT person on the job...but we couldn't meet on price. (Mid-$70k with mediocre health benefits and a killer retirement plan; 80% of the average of your top three years if you hang around long enough)
He passed on the deal, so what do we have to do?
20 GOTO 10
Dude, John's .plan was dated 199_6_!
The media port on the back of the Xbox is labelled Video Input/Output. If it had a method of storing PVR info on a network share, it might have everything it needs now.
Golly, this is the first pro Xbox message in this article...hope it doesn't get modded into oblivion!
Why, that sounds like a game console, doesn't it? And the unhip, uncool Microsoft just got into WHAT consumer related business? I turned my Xbox around the other day and noted that, along with the ethernet and power jacks, the third plug was Video Input/Output.
To make this related to the thread, Apple HAD a Mac based home console that had a limited release in Japan. Looking for the link, Bah! The Pippin! So is that another groundbreaking trend that Apple was too soon on? (pssst, Newton!)
Not if you consider almost every computer bought in a store qualifies for the much lower XP upgrade price.
In Word, got to Help, Product Updates, it goes to the website that had it...I believe you could also download it from either the Word website or Office 2000 website.
"If MS get their grubby paws on XML, they'll only go and "extend" it with MS proprietary bits, so that the XML that people use in practice can only be viewed on a Microsoft machine!"
Does anybody see the humor in this statement, It's _EXTENSIBLE_ Markup Language fer chrissakes!
Go read up on XML Namespaces while you're at it.
There's an add-on download for word2000 to cut and paste clean HTML from it's document source...in Word2002 (XP) the feature's been incorporated into the Application directly. (Using format: Save s web page, filtered)