I think I saw you once on San Pablo ave driving North towards Richmond. You were in a PT Cruiser (if I remember correctly) with "Slashdot" on the sides.
It's been much fun and I have wasted many hours of my previous employer's computer time here.:)
It seems to me you are assuming that the RFID is the only method being used to track someone. I don't track people but it seems trivial to me that a device that identifies a single person out of a mob would be extremely useful.
Instead of setting my head on a swivel and looking around suspiciously I need only keep my gaze directed at my open book (hiding my tracking device) while I walk around keeping track of my subject.
Yes, alone, the device is useless; however, people in the business might find plenty of uses for it that you and I cannot imagine.
You might be right, but I think they are just following the recent trend in movie theaters
Movie theaters must move to 3-D! Television screens and sound systems are approaching the point where the theater experience has nothing to really offer the viewer. 3-D gives us a reason to go to the theater.
Totally anecdotal, but my wife actually went with me to see Avatar twice! We usually wait for movies to be released on DVD before we see it a second time if it was any good. We don't have 3-D so we must go to the theater.
With the popularity of 3-D soaring this last year - it was not just Avatar, there were many good 3-D movies: Monsters Vs. Aliens, Up and probably some more I don't remember right now - the television manufacturers AND the cable stations will all want to jump on the band-wagon.
Will it work?
At first thought it seems like the 21st Century version of quadraphonics to me, especially if I have to wear dorky glasses with a cable! The glasses I saw on the news this morning had a cable. That ain't gonna' wash with me or anyone I know.
Consider yourself fortunate that you are not on the invite list. Remember the dorks who bought the iPhone when it first came out? Remember those same dorks just a few months later when Apple dropped the price?:)
I suspect this invite only thing is just to drum up interest in the phone. Soon, everyone and his brother will be able to buy one just like Gmail.
I don't know about that. I am tempted to agree with you, but I have played plenty of video games where nothing was at stake...yet, my adrenaline levels got really high!
One example I could think of is if the ship's primary armament is a big gun running the length of the ship necessitating the entire ship be maneuvered to aim it.
One of the most influential battles of the United States Civil War arose from the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac. The Monitor had a turret which swiveled, thus freeing the Captain to manuever the ship as he wished while allowing his crew to aim and fire at the Merrimac without interruption. The Merrimac had fixed guns which required the ship to be aligned with the target for any effective firing. I read somewhere that the Monitor fired four rounds for every single round the Merrimac got off.
The battle was a draw because the munitions of the day could not penetrate the metal hulls, but everyone realized the superiority of the turret and adopted them into new ship designs.
I suggest you take a look at tank design from the first British tanks in World War I to the Soviet tanks used to breakout of Stalingrad.
The Soviets started the modern practice of using angles in their tanks to deflect munitions aimed at them. Boxes are easier to build, but they are also easier to score a hit against.
The same thing happened during the 1970s. That's how shows like Barreta and The Dukes Of Hazard stayed on the air so long.
Back then, when TV was mostly over the air and free I watched commercials. Now that I pay for TV I won't tolerate commercials. I DVR any show I watch that has commercials and watch it at a later date when I can skim through the commercials. It is a rare commercial that I watch. I stop only for those that seem interesting, i.e. have pretty chicks featured prominently!:)
And to be honest, they $60 price isn't that much if it's a great game. You pay atleast $15+ to go the movies, probably even more if you make a night out of it. You might spend the same amount in bars too. Both of those give only a few hours of entertainment value, and to be honest aren't all that fun all the time. Good games give a lot more entertainment and fun hours.
When was the last time you got laid taking a chick to a video-game?
I'm surprised you don't understand that most journalists, as most people, need someone else to tell them of something important enough to write about and inform the people. Not everyone will be on hand when an important event occurs unless you restrict it to scheduled events such as press conferences. So, it should not surprise any one that, "Professional Journalists know nothing of the news of the day, unless someone else tells them".
Freedom of the press is important, but I hope you are not willing to forego the responsibility that comes with any right. Newspapers can and do print retractions. I am not claiming that they always do so, only that when it is obvious they were wrong, they will. Unfortunately they never print the retraction with the same type-size, or on the same page(s) as the original article(s). This should have been addressed early. My hope is that this will be corrected as news drifts to electronic forms. When someone publishes something wrong, whether it causes harm to someone else or not, a retraction in the same font, size, and position as the original article(s) should be mandatory.
Also, less of the Fox News hysteria would be appreciated, but I understand that crap like that comes from allowing anyone to publish.
Of course, I'm not exactly sure why a juror should need to sign something for your iPhone but not a newspaper.
You beat me to it so I'll just add my two cents.:)
Newspapers are supposed to be written by professional journalists with professional standards. The articles those journalists write are then supposed to be edited by editors with years, if not decades, of experience. The internet, in contrast, is full of air-bags with no professional standards.
Allowing jurors to be exposed to what is written on the internet is far more likely to bias jurors than what is written in a newspaper, in theory or course.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture made those very modifications. Kirk got a seat-retention system that consisted of arm rests that folded down over his thighs to hold him in his seat. Really cool upgrade.
Then you notice that a lot of the people on the bridge are standing up! WTF?
I still like the movie though, and I remain a bigger Trek fan than a Star Wars fan.
In English this has a double meaning due to the word "jack".
What he probably means is: I helped my uncle Jack get off of a horse.
What most deviants, such as myself, will see is:
I helped my uncle jack-off a horse. This is very funny if you know that "jack-off" is a term for masturbation. In this particular instance it means he helped his uncle by pulling on the horse's dick.:)
I don't know what you call a penis in Argentina, but here in the united states we use "cock", "dick", "wang", "johnson", and many other variations.
2. Bandwidth is getting cheaper while high-speed internet is becoming more accessible.
Read the below this morning on ComputerWorld.
Computerworld - DreamWorks Animation SKG is releasing all of its films in stereoscopic 3D, more than doubling the amount of data storage capacity required to store its movies.
The move to 3D animation also requires the company's IT shop to migrate away from tape-based storage systems to disk systems in order to keep archived films online for animators to use as references for future sequels, which is the company's mainstay.
DreamWorks recently released its first 3D animated moviem Monsters vs. Aliens, which packed its newly installed disk array from Hewlett-Packard Co. with 93TB worth of images. The company plans to release five feature films every two years. In the past, each animated film averaged less than 25TB, according to Derek Chan, head of digital operations for DreamWorks Animation.
The creation of three-dimensional movies means for every film frame there will be two images instead of one: one image for the left eye and one for the right eye of a viewer. Those cheap plastic or cardboard bi-colored glasses handed out at the theater polarize the images on the screen and combine in order to give the perception of depth.
DreamWorks' philosophy on feature-length animated films is to build franchises. There are three Shrek movies, for example, Madagascar has two and Kung Fu Panda will also have a sequel, Chan said.
In order to compete with bootleggers, high-definition television, the internet, cell-phones, and a host of new threats to their profits movie studios will HAVE to embrace 3-D and make it work this time. This will push streaming video out of the reach of most US customers for a LOOOOONG time.
Yes, I know, the above storage requirements are for the studio not for streaming the movie. Regardless, the bandwidth requirements will need a significant increase.
Conclusion, most average comcast consumers don't get to experience HD on a regular basis.
Not just Comcast customers. I have U-Verse and I experience it as well. In fact a lot of times I will record a movie on my DVR from an "HD" channel, where I assume everything is "HD" only to discover that it was not in "HD". What is there is always better than standard definition, but it is not "HD", so I think you are safe in assuming most people don't know what "HD" really looks like.
Conclusion: there is not enough "HD" content available for the "HD" channels to provide it 24/7, so people don't know when they are getting it or what it really looks like.
Stupidly, the movie studios are trying to slow that down by putting additional copy protection on DVDs, but that's not much of an obstacle either, so far.
I disagree. I don't remember the last (legal) DVD I bought because I have grown tired of their antics*.
I am a great fan of DVDs and bought many between 2001 and 2007 until I got tired of the many barriers between me watching MY DVD. This also stopped me from buying a PS3, which I would have done otherwise.
*I have to buy X-Men: Origins because I have the bootleg. If I buy the bootleg I take it upon myself to buy the studio disk even if I don't like the movie, which I did not. The only good thing about buying the studio release is that I can compare the two. Wish I had bought the bootleg of Attack Of The Clones so I would have a record of the way Jango Fett actually died.:)
Why was this moderated as a "Troll"? This is a genuine comment from someone explaining their perception of a movie in a format relevant to the discussion. If the moderator does not agree with the sentiment, too bad. Read something else.
Don't waste mod-points this way! Somebody please meta-moderate this appropriately.
Thank you. That looks interesting. I'll read that in more detail tomorrow morning. I really don't have time today to download one small page at a time right now.
This is one of the reasons I stopped reading anandtech. The small amount of info you get on each page surrounded by ads. I know they have to make a living, don't we all, but I rarely have that much spare time at work (where I do all my research). But since I am planning on building two new boxes this Summer and considering the use of SSDs in them this is a gold mine. Thanks again.
LOL - You should actually read articles before you critisize them.
Deletion is a part of the problem. Block sizes also matter. Wear-leveling and write-combining algorithms also matter. There is a lot more to this issue then just "deletes", with or without quotes.
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I think I saw you once on San Pablo ave driving North towards Richmond. You were in a PT Cruiser (if I remember correctly) with "Slashdot" on the sides. It's been much fun and I have wasted many hours of my previous employer's computer time here. :)
Instead of setting my head on a swivel and looking around suspiciously I need only keep my gaze directed at my open book (hiding my tracking device) while I walk around keeping track of my subject.
Yes, alone, the device is useless; however, people in the business might find plenty of uses for it that you and I cannot imagine.
Movie theaters must move to 3-D! Television screens and sound systems are approaching the point where the theater experience has nothing to really offer the viewer. 3-D gives us a reason to go to the theater.
Totally anecdotal, but my wife actually went with me to see Avatar twice! We usually wait for movies to be released on DVD before we see it a second time if it was any good. We don't have 3-D so we must go to the theater.
With the popularity of 3-D soaring this last year - it was not just Avatar, there were many good 3-D movies: Monsters Vs. Aliens, Up and probably some more I don't remember right now - the television manufacturers AND the cable stations will all want to jump on the band-wagon.
Will it work?
At first thought it seems like the 21st Century version of quadraphonics to me, especially if I have to wear dorky glasses with a cable! The glasses I saw on the news this morning had a cable. That ain't gonna' wash with me or anyone I know.
I suspect this invite only thing is just to drum up interest in the phone. Soon, everyone and his brother will be able to buy one just like Gmail.
I don't know about that. I am tempted to agree with you, but I have played plenty of video games where nothing was at stake...yet, my adrenaline levels got really high!
One of the most influential battles of the United States Civil War arose from the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac. The Monitor had a turret which swiveled, thus freeing the Captain to manuever the ship as he wished while allowing his crew to aim and fire at the Merrimac without interruption. The Merrimac had fixed guns which required the ship to be aligned with the target for any effective firing. I read somewhere that the Monitor fired four rounds for every single round the Merrimac got off.
The battle was a draw because the munitions of the day could not penetrate the metal hulls, but everyone realized the superiority of the turret and adopted them into new ship designs.
The Soviets started the modern practice of using angles in their tanks to deflect munitions aimed at them. Boxes are easier to build, but they are also easier to score a hit against.
To differentiate myself from the lot of you bores I shall take a first name: Fah. From this point on I am Fah Q! :)
Please explain HBO, Starz, Showtime...etc.,
Also, please explain my monthly U-Verse bill!
While you at it, can you explain the name change from Sci-Fi to whatever that aberration is they changed their name to?
Back then, when TV was mostly over the air and free I watched commercials. Now that I pay for TV I won't tolerate commercials. I DVR any show I watch that has commercials and watch it at a later date when I can skim through the commercials. It is a rare commercial that I watch. I stop only for those that seem interesting, i.e. have pretty chicks featured prominently! :)
Wish I had mod-points. This is informative.
When was the last time you got laid taking a chick to a video-game?
Value is where you find it, my friend. :)
Freedom of the press is important, but I hope you are not willing to forego the responsibility that comes with any right. Newspapers can and do print retractions. I am not claiming that they always do so, only that when it is obvious they were wrong, they will. Unfortunately they never print the retraction with the same type-size, or on the same page(s) as the original article(s). This should have been addressed early. My hope is that this will be corrected as news drifts to electronic forms. When someone publishes something wrong, whether it causes harm to someone else or not, a retraction in the same font, size, and position as the original article(s) should be mandatory.
Also, less of the Fox News hysteria would be appreciated, but I understand that crap like that comes from allowing anyone to publish.
You beat me to it so I'll just add my two cents. :)
Newspapers are supposed to be written by professional journalists with professional standards. The articles those journalists write are then supposed to be edited by editors with years, if not decades, of experience. The internet, in contrast, is full of air-bags with no professional standards.
Allowing jurors to be exposed to what is written on the internet is far more likely to bias jurors than what is written in a newspaper, in theory or course.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture made those very modifications. Kirk got a seat-retention system that consisted of arm rests that folded down over his thighs to hold him in his seat. Really cool upgrade.
Then you notice that a lot of the people on the bridge are standing up! WTF?
I still like the movie though, and I remain a bigger Trek fan than a Star Wars fan.
Thank you.
In English this has a double meaning due to the word "jack".
What he probably means is: I helped my uncle Jack get off of a horse.
What most deviants, such as myself, will see is: I helped my uncle jack-off a horse. This is very funny if you know that "jack-off" is a term for masturbation. In this particular instance it means he helped his uncle by pulling on the horse's dick. :)
I don't know what you call a penis in Argentina, but here in the united states we use "cock", "dick", "wang", "johnson", and many other variations.
You must not live in the US. Good news for you. Dubious claim for those of us in the US.
Read the below this morning on ComputerWorld.
In order to compete with bootleggers, high-definition television, the internet, cell-phones, and a host of new threats to their profits movie studios will HAVE to embrace 3-D and make it work this time. This will push streaming video out of the reach of most US customers for a LOOOOONG time.
Yes, I know, the above storage requirements are for the studio not for streaming the movie. Regardless, the bandwidth requirements will need a significant increase.
Not just Comcast customers. I have U-Verse and I experience it as well. In fact a lot of times I will record a movie on my DVR from an "HD" channel, where I assume everything is "HD" only to discover that it was not in "HD". What is there is always better than standard definition, but it is not "HD", so I think you are safe in assuming most people don't know what "HD" really looks like.
Conclusion: there is not enough "HD" content available for the "HD" channels to provide it 24/7, so people don't know when they are getting it or what it really looks like.
I disagree. I don't remember the last (legal) DVD I bought because I have grown tired of their antics*.
I am a great fan of DVDs and bought many between 2001 and 2007 until I got tired of the many barriers between me watching MY DVD. This also stopped me from buying a PS3, which I would have done otherwise.
*I have to buy X-Men: Origins because I have the bootleg. If I buy the bootleg I take it upon myself to buy the studio disk even if I don't like the movie, which I did not. The only good thing about buying the studio release is that I can compare the two. Wish I had bought the bootleg of Attack Of The Clones so I would have a record of the way Jango Fett actually died. :)
Don't waste mod-points this way! Somebody please meta-moderate this appropriately.
This is one of the reasons I stopped reading anandtech. The small amount of info you get on each page surrounded by ads. I know they have to make a living, don't we all, but I rarely have that much spare time at work (where I do all my research). But since I am planning on building two new boxes this Summer and considering the use of SSDs in them this is a gold mine. Thanks again.
Do you know the title of the article, the author or the approximate date of publication to shorten my search?
Deletion is a part of the problem. Block sizes also matter. Wear-leveling and write-combining algorithms also matter. There is a lot more to this issue then just "deletes", with or without quotes.