It was interesting for it's visual aesthetics, but from a film studies/fashion perspective the two sci-fi movies with the most wild/bizzare/revolutionary fashion was Barbarella and fifth element (which has absolutely no plot). That's my personal preference, but I'm biased:)
It's been a long time since I saw tron, but it was an entertaining movie. It wasn't revolutionary by any means. Of all the sci-fi movies, tron felt a little too dumb and superficial. After all, they could have explored the idea of a maker vs non-maker ( not sure if I remember the term correctly). Instead they glossed over everything. It didn't come close to blade runner, 2001 or videodrome.
As a movie, it was a B-movie sci-fi. As entertainment it had plenty of sporty action. As literature it's like a bazooka wrapper. At 22.00 it's over-priced. Bring it down to say 10-12 and I'll buy it. I mean really, blade runner is 19.00 for the standard, which has the alternate ending.
Disney needs to remember Walt's motto of making entertainment that kids and adults both enjoy that leaves a lasting message. Walt believe in making art and money, not just making money.
Well even geeks have clueless/technophobic relatives. Would you really want to get a clueless relative who only does email and surfing a full tower? or would you get them a iMac?
I'd choose a iMac in a second because I don't want to spend hours of tech support, having already done it for clueless relatives. I'm lazy:) You may be different and don't mind a couple hours of tech support a month from relatives.
For those who say, "I'd rather go with a box, instead of a dome," think about the history of the automobile. When ford first started out, cars were boxes. They were ugly, boxy and ugly. As the penetration of cars grew to the point where it was common place, manufacturers started adding more style to attract buyers.
The PC is no different. The personal computer is simply going through the same cycle automobiles went through. Cars started out as gadgets for the rick, then ford found a way to mass produce it and sell it at an affordable price. Later on, style became more important because everyone had figured out to build cars.
The PC industry is also reaching the same point and has to evolve. Now that processors speed is sufficient for 90% of the typical user's needs, raw power is not an important factor. Just as most people buy Honda's because of reliability and style, people will begin to change their buying habits to reflect the change. Now that most people have atleast 1 computer in their house, the difference will be which one blends in their their furniture, color scheme and life style.
The change is inevitable. There will always be people who buy trucks because it is the most functional, just as the tower is the most flexible. But for most people, a car is a status symbol just as the computer will be in 20 years.
Good to see biometrics has advanced and made things like amputation less desireable to crooks. But I still wouldn't trust really important stuff to a computer. Then again, I don't have anything that important anyways. So I don't have to worry about leaving traces of "important/secret" data.
man I have to wait a couple hours? too lazy do even that. I'll keep it in my head instead. they'll have to hack my head to get my secrets. once I'm a vegetable, who cares if they have the information:)
Of all the photos on that review, the LCD's are the most "drool worthy". Wasn't LEP (light emitting polymers) supposed to revolutionize the flat screen industry. I guess everyone will have to wait another 2-5 years for that to pan out and make large cheap screens a reality.
I'll be ready to trade in my 19" when I can get the same size flat screen for 10% more than what a CRT costs today.
Why bother putting it on a digital medium. The only way to make absolutely sure there are no traces left, you'd have to wipe out the whole drive to make sure there weren't images made by the disk cache or temp files. Considering most systems come with 15-60gig drives now, it would take a long time to actually write over all the sectors used for that file in its entire lifetime.
You could use portable drives and always have it with you. This way if ever it was lost or stolen, the data would be encrypted or the drive would self destruct. Even things like plam and retina scanners won't keep people out of important data. They'll just cut your eye out or cut off your hands.
As others have mentioned, this so called "new feature" isn't for sqautters. To put it plainly, it's corporate extortion on a global scale.
Legitimate businesses won't take the risk of loosing their domain, so it artificially increase Verisign's revenues. The problem with this approach is it's predatory. Hopefully ICANN and corporations can speak out against these practices and prevent it. This feature isn't about joe blow who has a personal domain. It's about corporations. Registrars know corporations won't think twice about the chance of loosing their domain considering the cost of legal battle.
On the otherhand, the cost of registration and renewal is so cheap these days, it could slip by under the radar.
Even though it's not for sale and the cost of building another one is outrageously expensive. It's a bit over kill. With all those toys I wouldn't want to drive it on the street. What if you got into an accident? The cost of maintaining that beast is probably more than most people make in a year.
Would you really want a SUV like that? You'd also need some good security to make sure some one doesn't take it for a joy ride, or worse strip it for parts.
Not that I'm not drooling over all the advanced features and possibilities, like pulling a monster truck move during really bad traffic. I just don't see the benefits out weighing the costs.
The news world needs to wake up and realize what a load of BS these articles are. Some posts mentioned the need for more bandwidth and I totally agree, but having done some simple tests with PC hardware, it is sufficient for entry level.
Out of curiousity, I compared mpeg play back on both windows2K and BeOS on a dual P3 450 system with 32mb video and 512mb of ram. BeOS was able to play back full screen without skipping. Win2K skipped probably a few frames every minute and was very noticeable. Now I wasn't being very scientific about the test obviously, I just wanted to see if the hardware was capable of full screen (1280 X 1024 res) play back. The answer from a viewing perspective is yes.
Although the older P3 architecture running on 100mhz bus with a single CPU isn't good enough for professional quality video editing (non-linear editing), the newer systems would perform much better. In comparison, a lot of professionals use Mac and Final Cut Pro 3. Having a 10ghz CPU will do very little for non-linear video editing.
The hardware needs better bus architecture and the OS needs to be designed for streaming large amounts of data rapidly, which windows NT kernel currently does not do well. Microsoft has tried to get their systems into film school for editing with poor results. Linux isn't any better in that respect, so the only viable solution (BeOS) for PC video editing is gone.
As more consumers get comfortable with video and music editing, the OS will have to change to meet the demand. If microsoft and intel doesn't, some one else will. This whole mhz battle won't go on forever. At some point, it will cease being the primary factor for consumer PC's.
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It's great that apache 2.0 supports threading and other new features. Apache is a solid webserver, but it is far from the end all. IIS like wise is not the end all of webservers either. I don't claim to know the truth about the increase in IIS deployments, but IIS does offer useful features.
As other have stated, the article has tons of errors. Why in the world would IIS disappear if.NET is microsoft's push into enterprises services. Microsoft is trying to enter the world IBM dominates, so having IIS is an important piece of the puzzle. What part of web services does bob lui the writer not understand?
It's amazing he didn't read the whitepapers availabe on msdn site and see that HTTP protocol, webservers and SOAP are critical pieces. From my limited understanding,.NET takes the idea of ASP to the next level and integrates a new CLR into the webserver. It's obvious the previous ASP scripting engine for VB and Javascript wasn't going to meet the needs of.NET.
It's good that IIS is getting a serious upgrade to bring it closer to application server. Ever since ASP came out, it lacked a standard application server framework. When ever a website required stateful sessions with complex data management, developers would use Visual C++ and write com objects. Apache and IIS are finally getting closer to application servers, so that is good for developers. The article should have gone deeper into the new features of both servers and showed how it all fits into the new model of web services.
Depending on where you live, it will vary, but based on what I pay now.
$65.00 digital cable
$45.00 cable model service
$60.00 phone
$30.00 long distance
Total - 200.00
Now if time warner is talking about adding on 2 static IP, movie on demand and 2000min of long distance with no time restriction, I would buy it. Is convienance worth it? For me it is, but they have to first prove they can affectively consolidate the billing effectively and make online paying available. I much rather have one bill to pay, instead of spending an extra 30 minutes to pay and file all the bills.
I don't see it their plan as "doomed to fail." If they make it so it is easier for consumer to pick and choose services, then I may have a good chance of being profitable.
Even if they do everything right, it will take twice as long as analyst predict for wide consumer acceptance.
Microsoft will never rule the world, not if Gates sells his wife, kids and parents to the devil. There are too many powerful people in this world that are just as greedy and more resourceful.
CLR reguardless of who owns it will succeed and fail based on developers. As Ballmer said "developers, developers, developers." The language is only a tool. Some tools are better than other, but they are only tools. I've seen programmers do amazing things with PERL and make it run really well. But I've also seen the same person do horrible things with Java and bring a netra T1 to it's knees. The same will happen with C#. If it makes it easier for a VB/ASP programmer make the transition to OOP/OOD and improve their skills, then it's good. There will be plenty of bad programmer building poorly designed and unstable systems with C#. The same thing happens with every language.
Microsoft is a relatively new company compared to ford, gm, or ge. Will they survive another 20 years? No one can tell. Will Java run it's course and fade away? Just like everything else, things have a life and eventually die. C# will go through a normal life cycle. Before IBM took a tumble and completely transformed itself, people thought it was invincible.
Does it really matter who wins when the rate of change accelerates every year? When most of us are six feet under, will it matter? Personally, I hope developers focus on good practices and do it for the pure love of it. That way it won't matter what language or platform they use.
Did microsoft say a while back "we are planning on using XML through out MS Office?". Now, I don't know if they plan on using XML for the formatting, or just have the ability to read and save XML. If the file format changes to XML, then this might make it easier to read word files. Perhaps that is a better and more likely solution. The business world isn't going to change, no matter how much RMS wants it to change.
On the otherhand, pushing Microsoft to use public standards might get serious consideration, instead of plain old "You're smoking crack."
Just a thought. I doubt MS would actually use XML, but stranger things could happen.
I sure hope you're right. It would be terrible for libraries to have to start turning down donations because they're afraid of violating copyright laws. Here's hoping for common sense and clear thinking with copyright laws. Luckily most people are on the side of libraries on this particular issue.
I haven't read the article (I plan to), but from the post, I get the impression it is more for Project Manager and Exec types. Experienced developers know first hand how hard it is to estimate development time.
What I would like to know is, how is this going to effect expectations from non-technical people in charge of projects that demand "accurate" estimates. I've had good and bad managers, maybe these kinds of articles will help make developers life a little less stressful and more flexible.
True, they won't re-release every CD, but what about so called classics? There are plenty of CD's that are considered classics, which they would encrypt. You're probably right it's will probably be a limited selection, but what about people donating to the library? If I donate a 2 year old cd that was popular when it came out, and there are new encrypted versions, will the library reject them? I don't know much about library policies, but I have donated books in the past.
The article used quotes from an interesting mix of lawyers. I find it curious that more than half of them addressed copyright issues. It would have been nice for a more extended article, but it was interesting none the less.
One in particular got me thinking. How will libraries deal with increased restrictions of copyright laws and the possible implication in illegal behavior. If the record industry goes ahead with encrypted CD's, does it mean libraries will be forced to remove the old (non-encrypted) cd's off their shelves and invest in thousands of dollars of new CD's and equipment?
Considering how many libraries have old, out of print books, cd's and tapes, how does the law impact the institution of libraries? It would seem libraries are also under threat. I see no difference in a library lending out a Metallica cd and some guy hosting MP3 files.
Right we already pay taxes on it as the previous threads mentioned. I don't mind 2-3% tax as long as the actual CD isn't freaking encrypted, preventing me from ripping it and putting it on my file server:)
As much as I dislike M$, this type of behavior is a double edge. Any system and language can be exploited, so it's no surprise some one wrote a virus for.NET. I would rather professionals reveal the flaws and weaknesses of.NET through accepted channels with concrete proof.
Having a kid infect a.NET server makes it harder for those working with web services. Large institutions most likely will continue their web services plans, but it makes it harder for consumers to trust the services. Non technical people might thing all web services are full of security holes and decide none of it is any good.
In microsoft's race to get something out, they are doing more damage to the perception of the web services industry than anything else. Consumers are already freaked about big corp taking too much control. It's great the security hole has been revealed, but it shouldn't have been so easy. Like the kid says in his interview, "they are the idiots." Is the consumer going to agree with the kid or the company that just got hacked?
How does Sun percieve open source and organization like apache and oasis in the context of cooperation and competition when it comes to protocol and java standards. An example of this might be jdk and webservers. At what point does Sun percieve open source and organization as a threat to Sun's own products?
Better yet, just have everyone's pay check automatically deduct 30% and send it to RIAA/MPAA. Since everyone is a crook including every executive at RIAA/MPAA, we should all just give in.
You're absolutely right we are coming up to the barrier, but do I really need 4GB of RAM to run windows and office? Oh I forgot I'm supposed to do what ever microsoft tells me. 4GB here I come:)
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That's funny. That page is infected with nimda virus. I guess some one should tell their webmaster.
It was interesting for it's visual aesthetics, but from a film studies/fashion perspective the two sci-fi movies with the most wild/bizzare/revolutionary fashion was Barbarella and fifth element (which has absolutely no plot). That's my personal preference, but I'm biased :)
As a movie, it was a B-movie sci-fi. As entertainment it had plenty of sporty action. As literature it's like a bazooka wrapper. At 22.00 it's over-priced. Bring it down to say 10-12 and I'll buy it. I mean really, blade runner is 19.00 for the standard, which has the alternate ending.
Disney needs to remember Walt's motto of making entertainment that kids and adults both enjoy that leaves a lasting message. Walt believe in making art and money, not just making money.
I'd choose a iMac in a second because I don't want to spend hours of tech support, having already done it for clueless relatives. I'm lazy :) You may be different and don't mind a couple hours of tech support a month from relatives.
The PC is no different. The personal computer is simply going through the same cycle automobiles went through. Cars started out as gadgets for the rick, then ford found a way to mass produce it and sell it at an affordable price. Later on, style became more important because everyone had figured out to build cars.
The PC industry is also reaching the same point and has to evolve. Now that processors speed is sufficient for 90% of the typical user's needs, raw power is not an important factor. Just as most people buy Honda's because of reliability and style, people will begin to change their buying habits to reflect the change. Now that most people have atleast 1 computer in their house, the difference will be which one blends in their their furniture, color scheme and life style.
The change is inevitable. There will always be people who buy trucks because it is the most functional, just as the tower is the most flexible. But for most people, a car is a status symbol just as the computer will be in 20 years.
Good to see biometrics has advanced and made things like amputation less desireable to crooks. But I still wouldn't trust really important stuff to a computer. Then again, I don't have anything that important anyways. So I don't have to worry about leaving traces of "important/secret" data.
man I have to wait a couple hours? too lazy do even that. I'll keep it in my head instead. they'll have to hack my head to get my secrets. once I'm a vegetable, who cares if they have the information :)
I'll be ready to trade in my 19" when I can get the same size flat screen for 10% more than what a CRT costs today.
You could use portable drives and always have it with you. This way if ever it was lost or stolen, the data would be encrypted or the drive would self destruct. Even things like plam and retina scanners won't keep people out of important data. They'll just cut your eye out or cut off your hands.
Legitimate businesses won't take the risk of loosing their domain, so it artificially increase Verisign's revenues. The problem with this approach is it's predatory. Hopefully ICANN and corporations can speak out against these practices and prevent it. This feature isn't about joe blow who has a personal domain. It's about corporations. Registrars know corporations won't think twice about the chance of loosing their domain considering the cost of legal battle.
On the otherhand, the cost of registration and renewal is so cheap these days, it could slip by under the radar.
Would you really want a SUV like that? You'd also need some good security to make sure some one doesn't take it for a joy ride, or worse strip it for parts.
Not that I'm not drooling over all the advanced features and possibilities, like pulling a monster truck move during really bad traffic. I just don't see the benefits out weighing the costs.
Out of curiousity, I compared mpeg play back on both windows2K and BeOS on a dual P3 450 system with 32mb video and 512mb of ram. BeOS was able to play back full screen without skipping. Win2K skipped probably a few frames every minute and was very noticeable. Now I wasn't being very scientific about the test obviously, I just wanted to see if the hardware was capable of full screen (1280 X 1024 res) play back. The answer from a viewing perspective is yes.
Although the older P3 architecture running on 100mhz bus with a single CPU isn't good enough for professional quality video editing (non-linear editing), the newer systems would perform much better. In comparison, a lot of professionals use Mac and Final Cut Pro 3. Having a 10ghz CPU will do very little for non-linear video editing.
The hardware needs better bus architecture and the OS needs to be designed for streaming large amounts of data rapidly, which windows NT kernel currently does not do well. Microsoft has tried to get their systems into film school for editing with poor results. Linux isn't any better in that respect, so the only viable solution (BeOS) for PC video editing is gone.
As more consumers get comfortable with video and music editing, the OS will have to change to meet the demand. If microsoft and intel doesn't, some one else will. This whole mhz battle won't go on forever. At some point, it will cease being the primary factor for consumer PC's.
As other have stated, the article has tons of errors. Why in the world would IIS disappear if .NET is microsoft's push into enterprises services. Microsoft is trying to enter the world IBM dominates, so having IIS is an important piece of the puzzle. What part of web services does bob lui the writer not understand?
It's amazing he didn't read the whitepapers availabe on msdn site and see that HTTP protocol, webservers and SOAP are critical pieces. From my limited understanding, .NET takes the idea of ASP to the next level and integrates a new CLR into the webserver. It's obvious the previous ASP scripting engine for VB and Javascript wasn't going to meet the needs of .NET.
It's good that IIS is getting a serious upgrade to bring it closer to application server. Ever since ASP came out, it lacked a standard application server framework. When ever a website required stateful sessions with complex data management, developers would use Visual C++ and write com objects. Apache and IIS are finally getting closer to application servers, so that is good for developers. The article should have gone deeper into the new features of both servers and showed how it all fits into the new model of web services.
$65.00 digital cable
$45.00 cable model service
$60.00 phone
$30.00 long distance
Total - 200.00
Now if time warner is talking about adding on 2 static IP, movie on demand and 2000min of long distance with no time restriction, I would buy it. Is convienance worth it? For me it is, but they have to first prove they can affectively consolidate the billing effectively and make online paying available. I much rather have one bill to pay, instead of spending an extra 30 minutes to pay and file all the bills.
I don't see it their plan as "doomed to fail." If they make it so it is easier for consumer to pick and choose services, then I may have a good chance of being profitable.
Even if they do everything right, it will take twice as long as analyst predict for wide consumer acceptance.
CLR reguardless of who owns it will succeed and fail based on developers. As Ballmer said "developers, developers, developers." The language is only a tool. Some tools are better than other, but they are only tools. I've seen programmers do amazing things with PERL and make it run really well. But I've also seen the same person do horrible things with Java and bring a netra T1 to it's knees. The same will happen with C#. If it makes it easier for a VB/ASP programmer make the transition to OOP/OOD and improve their skills, then it's good. There will be plenty of bad programmer building poorly designed and unstable systems with C#. The same thing happens with every language.
Microsoft is a relatively new company compared to ford, gm, or ge. Will they survive another 20 years? No one can tell. Will Java run it's course and fade away? Just like everything else, things have a life and eventually die. C# will go through a normal life cycle. Before IBM took a tumble and completely transformed itself, people thought it was invincible.
Does it really matter who wins when the rate of change accelerates every year? When most of us are six feet under, will it matter? Personally, I hope developers focus on good practices and do it for the pure love of it. That way it won't matter what language or platform they use.
On the otherhand, pushing Microsoft to use public standards might get serious consideration, instead of plain old "You're smoking crack."
Just a thought. I doubt MS would actually use XML, but stranger things could happen.
I sure hope you're right. It would be terrible for libraries to have to start turning down donations because they're afraid of violating copyright laws. Here's hoping for common sense and clear thinking with copyright laws. Luckily most people are on the side of libraries on this particular issue.
What I would like to know is, how is this going to effect expectations from non-technical people in charge of projects that demand "accurate" estimates. I've had good and bad managers, maybe these kinds of articles will help make developers life a little less stressful and more flexible.
True, they won't re-release every CD, but what about so called classics? There are plenty of CD's that are considered classics, which they would encrypt. You're probably right it's will probably be a limited selection, but what about people donating to the library? If I donate a 2 year old cd that was popular when it came out, and there are new encrypted versions, will the library reject them? I don't know much about library policies, but I have donated books in the past.
One in particular got me thinking. How will libraries deal with increased restrictions of copyright laws and the possible implication in illegal behavior. If the record industry goes ahead with encrypted CD's, does it mean libraries will be forced to remove the old (non-encrypted) cd's off their shelves and invest in thousands of dollars of new CD's and equipment?
Considering how many libraries have old, out of print books, cd's and tapes, how does the law impact the institution of libraries? It would seem libraries are also under threat. I see no difference in a library lending out a Metallica cd and some guy hosting MP3 files.
Right we already pay taxes on it as the previous threads mentioned. I don't mind 2-3% tax as long as the actual CD isn't freaking encrypted, preventing me from ripping it and putting it on my file server:)
Having a kid infect a .NET server makes it harder for those working with web services. Large institutions most likely will continue their web services plans, but it makes it harder for consumers to trust the services. Non technical people might thing all web services are full of security holes and decide none of it is any good.
In microsoft's race to get something out, they are doing more damage to the perception of the web services industry than anything else. Consumers are already freaked about big corp taking too much control. It's great the security hole has been revealed, but it shouldn't have been so easy. Like the kid says in his interview, "they are the idiots." Is the consumer going to agree with the kid or the company that just got hacked?
How does Sun percieve open source and organization like apache and oasis in the context of cooperation and competition when it comes to protocol and java standards. An example of this might be jdk and webservers. At what point does Sun percieve open source and organization as a threat to Sun's own products?
Better yet, just have everyone's pay check automatically deduct 30% and send it to RIAA/MPAA. Since everyone is a crook including every executive at RIAA/MPAA, we should all just give in.
You're absolutely right we are coming up to the barrier, but do I really need 4GB of RAM to run windows and office? Oh I forgot I'm supposed to do what ever microsoft tells me. 4GB here I come :)