Displayport does support 2560x1600. I hope it's not going away?
Anyways, we can't keep every standard forever. Right now a high-end monitor will have a 2x HDMI, 2xDVI-D, a DisplayPort, VGA, and Component in. That is a lot of connectors!
The purpose of the plan was to create legions of (somehow) "successful" project managers and government hangers-on with quasi-governmental authority, and pump money into those organizations in return for future favors.
In that case, the project failed, because it was originally planned at $5BN, and only 1/15th of that was spent on it. And of that, according to the article, "Much of the funding for IWN at the time went instead to maintain creaky legacy systems."
In other words, they backed down from the plan, and fell back on supporting the status quo. Which is kind of sad, but maybe it wasn't worth $5BN and we should be glad support was withdrawn.
I disagree; an open spec is useless to people on other platforms unless there's a good implementation on that platform. (For example, samba is good enough to make SMB useful on non-Microsoft platforms, whereas Wine is not good enough to do the same for the Win32 API). Now, I didn't say anything about Apple providing iBook implementations for other platforms. But, for example, if iBook is based on an existing standard like HTML5 of PDF that is already well-supported on other platforms, that will be better than if iBook is wholly new. Furthermore, if the iBook spec is reasonably concise and if Apple resists the temptation to continually dribble new features into it, that would help tremendously.
I have to use it at work under OSX and in a lot of ways it's worse than the virii it protects against.
I am looking right now at a computer with 2 fully-loaded cores that has been viris scanning for 25 solid hours. This is typical. It starts up after EVERY login, then just sits and churns forever with no visible progress. Or sometimes it finishes after a few seconds.
Sometimes you go to run some other program and it will just freeze up until/unless you kill navx (if you're lucky enough to have admin rights).
Or you're sitting on a plane, and it decides now would be a fine time to fire up and drain your battery in 40 minutes.
I can't leave my email box open because it pops up every few seconds and says THREAT DETECTED! (probably in some old email in mail spool already marked as deleted), but you press OK to fix, and after a few seconds it says it failed to repair it, no other explanation, so it pops up a modal dialog box in front of whatever you're trying to do. This occurs a couple times per minute, forever.
"Reinvent" is a big word. But the most significant thing I see here is that the tools - including and especially the content development tools - are free (as in beer). But the next question is, what iBook tools will be available on other platforms?
I'm sure nobody would be terribly bothered if the President of the United States were to say that the regime occupying Tehran must vanish from the page of time.
We don't just talk about regime changing other nations, we do it, and quite often. On the other hand, that's still different than annihilating everybody there.
I dunno about on-demand printing. My first experience with e-books was buying one for my daughter for Christmas this year, and it has been a positive experience. It's a Nook. A bit under $100, battery life is very long, screen is easily readable - better than paper in that you can have large print if you like. She needed a book for her book club, I checked it out from the local library to her ebook, without leaving home, for free. It has a touchscreen, and you can highlight and take notes (which I haven't tried - I'll admit drawing/writing on it probably sucks, but the touchscreen makes one-finger typing somewhat bearable).
Meanwhile, we got a new phonebook dropped on our porch last night and my wife and I both said in unison, "what? What are we supposed to do with this big lump? Why waste all those trees?" Granted, reference materials are an especially weak application for paper books.
Don't expect them to sit on their hands as Iran openly boasts about its plan to wipe Israel off the map
You're repeating an infamous misquote. In short, the American version of the phrase is "regime change." In other words, neither am I pretending Iran is a friend of Israel.
Both companies sell an image and the fashion accessories to build it, and most people buy their products exactly as a fashion accessory.
It's not just that. The reason Apple took off in consumer electronics was the iPod, and the reason it took off was not the device itself, but because Apple hammered out distribution rights with major music publishers. Paid downloads of music were an obvious idea by then, but so what? Nobody else had made it happen (not with major labels most people wanted). Digital textbooks are the same deal - the hardware is almost a given, the content is already there - it's all about distribution rights. And, yes, DRM is part and parcel with distribution rights, because most content producers DO want to get paid. (That said, if a huge customer like the UC system wants to pay for their own content development and then allow free redistribution, I agree that would be even better.)
What should we steer our kids into? I don't know of any remaining "sure fire" careers other than medical / dental. Even there, price pressure is (finally) starting to control salaries and kill off independent practice, and in 10-20 years the bulge in medical care demand will subside as the boomers die off.
Most good careers require 6-10 years of post-highschool education, and predicting that far out is a very uncertain business.
Good tip. But, and maybe I am unusual, I don't have an ongoing business relationship with a particular doctor, because I don't go that often. I am not even sure what records might exist, or where. Even for my kids, we'll go different places depending on what time of day they need care, and whether it's a weekend or not. As a result when I go to the doctor and have to try to remember the last time I got vaccinated for X, it is always a struggle.
To be honest it seems like a perfect application for a huge national database, but I'm sure that would not fly in the US, and has been difficult to implement in the UK even with single-payer healthcare there.
Yes millions could not afford food and went to soup kitchens, just like now except we use technology and send them to super-walmart with EBT cards or whatever they're called.
It's easy to complain about the debt incurred in the government's response to this recession. Our ancestors already witnessed the alternative. It was horrendous.
The linked article allows the interpretation that the subsidy is "scheduled to end" simply because Congress didn't get around to renewing it yet. But the Sentate voted 73-27 to eliminate the subsidy early last year. The Senate can't make laws unilaterally, but that's a pretty clear sign of significant active opposition to the subsidy. Now that the subsidy would have to be actively extended, reversing a 73-27 vote through lobbying seems like a very high hurdle.
I would like to have them just so I could go see a different doctor without the waste of re-testing and the hassle, inconvenience, and frankly, embarrassment of calling to have the records sent over.
Alternately, "I'm afraid you have Bird Flu, please come with me!"
The reason "the common cold" hasn't been cured is because "it" is actually hundreds of different virii. If only there were a way to tell which is which...
In the future the doctor will swab your throat, upload some markers, and the next day the correct prescription (from hundreds) will be FedEx'd to your door.
Why wait until birth? If your DNA doesn't pass muster, you'll probably be rejected as a zygote and head off to the incinerator with 99% of your siblings.
Maybe I'm confused about what's happening here. If you're using something like a SecureID card, it shouldn't matter that much if somebody gets your PIN, unless they also get your card (and you don't notice and get it deactivated).
If everybody had radar, there would be no need to stop for fog in the first place. Just as we don't stop when it gets dark or in tunnels, because everybody has headlights.
If you can partner up with a guy who has the same passion for wearing suits and working in power point as you do for cranking out killer code... then maybe it would be alright...
I think that would inevitably wind up a Steve Jobs / Steve Wozniak situation - in the best case, if the endeavor were really successful, he would gradually leave you in the dust and replace you. Whoever manages the money and touches it first has all the leverage. Might as well work for a larger company with more stability. (Granted Wozniak never had to work again, but Apple's level of success is unusual to say the least).
However, things being as they are, I think the best we can hope for would be this, augmented with advertisements.
I'm still hopeful. Look at rear-facing backup cameras, they're useful, safe as far as I know, and don't have ads inserted into them.
Maybe too optimistic, but I wonder if ad-support for everything isn't due to swing the other way. At some point the little "pay" you're receiving for watching ads just isn't worth it. And "social" or location-aware ads, sure there's some extra effectiveness, but it can't be that much. I'm sick of ads and I'm sure a lot of others must be, too. I bought my daughter a Nook instead of Kindle mainly because the basic Nook doesn't have ads, even though it cost a bit more than the ad-supported Kindle.
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Anyways, we can't keep every standard forever. Right now a high-end monitor will have a 2x HDMI, 2xDVI-D, a DisplayPort, VGA, and Component in. That is a lot of connectors!
I would be curious to hear the libertarian viewpoint on whether insider trading should be a crime?
In that case, the project failed, because it was originally planned at $5BN, and only 1/15th of that was spent on it. And of that, according to the article, "Much of the funding for IWN at the time went instead to maintain creaky legacy systems."
In other words, they backed down from the plan, and fell back on supporting the status quo. Which is kind of sad, but maybe it wasn't worth $5BN and we should be glad support was withdrawn.
I disagree; an open spec is useless to people on other platforms unless there's a good implementation on that platform. (For example, samba is good enough to make SMB useful on non-Microsoft platforms, whereas Wine is not good enough to do the same for the Win32 API). Now, I didn't say anything about Apple providing iBook implementations for other platforms. But, for example, if iBook is based on an existing standard like HTML5 of PDF that is already well-supported on other platforms, that will be better than if iBook is wholly new. Furthermore, if the iBook spec is reasonably concise and if Apple resists the temptation to continually dribble new features into it, that would help tremendously.
I am looking right now at a computer with 2 fully-loaded cores that has been viris scanning for 25 solid hours. This is typical. It starts up after EVERY login, then just sits and churns forever with no visible progress. Or sometimes it finishes after a few seconds.
Sometimes you go to run some other program and it will just freeze up until/unless you kill navx (if you're lucky enough to have admin rights).
Or you're sitting on a plane, and it decides now would be a fine time to fire up and drain your battery in 40 minutes.
I can't leave my email box open because it pops up every few seconds and says THREAT DETECTED! (probably in some old email in mail spool already marked as deleted), but you press OK to fix, and after a few seconds it says it failed to repair it, no other explanation, so it pops up a modal dialog box in front of whatever you're trying to do. This occurs a couple times per minute, forever.
I hate it.
"Reinvent" is a big word. But the most significant thing I see here is that the tools - including and especially the content development tools - are free (as in beer). But the next question is, what iBook tools will be available on other platforms?
HP had the expensive ink market covered. Kodak's only hope was to undercut them.
We don't just talk about regime changing other nations, we do it, and quite often. On the other hand, that's still different than annihilating everybody there.
Meanwhile, we got a new phonebook dropped on our porch last night and my wife and I both said in unison, "what? What are we supposed to do with this big lump? Why waste all those trees?" Granted, reference materials are an especially weak application for paper books.
But e-books just aren't that bad anymore.
You're repeating an infamous misquote. In short, the American version of the phrase is "regime change." In other words, neither am I pretending Iran is a friend of Israel.
It's not just that. The reason Apple took off in consumer electronics was the iPod, and the reason it took off was not the device itself, but because Apple hammered out distribution rights with major music publishers. Paid downloads of music were an obvious idea by then, but so what? Nobody else had made it happen (not with major labels most people wanted). Digital textbooks are the same deal - the hardware is almost a given, the content is already there - it's all about distribution rights. And, yes, DRM is part and parcel with distribution rights, because most content producers DO want to get paid. (That said, if a huge customer like the UC system wants to pay for their own content development and then allow free redistribution, I agree that would be even better.)
Most good careers require 6-10 years of post-highschool education, and predicting that far out is a very uncertain business.
I sure hope the US never has to add a digit.
To be honest it seems like a perfect application for a huge national database, but I'm sure that would not fly in the US, and has been difficult to implement in the UK even with single-payer healthcare there.
I think you're underestimating the importance of the social safety net that was created after (and as a result of) the Great Depression: "In 1940, 40% of draftees were rejected, most of them because of malnutrition, bad teeth and eyesight--all results of the Depression."
Let that sink in for a minute.
It's easy to complain about the debt incurred in the government's response to this recession. Our ancestors already witnessed the alternative. It was horrendous.
Actually the price of solar has dropped 95% since 1979, so the argument that solar subsidies were successful is much easier to make for solar than E85.
The linked article allows the interpretation that the subsidy is "scheduled to end" simply because Congress didn't get around to renewing it yet. But the Sentate voted 73-27 to eliminate the subsidy early last year. The Senate can't make laws unilaterally, but that's a pretty clear sign of significant active opposition to the subsidy. Now that the subsidy would have to be actively extended, reversing a 73-27 vote through lobbying seems like a very high hurdle.
I would like to have them just so I could go see a different doctor without the waste of re-testing and the hassle, inconvenience, and frankly, embarrassment of calling to have the records sent over.
Welcome to libertarian utopia!
The reason "the common cold" hasn't been cured is because "it" is actually hundreds of different virii. If only there were a way to tell which is which...
In the future the doctor will swab your throat, upload some markers, and the next day the correct prescription (from hundreds) will be FedEx'd to your door.
Why wait until birth? If your DNA doesn't pass muster, you'll probably be rejected as a zygote and head off to the incinerator with 99% of your siblings.
Maybe I'm confused about what's happening here. If you're using something like a SecureID card, it shouldn't matter that much if somebody gets your PIN, unless they also get your card (and you don't notice and get it deactivated).
If everybody had radar, there would be no need to stop for fog in the first place. Just as we don't stop when it gets dark or in tunnels, because everybody has headlights.
I think that would inevitably wind up a Steve Jobs / Steve Wozniak situation - in the best case, if the endeavor were really successful, he would gradually leave you in the dust and replace you. Whoever manages the money and touches it first has all the leverage. Might as well work for a larger company with more stability. (Granted Wozniak never had to work again, but Apple's level of success is unusual to say the least).
I'm still hopeful. Look at rear-facing backup cameras, they're useful, safe as far as I know, and don't have ads inserted into them.
Maybe too optimistic, but I wonder if ad-support for everything isn't due to swing the other way. At some point the little "pay" you're receiving for watching ads just isn't worth it. And "social" or location-aware ads, sure there's some extra effectiveness, but it can't be that much. I'm sick of ads and I'm sure a lot of others must be, too. I bought my daughter a Nook instead of Kindle mainly because the basic Nook doesn't have ads, even though it cost a bit more than the ad-supported Kindle.