You sound very optimistic about the intelligence of the general population. I work in tech support and talk to the general population. Experience has taught me to be a cynic. Most people only see the bigger, thinner screens and bright colors.
"Their 12:00 flashers because their VCRs are always flashing 12:00" - Dead Trolls Help Desk video.
I like the higher res but it's not enough to prompt me to replace my hundreds of TV & movies DVDs. Plus that awful DRM is a huge negitive. Basically +1 for high-res, -1000 for soul stealing DRM.
I think this is going to be the view of a lot of people including myself. I just don't know how successful a new movie disk format will be given the time for general adoption by the masses vs speed of Internet connections. About the time it hits it's stride in the mass market, faster Internet connections and better on-demand video services will be available.
It took DVDs years to be accepted by the market. They'll have to offer much more with the movies to get the public to want to buy new copies of what they have. With DVD, it was all the extras and the supposedly non-degrading format. Since the consumer already has that with DVD, Blu-ray can't push that so they'll have to push the higher resolution but the general public doesn't really understand that much so it's something really abstract to them. Are they going to sell their soul (DRM) and empty their pocket book to replace their current movies? I doubt it.
Actually the movie was based on info and theories from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. They just added a bunch of bad science for plot devices. Take a look at these two links:
Little Ice Age and Abrupt Climate Change
I wonder when MS will get into the IT infrastructure outsourcing business to insure that companies use only MS server and PC software. I can see them out bidding companes and coming in, dumping all their mainframe and unix systems then replacing it with Windows based systems.
How about implanting a thin mesh of titanium wire under the skin to protect you. It'd be better if it were a superconductor though. Get sent to the electric chair? No problem!
I have a Compaq Presario 2108CL laptop but they said my L1xxxxx battery wasn't part of the recall. I'm going to have to check with their support just to make resure. It would be nice to get a new battery.
If they can produce and sell a disk like this for $3 then why can't they sell standard DVDs for that much or cheaper (assuming self destructing DVDs are more expensive to produce). Wouldn't this make a good basis for a class action suit against the movie industry for price fixing? Not to mention their controlling of the import of movies with the region encoding. I thought the federal government was the one that was supposed to control imports not the movie industry.
As someone that's a help desk analyst; I talk to people all the time that just don't understand anything related to IT simply because no one has helped them understand. This is because companies do not provide central IT information resources and cut their IT services to the point where the people that do IT are so strung out they don't have time for the work alloted to them.
It is amazing that companies will give some of their employees laptop computers, VPN accounts and Secure ID tokens but no information on how to use them. Often times, help desk personnel get so stressed with users who don't know anything about the technology they use. It's easy to think of the average caller as stupid or an idiot. Their knowledge range is so narrowly focused on just their assigned tasks so I like to think of them as having "specialized intelligence" but I guess id10t works too.
Awhile back I needed to replace my stereo in my CRX. I looked everwhere for one that just had a radio, audio input and USB port for memory drives but couldn't find one. I really don't need a CD drive in the car. Juggling CDs and having to take them out of the car because of the Texas heat is really a pain. Not to mention having to burn music to them.
Wouldn't it take alot less to mine asteroids if the intention is to send the materials back to earth? They have to lift the resources out of the planet's gravity well, with asteroids this isn't a problem. Not that this organization is capable of it but I think it would be best to leave Martian resources on Mars for future colonies. Someone should send their CEO copies of Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars along with A Case for Mars and Mining the Sky.
If they want to mind a planet, they should go for Mercury. There should be loads of metals there.
The problem is that it isn't working fine. To begin with we should have 13 months in the year, not 12. Months are supposed to reflect lunar cycles and there are 13 of them a year. The year is one day and some change longer than 13 (28 day) months a year. Ever noticed how the business world works off 13 periods a year? and of course the menstrual cycles too. Take a look at this sometimes.
The whole IT aspect to this issue is really part of a larger issue. Computers and various time keeping devices are too dependent on our method of date and time keeping. Any changes in our calendar system or a shift in time keeping as in the DST will cause disruption and large amounts of work for IT departments. Imagine what would happen if the political winds changed and something like the International Fixed Calendar were to be adopted.
What would really be interesting is if the drivers could be setup to adapt the keyboard layout for the current application that the user is activly running. If this concept plays out, this could change much in the way users interact with software. The physical layout of the keys reminds me of my Northgate OmniKey Pro. Display keys on something like a Nostromo n50 would be very nice!:)
To borrow a line from Douglas Adams; I think that Professor Landsburg should be sent back in time on a prehistoric planet and be told to evolve into a more sensible life form. Death for hacking?!? WTF?! Get some prespective, death for hacking is rather extreme. Yes, hacking inconveniences everyone but considering that most of what it does is temporarily limit our access to the frills that our society has wrapped it's self in.
Here's new reality TV for you: Professor Landsburg living in a hut somewhere, fending off the land for awhile. He would quickly learn that all the technological trappings that we've wrapped ourself in is just frills and the basics of food, water, shelter, companionship and occasional medical care are all you "need" and that everything else is just conveniences. Many people in the world don't have access to those conveniences; many more don't even have access to the basic needs. There is a reason why many of us in the computer community use the abbreviation IRL online!
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You sound very optimistic about the intelligence of the general population. I work in tech support and talk to the general population. Experience has taught me to be a cynic. Most people only see the bigger, thinner screens and bright colors.
"Their 12:00 flashers because their VCRs are always flashing 12:00" - Dead Trolls Help Desk video.
I like the higher res but it's not enough to prompt me to replace my hundreds of TV & movies DVDs. Plus that awful DRM is a huge negitive. Basically +1 for high-res, -1000 for soul stealing DRM.
I think this is going to be the view of a lot of people including myself. I just don't know how successful a new movie disk format will be given the time for general adoption by the masses vs speed of Internet connections. About the time it hits it's stride in the mass market, faster Internet connections and better on-demand video services will be available.
It took DVDs years to be accepted by the market. They'll have to offer much more with the movies to get the public to want to buy new copies of what they have. With DVD, it was all the extras and the supposedly non-degrading format. Since the consumer already has that with DVD, Blu-ray can't push that so they'll have to push the higher resolution but the general public doesn't really understand that much so it's something really abstract to them. Are they going to sell their soul (DRM) and empty their pocket book to replace their current movies? I doubt it.
Actually the movie was based on info and theories from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. They just added a bunch of bad science for plot devices. Take a look at these two links: Little Ice Age and Abrupt Climate Change
Will it run on the Amiga OS?
I wonder when MS will get into the IT infrastructure outsourcing business to insure that companies use only MS server and PC software. I can see them out bidding companes and coming in, dumping all their mainframe and unix systems then replacing it with Windows based systems.
How about implanting a thin mesh of titanium wire under the skin to protect you. It'd be better if it were a superconductor though. Get sent to the electric chair? No problem!
I have a Compaq Presario 2108CL laptop but they said my L1xxxxx battery wasn't part of the recall. I'm going to have to check with their support just to make resure. It would be nice to get a new battery.
If they can produce and sell a disk like this for $3 then why can't they sell standard DVDs for that much or cheaper (assuming self destructing DVDs are more expensive to produce). Wouldn't this make a good basis for a class action suit against the movie industry for price fixing? Not to mention their controlling of the import of movies with the region encoding. I thought the federal government was the one that was supposed to control imports not the movie industry.
You forgot dogs and cats sleeping together as another sign of the end times. :D
As someone that's a help desk analyst; I talk to people all the time that just don't understand anything related to IT simply because no one has helped them understand. This is because companies do not provide central IT information resources and cut their IT services to the point where the people that do IT are so strung out they don't have time for the work alloted to them.
It is amazing that companies will give some of their employees laptop computers, VPN accounts and Secure ID tokens but no information on how to use them. Often times, help desk personnel get so stressed with users who don't know anything about the technology they use. It's easy to think of the average caller as stupid or an idiot. Their knowledge range is so narrowly focused on just their assigned tasks so I like to think of them as having "specialized intelligence" but I guess id10t works too.
I just wish there was replacement software for Tivos. Something open source that would work with the hardware and bypass their pay guide service.
Why do this when regeneration is so close. Their already able to do regeneration in mice and transfering the ability to other mice.
Awhile back I needed to replace my stereo in my CRX. I looked everwhere for one that just had a radio, audio input and USB port for memory drives but couldn't find one. I really don't need a CD drive in the car. Juggling CDs and having to take them out of the car because of the Texas heat is really a pain. Not to mention having to burn music to them.
Anyone know of a car stereo like this?
Wouldn't it take alot less to mine asteroids if the intention is to send the materials back to earth? They have to lift the resources out of the planet's gravity well, with asteroids this isn't a problem. Not that this organization is capable of it but I think it would be best to leave Martian resources on Mars for future colonies. Someone should send their CEO copies of Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars along with A Case for Mars and Mining the Sky.
If they want to mind a planet, they should go for Mercury. There should be loads of metals there.
Looks like I'll be skipping this upgrade since holographic tech is just on the horizon. Plus DVDs will be hard as hell to kill.
Anyone looked at how much Yahoo's search page looks like Google's?
Religion damages people far more than sex, let's tax it instead.
The problem is that it isn't working fine. To begin with we should have 13 months in the year, not 12. Months are supposed to reflect lunar cycles and there are 13 of them a year. The year is one day and some change longer than 13 (28 day) months a year. Ever noticed how the business world works off 13 periods a year? and of course the menstrual cycles too. Take a look at this sometimes.
Then your probably never owned an Amiga. hehe
I'd like to see an effort to bring the functionality of ARexx to *nix platforms. Including arexx ports in applications.
The whole IT aspect to this issue is really part of a larger issue. Computers and various time keeping devices are too dependent on our method of date and time keeping. Any changes in our calendar system or a shift in time keeping as in the DST will cause disruption and large amounts of work for IT departments. Imagine what would happen if the political winds changed and something like the International Fixed Calendar were to be adopted.
What would really be interesting is if the drivers could be setup to adapt the keyboard layout for the current application that the user is activly running. If this concept plays out, this could change much in the way users interact with software. The physical layout of the keys reminds me of my Northgate OmniKey Pro. Display keys on something like a Nostromo n50 would be very nice! :)
I just wish the motherboard developers would leave the floppy ports off.
To borrow a line from Douglas Adams; I think that Professor Landsburg should be sent back in time on a prehistoric planet and be told to evolve into a more sensible life form. Death for hacking?!? WTF?! Get some prespective, death for hacking is rather extreme. Yes, hacking inconveniences everyone but considering that most of what it does is temporarily limit our access to the frills that our society has wrapped it's self in.
Here's new reality TV for you: Professor Landsburg living in a hut somewhere, fending off the land for awhile. He would quickly learn that all the technological trappings that we've wrapped ourself in is just frills and the basics of food, water, shelter, companionship and occasional medical care are all you "need" and that everything else is just conveniences. Many people in the world don't have access to those conveniences; many more don't even have access to the basic needs. There is a reason why many of us in the computer community use the abbreviation IRL online!