Especially when HP is a company that's now about selling commodity hardware, the entire PC industry is about commodity hardware.
They dont need some self-proclaimed visionary to sit around and philosophize without contributing anything tangible to the bottom line and probably demand some ridiculous salary.
Investors and other employees who WORK all day would probably see this as a good thing for the company.
Geeks should look at this news and learn an important lesson. Your employment is based on what you can do for the company, and more to the point, how you can make money for the company.
I didn't learn shit in university. Out of high school i was a whiz with Calculus, algebra, physics, finite math, and knew about 20 different programming dialects, having gradually learned to love math during my days in public school.
And I hated it as a kid. I hated the sheets and sheets of additions. But in retrospect, it was the best thing in my childhood, because it pays off in the form of the Big Bucks now.
Why, just last week, the cash register broke down and I still made change out of a 20 for a big mac and fries! My manager was so impressed he's gonna put me on drive thru!
The guy's an ecologist. The fact that schools are ordering it just shows what's happened to our education system.
They want a more "PC" or enviro-fiendly periodic table, not a more accurate or useful one.
My kids are going through grade school, and on conference with the teacher, I found out that they dont teach math by having the kids do arithmetic problems over and over until it's second nature. They just briefly touch on subjects like multiplaction and division, to "give the kids a sense of it", in the teachers own words, then move on. The entire curriculum is designed so the stupidest kid in america can pass, and therefore feel good about himself.
I don't know if I suddenly became an old crank, but what the fuck? This is the education strategy we've chosen as we dive headlong into the age of technology?
I moved my kids to private school. I figure the cash spent now is much less than having to support a public school "graduate" into my 90s.
I've seen them for sale on "hardcore modder" sites. Pissing on AMD/Intel/ATI/nVidia, since with every other PC part there's actual competition. Zealots only pop up when there's only two choices (which their tiny brains grok as black and white, right or wrong).
Gwah, this isn't about HDTV or 16:9 42" plasma sets. This is about a $5 digital tuner to replace the $20 one that's in the set you just bought.
If this was in effect last year, you could have saved 10-15 bucks.
And $40 bucks a month on top of that, since over the air digital will beat the crap out of analog cable, reception-wise. Hopefully the OTA market will boom after the change, and Comcast et al can go straight to hell.
I was short a 0. I meant 80000. Most mfgs quote a MTBF of 50-60000, but if you take care of it and don't abuse it (ie, crank the contrast and brightness on full then pause your atari 2600 and go on vacation for a month), it should last even longer.
And a $2000 plasma is a low-end POS and you know it.
Even of those with digital cable or satellite, only have it on one set, not wanting to pay an extra $20 monthly fee for the little 5" in the laundry room, kids rooms, etc.
The switch to OTA digital could really kick the cable providers in the nuts, reception is a big reason to have cable in the first place, and with digital broadcasts, no more snow or ghosting. There'll be more space available, so you might even see some of the cable networks switch to OTA, which would be the best possible outcome, as I see it.
This has nothing to do with HDTV, but standard resolution digital signals.
I should reiterate, since/.ers don't seem to understand this. THE FCC IS NOT MANDATING OR FORCING ANYONE TO SWITCH TO HDTV.
A digital tuner is cheaper than an analog one. Once the analog yoke is thrown completely, it should shave a few bucks off production costs, and since there's healthy competition in the field, it should translate to lower prices on the shelves.
A conventional CRT will give you about 8000 hours before it starts to flake up, burn-in, weak heaters, etc. A trinitron tube (or clone thereof, the patent has expired, everyone makes them now) should last even longer, on paper.
It's all about the picture tube. The chassis and tuner can be replaced or repaired relatively cheaply. Just because we've been conditioned to think "aww what a hassle, I'll just throw it out", doesn't mean we have to.
Of course, thanks to all those folks who throw out 13" through 25" sets, because it keeps me in good supply of donor tubes for my arcade cabinets. The 2001N in my Playchoice cab is 22 years old, yet crisper and with brighter colors than any old TV (of course they run on true RGB)
Digital doesn't change that. It helps it, in fact, discrete components generally outlast analog ones.
Plasma/LCD/OLED and all these other technologies, they're basically disposable. The industries wet dream: people buying $5000 sets they'll have to throw out in a couple of years.
BTW, this has nothing to do with HDTV, but 480i, the digital equivelant of NTSC composite video.
If I had one mil to spend on a car, it'd be a McLaren and I wouldn't be giving a flying fuck about mileage. Although, an F1 would probably get amazing mileage, as tuned as the engines are.
No he decided to blow himself up and take earth with it, luckily Goku used his instant transmission to transport him to King Kai's world and blew it up instead. And himself. What a selfless act. *sniff* That Goku, what a guy.
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Especially when HP is a company that's now about selling commodity hardware, the entire PC industry is about commodity hardware.
They dont need some self-proclaimed visionary to sit around and philosophize without contributing anything tangible to the bottom line and probably demand some ridiculous salary.
Investors and other employees who WORK all day would probably see this as a good thing for the company.
Geeks should look at this news and learn an important lesson. Your employment is based on what you can do for the company, and more to the point, how you can make money for the company.
Well
EVERY story should be "Scotty died"
Because I missed it.
You do know that Scotty passed away today, don't you?
Why do I have to learn that from CNN?
I didn't learn shit in university. Out of high school i was a whiz with Calculus, algebra, physics, finite math, and knew about 20 different programming dialects, having gradually learned to love math during my days in public school.
And I hated it as a kid. I hated the sheets and sheets of additions. But in retrospect, it was the best thing in my childhood, because it pays off in the form of the Big Bucks now.
Why, just last week, the cash register broke down and I still made change out of a 20 for a big mac and fries! My manager was so impressed he's gonna put me on drive thru!
Where's the xbox and ps2 patches/hacks?
I hate playing console games on the PC as much as I'd hate playing zork on a NES.
The guy's an ecologist. The fact that schools are ordering it just shows what's happened to our education system.
They want a more "PC" or enviro-fiendly periodic table, not a more accurate or useful one.
My kids are going through grade school, and on conference with the teacher, I found out that they dont teach math by having the kids do arithmetic problems over and over until it's second nature. They just briefly touch on subjects like multiplaction and division, to "give the kids a sense of it", in the teachers own words, then move on. The entire curriculum is designed so the stupidest kid in america can pass, and therefore feel good about himself.
I don't know if I suddenly became an old crank, but what the fuck? This is the education strategy we've chosen as we dive headlong into the age of technology?
I moved my kids to private school. I figure the cash spent now is much less than having to support a public school "graduate" into my 90s.
Simple supply & demand, especially with networking equipment.
Not too long ago an 8 port gigabit switch was almost a grand, now you can get one for 20 bucks on sale.
Right now its low demand, low supply, for the 2-in-1 you speak of.
You can be for DRM, but against shitty implementations thereof?
No wait, that would involve too much thought and judgement. Black and white is so much easier.
Sematary
Trademarking "Windows" == Evil
Trademarking "Numbers" == Good
Maybe Apple trademarked it, simply so noone else can?
This is about software patents after all.
Oh, wait, they're a good thing when Google or Apple apply for them. Sorry, I thought you said Yahoo!
I've seen them for sale on "hardcore modder" sites. Pissing on AMD/Intel/ATI/nVidia, since with every other PC part there's actual competition. Zealots only pop up when there's only two choices (which their tiny brains grok as black and white, right or wrong).
Unfold it or assemble it in orbit. 305 meters isn't all that big.
Gwah, this isn't about HDTV or 16:9 42" plasma sets. This is about a $5 digital tuner to replace the $20 one that's in the set you just bought.
If this was in effect last year, you could have saved 10-15 bucks.
And $40 bucks a month on top of that, since over the air digital will beat the crap out of analog cable, reception-wise. Hopefully the OTA market will boom after the change, and Comcast et al can go straight to hell.
I was short a 0. I meant 80000. Most mfgs quote a MTBF of 50-60000, but if you take care of it and don't abuse it (ie, crank the contrast and brightness on full then pause your atari 2600 and go on vacation for a month), it should last even longer.
And a $2000 plasma is a low-end POS and you know it.
Where'd you get this 90% number?
It sounds like complete horseshit to me.
Even of those with digital cable or satellite, only have it on one set, not wanting to pay an extra $20 monthly fee for the little 5" in the laundry room, kids rooms, etc.
The switch to OTA digital could really kick the cable providers in the nuts, reception is a big reason to have cable in the first place, and with digital broadcasts, no more snow or ghosting. There'll be more space available, so you might even see some of the cable networks switch to OTA, which would be the best possible outcome, as I see it.
This has nothing to do with HDTV, but standard resolution digital signals.
/.ers don't seem to understand this. THE FCC IS NOT MANDATING OR FORCING ANYONE TO SWITCH TO HDTV.
I should reiterate, since
A digital tuner is cheaper than an analog one. Once the analog yoke is thrown completely, it should shave a few bucks off production costs, and since there's healthy competition in the field, it should translate to lower prices on the shelves.
A conventional CRT will give you about 8000 hours before it starts to flake up, burn-in, weak heaters, etc. A trinitron tube (or clone thereof, the patent has expired, everyone makes them now) should last even longer, on paper.
It's all about the picture tube. The chassis and tuner can be replaced or repaired relatively cheaply. Just because we've been conditioned to think "aww what a hassle, I'll just throw it out", doesn't mean we have to.
Of course, thanks to all those folks who throw out 13" through 25" sets, because it keeps me in good supply of donor tubes for my arcade cabinets. The 2001N in my Playchoice cab is 22 years old, yet crisper and with brighter colors than any old TV (of course they run on true RGB)
Digital doesn't change that. It helps it, in fact, discrete components generally outlast analog ones.
Plasma/LCD/OLED and all these other technologies, they're basically disposable. The industries wet dream: people buying $5000 sets they'll have to throw out in a couple of years.
BTW, this has nothing to do with HDTV, but 480i, the digital equivelant of NTSC composite video.
Why don't the scientists just do their research properly?
SETI should launch a sat if they're serious about finding moon men.
There's already plenty of airborne radio equipment already. This is just pseudo-scientific crap.
Let's explore space from space, and worry about advancing humanity on earth.
If I had one mil to spend on a car, it'd be a McLaren and I wouldn't be giving a flying fuck about mileage. Although, an F1 would probably get amazing mileage, as tuned as the engines are.
If by transformer you mean douchebag, yeah, he kind of does.
Star Trek sucks too, perhaps even harder.
Just throwin' that out there.
you simply run out of upstream bandwidth.
The same thing that happens when you try to run a warez ftp on your $20/mo cheapo 'net connection.
No he decided to blow himself up and take earth with it, luckily Goku used his instant transmission to transport him to King Kai's world and blew it up instead. And himself. What a selfless act. *sniff* That Goku, what a guy.
That all depends.
Can you provide me with an internet connection that is compatable with my token ring ethernet configuration?