WATCH the damned thing. Shows, even shitty ones, don't get cancelled if people WATCH them. If the show gets cancelled, it's because you aren't putting your viewing habits where your mouth is!
What good would it do if I watched the show? I don't have a Nelson box on my TV so how would FOX know if I'm watching it? (Which I do)
The better solution, as others have pointed out, is if FOX had slotted Futurama after Simpsons or some other popular show (do they have any others?)
I wasn't trying to say anything related to GSM vs. CDMA. I personally prefer GSM by a long shot. I was simply trying to point out that the only difference between the very small phones found in Asia and the EU, is GSM and that if there was sufficient US market demand, they could be switched to CDMA and made for sale. I'll use Cingular Wireless as the example. In the Bay Area of California, GSM service is available and Cingular uses it. They offer all models of Nokia and Ericcson phones, including their smalest ones (granted, the Bay Area market has many more customers who would be more willing to purchase smaller phones.) Here in Rochester, NY, where there is no GSM service, Cingular only offeres the CDMA Nokias and Ericcsons which are probably the largest models offered by those two manufacturers. From Nokia's standpoint, there is insufficient market demand to offer their smaller GSM phones in CDMA format. This would be true for the majority of the country as only the Pacific coast and perhaps a few other cities have GSM service.
Even if the implementation takes 3-5 years, further reducing the size of cell phones may only be beneficial in a few markets. Most certainly, the US market will not need super small cell phones in the comming years. The Asian and EU markets already sell phones that on average are significantly smaller than those sold in most of the US market. Yes, those are GSM phones, but if the American consumers wanted smaller phones, the manufacturers would quickly swap out the GSM circuits in put CDMA in place. Unfortunatly (for some of us) the average American still tends to like their products to be larger (at least acording to many market research companies.)
Where this technology might be more appropriate is in the imbedded markets. For the Auto-makers, the size of On-Star style equipment could be greatly reduced and in-dash cell phones could have a much nicer and simpler integration.
Though its quite cool to see electornics reaching the miniature level, at some point (which we may have already reached) it will be impracticle to reduce the package size of many consumer electronics. Do you really want a 1 cubic inch sized cell phone that you loose once a week and spend $200 to replace?
Society changes from technology?
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I have noticed a common notion in many posts on this topic: Society changes as new technology emerges. However, those who develope the new technology often do so under the premis of new demands issued by the evolving society. Although we do find ourselves changing based on the acceptance and usage of new tech. we would not have created this new tech. without some initial socital change. Therfore, it is only a continuous cycle in which each change, that in society and in technology, drives the other to change or evolve. At one point in ancient history, man decided he wanted to be warm at night, be able to see after dark and to cook food. This desired change led man to adopt the use of fire which in turn reshaped the way humans could live. A change in society bought about new technology which in turn caused a radical evolution in human society. Another case of the chicken-egg relationship.
Though it is important to understand the positive and negative effects of changes in society, we must be carful not be blinded by the attempts to 'blame' a particular piece of technology for these changes. Instead we should be more focused on understanding the realtionship between our own evolution and the technology we create in response to it.
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You miss the point of this game system. It was intended to bring arcade quality games into the home; for those who could afford. The idea was not to use an arcade as a marketing tool of the consol but to bring the arcade into the home using a consol system.
A cousin of a friend of mine has worked for two different financial houses in a role similar to this. His job was to randomly walk into empty offices, sit down at the employee's computer and try to crack his way into their system/files. He sure seemed to like this job a lot better than his former admin role.
As an field engineer for a software company, I spend a lot of time parsing huge log files using perl. Having a locked down pc would prevent me from installing my favourite text editor (Which I purches a liscense for) and the perl lib, which is free. Without out these two apps, I would not be able to preform my job. I also travel nearly 70% of the time, requiring me to get on the net anyway possible, again needing admin privlages.
Though, as a former admin, I support the SOE for some users (like operations), others must be allowed the exception. At one company I worked for, you could sign a form indicating that you would take full responsibility for your pc and that you would not be allowed to use the internal IT support arm. Hmm, a fine trade for admin rights on your own pc.
For me, a locked down pc would only be a tool for frustration, certainly not a tool for productivity. There is NO way I would read through GB sized ASCII logs using notepad...
I just returned from a bussiness trip there and inquired about the possibility of moving there to work ( a life long dream). I was told by a Texan currently working for a very large company there that it is quite easy. If your expertise is in demand, say anything IT, and you look for work with a large company (Shell and Philips to name two) they can easily take care of the work permits. Also, the government gives foreign workers a 30% discount on personal income taxes with no reduction in benefits. Though he stated (as have others I spoke with) that the standard of living is about 30% less that that of the US (this is, of course, quite a subjective measurement) the discount on taxes makes up for the lower wage allowing his family to live at about the same standard (the major exception being the owenership of only one auto.) I have began investigating this for my own employment and have found that it will be quite easy for me to accomplish, assuming that I get accepted for a position. Good luck with your search.
Slight correction:
Soft drugs are NOT leagal in The Netherlands, they are however, as you stated, tolerated. The actual sale has not been legalized however the authorities have decided to have a blind eye towards marijuana and hash. This has allowed the famed Cafes to open up and sell the drugs in a contained and safe environment (at much cheaper prices than we're used). Also, when I was in Holland a few weeks ago, there was some talk from other European countries who consider the Dutch policy to be the way of the future, but as the commentary pointed out, will the other governments actualy say so out loud..? but away from the tangent...
I would like to add a comment in regards to the quality of life arguments. In some regards I would consider Europe to be at 70-80% of the quality in the US. But on other aspects I would give them 125%. The point: quality of life is to subjective. We each value different aspects of life with different priorities. So live where you're most happy.
I'll second that. When I first got roadrunner, I was the first in my neighborhood to get the service. I could get speeds in excess of 2Mbit down and nearly 1 Mbit up. Quake was sweet. Soon after though, the peak times started to get slow. Now that I live in San Jose, I can't get any broadband, save Richocet, which looses its speed once insid my townhouse. Go figure; I live in the middle of Silicon Valley and I can only get 42kbps off a dial-up.
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WATCH the damned thing. Shows, even shitty ones, don't get cancelled if people WATCH them. If the show gets cancelled, it's because you aren't putting your viewing habits where your mouth is!
What good would it do if I watched the show? I don't have a Nelson box on my TV so how would FOX know if I'm watching it? (Which I do)
The better solution, as others have pointed out, is if FOX had slotted Futurama after Simpsons or some other popular show (do they have any others?)
I wasn't trying to say anything related to GSM vs. CDMA. I personally prefer GSM by a long shot. I was simply trying to point out that the only difference between the very small phones found in Asia and the EU, is GSM and that if there was sufficient US market demand, they could be switched to CDMA and made for sale. I'll use Cingular Wireless as the example. In the Bay Area of California, GSM service is available and Cingular uses it. They offer all models of Nokia and Ericcson phones, including their smalest ones (granted, the Bay Area market has many more customers who would be more willing to purchase smaller phones.) Here in Rochester, NY, where there is no GSM service, Cingular only offeres the CDMA Nokias and Ericcsons which are probably the largest models offered by those two manufacturers. From Nokia's standpoint, there is insufficient market demand to offer their smaller GSM phones in CDMA format. This would be true for the majority of the country as only the Pacific coast and perhaps a few other cities have GSM service.
Even if the implementation takes 3-5 years, further reducing the size of cell phones may only be beneficial in a few markets. Most certainly, the US market will not need super small cell phones in the comming years. The Asian and EU markets already sell phones that on average are significantly smaller than those sold in most of the US market. Yes, those are GSM phones, but if the American consumers wanted smaller phones, the manufacturers would quickly swap out the GSM circuits in put CDMA in place. Unfortunatly (for some of us) the average American still tends to like their products to be larger (at least acording to many market research companies.)
Where this technology might be more appropriate is in the imbedded markets. For the Auto-makers, the size of On-Star style equipment could be greatly reduced and in-dash cell phones could have a much nicer and simpler integration.
Though its quite cool to see electornics reaching the miniature level, at some point (which we may have already reached) it will be impracticle to reduce the package size of many consumer electronics. Do you really want a 1 cubic inch sized cell phone that you loose once a week and spend $200 to replace?
As for MEMS, the medical applications are much more interesting.
I have noticed a common notion in many posts on this topic: Society changes as new technology emerges. However, those who develope the new technology often do so under the premis of new demands issued by the evolving society. Although we do find ourselves changing based on the acceptance and usage of new tech. we would not have created this new tech. without some initial socital change. Therfore, it is only a continuous cycle in which each change, that in society and in technology, drives the other to change or evolve. At one point in ancient history, man decided he wanted to be warm at night, be able to see after dark and to cook food. This desired change led man to adopt the use of fire which in turn reshaped the way humans could live. A change in society bought about new technology which in turn caused a radical evolution in human society. Another case of the chicken-egg relationship.
Though it is important to understand the positive and negative effects of changes in society, we must be carful not be blinded by the attempts to 'blame' a particular piece of technology for these changes. Instead we should be more focused on understanding the realtionship between our own evolution and the technology we create in response to it.
You miss the point of this game system. It was intended to bring arcade quality games into the home; for those who could afford. The idea was not to use an arcade as a marketing tool of the consol but to bring the arcade into the home using a consol system.
A cousin of a friend of mine has worked for two different financial houses in a role similar to this. His job was to randomly walk into empty offices, sit down at the employee's computer and try to crack his way into their system/files. He sure seemed to like this job a lot better than his former admin role.
As an field engineer for a software company, I spend a lot of time parsing huge log files using perl. Having a locked down pc would prevent me from installing my favourite text editor (Which I purches a liscense for) and the perl lib, which is free. Without out these two apps, I would not be able to preform my job. I also travel nearly 70% of the time, requiring me to get on the net anyway possible, again needing admin privlages.
Though, as a former admin, I support the SOE for some users (like operations), others must be allowed the exception. At one company I worked for, you could sign a form indicating that you would take full responsibility for your pc and that you would not be allowed to use the internal IT support arm. Hmm, a fine trade for admin rights on your own pc.
For me, a locked down pc would only be a tool for frustration, certainly not a tool for productivity. There is NO way I would read through GB sized ASCII logs using notepad...
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I just returned from a bussiness trip there and inquired about the possibility of moving there to work ( a life long dream). I was told by a Texan currently working for a very large company there that it is quite easy. If your expertise is in demand, say anything IT, and you look for work with a large company (Shell and Philips to name two) they can easily take care of the work permits. Also, the government gives foreign workers a 30% discount on personal income taxes with no reduction in benefits. Though he stated (as have others I spoke with) that the standard of living is about 30% less that that of the US (this is, of course, quite a subjective measurement) the discount on taxes makes up for the lower wage allowing his family to live at about the same standard (the major exception being the owenership of only one auto.) I have began investigating this for my own employment and have found that it will be quite easy for me to accomplish, assuming that I get accepted for a position. Good luck with your search.
Slight correction:
Soft drugs are NOT leagal in The Netherlands, they are however, as you stated, tolerated. The actual sale has not been legalized however the authorities have decided to have a blind eye towards marijuana and hash. This has allowed the famed Cafes to open up and sell the drugs in a contained and safe environment (at much cheaper prices than we're used). Also, when I was in Holland a few weeks ago, there was some talk from other European countries who consider the Dutch policy to be the way of the future, but as the commentary pointed out, will the other governments actualy say so out loud..? but away from the tangent...
I would like to add a comment in regards to the quality of life arguments. In some regards I would consider Europe to be at 70-80% of the quality in the US. But on other aspects I would give them 125%. The point: quality of life is to subjective. We each value different aspects of life with different priorities. So live where you're most happy.
I'll second that. When I first got roadrunner, I was the first in my neighborhood to get the service. I could get speeds in excess of 2Mbit down and nearly 1 Mbit up. Quake was sweet. Soon after though, the peak times started to get slow. Now that I live in San Jose, I can't get any broadband, save Richocet, which looses its speed once insid my townhouse. Go figure; I live in the middle of Silicon Valley and I can only get 42kbps off a dial-up.
You can have all but the Ewoks. Chewie, Leia and Han are all available in the Millenium Falcon set retailing at US$99.