The connectors look flat and well protected to me. Besides, the voltage and amperage presented are usually quite low (my current laptop's power supply is 15V 5A). This is nowhere near enough to cause a short, let alone a fire even if you tried.
Not all Toshiba's shipping products actually work - I purchased a J35 PVR and am having terrible troubles with it and I am not alone. Looks like their slipping.
Ok - that makes it 16. What about the other 13 buttons you cannot live without? I have remotes all over the place, each with buttons all over them. I have replaced them all with a learning remote with fewer buttons and only use 10 at most. Why do companies think we need so many options and shortcuts to every individual feature they cram into a product? Why does my digital settop box have a button to chnage the output resolution? How often am I going to chnage it? This shit anoys me.
I disagree. The last email does exactly the same amount of damage as the first. They both have the same impacts and it does not matter in which order they are sent.
The car anology is very good and has some great parallels with the software industry. Many times (and I am guilty of this) the project is started with no clear end point in mind. The inferace and inner working are designed as we go. What we end up with is a mess; and as you said, by that time the investment is too great to start again.
After reading some of this work and associated articles I have ordered the book "The design of everyday things". Perhaps this is just a function of getting older, but I am increasingly finding things don't work the way they should (or at least the way *I* think they should. My wife says this book will probably make things worse as I will see faults in more and more things.....
Have a great Christmas - I'm off to the office party:)
This is not a flame. If you read the HDMI 1.2 specs it basically says "Use DVI for video transport". The DVI spec does limit the clock speed in single link mode to 165MHz, but there is NO limit in dual link mode. This effectively makes the bandwidth unlimited (ignoring physcial limitations).
Nice post and I agree with most of it. The last paragraph however seems to devalue HF's. I suggest you read Buxton's paper entitled "Performance by Design: The Role of Design in Software Product Development". Get the design right at the start and you won't get (as) bad project management and end products.
Firstly, you never prevent the possibility, you only reduce the probability. Second, you can only ever replace a risk with another risk. The question is whether the risk of suffocation is less than the risk of fire? BTW - I am a qualified risk manager.
I helped manage a website for an organisation I belong to and they recently decide to go down another road. My access was immediately revoked, which is fine and part of the SOP.
However, there was no arrangements in place for an immediate replacement. The firewall rules prevented anyone except me from accessing the system and I was getting all the webmaster/postmaster/hostmaster emails. I would not mind so much, but the discussion forum database died and started sending me an email for every failed hit (over 15,000 so far).
With no access to the system I could not fix this, so I have had to negotiate temporary access to rectify the situation. In the meantime I redirected all the email straight to the trashcan.
Obviously this could have gone a lot better for both sides. Admittedly this is a rare case, but it shows what troubles can occur if access is revoked without understanding.
SSL does not solve DNS issues. Nothing prevents determined hackers from installing an SSL certificate on their phishing website to look like the real thing - most users don't know the difference anyway.
If Apple produce a mini with Front Row and HDMI/DVI and digital 5.1 surround I will purchase so fast my credit card will not know what happened. An ipod cradle and DTV would be added bonuses.
Thge interface is simply elegant and functional. At last I can keep up with my 2 year olds constant requests to put on yet another DVD.
The best performing enterprises do NOT compare themselves with others; they just keep asking the question "how can we be better?". The process of comparison is a waste of energy and an exercise in futility. Put that energy to use building the most amazing system ever created and the customers will be bashing down the door. "Build it and they will come."
Well that depends on the architecture. If every set top box has a bittorrent client it could help load popular shows onto others in the neighbourhood without leaving your local exchange. Plus, someone will crack how to do this with live video feeds at some stage.
No I believe you, but I don't think putting a little bit of sticky tape on a CD will cause it to explode - unless the CD suspect in the first place, and that's the catch. People hear of something happening once somewhere in the world and assume the risks are real and consequences severe. The reality is that it does not happen very often, even when you try...
Arrrggghhh! Publishing services in DNS is full of problems. Replication delays, no TTL, no URL, etc. Why not use a protocol that was designed to register and locate services - Service Location Protocol (SLP).
I thnk the point was this: NAT and firewalls are different things. Nat does all it says it does and nothing more. If you want to filter traffic you need to add those features on top of NAT.
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The connectors look flat and well protected to me. Besides, the voltage and amperage presented are usually quite low (my current laptop's power supply is 15V 5A). This is nowhere near enough to cause a short, let alone a fire even if you tried.
Not all Toshiba's shipping products actually work - I purchased a J35 PVR and am having terrible troubles with it and I am not alone. Looks like their slipping.
Amen. With 60 channels of shit on the TV to choose from it's nice to be able to create a list of the ones *I* like. I never watch the others anyway.
Ok - that makes it 16. What about the other 13 buttons you cannot live without? I have remotes all over the place, each with buttons all over them. I have replaced them all with a learning remote with fewer buttons and only use 10 at most. Why do companies think we need so many options and shortcuts to every individual feature they cram into a product? Why does my digital settop box have a button to chnage the output resolution? How often am I going to chnage it? This shit anoys me.
I disagree. The last email does exactly the same amount of damage as the first. They both have the same impacts and it does not matter in which order they are sent.
[Warning - off topic] Heh - Up until the "take over the world" bit I was reading it with "Bananas in pyjamas" voices.
Ahh - your point become clear to me know.
:)
The car anology is very good and has some great parallels with the software industry. Many times (and I am guilty of this) the project is started with no clear end point in mind. The inferace and inner working are designed as we go. What we end up with is a mess; and as you said, by that time the investment is too great to start again.
After reading some of this work and associated articles I have ordered the book "The design of everyday things". Perhaps this is just a function of getting older, but I am increasingly finding things don't work the way they should (or at least the way *I* think they should. My wife says this book will probably make things worse as I will see faults in more and more things.....
Have a great Christmas - I'm off to the office party
This is not a flame. If you read the HDMI 1.2 specs it basically says "Use DVI for video transport". The DVI spec does limit the clock speed in single link mode to 165MHz, but there is NO limit in dual link mode. This effectively makes the bandwidth unlimited (ignoring physcial limitations).
Nice post and I agree with most of it. The last paragraph however seems to devalue HF's. I suggest you read Buxton's paper entitled "Performance by Design: The Role of Design in Software Product Development". Get the design right at the start and you won't get (as) bad project management and end products.
Then all we need to do is program the computer to "push its own button" and were done.
The risk of falling in the hole is gone, but the residual risk of just falling over remains. Good enough?
Firstly, you never prevent the possibility, you only reduce the probability.
Second, you can only ever replace a risk with another risk. The question is whether the risk of suffocation is less than the risk of fire?
BTW - I am a qualified risk manager.
At 500x600 lines it's better than NTSC.
I helped manage a website for an organisation I belong to and they recently decide to go down another road. My access was immediately revoked, which is fine and part of the SOP.
However, there was no arrangements in place for an immediate replacement. The firewall rules prevented anyone except me from accessing the system and I was getting all the webmaster/postmaster/hostmaster emails. I would not mind so much, but the discussion forum database died and started sending me an email for every failed hit (over 15,000 so far).
With no access to the system I could not fix this, so I have had to negotiate temporary access to rectify the situation. In the meantime I redirected all the email straight to the trashcan.
Obviously this could have gone a lot better for both sides. Admittedly this is a rare case, but it shows what troubles can occur if access is revoked without understanding.
SSL does not solve DNS issues. Nothing prevents determined hackers from installing an SSL certificate on their phishing website to look like the real thing - most users don't know the difference anyway.
How about a nice game of Thermo Global Nuclear War? Trouble is no one would play it as the only way of winning is not to play at all.
Those "kludgy adaptors" are nothing but pin to pin converters. HDMI uses DVI for video transmission - the two use exactly the same specification.
If Apple produce a mini with Front Row and HDMI/DVI and digital 5.1 surround I will purchase so fast my credit card will not know what happened. An ipod cradle and DTV would be added bonuses.
Thge interface is simply elegant and functional. At last I can keep up with my 2 year olds constant requests to put on yet another DVD.
The best performing enterprises do NOT compare themselves with others; they just keep asking the question "how can we be better?". The process of comparison is a waste of energy and an exercise in futility. Put that energy to use building the most amazing system ever created and the customers will be bashing down the door. "Build it and they will come."
Well that depends on the architecture. If every set top box has a bittorrent client it could help load popular shows onto others in the neighbourhood without leaving your local exchange. Plus, someone will crack how to do this with live video feeds at some stage.
No I believe you, but I don't think putting a little bit of sticky tape on a CD will cause it to explode - unless the CD suspect in the first place, and that's the catch. People hear of something happening once somewhere in the world and assume the risks are real and consequences severe. The reality is that it does not happen very often, even when you try...
Mythbusted. Not convinced? Ask them.
I think they were reffering to IP6 containing MAC addresses.
Arrrggghhh! Publishing services in DNS is full of problems. Replication delays, no TTL, no URL, etc. Why not use a protocol that was designed to register and locate services - Service Location Protocol (SLP).
I thnk the point was this: NAT and firewalls are different things. Nat does all it says it does and nothing more. If you want to filter traffic you need to add those features on top of NAT.