There's something very fishy about the graphics card market. Using a substantially faster video card in a PC doesn't provide nearly the performance of a slower spec'd console. The console isn't burdened by nearly as much overhead, but that should not affect the GPU noticably. The only factor that I can see in play is that games can be better optimized when the developers know exactly what hardware will be used (as is the case with consoles), but surely having twice the power should be enough to negate that.
I think you'll see SSD gain huge market share in the next 3 years. Magnetic disks will still prevail where there are huge storage needs through at least the next 5 years, but flash based storage will be cheaper and faster for storage capacities that you need to run your computer normally. I picture Dell selling computers with a 128gb flash based drive, and a 1tb magnetic drive. Laptops will be SSD exclusively.
I would think that, since we aren't even close to having boxes with more memory than we actively use, and RAM isn't growing any faster than we are using it up, that using it as a "disk" is even further off than the article would seem to imply.
I thought the summary did a pretty good job of trying not to sway anyone. You know -- when summary said the article didn't cite a relevent poll, and then the summary itself didn't cite a relevent poll.
they dont "photoshop" images, they manipulate them.
I hope you don't have a runny nose or a paper cut, because you'd probably get upset if someone offered you a Kleenex or Bandaid. Unless those don't fit your agenda. All the pros are using MS Paint anyway.
That said, the first thing people are going to do when they get an HD set is pay for HD cable or satellite. They arent going to spend 600 dollars on some fancy player for movies. They might if it costs 200 dollars or less, but that wont happen for a long time if ever. Think of all the HD content Im going to get for only 10 dollars more than Im paying now. As prices drop there will be no reason not to buy a BD player. They are expensive now because they cost so much to make, but manufacturing processes improve.
Anyone spending that much on entertainment now likely has money to throw around. Probably half of the people I work with have HDTVs, all of them have HD cable or (mostly) satellite, a few have HDDVD/BD players, and most have plans to get them in the near future. At the end of the year if a BD player is $200 and a good upscaling DVD player is $75, they'll be spending the money.
That said I doubt the digital download revolution will ever happen but HD via cable and satellite is here. Toss in some on-demand services and theres very little incentive to get a bluray player. For film geeks and videophiles it'll be a must-have, but then again so was the laserdisc. Of course it's going to happen. We're basically already doing it with satellite and going to full digital broadcasting next year. Internet connection speeds may not be getting faster as quickly as we'd like, but they're never going to stop getting faster. When that's the cheapest way for the conglomerates to give us movies, that's what they'll do.
I just got out of the Air Force after six years. I'm not making things up -- that was the response to suggestions that there were no better arguments against. Perfect example: the hot water in the dorms was brown (not tinted -- BROWN) for years. "We had it tested. It's safe." Um.. IT'S FUCKING BROWN!
I sat at a computer 8 hours a day. Sometimes 6 if no one was looking. I lived in an air conditioned tent for 4 months. I lived in a closet, where I had the ability arranged my furniture only because I had played Tetris and I ate garbage served by the laziest, dumbest people I've ever met in my life for 3 years. The Air Force sucks, and I'm sure you're right -- the Army was worse.
and may even use your suggestions to help set future recruiting and operational policies
Using people's suggestions is not the Air Force way. Though, in this instance, they can't rebut with the normal "Deal with it, you're in the military."
Google has over-extended itself. It's been dominating search for years, and doing it better and more dependable than anyone else. For a long time I wonder how they could continue exist with their minimal marketing -- all they did was show you what you were looking for. It was perfect.
Now, they've introduced dozens of products. A lof of them are popular, some not so much. The one thing they seem to all have in common is that they don't work all that well. From annoying bugs to issues that make some of the features worthless, the quality just isn't there anymore. Ex1 - I used google toolbar for easier searching, autofill and popup blocking, and bookmarks, which I loved since they'd follow me to different computers. Better popup blocking is now built in to browsers, search is there too, and autofill works correctly maybe 25% of the time. The bookmarks hardly work at all because I can't stay logged in for more than a few minutes, and I've found nothing addressing why.
Anyway, google's market penetration in to software has been very weak. Google Apps are used by no one. How can you claim they are going to dominate operating systems?
...how or why this is a bad thing. Go to wikipedia and look up OPSEC. Not that I necessarily agree with it, but use your imagination, man.
Do we think there should be street level maps inside military installations on Google Street View? The military asked to have them removed. Obviously not.
You've obviously never worked in any supervisory position or for a large organization.
Picture this. You're a gate guard at on a military base. Your instructions are to allow people in with the proper credentials, deny those without, salute officers and be on the lookout for questionable activity. You do this 10-12 hours a day and get absolutely no respect. You see an odd looking contraption in a car that, through the mind-numbing tedium of your job, you may point out to the guy you're working with, but probably aren't going to do any more. Of course, you're supposed to say something, but at this point, you don't give a shit.
Now you're the colonel in charge of security on your base. You never know this happened. You continually tell people they are supposed to report or investigate this kind of thing, but they don't listen to you because their job is 100% useless 99.9% of the time, and identifying the remaining.1% of the time is trivial.
They blocked access from military computers. You can read what the slut next door is doing from home, but at work you're supposed to work. If they blocked something useful, you say "hey, I need to read this web page" and they unblock that one.
Smart Filter can be funny though. They blocked wikipedia. Category? "Education/Reference"
1) Internet connections get faster over time.
2) You aren't going to hook your computer up to your tv. You're doing to hook your onlinemoviebox to your tv.
This is a great opportunity to hear military propaganda. For those interested, the simple truth is that the Air Force is finally acting reducing the number of programmers and other computer-related jobs and contracting them out, and trying to look "tough" by deploying to forward locations. You know -- the type the Army and Marines are trained for.
Have you ever WATCHED anything in HD? I ask, but I'm already assuming you haven't. The difference is night and day. I won't argue that it makes watching a movie any more enjoyable, especially while travelling, but the difference in the picture is huge. That was a pretty long winded comment to have such a glaring hole.
I think it will be a VERY long time before robots replace suicide bombers. Why don't we see remote controlled car bombs? They look conspicuous. Imagine Robocop with TNT strapped to him coming in to your building.
More importantly, suicide bombers can be bought for less.
It was hobby work, and don't worry -- 8 years later I definately understand the concept of a loop. The tutorial I used assumed, I would imagine, that you already knew what a loop was. Maybe I skipped a tutorial or 2, I don't remember. I was able to recognize that, "hey, it's doing the stuff in this code once for each row my query returns!" and use it accordingly.
CMS might be a little kind. I was able to post stories and people were able to leave comments, along with admin and registration pieces.
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There's something very fishy about the graphics card market. Using a substantially faster video card in a PC doesn't provide nearly the performance of a slower spec'd console. The console isn't burdened by nearly as much overhead, but that should not affect the GPU noticably. The only factor that I can see in play is that games can be better optimized when the developers know exactly what hardware will be used (as is the case with consoles), but surely having twice the power should be enough to negate that.
I think you'll see SSD gain huge market share in the next 3 years. Magnetic disks will still prevail where there are huge storage needs through at least the next 5 years, but flash based storage will be cheaper and faster for storage capacities that you need to run your computer normally. I picture Dell selling computers with a 128gb flash based drive, and a 1tb magnetic drive. Laptops will be SSD exclusively.
I would think that, since we aren't even close to having boxes with more memory than we actively use, and RAM isn't growing any faster than we are using it up, that using it as a "disk" is even further off than the article would seem to imply.
An organization laying out exactly how to act to be considered ethical? What are they, the Catholic church?
I thought the summary did a pretty good job of trying not to sway anyone. You know -- when summary said the article didn't cite a relevent poll, and then the summary itself didn't cite a relevent poll.
they dont "photoshop" images, they manipulate them.
I hope you don't have a runny nose or a paper cut, because you'd probably get upset if someone offered you a Kleenex or Bandaid. Unless those don't fit your agenda. All the pros are using MS Paint anyway.
But if you are letting you AI out into Second Life and comparing it to intelligence there, surely you are setting the bar rather low?
They were also trying to prove the AI they created was "cool." So you'll soon be seeing it on slashdot for testing.
That said, the first thing people are going to do when they get an HD set is pay for HD cable or satellite. They arent going to spend 600 dollars on some fancy player for movies. They might if it costs 200 dollars or less, but that wont happen for a long time if ever. Think of all the HD content Im going to get for only 10 dollars more than Im paying now.
As prices drop there will be no reason not to buy a BD player. They are expensive now because they cost so much to make, but manufacturing processes improve.
Anyone spending that much on entertainment now likely has money to throw around. Probably half of the people I work with have HDTVs, all of them have HD cable or (mostly) satellite, a few have HDDVD/BD players, and most have plans to get them in the near future. At the end of the year if a BD player is $200 and a good upscaling DVD player is $75, they'll be spending the money.
That said I doubt the digital download revolution will ever happen but HD via cable and satellite is here. Toss in some on-demand services and theres very little incentive to get a bluray player. For film geeks and videophiles it'll be a must-have, but then again so was the laserdisc.
Of course it's going to happen. We're basically already doing it with satellite and going to full digital broadcasting next year. Internet connection speeds may not be getting faster as quickly as we'd like, but they're never going to stop getting faster. When that's the cheapest way for the conglomerates to give us movies, that's what they'll do.
I just got out of the Air Force after six years. I'm not making things up -- that was the response to suggestions that there were no better arguments against. Perfect example: the hot water in the dorms was brown (not tinted -- BROWN) for years. "We had it tested. It's safe." Um.. IT'S FUCKING BROWN! I sat at a computer 8 hours a day. Sometimes 6 if no one was looking. I lived in an air conditioned tent for 4 months. I lived in a closet, where I had the ability arranged my furniture only because I had played Tetris and I ate garbage served by the laziest, dumbest people I've ever met in my life for 3 years. The Air Force sucks, and I'm sure you're right -- the Army was worse.
and may even use your suggestions to help set future recruiting and operational policies
Using people's suggestions is not the Air Force way. Though, in this instance, they can't rebut with the normal "Deal with it, you're in the military."
I watched a fight this weekend and all the babes were wearing Corona stuff. No Dos Equis or Tecate.
Google has over-extended itself. It's been dominating search for years, and doing it better and more dependable than anyone else. For a long time I wonder how they could continue exist with their minimal marketing -- all they did was show you what you were looking for. It was perfect.
Now, they've introduced dozens of products. A lof of them are popular, some not so much. The one thing they seem to all have in common is that they don't work all that well. From annoying bugs to issues that make some of the features worthless, the quality just isn't there anymore. Ex1 - I used google toolbar for easier searching, autofill and popup blocking, and bookmarks, which I loved since they'd follow me to different computers. Better popup blocking is now built in to browsers, search is there too, and autofill works correctly maybe 25% of the time. The bookmarks hardly work at all because I can't stay logged in for more than a few minutes, and I've found nothing addressing why.
Anyway, google's market penetration in to software has been very weak. Google Apps are used by no one. How can you claim they are going to dominate operating systems?
Got it. I didn't read anything in the original post that implied it was a bad thing. Guess we read it differently.
...how or why this is a bad thing.
Go to wikipedia and look up OPSEC. Not that I necessarily agree with it, but use your imagination, man.
Do we think there should be street level maps inside military installations on Google Street View?
The military asked to have them removed. Obviously not.
You've obviously never worked in any supervisory position or for a large organization.
.1% of the time is trivial.
Picture this. You're a gate guard at on a military base. Your instructions are to allow people in with the proper credentials, deny those without, salute officers and be on the lookout for questionable activity. You do this 10-12 hours a day and get absolutely no respect. You see an odd looking contraption in a car that, through the mind-numbing tedium of your job, you may point out to the guy you're working with, but probably aren't going to do any more. Of course, you're supposed to say something, but at this point, you don't give a shit.
Now you're the colonel in charge of security on your base. You never know this happened. You continually tell people they are supposed to report or investigate this kind of thing, but they don't listen to you because their job is 100% useless 99.9% of the time, and identifying the remaining
'Yep, "great"!
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.. soon to be cracked, by a great army of brilliant chinese/taiwanese/ukranian etc.. teenagers
Don't worry. I fixed that for you.
They blocked access from military computers. You can read what the slut next door is doing from home, but at work you're supposed to work. If they blocked something useful, you say "hey, I need to read this web page" and they unblock that one. Smart Filter can be funny though. They blocked wikipedia. Category? "Education/Reference"
1) Internet connections get faster over time.
2) You aren't going to hook your computer up to your tv. You're doing to hook your onlinemoviebox to your tv.
This is a great opportunity to hear military propaganda. For those interested, the simple truth is that the Air Force is finally acting reducing the number of programmers and other computer-related jobs and contracting them out, and trying to look "tough" by deploying to forward locations. You know -- the type the Army and Marines are trained for.
I have no idea what point you were trying to make, but "style" made me laugh. I'm going to go buy an iPhone because of how good I'll look with it.
Have you ever WATCHED anything in HD? I ask, but I'm already assuming you haven't. The difference is night and day. I won't argue that it makes watching a movie any more enjoyable, especially while travelling, but the difference in the picture is huge. That was a pretty long winded comment to have such a glaring hole.
Ever read the Uniform Code of Military Justice? You don't lose it. You waive it. Along with many other things. Did I mention how happy I am to be out?
I think it will be a VERY long time before robots replace suicide bombers. Why don't we see remote controlled car bombs? They look conspicuous. Imagine Robocop with TNT strapped to him coming in to your building. More importantly, suicide bombers can be bought for less.
Apparently there is more energy potential in the hydrogen than it requires to extract.
CMS might be a little kind. I was able to post stories and people were able to leave comments, along with admin and registration pieces.