During one of my moves we had the a full wall minus one box all set. As my buddy was about to place the last box and complete the wall I called out "Wait! You can't put that box there or all my stuff will disappear." He laughed. Then he thought about it and started a second row saying "Just in case."
Exactly. Reminds me of the old quote: "There are three types of lies in the world: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Define what you mean by "consume" in this case. If we look at the definitions easily available on the internet, say here, we have several definitions that do not quite fit.
If we assume they mean "To expend; use up", I ask... how does one use up data?
How about "To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership."? I don't know how many of you pay for all the data that comes at you... I certainly do not. This does not seem to fit.
Ah. Here is one that makes a bit more sense: "To waste; squander." I know that I certainly do not make good use of nearly all the data that I take in, and not nearly all of the data that I have access to. But this one isn't what they mean, or if it is they are even more cynical than I.
And then, how is the size measured. Information is difficult to quantify. How is it stored? Is it compressed somehow. Why are books ignored in that graph? (I think I know... but the idea that the average American doesn't read enough to count is depressing) A word on a page in a book is information, how does it relate to how many bits or bytes? How about a picture on the same page, is it worth 1000 of those words?
Statements like "Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08" are totally meaningless in the way that statement is delivered. It is devoid of context or content. It definitely fits the definition of "To waste; squander".
"The present invention provides a highly scalable architecture for a three-dimensional graphical, multi-user, interactive virtual world system. In a preferred embodiment a plurality of users interact in the three-dimensional, computer-generated graphical space where each user executes a client process to view a virtual world from the perspective of that user. The virtual world shows avatars representing the other users who are neighbors of the user viewing the virtual word. In order that the view can be updated to reflect the motion of the remote user's avatars, motion, information is transmitted to a central server process which provides positions updates to client processes for neighbors of the user at that client process. The client process also uses an environment database to determine which background objects to render as well as to limit the movement of the user's avatar."
So basically they are trying to patent everyone from William Gibson to Neal Stephenson to Rudy Rucker's version of 'cyberspace' or whatnot. And I do think UO and EQ definitely beat them to the punch as far as implementation.
Yeah. I was really excited about the new MacBooks until I saw that they had no firewire. I was planning on getting one for use with Logic. But my 2 audio interfaces are both firewire. So now I'm just SOL.
Just so you know the current revision of the Speakeasy speed test caps out at about 22Mb/s. It will report speeds higher but they are not necessarily accurate. This is because of the way the speed test is run. It will probably be updated in the near future though.
The one thing I think they could have done better is to have made a statement that they were starting an investigation in the first place. This could have at least let the people who were effected know that there was a chance they would be getting their accounts back. Other than that, yes, they did a very good job of handling this.
My position is similar. I have a degree in Audio Production and no formal training in computers, electronics or the like. My career is as a technologist supporting the Audio Post industry. People in specific fields are always looking for technically inclined individuals who understand the industry in which they work. If you are good at the technical things and troubleshooting, and you understand the film industry, see if you can get a job as an apprentice engineer at a studio somewhere. It will combine both the technology you love with the field you have studied.
The US and possibly the British markets are small. But the Japanese & Korean markets are reportedly solid. I work at a post house, and we are still turning out quite a few versions for UMD. There must be people buying them somewhere.
One studio is not indicative of the entire market. Unless that studio is Sony itself. They own the largest catalog of movies, making up over a third of the titles produced by major film studios in the last 60 years.
My suggestion for getting a job in IT is to have a secondary skillset. I work at an audio post production house doing IT work. I have the job because I also know audio. If you can't apply your IT skills to what the business is doing, then you are not as useful to the company.
There are definitely jobs to be had for people who can support the infrastructure of what it takes to do business in today's world. You just need to be able to apply what you know to what is being done.
I have it running on an eMac G4 1.25 and on a PowerMac G4 Tower (mirrored drive bay) Dual 867. The key is on the memory, and a gig will do you fine. I've actually found that the Mac version is less likely to hang or crash than the PC version, but this might just be my systems. Both my girlfriends and my computers (PCs) have a tendancy to hang on logging out or exiting the program
The amazing thing that I have seen in WoW is the difference between the graphics on a low end machine (my gf has an old dell P3 800MHz) and the high end machines (I have a brand new machine I put together for BF2, complete with 2 gigs of ram and that nice 500 dollar graphics card I've always wanted). It looks good on her machine, and even runs well.
On my machine it is one of the prettiest games I've ever seen. They don't go for realism, they go for effect. And they do it very successfully.
The fact that it runs on both machines is great as well. And it even runs on my Mac (something which Blizzard has been smart enough to do for every release they've done).
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During one of my moves we had the a full wall minus one box all set. As my buddy was about to place the last box and complete the wall I called out "Wait! You can't put that box there or all my stuff will disappear." He laughed. Then he thought about it and started a second row saying "Just in case."
Exactly. Reminds me of the old quote: "There are three types of lies in the world: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Define what you mean by "consume" in this case. If we look at the definitions easily available on the internet, say here, we have several definitions that do not quite fit.
If we assume they mean "To expend; use up", I ask... how does one use up data?
How about "To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership."? I don't know how many of you pay for all the data that comes at you... I certainly do not. This does not seem to fit.
Ah. Here is one that makes a bit more sense: "To waste; squander." I know that I certainly do not make good use of nearly all the data that I take in, and not nearly all of the data that I have access to. But this one isn't what they mean, or if it is they are even more cynical than I.
And then, how is the size measured. Information is difficult to quantify. How is it stored? Is it compressed somehow. Why are books ignored in that graph? (I think I know... but the idea that the average American doesn't read enough to count is depressing) A word on a page in a book is information, how does it relate to how many bits or bytes? How about a picture on the same page, is it worth 1000 of those words?
Statements like "Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08" are totally meaningless in the way that statement is delivered. It is devoid of context or content. It definitely fits the definition of "To waste; squander".
For those not willing to click through and read:
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"The present invention provides a highly scalable architecture for a three-dimensional graphical, multi-user, interactive virtual world system. In a preferred embodiment a plurality of users interact in the three-dimensional, computer-generated graphical space where each user executes a client process to view a virtual world from the perspective of that user. The virtual world shows avatars representing the other users who are neighbors of the user viewing the virtual word. In order that the view can be updated to reflect the motion of the remote user's avatars, motion, information is transmitted to a central server process which provides positions updates to client processes for neighbors of the user at that client process. The client process also uses an environment database to determine which background objects to render as well as to limit the movement of the user's avatar."
So basically they are trying to patent everyone from William Gibson to Neal Stephenson to Rudy Rucker's version of 'cyberspace' or whatnot. And I do think UO and EQ definitely beat them to the punch as far as implementation.
Yeah. I was really excited about the new MacBooks until I saw that they had no firewire. I was planning on getting one for use with Logic. But my 2 audio interfaces are both firewire. So now I'm just SOL.
Just so you know the current revision of the Speakeasy speed test caps out at about 22Mb/s. It will report speeds higher but they are not necessarily accurate. This is because of the way the speed test is run. It will probably be updated in the near future though.
now that is funny.
The one thing I think they could have done better is to have made a statement that they were starting an investigation in the first place. This could have at least let the people who were effected know that there was a chance they would be getting their accounts back. Other than that, yes, they did a very good job of handling this.
My position is similar. I have a degree in Audio Production and no formal training in computers, electronics or the like. My career is as a technologist supporting the Audio Post industry. People in specific fields are always looking for technically inclined individuals who understand the industry in which they work. If you are good at the technical things and troubleshooting, and you understand the film industry, see if you can get a job as an apprentice engineer at a studio somewhere. It will combine both the technology you love with the field you have studied.
"...This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a whimper."
-TS Eliot, The Hollow Men, 1925
The US and possibly the British markets are small. But the Japanese & Korean markets are reportedly solid. I work at a post house, and we are still turning out quite a few versions for UMD. There must be people buying them somewhere.
One studio is not indicative of the entire market. Unless that studio is Sony itself. They own the largest catalog of movies, making up over a third of the titles produced by major film studios in the last 60 years.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be sufficiently explained by stupidity."
Strangely enough, I worked in kitchens for 9 years before deciding to go for a job in Audio. There is always a job for a cook. People gotta eat. ;)
Widget Post Production in Los Angeles. Great place to work.
My suggestion for getting a job in IT is to have a secondary skillset. I work at an audio post production house doing IT work. I have the job because I also know audio. If you can't apply your IT skills to what the business is doing, then you are not as useful to the company.
There are definitely jobs to be had for people who can support the infrastructure of what it takes to do business in today's world. You just need to be able to apply what you know to what is being done.
I have it running on an eMac G4 1.25 and on a PowerMac G4 Tower (mirrored drive bay) Dual 867. The key is on the memory, and a gig will do you fine. I've actually found that the Mac version is less likely to hang or crash than the PC version, but this might just be my systems. Both my girlfriends and my computers (PCs) have a tendancy to hang on logging out or exiting the program
The amazing thing that I have seen in WoW is the difference between the graphics on a low end machine (my gf has an old dell P3 800MHz) and the high end machines (I have a brand new machine I put together for BF2, complete with 2 gigs of ram and that nice 500 dollar graphics card I've always wanted). It looks good on her machine, and even runs well. On my machine it is one of the prettiest games I've ever seen. They don't go for realism, they go for effect. And they do it very successfully. The fact that it runs on both machines is great as well. And it even runs on my Mac (something which Blizzard has been smart enough to do for every release they've done).