They will just do what they normally do, ignore continuity.
You can bet the style of the ships and interiors won't even be remotely close to The Cage either.
With movies like Sky Captain coming out with intentional retro looks, I think it would be a bold move on their part to replicate the 60s feel, but with modern FX behind it. They should have done that with Enterprise but now they've pretty much blazed a revisionist trail despite the DS9 Tribbles flashback episode.
MediaOne was the company that really popularized the term "Broadband". They spent a lot of money on vague television ads circa 1997/98 that generated all this hype about what Broadband was going to mean to the world but without explaining what the heck it really was. This was around the time that they were spending megabucks upgrading the coaxial network for cable modem service, starting in and around Culver City, CA (where I now live).
They could have just said it was high speed internet but they didn't.
Part of the reason might have been that MediaOne was planning on offering all sorts of proprietary services through their stream besides just a raw internet connection, but that never really happened.
AT&T bought out MediaOne and became AT&T Broadband, etc....
-- The perfection of the ipod is as much in what it doesn't try to be: a pda, a phone, a movie machine, a games machine. It's just a music player, and a damn good one. The rest is incidental. --
It's not incidental if you want more than just a music player and you wind up hanging single-purposed hardware off your body like christmas tree ornaments.
You know, I'm starting to get really tired of the whole ^H anachronism. It's like the computer equivalent of the needle scratch sound effect they use in movie trailers for punchlines.
Is it even possible to generate a visible control code like this anymore? How many people are replying to Slashdot using a telnet session and a Pico editor? Come on. Get into the 21st century.
They should spend more of their time on developing armor plating to protect from roadside bombs and body armor to protect individual troops from snipers.
Or if they want a miracle weapon, come up with a bomb you can unleash over a mosque or wedding that only kills insurgents and not women and children.
These days war is more like surgery than war and collateral damage is the biggest issue.
Well, they can surely create a cottage industry out of selling body parts as trophies from all the beheadings and other mutilations, plus video of all that stuff--like something out of Videodrome.
-- Wrong. US is anti-Iraq : AFAIK, Iraq never invaded nor bombed US. --
Iraq is anti-Iraq. Or you think it's a productive thing to sabotage your own oil pipelines, assassinate rival clerics, attack the red-cross, and car-bomb your own police stations?
Given GPS and all other modern navigational and communication aids I see no reason why a modern Zeppelin couldn't avoid bad weather and have a far better safety record than those in the 1930s.
However, I think this is all very uninteresting until a Zeppelin gets built large enough to have a more substantial number of passengers. With all these advanced in materials I'm surprised that if the new Zeppelin is 1/3 the size of the Hindenberg that it can still only carry 12 passengers.
We're already at the tail end of the 320x240 era with PDAs. With displays like what's on the newest Zaurus it's only a matter of time before all PDAs, are at least 640x480.
The Zaurus isn't there yet because it has no integrated hard drive and the clamshell models don't have wifi built-in.
Also, the CPU and/or graphics are still too underpowered for these things to play DivX movies at full resolution and framerate.
That's why I think something designed with multimedia in mind (which solves both of these issues) is a more likely candidate, like the upcoming Archos AV500. Now if these things cost $1,000 then it's still a pricepoint issue.
>> In general, a PDA will always have a bigger screen than a smartphone, or the phone will be absurdly large. My wife's SonyEricsson P900 is the best attempt I've seen so far at a hybrid but it's still a chunky phone that doesn't quite make it as a PDA, screenwise.
The thing is, these days there is far more of a need for horizontal screen real-estate than vertical. And the default orientation of PDAs, while facilitating one-handed use, makes things like webpages an exercise in futility.
And no, screen reorientation doesn't solve everything because then if you have one of those thumbpads it's now at a 90' angle.
I really think that the best form-factor for a PDA-like device is a clamshell with a foldout keyboard that swivels like the Sony UX-50 or the Zaurus C series.
The fact that there is so much of a heated debate with a topic like this indicates that we are definitely at a crossroads. The marketplace is changing and PDAs are slow to react to what the market wants. Sure, some people still use PDAs as glorified notepads, but that's not where the money is to be made. Heck, I bought a keychain "PDA" that does that for less than $10.
PDAs came around before the web and wireless internet. They came around before tiny hard drives could be embedded in them (i.e. iPod). They came around before the PC hit complete mainstream penetration. PDA manufactures continue to see the market for these things in "vertical" or corporate terms. The fact of the matter is that the real money is to be made from the average joe.
That's why people are looking to smart phones. Because everyone has cell phones. Not just medical professionals or salespeople or any other PDA niche.
Not only that, but personal media devices like the iPod are fast becoming as ubiquitous as the walkman in the 80s.
Meanwhile, laptop profits are outpacing desktop profits. Wasn't it last year that Steve Jobs said it was the "year of the laptop"?
We're at the point where portable computing is the primary thing computer users want in a new hardware purchase, but there are too many single-purpose devices out there.
Sooner or later the market will settle on a new standard and I think it's likely to center around a machine with a built in hard drive, probably something like the upcoming Archos AV500.
Sometimes programmers can be a little smug in assuming that every other programmer is working in the same environment that they are and therefore they take their hard-earned wisdom from their particular niche and evangelize it to everyone else. Sometimes that evangelism borders on a geek-version of adolescent bullying as we try to put-down or shame everyone else for not doing things just as we do.
The profession of programming has broadened to the point where it is IMPOSSIBLE to advocate a one-size-fits-all mantra to all programmers.
Computers have become so ubiquitous and the things they do so broad that the profession itself has splintered into many different subcategories each with their own INDIVIDUAL best practices.
So I think anyone trying to advocate a way of doing things should always qualify it by specifying the environment that they think suits it best.
The way someone writing code for a PIC is going to approach it differently from a device driver who is going to approach it very differently from a web programmer writing C# code to deliver web pages or a game programmer doing real-time graphics or someone writing an embedded app who is concerned about battery life or a missile guidance system or medical instrument who is concerned about stability.
That's not to say that there aren't any universal best practices, but everything is a cost-benefit assessment. There are cases where the time investment in the optimization will not payoff with a measurable increase in efficiency that actually helps the bottom line to any degree. Ultimately the best programmers are those who are able to satisfy BUSINESS needs, not just thier own perfectionism.
This is true of just about any form of creation. Someone building a cookie-cutter apartment building approaches it differently from the replacement World Trade Center or a tent or a treehouse. Take artwork. A comic strip artist is not going to lavish the same amount of detail on his daily strip that went into the Sistine Chapel. The work that goes into creating a Hyundai is different from what goes into a Bentley or a Hummer or a tractor or a motorcycle.
Always customize your approach to the niche you're in.
-- All the muslims I've met and known here in Europe consider bin Laden a psychotic freak. They would be ashamed of him if they in any way identified with him, but they don't. --
You obviously haven't visted the tribal region in Pakistan where he and his followers are sheltered by the general population.
-- What I don't get is how I am expected not to have realised by myself that the movie was cleverly edited. AND at the same time I'm apparently expected to think he doesn't deserve a film-making award because his film was well edited. It baffles me. --
-- It's a basic human trait to seek novelty. The possible audience may go up, but people *will not* play the same game over and over again, forever. Even Tetris got old after the thousandth game. The question is, are new games different enough from old ones that people will keep buying them? --
If that were the case, nobody would play Chess anymore.
The fact is, buying a sequel you really are, in the end, just playing the same game mechanic over and over again. It's like buying a new fancier chess board every few months thinking you are playing a whole new game.
Heck, a game of 2D Tetris might be considered a novelty these days given the industry's complete shift to 3D simulation-like games.
Laptops have all features except cell phone and form-factor. People are generally happy with laptops. If they can make smaller laptop-like devices like these then I'd say it's doable.
The PDA software isn't what makes things like this cool. It's the ability to load up (or develop) new software for it. It becomes a completely open computing platform rather than a single-purpose embedded device.
We're in a different era and those analogies don't work anymore.
Left unrestricted, it seems like every job out there in the US besides management and burger flippers is going to be equivalent to manufacturers of buggy whips.
>> However the vast majority of our launches have carried twice as many, or more, people per launch. So when you compare the number of people carried sucessfully to space and back, you'll actually find the Russian system is *worse*.
Most of the danger of spaceflight occurs during launch and reentry. So I think the number of launches is the primary statistic to look at since we're measuring the overall safety of the hardware design itself.
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They will just do what they normally do, ignore continuity.
You can bet the style of the ships and interiors won't even be remotely close to The Cage either.
With movies like Sky Captain coming out with intentional retro looks, I think it would be a bold move on their part to replicate the 60s feel, but with modern FX behind it. They should have done that with Enterprise but now they've pretty much blazed a revisionist trail despite the DS9 Tribbles flashback episode.
MediaOne was the company that really popularized the term "Broadband". They spent a lot of money on vague television ads circa 1997/98 that generated all this hype about what Broadband was going to mean to the world but without explaining what the heck it really was. This was around the time that they were spending megabucks upgrading the coaxial network for cable modem service, starting in and around Culver City, CA (where I now live).
They could have just said it was high speed internet but they didn't.
Part of the reason might have been that MediaOne was planning on offering all sorts of proprietary services through their stream besides just a raw internet connection, but that never really happened.
AT&T bought out MediaOne and became AT&T Broadband, etc....
http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/ InflationCalculator.asp
Inflation is low during recessions like ours.
According to this website inflation has only been 5.77% in the last three years.
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The perfection of the ipod is as much in what it doesn't try to be: a pda, a phone, a movie machine, a games machine. It's just a music player, and a damn good one. The rest is incidental.
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It's not incidental if you want more than just a music player and you wind up hanging single-purposed hardware off your body like christmas tree ornaments.
If that were true they never would have come out with the Watchman 20+ years ago.
How is finding extrasolar planets scientifically insignificant?
But shucks, we don't need hubble because telescopes that measure visible light are so useless aren't they?
You know, I'm starting to get really tired of the whole ^H anachronism. It's like the computer equivalent of the needle scratch sound effect they use in movie trailers for punchlines.
Is it even possible to generate a visible control code like this anymore? How many people are replying to Slashdot using a telnet session and a Pico editor? Come on. Get into the 21st century.
They should spend more of their time on developing armor plating to protect from roadside bombs and body armor to protect individual troops from snipers.
Or if they want a miracle weapon, come up with a bomb you can unleash over a mosque or wedding that only kills insurgents and not women and children.
These days war is more like surgery than war and collateral damage is the biggest issue.
Well, they can surely create a cottage industry out of selling body parts as trophies from all the beheadings and other mutilations, plus video of all that stuff--like something out of Videodrome.
--
Wrong.
US is anti-Iraq : AFAIK, Iraq never invaded nor bombed US.
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Iraq is anti-Iraq. Or you think it's a productive thing to sabotage your own oil pipelines, assassinate rival clerics, attack the red-cross, and car-bomb your own police stations?
Given GPS and all other modern navigational and communication aids I see no reason why a modern Zeppelin couldn't avoid bad weather and have a far better safety record than those in the 1930s.
However, I think this is all very uninteresting until a Zeppelin gets built large enough to have a more substantial number of passengers. With all these advanced in materials I'm surprised that if the new Zeppelin is 1/3 the size of the Hindenberg that it can still only carry 12 passengers.
We're already at the tail end of the 320x240 era with PDAs. With displays like what's on the newest Zaurus it's only a matter of time before all PDAs, are at least 640x480.
The Zaurus isn't there yet because it has no integrated hard drive and the clamshell models don't have wifi built-in.
Also, the CPU and/or graphics are still too underpowered for these things to play DivX movies at full resolution and framerate.
That's why I think something designed with multimedia in mind (which solves both of these issues) is a more likely candidate, like the upcoming Archos AV500. Now if these things cost $1,000 then it's still a pricepoint issue.
>>
In general, a PDA will always have a bigger screen than a smartphone, or the phone will be absurdly large. My wife's SonyEricsson P900 is the best attempt I've seen so far at a hybrid but it's still a chunky phone that doesn't quite make it as a PDA, screenwise.
The thing is, these days there is far more of a need for horizontal screen real-estate than vertical. And the default orientation of PDAs, while facilitating one-handed use, makes things like webpages an exercise in futility.
And no, screen reorientation doesn't solve everything because then if you have one of those thumbpads it's now at a 90' angle.
I really think that the best form-factor for a PDA-like device is a clamshell with a foldout keyboard that swivels like the Sony UX-50 or the Zaurus C series.
The fact that there is so much of a heated debate with a topic like this indicates that we are definitely at a crossroads. The marketplace is changing and PDAs are slow to react to what the market wants. Sure, some people still use PDAs as glorified notepads, but that's not where the money is to be made. Heck, I bought a keychain "PDA" that does that for less than $10.
PDAs came around before the web and wireless internet. They came around before tiny hard drives could be embedded in them (i.e. iPod). They came around before the PC hit complete mainstream penetration. PDA manufactures continue to see the market for these things in "vertical" or corporate terms. The fact of the matter is that the real money is to be made from the average joe.
That's why people are looking to smart phones. Because everyone has cell phones. Not just medical professionals or salespeople or any other PDA niche.
Not only that, but personal media devices like the iPod are fast becoming as ubiquitous as the walkman in the 80s.
Meanwhile, laptop profits are outpacing desktop profits. Wasn't it last year that Steve Jobs said it was the "year of the laptop"?
We're at the point where portable computing is the primary thing computer users want in a new hardware purchase, but there are too many single-purpose devices out there.
Sooner or later the market will settle on a new standard and I think it's likely to center around a machine with a built in hard drive, probably something like the upcoming Archos AV500.
Sometimes programmers can be a little smug in assuming that every other programmer is working in the same environment that they are and therefore they take their hard-earned wisdom from their particular niche and evangelize it to everyone else. Sometimes that evangelism borders on a geek-version of adolescent bullying as we try to put-down or shame everyone else for not doing things just as we do.
The profession of programming has broadened to the point where it is IMPOSSIBLE to advocate a one-size-fits-all mantra to all programmers.
Computers have become so ubiquitous and the things they do so broad that the profession itself has splintered into many different subcategories each with their own INDIVIDUAL best practices.
So I think anyone trying to advocate a way of doing things should always qualify it by specifying the environment that they think suits it best.
The way someone writing code for a PIC is going to approach it differently from a device driver who is going to approach it very differently from a web programmer writing C# code to deliver web pages or a game programmer doing real-time graphics or someone writing an embedded app who is concerned about battery life or a missile guidance system or medical instrument who is concerned about stability.
That's not to say that there aren't any universal best practices, but everything is a cost-benefit assessment. There are cases where the time investment in the optimization will not payoff with a measurable increase in efficiency that actually helps the bottom line to any degree. Ultimately the best programmers are those who are able to satisfy BUSINESS needs, not just thier own perfectionism.
This is true of just about any form of creation. Someone building a cookie-cutter apartment building approaches it differently from the replacement World Trade Center or a tent or a treehouse. Take artwork. A comic strip artist is not going to lavish the same amount of detail on his daily strip that went into the Sistine Chapel. The work that goes into creating a Hyundai is different from what goes into a Bentley or a Hummer or a tractor or a motorcycle.
Always customize your approach to the niche you're in.
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All the muslims I've met and known here in Europe consider bin Laden a psychotic freak. They would be ashamed of him if they in any way identified with him, but they don't.
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You obviously haven't visted the tribal region in Pakistan where he and his followers are sheltered by the general population.
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What I don't get is how I am expected not to have realised by myself that the movie was cleverly edited. AND at the same time I'm apparently expected to think he doesn't deserve a film-making award because his film was well edited. It baffles me.
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How do you feel about Triumph of the Will?
I was wondering, how would the arab world feel about the Palestinian collateral damage from such a move on Iran's part?
Oh, they'd all become martyrs, I forgot.
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Also simply because its a sequil dosent mean that the result will be subpar.
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I think there has to be a flaw in the genes of homo-sapiens that insures that a vast number of people will never be able to spell 'sequel'.
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It's a basic human trait to seek novelty. The possible audience may go up, but people *will not* play the same game over and over again, forever. Even Tetris got old after the thousandth game. The question is, are new games different enough from old ones that people will keep buying them?
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If that were the case, nobody would play Chess anymore.
The fact is, buying a sequel you really are, in the end, just playing the same game mechanic over and over again. It's like buying a new fancier chess board every few months thinking you are playing a whole new game.
Heck, a game of 2D Tetris might be considered a novelty these days given the industry's complete shift to 3D simulation-like games.
Laptops have all features except cell phone and form-factor. People are generally happy with laptops. If they can make smaller laptop-like devices like these then I'd say it's doable.
The PDA software isn't what makes things like this cool. It's the ability to load up (or develop) new software for it. It becomes a completely open computing platform rather than a single-purpose embedded device.
The Atari 2600 uses a fire button on the left.
That's what I find to be more intuitive.
We're in a different era and those analogies don't work anymore.
Left unrestricted, it seems like every job out there in the US besides management and burger flippers is going to be equivalent to manufacturers of buggy whips.
>>
However the vast majority of our launches have carried twice as many, or more, people per launch. So when you compare the number of people carried sucessfully to space and back, you'll actually find the Russian system is *worse*.
Most of the danger of spaceflight occurs during launch and reentry. So I think the number of launches is the primary statistic to look at since we're measuring the overall safety of the hardware design itself.