Stopping money flow and financial services innovation is, like Internet censorship, a symptom of the fundamental conflict between the traditional role the state has expanded to cover (ie governments) and the transparent, open and global nature of the Internet.
I've had all the innovation in financial services I can stand for a decade or so, thank you.
There is nothing inherently open and transparent about the Internet. Traffic can be encyrpted or disguised in any number of ways, some more successful than others.
The price is determined by what they can get for it, which is determined in part by the price of the Lenovo. If they don't sell enough the price will come down.
But not by much.
You have to meet the costs of production and distribution. You have to show a profit. Your distributors have to show a profit.
WalMart shed all its Linux inventory.
When product doesn't sell, it may just be because no one wants to buy. Even at the deep discount price.
That translates into a hell of a lot of laptops and a good many batteries that were well past there past their prime before Win 7 was installed. But there have been only a few hundred complaints.
Every once in a while, I forget, and most people associate GIMP or "The GIMP" with Pulp Fiction these days
Gimp - as slang for lame or crippled - has been around at least since 1925. Pulp Fiction simply brought out its explicitly sexual connotations.
The more interesting question is to ask is why no one saw the problem - or did anything anything about it - before the app was ported to other platforms.
I never bought the first game, due to the draconian DRM. By the time it was eased, there were so many other great games on my list to purchase and play that I never got back around to Bioshock. The end result: They lost my business.
The problem is that they don't need your business:
Isnt treason supposed to come with the death penalty?
The US Constitution makes a successful prosecution for treason very difficult.
Article III. Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.Article III
Why not simply host the servers in a country that doesn't have brain-dead restrictions on the "export" of ones and zeros? One that doesn't classify encryption/decryption code as a "munition"?
Moving your servers abroad to avoid export controls pretty much guarantees that you will be prosecuted in the states.
Export controls are not unique to the U.S., and they are not limited to encryption. This is serious shit and you had damn well better know what you are getting into.
Sloan Dean David Schmittlein was interviewing Douglas Leone, a partner at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and Sloan alum. Leone was dispensing advice about entrepreneurism when he let slip a remark that made me do a double take. Leone told the audience that Sequoia focuses on younger entrepreneurs because people over 30 aren't innovative. As a consolation prize, Leone said that the over-30 crowd could still make decent managers. The tendency of the social media industry and Silicon Valley to look toward the under-30 crowd is what Wadhwa called "opportunity discrimination." By looking only to a narrow segment of the population, ultimately these Web 2.0 startups and the venture capitalists are harming themselves, as well as excluding others. Even Leone acknowledged the potential danger of this when he said: "As soon as you find the pattern, and you lean on the pattern, there's a guy or a gal out of left field who surprises you."O'Brien: Age bias and Silicon Valley
Earlier this month, the technology sector hosted one of its largest annual events in Las Vegas. The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show showcased the latest gadgets and innovations for the coming year. However, many female technology analysts noted that women's place at the event highlighted the inherent discrimination of the IT industry, with many women in PR or technology hired as 'booth babes' to work on companies' stalls.Women in technology to gather for computing conference [Jan 26]
...that if women aren't highly represented in these endeavors, it might be a sign that women just aren't interested in the same damn things that men are?!
The same argument has been made historically to explain - and justify - the exclusion of women from every profession.
The same argument has been used against those of other races and religions. It has never been far distant when the geek talks about outsourcing his work to India.
What happens to open source browsers like FF who can't pay for the patents and licenses?
755 corporations have licensed H.264. AVC/H.264 Licensees It's a damned impressive list. Scrolling through it is like watching a freight train build up speed and momentum.
While Firefox is beginning to look more and more like the heroine tied to the railroad tracks around the next bend.
91% of Mozilla's funding comes from Google. Could open source abandon the Google train? Now would be a really, really good time to put some of that money to good use. Cut a deal.
Because I don't think Rin-Tin-Tin is coming to the rescue.
You can pretty much get three netbooks for the price of one better-than-decent desktop ($200 vs $600). This is also why I generally agree with the positive predictions for Linux and ARM on netbooks; the netbook not running windows doesn't really matter if you've already got access to a windows machine, and once you've passed that hurdle the better battery life and lower price become all the more attractive.
The ARM netbook remains a phantom. The price tag pure guesswork.
At 3:30 ET [Feb 6] Amazon.com has the Win 7 SE Acer AOD250-1695 at $257. If the ARM was to successfully compete against Windows it needed to be in stores this past Christmas.
A couple of years ago I was in charge of distributing my mother's money. I made the mistake of giving my niece her money. The government seeing that she had a little bit of money(just $10,000) stripped her of medical and food benefits.
I am not sure you understand what it means to be an executor.
You are there to manage your mom's money. Not to play Lord Bountiful to your niece.
This is why you take estate planning to the pros - the banker, the accountant, the lawyer.
Transfer of assets to family members about the time a senior applies for Medicaid and Food Stamps raises red flags everywhere you look.
I don't even know what a netbook is now. At the start they were defined by their tiny form-factors, low-ish power-consumption. The revolutionary part was the LOW price. Then microsoft moved in and netbook grew in size and power
The "tiny form factor" becomes a deal breaker as you grow older.
The keyboard awkward and uncomfortable to use. The display hard to read. It's surely no coincidence that Walmart's in-store selection of netbooks has been reduced to a single Nickelodeon branded laptop for kids.
The netbook strikes me as being a second or third purchase - and not the first choice for the low income buyer that the geek fondly believes. That's the second shoe you hear dropping at Walmart.
The low-end netbook competes for attention and sales with a dozen other high-tech gadgets at the same price point - and it just might be the product that gives the retailer most grief.
The complaining continues because Linux users still cannot play video using FOSS solutions, due to licensing fees associated with implementation of H.264. Given the overall Linux philosophy, it's a perfectly valid complaint.
Since when did Linux=FOSS?
Or, more precisely, since when did the Linux user become the FOSS purist?
If that were true, he would have to jettison damn near every set top box and mobile device he owns.
But Microsoft's Silverlight used to enable support for Theora in pretty much all Windows browsers (and specifically IE of all things), while both Google and Apple stand by H.264 - oh my!
So I fail to understand why this all seems so difficult. Put the collective minds together in the FOOS world, come up with a compression scheme for both video and audio and there you have it
If life were only that simple:
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) was formed by the ISO to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission. It was established in 1988. MPEG has grown to include approximately 350 members per meeting from various industries, universities, and research institutions. MPEG's official designation is ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11 - Coding of moving pictures and audio (ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29, Working Group 11).
Joint Video Team (JVT) is joint project between ITU-T SG16/Q.6 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 for the development of new video coding recommendation and international standard.Moving Picture Experts Group
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is a standard for video compression. The final drafting work on the first version of the standard was completed in May 2003.
H.264/AVC is the latest block-oriented motion-compensation-based codec standard developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), and it was the product of a partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). The ITU-T H.264 standard and the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 AVC standard (formally, ISO/IEC 14496-10 - MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding) are jointly maintained so that they have identical technical content. H.264 is used in such applications as Blu-ray Disc, videos from YouTube and the iTunes Store, DVB broadcast, direct-broadcast satellite television service, cable television services, and real-time videoconferencing.
The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards body in the United States approved the use of H.264/AVC for broadcast television in July 2008, although the standard is not yet used for ATSC broadcasts within the United States.
One of the most notable industries that has benefited greatly from the technology is the CCTV (Close Circuit TV) or Video Surveillance market. Prior to this technology the compression formats used within the industries DVR's Digital Video Recorders was based on low quality compression formats. With the application of the h.264 compression technology the quality of the video recordings [improved dramatically.] Over a short period of time starting in 2008 the surveillance industry promoted h.264 technology as "high quality" video. The term h.264 is now use to identify "high quality" digital recorders verses lower quality recorders.
Nuanti has produced a high-performance Ogg Theora decoder for Microsoft's Silverlight
Hardware accelerated H.264 is in the 10.1 Flash Beta. Silverlight 4 will support Chrome. The "high performance" H.264 player will be everywhere and in everything in the next few weeks or months.
'Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator' and how 'it has lost share in Web browsers, high-end laptops and smartphones.
What is a "high end" laptop?
More importantly, what is the value of the high-end laptop to Microsoft?
To the user?
Microsoft sells the OS not the hardware.
The decision whether the high-end is worth entering is for the manufactuer and the retailer.
The most expensive laptop at Walmart.com is an $1800 HP - an i7 with 6 GB DDR3 RAM and Radeon 4830 video. Laser-etched Magnesium case. 64 bit Win 7 Home Premium.
That strikes me as a perfectly plausible alternative to the MacBook Pro.
IE8 is competitive.
But the browser wars may no longer matter.
H.264 has Mozilla tied up in knots.
Meanwhile, hardware-accelerated H.264 video is in the Flash 10.1 Beta 2 player for Windows. Silverlight 4 will support protected H.264 content and Chrome.
Users don't give a damn about standards - or ideology. They simply download the player and watch the movie.
The thorough investigation by the Apollo 204 Review Board of the Apollo accident determined that the test conditions at the time of the accident were "extremely hazardous." However, the test was not recognized as being hazardous by either NASA or the contractor prior to the accident. Consequently, adequate safety precautions were neither established nor observed for this test. The amount and location of combustibles in the command module were not closely restricted and controlled, and there was no way for the crew to egress rapidly from the command module during this type of emergency nor had procedures been established for ground support personnel outside the spacecraft to assist the crew. Proper emergency equipment was not located in the "white room" surrounding the Apollo command module nor were emergency fire and medical rescue teams in attendance.
There appears to be no adequate explanation for the failure to recognize the test being conducted at the time of the accident as hazardous. The only explanation offered the committee is that NASA officials believed they had eliminated all sources of ignition and since to have a fire requires an ignition source, combustible material, and oxygen, NASA believed that necessary and sufficient action had been taken to prevent a fire.
Of course, all ignition sources had not been eliminated.
The Apollo 204 Review Board reported that it took approximately 5 minutes to open all hatches and remove the two outer hatches after the fire was reported; that the first firemen arrived about 8 to 9 minutes after the fire was reported and that the first medical doctors did not arrive until about 12 minutes or more after the fire was reported. Thus there was not expert medical opinion available on opening the hatch to determine the condition of the three astronauts although medical opinion based on autopsy reports concluded that chances for resuscitation decresed rapidly once consciousness was lost and that resuscitation was impossible by the time the hatch was opened.
It is clear from the Board's report and the testimony before the committee that this kind of accident was completely unexpected; that both NASA and the contractor were completely unprepared for it despite the amount of documentation of fire hazards in pure oxygen environments. The committee can only conclude that NASA's long history of successes in testing and launching space vehicles with pure oxygen environments at 16.7 p.s.i. and lower pressures led to overconfidence and complacency.
However, it is a common misconception that low-pressure pure oxygen does not increase the fire hazard. Not true. It doesn't increase it to nearly the horrible level of 14.7psi oxygen, but it does increase it quite a bit.
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I've had all the innovation in financial services I can stand for a decade or so, thank you.
There is nothing inherently open and transparent about the Internet. Traffic can be encyrpted or disguised in any number of ways, some more successful than others.
If it doesn't start with windows then they aren't paying a windows tax so who cares?
Where the Windows install = sales the seller cares a lot.
Ah, you're that person companies have to write stupid shit like: "Don't get in the bath with this laptop", for indemnity, and because you're retarded.
Remember what home power tools were like before GFI and double-insulation?
How easy it was to set yourself up for a severe electric shock?
Fast-forward to 2010 and you will see maybe 20 or 30 electrocution deaths a year. Use a Ground-Fault Circuit-interrupter With Every Power Tool
It is always easier to re-design the machine than the user.
The price is determined by what they can get for it, which is determined in part by the price of the Lenovo. If they don't sell enough the price will come down.
But not by much.
You have to meet the costs of production and distribution. You have to show a profit. Your distributors have to show a profit.
WalMart shed all its Linux inventory.
When product doesn't sell, it may just be because no one wants to buy. Even at the deep discount price.
Windows is not at fault. Hardware or 3rd party software always is
That's generally a fair assumption with any OS.
Win 7 has about eight to ten percent of the global market. OS Platform Statistics
That translates into a hell of a lot of laptops and a good many batteries that were well past there past their prime before Win 7 was installed. But there have been only a few hundred complaints.
Every once in a while, I forget, and most people associate GIMP or "The GIMP" with Pulp Fiction these days
Gimp - as slang for lame or crippled - has been around at least since 1925. Pulp Fiction simply brought out its explicitly sexual connotations.
The more interesting question is to ask is why no one saw the problem - or did anything anything about it - before the app was ported to other platforms.
I never bought the first game, due to the draconian DRM. By the time it was eased, there were so many other great games on my list to purchase and play that I never got back around to Bioshock. The end result: They lost my business.
The problem is that they don't need your business:
Bestsellers in PC Games, Bestsellers in Console Gaming - Hardware and Software
Bioshock is #12 on the PC list, just out of the top ten. Bioshock was released in August 2007.
Bioshock & Oblivion Bundle [XBox 360]
The US Constitution makes a successful prosecution for treason very difficult.
Article III. Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted. Article III
Yeah, in the same way that McDonalds could be a major disruptor to grocery stores
Think of how the supermarket has changed since the emergence of the fast food franchises.
The emergence of the no-name brand bulk warehouse.
Think about how much space the mega mart allots to microwave and other prepared foods.
The meal in five minutes. Fast food sales in store.
At the opposite extreme you're likely to find foods that were rarely stocked outside of a gourmet specialty house.
Why not simply host the servers in a country that doesn't have brain-dead restrictions on the "export" of ones and zeros? One that doesn't classify encryption/decryption code as a "munition"?
Moving your servers abroad to avoid export controls pretty much guarantees that you will be prosecuted in the states.
Export controls are not unique to the U.S., and they are not limited to encryption. This is serious shit and you had damn well better know what you are getting into.
Is Google liable if I Gmail you restricted encryption algorithms?
Google isn't hosting the file or providing you with a "home page" for your project. Sourceforge is much more exposed.
Silicon Valley is a meritocracy.
I wonder.
Sloan Dean David Schmittlein was interviewing Douglas Leone, a partner at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and Sloan alum. Leone was dispensing advice about entrepreneurism when he let slip a remark that made me do a double take.
Leone told the audience that Sequoia focuses on younger entrepreneurs because people over 30 aren't innovative. As a consolation prize, Leone said that the over-30 crowd could still make decent managers.
The tendency of the social media industry and Silicon Valley to look toward the under-30 crowd is what Wadhwa called "opportunity discrimination." By looking only to a narrow segment of the population, ultimately these Web 2.0 startups and the venture capitalists are harming themselves, as well as excluding others.
Even Leone acknowledged the potential danger of this when he said: "As soon as you find the pattern, and you lean on the pattern, there's a guy or a gal out of left field who surprises you." O'Brien: Age bias and Silicon Valley
Earlier this month, the technology sector hosted one of its largest annual events in Las Vegas.
The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show showcased the latest gadgets and innovations for the coming year.
However, many female technology analysts noted that women's place at the event highlighted the inherent discrimination of the IT industry, with many women in PR or technology hired as 'booth babes' to work on companies' stalls. Women in technology to gather for computing conference [Jan 26]
...that if women aren't highly represented in these endeavors, it might be a sign that women just aren't interested in the same damn things that men are?!
The same argument has been made historically to explain - and justify - the exclusion of women from every profession.
The same argument has been used against those of other races and religions. It has never been far distant when the geek talks about outsourcing his work to India.
Microsoft seems to care about this stuff:
Women at Microsoft, Women's Leadership Conference
What happens to open source browsers like FF who can't pay for the patents and licenses?
755 corporations have licensed H.264. AVC/H.264 Licensees It's a damned impressive list. Scrolling through it is like watching a freight train build up speed and momentum.
While Firefox is beginning to look more and more like the heroine tied to the railroad tracks around the next bend.
91% of Mozilla's funding comes from Google. Could open source abandon the Google train? Now would be a really, really good time to put some of that money to good use. Cut a deal.
Because I don't think Rin-Tin-Tin is coming to the rescue.
You can pretty much get three netbooks for the price of one better-than-decent desktop ($200 vs $600). This is also why I generally agree with the positive predictions for Linux and ARM on netbooks; the netbook not running windows doesn't really matter if you've already got access to a windows machine, and once you've passed that hurdle the better battery life and lower price become all the more attractive.
The ARM netbook remains a phantom. The price tag pure guesswork.
At 3:30 ET [Feb 6] Amazon.com has the Win 7 SE Acer AOD250-1695 at $257. If the ARM was to successfully compete against Windows it needed to be in stores this past Christmas.
A couple of years ago I was in charge of distributing my mother's money. I made the mistake of giving my niece her money. The government seeing that she had a little bit of money(just $10,000) stripped her of medical and food benefits.
I am not sure you understand what it means to be an executor.
You are there to manage your mom's money. Not to play Lord Bountiful to your niece.
This is why you take estate planning to the pros - the banker, the accountant, the lawyer.
Transfer of assets to family members about the time a senior applies for Medicaid and Food Stamps raises red flags everywhere you look.
I don't even know what a netbook is now. At the start they were defined by their tiny form-factors, low-ish power-consumption. The revolutionary part was the LOW price. Then microsoft moved in and netbook grew in size and power
The "tiny form factor" becomes a deal breaker as you grow older.
The keyboard awkward and uncomfortable to use. The display hard to read. It's surely no coincidence that Walmart's in-store selection of netbooks has been reduced to a single Nickelodeon branded laptop for kids.
The netbook strikes me as being a second or third purchase - and not the first choice for the low income buyer that the geek fondly believes. That's the second shoe you hear dropping at Walmart.
The low-end netbook competes for attention and sales with a dozen other high-tech gadgets at the same price point - and it just might be the product that gives the retailer most grief.
The complaining continues because Linux users still cannot play video using FOSS solutions, due to licensing fees associated with implementation of H.264. Given the overall Linux philosophy, it's a perfectly valid complaint.
Since when did Linux=FOSS?
Or, more precisely, since when did the Linux user become the FOSS purist?
If that were true, he would have to jettison damn near every set top box and mobile device he owns.
But Microsoft's Silverlight used to enable support for Theora in pretty much all Windows browsers (and specifically IE of all things), while both Google and Apple stand by H.264 - oh my!
Silverlight already supports hardware accelerated H.264.
In 1080p no less.
Silverlight 4 adds support for Chrome, content protection for H.264 and support for playing offline DRM protected media. Microsoft Silverlight
Flash 10.1 also supports H.264 hardware acceleration and content protection.
So I fail to understand why this all seems so difficult. Put the collective minds together in the FOOS world, come up with a compression scheme for both video and audio and there you have it
If life were only that simple:
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) was formed by the ISO to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission. It was established in 1988. MPEG has grown to include approximately 350 members per meeting from various industries, universities, and research institutions. MPEG's official designation is ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11 - Coding of moving pictures and audio (ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29, Working Group 11).
Joint Video Team (JVT) is joint project between ITU-T SG16/Q.6 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 for the development of new video coding recommendation and international standard. Moving Picture Experts Group
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is a standard for video compression. The final drafting work on the first version of the standard was completed in May 2003.
H.264/AVC is the latest block-oriented motion-compensation-based codec standard developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), and it was the product of a partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). The ITU-T H.264 standard and the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 AVC standard (formally, ISO/IEC 14496-10 - MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding) are jointly maintained so that they have identical technical content. H.264 is used in such applications as Blu-ray Disc, videos from YouTube and the iTunes Store, DVB broadcast, direct-broadcast satellite television service, cable television services, and real-time videoconferencing.
The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards body in the United States approved the use of H.264/AVC for broadcast television in July 2008, although the standard is not yet used for ATSC broadcasts within the United States.
One of the most notable industries that has benefited greatly from the technology is the CCTV (Close Circuit TV) or Video Surveillance market. Prior to this technology the compression formats used within the industries DVR's Digital Video Recorders was based on low quality compression formats. With the application of the h.264 compression technology the quality of the video recordings [improved dramatically.] Over a short period of time starting in 2008 the surveillance industry promoted h.264 technology as "high quality" video. The term h.264 is now use to identify "high quality" digital recorders verses lower quality recorders.
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
This stuff is hard.
It takes years to accomplish anything meaningful.
H.264 has become deeply - deeply - entrenched across a broad range of industries.
Nuanti has produced a high-performance Ogg Theora decoder for Microsoft's Silverlight
Hardware accelerated H.264 is in the 10.1 Flash Beta. Silverlight 4 will support Chrome. The "high performance" H.264 player will be everywhere and in everything in the next few weeks or months.
Original Xbox Games Playable on Xbox 360
It would make far more sense if they had stopped selling XBox games first.
You may not have XBox Live - but the best in single-player will run the XBox 360. Original Xbox Games Playable on Xbox 360
'Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator' and how 'it has lost share in Web browsers, high-end laptops and smartphones.
What is a "high end" laptop?
More importantly, what is the value of the high-end laptop to Microsoft?
To the user?
Microsoft sells the OS not the hardware.
The decision whether the high-end is worth entering is for the manufactuer and the retailer.
The most expensive laptop at Walmart.com is an $1800 HP - an i7 with 6 GB DDR3 RAM and Radeon 4830 video. Laser-etched Magnesium case. 64 bit Win 7 Home Premium.
That strikes me as a perfectly plausible alternative to the MacBook Pro.
IE8 is competitive.
But the browser wars may no longer matter.
H.264 has Mozilla tied up in knots.
Meanwhile, hardware-accelerated H.264 video is in the Flash 10.1 Beta 2 player for Windows. Silverlight 4 will support protected H.264 content and Chrome.
Users don't give a damn about standards - or ideology. They simply download the player and watch the movie.
The thorough investigation by the Apollo 204 Review Board of the Apollo accident determined that the test conditions at the time of the accident were "extremely hazardous." However, the test was not recognized as being hazardous by either NASA or the contractor prior to the accident. Consequently, adequate safety precautions were neither established nor observed for this test. The amount and location of combustibles in the command module were not closely restricted and controlled, and there was no way for the crew to egress rapidly from the command module during this type of emergency nor had procedures been established for ground support personnel outside the spacecraft to assist the crew. Proper emergency equipment was not located in the "white room" surrounding the Apollo command module nor were emergency fire and medical rescue teams in attendance.
There appears to be no adequate explanation for the failure to recognize the test being conducted at the time of the accident as hazardous. The only explanation offered the committee is that NASA officials believed they had eliminated all sources of ignition and since to have a fire requires an ignition source, combustible material, and oxygen, NASA believed that necessary and sufficient action had been taken to prevent a fire.
Of course, all ignition sources had not been eliminated.
The Apollo 204 Review Board reported that it took approximately 5 minutes to open all hatches and remove the two outer hatches after the fire was reported; that the first firemen arrived about 8 to 9 minutes after the fire was reported and that the first medical doctors did not arrive until about 12 minutes or more after the fire was reported. Thus there was not expert medical opinion available on opening the hatch to determine the condition of the three astronauts although medical opinion based on autopsy reports concluded that chances for resuscitation decresed rapidly once consciousness was lost and that resuscitation was impossible by the time the hatch was opened.
It is clear from the Board's report and the testimony before the committee that this kind of accident was completely unexpected; that both NASA and the contractor were completely unprepared for it despite the amount of documentation of fire hazards in pure oxygen environments. The committee can only conclude that NASA's long history of successes in testing and launching space vehicles with pure oxygen environments at 16.7 p.s.i. and lower pressures led to overconfidence and complacency.
Excerpts from The Apollo 204 Report: Summary
However, it is a common misconception that low-pressure pure oxygen does not increase the fire hazard. Not true. It doesn't increase it to nearly the horrible level of 14.7psi oxygen, but it does increase it quite a bit.
Apollo 1 Fire: Henry Spencer About Yarchieve.net [and Henry Spencer]