I'm an early adopter, and fond of ebooks. You know those guys that bought Rocketbooks way back? That's me.
I learned a hard lesson there, and I'll share it with you. The thing holding up eBooks from mainstream acceptance doesn't have anything to do with the hardware, or even the availability of books (though that is a problem).
The big issue is that they charge the same as a paper book, and often as much as a hardback, but I don't get the ability to:
Sell the book Trade it with a friend for one I haven't read Trade it in for credit at a used book store, like Half Price books
So, I've given up a large part of the intrinsic value of a paper book, and recieved exactly nothing in return for the same, or more, cash.
I'm already paying a premium for the reader, and I'm already living with a reduced selection of reading material. Now, I'm losing value of the material I can get?
This will never catch on until it has the same value as a paper book, period. No matter how fancy the display device might be.
I know it's just human nature, but not every endeavor can target every solution. This is something that does good, and works, do we really need to criticize it because it's not filling every other need at the same time?
There are tons of charities that do what you describe, and that helped you out. Does that mean it's wrong to add some additional charity on top of that to help restore some childhood as well as health?
In addition, this type of donation resonates with gamers, I doubt they could pull anything near this level of donation out by simply collecting money for healthcare like so many other institutions.
I support both the Shriners and Child's Play because they each provide for distinctly different parts of a child's wellbeing.
I wasn't aware you could put voice commentary, the magnifier, and the text reversing mirror in a PDF document.
This is where we, as technophiles go wrong. The only thing that matters to us is the technology used to deliver the content, and we want the content to conform.
Everyone else wants the content to look and feel a certain way, and just select a tool out of the toolbox to make it so.
I think movies should be in PDF, too! One frame per page, that way everyone can see them without having to download a different tool!
That's true, it's a massively distributed app. In every class of solution, there are extreme cases for which the rule does not apply. Those cases do not change how the average customer does business.
I build AIX HACMP clusters for a living, and I'll tell you that you should *never* use an either/or approach, as TFA suggests. Nobody in their right mind is wondering if they should get a cluster OR FT hardware. They get a cluster of FT servers.
Maybe if they want to write an article, they should spend some time in the real world and see how the HA industry works instead of making up some arbitrary demarkation line to hang a preconception on.
I don't know about you guys, but every year a greater percentage of the engineers that I work with are Indian or Asian. A few decades ago, we were world technology leaders, all with home grown talent.
Now we're less educated than ever before.
The government could double the existing education budget and fix our school systems, get more teachers, and build the infrastructure that has been lost and not rebuilt for decades. There are plenty of places that we spend money that aren't as important.
At least IBM sees the crisis as it looms over us, if the government doesn't. An educated populace means there's a country worth defending, move a tiny portion of the defense budget to education, dammit!
Kudos, IBM. At least somebody has an eye on the ball.
You'll care plenty in the next communications disruption. Perhaps you didn't know that the HAM operators carry emergency traffic when regular comms are down.
Or maybe you didn't know that the same bands are used by the military and airlines.
That's okay if you aren't a protogeek. You read Slashdot, and it's even been on here before as a main page story AND mentioned in countless threads before now.
As I said, it's not a big deal, it just blows my mind that a Slashdot Editor hasn't seen this, since it's been splashed all over the world he works in (computer news) for months.
I don't want to be a jerk or anything, but this has been up on every site I read, including/. for the last couple of months. I find it hard to believe that an editor has never heard of this before submitting this.
This is like posting a story about the invention of the Roomba. I assure you, we know. We read about it on Fark, Gizmodo, Slashdot, and every other techy blog out there months ago, over and over again.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm an early adopter, and fond of ebooks. You know those guys that bought Rocketbooks way back? That's me.
I learned a hard lesson there, and I'll share it with you. The thing holding up eBooks from mainstream acceptance doesn't have anything to do with the hardware, or even the availability of books (though that is a problem).
The big issue is that they charge the same as a paper book, and often as much as a hardback, but I don't get the ability to:
Sell the book
Trade it with a friend for one I haven't read
Trade it in for credit at a used book store, like Half Price books
So, I've given up a large part of the intrinsic value of a paper book, and recieved exactly nothing in return for the same, or more, cash.
I'm already paying a premium for the reader, and I'm already living with a reduced selection of reading material. Now, I'm losing value of the material I can get?
This will never catch on until it has the same value as a paper book, period. No matter how fancy the display device might be.
I know it's just human nature, but not every endeavor can target every solution. This is something that does good, and works, do we really need to criticize it because it's not filling every other need at the same time?
There are tons of charities that do what you describe, and that helped you out. Does that mean it's wrong to add some additional charity on top of that to help restore some childhood as well as health?
In addition, this type of donation resonates with gamers, I doubt they could pull anything near this level of donation out by simply collecting money for healthcare like so many other institutions.
I support both the Shriners and Child's Play because they each provide for distinctly different parts of a child's wellbeing.
I wasn't aware you could put voice commentary, the magnifier, and the text reversing mirror in a PDF document.
This is where we, as technophiles go wrong. The only thing that matters to us is the technology used to deliver the content, and we want the content to conform.
Everyone else wants the content to look and feel a certain way, and just select a tool out of the toolbox to make it so.
I think movies should be in PDF, too! One frame per page, that way everyone can see them without having to download a different tool!
It's not about the glass, it's about the water.
That's true, it's a massively distributed app. In every class of solution, there are extreme cases for which the rule does not apply. Those cases do not change how the average customer does business.
I build AIX HACMP clusters for a living, and I'll tell you that you should *never* use an either/or approach, as TFA suggests. Nobody in their right mind is wondering if they should get a cluster OR FT hardware. They get a cluster of FT servers.
Maybe if they want to write an article, they should spend some time in the real world and see how the HA industry works instead of making up some arbitrary demarkation line to hang a preconception on.
That's nice to see, I wasn't aware of the program.
However, the difference here is that IBM doesn't have a direct input into the entire education system like the government does.
Stepping up means different things based on your ability to affect the system.
I don't know about you guys, but every year a greater percentage of the engineers that I work with are Indian or Asian. A few decades ago, we were world technology leaders, all with home grown talent.
Now we're less educated than ever before.
The government could double the existing education budget and fix our school systems, get more teachers, and build the infrastructure that has been lost and not rebuilt for decades. There are plenty of places that we spend money that aren't as important.
At least IBM sees the crisis as it looms over us, if the government doesn't. An educated populace means there's a country worth defending, move a tiny portion of the defense budget to education, dammit!
Kudos, IBM. At least somebody has an eye on the ball.
Hiya Troll!
You'll care plenty in the next communications disruption. Perhaps you didn't know that the HAM operators carry emergency traffic when regular comms are down.
Or maybe you didn't know that the same bands are used by the military and airlines.
I guess those are hobbies, too.
That's okay if you aren't a protogeek. You read Slashdot, and it's even been on here before as a main page story AND mentioned in countless threads before now.
As I said, it's not a big deal, it just blows my mind that a Slashdot Editor hasn't seen this, since it's been splashed all over the world he works in (computer news) for months.
I don't want to be a jerk or anything, but this has been up on every site I read, including /. for the last couple of months. I find it hard to believe that an editor has never heard of this before submitting this.
This is like posting a story about the invention of the Roomba. I assure you, we know. We read about it on Fark, Gizmodo, Slashdot, and every other techy blog out there months ago, over and over again.
If cars are invented, the entire horse and carriage industry will crash! It'll be the end of the economy!
If transistors are invented...
Airplanes...
Gee, I wonder if new industries will arise? I wonder...
Actually, having more cpu resources freed up by a PPU would enable you to have a more elaborate AI engine.
Game physics (boundary calculations, collisions, rebound, etc) all take a huge chunk of processor time.
More resources available for AI will mean better, more computation intensive AI.
This is just like when we had no physics engines because the CPU's were too busy doing software graphics rendering.