The desktop has its place. The notebook has its place.
The people I work with all want the superchief notebooks with 17" screens. I want the lightest, smallest one I can get. If I have to use a notebook in a meeting, fine. But when I get back, I want usable desktop space. No missing emails because it was under the document I'm writing. Video conferencing on one screen while working on the other.
In iTunes, you open the window that shows the album art, and right there is the video feed.
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I think they chose a time after the web in some ways, all people did was watch a TV. You never saw people on the phone, and a lot of information could be gathered from the watcher via the network.
Remember blip-verts, they had the footage of what happened because the TV could watch the viewer.
So, I doubt they saw the web coming, but I think their world showed real time networking in both directions. Access to plans and layouts of buildings, all at a click.
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But they expanded on it, and made it seem like you could talk to the deceased.
That show's ideas keep popping up in our time. They really had a keen eye on the direction of the media, technology, privacy, etc.
Gateway used to be great... HP used to be great... IBM used to be great... Dell has never been great...... at engineering PCs.
You're absolutely right, in the 80's and 90's, the old computer companies needed to do neat things. Good chassis design, smart tools, utilities for the OS.
None of that happens any more. They let Taiwan, China, Singapore do the chassis design, the mobo design, etc.
Dell came in at the right time, and understood that a PC is a footstool that can have a nice display on it. They don't bother engineering because people don't want to pay for it.
HP stock dives when Lexmark sells 3 printers. Because HP is just a printing company.
HP stock dives when Dell changes their standard chassis color. Because HP is just a PC company.
HP stock dives when IBM does some new services campaign. Because HP is just a consulting company.
HP stock dives because they announce a new technology out of HP Labs. Because Dell doesn't have R&D, they save all that cash. HP is stupid for spending on that when they could just repaint Intel systems.
HP stock dove this week because somebody leaked that they'd lay off 25,000 people. When it ended up only being 14,500, HP just wasn't serious about cutting costs.
I am not saying that HP is fantastic, I am just saying that to call them just a PC company is silly. We all know that two articles from now (since there will be a dupe of this one before the next new article) it will be about printing, and everybody will say how HP is going to die since all they do is make printers...
It will be an interesting year for HP. By 6/1/06, the company could look completely different.
And one thing to consider, no computer seller is an engineering company any longer. Dell never was, Lenovo isn't going to be, Gateway isn't.
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I run dual 20's as well.
The desktop has its place. The notebook has its place.
The people I work with all want the superchief notebooks with 17" screens. I want the lightest, smallest one I can get. If I have to use a notebook in a meeting, fine. But when I get back, I want usable desktop space. No missing emails because it was under the document I'm writing. Video conferencing on one screen while working on the other.
No other way.
It is definitely designed for a video ipod.
In iTunes, you open the window that shows the album art, and right there is the video feed.
I think they chose a time after the web in some ways, all people did was watch a TV. You never saw people on the phone, and a lot of information could be gathered from the watcher via the network.
Remember blip-verts, they had the footage of what happened because the TV could watch the viewer.
So, I doubt they saw the web coming, but I think their world showed real time networking in both directions. Access to plans and layouts of buildings, all at a click.
But they expanded on it, and made it seem like you could talk to the deceased.
That show's ideas keep popping up in our time. They really had a keen eye on the direction of the media, technology, privacy, etc.
in 2016?
Might as well get to work now!
and not the US Gov't, then THEY get to choose when to pull the plug.
Not some accountant.
"If HP were to market sushi, they'd sell it as cold, dead fish."
It's technically accurate, but nobody would ever want it with that name.
The reverse is also true. When they get something right, they're baffled.
They had a meeting to talk about how they need to see what customers want rather than releasing something for them to buy. A lot of blank stares...
I always forget about Apple.
THEY engineer. And you pay for it. And that's why they're not on the radar in general.
I don't know much about Sony, since their stuff looks like everybody else's machines.
I work much more closely with corporate boxes. Sony isn't much of a player in that market in the States.
Gateway used to be great... ... at engineering PCs.
HP used to be great...
IBM used to be great...
Dell has never been great...
You're absolutely right, in the 80's and 90's, the old computer companies needed to do neat things. Good chassis design, smart tools, utilities for the OS.
None of that happens any more. They let Taiwan, China, Singapore do the chassis design, the mobo design, etc.
Dell came in at the right time, and understood that a PC is a footstool that can have a nice display on it. They don't bother engineering because people don't want to pay for it.
There are still a lot of sites that are both. The ones in my town are Agilent/HP/Intel.
They are "technically" different companies, but they have the same cafeterias, parking lots, and softball fields.
HP stock dives when Lexmark sells 3 printers. Because HP is just a printing company.
HP stock dives when Dell changes their standard chassis color. Because HP is just a PC company.
HP stock dives when IBM does some new services campaign. Because HP is just a consulting company.
HP stock dives because they announce a new technology out of HP Labs. Because Dell doesn't have R&D, they save all that cash. HP is stupid for spending on that when they could just repaint Intel systems.
HP stock dove this week because somebody leaked that they'd lay off 25,000 people. When it ended up only being 14,500, HP just wasn't serious about cutting costs.
I am not saying that HP is fantastic, I am just saying that to call them just a PC company is silly. We all know that two articles from now (since there will be a dupe of this one before the next new article) it will be about printing, and everybody will say how HP is going to die since all they do is make printers...
It will be an interesting year for HP. By 6/1/06, the company could look completely different.
And one thing to consider, no computer seller is an engineering company any longer. Dell never was, Lenovo isn't going to be, Gateway isn't.
Agilent is the engineering half of HP.
I like that.
Redirect ALL web requests to a page that says you're an unregistered unit, contact IT, etc...
Good point.
Could you then watch for inbound traffic whose destination inside your network is a different subnet such as one in a NAT?
Each box that is supposed to be on the network has its MAC set to a fixed address.
Then a special range is set up that isn't able to access crap that is assigned to all new devices that aren't in the dhcpd.conf.
Any problems with that?
Great choice. :-)
It was the Jedi Master's Trivia Guide.
D'oh!
As depressing as it is, I remember reading the Empire Strikes Back Trivia Guide, and the suns were Tatoo I and Tatoo II.
No 3rd sun in that system, according to that source.
They have similar functions.
One looks like a piece of shit sticking out of your dash, at inconvient lengths and angles.
The other one is sheer beauty, articulate, allows for a skin or small protective case to still be on your ipod.
The DLO is a hunk o' shit.
Robot based death ray? Sweetness.
Brilliant deduction there.
You suck!
:-)
That's what you get for being right, and making us shudder to think what work is going to be like in 10 years when all these kids get there.
I post, as I have no modpoints to encourage you with.
Nope, loved it.
2074, Duke Nukem Forever is released, as a joke by a group of children who read about vaporware in their history books.
:-)
Oh, come on, you knew that was coming.
Porn moved VCRs
Porn moved DVDs
Porn is holding up the BluRay / HD-DVD release
Porn moved BBSs
Porn moved the internet.
I'm not advocating it. I am saying that there are a lot of people that don't notice these things until they find a new way to get porn.
If I pay to drive the roads, then I shouldn't have to pay TWICE to drive the roads.
100% of all taxes on gasoline should be removed then.
If this is only to capture back state, but not federal or local taxes, then at least 100% of state tax should be removable at time of gas purchase.