I like that Iomega is finally realizing where their market share is. They can't compete with CD's and DVD's but a new tape alternative sounds interesting.
It sounds nice except for the firewall which strikes me as misplaced. I do not want firewall duty being handled by my new systems, I would much rather have it handled by a nice router or really outdated system in a closet.
Though this tech is always new and impressive I still long for a chatbot which has the resources to consult weather pages, stock quotes and football scores. These things are amazing but one of the short coming always seems to be a lack of resources.
While this is true, the reaction that this isn't exactly close is still well justified. We are talking about 10 years before this 1 experiment which isn't a mainstream implementation (hundreds of high powered lasers...). Given that it isn't unreasonable to assume that if these scientists are left to if we might actually have a fusion power plant by 2180.
Japan has some of the must unfair practices when it comes to dealing with the American market, this is one case where I don't give a rat's ass if they're being bullied by someone who is simply better at the game.
Unannounced title my ass. The game probably sucked or they were having developmental or legal problems. I wish big corporations just be tell it straight about these things.
This guy is just being a bastard with this line, "I wonder how much it would cost them if someone, say, automated searching for those links on Google."
Enterprise always struck me as being made for 12 year old boys, it's just that shallow. I loved TNG and the original Star Trek as well as most of DS9 and a smaller portoin of Voyager. My dislike of Enterprise could also simply be cause by expossure to Farscape (which is coming back for a mini-series thank you kindy). That is quality if you ask me. Now even watching great episodes of TNG leaves me unsatisfied, Farscape is just so much better its scary. The thing about Star Trek is that its a pioneer show, so it was amazing when it was new full of new ideas and new plots. You have to move on from that though if you wish to continue the series, you can't just recycle the same old plot devices and themes. Enterprise is like that poser in high school who tries to be exactly like the most popular kid in school and fails even while mimicing their behavior to a t.
Still interesting and all but old as the hills. The technology is even older than Toyota's products as well, handicapped conventions have had similar systems for years.
I hope. Even though they managed to set him up for a "bad faith" claim this still seems to be an impossible case for them to win. Mike Rowe is the dude's name after all, this is simply a decent pun not infringment of anything. Unless somebody could misspell microsoft as mikerowesoft I don't see the problem.
So admitting that the system can't deal with this new development certain people need to decide a few things. Too bad these certain people are so molded by the system that they basically are the system. Plus you will never convince me a Senator fully understands technology.
I've noticed an evil plot involving Plasma and LCD tv's. Architects are purposely designing living rooms where it is impossible to place an old style back projection big screen tv.
Touche, kind of.
Pioneer's actually has a street price $41 dollors cheaper than the PSX. My arguement agaisn't the PSX applies to products like the Pioneer as well (to a lesser degree), the Pioneer at basically just adding 1 function to an existing device though whereas this monster from Sony is attempting something much more delicate. Price wise though, I do have to admit you got me.
An overpriced consolidation of products the company is not good at creating. Reminds me of an all-in-one office device, except that those are normally more approriately priced.
"Everything will be rendered according to the strict standards as proposed by The WWW Consortium [w3.org]. Your pages will look the same both in IE and Mozilla"
Not quite true, that is what the strict or standards modes are intended to do (and partially do) but realistically certain things are going to be treated differently even by browsers in standards mode. For example floats are treated much differently by IE then in Mozilla even if both are in rendering an XHTML 1.1 page (personal experience with my own site).
The consumer is currently being screwed for television so cry me a river. Cable television was supposed to be ad free, that's why the consumer would pay. The additional cost of HBO and similar services illustrates that the dream of commercial free television is attainable. Television providers should stop shafting us long enough for us to pay for content we want without commercials, I'm sure that would offset PVR based losses.
"No visual display as a speech synthesiser reads everything that appears on the screen out loud."
The device doesn't have a display because everything is read out via a speech synthesiser...or does it actually have a screen...
Poor writing, sloppy editing.
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I like that Iomega is finally realizing where their market share is. They can't compete with CD's and DVD's but a new tape alternative sounds interesting.
It sounds nice except for the firewall which strikes me as misplaced. I do not want firewall duty being handled by my new systems, I would much rather have it handled by a nice router or really outdated system in a closet.
Price money. About $10,000 I believe.
Though this tech is always new and impressive I still long for a chatbot which has the resources to consult weather pages, stock quotes and football scores. These things are amazing but one of the short coming always seems to be a lack of resources.
While this is true, the reaction that this isn't exactly close is still well justified. We are talking about 10 years before this 1 experiment which isn't a mainstream implementation (hundreds of high powered lasers...). Given that it isn't unreasonable to assume that if these scientists are left to if we might actually have a fusion power plant by 2180.
I'm sure they could find a couple dudes who would be willing to take the risk, they should just suck it up and go.
Japan has some of the must unfair practices when it comes to dealing with the American market, this is one case where I don't give a rat's ass if they're being bullied by someone who is simply better at the game.
Hubble needs this sort of thing to keep it serviced. This is very interesting and in my mind at least partially justifies Hubble.
Unannounced title my ass. The game probably sucked or they were having developmental or legal problems. I wish big corporations just be tell it straight about these things.
This guy is just being a bastard with this line, "I wonder how much it would cost them if someone, say, automated searching for those links on Google."
Enterprise always struck me as being made for 12 year old boys, it's just that shallow. I loved TNG and the original Star Trek as well as most of DS9 and a smaller portoin of Voyager. My dislike of Enterprise could also simply be cause by expossure to Farscape (which is coming back for a mini-series thank you kindy). That is quality if you ask me. Now even watching great episodes of TNG leaves me unsatisfied, Farscape is just so much better its scary. The thing about Star Trek is that its a pioneer show, so it was amazing when it was new full of new ideas and new plots. You have to move on from that though if you wish to continue the series, you can't just recycle the same old plot devices and themes. Enterprise is like that poser in high school who tries to be exactly like the most popular kid in school and fails even while mimicing their behavior to a t.
Still interesting and all but old as the hills. The technology is even older than Toyota's products as well, handicapped conventions have had similar systems for years.
so I really don't care if it fails. Damn snotty American me.
I hope. Even though they managed to set him up for a "bad faith" claim this still seems to be an impossible case for them to win. Mike Rowe is the dude's name after all, this is simply a decent pun not infringment of anything. Unless somebody could misspell microsoft as mikerowesoft I don't see the problem.
So admitting that the system can't deal with this new development certain people need to decide a few things. Too bad these certain people are so molded by the system that they basically are the system. Plus you will never convince me a Senator fully understands technology.
Might as well ask Bush for vocabulary help.
That's a damn good point. I should be blaming those insane developers and their lackies the "interior designers".
I've noticed an evil plot involving Plasma and LCD tv's. Architects are purposely designing living rooms where it is impossible to place an old style back projection big screen tv.
MIT is one of the great hogs of current IP addresses, maybe if issues like this were addressed no knew system would be neccesary.
Touche, kind of. Pioneer's actually has a street price $41 dollors cheaper than the PSX. My arguement agaisn't the PSX applies to products like the Pioneer as well (to a lesser degree), the Pioneer at basically just adding 1 function to an existing device though whereas this monster from Sony is attempting something much more delicate. Price wise though, I do have to admit you got me.
An overpriced consolidation of products the company is not good at creating. Reminds me of an all-in-one office device, except that those are normally more approriately priced.
"Everything will be rendered according to the strict standards as proposed by The WWW Consortium [w3.org]. Your pages will look the same both in IE and Mozilla" Not quite true, that is what the strict or standards modes are intended to do (and partially do) but realistically certain things are going to be treated differently even by browsers in standards mode. For example floats are treated much differently by IE then in Mozilla even if both are in rendering an XHTML 1.1 page (personal experience with my own site).
...but doesn't this just mean one lucky bastard in the boonies will be getting good speeds or 50 unlucky bastards getting crap speed?
The consumer is currently being screwed for television so cry me a river. Cable television was supposed to be ad free, that's why the consumer would pay. The additional cost of HBO and similar services illustrates that the dream of commercial free television is attainable. Television providers should stop shafting us long enough for us to pay for content we want without commercials, I'm sure that would offset PVR based losses.
Yes but while he was modded as a troll, I am insightful. It's all about being smooth while pointing out blunders. Nobody listens to asshats.
"No visual display as a speech synthesiser reads everything that appears on the screen out loud." The device doesn't have a display because everything is read out via a speech synthesiser...or does it actually have a screen... Poor writing, sloppy editing.