It's amusing to me that basically it comes down to greed, and if they have it the way they want it, they'll kill something great and hurt themselves in the long run. I guess the reality is they know that we've grown so dependant on the internet that we can't live without it, so no matter how much they screw it up, we'll keep coming back for more.
Allow me to be the voice of reason here. If you think the poor guys trying to escape to a better life have computers and internet access you might want to think again;)
Look, I have bad karma already for making these kinds of posts, but geez, this is really really old news, like 3+ months.
http://www.hdbeat.com/2006/03/15/moviebeam-review/
HDBeat reviewed it, and we've been talking about it on AVSforums since January or February. This wasn't "just announced".
Do you really believe that is something that is easily breakable? Looks pretty thick to me, most likely some plexi, or plexi like material, not true glass. Not to mention there would be no way to protect them if they were to break it.
Man this story is really old too, like at least half a week.
The two responses you already got could not make my point any better. The point being, that movie quote is an insult to the/. community, we are so much more advanced than that. Come on, give us a hard one man!;)
Something like...
"Good thinking about that spider, Cole. Try and do something like that again."
This whole section of comments is one giant off-topic. The topic is not about how the baby bells reforming as an entity much larger than they ever were before, yet how this business practice creates massive process problems within already mismanaged companies.
I have worked in telecom from every aspect for some time, so I have an intimate understanding of how bad this can be. I'm fortunate that my company has managed to take the correct approach of process and engineering system merging. We are in the minority though. I won't go naming companies, but most of the big ones have 10+ engineering systems. The processes are non-existant between the different regions. It's not even a matter of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, it's more like each finger doesn't know what the one next to it is doing. This problem is only going to get worse as more and more of them merge. For joe citizen, it won't mean much, but for companies it's a huge problem. The time to turn up service continues to rise at the mega bells, and there is no sign of that changing.
Not to mention Dish and their "HD Lite" pseudo HD, which is utter garbage.
As far as the original topic, people will claim that it's not forward thinking enough to say that the natural progression of free TV isn't high quality free TV on the net. The reality is, it isn't. Getting the video to your living room, which will always be the setting of choice for watching TV, will never be something that is easily accessible. Tie that in with the fact that even though people think we're going to magically pull bandwidth out of our asses in the future, and it's just not going to happen.
Fiber optic into homes doesn't change that the backend bandwidth doesn't exist to support it in widespread delivery.
I claimed a few years ago we'd see an OLED + fuel cell Powerbook from Apple before anyone else, but it looks like OLED dev has slowed down, and they didn't make the right alliances in Japan to make the fuel cell thing happen.
Apple really could have benefited from having fuel cells in laptops or at least iPods before anyone else. They need to keep on the technology cutting edge to keep their geek street cred up.
Lest we forget, Apex. They made a name for themselves with region free DVD players, and now have a nice foothold in the cheap DVD/TV/Audio market.
LCD monitors are not a good example for "off brand" either, considering that almost all of these panels are made at a small handful of plants. To continue with the quotes, I give you "Toshiba guts". Basically that's what a lot of this stuff is, LG/Philips, Samsung, etc, providing wholesale parts to 3rd parties like Gem, etc.
WEGA also, for their TVs, which has ALWAYS bothered me because if you look at the graphic for WEGA, it's really supposed to be two V's converging. It really should be VEGA according to their graphic.
Back to the topic at hand, I love how Sony says "The Playstation 3 will be able to download games to the console for gamers to play and Sony says it will be better than the Xbox 360's features." Yeah, I too can make outlandish claims with zero to back them up.
Rob "I'm smarter than you and have no actual proof" Nance
"Most good recruiters also feel the same way about the jobsites - the quality of the candidates on there isn't good. Quality candidates don't use them - because they don't need to."
It's comments like that that show your total lack of understanding. Quality candidates are forced to use online job sites, but you are too narrow minded to see that. There is the obvious of moving to a new area, which is hugely difficult without online job sites. What you aren't factoring in is very tight job markets like telecom. It's not that hard to find what big companies are in an area, but there are lots of upstarts and smaller scale companies that short of word of mouth, you aren't going to find out about. This just gets magnified when dealing with an out of state move.
To make a sweeping statement, to not even include the word "most" in your comment about quality candidates, just shows how you really feel about the heads you place, that's all they are, heads.
Considering the game, Halo 2, this is about what I'd expect in the worst possible gaming environment (First Person Shooter). Those numbers per hour are not bad. Everytime someone dies their is a good chance of an F bomb in an FPS. FPS represents some of the most heated online gaming, so it's going to yield some of the most heated comments. About 1 racial comment per hour surprises me actually, that's not bad at all considering.
I'd love to see these same breakdowns for at least two other game types, traditional sports games, racing, and then something like a basic Xbox Live Arcade game (should represent the most tame language). I'm dreaming now, but if we could have breakdown of language per zone (Underground, Pro, Recreation) would be very interesting also.
Good idea for an article, would have loved more meat.
Am I the only one who remembers an article in Wired magazine of a hand operated water purification system? It was in an article about that, and some very basic illustrated books/phamplets to help rural villages with crop planting, and how to irrigate it? I think it talked about an easy to make irrigation system too. Also discussed how to inform them of the basic value of their goods, and to try and set up a basic economic guideline to go by.
Sorry, only remember vague info on it, and can't find it when searching wired.com
Point is, hasn't this been done before, what is so revolutionary about his purifier other than it's a good idea?
Surprised nobody has said it yet, but who uses Bon Jour? I've never even heard of it. iChat or Fire for me. I know this problem is not Bon Jour specific, but like lots have said, Safari will ask when an executable is being received via download. We all know IM is susceptible, and we all know OSX is not bulletproof. Use common sense and move along, nothing to see here.
I would pay $100-200 for HL2 on my Mac. It is the only game that will force me to pull my PC out of the closet and upgrade it. This is the most exciting game to come along in a long time.
Anyone else see how terribly ironic this post is? "I doubt that Google, or any other company dedicated to develop software, could do such a silly application."
Ummm, Microsoft does a thousand silly things a day as far as releasing software with massive security loopholes, why should Google be any different?
I see your point, I do tend to hold Google in much higher regard than MS, but it's your wording that I found so hilarious.
Now, with all that said, your defense is, "don't download it if you don't like what it does", it seems like it's more than that. Scenario, a student in a school has an account on a machine that multiple people use. They could load this software and then gain access to personal information from all users on this machine. This goes from a personal security issue for the person installing it on their machine to a personal security issue for all of those who use the machine. It's the equivalant of putting a keystroke recorder or a packet sniffer on a network to gather information.
It is a software developer's responsibility to not release software that can be used maliciously, and this one sounds like it can.
I think this is a generally well written article. It was long, but I was left wanting him to talk about so much more. Some gripes of his were due to lack of info/knowledge, but nothing major. Some things he likes are going to get even better very soon, like Mail's slew of new features coming in Tiger.
Anyhow, my story reads much like Anand's. I've been using PCs since a Tandy 1000EX 8088, and have been building computers since I was in 5th grade. I was always a die hard PC guys until about 3 years ago, and I've slowly all but abandoned PCs.
What I like most, is a general trend: less hatred between the two camps. I hate petty crap, people seem more open minded these days. PC guys seem to respect Mac guys and Mac guys PC guys, maybe not completely, but it's not a blind hatred anymore.
Multiple systems can only benefit everyone, as it breeds innovation. Thumbs up to Anand.
Salary increase is when you get laid off and come back as a contractor for a few bucks more after being out of work from said company for several months.
If you mean killed, as in killed the hard drive, I have to call BS. If it just locked up, I would never try to run chkdsk on a disk image, but I seriously doubt it would do anything but do not know first hand. When you are running VPC it just uses a disk image as a virtual hard drive, therefore it will not effect your Mac at all.
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It's amusing to me that basically it comes down to greed, and if they have it the way they want it, they'll kill something great and hurt themselves in the long run. I guess the reality is they know that we've grown so dependant on the internet that we can't live without it, so no matter how much they screw it up, we'll keep coming back for more.
Allow me to be the voice of reason here. If you think the poor guys trying to escape to a better life have computers and internet access you might want to think again ;)
Look, I have bad karma already for making these kinds of posts, but geez, this is really really old news, like 3+ months. http://www.hdbeat.com/2006/03/15/moviebeam-review/
HDBeat reviewed it, and we've been talking about it on AVSforums since January or February. This wasn't "just announced".
Do you really believe that is something that is easily breakable? Looks pretty thick to me, most likely some plexi, or plexi like material, not true glass. Not to mention there would be no way to protect them if they were to break it. Man this story is really old too, like at least half a week.
Yarrrrr! This be a travesty matey!
What, you want it to be powerful AND pretty? What do you think this is, OSX?
The two responses you already got could not make my point any better. The point being, that movie quote is an insult to the /. community, we are so much more advanced than that. Come on, give us a hard one man! ;)
Something like...
"Good thinking about that spider, Cole. Try and do something like that again."
This whole section of comments is one giant off-topic. The topic is not about how the baby bells reforming as an entity much larger than they ever were before, yet how this business practice creates massive process problems within already mismanaged companies.
I have worked in telecom from every aspect for some time, so I have an intimate understanding of how bad this can be. I'm fortunate that my company has managed to take the correct approach of process and engineering system merging. We are in the minority though. I won't go naming companies, but most of the big ones have 10+ engineering systems. The processes are non-existant between the different regions. It's not even a matter of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, it's more like each finger doesn't know what the one next to it is doing. This problem is only going to get worse as more and more of them merge. For joe citizen, it won't mean much, but for companies it's a huge problem. The time to turn up service continues to rise at the mega bells, and there is no sign of that changing.
Not to mention Dish and their "HD Lite" pseudo HD, which is utter garbage.
As far as the original topic, people will claim that it's not forward thinking enough to say that the natural progression of free TV isn't high quality free TV on the net. The reality is, it isn't. Getting the video to your living room, which will always be the setting of choice for watching TV, will never be something that is easily accessible. Tie that in with the fact that even though people think we're going to magically pull bandwidth out of our asses in the future, and it's just not going to happen.
Fiber optic into homes doesn't change that the backend bandwidth doesn't exist to support it in widespread delivery.
I claimed a few years ago we'd see an OLED + fuel cell Powerbook from Apple before anyone else, but it looks like OLED dev has slowed down, and they didn't make the right alliances in Japan to make the fuel cell thing happen. Apple really could have benefited from having fuel cells in laptops or at least iPods before anyone else. They need to keep on the technology cutting edge to keep their geek street cred up.
Lest we forget, Apex. They made a name for themselves with region free DVD players, and now have a nice foothold in the cheap DVD/TV/Audio market. LCD monitors are not a good example for "off brand" either, considering that almost all of these panels are made at a small handful of plants. To continue with the quotes, I give you "Toshiba guts". Basically that's what a lot of this stuff is, LG/Philips, Samsung, etc, providing wholesale parts to 3rd parties like Gem, etc.
We've all known that not having a DVI or HDMI input was going to screw you in the end, it's just official now.
WEGA also, for their TVs, which has ALWAYS bothered me because if you look at the graphic for WEGA, it's really supposed to be two V's converging. It really should be VEGA according to their graphic.
Back to the topic at hand, I love how Sony says "The Playstation 3 will be able to download games to the console for gamers to play and Sony says it will be better than the Xbox 360's features." Yeah, I too can make outlandish claims with zero to back them up.
Rob "I'm smarter than you and have no actual proof" Nance
"Most good recruiters also feel the same way about the jobsites - the quality of the candidates on there isn't good. Quality candidates don't use them - because they don't need to." It's comments like that that show your total lack of understanding. Quality candidates are forced to use online job sites, but you are too narrow minded to see that. There is the obvious of moving to a new area, which is hugely difficult without online job sites. What you aren't factoring in is very tight job markets like telecom. It's not that hard to find what big companies are in an area, but there are lots of upstarts and smaller scale companies that short of word of mouth, you aren't going to find out about. This just gets magnified when dealing with an out of state move. To make a sweeping statement, to not even include the word "most" in your comment about quality candidates, just shows how you really feel about the heads you place, that's all they are, heads.
Considering the game, Halo 2, this is about what I'd expect in the worst possible gaming environment (First Person Shooter). Those numbers per hour are not bad. Everytime someone dies their is a good chance of an F bomb in an FPS. FPS represents some of the most heated online gaming, so it's going to yield some of the most heated comments. About 1 racial comment per hour surprises me actually, that's not bad at all considering. I'd love to see these same breakdowns for at least two other game types, traditional sports games, racing, and then something like a basic Xbox Live Arcade game (should represent the most tame language). I'm dreaming now, but if we could have breakdown of language per zone (Underground, Pro, Recreation) would be very interesting also. Good idea for an article, would have loved more meat.
Am I the only one who remembers an article in Wired magazine of a hand operated water purification system? It was in an article about that, and some very basic illustrated books/phamplets to help rural villages with crop planting, and how to irrigate it? I think it talked about an easy to make irrigation system too. Also discussed how to inform them of the basic value of their goods, and to try and set up a basic economic guideline to go by. Sorry, only remember vague info on it, and can't find it when searching wired.com Point is, hasn't this been done before, what is so revolutionary about his purifier other than it's a good idea?
Surprised nobody has said it yet, but who uses Bon Jour? I've never even heard of it. iChat or Fire for me. I know this problem is not Bon Jour specific, but like lots have said, Safari will ask when an executable is being received via download. We all know IM is susceptible, and we all know OSX is not bulletproof. Use common sense and move along, nothing to see here.
I would pay $100-200 for HL2 on my Mac. It is the only game that will force me to pull my PC out of the closet and upgrade it. This is the most exciting game to come along in a long time.
Anyone else see how terribly ironic this post is? "I doubt that Google, or any other company dedicated to develop software, could do such a silly application." Ummm, Microsoft does a thousand silly things a day as far as releasing software with massive security loopholes, why should Google be any different? I see your point, I do tend to hold Google in much higher regard than MS, but it's your wording that I found so hilarious. Now, with all that said, your defense is, "don't download it if you don't like what it does", it seems like it's more than that. Scenario, a student in a school has an account on a machine that multiple people use. They could load this software and then gain access to personal information from all users on this machine. This goes from a personal security issue for the person installing it on their machine to a personal security issue for all of those who use the machine. It's the equivalant of putting a keystroke recorder or a packet sniffer on a network to gather information. It is a software developer's responsibility to not release software that can be used maliciously, and this one sounds like it can.
I think this is a generally well written article. It was long, but I was left wanting him to talk about so much more. Some gripes of his were due to lack of info/knowledge, but nothing major. Some things he likes are going to get even better very soon, like Mail's slew of new features coming in Tiger. Anyhow, my story reads much like Anand's. I've been using PCs since a Tandy 1000EX 8088, and have been building computers since I was in 5th grade. I was always a die hard PC guys until about 3 years ago, and I've slowly all but abandoned PCs. What I like most, is a general trend: less hatred between the two camps. I hate petty crap, people seem more open minded these days. PC guys seem to respect Mac guys and Mac guys PC guys, maybe not completely, but it's not a blind hatred anymore. Multiple systems can only benefit everyone, as it breeds innovation. Thumbs up to Anand.
It's not just the first step, it's half the battle! Go Joe!
Salary increase is when you get laid off and come back as a contractor for a few bucks more after being out of work from said company for several months.
If you mean killed, as in killed the hard drive, I have to call BS. If it just locked up, I would never try to run chkdsk on a disk image, but I seriously doubt it would do anything but do not know first hand. When you are running VPC it just uses a disk image as a virtual hard drive, therefore it will not effect your Mac at all.
Please tell me someone else got the War Games reference? Am I really getting that old?