As JavaScript engine efficiency improves, the gap between what you can accomplish with a native app and a JavaScript app narrows, and as CPU performance continues to improve, what you can accomplish with JavaScript increases.
I've heard that argument since the late nineties. I'm still not buying it.
No, Geeks are Nerds that figured out how to bathe and dress themselves, and figured out that women generally don't care about what speed of microprocessor is in their computer or how much RAM they have.
Seriously. My wife has a bachelor's degree from MIT. Even she doesn't care about the processor or ram in the computer, she just cares that it works.
I'm surprised that no one caught on. At $10 a pop, they'd have to sell three-hundred-million cpu coolers even if they had no operating expenses. Factor those in and it's probably more like eight-hundred-million.
But that's completely contrary to the purpose and function of Facebook. If the tool wasn't intended to be used like that then it wouldn't be set up to allow on to use it like that. Come to think of it, just about every form of personal vanity webpage host with some form of included WSYWIG editor to have ever existed, going all of the way back to Geocities, has been like this.
Unless one of those FBI letters that the company isn't allowed to disclose and isn't really allowed to not comply with is sent.
Pay attention to your elected officials. They determine the laws, and from their pool the powerful elected officials come from, who ultimately pick the judges that decide on these sorts of things.
Isn't that practice a form of grade inflation on its own? If someone can barely pass for an eighth of their college career and can still get a 4.0, why is their work worth more than someone that did it the honest way, with everything they have done accounted for.
MIT doesn't have class-rank. You're either good enough to graduate, or not. Remember, everyone coming in to MIT is already the creme de la creme, so you either continue to perform to MIT's standards, or you don't.
Also bear in mind, pass/no-credit doesn't mean that if you don't pass that you advance. You must retake the course if you don't pass, you just don't have a blemish show up that first time around. Even still, as high-strung as a lot of freshmen at MIT are, some inevitably crack. My wife still occasionally thinks about a friend of hers that couldn't make it, and how she turned out.
ISPs often would charge a premium for the fastest modem connection, having separate phone numbers for the higher speed bank, but that was usually only temporary, as a premium service. I remember 33.6K and 56K both having higher price points than the next-down when they debuted.
We use manually-filled ballots, where one draws a line between two points next to the candidate's name. Honestly from that point I really don't care if the ballot is counted by a computer that scans them or by a human that has to go through and tally the notes. The fact that it's possible for a person to manually count the results though means that if a loser challenges the results, the results can actually be checked. The simplicity of the ballot also means that it's hard for someone to screw up filling it out.
The ballot may be numbered, but is that number noted with your voting registration?
The only qualm that I have with the mail-in balloting that I do (and usually drop-off at the polling place the day of the election) is that I have to sign the outer envelope. The ballot itself has no distinguishing marks on it, so when it's removed from the envelope and put in the stack with all of the others it's effectively anonymous.
It also doesn't help that our education system isn't really designed to allow kids the room to actually struggle with a subject before attaining mastery without punishing their long-term prospects with bad marks on their records.
The addage, "the difference between the Master and the Novice is that the Master has failed more times than the Novice has tried," requires the person that becomes the master to have the latitude to fail during the education process without those individual failures costing them the right to advance, assuming that they manage to overcome those failures as they learn. That isn't to say that failure itself should be seen as a positive result, but if failure happens and can be overcome to demonstrate proficiency or mastery of the topic then the pupil should be able to continue.
It's not uncommon for those kids that are used to easy success without struggle to have quite a reality check once they're out of high school. Indeed, MIT even asks its applicants about their failures during the applications and admissions process; they want to be sure that a school full of kids that were valedictorians and salutatorians in their previous academic pursuits will not crack when they start struggling and failing there.
Bear in mind, the home, whole-house DVR concept can be applied to making the burden of on-demand streaming easier, especially if that appliance learns the viewer's habits/preferences and can attempt to cache copies of shows or movies for the viewer when they're multicast as a form of initial broadcast, even if the viewer hasn't specifically instructed the appliance to do so. Even if the cache remains unwatched for awhile and gets partially overwritten, any portion of a local copy still saves the network from the bandwidth of the complete retrieval of the content. Factor-in the continued existence of digital OTA broadcast as a way of initially offering the content for recording, and it should be possible to reduce the strain on the network. It should even be possible to fill-in gaps in the OTA recording from the Internet to have a good copy on initial broadcast, even if weather or poor reception make for a less than perfect original recording.
I expect that it'll come down to arguments over licensing and what, if any licensing is required for this kind of thing. We'll just have to wait and see.
In defense of the Roomba, I don't think it was ever meant to replace your upright.
And that is why I never bothered with one. Now that I've seen how poor they are at actually covering a room in a sane, even manner I'm glad that I skipped it.
I really don't understand why they never built a good, upscale one that actually did the job well, especially now that we've got powerful appliances that are battery-powered, like those 48V lawnmowers. It should be possible to build an automated vacuum that's actually strong enough to achieve good results on a regular basis, so long as the owner is willing to dump the collection bin from time to time and to shut off the thing if a spill or other obstruction that can't be handled by the vacuum is addressed.
I think that the multiple-user angle will finally be able to happen now that everyone is finally getting 1080p content online and non-tech businesses, like the security companies, are starting to see the benefit of being able to offer that kind of expensive service compared to previous, "call the cops when the alarm goes off" service.
It took some time to figure out how to use up DSL and cablemodem bandwidth, and now that we have that we've found ways to use even more than it can provide.
It's increasingly going to be about multiple users or automated users though. You're going to have two or three televisions streaming high definition content, you're going to have people using Internet-connected applications or games while those televisions are on in the background. You might even have security systems with offsite data storage at the security company; further streaming video content, this time sending rather than receiving.
Fairly simple sensor equipment on the house could help you with those though, and we've been able to send notifications via all manner of methods for years and years, via technology as low-end as 9600 baud TAP gateways through your cell provider worst-case.
You could monitor humidity in known problem areas like near hot water heaters and HVAC condensate drip pans with simple sensors fed by a two-wire solution. You could monitor wind speed and direction, plus temperature and rainfall through an automated weather station that sits on the roof. You could monitor basements and other low places for flooding with simple sensors that could also pack-in CO and fire safety. You could install RFID interrogators at the exterior doors and put RFID tags on your kids' backbacks (or use the ones built in to clothes or shoes or the like) to know when they've passed through the doorway, and you could even compare their RFID tag versus no tag when the doors are opened to know if someone else is entering. You could even use heat sensors to turn off lights in rooms that people have vacated and to turn off multimedia equipment like video projectors when no one is there to watch, if you're really feeling fancy, control the HVAC ducting to stop excessively cooling spaces that no one is using, like spare bedrooms, offices, workshops, dining rooms, kitchens, etc.
None of those features requires an Internet connection to use, though for convenience the ability to notify the owner could be handy. A quick e-mail or text message would be enough for most, and for things like potentially unauthorized entry, a camera picture could help the homeowner avoid false-positives with the alarm company and police.
What I really want a home to do though, is to clean itself. Self-clean the toilets, the sinks, the shower and bathtub, the tile, the carpet, the kitchen, and to be able to lift dust off of things and dispose of it. Do the laundry and sort/fold/hang it. That would be where the usefulness to homeowners comes in, not trinkets to automate processes that already aren't really inconvenient. It might also be convenient if the home recognizes the owner when he or she arrives, and lets them in without needing a key or other 'thing you have' on one's person.
Knowing my luck, when I'd use my Internet-connected Clapper to turn off the last light when going to bed it'd start playing anti-gonorrhea ads due to the poorly programmed ad-personalization algorithm.
And Billy Joel, and probably countless other examples. Hell, Hollywood Accounting means that one has to be REALLY careful if one is to be paid after profits are achieved on a movie, and needs the contract to reflect revenue, not profit.
If the contract literally stated that the rights would revert when the comic went out-of-print then he was foolish to sign. It means that if his work becomes popular that he never gets it back as the publisher can sell and sell and sell while people are buying, and it means that even if his work is unpopular, the licensee has ways of hold on to it by printing small-batch limited editions every time inventory gets low.
As a reader and fan of David Weber's Honorverse I'm a little disappointed in what I've seen in the adaptation of On Basilisk Station to the graphic novel medium; the art does not seem to match the printed word or my imaginings of how the universe looks. I'm concerned that the subsequent movie(s) will be equally disconnected.
Mr. Ellis did not originate that idea. Claiming that he did is like claiming that Richard O'Brien invented Reality TV with his 1981 film Shock Treatment.
The Nazis rose to the power with popular support. The people did not engage the leaders that they chose before choosing them.
This is part why so much concern is expressed in the United States when we see elements of fascism cropping up in political parties, when such groups start subhumanizing groups of people, where they start having information wings masquerading as news, and where issues are only allowed to be debated in black-and-white as opposed to the various greys that they really are, it's an appeal as authority because they say they are, not because they've earned it, and it can lead to terrible results.
I've noticed that some authors are quite happy to see their works adapted into other formats, but some authors like Alan Moore seem upset, to the point of being hostile when this happens, even though they had to license or sell the rights for this to occur. Did you have control over the rights to some of your work that was turned into movies, and if so, how did you feel about that process and the end result? Have there been works by you or other writers that you felt were especially well or poorly executed in their adaptation?
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Oh. Well, if you strenuously object then I should take some time to reconsider.
I've heard that argument since the late nineties. I'm still not buying it.
No, Geeks are Nerds that figured out how to bathe and dress themselves, and figured out that women generally don't care about what speed of microprocessor is in their computer or how much RAM they have.
Seriously. My wife has a bachelor's degree from MIT. Even she doesn't care about the processor or ram in the computer, she just cares that it works.
It certainly is interesting.
I'm surprised that no one caught on. At $10 a pop, they'd have to sell three-hundred-million cpu coolers even if they had no operating expenses. Factor those in and it's probably more like eight-hundred-million.
But that's completely contrary to the purpose and function of Facebook. If the tool wasn't intended to be used like that then it wouldn't be set up to allow on to use it like that. Come to think of it, just about every form of personal vanity webpage host with some form of included WSYWIG editor to have ever existed, going all of the way back to Geocities, has been like this.
The only winning move is not to play.
Unless one of those FBI letters that the company isn't allowed to disclose and isn't really allowed to not comply with is sent.
Pay attention to your elected officials. They determine the laws, and from their pool the powerful elected officials come from, who ultimately pick the judges that decide on these sorts of things.
MIT doesn't have class-rank. You're either good enough to graduate, or not. Remember, everyone coming in to MIT is already the creme de la creme, so you either continue to perform to MIT's standards, or you don't.
Also bear in mind, pass/no-credit doesn't mean that if you don't pass that you advance. You must retake the course if you don't pass, you just don't have a blemish show up that first time around. Even still, as high-strung as a lot of freshmen at MIT are, some inevitably crack. My wife still occasionally thinks about a friend of hers that couldn't make it, and how she turned out.
ISPs often would charge a premium for the fastest modem connection, having separate phone numbers for the higher speed bank, but that was usually only temporary, as a premium service. I remember 33.6K and 56K both having higher price points than the next-down when they debuted.
We use manually-filled ballots, where one draws a line between two points next to the candidate's name. Honestly from that point I really don't care if the ballot is counted by a computer that scans them or by a human that has to go through and tally the notes. The fact that it's possible for a person to manually count the results though means that if a loser challenges the results, the results can actually be checked. The simplicity of the ballot also means that it's hard for someone to screw up filling it out.
The ballot may be numbered, but is that number noted with your voting registration?
The only qualm that I have with the mail-in balloting that I do (and usually drop-off at the polling place the day of the election) is that I have to sign the outer envelope. The ballot itself has no distinguishing marks on it, so when it's removed from the envelope and put in the stack with all of the others it's effectively anonymous.
It also doesn't help that our education system isn't really designed to allow kids the room to actually struggle with a subject before attaining mastery without punishing their long-term prospects with bad marks on their records.
The addage, "the difference between the Master and the Novice is that the Master has failed more times than the Novice has tried," requires the person that becomes the master to have the latitude to fail during the education process without those individual failures costing them the right to advance, assuming that they manage to overcome those failures as they learn. That isn't to say that failure itself should be seen as a positive result, but if failure happens and can be overcome to demonstrate proficiency or mastery of the topic then the pupil should be able to continue.
It's not uncommon for those kids that are used to easy success without struggle to have quite a reality check once they're out of high school. Indeed, MIT even asks its applicants about their failures during the applications and admissions process; they want to be sure that a school full of kids that were valedictorians and salutatorians in their previous academic pursuits will not crack when they start struggling and failing there.
Bear in mind, the home, whole-house DVR concept can be applied to making the burden of on-demand streaming easier, especially if that appliance learns the viewer's habits/preferences and can attempt to cache copies of shows or movies for the viewer when they're multicast as a form of initial broadcast, even if the viewer hasn't specifically instructed the appliance to do so. Even if the cache remains unwatched for awhile and gets partially overwritten, any portion of a local copy still saves the network from the bandwidth of the complete retrieval of the content. Factor-in the continued existence of digital OTA broadcast as a way of initially offering the content for recording, and it should be possible to reduce the strain on the network. It should even be possible to fill-in gaps in the OTA recording from the Internet to have a good copy on initial broadcast, even if weather or poor reception make for a less than perfect original recording.
I expect that it'll come down to arguments over licensing and what, if any licensing is required for this kind of thing. We'll just have to wait and see.
And that is why I never bothered with one. Now that I've seen how poor they are at actually covering a room in a sane, even manner I'm glad that I skipped it.
I really don't understand why they never built a good, upscale one that actually did the job well, especially now that we've got powerful appliances that are battery-powered, like those 48V lawnmowers. It should be possible to build an automated vacuum that's actually strong enough to achieve good results on a regular basis, so long as the owner is willing to dump the collection bin from time to time and to shut off the thing if a spill or other obstruction that can't be handled by the vacuum is addressed.
I think that the multiple-user angle will finally be able to happen now that everyone is finally getting 1080p content online and non-tech businesses, like the security companies, are starting to see the benefit of being able to offer that kind of expensive service compared to previous, "call the cops when the alarm goes off" service.
It took some time to figure out how to use up DSL and cablemodem bandwidth, and now that we have that we've found ways to use even more than it can provide.
It's increasingly going to be about multiple users or automated users though. You're going to have two or three televisions streaming high definition content, you're going to have people using Internet-connected applications or games while those televisions are on in the background. You might even have security systems with offsite data storage at the security company; further streaming video content, this time sending rather than receiving.
Fairly simple sensor equipment on the house could help you with those though, and we've been able to send notifications via all manner of methods for years and years, via technology as low-end as 9600 baud TAP gateways through your cell provider worst-case.
You could monitor humidity in known problem areas like near hot water heaters and HVAC condensate drip pans with simple sensors fed by a two-wire solution. You could monitor wind speed and direction, plus temperature and rainfall through an automated weather station that sits on the roof. You could monitor basements and other low places for flooding with simple sensors that could also pack-in CO and fire safety. You could install RFID interrogators at the exterior doors and put RFID tags on your kids' backbacks (or use the ones built in to clothes or shoes or the like) to know when they've passed through the doorway, and you could even compare their RFID tag versus no tag when the doors are opened to know if someone else is entering. You could even use heat sensors to turn off lights in rooms that people have vacated and to turn off multimedia equipment like video projectors when no one is there to watch, if you're really feeling fancy, control the HVAC ducting to stop excessively cooling spaces that no one is using, like spare bedrooms, offices, workshops, dining rooms, kitchens, etc.
None of those features requires an Internet connection to use, though for convenience the ability to notify the owner could be handy. A quick e-mail or text message would be enough for most, and for things like potentially unauthorized entry, a camera picture could help the homeowner avoid false-positives with the alarm company and police.
What I really want a home to do though, is to clean itself. Self-clean the toilets, the sinks, the shower and bathtub, the tile, the carpet, the kitchen, and to be able to lift dust off of things and dispose of it. Do the laundry and sort/fold/hang it. That would be where the usefulness to homeowners comes in, not trinkets to automate processes that already aren't really inconvenient. It might also be convenient if the home recognizes the owner when he or she arrives, and lets them in without needing a key or other 'thing you have' on one's person.
Knowing my luck, when I'd use my Internet-connected Clapper to turn off the last light when going to bed it'd start playing anti-gonorrhea ads due to the poorly programmed ad-personalization algorithm.
Try going to a halloween party, where your costume is a girl on your back, and you're a snail.
And Billy Joel, and probably countless other examples. Hell, Hollywood Accounting means that one has to be REALLY careful if one is to be paid after profits are achieved on a movie, and needs the contract to reflect revenue, not profit.
You know, not everyone's peak of work performance happens at the same time.
Mornings are rough for me. I'm adequate in the mornings, but I'm better in the afternoons.
If the contract literally stated that the rights would revert when the comic went out-of-print then he was foolish to sign. It means that if his work becomes popular that he never gets it back as the publisher can sell and sell and sell while people are buying, and it means that even if his work is unpopular, the licensee has ways of hold on to it by printing small-batch limited editions every time inventory gets low.
Could be.
As a reader and fan of David Weber's Honorverse I'm a little disappointed in what I've seen in the adaptation of On Basilisk Station to the graphic novel medium; the art does not seem to match the printed word or my imaginings of how the universe looks. I'm concerned that the subsequent movie(s) will be equally disconnected.
Mr. Ellis did not originate that idea. Claiming that he did is like claiming that Richard O'Brien invented Reality TV with his 1981 film Shock Treatment.
The Nazis rose to the power with popular support. The people did not engage the leaders that they chose before choosing them.
This is part why so much concern is expressed in the United States when we see elements of fascism cropping up in political parties, when such groups start subhumanizing groups of people, where they start having information wings masquerading as news, and where issues are only allowed to be debated in black-and-white as opposed to the various greys that they really are, it's an appeal as authority because they say they are, not because they've earned it, and it can lead to terrible results.
I've noticed that some authors are quite happy to see their works adapted into other formats, but some authors like Alan Moore seem upset, to the point of being hostile when this happens, even though they had to license or sell the rights for this to occur. Did you have control over the rights to some of your work that was turned into movies, and if so, how did you feel about that process and the end result? Have there been works by you or other writers that you felt were especially well or poorly executed in their adaptation?