I guess mine started in my early to mid twenties, and I had finished the transition by my mid to late twenties. I stopped upgrading computers without reason, started building things out of what was available and still had it meet my needs, and expanded into playing with other types of things outside of electronics. I also got married in my mid to late twenties.
I started to suspect something when I concluded that Myspace and later Facebook are just reinventions of Livejournal, which was just some fancy blogging and messaging software, which going back is just a reincarnation of Usenet and Fidonet. Same as it ever was.
I feel that the last particularly major technological shift was the widespread adoption of cellular telephones in the early 2000s, allowing everyone to be connected in some fashion or another just about wherever they are. Before that it was when paper filing switched to electronic databases. One can argue that this happened for non-technical businesses slightly after electronic mail became widespread, so, eighties to nineties. I think that the next major shift will be how television content is delivered. Most modern Blu-ray players have some form of network connectability, and many are allowing one to retrieve content from the Internet in a fashion previously only available to on-demand pay-per-view. There are also third party devices and software packages that allow one to connect to dozens and dozens of media sources, including many with full episodes. If current market leaders want to stay on top then they need to find a way to publish their catalogues online in this fashion, where one can literally on-demand watch just about anything in existence, with ads instead of having to pay for it, or paying nominally for it and completely without ads. If broadcast remains in existence for non-live content, it would only be to serve to distribute content universally widely without consuming a whole bunch of network bandwidth, as compared to thousands of routers and millions of devices communicating in a smart fashion. That many networks still do not have their programming online *cough*CBS*cough* it's hard to justify watching their shows when I can't watch them on my time.
Wow, that went off into left field. Anyway, most of what's "new" is just old reimplemented. Actual "new" is rare.
I made no opinion or statement on their assholishness. In fact, I find the entire idea that someone can patent a touchescreen with some processing capability in a housing with a battery to be stupid. We have prior art in the form of fictional TV shows definitely showing this stuff to us in the eighties (IE, Star Trek:TNG's "PADD") and we had a series of convertible tablet PCs in the late nineties and early naughties that had similar functionality with albeit heftier components. I don't look on the iPad as anything more than one of many incrementally evolutionary devices in a series of ever-improving handhelds.
If I were the judge, I would have found that Samsung did not infringe on Apple because of prior art, not because of any subjective view like what's considered cool.
If he lived, he could literally post the judge's own words about the coolness of Apple versus the lack of coolness of Samsung. He could cite that the court demonstrated that his products are the coolest around. And a lot of people would buy into that.
Well, I can drive into older parts of town, though admittedly in my town that's the forties and fifties, and see large housing developments still standing. Housing that was built of brick as opposed to being built out of styrofoam, chicken wire, and stucco. Fast forward to the sixties when wood paneling over wood-framed walls became the norm and those houses are falling apart. Roughly the same neighborhood demographics, but one is outlasting the other. I'd guess they're even getting roughly the same maintenance, which is to say, about nil.
As for the musings of the subliterate, that's called oral history. The downside of it is that it's an extended version of playing Telephone, as the details are changed over the years, but usually the gist of the stories remains intact. They survive in the form of jokes, aphorisms, scary stories, parables, and songs.
Wife got her bachelor's in engineering from MIT and works in the industry, I work in tech. The only new, in-production show that we really care to watch anymore is Big Bang Theory. I was watching Person of Interest until the local CBS affiliate decided to preempt the second episode of the season in the middle of a story arc for a football game one week, and then got preempted for a debate the next week, so I've basically given up and realized that I have a workshop full of neat stuff to play with instead. We watched the pilot for Elementary, but because they preempted the following two episodes in a row I really don't think that I'll bother. Besides, the scant episodes of Sherlock were very good.
We buy shows on DVD or blu-ray now if we're going to watch something. We've gone through the Granada Television Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, she went through Friends, I went through the Thames years of The Benny Hill Show, and we just finished M*A*S*H. We're working our way through Farscape, and are in the most recently released season of Lewis with some of the old Inspector Morse waiting in the wings. For one month's cable TV bill we can buy one or two seasons of a TV show at full price, or three or four seasons if found on sale or used. I'd much rather choose what to watch. Maybe we'll pick up where we left on on Star Trek: The Next Generation or will track down Babylon 5 shortly, or watch that season of I Spy that I picked up a few years back.
The point is, one doesn't have to watch the drivel that they're shoveling these days. There's lots of content already in existence, and odd are that one hasn't seen all of The Dick Van Dyke Show, or That Girl, or Adam 12, or any number of pretty decent dramas and comedies that are in our collective libraries. Vote with your viewing habits, stop watching contrived crap if you don't like it. There are plenty of other things to watch.
..they required an acknowledgement of design differences. The danger for Apple is that such a public acknowledgement could spill over into other jurisdictions and affect suits there. Therefore, they've made it as highly specifically technical and narrow to their lawyers' interpretation of the judge's order as possible. Whether or not the court will agree is another matter, and if the court disagrees, how the judge feels about it could mean anything from tweaking the wording to being found in contempt.
...honestly, but between Apple's psychotic terms and Google's loose terms leading to virus problems, I really just don't care. Someone will come up with a third-party installer that won't require any kind of permission or certification from Redmond, and since the bulk of people who'll have a snowball's chance in hell of actually noticing this deficiency will use that third-party loader, it won't really matter. If anything it'll allow for a separation between the mundane, boring user and the geek, techie, nerd, what have you.
Is post-geek a label? As in, one who used to pay attention to the excessive details of digging deep into how something works, but now has graduated into the realization that one can do whatever one needs to do with just about any tools or platform or system and no longer has a need to scrutinize so strongly because one's skills are good enough to weather any circumstances regardless of the technological changes?
And I'm in a suburban area, can probably see five other APs from my property, yet I can cover a 3300sqft house and a 1000sqft workshop sitting next to it from the far end, and I've had this particular AP for about four years now.
I do occasionally have to power-cycle it, probably every couple of months, so I know that it isn't perfect, but that doesn't seem to be a function of the radio, more a function of how it routes traffic.
I'm planning on cabling my house anyway, so only the laptops, when not in their normal-use locations, will be wireless. It's just better that way.
The FCC might not worry too much if your modifications aren't too high, and if your unlicensed device in unlicensed spectrum only negatively impacts other unlicensed devices in that unlicensed spectrum, but if you start interfering significantly with a bit of licensed spectrum or with licensed devices then they will pay attention.
I've got to think that remoting systems cost less than the labor to disinfect office computers from viruses brought in by USB flash media from home computers...
Shouldn't they build or buy a system that allows employees to remote in? I work for a school system, and the school resource officers (which are city police officers) just VPN into their network from ours, so that they don't have to physically transport anything. Many of them even use computers provided by us instead of their highly-ruggedized but massively obsolete laptops...
At one point, my employer was considering open source software for a particular printing need. During their evaluation phase the producer of the software decided to close the source, and my employer got nervous and decided to back out of using the software. I assume that any version released under GPL is still perfectly valid to use even if later versions are no longer GPL, and that should anyone, be they my employer or anyone else, decide to fork the project from that last GPL-licensed release, they'd be free to do so, and that my employer's decision to no longer use the software was unnecessary.
I expect that I'm not the first person to see this occur with a company getting cold feet because of a license change. Have you been involved in this before, and how have other organizations handled it when software they were using stopped being open source or changed licenses in newer releases?
Ah, there's the rub- something better. Not simply something different or something technological simply for technology's sake.
The electric, plug-in alarm clock was an improvement and was simple to implement, but it required the invention of the quartz watch before it became practical. It was also an improvement because while it delivered the same goal as the mechanical one, it didn't require daily attention to make function. It also was cheaper to build than the windup clock.
For all of your other examples, the technologies that replaced them were actual improvements, not simply change for change's sake. Hot water plumbing, safety razors (though that point could be argued), food, etc.
Adding expensive controls for existing technologies probably doesn't make sense.
What I can see happening is that home computers and entertainment centers continue to merge. Right now I have to have a computer in my entertainment center to use a web browser or other such content on my TV, and I have to have a separate recording device to record OTA TV. Many TVs already have cable ethernet and wifi capability, it probably wouldn't be hard to add OTA recording and general purpose internet access, or a whole PC, right in the housing.
Yeah, I have to really wonder about Ballmer. I've never seen him where he wasn't at least somewhat off his rocker. Sometimes I wonder if they put him where they did as the public face because he's kind of amusing, but where he doesn't have power in the company even if he thinks that he does.
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I knew something was going on at that school in Texas...
I thought it was when Colossus and Guardian joined forces to protect and enslave the human race...
I guess mine started in my early to mid twenties, and I had finished the transition by my mid to late twenties. I stopped upgrading computers without reason, started building things out of what was available and still had it meet my needs, and expanded into playing with other types of things outside of electronics. I also got married in my mid to late twenties.
I started to suspect something when I concluded that Myspace and later Facebook are just reinventions of Livejournal, which was just some fancy blogging and messaging software, which going back is just a reincarnation of Usenet and Fidonet. Same as it ever was.
I feel that the last particularly major technological shift was the widespread adoption of cellular telephones in the early 2000s, allowing everyone to be connected in some fashion or another just about wherever they are. Before that it was when paper filing switched to electronic databases. One can argue that this happened for non-technical businesses slightly after electronic mail became widespread, so, eighties to nineties. I think that the next major shift will be how television content is delivered. Most modern Blu-ray players have some form of network connectability, and many are allowing one to retrieve content from the Internet in a fashion previously only available to on-demand pay-per-view. There are also third party devices and software packages that allow one to connect to dozens and dozens of media sources, including many with full episodes. If current market leaders want to stay on top then they need to find a way to publish their catalogues online in this fashion, where one can literally on-demand watch just about anything in existence, with ads instead of having to pay for it, or paying nominally for it and completely without ads. If broadcast remains in existence for non-live content, it would only be to serve to distribute content universally widely without consuming a whole bunch of network bandwidth, as compared to thousands of routers and millions of devices communicating in a smart fashion. That many networks still do not have their programming online *cough*CBS*cough* it's hard to justify watching their shows when I can't watch them on my time.
Wow, that went off into left field. Anyway, most of what's "new" is just old reimplemented. Actual "new" is rare.
I made no opinion or statement on their assholishness. In fact, I find the entire idea that someone can patent a touchescreen with some processing capability in a housing with a battery to be stupid. We have prior art in the form of fictional TV shows definitely showing this stuff to us in the eighties (IE, Star Trek:TNG's "PADD") and we had a series of convertible tablet PCs in the late nineties and early naughties that had similar functionality with albeit heftier components. I don't look on the iPad as anything more than one of many incrementally evolutionary devices in a series of ever-improving handhelds.
If I were the judge, I would have found that Samsung did not infringe on Apple because of prior art, not because of any subjective view like what's considered cool.
If he lived, he could literally post the judge's own words about the coolness of Apple versus the lack of coolness of Samsung. He could cite that the court demonstrated that his products are the coolest around. And a lot of people would buy into that.
Well, I can drive into older parts of town, though admittedly in my town that's the forties and fifties, and see large housing developments still standing. Housing that was built of brick as opposed to being built out of styrofoam, chicken wire, and stucco. Fast forward to the sixties when wood paneling over wood-framed walls became the norm and those houses are falling apart. Roughly the same neighborhood demographics, but one is outlasting the other. I'd guess they're even getting roughly the same maintenance, which is to say, about nil.
As for the musings of the subliterate, that's called oral history. The downside of it is that it's an extended version of playing Telephone, as the details are changed over the years, but usually the gist of the stories remains intact. They survive in the form of jokes, aphorisms, scary stories, parables, and songs.
Wife got her bachelor's in engineering from MIT and works in the industry, I work in tech. The only new, in-production show that we really care to watch anymore is Big Bang Theory. I was watching Person of Interest until the local CBS affiliate decided to preempt the second episode of the season in the middle of a story arc for a football game one week, and then got preempted for a debate the next week, so I've basically given up and realized that I have a workshop full of neat stuff to play with instead. We watched the pilot for Elementary, but because they preempted the following two episodes in a row I really don't think that I'll bother. Besides, the scant episodes of Sherlock were very good.
We buy shows on DVD or blu-ray now if we're going to watch something. We've gone through the Granada Television Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, she went through Friends, I went through the Thames years of The Benny Hill Show, and we just finished M*A*S*H. We're working our way through Farscape, and are in the most recently released season of Lewis with some of the old Inspector Morse waiting in the wings. For one month's cable TV bill we can buy one or two seasons of a TV show at full price, or three or four seasons if found on sale or used. I'd much rather choose what to watch. Maybe we'll pick up where we left on on Star Trek: The Next Generation or will track down Babylon 5 shortly, or watch that season of I Spy that I picked up a few years back.
The point is, one doesn't have to watch the drivel that they're shoveling these days. There's lots of content already in existence, and odd are that one hasn't seen all of The Dick Van Dyke Show, or That Girl, or Adam 12, or any number of pretty decent dramas and comedies that are in our collective libraries. Vote with your viewing habits, stop watching contrived crap if you don't like it. There are plenty of other things to watch.
..they required an acknowledgement of design differences. The danger for Apple is that such a public acknowledgement could spill over into other jurisdictions and affect suits there. Therefore, they've made it as highly specifically technical and narrow to their lawyers' interpretation of the judge's order as possible. Whether or not the court will agree is another matter, and if the court disagrees, how the judge feels about it could mean anything from tweaking the wording to being found in contempt.
...honestly, but between Apple's psychotic terms and Google's loose terms leading to virus problems, I really just don't care. Someone will come up with a third-party installer that won't require any kind of permission or certification from Redmond, and since the bulk of people who'll have a snowball's chance in hell of actually noticing this deficiency will use that third-party loader, it won't really matter. If anything it'll allow for a separation between the mundane, boring user and the geek, techie, nerd, what have you.
Is post-geek a label? As in, one who used to pay attention to the excessive details of digging deep into how something works, but now has graduated into the realization that one can do whatever one needs to do with just about any tools or platform or system and no longer has a need to scrutinize so strongly because one's skills are good enough to weather any circumstances regardless of the technological changes?
Given how mundane the actual manufacture and assembly of rockets is, rocket science is quite a bit less advanced actually...
...like asbestos and lead?
And I'm in a suburban area, can probably see five other APs from my property, yet I can cover a 3300sqft house and a 1000sqft workshop sitting next to it from the far end, and I've had this particular AP for about four years now.
I do occasionally have to power-cycle it, probably every couple of months, so I know that it isn't perfect, but that doesn't seem to be a function of the radio, more a function of how it routes traffic.
I'm planning on cabling my house anyway, so only the laptops, when not in their normal-use locations, will be wireless. It's just better that way.
The FCC might not worry too much if your modifications aren't too high, and if your unlicensed device in unlicensed spectrum only negatively impacts other unlicensed devices in that unlicensed spectrum, but if you start interfering significantly with a bit of licensed spectrum or with licensed devices then they will pay attention.
I've got to think that remoting systems cost less than the labor to disinfect office computers from viruses brought in by USB flash media from home computers...
ET Phone Home!
That's not similar at all... This is about input, not output...
Shouldn't they build or buy a system that allows employees to remote in? I work for a school system, and the school resource officers (which are city police officers) just VPN into their network from ours, so that they don't have to physically transport anything. Many of them even use computers provided by us instead of their highly-ruggedized but massively obsolete laptops...
...to "Magic Finger"...
Doesn't help that we were discussing the naughty ads that British beer brewer "Bishop's Finger" uses...
"I derive untold pleasure from a Bishop's^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMagic Finger."
At one point, my employer was considering open source software for a particular printing need. During their evaluation phase the producer of the software decided to close the source, and my employer got nervous and decided to back out of using the software. I assume that any version released under GPL is still perfectly valid to use even if later versions are no longer GPL, and that should anyone, be they my employer or anyone else, decide to fork the project from that last GPL-licensed release, they'd be free to do so, and that my employer's decision to no longer use the software was unnecessary.
I expect that I'm not the first person to see this occur with a company getting cold feet because of a license change. Have you been involved in this before, and how have other organizations handled it when software they were using stopped being open source or changed licenses in newer releases?
And here I was, going to ask what new inappropriate images were part of streetview...
Soylent Greenbacks! It's made of short people!
Ah, there's the rub- something better. Not simply something different or something technological simply for technology's sake.
The electric, plug-in alarm clock was an improvement and was simple to implement, but it required the invention of the quartz watch before it became practical. It was also an improvement because while it delivered the same goal as the mechanical one, it didn't require daily attention to make function. It also was cheaper to build than the windup clock.
For all of your other examples, the technologies that replaced them were actual improvements, not simply change for change's sake. Hot water plumbing, safety razors (though that point could be argued), food, etc.
Adding expensive controls for existing technologies probably doesn't make sense.
What I can see happening is that home computers and entertainment centers continue to merge. Right now I have to have a computer in my entertainment center to use a web browser or other such content on my TV, and I have to have a separate recording device to record OTA TV. Many TVs already have cable ethernet and wifi capability, it probably wouldn't be hard to add OTA recording and general purpose internet access, or a whole PC, right in the housing.
Dammit, messed up the end blockquote tag....
Yeah, I have to really wonder about Ballmer. I've never seen him where he wasn't at least somewhat off his rocker. Sometimes I wonder if they put him where they did as the public face because he's kind of amusing, but where he doesn't have power in the company even if he thinks that he does.