"sales of encyclopedias have skyrocked downwards"
How the hell does something skyrocket downward? Just wondering...
Actually I have one that matches your vibe on the whole thing. Um -
"encyclopedias have fallen out of orbit" or better yet "encyclopedia sales have gone tits up"
ok good night
Well I discovered something interesting using the webdeveloper extension for Firefox. Slashdot uses X-Fry and X-Bender directives in their http headers that contain quotes from Futurama from.... you guessed it.... Bender and Fry.
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Well, where I work (large financial firm) the management attitude got more like what the poster decsribes during the last couple of years of downsizing. We stopped receiving on-call pay for after hours support but were expected to be available, sober and within two hours reach of the facility of course (if we wanted to keep our jobs). Luckily we don't have to pay for the cell phones/pagers we use but never say never.
In staying on topic we do not get reimbursed for broadband connections that we use from home to do work as the company views this as a convenience for us. I'm torn on that because I don't know that the company should be paying for my personal line but on the other hand what is convenient for me is also convenient for the firm since I can turn something around in minutes from home rather than driving all the way in which reduces downtime considerably.
Greed has something to do with it not just being in trouble. I work for a financial firm that has done better than its peers during the downturn for the last few years. The board got a 21% raise, we all took cuts and on-call pay went away. This was done largely because the market was in their favor as jobs were tight.
Well, where I work the management attitude got more like what the poster decsribes during the last couple of years of downsizing. We stopped receiving on-call pay for after hours support but were expected to be available, sober and within two hours reach of the facility of course (if we wanted to keep our jobs). Luckily we don't have to pay for the cell phones/pagers we use but never say never.
In staying on topic we do not get reimbursed for broadband connections that we use from home to do work as the company views this as a convenience for us. I'm torn on that because I don't know that the company should be paying for my personal line but on the other hand what is convenient for me is also convenient for the firm since I can turn something around in minutes from home rather than driving all the way in which reduces downtime considerably.
Seriously, I wouldn't mind a decent car stereo interface considering my iTrip tends to get interference forcing me to constantly move things around all the time. I have tried the tape cassette thingy too but things get pretty hairy when my feet get tangled up in the cable. Makes it hard to concentrate while digging about the passenger seat area for my sunglasses (or cell phone).
Imagine running gigabit ethernet over silver-satin telephone wire. Now imagine applying several thousand volts to the same wires.
I'm not sure how this applies to the tech being discussed. I'm 100% sure that there will be a converter between your ethernet network and your power and even then (at least in the US) you are talking about 115V not "thousands".
If referring to the power lines themselves then I reckon that silver satin can be thrown out as logical in this discussion as well.
Never say never. I wasn't implying that actors should be replaced but that they could be (eventually). But I must say your points were well laid out and I will rumenate some more:)
As far as this:
"Americans aren't used to people who can actually act."
That seems a bit of a broad stroke against the American viewership. I can hardly believe that everybody likes a lot of the tripe that gets splashed on movie screens in the US but with actors like Gregory Peck, Jack Nicholson, etc. it seems a bit unfair to say it like that. Well maybe we are in a bit of a slump these days...
My take is that things will simply keep improving until humans rendered in games do begin to show proper facial expressions. That would make things more immersive in my opinion. But this capability would not only affect games. Once this point is reached it may be hard to imagine but making movies the old fashioned way could go the way of the dinosaur. Imagine that full scale action movies could be made in the not too distant future without pesky actor contracts, etc. Take it a step further and voices could be generated as well removing even voice acting as a requirement. I'm not sure if this would be a good or a bad thing...
Yep, I just did exactly that. I downloaded an album (for $10) that I haven't had for years, burned it to a CD and ripped it back to mp3 in a very short period of time and I did it all right out of iTunes. So the DRM isn't exactly an overwhelming obstacle. My guess is this compromise is a way for all the big players to try and ease their way into the new world.
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You know you shouldn't really put that comma in front of the "and"...
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"sales of encyclopedias have skyrocked downwards"
How the hell does something skyrocket downward? Just wondering...
Actually I have one that matches your vibe on the whole thing. Um -
"encyclopedias have fallen out of orbit" or better yet "encyclopedia sales have gone tits up"
ok good night
Well I discovered something interesting using the webdeveloper extension for Firefox. Slashdot uses X-Fry and X-Bender directives in their http headers that contain quotes from Futurama from .... you guessed it.... Bender and Fry.
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Yes. I'm not sure where they are working now or I would ask what the reply was.
Well, where I work (large financial firm) the management attitude got more like what the poster decsribes during the last couple of years of downsizing. We stopped receiving on-call pay for after hours support but were expected to be available, sober and within two hours reach of the facility of course (if we wanted to keep our jobs). Luckily we don't have to pay for the cell phones/pagers we use but never say never.
In staying on topic we do not get reimbursed for broadband connections that we use from home to do work as the company views this as a convenience for us. I'm torn on that because I don't know that the company should be paying for my personal line but on the other hand what is convenient for me is also convenient for the firm since I can turn something around in minutes from home rather than driving all the way in which reduces downtime considerably.
Greed has something to do with it not just being in trouble. I work for a financial firm that has done better than its peers during the downturn for the last few years. The board got a 21% raise, we all took cuts and on-call pay went away. This was done largely because the market was in their favor as jobs were tight.
Well, where I work the management attitude got more like what the poster decsribes during the last couple of years of downsizing. We stopped receiving on-call pay for after hours support but were expected to be available, sober and within two hours reach of the facility of course (if we wanted to keep our jobs). Luckily we don't have to pay for the cell phones/pagers we use but never say never.
In staying on topic we do not get reimbursed for broadband connections that we use from home to do work as the company views this as a convenience for us. I'm torn on that because I don't know that the company should be paying for my personal line but on the other hand what is convenient for me is also convenient for the firm since I can turn something around in minutes from home rather than driving all the way in which reduces downtime considerably.
That is what the cops keep telling me.
Seriously, I wouldn't mind a decent car stereo interface considering my iTrip tends to get interference forcing me to constantly move things around all the time. I have tried the tape cassette thingy too but things get pretty hairy when my feet get tangled up in the cable. Makes it hard to concentrate while digging about the passenger seat area for my sunglasses (or cell phone).
I understand this. My reply was that worrying about high voltage over silver satin phone wire made no sense.
Imagine running gigabit ethernet over silver-satin telephone wire. Now imagine applying several thousand volts to the same wires.
I'm not sure how this applies to the tech being discussed. I'm 100% sure that there will be a converter between your ethernet network and your power and even then (at least in the US) you are talking about 115V not "thousands".
If referring to the power lines themselves then I reckon that silver satin can be thrown out as logical in this discussion as well.
"Make a product that does its intended main function and does it well. If I want the best knife or the best scissors, I don't get a Swiss Army knife."
:)
But man check it out...MacGyver can actually save the world with his! Try that with your average pocket knife...
Never say never. I wasn't implying that actors should be replaced but that they could be (eventually). But I must say your points were well laid out and I will rumenate some more :)
As far as this:
"Americans aren't used to people who can actually act."
That seems a bit of a broad stroke against the American viewership. I can hardly believe that everybody likes a lot of the tripe that gets splashed on movie screens in the US but with actors like Gregory Peck, Jack Nicholson, etc. it seems a bit unfair to say it like that. Well maybe we are in a bit of a slump these days...
My take is that things will simply keep improving until humans rendered in games do begin to show proper facial expressions. That would make things more immersive in my opinion. But this capability would not only affect games. Once this point is reached it may be hard to imagine but making movies the old fashioned way could go the way of the dinosaur. Imagine that full scale action movies could be made in the not too distant future without pesky actor contracts, etc. Take it a step further and voices could be generated as well removing even voice acting as a requirement. I'm not sure if this would be a good or a bad thing...
Yep, I just did exactly that. I downloaded an album (for $10) that I haven't had for years, burned it to a CD and ripped it back to mp3 in a very short period of time and I did it all right out of iTunes. So the DRM isn't exactly an overwhelming obstacle. My guess is this compromise is a way for all the big players to try and ease their way into the new world.