CD-RW was always less reliable than CD-R, and unless you were moving files in BOTH directions between you and another party (making them a big, short-term floppy replacement), they didn't make a lot of sense economically either. WORM media is quite a bit more robust, provided the hardware doesn't try to write to the same place twice.
The real problem I see is that optical standards stagnate. It's a necessary thing if you expect the media to ever be cheap and ubiquitous, but it means it's only bleeding edge for a little while (and expensive during this period). After that it starts to feel a bit cramped, and by the time the successor comes along, it's usually horribly insufficient for the job. Flash-based media have advantages in size (except that maybe they're TOO small) and are easy to get at whatever price/capacity compromise you currently need, without much fear of whether or not they'll be readable on a given system. They do cost a lot more than "throwaway" optical media, but so long as they come back, they're reusable.
For purposes other than mass distribution or backward compatibility, solid-state eats optical's lunch in a lot of ways and this will only continue to increase. With 4K video on the horizon, there may well be a mass distribution niche for a petabyte optical disc to fill. I just don't think most people will have a need to make them.
If you can get the storage media down to postage stamp size, would it even be necessary to rotate it? It seems an S-shaped or raster scanning path becomes reasonable at that point, lowering power consumption and/or latency when accessed after a period of non-use. It doesn't really matter whether the medium moves or the scan head does, or some combination of both. For example, it could scan in a manner similar to a laser printer -- the medium moves on one axis, the scan path moves on the other. We already move the scan head on one axis with optical media, we'd just be exchanging rotation for linear motion in the other axis.
What could the UK authorities do if Ecuador declared Assange to be an ambassador? It's unlikely NOW (being a non-citizen and all) but if time in the embassy counts as time in the country, he may eventually be eligible to become a citizen of Ecuador, and by extension, an ambassador.
No thanks. I've used Dorco razors and although they don't degrade particularly quickly, this is attributable to the fact that they're pre-dulled for your inconvenience. If they can't sharpen a blade, I suspect they can't deal with subatomic particles very well either.
Sometimes in an artificially induced situation (like someone cutting you off and hitting the brakes), the safest thing to do is go ahead and hit them. If it means not jackknifing the load, and not sideswiping someone into oncoming traffic, just plowing straight through the idiot driver is sometimes going to be the best of a bunch of bad options. THAT will stop people from intentional idiocy -- knowing the machine doesn't particularly value THEM, but rather thinks about the safety of EVERYONE (including itself).
Also the video data the computer uses to make its decisions will doubtlessly be captured -- it may be like a "black box" and overwrite old data, but since the whole point is post-incident analysis, this is perfectly acceptable. This is not just because other entities (human or computer) can misbehave and force a collision, but because the computer MIGHT make a wrong decision and it will need to be determined what, if anything, could have been done better.
Look at all the amusing and sometimes informative driving videos to come out of Russia. Dash cams for everyone is not a bad thing, so long as the owner gets to decide what happens to the footage.
And we count on what, the magnanimity of the 1% who hold the wealth to portion it out fairly? Right now we have SOME control over how much money we make -- we go to work at a job we (somewhat) selected. When there are few jobs to go to, and everyone is living off a stipend, the only wealth will be what the machines create and harvest (excluding the arts, because you can't run an economy off the arts). Power will accumulate at the top even more than it already has, and the rest of us will live as seen in Wall-E.
Why bother with the car making breakfast? It could be made the night before or just prior to leaving, by a machine you don't have to carry with you. Coffee on demand would probably be more reasonable though.
Also if your autonomous car could team up with what amounts to a ferry, you and others could share restroom facilities as long as you're on that specific path. Again you don't have to carry them with you, though you'd probably want basic functions (urine collection at least, especially if serving coffee) on board.
The strong point for Excel in business is that you can reasonably expect other parties to have it, and for it to operate on their system exactly as it operates on yours. I have pushed the boundaries on many occasions (nested IF statements were an early example with 2007), and although this becomes less frequent as the boundaries expand, I still don't "just know" that what I write will operate on LibreOffice, or anything but the most recent version of Excel for that matter. Excel itself tends to be pretty good about warning you if you exceed the boundaries of older versions, but not about the boundaries of other software.
My other "killer app" is Cubase. When you have one application that costs more than the operating system, and you rely on it to conduct business, the choice of OS becomes rather secondary.
You're assuming Verizon has viable competition to fear. Alas, there is really no competition for FiOS, at least in this area, so they have no fear. Where are we going to go, the cable company? Like they're any happier about Netflix eating their lunch.
The factory may well come back. The factory jobs are gone for good. What exactly ARE we going to do when there are far more people than jobs? As Boston said way back when, "Lots of people have to make a legal living, can't decide who they should be".
Suggestion #7: Send the Representatives home. Put an office in every Congressional district, and have Representatives operate from them. Senators would operate from their state capitols. This would put them closer to the people they nominally represent, and make lobbying a lot more expensive -- either you need a lot of people or a few people have to travel a lot. Congress would still meet in whole at the beginning of every two-year term, hear the State of the Union live and in person, and get to meet their fellows. But then they need to go back home.
If they mean "all underage" and not just "blatantly children", good luck with that. There are no characteristics that will distinguish between 17 and 18, or even older. What is the software going to think of Kat Young, for example? What about models who are just small?
Also are they going to attempt to sort through drawings at all, considering they are legal in some jurisdictions and not others?
I sense false positives and angry models in Google's future.
Helium is a byproduct of nuclear fission (as alpha particles) and a direct product of the most common earthly nuclear fusion, Deuterium-Deuterium (D-D). I believe it also occurs with proton-boron fusion. Helium is something that can be created, and most of those processes are also exothermic, meaning we'll be using them for energy production. Unlike most elements, helium does not HAVE to come from the ground or air.
Even the U.S. military is going to have to deal with this issue, since Krintin Beck is presumably still eligible for VA benefits and the other benefits of being a veteran.
Heat needs somewhere to flow to, in order to make it valuable as a power source. Simply being very hot isn't sufficient. That said, the amount of light falling on the region IS directly usable as a power source, and with very little population or wildlife to disturb, this may prove quite an attractive place to gather solar power. Since transmission of power is one of its major cost factors, the data centers may well follow.
Digital can get that range with two shots and HDR, so unless you're shooting motion in that low light (such as theater or dance), you can still capture those fine details. Plus you'll be capturing it in color, allowing you to filter it in a variety of ways after the fact that can't be used once the chroma data is gone.
Velvia was (and presumably still is) a spectacular film stock for shooting landscapes and general outdoor photography. The blue and green rendition and overall saturation were astounding. Unfortunately, it was a bit TOO saturated and in particular a bit too contrasty to make a good portrait film. It was very hard to beat Kodachrome for this, and (aside from shots taken to finish a roll) that's all I ever used it for.
That's one big advantage to digital -- you can change the response from shot to shot, rather than being stuck shooting an entire roll or trying to do a rewind-and-change job. It doesn't matter that you were shooting ISO 100 outdoors five minutes ago and just walked into a dark building, your "film change" is just a couple button presses or knob twists away.
I thought of that but it wasn't really true. Some of the better 35mm film cameras would print the technical data in the stripe between the frames. YOUR camera may not have (mine sure didn't), but it's not a defect of the medium.
The primary advantage to digital comes to those at lower skill levels. First, you can look at your results immediately to know if you "got it". Second, you can and will take a lot more pictures because all they cost you is battery power. This means even if your keeper rate is low, you will still snag a few. Third, that high shooting rate also means a more rapid improvement in skill level, assuming you actually WANT to improve. Finally, experimenting with long exposures, light painting, multi-flash, and other such techniques no longer requires firing off an entire roll of film (for 35mm at least) and developing it before finding out you were doing it all wrong. This means more willingness to do them in the first place.
Now that sensors are starting to catch up with film, it's not even necessary to worry about how techniques differ between film and digital. It should be possible (and more practical) for fledgling photographers to stay in the digital realm for their entire careers, unless they're forced to use someone else's equipment on a job.
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Agreed. I'm saying that EVEN IF manufacturing returns, the jobs won't.
CD-RW was always less reliable than CD-R, and unless you were moving files in BOTH directions between you and another party (making them a big, short-term floppy replacement), they didn't make a lot of sense economically either. WORM media is quite a bit more robust, provided the hardware doesn't try to write to the same place twice.
The real problem I see is that optical standards stagnate. It's a necessary thing if you expect the media to ever be cheap and ubiquitous, but it means it's only bleeding edge for a little while (and expensive during this period). After that it starts to feel a bit cramped, and by the time the successor comes along, it's usually horribly insufficient for the job. Flash-based media have advantages in size (except that maybe they're TOO small) and are easy to get at whatever price/capacity compromise you currently need, without much fear of whether or not they'll be readable on a given system. They do cost a lot more than "throwaway" optical media, but so long as they come back, they're reusable.
For purposes other than mass distribution or backward compatibility, solid-state eats optical's lunch in a lot of ways and this will only continue to increase. With 4K video on the horizon, there may well be a mass distribution niche for a petabyte optical disc to fill. I just don't think most people will have a need to make them.
If you can get the storage media down to postage stamp size, would it even be necessary to rotate it? It seems an S-shaped or raster scanning path becomes reasonable at that point, lowering power consumption and/or latency when accessed after a period of non-use. It doesn't really matter whether the medium moves or the scan head does, or some combination of both. For example, it could scan in a manner similar to a laser printer -- the medium moves on one axis, the scan path moves on the other. We already move the scan head on one axis with optical media, we'd just be exchanging rotation for linear motion in the other axis.
What could the UK authorities do if Ecuador declared Assange to be an ambassador? It's unlikely NOW (being a non-citizen and all) but if time in the embassy counts as time in the country, he may eventually be eligible to become a citizen of Ecuador, and by extension, an ambassador.
No thanks. I've used Dorco razors and although they don't degrade particularly quickly, this is attributable to the fact that they're pre-dulled for your inconvenience. If they can't sharpen a blade, I suspect they can't deal with subatomic particles very well either.
Sometimes in an artificially induced situation (like someone cutting you off and hitting the brakes), the safest thing to do is go ahead and hit them. If it means not jackknifing the load, and not sideswiping someone into oncoming traffic, just plowing straight through the idiot driver is sometimes going to be the best of a bunch of bad options. THAT will stop people from intentional idiocy -- knowing the machine doesn't particularly value THEM, but rather thinks about the safety of EVERYONE (including itself).
Also the video data the computer uses to make its decisions will doubtlessly be captured -- it may be like a "black box" and overwrite old data, but since the whole point is post-incident analysis, this is perfectly acceptable. This is not just because other entities (human or computer) can misbehave and force a collision, but because the computer MIGHT make a wrong decision and it will need to be determined what, if anything, could have been done better.
Look at all the amusing and sometimes informative driving videos to come out of Russia. Dash cams for everyone is not a bad thing, so long as the owner gets to decide what happens to the footage.
And we count on what, the magnanimity of the 1% who hold the wealth to portion it out fairly? Right now we have SOME control over how much money we make -- we go to work at a job we (somewhat) selected. When there are few jobs to go to, and everyone is living off a stipend, the only wealth will be what the machines create and harvest (excluding the arts, because you can't run an economy off the arts). Power will accumulate at the top even more than it already has, and the rest of us will live as seen in Wall-E.
Why bother with the car making breakfast? It could be made the night before or just prior to leaving, by a machine you don't have to carry with you. Coffee on demand would probably be more reasonable though.
Also if your autonomous car could team up with what amounts to a ferry, you and others could share restroom facilities as long as you're on that specific path. Again you don't have to carry them with you, though you'd probably want basic functions (urine collection at least, especially if serving coffee) on board.
This sounds a bit like a personal cruise ship -- a hotel that moves from port to port so you don't have to.
The strong point for Excel in business is that you can reasonably expect other parties to have it, and for it to operate on their system exactly as it operates on yours. I have pushed the boundaries on many occasions (nested IF statements were an early example with 2007), and although this becomes less frequent as the boundaries expand, I still don't "just know" that what I write will operate on LibreOffice, or anything but the most recent version of Excel for that matter. Excel itself tends to be pretty good about warning you if you exceed the boundaries of older versions, but not about the boundaries of other software.
My other "killer app" is Cubase. When you have one application that costs more than the operating system, and you rely on it to conduct business, the choice of OS becomes rather secondary.
You're assuming Verizon has viable competition to fear. Alas, there is really no competition for FiOS, at least in this area, so they have no fear. Where are we going to go, the cable company? Like they're any happier about Netflix eating their lunch.
The factory may well come back. The factory jobs are gone for good. What exactly ARE we going to do when there are far more people than jobs? As Boston said way back when, "Lots of people have to make a legal living, can't decide who they should be".
Suggestion #7: Send the Representatives home. Put an office in every Congressional district, and have Representatives operate from them. Senators would operate from their state capitols. This would put them closer to the people they nominally represent, and make lobbying a lot more expensive -- either you need a lot of people or a few people have to travel a lot. Congress would still meet in whole at the beginning of every two-year term, hear the State of the Union live and in person, and get to meet their fellows. But then they need to go back home.
If they mean "all underage" and not just "blatantly children", good luck with that. There are no characteristics that will distinguish between 17 and 18, or even older. What is the software going to think of Kat Young, for example? What about models who are just small?
Also are they going to attempt to sort through drawings at all, considering they are legal in some jurisdictions and not others?
I sense false positives and angry models in Google's future.
Perhaps, but they still have to deal with someone who served being listed under "M" while presenting as "F".
Helium is a byproduct of nuclear fission (as alpha particles) and a direct product of the most common earthly nuclear fusion, Deuterium-Deuterium (D-D). I believe it also occurs with proton-boron fusion. Helium is something that can be created, and most of those processes are also exothermic, meaning we'll be using them for energy production. Unlike most elements, helium does not HAVE to come from the ground or air.
Even the U.S. military is going to have to deal with this issue, since Krintin Beck is presumably still eligible for VA benefits and the other benefits of being a veteran.
I was referring to the poster who proposed using the heat of the Sahara as a power source. Plenty of sunlight there.
Heat needs somewhere to flow to, in order to make it valuable as a power source. Simply being very hot isn't sufficient. That said, the amount of light falling on the region IS directly usable as a power source, and with very little population or wildlife to disturb, this may prove quite an attractive place to gather solar power. Since transmission of power is one of its major cost factors, the data centers may well follow.
Digital can get that range with two shots and HDR, so unless you're shooting motion in that low light (such as theater or dance), you can still capture those fine details. Plus you'll be capturing it in color, allowing you to filter it in a variety of ways after the fact that can't be used once the chroma data is gone.
Velvia was (and presumably still is) a spectacular film stock for shooting landscapes and general outdoor photography. The blue and green rendition and overall saturation were astounding. Unfortunately, it was a bit TOO saturated and in particular a bit too contrasty to make a good portrait film. It was very hard to beat Kodachrome for this, and (aside from shots taken to finish a roll) that's all I ever used it for.
That's one big advantage to digital -- you can change the response from shot to shot, rather than being stuck shooting an entire roll or trying to do a rewind-and-change job. It doesn't matter that you were shooting ISO 100 outdoors five minutes ago and just walked into a dark building, your "film change" is just a couple button presses or knob twists away.
I thought of that but it wasn't really true. Some of the better 35mm film cameras would print the technical data in the stripe between the frames. YOUR camera may not have (mine sure didn't), but it's not a defect of the medium.
The primary advantage to digital comes to those at lower skill levels. First, you can look at your results immediately to know if you "got it". Second, you can and will take a lot more pictures because all they cost you is battery power. This means even if your keeper rate is low, you will still snag a few. Third, that high shooting rate also means a more rapid improvement in skill level, assuming you actually WANT to improve. Finally, experimenting with long exposures, light painting, multi-flash, and other such techniques no longer requires firing off an entire roll of film (for 35mm at least) and developing it before finding out you were doing it all wrong. This means more willingness to do them in the first place.
Now that sensors are starting to catch up with film, it's not even necessary to worry about how techniques differ between film and digital. It should be possible (and more practical) for fledgling photographers to stay in the digital realm for their entire careers, unless they're forced to use someone else's equipment on a job.
If "carve out space" means they're going to put the store in an asteroid, I'm all for it!