Just take all the fun out of my comment by injecting some reality into it:)
'Course I'm guessing half the square feet will be standing room for the guests, and the other half will be the actual display. Plus room for guest bathrooms, emergency exit pathways, service corridors, control rooms, etc.
Yeah - but the original House of the Future was in Disneyland/Magic Kingdom - so it makes sense just to update the ones that are already there.
I'll miss the old one - I think seeing the "future" through the eyes of someone 50, 30, 10 years ago was much more amusing than our current view of the "future".
5000 square feet? Thats not a house - thats a mansion! Are they going to China to find a full time cleaning crew to chase after the dust bunnies in their 8 bedrooms and 6 1/2 bathrooms?
Just the same - I'm a sucker for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and look forward to visiting the protype house of the Corporate Liege Lord in the future.
2400 baud - ouch. At that data rate, how much data can be returned in a given day? Or is the plan to just physically pickup the bulk of the data at the end of the year for processing, and use the real time info just for guidance and target selection?
So you bought a $500 OS and a $60 Anti-Virus program to get a photo gallery? Either you've got money to burn or you just bought the most expensive slide-show program on Earth? Apparently you need Vista's idiot-proofing features...
Maybe the fact that you don't actually use your computer explains why it works for you. As a desktop ornament it's great and has lots of eye-candy. So does Ubuntu, and I can do stuff with it too. You would spend 560$ to setup Vista, and I'm the idiot? Its 100$ for the premium on newegg, and AVG works fine on Vista and is still free. I'm probably not doing all I can do to really bring my single copy of a client OS to its full potential. I could move my company's database onto it, or host a website or something else - but what the hell do I know? I just spent a 100$ on a consumer OS to surf the web, host files for my other computers, play games, view and edit multimedia crap, connect remotely to the office, write software, or whatever:)
In all honesty, I had a similiar problem my first day with Vista - till I tossed the beta Nvidia driver's that were installed, and back revved to the latest release version.
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You will probably have to make sure that the buyer has a similar level of patience as you do when all those pop ups start going off. (you might know what they are asking, but my dad thinks he has done something wrong every time it happens)
See - thats EXACTLY why I must have the magic copy of Vista. I never get any popups - and I have UAC fully enabled. I run plenty of legacy software that predate XP, let alone Vista, so before I installed it I figured I'd see it all the time. About the only time I ever see the popup is when I launch Visual Studio...
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So you're saying I _did_ get the magic copy of Vista.
How much d'you think I can get for it on ebay? There's gotta be a ton of folks who want Vista with the hidden "Work OK" setting enabled by default.
hmmm... I'm running it in 32 bit mode (I don't see any major benefit going to 64 bit yet), with 2 gigs of ram. But it is brand spanking new hardware/drivers (with a few exceptions - I have an old printer/scanner that I hooked up).
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I'm just getting annoyed at Vista Whiners.
Seriously - did I get the magic copy of Vista that works just fine or something? It runs smooth, starts up OK, I like the default sleep feature, the added security (oh no - i get a popup everytime I install something - the horror), the photo gallery, the built in firewall, etc.
Its not a giant leap forward or anything - but then again - I didn't think XP was a big advance over Win2K client either. Just another incremental advance of the NT Client OS.
Triple Action is still one of the best action games around. Especially biplanes with the 16 direction dpad.
I'll second that - definitely the game I played the most (and still play regularly) is the biplanes game in triple action. Park high in the sky, dive through the clouds to strafe your opponent, followed by a triumphant loop-de-loop (watch out for the balloon tower!). Classic.
Great game (and soundtrack). I dug it out a few weeks ago to play with my wife, who had never played before. I forgot how many play options it had - though I have to say that after all this time, the options where you had to eat the other worm up, while not as iconic as the TRONish wall building, is the most fun.
C'mon - all these console's are flashes in the pan compared to the Intellivision - it lasted in the market for over a decade, had lots of industry firsts (1st person dungeon crawl, RTS, speech in game, etc) plus a ton of fantastic and innovative games. The keypad, while a bit awkward, also meant that more complex games could be played properly on it as well. Mine's lasted over 25 years, and it still plays just great.
It only makes a trend if the author has any clue where the cash reserves are going. Microsoft had a HUGE 3$/share special dividend in '04 because investors were unhappy with the large cash holdings - thats why it dropped so much. And thats not even considering the billions they've shelled out for purshasing other companies.
From my experience at other tech companies, I think you're misinterpreting the corporate double speak that really just means that they regularly review issues to make sure they don't have months old cases cluttering up the system.
I have worked in tech support at other companies, and we used to get regular reports about the oldest outstanding issues. And that was 10 YEARS ago - the same time this issue was opened. I can understand fat fingering the callback date - but no way an issue that old would get by for that long without being flagged by someone...
From all the studies I've read, earlier definitive diagnoses of Autism are possible - at 18 months instead of 30, and early warning flags can be detected even in the first year.
I have no idea why these earlier tests aren't being used (looking for rapid excessive head growth, lack of eye contact, etc) - especially since they don't require fancy equipment or major investments.
Oh - btw - the links I made might need the trailing slashes removed to work. And I know where I got the 1000 hours of footage figure from now - its from the Lord of the Rings - probably an exceptional case. Its on the IMDB trivia page for RoTK - 6 million feet of film for all 3. But still - romantic comedies with 100's of hour of footage? WHY?
Disk drives are not viable for long term storage - if they aren't used on a regular basis (for a few years), they can seize up. For long term storage they are going to use magnetic media - which max out at like.5 terrabytes a tape. And those are only rated for 20 years or so - which means that they need to be taken out and checked every so often...
This isn't going to be a problem for existing movies forever... When they come out with terrabyte thumb drives whose going to care - except all the movies will be holographic and taking a terrabyte a second by then probably. Suckers.
Your numbers are way off. Actual filming tends to last around 6-10 weeks. But during that time they are filming 10-12 hours per day, with multiple film crews, each with multiple cameras.
Thats great for personal storage, but what is a film company going to do with useless low def footage in 20 years when they want to rerelease SpiderMan in IMAX 3D at 10000x7000 resolution? Plus you need new extra's, maybe a new director's cut - maybe emphasize that young actor in the background who became the new Samuel L Jackson, etc...
Course we could all solve this problem by going back to reading or whatever. Then the studio's won't have to worry about archiving new films.
Congratulations - you just stored the master film copy. Multiply your guestimate by a factor of 2, and thats what hollywood says it costs.
You blew the second part though. What you see isn't even 1% of the original footage. Maybe 50 years ago the stuff on film was 25% of what was filmed. Now you have to archive 1000's of hours of raw footage and special effects data for just a single movie. In multiple locations.
And Hollywood has to do it for every film, because you never know when some young extra is going to break big in 10, 20, 30 years and some film studio head wants to advertise they have hot star of the moment's first movie ready to throw out again to the public...
If all they stored was the finished film, then 90% of the commments in the original article would be applicable. But read the article - thats only a factor of 10 more expensive - not a big deal.
The real problem is that they aren't storing the finished film. They are storing EVERYTHING. Every shot from every camera used during production (and because digital is "cheap", that means that a film can have 1000's of hours of footage, that now needs to be stored in lossless high definition format). Not to mention storing everything related to the post production special effects (dozens of effects in typical movies - 100's or 1000's in a big effects movie).
Before digital, what was there that could be saved besides the dailies (which weren't that bad because directors were forced to be frugal with film do to its expense)? Now the storage needs require 100's or 1000's of hours of footage to be saved...with formats that take up a gig or more per second, on media that needs to be replaced or refreshed every few years.
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Just take all the fun out of my comment by injecting some reality into it :)
'Course I'm guessing half the square feet will be standing room for the guests, and the other half will be the actual display. Plus room for guest bathrooms, emergency exit pathways, service corridors, control rooms, etc.
Yeah - but the original House of the Future was in Disneyland/Magic Kingdom - so it makes sense just to update the ones that are already there.
I'll miss the old one - I think seeing the "future" through the eyes of someone 50, 30, 10 years ago was much more amusing than our current view of the "future".
5000 square feet? Thats not a house - thats a mansion! Are they going to China to find a full time cleaning crew to chase after the dust bunnies in their 8 bedrooms and 6 1/2 bathrooms?
Just the same - I'm a sucker for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and look forward to visiting the protype house of the Corporate Liege Lord in the future.
Had to be said.
2400 baud - ouch. At that data rate, how much data can be returned in a given day? Or is the plan to just physically pickup the bulk of the data at the end of the year for processing, and use the real time info just for guidance and target selection?
Maybe the fact that you don't actually use your computer explains why it works for you. As a desktop ornament it's great and has lots of eye-candy. So does Ubuntu, and I can do stuff with it too. You would spend 560$ to setup Vista, and I'm the idiot? Its 100$ for the premium on newegg, and AVG works fine on Vista and is still free. I'm probably not doing all I can do to really bring my single copy of a client OS to its full potential. I could move my company's database onto it, or host a website or something else - but what the hell do I know? I just spent a 100$ on a consumer OS to surf the web, host files for my other computers, play games, view and edit multimedia crap, connect remotely to the office, write software, or whatever
In all honesty, I had a similiar problem my first day with Vista - till I tossed the beta Nvidia driver's that were installed, and back revved to the latest release version.
See - thats EXACTLY why I must have the magic copy of Vista. I never get any popups - and I have UAC fully enabled. I run plenty of legacy software that predate XP, let alone Vista, so before I installed it I figured I'd see it all the time. About the only time I ever see the popup is when I launch Visual Studio...
How much d'you think I can get for it on ebay? There's gotta be a ton of folks who want Vista with the hidden "Work OK" setting enabled by default.
hmmm... I'm running it in 32 bit mode (I don't see any major benefit going to 64 bit yet), with 2 gigs of ram. But it is brand spanking new hardware/drivers (with a few exceptions - I have an old printer/scanner that I hooked up).
Seriously - did I get the magic copy of Vista that works just fine or something? It runs smooth, starts up OK, I like the default sleep feature, the added security (oh no - i get a popup everytime I install something - the horror), the photo gallery, the built in firewall, etc.
Its not a giant leap forward or anything - but then again - I didn't think XP was a big advance over Win2K client either. Just another incremental advance of the NT Client OS.
I'll second that - definitely the game I played the most (and still play regularly) is the biplanes game in triple action. Park high in the sky, dive through the clouds to strafe your opponent, followed by a triumphant loop-de-loop (watch out for the balloon tower!). Classic.
Great game (and soundtrack). I dug it out a few weeks ago to play with my wife, who had never played before. I forgot how many play options it had - though I have to say that after all this time, the options where you had to eat the other worm up, while not as iconic as the TRONish wall building, is the most fun.
C'mon - all these console's are flashes in the pan compared to the Intellivision - it lasted in the market for over a decade, had lots of industry firsts (1st person dungeon crawl, RTS, speech in game, etc) plus a ton of fantastic and innovative games. The keypad, while a bit awkward, also meant that more complex games could be played properly on it as well. Mine's lasted over 25 years, and it still plays just great.
I wish I had a product that sold as "poorly" as the iPhone.
Course some of us can settle for having just one billion $$$ instead of dozens.
It only makes a trend if the author has any clue where the cash reserves are going. Microsoft had a HUGE 3$/share special dividend in '04 because investors were unhappy with the large cash holdings - thats why it dropped so much. And thats not even considering the billions they've shelled out for purshasing other companies.
From my experience at other tech companies, I think you're misinterpreting the corporate double speak that really just means that they regularly review issues to make sure they don't have months old cases cluttering up the system.
I have worked in tech support at other companies, and we used to get regular reports about the oldest outstanding issues. And that was 10 YEARS ago - the same time this issue was opened. I can understand fat fingering the callback date - but no way an issue that old would get by for that long without being flagged by someone...
I have no idea why these earlier tests aren't being used (looking for rapid excessive head growth, lack of eye contact, etc) - especially since they don't require fancy equipment or major investments.
I find the head growth particularly fascinating (here's a link to the abstract)
http://jcn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/22/10/1182
Oh - btw - the links I made might need the trailing slashes removed to work. And I know where I got the 1000 hours of footage figure from now - its from the Lord of the Rings - probably an exceptional case. Its on the IMDB trivia page for RoTK - 6 million feet of film for all 3. But still - romantic comedies with 100's of hour of footage? WHY?
This isn't going to be a problem for existing movies forever... When they come out with terrabyte thumb drives whose going to care - except all the movies will be holographic and taking a terrabyte a second by then probably. Suckers.
Television shows aren't much better. I have a friend who does TV editing - a major complaint he has is that there is dozens of hours of footage for hour long TV shows now - movies are worse. Major motion pictures can have over 200+ hours of footage for a 2 hour movie. Here a few cites I could find with a quick google on "feet of film" (the industry standard):
Titanic - 1.3 million feet of film (about 240 hours of footage) - http://www.northern.edu/wild/th100/flmprod.htm/
Dukes of Hazzard - 620,000 feet of film (120 hours of footage) - http://www.avid.com/profiles/080805_dukes_filmcomposer.asp?featureID=910&marketID=/
Knocked up - over 1 million feet of film (180 hours of footage) - http://www.orange.co.uk/entertainment/film/19332.htm?linkfrom=%3C!--linkfromvariable--%3E&link=link_1&article=filminterviewknockedupsethrogenpart1/
Course we could all solve this problem by going back to reading or whatever. Then the studio's won't have to worry about archiving new films.
You blew the second part though. What you see isn't even 1% of the original footage. Maybe 50 years ago the stuff on film was 25% of what was filmed. Now you have to archive 1000's of hours of raw footage and special effects data for just a single movie. In multiple locations.
And Hollywood has to do it for every film, because you never know when some young extra is going to break big in 10, 20, 30 years and some film studio head wants to advertise they have hot star of the moment's first movie ready to throw out again to the public...
If all they stored was the finished film, then 90% of the commments in the original article would be applicable. But read the article - thats only a factor of 10 more expensive - not a big deal. The real problem is that they aren't storing the finished film. They are storing EVERYTHING. Every shot from every camera used during production (and because digital is "cheap", that means that a film can have 1000's of hours of footage, that now needs to be stored in lossless high definition format). Not to mention storing everything related to the post production special effects (dozens of effects in typical movies - 100's or 1000's in a big effects movie). Before digital, what was there that could be saved besides the dailies (which weren't that bad because directors were forced to be frugal with film do to its expense)? Now the storage needs require 100's or 1000's of hours of footage to be saved...with formats that take up a gig or more per second, on media that needs to be replaced or refreshed every few years.