The Air Force has cars, the Navy has cars, the Army has cars. Do you think we should be combining the management of these assets into one combined "Car Force"?
Adding an additional service would result in redundant organizational resources, redundant training resources, and redundant facilities. It would further divide the armed forces skilled talent pool.
And what would you do with low-skill recruits in the Space Force? There are only so many space complex front gates to stand guard at. What are they going to do; stand guard in a cleanroom and ruin a billion dollars in satellite hardware the first time they discharge their sidearm?
...Or, it says that the company making the thing vets all potential customers to make sure that they don't torpedo their meal ticket by selling to a). criminal organizations, or b). security groups who would tattle to Apple.
Apple's probably going to have to figure this one out the old fashioned way.
When you're coming in at 700mph at an altitude of 2.5 miles, you don't have the extra ~1 second it takes to light different engines. Either it works the first time, or you're augering in.
And the LA population is 4 million, which puts it ahead of 24 States. Combine the city's budget with California's, on a per capita basis, and it wouldn't even break into the upper third of State budgets.
Well, if you look at the article's source, you get this gem:
Chromebooks still remain a small portion of the total U.S. market for laptops and netbooks. The devices had about 4 percent to 5 percent share in the first quarter, though that was up from 1 percent to 2 percent in 2012, according to Mikako Kitagawa, an analyst at Gartner Inc.
So, if the laptop market was ~33m units in Q1, that puts Chromebooks at ~1.5m for the quarter, which is the first thing approaching an actual number I've seen on Chromebook sales. Not sure how that spreads out between Samsung, Acer, and HP.
You know, I had happily repressed that little slice of cultural wasteland. Now it's all flooding back -- and it's brought most of the `80's along for the ride.
Clippy: It appears you're talking in a crowded theater during one of "the good scenes". Would you like me to shock you in the nuts with a tazer until you shut your gob? [Yes (10...9...8...)]/[No]
There's nothing wrong with the concept of the computerized slideshow presentation itself. Powerpoint has just made the barrier to entry so low that the ignorant, lazy, and incompetent masses can make presentations "just like the pros do!" In the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, it's still a useful tool just like any other.
Great...let's add another layer of unnecessary complexity to the mish-mash of frequencies and protocols that is US cellular coverage. Bonus points for the lovely distribution plan which will inevitably result in scatter-shot distribution to any company who can file a vaguely-plausible business plan, regardless of what they plan to run over it. Cellular providers can't even build their network out to fill their existing licenses as it is.
Technology advances make this even more irrelevant, as high-bandwidth service is possible without this additional bandwidth -- Verizon Wireless has already rolled out their EV-DO network in their Washington DC and San Diego markets, providing 300-500Kbps average, with bursts up to 2.4Mbps.
The FCC should worry about getting the entire country converted to digital service before tossing out new frequencies willy-nilly.
Another potential holdup is their fully hardware-accelerated GDI(+) replacement. They might have realized that the average user's GPU is not capable of rendering the average user's display resolution at acceptable framerates, and thus are waiting for DirectX9-class hardware to become ubiquitous. In the meantime, they can aim an evolving product toward the moving target of current technology and hope for some miracle software breakthrough that will allow them to truely differentiate Longhorn as "not just 'WinNT 5.2'".
On a side note, does anyone else foresee a new era of hardware instability as more intensive use of graphics hardware flushes out buggy display adapter drivers? Maybe Microsoft ought to think about pulling said drivers out of ring 0, now that display processing will be offloaded to the graphics hardware, thus making graphics performance less of an issue.
Would it be feasable to make the whole thing more modular? If you could get the dish separate from the base (and remove the counterweight, if there is one), and break the base up into three or four pieces, it'd make it much easier as a one man job. Might increase setup time a hair, but that might be worth it for the convenience.
Artists won't see a thin dime of it. What doesn't immediately vanish into corporate coffers will be fed back into the slavering craw of the RIAA Legal Machine(Pat. Pend.).
Antialiased filesystem? Is this eight bits to describe 128 shades of "0" and 128 shades of "1", or is it one binary bit plus an eight-bit alpha channel?
Damn, I knew this hard drive space "age of plenty" was too good to last. Curse you, Moore's Law, for taunting me so!
So how long until Bessie (a.k.a. Spidergoat) gets fed up with that pervo farmhand who keeps trying to "help her over the fence" and decides to hang him from the barn rafters by his wang?
(*sigh*...I can't believe this is the first thing that came to mind when I read this.)
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The Air Force has cars, the Navy has cars, the Army has cars. Do you think we should be combining the management of these assets into one combined "Car Force"?
Adding an additional service would result in redundant organizational resources, redundant training resources, and redundant facilities. It would further divide the armed forces skilled talent pool.
And what would you do with low-skill recruits in the Space Force? There are only so many space complex front gates to stand guard at. What are they going to do; stand guard in a cleanroom and ruin a billion dollars in satellite hardware the first time they discharge their sidearm?
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I bet Car Force One would be a bitchin' ride...
...Or, it says that the company making the thing vets all potential customers to make sure that they don't torpedo their meal ticket by selling to a). criminal organizations, or b). security groups who would tattle to Apple.
Apple's probably going to have to figure this one out the old fashioned way.
When you're coming in at 700mph at an altitude of 2.5 miles, you don't have the extra ~1 second it takes to light different engines. Either it works the first time, or you're augering in.
And the LA population is 4 million, which puts it ahead of 24 States. Combine the city's budget with California's, on a per capita basis, and it wouldn't even break into the upper third of State budgets.
So, what?
Well, if you look at the article's source, you get this gem:
Chromebooks still remain a small portion of the total U.S. market for laptops and netbooks. The devices had about 4 percent to 5 percent share in the first quarter, though that was up from 1 percent to 2 percent in 2012, according to Mikako Kitagawa, an analyst at Gartner Inc.
So, if the laptop market was ~33m units in Q1, that puts Chromebooks at ~1.5m for the quarter, which is the first thing approaching an actual number I've seen on Chromebook sales. Not sure how that spreads out between Samsung, Acer, and HP.
I'm so glad the no-motion speeding ticket warranted a full-motion video for its newscast...
You know, I had happily repressed that little slice of cultural wasteland. Now it's all flooding back -- and it's brought most of the `80's along for the ride.
Clippy: It appears you're talking in a crowded theater during one of "the good scenes". Would you like me to shock you in the nuts with a tazer until you shut your gob? [Yes (10...9...8...)]/[No]
I APPROVE.
So that's what five minutes of my life which I'll never get back sounds like...
Seriously, I could have gotten something more melodic by piping a core dump into my sound card -- some downtempo ambient noise or whatnot.
A much larger version of the SIGGRAPH `94 image "Photon Soup", clocking in at 840x560, can be found HERE.
I believe you missed a couple of words there...
"worst... [application of... ]technology... ever!"
There's nothing wrong with the concept of the computerized slideshow presentation itself. Powerpoint has just made the barrier to entry so low that the ignorant, lazy, and incompetent masses can make presentations "just like the pros do!" In the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, it's still a useful tool just like any other.
Great...let's add another layer of unnecessary complexity to the mish-mash of frequencies and protocols that is US cellular coverage. Bonus points for the lovely distribution plan which will inevitably result in scatter-shot distribution to any company who can file a vaguely-plausible business plan, regardless of what they plan to run over it. Cellular providers can't even build their network out to fill their existing licenses as it is.
Technology advances make this even more irrelevant, as high-bandwidth service is possible without this additional bandwidth -- Verizon Wireless has already rolled out their EV-DO network in their Washington DC and San Diego markets, providing 300-500Kbps average, with bursts up to 2.4Mbps.
The FCC should worry about getting the entire country converted to digital service before tossing out new frequencies willy-nilly.
You were able to enjoy The Mummy? Wow. That exhibit must have really scarred your fragile psyche...
Another potential holdup is their fully hardware-accelerated GDI(+) replacement. They might have realized that the average user's GPU is not capable of rendering the average user's display resolution at acceptable framerates, and thus are waiting for DirectX9-class hardware to become ubiquitous. In the meantime, they can aim an evolving product toward the moving target of current technology and hope for some miracle software breakthrough that will allow them to truely differentiate Longhorn as "not just 'WinNT 5.2'".
On a side note, does anyone else foresee a new era of hardware instability as more intensive use of graphics hardware flushes out buggy display adapter drivers? Maybe Microsoft ought to think about pulling said drivers out of ring 0, now that display processing will be offloaded to the graphics hardware, thus making graphics performance less of an issue.
I would think that, with the platters spinning at several thousand RPM, a large scratch would be something of a given.
I used to use my middle finger when I had to ctrl-alt-del a locked computer, but it certainly wan't to press a key...
Oh, hell. Just saw your other post further down the thread. Pay no attention the the parent. Nothing to see here. Move along.
That'll teach me to post before I've had my morning coffee...
Would it be feasable to make the whole thing more modular? If you could get the dish separate from the base (and remove the counterweight, if there is one), and break the base up into three or four pieces, it'd make it much easier as a one man job. Might increase setup time a hair, but that might be worth it for the convenience.
To be more specific, Adelphia has blocked the IP of the Shitefinder website. They haven't patched their DNS servers to return NXDOMAIN on *.TLD.
So we're kibitzing over the difference between Kbits and Kibits. Great...
Best lines of the article. So very much potential...
"...finally drops anchor on American soil."
"...just shits all over the competition!"
Not exactly...
> verisignratbastards.com
Server: a.gtld-servers.net
Address: 192.5.6.30
verisignratbastards.com internet address = 64.94.110.11
Artists won't see a thin dime of it. What doesn't immediately vanish into corporate coffers will be fed back into the slavering craw of the RIAA Legal Machine(Pat. Pend.).
Antialiased filesystem? Is this eight bits to describe 128 shades of "0" and 128 shades of "1", or is it one binary bit plus an eight-bit alpha channel?
Damn, I knew this hard drive space "age of plenty" was too good to last. Curse you, Moore's Law, for taunting me so!
So how long until Bessie (a.k.a. Spidergoat) gets fed up with that pervo farmhand who keeps trying to "help her over the fence" and decides to hang him from the barn rafters by his wang?
(*sigh*...I can't believe this is the first thing that came to mind when I read this.)