Agreed, we are screwed. I've argued before with people that asteroid deflection is something NASA should be working on. Sending more people to the moon or mars or ? is a waste of resources with current technology. We are not even close to being able to do this with any likelyhood of colonizing. The earth has been hit by asteroids in the past and it will happen again in the future before the sun goes tits up.
Because it has gotten so bad, it might be interesting if sw vendors started putting a restriction of
"Not available for sale in eastern texas"
I wonder if it is possible to do such a geographic restriction and if it was, would it change the behavior. I don't know if the district includes dallas and/or houston, but if it did not I think it could easily be worth microsoft sales loss to simply not deal with them.
Agreed. The latest GM engine tech (the direct injection engine HFV6 I think they call it) is quite impressive. If you look at honda or mazda in particular, the performance/size of vehicle/mileage is not as good. I bought the CTS DI caddy in 08 and on trips it consistently gets 28mpg. It is responsive, comfy & powerful. The problem is it is popular to bash american cars because of the crap they put out in the 70's/80's. Now the sheeple all buy german/japanese cars blindly.
I was at a friends house recently and watched leatherheads on iTunes or iMovie or whatever apple sells movies as. He has an excellent TV., so the issue wasn't there. I don't know why, but it looked like 1930's quality framerates. Image quality was good, but on some scenes with more motion, it looked like it was skipping about 3 out of every 4 frames. It was very jerky and totally unacceptable to me. My friend didn't seem to notice. Somewhere during the movie, I'd mentioned you can record ATSC broadcasts and maybe he could time shift using his apple computer. I said the only downside is it takes around 10G/hour. His jaw dropped. I think his "hi-def" apple supplied leatherheads was around 1.5G for the whole movie. Is quality being totally superceded by instant gratification now? Do all of the streaming services decrease frame rates this bad? How does anyone watch this stuff?
A friend of mine could tell the difference if the speakers were moved by more than an inch in his listening room. His wife moved one by accident and he heard the difference. Face it, some people have very keen hearing and they practice to keep it keen. Today very few care, so I expect total crap from the music biz. With mass merchandising king, quality recordings will go the way of the dodo. While I can't tell the difference usually in the car between mp3/cd, the stereo is a different story. Hopefully I'll be dead or deaf before CD dies completely. Call me crazy, but I want the 1000 dollar bottle of wine.
Scientists don't do much anyway. For example, I just saw how 2 or 3 guys riding their bicycle from atlanta to LA were going to help cure cancer. Shoot, I would have thought Lance A. had already cured cancer. That reminds me, I need to organize that marathon to find a way to make fusion work.
A number of cars do allow remote start with the heat or A/C coming on as needed. My caddi has it and I know other brands do too. I think there are aftermarket devices as well. Its a nice feature when its way hot/cold. I'm not sure I see the point of calling the car. The remote has been good enough for me.
Even worse if you like blu-ray @ 40GB/movie. But then, modern consumers seem to like less than DVD quality downloads and even worse audio from itunes. Why consumers are buying HDTV's is a mystery if all they are going to use them for is crappy downloads.
I thought, wow, Vizio made in america. A quick google of vizio manufacturing got the first result as (from USA today) "Vizio CEO William Wang says he can undercut his competition because his overhead is low. The company has about 85 employees, most of whom work in technical support or engineering. Vizio outsources manufacturing to low-cost, for-hire factories in Asia, as many other electronics-makers do. The company plans to spend $35 million on advertising this year -- "nowhere close" to its larger rivals' budgets, Wang says."
Lately I'm beginning to think toyota is the new GM. They still offer that behometh sequoia thing and the tundra? The ES350 looks about as staid as an old buick and they screwed up something as simple as floormats sticking the accelerator down. Yeah, I wanna toyota.
People are like sheep. If you don't tell them they need it in clever ads ("Hello I'm a MAC") you can forget it. Oh hookers don't hurt either for the top exec's and politicians/school admins. Linux has been more stable than windows for over a decade now, and still almost no one has tried it. Why? Because there is no money to buy cute ads to tell the masses they need it. As I tell my friends all the time, "People are STUPID". As the title says, they buy bottled tap water from coke/pepsi that was run thru a magic filter and pay dollars/gallon. Meanwhile they can get around 1000 gallons for a couple of bucks from their water district if they just opened that faucet. Why. Because the ad told them to & and it is cool.
I don't see why AP doesn't do this instead of google. Then allow AP to agregate news from the locals and pay them the micro-payment. Essentially, my subscription to AP (which I'm more likely to do than a subscription to google) also accesses the local news. I don't see why the news industry would want to give google probably half or more of the money that they are doing the work for. This also helps prevent google from becoming another evil microsoft. We need to discourage mega-corp's, too big to fail syndrome.
Vinyl baby!, seriously though, I too want the physical media. It produces higher quality and I am not at someone else's whim. I have vinyl from the 70's, CD's starting in the 80's and quite likely will adopt blu ray for the highest quality. I picked up the Jewel concert on BD and the sound was fantastic. (I spose if you don't like Jewel you probably would not agree here)
This is common everywhere. I worked at IBM in the early 80's and our dept got 250K/quarter in equip. Every quarter we would oogle thru the latest catalogs from tek & hp and spend every penny. We didn't need most of it. Shoot most of the equip we had just sat around. What needs to change is provide people incentives to save money. If your boss would have been given a bonus not to spend the million, I think he may have not hired those 4 doorstops.
When I first saw this story, I thought, wow do the swiss people never travel to London? Every move they make is recorded and analyzed. Frankly, it would not surprise me if inside switzerland's large cities they record.
While I agree completely that a cell phone system would be much much more secure, nothing is unbreakable. See http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/17/0014235 for a description of hacking cell phone providers as an example. Basically, I think every card owner he stole should get the opportunity to take a paddle to his ass for one crack. His bright red butt should then be photo'ed and posted on the web. Now that would be justass.
I'm still pretty happy with using linux. I have one laptop I boot to windows maybe once a month for skype. Otherwise my 11 boxes and laptops all run linux or solaris. I've never been p0rn'ed yet. So yeah, I feel pretty good still. My friends who run windows would only dream of my level of reliability and they have no web server or email server facing the internet. Enjoy your one day. I've enjoyed my 28 years of *NIX.
Agree mostly with the addition of the "greenest" thing our govt could do is encourage less kids. It kills me how the media recommends me to unplug my 1 watt cell phone charger when I'm not using it but absolutely adores octomom for pumping out 8 kids with no daddy. We already have too many people on this planet and we need to find a way to encourage no more than 2 kids per family. Now that would be smart tax policy.
So tech people are going to be gypsy/circus people moving town to town with their semi's chocked full of servers. They'll summer in alaska and winter in florida or texas.
I think the poster is trying to find an alternative to the cadence/mentor/synopsys stranglehold. All 3 offer university licenses although they may require an exclusive deal. They also definitely do not provide copies that can run directly on the student machine without getting a license token from a license server. The poster was hoping to get something that could run on student boxes standalone. While my company will provide student keys for the student machine under an educational license, the student still needs a key. I don't think any commercial company allows a binary that runs w/o a license that is full versioned. If that binary got out in the "wild", why would anyone purchase?
Agreed. It would be so much cheaper to just raise the fuel tax. The mechanism is already in place (gas stations collect it, just change the amount if you need more money) and by taxing fuel not miles, it encourages fuel economy. I just don't get it. Unless of course the real reason is to track everyone.
I remember our tech pubs person had lots of problems with microsoft on large docs. We always used frame maker. Not cheap, but very nice for large stuff. I never saw it burp. I have used it for over a decade and even pony'ed up the $'s for a personal copy. Recently I've tried OO, but I find the formatting non-intuitive compared to frame, so not a fan of OO either. Probably because it is too much like word.
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Agreed, we are screwed. I've argued before with people that asteroid deflection is something NASA should be working on. Sending more people to the moon or mars or ? is a waste of resources with current technology. We are not even close to being able to do this with any likelyhood of colonizing. The earth has been hit by asteroids in the past and it will happen again in the future before the sun goes tits up.
Because it has gotten so bad, it might be interesting if sw vendors started putting a restriction of "Not available for sale in eastern texas" I wonder if it is possible to do such a geographic restriction and if it was, would it change the behavior. I don't know if the district includes dallas and/or houston, but if it did not I think it could easily be worth microsoft sales loss to simply not deal with them.
Agreed. The latest GM engine tech (the direct injection engine HFV6 I think they call it) is quite impressive. If you look at honda or mazda in particular, the performance/size of vehicle/mileage is not as good. I bought the CTS DI caddy in 08 and on trips it consistently gets 28mpg. It is responsive, comfy & powerful. The problem is it is popular to bash american cars because of the crap they put out in the 70's/80's. Now the sheeple all buy german/japanese cars blindly.
I was at a friends house recently and watched leatherheads on iTunes or iMovie or whatever apple sells movies as. He has an excellent TV., so the issue wasn't there. I don't know why, but it looked like 1930's quality framerates. Image quality was good, but on some scenes with more motion, it looked like it was skipping about 3 out of every 4 frames. It was very jerky and totally unacceptable to me. My friend didn't seem to notice. Somewhere during the movie, I'd mentioned you can record ATSC broadcasts and maybe he could time shift using his apple computer. I said the only downside is it takes around 10G/hour. His jaw dropped. I think his "hi-def" apple supplied leatherheads was around 1.5G for the whole movie. Is quality being totally superceded by instant gratification now? Do all of the streaming services decrease frame rates this bad? How does anyone watch this stuff?
A friend of mine could tell the difference if the speakers were moved by more than an inch in his listening room. His wife moved one by accident and he heard the difference. Face it, some people have very keen hearing and they practice to keep it keen. Today very few care, so I expect total crap from the music biz. With mass merchandising king, quality recordings will go the way of the dodo. While I can't tell the difference usually in the car between mp3/cd, the stereo is a different story. Hopefully I'll be dead or deaf before CD dies completely. Call me crazy, but I want the 1000 dollar bottle of wine.
Scientists don't do much anyway. For example, I just saw how 2 or 3 guys riding their bicycle from atlanta to LA were going to help cure cancer. Shoot, I would have thought Lance A. had already cured cancer. That reminds me, I need to organize that marathon to find a way to make fusion work.
A number of cars do allow remote start with the heat or A/C coming on as needed. My caddi has it and I know other brands do too. I think there are aftermarket devices as well. Its a nice feature when its way hot/cold. I'm not sure I see the point of calling the car. The remote has been good enough for me.
Even worse if you like blu-ray @ 40GB/movie. But then, modern consumers seem to like less than DVD quality downloads and even worse audio from itunes. Why consumers are buying HDTV's is a mystery if all they are going to use them for is crappy downloads.
I thought, wow, Vizio made in america. A quick google of vizio manufacturing got the first result as (from USA today)
"Vizio CEO William Wang says he can undercut his competition because his overhead is low. The company has about 85 employees, most of whom work in technical support or engineering. Vizio outsources manufacturing to low-cost, for-hire factories in Asia, as many other electronics-makers do. The company plans to spend $35 million on advertising this year -- "nowhere close" to its larger rivals' budgets, Wang says."
Lately I'm beginning to think toyota is the new GM. They still offer that behometh sequoia thing and the tundra? The ES350 looks about as staid as an old buick and they screwed up something as simple as floormats sticking the accelerator down. Yeah, I wanna toyota.
People are like sheep. If you don't tell them they need it in clever ads ("Hello I'm a MAC") you can forget it. Oh hookers don't hurt either for the top exec's and politicians/school admins. Linux has been more stable than windows for over a decade now, and still almost no one has tried it. Why? Because there is no money to buy cute ads to tell the masses they need it. As I tell my friends all the time, "People are STUPID". As the title says, they buy bottled tap water from coke/pepsi that was run thru a magic filter and pay dollars/gallon. Meanwhile they can get around 1000 gallons for a couple of bucks from their water district if they just opened that faucet. Why. Because the ad told them to & and it is cool.
I don't see why AP doesn't do this instead of google. Then allow AP to agregate news from the locals and pay them the micro-payment. Essentially, my subscription to AP (which I'm more likely to do than a subscription to google) also accesses the local news. I don't see why the news industry would want to give google probably half or more of the money that they are doing the work for. This also helps prevent google from becoming another evil microsoft. We need to discourage mega-corp's, too big to fail syndrome.
Vinyl baby!, seriously though, I too want the physical media. It produces higher quality and I am not at someone else's whim. I have vinyl from the 70's, CD's starting in the 80's and quite likely will adopt blu ray for the highest quality. I picked up the Jewel concert on BD and the sound was fantastic. (I spose if you don't like Jewel you probably would not agree here)
This is common everywhere. I worked at IBM in the early 80's and our dept got 250K/quarter in equip. Every quarter we would oogle thru the latest catalogs from tek & hp and spend every penny. We didn't need most of it. Shoot most of the equip we had just sat around. What needs to change is provide people incentives to save money. If your boss would have been given a bonus not to spend the million, I think he may have not hired those 4 doorstops.
When I first saw this story, I thought, wow do the swiss people never travel to London? Every move they make is recorded and analyzed. Frankly, it would not surprise me if inside switzerland's large cities they record.
wow, what part of much much more secure wasn't clear.
While I agree completely that a cell phone system would be much much more secure, nothing is unbreakable. See http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/17/0014235 for a description of hacking cell phone providers as an example. Basically, I think every card owner he stole should get the opportunity to take a paddle to his ass for one crack. His bright red butt should then be photo'ed and posted on the web. Now that would be justass.
I'm still pretty happy with using linux. I have one laptop I boot to windows maybe once a month for skype. Otherwise my 11 boxes and laptops all run linux or solaris. I've never been p0rn'ed yet. So yeah, I feel pretty good still. My friends who run windows would only dream of my level of reliability and they have no web server or email server facing the internet. Enjoy your one day. I've enjoyed my 28 years of *NIX.
Agree mostly with the addition of the "greenest" thing our govt could do is encourage less kids. It kills me how the media recommends me to unplug my 1 watt cell phone charger when I'm not using it but absolutely adores octomom for pumping out 8 kids with no daddy. We already have too many people on this planet and we need to find a way to encourage no more than 2 kids per family. Now that would be smart tax policy.
So tech people are going to be gypsy/circus people moving town to town with their semi's chocked full of servers. They'll summer in alaska and winter in florida or texas.
I think the poster is trying to find an alternative to the cadence/mentor/synopsys stranglehold. All 3 offer university licenses although they may require an exclusive deal. They also definitely do not provide copies that can run directly on the student machine without getting a license token from a license server. The poster was hoping to get something that could run on student boxes standalone. While my company will provide student keys for the student machine under an educational license, the student still needs a key. I don't think any commercial company allows a binary that runs w/o a license that is full versioned. If that binary got out in the "wild", why would anyone purchase?
The vette integrates the heads up with the nav system to project the turn info onto the windshield. Its pretty sweet. I think lexus does this now too.
Agreed. It would be so much cheaper to just raise the fuel tax. The mechanism is already in place (gas stations collect it, just change the amount if you need more money) and by taxing fuel not miles, it encourages fuel economy. I just don't get it. Unless of course the real reason is to track everyone.
I remember our tech pubs person had lots of problems with microsoft on large docs. We always used frame maker. Not cheap, but very nice for large stuff. I never saw it burp. I have used it for over a decade and even pony'ed up the $'s for a personal copy. Recently I've tried OO, but I find the formatting non-intuitive compared to frame, so not a fan of OO either. Probably because it is too much like word.
we have to pay the chinese to have fun for us now? What's next, do we pay them to have sex for us, eat for us, pee for us...