Hey, I'm not a disciple either. Just thought his article summed up my thoughts well. Plus even you might agree, he carries more credibility than me.
About the film analogy, you are both correct. It's a matter of tenses. Christensen's theory is that expensive technologies are replaced by cheaper ones that don't work very well. For digital film to fit this criteria, it would have been a cheap technology, cheaper than film, that just didn't work very well. Instead, it's a technology that has been historically expensive and has gotten cheaper and better. So Dvorak was right it didn't meet the definition and you are right that it's cheaper now.
Take what Christensen says with a grain of salt. I used to admire Clayton Christensen, but over time found he was more business pop culture than substance. John Dvorak put it better than I could when he wrote a piece ome time back http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1628049,00.as p
Christensen's 15 minutes is up. Back to business.
For those of you who remember it, AltaVista had a great little program, called AltaVista Personal, that did a spectacular job of indexing files on your machine. Then they "webified" it. Until then, I used it like everyone uses Google today. Type in a boolean, 2 seconds later (often less), up came a list of files. Double click on them to open them.
I still miss it and hope Googles version can take it's place.
I use OO because, frankly, I'm too cheap/poor to buy MS Office. But OO works fine for me. Sure, import/export can be a bit dicey at times. Sure it's a little quirky. But it gets the job done.
I do have a list of things that should be changed. But number 1change , top 'o the list, why the heck does it do that, is deleting stuff in calc. What's up with the dialog box? Just clear the contents! Makes me think of buying Excel every time (which could be many times per hour).
Oh, and drag and drop.
Oh, and.....
I used to have a stack from the 80's and 90's about 5 feet thick until about 5 years ago. Kept a few for nostagia from the mid 80's. 20 meg drives for more money than I'd pay for a whole computer now. I'm going to hold onto them until you get really desperate and offer "mid 80's 20 MB HD money."
Those micrometeoroids piercing the skin isn't too bad for the bubble. Just a small hole. It's the people and equipment inside that will hate getting sprayed with debris. The way they take care of it on space stations is to create bumpers. An outer shell takes the initial impact. The meteoroid punches through, but shatters and vaporizes, spreading in a plume. The second layer then gets to absorb a reduced impact over a greater area. There's more to it, but that's the basics. To protect an inflatable habitate, it might require a double-bubble, like the Zorb http://www.zorb.com/. Inflate the outer bubble at far less than 1 atm and let it take the punctures. Still have to fix the leaks, but they will be far slower. The inner bubble will be unpunctured.
"The power consumption and size is the same as with current QVGA (320x240) displays" maybe true for the LCD itself, but not for the entire device. It takes processing power to calculate the placement of all those extra pixels.
So the assumption of consumption neglects those functions.
Is WMP10 really much of an upgrade? After a little searching, I can't find any personally compeling reason to use it. A few UI tweaks, but nothing that gets me interested. Sounds more like WMP9.1. If the only reason to use it is to work with MS's music store, I'd love to know so I can avoid installing it (my CD player WFM). That'd be time better spent on Slashdot.
Seriously, since WMP10 and the music store seem to be closely linked, can anyone give a list of pro's/con's other than downloaded music?
On the other hand, he's running it on his own system. Not a test machine, his own system. And he's using it enough to be concerned about updating it.
If he were only just doing a little testing, he could browse internal sites (oh, wait, he probably can't since they might not be compliant) or check out a few sites he knows are secure. And would that take more than a few minutes?
Or I could be all wrong. Maybe his system means his workgroup and there are a number of people using firefox. A little reverse engineering?
On a serious note, would it be outrageous to suggest Slashdot offer a "cached" page similar to what Google does? Who knows, maybe even use Google's cache. I feel bad for being part of the Slashdot effect (sometimes), but can't resist. A cached page might save somebody grief.
I grew up there and get questions like: Can you drink the water? Can you use dollars? Can you speak english? (that was from Purdue U) Is that part of Arizona?
The last is my favorite since Arizona used to be part of New Mexico. Heck, the western half of the US, including Texas, used to be ruled from Sante Fe. New Mexico was glad to see Texas go, just wish they'd kept going.
This nice new P60 was starting to make grinding noises and give HD errors. Ran fdisk to let it sort the good sectors fromt he bad. Unfortunately, it started making the noise right away. I got pissed and kicked it. Hard! It stopped making noise and kept going... for abotu 5 or 10 seconds. I beat on it, it ran. And so on for over an hour. Actually got a little tired.
Once formated, the HD had no bad sectors and never had another problem.
My brother installed a beta of Win95, hated it, and pulled of a nice move. He booted it in command line, erased everything, including the hidden files, then manually copied the boot files from a floppy. Turned it off then on. Everything was back to normal.
And finally, I didn't have a HD bracket for a 5 meg HD for my 8088. So I just stuck a French-English dictionary in the case and set the HD on it. Unfortunately, I didn't know what I was doing, didn't have a HD controller, and FD controllers just don't cut the mustard. Surprised the repair guy 10 years later when my mom took the machine in to get a modem for reading email.
Sorry for going on about power plants. I just assumed that folks would start making the comparisons so figured I'd make a comment early.
If I remember correctly, Hanford has all sorts of reactors, but yes, it's primary missions were weapons and research. On a side note, at least one Hanford reactor, unlike all other US reactors, didn't have a containment dome. Same as Chernoble.
I was interviewed for 3 different jobs doing cleanup at Hanford around 10 years ago. Sort of glad I didn't take any. Talk about a thankless dirty job (we would have been using remote methods, but still).
Anyway, two points:
a) pollution from nuclear is comparable to pollution from other energy sources. Lead, polonium, mercury, etc just get spread thinner with other methods. Nuclear keeps it concentrated. Call it "choose your poison." Even windmills have been implicated in killing endanged animals (thwack!).
b) 60+ tons of plutonium seems a bit high. Not impossible, but a bit high. Given how highly it is sought, you'd think it would have been extracted.
After an hour or two in line for physical security checks, I often start daydreaming and wondering if going through a background check would be worth it. To just breeze on through some special line. Ah, that would be the life.
But they'd probably want to implant some chip...
IE isn't so much like a virus as it is like your tonsils. They get infected from time to time, swell, cause trouble, send you for help, until finally you have them removed.
It wasn't consistent enough to report. I didn't have the crash reporting app going and submitting a bug they couldn't reproduce (because neither could I) didn't seem productive. Just a frequent, but random thing.
Oh, and I forgot my bugzilla login. Last time I used it was for submitting bug 11000 several years ago. It was nice when they fixed the firewall bug.
Must be something wrong with the install, but I'm not in the mood to track it down.
0.9 was crashing right and left (my first mozilla crashes in months), so I went back to 0.8. 1 crash since then. Sort of dampens the enthusiasm
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Can't write ftp code. Could be used to copy files...
Worse, don't try reading a childrens book to your kids while away on business (which the US Navy encourages by offering recording services). Unlawful encoding of copyrited material.
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Hey, I'm not a disciple either. Just thought his article summed up my thoughts well. Plus even you might agree, he carries more credibility than me.
About the film analogy, you are both correct. It's a matter of tenses. Christensen's theory is that expensive technologies are replaced by cheaper ones that don't work very well. For digital film to fit this criteria, it would have been a cheap technology, cheaper than film, that just didn't work very well. Instead, it's a technology that has been historically expensive and has gotten cheaper and better. So Dvorak was right it didn't meet the definition and you are right that it's cheaper now.
Take what Christensen says with a grain of salt. I used to admire Clayton Christensen, but over time found he was more business pop culture than substance. John Dvorak put it better than I could when he wrote a piece ome time back http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1628049,00.as p
Christensen's 15 minutes is up. Back to business.
For those of you who remember it, AltaVista had a great little program, called AltaVista Personal, that did a spectacular job of indexing files on your machine. Then they "webified" it. Until then, I used it like everyone uses Google today. Type in a boolean, 2 seconds later (often less), up came a list of files. Double click on them to open them.
I still miss it and hope Googles version can take it's place.
I use OO because, frankly, I'm too cheap/poor to buy MS Office. But OO works fine for me. Sure, import/export can be a bit dicey at times. Sure it's a little quirky. But it gets the job done. I do have a list of things that should be changed. But number 1change , top 'o the list, why the heck does it do that, is deleting stuff in calc. What's up with the dialog box? Just clear the contents! Makes me think of buying Excel every time (which could be many times per hour). Oh, and drag and drop. Oh, and .....
I used to have a stack from the 80's and 90's about 5 feet thick until about 5 years ago. Kept a few for nostagia from the mid 80's. 20 meg drives for more money than I'd pay for a whole computer now. I'm going to hold onto them until you get really desperate and offer "mid 80's 20 MB HD money."
Those micrometeoroids piercing the skin isn't too bad for the bubble. Just a small hole. It's the people and equipment inside that will hate getting sprayed with debris. The way they take care of it on space stations is to create bumpers. An outer shell takes the initial impact. The meteoroid punches through, but shatters and vaporizes, spreading in a plume. The second layer then gets to absorb a reduced impact over a greater area. There's more to it, but that's the basics. To protect an inflatable habitate, it might require a double-bubble, like the Zorb http://www.zorb.com/. Inflate the outer bubble at far less than 1 atm and let it take the punctures. Still have to fix the leaks, but they will be far slower. The inner bubble will be unpunctured.
"The power consumption and size is the same as with current QVGA (320x240) displays" maybe true for the LCD itself, but not for the entire device. It takes processing power to calculate the placement of all those extra pixels.
So the assumption of consumption neglects those functions.
Parts of the story that were edited out: ... object is 1 x 4 x 9 km ... ... changed orbit ... ... monkey's walloping each other with thigh bones ...
Is WMP10 really much of an upgrade? After a little searching, I can't find any personally compeling reason to use it. A few UI tweaks, but nothing that gets me interested. Sounds more like WMP9.1. If the only reason to use it is to work with MS's music store, I'd love to know so I can avoid installing it (my CD player WFM). That'd be time better spent on Slashdot.
Seriously, since WMP10 and the music store seem to be closely linked, can anyone give a list of pro's/con's other than downloaded music?
On the other hand, he's running it on his own system. Not a test machine, his own system. And he's using it enough to be concerned about updating it.
If he were only just doing a little testing, he could browse internal sites (oh, wait, he probably can't since they might not be compliant) or check out a few sites he knows are secure. And would that take more than a few minutes?
Or I could be all wrong. Maybe his system means his workgroup and there are a number of people using firefox. A little reverse engineering?
On a serious note, would it be outrageous to suggest Slashdot offer a "cached" page similar to what Google does? Who knows, maybe even use Google's cache. I feel bad for being part of the Slashdot effect (sometimes), but can't resist. A cached page might save somebody grief.
I'm just amazed you can get it partway! (sorry, couldn't resist the jibe)
I grew up there and get questions like:
Can you drink the water?
Can you use dollars?
Can you speak english? (that was from Purdue U)
Is that part of Arizona?
The last is my favorite since Arizona used to be part of New Mexico. Heck, the western half of the US, including Texas, used to be ruled from Sante Fe. New Mexico was glad to see Texas go, just wish they'd kept going.
People have tinkered like this for a long time. My favorite, going back to 1997, is where they combined silicon and eye of newt. No kidding! http://www.devicelink.com/mddi/archive/99/07/003.h tml
Would a V2 landing on London count as an automatic blind landing?
(apologies to to the unfortunated landees)
This nice new P60 was starting to make grinding noises and give HD errors. Ran fdisk to let it sort the good sectors fromt he bad. Unfortunately, it started making the noise right away. I got pissed and kicked it. Hard! It stopped making noise and kept going ... for abotu 5 or 10 seconds. I beat on it, it ran. And so on for over an hour. Actually got a little tired.
Once formated, the HD had no bad sectors and never had another problem.
My brother installed a beta of Win95, hated it, and pulled of a nice move. He booted it in command line, erased everything, including the hidden files, then manually copied the boot files from a floppy. Turned it off then on. Everything was back to normal.
And finally, I didn't have a HD bracket for a 5 meg HD for my 8088. So I just stuck a French-English dictionary in the case and set the HD on it. Unfortunately, I didn't know what I was doing, didn't have a HD controller, and FD controllers just don't cut the mustard. Surprised the repair guy 10 years later when my mom took the machine in to get a modem for reading email.
Sorry for going on about power plants. I just assumed that folks would start making the comparisons so figured I'd make a comment early. If I remember correctly, Hanford has all sorts of reactors, but yes, it's primary missions were weapons and research. On a side note, at least one Hanford reactor, unlike all other US reactors, didn't have a containment dome. Same as Chernoble.
I was interviewed for 3 different jobs doing cleanup at Hanford around 10 years ago. Sort of glad I didn't take any. Talk about a thankless dirty job (we would have been using remote methods, but still). Anyway, two points: a) pollution from nuclear is comparable to pollution from other energy sources. Lead, polonium, mercury, etc just get spread thinner with other methods. Nuclear keeps it concentrated. Call it "choose your poison." Even windmills have been implicated in killing endanged animals (thwack!). b) 60+ tons of plutonium seems a bit high. Not impossible, but a bit high. Given how highly it is sought, you'd think it would have been extracted.
... and you get the impression BT has this huge collection of illegal smut they are trying to keep people from seeing. Bunch of pervs!
After an hour or two in line for physical security checks, I often start daydreaming and wondering if going through a background check would be worth it. To just breeze on through some special line. Ah, that would be the life. But they'd probably want to implant some chip...
IE isn't so much like a virus as it is like your tonsils. They get infected from time to time, swell, cause trouble, send you for help, until finally you have them removed.
It wasn't consistent enough to report. I didn't have the crash reporting app going and submitting a bug they couldn't reproduce (because neither could I) didn't seem productive. Just a frequent, but random thing. Oh, and I forgot my bugzilla login. Last time I used it was for submitting bug 11000 several years ago. It was nice when they fixed the firewall bug. Must be something wrong with the install, but I'm not in the mood to track it down.
0.9 was crashing right and left (my first mozilla crashes in months), so I went back to 0.8. 1 crash since then. Sort of dampens the enthusiasm
Can't write ftp code. Could be used to copy files... Worse, don't try reading a childrens book to your kids while away on business (which the US Navy encourages by offering recording services). Unlawful encoding of copyrited material.
-1) DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run. True or not, it sure seems like it. Anyone wonder about XP-SP2?