The 'untapped' TV market is simplicity. It's hard to integrate all of the potential choices for TV input (cable, iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, Blockbuster, DirectTV, Over the Air, DVD, BlueTooth, PirateBay etc) without setting up some complicated 'Home media server' and a remote with three thousand buttons.
It really surprises me how bad the TV manufacturers do at this. I have a 2 year old Samsung 42" - not a bad screen but the interface just absolutely sucks. Yet another 500 button remote with Tiny Little Letters and a few new icons (still haven't figured out the purple button with 2 dots and something vaguely resembling a triangle). The stupid thing can't even remember what it was last hooked to.
Come up with a generic way of doing this and you're rich. Of course, it it was easy, it would have been done already. For the reasons amply detailed in this and thousands of other posts it is quite a technologic and social challenge. Personally, I don't see Apple solving it - I don't thing anyone really can because of the inherent Balkanisation of the 'TV experience" but perhaps Steve has a better perspective on things from the Other Side.
I think you should look up heterosexual in the dictionary. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Your sarcasm detector is apparently malfunctioning. For a nominal fee, I can use some high quality HDMI cables to repair it and get it properly working again.
Sarcasm detectors apparently use SATA cables because they're always breaking.
DIE! DIE! Motherless cretin spawn of a left handed paramecium engineer that 'designed' the SATA connector!
I have lived in Israel, and went through their vaunted security dozens of times. My own observations led me to suspect this was security theater of a different kind, and my suspicions were later verified by a friend who once worked as one of those security screeners. Their trained goal is to make the passengers think they can't pull one over on the security personnel, and it seems that's enough.
That being said, they do screen baggage very carefully.
Part of security is intimidation. If you don't think you can breach the defenses and don't try - that's a win. But trying to use Israel as an example of 'how to do' airport security will fail for the simple reason that the Israelis are trying to protect only one large airport (Ben Gurion) - not hundreds of large ones and thousands of smaller ones. Some things just don't scale.
Further, Israeli security is openly racist -if you look Arabic, you're chances of getting most carefully screened is much higher than if you're Caucasian appearing. That wouldn't (so to speak) fly in the US.
It is more a lack of incentive.I work in assenger and air cargo, and rankly, most of our system are so old that it is hard to justify *any* security measure.
That's a new approach. Security through senescence.
My company manages IT on several hundred vessels, My experience is that navigation, engine and rudder control systems are not connected to the ship LAN and sat. uplink. Updates to these systems are done by cdrom or floppy disks. Most of our customers are very concerned about security, and they require frequent AV updates, firewalls and so on. https://www.palantir.no/
Didn't you see Jurassic Park II? If a T-rex can take over ship and ram it into a dock, certainly some 15 year old script kiddie in a cyber cafe somewhere in the third world could do horrible things!
The problem here with the Raptor is that they replaced the bottled oxygen system, used for decades in dozens of other aircraft, with a complex compressor system that's hooked to the engines. In this particular accident, the plane shut the compressor system down and hence the oxygen. You had a new dependency that, on the surface, seems nuts.
The resolution of the fault required the pilot to manually start the back up system. For whatever reason, the pilot was unable to do so.
Yeah, bleeding edge is bleeding edge but the real problem is that the military has bypassed the prototype system. You build a demonstrator on paper that requires several new technologies. You get the contract and of course once your are building the aircraft, THEN you find big issues. By then you're pretty much committed to either leaving the problem alone, doing some sort of kludge that makes the aircraft more expensive / less dependable and / or delaying the program.
This has been seen in pretty much every high tech military hardware purchase in the last two decades. And it keeps happening.
"but also something just a touch smaller — a Venus."
If there's a Venus and no known Mars... then does that mean it's all women?
Sign me up!
Yea, they're sure to be really hot!
The smaller of the two planets, dubbed Kepler-20 e, is about the size of Venus, with a radius 0.87 times that of Earth. It orbits its star every 6 Earth days and sits at a temperature of 1,040 Kelvin — hot enough to vaporize any atmosphere and leave a solid hunk of silica- and iron-rich rock. Kepler-20 f, the larger planet with a radius 1.03 times that of Earth, has a 20-day orbit. As a result, it is a bit less scorching, at 705 Kelvin. At that temperature, says Fressin, hydrogen and helium wouldn’t survive in the atmosphere, but a shroud of water vapour might.
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OK, but I want to see Apple try to serve a subpoena to Nebakenezer.
Maybe they can get Steve Jobs to do it.
They won't post that story until dinosaurs actually do go extinct.
Not to worry, we're working on it.
That tablet has a glossy black surface and rounded corners
No, that's what I would call very prior art.
The 'untapped' TV market is simplicity. It's hard to integrate all of the potential choices for TV input (cable, iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, Blockbuster, DirectTV, Over the Air, DVD, BlueTooth, PirateBay etc) without setting up some complicated 'Home media server' and a remote with three thousand buttons.
It really surprises me how bad the TV manufacturers do at this. I have a 2 year old Samsung 42" - not a bad screen but the interface just absolutely sucks. Yet another 500 button remote with Tiny Little Letters and a few new icons (still haven't figured out the purple button with 2 dots and something vaguely resembling a triangle). The stupid thing can't even remember what it was last hooked to.
Come up with a generic way of doing this and you're rich. Of course, it it was easy, it would have been done already. For the reasons amply detailed in this and thousands of other posts it is quite a technologic and social challenge. Personally, I don't see Apple solving it - I don't thing anyone really can because of the inherent Balkanisation of the 'TV experience" but perhaps Steve has a better perspective on things from the Other Side.
but I have a 32" in my bedroom that's just fine -- it's mounted perfectly dead-center on the bed,
So many snarky thoughts.
So little time.....
What happens when consumer spending DOESN'T rebound?
You just adjust government statistics until it damned well does rebound. That's what numbers are for.
When this analysis is applied to whole civilizations you get this wonderfully reassuring treatise.
It pales in comparison to the reviews for this product:
Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable
What Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Accoutrements Horse Head Mask
??????
HDMI is there because it's a good standard for a digital connection and has smallish connectors.
Not exactly
I think you should look up heterosexual in the dictionary. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Your sarcasm detector is apparently malfunctioning. For a nominal fee, I can use some high quality HDMI cables to repair it and get it properly working again.
Sarcasm detectors apparently use SATA cables because they're always breaking.
DIE! DIE! Motherless cretin spawn of a left handed paramecium engineer that 'designed' the SATA connector!
Even my wife noticed.
Yeah, I'll bet your wife noticed. Your living room looks like the plumbing section in Home Depot.
What's not to like?
The problem lies within my guitar circuitry. Changing cable type only changes what I pick up.
Right now, I'm getting shortwave Russian radio.
You need to reverse the polarity!
Sheesh. Kids these days. Don't know anything....
woosh.... MAJOR fucking WOOSH!
More like General Whoosh.
maybe we should also just round up a few thousand of them and ship them to cuba and torture them until they tell us where all the bad guys are?
i bet that would work, this war would be over tomorrow!
Na, just lock them into a room with a TV running C-span 24 hours a day.
Three weeks of that and they'll be babbling vegetables.
Congratulations on proving you're no more coherent than random commenters on YouTube.
What could possibly go wrong?
You could plug the Ethernet cable into the power supply ...
I have lived in Israel, and went through their vaunted security dozens of times. My own observations led me to suspect this was security theater of a different kind, and my suspicions were later verified by a friend who once worked as one of those security screeners. Their trained goal is to make the passengers think they can't pull one over on the security personnel, and it seems that's enough.
That being said, they do screen baggage very carefully.
Part of security is intimidation. If you don't think you can breach the defenses and don't try - that's a win. But trying to use Israel as an example of 'how to do' airport security will fail for the simple reason that the Israelis are trying to protect only one large airport (Ben Gurion) - not hundreds of large ones and thousands of smaller ones. Some things just don't scale.
Further, Israeli security is openly racist -if you look Arabic, you're chances of getting most carefully screened is much higher than if you're Caucasian appearing. That wouldn't (so to speak) fly in the US.
It is more a lack of incentive.I work in assenger and air cargo, and rankly, most of our system are so old that it is hard to justify *any* security measure.
That's a new approach. Security through senescence.
My company manages IT on several hundred vessels, My experience is that navigation, engine and rudder control systems are not connected to the ship LAN and sat. uplink. Updates to these systems are done by cdrom or floppy disks. Most of our customers are very concerned about security, and they require frequent AV updates, firewalls and so on. https://www.palantir.no/
Didn't you see Jurassic Park II? If a T-rex can take over ship and ram it into a dock, certainly some 15 year old script kiddie in a cyber cafe somewhere in the third world could do horrible things!
Uh huh. Video 'chat' in the back seat of a parked car.
Add a pair of teenagers, sit back with some popcorn and watch the movie.
(If you're into that sort of thing).
Too late! She escaped to Arizona. Better call the Mexican army.
The problem here with the Raptor is that they replaced the bottled oxygen system, used for decades in dozens of other aircraft, with a complex compressor system that's hooked to the engines. In this particular accident, the plane shut the compressor system down and hence the oxygen. You had a new dependency that, on the surface, seems nuts.
The resolution of the fault required the pilot to manually start the back up system. For whatever reason, the pilot was unable to do so.
Yeah, bleeding edge is bleeding edge but the real problem is that the military has bypassed the prototype system. You build a demonstrator on paper that requires several new technologies. You get the contract and of course once your are building the aircraft, THEN you find big issues. By then you're pretty much committed to either leaving the problem alone, doing some sort of kludge that makes the aircraft more expensive / less dependable and / or delaying the program.
This has been seen in pretty much every high tech military hardware purchase in the last two decades. And it keeps happening.
"but also something just a touch smaller — a Venus."
If there's a Venus and no known Mars... then does that mean it's all women?
Sign me up!
Yea, they're sure to be really hot!
The smaller of the two planets, dubbed Kepler-20 e, is about the size of Venus, with a radius 0.87 times that of Earth. It orbits its star every 6 Earth days and sits at a temperature of 1,040 Kelvin — hot enough to vaporize any atmosphere and leave a solid hunk of silica- and iron-rich rock. Kepler-20 f, the larger planet with a radius 1.03 times that of Earth, has a 20-day orbit. As a result, it is a bit less scorching, at 705 Kelvin. At that temperature, says Fressin, hydrogen and helium wouldn’t survive in the atmosphere, but a shroud of water vapour might.
Seriously, google - do your own thing, don't just copy Apple over and over. It makes you look bad.
They have. Google is developing the first browser to have a three digit version number (to be rapidly followed by Mozilla).
The release candidate should be available next week or so.
Think of the children!
(You know, the ones with the 2000000+ UIDs)