The fact is people like to be able to archive data in a tangible format, but they will demand increased efficiency, especially as file sizes increase over time.
Hence Holographic Data Storage, dramatically increasing the data per square, or in this case cubic inch of medium, while possibly (as technology improves) still providing an inexpensive easy to store medium.
And quite frankly, I think our new robot overlords wouldn't settle for anything less.
As data storage/volume ratio increases, so does the throughput of the memory BUS that is the human race.... Gotta love all that legacy hardware.
In my area profits are down across the restaurant business, and it can only be due to one thing: Internet Recipe Sites.
It used to be that it took a trained professional to cook a meal, but now people can download recipes and try to do it all at home. And, with supermarkets all over, and too many people competing for restaurant-market-space it no wonder the industry is hurting.
I am sure I'd be making more money if not for recipesource.com, or allrecipes.com. And there are so many recipe sites, it's un-American. People are cooking for them selves and it's hurting the free market. When will it end?
I don't know what I'm going to do, and I'm sure the MPAA feels the same way.
MS Software isn't that bad.... Especially when you 'use a friend's disks'.
As Windows XP Pro prices approach those of Linux it's quality and usability increase dramatically. I still only use it on one PC, and run Linux for real work, but as a game machine 'Open-XP', as I like to call it, isn't a bad OS.
TV has been obsolete for a while now, and I for one am better of for it, at least slightly.
The internet can be almost as absorptive an activity, and not much better in many respects, but is at the very least an active, as opposed to purely passive activity.
In my case, no TV for about 5 yrs now has done wonders for my ability to think independently, and has the added benefit of creating a cultural rift between myself and the failing american infrastructure. Really though... What will happen when we all have to begin deciding what culture means to each of us, and the common bond of toilet-duck, and budweiser commercials is no longer there to cement our social tendencies and enforce a common slang?
Will we be forced to have enhanced vocabularies and proper grammar? Will we be more likely to draw our own conclusions about things, or will there still be some sort of streaming central media to guide our fragile minds along and prevent social dysfunction?
I, for one, would consider it a marked improvement if people were forced to seek out more interesting topics of conversation than Buffy's most recent exploits, and/or which one of the "Friends" is pregnant this week. Then again, I'm comfortable building, and revising my own values, and worldviews on any subject I come across. Will the majority ever be comfortable with this practice?
So what you're really saying is that DRM will destroy the music industry, not directly, but due to an inevitable breakdown in the quality of music... As these steps won't prevent any but the least educated, lowest common denominator listeners from actually purchasing the music more than a few times...
Thereby pushing indie furtherer in the direction of indie and pop more in the direction of pop...
Or, wait.... So really you're saying it won't change anything?!?
Coming from a primarily Linux background, I leave my PC on constantly. It's just a habit I've never broken...
This goes for my XP machine as well. I feel the need to reboot it maybe once a month due to a slight slow down... but even that is hard to pin-down, and often time I think it's really just my hard-drive that is overful, and that the reboot did nothing.
MS is inherrently evil... There can be no doubt there, however they do put out the occasional bit of good work... take Allegiance as an example of that (and it's even an open source MS product), excellent multi-player/first-person shooter/real-time strategy all in a space combat setting.
Of course, Nintendo wasn't hurt long term by their hestiation to innovate, but NEC got a good few months of sales out of their TurboGraphix-16 as a result, and even Sega's Genesis beat the Super Nintendo to the shelves... Ultimately, brand name recognition wins out though, and Sony has that right now if they have anything at all.
Used to help chair a LUG, and worked as a software designer for 3 years...
Don't get me wrong, I played FreeCiv for hours and hours, and even some of the other mediocre games available... but for variety and availability you can't beat windows...
It's like comparing... the NEC Turbographix 16 with comparable systems of the time. It was a great innovative system, great softs for it, but very limited marketability.
I'm a linux advocate, don't get me wrong. Also I devoutly believe OSS is the way to go, but the market currently caters to MS... and it's tough to break that completely in one sweeping move like this.
Of course, for the office environments this article seems to be geared towards there really is no downside to a complete linux migration.
Linux is great for being productive, but when you want to DL some trivial game and waste hours upon hours... You just can't beat a windows machine for that...
Should a civic or possibly even private organization get behind this auction and successfully acquire these items I am certain the financial and long terms benefits would be easily felt...
For instance, a Tech Museum in Seattle, Washington could do more to firmly establish such a location as the seat of such software development in at least the U.S. In addition they could charge an admission fee to recoup the cost of the acquisition and curatorial duties associated with the maintenance and operation of such a museum. The benefits could be quite multi-faceted....
Alternatively, a software magnate (quite likely MS for example), or an extremely well-funded upstart could acquire the collection for display in their corporate offices as a thorough exposition of 'everything that came before', hence making a very firm and eloquent statement about their place in the ranking of software/console manufacturers.
Definitely sounds like the old defender video game... or else the aliens really do sound like that and Atari managed to hit the nail on the head....
Either way, I'm scared.
This is the corporate sectoring preemptively gearing up for when your computer will make your product decisions for you...
I mean, please, we all know that computers prefer strange characters in there communications... just look at the wingdings character set.
I have a couple more questions... which may only serve to indicate my ignorance in both posing the above issue and asking these questions....
Taking this quote into consideration: "One seemingly paradoxical consequence of Hubble's observation is that galaxies sufficiently far away will be receding from us at a velocity faster than the speed of light. This distance is called the Hubble radius, and is commonly referred to as the horizon in analogy with a black hole horizon."
Wouldn't it be assumed that, while the Universe is definitely expanding, the distance being observed is simply this "Hubble Radius"?
How could we ever make realistic, meaningful observations about the size of the universe when we acknowledge, by means of this and general relativity that at a certain point the expansion of the universe prevents us from observing things more than a specific distance away, for when they reach this distance, defined conceptually by this Hubble radius, they would essentially become unobservable?
To rephrase this you could say that when things get far enough away they will be receding, with the expansion of space-time at a rate faster than the speed of light, and light coming from them will no longer be observable.
Wouldn't this explain why the universe has this 'symmetrical' appearance from our point of observation?
Wouldn't it make more sense to say that this 13.7 billion light-year radius says something not about the size of the universe but in fact about it's rate of expansion?
Somehow this seems like something that should be in the scientific equivalent of the Weekly World News, or the National Enquirer....
Read this quote.... (which seems to provide a basis for other comments)
"The universe is about 13.7 billion years old. Light reaching us from the earliest known galaxies has been travelling, therefore, for more than 13 billion years. So one might assume that the radius of the universe is 13.7 billion light-years and that the whole shebang is double that, or 27.4 billion light-years wide."
What is our frame of reference here.... Are we still assuming we are the center of the universe, even after all the progress we've made in a variety of sciences???
Doesn't this seem to rule out the possibility of light which simply hasn't reached us yet (i.e. if we were NOT located in the middle of the Universe and it was in fact still expanding)?
The likely angle here is that they don't want their similar already established contracts to rethink their current contracts based upon student response at Ohio University or anywhere else.
Can't say I blame them as they are likely on shakey ground considering their past exploits, and are doing all they can to save their skin...
Chances are this will have nothing but a negative effect... Gawd knows college students have plenty of time to read/. *points to self*
If/. had won for some category, the net result would have probably ended up with there being/. shirts at Target (or at least Electronics Boutique), and the vast majority of current readers never coming back again....
We don't need to see a Webby to know/. is incomparable. I'm more than content to while away hours of time here, with or without recognition of that fact.
As a tech-saavy student, I really must agree.....
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I spend an inordinate amount of time online (reading/., playing games, etc), or fiddling with other aspects of my computer when I really should be studying (case in point I have a term paper due tomorrow and finals all next week).
As an independent college student, I often consider canceling my connection (except maybe a dial-up for file storage somewhere) and uninstalling every game I own...
Sometimes I even think I should hawk my computer entirely...
Would I ever?NO!
Do I think that the computer and the internet are useful tools when used correctly?ABSOLUTELY!!!
My point is that it forms such an easy, malleable and compliant distraction that.... well, sometimes it's tough to buckle down and get anything at all done.
Do I think this effects the experience of young persons in a class-room setting? Yep...
I think that computers do have a role in certain educational environments (like computer science, and mathematical modeling for the sciences), and that students should be required to make use of computers in their studies(typing, and research skills), but I must accede that for the most part computers in the classroom do little or no good, and wouldn't be missed were they not present.
Call me a troll if you will, but I speak from the gut and past experience on this... I could be getting so much else done... BUT it is so damned enjoyable reading/.;)
Problem is that these days China has access to nuclear weapons.... Might not the best thing that could happen to a country, or to the world for that matter.
Honestly, this could be indicative of a very frightening trend. Let's hope the youth of China don't get organized.
I really must agree that this trash is not only trash, but is very, very poorly written trash...
One would think they would clearly label quotes and provide facts to back up statements, but this is clearly the type of article designed simply to preach to the choir; designed not to inform or to educate, but simply to rouse pre-existing passions and fears directed at misunderstood technologies....
To hell with 'em, let the luddites rot in their backwoods Alabama suburb... They can come to us when they need tech support on their hooks, buttons, and water-wheels...;^)
The reporter didn't have a clue about newsgroups when they were talking to me and he kept pushing for me to talk about porn.
And what, pray tell, is wrong with talking about porn... ???
That sounds like a pleasant afternoon to me...:P
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The fact is people like to be able to archive data in a tangible format, but they will demand increased efficiency, especially as file sizes increase over time.
Hence Holographic Data Storage, dramatically increasing the data per square, or in this case cubic inch of medium, while possibly (as technology improves) still providing an inexpensive easy to store medium.
And quite frankly, I think our new robot overlords wouldn't settle for anything less.
As data storage/volume ratio increases, so does the throughput of the memory BUS that is the human race.... Gotta love all that legacy hardware.
I know how the MPAA feels...
In my area profits are down across the restaurant business, and it can only be due to one thing: Internet Recipe Sites.
It used to be that it took a trained professional to cook a meal, but now people can download recipes and try to do it all at home. And, with supermarkets all over, and too many people competing for restaurant-market-space it no wonder the industry is hurting.
I am sure I'd be making more money if not for recipesource.com, or allrecipes.com. And there are so many recipe sites, it's un-American. People are cooking for them selves and it's hurting the free market. When will it end?
I don't know what I'm going to do, and I'm sure the MPAA feels the same way.
MS Software isn't that bad.... Especially when you 'use a friend's disks'.
As Windows XP Pro prices approach those of Linux it's quality and usability increase dramatically. I still only use it on one PC, and run Linux for real work, but as a game machine 'Open-XP', as I like to call it, isn't a bad OS.
Argh, I better go feed my parrot.
TV has been obsolete for a while now, and I for one am better of for it, at least slightly. The internet can be almost as absorptive an activity, and not much better in many respects, but is at the very least an active, as opposed to purely passive activity. In my case, no TV for about 5 yrs now has done wonders for my ability to think independently, and has the added benefit of creating a cultural rift between myself and the failing american infrastructure. Really though... What will happen when we all have to begin deciding what culture means to each of us, and the common bond of toilet-duck, and budweiser commercials is no longer there to cement our social tendencies and enforce a common slang? Will we be forced to have enhanced vocabularies and proper grammar? Will we be more likely to draw our own conclusions about things, or will there still be some sort of streaming central media to guide our fragile minds along and prevent social dysfunction? I, for one, would consider it a marked improvement if people were forced to seek out more interesting topics of conversation than Buffy's most recent exploits, and/or which one of the "Friends" is pregnant this week. Then again, I'm comfortable building, and revising my own values, and worldviews on any subject I come across. Will the majority ever be comfortable with this practice?
Sorry about that...
I really should use the 'preview' button more often... I'd probably catch mistakes like that....
So what you're really saying is that DRM will destroy the music industry, not directly, but due to an inevitable breakdown in the quality of music... As these steps won't prevent any but the least educated, lowest common denominator listeners from actually purchasing the music more than a few times...
Thereby pushing indie furtherer in the direction of indie and pop more in the direction of pop...
Or, wait.... So really you're saying it won't change anything?!?
Who said anything about marriage...
We were just asking were the girls were. Right?
No, I must say this poster is correct...
Coming from a primarily Linux background, I leave my PC on constantly. It's just a habit I've never broken...
This goes for my XP machine as well. I feel the need to reboot it maybe once a month due to a slight slow down... but even that is hard to pin-down, and often time I think it's really just my hard-drive that is overful, and that the reboot did nothing.
MS is inherrently evil... There can be no doubt there, however they do put out the occasional bit of good work... take Allegiance as an example of that (and it's even an open source MS product), excellent multi-player/first-person shooter/real-time strategy all in a space combat setting.
Well currently they are still winning w/their PS2 console.
"We listen to our players," Bill White, a Nintendo executive, told the press in 1989, "They tell us they are extremely happy with the existing system and are totally involved with the games. We haven't maxed out our 8-bit system yet." This attitude would leave Nintendo in the dust of the coming 16-bit revolution.
Of course, Nintendo wasn't hurt long term by their hestiation to innovate, but NEC got a good few months of sales out of their TurboGraphix-16 as a result, and even Sega's Genesis beat the Super Nintendo to the shelves... Ultimately, brand name recognition wins out though, and Sony has that right now if they have anything at all.
Yeah, most of the major ones...
Used to help chair a LUG, and worked as a software designer for 3 years...
Don't get me wrong, I played FreeCiv for hours and hours, and even some of the other mediocre games available... but for variety and availability you can't beat windows...
It's like comparing... the NEC Turbographix 16 with comparable systems of the time. It was a great innovative system, great softs for it, but very limited marketability.
I'm a linux advocate, don't get me wrong. Also I devoutly believe OSS is the way to go, but the market currently caters to MS... and it's tough to break that completely in one sweeping move like this.
Of course, for the office environments this article seems to be geared towards there really is no downside to a complete linux migration.
Linux is great for being productive, but when you want to DL some trivial game and waste hours upon hours... You just can't beat a windows machine for that...
And I hate MS...
Should a civic or possibly even private organization get behind this auction and successfully acquire these items I am certain the financial and long terms benefits would be easily felt...
For instance, a Tech Museum in Seattle, Washington could do more to firmly establish such a location as the seat of such software development in at least the U.S. In addition they could charge an admission fee to recoup the cost of the acquisition and curatorial duties associated with the maintenance and operation of such a museum. The benefits could be quite multi-faceted....
Alternatively, a software magnate (quite likely MS for example), or an extremely well-funded upstart could acquire the collection for display in their corporate offices as a thorough exposition of 'everything that came before', hence making a very firm and eloquent statement about their place in the ranking of software/console manufacturers.
Definitely sounds like the old defender video game... or else the aliens really do sound like that and Atari managed to hit the nail on the head.... Either way, I'm scared.
Well I have to be able to write at least, so then I can post in disagreement with the opinion about the stuff I never read... right? ;-)
This is the corporate sectoring preemptively gearing up for when your computer will make your product decisions for you... I mean, please, we all know that computers prefer strange characters in there communications... just look at the wingdings character set.
Okay, well.....
I have a couple more questions... which may only serve to indicate my ignorance in both posing the above issue and asking these questions....
Taking this quote into consideration:
"One seemingly paradoxical consequence of Hubble's observation is that galaxies sufficiently far away will be receding from us at a velocity faster than the speed of light. This distance is called the Hubble radius, and is commonly referred to as the horizon in analogy with a black hole horizon."
Wouldn't it be assumed that, while the Universe is definitely expanding, the distance being observed is simply this "Hubble Radius"?
How could we ever make realistic, meaningful observations about the size of the universe when we acknowledge, by means of this and general relativity that at a certain point the expansion of the universe prevents us from observing things more than a specific distance away, for when they reach this distance, defined conceptually by this Hubble radius, they would essentially become unobservable?
To rephrase this you could say that when things get far enough away they will be receding, with the expansion of space-time at a rate faster than the speed of light, and light coming from them will no longer be observable.
Wouldn't this explain why the universe has this 'symmetrical' appearance from our point of observation?
Wouldn't it make more sense to say that this 13.7 billion light-year radius says something not about the size of the universe but in fact about it's rate of expansion?
Somehow this seems like something that should be in the scientific equivalent of the Weekly World News, or the National Enquirer....
Read this quote.... (which seems to provide a basis for other comments)
"The universe is about 13.7 billion years old. Light reaching us from the earliest known galaxies has been travelling, therefore, for more than 13 billion years. So one might assume that the radius of the universe is 13.7 billion light-years and that the whole shebang is double that, or 27.4 billion light-years wide."
What is our frame of reference here.... Are we still assuming we are the center of the universe, even after all the progress we've made in a variety of sciences???
Doesn't this seem to rule out the possibility of light which simply hasn't reached us yet (i.e. if we were NOT located in the middle of the Universe and it was in fact still expanding)?
I read 1x AGP and I think terminal... This is not a game worthy machine???
/. effect...)
Is this just me??? Does that simply indicate that there is only one AGP slot... not the speed of the AGP bus?
Somebody fill me in here, I must be missing something.... (and I would read the article but for the
The comment was actually meant to be funny....
.... I'll take that as a compliment though... ;)
The likely angle here is that they don't want their similar already established contracts to rethink their current contracts based upon student response at Ohio University or anywhere else.
/. *points to self*
Can't say I blame them as they are likely on shakey ground considering their past exploits, and are doing all they can to save their skin...
Chances are this will have nothing but a negative effect... Gawd knows college students have plenty of time to read
If /. had won for some category, the net result would have probably ended up with there being /. shirts at Target (or at least Electronics Boutique), and the vast majority of current readers never coming back again....
/. is incomparable. I'm more than content to while away hours of time here, with or without recognition of that fact.
We don't need to see a Webby to know
I spend an inordinate amount of time online (reading /., playing games, etc), or fiddling with other aspects of my computer when I really should be studying (case in point I have a term paper due tomorrow and finals all next week).
/. ;)
As an independent college student, I often consider canceling my connection (except maybe a dial-up for file storage somewhere) and uninstalling every game I own...
Sometimes I even think I should hawk my computer entirely...
Would I ever? NO!
Do I think that the computer and the internet are useful tools when used correctly? ABSOLUTELY!!!
My point is that it forms such an easy, malleable and compliant distraction that.... well, sometimes it's tough to buckle down and get anything at all done.
Do I think this effects the experience of young persons in a class-room setting? Yep...
I think that computers do have a role in certain educational environments (like computer science, and mathematical modeling for the sciences), and that students should be required to make use of computers in their studies(typing, and research skills), but I must accede that for the most part computers in the classroom do little or no good, and wouldn't be missed were they not present.
Call me a troll if you will, but I speak from the gut and past experience on this... I could be getting so much else done... BUT it is so damned enjoyable reading
Well, isn't this the sort of circumstance that allowed Mao Tse-Tung to seize power??
All it will take is a few careful words from the right leader and we'll see all of China catapult back into the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Anti-Rightist Movement, and finally back into the midst of the Great Leap Forward.
Problem is that these days China has access to nuclear weapons.... Might not the best thing that could happen to a country, or to the world for that matter.
Honestly, this could be indicative of a very frightening trend. Let's hope the youth of China don't get organized.
One would think they would clearly label quotes and provide facts to back up statements, but this is clearly the type of article designed simply to preach to the choir; designed not to inform or to educate, but simply to rouse pre-existing passions and fears directed at misunderstood technologies....
To hell with 'em, let the luddites rot in their backwoods Alabama suburb... They can come to us when they need tech support on their hooks, buttons, and water-wheels... ;^)
The reporter didn't have a clue about newsgroups when they were talking to me and he kept pushing for me to talk about porn. And what, pray tell, is wrong with talking about porn... ??? That sounds like a pleasant afternoon to me... :P