I think this is a really interesting article. I, myself, have a blog where I write about how new technologies are modifying our way of life. That doesn't mean writing about USB as if it was new, ha ha ha.;)
I think blogs are great because by posting links to my blog to Slashdot and other sites I can make money through the Google ads on my page (targeted text ads! Isn't that fantastic?) It's really a great way to make money and make yourself heard (several people have wrote me to let me know how interesting my blog is, and I really feel it is an important part of the Internet culture of technologically advanced people such as ourselves) without doing so much yourself. In short, blogs such as my blog are great tools.
My friend runs a small record shop. The basic trends he sees are:
People want vinyl records. They see it as a format from simpler times. They hate CDs for any number of reasons and vinyl lets them just listen to music.
People buy CDs, copy them and sell them back. For those that rip they use MP3 and they don't care about quality. They hate any compressed format other than MP3 because it's one extra choice they don't want to think about.
The only people that are happy with digital music are the ones that have an iPod because they see it has being their whole collection in a little box. People who listen to music on their computer jukebox, or any of the competing portable players complain about the experience for any number of reasons.
The people who do know about DRM or any new formats have sworn to never use them.
Overall from what I see, the trend is to actively resist any kind of format that requires too much decision making, too much restriction, or which makes too much extra work. This negative wave has extended back against CDs and no one wants the majority of them because they have no physical character. I think from here on out, all new consumer audio and video formats are going to have a huge problem with adoption. The effort to adopt them is well past the acceptable limit of consumers.
I don't think any of these will really take off, at least not in quite some time. CD's are "good enough" for almost everyone.
Here are some details about the concept of Heracles Maps.
Decades worth of detailed, accumulated geographical information is now available to front-line special operations troops in a concentrated, portable, easy-to-use laptop package created by the University of Southern California.
HeraclesMaps can instantly solve life-and-death tactical questions like, "Help us find a route from point A to B where we cannot be observed (or shot at) by someone at point C."
It can instantly dissect the geography of a city, showing users the electrical power grid, all rail, roads, pathways, and other man-made features, plus much more both in map and photographic form.
Windows 3 ran in real mode on anything less than a 386, so sorry, it didn't switch to anything. I know 286's have some sort of protected mode but Windows didn't use it.
Microsoft want you to believe that while, Microsoft software may be more in the purchase price department compared to open source software, it's less in implementation costs or maintenance costs, and its TCO will be lower.
This is, of course, considering the plentiful viruses, worms and other security issues, not the case in reality. The winner in this case is Open Source software.
Open Source software, of the BSD kind and the GPL kind, has totally changed the way we think about and work with software. One day, we will be able to scientifically determine what software we need to suit our needs. We will know ahead of time exactly what limits and what capabilities each piece of software has. IT managers will be able to sort through real facts based on real research, rather than a bunch of shallow articles and biased reports. Software will survive on its merits alone.
The whole industry is going to benefit by this, in a large, large way. The question one day will no longer be "Microsoft or Linux?" but "Which Open Source software should we use, and why?"
Microsoft is severely threatened and it knows it. Pay no attention to it and it will eventually go away.
I have done extensive research into this subject after discovering it, and I'd like to offer some more information:
Here is the concept of the 'pick and drop' technique, which was demonstrated last April in Vienna, Austria, at the CHI 2004 conference.
Dr Rekimoto's lab has extended the drag and drop technique used in most PC software to create a 'pick and drop' technique. So the owner of a handheld computer can pick up a file from their device, using a special pen, and drop it onto the screen of another computer, by placing the pen on its screen.
The pick and drop technique would make it easy for two colleagues in a meeting to exchange files between their laptop computers, new acquaintances to pass each other electronic business cards, or friends to swap references to websites or music tracks they like.
Rekimoto and his team also developed the 'pick and beam' approach, suitable for lectures. You select an object on your screen and you drop it on a dashboard.
Documents can be dragged using a special pen from a computer desktop into these spaces. There they can be spread out or exchanged, allowing people to work with them almost as if they were paper documents.
You'll find photographs illustrating the two techniques and some others at Sony Interaction Laboratory.
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I think this is a really interesting article. I, myself, have a blog where I write about how new technologies are modifying our way of life. That doesn't mean writing about USB as if it was new, ha ha ha. ;)
I think blogs are great because by posting links to my blog to Slashdot and other sites I can make money through the Google ads on my page (targeted text ads! Isn't that fantastic?) It's really a great way to make money and make yourself heard (several people have wrote me to let me know how interesting my blog is, and I really feel it is an important part of the Internet culture of technologically advanced people such as ourselves) without doing so much yourself. In short, blogs such as my blog are great tools.
My friend runs a small record shop. The basic trends he sees are:
Overall from what I see, the trend is to actively resist any kind of format that requires too much decision making, too much restriction, or which makes too much extra work. This negative wave has extended back against CDs and no one wants the majority of them because they have no physical character. I think from here on out, all new consumer audio and video formats are going to have a huge problem with adoption. The effort to adopt them is well past the acceptable limit of consumers.
I don't think any of these will really take off, at least not in quite some time. CD's are "good enough" for almost everyone.
Here are some details about the concept of Heracles Maps.
It can instantly dissect the geography of a city, showing users the electrical power grid, all rail, roads, pathways, and other man-made features, plus much more both in map and photographic form.
Windows 3 ran in real mode on anything less than a 386, so sorry, it didn't switch to anything. I know 286's have some sort of protected mode but Windows didn't use it.
This is a load of FUD.
Microsoft want you to believe that while, Microsoft software may be more in the purchase price department compared to open source software, it's less in implementation costs or maintenance costs, and its TCO will be lower.
This is, of course, considering the plentiful viruses, worms and other security issues, not the case in reality. The winner in this case is Open Source software.
Open Source software, of the BSD kind and the GPL kind, has totally changed the way we think about and work with software. One day, we will be able to scientifically determine what software we need to suit our needs. We will know ahead of time exactly what limits and what capabilities each piece of software has. IT managers will be able to sort through real facts based on real research, rather than a bunch of shallow articles and biased reports. Software will survive on its merits alone.
The whole industry is going to benefit by this, in a large, large way. The question one day will no longer be "Microsoft or Linux?" but "Which Open Source software should we use, and why?"
Microsoft is severely threatened and it knows it. Pay no attention to it and it will eventually go away.
I have done extensive research into this subject after discovering it, and I'd like to offer some more information:
Here is the concept of the 'pick and drop' technique, which was demonstrated last April in Vienna, Austria, at the CHI 2004 conference.
Rekimoto and his team also developed the 'pick and beam' approach, suitable for lectures. You select an object on your screen and you drop it on a dashboard.
You'll find photographs illustrating the two techniques and some others at Sony Interaction Laboratory.