and if you think it will be around for ages, you also dont know much... Display Port is rapidly replacing it. HDMI will end up as the shortest lived connector spec out there.
Display Port is *not* rapidly replacing HDMI in *ALL* markets. Maybe in the high end office monitor market (where HDMI never made it into the high resolution monitors in the first place)... but nowhere else.
How many TV's have display port ports on them? How many computer monitors aimed at consumers? How many non-apple consumer laptops? Virtually none.
I'd say that copper based Thunderbolt has a much better chance of being the next "one interface to rule them all" (for short distance runs) than plain display port since it combines display port AND PCI E on a mini display port connector. There's simply no reason for the consumer market to move from HDMI to Display Port at the moment, or in the next couple of years. I'd say that HDMI will last longer Component Video on consumer video, and has already lasted longer than the DVI interface on mainstream TV's.
Oh, btw, I agree that the HDMI connector is a POS, and the use of the DVI/HDMI spec for consumer audio/video where long runs are sometimes necessary is also garbage, but I just disagree that it won't be around for much longer.
Dr. Shechner did not take into account the stereotypical rules for campy action movies in his analysis. That's a major flaw that invalidates his whole analysis. George Lucas on the other hand, is well acquainted with the rules and all his action movies follow them to a T.
Since Indy is the star of the action movie, he cannot die, unless it's a plot device where later in the movie he gets reanimated.
So even if Indy only had his signature Fedora and Leather Jacket and no fridge, he would have survived the blast with just a few scratches. QED
I personally know of two people with masters degrees in CS granted from a respected State University that know squat about programming, let alone the process of engineering.
I'd be better off hiring a high school drop out to help me program.
In my experience, people who didn't get an undergraduate degree in Computer Science/Engineering, and don't have an underlying interest in software, but got Masters Degrees in Computer Science, have all turned out to be the most incompetent Software Engineers I've ever worked with, because
a) they have no underlying knowledge of how programs actually work
b) they think they are experts just because they have a "MS in CS"
2) Are we really that proud that something we built lasted 8 years? that's like the breaking in period for a diesel Mercedes with far more (actual, not shipping) miles on it
Mars is a harsh mistress...
+1
Some details to back you up, ae1294:
Temperature in summer days/nights range from: 20 C to -90 C
Let's see a Mercedes work in that type of environment (even at earth normal atmospheric pressures)
Also there's been NO MAINTENANCE done on the rover for 8 years.
Everybody, the president included, is trying to make this out as a simple problem that has a cut and dry solution.
The solution is really quite complex, and both ideas are correct and both are wrong.
The crux of it is, IMHO, that to have a strong economy, there needs to be a COMPLETE MIX of jobs, both skilled and unskilled. Some people just don't have the genetic predisposition to write software, and excel at more physical tasks and vice versa.
The future of the US economy depends on a job market that allows as many Americans that wish to work, be employed at a liveable wage. How can we reach that goal? Well, that's where everybody knows the answer and in reality nobody really does.:-O
You may not like his ideas, but he doesn't flip flop on them.
Sort of like my Dad: Would never admit that he was wrong when he was 100% proven wrong, that's one part of his personality I hate with a passion.
That's the type of person we *really* want to be running this country.
Stubborn, unwilling to change position when proven wrong and willing to take the country down with him to prove that he "stayed true to his original, incorrect views."
We already had one instance of this with the continuation of the Iraq war even when the original reasons for entry had been proven false... that stubborness cost thousands of human lives...
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I actually slogged through reading the whole Original Article and it seems like the editors at CIO don't know the difference between USER incompetence and incompetence in the IT department. Most of the "USER" issues were issues with the IT group, others were systematic failures... I particularly like the one where "IT" comes in and saves the day when "IT" diff's a developers' files and finds he's a bad developer, whereas the whole software Engineering department couldn't figure it out... yeah, right.
Just because somebody "wrote it" online, doesn't mean it's true.
Most probably, CNET just published a quote from "some guy" without verifying the facts first.
I guess the people in the US will have to come to grips that the belief of a few zealots that the Earth is 6000 years old since that's what it says in the bible, that the idea will eventually become the "TRUTH". Goodbye scientific thought and facts... I welcome the new world view... that Paul Revere rode around shooting guns and warning the British, and that being able to see another country from the state you live in gives you experience in foreign affairs.
Getting UL or CSA certification says NOTHING about the quality of the device. It's all about electrical safety.
Basically, a certification means that a device won't catch fire if it shorts out and won't electrocute the crap out of you in certain short circuit cases.
Plus the manufacturer submits all units for test, so it's up the manufacturer to ensure that "production" units are identical to the ones submitted for testing.
It's completely useless, the minimum GUARANTEED transfer speed will the same for all carriers: 0 bits per second
Stupid non-technical congresswoman doesn't realize that wireless connections can have dead spots, so claiming any more than 0 would be fraud.:rolleyes:
Damn you murdocj, you just gave away the major plot point for sweeps week in the first season.;)
Other than a core group of players, who's going to be online at the exact moment the episode is aired. I *never* watch anything that's not DVR'd these days... TV conforms to my schedule and not the other way around.
Plus how does one keep spoilers from spreading between time zones?
Yep, just because some hacktivist group posts a list of emails and passwords, supposedly taken from a pron website, all the text in it *must* be 100% true.
Because nobody would ever put in a fake email address when subscribing to a porn site, even if we give lulzsecurity the benefit of the doubt and the list is 100% authentic.;)
I'd personally be more concerned that actually going to lulzsecurity's website to fetch the list would have them place an exploit to a vulnerability in my browser on that page.
It's not like Tepco didn't know that the basement was flooded the minute after the Tsunami subsided. They could have immediately requested external aid to airlift pumps with generators in to clear the water in the basement since all their equipment was destroyed. The Japanese SDF would definitely have such resources available, and by the off chance they didn't, the US Military would have been available to help out. Tepco requested no external aid till the Japanese Government pretty much forced them to accept external aid SEVERAL DAYS after the earthquake.
So that's why Tepco brought in their own Generator Trucks to supply power to the emergency cooling system, because it couldn't possible work, eh?
Remember the emergency cooling system isn't the same as the normal cooling system. From what I've been told, power is needed to operate the valves in the emergency cooling system, rather than pump the water around, since the heat of the nuclear reaction does a pretty good job of keeping the water circulating in the closed system. It's also the reason why newer generation reactors now have 100% passive emergency cooling systems, so it doesn't fail if power isn't restored within a certain time frame. So the power requirements to keep the emergency cooling system running is actually quite modest.
The Tsunami knocked out the power, but if it knocked out the valve control systems and pumps, why didn't all three reactors melt down at the same time?
How come they started overheating when their back up batteries ran out of power. With the first reactor's batteries failing earlier due to tsunami damage. Mere coincidence? I think not.
The reason the reactors overheated and melted down was because power was not restored to the reactors' emergency cooling systems before their batteries ran down. If Tepco didn't try to handle everything internally for the first few days, they would have gotten power hooked up to the cooling systems much sooner. The Japanese Self Defense forces could have flown in some generators if requested and if they didn't have any I'm sure the US Military would have been glad to help out and airlift a few generators to help avoid a nuclear meltdown.
The key is that Tepco didn't request any aid from outside sources till it was too late and was forced to by the Japanese government.
From what I can see it's a case of ineptitude by Tepco employees that made this situation much worse than it should be been.
Sony Japan is probably blaming it on the incompetent *Americans* since the data breach occurred in Servers located in San Diego. Thus the foreigners created a mess for the parent company.
Cynical Mode Off...
OP: "But until digital principal photography completely usurps celluloid, this may be good news for Kodak, who now have even more reason to lament the death of Stanley Kubrick."
So if Android Really is Open Source, it really doesn't matter what Google says, because anybody who has the ability can modify Honeycomb Android such that it *will* work well on smartphones.
Also the fact that Froyo was *not* for tablets didn't prevent many manufacturers from putting Froyo on tablets.
However I do agree that without modifications, the base builds of Android for Tablets aren't optimal for Smartphones and vice versa.
Were the dolphins consulted by the snobby humans that *ASSUMED* they wanted "non human person" status?
It's mighty speciest of a few Humans to make the decision for the Dolphins. Maybe Dolphins would consider it to be an insult to be classified as a "person".
You certainly missed the point completely. You picked one sentence out of the whole article to pick on and ignored the conclusion.
I would bet that if your Greek professor was "forced" to use English QWERTY keyboards for the rest of his career, he'd grow proficient in typing on it.
Cook's point is that somebody's who's daily job requires the use of a keyboard should NOT be a slow hunt an peck typist, he/she should have at least a BASIC proficiency in typing.
However, one could argue that the companies can get top rung foreigners for average US worker prices, thus are really underpaying the foreigners.
Why ignore the top rung US workers or were you implying that US workers can't be top rung?
If your willingness to turn any comment into an insult to the US and your lack of critical thought process is typical of Americans, then the US really needs to open up the H-1B floodgates to add some diversity.;-)
Let me explain: Top rung AMERICANS won't work for very long for AVERAGE wages because they can go elsewhere in the US whenever a top-rung offer comes by at will, so it would be silly for a company to hire a top rung American at average wages under normal conditions. However, if a top-rung foreigner who graduated from a US school doesn't find work in the US, they GET KICKED OUT OF THE COUNTRY, so may take a lower wage than he/she should get. In addition, changing companies while on an H-1B visa is not easy, especially if the previous company is not cooperative. If new visa paperwork is required (that's if there are any Visa's left for the year) the prospective employee has to be outside the country and not be working for the company. This pretty much locks most H-1B workers with the American company that hired them for the duration of their visa, which for the worker hopefully leads to Permanent Resident status (that's the carrot a lot of companies dangle in front of H-1B visa workers, and some don't ever intend to go through with the "next step".)
Hey, it may hurt the bottom-rung Americans from getting jobs, but I'd rather work with top-rung foreigners than bottom-rung Americans, cause they both pay the same taxes, but one strengthens the company, and the other is a liability.
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and if you think it will be around for ages, you also dont know much... Display Port is rapidly replacing it. HDMI will end up as the shortest lived connector spec out there.
Display Port is *not* rapidly replacing HDMI in *ALL* markets. Maybe in the high end office monitor market (where HDMI never made it into the high resolution monitors in the first place) ... but nowhere else.
How many TV's have display port ports on them? How many computer monitors aimed at consumers? How many non-apple consumer laptops? Virtually none.
I'd say that copper based Thunderbolt has a much better chance of being the next "one interface to rule them all" (for short distance runs) than plain display port since it combines display port AND PCI E on a mini display port connector. There's simply no reason for the consumer market to move from HDMI to Display Port at the moment, or in the next couple of years. I'd say that HDMI will last longer Component Video on consumer video, and has already lasted longer than the DVI interface on mainstream TV's.
Oh, btw, I agree that the HDMI connector is a POS, and the use of the DVI/HDMI spec for consumer audio/video where long runs are sometimes necessary is also garbage, but I just disagree that it won't be around for much longer.
Since Indy is the star of the action movie, he cannot die, unless it's a plot device where later in the movie he gets reanimated.
So even if Indy only had his signature Fedora and Leather Jacket and no fridge, he would have survived the blast with just a few scratches. QED
I personally know of two people with masters degrees in CS granted from a respected State University that know squat about programming, let alone the process of engineering.
I'd be better off hiring a high school drop out to help me program.
In my experience, people who didn't get an undergraduate degree in Computer Science/Engineering, and don't have an underlying interest in software, but got Masters Degrees in Computer Science, have all turned out to be the most incompetent Software Engineers I've ever worked with, because
a) they have no underlying knowledge of how programs actually work
b) they think they are experts just because they have a "MS in CS"
2) Are we really that proud that something we built lasted 8 years? that's like the breaking in period for a diesel Mercedes with far more (actual, not shipping) miles on it
Mars is a harsh mistress...
+1 Some details to back you up, ae1294: Temperature in summer days/nights range from: 20 C to -90 C
Let's see a Mercedes work in that type of environment (even at earth normal atmospheric pressures)
Also there's been NO MAINTENANCE done on the rover for 8 years.
Yes, we should be proud, very proud.
The solution is really quite complex, and both ideas are correct and both are wrong.
The crux of it is, IMHO, that to have a strong economy, there needs to be a COMPLETE MIX of jobs, both skilled and unskilled. Some people just don't have the genetic predisposition to write software, and excel at more physical tasks and vice versa.
The future of the US economy depends on a job market that allows as many Americans that wish to work, be employed at a liveable wage. How can we reach that goal? Well, that's where everybody knows the answer and in reality nobody really does. :-O
You may not like his ideas, but he doesn't flip flop on them.
Sort of like my Dad: Would never admit that he was wrong when he was 100% proven wrong, that's one part of his personality I hate with a passion.
That's the type of person we *really* want to be running this country.
Stubborn, unwilling to change position when proven wrong and willing to take the country down with him to prove that he "stayed true to his original, incorrect views."
We already had one instance of this with the continuation of the Iraq war even when the original reasons for entry had been proven false... that stubborness cost thousands of human lives...
I actually slogged through reading the whole Original Article and it seems like the editors at CIO don't know the difference between USER incompetence and incompetence in the IT department. Most of the "USER" issues were issues with the IT group, others were systematic failures... I particularly like the one where "IT" comes in and saves the day when "IT" diff's a developers' files and finds he's a bad developer, whereas the whole software Engineering department couldn't figure it out... yeah, right.
Just because somebody "wrote it" online, doesn't mean it's true. Most probably, CNET just published a quote from "some guy" without verifying the facts first.
Nobody else has a 9.7 in screen, so they can't sell the surplus screens to some other tablet manufacturer,
Umm, you seem to have a weird definition of "nobody".
The BEST SELLING tablets: the iPad and iPad2 both have 9.7" 4:3 screens. Rumored to be exactly the same model as the HP Touchpad...
Stop spreading incorrect information.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
I guess the people in the US will have to come to grips that the belief of a few zealots that the Earth is 6000 years old since that's what it says in the bible, that the idea will eventually become the "TRUTH". Goodbye scientific thought and facts... I welcome the new world view... that Paul Revere rode around shooting guns and warning the British, and that being able to see another country from the state you live in gives you experience in foreign affairs.
Getting UL or CSA certification says NOTHING about the quality of the device. It's all about electrical safety.
Basically, a certification means that a device won't catch fire if it shorts out and won't electrocute the crap out of you in certain short circuit cases.
Plus the manufacturer submits all units for test, so it's up the manufacturer to ensure that "production" units are identical to the ones submitted for testing.
It's completely useless, the minimum GUARANTEED transfer speed will the same for all carriers: 0 bits per second
:rolleyes:
Stupid non-technical congresswoman doesn't realize that wireless connections can have dead spots, so claiming any more than 0 would be fraud.
Damn you murdocj, you just gave away the major plot point for sweeps week in the first season. ;)
Other than a core group of players, who's going to be online at the exact moment the episode is aired. I *never* watch anything that's not DVR'd these days... TV conforms to my schedule and not the other way around.
Plus how does one keep spoilers from spreading between time zones?
Yep, just because some hacktivist group posts a list of emails and passwords, supposedly taken from a pron website, all the text in it *must* be 100% true.
;)
Because nobody would ever put in a fake email address when subscribing to a porn site, even if we give lulzsecurity the benefit of the doubt and the list is 100% authentic.
I'd personally be more concerned that actually going to lulzsecurity's website to fetch the list would have them place an exploit to a vulnerability in my browser on that page.
It's not like Tepco didn't know that the basement was flooded the minute after the Tsunami subsided. They could have immediately requested external aid to airlift pumps with generators in to clear the water in the basement since all their equipment was destroyed. The Japanese SDF would definitely have such resources available, and by the off chance they didn't, the US Military would have been available to help out. Tepco requested no external aid till the Japanese Government pretty much forced them to accept external aid SEVERAL DAYS after the earthquake.
So that's why Tepco brought in their own Generator Trucks to supply power to the emergency cooling system, because it couldn't possible work, eh?
Remember the emergency cooling system isn't the same as the normal cooling system. From what I've been told, power is needed to operate the valves in the emergency cooling system, rather than pump the water around, since the heat of the nuclear reaction does a pretty good job of keeping the water circulating in the closed system. It's also the reason why newer generation reactors now have 100% passive emergency cooling systems, so it doesn't fail if power isn't restored within a certain time frame. So the power requirements to keep the emergency cooling system running is actually quite modest.
Tepco is shifting blame AGAIN.
The Tsunami knocked out the power, but if it knocked out the valve control systems and pumps, why didn't all three reactors melt down at the same time?
How come they started overheating when their back up batteries ran out of power. With the first reactor's batteries failing earlier due to tsunami damage. Mere coincidence? I think not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents
The reason the reactors overheated and melted down was because power was not restored to the reactors' emergency cooling systems before their batteries ran down. If Tepco didn't try to handle everything internally for the first few days, they would have gotten power hooked up to the cooling systems much sooner. The Japanese Self Defense forces could have flown in some generators if requested and if they didn't have any I'm sure the US Military would have been glad to help out and airlift a few generators to help avoid a nuclear meltdown.
The key is that Tepco didn't request any aid from outside sources till it was too late and was forced to by the Japanese government.
From what I can see it's a case of ineptitude by Tepco employees that made this situation much worse than it should be been.
Cynical Mode On...
Sony Japan is probably blaming it on the incompetent *Americans* since the data breach occurred in Servers located in San Diego. Thus the foreigners created a mess for the parent company. Cynical Mode Off...
OP: "But until digital principal photography completely usurps celluloid, this may be good news for Kodak, who now have even more reason to lament the death of Stanley Kubrick."
;)
Kodak ain't going to get a cent of extra "film" revenue from Peter Jackson. The Hobbit is filmed on 5K Red Epic Digital Cameras. http://collider.com/peter-jackson-the-hobbit-3d-red-epic-cameras/62263/
I bet hard drive makers are really happy though.
Didn't even get to the title of the article, which is "Which Comic Book Character Is The Greatest Maker Of All Time?", eh?
;)
Alice is a character in a comic "strip", not in a comic "book".
Technicalities *do* matter when one is dealing with geeks debating about which imaginary character is superior.
Paul Haggis may be part of Anon's efforts. You never know. ;-) And we'll probably never find out.
So if Android Really is Open Source, it really doesn't matter what Google says, because anybody who has the ability can modify Honeycomb Android such that it *will* work well on smartphones.
Also the fact that Froyo was *not* for tablets didn't prevent many manufacturers from putting Froyo on tablets.
However I do agree that without modifications, the base builds of Android for Tablets aren't optimal for Smartphones and vice versa.
Were the dolphins consulted by the snobby humans that *ASSUMED* they wanted "non human person" status?
;-)
It's mighty speciest of a few Humans to make the decision for the Dolphins. Maybe Dolphins would consider it to be an insult to be classified as a "person".
You certainly missed the point completely. You picked one sentence out of the whole article to pick on and ignored the conclusion.
I would bet that if your Greek professor was "forced" to use English QWERTY keyboards for the rest of his career, he'd grow proficient in typing on it.
Cook's point is that somebody's who's daily job requires the use of a keyboard should NOT be a slow hunt an peck typist, he/she should have at least a BASIC proficiency in typing.
The correct Title for your post should be:
;-)
"TWO MANY PUNS!!!
Why ignore the top rung US workers or were you implying that US workers can't be top rung?
If your willingness to turn any comment into an insult to the US and your lack of critical thought process is typical of Americans, then the US really needs to open up the H-1B floodgates to add some diversity. ;-)
Let me explain: Top rung AMERICANS won't work for very long for AVERAGE wages because they can go elsewhere in the US whenever a top-rung offer comes by at will, so it would be silly for a company to hire a top rung American at average wages under normal conditions. However, if a top-rung foreigner who graduated from a US school doesn't find work in the US, they GET KICKED OUT OF THE COUNTRY, so may take a lower wage than he/she should get. In addition, changing companies while on an H-1B visa is not easy, especially if the previous company is not cooperative. If new visa paperwork is required (that's if there are any Visa's left for the year) the prospective employee has to be outside the country and not be working for the company. This pretty much locks most H-1B workers with the American company that hired them for the duration of their visa, which for the worker hopefully leads to Permanent Resident status (that's the carrot a lot of companies dangle in front of H-1B visa workers, and some don't ever intend to go through with the "next step".)
Hey, it may hurt the bottom-rung Americans from getting jobs, but I'd rather work with top-rung foreigners than bottom-rung Americans, cause they both pay the same taxes, but one strengthens the company, and the other is a liability.