I couldn't find the/. version of the story, but a couple years ago there was a filing for a patent for an LCD panel with thousands of built in image sensors. Perhaps they are finally using it.
I attended a college with a strong Norwegian background. They used to name their servers Sven, Thor, etc...
I've sort of carried on that tradition at the school I work for now. Our mail server is called Hermes. The other servers (file share) have more boring names so it's easier for staff and students to recognize them.
Agreed. I think Microsoft is in serious trouble here. They put so many years into creating Vista and then it flopped. But instead of going back to what was working, namely XP, and trying to move forward from that platform, they decided to keep beating the dead horse that was Vista.
I'd be willing to bet that there won't be a rush for Windows 7 in the corporate world. Too many of them rushed to Vista only to switch everything back to XP. I'm guessing they will be very cautious this time around.
What the hell is wrong with having "Windows 7" and "Windows 7 Server"? You don't need 5 versions and 5 price points. You've done all the coding for Ultimate, just include it all in the desktop version and just have people choose which ones they need on installation. Then give them the option to add them later via Add/Remove Programs. Oh and only charge $129 for the retail box you greedy goddamn bastards.
I'd settle for a hovercar (2-3 feet off the ground). Think of the savings to the government in infrastructure, both in initial cost and in maintenance. No more pot holes to fill, no more road construction season. Just put out some road markers, like they do for snowmobile trails, and away you go.
No, it isn't. What is a problem is that MS has not integrated VirtualPC into Windows, and included a virtual environment to run your 16-bit apps in a 16-bit environment. I know it may sound like splitting hairs, but it is long past the time that MS should be leaving bad code in new OSes just to claim 'Backward Compatibility' when it is totally unnecessary.
That's a great idea. They could call this VirtualPC something cool too, like Classic.
Sarcasm aside, this would be an excellent idea and given today's level of virtualization technology, it should be simple to introduce into Windows 7 as a way of cleaning up code. Hell why stop with 16-bit, do the same for the 32 bit. Of course the problem there is that they can't tell people it will run on their Celeron's when it really won't. I can see the "Windows 7 Certified" class action suit now...
I saw this exhibit this past summer when it was at the Science Museum of Minnesota. I have to say I wasn't that impressed.
Don't get me wrong, I loves me some Star Wars. But it was just an exhibit of props and costumes. The whole thing about showing modern technology based off Star Wars tech felt like an afterthought at best.
There was also an Omnitheater movie that they were showing at the same time. However they neglected to mention it was really a 10+ year old movie about special effects (they were making Independence Day and Kazaam in the movie).
Well look at what followed Voyager. Enterprise. A show where for a big part of the story they decided to throw canon out the window. That's why Enterprise flopped. Not because it was a prequel and you knew where it had to go, but because they didn't want to take you there.
There were a lot of good episodes of Enterprise. Episodes that reminded me a lot of the episodic quality that TOS had. Where it was the crew exploring new worlds.
The problem with Enterprise was that they felt the need to make it more risky than that by introducing crappy overarching story lines like the temporal cold war. The beauty of TOS is that you can pick any episode from any season and watch without having to know 3 seasons of back story. ST:TNG followed this and for a while so did DS9 and Voyager. It's when they tried to throw in these plots that stretched for seasons that they lost something.
If they would have kept Enterprise simple it probably would have had a full 7 season run and maybe would have had a successor.
The Enterprise from "Enterprise" was built in space as was the second NX class ship the Columbia.
The problem I have with this trailer is that they have clearly thrown 'trek lore' out the window. Hell, the trailer starts out with a young Kirk driving a stick-shift. Anyone who has seen the original series knows that Kirk doesn't know how to drive one of these.
Next he's on another "wheeled" vehicle viewing the partially completed "Enterprise" on Earth.
And don't get me started on the bridge design.
This movie is to Star Trek as Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace are to James Bond. The only thing they have to do with the franchise are the character names. But lore, canon, whatever you want to call it has been tossed in the trash.
Hmm... I work for an elementary school with about 300 computers, 100 staff, and 750 students. And it's just me.
Overall our district has about 900 computers, 650 staff and about 2500 students. All of that is for 4 techs and "director" of the tech department who has little actual tech skills.
so 225:1 computer to IT, 787.5:1 users(students and staff) to IT or 162.5:1 for staff to IT.
I disagree that the unions are a huge problem. At least not all of them. Think of your maintenance people and support staff people. They aren't exactly living big. They get paid crap compared with what they would in the corporate sector, but are will to trade that for some job security (yes, for the record, I'm part of that group).
In my opinion there are 2 big problems with the American education system.
1. Tenure. 3 years and then it doesn't matter how shitty a teacher you are, it's damn near impossible to get rid of you.
2. Teachers become administrators. Many of the administrators in our school systems were once teachers. While this gives them some perspective on the system, most of the time they just aren't "management" types. They wanted to be teachers then discovered they didn't like teaching so they decided to move up and get out of the classroom. But they have no management experience. It shows up in the "in service" training days when they make you play kids games with each other. It's all they know.
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I couldn't find the /. version of the story, but a couple years ago there was a filing for a patent for an LCD panel with thousands of built in image sensors. Perhaps they are finally using it.
Here's the New Scientist article. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9059
I attended a college with a strong Norwegian background. They used to name their servers Sven, Thor, etc...
I've sort of carried on that tradition at the school I work for now. Our mail server is called Hermes. The other servers (file share) have more boring names so it's easier for staff and students to recognize them.
Agreed. I think Microsoft is in serious trouble here. They put so many years into creating Vista and then it flopped. But instead of going back to what was working, namely XP, and trying to move forward from that platform, they decided to keep beating the dead horse that was Vista.
I'd be willing to bet that there won't be a rush for Windows 7 in the corporate world. Too many of them rushed to Vista only to switch everything back to XP. I'm guessing they will be very cautious this time around.
They would do better to stick with home and pro.
What the hell is wrong with having "Windows 7" and "Windows 7 Server"? You don't need 5 versions and 5 price points. You've done all the coding for Ultimate, just include it all in the desktop version and just have people choose which ones they need on installation. Then give them the option to add them later via Add/Remove Programs. Oh and only charge $129 for the retail box you greedy goddamn bastards.
I thought Solitaire was the best feature.
I'd settle for a hovercar (2-3 feet off the ground). Think of the savings to the government in infrastructure, both in initial cost and in maintenance. No more pot holes to fill, no more road construction season. Just put out some road markers, like they do for snowmobile trails, and away you go.
Nope just a luxury SUV with a DVD player.
http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/bob260505/2006/07/18/Drunk_driving_cranking_one_out_not_how_you_want_to_get_busted
No, it isn't. What is a problem is that MS has not integrated VirtualPC into Windows, and included a virtual environment to run your 16-bit apps in a 16-bit environment. I know it may sound like splitting hairs, but it is long past the time that MS should be leaving bad code in new OSes just to claim 'Backward Compatibility' when it is totally unnecessary.
That's a great idea. They could call this VirtualPC something cool too, like Classic.
Sarcasm aside, this would be an excellent idea and given today's level of virtualization technology, it should be simple to introduce into Windows 7 as a way of cleaning up code. Hell why stop with 16-bit, do the same for the 32 bit. Of course the problem there is that they can't tell people it will run on their Celeron's when it really won't. I can see the "Windows 7 Certified" class action suit now...
I saw this exhibit this past summer when it was at the Science Museum of Minnesota. I have to say I wasn't that impressed.
Don't get me wrong, I loves me some Star Wars. But it was just an exhibit of props and costumes. The whole thing about showing modern technology based off Star Wars tech felt like an afterthought at best.
There was also an Omnitheater movie that they were showing at the same time. However they neglected to mention it was really a 10+ year old movie about special effects (they were making Independence Day and Kazaam in the movie).
We just found out yesterday that's what our G5 had been doing. The cost to fix it is greater that a new Mac Pro.
I was disturbed to see this news yesterday.
Yeah right, Apple build a product that's user-accessible?
Yes and we should have been up to our eyeballs in augments, but that is the Star Trek universe. Sad to say, we don't actually live in that universe. :(
Well look at what followed Voyager. Enterprise. A show where for a big part of the story they decided to throw canon out the window. That's why Enterprise flopped. Not because it was a prequel and you knew where it had to go, but because they didn't want to take you there.
There were a lot of good episodes of Enterprise. Episodes that reminded me a lot of the episodic quality that TOS had. Where it was the crew exploring new worlds.
The problem with Enterprise was that they felt the need to make it more risky than that by introducing crappy overarching story lines like the temporal cold war. The beauty of TOS is that you can pick any episode from any season and watch without having to know 3 seasons of back story. ST:TNG followed this and for a while so did DS9 and Voyager. It's when they tried to throw in these plots that stretched for seasons that they lost something.
If they would have kept Enterprise simple it probably would have had a full 7 season run and maybe would have had a successor.
No I will agree with you there. It could be a great movie. But it doesn't look like it will be a great Star Trek Movie.
In much the same way that Casino Royale was a great movie, but not really a Bond movie.
Plus what are the odds of it surviving World War III.
Not to mention that we'll run out of oil long before Kirk is born.
I don't think it's robot. I think that it was the movie's version of a motorcycle helmet.
The Enterprise from "Enterprise" was built in space as was the second NX class ship the Columbia.
The problem I have with this trailer is that they have clearly thrown 'trek lore' out the window. Hell, the trailer starts out with a young Kirk driving a stick-shift. Anyone who has seen the original series knows that Kirk doesn't know how to drive one of these.
Next he's on another "wheeled" vehicle viewing the partially completed "Enterprise" on Earth.
And don't get me started on the bridge design.
This movie is to Star Trek as Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace are to James Bond. The only thing they have to do with the franchise are the character names. But lore, canon, whatever you want to call it has been tossed in the trash.
Dakara Superweapon - Stargate SG-1
And Netflix. Although, I've received about 4 cracked discs from Netflix over the past 6 years.
For those of us with large collections, the case is a necessary evil unless we want to have to look through piles of discs to find the movie we want.
Is he wearing blue long underwear?
This is Star Trek. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE fan. But the franchise has a history of not caring about continuity.
Hmm... I work for an elementary school with about 300 computers, 100 staff, and 750 students. And it's just me.
Overall our district has about 900 computers, 650 staff and about 2500 students. All of that is for 4 techs and "director" of the tech department who has little actual tech skills.
so 225:1 computer to IT, 787.5:1 users(students and staff) to IT or 162.5:1 for staff to IT.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Seriously, I'm surprised it took this long for something like this to come to light.
I'm sure the folks at the Geek Squad are glad this wasn't one of their employees for a change.
I disagree that the unions are a huge problem. At least not all of them. Think of your maintenance people and support staff people. They aren't exactly living big. They get paid crap compared with what they would in the corporate sector, but are will to trade that for some job security (yes, for the record, I'm part of that group).
In my opinion there are 2 big problems with the American education system.
1. Tenure. 3 years and then it doesn't matter how shitty a teacher you are, it's damn near impossible to get rid of you.
2. Teachers become administrators. Many of the administrators in our school systems were once teachers. While this gives them some perspective on the system, most of the time they just aren't "management" types. They wanted to be teachers then discovered they didn't like teaching so they decided to move up and get out of the classroom. But they have no management experience. It shows up in the "in service" training days when they make you play kids games with each other. It's all they know.
No, no. You use lemon on fried fish. The lime is for your Corona.