Mod parent up. There will always be platform wars on all levels. Hardware-level, OS-level, browsers, cloud wars, media format wars. Even wars between differing implementations of open standards. There will never be a time where there isn't a heavy battle for market share and control on every level. It's what drives everything forward. It's what kills off bad ideas and good ideas. It's the hallmark of any full-fledged ecosystem.
It doesn't matter. If Apple has not gotten into wireless charging that means nobody's done it correctly. When Apple finally does it only then will it be right and proper. Your Braun charger is merely a sloppy fragmented immature product concept that never caught on like the iPhone. You should be ashamed. No go out and by an Apple product that you can finally be proud of for the first time in your life.
Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital, etc will fade slowly into extinction much like the 3.5" floppy disk. Heavy competition from SSDs will force these companies to consolidate together just to stay alive. Eventually nobody will want to buy a mechanical drive anymore. Mechanical HD companies will not begin manufacturing SSDs because they are not set up at all to fab silicon. Only the RAM & CPU shops are. And, surprise, look at all the SSD manufacturers they are yesterday's RAM manufacturers.
You guys are all missing the point. eBay missed the boat. They blew their whole wad on SSD failing to realize that GE just announced a new age of optical Nirvana.
"We're from the government and we're here to help."
Step #1: We need more funding from tax payers.
Step #2: ????
Step #3:1&2 didn't help matters at all. So, keep repeating 1&2 over and over and tell everyone that nobody else could ever have a chance at doing this as well as we can. In 20 years we'll all be retired and won't care.
Exactly. 500Gb on one disk. Even in a standard hard drive form-factor with 2 disk platters that's still only 1Tb. I can buy a magnetic HDD from Newegg today with 2Tb for $100. What problem is being solved by trading magnetic platters with optical ones? And at what cost? Just another glittery idea for VCs to waste their capital on.
I know for a fact some startups are trying to make optical hard drives. Identical form factor to a typical hard drive but it's got optical disks instead of magnetic platters. Personally I think it's DOA. Magnetic HDs are super cheap and SSDs are super fast, durable and are very versatile. I'm just not sure where the demand will come from for optical HDs. Any ideas?
It'll be great when solar panels get super cheap and easy to set up. I'll just order a roof's worth from Amazon.com and install them myself. Then the "jobs per megawatt" will drop like a rock. And government will set up price floors to keep panel installers from losing their jobs. Let's stop talking about jobs per megawatt, k?
One more reason it won't make sense to let iDevice users replace the battery when the it dies. Steve says, "The iPhone 6's Crystal energy source is sandwitched between the aluminosilicate glass and the Retina liquid crystal display. Now worship me with your dollars."
Those were the good old days. I remember my first computer as a kid. A true 8086 with a color CGA monitor and a 20mb hard disk and 2 x 5 1/2" floppy drives. Big pimpin' in those days.
I meant "trickle down" in terms of high-tech. Not economics. Governments and Corporations are just collections of people. No wonder they both have a tendency to want to take over the world and control everyone's lives.
My point is that private industry isn't at risk of getting cancelled with the stroke of the president's pen the way so many NASA programs have. In that regard, our space ambitions are more secure in the hands of private industry.
Folks, try not to look at this as the end of USA's dominance in space. The silver lining in all this is that Bigelow and SpaceX will pick up where our government is leaving off. And future Senators and Presidents can't de-fund private industry led efforts to explore space. It's classic trickle-down. Exploring space will be more secure in the hands of private industry. Elon Musk's (SpaceX) goal is to die on Mars. The visionaries are private citizens now. It's a new promising age.
Hey I like that analogy! One perspective was left out though. The helmsman refuses to steer away from the iceberg till the most affluent passengers agree to pay twice as much for their fares. Nobody hands over any extra cash the captain is content to go down with the ship. Again, we're all going down.
And increasing the debt ceiling only gives the addict a little more dope. It doesn't prevent the inevitable reckoning that we are on the verge of. The government has maxed out every credit card they have. The Federal government is broke and they want another credit card.
This "Inaction" must be referring to 0bama declaring a dozen times now that he'll veto every bill that's been conceptualized so far on the debt ceiling. 0bama says "veto" almost before the speakers of either house of congress barely open their mouth to share a new idea. Yesterday he declared "veto" on a plan brought to him by both the House and the Senate. If this deal doesn't happen in time it will be only 0bama's fault.
Exactly. If you don't like the way your vote got counted become an activist at the state level. Not the Federal level. Regulate your state's problems within your own state. Leave the other states alone.
GE got a $140 Billion bailout. But I don't blame you for being incorrect. Billion dollar bailouts were handed out like candy. And how effective they were (or not) is about the same as candy too.
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Mod parent up. There will always be platform wars on all levels. Hardware-level, OS-level, browsers, cloud wars, media format wars. Even wars between differing implementations of open standards. There will never be a time where there isn't a heavy battle for market share and control on every level. It's what drives everything forward. It's what kills off bad ideas and good ideas. It's the hallmark of any full-fledged ecosystem.
Just google "Apple". The right product will have a little glowing apple logo with a bite out of it. Trust me. They make the best stuff.
It doesn't matter. If Apple has not gotten into wireless charging that means nobody's done it correctly. When Apple finally does it only then will it be right and proper. Your Braun charger is merely a sloppy fragmented immature product concept that never caught on like the iPhone. You should be ashamed. No go out and by an Apple product that you can finally be proud of for the first time in your life.
Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital, etc will fade slowly into extinction much like the 3.5" floppy disk. Heavy competition from SSDs will force these companies to consolidate together just to stay alive. Eventually nobody will want to buy a mechanical drive anymore. Mechanical HD companies will not begin manufacturing SSDs because they are not set up at all to fab silicon. Only the RAM & CPU shops are. And, surprise, look at all the SSD manufacturers they are yesterday's RAM manufacturers.
You guys are all missing the point. eBay missed the boat. They blew their whole wad on SSD failing to realize that GE just announced a new age of optical Nirvana.
Wow, imagine when everybody has this in their Netgear router. "You have 120,000 unprotected Wi-Fi access points near you. Select a source to connect"
"We're from the government and we're here to help."
Step #1: We need more funding from tax payers.
Step #2: ????
Step #3:1&2 didn't help matters at all. So, keep repeating 1&2 over and over and tell everyone that nobody else could ever have a chance at doing this as well as we can. In 20 years we'll all be retired and won't care.
Exactly. 500Gb on one disk. Even in a standard hard drive form-factor with 2 disk platters that's still only 1Tb. I can buy a magnetic HDD from Newegg today with 2Tb for $100. What problem is being solved by trading magnetic platters with optical ones? And at what cost? Just another glittery idea for VCs to waste their capital on.
I know for a fact some startups are trying to make optical hard drives. Identical form factor to a typical hard drive but it's got optical disks instead of magnetic platters. Personally I think it's DOA. Magnetic HDs are super cheap and SSDs are super fast, durable and are very versatile. I'm just not sure where the demand will come from for optical HDs. Any ideas?
It'll be great when solar panels get super cheap and easy to set up. I'll just order a roof's worth from Amazon.com and install them myself. Then the "jobs per megawatt" will drop like a rock. And government will set up price floors to keep panel installers from losing their jobs. Let's stop talking about jobs per megawatt, k?
Wow, that's pretty good. You must have experience writing biz plans to seduce VCs.
One more reason it won't make sense to let iDevice users replace the battery when the it dies. Steve says, "The iPhone 6's Crystal energy source is sandwitched between the aluminosilicate glass and the Retina liquid crystal display. Now worship me with your dollars."
Proof of concept, people. Nothing more.
Yes v6.2 rocked! You could run in compressed mode and double your HD space!
Those were the good old days. I remember my first computer as a kid. A true 8086 with a color CGA monitor and a 20mb hard disk and 2 x 5 1/2" floppy drives. Big pimpin' in those days.
I meant "trickle down" in terms of high-tech. Not economics. Governments and Corporations are just collections of people. No wonder they both have a tendency to want to take over the world and control everyone's lives.
My point is that private industry isn't at risk of getting cancelled with the stroke of the president's pen the way so many NASA programs have. In that regard, our space ambitions are more secure in the hands of private industry.
Folks, try not to look at this as the end of USA's dominance in space. The silver lining in all this is that Bigelow and SpaceX will pick up where our government is leaving off. And future Senators and Presidents can't de-fund private industry led efforts to explore space. It's classic trickle-down. Exploring space will be more secure in the hands of private industry. Elon Musk's (SpaceX) goal is to die on Mars. The visionaries are private citizens now. It's a new promising age.
Hey I like that analogy! One perspective was left out though. The helmsman refuses to steer away from the iceberg till the most affluent passengers agree to pay twice as much for their fares. Nobody hands over any extra cash the captain is content to go down with the ship. Again, we're all going down.
And increasing the debt ceiling only gives the addict a little more dope. It doesn't prevent the inevitable reckoning that we are on the verge of. The government has maxed out every credit card they have. The Federal government is broke and they want another credit card.
This "Inaction" must be referring to 0bama declaring a dozen times now that he'll veto every bill that's been conceptualized so far on the debt ceiling. 0bama says "veto" almost before the speakers of either house of congress barely open their mouth to share a new idea. Yesterday he declared "veto" on a plan brought to him by both the House and the Senate. If this deal doesn't happen in time it will be only 0bama's fault.
Exactly. If you don't like the way your vote got counted become an activist at the state level. Not the Federal level. Regulate your state's problems within your own state. Leave the other states alone.
hhat we need a bigger more anti-Republican government to control the election process.
... or civilian-owned. NASA is owned by the Federal government. And the citizens do not "own" the government these days.
Hooray for government run stuff!!! Right now 0.7% of our taxes go to NASA. Imagine what NASA could do if it was 70%!!!!
GE got a $140 Billion bailout. But I don't blame you for being incorrect. Billion dollar bailouts were handed out like candy. And how effective they were (or not) is about the same as candy too.