That is a large part of Kodak's problem. They make a good, relatively cheap film for the small user. (Compare to the other films you can buy at the local store, normlaly only Fuji, which isn't as good according to most people) My sister spends close to one thousand dollars are year on film and developing, and it is all Kodak. The film, the paper it is printed on, and the processing all have are Kodak.
Many pros are nearly all digital, because speed matters more than quality when you want to get your photo on the front page by the morning edition. The few pros that are left care about quality enough that kodak isn't good enough for them, and they will pay extra for those smaller brands like Ilford that are better.
Home users are going digital, but a little more slowly. Compare the cost of film to a digital camera, and eventially digital is cheaper. However a roll of film here and there is $10-$15 for 20-30 pictures. A digital camera is much less per picture, and you can choose which pictures to print, but if you already have a film camera but not a digital film is cheaper in the short run.
Film is going the way of the vacuum tube. I remember as a kid going to the local K-mart to test all the tubes in our TV, and buying replacements for the bad ones from the same store. (those machines were known to say a tube was either bad or worse, but that is a different story) Today only a few hobbiests and collectors deal with tubes (other than CRTs) and they have to search for suppliers. Today Wal-Mart and Target have 1 hour photos, but in the future they won't. They might keep their digital photo print station for a while longer though unless good printers become worth the cost.
sounds like a kio slave to me. KDE at least has this support.
I've never used GNOME, but I'm surprized they don't have something like this. Surprized enough to suggest you look again because it seems more likely that they have this and you haven't seen it than they don't.
Why are you assuming unlimited energy? We know (to some number of significant digets) exactly how much energy can be released by a nuclear reaction. E=MC^2. We know how much material is in the core, and we know how fast the reaction goes. Standard physics. Designing around all that is an engineering problem. A complex one yes, but run-away reactions can be prevented by not allowing enough nuclear fuel to begin with.
So how big is a reactor core? Forget about making your entire satalite out of something that can survive any inpact/re-entry, and build just the core container. You don't never need all the connections that good, so long as your core is designed so it can't explode (not a big deal). Satalite breaks up, but it protects the reactor core while it does so, then the core in the small strong box falls to earth and is recovered.
Those people designing the building did plan on something hitting the building hard enough and fast enough to bring it all down, and they specificly designed so that anything that could hit it would not bring it down. (though it wouldn't stand a lot of unlikely things) And in fact when big things slam into tall buildings at high speeds, those buildings do stand, at least long enough for most people to get out.
Not everyone in favor of a clean enviornment is a Whacko. Look at what the fringes do, and you will see why they earned the name whacko. A lot of what the extreem fringes do gets more press than it deserves, and has little baring on reality.
Okay, so say someone does decide to presue this. They spend 10 years getting approval. IIRC the FDA gives them 3 years to sell this with a monopoly (they won't approve anyone else to sell it to reward those who put effort into research). So they have 3 years to makeup the costs of researching it. What if early on it looks like it will only help 0.5% of the people with alzheimers, which even though they can perdict with certency who it will help, ends up being a tiny population. Basicly they won't be able to sell enough of this drug in 3 years to make up the costs of continuing. Only a stupiud company would continue one. (at least without outside help, grants do exists for this situation if they can get one)
My friend has a 16 year old Ford, and it still works just fine. Okay, it needs basic maiuntance once in a while, and sometimes miner things break, but he repalces the alternator and he has a good truck to drive again, big deal.
In the 1970s nobody made good cars (not even the germans) because emissions laws didn't allow it given the technology of the day. Today everyone makes good cars, even the cheapest cars on the road will go a long time.
It takes at least 10 years (and more likely 15-18) from when you can last patent, to when you can fisrt sell it. During that time you are losing a lot of money. You pay the people who design the drug, the people pushing all the paperwork, make the drug (and not in an efficant assembly line yet unless you also want to pay to setup the line) the people testing the drugs. Not to mention all the taxes and utilities and such. Then very few drugs are approved, so you also have the overhead of other drugs you started that eventially proved to be seriously flawed. When you finially can sell that you need to pay off the loans for all of the above, and you need to do it quick because once the patent expires your compitition doesn't have to pay them off so their overhead is lower.
Note that the FDA does have a few rules in place to make this a little easier on those developing a new drug, but it isn't much and may not apply all situations.
Though personally I'd prefer to live to 75 without alzheimers by taking a drug that kills me eventially, than live to 80, but suffer from alzheimers for the last 10.
I've known people with alzheimers. It isn't easy. Seeing people with fridges full of rotten food because the kids are coming to visit. (well they were 2 years ago when she remembers it from, and many times since, but this month they can't) Starting to drive somewhere, and half way there forget where they are going. And many more things, if you know someone with it, you know a lot of variations on it.
Not if they are any good. I remember several books from Lego that were nothing but plans on things you could make if you combined several kits (which were not mentioned, and there would be leftover pieces). Cool things like a programing crane. (programable by sticking pieces on a board and shoving the board through - I always wanted to build that but didn't have the parts)
I suspect the ecconomic concerns will cause Lego to get rid of a few people, but there is plenty of work that can be done if there was money to pay.
That isn't funny if you use any lake infested with these things. The reproduce very quickly, and get in the way of both the native species of our lakes, and recreation uses.
It "feels" right. I grew up on BSD systems (okay, sunOS 4 wasn't exactly BSD, but it was closer to that than system V), so BSD feels right. I like the way it works.
The differences are subtile though. I can use either linux or BSD systems without problem, and if I don't do anything to find out which I'm using it can take a long time before I find a difference.
Traditionaly linux has supported more hardware, but sometimes that hardware wasn't so good. FreeBSD traditionally has better (faster) networking, and better support for server class hardware. (Years ago this ment if you went with SCSI you used FreeBSD, IDE you used Linux, but that was years ago) In these modern times both have good support for most hardware you are likely to find in the real world, or neither has support.
OpenBSD and NetBSD are not the same as FreeBSD. FreeBSD is faster and better suited to the desktop, though if the desktop is your goal, a lot of what you want on the desktop gets into linux first. OpenBSD is more secure, at least in their (extreemly limited) default install, I wouldn't run a firewall with anything else. Otherwise I'm not sure I'd bother with openBSD. NetBSD runs everything you are likely to care about, and it is supported. Linux may have had prots to more systems, but half those ports are broken is seems. So if you want to run that Vax in the corner, or some other strange macine netBSD is your only reasonable option. Once you run it one place it may be easier to run it everywhere. (Yes there are good reasons to run old hardware even though a typical desktop today is faster. Those who have good reason know who they are)
In summery: FreeBSD and Linux are mostly an issue of Ford vs Chevy. Some people prefer one over the other, but in reality the differences are not significant. NetBSD and OpenBSD are for specialized uses, but still worth useing for a lot of people.
Perhaps because plans change often? Like one product I worked on where a ESCON interface was built and running before the software guys were moved to a different project. Or the product that was going to burn to CD, but unless the owner finds more money soon the developers will find a new job and the company will be out of buisness. Or the product that finished testing and was hours for launch with distributers lined up, when it was cancled?
Those are just a few of the ones I seen, and can remember off the top of my head. I won't count all the prototypes that were never intended to get anywhere.
Someone plans a head because when you hire an artist to make icons you may as well make all the ones you might need instead of hiring an artist again latter. (artists have different styles, you have to pay the guy who does the hiring, and a bunch of other factors that make an artist paid by the icon still worth hiring for more icons than needed now)
Which in fact was thought of nearly 10 years ago when I first encountered IPv6. Even back then they had a migration plan where IPv6 only and IPv4 only devices could talk because the routers would prefix IPv4 addresses with a standard upper layer IP.
For starters, LED lights use about the same amount of power for a given light output.
Compact florescents on the other hand are cheap, and use much less power for the same light output. The only think stopping florescents is many do not like the colors, but LEDs have no advantages there. Price the florescent wins, and power the florescent wins. For color they tie.
They don't always try the way you would like to see it, and most would argue that it isn't the best way. If you don't trust the eneimy to provide peace, then only preemptive war can provide peace (by bringing the war to them instead of them bring it to you).
There is plenty of blame to go around. Nobody (or at least not enough people) on either side is really willing to bring about peace for it to happen.
I find that not having ingreadents isn't the biggest problem. I got lots of steak in my freezer. I just forget to thaw it before I leave, and I'm too hungry after work to bother anyway. Likewise I have vegtables and potatos, but by the time I get home from work I'm too tired and hungry to spend an hour cooking, so I toss a froozen pizza in the oven despite wanting something better. If nothing else, the robot can order delivery for missing ingreadents. (I know the big names in web grocerys are out of buisness, but in my neighborhood there is a company doing it)
I think you are wrong about single men being the target. I know plenty of families where both adults work, but they want a family meal at 6:00 sharp. It doesn't happen unless they go out because by the time they get home from work there isn't time to make a nice meal.
I specificly mentioned a robot that is out of the way when it is not working, so those who like to cook can do so when they have time.
I havea perfectly fine vacuum sitting in my living room. ITs hasn't moved in nearly a month, and it was several months at the previous position. I don't think a remote control would help. Now if the remote would store the path taken, I'd use it once to vacuume everything, and then just tell the vacuum to run that path once a day. However it still needs to get stairs, or I'm not sure I will care enough to buy it.
In some ways. The desktop is more advanced. Other than the single input queue which really sucked, no matter how good it looked on paper. The drivers though? 16 bit only. If your drive won't run on a 286 it won't run on warp. (not true strictly, you can write 32 bit drivers if you want to go through a lot of work interfacing to the 16 bit system, figguring out for yourself where your memory is and all that. Not worth it)
If IBM had out half the effort into OS/2 that MS does into windows it would be a lot better yet, but as it stands windows is catching up, and in some way surpasses it.
Sure they will make their money back. Not from the full robot of course. But from taking parts of the whole to make a cheaper robot. I've considered robotic vacuums, but until they do the stairs I'm still left with doing part of the job by hand. (and at that the worst, doing each step individually with the smaler attachment) Take just a fraction of the technology and make a cheap vacuum and they can make part back.
A robot to cook my meals doesn't need to walk. (in fact given long enough arms can be built into the unused space between my cabinets and the ceiling. I'd like to have this type of robot in my home. I'd love to have a (healthy and tasty given my preferences and doctors orders) meal waiting for me when I get home from work using whatever is in my kitchen.
Yeah, peace would help a lot. However it can't be achived other than in fairy tails. There is too much hate on the other side (some deserved, some not) for it to happen. Israel needs to deal with the world they live in, not some ideal world, peace isn't an option, though they do try. (we can debate if they are doing the right things. In the end we can never know what would happen if the alternatives were followed.)
Unless you seriously want to pay the price to move everyone in Israel to a different part of the world, and think you can make the people in that part happy about it. Then make the people of Isreal happy. Just because you can find a big enough area of Northern Canada with no residents doesn't means that anyone would want to move from the climate of Israel to there.
What about Plasma burn in? I don't know much about it, other than Plasma is a lot newer than projecters (in the market overall, obviously plasma is targeting home users more, while projecters target offices) so it doesn't have a track record. I do know that they have to compenstate for burn in because after just a few hours it is a factor. I don't know how far they can compensate though.
Of course, to a point. I have games in my cell phone, which is great when I have a few mintues to spare and didn't bring the GBA. I have a GBA because when I expect to have more than a few mintues to spare I want some good games, and my cell phone cannot fit a GBA type game on the screen and still fit in my pocket nicely.
Likewise, a PDA is great for those who use them all the time. I'm not that type though. I might get a PDA for a few purposes, but I'd like my cell phone (which I carry everywhere) to have the ability to get my schedual and work with it. It doesn't have to be as good as a PDA, because it is a supliment.
In other words when I'm on the move, I want one gadget that fills all purposes. However I know what the compromises are, and I'll take a second gadget that fills in the gap. On vacation I'll take a real camera, while at work the cell phone camera - if used at all - is just fine. When I fly I want a real game system to enertain me, when I'm waiting for the dentist the cell phone games are good enough. When I'm at the office I want a real PDA to keep track of my meetings, while at Grandma's my cell phone is plenty good enough a schedualer.
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That is a large part of Kodak's problem. They make a good, relatively cheap film for the small user. (Compare to the other films you can buy at the local store, normlaly only Fuji, which isn't as good according to most people) My sister spends close to one thousand dollars are year on film and developing, and it is all Kodak. The film, the paper it is printed on, and the processing all have are Kodak.
Many pros are nearly all digital, because speed matters more than quality when you want to get your photo on the front page by the morning edition. The few pros that are left care about quality enough that kodak isn't good enough for them, and they will pay extra for those smaller brands like Ilford that are better.
Home users are going digital, but a little more slowly. Compare the cost of film to a digital camera, and eventially digital is cheaper. However a roll of film here and there is $10-$15 for 20-30 pictures. A digital camera is much less per picture, and you can choose which pictures to print, but if you already have a film camera but not a digital film is cheaper in the short run.
Film is going the way of the vacuum tube. I remember as a kid going to the local K-mart to test all the tubes in our TV, and buying replacements for the bad ones from the same store. (those machines were known to say a tube was either bad or worse, but that is a different story) Today only a few hobbiests and collectors deal with tubes (other than CRTs) and they have to search for suppliers. Today Wal-Mart and Target have 1 hour photos, but in the future they won't. They might keep their digital photo print station for a while longer though unless good printers become worth the cost.
sounds like a kio slave to me. KDE at least has this support.
I've never used GNOME, but I'm surprized they don't have something like this. Surprized enough to suggest you look again because it seems more likely that they have this and you haven't seen it than they don't.
Why are you assuming unlimited energy? We know (to some number of significant digets) exactly how much energy can be released by a nuclear reaction. E=MC^2. We know how much material is in the core, and we know how fast the reaction goes. Standard physics. Designing around all that is an engineering problem. A complex one yes, but run-away reactions can be prevented by not allowing enough nuclear fuel to begin with.
So how big is a reactor core? Forget about making your entire satalite out of something that can survive any inpact/re-entry, and build just the core container. You don't never need all the connections that good, so long as your core is designed so it can't explode (not a big deal). Satalite breaks up, but it protects the reactor core while it does so, then the core in the small strong box falls to earth and is recovered.
Those people designing the building did plan on something hitting the building hard enough and fast enough to bring it all down, and they specificly designed so that anything that could hit it would not bring it down. (though it wouldn't stand a lot of unlikely things) And in fact when big things slam into tall buildings at high speeds, those buildings do stand, at least long enough for most people to get out.
Not everyone in favor of a clean enviornment is a Whacko. Look at what the fringes do, and you will see why they earned the name whacko. A lot of what the extreem fringes do gets more press than it deserves, and has little baring on reality.
Okay, so say someone does decide to presue this. They spend 10 years getting approval. IIRC the FDA gives them 3 years to sell this with a monopoly (they won't approve anyone else to sell it to reward those who put effort into research). So they have 3 years to makeup the costs of researching it. What if early on it looks like it will only help 0.5% of the people with alzheimers, which even though they can perdict with certency who it will help, ends up being a tiny population. Basicly they won't be able to sell enough of this drug in 3 years to make up the costs of continuing. Only a stupiud company would continue one. (at least without outside help, grants do exists for this situation if they can get one)
My friend has a 16 year old Ford, and it still works just fine. Okay, it needs basic maiuntance once in a while, and sometimes miner things break, but he repalces the alternator and he has a good truck to drive again, big deal.
In the 1970s nobody made good cars (not even the germans) because emissions laws didn't allow it given the technology of the day. Today everyone makes good cars, even the cheapest cars on the road will go a long time.
It takes at least 10 years (and more likely 15-18) from when you can last patent, to when you can fisrt sell it. During that time you are losing a lot of money. You pay the people who design the drug, the people pushing all the paperwork, make the drug (and not in an efficant assembly line yet unless you also want to pay to setup the line) the people testing the drugs. Not to mention all the taxes and utilities and such. Then very few drugs are approved, so you also have the overhead of other drugs you started that eventially proved to be seriously flawed. When you finially can sell that you need to pay off the loans for all of the above, and you need to do it quick because once the patent expires your compitition doesn't have to pay them off so their overhead is lower.
Note that the FDA does have a few rules in place to make this a little easier on those developing a new drug, but it isn't much and may not apply all situations.
Though personally I'd prefer to live to 75 without alzheimers by taking a drug that kills me eventially, than live to 80, but suffer from alzheimers for the last 10.
I've known people with alzheimers. It isn't easy. Seeing people with fridges full of rotten food because the kids are coming to visit. (well they were 2 years ago when she remembers it from, and many times since, but this month they can't) Starting to drive somewhere, and half way there forget where they are going. And many more things, if you know someone with it, you know a lot of variations on it.
Not if they are any good. I remember several books from Lego that were nothing but plans on things you could make if you combined several kits (which were not mentioned, and there would be leftover pieces). Cool things like a programing crane. (programable by sticking pieces on a board and shoving the board through - I always wanted to build that but didn't have the parts)
I suspect the ecconomic concerns will cause Lego to get rid of a few people, but there is plenty of work that can be done if there was money to pay.
That isn't funny if you use any lake infested with these things. The reproduce very quickly, and get in the way of both the native species of our lakes, and recreation uses.
It "feels" right. I grew up on BSD systems (okay, sunOS 4 wasn't exactly BSD, but it was closer to that than system V), so BSD feels right. I like the way it works.
The differences are subtile though. I can use either linux or BSD systems without problem, and if I don't do anything to find out which I'm using it can take a long time before I find a difference.
Traditionaly linux has supported more hardware, but sometimes that hardware wasn't so good. FreeBSD traditionally has better (faster) networking, and better support for server class hardware. (Years ago this ment if you went with SCSI you used FreeBSD, IDE you used Linux, but that was years ago) In these modern times both have good support for most hardware you are likely to find in the real world, or neither has support.
OpenBSD and NetBSD are not the same as FreeBSD. FreeBSD is faster and better suited to the desktop, though if the desktop is your goal, a lot of what you want on the desktop gets into linux first. OpenBSD is more secure, at least in their (extreemly limited) default install, I wouldn't run a firewall with anything else. Otherwise I'm not sure I'd bother with openBSD. NetBSD runs everything you are likely to care about, and it is supported. Linux may have had prots to more systems, but half those ports are broken is seems. So if you want to run that Vax in the corner, or some other strange macine netBSD is your only reasonable option. Once you run it one place it may be easier to run it everywhere. (Yes there are good reasons to run old hardware even though a typical desktop today is faster. Those who have good reason know who they are)
In summery: FreeBSD and Linux are mostly an issue of Ford vs Chevy. Some people prefer one over the other, but in reality the differences are not significant. NetBSD and OpenBSD are for specialized uses, but still worth useing for a lot of people.
You want me to leave my beatiful snow covered paradise for someplace that hot? No thank you, I happen to enjoy winter.
Perhaps because plans change often? Like one product I worked on where a ESCON interface was built and running before the software guys were moved to a different project. Or the product that was going to burn to CD, but unless the owner finds more money soon the developers will find a new job and the company will be out of buisness. Or the product that finished testing and was hours for launch with distributers lined up, when it was cancled?
Those are just a few of the ones I seen, and can remember off the top of my head. I won't count all the prototypes that were never intended to get anywhere.
Someone plans a head because when you hire an artist to make icons you may as well make all the ones you might need instead of hiring an artist again latter. (artists have different styles, you have to pay the guy who does the hiring, and a bunch of other factors that make an artist paid by the icon still worth hiring for more icons than needed now)
Which in fact was thought of nearly 10 years ago when I first encountered IPv6. Even back then they had a migration plan where IPv6 only and IPv4 only devices could talk because the routers would prefix IPv4 addresses with a standard upper layer IP.
For starters, LED lights use about the same amount of power for a given light output.
Compact florescents on the other hand are cheap, and use much less power for the same light output. The only think stopping florescents is many do not like the colors, but LEDs have no advantages there. Price the florescent wins, and power the florescent wins. For color they tie.
They don't always try the way you would like to see it, and most would argue that it isn't the best way. If you don't trust the eneimy to provide peace, then only preemptive war can provide peace (by bringing the war to them instead of them bring it to you).
There is plenty of blame to go around. Nobody (or at least not enough people) on either side is really willing to bring about peace for it to happen.
I find that not having ingreadents isn't the biggest problem. I got lots of steak in my freezer. I just forget to thaw it before I leave, and I'm too hungry after work to bother anyway. Likewise I have vegtables and potatos, but by the time I get home from work I'm too tired and hungry to spend an hour cooking, so I toss a froozen pizza in the oven despite wanting something better. If nothing else, the robot can order delivery for missing ingreadents. (I know the big names in web grocerys are out of buisness, but in my neighborhood there is a company doing it)
I think you are wrong about single men being the target. I know plenty of families where both adults work, but they want a family meal at 6:00 sharp. It doesn't happen unless they go out because by the time they get home from work there isn't time to make a nice meal.
I specificly mentioned a robot that is out of the way when it is not working, so those who like to cook can do so when they have time.
I havea perfectly fine vacuum sitting in my living room. ITs hasn't moved in nearly a month, and it was several months at the previous position. I don't think a remote control would help. Now if the remote would store the path taken, I'd use it once to vacuume everything, and then just tell the vacuum to run that path once a day. However it still needs to get stairs, or I'm not sure I will care enough to buy it.
In some ways. The desktop is more advanced. Other than the single input queue which really sucked, no matter how good it looked on paper. The drivers though? 16 bit only. If your drive won't run on a 286 it won't run on warp. (not true strictly, you can write 32 bit drivers if you want to go through a lot of work interfacing to the 16 bit system, figguring out for yourself where your memory is and all that. Not worth it)
If IBM had out half the effort into OS/2 that MS does into windows it would be a lot better yet, but as it stands windows is catching up, and in some way surpasses it.
Sure they will make their money back. Not from the full robot of course. But from taking parts of the whole to make a cheaper robot. I've considered robotic vacuums, but until they do the stairs I'm still left with doing part of the job by hand. (and at that the worst, doing each step individually with the smaler attachment) Take just a fraction of the technology and make a cheap vacuum and they can make part back.
A robot to cook my meals doesn't need to walk. (in fact given long enough arms can be built into the unused space between my cabinets and the ceiling. I'd like to have this type of robot in my home. I'd love to have a (healthy and tasty given my preferences and doctors orders) meal waiting for me when I get home from work using whatever is in my kitchen.
Yeah, peace would help a lot. However it can't be achived other than in fairy tails. There is too much hate on the other side (some deserved, some not) for it to happen. Israel needs to deal with the world they live in, not some ideal world, peace isn't an option, though they do try. (we can debate if they are doing the right things. In the end we can never know what would happen if the alternatives were followed.)
Unless you seriously want to pay the price to move everyone in Israel to a different part of the world, and think you can make the people in that part happy about it. Then make the people of Isreal happy. Just because you can find a big enough area of Northern Canada with no residents doesn't means that anyone would want to move from the climate of Israel to there.
What about Plasma burn in? I don't know much about it, other than Plasma is a lot newer than projecters (in the market overall, obviously plasma is targeting home users more, while projecters target offices) so it doesn't have a track record. I do know that they have to compenstate for burn in because after just a few hours it is a factor. I don't know how far they can compensate though.
Of course, to a point. I have games in my cell phone, which is great when I have a few mintues to spare and didn't bring the GBA. I have a GBA because when I expect to have more than a few mintues to spare I want some good games, and my cell phone cannot fit a GBA type game on the screen and still fit in my pocket nicely.
Likewise, a PDA is great for those who use them all the time. I'm not that type though. I might get a PDA for a few purposes, but I'd like my cell phone (which I carry everywhere) to have the ability to get my schedual and work with it. It doesn't have to be as good as a PDA, because it is a supliment.
In other words when I'm on the move, I want one gadget that fills all purposes. However I know what the compromises are, and I'll take a second gadget that fills in the gap. On vacation I'll take a real camera, while at work the cell phone camera - if used at all - is just fine. When I fly I want a real game system to enertain me, when I'm waiting for the dentist the cell phone games are good enough. When I'm at the office I want a real PDA to keep track of my meetings, while at Grandma's my cell phone is plenty good enough a schedualer.