The fact that it is contrary isn't the problem. The problem is that they irresponsibly provide a contrary position marketed to a segment of the American population least capable of dividing fact from fiction. Further not only is it contrary but it is often baseless, and sensationalized in order to draw this audience in for the purpose of generating ad revenue. Fox does not report the news, they manufacture a good story in the guise of news to make money off people.
But if they didn't price themselves out of everyone's wallet then how would we be motivated to find alternatives? Practically free transmission of digital content from person to person has a nice ring to it...
If you like hissing an popping sounds in the music you play then you may have something there but really it's just nostalgia and novelty. Vinyl fit the bill during a certain technological time period, CDs, the same thing 20-30 years ago. Today there's no excuse whatsoever to have anything less than music sampling exceeding the capabilities of the human ear to distinguish between live performance and reproduction. Storage volume, the last hindrance, became a non-issue nearly a decade ago.
That only works if you have the ability "NOT" to be [op|re|sup]pressed. If we allow our strong position to erode too far it will be us that has someone's thumb pressing us into the dirt in the same manner we have done since WWII. Presently we prefer to be social butterflies instead of diligent, laser focused, innovative competitors as are the Asian tigers. It won't be long now...
You neglect to realize that the American populace is unaware of the particulars of the facts surrounding our health care system, the results their of, or largely anything involving the inner-workings of our government and especially as they relate to comparisons with other countries. Unless you specifically go out looking for this information the only thing that you will hear is that "we're the best in the world", "don't fix what isn't broken", "it would be a scary thing to place your trust in government provided/managed services, besides it's un-American", "there will be long waiting queues", "the death board will decide if you get treatment", etc., etc.. The people in our country most in need of something different are told this most frequently and most loudly.
It's fun to laugh at us and all (heck I poke fun at our rural underbelly too...) but I would appeal to your sense of humanity. Help us to know what's really going on. Tell us how your system works, what your experience is, how well does it work for your people, etc. Tell us the good, the bad, etc.. There's too much FUD being communicated and too much isolation from the facts here in the U.S..
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Microsoft apparently claimed the WebTV branding why not have an offering by Google? It appears that from now on what Google does Microsoft will do and vice-versa.
The intentions of this really aren't any different than the 1936 Rural Electrification Act. Broadband is a necessary utility for enabling participation in a world going on around these people. Obviously no one likes to spend money unnecessarily.
Unfortunately not everyone believes that neighbor should look out for neighbor. That's sad. It's also typically short-sighted. The disenfranchisement of people almost always inevitably negatively impacts those that are not. A lack of education increases the incident of crime. A lack of preventative health care increases the need for emergency services, the cost of which is passed on to everyone else. A lack of food aid (food stamps, etc.) decreases nutrition and increases incident of health problems. A lack of funding to urban beautification, public cultural and recreational installations, etc. results in filthy, ugly, depressing wastelands reminiscent of dystopian sci-fi flicks and/or Detroit increasing incident of mental health issues and vandalism.
While it is true that government is not the most resource efficient, it is also true that individuals on their own are incapable of providing for themselves all of the vital resources of a civilization. Before people chime in with "businesses can this, and businesses can that" consider for a moment what the sole purpose of a business is. Make money. What tools are employed? Charge as much money as the market can bear; marginalize if not eliminate competition by whatever means possible; create/maintain scarcity to increase value of product; minimize expenditure. Left unto itself, business has a moral vacuum or will be consumed by those that do. Morality must be forced onto business. Consumers on their own are powerless to effect this and must be united under a common entity able to speak with one clear voice. Traditionally this has been government.
Slight correction. When you consider the total compensation packages being dispensed in the US--at least for the middle-class--you'll get an entirely different story. The mix has changed but the total continues to increase. The paychecks themselves largely have rapidly increasing healthcare premiums to blame.
Once again I'd like to thank the EU for saving the citizens of the U.S. from our corporate led government. If you're ever in the area, beers are on me.
I second the notion. Thank you very much EU. I wish the voice of the educated, sensible people in the U.S. would be heard but alas we cannot field the same level of campaign contribution money as our opponents.
Why would people who are comfortable with their present methods switch to another that costs them a portion of their daily food ration? I applaud the fellow for trying to solve the plight of the third-world but, the only place this would be accepted and have utility--were it actually legal to do so--would be in the developed world where access to ordinary means of doing your business are unavailable.
If the first-world truly cared to solve the problems of such people we would be intelligently investing in their education and infrastructure (hiring predominantly local labor) not dumping our surplus food stuffs onto their markets thereby robbing the farmers of their livelyhood. Moreover, we would provide the training and tools necessary for their farmers to meet our standards of wholesomeness to permit access to our markets. We would also stop raping their lands of natural resources with out fair compensation to the people in forms useful to them (see above) rather than a handful of autocrats to finance their petty wars.
Actually I believe it does fit the "technical" definition of cross-platform since they are different OSs. However, it does not fit the expectations many of us have of being cross-"organization". If this was a VS project that compiled and worked on Linux PC, iPhone, Playstation, Wii, etc. it would meet "that" expectation.
Either way, I really don't see what the point of the discussion is. All reasonably designed games/applications that are intended to be cross-platform reuse roughly 90% of their codebase and have 10% that's platform specific. This is nothing more than a marketing department puffing hot air into Microsoft fan boys. There are countless games/applications that run cross-organization platforms/devices and compile with the same compiler (GCC for example) and have been for well over two decades.
The US has been and will be stuck back in WWII thinking until it's too late. When you invest in war ships, tanks and fighter planes you have something "show" people. It's pretty hard to demonstrate what you got for the money when it comes to the security of intangible things. The installation of a firewall just doesn't make one go "oooh and ahhh" like the vaporized city and mushroom cloud from a 10 mega-ton ICBM. Even a security fence and a camera or two around a municipal water supply isn't very "impressive" compared to the demonstration of raw power an F-22 can unleash.
Worse still is when people do play "tickle-tickle" with our soft underbelly the response tends to be blowing up FedEx packages, taking off our shoes, having dogs sniff our crotch, and groping pregnant ladies.
How dare they trick us into reading TFA! It should be my constitutional right to have a genuine Slashdot summary complete with mis-quotes and misinformation not this bloated full page article masquerading as the former. I don't have time to read TFA, I'm supposed to be working...
I think the notion of a built in project is great. However I really cannot understand why they're designing them so bloody thick just to accommodate the projector chip. The ones that the TI guy was showing off were fairly wide but actually quite thin. I think it would make far more sense to simply have the projector chip lay flat just like the camera chip but have the ability to "pop-up" and be adjustable to different angles. That way not only do you enable the phone to remain nice and thin, but you also have the ability to lay the phone on an ordinary surface without propping it up at an angle for people to see the picture.
Actually you were part way there... There are consumer coax IP transceivers that you can buy. You'll have to run the math to decide whether it's more cost effective to pull CAT 5e/6 through the house (which could actually be pretty easy if you use the existing coax to pull it) or buy a coax transceiver. Unless there's a persuasive reason against it, I personally would probably just set up 802.11n and pull CAT 5e/6 between the device(s) that actually need the speed.
I'm not entirely certain that one may call this an apples to apples comparison. For starters the student is presumed to be turning in an all "original" work, you are implying that that is a requirement. A novel on the other hand does not come with the same requirements. Unless you're Neil Stephenson, it isn't "common" to include a bibliography or "works cited" in your fictional novel. This girl's work might extend past traditional expectations of written authorship but is by no means the exception. This girl points to modern day "mash-ups" and music remixes as explanation, however literary history as well as art generally has a long tradition of "borrowing" from others' work with varying degrees of obviousness.
The fact that she borrowed from the work of others makes her accomplishment of assembling the surrounding words no less impressive. Few people could lift a couple dozen pages from Walt Whitman or Charles Dickens and assemble a novel around them that made clean transitions let alone seamlessly tie it together to form a work worthy praise from the literary establishment.
De Beers adjusted pricing such that decent quality "natural" diamonds matched Gemesis manufacturing costs about the same time Gemesis started cranking them out. I still can't figure out why Gemesis gave in to presumed pressure from De Beers to laser inscribe them as synthetic though. Part of their charm was that they were impossible to tell from the natural ones but for the fact that they looked too good.
Because having a large square shaped bulge in your pocket isn't dorky looking... Besides how many times have you or someone you know dropped that device into the toilet, onto concrete, etc. or accidentally left it somewhere? A wristband makes a lot of sense for a communication device. For instances where you need to have larger display real estate it is entirely conceivable that it could have a built in projector. They're already getting small enough. The over sized, entire front is a display, pocket bricks didn't solve the real-estate problem.
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The fact that it is contrary isn't the problem. The problem is that they irresponsibly provide a contrary position marketed to a segment of the American population least capable of dividing fact from fiction. Further not only is it contrary but it is often baseless, and sensationalized in order to draw this audience in for the purpose of generating ad revenue. Fox does not report the news, they manufacture a good story in the guise of news to make money off people.
What does the fact that a $15-20 charge on a piece of plastic that costs $0.30 to make and provides $0.26 to the artist tell you?
I think I'd go find a milk jug lid and a microwave and watch the pretty light show as the disc goes round and round...
But if they didn't price themselves out of everyone's wallet then how would we be motivated to find alternatives? Practically free transmission of digital content from person to person has a nice ring to it...
When was the last time you tried to carry around 500 hours worth of music around in your back pocket?
If you like hissing an popping sounds in the music you play then you may have something there but really it's just nostalgia and novelty. Vinyl fit the bill during a certain technological time period, CDs, the same thing 20-30 years ago. Today there's no excuse whatsoever to have anything less than music sampling exceeding the capabilities of the human ear to distinguish between live performance and reproduction. Storage volume, the last hindrance, became a non-issue nearly a decade ago.
That only works if you have the ability "NOT" to be [op|re|sup]pressed. If we allow our strong position to erode too far it will be us that has someone's thumb pressing us into the dirt in the same manner we have done since WWII. Presently we prefer to be social butterflies instead of diligent, laser focused, innovative competitors as are the Asian tigers. It won't be long now...
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You neglect to realize that the American populace is unaware of the particulars of the facts surrounding our health care system, the results their of, or largely anything involving the inner-workings of our government and especially as they relate to comparisons with other countries. Unless you specifically go out looking for this information the only thing that you will hear is that "we're the best in the world", "don't fix what isn't broken", "it would be a scary thing to place your trust in government provided/managed services, besides it's un-American", "there will be long waiting queues", "the death board will decide if you get treatment", etc., etc.. The people in our country most in need of something different are told this most frequently and most loudly.
It's fun to laugh at us and all (heck I poke fun at our rural underbelly too...) but I would appeal to your sense of humanity. Help us to know what's really going on. Tell us how your system works, what your experience is, how well does it work for your people, etc. Tell us the good, the bad, etc.. There's too much FUD being communicated and too much isolation from the facts here in the U.S..
Microsoft apparently claimed the WebTV branding why not have an offering by Google? It appears that from now on what Google does Microsoft will do and vice-versa.
The intentions of this really aren't any different than the 1936 Rural Electrification Act. Broadband is a necessary utility for enabling participation in a world going on around these people. Obviously no one likes to spend money unnecessarily.
Unfortunately not everyone believes that neighbor should look out for neighbor. That's sad. It's also typically short-sighted. The disenfranchisement of people almost always inevitably negatively impacts those that are not. A lack of education increases the incident of crime. A lack of preventative health care increases the need for emergency services, the cost of which is passed on to everyone else. A lack of food aid (food stamps, etc.) decreases nutrition and increases incident of health problems. A lack of funding to urban beautification, public cultural and recreational installations, etc. results in filthy, ugly, depressing wastelands reminiscent of dystopian sci-fi flicks and/or Detroit increasing incident of mental health issues and vandalism.
While it is true that government is not the most resource efficient, it is also true that individuals on their own are incapable of providing for themselves all of the vital resources of a civilization. Before people chime in with "businesses can this, and businesses can that" consider for a moment what the sole purpose of a business is. Make money. What tools are employed? Charge as much money as the market can bear; marginalize if not eliminate competition by whatever means possible; create/maintain scarcity to increase value of product; minimize expenditure. Left unto itself, business has a moral vacuum or will be consumed by those that do. Morality must be forced onto business. Consumers on their own are powerless to effect this and must be united under a common entity able to speak with one clear voice. Traditionally this has been government.
Slight correction. When you consider the total compensation packages being dispensed in the US--at least for the middle-class--you'll get an entirely different story. The mix has changed but the total continues to increase. The paychecks themselves largely have rapidly increasing healthcare premiums to blame.
Once again I'd like to thank the EU for saving the citizens of the U.S. from our corporate led government. If you're ever in the area, beers are on me.
I second the notion. Thank you very much EU. I wish the voice of the educated, sensible people in the U.S. would be heard but alas we cannot field the same level of campaign contribution money as our opponents.
Why would people who are comfortable with their present methods switch to another that costs them a portion of their daily food ration? I applaud the fellow for trying to solve the plight of the third-world but, the only place this would be accepted and have utility--were it actually legal to do so--would be in the developed world where access to ordinary means of doing your business are unavailable.
If the first-world truly cared to solve the problems of such people we would be intelligently investing in their education and infrastructure (hiring predominantly local labor) not dumping our surplus food stuffs onto their markets thereby robbing the farmers of their livelyhood. Moreover, we would provide the training and tools necessary for their farmers to meet our standards of wholesomeness to permit access to our markets. We would also stop raping their lands of natural resources with out fair compensation to the people in forms useful to them (see above) rather than a handful of autocrats to finance their petty wars.
Actually I believe it does fit the "technical" definition of cross-platform since they are different OSs. However, it does not fit the expectations many of us have of being cross-"organization". If this was a VS project that compiled and worked on Linux PC, iPhone, Playstation, Wii, etc. it would meet "that" expectation.
Either way, I really don't see what the point of the discussion is. All reasonably designed games/applications that are intended to be cross-platform reuse roughly 90% of their codebase and have 10% that's platform specific. This is nothing more than a marketing department puffing hot air into Microsoft fan boys. There are countless games/applications that run cross-organization platforms/devices and compile with the same compiler (GCC for example) and have been for well over two decades.
Eww, seriously? A criminal roaming free in the streets? They'll corrupt my children... Think of the property values...
I don't get it.
The US has been and will be stuck back in WWII thinking until it's too late. When you invest in war ships, tanks and fighter planes you have something "show" people. It's pretty hard to demonstrate what you got for the money when it comes to the security of intangible things. The installation of a firewall just doesn't make one go "oooh and ahhh" like the vaporized city and mushroom cloud from a 10 mega-ton ICBM. Even a security fence and a camera or two around a municipal water supply isn't very "impressive" compared to the demonstration of raw power an F-22 can unleash.
Worse still is when people do play "tickle-tickle" with our soft underbelly the response tends to be blowing up FedEx packages, taking off our shoes, having dogs sniff our crotch, and groping pregnant ladies.
How dare they trick us into reading TFA! It should be my constitutional right to have a genuine Slashdot summary complete with mis-quotes and misinformation not this bloated full page article masquerading as the former. I don't have time to read TFA, I'm supposed to be working...
I think the notion of a built in project is great. However I really cannot understand why they're designing them so bloody thick just to accommodate the projector chip. The ones that the TI guy was showing off were fairly wide but actually quite thin. I think it would make far more sense to simply have the projector chip lay flat just like the camera chip but have the ability to "pop-up" and be adjustable to different angles. That way not only do you enable the phone to remain nice and thin, but you also have the ability to lay the phone on an ordinary surface without propping it up at an angle for people to see the picture.
Actually you were part way there... There are consumer coax IP transceivers that you can buy. You'll have to run the math to decide whether it's more cost effective to pull CAT 5e/6 through the house (which could actually be pretty easy if you use the existing coax to pull it) or buy a coax transceiver. Unless there's a persuasive reason against it, I personally would probably just set up 802.11n and pull CAT 5e/6 between the device(s) that actually need the speed.
I'm not entirely certain that one may call this an apples to apples comparison. For starters the student is presumed to be turning in an all "original" work, you are implying that that is a requirement. A novel on the other hand does not come with the same requirements. Unless you're Neil Stephenson, it isn't "common" to include a bibliography or "works cited" in your fictional novel. This girl's work might extend past traditional expectations of written authorship but is by no means the exception. This girl points to modern day "mash-ups" and music remixes as explanation, however literary history as well as art generally has a long tradition of "borrowing" from others' work with varying degrees of obviousness.
The fact that she borrowed from the work of others makes her accomplishment of assembling the surrounding words no less impressive. Few people could lift a couple dozen pages from Walt Whitman or Charles Dickens and assemble a novel around them that made clean transitions let alone seamlessly tie it together to form a work worthy praise from the literary establishment.
De Beers adjusted pricing such that decent quality "natural" diamonds matched Gemesis manufacturing costs about the same time Gemesis started cranking them out. I still can't figure out why Gemesis gave in to presumed pressure from De Beers to laser inscribe them as synthetic though. Part of their charm was that they were impossible to tell from the natural ones but for the fact that they looked too good.
Because having a large square shaped bulge in your pocket isn't dorky looking... Besides how many times have you or someone you know dropped that device into the toilet, onto concrete, etc. or accidentally left it somewhere? A wristband makes a lot of sense for a communication device. For instances where you need to have larger display real estate it is entirely conceivable that it could have a built in projector. They're already getting small enough. The over sized, entire front is a display, pocket bricks didn't solve the real-estate problem.