Why are we losing vertical pixels? Because in the 1950's Hollywood broke its 4:3 standard to make itself different from television.
Five years from now when all the computer monitors are 3D, when reading PDFs you'll not only have to squint at tiny vertical text through a venetian blind porthole, you'll have to withstand 3D vertigo in the process as well.
Unless the particular arrangement of pixels on a Facebook webpage caused a powerful alignment of EM radiation, fertility was not affected. Perhaps fecundity was, but not fertility.
It's not Castle Wolfenstein, the classic Apple ][ game, for which the source code was released; it was for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, a game for which Slashdot's use of the "classic games" story icon is dubious.
Not only that, but the article never used the phrase "self promotion" as the Slashdot summary did. Self promotion has business purposes outside of narcissism. And, yes, I have gotten job offers from my Facebook profile (whereas with LinkedIn I get 10x as many but those are just leads).
There is a lot of negative sentiment on Slashdot regarding Facebook, but I find it to be a great way to keep in contact with friends from the past. It's cheaper and more fun than sending 125 Christmas cards as I used to.
The field expanded greatly in the 1990's. When I interview with a tech lead, that tech lead is usually younger than me. During the interview process, the tech lead sees from my resume that I have a lot of experience and knowledge, and then sees from his overly-targeted interview questions that I am not expert on the specific thing he happens to be working on day and night at the moment. Based on a "failed" interview, the tech lead is able to dismiss a potential leadership threat.
This will continue to go on until there is more age diversity in the field, which will take several decades for the dot-commers to mature. Meanwhile, since I started nearly a decade before dot-com, I more or less am limited to those businesses that have people older than me.
There is a lot of things that need to come together to make a technology viable.
Yes, and you made my first of two points, so I'm just replying to your post, and will make my second point of why 1975 was not the right time for digital cameras:
In 1975, we were still living in the era of scarcity. If you read Little House on the Prairie, you see what we would now consider abject poverty that they had in the nineteenth century -- hand-held slates because paper was too expensive; Ma's "china shepherdess", her sole knick-knack, that she carted around whenever they moved, children going barefoot so as to not wear out their Sunday shoes, etc.
Post-WWII was the first watershed era of abundance, with home appliances, indoor climate control, television, and homes doubling in size from cabins, shacks, and Craftsman bungalows. But still, although there was television, as we are reminded by BTTF, people only had one television. Why would you monopolize the one family television to show photos? Even into the 1980's, again from BTTF, Marty McFly attested to having only two televisions. (Although I am old enough for such personal recollections, I city BTTF merely for more authority than personal anecdotes.)
The second watershed was the influx of Chinese imports from Wal-Mart, really starting around in earnest around 2002 (especially compared to the double-digit increases in housing, education, and healthcare). It was weird to me that stuff was so inexpensive that it became more economic to dispose and replace rather than to preserve and repair items for years. People started buying so, so much stuff, that it became trendy to "live simply" and to "declutter". Enter the digital camera. The digital camera allowed one to clear out those shoeboxes and bulky "albums" of photos and to "de-clutter". People not only had five TVs, they had five computers on which to display photos.
Even though the 1975 lifestyle is recognizable to today's eyes (in contrast to, say, nineteenth century living), everything was still expensive, every purchased item was kept for years and treasured, and the idea of decluttering was not on anyone's radar. In this context, given the high resolution, great color rendition, usability in direct sunlight, and portability of prints, why would anyone want to forgo watching (and prevent the rest of the family from watching) All in the Family to see a photo?
When you say, "should developers have access to production?" it fails to make two critical distinctions:
Read-only vs. read/write Of course developers should be able to pull real-life data off production to re-load onto development and test environments.
Deployment vs. emergency administration. Of course developers should not be allowed to deploy code to production. But there are always emergencies, and there are times when the development team lead needs to put a finger on production to unjam it, so to speak -- utilizing knowledge only a developer would have and executed, due to ($) urgency, that precludes a developer communicating the steps to an authorized admin. By "unjam" I mean clearing out queues, deleting temporary files, etc., not deploying new code.
Don't forget we had videogame arcades back then. Often, 2600 games were renditions of what was in the arcade, such as Pong, Space Invaders, and Night Driver. No one expected a $200 home system to match what a $3000 arcade game did (which itself of course fell far short of the 2600 box art), but even still, the 2600 games came reasonably close to -- just slightly lower tech versions of -- the original arcade versions. People knew what to expect. The box art was just that -- art. The purpose of the art was to stimulate the imagination. Usually the instruction booklet took it further, by providing a backstory in prose and more art.
As pro-life anti-NWO, I am sympathetic to this position of Dan Maes, even though I am also pro-bicycle. The problem is that Dan Maes is not strongly pro-life, or at least is going about it the wrong way. For political expediency, he has copped the standard line, "Roe v. Wade is the law of the land... I would not try to undo that." If Roe v. Wade is not a pro-life battle worth fighting, then why would a UN bicycle program be?
This anti-UN bicycle position is either a blunder by a political novice or a clever way to gain international publicity. In either case, it doesn't advance the pro-life cause.
Tablets are new-fangled compared to the pantograph, a scissor/accordian linkage mechanism that digitized pen position by means of two potentiometers. I am unable to find a trace of the third-party commercial one for the Atari 8-bit on the Internet, but this research one will give you some idea -- except the one for the Atari was 2 DOF, was an input device only (no robotics or force feedback) and actually more closely resembled the classic Renaissance pantograph from the Wikipedia link. Recall that the Atari 8-bit had eight "paddle controller inputs" that were essentially slow 8-bit A/Ds -- two of these were used to encode position where the software would convert the pantograph arm angles indicated by the potentiometers into a 2D location.
Actually, it would be more correct to say that the pantograph was the predecessor to the scanner rather than to the tablet, since due to its clunkiness the purpose of the pantograph was to copy from a piece of paper rather than to create something new on a piece of paper. Even into the early 1990's, flatbed scanners were $5,000.
Even more at risk are the electronic handhelds of the late 1970's (P.S. it was so long ago now that I feel compelled to include the century), in the manner of Mattel Football and Simon, but more obscure titles. I remember that whereas Mattel Football and three lanes of LEDs, there were knockoffs that had four or five lanes. And I recall a Bandai basketball game that had fully-drawn figures that would light up on a flourescent display. And then in 1981 there was a tabletop football game that sold for $70 at the time ($300 in today's dollars) for two simultaneous players -- I saw it once in a tiny midwestern town and never anywhere else.
Or more ominously, if the Internet is strongly associated with porn, it will delegitimize the Internet for political education, organization, and action. "Honey, are you on that Internet again?"
It will be just a matter of time before Orbitz, Travelocity, Expedia, or an upstart comes up with a "Bottom Line Price" website that takes into account the number of bags, food preferences, etc. that you input (note that they already take into account airport fees and taxes). In the meantime, the airlines are exploiting the cost of individuals to indepently acquire this information. The airlines figured out a way to re-intermediate the disintermediation that the Internet introduced. The Internet will route around this disintermediation.
What if the U.S. were to set up a radio station across the border from a nation, and began broadcasting propaganda into said nation?
The Slashdot community frequently criticizes the media for making arbitrary distinctions between the Internet and non-Internet realms -- time for some self-criticism.
ASCAP is already preventing coffee shops from hosting independent artists.
For Henderson business owner Mike Hopper, his coffee shop, Mocha Joe, was the perfect environment to let local artists showcase their original music. At least that was the plan until the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers said otherwise.
[...]
However, Hopper said it was just a misunderstanding between him and the organizations. He then called to explain that the unsigned bands were playing 100 percent original songs.
"I am 100 percent in compliance," Hopper said. "I'm not charging cover at the door. I'm not paying the bands, and they are just playing songs they wrote. They essentially said to me, 'We don't care. We have this low-end licensing fee you must have because there is a chance your band might play a cover song.'"
[...]
Looking at potentially paying a total of $1,800 in annual fees to the three agencies and the possibility that he would be shut down permanently, Hopper discontinued music at Mocha Joe.
Under the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995, a person can be held to have infringed upon a trademark for "tarnishing" it by using it in a negative context. The famous example is a case in which the slogan "Enjoy Cocaine" was used in Coca Cola's distinctive script and was judged an infringement without the more typical trademark litmus test of creating confusion in the marketplace.
"Parody under the law doesn't magically fend off trademark infringements," said Gregory Phillips, attorney with Howard Phillips and Andersen. "In our view, this is the same thing as 'Enjoy Cocaine.'"
As I already posted, I assumed it wasn't continued for 13 years, and didn't bother to look up the filing date. That turned out to be an incorrect assumption, and since Slashdot does not allow editing or retraction, all I can do is reply to everyone seeking to correct me.
Well, seems that PlanetAll was launched November 16, 1996 according to this, while the original patent application dates back to November 2, 1997.
Thank you for that information. I thought maybe the companies might have submarined it, but I thought -- 13 years, no impossible. So I didn't look it up or RTFA before I posted. My mistake.
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Why are we losing vertical pixels? Because in the 1950's Hollywood broke its 4:3 standard to make itself different from television.
Five years from now when all the computer monitors are 3D, when reading PDFs you'll not only have to squint at tiny vertical text through a venetian blind porthole, you'll have to withstand 3D vertigo in the process as well.
Unless the particular arrangement of pixels on a Facebook webpage caused a powerful alignment of EM radiation, fertility was not affected. Perhaps fecundity was, but not fertility.
It's not Castle Wolfenstein, the classic Apple ][ game, for which the source code was released; it was for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, a game for which Slashdot's use of the "classic games" story icon is dubious.
Not only that, but the article never used the phrase "self promotion" as the Slashdot summary did. Self promotion has business purposes outside of narcissism. And, yes, I have gotten job offers from my Facebook profile (whereas with LinkedIn I get 10x as many but those are just leads).
There is a lot of negative sentiment on Slashdot regarding Facebook, but I find it to be a great way to keep in contact with friends from the past. It's cheaper and more fun than sending 125 Christmas cards as I used to.
The Washington Post article now has 533 comments. Why can't all sites just use Slashcode?
The field expanded greatly in the 1990's. When I interview with a tech lead, that tech lead is usually younger than me. During the interview process, the tech lead sees from my resume that I have a lot of experience and knowledge, and then sees from his overly-targeted interview questions that I am not expert on the specific thing he happens to be working on day and night at the moment. Based on a "failed" interview, the tech lead is able to dismiss a potential leadership threat.
This will continue to go on until there is more age diversity in the field, which will take several decades for the dot-commers to mature. Meanwhile, since I started nearly a decade before dot-com, I more or less am limited to those businesses that have people older than me.
Yes, and you made my first of two points, so I'm just replying to your post, and will make my second point of why 1975 was not the right time for digital cameras:
In 1975, we were still living in the era of scarcity. If you read Little House on the Prairie, you see what we would now consider abject poverty that they had in the nineteenth century -- hand-held slates because paper was too expensive; Ma's "china shepherdess", her sole knick-knack, that she carted around whenever they moved, children going barefoot so as to not wear out their Sunday shoes, etc.
Post-WWII was the first watershed era of abundance, with home appliances, indoor climate control, television, and homes doubling in size from cabins, shacks, and Craftsman bungalows. But still, although there was television, as we are reminded by BTTF, people only had one television. Why would you monopolize the one family television to show photos? Even into the 1980's, again from BTTF, Marty McFly attested to having only two televisions. (Although I am old enough for such personal recollections, I city BTTF merely for more authority than personal anecdotes.)
The second watershed was the influx of Chinese imports from Wal-Mart, really starting around in earnest around 2002 (especially compared to the double-digit increases in housing, education, and healthcare). It was weird to me that stuff was so inexpensive that it became more economic to dispose and replace rather than to preserve and repair items for years. People started buying so, so much stuff, that it became trendy to "live simply" and to "declutter". Enter the digital camera. The digital camera allowed one to clear out those shoeboxes and bulky "albums" of photos and to "de-clutter". People not only had five TVs, they had five computers on which to display photos.
Even though the 1975 lifestyle is recognizable to today's eyes (in contrast to, say, nineteenth century living), everything was still expensive, every purchased item was kept for years and treasured, and the idea of decluttering was not on anyone's radar. In this context, given the high resolution, great color rendition, usability in direct sunlight, and portability of prints, why would anyone want to forgo watching (and prevent the rest of the family from watching) All in the Family to see a photo?
Don't forget we had videogame arcades back then. Often, 2600 games were renditions of what was in the arcade, such as Pong, Space Invaders, and Night Driver. No one expected a $200 home system to match what a $3000 arcade game did (which itself of course fell far short of the 2600 box art), but even still, the 2600 games came reasonably close to -- just slightly lower tech versions of -- the original arcade versions. People knew what to expect. The box art was just that -- art. The purpose of the art was to stimulate the imagination. Usually the instruction booklet took it further, by providing a backstory in prose and more art.
And the cap gun you bought at the toy store didn't shoot real bullets. Before the age of computer photorealism, there was imagination.
As pro-life anti-NWO, I am sympathetic to this position of Dan Maes, even though I am also pro-bicycle. The problem is that Dan Maes is not strongly pro-life, or at least is going about it the wrong way. For political expediency, he has copped the standard line, "Roe v. Wade is the law of the land ... I would not try to undo that." If Roe v. Wade is not a pro-life battle worth fighting, then why would a UN bicycle program be?
This anti-UN bicycle position is either a blunder by a political novice or a clever way to gain international publicity. In either case, it doesn't advance the pro-life cause.
Tablets are new-fangled compared to the pantograph, a scissor/accordian linkage mechanism that digitized pen position by means of two potentiometers. I am unable to find a trace of the third-party commercial one for the Atari 8-bit on the Internet, but this research one will give you some idea -- except the one for the Atari was 2 DOF, was an input device only (no robotics or force feedback) and actually more closely resembled the classic Renaissance pantograph from the Wikipedia link. Recall that the Atari 8-bit had eight "paddle controller inputs" that were essentially slow 8-bit A/Ds -- two of these were used to encode position where the software would convert the pantograph arm angles indicated by the potentiometers into a 2D location.
Actually, it would be more correct to say that the pantograph was the predecessor to the scanner rather than to the tablet, since due to its clunkiness the purpose of the pantograph was to copy from a piece of paper rather than to create something new on a piece of paper. Even into the early 1990's, flatbed scanners were $5,000.
Even more at risk are the electronic handhelds of the late 1970's (P.S. it was so long ago now that I feel compelled to include the century), in the manner of Mattel Football and Simon, but more obscure titles. I remember that whereas Mattel Football and three lanes of LEDs, there were knockoffs that had four or five lanes. And I recall a Bandai basketball game that had fully-drawn figures that would light up on a flourescent display. And then in 1981 there was a tabletop football game that sold for $70 at the time ($300 in today's dollars) for two simultaneous players -- I saw it once in a tiny midwestern town and never anywhere else.
Or more ominously, if the Internet is strongly associated with porn, it will delegitimize the Internet for political education, organization, and action. "Honey, are you on that Internet again?"
I get computers for the school staff for $90 apiece at http://www.techcentercomputers.com/ P4, 512MB, 80GB, XP.
Just this story icon makes this Slashdot story NSFW
It will be just a matter of time before Orbitz, Travelocity, Expedia, or an upstart comes up with a "Bottom Line Price" website that takes into account the number of bags, food preferences, etc. that you input (note that they already take into account airport fees and taxes). In the meantime, the airlines are exploiting the cost of individuals to indepently acquire this information. The airlines figured out a way to re-intermediate the disintermediation that the Internet introduced. The Internet will route around this disintermediation.
What if the U.S. were to set up a radio station across the border from a nation, and began broadcasting propaganda into said nation?
The Slashdot community frequently criticizes the media for making arbitrary distinctions between the Internet and non-Internet realms -- time for some self-criticism.
Did you see that unimpressed tall girl at 1:12? Reminds me of the homecoming competition games in Revenge of the Nerds.
Steve Jobs would not approve.
ASCAP is already preventing coffee shops from hosting independent artists.
In 2010, the best place is the place that will hire you.
In 2010, the best place chooses you!
As I already posted, I assumed it wasn't continued for 13 years, and didn't bother to look up the filing date. That turned out to be an incorrect assumption, and since Slashdot does not allow editing or retraction, all I can do is reply to everyone seeking to correct me.
Thank you for that information. I thought maybe the companies might have submarined it, but I thought -- 13 years, no impossible. So I didn't look it up or RTFA before I posted. My mistake.