I'm sure there were already working prototypes, it's not a unique idea, etc etc, but something very similar to this was described in the novel Airframe, published a few years back - a VR headset used to access the manual. It sounds even cooler now with the ability to delve through "virtual parts," but I remember thinking that was a neat idea at the time.
That said, I still prefer printed manuals to the PDF files that come with most software from a store, so who knows how usable a virtual manual would be.
from a sexual assault website: "There are many types of sexual assault, including rape, forced sodomy (anal intercourse), and forced oral copulation (oral-genital contact), rape by a foreign object (forced penetration by a foreign object, including a finger), and sexual battery (the unwanted touching of an intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal)."
All rapes are sexual assaults. Not all sexual assaults are rapes. You are the one needing a refresher course. I thought the parent's comment was quite apt.
I guess the "sucks" comment only refers to the actual industrial design. Here's what Jobs was quoted as saying in Segway's pre-vapor phase, when we didn't even know what "It" was:
The participants in that secret meeting continue to rave about IT. "If enough people see the machine you wonâ(TM)t have to convince them to architect cities around it. Itâ(TM)ll just happen," said Jobs.
Re:Did AOL Cause The Dotcom Depression?
on
Glory Days at AOL
·
· Score: 1
I think that might indeed be one of the causes. The way the story is frequently told around here, there are a few reasons all the dotcoms collapsed. First, they had zt00pid business plans that sought to increase brand awareness and generate cash flow, not look to profitability. (The joke goes something like "1. Start dotcom 2. Spend millions on building brand awareness 3. ??? 4. profit!)
Second, and somewhat related, many of the dotcoms relied on advertising dollars as their primary source of revenue. When the bottom fell out of the banner ad market, these companies lost their revenue stream and had to fold.
Now, how does AOL's behavior come into that picture? Well, as the article says, they tried to get 50% of any VC money a dotcom raised just for an advertising deal! This did two things: crippled dotcoms cash position and preventing them from ever reaching profitability due to the high burn rate, and eventually led to a fallout for ad revenue, as companies started to notice the extremely crappy returns from spending tons of money on advertising deals.
I wonder what AOL did with all of that cash? I guess Turner gave it to the UN:P
The actual precedent is somewhat less clear than you indicate. First of all, the "DOJ" did not rule on anything. They were the prosecutor for the US government; the District and Circuit Courts of DC "ruled" in the personages of Robert Penfield Jackson, Colleen Kotter-Kelly, etc. Also, Microsoft's argument was that by developing an integrated product, the result was superior to standalone products. A consent decree in Microsoft II ruled that this is okay as long as the integration provided "some" additional functionality.
Personally, I believe that Microsoft illegally tied the two products, because the way they programmed the integration seemed to exist solely to preclude disabling IE, but that's just me. As an interesting side note, one of the most important things about the service pack to Windows XP is its consent decree compliance. Now, you can turn off IE, Outlook Express, and (most importantly, at least now) Microsoft Virtual Machine.
When I was twelve years old, I didn't have the slightest interest in having sex with anyone, and yet almost every comment here runs along the lines of: "have as much sex as you can!"
This is pretty crummy advice. Meaningless sex seems great to people who don't get any, but it kinda sucks in the long run. You don't develop real relationships with girls and tend to treat them as inferior. This is the worst preparation you can get for college and later on - you'll be one of the guys that can't stay in a lasting relationship and ends up not getting married for a long time, if ever.
I was a 6th grader at Trinity Elementary as a twelve year old. I didn't worry about girls, like lots of other people; I played lots of basketball, baseball, and golf, read lots of books (and computer magazines... *sigh*), and went to as many Braves games as I could. The one thing I would say to twelve-year-old Kyle is this: In the coming years, you will fail. Small and large, failure is inevitable. Don't be afraid! If you want something or someone pursue your goal with tenacity and without fear; if you fail, dust yourself off, get back up and keep trying.
And if that doesn't work, sell your xerox now and put it all in Amazon. Then sell Amazon and buy a ferrari.
Those are the specs for the digital camera portion. It takes 320x240 QVGA resolution video at 18fps, which is really bad quality. 640x480x30fps is almost as nice as DVD video. Look at the link and click "detailed specs" and look for the info on the camcorder.
I'm probably wrong here, but your tone makes me think you're trying to be humorous, whereas the other guy is taking the discussion completely seriously. Which tickles my funny bone, because his signature includes a line about whether or not the moderator "got the joke" - and I'm thinking he's missing yours.
Actually, I think that Dish has shipped a lot more units of the first-generation DishPVR than Tivos.. there are a few million DishPVRs out, whereas that site said there were only 500,000 Tivo subscribers. *shrug*
in general, class action law suits exist to make class action lawyers and their 20-30% fees rich. if this was a class settlement, that's why. otherwise, i dunno, who gets the 67m? the feddies? grrrrreat:)
As someone who's worked as a waiter, I tend to disagree with this sentiment. Waiting on tables is only boring if there's no one at the restaurant. If you have a full plate of tables, and have to keep tabs on drinks, which course is coming next, keeping their table set correctly, ringing up checks, etc etc, you do not have time to be bored.
That said, I'm sure working at a fast-food style place would be the epitome of tedium.
If you read the article (heh), the point that wired makes is that the movies won't be available to record because valenti is afraid they'll be copied, not that your TiVO won't be able to display them. I have a dishPVR for my satellite system, but i'll probably upgrade it to a HD PVR in the next 4 years anyway.
how exectly are you going to tell your boss with POTS phone and desktop computer, that you just got jammed in a traffic jam and will be late from work?"
I think I would call him on my POTS-like cell phone and tell him that, which is what the parent is implying:)
He doesn't address how he will compete with free. If I have to pay for a service, I'll expect the service to have excellent quality mp3s of any song I ask for. If the service doesn't have many of the songs I want, what benefit am I getting choosing him over grokster? Don't tell me compensating the artist - i'd rather send cash via the USPS to the artist than pay them the pittance royalty they'd get from this, or other RIAA sponsored sites.
Until someone gets a universal database that works, with per-song pricing, I don't think anyone will budge.
You must have a lot more faith in your newbie friend than I do in mine. Some of my friends have trouble installing Instant Messenger, and these are the ones WITH computers. I don't think I'll suggest Linux to the technophobes who have RESISTED buying a computer for this long, unless I feel like being evil (and possibly losing a friend:).
Wait. The guy is smart enough to make money playing cards, and I'm supposed to distrust him because he's an "outsider." He probably didn't even go to the same CEO Preparatory School that me and Kenneth Lay were at!
It's kinda funny how that article has absolutely no clue what "counting cards" at blackjack means. Despite what Rain Man may have led you to believe, counting cards requires nothing more than remembering which cards have been dealt and keeping a mental count of how likely you are to get a 10 when needed. If you do this correctly and spread your bets so you bet more when the odds are better, you gain a 1-2% player edge of your action - average return of ~1.5% of every dollar bet.
(Yes, it's a little more complicated than that, but I'm a poor student and I've never been to Vegas, so i'd appreciate no overly disparaging criticism. Think: if you understand counting cards so much better than me, why are you posting on Slashdot instead of counting your casino-won money? hehe)
I have a birthday coming up soon - my 21st =) Basically my parents are giving me a bunch of Polo shirts and the like, which is nice but not as exciting as what I got when I was a kid (of course). I am thinking about asking for an iPod in lieu of a new wardrobe, or just buying one myself.
That said, I use WinXP on an Athlon. I've heard that EphPod is a great piece of software as well, and with MacOpener costing about the same as xPlay does, they compete on price. Is there anyone out there who has used both? Which one is better? Also, do you have to use a Mac to flash your firmware? Appreciate any replies.
from the link: "A distinction should be made regarding the different Divx codecs: only films using version 4.02 or higher of the Divx codec are supported by the Sigma Designs decoder. In our test field, the recently launched Divx 5.02 codec did not present any problems. "
So it sounds like there won't be any problems, if 4.00 is a minimum, rather than the latest supported version. I'm sure someone more acquainted with video encoding can explain why this is.
Who cares about cost/benefit analysis.. how dare EchoStar leave an industry when people in rural areas NEED high-speed internet!
If anyone can't recognize my sarcasm, this quote sounds exactly like one of many from Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which despite being full of (in my view) oversimplifications and flaws is a decent enough critique of governmental control over a lot of stuff. The government had no problem with local phone monopolies, and seems to have no problem with cable monopolies, but can't accept a satellite monopoly. Being a monopoly is in itself fine, the illegal part is when the monopoly uses its power to quash competition (by, for example, tying its browser software to the operating system, or forcing vendors to install its OS on every box they sell if they want to be able to sell it at all:). Charlie Ergen is trying to show the government they can't have it both ways: a competitive satellite TV marketplace and cost-effective satellite broadband, even if the broadband service loses money.
Besides, if Ergen thought the rural internet provider industry was so successful, would he really jump out of it for the fairly shortsighted goal of pressuring the government to approve his merger? *sigh* Is it just me or does the FCC rarely ever have its act together? I'm moving to Sealand!
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure there were already working prototypes, it's not a unique idea, etc etc, but something very similar to this was described in the novel Airframe, published a few years back - a VR headset used to access the manual. It sounds even cooler now with the ability to delve through "virtual parts," but I remember thinking that was a neat idea at the time.
That said, I still prefer printed manuals to the PDF files that come with most software from a store, so who knows how usable a virtual manual would be.
from a sexual assault website:
"There are many types of sexual assault, including rape, forced sodomy (anal intercourse), and forced oral copulation (oral-genital contact), rape by a foreign object (forced penetration by a foreign object, including a finger), and sexual battery (the unwanted touching of an intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal)."
All rapes are sexual assaults. Not all sexual assaults are rapes. You are the one needing a refresher course. I thought the parent's comment was quite apt.
The participants in that secret meeting continue to rave about IT. "If enough people see the machine you wonâ(TM)t have to convince them to architect cities around it. Itâ(TM)ll just happen," said Jobs.
Source
Second, and somewhat related, many of the dotcoms relied on advertising dollars as their primary source of revenue. When the bottom fell out of the banner ad market, these companies lost their revenue stream and had to fold.
Now, how does AOL's behavior come into that picture? Well, as the article says, they tried to get 50% of any VC money a dotcom raised just for an advertising deal! This did two things: crippled dotcoms cash position and preventing them from ever reaching profitability due to the high burn rate, and eventually led to a fallout for ad revenue, as companies started to notice the extremely crappy returns from spending tons of money on advertising deals.
I wonder what AOL did with all of that cash? I guess Turner gave it to the UN :P
Personally, I believe that Microsoft illegally tied the two products, because the way they programmed the integration seemed to exist solely to preclude disabling IE, but that's just me. As an interesting side note, one of the most important things about the service pack to Windows XP is its consent decree compliance. Now, you can turn off IE, Outlook Express, and (most importantly, at least now) Microsoft Virtual Machine.
When I was twelve years old, I didn't have the slightest interest in having sex with anyone, and yet almost every comment here runs along the lines of: "have as much sex as you can!"
This is pretty crummy advice. Meaningless sex seems great to people who don't get any, but it kinda sucks in the long run. You don't develop real relationships with girls and tend to treat them as inferior. This is the worst preparation you can get for college and later on - you'll be one of the guys that can't stay in a lasting relationship and ends up not getting married for a long time, if ever.
I was a 6th grader at Trinity Elementary as a twelve year old. I didn't worry about girls, like lots of other people; I played lots of basketball, baseball, and golf, read lots of books (and computer magazines... *sigh*), and went to as many Braves games as I could. The one thing I would say to twelve-year-old Kyle is this: In the coming years, you will fail. Small and large, failure is inevitable. Don't be afraid! If you want something or someone pursue your goal with tenacity and without fear; if you fail, dust yourself off, get back up and keep trying.
And if that doesn't work, sell your xerox now and put it all in Amazon. Then sell Amazon and buy a ferrari.
Those are the specs for the digital camera portion. It takes 320x240 QVGA resolution video at 18fps, which is really bad quality. 640x480x30fps is almost as nice as DVD video. Look at the link and click "detailed specs" and look for the info on the camcorder.
Agent of evil all the way.
Actually, I think that Dish has shipped a lot more units of the first-generation DishPVR than Tivos.. there are a few million DishPVRs out, whereas that site said there were only 500,000 Tivo subscribers. *shrug*
in general, class action law suits exist to make class action lawyers and their 20-30% fees rich. if this was a class settlement, that's why. otherwise, i dunno, who gets the 67m? the feddies? grrrrreat :)
If there is one word i'd use to describe that comment, it would be "insightful!" ;) DIE EVIL MOD heh
As someone who's worked as a waiter, I tend to disagree with this sentiment. Waiting on tables is only boring if there's no one at the restaurant. If you have a full plate of tables, and have to keep tabs on drinks, which course is coming next, keeping their table set correctly, ringing up checks, etc etc, you do not have time to be bored.
That said, I'm sure working at a fast-food style place would be the epitome of tedium.
If you read the article (heh), the point that wired makes is that the movies won't be available to record because valenti is afraid they'll be copied, not that your TiVO won't be able to display them. I have a dishPVR for my satellite system, but i'll probably upgrade it to a HD PVR in the next 4 years anyway.
not a good idea, you could absorb a lethal dose of alcohol osmosing through the skin of his hand ;)
"err
:)
how exectly are you going to tell your boss with POTS phone and desktop computer, that you just got jammed in a traffic jam and will be late from work?"
I think I would call him on my POTS-like cell phone and tell him that, which is what the parent is implying
Until someone gets a universal database that works, with per-song pricing, I don't think anyone will budge.
You must have a lot more faith in your newbie friend than I do in mine. Some of my friends have trouble installing Instant Messenger, and these are the ones WITH computers. I don't think I'll suggest Linux to the technophobes who have RESISTED buying a computer for this long, unless I feel like being evil (and possibly losing a friend :).
Timo Maas is the artists' name, so he'd probably not like being referred to in the plural form :)
He's lucky he doesn't get those things... with a low-impact job like running Slashdot, it must be hard enough to keep off the excess pounds as it is ;)
Wait. The guy is smart enough to make money playing cards, and I'm supposed to distrust him because he's an "outsider." He probably didn't even go to the same CEO Preparatory School that me and Kenneth Lay were at!
It's kinda funny how that article has absolutely no clue what "counting cards" at blackjack means. Despite what Rain Man may have led you to believe, counting cards requires nothing more than remembering which cards have been dealt and keeping a mental count of how likely you are to get a 10 when needed. If you do this correctly and spread your bets so you bet more when the odds are better, you gain a 1-2% player edge of your action - average return of ~1.5% of every dollar bet.
(Yes, it's a little more complicated than that, but I'm a poor student and I've never been to Vegas, so i'd appreciate no overly disparaging criticism. Think: if you understand counting cards so much better than me, why are you posting on Slashdot instead of counting your casino-won money? hehe)
well, worldcom's market cap is still a factor of 10 higher than va's, becaues there are a lot more shares of wcom outstanding.
I have a birthday coming up soon - my 21st =) Basically my parents are giving me a bunch of Polo shirts and the like, which is nice but not as exciting as what I got when I was a kid (of course). I am thinking about asking for an iPod in lieu of a new wardrobe, or just buying one myself.
That said, I use WinXP on an Athlon. I've heard that EphPod is a great piece of software as well, and with MacOpener costing about the same as xPlay does, they compete on price. Is there anyone out there who has used both? Which one is better? Also, do you have to use a Mac to flash your firmware? Appreciate any replies.
from the link:
"A distinction should be made regarding the different Divx codecs: only films using version 4.02 or higher of the Divx codec are supported by the Sigma Designs decoder. In our test field, the recently launched Divx 5.02 codec did not present any problems. "
So it sounds like there won't be any problems, if 4.00 is a minimum, rather than the latest supported version. I'm sure someone more acquainted with video encoding can explain why this is.
Who cares about cost/benefit analysis.. how dare EchoStar leave an industry when people in rural areas NEED high-speed internet!
:). Charlie Ergen is trying to show the government they can't have it both ways: a competitive satellite TV marketplace and cost-effective satellite broadband, even if the broadband service loses money.
If anyone can't recognize my sarcasm, this quote sounds exactly like one of many from Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which despite being full of (in my view) oversimplifications and flaws is a decent enough critique of governmental control over a lot of stuff. The government had no problem with local phone monopolies, and seems to have no problem with cable monopolies, but can't accept a satellite monopoly. Being a monopoly is in itself fine, the illegal part is when the monopoly uses its power to quash competition (by, for example, tying its browser software to the operating system, or forcing vendors to install its OS on every box they sell if they want to be able to sell it at all
Besides, if Ergen thought the rural internet provider industry was so successful, would he really jump out of it for the fairly shortsighted goal of pressuring the government to approve his merger? *sigh* Is it just me or does the FCC rarely ever have its act together? I'm moving to Sealand!