"The longer a cloud of uncertainty hangs over Sun, that drives customers into delays of purchases or into the hands of competitors...
I just don't see why Sun needed to use the cloud for uncertainty. Companies have been doing this for years without the cloud. Now they can't control it!
That's what I'm trying to figure out... If you reflect 60 percent of the "sun's energy," doesn't that mean that only 40% of light from outside is let in? And if it's dark... doesn't that make night driving pretty damn dangerous?
Not if they're more heavily reflecting UV and IR light.
My thoughts on why one hears other spaceships around in sci-fi movies is that their propulsion pushes directly off of space time which creates waves which one can hear when they hit the side of the spaceship.
Ah. That explains the John Williams score we hear in space, too.
Yesterday, you put all your cell phone contacts and calendar data up in the "cloud".
Today, your data is lost.
Tomorrow, the same companies responsible for losing your cell phone data now want to take over all your Office documents.
The phrasing of this sounds chilling until one realizes that the main point here is that you still want to keep your own local copy. The T-Mobile phones should have done that. You should do that when creating documents on-line.
This is such a silly reason to vilify 'the cloud'.
From where I sit, the problem started when some guy wearing a tie said "and the phones use the server exclusively to house the data!" Dumb. The 'cloud' shouldn't even be part of this discussion.
"I'm not going to whore the product out by mentioning it here"
There's your problem right there. Thats the difference between being an entrepreneur and and being just a programmer. If your not going to bother to mention your app...why should Apple.
I think that's a bit harsh. The people on this site have a way of coming down on people who appear to be 'shilling'. That and the "I wrote an iPhone app" bit are two very good ways to get jumped on and modded to heck on this site.
I don't blame the guy for not wanting to draw Slashdot's fire.
This would be a better idea for a desktop system since laptops are supposed to be portable. You'd have to be a pretty big nerd (even by Slashdot standards) to wear special 3D computing glasses in public.
Using 3D glasses in the privacy of your own home (on your desktop PC) makes far more sense.
Yeah because laptops are only used for taking to Starbucks to write your screenplay.
Remind me never to use your designs since you don't know the difference between a 3D model and 3D vision. When you're making a model, no matter what computer you're using, you're still looking at a 2D representation of it on screen.
3D apps are starting to support stereo displays. He may already have a stereo LCD and can't leave the office with it.
We'd very much like to have 3d representations of our models.
I wonder whats the use for 3D laptop, and if this works better than the existing tech?
NVIDIA 3D Vision is great with some games, but laptops aren't usually used for that and you would probably want atleast 17" screen if you'd get it for gaming. So whats the use?
In the last year I've worked on two different movies that were filmed stereoscopically. There were times where being able to play back a stereoscopic.mov would have been awesome.
This is just an analyst's prediction though. So a heaping teaspoon of salt is required while reading. Sure it's possible, but is it really likely at this point?
No but it does cause a lot of ads to be served on this site.
The iPhone is a very nice phone but AT&T is a lot more expensive than Sprint...
Is it? I went straight from Sprint to AT&T/iPhone. I pay $10/mo. more than I did with Sprint, but now both my GF and I have unlimited data plans. (When I was with Sprint I had a data plan on my phone but not my GF's.)
2. If your Photoshop guru has glasses thicker than a quarter inch, smells of last night's alcohol or has blood-shot eyes... get someone else to double check his work.
This was likely the work of a PHB, not a Photoshop artist.
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"The longer a cloud of uncertainty hangs over Sun, that drives customers into delays of purchases or into the hands of competitors...
I just don't see why Sun needed to use the cloud for uncertainty. Companies have been doing this for years without the cloud. Now they can't control it!
with CPU's and memory and HDD's and the like -- it just happens to be taking place somewhere else.
That's an important distinction.
The Kindle Killer Arrives
How do you kill that which has no life?
Somewhere a Sony exec is grinding his teeth...
Are those 85000 distinct apps? How many roughly do the same as how many others?
Why, are other platforms immune to this?
That's what I'm trying to figure out... If you reflect 60 percent of the "sun's energy," doesn't that mean that only 40% of light from outside is let in? And if it's dark... doesn't that make night driving pretty damn dangerous?
Not if they're more heavily reflecting UV and IR light.
... people will have problems using cell phones while driving?
Oh darn. That's just horrible.
That's the wrong way to solve that problem.
"It must be okay because it lets me do it!" -- You do NOT want to live in a society like that. Anybody from the US knows what I'm talking about.
My thoughts on why one hears other spaceships around in sci-fi movies is that their propulsion pushes directly off of space time which creates waves which one can hear when they hit the side of the spaceship.
Ah. That explains the John Williams score we hear in space, too.
now I know something is going on with slashdot, I totally expected a barage of T-1000 rants, and knee jerk joke threads.
Well, somebody did make an overlords joke. Admittedly, though, the 0 score and the redundant mod was a twist only Shyamalan would have attempted.
how do you punish a company except by a fiscal penalty?
you get an article put up on a major news site that features the company name and alludes that they've been stalking their customers.
Yeah, that's so gonna come up a year from now when I buy a Prius.
You really don't see the connection?
Yesterday, you put all your cell phone contacts and calendar data up in the "cloud".
Today, your data is lost.
Tomorrow, the same companies responsible for losing your cell phone data now want to take over all your Office documents.
The phrasing of this sounds chilling until one realizes that the main point here is that you still want to keep your own local copy. The T-Mobile phones should have done that. You should do that when creating documents on-line.
This is such a silly reason to vilify 'the cloud'.
From where I sit, the problem started when some guy wearing a tie said "and the phones use the server exclusively to house the data!" Dumb. The 'cloud' shouldn't even be part of this discussion.
"I'm not going to whore the product out by mentioning it here"
There's your problem right there. Thats the difference between being an entrepreneur and and being just a programmer. If your not going to bother to mention your app...why should Apple.
I think that's a bit harsh. The people on this site have a way of coming down on people who appear to be 'shilling'. That and the "I wrote an iPhone app" bit are two very good ways to get jumped on and modded to heck on this site.
I don't blame the guy for not wanting to draw Slashdot's fire.
Oh you and your puns, you little stinker!
That was only 2/3rds of a pun. P.U.
More powerful hardware gives the developer more options.
I think this last round of consoles proved that that philosophy has reached the point of diminishing returns.
WTF!? Every laptop is 3D. Every tool we handle is 3D.
I really hate when people dumb down and say stuff like this. If you want to talk about a stereoscopic display call it what it is.
Okay. It's a 3D display. Width, height, depth.
This would be a better idea for a desktop system since laptops are supposed to be portable. You'd have to be a pretty big nerd (even by Slashdot standards) to wear special 3D computing glasses in public.
Using 3D glasses in the privacy of your own home (on your desktop PC) makes far more sense.
Yeah because laptops are only used for taking to Starbucks to write your screenplay.
Remind me never to use your designs since you don't know the difference between a 3D model and 3D vision. When you're making a model, no matter what computer you're using, you're still looking at a 2D representation of it on screen.
3D apps are starting to support stereo displays. He may already have a stereo LCD and can't leave the office with it.
We'd very much like to have 3d representations of our models.
Remember the warnings on those polarized glasses?
"Warning! Do not wear outside!" Dunno if it was for spatial awareness or if the polarizing messes with your eyes in higher sunlight.
Most sunglasses have UV protection. 3D glasses have none.
I wonder whats the use for 3D laptop, and if this works better than the existing tech?
NVIDIA 3D Vision is great with some games, but laptops aren't usually used for that and you would probably want atleast 17" screen if you'd get it for gaming. So whats the use?
In the last year I've worked on two different movies that were filmed stereoscopically. There were times where being able to play back a stereoscopic .mov would have been awesome.
Ah. The $20/month difference is for the unlimited texting plan. Anybody (like me) not needing that wouldn't even notice it.
Please forgive my ignorance, I don't do texting because I use the data plan for my messaging needs.
Thank you, though, that's the first time somebody's been able to show me the 'more expensive' complaint.
This is just an analyst's prediction though. So a heaping teaspoon of salt is required while reading. Sure it's possible, but is it really likely at this point?
No but it does cause a lot of ads to be served on this site.
The iPhone is a very nice phone but AT&T is a lot more expensive than Sprint...
Is it? I went straight from Sprint to AT&T/iPhone. I pay $10/mo. more than I did with Sprint, but now both my GF and I have unlimited data plans. (When I was with Sprint I had a data plan on my phone but not my GF's.)
The result? A very realistic environment without the real life ads poisoning.
The result? A very, but less, realistic environment.
He says as he posts on an ad supported website...
Perhaps he checked the "Ads disabled" box up in the top right of the page...
And that made Slashdot not-ad-supported?
2. If your Photoshop guru has glasses thicker than a quarter inch, smells of last night's alcohol or has blood-shot eyes ... get someone else to double check his work.
This was likely the work of a PHB, not a Photoshop artist.
Usually /. is ahead of the curve, but lately they've been behind it.
Wait.. what? When was this?
This exact complaint has been going on since before 2000.