But to think he's going to be immune from Moore's Law and market pressures and that he won't want to displace all of the existing LCD/DLP/Plasma market is a bit much to believe.
Moore's Law applies to computer chips, not TV technology. It's quite possible that SED may never become profitable to mass market, or that it may take another ten years to do so. Who knows.
What is known is that if you've been waiting for SED to come out, it's been in the "just around the corner" stage for a long time.
The Wikipedia page on SED has some good history.
Because Wikipedia is a primary example of a free information source that is actually propaganda.
I can think for myself. All information has the potential to be biased. However, for most of the stuff I want to look up, there isn't any motivation for propaganda. When I do use Wikipedia for stuff like history or politics, I always view it with a skeptical eye, read the discussion page for any disputes, and look at other sources. In general I have found Wikipedia to be useful and fairly accurate. So when you say "Wikipedia is propaganda", I say that's way too absolute a statement to make.
Perhaps you confuse "free to use" with "freedom from bias, error or malicious editing". They are not the same.
I think you are the one who is confused. I nor anybody else has claimed Wikipedia to be free from these problems. What we have claimed is that these problems are not as bad as you make them out to be.
As Popular Mechanic already pointed out this is the TV's fault.
It's not clear whose fault it is. Read the third article linked to from the summary, which is the real article prompting the story. The other two articles are older and provided for context.
In typical Slashdot fashion, the summary did not make it clear which article was the article, but the summary did state that Westinghouse is now denying responsibility: "The 1080p TV set maker appears to be blaming Sony as the source of the blinking PS3, and the two powerhouse companies have organized a meeting to settle the score."
The article clearly states that the problem is the _television_.
No, you're wrong. There are three articles listed in the summary, each written at a later time than the previous one. The second article pinned the blame on the TV, but the last one now has Westinghouse blaming Sony:
"Contrary to their earlier statements, Westinghouse now claims that their 1080p televisions are not the cause of the Sony PlayStation 3 blinking phenomenon. The company had indicated earlier that a problem with the firmware installed in certain Westinghouse TVs caused the anomoly in which images from the PS3 blink without sound. Rey Roque, Westinghouse's vice president of marketing, now denies any problem with the firmware. "It turns out that the problem was in the source box," says Roque, referring to the Sony PS3.
Myself, I don't have a PS3. I will buy one when it appears here in europe though, since it's a nifty piece of hardware which I intend to play around with through Linux.
And you're exactly the kind of person Sony doesn't need. Sony needs average Joe Blow gamer to buy a PS3, not a geek who wants to play with Linux and the Cell chip.
State lotteries are nothing but a terrible (but shockingly effective) tax on people with poor math skills.
Not totally true. As an example, my mother spends way too much on state lotteries, and she's an accountant with a college degree. She should definitely know better, but I believe it's just an addiction, like cigarettes or anything else. I've also heard lots of stories of well-to-do people gambling their money away. I agree, though, that in general it hurts the lower class more.
I don't know what kind of funny C++ system you use, but mine compiles down to a native machine code binary that does not require any kind of "runtime"
He's talking about the C/C++ runtime library, not a virtual machine. It doesn't matter whether you dynamically or statically link it in, it's there and you are using a "layer".
CGI's can be native, static binaries and when they are, there is very little that can go wrong compared to PHP and JSP, where the interpreter can be changed / upgraded out from under your application.
What on earth are you talking about? PHP and JSP run on the server. You control what interpreter is running on it. It doesn't magically swap itself out.
Because the internet connection is usually in the same room as the computer, this means stringing long CAT5e around doors, furniture and walkspaces.
Another option is ethernet over your electrical wiring (HomePlug). WiFi was too flakey for me so I chose that instead. They're not cheap at $50 per outlet but I like the convenience and reliability.
As far as the 360 sounding "grating' at 10 feet...maybe you should upgrade your sound system;-)
Not all games are action games with wall to wall sound. I hate how loud the 360 is with a disc in the drive. Plus most games are poorly designed with tiny fonts that require a 50" high-def TV to see properly.
This is where I end the conversation - you just keep piling the buzzwords and FUD and stereotypes on, believing it makes you seem informed.
I see that you conveniently quoted the buzzword portion, and left out the rest, which gave real world evidence, like the banning of trans-fat, the epidemics of diabetes and obesity, and a link to a scientific study backing up my claims.
It makes you look like a raving idiot.
It makes you feel better to not have to change your view and label me as a raving idiot. How about you read the study? How about you look at the world around you and explain why kids are getting "adult" diabetes? How do you explain studies that show people who move to a Western diet get chronic diseases that they didn't get before?
The only completely secure OS is going to be one that cannot be modified in any way by the user.
I'm not talking about completely secure. I'm talking about reasonably secure so that millions of machines aren't compromised in an automated way. There's huge room for improvement in the current security model. It should be the easy default to download some random software from the net and have it run inside it's own little sandbox. Built-in services should not be susceptible to buffer-overrun attacks. The OS should be designed so that a compromise in one component does not compromise the whole system.
The best we can strive for is a system that minimizes the effects of malicious intent on the greater network.
Yes, that's the right idea. Now apply the same principles to a single machine. This is the idea behind CapDesk.
Simplistic and wrong. Some doubt can be irrational. Doubt, in general, is completely rational based on the evidence that something may or may not happen and the consequences of that thing happening.
When a system fails in spectactular, unintended ways, and unpredicted events like hydrogen bubbles that may cause breach of containment occur, there is room for doubt. When statements are made that "the worst case scenario has happened", I say show me it couldn't have gotten worse.
There's evidence it could have gotten worse. From this Washington Post article: "Engineers had told Levine there were four ways of dealing with the bubble, all involving some risk." And: "Despite the encouraging new signs, however, the NRC went ahead with preparations for what surely would have been a risky maneuver to get rid of the bubble later in the week. Plans still were being drawn up to evacuate the entire region around Three Mile Island. Privately, Denton was telling colleagues to pick a day, a time of day and a state of readiness: Operation Bubble was still a strong possibility."
Obviously the more nuclear plants we have, the more risk there is.
Although aberrant and highly undesirable, events like TMI show that reactors built to N. American and European standards are safe and function as intended (if they fail they fail to a safe state) even in a worst case scenario.
How do you know it is a worst case scenario? Were there any predictions before Three Mile Island of the "hydrogen bubble" that might explode and break containment? There was a lot of panic about that at the time of the accident. It is later said that there was no danger of it exploding because of lack of oxygen. However, there was an earlier explosion involving hydrogen. Was any of this predicted?
What Three Mile Island showed was that systems could fail in spectacurarly unpredictable ways. Many of the backups did not work. The system was designed to not reach the point it did, and that design failed. Seems like hubris to me to say it couldn't have gotten worse.
When you use fuzzy buzz words like 'wholesome' and 'crap' - yah, you can claim anything you want simply by adjusting the definitions.
It's not FUD. It's a good summary of the contrast between typical processed food and typical unprocessed food. Why do you think there's all this banning of trans fat going on? Are you blind to the twin epidemics of diabetes and obesity? Have you not seen the reports that link chronic diseases to the modern, Western diet?
We weren't evolved for a diet based on flour, sugar, and partially hydrogenated oil. Maybe in 200 years people will have adapted to this diet. There's going to be a lot of unnecessary suffering in the meantime. Do some googling. Here's a start: Effects of exercise and diet on chronic disease
There is no technological solution to a social problem.
The technical problem is that machines are broken into too easily. Get rid of all the zombie-nets and the problem goes away. I hold out hope that one day a workable, secure OS that the average user can use will be a reality.
The US, France, UK, Canada, Australia and Japan have been using nuclear power 'correctly' for as long as it's been around.
So was Three Mile Island a case of being used "correctly"? If nuclear power is so easy to use responsibly, why did it happen? And why did Chernobyl happen? These weren't a bunch of kids playing with radiation in their backyards.
The reality is you can't forsee all the things that can go wrong, or predict what humans will do. And when something does go wrong, the result is nasty. There's also the question of how to deal with storing the all the nuclear waste.
I agree about Tank Driver. And certainly Tank Man was couragous. Though I wonder if Tank Man would have actually let Tank Driver run him over, or would he have gotten out of the way at the last second? I don't mean to diminish his act, but the mind wonders...
More cores aren't helpful unless you have a parallel use for them. I'm willing to best that most of the 64-bit and dual-core early adopters have no practical need for them.
Nobody, not even slashdotters, believes that Slashdot is a competent or reliable encyclopedia of anything.
And yet thousands of people use Slashdot daily for information. Millions of people use Wikipedia daily for information. I'd say both serve their purpose.
Wikipedia will be perceived to be as reliable as it is. Meaning that if people get burned by putting too much faith in Wikipedia, they'll learn to put less faith in it.
Really, I'm not sure why you are whining so much about a clearly beneficial resource. Wikipedia has made the net a better place. It has done so by being open. The very thing you rail against is what makes it good. Not perfect, but good.
Even if you took the basic ingredients of Pop-Tarts from the shelves of an organic grocery store and made your own Pop-Tarts - you'd *still* suffer from a wide variety of vitamin deficiencies. The same is true of many singular foods (whether they have a singular ingredient or are a composite), regardless of whether they come from $MEGA_STORE or $HEALTHFOOD_STORE.
The problem is that a lot of food looks like Pop-Tarts. Look at the ingredients list of packaged food. It's nearly all the same. It's crap-food with the same crap-ingredients: refined flour, high fructose corn syrup, and partially hydrogenated oil. This is not healthy, wholesome food.
You can buy wholesome foods at $MEGA_STORE. It's just that 90% of $MEGA_STORE is crap food.
People can take care of themselves, if food is properly labelled and people are educated; in the same way I do not eat dish detergent, a pregnant woman would not eat unpasteurised cheese.
I find food that should not be eaten by pregnant women disturbing. I have never heard of this before, but then again I wasn't aware of pasteurised cheese debate, either.
Don't you think there's something wrong if food should not be eaten by pregnant women? Well ok, there's alcohol, but that's an intoxicant, not really food. What is the trouble with unpasteurised cheese?
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Moore's Law applies to computer chips, not TV technology. It's quite possible that SED may never become profitable to mass market, or that it may take another ten years to do so. Who knows.
What is known is that if you've been waiting for SED to come out, it's been in the "just around the corner" stage for a long time. The Wikipedia page on SED has some good history.
I can think for myself. All information has the potential to be biased. However, for most of the stuff I want to look up, there isn't any motivation for propaganda. When I do use Wikipedia for stuff like history or politics, I always view it with a skeptical eye, read the discussion page for any disputes, and look at other sources. In general I have found Wikipedia to be useful and fairly accurate. So when you say "Wikipedia is propaganda", I say that's way too absolute a statement to make.
I think you are the one who is confused. I nor anybody else has claimed Wikipedia to be free from these problems. What we have claimed is that these problems are not as bad as you make them out to be.
It's not clear whose fault it is. Read the third article linked to from the summary, which is the real article prompting the story. The other two articles are older and provided for context.
In typical Slashdot fashion, the summary did not make it clear which article was the article, but the summary did state that Westinghouse is now denying responsibility: "The 1080p TV set maker appears to be blaming Sony as the source of the blinking PS3, and the two powerhouse companies have organized a meeting to settle the score."
No, you're wrong. There are three articles listed in the summary, each written at a later time than the previous one. The second article pinned the blame on the TV, but the last one now has Westinghouse blaming Sony:
"Contrary to their earlier statements, Westinghouse now claims that their 1080p televisions are not the cause of the Sony PlayStation 3 blinking phenomenon. The company had indicated earlier that a problem with the firmware installed in certain Westinghouse TVs caused the anomoly in which images from the PS3 blink without sound. Rey Roque, Westinghouse's vice president of marketing, now denies any problem with the firmware. "It turns out that the problem was in the source box," says Roque, referring to the Sony PS3.
But thanks for the Daily Show link. Good stuff.
And you're exactly the kind of person Sony doesn't need. Sony needs average Joe Blow gamer to buy a PS3, not a geek who wants to play with Linux and the Cell chip.
Are you kidding? That was the most Insightful post in this thread. Gave me a laugh, too :)
Not totally true. As an example, my mother spends way too much on state lotteries, and she's an accountant with a college degree. She should definitely know better, but I believe it's just an addiction, like cigarettes or anything else. I've also heard lots of stories of well-to-do people gambling their money away. I agree, though, that in general it hurts the lower class more.
Good grief, you're on the net. You should never post a question like that. Take a second and google it.
He's talking about the C/C++ runtime library, not a virtual machine. It doesn't matter whether you dynamically or statically link it in, it's there and you are using a "layer".
What on earth are you talking about? PHP and JSP run on the server. You control what interpreter is running on it. It doesn't magically swap itself out.
Another option is ethernet over your electrical wiring (HomePlug). WiFi was too flakey for me so I chose that instead. They're not cheap at $50 per outlet but I like the convenience and reliability.
Not all games are action games with wall to wall sound. I hate how loud the 360 is with a disc in the drive. Plus most games are poorly designed with tiny fonts that require a 50" high-def TV to see properly.
I see that you conveniently quoted the buzzword portion, and left out the rest, which gave real world evidence, like the banning of trans-fat, the epidemics of diabetes and obesity, and a link to a scientific study backing up my claims.
It makes you feel better to not have to change your view and label me as a raving idiot. How about you read the study? How about you look at the world around you and explain why kids are getting "adult" diabetes? How do you explain studies that show people who move to a Western diet get chronic diseases that they didn't get before?
I'm not talking about completely secure. I'm talking about reasonably secure so that millions of machines aren't compromised in an automated way. There's huge room for improvement in the current security model. It should be the easy default to download some random software from the net and have it run inside it's own little sandbox. Built-in services should not be susceptible to buffer-overrun attacks. The OS should be designed so that a compromise in one component does not compromise the whole system.
Yes, that's the right idea. Now apply the same principles to a single machine. This is the idea behind CapDesk.
Simplistic and wrong. Some doubt can be irrational. Doubt, in general, is completely rational based on the evidence that something may or may not happen and the consequences of that thing happening.
When a system fails in spectactular, unintended ways, and unpredicted events like hydrogen bubbles that may cause breach of containment occur, there is room for doubt. When statements are made that "the worst case scenario has happened", I say show me it couldn't have gotten worse.
There's evidence it could have gotten worse. From this Washington Post article: "Engineers had told Levine there were four ways of dealing with the bubble, all involving some risk." And: "Despite the encouraging new signs, however, the NRC went ahead with preparations for what surely would have been a risky maneuver to get rid of the bubble later in the week. Plans still were being drawn up to evacuate the entire region around Three Mile Island. Privately, Denton was telling colleagues to pick a day, a time of day and a state of readiness: Operation Bubble was still a strong possibility."
Obviously the more nuclear plants we have, the more risk there is.
How do you know it is a worst case scenario? Were there any predictions before Three Mile Island of the "hydrogen bubble" that might explode and break containment? There was a lot of panic about that at the time of the accident. It is later said that there was no danger of it exploding because of lack of oxygen. However, there was an earlier explosion involving hydrogen. Was any of this predicted?
What Three Mile Island showed was that systems could fail in spectacurarly unpredictable ways. Many of the backups did not work. The system was designed to not reach the point it did, and that design failed. Seems like hubris to me to say it couldn't have gotten worse.
It's not FUD. It's a good summary of the contrast between typical processed food and typical unprocessed food. Why do you think there's all this banning of trans fat going on? Are you blind to the twin epidemics of diabetes and obesity? Have you not seen the reports that link chronic diseases to the modern, Western diet?
We weren't evolved for a diet based on flour, sugar, and partially hydrogenated oil. Maybe in 200 years people will have adapted to this diet. There's going to be a lot of unnecessary suffering in the meantime. Do some googling. Here's a start: Effects of exercise and diet on chronic disease
The technical problem is that machines are broken into too easily. Get rid of all the zombie-nets and the problem goes away. I hold out hope that one day a workable, secure OS that the average user can use will be a reality.
So was Three Mile Island a case of being used "correctly"? If nuclear power is so easy to use responsibly, why did it happen? And why did Chernobyl happen? These weren't a bunch of kids playing with radiation in their backyards.
The reality is you can't forsee all the things that can go wrong, or predict what humans will do. And when something does go wrong, the result is nasty. There's also the question of how to deal with storing the all the nuclear waste.
Some further reading on nuclear material and mishaps: U.S. Nuclear Accidents
I agree about Tank Driver. And certainly Tank Man was couragous. Though I wonder if Tank Man would have actually let Tank Driver run him over, or would he have gotten out of the way at the last second? I don't mean to diminish his act, but the mind wonders...
More cores aren't helpful unless you have a parallel use for them. I'm willing to best that most of the 64-bit and dual-core early adopters have no practical need for them.
"Ungh! 64 > 32! 2 > 1! New technology! Must buy!"
And yet thousands of people use Slashdot daily for information. Millions of people use Wikipedia daily for information. I'd say both serve their purpose.
Wikipedia will be perceived to be as reliable as it is. Meaning that if people get burned by putting too much faith in Wikipedia, they'll learn to put less faith in it.
Really, I'm not sure why you are whining so much about a clearly beneficial resource. Wikipedia has made the net a better place. It has done so by being open. The very thing you rail against is what makes it good. Not perfect, but good.
Even better would be well-done ports to the other systems.
You call your friends "suckers"? Yikes.
The problem is that a lot of food looks like Pop-Tarts. Look at the ingredients list of packaged food. It's nearly all the same. It's crap-food with the same crap-ingredients: refined flour, high fructose corn syrup, and partially hydrogenated oil. This is not healthy, wholesome food.
You can buy wholesome foods at $MEGA_STORE. It's just that 90% of $MEGA_STORE is crap food.
I find food that should not be eaten by pregnant women disturbing. I have never heard of this before, but then again I wasn't aware of pasteurised cheese debate, either.
Don't you think there's something wrong if food should not be eaten by pregnant women? Well ok, there's alcohol, but that's an intoxicant, not really food. What is the trouble with unpasteurised cheese?