Not only will HD/BR adoption not outpace DVD adoption, but it will lag tremendously behind it. Meh.. I dunno. I can see adoption going faster than DVD's. When BD/HD drives get cheaper (everybody gripes about the prices, but for the first year, DVD players were $700+) and burners/readers for the PC become more common (remember the first DVD burner for $1500? - somebody's got a BR burner in the $800 range already, expected around $500 by April or May), adoption will speed up. My prediction? Next year around this time: burners $250, players
Plus, in way less than 10 years, digital tv's will begin to saturate the market. All televisions sold in the US after March 2007 have to have a digital tuner and the broadcasters have to go all digital by Feb 2009 (no more analog) and regular analog tv's will have to have a converter box. After that, it's just a matter of time as old tv's break and people see new tv's in somebody else's house running HD that they'll be itching to go to the store and get a new TV and get rid of the set top box converter.
Adblock isn't a part of Firefox because Firefox is an extensible browser that can have it's functionality increased by use of plugins that the user chooses.
If all the nifty features got bundled into the browser, then people would start bitching about bloat. Keep the core lite, guys.. Extensions rock.
...digital forensics in the far future reverse engineer the Word document format... And then, from the grave, rises a thousand ghostly lawyers that drag the future researchers into the depths of hell.
...is to improve application productivity by a factor of 10 through new programming languages and development tools. Cool. The government is finally ditching COBOL and FORTRAN.
Good point. And whilst on the subject of bacteria, people that go to the store and seek out live culture yogurt will recoil in terror if you mention radiated food to them. What's the problem, people. Hell, the safe handling practices of raw chicken is somewhere between Biosafety Level 2 and Biosafety Level 3 procedures. Still, people are more afraid of things they don't understand (i.e. radiation) and will gladly play Russian roulette with things they barely understand (bacteria, fungus, virii, etc).
Radiate the food, people. Save yourself a few days per year leaning over the toilet.
But don't radiate my live culture yogurt. That's the POINT of the LIVE part...
Aye. What gets me is they are marketing this like it's something new. Anybody that's been to the Dr. in the last 20 years and got a prescription for anti-biotics, they tell you to go to the store and get some "live culture" yogurt to help replenish the helpful bacteria in the digestive system that the drug kills off. So now they are marketing this Activa crap as new? This is news? Maybe only to people that don't read labels in the supermarket to figure out what they are sticking in their bodies.
Agree. If you were cleaning up your garage and organizing things into different bins or cabinets or whatever, you'd "LABEL" the bins as to their contents, not "TAG" them.
Baby steps. If they didn't filter content, China would block them altogether. At least the signal is still getting through (albeit molested). Give it time, it'll change. You can't stop the signal...
I guess the news is the GPS devices ACTUALLY WORKED! I had a GPS receiver for my Palm Pilot for a while. That damn thing was frustrating. It would only work with a CLEAR and UNOBSTRUCTED view of the sky, and even then it took like 5 minutes to get a lock (or whatever its' called) on the satellites. How often do we have that good a view of the sky every day? Me - just when I'm driving to work.
Strange. As a professional, the corporation I work for forces me to use the tool that THEY (management types, naturally) think is the right tool for the job. You must work for yourself.
- sod the children that's what the ratings and parental controls are for! True enough, but it seems like parents just want to bitch and moan about the violence and sex in games, music and movies instead of taking an active role in what to allow/disallow their children to watch. It's much nicer to be lazy and let some government agency do it for you than get involved in your children's upbringing. *rolleyes*
Lol. Definitly. Just learn all the keyboard shortcuts to really maximize the effect. Mice are pretty dang quiet. Too bad there was never a model M mouse.
Probably not, but it does mean that the 10% of the virii that are left will probably be really ticked off that we killed a couple hundred million billion of their brothers.
Seriously, there's nothing that something left in that 10% wouldn't turn into a pandemic later. Plus, a vaccine doesn't mean that you WON'T get the thing it vaccinates you for, it just means your chances of getting it are much, much lower. There hasn't been a case of polio in the US since 1979 (caused by the natural virus, that is, not by the live vaccination that was discontinued in 2000), but that doesn't mean that there couldn't be a case next year. Polio still exists on the planet in other countries.
Finally, if I can get more done from home than my peers can in the office, why would you promote them instead of me? I don't know about other people, but I'm actually more productive at home than I am in the office.
Because, like most regular managers, they don't measure your worth by the number of high value tasks or projects that you complete on or ahead of time, they like to see you banging away on your keyboard. Doesn't matter if you're paying bills on your online checking account, looking for a car part on Ebay or actually working, they just like to see you beating the keys.
I've come up against that quite a few times in the past. Doesn't matter if you kick ass and take names from the house, you're just not as rewarded or viewed as favorably as the regular 9-5 drones, EVEN IF they are not as productive as you.
No. A joule is used for scalar force (force over a distance), newton-meters is used for torque (rotational force). (Hopefully I didn't get those backwards.) Ft-lbs are collectively used for both torque and force/distance.
Speaking of weird conversion units, the 8 Megajoule gun they created has the equivalent energy of 1493 gallons of Classic Coke. Figure that one out.:)
On 5Mbps Cable, it would take 8.755 Hours. Gees... What cable company do you have? Even with my 5Mbps down cable modem, 'bout the best I get is around 4Mbps, and worse during high traffic times.
That would all be well and good if that's what they actually did (speaking to Fritz's comments), but when I go to a store and actually BUY (not rent) a CD, I expect my "contract" with the producers to be able to allow me to use that CD in any way I deem (short of ripping/burning a copy and giving it to my brother or something). If I want to play it in my car, I should be able to. If I want to rip the music onto my HTPC, I should be able to. But, when I buy a DRM'd CD that won't even play in my car (and there was no indication on the CD that you couldn't use it while driving or something), somebody's crossed the line and limited my rights as a legal consumer.
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My prediction? Next year around this time: burners $250, players < $300.
Plus, in way less than 10 years, digital tv's will begin to saturate the market. All televisions sold in the US after March 2007 have to have a digital tuner and the broadcasters have to go all digital by Feb 2009 (no more analog) and regular analog tv's will have to have a converter box. After that, it's just a matter of time as old tv's break and people see new tv's in somebody else's house running HD that they'll be itching to go to the store and get a new TV and get rid of the set top box converter.
Adblock isn't a part of Firefox because Firefox is an extensible browser that can have it's functionality increased by use of plugins that the user chooses.
If all the nifty features got bundled into the browser, then people would start bitching about bloat. Keep the core lite, guys.. Extensions rock.
...digital forensics in the far future reverse engineer the Word document format... And then, from the grave, rises a thousand ghostly lawyers that drag the future researchers into the depths of hell.
...is to improve application productivity by a factor of 10 through new programming languages and development tools. Cool. The government is finally ditching COBOL and FORTRAN.Good point. And whilst on the subject of bacteria, people that go to the store and seek out live culture yogurt will recoil in terror if you mention radiated food to them. What's the problem, people. Hell, the safe handling practices of raw chicken is somewhere between Biosafety Level 2 and Biosafety Level 3 procedures. Still, people are more afraid of things they don't understand (i.e. radiation) and will gladly play Russian roulette with things they barely understand (bacteria, fungus, virii, etc).
Radiate the food, people. Save yourself a few days per year leaning over the toilet.
But don't radiate my live culture yogurt. That's the POINT of the LIVE part...
Aye. What gets me is they are marketing this like it's something new. Anybody that's been to the Dr. in the last 20 years and got a prescription for anti-biotics, they tell you to go to the store and get some "live culture" yogurt to help replenish the helpful bacteria in the digestive system that the drug kills off. So now they are marketing this Activa crap as new? This is news? Maybe only to people that don't read labels in the supermarket to figure out what they are sticking in their bodies.
Apples rot in my refrigerator too. In fact, if left anywhere for any appreciable length of time, they will rot. What's your point?
They are a large submitter to Ubuntu's code base (in patches and extensions). How is that a bad thing?
And surely 30 bucks is better than 500 or 600 for a whole other computer.
Flame me if you like, but I've seen more BSOD's in the last 6 months on XP than I have on my Linux box in 2 or 3 years.
Agree. If you were cleaning up your garage and organizing things into different bins or cabinets or whatever, you'd "LABEL" the bins as to their contents, not "TAG" them.
Baby steps. If they didn't filter content, China would block them altogether. At least the signal is still getting through (albeit molested). Give it time, it'll change. You can't stop the signal...
I guess the news is the GPS devices ACTUALLY WORKED! I had a GPS receiver for my Palm Pilot for a while. That damn thing was frustrating. It would only work with a CLEAR and UNOBSTRUCTED view of the sky, and even then it took like 5 minutes to get a lock (or whatever its' called) on the satellites. How often do we have that good a view of the sky every day? Me - just when I'm driving to work.
Strange. As a professional, the corporation I work for forces me to use the tool that THEY (management types, naturally) think is the right tool for the job. You must work for yourself.
Lol. Definitly. Just learn all the keyboard shortcuts to really maximize the effect. Mice are pretty dang quiet. Too bad there was never a model M mouse.
Probably not, but it does mean that the 10% of the virii that are left will probably be really ticked off that we killed a couple hundred million billion of their brothers.
Seriously, there's nothing that something left in that 10% wouldn't turn into a pandemic later. Plus, a vaccine doesn't mean that you WON'T get the thing it vaccinates you for, it just means your chances of getting it are much, much lower. There hasn't been a case of polio in the US since 1979 (caused by the natural virus, that is, not by the live vaccination that was discontinued in 2000), but that doesn't mean that there couldn't be a case next year. Polio still exists on the planet in other countries.
Ahh.. Stupid labeling. A gallon and a half of coke doesn't sound nearly as impressive. They need to ramp that thing up!
Because, like most regular managers, they don't measure your worth by the number of high value tasks or projects that you complete on or ahead of time, they like to see you banging away on your keyboard. Doesn't matter if you're paying bills on your online checking account, looking for a car part on Ebay or actually working, they just like to see you beating the keys.
I've come up against that quite a few times in the past. Doesn't matter if you kick ass and take names from the house, you're just not as rewarded or viewed as favorably as the regular 9-5 drones, EVEN IF they are not as productive as you.
No. A joule is used for scalar force (force over a distance), newton-meters is used for torque (rotational force). (Hopefully I didn't get those backwards.) Ft-lbs are collectively used for both torque and force/distance.
:)
Speaking of weird conversion units, the 8 Megajoule gun they created has the equivalent energy of 1493 gallons of Classic Coke. Figure that one out.
Nope. It's 5Mbps for sure. My cable company just sucks.
Blatherskite.
That would all be well and good if that's what they actually did (speaking to Fritz's comments), but when I go to a store and actually BUY (not rent) a CD, I expect my "contract" with the producers to be able to allow me to use that CD in any way I deem (short of ripping/burning a copy and giving it to my brother or something). If I want to play it in my car, I should be able to. If I want to rip the music onto my HTPC, I should be able to. But, when I buy a DRM'd CD that won't even play in my car (and there was no indication on the CD that you couldn't use it while driving or something), somebody's crossed the line and limited my rights as a legal consumer.