You couldn't be more wrong. People DO take SLRs on serious hikes and such. All it requires is someone who is serious about both photography and the activity in question (I'd rather talk more about the REI crowd here). Ever heard of National Geographic? In fact recently I went on a week long hike in Yosemite National Park and our group leader brought with him a 12MP Nikon DSLR with TWO lenses (one telescopic) and a mini-tripod. Apparently this is the same type of setup he'd take with him on his VERY serious mountaineering or caving expeditions. He even led a month long National Geographic expedition into the depths of caves no one has seen before...or since. (He wasn't actually shooting for NG, he was a guide)
To say that "no one would ever take an SLR camera on a serious hike, out to a bar, mountain biking, skiing, etc. " is crazy. Yes it may be uncommon, but a person who is serious about outdoor activities, and photography (and thus already has a DSLR) will be more than able to incorporate a DLSR into their activities. However I do agree, for the average person that goes hiking or mountaineering etc, who isn't a serious photographer...chances are they would rather have an ultra-tiny, ultra-light point-and-shoot, seeing as how they aren't serious photographers anyway. (ie they probably don't have an SLR, haven't taken photography classes, don't own photoshop or have any dark room experience...)
I think that a lot of the driving forces that helped advance dvd adoption are gone with this generation. Going from VHS to DVD had several key advantages:
1: cheaper to manufacture (but not cheaper for the consumer, so you might not include this)
2: You don't have to rewind a DVD, pause, rewind, and fast forward are easier to do on DVDs
3: DVDs take up less space. You can store 200 DVDs in a binder the size of maybe 8 VHS tapes?
4: DVDs use progressive scan (480p) as opposed to VHS interlaced (480i) which in itself is a very large improvement in picture quality (a lot of people thing the difference between VHS and DVD is greater than between DVD and HD-DVD/Blu-ray
5: Better sound quality (at least a MUCH bigger leap than HD-DVD/Blu-ray offer to the average consumer)
6: DVDs are as readily, or commonly "eaten" by the player, requiring significant time repairing the tape and rewinding it by hand.
7: Special features
8: Easier to rip
Some of these are key reasons for compelling reasons to upgrade such as playback in more areas than just home theaters, by way of portable players and laptops. Who doesn't want to buy the version of the movie they can watch at home and on the plane, or anywhere for that matter, using their laptop?
HD-DVD and Blu-ray are more of a DVD on steroids type thing than the complete rethink of the home video buisness that DVDs were. Perhaps this will end up being like DVD audio.
Fab 36 is ALREADY online, albeit if at only 50% capacity, and using 300mm wafers.
Fab 30 is currenty running at full capacity, but next year it will drop to 40% capacity as it switches to 300mm wafers & gets echristened Fab 38 in 2008.
AMD is/will be outsourcing production to Chartered even though they just brought their new fab 36 online.
Except that in this case your so-called "already developed technology" isn't really devloped yet (at least not by AMD, 45nm & 65nm tech remains to be exclusively Intel secret sauce).
From the wired article: "In an ambiguous April 2001 ruling, the Federal Trade Commission said that it was "unfair or deceptive" to call a man-made diamond a "diamond,""
I agree completely with the FTC, it is very misleading to call a diamond a diamond! Man-made diamonds are identical to so called natural diamonds, differing only in the fact that natural diamonds are pulled out of the ground and man-made ones are not.
"9. Killing the PC
As Apple converts even more people to Macs (and businesses) and as Macs get cheaper and more compatible with Windows, the iPod parade follows. More Macs, more iPods, more iProducts, more Apple."
This appeared to hold true for a little while, it seemed like OSX market share was on the rise, untill very recently that is, when it dipped back down. Apple market share beyond ~5%? It just doesn't seem like thats happening. I'm sure vista will also put a squeeze on Apple market share.
Why is this happening? (I use a PC, but I go to a college where ~50% of the students use macs, and the campus computers are mostly macs (Steve Jobs, an "alum in spirit" (he went here but didn't graduate) donated a bunch I think.) As one of my mac using friends pointed out, as more people started buying macs, normal people, more people realized the disadvantages of owning a Mac. Mac laptops are fragile things...recently I witnessed a laptop fall off a couch onto a carpeted floor (cheap thin carpet, but carpet none the less) the screen broke off the thing. Another friend of mine had her laptop fall off her desk onto her tile floor. That little excursion shattered her screen and broke the CD drive. Contrast these kinds of things to the kind of beating a ThinkPad can take and...yeah... The other biggest problem with Macs? First gen apple products are notoriously awful. Even most Apple lovers stay away from frist gen Apple products, and for good reason. Look at all the problems MacBook Pro owners have had...Overheating Macs, check, Motherboard killing heatsinks, check, seriously underclocked components, check, exploding batteries, not apple's fault but check...Sounds like tons of fun to me!
It's also like linux (for embedded tech) in the fact that it doesn't matter how much of a pain in the ass it would be for the consumer to setup, or in what wide, constantly changing, bleeding edge hardware configurations it has to work for, seemlessly, and easily...for the consumer.
Yes, it should considering that according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS [wikipedia.org] states that the maximum volume size for an NTFS volume is 16EiB. One exibyte is 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes, so 16 exibytes = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes. Since a 750GB hard drive should hold approximately 750,170,112,000 bytes, an NTFS volume should be able to handle 24,590,081 of those 750GB hard drives in a RAID array. Now assuming a RAID array can handle that many of these drives, and that this new 750GB hard drive merely takes the price spot of Seagate's current finest offering of a 500GB hard drive (priced on newegg as $295 each) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16822148108 [newegg.com] rather than debuting at a higher price point, which it probably will, that many hard drives would cost about $6,147,520,250 before tax, and not including any of the massive discounts one might expect to recieve for such a massive purchase. On top of that, at a sales tax rate of 7.75%, the tax on those drives would cost you $476,432,819.38. So I don't know about you, but I doubt this is going to be a problem for either XP or Vista for a long, long time (assuming you use NTFS partitions).
The thing is, it is possible for things to have mass, but have a mass equal to zero. An example of this is the photon which has zero mass (zero rest mass).
Continual upgrades to warships and warplanes are standard practice in militaries across the world. Warships are eventually outfitted with new technologies to replace those previously installed.
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I imagine something along the lines of what was used at Trinity (atomic bomb), as the Really Big Cold War Nation-State Smashers® (TM) © were thermonuclear devices, and thus they would have said 50 quintillion thermonuclear bombs.
You couldn't be more wrong. People DO take SLRs on serious hikes and such. All it requires is someone who is serious about both photography and the activity in question (I'd rather talk more about the REI crowd here). Ever heard of National Geographic? In fact recently I went on a week long hike in Yosemite National Park and our group leader brought with him a 12MP Nikon DSLR with TWO lenses (one telescopic) and a mini-tripod. Apparently this is the same type of setup he'd take with him on his VERY serious mountaineering or caving expeditions. He even led a month long National Geographic expedition into the depths of caves no one has seen before...or since. (He wasn't actually shooting for NG, he was a guide)
To say that "no one would ever take an SLR camera on a serious hike, out to a bar, mountain biking, skiing, etc. " is crazy. Yes it may be uncommon, but a person who is serious about outdoor activities, and photography (and thus already has a DSLR) will be more than able to incorporate a DLSR into their activities. However I do agree, for the average person that goes hiking or mountaineering etc, who isn't a serious photographer...chances are they would rather have an ultra-tiny, ultra-light point-and-shoot, seeing as how they aren't serious photographers anyway. (ie they probably don't have an SLR, haven't taken photography classes, don't own photoshop or have any dark room experience...)
I think that a lot of the driving forces that helped advance dvd adoption are gone with this generation. Going from VHS to DVD had several key advantages: 1: cheaper to manufacture (but not cheaper for the consumer, so you might not include this) 2: You don't have to rewind a DVD, pause, rewind, and fast forward are easier to do on DVDs 3: DVDs take up less space. You can store 200 DVDs in a binder the size of maybe 8 VHS tapes? 4: DVDs use progressive scan (480p) as opposed to VHS interlaced (480i) which in itself is a very large improvement in picture quality (a lot of people thing the difference between VHS and DVD is greater than between DVD and HD-DVD/Blu-ray 5: Better sound quality (at least a MUCH bigger leap than HD-DVD/Blu-ray offer to the average consumer) 6: DVDs are as readily, or commonly "eaten" by the player, requiring significant time repairing the tape and rewinding it by hand. 7: Special features 8: Easier to rip Some of these are key reasons for compelling reasons to upgrade such as playback in more areas than just home theaters, by way of portable players and laptops. Who doesn't want to buy the version of the movie they can watch at home and on the plane, or anywhere for that matter, using their laptop? HD-DVD and Blu-ray are more of a DVD on steroids type thing than the complete rethink of the home video buisness that DVDs were. Perhaps this will end up being like DVD audio.
Fab 36 is ALREADY online, albeit if at only 50% capacity, and using 300mm wafers.
Fab 30 is currenty running at full capacity, but next year it will drop to 40% capacity as it switches to 300mm wafers & gets echristened Fab 38 in 2008.
AMD is/will be outsourcing production to Chartered even though they just brought their new fab 36 online.
I think Nikkon is also a big semiconductor equipment manufacturer. http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=3&grp=79
Except that in this case your so-called "already developed technology" isn't really devloped yet (at least not by AMD, 45nm & 65nm tech remains to be exclusively Intel secret sauce).
Ed over at overclockers.com often talks about this subject http://www.overclockers.com/tips01051/
From the wired article: "In an ambiguous April 2001 ruling, the Federal Trade Commission said that it was "unfair or deceptive" to call a man-made diamond a "diamond,""
I agree completely with the FTC, it is very misleading to call a diamond a diamond! Man-made diamonds are identical to so called natural diamonds, differing only in the fact that natural diamonds are pulled out of the ground and man-made ones are not.
I love our government.
"9. Killing the PC As Apple converts even more people to Macs (and businesses) and as Macs get cheaper and more compatible with Windows, the iPod parade follows. More Macs, more iPods, more iProducts, more Apple." This appeared to hold true for a little while, it seemed like OSX market share was on the rise, untill very recently that is, when it dipped back down. Apple market share beyond ~5%? It just doesn't seem like thats happening. I'm sure vista will also put a squeeze on Apple market share. Why is this happening? (I use a PC, but I go to a college where ~50% of the students use macs, and the campus computers are mostly macs (Steve Jobs, an "alum in spirit" (he went here but didn't graduate) donated a bunch I think.) As one of my mac using friends pointed out, as more people started buying macs, normal people, more people realized the disadvantages of owning a Mac. Mac laptops are fragile things...recently I witnessed a laptop fall off a couch onto a carpeted floor (cheap thin carpet, but carpet none the less) the screen broke off the thing. Another friend of mine had her laptop fall off her desk onto her tile floor. That little excursion shattered her screen and broke the CD drive. Contrast these kinds of things to the kind of beating a ThinkPad can take and...yeah... The other biggest problem with Macs? First gen apple products are notoriously awful. Even most Apple lovers stay away from frist gen Apple products, and for good reason. Look at all the problems MacBook Pro owners have had...Overheating Macs, check, Motherboard killing heatsinks, check, seriously underclocked components, check, exploding batteries, not apple's fault but check...Sounds like tons of fun to me!
It's also like linux (for embedded tech) in the fact that it doesn't matter how much of a pain in the ass it would be for the consumer to setup, or in what wide, constantly changing, bleeding edge hardware configurations it has to work for, seemlessly, and easily...for the consumer.
Yes, it should considering that according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS [wikipedia.org] states that the maximum volume size for an NTFS volume is 16EiB. One exibyte is 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes, so 16 exibytes = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes. Since a 750GB hard drive should hold approximately 750,170,112,000 bytes, an NTFS volume should be able to handle 24,590,081 of those 750GB hard drives in a RAID array. Now assuming a RAID array can handle that many of these drives, and that this new 750GB hard drive merely takes the price spot of Seagate's current finest offering of a 500GB hard drive (priced on newegg as $295 each) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16822148108 [newegg.com] rather than debuting at a higher price point, which it probably will, that many hard drives would cost about $6,147,520,250 before tax, and not including any of the massive discounts one might expect to recieve for such a massive purchase. On top of that, at a sales tax rate of 7.75%, the tax on those drives would cost you $476,432,819.38. So I don't know about you, but I doubt this is going to be a problem for either XP or Vista for a long, long time (assuming you use NTFS partitions).
The thing is, it is possible for things to have mass, but have a mass equal to zero. An example of this is the photon which has zero mass (zero rest mass).
Continual upgrades to warships and warplanes are standard practice in militaries across the world. Warships are eventually outfitted with new technologies to replace those previously installed.