When I went into information technology long ago, the great joy for me was getting away from these cryptic smoke signals of thin public account.
How is that working for you? IT is just as opaque, confusing, contradictory as anything out there. If you really want to get away from 'cryptic signals of thin public account' you should probably pick up Tarot cards. Everything is right there.
Huh. Otherworld Computers (OWC) seems to be doing a reasonable business as a third party Apple peripherals / memory / support partner. There are others. No, the field isn't as big as for Windows stuff but it's big enough to get the job done. I haven't found the need to run Windows hardware for any reason for quite some time except for some weirdass stuff (and this week I'm looking at you, Yamaha) that are basically DOS programs that nobody has bothered to touch in decades.
Just 'pining for the fjords' does have a certain sensibility about it in this case.
Now, if there was a serious shortage of beer or pizza, I could see that that would be worth discussing.
Chocolate is mostly an obsession of women, and children of tricks or treats age. I don't know why that is, but it never bothered me enough to investigate.
No wonder AC's are so weird. Sorry guys. Your only hope is that you will probably be the last survivors of the upcoming Chocolate Wars. And a dismal, faint hope it will be.
Except that cocoa doesn't grow anywhere. And the places that it does grow have just been given another kick in the pants with Ebola (as it they needed it). Now, there are a couple of ways to deal with the problem. Quit eating chocolate is one way, but that's crazy talk. Figure out how to grow the trees in other, more desirable places. That's likely to require Evil GMO type technology and I'm rather sure that movements are afoot to do exactly that. We could, perhaps, use a bit of enlightened self interest and work on the Ebola epidemic, work on the virus that is decimating the crop, work on creating an infrastructure in those countries so they can move themselves out the shithole that everyone has managed to create over there.
But that's probably crazy talk as well.
GMO it is!
Now this is serious. Yeah, chocolate is important but at least it isn't a life sustaining drug. Run out of coffee and it will make World War Z look like a Girl Scout Camporee.
I'm stockpiling and hiding in my bunker. Seeeee yoooouuuuu alllll aa biitttt llllaaaatttererrr.
Just be glad we haven't found the Moties yet.
At least for the MacBook Pro's there is. As far as the MacPro's themselves, the fans are so quiet and unobtrusive and the system runs so cool I haven't found any particular need for them.
But - he did it on a computer. That's special. And I'll bet the computer was connected to the Internet. That's even more special.
Up next - they'll get a Facebook page.
It would seem that some profit taking by a psychiatrist might benefit yourself as well.
3D printing is past peak, Glass is at the peak and heading down, private space never made sense.
The next innovations will be social, and maybe biological. But one thing I've noticed about so-called technophiles: they completely fall apart when faced with the possibility of extending human life. They turn into the crustiest pessimists the planet has ever seen.
Perhaps because human biology is one hell of a lot more complicated that microprocessors and plastic spoons? We've come a long way in the past 100 years - we still have a much longer way to go. We will get there (and what a mess we will make of it) but neither you or I will be alive when it comes about.
5) The best uses for it are more industrial - particularly augmented reality uses. Think work instructions while building a complicated assembly. But Google seems to largely be ignoring these.
Exactly. Do your gen I stuff in a smaller environment that is less price averse. The problem is that it doesn't fit Google's business plan - not enough 'customer' info in a few, likely secured, industries. Google should spin it off to another company that can figure out how to make it work on it's own.
I don't sit at a desk all day. I run around. Charging a phone / watch / whatever multiple times per day is a non starter. My iPhone 4S is barely tolerable. On long days it gets dangerously close to dead. And yes, I can and do charge it while I'm desk bound, but I'd rather not. There is a balance. I don't need a week, I do need 48 hours. YMMV.
The bigger problem is that, if we ever get battery technology good enough to run Google Glass for a week, it's going to have an energy density on the far side of TNT. That has a number of issues. The other way to go about it is to decrease energy use to get to where batteries are today (or perhaps tomorrow). That's going to take time.
That may be only a temporary solution. Remember Ma Bell? split up into AT& for long distance and regional 'baby Bells'. The regional companies eventually all morphed back together again, like the liquid-metal terminator. Long-distance rates dropped because companies like Sprint & MCI were allowed to sell services over AT&T's wires (AT&T was forced to allow this). Now we don't quite have a situation of a total monopoly, but it's clear that there's not enough competition, especially at the local level--the service maps are basically gerrymandered districts.
Nothing is permanent. The breakup of Ma Bell did allow for exciting technology such as 2400 baud modems and telephones that had features. It's unclear if the Internet as we know it would exist today if Ma Bell were still alive. Now that the Bell System
So I would agree with the the premise of Mr. Jasper - we have to cut the head off the new Zombie before it completely engulfs us. If successful (which I rather doubt), it may set the monster back another decade or two but it will always be there. Under the bed. Hungry. Waiting.
Ah yes, this thing. Saw one (perhaps a copy) when I was a kid. Totally amazing what you can do with gears and math.
Waste not, get your budget cut next year.
