I don't think he was reaching back to Gutenberg. He was probably referring to the inception of desktop publishing which was the death of all tasteful design and execution. Every office with one of those newfangled Macintosh things and a "Laser" (holding up quote fingers) printer would publish their own flyers using every stinking font they could come up with. It was ghastly and, yes, in public display on bookshelves. Oy! That went on for years until the paste-up and stat camera people gave way to designers not afraid to use a computer.

Forgot to mention... in place of all the former 3D stuff in this year's NAB booths was a whole bunch of 4K displays and camera technology. The commentary from onlookers was "wow, it looks 3D". Problem solved.

I'm not sure how many "potential buyers" there were to start with. In the TV/Movie business, it was the set manufacturers and Hollywood driving the whole thing, not customer demand. Set manufacturers needed to start selling everyone a new TV, even though they just bought one. Hollywood had a new gimmick to sell movies, which they've tried before and it didn't stick then either.

A few years ago at the NAB convention, you almost couldn't walk into a booth without being handed 3D glasses. The technologies were quite complex, like simply adding titles to any production, you now had to worry about the Z-space of the title. Camera settings were nuts to get the correct stereoptic convergence. Data storage and plant bandwidth demands went up. Displays looked dull because you had those stupid sunglasses on. You couldn't use today's common production techniques with rapid shot changes, camera angles, closeups mixed with medium shots, things going on and off screen - your eyeballs would unscrew and fall out of your head within minutes. It was headache inducing and everyone knew it.

Back in the 1950s when the first popular run of 3D movies happened, the production was very different - more like a relatively static camera shooting a stage where the actors performed. The only current content creators starting to use 3D were either trying to differentiate themselves or trying to not appear left behind.

The last NAB convention was very different. It was clear that 3D was swept into the back corner. It's still around if you want it, but they're done. When it comes back again, the displays will need to be much better and not require glasses, nor will the glasses-free displays require you to stand still in one of the 18 lanes which give you proper stereoptic perception.

True, dat. It just seemed that the origins were being misrepresented as coming from IBM when saying "actual etymology". They certainly popularized the term PC as a trademark but the actual meaning covers all "personal computers". I just had a bad reaction to "actual".

Who let the English Majors in here?

Am I trotting out geeky pedantry? It's a lot to ask on Slashdot, but if someone is going to quote "It has an actual etymology", it should at least be somewhat accurate or cite references. To put "PC" in a trade name was a brilliant marketing move. IBM co-opted and immediately owned the application of a catchy abbreviation already in common use, but they didn't make it up.

Wrong. You do know that "PC" stands for "Personal Computer", yes? The first deliberate use of the term I can find referred to the Altair 8800 around 1975. Apple used "Personal Computer" in their Apple II print ads in 1977, years before the IBM PC came out. Earlier than that, the very first "Apple Computer" was "the First Low Cost Microcomputer System with a Video Terminal and 8K Bytes of RAM on a Single PC Card". That, of course, referred to the printed circuit card.

I guess after "a better likelihood that Google could pull it off", you also missed "despite all evidence to the contrary".

I guess after "a better likelihood that Google could pull it off", you missed the line "despite all evidence to the contrary". I don't think they can execute much of anything except invade your privacy.

Are they good now? Xbox was so shaky for so long - defective hardware, not selling well, betting [poorly] on HD-DVD - good for them they stuck with it. The Kinect came from PrimeSense in Israel. Otherwise... mice and keyboards.

Nobody's said the same about Google because there's a better likelihood that Google could pull it off, despite all evidence to the contrary. Microsoft has already proven time and again their hardware prowess lies in making keyboards and mice.

Yeah... a freak - but we keep combing through his rants for those little notions that ring true. They're obtuse truths most of the time and you don't have to agree with a bit of it, but it's an interesting perspective. Let's hope it was an open source malady.

The Germans have their Air Force Tactical Training Center in New Mexico for their fighter pilots. In fact, the German Air Force and other NATO pilots were flying CAP around our country while we were running around like idiots after 9/11.

As far as bombing random Afghans - I don't like it. We're shooting at the specific people in Afghanistan (mostly foreigners) who have been trying to get the attention of our military for YEARS and finally succeeded. Leave them alone and they'll be right back over here.

It doesn't exist anymore on the Internet, but recall reading a piece on the Norton web site that stated there were 40 viruses for the Mac (OS 9). That was in 1998 or so.

Because Apple was Microsoft's R&D Department.

You're right. No evidence. Supply make & model of your equipment and we'll see.