Posted on 04/04/2007 10:40:49 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Hey, we had rewind solved 40 years ago. It was called 8-track! Endless loop. Simple. :-)
Yep. While doing my dissertation work and looking at other elements of info transfer, I found out that the people in my study were BIG users of paper, even tho there had been paper reduction initiatives and info tech was easily available. They apologized for having paper, but said they needed it.
The primary reason? Average age of 50 and an increasing inability to read large amounts of info on the computer monitor. Secondarily, there were the affordances of paper - such as being able to edit, write notes to self or someone else, stick in the briefcase to read on the commute home, etc.
I actually ended up spending a good deal of dissertation space talking about paper use in the the so-called 'paperless' office.
You can buy them on the web for less than 200$. :-)
Add the Icuiti VR920 and an OQO computer and you are set!
I try to stay paperless. :-) You should see my office! Screens all over the place, no paper. LOL!
Just a small cafe you can order coffee and rolls with free internet service to anyone with a WiFi device.
All my console geek-type friends say PS3 stands for:
"PIECE of SH!T CUBED"
Apparently they are not impressed.
Speak for yourself — I like my Dreamcast! (and no, I don’t still play it)
That might be the case. There are far more state and county courts, however, (Which handle far more cases) that require paper. And special binding, etc. My brother works in a print shop, BTW.
I work for a small (less than 50 employees) engineering firm and we have, literally, TONS of records. For liability reasons, some have to be kept forever. They will never be digitally archived because there isn't the time or money to do it. Are you telling me my company afford to scan every invoice it has received over the last 30 years and throw away the paper copy? Are you telling me my company has the time and money to scan every new invoice and toss out the paper copy? Are you telling me our company can trust that the current digital formats will be viable 30 years from now? How in hell is my company supposed to archive as-built notes hand-written on 24"x36" drawings? Have you ever tried to get a 24"x36" scanned?
The paperless office is a geek fantasy.
I have a PS3, an Xbox-360, and the Wii. All three have their own unique games.
The PS3 Gran Turismo HD on my HD plasma is a killer app. No other console comes close to that capability. The Cell processor along with the 7K series NVidia graphics blows both of the other consoles out of the water.
It’s sold over 3 million to date. Blu-ray has solidified itself as the dominant HD format.
The PS3 is here to stay.
Actually Sony learned well.
They have several vendors and wide studio support. HD DVD has 2 major studios exclusive with about half of the total major studios supporting. Their only licensed vendor is Toshiba, the patent holder.
Sony learned brom Betamax... Toshiba and MS didn’t.
“Push technology
...This is about companies like the PointCast Network, which launched its software with a hype storm in 1996. The hype focused on how this technology could “push” news and other information to computer desktops with no user intervention.
However, most users never became excited about push.”
Complete and utter BS. Pointcast was in fact so successful at first that it was blocked by network admins. The problem was that as Pointcast ‘pushed’ some bit of news it was received by every Pointcast user simultaneously with horrific effects on the networks of corporations whose Internet gateways weren’t ready for streaming anything (this is 1996).
Of course, once it was impossible for people to get ‘push’ news at work (nearly nobody had broadband at home and it was a big strain for a dialup connection) Pointcast went from instant success to dust very rapidly.
Apparently ComputerWorld writers don’t know how to research their own back articles.
I think I just vom’d in my mouth...
Smart appliances aren’t dead yet. There’s a new push there in the form of the super oven, it’s supposed to be able to store fairly complicated cooking instructions with a long delay timer and even keep the food cold until cooking starts, including an internet hookup so if you get delayed at work you can push the start time. Don’t know if they’ll take off, but they sure look nifty.
I actually did Pointcast for about a week, Push was definitely overrated. Most everything else in the list I avoided.
The real VHS video quality secret was running the video output directly to the tv video input (if you had a new enough player & tv)Running the VCR into the tv antenna input degrades the video quality
Aw, you guys just don't know what's cool...
It took me about 30 seconds for recall, but that’s a most excellent flash from the past!
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