Posted on 01/09/2017 10:35:40 AM PST by gaggs
Lotus Notes is second only to printers in terms of sheer hatred.
That was a known plus, but electronics hadn't taken center stage yet and the photography was the big selling point.
I went through the Canon 20d, 50d,60d, and T2i.
No complaints about any of those.
I use a GH4 now. Love the Panasonic.
Connections and the first The Day The Universe Changed should be required viewing.
As a bulk material it is, but not on nanoscales....
Yeah, can’t argue with you there.
I purchased a Kodak microscope camera in the late 90s. It was pretty good and cost a few hundred dollars. The driver worked with Windows 98. They never provided an upgrade to any later versions of Windows. A good camera turned to junk.
Check out the equipment used to spot your position using the "new" satellites.
One of the older relics from my TV production daze told me that the outfit went to tape largely of a big silver shortage a few decades ago.
Until then, anything important was film production.
Also the started IBM consulting and outsourced almost 90% jobs to india.
This totally overlooks the need for personal freedom of transportation to wherever they want to go at any time. The driverless car will be an urban only phenomenon and will really be a form of public transportation. If you live in Montana, for example, you better love in Bozeman. Many young weenies don’t even think about life with wife and kids, vacations, grocery trips, etc. Hunting and camping require freedom of mobility. Relocating, evacuating, siteseeing, days at the beach or mountains, forests all will always require a car that can go where you want, not just where Big Brother has pin in the slot roads (metaphorically). Many euros or u.s. snowflakes would not understand these arguments.
No.
Storage is not a solution to this. Though it can have a marginal or specific effect.
Here’s an article that does pretty well at describing the situation (I’ve seen better though):
http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/energetics/a-look-at-wind-and-solar-part-2
Of course there could, one day in the future, be an amazing advance in storage, or solar production, or in something else.
“nstead they chose to stick to film. Some companies innovate and some companies die.”
Strange. I have a 2MB Kodak digital camera from 1998. I used it for 6 years before replacing it with a 5MB Samsung Digimax. Maybe it was the CF memory cards they used?
I think Kodak simply died from bloated, ineffective, intransigent management -which is what happens with many American tech company failures.
“So, they are redeveloping their niche in the ‘artsy-fartsy’ world; “
This is exactly what happened with Apple. Then, iPods, iPhones, iPads and billions of dollars in value later...
The two biggest oil and gas operators in OKC did not even register on the meter 35 years ago. The two biggest operators 35 years ago don’t exist now.
Change is constant and often unkind.
I never blame the companies for the moves they make, I blame the legal and regulatory policies that get them to do it. America is about many things, but none of it matters at all without economic growth. Unilateral economic disarmament put those jobs in India, not the IBMers.
Companies move offshore to exploit two things: almost zero import duties and cheap 3rd world labor. The meme about regulations and taxes are the excuse, the political fig leaf, to offshore for dirt cheap labor. The term is “global labor arbitrage”. Google it.
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