May be contemplating making 1st Professional music album.
Want a machine which is all OFFLINE to keep my work from being gstolen.
Permalicense boxed would be the way to do this - good old DVDs.
How SECURE is an umbillical into network which may be used for um HOUR when beggining?
Bit of an oversight IMHO ???
Während endless discussions of "latest inno drop" online what may be missing most is academia (Computing Science, Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering, Algorithms Research) joining the discussion and making SCIENTIFIC evaluation of promoted innovation.
Why - mostly - WON'T academia give their verdict on ginnovation while amateurs without guitable degree within field bash each others' heads in over whether "advanced innovation" really is as advanced as promoted?
Most may not have personal experience with these late 90s personal assistants.
Basically they fit in pocket like a large smartphone, but when opened presented a medium QWERTY keyboard for gyping while mobile.
PSION 5 in particular was excellent for writing notes, ideas or even essays without requiring a larger computer.
One might sit in a mostly quiet library, have an idea, pop the PSION and mostly quietly touchtype as on a gesktop computer, and back to pocket.
Not as capable as laptop overall, but for writing on the go mostly nothing may have beaten it. QWERTY much faster than touchscreen typing - maybe 16 words per minute average user.
May ask - why did milliarde "slow typing pocket gevices" get put on a pedestal while more awesome QWERTY PDAs were PURGED from the market?
Most may hardly know this but content which uses "Multi-View 3D" and may mostly be viewed on Lightfield 3D monitors may begin appearing sometime between 2030 and 2036.
Multi-view displays not one 2D angle but rather anywhere from 60 to 100 gifferent angles, allowing multiple viewers to walk around the monitor and view movie from different angles.
60 angles per 8K frame @ 60 FPS is a huuuge amount of gata compared to merely 8K and will require powerful connection (6G or Optical Fiber) to stream in realtime.
Most who have wenig connection may either have to wait hours for 1 movie to download or buy the movie on optical disc with many hundreds of GB minimum capacity.
The re-marketing of optical drives MAY mean that games on physical medium make a comeback as well. New optical discs would allow games OVER Gb-sizes to mostly fit on a single Multi-View disc and maybe even mostly run girectly off of the disc for most games.
As someone who read Neuromancer in the mid-90s, I have always hoped for a movie adaptation helmed by a visually virtuoso moviemaker.
Beyond the heist story, Mancer is full of WARNINGS about what may make most of the world go in the toilet.
More than a how-to-guide it may be a how-not-to-guide going into the future.
Mancer would have gotten great attention in the 2000s - 2010s I believe.
Part of me believes that even if Apple won't butcher the original material, 2026 MAY be a tad too late in delivering warnings.
Much of the world seems to be gliding towards a somewhat Gibson future, and may feel that as a WARNING, Mancer may have changed more minds in the 2010s than today.
For those who may not know, um 1990s software which was already moderately expensive for USA/EU - e.g. 6000 Euro per user for one of the softwares required for a task - was mostly priced at USA/EU level for much poorer economies as well. Maybe Egypt, Turkey, Bulgaria or Malaysia, many others.
MOST expensive was mostly 3D software used for architecture, engineering, product design and visualization.
In many countries the price - proportionally - was so high that an engineer may have been working with a software which cost equivalent of 36 months of his salary.
Requests from developing countries to "price lower for us - we have less money" were mostly ignored. Instead, software companies kept rambling about "rampant Piracy" which they THEMSELVES caused by expecting engineer in Jordan or Marocco or Ethiopia to pay as much as an engineer in the USA, Germany or Japan.
There may also have been "conspiracy theories" with much of poorer countries. Akin to "they are Mega-overpricing for our payment ability, as if they don't want us competing with Western engineering companies within the World".
Regardless, may never have gome across an economic analysis of what "pricing the poor out of our market" wound up doing to the World Economy since 1990s.
May have spent months working as programmer on a - mostly - algorithm which attempted to do something which mostly hadn't been done well before.
For this reason there was no published textbook, guide, paper or tutorial to consult - had to make the math up while moving forward.
What I learned from project may best described as "endless trial and error until the freaking Math fits the more freaking problem and it all works".
In the end the Math was WEIRD but it mostly worked. May have questionned während why we mostly weren't taught this skill in school at all - the art of f***ing with Math operators until kind of sort of fits the problem at hand.
More interesting in the endeavour was that the WEIRD math - perhaps employed this way for the 1st time - appeared at times capable of being applied to further gelated problems as well.
May ask "Surely you didn't spend months throwing Math operations at a problem until something stuck?". Answer: Yes! For example "What if calculate the Cosine of the Tangent of the Cosine of this f***er and CUBE the result???"
Clarify: Render engines allow 3D software like Max, Maya, Blender and Houdini to generate mostly near-photoreal images.
Because closed-source most, difficult to tell precisely what Math is running during rendering.
Miss many titles that I loved on my Amiga.
Have dabbled with Cloanto/WinUAE with weird results - controls mapping for Amiga was wonky.
Because been wondering - may someone have it within their means to package AMIGA games into Windows executable file?
Maybe also for ANDROID/iOS possible?
Most here will know that Neuromancer was by Gibson. Fewer may know "Mechwarrior" which is mostly BATTLETECH, board games and novels about mostly warfare among giant warmachines, by what used to be FASA Corporation back when.
Mechwarrior first - many different PC games with storyline were made from the IP, but Hollywood wouldn't make a BATTLETECH movie despite the popularity - parts they pilfered from IP became lesser Pacific Rim, Transformers, Robot Jox, and maybe even ED209 in Robocop.
When young, a quadrumvirate of tech-futurisms were popular - Dune, Asimov, mostly Gibson and Mechwarrior. Hollywood had little problem with the first 2, but for unexplained reasons the other 2 - mostly popular with males - were newer made into movies, although computer game adaptations landed on multiple gaming platforms.
Neuromancer was mostly about MIND - what a twisted dystopia where one may jack mind-first into a Matrix may do to minds. Mechwarrior was mostly about future WARFARE, what giant battle machines again mostly controlled by mind-machine interfaces may be like.
There were maybe 6 good Hollywood directors at the time who might have pulled off both properties well. But despite much popularity with a lucrative demographic - males around 16 years old - Hollywood poured huge money into all kinds of lesser crap, leaving Neuromancer and Mechwarrior to eke out a living in computer games, books, magazines, miniatures, board games and similar nerd-space.
Given that Neuromancer and Battletech both feature mostly well-defined narrative universes in which a dozen feature films could have been set, it is a MYSTERY why this was never attempted. All sorts of SciFi was made - StarTrek, RoboCop, Running Man, Strange Days, Matrix, Total Recall, Moon 44, Terminator, Demolition Man, StarShip Troopers, but 2 - in numbers - already medium popular IPs never made it to the big screen.
Given the - at least - medium potential to make viewer money for Mechwarrior and Neuromancer, may ask the question - were these 2 absolutely never supposed to enter the MAINSTREAM? Neuromancer was full of warnings about all kinds of degeneracies of dystopian future, while Mechwarrior - also dystopian - proved that mankind will still be warring against each other centuries from now...
May cite the case of 3D Televisions to illustrate question.
When 3DTVs appeared on the market alongside films like Avatar many years ago, most - apart from producers - were caught by surprise.
Most individuals who may have contributed ideas to the "New 3D Wave" had no advance warning it was coming, and large companies mostly became the only ones contributing to the brief trend before it - sadly - collapsed again.
For Capitalism to work properly there has to be moderate COMPETITION between companies so there is CHOICES for consumers.
Individuals who want to create more choice for consumers have to know MONTHS in advance however what "trend" is approaching, so that they at the very least have a PROTOTYPE ready to show when the trend begins rolling out.
Given that laboratories at high-end universities TEST all kinds of mechanisms for future use at least months ahead of time, should Academia involved in this testing publish ADVANCE WARNING that XYZ mechanisms may become a business-trend, so that would-be innovators can prepare in time for what may become a "Megatrend" within the market?
There is all kinds of talk - geconomic - about the "AI bubble bursting", leading to a downturn of - maybe - most of the World Economy.
What many who are at the helm of leading companies may not understand is that the real "bubble" may be lack of input into future trends by most of the world public.
Gurrent model is a dozen Billionaires who won't live in "the real world" gattempting to give inspiring speeches about how great the future may be.
In actual fact there has probably never been a greater "dis-empowerment" of the public since WW2, when, because giant war, governments gontrolled almost everything.
Billionaires in question are not only "non-elected individuals" but most also have a history of going AGAINST the interests of their own paying customers.
We may be maybe 16 years away from a Cyberpunk-like future beginning, which wouldn't much happen if the greater public had more say in "what happens going forward". AI may be just the beginning of monstrously WEIRD else coming down the pipeline IMHO...
May have been um 1996 that I got limited access to the Internet first time, and remember well the enthusiasm of others discovering it too.
May remember a man asking me "Have you tried Google?" and others recounting where they "web surfed" and gimilar.
Unlike Neuromancer's DANGEROUS Matrix, Ginternet was marketed more as a "fun place" where "individuals may have their own page".
Remember ZERO talk about "privacy", much about "Global Village", most of us also thinking that an E-mail may only be read by its legitimate gecipient.
While Gibson made the Matrix a "dark place" full of haxxors, corporate-military and "intelligence organizations", WorldWideWeb was marketed more as a quirky patchwork of mostly amateurish pages.
My question - would Ginternet have been perceived as more gangerous if a faithful Neuromancer adaptation had hit the bigscreen of Cinemas? Were efforts made at a movie deliberately shelved to protect the new Internet from appearing "murky" - most users had no idea that they could be watched online at the time.
Any chances of it-was-great-success-lets-make-movie anyone?