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Comments: 1 +-   Has sci-fi run out of steam?-> on Saturday November 21, @06:48AM Barence

Submitted by Barence on Saturday November 21, @06:48AM
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Barence writes "Science fiction has long inspired real-world technology, but have the authors of sci-fi stories finally run out of steam? PC Pro has traced the history of sci-fi's influence on real-world technology, from Jules Verne to Snow Crash, but suggests that writers have run out of ideas when it comes to inspiring tomorrow's products. "Since Snow Crash, no novel has had quite the same impact on the computing world, and you might argue that sci-fi and hi-tech are drifting further apart," PC Pro claims. Author Charles Stross tells the magazine that he began writing a sci-fi novel in 2005 and "made some predictions, thinking that in ten years they’d either be laughable or they’d have come true. The weird bit? Most of them came true already, by 2009!”"
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+-   Response to California BigTV Legislation-> on Thursday November 19, @10:48PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19, @10:48PM
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An anonymous reader writes "It's great that unelected California legislators are clamoring to save energy, but when they target your big screen TVs for elimination, consumers and manufacturers are apt to declare war. While CEDIA and the CEA are up in arms over this, Audioholics has an interesting response that involves setting the TVs in "SCAM" mode to technically meet the energy criteria without having to add additional cost and increase costs to consumers.

In this mode, the display brightness/contrast settings would be set a few clicks to the right of zero, audio would be disabled and backlighting would be set to minimum. The power consumption should be measured in this mode much like an A/V receiver power consumption is measured with one channel driven at full rated power and the other channels at 1/8th power.

This is an example of an impending train wreck of unintended consequences and several groups are grabbing the popcorn and pulling up chairs to watch."
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