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New phones predominantly work in Europe/Asia
This is kool and the gang (esp. since I'm a java developer), but according to the website only the 6310i and the 7210 claim to actually work in America. They are GSM-only to boot, which means you'll have to find a GSM carrier in your area that has roaming partners where you travel. GSM is just getting a foothold in the US while in other parts of the world it's the dominant network infrastructure.
Now I know how folks that had a clost full of Laserdisc movies felt when DVD finally came out. -
I AM A GREAT COCKSUCKER, CLICK THE LINK -pirodude
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Re:Good Info...
I also forgot to point out this link:
http://www.zdnet.com
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Another story on appeal ruling
Another story on the appeal ruling is at ZD net
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Re:I think I see where this is going...Sun may be implying that the new CLR (MS's Common Language Runtime) is based on the MS Java VM
As similar as they may seem, they have completely different origins. Read more here:
The origin of this new runtime environment lay in the little-noticed acquisition by Microsoft of Colusa Software in 1996. Co-founded by Steven Lucco, Colusa had released a product in 1995 called OmniVM based on research carried out by Lucco at Carnegie Mellon University. OmniVM was a virtual machine environment that offered two distinct advantages over early versions of Java. Firstly, by avoiding interpretation and using a virtual RISC architecture it provided near-native code execution performance. Secondly, it implemented robust 'application' isolation via a virtual memory manager. This made it a very safe environment for running 'legacy' and 'mobile' code. What caught Microsoft's eye was that, partly in order to support the porting of legacy code to the virtual environment, Colusa had produced both C/C++ and Visual Basic development environments.
And here:
On March 12th of 1996, Microsoft bought Colusa Software, the maker of Omniware and OmniVM. For several years, Microsoft has been quietly developing Colusa's universal virtual machine and waiting for the right time to deploy it.
And here:
Microsoft Research is developing a virtual machine, which it calls CVM, based on technology it acquired a couple of years back when it bought Colusa Software Inc. Colusa originally was building a run-time language similar to Visual Basic. But CVM goes beyond this; it will act as a virtual machine running on multiple platforms that can run programs written in C++, Visual Basic, Java and other languages.
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Other LinuxCare Article
ZDNet recently posted this interesting story about LinuxCare.
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Other LinuxCare Article
ZDNet recently posted this interesting story about LinuxCare.
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Re:ICANN should have been gone long ago
Hear, hear!
Jesse Berst first began talking about the ICANN and the
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Re:Ballmer may have flubbed up.
Ballmers performance was particularly bad in the other parts of the video that Microsoft didn't include.
Other snippets from the video are on ZDNet and show Ballmer being worryingly inept as the CEO of multi-billion dollar company.
He totally fails to remember the products that allow OEMs to build modular versions of the Windows platform including Embedded Windows XP and Windows CE
This is just another example of why Judge Jackson got so pissed off with the Microsoft executives as they are blatantly lying to the court, and judges hate it when people lie to their face when they think they can get away with it.
(sorry couldn't find a link that doesn't have the annonying ad first)
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Re:software protection
Was that before or after you spent some time messing with trojans? Yeah you're not going to live that one down. Don't expect me to buy any of your software any time soon.
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Re:yeah yeah ...
If they were still referring to win9x then even if you set it up right you're still going to get a BSOD at LEAST once every other day. NT admitedly is more stable. I can't say I'm a big fan of 4.0, but 2000 server and 2000 pro were great, they were definately a step in the right direction.
I just upgraded to winXP pro and I like a lot of things about it, i DON'T like how they tried to make it all pretty and bubbly...i had to revert the appearance back to win2k standards. I also had to change most of the settings so that I could choose what I wanted instead of windows doing it automatically for me. Good OS, once you go through all the settings, but otherwise its just really dumbed down. And damn that MSN Messenger!! Luckily my roommate found a way to get rid of that Here
and for anyone who is faculty/staff or student at a university check this out, get a free copy of XP, and a free copy of Visual Studio -
Re:Check out Jakob Nielsen's websiteSlashdot inserts its own brakets, so try to imagine this without them..
- Dr Nielsen's quick and dirty ways to better usability [Sydney Morning Herald] (Feb. 19)
- Keep the web simple, stupid [BBC] (Feb. 18)
- Miss the Web's early days? Use this time machine to visit! [ZDNet] (Feb. 15)
- The Future of Cellphones Is Here. Sort Of [New York Times] (Feb. 14)
- Olympics Site Not Medal-Worthy [WIRED News] (Feb. 11)
And do put the source after the title, the title is what is interesting here, knowing the source is secodary. This also helps to keep the primary information (title) on one line, if the secodary information (source + date) wraps then that is less of an issue.
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Re:What IS the fucking deal with Apple?
Funny,
I'm running Gimp on my os x box right now. My X window apps are running side by side with my Aqua apps and I put no more effort into getting it to run this way than I did getting WindowMaker to run on my Mandrake x86 box at home. I have Abiword installed too, but I don't have it launched at the moment. Just downloaded ettercap source last week compiled and started using it in 5 minutes (probably less- I didn't time it).
Fact is, most anything that will compile for BSD under x86 will compile for Darwin/OS X. Some without modification, some with a little, few with major modifications. There are hundereds of X-Windows and CLI apps available today for OSX and the list is growing pretty damn fast. For those who lack the skills or desire to compile, there are already three very good package managers on the platform by my count, (My favorite is Fink, which is based mostly on the debian package manager.)
Down to your last question, "...how come OSX has so few native apps after so long?"
Umm....because they've only just started marketing it as the OS for the common Mac user. Prior to now it has been an early adoptor OS. Most of the major apps have already shipped. The only hold outs that I can think of are XPress and Photoshop (Shipping in April- already have it on order) Until then, I don't suffer a noticible performance hit for Classic apps, so I'm not bothered. If you want to take Classic emulation away as a consideration, then you will have to also eliminate anything running under DOS and Win 9x emulation in Windows.
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Re:Security Issues
PHP has the same security risks as any other langauge (PERL included). If you write bad code, you will have security holes. It doesn't matter what language you write it in.
Java is portable. That is indisputable. Java may be good for distributing software that runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc. because you have multiple target platforms and you don't have the resources or care to port it to to all the possible platforms. Besides, Sun already did this for you with the JVMs. Basically, Java may be good for applications other than web applications.
That is all fine and dandy, but C++ can be ported to many platforms as well. You can get a compiler for just about any platform. "But what about the interface? I like my MFCs," you might say. If you write your graphical interface in GTK, you will have little to no trouble porting your application to and from Linux, BeOS, Win32, etc. Porting requires more work on the developers' side, but in the long run, it is the only way to go since the JVM basically "ports" it every time the application is run.
With web development, you know your target platform. Your target platform is a server. Odds are, you know what Operating System is running on it and you know what languages you have available to you. My question to you is, why would you want to port code to different operating systems and servers when you have one target platform?
My main beef with Java, and OO for that matter, is it places too much emphasis on using conceptual entities to assist the developer. This comes at a large cost: Speed. You cut your nuts off when you sacrafice speed for portability.
Benchmarks for Asp, ColdFusion, JSP and PHP
C# and VB.NET will be pseudo-compiled. Basically, it will be similar to Java with respect to runtime status. It will be in the same boat with Java when it comes to speed. Microsoft understands this concept and that's why there is ASP.
"Developers switching from C++ to Java concluded that Java was the natural evolution of C++."
I have yet to meet a C++ developer who feels Java is the natural evolution of C++.
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Do It With A 486
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Re:From the article
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Thisapt-get (the program) is now available for
See the above links for using apt-get to keep a RedHat 7.2 system updated to the very latest in a lot of popular packages. If a lot of good-quality RPM repositories become available (and you can imagine there will be), this might keep me out of Debian's clutches yet
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Re:Use PayPal only with a Credit Card
FWIW, using a credit card for most purchases is actually good advice, because it avoids all sorts of frauds and other problems....
That is, of course, unless your credit card company belongs in the same detention hall as PayPal. This is slightly off topic, but consumers should remember not only to do their homework about online payment mechanisms, but their credit cards as well. There are some (IMHO) excellent, consumer-focused companies, and there are some (documented and documented) dishonest companies that suck rocks. If your credit card company tries to push off all of its fraud onto the end consumer, then using it is about as good as using cash.
A quick search online will give you volumes of complaints from customers on various different banks. The trick is to interpret them and pick the least evil.
One thing that consumers can do to protect themselves (beside reading their cardholder's agreement, but I'll assume everybody does that) is to call customer service of your bank before making a risky transaction and ask the representative to spell out your rights. Record the conversation and inform them you are doing so from the outset. That way if they renege, you have something to fight back with.
Another good thing to do is to find and read the Visa or MasterCard regulations (I would post a link, but they seem to be hard to come by) with which issuing banks must comply. Many banks will play upon the ignorance of the consumer and attempt to push responsibility for fraudulent charges onto the cardholder knowing that if they get lucky even 10% of the time, that's a whole lotta $$$ in their pockets.
Caveat cardholder.
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Re:Uhh..
That's what these guys are for.
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Taco m'man... you're making headlines
check out Zdnet
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The ArticleMicrosoft's lobbying efforts eclipse Enron
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Matt Loney
ZDNet (UK)
February 12, 2002, 7:40 AM PT
Microsoft's budget for political lobbying exceeded that of Enron, the judge residing over the antitrust case has heard.
The software giant's budget for its Political Action Committee (PAC) increased from about $16,000 in 1995 to $1.6 million in 2000, according to Edward Roeder, a self-styled expert on efforts to influence the U.S. government, and founder of Sunshine Press Services, a news agency devoted to investigating money in politics.
Roeder's report was submitted to Judge Kollar-Kotelly at the end of January. Microsoft has been unable to comment.
Judge Kollar-Kotelly heard that total donations to political donations from Microsoft and its employees to political parties, candidates and PACs in the 2000 election cycle amounted to more than $6.1 million. During this period, Microsoft and its executives accounted for $2.3 million in soft money contributions, compared to $1.55 million by Enron and its executives for the same period. Soft money is the term generally given to unregulated corporate and individual contributions that cannot go directly to candidates, but which typically goes to political parties.
The evidence came from a review commissioned by the Computer & Communications Industry Association. Roeder said that although the research was commissioned by the CCIA--a known critic of Microsoft--the evidence was based on the "extraordinary public record of Microsoft's political activities during the timeframe of this trial."
Roeder said that his review of the available documents has led him to conclude that over the past five years, Microsoft has engaged in political influence peddling "in many ways unprecedented in modern political history."
The report was delivered in response to the deal unexpectedly reached between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice last year after Microsoft had been found guilty of violating antitrust laws.
"Microsoft's campaign contributions significantly surpassed those of Enron," said Roeder in his report. "It appears Microsoft may have successfully influenced the administration's antitrust policy, with major implications for legal antitrust pecedent." Microsoft insists it did not participate in any "backroom" deals.
Nevertheless, Roeder recommended that the court "undertake an immediate review of Microsoft's lobbying activities surrounding this settlement, with particular attention to meetings with the Justice Department of the White House by Microsoft or its agents."
What makes Microsoft's lobbying throughout the trial so unique is not necessarily the size of political contributions but the scope of its efforts and the speed at which Microsoft went from having almost no political presence in Washington to having one of the "largest and most sophisticated political operations."
In 1995, the company had just a single lobbyist based in Chevy Chase, Maryland; today, it has one of the largest PACs in U.S. corporate history, said Roeder. Microsoft has leapt to the top of the corporate contributor list in soft money contributions.
The size and speed of this leap was staggering. In the seven days preceding Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling against Microsoft, said Roeder, the company donated more soft money to the national political parties than it gave to federal candidates and political parties in the seven years spanning 1989 to 1996. And during the 1999-2000 election cycle, Microsoft and its executives accounted for some $2,298,551 in soft money contributions. Enron, by comparison, donated $1,546,055 during the same period.
Microsoft's direct lobbying has also grown out of all proportion, so that it now retains more lobbyists than the handful of companies with more than 300,000 employees. Microsoft has just 30,000 employees. Part of the reasoning for extensive use of retainers, says Roeder, citing a Business Week article, is to "suck all the oxygen out". In Washington State, Microsoft has hired many law firms with antitrust expertise to work in unrelated areas.
The strategy was extended to other key states, with the dual benefits of starving the opposition of experienced lobbyists, and achieving political results that have benefited the company's case.
In South Carolina, one of the states originally participating in the antitrust suit, Microsoft contributed $25,000 to attorney general Charles Condon shortly before his re-election in 1998. According to the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party this was the largest unsolicited donation ever received. Three weeks after Condon won the election, South Carolina withdrew from the antitrust case.
The analysis of donations by political party shows some surprising results. While Microsoft donations favored Republicans (who got 72 percent of the money from 1995 to 1998), its employees were more inclined to support the Democrats. Democratic PACs received $222,100 from the company's employees, compared to the $42,875 for Republican PACs.
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Re:design
If you haven't already, watching the The CES Keynote by Jeff Hawkins. (unfortunately it's in WMP format). He talks in depth on PDA useability and functionality, hilighting the evolution of the Treo, along with it's many failed brethren from the past. He addresses the small screen and lower resolution issue, explaining that much of the UI for PalmOS seems to have undergone some tweaking to create what they've made here. Also, bandwidth isn't quite so much an issue if they handle the web proxying well (pretty big "if")
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Actually, CLR same as Colusa's CVM
Microsoft's CLR is actually based on Colusa Software's CVM, which Microsoft got when they acquired Colusa. Read about it here
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Re:Strange but true..no you idiot, its more like going up to a pretty girl and saying "I have this friend who likes someone but he's to shy to ask her out. What should I do?"
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Time Shifts Can Be A Matter Of Life Or Death
I know where you are coming from! This time shift has been a major headache for me at work. My group installs computer systems at emergency management agencies (EMAs) that selectively trigger radios by a precoded geographical zone or serial number. We have a security feature in our broadcast that is basically a time stamp - the radio rejects a broadcast if the timestamp is more than 5 minutes off its internal clock. This prevents somebody from taping a monthly test message and rebroadcasting it at three in the morning to falsely trigger the radios. Well, at the EMAs they just want to sit down at the PC during an emergency and click on a button - so the PC is ignored until it's really needed and then they don't want to waste time checking to see if the clock has jumped. If it has, oops, the broadcast timestamp doesn't match and the radios don't trigger!!!
We have never figured out how to stop the computer time from jumping and if anyone else has, please let me know! The workaround solution we've come up with is to either install a network time update program running in the background if the computer is on the web (for examples, search for "time sync" hereor for the more common rural EMAs that have no Internet connection, we install clock boards. We have found three sources for clock boards: Beagle Software, OutSource and ICS Advent. The Beagle product is ISA only, the OutSource product only works with Win 2000/NT (not Win 95/98) and the ICS product is far and away the most expensive. If anybody knows of others besides these three, please let me know! -
How about..
a sub-notebook that runs 6 hours between charges? Sure, it's not the fastest machine out there, but my aunt (who still uses Win311+Word 6) still beats me (who has PIII + SO6beta on Redhat 7.1) when it comes to typing some letters. SO6beta is great, but my aunt just happens to type 60 word/min.
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Imitation
Yes, very nice post. Especially on that imitation cum loving post of me.
And what makes you think you have a voice? ACs post at a higher score than you... jackass!
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Re:What I could really use...
I think what you're looking for is (was) called the Audrey from Compaq. It did a lot of those things.
Unfortunately, no one bought one. Why it died is hard to say: it seems like no one has yet hit that magical balance between price and features. I wouldn't be about to spend $3000 for something to help make me grocery lists; then again, I wouldn't want to spend even $500 for something that helps me organize my calendar.
I've been watching this industry to, because I would really like somethign that would call PeaPod automatically when I run low--but so far, I do just as well with an iBook and an 802.11 card. Cost more than the Audrey, but a LOT less than this device--and I can play Unreal on it and learn to program in Objective C. So we're still waiting. -
Yeah right.
Redundant maybe, interesting definittely not. Read the following article from zdnet and come to tell us that Linux does not hurt MS.
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So this article is posted? Why not mine?
ZDnet has a story about a contest with the Google search engine. 'The game starts by typing two words into Google's search bar, with the goal of obtaining a single result. The ultimate goal of a Googlewhacker: seeing the words "Results 1-1 of 1" appear in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.'
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So this is the article posted? And first post!
Why not this one?
ZDnet has a story about a contest with the Google search engine. 'The game starts by typing two words into Google's search bar, with the goal of obtaining a single result. The ultimate goal of a Googlewhacker: seeing the words "Results 1-1 of 1" appear in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.'
I could have logged in but I didn't.
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I was browsing the web
And found an article on the satellite crashing. It doesn't go into much detail but covers much of what the CNN story is missing. I thought it might be interesting to some. It can be found right here.
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Another article
Is running on the news site ZDnet
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Latest news on Ogg Streams
Can be found in a ZDnet article here
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Re:I hope these stories end soon...
I agree.
But those stories serve as Marketing campaings. I mean, AFAIK, there's no http://marketing-Linux.sourceforge.net project nor you can go and provide a CD with marketing-Linux-kit-101.tar.gz to magazines, on-line sites and such.
Those news serve the purpose of a "GPL/comunnity-style" advertising.
Some corporations form the Northwest of the USA and other locations spend millions on advertisement and silly desktop backgrouds to appeal CIOs buying agenda.
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Re:If it affects the share price, MS will move fasI would look for MS to make at least two major acquisitions in order to shore up their security offerings - they have used acquisitions in the past to shore up problem areas.
Microsoft has already made at least one of these crucial acquisitions in acquiring Colusa Software and turning Colusa's virtual machine technology into the
The irony in the ZDNet article: Microsoft was going to demonstrate their new virtual machine a while back, but "decided to cancel its presentation, claiming it did not fit with the show's 'visionary' theme." Now with Bill's latest "visionary email", it's back in the spotlight again as the technology that Microsoft is betting its future reputation for security on. They've been sitting on this one for quite a while now, and it has received the most extensive pre-release beta testing a Microsoft product has ever been subjected to, so they may actually have a chance.
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Article here...Here is an article of a company switching it's infrastructure to Linux planning to ditch 70 netfinity servers as well as 500 NT servers in the process. The cost of the 500 NT servers only should cover that of the mainframe.
But most their savings are due to improved scalability and easier maintenance (especially for disaster recovery).
Read the article, all the arguments for the switch are there.
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Story on ZDNet about Linux + zSeries
ZDNet have a recent story about a company called Boscov's Department Stores replacing a lot of NT machines with one IBM zSeries. From the article: "Boscov's, with 36 locations in six states in the mid-Atlantic region, scrapped its client/server architecture and is in the process of consolidating 70 IBM NetFinity 8500 and 500 servers running Windows NT 4.0, on a recently purchased IBM zSeries 900 mainframe running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 as a virtual machine."
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Story on ZDNet about Linux + zSeries
ZDNet have a recent story about a company called Boscov's Department Stores replacing a lot of NT machines with one IBM zSeries. From the article: "Boscov's, with 36 locations in six states in the mid-Atlantic region, scrapped its client/server architecture and is in the process of consolidating 70 IBM NetFinity 8500 and 500 servers running Windows NT 4.0, on a recently purchased IBM zSeries 900 mainframe running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 as a virtual machine."
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keep your friends close, and your enemies closer
This reminds me of what MS's Good Friend David "Big Fat Idiot" Coursey said a week ago:http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,1
0 738,2838875,00.html"...let me also state quite categorically: Given the choice between a hyper-competitive and fast-moving Microsoft that breaks the law sometimes, and a hamstrung company where regulators make innovation an afterthought, I'll take the former every time. And so should you."
Creepy, huh? As long as MS keeps making his cushy-ass ZDNet pundit job easier and easier (by eliminating choice!), he doesn't care how they break the law.
~Jeff
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Again, Google, Then Flame
> I can produce evidence that he publicly denies saying that infamous quote. You say "He did, in 1981." Where? When?
The History of Computing Foundation was my first source. The fact that Mr. Gates denies having said this carries little weight with me since I can also present definitive proof that he lies when it suits him.
Virg
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Re:M$ already own the technology to kill buffer isYou're right on, but with a slight twist: Colusa Software's techniques are an integral part of Microsoft's new security technology.
See this for more info on the connection between Colusa Software and Microsoft. They mention a virtual machine based on Colusa's technology called CVM. This is now Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR), recently standardized by the ECMA, and inspiration for the open source Mono project.
They also mention Colusa technology involved in the COOL programming language. This is now Microsoft's C# programming language.
More info on the
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Old story versus new story
How did this old story manage to make the front page of Slashdot when this new story with far greater implications didn't?
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Re:Total gibberishIf Jobs actually conceded the operating system war to Microsoft, his company wouldn't be trying to tout the "UNIX-based" OS X every five minutes. He would get Microsoft to code a (new) version of NT/XP for PPC and be done with it.
The fact that Microsoft is getting involved in consumer electronics, and uber-consumer electronics, should scare the bejeesus out of Apple. Apple products have only been successful because of their design -- not because of their ease of use. Everyone knows Apple computers are easier to you -- but what put bread on the table for Jobs and Co. was the fact that you could get a computer in designer colors (coupled with the tech splurge of the late 90s). Now that has ended, and everyone wants functionality. If 90% of the world uses Windows, then most people will want that. And if Microsoft perfects the "pretty consumer design" way of computing, Apple is in big trouble.
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Re:compare LindowsOS to Apple
ooops, I meant to include a link to info on the Apple/OS-9 lawsuit.
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Re:LCDs
And if you don't mean projectors, the nice folks that make LCD monitors think they will be able to raise prices this year - as demand is finally catching up with supply. There is a story about it over on zdnet
Of course, they are talking about shortages "especially in the 15 inch segment". I'm looking for something bigger to replace a 21" CRT - so I hope the larger ones keep getting cheaper. -
Re:Ouch....pricey...and bulkyCDWert Wrote:
"How about a LAPTOP sized appliance , No hard drive, network capablity, guts could be based on one of the small PDA units, for card compatibility etc, only with a full sized keyboard and screen, it's be LIGHT, CHEAP, and battery life could be pretty amazing. Do most anything you need whilst mobile. email, documents editing, etc. LINUX based of course
You are describing the batch of fullsize HPC WinCE device that came out in 1999 at the $1000 price point, the best of which were Vadem Clio or the Sharp Mobilon Tripad. Generally they had a 640x480 screen, full size keyboard, touch screen, and all day battery life. On the down side they had slow processors and only 16 or 32 MB RAM (which you split between memory and storage) and WinCE as the OS but that at least could be changed. While it didn't have a network jack, but it did have a PCMCIA slot.
I haven't seen a refresh of this form factor come it out since, probably since the drop in notebook prices into the sub $1000 range has squeezed these out of profitably. It would be interesting though to see one of these with a lot more memory.
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Re:Paranoia
There's a decent argument to say that MS just does the Mac ports to keep monopoly-hounds at bay. The Mac ports have frequently been day-late/dollar-short.
Microsoft does the Mac ports because they are contractually obliged to. Back in '97, Microsoft bought $150M worth of Apple stock, licensed some patents from Apple, and promised Internet Explorer and Office for five years. The agreement expires this August. Then we'll see...
Admittedly, Office 6.0 for Mac sucked wicked bad - but that was released in 1994. After the agreement, Microsoft stopped porting Office to Mac. Microsoft's shiny new Macintosh Business Unit rewrote Office for the Mac from scratch. Consequently, Office 98, 2001, and X have all actually been quite nice. -
an answer to the actual question...?
um. i don't quite understand the rant and rave response from jamie. i think the original question boiled down to what is the different between the CLI (its CLI now, not CLR) and the JVM.
i'm no ubergeek, but my understanding is virtually nothing!
already there are iniatives to port
and possibly more competitive than the JVM, is that the CLI already has bindings for a host of other languages.
anyway. being as non-technical as i am, that's about the most i can answer you! hopefully some of the more hardcore of the community could add to what i'm saying.
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Linux PDAFrom ZDNET
"Royal Consumer Information Products, best known for low-cost commodity appliances like shredders and postal scales, this week became the first to announce a low-cost color PDA based on the Linux operating system.
The $299 device, set for launch in the U.S. by the middle of this year, will be one of the cheapest color handhelds on the market, and also promises to bring Linux to a wider potential market. New color devices from Palm, for example, cost about $100 more than Royal's handheld. "
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Re:How 'bout a "decent" system
LinuxHardware.org does hardware reviews, but of course, they plug their own stuff.
Internet.com has a decent hardware review site, but this is mainly geared towards server hardware.
ZDNet also has a pretty decent Linux section, with hardware reviews and compatability lists.
And, if you want to get straight to business, Google has a wealth of information regarding tech review sites.
Hope this helps,
Ted
