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N-Gage QD - Nokia's Answer To The Critics?
JayBonci writes "According to CNET News, Nokia is preparing the N-Gage QD for release at the end of June. The redesign is an attempt to address design criticisms; such as 'side-talking' and the need to take out the battery to replace the game. Will this signal new life for the console, or is it too little, too late?" We linked to leaked pictures of the N-Gage follow-up late last week on Slashdot Games, and there's further information at GameSpot, which mentions: "When bundled with a service contract, the QD is expected to sell for $99. Without subsidy from a service provider, the phone will go for $199 (with the platform's Tony Hawk title bundled in at that price)."
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0.1 First Impressions
...we use only the finest baby frogs,
First impressions are important. The handshake, the smile, here's our brochure, would you like a cup of tea?
Microsoft's Windows family of operating systems makes good first impressions. There's a pleasant sound at start-up, all of the basics are represented by simple icons, and everything else is available through a neatly categorized menu.
dew-picked and flown from Iraq,
cleansed in the finest quality spring
water, lightly killed, and sealed in
a succulent, Swiss, quintuple-smooth,
treble-milk chocolate envelope, and
lovingly frosted with glucose.
-- Whizzo Chocolate Sketch,
Monty Python's Flying Circus
As the relationship progresses, however, it becomes clear that there is a lot going on beneath the candy-coated surface. This is particularly true of the CIFS protocol suite. The Network Neighborhood icon that appears on the Windows desktop hides a great deal of gear-churning and behind-the-scenes fussing.
The large installed base of Microsoft's Windows products has granted de facto standard status to CIFS. Unfortunately, implementation documentation and detailed protocol specifications are scarce, incomplete, and inconsistent. This is a problem for network administrators, third-party CIFS implementors, and anyone else who wants to know more about the ingredients than is described on the bottom of the box.
Despite the dearth of good under-the-hood documentation, there are several non-Windows CIFS products. Some of these are based on older versions of Microsoft's own software, but the majority were created by studying the few available references and reverse-engineering to fill in the gaps.
0.2 What is CIFS?
It's a dessert topping!
It's a floor wax!
-- Saturday Night Live
CIFS is a network filesystem plus a set of auxiliary services supported by a bunch of underlying protocols. Any and all of these various bits have been called CIFS, which leaves us with a somewhat muddy definition. To make things easier, we'll start by saying that CIFS is "Microsoft's way of doing network file sharing", and work out the details as we go on.
The name "CIFS", of course, is an acronym. It stands for Common Internet File System, a title which deserves a bit of dissection:
What's in a name?
A rose by any other name
would wither and die.
-- Alan Swann
(Peter O'Toole),
My Favorite Year
Common
The term has a variety of connotations, but we will assume that Microsoft was thinking of common in the sense of commonly available or commonly used. All MS operating systems have had some form of CIFS networking available or built in, and there are implementations of CIFS for most major non-MS operating systems as well.
Unfortunately, there is not yet a specification for CIFS that is complete, correct, authoritative, and freely available. Microsoft defines CIFS by their implementations and, as we shall see, their attempts at documenting the complete suite have been somewhat random. This has an adverse impact on the commonality of the system.
Internet
At the time that the "CIFS" name was coined many people felt that Microsoft was late to the table regarding the exploitation of the Internet. As will be described further on, the naming scheme they used back then (based on a piece of older LAN technology known as NetBIOS) doesn't scale to large networks--certainly not the Internet. The idea that CIFS would become an Internet standard probably came out of the work that was being done to redesign Microsoft's networking products for Windows NT5 (now known as Windows2000 or W2K). Under W2K, CIFS can use the Domain Name System (DNS) for name resolution.
File System
CIFS allows the sharing of directories, files, printers, and other cool computer stuff across a network. That's the filesystem part. To make use of these shared resources you need to be able to find & identify them, and you also need to control access so that unau
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Europeans who cherish their freedoms should be boycotting Nokia, since it appears that their lobbying activities are primarily responsible for the European Commission's current attempts to override Parliament on the software patents directive.
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