Didn't Microsoft "steal" halo away from the Mac users first by purchasing Bungie,letting them think everything would remain the same then decide they wanted halo on the game cube stalling mac development in favor of the game cube's.
Your right I could dig through the help system or I could take a class in MSOffice but that's the whole point all I want to do is write the report I have to or create a nice tabular spreadsheet or put some pictures of information into a slide that I can present. Lots of other programs do this without requiring I type in archaic searches to find what I'm looking for because their software is so bloated and unintuitive that it would make someone like me switch just to get away from it's frustrations. I doubt I'm the only one. Your resorting to name calling shows that there is little substance to your argument so I can only assume I'm being trolled by yet another anonymous poster. But I still feel obligated to let people know that there are alternatives they may not be as flashy but they will let you get the job done and at the end of the day that's all I'm concerned about and I'm sure others out there feel the same way.
This was your problem then. You should know better than to migrate an office of people who are not familiar with a product if you too are not familiar with that product. No simpathy here. One can only hope you learned the appropriate lesson from that experience.
And your nothing but an anonymous troll who forgot his prozac. I don't think anyone was saying SO is better than any of the current Office product lines. I think they were just saying some parts of it are. As a whole I think the MSOffice suite is probably the best. At the same time however SO is fastly closing in. By not focussing in on such lameness as a paper clip to present help on the prodct or autocorrection that undos what I was trying to do everytime I do it. SO is just a simple office package that lets me get my work done and isn't so abstracted that one has trouble figuring out how to do anything productive. I wouldn't say this is for everyone. Some people are so obsessive that they can't put down a package until they understand what every menu item and every short cut key they can think of does. Power to them they will probably never switch from MSOffice. For me I just want to whip up reports do some spread sheet action and the occasional presentation. SO Works great for me. Your inability to except that shows a lack of understanding and life experience.
HP's OpenMail for your mail server. It provides most of the same functionality as Exchange at http://www.openmail.com/ this application is apparently being phased out or something but we use it and like it. For office type apps I would use StarOffice it really isn't that bad. Most everything else office wise should be easy to find as far as the utlities go. Also for webservices go LAMP Linux Apache MySQL PHP. The only caviate to this is if you don't know security you will be in the same boat as your NT solution. People always have these tendencies to configure things so they work and never look back. This means if it is something they have not used before the first time they configure it they will probably make the same mistakes as others leaving ther systems open to various attacks. The moral here don't convince everyone to jump ship before you really understand how to keep your network secure.
I'm being reminded now of why this thing sounded so familiar. People might also want to check out the Adams Perpetual motion machine. And other free energy sources from Austrailia. One might expect this from an island formerly a prison colloney. j/k but I think it raises some interesting questions like whats in the water down there. Cause this runs right along side the perpetual motion scams.
I think better comparason would be the old mod files where tiny pieces of the sound bites were used and repeated to product full length songs. I remember having quite a few that would fit on a single floppy. Then comes MP3 and the same speed racer song now takes 3 floppies. This is progress, how?
There are ways for isps to do this most don't anymore because it is to much of a butt whip to maintain. Call backs which some still use with isdn also work with modem type access and you could get a static ip on an isp for dialup however I'm sure they would charge you close to the cost of a burstable t-1. So it can be done it's just not very economical. and I guess if you worked for an ISP you could set this up fairly easily.
The only way this seems logical is by finding a way to describe the wave paterns in the video through a series of complex equations rather than packing pixels. I can't possibly imagine the horse power required to derive these equations. But it's the only way I can think of you could even come close to something like this. I don't think the horse power required to solve the equations and come up with a digital stream on the other end would be very taxing.
Or maybe he has found a way of taking pie to the extream and just finds where in pie the video stream is and sends the offsets.;-)
For those who want to play with this I found the following in some notes I had taken long ago. I use it to add color and effects to shell programs I write but it works just as well with the shell prompt. I use a format similar to the poster above.
I'm not sure which is the "more correct" way to do it but mine seems to work fine where I use it.
0 All attributes off
1 Bold on
4 Underscore
5 Blink on
7 Reverse video on
8 Concealed on
30 Black
31 Red
32 Green
33 Yellow
34 Blue
35 Magenta
36 Cyan
37 White
40 Black
41 Red
42 Green
43 Yellow
44 Blue
45 Magenta
46 Cyan
47 White
This would be my take and I would only assume they are making this screen with the fewest changes possible to their current design.
The most optimal color Display they could make would be like
r g b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g b
Which given their current monochrome model is 300DPI should yield ~100 DPI. Which I'm pretty sure would create a screen that based off the distance from the r to b would create some distortion in the image. Like streaching it 3 times it's normal width
So you want to tighten up the range of elements like so
r g b r g b r g
b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g
b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g
b r g b r g b
This yields ~94DPI. Which leaves us with the following possible solution.
r g r g r g r g
b b b b
r g r g r g r g
b b b b
r g r g r g r g
b b b b
Which based off their 300DPI product should yield ~75DPI. Which should be optimal for viewing as everything lines up nicely.
I'm not an expert but this seems to be logical And it explains the less than 100 DPI resolution they have given.
The advatanges are small but enough for some of us to warrant picking one up. First it keeps track via guide data of show time changes alternate channels etc... You can season pass so you set it up to record a show and it records it if it comes on channels you didn't know you had. It's a dedicated box so you don't have to scrape up the hardware to build one specificly for it or worry that the app your in might mess up your video capture or the video capture running at a high priority will slow down the game your in.
Also the apps are already written to do the same for your desktop if you have a capture card.
The article is a bit on the flamy side to bad we can't mark them as such. Reading the faq supprisingly left me with a much different attitude than I went in with. It seems if you are using XP now you can use the XP bootloader in the same way people use the NT boot loader now. This setup should work for 64bit XP and 32Bit XP. If your using 32bit xp it looks like you have a few more options however as it plainly says it can read,write and boot from MBR disks. It doesn't look all that complicated after reading the faq which is pretty straight forward. My only concern is the GUID. While I can't quesion mob mentality I can question why someone didn't read this prior to posting the story as all questions seem to be answered there in black white and blue.
The article says the people who are involved with this admit they are a ways off so this is all what if hype. If they happen to hit a brick wall with this technology you probably won't see anything out of it but the concept and some of their research is interesting however.
I can't belive they get away with this stuff like it's the norm. Are there not any tech related consumer advocacy groups to go pound on washington when stuff like this comes to light? If there is where do I go to check them out for contributions.
I think peoples real worries are that someone will know how much they watch porn with the tivo. Which I can understand however if the data is anonymous then they aren't going to be able to link that data back to you they will just see that 80% of america uses their tivos to record porn.
The rest of that bracket has young childred in the home.:-)
The industry leader, TiVo, acknowledged it has collected information from its 154,000 subscribers for an anonymous database to be sold to advertisers and TV networks.
"We don't disclose personally identifiable information as a matter of policy, and we won't as a matter of policy," TiVo chief privacy officer Matt Zinn said.
Given these statements this article sure tries to stir people up over something that I found clearly explained in my manual as well. Whats the deal with that being a front page slashdot story? They aren't selling my address for mailing lists which a lot of companies do without even telling you or letting you opt out of it (cough microsoft). So I don't see what the big deal it is.
I would expect to find this story on msnbc not cnn after all the ultimate TV is comming out. Of course gates is pretty ruthless so it is entirely possible he wrote the article and submitted it to cnn.com. There is your conspiracy theory, It's all gates' fault.
It may not be a trol but it is pretty short sighted and judgemental. Slashdot to me has always been about the technology and what people are doing with it. These people may be "engineers" but to me they are artists. What they have done, while it may not currently be a usefull product still has great merit in the technical community. And now that I think of it not being able to see that for the 2 hour battery life probably does make it a troll post.
You don't really get it do you? This is a proof of concept it is the idea brought into fruition that with just a little inginuity can bring about something great.
Could you imagine as this is refined a wrist watch that you could us say maybe IBMs viavoice (after a few generations of upgrades). This system would be a client to a bluetooth network connecting over the internet to your machine at home for storage or to your online virtual space. Stored on this network could be address books, phone numbers, apointments, pictures (with color display, Ye haw checking pr0n from your wrist watch). Maybe eventualy the wristband can be made a large flexable gell cell battery, or a bunch of small dry cells fitted with links encased in rubber to prevent corosion or damage. Would you buy one then?
Granted with the current 2 hour battery life it may seem like its useless. But if you think about it did the wheel start off round?
If this sort of software didn't work on AOL why are they now trying to make it manatory on individual machines? So people will be forced to pay for software that doesn't work? I cannot belive the lawmakers of the state I live in are so lame. How do we find out which of our elected representatives supported this bill to this point. I think it is about time we started holding these egg heads accountable for their actions.
To me this whole concept seems like some hippie parade where nothing makes sense and up is down and left is right. Which if you look at it from a slightly different perspective you would see your standing backwards.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't Microsoft "steal" halo away from the Mac users first by purchasing Bungie ,letting them think everything would remain the same then decide they wanted halo on the game cube stalling mac development in favor of the game cube's.
Your right I could dig through the help system or I could take a class in MSOffice but that's the whole point all I want to do is write the report I have to or create a nice tabular spreadsheet or put some pictures of information into a slide that I can present. Lots of other programs do this without requiring I type in archaic searches to find what I'm looking for because their software is so bloated and unintuitive that it would make someone like me switch just to get away from it's frustrations. I doubt I'm the only one. Your resorting to name calling shows that there is little substance to your argument so I can only assume I'm being trolled by yet another anonymous poster. But I still feel obligated to let people know that there are alternatives they may not be as flashy but they will let you get the job done and at the end of the day that's all I'm concerned about and I'm sure others out there feel the same way.
This was your problem then. You should know better than to migrate an office of people who are not familiar with a product if you too are not familiar with that product. No simpathy here. One can only hope you learned the appropriate lesson from that experience.
And your nothing but an anonymous troll who forgot his prozac. I don't think anyone was saying SO is better than any of the current Office product lines. I think they were just saying some parts of it are. As a whole I think the MSOffice suite is probably the best. At the same time however SO is fastly closing in. By not focussing in on such lameness as a paper clip to present help on the prodct or autocorrection that undos what I was trying to do everytime I do it. SO is just a simple office package that lets me get my work done and isn't so abstracted that one has trouble figuring out how to do anything productive. I wouldn't say this is for everyone. Some people are so obsessive that they can't put down a package until they understand what every menu item and every short cut key they can think of does. Power to them they will probably never switch from MSOffice. For me I just want to whip up reports do some spread sheet action and the occasional presentation. SO Works great for me. Your inability to except that shows a lack of understanding and life experience.
HP's OpenMail for your mail server. It provides most of the same functionality as Exchange at http://www.openmail.com/ this application is apparently being phased out or something but we use it and like it. For office type apps I would use StarOffice it really isn't that bad. Most everything else office wise should be easy to find as far as the utlities go. Also for webservices go LAMP Linux Apache MySQL PHP. The only caviate to this is if you don't know security you will be in the same boat as your NT solution. People always have these tendencies to configure things so they work and never look back. This means if it is something they have not used before the first time they configure it they will probably make the same mistakes as others leaving ther systems open to various attacks. The moral here don't convince everyone to jump ship before you really understand how to keep your network secure.
I'm being reminded now of why this thing sounded so familiar. People might also want to check out the Adams Perpetual motion machine. And other free energy sources from Austrailia. One might expect this from an island formerly a prison colloney. j/k but I think it raises some interesting questions like whats in the water down there. Cause this runs right along side the perpetual motion scams.
http://www.phact.org/e/dennis4.html
I think better comparason would be the old mod files where tiny pieces of the sound bites were used and repeated to product full length songs. I remember having quite a few that would fit on a single floppy. Then comes MP3 and the same speed racer song now takes 3 floppies. This is progress, how?
There are ways for isps to do this most don't anymore because it is to much of a butt whip to maintain. Call backs which some still use with isdn also work with modem type access and you could get a static ip on an isp for dialup however I'm sure they would charge you close to the cost of a burstable t-1. So it can be done it's just not very economical. and I guess if you worked for an ISP you could set this up fairly easily.
The only way this seems logical is by finding a way to describe the wave paterns in the video through a series of complex equations rather than packing pixels. I can't possibly imagine the horse power required to derive these equations. But it's the only way I can think of you could even come close to something like this. I don't think the horse power required to solve the equations and come up with a digital stream on the other end would be very taxing.
;-)
Or maybe he has found a way of taking pie to the extream and just finds where in pie the video stream is and sends the offsets.
For those who want to play with this I found the following in some notes I had taken long ago. I use it to add color and effects to shell programs I write but it works just as well with the shell prompt. I use a format similar to the poster above.
3 3[33m\w\033[34m]\033[0;1;32;40m # "
I'm not sure which is the "more correct" way to do it but mine seems to work fine where I use it.
PS1="\033[34;47;1m[\033[30m\t\033[34m] \033[34m[\033[31m\u\033[34m@\033[35m\h\033[34m:\0
0 All attributes off
1 Bold on
4 Underscore
5 Blink on
7 Reverse video on
8 Concealed on
30 Black
31 Red
32 Green
33 Yellow
34 Blue
35 Magenta
36 Cyan
37 White
40 Black
41 Red
42 Green
43 Yellow
44 Blue
45 Magenta
46 Cyan
47 White
This would be my take and I would only assume they are making this screen with the fewest changes possible to their current design. The most optimal color Display they could make would be like
r g b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g b
Which given their current monochrome model is 300DPI should yield ~100 DPI. Which I'm pretty sure would create a screen that based off the distance from the r to b would create some distortion in the image. Like streaching it 3 times it's normal width
So you want to tighten up the range of elements like so
r g b r g b r g
b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g
b r g b r g b
r g b r g b r g
b r g b r g b
This yields ~94DPI. Which leaves us with the following possible solution.
r g r g r g r g
b b b b
r g r g r g r g
b b b b
r g r g r g r g
b b b b
Which based off their 300DPI product should yield ~75DPI. Which should be optimal for viewing as everything lines up nicely.
I'm not an expert but this seems to be logical And it explains the less than 100 DPI resolution they have given.
The advatanges are small but enough for some of us to warrant picking one up. First it keeps track via guide data of show time changes alternate channels etc... You can season pass so you set it up to record a show and it records it if it comes on channels you didn't know you had. It's a dedicated box so you don't have to scrape up the hardware to build one specificly for it or worry that the app your in might mess up your video capture or the video capture running at a high priority will slow down the game your in.
Also the apps are already written to do the same for your desktop if you have a capture card.
The article is a bit on the flamy side to bad we can't mark them as such. Reading the faq supprisingly left me with a much different attitude than I went in with. It seems if you are using XP now you can use the XP bootloader in the same way people use the NT boot loader now. This setup should work for 64bit XP and 32Bit XP. If your using 32bit xp it looks like you have a few more options however as it plainly says it can read,write and boot from MBR disks. It doesn't look all that complicated after reading the faq which is pretty straight forward. My only concern is the GUID. While I can't quesion mob mentality I can question why someone didn't read this prior to posting the story as all questions seem to be answered there in black white and blue.
Or what about powering your ibm linux watch?
The article says the people who are involved with this admit they are a ways off so this is all what if hype. If they happen to hit a brick wall with this technology you probably won't see anything out of it but the concept and some of their research is interesting however.
I can't belive they get away with this stuff like it's the norm. Are there not any tech related consumer advocacy groups to go pound on washington when stuff like this comes to light? If there is where do I go to check them out for contributions.
I'm whacking at 250k/s from dfw on @home (shudder).
I wonder why India didn't come up with this technology first you would think a lot of them are already equipt with the appropriate dot.
I think peoples real worries are that someone will know how much they watch porn with the tivo. Which I can understand however if the data is anonymous then they aren't going to be able to link that data back to you they will just see that 80% of america uses their tivos to record porn.
:-)
The rest of that bracket has young childred in the home.
Given these statements this article sure tries to stir people up over something that I found clearly explained in my manual as well. Whats the deal with that being a front page slashdot story? They aren't selling my address for mailing lists which a lot of companies do without even telling you or letting you opt out of it (cough microsoft). So I don't see what the big deal it is.
I would expect to find this story on msnbc not cnn after all the ultimate TV is comming out. Of course gates is pretty ruthless so it is entirely possible he wrote the article and submitted it to cnn.com. There is your conspiracy theory, It's all gates' fault.
http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/fact sheet.html
Check the specs of the first one it did have wireless conectivity as well as IrDa.
One of the feature is a touch sensitive display at least on the first one.
a ct sheet.html
http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/f
It may not be a trol but it is pretty short sighted and judgemental. Slashdot to me has always been about the technology and what people are doing with it. These people may be "engineers" but to me they are artists. What they have done, while it may not currently be a usefull product still has great merit in the technical community. And now that I think of it not being able to see that for the 2 hour battery life probably does make it a troll post.
You don't really get it do you? This is a proof of concept it is the idea brought into fruition that with just a little inginuity can bring about something great.
Could you imagine as this is refined a wrist watch that you could us say maybe IBMs viavoice (after a few generations of upgrades). This system would be a client to a bluetooth network connecting over the internet to your machine at home for storage or to your online virtual space. Stored on this network could be address books, phone numbers, apointments, pictures (with color display, Ye haw checking pr0n from your wrist watch). Maybe eventualy the wristband can be made a large flexable gell cell battery, or a bunch of small dry cells fitted with links encased in rubber to prevent corosion or damage. Would you buy one then?
Granted with the current 2 hour battery life it may seem like its useless. But if you think about it did the wheel start off round?
If this sort of software didn't work on AOL why are they now trying to make it manatory on individual machines? So people will be forced to pay for software that doesn't work? I cannot belive the lawmakers of the state I live in are so lame. How do we find out which of our elected representatives supported this bill to this point. I think it is about time we started holding these egg heads accountable for their actions.
To me this whole concept seems like some hippie parade where nothing makes sense and up is down and left is right. Which if you look at it from a slightly different perspective you would see your standing backwards.