I would suggest to create the software using a preferably a stateless domain and connect any relying system using a service/adapter. this way your application would still functoning even when loosing a certain service. You can loosely couple your dependencies... This is often called a Domain centered architecture or as Alistair Cockburn calls it: url:http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/articles/h paaa/hexagonalportsandadaptersarchitecture.htm We use it for almost all the software we create, instead of the more traditional tiered architecture.
They can't make pens! Else their PSP would have had a touchscreen like the DS or they would have had a VAIO Tablet PC. Even the little pen in the Clie is of a pathetic quality...
1. Sony VAIO TR notebook
3 batteries and the adaptor 2. Sony PSP
in a Logitech PlayGear 3. Sony Clie NX73 4. Sony VAIO Pocket MP3 player
with MDR-EX71SL earphone 5. Sony photocamera P10 (with extra lenses) or DV camera PC330... depends on what day 6. Bunch of Memorysticks (Pro/Duo) totalling over 4gb 7. Lamy Tri-pen and IT-pen 8. Sony-Ericsson K700i mobile phone 9. Wacom CTE-630 10. USB cable and a network cable 11. 2.5" portable harddisk 120gb 12. Sony Microvault with MS-reader (USB flash) 13. books:
Dilbert: the Joy of Work
Course in Contemporary Chinese (Mandarin)
and an o'Reilly book 14. Victorinox Swisslite 15. Bluetooth headset, SE Akono HBH-600
months... even longer; almost a full year ago. ok, it looks nice. but it does not have any practical use. i tried it once and it is really not useful at all. especially not when you use a laptop for instance or when you watch a webcam stream. since the window becomes a texture of a surface... for me it never updated the image anymore. or when it did, it really messed up. but hey, perhaps by now it would work better? whatever!
this is almost as making the mobile phone keyboard the standard:S. why not the frog usb keyboards?!? why not the blah bla... settle with qwerty or dvorak; we dont need another keyboard layout!
Too bad, since they have a REALLY good search engine on http://mysearch.yahoo.com/ . It is still a beta, but for quite some time have also have a slim down http://search.yahoo.com/ which also works with the googlepreview extensions for firefox. and no, they don't use the google databases anymore, since Yahoo! also owns Overture and AllTheWeb.
YDS has a very clean interface with a nice large preview pane, something i disliked in Copernic (small and cluttered at the bottom). Although, I don't think it is the best... it has no specification of which files to index and where from?! i can't specify the directories and probably it also always index Outlook and Outlook Express??? I don't use it.
On un*x/linux (mono) I like Beagle very much... it can become VERY promising.
nothing to say more. subject says enough. Miranda doesnt support each services webcam support. i used the beta of trillian and could open yahoo's webcam and msn... although quality was a little more worse than usual, it DID work!
Without deadlines there would be no usable world. Imagine yourself at the gate of an airplane using a 'open flight' model. NO thank you! i see myself endlessly waiting for it to leave. see it as a goal... and it is also a good thing to push the Mozilla implementation a little more.
-- EasyJet, the pioneers of the 'open flight' model
install the 6.0 beta 1 and copy the files in the progra~1/common files/adobe viewer 6/plugins/np* to your firefox plugins directory. it works for me, but you can't open all the test files on http://www.croczilla.com/ since most of the uses the mozilla.org implementation:S (like for xbl and xul bindings).
You need to recompile Firefox yourself or download the older 0.8 release from Mozilla.org which has SVG enabled.
http://mozilla.org/projects/svg/
another solution is to install svgview from adobe, like the 6.0 beta 1 and coppy the plugin files found in/progra~1/common files/adobe/adobe viewer 6/plugins/np* to the plugins dir from firefox (ofcourse only on windows).
if you want to use the mozilla implementation of SVG, recompile is the only solution for now. is there someone out there who would be willing to create this so-called 'patch'?
Manticore already exists for some time and it is also what they call Open Hardware. If they could work together, this could result into a good implementation for a Linux/Un*x hardware design.
and you can even use several pencils/pens with the same tablet and give each of them a seperate color! i haven't seen any else do this... WACOM is just above the rest. (Oh yeah, they also created the TabletPC in cooperation with Microsoft. But they call it Penabled)
Try a Wacom Graphire 3 with mouse... first of all you have a real drawing tablet which is pressure sensitive... and you have a mouse with NO optical! all is done by the Tablet itself and you can even make it work with the Tablet PC version of Windows XP when you install the Penabled drivers. Hurrah!
> PocketPCs are more versatile. I know this and don't even own one.
I can surely hear from you you don't own one. I have several Clié's from Sony (NX73, NX80 and a UX50) and I still find it MUCH better than those from HP, like the iPAQ.
my boss bought a iPAQ 6340 GSM and it is awful. You can't even play sound and do other things... when you put it in your pocket, you can accidently press buttons. The Sony at least have a hold button for this. Even the sound qaulity is much more superior.
In the first week of testing my bosses PDA, i had it crash/freeze up at least three times. The only solution was a hard reset with loss of all data. I have never really experienced that with a Palm. When there was something wrong... resync it using hotsync, pair it with a former username and all data is restored.
even before my Palm's, i owned a WindowsCE powered Jornada. So I know what is available. Never any PocketPC for me! Perhaps a Symbian powered one?:P if Sony will make it, it is fine with me...
the advantage is still there, teh PSP is supposed to be easier to program now (better toolset) according to the claims made in the former press releases.
also, the manufacturing of the UMD is almost similar to the process of making DVD.
and it still provides features next to that, use it next to your PS2 (probably using the USB interface) and the integration of wireless lan (wifi).
Tapwave is not going to make it against Sony and Nintendo.
Especially not since they hardly have any special features on the device... all of it my Clie's also can do (UX50 and NX73). what is so special about it??? it is just a PDA with a specialized software and some of the worst analog controllers. On the test device I had seen, it was already broken. Ok ok, there is supposed to be some kind of special GPU (ATI) in there which is only used in games like Spyhunter.
Second, they don't have the backing of big entertainment companies (the only big company is EA to my knowledge). The rest of the games are standard Palm-based games. Ok, you get StuntCar Extreme for free.
Third, the Zodiac is still not available on the european market? Ok, they just landed in the UK... but that doesnt mean it is sold in Germany or France.
No, I still place my bet on the Sony PlayStation Portable. If you take a good look at the screenshots of the running games and the movies of it... you haveto admit it: it looks awesome. but (high) quality comes with a high price.
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I would suggest to create the software using a preferably a stateless domain and connect any relying system using a service/adapter. this way your application would still functoning even when loosing a certain service. You can loosely couple your dependencies... This is often called a Domain centered architecture or as Alistair Cockburn calls it: url:http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/articles/h paaa/hexagonalportsandadaptersarchitecture.htm We use it for almost all the software we create, instead of the more traditional tiered architecture.
They can't make pens! Else their PSP would have had a touchscreen like the DS or they would have had a VAIO Tablet PC. Even the little pen in the Clie is of a pathetic quality...
1. Sony VAIO TR notebook
3 batteries and the adaptor
2. Sony PSP
in a Logitech PlayGear
3. Sony Clie NX73
4. Sony VAIO Pocket MP3 player
with MDR-EX71SL earphone
5. Sony photocamera P10 (with extra lenses) or DV camera PC330... depends on what day
6. Bunch of Memorysticks (Pro/Duo) totalling over 4gb
7. Lamy Tri-pen and IT-pen
8. Sony-Ericsson K700i mobile phone
9. Wacom CTE-630
10. USB cable and a network cable
11. 2.5" portable harddisk 120gb
12. Sony Microvault with MS-reader (USB flash)
13. books:
Dilbert: the Joy of Work
Course in Contemporary Chinese (Mandarin)
and an o'Reilly book
14. Victorinox Swisslite
15. Bluetooth headset, SE Akono HBH-600
See Wikinews for the latest information...
it is also confirmed to be 7 bombs
months... even longer; almost a full year ago. ok, it looks nice. but it does not have any practical use. i tried it once and it is really not useful at all. especially not when you use a laptop for instance or when you watch a webcam stream. since the window becomes a texture of a surface... for me it never updated the image anymore. or when it did, it really messed up. but hey, perhaps by now it would work better? whatever!
Dvorak should be the standard!
:S. why not the frog usb keyboards?!? why not the blah bla... settle with qwerty or dvorak; we dont need another keyboard layout!
this is almost as making the mobile phone keyboard the standard
Too bad, since they have a REALLY good search engine on http://mysearch.yahoo.com/ . It is still a beta, but for quite some time have also have a slim down http://search.yahoo.com/ which also works with the googlepreview extensions for firefox. and no, they don't use the google databases anymore, since Yahoo! also owns Overture and AllTheWeb.
It does have directory specification:
Tools -> Options -> Indexing -> Files -> More Indexing Options
YDS has a very clean interface with a nice large preview pane, something i disliked in Copernic (small and cluttered at the bottom). Although, I don't think it is the best... it has no specification of which files to index and where from?! i can't specify the directories and probably it also always index Outlook and Outlook Express??? I don't use it.
On un*x/linux (mono) I like Beagle very much... it can become VERY promising.
nothing to say more. subject says enough. Miranda doesnt support each services webcam support. i used the beta of trillian and could open yahoo's webcam and msn... although quality was a little more worse than usual, it DID work!
and the graph shows: WinNT has the slowest reboot performance :P
Without deadlines there would be no usable world. Imagine yourself at the gate of an airplane using a 'open flight' model. NO thank you! i see myself endlessly waiting for it to leave. see it as a goal... and it is also a good thing to push the Mozilla implementation a little more.
--
EasyJet, the pioneers of the 'open flight' model
install the 6.0 beta 1 and copy the files in the progra~1/common files/adobe viewer 6/plugins/np* to your firefox plugins directory. it works for me, but you can't open all the test files on http://www.croczilla.com/ since most of the uses the mozilla.org implementation :S (like for xbl and xul bindings).
You need to recompile Firefox yourself or download the older 0.8 release from Mozilla.org which has SVG enabled.
/progra~1/common files/adobe/adobe viewer 6/plugins/np* to the plugins dir from firefox (ofcourse only on windows).
http://mozilla.org/projects/svg/
another solution is to install svgview from adobe, like the 6.0 beta 1 and coppy the plugin files found in
if you want to use the mozilla implementation of SVG, recompile is the only solution for now. is there someone out there who would be willing to create this so-called 'patch'?
What is different from the information provided here, then the one from the weather channel (weather.com)???
http://www.icculus.org/manticore/
Manticore already exists for some time and it is also what they call Open Hardware. If they could work together, this could result into a good implementation for a Linux/Un*x hardware design.
and you can even use several pencils/pens with the same tablet and give each of them a seperate color! i haven't seen any else do this... WACOM is just above the rest. (Oh yeah, they also created the TabletPC in cooperation with Microsoft. But they call it Penabled)
Try a Wacom Graphire 3 with mouse... first of all you have a real drawing tablet which is pressure sensitive... and you have a mouse with NO optical! all is done by the Tablet itself and you can even make it work with the Tablet PC version of Windows XP when you install the Penabled drivers. Hurrah!
when you can't do it for real, emulate it :P
how else can you really emulate SMB... it probably means you aslo need to run Wine; how else can a WinPE executable affect linux ;)...
firmly with DON'T try!
> PocketPCs are more versatile. I know this and don't even own one.
:P if Sony will make it, it is fine with me...
I can surely hear from you you don't own one. I have several Clié's from Sony (NX73, NX80 and a UX50) and I still find it MUCH better than those from HP, like the iPAQ.
my boss bought a iPAQ 6340 GSM and it is awful. You can't even play sound and do other things... when you put it in your pocket, you can accidently press buttons. The Sony at least have a hold button for this. Even the sound qaulity is much more superior.
In the first week of testing my bosses PDA, i had it crash/freeze up at least three times. The only solution was a hard reset with loss of all data. I have never really experienced that with a Palm. When there was something wrong... resync it using hotsync, pair it with a former username and all data is restored.
even before my Palm's, i owned a WindowsCE powered Jornada. So I know what is available. Never any PocketPC for me! Perhaps a Symbian powered one?
the advantage is still there, teh PSP is supposed to be easier to program now (better toolset) according to the claims made in the former press releases.
also, the manufacturing of the UMD is almost similar to the process of making DVD.
and it still provides features next to that, use it next to your PS2 (probably using the USB interface) and the integration of wireless lan (wifi).
They mean as competition to the new Gameboy DS... not the SP, since that one can't even compete with the features the PSP provides?!
Tapwave is not going to make it against Sony and Nintendo.
Especially not since they hardly have any special features on the device... all of it my Clie's also can do (UX50 and NX73). what is so special about it??? it is just a PDA with a specialized software and some of the worst analog controllers. On the test device I had seen, it was already broken. Ok ok, there is supposed to be some kind of special GPU (ATI) in there which is only used in games like Spyhunter.
Second, they don't have the backing of big entertainment companies (the only big company is EA to my knowledge). The rest of the games are standard Palm-based games. Ok, you get StuntCar Extreme for free.
Third, the Zodiac is still not available on the european market? Ok, they just landed in the UK... but that doesnt mean it is sold in Germany or France.
No, I still place my bet on the Sony PlayStation Portable. If you take a good look at the screenshots of the running games and the movies of it... you haveto admit it: it looks awesome. but (high) quality comes with a high price.