having to input all my phone numbers into a new cell phone *sucks*.
The Ericsson T39 bluetooth enabled cellphone uses the vCard standard to sync its phone number list with an external device. In theory it could Sync its phonebook with the PC anytime you walked into the same room as your PC.
Linux needs more GUI innovation. We should not try to be a windows work-alike. That would be a mistake.
I see the basis of change happening in a replacement for X windows. A new graphical layer that makes it easy to create a whole new paradigm of graphical computing. The idea that a screen is equal to a hardwood desktop and applications are pieces of paper that are shuffed around the desktop worked well. Linux can be the foundation for a whole new paradigm. Hopefully something that is always in '3d' mode. Something where visual programming is always part of the UI. UIs have always needed a visual scripting language. I think even 'novices' and 'daily users' will be greatly stimulated and entertained by making small functional changes to their apps as they use them.
At the same time, we need to get behind a distributed object system. You gave some great examples like CORBA and XML RPC. Add to this the 'mobile code' idea. A virtual machine - hopefully Parrot will fill this gap. Then a framework or at least coding standards for distributed objects, like EJB. Then service discovery, like JINI. God, Java does so many things right:).
I think this is where.net is going, a VM with a standard for object interfaces plus SOAP calls. I think its where Linux needs to go, too.
We need a framework for distributed code. There are many systems out there. It would be great if the open source community could get behind one standard. Java does so many things right. We need an open source virtual machine - maybe Parrot will fill this need - plus a distributed object model - like EJBs - with service discovery - like JINI. Components that can move and replicate from VM to VM like a virus. Intelligent Agents. Id love to see more of that stuff.
This is a testament to the fact that chess is a poor challenge to the intellect. If a solution can be brute-forced, then it is not as artistic and creative as it could be. In fact I see the measure of the uselessness of a computer assistant as the litmus test for a great game.
I suggest changing to a game like 'go' where it is very hard to simulate with a computer.
The value of a $20 bill is..... nothing, in once sence. Its value is what you can buy with it. Did you know that in one year that $20 bill will be able to buy $19.40 worth of stuff, assuming 3% inflation?
I agree - price is everything!! Someone like UWB could come in and obsolete the entire 802.11 market by making a PCMCIA USB card that retails for $30. Its the price that is currently killing bluetooth. If there were a bluetooth-on-a-chip system today for $10 each and palmV sleds or CF cards for $40/each, everyone would suddenly be enjoying their bluetooth powered PDAs.
The throughput of bluetooth is about 768kilobits/second. I agree that number should show up in more articles. On the other hand, not mentioning bluetooth's speed does not mean it is inadequate. 768kbits/sec is faster than my DSL line which feeds my 384MB 433MHz Celeron with a 6GB drive. I believe the speed is more than adequate for a 200MHz ARM with 64MB of ram, or a 33MHz dragonball.
Ultima IX is the most immersive and entertaining outdoor world I have ever played in. For at least half a year PC Gamer wet its pants over the graphic detail and in the end thats what we got - a visually stunning game. Ultima IX was the greatest game that never was. It deserved to come back from the ashes of its initial bad press. I would love to see an Ultima X done in the same style of game world. The story itself is pretty much talk to person A, throw switch B, find item C, repeat. but the world itself is unforgettable. Go up to any of the peaks of Brittain and take a look around - it feels real because every inch of world has been well designed and nothing is off limits.
gemplus.com, a leading smartcard manufacturer, has some good info on smartcard technology.
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hmm. "low-range radio" transmitter/receiver pairs in a PDA. now what existing technology might replace their custom hardware?
Seriously, I think there is an interesting new genre of games that integrate PDAs and real world locations and/or real world people. Its nice to see others working in this direction.
the c language is being efficient when the for loop that copys the input buffer into ram is not checking for an end of buffer condition. if you want that done automatically, use a home-brew memcpy or use a different language with bounds-checking like java.
hahahaha. so true. GPS can easily give wild readings when there is signal loss. I was shocked to see that the gps speeding system seemed to be automatically linked to his checking account because the funds had been withdrawn before he even reached his destination! I can see the safty reasons for tracking speed - the result should be a warning to the driver and a record of the speeding in the customer record. The result would be something along the lines of making the next rental more expensive.
A lot of confusion would be avioded by adding the word 'mailing' in front of the word 'list'. After about 5 minutes of reading the comments, it became clear that the 'domain policy list' is not some high-order DNS server configuration file or even a roster of a Verisign board of directors or some such.
Ultima 9 is the most misrepresented game in history. It is also the most entertaining game I have ever played. The Ultima 9 world is the most immersive, the most free-form, and the most beautiful game world I have ever played.
The initial poor reception of U9 got the game thrown out of the gaming community's consciousness. How many games have been in development for years just to end up as PC Gamer's flavor of the month one month and forgotten about the next month. If you love a beautiful RPG with a real story, then give U9 a try.
Who is making today's adveture games and story-based RPGs that aspire to be more than a "Quake plus inventory"? I am excited that RG is going back to doing what keeps school students away from their homework - making original games!
haha! so many tools, so little creativity sums up how ive been feeling about games for the last year. I'd like to bring back something along the lines C-Robots. Using a small easy to learn lanugage to interact with scripts written by others.
If this is a calendar and address book standards format - the PC needs this as well! I cannot merge my calendar entries with say outlook and yahoo's calendar.
This will have a huge impact on PIM managers, email clients, and calendaring software on PCs as well as handhelds.
When will Bonobo start advertising the real power of distributed components? Haveing Gnumeric be a generic applitation container changes the nature of the application - from spreadsheet to 'application environment'!
I believe that the Gnu Object Modeling Environment has not lived up to its name thus far. An application that is as pervasive as the window manager, if not the WM itself, should keep all applications in containers like gnumeric and promote the persistence, versioning, and serialization features of CORBA.
I think you've hit on something with the upload/download of non-mp3 files.
I love the idea of this stick/pen/cigar being a General Purpose Computer that happens to be able to playback music. This would make a convient floppy disk replacement.
If it had IrDA or some sort of radio link, it could also be used as a good door key or other security application!
I spend a lot of time listening to streaming audio. Now that I have DSL I can turn off broadcast radio forever - yea! In my own casual use I find the real audio client built into spinner.com's listener to be superb. It hardly ever gets net congested and the reproduction quality is great. Especially in the bass tones. I belive that 56k MP3s are of far worse quality and Windows Media player is a close second.
Now as far as video stream with audio, the windows media player always performs the best for me. Check out www.sagabegins.com to hear a great Weird Al video in 3 different formats. WMP beats them all hands down.
I believe that the adoption of the WMP will be a blow to free OSes. Im not sure if it is even worthwhile for a free software group to try to make a free WMP. I imagine that microsoft will repeatedly change the format rapidly enough that no one but microsoft can keep up with the changes.
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The Ericsson T39 bluetooth enabled cellphone uses the vCard standard to sync its phone number list with an external device. In theory it could Sync its phonebook with the PC anytime you walked into the same room as your PC.
The iPaq is alread doing this with the Ericsson T39 bluetooth enabled phone. I think PDA/Laptop link to a GPRS phone will be bluetooth's killer app.
Linux needs more GUI innovation. We should not try to be a windows work-alike. That would be a mistake.
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.net is going, a VM with a standard for object interfaces plus SOAP calls. I think its where Linux needs to go, too.
I see the basis of change happening in a replacement for X windows. A new graphical layer that makes it easy to create a whole new paradigm of graphical computing. The idea that a screen is equal to a hardwood desktop and applications are pieces of paper that are shuffed around the desktop worked well. Linux can be the foundation for a whole new paradigm. Hopefully something that is always in '3d' mode. Something where visual programming is always part of the UI. UIs have always needed a visual scripting language. I think even 'novices' and 'daily users' will be greatly stimulated and entertained by making small functional changes to their apps as they use them.
At the same time, we need to get behind a distributed object system. You gave some great examples like CORBA and XML RPC. Add to this the 'mobile code' idea. A virtual machine - hopefully Parrot will fill this gap. Then a framework or at least coding standards for distributed objects, like EJB. Then service discovery, like JINI. God, Java does so many things right
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We need a framework for distributed code. There are many systems out there. It would be great if the open source community could get behind one standard. Java does so many things right. We need an open source virtual machine - maybe Parrot will fill this need - plus a distributed object model - like EJBs - with service discovery - like JINI. Components that can move and replicate from VM to VM like a virus. Intelligent Agents. Id love to see more of that stuff.
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A new auction site that caters to MMORPG players is nearing completion. Check it out to be the first users and get freebies!
This is a testament to the fact that chess is a poor challenge to the intellect. If a solution can be brute-forced, then it is not as artistic and creative as it could be. In fact I see the measure of the uselessness of a computer assistant as the litmus test for a great game.
I suggest changing to a game like 'go' where it is very hard to simulate with a computer.
The value of a $20 bill is ..... nothing, in once sence. Its value is what you can buy with it. Did you know that in one year that $20 bill will be able to buy $19.40 worth of stuff, assuming 3% inflation?
I agree - price is everything!! Someone like UWB could come in and obsolete the entire 802.11 market by making a PCMCIA USB card that retails for $30. Its the price that is currently killing bluetooth. If there were a bluetooth-on-a-chip system today for $10 each and palmV sleds or CF cards for $40/each, everyone would suddenly be enjoying their bluetooth powered PDAs.
The throughput of bluetooth is about 768kilobits/second. I agree that number should show up in more articles. On the other hand, not mentioning bluetooth's speed does not mean it is inadequate. 768kbits/sec is faster than my DSL line which feeds my 384MB 433MHz Celeron with a 6GB drive. I believe the speed is more than adequate for a 200MHz ARM with 64MB of ram, or a 33MHz dragonball.
linux has had ipv6 for a long time. Microsoft has an add-on for windows 2000 here and it comes standard with Windows XP.
having support from linux and win2k/xp means its pretty well supported.
Ultima IX is the most immersive and entertaining outdoor world I have ever played in. For at least half a year PC Gamer wet its pants over the graphic detail and in the end thats what we got - a visually stunning game. Ultima IX was the greatest game that never was. It deserved to come back from the ashes of its initial bad press. I would love to see an Ultima X done in the same style of game world. The story itself is pretty much talk to person A, throw switch B, find item C, repeat. but the world itself is unforgettable. Go up to any of the peaks of Brittain and take a look around - it feels real because every inch of world has been well designed and nothing is off limits.
gemplus.com, a leading smartcard manufacturer, has some good info on smartcard technology.
hmm. "low-range radio" transmitter/receiver pairs in a PDA. now what existing technology might replace their custom hardware?
Seriously, I think there is an interesting new genre of games that integrate PDAs and real world locations and/or real world people. Its nice to see others working in this direction.
the c language is being efficient when the for loop that copys the input buffer into ram is not checking for an end of buffer condition. if you want that done automatically, use a home-brew memcpy or use a different language with bounds-checking like java.
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hahahaha. so true. GPS can easily give wild readings when there is signal loss. I was shocked to see that the gps speeding system seemed to be automatically linked to his checking account because the funds had been withdrawn before he even reached his destination! I can see the safty reasons for tracking speed - the result should be a warning to the driver and a record of the speeding in the customer record. The result would be something along the lines of making the next rental more expensive.
A lot of confusion would be avioded by adding the word 'mailing' in front of the word 'list'. After about 5 minutes of reading the comments, it became clear that the 'domain policy list' is not some high-order DNS server configuration file or even a roster of a Verisign board of directors or some such.
Ultima 9 is the most misrepresented game in history. It is also the most entertaining game I have ever played. The Ultima 9 world is the most immersive, the most free-form, and the most beautiful game world I have ever played.
The initial poor reception of U9 got the game thrown out of the gaming community's consciousness. How many games have been in development for years just to end up as PC Gamer's flavor of the month one month and forgotten about the next month. If you love a beautiful RPG with a real story, then give U9 a try.
Who is making today's adveture games and story-based RPGs that aspire to be more than a "Quake plus inventory"? I am excited that RG is going back to doing what keeps school students away from their homework - making original games!
Don
haha! so many tools, so little creativity sums up how ive been feeling about games for the last year. I'd like to bring back something along the lines C-Robots. Using a small easy to learn lanugage to interact with scripts written by others.
> I can't afford data loss like that.
Dont walk, RUN to the nearest computer store. Buy a CDROM burner and BACKUP your data right now!
If this is a calendar and address book standards format - the PC needs this as well! I cannot merge my calendar entries with say outlook and yahoo's calendar.
This will have a huge impact on PIM managers, email clients, and calendaring software on PCs as well as handhelds.
AMEN! Yes this is RPC in Text Format. CORBA in an XML file. JavaBeans via HTTP. Yet another attempt at Enterprise Data Interchange.
This could be simple enough to actually work. then again it could be glossing over the issues of reliability and security.
The benefits of a distributed object system are immense. Here we go again! Its worth it!
When will Bonobo start advertising the real power of distributed components? Haveing Gnumeric be a generic applitation container changes the nature of the application - from spreadsheet to 'application environment'!
I believe that the Gnu Object Modeling Environment has not lived up to its name thus far. An application that is as pervasive as the window manager, if not the WM itself, should keep all applications in containers like gnumeric and promote the persistence, versioning, and serialization features of CORBA.
Don
I think you've hit on something with the upload/download of non-mp3 files.
I love the idea of this stick/pen/cigar being a General Purpose Computer that happens to be able to playback music. This would make a convient floppy disk replacement.
If it had IrDA or some sort of radio link, it could also be used as a good door key or other security application!
I spend a lot of time listening to streaming audio. Now that I have DSL I can turn off broadcast radio forever - yea! In my own casual use I find the real audio client built into spinner.com's listener to be superb. It hardly ever gets net congested and the reproduction quality is great. Especially in the bass tones. I belive that 56k MP3s are of far worse quality and Windows Media player is a close second.
Now as far as video stream with audio, the windows media player always performs the best for me. Check out www.sagabegins.com to hear a great Weird Al video in 3 different formats. WMP beats them all hands down.
I believe that the adoption of the WMP will be a blow to free OSes. Im not sure if it is even worthwhile for a free software group to try to make a free WMP. I imagine that microsoft will repeatedly change the format rapidly enough that no one but microsoft can keep up with the changes.