AmigaOS 5 (due when it comes out) is supposed to be platform agnostic. They're taking things one step at a time. First, port the OS to PPC, then make any changes necessary, then make it totally portable. It'll take some time, but that's the plan.
I don't think market is yet ready to support such a device (PVR manufacturers are having a hard enough job convicing consumers to purchase a PVR as it is).
Be that as it may, this is precisely the same reason that I haven't yet invested in a PVR. Until there is some sort of removable medium (other than crappy VHS), I'm just not interested. There are a number of shows that I'd love to archive onto DVD. As it stands, the only real usefulness of the PVR is to basically watch stuff when you want to until the shows get recorded over. Which is all wel and good and a feature that I would use as well. But the device has not yet attained its total usefulness. Trust me, when it does, I'm so there. But until then, I patiently wait.
But copyright and trademark are different animals. Copyright allies to a work and trademark applies to a trade name. I personally don't see a problem with the use of the Firebird moniker as the other Firebird company doesn't make a web browser. It seems to be the difference between naming a car Thunderbird and naming a lawn tractor or motorcycle Thunderbird. Sure, they all have wheels, but their purpose (in the case of the lawn tractor) or form factor (in the case of the motorcycle) are totally different. I also don't think there's any danger of people confusing the two products/companies/organizations. This also must be taken into account in these cases (IANAL).
The same thing will happen with Palm OS vs Windows CE and Linux for the handhelds. The miserly memory handling and power consumption features of Palm OS will not be needed in future devices, and modern operating system features will win out.
This is a mindset that escapes me. Efficiency should always be important. Take the Amiga for example. Even the new (real soon now) version of the OS will run in as little as five or so megabytes of RAM and as little hard drive space. Does the fact that RAM and hard drive space have come down to never matched low cost change this fact? No. Does it make it less important? Only if you don't value your resources. The same thing applies to Palm. That it is an efficient OS only gives it more room to expand its functionality more efficiently. Efficient is good. It will always be good (or should be).
I used to work at a place that had NetWare 4 on the server and the usual Windows (this was during the transistion from 3.1 to 95) on the desktop (I was running OS/2 on my machine, but hey, that's just me being me;). NetWare was the single most stable piece of software in the entire organization. If something did happen to go wrong with the servers, it wasn't exactly a cakewalk to fix, but it rarely happened. I've messed around with NetWare 5, but found it to be on the slow side. I have a two user copy of NW 6 sitting here with nothing to install it onto yet, but I'd like to get my hands dirty with it. It won't replace my Mandrake server, but it should at least be fun.
I'm actually quite amazed that your DVD remote can't be sent to the RC-2000. I'm running:
An old Magnavox VCR A new Hitachi VCR Sony 27" TV Sony DirecTV Playstation 2 (DVD features) and a Technics Receiver
all on the RC-2000 with all the functions intact with no problems. There's also an RF module that's (was?) available so that you could control non-IR components (home security, etc...).
They never OEMed the RC-2000 (or RC-2000 MKII). Marantz was the only brand of this remote you could get. Google it for the plethora of great reviews it got.
You'd think. However, think things through before you get one of those LCD things... Think. How often do you have to look down at your remote to use it now? Because when you get one of these, you'll have to look at it every time. Just something to consider.
And an IR power enhancer. As mentioned, the IR power of a Palm is anemic. OmniRemote makes a hardware doohicky that attaches to the Palm and increases the range of the Palm's IR beam. They also make customizible remote control software for the Palm.
The iPronto looks like a monster. For my money, my Marantz RC-2000 is the greatest remote control ever made. It is the only one that I've owned that has literally replaced ALL of my other remotes completely (it does every function that the others do). It has a lighted LCD display, but physical buttons so you don't have to frickin' look at the thing to use it. As I said - greatest remote ever made.
A recent study has shown that Bottle Nosed Dolphins are self aware as well (the first non-primate to be proven as such). So what. It doesn't in any way prove anything beyond higher functioning brains being - well - higher functioning. In no way does self awareness prove the existence of a "soul."
During the 60s/70s, the USSR did some experiments with people who rumour said had strong psychokinetic abilities (ESP)
The US government spent $20 million of our tax money on "remote viewers," too. The initial results were supposedly favorable. But, when they brought in a non-partisan third party to investigate the results, as one would expect, there was nothing to it. $20 million of our tax money for psychics. Sheesh.
Islam's most important mathmatical creation however, was zero. Until the Islamic world created it, there was no concept of zero. The Christian world even spurned the idea becuase it was contradictory to their religious beliefs. If it was possible that there was a concept of zero - of nothingness - than it was possible that there was a time with no God. There was a great book about it entitled: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife. I find it interesting, though that Islam eventually decended into the same ideological trap that Christianity has always been in.
First of all, time is not a man-made creation. We didn't create time, we merely measure it. If we were to stop measuring time, it would still pass. Objects would still travel through space, we would just have our heads in the sand about it.
As to God necessarily being uncreated and eternal. Why would one ascribe a necessary trait to one object and discount the possibility of that trait being (God) ascribed to another (the Universe). If it's possible for God to be eternal, why not a godless universe? If the Universe can have a beginning and end, why not a God?
A recent article in one of the gaming mags covered the woes of Sega recently. When Sega announced that they were abandoning the hardware business (boo) and training their sites on EA as the top third party game publisher, everyone thought this was a logical step. Who else could best EA? The catalog of games and sheer amount of astounding talent should have made them an instant contender for the top spot. It's been, what, three years now, and it hasn't happened. Sega has had financial problems and hasn't really challenged EA in any real respect (with the possible exception of the 2Kx sports series - which is phenominal, though I don't have sales figures). One of the key points that the article rasied as a misstep for Sega was making exclusive deals with Microsoft for certain high profile titles for the X-Box. Sales of the X-Box have been lackluster in the US, worse in Europe and nigh non-existent in Japan. This lack of hardware penetration has severely limited the sale of the X-Box exclusive Sega games. Now there are rumors that Microsoft is looking to buy Sega (PLEASE don't let that happen!). So the exclusive deals may turn out to be a win-win for Microsoft and a lose-lose for Sega and the gaming community.
I took the liberty of doing a quick and dirty (fifteen minutes) retouch of the original picture (the one WITH the kid). This should show how incredibly bad the original retouch was.
The one with the kid is the original. It is most likely an Isreali tank in the West Bank somewhere. Back to the picture. If you pull up one picture in an image viewer (ACDsee or something that can switch images quickly), it's obvious that the area where the boy was has been seriously manipulated (and rather poorly at that). The lines on the tank no longer match and if you look where the kid was up and to the left just a touch, you can see the light housing element has had a portion of it duplicated a little off to its right. There's also a box of some kind missing along the bottom edge of the tank where the kid's arm was. A bush also magically disappears in front of the building near the kid's waist in and a row of windows replaces it. Overall an incredibly bad Photoshop job.
However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenate Internet-company investments."
It's this kind of thinking that caused the debacle the last time. A successful IPO for Google would be a good thing for Google (more specifically, its owners). That's it. They wouldn't drag any other tech companies along with them. Those times are gone.
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Very unique is an oxymoron. By definition, if something is unique, it is one of a kind. Something cannot be "very" one of a kind.
Be that as it may, this is precisely the same reason that I haven't yet invested in a PVR. Until there is some sort of removable medium (other than crappy VHS), I'm just not interested. There are a number of shows that I'd love to archive onto DVD. As it stands, the only real usefulness of the PVR is to basically watch stuff when you want to until the shows get recorded over. Which is all wel and good and a feature that I would use as well. But the device has not yet attained its total usefulness. Trust me, when it does, I'm so there. But until then, I patiently wait.
Uh, Firebird is the browser component and Thunderbird is the e-mail.
Maybe they should change the name of Phoenix to Windows. :) Didn't Microsoft just lose a suiit based on the idea that Windows is a generic term?
This is a mindset that escapes me. Efficiency should always be important. Take the Amiga for example. Even the new (real soon now) version of the OS will run in as little as five or so megabytes of RAM and as little hard drive space. Does the fact that RAM and hard drive space have come down to never matched low cost change this fact? No. Does it make it less important? Only if you don't value your resources. The same thing applies to Palm. That it is an efficient OS only gives it more room to expand its functionality more efficiently. Efficient is good. It will always be good (or should be).
An old Magnavox VCR
A new Hitachi VCR
Sony 27" TV
Sony DirecTV
Playstation 2 (DVD features)
and a Technics Receiver
all on the RC-2000 with all the functions intact with no problems. There's also an RF module that's (was?) available so that you could control non-IR components (home security, etc...).
They never OEMed the RC-2000 (or RC-2000 MKII). Marantz was the only brand of this remote you could get. Google it for the plethora of great reviews it got.
A recent study has shown that Bottle Nosed Dolphins are self aware as well (the first non-primate to be proven as such). So what. It doesn't in any way prove anything beyond higher functioning brains being - well - higher functioning. In no way does self awareness prove the existence of a "soul."
During the 60s/70s, the USSR did some experiments with people who rumour said had strong psychokinetic abilities (ESP)
The US government spent $20 million of our tax money on "remote viewers," too. The initial results were supposedly favorable. But, when they brought in a non-partisan third party to investigate the results, as one would expect, there was nothing to it. $20 million of our tax money for psychics. Sheesh.
Islam's most important mathmatical creation however, was zero. Until the Islamic world created it, there was no concept of zero. The Christian world even spurned the idea becuase it was contradictory to their religious beliefs. If it was possible that there was a concept of zero - of nothingness - than it was possible that there was a time with no God. There was a great book about it entitled: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife. I find it interesting, though that Islam eventually decended into the same ideological trap that Christianity has always been in.
First of all, time is not a man-made creation. We didn't create time, we merely measure it. If we were to stop measuring time, it would still pass. Objects would still travel through space, we would just have our heads in the sand about it.
As to God necessarily being uncreated and eternal. Why would one ascribe a necessary trait to one object and discount the possibility of that trait being (God) ascribed to another (the Universe). If it's possible for God to be eternal, why not a godless universe? If the Universe can have a beginning and end, why not a God?
A recent article in one of the gaming mags covered the woes of Sega recently. When Sega announced that they were abandoning the hardware business (boo) and training their sites on EA as the top third party game publisher, everyone thought this was a logical step. Who else could best EA? The catalog of games and sheer amount of astounding talent should have made them an instant contender for the top spot. It's been, what, three years now, and it hasn't happened. Sega has had financial problems and hasn't really challenged EA in any real respect (with the possible exception of the 2Kx sports series - which is phenominal, though I don't have sales figures). One of the key points that the article rasied as a misstep for Sega was making exclusive deals with Microsoft for certain high profile titles for the X-Box. Sales of the X-Box have been lackluster in the US, worse in Europe and nigh non-existent in Japan. This lack of hardware penetration has severely limited the sale of the X-Box exclusive Sega games. Now there are rumors that Microsoft is looking to buy Sega (PLEASE don't let that happen!). So the exclusive deals may turn out to be a win-win for Microsoft and a lose-lose for Sega and the gaming community.
And Quicktime 6 (which uses an MPEG4 codec) is even better.
I took the liberty of doing a quick and dirty (fifteen minutes) retouch of the original picture (the one WITH the kid). This should show how incredibly bad the original retouch was.
Retouched Tank
The one with the kid is the original. It is most likely an Isreali tank in the West Bank somewhere. Back to the picture. If you pull up one picture in an image viewer (ACDsee or something that can switch images quickly), it's obvious that the area where the boy was has been seriously manipulated (and rather poorly at that). The lines on the tank no longer match and if you look where the kid was up and to the left just a touch, you can see the light housing element has had a portion of it duplicated a little off to its right. There's also a box of some kind missing along the bottom edge of the tank where the kid's arm was. A bush also magically disappears in front of the building near the kid's waist in and a row of windows replaces it. Overall an incredibly bad Photoshop job.
Smudge tool? Get with the program. The Healing Brush is downright magic.
...you'll notice that a vast majority of that $1000.00 price tag on the laptop IS the LCD.
However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenate Internet-company investments."
It's this kind of thinking that caused the debacle the last time. A successful IPO for Google would be a good thing for Google (more specifically, its owners). That's it. They wouldn't drag any other tech companies along with them. Those times are gone.