The Navy might start considering my 22 ft wooden hull ZODIAC to be a "serious ship" if I could only mount a 64-megajoule Electro-Magnetic Rail Gun on it (with some decent bats, of course)!
I hear what you're saying, esconsult1, in that the top-of-the-range GPUs are capable of hoovering up the most demanding apps and games at ridiculous resolutions and so product announcements such as this are neither groundbreaking nor exciting.
In terms of the progression of GPU technology as a whole, however, I for one shall be acquiring a new 'multimedia' laptop in about six months and I need a fairly high spec graphics card that will, for example, support game play of the latest titles but (1) will not drain my bat within 30 seconds and (2) won't blow my budget. I'll probably get a 17" 'desktop replacement' style unit since it won't actually be 'mobile' that often. But the majority of mobile users will be after more convenient notebooks and slick looking ultra-portables. It's the emergence of high-spec, low-cost and low-power consumption GPU's capable of running demanding apps, but which also fit into increasingly confined mobile units, that is beginning to allow CAD designers and other graphics power users to use a laptop as a complete substitute for their desktop *beast*, w/out suffering any significant compromise in GPU performance.
The GPU power consumption and power management issues mentioned above may not be very important for the desktop and permanently plugged in user, but for frequently mobile users this is a pretty big issue. What remains is for the designers to improve the internal cooling for CPUs and GPUs, as chip power increases. Finally, with the advent of SSD drive technology (when they begin offering a half decent capacity SSD for under $300), with the reductions in HD power consumption and noise and increase in performance that SSDs promise, *power* mobile computing with 4-5 hour bat life will truly have arrived and I for one intend to be out and about considerably more than I'm able to at present!
Look on the bright side: in 2020 slashdot's DNA detector will scan all would-be posters and automatically discriminate against subjects possessing the Troll Gene(TM) and the evolution-defying 'Sh*t For Brains' condition. Elitist? Yes. Popular? Definitely.
Mind you, I for one'll need to undertake some wide-scale homologous recombos beteen now an then...
Being UK based I remember last year I got all excited about some obscure MP3's I found on the amazon.com download section - and then spotted the little (Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers.) disclaimer. D'oh!
I guess it won't be there much longer...
That's what I was after. Unfortunately, as suspected, it looks like it's currently a one-horse race for the truly enterprise collab app stack on Linux, though you've summarised the state of Notes well. Is there any work being done to integrate appropriate Linux OSS apps into a rival collaborative 'stack'?
Well I, for one, welcome our new Natalie Portman scanning Robot Overlords, with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads, all the way from Soviet Pittsburgh.
Not having had the opportunity to use Notes, I decided to undertake a mini investigation and so I asked the Wiki gods to explain what it is, to figure out why, exactly, the companies I've worked [in the UK] for haven't opted to use it.
The more I read, the more I tend to agree with my parent (did I really just say that?!).
"Lotus Notes is a client-server, collaborative application, described by IBM as an "integrated desktop client option for accessing business e-mail, calendars and applications on [an] IBM Lotus Domino server."
- Email client
- IM
- browser
- calendar
- notebook
- applications: blogs, wikis, help desk systems
- data replication, security
- all integrated into a 'seemless' application
So I guess this is more of an enterprise level application offering pretty much the standard features but fuly integrated, with a consistent look and feel and offering enterprise wide security etc. I assume clients are also tied in with IBM's Domino server? (correct me if i'm wrong)
Conclusion: small-med size businesses stay clear.
That said, Linux could certainly do with a quality suite of collaborative applications - providing a similar look and feel and full integration and preferably OSS - BUT w/out tying you into some rigid client-server architecture. So what alternative collaboration 'set-up' would people here recommend to their would-be Linux clients who raise the subject of Lotus Notes?
I've consulted with the Wiki gods, who inform me that Vista SP1 will contain the following:
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is currently in development and is planned for release alongside Windows Server 2008 in the first quarter of 2008. The first beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, build 16659, was released on September 24, 2007 and was tested by TechBeta participants in the Windows Vista SP1 Beta Program as well as TechNet and MSDN subscribers.
On December 12, 2007, Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate as an open beta to the general public. The RC build is documented to contain 489 patches, most of which are documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base but are unavailable for download.
A whitepaper published by Microsoft near the end of August 2007 outlined the scope and intent of the service pack, identifying three major areas of improvement: reliability and performance, administration experience, and support for newer hardware and standards.
One area of particular note is performance. Areas of improvement include file copy operations, hibernation, logging off on domain-joined machines, Javascript parsing in Internet Explorer, network file share browsing, Windows Explorer ZIP file handling,and Windows Disk Defragmenter. The ability to choose individual drives to defragment is being reintroduced as well.
Service Pack 1 introduces support for some new hardware and software standards, notably the exFAT file system, 802.11n wireless networking, IPv6 over VPN connections, and the Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol. An updated version of Windows Installer is included that provides support for multi-package transactions and embedding the user interface of a child Windows Installer package inside a parent installation session. Booting a system using Extensible Firmware Interface on x64 systems is also being introduced; this feature had originally been slated for the initial release of Vista but was delayed due to a lack of compatible hardware at the time.
Two areas have seen changes in Service Pack 1 that have come as the result of concerns from software vendors. One of these is desktop search; users will be able to change the default desktop search program to one provided by a third party instead of the Microsoft desktop search program that comes with Windows Vista. Third-party desktop search programs will be able to seamlessly tie in their services into the operating system. These changes come in part due to complaints from Google, whose Google Desktop Search application was hindered by the presence of Vista's built-in desktop search. In June 2007, Google claimed that the changes being introduced for Service Pack 1 "are a step in the right direction, but they should be improved further to give consumers greater access to alternate desktop search providers." The other area of note is a set of new security APIs being introduced for the benefit of antivirus software that currently relies on the unsupported practice of patching the kernel.
An update to Direct3D, version 10.1, is planned for inclusion, and is expected to make mandatory several features which were previously optional in Direct3D 10 hardware. The whitepaper also notes that Service Pack 1 will include a kernel that will be up-to-date with the version to be shipped with Windows Server 2008.
Support for the Group Policy Management Console is being removed; a replacement is planned for release the same time frame as the release of the service pack.
So what we're saying is, a large percentage of the trojans and malware targeting our personal details and intercepting our computer communications channels that we constantly read about, probably originates from illegal government-telcom snooping initiatives.
Mind you, back in 1999 the FBI did bust mafioso "Little Nicky" Scarfo with legally (they had a warrant) installed keylogging software. Don't think they used a trojan though. Makes you wonder what the preferred A-V package of the mafia boys is these days..?
Reality distortion field is a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Inc. in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs' charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Mac project. Later the term has also been used to refer to perceptions of keynote (or Stevenote) observers and devoted users of Apple computers and products.
Bud Tribble claimed that the term comes from Star Trek. In fact, while the expression is in Star Trek style, it is unknown on Memory Alpha.
In essence, RDF is the idea that Steve Jobs is able to convince people to believe almost anything with a mix of charm, charisma, bluster, exaggeration, and marketing. RDF is said to distort an audience's sense of proportion or scale. Small advances are applauded as breakthroughs. Interesting developments become turning points, or huge leaps forward. RDF focuses less on outright deception and more on warping the powers of judgment. The term audience may refer to an individual whose attitudes Steve is intending to affect.
So what we're saying is that a MacBook Air is pretty much like an unlocked, unactivated iPhone.
You just need to remove that smug-looking fruit logo from the case, which increasingly marks Apple owners out as the equally smug, techno-dopey fashionistas many of them tend to be.
Hardly innovative and clearly a triumph of style over substance - but it's certainly a great indication of what's to come when the technology required to produce ultra-thin, light weight, low power consumption 'minimalist' notebooks - without compromising functionality or processing power (or $$$$!)- really starts to come together over the next 24 months. As the parent suggests, it does look the business, though, and looks and status will inevitably generate far more sales than it really deserves.
"Every country other than the United States uses a first-to-file system. This means that, regardless of who the first inventor was, the person or legal entity who files a patent application first is the one who can be granted a patent for the invention. The first-to-invent versus first-to-file rule is one of the major differences between U.S. patent law and the patents systems of other nations."
So long as somebody [here] comes up with a cheap and simple device to short-circuit the little f*ckers, I don't think I'm going to mind them all that much.
It's called a multiphasic scan or sweep and can be conducted accros multiple targets by modifying the navigational sensors to operate on a multiphasic bandwidth.
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The Navy might start considering my 22 ft wooden hull ZODIAC to be a "serious ship" if I could only mount a 64-megajoule Electro-Magnetic Rail Gun on it (with some decent bats, of course)!
In the Soviet Navy, Advanced Arresting Gear hooks you.
I hear what you're saying, esconsult1, in that the top-of-the-range GPUs are capable of hoovering up the most demanding apps and games at ridiculous resolutions and so product announcements such as this are neither groundbreaking nor exciting.
In terms of the progression of GPU technology as a whole, however, I for one shall be acquiring a new 'multimedia' laptop in about six months and I need a fairly high spec graphics card that will, for example, support game play of the latest titles but (1) will not drain my bat within 30 seconds and (2) won't blow my budget. I'll probably get a 17" 'desktop replacement' style unit since it won't actually be 'mobile' that often. But the majority of mobile users will be after more convenient notebooks and slick looking ultra-portables. It's the emergence of high-spec, low-cost and low-power consumption GPU's capable of running demanding apps, but which also fit into increasingly confined mobile units, that is beginning to allow CAD designers and other graphics power users to use a laptop as a complete substitute for their desktop *beast*, w/out suffering any significant compromise in GPU performance.
The GPU power consumption and power management issues mentioned above may not be very important for the desktop and permanently plugged in user, but for frequently mobile users this is a pretty big issue. What remains is for the designers to improve the internal cooling for CPUs and GPUs, as chip power increases. Finally, with the advent of SSD drive technology (when they begin offering a half decent capacity SSD for under $300), with the reductions in HD power consumption and noise and increase in performance that SSDs promise, *power* mobile computing with 4-5 hour bat life will truly have arrived and I for one intend to be out and about considerably more than I'm able to at present!
Ah. Close, but no cryogenic freeze mode as default (or even as an optional extra).
Look on the bright side: in 2020 slashdot's DNA detector will scan all would-be posters and automatically discriminate against subjects possessing the Troll Gene(TM) and the evolution-defying 'Sh*t For Brains' condition. Elitist? Yes. Popular? Definitely.
Mind you, I for one'll need to undertake some wide-scale homologous recombos beteen now an then...
..how to eliminate errors during the 'homologous recombination' process we get to stay forever young?
Being UK based I remember last year I got all excited about some obscure MP3's I found on the amazon.com download section - and then spotted the little (Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers.) disclaimer. D'oh!
I guess it won't be there much longer...
That's what I was after. Unfortunately, as suspected, it looks like it's currently a one-horse race for the truly enterprise collab app stack on Linux, though you've summarised the state of Notes well. Is there any work being done to integrate appropriate Linux OSS apps into a rival collaborative 'stack'?
Steelers just need to sign an iBot quaterback, break out the '67 "Batman" uniforms and it's Super Bowl XL3 all the way!
Well I, for one, welcome our new Natalie Portman scanning Robot Overlords, with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads, all the way from Soviet Pittsburgh.
Heheh. This w/end we're all driving down to Silicon Valley for some Domain Tasting!
.mil would taste more like that white stuff you put on your breakie cereal?
Would have thought
You're on it - you just need to get a subscription though ;)
So what we're saying is, a large percentage of the trojans and malware targeting our personal details and intercepting our computer communications channels that we constantly read about, probably originates from illegal government-telcom snooping initiatives.
Mind you, back in 1999 the FBI did bust mafioso "Little Nicky" Scarfo with legally (they had a warrant) installed keylogging software. Don't think they used a trojan though. Makes you wonder what the preferred A-V package of the mafia boys is these days..?
Hardly innovative and clearly a triumph of style over substance - but it's certainly a great indication of what's to come when the technology required to produce ultra-thin, light weight, low power consumption 'minimalist' notebooks - without compromising functionality or processing power (or $$$$!)- really starts to come together over the next 24 months.
As the parent suggests, it does look the business, though, and looks and status will inevitably generate far more sales than it really deserves.
Something -d-'-o-h economics...
So long as somebody [here] comes up with a cheap and simple device to short-circuit the little f*ckers, I don't think I'm going to mind them all that much.
in a pair of steel toe capped boots, methinks. Then it's out to the yard to practice some field goals.
Iraqis vets are getting prosthetic limbs too - they're just not stupid enought to employ Bluetooth to control them.
Lance Corporal Joshua Bleill, please report to the OCP building for your Detroit patroll briefing.
It's called a multiphasic scan or sweep and can be conducted accros multiple targets by modifying the navigational sensors to operate on a multiphasic bandwidth.