Web 1.0 - Documents Web 1.5 - Documents + Web Applications that pretend to be documents Web 2.0 - Documents + Web applications acting like the interactive applications they are
Web applications are now free from the "static document" paradigm that previous chained them down. The web is no longer pretending to be static. That's not to say Web 2.0 is "mature" by any means, but the groundwork as certainly been laid.
BTW - There are a bunch of concepts and methods here that truly are revolutionary. The more I use it and understand what it means, the more I think Web 2.0 is not a bad name, and may even be justified.
BellSouth (and other baby bells) are upset that they only get paid for traffic on one end. They want to have a toll-booth status where (let's say) Google pays to get their traffic onto the BS network and have you pay them to get Google's traffic off of it.
I don't think this was a real big issue until VoIP providers started "stealing" their customers...at least the timing coincided. Suddenly it's not "fair" that the internet content providers (including Vonage and friends) are "leeching" off their IP network.
I replaced the factory hard drive in my 12" PowerBook with a 7k60 a couple years back or so. The speed difference was so huge from a normal user perspective I wondered if the factory drive had always been defective. After trying other powerbooks, I have seen the factory drives are just really slow and the 7k60 is really fast.
It's hard to express in words how much faster my machine "felt" in everyday use. Startup time alone went from so slow where I always put the thing to sleep -- to my shutting down quite often now because it doesn't seem to take an eternity to boot.
Number and words do not do justice to the speed improvements possible by upgrading a slow 4200RPM drive for a 7K(whatever) drive. If you can afford it, I highly suggest you consider upgrading your slow laptop drive to a 7200rpm drive even if your factory drive is not dead (and out of warranty), which was the case for me.
It's not just that it's a fast drive. It goes well beyond the current method of spinning the disc faster and(or) putting the data closer together to increase performance.
"Unlike other technologies, that record one data bit at a time, holography allows a million bits of data to be written and read in parallel with a single flash of light," says Liz Murphy, of InPhase Technologies. "This enables transfer rates significantly higher than current optical storage devices."
That's pretty wild for a single "head" drive. I wonder if this could translate into devices similar to hard drives using similar methods. Hard disks are what I feel is holding back system performance. It's almost always the biggest bottleneck in a system, and has been more or less at a platoe for years, mainly because magnetic media can only do so much in a serial manor.
It'll all come back to music and movie piracy. That's not in the slashdot summary, but may really be the largest impact of this.
The Brain Institute, which represents the global entertainment industry in the Netherlands, said in a statement that the ruling will enable it to seek damages from people who illegally swap copyrighted software, music and movies over the Internet.
BTW - does anyone else find it interesting that the "Brain Institute" represents the entertainment industry in the Netherlands?
Maybe it's just because I'm a Java programmer, but it seems to me that many of the items in the top 10 list have been considered best practices for quite some time. Examples include 3-tier architecture, datasource management, and Integrated testing.
It's probably actually a good thing that MS is including it. That being said, "it's about time" went throught my mind more than once while reading the article.
Contrary to what seems like the opinion here seems to be, I think this makes perfect sense. Set-top boxes are really only a portion of the SA business. The rest is in cable networking components.
From network components to cable set-top does seem like a little bit of a jump, where buying up a company that makes cable networking equipment in general is right up Cisco's alley.
I used to work for the division of Philips that made commercial cable equipment (no longer in business.) A modern cable system is really a modern day addressable network.
My thinking is "wall-street" folks come in contact with the set-top boxes, so that's what they percieve the SA business to be all about.
Think of all the money that's going to go into have to retrain users how to use office apps all over again.
Now that Star/OpenOffice look more like Word than the Office 12, maybe it's more cost effective to skip Office 12 and jump right to Star/OpenOffice route!
Seriously though, I find it interesting that there is talk of the training cost when switching to Star/Openoffice, while each version of office moves everything all around so I can find things...all in the name of earnings - opps I mean productiviity improvement.
I had been reading articles recently about how Sun had fallen behind when it comes to CPU's and that their "rein" in the CPU business was almost dead. Their pushing of the Opteron was an admission of this.
I am curious if those people and industry analysts still think that, or whether this chip is enough of a leading edge performer to keep them in the game.
I don't understand the geeky details enough to know if this is really all hype or if there is really something earth shattering in this chip. That being said, it does sound nice.
Here's my theory: If any of this is true, which I'm not at all sure it is, why does everyone think it's going to be an x86 chip?
Apple IIRC has the ability to license the PowerPC chip to others. What if Apple is licensing PowerPC to Intel because IBM can't deliver? No incompatability. The current chips are already made by two differrent companies.
If there is ANY fact to this rumor, and it all seems to be rehash of the cnet story, this where where I think the most logical answer lies.
I didn't know it was possible with a web interface to implement the rich text formatting they are doing. Right down to ctl-b to bold highlighted text. This works like a real word processor!
2GB doesn't excite me, I'm using less than 100MB right now. The rich text? It knocked my socks of this morning.
Generally I think their idea may be good, but maybe taken too far and/or poorly executed.
Here's why: Orbitz is a travel site for purchasing tickets, etc. The price and availability of these things changes constantly. Additionally, I would bet they may run into customer service problems if too many people are all trying to view and/or book the same flights at the same time. The system is really designed to be a point in time quote system. The problem comes when someone does a deep link, to a quote for example. Chances are if a link is posted on the web (or sent through email), the page the new visitor sees may be different from the page/price/availability the creator of the link saw.
That all being said, there are technical means to reduce, if not eliminate this problem. Could be they are implementing a technical solution, and are putting this in the TOS so they have something to point to when deep links suddenly stop working and customers complain.
PR wise they could have done this better, but I bet they never thought a place like this would publicize a TOS change.
On the other hand, I could be all wrong about their motives.:-)
-Pete
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My first thought was the main purpose of this would be to identify and eliminate "wasted" disk space. There are a bunch of logs that, without management, really just end up being wasted bits on your disk. Generally, that may be a useful utility, at least to me.
I was suprised to see the EFF seems to have a totally different motivation. It seems their real motivation is that the government can't demand logs that don't exists, or more specifically you can't get in trouble for not providing what you don't actually have.
The news for me is that AMD has 9% of the laptop market. I had no idea it was that large, especially since I have shopped for a laptop recently, and the share didn't seem that big on store shelves.
I have a Palm T3 for a simple reason. It has a larger than norm palm screen, yet it fits confortably in my pocket.
Even though the feature lists of these iPaqs keep calling my name, I am unable to get past the bulk factor. Last time I tried, I was not able to fit an iPaq into my pants pocket confortably.
I wish more attention would be paid to this in the Windows Mobile world (or whatever they are call this year.) The features are great, but they are too damn big to be as portable as a wallet like my T3. I can't be the only one who thinks this.
Digital signing of code means NOTHING to most end users. Vendors I trust? Why should ANYTHING be installing if I don't want it to? If I want it to, I trust it enought to install it.
If comes down to this. IE is spyware and popup hell. FireFox isn't; and has tabs to boot. It's that simple.
Personally I don't care if FireFox is "signed". I only download FireFox from a link on their website. I trust FireFox's site to only link to resonably responsible places to download from. That all the trust most people care about. Matter of fact, all those "do you trust this vendor" dialog boxes are useless. People will always click yes because they want the software installed.
What up with Intel? Just a few days they announced they don't think they can pull off a 4Ghz chip. Today they announce this?
This doesn't bode well for Intel's R&D/Engineering leader image. They really don't need things like this at a time where AMD is eating their lunch for the first time ever, or at least starting to take bites.
I wonder if this is a sign of things to come from Intel.
I have been using AdSense for well over a year, starting a month or two after it was released. I have never seen any IE specific features. I first started using AdSense with Mozilla, more recently with FireFix. Seems like he may be having other problems, and jumped on the blame Mozilla scapegoat. Maybe he disabled JavaScript.
Does Johnathan not get it, or is he playing the FUD game? The IBM Open chip is not a chip without an OS. It runs linux...a commodity OS. That means two major things.
1. People who run Linux on a different box may be more likley to upgrade to the Open chip since they won't have to take an OS change into account as well.
2. People not happy with big blue can migrate to another vendor without having to take an OS change into account. That means less lock in.
Sun doesn't get it. Or more likley they do, but don't want to help their customers figure it out.
There is a bluetooth update coming something soon (schedule is/was early this month) for the v710. At least one person has claimed to have received word via email from verizon that at least some of the functionality this "hack contest" is looking for will be provided in the update.
Sit tight until the update comes out...then assess the situation. Then, if needed, we can work ourselves up into a hissy about this.
I think Verizon released this phone before it was ready, probably due to customers leaving for lack of a bluetooth option. They probably figured the backlash may be better than lost customers, or I could be wrong and they may just be totally missing the boat.
posts here discusses info from motolora saying stating that file transfer is coming in an update in early Sept.
First reference is post #6, but it is talked about after that.
I just ordered one of these after reading a post somewhere about an upgrade coming on or around Sept. 4th. It is said the update will include many of these missing features.
I will be very upset if this phone stays crippled.
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Damn, my sig was chopped. I'm sorry my sig makes NO sense!
Web 1.0 - Documents
Web 1.5 - Documents + Web Applications that pretend to be documents
Web 2.0 - Documents + Web applications acting like the interactive applications they are
Web applications are now free from the "static document" paradigm that previous chained them down. The web is no longer pretending to be static. That's not to say Web 2.0 is "mature" by any means, but the groundwork as certainly been laid.
BTW - There are a bunch of concepts and methods here that truly are revolutionary. The more I use it and understand what it means, the more I think Web 2.0 is not a bad name, and may even be justified.
-Pete
BellSouth (and other baby bells) are upset that they only get paid for traffic on one end. They want to have a toll-booth status where (let's say) Google pays to get their traffic onto the BS network and have you pay them to get Google's traffic off of it.
;-)
I don't think this was a real big issue until VoIP providers started "stealing" their customers...at least the timing coincided. Suddenly it's not "fair" that the internet content providers (including Vonage and friends) are "leeching" off their IP network.
I think that's BS.
-Pete
I replaced the factory hard drive in my 12" PowerBook with a 7k60 a couple years back or so. The speed difference was so huge from a normal user perspective I wondered if the factory drive had always been defective. After trying other powerbooks, I have seen the factory drives are just really slow and the 7k60 is really fast.
It's hard to express in words how much faster my machine "felt" in everyday use. Startup time alone went from so slow where I always put the thing to sleep -- to my shutting down quite often now because it doesn't seem to take an eternity to boot.
Number and words do not do justice to the speed improvements possible by upgrading a slow 4200RPM drive for a 7K(whatever) drive. If you can afford it, I highly suggest you consider upgrading your slow laptop drive to a 7200rpm drive even if your factory drive is not dead (and out of warranty), which was the case for me.
-Pete
It's not just that it's a fast drive. It goes well beyond the current method of spinning the disc faster and(or) putting the data closer together to increase performance.
"Unlike other technologies, that record one data bit at a time, holography allows a million bits of data to be written and read in parallel with a single flash of light," says Liz Murphy, of InPhase Technologies. "This enables transfer rates significantly higher than current optical storage devices."
That's pretty wild for a single "head" drive. I wonder if this could translate into devices similar to hard drives using similar methods. Hard disks are what I feel is holding back system performance. It's almost always the biggest bottleneck in a system, and has been more or less at a platoe for years, mainly because magnetic media can only do so much in a serial manor.
-Pete
It'll all come back to music and movie piracy. That's not in the slashdot summary, but may really be the largest impact of this.
The Brain Institute, which represents the global entertainment industry in the Netherlands, said in a statement that the ruling will enable it to seek damages from people who illegally swap copyrighted software, music and movies over the Internet.
BTW - does anyone else find it interesting that the "Brain Institute" represents the entertainment industry in the Netherlands?
-Pete
Maybe it's just because I'm a Java programmer, but it seems to me that many of the items in the top 10 list have been considered best practices for quite some time. Examples include 3-tier architecture, datasource management, and Integrated testing.
It's probably actually a good thing that MS is including it. That being said, "it's about time" went throught my mind more than once while reading the article.
-Pete
Contrary to what seems like the opinion here seems to be, I think this makes perfect sense. Set-top boxes are really only a portion of the SA business. The rest is in cable networking components.
From network components to cable set-top does seem like a little bit of a jump, where buying up a company that makes cable networking equipment in general is right up Cisco's alley.
I used to work for the division of Philips that made commercial cable equipment (no longer in business.) A modern cable system is really a modern day addressable network.
My thinking is "wall-street" folks come in contact with the set-top boxes, so that's what they percieve the SA business to be all about.
-Pete
A new interface!? (gasp!)
Think of all the money that's going to go into have to retrain users how to use office apps all over again.
Now that Star/OpenOffice look more like Word than the Office 12, maybe it's more cost effective to skip Office 12 and jump right to Star/OpenOffice route!
Seriously though, I find it interesting that there is talk of the training cost when switching to Star/Openoffice, while each version of office moves everything all around so I can find things...all in the name of earnings - opps I mean productiviity improvement.
-Pete
I had been reading articles recently about how Sun had fallen behind when it comes to CPU's and that their "rein" in the CPU business was almost dead. Their pushing of the Opteron was an admission of this.
I am curious if those people and industry analysts still think that, or whether this chip is enough of a leading edge performer to keep them in the game.
I don't understand the geeky details enough to know if this is really all hype or if there is really something earth shattering in this chip. That being said, it does sound nice.
-Pete
Here's my theory:
If any of this is true, which I'm not at all sure it is, why does everyone think it's going to be an x86 chip?
Apple IIRC has the ability to license the PowerPC chip to others. What if Apple is licensing PowerPC to Intel because IBM can't deliver? No incompatability. The current chips are already made by two differrent companies.
If there is ANY fact to this rumor, and it all seems to be rehash of the cnet story, this where where I think the most logical answer lies.
-Pete
Recent Macs boot from a firewire drive just fine.
I didn't know it was possible with a web interface to implement the rich text formatting they are doing. Right down to ctl-b to bold highlighted text. This works like a real word processor!
2GB doesn't excite me, I'm using less than 100MB right now. The rich text? It knocked my socks of this morning.
-Pete
Generally I think their idea may be good, but maybe taken too far and/or poorly executed.
:-)
Here's why:
Orbitz is a travel site for purchasing tickets, etc. The price and availability of these things changes constantly. Additionally, I would bet they may run into customer service problems if too many people are all trying to view and/or book the same flights at the same time. The system is really designed to be a point in time quote system. The problem comes when someone does a deep link, to a quote for example. Chances are if a link is posted on the web (or sent through email), the page the new visitor sees may be different from the page/price/availability the creator of the link saw.
That all being said, there are technical means to reduce, if not eliminate this problem. Could be they are implementing a technical solution, and are putting this in the TOS so they have something to point to when deep links suddenly stop working and customers complain.
PR wise they could have done this better, but I bet they never thought a place like this would publicize a TOS change.
On the other hand, I could be all wrong about their motives.
-Pete
My first thought was the main purpose of this would be to identify and eliminate "wasted" disk space. There are a bunch of logs that, without management, really just end up being wasted bits on your disk. Generally, that may be a useful utility, at least to me.
I was suprised to see the EFF seems to have a totally different motivation. It seems their real motivation is that the government can't demand logs that don't exists, or more specifically you can't get in trouble for not providing what you don't actually have.
Not sure what I think of that...
The news for me is that AMD has 9% of the laptop market. I had no idea it was that large, especially since I have shopped for a laptop recently, and the share didn't seem that big on store shelves.
I have a Palm T3 for a simple reason. It has a larger than norm palm screen, yet it fits confortably in my pocket.
Even though the feature lists of these iPaqs keep calling my name, I am unable to get past the bulk factor. Last time I tried, I was not able to fit an iPaq into my pants pocket confortably.
I wish more attention would be paid to this in the Windows Mobile world (or whatever they are call this year.) The features are great, but they are too damn big to be as portable as a wallet like my T3. I can't be the only one who thinks this.
-Pete
If we are talking about the GPL, not only is it ethical, but it's expected and encouraged by the community at large!
Digital signing of code means NOTHING to most end users. Vendors I trust? Why should ANYTHING be installing if I don't want it to? If I want it to, I trust it enought to install it.
If comes down to this. IE is spyware and popup hell. FireFox isn't; and has tabs to boot. It's that simple.
Personally I don't care if FireFox is "signed". I only download FireFox from a link on their website. I trust FireFox's site to only link to resonably responsible places to download from. That all the trust most people care about. Matter of fact, all those "do you trust this vendor" dialog boxes are useless. People will always click yes because they want the software installed.
-Pete
What up with Intel? Just a few days they announced they don't think they can pull off a 4Ghz chip. Today they announce this?
This doesn't bode well for Intel's R&D/Engineering leader image. They really don't need things like this at a time where AMD is eating their lunch for the first time ever, or at least starting to take bites.
I wonder if this is a sign of things to come from Intel.
-Pete
I have been using AdSense for well over a year, starting a month or two after it was released. I have never seen any IE specific features. I first started using AdSense with Mozilla, more recently with FireFix. Seems like he may be having other problems, and jumped on the blame Mozilla scapegoat. Maybe he disabled JavaScript.
-Pete
Does Johnathan not get it, or is he playing the FUD game? The IBM Open chip is not a chip without an OS. It runs linux...a commodity OS. That means two major things.
1. People who run Linux on a different box may be more likley to upgrade to the Open chip since they won't have to take an OS change into account as well.
2. People not happy with big blue can migrate to another vendor without having to take an OS change into account. That means less lock in.
Sun doesn't get it. Or more likley they do, but don't want to help their customers figure it out.
-Pete
There is a bluetooth update coming something soon (schedule is/was early this month) for the v710. At least one person has claimed to have received word via email from verizon that at least some of the functionality this "hack contest" is looking for will be provided in the update.
Sit tight until the update comes out...then assess the situation. Then, if needed, we can work ourselves up into a hissy about this.
I think Verizon released this phone before it was ready, probably due to customers leaving for lack of a bluetooth option. They probably figured the backlash may be better than lost customers, or I could be wrong and they may just be totally missing the boat.
posts here discusses info from motolora saying stating that file transfer is coming in an update in early Sept. First reference is post #6, but it is talked about after that.
I just ordered one of these after reading a post somewhere about an upgrade coming on or around Sept. 4th. It is said the update will include many of these missing features.
I will be very upset if this phone stays crippled.
-Pete