1. PlayTV Hasn't been released yet. Who knows when that will happen? the PS3 is so far ahead of it's time, the peripherals haven't caught up yet.
2. As far as I can tell, PlayTV is a UK-only device, no american equivalent has been announced. This sounds like it is a unique deal with a particular company for a particular market. It will have terrible penetration.
Is anyone else sick of all these walled garden Web services? Wouldn't it be great if all the competing services would interoperate and then you could view anything from your choice of Web service, depending upon which interface you liked best?
How about standard issue streams and everyone just buys/makes their own stream viewer interface. You could even build it right into a special viewing device/monitor. Sounds like old school TV, except instead of being broadcast through the air it's being broadcast through the wires. Given long enough, it will probably be transferred back to the air again...
50Mb sounds nice, but if they cut you off after 100GB per month for "excessive traffic", what good is it? No kidding. If they are going to throttle you after you do any major data pulls, what good is it? They could offer a bajillion MBps, but if they cut you off as soon as you try to use it, who cares? Might as well stick with whatever is cheapest...
anyone want to participate in clinical trials? I doubt anyone will be interested in requesting this treatment, but you could probably give out lots of free samples.
An interesting side note, if you run that software on OSX it is actually very easy to identify the running processes and disable them. Granted, things that depend on that functionality might quit working, but it is way easier to disable these things on OSX than it is on Windows. It might be that Apple just doesn't want to take the time to write software for Windows that works properly. Can't say I blame them...
Actually, English is already lacking in "flair" compared to other languages. My wife is Polish and she sometimes calls people things in Polish that amaze me. One word can mean "very ugly and old and stupid". Ok, how many English words did I just use to say the same thing? The issue is that English is a very non-descriptive language. It doesn't even impress a gender on everything (like say, French, Spanish, or Polish).
On the plus side, I think this is why English is so prevalent. It is pretty easy to learn the basics, because the rules are pretty simple (although it has a TON of exceptions to the rules). I think we are going to see people from different nationalities speaking in English to each other more and more often, even if neither of their native languages are English.
But Programing Methodoligy should they work with. Assuming that you use to
Object Orianted Languages (C++, Java,.NET) which are a deveation of Procedural Based Languges (C,
Pascal, FORTRAN).
Procedural and Object Orianted languges tend to have the most programmers and is widly used
Functional comes next used in some Sciencetific applications as well handling a lot of AI type stuff.
Ouch. Obviously the language you should learn is ENGLISH.
Now if only they'd do something about the "Joke of the Day" scam that's been going around. jokemobi.com and any similar group should be fined out the asses for that crap.
the government will abuse any power it has access to Oh please. I think any power that anybody has would get abused. I mean, why else is it that in movies and stuff, whenever some guy gets the ability to turn invisible, the first thing he does is hang out in a girls locker room? If you suddenly were invulnerable, wouldn't you jump off a few tall buildings just for fun (and to watch people's faces when you bounce)? It takes a Superman to not just start smashing cars together and knocking buildings down if you had the chance, and he was an alien (NOT human). Hell, even his fellow aliens went nuts in Superman 2.
I agree. I used to run some clusters for the UCLA Chemistry department and the only real customizations we did was to install a custom kernel in Redhat 9 to handle the huge amount of memory we had installed. And even that wasn't in all the clusters. But yeah, the code the clusters was actually running was pretty much always compiled by hand.
We already knew that Google can access emails after their deletion. This is old news. If you are concerned that Google can access your old emails, you might want to be equally concerned that they can access any of your non-deleted emails too. This is the downside of using webmail hosted by anyone but you. Realize the implications and use the service appropriately.
I have to agree with most of this. We have separate groups for business and application development/support. The business people sometimes think they are smarter than the app developers and try to build their own apps in Excel or Access or whatever. The problem is that these apps are easy enough to use that in small scales that they are able to actually get things to work. But once the app outgrows its initial user base, they never scale well. And of course, it is up to the app support teams to fix whatever horrible mess they are handed.
Try this with a plumber some time. Start a job (changing the fixtures on a bathtub) and call the plumber and get him to finish it when it's half done. Most likely he'll either charge you way more than if you just called him in the first place, or he'll rip it all out and start over AND charge you more than if you had just called him in the first place.
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Except for 2 problems.
1. PlayTV Hasn't been released yet. Who knows when that will happen? the PS3 is so far ahead of it's time, the peripherals haven't caught up yet.
2. As far as I can tell, PlayTV is a UK-only device, no american equivalent has been announced. This sounds like it is a unique deal with a particular company for a particular market. It will have terrible penetration.
If the spam is from the "backscatter" mentioned previously, it would seem that Google sees the problem as yours, not theirs.
Is anyone else sick of all these walled garden Web services? Wouldn't it be great if all the competing services would interoperate and then you could view anything from your choice of Web service, depending upon which interface you liked best?
How about standard issue streams and everyone just buys/makes their own stream viewer interface. You could even build it right into a special viewing device/monitor. Sounds like old school TV, except instead of being broadcast through the air it's being broadcast through the wires. Given long enough, it will probably be transferred back to the air again...I use green on black because it reminds me of the old terminals I used to use when I first got started in IT. We had orange ones, too...
Yeah, but we can't see you so you don't exist.
What's wrong with the online documentation? This is all I ever needed...
An interesting side note, if you run that software on OSX it is actually very easy to identify the running processes and disable them. Granted, things that depend on that functionality might quit working, but it is way easier to disable these things on OSX than it is on Windows. It might be that Apple just doesn't want to take the time to write software for Windows that works properly. Can't say I blame them...
Actually, English is already lacking in "flair" compared to other languages. My wife is Polish and she sometimes calls people things in Polish that amaze me. One word can mean "very ugly and old and stupid". Ok, how many English words did I just use to say the same thing? The issue is that English is a very non-descriptive language. It doesn't even impress a gender on everything (like say, French, Spanish, or Polish).
On the plus side, I think this is why English is so prevalent. It is pretty easy to learn the basics, because the rules are pretty simple (although it has a TON of exceptions to the rules). I think we are going to see people from different nationalities speaking in English to each other more and more often, even if neither of their native languages are English.
No, Toonces only looked like he could drive because he had his paws on the steering wheel.
I'm not sure if it'd compete well or not, but posting it on slashdot surely doesn't hurt.
Don't taunt the IT gods. Their wrath is mighty and swift...
Neither of those are fully implemented or even stable. They are NOT adequate replacements.
Ouch. Obviously the language you should learn is ENGLISH.
I poop too much.
These analogies are confusing me. Can you explain it again, but use cars this time?
Now if only they'd do something about the "Joke of the Day" scam that's been going around. jokemobi.com and any similar group should be fined out the asses for that crap.
I agree. I used to run some clusters for the UCLA Chemistry department and the only real customizations we did was to install a custom kernel in Redhat 9 to handle the huge amount of memory we had installed. And even that wasn't in all the clusters. But yeah, the code the clusters was actually running was pretty much always compiled by hand.
You'll piss it off.
We already knew that Google can access emails after their deletion. This is old news. If you are concerned that Google can access your old emails, you might want to be equally concerned that they can access any of your non-deleted emails too. This is the downside of using webmail hosted by anyone but you. Realize the implications and use the service appropriately.
I have to agree with most of this. We have separate groups for business and application development/support. The business people sometimes think they are smarter than the app developers and try to build their own apps in Excel or Access or whatever. The problem is that these apps are easy enough to use that in small scales that they are able to actually get things to work. But once the app outgrows its initial user base, they never scale well. And of course, it is up to the app support teams to fix whatever horrible mess they are handed.
Try this with a plumber some time. Start a job (changing the fixtures on a bathtub) and call the plumber and get him to finish it when it's half done. Most likely he'll either charge you way more than if you just called him in the first place, or he'll rip it all out and start over AND charge you more than if you had just called him in the first place.