This move to modularity is probably overall good, however, does the optional Windows 8 legacy UI remind anyone else of 1995? Remember when you stared the Windows 95 GUI by typing "win.exe"? And, of course, whenever possible, you tried to run applications from DOS without the Windows GUI sucking up performance. There was a (sometimes) significant performance penalty for running Windows "app" on top of DOS.
If the 1995-esque performance penalties are there for running explorer.exe on top of the new Windows 8 Metro UI, that will be bad news.
You are SO stuck in the 20th century. Haven't you heard? "Money" is completely obsolete. I heard about it on all the Gawker Media websites yesterday -- BitCoin is here!
Nah, there's no new dotcom bubble. Everything's fine! I'm going to go spend some Flooz on a stock option or two.
This is an important distinction -- why does the wealthiest country in the history of the world (today's US) have "miserable" scholars? Public funding is crucial in determining what (and even whether) scientific research is undertaken. The current political environment in the United States, which sees the debate between Democrats and Republicans reduced to how much public spending to cut, is generally hostile to research funding. This will inevitably lead to a decrease in the number of people who pursue Ph.D.'s in the US.
Google docs has real-time collaboration (you can see other people's edits as they happen). The video on collaboration for Google Cloud Connect in MS Office says you have to save before edits are synced to all collaborators. Sounds like a recipe for lots of sync inconsistencies to me.
Separating friend lists on Facebook as you describe doesn't support all of the functions mentioned in the slideshow. For example, posting comments on Facebook photos goes out to all people with permission to see your comments on photos. The slideshow suggests allowing different comments to be seen by different groups of friends. In the current Facebook implementation, your friends either have permission to see all your comments on all photos, or none.
Eight Mile Road and other major thoroughfares in Detroit, Michigan have traffic lights timed so that drivers traveling at the speed limit will almost always encounter green lights.
Just checked out the video feed. The chip already lasted longer than 1 million writes, which is the number of writes the chip is supposed to last over its lifetime. As of this writing, the chip has survived more than 1,600,000 write cycles and counting.
Still, since this test isn't on an actual, shipping solid state drive (SSD) product, the results will be discounted by a lot of critics.
I think worrying about webOS not working on a slate PC is exactly the wrong thing to worry about.
The much bigger question is whether moving webOS off of the smartphone will dilute and fragment the operating system too much.
I think webOS is the best designed OS for a phone because it's designed to work with both touch and a fully qwerty keyboard. Looking up contacts, searching for apps, sending a message -- webOS is optimized to do that in the shortest number of "clicks." Better than iPhone OS, better than Android, better than Blackberry. I like that. I want webOS to stay that way.
If webOS is moved to a slate PC -- with no keyboard and no phone -- I fear that webOS will lose its advantages as the smartest smartphone OS. And webOS developers would start writing more for slate apps, not smartphone apps. That would suck, especially for those of us who took the plunge and signed up for a 2 year contract with a Palm Pre.
I unfortunately don't have much experience with Visual Studio, so I won't be able to offer any shining insights on that, but I'll take your invitation to elaborate anyway.
The improvements in the core (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote) Office 2010 applications over their Office 2007 counterparts are very minor. The most notable change is a customizable "Ribbon," so you can move buttons around on the user interface. Also, the OneNote application is significantly improved with the addition of a "recycle bin" for recently deleted notes, enhanced notebook sharing, and a host of smaller improvements that really add up to a totally new experience. The rest of the improvements are incremental and unimaginative. Word has a new navigation and find/replace interface. Excel has slightly fancier charts. PowerPoint lets you edit videos. Outlook finally catches up to Gmail with "conversation view."
The other headline change in Office 2010 is the addition of the browser-based applications. But these web applications aren't even really ready for primetime yet, and you can get access to a browser-based Office without buying 2010.
These changes are all well and good, but does any of this seriously and significantly improve the daily workflow of an Office 2007 user? Probably not, unless you really need one of the new features. If you're looking for a "general upgrade," Office 2010 is way too expensive to justify. Wait for the next version.
I've been using the Office 2010 beta for a while now. If you're using Office 2003, it's worth it to upgrade. If you're using Office 2007, don't bother.
3 good reasons to get a Pre:
hardware keyboard
webOS
cheapest unlimited data and texting plan
1 good reason to not get a Pre:
The Pre has a mirror on the back
Firefox has been way behind the competition since 2009. Firefox 4.0 -- due later this year -- will catch up to Chrome 3.0. Meanwhile, Google will release Chrome 5.0 in a few months' time. Firefox was great in 2005. But today, Firefox is analogous to IE6 in 2005. Bloated, old UI, insecure add-on system, slower than the competition. RIP, Firefox.
A licensing scheme might very well work to make social networking services more transparent and accountable to their users, I agree.
But until there is more general awareness of the extent to which social networking data is valuable, I think people will underestimate how unfair the bargain is when you sign up for services like Facebook. It's true that Facebook users get a valuable service in exchange for handing over their personal information. The relationship asymmetrically advantages Facebook, though, especially given the terms of service that allow Facebook to retain reuse your information virtually in perpetuity.
It's also worth noting that most computing professionals (aka Slashdotters) will be completely unaware of how sophisticated social network analysis really is in 2010. Network analysis been a growing subfield of sociology for decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis
For anyone who isn't clear on why Facebook and Twitter are so valuable, this study is yet another example of how much rich information is embedded in social network data.
It's easy to imagine applications for pulling information out of social network data. Who would be interested in such data? Advertisers, ex-girlfriends, social researchers, police detectives, anti-terrorism, intelligence agencies... the list goes on and on.
Pretty much any project with interests in the social world would benefit from social networking data. It's valuable.
Why you would give away your social networking data to Facebook, Twitter, or Google for free?
You must hate privacy then. If a ConCon was held today, do you seriously think there would be a protection against unreasonable searches and seizures written into it? Not a chance.
There is an amendment process -- it's good enough for changes to the Constitution.
And as long as you accept the idea that the Constitution is a living document (aka - you're not a radical conservative), then even the 200 year old stuff in our Constitution works pretty damn well today.
Wait, if that many people are in the market for jobs, maybe the labor market isn't as tight as I thought! Oh, no! I might have to take a job even if the employer is prejudiced against my chippendale97@aol.com email address!
Excellent point. The labor market is so tight these days, workers can easily dictate their place of employment based on subtle criteria like email address prejudice.
Slashdot Mirror
This move to modularity is probably overall good, however, does the optional Windows 8 legacy UI remind anyone else of 1995? Remember when you stared the Windows 95 GUI by typing "win.exe"? And, of course, whenever possible, you tried to run applications from DOS without the Windows GUI sucking up performance. There was a (sometimes) significant performance penalty for running Windows "app" on top of DOS.
If the 1995-esque performance penalties are there for running explorer.exe on top of the new Windows 8 Metro UI, that will be bad news.
You are SO stuck in the 20th century. Haven't you heard? "Money" is completely obsolete. I heard about it on all the Gawker Media websites yesterday -- BitCoin is here!
Nah, there's no new dotcom bubble. Everything's fine! I'm going to go spend some Flooz on a stock option or two.
This is an important distinction -- why does the wealthiest country in the history of the world (today's US) have "miserable" scholars? Public funding is crucial in determining what (and even whether) scientific research is undertaken. The current political environment in the United States, which sees the debate between Democrats and Republicans reduced to how much public spending to cut, is generally hostile to research funding. This will inevitably lead to a decrease in the number of people who pursue Ph.D.'s in the US.
Google docs has real-time collaboration (you can see other people's edits as they happen). The video on collaboration for Google Cloud Connect in MS Office says you have to save before edits are synced to all collaborators. Sounds like a recipe for lots of sync inconsistencies to me.
Whatever happened to the new power grid that President Bush promised before and again after the great American blackout of 2003?
https://www.ferc.gov/eventcalendar/Files/20050608125055-grid-2030.pdf
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,94872,00.html
Separating friend lists on Facebook as you describe doesn't support all of the functions mentioned in the slideshow. For example, posting comments on Facebook photos goes out to all people with permission to see your comments on photos. The slideshow suggests allowing different comments to be seen by different groups of friends. In the current Facebook implementation, your friends either have permission to see all your comments on all photos, or none.
1. use conflict minerals to make playstations
2. fund warlords
3. ???
4. profit!
What's more important in life? Computer skills or getting high test scores?
Eight Mile Road and other major thoroughfares in Detroit, Michigan have traffic lights timed so that drivers traveling at the speed limit will almost always encounter green lights.
Just checked out the video feed. The chip already lasted longer than 1 million writes, which is the number of writes the chip is supposed to last over its lifetime. As of this writing, the chip has survived more than 1,600,000 write cycles and counting.
Still, since this test isn't on an actual, shipping solid state drive (SSD) product, the results will be discounted by a lot of critics.
I think worrying about webOS not working on a slate PC is exactly the wrong thing to worry about.
The much bigger question is whether moving webOS off of the smartphone will dilute and fragment the operating system too much.
I think webOS is the best designed OS for a phone because it's designed to work with both touch and a fully qwerty keyboard. Looking up contacts, searching for apps, sending a message -- webOS is optimized to do that in the shortest number of "clicks." Better than iPhone OS, better than Android, better than Blackberry. I like that. I want webOS to stay that way.
If webOS is moved to a slate PC -- with no keyboard and no phone -- I fear that webOS will lose its advantages as the smartest smartphone OS. And webOS developers would start writing more for slate apps, not smartphone apps. That would suck, especially for those of us who took the plunge and signed up for a 2 year contract with a Palm Pre.
Correlation != Causation.
Correlation is not the same thing as causation.
When two things are happening at the same time, it doesn't mean that they have a relationship with one another.
This coffee is hot, and netbook sales are down.
You're an idiot, and iPads are selling like hotcakes.
I unfortunately don't have much experience with Visual Studio, so I won't be able to offer any shining insights on that, but I'll take your invitation to elaborate anyway.
The improvements in the core (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote) Office 2010 applications over their Office 2007 counterparts are very minor. The most notable change is a customizable "Ribbon," so you can move buttons around on the user interface. Also, the OneNote application is significantly improved with the addition of a "recycle bin" for recently deleted notes, enhanced notebook sharing, and a host of smaller improvements that really add up to a totally new experience. The rest of the improvements are incremental and unimaginative. Word has a new navigation and find/replace interface. Excel has slightly fancier charts. PowerPoint lets you edit videos. Outlook finally catches up to Gmail with "conversation view."
The other headline change in Office 2010 is the addition of the browser-based applications. But these web applications aren't even really ready for primetime yet, and you can get access to a browser-based Office without buying 2010.
These changes are all well and good, but does any of this seriously and significantly improve the daily workflow of an Office 2007 user? Probably not, unless you really need one of the new features. If you're looking for a "general upgrade," Office 2010 is way too expensive to justify. Wait for the next version.
I've been using the Office 2010 beta for a while now. If you're using Office 2003, it's worth it to upgrade. If you're using Office 2007, don't bother.
Here's a PDF of the original interview in the New York Times: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9907E3D7173EE033A25750C2A9639C946897D6CF
Speaking of DS9: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/a-goldman-observation/
RTFA - webOS 1.4 (the current version) patches this vulnerability. Stop beating up on Palm.
3 good reasons to get a Pre: hardware keyboard webOS cheapest unlimited data and texting plan 1 good reason to not get a Pre: The Pre has a mirror on the back
Firefox has been way behind the competition since 2009. Firefox 4.0 -- due later this year -- will catch up to Chrome 3.0. Meanwhile, Google will release Chrome 5.0 in a few months' time. Firefox was great in 2005. But today, Firefox is analogous to IE6 in 2005. Bloated, old UI, insecure add-on system, slower than the competition. RIP, Firefox.
A licensing scheme might very well work to make social networking services more transparent and accountable to their users, I agree. But until there is more general awareness of the extent to which social networking data is valuable, I think people will underestimate how unfair the bargain is when you sign up for services like Facebook. It's true that Facebook users get a valuable service in exchange for handing over their personal information. The relationship asymmetrically advantages Facebook, though, especially given the terms of service that allow Facebook to retain reuse your information virtually in perpetuity. It's also worth noting that most computing professionals (aka Slashdotters) will be completely unaware of how sophisticated social network analysis really is in 2010. Network analysis been a growing subfield of sociology for decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis
For anyone who isn't clear on why Facebook and Twitter are so valuable, this study is yet another example of how much rich information is embedded in social network data. It's easy to imagine applications for pulling information out of social network data. Who would be interested in such data? Advertisers, ex-girlfriends, social researchers, police detectives, anti-terrorism, intelligence agencies... the list goes on and on. Pretty much any project with interests in the social world would benefit from social networking data. It's valuable. Why you would give away your social networking data to Facebook, Twitter, or Google for free?
You must hate privacy then. If a ConCon was held today, do you seriously think there would be a protection against unreasonable searches and seizures written into it? Not a chance. There is an amendment process -- it's good enough for changes to the Constitution. And as long as you accept the idea that the Constitution is a living document (aka - you're not a radical conservative), then even the 200 year old stuff in our Constitution works pretty damn well today.
does DOSbox require the MS-DOS subsystem?
Wait, if that many people are in the market for jobs, maybe the labor market isn't as tight as I thought! Oh, no! I might have to take a job even if the employer is prejudiced against my chippendale97@aol.com email address!
Excellent point. The labor market is so tight these days, workers can easily dictate their place of employment based on subtle criteria like email address prejudice.