You have to wonder if this is linked to Apple moving to OS-X. I like OS-X as much as the next person however to port an appliction surely can't be a quick process to get a native application. Also I would expect that it would take a few versions to get the best performace.
With Windows it normally seems quicker and easier to move from one version to another as there is still binary compatibly and as such authors think they can get away with just adding things rather than having to rewrite. I'm not a fan of feature bloat but you can see why it is easier.
As a decision for Adobe I can see this as much as a no brainer for expanding market share. Do MAC's still have much market dominance in the DTP market as they use to?
Going from past expierence I've found that you really have to wait for a Redhat x.2 release to be stable and actually trust it on a live server. I can't help but think that 9.0 is going to be unstables. I would like to think that it will really be 8.1 and that 9.0 is for marketing only
As much as I would like to applaud hotmail on doing something about spam I can't help but feel that its not going to work. I say this as in all my time fighting spam I've only actually seen a couple of spams actually come from hotmail.
More often than not I actually see Hotmail accounts as drop boxes. i.e. places bounces go or you reply to. Prehaps it might be better for Hotmail to restrict the incoming number of emails to an account to 100 a day.
One thing I hate about this sort of thing is that its quite dumb when it comes to mailing lists. More than once I have written an email to a mailing list I'm on and got back a messages along the lines of
"foo@bar.com is subscribed to our service. Please click on very long URL to let them recieve your messages"
Now this means that everyone who posts to that list has to do this for one particular user. Why should they? I'm sure that user has something to say at some point but I don't want/need to do it everytime I post to a list and someone new has joined who uses a similar service.
Why don't they whitelist the address of the mailing list? That would seem obvious to me. Even mailing lists that allow anyone to post normally have very high signal to noise ratios with the occasional spam.
I can understand why Sun would want to move into a very competitive market where margins are low and competition is fierce. When I think of office type PCs, which is the market they are going after I think of Dell, HP/Compaq and maybe IBM. I don't think of Sun and I can't see what they can bring.
How will a Sun compete on a price/performance point (even if running x86) with a Dell. Most offices will want M$ wether we like it or not. I really think this might just be a dying breath...
I bought one of the first Zaurus in the shape of the the SL5000 and wondered if anyone has any figures for the battery life on it? I do find the a WLAN CF/SD Card and backlight I will get 90 minutes if I'm lucky. If worse comes to worse I just plug it into the mains:)
Rus
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For the geek this is cool. I like it and wouldn't mind one but I can't help but think that normal Joe bloggs on the street might think, why do I need all this? Also I think that it might be just to much. All that technology just can't come cheap surely? As one of the comments says
"Appreciate the technology and efforts but reality is that no convergence device other than clock radio has succeded. Put the consumer first and you will... "
I'm just wondering how big the actual form factor for this would be. Personally I would like it to be at least down the CF size so that way I can put in in my Zaurus and have it work as a phone. However I get the horrible feeling the battery life will last about 5 minutes
Am I correct in thinking that in the US there is no easy way to tell if a phone you are calling is a cell phone or a land line? I just ask as here in the UK you can always tell the difference as anything beginning with 07 is a mobile and almost everything else is a landline. As such telemarkets here can always work out what they are calling you on if they get your mobile number somehow. BTW we don't have our mobile numbers listed in directory enquiers (yet)
I would like to see languages preserved for translation of old documents. Think about the rosetta stone and how important it was in translating the bible. If would be nice to have languages with some form of context so that in the future if translation would be easier if all the natural speakers were dead
Prehaps Sony realises that ATM in terms of installed based and quality of the game library there isn't anything that can touch the PS2. In europe both the X-Box and Gamecube aren't anywhere near as popular. Why should Sony push new hardware onto the market to extend their lead now when there is no need to.
As other people have said the PS2 unit itself might start making money for sony as production costs fall. Sure I would love to have the PS3 but Sony know the market will wait. Also with any luck the extra time will mean that the new technology will be even more advanced.
I look forward to the day I can play a photorealistic games rendered in real time.
Its great to see Dell do this and then pass it onto charity. I just can't help wonder though if they make sure the hard disks are wiped before passing them out. There have been many cases of where private information has ended up in the public domain.
Also on a side note I just looked at the advertising graphic at the top, one of the 5 text ones. Its advertising in order (left to right)
Dell, itdisposal.com, Dell, Dell and Dell:)
Well looks like they've got their targeting data right
I've always heard that port scanning is like checking to see if doors are unlocked. Its annoying but not illegal. However using the knowledge and breaking in.
If people are that concerned then they can always reconfigure their firewall to only allow traffic to the ports that are meant to be open and drop the rest. Of course if they really want to get paranoid then they should look at fooling nmap (posted a couple of days ago)
One thing I would like to see added to that list is "Make sure you respond" and this is the submitter I'm talking about. I found there is a certain group of people who will submit a bug (or problem) and demand it be fixed now as it is absolutly necessary for me to work.
So you ask them for more information. What do you get back? Nothing. You ask them again. Still nothing. Great. You try your best and get nothing back
...that make you go ooh thats clever. I've always found the difference to be between a good sysadmin and a great sysadmin is when they do something and you go wow now thats smart. Some one like this
The locustworld is a neat bit of kit offering WiFI/Internet access at a resonable price. However does anyone know what sort of range it can achieve without having to resort to pringle cans as directional arials?
Going by a mailing list I'm on it seems that some of the early buyers actually had their credit cards charged for this. Now under UK law these make a legally binding contract as payment has been made. Its going to be interesting to see how Amazon reacts to this one.
There was a similar case a few years back with Kodak where the mispriced a camera and finally ended up honouring the deal. Details on the inquirer.
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You have to wonder if this is linked to Apple moving to OS-X. I like OS-X as much as the next person however to port an appliction surely can't be a quick process to get a native application. Also I would expect that it would take a few versions to get the best performace.
With Windows it normally seems quicker and easier to move from one version to another as there is still binary compatibly and as such authors think they can get away with just adding things rather than having to rewrite. I'm not a fan of feature bloat but you can see why it is easier.
As a decision for Adobe I can see this as much as a no brainer for expanding market share. Do MAC's still have much market dominance in the DTP market as they use to?
Rus
Going from past expierence I've found that you really have to wait for a Redhat x.2 release to be stable and actually trust it on a live server. I can't help but think that 9.0 is going to be unstables. I would like to think that it will really be 8.1 and that 9.0 is for marketing only
Rus
As much as I would like to applaud hotmail on doing something about spam I can't help but feel that its not going to work. I say this as in all my time fighting spam I've only actually seen a couple of spams actually come from hotmail.
More often than not I actually see Hotmail accounts as drop boxes. i.e. places bounces go or you reply to. Prehaps it might be better for Hotmail to restrict the incoming number of emails to an account to 100 a day.
Now that would hurt spammers more.
rus
One thing I hate about this sort of thing is that its quite dumb when it comes to mailing lists. More than once I have written an email to a mailing list I'm on and got back a messages along the lines of
"foo@bar.com is subscribed to our service. Please click on very long URL to let them recieve your messages"
Now this means that everyone who posts to that list has to do this for one particular user. Why should they? I'm sure that user has something to say at some point but I don't want/need to do it everytime I post to a list and someone new has joined who uses a similar service.
Why don't they whitelist the address of the mailing list? That would seem obvious to me. Even mailing lists that allow anyone to post normally have very high signal to noise ratios with the occasional spam.
Just my pet peev
Rus
I can understand why Sun would want to move into a very competitive market where margins are low and competition is fierce. When I think of office type PCs, which is the market they are going after I think of Dell, HP/Compaq and maybe IBM. I don't think of Sun and I can't see what they can bring.
How will a Sun compete on a price/performance point (even if running x86) with a Dell. Most offices will want M$ wether we like it or not. I really think this might just be a dying breath...
Rus
I bought one of the first Zaurus in the shape of the the SL5000 and wondered if anyone has any figures for the battery life on it? I do find the a WLAN CF/SD Card and backlight I will get 90 minutes if I'm lucky. If worse comes to worse I just plug it into the mains :)
Rus
For the geek this is cool. I like it and wouldn't mind one but I can't help but think that normal Joe bloggs on the street might think, why do I need all this? Also I think that it might be just to much. All that technology just can't come cheap surely? As one of the comments says
... "
"Appreciate the technology and efforts but reality is that no convergence device other than clock radio has succeded. Put the consumer first and you will
Also I don't like the red....
Rus
I'm just wondering how big the actual form factor for this would be. Personally I would like it to be at least down the CF size so that way I can put in in my Zaurus and have it work as a phone. However I get the horrible feeling the battery life will last about 5 minutes
Rus
Am I correct in thinking that in the US there is no easy way to tell if a phone you are calling is a cell phone or a land line? I just ask as here in the UK you can always tell the difference as anything beginning with 07 is a mobile and almost everything else is a landline. As such telemarkets here can always work out what they are calling you on if they get your mobile number somehow. BTW we don't have our mobile numbers listed in directory enquiers (yet)
Rus
You can read the official M$ story of the windows history at microsoft.com :)
including horrible coloured screenshots
Rus
I would like to see languages preserved for translation of old documents. Think about the rosetta stone and how important it was in translating the bible. If would be nice to have languages with some form of context so that in the future if translation would be easier if all the natural speakers were dead
Rus
Prehaps Sony realises that ATM in terms of installed based and quality of the game library there isn't anything that can touch the PS2. In europe both the X-Box and Gamecube aren't anywhere near as popular. Why should Sony push new hardware onto the market to extend their lead now when there is no need to.
As other people have said the PS2 unit itself might start making money for sony as production costs fall. Sure I would love to have the PS3 but Sony know the market will wait. Also with any luck the extra time will mean that the new technology will be even more advanced.
I look forward to the day I can play a photorealistic games rendered in real time.
Rus
The computer I'm sitting here using is a Dual Athlon, 1GB of ram and more hard disk than you can shake a stick at. What am I doing with it all?
Browsing the web. I don't need all this power. It only comes in handy when I do something like compile a new kernel.
Why have I got all this power? Well you've got to put other geeks in their place surely? Or is it just all penis-envy?
Rus
Its great to see Dell do this and then pass it onto charity. I just can't help wonder though if they make sure the hard disks are wiped before passing them out. There have been many cases of where private information has ended up in the public domain.
:)
Also on a side note I just looked at the advertising graphic at the top, one of the 5 text ones. Its advertising in order (left to right)
Dell, itdisposal.com, Dell, Dell and Dell
Well looks like they've got their targeting data right
rus
Well now that Apple have the man who invented the internet there is no stopping them :)
Rus
I've always heard that port scanning is like checking to see if doors are unlocked. Its annoying but not illegal. However using the knowledge and breaking in.
If people are that concerned then they can always reconfigure their firewall to only allow traffic to the ports that are meant to be open and drop the rest. Of course if they really want to get paranoid then they should look at fooling nmap (posted a couple of days ago)
Rus
One thing I would like to see added to that list is "Make sure you respond" and this is the submitter I'm talking about. I found there is a certain group of people who will submit a bug (or problem) and demand it be fixed now as it is absolutly necessary for me to work.
So you ask them for more information. What do you get back? Nothing. You ask them again. Still nothing. Great. You try your best and get nothing back
Rus
...that make you go ooh thats clever. I've always found the difference to be between a good sysadmin and a great sysadmin is when they do something and you go wow now thats smart. Some one like this
Rus
What is H1-B? Is this the Visa that allows foriegn nationals to work in the US in high tech jobs?
rus
At the moment in the UK it is fashionable for women to wear trousers with low bands and thongs. Can make for interesting viewing :)
Rus
Well a friend of mind thought she might want to do that with my camera. Posted them on my photo gallery, she never did it again :)
Rus
The locustworld is a neat bit of kit offering WiFI/Internet access at a resonable price. However does anyone know what sort of range it can achieve without having to resort to pringle cans as directional arials?
Rus
Somehow so try http://www.jonnyclark.com/amazon.html
Rus
You've got to wonder how long it will before someone gets caught our when they say they weren't down the pub :)
Rus
Going by a mailing list I'm on it seems that some of the early buyers actually had their credit cards charged for this. Now under UK law these make a legally binding contract as payment has been made. Its going to be interesting to see how Amazon reacts to this one.
There was a similar case a few years back with Kodak where the mispriced a camera and finally ended up honouring the deal. Details on the inquirer.