After learning that no Software Development project can be completed without the use of profanity, South Carolina makes it illegal to develop software within the state.
I've never found any of the for pay development tools to be worth much at all. If they wanted that market share, then they should have made better tools. The fact that we (as a community) were so fed up with their offerings that we actually went out and built them ourselves expresses just how out of touch the industry really is.
>> During an interview with Wolf Blitzer last in March 1999, Gore said, 'During my service in the United States Congress, I took >> the initiative in creating the internet.'
That is where the quote came from. Notice that "invent" was never used. Though the Internet, in all its Gopher, FTP, and IRC splendor did exist (and was thriving) in some capacity prior to 1990 (and even 1980), he WAS and IS the politician credited with creating the funding and planning for building the network equivalent of Eisenhower's Interstate Highway system.
And to go one further: a large number of the roads that are now called "Interstate Routes" existed prior (much prior in many cases) to Eisenhower. Much of the interstate system was built by upgrading roads that we now call "secondary highways". Also, controlled-access routes were not a new thing either. The Interstate system simply details a federal standard for building them. In many older, denser, cities such as New York, Philadelphia, even Cincinnati had already constructed local networks of controlled-access highways by the 1930's.
It seems to me like you and Mr. Gates agree. He's not stating that PCs will kill PDAs and phones (remember, this is Bill, not Steve), but that PCs will drive PDAs and phones. Look at a lot of the higher-end phones that come out these days: WMP, IE, etc. Microsoft Activesync, for crying out loud, points that MS has simply moved into PDAs.
The big point of my post is not that he is wrong in his basic ideas, but that his "windows is everywhere" mantra is short sighted. Microsoft's drive seems to be to cram a "Start Menu" and Outlook onto anything that it can find. No real innovation there. No drive to improve the workability of either of those things.
Also, these higher-end phones are not exactly selling like hotcakes. Many of them have been plagued by bugs and operator-hostility. They [the WinCE devices] still work under the premise that MicroSoft knows what you want to do and how you want to do it, and YOU don't get a choice in the matter.
I think the real revolutionary development will be to watch where the Motorola mobile Linux project goes. That is actually an open-ended model for this market. Rather than trying to force the market to use your crummy device-interface, they are actually fostering a development community that may drive [mobile Linux] into the mainstream simply because the resources are there to develop something truly revolutionary.
I do live in the US (Cincinnati specifically), but I don't own (or watch) TV because it is generally pretty awful. I have a [dying] automobile as well, but can get around just fine without it. The car simply adds extra mobility and flexibility to my life. A lot of people own both of these things (and in the US it may seem like everyone does), but there are many without them. Yeah, they are familiar with the existence, but they are not building blocks of life.
However: Shoes are Ubiquitous. Clocks are Ubiquitous.
Google is nearly Ubiquitous, but only within the realm of computer use.
I agree with his assessment that this is a new beginning in ubiquity.
Unfortunately, the comparison is a buzzkill. I have never really seen automobiles nor televisions as "Ubiquitous". This leads me to doubt Gates' actual understanding of the ramifications (an unleashed possibility) of this phenomenon. This will ultimately be the downfall of his "Windows everywhere" vision.
The miniaturization is effectively going to put the PC in your pocket [figuratively]. Moreover, rather than having a "PC at home" I see us having connected devices that send and receive information from a remote server (or servers), and provide us with the mobility without sacrificing the connectivity.
Yeah, we had one of these downtown here in cincy, I think I remember an article in the paper about it like five years ago. They have since repaved and it is gone. Strange...
For your first point, I do not believe manufacturers would be able to advertise it as NewCard if they don't provide USB 2.0 and PCI Express. Just like how you cannot advertise CardBus support if you do not actually have a CardBus bridge.
Basically, this new slot is comprised of a USB 2.0 bus connection and a PCI Bus connection. They have shared Management pins and power (both common features to any PC Card).
This will make it easier, rather than having to go out and buy an external USB 2.0 device or PCI Express device and wonder what the difference between this USB 2.0 burner and PCI Express burnere is, this provides a unified interface for both. If the manufacturer decides that the peripheral will benefit from the added bandwidth and infrastructure in the PCI Express solution they can use that interface. It also seems that they would have the option of using both interfaces simultaneously.
So they have created a "Credit Card" replacement for PCMCIA that is smaller, lighter, and less power-hungry. It has better power management and is a direct connection to the host bus (rather than using that horrible CardBus bridge or PCMCIA pseudo-ISA/EISA controller). It supports a faster bus and will probably have a much higher success rate for any notebook user. I'm sorry, I just don't see your point of view, it's like you made everything up.
Oh, so they are going to use the old sony 2.88 MB floppy tech. For this. Wasn't perp. recording patented or something which killed it so long ago? Props to those of you lucky enough to find a 2.88M floppy drive.
Dude, NeXT is a BSD itself. GNU is to Linux what FreeBSD is to OS X. The entire UNIX userland is from FreeBSD. The kernel is not, though, at least not entirely. It is running some of FreeBSD's code and a lot of NeXT/OSX code on top of the Mach microkernel. Basically NeXT was based on much of the code that was to become Free/Net/OpenBSD.
Weren't they going to use AMD chips for their systems? They already have been using the 756 southbridge for their peripheral host ever since they began selling the G3 bubble-tower. I had assumed that they were planning on doing a swich when hammer came out.
A long, long time ago to take the square root of a number, the correct way of doing this was:
root 12
This was shortened eventually to:
r 12
Notice how similar the r (think of handwriting) looks to the square root symbol today. The neck of the 'r' is simply extended over the contents of which to take the root, for grouping so that: root(222*422+22) is unnecessary. Shorthand always lives on, just look at the romance languages, and how noone speaks latin anymore. Are they wrong? I don't think so.
I actually kind of enjoyed it. I saw most of it, it got cut up at the final half hour by time warner not being able to maintain a clean connection. Time Warner has shown that AOL can make cable TV as unreliable as their so-called on-line service.
I went out and bought the new Samsung SCH-8500. I found this phone to be very nice, it has a WAP browser and a 6-line screen. I use it for getting directions, movie times, weather, news, scores, and all kind of stuff on-line. The nice part of the phone is that Samsung has a nice text entry mode called T9 that lets you type words and only having to press each key once. For the most part, you can type short messages up rather quickly. It basically works by matching up the key sequence with words it has in an internal dictionary. The phone is also dual-band, which I really wanted, and has a good battery life and short charge time. It also has a number of PIM features you can use as well. The calendar is really nice. If you don't want the PIM, you can get tthe SCH-850 (if you can find it) and save $20-$30. Anyway, it also fits nicely in my small change pocket of my pants and is less than 5 oz. The only thing that I dislike is that it seems to lose connection while in standby easier than some phones when I am in some large buildings, but it stays connected better if you are talking on it. Other than that it is very nice.
Okay, I really don't see what's so great about using outlook. It is obviously an extremely inferior product that Microsoft has been able to push using their Windows Operating System. I know plenty of people that are forced to use this crap because of their work. Perhaps it's time that companies stop using shitty products like this because some idiot with an MCSE tells them to because they didn't learn any better (no, I am not implying MCSE's are idiots, but an idiot with an MCSE is a dangerous entity, you can all admit that). The administration tried to get our university to switch to backoffice fro their mail servers so that everyone would have to use outlook for the integration with MS Schedule+. Our NE guys just laughed at them. If we replaced our AIX servers with NT boxen running NT it would be crash city. Face it, MS makes crap and everyone keeps buying it, just stop and ACTUALLY DO RESEARCH FOR A CHANGE. Perhaps then you will spend $1000 on a brand new system that does not crash and does not have blatant security holes and has a logical GUI.
The article specifically identifies the problem as being in Gateway 2000's error, yet you, krautt, say that AMD has not gone with their Quality Control department and released "untested hardware" into the market. Well, if you must know, the chip is very tested and runs on virtually every other motherboard properly. Try telling the news instead of spreading FUD... it helps.
I was reading the letter. The claim under penalty of perjury that the request is made in good faith, but it is obviously not. They basically want to bully an open forum where people can read truths rather than plain lies. For instance, people might actually know that WMF is not a real standard.
The wording of the patent (for those of you who actually read the patent) state that it is patenting a method for using dated-keys stored in the registry for querying a master database to see whether there is an update. It is so restrictive to windows, that MS & Friends would be the only ones using it anyway. RPM, apt, and the BSD package/ports system are not in any trouble.
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After learning that no Software Development project can be completed without the use of profanity, South Carolina makes it illegal to develop software within the state.
I've never found any of the for pay development tools to be worth much at all. If they wanted that market share, then they should have made better tools. The fact that we (as a community) were so fed up with their offerings that we actually went out and built them ourselves expresses just how out of touch the industry really is.
Sounds like a bad advertisement for Clusters cereal.
I hear there aren't rumors on the Internets.
You are an idiot. Get your facts straight:
>> During an interview with Wolf Blitzer last in March 1999, Gore said, 'During my service in the United States Congress, I took
>> the initiative in creating the internet.'
That is where the quote came from. Notice that "invent" was never used. Though the Internet, in all its Gopher, FTP, and IRC splendor did exist (and was thriving) in some capacity prior to 1990 (and even 1980), he WAS and IS the politician credited with creating the funding and planning for building the network equivalent of Eisenhower's Interstate Highway system.
And to go one further: a large number of the roads that are now called "Interstate Routes" existed prior (much prior in many cases) to Eisenhower. Much of the interstate system was built by upgrading roads that we now call "secondary highways". Also, controlled-access routes were not a new thing either. The Interstate system simply details a federal standard for building them. In many older, denser, cities such as New York, Philadelphia, even Cincinnati had already constructed local networks of controlled-access highways by the 1930's.
It seems to me like you and Mr. Gates agree. He's not stating that PCs will kill PDAs and phones (remember, this is Bill, not Steve), but that PCs will drive PDAs and phones. Look at a lot of the higher-end phones that come out these days: WMP, IE, etc. Microsoft Activesync, for crying out loud, points that MS has simply moved into PDAs.
The big point of my post is not that he is wrong in his basic ideas, but that his "windows is everywhere" mantra is short sighted. Microsoft's drive seems to be to cram a "Start Menu" and Outlook onto anything that it can find. No real innovation there. No drive to improve the workability of either of those things.
Also, these higher-end phones are not exactly selling like hotcakes. Many of them have been plagued by bugs and operator-hostility. They [the WinCE devices] still work under the premise that MicroSoft knows what you want to do and how you want to do it, and YOU don't get a choice in the matter.
I think the real revolutionary development will be to watch where the Motorola mobile Linux project goes. That is actually an open-ended model for this market. Rather than trying to force the market to use your crummy device-interface, they are actually fostering a development community that may drive [mobile Linux] into the mainstream simply because the resources are there to develop something truly revolutionary.
I do live in the US (Cincinnati specifically), but I don't own (or watch) TV because it is generally pretty awful. I have a [dying] automobile as well, but can get around just fine without it. The car simply adds extra mobility and flexibility to my life. A lot of people own both of these things (and in the US it may seem like everyone does), but there are many without them. Yeah, they are familiar with the existence, but they are not building blocks of life.
However:
Shoes are Ubiquitous.
Clocks are Ubiquitous.
Google is nearly Ubiquitous, but only within the realm of computer use.
Funny.
I agree with his assessment that this is a new beginning in ubiquity.
Unfortunately, the comparison is a buzzkill. I have never really seen automobiles nor televisions as "Ubiquitous". This leads me to doubt Gates' actual understanding of the ramifications (an unleashed possibility) of this phenomenon. This will ultimately be the downfall of his "Windows everywhere" vision.
The miniaturization is effectively going to put the PC in your pocket [figuratively]. Moreover, rather than having a "PC at home" I see us having connected devices that send and receive information from a remote server (or servers), and provide us with the mobility without sacrificing the connectivity.
Oh yeah: First post.
Back to the Future showcased "Mr. Fusion". Could this be "Mr. Petrol"?
Speaking with a friend of mine there are three of them here:
Main & 4th
Walnut & 5th
Walnut & 6th
dunno if they still exist now.
Allegedly the 4th and Main tile still exists right now.
Yeah, we had one of these downtown here in cincy, I think I remember an article in the paper about it like five years ago. They have since repaved and it is gone. Strange...
For your first point, I do not believe manufacturers would be able to advertise it as NewCard if they don't provide USB 2.0 and PCI Express. Just like how you cannot advertise CardBus support if you do not actually have a CardBus bridge.
Basically, this new slot is comprised of a USB 2.0 bus connection and a PCI Bus connection. They have shared Management pins and power (both common features to any PC Card).
This will make it easier, rather than having to go out and buy an external USB 2.0 device or PCI Express device and wonder what the difference between this USB 2.0 burner and PCI Express burnere is, this provides a unified interface for both. If the manufacturer decides that the peripheral will benefit from the added bandwidth and infrastructure in the PCI Express solution they can use that interface. It also seems that they would have the option of using both interfaces simultaneously.
So they have created a "Credit Card" replacement for PCMCIA that is smaller, lighter, and less power-hungry. It has better power management and is a direct connection to the host bus (rather than using that horrible CardBus bridge or PCMCIA pseudo-ISA/EISA controller). It supports a faster bus and will probably have a much higher success rate for any notebook user. I'm sorry, I just don't see your point of view, it's like you made everything up.
Oh, so they are going to use the old sony 2.88 MB floppy tech. For this. Wasn't perp. recording patented or something which killed it so long ago? Props to those of you lucky enough to find a 2.88M floppy drive.
That would be more like 175kg of lead
Dude, NeXT is a BSD itself. GNU is to Linux what FreeBSD is to OS X. The entire UNIX userland is from FreeBSD. The kernel is not, though, at least not entirely. It is running some of FreeBSD's code and a lot of NeXT/OSX code on top of the Mach microkernel. Basically NeXT was based on much of the code that was to become Free/Net/OpenBSD.
Weren't they going to use AMD chips for their systems? They already have been using the 756 southbridge for their peripheral host ever since they began selling the G3 bubble-tower. I had assumed that they were planning on doing a swich when hammer came out.
The engineer in Enterprise is named Tripp.
Think of math:
A long, long time ago to take the square root of a number, the correct way of doing this was:
root 12
This was shortened eventually to:
r 12
Notice how similar the r (think of handwriting) looks to the square root symbol today. The neck of the 'r' is simply extended over the contents of which to take the root, for grouping so that:
root(222*422+22) is unnecessary. Shorthand always lives on, just look at the romance languages, and how noone speaks latin anymore. Are they wrong? I don't think so.
I actually kind of enjoyed it. I saw most of it, it got cut up at the final half hour by time warner not being able to maintain a clean connection. Time Warner has shown that AOL can make cable TV as unreliable as their so-called on-line service.
I went out and bought the new Samsung SCH-8500. I found this phone to be very nice, it has a WAP browser and a 6-line screen. I use it for getting directions, movie times, weather, news, scores, and all kind of stuff on-line. The nice part of the phone is that Samsung has a nice text entry mode called T9 that lets you type words and only having to press each key once. For the most part, you can type short messages up rather quickly. It basically works by matching up the key sequence with words it has in an internal dictionary. The phone is also dual-band, which I really wanted, and has a good battery life and short charge time. It also has a number of PIM features you can use as well. The calendar is really nice. If you don't want the PIM, you can get tthe SCH-850 (if you can find it) and save $20-$30. Anyway, it also fits nicely in my small change pocket of my pants and is less than 5 oz. The only thing that I dislike is that it seems to lose connection while in standby easier than some phones when I am in some large buildings, but it stays connected better if you are talking on it. Other than that it is very nice.
Okay, I really don't see what's so great about using outlook. It is obviously an extremely inferior product that Microsoft has been able to push using their Windows Operating System. I know plenty of people that are forced to use this crap because of their work. Perhaps it's time that companies stop using shitty products like this because some idiot with an MCSE tells them to because they didn't learn any better (no, I am not implying MCSE's are idiots, but an idiot with an MCSE is a dangerous entity, you can all admit that). The administration tried to get our university to switch to backoffice fro their mail servers so that everyone would have to use outlook for the integration with MS Schedule+. Our NE guys just laughed at them. If we replaced our AIX servers with NT boxen running NT it would be crash city. Face it, MS makes crap and everyone keeps buying it, just stop and ACTUALLY DO RESEARCH FOR A CHANGE. Perhaps then you will spend $1000 on a brand new system that does not crash and does not have blatant security holes and has a logical GUI.
I meant, logic... not login
The article specifically identifies the problem as being in Gateway 2000's error, yet you, krautt, say that AMD has not gone with their Quality Control department and released "untested hardware" into the market. Well, if you must know, the chip is very tested and runs on virtually every other motherboard properly. Try telling the news instead of spreading FUD... it helps.
I was reading the letter. The claim under penalty of perjury that the request is made in good faith, but it is obviously not. They basically want to bully an open forum where people can read truths rather than plain lies. For instance, people might actually know that WMF is not a real standard.
The wording of the patent (for those of you who actually read the patent) state that it is patenting a method for using dated-keys stored in the registry for querying a master database to see whether there is an update. It is so restrictive to windows, that MS & Friends would be the only ones using it anyway. RPM, apt, and the BSD package/ports system are not in any trouble.