http://www.infrastructures.org has documentation on the theory behind keeping multiple systems up to date. Most of their work has been Unix oriented, but the concepts they have developed are broadly applicable.
The FAQ doesn't say anything about what happens to your email address. He sounds like a good chap the wouldn't take advantage of the tons of addresses he's gonna get, but it would reassure me if he put a few lines in his FAQ about email address privacy.
If we're going to employ google's system, why do work twice?./. editors should just take care to post the google cache url in addition to the actual url. Opt out is already taken care of and there are no extra resources needed for/.
Verizon told me all about it including the release date just after Christmas at shopping mall in Massachusetts. There was even a Verizon engineer (passing by on his way to return gifts) there to confirm the sales babble in real terms. All I had to do was to lay out a solid case for Cingular;-). I went away thinking this is what they were telling everyone so I was a bit confused when people called it a surprise announcement:-P
PDA's are fantastically useful to me. I don't know how I would get to anything on time without the cling-ting-ting of my Visor Deluxe. However I think chasing the high end (Platinum)is a bad move as well as moving laterally (Treo) if the consumer gets another 500.00 gadget. Ford made millions not by making the coolest car, but by making millions of a good-enough car everyone could afford. People in electronics land forget sometimes the Walmart/Target population. Instead of building a few nifty high margin palm compatible gadgets I think Handspring has the opportunity to redesign for efficiency and then mass produce affordable, practical handhelds in huge numbers. Steve Jobs is addicted to high margins: look at the market penetration of Apple.
Current prices for a Visor Deluxe on ebay are around 70.00. I think 49.99 would just about do it for a target price. This would allow the penetration that would truly launch Springboard as development platform. High margins can be made on nifty modules (GPS, phone, graphing calc. etc) later, after every kid, father and mother has one.
My.02
-ghostis
Unfair Monopoly!
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Apple PDA?
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· Score: 2, Funny
This rumor has an unfair monopoly; we all know how much monopolies suck! So all you free market champions out there: I challenge you to produce evidence of an equally compelling new Apple product that is going to change the face computing. Whip out your Gimps, Photoshops, and other varied authoring tools and whip up a new and improved rumor! We can't in good conscience let this one take over the market;-)!
My strategy was to spend the first day picking out stuff. Then next day my experienced Japanese friend graciously went around and haggled for what I wanted while wandered around being a tourist. My reasoning was that given the flexiblity of prices in Akihabra a native speaker with clear understanding of Japanese tones of voice and facial expressions could get better deals. All in all it worked pretty well!
This a concept pc? More like a pc that is somewhat non legacy and has wireless components. As others have noted: great, I can lose my keyboard and mouse too. Fundamentally though it is still within the same monitor-keyboard-mouse-cpubox paradigm defined at Xerox PARC. Cept it has things in different positions and fewer wires. Why a cpu-box? I thought LCDs don't generate that much heat, so why not, at very least, increase the leg-room, deskspace, whatever and combine the cpu-box and monitor. Things can certainly be made light enough; we have laptops after all. Also why no creativity from the industry leaders in the interaction dept. I have always wanted to do something like combining an expresso pc (see arstechnica.com) with a head mounted display. Maybe even throw in vr gloves and software that virtualizes the standard interfaces (keyboard, pointer) and adds new ones. This is the same old thing with prettier chrome.
I second the professor suggestion. If you can find a tinkerer they tend to have cool things to share, at least that was the case in the physics dept at Connecticut College. Also in WLUG (Worcester, MA LUG), we have our members speak about projects they're currently hacking. Such presentations are great if you can't
find a speaker for a particular meeting.
Doesn't this increase the memory requirements for a game quite a bit? Then again RAM is cheap. With everything on RAM and reading off the cd this means those of us without a lot of space to spare on our drives can play games too. Also the general concept holds promise for making cheap gaming systems from x86/powerpc parts. For a somewhat related project see knoppix (presented at ALS): http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/
Systems like Napster rely on all files of the particular type wanted by the user, be it songs from the same band or files of type mp3 in general, having reliable descriptive content to search against. On gnutella the content is the filename, hence any file with a keyword is a legitimate hit. On Napster is the desciption embedded in the mp3 and the file attributes (size, name, etc). Faked files will become more and more of a problem on both systems (more quickly on gnutella I suspect) as people abuse the "open" search methods. Perhaps a finger print of sorts that is calculated before download time by the server and sent to client such that a "true" signature indicates a high probability that what the user is downloading is legit is needed. Unfortunately engineering one in such a way that it can't be spoofed won't be easy. Of RIAA could easily prosecute anyone who posts a song with a valid finger print. Damn. Maybe that's not a good answer.
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Sure they can claim that they have effectively "paid" you for your work by letting you use the site, but I would forgo working on anything valuable there. It might be a good idea for them to create paid accounts which would grant users access to the site but not grant any rights to Online Photolab. Without IP protection the site is little more than a Cool GIMP Application, i.e. a toy.
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http://www.infrastructures.org
has documentation on the theory behind keeping multiple systems up to date. Most of their work has been Unix oriented, but the concepts they have developed are broadly applicable.
-ghostis
Hebrew for: To refresh them?
-Ghostis
The caption to the plant pic says:
;-).
"As seen in the Jurassic age"
I didn't know dinos knew how to pot plants, let alone make plant pots
-ghostis
The FAQ doesn't say anything about what happens to your email address. He sounds like a good chap the wouldn't take advantage of the tons of addresses he's gonna get, but it would reassure me if he put a few lines in his FAQ about email address privacy.
-ghostis
Upcoming feature: these cognative models will soon all talk to each other through a new protocol called Skynet :-P.
One choice would be the open OpenOffice format.
Here is the story:0 7/02/FFX 0ADFPLOC.html
http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/
Speaking of ridiculous patents let us not forget the esteemed Australian gentleman who patented the wheel!
To the APO's credit they did retract the patent...
-ghostis
My buddy at the Mathworks has an online computer museum:
http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum
and a physical museum with a website at
http://www.osfn.org/rcs
Have fun!
-Adam
If we're going to employ google's system, why do work twice?. /. editors should just take care to post the google cache url in addition to the actual url. Opt out is already taken care of and there are no extra resources needed for /.
-ghostis
Verizon told me all about it including the release date just after Christmas at shopping mall in Massachusetts. There was even a Verizon engineer (passing by on his way to return gifts) there to confirm the sales babble in real terms. All I had to do was to lay out a solid case for Cingular ;-). I went away thinking this is what they were telling everyone so I was a bit confused when people called it a surprise announcement :-P
-ghostis
MODEL T.
.02
PDA's are fantastically useful to me. I don't know how I would get to anything on time without the cling-ting-ting of my Visor Deluxe. However I think chasing the high end (Platinum)is a bad move as well as moving laterally (Treo) if the consumer gets another 500.00 gadget. Ford made millions not by making the coolest car, but by making millions of a good-enough car everyone could afford. People in electronics land forget sometimes the Walmart/Target population. Instead of building a few nifty high margin palm compatible gadgets I think Handspring has the opportunity to redesign for efficiency and then mass produce affordable, practical handhelds in huge numbers. Steve Jobs is addicted to high margins: look at the market penetration of Apple.
Current prices for a Visor Deluxe on ebay are around 70.00. I think 49.99 would just about do it for a target price. This would allow the penetration that would truly launch Springboard as development platform. High margins can be made on nifty modules (GPS, phone, graphing calc. etc) later, after every kid, father and mother has one.
My
-ghostis
This rumor has an unfair monopoly; we all know how much monopolies suck! So all you free market champions out there: I challenge you to produce evidence of an equally compelling new Apple product that is going to change the face computing. Whip out your Gimps, Photoshops, and other varied authoring tools and whip up a new and improved rumor! We can't in good conscience let this one take over the market ;-)!
-ghostis
My strategy was to spend the first day picking out stuff. Then next day my experienced Japanese friend graciously went around and haggled for what I wanted while wandered around being a tourist. My reasoning was that given the flexiblity of prices in Akihabra a native speaker with clear understanding of Japanese tones of voice and facial expressions could get better deals. All in all it worked pretty well!
-ghostis
This a concept pc? More like a pc that is somewhat non legacy and has wireless components. As others have noted: great, I can lose my keyboard and mouse too. Fundamentally though it is still within the same monitor-keyboard-mouse-cpubox paradigm defined at Xerox PARC. Cept it has things in different positions and fewer wires. Why a cpu-box? I thought LCDs don't generate that much heat, so why not, at very least, increase the leg-room, deskspace, whatever and combine the cpu-box and monitor. Things can certainly be made light enough; we have laptops after all. Also why no creativity from the industry leaders in the interaction dept. I have always wanted to do something like combining an expresso pc (see arstechnica.com) with a head mounted display. Maybe even throw in vr gloves and software that virtualizes the standard interfaces (keyboard, pointer) and adds new ones. This is the same old thing with prettier chrome.
-ghostis
try out PC weasel with any motherboard. I just got mine so I can't say too much about it.
http://www.realweasel.com/
http://www.visionyze.com/news_and_events/press_
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian/
300.00 would get enough parts for a LART and then some:
http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/
-ghostis
I second the professor suggestion. If you can find a tinkerer they tend to have cool things to share, at least that was the case in the physics dept at Connecticut College. Also in WLUG (Worcester, MA LUG), we have our members speak about projects they're currently hacking. Such presentations are great if you can't find a speaker for a particular meeting.
Doesn't this increase the memory requirements for a game quite a bit? Then again RAM is cheap. With everything on RAM and reading off the cd this means those of us without a lot of space to spare on our drives can play games too. Also the general concept holds promise for making cheap gaming systems from x86/powerpc parts. For a somewhat related project see knoppix (presented at ALS): http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/
-ghostis
Systems like Napster rely on all files of the particular type wanted by the user, be it songs from the same band or files of type mp3 in general, having reliable descriptive content to search against. On gnutella the content is the filename, hence any file with a keyword is a legitimate hit. On Napster is the desciption embedded in the mp3 and the file attributes (size, name, etc). Faked files will become more and more of a problem on both systems (more quickly on gnutella I suspect) as people abuse the "open" search methods. Perhaps a finger print of sorts that is calculated before download time by the server and sent to client such that a "true" signature indicates a high probability that what the user is downloading is legit is needed. Unfortunately engineering one in such a way that it can't be spoofed won't be easy. Of RIAA could easily prosecute anyone who posts a song with a valid finger print. Damn. Maybe that's not a good answer.
Apparently. Was awake for 60 hours... obviously couldn't read anymore.