Actually I believe I have KDE 3.1 installed on a RH9 distro. I think I'm gonna stick with this setup until my group figures out which distro we will use going forward.
I haven't measured my productivity to support one OS over the other. On the other hand, I IM'd a coworker yesterday saying that linux would take over the desktop when it gets a unified clipboard. I had about 3 different apps (Netbeans, TOra, and Konsole) open and I couldn't move text between the 3 consistently. In the end, I just made sure I could see the text in both windows and typed it in again.
Maybe there isn't a productivity boost, but how can you say a unified UI doesn't make a difference when the user has to think about the UI limitations?
I skip plenty of commericals with my TiVo. For a 30 minute recording, I seem to be shown the same ad at every commerical break. I think people want a bit of variety in their commericals. How many ads are repeated during the Super Bowl?
Then you can be at the other end of the spectrum. I also backed up a recording, hit pause and called my wife into the room to see a commerical. Of course it was only the second time I saw the commerical. I'm not sure how many more times I will watch it.
The other day I got Tweeter catalog in the mail. Inside there was a portable DVD player with a 12" LCD for $900-$1000. They were hyping it for having the largest screen on a portable player. I looked at it and thought "I'd rather have the laptop for difference in price between the two items".
You are correct that supermarkets are tracking this stuff. My example of embarrassing things at the market with my wife's club card resulted in a free sample in the mail. >;-)
One of the companies I worked for put the money out for Clearcase and I really liked using it. Granted the vob filesystem was kinda slow, but I could my unix tools against specific versions of the file, not just the latest. The thing that boggled my mind was that we threw it aside when we started using all open source development tools, and thus CVS. I think some of our deployment processes suffered since CVS is not as good at the configuration management that Clearcase was.
I'm using the final FC1 with updates. You are correct in that FC2 is still in test release. Reguardless the GUI tool I was talking about is redhat-config-bind. Which I'm assuming the Fedora team took from RH9 and didn't much to it.
I'm just about ready to switch my linux sever over to a BSD system. Trying to use the python gui in Fedora to config my DNS produced config files that mostly worked, but named would complain about the config files on startup. In the end I was back to editing the files by hand to make named happy.
As a mac user, I admit that I like to use the Microsoft mice. Back before OS X, I thought it was funny that the mouse wheel worked in every OS 9 app once you installed the driver. While at work, I'd be lucky if more than have my apps on NT would support the wheel.
Yes. I remember stiction quite well. Just started college at Drexel with a brand new SE/30. Thank goodness I had Applecare at the time. Think I went through 2 40Mb drives in the first two years I owned it. In those days I felt Applecare was better. It was a lot easier to find computer stores that were authorized resellers and they didn't blink and eye when you dropped off an apple and said it needed to be fixed. These days, I'm not sure I trust the few places left that would honor Applecare. Luckily, I'm a short drive to the KoP mall and an Apple Store.
Some days I don't play well with others is because I don't want to get burned by the other developers. My example is we used WebObjects to develop a couple products. The developers were generally split into two groups and we generaly chunked things out into WebObject frameworks. My product had need to talk to a database that the other group had developed a framework for and I pluged it into my product. A couple months later my product won't compile any more and is complaining about a class I've never heard of. Tracked it down to the framework I got from the other group. They needed some new functionality and did a code refactor, which I would have been fine with, but the database model now made use of a class in another framework. I didn't have need of the new framework and did not want to incur another dependicy and whatever dependices it had. So I ended up copy what I needed and forking the code cuase there was no way I could convince a developer in the other group that classes needed to be moved. It also seemded like everytime we thought there was overlap, the code was useless because of the dependencies that added no benifit to my product.
You are correct that Dell has a monopoly on Dell computers as only Dell sells them. So there isn't a question of Dell favoring their retail arm over other retailers. I'm still waiting for proof that Apple is guilty of favoring their retail stores.
While I agree OGG support would be nice. The problem I had with the lower cost players was the fact that I would have to carry extra memory cards to have the ammount of music I want with me. I estimated that the cost of the extra memory cards would drive the cost of the player over that of an iPod or a Nomad.
I would have to disagree with you that commerical software is what we need to teach our nation's children. Software keeps changing and people need to relearn features for the new version. So why should we teach students a specific commerical software package that will change by the time they get to the real world? I don't want our English teacher training students on Word XX to create their term paper because that's what the real world uses. Learning how to do a term paper at this point probably involves a word processor, so there may be lab time that the students get hands on time with a one. Does it really matter that they used an open source word processor as apposed to the one from Microsoft? Learning the basics of a word processor or a spreadsheet program should translate to other versions be they open source or commerical. We should teach students to do things not use products that will be obsolete in the near future.
I think it sucks that you can hardly see a video on MTV anymore. Though in fact they still play videos, they're just on in the middle of the night/early morning. So I got a season pass on my TiVo to record the morning wake up (6am-8am). I've seen a couple videos I liked, and fast forwarded through the rest. I can usually watch the 2 hour block in under 45 minutes.
Still can't belive MTV is filled with so much crap that I record stuff while I'm sleeping. Used to be I'd turn on MTV and then figure out what was on to watch. Those days are long gone.
Yeah, I would like to see articles on the technical differences between the Inner Sphere and Clan PPCs as well as Extended Range PPCs versus standard PPCs. >;-)
Speaking of the Mars trilogy. The first space elevator on Mars fell out of the sky in that series. Would really suck if some group of terrorist decided to take out earth's space elevator. If it fell, I would assume that there might be tidal waves associated with all that mass falling into the oceans. This would extend the damage outside the area of where the space elevator comes down.
Whether the fibre is dark or not isn't the problem. "The Internet" can handle the ammount of traffic that an event would create. The problem is the servers that everyone want to access will fail under that load. I bet dollars to donuts that news sites were going down on 9/11, but the sites where you can see chicks going down on each other were just fine that day. >;-)
I've said this before and I'll say it again. I just don't think you can combine a PVR and a game console into one box. They is to much CPU time being used for one or the other. So are you going to lose frame rate so you can record your show or lose quality on a recording because you were playing a game at the time?
Now, I don't think a TiVo/DVD combo is out of the question.
Okay, but does this mean that Apple is going into phone hardware (something like the iPod line) or phone software (something like iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, etc)? I would tend to agree with what others have stated. The cell phone market is a tough nut to crack. While I can see Apple creating a cell phone with some nice design ideas, how are they going to make it cheap enough to cover their costs? I bought an iPod cause it blew away all the other mp3 players I looked at. What is Apple gonna do with a cell phone other than the blue tooth integration I saw at MacWorld: New York?
As other people have noted, IBM also makes PPC chips. The problem with ditching Motorola is the Altivec (sp) core in the G4. This core is what makes me not care about the Mhz cause it can really rip a CD into mp3s. To my knowledge, IBM is only making G3s and has no interest in putting the Altivec core in their chips. Since IBM made a custom PPC chip for the GameCube, I'm sure they are willing to make some for Apple. Unfortunately, I think that will drive up the cost of Macs.
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Actually I believe I have KDE 3.1 installed on a RH9 distro. I think I'm gonna stick with this setup until my group figures out which distro we will use going forward.
I haven't measured my productivity to support one OS over the other. On the other hand, I IM'd a coworker yesterday saying that linux would take over the desktop when it gets a unified clipboard. I had about 3 different apps (Netbeans, TOra, and Konsole) open and I couldn't move text between the 3 consistently. In the end, I just made sure I could see the text in both windows and typed it in again. Maybe there isn't a productivity boost, but how can you say a unified UI doesn't make a difference when the user has to think about the UI limitations?
I skip plenty of commericals with my TiVo. For a 30 minute recording, I seem to be shown the same ad at every commerical break. I think people want a bit of variety in their commericals. How many ads are repeated during the Super Bowl?
Then you can be at the other end of the spectrum. I also backed up a recording, hit pause and called my wife into the room to see a commerical. Of course it was only the second time I saw the commerical. I'm not sure how many more times I will watch it.
Here's another me too.
The other day I got Tweeter catalog in the mail. Inside there was a portable DVD player with a 12" LCD for $900-$1000. They were hyping it for having the largest screen on a portable player. I looked at it and thought "I'd rather have the laptop for difference in price between the two items".
You are correct that supermarkets are tracking this stuff. My example of embarrassing things at the market with my wife's club card resulted in a free sample in the mail. >;-)
I tend to stay away from the piss-colored-water myself, but have been know to drink Amber Bock on ocassion
One of the companies I worked for put the money out for Clearcase and I really liked using it. Granted the vob filesystem was kinda slow, but I could my unix tools against specific versions of the file, not just the latest. The thing that boggled my mind was that we threw it aside when we started using all open source development tools, and thus CVS. I think some of our deployment processes suffered since CVS is not as good at the configuration management that Clearcase was.
I'm using the final FC1 with updates. You are correct in that FC2 is still in test release. Reguardless the GUI tool I was talking about is redhat-config-bind. Which I'm assuming the Fedora team took from RH9 and didn't much to it.
I'm just about ready to switch my linux sever over to a BSD system. Trying to use the python gui in Fedora to config my DNS produced config files that mostly worked, but named would complain about the config files on startup. In the end I was back to editing the files by hand to make named happy.
As a mac user, I admit that I like to use the Microsoft mice. Back before OS X, I thought it was funny that the mouse wheel worked in every OS 9 app once you installed the driver. While at work, I'd be lucky if more than have my apps on NT would support the wheel.
Yeah, the only movie that I really liked him in was "The Chase."
To quote Henry Rollins: "Never read the book, but I like the story." ;-)
Yes. I remember stiction quite well. Just started college at Drexel with a brand new SE/30. Thank goodness I had Applecare at the time. Think I went through 2 40Mb drives in the first two years I owned it. In those days I felt Applecare was better. It was a lot easier to find computer stores that were authorized resellers and they didn't blink and eye when you dropped off an apple and said it needed to be fixed. These days, I'm not sure I trust the few places left that would honor Applecare. Luckily, I'm a short drive to the KoP mall and an Apple Store.
Some days I don't play well with others is because I don't want to get burned by the other developers. My example is we used WebObjects to develop a couple products. The developers were generally split into two groups and we generaly chunked things out into WebObject frameworks. My product had need to talk to a database that the other group had developed a framework for and I pluged it into my product. A couple months later my product won't compile any more and is complaining about a class I've never heard of. Tracked it down to the framework I got from the other group. They needed some new functionality and did a code refactor, which I would have been fine with, but the database model now made use of a class in another framework. I didn't have need of the new framework and did not want to incur another dependicy and whatever dependices it had. So I ended up copy what I needed and forking the code cuase there was no way I could convince a developer in the other group that classes needed to be moved. It also seemded like everytime we thought there was overlap, the code was useless because of the dependencies that added no benifit to my product.
You are correct that Dell has a monopoly on Dell computers as only Dell sells them. So there isn't a question of Dell favoring their retail arm over other retailers. I'm still waiting for proof that Apple is guilty of favoring their retail stores.
While I agree OGG support would be nice. The problem I had with the lower cost players was the fact that I would have to carry extra memory cards to have the ammount of music I want with me. I estimated that the cost of the extra memory cards would drive the cost of the player over that of an iPod or a Nomad.
I would have to disagree with you that commerical software is what we need to teach our nation's children. Software keeps changing and people need to relearn features for the new version. So why should we teach students a specific commerical software package that will change by the time they get to the real world? I don't want our English teacher training students on Word XX to create their term paper because that's what the real world uses. Learning how to do a term paper at this point probably involves a word processor, so there may be lab time that the students get hands on time with a one. Does it really matter that they used an open source word processor as apposed to the one from Microsoft? Learning the basics of a word processor or a spreadsheet program should translate to other versions be they open source or commerical. We should teach students to do things not use products that will be obsolete in the near future.
I think it sucks that you can hardly see a video on MTV anymore. Though in fact they still play videos, they're just on in the middle of the night/early morning. So I got a season pass on my TiVo to record the morning wake up (6am-8am). I've seen a couple videos I liked, and fast forwarded through the rest. I can usually watch the 2 hour block in under 45 minutes.
Still can't belive MTV is filled with so much crap that I record stuff while I'm sleeping. Used to be I'd turn on MTV and then figure out what was on to watch. Those days are long gone.
Yeah, I would like to see articles on the technical differences between the Inner Sphere and Clan PPCs as well as Extended Range PPCs versus standard PPCs. >;-)
Speaking of the Mars trilogy. The first space elevator on Mars fell out of the sky in that series. Would really suck if some group of terrorist decided to take out earth's space elevator. If it fell, I would assume that there might be tidal waves associated with all that mass falling into the oceans. This would extend the damage outside the area of where the space elevator comes down.
Whether the fibre is dark or not isn't the problem. "The Internet" can handle the ammount of traffic that an event would create. The problem is the servers that everyone want to access will fail under that load. I bet dollars to donuts that news sites were going down on 9/11, but the sites where you can see chicks going down on each other were just fine that day. >;-)
I've said this before and I'll say it again. I just don't think you can combine a PVR and a game console into one box. They is to much CPU time being used for one or the other. So are you going to lose frame rate so you can record your show or lose quality on a recording because you were playing a game at the time?
Now, I don't think a TiVo/DVD combo is out of the question.
Okay, but does this mean that Apple is going into phone hardware (something like the iPod line) or phone software (something like iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, etc)? I would tend to agree with what others have stated. The cell phone market is a tough nut to crack. While I can see Apple creating a cell phone with some nice design ideas, how are they going to make it cheap enough to cover their costs? I bought an iPod cause it blew away all the other mp3 players I looked at. What is Apple gonna do with a cell phone other than the blue tooth integration I saw at MacWorld: New York?
Consider the artilce we saw on here the other day. What would a Scramjet's exhaust do to raise the global tempature?
As other people have noted, IBM also makes PPC chips. The problem with ditching Motorola is the Altivec (sp) core in the G4. This core is what makes me not care about the Mhz cause it can really rip a CD into mp3s. To my knowledge, IBM is only making G3s and has no interest in putting the Altivec core in their chips. Since IBM made a custom PPC chip for the GameCube, I'm sure they are willing to make some for Apple. Unfortunately, I think that will drive up the cost of Macs.