do you have any idea how reliable these are? Any info welcome.
Just make it work
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I am willing to make some sacrifices to support a linux-friendly platform. I am willing to spend a bit more. I am willing to deal with some product design issues (size, etc).
Just make it work. I want a 100% certainty that I will be able to migrate music from my linux box to the player. No message board lurking, no sifting through google groups.
If this product cannot reliably transfer music without copious under the hood tweaking, I am not interested.
USB 2.0 would be a nice addition too but even on that I will make accomodation.
I remember using this language in college when a vendor marketed it as Miranda. I found some incredible productivity gains once it was understood, but unfortunately I see little chance in the unwashed masses grasping Haskell. The imperitive/OO paradigm is so entrenched that it would take a sea change to push it out now.
The guys who bring you APIs and services like TCP/IP, Tuxedo, database managers, OpenGL, compilers, browsers and the like. Those folks use C++ and Java.
Who authors TCP/IP stacks in Java?
From what I saw, F#, uh, isn't. Its better but still, its like C++, ObjectiveC or Smalltalk or any other container based language where contained objects have no clue that they contained unless the programmer creates and maintains explicit references to the container.
Really, what the hell are you talking about?
And computing is so fundamentally simple. Its a game of N-Dimensional topology bounded by finite vectors in every dimension. There's no mystery involved. You just need to maintain a meta-model of the system and you can generate the rest.
Neither you nor I nor anyone have any idea what this means, because it is pseudo-intellectual gibberish.
I would like to know where the authors are pulling this stuff. Most of the content management software out there is complete crap. My advice is to keep files in CVS and use simple tools (make, perl scripts, simple web UIs) to manage authoring and distribution. XML is nice but the reality is that very few of your users know how to use it correctly. For better or for worse it is probably more expedient to store HTML or text files until the tools mature and XML becomes better understood by the rank and file.
Using air to separate and move paper is not new. Heidelburg platen presses (you may remember them from high school graphic arts classes) have had this feature for about fifty years.
You assume that Oracle is a static target. It is not.
No, they will just keep adding crap that fewer customers get a tangible benefit from just to stay ahead of free and commercial competitors on the feature list.
The world is full of throw-away databases run by people with no budget to speak of. Many of the businesses you speak of wouldn't consider running MySQL now, but then again, many of them probably would have said the same thing about Windows ten years ago. Check their server rooms now - probably full of Windows boxes. Wait ten years to see what MySQL does. Oracle will end up like Sun - catering to a tiny and rapidly shrinking sliver of a high end.
You see this in software too. People think if they just "start over", everything will be okay. Wrong! You just get a new set of problems.
SMTP is here to stay. We're going to have to live with it. Spam control filtering is getting better and there is a good chance that together with decent legislation, spam can be reigned in. A new system will ultimately just create new kinds of abuse, which wil lrequire the industry to take another two year cycle to address.
Keep your expectations in check folks. A lot of the basic science still has to get nailed down and funding this research is going to be a sunk cost. The only agencies willing to forward a huge sunk cost will be giant corporate research labs, universities, and government labs.
Look at the Z Shops on Amazon or Yahoo Stores in Yahoo Shopping. There are literally thousands. Some are failures, some do okay, some are hugely succesful - just like physical retail.
There are numerous services available for small business to sell on the web at a fraction of the cost requireed for physical retail space. Most range from simple hosting fees to a few hundred a month for promotion in a larger shopping site (i.e, Yahoo Store).
Okay, I know I was reaching anyway when the Zen (and libnjb) would not place nice on my linux box...but not working on a fully-updated XP box (lacking USB 2) is not acceptable.
Its true that the initial TCO for linux will rise - whenever you are switching from one platform to another, there will be costs.
I also don't believe Linux saves money on hardware compared to Windows - it seems many offices are holding back with Windows upgrades, and IT expenditures on all desktop hardware and software seems to be slowing. For most people, Win2K is fine.
What the study fails to mention is security. Linux and open source in general appear to be far ahead of Windows in this regard.
In any case, most IT people have become innured to these studies - they are often pointless mental exercises without much factual backing.
Many segments of the software industry are oversaturated. Enterprise software is probably the most afflicted. Oracle, Seibel, Sybase, IBM, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, SAP, etc all are trying to cross over into each other's markets looking for growth. They all can't win.
Add on top of that a massive wave of outsourcing and open source/free software and the five-year outlook for North American software firms is challenging. Actually it is impressive that the industry has held on for so long - probably due to low immigration barriers for tech workers that at least for a time made it easier for workers to come here than for work to go there.
Wrong. The hardware and support costs can be amortized on a huge scale. How many hosting centers is this? How many distribution centers are CDs shipped from? Do the math, its not even close. Record companies are going to make a killing on cost davings alone if this pans out.
The songs are about what you would pay in a store for a CD, actually probably more on average. Now subtract the pressing, shipping, stocking, labor, etc costs which normally are taken out of the price at retail, and you have record companies making a mint if this in fact takes off.
Come on, this country can't even assure its citizens of food, water and electricity. Ripping CDs is the last issue this new "government" is going to be concerned with.
The more likely scenario is that an Islamic republic will be formed after an election (much to the chagrin of the US), and Western music will be banned outright.
IBM and Microsoft are each other's biggest and most important partner. Microsoft is in no way interested in pummelling IBM - they did that themselves a long time ago. Now they would be pummelling a huge licensee of Windows across all products.
Call their bluff. Delay. Befuddle. Use the legal system to drive SCO into the ground in the same way SCI is trying to burn everyone else. The legal system rewards the richest litigant, and that is not SCO. IBM should draw this out until 2010 and let SCO die a slow agonizing death at the hands of their own legal fees.
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do you have any idea how reliable these are? Any info welcome.
Just make it work. I want a 100% certainty that I will be able to migrate music from my linux box to the player. No message board lurking, no sifting through google groups.
If this product cannot reliably transfer music without copious under the hood tweaking, I am not interested.
USB 2.0 would be a nice addition too but even on that I will make accomodation.
Scaramangia (the man with the golden gun) was going to have sell out to oil sheiks. But Bond and Goodnight foiled him and his evil midget.
I remember using this language in college when a vendor marketed it as Miranda. I found some incredible productivity gains once it was understood, but unfortunately I see little chance in the unwashed masses grasping Haskell. The imperitive/OO paradigm is so entrenched that it would take a sea change to push it out now.
Who authors TCP/IP stacks in Java?
From what I saw, F#, uh, isn't. Its better but still, its like C++, ObjectiveC or Smalltalk or any other container based language where contained objects have no clue that they contained unless the programmer creates and maintains explicit references to the container.
Really, what the hell are you talking about?
And computing is so fundamentally simple. Its a game of N-Dimensional topology bounded by finite vectors in every dimension. There's no mystery involved. You just need to maintain a meta-model of the system and you can generate the rest.
Neither you nor I nor anyone have any idea what this means, because it is pseudo-intellectual gibberish.
I would like to know where the authors are pulling this stuff. Most of the content management software out there is complete crap. My advice is to keep files in CVS and use simple tools (make, perl scripts, simple web UIs) to manage authoring and distribution. XML is nice but the reality is that very few of your users know how to use it correctly. For better or for worse it is probably more expedient to store HTML or text files until the tools mature and XML becomes better understood by the rank and file.
Using air to separate and move paper is not new. Heidelburg platen presses (you may remember them from high school graphic arts classes) have had this feature for about fifty years.
My understanding is that the Java generics model is simply syntactic sugar over a bunch of casts (??)
No, they will just keep adding crap that fewer customers get a tangible benefit from just to stay ahead of free and commercial competitors on the feature list.
The world is full of throw-away databases run by people with no budget to speak of. Many of the businesses you speak of wouldn't consider running MySQL now, but then again, many of them probably would have said the same thing about Windows ten years ago. Check their server rooms now - probably full of Windows boxes. Wait ten years to see what MySQL does. Oracle will end up like Sun - catering to a tiny and rapidly shrinking sliver of a high end.
SMTP is here to stay. We're going to have to live with it. Spam control filtering is getting better and there is a good chance that together with decent legislation, spam can be reigned in. A new system will ultimately just create new kinds of abuse, which wil lrequire the industry to take another two year cycle to address.
Keep your expectations in check folks. A lot of the basic science still has to get nailed down and funding this research is going to be a sunk cost. The only agencies willing to forward a huge sunk cost will be giant corporate research labs, universities, and government labs.
Look at the Z Shops on Amazon or Yahoo Stores in Yahoo Shopping. There are literally thousands. Some are failures, some do okay, some are hugely succesful - just like physical retail.
There are numerous services available for small business to sell on the web at a fraction of the cost requireed for physical retail space. Most range from simple hosting fees to a few hundred a month for promotion in a larger shopping site (i.e, Yahoo Store).
Neuros Audio hopes to do just that soon with linux support as well.
Okay, I know I was reaching anyway when the Zen (and libnjb) would not place nice on my linux box...but not working on a fully-updated XP box (lacking USB 2) is not acceptable.
I also don't believe Linux saves money on hardware compared to Windows - it seems many offices are holding back with Windows upgrades, and IT expenditures on all desktop hardware and software seems to be slowing. For most people, Win2K is fine.
What the study fails to mention is security. Linux and open source in general appear to be far ahead of Windows in this regard.
In any case, most IT people have become innured to these studies - they are often pointless mental exercises without much factual backing.
Just in case you are wondering, it is white LEDs which will give you better flashlights. Maybe you can find something intersting to say about that.
Add on top of that a massive wave of outsourcing and open source/free software and the five-year outlook for North American software firms is challenging. Actually it is impressive that the industry has held on for so long - probably due to low immigration barriers for tech workers that at least for a time made it easier for workers to come here than for work to go there.
Wrong. The hardware and support costs can be amortized on a huge scale. How many hosting centers is this? How many distribution centers are CDs shipped from? Do the math, its not even close. Record companies are going to make a killing on cost davings alone if this pans out.
In any case, Apple is shouldering the hosting costs, not the record company (unless Apple is passing this on, which I doubt).
No, I mean for CDs people actually want to own released this decade. The average cost is NOT $9.99.
The songs are about what you would pay in a store for a CD, actually probably more on average. Now subtract the pressing, shipping, stocking, labor, etc costs which normally are taken out of the price at retail, and you have record companies making a mint if this in fact takes off.
The more likely scenario is that an Islamic republic will be formed after an election (much to the chagrin of the US), and Western music will be banned outright.
IBM and Microsoft are each other's biggest and most important partner. Microsoft is in no way interested in pummelling IBM - they did that themselves a long time ago. Now they would be pummelling a huge licensee of Windows across all products.
Call their bluff. Delay. Befuddle. Use the legal system to drive SCO into the ground in the same way SCI is trying to burn everyone else. The legal system rewards the richest litigant, and that is not SCO. IBM should draw this out until 2010 and let SCO die a slow agonizing death at the hands of their own legal fees.