There is never, ever any absolute guarantee that an e-mail is going to reach its destination, just as there is no way of knowing if that letter you drop in a mailbox is really going to go where it is supposed to.
Maybe not, but everything works better if there is at least some attempt to warn the sender that something screwed up. For this reason even if Google did change their mail system to be more compliant, they should recognise non-compliant e-mail and either handle it or send an explanation on why they are refusing it. If you look at web browsers and HTML, then there is definetly a specification indicating what well structured HTML should be, but they still do a best job when they get pages that aren't. I think for e-mail it should be the same.
Bluetooth is in really bad shape. It's expensive, hard to use, eats batteries and incompatible. Which is the exact opposite of what bluetooth supposed to be. This is due to their own greed, so let it die.
Immediate solutions include reducing license costs and better marketing. Does Wibree solve any of the issues or is it just another nice sounding technology with the same limitations?
BTW not sure what you meant by hard to use or incompatible. If you are talking about the Windows implementation then it sucks 100%. If you are talking about the Mac then its incredibly easy. This is not based on some bias, but on personal experience of mine and other people I know. One example was trying to get the Motorola RAZR to sync with Windows XP, where we were pulling out our hair trying to work out what voodoo we needed to perform. The guy's girl-friend had a Mac and it worked straight-away with the phone. This suggests one of two things: Apple somehow made Bluetooth easy to use or Microsoft just has a shoddy implementation.
Looking at the www.A9.com, its feels very much like Sherlock on the Mac. That is, instead of being a general search engine, like Google, it is indexing specific major sites and allowing you to search within them. The one thing that Sherlock had going for it was the ability to add in other sites, that weren't orginally provided by Apple. I suppose Amazon decided that they weren't winning any ground in trying to by just another search engine, that they decided to make the engine different to what is already out there, therefore adding an added values to make them worth considering.
Maybe they would have more luck trying to integrate this into the Bluetooth standard and proposing this as Bluetooth 2, ensuring that it stays compatible. While I understand Nokia trying to provide a new and improved technology, it needs to be done in a way not to confuse the already semi-confused buying public. By making it work with Bluetooth, in the same way as USB 1 and USB 2 or the B, G and A versions of the 802.11 standard.
this and other crazy incidents have caused me to avoid the US when travelling, even when passing through to other countries.
Tell me about it. I live in Canada and I avoid going through the US, especially on the return it requires to go through immigrations twice ( once in the USA and once in Canada ). Shame Canada airports couldn't be used as hubs, but with Canada taxing so much and them being a little further north, I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.
Got there and was told "De MySQL server ligt te slapen". Looks like I'll have to come back when the MySQL server decides to get up. I think it had a heavy night partying with/.ers.
Before the Bush administratio took over the case there was a lot of talk about splitting the company up. The first thing the Bush justice dept did was to take that off the table. At that point MS won. It didn't matter what the punishment was, as long as it didn't mean splitting the company up then MS was happy.
Its not as if splitting a company up sorted Bell's monopoly, since instead you just got the 'Baby Bells'. Of course one advantage the telcos had is that they could control their own little segment of the country. Also, when you see what is happening these days, I almost feel that Microsoft is its own worst enemy, even if it is still very successful.
The thing is, is that people want something they know, they want something that is compatible and something that has hot line they can call. Microsoft has all this going for them and this makes it hard to displace them. The other thing is that I have not yet seen any company make a viable alternative it Microsoft Office. There is Star Office, but it still needs work and most people have never heard of it.
Given that Google is likely to have cached the manuals and the patches will not be ready for a couple of months (certification et al.), I wonder whether the author should have waited a few weeks before publishing the article, to give the manufacturers a chance to spread the word.
Agreed. There's no way in hell an advanced intelligence would be Windows compatible.
Heck, most Earth based PCs require some amount of head banging and rituals and reinstalls before you have a Windows installation that you can be happy with. Don't get me on the issue of Bluetooth and serials comms in Windows.
Would be curious to see if Evermore owns any stocks in Sony. Quite honestly I am not in the market of spending money for something I don't want. I don't care if Sony fails or succeeds, just as long as it quits screwing the public.
One thing that is keeping me from letting Vista any where near my computer is the fear of excess DRM and lack of OpenGL support. Can anyone, who has used the new system, tell me how founded those fears are? Is the DRM in enough quantitities to cause issue and are you able to run any programs that run OpenGL? I am only interested in reports from people who have tried, not from a friend of a friend of a reporter of some company.
Where is Sony Connect available? Just tried it from Canada, and apparently it is not available here.
BTW I tried the client a few years ago and it looked and felt like crap. Its like setting up a a brick and motar Sony Store and then forgetting about the interior design, or that people don't like tripping over hurdles just to get to the back of the store.
Be consistent in the use of the UI:
- Apple screwed up badly in recent times, with having a mixture of Aqua, Metal, new Aqua and whatever else.
- Microsoft also screwed up in Windows XP with having a mixture of different open dialogs, for essentially doing the same thing.
undocumented APIs!? Doesn't MSFT claim there are do such thing.
Of course there are plenty of undocumented APIs, but this doesn't just apply to MS-Windows. Typically you have two sets of APIs: public and private. The public ones are generally considered stable and support will be provided if something goes wring. The private ones are subject to change and you have to work to keep up with those changes. Other than system components, nothing should be using those private APIs unless they have to.
The problem that has happened is that Microsoft has been suspected of keeping certain APIs undocumented and allowing the MS-Office team to learn about them. This could be cheating on the part of Microsoft, but I suspect it is more down to laziness by either the OS development team (for not documenting them) or the MS-Office development team (for not using the standard ones). Whatever the reason, it provides disadvantage for third-party developers, especially if they are important APIs.
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There is never, ever any absolute guarantee that an e-mail is going to reach its destination, just as there is no way of knowing if that letter you drop in a mailbox is really going to go where it is supposed to.
Maybe not, but everything works better if there is at least some attempt to warn the sender that something screwed up. For this reason even if Google did change their mail system to be more compliant, they should recognise non-compliant e-mail and either handle it or send an explanation on why they are refusing it. If you look at web browsers and HTML, then there is definetly a specification indicating what well structured HTML should be, but they still do a best job when they get pages that aren't. I think for e-mail it should be the same.
Bluetooth is in really bad shape. It's expensive, hard to use, eats batteries and incompatible. Which is the exact opposite of what bluetooth supposed to be. This is due to their own greed, so let it die.
Immediate solutions include reducing license costs and better marketing. Does Wibree solve any of the issues or is it just another nice sounding technology with the same limitations?
BTW not sure what you meant by hard to use or incompatible. If you are talking about the Windows implementation then it sucks 100%. If you are talking about the Mac then its incredibly easy. This is not based on some bias, but on personal experience of mine and other people I know. One example was trying to get the Motorola RAZR to sync with Windows XP, where we were pulling out our hair trying to work out what voodoo we needed to perform. The guy's girl-friend had a Mac and it worked straight-away with the phone. This suggests one of two things: Apple somehow made Bluetooth easy to use or Microsoft just has a shoddy implementation.
Looking at the www.A9.com, its feels very much like Sherlock on the Mac. That is, instead of being a general search engine, like Google, it is indexing specific major sites and allowing you to search within them. The one thing that Sherlock had going for it was the ability to add in other sites, that weren't orginally provided by Apple. I suppose Amazon decided that they weren't winning any ground in trying to by just another search engine, that they decided to make the engine different to what is already out there, therefore adding an added values to make them worth considering.
Maybe they would have more luck trying to integrate this into the Bluetooth standard and proposing this as Bluetooth 2, ensuring that it stays compatible. While I understand Nokia trying to provide a new and improved technology, it needs to be done in a way not to confuse the already semi-confused buying public. By making it work with Bluetooth, in the same way as USB 1 and USB 2 or the B, G and A versions of the 802.11 standard.
Sound like what Apple is planning to do with the next version of .Mac
I play my mp3s on a totally organic player made from twigs and mulched hippies.
Fair enough, but I suspect you aren't using the new recycled twigs and recycled mulched hiippies?
.... when coming across the name of the scientist - Mrs Beavers? The jokes are endless. :)
:)
Hey, leave Beavers alone, they are Canada's national animal. Though not sure what that means now?
Well if the energizer bunny is anything to go by, then we should have the rovers powered by bunnies :)
this and other crazy incidents have caused me to avoid the US when travelling, even when passing through to other countries.
Tell me about it. I live in Canada and I avoid going through the US, especially on the return it requires to go through immigrations twice ( once in the USA and once in Canada ). Shame Canada airports couldn't be used as hubs, but with Canada taxing so much and them being a little further north, I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.
SGI also had a few mighty fine designs for their desktops, but looking at their product range now it seems like the gave up on the desktop. Some links: http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=SGI&ie=utf-8&o e=utf-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Another old design which still looks good comes from what was NeXT: http://www.channelu.com/Turbo/NeXT/i/cube1a.jpg
Got there and was told "De MySQL server ligt te slapen". Looks like I'll have to come back when the MySQL server decides to get up. I think it had a heavy night partying with /.ers.
Star Office is the commercial version: http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index. jsp , whereas is OpenOffice is the name for the free version. Most non-techies I know still used MS-Office bought or pirated.
Before the Bush administratio took over the case there was a lot of talk about splitting the company up. The first thing the Bush justice dept did was to take that off the table. At that point MS won. It didn't matter what the punishment was, as long as it didn't mean splitting the company up then MS was happy.
Its not as if splitting a company up sorted Bell's monopoly, since instead you just got the 'Baby Bells'. Of course one advantage the telcos had is that they could control their own little segment of the country. Also, when you see what is happening these days, I almost feel that Microsoft is its own worst enemy, even if it is still very successful.
The thing is, is that people want something they know, they want something that is compatible and something that has hot line they can call. Microsoft has all this going for them and this makes it hard to displace them. The other thing is that I have not yet seen any company make a viable alternative it Microsoft Office. There is Star Office, but it still needs work and most people have never heard of it.
10fps in Ridge Racer, alright!!! Flooring it in slow-mo has never been so much fun.
:)
This is great for people who are hopeless at driving games. At least they have more time to avoid the other cars
Given that Google is likely to have cached the manuals and the patches will not be ready for a couple of months (certification et al.), I wonder whether the author should have waited a few weeks before publishing the article, to give the manufacturers a chance to spread the word.
Agreed. There's no way in hell an advanced intelligence would be Windows compatible.
Heck, most Earth based PCs require some amount of head banging and rituals and reinstalls before you have a Windows installation that you can be happy with. Don't get me on the issue of Bluetooth and serials comms in Windows.
Would be curious to see if Evermore owns any stocks in Sony. Quite honestly I am not in the market of spending money for something I don't want. I don't care if Sony fails or succeeds, just as long as it quits screwing the public.
There's far too much FUD from the Open-source advocates to see the truth sometimes; download the RC and play around with it yourself.
What is the minimum required to run Vista, even if not getting the perfect experience? Is asking to run on a P3 with 512 MiB RAM asking too much?
One thing that is keeping me from letting Vista any where near my computer is the fear of excess DRM and lack of OpenGL support. Can anyone, who has used the new system, tell me how founded those fears are? Is the DRM in enough quantitities to cause issue and are you able to run any programs that run OpenGL? I am only interested in reports from people who have tried, not from a friend of a friend of a reporter of some company.
Get the free alternative: http://www.racer.nl/ and donate if you think their development effort needs reward.
What's "New Aqua?" Can you link to an example?
The not so brushed metal. I couldn't think of another description for it.
Google should remove all links to Belgian newspapers everywhere and then let the papers wonder why their traffic is at near zero.
Where is Sony Connect available? Just tried it from Canada, and apparently it is not available here.
BTW I tried the client a few years ago and it looked and felt like crap. Its like setting up a a brick and motar Sony Store and then forgetting about the interior design, or that people don't like tripping over hurdles just to get to the back of the store.
Here's one for everyone, including Apple:
Be consistent in the use of the UI:
- Apple screwed up badly in recent times, with having a mixture of Aqua, Metal, new Aqua and whatever else.
- Microsoft also screwed up in Windows XP with having a mixture of different open dialogs, for essentially doing the same thing.
undocumented APIs!? Doesn't MSFT claim there are do such thing.
Of course there are plenty of undocumented APIs, but this doesn't just apply to MS-Windows. Typically you have two sets of APIs: public and private. The public ones are generally considered stable and support will be provided if something goes wring. The private ones are subject to change and you have to work to keep up with those changes. Other than system components, nothing should be using those private APIs unless they have to.
The problem that has happened is that Microsoft has been suspected of keeping certain APIs undocumented and allowing the MS-Office team to learn about them. This could be cheating on the part of Microsoft, but I suspect it is more down to laziness by either the OS development team (for not documenting them) or the MS-Office development team (for not using the standard ones). Whatever the reason, it provides disadvantage for third-party developers, especially if they are important APIs.