I am sure that the one connection/day or whatever doesn't amount to much money on a per-user basis. Ethernet based updates might save sonicblue real money when added across the entire subscriber base, but I can't imagine it make much of a difference in the subscription price.
I just went to two Toys R Us stores and various consumer electronics stores. Sounds like they sold out months ago when they were dropped to the $30 quoted in the article for after-christmas closeout.
Ask Macromedia to provide the Dev tools for free.
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It sounds like you are involved in a worthy cause. Approach Macromedia about giving you the dev tools for free. They have to love the fact that you are creating more flash authors in the process.
while companies may archive e-mail, I think many more have a policy of distroying e-mail and all bakups after a certain retention period. Critical messages are explicitly archived, along with other documents.
They destroy e-mail archives because they don't want it to be used against them later. The roasting Microsoft got over internal e-mail has put the fear into them (if they didn't have it already).
The same will likely hold for IM traffic, but it is still safe to assume that it will be logged and retained for some period of time.
For one thing, try and buy your monitor locally, so you can easily examine the merchandise for yourself.
I find a 19" is good at 1152x768. 1280x1024 is generally too much for me at that screen size.
A CRT will generally give you the biggest screen size for the price. But a nice LCD will be very crisp, and the crispness won't deteriorate over time. If you get an LCD, shoot for a monitor and video card combiniation that will will allow you to use a digital connection.
If you go for a CRT get one that will support high refresh-rates. Some cards are sharper than others too, as I recall, this is a ZDnet review criteria.
Lighting, of course, is important. Arrange things to avoid catching glare of the monitor.
Finally, get a monitor with workable controls. It doesn't matter how many settings the damn thing has if you can't configure it to get a good picture. And look for uniform picture quality across the display.
Gore didn't claim he invented the Internet, but lots of idiots claim he claimed to invent the Internet. So, where does that leave you?
What Gore did claim was that he took initiative in creating the Internet, which he did. He drafted and sponsored key funding bills for NSFnet. The initiative put Internet access into the hands of univerisity students across all disciplines and, I think, proved that a large "Internet" could attract broad interest.
a beowulf cluster has three main components, not including the application running on it.
1. A big pile of commodity computing hardware and a fast network interconnecting it. 2. An implementation of distributed computing API that handles things like message passing between nodes. 3. Utilities to manage the cluster as if it were a single machine (like starting a copy of the application on each node, etc)
Looking over this list, windows can run on the same hardware as linux.
There are windows implementations of the Parallel Processing APIs typically used by applications on linux beowulf clusters. Are they as efficient? I don't know. Maybe someone else does.
That leaves 3. The tools for managing the clustered application as if it were running on a single machine. I don't know if these exist for windows now, but I see know reason such tools couldn't be created with relative ease. Windows already has extensive infrastructure for remote monitoring and management.
I agree that this newest release from Palm leaves something to be desired, but still I find most of the compairisons to WinCE devices to be complete bunk.
WinCE devices are big fat heavy monsters, especially an iPaq with a wireless adapter. So what if it has more memory, a larger screen, or a real TCP/IP connection. None of that really matters to me if it is sitting on my dresser, or on my desk because it is too bulky to carry.
This Palm thing is only a little bigger/heavier than a PalmV. I carry my PalmV pretty much everywhere.
Sure, I would love it if the CPU was faster, if there was more memory, if the screen were higher resolution, but I think the portability is still compelling.
People get so hung up on tech specs that they ignore the most important for a portable device:
Size & Weight.
The SONICblue device looks like it is about 3times the size and weight of the appple product. Hardly something you can carry with you in your shirt pocket.
Wait another year to 18 months. Even if you pop for an $800 normal def TV now and then a 16:9 high def set later, you will probably come out ahead.
Plus, what compelling reason is there for an HDTV set now? DVDs aren't high def and can look pretty bad when they are pushed onto a hi-def set. Most of the high-def broadcast stuff is barely worth watching.
If you know so much about what you need to learn and are so confident in your ability to learn it, why don't you just save youself the time and money and drop out.
PS. Let me know who you are so I can be sure never to hire you, not that your arrogance and shallowness won't be obvious.
There's a distinctive difference between "it's no longer free, but we'll let you sample some of the articles" and "we're going to irritate the heck out of you until you pay up and make us stop."
Yeah, there is a difference. One of them might actually bring enough revenue to keep things operating. The other, appearantly, does not.
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I am sure that the one connection/day or whatever doesn't amount to much money on a per-user basis. Ethernet based updates might save sonicblue real money when added across the entire subscriber base, but I can't imagine it make much of a difference in the subscription price.
I just went to two Toys R Us stores and various consumer electronics stores. Sounds like they sold out months ago when they were dropped to the $30 quoted in the article for after-christmas closeout.
It sounds like you are involved in a worthy cause. Approach Macromedia about giving you the dev tools for free. They have to love the fact that you are creating more flash authors in the process.
while companies may archive e-mail, I think many more have a policy of distroying e-mail and all bakups after a certain retention period. Critical messages are explicitly archived, along with other documents.
They destroy e-mail archives because they don't want it to be used against them later. The roasting Microsoft got over internal e-mail has put the fear into them (if they didn't have it already).
The same will likely hold for IM traffic, but it is still safe to assume that it will be logged and retained for some period of time.
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What is the chipset used in most WiFi cards? The Prism 2/2.5.
Who makes it?
Intersil
Are there linux drivers?
Yes! With full source!
And guess what, Intersil comissioned the drivers!
Not only that, but the drivers offer support for advanced functions typically not offered on Windows based PCs (host based access point support).
So, based on past history, there seems a good chance that there will be a path to Linux support for WinWi-Fi cards.
For one thing, try and buy your monitor locally, so you can easily examine the merchandise for yourself.
I find a 19" is good at 1152x768. 1280x1024 is generally too much for me at that screen size.
A CRT will generally give you the biggest screen size for the price. But a nice LCD will be very crisp, and the crispness won't deteriorate over time. If you get an LCD, shoot for a monitor and video card combiniation that will will allow you to use a digital connection.
If you go for a CRT get one that will support high refresh-rates. Some cards are sharper than others too, as I recall, this is a ZDnet review criteria.
Lighting, of course, is important. Arrange things to avoid catching glare of the monitor.
Finally, get a monitor with workable controls. It doesn't matter how many settings the damn thing has if you can't configure it to get a good picture. And look for uniform picture quality across the display.
If I understand correctly, the Cybiko already does something "blind data" like.
Gore didn't claim he invented the Internet, but lots of idiots claim he claimed to invent the Internet. So, where does that leave you?
What Gore did claim was that he took initiative in creating the Internet, which he did. He drafted and sponsored key funding bills for NSFnet. The initiative put Internet access into the hands of univerisity students across all disciplines and, I think, proved that a large "Internet" could attract broad interest.
It does, however, seem like a fair trade.
a beowulf cluster has three main components, not including the application running on it.
1. A big pile of commodity computing hardware and a fast network interconnecting it.
2. An implementation of distributed computing API that handles things like message passing between nodes.
3. Utilities to manage the cluster as if it were a single machine (like starting a copy of the application on each node, etc)
Looking over this list, windows can run on the same hardware as linux.
There are windows implementations of the Parallel Processing APIs typically used by applications on linux beowulf clusters. Are they as efficient? I don't know. Maybe someone else does.
That leaves 3. The tools for managing the clustered application as if it were running on a single machine. I don't know if these exist for windows now, but I see know reason such tools couldn't be created with relative ease. Windows already has extensive infrastructure for remote monitoring and management.
I agree that this newest release from Palm leaves something to be desired, but still I find most of the compairisons to WinCE devices to be complete bunk.
WinCE devices are big fat heavy monsters, especially an iPaq with a wireless adapter. So what if it has more memory, a larger screen, or a real TCP/IP connection. None of that really matters to me if it is sitting on my dresser, or on my desk because it is too bulky to carry.
This Palm thing is only a little bigger/heavier than a PalmV. I carry my PalmV pretty much everywhere.
Sure, I would love it if the CPU was faster, if there was more memory, if the screen were higher resolution, but I think the portability is still compelling.
excess bulk or weight.
I can imagine carrying one of these new wireless palms with me almost everywhere.
an iPaq, especially with wireless features is heavy and bulky. I know for a fact I would frequntly choose to leave it behind.
I just hibernate and system state is written to disk.
or atleast compact AT
sorry fellas, hard to have it all
I'd settle for quiet.
People get so hung up on tech specs that they ignore the most important for a portable device:
Size & Weight.
The SONICblue device looks like it is about 3times the size and weight of the appple product. Hardly something you can carry with you in your shirt pocket.
Wait another year to 18 months. Even if you pop for an $800 normal def TV now and then a 16:9 high def set later, you will probably come out ahead.
Plus, what compelling reason is there for an HDTV set now? DVDs aren't high def and can look pretty bad when they are pushed onto a hi-def set. Most of the high-def broadcast stuff is barely worth watching.
Hang tight.
Have you ever been inside a "telco hotel"? They would need a lot of work to be human friendly. In the process, most of the infrastructure be in peril.
If you know so much about what you need to learn and are so confident in your ability to learn it, why don't you just save youself the time and money and drop out.
PS. Let me know who you are so I can be sure never to hire you, not that your arrogance and shallowness won't be obvious.
You can always pay up, mooch. Or you can just read the 95% drivel other places in the hopes that you will find the gem amongst the gravel.
I don't know about you, but I value my time enough to see that it is worth paying for some things.
Yeah, there is a difference. One of them might actually bring enough revenue to keep things operating. The other, appearantly, does not.
One approach may be to start small and work from there.
Propose telecommuting 1 day/week as a trial, with the possibility of going up to more.
You will have picked up 4 hours a week by doing so.
AT&T broadband is mostly CableTV. They too use @home for their ISP.
We all hate ads, but remember, the ads you see help pay for the pages you see.
Gator, on the other hand is a complete and total leach. They are selling advertising on other peoples content without compensation.
If this were a corporation, it might be tied up in court, but not in Jail.