I, for one, would love to have viewers ported to Linux. You know, like the Word Viewer, PowerPoint Viewer, and Excel Viewer.
This would be great for us to easily view the documents Windows people so often send us. In fact, it would be fantastic.
But a full Office suite would be really bad. Microsoft should not try to get its foot in the door with this. Newbies would use it more than any free suite (because they're used to it) and eventually it would become a serious competitor to the cool little suties starting up right now.
The last thing we need in Linux (and other Unices) is Microsoft apps.
There are so many other decent Office Suites out there for Linux and when Microsoft comes in, it can only be bad news.
Newcomers to Linux are going to use MS-Office. Microsoft will find a way to break the law and make Linux its own. Maybe buy RedHat to gain market share and have a working distribution?
I know that people are saying this can't happen, but I'm betting something horrible dealing with MS and Linux will happen. Don't moderate this message down, I'm not trolling, I'm pointing out a possibility. And one that I think is a strong possibility.
Either way, they're going to gain market share in Linux, whether we like it or not. I won't be surprised if within the next 2 years slashdot will have stories that deal with disappointing Microsoft-Linux solutions. It's gonna happen people, brace for impact.
Oh yes, and if we can get a thread started here, I'll be happy to discuss it...
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The jacket looks fine as long as the earpieces are changed. I wouldn't mind one then.
It's a great concept, but I would have to say that this is still an alpha release.
The article didn't go very far into explaining what systems the jacket actually uses. I'd like to read up on those before I go and spend a lot of cash. Good concept, needs work...
Umm, yeah. How can a CEO do anything with stock without knowing if the company will bomb right after he sells it. CEO's always know if the company Quarterly results will be good or not, and so every CEO can be charged with this. It's a load of bullshit.
Wine with PhotoPaint is great. Hasn't crashed once. I never really had any problems with WordPerfect either, but I remember having a few quirks that seem to have been resolved in PhotoPaint (with Wine, that is).
I would think that a chip like this would be great for PDA's, laptops, just about anything. Really fast, very tiny, and I doubt it consumes any power at all... good deal. I wonder if in even twenty years it will be affordable though. IBM will have to pay off over 20 years of development!
These Sony devices are always cool until the price comes around.
When the Sony PDA came around, I was very enthusiastic. This thing had the ability to kick Palm's ass. But then I saw the price. It was well over 600 dollars.
So although these Sony devices are truly cool, the price just makes them an unreasonable substitute to cheaper brands.
Or will it just become more expensive to do everything?
As far as I can see, universities come up with the best pieces of technology and research. If they start charging big bucks for these things, won't progress slow? Won't great inventions academic institutions came up with that we take for granted become not-so-great (at least in terms of price).
If I recall correctly, the internet was started at a university. If that project got sold to a corporation, I'm certain the net would be much different than it is now. It wouldn't be as free, for sure...
LICQ is a great ICQ program for, well, just about any UNIX-y platform. I for one, refuse to use an official client that doesn't have such features as ping flood and UIN spoofing. If AOL puts these in, maybe they'll get some ICQ converts. Otherwise, AIM is obviously inferior. =P
This looks very much like the screenshots of the Itsy using the pen entry system. Perhaps we can still have Linux on handhelds.
Does anyone know what is going on with Linux on Palm hardware? Last I checked you needed a special 8-meg TRG card. But now that Palms ship with 8-megs of RAM... I'd like to hear from anyone who knows anything!
I find my CPU fan a little loud. I can't imagine how the guy who has the house fan put in the PVC tubing case can do anything. I like the case, but the fan would be annoying. Great for coolness points, however...
This is a classic addition to where our future's history is going. People will look back upon this era and notice that there was a revolution, just like when computers first came in.
We are now moving away from what computers were initially only designed for (massive libraries, databases, computations) and moving into a home-appliacance, easy accessibility mode.
Rules are changing. Business models are changing. If you want any power, you have to be part of the collective of a large company and climb through the ranks. There soon won't be any independent companies. What's happening to the food business is very similar to what's happening to the computer business. All of the small companies are being bought out by the giants.
People might be scared that the future will turn out very bitter, but people are always scared of change. People get scared whenever technology goes ugly, but it usually passes and people adapt.
I remember when this initially came up on/. I asked this question: Does the world need another language?
Why on earth would we need yet another language to learn, be incompatible with (at least at the beginning), and have to study? Why would anyone think C# would be necessary?
My view is that it's not. The world has enough high-level languages. C# should not revolutionize anything, it should be a redundant addition. We already have anough C's. What do you think?
Such Classification could also be used to detect the type of music you want to hear on a mix. For example:
Let's say you make yourself a bunch of mix CDs and stick them into your 200-CD tray (it makes more sense to have an MP3 player, but hey...), and from those CDs you only want to hear techno, or only want classical because your parents are coming for dinner. The auto-detection functions allow for limitless possibilities for music playback.
Maybe this could also be used on TV to filter out stuff you don't want to see? Like a quick auto-seek for a channel that doesn't have a cxommercial running?!
Very meanly. I had a Linux computer going for just over a year before the ban set in. Apparently the head techie thinks it's more hackable/trouble for the NT systems... blah.
There aren't that many realyl cool projects that can be done over a single semester. However...
I recommend a real-world situation. My high school teacher goes out every year and finds small companies that need a contractor, often dealing with databases. Although this is not very exciting, it does show the real world. Some people even had cool projects.
Another good thing he does is give a month for an independent study for teaching yourself a new language. It not only gives something to students, but he finds that it gets easier and easier with each passing semester as he knows the various languages more.
I know that I would recommend a number of small projects (5 or so) that could be put into a little 'suite' of tools. This can make students happy because they have a whole little slew of programs that are designed to work with each-other and encourages them to add to this once school's out.
However, your best choice is to do what is done in the last year at my HS. Give them a day or two to come up with a cool project. Then look at it and approve for content. Then give a week to 'storyboard' it. A good, concise description with a timeline, format ideas, you name it. This definitely works best. It also leaves less room for cheating (variety of projects) and encourages teamwork because people may have to help each other even if they're working on different programs, simply because one people may have more experience in one area than another.
Independent projects are the way to go. Make sure to give them access to Linux if there's interest. It's banned in my school board and it really limits ME. Don't make that mistake if you can.
It looks very much like DOSEmu. I haven't used it in a long time, but is this supposed to be faster? I remember that DOSEmu was the slowest thing I've ever run.
I can see that it also runs Linux, so it's already more advanced than DOSEmu, let's hope it runs faster. The site seems to claim that it will due to Dynamic Recompilation, a familiar concept to emulators.
I'd imagine that the programmers have made the code smart enough to know that when it's run on an x86 processor it doesn't have to emulate every cycle, that they can put it through the real chip! Good work, this looks like it may be useful.
We can always believe the crazy rumors benchmark people were making that say that IIS can serve more pages at a time, etc, etc, etc...
If that's the case, sure go for it. I think HotMail has sucked ever since it became Microsoft (just look what happened to the UI), and they've already dug their own grave for themselves.
This will jsut be another thing that will cause people to stop using HotMail, much like that simple login/security issue a little while back. I say, let them do it and see for themselves. It just proves Microsoft is wrong!
If I recall correctly, Voyager uses "Bioneural Gel Packs" so route power and data. This seems to be a similar concept to a bio-transistor, just a lot more complex. But who knows, maybe soon we'll make little unsentient beings slaves to our technology! =P
ALl crypto cannot be broken. I merely stated that there is no format that can be practical enough in size to send over the net and secure enough not to be relatively easily crackable.
If there is one thing that SlashDotters should have noticed by now is that there is no "Watermark" that cannot be broken. I'll use OpenDVD as an example. DVD, as I recall, was also supposed to be uncopy-able/unplayable without the breaking some software locks.
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I, for one, would love to have viewers ported to Linux. You know, like the Word Viewer, PowerPoint Viewer, and Excel Viewer.
This would be great for us to easily view the documents Windows people so often send us. In fact, it would be fantastic.
But a full Office suite would be really bad. Microsoft should not try to get its foot in the door with this. Newbies would use it more than any free suite (because they're used to it) and eventually it would become a serious competitor to the cool little suties starting up right now.
That's my opinion.
The last thing we need in Linux (and other Unices) is Microsoft apps.
There are so many other decent Office Suites out there for Linux and when Microsoft comes in, it can only be bad news.
Newcomers to Linux are going to use MS-Office. Microsoft will find a way to break the law and make Linux its own. Maybe buy RedHat to gain market share and have a working distribution?
I know that people are saying this can't happen, but I'm betting something horrible dealing with MS and Linux will happen. Don't moderate this message down, I'm not trolling, I'm pointing out a possibility. And one that I think is a strong possibility.
Either way, they're going to gain market share in Linux, whether we like it or not. I won't be surprised if within the next 2 years slashdot will have stories that deal with disappointing Microsoft-Linux solutions. It's gonna happen people, brace for impact.
Oh yes, and if we can get a thread started here, I'll be happy to discuss it...
The jacket looks fine as long as the earpieces are changed. I wouldn't mind one then.
It's a great concept, but I would have to say that this is still an alpha release.
The article didn't go very far into explaining what systems the jacket actually uses. I'd like to read up on those before I go and spend a lot of cash. Good concept, needs work...
What would happen in the rain?
Umm, yeah. How can a CEO do anything with stock without knowing if the company will bomb right after he sells it. CEO's always know if the company Quarterly results will be good or not, and so every CEO can be charged with this. It's a load of bullshit.
Wine with PhotoPaint is great. Hasn't crashed once. I never really had any problems with WordPerfect either, but I remember having a few quirks that seem to have been resolved in PhotoPaint (with Wine, that is).
I would think that a chip like this would be great for PDA's, laptops, just about anything. Really fast, very tiny, and I doubt it consumes any power at all... good deal. I wonder if in even twenty years it will be affordable though. IBM will have to pay off over 20 years of development!
Don't sneeze!
These Sony devices are always cool until the price comes around.
When the Sony PDA came around, I was very enthusiastic. This thing had the ability to kick Palm's ass. But then I saw the price. It was well over 600 dollars.
So although these Sony devices are truly cool, the price just makes them an unreasonable substitute to cheaper brands.
As long as I don't start getting AOL Linux CDs in the mail... I can't put a Linux CD to use as a coaster... I just can't... =P
Yey! =P
Or will it just become more expensive to do everything?
As far as I can see, universities come up with the best pieces of technology and research. If they start charging big bucks for these things, won't progress slow? Won't great inventions academic institutions came up with that we take for granted become not-so-great (at least in terms of price).
If I recall correctly, the internet was started at a university. If that project got sold to a corporation, I'm certain the net would be much different than it is now. It wouldn't be as free, for sure...
Food for thought...
LICQ is a great ICQ program for, well, just about any UNIX-y platform. I for one, refuse to use an official client that doesn't have such features as ping flood and UIN spoofing. If AOL puts these in, maybe they'll get some ICQ converts. Otherwise, AIM is obviously inferior. =P
This looks very much like the screenshots of the Itsy using the pen entry system. Perhaps we can still have Linux on handhelds.
Does anyone know what is going on with Linux on Palm hardware? Last I checked you needed a special 8-meg TRG card. But now that Palms ship with 8-megs of RAM... I'd like to hear from anyone who knows anything!
I find my CPU fan a little loud. I can't imagine how the guy who has the house fan put in the PVC tubing case can do anything. I like the case, but the fan would be annoying. Great for coolness points, however...
This is a classic addition to where our future's history is going. People will look back upon this era and notice that there was a revolution, just like when computers first came in.
We are now moving away from what computers were initially only designed for (massive libraries, databases, computations) and moving into a home-appliacance, easy accessibility mode.
Rules are changing. Business models are changing. If you want any power, you have to be part of the collective of a large company and climb through the ranks. There soon won't be any independent companies. What's happening to the food business is very similar to what's happening to the computer business. All of the small companies are being bought out by the giants.
People might be scared that the future will turn out very bitter, but people are always scared of change. People get scared whenever technology goes ugly, but it usually passes and people adapt.
The article does have valid point, though.
I remember when this initially came up on /. I asked this question: Does the world need another language?
Why on earth would we need yet another language to learn, be incompatible with (at least at the beginning), and have to study? Why would anyone think C# would be necessary?
My view is that it's not. The world has enough high-level languages. C# should not revolutionize anything, it should be a redundant addition. We already have anough C's. What do you think?
Such Classification could also be used to detect the type of music you want to hear on a mix. For example:
Let's say you make yourself a bunch of mix CDs and stick them into your 200-CD tray (it makes more sense to have an MP3 player, but hey...), and from those CDs you only want to hear techno, or only want classical because your parents are coming for dinner. The auto-detection functions allow for limitless possibilities for music playback.
Maybe this could also be used on TV to filter out stuff you don't want to see? Like a quick auto-seek for a channel that doesn't have a cxommercial running?!
Very meanly. I had a Linux computer going for just over a year before the ban set in. Apparently the head techie thinks it's more hackable/trouble for the NT systems... blah.
There aren't that many realyl cool projects that can be done over a single semester. However...
I recommend a real-world situation. My high school teacher goes out every year and finds small companies that need a contractor, often dealing with databases. Although this is not very exciting, it does show the real world. Some people even had cool projects.
Another good thing he does is give a month for an independent study for teaching yourself a new language. It not only gives something to students, but he finds that it gets easier and easier with each passing semester as he knows the various languages more.
I know that I would recommend a number of small projects (5 or so) that could be put into a little 'suite' of tools. This can make students happy because they have a whole little slew of programs that are designed to work with each-other and encourages them to add to this once school's out.
However, your best choice is to do what is done in the last year at my HS. Give them a day or two to come up with a cool project. Then look at it and approve for content. Then give a week to 'storyboard' it. A good, concise description with a timeline, format ideas, you name it. This definitely works best. It also leaves less room for cheating (variety of projects) and encourages teamwork because people may have to help each other even if they're working on different programs, simply because one people may have more experience in one area than another.
Independent projects are the way to go. Make sure to give them access to Linux if there's interest. It's banned in my school board and it really limits ME. Don't make that mistake if you can.
It looks very much like DOSEmu. I haven't used it in a long time, but is this supposed to be faster? I remember that DOSEmu was the slowest thing I've ever run.
I can see that it also runs Linux, so it's already more advanced than DOSEmu, let's hope it runs faster. The site seems to claim that it will due to Dynamic Recompilation, a familiar concept to emulators.
I'd imagine that the programmers have made the code smart enough to know that when it's run on an x86 processor it doesn't have to emulate every cycle, that they can put it through the real chip! Good work, this looks like it may be useful.
We can always believe the crazy rumors benchmark people were making that say that IIS can serve more pages at a time, etc, etc, etc...
If that's the case, sure go for it. I think HotMail has sucked ever since it became Microsoft (just look what happened to the UI), and they've already dug their own grave for themselves.
This will jsut be another thing that will cause people to stop using HotMail, much like that simple login/security issue a little while back. I say, let them do it and see for themselves. It just proves Microsoft is wrong!
Screw booting 41000+ copies of Linux. Run one, be happy with the speed and RAM.
You know, if you get one of these, your computer doesn't get completely outdated within the average 2-or-so-month-cycle...
How many Quake III servers can it handle? =P
If I recall correctly, Voyager uses "Bioneural Gel Packs" so route power and data. This seems to be a similar concept to a bio-transistor, just a lot more complex. But who knows, maybe soon we'll make little unsentient beings slaves to our technology! =P
ALl crypto cannot be broken. I merely stated that there is no format that can be practical enough in size to send over the net and secure enough not to be relatively easily crackable.
If there is one thing that SlashDotters should have noticed by now is that there is no "Watermark" that cannot be broken. I'll use OpenDVD as an example. DVD, as I recall, was also supposed to be uncopy-able/unplayable without the breaking some software locks.
Why would this be any different?