I suppose I'll start my post while I wait for the load strained pages of the article to load.
I feel a little like I'm being a tool for Microsoft, but it's probably because I've made a few other posts on the subject. When someone puts together a great product I feel they should get credit where credit is due.
I purchased the Viewsonic v1100 after playing with it in the store for an hour. If I had to do it again, I would probably get one of the Fujitsus instead, since that is what other slashdot users seem to buy. Don't get me wrong though, I love the one I got. It's worth every cent I paid. I figured that if I was going to plunk down some money on one of these, then I would embrace it. And embrace it I did. I stopped using paper whenever possible, and tried to convert as many documents into their electronic counterparts.
I work as a technician between several buildings, so with this tablet I can connect, through 802.11b, to the help desk software we have. Using this, I have effectively replaced all of my notepads, lists, and papers that I used to carry around with me. It ends up replacing about the same weight, only now everything is organized, and I can bring it all with me.
All I can say is that it just works. The interface is simple, yet works extremely well, and it runs all the apps I need.
Oh yeah, and it hasn't crashed once in the three weeks I've had it.
Perhaps it is just wishful thinking on the part of slashdotites.
"A male contraceptive! I'm gonna be geeky and be the first one on the block to get some of these. w00t! I'll score all the time! Sure, baby, it's cool, my pipes are dry!"
And then people/business in the US picked up on that invention and sold it to others as a partly novelty, partly useful item. (These are kinda interesting, you can write upside down with them.) So how's the Russian economy doing compared to ours, even now?
It would be like internal phone systems? I don't know, as much of a double-edged sword as it could be, it would be useful. The vast majority of my email is at work anyway, and I only email people I personally know or have at least talked to, so could this be a good thing?
I got one of these yesterday. I spent an hour at CompUSA just messing around with one. $2500 USD later, I walked out with one. I'd never use it for coding or typing a paper, but I would have used it for notes in college, if I'd had it. The Viewsonic v1100 is the model I got, and it rocks. The handwriting and voice recognition is excellent. By the way, I'm using it now, without any extra time spent on correction.
Why is it that when someone gets interviewed about their cool idea, they suddenly think that anyone that will read or hear the interview is a complete moron?
Because there's a chance that the reader IS a moron, perhaps not complete, but a moron nonetheless.
Example: We have a local radio talk show where the hosts went to Washington DC for the national talk show week or something. They got to go on a tour of the White House with some other people and one of these other people made a comment. As he was looking at a candelabra that had fake candles (decorative lights bulbs) in the individual candle holders he said, "Gee, do you think they ever had real candles in there?"
Have you ever been to a college course with lots of notes? When I took notes I would fill almost a dozen pages some days. There would be no "jotting down" in my PDA. That would be my idea of hell. And putting them all into a laptop? If you do, people may get a little irritated with your "clickety-clickety" as the time goes by. What if you need to draw diagrams? I can really see the benefits of having a near unlimited amount of virtual paper at my disposal.
However, if the software isn't there to make the interface neat and clean, it might as well be putting it into a PDA.
I saw a commercial on TV about libraries. A kid enters a library, goes up to the librarian and asks for a certain book (doesn't matter what it is). She says that he can't read that book. He asks why he can't and she just repeats herself. He starts to walk away and two men in suits stop him and begin to question him. The librarian looks on sadly as he is taken away.
It was supposed to be some sort of "Aren't you glad you live in America" type commercial.
I think gamers would want that many frames/sec (if they had monitors running at 300 Hz) when they go online to play against other humans. It's like when they play a game single player off the net, they'll push their video card to the limit so it looks purdy. But put them online with other people to play against, and the settings get scaled way back so they can get that extra edge from the smoothness and fluidity of the game.
Actually, that article is wrong. If you look at the original test document linked up above, you'll see that the Register actually got it backwards.
From the pdf above (emphasis mine):
"The Middleware Java Pet Store 2.0 implementation uses the same basic EJB-recommended architecture as the original Java Pet Store (except fully optimized for performance). Hence, its code count remains largely unchanged over the original at 14,004 lines of total code.
With the.NET Pet Shop 2.0 implementation, Microsoft has done some further optimizations to reduce its overall line count, while also extending the application with new features for distributed transactions and Web Services. The new.NET Pet Shop 2.0 contains a total of 2,096 lines of C# code (the 1.5 version had a total of 3,484 lines of code, a 40% reduction)."
I installed the cable modem myself. It used to be that you could call up and give your MAC address, and everything would run fine. Now they have software which "does it for you", and only works on Windows or MAC. No linux support. Unacceptable.
They make like the software is needed to connect to your cable connection, but it isn't. All I had to do was put a temp windows OS on, and once I could connect over the cable line, I put IPCop on the machine and used the same NIC for the connection. It's worked fine for 3 months so far.
Well, you know, slashdot is five. I suppose when you start getting older the mind goes, so seeing something twice isn't that uncommon. I imagine that it's like how that old guy at the bar always tells the same stories over and over again.
Don't laugh too hard, some of us may be there sooner than you think.
If Tori actually visited the reviewer, wouldn't that actually be a private performance, and the reviewer could do whatever he/she wanted with a recording of that? Unless you you signed a contract of course.
Said Mark Litvack, MPAA Vice President and Director of Legal Affairs: "This is Cybernetic shoplifting."
Gee, I guess all that time spent downloading music, movies and porn was tranforming geeks into something wonderful and new. Imagine it, we've all been enhanced in ways never thought possible!
Thanks for the announcement Sony. Now I know to avoid your products.
Plus there's alot of small(er) companies that Sony owns as well. Does anyone have a link to a list of all the "wholly-owned subsidiaries" of Sony? I already tried a google search, but all I came up with was single companies that were owned by Sony. This sort of stuff could just trickle down to them too.
You know, it isn't the artist that creates the CD compilation. The recording studios can release the CDs with whatever songs they want, even if they do have filler songs just so they can "save some good ones for later".
I don't think that there are many artists that actually retain the copyright for themselves, it goes to the record label the signed with, which then controls the flow of music to people.
I agree. Those old-school keyboards were/are awesome.
Where I work we have a few of the old keyboards that are of that style. I think they came from some old IBM machines we used to have. They don't replace the keyboards on new computers we get, but I use them for my own use. I ran one over with a car and it still worked fine. I don't think the same could be said for modern keyboards. There's just something nostalgic about the "klack-ching" sound they make when you press keys.
China, over the next 40 or 50 years, becomes an enormous economic juggernaut. With cheap labor, high tech industry, and a huge population, China begins to develop most of the world's goods for dirt cheap prices. World consumer choice is at an all time high.
Because of the political system in place within the country, the average standard of living doesn't increase significantly.
People are not stupid. The Chinese people will see how the majority are not benefiting from the economic prosperity and attempt to change the political system. The government in place will put down initial unrest, but a civil war could occur the likes of which we have never seen in the world. The world economy that has come to depend on the Chinese government for goods.
With the ensuing economic collapse of China during the civil war, the world is plunged into a depression comparable to the late 1920's and early 1930's. The US Federal Reserve could not handle the removal of a huge portion of the world economy from the picture.
Following the civil war, a democratic government is created in China, and the economy becomes similar to many western countries, with a higher standard of living and increased wages. The economic playing field is now leveled.
Either that, or everybody nukes everybody. Whatever happens, I'll be dead by then. Oh well.
I actually got Rainbow Six to run under 2k. Not that it really matters much, but I used the compatibility update to try to fool R6 into thinking it was on a 98 box. It worked.
As an aside, where I work we are just now moving to 2000 from 95/98 on the workstations and from NT to 2000 on the servers. This is a good thing, but now there's XP. It's horrible how much the people above me trust M$.
"Well, you know, it's Micro$oft's latest OS. It must be the most secure and the best! So we'll get that."
As it stands, we just started getting computers with XP on them instead of 2k in our migration. Now we have two OS's to take care of. Stupendous. When I first used win2k, I truly felt that M$ had a great OS, and still do. Whenever I use XP I feel like I'm being insulted.
Luckily for me (and the end users), I am in a position to begin spreading Linux boxen about. Hopefully their proliferation will enable us to end our dependence on M$ when the next inevitable OS upgrade comes.
First of all, it is still a tax even though it would be a dollar for everyone. Ever hear of a flat tax?
Second, who is going to keep track of the users varying incomes? A corporation? Talk about some great marketing information to have. 150 million users, and you know what each of them makes a year. Ok, so not a corp. The government? Do we REALLY need a government organization to fairly pay the musicians? There has to be a better way.
I think a bit of legislation and a some inventive individuals with a business model could change this whole thing.
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I suppose I'll start my post while I wait for the load strained pages of the article to load.
I feel a little like I'm being a tool for Microsoft, but it's probably because I've made a few other posts on the subject. When someone puts together a great product I feel they should get credit where credit is due.
I purchased the Viewsonic v1100 after playing with it in the store for an hour. If I had to do it again, I would probably get one of the Fujitsus instead, since that is what other slashdot users seem to buy. Don't get me wrong though, I love the one I got. It's worth every cent I paid. I figured that if I was going to plunk down some money on one of these, then I would embrace it. And embrace it I did. I stopped using paper whenever possible, and tried to convert as many documents into their electronic counterparts.
I work as a technician between several buildings, so with this tablet I can connect, through 802.11b, to the help desk software we have. Using this, I have effectively replaced all of my notepads, lists, and papers that I used to carry around with me. It ends up replacing about the same weight, only now everything is organized, and I can bring it all with me.
All I can say is that it just works. The interface is simple, yet works extremely well, and it runs all the apps I need.
Oh yeah, and it hasn't crashed once in the three weeks I've had it.
Q: Does the scribble recognition software in the Tablet PC work?
A: The short answer is 'no'. The long answer is 'just barely'.
Wrong. I have one, a Viewsonic v1100, and the handwriting recognition works well. Excellent even. Have you even tried one?
Obviously I would rather that these machines had Linux, etc. on them, but I'm extremely happy with mine nonetheless.
No, I don't work for Viewsonic or Microsoft.
Hey, it even capitalised Linux for me.
Perhaps it is just wishful thinking on the part of slashdotites.
"A male contraceptive! I'm gonna be geeky and be the first one on the block to get some of these. w00t! I'll score all the time! Sure, baby, it's cool, my pipes are dry!"
And then people/business in the US picked up on that invention and sold it to others as a partly novelty, partly useful item. (These are kinda interesting, you can write upside down with them.) So how's the Russian economy doing compared to ours, even now?
Too bad servers can't "glide down" either when they have an outage.
It would be like internal phone systems? I don't know, as much of a double-edged sword as it could be, it would be useful. The vast majority of my email is at work anyway, and I only email people I personally know or have at least talked to, so could this be a good thing?
Just to update...
I got one of these yesterday. I spent an hour at CompUSA just messing around with one. $2500 USD later, I walked out with one. I'd never use it for coding or typing a paper, but I would have used it for notes in college, if I'd had it. The Viewsonic v1100 is the model I got, and it rocks. The handwriting and voice recognition is excellent. By the way, I'm using it now, without any extra time spent on correction.
Why is it that when someone gets interviewed about their cool idea, they suddenly think that anyone that will read or hear the interview is a complete moron?
Because there's a chance that the reader IS a moron, perhaps not complete, but a moron nonetheless.
Example:
We have a local radio talk show where the hosts went to Washington DC for the national talk show week or something. They got to go on a tour of the White House with some other people and one of these other people made a comment.
As he was looking at a candelabra that had fake candles (decorative lights bulbs) in the individual candle holders he said, "Gee, do you think they ever had real candles in there?"
Have you ever been to a college course with lots of notes? When I took notes I would fill almost a dozen pages some days. There would be no "jotting down" in my PDA. That would be my idea of hell. And putting them all into a laptop? If you do, people may get a little irritated with your "clickety-clickety" as the time goes by. What if you need to draw diagrams? I can really see the benefits of having a near unlimited amount of virtual paper at my disposal.
However, if the software isn't there to make the interface neat and clean, it might as well be putting it into a PDA.
I saw a commercial on TV about libraries. A kid enters a library, goes up to the librarian and asks for a certain book (doesn't matter what it is). She says that he can't read that book. He asks why he can't and she just repeats herself. He starts to walk away and two men in suits stop him and begin to question him. The librarian looks on sadly as he is taken away.
It was supposed to be some sort of "Aren't you glad you live in America" type commercial.
Indeed.
I think gamers would want that many frames/sec (if they had monitors running at 300 Hz) when they go online to play against other humans. It's like when they play a game single player off the net, they'll push their video card to the limit so it looks purdy. But put them online with other people to play against, and the settings get scaled way back so they can get that extra edge from the smoothness and fluidity of the game.
I suppose I should include myself in this.
Actually, that article is wrong. If you look at the original test document linked up above, you'll see that the Register actually got it backwards.
.NET Pet Shop 2.0 implementation, Microsoft has done some further optimizations to reduce its overall line count, while also extending the application with new features for distributed transactions and Web Services. The new .NET Pet Shop 2.0 contains a total of 2,096 lines of C# code (the 1.5 version had a total of 3,484 lines of code, a 40% reduction)."
From the pdf above (emphasis mine):
"The Middleware Java Pet Store 2.0 implementation uses the same basic EJB-recommended architecture as the original Java Pet Store (except fully optimized for performance). Hence, its code count remains largely unchanged over the original at 14,004 lines of total code.
With the
Take it for what you will.
I installed the cable modem myself. It used to be that you could call up and give your MAC address, and everything would run fine. Now they have software which "does it for you", and only works on Windows or MAC. No linux support. Unacceptable.
They make like the software is needed to connect to your cable connection, but it isn't. All I had to do was put a temp windows OS on, and once I could connect over the cable line, I put IPCop on the machine and used the same NIC for the connection. It's worked fine for 3 months so far.
These people like to do that. It's already happening.
/. articles. You'll see tons of references.
Look through past
I suppose if you really want to help "support" google, you can go to the google store.
Yay. I'm gonna buy a pen. And a hat.
However, I don't think they are hurting right now. Take a look at all the business deals they have made in their timeline.
Well, you know, slashdot is five. I suppose when you start getting older the mind goes, so seeing something twice isn't that uncommon. I imagine that it's like how that old guy at the bar always tells the same stories over and over again.
Don't laugh too hard, some of us may be there sooner than you think.
If Tori actually visited the reviewer, wouldn't that actually be a private performance, and the reviewer could do whatever he/she wanted with a recording of that? Unless you you signed a contract of course.
Said Mark Litvack, MPAA Vice President and Director of Legal Affairs: "This is Cybernetic shoplifting."
Gee, I guess all that time spent downloading music, movies and porn was tranforming geeks into something wonderful and new. Imagine it, we've all been enhanced in ways never thought possible!
Plus there's alot of small(er) companies that Sony owns as well. Does anyone have a link to a list of all the "wholly-owned subsidiaries" of Sony? I already tried a google search, but all I came up with was single companies that were owned by Sony. This sort of stuff could just trickle down to them too.
You know, it isn't the artist that creates the CD compilation. The recording studios can release the CDs with whatever songs they want, even if they do have filler songs just so they can "save some good ones for later".
I don't think that there are many artists that actually retain the copyright for themselves, it goes to the record label the signed with, which then controls the flow of music to people.
I agree. Those old-school keyboards were/are awesome.
Where I work we have a few of the old keyboards that are of that style. I think they came from some old IBM machines we used to have. They don't replace the keyboards on new computers we get, but I use them for my own use. I ran one over with a car and it still worked fine. I don't think the same could be said for modern keyboards. There's just something nostalgic about the "klack-ching" sound they make when you press keys.
Envision this scenario:
China, over the next 40 or 50 years, becomes an enormous economic juggernaut. With cheap labor, high tech industry, and a huge population, China begins to develop most of the world's goods for dirt cheap prices. World consumer choice is at an all time high.
Because of the political system in place within the country, the average standard of living doesn't increase significantly.
People are not stupid. The Chinese people will see how the majority are not benefiting from the economic prosperity and attempt to change the political system. The government in place will put down initial unrest, but a civil war could occur the likes of which we have never seen in the world. The world economy that has come to depend on the Chinese government for goods.
With the ensuing economic collapse of China during the civil war, the world is plunged into a depression comparable to the late 1920's and early 1930's. The US Federal Reserve could not handle the removal of a huge portion of the world economy from the picture.
Following the civil war, a democratic government is created in China, and the economy becomes similar to many western countries, with a higher standard of living and increased wages. The economic playing field is now leveled.
Either that, or everybody nukes everybody. Whatever happens, I'll be dead by then. Oh well.
I actually got Rainbow Six to run under 2k. Not that it really matters much, but I used the compatibility update to try to fool R6 into thinking it was on a 98 box. It worked.
As an aside, where I work we are just now moving to 2000 from 95/98 on the workstations and from NT to 2000 on the servers. This is a good thing, but now there's XP. It's horrible how much the people above me trust M$.
"Well, you know, it's Micro$oft's latest OS. It must be the most secure and the best! So we'll get that."
As it stands, we just started getting computers with XP on them instead of 2k in our migration. Now we have two OS's to take care of. Stupendous. When I first used win2k, I truly felt that M$ had a great OS, and still do. Whenever I use XP I feel like I'm being insulted.
Luckily for me (and the end users), I am in a position to begin spreading Linux boxen about. Hopefully their proliferation will enable us to end our dependence on M$ when the next inevitable OS upgrade comes.
First of all, it is still a tax even though it would be a dollar for everyone. Ever hear of a flat tax?
Second, who is going to keep track of the users varying incomes? A corporation? Talk about some great marketing information to have. 150 million users, and you know what each of them makes a year. Ok, so not a corp. The government? Do we REALLY need a government organization to fairly pay the musicians? There has to be a better way.
I think a bit of legislation and a some inventive individuals with a business model could change this whole thing.