IIRC the WinCE devices came out in the last 2 years. they have not made a newton in the last 3-4 years. Current WinCE devices are equivelent to the last Newtown, better in some and worse in others. They are signifigantly cheaper(an order of magnitude or so) and that is a major factor. All of this does show one thing. The Newton was way ahead of it's time. For example I had a web browser on my 1994 era model.
If Apple had two more years who knows where it would be.
I have worked with older evaluation version's of the Graham GTS evaluation server. It is a very cool technology that permit's streaming of audio and video without the use of plugins. It supports multiple browser's from the day's of Netscape 3 on.
this is a true multiplatform solution that work's in the browser and uses java for advanced functions.
definitely worth a look.
www.graham.com
I think that a lot of net based new's sites will be in for a big surprise if they institute micropayment. Many of the sites seam to lack any sort of editorial review. It apears that the artical's are written and posted. They often have repeated words, incoherent sentences and blatently wrong statements. I see this often on Yahoo, and C'net. If these vendor's were to start charging I would have incentive to evaluate my options and stop frequenting there site.
With ASM all you need is to type in the bootloader for the CD you just burned yourself. The whole idea of a Beowolf cluster of these to render graphics might have just gotten easier.
A. This strikes me as complaining the windows 3.1 does not support your cool new card. It does not, you need to upgrade to Win95 or maybe even win98. It's the same deal with Xfree. Rather than complaining that Xfree does not support why don't you complain that the manufacturer does not provide drivers for his card? Or join the effort to get the next release of your favorite distro out the door with the newest X?
B. Do you know where the config files are in windows? Do you ALWAYS edit the registry to change things? their are gui's in linux as well if you install them. Linuxconf(no flames please) as well as many others abstract you from the config files. Xconfigurator? As to DNS I am not sure of your problem. Window's can not "find" your DNS without some info. If you don't have a DHCP server on the network you need to know that info yourself under both OS's. As to finding such in PPP I agree, It's to the point that the developers can assume a standard PPP and fill in some of the info automatically. Just leave Slip and otheres as an option.
C. Can't help you there. If your afraid of "install" in windows your SOL as well. In package managed system's "redhat/rpm,debian/apt" you never have to compile. and if you want to you can compile from source(rpm. not so familiar with debian)
D. Many distroes have this. Once again Linux conf. there is a whole directory in X for redhat based systems. Debien has this as well now AFAIK.
That said I agree that linux has it's problems. there are often to many options to the user. their is not enought vendor support even in terms of opening their hardware. Their is also some badpublicity about Linux. Users expect it to be a "better windows" that is totally free. It is not. it is another operating system with it's own quirks and streanghts and weaknesses. Their is a cost involved in setting up a linux box. It's the learning curve. For some of us we have paid it once and futer installs are cheap. For others they still must learn. Have you every watched a long term mac user try to learn windows? To find the controle panels and use them. to figure out hardware installs? It is informative. Mac's have excellent userinterfaces and hardware compatability. To a mac user windows is complicated and more work than it's woth. draw your own parrallells.
Is it just me or does this seam like taking the idea of choice a little to far?
The Officials down in Florida are defending their ballot and pointing out that it was open to review ahead of time. This brings up the question of how many ballot's are there? How many different ballots are we the public expected to check and why can't they be standardized. If each state had a standard ballot/polling method that would give each state 49 others to compare with. That seams like a good selection to me while cutting the complexity.
what exactly is Mach 1 at that altitude? and is she travling Mach 1 or 750+ Mph?
the speed of sound waves changes with the density of the medium. How fast is it/her at that height?
This is all well and good but Remember the Microsoft intends their machines to be servers. whether or not you agrea that they are good servers does not affect the fact that if they want to be a server they should support ipv6. Other wise the topdown roleout from backbone to desktop will stop when it hit's NT/2000 and never actually reach the desktop.
While this is a valid argument I think that Transmeta's is as well. They are trying rather hard
NOT to market these chips as a general laptop chip. They are marketing them as low
power chips for web tablet's, palmtops, and other such devices. These devices use low power
display's, and many don't even have a hard drive.
Transmeta is trying to market a power efficient chip to a market segment where that matters. It
is GQ public that is claiming they are making impossible claims about "Average" laptops.
Actually the crusoe is supposed to slow down the processor for short derations stuff as well. ie. when you are typing something in and pause for 10 seconds to read from the page. I seriously doubt that you turn your laptop off for such things.
The Crusoe chip may not be using any new ideas but it does take things farther than anyone else has tried.
the PowerPC was to be a risc chip that could emulate cisc. crusoe is a riscish chip that emulates the x86 instruction set.
the Intel Speed step slows the processor down when on batteries. The crusoe slows the processor down when not in use.
Is it just me or was this the point of the WWW? many scientists could modify pages either on the unix machines themselves or download and modify locally. Then upload(http push).
Then someone added version control with cvs, chatting with talk and ytalk and zephyr. and boom. Prior art.
I am not sure of the order here but I use a unix environment and the web for this purpose regularly.
Distributed.net has had difficulty with people falsly submitting large blocks of work. Not only have people submitted large blocks of work that was not completed but I beleive that their have been falsefied reports of positive returns.
It is for this reason that they only release the source to their core. And not to their network interface. This is an attempt to prevent a script kiddie from tweaking the source to boost their stats. In order to do this you actually have to reverse engineer the client/server communications protocol.
I think this comes down to a technical matter. It is relatively easy to bring a dormant hydro plant online. You simply engage the opening to the turbine. On a more fossil fuel system the startup process can take much more time. Everything must heat up and the cycle has to get going.
I think that this is a great idea and has a potentially large application in the niche wilderness market.
Believe it or not there are still many places in the US that are not on the grid. They are in places that power lines simply do not access. Until now their only option has been diesel generators. These are loud often smelly and polluting. In remote wilderness locations where the point is often to get away from civilization this tech would be a major plus.
Also if this technology develops then a supply of hydrogen (maybe using solar energy to split water?) could be developed. This would create a green solution and start to create the infrastructure and trust to move automobiles towards alternative fuel sources.
I think more appropriate than shooting our waste into the sun would be to actually think about our current policies and methods.
Actually funding civilian nuclear research. For example with the potential benefits from fusion power why is their no concerted effort to find out a way to make it work? Also spent nuclear fuel rod's have something like 85% of their energy left when retired into storage. AFAIK it is possible to extract more energy from these rods. We don't and have not even tried to because it is "uneconomical." While this might be true we might want to think about some of the other factors involved.
I believe Aqua is the closest equivalency to X-windows. If not I am looking for said closest equivalent.
One of the features of *NIX and X-windows is the location independence. By this I mean the ability to run programs remotely from another box(telnet/X-windows).
That said does anyone here know of a comparison between Aqua and X-windows(with Gnome or KDE or other)? Specifically in terms of ability to run programs remotely, ease of doing so, security(they do include SSH), Network load?
This, I would think, would make OS X much more attractive to corperations, and educational institutions.
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IIRC the WinCE devices came out in the last 2 years. they have not made a newton in the last 3-4 years. Current WinCE devices are equivelent to the last Newtown, better in some and worse in others. They are signifigantly cheaper(an order of magnitude or so) and that is a major factor. All of this does show one thing. The Newton was way ahead of it's time. For example I had a web browser on my 1994 era model.
If Apple had two more years who knows where it would be.
I have worked with older evaluation version's of the Graham GTS evaluation server. It is a very cool technology that permit's streaming of audio and video without the use of plugins. It supports multiple browser's from the day's of Netscape 3 on.
this is a true multiplatform solution that work's in the browser and uses java for advanced functions. definitely worth a look. www.graham.com
I think that a lot of net based new's sites will be in for a big surprise if they institute micropayment. Many of the sites seam to lack any sort of editorial review. It apears that the artical's are written and posted. They often have repeated words, incoherent sentences and blatently wrong statements. I see this often on Yahoo, and C'net. If these vendor's were to start charging I would have incentive to evaluate my options and stop frequenting there site.
If I remember correctly the last successor to Minux has outgrown it's humble origins. You might have heard of it. It's called "Linux"
if I use 10% and you use 10% and those 10%s are different even by only 1/2% with 1000 users it's conceivable that 90% of the functionality is used.
so which 10% do you work on?
With ASM all you need is to type in the bootloader for the CD you just burned yourself. The whole idea of a Beowolf cluster of these to render graphics might have just gotten easier.
A. This strikes me as complaining the windows 3.1 does not support your cool new card. It does not, you need to upgrade to Win95 or maybe even win98. It's the same deal with Xfree. Rather than complaining that Xfree does not support why don't you complain that the manufacturer does not provide drivers for his card? Or join the effort to get the next release of your favorite distro out the door with the newest X?
B. Do you know where the config files are in windows? Do you ALWAYS edit the registry to change things? their are gui's in linux as well if you install them. Linuxconf(no flames please) as well as many others abstract you from the config files. Xconfigurator? As to DNS I am not sure of your problem. Window's can not "find" your DNS without some info. If you don't have a DHCP server on the network you need to know that info yourself under both OS's. As to finding such in PPP I agree, It's to the point that the developers can assume a standard PPP and fill in some of the info automatically. Just leave Slip and otheres as an option.
C. Can't help you there. If your afraid of "install" in windows your SOL as well. In package managed system's "redhat/rpm,debian/apt" you never have to compile. and if you want to you can compile from source(rpm. not so familiar with debian)
D. Many distroes have this. Once again Linux conf. there is a whole directory in X for redhat based systems. Debien has this as well now AFAIK.
That said I agree that linux has it's problems. there are often to many options to the user. their is not enought vendor support even in terms of opening their hardware. Their is also some badpublicity about Linux. Users expect it to be a "better windows" that is totally free. It is not. it is another operating system with it's own quirks and streanghts and weaknesses. Their is a cost involved in setting up a linux box. It's the learning curve. For some of us we have paid it once and futer installs are cheap. For others they still must learn. Have you every watched a long term mac user try to learn windows? To find the controle panels and use them. to figure out hardware installs? It is informative. Mac's have excellent userinterfaces and hardware compatability. To a mac user windows is complicated and more work than it's woth. draw your own parrallells.
Is it just me or does this seam like taking the idea of choice a little to far?
The Officials down in Florida are defending their ballot and pointing out that it was open to review ahead of time. This brings up the question of how many ballot's are there? How many different ballots are we the public expected to check and why can't they be standardized. If each state had a standard ballot/polling method that would give each state 49 others to compare with. That seams like a good selection to me while cutting the complexity.
I beleive they are running a MS Win varient with a second processor controlling an "instant boot" functionality.
this was in a previous story but I have no links.
show it during lunch. problem solved.
what exactly is Mach 1 at that altitude? and is she travling Mach 1 or 750+ Mph?
the speed of sound waves changes with the density of the medium. How fast is it/her at that height?
This is all well and good but Remember the Microsoft intends their machines to be servers. whether or not you agrea that they are good servers does not affect the fact that if they want to be a server they should support ipv6. Other wise the topdown roleout from backbone to desktop will stop when it hit's NT/2000 and never actually reach the desktop.
Afs or andrew file system does this. it has a lot of neat features. one minus you can not do per file acls. you have to use directories.
While this is a valid argument I think that Transmeta's is as well. They are trying rather hard NOT to market these chips as a general laptop chip. They are marketing them as low power chips for web tablet's, palmtops, and other such devices. These devices use low power display's, and many don't even have a hard drive.
Transmeta is trying to market a power efficient chip to a market segment where that matters. It is GQ public that is claiming they are making impossible claims about "Average" laptops.
Actually the crusoe is supposed to slow down the processor for short derations stuff as well. ie. when you are typing something in and pause for 10 seconds to read from the page. I seriously doubt that you turn your laptop off for such things.
The Crusoe chip may not be using any new ideas but it does take things farther than anyone else has tried.
the PowerPC was to be a risc chip that could emulate cisc. crusoe is a riscish chip that emulates the x86 instruction set.
the Intel Speed step slows the processor down when on batteries. The crusoe slows the processor down when not in use.
Is it just me or was this the point of the WWW? many scientists could modify pages either on the unix machines themselves or download and modify locally. Then upload(http push).
Then someone added version control with cvs, chatting with talk and ytalk and zephyr. and boom. Prior art.
I am not sure of the order here but I use a unix environment and the web for this purpose regularly.
Distributed.net has had difficulty with people falsly submitting large blocks of work. Not only have people submitted large blocks of work that was not completed but I beleive that their have been falsefied reports of positive returns.
It is for this reason that they only release the source to their core. And not to their network interface. This is an attempt to prevent a script kiddie from tweaking the source to boost their stats. In order to do this you actually have to reverse engineer the client/server communications protocol.
I think this comes down to a technical matter. It is relatively easy to bring a dormant hydro plant online. You simply engage the opening to the turbine. On a more fossil fuel system the startup process can take much more time. Everything must heat up and the cycle has to get going.
I think that this is a great idea and has a potentially large application in the niche wilderness market.
Believe it or not there are still many places in the US that are not on the grid. They are in places that power lines simply do not access. Until now their only option has been diesel generators. These are loud often smelly and polluting. In remote wilderness locations where the point is often to get away from civilization this tech would be a major plus.
Also if this technology develops then a supply of hydrogen (maybe using solar energy to split water?) could be developed. This would create a green solution and start to create the infrastructure and trust to move automobiles towards alternative fuel sources.
I think more appropriate than shooting our waste into the sun would be to actually think about our current policies and methods.
Actually funding civilian nuclear research. For example with the potential benefits from fusion power why is their no concerted effort to find out a way to make it work? Also spent nuclear fuel rod's have something like 85% of their energy left when retired into storage. AFAIK it is possible to extract more energy from these rods. We don't and have not even tried to because it is "uneconomical." While this might be true we might want to think about some of the other factors involved.
I believe Aqua is the closest equivalency to X-windows. If not I am looking for said closest equivalent.
One of the features of *NIX and X-windows is the location independence. By this I mean the ability to run programs remotely from another box(telnet/X-windows).
That said does anyone here know of a comparison between Aqua and X-windows(with Gnome or KDE or other)? Specifically in terms of ability to run programs remotely, ease of doing so, security(they do include SSH), Network load?
This, I would think, would make OS X much more attractive to corperations, and educational institutions.