Redfly is not actually a full-fledged subnotebook computer, but rather a portable dumb terminal that you can use to run software that resides on the PDA/mobile phone in your pocket?
And it's only compatible with a small set of Windows Mobile devices?
And the only color it's available in is burgundy?
And it will cost $500 when it comes to market -- more than the Asus EeePC, which IS a full-fledged subnotebook?
See, after the first time you spent a month rewriting a working application to satisfy requirements agreed to by the IT Department, only to have the delivered work capriciously rejected, that's when your department should have gone to the CEO/VP/any bigwig with a sympathetic ear, and the director of IT should have gotten a chewing-out.
Pushed from on high. In other words, designed by committee.
No. Those don't mean the same thing at all.
The article gives several examples of Steve Jobs exemplifying the "pushed from on high" approach; it's the CEO of the company, not a committee of "stakeholders" with little actual stake in the outcome of the project, determining how big the product should be and what features it should have and how much to sell it for.
The reason this works is because when Jobs demands something, it's usually the right thing. If he made a habit of insisting on things nobody wanted or liked, he wouldn't be able to get away with being an asshole.
I don't understand what they're using these thumb drives for that wouldn't be possible with a good network?
How do you physically attach a keyboard and mouse to a computer via an Ethernet port?
Could the agency insist on only purchasing PCs with PS/2-style ports? Maybe. What happens when the only manufacturer still supplying them charges thrice as much as a commodity PC for the privilege of using 20-year-old technology?
Could the agency lock down the OS so that only USB devices with approved IDs will be recognized? Maybe. Depends on the OS, and relies on peripheral manufacturers to maintain a manageable list of distinct IDs for their keyboards and mics.
why is the state so paranoid that their employees in the Division of Child Support are going to be stealing information?
Paranoia is Good. Especially when it's MY personal information that's on the line.
But most sites do not advertise the fact that they are tracking you.
Depends on what you mean by "advertise". A site's Privacy Policy and/or User Agreement will normally state plainly whether the site collects any information about your behavior, and if so how they use that information.
Sony's PlayStation 2 continued to outpace its successor. The PS2 sold 351,800 units compared with 280,800 for the PS3.
It's the economy (, stupid).
Retail price of a PlayStation 2: $130 Retail price of a PlayStation 3: $400 and up
Is the new console 2-3 times as much fun as the old one?
And then there's the killer app: Guitar Hero. The game that all my non-gamer friends are addicted to.
If you want to own the game, you can either spend $400 or more for a bundle that includes a 360 or a PS3, or about $220 for a PS2 bundle. Casual gamers are much more likely to justify the purchase price when it's that low.
At least in linguistics, there's a few scholars who just keep submitting the same research to journal after journal and collection after collection, just rewriting the article each time.
But at least it creates a secondary market for linguisticians to study the various versions and write papers that provide insight into the rewriting process...
They had electronic detectors triggered various ways sending data to an old Digital PHP system that was supposed to analyze each event as quickly as possible, decide whether it was interesting enough to save to magnetic tape, and then go on to the next event a few microseconds later.
Unfortunately they were using the built-in PHP functions for accessing magnetic tape, and had magic_quotes disabled, so a hacker was able to use an injection exploit and write 5MB of 'PWNT!!!1" to the tapes.
The HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360 is an add-on peripheral, not an integral part of the console.
And with the HD-DVD movie format having a limited amount of market time left, it's looking like history will judge the peripheral as harshly as it did the Sega 32X or the Intellivision Keyboard Component.
that only backs my thesis that european (tonal) 12-tone music is very primitive and constricted.
In terms of the entire gamut of audible sound, yes.
In terms of audible sounds considered to have enough aesthetic value to be 'musical', tonal music in a 12-pitch-per-octave tuning system comprises a large percentage of that space.
The realm of what is 'musical' is expanding over time, though. Yesterday's terrible noise is today's progressive music, and tomorrow's standard repertoire.
You have 6.5 gig of space on redundant remote servers.
Specifically, on redundant remote servers that you have no control over, running a service that is officially still in beta, with no technical or legal recourse if they decide power down all their servers tomorrow.
Why WOULDN'T you want to have a local backup of the contents of your Google service accoutns?
The computer software industry generally realized twenty years ago that copy protection schemes cause more problems than they solve. (When was the last time you had to look up a word in a printed manual, or attach a hardware dongle, in order to run a piece of software?) Copy protection is rarely difficult to circumvent, adds to the costs of media distribution, provides no benefit to the legitimate customer, and often drives legitimate customers to become illegitimate for the sake of convenience.
It's nice to see a sign of hope that other digital content industries may finally be coming to the same conclusions.
People talk all day (ask my mother-in-law) without losing their voice or straining any muscles, but have you ever typed literally all day?
Who said anything about 'all day'? Isn't it common sense that performing the same action constantly for hours on end -- whether it's touch-typing or voice dictation -- is bad for you?
On Vista saying "open notepad" is much faster than trying to remember where it is buried on the menu.
I create hotkey combinations for often-used applications. Ctrl-Alt-N is faster still than saying "open notepad", and less irritating to my cubemates.
This is the reason that programming languages that read closer to English are usually more popular, they're simply easier to pick up and understand.
Yes. This is why C and Perl never really caught on, and why Pascal and COBOL are still the most popular languages for computer programming. End.
I'm willing to bet that you will get on your Iphone and call all your friends to discuss how stupid this poster named OMNI-something was on/.
his point was, dont be stupid about working the problem.
While I commend you for the resourcefulness you showed by copying the answers directly out of the teacher's edition, I can't help thinking that both you and your professor have missed the point of problem sets: the goal is not simply to find the correct answers, the goal is to understand the processes by which a correct answer can be obtained.
I think it's kind of ironic that the acronym EPIC was also the acronym used to describe the Itanium's IA-64 instruction set (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing).
And then there's the Faith No More song with that name, which succinctly describes the attitude of the manufacturers who would back this system, as well as the response from users opposed to it:
The outsourced manufacturing company wouldn't have the ability to activate them, so couldn't sell extras to the black market.
However, since they have the blueprints to the chips, they can find the sections of the schematic that implement this activation system, create a slightly modified die where they're masked out to always return an "authorized" status, and sell THOSE pirate chips on the black market.
On one hand you have Socialists and on the other you have Fascists running for President.
To label any national major-party candidate in the United States as either "socialist" or "fascist" demonstrates a very poor understanding of what those terms mean.
The Dems argued and took potshots at each other, and were, in general, very clique-y, while the Republicans just seemed to just get along with each other.
That's one way to describe the difference.
Another might be that within both parties there are factions with substantial differences in principles, and Democrats are more likely to defend their viewpoints while Republicans are more willing to set aside their beliefs "for the good of party unity", aka a better shot at winning an election.
I would support a law requiring any political party that gets more than 40% of the popular vote in a presidential election to schism into two; it would assure that there were always at least three viable parties, and encourage coalition governments. But who in Congress would propose, much less pass, such a law?
[McCain is] still getting press, as I'm still seeing his head on TV nearly every day.
Maybe so, but in newspaper terms he's "below the fold". Obama/Hillary is "top story", and will remain that way until the Democratic nomination is decided.
Slashdotters may have (media)servers, most people don't.
A set-top DVR box IS a media server, albeit one that's been crippled to only offer content specifically allowed by the cable provider.
It won't be long before someone opens these devices up to the Internet-at-large and regular customers discover, and ultimately take for granted, the ability to obtain and view digital video content whenever they want, from wherever they want, in whatever format they want.
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Do I have this right?
Redfly is not actually a full-fledged subnotebook computer, but rather a portable dumb terminal that you can use to run software that resides on the PDA/mobile phone in your pocket?
And it's only compatible with a small set of Windows Mobile devices?
And the only color it's available in is burgundy?
And it will cost $500 when it comes to market -- more than the Asus EeePC, which IS a full-fledged subnotebook?
Does this thing have ANY positives at all?
See, after the first time you spent a month rewriting a working application to satisfy requirements agreed to by the IT Department, only to have the delivered work capriciously rejected, that's when your department should have gone to the CEO/VP/any bigwig with a sympathetic ear, and the director of IT should have gotten a chewing-out.
Pushed from on high. In other words, designed by committee.
No. Those don't mean the same thing at all.
The article gives several examples of Steve Jobs exemplifying the "pushed from on high" approach; it's the CEO of the company, not a committee of "stakeholders" with little actual stake in the outcome of the project, determining how big the product should be and what features it should have and how much to sell it for.
The reason this works is because when Jobs demands something, it's usually the right thing. If he made a habit of insisting on things nobody wanted or liked, he wouldn't be able to get away with being an asshole.
I don't understand what they're using these thumb drives for that wouldn't be possible with a good network?
How do you physically attach a keyboard and mouse to a computer via an Ethernet port?
Could the agency insist on only purchasing PCs with PS/2-style ports? Maybe. What happens when the only manufacturer still supplying them charges thrice as much as a commodity PC for the privilege of using 20-year-old technology?
Could the agency lock down the OS so that only USB devices with approved IDs will be recognized? Maybe. Depends on the OS, and relies on peripheral manufacturers to maintain a manageable list of distinct IDs for their keyboards and mics.
why is the state so paranoid that their employees in the Division of Child Support are going to be stealing information?
Paranoia is Good. Especially when it's MY personal information that's on the line.
But most sites do not advertise the fact that they are tracking you.
Depends on what you mean by "advertise". A site's Privacy Policy and/or User Agreement will normally state plainly whether the site collects any information about your behavior, and if so how they use that information.
Sony's PlayStation 2 continued to outpace its successor. The PS2 sold 351,800 units compared with 280,800 for the PS3.
It's the economy (, stupid).
Retail price of a PlayStation 2: $130
Retail price of a PlayStation 3: $400 and up
Is the new console 2-3 times as much fun as the old one?
And then there's the killer app: Guitar Hero. The game that all my non-gamer friends are addicted to.
If you want to own the game, you can either spend $400 or more for a bundle that includes a 360 or a PS3, or about $220 for a PS2 bundle. Casual gamers are much more likely to justify the purchase price when it's that low.
At least in linguistics, there's a few scholars who just keep submitting the same research to journal after journal and collection after collection, just rewriting the article each time.
But at least it creates a secondary market for linguisticians to study the various versions and write papers that provide insight into the rewriting process...
No the performers tend to be screwed more than the songwriters
Correct, because songwriters have organizations like ASCAP and BMI to represent their interests and enforce their copyrights.
The record labels, too, have organizations like the RIAA to represent their interests and enforce their phonographic copyrights.
Performers who are not songwriters typically have no copyright to claim, and nobody to represent their interests.
How are they ahead of the curve? They have... a phone?
You joke, but... does Google have a phone? No.
An API can show all the promise in the world, but until there's actual hardware that it runs on, it's unprovable whether it's any good.
They had electronic detectors triggered various ways sending data to an old Digital PHP system that was supposed to analyze each event as quickly as possible, decide whether it was interesting enough to save to magnetic tape, and then go on to the next event a few microseconds later.
Unfortunately they were using the built-in PHP functions for accessing magnetic tape, and had magic_quotes disabled, so a hacker was able to use an injection exploit and write 5MB of 'PWNT!!!1" to the tapes.
Since Microsoft's Xbox 360 uses an HD-DVD drive
The HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360 is an add-on peripheral, not an integral part of the console.
And with the HD-DVD movie format having a limited amount of market time left, it's looking like history will judge the peripheral as harshly as it did the Sega 32X or the Intellivision Keyboard Component.
that only backs my thesis that european (tonal) 12-tone music is very primitive and constricted.
In terms of the entire gamut of audible sound, yes.
In terms of audible sounds considered to have enough aesthetic value to be 'musical', tonal music in a 12-pitch-per-octave tuning system comprises a large percentage of that space.
The realm of what is 'musical' is expanding over time, though. Yesterday's terrible noise is today's progressive music, and tomorrow's standard repertoire.
You have 6.5 gig of space on redundant remote servers.
Specifically, on redundant remote servers that you have no control over, running a service that is officially still in beta, with no technical or legal recourse if they decide power down all their servers tomorrow.
Why WOULDN'T you want to have a local backup of the contents of your Google service accoutns?
The computer software industry generally realized twenty years ago that copy protection schemes cause more problems than they solve. (When was the last time you had to look up a word in a printed manual, or attach a hardware dongle, in order to run a piece of software?) Copy protection is rarely difficult to circumvent, adds to the costs of media distribution, provides no benefit to the legitimate customer, and often drives legitimate customers to become illegitimate for the sake of convenience.
It's nice to see a sign of hope that other digital content industries may finally be coming to the same conclusions.
So yeah, the guy's right, Intel's graphics adaptors are terrible.
Terrible at polygon shading, maybe, but that doesn't matter for 95% of what the PCs that have them are used for.
People talk all day (ask my mother-in-law) without losing their voice or straining any muscles, but have you ever typed literally all day?
/.
Who said anything about 'all day'? Isn't it common sense that performing the same action constantly for hours on end -- whether it's touch-typing or voice dictation -- is bad for you?
On Vista saying "open notepad" is much faster than trying to remember where it is buried on the menu.
I create hotkey combinations for often-used applications. Ctrl-Alt-N is faster still than saying "open notepad", and less irritating to my cubemates.
This is the reason that programming languages that read closer to English are usually more popular, they're simply easier to pick up and understand.
Yes. This is why C and Perl never really caught on, and why Pascal and COBOL are still the most popular languages for computer programming. End.
I'm willing to bet that you will get on your Iphone and call all your friends to discuss how stupid this poster named OMNI-something was on
You flatter yourself.
his point was, dont be stupid about working the problem.
While I commend you for the resourcefulness you showed by copying the answers directly out of the teacher's edition, I can't help thinking that both you and your professor have missed the point of problem sets: the goal is not simply to find the correct answers, the goal is to understand the processes by which a correct answer can be obtained.
I think it's kind of ironic that the acronym EPIC was also the acronym used to describe the Itanium's IA-64 instruction set (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing).
And then there's the Faith No More song with that name, which succinctly describes the attitude of the manufacturers who would back this system, as well as the response from users opposed to it:
"You want it all but you can't have it."
The outsourced manufacturing company wouldn't have the ability to activate them, so couldn't sell extras to the black market.
However, since they have the blueprints to the chips, they can find the sections of the schematic that implement this activation system, create a slightly modified die where they're masked out to always return an "authorized" status, and sell THOSE pirate chips on the black market.
At the end, we ended up switching [from Flash] to good old HTML
And how does such a re-platforming remove the need for domain expertise in programming, design, UI, and project management, respectively?
Unusable piece of crap has less than 1024 px horizontal res == not suitable for web surfing.
Sites with fixed layouts that cannot accommodate browsers with screen widths under 1 kilopixel == not suitable to be web surfed.
On one hand you have Socialists and on the other you have Fascists running for President.
To label any national major-party candidate in the United States as either "socialist" or "fascist" demonstrates a very poor understanding of what those terms mean.
The Dems argued and took potshots at each other, and were, in general, very clique-y, while the Republicans just seemed to just get along with each other.
That's one way to describe the difference.
Another might be that within both parties there are factions with substantial differences in principles, and Democrats are more likely to defend their viewpoints while Republicans are more willing to set aside their beliefs "for the good of party unity", aka a better shot at winning an election.
I would support a law requiring any political party that gets more than 40% of the popular vote in a presidential election to schism into two; it would assure that there were always at least three viable parties, and encourage coalition governments. But who in Congress would propose, much less pass, such a law?
[McCain is] still getting press, as I'm still seeing his head on TV nearly every day.
Maybe so, but in newspaper terms he's "below the fold". Obama/Hillary is "top story", and will remain that way until the Democratic nomination is decided.
Slashdotters may have (media)servers, most people don't.
A set-top DVR box IS a media server, albeit one that's been crippled to only offer content specifically allowed by the cable provider.
It won't be long before someone opens these devices up to the Internet-at-large and regular customers discover, and ultimately take for granted, the ability to obtain and view digital video content whenever they want, from wherever they want, in whatever format they want.