One problem with this is that consumer electronics don't relate to cars. Cars do not have new features coming out every three to six months. The average DVD player line does. Not only do you get half the quality for a third the cost (eg higher quality to cost ratio), but you get the newer features.
Now, I'm not saying I buy this way. Personally I'd rather have something a year or two old that actually works as expected. I didn't even have a DVD player until earlier this year. But some people want the newest and flashiest things. I encourage that, because they debug the things that I'll buy when they work right.
And that's the problem with a data restrictions mandate (hey man, it has NOTHING to do with rights, call it what it is). In my experience, it just makes life inconvenient for the personal user, making them jump through hoops to do what they would any way. The primary losses will always be to large professional duplicators, who have an inside angle and can make identical copies, restrictions and all.
Actually I was rolling on the floor for most of it. I thought it was hillarious and pretty much in character with what he shows as a media image. My opinion of his skills of an actor has definately been boosted.
That's basically what this is. A large pocket PC (x-scale or strongARM or whatever they're calling it this week) driving a wifi nic, display, and basic interface. A tablet PC is made to be a full standalone PC, this is just a remote desktop display. Uses RDP too.
Exactly. I would be a lot more effective if I could have a phone/pda and a tablet pc, with a drop station (so it works like a desktop at my desk) and a home server (so I can have everythign synced and backed up from a central location). Currently I have a dumb cell phone, an ipaq, and a desktop, and it's just not flexible enough. I have to carry two bulky devices where ever I go (phone and pda), and I have to maintain my desktop. And keep a server colocated or beside my desk to run email, web, and home services.
If I had a tablet, I could leave my USB devices (printer, keyboard, mouse, camera, scanner, joystick, etc) plugged into the base, and drop/pull the actual tablet as needed. Of course the phone/pc could sync as needed, either with the tablet or the home server. When I want to walk around hands free, I keep the phone clipped on my belt (like I have to already). On a job or expecting to take notes, I can keep the tablet on me too.
Obviously, not everyone has the same lifestyle as I do, but just because you don't see any use for having a tablet yourself doesn't mean you need to knock it.
If she's a friend and she's trying to share something with you then put in a little effort. So you want me to code a flash player for my OS to see a single movie? If I can find the specs (I'm sure they're hacked out, I'm feeling lazy)? That's more than a little effort.
I didn't tell her it was inconsequential. I agree, that would have been rude. But I never would have tried to look at it if she hadn't asked me to. Though it could be argued that she is relegating herself to obscurity by using a proprietary animation format.
My motive is that I have several old DECs that need to participate in an NT network, and what I know of linux/bsd doesn't allow me to do that. I don't work with web designers frequently at all either. She is a friend.
And I do. But the subject came up, so I shared my opinion. Problem is, I've had "web designers" literally yell and scream at me because there is no flash plugin for my computer. Apparently it's my fault they used a proprietary format and I can't view it. It seemed to piss her off even more when I started chuckling about her getting so pissed off that I couldn't see some inconsequental animation she made.
Well that's no good. I don't have anything else that uses memorystick, and I'm not shelling out extra dollars to support a proprietary hardward design. Everything else I have uses CF and works just fine.
Flash is for movies. Perhaps interactive movies, but it's a proprietary movie format. Fine for entertainment, I suppose, though it's annoying. But it's not for serious work. It's not a standard, and plenty of people can't see it. None of my computers run it. There is no flash plugin for half of my computers at home (NT4 alpha anyone?), and I just plain won't install it on the other half. Not a single one of the computers in my lab at work can run it either. Not my choice, it's the braindead "web designer"'s fault. Use a standard if you want people to see what you do.
you're thinking in decade old technology. Dial up? That's disgustingly ineffecient. How about everyone gets a switched ip line? You can run it over cat3/pots with some outdated DSL equipment. Even better might be IPsec'd 802.11b. Talk about cheap commodity; two neighboring villages can have a high speed comm line for a total investment of about $300 in materials. Don't worry about last century's technology (okay, so that's some blatant exaggeration, maybe last decade's technology?), with these 286 and 386 chips - they're good, but mostly dead. You'd have to completely remake any system that used them - then again, if you use a text-based browsing solution that uses a 386 chip and isa interface, it might be useful. But I'd think you'd need to make a decent system board.
Yes, it's easier on the resources, when it's not busy crashing. But when you give your users full access to that SMB share, any one of them (or a rogue program/virus) can delete everything. Or plant/steal info. Or infect the executables with a virus. It would be much better if it kept config info in the registry, or referenced something in the user's "my documents" or elsewhere in their profile.
The developers have their heads stuck up their asses. Took hours of my work and now they're charging for it. It's half my fault for not getting anything in writing though. But the application itself is still buggy as hell - no shortcut keys to anything, it uses its own custom skinning system which makes it slow as all hell, and it occasionally hangs, hogging cycles, until I kill it. Oh, and it keeps everything in text files in the program files directory, so forget about using it in anything approaching a secure system.
From what I've seen, this is simply amazing. I'm going to a preview of this tomorrow. My uptight boss was all for it once she saw what it was about. I've held off a laptop purchase for almost a year now waiting for this.
They do like it better. My step father used to raise pigs. To make slop, he'd put in a few kg of random grains and stuff(tm) (usually corn and beans), fill the bucket to the top with water, and let it sit for a week. It also started to grow maggots by then, which was good, because it gave the porkers more protein. I am not kidding.
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One problem with this is that consumer electronics don't relate to cars. Cars do not have new features coming out every three to six months. The average DVD player line does. Not only do you get half the quality for a third the cost (eg higher quality to cost ratio), but you get the newer features.
Now, I'm not saying I buy this way. Personally I'd rather have something a year or two old that actually works as expected. I didn't even have a DVD player until earlier this year. But some people want the newest and flashiest things. I encourage that, because they debug the things that I'll buy when they work right.
And that's the problem with a data restrictions mandate (hey man, it has NOTHING to do with rights, call it what it is). In my experience, it just makes life inconvenient for the personal user, making them jump through hoops to do what they would any way. The primary losses will always be to large professional duplicators, who have an inside angle and can make identical copies, restrictions and all.
Actually I was rolling on the floor for most of it. I thought it was hillarious and pretty much in character with what he shows as a media image. My opinion of his skills of an actor has definately been boosted.
That's basically what this is. A large pocket PC (x-scale or strongARM or whatever they're calling it this week) driving a wifi nic, display, and basic interface. A tablet PC is made to be a full standalone PC, this is just a remote desktop display. Uses RDP too.
You got it backwards. I was looking at the sky because she was too busy yakking on her phone to drop her pants.
Exactly. I would be a lot more effective if I could have a phone/pda and a tablet pc, with a drop station (so it works like a desktop at my desk) and a home server (so I can have everythign synced and backed up from a central location). Currently I have a dumb cell phone, an ipaq, and a desktop, and it's just not flexible enough. I have to carry two bulky devices where ever I go (phone and pda), and I have to maintain my desktop. And keep a server colocated or beside my desk to run email, web, and home services.
If I had a tablet, I could leave my USB devices (printer, keyboard, mouse, camera, scanner, joystick, etc) plugged into the base, and drop/pull the actual tablet as needed. Of course the phone/pc could sync as needed, either with the tablet or the home server. When I want to walk around hands free, I keep the phone clipped on my belt (like I have to already). On a job or expecting to take notes, I can keep the tablet on me too.
Obviously, not everyone has the same lifestyle as I do, but just because you don't see any use for having a tablet yourself doesn't mean you need to knock it.
I brought a hot chick. I forgot to ask for one with a brain though. She spent the entire evening talking on the phone. I WISH she'd bailed.
If she's a friend and she's trying to share something with you then put in a little effort.
So you want me to code a flash player for my OS to see a single movie? If I can find the specs (I'm sure they're hacked out, I'm feeling lazy)? That's more than a little effort.
I didn't tell her it was inconsequential. I agree, that would have been rude. But I never would have tried to look at it if she hadn't asked me to. Though it could be argued that she is relegating herself to obscurity by using a proprietary animation format.
My motive is that I have several old DECs that need to participate in an NT network, and what I know of linux/bsd doesn't allow me to do that. I don't work with web designers frequently at all either. She is a friend.
And I do. But the subject came up, so I shared my opinion. Problem is, I've had "web designers" literally yell and scream at me because there is no flash plugin for my computer. Apparently it's my fault they used a proprietary format and I can't view it. It seemed to piss her off even more when I started chuckling about her getting so pissed off that I couldn't see some inconsequental animation she made.
Well that's no good. I don't have anything else that uses memorystick, and I'm not shelling out extra dollars to support a proprietary hardward design. Everything else I have uses CF and works just fine.
Flash is for movies. Perhaps interactive movies, but it's a proprietary movie format. Fine for entertainment, I suppose, though it's annoying. But it's not for serious work. It's not a standard, and plenty of people can't see it. None of my computers run it. There is no flash plugin for half of my computers at home (NT4 alpha anyone?), and I just plain won't install it on the other half. Not a single one of the computers in my lab at work can run it either. Not my choice, it's the braindead "web designer"'s fault. Use a standard if you want people to see what you do.
What do flash movies have to do with anything? The idea here is to deliver information, not entertain.
you're thinking in decade old technology. Dial up? That's disgustingly ineffecient. How about everyone gets a switched ip line? You can run it over cat3/pots with some outdated DSL equipment. Even better might be IPsec'd 802.11b. Talk about cheap commodity; two neighboring villages can have a high speed comm line for a total investment of about $300 in materials. Don't worry about last century's technology (okay, so that's some blatant exaggeration, maybe last decade's technology?), with these 286 and 386 chips - they're good, but mostly dead. You'd have to completely remake any system that used them - then again, if you use a text-based browsing solution that uses a 386 chip and isa interface, it might be useful. But I'd think you'd need to make a decent system board.
Almost. Lucas is Herber's MOTHER.
There are several places, but http://www.caseoutlet.com/case/2688R/CS-2688R.html is where I got mine.
Yes, it's easier on the resources, when it's not busy crashing. But when you give your users full access to that SMB share, any one of them (or a rogue program/virus) can delete everything. Or plant/steal info. Or infect the executables with a virus. It would be much better if it kept config info in the registry, or referenced something in the user's "my documents" or elsewhere in their profile.
The developers have their heads stuck up their asses. Took hours of my work and now they're charging for it. It's half my fault for not getting anything in writing though. But the application itself is still buggy as hell - no shortcut keys to anything, it uses its own custom skinning system which makes it slow as all hell, and it occasionally hangs, hogging cycles, until I kill it. Oh, and it keeps everything in text files in the program files directory, so forget about using it in anything approaching a secure system.
"I like to blow things up. It's a military thing."
I suppose you wrote that in reference to the second one shown? :)
"Thank you for using PC-Geeks-For-Rent OS reinstallation service. Two hours for a reinstallation and data migration, at $100 per hour is $200 total."
From what I've seen, this is simply amazing. I'm going to a preview of this tomorrow. My uptight boss was all for it once she saw what it was about. I've held off a laptop purchase for almost a year now waiting for this.
What about that memorystick garbage? Nothing else I have uses it. I don't believe it's even a standard form factor. I'd much rather have CF.
Does the phrase "Disney DVD" sound familiar? It's starting . . .
They do like it better. My step father used to raise pigs. To make slop, he'd put in a few kg of random grains and stuff(tm) (usually corn and beans), fill the bucket to the top with water, and let it sit for a week. It also started to grow maggots by then, which was good, because it gave the porkers more protein. I am not kidding.