Good stuff. I want more people to make computers with very similar form factors. Actually I believe Gateway had one for a while, but I could be mistaken.
Another good use is ~220MB credit card cd's which are basically a CD-R in this smaller size with opposite sides cut to make it the height of a credit card. I carry one of these in my wallet with a ton of tools on it.
Yeah, but after you cut off the edges to fit in a wallet how much storage space do you have left? Can't be much! You have to cut off half an inch on each side and that gets you down to a 2 inch radius.
I've also wondered how well the drive does with non circular disks. I've seen them in all sorts of shapes. The worst I've seen was one cut in the shape of a guitar. The weight was completely unballanced and made a horrible noise in the person's computer that was using it. The worst part, though, was that the user didn't understand why it was doing that. "It's not ballanced you dolt!" But I've seen some with edges cut like a circular saw, or star, or the like. I saw a Mickey Mouse CD that was actually ballanced pretty well. I was impressed.
Scene - a high school girl complaining to her guidance counselor...
* Student: I was online last night, and somebody said I was fat.
* Counselor:I see.
* Student:And they wanted to know why I wear the same pair of jeans eve ry day.
* Counselor:How cruel.
* Student:And how I have Wal-Mart clothes.
* Counselor:Well, in that case, I reccomend you study computers. That way when you graduate, you can go online, and it won't matter if you're fat and wear the same Wal-Mart jeans every day for a year, you will still be the hottest chick that any of the other geeks in your university can get, and they will lavish you with attention. And, in a fitting turnaround, THEY will do YOUR homework.
Or she could just steal their identities and ruin their credit...
So long as it fits in the 5.25" bay, it'll do just fine. Have you noticed that your existing CD / DVD tray has a groove in the middle for the smaller disks? Same thing will happen with these.
Though I'm calling "BS" on the whole technology. I'll believe it when I can watch The Princess Bride from one of these.
I've thought about the iPod for this purpose as well. The current 40GB for $500 (?) with the media reader attachment would serve several purposes for me. Music in my car - large data transport - and dump zone for digital camera while on vacation.
I'm all for getting apps into web browsers. System administration is a breeze. It turns any computer into a thin client. And if the apps are written with good standards then the users can use whatever hardware / OS they're most comfortable with.
Is anything anyone's fault or decision anymore? Damn I remember when people were fat, drunk, gay, disruptive and Communist of their own volition. Now everything is a malady, issue and disease.
Gone are the days where people are held responsible for their actions.
Perhaps Bush, with questionable actions of his own, is attempting to put people back in responsible possitions for what they have done. I think he needs to start back here at home, first.
And as I've said many times before, it starts with parenting. The United States lacks quality parenting.
I've refreshed the/. page a few times and still see no comments. How strange.
Anyway, how would something like this hold up in a spam blocking function? How easy would it be to get onto the LOAF list? And if the contents can't be listed, how are you to know that it's not chalk full of the bad stuff? How do you know that you aren't emailing to people whom you don't wish to receive your mails?
This is why the average broadband connection should be behind at least a consumer router, even if it's the only machine connected. Routers are too cheap and easy to skip.
I've almost begun purchasing Linksys routers for my friends and family. At $40 a piece it's just ignorant not to have one. The basic firewalling that they do is pretty handy. And there are models that include client software controled firewalls. It's also nice to have a switch already at their house for when someone comes over with a laptop or such. Home networks, though still geeky, are becoming a nice thing to have with more networkable devices like game consoles (XBox, PS2) and media devices like a ReplayTV or TiVo. Also, if there are more than two people in the house you can almost be garounteed that there will be more than one computer.
Microsoft should have an auto-update during install feature. (If you have broadband). During the install process it could run the windows update, blah blah blah once your nic was initialized for the first time and IP granted etc.
I've wondered about that myself. I believe Mandrake checks for updates before it installs, and other distributions presumably do the same. Mac OS X launches the update program immediately after boot and has everything checked that needs to be installed. Microsoft could learn from that. They've all started the "download in the background" feature that gets the downloads going before the user initiates the install, which is good.
One good thing about Windows Update is that it can be scheduled to just do all the updates with no questions asked. I wonder what it would take to get that to be the default configuration.
Try 50 seconds:( No, not joking. At work, somewhere, there is an infected computer and while rebuilding a computer I plugged it in to run the updates for 2K and antivirus. Less than a minute after pluging it in, I was crashing and burning.
I think there is a major difference between network and internet time frames. A friend of mine works for a huge corporation, 5000+ desktops at one location, and their LAN team noticed a significant increase in rate of infection when they changed the workstations from 10mbit to 100mbit.
Also, worms are programmed to infect their own subnet before branching out.
I don't think this patent is for a tablet or handheld device. As the article states, Apple's iPod already is a great information carrier. However, this patent with, along with Apple's work with a 'wireless monitor' company may be a portable monitor, which connects to your home PC.
I think it would be cool to be able to carry around a tablet-esque device and pen that allows you to do things with your computer. Maybe there will be universal remote functionality and other new features. Just speculation...
That's basically what I want - a tablet monitor that is essentially a thin client for your workstation. Give it a cradle on a desk and it could be the monitor for the workstation. Something like a... 8.5" x 11" screen would be pretty nice. Maybe a little larger. And if the display could be rotated to portrait that would be cool too.
I would LOVE to have a wall mounted tablet running iTunes for my home stereo.
Why in God's name would you mount it to the wall? Why not lay it on the coffee table or the couch? The point of a tablet is to carry it around. If you want something stationary get a touch screen LCD.
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I agree, though I bet the Windows license is freaking cheap.
I've talked about AOL using Linux bootable CDs before. The user wouldn't have to install anything. Basically like a Knoppix CD with an AOL logon icon on the desktop. Seems like it would rock Window's world.
Agreed! What's your experience with WINE on PPC hardware? My friends still get together for StarCraft lan parties, and where OS 9 will run StarCraft quite nicely (including game delivered right button support), I don't want to dedicate the machine to StarCraft. Linux would make my three old Macs useful for more than the occational lan session, but I've not messed with WINE on PPC and StarCraft is their primary function. Ha, that sounds cool (:
I think most people corilate terrorists with the mind of Dr Evil. They expect them to be smart. How else do you get three airplanes to crash into buildings and no one gets caught for the act?
On a similar note, Watchguard has a firewall line called the X Series which has different models all of which are identical hardware. Your licenses open up additional features, including enabling the three additional ethernet ports which are defaultly disabled. Something about that doesn't seem right to me, but they're not the only ones doing it.
Encryption makes configuring your wireless network 10x harder for the average person.
And most people aren't up to average - the geeks throw the ratio all out of wack.
In order to sell products the wifi manufacturers make it as easy as possible, but they DO include security options. I'm not going to argue about that.
A) Free wireless access for me and my friends through people who don't care enough to secure their networks. B) Keeps me employeed securing networks of those who are interested.
It's interesting how so much technology, such as ENIAC, get started as tools of war.
That's where the money is (: Hey, if war had something to do with developing the ENIAC that eventually led to the iPod and all our other cool computer gizmos, I'm cool with it.
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What I've thought computers should be for quite some time. Actually looks a lot like their 20th anniversary mac.
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Good stuff. I want more people to make computers with very similar form factors. Actually I believe Gateway had one for a while, but I could be mistaken.
Another good use is ~220MB credit card cd's which are basically a CD-R in this smaller size with opposite sides cut to make it the height of a credit card. I carry one of these in my wallet with a ton of tools on it.
Yeah, but after you cut off the edges to fit in a wallet how much storage space do you have left? Can't be much! You have to cut off half an inch on each side and that gets you down to a 2 inch radius.
I've also wondered how well the drive does with non circular disks. I've seen them in all sorts of shapes. The worst I've seen was one cut in the shape of a guitar. The weight was completely unballanced and made a horrible noise in the person's computer that was using it. The worst part, though, was that the user didn't understand why it was doing that. "It's not ballanced you dolt!" But I've seen some with edges cut like a circular saw, or star, or the like. I saw a Mickey Mouse CD that was actually ballanced pretty well. I was impressed.
Scene - a high school girl complaining to her guidance counselor...
...
* Student: I was online last night, and somebody said I was fat.
* Counselor:I see.
* Student:And they wanted to know why I wear the same pair of jeans eve ry day.
* Counselor:How cruel.
* Student:And how I have Wal-Mart clothes.
* Counselor:Well, in that case, I reccomend you study computers. That way when you graduate, you can go online, and it won't matter if you're fat and wear the same Wal-Mart jeans every day for a year, you will still be the hottest chick that any of the other geeks in your university can get, and they will lavish you with attention. And, in a fitting turnaround, THEY will do YOUR homework.
Or she could just steal their identities and ruin their credit
So long as it fits in the 5.25" bay, it'll do just fine. Have you noticed that your existing CD / DVD tray has a groove in the middle for the smaller disks? Same thing will happen with these.
Though I'm calling "BS" on the whole technology. I'll believe it when I can watch The Princess Bride from one of these.
I've thought about the iPod for this purpose as well. The current 40GB for $500 (?) with the media reader attachment would serve several purposes for me. Music in my car - large data transport - and dump zone for digital camera while on vacation.
But that costs a lot. Yeah Apple!
I'm all for getting apps into web browsers. System administration is a breeze. It turns any computer into a thin client. And if the apps are written with good standards then the users can use whatever hardware / OS they're most comfortable with.
Well you see, the term "not specified" in Spanish means they're gay. And they don't like that.
Is anything anyone's fault or decision anymore? Damn I remember when people were fat, drunk, gay, disruptive and Communist of their own volition. Now everything is a malady, issue and disease.
Gone are the days where people are held responsible for their actions.
Perhaps Bush, with questionable actions of his own, is attempting to put people back in responsible possitions for what they have done. I think he needs to start back here at home, first.
And as I've said many times before, it starts with parenting. The United States lacks quality parenting.
It proves that you did the work without you having to redo the work while the teacher is watching.
So in other words we'll have a site in a couple years that has a bunch of POW tokens we can download, change the name, and turn it in as our own? (:
I've refreshed the /. page a few times and still see no comments. How strange.
Anyway, how would something like this hold up in a spam blocking function? How easy would it be to get onto the LOAF list? And if the contents can't be listed, how are you to know that it's not chalk full of the bad stuff? How do you know that you aren't emailing to people whom you don't wish to receive your mails?
But then again, small robots fighting is always cool ...in Japan!
It helps that what we call "small" is closer to life size for them (:
"Too bad it won't last..."
Too bad it's fscking Real Media.
This is why the average broadband connection should be behind at least a consumer router, even if it's the only machine connected. Routers are too cheap and easy to skip.
I've almost begun purchasing Linksys routers for my friends and family. At $40 a piece it's just ignorant not to have one. The basic firewalling that they do is pretty handy. And there are models that include client software controled firewalls. It's also nice to have a switch already at their house for when someone comes over with a laptop or such. Home networks, though still geeky, are becoming a nice thing to have with more networkable devices like game consoles (XBox, PS2) and media devices like a ReplayTV or TiVo. Also, if there are more than two people in the house you can almost be garounteed that there will be more than one computer.
Microsoft should have an auto-update during install feature. (If you have broadband). During the install process it could run the windows update, blah blah blah once your nic was initialized for the first time and IP granted etc.
I've wondered about that myself. I believe Mandrake checks for updates before it installs, and other distributions presumably do the same. Mac OS X launches the update program immediately after boot and has everything checked that needs to be installed. Microsoft could learn from that. They've all started the "download in the background" feature that gets the downloads going before the user initiates the install, which is good.
One good thing about Windows Update is that it can be scheduled to just do all the updates with no questions asked. I wonder what it would take to get that to be the default configuration.
Try 50 seconds :(
No, not joking. At work, somewhere, there is an infected computer and while rebuilding a computer I plugged it in to run the updates for 2K and antivirus. Less than a minute after pluging it in, I was crashing and burning.
I think there is a major difference between network and internet time frames. A friend of mine works for a huge corporation, 5000+ desktops at one location, and their LAN team noticed a significant increase in rate of infection when they changed the workstations from 10mbit to 100mbit.
Also, worms are programmed to infect their own subnet before branching out.
I don't think this patent is for a tablet or handheld device. As the article states, Apple's iPod already is a great information carrier. However, this patent with, along with Apple's work with a 'wireless monitor' company may be a portable monitor, which connects to your home PC.
... 8.5" x 11" screen would be pretty nice. Maybe a little larger. And if the display could be rotated to portrait that would be cool too.
I think it would be cool to be able to carry around a tablet-esque device and pen that allows you to do things with your computer. Maybe there will be universal remote functionality and other new features. Just speculation...
That's basically what I want - a tablet monitor that is essentially a thin client for your workstation. Give it a cradle on a desk and it could be the monitor for the workstation. Something like a
$8499 MSRP. (Score: 5, Funny)
Oh come on, the Toshibas were only $3,500 and Apple only doubles the price of competitors so it can't be more than $6,999.
I would LOVE to have a wall mounted tablet running iTunes for my home stereo.
Why in God's name would you mount it to the wall? Why not lay it on the coffee table or the couch? The point of a tablet is to carry it around. If you want something stationary get a touch screen LCD.
I agree, though I bet the Windows license is freaking cheap.
I've talked about AOL using Linux bootable CDs before. The user wouldn't have to install anything. Basically like a Knoppix CD with an AOL logon icon on the desktop. Seems like it would rock Window's world.
Why is it on the Internet at all? They should have a seperate network for "life critical computers" that doesn't speak to the Internet ... ever.
How does your hospital network admin sleep at night?
Agreed! What's your experience with WINE on PPC hardware? My friends still get together for StarCraft lan parties, and where OS 9 will run StarCraft quite nicely (including game delivered right button support), I don't want to dedicate the machine to StarCraft. Linux would make my three old Macs useful for more than the occational lan session, but I've not messed with WINE on PPC and StarCraft is their primary function. Ha, that sounds cool (:
I think most people corilate terrorists with the mind of Dr Evil. They expect them to be smart. How else do you get three airplanes to crash into buildings and no one gets caught for the act?
On a similar note, Watchguard has a firewall line called the X Series which has different models all of which are identical hardware. Your licenses open up additional features, including enabling the three additional ethernet ports which are defaultly disabled. Something about that doesn't seem right to me, but they're not the only ones doing it.
Encryption makes configuring your wireless network 10x harder for the average person.
And most people aren't up to average - the geeks throw the ratio all out of wack.
In order to sell products the wifi manufacturers make it as easy as possible, but they DO include security options. I'm not going to argue about that.
A) Free wireless access for me and my friends through people who don't care enough to secure their networks.
B) Keeps me employeed securing networks of those who are interested.
It's interesting how so much technology, such as ENIAC, get started as tools of war.
That's where the money is (: Hey, if war had something to do with developing the ENIAC that eventually led to the iPod and all our other cool computer gizmos, I'm cool with it.