Internet based services are way behind where they should be. Something as basic as timestamping is still having trouble getting of the ground after several years. Think of all the things that you should be able to accomplish, simply (although not necessarily freely) but just can't yet.
I mostly agree, except for the good "find" tools. What sort of find tools do you use on Windows? In my experience the built-in searching tools are too slow and too limited. Do you use a third-party tool? Do tell.
Relational databases have distinct advantages over other datbases that far outweigh any superficial affinty with XML
- you can design schemas where the data is always consistent (no insert, update, or delete anomolies)
- schema changes are easier than with other database types
- ad hoc querying is easier
In light of the previous findings of fact, that Microsoft is a monopoly, I would like to
propose that all Microsoft dealings be readily available for public scrutiny.
This should be a part of any settlement with Microsoft.
More specifically, all contracts in effect between Microsoft and other
companies should be a matter of public record--in both existence and precise details.
This includes, but is not limited to, partnerships, joint ventures, acquisitions, and product sales.
Furthermore, the contracts should be available on a Microsoft funded website overseen
by the DOJ. The DOJ should ensure that the site is
- complete
- accurate
- well organized
- searchable
- continuously available
- responsive
- optionally downloadable as a single archive
48K? Are you sure about that? It sounds a bit high. I've had a Datalink for years, and it's nice, but I'll be looking at this one closely.
- There is no easy way to sync the Datalink with my Palm V
- Syncing with NT/2000 requires tying up a serial port
- I want more contact and schedule information than the Datalink can hold
- The watch user interface of the Datalink leaves much to be desired
Other posters have have poited out various "limitations" of this watch. I don't think they realize that this is meant to be a highly portable read-only extension to a PDA. The price is a bit steep, however.
People are so lawsuit happy in the US because the law favors those wealthy enough to afford lawyers, and unprincipled enough to use them whenever they can benfit from doing so. The law favors those people, because our Congress is full of wealthy lawyers, and has been as long as we've had a Congress.
I do most of my development in pure Java on Windows. I've never needed to touch the registry in this environment. Granted, I'm not developing for Windows (I'm intentionally developing for Java), but I am developing on Windows.
It's not just humor that's subjective
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Everything is subjective. I would really love to see a moderation scheme where:
everybody "moderates" whenever they want to
"moderation" or "scoring" is done along multiple axes -- funny, interesting, informative, etc...
the scores of posts that you haven't scored, are based on how people who "score things like you do" scored it
I know this would chew up a bunch of CPU time, but I think it would be worth it. There are diamonds burried in the mines, but I need a better way to find them. Your diamond is my coprolite.
Since spend/waste far too much on/., I would be perfectly willing to pay a modest fee. Then again, I'm in the 10 percent who pledge to NPR.
You just can't beat the Dreamcast for a cheap machine to hook up to your TV or stereo and do cool stuff with. The Cybiko has all sorts of wireless Gnutellaish potential. If you are looking for a machine that will be otherwise usefull, all the latest cell phones support J2ME, which could be used to build any number of cool things.
I used to use a 2 port Linksys and a hub, which worked great. I replaced them both with this closeout 3com model which is $50, and has a built-in print spooler.
Wouldn't it be better to have a government agency that authorized connectivity auditors? Auditors would be empowered to fine providers that abused their peers (SPAM, etc...) or allowed their network to propagate abuse (IP spoofing, etc...). They would also collect and publish bandwidth and latency statistics.
The goal and benefit is to make the Internet reliable for everyone, rather than making a parallel network that doesn't benefit the general public.
Being an American athiest, I normally feel so out-of-touch with America at large. Thank you for pointing out how little of "turn the other cheek" the average American really believes. You give me hope, that the average American's belief in god is just as much shallow lip service. Perhaps you are just like me, after all.
Imagine that.
They need to beat the Intel Web Tablet
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Last time I heard prices on the
Intel Web Tablet they were projecting between $500 and $600 for everything you need to use it with your existing Internet connection.
Until some of these units become available (for real-world testing), Intel still looks like the one to beat.
This is yet another arena where there is lots of cool vapor and little actual product.
Perhaps...
Is MacOS up to the task? Would Win2K be up to the task if it were the target? Transitioning to an entirely new OS is a very hard thing for most end users. This is yet another reason why allowing a company to continue perpetuating one product monopoly into another is bad for the industry and "innovation" as a whole.
First journalists and now even relatively clued-up politicians in the UK are talking about making it an offence to use strong encryption in email and web-pages. An obvious counter is that this won't work, because the messages can easily be hidden using Steganography (Slashdot Jan 2, May 8). But that assumes that the steganography itself is good enough not to be detected. Is this true? How good is the state of the art?
Hey Joe, look at this cool sequence my random number generator just produced. It contains abosolutely no secret messages.
There is nothing wrong with putting all your eggs in one basket--if you can build a really, really, good basket. The phone system works with dumb clients and central servers now, and I doubt I've ever been unable to make a call because a server was down.
I dare you to point out a fat client consumer device (OK, other than TiVo) with a history of transparent software upgrades.
I think that the stronger argument, is that while this architecture makes sense now, putting all of the brains in central servers (the phone system) has historically made upgrading the network hard and slow, compared to putting all of the brains in peers (the Internet), where the network has been rapidly and continually upgraded. This argument is still relatively weak. Phones need good uptime much more than ever increasing bandwidth.
1.3. Do I have to write my OST application in C++?
No. You can write applications in any language that has an interpreter or that is supported by the application environments. This currently includes C, C++, Java, JavaScript and MHP. If you want to use something else and it doesn't have C/C++ bindings, you will have to implement that first, though.
Granted, Robocode is obviously geared towards writing the bots in Java, but you can run just about any language on a JVM, and Robocode lets you use.class files from anywhere. Out of all these languages most people will find one suitable for building bots.
I'm really waiting for a tournament mode or network API for Robocode. I want to see if I can write better bots through coding them directly, or by using genetic algorithms to breed them.
I actually have a Rocket eBook. It could be slimmer, but compared to the laptop or thick paperbacks I use it to replace, it has a reasonably nice form factor.
If you are looking to replace current novels, this isn't for you. The selection of eBooks is limited, and they are often more expensive than their "normal" counterparts. If you are looking to read a bunch of
classics, this might be for you.
I bought it, and use it, for reading technical materials off-line. You can import HTML, but lots of things, most notably frames, really confuse the importer. Fortunately, this still leaves me lots to pick from, even if it often doesn't cover what I want. There are rumors in the documentation about this getting better over time, as well as PDF support, but I'm not holding my breath. Physical eBooks (readers) are aimed at making money from eBook sales. They don't want people to just buy hardware.
Pros
Much better battery life than a laptop.
Much cheap than a laptop.
Much more portable than dead trees.
Cons
It is difficult or impossible to import things.
Doesn't run PalmOS. This matters to me, because it limits my import options, and forces me to carry 2 devices.
Personally, I have a bet going that there will be cars that drive themselves within 20 years. I say there will be, and I can't wait. I'm not "in the field" or anything. It's just my gut instinct, considering Moore's Law, the combined R&D budgets of all interested parties, and what little I know about AI.
A poster in a previous story about this topic, pointed out just how difficult this problem is. They brought up an example of a human driver seeing a ball bouncing over a fence, and inferring that someone was playing nearby. The human then drives more cautiously.
This illustrates how hard it is to make a computer drive as well as a good, concentrating driver. To be a boon to safety and convenience, however, a computer only needs to drive better than the average driver. I submit the average driver misses the inferrence, too. While the computer misses it, the computer might be more cautiously to begin with.
Making a computer, that understands enough about human culture to make all of the inferences of the type above, won't happen in 20 years. Safe computer drivers will exploit the strengths of computers (really good reflexes, GPS, no blind-spots, etc...) rather than duplicate the intelligence of humans.
I think that Moore's Law and AI research, means that they'll be able to out think us, eventually, but that's another bet.
Embed a URL pointing to the document source, in every page of the document when it comes out of the printer or copier.
When you copy the document, it can read the source URL, and take advantage of it, to produce a perfect copy, the document from a part of the document, or just what mark-up has been added to the document (the stuff you wrote on it.)
Will this ever happen? What about if I restrict myself to all Xerox products? When or why not? How about a personal copy, so that I can do this at home, with stuff I print and scan?
With the infrastructure above in place, now add:
This is all tied into a versioning system, so I can take a page of a document, and get the latest version of the document (or a previous version, etc...).
When I send a fax, the fax machine reads the DataGlyph URL and takes advantage of it to separate template from markup. This is useless if a standard fax machine is receiving, but an enhanced fax machine could take advantage of the template source to make the fax higher quality.
Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg of how fax machines could be improved to take advantage of the Internet, and most of the improvements have absolutely nothing to do with DataGlyphs.
Will this ever happen? What about if I restrict myself to all Xerox products?
When or why not?
Anybody with the idea, and good background background in error detecting and correcting codes, could have done this. While I consider this at least border-line to "sufficiently obvious", how long until this drops into public domain and anyone can use it? Information on the relevant laws and/or the exact dates involved are appreciated.
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Internet based services are way behind where they should be. Something as basic as timestamping is still having trouble getting of the ground after several years. Think of all the things that you should be able to accomplish, simply (although not necessarily freely) but just can't yet.
How much is MS prepared to spend to kill a competitor ??
As much as it takes. They've got $36 billion.
I mostly agree, except for the good "find" tools. What sort of find tools do you use on Windows? In my experience the built-in searching tools are too slow and too limited. Do you use a third-party tool? Do tell.
Relational databases have distinct advantages over other datbases that far outweigh any superficial affinty with XML
- you can design schemas where the data is always consistent (no insert, update, or delete anomolies)
- schema changes are easier than with other database types
- ad hoc querying is easier
Greetings,
In light of the previous findings of fact, that Microsoft is a monopoly, I would like to
propose that all Microsoft dealings be readily available for public scrutiny.
This should be a part of any settlement with Microsoft.
More specifically, all contracts in effect between Microsoft and other
companies should be a matter of public record--in both existence and precise details.
This includes, but is not limited to, partnerships, joint ventures, acquisitions, and product sales.
Furthermore, the contracts should be available on a Microsoft funded website overseen
by the DOJ. The DOJ should ensure that the site is
- complete
- accurate
- well organized
- searchable
- continuously available
- responsive
- optionally downloadable as a single archive
Sincerely,
Curt Cox
Do you have any pricing and availability links for QT AWT?
48K? Are you sure about that? It sounds a bit high. I've had a Datalink for years, and it's nice, but I'll be looking at this one closely.
- There is no easy way to sync the Datalink with my Palm V
- Syncing with NT/2000 requires tying up a serial port
- I want more contact and schedule information than the Datalink can hold
- The watch user interface of the Datalink leaves much to be desired
Other posters have have poited out various "limitations" of this watch. I don't think they realize that this is meant to be a highly portable read-only extension to a PDA. The price is a bit steep, however.
People are so lawsuit happy in the US because the law favors those wealthy enough to afford lawyers, and unprincipled enough to use them whenever they can benfit from doing so. The law favors those people, because our Congress is full of wealthy lawyers, and has been as long as we've had a Congress.
And as for legal ethics...
I do most of my development in pure Java on Windows. I've never needed to touch the registry in this environment. Granted, I'm not developing for Windows (I'm intentionally developing for Java), but I am developing on Windows.
I know this would chew up a bunch of CPU time, but I think it would be worth it. There are diamonds burried in the mines, but I need a better way to find them. Your diamond is my coprolite.
Since spend/waste far too much on
You just can't beat the Dreamcast for a cheap machine to hook up to your TV or stereo and do cool stuff with. The Cybiko has all sorts of wireless Gnutellaish potential. If you are looking for a machine that will be otherwise usefull, all the latest cell phones support J2ME, which could be used to build any number of cool things.
Ditto.
I used to use a 2 port Linksys and a hub, which worked great. I replaced them both with this closeout 3com model which is $50, and has a built-in print spooler.
I covet this box, but not as a router.
Wouldn't it be better to have a government agency that authorized connectivity auditors? Auditors would be empowered to fine providers that abused their peers (SPAM, etc...) or allowed their network to propagate abuse (IP spoofing, etc...). They would also collect and publish bandwidth and latency statistics.
The goal and benefit is to make the Internet reliable for everyone, rather than making a parallel network that doesn't benefit the general public.
Being an American athiest, I normally feel so out-of-touch with America at large. Thank you for pointing out how little of "turn the other cheek" the average American really believes. You give me hope, that the average American's belief in god is just as much shallow lip service. Perhaps you are just like me, after all.
Imagine that.
This is yet another arena where there is lots of cool vapor and little actual product.
Perhaps...
Is MacOS up to the task? Would Win2K be up to the task if it were the target? Transitioning to an entirely new OS is a very hard thing for most end users. This is yet another reason why allowing a company to continue perpetuating one product monopoly into another is bad for the industry and "innovation" as a whole.
Hey Joe, look at this cool sequence my random number generator just produced. It contains abosolutely no secret messages.
Isn't it nifty.
There is nothing wrong with putting all your eggs in one basket--if you can build a really, really, good basket. The phone system works with dumb clients and central servers now, and I doubt I've ever been unable to make a call because a server was down.
I dare you to point out a fat client consumer device (OK, other than TiVo) with a history of transparent software upgrades.
I think that the stronger argument, is that while this architecture makes sense now, putting all of the brains in central servers (the phone system) has historically made upgrading the network hard and slow, compared to putting all of the brains in peers (the Internet), where the network has been rapidly and continually upgraded. This argument is still relatively weak. Phones need good uptime much more than ever increasing bandwidth.
According to their FAQ you can use Java.
1.3. Do I have to write my OST application in C++?
No. You can write applications in any language that has an interpreter or that is supported by the application environments. This currently includes C, C++, Java, JavaScript and MHP. If you want to use something else and it doesn't have C/C++ bindings, you will have to implement that first, though.
Granted, Robocode is obviously geared towards writing the bots in Java, but you can run just about any language on a JVM, and Robocode lets you use .class files from anywhere. Out of all these languages most people will find one suitable for building bots.
I'm really waiting for a tournament mode or network API for Robocode. I want to see if I can write better bots through coding them directly, or by using genetic algorithms to breed them.
If you are looking to replace current novels, this isn't for you. The selection of eBooks is limited, and they are often more expensive than their "normal" counterparts. If you are looking to read a bunch of classics, this might be for you.
I bought it, and use it, for reading technical materials off-line. You can import HTML, but lots of things, most notably frames, really confuse the importer. Fortunately, this still leaves me lots to pick from, even if it often doesn't cover what I want. There are rumors in the documentation about this getting better over time, as well as PDF support, but I'm not holding my breath. Physical eBooks (readers) are aimed at making money from eBook sales. They don't want people to just buy hardware.
Pros
- Much better battery life than a laptop.
- Much cheap than a laptop.
- Much more portable than dead trees.
ConsA poster in a previous story about this topic, pointed out just how difficult this problem is. They brought up an example of a human driver seeing a ball bouncing over a fence, and inferring that someone was playing nearby. The human then drives more cautiously.
This illustrates how hard it is to make a computer drive as well as a good, concentrating driver. To be a boon to safety and convenience, however, a computer only needs to drive better than the average driver. I submit the average driver misses the inferrence, too. While the computer misses it, the computer might be more cautiously to begin with.
Making a computer, that understands enough about human culture to make all of the inferences of the type above, won't happen in 20 years. Safe computer drivers will exploit the strengths of computers (really good reflexes, GPS, no blind-spots, etc...) rather than duplicate the intelligence of humans.
I think that Moore's Law and AI research, means that they'll be able to out think us, eventually, but that's another bet.
- Embed a URL pointing to the document source, in every page of the document when it comes out of the printer or copier.
- When you copy the document, it can read the source URL, and take advantage of it, to produce a perfect copy, the document from a part of the document, or just what mark-up has been added to the document (the stuff you wrote on it.)
Will this ever happen? What about if I restrict myself to all Xerox products? When or why not? How about a personal copy, so that I can do this at home, with stuff I print and scan?With the infrastructure above in place, now add:
- This is all tied into a versioning system, so I can take a page of a document, and get the latest version of the document (or a previous version, etc...).
- When I send a fax, the fax machine reads the DataGlyph URL and takes advantage of it to separate template from markup. This is useless if a standard fax machine is receiving, but an enhanced fax machine could take advantage of the template source to make the fax higher quality.
Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg of how fax machines could be improved to take advantage of the Internet, and most of the improvements have absolutely nothing to do with DataGlyphs.
Will this ever happen? What about if I restrict myself to all Xerox products? When or why not?Anybody with the idea, and good background background in error detecting and correcting codes, could have done this. While I consider this at least border-line to "sufficiently obvious", how long until this drops into public domain and anyone can use it? Information on the relevant laws and/or the exact dates involved are appreciated.