Q: so exactly which of those historical OSs hosting this just got quick-fried?
Obs: I saw Doug Englebart a few years ago giving a large group presentation - he had the best interface I'd ever seen for a presentation - the current slide was displayed in a frame of thumbnails of the slides in the entire presentation - so you had random access to the whole show, you could see the flow, he could jump and reference other slides if needed without the typical bambi-on-ice powerpoint shuffle.
Oh yeah, the presentation was great, too - the analogy of introducing GUIs to telling horse riders how it was going to be driving cars, ("I have to lookk in a mirror to go the other way? I can't even shave in a mirror without hurting myself...") was original, funny and insightful.
in the millions of man-hours needed to retool all known scales of, measures of, and references to 'corporate suckage'
admit it - the majority of/.ers reading the story headline had their face in the hands and were making some sort of noise that would make your dog cower, it's the synergy of the basic groans most make at the mere mention of either of these companies
the new grownup ms ads make me want to watch 'office space' to see more realistic cubicle behavior, and the kids ones make me imagine that kid never gets to astronaut school because he's doing his application in office...
on the other hand, the prospect of apple / pixar / disney being aligned could make people skip down the street...
Let's see - like a walkman, you can walk around with an iPod and aside from seeming antisocial to some, you can actually walk | jog | drive etc... while your ears are busy.
This is different. You'll have to watch this thing, it's as big as a portable dvd player (which no one is walking around with - they're barely buying the things as it is)
This is 8x the cost of a dvd player proper, and 3x the cost of a portable one.
Maybe for the lids in the back of the car - but why not just bring a handful of dvds - you're in the car with lots of places to hold stuff. And if you're in the car for 8 hours with kids you're going to have more problems than what to watch.
It's as expensive as a laptop, it's too big to fit in your pocket. Would I use one? No - I'm trading in my Garmin eMap for an eTrek and my iPod 5 for a mini, just like I traded my old audiovox phone for a t226... I want a more smaller things and one big one. Not another big one in between.
But I've been wrong before. And people lost their shirt on zeppelins and missed the whole laser thing.
I could see Apple testing the market with something like this, they always have the iPod to sell lots of and this could be another Pippin.
It makes sense for MS to try it - they own the format and they have money to burn.
Hell, they must figure if the London Eye can be a hit and Eurodisney and marmite, what the hell...
that keeps your big vendor deals bundled and you have big swatches to sell to.
we're dumping standard cable for precisely this reason - there's the air channels plus maybe three more that we watch - amc, bravo and a tie between tlc and foodtv - after that - there's only so much you can watch - we've de-tuned everything we know we never watch - so we can actually run thru the channels before the show's over, and fer the love of god take the digital channels off the analog cable guide - you have to sit thru the entire scroll of 100 channels to see what's on the 40 we get!
right you are - apple's shake, but still mostly rendering on linux ok - toss in fcp and cold mountain... either way, looks like steve should reserve a tux first week in march from now on...
1. "is threatening to sue" is what the article says. 2. "The proceeds go to musicians and other rights holders who lose money to piracy." Legally, this phrasing suggests that it goes to people who lose money in fact. If Apple is interested in contesting this, the lawmakers would have to prove such losses in order to prevail legally, or alternately have a strong enough case built that you could force Apple (or anyone) to settle outside of court. That would seem very hard to do, and it wouldn't surprise me if Apple were to bet on the precise wording. 3. Granted, most think Apple could drop a half a mil out of petty cash, but if I were them, I'd first argue that we'd pay the levy on the value of the hard disk. Beyond that, Apple could challenge this for proof of actual damages, and tie everyone up for a long time. Something tells me Apple has deeper pockets than Sacem, but who knows. 4. This seems a bit like a speeding tax on the sale of cars. Oh, right - mea culpa - that's called car insurance.
How about he retail boxes ship secure and go thru a very simple startup, something between OSX and Eddie in demeanor and attention to detail...
1. Do you want to surf the web on this computer? Great. I'll enable that for you. 2. Do you want to send and receive mail on this computer? Great. I'll do that - I'm going to ask you for some info from your online service. You can click "later" if you don't have that right now. 3. Lots of viruses get sent by email. You have a trial version of (something) you can use for 30 days. Do you want to start that now (it's a very good idea...)? Great. This could take a minute... 4. I can make sure you have all the security and viirus updates that may have changed since they packed this computer back at the factory. Do you want me to do that now?
Etc...
This links to the 'mom's computer' article a little ways back - My mom headed over to Staples and bought a journeyman Compaq with XP on it. She wants to surf, email her 6 kids and their families, balance her checkbook, listen to CDs and write her life story. She does not want to be a sysadmin, she wants it to work.
It needed a fair amount of work just to make sure it was current out of the box. Dialup & Window updates - Mmmmm! After spending an afternoon doing my impersonation of Side Show Bob stepping on an near-infinite number of rakes, I tied it to a cable modem and.... done.
I run a small campus with an assortment of Macs and PCs - I'm no uber-anything, but I can keep the place running and occasionally can make stuff sign and dance and stand on its head. I try and keep up.
So just like with my staff and kids, there's the calls for the win-skinned popups & emails that claim there's something wrong with her computer - and the lovely answe is that the things that tell you there's something wrong are wrong - and when there IS something wrong, well, you won't know it until someone releases a patch for it waaaay after the fact ( where 0sec waaaay 30day ) and you're already screwed.
If mom had cable service, and barring the availablilty of decent wizards, she'd be more at risk of infections, trojans, with no real way to know how much tropuible she was getting into (BTW roll the clock back 20 years and try to explain THAT sentence). And should she?
We (by which I mean the professional OS, coding, support, Very Clever Problem Solvers community) should be able to make this more mal-proof.
Here I have to side with the Volvo survey that said 'weld the hood shut' - and to invoke an old analogy, my mother needs no more to know why she has to even think about what's under the hood than she does the car. Make sure it works, and stay ahead of things. For instance - how about the cable companies or major ISPs or OS vendors to put a x-number of machines completely unprotected (inbound) which would look like user systems to honeypot the next new malware? Is this how the virus vendors already operate (you know, if you want to catch a mouse, make a noise like cheese...)
Darl bought a Prowler, the warrantee doesn't cover squirrels stuck in the exposed front suspension, and he can't get the spininng hubs he bought at Autozone to work right... so Bwahahahaha it is!
So the first batch of ghosts will start with "Daddy" to be followed by Yorick, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz, Guilderstern, Gertrude, Laertes, Claudius and finally... Hamlet?
Oh this is sweet - I want to see Darl face his acuse-ees - him toe to toe against the guys behind the counter at a bunch of AutoZones. Can't wait for Darl's next impromptu sidewalk chat. Who's the next lawsuit, Darl? Teamsters? Gold's Gym? California Governor's Office?
How does free subscriptions at two universities translate into "it's taking the lead again in the old Napster's stomping ground: college campuses."
Hell, I had an inch-thick binder full of 9-point type with just a few day' worth of 'classic' napster download logs "back-in-the-day" at a teensie campus... the lead is a long way off.
Here in CT there's a famous grocery store whose founder was charged with skimming $17M from the corporate accounts in order to avoid $6M in taxes. He decided one way to get out with some of the money would be to head for the Carribbean with $80,000 in lots of pads of $20s hidden under baggy clothes. What he failed to take into acount were the metallic printed threads on the newer 20s - the aggregate of which managed to set off the metal detector. What they really got him for was not telling anyone he was leaving the country with more than $10,000. Then it got really bad.
yes, this guy's an idiot. yes, he should be prosecuted for what he did however, there are plenty of existing laws on the books that can punish him for screwing with 911 - use them. this is too-bad-cop - a bit like the teacher in whale rider who tells the boys their dicks will fall off if they don't obey him - just deal with the situation and let the laws work.
but a few years down the line, the hs dept is going to have to show some deliverables - and one of them will be how many people were prosecuted under terrorism laws, and this sort of thing helps raise the count.
in that regard patriot could end up being the rustproof undercoating of the law enforcement world - make sure you try and tag it on top anything you can...
IIRC Debit fees are generally cheaper than the credit fee for the same transaction - it's cheaper for them to let you do debit, and you can shop around for a bank that allows unlimited monthly debit purchases. and IIRC MC/V generally do not allow for minimum purchases for transactions - yes, the convenience store just lost 80 cents to make 20 on your pack of gum, but they just sold a case of beer or the 20 gallon truck fillup on 80 cents a minute ago. It more than evens out for most and If they are hand entering or mechanically imprinting your card, something's not normal, as they're the most expensive rates (as opposed to just swiping your card). Makes you go hmmmm...
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i feel abou this the same way i felt about bill herrick's glass topped trout stream coffee tables - now this is different in a good way.
assuming it's not a hoax, it'll be on my bookmarks bar at the top of the news list.
Where else?
sorry. had to.. old childhood memory...
Apple's old Knowledge Navigator... you speak to the computer, and it's all a very decked-out browser...
Q: so exactly which of those historical OSs hosting this just got quick-fried?
Obs: I saw Doug Englebart a few years ago giving a large group presentation - he had the best interface I'd ever seen for a presentation - the current slide was displayed in a frame of thumbnails of the slides in the entire presentation - so you had random access to the whole show, you could see the flow, he could jump and reference other slides if needed without the typical bambi-on-ice powerpoint shuffle.
Oh yeah, the presentation was great, too - the analogy of introducing GUIs to telling horse riders how it was going to be driving cars, ("I have to lookk in a mirror to go the other way? I can't even shave in a mirror without hurting myself...") was original, funny and insightful.
the sound of all those people who told apple they were nuts for choosing it...
in the millions of man-hours needed to retool all known scales of, measures of, and references to 'corporate suckage'
/.ers reading the story headline had their face in the hands and were making some sort of noise that would make your dog cower, it's the synergy of the basic groans most make at the mere mention of either of these companies
admit it - the majority of
the new grownup ms ads make me want to watch 'office space' to see more realistic cubicle behavior, and the kids ones make me imagine that kid never gets to astronaut school because he's doing his application in office...
on the other hand, the prospect of apple / pixar / disney being aligned could make people skip down the street...
Let's see - like a walkman, you can walk around with an iPod and aside from seeming antisocial to some, you can actually walk | jog | drive etc... while your ears are busy.
This is different. You'll have to watch this thing, it's as big as a portable dvd player (which no one is walking around with - they're barely buying the things as it is)
This is 8x the cost of a dvd player proper, and 3x the cost of a portable one.
Maybe for the lids in the back of the car - but why not just bring a handful of dvds - you're in the car with lots of places to hold stuff. And if you're in the car for 8 hours with kids you're going to have more problems than what to watch.
It's as expensive as a laptop, it's too big to fit in your pocket. Would I use one? No - I'm trading in my Garmin eMap for an eTrek and my iPod 5 for a mini, just like I traded my old audiovox phone for a t226... I want a more smaller things and one big one. Not another big one in between.
But I've been wrong before. And people lost their shirt on zeppelins and missed the whole laser thing.
I could see Apple testing the market with something like this, they always have the iPod to sell lots of and this could be another Pippin.
It makes sense for MS to try it - they own the format and they have money to burn.
Hell, they must figure if the London Eye can be a hit and Eurodisney and marmite, what the hell...
of course it's faster - they're using a frikken' linear accelerator!
"In a recent comparative study run by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC),"
ah, "the woes of an unregulated monopoly in a free market"...
(that's a direct quote from the pr director of the biggest cable provider in my state)
so put *some* broad choices in the middle tier:
sports package - the ESPNs, golf, YES, NESN, etc...
learn package - nat go, history, disc, tlc etc....
home package - style, hgtv, foodtv DIY, etc...
news package - cnn, hn, msnbc, foxnews,
fun package - nick, mtc, vh1, toon, comedy central etc...
that keeps your big vendor deals bundled and you have big swatches to sell to.
we're dumping standard cable for precisely this reason - there's the air channels plus maybe three more that we watch - amc, bravo and a tie between tlc and foodtv - after that - there's only so much you can watch - we've de-tuned everything we know we never watch - so we can actually run thru the channels before the show's over, and fer the love of god take the digital channels off the analog cable guide - you have to sit thru the entire scroll of 100 channels to see what's on the 40 we get!
sorry.
It's a "hoof pick".
Ignore it when it's needed, and you'll find out that tech is cheap compared to large-animal vets bills.
right you are - apple's shake, but still mostly rendering on linux
ok - toss in fcp and cold mountain...
either way, looks like steve should reserve a tux first week in march from now on...
apple can tout this bigtime with real effective results (pixar movie$)
it's not just a niche - pair this with WETA and you've got real ammo.
1. "is threatening to sue" is what the article says.
2. "The proceeds go to musicians and other rights holders who lose money to piracy." Legally, this phrasing suggests that it goes to people who lose money in fact. If Apple is interested in contesting this, the lawmakers would have to prove such losses in order to prevail legally, or alternately have a strong enough case built that you could force Apple (or anyone) to settle outside of court. That would seem very hard to do, and it wouldn't surprise me if Apple were to bet on the precise wording.
3. Granted, most think Apple could drop a half a mil out of petty cash, but if I were them, I'd first argue that we'd pay the levy on the value of the hard disk. Beyond that, Apple could challenge this for proof of actual damages, and tie everyone up for a long time. Something tells me Apple has deeper pockets than Sacem, but who knows.
4. This seems a bit like a speeding tax on the sale of cars. Oh, right - mea culpa - that's called car insurance.
Let's see about
.... done.
How about he retail boxes ship secure and go thru a very simple startup, something between OSX and Eddie in demeanor and attention to detail...
1. Do you want to surf the web on this computer? Great. I'll enable that for you.
2. Do you want to send and receive mail on this computer? Great. I'll do that - I'm going to ask you for some info from your online service. You can click "later" if you don't have that right now.
3. Lots of viruses get sent by email. You have a trial version of (something) you can use for 30 days. Do you want to start that now (it's a very good idea...)? Great. This could take a minute...
4. I can make sure you have all the security and viirus updates that may have changed since they packed this computer back at the factory. Do you want me to do that now?
Etc...
This links to the 'mom's computer' article a little ways back - My mom headed over to Staples and bought a journeyman Compaq with XP on it. She wants to surf, email her 6 kids and their families, balance her checkbook, listen to CDs and write her life story. She does not want to be a sysadmin, she wants it to work.
It needed a fair amount of work just to make sure it was current out of the box. Dialup & Window updates - Mmmmm! After spending an afternoon doing my impersonation of Side Show Bob stepping on an near-infinite number of rakes, I tied it to a cable modem and
I run a small campus with an assortment of Macs and PCs - I'm no uber-anything, but I can keep the place running and occasionally can make stuff sign and dance and stand on its head. I try and keep up.
So just like with my staff and kids, there's the calls for the win-skinned popups & emails that claim there's something wrong with her computer - and the lovely answe is that the things that tell you there's something wrong are wrong - and when there IS something wrong, well, you won't know it until someone releases a patch for it waaaay after the fact ( where 0sec waaaay 30day ) and you're already screwed.
If mom had cable service, and barring the availablilty of decent wizards, she'd be more at risk of infections, trojans, with no real way to know how much tropuible she was getting into (BTW roll the clock back 20 years and try to explain THAT sentence). And should she?
We (by which I mean the professional OS, coding, support, Very Clever Problem Solvers community) should be able to make this more mal-proof.
Here I have to side with the Volvo survey that said 'weld the hood shut' - and to invoke an old analogy, my mother needs no more to know why she has to even think about what's under the hood than she does the car. Make sure it works, and stay ahead of things. For instance - how about the cable companies or major ISPs or OS vendors to put a x-number of machines completely unprotected (inbound) which would look like user systems to honeypot the next new malware? Is this how the virus vendors already operate (you know, if you want to catch a mouse, make a noise like cheese...)
Anyhoo...
...they ruled out this theory...
Darl bought a Prowler, the warrantee doesn't cover squirrels stuck in the exposed front suspension, and he can't get the spininng hubs he bought at Autozone to work right... so Bwahahahaha it is!
So the first batch of ghosts will start with "Daddy" to be followed by Yorick, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz, Guilderstern, Gertrude, Laertes, Claudius and finally... Hamlet?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Anyone else thinking "Goons fron Popeye"?
Kinda makes that Segway look like a useful bargain at 4 bills...
Oh this is sweet - I want to see Darl face his acuse-ees - him toe to toe against the guys behind the counter at a bunch of AutoZones.
Can't wait for Darl's next impromptu sidewalk chat.
Who's the next lawsuit, Darl? Teamsters? Gold's Gym? California Governor's Office?
How does free subscriptions at two universities translate into "it's taking the lead again in the old Napster's stomping ground: college campuses."
Hell, I had an inch-thick binder full of 9-point type with just a few day' worth of 'classic' napster download logs "back-in-the-day" at a teensie campus... the lead is a long way off.
Here in CT there's a famous grocery store whose founder was charged with skimming $17M from the corporate accounts in order to avoid $6M in taxes. He decided one way to get out with some of the money would be to head for the Carribbean with $80,000 in lots of pads of $20s hidden under baggy clothes. What he failed to take into acount were the metallic printed threads on the newer 20s - the aggregate of which managed to set off the metal detector. What they really got him for was not telling anyone he was leaving the country with more than $10,000. Then it got really bad.
yes, this guy's an idiot.
yes, he should be prosecuted for what he did
however, there are plenty of existing laws on the books that can punish him for screwing with 911 - use them.
this is too-bad-cop - a bit like the teacher in whale rider who tells the boys their dicks will fall off if they don't obey him - just deal with the situation and let the laws work.
but a few years down the line, the hs dept is going to have to show some deliverables - and one of them will be how many people were prosecuted under terrorism laws, and this sort of thing helps raise the count.
in that regard patriot could end up being the rustproof undercoating of the law enforcement world - make sure you try and tag it on top anything you can...
"The firm said it had no method for contacting striking staff other than using the short message service (SMS)."
Um, they had the cell phone number needed to send the sms - buck up and call them.
looks like it does what you want.
not out til april
but the itrip works well enough so does the powermate
i'd trust them
IIRC Debit fees are generally cheaper than the credit fee for the same transaction - it's cheaper for them to let you do debit, and you can shop around for a bank that allows unlimited monthly debit purchases.
and
IIRC MC/V generally do not allow for minimum purchases for transactions - yes, the convenience store just lost 80 cents to make 20 on your pack of gum, but they just sold a case of beer or the 20 gallon truck fillup on 80 cents a minute ago. It more than evens out for most
and
If they are hand entering or mechanically imprinting your card, something's not normal, as they're the most expensive rates (as opposed to just swiping your card). Makes you go hmmmm...