You may well be able to type faster than you can speak, but very few people can do that - for the vast majority of computer users (be they regular or occasional users) speech IS faster than typing.
And as for sounding like a goon if you talk out loud to your computer? Doubtful. Unless you reckon people sound like goons for talking into small pieces of plastic as they do every day already (I understand those pieces of plastic are called "telephones" - they'll never catch on though because one person can type morse-code faster than they can speak, and they don't want to sound like a goon, right?)
Gates himself has his company working hard on speech recognition -- which is obviously a step towards taking away the interfaces.
That's not taking away an interface, any more than having a keyboard instead of punched card is taking away an interface!
Speech recognition merely allows for a different and faster interface between operator and computer, but it is still by definition an interface.
Indeed it could be argued that even hardwiring the computer directly into your brain still requires an interface, again by definition. It would just be a different type of interface, presumably much faster and one which required less effort to use, but an interface it would still be.
So who would buy dual PowerPC CPU now, knowing a major shift is happening in less than a year's time?
First thing to note is that the machines next year are the low-end portables etc. Apple have already stated that their highend systems will not move to Intel until 2007.
So, to turn your question around, why wait for 2 years without a machine instead of buying one NOW to do the work you need to do NOW?
Besides, it's not as if current PowerMacs will miraculously stop working the day the Intel version comes out. Machines biught now will still run and still be supported for a long time to come.
No other company has ever launched an Internet Search function. No other company has ever launched web-based email. No other company has ever provided online maps. No other company has ever offerd the contents of usenet via the web. No other company has ever offered navigable satalite photos of the planet. No other company has ever offerd realtime webcaching and compression to "speed up" one's access. No company has ever cached websites for access when they are down or no longer available. No company has ever offered a price-checking website.
Oh, hang on, wait a minute...
When you look at it, I mean actually take a step back and LOOK, Google is a highly derivative company, with not much in the way of true innovation.
They take existing ideas and functions, and tweak them. Coupled with their "geek coolness" and hero-worship, they are simply riding the hype wave.
Another advantage of your method is that the documentation for the variable is where it is defined - keeps the whole lot together in one logical place, rather than having the variable type and name in one location and then having to skip elsewhere to find the descriptive comment etc.
Damned sight easier when actually working through the code rather than just glancing to see if it "looks" documented!
We're British; we like to moan about things; that's what we do.
Hell, we've been moaning about the weather here for centuries but nobody does anything about it, what makes you think this will be any different?
We find something to moan about, we complain that "somebody" should Do Something about it, and then we get on with our lives. We never actually intend for Something to be Done - we'd lose something to moan about!
Yeah, it should be nice not to have to buy a $1500 computer in order to use that feature...
Ah, that's OK then. Given there are versions of every single normal user model of Mac (mini, eMac, iMac, PowerMac, iBook, PowerBook) available for less than $1,500, your requirements are met. (You could buy 3 Mac mini's for less than $1,500 you realise!)
the ability to SEARCH
See MacOS X Tiger...
a good interface
Yup, that's iDisk again - it's just another drive on your desktop, like any other drive or folder.
I would really like to see Google Implementing some kind of "GDrive", where I can have all or most of my documents
You mean like the iDisk which comes with.Mac and has done for a few years now - sits on your machine just like another drive, but it's on Apple's servers and thus accessible from anywhere?
(Well, I write computer code for a living... when I die, is my boss going to keep sending my widow and 2 kids checks for N years)i
If I die while still employed by my employers, they send a big fat cheque to my estate to the value of 4 years of my salary. In one tax-free lump sum (to taking all the regular sort of tax et al deductions into account, that's more like 6 years of take-home in one lump sum)
So the answer to your question would appear to be "Yes".
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Why is the parent marked as insightful when his first point is a blatant lie?
Despite his claims to the contrary, there is NOTHING in teh BSD license to stop hiom from relicensing his code and selling it commercially.
Why is it "news" when Google do another "me too" service?
I mean, let's face it. Yahoo, Reteurs and many others have been doing this sort of thing for years now. Why is it suddenly news that Google have caught up?
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"A good specification is one, but if you are so inclined a static prototype can often achieve as much if not more from the customer's perspective."
In that case you have a specification! In the form of your static prototype.
Nowehere does it say that a specification HAS to be solely a written document...
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"When the QA process starts,"
The QA process should start right at the beginning of the project, when you are developing the requirements (i.e. before the specification is created).
You are not using QA at your company. If you were, then you would have a proper, detailed specification and list of requirements, which benefits everyone (the customer, the designers, the testers - everyone).
Indeed, you can do that across all Sun's UltraSPARC-III - based SunFire range, replace the single-core US3 with dual core US4 CPUs. Something Sun deliberately decided to ensure was possible right from the outset.
" OK, so it's a dupe, give the guy a break, or maybe you'd like to do the work -- I am sure the salary for a/. editor is great!"
WHAT work? They don't check spelling, they don't check that the submission accurately reflects the article, they don't check to see if the story has already been posted (which this one has - twice in the very recent past!).
WHAT work do these poor over-worked "editors" do, exactly?
Yes, I'd be more than happy to be an editor. It would be hard do a poorer job of it than they do at the moment, to be honest.
You mean this "little shop" which takes your money and sells you things for which they have no permission to sell?
You mean this "little shop" that makes money off other people's works without paying those other people? (Note - the performers of the music you download do not get any money from your "purchase". The songwriters get a very small amount, but that's all. Those who perform it get nothing.).
Nope, can't see anything dodgy about that at all...
I feel exactly the same way. When I want a phone, I want a phone. I don't want to play crappy Java games. I don't want to remote control my TV with it. I don't want to use it as a camera because the picture quality is crap. I don't want a buggy vulnerable OS on it.
I just want to send and receive phonecalls and SMS.
But no. Apparantly "we" all want total product integration. So when my phone breaks, I can't play music, play games, take photos or open my beer either.
"I suppose the fact that IE has all sorts of nice direct access to the Windows code with god-knows-what tricks embedded to speed it up helps. Firefox is bound by what any non-MS program can do with the API."
Nice try, but how does that explain IE being faster than FireFox under MacOS X as well in some areas?
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You may well be able to type faster than you can speak, but very few people can do that - for the vast majority of computer users (be they regular or occasional users) speech IS faster than typing.
And as for sounding like a goon if you talk out loud to your computer? Doubtful. Unless you reckon people sound like goons for talking into small pieces of plastic as they do every day already (I understand those pieces of plastic are called "telephones" - they'll never catch on though because one person can type morse-code faster than they can speak, and they don't want to sound like a goon, right?)
That's not taking away an interface, any more than having a keyboard instead of punched card is taking away an interface!
Speech recognition merely allows for a different and faster interface between operator and computer, but it is still by definition an interface.
Indeed it could be argued that even hardwiring the computer directly into your brain still requires an interface, again by definition. It would just be a different type of interface, presumably much faster and one which required less effort to use, but an interface it would still be.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/01/061825 0
Yes, yesterday! Too much to expect the editors to read their own site, is it?
First thing to note is that the machines next year are the low-end portables etc. Apple have already stated that their highend systems will not move to Intel until 2007.
So, to turn your question around, why wait for 2 years without a machine instead of buying one NOW to do the work you need to do NOW?
Besides, it's not as if current PowerMacs will miraculously stop working the day the Intel version comes out. Machines biught now will still run and still be supported for a long time to come.
"Like it or not Google is an inovative company."
You are right.
No other company has ever launched an Internet Search function.
No other company has ever launched web-based email.
No other company has ever provided online maps.
No other company has ever offerd the contents of usenet via the web.
No other company has ever offered navigable satalite photos of the planet.
No other company has ever offerd realtime webcaching and compression to "speed up" one's access.
No company has ever cached websites for access when they are down or no longer available.
No company has ever offered a price-checking website.
Oh, hang on, wait a minute...
When you look at it, I mean actually take a step back and LOOK, Google is a highly derivative company, with not much in the way of true innovation.
They take existing ideas and functions, and tweak them. Coupled with their "geek coolness" and hero-worship, they are simply riding the hype wave.
WRONG.
It does NOT autrn them.
I'll repeat that because it is a very important point.
IT DOES NOT AUTORUN THEM.
It autoinstalls, yet, but does NOT autorun - the user still has to go to Dashboard and select and activate the widget.
So no, it is NOT possible to cause the widgetto be RUN without the user doing it.
's claimed to be available to around 4.4 million homes, I call that pretty available!
"Later this year, higher speeds will be available (up to 7.2 Mbps"
Later, you say?
I am currently on 8Mbps broadband already, and have been since the start of this year. In the UK. At £29.99 per month.
UKOnline are the outfit concerned, and so far it's working nicely.
Indeed, that's EXACTLY why it's the iTunes Music Store.
That's also why the iPod is called iPod and not "Apple iPod".
If you note, there is no reference to the Apple brand on any of those products (other than the manufacturer logo on teh back of the iPod).
Absolutely.
Another advantage of your method is that the documentation for the variable is where it is defined - keeps the whole lot together in one logical place, rather than having the variable type and name in one location and then having to skip elsewhere to find the descriptive comment etc.
Damned sight easier when actually working through the code rather than just glancing to see if it "looks" documented!
That's true.
We're British; we like to moan about things; that's what we do.
Hell, we've been moaning about the weather here for centuries but nobody does anything about it, what makes you think this will be any different?
We find something to moan about, we complain that "somebody" should Do Something about it, and then we get on with our lives.
We never actually intend for Something to be Done - we'd lose something to moan about!
Yeah, it should be nice not to have to buy a $1500 computer in order to use that feature...
Ah, that's OK then. Given there are versions of every single normal user model of Mac (mini, eMac, iMac, PowerMac, iBook, PowerBook) available for less than $1,500, your requirements are met. (You could buy 3 Mac mini's for less than $1,500 you realise!)
the ability to SEARCH
See MacOS X Tiger...
a good interface
Yup, that's iDisk again - it's just another drive on your desktop, like any other drive or folder.
I would really like to see Google Implementing some kind of "GDrive", where I can have all or most of my documents
.Mac and has done for a few years now - sits on your machine just like another drive, but it's on Apple's servers and thus accessible from anywhere?
:-P
You mean like the iDisk which comes with
Yeah, it'd be nice for Google to catch up
(Well, I write computer code for a living... when I die, is my boss going to keep sending my widow and 2 kids checks for N years)i
If I die while still employed by my employers, they send a big fat cheque to my estate to the value of 4 years of my salary. In one tax-free lump sum (to taking all the regular sort of tax et al deductions into account, that's more like 6 years of take-home in one lump sum)
So the answer to your question would appear to be "Yes".
Why is the parent marked as insightful when his first point is a blatant lie?
Despite his claims to the contrary, there is NOTHING in teh BSD license to stop hiom from relicensing his code and selling it commercially.
Why is it "news" when Google do another "me too" service?
I mean, let's face it. Yahoo, Reteurs and many others have been doing this sort of thing for years now.
Why is it suddenly news that Google have caught up?
"A good specification is one, but if you are so inclined a static prototype can often achieve as much if not more from the customer's perspective."
In that case you have a specification! In the form of your static prototype.
Nowehere does it say that a specification HAS to be solely a written document...
"When the QA process starts,"
The QA process should start right at the beginning of the project, when you are developing the requirements (i.e. before the specification is created).
You are not using QA at your company. If you were, then you would have a proper, detailed specification and list of requirements, which benefits everyone (the customer, the designers, the testers - everyone).
It's built-in to OpenBSD and has been since V3.3 (currently shipping 3.6, 3.7 due in 2 months).
Which is stronger, your like or hate? That should give you your answer. And if it is a tie, then the answer would have to be MacOS X :-)
Absolutely correct.
Indeed, you can do that across all Sun's UltraSPARC-III - based SunFire range, replace the single-core US3 with dual core US4 CPUs. Something Sun deliberately decided to ensure was possible right from the outset.
" OK, so it's a dupe, give the guy a break, or maybe you'd like to do the work -- I am sure the salary for a /. editor is great!"
WHAT work? They don't check spelling, they don't check that the submission accurately reflects the article, they don't check to see if the story has already been posted (which this one has - twice in the very recent past!).
WHAT work do these poor over-worked "editors" do, exactly?
Yes, I'd be more than happy to be an editor. It would be hard do a poorer job of it than they do at the moment, to be honest.
You mean this "little shop" which takes your money and sells you things for which they have no permission to sell?
You mean this "little shop" that makes money off other people's works without paying those other people? (Note - the performers of the music you download do not get any money from your "purchase". The songwriters get a very small amount, but that's all. Those who perform it get nothing.).
Nope, can't see anything dodgy about that at all...
Amen brother!
I feel exactly the same way. When I want a phone, I want a phone. I don't want to play crappy Java games. I don't want to remote control my TV with it. I don't want to use it as a camera because the picture quality is crap. I don't want a buggy vulnerable OS on it.
I just want to send and receive phonecalls and SMS.
But no. Apparantly "we" all want total product integration. So when my phone breaks, I can't play music, play games, take photos or open my beer either.
Great.
"I suppose the fact that IE has all sorts of nice direct access to the Windows code with god-knows-what tricks embedded to speed it up helps. Firefox is bound by what any non-MS program can do with the API."
:-)
Nice try, but how does that explain IE being faster than FireFox under MacOS X as well in some areas?
Of course, Safari kicks them both