The link is down but from the screenshots and other things I've read about this, it looks like a windows only application. Like picassa (googles photo program). I hope they integrate this into a browswer app because they've done a great job with mail and maps as internet apps.
Also I have this sneaking suspission the competetion will only run on ie.
A relative worked in an "internationalization" department, creating software/manuals in many langugages.
In order for machine translation to be as good as human translation, you fist need to determine what the sentance "means". Often times you need to track previous sentances to determine meaning of things like the word "it". Human languague is not very detailed and relies on common knowledge experences to infer meaning.
Its very hard. Some langauges are easier than others for this stuff. German/french/spanish all change the gender of the word "the" based on the noun and give clues about how its used in a sentence. This can help a little.
For many web pages this approach may give an understandable translation, but for literary references and books (manuals etc) machine assisted translation is now the norm.
even using AI determining meaning is very difficult. google semantic processing for companies trying. One is CYC, a stanford spin off.
I only support Solaris and HPUX and linux writing low level code. (ironically an os abstraction api so platform shifts are easier)
I find differences in the way these OSs handle things make my life more difficult..
ioctl calls are different, some socket stuff is different. (default multicast ttl, handling of empty buffers), threads. real time "quasi" OS code varies greatly for multi-proc machines.
However when/if you fully understand what your doing you can write good code with a minimum of #ifdefs. Its a bit more painfull than it should be sometimes, and its time consuming. Time many coders would rather spend adding functionality.
However the benifits of having code that works great on many including minor OSs are great. This shouldn't affect higher level processes. Noone wants to spend time debuging code for some obscure platform, its not fun, but it needs to be done.
Don't get me wrong, open source has lots of new and interesting projects.
Many open source projects copy many ideas as well. The windows task bar, showing up in gnome, kde and Open Office? Thats not coincidence. Many open source apps seem like other "proprietary" apps. Seen the lindows music player (itunes *cough*)
Sometimes interfaces get panned because there not like existing apps, people complaining that Gimp is not like photoshop, etc...
Oreilly radar has an excellent interview notes on the Bill Gates interview with Walt Mossberg, who asks Bill some Not so softball questions, from tablets not doing well to Media Center, to yahoo and google comparisons. Its quite good.
Terra server doesn't allow "overlays" of roads and routes and doesn't allow you to look at buisnesses in the area. Terraserver is in Black and white and includes topos, and doesn't include scroll and other javascript goodness.
Terraserver was just a way for MS to demonstrate its server/database software. Thats it.
This will get Blu-Ray players into peoples home like the playstation did with dvds.
Interesting to compare tatics, as MS is ending xbox games development this year and Sony is continuing for 2 more. Nintendo is also continueing development.
Also playstation will be backward compatable. This is great, because there will be a huge library of working games for it. Also they get that games are not just about the graphics, so HD will not be requires.
From NYT " While every Xbox 360 title must be developed in high definition, Sony officials are playing down that aspect of the new PlayStation. "Blu-ray technology guarantees the highest graphic quality," said Jack Tretton, executive vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment America. "HD is not the be-all and end-all," Mr. Tretton said, noting that the depth of game play could be more important.
Microsoft executives have decided to end internal development of games for the current Xbox this year, but Sony will continue to create titles for the PlayStation 2.
"We'd be crazy to abandon them," said Mr. Tretton, speaking of PlayStation 2 owners.
Your not trying hard enough/ taking enough risks. Noone/ company is perfect. Of course something were bound to fail (New Coke), but everything is clearer when looking back at it.
Learning from mistakes and not repeating them is the hard part.
While on the plane with my game boy advance, I've ben asked multiple times "can you watch movies with it". Granted the clamshell game boy looks like a small portable dvd player. I thought the screen was too small, but people seem to think it would be a good idea.
We will see how well PSP does well with movies, from there anything can happen.
Nothing like stoping and going 40 then stopping then going 40 mph then stoping (for no apparent reason), then coughing up 30$ to fill up. Then breithing diesel.
For what its worth, I bought/ripped a cd at 256 kbps mp3 after having purchased a song from it as 128 bits aac. On my ipod (which doesn't tell me which one is which ) with pretty good "shure" headphones I can't tell the difference between the 2 songs at all.
I cut my computing teath on the apple//e. My friend had the ][+ with visicalc and 300 baud hayes modem.
The visicalc spread sheet was interesting because the left-right arrows became up-down when you pressed the space bar.
I remember Beagle Bros software. Apple basic. Nibble magazine. 7 color hi res graphics (2 white , 2 black, purple, blue and orange). Ultima/// one of the best games ever.
The machine lives on in emulated form. How people got their 5.25 inch floppies into files I'll never now.
You could set the whole screen on solid color will a call command if I remember correctly..
10 hgr 20 for i = 1 to 7 30 hcolor =i 40 hplot 0,0 50 call 62454 60 next i
Don't get me wrong, Tiger seems like a great operating upgrade. I think its a little steep at 130$ but probably worth it.
My problem with it is that it fragments the new mac users more than 10.3 did. Here is why.
They give the developer new tools/frameworks for easier better application development. These are great. HOWEVER, if you a developer choose to use those new features your software ONLY works on 10.4 (tiger) not on 10.3.
core data for example . Also it looks like apple won't make java 1.5 work on older versions of the mac OS, meaning they won't work on older versions the the OS either.
This further fragmenting apples small market share, adding frustration to developers and software purchasers alike. You have to code with the older frameworks or compel your users to update. This is a not required but "strongly compelled upgrade"
I have a dual 1 ghz power mac. I have a lot of ram 1.5 gig, and manipulate images in photoshop 7. Without core image acceleration its very good, especially with some of my larger images which can by 100 megs each. The only time the wait is anoying is when i'm using genuin fractals "degrain" filters which are slow (20-30 seconds) but work very well.
It even edits video ok. All without the core image.
My understanding of core image api is if the machine can't send the operations to the unsupported video card it just uses the main processor. minis have 1.2-1.4 ghz so they should work prety well for any image task thrown at it.
A g5 would improve things for anyone really into hardcore editing..
The office unknown to me had bought this very expensive win 2004 dell server (there network/computer consulting co told them they needed it to host my appliation). It was over 2000$. They didn't need it and the company couldn't install apache/mysql/php (Who do I call for support?).
I installed the linux and everything in about 4 hours. Linux installs have gotten much much better. Scary easy.
Basically the linux server has been chugging away for over a year with no problems. hardly maintenance. Nothing (Its behind a firewall). The windows server has had all sorts of networking issuse that keeps a tech visiting the office once a week.(granted its doing more but still).
If I took the photograph isn't the data mine? Not Mine and NIKONS... Shouldn't I be able to control what parts are encrypted and what parts aren't, so I can get the best posible image/color/detail out of the photograph.
There should be no fear of decrypting this data. Didn't I create that file? Isn't the data even though encrypted mine?
I can't even think of an analogy. Even MS with its word file format, won't document how it works but isn't so evil as to encrypt it.
This is bad form and is another strike against Nikon.
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The link is down but from the screenshots and other things I've read about this, it looks like a windows only application. Like picassa (googles photo program). I hope they integrate this into a browswer app because they've done a great job with mail and maps as internet apps.
Also I have this sneaking suspission the competetion will only run on ie.
A relative worked in an "internationalization" department, creating software/manuals in many langugages.
In order for machine translation to be as good as human translation, you fist need to determine what the sentance "means". Often times you need to track previous sentances to determine meaning of things like the word "it". Human languague is not very detailed and relies on common knowledge experences to infer meaning.
Its very hard. Some langauges are easier than others for this stuff. German/french/spanish all change the gender of the word "the" based on the noun and give clues about how its used in a sentence. This can help a little.
For many web pages this approach may give an understandable translation, but for literary references and books (manuals etc) machine assisted translation is now the norm.
even using AI determining meaning is very difficult. google semantic processing for companies trying. One is CYC, a stanford spin off.
http://www.cyc.com/
I only support Solaris and HPUX and linux writing low level code. (ironically an os abstraction api so platform shifts are easier)
I find differences in the way these OSs handle things make my life more difficult..
ioctl calls are different, some socket stuff is different. (default multicast ttl, handling of empty buffers), threads. real time "quasi" OS code varies greatly for multi-proc machines.
However when/if you fully understand what your doing you can write good code with a minimum of #ifdefs. Its a bit more painfull than it should be sometimes, and its time consuming. Time many coders would rather spend adding functionality.
However the benifits of having code that works great on many including minor OSs are great. This shouldn't affect higher level processes. Noone wants to spend time debuging code for some obscure platform, its not fun, but it needs to be done.
Via Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com/ (an excellent gaming site..). MS has released "game clips". Of course not having the actual console hasn't stopped them.
see the commentary, look at the clips!
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000767044604/
Don't get me wrong, open source has lots of new and interesting projects.
Many open source projects copy many ideas as well. The windows task bar, showing up in gnome, kde and Open Office? Thats not coincidence. Many open source apps seem like other "proprietary" apps. Seen the lindows music player (itunes *cough*)
Sometimes interfaces get panned because there not like existing apps, people complaining that Gimp is not like photoshop, etc...
no more all off mp3 .com
Obviously the MPAA/RIAA are to blame..
Oreilly radar has an excellent interview notes on the Bill Gates interview with Walt Mossberg, who asks Bill some Not so softball questions, from tablets not doing well to Media Center, to yahoo and google comparisons. Its quite good.
r om_bill.html
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/notes_f
near the bottom:
WM - What's the difference between what you're doing and what google is doing?
We've been doing this a long time. The pictometry deal is an
exclusive. But there will be a lot of competition.
WM - so you're going to look up and see a Microsoft plane, a
google plane, a yahoo plane!
Terra server doesn't allow "overlays" of roads and routes and doesn't allow you to look at buisnesses in the area. Terraserver is in Black and white and includes topos, and doesn't include scroll and other javascript goodness.
Terraserver was just a way for MS to demonstrate its server/database software. Thats it.
Not good odds (but better than the lotto). But hey! Free battery.
This will get Blu-Ray players into peoples home like the playstation did with dvds.
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Interesting to compare tatics, as MS is ending xbox games development this year and Sony is continuing for 2 more. Nintendo is also continueing development.
Also playstation will be backward compatable. This is great, because there will be a huge library of working games for it. Also they get that games are not just about the graphics, so HD will not be requires
From NYT
"
While every Xbox 360 title must be developed in high definition, Sony officials are playing down that aspect of the new PlayStation. "Blu-ray technology guarantees the highest graphic quality," said Jack Tretton, executive vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment America. "HD is not the be-all and end-all," Mr. Tretton said, noting that the depth of game play could be more important.
Microsoft executives have decided to end internal development of games for the current Xbox this year, but Sony will continue to create titles for the PlayStation 2.
"We'd be crazy to abandon them," said Mr. Tretton, speaking of PlayStation 2 owners.
My last record needle I bought was dimond tipped. Now I can get them cheaper!.. oh wait..that purchase was 20 years ago.
.
for those that think that its stupid to run a diamond across a plastic record
http://needleexpress.com/faq.htm
Your not trying hard enough/ taking enough risks. Noone/ company is perfect. Of course something were bound to fail (New Coke), but everything is clearer when looking back at it.
Learning from mistakes and not repeating them is the hard part.
Interestingly the chapter was pulled in the 5th edition.. but the chapter was offered online at the time of publishing (it was in my OS class file).
i an
acording to the preface from 5th "coverage of the Mach operating system (old chapter 20), which is a modern os.... is available on line."
Back into relevance? The new article doesn't mention MAC OSX which doesn't mean it completely out of date.
It should be noted that appe hired Avie Tevanian to modify the MACH kernal and boost its performace.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Avie%20Tevan
While on the plane with my game boy advance, I've ben asked multiple times "can you watch movies with it". Granted the clamshell game boy looks like a small portable dvd player. I thought the screen was too small, but people seem to think it would be a good idea.
We will see how well PSP does well with movies, from there anything can happen.
Nothing like stoping and going 40 then stopping then going 40 mph then stoping (for no apparent reason), then coughing up 30$ to fill up. Then breithing diesel.
Sounds like fun but.. I'd rather walk.
This is somewhat off topic I know.
For what its worth, I bought/ripped a cd at 256 kbps mp3 after having purchased a song from it as 128 bits aac. On my ipod (which doesn't tell me which one is which ) with pretty good "shure" headphones I can't tell the difference between the 2 songs at all.
I was in Fiji recently and my brother whos living there pointed out that Fijians for some bizarre reason LIKE Steven Seagal movies.
I was andr remain perplexed..
I don't know what your talking about... Although dual floppies made things much easier.. wink wink, nudge nudge.
I cut my computing teath on the apple //e. My friend
/// one of the best games ever.
had the ][+ with visicalc and 300 baud hayes modem.
The visicalc spread sheet was interesting because the left-right arrows became up-down when you pressed the space bar.
I remember
Beagle Bros software. Apple basic. Nibble magazine. 7 color hi res graphics (2 white , 2 black, purple, blue and orange). Ultima
The machine lives on in emulated form. How people got their 5.25 inch floppies into files I'll never now.
You could set the whole screen on solid color will a call command
if I remember correctly..
10 hgr
20 for i = 1 to 7
30 hcolor =i
40 hplot 0,0
50 call 62454
60 next i
super effects!
My problem with it is that it fragments the new mac users more than 10.3 did. Here is why.
They give the developer new tools/frameworks for easier better application development. These are great. HOWEVER, if you a developer choose to use those new features your software ONLY works on 10.4 (tiger) not on 10.3. core data for example
. Also it looks like apple won't make java 1.5 work on older versions of the mac OS, meaning they won't work on older versions the the OS either. This further fragmenting apples small market share, adding frustration to developers and software purchasers alike. You have to code with the older frameworks or compel your users to update. This is a not required but "strongly compelled upgrade"
I have a dual 1 ghz power mac. I have a lot of ram 1.5 gig, and manipulate images in photoshop 7. Without core image acceleration its very good, especially with some of my larger images which can by 100 megs each. The only time the wait is anoying is when i'm using genuin fractals "degrain" filters which are slow (20-30 seconds) but work very well.
It even edits video ok. All without the core image.
My understanding of core image api is if the machine can't send the operations to the unsupported video card it just uses the main processor. minis have 1.2-1.4 ghz so they should work prety well for any image task thrown at it.
A g5 would improve things for anyone really into hardcore editing..
I paid for it..
I didn't remember how much so I put a $. I didn't put 0$. I think it was about 150$.
If I open sourced the project then MYSql would be free.
I built a small office server for a company.
Spare Dell 400 mhz - 50$
mandrake -$
mysql - $
The office unknown to me had bought this very expensive win 2004 dell server (there network/computer consulting co told them they needed it to host my appliation). It was over 2000$. They didn't need it and the company couldn't install apache/mysql/php (Who do I call for support?).
I installed the linux and everything in about 4 hours. Linux installs have gotten much much better. Scary easy.
Basically the linux server has been chugging away for over a year with no problems. hardly maintenance. Nothing (Its behind a firewall). The windows server has had all sorts of networking issuse that keeps a tech visiting the office once a week.(granted its doing more but still).
Which is cheaper again???
If I took the photograph isn't the data mine? Not Mine and NIKONS... Shouldn't I be able to control what parts are encrypted and what parts aren't, so I can get the best posible image/color/detail out of the photograph.
There should be no fear of decrypting this data. Didn't I create that file? Isn't the data even though encrypted mine?
I can't even think of an analogy. Even MS with its word file format, won't document how it works but isn't so evil as to encrypt it.
This is bad form and is another strike against Nikon.
gmail works as a file cabinet.
I send myself email sometimes with information I find useful and will want later. Then tag it with the gmail category.
Instant file cabinet and fully searchable. (I used to use apple's notepad for this, but its not in osx).