What about using them for off-line backup? Anybody know how medium-sized (few 100GB) drives compare with tape and writable blu-ray in terms of cost/byte, shelf-life, and performance?
Get N phone lines, N modems, and some kind of hardware that will bond multiple lines into a single higher-speed connection. You'd probably have to have special arrangements with your ISP (install the same hardware and dedicated lines), but I'm sure it's possible...
This is definitely not a shell - it's Yet Another Scripting Language, maybe tied more tightly to.NET than most, but not a reasonable replacement for bash or even Command Prompt...
Exactly... The *ONLY* reason there is not much CAD and Engineering Analysis software on Macs is that there is no demand. There's no demand because engineers don't work on Macs, and they don't work on Macs because there is no software.:-(
Porting any of these software packages to any given platform is as easy as any other, as long as you have Posix/X11/OpenGL available. Replace X11 with some other windowing system and then it's easy if you use a cross-platform toolkit like Tk or Wxwindows and moderately to very hard if you use Motif/Win32/something else nonportable. Similar for DirectX/OpenGL. But if there is money out there it will get done.
But how many intrepid homebrew types are going to make their own do-it-yourself porn and distribute it as video podcasts for free, and who's going to watch it on their ipods or cellphones when they're away from home? I guess we could expect longer lines for airplane bathrooms...
But is there a lot of demand for video content? There are a lot more cases when you're mobile and can listen to audio (driving, jogging) than when you can watch video (taking the bus, flying). And it's a lot harder to create and distribute video content than audio.
Maybe this is a case of taking the current state of affairs and linearly extrapolating the technology, when in fact we need to look for unexpected right angles... (whatever that means)
Are "ordinary people" creating video content yet? Or are production and bandwidth issues still too challenging?
The thing about all the technologies you mentioned is that they're all slight tweaks of stuff that's been around for 10 years (web sites, mp3 files) and who knows why that specific tweak was all it took for the technology to take off in some new direction? I guess there's a certain "friction" value that you need to get below for something to reach critical mass.
The problem with asking the question "what's the next big thing" in any field (such as home-grown content creation and distribution technology) is that the answer is usually "something nobody has thought of before now"...
Finding the full text of the book using that sort of chaining would be the simplest thing in the world for Google to disallow.
I think these industry groups are just afraid of innovation because they don't see where it will lead... Also once Google has the full text of every book in existence on-line, some third party might be able to steal the data and "liberate" it - that would definitely be bad for them.
You had *X* and *mice*?? *We* to program entire RPG's with ascii-only ADM3 terminals, and they didn't even have cursor control! But that was a huge improvement over graphical output on teletype printers... (All true)
I think the key issue is the input device. The iPod can have a very simple and to-the-point device because its functionality is limited. Many other tasks require the user to input text and that would totally change everything.
I think an iPhone would make a lot of sense. Phone and music are both audio-based, they don't require much input (you'd have to add a keypad, though, unless they made the scroll wheel emulate an old-style rotary dial - that would be kewl). Besides, all the time I am listening to my iPod, get a call, have to hit pause, take out the earphone, etc. Why can't the device do that for me?
I would like to have voice record too...
Video on the iPod is stupid unless you can have a head-mounted display (micro-laser mounted on your glasses?). Nobody wants to watch videos on a 2 inch screen. The same thing is somewhat true for the photos, although once you have a color screen that's a freebee.
GPS - give me a break. That's a seldom-needed niche device for sailors, hikers, and people who get lost all the time... iPod doesn't need it, although if it gets a phone it will probably need GPS for E911 compliance.
I guess it makes sense for the iPod to be a sound device and not a text or visual device...
Just run all the monitors off one machine and use VNC to get desktops up from your other machines onto the displays. Might be a bit slow for video or 3D games, but it's fine for other stuff. I have a Mac on my desk, with a VNC window to my linux box in the other room, and a vmware with Windows inside that window, where I run Quicken. Small videos are a bit slow but viewable... So, there are a lot of options that don't involve expensive hardware.
So they are going to be doing "joint certification, marketing, sales, training and business development work for a version of the database". What does that actually mean? Maybe SCO will help MySQL with some porting issues, and SCO will add a blurb to some of their marketing literature that says "we recommend MySQL for your database needs", and MySQL will add SCO to their list of supported platforms.
A lot of marketing-driven companies like SCO set up these "partnerships" left and right and make a big deal about them to generate positive publicity for themselves. For all we know, the MySQL people thought they were signing up for a standard developer's program and didn't expect press releases, mentions on slashdot, etc.
Has anybody who runs a Jabber server tried sending email to federation@google.com to see whether and how fast they respond to the request? It's just stupid to speculate on what their motives might be without first taking their word for it that they want to interoperate with "qualified" peers.
Besides, not everybody and their dog is going to be running a Jabber server. As mentioned before, large companies will do it for security reasons, but there are probably few enough of those that google will have no problem accomodating them.
A while back there was a C64-in-a-joystick sold for something like $25 on QVC, of all places... I got one and it plays a lot of old games (stored in ROM) just fine... Makes you wonder what the 2025 retro versions of today's high powered and expensive boxes are going to look like.
Batch programs (i.e. no GUI) that use standard C and C++ libraries, and the more vanilla Posix calls, are very portable among Win, *nix, Mac, etc. You run into problems with makefiles, libraries, Fortran to C linking, graphics, etc.
Say there's a new player technology that has to be connected to the internet at all times, and release a bunch of movies in that format. N people will care enough about the increased resolution to buy or rent them. Say you remove the internet restriction this making it easier and safer and more anonymous. M people will then go for it. M >> N. Will the difference make up for the reduction is losses via piracy? I don't think so.
Besides, it's inevitable that somebody will find a way to send bogus self-destruct codes to every player connected to the internet. Instant worst nightmare for Sony. Unless there's some secret back door to automatically un-destruct them... Viola, no more protection!
That's why you want to group the tabs together that came in the same multilink. You'd have 3 windows each of which has the "correct" tab on top. Maybe a command to close all tabs in a window except for the current one would be nice also.
A link can indicate the target should be opened in a new window. Maybe you can disable that behavior, but it's not happening when a page is loaded, it's in response to a mouse click, so Firefox (at least) lets it happen if popups are disabled.
The reason this would be nice behavior is that a multilink should open multiple pages with minimal fuss, but keep them grouped together. If there were such a thing as nested tabs that would come in handy here. But aside from that I think a toplevel with all the pages in it would be the best grouping mechanism.
Just giving you a menu of URL's you can select from is too much work for the user. Just open them all and let the user close them one by one when he's done.
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What about using them for off-line backup? Anybody know how medium-sized (few 100GB) drives compare with tape and writable blu-ray in terms of cost/byte, shelf-life, and performance?
Get N phone lines, N modems, and some kind of hardware that will bond multiple lines into a single higher-speed connection. You'd probably have to have special arrangements with your ISP (install the same hardware and dedicated lines), but I'm sure it's possible...
Ha ha ... not likely
He's saying "Google would like it if we, as an ISP, provided free service, but we won't". I'm not sure why this is an interesting comment...
This is definitely not a shell - it's Yet Another Scripting Language, maybe tied more tightly to .NET than most, but not a reasonable replacement for bash or even Command Prompt ...
Exactly ... The *ONLY* reason there is not much CAD and Engineering Analysis software on Macs is that there is no demand. There's no demand because engineers don't work on Macs, and they don't work on Macs because there is no software. :-(
Porting any of these software packages to any given platform is as easy as any other, as long as you have Posix/X11/OpenGL available. Replace X11 with some other windowing system and then it's easy if you use a cross-platform toolkit like Tk or Wxwindows and moderately to very hard if you use Motif/Win32/something else nonportable. Similar for DirectX/OpenGL. But if there is money out there it will get done.
But how many intrepid homebrew types are going to make their own do-it-yourself porn and distribute it as video podcasts for free, and who's going to watch it on their ipods or cellphones when they're away from home? I guess we could expect longer lines for airplane bathrooms...
But is there a lot of demand for video content? There are a lot more cases when you're mobile and can listen to audio (driving, jogging) than when you can watch video (taking the bus, flying). And it's a lot harder to create and distribute video content than audio.
... (whatever that means)
Maybe this is a case of taking the current state of affairs and linearly extrapolating the technology, when in fact we need to look for unexpected right angles
Are "ordinary people" creating video content yet? Or are production and bandwidth issues still too challenging?
The thing about all the technologies you mentioned is that they're all slight tweaks of stuff that's been around for 10 years (web sites, mp3 files) and who knows why that specific tweak was all it took for the technology to take off in some new direction? I guess there's a certain "friction" value that you need to get below for something to reach critical mass.
The problem with asking the question "what's the next big thing" in any field (such as home-grown content creation and distribution technology) is that the answer is usually "something nobody has thought of before now"...
Or that Jackie Chan movie where he rolls down a hill in a hamster ball. That was cool...
Finding the full text of the book using that sort of chaining would be the simplest thing in the world for Google to disallow.
I think these industry groups are just afraid of innovation because they don't see where it will lead... Also once Google has the full text of every book in existence on-line, some third party might be able to steal the data and "liberate" it - that would definitely be bad for them.
You had *X* and *mice*?? *We* to program entire RPG's with ascii-only ADM3 terminals, and they didn't even have cursor control! But that was a huge improvement over graphical output on teletype printers... (All true)
I think the key issue is the input device. The iPod can have a very simple and to-the-point device because its functionality is limited. Many other tasks require the user to input text and that would totally change everything.
I think an iPhone would make a lot of sense. Phone and music are both audio-based, they don't require much input (you'd have to add a keypad, though, unless they made the scroll wheel emulate an old-style rotary dial - that would be kewl). Besides, all the time I am listening to my iPod, get a call, have to hit pause, take out the earphone, etc. Why can't the device do that for me?
I would like to have voice record too...
Video on the iPod is stupid unless you can have a head-mounted display (micro-laser mounted on your glasses?). Nobody wants to watch videos on a 2 inch screen. The same thing is somewhat true for the photos, although once you have a color screen that's a freebee.
GPS - give me a break. That's a seldom-needed niche device for sailors, hikers, and people who get lost all the time... iPod doesn't need it, although if it gets a phone it will probably need GPS for E911 compliance.
I guess it makes sense for the iPod to be a sound device and not a text or visual device...
Just run all the monitors off one machine and use VNC to get desktops up from your other machines onto the displays. Might be a bit slow for video or 3D games, but it's fine for other stuff. I have a Mac on my desk, with a VNC window to my linux box in the other room, and a vmware with Windows inside that window, where I run Quicken. Small videos are a bit slow but viewable ... So, there are a lot of options that don't involve expensive hardware.
I can't wait to see *his* UI design that addresses all these concerns.
So they are going to be doing "joint certification, marketing, sales, training and business development work for a version of the database". What does that actually mean? Maybe SCO will help MySQL with some porting issues, and SCO will add a blurb to some of their marketing literature that says "we recommend MySQL for your database needs", and MySQL will add SCO to their list of supported platforms.
A lot of marketing-driven companies like SCO set up these "partnerships" left and right and make a big deal about them to generate positive publicity for themselves. For all we know, the MySQL people thought they were signing up for a standard developer's program and didn't expect press releases, mentions on slashdot, etc.
Technically, when the protocol was NCP it was called the Arpanet, not Internet.
Has anybody who runs a Jabber server tried sending email to federation@google.com to see whether and how fast they respond to the request? It's just stupid to speculate on what their motives might be without first taking their word for it that they want to interoperate with "qualified" peers.
Besides, not everybody and their dog is going to be running a Jabber server. As mentioned before, large companies will do it for security reasons, but there are probably few enough of those that google will have no problem accomodating them.
A while back there was a C64-in-a-joystick sold for something like $25 on QVC, of all places... I got one and it plays a lot of old games (stored in ROM) just fine ... Makes you wonder what the 2025 retro versions of today's high powered and expensive boxes are going to look like.
Batch programs (i.e. no GUI) that use standard C and C++ libraries, and the more vanilla Posix calls, are very portable among Win, *nix, Mac, etc. You run into problems with makefiles, libraries, Fortran to C linking, graphics, etc.
Say there's a new player technology that has to be connected to the internet at all times, and release a bunch of movies in that format. N people will care enough about the increased resolution to buy or rent them. Say you remove the internet restriction this making it easier and safer and more anonymous. M people will then go for it. M >> N. Will the difference make up for the reduction is losses via piracy? I don't think so.
Besides, it's inevitable that somebody will find a way to send bogus self-destruct codes to every player connected to the internet. Instant worst nightmare for Sony. Unless there's some secret back door to automatically un-destruct them... Viola, no more protection!
Expenses always grow to match income ... Also I'm sure none of the above responders have kids, pay mortgages, support aging parents, etc etc
"Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills"
This has lots of useful information and references and is a great starting point. It might be a bit dated, though.
That's why you want to group the tabs together that came in the same multilink. You'd have 3 windows each of which has the "correct" tab on top. Maybe a command to close all tabs in a window except for the current one would be nice also.
A link can indicate the target should be opened in a new window. Maybe you can disable that behavior, but it's not happening when a page is loaded, it's in response to a mouse click, so Firefox (at least) lets it happen if popups are disabled.
The reason this would be nice behavior is that a multilink should open multiple pages with minimal fuss, but keep them grouped together. If there were such a thing as nested tabs that would come in handy here. But aside from that I think a toplevel with all the pages in it would be the best grouping mechanism.
Just giving you a menu of URL's you can select from is too much work for the user. Just open them all and let the user close them one by one when he's done.