>>Personally I don't care if Campbell's Soup is being sued or has lousy profits,
>That's the problem with most of the public nowadays
Why? 99% of the boycotts/lawsuits/labor disputs/etc I think are horsecrap. It's getting to the point where I'll search out companies with the cajones to stand up to the professional whiners so I can give them my business.
The real problem are the idiots out there who hear there is a boycott of Fred's Frankfurters and avoid the company. Never mind it's PETA doing the boycotting...
As an embedded developer, when I look for an OS I want small, fast, and reliable. Microsoft fails on all 3 counts. Linux is fast and reliable. VxWorks/vrtx/pSos/etc own this market for a reason, but Linux is going to give them a hell of a run. You won't see Linux in your microwave, but it's got a good shot at your next settop box, or stereo, or TV, or PVR, or any of the sophisticated new doohicky's coming out Real Soon Now.
And yes, I've used WinCE. IMHO, the shorthand notation is correct.
pSOS was the main competitor to VxWorks, until Wind River bought it. They let it sit for a year or two, then decided to kill it off. At the Embedded Systems Conference last fall I bitched about this in the Wind River booth, the guy said they were reconsidering that decision. Later investigation shows pSOS is still alive.
But.
I don't see anyone using it anymore. And if I were starting a new project I don't think I'd choose an OS when the sole reason the vendor is behind it 100% is to make it easier to insert the knife.
What's to stop users from applying a high-priority to their web traffic?
Users hell. MicroShaft uses the Type of Service bits in the IP packets to indicate all their packets are interactive. This of course makes it look like MicroShaft has a better TCP/IP stack, when in reality they're cheating.
What the digital tv recorders really need is a storage medium to archive programs
Not gonna happen. If you can record the show to an archive (read: removable) media then you can schlepp it to your PC and email it to your buddy. If you thought Napster pissed off the suits, just wait for this....
Be interesting to see someone hack their TiVo for a removable hard drive tho. Haven't yet got a TiVo 'cuz I don't like them collecting info on my viewing habits; but if I were to hack one I'd be sorely tempted to try a removable hard drive, or an IDE-USB-HDD setup. Now that I'm thinking it through it would probably just confuse the software, it's expecting Simpsons and Battlebots but in reality Jerry Springer and Oprah are in those files.
Yup. We built the railroads. We pick the lettuce. We man the 7/11 counter at 3 AM. Screw them danged furriners, who needs 'em?
Good old Alpha Al wants to grant amnesty to all the illegals, and ship the H1Bs back home. Nice moral lesson here kids, listen up. Play by the rules and take it up the ass. Break the law and get rewarded.
Why would any selfrespecting linux user put AOL anything on his box? - They don't, they buy an embedded internet device that runs Linux on a StrongArm. But the user doesn't know that, they just see AOL. As a self-respecting linux user making a wireless tablet I see it as a Very Good Thing, as long as I can get source. -> snotnose
IHMO, the market that is set to explode is the (pick your favorite name) wireless internet/embedded internet/PDA market. This is where you have a device running something like a StrongArm or SH4, embedded Linux/VxWorks, a battery-friendly display, and flash for a file system. What browsers are currently available for this beast? AFAIK, Spyglass is it. Mozilla needs to release a browser that works, has small memory/CPU requirements, and then start working on the other "kewl shit". -- snotnose
If you read the article it's based on a Cyrix CPU, which WinCE probably doesn't support. I imagine they chose that CPU due to price. In a consumer product like this it makes sense to spend money up front on software (e.g. porting Linux) in order to save $$$ on hardware. Snotnose
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Firewire: Lets folks hook up their camcorder.
802.11a: High speed wireless interface.
Bluetooth/802.11b: Low speed wireless.
Cardbus slot: For whatever floats your boat, possibly your wireless interface mentioned above.
Software:
Web Browser: Cuz know-nothings whine if you don't include one.
Video editing tools, for that camcorder input (wink wink)
>That's the problem with most of the public nowadays
Why? 99% of the boycotts/lawsuits/labor disputs/etc I think are horsecrap. It's getting to the point where I'll search out companies with the cajones to stand up to the professional whiners so I can give them my business.
The real problem are the idiots out there who hear there is a boycott of Fred's Frankfurters and avoid the company. Never mind it's PETA doing the boycotting...
All your boogers are belong to us
And yes, I've used WinCE. IMHO, the shorthand notation is correct.
But.
I don't see anyone using it anymore. And if I were starting a new project I don't think I'd choose an OS when the sole reason the vendor is behind it 100% is to make it easier to insert the knife.
Users hell. MicroShaft uses the Type of Service bits in the IP packets to indicate all their packets are interactive. This of course makes it look like MicroShaft has a better TCP/IP stack, when in reality they're cheating.
Not gonna happen. If you can record the show to an archive (read: removable) media then you can schlepp it to your PC and email it to your buddy. If you thought Napster pissed off the suits, just wait for this....
Be interesting to see someone hack their TiVo for a removable hard drive tho. Haven't yet got a TiVo 'cuz I don't like them collecting info on my viewing habits; but if I were to hack one I'd be sorely tempted to try a removable hard drive, or an IDE-USB-HDD setup. Now that I'm thinking it through it would probably just confuse the software, it's expecting Simpsons and Battlebots but in reality Jerry Springer and Oprah are in those files.
They were mailed to Forbes and Wired subscribers.
Yup. We built the railroads. We pick the lettuce. We man the 7/11 counter at 3 AM. Screw them danged furriners, who needs 'em?
Good old Alpha Al wants to grant amnesty to all the illegals, and ship the H1Bs back home. Nice moral lesson here kids, listen up. Play by the rules and take it up the ass. Break the law and get rewarded.
Why would any selfrespecting linux user put AOL anything on his box? - They don't, they buy an embedded internet device that runs Linux on a StrongArm. But the user doesn't know that, they just see AOL. As a self-respecting linux user making a wireless tablet I see it as a Very Good Thing, as long as I can get source. -> snotnose
IHMO, the market that is set to explode is the (pick your favorite name) wireless internet/embedded internet/PDA market. This is where you have a device running something like a StrongArm or SH4, embedded Linux/VxWorks, a battery-friendly display, and flash for a file system. What browsers are currently available for this beast? AFAIK, Spyglass is it. Mozilla needs to release a browser that works, has small memory/CPU requirements, and then start working on the other "kewl shit". -- snotnose
If you read the article it's based on a Cyrix CPU, which WinCE probably doesn't support. I imagine they chose that CPU due to price. In a consumer product like this it makes sense to spend money up front on software (e.g. porting Linux) in order to save $$$ on hardware. Snotnose