I think it was in the early 30s or 40s that they demonstrated a video phone. Its twenty-o-two, I see no video phones.
So all the people with webcams are dreaming?
The technology is here, and beyond.. sure its changed in its use, but thats the nature of development. And the law of supply and demand of consumers, Vs what the boffins dream up.
Seriously though, I posted this, oddly enought, 11 days ago.. and it was rejected.. why/how its turned up now Im not sure!!
And yeah, my bad on the wording, the Apache 2.0 support is still development but it is supposed to be better then prior versions. To quote the site: PHP 4.2.1 also has improved (but still experimental) support for Apache version 2.0
Is no one else thinking that sending out 1.2 Million CDs with a free game is a great way for the DoD to silently get people to put trojan type software onto their systems...
Call me paranoid, but the world could just be that messed up.
Right now, it does look like M$ are throwing good money after bad, in some respects..
But, theres not much doubt they have the resouces to do that. And sooner or later, they might just swing things by getting hold of some killer online game and getting exclusive rights to it.
I personally already feel tempted by Morrowind (The daggerfall follow-up) since its cheaper then a PC that could run it and I REALLY want the game.
So, sure, a smaller company would be dead in the water, but the X-Box while in trouble, might yet prove theres no problem you cannt solve by throwing enought money at.
Its a great idea, and one that in the past Iv considered my self (More for gewizz then pratical value all be it)
But, in an office enviroment, having to check wire by wire is hell. Iv done a network test like this using a Fluke Network tester. At the very least, you need a pair of radios to go with them for talking to the guy at the other end!
Having something that scans the network from a single point is a much more appealing idea. And of course, having something thats not ease to do means you can sell if for more!
From what I know of ECC stuff, unless your business requires you to have 100% uptime or some such, (And there for need to get every last bit of protection you can) your just throwing your money away.
But, if your interested in getting every last inch(?) of power/speed you can, I suppose you need to look at the cost to speed ratio. But my gut instinct is to say get more rather then slightly better memory.
One of the points mention was opening only outside normal working hours in the evenings.
However, from experience (6 years working in a cybercafe) people visiting Cyber Cafes fit into neat groups:
* Students. - Email (LOTS of Hotmail) mostly in an afternoon after college before pubs. * Job Seekers. - Email/JobSites. Again, daytime users mostly. * Travelers. - People all over the world keeping in touch via Hotmail mostly. They don't know the area, so are more likely to act on impulse while doing other things (Like shopping) and seeing you open. (But will revisit once they know about you) * Kids. - Chat and trying to look at p0rn. Weekends and holidays when their parents want them out the way for a while. * Shifty Guys Looking for P0rn. - Im not joking! * Old People Contacting Grandchildren. - Daytime users once more. And require help more then others. But, once they get into it, if you help them. They will come back alot.
Now, this was in a (Large) town, not a city. So the dynamic might change. In London, I found they all night Cyber Cafe VERY handy when discovering Id missed the last tube and wanted to get online anyway and it was busy (Tho it was only a pound for 11pm till 7am!)
I've no doubt this is interesting. I've no doubt people here can provide insight.
I'm sure the poster IS doing other market research etc, after all, when you walk into a bank and want a business loan, telling them you posted on/. is not going to convince them you gave alot of thought to your plan.
As a side point, I'd happily give out any information I can for free, after all.. you never know when you might want some info yourself, or who you end up helping along the way.
I havent actually run my own cyber cafe. But, my first job was in one when it first opened 6 or so years ago, and for a long time I went from coffee boy on a saturday, to Developer and Linux Admin on the ISP side of things. Im not there anymore, but I did see what worked, and what didnt as the company navigated what was at the time, uncharted waters.
One of the most important things they had was a good working relationship with the local PC dealer (Who know own the whole thing) who supplied all the PCs, offered support etc in exchange for free hosting and access (Back then things cost alot more mind you) and most of the bussiness seem to take place at the pub next door rather then an office. Also, if they deal with business customers alot they will be in a good place to help you with licenses etc.
Not so easy when your planing, but the best thing about a cyber cafe is its normally a really relaxed place, keeping it a social place where people can meet up and just drink coffee helps..
And if you have a college near by, get one or two of the students from an IT course to work for free access/gameing and chances are, all their friends will hang out there too!
Not at all, you can use the keyboard to click, and really, there are few times when your not using the keyboard at all. (Browsing the web is the most obvious however)
It would be nice to have something to auto follow hyperlinks if you hover over them for a couple of seconds to aid that, which would satisfy both the no handed browsers, and still be able to function with current technology.
It should be pretty easy to 'hide' the dot in a cap or something. And the review mention about it getting confused by rings etc. Why not use that to your advantage, and just get your nose pierced or some such, and let it track that?
I think its fair to say that 99% of these kind of features will be nothing more then gadgets, and stop been used after not so long for sure. However, Im also sure there will also be just a few things that people will keep using, and stop been fun toys and become useful everyday items.
After all, Im sure people figured things like electric toasters and kettles weren't really needed, your oven does the job just fine. But who know would even think about boiling a kettle on the hob or grilling some bread for toast?
The best way to get around this is setting a session cookie via Apache. Then you key off that.
Thats fine for any new logs, but you also want something that works with your old data. Even if its not as easy a solution, or requires a couple of different approaches. I don't think any manager type would be pleased with out a retrospective view. (And if they didnt ask for it, adding it anyway can only help next time you ask them for a pay rise.)
I've used WebTrends for about a year, and couldn't be less impressed. > On the plus side, the PHBs love it. I have to pretty much aggree to both points here after using it a couple of years back now. It actually seemed to get worse with new versions. And it was pretty costly for what it acutally did.
Sure the extream uses of this kind of technology are generally crazy at best, most of the subtle ones are over looked, and just creep in little by little.
Wouldnt it be nice to just press a button on your PDA, so by the time you step in to your kitchen, your coffee pot you set up before work has just brewed perfectly. Or turning off the oven because that 'One pint' with the lads turned out to be a few more, and you don't want your dinner you left in the oven to over cook because you wont be back in time to turn it off.
At some point, somebody will do something with just the right amount of 'GeeWizz' and functionality to make a great product...
In my experience, the thing that has really given me an edge of the last year or so, is dropping the coffee and late nights and 24/7 connectivity to the net/computer.
A bit of a detox, bottle of water a day and a book on yoga later, and I felt hugely more productive and healthy and I could work constantly and more acurately rather then riding the buzz of a caffine high.
And when you not constantly at the computer, it means your forced to think about things rather then just do. And gives your mind a break, letting it focus more on the code when it needs to.
In the same spirit, Feng Shui helps as well.. Not much, just the basics.. Just because your expected to work in the dark under piles of pizza boxes and molding coffee cups acording to stereotypes, doesnt mean its the best way.
What a great way to make money from banners etc! Spend a bit of time creating something that well send target comunity up in arms.. Submit to high volume sites.. Watch those hits come rolling in..
The article states: As a webmaster, I'm always looking for new ways to reduce the total amount of bandwidth (website data being requested by client and sent from server) our website uses to save money on what can be expensive monthly hosting bills.
Strikes me as ironic the amount of EXTRA bandwidth is been used by having slashdot users flood over there...
You could probably get a BitchX script that rot-13'd everything you typed
Or, some plugin to encode with anything you wanted like GPG so long as who your talking to had the same thing to undo it.
But in keeping with the way IRC works, I wouldnt mind seeing something global (Like an SSH enabled port on the server so all traffic was SSHed - then you could SSH tunnel with any old client to the host of your choice.)
In fact.. Maybe I answered my own question. If JoeHost opened an SSH tunnel on IRCHost.Net to the IRC port, then anyone could SSH tunnel to that, and bingo.. instant secure IRC for all??
Perhaps a little off topic.. but this got me thinking, is there any kind of 'secure IRC' client/server, or does the IRC protocol have encyption options in-built?
I'm not talking about anything major, but just an SSH/SSL type thing to stop your boss sniffing packets for text etc. I'v seen people use SSL for connection to talkers/MUDs/MUSHes in the past, but IRC has always seemed rather open.
Im pretty sure in the past this has been mentioned, but taking the same view to a console as you take to M$ software starts really bad vibes.
If people are almost expecting a better X-box 2, then M$ will happily run one out Im sure, and unlike moving from a PS1 to a PS2 where you could see in everything with out a doubt it was worth getting a new one, would people be willing to pay for something thats just 'A bit better, and less buggy' only a year or two after the first version.
The whole point of a console isnt really how well it goes at launch, but how long it keeps going. With advancments in games comming from the game developers 'hacking' and taking advantage of API and interface tricks (Or however console internals work) to push the hardware further and make it work in ways never considered.
This isnt really a wireless monitor, more touchsceen laptop/tablet PC.
From the information Iv seen on them in the past, it seems:
They been around for a long time -(Compaq (I think) have 486 models that used a pen for instance. (And you can pick them up on ebay etc for a few hundred dollars.)
They tend to be aimed at a niche market - Healthcare seems a favorite - as a platform for a particular use, rather then expecting a mass public to want one for everyday use.
They dont run Linux.
Most have PCMCIA so even the networking features arent new.
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I think it was in the early 30s or 40s that they demonstrated a video phone. Its twenty-o-two, I see no video phones.
So all the people with webcams are dreaming?
The technology is here, and beyond.. sure its changed in its use, but thats the nature of development. And the law of supply and demand of consumers, Vs what the boffins dream up.
Hey, you hurt my feelings! ;o)
Seriously though, I posted this, oddly enought, 11 days ago.. and it was rejected.. why/how its turned up now Im not sure!!
And yeah, my bad on the wording, the Apache 2.0 support is still development but it is supposed to be better then prior versions. To quote the site: PHP 4.2.1 also has improved (but still experimental) support for Apache version 2.0
Is no one else thinking that sending out 1.2 Million CDs with a free game is a great way for the DoD to silently get people to put trojan type software onto their systems...
Call me paranoid, but the world could just be that messed up.
Right now, it does look like M$ are throwing good money after bad, in some respects..
But, theres not much doubt they have the resouces to do that. And sooner or later, they might just swing things by getting hold of some killer online game and getting exclusive rights to it.
I personally already feel tempted by Morrowind (The daggerfall follow-up) since its cheaper then a PC that could run it and I REALLY want the game.
So, sure, a smaller company would be dead in the water, but the X-Box while in trouble, might yet prove theres no problem you cannt solve by throwing enought money at.
Its a great idea, and one that in the past Iv considered my self (More for gewizz then pratical value all be it)
But, in an office enviroment, having to check wire by wire is hell. Iv done a network test like this using a Fluke Network tester. At the very least, you need a pair of radios to go with them for talking to the guy at the other end!
Having something that scans the network from a single point is a much more appealing idea. And of course, having something thats not ease to do means you can sell if for more!
I'd agree with with that.
From what I know of ECC stuff, unless your business requires you to have 100% uptime or some such, (And there for need to get every last bit of protection you can) your just throwing your money away.
But, if your interested in getting every last inch(?) of power/speed you can, I suppose you need to look at the cost to speed ratio. But my gut instinct is to say get more rather then slightly better memory.
One of the points mention was opening only outside normal working hours in the evenings.
However, from experience (6 years working in a cybercafe) people visiting Cyber Cafes fit into neat groups:
* Students. - Email (LOTS of Hotmail) mostly in an afternoon after college before pubs.
* Job Seekers. - Email/JobSites. Again, daytime users mostly.
* Travelers. - People all over the world keeping in touch via Hotmail mostly. They don't know the area, so are more likely to act on impulse while doing other things (Like shopping) and seeing you open. (But will revisit once they know about you)
* Kids. - Chat and trying to look at p0rn. Weekends and holidays when their parents want them out the way for a while.
* Shifty Guys Looking for P0rn. - Im not joking!
* Old People Contacting Grandchildren. - Daytime users once more. And require help more then others. But, once they get into it, if you help them. They will come back alot.
Now, this was in a (Large) town, not a city. So the dynamic might change. In London, I found they all night Cyber Cafe VERY handy when discovering Id missed the last tube and wanted to get online anyway and it was busy (Tho it was only a pound for 11pm till 7am!)
I've no doubt this is interesting. I've no doubt people here can provide insight. I'm sure the poster IS doing other market research etc, after all, when you walk into a bank and want a business loan, telling them you posted on /. is not going to convince them you gave alot of thought to your plan.
As a side point, I'd happily give out any information I can for free, after all.. you never know when you might want some info yourself, or who you end up helping along the way.
I havent actually run my own cyber cafe. But, my first job was in one when it first opened 6 or so years ago, and for a long time I went from coffee boy on a saturday, to Developer and Linux Admin on the ISP side of things. Im not there anymore, but I did see what worked, and what didnt as the company navigated what was at the time, uncharted waters.
One of the most important things they had was a good working relationship with the local PC dealer (Who know own the whole thing) who supplied all the PCs, offered support etc in exchange for free hosting and access (Back then things cost alot more mind you) and most of the bussiness seem to take place at the pub next door rather then an office. Also, if they deal with business customers alot they will be in a good place to help you with licenses etc.
Not so easy when your planing, but the best thing about a cyber cafe is its normally a really relaxed place, keeping it a social place where people can meet up and just drink coffee helps..
And if you have a college near by, get one or two of the students from an IT course to work for free access/gameing and chances are, all their friends will hang out there too!
Not at all, you can use the keyboard to click, and really, there are few times when your not using the keyboard at all. (Browsing the web is the most obvious however)
It would be nice to have something to auto follow hyperlinks if you hover over them for a couple of seconds to aid that, which would satisfy both the no handed browsers, and still be able to function with current technology.
It should be pretty easy to 'hide' the dot in a cap or something. And the review mention about it getting confused by rings etc. Why not use that to your advantage, and just get your nose pierced or some such, and let it track that?
Do you really want to stick that silver dot into your eye?
It might make sense, but not for a few years yet as technology catches up.
Hob == Rings on top of oven where you put the pans etc.
;o)
^---- Mad Englishman
I think its fair to say that 99% of these kind of features will be nothing more then gadgets, and stop been used after not so long for sure. However, Im also sure there will also be just a few things that people will keep using, and stop been fun toys and become useful everyday items. After all, Im sure people figured things like electric toasters and kettles weren't really needed, your oven does the job just fine. But who know would even think about boiling a kettle on the hob or grilling some bread for toast?
Thats fine for any new logs, but you also want something that works with your old data. Even if its not as easy a solution, or requires a couple of different approaches. I don't think any manager type would be pleased with out a retrospective view. (And if they didnt ask for it, adding it anyway can only help next time you ask them for a pay rise.)
I've used WebTrends for about a year, and couldn't be less impressed. > On the plus side, the PHBs love it.
I have to pretty much aggree to both points here after using it a couple of years back now. It actually seemed to get worse with new versions. And it was pretty costly for what it acutally did.
I wouldn't mind been in a shop and been able to check what I had in the fridge however, be it by some product log, or just a cam inside!
Or better still, having the fridge tell you who took that last beer..
Sure the extream uses of this kind of technology are generally crazy at best, most of the subtle ones are over looked, and just creep in little by little.
Wouldnt it be nice to just press a button on your PDA, so by the time you step in to your kitchen, your coffee pot you set up before work has just brewed perfectly. Or turning off the oven because that 'One pint' with the lads turned out to be a few more, and you don't want your dinner you left in the oven to over cook because you wont be back in time to turn it off.
At some point, somebody will do something with just the right amount of 'GeeWizz' and functionality to make a great product...
In my experience, the thing that has really given me an edge of the last year or so, is dropping the coffee and late nights and 24/7 connectivity to the net/computer.
A bit of a detox, bottle of water a day and a book on yoga later, and I felt hugely more productive and healthy and I could work constantly and more acurately rather then riding the buzz of a caffine high.
And when you not constantly at the computer, it means your forced to think about things rather then just do. And gives your mind a break, letting it focus more on the code when it needs to.
In the same spirit, Feng Shui helps as well.. Not much, just the basics.. Just because your expected to work in the dark under piles of pizza boxes and molding coffee cups acording to stereotypes, doesnt mean its the best way.
What a great way to make money from banners etc! Spend a bit of time creating something that well send target comunity up in arms.. Submit to high volume sites.. Watch those hits come rolling in..
Strikes me as ironic the amount of EXTRA bandwidth is been used by having slashdot users flood over there...
Or, some plugin to encode with anything you wanted like GPG so long as who your talking to had the same thing to undo it.
But in keeping with the way IRC works, I wouldnt mind seeing something global (Like an SSH enabled port on the server so all traffic was SSHed - then you could SSH tunnel with any old client to the host of your choice.)
In fact.. Maybe I answered my own question. If JoeHost opened an SSH tunnel on IRCHost.Net to the IRC port, then anyone could SSH tunnel to that, and bingo.. instant secure IRC for all??
Perhaps a little off topic.. but this got me thinking, is there any kind of 'secure IRC' client/server, or does the IRC protocol have encyption options in-built?
I'm not talking about anything major, but just an SSH/SSL type thing to stop your boss sniffing packets for text etc. I'v seen people use SSL for connection to talkers/MUDs/MUSHes in the past, but IRC has always seemed rather open.
If people are almost expecting a better X-box 2, then M$ will happily run one out Im sure, and unlike moving from a PS1 to a PS2 where you could see in everything with out a doubt it was worth getting a new one, would people be willing to pay for something thats just 'A bit better, and less buggy' only a year or two after the first version.
The whole point of a console isnt really how well it goes at launch, but how long it keeps going. With advancments in games comming from the game developers 'hacking' and taking advantage of API and interface tricks (Or however console internals work) to push the hardware further and make it work in ways never considered.
From the information Iv seen on them in the past, it seems: