When the article first appeared I had to go check it out... the specs read basically the same as my T5 but with WiFi and the 4GB HDD...
It runs Garnet which is the same PalmOS as the other PalmOne devices just a later version... it's not Linux and there are no plans to port Cobalt to run on these devices... Colbalt (future being Linux) is targeted at the Smart Phone devices... no where has it been said that we will get a flavor of Linux to run on our regular run-o-the-mill PDAs (shame shame)
I like my T5 but I can't see the benefit of the harddrive when all I need to do is carry a few 1GB SD cards and my device is half the thickness... am I missing something?
Not to knock Palm (I have owned one since the original Pilot 1000)... <rant>I want more freedom in my OS! Let me run MythTV on my PDA! Let me port NetStumbler so that I can wardrive just like my friends with their iPaqs! Give me a Linux kernel!</rant>
Yes, this probably isn't the correct forum for this but I subscribe to Slashdot and have been a faithful follower for too many years... when I see a pre-release dupe I send an email to the on-call editor, sometimes it works to get the story banished before the rest of the world sees it (and the ridicule starts)... sent an email about this story but it seems that it wasn't effective... power to the peer review!
Ok, I thought I was bad with my "Born to Code" tattoo (which some people understand to refer to either encryption or working in a hospital, thankfully the other geeks get it though)... but now after seeing this I think I have to get the next tattoo of the Linux kernel source on my back to top this one...
5 years ago no one had heard of PHP (ok, a bit of exaggeration since I started with PHP 7 years ago)... and it has grown from the niche geek toy into something the big boys play with... it started as a small project of one person and now it has tens of books written about (many translated to multiple languages), 3 specific magazines, numerous companies providing commercial tools, more companies providing development support and women who think it's sexy (I know she's out there, where are you?)...
It's nice to know where the OO model comes from, gives it more credence... it's nice to know that the larger companies are taking notice (even if one of them may be grasping at anything to stay alive)... and yes Zend can be considered to have a large say in what direction PHP takes (I will not propogate rumors, I will not propogate rumors)... but what about looking at the history of Perl as a possible role model for PHP? Didn't that also get slammed with rumors of corporate takeover when ActiveState started doing more with it? Notice that Perl is still OS...
Is talking about Sun, Macromedia and MySQL horning in on the action is like chicken little proclaiming the sky is falling... or is this a wakeup call to the PHP programming public to take back their rights that have been trampled on by so many trying to take commercial advantage of a language by the people for the people?
Food for thought...
p.s. I work for a company that produces commercial tools for PHP development:)
I remember waiting patiently for the 2.5 track to be turned into a 2.6 release... then when it finally happened I admit to waiting until 2.6.3 before I even tried it (can we say coward?)... and after running it for a few days I quickly reverted back to 2.4... my story probably mirrors alot of users out there who found that it didn't stand up to the reputation that the 2.2 and 2.4 release built...
But can they (the kernel team) hope to rebuild the trust by making this policy change? Has Redhat (sorry, have to single out some distro here) and others gotten too lassiez-faire about the kernel? Will they (the distros) waken tomorrow to realize that their jobs just got 80% harder?
It's too early to quantify my own feelings about this move, do I feel abandoned? do I feel like jumping into kernel development? or, god forbid, do I just feel like installing FreeBSD?... ok, done babbling...
But then again there are people like me who run a site that collects emails from people who would like to download my software... and so many times I get those wonderful bounce messages saying that an email does not exist, or the mailbox is full or whatever... I always wonder about this because the registration page states that the user will be sent the download password via email... typically there are about 200 bounces a day, are there that many people that are clueless and privacy paranoid out there?
My email address is posted on my personal website... I get spam... I use Thunderbird and don't have to deal with alot of it... yes I worry about the bandwidth that is taken up by all this... yes I would love some way to deal with it... but anyone can find me walking the streets of my town, or they can dial me up on the phone by perusing the white pages... what is the difference if they can send me an email? privacy is just an illusion we use to convince ourselves we have space on this overcrowded, tightly connected world we call Earth... we are not alone and can never claim to be an island anywhere but in our own minds...
Yes, you're reaction is what I was expecting... not a middle manager though... I'm the company's resident geek... and job security comes with being the top geek...
I know it sounds naive... idealism is still gasping thankfully, not dead...
I pay for my own cell phone... I pay for my own broadband... heck I have even paid for software components out of my own pocket when I thought the management were too illiterate to understand why I needed it in our software... I answer tech support emails at all hours of the day... I make international calls from home to reach customers...... and yes I am happy they pay me to do what I would be doing anyway...
Like alot of IS related companies mine is not doing so hot right now... we're struggling... we're spending more money than we make... but I have faith that if we make it over the financial hump that I will be rewarded... three cheers for small companies!
when I am glad I live in a foreign country... I have a box at EV1Servers and thankfully the people in my town here in Europe have mostly no idea what is going on with SCO (if they did I would have to move up the nearest mountain now knowing that my box has b33n 0wn3d by SCO)...
I don't agree with EV1Servers choice to pay the SCO license, but I have to admit that out of all the different hosting providers I have been with it has been the best service... and to all those that reported the Slashdotting of the servers, thankfully mine is still running fine...
p.s. my mother lives close to their datacenter and I think I will call her and ask her to evacuate to galveston just in case;)
What can't we find on the net? I download the tvshows from the net instead of worrying when they are scheduled to broadcast... have gotten a few girlfriends from the net... if a tree falls in the forest and it doesn't appear on/. does it make a sound?
Two words in the end... addictively entertaining
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My own experience is with a company that started with 4 developers and 3 management types...we got up to a whopping 18 people at our highest (only 8 of those webheads) and now we have 3...morale in my company was the lowest that people quit in batches...all thanks to a management that didn't pay attention to what the developers had to say...we were just slaves that cost too much:)
In a way, thankfully, the owners woke up and ripped the company to shreds after finding out what was happening...now we are three developers...and yes we went from 40 hour weeks to 70 hour weeks along with our salaries dropping by as much as 60%...but we are loving it...we went from being developers with absolutely no control of what we did to developers ready to conquer the world...
It's not about team-building, it's not about pats on the back, it's not about high salaries (but high salaries don't hurt )...it's about making a difference in a world that is regaining some of the idealism we thought was lost...open-source projects lets everyone be the king of software...watching a feature you dreamed up make it into the site or the software is better any day than having your boss give you a peptalk about doing a good job...
For those who read this and are not sure where I was going or where I went, you're not alone...I'm not sure either;) but I think I outlined the points I wanted to share that make me the work-a-holic that I am...one who enjoys giving tech support just as much as getting that new delphi component to work exactly the way I dreamed last night at 3am and then decided to code at 4am...
Last year the company I work for got into a project that used a Cisco 2600 with VOIP module and a product from IBM that allowed you to interact with a website via the phone...we used PHP to create the VoiceXML documents to drive the voice menus and we were scraping the data from a local site that had weather and traffic info on it...worked pretty well considering that it was also done in German:)
I would have to agree that the technology is getting closer to replacing human beings...maybe I should go check my retirement plan now;)
Losing my eye when I was seventeen was disheartening...but everyone always told me that someday science would be able to overcome the optic nerve damage the car accident caused...
NOW IT'S CLOSER! Where do I sign up to be a human test candidate? It's funny seeing with one eye but still dreaming with two eyes...maybe I can reclaim that basketball scholarship;)
I would love to have a wearable...and I hope to see them come to fruition somewhere in the next 7 to 10 years...especially with companies like Motorola with embedded systems getting into fitting a mainstream OS (like Linux) into smaller devices, I don't beleive x86 is the future as you might gather.
One drawback for me personally is the display system. Most solutions use a head mounted display that lays over one eye and let's you continue in a normal fashion using the other for the real world. I lost an eye many years ago so using one of those is not an option for me. Maybe the proliferation of semi-transparent devices like the Sony VR glasses would be able to do the trick.
On a closing note...the size and power are very close...we need more work on the human interface.
From what I can tell of the patent, they are patenting a method of "Adaptive Emulation" which as others have said would allow the processor to step back in the run when an error is occurred and try another state until the code completes without error.
It could be an Intel-killer if it can be realized, as we saw with FX86 from DEC the technology is there...but putting it in the hardware like this would make FX86 look like my Palm Pilot running the gameboy emulator trying to host Sonic the Hedgehog.
You might be able to say that this is the next step toward "real" computer learning capabilities.
I won't knock ColdFusion too badly, my company has a large investment in it also. Thankfully since they brought me in I have introduced them to PHP.
I run PHP on the Unix servers while CF is happy on the NT boxes. As far as the failover support in PHP, that is really dependant on your web service itself since PHP on NT is run as a binary such as Perl is.
Handling hits, I'd say that PHP & CF come out about the same. Just finished helping a friend convert from NT/ASP to Linux/PHP and he was very impressed, previously he had been handling up to 400k hits/day but anything above that and the servers would start dropping out and having faults. With his new combination he was ramping up to 900k hits/day without any glitches.
Yes...I am biased towards PHP and I look forward to the new features in 4.0, as a control freak I like to dig into the source and grow my own features.
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When the article first appeared I had to go check it out ... the specs read basically the same as my T5 but with WiFi and the 4GB HDD ...
... it's not Linux and there are no plans to port Cobalt to run on these devices ... Colbalt (future being Linux) is targeted at the Smart Phone devices ... no where has it been said that we will get a flavor of Linux to run on our regular run-o-the-mill PDAs (shame shame)
... am I missing something?
... <rant>I want more freedom in my OS! Let me run MythTV on my PDA! Let me port NetStumbler so that I can wardrive just like my friends with their iPaqs! Give me a Linux kernel!</rant>
It runs Garnet which is the same PalmOS as the other PalmOne devices just a later version
I like my T5 but I can't see the benefit of the harddrive when all I need to do is carry a few 1GB SD cards and my device is half the thickness
Not to knock Palm (I have owned one since the original Pilot 1000)
Yes, this probably isn't the correct forum for this but I subscribe to Slashdot and have been a faithful follower for too many years ... when I see a pre-release dupe I send an email to the on-call editor, sometimes it works to get the story banished before the rest of the world sees it (and the ridicule starts) ... sent an email about this story but it seems that it wasn't effective ... power to the peer review!
Ok, I thought I was bad with my "Born to Code" tattoo (which some people understand to refer to either encryption or working in a hospital, thankfully the other geeks get it though) ... but now after seeing this I think I have to get the next tattoo of the Linux kernel source on my back to top this one ...
5 years ago no one had heard of PHP (ok, a bit of exaggeration since I started with PHP 7 years ago) ... and it has grown from the niche geek toy into something the big boys play with ... it started as a small project of one person and now it has tens of books written about (many translated to multiple languages), 3 specific magazines, numerous companies providing commercial tools, more companies providing development support and women who think it's sexy (I know she's out there, where are you?) ...
... it's nice to know that the larger companies are taking notice (even if one of them may be grasping at anything to stay alive) ... and yes Zend can be considered to have a large say in what direction PHP takes (I will not propogate rumors, I will not propogate rumors) ... but what about looking at the history of Perl as a possible role model for PHP? Didn't that also get slammed with rumors of corporate takeover when ActiveState started doing more with it? Notice that Perl is still OS ...
... or is this a wakeup call to the PHP programming public to take back their rights that have been trampled on by so many trying to take commercial advantage of a language by the people for the people?
...
:)
It's nice to know where the OO model comes from, gives it more credence
Is talking about Sun, Macromedia and MySQL horning in on the action is like chicken little proclaiming the sky is falling
Food for thought
p.s. I work for a company that produces commercial tools for PHP development
I remember waiting patiently for the 2.5 track to be turned into a 2.6 release ... then when it finally happened I admit to waiting until 2.6.3 before I even tried it (can we say coward?) ... and after running it for a few days I quickly reverted back to 2.4 ... my story probably mirrors alot of users out there who found that it didn't stand up to the reputation that the 2.2 and 2.4 release built ...
... ok, done babbling ...
But can they (the kernel team) hope to rebuild the trust by making this policy change? Has Redhat (sorry, have to single out some distro here) and others gotten too lassiez-faire about the kernel? Will they (the distros) waken tomorrow to realize that their jobs just got 80% harder?
It's too early to quantify my own feelings about this move, do I feel abandoned? do I feel like jumping into kernel development? or, god forbid, do I just feel like installing FreeBSD?
But then again there are people like me who run a site that collects emails from people who would like to download my software ... and so many times I get those wonderful bounce messages saying that an email does not exist, or the mailbox is full or whatever ... I always wonder about this because the registration page states that the user will be sent the download password via email ... typically there are about 200 bounces a day, are there that many people that are clueless and privacy paranoid out there?
... I get spam ... I use Thunderbird and don't have to deal with alot of it ... yes I worry about the bandwidth that is taken up by all this ... yes I would love some way to deal with it ... but anyone can find me walking the streets of my town, or they can dial me up on the phone by perusing the white pages ... what is the difference if they can send me an email? privacy is just an illusion we use to convince ourselves we have space on this overcrowded, tightly connected world we call Earth ... we are not alone and can never claim to be an island anywhere but in our own minds ...
My email address is posted on my personal website
Yes, you're reaction is what I was expecting ... not a middle manager though ... I'm the company's resident geek ... and job security comes with being the top geek ...
... idealism is still gasping thankfully, not dead ...
I know it sounds naive
I pay for my own cell phone ... I pay for my own broadband ... heck I have even paid for software components out of my own pocket when I thought the management were too illiterate to understand why I needed it in our software ... I answer tech support emails at all hours of the day ... I make international calls from home to reach customers ... ... and yes I am happy they pay me to do what I would be doing anyway ...
... we're struggling ... we're spending more money than we make ... but I have faith that if we make it over the financial hump that I will be rewarded ... three cheers for small companies!
Like alot of IS related companies mine is not doing so hot right now
when I am glad I live in a foreign country ... I have a box at EV1Servers and thankfully the people in my town here in Europe have mostly no idea what is going on with SCO (if they did I would have to move up the nearest mountain now knowing that my box has b33n 0wn3d by SCO) ...
... and to all those that reported the Slashdotting of the servers, thankfully mine is still running fine ...
;)
I don't agree with EV1Servers choice to pay the SCO license, but I have to admit that out of all the different hosting providers I have been with it has been the best service
p.s. my mother lives close to their datacenter and I think I will call her and ask her to evacuate to galveston just in case
What can't we find on the net? I download the tvshows from the net instead of worrying when they are scheduled to broadcast ... have gotten a few girlfriends from the net ... if a tree falls in the forest and it doesn't appear on /. does it make a sound?
... addictively entertaining
Two words in the end
My own experience is with a company that started with 4 developers and 3 management types...we got up to a whopping 18 people at our highest (only 8 of those webheads) and now we have 3...morale in my company was the lowest that people quit in batches...all thanks to a management that didn't pay attention to what the developers had to say...we were just slaves that cost too much :)
;) but I think I outlined the points I wanted to share that make me the work-a-holic that I am...one who enjoys giving tech support just as much as getting that new delphi component to work exactly the way I dreamed last night at 3am and then decided to code at 4am...
In a way, thankfully, the owners woke up and ripped the company to shreds after finding out what was happening...now we are three developers...and yes we went from 40 hour weeks to 70 hour weeks along with our salaries dropping by as much as 60%...but we are loving it...we went from being developers with absolutely no control of what we did to developers ready to conquer the world...
It's not about team-building, it's not about pats on the back, it's not about high salaries (but high salaries don't hurt )...it's about making a difference in a world that is regaining some of the idealism we thought was lost...open-source projects lets everyone be the king of software...watching a feature you dreamed up make it into the site or the software is better any day than having your boss give you a peptalk about doing a good job...
For those who read this and are not sure where I was going or where I went, you're not alone...I'm not sure either
Last year the company I work for got into a project that used a Cisco 2600 with VOIP module and a product from IBM that allowed you to interact with a website via the phone...we used PHP to create the VoiceXML documents to drive the voice menus and we were scraping the data from a local site that had weather and traffic info on it...worked pretty well considering that it was also done in German :)
;)
I would have to agree that the technology is getting closer to replacing human beings...maybe I should go check my retirement plan now
Let me clarify :) I lost the use of my eye by having damaged the optic nerve where it attaches to the eye itself...
The eye is still there...the optic nerve is there, but it doesn't transmit the images received by the retina...
I saw this article and was happy :)
;)
Losing my eye when I was seventeen was disheartening...but everyone always told me that someday science would be able to overcome the optic nerve damage the car accident caused...
NOW IT'S CLOSER! Where do I sign up to be a human test candidate? It's funny seeing with one eye but still dreaming with two eyes...maybe I can reclaim that basketball scholarship
...Spooker
I would love to have a wearable...and I hope to see them come to fruition somewhere in the next 7 to 10 years...especially with companies like Motorola with embedded systems getting into fitting a mainstream OS (like Linux) into smaller devices, I don't beleive x86 is the future as you might gather.
One drawback for me personally is the display system. Most solutions use a head mounted display that lays over one eye and let's you continue in a normal fashion using the other for the real world. I lost an eye many years ago so using one of those is not an option for me. Maybe the proliferation of semi-transparent devices like the Sony VR glasses would be able to do the trick.
On a closing note...the size and power are very close...we need more work on the human interface.
...Spooker
From what I can tell of the patent, they are patenting a method of "Adaptive Emulation" which as others have said would allow the processor to step back in the run when an error is occurred and try another state until the code completes without error.
It could be an Intel-killer if it can be realized, as we saw with FX86 from DEC the technology is there...but putting it in the hardware like this would make FX86 look like my Palm Pilot running the gameboy emulator trying to host Sonic the Hedgehog.
You might be able to say that this is the next step toward "real" computer learning capabilities.
I won't knock ColdFusion too badly, my company has a large investment in it also. Thankfully since they brought me in I have introduced them to PHP.
I run PHP on the Unix servers while CF is happy on the NT boxes. As far as the failover support in PHP, that is really dependant on your web service itself since PHP on NT is run as a binary such as Perl is.
Handling hits, I'd say that PHP & CF come out about the same. Just finished helping a friend convert from NT/ASP to Linux/PHP and he was very impressed, previously he had been handling up to 400k hits/day but anything above that and the servers would start dropping out and having faults. With his new combination he was ramping up to 900k hits/day without any glitches.
Yes...I am biased towards PHP and I look forward to the new features in 4.0, as a control freak I like to dig into the source and grow my own features.