if you are a mega corp and buy the idevice enterprise SDK license than you can load your internally developed apps directly to idevices. still a PITA to deploy to thousands of devices compared to running BES. but that is the state of mobile devices today. blackberries suck as devices. idevices are nice but Apple has no idea how to support corporate customers. Android is still too immature and has no corporate IT support
for flash there is a huge development environment with all kinds of knowledge on the internet to make it faster and cheaper. other than the fact that HTML5 isn't even a standard yet how do the dev tools compare? no one wants to code the website in assembly
over the last 10 years home laptop sales have outpaced home desktop sales. but in the end most people still do the same basic things on laptops. Internet, email, youtube and a few others.
this is where tablets come in. they are supposed to be good at the basics with the iPad having other software allowing you to do some other basic computing tasks. The reason Win7 doesn't work in tablets is that the install is 15GB and with 16-64GB SSD sizes it's too much lost space for the OS. iphone OS, Android and WebOS are all under 1GB. they will grow, just like Windows did over the last 30 years. the goal is to get the basics right, take over the market and add other features on later. Just like MS did with windows.
i'm thinking of going this way this year. buy a low to mid tier desktop PC. i'll build myself or just buy a Mac Mini. It's enough to play older TW games and Civ4. for the average computing on the couch, mobile computing, taking kids' cartoons everywhere, etc a tablet is the way to go. it's smaller and lighter than a laptop. and the iPad has some nice build quality. feels better built than my $1500 HP business laptop.
the desktop is your server where you keep most of the data. the iphone/ipad is the client you take with you. the desktop is where you can hack. a lot of people don't care about their iphone/ipad not being hackable. it's there to get stuff done or consume media. not explore the file system.
we've had home server systems being sold, but i think they are a waste of money. you just need an external HD to hold your data with a thermaltake external holder. and they cost a lot in electric bills. and only the crazy OCD people think they need to have 20TB of their music and porn online all the time and available
unless they prove that it works there needs to be a disclaimer like on all the infomercial products that you use this for entertainment purposes only and it hasn't been tested.
thousands of years ago people decided they don't control their destiny and that Gods make the rain, harvest or whatever and blamed everything bad on them. these days it's global warming and bad genetics. most of the risks of disease are from what you do to yourself, and not your genes. they even have a study involving identical twins. they have subjects of all ages. towards old age the genetic code between the two is a lot different than at birth due to lifestyle
in all cases many companies come together, pool their patents to create a standard and share the profits since every product sold puts money into the industry pool to be doled out to its members. The model even predates Linux, since that's how VCR's were sold. the profits go back into research that is pooled into another patent pool for the next generation product.
i've seen the Slate promo videos and the performance was choppy. choice is between's Apple's stripped and crippled OS and a full version of Windows 7 where performance isn't as fast and is a space hog. iphone OS is under 1GB. even if the Slate shipped with a version of WIndows 7 that only took 15GB of space, that's still half your storage taken up by the OS and unusable. its a trade off. and the Android tablets aren't very open either
played with Google Wave late last year and it's javascript heavy. with a few public waves on the screen i've seen my browser memory usage jump to around 500MB. this is on all browsers. IE8, Chrome and Firefox. so it looks like a choice between RAM hungry HTML5 and CPU heavy Flash
first apple has as much cash as MS did in 2000 and they are using it pay off developers to code for their ecosystem. Farmville and Mafia Wars idevice native apps are coming soon.
Unlike the Mac which always had a price premium, idevices are usually cheaper than the competition. iphones are cheaper than the incredible
Android is fragmented with too many versions and you can only install so many apps on a device. google is going to fix it in a future version, but it's going to take years to get the devices out there with the right version of android
i've managed Exchange before. what exactly is so hard about it? configure your I/O properly by not dumping everything on the same RAID5 volume and you should be OK.
what is the return on investment? these days we have IP KVM's and integrated light out from HP that give you access to a server from a cell phone if need be. how much is this gizmo going to cost compared to existing solutions and how is it going to save our employers money?
i remember when Firewire got spanked by USB. Sure it was faster but no one cared if their ipod took an extra 10 minutes to sync the first time. not enough to pay the premium at least.
same here. printers are wifi these days. i haven't had a printer for years but will probably buy a wifi one soon just to print coupons from my iphone coupons.com app. keyboards and mice can be had in bluetooth since wifi is faster than the internet there is no reason to use this as a network cable and how is it better than today's hdmi cables?
he returned to the streets anyway. and he was arrested with something like 10 automatic weapons in his trunk. he told the cops that he was going to buy diapers for his daughter at midnight. the cops chased him for a few miles before he stopped or they forced him off the road.
funny thing was that he was black and the black people on the jury who lived close to him wanted to convict. us white people who lived in better areas said there wasn't enough evidence
i don't remember the details, but i think when the perp was arrested they found drugs and guns. and for whatever reason they were having separate trials for the different charges. he was also arrested several times during a one or two year period for drugs and guns. only reason we didn't convict was the cops didn't bring enough evidence or it was tossed out. who knows? don't really care since he's probably dead or spending all his drug profits on his legal team. his lawyer wore some very nice suits for going to one of the worst law schools in the US. actually made me interested in going to law school.
in the US you need 12/12 jurors to convict or find not guilty. anything else is a mistrial. worst i could have done is caused a mistrial by telling the other jurors who would have told the judge. and got myself thrown in jail
seriously, in the last few years Intel has produced some good CPU's with good power efficiency. contrast that with Nvidia where every generation you need more and more power to power their cards and the latest generation is something like 250W of heat. years ago we used a compaq all in one cluster server at work as a space heater, the way nvidia is going all you need to do is buy one of their cards and you can heat your house in the winter and not buy heating oil
i had jury duty a few years ago for a criminal drug case. we weren't supposed to look up any information on the internet about the case either. only use what we heard in the courtroom. even though this was a small time drug dealer.
i was curious and found that the NYPD has arrest records online. the guy on trial had 10 or so other cases against him at the same time including weapons possesion. can't remember if the cops found the weapons at the same time as the drugs, but it was a separate trial. of course i never told any of the other jurors and we ended up finding the guy not guilty even though i thought he was guilty. but based on the evidence presented at trial, he was not guilty.
this is how the american judicial system works. we have a constitution that says that evidence has to be gathered in accordance with the law otherwise it's tossed out
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if you are a mega corp and buy the idevice enterprise SDK license than you can load your internally developed apps directly to idevices. still a PITA to deploy to thousands of devices compared to running BES. but that is the state of mobile devices today. blackberries suck as devices. idevices are nice but Apple has no idea how to support corporate customers. Android is still too immature and has no corporate IT support
i have to know because i have a Win98 PC that i use to play some old games and i wanted to upgrade it
my athlon 64 3200 had VT. no need to enable it in the BIOS like with intel either. it just works
for flash there is a huge development environment with all kinds of knowledge on the internet to make it faster and cheaper. other than the fact that HTML5 isn't even a standard yet how do the dev tools compare? no one wants to code the website in assembly
that flash sucks and HTML5 is bestest way to stream video
over the last 10 years home laptop sales have outpaced home desktop sales. but in the end most people still do the same basic things on laptops. Internet, email, youtube and a few others.
this is where tablets come in. they are supposed to be good at the basics with the iPad having other software allowing you to do some other basic computing tasks. The reason Win7 doesn't work in tablets is that the install is 15GB and with 16-64GB SSD sizes it's too much lost space for the OS. iphone OS, Android and WebOS are all under 1GB. they will grow, just like Windows did over the last 30 years. the goal is to get the basics right, take over the market and add other features on later. Just like MS did with windows.
i'm thinking of going this way this year. buy a low to mid tier desktop PC. i'll build myself or just buy a Mac Mini. It's enough to play older TW games and Civ4. for the average computing on the couch, mobile computing, taking kids' cartoons everywhere, etc a tablet is the way to go. it's smaller and lighter than a laptop. and the iPad has some nice build quality. feels better built than my $1500 HP business laptop.
the desktop is your server where you keep most of the data. the iphone/ipad is the client you take with you. the desktop is where you can hack. a lot of people don't care about their iphone/ipad not being hackable. it's there to get stuff done or consume media. not explore the file system.
we've had home server systems being sold, but i think they are a waste of money. you just need an external HD to hold your data with a thermaltake external holder. and they cost a lot in electric bills. and only the crazy OCD people think they need to have 20TB of their music and porn online all the time and available
unless they prove that it works there needs to be a disclaimer like on all the infomercial products that you use this for entertainment purposes only and it hasn't been tested.
thousands of years ago people decided they don't control their destiny and that Gods make the rain, harvest or whatever and blamed everything bad on them. these days it's global warming and bad genetics. most of the risks of disease are from what you do to yourself, and not your genes. they even have a study involving identical twins. they have subjects of all ages. towards old age the genetic code between the two is a lot different than at birth due to lifestyle
RAM, blu-ray, LTO backup tapes, WiFi and others
in all cases many companies come together, pool their patents to create a standard and share the profits since every product sold puts money into the industry pool to be doled out to its members. The model even predates Linux, since that's how VCR's were sold. the profits go back into research that is pooled into another patent pool for the next generation product.
are they still at Palm? i've read that Apple stole a lot of Palm people when they started iPhone development
looked up my twitter and i have 0 followers now
not a scientific test, but i swear flash performs better on the P4 compared to modern intel CPU's
i've seen the Slate promo videos and the performance was choppy. choice is between's Apple's stripped and crippled OS and a full version of Windows 7 where performance isn't as fast and is a space hog. iphone OS is under 1GB. even if the Slate shipped with a version of WIndows 7 that only took 15GB of space, that's still half your storage taken up by the OS and unusable. its a trade off. and the Android tablets aren't very open either
played with Google Wave late last year and it's javascript heavy. with a few public waves on the screen i've seen my browser memory usage jump to around 500MB. this is on all browsers. IE8, Chrome and Firefox. so it looks like a choice between RAM hungry HTML5 and CPU heavy Flash
first apple has as much cash as MS did in 2000 and they are using it pay off developers to code for their ecosystem. Farmville and Mafia Wars idevice native apps are coming soon.
Unlike the Mac which always had a price premium, idevices are usually cheaper than the competition. iphones are cheaper than the incredible
Android is fragmented with too many versions and you can only install so many apps on a device. google is going to fix it in a future version, but it's going to take years to get the devices out there with the right version of android
i've managed Exchange before. what exactly is so hard about it? configure your I/O properly by not dumping everything on the same RAID5 volume and you should be OK.
the new trend in business intelligence is using Excel to manipulate data in a cube so the users don't bug the BI developers for new cubes
i've been following the consumer computer market since the early 1990s. cheap and good enough always beats expensive and cool.
what is the return on investment? these days we have IP KVM's and integrated light out from HP that give you access to a server from a cell phone if need be. how much is this gizmo going to cost compared to existing solutions and how is it going to save our employers money?
i remember when Firewire got spanked by USB. Sure it was faster but no one cared if their ipod took an extra 10 minutes to sync the first time. not enough to pay the premium at least.
same here. printers are wifi these days. i haven't had a printer for years but will probably buy a wifi one soon just to print coupons from my iphone coupons.com app.
keyboards and mice can be had in bluetooth
since wifi is faster than the internet there is no reason to use this as a network cable
and how is it better than today's hdmi cables?
he returned to the streets anyway. and he was arrested with something like 10 automatic weapons in his trunk. he told the cops that he was going to buy diapers for his daughter at midnight. the cops chased him for a few miles before he stopped or they forced him off the road.
funny thing was that he was black and the black people on the jury who lived close to him wanted to convict. us white people who lived in better areas said there wasn't enough evidence
i don't remember the details, but i think when the perp was arrested they found drugs and guns. and for whatever reason they were having separate trials for the different charges. he was also arrested several times during a one or two year period for drugs and guns. only reason we didn't convict was the cops didn't bring enough evidence or it was tossed out. who knows? don't really care since he's probably dead or spending all his drug profits on his legal team. his lawyer wore some very nice suits for going to one of the worst law schools in the US. actually made me interested in going to law school.
in the US you need 12/12 jurors to convict or find not guilty. anything else is a mistrial. worst i could have done is caused a mistrial by telling the other jurors who would have told the judge. and got myself thrown in jail
seriously, in the last few years Intel has produced some good CPU's with good power efficiency. contrast that with Nvidia where every generation you need more and more power to power their cards and the latest generation is something like 250W of heat. years ago we used a compaq all in one cluster server at work as a space heater, the way nvidia is going all you need to do is buy one of their cards and you can heat your house in the winter and not buy heating oil
i had jury duty a few years ago for a criminal drug case. we weren't supposed to look up any information on the internet about the case either. only use what we heard in the courtroom. even though this was a small time drug dealer.
i was curious and found that the NYPD has arrest records online. the guy on trial had 10 or so other cases against him at the same time including weapons possesion. can't remember if the cops found the weapons at the same time as the drugs, but it was a separate trial. of course i never told any of the other jurors and we ended up finding the guy not guilty even though i thought he was guilty. but based on the evidence presented at trial, he was not guilty.
this is how the american judicial system works. we have a constitution that says that evidence has to be gathered in accordance with the law otherwise it's tossed out