It's all about perspective, no? Hell, we've nearly got 80 gig disks in our pockets, cell phones will get hard drives this year, SATA and SCCI 2.5 inch drives...
Folders and such are simply constructs, and any look through the intrerfaces literature over the past 20 years will have discussions about different approaches to organization. Look at Be, there incorporation of the database into the file system really performs exactly the same function. And, if I am correct the developer is now at Apple.
Long before I read that acting like one was pissed off got one through the cue faster, I felt a disturbing correlation with my anger. Get angry... Voila! Customer service. So, I have made it my habit these last couple of years to simply act angry.
Oddly enough, this seems to not be working since the articles were published describing the monitoring.
Should a browser or any function ever be tied so tightly into the OS? They made a strategic design decision in hopes of extending their monopoly, and the results are an unintended consequence. The wonderful thing about monopolies, as well as monolithic political systems, is that the decision making is often what brings them down. The shear inability to extend every decision to its logical conclusion is an advantage to adaptive systems.
The other aspect this is that more Japanese will pay for the technology. There are endless debates on/. about the cost differential between the lowest priced commodity hardware and Apple for example. How about Qualia? You need to bleed money for that stuff.
The other aspect is acceptance of the non-established. The United States is pretty damn conservative in accepting new technologies and coming to terms with them. People worry about the next Betamax vs. VHS war when the Japanese will just buy more equipment or another phone.
I'm not sure that I'd trade living with mom and dad for cool gadgets, but our tech atmosphere is a little constricting. The late nineties were nice for the very reason that money was being thrown at every possible technology. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." There is some insight in that statement.
Perhaps this will help in extending hardware support for Palm. Wouldn't it be technically possible to run it as an OS on a small laptop? Like Microsoft's use of.net mobile, the Palm OS could run on anything from a watch to something like the NetBook from Psion. This is a great move, and I'd love to see if I could get it running as a VM on my PowerBook.
Pretty cool! This makes me think that it's a reflection from a case or a filter of the sky above the camera, with a plane traversing it. The perspective is perfect.
The camera has to have a case of some sort protecting it.
Is there a casing surrounding the cammera, and is it metal? That could account for the "perspective" shift. It appears like a view camera, where a tilt can control perspective.
Was a filter of some sort used? It looks as though it's a plane, since there is an artifact by the street light, not something hitting the street light. It appears reflected to me. The path is darker than the object.
I agree with the assessment, but will play the devil's advocate. Under one circumstance, this makes sense. The return of the data center to the center of the computing universe. Almost everything we do now is network facilitated on a consumer level. Music, video, information... The ipod is nothing if not a terminal with storage. Mobiles are arguably the next level of the computing space.
The old Moto/Apple/IBM alliance of mobile device platforms with services for consumers would supply the platform for extending the iTunes style of services through the computing environment. I spent Sunday getting my girlfriends router back up, and a couple of days a few months ago rebuilding her adware infested Dell into a clean terminal for writing, communicating via email, and surfing. Why?
The world is ripe for change, and these three supply the basics for rebuilding the consumer computing space. Apple provides a clean consumer environment with such very useful technologies such as ZeroConf for transitionaing between home, work, and the road (cell/wi-fi/wired networks). IBM can supply the scalable data services, and Moto the cellular technology.
This makes more sense than the rumors regarding Sun and Apple!
What is perhaps most interesting is the ability to have an OS written for cooperation so that processors could be introduced into the network. Or, having different OSes cooperate on a task should the OS designers wish to follow open standards. The Cell is designed for networking and cooperation, this is what is important.
I'm glad that your read the comment, but simply couldn't stop looking in the f-ing mirror. this was a decision to move my office three blocks from my home, and walk to f-ing work. I'm not applying any ethics to your world view no matter how insulated it may be. Nor, am I legislating my ethics. But, if you think that I'm sending my eighteen year old son to Iraq to defend your right to go to the Walmart, you're wrong. I'd sooner put a bullet through your head than some happless Iraqi who just happened to be born above a resource we need to thrive in the way we feel is our right.
"Now, I realize that you'll tear apart my argument because 'George Bush is evil' and 'the US economy doesn't create any value to the world.'"
One has to love arguments where the only logical opposition must be "evil." We are not saints, nor the sinners in your dichotomy, simply biological beings, which will need to survive in the exact same ecosystem as other biological beings. As somebody stated in a previous comment, we simply need fewer people. We're liable to get it at this rate, as we are much more dependent upon environmental influences than say lizards. We're not evil if there is such a thing. We just don't want to work with anybody else, and can do everything by ourselves for ourselves. The fictitous dictator simply adds color! What a load of black and white crap.
The question should be, why do we use sooo much damn energy. I'm all for computers, gadgets, and a variety of power tools, but aren't we just being plain stupid and wasteful? I'm a designer, and the understanding in packaging is, that saving resources upfront (minimal packaging) is much, much more effective than say recycling. Recycling would be absolutely great, if we actually did it, but alas do not do it very effectively.
I ditched my beemer and am walking and such now. Not only is the stress of driving and owning a car that costs way too much to maintain in its glisteney state gone, but I lost ten pounds and save about a thousand a month.
We want it all, but simply cannot have it all. For long anyway.
Since we've treated the Great Lakes as sewers for a hundred years, Chicagoans are essentially doing the same thing. The water treatment plant here is considered one of the best in the world since its completion in the 1970's.
I would imaging that having a water distiller (there are interesting versions requiring little energy) in the home will be increasingly demanded in the future. pumping drinking water thorugh pipes is a bit much.
I want it to run on the Cell! Distributed processing, amazing graphics and media handling capabilties...
The processor would then be balanced within the architecture, where media handling is now a primary function. Your brain, hopefully, is not strictly a math processor.
While there are plenty of advantages to x86 hardware, windows did run at one point on the Power architecture. Perhaps a better question would be, if Microsoft ported Windows to the Power 6, or more interestingly, the Cell, would you switch? I like Mips and Arm also, and for low profile computers, which most people should be using anyway, these other architectures are great. Why the fixation on x86 or Windows for that matter?
I would much rather see a variety of devices and architectures coexisting in an environment where getting something done is the key. I happen to use a Powerbook, So! I can also run just about anything required through a VM of some sort. The general purpose computer should be made more general purpose.
Since some of my CDs are nearing twenty years, and I am encoding all of them into Apple lossless, I'd like to think a decade out. Much of my music has never been really used until I have been burning them into iTunes, and while lossless is great, the availability is probably more important. Digging through a couple of thousand CDs prevents one from using the music. I will likely re-encode all of the CDs (3 of 12 boxes to go) into 256 AAC when the variable bitrate version is out with quicktime 7.0. This will give me about 120 gigs of compressed music, which will be usable on whatever Pod is around in 3 or 4 years. 128 AAC or 128 LAME is just not good enough.
So, before I begin purchasing music online, it has to be at least 256 AAC quality, reasonable (meaning easy to disable) licensing or non-restrictive DRM, and a better selection of music. Until then, I'll buy CDs, burn them and give away or sell the worthless shell to somebody else.
I do have to say that most people do not purchase as much music as I do, and that a certain amount of it needs to be freely available at lower bitrates. Streams are great, but smart playlists loaded on demand (RSS-ish) would be great. They could simply be automatically disposed of afterwards.
Bang and Olufsen used the exact same wheel on one of their telephones several years before Apple. While Synaptics might make the technology, and would have had to re-engineer aspects to suit Apple, the design itself is pre-Apple in almost every way. This would be like saying that Apple invented the mouse--they just poularized it.
"Iomega REV Cartridge Drive 35Gb USB V2.0 $575.00"
Via Froogle.
That's a little pricey for another proprietary format. What is the product life of the format? Will there be an "issue" down the road. Will they sell? General purpose hard drives seem more appropriate and much less costly.
And, although tapes are very good, and only the oldest have not restored data perfectly, I would never replace a DLT with something like a REV, perhaps a blu-ray disk...
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What a bunch of cowners!
It's all about perspective, no? Hell, we've nearly got 80 gig disks in our pockets, cell phones will get hard drives this year, SATA and SCCI 2.5 inch drives...
Nope nothin's happening!
Folders and such are simply constructs, and any look through the intrerfaces literature over the past 20 years will have discussions about different approaches to organization. Look at Be, there incorporation of the database into the file system really performs exactly the same function. And, if I am correct the developer is now at Apple.
Long before I read that acting like one was pissed off got one through the cue faster, I felt a disturbing correlation with my anger. Get angry... Voila! Customer service. So, I have made it my habit these last couple of years to simply act angry.
Oddly enough, this seems to not be working since the articles were published describing the monitoring.
Should a browser or any function ever be tied so tightly into the OS? They made a strategic design decision in hopes of extending their monopoly, and the results are an unintended consequence. The wonderful thing about monopolies, as well as monolithic political systems, is that the decision making is often what brings them down. The shear inability to extend every decision to its logical conclusion is an advantage to adaptive systems.
Careful, you might get what you wished for!
Until it's required to have DRM in the OS... And, bans on malicious code... Perhaps a ban on compilers...
Unlikely isn't the word I'd use when we have people who have no clue as to what they're talking about. They'd think they were banning viruses!
Moderate funny ha ha.
Voyager.
The other aspect this is that more Japanese will pay for the technology. There are endless debates on /. about the cost differential between the lowest priced commodity hardware and Apple for example. How about Qualia? You need to bleed money for that stuff.
The other aspect is acceptance of the non-established. The United States is pretty damn conservative in accepting new technologies and coming to terms with them. People worry about the next Betamax vs. VHS war when the Japanese will just buy more equipment or another phone.
I'm not sure that I'd trade living with mom and dad for cool gadgets, but our tech atmosphere is a little constricting. The late nineties were nice for the very reason that money was being thrown at every possible technology. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." There is some insight in that statement.
Perhaps this will help in extending hardware support for Palm. Wouldn't it be technically possible to run it as an OS on a small laptop? Like Microsoft's use of .net mobile, the Palm OS could run on anything from a watch to something like the NetBook from Psion. This is a great move, and I'd love to see if I could get it running as a VM on my PowerBook.
Pretty cool! This makes me think that it's a reflection from a case or a filter of the sky above the camera, with a plane traversing it. The perspective is perfect.
The camera has to have a case of some sort protecting it.
Is there a casing surrounding the cammera, and is it metal? That could account for the "perspective" shift. It appears like a view camera, where a tilt can control perspective.
Was a filter of some sort used? It looks as though it's a plane, since there is an artifact by the street light, not something hitting the street light. It appears reflected to me. The path is darker than the object.
I'm procrastinating!
I agree with the assessment, but will play the devil's advocate. Under one circumstance, this makes sense. The return of the data center to the center of the computing universe. Almost everything we do now is network facilitated on a consumer level. Music, video, information... The ipod is nothing if not a terminal with storage. Mobiles are arguably the next level of the computing space.
The old Moto/Apple/IBM alliance of mobile device platforms with services for consumers would supply the platform for extending the iTunes style of services through the computing environment. I spent Sunday getting my girlfriends router back up, and a couple of days a few months ago rebuilding her adware infested Dell into a clean terminal for writing, communicating via email, and surfing. Why?
The world is ripe for change, and these three supply the basics for rebuilding the consumer computing space. Apple provides a clean consumer environment with such very useful technologies such as ZeroConf for transitionaing between home, work, and the road (cell/wi-fi/wired networks). IBM can supply the scalable data services, and Moto the cellular technology.
This makes more sense than the rumors regarding Sun and Apple!
What is perhaps most interesting is the ability to have an OS written for cooperation so that processors could be introduced into the network. Or, having different OSes cooperate on a task should the OS designers wish to follow open standards. The Cell is designed for networking and cooperation, this is what is important.
Isn't there a clause under fair use where a lower resolution copy of the item may be kept?... A photocopy...
I'm glad that your read the comment, but simply couldn't stop looking in the f-ing mirror. this was a decision to move my office three blocks from my home, and walk to f-ing work. I'm not applying any ethics to your world view no matter how insulated it may be. Nor, am I legislating my ethics. But, if you think that I'm sending my eighteen year old son to Iraq to defend your right to go to the Walmart, you're wrong. I'd sooner put a bullet through your head than some happless Iraqi who just happened to be born above a resource we need to thrive in the way we feel is our right.
Because you still buy your software!
"Now, I realize that you'll tear apart my argument because 'George Bush is evil' and 'the US economy doesn't create any value to the world.'"
One has to love arguments where the only logical opposition must be "evil." We are not saints, nor the sinners in your dichotomy, simply biological beings, which will need to survive in the exact same ecosystem as other biological beings. As somebody stated in a previous comment, we simply need fewer people. We're liable to get it at this rate, as we are much more dependent upon environmental influences than say lizards. We're not evil if there is such a thing. We just don't want to work with anybody else, and can do everything by ourselves for ourselves. The fictitous dictator simply adds color! What a load of black and white crap.
The question should be, why do we use sooo much damn energy. I'm all for computers, gadgets, and a variety of power tools, but aren't we just being plain stupid and wasteful? I'm a designer, and the understanding in packaging is, that saving resources upfront (minimal packaging) is much, much more effective than say recycling. Recycling would be absolutely great, if we actually did it, but alas do not do it very effectively.
I ditched my beemer and am walking and such now. Not only is the stress of driving and owning a car that costs way too much to maintain in its glisteney state gone, but I lost ten pounds and save about a thousand a month.
We want it all, but simply cannot have it all. For long anyway.
Since we've treated the Great Lakes as sewers for a hundred years, Chicagoans are essentially doing the same thing. The water treatment plant here is considered one of the best in the world since its completion in the 1970's.
I would imaging that having a water distiller (there are interesting versions requiring little energy) in the home will be increasingly demanded in the future. pumping drinking water thorugh pipes is a bit much.
I want it to run on the Cell! Distributed processing, amazing graphics and media handling capabilties...
The processor would then be balanced within the architecture, where media handling is now a primary function. Your brain, hopefully, is not strictly a math processor.
I feel all special that my question was noticed!
While there are plenty of advantages to x86 hardware, windows did run at one point on the Power architecture. Perhaps a better question would be, if Microsoft ported Windows to the Power 6, or more interestingly, the Cell, would you switch? I like Mips and Arm also, and for low profile computers, which most people should be using anyway, these other architectures are great. Why the fixation on x86 or Windows for that matter?
I would much rather see a variety of devices and architectures coexisting in an environment where getting something done is the key. I happen to use a Powerbook, So! I can also run just about anything required through a VM of some sort. The general purpose computer should be made more general purpose.
Since some of my CDs are nearing twenty years, and I am encoding all of them into Apple lossless, I'd like to think a decade out. Much of my music has never been really used until I have been burning them into iTunes, and while lossless is great, the availability is probably more important. Digging through a couple of thousand CDs prevents one from using the music. I will likely re-encode all of the CDs (3 of 12 boxes to go) into 256 AAC when the variable bitrate version is out with quicktime 7.0. This will give me about 120 gigs of compressed music, which will be usable on whatever Pod is around in 3 or 4 years. 128 AAC or 128 LAME is just not good enough.
So, before I begin purchasing music online, it has to be at least 256 AAC quality, reasonable (meaning easy to disable) licensing or non-restrictive DRM, and a better selection of music. Until then, I'll buy CDs, burn them and give away or sell the worthless shell to somebody else.
I do have to say that most people do not purchase as much music as I do, and that a certain amount of it needs to be freely available at lower bitrates. Streams are great, but smart playlists loaded on demand (RSS-ish) would be great. They could simply be automatically disposed of afterwards.
Bang and Olufsen used the exact same wheel on one of their telephones several years before Apple. While Synaptics might make the technology, and would have had to re-engineer aspects to suit Apple, the design itself is pre-Apple in almost every way. This would be like saying that Apple invented the mouse--they just poularized it.
"Iomega REV Cartridge Drive 35Gb USB V2.0
$575.00"
Via Froogle.
That's a little pricey for another proprietary format. What is the product life of the format? Will there be an "issue" down the road. Will they sell? General purpose hard drives seem more appropriate and much less costly.
And, although tapes are very good, and only the oldest have not restored data perfectly, I would never replace a DLT with something like a REV, perhaps a blu-ray disk...