Cobalt servers were originally based on ARM processors, and were for the most part really nifty. Most palmtop and cell devices also use the processors, so my question is, why don't we see more reasonable personal computers (or blades servers) based upon this architecture. People don't use the processing capacity available to them, and tuning of storage and networking often gives a better return per dollar. Somthing along the profile of the Psion Netbook or old (or new depending upon your perspective) Apple Newton (also ARM) would be very cool and useful. Give it some cellular/WiFi tech...
Exactly, what do the music labels think they are going to get out of this? How about killing the legal download market? $10.00 is in my opinion too high, because if I really like something, I'll buy the CD rather than a copy of lesser sound quality. Talk about extortion.
Hopefully, Apple will try to essentially become a label in the future, eliminating the trash that markets the likes of Britany. Friends of mine simply buy the CD, burn it in whatever way they choose, and sell it used. I'm going to start doing this, but I mentioned that I would also copy the CD cover with the receipt so that down the road when the likes of Valenti come a knockin' with the FBI, I have proof of my purchase.
In the first part I mention lossless files, where the music is essentially equivalent to the digital file it came from. Hi-Fidelity music without the loss of dynamic range and such. In the second part I mention purchased files being retrieved after my hard drive bites the dust, or my house burns down... people don't usually treat their music as a business might treat their data. Meaning, a business has backups. So, I would like a purchase record, and be able to treat my downloaded music as being essentially an asset. If my house gets robbed, and I have insurance, I can ideally relpace my CDs, can i do this with downloaded audio?
I don't understand why Apple isn't getting these apps running under Linux... Or Palm... Or Symbian. Damnit Steve, stop playing the proprietary game already. I respect software which needs to be purchased, but only on apple hardware, or windows--your main competition--is just wierd. Use a few million in cash and get the software ported. I have enough shiny Apple hardware... but, lets talk about that rumored phone... iWant.
I'm a bit of an audiophile, and lossless is pretty much key. Or, at least a minor loss is acceptable. With about 2000 cd's, there's no way I'm going to start purchasing online music, without the ability to retrieve lost files. But, I would very much like to encode my collection, and basically use it as backup, or more likely proof in my court case against the RIAA when they storm my house with the FBI questioning where I got all that music...
And, as you mention, pretty much everything I listen to is unavailable. Now where are those terabyte drives?
As a designer of textbooks, I am really interested in the ePaper technologies, such as the Sony Librie. In the near term these programs are experiements, but on the five to ten year term I see these products taking over the market. The teachers editions, which will likely see such products first, are at this point multi-volume 12" square, 600 page books, coming in around ten pounds apiece for 30 some pounds of book for a year. And, they don't cover the material. Imagine being able to tie low frame rate video for professional development, as well as the pupil editions, and typical content in a product of this size!
The displays, as well as the various power draining components are what drive the cost of a $1000 notebook. eliminate much of this, mass produce it, and you have a great $250 solution for the same cost as the books.
Here is a review of current tech: (http://www.dottocomu.com/b/archives/002571.html) as well as a link to the Guardian article linked within (http://books.guardian.co.uk/ebooks/story/0,11305, 1200034,00.html).
Sure, all I use is the shift key (if I'm feeling the pressure to capitalize), and spell check (if I care), but I want to pay a couple of hundred bucks for features! More! More!
Nice and clean, however. As a Mac user, I'm fondly recalling Classic. And, as somebody ditching the scorn that is Microsoft lock-in, Linux is going to be a hit on the desktop in the very near future.
It's not that Apple/Steve is quaking in fear, nor should it. It will likely be a two company game when Real bites the dust, or basically becomes a MS serf. But, there are some legitimate concerns. Why doesn't Apple make QuickTime more open, and players for all platforms including mobiles? Why isn't there a software iTunes for most of the platforms, mobiles included? Why can't companies come to Apple to license the technology and use the store to their advantage, ala Amazon links?
Steve does need to get a grip sometimes, and become more open. I'm not sure Real is that special company upon which to bet however. But Real aside, the concerns are the same.
Isn't the idea of Qt to avaid the proprietary aspects of OS X, which would be the interface. If it runs similarly on the "free" version, isn't it free from the proprietary aspects? Similar to the comments on Java earlier today, if the code is tied to non-free parts of the OS, then the tools cannot be free, and the potential forr costs being incured by TrollTech are a possibility.
As if every email isn't scanned by whatever software the government is currently running. Privacy will increasingly disappear as a concept, but this does not mean you do not have a degree of actual privacy. Do you believe you are important enough to monitor continuously?
There was/is a garage on LaSalle Street in Chicago where I used to go when visiting a law office next door, and it was quite old. It was also able to lift my 1970 Cadillac which was very cool. The cars would be placed in slots like a giant Matchbox display. This is old tech to say the least. It may not have been fromm the 20's, but it was no more recent than the very early fifties.
bluetooth certainly adds cost to the computer, but i wonder why such technology wasn't built in, or capabilities for it added--card slot of some sort. if i recall correctly the cost was supposed to come in around 4-5 hundred dollars, which isn't bad at all. i'd love to see a review of the software--and hardware. it looks pretty polished.
and, you are correct, leave hell out of it, especially when Texas and Florida are the largest adoption states. no snakes or carved pumkins either! you wouldn't want to reinforce a satanic holiday!
that said, most kids don't play polo, golf or sail very often, so you would want materials which they could relate to. it is the law of averages, or tyrany of the majority, whichever you prefer. isn't it odd that a republican might find such a list revolting, and at the same time would be the primary reason such a list exists?
Isn't the web the ideal place for information needing continual updating. Rather than attempting to fill volumes, or DVD/CD-roms for that matter, one could focus on authoritative information. I guess were still waiting for that one. But, the idea of linking to associated resources is certainly on of the purposes of this www.
yes, he did say that the saying was a quote... but he also said that it was true. as an inventor and engineer, and having been beaten to market by people working on the same type of product, one quickly becomes aware that ideas are generally not original, sure some are--quantum mechanics--but most are ideas generated from association or connection. think back over the last decade and name the truly original ideas. ideas which cannot be reduced to "the next step," or "like this, but different..."
isn't that the purpose of the internet--interconnection? i look at various blogs not for news, but for filtered connections to stuff. "there is nothing new under the sun," as my grandfather used to say, and from an engineering/invention perspective this is very often the case. Nature is the most plagarized of all!
lots of people have been pestering Sun about java particularly mobile java. but, i'm not sure what a closed java means, and why i would develop in a space reliant upon a single source. sure Sun is doing a decent job, but when decent is not nearly enough, it doesn't matter. why aren't there teams developing new environemnts and tools? very likely because java is not open, and the investment required is too large for vagaries. i'm not quite clear as to why Sun has been so resistant to releasing java, when i would imagine most of their sales come from hardware and integration (like java desktop--it's available for free basically). getting everybody on board, including apple, would really make java attractive in the many spaces it operates. and, i would really love to develop for j2me on a mac!
Absolutely correct! With the recent mobile java win in China, Sun needs to recognize that perception is 90% of the battle, ad I would agree with ESR in general. Sun has a great technology which needs to be "perceived" as free as in beer AND speech. Certainly Sun has some points in terms of complexity, but the conversation needs to be opened, and it is. If Sun wants to have a conversation with the top people from open source, and the top people from Sun, to discuss the future of Java, this needs to happen now!
The future of mobile (which will be most of computing in the future) technologies is Linux and Java, with much of the infrastructure available for companies such as Sun..NET will otherwise become the standard, so stop arguing. Sit down and get everybody on the same page regardless of who is "right."
The first thing that companies with cash flow problems do is to reduce expenditures in markets where the return isn't high enough. Perhaps you are right that the Mac base did not contribute to enough to the bottom line, but this is like a restaurant eliminating fish from the menu. People always add requirements to a product or service which they will not use. Sure, I need a navigation system. What, you don't offer one?... i'll go buy a...
Interaction between OSes is a requirement today(.) I can only say that I and my company would never buy a product which was so blatant as to remove the possibility. Palm is getting squeezed by smartphones and other product categories (tablets, winCE...), and I was actually considering developing some test products on Palm. So much for that... I smell blood!
This may be a side issue, but as somebody who uses Macs, Windows, and Linux (servers), I would like to knoiw the cost advantages of open file formats, document types, communication methods. There is a cost of moving things around, and most likely Windows is the gated community in the organization. What are the costs of lock-in and extension (new programs to support new needs)? And, what does it cost to have Office on every machine regardless of the need?
Except for the price, the NetBook is the perfect device profile for a student. Instant on, low OS overhead (EPOC)... What was missing was the connectivity, and as the article states, a good middleware binding solution. Linux is really going to make inroads into this product category, as well as mobile devices. IMHO however, the ultimate device is going to be smaller than a handheld and slightly larger than a cell phone, and provide "desking" or terminal capabilities when the user is near a workstation. Perhaps flexible screen technology will make this type of product viable.
Perhaps what is important is that rather than reading Sport Illustrated, the President of India actually has better things to read to remain an informed leader of his citizenry! As the president reads, so does the populace (SI vs stuff to think about). I remember being one of the few Americans in my more advanced chemistry classes, and some of the Chinese grad students actually asked me why I was so interested. If you want to know why the jobs are going overseas this would be a good place to start, since most of the growth will not be in the US.
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Cobalt servers were originally based on ARM processors, and were for the most part really nifty. Most palmtop and cell devices also use the processors, so my question is, why don't we see more reasonable personal computers (or blades servers) based upon this architecture. People don't use the processing capacity available to them, and tuning of storage and networking often gives a better return per dollar. Somthing along the profile of the Psion Netbook or old (or new depending upon your perspective) Apple Newton (also ARM) would be very cool and useful. Give it some cellular/WiFi tech...
Exactly, what do the music labels think they are going to get out of this? How about killing the legal download market? $10.00 is in my opinion too high, because if I really like something, I'll buy the CD rather than a copy of lesser sound quality. Talk about extortion.
Hopefully, Apple will try to essentially become a label in the future, eliminating the trash that markets the likes of Britany. Friends of mine simply buy the CD, burn it in whatever way they choose, and sell it used. I'm going to start doing this, but I mentioned that I would also copy the CD cover with the receipt so that down the road when the likes of Valenti come a knockin' with the FBI, I have proof of my purchase.
In the first part I mention lossless files, where the music is essentially equivalent to the digital file it came from. Hi-Fidelity music without the loss of dynamic range and such. In the second part I mention purchased files being retrieved after my hard drive bites the dust, or my house burns down... people don't usually treat their music as a business might treat their data. Meaning, a business has backups. So, I would like a purchase record, and be able to treat my downloaded music as being essentially an asset. If my house gets robbed, and I have insurance, I can ideally relpace my CDs, can i do this with downloaded audio?
I don't understand why Apple isn't getting these apps running under Linux... Or Palm... Or Symbian. Damnit Steve, stop playing the proprietary game already. I respect software which needs to be purchased, but only on apple hardware, or windows--your main competition--is just wierd. Use a few million in cash and get the software ported. I have enough shiny Apple hardware... but, lets talk about that rumored phone... iWant.
I'm a bit of an audiophile, and lossless is pretty much key. Or, at least a minor loss is acceptable. With about 2000 cd's, there's no way I'm going to start purchasing online music, without the ability to retrieve lost files. But, I would very much like to encode my collection, and basically use it as backup, or more likely proof in my court case against the RIAA when they storm my house with the FBI questioning where I got all that music...
And, as you mention, pretty much everything I listen to is unavailable. Now where are those terabyte drives?
As a designer of textbooks, I am really interested in the ePaper technologies, such as the Sony Librie. In the near term these programs are experiements, but on the five to ten year term I see these products taking over the market. The teachers editions, which will likely see such products first, are at this point multi-volume 12" square, 600 page books, coming in around ten pounds apiece for 30 some pounds of book for a year. And, they don't cover the material. Imagine being able to tie low frame rate video for professional development, as well as the pupil editions, and typical content in a product of this size!
, 1200034,00.html).
The displays, as well as the various power draining components are what drive the cost of a $1000 notebook. eliminate much of this, mass produce it, and you have a great $250 solution for the same cost as the books.
Here is a review of current tech: (http://www.dottocomu.com/b/archives/002571.html) as well as a link to the Guardian article linked within (http://books.guardian.co.uk/ebooks/story/0,11305
Sure, all I use is the shift key (if I'm feeling the pressure to capitalize), and spell check (if I care), but I want to pay a couple of hundred bucks for features! More! More!
Nice and clean, however. As a Mac user, I'm fondly recalling Classic. And, as somebody ditching the scorn that is Microsoft lock-in, Linux is going to be a hit on the desktop in the very near future.
We can recycle our old disks, and the iminent AOL distributions, at bars!
This would be very cool! The idea of dumps full of plastic disks is a bit disheartening.
It's not that Apple/Steve is quaking in fear, nor should it. It will likely be a two company game when Real bites the dust, or basically becomes a MS serf. But, there are some legitimate concerns. Why doesn't Apple make QuickTime more open, and players for all platforms including mobiles? Why isn't there a software iTunes for most of the platforms, mobiles included? Why can't companies come to Apple to license the technology and use the store to their advantage, ala Amazon links?
Steve does need to get a grip sometimes, and become more open. I'm not sure Real is that special company upon which to bet however. But Real aside, the concerns are the same.
Isn't the idea of Qt to avaid the proprietary aspects of OS X, which would be the interface. If it runs similarly on the "free" version, isn't it free from the proprietary aspects? Similar to the comments on Java earlier today, if the code is tied to non-free parts of the OS, then the tools cannot be free, and the potential forr costs being incured by TrollTech are a possibility.
As if every email isn't scanned by whatever software the government is currently running. Privacy will increasingly disappear as a concept, but this does not mean you do not have a degree of actual privacy. Do you believe you are important enough to monitor continuously?
Break out the tinfoil!
There was/is a garage on LaSalle Street in Chicago where I used to go when visiting a law office next door, and it was quite old. It was also able to lift my 1970 Cadillac which was very cool. The cars would be placed in slots like a giant Matchbox display. This is old tech to say the least. It may not have been fromm the 20's, but it was no more recent than the very early fifties.
bluetooth certainly adds cost to the computer, but i wonder why such technology wasn't built in, or capabilities for it added--card slot of some sort. if i recall correctly the cost was supposed to come in around 4-5 hundred dollars, which isn't bad at all. i'd love to see a review of the software--and hardware. it looks pretty polished.
and, you are correct, leave hell out of it, especially when Texas and Florida are the largest adoption states. no snakes or carved pumkins either! you wouldn't want to reinforce a satanic holiday!
that said, most kids don't play polo, golf or sail very often, so you would want materials which they could relate to. it is the law of averages, or tyrany of the majority, whichever you prefer. isn't it odd that a republican might find such a list revolting, and at the same time would be the primary reason such a list exists?
Isn't the web the ideal place for information needing continual updating. Rather than attempting to fill volumes, or DVD/CD-roms for that matter, one could focus on authoritative information. I guess were still waiting for that one. But, the idea of linking to associated resources is certainly on of the purposes of this www.
yes, he did say that the saying was a quote... but he also said that it was true. as an inventor and engineer, and having been beaten to market by people working on the same type of product, one quickly becomes aware that ideas are generally not original, sure some are--quantum mechanics--but most are ideas generated from association or connection. think back over the last decade and name the truly original ideas. ideas which cannot be reduced to "the next step," or "like this, but different..."
isn't that the purpose of the internet--interconnection? i look at various blogs not for news, but for filtered connections to stuff. "there is nothing new under the sun," as my grandfather used to say, and from an engineering/invention perspective this is very often the case. Nature is the most plagarized of all!
but it's my idea...
lots of people have been pestering Sun about java particularly mobile java. but, i'm not sure what a closed java means, and why i would develop in a space reliant upon a single source. sure Sun is doing a decent job, but when decent is not nearly enough, it doesn't matter. why aren't there teams developing new environemnts and tools? very likely because java is not open, and the investment required is too large for vagaries. i'm not quite clear as to why Sun has been so resistant to releasing java, when i would imagine most of their sales come from hardware and integration (like java desktop--it's available for free basically). getting everybody on board, including apple, would really make java attractive in the many spaces it operates. and, i would really love to develop for j2me on a mac!
Absolutely correct! With the recent mobile java win in China, Sun needs to recognize that perception is 90% of the battle, ad I would agree with ESR in general. Sun has a great technology which needs to be "perceived" as free as in beer AND speech. Certainly Sun has some points in terms of complexity, but the conversation needs to be opened, and it is. If Sun wants to have a conversation with the top people from open source, and the top people from Sun, to discuss the future of Java, this needs to happen now!
.NET will otherwise become the standard, so stop arguing. Sit down and get everybody on the same page regardless of who is "right."
The future of mobile (which will be most of computing in the future) technologies is Linux and Java, with much of the infrastructure available for companies such as Sun.
The first thing that companies with cash flow problems do is to reduce expenditures in markets where the return isn't high enough. Perhaps you are right that the Mac base did not contribute to enough to the bottom line, but this is like a restaurant eliminating fish from the menu. People always add requirements to a product or service which they will not use. Sure, I need a navigation system. What, you don't offer one?... i'll go buy a...
Interaction between OSes is a requirement today(.) I can only say that I and my company would never buy a product which was so blatant as to remove the possibility. Palm is getting squeezed by smartphones and other product categories (tablets, winCE...), and I was actually considering developing some test products on Palm. So much for that... I smell blood!
This may be a side issue, but as somebody who uses Macs, Windows, and Linux (servers), I would like to knoiw the cost advantages of open file formats, document types, communication methods. There is a cost of moving things around, and most likely Windows is the gated community in the organization. What are the costs of lock-in and extension (new programs to support new needs)? And, what does it cost to have Office on every machine regardless of the need?
you have never shopped at Prada. I wouldn't call some of the Prada girls cold!
Except for the price, the NetBook is the perfect device profile for a student. Instant on, low OS overhead (EPOC)... What was missing was the connectivity, and as the article states, a good middleware binding solution. Linux is really going to make inroads into this product category, as well as mobile devices. IMHO however, the ultimate device is going to be smaller than a handheld and slightly larger than a cell phone, and provide "desking" or terminal capabilities when the user is near a workstation. Perhaps flexible screen technology will make this type of product viable.
Wow! I was looking for a "Fair and Balanced" review of John Kerry's record. Thanks! Next stop, Rush Limbaugh...
Perhaps what is important is that rather than reading Sport Illustrated, the President of India actually has better things to read to remain an informed leader of his citizenry! As the president reads, so does the populace (SI vs stuff to think about). I remember being one of the few Americans in my more advanced chemistry classes, and some of the Chinese grad students actually asked me why I was so interested. If you want to know why the jobs are going overseas this would be a good place to start, since most of the growth will not be in the US.