software functions... it seems that the more that can be accomplished through hardware/hardware optimized software (check out this article: http://www.theregus.com/content/3/24182.html), or through browsers, the less relevant an all encompassing os becomes. but, who exactly will be able to discern this? the way to create an environment, where this opinion becomes fact is to get a browser capable of application support on the market--mozilla--and to make the office application a commodity--open office. but a great amount of coordinated work needs to be accomplished, and certainly in the case of sun/java, coordination seems to be difficult to obtain.
i wouldn't call this up to date really. i understand sensitive economics and such, but who is going to ditch a windows nt server for a qube? how about a really powerful qube--athlon? also, i would very much like to see active development of workgroup software, and other applications. the admin interfaces are very nice, but they need to go further to be competitive, and i do not feel that they have. 2c.
whatever happened to the whistler product line? i believe that ibm was distributing them for a while. i have a couple of older cobalt servers, both mips based, and i really do like them. they are certainly powerful enough for moderate usage, and require little maintenance. sun has really dropped the ball--intentionally--in developing the line. the market is there, but the product hasn't arrived... yet.
damn right about the looking at ibm. why buy limited hardware--cobalt--from a company that cannot get its message straight. i really do like those appliances, but sun hasn't updated the hardware in over a year it seems. oh yah, except for the $4000.00 xtr. good price point--not.
Phillips is requesting that these not include the cd logo, since it is a trademark of phillips, and that they be placed in their own section--like tapes. now this would kill the technology!
while i am certainly not an engineer, the idea of designing software to divide problems correctly for distributed processing is exactly where the future lies. processing power is a commodity at all levels but the top end. efficient use of resources, as well as useful programs for these platforms would be much more valuable than greater horsepower for most people... that and a t1.
there are a couple of foreign correspondants who continue to use these with handset coupled modems. supposedly they are simple, durable, and able to connect in horrible conditions over payphones. wish my ti book was able to survive the drop to the floor. ouch... a thousand bucks, please.
and, if the average person were to analyse those articles which state that there is "solid evidence" that a person did "x," they would find those statements to be false. to bad we as a culture are a bunch of lemmings. those who can not connect this event to 091101 need an education rather than a flogging.
said something to the effect that, society is good for creating new experiences, and pretty much nothing else. in this context, it seems interesting. when a society becomes more and more about information, are its primary experiences increasingly about information?
i can not believe that sun has let cobalt stagnate to the extent that they have. i very much like the management capabilities of the machines, but i would really like more resources for experimenting. the party line is that if you mess with the system it is unsupported. quite sad that they are pretty much where they were two years ago--k-6 in the raq 4's!
everybody likes to complain about how expensive macs are, so apple decided to skip the scsi. my dell laptop has gone through two hard drives and a battery in two years. rarely does a piece of apple hardware fail to perform decently, and powerbook batteries never seem to die (within reason of course). 2c.
is for the thinking to be done, without to much thought. m$ has succeeded in providing a system on an open architecture that generally works in non-demanding situations, or for power users. macs pretty much work all of the time, with the last few years being the exception--carbon compliance. but, there is a very good business in catering to discerning tastes and performance capabilities--bmw. apple will probably never be the largest computer manufacturer again, but with the consolidation of the market, and information appliances becoming the norm, they will be second or third. also, i believe that the arguments in this article are very applicable to linux. will a linux desktop ever become a dominant platform? not in the situation outlined, but perhaps midori will. invisibly engineering the pipes, while providing the interface technology is where it's at--the telephone system--and linux has been unable to provide a usable (generally usable, not unusable) interface technology. i don't quite get the discussion of design. as a designer, it should just work well. the imac is kind of growing on me, but it seems to work in an ergonomical and engineering sense. wtf! it's not that expensive, unless $1000.00 pc's are your preferred vehicle. my dell laptop cost a grand more than my tiBook!
actually doing things is very different than thinking about it. like "ginger", though a patent on the idea was initiated, actually creating the balancing technology is quite a bit different than saying that it will be possible in the future. the japanese engineer is actually very rational about it. nice change of pace.
can a fiercely market-based economy which relies on the private sector to accomplish everything compete with social-based markets which actively invest in education and technological infrastructure? this perhaps is not a question for today, but it is for the near term.
having a small market share is no rational for going nowhere. what most pc users accomplish is word processing of some form, and communications/organization. what most automobile users accomplish is getting somewhere. some people like to to get there better and faster, and spend time thinking about process and not just goals. personally, i would like to see apple get to 10% of devices with some sort of tablet/pad, since desktops do not reflect the future of computing. one scenario is using an ms tablet networked with an ms desktop/home server, and the other is using a generic (osx/linux) tablet to telnet/x into a home server or work server. dependent devices versus independent devices. are you opposed to running a shell on a terminal versus your pc also?
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by manuel de landa, would be a good read by the author of this editorial. according to the thesis, we have been in the process of machine war for centuries, not years. we are a cog in this machine, not necessarily the designer of it. is war necessary might be a better question. i don't think that this is an easy answer, and is sort of like asking, are forest fires necessary? afghanistan is not a war, it is fishing in a barrel. yes, we have the components for sustained technological assault, but do we have the means of sustaining this while being heavily assaulted ourselves? i doubt it. when machines can create machines and adapt to new situations, war will be substantially different. but, what will winning and losing mean? does the lose of human life determine the score? also check the nettime list for viridian comments on the balkan conflicts.
as a cobalt user, i have to agree, though i believe that this is in the works. the line has not been updated for quite a while. expanded to control devices, but not updated. the move to solaris on an x1 like platform, would create a logical way to move up to bigger hardware, and allow for chip sales...
it keeps the produce cool and fresh. why not my processor? and, a good song while were at it... "i'm singin' in the rain"... can i have a glass of milk, please?
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software functions... it seems that the more that can be accomplished through hardware/hardware optimized software (check out this article: http://www.theregus.com/content/3/24182.html), or through browsers, the less relevant an all encompassing os becomes. but, who exactly will be able to discern this? the way to create an environment, where this opinion becomes fact is to get a browser capable of application support on the market--mozilla--and to make the office application a commodity--open office. but a great amount of coordinated work needs to be accomplished, and certainly in the case of sun/java, coordination seems to be difficult to obtain.
are there any sites that i could check out which use this application platform? thanks.
i wouldn't call this up to date really. i understand sensitive economics and such, but who is going to ditch a windows nt server for a qube? how about a really powerful qube--athlon? also, i would very much like to see active development of workgroup software, and other applications. the admin interfaces are very nice, but they need to go further to be competitive, and i do not feel that they have. 2c.
whatever happened to the whistler product line? i believe that ibm was distributing them for a while. i have a couple of older cobalt servers, both mips based, and i really do like them. they are certainly powerful enough for moderate usage, and require little maintenance. sun has really dropped the ball--intentionally--in developing the line. the market is there, but the product hasn't arrived... yet.
i thought i was the first to do an ascii heart!!!
damn right about the looking at ibm. why buy limited hardware--cobalt--from a company that cannot get its message straight. i really do like those appliances, but sun hasn't updated the hardware in over a year it seems. oh yah, except for the $4000.00 xtr. good price point--not.
Phillips is requesting that these not include the cd logo, since it is a trademark of phillips, and that they be placed in their own section--like tapes. now this would kill the technology!
while i am certainly not an engineer, the idea of designing software to divide problems correctly for distributed processing is exactly where the future lies. processing power is a commodity at all levels but the top end. efficient use of resources, as well as useful programs for these platforms would be much more valuable than greater horsepower for most people... that and a t1.
there are a couple of foreign correspondants who continue to use these with handset coupled modems. supposedly they are simple, durable, and able to connect in horrible conditions over payphones. wish my ti book was able to survive the drop to the floor. ouch... a thousand bucks, please.
and, if the average person were to analyse those articles which state that there is "solid evidence" that a person did "x," they would find those statements to be false. to bad we as a culture are a bunch of lemmings. those who can not connect this event to 091101 need an education rather than a flogging.
said something to the effect that, society is good for creating new experiences, and pretty much nothing else. in this context, it seems interesting. when a society becomes more and more about information, are its primary experiences increasingly about information?
i can not believe that sun has let cobalt stagnate to the extent that they have. i very much like the management capabilities of the machines, but i would really like more resources for experimenting. the party line is that if you mess with the system it is unsupported. quite sad that they are pretty much where they were two years ago--k-6 in the raq 4's!
i prefer them in the rack in the living room.
everybody likes to complain about how expensive macs are, so apple decided to skip the scsi. my dell laptop has gone through two hard drives and a battery in two years. rarely does a piece of apple hardware fail to perform decently, and powerbook batteries never seem to die (within reason of course). 2c.
codewarrior is certainly available for cross-platform development, although a bit pricey.
the november issue had several articles on just these issues (http://www.gdmag.com/backissue2001.htm#nov01). a very good resource, btw.
is for the thinking to be done, without to much thought. m$ has succeeded in providing a system on an open architecture that generally works in non-demanding situations, or for power users. macs pretty much work all of the time, with the last few years being the exception--carbon compliance. but, there is a very good business in catering to discerning tastes and performance capabilities--bmw. apple will probably never be the largest computer manufacturer again, but with the consolidation of the market, and information appliances becoming the norm, they will be second or third. also, i believe that the arguments in this article are very applicable to linux. will a linux desktop ever become a dominant platform? not in the situation outlined, but perhaps midori will. invisibly engineering the pipes, while providing the interface technology is where it's at--the telephone system--and linux has been unable to provide a usable (generally usable, not unusable) interface technology. i don't quite get the discussion of design. as a designer, it should just work well. the imac is kind of growing on me, but it seems to work in an ergonomical and engineering sense. wtf! it's not that expensive, unless $1000.00 pc's are your preferred vehicle. my dell laptop cost a grand more than my tiBook!
actually doing things is very different than thinking about it. like "ginger", though a patent on the idea was initiated, actually creating the balancing technology is quite a bit different than saying that it will be possible in the future. the japanese engineer is actually very rational about it. nice change of pace.
it's a rental :)
can a fiercely market-based economy which relies on the private sector to accomplish everything compete with social-based markets which actively invest in education and technological infrastructure? this perhaps is not a question for today, but it is for the near term.
having a small market share is no rational for going nowhere. what most pc users accomplish is word processing of some form, and communications/organization. what most automobile users accomplish is getting somewhere. some people like to to get there better and faster, and spend time thinking about process and not just goals. personally, i would like to see apple get to 10% of devices with some sort of tablet/pad, since desktops do not reflect the future of computing. one scenario is using an ms tablet networked with an ms desktop/home server, and the other is using a generic (osx/linux) tablet to telnet/x into a home server or work server. dependent devices versus independent devices. are you opposed to running a shell on a terminal versus your pc also?
by manuel de landa, would be a good read by the author of this editorial. according to the thesis, we have been in the process of machine war for centuries, not years. we are a cog in this machine, not necessarily the designer of it. is war necessary might be a better question. i don't think that this is an easy answer, and is sort of like asking, are forest fires necessary? afghanistan is not a war, it is fishing in a barrel. yes, we have the components for sustained technological assault, but do we have the means of sustaining this while being heavily assaulted ourselves? i doubt it. when machines can create machines and adapt to new situations, war will be substantially different. but, what will winning and losing mean? does the lose of human life determine the score? also check the nettime list for viridian comments on the balkan conflicts.
as a cobalt user, i have to agree, though i believe that this is in the works. the line has not been updated for quite a while. expanded to control devices, but not updated. the move to solaris on an x1 like platform, would create a logical way to move up to bigger hardware, and allow for chip sales...
can i have stock options? i got rich studying at...
it keeps the produce cool and fresh. why not my processor? and, a good song while were at it... "i'm singin' in the rain"... can i have a glass of milk, please?