Yahoo seems to be claiming victory all over the place lately, without much to back it up. There is an article in the New York Times today that makes the claim Yahoo's search is the fastest and most relevant, but unless something happened overnight, I don't believe it.
It reminds me of another recent declaration of victory that didn't exactly end up so.
While the reviewer was correct in some aspects, there are some things wrong with the review that are pretty bad... Several grammatical errors and the image on the main page is of the non-tablet X41. Also, some other posters pointed out the weird complaint that it was not a "touch screen." You actually rest your hand on the screen while writing, just like paper.
I have had one around my office for a couple months now. It's a nice laptop, but definitely a bit sluggish. The size is the real win; it's great to carry around to wiring closets or talks or meetings. I haven't found too much justification for the tablet-ness, but I have seen some speakers integrate the ability to draw naturally on-screen with their presentation, and it has worked well.
As far as the difference between IBM and Lenovo, I believe most of the thinkpad products are still branded IBM for the time being as part of the agreement between the two companies. Things are starting to change over to Lenovo, but last week when I called for a replacement keyboard for my Thinkpad T42, everyone and everything was identified as IBM.
Uhh, how is that close minded? The problem is, unless I'm mistaken, that non-Windows and MacOS users can't view this at all (at least without doing something like using the crossover plugin to run the shockwave player.)
I'm a fan in general of the ipod, but *still* there is no support for additional file formats. I was hoping OGG support would be on it's way, assuming that the chipset capability problems of the past (wether this was actually a problem or not,) would be made moot by new hardware.:-/
For at least the area I looked at, the aerial photographs were in black and white. The slider interface acts a little unintuitively (at least in FF I had to click, drag, click again,) and oh...there appears to be nothing original about it.
If Microsoft is going to "catch up" to Google, they are going to have to do quite better.
I think the question the author asks is a bit irrelevant; we know there will be a strong linux showing in Asia.
And while we can all sit here and cheer about Linux's proliferation, I'm curious as to whether large Asian companies using Linux are following in the OSS spirit and abiding by the GPL with their usage of Linux. If Linux use in Asia is so large, we should expect similarly large contributions to the coding effort from Asia, correct?
(I know that there are likely uncountable GPL violations in the US/Europe that are unknown, but Asia seems particularly questionable.)
I just read an interesting article last night that claims it is not chipset that matters so much, because the Intel CPUs stick to the traditional north/south bridge design that limits I/O, while AMD64 processors have multiple hypertransport interfaces on-chip.
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9408/sam0411b/041 1b.htm
This is good advice. I'll get stressed out during some assignments, mix up a cocktail and continue coding. I make really good progress and then hit some magic point where I just don't care.
I wouldn't reccommend citrix for a computer lab environment, especially a large one, even with many servers.
Where I work we recently deployed citrix, but for a relatively small number of users. We have a dual athalon with 4GB ram. I personally think the cost is out of control, and performance isn't what Metafram would have you believe.
But, if you already have windows machines, it's not worth it to use Citrix. Why? MS Terminal server. The only reason you really need Citrix is if you want clients for any platform. From what I am told, Bandwidth usage ends up being close wether you use Citrix ICA or not. And you have to pay for overpriced TSCALs either way.
Keep your Windows machines and run the Terminal Server client on them if you're forced to go that route. A real machine is going to be better for anything that needs processor power. Matlab or Photoshop on a terminal server? Forget it.
No...I'm on internet2, unless this traceroute lies:
1 ntc-1-rsmx.rswitch.umn.edu (160.94.6.126) 1.021 ms 1.083 ms 0.927 ms
2 tc1x.router.umn.edu (192.168.30.21) 2.321 ms 1.164 ms 1.076 ms
3 mn-2-a10-97.r.greatplains.net (164.113.243.130) 2.001 ms 1.693 ms 1.353 ms
4 mn-2-abilene-mn.r.greatplains.net (164.113.246.193) 22.672 ms 22.159 ms 22.414 ms
5 clev-ipls.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.8.26) 29.079 ms 28.329 ms 28.898 ms
6 nycm-clev.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.8.30) 40.674 ms 40.548 ms 41.389 ms
7 border-abilene-oc3.advanced.org (209.211.237.97) 42.600 ms 42.433 ms 42.041 ms
8 www.internet2.edu (209.211.239.208) 42.432 ms 42.291 ms 42.343 ms
More use for linux...good thing. However, it may cut down on AIDS, but they would just be infected with (GPL) cancer.
(sorry...I should really leave the MS thing alone now.;)
I notice that the "Arts" catagory has the highest percentage of hits on their little pie chart. Do you honestly think that many people are searching for Van Gogh?;)
God, I hope this doesn't create a flood of kiddies and wannabe "geeks" trying to start their own businesses, like the movie "Hackers" inspired script kiddies.
Reading isn't going to make you successful. On the other hand, a book outlining some business sense for techies is something worthwhile, seeing as many (most) techies lack business skills where they have powerful techincal skills.
I can hear the Microsoft media machine already...pretty soon we'll be hearing how open source projects can't work because people can't work together unless money is involved or something.
Of course, this round they'll be including BSD (read: FreeBSD) in their argument.;)
How stable can a FS with plugins be? Some third party's bad code can make your files go bye-bye.
I'm sure the security implications would be heavy too. Viruses planted in plug-ins would be too easy to implement and distribute.
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Yahoo seems to be claiming victory all over the place lately, without much to back it up. There is an article in the New York Times today that makes the claim Yahoo's search is the fastest and most relevant, but unless something happened overnight, I don't believe it.
It reminds me of another recent declaration of victory that didn't exactly end up so.
While the reviewer was correct in some aspects, there are some things wrong with the review that are pretty bad... Several grammatical errors and the image on the main page is of the non-tablet X41. Also, some other posters pointed out the weird complaint that it was not a "touch screen." You actually rest your hand on the screen while writing, just like paper.
I have had one around my office for a couple months now. It's a nice laptop, but definitely a bit sluggish. The size is the real win; it's great to carry around to wiring closets or talks or meetings. I haven't found too much justification for the tablet-ness, but I have seen some speakers integrate the ability to draw naturally on-screen with their presentation, and it has worked well.
As far as the difference between IBM and Lenovo, I believe most of the thinkpad products are still branded IBM for the time being as part of the agreement between the two companies. Things are starting to change over to Lenovo, but last week when I called for a replacement keyboard for my Thinkpad T42, everyone and everything was identified as IBM.
Uhh, how is that close minded? The problem is, unless I'm mistaken, that non-Windows and MacOS users can't view this at all (at least without doing something like using the crossover plugin to run the shockwave player.)
I'm a fan in general of the ipod, but *still* there is no support for additional file formats. I was hoping OGG support would be on it's way, assuming that the chipset capability problems of the past (wether this was actually a problem or not,) would be made moot by new hardware. :-/
For at least the area I looked at, the aerial photographs were in black and white. The slider interface acts a little unintuitively (at least in FF I had to click, drag, click again,) and oh...there appears to be nothing original about it.
If Microsoft is going to "catch up" to Google, they are going to have to do quite better.
This story is so not funny; I actually came down with mono last Thursday and have been home sick since.
:(
And I have no idea who/where I got it from!
As far as I'm concerned, Skype isn't true VoIP. It's a proprietary protocol without a large portion of H.323 or SIP's functionality.
Skype works by distributing user's traffic across all the other users. Are these phones going to do the same? I don't see it working.
I think the question the author asks is a bit irrelevant; we know there will be a strong linux showing in Asia.
And while we can all sit here and cheer about Linux's proliferation, I'm curious as to whether large Asian companies using Linux are following in the OSS spirit and abiding by the GPL with their usage of Linux. If Linux use in Asia is so large, we should expect similarly large contributions to the coding effort from Asia, correct?
(I know that there are likely uncountable GPL violations in the US/Europe that are unknown, but Asia seems particularly questionable.)
I just read an interesting article last night that claims it is not chipset that matters so much, because the Intel CPUs stick to the traditional north/south bridge design that limits I/O, while AMD64 processors have multiple hypertransport interfaces on-chip. http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9408/sam0411b/041 1b.htm
This is good advice. I'll get stressed out during some assignments, mix up a cocktail and continue coding. I make really good progress and then hit some magic point where I just don't care.
Coincidently, New York Times Magazine is also publishing a story about ICT in this weekend's edition:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/magazine/22GAME
I wouldn't reccommend citrix for a computer lab environment, especially a large one, even with many servers.
Where I work we recently deployed citrix, but for a relatively small number of users. We have a dual athalon with 4GB ram. I personally think the cost is out of control, and performance isn't what Metafram would have you believe.
But, if you already have windows machines, it's not worth it to use Citrix. Why? MS Terminal server. The only reason you really need Citrix is if you want clients for any platform. From what I am told, Bandwidth usage ends up being close wether you use Citrix ICA or not. And you have to pay for overpriced TSCALs either way.
Keep your Windows machines and run the Terminal Server client on them if you're forced to go that route. A real machine is going to be better for anything that needs processor power. Matlab or Photoshop on a terminal server? Forget it.
(damn HTML formatting :( )
No...I'm on internet2, unless this traceroute lies: 1 ntc-1-rsmx.rswitch.umn.edu (160.94.6.126) 1.021 ms 1.083 ms 0.927 ms 2 tc1x.router.umn.edu (192.168.30.21) 2.321 ms 1.164 ms 1.076 ms 3 mn-2-a10-97.r.greatplains.net (164.113.243.130) 2.001 ms 1.693 ms 1.353 ms 4 mn-2-abilene-mn.r.greatplains.net (164.113.246.193) 22.672 ms 22.159 ms 22.414 ms 5 clev-ipls.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.8.26) 29.079 ms 28.329 ms 28.898 ms 6 nycm-clev.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.8.30) 40.674 ms 40.548 ms 41.389 ms 7 border-abilene-oc3.advanced.org (209.211.237.97) 42.600 ms 42.433 ms 42.041 ms 8 www.internet2.edu (209.211.239.208) 42.432 ms 42.291 ms 42.343 ms
Internet2 rocks because I can download linux distro ISO's at 800 kb/s. Yay for university internet connection.
More use for linux...good thing. However, it may cut down on AIDS, but they would just be infected with (GPL) cancer. (sorry...I should really leave the MS thing alone now. ;)
I notice that the "Arts" catagory has the highest percentage of hits on their little pie chart. Do you honestly think that many people are searching for Van Gogh? ;)
A new target for Microsoft's FUD machine. Let's just make sure not to call it k.NET. ;)
God, I hope this doesn't create a flood of kiddies and wannabe "geeks" trying to start their own businesses, like the movie "Hackers" inspired script kiddies.
Reading isn't going to make you successful. On the other hand, a book outlining some business sense for techies is something worthwhile, seeing as many (most) techies lack business skills where they have powerful techincal skills.
So there really aren't any friendly corporations out there, huh?
I wish you the best of luck with this. I use GAIM every day at work and home and the client is improving all the time.
:-/
So much for the hope that AOL would open up AIM to further public development/use.
It's been 5 years since a good video game has been released! Geez. :)
I actually got this headline on my phone first rather than slashdot.
:)
It's good to see Redhat's doing ok...too bad the MS FUD people will have people convinced linux is for sinners or something.
Time to go put Redhat boxes in front of Windows boxes at CompUSA.
I can hear the Microsoft media machine already...pretty soon we'll be hearing how open source projects can't work because people can't work together unless money is involved or something.
;)
Of course, this round they'll be including BSD (read: FreeBSD) in their argument.
How stable can a FS with plugins be? Some third party's bad code can make your files go bye-bye. I'm sure the security implications would be heavy too. Viruses planted in plug-ins would be too easy to implement and distribute.