What if Google would distribute a free scanner pen, which you could connect to your computer, and would print bar codes with their ads, and if you scan them, your computer would go to an internet page?
In the big picture Linux seems to be having a really hard time (not commercially), compared to (just an example) Mac OS X having a good time. I predict Linux being embraced even more by big corporations (read IBM and Sun) and not being cool anymore. Linux on the desktop will still fail to deliver, again, maybe not commercially, and Linux on the server will mainly be about big, boring said corps (not Marine) and dispersed hobbyists.
Or should this just be viewed as an isolated misjudgement by the otherwise great Linus?
From the document:
Laser systems that illuminate potential hiding places, or "hides," and detect retro-reflections from the sniper's scope are referred to as optical
augmentation systems. These systems have the advantage of possibly detecting the sniper before he fires his weapon. The downside is that the sniper can employ antireflection filters that selectively block the wavelength of the laser. Tunable lasers may reduce the effectiveness
of blocking filters in the future.
Are your LOTR and MST3K DivXs/XviDs legally acquired, DRMed copies of these fine copyrighted works of art? No?
I never expected Apple to offer a device that would be designed to play mostly illegal content. Remember that, simply stated, ripping DVDs, theater screens and Screeners is illegal, as opposed to ripping non-copyprotected CDs or digitizing old vinyl. Or downloading photos from a digicam. I might as well underestimate the home movie market in the US, but that would still be a niche. And the iPod is about mass entertainment media. As Jobs implied, there exists not enough legal video content to justify mobile video playback capabilities.
My information concerning ObjectiveC and Apple is limited to the WebObjects world, and there ObjC will fade out and Java/EJB will be the development language of choice. I do not know however what that means for OS X development/ObjC compiler support.
Changing the looks cuts it for them people who like it if somebody comes into their apartment and say: "Cute, an iMac", or "Cool, a [blue/grey] G3/G4". Nobody says "cool" or "cute" about a beige miditower with TNT3 Ultra, Dual Pentium III 600, 512MB ram, SCSI-3 and whatever inside. The only way for those would be an 18'' TFT. Or a Sun Ultra 10, they look good too.
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What if Google would distribute a free scanner pen, which you could connect to your computer, and would print bar codes with their ads, and if you scan them, your computer would go to an internet page?
That would be something!
In the big picture Linux seems to be having a really hard time (not commercially), compared to (just an example) Mac OS X having a good time. I predict Linux being embraced even more by big corporations (read IBM and Sun) and not being cool anymore. Linux on the desktop will still fail to deliver, again, maybe not commercially, and Linux on the server will mainly be about big, boring said corps (not Marine) and dispersed hobbyists.
Or should this just be viewed as an isolated misjudgement by the otherwise great Linus?
Here is a good overview on laser/light-based and other techniques:
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1187/MR1187. appc.pdf
From the document: Laser systems that illuminate potential hiding places, or "hides," and detect retro-reflections from the sniper's scope are referred to as optical augmentation systems. These systems have the advantage of possibly detecting the sniper before he fires his weapon. The downside is that the sniper can employ antireflection filters that selectively block the wavelength of the laser. Tunable lasers may reduce the effectiveness of blocking filters in the future.
Are your LOTR and MST3K DivXs/XviDs legally acquired, DRMed copies of these fine copyrighted works of art? No?
I never expected Apple to offer a device that would be designed to play mostly illegal content. Remember that, simply stated, ripping DVDs, theater screens and Screeners is illegal, as opposed to ripping non-copyprotected CDs or digitizing old vinyl. Or downloading photos from a digicam.
I might as well underestimate the home movie market in the US, but that would still be a niche. And the iPod is about mass entertainment media. As Jobs implied, there exists not enough legal video content to justify mobile video playback capabilities.
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Does anybody else remember using 30MB MFM hard disks with an RLL controller (or such), so that a 44MB RLL drive resulted?
I do not remmber the exact numbers, but I think it was around an 130% to 150% capacity increase.
They don't want us to find out where they come from.
The Atlantic Monthly published an article about new small, safer planes and what NASA plans to do with them.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/06/fallo
High quality stuff, as most of them articles there.
New Book, same theme, same author:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/15864804
My information concerning ObjectiveC and Apple is limited to the WebObjects world, and there ObjC will fade out and Java/EJB will be the development language of choice. I do not know however what that means for OS X development/ObjC compiler support.
Changing the looks cuts it for them people who like it if somebody comes into their apartment and say: "Cute, an iMac", or "Cool, a [blue/grey] G3/G4". Nobody says "cool" or "cute" about a beige miditower with TNT3 Ultra, Dual Pentium III 600, 512MB ram, SCSI-3 and whatever inside. The only way for those would be an 18'' TFT. Or a Sun Ultra 10, they look good too.
Sounds good, and a little bit like COS, the MacOS 8 alternative by Omega GmbH, Vapourware par excellence.
see http://www.agemo.de