If AOL truly does it right and makes it 100% server-side, what do they put as a "decoder box" in your living room? Why not offer PC software so that you can access your Mystro account from anywhere, and watch your shows? I'd be all over that - being able to set up my laptop on the road in a hotel with high-speed internet and not have to suffer with the hotel's lousy cable.
If you have a striped disk array, you will read many small segments from different disks instead of large segments from single disks. In this special case, FC is faster than SCSI, even though it is "slower" by looking at the burst rates in the specs.
Uhhh, that's called RAID, and you can do it without FC. You can do RAID striping with IDE or SCSI hard drives that outperform a single SCSI drive.
I think text blogs (not even pictures) are much better - it depends on your ability to describe things well, and it puts a comfortable anonymity for you *and* your reader.
Yeah, but what if you were reading your ex-girlfriend's blog? Don't you want to see the look in her eyes when she talks about how much she misses you and...
You want to build a product from scratch. While looking for components, you found a inexpensive complete product that meets your needs, available off the shelf, that has too many features for too low of a price.
And the problem is...?
Are you sure about that pricing?
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From the article: "the live CDs would probably sell for around $15"
Probably, eh? Lemme break this down: concert t-shirts are generally $10 at the mall, but $20 at the concert. By that same rule, band CDs are $15 at the mall, so I'm guessing they'll be closer to $30 at the concert.
First give me the money you would use to pay for XP, and office. Now give me the service and support costs for the lifetime of your laptop. Now the software that comes free on a mac and you have to pay for on a PC (iLife, X windowing system, a decent terminal with easy portability of UNIX aps etc.). Productivity time losses when fighting with windows to do what you want. Then add in the cost of the hardware of your cheaper laptop.
This argument is akin to saying it's cheaper to buy a $40,000 Jaguar than a $20,000 Chevy because if you tried to custom-add the Jaguar's all-wheel-drive system to the Chevy, it would cost you a fortune. Well, sure it would, but that doesn't mean buying the Jag is cheaper - or smarter - for those of us who don't need all-wheel-drive.
Now replace the phrase all-wheel-drive with "iLife, X windowing system, a decent terminal with easy portability of UNIX aps etc." from your post, and you'll begin to connect the dots.
Houston Wireless User Group just discussed this as our presentation for last night's monthly meeting, oddly enough, complete with a very nice presentation by Erewhon.
My first web development platform was Drumbeat, which became Dreamweaver Ultradev, which became Dreamweaver MX. Everyone I know who uses both MX and Visual Studio.NET still prefers MX for the majority of their database-driven web development. I'd love to have MX's ease of use and powerful design support built into Visual Studio.
Does that mean I'll be able to get an 802.11b signal in a plane? That would pretty much eradicate the problems of installing internet gear in each plane - just put a little antenna up to the window and boom, you're surfin'.
tell me what critical function that is useable for a computer that microsoft does better than linux? tell us all. please.
Offhand, I'd say TAPI, which is the ability to write one telecommunications program (like a phone answering machine or touch-tone interface) and have it work with all voice modems off the shelf without any customization or kernel-recompiling whatsoever. It just works. Try that on Linux - you find plenty that will work with a specific line, like only USR's, but never with any old modem I pick up from the store.
"Most of what was discussed wasn't all the exciting outside the context of the room...."
Okay, so then why dribble on about it for three pages? This was about the most boring, uninformative trip journal I've ever seen. The author got a good price on an O'Reilly book, heard O'Reilly speak, and saw a Red Hat 8 demo. Whoopeee. Drop by your local LUG and you can write a longer (and more interesting) synopsis of the goings-on than this author did. Don't waste your time on the link.
This is actually pretty good advice no matter where you're at on the price spectrum. I picked up a $50 pair of Logitech Z-340's for my Mom for her birthday last year. This week, when I came to her house to visit, she told me she wanted to hook up the Logitechs in her kitchen because they sounded so much better than her (major brand) stereo speakers.
Another possible application is security... you could have your car auto-upload its position (gathered via a cheap GPS unit) along with a snapshot of the driver (via a hidden X10 camera) to a website every half hour or something, from a hidden cheap P133 in the trunk. This would be invaluble if your car ever got stolen.
Already exists - it's called LoJack, and the police have the tools to track down your car with it. Plus, they cover your insurance deductible if the car is stolen, and it's almost impossible to find on the car - unlike your P133 in the trunk. Combining a Sprint Vision PCS plan, a webcam, and a PC would probably be the wrong tool here.
Toyota's always been a visionary and hit the moving market targets well. Think back to the early-to-mid 80's, and you'll remember that they had great affordable sports cars (Celica, Supra) at exactly the time when sports cars were the rage. During the 90's, they let their sports cars get bloated, because the market was about luxury, and they axed the cars before they became jokes (think Camaro).
At the same time, in the early 90s, they were rolling out a big line of SUV's. Today, with SUV's all the rage, Toyota has models for everybody - the RAV4, the 4runner, the big Land Cruiser, the Highlander, you name it - plus all the models they sell under the Lexus brand.
If Toyota says their models will all be green-friendly in 2012, you'd better believe that they're going to be in the right place at the right time again, and green vehicles will be all the rage. Toyota does brilliant product planning.
I've always longed for those super-ultra-tiny notebooks like you find on Dynamism, but the coolest ones don't have built-in CD or DVD drives. I hate carrying around a drive just because I might need to read a cd-rom, but this little gizmo would be the perfect companion. I could use it to watch movies on the road in hotels, plus listen to music, and still play cd-roms with the computer.
The drawback of the bundled add-on CD drives that come with the notebooks is that they don't function separately - you're just lugging around a mostly useless cd-rom reader, not a CD/DVD Walkman. This thing is going to sell like hotcakes to business travelers!
How am I supposed to make a point of how Microsoft's intentions are evil (which they clearly are), when I can't find a good example where trusted 'fill in the blank' doesn't work.
Well, start with Paypal, which a lot of people trusted as a bank but then got screwed when Paypal froze their funds. Google for Paypal frozen accounts and you'll find tons of horror stories.
Then move on to the online storage of credit card data, and think back to when CDNow got hacked and all their consumers' credit cards were tossed around to the public.
I'm sure you'll get hundreds of examples here, but come on, you really don't have to think too hard.
Agree in Houston - libraries going wireless
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Here in Houston, the public library system is on the cutting edge of rolling out free public 802.11b access in all their libraries. A guy from the library system regularly comes to our Houston Wireless user group meetings, and that alone speaks volumes, because I don't see any companies sending representatives.
I like *not* having an external antenna on my TiPB. My laptop constantly goes in and out of my school bag. I prefer not having to pay extra attention to a little peice of plastic sticking out in these and other such situations.
The point is that the range on the TiPB is bad because the internal antenna is enclosed inside a metal Faraday cage (the titanium laptop shell). The integrated wireless nics in Thinkpads, Latitudes, Evos, etc., get much better range because the notebook shell is a metal composite or a plastic. They're not knocking integrated antennas, just integrated antennas that are wrapped in metal, which don't function as well.
As an All-In-Wonder Radeon owner, here's the deal: PC's will never replace Tivos until they can replicate Tivo's Season Pass functionality and knowingly record not only the shows I want, but the ones it thinks I will want.
My All-In-Wonder Radeon is a pain in the rear because it won't track schedule changes and automatically record the show I want every time. When a show gets delayed by a football game, or like TLC just randomly changes schedule, I end up with recorded footage I don't want while missing the show I really DID want.
Plus, when the Discovery Channel shows a one-time special, "When Animals Attack Cops During Natural Disasters", or one of those other shows I love, the Radeon's software (ATI MMC) isn't smart enough to tape it automatically. Come on, guys, it can't be that hard if Tivo can do it. We're so close...
And now, 1,000 Linux guys are going to tell me that we could easily write our own using a web-based TV program repository, but just like every time I post this, the repository doesn't exist. Gemstar has it nailed down, and the market is locked up on that one.
In related news, the Golden Globes continue to be awarded to the opposite end of the academic spectrum, according to industry analysts. "Just look at Jennifer Connelly," said an unnamed source, pointing to this year's winner for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. "Sure, she's easy on the eyes, but she couldn't tell a neutrino from her elbow. And don't even get me started on Sissy Spacek - the woman keeps trying to reserve the periodic table at restaurants."
Ron Howard has repeatedly gone on record that his work on 'A Beautiful Mind' puts him in the appropriate Smart People category, but that is still in dispute. Judges point to his work in Happy Days as proof.
Just about EVERYTHING is illegal under HIPAA. I've never seen such ridiculously stringent specs. If you want a good laugh, check out www.hipaacomply.com and read through the technology FAQ's. Even faxing is restricted.
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If AOL truly does it right and makes it 100% server-side, what do they put as a "decoder box" in your living room? Why not offer PC software so that you can access your Mystro account from anywhere, and watch your shows? I'd be all over that - being able to set up my laptop on the road in a hotel with high-speed internet and not have to suffer with the hotel's lousy cable.
What about smaller glasses? Nobody in science ever thinks of the common man anymore.
To paraphrase David Spade: it's called Lasik. Look into it.
If you have a striped disk array, you will read many small segments from different disks instead of large segments from single disks. In this special case, FC is faster than SCSI, even though it is "slower" by looking at the burst rates in the specs.
Uhhh, that's called RAID, and you can do it without FC. You can do RAID striping with IDE or SCSI hard drives that outperform a single SCSI drive.
Somehow I've gotta wonder when their DSL prices are more expensive than their fiber prices. Something's gotta be amiss.
But are you good enough to outhack half a dozen Chinese guys working for half your salary?
Considering that adds up to three times my salary, I think my job is safe.
I think text blogs (not even pictures) are much better - it depends on your ability to describe things well, and it puts a comfortable anonymity for you *and* your reader.
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/. Nobody misses us.
Yeah, but what if you were reading your ex-girlfriend's blog? Don't you want to see the look in her eyes when she talks about how much she misses you and
Oh, wait, this is
Lemme see if I got this right.
You want to build a product from scratch. While looking for components, you found a inexpensive complete product that meets your needs, available off the shelf, that has too many features for too low of a price.
And the problem is...?
From the article:
"the live CDs would probably sell for around $15"
Probably, eh? Lemme break this down: concert t-shirts are generally $10 at the mall, but $20 at the concert. By that same rule, band CDs are $15 at the mall, so I'm guessing they'll be closer to $30 at the concert.
First give me the money you would use to pay for XP, and office. Now give me the service and support costs for the lifetime of your laptop. Now the software that comes free on a mac and you have to pay for on a PC (iLife, X windowing system, a decent terminal with easy portability of UNIX aps etc.). Productivity time losses when fighting with windows to do what you want. Then add in the cost of the hardware of your cheaper laptop.
This argument is akin to saying it's cheaper to buy a $40,000 Jaguar than a $20,000 Chevy because if you tried to custom-add the Jaguar's all-wheel-drive system to the Chevy, it would cost you a fortune. Well, sure it would, but that doesn't mean buying the Jag is cheaper - or smarter - for those of us who don't need all-wheel-drive.
Now replace the phrase all-wheel-drive with "iLife, X windowing system, a decent terminal with easy portability of UNIX aps etc." from your post, and you'll begin to connect the dots.
Houston Wireless User Group just discussed this as our presentation for last night's monthly meeting, oddly enough, complete with a very nice presentation by Erewhon.
My first web development platform was Drumbeat, which became Dreamweaver Ultradev, which became Dreamweaver MX. Everyone I know who uses both MX and Visual Studio .NET still prefers MX for the majority of their database-driven web development. I'd love to have MX's ease of use and powerful design support built into Visual Studio.
Does that mean I'll be able to get an 802.11b signal in a plane? That would pretty much eradicate the problems of installing internet gear in each plane - just put a little antenna up to the window and boom, you're surfin'.
tell me what critical function that is useable for a computer that microsoft does better than linux? tell us all. please.
Offhand, I'd say TAPI, which is the ability to write one telecommunications program (like a phone answering machine or touch-tone interface) and have it work with all voice modems off the shelf without any customization or kernel-recompiling whatsoever. It just works. Try that on Linux - you find plenty that will work with a specific line, like only USR's, but never with any old modem I pick up from the store.
"Most of what was discussed wasn't all the exciting outside the context of the room...."
Okay, so then why dribble on about it for three pages? This was about the most boring, uninformative trip journal I've ever seen. The author got a good price on an O'Reilly book, heard O'Reilly speak, and saw a Red Hat 8 demo. Whoopeee. Drop by your local LUG and you can write a longer (and more interesting) synopsis of the goings-on than this author did. Don't waste your time on the link.
This is actually pretty good advice no matter where you're at on the price spectrum. I picked up a $50 pair of Logitech Z-340's for my Mom for her birthday last year. This week, when I came to her house to visit, she told me she wanted to hook up the Logitechs in her kitchen because they sounded so much better than her (major brand) stereo speakers.
If you're online, and someone calls you, does the phone notify you, or does it go to voice mail?
Another possible application is security... you could have your car auto-upload its position (gathered via a cheap GPS unit) along with a snapshot of the driver (via a hidden X10 camera) to a website every half hour or something, from a hidden cheap P133 in the trunk. This would be invaluble if your car ever got stolen.
Already exists - it's called LoJack, and the police have the tools to track down your car with it. Plus, they cover your insurance deductible if the car is stolen, and it's almost impossible to find on the car - unlike your P133 in the trunk. Combining a Sprint Vision PCS plan, a webcam, and a PC would probably be the wrong tool here.
Toyota's always been a visionary and hit the moving market targets well. Think back to the early-to-mid 80's, and you'll remember that they had great affordable sports cars (Celica, Supra) at exactly the time when sports cars were the rage. During the 90's, they let their sports cars get bloated, because the market was about luxury, and they axed the cars before they became jokes (think Camaro).
At the same time, in the early 90s, they were rolling out a big line of SUV's. Today, with SUV's all the rage, Toyota has models for everybody - the RAV4, the 4runner, the big Land Cruiser, the Highlander, you name it - plus all the models they sell under the Lexus brand.
If Toyota says their models will all be green-friendly in 2012, you'd better believe that they're going to be in the right place at the right time again, and green vehicles will be all the rage. Toyota does brilliant product planning.
I've always longed for those super-ultra-tiny notebooks like you find on Dynamism, but the coolest ones don't have built-in CD or DVD drives. I hate carrying around a drive just because I might need to read a cd-rom, but this little gizmo would be the perfect companion. I could use it to watch movies on the road in hotels, plus listen to music, and still play cd-roms with the computer.
The drawback of the bundled add-on CD drives that come with the notebooks is that they don't function separately - you're just lugging around a mostly useless cd-rom reader, not a CD/DVD Walkman. This thing is going to sell like hotcakes to business travelers!
How am I supposed to make a point of how Microsoft's intentions are evil (which they clearly are), when I can't find a good example where trusted 'fill in the blank' doesn't work.
Well, start with Paypal, which a lot of people trusted as a bank but then got screwed when Paypal froze their funds. Google for Paypal frozen accounts and you'll find tons of horror stories.
Then move on to the online storage of credit card data, and think back to when CDNow got hacked and all their consumers' credit cards were tossed around to the public.
I'm sure you'll get hundreds of examples here, but come on, you really don't have to think too hard.
Here in Houston, the public library system is on the cutting edge of rolling out free public 802.11b access in all their libraries. A guy from the library system regularly comes to our Houston Wireless user group meetings, and that alone speaks volumes, because I don't see any companies sending representatives.
I like *not* having an external antenna on my TiPB. My laptop constantly goes in and out of my school bag. I prefer not having to pay extra attention to a little peice of plastic sticking out in these and other such situations.
The point is that the range on the TiPB is bad because the internal antenna is enclosed inside a metal Faraday cage (the titanium laptop shell). The integrated wireless nics in Thinkpads, Latitudes, Evos, etc., get much better range because the notebook shell is a metal composite or a plastic. They're not knocking integrated antennas, just integrated antennas that are wrapped in metal, which don't function as well.
As an All-In-Wonder Radeon owner, here's the deal: PC's will never replace Tivos until they can replicate Tivo's Season Pass functionality and knowingly record not only the shows I want, but the ones it thinks I will want.
My All-In-Wonder Radeon is a pain in the rear because it won't track schedule changes and automatically record the show I want every time. When a show gets delayed by a football game, or like TLC just randomly changes schedule, I end up with recorded footage I don't want while missing the show I really DID want.
Plus, when the Discovery Channel shows a one-time special, "When Animals Attack Cops During Natural Disasters", or one of those other shows I love, the Radeon's software (ATI MMC) isn't smart enough to tape it automatically. Come on, guys, it can't be that hard if Tivo can do it. We're so close...
And now, 1,000 Linux guys are going to tell me that we could easily write our own using a web-based TV program repository, but just like every time I post this, the repository doesn't exist. Gemstar has it nailed down, and the market is locked up on that one.
In related news, the Golden Globes continue to be awarded to the opposite end of the academic spectrum, according to industry analysts. "Just look at Jennifer Connelly," said an unnamed source, pointing to this year's winner for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. "Sure, she's easy on the eyes, but she couldn't tell a neutrino from her elbow. And don't even get me started on Sissy Spacek - the woman keeps trying to reserve the periodic table at restaurants."
Ron Howard has repeatedly gone on record that his work on 'A Beautiful Mind' puts him in the appropriate Smart People category, but that is still in dispute. Judges point to his work in Happy Days as proof.
Just about EVERYTHING is illegal under HIPAA. I've never seen such ridiculously stringent specs. If you want a good laugh, check out www.hipaacomply.com and read through the technology FAQ's. Even faxing is restricted.