Um.....2007? In 2007 I'm going to be flying in my hovercar and lasers will be beaming music directly into my brain! Who cares that there's going to be a 'Flashkiller' in 2007? Flash will already be dead!
Sparkle seems like it will go the way of MS Bob, but there are a couple possible outcomes:
MS tries to become a 'flashkiller' and mimic Macromedia(who will now be using flash to deliver DVD quality video over the web), but this will never be feasible because of the lack of cross platform support. MS's.NET is stuck on Windows until they write virtual machines for other OSes. So let's take it for a given that this is Windows Only. And if they did have a plugin for other OSes, it would probably be bigger than the Java JRE to handle all the.NET framework calls.
2: MS uses this as a gui API for.NET that allows people to develop templated vector graphics for applications. More versatile application design, allowing much more interesting transitions and effects. Doom III supposedly has a similar vector-based in-game menu system working. Great idea, possibly the future of all OS. But it'll need some heavy graphics acceleration.
Flash does pretty much everything you need to from an application perspective now, except work on a per-pixel basis. This is the only economically viable market for Microsoft to dominate, as cartoon animation isn't big enough for MS to take on. The only real feature that Microsoft can provide is locking developers into it's platform....in 2007.
Well, currently, even with buckets of cash Time Warner can't seem to get a Matrix trailer out to everyone. Their supply chain(Akamai)saturates too quickly.
Bram Cohen of Bittorrent has said that he'd like to create a live streaming Bittorrent for the purposes of a virtual 'real broadcast'. This is the only real solution for those without buckets of cash and internet2 connectivity.
But the problem in this is that the ability to enforce 'tit-for-tat' downloads is lost in a live broadcast, and this is what makes Bittorrent so effective. But Bram's a smart guy, perhaps he'll find a way to shuffle crc checks around to create virtual tit-for-tats, and build a new bttp:// protocol.
Even with such a fantastically cool protocol, creating live content would still be hard to make beyond a webcam and a microphone. Video and audio mixing equipment, lighting etc. quickly eats away at your amateur budget.
I don't know if time-based network shows are on their way out for big companies, but it's a lot easier for people like Peter to make SWTV with a month of post-production. The content can recieve more polish, and the focus isn't on the protocol used, but the show itself.
Please leave Bittorrent windows open so that others can easily download the file. Seattle Wireless is doing their best to cope with/. effect. Leaving the BT windows open helps reduce the server load on their computers, and improve performance for others.
I remember reading on a linux tablet pc list that Lindows was attempting to port their distro to the tablet pc, and the only issue they were having was the usb cd-rom would only boot the XP disc, and other bootable cds always crapped.
Otherwise you can use tftp and network boot to install linux, and there's a hacked wacom driver floating around to handle the tablet.
If I wanted to start a company, this would probably be it. Imagine, tens of millions of kids in the us, and the current trend is to put them behind an expensive windows box. Strip that hardware down, concentrate on a linux distro based on the classroom, and you've got yourself a paycheck, and an extremely rewarding job.
It doesn't make any sense to give a kid either a mac or a windows pc for educational purposes. Each route is flawed, because either option wastes hardware. You don't need external monitor support, firewire, floppies or big hard drives. You need a thin client with a school-based distro of Linux that is downloaded and run remote off of a mainframe.
Not only does this improve the price-performance ratio, but it also improves accountability by allowing for detailed logging of the kid's activities, and can allow for detailed administrative control on a classroom basis.
Say a teacher has a classroom of students. The students show up, boot up Schoonix (loading remotely via high-speed wireless). The teacher's first subject is geography. The teacher unlocks the Geography Suite of programs for her students. The students are allowed access to pre-determined geography based websites.
A problem occurs, a student can't find the right web page. The teacher clicks on the student's icon on screen and immediately switches to that students desktop. The teacher remotely shows the student how to find the right web page, and everyone moves on.
Sound far-fetched? Not really. Throw together some PAM auth, hack some remote x11 displays, write a couple custom admin programs, and strip down a linux kernel and you already have something that would work much better than Windows or Mac OS X by customizing it for the classroom.
Yes, I know, and the live track isn't the greatest sound quality. If you'd like to hear Puss, who are one of the BEST chiptuners out there, they have some tracks up on Micromusic.net. If you can, either see them live, or buy their cds, or both:)!! It's very worth it.
After setting up the bittorrent and downloading the movie myself, it looks as though I have an incomplete movie file and so the Bittorrent link is offline. Unless people write saying they want it, it'll stay down. Slashdot effect should be lessened now anyway!
What's with the big Philips logo underneath the media player? Is Microsoft now allowing third-parties to brand their add-ons within the operating system? So now people will get ads from third parties WITHIN the OS as a FEATURE? It sounds like a ploy to detach people from the idea that they bought a private computer, but instead a service brought to you by Microsoft and Partners.
The big issue here is that ActiveX security is flawed to begin with. Companies use this exploit to install 'helpful' software based on the 'Click OK' instinct. This is simply bad design on Microsoft's fault, and companies like Gator have no qualms about using it to their advantage.
Users are given what looks like an official internet explorer endorsement for the software. ActiveX exploits don't have to have _anything_ to do with the webpage in question! They are a major security risk, probably the biggest security hole in MS's bug-ridden heap o' code. Yet little can be done because good productive software people do use ActiveX.
ActiveX was a.com boom product to ease noobs into the new technology utopia. But most of us are grown up now, and my mom knows how to install software. It's time to stop trading 'ease of use' for security.
If these companies are already logging all email, why create a completely new logging system infrastructure for IM?
Install a Jabber Server. Use the JabberSMTP gateway to fork all your IM over to your mailbox, keeping your IM AND your email in the same place. It would have the added benefit of keeping the IM and Email in chronological order together.
The idea of all these crazy keyboard designs completely misses the point. Of course there is a place for new and innovative keyboards for accessibility reasons, but if you want to reduce repetitive strain injury, why not try speech recognition? I'm dictating this right now, and boy my hands feel fine!
Naturally speech recognition doesn't work perfectly, but it works well enough to be much faster and user friendly than a keyboard. And at $695.00 you can save yourself a lot of money!
If you like you can install the gxine xine GUI for gnome, and it will automatically set up Gxine to be the default viewer for audio and video in Mozilla(and I believe system wide but don't quote me).
my girlfriend has just recently been researching spatial memory within men and women. Here is some text from her debriefing sheet:
most literature on sex differences in cognitive abilities has indicated that on average :
verbal tasks are performed better by women and,
spatial tasks are performed better by man.
However, Silverman & Eals(1992) carried out a simple experiment in which they found that women performed better than men in spatial memory. In their experiments, participants were presented with a range of objects and asked to remember as much as possible about those objects. They were then shown a second presentation, in which some pairs of objects had exchanged locations. When asked to identify those objects that had moved, women on average score higher than men.
In a similar experiment, James and Kimura(1997) a team to the same results as Silverman and Eals when they exchanged location of the objects in the second presentation of objects. However when they presented a second array of the objects in which some objects had moved to previously empty locations, no sex difference was noted in the ability of for two spins to identify objects which had moved.
James & Kimura,D. (1997) sex differences in remembering objects in an array: location shifts versus location exchanges. Evolution and human behavior, 18, 155-163
Silverman,I. & Eals, M. (1992) sex differences in spatial abilities: evolutionary theory and data. In Barkow, J.H, Cosmides,L. & Tooby,J. The Adapted Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Friends of mine who are put off computers by lots of typing are amazed at the way the Tablet PC works. My girlfriend wants to do her next research paper on it. The Tablet PC will be well worth the investment for Microsoft.
Open source and Linux is gaining some fantastic ground in desktop userland, ground that could be lost by Microsoft re-defining how you interact with your PC through dictation and hand-writing. This has the added benefit of opening up new potential uses for pcs. And new potential buyers.
I thoroughly agree with jkichline, I'm really enjoying the handwriting and speech recognition technologies of my Acer Travelmate. I looked at the Toshiba, which is a great tablet, but rather large, no firewire, no peripherals and overly expensive.
My Acer Travelmate came with WiFi, 800Mhz PIII, 256MB, 30GB, external CD and Floppy, and is a subnotebook with a 10" screen. Battery Life is phenomenal(or average for a subnotebook). The speech recognition technology has been near flawless. After a bit of training, I now dictate all my email. Sorry, but for office-ish desktop work, my tablet pc triumphs over my linux box.
The Bittorent DL is working great for me. At first I got 10KB/s, but now I'm getting 50kB/s. I'm in the UK, and was unable to get more than 10KB/s from the Matrix link. If you're having trouble d/l-ing from there, try the bittorent link above.
Although I couldn't find the older SMS transport, there seems to be another one being made here at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jabbersms
Jabber gateways(transports) work very well. And if it doesn't exist you can write your own in Perl, Python, C , Java and many others using existing libraries to handle network and xml functions. $20 million buys you a hell of a lot of Jabbering!
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Good point, although I'm not too keen on changing Jabber into another acronym.
When I was trying to explain what Jabber was in a faq it became clear to me from the site that it's not an easy thing to get across. Their older site didn't have a concise explanation anywhere except that it was an instant messaging and presence platform, which don't cut it in my opinion.
I must say though, I keep re-writing this sentence trying to find a reason besides aesthetic taste not to rename it, but XMPP sounds much more descriptive than Jabber. At least it might help to categorize the Jabber protocol as an XMPP protocol, and create the category in the process.
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Erm... don't know where it went, the last paragraph should be:
Jabber's modular framework allows for the simple server-side creation and client-side discovery of whatever xml namespaces you'd like for whatever programs you make. As in the book, you can receive CVS commit notifications, stock quote notices or send and receive email with Jabber. Map your jabber components onto xml tags in the config file using TCP sockets, command line progs and XML-RPC. Then clients are able to discover features on the server using the Browsing service.
Jabber is a PROTOCOL, not an instant messenger.
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"While i was reading about the messages that Jabber has defined as part of the protocol, I could easily see other applications/devices generating Jabber messages to notify subscribers (either other systems, or people) of events.
I wish people would stop thinking about Jabber as simply an instant messenger, in the same way Microsoft has realised that MSN Messenger isn't simply an instant messenger. The data exchange of.NET is instant messaging, and Jabber epitomizes the open source equivalent.
As things move on from static HTTP GETS to dynamic sockets, companies will look for products that can easily push and pull data asynchronously to servers. And Jabber excels at this.
Jabber's modular framework allows for the simple server-side creation and client-side discovery of whatever xml namespaces you'd like for whatever programs you make. As in the book, you can receive CVS commit notifications, stock quote notices or send and receive email with Jabber.
From the ZDnet review
Pogo is essentially a mobile thin client. The problem with using a thin client over the GSM network is that bandwidth is limited to 9.6Kbit/s, compared to a standard wired modem at around 40Kbit/s. Pogo has got around this with some very clever compression software. Pogo Technology's server takes the Web page you want to access and strips out animations, reduces the colours to the 256 the Pogo can display, and swaps the fonts for those that look good on the Pogo screen. Then it compresses the data -- typically to a sixth of the normal amount -- and sends it to the handheld device, where it's uncompressed and displayed.
Some file downloads and Web pages are still painfully slow, but in general using the Pogo over GSM feels good -- akin to a wired modem, and very much better than a Nokia 9210 using HSCSD (High Speed Circuit Switched Data) at 28.8Kbit/s. Of course, what would be even better is the clever compression and more bandwidth, and that may yet come. The hardware in the Pogo uses a standard radio module from Wavecom. In fact, it's the same module that Handspring uses in its new Treo devices. The Wavecom module has all the hardware necessary to do GPRS, so you may see a 30Kbit/s upgrade for the Pogo in the next few months.
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Um.....2007? In 2007 I'm going to be flying in my hovercar and lasers will be beaming music directly into my brain! Who cares that there's going to be a 'Flashkiller' in 2007? Flash will already be dead!
.NET is stuck on Windows until they write virtual machines for other OSes. So let's take it for a given that this is Windows Only. And if they did have a plugin for other OSes, it would probably be bigger than the Java JRE to handle all the .NET framework calls.
.NET that allows people to develop templated vector graphics for applications. More versatile application design, allowing much more interesting transitions and effects. Doom III supposedly has a similar vector-based in-game menu system working. Great idea, possibly the future of all OS. But it'll need some heavy graphics acceleration.
Sparkle seems like it will go the way of MS Bob, but there are a couple possible outcomes:
MS tries to become a 'flashkiller' and mimic Macromedia(who will now be using flash to deliver DVD quality video over the web), but this will never be feasible because of the lack of cross platform support. MS's
2: MS uses this as a gui API for
Flash does pretty much everything you need to from an application perspective now, except work on a per-pixel basis. This is the only economically viable market for Microsoft to dominate, as cartoon animation isn't big enough for MS to take on. The only real feature that Microsoft can provide is locking developers into it's platform....in 2007.
Well, currently, even with buckets of cash Time Warner can't seem to get a Matrix trailer out to everyone. Their supply chain(Akamai)saturates too quickly.
:)
Bram Cohen of Bittorrent has said that he'd like to create a live streaming Bittorrent for the purposes of a virtual 'real broadcast'. This is the only real solution for those without buckets of cash and internet2 connectivity.
But the problem in this is that the ability to enforce 'tit-for-tat' downloads is lost in a live broadcast, and this is what makes Bittorrent so effective. But Bram's a smart guy, perhaps he'll find a way to shuffle crc checks around to create virtual tit-for-tats, and build a new bttp:// protocol.
Even with such a fantastically cool protocol, creating live content would still be hard to make beyond a webcam and a microphone. Video and audio mixing equipment, lighting etc. quickly eats away at your amateur budget.
I don't know if time-based network shows are on their way out for big companies, but it's a lot easier for people like Peter to make SWTV with a month of post-production. The content can recieve more polish, and the focus isn't on the protocol used, but the show itself.
I'm off to make a Bi-quad antenna
This is the obligatory post to remind people:
/. effect. Leaving the BT windows open helps reduce the server load on their computers, and improve performance for others.
Please leave Bittorrent windows open so that others can easily download the file. Seattle Wireless is doing their best to cope with
I remember reading on a linux tablet pc list that Lindows was attempting to port their distro to the tablet pc, and the only issue they were having was the usb cd-rom would only boot the XP disc, and other bootable cds always crapped.
Otherwise you can use tftp and network boot to install linux, and there's a hacked wacom driver floating around to handle the tablet.
Yeah, I never would've guessed they'd sell that much! Nokia Tacos Takeover Shameless self plug
If I wanted to start a company, this would probably be it. Imagine, tens of millions of kids in the us, and the current trend is to put them behind an expensive windows box. Strip that hardware down, concentrate on a linux distro based on the classroom, and you've got yourself a paycheck, and an extremely rewarding job.
It doesn't make any sense to give a kid either a mac or a windows pc for educational purposes.
Each route is flawed, because either option wastes hardware. You don't need external monitor support, firewire, floppies or big hard drives. You need a thin client with a school-based distro of Linux that is downloaded and run remote off of a mainframe.
Not only does this improve the price-performance ratio, but it also improves accountability by allowing for detailed logging of the kid's activities, and can allow for detailed administrative control on a classroom basis.
Say a teacher has a classroom of students. The students show up, boot up Schoonix (loading remotely via high-speed wireless). The teacher's first subject is geography. The teacher unlocks the Geography Suite of programs for her students. The students are allowed access to pre-determined geography based websites.
A problem occurs, a student can't find the right web page. The teacher clicks on the student's icon on screen and immediately switches to that students desktop. The teacher remotely shows the student how to find the right web page, and everyone moves on.
Sound far-fetched? Not really. Throw together some PAM auth, hack some remote x11 displays, write a couple custom admin programs, and strip down a linux kernel and you already have something that would work much better than Windows or Mac OS X by customizing it for the classroom.
Yes, I know, and the live track isn't the greatest sound quality. If you'd like to hear Puss, who are one of the BEST chiptuners out there, they have some tracks up on Micromusic.net. If you can, either see them live, or buy their cds, or both
After setting up the bittorrent and downloading the movie myself, it looks as though I have an incomplete movie file and so the Bittorrent link is offline. Unless people write saying they want it, it'll stay down. Slashdot effect should be lessened now anyway!
http://www.ubergeek.tv/bt/August2003.mpg.torren
And as always, PLEASE leave your Bittorrent download windows open after you finish, to keep the download alive!
What's with the big Philips logo underneath the media player? Is Microsoft now allowing third-parties to brand their add-ons within the operating system? So now people will get ads from third parties WITHIN the OS as a FEATURE? It sounds like a ploy to detach people from the idea that they bought a private computer, but instead a service brought to you by Microsoft and Partners.
Damn's its, you's got's me! I's don't's know's how's I's missed's that's one's!
Chris Hill
The big issue here is that ActiveX security is flawed to begin with. Companies use this exploit to install 'helpful' software based on the 'Click OK' instinct. This is simply bad design on Microsoft's fault, and companies like Gator have no qualms about using it to their advantage.
.com boom product to ease noobs into the new technology utopia. But most of us are grown up now, and my mom knows how to install software. It's time to stop trading 'ease of use' for security.
;)
Users are given what looks like an official internet explorer endorsement for the software. ActiveX exploits don't have to have _anything_ to do with the webpage in question! They are a major security risk, probably the biggest security hole in MS's bug-ridden heap o' code. Yet little can be done because good productive software people do use ActiveX.
ActiveX was a
BURN ACTIVEX, BURN!!
If these companies are already logging all email, why create a completely new logging system infrastructure for IM?
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Install a Jabber Server. Use the JabberSMTP gateway to fork all your IM over to your mailbox, keeping your IM AND your email in the same place. It would have the added benefit of keeping the IM and Email in chronological order together.
http://www.jabberstudio.org/projects/jsmtp/proj
The idea of all these crazy keyboard designs completely misses the point. Of course there is a place for new and innovative keyboards for accessibility reasons, but if you want to reduce repetitive strain injury, why not try speech recognition? I'm dictating this right now, and boy my hands feel fine!
Naturally speech recognition doesn't work perfectly, but it works well enough to be much faster and user friendly than a keyboard. And at $695.00 you can save yourself a lot of money!
Even more game trailers are available for download on the GameTab Bittorrent page.
If you like you can install the gxine xine GUI for gnome, and it will automatically set up Gxine to be the default viewer for audio and video in Mozilla(and I believe system wide but don't quote me).
my girlfriend has just recently been researching spatial memory within men and women. Here is some text from her debriefing sheet:
most literature on sex differences in cognitive abilities has indicated that on average :
verbal tasks are performed better by women and,
spatial tasks are performed better by man.
However, Silverman & Eals(1992) carried out a simple experiment in which they found that women performed better than men in spatial memory. In their experiments, participants were presented with a range of objects and asked to remember as much as possible about those objects. They were then shown a second presentation, in which some pairs of objects had exchanged locations. When asked to identify those objects that had moved, women on average score higher than men.
In a similar experiment, James and Kimura(1997) a team to the same results as Silverman and Eals when they exchanged location of the objects in the second presentation of objects. However when they presented a second array of the objects in which some objects had moved to previously empty locations, no sex difference was noted in the ability of for two spins to identify objects which had moved.
James & Kimura,D. (1997) sex differences in remembering objects in an array: location shifts versus location exchanges. Evolution and human behavior, 18, 155-163
Silverman,I. & Eals, M. (1992) sex differences in spatial abilities: evolutionary theory and data. In Barkow, J.H, Cosmides,L. & Tooby,J. The Adapted Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Friends of mine who are put off computers by lots of typing are amazed at the way the Tablet PC works. My girlfriend wants to do her next research paper on it. The Tablet PC will be well worth the investment for Microsoft.
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Open source and Linux is gaining some fantastic ground in desktop userland, ground that could be lost by Microsoft re-defining how you interact with your PC through dictation and hand-writing. This has the added benefit of opening up new potential uses for pcs. And new potential buyers.
I thoroughly agree with jkichline, I'm really enjoying the handwriting and speech recognition technologies of my Acer Travelmate. I looked at the Toshiba, which is a great tablet, but rather large, no firewire, no peripherals and overly expensive.
My Acer Travelmate came with WiFi, 800Mhz PIII, 256MB, 30GB, external CD and Floppy, and is a subnotebook with a 10" screen. Battery Life is phenomenal(or average for a subnotebook). The speech recognition technology has been near flawless. After a bit of training, I now dictate all my email. Sorry, but for office-ish desktop work, my tablet pc triumphs over my linux box.
Travelmate review:
http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories
The Bittorent DL is working great for me. At first I got 10KB/s, but now I'm getting 50kB/s. I'm in the UK, and was unable to get more than 10KB/s from the Matrix link. If you're having trouble d/l-ing from there, try the bittorent link above.
Although I couldn't find the older SMS transport, there seems to be another one being made here at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jabbersms
Jabber gateways(transports) work very well. And if it doesn't exist you can write your own in Perl, Python, C , Java and many others using existing libraries to handle network and xml functions. $20 million buys you a hell of a lot of Jabbering!
This will really make you want to change to Mac!
Good point, although I'm not too keen on changing Jabber into another acronym.
When I was trying to explain what Jabber was in a faq it became clear to me from the site that it's not an easy thing to get across. Their older site didn't have a concise explanation anywhere except that it was an instant messaging and presence platform, which don't cut it in my opinion.
I must say though, I keep re-writing this sentence trying to find a reason besides aesthetic taste not to rename it, but XMPP sounds much more descriptive than Jabber. At least it might help to categorize the Jabber protocol as an XMPP protocol, and create the category in the process.
Erm... don't know where it went, the last paragraph should be:
Jabber's modular framework allows for the simple server-side creation and client-side discovery of whatever xml namespaces you'd like for whatever programs you make. As in the book, you can receive CVS commit notifications, stock quote notices or send and receive email with Jabber. Map your jabber components onto xml tags in the config file using TCP sockets, command line progs and XML-RPC. Then clients are able to discover features on the server using the Browsing service.
Jabber is a PROTOCOL, not an instant messenger.
I wish people would stop thinking about Jabber as simply an instant messenger, in the same way Microsoft has realised that MSN Messenger isn't simply an instant messenger. The data exchange of
As things move on from static HTTP GETS to dynamic sockets, companies will look for products that can easily push and pull data asynchronously to servers. And Jabber excels at this.
Jabber's modular framework allows for the simple server-side creation and client-side discovery of whatever xml namespaces you'd like for whatever programs you make. As in the book, you can receive CVS commit notifications, stock quote notices or send and receive email with Jabber.
From the ZDnet review Pogo is essentially a mobile thin client. The problem with using a thin client over the GSM network is that bandwidth is limited to 9.6Kbit/s, compared to a standard wired modem at around 40Kbit/s. Pogo has got around this with some very clever compression software. Pogo Technology's server takes the Web page you want to access and strips out animations, reduces the colours to the 256 the Pogo can display, and swaps the fonts for those that look good on the Pogo screen. Then it compresses the data -- typically to a sixth of the normal amount -- and sends it to the handheld device, where it's uncompressed and displayed. Some file downloads and Web pages are still painfully slow, but in general using the Pogo over GSM feels good -- akin to a wired modem, and very much better than a Nokia 9210 using HSCSD (High Speed Circuit Switched Data) at 28.8Kbit/s. Of course, what would be even better is the clever compression and more bandwidth, and that may yet come. The hardware in the Pogo uses a standard radio module from Wavecom. In fact, it's the same module that Handspring uses in its new Treo devices. The Wavecom module has all the hardware necessary to do GPRS, so you may see a 30Kbit/s upgrade for the Pogo in the next few months.