1. Play for Sure???? Why doesn't the Zune support Microsoft's own standard for DRM'd music? That bolws a lot of trust that I will get to play my music in the future. 2. Work with Windows MediaPlayer. You know like Play for Sure devices do. 3. WiFI sync. 4. Allow me to sync with my 360 content. Why the heck do we have Play for sure, XBL market place, and the Zune Marketplace?????? 5. Good car interfaces.
Actually I am dyslexic so I tend to rely on the spelling checker more than most do. If you don't want to take me seriously then that is fine I would rather judge the content than the spelling or grammar of any post. Also this is freaking Slashdot and not a paper for school or a business report. For that type of writing I spend a lot more time proofreading that you can probably imagine. Since I don't get paid or graded on my slashdot posts I don't spend that much time.
Simply put picking on my spelling is like making fun of a blind guy tripping.
I didn't know that. Well Sony is a step ahead of Microsoft then. I fear that Microsoft greed is stopping them in this case. They want to sell you Windows Media Center, a 360, and a Zune. Sony is happy just selling you a PS3 and a PSP. The next question is will Sony or Microsoft be the first to let you add an external HD for content? I know that you can put an External HD on the 360 but the 360 will not use it for content yet. A PVR/Hardrive add on plus the ability to sync the Zune could be very interesting. Maybe a deal with Comcast to let you download from you PVR to your XBox and or Zune. Again greed will stop this. Microsoft wants you to buy TV shows from them.
But it is games that drive the console. The other stuff is just nice to have for the Nintendo set. I admint that I can hardly wait to get Opera for my DS.
They want you to use the game console as media center. They want you to buy video and music from their online stores. Frankly I still don't understand why you can not take video from the 360 and put it on your Zune. Microsoft and Sony see the console as a way to get into the living room and replace TV. Nintendo sees consoles as way to play games. I keep wondering when Sony is going to let you take video from the PS/3 and put it on your PSP. It seem logical the PS/3, 360, Zune, and PSP all have wifi seems like a logical jump. The other reason for big hard drives would be for downloading games. Sony and Microsoft would love that. No more Gamestop and no more used games. Bandwidth and lack of HD space is the only thing stopping it. Now if Microsoft put a burner in the 360.
"I don't know about the concept: a flying wing four feet wide, eight feet long, and only 400 mph seems a bit ambitious to me, but if the math supports it..." It doesn't The power to weight ratio required is way more than you could get from any internal combustion engine that is reliable enough for manned flight. It has hovered but how much fuel did it carry? How much load? The control system is an excuse. Set it up for a conventional pilot if that is possible. Frankly the Skycar makes the BD-5 look like a great success.
The bands are acting as the mouthpiece for the RIAA/Music companies. The RIAA counts... which is really way too bad. Good grief the RIAA is for Net neutrality... I feel like I need to take a long shower and scrub really hard now..
BTW the record companies want to sell you music with DRM and music videos with DRM. They don't want to pay Verizon and or AT&T the extra fees they want to charge the content providers for using their tubes. It is all about the money.
"1) It isn't supported by a major corporation who can be used a "blame sink" if things go wrong." Well Novell seems to be getting into Mono. Novell is a company that a lot of big enterpise customers actually seem to like. I keep getting the feeling that a lot of companies are just looking for a good enough reason to embrace novell again.
I agree about Eclipse and Netbeans. I used Netbeans for Java and Eclipse CDT for c. KDevelop is too KDE centric for me. I am doing cross development for Linux running on an XScale and I just couldn't get KDevelop to work for that. Eclipse CDT while a work in progress isn't bad.
I don't hate rewriting code for a good reason. If a website would work better with Ajax then it is worth a rewrite. What I don't want to do is be forced to do a rewrite because a Programming language was EOL. Now when we ported/rewrote our DOS product for Windows32 we did move from TurboPascal to Visual C++. Looking back that was a good move on our part. It was also wise of us not to get involved with VB since VB has been redefined so many times that it just doesn't seem worth it.
Simple Nothing has shipped yet. So we will see. Intel's GPUs are fine for home use but not in the same category as ATI or NVidia. The company that might really loose big in all this is NVidia. If Intel and AMD start integrating good GPU cores on the same die as the CPU where will that leave NVidia? It could be left in the dust.
"Take e=mc2, then account for losses during the actual generation, and you do the math (it's a f*ckton more than you get out of a pound of coal)." Uranium isn't antimatter. The actual mass converted to energy is I think two neutrons per atom of uranium. I think it works out too two grams per mole of uranium. Then you have to work out how much of the fuel actually undergoes fission and go from their. I think an average reactor uses under 100 lbs of uranium fuel a year and yes it still works out to a lot more than a ton much less a pound of coal.
Wow as much as the place I work ticks me off I am grateful that programmers make the decision what tools are used. And to it never crossed my mind that I would want to be forced to port the same working code to a new Microsoft platform over and over again. I would much rather spend my time adding new features and making the code more failsafe and bug free and maybe easier to use. But then we use C++, Java, Perl, PHP, and Python where I work. And we are going to an Linux based phone system. And we use PostgresSQL for most of our in house databases except the accounting system which runs on our only Windows server. I have to agree about Mono. I have not learned it so I don't want to bad mouth it too much. Java I know and I actually like. You can write a good application very quickly with Java. And there are a number of free Development systems that are actually very nice to use like Netbeans and Eclipse.
"They must redistribute THE FULL SOURCE, even if it's NOT changed, of whatever they're loading." So if I give out Ubuntu CDs I must redistribute the full source even if it is publicly available already? If so then every LUG that distributed free CDs is in violation of the GPL. If you don't change it and it is available from public sources why should you have to distribute it?
I wounder if there is any GPL issues at all. The source for all of the GPL components are freely available. Unless they modified them there is no violation I can see. If so anytime you give a friend an Ubuntu CD you are in violation since you are distributing Linux with out distributing the source. The question is if you distribute Linux or any other GPL program must you supply a source repository or are public repositories good enough? If the software they run under Linux isn't GPLed then they don't have to distribute anything. Frankly $30 to unlock the box seems like a fair price.
Yep. What is really happening is that the production of Uranium has almost stopped and the old nuclear weapons are almost used up. Time to start mining again. The US, Austraila, and Canada all have a good amount of it. And even then it is at what $80 a pound right now... How much energy can you get from a pound of Uranium?
Developers choose their jobs. I still don't know how VB managed to sneak in to IT. I mean Basic??? I think it started with little useful utilities written by somebody out side of IT just mutated from there. I do lump the decision makers into the classification of developer. The people they decide what tools are used to develop should be developers themselves. They should also know that they have a big and expensive task in moving from traditional VB to C# or VB.NET. Let us not for get the several million lines of Foxpro code that are now also facing it's end of life. Seems like a great opportunity for Java or Mono if they can just wake up the sheep.
"People are lying but it doesn't matter. Real companies aren't blinded by such blatant lies. They want OS that deliver performances (Linux, Solaris,...) and they now want real portability." If that was true then you wouldn't have millions of line of VB code running in corporations. That is what gets me. VB.NET isn't compatible with all that classic VB code. You would think that they would run screaming from another Microsoft language trap. Yet for some reason they are lining up for.NET like lambs to the slaughter while the developers that choose Java just go on their merry way.
I hate to say it but I always felt Mono was a mistake. The problem with.NET is that it really is a Windows only system. When you try to point that out people say not it isn't you can use Mono. A convent lie that lets.NET compete with Java right up to the point where you have tens of thousands of lines of code and you want to migrate to a different platform. Then the Microsoft sales rep can say, "You know Mono really has fallen behind.NET. You can port your applications if you want but it would just be cheaper to stick with Windows. Once you add in the cost of porting all that code your Total Cost of Ownership will be much less with Windows. Oh and would you like some more copies of Office and another Exchange server to got with that?"
Too bad. If that is an issue then they can include a bootable CD that puts the hardware in a known state without overwriting the hard drive. There is no such thing as a none custom software set up. People load software and yes even sometimes malware on a system. There is an assumption with a computer that you will load software on it. If they are going to not offer warranty support if I load a different OS then it is up to HP to clearly state that before I buy a computer from them. And let's be honest. From what I have heard about HP/Compaq there tech-support is reload the the restore image and if that doesn't work send it in. Don't get me started on what a ripe off HD based restore images are! Yea you have an 100 gigabyte hard drive but X amount is your restore partition because we are too cheap to include a disk.
So go for it. http://www.psism.com/adcf.htm Has CompactFlash to IDE adaptors. Get a few of these and some Compact Flashcards and then set up a Flash based raid. I Would keep a my swap on a regular drive but modern motherboards tend to have a few IDE slots and a few Sata connectors. Could be a cool little system.
No I bought a computer. A computer is a thing to run software on. Any software that I legally own. My guess is that is probably illegal. Kind of like a car dealer requiring you to get oil changes at the dealership to honor the warranty.
A few reasons. 1. There is very little bandwidth available in Alaska. 2. It costs a lot to build anything in Alaska.
Back in the 30s and 40s a lot of Aluminium smelters where built in the Pacific North West and around Tennessee because of the cheap hydro power. I think you will see more data centers in the US moving to those locations. You have cheap power and nice cold rivers for cooling. Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo are already building some on the Oregon/Washington boarder.
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1. Play for Sure???? Why doesn't the Zune support Microsoft's own standard for DRM'd music? That bolws a lot of trust that I will get to play my music in the future.
2. Work with Windows MediaPlayer. You know like Play for Sure devices do.
3. WiFI sync.
4. Allow me to sync with my 360 content. Why the heck do we have Play for sure, XBL market place, and the Zune Marketplace??????
5. Good car interfaces.
Actually I am dyslexic so I tend to rely on the spelling checker more than most do.
If you don't want to take me seriously then that is fine I would rather judge the content than the spelling or grammar of any post.
Also this is freaking Slashdot and not a paper for school or a business report. For that type of writing I spend a lot more time proofreading that you can probably imagine. Since I don't get paid or graded on my slashdot posts I don't spend that much time.
Simply put picking on my spelling is like making fun of a blind guy tripping.
I didn't know that. Well Sony is a step ahead of Microsoft then. I fear that Microsoft greed is stopping them in this case. They want to sell you Windows Media Center, a 360, and a Zune. Sony is happy just selling you a PS3 and a PSP.
The next question is will Sony or Microsoft be the first to let you add an external HD for content? I know that you can put an External HD on the 360 but the 360 will not use it for content yet. A PVR/Hardrive add on plus the ability to sync the Zune could be very interesting. Maybe a deal with Comcast to let you download from you PVR to your XBox and or Zune. Again greed will stop this. Microsoft wants you to buy TV shows from them.
But it is games that drive the console. The other stuff is just nice to have for the Nintendo set. I admint that I can hardly wait to get Opera for my DS.
They want you to use the game console as media center. They want you to buy video and music from their online stores.
Frankly I still don't understand why you can not take video from the 360 and put it on your Zune.
Microsoft and Sony see the console as a way to get into the living room and replace TV. Nintendo sees consoles as way to play games.
I keep wondering when Sony is going to let you take video from the PS/3 and put it on your PSP.
It seem logical the PS/3, 360, Zune, and PSP all have wifi seems like a logical jump.
The other reason for big hard drives would be for downloading games. Sony and Microsoft would love that. No more Gamestop and no more used games.
Bandwidth and lack of HD space is the only thing stopping it. Now if Microsoft put a burner in the 360.
"I don't know about the concept: a flying wing four feet wide, eight feet long, and only 400 mph seems a bit ambitious to me, but if the math supports it..."
It doesn't The power to weight ratio required is way more than you could get from any internal combustion engine that is reliable enough for manned flight.
It has hovered but how much fuel did it carry? How much load?
The control system is an excuse. Set it up for a conventional pilot if that is possible.
Frankly the Skycar makes the BD-5 look like a great success.
I so hope that physics engines don't go mainstream. I fear what eye-candy might end up on my GUI. The wobble windows are bad enough.
The bands are acting as the mouthpiece for the RIAA/Music companies.
The RIAA counts... which is really way too bad.
Good grief the RIAA is for Net neutrality... I feel like I need to take a long shower and scrub really hard now..
BTW the record companies want to sell you music with DRM and music videos with DRM. They don't want to pay Verizon and or AT&T the extra fees they want to charge the content providers for using their tubes.
It is all about the money.
"1) It isn't supported by a major corporation who can be used a "blame sink" if things go wrong."
Well Novell seems to be getting into Mono. Novell is a company that a lot of big enterpise customers actually seem to like. I keep getting the feeling that a lot of companies are just looking for a good enough reason to embrace novell again.
I agree about Eclipse and Netbeans. I used Netbeans for Java and Eclipse CDT for c. KDevelop is too KDE centric for me. I am doing cross development for Linux running on an XScale and I just couldn't get KDevelop to work for that. Eclipse CDT while a work in progress isn't bad.
I don't hate rewriting code for a good reason. If a website would work better with Ajax then it is worth a rewrite. What I don't want to do is be forced to do a rewrite because a Programming language was EOL. Now when we ported/rewrote our DOS product for Windows32 we did move from TurboPascal to Visual C++. Looking back that was a good move on our part. It was also wise of us not to get involved with VB since VB has been redefined so many times that it just doesn't seem worth it.
Simple Nothing has shipped yet.
So we will see. Intel's GPUs are fine for home use but not in the same category as ATI or NVidia. The company that might really loose big in all this is NVidia. If Intel and AMD start integrating good GPU cores on the same die as the CPU where will that leave NVidia?
It could be left in the dust.
"Take e=mc2, then account for losses during the actual generation, and you do the math (it's a f*ckton more than you get out of a pound of coal)."
Uranium isn't antimatter. The actual mass converted to energy is I think two neutrons per atom of uranium. I think it works out too two grams per mole of uranium. Then you have to work out how much of the fuel actually undergoes fission and go from their.
I think an average reactor uses under 100 lbs of uranium fuel a year and yes it still works out to a lot more than a ton much less a pound of coal.
Wow as much as the place I work ticks me off I am grateful that programmers make the decision what tools are used.
And to it never crossed my mind that I would want to be forced to port the same working code to a new Microsoft platform over and over again. I would much rather spend my time adding new features and making the code more failsafe and bug free and maybe easier to use.
But then we use C++, Java, Perl, PHP, and Python where I work.
And we are going to an Linux based phone system.
And we use PostgresSQL for most of our in house databases except the accounting system which runs on our only Windows server.
I have to agree about Mono. I have not learned it so I don't want to bad mouth it too much. Java I know and I actually like. You can write a good application very quickly with Java.
And there are a number of free Development systems that are actually very nice to use like Netbeans and Eclipse.
"They must redistribute THE FULL SOURCE, even if it's NOT changed, of whatever they're loading."
So if I give out Ubuntu CDs I must redistribute the full source even if it is publicly available already?
If so then every LUG that distributed free CDs is in violation of the GPL.
If you don't change it and it is available from public sources why should you have to distribute it?
I wounder if there is any GPL issues at all.
The source for all of the GPL components are freely available. Unless they modified them there is no violation I can see. If so anytime you give a friend an Ubuntu CD you are in violation since you are distributing Linux with out distributing the source. The question is if you distribute Linux or any other GPL program must you supply a source repository or are public repositories good enough?
If the software they run under Linux isn't GPLed then they don't have to distribute anything.
Frankly $30 to unlock the box seems like a fair price.
Yep. What is really happening is that the production of Uranium has almost stopped and the old nuclear weapons are almost used up. Time to start mining again. The US, Austraila, and Canada all have a good amount of it. And even then it is at what $80 a pound right now... How much energy can you get from a pound of Uranium?
Developers choose their jobs. I still don't know how VB managed to sneak in to IT. I mean Basic??? I think it started with little useful utilities written by somebody out side of IT just mutated from there.
I do lump the decision makers into the classification of developer. The people they decide what tools are used to develop should be developers themselves. They should also know that they have a big and expensive task in moving from traditional VB to C# or VB.NET. Let us not for get the several million lines of Foxpro code that are now also facing it's end of life. Seems like a great opportunity for Java or Mono if they can just wake up the sheep.
There is nothing about Unix that makes it any less object-oriented than Windows. Just take a look at just about anything written using KDE/QT.
"People are lying but it doesn't matter. Real companies aren't blinded by such blatant lies. They want OS that deliver performances (Linux, Solaris, ...) and they now want real portability." .NET like lambs to the slaughter while the developers that choose Java just go on their merry way.
If that was true then you wouldn't have millions of line of VB code running in corporations. That is what gets me. VB.NET isn't compatible with all that classic VB code. You would think that they would run screaming from another Microsoft language trap. Yet for some reason they are lining up for
And WindowsNT was multiplatfrom. Intel sold MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC versions of NT....
The only non-Intel NT/W32 Kernel sits at the heart of the 360.
I hate to say it but I always felt Mono was a mistake. The problem with .NET is that it really is a Windows only system. When you try to point that out people say not it isn't you can use Mono. A convent lie that lets .NET compete with Java right up to the point where you have tens of thousands of lines of code and you want to migrate to a different platform. Then the Microsoft sales rep can say, "You know Mono really has fallen behind .NET. You can port your applications if you want but it would just be cheaper to stick with Windows. Once you add in the cost of porting all that code your Total Cost of Ownership will be much less with Windows. Oh and would you like some more copies of Office and another Exchange server to got with that?"
.NET is not.
Mono is multi-platform
Firefox, Thunderbird, Gimp, Gaim, Filezilla, 7-Zip, Blender, and PDFCreator are a few off the top of my head that I would include.
Too bad.
If that is an issue then they can include a bootable CD that puts the hardware in a known state without overwriting the hard drive.
There is no such thing as a none custom software set up. People load software and yes even sometimes malware on a system. There is an assumption with a computer that you will load software on it. If they are going to not offer warranty support if I load a different OS then it is up to HP to clearly state that before I buy a computer from them.
And let's be honest. From what I have heard about HP/Compaq there tech-support is reload the the restore image and if that doesn't work send it in.
Don't get me started on what a ripe off HD based restore images are! Yea you have an 100 gigabyte hard drive but X amount is your restore partition because we are too cheap to include a disk.
So go for it.
http://www.psism.com/adcf.htm
Has CompactFlash to IDE adaptors.
Get a few of these and some Compact Flashcards and then set up a Flash based raid. I Would keep a my swap on a regular drive but modern motherboards tend to have a few IDE slots and a few Sata connectors.
Could be a cool little system.
No I bought a computer. A computer is a thing to run software on. Any software that I legally own. My guess is that is probably illegal. Kind of like a car dealer requiring you to get oil changes at the dealership to honor the warranty.
A few reasons.
1. There is very little bandwidth available in Alaska.
2. It costs a lot to build anything in Alaska.
Back in the 30s and 40s a lot of Aluminium smelters where built in the Pacific North West and around Tennessee because of the cheap hydro power. I think you will see more data centers in the US moving to those locations. You have cheap power and nice cold rivers for cooling. Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo are already building some on the Oregon/Washington boarder.