with voice interaction. Not voice recognition, but voice interaction. You boot up your computer and it asks you what you want to do.
It will have a supersuite of applications installed (or integrated) that can perform any computing function.
Hello Jackass, what would you like to do today?
"I'd like to make a 3-D model of a fire truck."
Alright - Ladder or Pumper?
or
"What's the atomic weight of Strontium?"
Please hold on while I check...The atomic weight of Strontium is 87.62. Is that all?
"Actually, i'm working on a bugger of an equation here...can you help?"
Of Course.
I see the internet and P2P playing a big part in making this happen.
Naturally, all of this requires computing power on the scale of hundreds of times the power of todays fastest CPU's, but there won't be a Paradigm Shift in the GUI until we kill the Interface part.
Forget about skinning - the next rage will be creating personalities for your machine.
No i'm totally not kidding, and i find it offensive that my post was modded down as a troll. I'm being completely honest here.
Perhaps i should have said that the BDE was the bane of my existence, but that my hands are tied becuause the software that i use is intimately tied to it.
While i agree that the BDE is slow to start, and a management nightmare, it doesn't change the fact that a whole horde of applications were developed to use it. Now that Borland has all but forgotten about it, us BDE users are screwed!
I mean, seriously, a 48K limit on the config file?! are you f*cking kidding me?!
While it seems that Delphi, Kylix and JBuilder are going strong, Borland has all but abandoned the (seemingly) less profitable Borland Database Engine. Too bad, too since a lot of applications make use of the BDE.
I'm using such an application right now, and due to some size limits on the BDE's config file, i'm unable to use it as efficiently/effectively as possible. Borlands tech support doesn't cover the BDE, and the only newsgroup on the BDE is not monitored by Borland folks frequently enough (if at all).
While i can understand scaling back certain aspects of one of your product lines, to shift focus/userbase to newer/better products, we're talking the BDE here for Pete's sake!
I've used Red Hat and Mandrake distros, but i have to say that my recent experience with SuSE 8.0 Pro was an absolute dream. From the initial installation to the Yast2 manager, software installation and removal is as good as i've seen in a Linux distro. While the Ximian initial installation is pretty slick - piping the page source to the shell, and the Red Carpet installer is nice too, i prefer Yast2 over both red carpet and up2date.
I don't think i'll be quick to change to another disto after having found SuSE. You've gotta check it out!
With quotes like 'We are an OSS project. Marketing is not our job.' it's no wonder why 98% of the public have never heard of BeOS.
That kind of attitude certainly isn't going to get your OS on any desktops, and pretty soon you won't have any job.
**News Flash** Marketing works - especially if you have a solid product like BeOS was. Do you think MicroSoft and AOL would spend the wads of cash on marketing if it didn't work? Hell I'd be willing to guess that 40% or americans think that America(n) Online is the Internet.
While it may not be the developers' job to market BeOS, they need to be more aware that marketing plays an ever-increasing role in the success of any product - including Operating Systems.
I think you're target audience has proven, on more than one occasion, that collecting information like that is frowned upon.
I don't think the Slashdot community would have that large of a double standard to lambaste Microsoft on the one hand, and then welcome the same behavior on the other for an open source project.
I'm sure my actions as a a global consumer kill at least 1 peasant a year. From pollution, to sweat-shop labor, deforestation, and a whole host of other capitalistic by-products, i don't think a lot of us can claim innocence.
The only difference is that i don't get the million dollars.
There's a brewing controversy in "hollywood" about who should pay for digital equipment in theaters. Theater owners say it's too expensive, and there's no guarantee that the format of digital cinema that's being projected today will still behere, even 10-15 years from now (compared to 35mm).
Film distributors say, the equipment is expensive, sure, but you only have to buy one copy of the film, and you can show it on several screens at once, and move it from screen to screen easier that you can currently.
i tend to be with the theater owners on the issue if save for the Hoyts and other conglomerates... but i think the days of the independent theaters is going, if not already gone.
I think that once a standard gets hammered out (if ever) that a large chunk of the cost will be absorbed by the distributors, since it will be tons cheaper to distribute digital films (got a DSL connection?)
Then again, i've yet to see a digitally projected film (aside from finger shadow puppets..oops wrong digital), so i have no idea where i fall in the whole analog vs. digital debate.
If the content of the FAQ is not soomething like "What causes a sunburn?"
From the article: "...the facts and ideas it exposes are free for the taking."
So if you right a FAQ about something general like 10 FAQ's about tanning, then of course the content isn't copyright protected, unless of course, you have unique information about some factor of tanning.
That's not to say that if your FAQ's are about a specific application or process that you've developed (which a lot of FAQ's are built to answer) that your FAQ would not be copyright protected.
The headline Are FAQs copywritable? is totally dependant upon the content of the FAQ, not the fact that it is an FAQ.
I don't think he intends to be a good dialog writer.
I was watching TPM on DVD the other day, and was listening to the commentary. One of the most telling bits that explained a lot about all of the Star Wars movies is when Lucas said that he made/is making these movies much in the same vane as silent movies. Where what's on the screen, and the accompanying music tell most of the story. I think that dialog is more or less an afterthought to Lucas.
I definately enjoyed watching TPM more without any dailog, just letting the visuals and score take over.
I work in an office where one retard in a cube literally washes his desk, monitor, keyboard and mouse in alcohol (rubbing) before he'll start to work. There are folks in this office that share workstations - he is not one of them.
Besides not seeing that fact that he's just dissenfecting himself from himself, he's no doubt slowly eating away at the plastic, releasing God knows what kind of poly-vinyl-chloride hell, not to mention the alcohol fumes themselves. I can smell it in my office - a good 15 feet away.
Anyway, i wanted to find some litereature like "Alcohol is bad for plastic computer components becuase:", but it looks i'll have to fight the "You're a dirty bastard" crowd too.
Give him a Kevlar body suit and he could be a major menace to the cops.
But we're not talking about the cops, we're talking about spider-fricken-man! I mean as an overall comic book super-hero he rocks - dosproportionately stong, smart, funny, misunderstood by the cops (vigilate), able to walk up and down walls - you know...just about everything but being invisisble.
Yet, he got his ass routinely handed to him by guys named chuggernaught and in rhino suits.
I'm not even going to mention the alligator/scientist...he's lame as hell.
No, spider-man is an ass-kickin' super-hero, but with no asses to kick. Until Venom and carnage showed up.
Slashdot Mirror
How long until this thing winds up on Thinkgeek?
I give it a month.
Really?
I mean, unless you have a crap-load of people calling you (unlikely) why would you subject yourself to the proprietary systems of a PBX/Key system?
A $40 Voicemail system is just fine, thank you.
You could always go this route. I think it would solve the watertight/vibration sensitivity issues, plus i'd be willing to bet it floats too!
with voice interaction. Not voice recognition, but voice interaction. You boot up your computer and it asks you what you want to do.
It will have a supersuite of applications installed (or integrated) that can perform any computing function.
Hello Jackass, what would you like to do today?
"I'd like to make a 3-D model of a fire truck."
Alright - Ladder or Pumper?
or
"What's the atomic weight of Strontium?"
Please hold on while I check...The atomic weight of Strontium is 87.62. Is that all?
"Actually, i'm working on a bugger of an equation here...can you help?"
Of Course.
I see the internet and P2P playing a big part in making this happen.
Naturally, all of this requires computing power on the scale of hundreds of times the power of todays fastest CPU's, but there won't be a Paradigm Shift in the GUI until we kill the Interface part.
Forget about skinning - the next rage will be creating personalities for your machine.
No i'm totally not kidding, and i find it offensive that my post was modded down as a troll. I'm being completely honest here.
Perhaps i should have said that the BDE was the bane of my existence, but that my hands are tied becuause the software that i use is intimately tied to it.
While i agree that the BDE is slow to start, and a management nightmare, it doesn't change the fact that a whole horde of applications were developed to use it. Now that Borland has all but forgotten about it, us BDE users are screwed!
I mean, seriously, a 48K limit on the config file?! are you f*cking kidding me?!
While it seems that Delphi, Kylix and JBuilder are going strong, Borland has all but abandoned the (seemingly) less profitable Borland Database Engine. Too bad, too since a lot of applications make use of the BDE.
I'm using such an application right now, and due to some size limits on the BDE's config file, i'm unable to use it as efficiently/effectively as possible. Borlands tech support doesn't cover the BDE, and the only newsgroup on the BDE is not monitored by Borland folks frequently enough (if at all).
While i can understand scaling back certain aspects of one of your product lines, to shift focus/userbase to newer/better products, we're talking the BDE here for Pete's sake!
It's just frustrating.
I've used Red Hat and Mandrake distros, but i have to say that my recent experience with SuSE 8.0 Pro was an absolute dream. From the initial installation to the Yast2 manager, software installation and removal is as good as i've seen in a Linux distro. While the Ximian initial installation is pretty slick - piping the page source to the shell, and the Red Carpet installer is nice too, i prefer Yast2 over both red carpet and up2date.
I don't think i'll be quick to change to another disto after having found SuSE. You've gotta check it out!
I loved Raid on Bungeling Bay on the C64!!!
Does anyone know if there's a flash version somewhere, or anything outside of a C64 emulator that is playable?
Brings me back...
With quotes like 'We are an OSS project. Marketing is not our job.' it's no wonder why 98% of the public have never heard of BeOS.
That kind of attitude certainly isn't going to get your OS on any desktops, and pretty soon you won't have any job.
**News Flash** Marketing works - especially if you have a solid product like BeOS was. Do you think MicroSoft and AOL would spend the wads of cash on marketing if it didn't work? Hell I'd be willing to guess that 40% or americans think that America(n) Online is the Internet.
While it may not be the developers' job to market BeOS, they need to be more aware that marketing plays an ever-increasing role in the success of any product - including Operating Systems.
Yeah, right!
I think you're target audience has proven, on more than one occasion, that collecting information like that is frowned upon.
I don't think the Slashdot community would have that large of a double standard to lambaste Microsoft on the one hand, and then welcome the same behavior on the other for an open source project.
I may be wrong though.
I always thought that it was "shock the monkey" that Peter Gabriel wrote about this experiment...
I'm sure my actions as a a global consumer kill at least 1 peasant a year. From pollution, to sweat-shop labor, deforestation, and a whole host of other capitalistic by-products, i don't think a lot of us can claim innocence.
The only difference is that i don't get the million dollars.
Citrix has a client for Pocket PC, and there's a VNC client for PalmOS.
Is it just me or does the four years these guys spent perfecting the code they "stumbled upon" seem like a huge waste of time?
There's a brewing controversy in "hollywood" about who should pay for digital equipment in theaters. Theater owners say it's too expensive, and there's no guarantee that the format of digital cinema that's being projected today will still behere, even 10-15 years from now (compared to 35mm).
Film distributors say, the equipment is expensive, sure, but you only have to buy one copy of the film, and you can show it on several screens at once, and move it from screen to screen easier that you can currently.
i tend to be with the theater owners on the issue if save for the Hoyts and other conglomerates... but i think the days of the independent theaters is going, if not already gone.
I think that once a standard gets hammered out (if ever) that a large chunk of the cost will be absorbed by the distributors, since it will be tons cheaper to distribute digital films (got a DSL connection?)
Then again, i've yet to see a digitally projected film (aside from finger shadow puppets..oops wrong digital), so i have no idea where i fall in the whole analog vs. digital debate.
'Cause i did.
"Network Associates recently announced the closure of PGP Security business unit"
From pgp.com
Yeah, their poised to take over the PGP world.
If the content of the FAQ is not soomething like "What causes a sunburn?"
From the article: "...the facts and ideas it exposes are free for the taking."
So if you right a FAQ about something general like 10 FAQ's about tanning, then of course the content isn't copyright protected, unless of course, you have unique information about some factor of tanning.
That's not to say that if your FAQ's are about a specific application or process that you've developed (which a lot of FAQ's are built to answer) that your FAQ would not be copyright protected.
The headline Are FAQs copywritable? is totally dependant upon the content of the FAQ, not the fact that it is an FAQ.
He's still no good at writing dialogue
I don't think he intends to be a good dialog writer.
I was watching TPM on DVD the other day, and was listening to the commentary. One of the most telling bits that explained a lot about all of the Star Wars movies is when Lucas said that he made/is making these movies much in the same vane as silent movies. Where what's on the screen, and the accompanying music tell most of the story. I think that dialog is more or less an afterthought to Lucas.
I definately enjoyed watching TPM more without any dailog, just letting the visuals and score take over.
Maybe it's because you're not a lawyer or a judge.
i don't get what the infatuation is with washing after being in the bathroom.
You're a dirt crap factory!
i hope you don't work in my building, and that i never eat at the same restaurant that you do.
I work in an office where one retard in a cube literally washes his desk, monitor, keyboard and mouse in alcohol (rubbing) before he'll start to work. There are folks in this office that share workstations - he is not one of them.
Besides not seeing that fact that he's just dissenfecting himself from himself, he's no doubt slowly eating away at the plastic, releasing God knows what kind of poly-vinyl-chloride hell, not to mention the alcohol fumes themselves. I can smell it in my office - a good 15 feet away.
Anyway, i wanted to find some litereature like "Alcohol is bad for plastic computer components becuase:", but it looks i'll have to fight the "You're a dirty bastard" crowd too.
Damn!
Guess i'll just unplug his network cable.
Thankfully, i think the majority of us can say that we don't spend most of both our professional and personal time in front of our toilets.
Someone should start naming their wine distributions - Burgundy, Pino Grigio, etc. So i can tell who the hell is contributing to what!
"the HP way"? What the hell is that?
Sure they were revolutionaries for their time, but then again, so were a lot of other companies.
When i think of HP now (or three months ago) i think of crappy Sam's Club PC's and overrated Inkjet printers. There's nothing innovative about that!
I find that if i tell my boss that i'm thinking aloud-side of the box, i get funny looks.
Give him a Kevlar body suit and he could be a major menace to the cops.
But we're not talking about the cops, we're talking about spider-fricken-man! I mean as an overall comic book super-hero he rocks - dosproportionately stong, smart, funny, misunderstood by the cops (vigilate), able to walk up and down walls - you know...just about everything but being invisisble.
Yet, he got his ass routinely handed to him by guys named chuggernaught and in rhino suits.
I'm not even going to mention the alligator/scientist...he's lame as hell.
No, spider-man is an ass-kickin' super-hero, but with no asses to kick. Until Venom and carnage showed up.