The big aim right now it appears is all the RSA security. That will bring in many more wireless m-banking and m-commerce applications, as well as really, really appeal to the enterprise base.
Truth be known, they're running out of features to add to their software (hence the new rental-style licensing), so they've gotta find some other way to entice upgrades. Anyone else notice how morally repulsive it is to sell an upgrade to a product where the biggest feature is "it does what we promised the old version would do."
This is really a sickening question. Just because something sends a certain number of bits over a wire in a given timeframe doesn't mean it's equivalent to everything else with the same data rate.
Firewire and Ethernet have two very different applications and are designed accordingly. Do you want to give your external hard drives, digital cameras, and iPods IP addresses? Do you want to have to worry about firewalling & routing for you iPod? How would you coordinate the caches of two different machines using the same disk? If you don't want to do that, do you want to worry about some sort of locking mechanism for the disk, to prevent concurrent access?
Most importantly, just grow up. Silly benchmarks like bandwidth, clock speed, etc., are just useful for comparing objects IN THE SAME CLASS. Maybe/. will one day grow out of their "bandwidth/clockrate == penis size" mentality and actually worry about getting USEFUL PERFORMANCE out of their systems. Sheesh.
I swear I've seen this device before. My younger brother used to play video games on it. It had the thinnest cartridges... And as everyone's pointed out, iPod killer my hairy ass...
Apple's making alot of money from the iPod, and not just from the device's sales. The iPod is bringing in people to the Apple Store, where many of them end up buying Macs. 40% of the Apple Store's computer buyers don't already own macs.
If you're planning to require the user to have a specific piece of software on their machine already, why not give them Java web start?
Then you can use something your developers are more likely to know. Besides, the more popular the technology, the less expensive the developers...
A simple function converts a tuple of (session key, date) back & forth to a string you can put in a URL is pretty simple to set up. That way, the session key itself is never alone in the URL. And if you really, really want to be paranoid about it (in case the session keys can be used to access/modify sensitive information), you can attach a digital signature to the whole thing. i.e. (session key, date, signature of (session key,date)) is converted to a string that's put in the URL.
If you put a time-date stamp of the session key in the URL, then you solve the third problem. If you get a URL where the session has expired, a new one can be created immediately, and the user can be redirected into that session via all the links in the page they get back. That would also fix the copy/paste/post problem.
Haha, forgive me. Let me add the clause that they have to work well (that includes the GIMP and apache) all on one box.. And adobe's apps won't inherit the memory problems from the classic versions.
Webobjects is a great development environment. It's all Java w/v5, well priced (only $99 for students, $699 for everyone else), and is finally getting some good documentation. I'm getting into it myself and I'm pretty impressed.
If you don't like WebObjects, that's fine. Tomcat runs great on OS X (and you can find a point-n-click installer on the web), and Project Builder is a good dev environment. Besides, where else can you use photoshop, illustrator, gimp, and apache all on one box?
Call it a firewire disk with a built in mp3 decoder. Being able to carry a complete system configuration (all your files, applications, your OS configuration, and all your settings) with you can be *very* useful.
There are other things that 64 bits gets you than just bigger numbers. You also can scan, process, or copy data in much bigger chunks. Functions such as memcpy, strcmp, and strlen can be significantly sped up with a 64 bit boost.
The original UNIX kernel was dated from the summer of 1969, and runs (in various forms) in thousands if not millions of computers today (not counting BSD derived sources,which were essentially an incremental rewrite).
Why an XBOX? I've got a playstation 2 that runs well, plays all my DVDs, and plays many games. Also, you can already get a good selection of modchip for things like region encoding, playing backups, etc. Why give any $$$ Microsoft's way? How many times can you play Halo?
The right way to charge for online use is going to have to be a hybrid system. For sites that I frequent (say WSJ &/.), a subscription based model seems best to me -- a flat monthly fee that's worth it because I'm on their site alot. For sites that I need to use occassionally, say consumerreports.com, I'd be much happier giving them say 25 cents for every car I look up than their current $4 monthly charge -- I don't plan to be in the market for very long. And for many others, like those where the audience is well targeted, ad-banners do work well, which makes things even simpler in those cases.
How about getting drywall presprayed with this stuff? Then you just run a small wire down to your light switch and the ceiling (or all the walls) light up. Power usage down, no need for lamps!
And most importantly, it'll look like those cool futuristic movies from the 1960s!
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The big aim right now it appears is all the RSA security. That will bring in many more wireless m-banking and m-commerce applications, as well as really, really appeal to the enterprise base.
Truth be known, they're running out of features to add to their software (hence the new rental-style licensing), so they've gotta find some other way to entice upgrades. Anyone else notice how morally repulsive it is to sell an upgrade to a product where the biggest feature is "it does what we promised the old version would do."
Firewire and Ethernet have two very different applications and are designed accordingly. Do you want to give your external hard drives, digital cameras, and iPods IP addresses? Do you want to have to worry about firewalling & routing for you iPod? How would you coordinate the caches of two different machines using the same disk? If you don't want to do that, do you want to worry about some sort of locking mechanism for the disk, to prevent concurrent access?
Most importantly, just grow up. Silly benchmarks like bandwidth, clock speed, etc., are just useful for comparing objects IN THE SAME CLASS. Maybe /. will one day grow out of their "bandwidth/clockrate == penis size" mentality and actually worry about getting USEFUL PERFORMANCE out of their systems. Sheesh.
Try any recent pro-level macintosh, including the portables. They run 1000BaseT, and they use normal ethernet cables to do it.
So, other than hunting & killing aliens on mars, or surviving a post-apoctalyptic wasteland version of Earth, what can I use this thing for, exactly?
I swear I've seen this device before. My younger brother used to play video games on it. It had the thinnest cartridges... And as everyone's pointed out, iPod killer my hairy ass...
Apple's making alot of money from the iPod, and not just from the device's sales. The iPod is bringing in people to the Apple Store, where many of them end up buying Macs. 40% of the Apple Store's computer buyers don't already own macs.
The story's made CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/01/02/aol.secur ity.ap/index.html.
If you're planning to require the user to have a specific piece of software on their machine already, why not give them Java web start?
Then you can use something your developers are more likely to know. Besides, the more popular the technology, the less expensive the developers...
A simple function converts a tuple of (session key, date) back & forth to a string you can put in a URL is pretty simple to set up. That way, the session key itself is never alone in the URL. And if you really, really want to be paranoid about it (in case the session keys can be used to access/modify sensitive information), you can attach a digital signature to the whole thing. i.e. (session key, date, signature of (session key,date)) is converted to a string that's put in the URL.
If you put a time-date stamp of the session key in the URL, then you solve the third problem. If you get a URL where the session has expired, a new one can be created immediately, and the user can be redirected into that session via all the links in the page they get back. That would also fix the copy/paste/post problem.
Usually the best way is to hold the session key in the URL the user's using.
Haha, forgive me. Let me add the clause that they have to work well (that includes the GIMP and apache) all on one box.. And adobe's apps won't inherit the memory problems from the classic versions.
If you don't like WebObjects, that's fine. Tomcat runs great on OS X (and you can find a point-n-click installer on the web), and Project Builder is a good dev environment. Besides, where else can you use photoshop, illustrator, gimp, and apache all on one box?
Call it a firewire disk with a built in mp3 decoder. Being able to carry a complete system configuration (all your files, applications, your OS configuration, and all your settings) with you can be *very* useful.
(But remember, drugs are bad! bad!)
There are other things that 64 bits gets you than just bigger numbers. You also can scan, process, or copy data in much bigger chunks. Functions such as memcpy, strcmp, and strlen can be significantly sped up with a 64 bit boost.
Counting BSD, we're up to millions, easily.
You can always throw money at a problem. That way, if it isn't fixed, it's either a financial or a vendor issue.
Why an XBOX? I've got a playstation 2 that runs well, plays all my DVDs, and plays many games. Also, you can already get a good selection of modchip for things like region encoding, playing backups, etc. Why give any $$$ Microsoft's way? How many times can you play Halo?
I've been looking at the Sun Rays and have wondered how they've run out in the real world. Has anyone had any experience with these or other systems?
No silver bullet, just a bagful of clips.
And most importantly, it'll look like those cool futuristic movies from the 1960s!
Yeah, but it's pretty easy for a smart theif to be hired as a janitor.
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