Well, you should be. Don't stop watching current, specially the bad implementations of the idea and go to the idea itself.
For me, if i need to carry devices to do some task, carrying the less possible ones, because they have all those tasks integrated, could be better, specially if do all those tasks well. Integrating in a device that combines a cell phone, a pim, a photo camera, a somewhat flexible internet access, games, ebook reading, mobile storage for data, a calculator, etc, and doing all of them as well as separate/dedicated devices should be far better than carry one device for each of those tasks.
And i dont seeing any paradox here that could avoid reaching that "perfect" device now or in some near future, that could not be solved by a smarter design (i.e. why need big keyboards for what should be small phones), or some improved technology (i.e. what if i want to speak while watching a web page).
That is currently all being packed as "cell phone+something" is because the cell phone is the most popular carried electronic device by now that could have all that functionality. And i bet that if some new kind of thin, seamless wearable computer have all of this and cell phone capatibilites, will be called cell phone more than wearable computer.
Of course, im not saying here that any current (or even in near future) implementation of the "cell phone does all" idea is right for the task. Just that the concept is valid and you can just wait till what you think is perfect device comes out, or pick good enough for you implementations of it.
Probably most of them have as science fiction some extrange device was used, so "must be science fiction", so you have there The Avengers, Batman, Buffy (!), Tales from the crypt (!!!) and a lot more. Not sure if Dick tracy had a serie, but if had, just for the clock ("hey, look! have a tv on the clock!") they would count that as science fiction (wonder why they didnt put Hulk there too)
For me all Star trek series should had count (i would even put a bit higher Voyager, specially since they started to mess with the Borgs), i think there was a new edition of Twilight zone that they didnt counted neither, and remove series that were clearly fantasy (xena?), terror (buffy), spies (man from uncle, even wild wild west), comedy (3rd rock from the sun, or the not named there mork&mindy or alf), and probably all the superhero kind of series they put there would be apart... science fiction for me is something that is central to the plot and not an excuse to do something extrange.
So again Microsoft is blending the "safe" desktop with the wild internet?
I remember when was a practical joke saying that reading a mail could hurt your computer, remember when there was no way to affect your computer just watching web pages, when all the efforts around java was to separate as much as possible what is from internet from what is the viewer's computer. And of course, Microsoft gived us Outlook, Internet Explorer, and ActiveX to change those obsolete ideas with really trivial examples.
I really hope Microsoft has learned from its past mistakes, else a lot of people will die laffing on the people that still keep trusting in them.
What about searching between your past chats? Or a combined search between mails and chats because "someone told me something like blakblahblah" and you dont remember where and who?
.. bad month, very bad month. In a lesser scale, also in this month happened the Hiroshima bombing so the use of atomic bombs in wars, and with a bit of luck, was also the month when happened the dinosaur extintion. Not sure of what of those events were worse for the planet, but Windows 95 have all my bets.
... as in: * Spamless Internet * Virusless Internet * Popupless Internet * Bannerless Internet * etcless Internet
Of course that the net has evolved, and a lot, but sometimes one miss those old days when your mail were mail, when browsing pages retrieved almost only the content you wanted, and even the pages were really static, without things popping up, moving, blinking or weighting far more than the useful content of what you really want to read.
The point there is not just have all the news of the sites you visit in one page, is that you can access the same info everywhere. Ok, i can have that local personal portal made for myself, with all that info (in fact, i have) but having it at google give me access to it from everywhere, everytime.
... but I hope they didnt forgot the most important screenshot (the red screen of death)... too much eye candy always must be seen with a grain of salt.
Nah, do the real change, Replace the MS for an X in MS Windows and most of your actual problems will dissapea... well, may come others, of course, instead of being zombie you could become r00ted, 0wned or h4x0red and pass a lot of time trying to undestand what those extrange words with numbers mean.
Wait a bit, they easily could argue that p2p networks are used to coordinate terrorist plans, and i.e. all the video files around terrorism acts, documentaries against bush, texts against the war and whatever could be used as a proof.
The "if you are not with me are against me" argument is very flexible in the wrong hand and could spread to all fields of life.
In some moment had to transmit the concept of websites made joining disparate parts, i.e. phpbb for forums, gallery for image galleries, phpwiki for wiki and so on, all with different user bases/permissions/look and feel/etc here
(to compare with systems that have all those features well integrated) and the word seems to being accepted (even not being native english speaker myself).
Of course, i doubt being the 1st or the only one that used it, but at least when the idea come to me i hadnt read before that word.
The same could be said about mail clients... why? because for safe that is the reader software you have, most security concerns are related to the user that reads it (think in the most commons scams out there, from nigeria and earlier to this days).
Now, if well we can say that no matter how unsafe is to climb the himalaya with beach clothes compared with staying in your house (a meteor could fell over you, after all) you are not complelely safe, these are very different kind of probabilities, and experience tolds us that in average you are i.e. far unsafe playing with MS IE/Outlook/Windows than with Firefox/Opera/Thunderbird/Linux.
... this alert is not coming from the same company who had hardcoded into Windows 3.1 that if was running under Caldera DOS or whatever was called in those days simply refuse to work?
Anyway, could be Netscape fault, or (deja vu again) bugs in IE (MS IE with bugs? impossible), or DLL hell (both ns and ie have similary named dlls to i.e. render xml), or even Windows design choices (i.e. you can only have one xml renderer, if you install another then IE refuses to work).
Is not so bad, people can dump entirely IE, or install Firefox/Mozilla suite instead of Netscape, or even install Opera. Whatever of this choices will give them a very much safer environment, more features and a clean path to migrate to better operating systems in a near future.
The movie was great, very very dark, excellent, at least for the few seconds it lasted. Then a ligth comes from a big square in the front of the room, and some bad actors started to play an star wars parody, i assume to lighten a bit up how much dark was the real movie.
My evaluation? The movie excellent, the post-parody so so, I have better dialogs as Silent Bob.
.. with that title, i would tried to post it under "Is funny, laugh" category.... or correct a bit that mantra, addint to "It just works... " things like "for ten minutes", "until spyware/virus/etc decides otherwise" "as doorstopper" "as a blue background" and things like that.
Well, is a mantra, nirvana is not so far, paradise is close to it, and then we reach the final meaning of that phrase: "is a miracle if It Just Works"
I used altavista/infoseek/etc before google appeared, and believe me, searching was painful. Yahoo had their meaning in that environment, because searching in their directory filtered a lot of unrelated pages that just had the words you searched, no relevance attached. Google jumped in with a practical way to reach the ideal of getting fast (probably the 1st result) of what you are searching for. There are some companies that refined that idea a bit further (i.e. Teoma) but what created google changed drastically what was the meaning of searching in internet (if was bad then, think how would be now with blogs speaking about everything you write, or actual webbased spam techniques).
GMail is another big change on the previous email concepts. Just the idea of having enough mail storage for the rest of your life, and a way to really be able to take advantage of it (not sure if gmail do some kind of mailrank more than just star important messages, but its search is pretty good anyway) was something completely new in the webmail (or plain mail) arena.
But there are another more important change in all of it. If google dont existed, maybe with time one of the search engine companies maybe could had that idea, think, for a moment, that Microsoft acquired it, patented the idea so no other search engine could come close in results relevance, and filled that with big graphical ads, very strong windows dependency and that the first page of results were mostly paid links.
Yes, google is very important. Even if tomorrow closes the doors, they changed internet for good in a big way. And if it continues to innovate with as good concepts in the future as it did in the past, internet will be a great place to live in.
Forsure have historic relevance. Had "browser tabs" since i know it, mouse gestures from before firefox, i think it is the smallest full-featured browser since i know it ('96). If you must point to someone that went marking the future "innovations" of internet browsers since last decade, opera is a good candidate. And i dont discard at all that it will continue doing that. About the ads, you can choose to have google text ads on it if you dont register, something that is helpful sometimes.
Also is a big player in the embedded market, so even if you dont use it in your desktop, still is relevant.
You mean that they thinked that their actual final versions of almost anything were ready for production use? And that now they will sell things that even them say that "probably have errors" before they see the ligth?
At least that they label the boxes with something like "unsafe at any speed" to give customers a hint of what will probably happen if their use them.
... for survival of mankind what we must do is put some human colonies outside, but that is not the whole truth. The ones that must go to that far far away and with improbable chances of survival are all politicians (ok, and maybe phone cleaners). After that, our chances of survival are far better.
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For me, if i need to carry devices to do some task, carrying the less possible ones, because they have all those tasks integrated, could be better, specially if do all those tasks well. Integrating in a device that combines a cell phone, a pim, a photo camera, a somewhat flexible internet access, games, ebook reading, mobile storage for data, a calculator, etc, and doing all of them as well as separate/dedicated devices should be far better than carry one device for each of those tasks.
And i dont seeing any paradox here that could avoid reaching that "perfect" device now or in some near future, that could not be solved by a smarter design (i.e. why need big keyboards for what should be small phones), or some improved technology (i.e. what if i want to speak while watching a web page).
That is currently all being packed as "cell phone+something" is because the cell phone is the most popular carried electronic device by now that could have all that functionality. And i bet that if some new kind of thin, seamless wearable computer have all of this and cell phone capatibilites, will be called cell phone more than wearable computer.
Of course, im not saying here that any current (or even in near future) implementation of the "cell phone does all" idea is right for the task. Just that the concept is valid and you can just wait till what you think is perfect device comes out, or pick good enough for you implementations of it.
For me all Star trek series should had count (i would even put a bit higher Voyager, specially since they started to mess with the Borgs), i think there was a new edition of Twilight zone that they didnt counted neither, and remove series that were clearly fantasy (xena?), terror (buffy), spies (man from uncle, even wild wild west), comedy (3rd rock from the sun, or the not named there mork&mindy or alf), and probably all the superhero kind of series they put there would be apart... science fiction for me is something that is central to the plot and not an excuse to do something extrange.
Why the article is in that section?
I remember when was a practical joke saying that reading a mail could hurt your computer, remember when there was no way to affect your computer just watching web pages, when all the efforts around java was to separate as much as possible what is from internet from what is the viewer's computer. And of course, Microsoft gived us Outlook, Internet Explorer, and ActiveX to change those obsolete ideas with really trivial examples.
I really hope Microsoft has learned from its past mistakes, else a lot of people will die laffing on the people that still keep trusting in them.
What about searching between your past chats? Or a combined search between mails and chats because "someone told me something like blakblahblah" and you dont remember where and who?
.. bad month, very bad month. In a lesser scale, also in this month happened the Hiroshima bombing so the use of atomic bombs in wars, and with a bit of luck, was also the month when happened the dinosaur extintion. Not sure of what of those events were worse for the planet, but Windows 95 have all my bets.
"One thing only I know, and that is that I know less than nothing" - Socratum
... as in:
* Spamless Internet
* Virusless Internet
* Popupless Internet
* Bannerless Internet
* etcless Internet
Of course that the net has evolved, and a lot, but sometimes one miss those old days when your mail were mail, when browsing pages retrieved almost only the content you wanted, and even the pages were really static, without things popping up, moving, blinking or weighting far more than the useful content of what you really want to read.
The point there is not just have all the news of the sites you visit in one page, is that you can access the same info everywhere. Ok, i can have that local personal portal made for myself, with all that info (in fact, i have) but having it at google give me access to it from everywhere, everytime.
... but I hope they didnt forgot the most important screenshot (the red screen of death)... too much eye candy always must be seen with a grain of salt.
"Slashdotting ended over debian.org"
Nah, do the real change, Replace the MS for an X in MS Windows and most of your actual problems will dissapea... well, may come others, of course, instead of being zombie you could become r00ted, 0wned or h4x0red and pass a lot of time trying to undestand what those extrange words with numbers mean.
The "if you are not with me are against me" argument is very flexible in the wrong hand and could spread to all fields of life.
Of course, i doubt being the 1st or the only one that used it, but at least when the idea come to me i hadnt read before that word.
Now, if well we can say that no matter how unsafe is to climb the himalaya with beach clothes compared with staying in your house (a meteor could fell over you, after all) you are not complelely safe, these are very different kind of probabilities, and experience tolds us that in average you are i.e. far unsafe playing with MS IE/Outlook/Windows than with Firefox/Opera/Thunderbird/Linux.
Anyway, could be Netscape fault, or (deja vu again) bugs in IE (MS IE with bugs? impossible), or DLL hell (both ns and ie have similary named dlls to i.e. render xml), or even Windows design choices (i.e. you can only have one xml renderer, if you install another then IE refuses to work).
Is not so bad, people can dump entirely IE, or install Firefox/Mozilla suite instead of Netscape, or even install Opera. Whatever of this choices will give them a very much safer environment, more features and a clean path to migrate to better operating systems in a near future.
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Amidahla, who in Ep 1 was "queen", talking in Ep 2 about how wonderful democracy is
Ask about this to the kings and queens of most european countries (i.e. Spain or UK) that have democratic governments.
My evaluation? The movie excellent, the post-parody so so, I have better dialogs as Silent Bob.
-Kevin Smith
Well, is a mantra, nirvana is not so far, paradise is close to it, and then we reach the final meaning of that phrase: "is a miracle if It Just Works"
GMail is another big change on the previous email concepts. Just the idea of having enough mail storage for the rest of your life, and a way to really be able to take advantage of it (not sure if gmail do some kind of mailrank more than just star important messages, but its search is pretty good anyway) was something completely new in the webmail (or plain mail) arena.
But there are another more important change in all of it. If google dont existed, maybe with time one of the search engine companies maybe could had that idea, think, for a moment, that Microsoft acquired it, patented the idea so no other search engine could come close in results relevance, and filled that with big graphical ads, very strong windows dependency and that the first page of results were mostly paid links.
Yes, google is very important. Even if tomorrow closes the doors, they changed internet for good in a big way. And if it continues to innovate with as good concepts in the future as it did in the past, internet will be a great place to live in.
Forsure have historic relevance. Had "browser tabs" since i know it, mouse gestures from before firefox, i think it is the smallest full-featured browser since i know it ('96). If you must point to someone that went marking the future "innovations" of internet browsers since last decade, opera is a good candidate. And i dont discard at all that it will continue doing that. About the ads, you can choose to have google text ads on it if you dont register, something that is helpful sometimes. Also is a big player in the embedded market, so even if you dont use it in your desktop, still is relevant.
At least that they label the boxes with something like "unsafe at any speed" to give customers a hint of what will probably happen if their use them.
... for survival of mankind what we must do is put some human colonies outside, but that is not the whole truth. The ones that must go to that far far away and with improbable chances of survival are all politicians (ok, and maybe phone cleaners). After that, our chances of survival are far better.