The hardware isn't the point here. It's the aim of the OS. Network computing isn't the future anymore - think about it. The Microsoft OS isn't the future anymore. By using a portable base and focusing on providing an optimal Java application environment, the Amiga is once again jumping five steps ahead of the next best thing.
Switching from QNX to Linux on a moment's notice doesn't seem so absurd if you look at the fact that this architecture obviates the need to rely on a particular underlying architecture. They could probably go Mach in a later OS update and the user would never notice.
I'm starting to get excited again. Given all the above and the promise of good multimedia support, something Linux still doesn't quite have, this could be a developer's best springboard for Things To Come.
I was downloading and playing SID tunes on my SX-64 nearly a decade before this company was founded. Later, that was MODs on my HP laptop, still at least five years before this company came to be.
The patent is utter bunk. It simply reflects the patent office's inability to research, and that the patent has been granted doesn't mean it will stand its first test. Maybe AudioHighway can leverage the patent to scam money out of a few naive startups in the mean time, but I'm not losing any sleep over this one.
Columbia House and the BMG Music 'Service' are quite possibly my two biggest sources of junk mail, and it took five e-mails and four real phone calls to get CD Now to stop spamming me. It's a match made in heaven. I only wonder why this article didn't get the SPAM tin.
This looks like a great little box. If all of the pieces are Linux compatible, there's a great market opportunity here.
A good installation with Netscape, X11Amp, all the basic office apps installed and ready, the configuration targetted at this specific machine, ready to plug in a new user name and ISP dial up settings, this could be the perfect no-brain consumer Linux box.
RedHat or similar could jump on this and contract to reserve the red unit for Redhat sales only. Charge half of what MS does for a Windows license and let the PC vendor keep the difference to keep them excited as well...
As many people as there are who do -nothing- that isn't web-based, this could be a winner for everyone - a nicely controlled test deployment of Linux as a low-end consumer OS.
In a national radio broadcast of the Commonwealth Club, circa 1993 or so, Scott McNeally (president/CEO Sun Microsystems) suggested that the government shouldn't be able to buy closed operating systems at all.
Quite a few more tidbits on open systems and the "future" of the Internet which are interesting when looking back. I've got this on tape and could produce a transcript if there were sufficient interest.
Even so, he met resistance. "The legal department says, 'When it fails, who do we sue?' " he said.
Take a look at the Microsoft licensing agreement. You accept this every time you install a Microsoft product. At this point, you absolve them of responsibility for everything conceivable.
"Who do we sue?" I'll tell you this: It's certainly never going to be Microsoft.
Regardless of how difficult it is to implement or how "bloated" it makes a design, the fact remains that anti-aliasing is necessary to produce a pleasant display. Ditto the rendering of fonts at small point sizes.
If you assume that what is necessary is inevitable, a fair assumption, then you can provide useful feedback. So:
What's the cleanest way to implement anti-aliased font rendering? Alpha bitmaps? Which side of the client-server connection should it reside on? Can this be done without breaking any clients?
Excuse me, but I didn't see Hemos tell anyone to go vote. He merely said that it's there. The feeling seems to be strong, and doubtless for the same reason many/most of those voting will rush out and buy the first few Linux games to show support.
Well, comparing two CDs gives you the difference between how your CD and the next were encoded and yeah - you can pull it, or at least create something that could've come from any one of a number of different copies.
But... why bother? I mean - how do they even know who -has- the original?
What I'm still waiting to hear about is someone coming up with a good scheme for processing audio in such a way that it compresses -horribly-. If you've ever heard Enya, Sara McLachlan, or even a flute done with MP3, you know the format (or the encoders) are far from perfect just yet. I wonder if you could do something to reinforce this shortcoming on commercial CDs.
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The hardware isn't the point here. It's the aim of the OS. Network computing isn't the future anymore - think about it. The Microsoft OS isn't the future anymore. By using a portable base and focusing on providing an optimal Java application environment, the Amiga is once again jumping five steps ahead of the next best thing.
Switching from QNX to Linux on a moment's notice doesn't seem so absurd if you look at the fact that this architecture obviates the need to rely on a particular underlying architecture. They could probably go Mach in a later OS update and the user would never notice.
I'm starting to get excited again. Given all the above and the promise of good multimedia support, something Linux still doesn't quite have, this could be a developer's best springboard for Things To Come.
I was downloading and playing SID tunes on my SX-64 nearly a decade before this company was founded. Later, that was MODs on my HP laptop, still at least five years before this company came to be.
The patent is utter bunk. It simply reflects the patent office's inability to research, and that the patent has been granted doesn't mean it will stand its first test. Maybe AudioHighway can leverage the patent to scam money out of a few naive startups in the mean time, but I'm not losing any sleep over this one.
Columbia House and the BMG Music 'Service' are quite possibly my two biggest sources of junk mail, and it took five e-mails and four real phone calls to get CD Now to stop spamming me.
It's a match made in heaven. I only wonder why this article didn't get the SPAM tin.
This looks like a great little box. If all of the pieces are Linux compatible, there's a great market opportunity here.
A good installation with Netscape, X11Amp, all the basic office apps installed and ready, the configuration targetted at this specific machine, ready to plug in a new user name and ISP dial up settings, this could be the perfect no-brain consumer Linux box.
RedHat or similar could jump on this and contract to reserve the red unit for Redhat sales only. Charge half of what MS does for a Windows license and let the PC vendor keep the difference to keep them excited as well...
As many people as there are who do -nothing- that isn't web-based, this could be a winner for everyone - a nicely controlled test deployment of Linux as a low-end consumer OS.
It's a Palm Hybrid. :) 70 miles to the gallon to boot.
In a national radio broadcast of the Commonwealth Club, circa 1993 or so, Scott McNeally (president/CEO Sun Microsystems) suggested that the government shouldn't be able to buy closed operating systems at all.
Quite a few more tidbits on open systems and the "future" of the Internet which are interesting when looking back. I've got this on tape and could produce a transcript if there were sufficient interest.
Take a look at the Microsoft licensing agreement. You accept this every time you install a Microsoft product. At this point, you absolve them of responsibility for everything conceivable.
"Who do we sue?" I'll tell you this: It's certainly never going to be Microsoft.
Regardless of how difficult it is to implement or how "bloated" it makes a design, the fact remains that anti-aliasing is necessary to produce a pleasant display. Ditto the rendering of fonts at small point sizes.
If you assume that what is necessary is inevitable, a fair assumption, then you can provide useful feedback. So:
What's the cleanest way to implement anti-aliased font rendering? Alpha bitmaps? Which side of the client-server connection should it reside on? Can this be done without breaking any clients?
Excuse me, but I didn't see Hemos tell anyone to go vote. He merely said that it's there. The feeling seems to be strong, and doubtless for the same reason many/most of those voting will rush out and buy the first few Linux games to show support.
Well, comparing two CDs gives you the difference between how your CD and the next were encoded and yeah - you can pull it, or at least create something that could've come from any one of a number of different copies.
But... why bother? I mean - how do they even know who -has- the original?
What I'm still waiting to hear about is someone coming up with a good scheme for processing audio in such a way that it compresses -horribly-. If you've ever heard Enya, Sara McLachlan, or even a flute done with MP3, you know the format (or the encoders) are far from perfect just yet. I wonder if you could do something to reinforce this shortcoming on commercial CDs.
Er - the crossover is at 300hz. That's biting well into directional range. These things would suck for most game playing and techno/pop music.