I agree with multitasking/threading in a LIMITED way, but certainly not a file system. That's the stupidest contrived need for a PDA I've ever heard of. For those of you with Winboxes, open up your "Program Files" folder. You really want something like that on your limited memory PDA? Yikes. I used an iPaq for a year, and file systems... what a waste (Ever heard of a program called WIMR? Don't need one on Palms). The database idea Palm had 'way back was well ahead of its time... the only thing that was missing was being able to install generic files on that "file system"; like MP3s or DOC files. Nice if/when desktops catch up to that (WinFS?)
As for Multitasking, again, CE machines are a nightmare of "wanna be a desktop" os overkill. This is a sweet and smart way to do it, instead of "Start | Settings | Memory | Running Applications | End Program" or loading a program to make the close button actually close something.
My iPaq is now sitting in the cradle, and has been for about 3 months, untouched, while I carry my Tungsten E upstairs and downstairs just in case I need it.
Docs To Go in ROM is very nice, VersaMail too, Realplayer, though... that's a prime candidate for replacement if someone really uses their Palm for music...
USB drive mode - very nice, and about time. Nice that http://www.softick.com/ took care of that a long time ago for everyone else...
And I think the Tungsten E will do trickle charging from the USB cable... I'm not positive about that, I don't tend to leave mine lying around, tethered to a computer.
Really, I believe the Internet needs to be the next generation radio, instead everybody is trying to figure out new pricing plans or protocols to hose the consumer or the artists. What I want is a way to discover new talent FOR FREE, new music FOR FREE, and be given some reason for faith that the rest of the CD is good too.
Honestly, though, this isn't "Sony's flooding the market with games". This is "Developers decide to go with PS2 because it has the largest user base."
I wonder if Sony has been holding back a bunch of games (Yeah, the paperwork for your SCEA license is in the works...) until this gets released. There hasn't been a real flood of PS2 titles lately...
So, you're probably both right, if I am. Wait, that would mean we're ALL right! YAY!
Interesting that you should bring that up... did you ever try the PS1 version of "Pong"? It's hilarious... so many wacky variations to such a mindless game.
As far as the cars/tracks changed, sure that's fine. We get sports games every year with the players changed around... why not something that will let you try the new cars?
Visual Studio.NET is OK, but give it time, others will come that are just as good. It's because MS has a significant jump on "competitors".
I switched to SharpDevelop for licensing reasons, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Like changing from "Debug" to "Release" mode doesn't NEED to take several seconds on my P4 2.8.... Opening a project can actually be FAST.
That is still using Windows as a dev environment, too; because.NET is a very compelling platform. Once MonoDevelop gets to be usable, who knows, maybe I can switch over for Windows development to Linux (that would be a laugh)
Is it? Remember the word "dynamic" You can change *one* set of table code and ta-da all of the tables automagically get changed.
The problem is we need semantics, and that requires actual design... a few drop-in code changes can't necessarily substitute for thought and planning.
XHTML would be ideal, yeah, but actual valid HTML 4.01 with good CSS would be a welcome change, too. Tables are OK, but see all those FONT tags? Yikes.
OK I am in an armchair right now, but I'll be right back to web development tomorrow.
Accessibility doesn't always mean it looks right. You can have divs that overlap or just don't line up in various browsers. It works and reads fine, but it looks a little funny.
So the hacks and tweaks are typically fairly minor right now. We err on the side of IE, and maybe the width is off by 3 or 4 pixels (border width, sometimes) in Firefox. Font sizes are never quite perfect.
You can see the menus and select them just fine, but they're weird in IE. Check the complexspiral page - it doesn't even look LOATHSOME in IE, but it's just not proper enough for professional developers to accept it for a production page. Look at the slantastic one too, as well as the explanations.
The most frustrating thing is, it works the other way around. If it looks OK in IE and horrible (or even INACCESSIBLE) in anything else, everybody just shrugs their shoulders and says "Oh well, as long as they can read the content. They can just fire up IE."...and my point ORIGINALLY was... just tell your boss, "Actually, a quarter of our visitors will see an ugly, broken page. Is that what you really want?" Then you actually have the OK to spend the time on not only writing to Firefox, but maybe even sneaking in some nice features that will only show up in Firefox (and be invisible to IE).
Precisely! Then it's an easy sell to develop for Firefox "Because it has a quarter of the market" (rounding up + carefully selected sources + give it a few months)
Then you can code to firefox, it looks weird in IE, and put some WEIGHT behind that self-fulfilling prophecy!
The server side controls render to some pretty lame non-standard HTML... so yeah there is reason. Especially since they render different HTML to IE or "other" visitors.
There's a company that is selling drop-in replacements that render to proper XHTML.
The one reason I wouldn't care to use an XBox as a server is that I'd be wasting a perfectly good GeForce on a headless (or fuzzy 14" monitor) machine.
Me too. The acting is a grab-bag though, as excellent as the doctor and Seven were, Janeway... Chakotay... and (shudder)...Kes... let's say they were not the cream of the crop...
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I agree with multitasking/threading in a LIMITED way, but certainly not a file system. That's the stupidest contrived need for a PDA I've ever heard of. For those of you with Winboxes, open up your "Program Files" folder. You really want something like that on your limited memory PDA? Yikes. I used an iPaq for a year, and file systems... what a waste (Ever heard of a program called WIMR? Don't need one on Palms). The database idea Palm had 'way back was well ahead of its time... the only thing that was missing was being able to install generic files on that "file system"; like MP3s or DOC files. Nice if/when desktops catch up to that (WinFS?)
As for Multitasking, again, CE machines are a nightmare of "wanna be a desktop" os overkill. This is a sweet and smart way to do it, instead of "Start | Settings | Memory | Running Applications | End Program" or loading a program to make the close button actually close something.
My iPaq is now sitting in the cradle, and has been for about 3 months, untouched, while I carry my Tungsten E upstairs and downstairs just in case I need it.
OK! Ignition started, pour on the kerosene!
Docs To Go in ROM is very nice, VersaMail too, Realplayer, though... that's a prime candidate for replacement if someone really uses their Palm for music...
USB drive mode - very nice, and about time. Nice that http://www.softick.com/ took care of that a long time ago for everyone else...
And I think the Tungsten E will do trickle charging from the USB cable... I'm not positive about that, I don't tend to leave mine lying around, tethered to a computer.
Well *I* got the joke. It was even funny that you were modded redundant! Actually, it should have been +1 Recursive.
Really, I believe the Internet needs to be the next generation radio, instead everybody is trying to figure out new pricing plans or protocols to hose the consumer or the artists. What I want is a way to discover new talent FOR FREE, new music FOR FREE, and be given some reason for faith that the rest of the CD is good too.
Kinda like... Internet radio? I ran Stationripper on http://www.radioparadise.com/ for a couple of days and found tons of new stuff.... "FOR FREE"
What's next? Why, a BLENDERPHONE of course!!!
Honestly, though, this isn't "Sony's flooding the market with games". This is "Developers decide to go with PS2 because it has the largest user base."
I wonder if Sony has been holding back a bunch of games (Yeah, the paperwork for your SCEA license is in the works...) until this gets released. There hasn't been a real flood of PS2 titles lately...
So, you're probably both right, if I am. Wait, that would mean we're ALL right! YAY!
Interesting that you should bring that up... did you ever try the PS1 version of "Pong"? It's hilarious... so many wacky variations to such a mindless game.
As far as the cars/tracks changed, sure that's fine. We get sports games every year with the players changed around... why not something that will let you try the new cars?
Surf around more. Some sites (*cough*Geek.com*cough*) COULD be useful if there were any way to mod down the idiots.
Ok, it doesn't work perfectly, but it does to some extent. (browse at -1 some day)
No that's very possible too. However as Web developers, we have to account for, and sometimes work around bugs in all browsers, IE and Moz included.
Visual Studio.NET is OK, but give it time, others will come that are just as good. It's because MS has a significant jump on "competitors".
.NET is a very compelling platform. Once MonoDevelop gets to be usable, who knows, maybe I can switch over for Windows development to Linux (that would be a laugh)
I switched to SharpDevelop for licensing reasons, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Like changing from "Debug" to "Release" mode doesn't NEED to take several seconds on my P4 2.8.... Opening a project can actually be FAST.
That is still using Windows as a dev environment, too; because
Is it? Remember the word "dynamic" You can change *one* set of table code and ta-da all of the tables automagically get changed.
The problem is we need semantics, and that requires actual design... a few drop-in code changes can't necessarily substitute for thought and planning.
XHTML would be ideal, yeah, but actual valid HTML 4.01 with good CSS would be a welcome change, too. Tables are OK, but see all those FONT tags? Yikes.
OK I am in an armchair right now, but I'll be right back to web development tomorrow.
Hm, gives me an idea for a sig. Oh wait, I've had this for a little while!
It's not impossible, but it would be a bit of focused work.
Accessibility doesn't always mean it looks right. You can have divs that overlap or just don't line up in various browsers. It works and reads fine, but it looks a little funny.
...and my point ORIGINALLY was... just tell your boss, "Actually, a quarter of our visitors will see an ugly, broken page. Is that what you really want?" Then you actually have the OK to spend the time on not only writing to Firefox, but maybe even sneaking in some nice features that will only show up in Firefox (and be invisible to IE).
So the hacks and tweaks are typically fairly minor right now. We err on the side of IE, and maybe the width is off by 3 or 4 pixels (border width, sometimes) in Firefox. Font sizes are never quite perfect.
On the other extreme, check out Eric Meyer's pages on css/edge to see what I mean...
You can see the menus and select them just fine, but they're weird in IE. Check the complexspiral page - it doesn't even look LOATHSOME in IE, but it's just not proper enough for professional developers to accept it for a production page. Look at the slantastic one too, as well as the explanations.
The most frustrating thing is, it works the other way around. If it looks OK in IE and horrible (or even INACCESSIBLE) in anything else, everybody just shrugs their shoulders and says "Oh well, as long as they can read the content. They can just fire up IE."
And, from what I've heard, beer is the preferred beverage with Indian food.
...to go with my beer of course.
Mmm.. time for a tablespoon of that insane hot tomato paste...
No, I never said that, now did I.
Utter ignorance.
CODE TO FIREFOX. Code to STANDARDS. IE doesn't need help to make compliant, accessible, well-designed pages look weird.
Intriguing site... can you send me the URL?
Precisely! Then it's an easy sell to develop for Firefox "Because it has a quarter of the market" (rounding up + carefully selected sources + give it a few months)
Then you can code to firefox, it looks weird in IE, and put some WEIGHT behind that self-fulfilling prophecy!
The server side controls render to some pretty lame non-standard HTML... so yeah there is reason. Especially since they render different HTML to IE or "other" visitors.
There's a company that is selling drop-in replacements that render to proper XHTML.
He's a web developer and doesn't use Firefox? Yikes.
Here's how to convert Web developers. Point them to this page:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ (Especially the complexspiral one)
Go there in Firefox/Moz and in IE at the same time. Ask them to compare, and just stand back.
Great subject line, BTW. It's even funnier if you leave out the "a"
Ah I missed that part.
This is clearly not aimed at someone who would be using a coloc though. More like "file/print server for home"
Yeah the button would be lame. Better to have an IDE RAID setup.
The one reason I wouldn't care to use an XBox as a server is that I'd be wasting a perfectly good GeForce on a headless (or fuzzy 14" monitor) machine.
Sound card? For the bootup beep?
I think the big deal is the ability to have 2 extra hard drives, not the little piece of plastic to make the XBox even HUGER.
hey need to hire actual writers to write Star Trek again.
Yep, and more importantly, NOBODY writers. Like the college students that wrote many of the episodes in TOS.
but I like Voyager.
...Kes... let's say they were not the cream of the crop...
Me too. The acting is a grab-bag though, as excellent as the doctor and Seven were, Janeway... Chakotay... and (shudder)