I'd swear the target market is the teenage Napster crowd.
It most likely is. In the UK (and even more so in scandinavia, as I understand it), everyone has a mobile, and SMS in particular is very popular with teenagers. The US cellular networks aren't really good enough to enable the same phenomenon there, in my experience (shitty coverage, too many networks, too expensive).
From reading the spec, the poxy thing has 64Mb for MP3 storage, an FM radio, and still has annoying bleepy ringtones rather than sample-based ones like (at least) Sony mobiles have.
No sign of IR data in the specs either, which is more or less standard in other Nokia WAP phones...
Nearly, but not quite. (add smartmedia or CF support to the wishlist)
In that past I've used Access to prototype, then exportsql (in the Mysql contrib page - it's too slow get grab a link right now) to create the script for mysql.
Now I generally use PHPMyAdmin to do it through the web.
That's true - doctrine of first sale and all that. But what the original poster was implying was that no-one should buy new CDs anymore because of the various nefarious ways of the RIAA, and we should ALL buy only used CDs. After all, if we don't all do it, then it's no skin of the RIAA's nose, is it?
However, at that stage the artist is still in hock to the label, but they aren't recieving any royalties.
Naturally in this situation the label will let them off, and adjust their business plan to work as the consumer wishes. Or perhaps, they'll just sue those that they have by the goolies instead.
Whatever brings about a change in the way musical recordings are sold and distributed is going to make a huge mess for a lot of the artists before it becomes the utopian vision that/. seems to prefer. [For me, that's that I can buy individual tracks online in an open format from the entire back-catalogue of recording labels, without me or the artist paying distribution costs or 'shellac-breakage' fees, for a sensible fee that the artist sees most of once recording costs are recouped - it's not so different from now, apart from the greed and old-fashionedness.]
the one MS product that is pretty good at what it's supposed to do is Word (and to a lesser extent, the other office modules).
I would have said Excel, Access, Word, Outlook was the order(*)... when Word screws up, it really screws up. I'm not a huge Word user, but pretty much everyone I know has something bad to say about Word's pagination and numbering, for instance. Excel and Access I do use a lot, and for the 97 releases, they've never given me problems - don't get me started on Access 2.0 though.
(*) Luckily I work in an environment where people just talk to each other rather than prepare shiny slides in Powerpoint.
What I meant is, you don't (yet) hear Kodak or Polaroid moan and whine about how easy it is to scan
Why would Kodak or Polaroid moan? They don't take pictures. Content creators certainly do moan - people like Playboy, Corbin, and other stock photography libraries. What you're suggesting is closer to the situation if people like Studer (hardware) and Ampex were complaining about copying (assuming Studer are even still in business - I couldn't tell for sure from a quick search).
since you would otherwise be limited to CDs worth of MP3s, the ethernet is a pretty important part of that side of the thing though - to me anyway. I have 100Gb of MP3s on a fileserver, and I don't want to be burning them onto CDRs to play them!
Yeah, it's cool to play with Linux on them, but don't you already have 5 computers in various states of disrepair running Linux/BSD? I know I do...
Yes, (well, 8 actually, at last count:) ) but none of those have anything like as nice a TV-out as my DC, nor are they as small, quick to boot. It's almost the quietest too.
$80 will not get you ethernet, a keyboard, or mouse. Not new anyway. And anyone with any sense will be be selling the BBA (ethernet) seperately on EBay or similar. They are going for $80 to $150 by themselves. If someone figured out a way to make a clone BBA (it's a Realtek 8139-based adapter), then it would be a nice 'media appliance.
Second best (to PS2) crisp TV-resolution graphics too. Why can't TV-out video cards ever be that good? All I want is a 720x586 full-frame mode...
Didn't PA give HP the 'fastest desktop workstation' crown for a while in the early 90s? (between the Sparc and the Alpha). I seem to remember a HP9000 workstation codenamed 'Snake'.
The "traditional" wearable computer input device seems to be the Twiddler - a one-handed chording keyboard. That's what the MIT Wearables crew all seem to use.
Unfortunately the way they do augmented memory is by typing in the things they see to see if there are notes against them already - the newer things use GPS and spatial detectors to try and avoid that for static objects, and IR-beacons to avoid it for moving (but known) things.
I thought about adding a rider to that effect - I don't buy stamps often enough to know for sure that they're all self-adhesive now. I use the office franking machine these days, and that's usually only because cheques don't fit in my email.
Presumably if done right, you can have both. If the CAT5 exits the vacuum tubes before the end (both the vacuum cylinder and wall ends) through some sort of seal (blob of caulk at a pinch), then there is still a vacuum, and CAT5.
I doubt having a wire running inside the hose would impede airflow too much.
Hopefully it comes with some clever drives to optionally scale application windows. Many apps seem to use absolute pixels for at least their UI if not the rest of their dimensions. These are all going to be half (or is it 1/1.44? I never get this right) the size that they were on a not-much-bigger screen.
This is what shows that Atheos' GL-based scalable windows are a good idea, as long as you have the texture-ram to go with it, and texture RAM is cheap after a $16k monitor.
Never mind that 35mm-sized camera stuff, timothy. Try Kodak's "medium-format" digital photography. Dual hard disks, firewire, 36 bit CCD, 4080x4080 image sensor. Just add Hasselblad.
Does anyone else remember an outfit that was supposed to be making a universal digital back for SLRs? It seems the sensors are of a reasonable size now... I wish I could make my (cheapish) SLR into a digicam - it has way more control than my Kodak DC280 (decent picture, average controls).
Digital video had been available on UNIX workstations for more than a decade, and people were actively using it in research.
I have a unix workstation from 1994 (an SGI Indy), and it's handling of realtime video is dismal. With additional hardware, it becomes slightly less so (better picture quality, still crappy bandwidth issues). Which workstations had this capability in 1982? Nearest things I can think of are framestores (single image) like the Quantel Paintbox, or the Pixar whatevertheycalledit.
I meant GUI IMs when I said 10 years, or at least ones that don't screw up your terminal window while you are trying to work. write(1) and talk(1) don't play friendly with fullscreen apps, and annoyingly don't work that well with multiple logins (e.g. screen or xterms), either.
I miss talk, and the days when a user community was around the machine - personal unix has killed a lot of that, leaving things like IMs and slashdot to fill the void.
When we moved from sendmail to qmail it was like having a huge weight lifted from the server. The leraning curve is a bit steep on it sometimes, but generally I like it a lot. Very fast too.
I don't run any mailing lists these days, but in the past ezmlm (the qmail mailing list manager) seemed pretty good and efficient. Odd to mention qmail but not it's MLM.
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I'd swear the target market is the teenage Napster crowd.
It most likely is. In the UK (and even more so in scandinavia, as I understand it), everyone has a mobile, and SMS in particular is very popular with teenagers. The US cellular networks aren't really good enough to enable the same phenomenon there, in my experience (shitty coverage, too many networks, too expensive).
From reading the spec, the poxy thing has 64Mb for MP3 storage, an FM radio, and still has annoying bleepy ringtones rather than sample-based ones like (at least) Sony mobiles have.
No sign of IR data in the specs either, which is more or less standard in other Nokia WAP phones...
Nearly, but not quite. (add smartmedia or CF support to the wishlist)
In that past I've used Access to prototype, then exportsql (in the Mysql contrib page - it's too slow get grab a link right now) to create the script for mysql.
Now I generally use PHPMyAdmin to do it through the web.
That's true - doctrine of first sale and all that. But what the original poster was implying was that no-one should buy new CDs anymore because of the various nefarious ways of the RIAA, and we should ALL buy only used CDs. After all, if we don't all do it, then it's no skin of the RIAA's nose, is it?
/. seems to prefer. [For me, that's that I can buy individual tracks online in an open format from the entire back-catalogue of recording labels, without me or the artist paying distribution costs or 'shellac-breakage' fees, for a sensible fee that the artist sees most of once recording costs are recouped - it's not so different from now, apart from the greed and old-fashionedness.]
However, at that stage the artist is still in hock to the label, but they aren't recieving any royalties.
Naturally in this situation the label will let them off, and adjust their business plan to work as the consumer wishes. Or perhaps, they'll just sue those that they have by the goolies instead.
Whatever brings about a change in the way musical recordings are sold and distributed is going to make a huge mess for a lot of the artists before it becomes the utopian vision that
the one MS product that is pretty good at what it's supposed to do is Word (and to a lesser extent, the other office modules).
I would have said Excel, Access, Word, Outlook was the order(*)... when Word screws up, it really screws up. I'm not a huge Word user, but pretty much everyone I know has something bad to say about Word's pagination and numbering, for instance. Excel and Access I do use a lot, and for the 97 releases, they've never given me problems - don't get me started on Access 2.0 though.
(*) Luckily I work in an environment where people just talk to each other rather than prepare shiny slides in Powerpoint.
What I meant is, you don't (yet) hear Kodak or Polaroid moan and whine about how easy it is to scan
Why would Kodak or Polaroid moan? They don't take pictures. Content creators certainly do moan - people like Playboy, Corbin, and other stock photography libraries. What you're suggesting is closer to the situation if people like Studer (hardware) and Ampex were complaining about copying (assuming Studer are even still in business - I couldn't tell for sure from a quick search).
you are neither breaking any laws (yet) nor supporting the RIAA.
Or those pesky artists, unfortunately.
since you would otherwise be limited to CDs worth of MP3s, the ethernet is a pretty important part of that side of the thing though - to me anyway. I have 100Gb of MP3s on a fileserver, and I don't want to be burning them onto CDRs to play them!
Yeah, it's cool to play with Linux on them, but don't you already have 5 computers in various states of disrepair running Linux/BSD? I know I do...
:) ) but none of those have anything like as nice a TV-out as my DC, nor are they as small, quick to boot. It's almost the quietest too.
Yes, (well, 8 actually, at last count
$80 will not get you ethernet, a keyboard, or mouse. Not new anyway. And anyone with any sense will be be selling the BBA (ethernet) seperately on EBay or similar. They are going for $80 to $150 by themselves. If someone figured out a way to make a clone BBA (it's a Realtek 8139-based adapter), then it would be a nice 'media appliance.
Second best (to PS2) crisp TV-resolution graphics too. Why can't TV-out video cards ever be that good? All I want is a 720x586 full-frame mode...
I think mile-high was probably among the last to fall. Candlestick Park, Joe Robbie Stadium and so on are all no more.
Oh... way to go 20-6. My housemate is a Broncos fan.
Didn't PA give HP the 'fastest desktop workstation' crown for a while in the early 90s? (between the Sparc and the Alpha). I seem to remember a HP9000 workstation codenamed 'Snake'.
The "traditional" wearable computer input device seems to be the Twiddler - a one-handed chording keyboard. That's what the MIT Wearables crew all seem to use.
Unfortunately the way they do augmented memory is by typing in the things they see to see if there are notes against them already - the newer things use GPS and spatial detectors to try and avoid that for static objects, and IR-beacons to avoid it for moving (but known) things.
I thought about adding a rider to that effect - I don't buy stamps often enough to know for sure that they're all self-adhesive now. I use the office franking machine these days, and that's usually only because cheques don't fit in my email.
Hey - don't forget you get to lick it too.
Presumably if done right, you can have both. If the CAT5 exits the vacuum tubes before the end (both the vacuum cylinder and wall ends) through some sort of seal (blob of caulk at a pinch), then there is still a vacuum, and CAT5.
I doubt having a wire running inside the hose would impede airflow too much.
That's the sort of thing - I think I'll wait for the 2.3-3 mpixel version though.
"(e)film turns your fast high-quality standard 50mm f1.8 lens into a 142mm f1.8" suggests it has a tiny imaging area too.
Hopefully it comes with some clever drives to optionally scale application windows. Many apps seem to use absolute pixels for at least their UI if not the rest of their dimensions. These are all going to be half (or is it 1/1.44? I never get this right) the size that they were on a not-much-bigger screen.
This is what shows that Atheos' GL-based scalable windows are a good idea, as long as you have the texture-ram to go with it, and texture RAM is cheap after a $16k monitor.
[insert obligatory - grumble grumple win2k drivers only [and PCI only] ]
Never mind that 35mm-sized camera stuff, timothy. Try Kodak's "medium-format" digital photography. Dual hard disks, firewire, 36 bit CCD, 4080x4080 image sensor. Just add Hasselblad.
Does anyone else remember an outfit that was supposed to be making a universal digital back for SLRs? It seems the sensors are of a reasonable size now... I wish I could make my (cheapish) SLR into a digicam - it has way more control than my Kodak DC280 (decent picture, average controls).
I think it's actually the Marvelettes (checks - yep), but it is indeed a fine slice of Motown.
Digital video had been available on UNIX workstations for more than a decade, and people were actively using it in research.
I have a unix workstation from 1994 (an SGI Indy), and it's handling of realtime video is dismal. With additional hardware, it becomes slightly less so (better picture quality, still crappy bandwidth issues). Which workstations had this capability in 1982? Nearest things I can think of are framestores (single image) like the Quantel Paintbox, or the Pixar whatevertheycalledit.
I thought about that as I pressed submit :)
I meant GUI IMs when I said 10 years, or at least ones that don't screw up your terminal window while you are trying to work. write(1) and talk(1) don't play friendly with fullscreen apps, and annoyingly don't work that well with multiple logins (e.g. screen or xterms), either.
I miss talk, and the days when a user community was around the machine - personal unix has killed a lot of that, leaving things like IMs and slashdot to fill the void.
and still people ask how to unsubscribe, when it's printed on the bottom of EVERY message in the list!
When we moved from sendmail to qmail it was like having a huge weight lifted from the server. The leraning curve is a bit steep on it sometimes, but generally I like it a lot. Very fast too.
Still, whatever floats your boat.
I don't run any mailing lists these days, but in the past ezmlm (the qmail mailing list manager) seemed pretty good and efficient. Odd to mention qmail but not it's MLM.