The best way to get what you need is to buy it yourself. I'd rather buy monitors than try to explain / convince people why more screen real estate makes me more productive.
Systems like this add much needed liquidity to the market. If these things were more prevalent, chances are we would never have had the flash crash of last month.
The reason there are no "thousands of man hours of innovation" within Microsoft is because the culture is not conducive to innovation so the innovators don't show up in the first place. I'd work there if Ballmer could guarantee me cover when innovation actually happens.
PDAs are scaled down computers. They are complicated no matter how you look at them. By contrast, the iPod is simple. It does what you expect so simply that even a 5 year old could operate it. You can't say that of any PDA I have ever seen, including the PDAs Apple has made.
Modern iPods play videos and show pictures, but these features were added after the market was firmly in Apple's grasp. The iPod at it's heart is still the simplest MP3 player out there.
iPods are simple because they do what you expect very well.
If you know what you are doing, you don't need a firewall in front of a Linux machine. (ie: you start with everything turned off and turn on only what you want and watch the security lists for exploits on the things you are running) For Windows, a firewall is manditory. Windows firewall is fairly good but echoing much of the sentiment from other posts, get a hardware firewall. $100 is a little thin for a basic firewall with decent throughput but I think the basic FireBox is around that price. If you have a spare Linux box, build yourself a firewall. The best way to mitigate security risk is to first understand things well. Far too much money is spent by people trying to alay fears instead of fix a real problem. Don't get caught in that trap. Educate yourself and realize that you can never completely eliminate risk.
Seems like the feature set of this new genre is still being fleshed out. Support for this and that video format can be flashed later. (huge plus if it's hackable) I mostly care about the hardware. For example, if I go on a trip, I don't want to lug my laptop with me everywhere, but I still want to take a digital camera. So show me a media player with a compact flash slot or somthing. If you're going to watch a movie on a 2 inch screen, you've probably already decided to leave your laptop at home, so why doesn't the portable hard drive sport the features you would need from a laptop on the road? I don't advocate making the thing send email or try to be everything to everyone, but at least sport CF / SD or maybe USB so I can use the hard drive!
My company isn't considering walking away from Linux, then again I am the CTO. I think that sums up the kind of postings we'll get here. What we need is to see is a poll of the Business 2.0 readers.
the way i was brought up, there wasn't a passionate stance on guns pro or con so i figure i'm fairly neutral. essentially i think gun ownership should be inversly proportionate to population density. people shouldn't be allowed to tote high power rifles around in a city, but someone out in the middle of the wilderness might be considered stupid not to have one. it seems the letter of the law doesn't quite jive with the spirit of common sense in this respect. we shouldn't abolish guns and we shouldn't have a free for all. seems population density might be a good measure to define where the line should be between the two extremes.
this is an excellent idea. embodies the essence of a true hack. a while ago i was thinking of doing this sort of thing only with CDs. the only problem would be if the scanner wasn't up to the dpi necessary. come to think of it, if we get a scanner to scan a cd at a high enough dpi and use a program like this to create wavs or an iso file, then we could get around the "crippled cd copy protection" measures that inhibit the playing of particular cds in some cdrom drives.
the whole point is that the VoIP Blaster doesn't need any of the software it comes with. check out fobbit.com: free, open source, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows drivers.
if you can afford it, stop being productive and do the architecture work. flesh out as much of the guidelines as you have to and leave out the detail. (even though it may be just an easy 5 minutes for you to finish up the job) our principal failing as managers is that we don't communicate. be clear by building out the framework everywhere, it leaves little chance for the beginner coder to get lost and it keeps him on task. think through all of the major paths for a project before-hand and let your staff come in and fill in the details. this will virtualy guarentee that your coders won't "code against the project". then set clearly defined goals and let the team thrive on the emotion that comes with their ideas for refinement of your roughed-out dream.
i'm not convinced that peer review is worth it mid-project. it has it's place but it detracts from the emotion you are working on preserving. most slow and steady coders don't have (nor want) the big picture in their heads as they work. make that be your job. play babysitter and error on the side of communicating too much by example. if a coder is still not productive, make your team smaller.
i'm an impulse buyer. i have a win2k box but my dad has a cube, so i figured i wouldn't be totaly dead in the water. here are my observations:
i never cared about id3 tags because i centralize my meta info in a database. after my first import, i had 3 differient spellings and therefore 3 differient artists for the dave matthews band. no delete capability in Xplay. FRICK! nothing a perl script (and my dad's mac) can't fix though.
other than that, Xplay rocks. i had 1 or 2 stability problems, but it gets the job done. on the face of it, it seems more than just a read / write HFS+ filesystem going on in here. there is a database that gets populated with id3 info. not sure if that's some sort of layer over the filesystem, or if the db just gets populated seperatly.
i would have liked a more standard filesystem so i could use this thing as a general firewire drive. (as it stands, i can move big files from mac to mac. pointless for me.)
audio quality rocks. i a/b tested this with winamp (whose quality sucks) and splay (still my favorite). it's up there.
the earbuds aren't the most comfortable, but it's saveing grace is the volume level. this thing can get LOUD! the other mp3 players never really could cut it for me.
gets scratched easily, but it smells realy nice. big thing with me. smells like a new hard drive you just opened. and it keeps smelling new car'ish.
literature says it holds 20 minutes in ram. (anti skip) you pick a set of tunes to play and press play. there is a pause as it spins up it's disk and then play begins. i guess it preloads the files then and spins the drive down. if you skip 4 or 5 songs (20 minutes worth) you have to wait for the drive to spin up again. takes a second or 2. no big deal, i'm just impatient.
hopefully it's best feature will be that it forces us to get read/write HFS+ going. if so, i'd look into trying to repartition the drive so i could have a 5 meg FAT partition that could hold the windows / linux HFS+ drivers and use this thing as a portable hard drive as well.
alright, i give. i'm the guy who did the deed. i executed the 'mv' command to switch dailyradar.com off. however, the real story is probably the fact that imagine media pulled the plug on just about every one of its internet properties. this includes pcxl.com which was a pay companion of dailyradar.com launched less than a week ago. (and yes, i did the honors there as well) this is all information you can glean from press releases, but it's a whole other matter to be the guy who actually throws the switch on such a popular site.
all of the imagine properties were run on a linux farm concieved of an built by myself and jeremy wohl. quick stats: 2 million dynamic pages per day from a 3 tier linux farm. lvs / apache / resin / oracle / java / xml and a myriad of other tools. the power of open-source here was truly awesome.
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The best way to get what you need is to buy it yourself. I'd rather buy monitors than try to explain / convince people why more screen real estate makes me more productive.
Now if Ubuntu would just rethink the UI and make it essentially touch based rather than just hiding the mouse pointer...
As long as you have to have glasses, 3D TV will remain a niche market.
Systems like this add much needed liquidity to the market. If these things were more prevalent, chances are we would never have had the flash crash of last month.
The reason there are no "thousands of man hours of innovation" within Microsoft is because the culture is not conducive to innovation so the innovators don't show up in the first place. I'd work there if Ballmer could guarantee me cover when innovation actually happens.
"... right after Linux is ready for the desktop."
Here here.
"... I printed out something to give to someone more important than me ..."
What really happened here is that "we" are now inhabiting the senior positions and not requiring subordinates to hand us paper.
~2001 - An MP3 player for $300 when I can get one for $100? Apple is retarded.
The answer is simple: because iPods are simple.
PDAs are scaled down computers. They are complicated no matter how you look at them. By contrast, the iPod is simple. It does what you expect so simply that even a 5 year old could operate it. You can't say that of any PDA I have ever seen, including the PDAs Apple has made.
Modern iPods play videos and show pictures, but these features were added after the market was firmly in Apple's grasp. The iPod at it's heart is still the simplest MP3 player out there.
iPods are simple because they do what you expect very well.
If you know what you are doing, you don't need a firewall in front of a Linux machine. (ie: you start with everything turned off and turn on only what you want and watch the security lists for exploits on the things you are running) For Windows, a firewall is manditory. Windows firewall is fairly good but echoing much of the sentiment from other posts, get a hardware firewall. $100 is a little thin for a basic firewall with decent throughput but I think the basic FireBox is around that price. If you have a spare Linux box, build yourself a firewall. The best way to mitigate security risk is to first understand things well. Far too much money is spent by people trying to alay fears instead of fix a real problem. Don't get caught in that trap. Educate yourself and realize that you can never completely eliminate risk.
Linspire? Never heard of it...
Seems like the feature set of this new genre is still being fleshed out. Support for this and that video format can be flashed later. (huge plus if it's hackable) I mostly care about the hardware. For example, if I go on a trip, I don't want to lug my laptop with me everywhere, but I still want to take a digital camera. So show me a media player with a compact flash slot or somthing. If you're going to watch a movie on a 2 inch screen, you've probably already decided to leave your laptop at home, so why doesn't the portable hard drive sport the features you would need from a laptop on the road? I don't advocate making the thing send email or try to be everything to everyone, but at least sport CF / SD or maybe USB so I can use the hard drive!
I wonder how much Slashdot was paid to run this ad. Doesn't seem they even changed the wording from the 160 x 600 gif ad running elsewhere.
Why would a race leave their planet? Doesn't seem efficient.
My company isn't considering walking away from Linux, then again I am the CTO. I think that sums up the kind of postings we'll get here. What we need is to see is a poll of the Business 2.0 readers.
the way i was brought up, there wasn't a passionate stance on guns pro or con so i figure i'm fairly neutral. essentially i think gun ownership should be inversly proportionate to population density. people shouldn't be allowed to tote high power rifles around in a city, but someone out in the middle of the wilderness might be considered stupid not to have one. it seems the letter of the law doesn't quite jive with the spirit of common sense in this respect. we shouldn't abolish guns and we shouldn't have a free for all. seems population density might be a good measure to define where the line should be between the two extremes.
this is an excellent idea. embodies the essence of a true hack. a while ago i was thinking of doing this sort of thing only with CDs. the only problem would be if the scanner wasn't up to the dpi necessary. come to think of it, if we get a scanner to scan a cd at a high enough dpi and use a program like this to create wavs or an iso file, then we could get around the "crippled cd copy protection" measures that inhibit the playing of particular cds in some cdrom drives.
the whole point is that the VoIP Blaster doesn't need any of the software it comes with. check out fobbit.com: free, open source, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows drivers.
if you can afford it, stop being productive and do the architecture work. flesh out as much of the guidelines as you have to and leave out the detail. (even though it may be just an easy 5 minutes for you to finish up the job) our principal failing as managers is that we don't communicate. be clear by building out the framework everywhere, it leaves little chance for the beginner coder to get lost and it keeps him on task. think through all of the major paths for a project before-hand and let your staff come in and fill in the details. this will virtualy guarentee that your coders won't "code against the project". then set clearly defined goals and let the team thrive on the emotion that comes with their ideas for refinement of your roughed-out dream.
i'm not convinced that peer review is worth it mid-project. it has it's place but it detracts from the emotion you are working on preserving. most slow and steady coders don't have (nor want) the big picture in their heads as they work. make that be your job. play babysitter and error on the side of communicating too much by example. if a coder is still not productive, make your team smaller.
just my $0.02
i'm an impulse buyer. i have a win2k box but my dad has a cube, so i figured i wouldn't be totaly dead in the water. here are my observations:
i never cared about id3 tags because i centralize my meta info in a database. after my first import, i had 3 differient spellings and therefore 3 differient artists for the dave matthews band. no delete capability in Xplay. FRICK! nothing a perl script (and my dad's mac) can't fix though.
other than that, Xplay rocks. i had 1 or 2 stability problems, but it gets the job done. on the face of it, it seems more than just a read / write HFS+ filesystem going on in here. there is a database that gets populated with id3 info. not sure if that's some sort of layer over the filesystem, or if the db just gets populated seperatly.
i would have liked a more standard filesystem so i could use this thing as a general firewire drive. (as it stands, i can move big files from mac to mac. pointless for me.)
audio quality rocks. i a/b tested this with winamp (whose quality sucks) and splay (still my favorite). it's up there.
the earbuds aren't the most comfortable, but it's saveing grace is the volume level. this thing can get LOUD! the other mp3 players never really could cut it for me.
gets scratched easily, but it smells realy nice. big thing with me. smells like a new hard drive you just opened. and it keeps smelling new car'ish.
literature says it holds 20 minutes in ram. (anti skip) you pick a set of tunes to play and press play. there is a pause as it spins up it's disk and then play begins. i guess it preloads the files then and spins the drive down. if you skip 4 or 5 songs (20 minutes worth) you have to wait for the drive to spin up again. takes a second or 2. no big deal, i'm just impatient.
hopefully it's best feature will be that it forces us to get read/write HFS+ going. if so, i'd look into trying to repartition the drive so i could have a 5 meg FAT partition that could hold the windows / linux HFS+ drivers and use this thing as a portable hard drive as well.
alright, i give. i'm the guy who did the deed. i executed the 'mv' command to switch dailyradar.com off. however, the real story is probably the fact that imagine media pulled the plug on just about every one of its internet properties. this includes pcxl.com which was a pay companion of dailyradar.com launched less than a week ago. (and yes, i did the honors there as well) this is all information you can glean from press releases, but it's a whole other matter to be the guy who actually throws the switch on such a popular site.
all of the imagine properties were run on a linux farm concieved of an built by myself and jeremy wohl. quick stats: 2 million dynamic pages per day from a 3 tier linux farm. lvs / apache / resin / oracle / java / xml and a myriad of other tools. the power of open-source here was truly awesome.