I'm not going to flame you, but they probably should (and I guess, in later iterations, will) offer the services you describe... A product like this will make the web friendlier and more accessible to certain demographics. If not perfect in implementation, it's a novel idea in developing a browser for a certain group of people, instead of one-browser-fits-all. I'd (loosly) liken it to a different browser distribution for a certain group of people. As long as they don't limit the accessibility, a la AOL, but rather put information you're after at your fingertips it could work.
Sure about this? I thought that installing "VMWare Tools" added video acceleration. Of course there's still going to be a performance hit. Can anyone verify?
This'd be great for home, too, (if it's reasonably priced) because it would guarantee the highest bandwidth is available throughout the house, without any dead-spots, i.e. my wireless won't have to step down to 1mb/s when I'm at the other end of the house.
Do you get paid to go to grad school? If not, then it's not much of a comparison. Oh, I'm at grad school, and I work in a cubicle. Most people I know do also.
I think this depends on what the flags represent. If the flags represent the nationality of the people its aimed at, you have a valid point. i.e. if you were serving different content based on nationality or geographic location.
If, however, the flags represent mere copies of the same site in different languages I think it's less of an issue. Americans, Australians, etc still speak English. French-Canadians, French(wo)man, Nuemeans (spelling??) still speak French...
The same principles required the develop efficient, robust, reusable, highly-usable software are needed when developing swith PHP as they are with C++.
--Time machine back 20 years-- What? They think writing software in C shows as great an understanding of computer architecture as programming in Assembly..... -- Back to 2005 --
Languages are been developed, more and more, to fit a niche market. It helps people build software quicker. It's a strategic move by language creators to dominate a certain market. IT MAKES EVERYONE'S LIFE EASIER !!!
Nobody cares what language you wrote it in, as long as it delivers on the client's business needs. Get over it.
Price sounds great, especially if you plan to use the discount voucher. What worries me is that individual games may add their own charges for playing online.
I hope MS forces game developers to provide online gaming capabilities without the option of charging extras.
I know the mindshare blow of losing Microsoft Office would be significant, but what if there were a BETTER alternative, that was 100% compatible with Office?
Office for Mac isn't even 100% compatible with (Win32) Office... What makes you think they can provide 100% compatibility without MS's help?
Open Office and Star Office aren't 100% compatible
Is he on drugs, or what? He can barely string together a coherent sentence, let alone manage to simplify a project like Wine....
From the article:
What we're doing right now, is we've spent a great deal of energy over the last year, sort of a lot of unsexy, dirty, nasty, grinding work that has the very sexy, exciting work that has the result that we believe many applications will install, and we believe that those that won't install will be very easy to get install.
We're very hopeful that with this, if we can get some community participation and community help that we can go from right now, where you have a 50-50 chance having an app install, maybe a bit less than that, to you're pretty sure that your app will install.
If anyone out there can decipher what he's on about, please help !!
You spent 10 minutes and failed? you need help. I typed "Konfabulator" into Google and took the first link, which came up with the quote in the parent post....
I don't really understand why us geeks like to hoard intellectual property so much. Of those 50 movies:
1. How many do you actually watch? 2. How many do you use to buy friends with? 3. How many get thrown on a spindle and forgotten?
I know people that download almost 50 movies/TV shows/games a month. When I ask them how many they actually watch/play, it's rarely 20% at most.
I think this stems from the fact that having so much media readily available to us is still a relatively new concept. It was only 10 years ago that it took us 2 hours to download a 5 minute, low-quality movie (usually porn). I believe people are thinking "Wow !! i CAN have all these movies", not "Wow !! I want to WATCH all these movies".
I believe that when our kids grow up, they won't have this desire to accumulate all this media, because they'll be able to watch/play all this stuff when they want it.
Instead of paying $50/month of DVD, just to have the pleasure of burning and stock-piling them, why not hire 10 DVDs for $30 from your local video shop and buy some beers to drink while you watch.....
"before they're available on DVD" isn't quite going to cut it. Most movies are available via torrents before, or while, they're still out at the cinema. Sure, they're inferior, pirated copies, but for most people that seems to be good enough.
What? You mean he's after a trolley? and he comes to slashdot to find out? What's the big deal? it has wheels, and shelves and you put things onto it and move it around... This story's just plain weird.
Maybe someone out there can help me find the perfect role of sticky tape. I want one with a few features, will last the whole semester, preferable made of plastic and doesn't cost upward of $1200. Hold on, I'll ask slashdot !!
C'Mon, honestly !! I can't be the only one that's not heard of these.. As far as I can tell, you're referring to and Audio/Video Cartridge? BUt the 'shelves' reference throws that out the window. Or are you looking for a shopping cart with an Audio/Video display on it for showing the customers adverts while they cruise the aisles??
I remember being at a party with my geek friends, getting off our face and checking out pr0n. Took about 15 - 20 mins to download a single jpg on the 2400bps modem. Half-way through the night, a mate drove home and brought his shiny 9600bps modem back... We were then able to download our pr0n in about 5 mins !!! We were stoked !!!!
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I'm not going to flame you, but they probably should (and I guess, in later iterations, will) offer the services you describe... A product like this will make the web friendlier and more accessible to certain demographics. If not perfect in implementation, it's a novel idea in developing a browser for a certain group of people, instead of one-browser-fits-all. I'd (loosly) liken it to a different browser distribution for a certain group of people. As long as they don't limit the accessibility, a la AOL, but rather put information you're after at your fingertips it could work.
Yeah, well I didn't even know you could get Quake on computers !
Sure about this? I thought that installing "VMWare Tools" added video acceleration. Of course there's still going to be a performance hit. Can anyone verify?
This'd be great for home, too, (if it's reasonably priced) because it would guarantee the highest bandwidth is available throughout the house, without any dead-spots, i.e. my wireless won't have to step down to 1mb/s when I'm at the other end of the house.
Do you get paid to go to grad school? If not, then it's not much of a comparison. Oh, I'm at grad school, and I work in a cubicle. Most people I know do also.
I really hope you're trying to be stupid...
I think this depends on what the flags represent. If the flags represent the nationality of the people its aimed at, you have a valid point. i.e. if you were serving different content based on nationality or geographic location.
If, however, the flags represent mere copies of the same site in different languages I think it's less of an issue. Americans, Australians, etc still speak English. French-Canadians, French(wo)man, Nuemeans (spelling??) still speak French...
were you using real turtles?
You're a tool.
The same principles required the develop efficient, robust, reusable, highly-usable software are needed when developing swith PHP as they are with C++.
--Time machine back 20 years--
What? They think writing software in C shows as great an understanding of computer architecture as programming in Assembly.....
-- Back to 2005 --
Languages are been developed, more and more, to fit a niche market. It helps people build software quicker. It's a strategic move by language creators to dominate a certain market. IT MAKES EVERYONE'S LIFE EASIER !!!
Nobody cares what language you wrote it in, as long as it delivers on the client's business needs. Get over it.
Price sounds great, especially if you plan to use the discount voucher. What worries me is that individual games may add their own charges for playing online.
I hope MS forces game developers to provide online gaming capabilities without the option of charging extras.
..but didn't the Dreamcast use prorietary format disks? i.e. not easily copied with the hardware available on the market...
I know the mindshare blow of losing Microsoft Office would be significant, but what if there were a BETTER alternative, that was 100% compatible with Office?
Office for Mac isn't even 100% compatible with (Win32) Office... What makes you think they can provide 100% compatibility without MS's help?
Open Office and Star Office aren't 100% compatible
Is he on drugs, or what? He can barely string together a coherent sentence, let alone manage to simplify a project like Wine.... From the article: What we're doing right now, is we've spent a great deal of energy over the last year, sort of a lot of unsexy, dirty, nasty, grinding work that has the very sexy, exciting work that has the result that we believe many applications will install, and we believe that those that won't install will be very easy to get install. We're very hopeful that with this, if we can get some community participation and community help that we can go from right now, where you have a 50-50 chance having an app install, maybe a bit less than that, to you're pretty sure that your app will install.
If anyone out there can decipher what he's on about, please help !!
You spent 10 minutes and failed? you need help. I typed "Konfabulator" into Google and took the first link, which came up with the quote in the parent post....
$10,000 to restore an account from backup?
Hehe.. This is /. We all know what LAMP is.
cute...
You made some good points, but it all falls apart when you compare the price of HP's colour cartridge with the price of Canon's black cartridge....
What about all the roofers !
I don't really understand why us geeks like to hoard intellectual property so much. Of those 50 movies:
1. How many do you actually watch?
2. How many do you use to buy friends with?
3. How many get thrown on a spindle and forgotten?
I know people that download almost 50 movies/TV shows/games a month. When I ask them how many they actually watch/play, it's rarely 20% at most.
I think this stems from the fact that having so much media readily available to us is still a relatively new concept. It was only 10 years ago that it took us 2 hours to download a 5 minute, low-quality movie (usually porn). I believe people are thinking "Wow !! i CAN have all these movies", not "Wow !! I want to WATCH all these movies".
I believe that when our kids grow up, they won't have this desire to accumulate all this media, because they'll be able to watch/play all this stuff when they want it.
Instead of paying $50/month of DVD, just to have the pleasure of burning and stock-piling them, why not hire 10 DVDs for $30 from your local video shop and buy some beers to drink while you watch.....
"before they're available on DVD" isn't quite going to cut it. Most movies are available via torrents before, or while, they're still out at the cinema. Sure, they're inferior, pirated copies, but for most people that seems to be good enough.
post not what you can do for others. post what others can do for you... post, post, post.... first
Yeah, it's always going to be impossible to use up something that's unlimited. Bummer, but that's numbers for ya.
What? You mean he's after a trolley? and he comes to slashdot to find out? What's the big deal? it has wheels, and shelves and you put things onto it and move it around... This story's just plain weird.
Maybe someone out there can help me find the perfect role of sticky tape. I want one with a few features, will last the whole semester, preferable made of plastic and doesn't cost upward of $1200. Hold on, I'll ask slashdot !!
C'Mon, honestly !! I can't be the only one that's not heard of these.. As far as I can tell, you're referring to and Audio/Video Cartridge? BUt the 'shelves' reference throws that out the window. Or are you looking for a shopping cart with an Audio/Video display on it for showing the customers adverts while they cruise the aisles??
I remember being at a party with my geek friends, getting off our face and checking out pr0n. Took about 15 - 20 mins to download a single jpg on the 2400bps modem. Half-way through the night, a mate drove home and brought his shiny 9600bps modem back... We were then able to download our pr0n in about 5 mins !!! We were stoked !!!!