"I can see photographers shooting sporting events with a 12" Powerbook in a backpack receiving images to its 80GB drive and automatically uploading them to SI."
Really? I can see uploading straight from the camera to SI. The computer is an intermediary today because it's a necessity. When every device has is on the internet, the intermediary function of computers will disolve.
Saw that pop up in SUS too (not sure why), but honestly: didn't you test the thing first? The first thing I do when I see something show up in SUS is test it on a workstation off the domain. If it works, I then test it on a few domain workstations, then finally roll it out to the entire domain.
In the case of this "tool", I immediately recognized it'd be useless to users. No sense rolling it out.
Anyone else notice that Google's been having a lot of morality/technical problems in the last year?
File for an IPO but screw up the rules involved with an IPO (like talking beforehand).
Release an email service that scans emails and posts ads. Privacy advocates go nuts.
Gradual deteriation of search results (try searching for some topics without getting links to IMDB, Wikipedia or porn).
Not to mention possibly focusing on stuff they probably shouldn't (like creating a browser). I'm beginning to wonder if we'll be talking about Google the same we talked about Yahoo a few years back: great at first but lost sight of what made it good.
"Does it have an interface as simple and effective as the iPod's? I doubt it."
It doesn't have to be. It has to be functional. I use the command line in most GUIs, even though the GUI is supposedly a "simpler interface"?
I'm not sure how the GUI handles, but considering I'll be starting 2 hour movies with this thing, how often will I need to mess around with the UI? A couple times a day?
iPod is a great mass-market MP3 player. I've recommended it to all my family and friends. I'm the early adopter, and this gadget is calling me.
Amongst the kids (which I'm no longer) Soulseek is the P2P of choice. Partially because it's so easy to find a friend's files.
eDonkey has its place. I use it to download MST3K episodes from www.dapcentral.org. It's slow, but I've never had a single corrupt download. When you're talking 4.7 GB (in some cases) it's pretty damn good.
I personally want to see where portable video players go. I bought an iPod a few weeks ago (20 GB for $300) and saw the small Archos video player this morning. That thing plays music AND DivX AND XVid AND MPEG4 AND has 10 hours of battery life AND is as small as an iPod AND has cool extra geek stuff like a Compact Flash reader and line out. AND it's only $379. I bought one and am thinking of putting my iPod up on eBay.
I forget what the model number is. 4-something I think. 400mini? It should be on their site. The feature list on the thing is freaking amazing.
Especially with the Archos mini400 out now. Saw one today and I instantly fell in love. The thing is a geek's dream come true. My credit card is getting quite a workout.
Big Blue planned a small, black MP3 player, based on the company's own mini hard drives, which featured a unique circular screen and wireless Bluetooth headphones. "The design for IBM was a lot sexier," Knauss said.
That doesn't sound "kludgy" or "ugly" to me. By the way, there's no way to "rah rah" root for iPod. It has its flaws just like any other product.
Uh, it wasn't their design team. It was PortalPlayer's. http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64286,00.html Again, all they did was stick an Apple logo on it.
There's a lot of stuff that Synaptics can add to the iPod scrollwheel that they have in regular touchpads (maybe Apple doesn't let them)? In particular, they have software that can determine the "weight" of a button press (so the pad can detect varying degrees of pressure). If you have a laptop with a Synaptics pad, there's a "mood" application that demonstrates it using funky colors.
They also have the ill-fated LCD touchpads that were on Toshibas. Why bother having that main screen at all. Put the screen underneath the touchwheel (and if you're wondering what UI would work with that, let Apple's "geniuses" figure it out). That would make a small iPod.
"It also doesn't mention anything about Apple's design process"
Well, actually, it does. It's basically Apple had little part in designing the iPod. The chips and design were outsourced (see that old Wired article). All they did was have Jobs give an ok and stamp an Apple logo on it. Why innovate when you can purchase?
"According to a Wall Street Journal article from February 2004, researchers have found that there are frequent instances of vandalism at Wikipedia, but that these are often quickly resolved"
It doesn't matter if the original articles aren't truthful. A number of times changes to an article (for example, adding "admins have full ability to delete articles" to the entry page for "Wikipedia") are reverted because they piss off the existing admins.
The final "unvandalised" page is what the admins want it to be, not the people.
"Having access to any of Microsoft's source code is the poison/suicide pill for any programmer in today's sue, sue, sue litigation is business as usual environment."
Wow. Falsehoods, meet FUD and alternate reality. "Charmed."
Not sure how things are in Bangalore, but I never get asked those questions when I activate. All I get asked is "what number's on the screen". They don't seem to care what I've done to the machine.
Exactly. Do you have special tires? Do you have a filter that most car companies won't support nowadays? 1996 Ford Taurus/Linux is for you. It's for those who are interested in dabbling.
Personally, I used to be interested but gave up on it. Tivo just does the job better.
"So he is giving a tiny percentage of the money he made using the most slimy and despicable methods known to mankind."
Uh, I'd put drug dealing and stringing my enemies up by their balls (physically, not a metaphor) as the most despicable methods known to mankind.
Gates is a businessman. A total pain in the ass, but still a businessman. I could see if the guy truly did immoral stuff (like kill thousands of people) to get his money, but he just ran a (monopolistic) business. You have an incredible crude sense of proportion.
One mitigating factor some of these news articles are omitting (and I just noticed): the JPEG parser runs with user permissions. So, a user can hose their directory instead of the entire system, assuming it's configured correctly.
Small consolation for home users, I know, but at least I won't need to worry as much for my domain users. I don't trust them with jack, and they're given the lowest permission level available above "computer completely turned off".
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Substitute "Apple" for "HP" and "iPod" for "iPaq h4150" and it reads the same way.
"How is that any different from what the average Slashdotter does?"
We complain about it more. Next question.
"I can see photographers shooting sporting events with a 12" Powerbook in a backpack receiving images to its 80GB drive and automatically uploading them to SI."
Really? I can see uploading straight from the camera to SI. The computer is an intermediary today because it's a necessity. When every device has is on the internet, the intermediary function of computers will disolve.
"So we're looking at a machine that does a lot of things but does none of them very well?"
And your basis for this reasoning is...? It's quite possible to have a device do many things well. Look at the PC.
Saw that pop up in SUS too (not sure why), but honestly: didn't you test the thing first? The first thing I do when I see something show up in SUS is test it on a workstation off the domain. If it works, I then test it on a few domain workstations, then finally roll it out to the entire domain.
In the case of this "tool", I immediately recognized it'd be useless to users. No sense rolling it out.
File for an IPO but screw up the rules involved with an IPO (like talking beforehand).
Release an email service that scans emails and posts ads. Privacy advocates go nuts.
Gradual deteriation of search results (try searching for some topics without getting links to IMDB, Wikipedia or porn).
Not to mention possibly focusing on stuff they probably shouldn't (like creating a browser). I'm beginning to wonder if we'll be talking about Google the same we talked about Yahoo a few years back: great at first but lost sight of what made it good.
Fine bye me.
Only images housed on an external server. If someone places a corrupt image in the message itself (attached and displayed) the bug will trigger.
"Does it have an interface as simple and effective as the iPod's? I doubt it."
It doesn't have to be. It has to be functional. I use the command line in most GUIs, even though the GUI is supposedly a "simpler interface"?
I'm not sure how the GUI handles, but considering I'll be starting 2 hour movies with this thing, how often will I need to mess around with the UI? A couple times a day?
iPod is a great mass-market MP3 player. I've recommended it to all my family and friends. I'm the early adopter, and this gadget is calling me.
Amongst the kids (which I'm no longer) Soulseek is the P2P of choice. Partially because it's so easy to find a friend's files.
eDonkey has its place. I use it to download MST3K episodes from www.dapcentral.org. It's slow, but I've never had a single corrupt download. When you're talking 4.7 GB (in some cases) it's pretty damn good.
I personally want to see where portable video players go. I bought an iPod a few weeks ago (20 GB for $300) and saw the small Archos video player this morning. That thing plays music AND DivX AND XVid AND MPEG4 AND has 10 hours of battery life AND is as small as an iPod AND has cool extra geek stuff like a Compact Flash reader and line out. AND it's only $379. I bought one and am thinking of putting my iPod up on eBay.
I forget what the model number is. 4-something I think. 400mini? It should be on their site. The feature list on the thing is freaking amazing.
"On the other side, this thing is bigger"
Actually, it isn't by much. The mini400 is about the same size as my current iPod. That's what make it so cool.
Especially with the Archos mini400 out now. Saw one today and I instantly fell in love. The thing is a geek's dream come true. My credit card is getting quite a workout.
From the article:
Big Blue planned a small, black MP3 player, based on the company's own mini hard drives, which featured a unique circular screen and wireless Bluetooth headphones. "The design for IBM was a lot sexier," Knauss said.
That doesn't sound "kludgy" or "ugly" to me. By the way, there's no way to "rah rah" root for iPod. It has its flaws just like any other product.
Uh, it wasn't their design team. It was PortalPlayer's. http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64286,00.html Again, all they did was stick an Apple logo on it.
There's a lot of stuff that Synaptics can add to the iPod scrollwheel that they have in regular touchpads (maybe Apple doesn't let them)? In particular, they have software that can determine the "weight" of a button press (so the pad can detect varying degrees of pressure). If you have a laptop with a Synaptics pad, there's a "mood" application that demonstrates it using funky colors.
They also have the ill-fated LCD touchpads that were on Toshibas. Why bother having that main screen at all. Put the screen underneath the touchwheel (and if you're wondering what UI would work with that, let Apple's "geniuses" figure it out). That would make a small iPod.
"It also doesn't mention anything about Apple's design process"
Well, actually, it does. It's basically Apple had little part in designing the iPod. The chips and design were outsourced (see that old Wired article). All they did was have Jobs give an ok and stamp an Apple logo on it. Why innovate when you can purchase?
"According to a Wall Street Journal article from February 2004, researchers have found that there are frequent instances of vandalism at Wikipedia, but that these are often quickly resolved"
It doesn't matter if the original articles aren't truthful. A number of times changes to an article (for example, adding "admins have full ability to delete articles" to the entry page for "Wikipedia") are reverted because they piss off the existing admins.
The final "unvandalised" page is what the admins want it to be, not the people.
"When (not if) the source code is leaked, then how long will it be before MSFT claims that office code was integrated into OpenOffice."
Because we all know with the NT/2000 source leak they immediately litigated against Linux. Next.
"Having access to any of Microsoft's source code is the poison/suicide pill for any programmer in today's sue, sue, sue litigation is business as usual environment."
Wow. Falsehoods, meet FUD and alternate reality. "Charmed."
Not sure how things are in Bangalore, but I never get asked those questions when I activate. All I get asked is "what number's on the screen". They don't seem to care what I've done to the machine.
Exactly. Do you have special tires? Do you have a filter that most car companies won't support nowadays? 1996 Ford Taurus/Linux is for you. It's for those who are interested in dabbling.
Personally, I used to be interested but gave up on it. Tivo just does the job better.
"So he is giving a tiny percentage of the money he made using the most slimy and despicable methods known to mankind."
Uh, I'd put drug dealing and stringing my enemies up by their balls (physically, not a metaphor) as the most despicable methods known to mankind.
Gates is a businessman. A total pain in the ass, but still a businessman. I could see if the guy truly did immoral stuff (like kill thousands of people) to get his money, but he just ran a (monopolistic) business. You have an incredible crude sense of proportion.
One mitigating factor some of these news articles are omitting (and I just noticed): the JPEG parser runs with user permissions. So, a user can hose their directory instead of the entire system, assuming it's configured correctly.
Small consolation for home users, I know, but at least I won't need to worry as much for my domain users. I don't trust them with jack, and they're given the lowest permission level available above "computer completely turned off".
As cruel as it sounds, "rapes" is probably going to be more accurate. How many more zombie machines are we going to see...?