I do NOT want everything to be a goddamn web app. Web apps work very well for certain applications, and Google has shown that they can push the limits with dynamic content, but that does not mean the web application is an appropriate model for every damned application.
Keep in mind that this is intended for netbooks, not "real" machines. When I am traveling, an excellent browser covers 80% of my needs; if you add VLC, it jumps to 98%...
I don't know if defaults really appeared in the 1960's in IT, but this guy has a point : computers and others toys have become so somplex these days that the quality of a device or application often lies in the choices made by its designers. A few examples:
Apple is excellent at producing things which "just work", among others because the default values are chosen with care, and only a few can be overriden with a configuration GUI. Some people like it, some hate it.
FireFox is a great browser because its default values are also chosen with care, so that an "out of the box" FireFox is easy to use and relatively safe at the same time. Contrarily to Apple, however, FireFox's default settings can be altered; this can be done at different levels (native configuration GUI, extensions, or about:config) depending on the user's capabilities. What makes FireFox great is that it is at the same time a good browser for beginners AND for advanced users.
an indiscriminate collection of information
an Instruction manual
I looked at both of these, and none of the (bad) cases they list apply to documenting hardware. I often use Wikipedia's pages on Unicode encoding, do you also mean that they should be removed?
For those projects that don't care about IE support, HTML5 canvas/video/audio is a fantastic leap forward for the web. For the rest, business as usual for some time to come I'm afraid.
Who can afford to not care about IE? On the desktop, nobody. On the mobile web (smartphones) however, IE is not relevant. And guess where the future is headed?
What I would like to know is whether the Palm Pre is indeed a good PIM (Personal Information Manager). What was great about Palm OS were the quality of the basic PIM applications (calendar, contacts, tasks, to do's) : fast, responsive, requiring a minimal number of clicks (or taps), and easy to hotsync with my desktop PIM.
Of course my iPhone is overall much better than the various Treos I had, but I still long for the efficiency of the Treo when doing basic tasks. I hope that Palm has not forgotten what made the Palms and Treos such great tools.
Anybody actually do this? How many people really would do this at this time?
You might want to use to 3G from your phone or netbook in order to check at TPB that a new torrent is available, and then use the web console of your BT client (running at home) to add this torrent.
The Skystream produced 2'109 kWh per year, which makes around 422 Euros at the current price of 0.2 Euros per KWh (do some googling...). For an investment of 10'742 Euros, this makes a return of 4% per year.
With the current economy, this seems like a good investment...
Developers still write programs for single-core chips and need the tools necessary to break up tasks over multiple cores.
So what? If I had a 32 core system, at least each running process (even if single-threaded) could have a core just for itself. Only a few basic applications (such as a browser) really need to be designed for multiples threads.
the synchronization of data between mobile devices
To be precise, the synchronization of some data between mobile devices: it still doesn't support tasks and notes.
It is a pity, but I had a better sync 10 years ago on my palm. The concept of custom conduits allowed for a very smooth synchronization of many different types of information: not only the big four (calendar, contacts, tasks and notes), but also e-books, passwords, etc. I love my iPhone, but I need 5 different ways to sync its data.
of the people who claim that "wine" is good for you one glass a day. Fools! Its not the wine, its stuff from the grapes,
Again, a mix of correlation and causality. In fact:
1- People who a drink a lot of wine have a bad health (logical).
2- People who drink just a little wine are in excellent health.
3- People who drink no wine at all have a slightly less optimal health.
The reason for 3) is that this group includes people whose health is not very good, and therefore prevents them from drinking any wine, thus lowering the average health of this group.
Microsoft will release updated browser in their 6.2 update
Yes, but which one? I have had an HTC Touch Diamond during a few days, it came with both Internet Explorer (part of Windows Mobile), and Opera (part of the "TouchFlo 3D" layer added by HTC).
In fact, none of the two browsers really worked...
I would understand that a certain file system would not be optimized for a certain type of media like SSD, but how can a modern operating system be that much hardware dependant?
A logical first step would be to decouple the OS from the file system; and then some day to take advantage of improvements like ZFS...
And for non-English speakers like me: provide good subtitles....
Finding your favourite show on Pirate Bay is easy, however finding good subtitles is harder (quality, synchronization, etc...). Manually resyncing the subtitles after each commercial break is a hassle, and I would be ready to pay for the convenience of excellent subtitles.
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I do NOT want everything to be a goddamn web app. Web apps work very well for certain applications, and Google has shown that they can push the limits with dynamic content, but that does not mean the web application is an appropriate model for every damned application.
Keep in mind that this is intended for netbooks, not "real" machines. When I am traveling, an excellent browser covers 80% of my needs; if you add VLC, it jumps to 98%...
an indiscriminate collection of information
an Instruction manual
I looked at both of these, and none of the (bad) cases they list apply to documenting hardware. I often use Wikipedia's pages on Unicode encoding, do you also mean that they should be removed?
I agree, but ... the deletionists would go ballistic and start screaming "its unencyclopedic".
There are far worse unencyclopedic things in Wikipedia, e.g. this.
I see no reason to have a separate Wiki for this. Besides, my first attempt to connect to "allpinouts.org" resulted in an error message....
For those projects that don't care about IE support, HTML5 canvas/video/audio is a fantastic leap forward for the web. For the rest, business as usual for some time to come I'm afraid.
Who can afford to not care about IE? On the desktop, nobody. On the mobile web (smartphones) however, IE is not relevant. And guess where the future is headed?
Right now, without Flash, Youtube does not work, period, end of story.
:-)
Except on the iPhone
What I would like to know is whether the Palm Pre is indeed a good PIM (Personal Information Manager). What was great about Palm OS were the quality of the basic PIM applications (calendar, contacts, tasks, to do's) : fast, responsive, requiring a minimal number of clicks (or taps), and easy to hotsync with my desktop PIM.
Of course my iPhone is overall much better than the various Treos I had, but I still long for the efficiency of the Treo when doing basic tasks. I hope that Palm has not forgotten what made the Palms and Treos such great tools.
Anybody actually do this? How many people really would do this at this time?
You might want to use to 3G from your phone or netbook in order to check at TPB that a new torrent is available, and then use the web console of your BT client (running at home) to add this torrent.
Pretty theoretical yes, but why not ?
The Skystream produced 2'109 kWh per year, which makes around 422 Euros at the current price of 0.2 Euros per KWh (do some googling...). For an investment of 10'742 Euros, this makes a return of 4% per year.
With the current economy, this seems like a good investment...
I'd love to use VLC legally in the US, but that doesn't seem like it'll happen any time soon.
VLC FAQ
Check your source : the FAQ mentions that VLC's use in the US is controversial.
Had to be an iPod, not a Zune: Her Majesty has far too much gravitas to run around "squirting" people.
Remember also that Zunes are only sold in North America, she might have a problem just to plug the AC converter into a 230 V wall plug...
My dvd burning program is quite slow, it could really use multiple threads...
I seriously doubt that burning a DVD is CPU-bound, therefore having a multi-threaded DVD burning program would not help much.
Developers still write programs for single-core chips and need the tools necessary to break up tasks over multiple cores.
So what? If I had a 32 core system, at least each running process (even if single-threaded) could have a core just for itself. Only a few basic applications (such as a browser) really need to be designed for multiples threads.
I have used palm OS for almost ten years.
Rest in Peace my friend, you will be missed.
Same here. As much as I like my new iPhone, its PDA capabililities are still inferior to palm OS:
On the other hand, the iPhone's browser makes you feel in the 21st century...
the synchronization of data between mobile devices
To be precise, the synchronization of some data between mobile devices: it still doesn't support tasks and notes.
It is a pity, but I had a better sync 10 years ago on my palm. The concept of custom conduits allowed for a very smooth synchronization of many different types of information: not only the big four (calendar, contacts, tasks and notes), but also e-books, passwords, etc. I love my iPhone, but I need 5 different ways to sync its data.
It does not bloody well make administration easier! If you have say X servers scattered over Y locations, it makes sense to call them:
(site)(os)(function)(number)
Obviously, you never experienced an Oracle Server being migrated from Windows to Linux (or the other way around). Who cares what the underlying OS is?
And even the site is often meaningless...
of the people who claim that "wine" is good for you one glass a day. Fools! Its not the wine, its stuff from the grapes,
Again, a mix of correlation and causality. In fact:
1- People who a drink a lot of wine have a bad health (logical).
2- People who drink just a little wine are in excellent health.
3- People who drink no wine at all have a slightly less optimal health.
The reason for 3) is that this group includes people whose health is not very good, and therefore prevents them from drinking any wine, thus lowering the average health of this group.
Microsoft will release updated browser in their 6.2 update
Yes, but which one? I have had an HTC Touch Diamond during a few days, it came with both Internet Explorer (part of Windows Mobile), and Opera (part of the "TouchFlo 3D" layer added by HTC).
In fact, none of the two browsers really worked...
I would understand that a certain file system would not be optimized for a certain type of media like SSD, but how can a modern operating system be that much hardware dependant?
A logical first step would be to decouple the OS from the file system; and then some day to take advantage of improvements like ZFS...
we plan to use open-source technologies but we are not yet ready to play by the rules
See you in court, then.
Don't like OSS? Then don't use it. Nobody is forcing you.
i can understand China's point of view of trying to keep out bad people
Sorry, for me the chinese government are the bad people.
your email client works without an internet connection? Sign me up!
My e-mail client allows me to read e-mails and answer them while being off-line (in a train, at a customer's site without net access, etc.).
I love being able to easily access my mail from any computer anywhere
You forgot to mention "anywhere where I have an internet connection". This is why I still prefer a classic e-mail client.
And for non-English speakers like me: provide good subtitles....
Finding your favourite show on Pirate Bay is easy, however finding good subtitles is harder (quality, synchronization, etc...). Manually resyncing the subtitles after each commercial break is a hassle, and I would be ready to pay for the convenience of excellent subtitles.