... but it seems to be missing bluetooth, 802.11, gps, etc.. these things should be integrated already, so expansion ports can handle standards that don't exist today as well as larger storage (for video and music).. Also, how about a 720x480 camera that can shoot video? the 400mhz cpu (or a hardware mpeg4 codec) should be able to handle it..
Oh well, not like I have a job to pay for it anyway:p
Also, is it just me or does the calculator look really clunky? Is it that Qtopia apps can't take over the entire root screen, or does the calc that was demo'd just suck? Why have a menubar, window borders etc. on a calculator? Maybe I was just spoiled by Newton..
oh, and bad form I know, but it looks like Nokia gotRJ Mical, father of the Lynx on camera, and his current company is developing 3D toolkits for mobile systems.. Amigaheads might also recognize the name..
Neat, but I could import those photos via bluetooth or IR from my laptop, where I store such photos as taken by my digital elph.. I have the T68 (precursor to T68i) and it can support this iirc..
Granted you don't get the spontaneity, but you do get better image quality (I'd rather shrink my 1600x1200 2mpx snaps than try to blow 640x480 or worse out to a print)..
If it's $200 and lasts three hours on a battery charge, then we've probably got another Lynx. (is that what is was called?
Believe it or not, display tech has progressed since the early 1990s.. The Lynx IIRC had a backlit passive color screen, while the even hoggier portable turbografx had a TFT. Lynx could run about 4-5 hours on a full nicad charge on its 6 AAs.
I owned both the original and extra crispy, and I was a big fan of both, until I 'got a life'..
I would definitely appreciate a phone with improved games, if only to pass the time on the ferry.. I can get seasick reading..
... bluetooth, games, tri-band, PIM, etc. Is this the first Nokia with integrated bluetooth that hasn't sucked? No camera, but then again cameras aren't terribly useful on fones imho, less'n they support live video.
Trying to find the combination of USB floppy and printer port CD-rom or whatever that will actually let you install something on one of these spawn-of-satan systems is hugely annoying. Life is too short.
I had a Hell craptop for awhile (a perspiron), but I crunched it on a subway stair. My Ti has lasted longer and put up with more abuse.. So far so good!
... particularly for those with problems losing weight. If you haven't noticed, foods with sugars (carbohydrates) and fats taste better than those that don't, pretty much as a result of eons of natural selection*. Tricking the taste buds into thinking that indigestible/low-calorie food is more appetizing than it is would be a good thing for this application imho.
Imagine if you could trick your tongue/tastebuds into thinking celery tastes like chocolate.. Particularly helpful if you could introduce textured cellulose food products with vitamin enrichment that could be used in snack foods.
Now if someone can only make treadmill grinding (and repetitive exercise in general) LESS BORING..
*whenever a political vegetarian bugs me (at a party for example), my reply: "If we weren't supposed to eat animals, they wouldn't be so delicious!".. It works as both a smartass remark and a statement on the evolution of human nutrition biology...
... While you _can_ run X11 rootless, it's only a little bit better interface-wise than Classic. Apple really should provide a wrapper to Quartz/Aqua which'd include several widget sets as well as straight X.. I'd still use X, if only so I can execute stuff like 'metatool' on my laptop, but as far as porting apps goes it's not going to be terribly convincing.. Of course, if Apple integrated X11 to the point where you didn't run all X apps in the same memory/app space, it might be close enough for art..
Granted, Qt is available now fully-supported and there's work on gtk, but there's plenty of other widgetsets and frameworks (particularly Motif) that'd be great to have ported..
The argument isn't, and never has been that BetaMax was the "better" format or that it was more suitable for the marketplace - the argument is that, based on wholly technical anaysis, it delivered a better performance than VHS.
If you include 'the ability to play a 2 hour movie on a single tape', and make that a high priority since customers would demand it, that skews even the technical argument, since play length is an technical parameter.
The VHS standard won out because RCA didn't keep their product a proprietary standard subject to its licensing regieme, because of porn as the 'killer ap' among early VHS adopters, because it was a cheaper product to adopt for end-users as well as studios (related to the license issue), and because as more manufacturers developed for what was effectively an open standard, they developed features to get their products noticed which in many cases became standards - multiple recording speeds, for instance.
So it basically comes back to a definition of 'better', and in particular, whose definition it is. For the most part, in at least the consumer market, better is defined by success: most people use it, therefore it _must_ be better. It takes a lot to break through this, not the least of which being that your replacement had better not only be technically superior, it must be at least as easy to use, have the same features (or a radically different, and better, set). If it doesn't interoperate with stuff you (or your friends) already have, it had better be so much better that your friends all switch over to it as well, and incur the costs and hassle of repurchasing all the little bits that were compatible with the old thing.
Now, if your goal _isn't_ to be 'better' from a consumer standpoint, that's ok, but just don't expect "justice" on technical merit. If you build it, they won't necessarily come, unless they know you built it, and it is more suitable to their comfortable use than what they're already using.
There's no reason why, if the BetaMax standard were open, a savvy competetor in the market could have developed multiple recording speeds. Sony felt it had a say in this matter, RCA didn't.
That's a lesson, but a different one. Openness is a contributing factor to VHS' success. Keep in mind though that it was the effect of openness that consumers really cared about.
While the "whole product" isn't a completely invalid method of analyzing competing formats, it is as narrow a look at a larger issue as solely focusing on the technical specs, and is particularly poorly-suited toward determining why a particular format bucks the trend of the status quo and gains market dominance.
That depends on your definition of "whole product" as well, and whether lobbying, regulation, coercion, etc. are key parts of the "whole product".
If "whole product" were the whole story, we'd probably have never gotten to VHS or BetaMax, and Laser Disc and DVD would have been relegated to a curious historical diversion like the Ford Edsel, 3D cinema, or - more to the point - the DIVX DVD format......and the BBS versus MiniTEL.
I don't see what you mean. New things _can_ be better, and be "whole products" and win. DVD is exactly the case in point: it offers many more features than prerecorded VHS, is fairly easy to use, DVDs cost _LESS_ than first-run VHS movies, no rewinding (regardless of those smartasses at Blockbuster), random chapter access capability, multi-angle (for the pr0n industry;) and superior video quality and audio quality. It was a better mousetrap that had support enough to get started, then as it developed into the "whole product", it became 'better'. Now, you could say it was better all along, but if a tree falls in the woods, and noone's there, does it make a sound?
There were a number of video-disc formats prior to DVD, but they didn't offer the value proposition that could drive them to a mass audience. We know this because of history: they didn't because they didn't.
The point is, it would be really useful for those who wish to bring Linux and OSS to a wider audience for them to study things like this. Why Betamax failed. Why DVD succeeded. Much of this is done in places like business school, while engineers tend towards technical analysis of technical failures.
... I tend to think the Helix client, alone or incorporated into a WM player, is the right way to go.. Or at least pick _ONE_ good framework and avoid massive effort duplication... (and that was only up to the G's!)
It seems there's an awful lot of video players that come from a number of "itches" or "brushing up on linux multimedia programming" urges, with little attention paid to usability, and that really doesn't serve the USERS as well as a more focused app.
Actually, that was the Glomar Explorer, Challenger's sister ship. And, proving that there is life after notoriety, both are now involved in deep-sea oil exploration..
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Whaa?
You mean it doesn't support syncml, ala iSync and the T68 series?
That'd be mighty stupid if they didn't.. Is there even a bluetooth/syncml plugin for any of the main linux PIMs?
I ask this because it's seems that current BT phones are prohibitavely expensive due to all the extra features.
:/
:p)
???
There are places in NYC giving them away for free with a service contract... Too late for me tho
(and I sync my T68m via iSync, and it works ok, though I have yet to figure out how to get gprs to work
Two words: Thayer's Quest
(And btw, Hayao Miyazaki did CoC..)
With an up/down/left/right/menu remote, you've got all the controls available, so in theory it should work quite nicely..
(though I'd still prefer a Cliff Hanger game, even if it had 2 buttons...)
So are the linux and OSX versions on the same disc, or are they available separately?
Maybe I can sue for whiplash ;)
Compensation? She's a bitch goddess. She gives with one hand, she takes away with the other.
... but it seems to be missing bluetooth, 802.11, gps, etc.. these things should be integrated already, so expansion ports can handle standards that don't exist today as well as larger storage (for video and music).. Also, how about a 720x480 camera that can shoot video? the 400mhz cpu (or a hardware mpeg4 codec) should be able to handle it..
:p
Oh well, not like I have a job to pay for it anyway
Also, is it just me or does the calculator look really clunky? Is it that Qtopia apps can't take over the entire root screen, or does the calc that was demo'd just suck? Why have a menubar, window borders etc. on a calculator? Maybe I was just spoiled by Newton..
oh, and bad form I know, but it looks like Nokia got RJ Mical, father of the Lynx on camera, and his current company is developing 3D toolkits for mobile systems.. Amigaheads might also recognize the name..
Neat, but I could import those photos via bluetooth or IR from my laptop, where I store such photos as taken by my digital elph.. I have the T68 (precursor to T68i) and it can support this iirc..
Granted you don't get the spontaneity, but you do get better image quality (I'd rather shrink my 1600x1200 2mpx snaps than try to blow 640x480 or worse out to a print)..
If it's $200 and lasts three hours on a battery charge, then we've probably got another Lynx. (is that what is was called?
Believe it or not, display tech has progressed since the early 1990s.. The Lynx IIRC had a backlit passive color screen, while the even hoggier portable turbografx had a TFT. Lynx could run about 4-5 hours on a full nicad charge on its 6 AAs.
I owned both the original and extra crispy, and I was a big fan of both, until I 'got a life'..
I would definitely appreciate a phone with improved games, if only to pass the time on the ferry.. I can get seasick reading..
... bluetooth, games, tri-band, PIM, etc. Is this the first Nokia with integrated bluetooth that hasn't sucked? No camera, but then again cameras aren't terribly useful on fones imho, less'n they support live video.
Now if only it's supported in iSync...
Trying to find the combination of USB floppy and printer port CD-rom or whatever that will actually let you install something on one of these spawn-of-satan systems is hugely annoying. Life is too short.
exactly!
I had a Hell craptop for awhile (a perspiron), but I crunched it on a subway stair. My Ti has lasted longer and put up with more abuse.. So far so good!
There's still a few 'weird' developers out there.. Jeff's Tempest 2000 on Jag is still one of my favorite games (and soundtrack CDs)..
Believe it or not, the strangest games may soon be found on cellphones or J2ME, if you go by 'constraints are the mother of innovation' theory..
... When will Big Blue buy Sun?
(or is it just too much fun turning the hose on them...?)
But you still won't do it.
What, they take asthmatics and flat feet now?
... particularly for those with problems losing weight. If you haven't noticed, foods with sugars (carbohydrates) and fats taste better than those that don't, pretty much as a result of eons of natural selection*. Tricking the taste buds into thinking that indigestible/low-calorie food is more appetizing than it is would be a good thing for this application imho.
Imagine if you could trick your tongue/tastebuds into thinking celery tastes like chocolate.. Particularly helpful if you could introduce textured cellulose food products with vitamin enrichment that could be used in snack foods.
Now if someone can only make treadmill grinding (and repetitive exercise in general) LESS BORING..
*whenever a political vegetarian bugs me (at a party for example), my reply: "If we weren't supposed to eat animals, they wouldn't be so delicious!".. It works as both a smartass remark and a statement on the evolution of human nutrition biology...
My dad's a DP fan, but I think you'll probably find more Slippery Jim DiGriz fans here ;)
uhh, Linus wouldn't accept anything into the kernel that wasn't GPL'd.
Ergo, you are an ass.
... While you _can_ run X11 rootless, it's only a little bit better interface-wise than Classic. Apple really should provide a wrapper to Quartz/Aqua which'd include several widget sets as well as straight X.. I'd still use X, if only so I can execute stuff like 'metatool' on my laptop, but as far as porting apps goes it's not going to be terribly convincing.. Of course, if Apple integrated X11 to the point where you didn't run all X apps in the same memory/app space, it might be close enough for art..
Granted, Qt is available now fully-supported and there's work on gtk, but there's plenty of other widgetsets and frameworks (particularly Motif) that'd be great to have ported..
if they use Safari, they could even get spell checking for free thanks to cocoa.. Now if only there were support for 'duplicate story' checking..
... Any linux drivers for this baby?
;)
I'd like it for pong, arkanoid, little brickout
The argument isn't, and never has been that BetaMax was the "better" format or that it was more suitable for the marketplace - the argument is that, based on wholly technical anaysis, it delivered a better performance than VHS.
...and the BBS versus MiniTEL.
;) and superior video quality and audio quality. It was a better mousetrap that had support enough to get started, then as it developed into the "whole product", it became 'better'. Now, you could say it was better all along, but if a tree falls in the woods, and noone's there, does it make a sound?
If you include 'the ability to play a 2 hour movie on a single tape', and make that a high priority since customers would demand it, that skews even the technical argument, since play length is an technical parameter.
The VHS standard won out because RCA didn't keep their product a proprietary standard subject to its licensing regieme, because of porn as the 'killer ap' among early VHS adopters, because it was a cheaper product to adopt for end-users as well as studios (related to the license issue), and because as more manufacturers developed for what was effectively an open standard, they developed features to get their products noticed which in many cases became standards - multiple recording speeds, for instance.
So it basically comes back to a definition of 'better', and in particular, whose definition it is. For the most part, in at least the consumer market, better is defined by success: most people use it, therefore it _must_ be better. It takes a lot to break through this, not the least of which being that your replacement had better not only be technically superior, it must be at least as easy to use, have the same features (or a radically different, and better, set). If it doesn't interoperate with stuff you (or your friends) already have, it had better be so much better that your friends all switch over to it as well, and incur the costs and hassle of repurchasing all the little bits that were compatible with the old thing.
Now, if your goal _isn't_ to be 'better' from a consumer standpoint, that's ok, but just don't expect "justice" on technical merit. If you build it, they won't necessarily come, unless they know you built it, and it is more suitable to their comfortable use than what they're already using.
There's no reason why, if the BetaMax standard were open, a savvy competetor in the market could have developed multiple recording speeds. Sony felt it had a say in this matter, RCA didn't.
That's a lesson, but a different one. Openness is a contributing factor to VHS' success. Keep in mind though that it was the effect of openness that consumers really cared about.
While the "whole product" isn't a completely invalid method of analyzing competing formats, it is as narrow a look at a larger issue as solely focusing on the technical specs, and is particularly poorly-suited toward determining why a particular format bucks the trend of the status quo and gains market dominance.
That depends on your definition of "whole product" as well, and whether lobbying, regulation, coercion, etc. are key parts of the "whole product".
If "whole product" were the whole story, we'd probably have never gotten to VHS or BetaMax, and Laser Disc and DVD would have been relegated to a curious historical diversion like the Ford Edsel, 3D cinema, or - more to the point - the DIVX DVD format...
I don't see what you mean. New things _can_ be better, and be "whole products" and win. DVD is exactly the case in point: it offers many more features than prerecorded VHS, is fairly easy to use, DVDs cost _LESS_ than first-run VHS movies, no rewinding (regardless of those smartasses at Blockbuster), random chapter access capability, multi-angle (for the pr0n industry
There were a number of video-disc formats prior to DVD, but they didn't offer the value proposition that could drive them to a mass audience. We know this because of history: they didn't because they didn't.
The point is, it would be really useful for those who wish to bring Linux and OSS to a wider audience for them to study things like this. Why Betamax failed. Why DVD succeeded. Much of this is done in places like business school, while engineers tend towards technical analysis of technical failures.
... though in theory it's on the way, MacSoft are the folks who won't be bringing OSXers the Neverwinter Nights Campaign editor..
Still, I'm not too psyched for MOO3.. I'd much rather have something that crosses MOO and Homeworld, and can be skinned with models from Babylon 5..
... I tend to think the Helix client, alone or incorporated into a WM player, is the right way to go.. Or at least pick _ONE_ good framework and avoid massive effort duplication ... (and that was only up to the G's!)
It seems there's an awful lot of video players that come from a number of "itches" or "brushing up on linux multimedia programming" urges, with little attention paid to usability, and that really doesn't serve the USERS as well as a more focused app.
Actually, that was the Glomar Explorer, Challenger's sister ship. And, proving that there is life after notoriety, both are now involved in deep-sea oil exploration..