Keeping the two seperate is damn near impossible. I'm happier when I don't try, and focus on living my life instead. From my own experience, this is vastly more productive so long as you can manage your time effectively. Methinks that Google might just be onto something.
If all you want is a machine to look at spreadsheets on, there's nothing wrong with windows. Hell, for a lot of people it's fine - if you're behind a firewall, who cares? The computer is just a tool to get the job done.
When you're looking at managing systems en masse, it's different, and it gets really different with servers - that's where microsoft's liscencing comes back to hurt them.
It's a Palm V/m500/m505 style palm. It's less than a centimeter thick. It weighs nothing. It's got a great, crisp LCD screen - the kind that doesn't emit a piercing shriek like the Tungsten models do. The kind that runs forever. But it's not color! Oh no!
Palm needs to release a modern update to that device. Something apple-nano thin. Something fast, with a nice big screen, and some Palm OS'y goodness. Or Linux. Or BSD. Who cares - just make it open and programmable. And Useful! I got rid of my T3 and went back to using a m500 I picked up on ebay for $30. Why? It's better tech. The new battery I installed lasts for weeks on a charge. It's light enough to carry around, and cheap enough I don't need to worry about a huge-ass carry case.
Instead, palm makes shitty devices that nobody wants now and do nothing well. I owned the original USR Palm. It kicked ass because it was thin, and light, and did what it did very well.
Palm, in it's current incarnation, deserves to die a firey market-driven death.
Make a thin device that's a modern PDA. NOBODY HAS DONE THIS YET. Yes, it's HARD to make things that thin. That's where you're going to make your money. On the form factor.
You don't need a multi million dollar marketing team to tell you that. They tell you the type of crapola that results in the current "lifedrive" garbage.
I watched HP die - they made great devices that knew who used them - like the HP48 and HP200LX - and they turned their back on the engineers, when the people at the top no longer used the products. I think the same thing has happened to Palm, and I'm very sorry to see it happen.
The only client I've got currently using windows CE is looking for help migrating away from it. Everyone else is desperate to get their products onto linux as soon as possible. This is a very different situation than the desktop; embedded tools are pretty primitive compared to Dev Studio, there's zero lock-in to any processor, and the code is almost always all custom anyway so nobody cares about legacy.
This pandering to the IP monkies is something that might help deter that, but I don't see how else MS hopes to win on an embedded platform except the courtroom. Even their cheap liscences cost a lot more than free.
Huge second on that opinion. I picked it up in ~97 and I've read and reread it many times, and is a great reference for anyone interested in expermienting or just general knowledge. Many of the academic texts are not very good at -all-.
Don't make it a bad thing for the family with 4 kids to drive an SUV because they need the space, make it bad that no one seems interested in solutions to powering these vehicles differently.
The 4 kids are going to have a hell of a lot more environmental impact than the SUV ever will. Something to think about.
..and refuse permission to export to countries that don't respect civil rights. There. Even playing field.
This is a joke; they're all hypocrites, they all worship the almighty dollar over human liberty. Every company listed literally is falling over themselves to access new markets.
If you want to trade with countries like this, at least have the balls to owe up to what you're doing. You obviously don't feel THAT bad. I'm sure someone rotting away in jail because of your reporting feels much worse.
I find it more likely a codec upgrade that provides HD resolution on a standard DVD (with graceful fallback) will become popular than a DVD-based solution. The HD/Bluray upgrade isn't as big when you think that DVD players are doing for $25 bucks, and for all purposes, look pretty good.
This scenario is even more likely if online services and BW ramp up, but that's not likely to happen in the USA - but could happen elsewhere.
As usual, it'll probably be the pr0n industry that decides..
Apple's brilliance is often in reducing the cruft and useless features from common, everyday gadgets. The ipod wasn't first, it wasn't second, and it STILL isn't the most featureful. Features are added as they mature and the right way to do it (according to apple) is found.
You're free to use whatever phone you want - but a lot of people will take a look at the iphone because of Apple's track record in the past. I love my Razr, but there's a lot of crap on there I'll never use.
Sometimes, less IS more, reality distortion fields aside.
I love technology as much as the next guy, but what's wrong with paper voting? Canada uses it, it scales nicely, there's a perfect record of who voted for what, with a nice X right there. You can track ballots in, and ballots out. Nobody knows who put the X on the paper.
Pushy sales jobs make me nervous, and these things are being hawked like a $500 used car.
Exactly how does this translate to any kind of logic-based, deterministic system?
You can't connect a non deterministic system to a logic-based one? What happens when I program a computer?
The brain is a pile of connected goo. Extremely well connected goo, but connected goo that we will either model the underlying principles of, or connected goo we will just clone verbatim in silicon. Resistance is futile.
If it actually IS running OSX, however, I suspect it won't take long for the phone's protection to be broken. The irony will be if the phone gets broken by someone publishing a internal apple manual.;)
[quote] Why do you do it? I fail to see how any professional engineer could consider deployment of such wide-scale serveilence as an ethical and appropriate use of government power, outside of the four walls of a prison. [/quote]
Engineers and scientists already built the hydrogen bomb. The rest is just waiting. How's that for a rationalization?
I have been waiting for this for a long time. This is one case where the sheer insanity of having 12 different chargers makes some sense for a legislated standard. It's unfortunate the industry couldn't play nice enough to not require it, but at the same time, it's NEEDED here.
You'd be pretty pissed if you could only use a GM-approved fill neck for your car. Why is your phone any different?
We're headed there in a hurry, anyway.. better hope those free energy guys are right. Until then, the best thing you can do for the environment is not have any children.
Call me when someone is using it for something productive. Otherwise, I'm filing tissue printing in the same bin as fuel cells - especially micro fuel cells - the only time you hear about it is when the research money is running low.
An open source project is a good idea as a starting point. Pick away at something that already works.
Where that isn't an option; I've always turned to O'Reilly books, and online tutorials to learn some new skills. I've written some tutorials for people who are interested in getting started with embedded electronics, for example. It's not hard to do, but you need to know about a half dozen things before you can get started.
I suspect you're either giving up too easy, or not looking online enough, or in the wrong places. For console emulation, there's a LOT of documentaion in the source code for MAME, and I am sure the others are similar.
Most of the people who are doing complicated OS programming have 10, 15, or even 20+ years of hacking away. Spending thousands and thousands of hours in front of a computer helps. Unless it's spent playing WoW, maybe.:)
Border controls, some police departments and who knows else already implement optical automatic liscence plate detection and scanning.
The only difference is this has the potential to be a little cheaper. I don't see any cause for more fuss, if you're OK with the license plate being on your car already. What's the difference if it's done via RFID?
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Keeping the two seperate is damn near impossible. I'm happier when I don't try, and focus on living my life instead. From my own experience, this is vastly more productive so long as you can manage your time effectively. Methinks that Google might just be onto something.
Means not working for YOU, Steve.
If all you want is a machine to look at spreadsheets on, there's nothing wrong with windows. Hell, for a lot of people it's fine - if you're behind a firewall, who cares? The computer is just a tool to get the job done.
When you're looking at managing systems en masse, it's different, and it gets really different with servers - that's where microsoft's liscencing comes back to hurt them.
See that icon at the top of the page?
It's a Palm V/m500/m505 style palm. It's less than a centimeter thick. It weighs nothing. It's got a great, crisp LCD screen - the kind that doesn't emit a piercing shriek like the Tungsten models do. The kind that runs forever. But it's not color! Oh no!
Palm needs to release a modern update to that device. Something apple-nano thin. Something fast, with a nice big screen, and some Palm OS'y goodness. Or Linux. Or BSD. Who cares - just make it open and programmable. And Useful! I got rid of my T3 and went back to using a m500 I picked up on ebay for $30. Why? It's better tech. The new battery I installed lasts for weeks on a charge. It's light enough to carry around, and cheap enough I don't need to worry about a huge-ass carry case.
Instead, palm makes shitty devices that nobody wants now and do nothing well. I owned the original USR Palm. It kicked ass because it was thin, and light, and did what it did very well.
Palm, in it's current incarnation, deserves to die a firey market-driven death.
Make a thin device that's a modern PDA. NOBODY HAS DONE THIS YET. Yes, it's HARD to make things that thin. That's where you're going to make your money. On the form factor.
You don't need a multi million dollar marketing team to tell you that. They tell you the type of crapola that results in the current "lifedrive" garbage.
I watched HP die - they made great devices that knew who used them - like the HP48 and HP200LX - and they turned their back on the engineers, when the people at the top no longer used the products. I think the same thing has happened to Palm, and I'm very sorry to see it happen.
It cost 100,000+ people their lives.
Now there's a network.
Just hope it's the not the earth destroying kind that hits.
The only client I've got currently using windows CE is looking for help migrating away from it. Everyone else is desperate to get their products onto linux as soon as possible. This is a very different situation than the desktop; embedded tools are pretty primitive compared to Dev Studio, there's zero lock-in to any processor, and the code is almost always all custom anyway so nobody cares about legacy.
This pandering to the IP monkies is something that might help deter that, but I don't see how else MS hopes to win on an embedded platform except the courtroom. Even their cheap liscences cost a lot more than free.
Biologists thought DNA sequencing of the human genome would take eons, too. Doing it by hand was horrible.
Then some engineers got interested.
Now we have gene sequencing machines.
People are clever when motivated. There's not much of a commercial need for generic AI yet.
Huge second on that opinion. I picked it up in ~97 and I've read and reread it many times, and is a great reference for anyone interested in expermienting or just general knowledge. Many of the academic texts are not very good at -all-.
Don't make it a bad thing for the family with 4 kids to drive an SUV because they need the space, make it bad that no one seems interested in solutions to powering these vehicles differently.
The 4 kids are going to have a hell of a lot more environmental impact than the SUV ever will. Something to think about.
I'll be sure to get my money's worth.
..and refuse permission to export to countries that don't respect civil rights. There. Even playing field.
This is a joke; they're all hypocrites, they all worship the almighty dollar over human liberty. Every company listed literally is falling over themselves to access new markets.
If you want to trade with countries like this, at least have the balls to owe up to what you're doing. You obviously don't feel THAT bad. I'm sure someone rotting away in jail because of your reporting feels much worse.
I find it more likely a codec upgrade that provides HD resolution on a standard DVD (with graceful fallback) will become popular than a DVD-based solution. The HD/Bluray upgrade isn't as big when you think that DVD players are doing for $25 bucks, and for all purposes, look pretty good.
This scenario is even more likely if online services and BW ramp up, but that's not likely to happen in the USA - but could happen elsewhere.
As usual, it'll probably be the pr0n industry that decides..
Apple's brilliance is often in reducing the cruft and useless features from common, everyday gadgets. The ipod wasn't first, it wasn't second, and it STILL isn't the most featureful. Features are added as they mature and the right way to do it (according to apple) is found.
You're free to use whatever phone you want - but a lot of people will take a look at the iphone because of Apple's track record in the past. I love my Razr, but there's a lot of crap on there I'll never use.
Sometimes, less IS more, reality distortion fields aside.
I love technology as much as the next guy, but what's wrong with paper voting? Canada uses it, it scales nicely, there's a perfect record of who voted for what, with a nice X right there. You can track ballots in, and ballots out. Nobody knows who put the X on the paper.
Pushy sales jobs make me nervous, and these things are being hawked like a $500 used car.
Exactly how does this translate to any kind of logic-based, deterministic system?
You can't connect a non deterministic system to a logic-based one? What happens when I program a computer?
The brain is a pile of connected goo. Extremely well connected goo, but connected goo that we will either model the underlying principles of, or connected goo we will just clone verbatim in silicon. Resistance is futile.
..but it won't.
;)
If it actually IS running OSX, however, I suspect it won't take long for the phone's protection to be broken. The irony will be if the phone gets broken by someone publishing a internal apple manual.
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Why do you do it? I fail to see how any professional engineer could consider deployment of such wide-scale serveilence as an ethical and appropriate use of government power, outside of the four walls of a prison.
[/quote]
Engineers and scientists already built the hydrogen bomb. The rest is just waiting. How's that for a rationalization?
I have been waiting for this for a long time. This is one case where the sheer insanity of having 12 different chargers makes some sense for a legislated standard. It's unfortunate the industry couldn't play nice enough to not require it, but at the same time, it's NEEDED here.
You'd be pretty pissed if you could only use a GM-approved fill neck for your car. Why is your phone any different?
But making drugs illegal did a great job of keeping them away from kids!
and get rid of 90% of the people.
We're headed there in a hurry, anyway.. better hope those free energy guys are right. Until then, the best thing you can do for the environment is not have any children.
YAWN.
Call me when someone is using it for something productive. Otherwise, I'm filing tissue printing in the same bin as fuel cells - especially micro fuel cells - the only time you hear about it is when the research money is running low.
(yeah, I need another cup of coffee.. but still)
An open source project is a good idea as a starting point. Pick away at something that already works.
:)
Where that isn't an option; I've always turned to O'Reilly books, and online tutorials to learn some new skills. I've written some tutorials for people who are interested in getting started with embedded electronics, for example. It's not hard to do, but you need to know about a half dozen things before you can get started.
I suspect you're either giving up too easy, or not looking online enough, or in the wrong places. For console emulation, there's a LOT of documentaion in the source code for MAME, and I am sure the others are similar.
Most of the people who are doing complicated OS programming have 10, 15, or even 20+ years of hacking away. Spending thousands and thousands of hours in front of a computer helps. Unless it's spent playing WoW, maybe.
I'm assuming then, the NRA meets that definition nicely. :)
Border controls, some police departments and who knows else already implement optical automatic liscence plate detection and scanning.
The only difference is this has the potential to be a little cheaper. I don't see any cause for more fuss, if you're OK with the license plate being on your car already. What's the difference if it's done via RFID?
Just a hunch, but I'm guessing the private sector could get them up and running a lot faster.