You know - I used to love to read books. But it will take me a lot more than a few hours to read the entire LOTR trilogy. Maybe if I get some spare time.
Besides, I really LIKE the visual richness of the movie medium. Sure, its not the same as thinking it up yourself - but I LIKE it that way.
This is great news for anyone that is a firewire afficionado. Because millions of people will be doing firewire clustering? No. But it does show the versatility of the standard. Its a shame that Intel has such a hard on to kill it, because firewire really is a great technology.
As firewire begins to scale to higher speeds this looks like an even better method to connect not only things like computers and their peripherals - but things like your television to your PVR to your camera to your computer.
Microsoft will skirt around the settlement, just like the consent decree. When they finally get nailed on something, in 2 or 3 years, then they will be the same as before where they fight it in court for long enough that it wont matter.
The only way to beat Microsoft is in the marketplace as the courts are too slow. That makes it a bit tricky considering they are an entrenched monopoly in some areas (like x86 desktop operating systems) and pretty close in others (web browsers, office suites). Still, when they can buy their way out, what can you do?
Yes, its going to be awfully difficult to dethrone Microsoft, but not impossible.
I was completely unimpressed with 0.5, and with 0.4 - but since I started with 0.6 I haven't gone back to IE or Mozilla.
I ran opera for a while, but the buttons on my favorite web forum wouldn't show up. I haven't played with Omniweb in quite some time, but it looks nice:)
Well, the first season of Andromeda was excellent... so I don't know if you can say it was crappy. It didn't start sucking until Hercules - err Kevin Sorbo - decided he didn't want it to be so 'ensemble' and started focusing it more on his character, Dylan Hunt. Probably more importantly, they canned Robert Hewitt Wolfe - who was the actual creator of most of the show. Gene Roddenberry has his name on it, but he created verry little of the show way back when.
I'll give it another season before I give up on it I suppose, but its just not the same quality IMO.
Still, I second the motion.. Lexa Doig on SG1! One of the hottest ladies in SF. Nice FHM shots there... yummy.
Well... I tried to read through all these posts to see something similar.. but my attention span is short while ER is on.
It seems that the flaws in the Microsoft design have been pointed out already, so I'll talk about what I want to see:
At any rate, this is what my 'tablet PC' would and wouldn't have:
bluetooth/802.11b/UWB?? no keyboard (except via bluetooth) no networking (except wireless) no mouse (except the stylus or bluetooth) no USB/firewire no optical drive no hard drive (it needs something lighter and less power hungry with a large capacity - sounds unlikely but there is probably something out there) a low power processor (somewhat low power - like a laptop proc) 8.5 X 11 size, less than an inch thick (maybe half an inch or less - there is nothing there). very light, perhaps even less than a lb handwriting and symbol recognition for taking notes LONG battery life. At least a days worth.
And.. Mac OS X:)
Why? I want something like paper, but easy to make the data digital. All the features are nice, but they add weight. I want it light and thin!
Inkwell isn't nearly as good as Newton was, so I don't know what the deal is there. The Newton was far better at getting my chicken scratch than Inkwell is at getting my neatly printed characters. I'll wait for a future rev.
Of course, maybe I just suck at using a Wacom with alphaa drivers.
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Apple started the Personal Computer revolution and started the GUI revolution.
Just because you dont like the iMac doesnt mean that they havent innovated consistently in their 25 plus year history.
Imagine how different things would be if Apple hadnt been around. The PC revolution probably would have started in the mid eighties and the GUI would have been added, oh, right about now. PCs wouldnt have come to the home so soon and Linus would have made his OS for mainframes and it would have just been ported like last year.
So before I get off my rocker too much, just dont forget what that nasty propietary company with the evil CEO has brought to the world in the last 25 years.
How come none of them are more stable than BSD Unix, which is older?
8.0 and above are as stable as any of the consumer Windows releases, and probably more so for most computers. I still wouldnt run them as my server, but they do just fine for home.
I always love it when MS includes something in their GUI to slow the user down.
Yea, I really needed my Start menu to fade in when I click on it when it appears.
Sure, stuff like that looks cool, but I wouldnt exactly call the GUI enhancements in Win2kb3 (which I actually kind of like) "revolutionary". As a relatively new Linux user (but a somewhat experienced shell user), I love some of the stuff you can do with Linux GUIs. Its not MacOS (GUI wise), but its still cool.
Was somebody not paying attention to some of the movie?
Where was Palpatine from? Naboo. What did he say pushed his candidacy over the edge? Oh yes, the sympathy vote.
You know, the dialog in TPM might have been weak, as well as some of the smaller scale happenings, but in terms of the epic story it was actually well done in my opinion. Many of Brins criticisms are off base, almost like he didnt even see the movie but read the Cliffs Notes.
Mac OS X has been delayed precisely because they are trying to perfect the UI for the home user. The future revisions of Mac OS X Server is more likely the one that a power user would use.
It will not run ALL existing Mac apps. You will need to dump all those extensions for one (goodbye Speed Doubler, Conflict Catcher, and Kaleidascope -- not that they will be needed). You might as well toss most non Carbon compliant apps that directly access hardware, like Virtual PC. Not to mention a bunch of games. Just because the blue box is transparent doesnt mean that its completely gone.
And since Apple dropped Rhapsody for Intel, I dont expect people tossing their Linux/Intel (AMD) machines out the window so they can have Steve Job's ugly blue and white G3s (man, I hope they really redesign the case or else I will be buying PowerBooks until the end of time). No, they will mostly be concentrated in the new user market, or in the upgrade to a 486 market.
And since Linux keeps boxes running longer, how many people do you think will toss a perfectly good machine just to run Mac OS X?
Now, referring to the Dev environment, I cant argue with you there. NeXT/OpenStep/YellowBox has always been at the forefront in terms of technology, just not market share or even mindshare.
No, the commercial Unixes are not a threat to Linux, and, as of right now, I dont see Linux as being much of a threat to them. I think that for some time they may have thought that, but commercial vendors (all but M$) are starting to realize that Linux can help them more than it can hurt them. Think about it, right now, who ISNT doing some form of Unix? We have IBM (AIX), Sun (Solaris), Apple (Mac OS X). It looks to me like everyone but Microsoft looks to win when Linux compatiblity is the glue that holds all these companies together.
Those who say that emulation is no substitute for the real thing just haven't seen it done well.
At any rate, this is the way I see things panning out. We have Mac OS X as the Unix for the neophytes and the users who just must have what will be the best GUI in existence to date. Then, in the middle, we will have Linux running on Power User Desktops and low to mid end servers. To top it off, we will have the AIX servers and the Sun Enterprise servers at for the high end servers.
Where does this leave us when it comes to convergence? Hmm, interesting question. Linux for Palmpilots, Linux for game machines, Linux for set top boxes, Linux for cellular telephones, Linux in your television, etc etc.
No, we dont want "One OS Everywhere", but we can have each OS in a niche, with all of them being compatible to some degree with the others.
Gosh, I know there is some big software company that I am leaving out of the picture, I just cant remember who. Goodbye to that monstrosity known as Windows 98/NT, goodbye to CE. Goodbye M$.
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You know - I used to love to read books. But it will take me a lot more than a few hours to read the entire LOTR trilogy. Maybe if I get some spare time.
:)
Besides, I really LIKE the visual richness of the movie medium. Sure, its not the same as thinking it up yourself - but I LIKE it that way.
It doesn't mean I'm a lazy slob, does it?
Hmm, of course I don't read manuals either
This is great news for anyone that is a firewire afficionado. Because millions of people will be doing firewire clustering? No. But it does show the versatility of the standard. Its a shame that Intel has such a hard on to kill it, because firewire really is a great technology.
As firewire begins to scale to higher speeds this looks like an even better method to connect not only things like computers and their peripherals - but things like your television to your PVR to your camera to your computer.
It seems to me that you have it about right ...
Microsoft will skirt around the settlement, just like the consent decree. When they finally get nailed on something, in 2 or 3 years, then they will be the same as before where they fight it in court for long enough that it wont matter.
The only way to beat Microsoft is in the marketplace as the courts are too slow. That makes it a bit tricky considering they are an entrenched monopoly in some areas (like x86 desktop operating systems) and pretty close in others (web browsers, office suites). Still, when they can buy their way out, what can you do?
Yes, its going to be awfully difficult to dethrone Microsoft, but not impossible.
Are you referring to Chimera 0.6?
:)
I was completely unimpressed with 0.5, and with 0.4 - but since I started with 0.6 I haven't gone back to IE or Mozilla.
I ran opera for a while, but the buttons on my favorite web forum wouldn't show up. I haven't played with Omniweb in quite some time, but it looks nice
How is using backup software with your own server really any different than using iCal with your own WebDAV server?
Well, the first season of Andromeda was excellent ... so I don't know if you can say it was crappy. It didn't start sucking until Hercules - err Kevin Sorbo - decided he didn't want it to be so 'ensemble' and started focusing it more on his character, Dylan Hunt. Probably more importantly, they canned Robert Hewitt Wolfe - who was the actual creator of most of the show. Gene Roddenberry has his name on it, but he created verry little of the show way back when.
.. Lexa Doig on SG1! One of the hottest ladies in SF. Nice FHM shots there ... yummy.
I'll give it another season before I give up on it I suppose, but its just not the same quality IMO.
Still, I second the motion
Well ... I tried to read through all these posts to see something similar .. but my attention span is short while ER is on.
.. Mac OS X :)
It seems that the flaws in the Microsoft design have been pointed out already, so I'll talk about what I want to see:
At any rate, this is what my 'tablet PC' would and wouldn't have:
bluetooth/802.11b/UWB??
no keyboard (except via bluetooth)
no networking (except wireless)
no mouse (except the stylus or bluetooth)
no USB/firewire
no optical drive
no hard drive (it needs something lighter and less power hungry with a large capacity - sounds unlikely but there is probably something out there)
a low power processor (somewhat low power - like a laptop proc)
8.5 X 11 size, less than an inch thick (maybe half an inch or less - there is nothing there).
very light, perhaps even less than a lb
handwriting and symbol recognition for taking notes
LONG battery life. At least a days worth.
And
Why? I want something like paper, but easy to make the data digital. All the features are nice, but they add weight. I want it light and thin!
Inkwell isn't nearly as good as Newton was, so I don't know what the deal is there. The Newton was far better at getting my chicken scratch than Inkwell is at getting my neatly printed characters. I'll wait for a future rev.
Of course, maybe I just suck at using a Wacom with alphaa drivers.
Apple started the Personal Computer revolution and started the GUI revolution.
Just because you dont like the iMac doesnt mean that they havent innovated consistently in their 25 plus year history.
Imagine how different things would be if Apple hadnt been around. The PC revolution probably would have started in the mid eighties and the GUI would have been added, oh, right about now. PCs wouldnt have come to the home so soon and Linus would have made his OS for mainframes and it would have just been ported like last year.
So before I get off my rocker too much, just dont forget what that nasty propietary company with the evil CEO has brought to the world in the last 25 years.
OK Mr Computer Guru,
Why isnt WinNT 4 more stable than 3.51??
How come 98 isnt more stable than 95?
How come none of them are more stable than BSD Unix, which is older?
8.0 and above are as stable as any of the consumer Windows releases, and probably more so for most computers. I still wouldnt run them as my server, but they do just fine for home.
I always love it when MS includes something in their GUI to slow the user down.
Yea, I really needed my Start menu to fade in when I click on it when it appears.
Sure, stuff like that looks cool, but I wouldnt exactly call the GUI enhancements in Win2kb3 (which I actually kind of like) "revolutionary".
As a relatively new Linux user (but a somewhat experienced shell user), I love some of the stuff you can do with Linux GUIs. Its not MacOS (GUI wise), but its still cool.
Was somebody not paying attention to some of the movie?
Where was Palpatine from? Naboo. What did he say pushed his candidacy over the edge? Oh yes, the sympathy vote.
You know, the dialog in TPM might have been weak, as well as some of the smaller scale happenings, but in terms of the epic story it was actually well done in my opinion. Many of Brins criticisms are off base, almost like he didnt even see the movie but read the Cliffs Notes.
I have to disagree with you there.
Mac OS X has been delayed precisely because they are trying to perfect the UI for the home user. The future revisions of Mac OS X Server is more likely the one that a power user would use.
It will not run ALL existing Mac apps. You will need to dump all those extensions for one (goodbye Speed Doubler, Conflict Catcher, and Kaleidascope -- not that they will be needed). You might as well toss most non Carbon compliant apps that directly access hardware, like Virtual PC. Not to mention a bunch of games. Just because the blue box is transparent doesnt mean that its completely gone.
And since Apple dropped Rhapsody for Intel, I dont expect people tossing their Linux/Intel (AMD) machines out the window so they can have Steve Job's ugly blue and white G3s (man, I hope they really redesign the case or else I will be buying PowerBooks until the end of time). No, they will mostly be concentrated in the new user market, or in the upgrade to a 486 market.
And since Linux keeps boxes running longer, how many people do you think will toss a perfectly good machine just to run Mac OS X?
Now, referring to the Dev environment, I cant argue with you there. NeXT/OpenStep/YellowBox has always been at the forefront in terms of technology, just not market share or even mindshare.
Well, isnt this just an interesting development.
No, the commercial Unixes are not a threat to Linux, and, as of right now, I dont see Linux as being much of a threat to them. I think that for some time they may have thought that, but commercial vendors (all but M$) are starting to realize that Linux can help them more than it can hurt them. Think about it, right now, who ISNT doing some form of Unix? We have IBM (AIX), Sun (Solaris), Apple (Mac OS X). It looks to me like everyone but Microsoft looks to win when Linux compatiblity is the glue that holds all these companies together.
Those who say that emulation is no substitute for the real thing just haven't seen it done well.
At any rate, this is the way I see things panning out. We have Mac OS X as the Unix for the neophytes and the users who just must have what will be the best GUI in existence to date. Then, in the middle, we will have Linux running on Power User Desktops and low to mid end servers. To top it off, we will have the AIX servers and the Sun Enterprise servers at for the high end servers.
Where does this leave us when it comes to convergence? Hmm, interesting question. Linux for Palmpilots, Linux for game machines, Linux for set top boxes, Linux for cellular telephones, Linux in your television, etc etc.
No, we dont want "One OS Everywhere", but we can have each OS in a niche, with all of them being compatible to some degree with the others.
Gosh, I know there is some big software company that I am leaving out of the picture, I just cant remember who. Goodbye to that monstrosity known as Windows 98/NT, goodbye to CE. Goodbye M$.
Tony Hess, Micro$oft Certified Professional x2
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