I don't know if I agree with that. HD-DVD doesn't roll off the tongue the same way that HDTV does. I think it will introduce confusion to the end consumer.
Sony has a marketing machine too and combined with the other players that have signed on, Blu-Ray has a very good chance of being promoted in such a way that the public is "educated" about which is the "correct" standard.
Also, look at the unit sales of the PS2. If the PS3 gets 75% of those sales, then it will be the defacto standard regardless. Kids will be the ones that tell their parents what to buy and it will start with the Blu-Ray.
I think it's interesting to watch and see who is the 800lb gorrila here. Sony doesn't want to repeat losing the format war like they did with betamax and Microsoft want's to lead the charge with "innovation" and being an industry leader.
Who has more to lose in this fight? I've often thought that Sony would be the company that has the muscle to actually give Microsoft a run for their money.
Finally, one of the comments further down says that "Blue-ray" is a cooler name. Don't discount this. I think that "Blue-ray" as a term resonates with both us geeks and the public. Silly as it might be for us, using specifications and capacity, etc., the coolness factor of something simple like a name might sway the buying public.
...and those braindead brand buyers that buy from braindead manufacturers that have exclusive deals with Intel that don't even offer AMD chips!
So basically, Dell will subsidize Intel until Intel catches up to the AMD offerings (if).
Actually it did help, thanks. I'm going to check out the Comcast PVR and see what's what. I don't like that it doesn't have the "magnet" to jump back to the start of a show and the interface seems a touch less featureful then the TiVo but recording two shows and watching a third will eliminate that constant "MTV Real World" vs. "Billy and Mandy" vs. "The O.C." dilemma;).
I'm now wondering if getting a splitter and another cheapo TiVo(40GB) will solve my TV addiction.
To date, I've used the Comcast PVR and TiVo. I have to say, that getting a TiVo was one of my best purchases this year. I come home and have an entire menu of show's that I want to watch. It's truely cool!!
I was using the Comcast PVR and was impressed that it allowed me the ability to record TWO shows at the same time AND watch TV! I am not sure if this is due to the picture in a picture (2 tuners) and haven't had time to look this up yet but if I would LOVE to be able to record two shows using my TiVo.
Either way, using OnDemand, the PVR, and knowing that Comcast is offering VOIP and soon the possibility of ordering DVD's from my PPV selections, Comcast is very quickly leaving my "evil" company list and moving to my "cool" company to watch list.
Regardless, I come to work and am did you TiVo "this" and "that" all the time now.
Oh and Battlestar Galactica rocks (especially when you have 8 hours TiVo'd when you get home)!!!
I totally agree. I hate the fact that the camera part of the cameraphone is crap. Drives me nuts.
I wonder if that liquid lense system combined with a small flash will improve dramatically the quality of current cameraphones without dramatically increasing the form factor or killing the battery. I know the flash will drain the battery a lot but will the focusing system of the liquid lense drain the life as well?
2MP is good but does it have a flash? I didn't see it in the article. These cameraphones can have all the megawhatits they want but without a flash, the pictures are still crappy 9 times out of 10.
I don't believe in large government but this strikes me as one of those things that government is good for.
Why wouldn't it be a good thing for some governmental agency to regulate the physical location of various installations? It seems to me that many providers use the same colocations to house their equipment. It would seem smart that there would be some regulation to prevent all the Internet eggs in one basket.
Create several more physical IXP's that are located in geographically diverse areas with redundant connections. Then regulate that only a limited number of companies could colocate together within a certain number of IXP's.
This could prevent one companies "disagreement" with another from effecting the traffic being routed to an alternative link.
What's really funny is that is part of Microsoft's playbook. With over 40 BILLION+ in cash just sitting around doing nothing, if Microsoft really wanted to do something in the music business, it will just start buying companies.
When Bill and Steve really start to get pissed about Apple's ipod business, you'll see some acquisitions or at least some heavy investments.
FTA:
"In most development organizations, software reuse occurs on a regular basis in at least an ad hoc manner. Code is shared across projects in an informal manner. SOA provides the mechanism for more formal reuse, where the reuse occurs when services are accessed by service clients to perform a given function. The reuser (service client) does not really even know what code they are reusing, and don't really care. They just know that the service is providing the function that they require."
Wow, it's 1990 all over again except I'm reading Dr. Dobbs and Programmers Journal about OOP.
Everything old is new again.
I've been thinking about this problem for a while now and trying to find the perfect balance between physical size of the device and the amount of storage that it holds.
I have approximately 20GB of data that I wish to transport back and forth to home, work and whereever there is a computer that I can work on. I've cut out all the misc. stuff and the music files and have gotten it down to less then 4GB but there isn't a cheap thumbdrive that I've seen yet for the capacity.
Really though, I would like to carry ALL of my music and misc. stuff because I'm a packrat and just like having everything with me. I've been using a USB hard drive but this is comparatively bulky and really only appropriate for semi-permanent places like taking home on the weekend. I would really like a thumbdrive.
IBM on the hunt for Firefox programmers Published: April 13, 2005, 12:32 PM PDT By Stephen Shankland and Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com
TrackBack Print E-mail TalkBack In the newest indication that Firefox has become mainstream, IBM is trying to hire programmers to adapt the open-source Web browser to work well with Big Blue's server software.
A job ad posted on IBM's Web site said an emerging technologies team in IBM's software group wants programmers for "enhancing the Mozilla Firefox Web browser with new features complimentary to IBM's On Demand middleware stack."
An IBM representative on Wednesday said that the ad was for one position in the company's advanced technology group. The individual will make contributions to the Firefox project, the representative said.
The Firefox work could dovetail with IBM's effort to build its Workplace software, which moves several personal computer applications to a server that users access with a Web browser. IBM is spending $100 million on ensuring Linux computers can tap into Workplace servers.
Among Workplace abilities are instant messaging, word processing and spreadsheet calculations. Today, IBM supports use of Workplace with Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla--including Linux support with the latter.
Firefox, an offshoot of the Mozilla project, has been eating into Internet Explorer's market share, but Microsoft's browser still is dominant. Firefox is now the default browser in the two most widely used Linux versions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
RedMonk analyst James Governor helped surface the hiring move by pointing to an advertisement Wednesday that proved to be available only fleetingly. The ad was still available later on IBM's Web site.
According to the job ad, candidates should have "acceptance as a contributor in (the) Mozilla community," and programmers should have experience with the browser's Gecko rendering technology and the XPCOM technology for writing software that runs on different computer systems.
Since the rise of the Firefox browser last year, programmers involved in the project have seen a corresponding increase in their employment prospects.
Google has fueled speculation about its own interest in producing a Web browser by recruiting aggressively from Mozilla Foundation staffers and volunteers. In January, it hired both Ben Goodger, the lead engineer for Firefox, and Darin Fisher, who worked on back-end infrastructure while maintaining a post at IBM.
In recent weeks, Google also added Mozilla engineer Brian Ryner to the payroll.
One long-term study of open-source software development has shown that participation in an open-source project can help boost job prospects.
CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica contributed to this report.
Is there any information on it's thermal output?
Is there a reference design for how laptops should be designed to handle the heat?
I'm in the market for a new tablet and while I love it, the Pentium M that I'm currently using turns my lap into a puddle of skin and rayon within a few minutes. I'm due for an upgrade and since AMD is always a leap or two ahead of Intel, I'm wondering about the heat.
First off, I'm happy that they did this to send a warning. I want innovation and I want competition to make things better.
Having said that, I find it deplorable that we fine a paltry $15,000 for stopping innovation yet fine broadcasters $500,000 per incident for "violations" that should be free speech.
I think we should amend the Constitution to say, "By the Corporations, for the Corporations".
Ultimately the same mindset that is representative of their heritage.
How many EU countries still have monarchs? How many more EU countries right up until approximately 200 years ago had autocratic monarchies? They have been bred for 1000 years to let other people tell them what is good for them or not. It's going to take a while for the "people" to adjust their culture.
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This is the same school of thought that produced gems like "Nobody will ever need more then 512K". I mean seriously, did we need Hyperthreading, MMX, Math co-processors, etc. implemented on the chips?
I'm not even it's semantics. I think it's apples and oranges.
I DO think it's a smart move on his part to cut through the crap and use those phrases to get to the public. Simple phrases like "free speech" and "censorship" play to the masses and ultimately get though the "Trade Federation Lobbist Blockade(TM)" to Congress and other politicians.
Polititcians tend to want to at least LOOK like they are on the right side of the free speech/censorship issue, even though this is a competition/marketplace issue. Now that this has gotten thrown against the public wall, they have to at least address it.
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I don't know if I agree with that. HD-DVD doesn't roll off the tongue the same way that HDTV does. I think it will introduce confusion to the end consumer.
Sony has a marketing machine too and combined with the other players that have signed on, Blu-Ray has a very good chance of being promoted in such a way that the public is "educated" about which is the "correct" standard.
Also, look at the unit sales of the PS2. If the PS3 gets 75% of those sales, then it will be the defacto standard regardless. Kids will be the ones that tell their parents what to buy and it will start with the Blu-Ray.
I think it's interesting to watch and see who is the 800lb gorrila here. Sony doesn't want to repeat losing the format war like they did with betamax and Microsoft want's to lead the charge with "innovation" and being an industry leader.
Who has more to lose in this fight? I've often thought that Sony would be the company that has the muscle to actually give Microsoft a run for their money.
Finally, one of the comments further down says that "Blue-ray" is a cooler name. Don't discount this. I think that "Blue-ray" as a term resonates with both us geeks and the public. Silly as it might be for us, using specifications and capacity, etc., the coolness factor of something simple like a name might sway the buying public.
My money is on Sony in this one.
...and those braindead brand buyers that buy from braindead manufacturers that have exclusive deals with Intel that don't even offer AMD chips! So basically, Dell will subsidize Intel until Intel catches up to the AMD offerings (if).
Actually it did help, thanks. I'm going to check out the Comcast PVR and see what's what. I don't like that it doesn't have the "magnet" to jump back to the start of a show and the interface seems a touch less featureful then the TiVo but recording two shows and watching a third will eliminate that constant "MTV Real World" vs. "Billy and Mandy" vs. "The O.C." dilemma ;).
I'm now wondering if getting a splitter and another cheapo TiVo(40GB) will solve my TV addiction.
My TV is 15+ years old and doesn't have picture in a picture. I wonder if I run it through the VCR if that would provide another tuner?
I think I'm going to spend some time on TiVo.com tonight...
To date, I've used the Comcast PVR and TiVo. I have to say, that getting a TiVo was one of my best purchases this year. I come home and have an entire menu of show's that I want to watch. It's truely cool!!
I was using the Comcast PVR and was impressed that it allowed me the ability to record TWO shows at the same time AND watch TV! I am not sure if this is due to the picture in a picture (2 tuners) and haven't had time to look this up yet but if I would LOVE to be able to record two shows using my TiVo.
Either way, using OnDemand, the PVR, and knowing that Comcast is offering VOIP and soon the possibility of ordering DVD's from my PPV selections, Comcast is very quickly leaving my "evil" company list and moving to my "cool" company to watch list.
Regardless, I come to work and am did you TiVo "this" and "that" all the time now.
Oh and Battlestar Galactica rocks (especially when you have 8 hours TiVo'd when you get home)!!!
But the The Tavis Smiley Show....oh nevermind.
I totally agree. I hate the fact that the camera part of the cameraphone is crap. Drives me nuts.
I wonder if that liquid lense system combined with a small flash will improve dramatically the quality of current cameraphones without dramatically increasing the form factor or killing the battery. I know the flash will drain the battery a lot but will the focusing system of the liquid lense drain the life as well?
2MP is good but does it have a flash? I didn't see it in the article. These cameraphones can have all the megawhatits they want but without a flash, the pictures are still crappy 9 times out of 10.
All Things Considered...that's a breath of Fresh Air!
I don't believe in large government but this strikes me as one of those things that government is good for.
Why wouldn't it be a good thing for some governmental agency to regulate the physical location of various installations? It seems to me that many providers use the same colocations to house their equipment. It would seem smart that there would be some regulation to prevent all the Internet eggs in one basket.
Create several more physical IXP's that are located in geographically diverse areas with redundant connections. Then regulate that only a limited number of companies could colocate together within a certain number of IXP's.
This could prevent one companies "disagreement" with another from effecting the traffic being routed to an alternative link.
Does this make sense?
What's really funny is that is part of Microsoft's playbook. With over 40 BILLION+ in cash just sitting around doing nothing, if Microsoft really wanted to do something in the music business, it will just start buying companies.
When Bill and Steve really start to get pissed about Apple's ipod business, you'll see some acquisitions or at least some heavy investments.
FTA: "In most development organizations, software reuse occurs on a regular basis in at least an ad hoc manner. Code is shared across projects in an informal manner. SOA provides the mechanism for more formal reuse, where the reuse occurs when services are accessed by service clients to perform a given function. The reuser (service client) does not really even know what code they are reusing, and don't really care. They just know that the service is providing the function that they require."
Wow, it's 1990 all over again except I'm reading Dr. Dobbs and Programmers Journal about OOP. Everything old is new again.
I've been thinking about this problem for a while now and trying to find the perfect balance between physical size of the device and the amount of storage that it holds.
I have approximately 20GB of data that I wish to transport back and forth to home, work and whereever there is a computer that I can work on. I've cut out all the misc. stuff and the music files and have gotten it down to less then 4GB but there isn't a cheap thumbdrive that I've seen yet for the capacity.
Really though, I would like to carry ALL of my music and misc. stuff because I'm a packrat and just like having everything with me. I've been using a USB hard drive but this is comparatively bulky and really only appropriate for semi-permanent places like taking home on the weekend. I would really like a thumbdrive.
What products have you found that fill this?
I just like to read it in-line with the posts and appreciate it when other people do it.
I'm the ultimate Gen-Xer. Slack forever.
IBM on the hunt for Firefox programmers
Published: April 13, 2005, 12:32 PM PDT
By Stephen Shankland and Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
TrackBack Print E-mail TalkBack
In the newest indication that Firefox has become mainstream, IBM is trying to hire programmers to adapt the open-source Web browser to work well with Big Blue's server software.
A job ad posted on IBM's Web site said an emerging technologies team in IBM's software group wants programmers for "enhancing the Mozilla Firefox Web browser with new features complimentary to IBM's On Demand middleware stack."
An IBM representative on Wednesday said that the ad was for one position in the company's advanced technology group. The individual will make contributions to the Firefox project, the representative said.
The Firefox work could dovetail with IBM's effort to build its Workplace software, which moves several personal computer applications to a server that users access with a Web browser. IBM is spending $100 million on ensuring Linux computers can tap into Workplace servers.
Among Workplace abilities are instant messaging, word processing and spreadsheet calculations. Today, IBM supports use of Workplace with Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla--including Linux support with the latter.
Firefox, an offshoot of the Mozilla project, has been eating into Internet Explorer's market share, but Microsoft's browser still is dominant. Firefox is now the default browser in the two most widely used Linux versions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
RedMonk analyst James Governor helped surface the hiring move by pointing to an advertisement Wednesday that proved to be available only fleetingly. The ad was still available later on IBM's Web site.
According to the job ad, candidates should have "acceptance as a contributor in (the) Mozilla community," and programmers should have experience with the browser's Gecko rendering technology and the XPCOM technology for writing software that runs on different computer systems.
Since the rise of the Firefox browser last year, programmers involved in the project have seen a corresponding increase in their employment prospects.
Google has fueled speculation about its own interest in producing a Web browser by recruiting aggressively from Mozilla Foundation staffers and volunteers. In January, it hired both Ben Goodger, the lead engineer for Firefox, and Darin Fisher, who worked on back-end infrastructure while maintaining a post at IBM.
In recent weeks, Google also added Mozilla engineer Brian Ryner to the payroll.
One long-term study of open-source software development has shown that participation in an open-source project can help boost job prospects.
CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica contributed to this report.
All things that have a beginning, have an end.
Is there any information on it's thermal output? Is there a reference design for how laptops should be designed to handle the heat?
I'm in the market for a new tablet and while I love it, the Pentium M that I'm currently using turns my lap into a puddle of skin and rayon within a few minutes. I'm due for an upgrade and since AMD is always a leap or two ahead of Intel, I'm wondering about the heat.
Any thoughts?
First off, I'm happy that they did this to send a warning. I want innovation and I want competition to make things better.
Having said that, I find it deplorable that we fine a paltry $15,000 for stopping innovation yet fine broadcasters $500,000 per incident for "violations" that should be free speech.
I think we should amend the Constitution to say, "By the Corporations, for the Corporations".
Ultimately the same mindset that is representative of their heritage.
How many EU countries still have monarchs? How many more EU countries right up until approximately 200 years ago had autocratic monarchies? They have been bred for 1000 years to let other people tell them what is good for them or not. It's going to take a while for the "people" to adjust their culture.
I really like the one print that they managed to place below the no bandwidth message.
You know...the Stormtrooper in a Snowstorm!
http://www.slash7.com/flashback/2005/01/oreilly_o
Are you kidding me??
This is the same school of thought that produced gems like "Nobody will ever need more then 512K". I mean seriously, did we need Hyperthreading, MMX, Math co-processors, etc. implemented on the chips?
I totally agree, build it and they will come.
It would be more like 11.33374 different ones anyway...
I'm not even it's semantics. I think it's apples and oranges.
I DO think it's a smart move on his part to cut through the crap and use those phrases to get to the public. Simple phrases like "free speech" and "censorship" play to the masses and ultimately get though the "Trade Federation Lobbist Blockade(TM)" to Congress and other politicians.
Polititcians tend to want to at least LOOK like they are on the right side of the free speech/censorship issue, even though this is a competition/marketplace issue. Now that this has gotten thrown against the public wall, they have to at least address it.