With Sun in the shape it's in, floundering about looking for a market and losing money in the process, I'm suprised it doesn't read "AOL Optimized Sun Workstation $299". Hehe.
I hope the spec includes tab indexes. One of the downsides to the ASP.NET framework is if you have multiple "forms" on the page (which are all within 1 form tagset), controlling which element gets focus on a tap of the tab key is a nightmare. Usually it "doesnt" go where you want it, and worse yet, most the time hitting the ENTER key presses the wrong buttons. Bottom line is, IMHO, the browser shouldn't be guessing what comes next in a tab or enter keypress (unless its unspecified), the developers should decide.
Do you actually use a computer to do real CPU intensive work?
I do, a ton of it. The last 10 years of my life have been rendering animation, compressing video, and authoring CDs and DVDs. At any time I have 1-3 apps maxing the CPU(s) of my machine(s). As my primary workstation I have always had duals, but worked on singles often. Duals make Windows tolerable but are expensive. Hyperthreading brought 90% of the smoothness of duals to the average person. You can be rendering out an AfterFX composition (or anything compute bound) and the machine still feels pretty light on the load.
Now if HT CPUs were 3x the cost, yes, that would be gimmicky. But it's a feature that's become standard in CPUs and doesn't really cost you any noticeable amount more (P3 HT 3ghz is what, $200? oooo scary), and in the end gives everyone somewhere between a "little" smoother to "a hell of a lot" smoother functioning OS's. Gosh, that sucks. It's not out to "fool people", it's a nice advancement in processor technology.
Why not just overclock your phone? Put it up into the 20 ghz range and trump anyone who tries to start a conversation about them overclocking their Athlon. Weaklings.
I was looking at those Fujitsu's before I settled on the Dell 300m. I wondered how the touch-screen worked, I mean, is it the same as what you get with a tablet PC? Could you run the Tablet XP on it and have all the same benefits, or does the touch screen only work in special apps, etc?
Yes, you need to support new hardware and stuff but it's not sustainable to keep adding it into the core product. If you do, you end up with something like MS Office - how many gigabytes is Office now ?
Man, Ill be the first to say Office is the work of Satan and should be extinguished from the face of the earth, but where do people get this when they say this all the time? I unfortunately *have to* install Office, and all I do is pick "custom", and check Excel, Word, Access and Powerpoint. All those take like 260 megs of hard-drive space.
Cool attitude. "You don't like it? Use something *older*". I'd trade that for developers that get from point A to point B, then stop and refine the journey over and over, tightening it up, always looking for faster, cleaner ways. Generally speaking the desire to "add shit" outweighs making existing content faster, trimmer, tighter, righter.
At what point will the OSS community start breaking new ground like OSX with it's Quartz layer and beautiful scaling UI? The 2 mainstream Linux UI's are just boring knockoffs of Windows. Surely the OSX UI would be cake for a world-wide community, even something better?
No excuses, just make KDE and Gnome go away and make OSX look bad.
Huh? Widescreen is a "good thing" (tm) have you ever used one? They're quite nice. My wife's new notebook was very inexpensive, like 1 grand at most. 1280x800 widescreen, DVD, PentiumM, 256MB, 20gig, built in wireless, iRDA, etc, etc. Everything you'd ever need except a floppy. Im not about to cry that floppies are going away, and if you really need one you buy spend all of what, $20 on a USB one? I would say cutting costs by dropping items 1 in 100 people will need is generally a good idea. Btw, her notebook is about 6 lbs, the average weight of any low cost notebook, very portable, and it runs 5.2 hours on the internal battery. Pretty solid. Maybe youre just looking at junk notebooks.
But what is the real impact of that? It's a visual distraction - and it causes people to gawk, horrendously tying up traffic. Worse, people have follow-up accidents: they're so busy looking out the side window that they hit something.
You mean like those pesky Vipers, Porsches, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and HumVee's with 5 foot lift kits? YEAH, GET RID OF THEM ALL! Thou shalt all drive gray Volvos!
This article seems as fitting as any to ask a question that always rolls around in my mind. While the beginning of my own computing career was in IRIX and Solaris, and now with most of my time spent on Windows machines I, of course, still understand UNIXs power and miss working with it daily.
But I guess I'm curious as to why nearly all OS focus is on UNIX or a derivative? From Linus's knock off, to Mac moving to a UNIX core to even the pretty original BeOS. Why are we reinventing the wheel and not coming up with something completely new?
This is not a troll, I am just looking for the various opinions. Is UNIX the basis for everything non-Microsoft because it's the pinnacle of perfection? Or, like movie plots, did 1 person invent a good thing and everyone else just replicates it with their own flare? It seems to me by now we might have 20/20 hindsight, a whole lot of real world usage and a completely new operating system based on "nothing" might be even better? I've heard of course the "because as soon as you have UNIX, you have access to a zillion packages that port easily", which is great, but frankly, does it matter that I can get X's little "Eyes" app running under my new BobIX OS in under 15 minutes? Maybe writing a completely new "Eyes" under a new OS could be as fast or faster than a UNIX port to a UNIX OS if the new OS was built right? The UNIX filesystem is a mess, that's always bothered me. I dont know, again, not a troll, UNIX rocks - just wondering why there isn't (or if there is?) any group out there writing completely new from the ground up without using UNIX as their model?
Well, until he "updates" the prequel in a couple years, adding the scenes "he always intended, but technology didn't exist to let him realize", which can then be subsequently released as various new box-sets, director's cuts and collector's editions.
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The thing that I can't stand more than anything, is this adoption of "fakeness" that the corporate world, especially women (no offense, simply an observation) that has taken place.
Every client of mine, about 1/3 the men and 3/4 the women have this forced facade of a personality where every syllable is accentuated and they choose words like "Suuperr!! That's just superr!" and it makes me want to kill myself just to listen to. (If you've seen Lost in Translation, think of the blonde that's in Tokyo promoting her movie, and that's what I'm talking about.)
Isn't it funny that the best "actors/actresses", the ones we give Oscars to (usually) are the ones that can come across like they're not acting at all on screen. Genuine people who deliver what they say from who they really are without pre-processing it. But in real life you rarely find these people, everyone's trying to perfect this plastic personality willing to sacrific who they really are just to get a promotion. Even worse is they don't leave it at the job, it becomes permant like tatoo'd makeup. You see them in public or even talking with their "friends" and it's the same fake-speak, forced body language. I feel sorry for the lemmings. How did we get reversed to where Jack Nicholson in The Shining is a far more realistic person than Jenny Smith over in accounting?
Digital media is fun right now, CDs and DVDs combined with MP3s and MPEGs, iPods, notebooks and portable DVD players abound and the synergy between the outright paid for content and the "shared" content keeps them both going.
It has to be the ubiquity and fun, because it sure as hell isn't talent.
So once they drop the axe on PVRs, VCRs, MP3 players, any type of recording, sharing or portable media devices that don't require retinal scans and call in activation. Once this new "Digital Lifestyle" becomes an expensive burden, they will start to lose money.
I buy CDs, usually most the songs suck, but theres a few on there. I know I can just rip the CD, toss it in the closet (or garbage), move it around from PC to notebook to MP3 player at will. It probably wasn't worth the $12 for the talent, but oh well its fun and easy. The first CD I physically can't rip/move or that requires me to call some 800 number to activate - seriously - people will start examining the value and quality of the content first and the impulse buys will drop. It becomes a hassle to enjoy the digital lifestyle so people will only put money in the things they're really really serious about, and that will impact sales a lot.
This isn't a rant against Gateway, everyone has different experiences, but I will say this - do not order a Gateway if there is any chance you will need to CANCEL the order.
Gateway will not provide you with anything other than a voice confirmation that your order is cancelled. No emails no paperwork, nothing you could ever use in your own defense. Gateway policy, very sly and very lame.
I ordered a notebook, was to ship 2 weeks later. 6 weeks later it still hadn't shipped so I cancelled it and ordered a Dell. I called Gateway every day for a week and everyday I got the same thing, "Strange, I dont see any record of cancellation. Well I will take care of it. There, all done. Your order is cancelled. I promise. In fact, UPS won't even pick it up from us, we put a block on it." - was told that every day by a new rep. 2 weeks later, guess what showed up at my door? A Gateway notebook and $2500 was simultaneously taken from my credit card. I refused shipment at the door and it took about 3 weeks to get the charges reversed on my card.
So again, Gateway's probably a fine vendor, and they were almost always very nice (and answering the call from the United States, if that matters to you) JUST DON'T ORDER UNLESS YOU ARE SURE.:)
Uh, get real. Yes that happens but maybe what, 1 in 100 people in B&N are there to buy a trophy? I spend a lot of time in bookstores, look around, these people aren't just holding a book at arm's length and examining its cover for showiness (hell, most books anymore aren't impressive to look at, cheap paperback covers). The majority of people are actually standing (or sitting) reading through the book deciding whether or not to buy it.
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With a really decently long key? I've not heard of any compromises of WPA-PSK yet. WEP yes, WPA no.
With Sun in the shape it's in, floundering about looking for a market and losing money in the process, I'm suprised it doesn't read "AOL Optimized Sun Workstation $299". Hehe.
Just remove the trailing slash dummy.
I hope the spec includes tab indexes. One of the downsides to the ASP.NET framework is if you have multiple "forms" on the page (which are all within 1 form tagset), controlling which element gets focus on a tap of the tab key is a nightmare. Usually it "doesnt" go where you want it, and worse yet, most the time hitting the ENTER key presses the wrong buttons. Bottom line is, IMHO, the browser shouldn't be guessing what comes next in a tab or enter keypress (unless its unspecified), the developers should decide.
Sweet, now I won't feel so bad when I leave Grandma in the car on a hot day with the windows rolled up.
I do, a ton of it. The last 10 years of my life have been rendering animation, compressing video, and authoring CDs and DVDs. At any time I have 1-3 apps maxing the CPU(s) of my machine(s). As my primary workstation I have always had duals, but worked on singles often. Duals make Windows tolerable but are expensive. Hyperthreading brought 90% of the smoothness of duals to the average person. You can be rendering out an AfterFX composition (or anything compute bound) and the machine still feels pretty light on the load.
Now if HT CPUs were 3x the cost, yes, that would be gimmicky. But it's a feature that's become standard in CPUs and doesn't really cost you any noticeable amount more (P3 HT 3ghz is what, $200? oooo scary), and in the end gives everyone somewhere between a "little" smoother to "a hell of a lot" smoother functioning OS's. Gosh, that sucks. It's not out to "fool people", it's a nice advancement in processor technology.
Why not just overclock your phone? Put it up into the 20 ghz range and trump anyone who tries to start a conversation about them overclocking their Athlon. Weaklings.
I was looking at those Fujitsu's before I settled on the Dell 300m. I wondered how the touch-screen worked, I mean, is it the same as what you get with a tablet PC? Could you run the Tablet XP on it and have all the same benefits, or does the touch screen only work in special apps, etc?
Man, Ill be the first to say Office is the work of Satan and should be extinguished from the face of the earth, but where do people get this when they say this all the time? I unfortunately *have to* install Office, and all I do is pick "custom", and check Excel, Word, Access and Powerpoint. All those take like 260 megs of hard-drive space.
260 megs, OMGZ!!!11!
gigs?
Cool attitude. "You don't like it? Use something *older*". I'd trade that for developers that get from point A to point B, then stop and refine the journey over and over, tightening it up, always looking for faster, cleaner ways. Generally speaking the desire to "add shit" outweighs making existing content faster, trimmer, tighter, righter.
No excuses, just make KDE and Gnome go away and make OSX look bad.
- Apt-Get
- Redcarpet
- Porthole
- Ximan Whatever
- Tarballs
- the list goes on...
WindowsOr Hyperthreading. Or like me, both :) 4 CPUs in the Task Manager is cool even if 2 are fake :P
How about 6 burning hot P3's in a 3rd floor apartment when its 98 degrees out, vs 1 machine with 4 gigs of RAM running all of them, nice and cool.
Huh? Widescreen is a "good thing" (tm) have you ever used one? They're quite nice. My wife's new notebook was very inexpensive, like 1 grand at most. 1280x800 widescreen, DVD, PentiumM, 256MB, 20gig, built in wireless, iRDA, etc, etc. Everything you'd ever need except a floppy. Im not about to cry that floppies are going away, and if you really need one you buy spend all of what, $20 on a USB one? I would say cutting costs by dropping items 1 in 100 people will need is generally a good idea. Btw, her notebook is about 6 lbs, the average weight of any low cost notebook, very portable, and it runs 5.2 hours on the internal battery. Pretty solid. Maybe youre just looking at junk notebooks.
You mean like those pesky Vipers, Porsches, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and HumVee's with 5 foot lift kits? YEAH, GET RID OF THEM ALL! Thou shalt all drive gray Volvos!
But I guess I'm curious as to why nearly all OS focus is on UNIX or a derivative? From Linus's knock off, to Mac moving to a UNIX core to even the pretty original BeOS. Why are we reinventing the wheel and not coming up with something completely new?
This is not a troll, I am just looking for the various opinions. Is UNIX the basis for everything non-Microsoft because it's the pinnacle of perfection? Or, like movie plots, did 1 person invent a good thing and everyone else just replicates it with their own flare? It seems to me by now we might have 20/20 hindsight, a whole lot of real world usage and a completely new operating system based on "nothing" might be even better? I've heard of course the "because as soon as you have UNIX, you have access to a zillion packages that port easily", which is great, but frankly, does it matter that I can get X's little "Eyes" app running under my new BobIX OS in under 15 minutes? Maybe writing a completely new "Eyes" under a new OS could be as fast or faster than a UNIX port to a UNIX OS if the new OS was built right? The UNIX filesystem is a mess, that's always bothered me. I dont know, again, not a troll, UNIX rocks - just wondering why there isn't (or if there is?) any group out there writing completely new from the ground up without using UNIX as their model?
Well, until he "updates" the prequel in a couple years, adding the scenes "he always intended, but technology didn't exist to let him realize", which can then be subsequently released as various new box-sets, director's cuts and collector's editions.
Every client of mine, about 1/3 the men and 3/4 the women have this forced facade of a personality where every syllable is accentuated and they choose words like "Suuperr!! That's just superr!" and it makes me want to kill myself just to listen to. (If you've seen Lost in Translation, think of the blonde that's in Tokyo promoting her movie, and that's what I'm talking about.)
Isn't it funny that the best "actors/actresses", the ones we give Oscars to (usually) are the ones that can come across like they're not acting at all on screen. Genuine people who deliver what they say from who they really are without pre-processing it. But in real life you rarely find these people, everyone's trying to perfect this plastic personality willing to sacrific who they really are just to get a promotion. Even worse is they don't leave it at the job, it becomes permant like tatoo'd makeup. You see them in public or even talking with their "friends" and it's the same fake-speak, forced body language. I feel sorry for the lemmings. How did we get reversed to where Jack Nicholson in The Shining is a far more realistic person than Jenny Smith over in accounting?
You know your HTML source is easier to read, and easier on the eyes than the web page it produces. No offense, just an observation.
It has to be the ubiquity and fun, because it sure as hell isn't talent.
So once they drop the axe on PVRs, VCRs, MP3 players, any type of recording, sharing or portable media devices that don't require retinal scans and call in activation. Once this new "Digital Lifestyle" becomes an expensive burden, they will start to lose money.
I buy CDs, usually most the songs suck, but theres a few on there. I know I can just rip the CD, toss it in the closet (or garbage), move it around from PC to notebook to MP3 player at will. It probably wasn't worth the $12 for the talent, but oh well its fun and easy. The first CD I physically can't rip/move or that requires me to call some 800 number to activate - seriously - people will start examining the value and quality of the content first and the impulse buys will drop. It becomes a hassle to enjoy the digital lifestyle so people will only put money in the things they're really really serious about, and that will impact sales a lot.
5 cents/minute, no monthly fee $25/mo max in long-distance charges
($25 max means, after you've spent $25 worth of long distance that month the rest is free. And yes, that is in and out of state, 24/7/365)
Gateway will not provide you with anything other than a voice confirmation that your order is cancelled. No emails no paperwork, nothing you could ever use in your own defense. Gateway policy, very sly and very lame.
I ordered a notebook, was to ship 2 weeks later. 6 weeks later it still hadn't shipped so I cancelled it and ordered a Dell. I called Gateway every day for a week and everyday I got the same thing, "Strange, I dont see any record of cancellation. Well I will take care of it. There, all done. Your order is cancelled. I promise. In fact, UPS won't even pick it up from us, we put a block on it." - was told that every day by a new rep. 2 weeks later, guess what showed up at my door? A Gateway notebook and $2500 was simultaneously taken from my credit card. I refused shipment at the door and it took about 3 weeks to get the charges reversed on my card.
So again, Gateway's probably a fine vendor, and they were almost always very nice (and answering the call from the United States, if that matters to you) JUST DON'T ORDER UNLESS YOU ARE SURE. :)
haha oh man I seriously want a T-Shirt that says that
Uh, get real. Yes that happens but maybe what, 1 in 100 people in B&N are there to buy a trophy? I spend a lot of time in bookstores, look around, these people aren't just holding a book at arm's length and examining its cover for showiness (hell, most books anymore aren't impressive to look at, cheap paperback covers). The majority of people are actually standing (or sitting) reading through the book deciding whether or not to buy it.