But this sounds shit hot!
Do you know how long I have been eyeballing a Treo, only to take pause when looking at RIM devices?
A long, long time. Long time.
Sad to say, but this is how many in the older baby-boom generation would like to see us. Not because it's true, but because it allows the insecure within their generation to grasp at straws of relevancy.
We do know "how things work", and worse, we're building new things that they don't understand.
It would be gracious of baby-boomers to hand over the keys to our generation, as I plan to do to the next generation when they completely usurp my power, but we won't see that from them. Remember, they got the additional name me generation for a damn good reason.
They'll hold on with as much grip as their tired aging hands, covered in some "revitalizing cream", can muster. Prepare to be belittled and insulted by them again and again until they disappear.
Just like the 50 other players just like this on the market? Even if I wasn't eyeballing a Nano, or a Shuffle, I'd still go with a Rio or even one of the new Sonys before shelling out for this junker. Don't be fooled by the FM radio, that's not even a remotely new feature.
I always find it funny that there are all these sanctions on countries that oppress, we wring our hands about evil dictators and oppressive regimes. How we're so much better...
But very few are ever particularly outraged when companies, based in the US, or Canada, or the UK, or some other country that pretend to love freedom and democracy enable these regiems, these dictatorships. That's called business nowadays, and I guess it's acceptable.
Is this the new deal? When do we stand up and boycott these companies in an effective way? Is it even possible anymore? Do enough people care?
Yeah, by the time they want one, they can have this one that I'm typing on now. But in reality for the kid's sake, until they're old enough to run fast, we'll have a desktop machine for them.
Before any of that though I'm going to let them play with the clamshell iBook.
How far did Arthur C. Clarke advance interest in spatial aeronautics and computing? That's just one example, I'm sure there are hundreds more.
If this produces even one influential work, it would be a benefit to both the arts and science. Science treated with even a modicum of respect in fiction, and a work of fiction from far outside the perspective of a talented generalist.
Personally I'm looking forward to seeing what pops out.
The damn video card in my last gaming PC cost about $300. I'm dying for an awesome gaming platform that will free me from PC gaming, I'm hoping the X-Box 360 is it.
Note: I hate Windows, and I dislike Microsoft's business practices, but they've always been able to come through in the hardware and gaming departments.
For user-friendlyness alone, I'm hoping this brings FF to the attention of even more people. I don't want to have to explain to my grandparents why IE7 looks completely different from the browsers they've been using for the past like 6 years.
Is it me, or does the new IE7 look like a step backwards from an interface perspective? It looks like some bad pre-Gnome/KDE usability exercise.
If MS wanted to get on the ugly-chic bandwagon they're about 8 years too late. What year did people stop using FVWM again?
Cool, but not practical. We're already well into information overload to the point where I watch (or have intellectual time to watch) about one show a week, and as of late I haven't watched television in about two months.
I picked it up a few days ago in the welcome area. Haven't thumbed through it yet.
The great thing about reading it in Second Life is the book rezzes like 2 stories tall.
SOMETIMES. It works out really well for people who are clearly not "making it" in mainstream education. Worked great for me. In contrast, staying in school worked great for others.
It's a lot tougher to guage wether it's the right decision when you're making it though. When I first dropped out of high school I thought I was moving into a long term career in fast food. In hindsight I saved myself about $20k and gained 4+ years of work experience on my friends.
Since I'm also moving into self-employment the glass ceiling that would face me if I was in a corporate environment with no paperwork is not an issue.
For those of you who are at a crossroads; When you're making this choice, remember, either way you're actually blessed with good fortune, and making either choice isn't the end of the road, by far.
I don't know why I care, but I have a bad feeling he is actually going to have a better user experience on his new Mac, and then he'll claim that it solved all his problems when all it did was remedy some of them to the point where the others no longer bother him.
I guess my worry is that he'll be evangelizing about the wrong things.
That being said, from the hardware front, when you buy Apple you almost always get much better craftsmanship. Open up any PowerMac tower and you'll be drooling, even if your a PC modder you'll be impressed. And the architecture synchronicity can be a huge breath of fresh air.
Consider the true IT needs of most SMBs. They aren't all IT companies, in fact IT companies are probably in the deep minority. All most companies need is file sharing and printing, maybe with some calendar scheduling.
Switching to Linux for most of these companies doesn't make sense.
Now, on the front end, the websites etc, the e-mail forwarding, they probably are serving up pages using Linux and getting services from Linux and they don't even know it.
We've got an IT mindset and I think it's a bit unrealistic. Those numbers actually look pretty reasonable to me, with or without the Get the Fud campeign.
It feels like they're moving away from the OS. There are a lot of businesses out there, but there are a lot more consumers. If they can dominate the consumer market in some big way they can start subtracting focus from all the other stuff they've been quagmired in.
Look at what Apple did with the iPod. It saved them in a lot of ways.
So yeah, if they come out with the best gaming box ever, why do I need my hyper powerful PC? I'll just get a more powerful Mac instead.
And that's the thing. Now you're buying a Mac or switching to Linux (BSD, etc, whathaveyou), which you might do anyway out of disguist when Longhorn comes out, but you're also buying in to Microsoft's new X-Box also.
You're still giving MS money. All this talk about mobile devices, and convergence. It's almost like they're letting Linux and Apple have the desktop, because they want the people now and not the businesses that employ those people.
I don't think I can call this a bad thing, I've always considered XP the best gaming OS out there. So what we have is a situation where if you're doing any serious computing, you can use Apple, or a Linux, and if you're playing games you can go sit on the couch with your Microsoft product, with your Microsoft phone near by.
This is where things are going, I wouldn't discount them for a second. While not as 'practical' or extendable as PC virii or worms, they have the potential to be a much bigger nuisance than either.
This is a big red warning flag if anything. Overblow it if only to vastly improve mobile device wireless security, which at the moment is somewhere between not present and just asking for it.
And luckily, my phone is too crap to be compramised, woohoo!
You know, Windows is surprisingly stable if you don't expose it to any network outside of a fairly draconian LAN, hehe.
The trick is, with server Virtualization (IMHO) never run production stuff. They're great, really great for test labs because you can snapshot and undo and you have other neat features. But they're horrible for actual real world work. If I was looking for a smaller form factor from my services in a production environment, for real, I'd go with a blade server chassis.
Ironically though with your virtualized Linux servers you could trick them into having indefinate uptime, since the OS running in the virtualization could be snapshotted and "frozen" in a state before reboot. VirtualPC 6 does this really well on the Mac anyway.
But actual server uptime count lost relevance to me years ago. The longer my uptime the bigger an indication that I should probably patch my kernel or core OS!:)
This is for server virtualization, so it makes some "sense" in this context. It's a choice at least. For my money though it would surely be VMWare if I was going to virtualize a few test servers around the office.
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But this sounds shit hot! Do you know how long I have been eyeballing a Treo, only to take pause when looking at RIM devices? A long, long time. Long time.
We do know "how things work", and worse, we're building new things that they don't understand.
It would be gracious of baby-boomers to hand over the keys to our generation, as I plan to do to the next generation when they completely usurp my power, but we won't see that from them. Remember, they got the additional name me generation for a damn good reason.
They'll hold on with as much grip as their tired aging hands, covered in some "revitalizing cream", can muster. Prepare to be belittled and insulted by them again and again until they disappear.
I liked this article on the marketing campaign.
Also, Dell is really starting to suck. I have a feeling that to buy this is to buy pain.
And finally, Shuffle's got a secret.
But very few are ever particularly outraged when companies, based in the US, or Canada, or the UK, or some other country that pretend to love freedom and democracy enable these regiems, these dictatorships. That's called business nowadays, and I guess it's acceptable.
Is this the new deal? When do we stand up and boycott these companies in an effective way? Is it even possible anymore? Do enough people care?
Yeah, by the time they want one, they can have this one that I'm typing on now. But in reality for the kid's sake, until they're old enough to run fast, we'll have a desktop machine for them. Before any of that though I'm going to let them play with the clamshell iBook.
If this produces even one influential work, it would be a benefit to both the arts and science. Science treated with even a modicum of respect in fiction, and a work of fiction from far outside the perspective of a talented generalist.
Personally I'm looking forward to seeing what pops out.
Note: I hate Windows, and I dislike Microsoft's business practices, but they've always been able to come through in the hardware and gaming departments.
Is it me, or does the new IE7 look like a step backwards from an interface perspective? It looks like some bad pre-Gnome/KDE usability exercise.
If MS wanted to get on the ugly-chic bandwagon they're about 8 years too late. What year did people stop using FVWM again?
IE7 now features THE DISTANT PAST. This is like Ford announcing innovative new side airbags.
In that case, it would be even more stupid to come up with a method to consume all the coffee in England for an entire month.
I think my original point was related to a question I asked a friend of mine once; why do you need 200GB of porn?
Cool, but not practical. We're already well into information overload to the point where I watch (or have intellectual time to watch) about one show a week, and as of late I haven't watched television in about two months.
I've always considered Hotmail a bit of a UCE enabler anyway.
I picked it up a few days ago in the welcome area. Haven't thumbed through it yet. The great thing about reading it in Second Life is the book rezzes like 2 stories tall.
And that's about as much sense as this conversation makes.
It's a lot tougher to guage wether it's the right decision when you're making it though. When I first dropped out of high school I thought I was moving into a long term career in fast food. In hindsight I saved myself about $20k and gained 4+ years of work experience on my friends.
Since I'm also moving into self-employment the glass ceiling that would face me if I was in a corporate environment with no paperwork is not an issue.
For those of you who are at a crossroads; When you're making this choice, remember, either way you're actually blessed with good fortune, and making either choice isn't the end of the road, by far.
I guess my worry is that he'll be evangelizing about the wrong things.
That being said, from the hardware front, when you buy Apple you almost always get much better craftsmanship. Open up any PowerMac tower and you'll be drooling, even if your a PC modder you'll be impressed. And the architecture synchronicity can be a huge breath of fresh air.
Switching to Linux for most of these companies doesn't make sense.
Now, on the front end, the websites etc, the e-mail forwarding, they probably are serving up pages using Linux and getting services from Linux and they don't even know it.
We've got an IT mindset and I think it's a bit unrealistic. Those numbers actually look pretty reasonable to me, with or without the Get the Fud campeign.
It feels like they're moving away from the OS. There are a lot of businesses out there, but there are a lot more consumers. If they can dominate the consumer market in some big way they can start subtracting focus from all the other stuff they've been quagmired in.
Look at what Apple did with the iPod. It saved them in a lot of ways.
So yeah, if they come out with the best gaming box ever, why do I need my hyper powerful PC? I'll just get a more powerful Mac instead.
And that's the thing. Now you're buying a Mac or switching to Linux (BSD, etc, whathaveyou), which you might do anyway out of disguist when Longhorn comes out, but you're also buying in to Microsoft's new X-Box also.
You're still giving MS money. All this talk about mobile devices, and convergence. It's almost like they're letting Linux and Apple have the desktop, because they want the people now and not the businesses that employ those people.
I don't think I can call this a bad thing, I've always considered XP the best gaming OS out there. So what we have is a situation where if you're doing any serious computing, you can use Apple, or a Linux, and if you're playing games you can go sit on the couch with your Microsoft product, with your Microsoft phone near by.
Personally the idea is starting to grow on me.
This is a big red warning flag if anything. Overblow it if only to vastly improve mobile device wireless security, which at the moment is somewhere between not present and just asking for it.
And luckily, my phone is too crap to be compramised, woohoo!
In Redmond, this is what they call a win win.
Who even uses MSN search? Even my most senior computer using relatives have turned to either Google or Yahoo without my prompting.
The trick is, with server Virtualization (IMHO) never run production stuff. They're great, really great for test labs because you can snapshot and undo and you have other neat features. But they're horrible for actual real world work. If I was looking for a smaller form factor from my services in a production environment, for real, I'd go with a blade server chassis.
Ironically though with your virtualized Linux servers you could trick them into having indefinate uptime, since the OS running in the virtualization could be snapshotted and "frozen" in a state before reboot. VirtualPC 6 does this really well on the Mac anyway.
But actual server uptime count lost relevance to me years ago. The longer my uptime the bigger an indication that I should probably patch my kernel or core OS! :)
This is for server virtualization, so it makes some "sense" in this context. It's a choice at least. For my money though it would surely be VMWare if I was going to virtualize a few test servers around the office.
Not like I was going to. I can't be happier with Canon's like of digital photography produts (I've been eyeballing a Rebel for months).
that some of Apple's greatest critics are also it's biggest fans.