A company laying out millions and devoting a lot of resources, training, and other effort towards a Peoplesoft roll-out isn't going to be satisfied with a refund. Knowing they will be able to get their money back if the support rug is pulled out from underneath them is NOT enough.
Simply put - there's a lot more riding on an implementation of something like this than just the original purchase price. Any big company looking into an ERP solution right now is going to seriously think twice (or forty times) before going with PeopleSoft just because there's a possibility that all their effort could be for naught.
That 'golden clause' is pretty much worthless - and Oracle is indeed benefiting from this dark cloud over PeopleSoft's future.
All this is saying is that if you distribute a binary (for example), you must make the source available and provide information on how to obtain it. This is no different than any other open source license. 'In a reasonable manner' / 'medium customarily used for software exchange' just means on a disk / CD, FTP server, etc. It's not saying you have to register with NASA to get the source (or the software) at all.
... Mostly worthless? Am I the only one whose hide has been saved by "worthless GPS navigation and DVD units"?
Nope, you certainly aren't the only one. Billy Graham sent me a DVD in the mail, I popped it in my "worthless" DVD unit; and halleluja, I was SAVED! Praise the lord, I've been SAVED!!!!:)
It comes from an OS limitation in PalmOS 5.0 (and all earlier versions). PalmSource fixed this in 5.2, which is why the new Tungsten model has 64 megs... but Sony hasn't released a 5.2 model yet.
To get around the 16MB heap limitation as much as possible, Sony fudged things around and stuck an extra 16MB in there for storing the built-in apps (which take ~5MB). On the NX73, there's only that one 16MB, so the built-in apps take away from the usable heap. On the NX80, they threw in another chip (and presumably just stuck with a 16MB chip for the economies of scale, cheaper than adding a different chip even though they only needed 5MB). That frees up the 5MB, giving the user access to the full 16MB that PalmOS is able to address in the heap.
A lot of us were surprised it didn't have built-in Bluetooth. Note however that the version of the NX73 Sony France released (and presumably the rest of the European versions) DOES have built-in bluetooth. France is NOT however releasing an NX80 at all, with or without BT.
Some reasoning here: in Japan, there are a ton of fast wireless data services, and they have CF cards for access (similar to a GSM/GPRS PCMCIA card for your laptop). The Japanese haven't really adopted Bluetooth; connecting your PDA/laptop to your cell phone for wireless net access just isn't necessary with all the wireless services they have there. Everyone gets the appropriate CF card and hops online that way.
Now in Europe, Bluetooth is all the rage - and pairing the PDA with the cell phone is almost a must. That's why Sony released the Bluetooth device in Europe but not Japan.
But we're all surprised (and I'm personally disappointed) there isn't a Bluetooth model in the US - adoption here hasn't been nearly as fast as in Europe, but it's becoming more popular.
There is of course a Bluetooth Memory Stick you can purchase to add support, but that's not as elegant as built-in. The high-end NZ90 model does however have built-in Bluetooth in all markets.
Not only would there be a lot of effort in keeping everything charged - but I'm running out of pockets here, man - I'm all for the convergence! It would be cool to have a modular system so we could all get what we wanted, and get 'best-of-breed' components etc, but it's just not practical. Not for a personal device meant to be carried with you. Component stereo systems are fine - but would you want a component walkman?:)
Actually, these Clie's have MP3 players, 320 by *480* TFT screens, expansion via MemoryStick and CF cards (2 gigs possible there), built-in audio recorders as well.
You've got 64 MB of memory, but PalmOS has a lighter footprint than PocketPC, as do the apps.
While the price is higher than your Axim X5 - you can't say the X5 has 'MUCH MUCH more'. A lot of these features have been in Clie's for so long that sometime's they're left off the short list of specs, but that doesn't mean they aren't there:)
Actually the built-in video recording's a joke, not meant to be a pocket camcorder or anything like that. That being said, you can get decent video if you encode it on a pc and use the Kinoma player...
But for recording from the Clie, that wonderful 1.3 MP camera is taken down to 160 x 112 resolution - not anything you'd want to record your son's graduation with:)
Us Clie-heads are less than impressed with this device. It's merely a generational refinement of the existing NX70 series; by no means a dramatic upgrade.
The 'video' features touted in the headline have been in the last several models. The new 'features' include additional hardware buttons for when the device is in tablet mode; a collapsable CF slot (which can only be collapsed when not in use), a backlit keyboard, and an improvement over the NX series' cameras (1.3 MP on the NX80 - still not as good as the 2 MP camera on the NZ90).
Other inclusions are software based, including new Decuma handwriting recognition (supposedly nifty - especially for Asian character sets), and Sony's new CF driver allowing CF memory to be used - which isn't as powerful as Eruware's third party driver, since it doesn't support the built-in applications like playing audio off a CF card.
I'm obsessed with Clie's, and spend way too much time every day at www.cliesource.com... but hey:)
All in all, the NX73/80 are better than their predecessors but by no means exciting for those already owning a NX or NZ. I certainly don't think it deserves the fanfare the articles & slashdot headline etc are giving it - but hey thats PR for you.
Hmm, if nVidia is sponsoring this contest, is there a category for Best Driver "Optimization"? I've found that if I turn all scene rendering off, and have it output pure black, I can get an amazing framerates! I've even modified the drivers so it will only do this when you're benchmarking... sure to be an invaluable mod.
See, since they finally passed some sort of campaign finance reform bill, congress just has wayyy too much time on it's hands, and is doing things like the CBDTPA.
Well - all we need to do is get them a bit sidetracked - and this is exactly what will do it! Game Reviewer Finance Reform!
Heh, yeah, I've done remote X desktops over a 14.4 before (I was just playing around with it all at the time, luckily I had no real work to do!). But I was speaking more about the technology and toolsets in general rather than the specific implementation.
The site mentions that speed is *not* their primary goal here, but rather simplification of the development of Tricks. But they also say that they expect speed to improve - and of course if it were written in a lower level language it could be optimized further, etc. We've also got to take into consideration Moore's law, etc - I just think the technology here is interesting and could make my granular "Application Firewall" a much simpler (and closer) reality...
the granular information you want can be found using the utilities at www.systeminternals.com - though these only monitor filesystem, network, etc. activity and do not forestall villainy
Yes, I actually use several of these (particularly RegMon lately) and love them - but as you pointed out they are only good for external observation, not for altering the 'reality' of the applications environment as Subterfuge apparently can do, or for preventing an access as a Firewall can/should. But I guess knowing who's spying on you and how is a good first step, even if we can't prevent it yet;)
Very interesting - this sounds like the tools to create application-level firewall I've alwys wanted. (putting on Asbestos suit, yes I use Windows) I wish something like this was available for the Windows platform, although I'd doubt the closed-source nature of the MS system calls etc would make this reasonable for anyone other than M$ to create, and I doubt they'll be exposing these sorts of tools for developers any time soon.
Firewalls like ZoneAlarmPro let the user keep an eye on which programs are accessing the network, but don't provide much more granularity than that - and do nothing to protect/inform the user about what the application may be doing locally (filesystem access, etc). With a tool like this, a very granular application-level firewall could be created that would enable you to peek at the app down to any level, whether you wanted to know exactly which network connections it was making (each individual socket - rather than ZoneAlarmPro's "yes, allow this to access the network" which then lets the app do any connections it wants), or whether you wanted to see which files it accessed and/or prevent that access.
Boy does this story take me back... when I was in 5th grade this concept was the basis for my science fair project. I was *convinced* that I could make it work somehow... some of my prototypes were combination wind tunnels (powered fans) and windmills (turbins/fans generating power) with my hopes of somehow using the right combination of equipment to generate more power from the turbins than it required to operate the wind tunnel and tapping into the surplus. Boy was I a dumb naieve kid! I didn't know much back then... but I knew I loved experimenting. I still remember being absolutely *crushed* and hating my science teacher when he tried to explain to me that it was impossible -- laws of conservation of energy and all that jazz. I just did not want to believe him.
Ah well, to be young and inquisitive and stubborn:) I guess the folks at Reuters are about par on my mental development at 5th grade... sheesh.
Damn, there were less than 10 replies (two on topic).. and it was slashdotted already. Ah well.
Soooo... is Linux going to now start having kernel patches to detect people who overclock to 3+ gigahertz? lol -- I've heard that has some 'stability issues' as well *grin*
When I first read this (a month ago).. I was initially worried about advertising, etc. When I saw the topic again today, I had the same reaction (and posted as such). Now that I'm thinking about it more though -- I've used something similar with Vindigo on my Palm handheld. You type in your current location in a city, and you can search for nearby restaurants, movie listings, etc. I've found it VERY handy. And there were small localized text advertisements, nothing intrusive, but those were even useful sometimes.
Localizing content is great. And while we need to worry about spam issues, the benefits will outweight the disadvantages. I forsee a selection of content available, including the old standby Zagat reviews, etc. If there is a filtering, moderation, or some other sort of preference for content this will be an amazing tool.
As for the cop, I agree, but I'd bet that those states which currently ban radar detectors would probably also want to go after this.
I'd highly doubt this. Radar detectors have no 'excuse' or legitimate use -- they are purely designed to detect the law enforcement's radar guns. What this article is talking about obviously has a million potential uses -- legislating anything to prevent people from reporting speedtraps would be extremely difficult / unpopular. They can't ban headlights simply because we can flash them to alert other drivers of a speedtrap, and they can't ban the entire internet because someone could put up a site listing common speedtrap locations. The closest they'd ever come is *possibly* a law about the USAGE of the devices to warn of speedtraps, but again, I doubt it.
The region coding in this case is to ensure EU marget gets served first before anyone else can get it.
Granted, the original post was somewhat American-centric. However, I think his point still holds. This is not a film being released first to theatres and then to DVD/VHS, it is an old series finally making it to DVD. The "staging" he mentioned was referring to selling all the theatre tickets you can first, THEN selling all the rentals/DVDs/etc. The regions allow them to do this in all the various markets (even though the film isn't released to the theatres at the same time in various markets).
Now imagine that this would be the case for you almost every time a movie comes out on DVD. Annoying, eh?
Well, I agree that it's annoying, but as much as I hate to admit it I can sort of see the logic for Region encoding for films. I still don't like it, but I see the logic. Again, we weren't talking about movies here though -- just an old TV series. You had a point mentioning that the same holds true in when other countries are forced to wait when a US region DVD comes out -- but in most cases those are for films. The logic of region-encoding an old TV series simply escapes me -- no matter what region it's from.
Dying to get my hands on this baby... I treasure the books, and treasure my MP3's of the original radio series. Adams was a truly great writer and he is missed. I just hope the series (which I have never seen and haven't even read that much about) lives up to the material.
My favorite was the poor, pathetic depressed robot. Some days I take after him just a wee bit too much:)
Hmmm... "Oracle is unbreakable" -- why should we expect that to be true? I seem to remember another oft-quoted phrase Larry loved to toss around... something like "Network computers will be the wave of the very near future". How many years has it been now? *grin*
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Damnit!!! I was really hoping MS would get a patent on FAT, so I could tell my ass it was infringing and draft up a cease & desist .....
A company laying out millions and devoting a lot of resources, training, and other effort towards a Peoplesoft roll-out isn't going to be satisfied with a refund. Knowing they will be able to get their money back if the support rug is pulled out from underneath them is NOT enough.
Simply put - there's a lot more riding on an implementation of something like this than just the original purchase price. Any big company looking into an ERP solution right now is going to seriously think twice (or forty times) before going with PeopleSoft just because there's a possibility that all their effort could be for naught.
That 'golden clause' is pretty much worthless - and Oracle is indeed benefiting from this dark cloud over PeopleSoft's future.
All this is saying is that if you distribute a binary (for example), you must make the source available and provide information on how to obtain it. This is no different than any other open source license. 'In a reasonable manner' / 'medium customarily used for software exchange' just means on a disk / CD, FTP server, etc. It's not saying you have to register with NASA to get the source (or the software) at all.
Nope, you certainly aren't the only one. Billy Graham sent me a DVD in the mail, I popped it in my "worthless" DVD unit; and halleluja, I was SAVED! Praise the lord, I've been SAVED!!!! :)
It comes from an OS limitation in PalmOS 5.0 (and all earlier versions). PalmSource fixed this in 5.2, which is why the new Tungsten model has 64 megs ... but Sony hasn't released a 5.2 model yet.
To get around the 16MB heap limitation as much as possible, Sony fudged things around and stuck an extra 16MB in there for storing the built-in apps (which take ~5MB). On the NX73, there's only that one 16MB, so the built-in apps take away from the usable heap. On the NX80, they threw in another chip (and presumably just stuck with a 16MB chip for the economies of scale, cheaper than adding a different chip even though they only needed 5MB). That frees up the 5MB, giving the user access to the full 16MB that PalmOS is able to address in the heap.
A lot of us were surprised it didn't have built-in Bluetooth. Note however that the version of the NX73 Sony France released (and presumably the rest of the European versions) DOES have built-in bluetooth. France is NOT however releasing an NX80 at all, with or without BT.
Some reasoning here: in Japan, there are a ton of fast wireless data services, and they have CF cards for access (similar to a GSM/GPRS PCMCIA card for your laptop). The Japanese haven't really adopted Bluetooth; connecting your PDA/laptop to your cell phone for wireless net access just isn't necessary with all the wireless services they have there. Everyone gets the appropriate CF card and hops online that way.
Now in Europe, Bluetooth is all the rage - and pairing the PDA with the cell phone is almost a must. That's why Sony released the Bluetooth device in Europe but not Japan.
But we're all surprised (and I'm personally disappointed) there isn't a Bluetooth model in the US - adoption here hasn't been nearly as fast as in Europe, but it's becoming more popular.
There is of course a Bluetooth Memory Stick you can purchase to add support, but that's not as elegant as built-in. The high-end NZ90 model does however have built-in Bluetooth in all markets.
Not only would there be a lot of effort in keeping everything charged - but I'm running out of pockets here, man - I'm all for the convergence! It would be cool to have a modular system so we could all get what we wanted, and get 'best-of-breed' components etc, but it's just not practical. Not for a personal device meant to be carried with you. Component stereo systems are fine - but would you want a component walkman? :)
Actually, these Clie's have MP3 players, 320 by *480* TFT screens, expansion via MemoryStick and CF cards (2 gigs possible there), built-in audio recorders as well.
:)
You've got 64 MB of memory, but PalmOS has a lighter footprint than PocketPC, as do the apps.
While the price is higher than your Axim X5 - you can't say the X5 has 'MUCH MUCH more'. A lot of these features have been in Clie's for so long that sometime's they're left off the short list of specs, but that doesn't mean they aren't there
Actually the built-in video recording's a joke, not meant to be a pocket camcorder or anything like that. That being said, you can get decent video if you encode it on a pc and use the Kinoma player ...
But for recording from the Clie, that wonderful 1.3 MP camera is taken down to 160 x 112 resolution - not anything you'd want to record your son's graduation with :)
Us Clie-heads are less than impressed with this device. It's merely a generational refinement of the existing NX70 series; by no means a dramatic upgrade.
... but hey :)
The 'video' features touted in the headline have been in the last several models. The new 'features' include additional hardware buttons for when the device is in tablet mode; a collapsable CF slot (which can only be collapsed when not in use), a backlit keyboard, and an improvement over the NX series' cameras (1.3 MP on the NX80 - still not as good as the 2 MP camera on the NZ90).
Other inclusions are software based, including new Decuma handwriting recognition (supposedly nifty - especially for Asian character sets), and Sony's new CF driver allowing CF memory to be used - which isn't as powerful as Eruware's third party driver, since it doesn't support the built-in applications like playing audio off a CF card.
I'm obsessed with Clie's, and spend way too much time every day at www.cliesource.com
All in all, the NX73/80 are better than their predecessors but by no means exciting for those already owning a NX or NZ. I certainly don't think it deserves the fanfare the articles & slashdot headline etc are giving it - but hey thats PR for you.
Hmm, if nVidia is sponsoring this contest, is there a category for Best Driver "Optimization"? I've found that if I turn all scene rendering off, and have it output pure black, I can get an amazing framerates! I've even modified the drivers so it will only do this when you're benchmarking ... sure to be an invaluable mod.
See, since they finally passed some sort of campaign finance reform bill, congress just has wayyy too much time on it's hands, and is doing things like the CBDTPA.
Well - all we need to do is get them a bit sidetracked - and this is exactly what will do it! Game Reviewer Finance Reform!
Whohoo! *grin*
Heh, yeah, I've done remote X desktops over a 14.4 before (I was just playing around with it all at the time, luckily I had no real work to do!). But I was speaking more about the technology and toolsets in general rather than the specific implementation.
...
The site mentions that speed is *not* their primary goal here, but rather simplification of the development of Tricks. But they also say that they expect speed to improve - and of course if it were written in a lower level language it could be optimized further, etc. We've also got to take into consideration Moore's law, etc - I just think the technology here is interesting and could make my granular "Application Firewall" a much simpler (and closer) reality
Yes, I actually use several of these (particularly RegMon lately) and love them - but as you pointed out they are only good for external observation, not for altering the 'reality' of the applications environment as Subterfuge apparently can do, or for preventing an access as a Firewall can/should. But I guess knowing who's spying on you and how is a good first step, even if we can't prevent it yet ;)
Very interesting - this sounds like the tools to create application-level firewall I've alwys wanted. (putting on Asbestos suit, yes I use Windows) I wish something like this was available for the Windows platform, although I'd doubt the closed-source nature of the MS system calls etc would make this reasonable for anyone other than M$ to create, and I doubt they'll be exposing these sorts of tools for developers any time soon.
:)
Firewalls like ZoneAlarmPro let the user keep an eye on which programs are accessing the network, but don't provide much more granularity than that - and do nothing to protect/inform the user about what the application may be doing locally (filesystem access, etc). With a tool like this, a very granular application-level firewall could be created that would enable you to peek at the app down to any level, whether you wanted to know exactly which network connections it was making (each individual socket - rather than ZoneAlarmPro's "yes, allow this to access the network" which then lets the app do any connections it wants), or whether you wanted to see which files it accessed and/or prevent that access.
Sounds great!
Boy does this story take me back ... when I was in 5th grade this concept was the basis for my science fair project. I was *convinced* that I could make it work somehow ... some of my prototypes were combination wind tunnels (powered fans) and windmills (turbins/fans generating power) with my hopes of somehow using the right combination of equipment to generate more power from the turbins than it required to operate the wind tunnel and tapping into the surplus. Boy was I a dumb naieve kid! I didn't know much back then ... but I knew I loved experimenting. I still remember being absolutely *crushed* and hating my science teacher when he tried to explain to me that it was impossible -- laws of conservation of energy and all that jazz. I just did not want to believe him.
:) I guess the folks at Reuters are about par on my mental development at 5th grade ... sheesh.
Ah well, to be young and inquisitive and stubborn
Soooo... is Linux going to now start having kernel patches to detect people who overclock to 3+ gigahertz? lol -- I've heard that has some 'stability issues' as well *grin*
Localizing content is great. And while we need to worry about spam issues, the benefits will outweight the disadvantages. I forsee a selection of content available, including the old standby Zagat reviews, etc. If there is a filtering, moderation, or some other sort of preference for content this will be an amazing tool.
Ummm... hrmmm.... nope, lost it already. =) Oh did you mean the freedom? Or my mind?
I'd highly doubt this. Radar detectors have no 'excuse' or legitimate use -- they are purely designed to detect the law enforcement's radar guns. What this article is talking about obviously has a million potential uses -- legislating anything to prevent people from reporting speedtraps would be extremely difficult / unpopular. They can't ban headlights simply because we can flash them to alert other drivers of a speedtrap, and they can't ban the entire internet because someone could put up a site listing common speedtrap locations. The closest they'd ever come is *possibly* a law about the USAGE of the devices to warn of speedtraps, but again, I doubt it.
I saw this a month or so ago, and remember thinking at the time that I was worried about the S/N ratio of this 'empty space' around me ...
.. *grin*
I'd hate to walk around every corner and get an X10 Popup
Granted, the original post was somewhat American-centric. However, I think his point still holds. This is not a film being released first to theatres and then to DVD/VHS, it is an old series finally making it to DVD. The "staging" he mentioned was referring to selling all the theatre tickets you can first, THEN selling all the rentals/DVDs/etc. The regions allow them to do this in all the various markets (even though the film isn't released to the theatres at the same time in various markets).
Now imagine that this would be the case for you almost every time a movie comes out on DVD. Annoying, eh?
Well, I agree that it's annoying, but as much as I hate to admit it I can sort of see the logic for Region encoding for films . I still don't like it, but I see the logic. Again, we weren't talking about movies here though -- just an old TV series. You had a point mentioning that the same holds true in when other countries are forced to wait when a US region DVD comes out -- but in most cases those are for films. The logic of region-encoding an old TV series simply escapes me -- no matter what region it's from.
Ah well, I still say ... 42.
Dying to get my hands on this baby ... I treasure the books, and treasure my MP3's of the original radio series. Adams was a truly great writer and he is missed. I just hope the series (which I have never seen and haven't even read that much about) lives up to the material.
:)
My favorite was the poor, pathetic depressed robot. Some days I take after him just a wee bit too much
42!!!!
Dare I say something about a Beowulf Carpool?
Nahhhh.......
Hmmm... "Oracle is unbreakable" -- why should we expect that to be true? I seem to remember another oft-quoted phrase Larry loved to toss around ... something like "Network computers will be the wave of the very near future". How many years has it been now? *grin*