I flipped through all the designs. While many of the products ideas seem cool, the implementations are dull. Dull as in grey grey grey grey and more grey, with some black highlights if you are lucky.
What are these designers afraid of? Are they scared of evoking an emotion? Even the house they laud is grey.
Microsoft has pretty much destroyed the traditional desktop software market. They did it through a combination of incompetance and malice. By incompetance, look at their badly documented, sloppily implemented and ever shifting APIs which make writing apps hard and seamlessly deploying upgrades even harder. Add to this a security model that allows malware to thrive which in turn means that testing out new software is fraught. As for Microsoft's malice, look what happened to Stac, Netscape and many others.
So Microsoft has made making a living writing small desktop apps is inordinately difficult. AJAX and Flash allow one to side step the problems Microsoft has created. And Google is a threat to Microsoft because they provide very useful, very powerful, cross-platform applications without playing Microsoft's way. And if this catches on, Microsoft because irrelevant.
I read the documentation this afternoon. Very clever use of REST, SOAP and BitTorrent. They provide client libraries for many languages.
I can see why Amazon is providing this; to make money off their excess bandwidth and storage space.
I can't really see why a customer would want to use it though. Why not just use a real web host? Amazon S3 has is no minimum monthly fee, has redundancy built into it, guaranteed availability.
Compared with Dreamhost (say) which has a bundle for almost 10 USD/mo. That deal has 20GB + 1TB transfers. For the same amout on Amazon S3 you only 5 GB + 64GB transfers, and doesn't have FTP nor SSH access, nor your own domain, etc etc.
Maybe we should think of it as an inexpensive web cache, like akamai.
I suspect that even Amazon doesn't know what this will be useful for. The developed it for their own use, then polished up for resell. Now they wait for the applications to appear.
If it keeps on rainin', the levee's goin' to break If it keeps on rainin', the levee's goin' to break And if the levee break, won't got no place to stay
Why only paralysed people? Why can't I have a cortical link? IMHO, all current computer I/O devices SUCK. Screens are limited. Keyboards are pain. And don't get me started on mice! I hate having to sit at my desk to use the computer. Why can't I pace up and down the room?
I have a Sharp PC-1403H that dates from the early 80s that I use as a calculator. It's a caculator that can be programmed with a subset of BASIC. It was one of the first computers I ever programmed, way way back then. I don't often use it though, only when a spreadsheet would be to much work/bother.
What/.ers must realise is this is only half the story. The bit that Anglos Québecers always omit (either through ingornace or malice) is that 30 years ago they were also the hated opressors.
In the RISC vs CISC debate, RISC won : all CPUs these days are either RISC, or RISC cores with a CISC layer on top. Same sort of thing seems to be happening to linux's monolithic kernel. I see 14 kernel threads on my compter.
>Microsoft has proven without a doubt they are one >of the most immoral, corrupt, and untrustworthy >companies in the world.
Oh come on! Yes Microsoft is corrupt and untrustworthy, but the "most... in the world"? Macdonalds (union busting, poisonous "food"), the big oil companies (toxic dumping, killing of tribal peoples) and that's only off the top of my head.
OK. Now imagine a telephone that has the numbers arranged like on a keyboard/calculator. Now imagine having to dial a really really long number because you are in a foreign country and want to call your spouse. Now imagine you are doing this while large metal coins are disappearing into the machine with a loud CLUNK every once in a while.
Such are my memories of calling Québec from Norway.
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I flipped through all the designs. While many of the products ideas seem cool, the implementations are dull. Dull as in grey grey grey grey and more grey, with some black highlights if you are lucky.
What are these designers afraid of? Are they scared of evoking an emotion? Even the house they laud is grey.
May we have some colour, please?
Microsoft has pretty much destroyed the traditional desktop software market. They did it through a combination of incompetance and malice. By incompetance, look at their badly documented, sloppily implemented and ever shifting APIs which make writing apps hard and seamlessly deploying upgrades even harder. Add to this a security model that allows malware to thrive which in turn means that testing out new software is fraught. As for Microsoft's malice, look what happened to Stac, Netscape and many others.
So Microsoft has made making a living writing small desktop apps is inordinately difficult. AJAX and Flash allow one to side step the problems Microsoft has created. And Google is a threat to Microsoft because they provide very useful, very powerful, cross-platform applications without playing Microsoft's way. And if this catches on, Microsoft because irrelevant.
A hard disk won't survive your house burning down.
Or put it another way: this would provide the all-important off-site backup.
I read the documentation this afternoon. Very clever use of REST, SOAP and BitTorrent. They provide client libraries for many languages.
I can see why Amazon is providing this; to make money off their excess bandwidth and storage space.
I can't really see why a customer would want to use it though. Why not just use a real web host? Amazon S3 has is no minimum monthly fee, has redundancy built into it, guaranteed availability.
Compared with Dreamhost (say) which has a bundle for almost 10 USD/mo. That deal has 20GB + 1TB transfers. For the same amout on Amazon S3 you only 5 GB + 64GB transfers, and doesn't have FTP nor SSH access, nor your own domain, etc etc.
Maybe we should think of it as an inexpensive web cache, like akamai.
I suspect that even Amazon doesn't know what this will be useful for. The developed it for their own use, then polished up for resell. Now they wait for the applications to appear.
The FDA seems to think otherwise.
Seems it has a 3 year warranty. So the mfg believes in the product.
If it keeps on rainin', the levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', the levee's goin' to break
And if the levee break, won't got no place to stay
Boring?
I thought that was how rendezvous / ZeroConf / UPnP worked.
That would be too good to be true!
Moore is on record as stating that it's not a law, but a metric.
What the hell happened to being responsible for your own actions?
From your president on down, passing the buck is the american way.
This is the graph you want to gloat over.
Slimp3 280 USD for the wireless version. I don't think there's anything out there cheaper.
Congratulations! You have completely failed to understand BDSM. Here's a link to enlighten you. The soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm FAQ List
when a knife- or dumb gun-wielding intruder breaks into your bedroom maybe?--you are dead.
Does this happen to you often?
Why only paralysed people? Why can't I have a cortical link? IMHO, all current computer I/O devices SUCK. Screens are limited. Keyboards are pain. And don't get me started on mice! I hate having to sit at my desk to use the computer. Why can't I pace up and down the room?
I have a Sharp PC-1403H that dates from the early 80s that I use as a calculator. It's a caculator that can be programmed with a subset of BASIC. It was one of the first computers I ever programmed, way way back then. I don't often use it though, only when a spreadsheet would be to much work/bother.
This just makes me smile.
-Leolo
> and the few things you do have to run as root can
> be chroot'd
It is possible to escape from a chroot jail if you have root privileges. You do have to have greater skill though.
-Leolo
What /.ers must realise is this is only half the story. The bit that Anglos Québecers always omit (either through ingornace or malice) is that 30 years ago they were also the hated opressors.
-Philip
In the RISC vs CISC debate, RISC won : all CPUs these days are either RISC, or RISC cores with a CISC layer on top. Same sort of thing seems to be happening to linux's monolithic kernel. I see 14 kernel threads on my compter.
-Philip
>Microsoft has proven without a doubt they are one
... in the world"? Macdonalds (union busting, poisonous "food"), the big oil companies (toxic dumping, killing of tribal peoples) and that's only off the top of my head.
>of the most immoral, corrupt, and untrustworthy
>companies in the world.
Oh come on! Yes Microsoft is corrupt and untrustworthy, but the "most
Please keep things in perspective.
> An old Mozilla exploit continues to crash almost
> any version/flavor of Mozilla with just 5 lines
> of plain HTML code
Not true. This crash is caused by a failure in CSS processing somewhere. Remove or change the CSS from the snippet and it no longer crashes Mozilla.
CSS is the style="position:fixed" bit. Change it to style="position:relative;" and it ceases to crash Mozilla.
No I do not think CSS counts as "plain HTML".
-Philip
OK. Now imagine a telephone that has the numbers arranged like on a keyboard/calculator. Now imagine having to dial a really really long number because you are in a foreign country and want to call your spouse. Now imagine you are doing this while large metal coins are disappearing into the machine with a loud CLUNK every once in a while.
Such are my memories of calling Québec from Norway.