I like your first point, that a computer needs input, output, and a processor. input and output don't have to be keyboard and screen, or a combo touchscreen as found in pdas.... voice recognition and sythesis(not necesarily anything CLOSE to true AI, just a well tuned bot) are just as good potentially for input/output...
The second part you mentioned, about medical history brings up a more interesting point... I don't see there being the all-mighty Palm Pilot to hold my life's history and be my google proxy when i get pulled over, i see many PDAs acting in a PAN(personal area network) to assist you.
A medical bracelet, instead of saying what you are allergic to, could hold a all your important medical history in a digital file, encrypted ofcourse.
Or a cam/eye glasses combo that feeds video into a Palm device, that might give feedback on say, face recognition(remember the guy you met last year at that party? ya, but what was his name?... your PDA could see his face, and match it against it's database)
I see many small devices working together, rather than 1 large device trying to do everything. Atleast that is what i would like to see happen.
yes, and if wikipedia dropped the WIKI from their name, a p3-666 would be plenty to run a giant static text website, just load it up with ram and a couple fast nics.... HOWEVER, the Wiki in Wikipedia, implies that every single page, at any given time, can and will be edited by any given user an arbitrary amount of times. That means heavy database use, far more than static text would every need. Plus, the content it self is gigs and gigs, let alone editing any and all of it, by everyone who wants to... plus some versioning, so people can't "*BSD is dying" to every page they have.
Yes, it would be sweet if they walked down the street and found a nice p3 box on the side of the road. It would be very handy as a foot rest for them to admin the serious hardware it would require to run a wiki as large and as heavily used as this.
what about allowing for mirrors of your site, so that you only absolutely need 1 DNS server to point to different mirrors. The other servers would run the site as well, but just as a node on the list of all mirrors.
but what about the AM talk shows, or the good FM dj/talkshows? plus, unless it is just pure music, there are a lot of djs that give a good talk/song ratio and make things stream together nicely, not just some rand(TOP_40_HIT) song station.
i didn't mean to imply that it was through being good, not church visitation that got you to heaven. Rather, i meant that simply going to church does not give you anything on its own, just like bening "good" gives you nothing in the way of redemtion on its own. However, to actually follow the christian belief, both will happen, you will generally be good "love they enemy" comes to mind, and you will go to church, to some extent.
"For the entry level house I just bought in Woodland Hills, the price was $428,000."
I just about gagged when i read that... ya, I know cali has MUCH higher everything than the untaimed Oregon counry to the North, but it is staggering to think that an entry level here is half that price. hell, you would be getting a pretty darn nice home for $225,000. For being only a few hundred(in the grand sceam that isn't too far) miles away, it is amazing that housing prices can double.
I am in agreement fully with your post, but would like to ammend something:
Nintendo has been the God of gaming for many years, with Microsoft being new to the game and Sony being somewhat of a vertran. Microsoft loses money on every xbox sold, sony makes some money, but not much. Nintendo, while selling the CHEAPEST console, make a significant cut in profits on every sale. Plus, i personally own what, 3 or 4 Nintendo inhouse games, all of which are friggin aswesome (zelda being FAR cooler than i had expected), so they are up quite a bit on my money. Microsoft requires you buy their inhouse games to be able to counter their loss in xbox sales.
The former number 1 in the market now sells the cheapest of the 3 consoles, make a significant profit off each sale, produces high quality inhouse games, has an extremely loyal fan base and is 2nd overall in the world market(xbox being well behind in Asia).
Ya, Nintendo is dying as much as Apple and *BSD are.
and the odd thing is, there are so-called "christians, who think that going to church and brushing up on biblical trivia has some weight in your heavenly status. Believe in Christianity or don't, but don't do some lame halfass sunday-church-goer BS and live some fatasy in your head that the hours sitting in a pupil will give you karma points with the All Mighty.
Apologies to those who disagree, don't flame, but feel free to reply(or curse at the monitor).
how about an organized approach to providing FREE wifi access? There are projects around like the Personal Telco Porject in Portland, Oregon, and others. Why can't geeks with broadband get together buy some antennas and use standard settings to provide wifi access...
use a hardware bw limiter, so the wifi half of your network doesn't kill off the bandwidth you need for playing Doom 3 or something. Shoot, get a nice linux firewall, setup squid for some nice caching, filter or don't filter, bw limit... would be a sweet setup.
Wait... Timeout here. You came on slashdot of all places and actually tried to encourage Microsoft into domination a perfectly undominated market? Where do you think you are? What target audience on slashdot are you trying to get to with a post like that?
"YA, it would have been soo(!) much better if mircosoft would have monopolized the gaming market 8 years ago, rather than throw GOBBS of money at it today, to try and produce the same effect!"
ya, the cable won't need upgrading, but the boxes sending and recieving would. secondly, when i meant fiber i was referring to in-lab LAN, which could be done over fiber too, ofcourse, i just assumed they would use copper.
they are saying 100MB, as the title suggests. and to eventually top out at means that they would have to replace routers/switches and anything non-cable. fiber would be uses for the overseas line, and fiber/cat6 cable for the local labs... but what handles the incoming signal cannot go from 100MB to 10GB without being made a 10GB box that is initially running at 100MB...
It is the same reason why the 802.11b WAP you bought a couple years ago can't magically do.11g, or why the 10mb switch at work doesn't magically do 100MB/1GB speed for VOIP and video streaming.
But if they are gonna make a 100MB network, how can they plan to 'upgrade' that to 10GB, without having to replace nearly everything they buy? Cat6, not Cat5e must be used (or so the IEEE standard says for 10GB) so if they buy that now, then they don't have to replace it. But what of routers, switches and nics? Unless they are buy 10GB hardware now, and just running it at 100MB for fun then flipping the switch to FASTMODE later, how do they plan to do this?
Why build a network then plan to replace the whole damn thing shortly thereafter?
or how about you believe it when Steve Jobs announces it at Macworld in San Francisco.
God, it is amazing the hype Apple can get over the possibility of products. Michael Dell must be jealous as all hell at the type of market loyalists Apple has.
P.S. this is coming from a guy who plans to buy a 12" powerbook in 2 weeks:)
why don't they just reintroduce the 5gig model for sub $200? I mean, everyone would like an ipod, but they are friggin expensive to most people.
The only reason i am not getting one for christmas is becasue of price. If my significant other could have saved 100 bucks and gotten a 5gig instead of 10gig, i could be rockin out christmas night to my cool new mp3 player.
na, unless the iMacs come along with a 3ghz proc, and i doubt they will(they are normally a generation hind the g5... so like a g5 1.6-2ghz iMac this january), then joe sixpack won't care. Powermacs are aimed and priced at POWER usersm iMacs are aimed at the consumer, and are priced closer to their budget.
a clipon battery would negate the cool slick silver back of the iPod. That might sound lame, but these things look and feel very cool, and that is part of the price, to be honest. Second, the engineering may make it hard to have the battery be a clipon, for all i know. I haven't seen the guts of an iPod, but it may not easily allow for the battery to be a clipon type.
the reason you can't just buy another batter is that the iPod's battery is a custom form-factor, this makes it more expensive, but also allows for the sleek, small size.
The batter they use is 1) known to degrade(as all batteries are, this type esspecially) and 2) custom to make the iPod a smaller size...
idividually no, an xcode 1.1 patch isn't keynote worthy... but bulking them together, saying, "by the way, we are releasying 10.3.2, updates to xcode and final cut pro, etc..."
granted minor updates aren't special, but as a whole, it seems like quite a bit to release 2/3 weeks before an expo.
and by commercial products, you mean products like redhat that are open source but also happened to be sold... where is my service mechanic to fix the bug in windows 3.1? And when i find him, how exactly is he gonna patch a system he can't get the code to.
Third party support of a closed source application is like having a mechanic try to service your car without opening the hood. Virtually impossible.
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I like your first point, that a computer needs input, output, and a processor. input and output don't have to be keyboard and screen, or a combo touchscreen as found in pdas.... voice recognition and sythesis(not necesarily anything CLOSE to true AI, just a well tuned bot) are just as good potentially for input/output...
The second part you mentioned, about medical history brings up a more interesting point... I don't see there being the all-mighty Palm Pilot to hold my life's history and be my google proxy when i get pulled over, i see many PDAs acting in a PAN(personal area network) to assist you.
A medical bracelet, instead of saying what you are allergic to, could hold a all your important medical history in a digital file, encrypted ofcourse.
Or a cam/eye glasses combo that feeds video into a Palm device, that might give feedback on say, face recognition(remember the guy you met last year at that party? ya, but what was his name?... your PDA could see his face, and match it against it's database)
I see many small devices working together, rather than 1 large device trying to do everything. Atleast that is what i would like to see happen.
yes, and if wikipedia dropped the WIKI from their name, a p3-666 would be plenty to run a giant static text website, just load it up with ram and a couple fast nics.... HOWEVER, the Wiki in Wikipedia, implies that every single page, at any given time, can and will be edited by any given user an arbitrary amount of times. That means heavy database use, far more than static text would every need. Plus, the content it self is gigs and gigs, let alone editing any and all of it, by everyone who wants to... plus some versioning, so people can't "*BSD is dying" to every page they have.
Yes, it would be sweet if they walked down the street and found a nice p3 box on the side of the road. It would be very handy as a foot rest for them to admin the serious hardware it would require to run a wiki as large and as heavily used as this.
what about allowing for mirrors of your site, so that you only absolutely need 1 DNS server to point to different mirrors. The other servers would run the site as well, but just as a node on the list of all mirrors.
but what about the AM talk shows, or the good FM dj/talkshows? plus, unless it is just pure music, there are a lot of djs that give a good talk/song ratio and make things stream together nicely, not just some rand(TOP_40_HIT) song station.
i didn't mean to imply that it was through being good, not church visitation that got you to heaven. Rather, i meant that simply going to church does not give you anything on its own, just like bening "good" gives you nothing in the way of redemtion on its own. However, to actually follow the christian belief, both will happen, you will generally be good "love they enemy" comes to mind, and you will go to church, to some extent.
I hope that clarifies my point, a bit.
"For the entry level house I just bought in Woodland Hills, the price was $428,000."
I just about gagged when i read that... ya, I know cali has MUCH higher everything than the untaimed Oregon counry to the North, but it is staggering to think that an entry level here is half that price. hell, you would be getting a pretty darn nice home for $225,000. For being only a few hundred(in the grand sceam that isn't too far) miles away, it is amazing that housing prices can double.
I am in agreement fully with your post, but would like to ammend something:
Nintendo has been the God of gaming for many years, with Microsoft being new to the game and Sony being somewhat of a vertran. Microsoft loses money on every xbox sold, sony makes some money, but not much. Nintendo, while selling the CHEAPEST console, make a significant cut in profits on every sale. Plus, i personally own what, 3 or 4 Nintendo inhouse games, all of which are friggin aswesome (zelda being FAR cooler than i had expected), so they are up quite a bit on my money. Microsoft requires you buy their inhouse games to be able to counter their loss in xbox sales.
The former number 1 in the market now sells the cheapest of the 3 consoles, make a significant profit off each sale, produces high quality inhouse games, has an extremely loyal fan base and is 2nd overall in the world market(xbox being well behind in Asia).
Ya, Nintendo is dying as much as Apple and *BSD are.
and the odd thing is, there are so-called "christians, who think that going to church and brushing up on biblical trivia has some weight in your heavenly status. Believe in Christianity or don't, but don't do some lame halfass sunday-church-goer BS and live some fatasy in your head that the hours sitting in a pupil will give you karma points with the All Mighty.
Apologies to those who disagree, don't flame, but feel free to reply(or curse at the monitor).
how about an organized approach to providing FREE wifi access? There are projects around like the Personal Telco Porject in Portland, Oregon, and others. Why can't geeks with broadband get together buy some antennas and use standard settings to provide wifi access...
use a hardware bw limiter, so the wifi half of your network doesn't kill off the bandwidth you need for playing Doom 3 or something. Shoot, get a nice linux firewall, setup squid for some nice caching, filter or don't filter, bw limit... would be a sweet setup.
better yet, have Linus pose with the Coors Light beer twins. Talk about winning over Joe Sixpack!
Wait... Timeout here. You came on slashdot of all places and actually tried to encourage Microsoft into domination a perfectly undominated market? Where do you think you are? What target audience on slashdot are you trying to get to with a post like that?
"YA, it would have been soo(!) much better if mircosoft would have monopolized the gaming market 8 years ago, rather than throw GOBBS of money at it today, to try and produce the same effect!"
*GAG*
ya, the cable won't need upgrading, but the boxes sending and recieving would. secondly, when i meant fiber i was referring to in-lab LAN, which could be done over fiber too, ofcourse, i just assumed they would use copper.
they are saying 100MB, as the title suggests. and to eventually top out at means that they would have to replace routers/switches and anything non-cable. fiber would be uses for the overseas line, and fiber/cat6 cable for the local labs... but what handles the incoming signal cannot go from 100MB to 10GB without being made a 10GB box that is initially running at 100MB...
.11g, or why the 10mb switch at work doesn't magically do 100MB/1GB speed for VOIP and video streaming.
It is the same reason why the 802.11b WAP you bought a couple years ago can't magically do
is crap ton a metric or US unit of measurement? Should i read it like a metric ton?
You Americans and your damn units of measurement! Hasn't anyone ever told you that conforming to the masses is a GOOD thing??
don't forget, you don't just get an mp3 player with the ipod, you can play games like breakout...and stuff on there...
remember breakout? ya, good times.
the later revisions of the G4 Powerbooks seem to be better at staying sub-10000 degrees, but still get somewhat warmer than ideal...
The G5, which someone mentioned might be out as early as this summer, will need some impressive engineering to stay cool.
But if they are gonna make a 100MB network, how can they plan to 'upgrade' that to 10GB, without having to replace nearly everything they buy? Cat6, not Cat5e must be used (or so the IEEE standard says for 10GB) so if they buy that now, then they don't have to replace it. But what of routers, switches and nics? Unless they are buy 10GB hardware now, and just running it at 100MB for fun then flipping the switch to FASTMODE later, how do they plan to do this?
Why build a network then plan to replace the whole damn thing shortly thereafter?
or how about you believe it when Steve Jobs announces it at Macworld in San Francisco.
:)
God, it is amazing the hype Apple can get over the possibility of products. Michael Dell must be jealous as all hell at the type of market loyalists Apple has.
P.S. this is coming from a guy who plans to buy a 12" powerbook in 2 weeks
why don't they just reintroduce the 5gig model for sub $200? I mean, everyone would like an ipod, but they are friggin expensive to most people.
The only reason i am not getting one for christmas is becasue of price. If my significant other could have saved 100 bucks and gotten a 5gig instead of 10gig, i could be rockin out christmas night to my cool new mp3 player.
na, unless the iMacs come along with a 3ghz proc, and i doubt they will(they are normally a generation hind the g5... so like a g5 1.6-2ghz iMac this january), then joe sixpack won't care. Powermacs are aimed and priced at POWER usersm iMacs are aimed at the consumer, and are priced closer to their budget.
a clipon battery would negate the cool slick silver back of the iPod. That might sound lame, but these things look and feel very cool, and that is part of the price, to be honest. Second, the engineering may make it hard to have the battery be a clipon, for all i know. I haven't seen the guts of an iPod, but it may not easily allow for the battery to be a clipon type.
the reason you can't just buy another batter is that the iPod's battery is a custom form-factor, this makes it more expensive, but also allows for the sleek, small size.
The batter they use is 1) known to degrade(as all batteries are, this type esspecially) and 2) custom to make the iPod a smaller size...
Apple and osX use openGL for their graphics, and are quite happy doing so. Why shouldn't Linux? (it does already).
We should put more effort into improving openGL, speed, usability, and whatnot to make it competitive with directx
idividually no, an xcode 1.1 patch isn't keynote worthy... but bulking them together, saying, "by the way, we are releasying 10.3.2, updates to xcode and final cut pro, etc..."
granted minor updates aren't special, but as a whole, it seems like quite a bit to release 2/3 weeks before an expo.
and by commercial products, you mean products like redhat that are open source but also happened to be sold... where is my service mechanic to fix the bug in windows 3.1? And when i find him, how exactly is he gonna patch a system he can't get the code to.
Third party support of a closed source application is like having a mechanic try to service your car without opening the hood. Virtually impossible.