I understand that it is cool to be able to do this... but i just don't see why we ignore such a powerful console(PS2) which is atleast slightly more open to Linux and the community.
how about a filesystem/system with lots of metadata( for searching) and a good find/query sytem 'FIND:"Xfree86 4.3"', maybe? or is that plain silly....
actually this sounds almost like the BeFS, which i have only heard about. 2 cool features, unlimited ammounts of metadata, and live queries(have a query for 'email' open, and whenever a new email arrives, that query/search is automatically updated. which is kinda cool.
"There'd be no point NASA being slashdotted by people who have absolutely no use for raw data just going in to have a look... "
my government, my money, my data.
We are humans, and we are explorers. It took centuries to discover the New World(which turned out to be worth the wait). We didn't just send 1 Spanish ship out, and if he didn't come back with anything said "oh well, we gave it a try."
This is space people. This is what is next. We must explore it.
Imagine, a 30 gig ipod with bluetooth. Not only can you share playlists and stream music via roundevous, but you can also have a light webserver running on it too. sounds cool to me! ")
on what? that Universal buyout... o, wait... that never happened? Apple still has their 4 billion or whatever it is... not enough to buy all of sun, but nothing is impossible.
follow the guidelines the way winamp does? Winamp has an improved interface because it DOESN'T look like every other window, and users seem to like it...a lot. Or follow them the way the new MS CD Player follows them? with it's hacked window. Sometimes it is good to make your app look unique.
Quicktime looks good, and for a free product, they can 'nag' me everytime i start it...
heh... i have used linux and freebsd... usability, for me, is easier with bsd rather than linux. also, freebsd has more applications than openbsd... there are reasons to pick a give OS...
you say that as a joke, but in all honesty: do you think the state of voice recognition is going to change if we keep the same attitude about it and not try to put it into real world applications? If we are convinced that voice recognition is always going to be "tomorrow's tech" will it ever be anything but just that?
"Personally, I think if they had set a trend of actually rejecting patents that don't belong..."
Ya, becuase even more thurough checking of every single application will speed up the process.
I don't know how the system is set up now, but maybe if application were broken up into categories, and then only USPTO workers educated in that field(computer science, for example) would be able to accept patents. Rather than Joe Average walking into the office and show the clerk a floppy saying that it contained something called "Linux" and getting accepted(yes, that did happened) and having Jane Clerk believe him because she had no idea.
Hardware Company.
HARDWARE. The only way Apple could stay afloat, without a major company policy/income shift would be to have all the systems made in such a way that only Apple systems will run macos X. if the emachines for 300 bucks at the computer store down the street runs macos X just like a mac then Apple would lose access to their cashflow(hardware).
So you want x86? fine, but you won't be able to use your p3 500 system in the corner with it. Apple couldn't afford it.
" you can hardly blame microsoft for trying to shut the guy up"
This is/. remember? And yes i can blame them. Microsoft for using, and the US Gov. for passing this rediculous law that clearly breaks our FIRST AMMENDMENT RIGHTS. Our founders put that one at the top of this list for a reason! Any law that can arrest a non-US citizen for publishing work in a non-US country while he was on vacation(!) is one that should be banned from the books... Oh, and don't get me started on the PATRIOT act.
To quote Bart Simpson "...this both sucks and blow."
Hell, 50% of their searches are probably FOR porn, why would they filter it out? And as for alcoholic filters, they are a private company, they may do as they wish.
kids THAT young should be watching Sesame Street and Mr. Rodgers and not even have a computer(kids should learn how to do long division by hand and memorize their multipilication before EVER touching a calculator!). I think it is stupid parenting to let kids who are too young and very impressionable to watch MTV and play Half-Life, even though i do both.
I agreed with every single word until you brought up the GameCube... My I remind the channel, that, before the Xbox, Microsoft came to Nintendo and wanted to buy them out. Microsoft has access to the biggest blank check in the computer industry, and Nintedo laughed them out of the room.
The Pixar annex and Sony-like company is the PERFECT fit for Apple though, and I would be not be surprised if they fallow it.
We have a standard computer repair box for student techs to use on a sick computer...
(note: my school is 100% MS to the point of sickness; so this is windows only, no mac or linux considerations here)
1. Most useful would likely be a win98 bootdisk (it works well for what we need it for)
2. GhostPE (for ghosting harddrives, or images) - quality product!
3. Partition Magic (2 boot disks) this isn't part of the tech class, but for a gui partitioner, with support for ext2 and ntfs along with fat, it is good stuff.
4.Microscope is a single bootable floppy that is fairly expensive, and is used for testing ports and hardware... pretty cool stuff.
5. Oh, and bring a screwdriver and harddrive jumpers! SCREWDRIVER AND JUMPERS!
well ya, they are a hardware company...
Apple bought the software, is selling the licenses cheap, and expecting that, people will migrate since the cheaper licensing outweighs the hardware migration. for example, they added this neat little feature to Fical Cut Pro: "...for the first time in an editing system costing less than $100,000, full 32-bit floating point per channel video processing." Sounds like a fair tradeoff to buy some apple hardware when you are saving 100,000 bucks.
Unless i misunderstood your post, i think you have it all wrong...
The ruling AOL is petitioning says that AIM can't have cool next-gen features(video chat or something) unless AOL makes AIM interoperable with MSN, YM, etc. Note, MS and Yahoo want the im clients to talk with AIM, but MS and Yahoo havn't made their clients talk with eachother...
Ya, i know what you mean, because 30 million(that is 1/10 the population of America, mind you...1 in 10.) users don't pay AoL 20+ bucks a month... 30,000,000(users) * $20 * 12(months in a year) = 7,200,000,000/year. Yea, horrible business plan so far. And the there is the OTHER half of the company. It seems amazing that the words Time Warner don't make money themselves. Hell, they own half of the industrialized world. Read a magazine today, watched some TV? wanna bet on one of them being owned by the "unprofitable" AOL-TW. Time magazine, popsci, HBO, TNN... a lil thing called Warner Brothers...
It seems amazing to me that they could ever have an unprofitable quarter. So, say what you want, but if they want America to have this box in ever household, they have the power to back it up.
How many in the general public are going to backlash agaist an ubercorp like AOL-TW and stick with a Tivo or traditional service? Honestly, when you have a userbase the size of AOL (30 million) and the content of Time Warner (unholy crap loads) do you think it matters? They will win this one, sad but true.
Now I can't wait for when MS announces their bleeding edge ultranew PVR service for the xbox... Don'y label me a troll, you just know this is going to happen someday.
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I understand that it is cool to be able to do this... but i just don't see why we ignore such a powerful console(PS2) which is atleast slightly more open to Linux and the community.
Tell those companies to move north! Oregon has no sales tax, and we could use the jobs...
how about a filesystem/system with lots of metadata( for searching) and a good find/query sytem 'FIND:"Xfree86 4.3"', maybe? or is that plain silly.... actually this sounds almost like the BeFS, which i have only heard about. 2 cool features, unlimited ammounts of metadata, and live queries(have a query for 'email' open, and whenever a new email arrives, that query/search is automatically updated. which is kinda cool.
"There'd be no point NASA being slashdotted by people who have absolutely no use for raw data just going in to have a look... " my government, my money, my data.
This is space people. This is what is next. We must explore it.
sounds like an ipod with bluetooth to me.
Imagine, a 30 gig ipod with bluetooth. Not only can you share playlists and stream music via roundevous, but you can also have a light webserver running on it too. sounds cool to me! ")
on what? that Universal buyout... o, wait... that never happened? Apple still has their 4 billion or whatever it is... not enough to buy all of sun, but nothing is impossible.
follow the guidelines the way winamp does? Winamp has an improved interface because it DOESN'T look like every other window, and users seem to like it...a lot. Or follow them the way the new MS CD Player follows them? with it's hacked window. Sometimes it is good to make your app look unique. Quicktime looks good, and for a free product, they can 'nag' me everytime i start it...
heh... i have used linux and freebsd... usability, for me, is easier with bsd rather than linux. also, freebsd has more applications than openbsd... there are reasons to pick a give OS...
you say that as a joke, but in all honesty: do you think the state of voice recognition is going to change if we keep the same attitude about it and not try to put it into real world applications? If we are convinced that voice recognition is always going to be "tomorrow's tech" will it ever be anything but just that?
Ya, becuase even more thurough checking of every single application will speed up the process.
I don't know how the system is set up now, but maybe if application were broken up into categories, and then only USPTO workers educated in that field(computer science, for example) would be able to accept patents. Rather than Joe Average walking into the office and show the clerk a floppy saying that it contained something called "Linux" and getting accepted(yes, that did happened) and having Jane Clerk believe him because she had no idea.
Have you ever seen the US Defense budget? 1/3 trillion every friggin year. you think a couple dozen billion is gonna start an uproar?
Hardware Company. HARDWARE. The only way Apple could stay afloat, without a major company policy/income shift would be to have all the systems made in such a way that only Apple systems will run macos X. if the emachines for 300 bucks at the computer store down the street runs macos X just like a mac then Apple would lose access to their cashflow(hardware). So you want x86? fine, but you won't be able to use your p3 500 system in the corner with it. Apple couldn't afford it.
This is /. remember? And yes i can blame them. Microsoft for using, and the US Gov. for passing this rediculous law that clearly breaks our FIRST AMMENDMENT RIGHTS. Our founders put that one at the top of this list for a reason! Any law that can arrest a non-US citizen for publishing work in a non-US country while he was on vacation(!) is one that should be banned from the books... Oh, and don't get me started on the PATRIOT act.
To quote Bart Simpson "...this both sucks and blow."
Hell, 50% of their searches are probably FOR porn, why would they filter it out? And as for alcoholic filters, they are a private company, they may do as they wish.
Make your kids watch some PBS for christ's sake.
I agreed with every single word until you brought up the GameCube... My I remind the channel, that, before the Xbox, Microsoft came to Nintendo and wanted to buy them out. Microsoft has access to the biggest blank check in the computer industry, and Nintedo laughed them out of the room. The Pixar annex and Sony-like company is the PERFECT fit for Apple though, and I would be not be surprised if they fallow it.
They are blind; so i think audible messages won't be much of a problem for them...
Rendezvous is just Apple's implementation of Zeroconf, an open standard.
We have a standard computer repair box for student techs to use on a sick computer...
(note: my school is 100% MS to the point of sickness; so this is windows only, no mac or linux considerations here)
1. Most useful would likely be a win98 bootdisk (it works well for what we need it for)
2. GhostPE (for ghosting harddrives, or images) - quality product!
3. Partition Magic (2 boot disks) this isn't part of the tech class, but for a gui partitioner, with support for ext2 and ntfs along with fat, it is good stuff.
4.Microscope is a single bootable floppy that is fairly expensive, and is used for testing ports and hardware... pretty cool stuff.
5. Oh, and bring a screwdriver and harddrive jumpers! SCREWDRIVER AND JUMPERS!
well ya, they are a hardware company... Apple bought the software, is selling the licenses cheap, and expecting that, people will migrate since the cheaper licensing outweighs the hardware migration. for example, they added this neat little feature to Fical Cut Pro: "...for the first time in an editing system costing less than $100,000, full 32-bit floating point per channel video processing." Sounds like a fair tradeoff to buy some apple hardware when you are saving 100,000 bucks.
For thouse looking for an alternative, there is always distributed.net.
Unless i misunderstood your post, i think you have it all wrong...
The ruling AOL is petitioning says that AIM can't have cool next-gen features(video chat or something) unless AOL makes AIM interoperable with MSN, YM, etc. Note, MS and Yahoo want the im clients to talk with AIM, but MS and Yahoo havn't made their clients talk with eachother...
Ya, i know what you mean, because 30 million(that is 1/10 the population of America, mind you...1 in 10.) users don't pay AoL 20+ bucks a month... 30,000,000(users) * $20 * 12(months in a year) = 7,200,000,000/year. Yea, horrible business plan so far. And the there is the OTHER half of the company. It seems amazing that the words Time Warner don't make money themselves. Hell, they own half of the industrialized world. Read a magazine today, watched some TV? wanna bet on one of them being owned by the "unprofitable" AOL-TW. Time magazine, popsci, HBO, TNN... a lil thing called Warner Brothers... It seems amazing to me that they could ever have an unprofitable quarter. So, say what you want, but if they want America to have this box in ever household, they have the power to back it up.
How many in the general public are going to backlash agaist an ubercorp like AOL-TW and stick with a Tivo or traditional service? Honestly, when you have a userbase the size of AOL (30 million) and the content of Time Warner (unholy crap loads) do you think it matters? They will win this one, sad but true.
Now I can't wait for when MS announces their bleeding edge ultranew PVR service for the xbox... Don'y label me a troll, you just know this is going to happen someday.