Also, if you read about the project, it's goal is to put all of the works into XML to create a searchable repository, not just to have all of these.txt documents floating around. Well, that's the newest goal, anyway.
I'm just getting mad that everyone's comparing it to the "failed" Newton, and the Go pad. I had a Newton MP 2000 and used it until just recently. The handwriting recog in that one was just great, plus it had plenty of memory (for what I was using it for anyway), could browse the web, etc. My favorite demo of it's advanced uses was a friend who was in our store wrote out a message to his text pager, fired up a modem connection through his cell phone, sent the message. A minute later, his beeper went off, displaying the text. It was like WonkaVision almost!
I haven't seen the TPC obviously, and I know the media likes to simplify things, but the Newton (and plenty of other gadgets and apps) wasn't a failed technology as much as it failed to capture the zeitgeist (can't believe I just used that word) of a number of users able to sustain said technology.
I'm running a TiBook, 800Mhz, but not much of consequence besides browsers, mail and the like. For the gamers, I did download the Jedi demo, and while I've not played it before, I didn't notice any slowness or lagging.
Most of the time when I experience any slowness, I chalk it up to some interference with my wireless connection to the basement. All command-line apps work well and speedy.
I agree, and ask why do "We need to run the system on as many computers as possible...."? Is there something about this way of looking at documents (sorry, information) that needs to span computers? Does it need to support the "enterprise"?
He's talking about the desktop. For the enterpr...oh, forget the jargon. For big companies, they could just as easily have dumb-ish terminals that connect to the database they need, the calendaring system they need, but no, everyone runs Windows. Citrix is the closest I've seen to that sort of good idea.
Seems to me that if you tried to use something like this for more than a few computers, it would break down pretty fast. I'm obviously no computer scientist, but from what is in the article, this should've been released on 4/1 instead of 11/7.
I worked in cable for a few months a few months ago, and Parent is right - All those channels you think are crap, someone loves. I can't tell you how many people switched from my employer to Comcast because they carried "SoapNet". SOAPNET!! Jeez. But plenty of people hated Speedvision & others.
Anyway, the "basic" channels, cable is required to carry. It's usally the local channels, but the price for them is generally in the $10 range. While it would be a challenge to broadcast them individually, that's why we have smart boxes on the downstream side. They can group the "extra" music channels (M2, VH1 Classic, etc, etc), the "lifestyle" channels (TechTV, others), "extra" sports channels (ESPN Classic, etc). What's the huge problem with configuring it to block individual channels? Probably software, and they're too lazy and/or cheap to offer that service. Charge for basic, then $5 to choose 5 channels from any of the remaining however many. Want 5 more channels? $5 more bucks. And don't forget the $5 "rental" fee for each receiver.
It's at least somewhat of a solution. No choice for basic, but choice above that.
Just yesterday I got my cable bill - digital cable (for the guide features and BBC America, that's pretty much all I want it for)) and it was for $49.83. Only one digital receiver. TOO MUCH!! I've said it before, all I want is the local stuff, Foodtv, Nick, MTV, MTV2 (actuallly, could probably do without MTV at this point), Comedy, ESPN, BBCA and a few others. Right now, I think we get close to 100-125 channels. I could easily pare it down to 30 that I watch regularly.
I've been coveting dish for a while (AT&T could install the very next day when I called to check prices, so that's why we went with them), and it would certainly be cheaper (yes, even with local channels). But I've also wanted to just be able to order channels a la carte and pay for it that way. However, if it's just a matter of not having to pay for all the "non-pay" channels (as it seems the article states), then we're not quite there yet.
Giving the sat companies a "monopoly" of 18 million users, knowing that the Feds would be watching them every step of the way, is wrong.
Giving Comcast and ATT the go-ahead to create one company with 22 million users - most of them in areas where there is no other competition than satellite - is okay?
I remember being a nascent "punker" (never actually quite commited to the look or the lifestyle, but the ideals were/are still important to me) back in 1984 when I got the album, and after coming from an early-80's diet of MOR on AM radio and country music (I was growning up in Colorado, after all), I thought it sounded like crap. Then, I got a listen of other hardcore bands from that time (Exploited, GBH, etc) and realised that the Pistols were a pop group, a sneering, gobbing pop group. I still love the music and especially the lyrical content. And they weren't just Malcom's puppets - I loved that Malcom told them to write a song about "submission", Johnny wrote the lyrics about a submarine, not S&M.
Me too, sometimes, but I get excited about enough new stuff. Some of my favorite bands of all time have come after his cutoff date. But if you wanna talk nu metal and boybands/bellygirlsingers, I'm right there with ya. Played out.
I said it years ago, rap is the new rock & roll. Not that I like it as much as I like rock (I do like plenty...really!), but it had the danger/white-parents-hating-that-their-kids-listen -to-it thing going.
I admit now that rap probably doesn't have the legs rock did/does, but it sure was fun for a while!
Ah, a person of numbers. Thank you. After I posted, the correct synapse fired in my brain and I realised that the original number I heard was 25 miles, which was probably from an old textbook, back when the Earth was home to only 4 billion or something like that.;)
Again, thanks for checking my facts (and not outright flaming me). But it's still astonishing to me that everyone on Earth, given those constraints, could fit in an area twice the size of Manhattan island.
That's great - those observations remind me of a letter I saw in Rolling Stone one time. I think it was from the 70's, some guy wrote in about how crap music was and that there wasn't going to be any new music after a while. He calculated how many musical notes there were (obviously, a Westerner) and how many combinations, and said we'd be out of combos by the early '90's or something. Sorry I can't find a link to it, but it was some hilarious prediction like that.
While I agree that we'll use oil stupidly until it's gone, I'm not an alarmist about it. In fact, the world will be a much better place when it's gone, IMHO.
Also, I remember reading something about how the entire population of the earth could (physically) fit inside an area like, 5 miles square, if you figure 3 square feet for each person. (I'm too lazy to check my work, sorry). But that 83% seems like way too much.
I know...I should've added a smiley or something to that last comment to show I was joking. 100 metres is close to the length of an american football field (not the stadium, just the playing field), and you'd have a lot of trouble picking something of that length out from a jet plane at 35000 feet, much less a low orbit, or from the moon itself....
I was wondering about that too, but the "not enough mass" argument does make some sense.
I am curious, though, if they say it's effectively a second moon, why are there no stories about it from 550AD? Or are there stories and we just thought of them as novas or other odd phenomenon? Even if it is 100 meters, I would think it would show up.
Well, I guess with a little simple googling, that is pretty small compared with the moon's diameter (almost 3500 km) and distance (only about 385,000 from earth).
I had no idea either until I was reading through the article. Obviously, I wasn't a huge follower of his work (I liked it but never sought it out), but it actually reminded me of a friend I had at SDSU, Bart Cameron (who is still thankfully with us). Great writer, great heart, great thinker. The world needs more like them, black or not. Race informs their writing and personality, but does not define them.
You're right, it is sad. I abhorr suicide, but when a unique, strong voice is silenced, everyone loses.
I have one of the TiBooks in question (well, an 800...) and my WAP is connected to my cable modem in the basement. I have no problem connecting on the main floor or the top floor of our house. I didn't have any trouble testing (to my surprise) the free wireless service at DIA one day while catching a plane. (E-mail didn't work, but browsing and AIM did) The notebook didn't have any problem getting signal from the WLAN at my local car dealership (but I couldn't get an IP address, which was fine, I was just playing around to see if they had a WLAN, anyway).
So I'm not sure why these "hacks" would be needed, but I'm apparently not as much of a power user as articles like this would suggest are out there.
Stupid Coward. One guy already wrote this post. And Macs don't use wallpaper.
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Holy crap. The instructor hadn't heard of Linux? I'd heard of Linux in 1997 (MkLinux for Macs, but still) and I don't have a CS degree, much less teach the stuff.
It's like my university-level astronomy teacher that said it takes 4 minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth. I was appalled.
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But it looks like this is a more automated system, so that should help.
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I haven't seen the TPC obviously, and I know the media likes to simplify things, but the Newton (and plenty of other gadgets and apps) wasn't a failed technology as much as it failed to capture the zeitgeist (can't believe I just used that word) of a number of users able to sustain said technology.
Most of the time when I experience any slowness, I chalk it up to some interference with my wireless connection to the basement. All command-line apps work well and speedy.
In sum, it rocks!
He's talking about the desktop. For the enterpr...oh, forget the jargon. For big companies, they could just as easily have dumb-ish terminals that connect to the database they need, the calendaring system they need, but no, everyone runs Windows. Citrix is the closest I've seen to that sort of good idea.
Seems to me that if you tried to use something like this for more than a few computers, it would break down pretty fast. I'm obviously no computer scientist, but from what is in the article, this should've been released on 4/1 instead of 11/7.
Anyway, the "basic" channels, cable is required to carry. It's usally the local channels, but the price for them is generally in the $10 range. While it would be a challenge to broadcast them individually, that's why we have smart boxes on the downstream side. They can group the "extra" music channels (M2, VH1 Classic, etc, etc), the "lifestyle" channels (TechTV, others), "extra" sports channels (ESPN Classic, etc). What's the huge problem with configuring it to block individual channels? Probably software, and they're too lazy and/or cheap to offer that service. Charge for basic, then $5 to choose 5 channels from any of the remaining however many. Want 5 more channels? $5 more bucks. And don't forget the $5 "rental" fee for each receiver.
It's at least somewhat of a solution. No choice for basic, but choice above that.
I've been coveting dish for a while (AT&T could install the very next day when I called to check prices, so that's why we went with them), and it would certainly be cheaper (yes, even with local channels). But I've also wanted to just be able to order channels a la carte and pay for it that way. However, if it's just a matter of not having to pay for all the "non-pay" channels (as it seems the article states), then we're not quite there yet.
Dish, here I come.
That crap is impossible to read.
Giving Comcast and ATT the go-ahead to create one company with 22 million users - most of them in areas where there is no other competition than satellite - is okay?
Please, gimme a huge break, one time.
(Kidding, jeez!!)
I remember being a nascent "punker" (never actually quite commited to the look or the lifestyle, but the ideals were/are still important to me) back in 1984 when I got the album, and after coming from an early-80's diet of MOR on AM radio and country music (I was growning up in Colorado, after all), I thought it sounded like crap. Then, I got a listen of other hardcore bands from that time (Exploited, GBH, etc) and realised that the Pistols were a pop group, a sneering, gobbing pop group. I still love the music and especially the lyrical content. And they weren't just Malcom's puppets - I loved that Malcom told them to write a song about "submission", Johnny wrote the lyrics about a submarine, not S&M.
I said it years ago, rap is the new rock & roll. Not that I like it as much as I like rock (I do like plenty...really!), but it had the danger/white-parents-hating-that-their-kids-listen -to-it thing going.
I admit now that rap probably doesn't have the legs rock did/does, but it sure was fun for a while!
Again, thanks for checking my facts (and not outright flaming me). But it's still astonishing to me that everyone on Earth, given those constraints, could fit in an area twice the size of Manhattan island.
While I agree that we'll use oil stupidly until it's gone, I'm not an alarmist about it. In fact, the world will be a much better place when it's gone, IMHO.
Also, I remember reading something about how the entire population of the earth could (physically) fit inside an area like, 5 miles square, if you figure 3 square feet for each person. (I'm too lazy to check my work, sorry). But that 83% seems like way too much.
Articles like this are good for a laugh, though.
I know...I should've added a smiley or something to that last comment to show I was joking. 100 metres is close to the length of an american football field (not the stadium, just the playing field), and you'd have a lot of trouble picking something of that length out from a jet plane at 35000 feet, much less a low orbit, or from the moon itself....
Maybe if the asteroid was shaped like, say, the Oregon Trail. Or the Great Wall. Or the Luxor. You can see all those from orbit.
I am curious, though, if they say it's effectively a second moon, why are there no stories about it from 550AD? Or are there stories and we just thought of them as novas or other odd phenomenon? Even if it is 100 meters, I would think it would show up.
Well, I guess with a little simple googling, that is pretty small compared with the moon's diameter (almost 3500 km) and distance (only about 385,000 from earth).
At the end of it all, what say there's some behind-the-doors deal and Apple shows up. "Hey, Boston's not so bad, you're right."
You're right, it is sad. I abhorr suicide, but when a unique, strong voice is silenced, everyone loses.
So I'm not sure why these "hacks" would be needed, but I'm apparently not as much of a power user as articles like this would suggest are out there.
Glad someone said this in the first post so I didn't have to write it or read further.
See, now that's funny and original. That's all I ask.
Dope.
It's like my university-level astronomy teacher that said it takes 4 minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth. I was appalled.
Or for that matter, MS Word. I can't tell you how many people I know that, when asked what OS they have, say "Uh. It's Word 97."