"Coincidentally, when I put money up for a project like this, suddenly I become a good guy with the Slashdot Community. It's cheaper than a Superbowl ad! (Plus there's a chance I'll never have to pay! woot!)"
Overrated? It was funny! I mean seriously dudes, isn't it convenient that MS was the butt of this bounty and not the Playstation 2? I'm sure rationalizations can be cooked up, but when all's said and done, it's pretty clear that the bounty was an attempt to poke at MS.
Frankly, I'm not sure I'd like the idea of investing in a company who intentionally tries to draw legal fire from Microsoft.
"Web sites don't use frames. Web browsers use frames. Web site author doesn't know how it will be renderred."
This sounds 'informative' util you think about it. The author is intentionally implementing the feature in question. He knows very well what he's doing to the browser because he's intending for that to happen. You don't just use frame code and cross your fingers that it'll do what you have in mind.
This patent is silly, but this reasoning isn't helping.
"And how does it get into ram? BY READING IT OFF THE FUCKING DISK!!!!"
Nice troll. So how long does it take to transfer a 5 meg file into RAM on a decent laptop hard drive?"
I'm surprised this was modded as troll. NG's point was spot on. It'd take like 2 seconds of HD access to cache a song into RAM, as opposed to streaming it for the entire length of the song.
The AC could have figured that out just by thinking for a second or two about it, instead he made a heated commment intended to make NG sound stupid.
"wow... thats all i have to say, something like this could make waiting over a min or two to boot totally obselete... sort of like a "turn on" welcome to your OS of choise type of thing.."
"Kinda like Windows CE!"
Flamebait? What he described is exactly what my PocketPC, and before it, my Palm Pilot does.
"Translucent windows is eyecandy and good for demonstrations, but that's pretty much it. Other than that, they're usability nightmares and harm productivity."
Not for me. I have a desktop switching app (called Altdesk, it's for Windows though) that has this tiny bar with all my desktops and apps on it. It's an 'always on top' window that I have at the bottom right above my Start Menu.
Unfortunately, it blocks information occasionally because some apps throw stuff there. It blocks Opera's message about how fast stuff is coming down, for example. No problem, the bar's transparent. I can still read the stuff plus see what each button does.
You're right that it's limited, though. The bar is only icons, and the stuff below it is only text. I don't think it'd work if it were text on text. I'm just saying you can't apply an absolute rule like that here.
"The only ones that should clearly be avoided are clear-cut cases like nerve agents, genetic creation of deadly diseases, and all that."
The sticky issue there is that you cannot scientifically classify anything as 'clear-cut'. It's never that black and white.
Personally, I think the opposite should happen. The more that's known about artificially created deadly diseases, for example, the more that's known about how to identify and cure them.
"Cuando tiene usar algo de Microsoft, todo sabe muy mal."
I'm a little surprised this clever bit of satire was modded as troll. It's a reflection of the anti-MS crap that flies around here. What's clever about it is when you translate this into literal english, it sounds like "When he uses something of Microsoft, everybody knows it's very bad." That's what Cmndr Taco sounded like in this flamebait article.
"After reading the review, this thing sounds like a nightmare." -- It should, the user who posted the story intended it that way. It's a troll. They didn't even point out that this is NOT a TabletPC.
"...it costs more then a basic laptop..." -- (assuming you mean TabletPC and not the device that was reviewed) It is just starting in the marketplace. The displays with this type of sensitivity are expensive. Like the thousand dollar portable DVD players you mentioned, the price goes down. It won't always be that way.
"...its much more difficult to setup..." -- Again, the device mentioned is not a TabletPC. A Tablet PC's setup really should only be "click here, here, and here to calibrate." If that.
"...it has a very slow processor compare to a lappy..." -- Today it does, that'll change. Price, yadda yadda yadda.
"and it doesnt do nearly as much as a laptop" -- A TabletPC does as much as a laptop. It's a laptop with a stylus sensitive screen. If anything, it does more than a laptop because then you can do handwriting and sketches etc on it. But right now, it's in the early adopter phase. This product is NOT for you. Perhaps in a year or two.
"so just who is this targeted towards?" -- The thing in this article is targeted to a small niche of people. TabletPCs are targeted to the mass audience, but will likely find it's hope in business settings. For example, got a document to correct? With a Tablet PC, you can draw on the document itself, circle stuff, write notes, etc. It's supposed to be like paper. I can tell you that'd be useful where I work. We got through lots of paper and toner a day for that type of editing. Though I doubt we'll run out and buy TabletPCs, I'm pretty sure that the next upgrade cycle (about 2 years from now) quite a few people will end up with them.
Right now, processors are fast enough. Now we need better input devices to keep up. That's what the point of a Tablet PC is, to improve the input bottleneck.
"I don't know what it is that you're talking about, but I heard about it on TV. It's that.. uh.. stupid game. I hate it and the people who play it are immature and are easily entertained. I'm not going to do any research about my harsh stand because I don't want to find out that I'm wrong. I'm glad I can post anonymously here so that I can spread my weak message!"
"More Americans have used file-sharing software than voted for the President."
Wow, I missed that comment. Since when is voting for president a benchmark? The only person in the country who'd be disturbed by that number is Hank Hill.
"I know we all like to bash Aohell, but at least they're one ISP that seems to be doing something right these days... fighting spam to its death... unlike 99% of all other ISPs."... who aren't on the radar because they don't send out nearly as much spam.
"...maybe they think backing up is fair use? Isen't sony part of the RIAA? I am a bit confused. "
No, they're just catering to the Slashdot crowd under the hope that they'll buy a unit for giggles and then eventually want to play games on it.
I don't think they realize that a cheap DVD player has all that except the PS2 bit. Let's face it, who doesn't have a PS2 today who's waiting in line to get one?
"Parallel Universes Are Real...The simplest and most popular cosmological model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the 1028 meters from here"
So which in which paralell universe does predictions = fact?
When I first read that, I thought 69/8 was a reference to my boss's sense of time. "To beat the competition, you must work 69 hours a day, 8 days a week!"
" What reasons, other than the obvious benefit of having fiber to one's house, can you think of for making this kind of commitment to the infrastructure?"
- Telecommuting. I'm assuming there'd be a huge bandwidth benefit here. As long as you're within city limits, you could hit the company server.
- Personal servers. I'm not talking about web servers, though those would be nice, rather I'm talking about leaving a box on all the time with a huge hard drive in it. I'd liike to keep my music and videos etc on it so that I can access it anywhere in town.
- DoS attacks against things like root servers would not bring down the ability for these people to communicate. The attacks would have to be community specific.
- Disaster relief. It's been proven before that the internet can be resilient to disasters such as earthquake. Useful maybe?
I should probably note that I'm not taking into account the town this is in. I'm imagining it existing here in Portland. Personally, I'd like to have my apartment complex all on a shared lan. I'd like to get to know my neighbors better. It'd be fun to have lan games etc.
"From the accusitory nature of your post, it sounds like the real issue here is that you work for Microsoft..."
"Uh oh! He injected a little common sense that proves my karma whoring comment was over-reaching! I better squash him before I get modded as overrated! I know, I'll lie about being a software developer, then I'll accuse him of working for Microsoft! YEAH! That's the ticket! I just hope nobody notices how obvious it is that I'm just trying to protect my +5 Insightful."
"If only other prominent tech companies (*cough* *microsoft* *cough*) would take this sort of lead and ensure that only products which were found to be free of flaws..."
Have you ever actually been part of the development process? In case you haven't, let me give you a little hint: the customer is always a wildcard.
I remember Front Page... I think it was 98 was reported to have a flaw that could wipe out your hard drive. Sounds nasty, doesn't it? Hardly. What happened was somebody was creative. When they created a website, they chose the root of their C drive to store it. Deciding there was too much garbage there, they wiped out all the folders. And blammo.
What you're suggesting is about as insightful as saying that only good movies should be released.
Slashdot Mirror
"Coincidentally, when I put money up for a project like this, suddenly I become a good guy with the Slashdot Community. It's cheaper than a Superbowl ad! (Plus there's a chance I'll never have to pay! woot!)"
Overrated? It was funny! I mean seriously dudes, isn't it convenient that MS was the butt of this bounty and not the Playstation 2? I'm sure rationalizations can be cooked up, but when all's said and done, it's pretty clear that the bounty was an attempt to poke at MS.
Frankly, I'm not sure I'd like the idea of investing in a company who intentionally tries to draw legal fire from Microsoft.
"Web sites don't use frames. Web browsers use frames. Web site author doesn't know how it will be renderred."
This sounds 'informative' util you think about it. The author is intentionally implementing the feature in question. He knows very well what he's doing to the browser because he's intending for that to happen. You don't just use frame code and cross your fingers that it'll do what you have in mind.
This patent is silly, but this reasoning isn't helping.
Nice troll. So how long does it take to transfer a 5 meg file into RAM on a decent laptop hard drive?"
I'm surprised this was modded as troll. NG's point was spot on. It'd take like 2 seconds of HD access to cache a song into RAM, as opposed to streaming it for the entire length of the song.
The AC could have figured that out just by thinking for a second or two about it, instead he made a heated commment intended to make NG sound stupid.
The troll point went to the wrong post.
"Kinda like Windows CE!"
Flamebait? What he described is exactly what my PocketPC, and before it, my Palm Pilot does.
"Translucent windows is eyecandy and good for demonstrations, but that's pretty much it. Other than that, they're usability nightmares and harm productivity."
Not for me. I have a desktop switching app (called Altdesk, it's for Windows though) that has this tiny bar with all my desktops and apps on it. It's an 'always on top' window that I have at the bottom right above my Start Menu.
Unfortunately, it blocks information occasionally because some apps throw stuff there. It blocks Opera's message about how fast stuff is coming down, for example. No problem, the bar's transparent. I can still read the stuff plus see what each button does.
You're right that it's limited, though. The bar is only icons, and the stuff below it is only text. I don't think it'd work if it were text on text. I'm just saying you can't apply an absolute rule like that here.
"The only ones that should clearly be avoided are clear-cut cases like nerve agents, genetic creation of deadly diseases, and all that."
The sticky issue there is that you cannot scientifically classify anything as 'clear-cut'. It's never that black and white.
Personally, I think the opposite should happen. The more that's known about artificially created deadly diseases, for example, the more that's known about how to identify and cure them.
Yeah that makes sense. My apologies to the original poster for misunderstanding his point.
"Cuando tiene usar algo de Microsoft, todo sabe muy mal."
I'm a little surprised this clever bit of satire was modded as troll. It's a reflection of the anti-MS crap that flies around here. What's clever about it is when you translate this into literal english, it sounds like "When he uses something of Microsoft, everybody knows it's very bad." That's what Cmndr Taco sounded like in this flamebait article.
"After reading the review, this thing sounds like a nightmare." -- It should, the user who posted the story intended it that way. It's a troll. They didn't even point out that this is NOT a TabletPC.
"...it costs more then a basic laptop..." -- (assuming you mean TabletPC and not the device that was reviewed) It is just starting in the marketplace. The displays with this type of sensitivity are expensive. Like the thousand dollar portable DVD players you mentioned, the price goes down. It won't always be that way.
"...its much more difficult to setup..." -- Again, the device mentioned is not a TabletPC. A Tablet PC's setup really should only be "click here, here, and here to calibrate." If that.
"...it has a very slow processor compare to a lappy..." -- Today it does, that'll change. Price, yadda yadda yadda.
"and it doesnt do nearly as much as a laptop" -- A TabletPC does as much as a laptop. It's a laptop with a stylus sensitive screen. If anything, it does more than a laptop because then you can do handwriting and sketches etc on it. But right now, it's in the early adopter phase. This product is NOT for you. Perhaps in a year or two.
"so just who is this targeted towards?" -- The thing in this article is targeted to a small niche of people. TabletPCs are targeted to the mass audience, but will likely find it's hope in business settings. For example, got a document to correct? With a Tablet PC, you can draw on the document itself, circle stuff, write notes, etc. It's supposed to be like paper. I can tell you that'd be useful where I work. We got through lots of paper and toner a day for that type of editing. Though I doubt we'll run out and buy TabletPCs, I'm pretty sure that the next upgrade cycle (about 2 years from now) quite a few people will end up with them.
Right now, processors are fast enough. Now we need better input devices to keep up. That's what the point of a Tablet PC is, to improve the input bottleneck.
"Cuando tiene usar algo de Microsoft, todo sabe muy mal."
Muy profundo. Tenga algun karma.
"That game HAS to be made muliplayer online. PLEASE ROCKSTAR GAMES, DO IT FOR PS2!"
Screw that, do it for PC so it can be modded.
"You turn around for a second, and that car you just jacked dissapears."
That's because it's a port of a Playstation 2 game. That machine's not big on RAM.
"ohhh, a game whose commercials show people beating each other up with a baseball bat or something... sounds real compelling. not really.
.. uh.. stupid game. I hate it and the people who play it are immature and are easily entertained. I'm not going to do any research about my harsh stand because I don't want to find out that I'm wrong. I'm glad I can post anonymously here so that I can spread my weak message!"
senseless violence glorifying immoral crime. grow up."
"I don't know what it is that you're talking about, but I heard about it on TV. It's that
"...and then move on to fun questions like how to make a online game compelling for achievers, socializers, killers and explorers."
It's called Grand Theft Auto 3. Now if they'd only make it massively multiplayer on-line, then the holy grail will have been achieved!
"It's called a Multimedia Jukebox - http://www.archos.com"
I wanted one of those until I saw one at CompUSA. That screen was extremely tiny. Like watching TV on your cell phone.
My advice: Hold one in your hands before you buy one.
"More Americans have used file-sharing software
than voted for the President."
Wow, I missed that comment. Since when is voting for president a benchmark? The only person in the country who'd be disturbed by that number is Hank Hill.
"I know we all like to bash Aohell, but at least they're one ISP that seems to be doing something right these days... fighting spam to its death... unlike 99% of all other ISPs." ... who aren't on the radar because they don't send out nearly as much spam.
"...maybe they think backing up is fair use? Isen't sony part of the RIAA? I am a bit confused. "
No, they're just catering to the Slashdot crowd under the hope that they'll buy a unit for giggles and then eventually want to play games on it.
I don't think they realize that a cheap DVD player has all that except the PS2 bit. Let's face it, who doesn't have a PS2 today who's waiting in line to get one?
"Parallel Universes Are Real...The simplest and most popular cosmological model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the 1028 meters from here"
So which in which paralell universe does predictions = fact?
"So Captain Ace Rimmer should be turning up any moment now?"
You bastard, I wanted to be the one to make the obscure Red Dwarf reference. You better hope I catch it at the dupe!
"The 69/8 Networking Problem"
When I first read that, I thought 69/8 was a reference to my boss's sense of time. "To beat the competition, you must work 69 hours a day, 8 days a week!"
Man I hate crunch time.
" What reasons, other than the obvious benefit of having fiber to one's house, can you think of for making this kind of commitment to the infrastructure?"
- Telecommuting. I'm assuming there'd be a huge bandwidth benefit here. As long as you're within city limits, you could hit the company server.
- Personal servers. I'm not talking about web servers, though those would be nice, rather I'm talking about leaving a box on all the time with a huge hard drive in it. I'd liike to keep my music and videos etc on it so that I can access it anywhere in town.
- DoS attacks against things like root servers would not bring down the ability for these people to communicate. The attacks would have to be community specific.
- Disaster relief. It's been proven before that the internet can be resilient to disasters such as earthquake. Useful maybe?
I should probably note that I'm not taking into account the town this is in. I'm imagining it existing here in Portland. Personally, I'd like to have my apartment complex all on a shared lan. I'd like to get to know my neighbors better. It'd be fun to have lan games etc.
"From the accusitory nature of your post, it sounds like the real issue here is that you work for Microsoft..."
"Uh oh! He injected a little common sense that proves my karma whoring comment was over-reaching! I better squash him before I get modded as overrated! I know, I'll lie about being a software developer, then I'll accuse him of working for Microsoft! YEAH! That's the ticket! I just hope nobody notices how obvious it is that I'm just trying to protect my +5 Insightful."
Heh.
"If only other prominent tech companies (*cough* *microsoft* *cough*) would take this sort of lead and ensure that only products which were found to be free of flaws..."
... I think it was 98 was reported to have a flaw that could wipe out your hard drive. Sounds nasty, doesn't it? Hardly. What happened was somebody was creative. When they created a website, they chose the root of their C drive to store it. Deciding there was too much garbage there, they wiped out all the folders. And blammo.
Have you ever actually been part of the development process? In case you haven't, let me give you a little hint: the customer is always a wildcard.
I remember Front Page
What you're suggesting is about as insightful as saying that only good movies should be released.
"For those who don't bother to read the article, here's a picture [purdue.edu] of the thing."
Man.. imagine how big of screen my laptop would have if the implemented one of those devices!