My impression was that they were labled, but all the consoles had a mask over them (the reason for the uniform black look) that only allowed them to be read if you were looking directly at them. This would explain the panels in the Engineering section that are very well labled, and the panels on the bridge, which look as if they say nothing at all.
Mind you, the system also has a command lock-out via the communicator, so the boy could not have possibly triggered any damage. This is actually quite a good design, because any interface that worked like this could easily become a nightmare if you laid your hand on one by accident. I actually think that panels like this would be quite nice to work with: Sorta like modern GUI's with movable windows, except the buttons can be rearranged as well...
Ever notice how the "Newest, High Speed Internet" is always being developed around particle accelerators? Maybe they really are trying to change the speed of light;)
Think of modern keyboard layouts: qwerty doesnt make a damned bit of sense to someone who's never used a keyboard, and often causes people to "Peck type". But once you learn the system, you can type tens-hundreds of words per minute. It's all about learning and repetition. In fact, I actually see how some of the Enterprise-D's panels work, they actually make a lot of sense of the buttons you can read, and of what you can't read, most of the time it's voice control anyways, unless you're an android or acceptionally good at entering in long keyboard commands.
Think of Palm Pilots language, then compare it to QWERTY.. you'll find that "a bunch of squigly lines not even laid out in the same direction" can be most useful...
We can only hope. Once they do this, the government will realize how stupid a law the DMCA was in the first place and remove it so they can get to the Automotive companies. That being said, the music companies would have a fit, probably lobbying for a New DMCA that's even more powerful.
The question is, are our justices smart enough to realize the whole scope of the DMCA, and if they are, are they willing to go the distance with the automotive companies?
After all, WinFS is going to be built on the same technology.
Speaking of WinFS, why haven't we seen this completed and running in linux yet? Wouldn't it be amazingly better organizational-wise than any current system in use? Think about it this way: why does a file need to have a path if it can be located by a serial number, for that matter why does it need a name? Just index everything by where it would be stored and by what it's name would be.
but getting back on topic: This is the reason why I believe they are delaying Yukon. They want it to run seemlessly with the operating system, so that the database engine has access to some of that kernel memory the NT kernel eats, IMO. Theoretically, each copy of Windows Elements will include a full copy of SQL Server 2005, minus the extensions and direct query support (imagine the speed of an application querying for a file instead of manually searching for it.. big improvement to the user), but will probably include several extensions that make it more pleasant to the user, such as ID3 Searching, Document searching (words within a file), FS level DRM Management (yeah, we know..), and other little goodies of that nature. We're obviously in an erra where data no longer can be labled under one name, and it's time our software reflected this a such; Microsoft knows this, where's the Linux initiative?
:-P, but seriously, why would we want to? Sure it's not the best for every job, but it _defintely_ shows off the flexibility/portability of the operating sytem. portability is getting more important these days, especially where we are looking at a massive archetecture shift in the next 2 years or so (most likely AMD64/IA32e/x86-64, possibly the new G5/PPC970 *prays*), It's quite important that old code can be moved to new systems, cleaned up and beautified, and re-optimized in the least amount of time. This being said, I actually enjoy the "But can it run Linux" joke;)
No, what Intel has is ease of use. My Dell Centrino book took less than a minute to configure/reconfigure, for anywhere I went, not to mention it was much less obtrusive than the drivers that DLink included, which ran a utility that not only threw up ugly errors if my signal was shit, but had an ugly splash screen and caused this odd hard drive clicking at the weirdest of times (when the card woke up from sleeping is my only guess). No, I feel that Intel did great justice, and with their support in trying to make a linux driver, I see even more reason to be happy where I am.
Agreed on the Via chip, but I haven't gotten my hands on one yet to play with;). Deconstructed a Laptop to play with centrino in a more, traditional, environment. Pentium M's still very expensive (cheapest i've seen is 250$ for a 1.4...), but considering the speed (Outperforms a 2.0 P4, 1.6 athlon), it's worth the investment, except you have to find a board to use with it:(
Probably has been done, but wouldn't it be awesome to have a wireless system installed in the car *as a stereo*, so that you could bring all of your data where-ever you go? If the iPod ever goes WiFi, you could set up a server in your car to support a cross-exchange of music, data being integrated into your environment even deeper.
It wouldn't be too hard to do what you are saying, hell, I say do it. But it might be a lot healthier on your car to use an old laptop, and find a drive box to put your ultra-large-capacity hard drive into. Would be great to use a device like this, but this is really where SpeedStep and other powersaving archetectures are extremely useful. And with no optical drive to worry about, you could definitely decrease power usage even more.
Not hard to do the math, but it'll probably average out at about 100-200 watts, as this is what typical PC's will run, and well... for all purposes, it's a fullsized PC, shrank into a smaller box.
This Could Be A Job For.. Pentium M! Using today's latest and greatest SpeedStep Technology, Pentium M offers extreme flexibility and speed, at the low power of an Embedded/Laptop processor. This would be the perfect application for Low Voltage models too.
I would really love a box like this if it were Centrino instead of Pentium 4. Low power, cool running, and possibly one of the best wireless solutions available, IMO.
Which brings the question back of when Intel will bring the Pentium M back to the desktop. It is a little more AMD-ish look at processessing (Best parts of P3, with merged P4 technology), probably an overclockers dream, but it'd be a great embedded use chip.
Not to mention a centrino board has pretty much everything this would have, minus the tuner, which could be done via PCI.
Well, it's gonna sound retarded, but there is a point here. It's great to condense equipment completely, but there's really a point in which equipment doesn't need to be condensed.
For example, the iPod fits the perfect niche of being a personal media playback device and a storage device at the same time. Adding video to this device would be a bit of a hack, and quite inconvenient considering the UI that the iPod uses. So why not just build wireless into the thing and have it talk to a Newton-like device (Bluetooth of course, but we all know it's dead..;)
Next, I believe that Cameras go really well with Cellphones, but I don't believe they go well with PDA's. Reason: a cellphone is used for convenience of location, you can make a call from anywhere. Having a picture functionality built into that call is also awesome, because if I'm picking out a car from a lot, I can send pictures back to my mom of the things she wants to look at (color, price, etc), and have her call me back with what she thinks. Rolling this functionality into a PDA seems too clunky; overkill.
I also don't believe for functionality's sake that PDA's and Cellphones work well together, so I'd like to keep those seperate. The reason for this: you can't jot down a note or look on a calender while having a call without really straining yourself.
This being said: there are new camera phones built in with Bluetooth as well.. (see where I'm going yet?) Imagine having the circle completed with a tablet-PC like device, with a 4 inch LCD screen, a CD(-RW possibly? DVD-RW even?) drive to read in videos, movies, games, to use on the tablet pc. Use the iPod as the harddrive. Use WiFi where applicable, use the cellphone when not. Pictures from the cell can go directly to the iPod and be stored, or to a flash card reader (or dongle) on the PDA device. You set up a nice, Three way triangle of useful features, each vertex completed by the other two devices, but QUITE functional without them.
While it'd be nice to have them all in once device, it's just not at all possible these days it seems. While everything's a lot smaller, these smaller devices cost a lot more than most anyone would pay for. To roll ALL of the features above into one, you'd might as well buy a laptop. To roll in the features into the devices I've mentioned... well, all they'd really need to do is develop the PDA/Tablet-PC end, and roll Bluetooth/WiFi into the iPod, which, IMHO, will probably be the next revision.
But what about windows? Having really contoured surfaces dont do so well if you want to put in a window, custom glass costs a boat load....
Not to mention they make awkward living spaces inside; it just seems that boxes work so much better in house design, although I would love curvature in the corner points in my rooms (a nice, soft, apple-like look).
no, you're mistaken.. MPEG-4 is an open encoding scheme: winamp can decode it, windows media can decode it, hell.. it can be decoded on linux.... that's the reason why it's called a Standard...
shouldnt be that hard to program the web-browsers and clients to only transmit.mob, and have the actual DNS server on the other end interpret it as.mobile, but that'd be a hack...
Actually, Turbo is a great word for this. It's a system with great chaos, and the root word "Turb", means chaotic, confusion. If anything, a Turbocharger, the device you're talking about, uses the wrong word, because it has nothing to do with a Turbulant system (it's more about taking hot exaust gasses to turn an impeller to move more cool air into the engine).
Windows XP Licence from Dell.com, education pricing: 50$/seat. This sounds about reasonable for what they'd charge for an OEM licence.
On the other hand, I'd pay 45$ extra if I could get my machine to ship with a blank harddisk.... just as long as that money didn't incidentally buy me, or anyone else, a Microsoft Licence. I feel that their license is an unjustifiable waste of money...
I'm surprised you didn't also mention the RIAA suing its longtime customers for downloading music/breaching contract. If anything, I see 2004 as being the Year of the Consumer; we're all getting pissed at the Mega-Corporations who are in control over 75% of everything, and finding cheaper, better ways around them. Just look at the major Airlines, being outsold and circumvented by shorter, commuter flights because people see them as safer, and a hell of a lot cheaper.
I really think America needs to go back and re-examine the Anti-Trust, the Corporation laws, and the Patent/Copyright laws. None seem to be working and it's time we stand up for ourselves and take responsibility for them not working.
I'm an Adelphia Cable subscriber, and I've been seeing the messages the same as everyone. At first, before I got to read the whole thing, I thought that I might be losing the channel.. so I payed closer attention the next time to realize that Viacom was pissed at DishNetworks, and not the rest of the nation....
I make this point because I really don't like the way they are doing this. No company should have this level of control; and I really hate things that scroll across my favorite TV shows that I've been waiting all day to watch (Okay, so maybe I've seen every friggin episode of Star Trek:TNG, but I still love to watch them...)
There comes a point in which this kind of abuse of power really needs to be re-examined by our government; considering that Viacom controls 75% or there abouts of what we see on television...
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My impression was that they were labled, but all the consoles had a mask over them (the reason for the uniform black look) that only allowed them to be read if you were looking directly at them. This would explain the panels in the Engineering section that are very well labled, and the panels on the bridge, which look as if they say nothing at all.
Mind you, the system also has a command lock-out via the communicator, so the boy could not have possibly triggered any damage. This is actually quite a good design, because any interface that worked like this could easily become a nightmare if you laid your hand on one by accident. I actually think that panels like this would be quite nice to work with: Sorta like modern GUI's with movable windows, except the buttons can be rearranged as well...
Ever notice how the "Newest, High Speed Internet" is always being developed around particle accelerators? Maybe they really are trying to change the speed of light ;)
Think of modern keyboard layouts: qwerty doesnt make a damned bit of sense to someone who's never used a keyboard, and often causes people to "Peck type". But once you learn the system, you can type tens-hundreds of words per minute. It's all about learning and repetition. In fact, I actually see how some of the Enterprise-D's panels work, they actually make a lot of sense of the buttons you can read, and of what you can't read, most of the time it's voice control anyways, unless you're an android or acceptionally good at entering in long keyboard commands.
Think of Palm Pilots language, then compare it to QWERTY.. you'll find that "a bunch of squigly lines not even laid out in the same direction" can be most useful...
We can only hope. Once they do this, the government will realize how stupid a law the DMCA was in the first place and remove it so they can get to the Automotive companies. That being said, the music companies would have a fit, probably lobbying for a New DMCA that's even more powerful.
The question is, are our justices smart enough to realize the whole scope of the DMCA, and if they are, are they willing to go the distance with the automotive companies?
After all, WinFS is going to be built on the same technology.
Speaking of WinFS, why haven't we seen this completed and running in linux yet? Wouldn't it be amazingly better organizational-wise than any current system in use? Think about it this way: why does a file need to have a path if it can be located by a serial number, for that matter why does it need a name? Just index everything by where it would be stored and by what it's name would be.
but getting back on topic: This is the reason why I believe they are delaying Yukon. They want it to run seemlessly with the operating system, so that the database engine has access to some of that kernel memory the NT kernel eats, IMO. Theoretically, each copy of Windows Elements will include a full copy of SQL Server 2005, minus the extensions and direct query support (imagine the speed of an application querying for a file instead of manually searching for it.. big improvement to the user), but will probably include several extensions that make it more pleasant to the user, such as ID3 Searching, Document searching (words within a file), FS level DRM Management (yeah, we know..), and other little goodies of that nature. We're obviously in an erra where data no longer can be labled under one name, and it's time our software reflected this a such; Microsoft knows this, where's the Linux initiative?
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:-P, but seriously, why would we want to? Sure it's not the best for every job, but it _defintely_ shows off the flexibility/portability of the operating sytem. portability is getting more important these days, especially where we are looking at a massive archetecture shift in the next 2 years or so (most likely AMD64/IA32e/x86-64, possibly the new G5/PPC970 *prays*), It's quite important that old code can be moved to new systems, cleaned up and beautified, and re-optimized in the least amount of time. This being said, I actually enjoy the "But can it run Linux" joke ;)
No, what Intel has is ease of use. My Dell Centrino book took less than a minute to configure/reconfigure, for anywhere I went, not to mention it was much less obtrusive than the drivers that DLink included, which ran a utility that not only threw up ugly errors if my signal was shit, but had an ugly splash screen and caused this odd hard drive clicking at the weirdest of times (when the card woke up from sleeping is my only guess). No, I feel that Intel did great justice, and with their support in trying to make a linux driver, I see even more reason to be happy where I am.
Agreed on the Via chip, but I haven't gotten my hands on one yet to play with ;). Deconstructed a Laptop to play with centrino in a more, traditional, environment. Pentium M's still very expensive (cheapest i've seen is 250$ for a 1.4...), but considering the speed (Outperforms a 2.0 P4, 1.6 athlon), it's worth the investment, except you have to find a board to use with it :(
Probably has been done, but wouldn't it be awesome to have a wireless system installed in the car *as a stereo*, so that you could bring all of your data where-ever you go? If the iPod ever goes WiFi, you could set up a server in your car to support a cross-exchange of music, data being integrated into your environment even deeper.
It wouldn't be too hard to do what you are saying, hell, I say do it. But it might be a lot healthier on your car to use an old laptop, and find a drive box to put your ultra-large-capacity hard drive into. Would be great to use a device like this, but this is really where SpeedStep and other powersaving archetectures are extremely useful. And with no optical drive to worry about, you could definitely decrease power usage even more.
Not hard to do the math, but it'll probably average out at about 100-200 watts, as this is what typical PC's will run, and well... for all purposes, it's a fullsized PC, shrank into a smaller box.
This Could Be A Job For.. Pentium M! Using today's latest and greatest SpeedStep Technology, Pentium M offers extreme flexibility and speed, at the low power of an Embedded/Laptop processor. This would be the perfect application for Low Voltage models too.
I would really love a box like this if it were Centrino instead of Pentium 4. Low power, cool running, and possibly one of the best wireless solutions available, IMO.
Which brings the question back of when Intel will bring the Pentium M back to the desktop. It is a little more AMD-ish look at processessing (Best parts of P3, with merged P4 technology), probably an overclockers dream, but it'd be a great embedded use chip.
Not to mention a centrino board has pretty much everything this would have, minus the tuner, which could be done via PCI.
Well, it's gonna sound retarded, but there is a point here. It's great to condense equipment completely, but there's really a point in which equipment doesn't need to be condensed.
;)
For example, the iPod fits the perfect niche of being a personal media playback device and a storage device at the same time. Adding video to this device would be a bit of a hack, and quite inconvenient considering the UI that the iPod uses. So why not just build wireless into the thing and have it talk to a Newton-like device (Bluetooth of course, but we all know it's dead..
Next, I believe that Cameras go really well with Cellphones, but I don't believe they go well with PDA's. Reason: a cellphone is used for convenience of location, you can make a call from anywhere. Having a picture functionality built into that call is also awesome, because if I'm picking out a car from a lot, I can send pictures back to my mom of the things she wants to look at (color, price, etc), and have her call me back with what she thinks. Rolling this functionality into a PDA seems too clunky; overkill.
I also don't believe for functionality's sake that PDA's and Cellphones work well together, so I'd like to keep those seperate. The reason for this: you can't jot down a note or look on a calender while having a call without really straining yourself.
This being said: there are new camera phones built in with Bluetooth as well.. (see where I'm going yet?) Imagine having the circle completed with a tablet-PC like device, with a 4 inch LCD screen, a CD(-RW possibly? DVD-RW even?) drive to read in videos, movies, games, to use on the tablet pc. Use the iPod as the harddrive. Use WiFi where applicable, use the cellphone when not. Pictures from the cell can go directly to the iPod and be stored, or to a flash card reader (or dongle) on the PDA device. You set up a nice, Three way triangle of useful features, each vertex completed by the other two devices, but QUITE functional without them.
While it'd be nice to have them all in once device, it's just not at all possible these days it seems. While everything's a lot smaller, these smaller devices cost a lot more than most anyone would pay for. To roll ALL of the features above into one, you'd might as well buy a laptop. To roll in the features into the devices I've mentioned... well, all they'd really need to do is develop the PDA/Tablet-PC end, and roll Bluetooth/WiFi into the iPod, which, IMHO, will probably be the next revision.
Dreams maybe, but could be the very near future..
That went and checked mozilla's website for the new version, only to be disappointed?
Well that's what I'm saying, they aren't practical at all, but they're nice to have, acoustically and aestically.. Maybe only on the ceiling....
But what about windows? Having really contoured surfaces dont do so well if you want to put in a window, custom glass costs a boat load....
Not to mention they make awkward living spaces inside; it just seems that boxes work so much better in house design, although I would love curvature in the corner points in my rooms (a nice, soft, apple-like look).
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no, you're mistaken.. MPEG-4 is an open encoding scheme: winamp can decode it, windows media can decode it, hell.. it can be decoded on linux.... that's the reason why it's called a Standard...
Mpeg. It's an open standard, so it can't be counted towards real, wmp, or qt..
shouldnt be that hard to program the web-browsers and clients to only transmit .mob, and have the actual DNS server on the other end interpret it as .mobile, but that'd be a hack...
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it'd be a lot easier if it were just
Probably, but 6-digits... that's absurd!
Actually, Turbo is a great word for this. It's a system with great chaos, and the root word "Turb", means chaotic, confusion. If anything, a Turbocharger, the device you're talking about, uses the wrong word, because it has nothing to do with a Turbulant system (it's more about taking hot exaust gasses to turn an impeller to move more cool air into the engine).
Windows XP Licence from Dell.com, education pricing: 50$/seat. This sounds about reasonable for what they'd charge for an OEM licence.
On the other hand, I'd pay 45$ extra if I could get my machine to ship with a blank harddisk.... just as long as that money didn't incidentally buy me, or anyone else, a Microsoft Licence. I feel that their license is an unjustifiable waste of money...
PC Makers reinventing the wheel? What about 90% of Linux Software Developers ;)
--note to the anal: this is a "joke", intended to make one "laugh"
I'm surprised you didn't also mention the RIAA suing its longtime customers for downloading music/breaching contract. If anything, I see 2004 as being the Year of the Consumer; we're all getting pissed at the Mega-Corporations who are in control over 75% of everything, and finding cheaper, better ways around them. Just look at the major Airlines, being outsold and circumvented by shorter, commuter flights because people see them as safer, and a hell of a lot cheaper.
I really think America needs to go back and re-examine the Anti-Trust, the Corporation laws, and the Patent/Copyright laws. None seem to be working and it's time we stand up for ourselves and take responsibility for them not working.
I'm an Adelphia Cable subscriber, and I've been seeing the messages the same as everyone. At first, before I got to read the whole thing, I thought that I might be losing the channel.. so I payed closer attention the next time to realize that Viacom was pissed at DishNetworks, and not the rest of the nation....
I make this point because I really don't like the way they are doing this. No company should have this level of control; and I really hate things that scroll across my favorite TV shows that I've been waiting all day to watch (Okay, so maybe I've seen every friggin episode of Star Trek:TNG, but I still love to watch them...)
There comes a point in which this kind of abuse of power really needs to be re-examined by our government; considering that Viacom controls 75% or there abouts of what we see on television...