Well, in my opinion, it's more of a shame that they have such fast processors. The Dragonball was never meant to run much faster than 66 MHz and they designed PalmOS very efficently while they had that limitation. Using a 66 MHz Dragonball (or even one of those tweaked 200 MHz ones that Sony uses) would have cost less and it would probably be more efficent in terms of power useage.
Bluetooth should have been included. It was meant for connecting devices to each other over short ranges, wheras WiFi can be used for much longer distances. PDAs and such don't need WiFi nearly as much as they need Bluetooth.
And to that guy above me who said that WiFi is used for TCP/IP, well, so is Bluetooth. Or, at least, it can be.
Quick vocabulary Nazi: People don't "ban together". The words that you should have used are "band" and "banded".
You do have a good point about that, but just how far has Linux come anywhere except the geek market? In all seriousness, it just isn't popular.
Perhaps people could make a way to transfer E-mail from one server to another and then switch it back to SMTP at either end, but that would defeat the purpose, wouldn't it?
My point is, change to better standards doesn't happen overnight. Even if the geeks of the world unite and make a new, faster, more secure version of SMTP, no one would use it because it's a lot of work to switch from one protocol to another.
Perhaps a mail client that only accepts PGP (or GPG or equivilant) signed E-mail would help. That would at least keep spammers from stealing other peoples' identities.
That probably has something to do with the MacWhispers April Fool's day article about PPC 970 powered iPods.
If anyone believed that, then they have no business owning a computer. I mean, honestly, "The stated paint actually is precisely the same as is used to letter the words onto the face of the present iPod" gives it away by itself. Everyone that I've spoken with knows that all of the text on the iPod is laser engraved.
Because remotely accessing your desktop devours bandwidth almost as fast as DV streams. If you are using dialup or something similar, then this is much more effective.
Plus, this enables you to use the palmtop's UI for desktop apps. Desktop metaphors don't work as well on palmtops as they do on the system for which they were designed.
Not quite. If this works anything like Adam Tow's Soybo (www.soybo.com) (which came out a month ago), then it enables apps to have different interfaces depending on what you are using. From a cell phone, it would display simple text. From a PDA, there might be some graphics, but the UI would be set up for pen-based computing.
Mainly, this kind of virtual computing doesn't require you to use your desktop's UI on whatever client you happen to be using, and therefore, it lets you work more efficently assuming that the client UI is well designed.
There is nothing new about this particular incarnation of this technology. As I said above, Adam Tow released it a while ago.
Well, they DID drop production! Right after Napster was shut down, in fact. They went from making some 35,000 albums per year to something like 23,000. Then their profits dropped 4% and they scream "Pirates!" They are making more per album than they ever have in the history of CDs.
I forget where I saw these figures, but it was a site linked to by/. about a month ago. If I find it, I'll post it as a reply to this comment.
Well, last time that I checked, there was no difference whatsoever between OSX and OSX Server other than the license. All of the tools are the same, they're just a little hidden under OSX.
OK, well, so it has 10 buttons and not 12. Oops. My point remains. The iPod's UI is much more elegant. It is entirely navigable using only the wheel, the center button, and the menu button. You never need to touch the other three except to modify the song that is playing.
Although, I will admit that 60 GB is quite impressive. I just prefer the iPod to other devices. However, I can see why you like the Archos.
What kind of transfer interface does it use? I think that the one that I saw used USB2. FireWire is faster under most circumstances, but transfer speed doesn't really matter that much once you have your music on the thing.
I really like how the iPod charges through the FireWire port. That was a good feature to put into it. That makes charging it rather idiot-proof. It's not like there are lots of universal AC adapters with FireWire on them.
How long does it take your battery to charge? Mine charges most of the way in an hour or so. That's almost 8 hours of straight playtime from an hour of charging.
The only features that I really want in the iPod are the abilities to make and delete playlists on the device and to use weighted random playlists. Both of those are software based, so Apple could concievably add them later. I sure hope that they do. Right now, I'm playing by the artist and cycling artists whenever I feel like it.
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Well, yeah, there is that. However, this is just something that I came up with on a moment's thought. I'm sure that anyone serious about defrauding you could do it in a much less traceable way that would keep them from getting caught.
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Oh. I can't say that I've ever heard that one.
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Well, they could, but a lot of products advertized in spam constitute fraud. They only need to give you enough of an address to send them your money. They can get 500 P.O boxes and register them to non-existant companies (or even to individuals who sent the spammer their address). Spam, rinse, repeat.
I prefer MSN disks. You know, the ones that come in the DVD cases. Of course, AOL's been putting some of their CDs into tins lately. Pretty ritzy stuff.
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A court summons is an order to apear in court on a specific date.
When the spammers log in, instead of the classic "You've got mail!", it says "You've got a summons!" This implies that the spammers use AOL in the first place. Either that or it's just a general parody of the AOL "Welcome!", "You've got mail!", etc. guy.
Quite a good parody, if I do say so myself. Too bad that parody isn't protected under copyright law anymore.
Well, one cool thing is that we would be able to launch rockets without using any fuel that we can't find more of. Billions of joules of sunlight pour onto the Earth every day. We just have to collect it and find a way to use it.
This as opposed to fossil fuels, which take quite a bit of time to produce. They are far more efficent than most forms of energy storage, but they are very hard to make, and therefore, not easily renewable. Of course, the sun will eventually burn out, but we might as well grab all of the energy that we can now because if we don't use it, it just goes out into space.
Well, who ever said that we WANT to kill him? If we can make him imortal, I say, go for it! That way, we can torture him "to death" every day!
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But seriously, that would make for some interesting situations. What would you do if you knoew that you couldn't be killed, but that you could still feel pain?
Now, as for your ideas regarding hacking nanites and such, I don't see how it would be possible to dodge bullets without accelerating both the mind and the body far beyond what is reasonably possible. Human muscles can't move fast enough to do that. So, essentially, the only way that you could re-build yourself such that you could dodge bullets would be to replace almost every part of you with mechanical equivilants.
Affecting the flow of electrons from miles away is very improbable. It would take quite a powerful force field (not Star Trek force field, a real force field) to do that.
"Psychokill" is, again, impossible with our current knowledge of physics. There has to be a _cause_ of death. Either the brain stops working or one of numberous other situations, but you can't cause any of those at a distance without either a very powerful force field (think microwave gun) or some sort of projectile. If these nanites let us improve ourselves in any way imaginable, why not simply make a faraday cage on our skin and some sort of contact armor such that if an object is moving faster than a certain speed, microscopic armor plates snap into place. They are equally outlandish as your proposals.
That idea about the nanite network is quite a good one until someone figures out a way to introduce an 'improvement' that contains a hidden vulnerability. Once we have quantum computers, anything can be spoofed as long as it uses anything less that quantum encryption.
As for breathing our own CO2, I like the idea. However, how would one go about breaking the bond? The C is in the middle of the two Os, so that means breaking four covaelant bonds. Not exactly an easy task.
Now, I'm not trying to poke holes in your arguments for my own amusement, but I am trying to point out that the actual uses for nanotech are not necesarily what we would predict. They are generally quite different from the nanites of science fiction fame.
I believe that he said "video iPod". The Archos is no iPod by any stretch of the imagination. Consider, the iPod has only 5 buttons, a wheel, and a hold switch.
Now, I will admit that I haven't seen many Archos products in person, but the only Archos Jukebox that I _have_ seen had easily a dozen buttons. It's screen was also significantly smaller than the iPod's and it's backlight was dimmer.
I love my iPod. If Apple made one that could play and record videos (think pocket PVR), I'd have it as soon as it came out. And really, that isn't too unrealistic. IIRC, Intel has a technique that lets them put inductors into ICs. Just pay Intel for that technology and then build a one-chip tuner. Double the thickness of the iPod for an extra battery and the tuner/output circuitry and you have a PVR that can fit in your pocket.
Very few operating systems let you open files that don't exist. If you don't have the source for a program in a file, then you can't very well open that file.
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Well, in my opinion, it's more of a shame that they have such fast processors. The Dragonball was never meant to run much faster than 66 MHz and they designed PalmOS very efficently while they had that limitation. Using a 66 MHz Dragonball (or even one of those tweaked 200 MHz ones that Sony uses) would have cost less and it would probably be more efficent in terms of power useage.
Bluetooth should have been included. It was meant for connecting devices to each other over short ranges, wheras WiFi can be used for much longer distances. PDAs and such don't need WiFi nearly as much as they need Bluetooth.
And to that guy above me who said that WiFi is used for TCP/IP, well, so is Bluetooth. Or, at least, it can be.
No, no, no. They should call it "The browser formerly known as Phoenix". Then they should change its name to some unpronouncable symbol.
Quick vocabulary Nazi: People don't "ban together". The words that you should have used are "band" and "banded".
You do have a good point about that, but just how far has Linux come anywhere except the geek market? In all seriousness, it just isn't popular.
Perhaps people could make a way to transfer E-mail from one server to another and then switch it back to SMTP at either end, but that would defeat the purpose, wouldn't it?
My point is, change to better standards doesn't happen overnight. Even if the geeks of the world unite and make a new, faster, more secure version of SMTP, no one would use it because it's a lot of work to switch from one protocol to another.
Perhaps a mail client that only accepts PGP (or GPG or equivilant) signed E-mail would help. That would at least keep spammers from stealing other peoples' identities.
That probably has something to do with the MacWhispers April Fool's day article about PPC 970 powered iPods.
If anyone believed that, then they have no business owning a computer. I mean, honestly, "The stated paint actually is precisely the same as is used to letter the words onto the face of the present iPod" gives it away by itself. Everyone that I've spoken with knows that all of the text on the iPod is laser engraved.
I think that he meant laser lithography. You know, where you write stuff with a laser.
That is actually quite similar to how it works.
Actually, it's a total rip-off of MacOS!
But seriously, how long has it been able to handle remote desktops? I honestly don't know.
Because remotely accessing your desktop devours bandwidth almost as fast as DV streams. If you are using dialup or something similar, then this is much more effective.
Plus, this enables you to use the palmtop's UI for desktop apps. Desktop metaphors don't work as well on palmtops as they do on the system for which they were designed.
This just transmits the data as opposed to entire screen shots. Therefore, it uses MUCH less bandwidth.
It isn't a remote desktop in any way, shape, or form.
The reason to use this is that it gives you an interface optomised for the device that you're using instead of a desktop interface.
Not quite. If this works anything like Adam Tow's Soybo (www.soybo.com) (which came out a month ago), then it enables apps to have different interfaces depending on what you are using. From a cell phone, it would display simple text. From a PDA, there might be some graphics, but the UI would be set up for pen-based computing.
Mainly, this kind of virtual computing doesn't require you to use your desktop's UI on whatever client you happen to be using, and therefore, it lets you work more efficently assuming that the client UI is well designed.
There is nothing new about this particular incarnation of this technology. As I said above, Adam Tow released it a while ago.
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that the GUI tools are hidden somewhere on the normal OSX CD. I forget where.
Found it. It was on December 18th. That's a bit more than a month ago. Oops.
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Also, it was 38,900 albums to 27,000.
Well, they DID drop production! Right after Napster was shut down, in fact. They went from making some 35,000 albums per year to something like 23,000. Then their profits dropped 4% and they scream "Pirates!" They are making more per album than they ever have in the history of CDs.
/. about a month ago. If I find it, I'll post it as a reply to this comment.
I forget where I saw these figures, but it was a site linked to by
Well, last time that I checked, there was no difference whatsoever between OSX and OSX Server other than the license. All of the tools are the same, they're just a little hidden under OSX.
That's not my understanding of how file I/O works. They let you create the file and _then_ open it.
OK, well, so it has 10 buttons and not 12. Oops. My point remains. The iPod's UI is much more elegant. It is entirely navigable using only the wheel, the center button, and the menu button. You never need to touch the other three except to modify the song that is playing.
Although, I will admit that 60 GB is quite impressive. I just prefer the iPod to other devices. However, I can see why you like the Archos.
What kind of transfer interface does it use? I think that the one that I saw used USB2. FireWire is faster under most circumstances, but transfer speed doesn't really matter that much once you have your music on the thing.
I really like how the iPod charges through the FireWire port. That was a good feature to put into it. That makes charging it rather idiot-proof. It's not like there are lots of universal AC adapters with FireWire on them.
How long does it take your battery to charge? Mine charges most of the way in an hour or so. That's almost 8 hours of straight playtime from an hour of charging.
The only features that I really want in the iPod are the abilities to make and delete playlists on the device and to use weighted random playlists. Both of those are software based, so Apple could concievably add them later. I sure hope that they do. Right now, I'm playing by the artist and cycling artists whenever I feel like it.
Well, yeah, there is that. However, this is just something that I came up with on a moment's thought. I'm sure that anyone serious about defrauding you could do it in a much less traceable way that would keep them from getting caught.
Oh. I can't say that I've ever heard that one.
Well, they could, but a lot of products advertized in spam constitute fraud. They only need to give you enough of an address to send them your money. They can get 500 P.O boxes and register them to non-existant companies (or even to individuals who sent the spammer their address). Spam, rinse, repeat.
I prefer MSN disks. You know, the ones that come in the DVD cases. Of course, AOL's been putting some of their CDs into tins lately. Pretty ritzy stuff.
A court summons is an order to apear in court on a specific date.
When the spammers log in, instead of the classic "You've got mail!", it says "You've got a summons!" This implies that the spammers use AOL in the first place. Either that or it's just a general parody of the AOL "Welcome!", "You've got mail!", etc. guy.
Quite a good parody, if I do say so myself. Too bad that parody isn't protected under copyright law anymore.
Well, one cool thing is that we would be able to launch rockets without using any fuel that we can't find more of. Billions of joules of sunlight pour onto the Earth every day. We just have to collect it and find a way to use it.
This as opposed to fossil fuels, which take quite a bit of time to produce. They are far more efficent than most forms of energy storage, but they are very hard to make, and therefore, not easily renewable. Of course, the sun will eventually burn out, but we might as well grab all of the energy that we can now because if we don't use it, it just goes out into space.
Well, who ever said that we WANT to kill him? If we can make him imortal, I say, go for it! That way, we can torture him "to death" every day!
(crazed_New_Yorker_mode: OFF)
But seriously, that would make for some interesting situations. What would you do if you knoew that you couldn't be killed, but that you could still feel pain?
Now, as for your ideas regarding hacking nanites and such, I don't see how it would be possible to dodge bullets without accelerating both the mind and the body far beyond what is reasonably possible. Human muscles can't move fast enough to do that. So, essentially, the only way that you could re-build yourself such that you could dodge bullets would be to replace almost every part of you with mechanical equivilants.
Affecting the flow of electrons from miles away is very improbable. It would take quite a powerful force field (not Star Trek force field, a real force field) to do that.
"Psychokill" is, again, impossible with our current knowledge of physics. There has to be a _cause_ of death. Either the brain stops working or one of numberous other situations, but you can't cause any of those at a distance without either a very powerful force field (think microwave gun) or some sort of projectile. If these nanites let us improve ourselves in any way imaginable, why not simply make a faraday cage on our skin and some sort of contact armor such that if an object is moving faster than a certain speed, microscopic armor plates snap into place. They are equally outlandish as your proposals.
That idea about the nanite network is quite a good one until someone figures out a way to introduce an 'improvement' that contains a hidden vulnerability. Once we have quantum computers, anything can be spoofed as long as it uses anything less that quantum encryption.
As for breathing our own CO2, I like the idea. However, how would one go about breaking the bond? The C is in the middle of the two Os, so that means breaking four covaelant bonds. Not exactly an easy task.
Now, I'm not trying to poke holes in your arguments for my own amusement, but I am trying to point out that the actual uses for nanotech are not necesarily what we would predict. They are generally quite different from the nanites of science fiction fame.
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I believe that he said "video iPod". The Archos is no iPod by any stretch of the imagination. Consider, the iPod has only 5 buttons, a wheel, and a hold switch.
Now, I will admit that I haven't seen many Archos products in person, but the only Archos Jukebox that I _have_ seen had easily a dozen buttons. It's screen was also significantly smaller than the iPod's and it's backlight was dimmer.
I love my iPod. If Apple made one that could play and record videos (think pocket PVR), I'd have it as soon as it came out. And really, that isn't too unrealistic. IIRC, Intel has a technique that lets them put inductors into ICs. Just pay Intel for that technology and then build a one-chip tuner. Double the thickness of the iPod for an extra battery and the tuner/output circuitry and you have a PVR that can fit in your pocket.
Very few operating systems let you open files that don't exist. If you don't have the source for a program in a file, then you can't very well open that file.