Palm OS was meant for nothing more than a fancy address book anyways.
Why yes, that is kind of the point of a personal digital assistant. It keeps your phone book, jot down some small memos, keep a todo list and calendar, etc. Nothing really big or processor intensive. Then Microsoft comes along and brings with it a farkin desktop in a palmtop size case, sticks Windows on the god damn thing and everyone thinks that's what a PDA is. No, that's what a laptop is, a PDA is an electronic phone book. If you want a laptop then get a laptop.
The only other way to speed it up that I'm aware of is to change to server to also listen on UDP and have a client use UDP.
That'd be a terrible idea. Unless you like random broken graphics and missing text on your page coming up everytime you hit a few errors that caused a packet to be dropped here or there while loading the page, UDP sucks. Streaming video is one thing, but when you can't afford to drop packets it is horrible. I suppose you could code your application to do error checking, but why bother when the TCP stack inherently does it faster and has built in retry mechanisms? The best way to increase HTTP performance is to make better use of persistent connections instead of tearing down the connection and rebuildinng it for every packet. Whoever designed that protocol was crazy.:-)
Time Warner always WAS more powerful than AOL. The ONLY thing AOL had going for it was an inflated stock price that showed them to be twice as big as Time Warner in "Magic Pixie Dust" stock market valuation. TW had double the revenue of AOL and a stable old media empire to keep them afloat. Steve Case knew this as well as anyone and he also knew that the bubble would eventually burst and that he would need to desperately find an old-world company to acquire to keep AOL from dying.
Ironically CNBC had a special on AOL Time Warner entitled "The Heist, How AOL Took Time Warner". Hehe. At the end of it in October 2002 they had a blurb from Steve Case saying he had no plans for stepping down. Sounds like someone finally got the board to oust him like they did to Levin. The AOL and Time Warner merger has GOT to go down in history as the worst business deal of all time. I feel bad for the Time Warner people who had their retirement in its stock only to be merged with AOL on the way into a bursting Internet stock bubble. Steve Case deserves to get a boot in the ass and AOL Time Warner should change the name back to Time Warner and stick AOL back with the other minor departments. Hell, spin it off and fold it.
not only does the current generation of PowerMac have handles on the exterior, but also utilizes "hubbable" interfaces such as USB and Firewire to at least move the cable clutter.
PCs have had USB and Firewire for over 5 years now. What on earth are you talking about? Macs are cool and all, but USB is obviously not unique to them. Hell, my brand new iBook I bought in October doesn't even support USB 2.0 yet!
It's this little thing called Gnutella, works like a charm
Oh no, not compared to Kazaa. Gnutella has never been very good at returning tons of results and is always slow to do it. The decentralized protocol just doesn't work well and it certainly doesn't scale. Napster was king and we all miss it since you could find ANYTHING on Napster. Kazaa is about the best you can get today and that'll go away. ho hum.
The code base of the NT side of the family has changed dramatically between NT 3.51 and XP, although thanks to the backwards compatibility of the Win32 API a lot of the changes aren't immediately apparent.
Yep, but now that is irrevelent. Microsoft has combined their code bases for home and business OS's into XP (or so they claim). The Windows95 track is dead, NT is dead. The hybrid OS that would serve both business server needs and home user gaming needs that was promised to us in MS timelines in 1993 is finally here with XP. Or so they say. Apparently not?
Actually, I think it's more like what they did when they changed Windows NT 5.0 to Windows 2000 - hoping to ditch all the bad news (mainly delays in getting to a working product) associated with the former name.
Hey, I have an idea. Now, this is going to sound kind of crazy and I know I'm a little ahead of my time, but what if we were to simplify the name and give it a meaningful version number? We could call the next released version Windows 7.0. Microsoft Windows 7.0. It could be a HUGE media frenzy! "No XP, no 2000, no.NET.. just 7.0. The added benefit is that when a new upgrade comes out we can name it Windows 7.1 and people can tell that it is a NEWER and more advanced version!"
In order to get my few dollars, I have to give out all my personal info, social security number, mother's maiden name, etc, etc? No thanks. I don't care how official that web site looks; that's enough information to steal everything I own and trash my credit rating for the next thousand years.
Well, you can do what I did to help punish the RIAA and take the alternative settlement of downloading 20 tracks off of a P2P network of your choice.
As a developer/sysadmin, I'm looking forward to incorporating this into our applications. No more password reset calls. No more trying to remember 15 different strong passwords without writing them down. A big fat raise because my boss won't have to remember all his passwords without writing them down.
But there are already ways to do that without having 15 different passwords. RSA's SecurID or Smart cards and PKI (ick) are just a couple ways. If you're writing applications it's not that hard to call the SecurID authentication routines through their API. No more password resets, no more 15 different passwords, just a token and a pin. I don't need "trusted computing" to make this happen, I already use it.
If your computer is simply powered on and attached to your network and running OS X 10.2 or later it will be completely automatic. That means, you'll be able to just buy a Mac and a Tivo and have nothing to configure.
nothing to configure... That means something to some people.
Does security mean anything to anyone anymore? What are the security implications of Rendezvous?
I had a "mini PC" a long time ago. It was an HP 100LX running DOS. I remember I used to use Quicken on it to keep my checkbook and I'd do some light C programming using Turbo C on it. Storage was my 10 meg PCMCIA flash card.:-) Microsoft's innovative founders continue to reinvent the wheel. Next up, a device that scans paper documents and transmits them over legacy analog telephone networks and can print them out. We'll call it the "content delivery system" or CDS for short. Can I CDS that document over to you?
But where is the fun in having commercial free satellite radio throughout your 12 hour drive? The whole fun part is listening to the different formats and sounds of radio stations as your cross the country. Oh wait, forget it, that was before the 1996 Telecommunications Act and Clear Channel and Infinity bought all the radio stations and made their formats all the same.:-) Why not just get an mp3 player for the car? 12 hours of songs per disc.
DHCP==stupid for cable modem and DSL users. Static IP should be the default for "always on" services like these. What benefit is there by using dynamic IPs? You have X number of DSL/cable customers who are online all the time, why go to the trouble of assigning DHCP addresses and maintaining the database? If you're going to use DHCP then just have static assignments. This is one holdover from dialup ISPs that really drives me nuts. With dialup yes, dynamic assignments make sense since X number of IP addresses in a pool could be assigned to X*10 number of users over the course of a week, etc.
You must buy a voice line to get DSL, that is $20 to $40 a month each user is paying just to have the service to have access to DSL at a additional $40 an up cost per month.
Everyone has a phone line already anyway though (minus some crazies living in shacks in the hills, but they're not getting DSL either). I don't blame the phone companies for pushing ADSL since SDSL was tying up their copper for something that works just as well over a normal main analog line with filters.
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Maybe somebody has an underpowered server, or pays a high rate for bandwidth usage. Such people would prefer to avoid a/.ing that would kill their mission-critical machine or drive them into the poorhouse. That's a perfectly valid reason to deny other sites permission to link.
OK, but American Express? ExxonMobil? Orbitz? New York Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange? I sincerely doubt any of these sites have any bandwidth problems and if you do, tough cookies. Nobody is forcing you to host a public website. Put a password on it and force people to apply for a username and password to get access to your site. Sure, 99.999% of your customers will never bother but you won't have to worry about deep linking anymore. The web was built around hyperlinking information. If you start arbitrarily cutting those links to certain sites then the thing will collapse and be useless. So why even bother having a web site if you don't want anyone pointing to it?
no wait. what i meant to say was, now that we have DeCSS, i'm buying lots more DVD's than i ever did before i could copy them or download them online! ever since i started using gnutella to d/l movies, my dvd purchasing has went through the roof now that i can preview them before i buy them;).
I know I would rent many more DVDs if there was a DVD burning solution that could just copy the DVDs directly instead of turning them into VCDs. You can copy CDs, it sucks you can't copy DVDs directly from disc to disc. We need DVD-R discs that are the exact same size and format as the pressed DVDs and burners and software that can copy on the fly while stripping the CSS encryption off. If that happened I would rent a ton of DVDs instead of buying them so Blockbuster's sales would go through the roof!
Very nice new powerbooks though - especially the 17-incher, with glowing keyboards and ambient light detection. It also adjusts the screen brightness, mmmm:)
Pffft. Only 17-inch? How can anyone expect me to work on such a small display? Where is the 23" wide-screen studio display Powerbook?
Seriously though, what is up with a 17 inch Powerbook?? Who the hell will buy such a huge notebook? I deliberately bought the smallest screen iBook I could (12") because I want portability not a huge honking display that I have to lug around. Hmph.
The last thing we need is another browser with a different level of support of CSS.
Now we have to balance between 4 browsers/rendering engines: IE6, Opera 7, Gecko, and Safari/KHTML.
Hopefully the story will change once it's out of beta.
They should've just supported Chimera instead. Gecko rendering engine, aqua interface, tabbed browsing, popup blocking, fast, etc. What more could you want? The only thing it's missing is being able to limit the number of times animated gifs run like Mozilla can.
Then there's always an alternate use for your hand... that's right! Doing taxes manually. On paper. Think of doing taxes as learning a braindead API for interfacing with the goverment.
Make a mistake, go to jail. Nice! No thanks, I'll stick with software to do the taxes. I'm not a CPA and am completely clueless how the tax system works in this stupid country. Why on earth we don't just have a simple flat tax is beyond me. Here's how much I made, take this much percent from that, here's how much the government gets. Period. Graduated tax scales and loopholes and exemptions are ridiculous. I'd be amazed if most people even pay taxes anymore with all the loopholes.
I'll actually watch an amusing ad, even if I have no interest in the product. IBM, Blockbuster, and a few others seem to have grasped that;
The latest IBM ads are hilarious. "There is no magic pixie dust.":-)
corps like GM, Chrysler, Ford, etc. are still under the misguided belief that their ads have anything to do with which vehicle I end up buying.
GM, Ford and Dodge seem to market their cars to males. Pickup trucks inevitably are marketed as "tough" and must have the obligitory 2 tons of steel/plywood/sand dropped into their bed by a crane. Blah. Like I'd scratch my $20k truck by carrying any of that shit anymore than I'd go offroading in a $40k SUV.
Everyone hated Network Solutions...Verisign bought 'em, and they bought the hate right along with it. Maybe they figure that the bad blood will be isolated if they spin the old name and business back off into a more seperate entity.
But everyone also hated Verisign. It seemed a match made in heaven. Network Solutions sold the most expensive domain name services and Verisign sells the most expensive SSL certificates. Nobody likes the hoops you have to jump through to get or modify their products, etc. How could such a merger go bad??
That does make me wonder, is there some superhuman person that can tell the difference between 60fps and 147fps? I start to notice if a game slows down to 30fps or less since the movements get kind of jerky and weird, but around 50-60fps it seems smooth on a GeForce 2. The only game that gives me problems is Grand Theft Auto III which is the only game I've ever had that causes my computer to just spontaneously reboot itself once in awhile (3 or 4 times since I began playing it several months ago). Ah well, I can always play Vice City on PS2 which seems much smoother and less flaky than GTA III on my 1.4GHz PC with the GF2.:-/ Go figure.
What you need is a watchdog group that goes around randomly with kids having them try to purchase games that are out of their rating level. If the store allows them to buy it then get the clerk's name and draft a letter to the corporation, keep a log on a web site, and make a big deal about it in the media. Sooner or later places like Target and Walmart are going to not like their names showing up as perveyors of mature games to underage kids and they WILL start enforcing their instore policy. The only other way you can do it is to make it illegal through legislation like cigarettes. Then let the police do the same sting operations.
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Why yes, that is kind of the point of a personal digital assistant. It keeps your phone book, jot down some small memos, keep a todo list and calendar, etc. Nothing really big or processor intensive. Then Microsoft comes along and brings with it a farkin desktop in a palmtop size case, sticks Windows on the god damn thing and everyone thinks that's what a PDA is. No, that's what a laptop is, a PDA is an electronic phone book. If you want a laptop then get a laptop.
That'd be a terrible idea. Unless you like random broken graphics and missing text on your page coming up everytime you hit a few errors that caused a packet to be dropped here or there while loading the page, UDP sucks. Streaming video is one thing, but when you can't afford to drop packets it is horrible. I suppose you could code your application to do error checking, but why bother when the TCP stack inherently does it faster and has built in retry mechanisms? The best way to increase HTTP performance is to make better use of persistent connections instead of tearing down the connection and rebuildinng it for every packet. Whoever designed that protocol was crazy. :-)
Time Warner always WAS more powerful than AOL. The ONLY thing AOL had going for it was an inflated stock price that showed them to be twice as big as Time Warner in "Magic Pixie Dust" stock market valuation. TW had double the revenue of AOL and a stable old media empire to keep them afloat. Steve Case knew this as well as anyone and he also knew that the bubble would eventually burst and that he would need to desperately find an old-world company to acquire to keep AOL from dying.
Ironically CNBC had a special on AOL Time Warner entitled "The Heist, How AOL Took Time Warner". Hehe. At the end of it in October 2002 they had a blurb from Steve Case saying he had no plans for stepping down. Sounds like someone finally got the board to oust him like they did to Levin. The AOL and Time Warner merger has GOT to go down in history as the worst business deal of all time. I feel bad for the Time Warner people who had their retirement in its stock only to be merged with AOL on the way into a bursting Internet stock bubble. Steve Case deserves to get a boot in the ass and AOL Time Warner should change the name back to Time Warner and stick AOL back with the other minor departments. Hell, spin it off and fold it.
That's too many drives in one case. Perhaps you should consider building a Beowulf cluster instead?
PCs have had USB and Firewire for over 5 years now. What on earth are you talking about? Macs are cool and all, but USB is obviously not unique to them. Hell, my brand new iBook I bought in October doesn't even support USB 2.0 yet!
Oh no, not compared to Kazaa. Gnutella has never been very good at returning tons of results and is always slow to do it. The decentralized protocol just doesn't work well and it certainly doesn't scale. Napster was king and we all miss it since you could find ANYTHING on Napster. Kazaa is about the best you can get today and that'll go away. ho hum.
Yep, but now that is irrevelent. Microsoft has combined their code bases for home and business OS's into XP (or so they claim). The Windows95 track is dead, NT is dead. The hybrid OS that would serve both business server needs and home user gaming needs that was promised to us in MS timelines in 1993 is finally here with XP. Or so they say. Apparently not?
Hey, I have an idea. Now, this is going to sound kind of crazy and I know I'm a little ahead of my time, but what if we were to simplify the name and give it a meaningful version number? We could call the next released version Windows 7.0. Microsoft Windows 7.0. It could be a HUGE media frenzy! "No XP, no 2000, no .NET.. just 7.0. The added benefit is that when a new upgrade comes out we can name it Windows 7.1 and people can tell that it is a NEWER and more advanced version!"
Well, you can do what I did to help punish the RIAA and take the alternative settlement of downloading 20 tracks off of a P2P network of your choice.
But there are already ways to do that without having 15 different passwords. RSA's SecurID or Smart cards and PKI (ick) are just a couple ways. If you're writing applications it's not that hard to call the SecurID authentication routines through their API. No more password resets, no more 15 different passwords, just a token and a pin. I don't need "trusted computing" to make this happen, I already use it.
Does security mean anything to anyone anymore? What are the security implications of Rendezvous?
I had a "mini PC" a long time ago. It was an HP 100LX running DOS. I remember I used to use Quicken on it to keep my checkbook and I'd do some light C programming using Turbo C on it. Storage was my 10 meg PCMCIA flash card. :-) Microsoft's innovative founders continue to reinvent the wheel. Next up, a device that scans paper documents and transmits them over legacy analog telephone networks and can print them out. We'll call it the "content delivery system" or CDS for short. Can I CDS that document over to you?
But where is the fun in having commercial free satellite radio throughout your 12 hour drive? The whole fun part is listening to the different formats and sounds of radio stations as your cross the country. Oh wait, forget it, that was before the 1996 Telecommunications Act and Clear Channel and Infinity bought all the radio stations and made their formats all the same. :-) Why not just get an mp3 player for the car? 12 hours of songs per disc.
DHCP==stupid for cable modem and DSL users. Static IP should be the default for "always on" services like these. What benefit is there by using dynamic IPs? You have X number of DSL/cable customers who are online all the time, why go to the trouble of assigning DHCP addresses and maintaining the database? If you're going to use DHCP then just have static assignments. This is one holdover from dialup ISPs that really drives me nuts. With dialup yes, dynamic assignments make sense since X number of IP addresses in a pool could be assigned to X*10 number of users over the course of a week, etc.
Everyone has a phone line already anyway though (minus some crazies living in shacks in the hills, but they're not getting DSL either). I don't blame the phone companies for pushing ADSL since SDSL was tying up their copper for something that works just as well over a normal main analog line with filters.
OK, but American Express? ExxonMobil? Orbitz? New York Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange? I sincerely doubt any of these sites have any bandwidth problems and if you do, tough cookies. Nobody is forcing you to host a public website. Put a password on it and force people to apply for a username and password to get access to your site. Sure, 99.999% of your customers will never bother but you won't have to worry about deep linking anymore. The web was built around hyperlinking information. If you start arbitrarily cutting those links to certain sites then the thing will collapse and be useless. So why even bother having a web site if you don't want anyone pointing to it?
I know I would rent many more DVDs if there was a DVD burning solution that could just copy the DVDs directly instead of turning them into VCDs. You can copy CDs, it sucks you can't copy DVDs directly from disc to disc. We need DVD-R discs that are the exact same size and format as the pressed DVDs and burners and software that can copy on the fly while stripping the CSS encryption off. If that happened I would rent a ton of DVDs instead of buying them so Blockbuster's sales would go through the roof!
Pffft. Only 17-inch? How can anyone expect me to work on such a small display? Where is the 23" wide-screen studio display Powerbook?
Seriously though, what is up with a 17 inch Powerbook?? Who the hell will buy such a huge notebook? I deliberately bought the smallest screen iBook I could (12") because I want portability not a huge honking display that I have to lug around. Hmph.
They should've just supported Chimera instead. Gecko rendering engine, aqua interface, tabbed browsing, popup blocking, fast, etc. What more could you want? The only thing it's missing is being able to limit the number of times animated gifs run like Mozilla can.
Make a mistake, go to jail. Nice! No thanks, I'll stick with software to do the taxes. I'm not a CPA and am completely clueless how the tax system works in this stupid country. Why on earth we don't just have a simple flat tax is beyond me. Here's how much I made, take this much percent from that, here's how much the government gets. Period. Graduated tax scales and loopholes and exemptions are ridiculous. I'd be amazed if most people even pay taxes anymore with all the loopholes.
The latest IBM ads are hilarious. "There is no magic pixie dust." :-)
corps like GM, Chrysler, Ford, etc. are still under the misguided belief that their ads have anything to do with which vehicle I end up buying.
GM, Ford and Dodge seem to market their cars to males. Pickup trucks inevitably are marketed as "tough" and must have the obligitory 2 tons of steel/plywood/sand dropped into their bed by a crane. Blah. Like I'd scratch my $20k truck by carrying any of that shit anymore than I'd go offroading in a $40k SUV.
But everyone also hated Verisign. It seemed a match made in heaven. Network Solutions sold the most expensive domain name services and Verisign sells the most expensive SSL certificates. Nobody likes the hoops you have to jump through to get or modify their products, etc. How could such a merger go bad??
That does make me wonder, is there some superhuman person that can tell the difference between 60fps and 147fps? I start to notice if a game slows down to 30fps or less since the movements get kind of jerky and weird, but around 50-60fps it seems smooth on a GeForce 2. The only game that gives me problems is Grand Theft Auto III which is the only game I've ever had that causes my computer to just spontaneously reboot itself once in awhile (3 or 4 times since I began playing it several months ago). Ah well, I can always play Vice City on PS2 which seems much smoother and less flaky than GTA III on my 1.4GHz PC with the GF2. :-/ Go figure.
What you need is a watchdog group that goes around randomly with kids having them try to purchase games that are out of their rating level. If the store allows them to buy it then get the clerk's name and draft a letter to the corporation, keep a log on a web site, and make a big deal about it in the media. Sooner or later places like Target and Walmart are going to not like their names showing up as perveyors of mature games to underage kids and they WILL start enforcing their instore policy. The only other way you can do it is to make it illegal through legislation like cigarettes. Then let the police do the same sting operations.