For virtually all consumer applications, 60% (or less!) of 802.11b's throughput is an ample plenty.
Why? Because the VAST majority of data they schlep goes through their broadband provider on the way to or from the Internet, where they don't get anything even APPROACHING 5 Mb/s. The line out of the house is the bottleneck in my home and in many, many other homes.
MACBETH: She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
But, as the MySQL developers say, nobody appears to want views badly enough to finance their development. That's how MySQL got as developed as it is now--enough corporate users needed specific new pieces of functionality that they could pay MySQL AB to build them. It's one of the best open-source business models I've ever seen.
It's easy to complain. It's easy to preach. I'd rather see you pull out your (or your bosses') wallet.
As for myself, while I'd love the convenience of views, I'm not constrained by legacy code and I don't mind the mild programming burden their absence puts on me.
...it's a cool, easy way to net-enable just about anything.
Which is fine, but the REAL killer device will be an embeddable, commodity-level wireless interface--whether 802.11 or its successor--paired with ubiquitous wireless access, at least on par with current digital cell service. I estimate we're only a few years away from the latter, and the former is already more or less available in the PCMCIA form factor.
When my toaster oven can download Pop-Tart-warming instructions from its manufacturer's website without an additional cable to the wall, that'll be something.
But HUD's in glasses, wireless pens, etc... isn't this all just geared more towards satisfying the cliche markets? Is there anything useful out there?
I confess, I don't quite know what you mean by "cliche markets". All I can say is: it's coooooool and I want it!
My Palm Pilot seemed like not much more than a nifty toy when I bought it. Now I rely on it every single day for scheduling, phone numbers, portable documentation, entertainment, etc. I'm quite sure that I can find a way to integrate a device (or... constellation of devices) like this one into my life.
But NOT because I need it. Because it's coooooool and I want it!
Forget all the bogus attempts to move your antique business model online. What you want to do is license this technology from its creators, and build a mechanism to sell digital copies of the recommended tunes.
Imagine a dialog box comes up and says: Hey, people who like Weezer and Radiohead are also listening to Wilco. Want to download their latest single for 50 cents?
Combine that with some fair-use-friendly DRM software, and you've got THE application that gives the recording industry legs for the digital age.
For text, sure. I agree completely. But the question was: what keyboard layout can you devise to support all the back-and-foarward-buttoning and copy-pasting and undo-redoing we all do every day. NO keyboard is the best keyboard for that.
Throwback to the 80's!? Rows of buttons and blinking lights just seem so 40's!!
Seems to me like the most promising development for command-oriented input like the kind that the poster mentioned are the recent batch of gesture-based devices like this one.
Thing is, frequently you want a loss of quality when you scale an icon. Who cares about all the pretty brown crinkles in the Gnome foot icon when it's at 12 x 12? They won't read like crinkles, they'll read like a muddy mess. A simple outline is probably best at that size.
Now, a format that defines a priority heirarchy among the vectors on the image, and a scaling factor at which size various low priorities of vectors are not rendered... That might be very, very useful for icons.
Up until the Gulf War, pretty much all combat was about the human resources and their *cough* expenditure. The World Wars, Korea, Viet Nam--they were all about how many bodies the various sides could claim from the opponent.
In a weird sort of way it makes me happy that we're now developing a tool designed only to take out their tools. Instead of "our army can kill your army" it's "our machines can kill your machines".
The next obvious step, of course, is the Ender's Game scenario. Send robots to do ALL the dirty work, and train a crack squad of button-mashers to pilot them.
Those all-glass systems were the coolest thing about that movie. That and the glove-based gestural navigation system that Tom Cruise uses at the beginning of the movie. UI designer's dream and nightmare, all in one!
My point is, it was disorienting. It wasn't at all intuitive for me to dig into "My Computer" to find the directory structure on the hard drive. And when I did, I found so much crud there, it was clear I wasn't meant to be finding applications to launch that way.
I remember back when Apple was going out of business and I switched from Mac OS 7 to Windows. The single most disorienting thing about it was the effort that Microsoft went to to insulate me from the filesystem.
On the Mac, I was used to double-clicking the hard drive, then navigating through the directories to the application I wanted to use, and launching it from there. In windows there was this blasted Start button and some mysterious heirarchy of things under the "Programs" tab... No idea what they referred to, no sense of where they came from. It felt like if you were to install an application that didn't put something there, you'll never see it again.
Needless to say, I hear "insulate the user from the filesystem", and I start to worry.
On the other hand, this is free software after all. Free as in Choice. I may well download it and play with it. At this moment I doubt pretty strongly that I'll prefer it to an HFS approach. But I'm all for choice!
I have a satisfying, challenging, and fulfilling job. But that's not what I turn to when I'm asked what my life is worth.
Instead I talk about my wife. I talk about my relationship with my parents and my brother and my in-laws. I talk about my friends, my music, my writing, and the software I write on the side. I talk about the organizations to which I donate my time and labor.
Equating sucess with professional achievement and money blinds us to the very thing that makes life worthwhile: other people. Our whole experience of life revolves around the quality of our relationships. That's not to say work isn't important--it is an important tool to having everything else in your life work. But I refuse to have it be ALL I do, or even the main barometer of my "success".
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Simple. She got so confused trying to install and run Linux using his book that she disowned him.
Imagine hacking your wheaties box to show something more interesting.
I knew we'd get back to porn sooner or later.
....And this one's a killer!
mutt Emulation Mode!
For virtually all consumer applications, 60% (or less!) of 802.11b's throughput is an ample plenty.
Why? Because the VAST majority of data they schlep goes through their broadband provider on the way to or from the Internet, where they don't get anything even APPROACHING 5 Mb/s. The line out of the house is the bottleneck in my home and in many, many other homes.
SEYTON: The server, my lord, is dead!
MACBETH: She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
--Roughly from Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5
... the words "Al Qaida OwnZ j00!!"
But, as the MySQL developers say, nobody appears to want views badly enough to finance their development. That's how MySQL got as developed as it is now--enough corporate users needed specific new pieces of functionality that they could pay MySQL AB to build them. It's one of the best open-source business models I've ever seen.
It's easy to complain. It's easy to preach. I'd rather see you pull out your (or your bosses') wallet.
As for myself, while I'd love the convenience of views, I'm not constrained by legacy code and I don't mind the mild programming burden their absence puts on me.
The Internet's best search engine integrated into the frame of exciting, stylish sports eyeware.
Now THAT'S useful technology!
...it's a cool, easy way to net-enable just about anything.
Which is fine, but the REAL killer device will be an embeddable, commodity-level wireless interface--whether 802.11 or its successor--paired with ubiquitous wireless access, at least on par with current digital cell service. I estimate we're only a few years away from the latter, and the former is already more or less available in the PCMCIA form factor.
When my toaster oven can download Pop-Tart-warming instructions from its manufacturer's website without an additional cable to the wall, that'll be something.
But HUD's in glasses, wireless pens, etc... isn't this all just geared more towards satisfying the cliche markets? Is there anything useful out there?
I confess, I don't quite know what you mean by "cliche markets". All I can say is: it's coooooool and I want it!
My Palm Pilot seemed like not much more than a nifty toy when I bought it. Now I rely on it every single day for scheduling, phone numbers, portable documentation, entertainment, etc. I'm quite sure that I can find a way to integrate a device (or... constellation of devices) like this one into my life.
But NOT because I need it. Because it's coooooool and I want it!
My God. I did this too... (Coincidently, I was also in Australia).
I'm not so sure it's a coincidence....
Forget all the bogus attempts to move your antique business model online. What you want to do is license this technology from its creators, and build a mechanism to sell digital copies of the recommended tunes.
Imagine a dialog box comes up and says: Hey, people who like Weezer and Radiohead are also listening to Wilco. Want to download their latest single for 50 cents?
Combine that with some fair-use-friendly DRM software, and you've got THE application that gives the recording industry legs for the digital age.
For text, sure. I agree completely. But the question was: what keyboard layout can you devise to support all the back-and-foarward-buttoning and copy-pasting and undo-redoing we all do every day. NO keyboard is the best keyboard for that.
Throwback to the 80's!? Rows of buttons and blinking lights just seem so 40's!!
Seems to me like the most promising development for command-oriented input like the kind that the poster mentioned are the recent batch of gesture-based devices like this one.
Thing is, frequently you want a loss of quality when you scale an icon. Who cares about all the pretty brown crinkles in the Gnome foot icon when it's at 12 x 12? They won't read like crinkles, they'll read like a muddy mess. A simple outline is probably best at that size.
Now, a format that defines a priority heirarchy among the vectors on the image, and a scaling factor at which size various low priorities of vectors are not rendered... That might be very, very useful for icons.
In a way I'm sort of proud of this.
Up until the Gulf War, pretty much all combat was about the human resources and their *cough* expenditure. The World Wars, Korea, Viet Nam--they were all about how many bodies the various sides could claim from the opponent.
In a weird sort of way it makes me happy that we're now developing a tool designed only to take out their tools. Instead of "our army can kill your army" it's "our machines can kill your machines".
The next obvious step, of course, is the Ender's Game scenario. Send robots to do ALL the dirty work, and train a crack squad of button-mashers to pilot them.
... Let's hope they have better luck with their console than with their web applications!
Off topic and answered already in the faq.
Those all-glass systems were the coolest thing about that movie. That and the glove-based gestural navigation system that Tom Cruise uses at the beginning of the movie. UI designer's dream and nightmare, all in one!
... for all your pocket-sized porn needs. Seriously, what am I going to do, carry a $500 device around to show pictures of my kids on??
Apple is rumored to have something like this in the pipeline too, and Archos released a similar thing a few months ago.
Are people so hard-up for porn that they can't sit at their computer and watch it like a respectable person?
Easy. ESP! I want it to know what I meant, and ignore what I said.
That's also how I'd improve today's compilers and run-time interpreters, by the way.
Yeah, well I learned that pretty quick.
My point is, it was disorienting. It wasn't at all intuitive for me to dig into "My Computer" to find the directory structure on the hard drive. And when I did, I found so much crud there, it was clear I wasn't meant to be finding applications to launch that way.
I remember back when Apple was going out of business and I switched from Mac OS 7 to Windows. The single most disorienting thing about it was the effort that Microsoft went to to insulate me from the filesystem.
On the Mac, I was used to double-clicking the hard drive, then navigating through the directories to the application I wanted to use, and launching it from there. In windows there was this blasted Start button and some mysterious heirarchy of things under the "Programs" tab... No idea what they referred to, no sense of where they came from. It felt like if you were to install an application that didn't put something there, you'll never see it again.
Needless to say, I hear "insulate the user from the filesystem", and I start to worry.
On the other hand, this is free software after all. Free as in Choice. I may well download it and play with it. At this moment I doubt pretty strongly that I'll prefer it to an HFS approach. But I'm all for choice!
Figure Jobs is going to announce the iMac III at MacWorld next week? His keynote speech is scheduled for 9:00AM this Tuesday morning, the 7th.
I have a satisfying, challenging, and fulfilling job. But that's not what I turn to when I'm asked what my life is worth.
Instead I talk about my wife. I talk about my relationship with my parents and my brother and my in-laws. I talk about my friends, my music, my writing, and the software I write on the side. I talk about the organizations to which I donate my time and labor.
Equating sucess with professional achievement and money blinds us to the very thing that makes life worthwhile: other people. Our whole experience of life revolves around the quality of our relationships. That's not to say work isn't important--it is an important tool to having everything else in your life work. But I refuse to have it be ALL I do, or even the main barometer of my "success".