Media centre PCs will always be the domain of geeks/tech enthusiasts. The mass market for movies/TV via IP is going to be a TiVo type set top box, and DVD/cable/DirectTV is going to be around a long time for everyone else.
I think discs will be around for a few more years as well, however I think the discs that will stick around are DVD not Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. Most people don't have a TV set that will let them enjoy any sort of quality improvement by jumping to HDDVD/BR and by the time they do I wouldn't be suprised to see bandwith catch up with HD content.
This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately in regard to AJAX. While it is nifty looking and gives things and edge from an end user perspective as a developer you are (in some cases) putting a lot of logic on the client, and most likely setting yourself up for a lot of debugging headaches in the future. In the case of Microsoft and Google they have the resources to cope with this, but for the rest of us... I dunno, maybe I am completely off base, but my experience trying to debug little things in JavaScript between browsers has no been pleasant, so I am inclined to think more substantial JS would compound things.
Of course it is probable that the frameworks will iron out a lot of this soon for us.
Oh, I'd agree with you there. My last PC (had a brief trist with Apple in between) was a Dell with a 600Mhz PIII and 256MB, and aside from Visual Studio I don't see much difference performace wise between it and my current 2.4/512MB. For web, e-mail, productivity stuff I'd say anything with 500Mhz/256MB is perfectly fine.
In all fairness my experience with Linux distros is about 2 years old now, the Redhat 9 era of things, and I probably did have a ton of things running that didn't need to be.
That comment by Allchin confused me. While 3.6Ghz is today's top level CPU I would consider anything 1.6Ghz or so and greater a current CPU. My laptop is a 2.4Ghz P4 and my work box is a 2.6Ghz P4 and I consider them both completely adequate for my needs. My guess is that for full on eye candy in Vista you'll need a pretty decent video card, but aside from that... And as far as resource useage goes in my experiences with Linux distros they were just as resource intensive as Windows, granted you could pare it down to CLI, but for full on X/Gnome/KDE it seemed about the same to me.
First time I saw virtual folders was in Evolution, and now both Thunderbird and Outlook 2003 have it. Somewhat useful, but not a revolution and not real exciting as an OS bullet point feature. I've started to use Copernic Desktop Search to navigate code, that is super useful, and I don't see virtual folders replacing it.
That's what'll happen with home users, but the focus of this article is on large corporate deployments. The forthcoming deployment and management features in Firefox 1.1/1.5 combined with the fact that 2k won't run IE7 should give Firefox a bit of a boost. Home users, for the most part, will get IE7 when they buy a new PC.
The genius of that demo, I think, is that they made it look like it was gameplay, all the way down to the unique jerky POV that the original Killzone had. If I hadn't already been suckered into the hype for the original Killzone (which turned out to suck for the most part), and also played the abysmal Shellshock (same development studio I believe) I'd be very excited. I do think it is pre-render btw, just looks too good.
I'd say the pendulum is swinging towards web apps for most things, making the desktop irrelevant. Open source is part of that trend, but so is MS with ASP.NET. I think Longhorn will do well, but only through attrition. And I have a feeling WinFX, Avalon, etc is going to fall flat on its face, viewed as interesting APIs but left pretty much unused because the web's inertia will have pretty much drained any significant interest in rich client development.
I bought my Inspiron, which came with Windows XP Home, with the intention of running Redhat 9 on it. Even went as far as buying a PCMCIA Prism based Wifi card because Dell's Broadcom based internal ones weren't Linux friendly at the time. That lasted about 3 days. Linux blows as a desktop OS, plain and simple. Everything is a pain in the ass, from ACPI to playing a streaming video. Windows has its flaws, but I don't have to read a HOW-TO to get my laptop to sleep when I close the lid. I have a NAT firewall, I keep Windows patched, I don't do P2P, I run Adaware on occasion. I don't have issues with Windows.
It seems to me that the Centrino brand is much like Microsoft's 'designed for' program, you can use their branding and marketing power but to do so you've got to meet a certain set of requirements. I don't see that as Intel telling anyone what they have to do with their product, they are simply saying this is what you have to do to take advantage of our branding campaign. Same as I can write Windows applications all day long, but if I want to use Designed for Windows XP I have to meet that program's criteria.
I think he was trying to say this debate on blogs over IP is inconsequential. He said hey look at China and India, their joining the US in producing innovation, and you're asking me about/. fussing over OSS drivers. Most of us here on/. look at it at the 'I can't believe SBC is trying to patent frames' perspective. I think if the question had been more pointed, something like 'Do you think overly broad patents can constrain innovation in software' his answer would have been different.
I'd agree with that. I got my Xbox for Halo, my favorite Xbox game is that Riddick one, I'll get Halo2... I have a PS2 as well, and I really don't care for it much, and I think that's in large part because its library skews towards Japanese influenced (or imported) games.
I don't see this format war being all that relevant. VHS was around for what, 10+ years, as the king of home video? DVD has really only become the most popular format in the last 3 or so. I think they're trying to force a format change way to early. I'm perfectly content with my Trinitron CRT and PS2, and I doubt I'm alone.
It seems to me this is a problem someone commissioned Gartner to create. If I want to steal data from my employer it's going to happen, blocking USB keys or iPods won't stop it. Most of us have CD burners at work now, 600-700 megs is a lot of documents... Nobody is talking about the danger of CD burners in the workplace and devising ways to disable them.
That's probably part of it, however I believe a lot of the early adopters of SA will still have to renew prior to Longhorn being released. I'd guess a large part of the date focus now IS OEM, as nobody, save gamers, has any real reason to upgrade from something purchased in the last 2 years or so. I bought a 2.4Ghz Dell Inspiron last Sept, and aside from getting some more RAM for it I don't see getting another machine for quite some time.
I think he means you can use the Framework SDK on Windows, it's a free dl, and technically you can probably write anything, but without the VS goodness it's going to be painful. I've used SharpDevelop on and off, it's a pretty nice GPL C# IDE, but it tends to be crashy in my experience.
I don't feel it should be illegal, but CSS is there and the DMCA is law. Nobody seems to feel it's economically viable to produce a Linux DVD soft DVD player. So at this point and time, agree or not, you are technically breaking the law playing DVDs on Linux.
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It would seem unlikely to me that a workplace that forbids IM would allow you to carry in your own hardware, especially stuff like this.
Media centre PCs will always be the domain of geeks/tech enthusiasts. The mass market for movies/TV via IP is going to be a TiVo type set top box, and DVD/cable/DirectTV is going to be around a long time for everyone else.
I think discs will be around for a few more years as well, however I think the discs that will stick around are DVD not Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. Most people don't have a TV set that will let them enjoy any sort of quality improvement by jumping to HDDVD/BR and by the time they do I wouldn't be suprised to see bandwith catch up with HD content.
This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately in regard to AJAX. While it is nifty looking and gives things and edge from an end user perspective as a developer you are (in some cases) putting a lot of logic on the client, and most likely setting yourself up for a lot of debugging headaches in the future. In the case of Microsoft and Google they have the resources to cope with this, but for the rest of us... I dunno, maybe I am completely off base, but my experience trying to debug little things in JavaScript between browsers has no been pleasant, so I am inclined to think more substantial JS would compound things.
Of course it is probable that the frameworks will iron out a lot of this soon for us.
Oh, I'd agree with you there. My last PC (had a brief trist with Apple in between) was a Dell with a 600Mhz PIII and 256MB, and aside from Visual Studio I don't see much difference performace wise between it and my current 2.4/512MB. For web, e-mail, productivity stuff I'd say anything with 500Mhz/256MB is perfectly fine.
In all fairness my experience with Linux distros is about 2 years old now, the Redhat 9 era of things, and I probably did have a ton of things running that didn't need to be.
That comment by Allchin confused me. While 3.6Ghz is today's top level CPU I would consider anything 1.6Ghz or so and greater a current CPU. My laptop is a 2.4Ghz P4 and my work box is a 2.6Ghz P4 and I consider them both completely adequate for my needs. My guess is that for full on eye candy in Vista you'll need a pretty decent video card, but aside from that... And as far as resource useage goes in my experiences with Linux distros they were just as resource intensive as Windows, granted you could pare it down to CLI, but for full on X/Gnome/KDE it seemed about the same to me.
First time I saw virtual folders was in Evolution, and now both Thunderbird and Outlook 2003 have it. Somewhat useful, but not a revolution and not real exciting as an OS bullet point feature. I've started to use Copernic Desktop Search to navigate code, that is super useful, and I don't see virtual folders replacing it.
That's what'll happen with home users, but the focus of this article is on large corporate deployments. The forthcoming deployment and management features in Firefox 1.1/1.5 combined with the fact that 2k won't run IE7 should give Firefox a bit of a boost. Home users, for the most part, will get IE7 when they buy a new PC.
Will XP even install on a 486? I know Win Me refused to install on my old K5 PR 166+, so it seems unlikely that XP would install on a 486.
Lowest I ever had XP on was a Celeron 333Mhz, which started with 64MB and got upgraded to 128MB. It swapped a lot but you could use it.
The genius of that demo, I think, is that they made it look like it was gameplay, all the way down to the unique jerky POV that the original Killzone had. If I hadn't already been suckered into the hype for the original Killzone (which turned out to suck for the most part), and also played the abysmal Shellshock (same development studio I believe) I'd be very excited. I do think it is pre-render btw, just looks too good.
Maybe instead of working on WinFS, they should focus on coming up with an alternative to the registry.
.Net's GAC.
I believe that is the point of
I'd say the pendulum is swinging towards web apps for most things, making the desktop irrelevant. Open source is part of that trend, but so is MS with ASP.NET. I think Longhorn will do well, but only through attrition. And I have a feeling WinFX, Avalon, etc is going to fall flat on its face, viewed as interesting APIs but left pretty much unused because the web's inertia will have pretty much drained any significant interest in rich client development.
I bought my Inspiron, which came with Windows XP Home, with the intention of running Redhat 9 on it. Even went as far as buying a PCMCIA Prism based Wifi card because Dell's Broadcom based internal ones weren't Linux friendly at the time. That lasted about 3 days. Linux blows as a desktop OS, plain and simple. Everything is a pain in the ass, from ACPI to playing a streaming video. Windows has its flaws, but I don't have to read a HOW-TO to get my laptop to sleep when I close the lid. I have a NAT firewall, I keep Windows patched, I don't do P2P, I run Adaware on occasion. I don't have issues with Windows.
It seems to me that the Centrino brand is much like Microsoft's 'designed for' program, you can use their branding and marketing power but to do so you've got to meet a certain set of requirements. I don't see that as Intel telling anyone what they have to do with their product, they are simply saying this is what you have to do to take advantage of our branding campaign. Same as I can write Windows applications all day long, but if I want to use Designed for Windows XP I have to meet that program's criteria.
I think he was trying to say this debate on blogs over IP is inconsequential. He said hey look at China and India, their joining the US in producing innovation, and you're asking me about /. fussing over OSS drivers. Most of us here on /. look at it at the 'I can't believe SBC is trying to patent frames' perspective. I think if the question had been more pointed, something like 'Do you think overly broad patents can constrain innovation in software' his answer would have been different.
I'd agree with that. I got my Xbox for Halo, my favorite Xbox game is that Riddick one, I'll get Halo2... I have a PS2 as well, and I really don't care for it much, and I think that's in large part because its library skews towards Japanese influenced (or imported) games.
I don't see this format war being all that relevant. VHS was around for what, 10+ years, as the king of home video? DVD has really only become the most popular format in the last 3 or so. I think they're trying to force a format change way to early. I'm perfectly content with my Trinitron CRT and PS2, and I doubt I'm alone.
It seems to me this is a problem someone commissioned Gartner to create. If I want to steal data from my employer it's going to happen, blocking USB keys or iPods won't stop it. Most of us have CD burners at work now, 600-700 megs is a lot of documents... Nobody is talking about the danger of CD burners in the workplace and devising ways to disable them.
That's probably part of it, however I believe a lot of the early adopters of SA will still have to renew prior to Longhorn being released. I'd guess a large part of the date focus now IS OEM, as nobody, save gamers, has any real reason to upgrade from something purchased in the last 2 years or so. I bought a 2.4Ghz Dell Inspiron last Sept, and aside from getting some more RAM for it I don't see getting another machine for quite some time.
He did a little too good I think. Thing looks like a promo, like it was churned out commercially.
Pirated versions can get patches, just not Service Packs (at least that's how SP1 operates, I don't know about SP2).
I think he means you can use the Framework SDK on Windows, it's a free dl, and technically you can probably write anything, but without the VS goodness it's going to be painful. I've used SharpDevelop on and off, it's a pretty nice GPL C# IDE, but it tends to be crashy in my experience.
Dude that is a retarded argument. If I don't lock my door it may be dumb of me, but it's still tresspassing if you walk on into my home.
I don't feel it should be illegal, but CSS is there and the DMCA is law. Nobody seems to feel it's economically viable to produce a Linux DVD soft DVD player. So at this point and time, agree or not, you are technically breaking the law playing DVDs on Linux.
You've chosen to run a free OS the lack of legal DVD decoding is a downside, stop bitching.
BTW Fishing With John is great.