I use GMail. About any web-based mail should suffice. I suspect that some of the other web mail services have advanced capabilities for sorting and such. Google offers GMail for domains so you can use your own domain name, and you can access it through a POP3 interface. Just a thought...
I was talking to a friend of mine the other night, a friend who has had an opportunity to work with people at Apple to develop drivers for a network adapter or something similar. He says that Apple is horrible to deal with because no one knows (is allowed to know) anything going on outside of their department. Evidently the company has informational bulkheads everywhere, very likely so that, like in a submarine, a leak in one area won't take down the entire vessel. Having established a structure like this, it's likely that even the guys at the top can maintain plausible deniability.
I don't really see Apple letting OSX run on non-Apple hardware while Jobs is at the helm. We would conceivably see VMWare Server for OSX letting people run multiple OSX images simultaneously. Of course, then you'd need some really fat XServe machines to host a bunch of virtual machines, which would be nice. I'm still expecting some sort of hypervisor to come with Leopard, which would allow you to partition a box into a number of simultaneous OSes a la AIX on Power5. We've consolidated a bunch machines at work onto a few, and it works really well except when the host machine needs some maintenance or takes a crap. One nice thing about it is that the amount of effort it takes to convince management that you need your own server is a lot lower now, since one can be essentially carved out of unused capacity on a host.
If Apple did such a thing, two major improvements they could make would be a) building the system with grid awareness so you could spread your LPARs across multiple hosts, and b) allowing you to move an LPAR from one host to another if you need to take a machine down for maintenance. Neither of these things is currently possible with AIX 5.3. I would think with grid awareness, one could move a machine while it was live, so long as you disabled one host for new thread casting and waited for all existing threads to finish before shutting it down. I seem to remember that MOSIX does something like that.
Personally, I like Sketchup, and it runs on the Mac. Oh, yeah, it compares to any professional CAD about like a hammer and chisel compare to a Mont blanc pen, but I like it. Of course, IANAME (Mech. Eng.).
Let's take preconceived notions about Microsoft out of the equation here for just a minute (hard to do, I know). If a system can't even get an IP address without proving that it's a good network citizen, then it can't do much of anything network related. In my experience, there's not typically a requirement to sign on to Active Directory or participate in WINS to get out on the Net; if you have an IP address and client software, you're surfing.
I think it's fair to assume that anyone reading an article on Slashdot should know what Aqua is, so saying, "Apple's Illuminous, the follow-on to Aqua..." seems like a reasonable approach. In that same vein, the author could have said, "...compete with Aero, the follow-on to Windows Explorer..." (or the Windows GUI or whatever). Yeah, a certain amount of base knowledge is more or less required to read here. If you don't know what Linux is, go somewhere else. And you'd better know that PSP stands for "Playstation Portable." But tell me, how long did it take for your brain to learn that WGA had to do with Microsoft's licensing rather than a new graphics standard?
What if you generally ignore articles about Vista because it's Microsoft's opertating system and you don't really care what features it has? OTOH, I'm interested in new Apple developments, so I was reading the article. The OP's point stands, to my way of thinking. And yeah, I picked up on your sarcasm.
I want "comic strip search." For instance, I'd like to be able to search for the Calvin 'n Hobbes strip where Calvin shouts, "Help, help, I'm being oppressed!" All I can find is Dennis the Peasant.:-\
I actually like the ads in GMail. They're context-sensitive, so when I'm chatting with one of my friends about the latest hare-brained idea (rocket boosters based on parafin/lox, personal VTOL aircraft, etc.), we get an on-going catalog of mostly-related products. Some of them have been very useful, and gotten us past some difficult engineering problems.
I've often wondered (with essentially no knowledge of optics) whether or not a monitor reflection could be projected onto the end of a fiber optic strand, sent some distance, then re-expanded on the other end through a lens to form a HUD. You could put the heavy-lifting portions of image generation remote from the headset. Of course, the bandwidth of the fiber would have to be sufficient to transmit the stream, but that doesn't seem unreasonable.
Maybe they should call them UAAVs, for Unmanned Autonomous Aerial Vehicles. Do your models have any on-board decision making capability? It seems like with the abundance of cheap PLCs and environmental sensors, some sort of hobbyist collision avoidance solution could be cobbled together. Of course, I've already said about 40% more than I actually know about the subject. Still...
The company I work for has been implementing this sort of infrastructure over the past year. It's hard. With all the IM clients available, getting one system that will handle all the traffic and maintain usability in the face of changing features across the field is hard enough; couple that with long term storage requirements for corporate e-mail where the culture is to send huge attachments around willy-nilly, and add in all the other changing requirements, and the burden to adhere to this new bit of legislation becomes quite a burden.
Couple that with the fact that the company I work for is a regulated utility that has to convince the local PUC each year that costs to provide service continue to go up, and the margins just keep getting tighter. Every year around March, there's a panic call from Accounting asking everyone to contribute some of their budget back to the bottom line because of some new development that wasn't forseen the previous year. For a cash-strapped IT department wanting to provide good service, the problems just mount up, stresses are high, and the employment door keeps revolving.
I tried making one of those once, but I live in Oregon, and back in the 70s, there wasn't enough sun to do a decent job in any reasonable amount of time. OTOH, I drove two lines of 16d nails through a plank about four inches apart, wired one line to one leg of an extension cord, the other line to the other leg. I used hot dogs to bridge the gap between the two lines and plugged it in. The hotdogs all cooked in about two seconds. In hindsight, I should have put a rheostat in the circuit somewhere to control the current. A switch would have been nice, too, I think, to turn the thing off when the dogs were done.
...or I can have the same size 3D display for the same price" then it will start to spread.
More likely "or I can have the same size 3D display for only a 50% premium." People are willing to pay for what they want, they just have limits to their abilities to convince themselves that the "price:cool factor" ratio is low enough to afford.
I had a Telstar Arcade when I was a kid. It would have maybe been marginally cool if I had been able to get more than the original cartridge that came with it.:-(
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It makes you wonder if they actually constructed one of these blue lasers, or if it's just vaporware...
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I use GMail. About any web-based mail should suffice. I suspect that some of the other web mail services have advanced capabilities for sorting and such. Google offers GMail for domains so you can use your own domain name, and you can access it through a POP3 interface. Just a thought...
I was talking to a friend of mine the other night, a friend who has had an opportunity to work with people at Apple to develop drivers for a network adapter or something similar. He says that Apple is horrible to deal with because no one knows (is allowed to know) anything going on outside of their department. Evidently the company has informational bulkheads everywhere, very likely so that, like in a submarine, a leak in one area won't take down the entire vessel. Having established a structure like this, it's likely that even the guys at the top can maintain plausible deniability.
I don't really see Apple letting OSX run on non-Apple hardware while Jobs is at the helm. We would conceivably see VMWare Server for OSX letting people run multiple OSX images simultaneously. Of course, then you'd need some really fat XServe machines to host a bunch of virtual machines, which would be nice. I'm still expecting some sort of hypervisor to come with Leopard, which would allow you to partition a box into a number of simultaneous OSes a la AIX on Power5. We've consolidated a bunch machines at work onto a few, and it works really well except when the host machine needs some maintenance or takes a crap. One nice thing about it is that the amount of effort it takes to convince management that you need your own server is a lot lower now, since one can be essentially carved out of unused capacity on a host.
If Apple did such a thing, two major improvements they could make would be a) building the system with grid awareness so you could spread your LPARs across multiple hosts, and b) allowing you to move an LPAR from one host to another if you need to take a machine down for maintenance. Neither of these things is currently possible with AIX 5.3. I would think with grid awareness, one could move a machine while it was live, so long as you disabled one host for new thread casting and waited for all existing threads to finish before shutting it down. I seem to remember that MOSIX does something like that.
Personally, I like Sketchup, and it runs on the Mac. Oh, yeah, it compares to any professional CAD about like a hammer and chisel compare to a Mont blanc pen, but I like it. Of course, IANAME (Mech. Eng.).
Aw, what's a few orders of magnitude between friends? ;^)
Are you willing to bet the cover price of the book on that?
Let's take preconceived notions about Microsoft out of the equation here for just a minute (hard to do, I know). If a system can't even get an IP address without proving that it's a good network citizen, then it can't do much of anything network related. In my experience, there's not typically a requirement to sign on to Active Directory or participate in WINS to get out on the Net; if you have an IP address and client software, you're surfing.
I think it's fair to assume that anyone reading an article on Slashdot should know what Aqua is, so saying, "Apple's Illuminous, the follow-on to Aqua..." seems like a reasonable approach. In that same vein, the author could have said, "...compete with Aero, the follow-on to Windows Explorer..." (or the Windows GUI or whatever). Yeah, a certain amount of base knowledge is more or less required to read here. If you don't know what Linux is, go somewhere else. And you'd better know that PSP stands for "Playstation Portable." But tell me, how long did it take for your brain to learn that WGA had to do with Microsoft's licensing rather than a new graphics standard?
I'm just sayin'...
What if you generally ignore articles about Vista because it's Microsoft's opertating system and you don't really care what features it has? OTOH, I'm interested in new Apple developments, so I was reading the article. The OP's point stands, to my way of thinking. And yeah, I picked up on your sarcasm.
I want "comic strip search." For instance, I'd like to be able to search for the Calvin 'n Hobbes strip where Calvin shouts, "Help, help, I'm being oppressed!" All I can find is Dennis the Peasant. :-\
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I'm not sure that means what you think it means.
I actually like the ads in GMail. They're context-sensitive, so when I'm chatting with one of my friends about the latest hare-brained idea (rocket boosters based on parafin/lox, personal VTOL aircraft, etc.), we get an on-going catalog of mostly-related products. Some of them have been very useful, and gotten us past some difficult engineering problems.
I've often wondered (with essentially no knowledge of optics) whether or not a monitor reflection could be projected onto the end of a fiber optic strand, sent some distance, then re-expanded on the other end through a lens to form a HUD. You could put the heavy-lifting portions of image generation remote from the headset. Of course, the bandwidth of the fiber would have to be sufficient to transmit the stream, but that doesn't seem unreasonable.
this is fundamentally a software and FAA (ICAO) procedural problem in the future.
Sounds like a good community project (OSS) to me. Would the FAA play?
Umm... Aren't the cops part of "civil" ??
Maybe they should call them UAAVs, for Unmanned Autonomous Aerial Vehicles. Do your models have any on-board decision making capability? It seems like with the abundance of cheap PLCs and environmental sensors, some sort of hobbyist collision avoidance solution could be cobbled together. Of course, I've already said about 40% more than I actually know about the subject. Still...
The company I work for has been implementing this sort of infrastructure over the past year. It's hard. With all the IM clients available, getting one system that will handle all the traffic and maintain usability in the face of changing features across the field is hard enough; couple that with long term storage requirements for corporate e-mail where the culture is to send huge attachments around willy-nilly, and add in all the other changing requirements, and the burden to adhere to this new bit of legislation becomes quite a burden.
Couple that with the fact that the company I work for is a regulated utility that has to convince the local PUC each year that costs to provide service continue to go up, and the margins just keep getting tighter. Every year around March, there's a panic call from Accounting asking everyone to contribute some of their budget back to the bottom line because of some new development that wasn't forseen the previous year. For a cash-strapped IT department wanting to provide good service, the problems just mount up, stresses are high, and the employment door keeps revolving.
I tried making one of those once, but I live in Oregon, and back in the 70s, there wasn't enough sun to do a decent job in any reasonable amount of time. OTOH, I drove two lines of 16d nails through a plank about four inches apart, wired one line to one leg of an extension cord, the other line to the other leg. I used hot dogs to bridge the gap between the two lines and plugged it in. The hotdogs all cooked in about two seconds. In hindsight, I should have put a rheostat in the circuit somewhere to control the current. A switch would have been nice, too, I think, to turn the thing off when the dogs were done.
That doesn't reduce this kid's accomplishment. He's seventeen years old; he deserves his fifteen minutes.
Thanks. I had a nasty feeling I'd spelled that wrong. Argle argle argle!
boxen boxen boxen boxen
Personally, I think it's an imminently useable colloquialism.
More likely "or I can have the same size 3D display for only a 50% premium." People are willing to pay for what they want, they just have limits to their abilities to convince themselves that the "price:cool factor" ratio is low enough to afford.
You must be from outer space, as you sure know how to take the air out of something.
I had a Telstar Arcade when I was a kid. It would have maybe been marginally cool if I had been able to get more than the original cartridge that came with it. :-(
It makes you wonder if they actually constructed one of these blue lasers, or if it's just vaporware...