One of Opera's most powerful features is the moust gestures, IMHO. Being able to flip back and forth between pages by just clicking and holding the buttons, rather than having to move the pointer to the "back" button saves both time and saves stress on my wrist. No other browser does this, and once you get used to it (takes about an hour), you won't know what you did beforehand. It's that intuitive and easy.
Opera will have one hurtle to get over to make the voice-driven system a reality: page incompatability, especially with forms. I have more load problems (graphics/fonts/boxes) with Opera than with IE and Mozilla combined, even if I have Opera identify itself as something else. Voice would be great, but not if it screws up every 5th page.
But the original IBM PC BIOS was written back when the internet wasn't even a wet dream yet, and concepts like live updates weren't even born.
Notice that the feature didn't live on into the 1990's. There's a reason for that.
From someone who did, once, inadvertantly flash a bios with the wrong firmware and have to go though the hell that ensued to get a new firmware chip....the idea that the BIOS can directly connect to potentially damaging information is downright frightning. Imagine the potential if they allowed dynamic updating (think windows update), and the hell that could ensue if someone figured out how to hack its updating system.
Perhaps those email-hoxes of old about a virus completely destroying your computer were actually profetic.
It has little to do with quality. A old-school mechanic with 30+ years of tinkering has considerably more knowledge of automotive systems than some 19 year old fresh out of Lincon Tech. I'd trust my car to the old-timer before the new guy. Fact is, while the interface may be computer controlled, the engine itself is the same basic hardware that it was 100 years ago. The car computer can't "hear" bearing wrap like a human can. Sure, it'll turn the check-engine light on and give you an error code.
My point: putting the old-timers and the grease monkeys out of business by restricting their ability to solve the simple problems (like having to reset a computer-controlled a/c system, they need the codes), you take out the segement of population most able to solve the really hard problems.
As for your point about the range of cars on the road....I've never worked on a Dell before. But I have worked on an IBM, a Gateway, an HP, a Tandy, a Mac, a Swan, a Compaq, and a Digital. Does that mean I'm not qualified to work on a Dell?
I find it interesting that he discounts Eudora because "...as it is both closed source and not available for any UNIX platforms".
Ok, so we could still run it though WINE (like I do) and include it for the test. While not as tightly integrated as Outlook, it's a robust client that should not have been ignored. As for the closed source arguement...well, ok, he's got a point. Moodwatch is a very useful feature to keep from burning your own ass if you're in a bad mood.
Oh, and where the hell is Lotus Notes? I realize that it's not common as a home app, but it's still a major (pain in the ass) mail client. My company (70,000+ across 5 continents) uses it exclusively. He didn't even so much as mention the program's name in the article.
I have to wonder about a music "company" that would go and purchase a Harley considering you can't hear yourself think on one of them, let alone listen to anything
Perhaps it was the CEO's way of escaping the noise of crashing stock prices?
Freedom of speech online is going the same place freedom of speech in the US is: down the tubes.
(look at all of the BS and crackdowns that have come in the wake of Janet Jackson's (ugly) boob shot. The FCC is "reigning things in"....effectively restricting free speech).
I suck. I didn't RTFA.
But still, if we come in the last 100 feet over WiFi, we *still* have interference problems, perhaps caused by the EMF the powerline is going to give off in the first place.
...line spikes are a pretty common problem in most of the country (or at least out in the woods where I am), and must run a UPS or line supressor on everything that I value that's plugged into a wall. Assuming that I had a broadband over powerline modem, it would need the wall outlet for both power and for signal. That's a given.
So say I put one of my UPS's on the line (such as a TrippLite w/ISOBAR, which are really great for line noise supression)...does that mean my signal gets filtered out? So I have to leave the line unsupressed, and everytime we have a lightning strike in the area (at least 3-4 times a year), I'm calling the electric company to cmoe replace another fried modem? Do I have to purchase a special ($$$$) supressor from the electric company that has a bandgap filter just for that frequency?
Seems as if there are too many variables once you are inside the house, nevermind the problems with Ham bands, Bluetooth, etc.
"Saying they replug them back in at the fbi shows you have no idea of what is involved in this kind of investigation. They copy the HD's directly and completly by taking them out and putting them in their own hardware"...last time I checked, hard drives don't spin without power, hence powering things back up. Fine if they're putting them in their own hardware; That just takes more time.
I'm a biologist for pete's sake. WTF do I know about the FBI? Now, if you want to discuss the FDA, that's another story (and they suck, too).
"the FBI determined that it was more efficient (from their point of view) to remove all of our servers and transport them to the FBI local laboratories for inspection,"
Ok, so it's faster to have to unplug all of the servers, carry them out of the building, put them on a truck, drive them several (dozens?) of miles, unload them from the truck, put them in a warehouse, re-plug them all in, and now have to datamine without the assistance of the people who operate the systems.
Was I abducted by aliens and brought to Bizarro world while I slept last night, or am I just missing something here?
i960 was not a failure, though. Sure, it didn't make it as an x86 replacement, but if you take a look at just about any managed SCSI RAID card from the mid-to-late 90's, they all run i960's.
It's supposed to be 300mm. It refers to the size of the wafer that they're processing, not the nm-size of the transistors. Bigger wafer = more cores-per-wafer = higher thoughput.
Ditto for the private sector. I work for one of the big 5 pharma companies, and while cell phones are allowed, cameras of any size, shape or form are strictly banned. I had one for my Jornada. HAD. Basically was told that either it stayed home from that day forth or I stayed home from that day forth. PDA's are the same deal; if you want to use your own, it has to pass inspection by IT, and there's only a handful of models they do allow.
Understandable in a lot of ways. Figure a new drug is 100 million or so to bring to market, wouldn't take too much for some temp with a cell camera to take a few pretty pictures for the competition.
Veyr good point; likely they would be in ATRAC/ATRAC3+ format. If Sony acts like Sony usually does and does not provide us a WAV/MP3 output from the dump, we still have a leg up on the current system. NetMD, right now, has the security on the chip in the player, so there's no way to software hack into the system to allow downloads. At least if the raw data is already on the computer, albeit in ATRAC format, it gives us all the leg up for writing a decoder to dump it back to WAV.
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Trust implies more than one person/object/being in a given agreement, so there's no way that you alone could control the "trusting"
Opera will have one hurtle to get over to make the voice-driven system a reality: page incompatability, especially with forms. I have more load problems (graphics/fonts/boxes) with Opera than with IE and Mozilla combined, even if I have Opera identify itself as something else. Voice would be great, but not if it screws up every 5th page.
But the original IBM PC BIOS was written back when the internet wasn't even a wet dream yet, and concepts like live updates weren't even born. Notice that the feature didn't live on into the 1990's. There's a reason for that.
From someone who did, once, inadvertantly flash a bios with the wrong firmware and have to go though the hell that ensued to get a new firmware chip....the idea that the BIOS can directly connect to potentially damaging information is downright frightning. Imagine the potential if they allowed dynamic updating (think windows update), and the hell that could ensue if someone figured out how to hack its updating system.
Perhaps those email-hoxes of old about a virus completely destroying your computer were actually profetic.
It has little to do with quality. A old-school mechanic with 30+ years of tinkering has considerably more knowledge of automotive systems than some 19 year old fresh out of Lincon Tech. I'd trust my car to the old-timer before the new guy. Fact is, while the interface may be computer controlled, the engine itself is the same basic hardware that it was 100 years ago. The car computer can't "hear" bearing wrap like a human can. Sure, it'll turn the check-engine light on and give you an error code.
My point: putting the old-timers and the grease monkeys out of business by restricting their ability to solve the simple problems (like having to reset a computer-controlled a/c system, they need the codes), you take out the segement of population most able to solve the really hard problems.
As for your point about the range of cars on the road....I've never worked on a Dell before. But I have worked on an IBM, a Gateway, an HP, a Tandy, a Mac, a Swan, a Compaq, and a Digital. Does that mean I'm not qualified to work on a Dell?
Volvo, for instance, in their 850/S70/C70 line, it's under the change tray, right by your right (if you have a left-hand-drive car) knee.
Ok, so we could still run it though WINE (like I do) and include it for the test. While not as tightly integrated as Outlook, it's a robust client that should not have been ignored. As for the closed source arguement...well, ok, he's got a point. Moodwatch is a very useful feature to keep from burning your own ass if you're in a bad mood.
Oh, and where the hell is Lotus Notes? I realize that it's not common as a home app, but it's still a major (pain in the ass) mail client. My company (70,000+ across 5 continents) uses it exclusively. He didn't even so much as mention the program's name in the article.
2) ???
3) Life on Mars
4) Profit!
Marvin's going to be awfully mad when we come there to drill for oil.
Just what I needed....another bitch on all fours wearing nothing more than her birthday suit. I have enough pOrn on my computer already.
Perhaps it was the CEO's way of escaping the noise of crashing stock prices?
IRC still lives on, though. That is if you're not being harrassed by some FBI agent posing as a 14 year old girl who would like to meet you.
Freedom of speech online is going the same place freedom of speech in the US is: down the tubes. (look at all of the BS and crackdowns that have come in the wake of Janet Jackson's (ugly) boob shot. The FCC is "reigning things in"....effectively restricting free speech).
Only if your name is Freddie and you live on Elm street.
I suck. I didn't RTFA. But still, if we come in the last 100 feet over WiFi, we *still* have interference problems, perhaps caused by the EMF the powerline is going to give off in the first place.
So say I put one of my UPS's on the line (such as a TrippLite w/ISOBAR, which are really great for line noise supression)...does that mean my signal gets filtered out? So I have to leave the line unsupressed, and everytime we have a lightning strike in the area (at least 3-4 times a year), I'm calling the electric company to cmoe replace another fried modem? Do I have to purchase a special ($$$$) supressor from the electric company that has a bandgap filter just for that frequency?
Seems as if there are too many variables once you are inside the house, nevermind the problems with Ham bands, Bluetooth, etc.
It's MacGyver, you insensitive clod!
"Saying they replug them back in at the fbi shows you have no idea of what is involved in this kind of investigation. They copy the HD's directly and completly by taking them out and putting them in their own hardware" ...last time I checked, hard drives don't spin without power, hence powering things back up. Fine if they're putting them in their own hardware; That just takes more time.
I'm a biologist for pete's sake. WTF do I know about the FBI? Now, if you want to discuss the FDA, that's another story (and they suck, too).
Ok, so it's faster to have to unplug all of the servers, carry them out of the building, put them on a truck, drive them several (dozens?) of miles, unload them from the truck, put them in a warehouse, re-plug them all in, and now have to datamine without the assistance of the people who operate the systems.
Was I abducted by aliens and brought to Bizarro world while I slept last night, or am I just missing something here?
i960 was not a failure, though. Sure, it didn't make it as an x86 replacement, but if you take a look at just about any managed SCSI RAID card from the mid-to-late 90's, they all run i960's.
....looks like I'm going to have to take a sick day on Wednesday the 22nd, boss.... *cough, cough*
It's supposed to be 300mm. It refers to the size of the wafer that they're processing, not the nm-size of the transistors. Bigger wafer = more cores-per-wafer = higher thoughput.
Understandable in a lot of ways. Figure a new drug is 100 million or so to bring to market, wouldn't take too much for some temp with a cell camera to take a few pretty pictures for the competition.
VERY legitimate use of Photoshop. Next in line to the switching-heads-and-bodies.
Am I the only one who thought that this person was female and in prOn?
What's next? Someone's going to tell me that Brittney Spears is not a porn screen name?
Veyr good point; likely they would be in ATRAC/ATRAC3+ format. If Sony acts like Sony usually does and does not provide us a WAV/MP3 output from the dump, we still have a leg up on the current system. NetMD, right now, has the security on the chip in the player, so there's no way to software hack into the system to allow downloads. At least if the raw data is already on the computer, albeit in ATRAC format, it gives us all the leg up for writing a decoder to dump it back to WAV.