VNC isn't the same and doesn't work just as well at all.
VNC is not a per-application system in any sense.
When I'm sitting at my desktop running the GUI Xen interface off of one server, the Java HP interface from another server, and a remote database app off a third server all on my screen, I'm using X the way it was designed to be used. If I wanted to do the above with VNC, I'd have a bunch of annoying desktops on my screen to flip through, instead of applications. I'd also have to have vncserver installed on those machines, which is a bloated X server running in memory. No need for any of that with X forwarding.
I have lots of headless servers with no GUI interface that I can run GUI apps on remotely using X forwarding and SSH X tunnelling, and have no intention of installing VNC on any of them for no net benefit, and a horrible UI result.
Use the English dictionary near you and tell me what the word "summarize" means. It certainly does not mean to altar or add to in any way. It means to reduce in size while maintaining the broad concepts given in the original.
Summarizing an article has nothing to do with your opinions or thoughts on it. A review does, a summary doesn't.
Considering Sony was playing with the exact company and technology Microsoft is working with now, but back in the PS2 era (with the Eyetoy), this is hardly huge innovation.
Using dual cameras for 3D perception? Not new. Using IR sensors instead of visible light? See Wii. Using cameras to track body position and movement? See Eyetoy, and then Eye.
Sure the hardware's "neat" but its not innovative, and its certainly not mind blowing.
It uses IR for depth sensing, that means it will have the same problems in well-sunlit environments that the Wii does; don't let direct sunlight fall on the sensors.
I am a targetted OpenBSD user. I create Linux-based firewall router boxes regularly for clients. I would love to use OpenBSD instead but the installation process is too complex to wrap up easily for a customer. I can have a customer pop in a Linux CD remotely and VNC-install it from my desk for them over a VPN link.
AES encryption is only good if the keys are randomly generated or guaranteed to be secret at the time of transmission. If using fixed keys, or a bad system for key generation, its just as viewable as unencrypted video flying through the airwaves.
The same part that keeps it from being the major Desktop OS of the world; that its designed by people who care more about the nitty gritty of doing things the right way than impressing users with cuteness.
If you don't reboot your desktop/server running Linux (which I don't for long periods of time), the built-in caching algorithms do an excellent job of reducing disk activity.
Just last week I copied a 1.3GB backup file over the network with rsync, and then restored it into the database system. iostat showed almost all writes during the restore operation; the reads were hitting the filesystem cache instead of the disk.
The activity I'd find interesting would be marking the dentries that were cached most frequently and prefetching them after boot in the background to re-cache them. Not exactly the same as Microsoft's work.
The legroom problem I often have is the distance from my kneecap to my hip, not the traditional full leg length issue. I find in many cars that when sitting in the seat after getting into the car, I cannot swing my leg comfortably into the driving position without smashing it against the underside of the dash or the steering column. In many cars, even if I manage to contort myself into position, my knee continually rubs against the underside of the dash, causing great discomfort.
I pay my $15 to go to the Toronto International Auto Show every year to climb in and out of all the various manufacturer's cars until I have a list of the ones that fit at all. Its often a very very short list.
On a note of entertainment however, I fit perfectly in a SMART car. I can't stand them, but I do fit. Headroom, legroom, kneeroom, etc.
I recommend 15.6" laptops to almost everyone I deal with. A very few people want to have a portable desktop and use an attached USB keyboard with their laptops, in which case they can either spring for a larger screen or use a very small one with an attached LCD.
Also worth mentioning is that in the 15" LCD range, the internals of the machine aren't so squished yet that you're sacrificing a USB port to fit in the CD drive, or other options like that.
I drive a G6 GT for the record; its not a small car, it fits my family and vacation luggage nicely, but I refuse to buy a pickup or SUV or other oversized vehicle because they're less efficient and don't handle as well.
Being over 6' tall brings a whole other issue to vehicle selection. Most of the small to mid-sized cars won't allow my knees to enter the vehicle even with the seat set all the way back. Many of them won't let my head in comfortably, even without a sunroof.
While I'm glad vehicle manufacturers are making an effort to be more efficient, the 'smaller car' mantra irks me in that my necessarily larger vehicle selection gets harder and harder to find within a moderate price range.
If, like me, you put 1000km on your car in a few days for work driving all over the countryside, its nice to have a vehicle that performs predictably on the highway.
However, unlike the Prius, one can simply plug in a Volt and hypothetically drive it without ever engaging the gasoline engine. This is not an available option for the Prius.
Many large corporations in competitive environments actually wait for government mandates to implement new expensive technologies because it evens the playing field with their competitors.
If making your vehicle lower emissions by 30% would cost 10% more, you'd be uncompetitive, especially since most motorists never ask about total emissions (never seen it published in advertising even for a Prius). That said, they're fine with doing the work if all their competitors also have to do it, because then there's no 10% loss of competitiveness in pricing.
This has come up repeatedly in the context of catalytic convertors and other such technologies.
How is that stranger than using a Civic for private racing? People can and will do whatever they please with their private property. Its not for the rest to judge that they ought not do something that does no harm.
Despite the humour in your comment, we're already having the year of Linux. Its just not on the desktop, but embedded and mobile.
How many Android devices have sold in the last year running Linux? How many digital picture frames? Microsoft only wishes it was getting a piece of that pie, but its embedded product line isn't competitive (yet?) for these types of uses. There's no legacy software to worry about, no APIs people feel attached to. Linux is here and doing just fine, even when people don't know they're using it.
For one, the programmer is obviously familiar with Java; therefore you might not have Minecraft at all without it being written in Java.
Secondly and more importantly, the game isn't in any way limited by being in Java. Java also has the advantage of allowing the game to run on any platform with Java support.
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VNC isn't the same and doesn't work just as well at all.
VNC is not a per-application system in any sense.
When I'm sitting at my desktop running the GUI Xen interface off of one server, the Java HP interface from another server, and a remote database app off a third server all on my screen, I'm using X the way it was designed to be used. If I wanted to do the above with VNC, I'd have a bunch of annoying desktops on my screen to flip through, instead of applications. I'd also have to have vncserver installed on those machines, which is a bloated X server running in memory. No need for any of that with X forwarding.
I have lots of headless servers with no GUI interface that I can run GUI apps on remotely using X forwarding and SSH X tunnelling, and have no intention of installing VNC on any of them for no net benefit, and a horrible UI result.
Use the English dictionary near you and tell me what the word "summarize" means. It certainly does not mean to altar or add to in any way. It means to reduce in size while maintaining the broad concepts given in the original.
Summarizing an article has nothing to do with your opinions or thoughts on it. A review does, a summary doesn't.
A tear down is a taking apart of an object.
You work out the component pieces which is usually not revealed by the manufacturer.
Its also a well-used term.
Google "hardware tear down" for examples.
Considering Sony was playing with the exact company and technology Microsoft is working with now, but back in the PS2 era (with the Eyetoy), this is hardly huge innovation.
Using dual cameras for 3D perception? Not new. Using IR sensors instead of visible light? See Wii. Using cameras to track body position and movement? See Eyetoy, and then Eye.
Sure the hardware's "neat" but its not innovative, and its certainly not mind blowing.
It uses IR for depth sensing, that means it will have the same problems in well-sunlit environments that the Wii does; don't let direct sunlight fall on the sensors.
One has buttons. Buttons are good.
I am a targetted OpenBSD user. I create Linux-based firewall router boxes regularly for clients. I would love to use OpenBSD instead but the installation process is too complex to wrap up easily for a customer. I can have a customer pop in a Linux CD remotely and VNC-install it from my desk for them over a VPN link.
Good installers are not a bad thing.
Re-compressing compressed data is not the same as compressing source materials.
If you don't understand macroblocking and other artifact issues, you should look it up now.
More to the point, if its not the same signal as the wire gives me, I expect a disclaimer about possible quality losses.
That's not a valid answer.
AES encryption is only good if the keys are randomly generated or guaranteed to be secret at the time of transmission. If using fixed keys, or a bad system for key generation, its just as viewable as unencrypted video flying through the airwaves.
The same part that keeps it from being the major Desktop OS of the world; that its designed by people who care more about the nitty gritty of doing things the right way than impressing users with cuteness.
If you don't reboot your desktop/server running Linux (which I don't for long periods of time), the built-in caching algorithms do an excellent job of reducing disk activity.
Just last week I copied a 1.3GB backup file over the network with rsync, and then restored it into the database system. iostat showed almost all writes during the restore operation; the reads were hitting the filesystem cache instead of the disk.
The activity I'd find interesting would be marking the dentries that were cached most frequently and prefetching them after boot in the background to re-cache them. Not exactly the same as Microsoft's work.
The legroom problem I often have is the distance from my kneecap to my hip, not the traditional full leg length issue. I find in many cars that when sitting in the seat after getting into the car, I cannot swing my leg comfortably into the driving position without smashing it against the underside of the dash or the steering column. In many cars, even if I manage to contort myself into position, my knee continually rubs against the underside of the dash, causing great discomfort.
I pay my $15 to go to the Toronto International Auto Show every year to climb in and out of all the various manufacturer's cars until I have a list of the ones that fit at all. Its often a very very short list.
On a note of entertainment however, I fit perfectly in a SMART car. I can't stand them, but I do fit. Headroom, legroom, kneeroom, etc.
I won't be the first or last to point out that Windows 7 is already a point-release from Windows Vista.
Another wouldn't be unprecedented though. Windows NT4 was getting pretty stable by service pack 6a after all.
I recommend 15.6" laptops to almost everyone I deal with. A very few people want to have a portable desktop and use an attached USB keyboard with their laptops, in which case they can either spring for a larger screen or use a very small one with an attached LCD.
Also worth mentioning is that in the 15" LCD range, the internals of the machine aren't so squished yet that you're sacrificing a USB port to fit in the CD drive, or other options like that.
I just have to say, that command line is one of the reasons I love Linux.
I was in the process of constructing something similar when I saw your post as I scrolled.
My home directory is mostly dumps from camera memory cards, so my size distribution is a little different but:
2121 0
43172 1
9290 2
7677 3
11699 4
6917 5
3573 6
3505 7
4277 8
4584 9
Just have to throw this out there, but I love my USB heavy motherboard.
I drive a G6 GT for the record; its not a small car, it fits my family and vacation luggage nicely, but I refuse to buy a pickup or SUV or other oversized vehicle because they're less efficient and don't handle as well.
Being over 6' tall brings a whole other issue to vehicle selection. Most of the small to mid-sized cars won't allow my knees to enter the vehicle even with the seat set all the way back. Many of them won't let my head in comfortably, even without a sunroof.
While I'm glad vehicle manufacturers are making an effort to be more efficient, the 'smaller car' mantra irks me in that my necessarily larger vehicle selection gets harder and harder to find within a moderate price range.
If, like me, you put 1000km on your car in a few days for work driving all over the countryside, its nice to have a vehicle that performs predictably on the highway.
CVT doesn't have transmission lock, where most decent automatics do, totally eliminating the 'cost' of running an automatic at high speeds.
CVT wastes some energy, energy not lost when using a manual transmission, or when cruising at highway speeds in a modern automatic.
CVTs are cool and fun, especially in-town, but people who drive automatics with autostick transmissions can outperform them as well as manuals.
However, unlike the Prius, one can simply plug in a Volt and hypothetically drive it without ever engaging the gasoline engine. This is not an available option for the Prius.
Many large corporations in competitive environments actually wait for government mandates to implement new expensive technologies because it evens the playing field with their competitors.
If making your vehicle lower emissions by 30% would cost 10% more, you'd be uncompetitive, especially since most motorists never ask about total emissions (never seen it published in advertising even for a Prius). That said, they're fine with doing the work if all their competitors also have to do it, because then there's no 10% loss of competitiveness in pricing.
This has come up repeatedly in the context of catalytic convertors and other such technologies.
How is that stranger than using a Civic for private racing? People can and will do whatever they please with their private property. Its not for the rest to judge that they ought not do something that does no harm.
I was going to post the same thing. We had this released up north last month. Been enjoying my free discless trial for several weeks already.
Despite the humour in your comment, we're already having the year of Linux. Its just not on the desktop, but embedded and mobile.
How many Android devices have sold in the last year running Linux? How many digital picture frames? Microsoft only wishes it was getting a piece of that pie, but its embedded product line isn't competitive (yet?) for these types of uses. There's no legacy software to worry about, no APIs people feel attached to. Linux is here and doing just fine, even when people don't know they're using it.
Nonsense.
For one, the programmer is obviously familiar with Java; therefore you might not have Minecraft at all without it being written in Java.
Secondly and more importantly, the game isn't in any way limited by being in Java. Java also has the advantage of allowing the game to run on any platform with Java support.