If a dedicated server setup like Itunes can't keep up with the quality what makes you think comedy Central or NBC can? I purchase shows from iTunes whenever I miss an episode in a story arc. The end display quality is usually better than what I can record on my computer directly from the TV broadcast.
HD content though can only be done with HD, and therefore is worse than regular broadcasts
that's just it, apps can be cross platform. java springs to mind. a fast java is also possible in a properly designed OS, and intergrated JVM.
Odd that first time I heard this I thought of Home on IPod that hits the Mac rumour mill with every "OS X" release.
it is possible. the hard part is that MSF will have to break compatibility with existing systems, something they avoid at all costs including security.
clicks are an increase in pressure. Since reading the patent, I have played with my Motorola L2, moving my finger on the back in various circular patterns and pressure settings.
The Ipod nano is roughly the same size. Holding my hands on the edges to prevent smudges ona "full" sized screen the controls are going to be remarkably easy to use. I don't think most people under stand exactly how the controls will be used. this really is an innovated interface. combine some good ideas but I have never seen exactly this style before.
this idea is only useful for handheld devices and that is what is throwing people.
Did you miss the part about it being on the side of a mountain? how about the part where the radio signals are bouncing around the canyon walls creating echo's and false readings? When was the last time you climbed a mountian? searching them isn't always a walk in the park in your tennis shoes.
Heck you didn't even have to RFTA just the comments to learn that much. Slashdot is definitely going down hill.
according to MSFT own developers the windows codebase is filled with circular dependancies. Think the backup department of the government department of redundcies.
Unitl they actually break compatibility, and actually rewrite the codebase instead of just porting windows XP to the Win2k3 kernel, and make the whole system modular, your going to get massive patches.
I have spent the last three days teaching someone how to use windows XP when all they used to use was windows 98. Every interface is different. Stop teaching interfaces and start teaching ideas. Stop teaching MSFT word, start teaching word processing. Teach spreadsheets not excel.
I can sit down in front of any computer and begin to figure it out. i wasn't taught windows, I learned about windows from windows. I learned about OS X from OS X. and I figured out how to make a custom kde setup from KDE.
You want to know what I find short comings in them all. They are tied to one group, one development process. I want an OS that has the ease of use of OS X, with the multi-platform binaries of java, and the remote windowing of X. I want to carry my home directory files on an encrypted thumb drive, and load up my files, whether or not the OS is OS X, linux, windows, solaris, plan 9, or what ever else the future may bring.
we have the knowledge and technology to do that today.
Why don't you Read that article? MSFT deferred ALL Vista sales from October 2006 to the first quarter.
So everyone who bought a PC for christmas and got a Vista voucher is also counted in that list. So all those Vista Business sales only got counted in the first quarter.
PC sales are down, how can Vista Sales be sky high? maybe because MSFT counted 1.5 quarters of vista sales in one quarter. what they did is technically legal, but one can't judge Vista sales by it because of what they did. As it artificially inflates the numbers.
Lets see who they do in this quarter. Especially with Dell selling XP machines again.
No they run them through storm drains. your phone, cable, and electrical company's do it all the time. At least for the larger trunk lines of the drains.
Ballmer is just trying Karl Roves trick of saying something enough times so that it becomes true.
EndlessLies, er sorry Enderle also says the iPhone will suck.
Of course neither of these men have actually held one in their hands, used it. While I will never own an iPhone that is not because I don't think it's cool, but because I like my tiny phone, with simple menu's that is only good for making phone calls.
But that's me, the iPhone though does look good though.
I don 't own a home yet I get offers to refinance my home weekly. When my car loan was about to hit 3 years I started getting offers to refinance and extend my warranty. I have never voted, yet when i changed counties that I lived in I was suddenly called to jury duty for the first time. I discovered the local county already data mines the DMV looking for new people for jury duty.
What's the difference. companies and governments already data mine the public record. Oh and there are no barriers, that is an illusion that you are hanging on to. I want to be able to know information is being known about me, so I can hide it easier. I can't data mine about myself without lots of tedious work. 50 years ago all this information was still there. It was just done on paper. It was still legal to go looking through it. It just took longer.
I actually ran into this in another product. I was looking at new USB thumb drives on Newegg. roughly $40 for a 4 gig, $80 for 8 gig and $150 for a 16 gig drives.
while out shopping I stopped in at CompUSA. 4 gig was on sale at $60, and the 8 gig was on sale for $110.
Gateway has already tried the direct box order from our shiny store routine, and it killed them. Then again i wouldn't cry if dell died out too.making 1/2 a percent profit on hardware alone will kill anyone. Yep That's right Dell makes 1/2 of a percent on there machine while MSFT makes 300-400% percent on XP, less on vista but then again it is new.
I can't install third party apps on my phone, unless I buy a PDA. I have to use what my mobile carrier offers. You can't switch carriers as they all do it in the USA. Cingular, verizon, t-mobile. Data rates are extra some $20 a month more on top of your regular connection charges.
So I can have a $100 a month cell phone bill, for features I might use 6 times a year. I could also stick with my $40 a month bill and say while those features are cool, I am not going to get ripped off by trying to use them.
last I knew apple hadn't updated quicktime or itunes, for Vista. So people are running into problems with a heavily drm'd OS not properly running applications that weren't designed to run on it.
gtalk works fine under adium, which is based on libpurple, or whatever it is being called now. No video is another story. i don't see why it is so hard for video to be done. As even google said when gtalk was first sent out that video would be added.
let's see here $1.00 to process the image remotely because no cell phone can, $1.00 data charge for access the website to buy tickets from, $5.00 random extra charge because your using cingular's/Verizon's/sprints special web buy service, another $1.00 worth of data rate charges because you entered your credit card wrong.
In the end I don't friggin think so. Cool concept, but every company has to get their piece of the pie, and it needs to be bigger than everyone else's piece too.
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If a dedicated server setup like Itunes can't keep up with the quality what makes you think comedy Central or NBC can? I purchase shows from iTunes whenever I miss an episode in a story arc. The end display quality is usually better than what I can record on my computer directly from the TV broadcast.
HD content though can only be done with HD, and therefore is worse than regular broadcasts
that's just it, apps can be cross platform. java springs to mind. a fast java is also possible in a properly designed OS, and intergrated JVM.
Odd that first time I heard this I thought of Home on IPod that hits the Mac rumour mill with every "OS X" release.
it is possible. the hard part is that MSF will have to break compatibility with existing systems, something they avoid at all costs including security.
clicks are an increase in pressure. Since reading the patent, I have played with my Motorola L2, moving my finger on the back in various circular patterns and pressure settings.
The Ipod nano is roughly the same size. Holding my hands on the edges to prevent smudges ona "full" sized screen the controls are going to be remarkably easy to use. I don't think most people under stand exactly how the controls will be used. this really is an innovated interface. combine some good ideas but I have never seen exactly this style before.
this idea is only useful for handheld devices and that is what is throwing people.
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Did you miss the part about it being on the side of a mountain? how about the part where the radio signals are bouncing around the canyon walls creating echo's and false readings?
When was the last time you climbed a mountian? searching them isn't always a walk in the park in your tennis shoes.
Heck you didn't even have to RFTA just the comments to learn that much. Slashdot is definitely going down hill.
while ideal MSFT couldn't do that.
according to MSFT own developers the windows codebase is filled with circular dependancies. Think the backup department of the government department of redundcies.
Unitl they actually break compatibility, and actually rewrite the codebase instead of just porting windows XP to the Win2k3 kernel, and make the whole system modular, your going to get massive patches.
Of course Radio Shack sells more than cell phones.
Mine also sells vcr's, dvd players and race cars.
Use your gmail address for MSN Live messanger service. That way people can reach you from either service via IM's.
Now if only someone would come up with a universal client that allows voice and video.
There is an undisclosed side effect of being a champion. Most tend to die young, the rest leave the game entirely.
I would much rather have an old salt who knew his shit, and told it like it was than a champion who rushes in to make himself look good.
I have spent the last three days teaching someone how to use windows XP when all they used to use was windows 98. Every interface is different. Stop teaching interfaces and start teaching ideas. Stop teaching MSFT word, start teaching word processing. Teach spreadsheets not excel.
I can sit down in front of any computer and begin to figure it out. i wasn't taught windows, I learned about windows from windows. I learned about OS X from OS X. and I figured out how to make a custom kde setup from KDE.
You want to know what I find short comings in them all. They are tied to one group, one development process. I want an OS that has the ease of use of OS X, with the multi-platform binaries of java, and the remote windowing of X. I want to carry my home directory files on an encrypted thumb drive, and load up my files, whether or not the OS is OS X, linux, windows, solaris, plan 9, or what ever else the future may bring.
we have the knowledge and technology to do that today.
Why don't you Read that article? MSFT deferred ALL Vista sales from October 2006 to the first quarter.
So everyone who bought a PC for christmas and got a Vista voucher is also counted in that list. So all those Vista Business sales only got counted in the first quarter.
PC sales are down, how can Vista Sales be sky high? maybe because MSFT counted 1.5 quarters of vista sales in one quarter. what they did is technically legal, but one can't judge Vista sales by it because of what they did. As it artificially inflates the numbers.
Lets see who they do in this quarter. Especially with Dell selling XP machines again.
No they run them through storm drains. your phone, cable, and electrical company's do it all the time. At least for the larger trunk lines of the drains.
It also partially solves, the jealousy problem.
The problem isn't sex in space, but relationships in space. nasa hasn't figured out that part yet, how much you want to bet they screw it up?
that's funny my computer is filled with files of a dozen kb. and web servers are filled with thousands of files only a few kb in size.
Ballmer is just trying Karl Roves trick of saying something enough times so that it becomes true.
EndlessLies, er sorry Enderle also says the iPhone will suck.
Of course neither of these men have actually held one in their hands, used it. While I will never own an iPhone that is not because I don't think it's cool, but because I like my tiny phone, with simple menu's that is only good for making phone calls.
But that's me, the iPhone though does look good though.
Can I smack you with a dead fish?
I don 't own a home yet I get offers to refinance my home weekly. When my car loan was about to hit 3 years I started getting offers to refinance and extend my warranty. I have never voted, yet when i changed counties that I lived in I was suddenly called to jury duty for the first time. I discovered the local county already data mines the DMV looking for new people for jury duty.
What's the difference. companies and governments already data mine the public record. Oh and there are no barriers, that is an illusion that you are hanging on to. I want to be able to know information is being known about me, so I can hide it easier. I can't data mine about myself without lots of tedious work. 50 years ago all this information was still there. It was just done on paper. It was still legal to go looking through it. It just took longer.
I actually ran into this in another product. I was looking at new USB thumb drives on Newegg. roughly $40 for a 4 gig, $80 for 8 gig and $150 for a 16 gig drives.
while out shopping I stopped in at CompUSA. 4 gig was on sale at $60, and the 8 gig was on sale for $110.
Gateway has already tried the direct box order from our shiny store routine, and it killed them. Then again i wouldn't cry if dell died out too.making 1/2 a percent profit on hardware alone will kill anyone. Yep That's right Dell makes 1/2 of a percent on there machine while MSFT makes 300-400% percent on XP, less on vista but then again it is new.
And that's why a monopoly is bad.
MSFT makes roughly 400% profit on office and windows.
Every other product line is barely making profit or is losing money.
Without Window and Office MSFT would have been out of business a long time ago as those two product lines fund everything else.
have you ever heard of OS X? a BSD backend on top of a proprietary front end. a new file system layout and your done.
They include tux but not GNU. the GNU mascot is scary
two simple points
Slashdot needs a -1 disturbing modifier.
God made sheep soft so we could shave them naked first.
I can't install third party apps on my phone, unless I buy a PDA. I have to use what my mobile carrier offers. You can't switch carriers as they all do it in the USA. Cingular, verizon, t-mobile. Data rates are extra some $20 a month more on top of your regular connection charges.
So I can have a $100 a month cell phone bill, for features I might use 6 times a year. I could also stick with my $40 a month bill and say while those features are cool, I am not going to get ripped off by trying to use them.
last I knew apple hadn't updated quicktime or itunes, for Vista. So people are running into problems with a heavily drm'd OS not properly running applications that weren't designed to run on it.
should i be surprised?
gtalk works fine under adium, which is based on libpurple, or whatever it is being called now. No video is another story. i don't see why it is so hard for video to be done. As even google said when gtalk was first sent out that video would be added.
let's see here $1.00 to process the image remotely because no cell phone can, $1.00 data charge for access the website to buy tickets from, $5.00 random extra charge because your using cingular's/Verizon's/sprints special web buy service, another $1.00 worth of data rate charges because you entered your credit card wrong.
In the end I don't friggin think so. Cool concept, but every company has to get their piece of the pie, and it needs to be bigger than everyone else's piece too.
Thus a good idea fails miserably.