Please make an iPhone, please! I promess I will be a good boy, swear to god! Serious, do you have any idea what a phone would be with an ipod wheel on it? Scrolling through those contacts?
Funny that archeology in the future will be totally different. Instead of trying to maximise information out of a 2500 BC chicken bone, the art will be how to distill meaning out of gazillions of backup tapes... But true, I already spent half a day once trying to load my own thesis....
There is a lot to be said against ID cards, but let's be honest. When I stayed in the UK I went to vote TWICE for a european election, just to show I could get away with it. When I opened a bank account, they asked me to bring a letter adressed to myself as proof of ID. If you know a mans mothers maiden name, it is as good as the PIN code to his credit card. There are a lot of good uses for near-unbreakable ID. The question is not the cards, the question is the database: who will keep it, and who will be allowed to read it. Please note you can also keep a database without issuing the cards...
is what is halting Linux on the desktop. ONE place for bookmarks, shared by all browsers. ONE place for file associations, shared by all window managers. etc, etc... Why is it so difficult?
He seems to forget a lot of OS software gets coded today by people who get a check for it. If half of the devellopers on a big project are paid by corporations, is it that difficult that the project does what the corporations want?
Putting the software in ROM would already help a lot as far as malware is concerned. Nothing would survive a reboot. My point is that if Google keeps on expanding their online software the way they do now, your average user (non gamer) will only need a stripped down OS and a good browser. The only things to keep in flash would be connection settings and browser bookmarks, passwords, coockies. With everything locked down, how hard can it be to forbid the OS to run anything not in ROM?
Give me a solid state PC WITHOUT harddisk (now that should drop the price a little). Give it some flash for local settings. Hook it up to the net and use GMAIL, a webversion of Picasa, and let me use some of those 2 Gbytes to store wordprocessor documents. It would be good enough for my mother, and no virus/worm/spyware on earth would be able to get to it. Hell, it wouldn't need a firewall or AV. Combine it with a flatscreen which I can also use as TV. How much would that cost?
This being linux and shit is really cool but when I try to load the examples on Mandrake 10.1 I get "Mozilla does not know how to handle this." Which program can handle this?
After I have gone, young people will come with new ideas, new dreams, new problems. They will require the (intellectual) space fat ass rich guys will claim for their eternal life. I do not believe I have achieved enough in this world for my mind to persist past my body. All good things come to an end, and this includes me!
If you give a user two computers with Office 2003 and Office 2000, then I estimate 98% of the users in my company will never see the difference. Heck, if MS were to drop Office for Mac today, the current version would remain "good enough" for at least 5 years, plenty of time for StarOffice/Openoffice to take over. Now I can see 10 years from now real AI entering Office software, bringing help to users. But I shure like hell can't imagine how they will keep on milking that cow until then. What new feature do YOU want in Office 12?
I have an old 6030i (or something), I use the windows synching software from Nokia (which sucks like a jet engine). This would be one area where open source/open standards could REALLY make progress. Imagine I come within Bluetooth range of a colleages laptop. The laptop sais "I don't know this dude so I'm not giving him access to my Calender, but if he wants to talk to that Exchange/Oracle server on the network, hey what the heck! My phone could then ID itself to the server and access my inbox/calender. It shouldn't be that difficult to make a hardware-independent PDA synching protocol. Just turn the phone into a IMAP client for example, or stream vCal/vCard files. As far as PDA synching is concerned we are really still in the days of setting up your printer in Wordperfect 3 and then doing it again in Lotus123. If OS could come up with a decent proposal/RFC for hardware abstraction, maybe the hardware boys would listen?
My boss sends me an invite to an annoying meeting. I click "accept" (unfortunately). It gets copied to my agenda and synchronised to my phone. 15 minutes before the meeting, my phone starts beeping and sais "QM meeting, room AX5". All with ONE mouseclick. Do this in open source and I will WALK all the way to Redmond to tell Billy he should stick a fork in it.
You could collect email adresses in a hashed form, just like passwords are stored on a server. You would be able to check if the sender is in the list, but not be able to "un-hash" the list back into real adresses. The way to get around it would be for spammers to attach their sender adresses to these funny mails people do like to forward to their friends.
They don't want me to make backups of my CD's? Well sell me a format which doesn't scratch! Make a small chip I can click into my stereo the way digital cameras work. If it is small enough it should be no problem clicking 20 into a car stereo.
I also pity the poor bastard that has to write those AWT libraries... Being Apache, question is if they will not concentrate on typical serverside libraries, and drop GUI java.
Is this only for SOHO networks or is there a use in a massive AD deployment?
Is this like old MS NETBEUI unroutable, or does it survive beyond the first router?
In Brussels, they just put a new kind of concrete instead of asphalt on one of the bussiest highway stretches. The manufacturor claims ith will hold maintenance-free for... thirty years.
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Please make an iPhone, please! I promess I will be a good boy, swear to god! Serious, do you have any idea what a phone would be with an ipod wheel on it? Scrolling through those contacts?
Funny that archeology in the future will be totally different. Instead of trying to maximise information out of a 2500 BC chicken bone, the art will be how to distill meaning out of gazillions of backup tapes... But true, I already spent half a day once trying to load my own thesis....
And how about my uncle? How am I supposed to stop him from knowing my mothers maiden name? Or stop him from beeing sloppy with it?
There is a lot to be said against ID cards, but let's be honest. When I stayed in the UK I went to vote TWICE for a european election, just to show I could get away with it. When I opened a bank account, they asked me to bring a letter adressed to myself as proof of ID. If you know a mans mothers maiden name, it is as good as the PIN code to his credit card. There are a lot of good uses for near-unbreakable ID. The question is not the cards, the question is the database: who will keep it, and who will be allowed to read it. Please note you can also keep a database without issuing the cards...
Easy for US ISP's to implement: just ask your friends in Saudi Arabia how they did it!
is what is halting Linux on the desktop. ONE place for bookmarks, shared by all browsers. ONE place for file associations, shared by all window managers. etc, etc... Why is it so difficult?
He seems to forget a lot of OS software gets coded today by people who get a check for it. If half of the devellopers on a big project are paid by corporations, is it that difficult that the project does what the corporations want?
they could use one on their server right now
Putting the software in ROM would already help a lot as far as malware is concerned. Nothing would survive a reboot. My point is that if Google keeps on expanding their online software the way they do now, your average user (non gamer) will only need a stripped down OS and a good browser. The only things to keep in flash would be connection settings and browser bookmarks, passwords, coockies. With everything locked down, how hard can it be to forbid the OS to run anything not in ROM?
Give me a solid state PC WITHOUT harddisk (now that should drop the price a little). Give it some flash for local settings. Hook it up to the net and use GMAIL, a webversion of Picasa, and let me use some of those 2 Gbytes to store wordprocessor documents. It would be good enough for my mother, and no virus/worm/spyware on earth would be able to get to it. Hell, it wouldn't need a firewall or AV. Combine it with a flatscreen which I can also use as TV. How much would that cost?
This being linux and shit is really cool but when I try to load the examples on Mandrake 10.1 I get "Mozilla does not know how to handle this." Which program can handle this?
http://www.maemo.org/screenshots.html
After I have gone, young people will come with new ideas, new dreams, new problems. They will require the (intellectual) space fat ass rich guys will claim for their eternal life. I do not believe I have achieved enough in this world for my mind to persist past my body. All good things come to an end, and this includes me!
If you give a user two computers with Office 2003 and Office 2000, then I estimate 98% of the users in my company will never see the difference. Heck, if MS were to drop Office for Mac today, the current version would remain "good enough" for at least 5 years, plenty of time for StarOffice/Openoffice to take over. Now I can see 10 years from now real AI entering Office software, bringing help to users. But I shure like hell can't imagine how they will keep on milking that cow until then. What new feature do YOU want in Office 12?
You are forgetting Windows CE. Should perfectly run on old hardware. Already has IE. Some tweaks and a citrix client....
I have an old 6030i (or something), I use the windows synching software from Nokia (which sucks like a jet engine). This would be one area where open source/open standards could REALLY make progress. Imagine I come within Bluetooth range of a colleages laptop. The laptop sais "I don't know this dude so I'm not giving him access to my Calender, but if he wants to talk to that Exchange/Oracle server on the network, hey what the heck! My phone could then ID itself to the server and access my inbox/calender. It shouldn't be that difficult to make a hardware-independent PDA synching protocol. Just turn the phone into a IMAP client for example, or stream vCal/vCard files. As far as PDA synching is concerned we are really still in the days of setting up your printer in Wordperfect 3 and then doing it again in Lotus123. If OS could come up with a decent proposal/RFC for hardware abstraction, maybe the hardware boys would listen?
My boss sends me an invite to an annoying meeting. I click "accept" (unfortunately). It gets copied to my agenda and synchronised to my phone. 15 minutes before the meeting, my phone starts beeping and sais "QM meeting, room AX5". All with ONE mouseclick. Do this in open source and I will WALK all the way to Redmond to tell Billy he should stick a fork in it.
You could collect email adresses in a hashed form, just like passwords are stored on a server. You would be able to check if the sender is in the list, but not be able to "un-hash" the list back into real adresses. The way to get around it would be for spammers to attach their sender adresses to these funny mails people do like to forward to their friends.
They don't want me to make backups of my CD's? Well sell me a format which doesn't scratch! Make a small chip I can click into my stereo the way digital cameras work. If it is small enough it should be no problem clicking 20 into a car stereo.
Is it me, or does this say something about Europe vs USA: "My neighbour is playing loud music!" vs "My neighbour is shooting at me!"
I also pity the poor bastard that has to write those AWT libraries...
Being Apache, question is if they will not concentrate on typical serverside libraries, and drop GUI java.
Is this only for SOHO networks or is there a use in a massive AD deployment?
Is this like old MS NETBEUI unroutable, or does it survive beyond the first router?
In Brussels, they just put a new kind of concrete instead of asphalt on one of the bussiest highway stretches. The manufacturor claims ith will hold maintenance-free for... thirty years.
You want to be impressed heh? Well, it is powerfull enough to play solitaire on Longhorn!!!!
Maybe you should buy a beige box instead and use the rest of your money to buy flowers for a girl...