Makes me wonder about the fate of Project Ara (http://www.projectara.com/). If Google could pull this off, then they'd get what the article states they want: a platform that is customizable, suitable for both low-end and mid-range users, constantly upgradeable, and (firmware willing) easily upgradeable to the latest Android version. But considering the restarts the project has, I'm not sure if it will ever see the light of day. I'm still nursing my Nexus5 along, hoping something will appear that will compel me to upgrade, but there's nothing that jumps out.
Funny, I was never much of a trekkie, but I've enjoyed Wil's Q&As more than I thought...
I agree *completely* with his 'Steve McQueen' comments. There just isn't anyone like that today. LeMans and GrandPrix (I know, he wasn't in it, but the two movies are from the same era and are the two best racing movies to date) were great car movies due to their authentic racing sequences and sound, but had no plot whatsoever. I don't see movies like that being made anymore, that appealed to niche markets because of a star wants the movies to be made (actually I'm wrong - Travolta's scientology one would qualify, I guess. But I don't see any authentic aspects to it). But the car sequences were amazing, nothing since has come close. Bullitt was neat, but I don't see movies being made where studios/producers/directors are going nuts over authentism about anything. Ronin was as decent, but it's not a racing flick. McQueen got LeMans done the way he wanted because a studio wanted him to be happy, and let him have his project.
I still boo and hiss every time I see a 'Driven' or 'Days of Thunder' DVD at stores...
I'm curious on how they came up with that amount. It's substantially higher than a WinXP and MacOS license. Sun gives theirs away when you buy their hardware, and I assume IBM does the same with AIX and HP with HP-UX. Now I'm thinking of this as a home user. For the corporate side of things, it might not be as bad. But I thought the mysterious code SCO was referring to was enterprise-type stuff (I could be wrong).
Too bad the *BSDs couldn't ramp up some advertising during the SCO debate. It'd be great if *something* good could arise from this Linux / SCO mess.
The thing is, the guy never even came close to coming up with a valid justification for replacing the Internet... spam is in of itself not a good reason. There are all sorts of protocols and standards that would be great to replace:
- DNS
- get rid of telnet and make SSH the standard
- replace FTP with SFTP or SCP
- clean up the port 80 mess and put more control back into the firewalls
I'm not fluent enough on IPv6, but I'm willing to bet the networking folks would love to take a crack at replacing TCP/IP and coming up with a better plumbing, on which the protocols could be built upon. Do that, screw backwards compatibility and I'm sure the replacement will be better than anything we see today.
Of course, then some dumbass small company will claim to own a patent on this, and we'll be even more screwed....
Sorry to bring this up, but there was no mention of the Palladium stuff. I understood Microsoft was pushing AMD and Intel to build their DRM stuff into their next-gen chipsets. There was no mention of it (that I saw, anyway).
I'm just wondering if this DRM stuff will magically appear in some future chipset and the response from the manufacturer will be: "What?? We didn't tell you that was in there?? Our bad."
I want to know the first chipsets it'll be in, so I can buy from the last of the old stuff...
The thing is, this is sorely needed by Win32 to compete at the enterprise, so I'm not at all surprised they're doing it. Trying to stop/start Unix services remotely through ssh is a breeze. We gave up trying to use VNC (and others) remotely for Windows services since the performance was so bad.
There are 2 things I wonder about though:
1. Why is this only via.Net and not the full OS?
2. How much of the OS will be accessible via the prompt?
Kinda hard to tell by just the job posting. Neat to see though.
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Makes me wonder about the fate of Project Ara (http://www.projectara.com/). If Google could pull this off, then they'd get what the article states they want: a platform that is customizable, suitable for both low-end and mid-range users, constantly upgradeable, and (firmware willing) easily upgradeable to the latest Android version. But considering the restarts the project has, I'm not sure if it will ever see the light of day. I'm still nursing my Nexus5 along, hoping something will appear that will compel me to upgrade, but there's nothing that jumps out.
I agree *completely* with his 'Steve McQueen' comments. There just isn't anyone like that today. LeMans and GrandPrix (I know, he wasn't in it, but the two movies are from the same era and are the two best racing movies to date) were great car movies due to their authentic racing sequences and sound, but had no plot whatsoever. I don't see movies like that being made anymore, that appealed to niche markets because of a star wants the movies to be made (actually I'm wrong - Travolta's scientology one would qualify, I guess. But I don't see any authentic aspects to it). But the car sequences were amazing, nothing since has come close. Bullitt was neat, but I don't see movies being made where studios/producers/directors are going nuts over authentism about anything. Ronin was as decent, but it's not a racing flick. McQueen got LeMans done the way he wanted because a studio wanted him to be happy, and let him have his project.
I still boo and hiss every time I see a 'Driven' or 'Days of Thunder' DVD at stores...
I hope I got his McQueen comment in context...
Too bad the *BSDs couldn't ramp up some advertising during the SCO debate. It'd be great if *something* good could arise from this Linux / SCO mess.
The thing is, the guy never even came close to coming up with a valid justification for replacing the Internet... spam is in of itself not a good reason. There are all sorts of protocols and standards that would be great to replace: - DNS - get rid of telnet and make SSH the standard - replace FTP with SFTP or SCP - clean up the port 80 mess and put more control back into the firewalls I'm not fluent enough on IPv6, but I'm willing to bet the networking folks would love to take a crack at replacing TCP/IP and coming up with a better plumbing, on which the protocols could be built upon. Do that, screw backwards compatibility and I'm sure the replacement will be better than anything we see today. Of course, then some dumbass small company will claim to own a patent on this, and we'll be even more screwed....
There's only 3 ghosts!! Kids today... they don't pay attention to details.
I'm just wondering if this DRM stuff will magically appear in some future chipset and the response from the manufacturer will be: "What?? We didn't tell you that was in there?? Our bad."
I want to know the first chipsets it'll be in, so I can buy from the last of the old stuff...
There are 2 things I wonder about though: .Net and not the full OS?
1. Why is this only via
2. How much of the OS will be accessible via the prompt?
Kinda hard to tell by just the job posting. Neat to see though.