Every single one of those was a combination of two devices. In most cases, this turns out to be a really lousy idea. Usually quality of both devices must be compramised to include in a single device. Camera phones, printer/scanner/fax, calculator watch, all of these suck.
I really would like Apple to make a cell phone and I'm not alone in this. NOBODY makes a bluetooth flip-phone for the low-to-mid-range market. I want a flip-phone, made out of iBook material, with a simple interface, and bluetooth sync with my OSX contacts. No camera, no stun-gun, no music player, just a phone. Some day...
A friend works at a local cinema... One day we brought the GameCube over, after most of the movies were done showing. He hooked up the GC to the projector and theatre audio, and we sat down in the theatre with wireless controllers and played the best game of Super Smash Brothers Melee ever.
Is there anyway to compress the HTML and jscript files as they are fetched? Good-old modems used to compress the text stream on the fly, does the same thing happen with broadband?
Yes, as I've said now in 2 posts on this thread, you can transparently compress stuff from web servers. Web browsers send the server an "Accept-Encoding" header, that shows the different formats it can take. Most (all?) modern browsers support gzip.
The project I'm doing at work is XUL (XML user interface language, as used in Mozilla browsers, Thinlet and Macromedia Flex) and JavaScript. Both of these are sent to the client gzipped.
But bandwidth and even LANs aren't that fast which is where the bottleneck occurs.
Like I said in my post, gzip works pretty damn well for networks too, as it supports streams. If you're running a web server, use something like mod_gzip -- if you're writing a network application with a custom-made XML-based protocol, you can simply wrap a gzip compressor/decompressor around the socket stream.
Binary XML is intended to make things parse faster, but as others have said, it's worth the extra CPU power to preserve a format that is human-readable. Compression is an easy fix for disk storage / network transmission problems.
iWork is great, but I use this thing called a "spreadsheet", so I need OpenOffice. Plus, you can't beat OpenOffice's compatability. It doesn't just read.doc's, it will read.doc's with embedded objects and such.
There's a somewhat native version of OpenOffice in the works, at www.neooffice.org -- it's a Mac.app that uses Mac menubar, mac fonts, anti-aliasing, and other stuff that's fun. Interface is VERY snappy compared to running under X11.
iWork is a nice product, I've been using Keynote since 1.0, but it really doesn't make a suitable drop-in MS Office replacement. Plus, what's a more reasonable price than free?
when i work with XML in java, i generally use just pass the XML through a GZIP stream. need to see the file contents? zcat. XML compresses well since it's repetative text. Lately I've been doing a lot of XUL code with PHP/smarty as the back-end, and again, I transparently gzip this...
So, this solves the problem of the size of the XML to be stored on disk or transmitted over network... The only difference is parsing. Again, when i'm in java, i use PICCOLO to parse the XML -- it uses a lexical analyzer (jflex?) to parse XML more like a compiler parses code, by tokenizing it. turns out, this is really fast.
Disk space is cheap. CPU's are fast. Mainstream XML parsing technology can always be made faster. Why must we abandon our beloved, human-readable, standardized format for files and protocols alike in favor of binary files?
I've been seeing a lot of this lately: "Free (as in..."
Please, stop it. It was cute for a while, but it's annoying now. If you have to explain the word every time it's used, it's simply a bad choice of an adjective. It's been like 10 years since the creation of the term "Open Source" to tackle this problem. Also, the GPL has gained enough publicity that if FSF zealots object to the term "Open Source" they can simply say "GPL".
Mod this up if you agree with me. It's time to start making some waves.
i have yet to see someone who didnt ride their motorcycle around as some kind of penis extender.
While I think riding a motocycle is far too dangerous to be sane, I can honestly say that if I had one I would ride it like a maaaaaniac. Not because I want to impress people, but just because it would be fun as hell! Those sport bikes are WAY faster than even the fastest street cars...
I heard that this was a measure to prevent people from locking their keys in their car.
My BMW E30 only lets the doors lock when they're all closed. So you're either in the car, or you're outside the car using your keys to lock it. Problem solved.
Saying that a Mac without OS X isn't a Mac just isn't true. There's more to a Mac than software.
Linus' claim is correct. A Mac without OS X is not truly a Mac, as it doesn't offer the full Mac experience. However, that doesn't mean that Apple's hardware is run-of-the-mill. It's quite superb, as you've pointed out, and there are other non-mac examples of this (iPods, Airport Base Stations [I think the express is a really cool product], we've even got a few LaserWriters still in use at my work).
I think this is one of the legitimate reasons why you SHOULD run Linux on a Mac. He's fricken Linus, man! It's hard to do what he does (work on Linux) without using Linux. He's made the choice for real, practical reasons. It frustrates me that several in the slashdot crowd want to run Linux on Apple hardware because they think there's some lame/n00b stigma attached to OS X. I've said it plenty of times before, and I'll say it again: OS X run's the majority of unixoid apps just fine. It's the best-fit for Apple hardware; the level of integration between hardware/software is going to be very difficult to reproduce with Linux, especially on a notebook. Don't make the switch unless you have stuff that needs to be done under Linux that simply CAN NOT be done under OS X...
I kidnapped an engineering grad student and had them write their own protocol. Once this was in place, the student was disposed of. Nobody is gonna sniff me.
...is remembering some configuration item, being able to conjure up an image of it in my head, but totally forgetting how to get to that screen again. This happened quite frequently, when I was using the OS every day on my laptop -- it wasn't just becoming unfamiliar with it, it just requires a lot of memorization. Then the next version of windows comes out and it's completely different. Macs are easy enough to find your way around that everything is where you expect it. The various unixoid OS's are generally pretty slow to change (I mean this in a good way, it's like german cars...) -- so if you learned it once, you know where it is.
I'm pretty comfortable in any unix-ish OS (except solaris, i just don't know anything about it), though I spend a lot more time "tweaking" linux and freebsd over my OSX machines.
don't own an iPod and I likely will never own an iPod so the iPod dock wouldn't make me switch. I highly doubt that PC users would switch just because of an iPod docking feature.
Honestly, it's such a compact system, why would they waste the space when you can just plug their existing high-profit-margin dock into the firewire port? Slashdot has some astonishingly lame headlines these days...
I had the chorus from this great song. Took the time to program it myself on my first mono-tone cell phone. "I give you my affection and I give you my time, trying to get a connection on the telephone line!" -- I thought I was so witty (well, I was). Unfortunately in 2 years of having the phone, only one person ever recognized it and said something. Now I vibrate.:-P
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Every single one of those was a combination of two devices. In most cases, this turns out to be a really lousy idea. Usually quality of both devices must be compramised to include in a single device. Camera phones, printer/scanner/fax, calculator watch, all of these suck.
I really would like Apple to make a cell phone and I'm not alone in this. NOBODY makes a bluetooth flip-phone for the low-to-mid-range market. I want a flip-phone, made out of iBook material, with a simple interface, and bluetooth sync with my OSX contacts. No camera, no stun-gun, no music player, just a phone. Some day...
I had to take a dramamine after watching that video.
Creativity abounds.
...with "unf." for a sig.
A friend works at a local cinema... One day we brought the GameCube over, after most of the movies were done showing. He hooked up the GC to the projector and theatre audio, and we sat down in the theatre with wireless controllers and played the best game of Super Smash Brothers Melee ever.
Is there anyway to compress the HTML and jscript files as they are fetched? Good-old modems used to compress the text stream on the fly, does the same thing happen with broadband?
Yes, as I've said now in 2 posts on this thread, you can transparently compress stuff from web servers. Web browsers send the server an "Accept-Encoding" header, that shows the different formats it can take. Most (all?) modern browsers support gzip.
The project I'm doing at work is XUL (XML user interface language, as used in Mozilla browsers, Thinlet and Macromedia Flex) and JavaScript. Both of these are sent to the client gzipped.
But bandwidth and even LANs aren't that fast which is where the bottleneck occurs.
Like I said in my post, gzip works pretty damn well for networks too, as it supports streams. If you're running a web server, use something like mod_gzip -- if you're writing a network application with a custom-made XML-based protocol, you can simply wrap a gzip compressor/decompressor around the socket stream.
Binary XML is intended to make things parse faster, but as others have said, it's worth the extra CPU power to preserve a format that is human-readable. Compression is an easy fix for disk storage / network transmission problems.
iWork is great, but I use this thing called a "spreadsheet", so I need OpenOffice. Plus, you can't beat OpenOffice's compatability. It doesn't just read .doc's, it will read .doc's with embedded objects and such.
.app that uses Mac menubar, mac fonts, anti-aliasing, and other stuff that's fun. Interface is VERY snappy compared to running under X11.
There's a somewhat native version of OpenOffice in the works, at www.neooffice.org -- it's a Mac
iWork is a nice product, I've been using Keynote since 1.0, but it really doesn't make a suitable drop-in MS Office replacement. Plus, what's a more reasonable price than free?
when i work with XML in java, i generally use just pass the XML through a GZIP stream. need to see the file contents? zcat. XML compresses well since it's repetative text. Lately I've been doing a lot of XUL code with PHP/smarty as the back-end, and again, I transparently gzip this...
So, this solves the problem of the size of the XML to be stored on disk or transmitted over network... The only difference is parsing. Again, when i'm in java, i use PICCOLO to parse the XML -- it uses a lexical analyzer (jflex?) to parse XML more like a compiler parses code, by tokenizing it. turns out, this is really fast.
Disk space is cheap. CPU's are fast. Mainstream XML parsing technology can always be made faster. Why must we abandon our beloved, human-readable, standardized format for files and protocols alike in favor of binary files?
I've been seeing a lot of this lately: "Free (as in..."
Please, stop it. It was cute for a while, but it's annoying now. If you have to explain the word every time it's used, it's simply a bad choice of an adjective. It's been like 10 years since the creation of the term "Open Source" to tackle this problem. Also, the GPL has gained enough publicity that if FSF zealots object to the term "Open Source" they can simply say "GPL".
Mod this up if you agree with me. It's time to start making some waves.
i have yet to see someone who didnt ride their motorcycle around as some kind of penis extender.
While I think riding a motocycle is far too dangerous to be sane, I can honestly say that if I had one I would ride it like a maaaaaniac. Not because I want to impress people, but just because it would be fun as hell! Those sport bikes are WAY faster than even the fastest street cars...
i think 04:20:00 is a very special time too.
I heard that this was a measure to prevent people from locking their keys in their car.
My BMW E30 only lets the doors lock when they're all closed. So you're either in the car, or you're outside the car using your keys to lock it. Problem solved.
All the user comments to a D&D story? Why is this worth mentioning?
Saying that a Mac without OS X isn't a Mac just isn't true. There's more to a Mac than software.
Linus' claim is correct. A Mac without OS X is not truly a Mac, as it doesn't offer the full Mac experience. However, that doesn't mean that Apple's hardware is run-of-the-mill. It's quite superb, as you've pointed out, and there are other non-mac examples of this (iPods, Airport Base Stations [I think the express is a really cool product], we've even got a few LaserWriters still in use at my work).
I think this is one of the legitimate reasons why you SHOULD run Linux on a Mac. He's fricken Linus, man! It's hard to do what he does (work on Linux) without using Linux. He's made the choice for real, practical reasons. It frustrates me that several in the slashdot crowd want to run Linux on Apple hardware because they think there's some lame/n00b stigma attached to OS X. I've said it plenty of times before, and I'll say it again: OS X run's the majority of unixoid apps just fine. It's the best-fit for Apple hardware; the level of integration between hardware/software is going to be very difficult to reproduce with Linux, especially on a notebook. Don't make the switch unless you have stuff that needs to be done under Linux that simply CAN NOT be done under OS X...
I kidnapped an engineering grad student and had them write their own protocol. Once this was in place, the student was disposed of. Nobody is gonna sniff me.
"Maaaaan, this music sucks!"
:-P
...is remembering some configuration item, being able to conjure up an image of it in my head, but totally forgetting how to get to that screen again. This happened quite frequently, when I was using the OS every day on my laptop -- it wasn't just becoming unfamiliar with it, it just requires a lot of memorization. Then the next version of windows comes out and it's completely different. Macs are easy enough to find your way around that everything is where you expect it. The various unixoid OS's are generally pretty slow to change (I mean this in a good way, it's like german cars...) -- so if you learned it once, you know where it is.
I'm pretty comfortable in any unix-ish OS (except solaris, i just don't know anything about it), though I spend a lot more time "tweaking" linux and freebsd over my OSX machines.
It's not a real complaint. It's like the one-button-mouse thing. It's an excuse.
don't own an iPod and I likely will never own an iPod so the iPod dock wouldn't make me switch. I highly doubt that PC users would switch just because of an iPod docking feature.
Honestly, it's such a compact system, why would they waste the space when you can just plug their existing high-profit-margin dock into the firewire port? Slashdot has some astonishingly lame headlines these days...
1. Will [a similar technology] be illegal too?
2. I'm scared!
3. I'm Costa Rican, how dare you say this?
I had the chorus from this great song. Took the time to program it myself on my first mono-tone cell phone. "I give you my affection and I give you my time, trying to get a connection on the telephone line!" -- I thought I was so witty (well, I was). Unfortunately in 2 years of having the phone, only one person ever recognized it and said something. Now I vibrate. :-P
Am I wrong?
:-P