first, let me state the obvious: there are idiot linux users out there. there are even idiot linux users who are zealously anti-microsoft and pro-linux.
now let me say something that tends to get lost in all this anti-microsoft bashing: the average microsoft programmer probably has a higher IQ than the average joe-shmoe who likes to write "M$" and "microshit". even less obvious (or blindly ignored) is the fact that a lot of if not most microsoft people are actually linux geeks! microsoft runs a bunch of linux servers. go figure...
you can buy pdas with 100 mhz more horsepower for $100 less here. you can also buy a brand new palm tungsten t1 with free veo camera for less ($199 last time i checked, direct from palm).
i know most GPL-heads, linux lovers and misc. nerds on here will be outraged or dumbfounded by the escalating surrealism of this whole fiasco, but the suits behind this are not idiots. there are probably good reasons for all the lawsuits, and this must be one of them:
c'mon guys, wizards are fun. some people like to be led. some wizards are better than others....some wizards even hold your hand and pamper you. a lot of people don't get enough hugs and yearn to be pampered. whoever invented wizards should win the nobel price for advancing society.
please do not speak badly of wizards users -- they all have feelings and sometimes even emotional attachment to their favorite wizards. not all wizards users are lamers, though some wizards are lame in that they're not automated enough. the ideal wizard should be holding both our hands instead of just one hand.
When is MS gonna learn that there should be 2 ways to do things: Wizards for the lame, and straight forward for us techs?
not everyone who uses wizards is lame. that is like saying everyone who uses windows is lame and linux users rule the world. to me, XP is one big wizard (at least in the default configuration).
One thing that does worry me, what about the potential for abuse. Something like a script that connects to whittlebit, searches by a keyword important to your industry, and gives all of your competitors links thumbs-down.
pretty much anything can be abused or hacked, it is a matter of will. google pagerank is being exploted as we speak (or in this case, post).
Impressive, although I imagine voice guidance is going to sound very cheesy coming out of a tiny machine like this. And embarrassing. (Did your coat pocket just say "turn 90 degrees left"?)
according to the infosync review, the built-in speaker is pretty loud. the only criticism i have is that the voice doesn't tell you the actual street name to turn on, but only how many miles to go before the next turn. big bummer.
Something has to give if Sony wants to introduce the PSP with said specs in the $100-200 ballpark. Either something has to give or Sony is going to go bankrupt (or I'm gonna wet my pants if Sony can really pull this off for under $200). More realistically, the PSP will probably be priced $200-400 at launch if most specs make it into the final production unit. In that case, don't even think about the beginning demise of the GBA -- the PSP and GBA won't even be in the same market.
Don't hold your breath, but do start to save money because the future will be pretty damn exciting for portable gaming.
nice work for an oss project, but the ui still needs some polishing. i was looking at the screenshots and noticed that some things were obviously designed by engineers not ui designers or graphic artists (e.g., there is no padding around the text label in the "print preview" button). i guess this makes since most artists and designers are not hardcore programmers.
why is it that i am not surprised at this stat? the problem with the current state of wi-fi is that it is generally insecure by default. if you want to increase security you have to fudge around with cryptic configuration settings, and if you don't know what you're doing you can make your network even less secure or fubar the whole thing. the mass market consumer -- and this would be the target audience if wi-fi were to really take off -- should not be expected to know what vpn stands for or what a tunnel is besides the big holes that trains and vehicles go through.
in an ideal world secure protocols would be built in and invisible to the user. out of the box all security measures would be enabled by default, so if you want to turn off encryption you'd have to turn it off manually. the dream of ubiquitous computing would be a nightmare without ubiquitous security.
i'm disappointed that after all this time in development, the device still uses a low-rez 160x160 screen and weighs a relatively heavy 6 ounces (which is actually heavier than the sony-ericsson p800 with its 208x320 resolution).
Although we've never been able to prove the unified field theory, it looks like SCO is proving us the proof that Einstein was right about stupidity being infinite.
have you seen their 3-month stock chart recently? the only thing they've proven is that the theory of stupidity does not stray far from einstein's theory of relativity;). i have made a lot of money off SCOX, and i am sure i am not alone. so as far as my wallet is concerned, their tactics have been brilliant.
i am still undecided whether there are more cheap people in this world than greedy people. or are they mostly the same people?
people who support warez should work for free and share everything they have with the commons, for they are communists at heart. i'm not saying communism is innately a bad thing, just that people who expect to get everything for free should also free everything they have in return.
i admit i have used pirated stuff before, but i try to attain things legally when possible, and i never go out of my way to hunt down warez when there are legal -- and relatively cheap -- alternatives available everywhere.
And rather anti-competitive, don't you think? I mean if they include it as part of the OS distribution and integrate it into the overall OS, wouldn't that hinder the efforts of other companies that make competing software?
well, they already have a little bit of firewall in their OS, so this is a natural extension. it even complies with their security strategy, so it seems MS has all their bases covered to appease or rebutt any judge.
if you work for mcafee or symantec, i'll reserve a moment of silence for you............now dump your EPP stock as soon as you can, but not before you update your resume.
i've never had cable (almost 30 years), my family's never had cable (much longer than that). i'm still a functioning human being, who needs cable? the only cable i need is the one that goes from my roof antenna to my TV.
the TV spectrum is fine the way it is. if you want to shoot other things through it, then send the HDTV signals!
"There are other and better portable audio players."
after surveying the pc portable audio player scene, i'd have to say that the ipod is arguably the best portable hdd audio player out there right now -- pc or mac -- and i don't even own an apple. let's see what sets it apart...
it's the smallest and lightest hdd player/recorder on the market
its software is feature-packed (includes basic PIM and games), intuitive, and upgradeable (OV is not out of the question)
it's got both usb2 and firewire
it's got award-winning industrial design
it comes with a recharging docking station
standards-based synching that actually works as expected
other subtle details here and there that i can't think of right now -- details that only perfectionist apple would pay attention to
the only pc equivalent is, what else, the ipod for windows coming out by the end of the year (i hope):). other than that, the closest hdd audio device that has a chance of challenging the ipod is the philips player that is somewhere in late beta stage.
the fine line between being original and being too risky is thinning all the time. once in awhile a small design house manages to skirt this line and creates a killer game, then gets eaten up by a bigger fish like EA or microsoft. i'm afraid that not too long from now there will be no more little pretty fishies in the ocean, leaving only the big mean sharkies to worry about their Q4 bottom line.
these comments are getting too predictable and like-minded, all the negativism a tad tiresome. sorry to break the party guys, but all that really matters to the SCO board is the steep mountain.
money talks, a shooting stock price shouts, and most/. comments is irrelevant white noise. at least according to the suits.
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first, let me state the obvious: there are idiot linux users out there. there are even idiot linux users who are zealously anti-microsoft and pro-linux.
now let me say something that tends to get lost in all this anti-microsoft bashing: the average microsoft programmer probably has a higher IQ than the average joe-shmoe who likes to write "M$" and "microshit". even less obvious (or blindly ignored) is the fact that a lot of if not most microsoft people are actually linux geeks! microsoft runs a bunch of linux servers. go figure...
you can buy pdas with 100 mhz more horsepower for $100 less here. you can also buy a brand new palm tungsten t1 with free veo camera for less ($199 last time i checked, direct from palm).
The SCO execs are not only sniking the future of their company, but potentially the future of other companies.
the latter may be true, but the former isn't necessarily true.
i know most GPL-heads, linux lovers and misc. nerds on here will be outraged or dumbfounded by the escalating surrealism of this whole fiasco, but the suits behind this are not idiots. there are probably good reasons for all the lawsuits, and this must be one of them:
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/32346.htm
(be sure to check out the computerworld link in the last paragraph.)
c'mon guys, wizards are fun. some people like to be led. some wizards are better than others....some wizards even hold your hand and pamper you. a lot of people don't get enough hugs and yearn to be pampered. whoever invented wizards should win the nobel price for advancing society.
please do not speak badly of wizards users -- they all have feelings and sometimes even emotional attachment to their favorite wizards. not all wizards users are lamers, though some wizards are lame in that they're not automated enough. the ideal wizard should be holding both our hands instead of just one hand.
When is MS gonna learn that there should be 2 ways to do things: Wizards for the lame, and straight forward for us techs?
not everyone who uses wizards is lame. that is like saying everyone who uses windows is lame and linux users rule the world. to me, XP is one big wizard (at least in the default configuration).
There is such a thing as organized crime, you know ;).
One thing that does worry me, what about the potential for abuse. Something like a script that connects to whittlebit, searches by a keyword important to your industry, and gives all of your competitors links thumbs-down.
pretty much anything can be abused or hacked, it is a matter of will. google pagerank is being exploted as we speak (or in this case, post).
Impressive, although I imagine voice guidance is going to sound very cheesy coming out of a tiny machine like this. And embarrassing. (Did your coat pocket just say "turn 90 degrees left"?)
according to the infosync review, the built-in speaker is pretty loud. the only criticism i have is that the voice doesn't tell you the actual street name to turn on, but only how many miles to go before the next turn. big bummer.
Something has to give if Sony wants to introduce the PSP with said specs in the $100-200 ballpark. Either something has to give or Sony is going to go bankrupt (or I'm gonna wet my pants if Sony can really pull this off for under $200). More realistically, the PSP will probably be priced $200-400 at launch if most specs make it into the final production unit. In that case, don't even think about the beginning demise of the GBA -- the PSP and GBA won't even be in the same market.
Don't hold your breath, but do start to save money because the future will be pretty damn exciting for portable gaming.
nice work for an oss project, but the ui still needs some polishing. i was looking at the screenshots and noticed that some things were obviously designed by engineers not ui designers or graphic artists (e.g., there is no padding around the text label in the "print preview" button). i guess this makes since most artists and designers are not hardcore programmers.
why is it that i am not surprised at this stat? the problem with the current state of wi-fi is that it is generally insecure by default. if you want to increase security you have to fudge around with cryptic configuration settings, and if you don't know what you're doing you can make your network even less secure or fubar the whole thing. the mass market consumer -- and this would be the target audience if wi-fi were to really take off -- should not be expected to know what vpn stands for or what a tunnel is besides the big holes that trains and vehicles go through.
in an ideal world secure protocols would be built in and invisible to the user. out of the box all security measures would be enabled by default, so if you want to turn off encryption you'd have to turn it off manually. the dream of ubiquitous computing would be a nightmare without ubiquitous security.
i'm disappointed that after all this time in development, the device still uses a low-rez 160x160 screen and weighs a relatively heavy 6 ounces (which is actually heavier than the sony-ericsson p800 with its 208x320 resolution).
typical steve jobs. his brashness makes me wanna shit in my pants! ;)
have you seen their 3-month stock chart recently? the only thing they've proven is that the theory of stupidity does not stray far from einstein's theory of relativity ;). i have made a lot of money off SCOX, and i am sure i am not alone. so as far as my wallet is concerned, their tactics have been brilliant.
people who support warez should work for free and share everything they have with the commons, for they are communists at heart. i'm not saying communism is innately a bad thing, just that people who expect to get everything for free should also free everything they have in return.
i admit i have used pirated stuff before, but i try to attain things legally when possible, and i never go out of my way to hunt down warez when there are legal -- and relatively cheap -- alternatives available everywhere.
the yahoo page is missing three paragraphs, what's up with that? the complete AP article can be found at http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/6073725.htm .
well, they already have a little bit of firewall in their OS, so this is a natural extension. it even complies with their security strategy, so it seems MS has all their bases covered to appease or rebutt any judge.
if you work for mcafee or symantec, i'll reserve a moment of silence for you............now dump your EPP stock as soon as you can, but not before you update your resume.
the TV spectrum is fine the way it is. if you want to shoot other things through it, then send the HDTV signals!
it's the word "virus."
after surveying the pc portable audio player scene, i'd have to say that the ipod is arguably the best portable hdd audio player out there right now -- pc or mac -- and i don't even own an apple. let's see what sets it apart...
- it's the smallest and lightest hdd player/recorder on the market
- its software is feature-packed (includes basic PIM and games), intuitive, and upgradeable (OV is not out of the question)
- it's got both usb2 and firewire
- it's got award-winning industrial design
- it comes with a recharging docking station
- standards-based synching that actually works as expected
- other subtle details here and there that i can't think of right now -- details that only perfectionist apple would pay attention to
the only pc equivalent is, what else, the ipod for windows coming out by the end of the year (i hope)the fine line between being original and being too risky is thinning all the time. once in awhile a small design house manages to skirt this line and creates a killer game, then gets eaten up by a bigger fish like EA or microsoft. i'm afraid that not too long from now there will be no more little pretty fishies in the ocean, leaving only the big mean sharkies to worry about their Q4 bottom line.
these comments are getting too predictable and like-minded, all the negativism a tad tiresome. sorry to break the party guys, but all that really matters to the SCO board is the steep mountain. money talks, a shooting stock price shouts, and most /. comments is irrelevant white noise. at least according to the suits.