You are looking for a group of people tech savvy enough to have media streaming from their pc, yet ones that have televisions old enough that they do not have a digital receiver.
I have been hacking my old outdated hardware for years. When I got a blazing PII to run Windows NT Workstation in college my older 486 became a test bed for Red Hat Linux. Later when I was literally the first DSL subscriber the Bell Atlantic technicians (they sent four) setup, I used a trash picked Pentium 133 to make a Linux router (before you could buy a home router).
So I don't think it is unreasonable for/. hackers who may have the latest and greatest HDTVs or Tuner cards to also be interested in hacking DTV boxes going to old TVs or whatnot.
I am personally interested in hacking a cheap DTV device to make an IP based rebroadcaster that can stream over Internet. Ideally I would spit to friends and have them drop the device on my old college network somewhere so I can watch Philly teams without have to pay insane fees each season.
Why did he allow the Linux machine to have 50% more RAM, when it would have been simple to reduce the RAM to 512MB so it matched that of the Windows machine. Having different RAM amounts totally invalidates the results.
It would be hard for one who has the moral conviction that human life is not superior to animal life to live a morally consistent life.
I think the idea that animal and human life are equal is insane, but this post got me thinking. If you do believe that all life is equal, meaning an ant is equal to a dog is equal to a person, are your morally required to can out all predatory animals? If you believe people are bad for killing animals, do you also view dolphins (big time killers) as bad? Do you consider how bad killing is based on lives lost or on volume? I mean if you go by lives lost then Whales and fish that eat krill are way worst then people, course same is true if you go by volume, so are you anti-whale? Would people who eat dozens of chicken a year be worse then people who eat one or two cows? See by placing human life above animals I don't have these moral problems, I can eat my meat and laugh at vegans too.
Amazon is fudging the numbers, I know several people who ordered things as early as August and were offered additional "free" items. While the items they paid for came in relatively quickly, the "free" items were delayed and eventually came in just before Christmas. I suspect Amazon rigged the shipping to make non-Christmas purchases and items appear under their Christmas season figures.
The other point is that things like units sold, or revenue or whatever, don't matter as far as I am concerned. The only thing that matters is PROFIT. Amazon selected a meaningless statistic from numerous meaningless stats and is pushing it out there. If Amazons profits were up, you better believe they would be pedaling that number to investors/creditors, since I have heard nothing on profit, I suspect it is "not good" or unknown.
What about when Apple pushed Safari on users who simply selected to update iTunes? Wasn't that unethical and wrong? Shouldn't Apple have been more forthcoming? Shouldn't Apple have asked you if you wanted Safari in a more straight forward and open manor? It wasn't a patch/update it was a new unrelated program installation.
It makes me sick how Apple gets a pass no matter what they do. Face it, this latest Apple update is buggy, broken and bad. Face it, this is not the first poor update Apple has released. Face it, Apple frequently forces Jobs' will on users. Face the facts, while Linux is the most open platform, Apple is the least open platform and Microsoft is oddly enough in between, but interestingly closer to the Linux "free" side then it is to the Apple "fascist" side. In fact the reason Windows won the desktop war was in part because it was open to application and driver developers and therefore had/has more to offer. I love Linux and Microsoft because those OSes give me the most HW options and the most software options. That translates into more freedom for me as a user. Sometimes freedom is messy, back in the day it meant BSoD and whatnot at times, but it was the cost of being able to select from a near infinite hardware lineup, with XP and Vista BSoD are five nines the result of defective hardware. True Apple doesn't blue screen, it either just reboots without warning or tosses up a cute image instead. But they still crash, freeze and brick more then people admit on/.
So mod me down and mark me troll for calling Apple worse then Microsoft, but I like Windows and Linux because they offer the most "choice". Apple may be the nice little garden you all claim it to be, but it is a nice little garden that is walled in, where Jobs picks the plants for you. Me, I would rather take a stroll in a more "open" forest. This post was sent from a Thinkpad running Fedora 10, which is really bleeding edge.
I mean there are only a few things that could go wrong from:
Actually raising the temp.
Perhaps cooling it to much.
To using up a tremendous about of energy.
To totally messing up the current ecosystem and weather patterns.
But my biggest thought is, if you pump all this sea water into the air, where does the salt end up? Couldn't that be a bit of an enviornmental problem?
Course, I am not convinced Global Warming is real, after that I would need to be convinced the warming is unnatural and then after that I would need to be convinced the "cure" isn't worse then the "disease". After seeing this article and another that suggested putting trillions of tiny mirrors in space to deflect the Sun's rays (I mean what could go wrong), I now just look at Global Warming believers much the way Galeleo looked at people who rejected his ideas, mistaken at best, profoundly ignorant most likely.
I can see the lawyers chomping at the bit, hoping with a big court win, they could be entire to 30% of the planet (but no more as per Maryland law). I mean is he is trying to patent a naturally occurring process, cloud formation is clearly in the public domain.
I got news for you buddy, this past decade was not the hottest in Earth's history. If you trend over the the entire history, not some randomly selected time period you will discover that "The Earth on average is getting cooler". Plus I could argue that getting warmer means the Earth likely has a net energy gain, which isn't nearly as dangerous as having a net energy loss and certainly it isn't worth disrupting the lives of billions of people for a hypothesis that fails to explain why this year is colder then previous years. If you look at it logically, "Global Warming" is almost as scientifically credible as "Intelligent Design", almost.
Sort the average global temperatures for any decade and there'll be a hottest and a coldest. But being the coldest year in the hottest decade doesn't mean it's getting colder.
But the fact that the temp this year is not explained by the global warming models indicates, you global warming theorists may not know as much as you think you do, or perhaps you know a lot of stuff that just isn't so.
-Eric
The AT&T Internet is not true in reality, I have been calling for months trying to get either DSL (without needing local phone line) or fiber (without TV) and I am unable to get it in my area. TW on the other hand provides cable modem without anything else and as an added benefit they don't block ports of shape traffic like I suspect AT&T does and the fees are the same month to month, so my bill is $27.11 until promotion ends, in which case I call and point out AT&T deal which AT&T themselves is unable to deliver on and after several calls saying "no deal", I finally get somebody who says "deal". Rinse and repeat... forever.
I learned on C, LISP, ML and JAVA, back in mid-90s. But the interesting thing is that I haven't really used any of those languages post college. I have instead used vbscript, bash, powershell, python and occasionally C#. Do I think my studies were a waste, not at all, I learned the core theoretical concepts behind programming. In fact I would argue my college (University of Pennsylvania) Profs had the following view (if we were going to teach you want was in now, it would likely be out by the time you graduate) so instead we are going to teach the theory so that when you "get out" you can focus on the "in" language you need to succeed. They gave me the fundamentals and I merely needed to learn the symantics of whatever language I meeded for a project. It has worked and when I find people who haven't had the theory and I try to explain something or witness their confusion, it is just so clear they are missing huge conceptual parts. That said, I think python is a good language to teach with because it is so simple to build useful apps that in JAVA or C would take many many more lines of code. As for when to introduce objects, that is a hard one, some books dive right in, others delay. I think objects are to big to get your head around at first, new programmers may think you understand, but there is a lot there. I think it is best to go over core fundamentals, variables, assignment statements, if statements, loops, etc. first and then bring in objects. I think you then need to teach and reteach objects in various ways so you can make sure they are understood. For me I thought I understood objects from the beginning, but looking back there was some fuzziness, which is hard to explain now that it is been clear for awhile now. I think explaining object oriented programming concepts repeatedly, but using different teaching methods, examples, etc. helps to make sure students eventually have that point where it "clicks". As a disclaimer I am paid to be a network admin, who uses scripts to make my life easier (Should make sense now why I use the languages I do). Only reason I avoid PERL is that I like to build scripts that are readable by others.
Just the threat of being shot is enough to deter people from starting shit.
That is so true, whenever I am in England I always get in bar fights, but whenever I am in Texas or Australia, nothing. Why? Because people in England don't have guns, so all I need to consider is "Do I think I can take this big fella?", but when I am in Texas I always assume people have guns, even the tiny smaller ones, so I refrain from fighting (I can handle getting punched repeatedly, but being shot not so much). It's quite logical when you think about it.
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The cool thing about Fedora is that it is cutting edge innovative stuff. I use RHEL or CENTOS on servers, but on my Thinkpad, which isn't even my primary laptop, I just love tossing on each Fedora release as soon as it comes out and tweaking it until the next version comes out. It is a fun way to geek out and learn. If there are bugs or glitches, it is often challenging and fun to workout and troubleshoot. The cool part is that much of Fedora leads into RHEL releases so as a Linux consultant I not only can have hands on knowledge of parts that are later put in RHEL, but I sometimes have knowledge about why something wasn't included. I love Red Hat and I love bleeding edge so I love Fedora. If you are about cutting edge software, if you are about being part of a distribution that gives back to the community as a whole, if you want to learn a distribution that could help get you a job, if you are about user based support, tips and documentation, Fedora is for you. If you are all about what the current fad is, maybe not so much, although it has a huge following.
I would argue because of what I call the Matrix Theory, science cannot disprove the existence of an outside entity (i.e. a creator/God). If science can explain that everything follows the physical laws of the universe from the start of time through the end of time does that mean Gods doesn't exist? No, it just means if there is a God who created the universe they work in it using the laws they set up (which, would make sense). But if on the other hand science determines there are points were universal laws breakdown that points to some outside initiator. So then science may in theory be able to prove God by disproving the alternatives. So the interesting thing is that science while unable to disprove God (Matrix theory) even if it demostrates our world conforms to explainable and scietific laws (however, God could be working within those laws), there is the possiblity that if those laws do not always hold and sometimes break or have broken, well then that gets really interesting. It tickles your noodle and it seems at most one should be agnostic if one intends to claim they are logical, objective and/or rational.
I want to say that I hope Android can turn Motorola around, but the other reason for this post is to say that yes I was able to tether my G1 to my Vista laptop via USB and am posting from my laptop over the 3G network to/. Wicked cool. How? I am using a proxy server on Android. I was also able to successfully do this over Wifi from my desktop to Android (my desktop has AP settings via the wifi card), so that solution will not work on my laptop. I love my G1 phone. Correction, I love my G1 computer. I don't think there is a reason to ask "Is this the year of the Linux desktop?" every again, that war is over and Windows won, the next war is for the phone/computer/PDA and Android (i.e. Linux based OSes) can kill Windows here. Why fight yesterdays battle, when we can fight tomorrows?
Here is a quote I got off the Exchange Team's Blog:
We highly recommend that you use Exchange Web Services for new application development and avoid ExoleDB, WebDAV and CDOEx for new development. Give us feedback on about what you like and dislike in the API and what features you would prioritize next. We realize that building the new API set is a work in progress and we are aware that we haven't yet implemented some of the features that you developers might need for your applications. Yet we are openly looking for your feedback knowing that that feedback will help us on prioritizing the new features we are adding. If there is some functionality you need that isn't yet in EWS, and neither will be there in the next release, then let us know through the Exchange Developer Blog or Exchange Developer Newsgroup, we are always reading those for the great feedback you customers can provide us.
And here is the link to the latest Exchange Web Services (I mistakenly referred to it as Outlook Anywhere) information from MSDN:
MS publishes the APIs for how their RPC over HTTPS, think its current name is now Outlook Anywhere works. They do this basically so that cell phone and other mobile applications can access the Exchange server. If you want to create a Linux based E-mail app or add functionality to connect to Exchange 2007 that doesn't use IMAP or POP, the best methodology would be to create a connection using the Outlook Anywhere APIs. It could be a cool project, I would be interested in working on it with anybody who wants to step up. Perhaps a interesting approach could be to build Outlook Anyway to IMAP intermediate application that could then be employed to act as an intermediary between whatever Linux client or heck even Windows mail client you wish to use and Exchange 2007. I mean basically you could put the app on your machine, set it first to talk to Exchange 2007 and then setup mail client of choice to talk to IMAP and SMTP on intermediary app. Not saying it wouldn't introduce some delay, but if done right, it would be "wicked helpful" If done in JAVA or "I cannot even believe I am suggesting this".NET limited to mono supported APIs, then it could be single app for both Window and Linux users. Hit me back if you would be interested in doing something like this. I think we should call it "Mailman in the Middle".
You make it look so easy, as somebody who often has to test client connections (Network Consultant), I feel you forgot to point out there is no "delete" or "backspace" option available as the SMTP services assumes it is another mail server, which unlike us humans never makes mistakes. And yes, I treat everything on/. as a serious suggestion.
I'll probably get a touchscreen iPod once Apple comes to its senses regarding app licensing (which, to be fair, is a lot more liberal than how most phone companies treat 3rd-party apps)
Then you have never used a blackberry with T-Mobile. I can use it as a phone, a wireless modem with XP, Vista, Linux or OS X. I can download and install free apps over Net onto the device directly or first through my PC. I can transfer pictures and music onto it with or without 3rd party apps, over USB, micro SD card or Bluetooth. I can upgrade flash memory at a later time, rather then being forced and locked in a time of purchase. I can go to online stores to buy apps for it or I can build apps using their development tools, which are far easier then Apple's SDK with iPhone. I can develop BB apps using BB SDK with Eclipse plugin or BB IDE on Linux, Mac or Windows; for iPhone apps, not only do I need a Mac, but it must be Intel based Mac. Furthermore other venders documentation and APIs are fantastic compared to Apples.
Don't even get me started on Android's APIs and documentation. It is hands down the easiest PDA platform to develop for and the most open. First device coming out this week for T-mobile will already have more apps than iPhone because of Google's open development platform. Google first worked with developers and is now moving to users.
Both Microsoft and Google get it. Long term success is about developer backing and thus application support. Jobs is losing the PDA war the same way he lost the computer war. Looking at a short-term closed niche market he can control like a dictator rather then give up some of his control in favor of more freedom and more apps for users. Yes, he will make money. Yes, the iPhone will be cool in the eyes of college kids, but the fact is more people will use blackberries and more people will use Windows Mobile devices and soon more people will use Android devices and the end result is just like the Mac is short on apps now, so to will the iPhone be short on apps tomorrow. It is the applications that sell underlying devices. If you get that, you get more then Steve Jobs.
Nobody buys a computer just for Windows or the Linux kernel. Rather they buy a PC to do things and it is apps that let them do those things. The same is true for PDAs and phones, more apps means more things users can do, which means more reasons for people to buy. To get more apps, you need wok with outside developers, not fight them. You need to open your platform up to developers not block them out.
Jobs is a control freak. Apples ideas are in line with communist ideas, they sound great "We will control everything so we can take care of you, you will have no needs with our us in charge" Some people buy into it only to find limited choice waiting for them along with unfulfilled promised (see USSR few decades back, Cuba and Venezuela today). Android and Windows Mobile are like the free market, sure app 1 could interfere with app2, but you have choice to use those apps or not. Plus when you look at it, Apple has the same issues, they just hide it. "We don't have a BSoD, we have a nice image displayed on system failures".
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When you look at it, Apple doesn't remove the problems it claims to with greater control, just like communism doesn't. The free market is better, yes things conflict and problems do arise, but people in general are better off.
Microsoft is more free today and helps more people then Apple; labeling me a troll doesn't make that any less true.
Capitalism has always been free and helps more people then communism ever will; labeling me a troll doesn't make that any less true.
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You are looking for a group of people tech savvy enough to have media streaming from their pc, yet ones that have televisions old enough that they do not have a digital receiver.
I have been hacking my old outdated hardware for years. When I got a blazing PII to run Windows NT Workstation in college my older 486 became a test bed for Red Hat Linux. Later when I was literally the first DSL subscriber the Bell Atlantic technicians (they sent four) setup, I used a trash picked Pentium 133 to make a Linux router (before you could buy a home router).
/. hackers who may have the latest and greatest HDTVs or Tuner cards to also be interested in hacking DTV boxes going to old TVs or whatnot.
So I don't think it is unreasonable for
I am personally interested in hacking a cheap DTV device to make an IP based rebroadcaster that can stream over Internet. Ideally I would spit to friends and have them drop the device on my old college network somewhere so I can watch Philly teams without have to pay insane fees each season.
Why did he allow the Linux machine to have 50% more RAM, when it would have been simple to reduce the RAM to 512MB so it matched that of the Windows machine. Having different RAM amounts totally invalidates the results.
Simply abolish the FCC and replace it with a citizen run mod point system.
It would be hard for one who has the moral conviction that human life is not superior to animal life to live a morally consistent life.
I think the idea that animal and human life are equal is insane, but this post got me thinking. If you do believe that all life is equal, meaning an ant is equal to a dog is equal to a person, are your morally required to can out all predatory animals? If you believe people are bad for killing animals, do you also view dolphins (big time killers) as bad? Do you consider how bad killing is based on lives lost or on volume? I mean if you go by lives lost then Whales and fish that eat krill are way worst then people, course same is true if you go by volume, so are you anti-whale? Would people who eat dozens of chicken a year be worse then people who eat one or two cows? See by placing human life above animals I don't have these moral problems, I can eat my meat and laugh at vegans too.
Perhaps we are to assume it means we have more dark matter as now we have even more unaccountable matter to account for.
Tell that to the fat guy who got shot with a rifle round. He has a 600,000% weight advantage, yet he's still in ICU on a respirator.
Did you see the bullet afterward?
Amazon is fudging the numbers, I know several people who ordered things as early as August and were offered additional "free" items. While the items they paid for came in relatively quickly, the "free" items were delayed and eventually came in just before Christmas. I suspect Amazon rigged the shipping to make non-Christmas purchases and items appear under their Christmas season figures.
The other point is that things like units sold, or revenue or whatever, don't matter as far as I am concerned. The only thing that matters is PROFIT. Amazon selected a meaningless statistic from numerous meaningless stats and is pushing it out there. If Amazons profits were up, you better believe they would be pedaling that number to investors/creditors, since I have heard nothing on profit, I suspect it is "not good" or unknown.
What about when Apple pushed Safari on users who simply selected to update iTunes? Wasn't that unethical and wrong? Shouldn't Apple have been more forthcoming? Shouldn't Apple have asked you if you wanted Safari in a more straight forward and open manor? It wasn't a patch/update it was a new unrelated program installation.
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It makes me sick how Apple gets a pass no matter what they do. Face it, this latest Apple update is buggy, broken and bad. Face it, this is not the first poor update Apple has released. Face it, Apple frequently forces Jobs' will on users. Face the facts, while Linux is the most open platform, Apple is the least open platform and Microsoft is oddly enough in between, but interestingly closer to the Linux "free" side then it is to the Apple "fascist" side. In fact the reason Windows won the desktop war was in part because it was open to application and driver developers and therefore had/has more to offer. I love Linux and Microsoft because those OSes give me the most HW options and the most software options. That translates into more freedom for me as a user. Sometimes freedom is messy, back in the day it meant BSoD and whatnot at times, but it was the cost of being able to select from a near infinite hardware lineup, with XP and Vista BSoD are five nines the result of defective hardware. True Apple doesn't blue screen, it either just reboots without warning or tosses up a cute image instead. But they still crash, freeze and brick more then people admit on
So mod me down and mark me troll for calling Apple worse then Microsoft, but I like Windows and Linux because they offer the most "choice". Apple may be the nice little garden you all claim it to be, but it is a nice little garden that is walled in, where Jobs picks the plants for you. Me, I would rather take a stroll in a more "open" forest. This post was sent from a Thinkpad running Fedora 10, which is really bleeding edge.
But my biggest thought is, if you pump all this sea water into the air, where does the salt end up? Couldn't that be a bit of an enviornmental problem?
Course, I am not convinced Global Warming is real, after that I would need to be convinced the warming is unnatural and then after that I would need to be convinced the "cure" isn't worse then the "disease". After seeing this article and another that suggested putting trillions of tiny mirrors in space to deflect the Sun's rays (I mean what could go wrong), I now just look at Global Warming believers much the way Galeleo looked at people who rejected his ideas, mistaken at best, profoundly ignorant most likely.
I can see the lawyers chomping at the bit, hoping with a big court win, they could be entire to 30% of the planet (but no more as per Maryland law). I mean is he is trying to patent a naturally occurring process, cloud formation is clearly in the public domain.
Isn't water vapor one of the biggest greenhouse gasses?
Yes it is, but what do you expect? This guy is not a rocket scientist, he is a little known scientist.
I got news for you buddy, this past decade was not the hottest in Earth's history. If you trend over the the entire history, not some randomly selected time period you will discover that "The Earth on average is getting cooler". Plus I could argue that getting warmer means the Earth likely has a net energy gain, which isn't nearly as dangerous as having a net energy loss and certainly it isn't worth disrupting the lives of billions of people for a hypothesis that fails to explain why this year is colder then previous years. If you look at it logically, "Global Warming" is almost as scientifically credible as "Intelligent Design", almost.
Sort the average global temperatures for any decade and there'll be a hottest and a coldest. But being the coldest year in the hottest decade doesn't mean it's getting colder.
But the fact that the temp this year is not explained by the global warming models indicates, you global warming theorists may not know as much as you think you do, or perhaps you know a lot of stuff that just isn't so.
-Eric
The AT&T Internet is not true in reality, I have been calling for months trying to get either DSL (without needing local phone line) or fiber (without TV) and I am unable to get it in my area. TW on the other hand provides cable modem without anything else and as an added benefit they don't block ports of shape traffic like I suspect AT&T does and the fees are the same month to month, so my bill is $27.11 until promotion ends, in which case I call and point out AT&T deal which AT&T themselves is unable to deliver on and after several calls saying "no deal", I finally get somebody who says "deal". Rinse and repeat ... forever.
I learned on C, LISP, ML and JAVA, back in mid-90s. But the interesting thing is that I haven't really used any of those languages post college. I have instead used vbscript, bash, powershell, python and occasionally C#. Do I think my studies were a waste, not at all, I learned the core theoretical concepts behind programming. In fact I would argue my college (University of Pennsylvania) Profs had the following view (if we were going to teach you want was in now, it would likely be out by the time you graduate) so instead we are going to teach the theory so that when you "get out" you can focus on the "in" language you need to succeed. They gave me the fundamentals and I merely needed to learn the symantics of whatever language I meeded for a project. It has worked and when I find people who haven't had the theory and I try to explain something or witness their confusion, it is just so clear they are missing huge conceptual parts. That said, I think python is a good language to teach with because it is so simple to build useful apps that in JAVA or C would take many many more lines of code. As for when to introduce objects, that is a hard one, some books dive right in, others delay. I think objects are to big to get your head around at first, new programmers may think you understand, but there is a lot there. I think it is best to go over core fundamentals, variables, assignment statements, if statements, loops, etc. first and then bring in objects. I think you then need to teach and reteach objects in various ways so you can make sure they are understood. For me I thought I understood objects from the beginning, but looking back there was some fuzziness, which is hard to explain now that it is been clear for awhile now. I think explaining object oriented programming concepts repeatedly, but using different teaching methods, examples, etc. helps to make sure students eventually have that point where it "clicks". As a disclaimer I am paid to be a network admin, who uses scripts to make my life easier (Should make sense now why I use the languages I do). Only reason I avoid PERL is that I like to build scripts that are readable by others.
but you can't just stick a book in a magical converter and it change to an e-book.
It just so happens I have one of these "magical converters" at work, you put in paper or photos or books and tell this machine to scan to PDF.
Just the threat of being shot is enough to deter people from starting shit.
That is so true, whenever I am in England I always get in bar fights, but whenever I am in Texas or Australia, nothing. Why? Because people in England don't have guns, so all I need to consider is "Do I think I can take this big fella?", but when I am in Texas I always assume people have guns, even the tiny smaller ones, so I refrain from fighting (I can handle getting punched repeatedly, but being shot not so much). It's quite logical when you think about it.
The cool thing about Fedora is that it is cutting edge innovative stuff. I use RHEL or CENTOS on servers, but on my Thinkpad, which isn't even my primary laptop, I just love tossing on each Fedora release as soon as it comes out and tweaking it until the next version comes out. It is a fun way to geek out and learn. If there are bugs or glitches, it is often challenging and fun to workout and troubleshoot. The cool part is that much of Fedora leads into RHEL releases so as a Linux consultant I not only can have hands on knowledge of parts that are later put in RHEL, but I sometimes have knowledge about why something wasn't included. I love Red Hat and I love bleeding edge so I love Fedora. If you are about cutting edge software, if you are about being part of a distribution that gives back to the community as a whole, if you want to learn a distribution that could help get you a job, if you are about user based support, tips and documentation, Fedora is for you. If you are all about what the current fad is, maybe not so much, although it has a huge following.
I would argue because of what I call the Matrix Theory, science cannot disprove the existence of an outside entity (i.e. a creator/God). If science can explain that everything follows the physical laws of the universe from the start of time through the end of time does that mean Gods doesn't exist? No, it just means if there is a God who created the universe they work in it using the laws they set up (which, would make sense). But if on the other hand science determines there are points were universal laws breakdown that points to some outside initiator. So then science may in theory be able to prove God by disproving the alternatives. So the interesting thing is that science while unable to disprove God (Matrix theory) even if it demostrates our world conforms to explainable and scietific laws (however, God could be working within those laws), there is the possiblity that if those laws do not always hold and sometimes break or have broken, well then that gets really interesting. It tickles your noodle and it seems at most one should be agnostic if one intends to claim they are logical, objective and/or rational.
I want to say that I hope Android can turn Motorola around, but the other reason for this post is to say that yes I was able to tether my G1 to my Vista laptop via USB and am posting from my laptop over the 3G network to /. Wicked cool. How? I am using a proxy server on Android. I was also able to successfully do this over Wifi from my desktop to Android (my desktop has AP settings via the wifi card), so that solution will not work on my laptop. I love my G1 phone. Correction, I love my G1 computer. I don't think there is a reason to ask "Is this the year of the Linux desktop?" every again, that war is over and Windows won, the next war is for the phone/computer/PDA and Android (i.e. Linux based OSes) can kill Windows here. Why fight yesterdays battle, when we can fight tomorrows?
We highly recommend that you use Exchange Web Services for new application development and avoid ExoleDB, WebDAV and CDOEx for new development. Give us feedback on about what you like and dislike in the API and what features you would prioritize next. We realize that building the new API set is a work in progress and we are aware that we haven't yet implemented some of the features that you developers might need for your applications. Yet we are openly looking for your feedback knowing that that feedback will help us on prioritizing the new features we are adding. If there is some functionality you need that isn't yet in EWS, and neither will be there in the next release, then let us know through the Exchange Developer Blog or Exchange Developer Newsgroup, we are always reading those for the great feedback you customers can provide us.
And here is the link to the latest Exchange Web Services (I mistakenly referred to it as Outlook Anywhere) information from MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204119(EXCHG.80).aspx
MS publishes the APIs for how their RPC over HTTPS, think its current name is now Outlook Anywhere works. They do this basically so that cell phone and other mobile applications can access the Exchange server. If you want to create a Linux based E-mail app or add functionality to connect to Exchange 2007 that doesn't use IMAP or POP, the best methodology would be to create a connection using the Outlook Anywhere APIs. It could be a cool project, I would be interested in working on it with anybody who wants to step up. Perhaps a interesting approach could be to build Outlook Anyway to IMAP intermediate application that could then be employed to act as an intermediary between whatever Linux client or heck even Windows mail client you wish to use and Exchange 2007. I mean basically you could put the app on your machine, set it first to talk to Exchange 2007 and then setup mail client of choice to talk to IMAP and SMTP on intermediary app. Not saying it wouldn't introduce some delay, but if done right, it would be "wicked helpful" If done in JAVA or "I cannot even believe I am suggesting this" .NET limited to mono supported APIs, then it could be single app for both Window and Linux users. Hit me back if you would be interested in doing something like this. I think we should call it "Mailman in the Middle".
You make it look so easy, as somebody who often has to test client connections (Network Consultant), I feel you forgot to point out there is no "delete" or "backspace" option available as the SMTP services assumes it is another mail server, which unlike us humans never makes mistakes. And yes, I treat everything on /. as a serious suggestion.
I'll probably get a touchscreen iPod once Apple comes to its senses regarding app licensing (which, to be fair, is a lot more liberal than how most phone companies treat 3rd-party apps)
Then you have never used a blackberry with T-Mobile. I can use it as a phone, a wireless modem with XP, Vista, Linux or OS X. I can download and install free apps over Net onto the device directly or first through my PC. I can transfer pictures and music onto it with or without 3rd party apps, over USB, micro SD card or Bluetooth. I can upgrade flash memory at a later time, rather then being forced and locked in a time of purchase. I can go to online stores to buy apps for it or I can build apps using their development tools, which are far easier then Apple's SDK with iPhone. I can develop BB apps using BB SDK with Eclipse plugin or BB IDE on Linux, Mac or Windows; for iPhone apps, not only do I need a Mac, but it must be Intel based Mac. Furthermore other venders documentation and APIs are fantastic compared to Apples.
Don't even get me started on Android's APIs and documentation. It is hands down the easiest PDA platform to develop for and the most open. First device coming out this week for T-mobile will already have more apps than iPhone because of Google's open development platform. Google first worked with developers and is now moving to users.
Both Microsoft and Google get it. Long term success is about developer backing and thus application support. Jobs is losing the PDA war the same way he lost the computer war. Looking at a short-term closed niche market he can control like a dictator rather then give up some of his control in favor of more freedom and more apps for users. Yes, he will make money. Yes, the iPhone will be cool in the eyes of college kids, but the fact is more people will use blackberries and more people will use Windows Mobile devices and soon more people will use Android devices and the end result is just like the Mac is short on apps now, so to will the iPhone be short on apps tomorrow. It is the applications that sell underlying devices. If you get that, you get more then Steve Jobs.
Nobody buys a computer just for Windows or the Linux kernel. Rather they buy a PC to do things and it is apps that let them do those things. The same is true for PDAs and phones, more apps means more things users can do, which means more reasons for people to buy. To get more apps, you need wok with outside developers, not fight them. You need to open your platform up to developers not block them out.
Jobs is a control freak. Apples ideas are in line with communist ideas, they sound great "We will control everything so we can take care of you, you will have no needs with our us in charge" Some people buy into it only to find limited choice waiting for them along with unfulfilled promised (see USSR few decades back, Cuba and Venezuela today). Android and Windows Mobile are like the free market, sure app 1 could interfere with app2, but you have choice to use those apps or not. Plus when you look at it, Apple has the same issues, they just hide it. "We don't have a BSoD, we have a nice image displayed on system failures".
BR> When you look at it, Apple doesn't remove the problems it claims to with greater control, just like communism doesn't. The free market is better, yes things conflict and problems do arise, but people in general are better off.
Microsoft is more free today and helps more people then Apple; labeling me a troll doesn't make that any less true.
Capitalism has always been free and helps more people then communism ever will; labeling me a troll doesn't make that any less true.
In the 95 years since 1913, we've had quite an active sun
Could the active Sun and not mankind be the reason for global warming? Discuss