so we're thinking of installing the Citrix ICA client and host the phone interface on a central Solaris cluster.
HA HA HA! This is great. Clearly, AC does not know what he is talking about and is a karma whore. Hosting the phone interface on a central Solaris cluster and connecting to it by a Citrix ICA client? Did it occur to anyone else that this doesn't make the least bit of sense?
I'm sorry if I sound doubtful, but this is highly unlikely -- HDTV does not mean that it is widescreen. HDTV is either 720 progressive horizontal lines or 1080 interlaced horizontal lines -- we are talking a seriously huge download.
Anyway, if you want HDTV over broadcast you just need to connect your antenna to the tuner card and you will be able to receive any HDTV channels in your area (no, the existing program will not be magically in HDTV). If you want to use it over cable, you will need to subscribe to your cable company's digital offerings. (And make sure that they actually offer HD signals with it.. some don't yet).
It's not really worth it yet.. there is so little programming in HD it would be a waste of money.
Yes, it's unbelievably muddled -- Cringely suggests that Microsoft could simply pick up the Windows GUI system and magically turn it into an X window manager.
Kids in schools are going to be logging into the machines, so they are going to have their own user accounts.
Under Linux (and all real OSes, as opposed to Windows where, until recently -- and still, because some software refuses to run as a mere mortal user --, any user could go and format the hard drive) it is thoroughly IMPOSSIBLE to screw up the computer unless you are root or the sysadmin has misconfigured something.
A user will never need to -- and won't be able to -- write outside of their home directory.
I know people said the same thing about e-mail, but what good does IM do in the office?
Furthermore, what about the security issues.. people are going to want to bring in their own copy of AIM/Y!/MSN Messenger to chat with friends.. doesn't this pose a security risk?
This is not a problem because, if you read the blurb above, you will see that the radio is NOT included. If you want to enable the Wi-Fi features you need to add this.
This is what XHTML and CSS is SUPPOSED to do. Unfortunately, the vast majority of 'web designers' are pixel-nazis and don't really understand web pages are not supposed to be a giant image with pixel-perfect layout.
Actually, this lends itself to an interesting question. Software like the aforementioned wicked3d or SciTech's GLDirect allows users to see "3D" (actually stereo images) in any game that uses 3D acellerated graphics (DirectX/OpenGL) using either red/blue anaglyph glasses or LCD shutters.
What I'm wondering is does this notebook come with the appropriate drivers to interpret the standard DirectX calls (like the above programs) and display any game in stereo or does the game have to be specifically written for it?
It still sounds kind of cool though, but this sort of thing is doable on regular hardware with red/blue or LCD shutter glasses, or just doing the eye-crossing thing.
Unfortunately, it costs a hell of a lot of money for something that looks as good or better with $1.50 anaglyph (red/blue) glasses.
Well, I know you were joking but there actually is a loophole for Canadians -- we can buy outside the country (i.e. from the US) and we do NOT have to pay the levy.
I don't know about Linus, Alan, Richard and the KDE team but considering the size of most geeks there could be a lot of pressuring involved to get them into scuba diving outfits!;)
I know that there is fault-tolerance, but putting control of most of the telecommunications connectivity of an entire continent in the hands of one company is kind of scary..
I think this just goes to show that consumer operating systems are a bad idea to put on important machines that need to be reliable.
I'd think QNX or something else very simple and reliable would be a much better choice to rnu on ATM machines..
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IANAP, but my guess would be parsing:
Apple|45|Yes Orange|72|No Banana|34|No Pear|7 8|No.. is always going to be faster than parsing:
<fruit>
<name>Apple</name>
<weight>45</weight>
<preference pref="yes"/> </fruit> <fruit>
<name>Orange</name>
<weight>72</weight>
<preference pref="no"/> </fruit> <fruit>
<name>Banana</name>
<weight>34</weight>
<preference pref="no"/> </fruit> <fruit>
<name>Pear</name>
<weight>78</weight>
<preference pref="no"/> </fruit>... there's a whole lot more to process. Yes, I know that my example is oversimplified and not much can be gleamed about what the numbers describe in my example, but there is no reason that there couldn't be good documentation.
XML seems incredibly wasteful -- just because we have 3ghz processors now doesn't mean we should use incredible verbosity for no good reason.
In most cases, the lip-synching is slightly out, meaning that the ad was probably filmed in English but originally shot overseas somewhere (US, Australia, etc). Companies that have done this include Coca-Cola for Diet Coke, Just For Men hair colourant and, ridiculously, a hair product for women that dubbed out Andie McDowell's beautiful southern drawl with that of another American!
What exactly does this acheive? What's wrong with a British advert having an American (or Australian) announcer and conversely, what's wrong with an American (or Australian) advert having a British announcer?
This seems as ridiculous as the dubbing of Mad Max for the American market...
No. Have you never heard of audio description? Turn on the Simpsons on your local Fox affiliate one Sunday night and switch your TV's audio to the SAP channel -- assuming your local affiliate is properly transmitting the SAP channel (some don't) -- you will hear audio descriptions of what is happening on screen in the gaps between dialogue.
Kind of like what closed captioning does for the deaf. It's just nowhere near as common, though.
These two technologies (audio description, closed captioning) are also available in movie theatres but in a much smaller scale.
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A conspiracy theorist could have a field day..
Now where did I put my tin-foil hat?
A great victory for consumers everywhere.
HA HA HA! This is great. Clearly, AC does not know what he is talking about and is a karma whore. Hosting the phone interface on a central Solaris cluster and connecting to it by a Citrix ICA client? Did it occur to anyone else that this doesn't make the least bit of sense?
Voila.
I'm sorry if I sound doubtful, but this is highly unlikely -- HDTV does not mean that it is widescreen. HDTV is either 720 progressive horizontal lines or 1080 interlaced horizontal lines -- we are talking a seriously huge download.
Anyway, if you want HDTV over broadcast you just need to connect your antenna to the tuner card and you will be able to receive any HDTV channels in your area (no, the existing program will not be magically in HDTV). If you want to use it over cable, you will need to subscribe to your cable company's digital offerings. (And make sure that they actually offer HD signals with it.. some don't yet).
It's not really worth it yet.. there is so little programming in HD it would be a waste of money.
Yes, it's unbelievably muddled -- Cringely suggests that Microsoft could simply pick up the Windows GUI system and magically turn it into an X window manager.
Kids in schools are going to be logging into the machines, so they are going to have their own user accounts.
Under Linux (and all real OSes, as opposed to Windows where, until recently -- and still, because some software refuses to run as a mere mortal user --, any user could go and format the hard drive) it is thoroughly IMPOSSIBLE to screw up the computer unless you are root or the sysadmin has misconfigured something.
A user will never need to -- and won't be able to -- write outside of their home directory.
So what's the problem?
And cleaning up the heads would get kind of messy..
Furthermore, what about the security issues.. people are going to want to bring in their own copy of AIM/Y!/MSN Messenger to chat with friends.. doesn't this pose a security risk?
This is not a problem because, if you read the blurb above, you will see that the radio is NOT included. If you want to enable the Wi-Fi features you need to add this.
Let's hope for more sites like A List Apart (www.alistapart.com) that look great AND satisfy these requirements.
What I'm wondering is does this notebook come with the appropriate drivers to interpret the standard DirectX calls (like the above programs) and display any game in stereo or does the game have to be specifically written for it?
It still sounds kind of cool though, but this sort of thing is doable on regular hardware with red/blue or LCD shutter glasses, or just doing the eye-crossing thing.
Unfortunately, it costs a hell of a lot of money for something that looks as good or better with $1.50 anaglyph (red/blue) glasses.
Well, I know you were joking but there actually is a loophole for Canadians -- we can buy outside the country (i.e. from the US) and we do NOT have to pay the levy.
Actually, VNC hooks into the X server on XFree86-using platforms, but on Mac, unfortunately it doesn't.
I'd hope it would be Alltheweb, but I know they are unknown in the real world, even if their results are nearly google-level in quality.
I fear it would be a great opportunity for Microsoft to seize yet another market...
It's still amazing though that we could disconnect Europe from the Internet with ease..
I don't know about Linus, Alan, Richard and the KDE team but considering the size of most geeks there could be a lot of pressuring involved to get them into scuba diving outfits! ;)
I know that there is fault-tolerance, but putting control of most of the telecommunications connectivity of an entire continent in the hands of one company is kind of scary..
I know that there is fault-tolerance, but putting control of most of the telecommunications connectivity of an entire continent is kind of scary..
Yes, I know, it's superman tearing his shirt off -- but was it just me who at first thought of a certain famous site?
I'd think QNX or something else very simple and reliable would be a much better choice to rnu on ATM machines..
IANAP, but my guess would be parsing:
7 8|No .. is always going to be faster than parsing:
... there's a whole lot more to process. Yes, I know that my example is oversimplified and not much can be gleamed about what the numbers describe in my example, but there is no reason that there couldn't be good documentation.
Apple|45|Yes
Orange|72|No
Banana|34|No
Pear|
<fruit>
<name>Apple</name>
<weight>45</weight>
<preference pref="yes"/>
</fruit>
<fruit>
<name>Orange</name>
<weight>72</weight>
<preference pref="no"/>
</fruit>
<fruit>
<name>Banana</name>
<weight>34</weight>
<preference pref="no"/>
</fruit>
<fruit>
<name>Pear</name>
<weight>78</weight>
<preference pref="no"/>
</fruit>
XML seems incredibly wasteful -- just because we have 3ghz processors now doesn't mean we should use incredible verbosity for no good reason.
What exactly does this acheive? What's wrong with a British advert having an American (or Australian) announcer and conversely, what's wrong with an American (or Australian) advert having a British announcer?
This seems as ridiculous as the dubbing of Mad Max for the American market...
Kind of like what closed captioning does for the deaf. It's just nowhere near as common, though.
These two technologies (audio description, closed captioning) are also available in movie theatres but in a much smaller scale.