IGEL and Neoware (manufacturers of thin clients) have models coming up that in plain words are a thin tablet client: They have I/O such as USB and touchscreen, of course a wireless NIC, but don't rely on harddisks and such.
These devices are of course only meaningful in an area with wireless LAN and terminal server capacity available. Examples: hospitals, museums, (retail) stores, warehouses etc.
I for one miss better performance on these battery dependent devices (at least compared to a fat Tablet), but as mentioned in previous/. article, Hitachi is leading the way with fuel cell powered units. Wheeehaa!
I'm surprised why all eyes on/. are at MS when Intel is moving up with the EFI technology that could take out the need for BIOS (at least in future versions).
From their page:
"The EFI specification defines a new model for the interface between operating systems and platform firmware. The interface consists of data tables that contain platform-related information, plus boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating system and its loader. Together, these provide a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications.
The EFI specification is primarily intended for the next generation of IA-32 and Itanium(R) Architecture-based computers, and is an outgrowth of the "Intel Boot Initiative" (IBI) program that began in 1998."
/me is betting that MS is involved in this initiative too.
With risk of being redundant; parent post has the exact same message as I have: Jaws does the trick.
I guess my only addition would to vouch for it. A visually impaired fella at my work uses it and says he happy with that, in conjuction with other tricks. He's a top telesales guy having the customer in one earpiece and the computer speech voice in the other. Amazing dude.
The point is not so much that open source is copycatting Microsoft but rather that open source vendors understand that Linux users, especially the great mass of potential Linux users, aren't any different from Windows users. They want the same applications, with the same features, the same ease of use, and largely, the same look and feel. As Linux moves beyond the hobbyist and server space into the corporate and home desktop space, there will be an increasing number of Linux users who genuinely don't care whether their applications are open source, and in fact would probably rather use their familiar Microsoft applications, if they are available, than retrain on unfamiliar and less mature applications. "
/me thinks that he has missed the point with Open Source completely...
On the other hand, he has a point concerning Linux while quoting Pavlicek's Top Ten list in yet another article:
The multiple-GUI problem illustrates a basic difference in Windows and Linux. Windows has one general GUI interface which has served many millions of people and works for many millions of different applications. The Mac (another successful consumer OS) is similar; one general GUI works across all Mac applications. Why is Linux different? [...] Give them the real thing, Microsoft. Give them choice. Port the applications and development tools [to Linux]. Turn the millions of Microsoft developers loose on Linux, and let them build the future on both platforms.
The writer doesn't seem to grasp the idea that something for free also can be both safe and sound. Open != Soviet Russia!?
In that sense love, culture and the work of non-profit organizations (including the UN, scientific organisations etc.) are both evil and posing a threat to society.
"Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users - not to share files this time, but to talk and chat with your friends."
Further on:
"Works with all firewall, NAT and routers - nothing to configure!"
Avoiding all the crap laws: where is the 'sourceforge' of music and other media that is released under GPL?
And what about re-engineered paintings of old master pieces: do they fall under the recent acts?
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IGEL and Neoware (manufacturers of thin clients) have models coming up that in plain words are a thin tablet client:
/. article, Hitachi is leading the way with fuel cell powered units. Wheeehaa!
They have I/O such as USB and touchscreen, of course a wireless NIC, but don't rely on harddisks and such.
These devices are of course only meaningful in an area with wireless LAN and terminal server capacity available. Examples:
hospitals, museums, (retail) stores, warehouses etc.
I for one miss better performance on these battery dependent devices (at least compared to a fat Tablet), but as mentioned in previous
1. IBM 2. Novell 3. Suse 4. Profit!!
1. Dell 2. Redhat 3. Profit!!!
1. ??? 2. Mandrake 3. Profit!!!
I'm surprised why all eyes on /. are at MS when Intel is moving up with the EFI technology that could take out the need for BIOS (at least in future versions).
From their page:
"The EFI specification defines a new model for the interface between operating systems and platform firmware. The interface consists of data tables that contain platform-related information, plus boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating system and its loader. Together, these provide a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications.
The EFI specification is primarily intended for the next generation of IA-32 and Itanium(R) Architecture-based computers, and is an outgrowth of the "Intel Boot Initiative" (IBI) program that began in 1998."
/me is betting that MS is involved in this initiative too.
With risk of being redundant; parent post has the exact same message as I have: Jaws does the trick.
I guess my only addition would to vouch for it. A visually impaired fella at my work uses it and says he happy with that, in conjuction with other tricks.
He's a top telesales guy having the customer in one earpiece and the computer speech voice in the other. Amazing dude.
/me imagines a Beowulf cluster of these starlike objects.
Strange that BEA has it's competing (?) JRockit there too!?
Our Primary weapons are Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt...
In another article, the same author claims:
/me thinks that he has missed the point with Open Source completely...
The point is not so much that open source is copycatting Microsoft but rather that open source vendors understand that Linux users, especially the great mass of potential Linux users, aren't any different from Windows users. They want the same applications, with the same features, the same ease of use, and largely, the same look and feel. As Linux moves beyond the hobbyist and server space into the corporate and home desktop space, there will be an increasing number of Linux users who genuinely don't care whether their applications are open source, and in fact would probably rather use their familiar Microsoft applications, if they are available, than retrain on unfamiliar and less mature applications. "
On the other hand, he has a point concerning Linux while quoting Pavlicek's Top Ten list in yet another article:
The multiple-GUI problem illustrates a basic difference in Windows and Linux. Windows has one general GUI interface which has served many millions of people and works for many millions of different applications. The Mac (another successful consumer OS) is similar; one general GUI works across all Mac applications. Why is Linux different? [...]
Give them the real thing, Microsoft. Give them choice. Port the applications and development tools [to Linux]. Turn the millions of Microsoft developers loose on Linux, and let them build the future on both platforms.
Provided they do so with Open Source, that is!
The writer doesn't seem to grasp the idea that something for free also can be both safe and sound. Open != Soviet Russia!?
In that sense love, culture and the work of non-profit organizations (including the UN, scientific organisations etc.) are both evil and posing a threat to society.
Bah! If i could, I'd mod this article Troll!
Make the /. effect work for you, essentially.
/. effect."
... the idea of that just gives me the creeps!
"In Soviet Russia, they make you work for the
Then FMA, Floats Mobile Agent, could be something for you. Resides at Sourceforge.
From their website:
"Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users - not to share files this time, but to talk and chat with your friends."
Further on: "Works with all firewall, NAT and routers - nothing to configure!"
But that wasn't your point now, was it?
Anti-ignorant or European-ignorant?
Yup, whatever happened to the idea of layers, tiers of clientapp, business logic and the dB in some storage area?
Avoiding all the crap laws: where is the 'sourceforge' of music and other media that is released under GPL?
And what about re-engineered paintings of old master pieces: do they fall under the recent acts?
- No, I didn't RTFA.
Insane in the Mameframe? I get my lowbudget nostalgia through emu's these days. Good enough.
Yes, power consumption differs
- as do security (bt frequency hops) and general topology (PAN vs. WAN) although that latter difference has decreased.