Well, if you're ever in the Phoenix area, that could be arranged.
In any case, my main point is that supporting a code base that hasn't been sold for over 4 years, and is 10 years from the original release doesn't really make sense to support from a practical stand point, especially when alternatives exist for the platform.
IIRC, the original observation was that the number of Transistors that could be placed on a given Integrated Circuit pretty much doubled every 18-24 months... I don't think it's held true to that timeline, as the process shrinks for die manufacturing haven't held quite that fast, and is approaching a point where interference from other points on a circuit is close to becoming an issue.
The point was that the limitation wasn't artificial, not that the reasons for said limitation have value. Considering the fact that Mozilla, Google, Apple and Opera are dedicating resources to hardware accelerated canvas and video support, it would seem that your assumption that t isn't necessary would be mistaken. As to MS not putting the effort to support their latest browser efforts to a decade old OS that hasn't been sold as a mainstream option in 4 years...
Agreed.. XP wasn't even as stable as Win2K (notME) when released... Win7 is the only windows version other than 2K that was very stable at release... at least for me, until >32GB drives were more common.
I would think that JavaScript would be appropriate, it's easy enough in terms of syntax, there's a lot of flexibility, and it's an event driven, functional language with prototype based inheritance. I know it gets a bad rap, but honestly it's a very good language, and very widely available.
It's a privatized LDAP server... there are lots of OpenLDAP based solutions that work as or more effectively. Also, it isn't always the technology, but administration of such that becomes critical.
yeah, I meant "Windows, Mac and Linux" not "...PC".. did mention Linux later.. but as you said. Someone's mention of rsync.net above is interesting too... may go that route if I need more than the 4gb I have now.
Except, I don't agree with the direction the Mob(s) are moving, which is tending to be more government (in scope, size and scale) along with more government intrusion into my life.
Not for me, as a Win/Mac/Nix user, I want something with clients/servers where i need them... VNC/VNC+SSH works... not as well as NX or RDP, but hey, that's the price I pay...
Wouldn't remote X11 over BZ stream cut it similarly?
Agreed, even on the software front for an HTPC... Media Portal seems to do the best job playing various formats over the network... Boxee is the best for "internet" channels, but needs some tweaking, and I wish I could nuke the "social" aspects.. or at *LEAST* have it backup my added channels (and settings) if I have to login anyhow. For Live recording, it's a tossup, Media Center (Windows) does a good job with this, but outside of TV, I find that there are other options that do everything else better (though I honestly gave up since HD options for WMC were few and far between. I also wanted something like GameEX, but better online handling like Boxee... *sigh* It's not been an irritation enough, that using a combination of software bugs me enough to scratch my own itch in this space, but it is irritating to say the least.
Honestly though, it depends on the context of the application in question. If you are trying to do a quick data entry application, then there are existing UI features to use the OS's skin, and handle scaling. When it comes to games, it's a bit more complicated as sprites are much more per-device specific than other rendering/sizing options... perhaps having a multipack of sprites for different screen size ranges, or other options come into play. It's definitely more fragmented than most other scenarios. In games, we've come to expect that scaling will be handled by the underlying OS/Browser/Framework... in old-school consoles, and handhelds, there were fixed display sets, so using pixel based graphics was easier.
My main point of contention, is that outside of games/graphics/video, there is very little that even approaches difficult to do with the existing tools on the architecture, and most of the people griping aren't game, video, or graphics application developers.
I wouldn't go that far... all packets fo/from your client's endpoint should be treated equally.
Though, different users should be allowed to be given priority based on tiering and use... if User A checks his email a few times a day, and User B seeds a few dozen heavy torrents, then User A's packets should probably come before User B, based on usage alone. Beyond that, for a given user, there shouldn't be a differentiation based on the protocol, if there's encryption in place, or who it's going to/from.
I still use my mail client when I need to churn through a lot... usually use webmail when I'm just waiting for a quick message... though haven't been as active in email discussion lists as of late.
Well, the fact that i detects active changes, and has easy to install and use clients for Windows, Mac and PC (rsync not so much) and easy to use. With the benefit of web based access, as well as platform clients for various phones, etc... it goes a bit beyond rsync. The 2GB free account comes in handy enough, I use it to sync my application profiles and data between a few different systems (mac,win, lin). Good option for portable apps too (keepass, portable thunderbird, etc) I have a few other folders symlinked in my dropbox directory, and it works great.. local network syc & offsite backup. Not sure how well the truecrypt support is, but pretty cool imho.
If you pimp dropbox, you get an extra 250MB of storage per referral, up to 8gb of space.
You had space to lay down, you were lucky.. my desk doesn't really even have room for speakers to either side of the displays (dual screen), and nothing behind me but a table, and the back of the person on the other side of said table. there's about 8 of us (one open space) in a room.
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Well, if you're ever in the Phoenix area, that could be arranged.
In any case, my main point is that supporting a code base that hasn't been sold for over 4 years, and is 10 years from the original release doesn't really make sense to support from a practical stand point, especially when alternatives exist for the platform.
Well, you shouldn't have bought that stupid netbook then, should you?
IIRC, the original observation was that the number of Transistors that could be placed on a given Integrated Circuit pretty much doubled every 18-24 months... I don't think it's held true to that timeline, as the process shrinks for die manufacturing haven't held quite that fast, and is approaching a point where interference from other points on a circuit is close to becoming an issue.
The point was that the limitation wasn't artificial, not that the reasons for said limitation have value. Considering the fact that Mozilla, Google, Apple and Opera are dedicating resources to hardware accelerated canvas and video support, it would seem that your assumption that t isn't necessary would be mistaken. As to MS not putting the effort to support their latest browser efforts to a decade old OS that hasn't been sold as a mainstream option in 4 years...
I don't think it's so artificial, because of the acceleration enhancements, and the updates to the underlying graphics system from Vista/win7
Agreed.. XP wasn't even as stable as Win2K (notME) when released... Win7 is the only windows version other than 2K that was very stable at release... at least for me, until >32GB drives were more common.
The only time I've enjoyed windows own search is on my ssd systems.
Standards for interoperability are fine... In this case they don't inhibit competition, and allow for more interoperability, and hence competition.
I thought the HTC angled corner is because they added an audio channel... and to maintain compatability with mini-usb.
IIRC, PCI/PCIe are Intel inventions. Also, many phone mfgs were already using mini-usb for charging.
I would think that JavaScript would be appropriate, it's easy enough in terms of syntax, there's a lot of flexibility, and it's an event driven, functional language with prototype based inheritance. I know it gets a bad rap, but honestly it's a very good language, and very widely available.
It's a privatized LDAP server... there are lots of OpenLDAP based solutions that work as or more effectively. Also, it isn't always the technology, but administration of such that becomes critical.
yeah, I meant "Windows, Mac and Linux" not "...PC" .. did mention Linux later.. but as you said. Someone's mention of rsync.net above is interesting too... may go that route if I need more than the 4gb I have now.
Except, I don't agree with the direction the Mob(s) are moving, which is tending to be more government (in scope, size and scale) along with more government intrusion into my life.
Not for me, as a Win/Mac/Nix user, I want something with clients/servers where i need them... VNC/VNC+SSH works... not as well as NX or RDP, but hey, that's the price I pay...
Wouldn't remote X11 over BZ stream cut it similarly?
What's funny, is the Netflix streaming on my TV rarely has to buffer, and the video quality is better than via boxee on my HTPC.
Agreed, even on the software front for an HTPC... Media Portal seems to do the best job playing various formats over the network... Boxee is the best for "internet" channels, but needs some tweaking, and I wish I could nuke the "social" aspects.. or at *LEAST* have it backup my added channels (and settings) if I have to login anyhow. For Live recording, it's a tossup, Media Center (Windows) does a good job with this, but outside of TV, I find that there are other options that do everything else better (though I honestly gave up since HD options for WMC were few and far between. I also wanted something like GameEX, but better online handling like Boxee... *sigh* It's not been an irritation enough, that using a combination of software bugs me enough to scratch my own itch in this space, but it is irritating to say the least.
Honestly though, it depends on the context of the application in question. If you are trying to do a quick data entry application, then there are existing UI features to use the OS's skin, and handle scaling. When it comes to games, it's a bit more complicated as sprites are much more per-device specific than other rendering/sizing options... perhaps having a multipack of sprites for different screen size ranges, or other options come into play. It's definitely more fragmented than most other scenarios. In games, we've come to expect that scaling will be handled by the underlying OS/Browser/Framework... in old-school consoles, and handhelds, there were fixed display sets, so using pixel based graphics was easier.
My main point of contention, is that outside of games/graphics/video, there is very little that even approaches difficult to do with the existing tools on the architecture, and most of the people griping aren't game, video, or graphics application developers.
I wouldn't go that far... all packets fo/from your client's endpoint should be treated equally.
Though, different users should be allowed to be given priority based on tiering and use... if User A checks his email a few times a day, and User B seeds a few dozen heavy torrents, then User A's packets should probably come before User B, based on usage alone. Beyond that, for a given user, there shouldn't be a differentiation based on the protocol, if there's encryption in place, or who it's going to/from.
I still use my mail client when I need to churn through a lot... usually use webmail when I'm just waiting for a quick message... though haven't been as active in email discussion lists as of late.
On the bloated front the last two versions of Office, have been very lean compared to it's counterparts (OOo, and Corell).
To be fair, you don't get much out of Outlook without Exchange on the server.. IMHO Outlook should have stayed with the Exchange team.
Well, the fact that i detects active changes, and has easy to install and use clients for Windows, Mac and PC (rsync not so much) and easy to use. With the benefit of web based access, as well as platform clients for various phones, etc... it goes a bit beyond rsync. The 2GB free account comes in handy enough, I use it to sync my application profiles and data between a few different systems (mac,win, lin). Good option for portable apps too (keepass, portable thunderbird, etc) I have a few other folders symlinked in my dropbox directory, and it works great.. local network syc & offsite backup. Not sure how well the truecrypt support is, but pretty cool imho.
If you pimp dropbox, you get an extra 250MB of storage per referral, up to 8gb of space.
Microsoft provides the Codec support for Moonlight, and doesn't include the DRM support for Moonlight's users.
You had space to lay down, you were lucky.. my desk doesn't really even have room for speakers to either side of the displays (dual screen), and nothing behind me but a table, and the back of the person on the other side of said table. there's about 8 of us (one open space) in a room.