How is it impressive? The microsoft demo showed a mobile phone being put on the table, it being recognised, and files being sent to/from the device. That's not been done before in such a fashion
Maybe, but the same can be and has been achieved in a much slicker method - ie using Blutooth and a Mac OS X( I am sure the same can be done on a PC). Forget touching anything.
I realy wonder if TiVo has contributed back in kind. This still is not in the spirit of the GPL.
Nor do I think the TiVos are really that cheap that they need to be subsidized by service. I use Replay TV, there may be similar lockout issues there. But if I can buy a Wii for $250 and Nintendo is making money on them, seems that Tivo should be simpler and cheaper to produce. I would think the market for Tivo is much larger than a Nintendo. Of course we, well I, have no real clue on the economics of Tivo's manufacturing. Though in the IT field as a manager, I have been working for manufacturers, and that long enough to see how money can easily be misspend (particuarly in salaries for management).
This still doesn't answer the larger question.
Where would Linux be if all PCs where TiVoized? See that is where I can see this heading. All of a sudden new Hardware from all the [major] vendors will only be allowed to run, for exzample, MacOS X and the latest flavor of Windows. Why, to some degree we already get that happening - the Windows versions Dell has been selling on their machines, since win2k at least, can only be installed on Dell hardware. I do not know if that is true of other vendors as well, nor do I know if there are hacks around this.
It certainly would allow a relatively easy lockout of Linux on a PC platform. Where would Linus be if that had been the case when he got started?
not Tivo's.
If I can find better alternate use of that hardware package, why should I be prevented from doing so?
You are espousing the idea that any PC maker could restrict you to using the OS they want you to run on it.
Just because he is giving away CDs for free doesn't mean he is giving away his copyrights, so it doesn't automatically make it legal for anyone else to distribute the contents of the CD via, lets says P2P or streaming.
If the copyright notice on this free CD says that anyone can copy and distribute, that is a different matter alltogether.
I wonder if anyone would question that "shrink wrap" agreement?
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similar items that where similarily priced. Just checking some of the posts well above, and looking at the exec level in our company, some Treos and Blackberrys fall in that category.
I haven't read anything that suggests anything revolutionary about the iPhone other than fewer mechanical buttons.
Cutting through the clutter, I personally see a well executed interface (if it is not buggy) - doing things that other devices can also do, but apparently those just dont do it as well as the iPhone
Will people pay for this polish? Some, but I suspect many (even non tech people) will also buy it because it is the latest and greatest phone gadget.
Now, the thing I think is overhyped much more thant the iphone and is likely to fall way short of its own hype is this Microsoft Surface.
Where do you buy your ink for refilling?
I have 2 Canon printers and while the ink lasts longer than on the HP I had previously, I am looking to try my hand at refills. My 4 year old has gotten quite comfortable at the computer and she is asking to print pictures now. So I expect my printer usage will increase dramatically.
Nor sure if that should be a:) or a:(
But I want it to be more of a:) so I need to learn to refill.
I am not that up on linux, but as posts below indicate, locate only finds filenames, not file contents.
I suppose it is a step up form find, since it appears to maintain an index file.
But find is not a service constantly running as a service as I suppose locate would be. And DOS and windows also (have) come with a close equivalent of find, though not as flexible. The dir command works wonders in that respect.
No the desktop search is something completely different. It is not just a command line utiltiy. I do believe some kind of desktop utility like Vistas desktop search, Beagle, Spotlight or Google desktop search is a nice thing to have if you want it - but that is not the qeustion.
The question is can Vista desktop search be easily turned off? That is not so clear despite people claiming here that it can be stopped by disabling the service. I am sure that if we can think of ways to do so, so could the minds at Google. There may be something more to this than meets the eye, and I wouldn't think it is something simplistic. If it was simplistic I am sure Google could handle it.
Good point on the distance figure. Don't have enough experience with newer cars, but yeah, my Passat is set for a 400 mile range with a 14gallon tank - and on my last long distance trip i did make 412 miles but ddint have he nerve to go 5 miles more to go all the way to my destination. even though the electronic mileage calculator said I could go another 15 miles.:)
The cars i or my parents had, vintage mid 70s through the e arly 90s had a range of little over 200 miles if I recall ( audi 100, Mustang II, Oldsmobile Ciera, Toyata wagon, subaru hatchback and a Ford Escort).
Interestingly enough the motorcycle ranges for any given class of motorcycle has also inched up. Not necessarily improved mileage there either, but the range certainly has crept up a bit.
(and to think i got a motorcycle when I didn't have a car for a while because I thought i would get good fuel mileage... Seems i got the wrong bike - my naked basic BMW 1100R averages 40mpg; for a range of just over 160 miles):(
Yeah, I agree. But it would be good to announce that capability when as part of the queue length information. His point was that they did it without asking or hinting that they would do this.
of course if teh caller blocks caller id then voice recognition would be next step.
Anecdotely i can tell you about someone who a few years ago called a major department store's service center ( Sears I think) wanting to schedule some repair. However without ever talking to anyone the automated system told him there would be a wait time of xx length. He felt he didn't want to hang on the phone that long, so he hung up (never explicitly leacing any information). 20 minutes later a call comes from the service center saying they recognized he called (apparently from the caller information left implicitly) and where now available to assist him. Poor guy was totally spooked that he hung up and never called the service center again.
Now this guy is no Luddite; he was at the time in his 70s and the still a working president (and owner) of the company for which I work. His take was that it was rude and presumptious of the company to call him like that.
The last time i bought a car - fall 2001 - it seemed the mileage figures for most cars where lower than those in the 80's. My friends and I where discussing this when he bought a diesel VW around that time. It seems that in 20 years of engineering advancements little went into providing useful fuel efficeincy to the consumer.
Fuel efficiency has increased, but that has been more than offset by increased horsepower and weight. I am have been wondering if that is due to supposed improved safety. Did the rise in SUV require cars too be more sturdy for crash tests? Or ist the increased mass a natural design for increased crash safety for passengers?
The current huge gas tanks don't seem to help the situation either. A 10 gallon tank was pretty good size for a passenger car back in the 70s and 80s, 14 gallon tank seemd average in 2001, but now it seems the average is up to 16 gallons.
Do car cruising ranges somehow figure in CAFE fleet calculations?
inability of teh common man to even understand the terms of the EULA. AThe verbiage is getting to the point that without a lawyer present many people do not understand the meaning of what is written in the EULAs.
The only other comparable situation that many peopel would encounter is a mortgage/refinancing closing. Thank god there is a neutral ( well in my state anyay) attorney present, giving at least cursory description/explantion of what one is about to sign. In every case when I had questions, they where explained.
I do not think most people have a lawyer present when they try to read through these EULAs.
just a great enabler, so i would not put the blame on Google...
Webapps are being developed by all kinds of companies and web sites. Before that the move to n-tier application design started the pendulum. AJAX as a techanology and SOA as a design are pushing the pendulum further that way in general,.Net and Sharepoint specifically on the Windows platform.
Who knows, maybe this centralized lockdown may spawn a similar rebellion against centralized control and computing as was the case with big iron hardware (and thin terminal) vs personal computing.
Or maybe someone will adeptly manage to walk the middle line - and this is where I think Google has an edge over MS.
of course it depends on how many sites you visit every day...
In Opera, I save my daily visited sites ( each in a separate tab) as a session, and open the browser - or any number of session sets that way.
I do beleive Firefox has a similar cpability now.
Opera alos now has "speed dial" (odd name - but it works) - set up 9 sites and upon opening a new tab - click on any one of the 9 sites presented and you are there.
common and cheap. and in the kind of markets this laptop is expected the bicycles generally do have dynamos to power head lights. So this is a cheap and well understood technology. And this should be power enough from what I understand, for these laptops.
COuld be - but he got the nasty response after sending them an e-mail expalining that they recently broke their playability on other platforms and expalined to them why... ( including a link to his blog highlighting the situation prior to the "threatening" email)
Correct - ther is just additional or other functionality enabled that is not pertinent to the basic functioning of the site and features. Really sweet design approach.
But I do turn JS on in the personalized google page. Using Opera ( i am sure firefox has an extension that can do the same) I have JS disbaled by default, and only selectively enabled on the sites I want it to be enabled. Opera makes that site preference a snap.
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Maybe, but the same can be and has been achieved in a much slicker method - ie using Blutooth and a Mac OS X( I am sure the same can be done on a PC). Forget touching anything.
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I realy wonder if TiVo has contributed back in kind. This still is not in the spirit of the GPL. Nor do I think the TiVos are really that cheap that they need to be subsidized by service. I use Replay TV, there may be similar lockout issues there. But if I can buy a Wii for $250 and Nintendo is making money on them, seems that Tivo should be simpler and cheaper to produce. I would think the market for Tivo is much larger than a Nintendo. Of course we, well I, have no real clue on the economics of Tivo's manufacturing. Though in the IT field as a manager, I have been working for manufacturers, and that long enough to see how money can easily be misspend (particuarly in salaries for management). This still doesn't answer the larger question. Where would Linux be if all PCs where TiVoized? See that is where I can see this heading. All of a sudden new Hardware from all the [major] vendors will only be allowed to run, for exzample, MacOS X and the latest flavor of Windows. Why, to some degree we already get that happening - the Windows versions Dell has been selling on their machines, since win2k at least, can only be installed on Dell hardware. I do not know if that is true of other vendors as well, nor do I know if there are hacks around this. It certainly would allow a relatively easy lockout of Linux on a PC platform. Where would Linus be if that had been the case when he got started?
not Tivo's. If I can find better alternate use of that hardware package, why should I be prevented from doing so? You are espousing the idea that any PC maker could restrict you to using the OS they want you to run on it.
Does it solve it optimally? I don't know that - but it does a good job for me.
Just because he is giving away CDs for free doesn't mean he is giving away his copyrights, so it doesn't automatically make it legal for anyone else to distribute the contents of the CD via, lets says P2P or streaming.
If the copyright notice on this free CD says that anyone can copy and distribute, that is a different matter alltogether.
I wonder if anyone would question that "shrink wrap" agreement?
similar items that where similarily priced. Just checking some of the posts well above, and looking at the exec level in our company, some Treos and Blackberrys fall in that category.
I haven't read anything that suggests anything revolutionary about the iPhone other than fewer mechanical buttons.
Cutting through the clutter, I personally see a well executed interface (if it is not buggy) - doing things that other devices can also do, but apparently those just dont do it as well as the iPhone
Will people pay for this polish? Some, but I suspect many (even non tech people) will also buy it because it is the latest and greatest phone gadget.
Now, the thing I think is overhyped much more thant the iphone and is likely to fall way short of its own hype is this Microsoft Surface.
Where do you buy your ink for refilling? :) or a :( :) so I need to learn to refill.
I have 2 Canon printers and while the ink lasts longer than on the HP I had previously, I am looking to try my hand at refills. My 4 year old has gotten quite comfortable at the computer and she is asking to print pictures now. So I expect my printer usage will increase dramatically.
Nor sure if that should be a
But I want it to be more of a
Neihter locate nor find is a core OS function...
I am not that up on linux, but as posts below indicate, locate only finds filenames, not file contents.
I suppose it is a step up form find, since it appears to maintain an index file.
But find is not a service constantly running as a service as I suppose locate would be. And DOS and windows also (have) come with a close equivalent of find, though not as flexible. The dir command works wonders in that respect.
No the desktop search is something completely different. It is not just a command line utiltiy. I do believe some kind of desktop utility like Vistas desktop search, Beagle, Spotlight or Google desktop search is a nice thing to have if you want it - but that is not the qeustion.
The question is can Vista desktop search be easily turned off? That is not so clear despite people claiming here that it can be stopped by disabling the service. I am sure that if we can think of ways to do so, so could the minds at Google. There may be something more to this than meets the eye, and I wouldn't think it is something simplistic. If it was simplistic I am sure Google could handle it.
Since when has finding user files been a core function of the OS?
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Good point on the distance figure. Don't have enough experience with newer cars, but yeah, my Passat is set for a 400 mile range with a 14gallon tank - and on my last long distance trip i did make 412 miles but ddint have he nerve to go 5 miles more to go all the way to my destination. even though the electronic mileage calculator said I could go another 15 miles. :)
:(
The cars i or my parents had, vintage mid 70s through the e
arly 90s had a range of little over 200 miles if I recall ( audi 100, Mustang II, Oldsmobile Ciera, Toyata wagon, subaru hatchback and a Ford Escort).
Interestingly enough the motorcycle ranges for any given class of motorcycle has also inched up. Not necessarily improved mileage there either, but the range certainly has crept up a bit.
(and to think i got a motorcycle when I didn't have a car for a while because I thought i would get good fuel mileage... Seems i got the wrong bike - my naked basic BMW 1100R averages 40mpg; for a range of just over 160 miles)
Yeah, I agree. But it would be good to announce that capability when as part of the queue length information. His point was that they did it without asking or hinting that they would do this.
(n/t)
of course if teh caller blocks caller id then voice recognition would be next step.
Anecdotely i can tell you about someone who a few years ago called a major department store's service center ( Sears I think) wanting to schedule some repair. However without ever talking to anyone the automated system told him there would be a wait time of xx length. He felt he didn't want to hang on the phone that long, so he hung up (never explicitly leacing any information). 20 minutes later a call comes from the service center saying they recognized he called (apparently from the caller information left implicitly) and where now available to assist him. Poor guy was totally spooked that he hung up and never called the service center again.
Now this guy is no Luddite; he was at the time in his 70s and the still a working president (and owner) of the company for which I work. His take was that it was rude and presumptious of the company to call him like that.
The last time i bought a car - fall 2001 - it seemed the mileage figures for most cars where lower than those in the 80's. My friends and I where discussing this when he bought a diesel VW around that time. It seems that in 20 years of engineering advancements little went into providing useful fuel efficeincy to the consumer.
Fuel efficiency has increased, but that has been more than offset by increased horsepower and weight. I am have been wondering if that is due to supposed improved safety. Did the rise in SUV require cars too be more sturdy for crash tests? Or ist the increased mass a natural design for increased crash safety for passengers?
The current huge gas tanks don't seem to help the situation either. A 10 gallon tank was pretty good size for a passenger car back in the 70s and 80s, 14 gallon tank seemd average in 2001, but now it seems the average is up to 16 gallons.
Do car cruising ranges somehow figure in CAFE fleet calculations?
inability of teh common man to even understand the terms of the EULA. AThe verbiage is getting to the point that without a lawyer present many people do not understand the meaning of what is written in the EULAs.
The only other comparable situation that many peopel would encounter is a mortgage/refinancing closing. Thank god there is a neutral ( well in my state anyay) attorney present, giving at least cursory description/explantion of what one is about to sign. In every case when I had questions, they where explained.
I do not think most people have a lawyer present when they try to read through these EULAs.
just a great enabler, so i would not put the blame on Google... .Net and Sharepoint specifically on the Windows platform.
Webapps are being developed by all kinds of companies and web sites. Before that the move to n-tier application design started the pendulum. AJAX as a techanology and SOA as a design are pushing the pendulum further that way in general,
Who knows, maybe this centralized lockdown may spawn a similar rebellion against centralized control and computing as was the case with big iron hardware (and thin terminal) vs personal computing.
Or maybe someone will adeptly manage to walk the middle line - and this is where I think Google has an edge over MS.
of course it depends on how many sites you visit every day...
In Opera, I save my daily visited sites ( each in a separate tab) as a session, and open the browser - or any number of session sets that way.
I do beleive Firefox has a similar cpability now.
Opera alos now has "speed dial" (odd name - but it works) - set up 9 sites and upon opening a new tab - click on any one of the 9 sites presented and you are there.
(n/t)
common and cheap. and in the kind of markets this laptop is expected the bicycles generally do have dynamos to power head lights. So this is a cheap and well understood technology. And this should be power enough from what I understand, for these laptops.
COuld be - but he got the nasty response after sending them an e-mail expalining that they recently broke their playability on other platforms and expalined to them why... ( including a link to his blog highlighting the situation prior to the "threatening" email)
Correct - ther is just additional or other functionality enabled that is not pertinent to the basic functioning of the site and features. Really sweet design approach.
But I do turn JS on in the personalized google page. Using Opera ( i am sure firefox has an extension that can do the same) I have JS disbaled by default, and only selectively enabled on the sites I want it to be enabled. Opera makes that site preference a snap.
Only 6'4"? heh, then i have nothing to worry about at 6'0".