Bender: You're no femputer. You're a fembot. Femputer: It's true. I disguised myself as a femputer so I could rule the Amazonians. Bender: But why? Femputer: Why? Why? I came here from a faraway planet - a planet ruled by a chauvinistic manputer that was really a manbot. Have you any idea how it feels to be a fembot living in a manbot's manputer's world? Bender: What?
Is it just me or does that last image look like the deathstar? They both have a ridge that divides them in half, but the ridge on the number spiral only goes halfway across.
Here is a wiki link for Machinima if you want to know more. One of the more popular movies (recently anyway) is Red vs. Blue made by recording Halo sessions.
I see the same kinds of things coding java everyday. Eclipse makes it ridiculously easy to write java code -- if you know how to use it.
I'm currently showing 4 experienced vb 6 professionals the joys of eclipse. They have all taken introductory classes in java and already have a grap of OOD. I haven't used MS dev tools since VC6, but I'm assuming VS2005 is in the same league as a well decked out eclipse (think myeclipse).
Imagine if you had a socket wrench that put the right socket in place as you held the wrench near a bolt. Now imagine a socket wrench that lets you move the position of the threaded hole connecting two pieces. It also tells you the structural properties of the connected pieces and their functions. You can easily see what else they are connected to and how integral they are to the system. The refactoring, javadoc in place, quickly finding references, autocomplete, etc. can be empowering as well as overwhelming. These things make it (perhaps too easy) to drastically change your design, but they are becoming a standard in IDE's, so we're not likely to go back to the old days. I have worked with lots of architects who think there will eventually exist a code generating UML tool that works well and makes it obvious the impact of such changes. I hope that happens. I know vendors have been producing tools with this goal for a few years already.
I agree that creating app's with little or no detailed implementation is a recipe for a toy prototype, but turning your back on modern tools (like eclipse!) is just ridiculous. A professional, competent dev should be empowered to make these changes as quickly as is possible to do correctly. Eclipse makes this possible, and if VS 2005 does too, more power to 'em.
Omar Naim's The Final Cut is startlingly different than a conventional science fiction film. It's a compelling fable that offers a vision of a world where memory implants record all moments of a person's life. Post mortem, these memories are removed and edited by a "Cutter" into a reel depicting the life of the departed for a commemorative ceremony, called a Rememory. Robin Williams' powerful portrayal of Alan Hakman, a troubled "cutter," propels this character driven story that forces us to question the power of our memories and the sanctity of our privacy.
So, we're going to start buying 60gb Ipod Photos just to run an OS on them? Seriously, what's the point?
You're right, it would be ridiculous for a teenager to convince mom and dad to pay $399 to demonstrate this technology, but a 130B$ company like IBM realizes that at some point, portable-multi-gig-usb-drive-tech will becomecommodity priced. Sooner than some expect, we will see 1-gig usb drives as toys in cereal boxes - pre-loaded with spongebob movies AND flash games. In the meantime, early adopters like us will foot some of the research bill (as well as do some of the research and development).
This, or something like it, could be the future of portable computing -- a home directory you carry with you. With the modest expectation of your favorite (modern, month-or-so old) shell, window manager, desktop environment, and a grab bag of popular packages on a host pc, why not?! I suppose package resolution may become an issue. Perhaps if they standardize on Knoppix (or whatever), there can be a way to use packages from your portable drive (copied to temp space, of course!) so you can run gimp-alpha in your internet cafe of choice.
IBM has done some really nice things for the os community. Maybe this will turn out well. <hope fingers="crossed"/>
I don't know what the big deal is, but Microsoft always opposed being split up, yet they should follow suit.
Microsoft opposed being forced into becoming multiple companies. AOL isn't doing that - they are just formalizing internal business units. I think this will be good for them in that it could give VP's more power make decisions independent of the other units. I'm sure Microsoft already does this. Of course, this would make it simpler to split into seperate companies in the future and make it more obvious if that were a good idea.
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The following is from the entry on Fembot.
Is it just me or does that last image look like the deathstar? They both have a ridge that divides them in half, but the ridge on the number spiral only goes halfway across.
Here is a wiki link for Machinima if you want to know more. One of the more popular movies (recently anyway) is Red vs. Blue made by recording Halo sessions.
Crazy Frog is the marketing title of a ring tone based on The Annoying Thing...
I'm currently showing 4 experienced vb 6 professionals the joys of eclipse. They have all taken introductory classes in java and already have a grap of OOD. I haven't used MS dev tools since VC6, but I'm assuming VS2005 is in the same league as a well decked out eclipse (think myeclipse).
Imagine if you had a socket wrench that put the right socket in place as you held the wrench near a bolt. Now imagine a socket wrench that lets you move the position of the threaded hole connecting two pieces. It also tells you the structural properties of the connected pieces and their functions. You can easily see what else they are connected to and how integral they are to the system. The refactoring, javadoc in place, quickly finding references, autocomplete, etc. can be empowering as well as overwhelming. These things make it (perhaps too easy) to drastically change your design, but they are becoming a standard in IDE's, so we're not likely to go back to the old days. I have worked with lots of architects who think there will eventually exist a code generating UML tool that works well and makes it obvious the impact of such changes. I hope that happens. I know vendors have been producing tools with this goal for a few years already.
I agree that creating app's with little or no detailed implementation is a recipe for a toy prototype, but turning your back on modern tools (like eclipse!) is just ridiculous. A professional, competent dev should be empowered to make these changes as quickly as is possible to do correctly. Eclipse makes this possible, and if VS 2005 does too, more power to 'em.
'To be honest, the applications more likely to take off are ones where students can file homework online.'
Screen size and interface. What the hell can I do with an iPod other than play music and scroll through pictures?
Run GIMP? OK...so it 'runs'. Not do anything remotely useful with it.
The iPod isn't being used as an output device, only as a storage device. You should read the article.
title says it all
You're right, it would be ridiculous for a teenager to convince mom and dad to pay $399 to demonstrate this technology, but a 130B$ company like IBM realizes that at some point, portable-multi-gig-usb-drive-tech will become commodity priced. Sooner than some expect, we will see 1-gig usb drives as toys in cereal boxes - pre-loaded with spongebob movies AND flash games. In the meantime, early adopters like us will foot some of the research bill (as well as do some of the research and development).
IBM has done some really nice things for the os community. Maybe this will turn out well. <hope fingers="crossed"/>
Microsoft opposed being forced into becoming multiple companies. AOL isn't doing that - they are just formalizing internal business units. I think this will be good for them in that it could give VP's more power make decisions independent of the other units. I'm sure Microsoft already does this. Of course, this would make it simpler to split into seperate companies in the future and make it more obvious if that were a good idea.
Can anyone post a link to this announcement?
You didn't even have to RTFS to get the name, its also in the subject.
Tom Tom GO Personal Navigator Source Code Released
France, Germany, and Russia are upset that they were not invited to help secure the unencrypted access points.