"How would a user be able to group (manually) related files together, so that the whole bunch can be backed up later, without having to search for all seeminly related (or unrelated) keywords to trace all hitherto-unrelated documents? "
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Modified since: last backup
I don't know about the other implementations but Searchlight and WinFS are implemented atop the existing filesystem. (The FS in WinFS supposedly stands for "Future Storage" and not "File System") Sort of like how Google is implemented "on top" of the regular hypertext-linked internet.
Natural disasters are universal. Earthquakes in California, tornadoes in the midwest, forest fires, floods...Hurricanes aren't so bad. Property damage might be expensive, but usually, the population is warned several days in advance. The smart ones board up and evacuate. Death tolls are fairly low, especially when one considers the population density and area impacted by one of these storms.
I personally have survived five major tropical storms (category 4 or higher.) In all that, I never had so much as a window go out. I wasn't stupid enough to live on the beach, but I was sometimes as close as three miles to the ocean. Partly luck, mostly preparation.
Yeah, it was really stupid of Verizon and Sprint to fail to invest in wireless. And AT&T should have created their own VoIP service. And maybe BellSouth or SBC should look into offering some sort of high-speed residential internet service....
I regularly travel in a vehicle that weighs less than 200 pounds. When I do so, I take few safety precautions, but am not usually worried for my safety, because I operate it on roadways designed for it, where only similarly-sized vehicles are allowed. I have occasionally collided with these vehicles in the past, but an "excuse me" usually sufficed to placate all involved. True, the speeds are somewhat lower than those involved, but simple and inexpensive measures could allow for safe travel at much higher speeds, while adding very little weight.
Lighter vehicles are not inherently unsafe. Light vehicles are unsafe only when they share the road with much heavier vehicles. So long as there is nothing to discourage the purchase and operation of ever-heavier vehicles, drivers are engaged in an arms race. Today, 6000 pounds means you are on top of things. At the present rate, however, will we all need to drive 10,000-pound vehicles to feel "safe?"
eMacs (or any recent Mac for that matter) also support NetBoot. Basically, this lets you use a Mac as a thin client. Each Mac will boot from an OS image on a server (Apple XServe) which would allow easy administration. The cost: a little more expensive than standalones or true thin clients, but not horribly so.
Best of all, it's easy. OS X and OS X server are easy to learn for non-techies.
The Mac OS, as mentioned above, also supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. Event IE, though its a little out of date.
The problem with this is, at the time, the kind of hardware needed for a GUI was extremely expensive. The idea, originally, was for the Mac to be a very cheap ($1000) machine, and the Lisa to be a high-profit machine. But the hardware required to do everything kept increasing as development proceeded. Apple was not focused on profits, nor on market share. They were letting the engineers and programmers drive develolpment, and they kept demanding more powerful hardware. See
Folklore.org for more. The result was an extremely well-designed, but also expensive, machine. Much better than you could get by improving the Apple II, or using PC-standard hardware. Indeed, with the Apple IIGS, they did try to create a Mac-AII hybrid, but the result was yet another bastard platform (GS-OS) that almost nobody was interested in.
The Lisa ended up as a $10,000 flop, and the Mac as a $2500 luxury machine. And I won't debate you that Apple quickly decided to use the Mac as a high-margin profit center. But in the beginning, the Mac was not as overpriced as you imply.
The thing is, Apple started developing the Mac in the late '70s. When Apple finally shipped it (in '84) a PC with more than 64K was an impressive rarity. (Can we say "Commodore 64?") There may have been dozens advertised in magazines, but the installed base of such systems was small. 640K was an awe-inspiring dream for most users.
192K of RAM+ ROM was a great deal of memory in '84. The 128K of memory was what made the Macintosh such an expensive machine, and put it out of the price range of most users. And even then, the system was almost unusable. The word processor could only fit 8 pages of text into memory without overflowing.
Now, by '86, of course, things were different. The 286's were becoming popular, and Windows 1.0 and OS/2 were coming out, and Amigas had a GUI as advanced (from a technological, if not a usability perspective) as the Mac. It's amazing what a little competition can bring.
Apple's UI has always been done in-house. Their HI guidelines are probably the most comprehensive ever published outside of academia.
Frog did once design hardware for Apple...they designed most of the beige "Pizza box" style Apple machines in the late '80s/early '90s (before the iMac.) Those machines looked nothing like today's curvy/shiny/artsy Macs; they look like any other PCs. So far as I can tell, thier work for Apple ended with Steve Jobs and the iMac.
First of all, people who care about sound quality don't listen to MP3s, or any other compressed format. If MP3s are "good enough" for you, then the iPod's decoding is probably "good enough" for you.
iPod sells because it has a well designed UI, both on the device itself and on the desktop, and because it's fairly compact. UI may be a subjective issue, but people seem to "get" the touch-wheel navigation pretty quickly. I'd bet most people don't read the iPod's manual.
The iPod supports both FireWire and USB2, btw.
Support costs. Real is using some hacked-together version of Apple's DRM. Suppose Apple makes some change to the iPod's firmware for some reason, and this breaks Real's music. (Suppose further that it's legit, and not a deliberate attempt to freeze out Harmony.)
Is Apple supposed to handle all the tech support calls from fourteen year olds asking, "Why won't my songs play?"
And what happens when Real decides to license Harmony to other music services, so they too can sell to iPod consumers? Does Apple have to support their customers, too? And what if someone else, citing the same precedent, creates an unauthorized iPod-compatible DRM?
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Modified since: last backup
I don't know about the other implementations but Searchlight and WinFS are implemented atop the existing filesystem. (The FS in WinFS supposedly stands for "Future Storage" and not "File System") Sort of like how Google is implemented "on top" of the regular hypertext-linked internet.
Natural disasters are universal. Earthquakes in California, tornadoes in the midwest, forest fires, floods...Hurricanes aren't so bad. Property damage might be expensive, but usually, the population is warned several days in advance. The smart ones board up and evacuate. Death tolls are fairly low, especially when one considers the population density and area impacted by one of these storms.
I personally have survived five major tropical storms (category 4 or higher.) In all that, I never had so much as a window go out. I wasn't stupid enough to live on the beach, but I was sometimes as close as three miles to the ocean. Partly luck, mostly preparation.
Hurricanes, by definition, are storms with winds above 74MPH. How many storms of that strength have you seen in Minnesota recently?
Hurricane Rating Scale
Yeah, it was really stupid of Verizon and Sprint to fail to invest in wireless. And AT&T should have created their own VoIP service. And maybe BellSouth or SBC should look into offering some sort of high-speed residential internet service....
I regularly travel in a vehicle that weighs less than 200 pounds. When I do so, I take few safety precautions, but am not usually worried for my safety, because I operate it on roadways designed for it, where only similarly-sized vehicles are allowed. I have occasionally collided with these vehicles in the past, but an "excuse me" usually sufficed to placate all involved. True, the speeds are somewhat lower than those involved, but simple and inexpensive measures could allow for safe travel at much higher speeds, while adding very little weight.
Lighter vehicles are not inherently unsafe. Light vehicles are unsafe only when they share the road with much heavier vehicles. So long as there is nothing to discourage the purchase and operation of ever-heavier vehicles, drivers are engaged in an arms race. Today, 6000 pounds means you are on top of things. At the present rate, however, will we all need to drive 10,000-pound vehicles to feel "safe?"
eMacs (or any recent Mac for that matter) also support NetBoot. Basically, this lets you use a Mac as a thin client. Each Mac will boot from an OS image on a server (Apple XServe) which would allow easy administration. The cost: a little more expensive than standalones or true thin clients, but not horribly so.
Best of all, it's easy. OS X and OS X server are easy to learn for non-techies.
The Mac OS, as mentioned above, also supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. Event IE, though its a little out of date.
In 1984, they must have been. The Amiga didn't come out until mid-1985.
The problem with this is, at the time, the kind of hardware needed for a GUI was extremely expensive. The idea, originally, was for the Mac to be a very cheap ($1000) machine, and the Lisa to be a high-profit machine. But the hardware required to do everything kept increasing as development proceeded. Apple was not focused on profits, nor on market share. They were letting the engineers and programmers drive develolpment, and they kept demanding more powerful hardware. See Folklore.org for more. The result was an extremely well-designed, but also expensive, machine. Much better than you could get by improving the Apple II, or using PC-standard hardware. Indeed, with the Apple IIGS, they did try to create a Mac-AII hybrid, but the result was yet another bastard platform (GS-OS) that almost nobody was interested in.
The Lisa ended up as a $10,000 flop, and the Mac as a $2500 luxury machine. And I won't debate you that Apple quickly decided to use the Mac as a high-margin profit center. But in the beginning, the Mac was not as overpriced as you imply.
The thing is, Apple started developing the Mac in the late '70s. When Apple finally shipped it (in '84) a PC with more than 64K was an impressive rarity. (Can we say "Commodore 64?") There may have been dozens advertised in magazines, but the installed base of such systems was small. 640K was an awe-inspiring dream for most users.
192K of RAM+ ROM was a great deal of memory in '84. The 128K of memory was what made the Macintosh such an expensive machine, and put it out of the price range of most users. And even then, the system was almost unusable. The word processor could only fit 8 pages of text into memory without overflowing.
Now, by '86, of course, things were different. The 286's were becoming popular, and Windows 1.0 and OS/2 were coming out, and Amigas had a GUI as advanced (from a technological, if not a usability perspective) as the Mac. It's amazing what a little competition can bring.
I think you're thinking of Windows XP
Apple's UI has always been done in-house. Their HI guidelines are probably the most comprehensive ever published outside of academia.
Frog did once design hardware for Apple...they designed most of the beige "Pizza box" style Apple machines in the late '80s/early '90s (before the iMac.) Those machines looked nothing like today's curvy/shiny/artsy Macs; they look like any other PCs. So far as I can tell, thier work for Apple ended with Steve Jobs and the iMac.
Jetta wagon cargo volume: 34 cu ft.
a sp x?modelid=10488&trimid=-1&src=vip
a sp x?modelid=11254&src=LeftNav
http://autos.msn.com/research/vip/spec_engines.
Escape hybrid cargo volume: 27.6 cu ft.
http://autos.msn.com/research/vip/spec_engines.
Just because it's got a jacked-up suspension, doesn't mean it's actually bigger inside.
First of all, people who care about sound quality don't listen to MP3s, or any other compressed format. If MP3s are "good enough" for you, then the iPod's decoding is probably "good enough" for you. iPod sells because it has a well designed UI, both on the device itself and on the desktop, and because it's fairly compact. UI may be a subjective issue, but people seem to "get" the touch-wheel navigation pretty quickly. I'd bet most people don't read the iPod's manual. The iPod supports both FireWire and USB2, btw.
Support costs. Real is using some hacked-together version of Apple's DRM. Suppose Apple makes some change to the iPod's firmware for some reason, and this breaks Real's music. (Suppose further that it's legit, and not a deliberate attempt to freeze out Harmony.)
Is Apple supposed to handle all the tech support calls from fourteen year olds asking, "Why won't my songs play?"
And what happens when Real decides to license Harmony to other music services, so they too can sell to iPod consumers? Does Apple have to support their customers, too? And what if someone else, citing the same precedent, creates an unauthorized iPod-compatible DRM?