The 'Action Bar' isn't static, it's is customizable by the application
In what way is that not a menu bar as on a desktop. It's the very definition of a menu bar...
It's meant to be context sensitive within the application, as opposed to a menu bar which is generally static per application. It is very menu-bar like but unlike iOS it gives the application a standard place to put controls when - and if - it needs to display them.
If only PHB's had a clue, we're forced to use Visual Source Safe at work. I would claim it a legacy system but they just put it in a couple of monthes ago. I think any version control is better than nothing, but I'm not sure Visual Source Safe beats the file system's snap shots that are automatically created.
For the love of god, if you have to use MS software, show the PHB Team Foundation Server. It does a lot more than source control and is superior in every way to VSS. If you have MSDN then it might even be free (beer).
The Times article may be terrible (I don't know, I didn't read it) but the BBC article mentions that he was arrested fleeing from the scene and there was at least one witness
how much space do those PC's take up? How much power do they consume?
Back in the day you had room sized mainframes, sucking up loads of power, sat in big expensive air conditioned data centres. Now you've got room sized server racks, sucking up loads of power, sat in big expensive data centres.
I can guarantee that whoever it is you bank with runs all of their mission critical stuff on a mainframe (and you should be glad that they do). My company are spending over $0.6 billion over the next few years to completely rewrite all of our core systems. Not because the systems can't cope with the demand put upon them but because the software is showing it's age and isn't flexible enough to change as quickly as the business needs it to (and because if there is a piece of technology that's ever been sold we've probably got two of them sat in each of our data centres). Are they going to be running on Windows? err nope, how about Linux? nope. will there be an Intel processor in the box that runs all this stuff? Not a chance. Big iron all the way.
Of course sat around that will be a bunch of web servers running web services and UIs for the users. Those are the machines that will be running the VMs and Java /.net apps that the GGP is talking about. and I'll be the guy writing that Java /.net software.
I've sat on both sides of the fence, started my career as an admin on a mainframe, now I write software using the new fangled stuff. both of them have a place. I'm only 35 but I'd be surprised if the mainframe disappears before I retire
Nope, TheRealMindChild is correct and you are wrong. Sorry to be blunt.
IBM made the original PC from off the shelf parts to get it to market quickly. To stop competitors from creating clones they designed the BIOS from scratch. They needed an OS and MS provided one (They bought QDOS and renamed it PC-DOS) however they let MS keep the rights to sell the OS under a different name. Compaq reverse engineered the BIOS, licensed MS-DOS and started the clone industry, and Billy and his friends hit the jackpot.
There were machines that ran MS-DOS which weren't 100% "IBM Compatible" (I used RM Nimbus machines in the late 80s which ran a version of DOS and Windows, but they wouldn't run software written for the IBM PC) but they all came after the original IBM PC.
The BIOS problems you describe were because IBM owned the original PC BIOS and other manufacturers had to reverse engineer their own version.
I can understand your point of view, but I have to say that as a licence payer who also owns an iPod touch I'm pretty happy about this. I suspect that this is an experiment in how to deliver high quality video to mobile devices and it won't be long before the service is opened up to other MPEG4 enabled devices.
Your point about the licence fee and different ways of accessing content is correct, we should be treated equally, regardless of OS / Browser / Device. Having said that I'm happy to cut the BBC a little slack in this. It's only been in the last couple of years that non techies have been able to access this kind of media on anything other than a TV and at least the BBC have recognised that internet distribution is the future (unlike the majority of the media industry who still seem to have their heads buried in the sand).
iPlayer is far from perfect but it's a step in the right direction and as my father is fond of saying "Rome wasn't built in a day". If we get to 2009 the only supported platforms are owned by MS and Apple then I'll give you a shout and we can storm Television Centre and start the revolution ourselves.
A quick Google suggests that this folder is created by Cyberlink DVD software so it's not anything to do with MS or windows XP (assuming you're using this software). As for the DRM folder you're correct it's WMP 11 that creates this, usually under "\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM"
Last year we recorded an album, whilst in the studio I was read an article about this trend.
I discussed it with the engineer and we agreed that we wouldn't compress the shit out of the album when we mastered it. Put up against other CDs it sounds quiet. However the extra dynamic range is obvious.
We're a rock band and some of our songs contain a lot of "light and shade" the quiet bits are meant to be quiet, and the loud bits are meant to be loud, it's part of the feel we created. Thankfully we're independent and completely self financed. OK it means we'll never be millionaires and we have a marketing budget of £0, but it also means the music is exactly the way we want it to be.
The feedback (no pun intended) we've received from our fans has been universal. Everyone loves not just the songs but the "sound" of the album. So people can tell the difference, even if they don't know what it is. If we were a dance act then the compression makes more sense but for "live" bands then compression needs to be used carefully so you don't suck the life out of the performance.
Except both Apple and Cingular have announced that the iPhone will be tied to a 2 year contract.
If it was just Mr Jobs spreading some roumours so he could do a "and one more thing" at the next macworld then I'd agree with you, but I don't think that's the case this time
I see what you're saying, and for most people I guess it wouldn't be a problem, I'm probably in the minority but I'll explain why I'm frustrated by the iPhone
**Ok it's turned in to a bit of a rant so the short answer is Battery Life / Storage / tied to a single service provider (compulsary contract). If that doesn't answer your question then read on;-)**
I live in the UK and it's by no means clear what sort of contract will be bundled with the iPhone. If the deal is the same as the one in the US (compulsary and tied to a single service provider) then it's likely I'll have to change service provider. This means paying extra to transfer my number or having to change my number. I play in a band and my moble number is probably in the hands of hundreds of Promoters, venue owners, other bands, record labels, radio stations, tv companies etc. it's on all of our promotional material that gets sent out to get gigs, radio play, interviews etc. Changing my number just isn't an option so it increases the cost. Of course at the moment this is all speculation and until Apple provide more details and I don't really know if this will affect me. If Vodafone happen to be the service provider they pick, or I can just buy one and plug in my sim card then problem solved;-)
My current phone will play mp3 and unprotected aac audio plus mpeg4 video. The screen is about the same size as a regular iPod and you can expand the onboard storage using a mini SD card. It's has an FM radio built in. (it's also 3G so I can browse the web and use it as a decent modem for my laptop via bluetooth or usb) it syncs with my calendar and email. It also supports java so there are apps and games available plus it means I can write my own software if I want, and if you ask it nicely it will make a great cup of tea. It's a Nokia 6280 and I like it a lot (I know a lot of people have had issues with the build quality of this model of phone but I haven't). So it already does most of what the iPhone does but without the slick interface. I think the nokia interface is still fairly good, but that might just be because I've used their phones for a while now. Having said all of that, I use it as a phone / modem and calendar and very little else, mainly because I want my phone battery to be charged when I need to take a call.
Storage, Finally an iPod with a proper screen to watch video on and it only has 8GB of storage. My 4GB nano is full and that's a relatively small selection of my Audio collection. Add a couple of TV shows and a movie and the iPhone is full. I'm assuming Apple decided that form factor and robustness are more important on a phone than an mp3 / video player, but after seeing how cool the iPhone looks, I'm dissapointed I can't get an 80GB version so I can load up my entire music collection plus a whole load of video.
The iPhone is a very cool bit of kit, but already having a phone that has similar functionality I've realised that I do want 2 seperate devices. Based on my current phone, If I use it to play music and the occasional game (whilst visiting the loo) then the battery will barely last the day. Add video to that and I can see the iPhone needing to be charged a couple of times a day. Now maybe Apple have some uber battery that will completely out perform my current Phone, but until I see real world results I remain unconvinced.
I was going to moan about the price but I think that the US and UK markets are different and it would be an apples to oranges comparison (pardon the punn). In the UK it's fairly common to get the phone bundled with the contract or at least heavily subsidised. I don't think many people this side of the pond would pay £200 for a phone that tied them in to a contract. Even a very cool one like the iPhone.
What I really want is a widescreen 80gb iPod, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
Well I'm not sure about the integrity of the article but there are a couple of things that stand out
Games: Wii at no 3 XBox 360 elite at 18 PS3 nowhere to be seen.
The 360 has been out for over a year and I'm not sure how much 1080p and a bigger HDD make now, I guess in a couple of years when HD downloads become the norm this will make a difference. 1080p TVs have been quite rare in the UK until recently but I saw a very nice looking 40" Samsung the other day for about £1000 so I might treat myself at the end of the year.
(for the record I've got a 360 premium and a wii, I'll probably end up with a PS3 if FFXIII is exclusive but not before, too expensive at the moment!)
OSX Tiger at 9 Apple TV at 11 80GB iPod at 26 Macbook Pro at 82
No Zune No Vista I'm assuming that the HP DV900t 17" laptop runs Windows Media Center
iTunes at 61 WMP 11 at 91
So it looks like Apple "wins" over MS in the home media dept
Strangely on my XP box I use iTunes for music and WMP / VLC for Video. I just don't like Quicktime. No rational reason (now it plays video at full screen) but I just can't get on with it. It seems slow and unresponsive.
Still it looks like Apple were right to drop the computer from their name and go for the media market. I get the impression that they've always had the Pro market and so the move to consumer seems to be quite easy for them. (now if they'd just drop the phone bit from the iPhone and sell me a widescreen touch sensitive iPod I'd be a happy man)
That's fair comment, I guess both machines are fairly new to market but I still believe that on balance the DS will have the better games overall.
I'm happy to be proved wrong however as I'm a Game Junkie and will buy any console that entertains me. Hence why my living room is a mess of cables and consoles (hell I've even got a 3DO kicking around somewhere, Star Control 2 rocks!)
I also agree that Burnout Legends does look very interesting
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I'm an Dev-Ops consultant to many large and well known companies in and out of the USA. I outsource all the time
So you're a DevOps consultant who doesn't know that outsourcing it the antithesis of DevOps? Or Perhaps Dev-Ops is different from DevOps.
The rest of your rant is a load of nonsense. You need to learn about the difference between cost and value (another key part of DevOps by the way).
Eric Cartman?
That's interesting, so Ribbon meets MacOs (not iOS) menu bar?
The 'Action Bar' isn't static, it's is customizable by the application
In what way is that not a menu bar as on a desktop. It's the very definition of a menu bar...
It's meant to be context sensitive within the application, as opposed to a menu bar which is generally static per application. It is very menu-bar like but unlike iOS it gives the application a standard place to put controls when - and if - it needs to display them.
So more like some kind of "Ribbon" then?
If only PHB's had a clue, we're forced to use Visual Source Safe at work. I would claim it a legacy system but they just put it in a couple of monthes ago. I think any version control is better than nothing, but I'm not sure Visual Source Safe beats the file system's snap shots that are automatically created.
For the love of god, if you have to use MS software, show the PHB Team Foundation Server. It does a lot more than source control and is superior in every way to VSS. If you have MSDN then it might even be free (beer).
Yeah it's dumb, also it's into some kinky inter species shit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY
The Times article may be terrible (I don't know, I didn't read it) but the BBC article mentions that he was arrested fleeing from the scene and there was at least one witness
So you're saying that most slashdotters are vegetarians?
indeed,
This episode of Multics was brought to you by the letters P and L and the number 1
It's a shame that page crashes Firefox, it's probably down to flash but I guess I won't be watching the watchmen trailer.
how many PCs though.
how much space do those PC's take up? How much power do they consume?
Back in the day you had room sized mainframes, sucking up loads of power, sat in big expensive air conditioned data centres. Now you've got room sized server racks, sucking up loads of power, sat in big expensive data centres.
I can guarantee that whoever it is you bank with runs all of their mission critical stuff on a mainframe (and you should be glad that they do). My company are spending over $0.6 billion over the next few years to completely rewrite all of our core systems. Not because the systems can't cope with the demand put upon them but because the software is showing it's age and isn't flexible enough to change as quickly as the business needs it to (and because if there is a piece of technology that's ever been sold we've probably got two of them sat in each of our data centres). Are they going to be running on Windows? err nope, how about Linux? nope. will there be an Intel processor in the box that runs all this stuff? Not a chance. Big iron all the way.
Of course sat around that will be a bunch of web servers running web services and UIs for the users. Those are the machines that will be running the VMs and Java / .net apps that the GGP is talking about. and I'll be the guy writing that Java / .net software.
I've sat on both sides of the fence, started my career as an admin on a mainframe, now I write software using the new fangled stuff. both of them have a place. I'm only 35 but I'd be surprised if the mainframe disappears before I retire
Nope, TheRealMindChild is correct and you are wrong. Sorry to be blunt.
IBM made the original PC from off the shelf parts to get it to market quickly. To stop competitors from creating clones they designed the BIOS from scratch. They needed an OS and MS provided one (They bought QDOS and renamed it PC-DOS) however they let MS keep the rights to sell the OS under a different name. Compaq reverse engineered the BIOS, licensed MS-DOS and started the clone industry, and Billy and his friends hit the jackpot.
There were machines that ran MS-DOS which weren't 100% "IBM Compatible" (I used RM Nimbus machines in the late 80s which ran a version of DOS and Windows, but they wouldn't run software written for the IBM PC) but they all came after the original IBM PC.
The BIOS problems you describe were because IBM owned the original PC BIOS and other manufacturers had to reverse engineer their own version.
I can understand your point of view, but I have to say that as a licence payer who also owns an iPod touch I'm pretty happy about this. I suspect that this is an experiment in how to deliver high quality video to mobile devices and it won't be long before the service is opened up to other MPEG4 enabled devices.
Your point about the licence fee and different ways of accessing content is correct, we should be treated equally, regardless of OS / Browser / Device. Having said that I'm happy to cut the BBC a little slack in this. It's only been in the last couple of years that non techies have been able to access this kind of media on anything other than a TV and at least the BBC have recognised that internet distribution is the future (unlike the majority of the media industry who still seem to have their heads buried in the sand).
iPlayer is far from perfect but it's a step in the right direction and as my father is fond of saying "Rome wasn't built in a day". If we get to 2009 the only supported platforms are owned by MS and Apple then I'll give you a shout and we can storm Television Centre and start the revolution ourselves.
A quick Google suggests that this folder is created by Cyberlink DVD software so it's not anything to do with MS or windows XP (assuming you're using this software). As for the DRM folder you're correct it's WMP 11 that creates this, usually under "\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM"
10 years ago maybe
torrent?
Just a thought
Last year we recorded an album, whilst in the studio I was read an article about this trend.
I discussed it with the engineer and we agreed that we wouldn't compress the shit out of the album when we mastered it. Put up against other CDs it sounds quiet. However the extra dynamic range is obvious.
We're a rock band and some of our songs contain a lot of "light and shade" the quiet bits are meant to be quiet, and the loud bits are meant to be loud, it's part of the feel we created. Thankfully we're independent and completely self financed. OK it means we'll never be millionaires and we have a marketing budget of £0, but it also means the music is exactly the way we want it to be.
The feedback (no pun intended) we've received from our fans has been universal. Everyone loves not just the songs but the "sound" of the album. So people can tell the difference, even if they don't know what it is. If we were a dance act then the compression makes more sense but for "live" bands then compression needs to be used carefully so you don't suck the life out of the performance.
Cheers
Jimbo
Except both Apple and Cingular have announced that the iPhone will be tied to a 2 year contract.
If it was just Mr Jobs spreading some roumours so he could do a "and one more thing" at the next macworld then I'd agree with you, but I don't think that's the case this time
I see what you're saying, and for most people I guess it wouldn't be a problem, I'm probably in the minority but I'll explain why I'm frustrated by the iPhone
;-)**
;-)
**Ok it's turned in to a bit of a rant so the short answer is Battery Life / Storage / tied to a single service provider (compulsary contract). If that doesn't answer your question then read on
I live in the UK and it's by no means clear what sort of contract will be bundled with the iPhone. If the deal is the same as the one in the US (compulsary and tied to a single service provider) then it's likely I'll have to change service provider. This means paying extra to transfer my number or having to change my number. I play in a band and my moble number is probably in the hands of hundreds of Promoters, venue owners, other bands, record labels, radio stations, tv companies etc. it's on all of our promotional material that gets sent out to get gigs, radio play, interviews etc. Changing my number just isn't an option so it increases the cost. Of course at the moment this is all speculation and until Apple provide more details and I don't really know if this will affect me. If Vodafone happen to be the service provider they pick, or I can just buy one and plug in my sim card then problem solved
My current phone will play mp3 and unprotected aac audio plus mpeg4 video. The screen is about the same size as a regular iPod and you can expand the onboard storage using a mini SD card. It's has an FM radio built in. (it's also 3G so I can browse the web and use it as a decent modem for my laptop via bluetooth or usb) it syncs with my calendar and email. It also supports java so there are apps and games available plus it means I can write my own software if I want, and if you ask it nicely it will make a great cup of tea. It's a Nokia 6280 and I like it a lot (I know a lot of people have had issues with the build quality of this model of phone but I haven't). So it already does most of what the iPhone does but without the slick interface. I think the nokia interface is still fairly good, but that might just be because I've used their phones for a while now. Having said all of that, I use it as a phone / modem and calendar and very little else, mainly because I want my phone battery to be charged when I need to take a call.
Storage, Finally an iPod with a proper screen to watch video on and it only has 8GB of storage. My 4GB nano is full and that's a relatively small selection of my Audio collection. Add a couple of TV shows and a movie and the iPhone is full. I'm assuming Apple decided that form factor and robustness are more important on a phone than an mp3 / video player, but after seeing how cool the iPhone looks, I'm dissapointed I can't get an 80GB version so I can load up my entire music collection plus a whole load of video.
The iPhone is a very cool bit of kit, but already having a phone that has similar functionality I've realised that I do want 2 seperate devices. Based on my current phone, If I use it to play music and the occasional game (whilst visiting the loo) then the battery will barely last the day. Add video to that and I can see the iPhone needing to be charged a couple of times a day. Now maybe Apple have some uber battery that will completely out perform my current Phone, but until I see real world results I remain unconvinced.
I was going to moan about the price but I think that the US and UK markets are different and it would be an apples to oranges comparison (pardon the punn). In the UK it's fairly common to get the phone bundled with the contract or at least heavily subsidised. I don't think many people this side of the pond would pay £200 for a phone that tied them in to a contract. Even a very cool one like the iPhone.
What I really want is a widescreen 80gb iPod, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
Oh and GPRS is soooo last century....
I feel much better now, thanks!
Well I'm not sure about the integrity of the article but there are a couple of things that stand out
Games:
Wii at no 3
XBox 360 elite at 18
PS3 nowhere to be seen.
The 360 has been out for over a year and I'm not sure how much 1080p and a bigger HDD make now, I guess in a couple of years when HD downloads become the norm this will make a difference. 1080p TVs have been quite rare in the UK until recently but I saw a very nice looking 40" Samsung the other day for about £1000 so I might treat myself at the end of the year.
(for the record I've got a 360 premium and a wii, I'll probably end up with a PS3 if FFXIII is exclusive but not before, too expensive at the moment!)
OSX Tiger at 9
Apple TV at 11
80GB iPod at 26
Macbook Pro at 82
No Zune
No Vista
I'm assuming that the HP DV900t 17" laptop runs Windows Media Center
iTunes at 61
WMP 11 at 91
So it looks like Apple "wins" over MS in the home media dept
Strangely on my XP box I use iTunes for music and WMP / VLC for Video. I just don't like Quicktime. No rational reason (now it plays video at full screen) but I just can't get on with it. It seems slow and unresponsive.
Still it looks like Apple were right to drop the computer from their name and go for the media market. I get the impression that they've always had the Pro market and so the move to consumer seems to be quite easy for them. (now if they'd just drop the phone bit from the iPhone and sell me a widescreen touch sensitive iPod I'd be a happy man)
I just got a 17 inch widescreen laptop and found these guys.
I'm very happy with my K3. It's rugged and doesn't look like a laptop case.
Posting on /. is only free if your time is worth nothing!
*Ducks*
That's fair comment, I guess both machines are fairly new to market but I still believe that on balance the DS will have the better games overall.
I'm happy to be proved wrong however as I'm a Game Junkie and will buy any console that entertains me. Hence why my living room is a mess of cables and consoles (hell I've even got a 3DO kicking around somewhere, Star Control 2 rocks!)
I also agree that Burnout Legends does look very interesting
Sounds like the remarks of a desperate man, If there is one thing that Nintendo know about it's the handheld market, They've dominated it for so long.
I think Sony have missed the point about battery life and original software something which saw the end of the Game Gear and the Atari Lynks(sp?)
Is the PSP technically superior to the DS? Yes, Was the Game Gear technically superior to the Game Boy? Yes. Which console won?
Everyone knows that clowns are never funny.
Never ever ever....
ever
A Bill Hicks virus however, Hmmmm.
"you really think people will be generating new 25 hour HD-DVDs of porn? They'd be VERY expensive" And exhausting!