I was more surprised by this "Personal computing launched with the IBM PC." WTF!? Writing about the history of personal computers and they can't even get that right?
Check out Packeteer or some other QOS company. Those devices can show you what is going over your network and block or limit the unwanted traffic while protecting the business oriented applications. You can also find out who is playing games and surfing all day
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Gershenfeld is a true believer in technology, but unfortunately does not hold a very critical or insightful views. His book, When Things Start to Think, is a simplistic and excited jog through future visions of technology that merely repeats general myths and expectations about how computers can learn to understand human behavior and emotions. Also, Gershenfeld would be more convincing if he had not claimed in a conference presentation to have studied the "eskimo" herding reindeer in Norway and making good use of mobile phones. Fancy that. The people are called Sami, and make just as good with mobile phones as any other scandinavian person.
The document stacks look an awful lot like Apple's piles
That search dialog (not just the search box in the upper right) looks like Apple's search dialog from before os 8.
Although I must say that those Shorthorn(
tm) screen shots do not look as bad as XP.
Many enterprises have had major problems with providing VoIP services to their employees because of this very issue. It's not that they don't have the big pipes, they do, but they are filled with all kinds of other stuff. As a result you get latency and jitter problems that make the VoIP unusable. QOS can help however. I imagine that as more people use their DSL for other services that QOS in the home will be needed as well.
>There are some programs that utilize the Caps Lock key for >something other than capital letter entry. For example, VICE, >maps Caps Lock to the Commodore 64's Run/Stop key.
And this is why computers will never get easier to use. A few programs have made some very bad UI decisions in the past and when someone tries to move forward %1 complain vocally. This causes the %99 suffer silently.
They didn't even get rid of the !@#$% caps lock. It's a cording keyboard any you can't expect the user to hold the shift key for caps? How about they add a shift lock for every shift key that they have on there? Jef Raskin has some good things to say about mode buttons like the caps lock.
I have lived n both Finland and the US. In Helsinki they have cable modem and DSL just like in th US. In fact my DSL(1.5MB from Speakeasy) in the US is 3X faster for about the same money. Do you have a link for faster connections in the Nordic region?
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I was more surprised by this "Personal computing launched with the IBM PC." WTF!? Writing about the history of personal computers and they can't even get that right?
A very structured method of understanding user needs is
Check out Packeteer or some other QOS company. Those devices can show you what is going over your network and block or limit the unwanted traffic while protecting the business oriented applications. You can also find out who is playing games and surfing all day
Gershenfeld is a true believer in technology, but unfortunately does not hold a very critical or insightful views. His book, When Things Start to Think, is a simplistic and excited jog through future visions of technology that merely repeats general myths and expectations about how computers can learn to understand human behavior and emotions. Also, Gershenfeld would be more convincing if he had not claimed in a conference presentation to have studied the "eskimo" herding reindeer in Norway and making good use of mobile phones. Fancy that. The people are called Sami, and make just as good with mobile phones as any other scandinavian person.
To all you Vader Haters out there, we'll blow your planet up.
We got Death Star, Death Star, we got Death Star, Death Star
The document stacks look an awful lot like Apple's piles That search dialog (not just the search box in the upper right) looks like Apple's search dialog from before os 8. Although I must say that those Shorthorn( tm) screen shots do not look as bad as XP.
Many enterprises have had major problems with providing VoIP services to their employees because of this very issue. It's not that they don't have the big pipes, they do, but they are filled with all kinds of other stuff. As a result you get latency and jitter problems that make the VoIP unusable. QOS can help however. I imagine that as more people use their DSL for other services that QOS in the home will be needed as well.
>There are some programs that utilize the Caps Lock key for >something other than capital letter entry. For example, VICE, >maps Caps Lock to the Commodore 64's Run/Stop key. And this is why computers will never get easier to use. A few programs have made some very bad UI decisions in the past and when someone tries to move forward %1 complain vocally. This causes the %99 suffer silently.
They didn't even get rid of the !@#$% caps lock. It's a cording keyboard any you can't expect the user to hold the shift key for caps? How about they add a shift lock for every shift key that they have on there? Jef Raskin has some good things to say about mode buttons like the caps lock.
I have lived n both Finland and the US. In Helsinki they have cable modem and DSL just like in th US. In fact my DSL(1.5MB from Speakeasy) in the US is 3X faster for about the same money. Do you have a link for faster connections in the Nordic region?