Looking at these remind me of the unbuilt Apple designs around the time of the 20th Anniversary Mac, when the company didn't have the guts to actually ship anything that cool at a sensible price.
Nowadays Apple keeps the designs under wraps until they are ready to ship, as they are beautiful, functional and cheap, and woudl get cloned up the wazoo if they showed them off in advance like this.
at least according to the US government. Tonight, I am going to camp out all night outside the INS office in San Jose so I can be near the front of the queue on Monday morning so I have some chance of getting the next stage in my permanant residence application processed in less than 6 months. I started at 3.30am on Thursday, and there were 120 people in front of me, and by 9am the next morning 150 behind me, and all but the first 110 were sent away.
There were a good variety of peopel there, but I didn't ntice any Vulcans.
You can do very impressive thinsg with QuickTime's wired sprite stuff, and it embeds in all browsers on Windows & MAc, and can be emailed about easily too.
The most important thing to have is open specifications for file formats - the basis for what most of us do with a computer.
For example so apple can't force you to use MacOS* in order to see quicktime movies
Good point, bad example. QuickTime's File Format has been open and public for a long time. Apple ships QuickTime for Windows themselves; you can read and write QT movies on many other platforms - even my digital camera writes them.
You should call this Nano-trousers. In the English-speaking world, pants are what you Americans call underpants.
Also pants is used as a term of abuse indicating lameness, as in 'those trolls are really pants'.
Maybe it's a British thing - I think it came from some Childrens' TV show using 'pants' as a substitute for a word that you can't use onTV
This is Cheshire's ATM Paradox ATM's big feature is guaranteed quality of service. When you set up a TCP/IP connection, the Internet does not reserve network bandwidth for you to guarantee that your data will not suffer network congestion or loss. ATM does offer guaranteed reserved bandwidth. This is its big advantage.
Or is it? If you reserve bandwidth for one user, then you have to refuse to let anyone else use that bandwidth. Everyone always talks about reservations in the context that you are the one who gets the bandwidth and it is everyone who is refused. What about when you are the one being refused? Reservations suddenly doesn't seem so wonderful any more, do they? The only way to make sure no one is refused service is to engineer your network so that you have enough bandwidth for everyone -- but if you have enough for everyone then why do they have to keep making reservations? That's the ATM paradox.
f you've tried DSL or cable, you'll realize that it makes the current Web much more bearable than a dial-up connection -- it does NOT, however, suddenly turn your computer into an interactive TV set. It is not the promised revolution -- it just makes for a pleasant Web experience, period.
It does turn it into an interactive radio station. TV will come.
As for the earth-shattering, headline-grabbing developments that break new ground for technology, there is lots of stuff yet to come -- just ask those guys who work on G3 telephone services, interactive television, and a few other things still percolating in the labs.
Interactive Television - I remember that. It was a BBC Department Ii worked for in 1986. They shut it down in 1989 (spun it out to a external company) because it didn't make sense as a broadcaster. Guess what, it still doesn't.
This reminds me of a story told me by friends working at a network card company. The MIS chap decided that he was going to enforce tight security, and added lots of layers of passwords and authentication to make sure he was in control of the network. However, the card driver engineers weren't impressed with this disruption to their work, so they hooked up a machine to scan packets for passwords and record them for later use. Every time it found a password it played a fanfare. The MIS chap couldn't work out why the engneers kept smiling at he sound of trumpets.
This reminds me of a few yeasr ago, when I was sitting in my London office at 2 in the morning all alone. I had my back to Binky's desk, where his home-written webcam was set up. Unbeknownst to me, he had added a feature that day so that someone viewing the page could send back text comments and the computer would speak them.
In the middle of stepping through a fiddly subroutine, the computer behind me said 'Hi, I'm in Masschusetts'. I hope whover it was enjoyed the sight of me levitating 2 feet in shock.
The only reson they want low jitter is to send faxes. That's right VOIP's tight parameters are there so fax machines don't get confused bytheir warbles being digitised agin. Makes you proud to be in networking, doesn't it.
QoS is bogus because of Cheshire's Law - for every network service there is a corresponding disservice.
Nothing in networking comes for free, which is a fact many people seem to forget. Any time a network technology offers "guaranteed reliability" and other similar properties, you should ask what it is going to cost you, because it is going to cost you. It may cost you in terms of money, in terms of lower throughput (bandwidth), or in terms of higher delay, but one way or another it is going to cost you something. Nothing comes for free.
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etherpeg.org have source code for an applicaiton that sniffs JPEGs and GIFs from 802.11 nets and draws them on the screen - great fun in public areas running AirPort.
Great Summary Graphic from English newspaper
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The Telegraph has this nice equal-area graphic that lets you see which states have declared and compare the number of college votes visually.
from yahoo;
Presidential Election 2000 Florida
Tuesday November 7 9:55 PM ET
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Electoral Vote: 25
50% reporting
Al Gore, Dem 1,280,948 - 46%(declared winner)
George W. Bush, GOP 1,416,422 - 51%
So they lose common carrier status?
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If they are paying attention to packets, they are not common carriers, and are thus liable for any illegal content (child porn, drug deals etc) that they deliver too.
tv.yahoo.com gives a readily parsable HTML version for every zip code.
However, TiVo believe that the TV Guide and correlation subscription is their real business, and the boxes are just a way to sell it. They might support a software version if you used their service
There are perfetly good IETF standards fro streaming media -RTP & RTSP. RealServer8 wil use them; QuickTime uses them. As these are open protocols they should be as DMCA-proof as HTML.
At that time I was developing Multimedia CD-ROMs, and a better codec woud have been helpful. I repeatedly told them to wrap their code in a QuickTime codec, so I could compare it side by side with what I was already using, and so I wouldn't have to change the code of my App. They never did and always wanted you to use their SDK.
Their image compession claims were very overblown, and their examples were always the same few images that compressed really well (that iguana image being the most prominent).
The lesson here for new codecs is wrap it in QuickTime, and then the content-holders can try it out with very little effort.
Has anyone wrapped this code in a QuickTime or WM codec so that we can easily do A/B comparisons with the existing codecs like QDesign & WM Audio?
If its within one of these common replay systems it will be a lot easier to drive adoption.
He doesn't need it to work; think it through. SDMI is being built on DRM software made by his company. This will make his stock optiosn very valuable. SDMI will be moderately secure - enough to be some effort to crack. While music is availabel in both forms, it is less effort to buy the CD and rip it. Only when music you want is SDMI-only is it worth your time to crack it; even then there will be a lag (like there was with DVD). I'm sure the techs at InterTrust know this; they are just hoping to cash out their stock before the market catches on.
Apple thought of that. Those two pads on the side freeze the mouse when you pick it up. They are in the natural place to put your fingers when doing so (they also hold the button down if it is, so you can do a drag wider than your desk)
That's why Apple has 1 mouse button--to make it easier for a user. In fact, the OS is designed so that novice users only ever need 1 button. That's like saying cars shouldn't have a gas pedal AND a brakes pedal, because, hey, how do you know which one to press?
No, it's like not having a clutch pedal because its automatic.
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...burn it on a Mac. Dig it?
As George Clinton said.
Looking at these remind me of the unbuilt Apple designs around the time of the 20th Anniversary Mac, when the company didn't have the guts to actually ship anything that cool at a sensible price.
Nowadays Apple keeps the designs under wraps until they are ready to ship, as they are beautiful, functional and cheap, and woudl get cloned up the wazoo if they showed them off in advance like this.
at least according to the US government. Tonight, I am going to camp out all night outside the INS office in San Jose so I can be near the front of the queue on Monday morning so I have some chance of getting the next stage in my permanant residence application processed in less than 6 months. I started at 3.30am on Thursday, and there were 120 people in front of me, and by 9am the next morning 150 behind me, and all but the first 110 were sent away.
There were a good variety of peopel there, but I didn't ntice any Vulcans.
that you don't mind your mother erading in the newpaper.
Best advice I ever got from a lawyer
if you mean kebabs, try Chelokebabi in Sunnyvale on El Camino.
You can do very impressive thinsg with QuickTime's wired sprite stuff, and it embeds in all browsers on Windows & MAc, and can be emailed about easily too.
http://www.matthewpeterson.net has some cool exmaples, including alarm clocks, drawing app and a chat app.
The most important thing to have is open specifications for file formats - the basis for what most of us do with a computer.
For example so apple can't force you to use MacOS* in order to see quicktime movies
Good point, bad example. QuickTime's File Format has been open and public for a long time. Apple ships QuickTime for Windows themselves; you can read and write QT movies on many other platforms - even my digital camera writes them.
You should call this Nano-trousers. In the English-speaking world, pants are what you Americans call underpants.
Also pants is used as a term of abuse indicating lameness, as in 'those trolls are really pants'.
Maybe it's a British thing - I think it came from some Childrens' TV show using 'pants' as a substitute for a word that you can't use onTV
Anyway nanopants sound totally pants to me.
This is Cheshire's ATM Paradox
ATM's big feature is guaranteed quality of service. When you set up a TCP/IP connection, the Internet does not reserve network bandwidth for you to guarantee that your data will not suffer network congestion or loss. ATM does offer guaranteed reserved bandwidth. This is its big advantage.
Or is it? If you reserve bandwidth for one user, then you have to refuse to let anyone else use that bandwidth. Everyone always talks about reservations in the context that you are the one who gets the bandwidth and it is everyone who is refused. What about when you are the one being refused? Reservations suddenly doesn't seem so wonderful any more, do they? The only way to make sure no one is refused service is to engineer your network so that you have enough bandwidth for everyone -- but if you have enough for everyone then why do they have to keep making reservations? That's the ATM paradox.
This is a subset of Cheshire's law of NetworkDynamics
f you've tried DSL or cable, you'll realize that it makes the current Web much more bearable than a dial-up connection -- it does NOT, however, suddenly turn your computer into an interactive TV set. It is not the promised revolution -- it just makes for a pleasant Web experience, period.
It does turn it into an interactive radio station. TV will come.
As for the earth-shattering, headline-grabbing developments that break new ground for technology, there is lots of stuff yet to come -- just ask those guys who work on G3 telephone services, interactive television, and a few other things still percolating in the labs.
Interactive Television - I remember that. It was a BBC Department Ii worked for in 1986. They shut it down in 1989 (spun it out to a external company) because it didn't make sense as a broadcaster. Guess what, it still doesn't.
This reminds me of a story told me by friends working at a network card company. The MIS chap decided that he was going to enforce tight security, and added lots of layers of passwords and authentication to make sure he was in control of the network. However, the card driver engineers weren't impressed with this disruption to their work, so they hooked up a machine to scan packets for passwords and record them for later use. Every time it found a password it played a fanfare. The MIS chap couldn't work out why the engneers kept smiling at he sound of trumpets.
This reminds me of a few yeasr ago, when I was sitting in my London office at 2 in the morning all alone. I had my back to Binky's desk, where his home-written webcam was set up. Unbeknownst to me, he had added a feature that day so that someone viewing the page could send back text comments and the computer would speak them.
In the middle of stepping through a fiddly subroutine, the computer behind me said 'Hi, I'm in Masschusetts'. I hope whover it was enjoyed the sight of me levitating 2 feet in shock.
Read this Tech note to find this link.
For QT5, the download link is on the main page.
Apple will even licence the standalone installer to you for free redistribution here.
The only reson they want low jitter is to send faxes. That's right VOIP's tight parameters are there so fax machines don't get confused bytheir warbles being digitised agin. Makes you proud to be in networking, doesn't it.
QoS is bogus because of Cheshire's Law - for every network service there is a corresponding disservice.
Nothing in networking comes for free, which is a fact many people seem to forget. Any time a network technology offers "guaranteed reliability" and other similar properties, you should ask what it is going to cost you, because it is going to cost you. It may cost you in terms of money, in terms of lower throughput (bandwidth), or in terms of higher delay, but one way or another it is going to cost you something. Nothing comes for free.
etherpeg.org have source code for an applicaiton that sniffs JPEGs and GIFs from 802.11 nets and draws them on the screen - great fun in public areas running AirPort.
The Telegraph has this nice equal-area graphic that lets you see which states have declared and compare the number of college votes visually.
from yahoo;- ------------------------
Presidential Election 2000 Florida
Tuesday November 7 9:55 PM ET
-----------------------------------------------
Electoral Vote: 25
50% reporting
Al Gore, Dem 1,280,948 - 46%(declared winner)
George W. Bush, GOP 1,416,422 - 51%
If they are paying attention to packets, they are not common carriers, and are thus liable for any illegal content (child porn, drug deals etc) that they deliver too.
tv.yahoo.com gives a readily parsable HTML version for every zip code.
However, TiVo believe that the TV Guide and correlation subscription is their real business, and the boxes are just a way to sell it. They might support a software version if you used their service
There are perfetly good IETF standards fro streaming media -RTP & RTSP. RealServer8 wil use them; QuickTime uses them. As these are open protocols they should be as DMCA-proof as HTML.
At that time I was developing Multimedia CD-ROMs, and a better codec woud have been helpful. I repeatedly told them to wrap their code in a QuickTime codec, so I could compare it side by side with what I was already using, and so I wouldn't have to change the code of my App. They never did and always wanted you to use their SDK.
Their image compession claims were very overblown, and their examples were always the same few images that compressed really well (that iguana image being the most prominent).
The lesson here for new codecs is wrap it in QuickTime, and then the content-holders can try it out with very little effort.
Has anyone wrapped this code in a QuickTime or WM codec so that we can easily do A/B comparisons with the existing codecs like QDesign & WM Audio?
If its within one of these common replay systems it will be a lot easier to drive adoption.
He doesn't need it to work; think it through.
SDMI is being built on DRM software made by his company. This will make his stock optiosn very valuable.
SDMI will be moderately secure - enough to be some effort to crack.
While music is availabel in both forms, it is less effort to buy the CD and rip it.
Only when music you want is SDMI-only is it worth your time to crack it; even then there will be a lag (like there was with DVD).
I'm sure the techs at InterTrust know this; they are just hoping to cash out their stock before the market catches on.
Apple thought of that. Those two pads on the side freeze the mouse when you pick it up. They are in the natural place to put your fingers when doing so (they also hold the button down if it is, so you can do a drag wider than your desk)
Blockquoth the poster:
That's why Apple has 1 mouse button--to make it easier for a user. In fact, the OS is designed so that novice users only ever need 1 button.
That's like saying cars shouldn't have a gas pedal AND a brakes pedal, because, hey, how do you know which one to press?
No, it's like not having a clutch pedal because its automatic.