Hmmm, a huge supplier of networking gear is saying that network will continue to grow...This article is making me want to buy a lot of networking gear to get ahead of the impending doubling. I wonder if that's the intent? Nah, couldn't be.
A full featured (non.mac) email client doesn't equal MMS. MMS is push and happens in seconds, email gets checked at 15 minute or longer intervals. Plus sending photos to phones on verizon is unreliable at best.
MMS is more akin to iChat than email.
I am pretty sure that apple isn't interested in MMS either, but my friends and family still are, so rather than try to educate them as to why my phone sucks (in their eyes) and how to kludge a workaround, I'd really like my shiny Jesus Phone to actually do what I want it to do. I'm sure apple would love to poach RIM clients, but this is my personal phone and I don't care at all about exchange support. I'd jettison that in a heartbeat for mms and an XMPP chat client.
The OS has had a full point release and there doesn't seem to be much for it.
Where's iChat or am I supposed to keep spending like $0.15 a text for SMS. Speaking of SMS, where's the damn MMS?
How about spam filtering on the mail client. This is supposed to be "just like the desktop OS X" so how hard can it be to upgrade the mail client to more completely resemble the functionality of mail.app on the desktop?
No discussion of how the 1st gen phones will handle location.
Nice one month slip on the OS and app store.
So as a 1st generation owner, the only major upgrade in my day to day is the ability to get 3rd party apps. Hopefully 3rd party apps will fill in the gaping holes.
Traditionally the best bittorrent users also seed the files they have grabbed for a long time. So under the usage model, being a good torrent person means being penalized for extra bandwidth that I'm using to seed.
If all your backing up is data then yur absolutely correct. In MSFT's and even OS X time machine the default settings are to backup everything, the OS, applications etc. for a home users that is just stupid. Not if you want to restore to a completely working machine easily and quickly in the event of a drive failure. Sure, if you love spending hours rebuilding and reconfiguring, then just back up your home directory.
Drive space is damn near free these days, you can get a TB or significant fraction of it for the cost of a few dinners out. Why not have the piece of mind as a home user to have a complete image of your computer drive? This is really critical when you remotely support aging family members from a distance.
I can't speak to the Vista backup solution, but Timemachine has rebuilt one of my machines from the backup straight from the install DVD to a fresh drive. Boot the DVD, point to the backup and go... Not so easy if I was "Smart" and didn't ask for the entire OS to be backed up.
OS X is reasonably secure, but so is Linux. And while harder, Windows can also be made that way. Just because your Mac hasn't been pwned yet doesn't mean that it won't. The only secure OS is one that doesn't do anything.
Macs are actually 24 years old, and there were Mac OS viruses out there. The hardware features of automagically reading a floppy inserted into the drive made the spread of those viruses much more easy.
I'd gladly share my bandwidth with others if I thought I wouldn't have the government kick down my door with an RIAA sponsored search warrant in hand and take all my computers. If I really felt free from scrutiny, I'd let others use my bandwidth. I can't use it all thanks to comcast throttling me, so others can have a slice too but I've got to trust them.
IT's fear of attempted prosecution that keeps my wi-fi locked not anything else.
For simple tasks that I used to do in C I'm now doing in python... But I did start programming more in Objective-C so in my world C have morphed not necessarily gone away.
I'm one of the people who doesn't live in a congested city here in the US, so my expectations of actual 3G connectivity are pretty low. So until the network gets built out to the point that I have hope of 3G other things drive my excitement about future iPhone developments. Like:
- Sending and receinging MMS messages (where's the friggin pictures?!) - A native calculator that doesn't suck (RPN please) - Notes and to-do's that sync with my computer - an instant messaging client (Apple have you heard of this program called iChat?) - Flash support so I can finally have the real internet in my pocket (contrary to the advertisement's claims, I DO NOT have the real internet in my pocket). If you think you do have the real internet in your pocket, try visiting a car company web site with your iPhone.
A camera with a lens that size will never be worth a damn, so I don't have much hope of better picture quality.
I think you are right. I am sensitive to the OSS movement and I've written some marginal code under the GPL. I use Linux, OSX and even XP at home; they each have merits. An example of your assertion is Firefox; I like that it's free, but I use it because it kicks ass. If it were free and sucked, I would be using something else. Free is a bonus for me, not a requirement. I guess I'm just a slashdot poseur then...
...posting pics of two women and one cup Really, I haven't seen this. What do these two women do? The only thing remotely close is a movie about these two Chicks and one cup. You'd think somebody whould chip in for a second cup...
I for one am all for a $5 fee to allow me to pirate (all I can eat) all the time. Now I occasionally feel a pang of guilt (I lie down and the feeling passes) when I'm stealing some sweet music. After this nominal fee I'm good to go for full tilt piracy. After all this fee is paid because I'm a pirate, right?
A portion of the nightmare of newer cars is the EPA and manufacturer locking you out of the control system. You as a consumer have very little visibility into the ECU. It's like trying to fix an old car and only being allowed to raise the hood 6 inches to work.
I've got an aftermarket ECU on my hobby car and it allows me to see exactly what's going in in terms of engine management and current performance. It's got real-time feedback of emissions fueling and timing. I can data log them all as well as control them all with 3D maps. The system is more complex than a purely mechanical engine, but it also provides tools to let me measure and control the operating conditions of the engine more than I ever was able to in the pure mechanical days. It also detects pre-ignition and can adjust timing on the fly.
So it's not necessarily the technology that is screwing you in fixing a new car, but the political decisions surrounding that technology.
The other problem with new cars is that the disposable mentality in consumer electronics is slowly permeating into the car world. Thank navigation systems, CD players etc. Sure the newer engines may be good for 200K+ miles but that $30 car stereo or nav system certainly isn't.
I know with non-green sata drives you can control spin-down period with S.M.A.R.T. tools like smartctl. If this drive is also SMART, he can probably change the spin-down time. So are these drives still SMART and can the "green-ness" be tuned this way?
Sure if you stream lossy compressed files they don't take up too much space. But if you stream lossless files, you eat up a lot of drive space. I've got about 800 CD's ripped to my media server and in lossless format (FLAC) they are taking up about 400 gig. Now if you want to keep a backup of them so you don't have to feed your CD's through the ripping process again, there's another 400 gig.
When I add all my digital photos, and scans of negatives, and 20 years of files in my home directory plus research data etc, a TB is gone in a hurry. Not all of it needs to be spinning, but when you add in backups of a couple computers, and the desire to have certain critical things backed up a couple times, storage is never enough.
I've got about 4.5 Tb worth of drives when I add them all up (externals, server Raid, internal drives in various machines, etc), and I don't feel like I'm swimming in space. I don't have video ripped either, lord help me if I ever decide to do that.
800x480?! Why not just give us four handy red 7 segment displays to interact with.
Sure, I understand that small computers have small screens, but my aging ipac has a 640x480 screen the size of a baseball card and fits in my pocket. I take it that people who want small light computers are also blind? A screen that size could be 1400x900 and still be very usable.
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The FUSE Grommet, you forgot to light the fuse!!!
I had one years ago and my USB drive wouldn't sleep. Does the newer versions/other OS's allow a USB drive to spin down?
I gave my slug to my father in law and got a Kuro-box which was faster than the slug in all ways.
Sheldon
Hmmm, a huge supplier of networking gear is saying that network will continue to grow...This article is making me want to buy a lot of networking gear to get ahead of the impending doubling. I wonder if that's the intent? Nah, couldn't be.
Sheldon
It's the only way to be sure
A full featured (non .mac) email client doesn't equal MMS. MMS is push and happens in seconds, email gets checked at 15 minute or longer intervals. Plus sending photos to phones on verizon is unreliable at best.
MMS is more akin to iChat than email.
I am pretty sure that apple isn't interested in MMS either, but my friends and family still are, so rather than try to educate them as to why my phone sucks (in their eyes) and how to kludge a workaround, I'd really like my shiny Jesus Phone to actually do what I want it to do. I'm sure apple would love to poach RIM clients, but this is my personal phone and I don't care at all about exchange support. I'd jettison that in a heartbeat for mms and an XMPP chat client.
Sheldon
The OS has had a full point release and there doesn't seem to be much for it.
Where's iChat or am I supposed to keep spending like $0.15 a text for SMS. Speaking of SMS, where's the damn MMS?
How about spam filtering on the mail client. This is supposed to be "just like the desktop OS X" so how hard can it be to upgrade the mail client to more completely resemble the functionality of mail.app on the desktop?
No discussion of how the 1st gen phones will handle location.
Nice one month slip on the OS and app store.
So as a 1st generation owner, the only major upgrade in my day to day is the ability to get 3rd party apps. Hopefully 3rd party apps will fill in the gaping holes.
A little adblock would be super helpful too...
Sheldon
Traditionally the best bittorrent users also seed the files they have grabbed for a long time. So under the usage model, being a good torrent person means being penalized for extra bandwidth that I'm using to seed.
Sheldon
Drive space is damn near free these days, you can get a TB or significant fraction of it for the cost of a few dinners out. Why not have the piece of mind as a home user to have a complete image of your computer drive? This is really critical when you remotely support aging family members from a distance.
I can't speak to the Vista backup solution, but Timemachine has rebuilt one of my machines from the backup straight from the install DVD to a fresh drive. Boot the DVD, point to the backup and go... Not so easy if I was "Smart" and didn't ask for the entire OS to be backed up.
Sheldon
Slow down junior...
OS X is reasonably secure, but so is Linux. And while harder, Windows can also be made that way. Just because your Mac hasn't been pwned yet doesn't mean that it won't. The only secure OS is one that doesn't do anything.
Macs are actually 24 years old, and there were Mac OS viruses out there. The hardware features of automagically reading a floppy inserted into the drive made the spread of those viruses much more easy.
Sheldon
So a slightly modded (which is part of the original charter right?) OLPC can own the fleet of upcoming XP based OLPC's?!
Am I the only one who finds that more than a little amusing?
Sheldon
I thought it would make a great mini NAS nut it only has a 10/100 nic. That was a bummer
Sheldon
I'd gladly share my bandwidth with others if I thought I wouldn't have the government kick down my door with an RIAA sponsored search warrant in hand and take all my computers. If I really felt free from scrutiny, I'd let others use my bandwidth. I can't use it all thanks to comcast throttling me, so others can have a slice too but I've got to trust them.
IT's fear of attempted prosecution that keeps my wi-fi locked not anything else.
Sheldon
For simple tasks that I used to do in C I'm now doing in python... But I did start programming more in Objective-C so in my world C have morphed not necessarily gone away.
Sheldon
I'm one of the people who doesn't live in a congested city here in the US, so my expectations of actual 3G connectivity are pretty low. So until the network gets built out to the point that I have hope of 3G other things drive my excitement about future iPhone developments. Like:
- Sending and receinging MMS messages (where's the friggin pictures?!)
- A native calculator that doesn't suck (RPN please)
- Notes and to-do's that sync with my computer
- an instant messaging client (Apple have you heard of this program called iChat?)
- Flash support so I can finally have the real internet in my pocket (contrary to the advertisement's claims, I DO NOT have the real internet in my pocket). If you think you do have the real internet in your pocket, try visiting a car company web site with your iPhone.
A camera with a lens that size will never be worth a damn, so I don't have much hope of better picture quality.
Sheldon
I think you are right. I am sensitive to the OSS movement and I've written some marginal code under the GPL. I use Linux, OSX and even XP at home; they each have merits. An example of your assertion is Firefox; I like that it's free, but I use it because it kicks ass. If it were free and sucked, I would be using something else. Free is a bonus for me, not a requirement. I guess I'm just a slashdot poseur then...
Sheldon
...posting pics of two women and one cup Really, I haven't seen this. What do these two women do? The only thing remotely close is a movie about these two Chicks and one cup. You'd think somebody whould chip in for a second cup...Sheldon
I for one am all for a $5 fee to allow me to pirate (all I can eat) all the time. Now I occasionally feel a pang of guilt (I lie down and the feeling passes) when I'm stealing some sweet music. After this nominal fee I'm good to go for full tilt piracy. After all this fee is paid because I'm a pirate, right?
Sheldon
They could use Hipster PDAs, they are all the rage and don't crash:
http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Hipster_PDA
I'd be willing to provide say a million of them for a mere 20% of that projected overrun.
Sheldon
A portion of the nightmare of newer cars is the EPA and manufacturer locking you out of the control system. You as a consumer have very little visibility into the ECU. It's like trying to fix an old car and only being allowed to raise the hood 6 inches to work.
I've got an aftermarket ECU on my hobby car and it allows me to see exactly what's going in in terms of engine management and current performance. It's got real-time feedback of emissions fueling and timing. I can data log them all as well as control them all with 3D maps. The system is more complex than a purely mechanical engine, but it also provides tools to let me measure and control the operating conditions of the engine more than I ever was able to in the pure mechanical days. It also detects pre-ignition and can adjust timing on the fly.
So it's not necessarily the technology that is screwing you in fixing a new car, but the political decisions surrounding that technology.
The other problem with new cars is that the disposable mentality in consumer electronics is slowly permeating into the car world. Thank navigation systems, CD players etc. Sure the newer engines may be good for 200K+ miles but that $30 car stereo or nav system certainly isn't.
Sheldon
This should clearly be tagged: getoffmylawn
Sheldon
I know with non-green sata drives you can control spin-down period with S.M.A.R.T. tools like smartctl. If this drive is also SMART, he can probably change the spin-down time. So are these drives still SMART and can the "green-ness" be tuned this way?
Sheldon
Sure if you stream lossy compressed files they don't take up too much space. But if you stream lossless files, you eat up a lot of drive space. I've got about 800 CD's ripped to my media server and in lossless format (FLAC) they are taking up about 400 gig. Now if you want to keep a backup of them so you don't have to feed your CD's through the ripping process again, there's another 400 gig.
When I add all my digital photos, and scans of negatives, and 20 years of files in my home directory plus research data etc, a TB is gone in a hurry. Not all of it needs to be spinning, but when you add in backups of a couple computers, and the desire to have certain critical things backed up a couple times, storage is never enough.
I've got about 4.5 Tb worth of drives when I add them all up (externals, server Raid, internal drives in various machines, etc), and I don't feel like I'm swimming in space. I don't have video ripped either, lord help me if I ever decide to do that.
Sheldon
The story is tagged as "hardhack" I suppose that's right, as in "hacked to pieces"
Still seems an inappropriate use of the tag...
Sheldon
Here's the regular expression that I found most useful in childhood:
"Hello, I'm a smart geeky person, please to not beat me up and take my lunch money. I can help you with your math homework"
Sheldon
800x480?! Why not just give us four handy red 7 segment displays to interact with.
Sure, I understand that small computers have small screens, but my aging ipac has a 640x480 screen the size of a baseball card and fits in my pocket. I take it that people who want small light computers are also blind? A screen that size could be 1400x900 and still be very usable.
Sheldon