Isn't the real future the phone/pda? Those are getting good computing power. You just plug it in or dock it to a terminal that provides a better interface and removeable media drives. You can build a gig of CF into a phone and allow for USB( maybe the rise of Bluetooth? ) peripherals. This article just sounds like a good idea for a few mobile users, not a solution for the future.
Yes I agree, but the difference is in how you handle the situation. In a capitalist society if a company is not satisfying it's customers the customers find or make better solutions. What you can't do is go around taking ownership of things just because you have grown to rely on it. So like you said it is, "Either follow an open standard of get out of town" not, "Either follow an open standard or the government will take control of your company". Did you even read the argument? The hypothetical situation sets the precedent of taking away citizens rights.
Your argument is a little flawed. This is not about Americans "inventing" the Internet or any related technologies. It is about America building the Internet. Because it was such a good system, the whole world tapped into it. Now they want to take it, not from the inventors, but from the owners and creators. The Internet works great now. There is uncertainty in handing control over to the UN or any other supposedly unified international governing body. Think of it this way. American and the American government built the Internet and have come to rely on its stability for the national infrastructure. So we do not want to relinquish control of anything that we rely on. Now, modern countries all over the world have come to rely on the Internet as much as the US, but they possibly made a poor decision because they are relying on a system that they do not own or control. Should the US have to deal with that same uncertainty? Any US citizen will be resistant of other countries taking control of something that we own. We are very capitalist and tend to resist actions that smell of socialism whether it be national or global.
Here is a Hypothetical for example sake: Microsoft makes Windows. The US government comes to rely on Windows so much that it decides that the most secure action would be to take control of either Microsoft or the Windows line of products making them property of the US government. Now, the rest of the world has also come to rely on Windows and the UN pushes to take control of the now US owned Microsoft or Windows line of products. This situation is socialist and stupid. It takes away all incentive to try selling anything because at any moment it can be taken away.
Now this last argument is a little extreme, but if the UN took control of the Internet for those reasons what kind of precedence does that set?
I like that, but if I published a little piece of viewer software with a map that indicated Taiwan as West Hawaii would the Tawainese officials try to contact me. Google can publish whatever they want. Are they breaking some form of international or national laws? None that I can see. The real funny one would be if they identified Isreal as Palestine. I think we would wake up one morning to find a crater where the Google headquarters used to be.
Okay, go to the head of a data storage center for Wal-Mart or Amazon and propose a data storage solution and end the propostion with "granted, there will be some down time". See how they respond. I actually work on commercial DAS Disk systems and they are designed for 100% uptime. No matter what you need to do to the box, you are supposed to be able to run I/O through the whole process. This is no small operations junk, downtime means large losses to some of these companies.
bzzzz Wrong. The companies and groups that need this kind of performance would laugh at you if you proposed a solution and ended it with "granted, there is some down time".
Amen to that last comment. The widespread use of C is probably one of the biggest contributors to unstable and unsecure systems. I am not saying that C does not have its uses, but some things should be reconsidered.
To me this does not sound like a plausible commercial idea as of yet. The one place I do see this as being possibly successful would be the corporate sector. You could just buy a small server that ran everybodies office application on the corporate intranet. No need for massive amounts of installs and it would have some interesting ways of document sharing.
The NYC Transit Authority did just that, they put the work into making a map. This guy had all of the same rights to do so, but instead he took the map that they made and redistributed it.
I believe that the biggest problem is hardware compatability. I know that all of the hardware for my computers has tested Windows drivers provided by the manufacturer. The OS is able to fully and correctly take advantage of my machine. My Linux experiences never felt as seamless. That is less of a fault of Linux as it is the lack of Linux support by hardware manufacturers. That little "Designed for Windows XP" badge smells of monopoly, but if I buy a computer there better be some form of badge or certification that at least one operating system will work correctly with all of the necessary drivers and support.
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I like Windows XP. I believe it to not only be stable, but easy to use productively. When I want to do something it is usually pretty easy to accomplish in Windows XP. I have tried multiple flavors of Linux, but it never felt stable.
Finally! I was starting to think that everybody on/. was completely clueless about corporate practices. Thank you for restoring a little bit of my faith in the/. crowd.
Eliminating one fan in a multi-fan system is a good thing. To me it seems that most cases were not designed for efficient cooling. People just slap big fans on and call it a day. Most of the time it does not seem that anybody takes into account where the air goes after it passes the heatsinks. If you have multiple fans you are, most likely, not pushing air in a unified direction. A way to have more efficient systems is to have more efficient heatsinks rather than just slapping fans on PCI cards.
They probably do that because they really do not care about supporting every linux distro. They are just throwing linux a bone. Do you think google is going to test it on Debian, Suse, Redhat, Gentoo, and Slack? Why would they? They know that most distros can at least be configured to have the same things as Redhat so just test it on Redhat and let the linux users figure it out. Like you said, it did not deter you from trying it on Kubuntu. It is cost-benefit. The linux community likes the fact that they released anything for linux and that is all they wanted. They still know that the Windows user base is the big target.
Take a look at the size and weight numbers. The 14 inch widescreen Z comes in at 4.1-4.6 pounds and the 15 inch over 6 pounds. A 14 inch widescreen, full featured notebook, at that weight is pretty good. I agree that some notebooks have become huge. I was at best buy and saw a notebook with the numerical keypad on the keyboard. It was huge.
I think the naming scheme works. Regular chips in all notebooks. Low-Voltage chips in your ultraportables. And the Ultra-Low-Voltage in you palmtop and other small devices. It breaks up pretty nice.
It is not about Avalon being the prettiest thing out there. It is the ability to make graphical interfaces very quickly. Since the interface can be designed in XML it allows for rapid development. And to entice developers further they are adding extra platform support. It seems to be a pretty good system.
Yeah, I did leave out that camp. But I hardly call a bunch of zealots worshipping a pure gold likeness of RMS a camp. Just kidding. There are those people, but I try not to take them too seriously, like CNN. Man I am on a roll today.
When will people learn that this kind of crap will happen with or without human intervention? The Earth has been changing constantly for millions of years and will continue to change past our existence. Holy crap, a climate shift!! I am sure it was the Neanderthals who brought on the ice age by causing nuclear winter. How else could that have happened?
It is basically a question of your approach and which camp you are in. One camp is attempting to draw people to OSS by making it as familiar as possible. The other camp wants to draw users by providing something new, novel, innovative that wins users on merit. Both are good, and both complement eachother. People may not be as afraid to try if it looks familiar, and then once they get into OSS they see the cool new stuff people are coming up with.
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Isn't the real future the phone/pda? Those are getting good computing power. You just plug it in or dock it to a terminal that provides a better interface and removeable media drives. You can build a gig of CF into a phone and allow for USB( maybe the rise of Bluetooth? ) peripherals. This article just sounds like a good idea for a few mobile users, not a solution for the future.
Would somebody please clarify the final joke about dot-org's.
Yes I agree, but the difference is in how you handle the situation. In a capitalist society if a company is not satisfying it's customers the customers find or make better solutions. What you can't do is go around taking ownership of things just because you have grown to rely on it. So like you said it is, "Either follow an open standard of get out of town" not, "Either follow an open standard or the government will take control of your company". Did you even read the argument? The hypothetical situation sets the precedent of taking away citizens rights.
Your argument is a little flawed. This is not about Americans "inventing" the Internet or any related technologies. It is about America building the Internet. Because it was such a good system, the whole world tapped into it. Now they want to take it, not from the inventors, but from the owners and creators. The Internet works great now. There is uncertainty in handing control over to the UN or any other supposedly unified international governing body. Think of it this way. American and the American government built the Internet and have come to rely on its stability for the national infrastructure. So we do not want to relinquish control of anything that we rely on. Now, modern countries all over the world have come to rely on the Internet as much as the US, but they possibly made a poor decision because they are relying on a system that they do not own or control. Should the US have to deal with that same uncertainty? Any US citizen will be resistant of other countries taking control of something that we own. We are very capitalist and tend to resist actions that smell of socialism whether it be national or global.
Here is a Hypothetical for example sake:
Microsoft makes Windows. The US government comes to rely on Windows so much that it decides that the most secure action would be to take control of either Microsoft or the Windows line of products making them property of the US government. Now, the rest of the world has also come to rely on Windows and the UN pushes to take control of the now US owned Microsoft or Windows line of products. This situation is socialist and stupid. It takes away all incentive to try selling anything because at any moment it can be taken away.
Now this last argument is a little extreme, but if the UN took control of the Internet for those reasons what kind of precedence does that set?
I like that, but if I published a little piece of viewer software with a map that indicated Taiwan as West Hawaii would the Tawainese officials try to contact me. Google can publish whatever they want. Are they breaking some form of international or national laws? None that I can see. The real funny one would be if they identified Isreal as Palestine. I think we would wake up one morning to find a crater where the Google headquarters used to be.
Okay, go to the head of a data storage center for Wal-Mart or Amazon and propose a data storage solution and end the propostion with "granted, there will be some down time". See how they respond. I actually work on commercial DAS Disk systems and they are designed for 100% uptime. No matter what you need to do to the box, you are supposed to be able to run I/O through the whole process. This is no small operations junk, downtime means large losses to some of these companies.
bzzzz Wrong. The companies and groups that need this kind of performance would laugh at you if you proposed a solution and ended it with "granted, there is some down time".
Amen to that last comment. The widespread use of C is probably one of the biggest contributors to unstable and unsecure systems. I am not saying that C does not have its uses, but some things should be reconsidered.
To me this does not sound like a plausible commercial idea as of yet. The one place I do see this as being possibly successful would be the corporate sector. You could just buy a small server that ran everybodies office application on the corporate intranet. No need for massive amounts of installs and it would have some interesting ways of document sharing.
The NYC Transit Authority did just that, they put the work into making a map. This guy had all of the same rights to do so, but instead he took the map that they made and redistributed it.
I believe that the biggest problem is hardware compatability. I know that all of the hardware for my computers has tested Windows drivers provided by the manufacturer. The OS is able to fully and correctly take advantage of my machine. My Linux experiences never felt as seamless. That is less of a fault of Linux as it is the lack of Linux support by hardware manufacturers. That little "Designed for Windows XP" badge smells of monopoly, but if I buy a computer there better be some form of badge or certification that at least one operating system will work correctly with all of the necessary drivers and support.
I like Windows XP. I believe it to not only be stable, but easy to use productively. When I want to do something it is usually pretty easy to accomplish in Windows XP. I have tried multiple flavors of Linux, but it never felt stable.
Finally! I was starting to think that everybody on /. was completely clueless about corporate practices. Thank you for restoring a little bit of my faith in the /. crowd.
Eliminating one fan in a multi-fan system is a good thing. To me it seems that most cases were not designed for efficient cooling. People just slap big fans on and call it a day. Most of the time it does not seem that anybody takes into account where the air goes after it passes the heatsinks. If you have multiple fans you are, most likely, not pushing air in a unified direction. A way to have more efficient systems is to have more efficient heatsinks rather than just slapping fans on PCI cards.
They probably do that because they really do not care about supporting every linux distro. They are just throwing linux a bone. Do you think google is going to test it on Debian, Suse, Redhat, Gentoo, and Slack? Why would they? They know that most distros can at least be configured to have the same things as Redhat so just test it on Redhat and let the linux users figure it out. Like you said, it did not deter you from trying it on Kubuntu. It is cost-benefit. The linux community likes the fact that they released anything for linux and that is all they wanted. They still know that the Windows user base is the big target.
Not to take either side on this I have to disagree with your the relavance of your argument. The web has changed drastically since IE was first made.
Anything that requires users with privileges is vulnerable.
Take a look at the size and weight numbers. The 14 inch widescreen Z comes in at 4.1-4.6 pounds and the 15 inch over 6 pounds. A 14 inch widescreen, full featured notebook, at that weight is pretty good. I agree that some notebooks have become huge. I was at best buy and saw a notebook with the numerical keypad on the keyboard. It was huge.
I think the naming scheme works. Regular chips in all notebooks. Low-Voltage chips in your ultraportables. And the Ultra-Low-Voltage in you palmtop and other small devices. It breaks up pretty nice.
It is called SWT and it actually is native. SWT is basically java wrappers around the native widget set.
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It is not about Avalon being the prettiest thing out there. It is the ability to make graphical interfaces very quickly. Since the interface can be designed in XML it allows for rapid development. And to entice developers further they are adding extra platform support. It seems to be a pretty good system.
Yeah, I did leave out that camp. But I hardly call a bunch of zealots worshipping a pure gold likeness of RMS a camp. Just kidding. There are those people, but I try not to take them too seriously, like CNN. Man I am on a roll today.
When will people learn that this kind of crap will happen with or without human intervention? The Earth has been changing constantly for millions of years and will continue to change past our existence. Holy crap, a climate shift!! I am sure it was the Neanderthals who brought on the ice age by causing nuclear winter. How else could that have happened?
It is basically a question of your approach and which camp you are in. One camp is attempting to draw people to OSS by making it as familiar as possible. The other camp wants to draw users by providing something new, novel, innovative that wins users on merit. Both are good, and both complement eachother. People may not be as afraid to try if it looks familiar, and then once they get into OSS they see the cool new stuff people are coming up with.
Don't pretend only Microsoft does this. Does anybody remember Konfabulator for Mac OS X? Apple users loved it so Apple created Dashboard.