Yes I am able to lift 4, perhaps even 5 pounds, thank you. That's not the point. If I told you that I don't want a 1 pound cell phone, I'm sure you'd agree with me. I do own a 12" ibook (the smallest the Apple makes) and it's a monster compared to my sony subnote. To get an idea of the difference may I refer you to this link: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/panasonic-r3-revie w-018793.php
Before you say that the pictured Panasonic does not have everything the Powerbook has - such as the SuperDrive - absolutely. It also doesn't have the floppy drive and an 8-track drive, because some people either find them obsolete or choose to leave them at home because size/weight takes a higher priority.
I love Apple and OS X but forced to run Windows because I consider anything above 3 lbs a brick destined to stay behind at home. Are subnotebooks THAT unpopular that they are almost completely ignored by American manufacturers? Do I really need a 12" screen to run 1024x768 when 10.4 will do just fine. Oh well, I may have to end up installing a cracked copy on a vaio.
Hi. I didn't say they didn't exist. Only that I'm glad that Einstein didn't have to sign an NDA. And those that did we don't hear much about now do we?
open source software has been an abysmal failure if making a lot of money and keeping a lot of people employed is the goal
the real goal of anything, not just software, is improved quality of life / pursuit of happiness / whatever. Making money and being employed is a vehicle, not the goal in itself. Politicians that talk about doing X to create jobs are talking shit. If that's the goal, why not just pay one guy to dig a hole and the other to fill it up. Free software (not all necessarily, but at least infrastructure kind) will lower the cost of living and doing business for everybody (except those who already pirate anyway). In the information economy, the market of ideas is at least as important as that of dollars, if not more so. Please see my other post on this topic
Physical product/economy -> natural scarcity -> use cost established by free market to fairly allocate resources (capitalism)
Information economy -> NO natural scarcity -> from each according to his/her ability, to each according to his/her work (communism)
For those who think the latter doesn't work, consider how the scientific community worked for the last 300 years. Imagine that instead of being freely shared and published, work of every scientist was locked up by the employer/corporation.
You missed my point. You only need to transfer a tiny fraction of data in order to be able to edit video. You can splice and dice a multi-gigabyte movie by transferring little more that a few lowres keyframes.
Not commenting on this product specifically, but I think internet-based iMovie competitor might be possible (and even desirable) in some situations. High resolution video processing is very resource-intensive, which makes it a good match for a high powered backend server (possibly a farm). The user interface is just a couple of lowres preview quality windows - easily possible over a decent broadband connection.
It is somewhat similar to google maps, where huge dataset lives on the server, but only a small portion of it is downloaded to the client on demand. In fact, it would be infeasible to run this type of application on most clients.
only a matter of time until various bits of Google start getting "accidentially broken"
When I read this quote, at first I thought you meant it would be Google who'd be doing the breaking. Personally, when faced with this situation, I'd blame IE first, Google second.
It is like fining somebody for leaving their door unlocked and they get burglarized.
No, it's like fining somebody for leaving the door to their biological lab containing hazardous materials unlocked. When criminals get in, they don't just hurt you by taking your stuff but also others by doing something with it.
Today was my first experience with GDS. (I never installed the first version because it didn't support any of the file formats that I cared about.)
I did NOT want it to index my mail (I already use gmail) I did NOT want it to index my web history (there could be dangerous things hiding in there) I did NOT want it to index my C: drive (I don't store any data there)
All I wanted to do was to index one folder - my ebook collection. Mostly pdf and chm.
Getting GDS to index only a specific folder requires an extension! Getting it to index chm requires yet another extension. Getting it to actually get on with the damn indexing requires you to sit quietly and wait until idle trigger kicks in - with no way to force it (that I could find). 3 hours later it has only indexed less than 200 books. Search results are poor. Searching for "snort" shows "Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security" ahead of "Snort Cookbook". I can do better with filename-based searching!
The grandparent is right that *usually* when CFO leaves, the company is a sinking ship - financially. In other words, expect discovery of cooked books followed by SEC investigation and indictments of top management. MSFT was/is anything but that. It's only a sinking ship in terms of browser dipping all the way down to 90% market share.
Well, if you are right, then the software-as-product model (microsoft, foss) should dominate over software-as-service model (google, yahoo and all the other web2 friends). Personally, for privacy's sake, I'd like it to be the case. I just really doubt that this is how it's going to play out.
Three billion dollars is only a drop in the bucket to what the campaign contributions will be.
Huh? WTF are you talking about? It scales in the opposite direction. Relatively small campaign contributions (private money) help affect large misdirection of public money. I'm guessing it only cost the industry a puny 5-digit amount to get the $3B in question.
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Yes I am able to lift 4, perhaps even 5 pounds, thank you. That's not the point. If I told you that I don't want a 1 pound cell phone, I'm sure you'd agree with me. I do own a 12" ibook (the smallest the Apple makes) and it's a monster compared to my sony subnote. To get an idea of the difference may I refer you to this link: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/panasonic-r3-revie w-018793.php
Before you say that the pictured Panasonic does not have everything the Powerbook has - such as the SuperDrive - absolutely. It also doesn't have the floppy drive and an 8-track drive, because some people either find them obsolete or choose to leave them at home because size/weight takes a higher priority.
I love Apple and OS X but forced to run Windows because I consider anything above 3 lbs a brick destined to stay behind at home. Are subnotebooks THAT unpopular that they are almost completely ignored by American manufacturers? Do I really need a 12" screen to run 1024x768 when 10.4 will do just fine. Oh well, I may have to end up installing a cracked copy on a vaio.
Wasn't Al Gore the guy who voted for the Internet before he voted against it?
Hello Intelectual Property, NDAs, Coorporate ownership.
Hi. I didn't say they didn't exist. Only that I'm glad that Einstein didn't have to sign an NDA. And those that did we don't hear much about now do we?
open source software has been an abysmal failure if making a lot of money and keeping a lot of people employed is the goal
the real goal of anything, not just software, is improved quality of life / pursuit of happiness / whatever. Making money and being employed is a vehicle, not the goal in itself. Politicians that talk about doing X to create jobs are talking shit. If that's the goal, why not just pay one guy to dig a hole and the other to fill it up. Free software (not all necessarily, but at least infrastructure kind) will lower the cost of living and doing business for everybody (except those who already pirate anyway). In the information economy, the market of ideas is at least as important as that of dollars, if not more so. Please see my other post on this topic
Consider this:
Physical product/economy -> natural scarcity -> use cost established by free market to fairly allocate resources (capitalism)
Information economy -> NO natural scarcity -> from each according to his/her ability, to each according to his/her work (communism)
For those who think the latter doesn't work, consider how the scientific community worked for the last 300 years. Imagine that instead of being freely shared and published, work of every scientist was locked up by the employer/corporation.
considering how large video files are
You missed my point. You only need to transfer a tiny fraction of data in order to be able to edit video. You can splice and dice a multi-gigabyte movie by transferring little more that a few lowres keyframes.
Not commenting on this product specifically, but I think internet-based iMovie competitor might be possible (and even desirable) in some situations. High resolution video processing is very resource-intensive, which makes it a good match for a high powered backend server (possibly a farm). The user interface is just a couple of lowres preview quality windows - easily possible over a decent broadband connection.
It is somewhat similar to google maps, where huge dataset lives on the server, but only a small portion of it is downloaded to the client on demand. In fact, it would be infeasible to run this type of application on most clients.
Well, it's possible they meant it as in "suicide is a way out". It's true!
only a matter of time until various bits of Google start getting "accidentially broken"
When I read this quote, at first I thought you meant it would be Google who'd be doing the breaking. Personally, when faced with this situation, I'd blame IE first, Google second.
It is like fining somebody for leaving their door unlocked and they get burglarized.
No, it's like fining somebody for leaving the door to their biological lab containing hazardous materials unlocked. When criminals get in, they don't just hurt you by taking your stuff but also others by doing something with it.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you there.
Today was my first experience with GDS. (I never installed the first version because it didn't support any of the file formats that I cared about.)
I did NOT want it to index my mail (I already use gmail)
I did NOT want it to index my web history (there could be dangerous things hiding in there)
I did NOT want it to index my C: drive (I don't store any data there)
All I wanted to do was to index one folder - my ebook collection. Mostly pdf and chm.
Getting GDS to index only a specific folder requires an extension!
Getting it to index chm requires yet another extension.
Getting it to actually get on with the damn indexing requires you to sit quietly and wait until idle trigger kicks in - with no way to force it (that I could find). 3 hours later it has only indexed less than 200 books.
Search results are poor. Searching for "snort" shows "Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security" ahead of "Snort Cookbook". I can do better with filename-based searching!
Very underwhelmed...
The grandparent is right that *usually* when CFO leaves, the company is a sinking ship - financially. In other words, expect discovery of cooked books followed by SEC investigation and indictments of top management. MSFT was/is anything but that. It's only a sinking ship in terms of browser dipping all the way down to 90% market share.
Before Greg Maffei left Oracle, he left MSFT. Were they a sinking ship then?
This could usher in a whole new era for TV
I think it's ludacris to pay more than 50 cent per episode.
I agree it's kinda scary. I haven't used google talk but is it possible that it was just a sound effect created on the recepient's end?
For those who didn't bother to RTFP, here's a condensed haiku version:
It's not worth making
A plan but not a good man
Do not build cities
In Soviet Russia, Beowulf Clusters imagine *you*!
In some weird way this is (a part of) the plot of Greg Egan's Diaspora. I'm not kidding either.
I blame the pirates
No really - what would Tim Berners Lee do?
Let me know when cyborgs can sense *humility* - THAT would be impressive.
And I completely understand how you, with a scientific background, would prefer to remain anonymous in the current political climate.
Well, if you are right, then the software-as-product model (microsoft, foss) should dominate over software-as-service model (google, yahoo and all the other web2 friends). Personally, for privacy's sake, I'd like it to be the case. I just really doubt that this is how it's going to play out.
Three billion dollars is only a drop in the bucket to what the campaign contributions will be.
Huh? WTF are you talking about? It scales in the opposite direction. Relatively small campaign contributions (private money) help affect large misdirection of public money. I'm guessing it only cost the industry a puny 5-digit amount to get the $3B in question.
you could dress as a RIAA lawyer.