What I don't really understand is why people assume that web-based applications and keeping local data/backups are mutually exclusive? I have 5Mb fiber to my house so backing up my web data to optical media once a day or week would be feasible, and I'm sure most of the people who would actually use web apps have decent pipes also. Similarly, why not have web apps that can use local data? When you load/save a file in the app it simply transfers it from your local media. Again, if you have a halfway decent connection this shouldn't be a problem, unless you are working with HUGE files.
They actually make terrible coasters, because without a material on them to absorb water, or a lip around the edge to trap it, water just rolls off onto the table.
Try getting to your old email messages from the hospital to find the phone number of your friend's mother at the critical moment. I delete and attach so few messages it really doesn't matter if it takes a couple more seconds with a web client than a desktop app. Having access to my email from anywhere in the world at any time is far more valuable. I will never go back to desktop email.
I'm guessing there are a couple of 12-year-old Norweigan kids who are jerking each other off right about now, from seeing their dipshit virus make Slashdot.
If I find a copy of a book, I can't distribute copies of it. If I find a CD, I can't distribute copies of the CD
Just because it's a book or CD does not necessarily mean it is copyrighted, and if it's not, you are free to distribute copies to your heart's content.
You're right. It's not Eidos's responsibility to worry about Sony's bottom line or the success of their console. They only need to worry about their own shareholders. Sure, Eidos wants to sell software for Sony's hardware, but they would be just as happy to sell software to XB360 owners if the PS3 fails. It's also not Eidos's responsibility to worry about whether or not their business decisions will set a precedent for other publishers to follow. They make business decisions with their own bottom line in mind, NOT Sony's or any other publisher's.
Yep. I got one for my wife, and I end up using it a lot too. It's pretty much the best vacuum cleaner I have ever used. It has plenty of "suck", the longest extension hose I have ever seen on a vac, lots of accessories, and HEPA filter so I can suck up lead paint chips safely. I don't really care if there is some other brand I could have gotten for $100 less that does an equivalent job. My Dyson works great, does everything I/wife needs it to do, will last a long time, and makes my wife happy. And having a happy wife definitely has perks.
There's nothing wrong with having lots of code in a project. A solution with 1000 libraries of 500 lines each is no better. Don't break stuff up just for the sake of not having a lot of code in a project. Break it up and refactor it if it NEEDS it for context/architecture/organization reasons.
If this is real, what an incredibly stupid thing to do just to spite someone. It's completely traceable, and probably constitutes wire fraud which can maybe get you 20 years in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
I'm at the point where I hate computers in their current form. I'm pretty tired of the whole "window" UI paradigm. It's really a terribly inefficient human UI. I have to use tons of fine motor control to move the little mouse cursor around the screen and position it within a few pixels of what I want to use. If something I want is on the other side of the screen I have to move the mouse all the way from one end to the other, and use hand-eye coordination to get it to where I want. And if I have an application running that I want to use I have visually find the representation on the screen and then manipulate the mouse over to the icon to activate the application. Or if there is some application or file on my computer that I want to get to, I have to search through a bunch of folders and shit just to get to it. It's ridiculous the way it all works. I probably lose hours weekly just moving the mouse around the screen.
What we need is a completely new UI paradigm, something based on natural language and eye-tracking with some learning and AI, so I can just look at what I want and press a few buttons to activate it. If I want a folder, I can just say "accounting files" and the computer can get it for me instead of me having to go get it myself. I don't want to have to program the phrase "accounting files" into some crappy speech-recognition thing, the computer should be able to associate phrases with files based on context. It should learn as it goes along. Yeah I know, science fiction...
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Kind of sad that in the entire history of Windows, there was only a 4-year window (no pun intended) of stable installation.
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The recording industry making inflated, sensational, bogus claims?!? Unthinkable.
What I don't really understand is why people assume that web-based applications and keeping local data/backups are mutually exclusive? I have 5Mb fiber to my house so backing up my web data to optical media once a day or week would be feasible, and I'm sure most of the people who would actually use web apps have decent pipes also. Similarly, why not have web apps that can use local data? When you load/save a file in the app it simply transfers it from your local media. Again, if you have a halfway decent connection this shouldn't be a problem, unless you are working with HUGE files.
Holy fuck.
They actually make terrible coasters, because without a material on them to absorb water, or a lip around the edge to trap it, water just rolls off onto the table.
Deleting is easier. Attaching is easier.
Try getting to your old email messages from the hospital to find the phone number of your friend's mother at the critical moment. I delete and attach so few messages it really doesn't matter if it takes a couple more seconds with a web client than a desktop app. Having access to my email from anywhere in the world at any time is far more valuable. I will never go back to desktop email.
Can someone explain the motivation?
I'm guessing there are a couple of 12-year-old Norweigan kids who are jerking each other off right about now, from seeing their dipshit virus make Slashdot.
So what you're saying is that if I found a piece of paper on the street with this poem on it, I would be breaking the law by distributing it?:
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Unless you are actually needing to see more things at the same time, extra monitors are a waste of desk space and electricity
It sounds like you have never actually used two monitors at once. It's only about 10,000,000% better than virtual desktops.
I think one thing going forward with it will be the ability to link directly to the Playstation 3 using your PS3 and a wireless router
Yeah, except that teenagers don't own PS3s, because they cost, like, $10,000.
If I find a copy of a book, I can't distribute copies of it. If I find a CD, I can't distribute copies of the CD
Just because it's a book or CD does not necessarily mean it is copyrighted, and if it's not, you are free to distribute copies to your heart's content.
I would be very happy to get my cats naturalized, and claim them as dependents on my tax return.
You're right. It's not Eidos's responsibility to worry about Sony's bottom line or the success of their console. They only need to worry about their own shareholders. Sure, Eidos wants to sell software for Sony's hardware, but they would be just as happy to sell software to XB360 owners if the PS3 fails. It's also not Eidos's responsibility to worry about whether or not their business decisions will set a precedent for other publishers to follow. They make business decisions with their own bottom line in mind, NOT Sony's or any other publisher's.
Call me when it can emulate an AppleTV that emulates OSX
Yep. I got one for my wife, and I end up using it a lot too. It's pretty much the best vacuum cleaner I have ever used. It has plenty of "suck", the longest extension hose I have ever seen on a vac, lots of accessories, and HEPA filter so I can suck up lead paint chips safely. I don't really care if there is some other brand I could have gotten for $100 less that does an equivalent job. My Dyson works great, does everything I/wife needs it to do, will last a long time, and makes my wife happy. And having a happy wife definitely has perks.
What would be cool is if they had her treadmill linked to a robotic proxy on earth that would follow the marathon route with the real runners.
There's nothing wrong with having lots of code in a project. A solution with 1000 libraries of 500 lines each is no better. Don't break stuff up just for the sake of not having a lot of code in a project. Break it up and refactor it if it NEEDS it for context/architecture/organization reasons.
Heh. You'd think the Galdalf Unit would have just scheduled the Eagle chip to drop the payload right into the core.
I can't wait for the Frodo and Samwise chips
access control mechanism, the magical phrase that triggers a DMCA violation
It's also the magic phrase that activates the Hunter-Seeker Death-Robots. I hope you've paid up your robot-insurance premiums...
Computers can be both your best friend and your worst enemy
Don't forget Ticketmaster The Unholy, who will slither under your door late at night and eat your children and defile your grandmother in her sleep.
This wasn't even a problem back when I had my daisy wheel printer hooked up through a 300bps serial link
If this is real, what an incredibly stupid thing to do just to spite someone. It's completely traceable, and probably constitutes wire fraud which can maybe get you 20 years in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
I'm at the point where I hate computers in their current form. I'm pretty tired of the whole "window" UI paradigm. It's really a terribly inefficient human UI. I have to use tons of fine motor control to move the little mouse cursor around the screen and position it within a few pixels of what I want to use. If something I want is on the other side of the screen I have to move the mouse all the way from one end to the other, and use hand-eye coordination to get it to where I want. And if I have an application running that I want to use I have visually find the representation on the screen and then manipulate the mouse over to the icon to activate the application. Or if there is some application or file on my computer that I want to get to, I have to search through a bunch of folders and shit just to get to it. It's ridiculous the way it all works. I probably lose hours weekly just moving the mouse around the screen.
What we need is a completely new UI paradigm, something based on natural language and eye-tracking with some learning and AI, so I can just look at what I want and press a few buttons to activate it. If I want a folder, I can just say "accounting files" and the computer can get it for me instead of me having to go get it myself. I don't want to have to program the phrase "accounting files" into some crappy speech-recognition thing, the computer should be able to associate phrases with files based on context. It should learn as it goes along. Yeah I know, science fiction...
Kind of sad that in the entire history of Windows, there was only a 4-year window (no pun intended) of stable installation.