Squeezebox? Looks like an alarm clock (I have one on my bedside table), sounds great, nice big bright green display, alarm function, plays mp3, wma, etc etc, and streaming radio. Nice little unit ($200 for cat5, $280 for wifi).
Get an ipod mini from Bestbuy, fill up 3/4s of it with random stuff, stick tape over the screen and attack the wheel with a sharp implement. Should be about equivalent.
So in short, they're not different. Both run without a sandbox, with full machine access. Both can be installed by the user from any site, just by clicking a link. However (as of XP SP2 and FF 1) neither will be installed automatically.
Which takes time. And since we all know that time is money, you have to factor that in. Combined with the fact that I often like hot food (not McDonalds, as it happens) for lunch, makes the home preparation not so appealing. I can walk from my office to like 30 different places with many types of food on offer for reasonable prices. Works for me.
I don't know about where you live, but around here McDonalds is about the cheapest place you can go for lunch. So assuming I have to eat something, McD's is a pretty economical choice. Of course, my colleagues who go out and spend $50 on sushi are a different matter...
I just launched Excel here...took under 2 seconds from clicking the icon to have it up and ready for input. This isn't a super fast machine, and it isn't cached. A few years ago when I had my first PC (OK, so 10 years ago) it took nearly a minute to load Excel, I know because I used to use it as a crude benchmark.
Obviously your experience differs from mine, but my "super reliable" landline was down twice, for a total of 3 days, over the last year. My cable (and thus my Vonage line) has been down for a grand total of about 1 hour. If your line is out, use a cell, find a payphone, even go see a neighbour and borrow their phone. As we all know from our experience with networks, the only way to get true reliability is to have no single point of failure, and to encourage diversity. If everyone relied on the local telco, well there's one big single point of failure right there.
Seeing as Verizon wanted $60 to give me less than Vonage supplies for $15, well, it's a no brainer.
If you want to use it like a regular phone, I have to recommend Vonage. Really easy to setup, my GF uses the phone just like normal without having to know the internet is even involved - you can call anyone in any country. $15 a month gets me some insane number of minutes I never get close to using and all the addons like voicemail etc. International calls are also cheap, and I have a virtual number in the UK which allows people there to call me (in the US) for the cost of a local call.
Really great service, obviously not as cheap as skype, but from what I can see a lot more friendly if you're calling regular phones.
well, with all the bad press going around, maybe we'll see EA having problems hiring. Maybe people will leave to find better jobs. If so, you're right, what they've done and are doing is bad for the company and themselves. Or maybe they'll still have people banging down the door to work there, despite knowing they will have poor pay and long hours. In that case, taken pragmatically, this would seem like a good thing for the company.
No I meant halogen, but there must be different types. A google for halogen desk lamp found many in the 15-20W range as I expected, but also some in the 40-60W range.
I had exactly the same experience. I'm a PC guy, but my GF has an iBook and as usual I get roped in to support it. Problem is I know nothing about Mac OS so it seemed like a nice idea to have a mini to learn on, and see what all the fuss is about. $500 is what I'd spend on a cheap PC, and it seemed like a good deal. But once I'd added the wireless ($100?? Costs $30 on a PC), memory upgrade (HOW MUCH??) and other required things it became somewhat overpriced (IMHO).
Portability is one of Javas design goals. There are many others. It is one of the few commonly used languages which can really be called OO (C++ is marginal, Smalltalk is not as commonly used, C# is a Java ripoff), it is a safe language to work in (no chance of a buffer overflow here), it's a rapid dev language due to (amongst other things) the huge standard class libraries - I could go on. Portability is nice, and nowhere near as useless as you seem to think on the server side. For example, we have 30 or 40 developers - many of those develop and test in their Wintel desktops, even though our target platform is Solaris.
Seeing as Drawboard is (as far as I can tell) an applet, it probably uses AWT for it's graphics output. AWT is slow. Swing, which is built on AWT, is also slow. But Java != AWT; just because your applet is slow that does not mean all Java apps are slow. Guess what - I could write an app in C which would also slow your machine right down. Extrapolating from one slow applet that all Java applications (notice the difference) are slow is quite a leap.
I write server side Java, there is no GUI layer. Performance is as good as any native language would be. In fact, as has been demonstrated a number of times, Java code running on a HotSpot JIT compiler has the potential to be faster than native code.
What's the implication? I don't see one. Alternative means "different", and Linux is different to Windows. Any bias you have about the use of the word Alternative is yours, and you'd be well served to rethink it. Many bad things have good alternatives.
I agree, but there is one major practical difference - the money which people don't spend on free software probably doesn't end up going to charity, it probably ends up at Dominos, Anheiser Bush or LFP! Of course people should be free to spend their money as they see fit, but I just wanted to point out that this donation at least guarantees that the worthy causes get some cash.
The JDS (Java Desktop System) is not written in Java (isn't it just KDE or something?). The name has been borrowed for the purposes of branding. A dumb idea IMHO, because it leads to people who still have the misconception that Java is slow to believe that the product in question is also slow.
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Squeezebox? Looks like an alarm clock (I have one on my bedside table), sounds great, nice big bright green display, alarm function, plays mp3, wma, etc etc, and streaming radio. Nice little unit ($200 for cat5, $280 for wifi).
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It is *NOT* an attack on the servers, but on the *CRIMINAL* websites only.
Right. Because hitting a particular site hard will have no effect on other sites being hosted on the same shared server, or subnet?
what's the speed got to do with it? you can boot from a floppy....it's just, well, slow.
You forgot - it includes the magic "A" word, which makes everything cool and newsworthy.
Get an ipod mini from Bestbuy, fill up 3/4s of it with random stuff, stick tape over the screen and attack the wheel with a sharp implement. Should be about equivalent.
So in short, they're not different. Both run without a sandbox, with full machine access. Both can be installed by the user from any site, just by clicking a link. However (as of XP SP2 and FF 1) neither will be installed automatically.
Java, on the other hand, runs in a sandbox...
Which takes time. And since we all know that time is money, you have to factor that in. Combined with the fact that I often like hot food (not McDonalds, as it happens) for lunch, makes the home preparation not so appealing. I can walk from my office to like 30 different places with many types of food on offer for reasonable prices. Works for me.
I don't know about where you live, but around here McDonalds is about the cheapest place you can go for lunch. So assuming I have to eat something, McD's is a pretty economical choice. Of course, my colleagues who go out and spend $50 on sushi are a different matter...
Err no. You can choose whether you want quickest or shortest (distance). It gives the same braindead route for both.
I just launched Excel here...took under 2 seconds from clicking the icon to have it up and ready for input. This isn't a super fast machine, and it isn't cached. A few years ago when I had my first PC (OK, so 10 years ago) it took nearly a minute to load Excel, I know because I used to use it as a crude benchmark.
Well I'd like the iPod to play mix albums back without inserting irritating gaps between the tracks...for one.
instead of much much more expensive hardware needed to intercept wired communication especially in a shielded medium like STP for Ethernet
Surely if the cable runs are 1000' over fields between greenhouses, the only equipment needed to intercept would be a pair of snips and a crimper?
Battery life has been measured at 5.5 hours when playing Ridge Racers (one of the more disc intensive games).
The flying disc thing is something you can _make_ it do if you try really hard. It's not something which happens in normal use.
The square button is something which some people complain about, but most don't even notice.
Personally, given the US launch price of $250, I'm even more glad I imported mine from Japan for $350 and got it early.
Obviously your experience differs from mine, but my "super reliable" landline was down twice, for a total of 3 days, over the last year. My cable (and thus my Vonage line) has been down for a grand total of about 1 hour. If your line is out, use a cell, find a payphone, even go see a neighbour and borrow their phone. As we all know from our experience with networks, the only way to get true reliability is to have no single point of failure, and to encourage diversity. If everyone relied on the local telco, well there's one big single point of failure right there.
Seeing as Verizon wanted $60 to give me less than Vonage supplies for $15, well, it's a no brainer.
If you want to use it like a regular phone, I have to recommend Vonage. Really easy to setup, my GF uses the phone just like normal without having to know the internet is even involved - you can call anyone in any country. $15 a month gets me some insane number of minutes I never get close to using and all the addons like voicemail etc. International calls are also cheap, and I have a virtual number in the UK which allows people there to call me (in the US) for the cost of a local call.
Really great service, obviously not as cheap as skype, but from what I can see a lot more friendly if you're calling regular phones.
well, with all the bad press going around, maybe we'll see EA having problems hiring. Maybe people will leave to find better jobs. If so, you're right, what they've done and are doing is bad for the company and themselves. Or maybe they'll still have people banging down the door to work there, despite knowing they will have poor pay and long hours. In that case, taken pragmatically, this would seem like a good thing for the company.
No I meant halogen, but there must be different types. A google for halogen desk lamp found many in the 15-20W range as I expected, but also some in the 40-60W range.
I had exactly the same experience. I'm a PC guy, but my GF has an iBook and as usual I get roped in to support it. Problem is I know nothing about Mac OS so it seemed like a nice idea to have a mini to learn on, and see what all the fuss is about. $500 is what I'd spend on a cheap PC, and it seemed like a good deal. But once I'd added the wireless ($100?? Costs $30 on a PC), memory upgrade (HOW MUCH??) and other required things it became somewhat overpriced (IMHO).
Close, but no cigar.
Wow that's a bright halogen. Mine's 15W...I thought almost all were under 20.
Portability is one of Javas design goals. There are many others. It is one of the few commonly used languages which can really be called OO (C++ is marginal, Smalltalk is not as commonly used, C# is a Java ripoff), it is a safe language to work in (no chance of a buffer overflow here), it's a rapid dev language due to (amongst other things) the huge standard class libraries - I could go on. Portability is nice, and nowhere near as useless as you seem to think on the server side. For example, we have 30 or 40 developers - many of those develop and test in their Wintel desktops, even though our target platform is Solaris.
Seeing as Drawboard is (as far as I can tell) an applet, it probably uses AWT for it's graphics output. AWT is slow. Swing, which is built on AWT, is also slow. But Java != AWT; just because your applet is slow that does not mean all Java apps are slow. Guess what - I could write an app in C which would also slow your machine right down. Extrapolating from one slow applet that all Java applications (notice the difference) are slow is quite a leap.
I write server side Java, there is no GUI layer. Performance is as good as any native language would be. In fact, as has been demonstrated a number of times, Java code running on a HotSpot JIT compiler has the potential to be faster than native code.
What's the implication? I don't see one. Alternative means "different", and Linux is different to Windows. Any bias you have about the use of the word Alternative is yours, and you'd be well served to rethink it. Many bad things have good alternatives.
What's an NDA got to do with anything?
How can I possibly write and publish an open source driver to an interface, if that interface us under NDA?
I agree, but there is one major practical difference - the money which people don't spend on free software probably doesn't end up going to charity, it probably ends up at Dominos, Anheiser Bush or LFP! Of course people should be free to spend their money as they see fit, but I just wanted to point out that this donation at least guarantees that the worthy causes get some cash.
The JDS (Java Desktop System) is not written in Java (isn't it just KDE or something?). The name has been borrowed for the purposes of branding. A dumb idea IMHO, because it leads to people who still have the misconception that Java is slow to believe that the product in question is also slow.