Q: File system?
A: Nope. Sorry. Nobody needs files in Phantom. All the operating system state is saved across shutdowns. Phantom is the only global persistent OS in the world, AFAIK. All the state of all the objects is saved. Even power failure is not a problem, because of the unique Phantom's ability to store frequently its complete state on the disk. The most unusual Phantom property is its hybrid paging/persistence system. All the userland memory is mapped to disk and is frequently snapped. Snapshot logic is tied with the common paging logis so that snapshots are done cheap way. From the application point of view it means that all the user documents or any other program state doesn't have to be squished into the linear filespace with the help of the serialization code, as it is in classic operating systems. Anything is kept in its internal, "graph of objects" form. This means that Phantom programs are much simpler and more efficient also. Opening text document in classic OS means reading file (transferring its data to specific place in process memory) and then converting its contents to program internal form (decoding and once more moving data), and just then - showing it to a user. Opening text document in Phantom means just executing some object's printMe() method - all the data is ready and available directly without conversion.
So you're trying to invent something like what hibernating your computer does now, and has done for at least a decade...
I'm not saying that it was not original. I was simply trying to prove that it was not an invention. I suppose that this interpretation is highly dependent on vantage point, but I think most of them would agree that Apple did not invent anything new with the iPhone.
It's much safer (and probably more accurate) to suggest that Apple made several innovations that clearly turned most cellular device manufacturers upside down (LG and Motorola are really good examples). They didn't invent the smartphone platform, but they innovated on it to make it much more "elegant and easy to use" (in their marketing lingo). Apple didn't invent multi-touch (as some posts here reference), but they did innovate on it to make it a driving factor in a completely new UI design.
It's pretty clear that apart from the Blackberry Storm and possibly the HTC Touch series, everyone is playing catch up, and everyone will pay for that.
iPhone is not a new invention. In fact, LG had problems with Apple for a while because on their Prada phone, which uses a very similar design. The most inventive element is probably the UI, and I'm sure that this was inspired by some other design as well.
It's definitely an innovation, and a very good one at that.
Doesn't this just mean that any touch screen device with a similar interface would have problems getting out to market? If that's the case, then considering the other similar interfaces out there and how much they suck compared to that of the iPhone, I'm thinking that this would actually make other companies think of something new...
Doesn't this just mean that any touch screen device with a similar interface would have problems getting out to market? If that's the case, then considering the other similar interfaces out there and how much they [b]suck[/b] compared to that of the iPhone, I'm thinking that this would actually make other companies think of something new...
Because you can't see the TV that you're buying, nor can you hear the stereo that you're purchasing. While that may be risks we're willing to make, I'm almost certain that my Mom and Dad, amongst many others, can't afford to do that or spend the time needed to correct any problems that arise.
Plus, brick-and-mortar stores have your item right now and can be purchased as soon as you need it. The shortest wait that you can have with an online store is next-day, and that usually carries a hefty premium.
Not entirely related to the article at hand, but the prices of iPods are fairly close to their competitors now, and tend to carry better value for the money.
If your school has a decent career services department, I think that students have a high chance finding a decent internship, since there are many that don't have GPA requirements, some that have low GPA requirements, others with high and astronomical ones...
I think that a good way to compensate for a lacking GPA is having rock-solid networking skills. If you can make friends with a manager that knows of your capabilities, then grades will NOT matter.
In my school, we have a cooperative education program that caters all engineering majors and some science majors. One thing to consider is that experience is not only invaluable for the computer engineering/science/IT student, but it's relatively easy to get. It wasn't uncommon to hear of science students here having trouble finding co-op jobs, let alone ones that are worthwhile...
I thought that grades mattered MUCH more in any job pertaining to the "hard" sciences (biology, chemistry, physics, math..)?
This might not be of help, but while I don't know of any DNS servers for Win2K Pro/WinXP/WinVista, I'm pretty sure that their Server line comes with DNS services already available. After doing a Google search, this came up.
One option to consider if privacy is that important to you is either not putting any personally identifiable information about yourself in the online space (which probably means not having a Facebook, unless you want to make up your name) or staying out of social networks altogether.
I do know that Facebook "tagging" can be controlled by the user's privacy settings (allow or deny). I don't think Street View can be controlled the same way, though.
I've owned every iteration of the Palm Treo, and every single one of them had issues with stability. If you even thought of THINKING of putting a non-Palm app on the phone, it would crash. Opera crashed all of the time on the 650 and 680, as well as Good Mobile Messaging (Exchange conduit). It would crash while doing nothing (I could hear it resetting in my pocket) or while making calls.
I would love to fancy the idea of Palm making an earth-shattering comeback, but I hope that they resolved all of the problems that plagued their Treo line (and their credibility), like the build quality (i.e. the phone lasting more than year without some defect coming up), the stability, etc. Looks really nice, though.
So far as I know, many products that need additional instructions have labels or some other informative, yet prompt, insert that informs the user of actions that need to be taken before using the device.
Last time I bought a hard disk, they did the same thing.
I do agree with you, though. Most consumer applicances should be ready to use right out of the box, so it's really not a big deal that they are formatted FAT32 beforehand (not to mention that most cameras and appliances that make use of SD/CF/xD/MMC memory can only read FAT and FAT32).
Or at least in the context it's made out to be in this article. Isn't it a language suited mostly to statistics? For that use, I hear that it's one of the best.
If it's anything as slow and difficult as it is on Windows, then it's really not worth the effort. Tethering a BB on Windows, even without a corporate policy, was exceedingly difficult and the speeds were pretty horrible.
I can assure you that there are many people who are not as affectionate about "The City" as you may think. I personally hated it for a while because of the environment that promotes faux luxuries, mindless materialism and plenty of bad habits that feel good now, but do lots of hurt later. I'm a little less bitter about it now, but I would still move elsewhere if I had the chance.
BTW, I probably don't need to tell you, but not everything is roses and daisies here. I live in Brooklyn, and there are still areas that public transportation completely ignores (think Red Hook, Flatlands, etc.) The MTA is also in a crazy amount of debt and are raising fares quite controversially. We just got new equipment, and a lot of the new features have several noticeable bugs in them (the mapping system in particular). We are supposed to be getting a new subway line by 2018, but that project has been in the works since 1925...
Also, for every spectacular pizzeria, there are at least five or ten crappy ones in its vicinity. The pizza here is nothing to marvel about, most of the time. Whoever tells you that doesn't know pizza from a Big Mac.
If that's not the case, then why are there so many drivers who are incredibly stressed constantly throughout the day?
At least for me, focusing on a single task in a calm and relaxing atmosphere (in a park, Starbucks, a calm riverfront, etc.) makes me more productive and leaves me feeling more refreshed afterwards.
When I was working in my last co-op, I took one morning to do my work outside. I thought that working indoors all day made me really lethargic, and that changing scenery would fix that. Not only was I more productive, I could listen to my music in the open air of the courtyard and nobody would bother me! I had no cow-orkers to worry about, and full exposure to natural light and a beautiful campus.
I wasn't allowed to do that again. It wasn't a coincidence that my favorite part of going to that job was riding my bike and taking a train for two and a half hours getting there (and the same amount of time coming back).
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Q: File system? A: Nope. Sorry. Nobody needs files in Phantom. All the operating system state is saved across shutdowns. Phantom is the only global persistent OS in the world, AFAIK. All the state of all the objects is saved. Even power failure is not a problem, because of the unique Phantom's ability to store frequently its complete state on the disk. The most unusual Phantom property is its hybrid paging/persistence system. All the userland memory is mapped to disk and is frequently snapped. Snapshot logic is tied with the common paging logis so that snapshots are done cheap way. From the application point of view it means that all the user documents or any other program state doesn't have to be squished into the linear filespace with the help of the serialization code, as it is in classic operating systems. Anything is kept in its internal, "graph of objects" form. This means that Phantom programs are much simpler and more efficient also. Opening text document in classic OS means reading file (transferring its data to specific place in process memory) and then converting its contents to program internal form (decoding and once more moving data), and just then - showing it to a user. Opening text document in Phantom means just executing some object's printMe() method - all the data is ready and available directly without conversion.
So you're trying to invent something like what hibernating your computer does now, and has done for at least a decade...
Good luck with marketing.
I'm not saying that it was not original. I was simply trying to prove that it was not an invention. I suppose that this interpretation is highly dependent on vantage point, but I think most of them would agree that Apple did not invent anything new with the iPhone.
It's much safer (and probably more accurate) to suggest that Apple made several innovations that clearly turned most cellular device manufacturers upside down (LG and Motorola are really good examples). They didn't invent the smartphone platform, but they innovated on it to make it much more "elegant and easy to use" (in their marketing lingo). Apple didn't invent multi-touch (as some posts here reference), but they did innovate on it to make it a driving factor in a completely new UI design.
It's pretty clear that apart from the Blackberry Storm and possibly the HTC Touch series, everyone is playing catch up, and everyone will pay for that.
It's clearly a new invention.
iPhone is not a new invention. In fact, LG had problems with Apple for a while because on their Prada phone, which uses a very similar design. The most inventive element is probably the UI, and I'm sure that this was inspired by some other design as well.
It's definitely an innovation, and a very good one at that.
Doesn't this just mean that any touch screen device with a similar interface would have problems getting out to market? If that's the case, then considering the other similar interfaces out there and how much they suck compared to that of the iPhone, I'm thinking that this would actually make other companies think of something new...
Doesn't this just mean that any touch screen device with a similar interface would have problems getting out to market? If that's the case, then considering the other similar interfaces out there and how much they [b]suck[/b] compared to that of the iPhone, I'm thinking that this would actually make other companies think of something new...
Mod parent up. Pretty funny.
Because you can't see the TV that you're buying, nor can you hear the stereo that you're purchasing. While that may be risks we're willing to make, I'm almost certain that my Mom and Dad, amongst many others, can't afford to do that or spend the time needed to correct any problems that arise.
Plus, brick-and-mortar stores have your item right now and can be purchased as soon as you need it. The shortest wait that you can have with an online store is next-day, and that usually carries a hefty premium.
Not entirely related to the article at hand, but the prices of iPods are fairly close to their competitors now, and tend to carry better value for the money.
If your school has a decent career services department, I think that students have a high chance finding a decent internship, since there are many that don't have GPA requirements, some that have low GPA requirements, others with high and astronomical ones...
I think that a good way to compensate for a lacking GPA is having rock-solid networking skills. If you can make friends with a manager that knows of your capabilities, then grades will NOT matter.
In my school, we have a cooperative education program that caters all engineering majors and some science majors. One thing to consider is that experience is not only invaluable for the computer engineering/science/IT student, but it's relatively easy to get. It wasn't uncommon to hear of science students here having trouble finding co-op jobs, let alone ones that are worthwhile...
I thought that grades mattered MUCH more in any job pertaining to the "hard" sciences (biology, chemistry, physics, math..)?
Same here, and I go to a somewhat well-known engineering school...
This might not be of help, but while I don't know of any DNS servers for Win2K Pro/WinXP/WinVista, I'm pretty sure that their Server line comes with DNS services already available. After doing a Google search, this came up.
Good luck!
One option to consider if privacy is that important to you is either not putting any personally identifiable information about yourself in the online space (which probably means not having a Facebook, unless you want to make up your name) or staying out of social networks altogether.
I do know that Facebook "tagging" can be controlled by the user's privacy settings (allow or deny). I don't think Street View can be controlled the same way, though.
No.
Just no.
I've owned every iteration of the Palm Treo, and every single one of them had issues with stability. If you even thought of THINKING of putting a non-Palm app on the phone, it would crash. Opera crashed all of the time on the 650 and 680, as well as Good Mobile Messaging (Exchange conduit). It would crash while doing nothing (I could hear it resetting in my pocket) or while making calls.
I would love to fancy the idea of Palm making an earth-shattering comeback, but I hope that they resolved all of the problems that plagued their Treo line (and their credibility), like the build quality (i.e. the phone lasting more than year without some defect coming up), the stability, etc. Looks really nice, though.
There's a spelling error in the summary. It's HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), not HDSPA (High Definition Spa?)...
So far as I know, many products that need additional instructions have labels or some other informative, yet prompt, insert that informs the user of actions that need to be taken before using the device.
Last time I bought a hard disk, they did the same thing.
I do agree with you, though. Most consumer applicances should be ready to use right out of the box, so it's really not a big deal that they are formatted FAT32 beforehand (not to mention that most cameras and appliances that make use of SD/CF/xD/MMC memory can only read FAT and FAT32).
Stupid?
1. Pop the card in...
2. Windows tells you that it's unformatted...
3. You format it...
4. You're done!
Or at least in the context it's made out to be in this article. Isn't it a language suited mostly to statistics? For that use, I hear that it's one of the best.
Very true.
If it's anything as slow and difficult as it is on Windows, then it's really not worth the effort. Tethering a BB on Windows, even without a corporate policy, was exceedingly difficult and the speeds were pretty horrible.
I didn't know that! No wonder the water tastes so good.
New Jersey has a lot going for it. I never understood the jokes.
I can assure you that there are many people who are not as affectionate about "The City" as you may think. I personally hated it for a while because of the environment that promotes faux luxuries, mindless materialism and plenty of bad habits that feel good now, but do lots of hurt later. I'm a little less bitter about it now, but I would still move elsewhere if I had the chance.
BTW, I probably don't need to tell you, but not everything is roses and daisies here. I live in Brooklyn, and there are still areas that public transportation completely ignores (think Red Hook, Flatlands, etc.) The MTA is also in a crazy amount of debt and are raising fares quite controversially. We just got new equipment, and a lot of the new features have several noticeable bugs in them (the mapping system in particular). We are supposed to be getting a new subway line by 2018, but that project has been in the works since 1925...
Also, for every spectacular pizzeria, there are at least five or ten crappy ones in its vicinity. The pizza here is nothing to marvel about, most of the time. Whoever tells you that doesn't know pizza from a Big Mac.
If that's not the case, then why are there so many drivers who are incredibly stressed constantly throughout the day?
At least for me, focusing on a single task in a calm and relaxing atmosphere (in a park, Starbucks, a calm riverfront, etc.) makes me more productive and leaves me feeling more refreshed afterwards.
When I was working in my last co-op, I took one morning to do my work outside. I thought that working indoors all day made me really lethargic, and that changing scenery would fix that. Not only was I more productive, I could listen to my music in the open air of the courtyard and nobody would bother me! I had no cow-orkers to worry about, and full exposure to natural light and a beautiful campus.
I wasn't allowed to do that again. It wasn't a coincidence that my favorite part of going to that job was riding my bike and taking a train for two and a half hours getting there (and the same amount of time coming back).
It's gorgeous!!