I can't help but think that maybe this is a bad hack, like maybe it's possible that it's great science and great technology but... maybe as well it's time to abandon magnetic media in general.
Like every time a new Pentium comes out... everyone cries, "It's just a sooper-dooper overclocked 8086! With a couple new instructions!".
I wonder if continuing to improve on existing technology, and not trying to move in completely new ones, is the best idea.
Did anyone read the article about the design of the iPod? Apple basically bought all the parts off the shelf, with the exception of the case. They didn't build it all from scratch, and used existing parts wherever possible. So given the relative success of the iPod, the logical choice for the design of the iPhone would be to partner with Sony or Ericsson, let them provide the guts, and let Ivo dream up the nifty case.
Then consider all the new stuff in Jaguar. Some posters have said, "Like including chat and address books in the OS is anything unusual". Well, it's not... except that Apple is all about the "Digital Hub". What do you wanna bet the iPhone will have the ability to sync with.mac, downloading all your contacts and stuff? That's assuming you don't spring for the Bluetooth adapter.
The biggest problem with phones is they aren't like MP3 players, in that phone services are localized. You can't use your bitching Sony with Nextel, or whatever. If they want the phone to work, they'll need to have the best penetration possible in terms of phone use.
A bunch of women I know (or kinda know) have recently started spending their husband's money (long story there, trust me, if you knew them, you'd understand) by "trading up" (their words, not mine) the smallish diamond they were given for engagement to a larger one of their own choosing.
So if these things have no resell value ("no dealer will buy a diamond from you") then how are these women *selling* their diamonds? I know this for a fact. Not pawning them, selling them.
Others have said this article is full of holes. From my POV, that's the largest one.
OK, I will discuss. The difference I see is that the repo man can't do any of that without: 1)extensive documentation 2)following through a well-documented, legally proven procedure
You can't get repo'd cause you miss a payment. You have to go through steps before you can legally do all that stuff. I even understand one of the last steps of the process is, "OK, so-and-so, if you don't at least make an attempt to work with us, we're going to send someone over to get what is ours. You may avoid this by contacting us."
This is less formal, and less codified, if I understand everything correctly. They can come after you the second they catch you - or think they catch you.
Granted, to the MPAA it's more like stopping a bank robbery.
I worked on an electronic voting machine for a few years. We did the reporting system and the ballot creation system - another company actually did the device and firmware.
There was no means with which to tell the user what they just voted for, but the system to audit votes (in case of a recount or whatever) was very good. The device itself had triple-redundant everything, and gobs of anti-tamper features. Neat device.
The project was cancelled for two reasons. First, no one could sell an electronic voting machine very well around '99. Local election officials want paper ballots. Then TPTB decided "there's no future in electronic balloting". They cancelled the project.
I just laughed and laughed when I saw them on TV testifying in the Florida election debacle hearings.
At least it's a substantive patent; lots of diagrams and references and stuff... Some things get past the examiners that are little more than a napkin with "A method for doing the obvious" written on one side.
It is my understanding that: 1. The iPod uses HFS+ (the preferred FS of OSX) 2. Linux can't read HFS+ at present (if you dual-boot a Mac OS and Linux, your bootstrap partition is limited to HFS)
2 comments and it's down already. I don't know which is worse: the old days where no one read the freaking articles, or how now the only people who get to read them are the First Post guys.
Explain to me how this is different from writing a simple program in C (or C++, or for that matter, probably dozens of languages) that reads the MAC address of your ethernet card? Since nearly every PC sold these days comes with one, seems like no matter what, somewhere there's a unique ID # burned into some silicon somewhere.
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You've got at least 3 movies in there - maybe since trilogies are hot right now, someone could do it.
And knowing Hollywood, they'd screw up the casting. Tara Reid as America or something. The nice part (to me) about the characters is, none of them are especially Hollywood (unlike, say, The Matrix, an anime flick rendered with humans).
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As I understand it, it's a caricature of Wales and the Welsh. Since most of the locations in the book are based on his piece for Wired, where he went around the world tracking the laying of fiber-optic data lines, he had plenty of first-hand experience in the Phillipines, the South Pacific, and other places.
This has been MS's strategy from the start. Winning isn't about the judgement, it's about the penalty. WIth $40B in the bank, just delay until no one wants to fight anymore. Like that article said, they could BUY the states outright.
>So, have you made these doc files available to developers of AbiWord, OpenOffice, KOffice, etc? It's hard to fix what you can't reproduce.
Most developers I have spoken to generally dismiss it; either "there' just some things that won't work" is the line I always hear.
>I guess by your rules even Word shouldn't claim it can import Word.
Yep. Exactly. Of course when I say that, I'm either a zealot or a freak/idiot/etc. Apparently the rest of the world has no problems with documents like this.
I have on my hard drive at home a half-dozen documents that fall into the category of "standard Word documents", which is to say, they're the kind of documents you'd see on the "average" corporate network.
Even Word sometimes chokes and dies on them.
My point is, when I see "import Word documents", I can't help but think, "But what kind of Word documents?". I got burned too many times trying to convince my officemates to go away from MS and Office. Those documents are now a shrine for me: parse and display these, and you've won. Otherwise, don't even try to claim you can import Word.
I was always under the impression that an AS400 was the computing equivilent of a tank; it took a crew of people to maintain and run, but could sustain lots more abuse than, say, a car (PC).
So what's "crashed"? Does it not turn on? Does it just need a replacement card of some sort (I thought everything was hot-swap on these things)? Are the drives bad and there's no backups? Did the magic smoke come out of it? What?
They have sufficient cash in the bank to practically give them away. Reports indicated that they expected to lose, what, a billion or something in the first year?
All it's gonna take is a couple really GOOD games, not Halo-good, but 'Legend Of Zelda' good. If they can hit that sweet spot, things will change.
The hardware is certainly there, as if the software/OS. What I think is holding them back is that developing for a PC takes a slightly different mindset. I doubt some companies already heavily invested in Playstation gaming want to move over to XBox. Given the length of release cycles in PC games, I doubt the big PC game makers (Blizzard, etc) can even reasonably expect to get the game out. Besides, most PC companies don't have the mindset, either; they seem to sell lately on the idea of multiplayer, and expansions. The console market seems small, I would suspect.
Dunno. What's it take to develop on the XBox? Can I just pick up a copy of Visual Studio.NET and check "build XBOX exe"?
It kinda sucks. Apple goes and revives DPS as DPDF, and drastically changes the underlying nature of the display engine of a consumer PC. They have OpenGL and accelerated graphics as part of the core, available to desktop apps and the window manager alike. No tedious driver install. No weird compatibility issues.
Microsoft goes it, and everyone goes bonkers, like its something new. It is new, in a sense, because Apple is just far off everyone's radar.
Now if Apple can just get all the bugs worked out, needed features added, and documentation brought up to date by the time Microsoft rolls out the 1.0... here's hoping.
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I can't help but think that maybe this is a bad hack, like maybe it's possible that it's great science and great technology but... maybe as well it's time to abandon magnetic media in general.
Like every time a new Pentium comes out... everyone cries, "It's just a sooper-dooper overclocked 8086! With a couple new instructions!".
I wonder if continuing to improve on existing technology, and not trying to move in completely new ones, is the best idea.
Did anyone read the article about the design of the iPod? Apple basically bought all the parts off the shelf, with the exception of the case. They didn't build it all from scratch, and used existing parts wherever possible. So given the relative success of the iPod, the logical choice for the design of the iPhone would be to partner with Sony or Ericsson, let them provide the guts, and let Ivo dream up the nifty case.
.mac, downloading all your contacts and stuff? That's assuming you don't spring for the Bluetooth adapter.
Then consider all the new stuff in Jaguar. Some posters have said, "Like including chat and address books in the OS is anything unusual". Well, it's not... except that Apple is all about the "Digital Hub". What do you wanna bet the iPhone will have the ability to sync with
The biggest problem with phones is they aren't like MP3 players, in that phone services are localized. You can't use your bitching Sony with Nextel, or whatever. If they want the phone to work, they'll need to have the best penetration possible in terms of phone use.
I think there's at least a decent chance.
A bunch of women I know (or kinda know) have recently started spending their husband's money (long story there, trust me, if you knew them, you'd understand) by "trading up" (their words, not mine) the smallish diamond they were given for engagement to a larger one of their own choosing.
So if these things have no resell value ("no dealer will buy a diamond from you") then how are these women *selling* their diamonds? I know this for a fact. Not pawning them, selling them.
Others have said this article is full of holes. From my POV, that's the largest one.
OK, I will discuss. The difference I see is that the repo man can't do any of that without:
1)extensive documentation
2)following through a well-documented, legally proven procedure
You can't get repo'd cause you miss a payment. You have to go through steps before you can legally do all that stuff. I even understand one of the last steps of the process is, "OK, so-and-so, if you don't at least make an attempt to work with us, we're going to send someone over to get what is ours. You may avoid this by contacting us."
This is less formal, and less codified, if I understand everything correctly. They can come after you the second they catch you - or think they catch you.
Granted, to the MPAA it's more like stopping a bank robbery.
I worked on an electronic voting machine for a few years. We did the reporting system and the ballot creation system - another company actually did the device and firmware.
There was no means with which to tell the user what they just voted for, but the system to audit votes (in case of a recount or whatever) was very good. The device itself had triple-redundant everything, and gobs of anti-tamper features. Neat device.
The project was cancelled for two reasons. First, no one could sell an electronic voting machine very well around '99. Local election officials want paper ballots. Then TPTB decided "there's no future in electronic balloting". They cancelled the project.
I just laughed and laughed when I saw them on TV testifying in the Florida election debacle hearings.
actually the address is on
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
most of the way down, under the "buy now" stuff
At least it's a substantive patent; lots of diagrams and references and stuff... Some things get past the examiners that are little more than a napkin with "A method for doing the obvious" written on one side.
Hey, I'm trying to think positive here...
It is my understanding that:
1. The iPod uses HFS+ (the preferred FS of OSX)
2. Linux can't read HFS+ at present (if you dual-boot a Mac OS and Linux, your bootstrap partition is limited to HFS)
Can someone elaborate?
Just load netinfo manager and look for /config/ntp. From there you can use whatever server you want.
2 comments and it's down already. I don't know which is worse: the old days where no one read the freaking articles, or how now the only people who get to read them are the First Post guys.
I believe that the app in question must be defined programmatically: since it's Carbon apparently it doesn't come for free.
Although there is an IE service release/update coming soon, or so I heard.
From the article:
Ditzel and Matthew Perry, the recently appointed chief executive officer of Transmeta
Well, it's good to see he's got work lined up now that Friends is almost over.
>This has, most likely caused you to see the significance of standardizing the bytecode instead of the language.
Doom.NET?
I get this at least once a week; it appears to either be a transient JS bug, or there's some random "screw over non-IE users" code somewhere... :)
Explain to me how this is different from writing a simple program in C (or C++, or for that matter, probably dozens of languages) that reads the MAC address of your ethernet card? Since nearly every PC sold these days comes with one, seems like no matter what, somewhere there's a unique ID # burned into some silicon somewhere.
You've got at least 3 movies in there - maybe since trilogies are hot right now, someone could do it.
And knowing Hollywood, they'd screw up the casting. Tara Reid as America or something. The nice part (to me) about the characters is, none of them are especially Hollywood (unlike, say, The Matrix, an anime flick rendered with humans).
As I understand it, it's a caricature of Wales and the Welsh. Since most of the locations in the book are based on his piece for Wired, where he went around the world tracking the laying of fiber-optic data lines, he had plenty of first-hand experience in the Phillipines, the South Pacific, and other places.
I believe Zappa called it 'xenochrony' or something wierd.
:)
And it's more than just pressing Play; you first have to catalog hours and hours of music.
'Sheik Yerbouti' has a track like this ("Rubber Shirt") if anyone's not sure about prior art.
This has been MS's strategy from the start. Winning isn't about the judgement, it's about the penalty. WIth $40B in the bank, just delay until no one wants to fight anymore. Like that article said, they could BUY the states outright.
>So, have you made these doc files available to developers of AbiWord, OpenOffice, KOffice, etc? It's hard to fix what you can't reproduce.
Most developers I have spoken to generally dismiss it; either "there' just some things that won't work" is the line I always hear.
>I guess by your rules even Word shouldn't claim it can import Word.
Yep. Exactly. Of course when I say that, I'm either a zealot or a freak/idiot/etc. Apparently the rest of the world has no problems with documents like this.
I have on my hard drive at home a half-dozen documents that fall into the category of "standard Word documents", which is to say, they're the kind of documents you'd see on the "average" corporate network.
Even Word sometimes chokes and dies on them.
My point is, when I see "import Word documents", I can't help but think, "But what kind of Word documents?". I got burned too many times trying to convince my officemates to go away from MS and Office. Those documents are now a shrine for me: parse and display these, and you've won. Otherwise, don't even try to claim you can import Word.
I was always under the impression that an AS400 was the computing equivilent of a tank; it took a crew of people to maintain and run, but could sustain lots more abuse than, say, a car (PC).
So what's "crashed"? Does it not turn on? Does it just need a replacement card of some sort (I thought everything was hot-swap on these things)? Are the drives bad and there's no backups? Did the magic smoke come out of it? What?
They have sufficient cash in the bank to practically give them away. Reports indicated that they expected to lose, what, a billion or something in the first year?
.NET and check "build XBOX exe"?
All it's gonna take is a couple really GOOD games, not Halo-good, but 'Legend Of Zelda' good. If they can hit that sweet spot, things will change.
The hardware is certainly there, as if the software/OS. What I think is holding them back is that developing for a PC takes a slightly different mindset. I doubt some companies already heavily invested in Playstation gaming want to move over to XBox. Given the length of release cycles in PC games, I doubt the big PC game makers (Blizzard, etc) can even reasonably expect to get the game out. Besides, most PC companies don't have the mindset, either; they seem to sell lately on the idea of multiplayer, and expansions. The console market seems small, I would suspect.
Dunno. What's it take to develop on the XBox? Can I just pick up a copy of Visual Studio
It kinda sucks. Apple goes and revives DPS as DPDF, and drastically changes the underlying nature of the display engine of a consumer PC. They have OpenGL and accelerated graphics as part of the core, available to desktop apps and the window manager alike. No tedious driver install. No weird compatibility issues.
Microsoft goes it, and everyone goes bonkers, like its something new. It is new, in a sense, because Apple is just far off everyone's radar.
Now if Apple can just get all the bugs worked out, needed features added, and documentation brought up to date by the time Microsoft rolls out the 1.0... here's hoping.
Ideally, I'd like the scenario to be, "One to center of mass, end of engagement".
actually I'd like to not have to drop the hammer at all, and the sound of a shotgun slide being racked is more terrifying than a large bore handgun.
I agree about birdshot, but I'm kinda paranoid: if I have to pull the trigger, I want no doubt about what happens.