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shorthair:
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--- Quote from: Jeff AMN on May 29, 2007, 11:56:57 am ---Seeing hi-def, especially 1080p, content (both movies and games) on the set always manages to wow me, even after all this time.
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By games do you mean Mame? If so, any pictures?
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For someone who is always quoting somebody else's predictions about the future, you really don't know that much about the stuff you talk about, do you ?
:dunno
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I have no idea what you're referring to.
jbox:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 30, 2007, 11:52:42 am ---That's actually VERY easy to do if you can predict the exact hardware and drivers in every situation. For an appliance like a Tivo, where the company knows exactly what is in every box, you could easily bounce down a new app or whole drive image whenver you wanted to, if you had good enough access to every box.
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Hardware, drivers *and* software. You have to know how to not delete all of the users custom settings for their applications when you upload the new image. The *NIX practise of using ~/.appname is good, but there is still too much stuff in /etc to get away with it at the moment. Groups like GoboLinux are trying to encourage this shift away from the 1980's "OMFGZ the HDD is sooo expensive we need to share competing versions of msfc.dll to save space" towards the < $1/Gb situation we have now that means software should be "installable" and "removable" by simply copying/deleting the app directory and editing your ~/.MIME-TYPES file. :cheers:
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: jbox on May 30, 2007, 06:54:01 pm ---Hardware, drivers *and* software. You have to know how to not delete all of the users custom settings for their applications when you upload the new image.
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If it's your known hardware and your known software, it is a given that you have designed it with this function in mind. If not, you're just not doing a competent job.
jbox:
I was originally responding to this comment, which does not include a caveat that there is only one computer manufacturer left in the world, but then again I haven't read that book either:
--- Quote from: shorthair on May 29, 2007, 06:32:29 pm ---the whole mainframe concept of the 40s and 50s was grounded in this and seems to be returning, as well as the concept being predicted and displayed in David Brin's EARTH - where we'll simply have access devices (be they terminals or internal), perhaps with some storage, and be able to call up any data at any moment.
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Start-to-End suppliers like TiVo and Apple have no excuse about *not* being able to do this I agree, but if more software developers started using the ~/.appname vs "I've hidden entries in C:\Windows\*, C:\Program Files\App\* and the registry as well", then the technical problems with doing this for 3rd party software as well would start to vanish. For non-sales groups like Linux and in-house apps that would make it *vastly* easier to do remote management at the click of a button.
Now if only we can get those MicroKernel's working better... :cheers:
ChadTower:
I see no reason why an application designed to be run on a general purpose PC, something other than a closed appliance (like a Tivo), would be expected to conform to standards that make such things easier for other companies. Just doesn't make sense from an app architecture and business perspective.
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