Tech news: JVC has announced that it will sell a consumer version of its backed by the movie studios that would allow the U.S. government to set antipiracy standards for PCs and consumer-electronics devices. [updated]
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..M$ Office is on it's way out for months now. I'm glad to see someone else loosening the choke hold M$ has had on the pc owrld for so long.
I am impressed. The idea sounds very interesting. Many competitive solutions to Office start appearing. I like the idea of having choices. OpenOffice, SimDesk...MS is too powerful, they just set the price as they want it, and everyone has to buy their product. I do not like this policy. Their Office product is Ok, but not th greatest. I am very open towards these new ideas. Keep them coming.
"M$ Office is on it's way"
Obviously you don't know anything... Office *IS* the office standard... in second place, WordPerfect...
I'm all for Open Source, but it just isn't happening fast enough. Unless Apple bands together with five or six MAJOR players, things aren't going to move forward. We need a clean document format that EVERYONE can play with... one that looks 99.9% identical on Unix, PC and Mac... Then we will have a standard.
I made my way in college with ClarisWorks, but I don't know if I could do that now... Most profs. are asking for M$ Word documents...
If someone could make a OpenOffice port to OS X like what Safari did to KHTML... Things would be ah' changing...
Most people only use M$ Word... and nothing else...
houston is spending milllions on this on-line office software, and I'd rather see them using open office or star office (whatever the name is) or anything else other than a web based office package. If you don't have internet access, due to the ISP being down, or whatever reason, you can not use sim office. I don't think its a good deal at all and will fail. Being on-line, whos to say its very secure? Another dumb move on Houston's part...
The most interesting part about the JVC announcement is that the HD will come over the SDI connector instead of Firewire 800. It reads as though (and this is just the websties critique) that Firewire 800 is inadequate.
I'm all for Open Source, but it just isn't happening fast enough. Unless Apple bands together with five or six MAJOR players, things aren't going to move forward. We need a clean document format that EVERYONE can play with... one that looks 99.9% identical on Unix, PC and Mac... Then we will have a standard.
Its not just about file standards, its also about capabilities and the ability to read and handle everything in the standard. What good is OpenOffice, say, if it can't handle word macros in a file (damn, how is a virus author supposed to get his payload released?) or do versioning the same way, or if SimOffice can't handle character styles (not saying it can't, just trying to offer points of reasoning). Until you can get different office-like apps to support the same tasks, you still lead into problems that a freakin' file format can't help (let's take a non-office example: HTML and web-browsers. We have a standard, we have programs that say they support the standard, yet everyone still does things differently, including standards-based stuff).
And how many times do groups make their own changes to a standard because they can't wait for the standard's groups to certify something (h***, Apple even did this with Airport Extreme, MS does it all the time, the web browsers all did this to add support for new features, etc).
Uhmm...you can run OpenOffice on your Mac - not a spiffy Aqua version, but it does run.
The problem is not office, it's the gutless people. Customers are letting vendors tell them what to do?!? Why? If someone I am paying money too tells me I have to give them MS Word files, I'll tell 'em to shove it and take my business elsewhere. If they can't find the time to install one additional software package to meet my needs as a customer, they don't deserve my business.
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Where does it say it will
The info on the Pixelmonger site is months old and says nothing about JVC actually releasing the camera soon. What other info do you have to suggest this?
From the site--"we won't be seeing this till 2004. Canon will introduce the XL2 by the end of 2003 and even though the JVC will throw up more pixels, the new XL series will blow it away with its native 16 X 9, third generation chips, multiple frame rates (including 24P and more importantly 30P ) and most importantly ... the ability to use a manual lens"