June 6, 2006
The previous section of this series focused on the bare-bones installation of Microsoft’s standalone Device Emulator 1.0 and Windows Mobile 5 OS images.
This section will be all about ideas for optimizing the emulation environment, with particular focus on using DEmu for demonstration & training purposes, rather than development. If it helps, just think of this trip to the Funlab like a Funboard version of Monster Garage.
We’ll start by having a bit of a look under the hood, so to speak. You’ll remember from last time that we tested the stability of the installation by launching a series of shortcuts, specifically the ones designated with Coldboot. We’ll look at one of these in more detail, but first…
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June 5, 2006
hey appealing industries…
guess what?
you got it!
might want to be careful what you wish for, tho.
basically, you have admitted to:
- downloading a pirated/illegal version of windows vista via a p2p service
- being ignorant enough to try to activate said pirated version
- planning to download yet another pirated/illegal version of a soon-to-be-released microsoft product
your friendly neighborhood happyfunboy is quite certain that crazy ligman’s will be most interested in what you’ve posted.
you also claim to be an it professional, with staggering amounts of power & knowledge at your disposal.
so much power, in fact, that you believe microsoft should quake in fear at the very thought of what you could do to them.
yet you seem utterly ignorant of microsoft’s action pack, which is not only a full $200 cheaper than the cheapest subscription option you mention, but would also give you fully licensed copies of nearly any & all ms products.
perhaps the world’s just not ready for the unstoppable force you would become if you had access to such a magical superweapon like the action pack?
i could go on & on…
but quite frankly you’ve demonstrated amply enough the particular brand of professionalism folks are apt to receive if they contract with you for it service.
so, good luck with that it career…
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June 4, 2006
to be sure, vongo took netflix down in stunningly brilliant fashion.
but, in a sense, netflix was its own worst enemy.
here’s how the scorecard looked..
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selection = netflix
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availability = vongo
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price = vongo
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quantity = vongo
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features = draw
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speed = vongo
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convenience = vongo
however…
to successfully defend its newly acquired title, vongo has several areas it seriously needs to shore up.
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remove the 10 item limit on the download queue. only 1 item downloads at a time anyway, so this is a totally artificial limit that puts some unnecessary hassle in the interface that doesn’t need to be there.
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add the ability to move an entire series of a show to the queue at once. obviously, items in a series should by default be added so they download in order. better yet, add a checkbox to allow multiple choices of items to be added to the queue at once. would make searches much more helpful.
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add the ability to instantly move a title to any spot in the download queue. reordering titles to prioritize the downloading schedule is needlessly difficult & annoying.
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beef up the selections. the ability to watch starz channel live is ok at best, but more new releases would be much better bang for the buck.
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chop the ppv prices in half, or drop them altogether. the ppv and membership title mechanisms are at such odds with each other, vongo risks muddying the water too much. perhaps all titles are shown to help make the library of selections look less anemic. beef the library, and this becomes a non-issue.
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portable media center support is a joke. not supporting pmc 1.0 devices? what gives? pmc 2.0 devices aren’t even out yet, and quite frankly might be a total bust. pmc 1.0 devices are already out there, and would give real credence to vongo’s idea of a truly portable service.
all in all tho…
vongo works most closely to how everybody here at the funcave want services like this to work in the future.
even if vongo doesn’t do anything else…
they’ve got to work on pumping up their selection library if they want to fend off future competitors.
as is it…
if their selections were a tad beefier…
they’d have absolutely taken out netflix in the first round.
from all of us here at happyfunboy productions…
good night…
and thanks for watching!
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June 4, 2006
convenience
vongo takes total command of the fight as soon as the bell rings.
netflix, barely able to lift its hands, is utterly defenseless, unable to ward off any of vongo’s punches, let alone mount a counterattack.
squaring up, landing body-shaking blow after blow, the challenger punishes the champion’s reliance on physical media with vongo’s ability to let users find an item and have it available, instantly…without spending a lot of time fiddling with a web-based queue, visiting the mailbox or the post office, or having to worry about a lost or broken item, or the wrong item being sent…
vongo winds up and delivers a crushing haymaker by helping folks conserve the one thing that everyone has a universal interest in conserving…
time
just as netflix once looked invincible against the entrenched rental competition, using its unique business model and fundamentals to unseat the brick & mortar powerhouses like blockbuster…
those very things now are the tools with which vongo engineers netflix’s de-throning.
finally…
blessedly…
netflix falls.
and doesn’t stir as the referee counts it out.
ding ding ding!!!
ladies & gentlemen…
your winner…by knockout in the 7th round…
and the new champion of the online movie rental world…
vooooonnnngggoooooooo!
and stay tuned for the post-fight analysis…
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June 4, 2006
speed
both fighters come out cautiously to start this round, sizing each other up carefully.
netflix makes a half-hearted attempt with a sloppy roundhouse that misses, and vongo pounces.
vongo tears into the champion with its lightning fast download speeds of 600k or more. free from the limitations of physical media, vongo can do everything netflix can do, except at a rate that seems a billion times faster. vongo lands blow after blow against netflix, taking full advantage of the speed impairment netflix suffers due to its reliance on the u.s. postal service.
vongo also lands some devastating uppercuts, which turn the champion’s legs to jelly, when netflix leaves itself defenseless due to its now-infamous policy of throttling heavy users.
pouring it on now…
vongo even adds a showboat flourish with its ability to begin watching a movie after only 2% has been downloaded.
the fight still looks like a mismatch…but not as most folks expected.
netflix looks like a tired tired fighter, who should have retired years ago…while vongo looks like a spring colt.
vongo takes round 6, in an almost embarrassingly easy fashion.
on to round 7…
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