Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Feb 2004 18:34 UTC
The voice, the man, the... machine. That's George Hoffman for you. According to people who have worked with him (including my husband) he is one of the brightest Be, Inc. engineers ever. These days, George works at PalmSource, Inc. as the Director of Applications and Services. In his free time he sings with an (a cappella) vocal band of 4, Hookslide (check out their .wmv promo video clip)! In this interview we talk about PalmOS 6, aka Cobalt. We discuss the architecture of the OS, its capabilities, its market targets and more. Screenshots of Cobalt are included.
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I wanted to add one more thing... Why are we changing all of the smartly designed specialized systems and devices to support old and clunky "standard" conventions such as file extention filetyping? Wouldn't it make more sense to start updating the old and entrenched stuff to use more intelligent systems such as MacOS/BeOS-style file typing (metadata) and free people from the need to think about file extensions for real? We certainly have enough modern file systems to move everything over to them all and abandon all the old archaic ways.
I expect much flaming/argument from the developers and hackers and technogeeks, but I had to say it. There have been smarter systems for ages yet here we are dumbing everything else down to the "Unix Internet" standard. Internet servers support MIME typing, so why not use it? Why not make all servers operate from a file system like BFS, Reiser, etc? Only Windows will be left behind and it seems that even Windows is painfully moving up towards metadata in the FS.