I'm curious why no one has mentioned the CrunchPad/JooJoo internet tablet. It has a ship date of less than two months, so it is a real competitor. And as it has a 12 inch capacitive touch screen, it looks like what people think an iTablet would look like.
Although there's a correlation between the two, I'd tend to agree with the other posters who have postulated that the pot was more likely attenuating interfering signals rather than boosting the desired ones.
Right. It's often better to have a weaker signal with little interference than to have a stronger signal with lots of interference.
All of that is taken care of by using a DNS provider with the basic amount of redundancy, ie, two locations. If a meteor takes out your email hoster's one location (which in my mind means you're probably just not going to do email for a bit) and one of your DNS hoster's locations, then you set up another email provider and change the SPF record at the DNS hoster's other location. I can't believe this isn't completely obvious to you.
You are assuming that Rathakrishnan is telling the truth and there are not, in fact, any contracts. Some unheard of team from Singapore doesn't rate very high on my trust list. Of course, neither do lawyers, so I'm going with what's more likely.
It's all about plugin management. But considering they are the only ones that have managed to pull it off (and it is a rather valuable feature), I'd venture to say it's not an easy task.
There is an air of excitement permeating through Fusion Garage at the moment. Michael Arrington of Techcrunch just wrote an update on the Techcrunch Tablet Prototype B.
It’s our software that is running on the tablet as demonstrated in the videos embedded in the article. We continue to work with Louis Monier on the feature set and the user experience. We are thrilled with this progress and would like to take the opportunity to thank Michael and Louis for giving us the opportunity to work with them on the Techcrunch Tablet.
Its early days yet but we are big believers of the Browser As An Operating System and the Techcrunch Tablet Initiative.
A nice way to begin 2009 here at FusionGarage !
And then February 4th, 2009
The collaboration with the Crunchpad project happened as a result of meetings we had with Mike Arrington and co, subsequent to TC50. We worked closely with Louis Monier in getting the software in shape for the hardware prototype B. We continue to work with them in getting the software in shape to make crunchpad a easy to use device. This is where we stand as of prototype-B: (Details over at TechCrunch’s update )
Then from the PCMag piece today,
Simply put, however, Arrington was unable to deliver, Rathakrishnan said. As a result, Fusion Garage completed the development of the OS, hired the necessary expertise to complete the hardware side of the equation, solved remaining technology issues, and worked on arrangements with OEMs.
Fusion Garage secured funding from its shareholders, which now totals $3 million, he said.
Rathakrishnan acknowledged that "many conversations" did take place with Arrington and that Arrington set up CrunchPad Inc., which would have been a vehicle for distribution of the device, but "ultimately nothing came out" of that. No contracts of any kind were ever signed, he said.
"TechCrunch didn't contribute a single line of code," Rathakrishnan said. "It was Fusion Garage that brought the device from the dead."
That doesn't sound very consistent with the blog posts.
Fusion Garage's explanation was basically "Arrington said he'd buy out our company, but never actually did anything." Arrington said,
Neither we nor Fusion Garage own the intellectual property of the CrunchPad outright. Fusion Garage has a team of 13 or so employees, currently working here in Silicon Valley out of a home they rented and in our office. Their team has mixed with our CrunchPad team, which is led by Brian Kindle, the former Vice President Hardware Engineering and Manufacturing at Vudu and an early hardware engineer at TiVo. Development expenses have been shared, and our team has spent time in Singapore and Taiwan, and their team has spent time here. We chose to work with Fusion Garage on Prototype C and the launch prototype after we finished Prototype B internally.
We jointly own the CrunchPad product intellectual property, and we solely own the CrunchPad trademark.
It's pretty obvious that Arrington would own the CrunchPad trademark, so that part at least we can count on being true. Tech Crunch also did a ton of free advertising for this thing, which wouldn't make a lot of sense if they didn't have some sort of stake in it other than a possible name.
At this point, I have a lot more reason to believe Arrington's reasoning than Rathakrishnan. Compared to Rathakrishnan, Arrington has provided a substantial amount of information, which Rathakrishnan never addressed. As far as I'm concerned, the ball is still in Rathakrishnan's court.
Besides, why do you feel any need at all to defend Michael Arrington? You owe him nothing. If he'd succeeded as he planned, he'd have made millions off of you and others. Your job as a consumer is to look out for yourself.
To play devil's advocate, Arrington did put the idea out there and get it a lot of press. Without the press, it's very likely Fusion Garage would not have gotten the venture capital or contacts with large companies for decently cheap mass production techniques. And on announcement, it may very well have been relegated to a blip on some tech blog somewhere, instead of being noted by the millions of people already following the CrunchPad. And if this helps to bring more small touch tablets to the market at a cheaper price that I can afford, then I do owe Arrington at least that thanks.
But yeah, it'll probably be 2015 before we have any idea who own the IP, and by that time Fusion Garage and Tech Crunch will likely have been bled dry by the lawyers.
It's a shame I don't have mod points, this is exactly what I was thinking. Apple sells primarily to the upper scale crowd, which traditionally has much higher profit margins.
Well...if flash would kindly use its own thread... The Linux version of flash is painfully slow. A separate core for rendering video is almost a necessity - but Adobe hasn't made that possible yet.
Google Chrome places Flash in its own process, so apparently it is possible, although as they are the only ones, it is probably extremely difficult.
In other words, somewhere that hasn't invested in IT (and likely has the doctors doing what they feel like, with 'homegrown' Access databases and applications, trusting what the vendors say when they produce shiny pamphlets, and either not hiring people who understand how business and tech should map, or not giving them the clout to be able to change the way the organisation works to successfully be able to change things so that they do.
It is pretty bizarre how many crappy home grown medical applications there that people are buying for tens of thousands of dollars. It is like all laws of capitalism and economics break down when you walk into a hospital.
though CFLs have brightnesses at all levels even far past equivalence to 100W incandescents.
I have a 300W equivalent CFL I picked up from Home Depot. It's a bit big to fit in most sockets, but it's pretty darned bright. I put it in our tiny bathroom, and with the white walls and giant mirror, it was like walking into the heart of the sun.
I've never had this issue either uploading or downloading that I can recall. I know I've often had uploads take 100% of the allotted bandwidth. I feel pretty certain that I've had downloads come in at least 8Mbps, or half, although that may just be my mind playing tricks on me. The upload speed I'm certain of though.
I have cable internet with 16Mbps down, and 1Mbps up, so I can't comment specifically about a symmetric load. For me on a old 1Ghz "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x68a Stepping = 10 with a $10 Gb NIC and 512MB of RAM, I have no issue pulling maxing out my connection, and should be able to pull at least twice that amount based on CPU load (probably three times).
It sounds like you need to adjust your traffic shaper. If your router will handle the load, but not on a single connection, then the traffic shaper is probably purposefully limiting it.
2) Even if they have two choices, both could go through the same line/chunk of ground that the backhoe digs up. Nowadays with all the outsourcing and inter company deals, you might buy redundant links from two different companies, and later find out the hard way that they are all in the same cable!
For the small city that I work for, we could get AT&T ADSL, Time Warner Cable, or Time Warner Fiber. They all terminate into the same decades old AT&T building. It is certainly possible that Time Warner has their own fiber running between that AT&T building and the rest of the world, but I'd bet money that they just lease space on whatever data trunk AT&T pulled out there.
One misplaced backhoe is going to take out data and phone for the entire city, no matter who their provider is.
Possibly the type of cigarettes and amount of dust had an affect? I can't really say what makes the difference, just that when there is a smoker's machine with gunk in it, it is bad.
I can confirm seeing what the grandparent saw. Other commentors have commented the same as you, so there may be other variables. A different type of cigarette possibly? Smoke density?
I can confirm the GP's experiences. I have seen this and the result is somewhat similar to the residue left by a burning building, although I think that the tar is stickier. The amount of smoke and ventilation may have affected how much was deposited for you.
You've obviously never seen tar buildup, let alone on computer parts. The tar is an extremely sticky residue and does not just blow off, or even wash off. You could run the inside of the system through the dish washer, and it wouldn't make any difference.
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I'm curious why no one has mentioned the CrunchPad/JooJoo internet tablet. It has a ship date of less than two months, so it is a real competitor. And as it has a 12 inch capacitive touch screen, it looks like what people think an iTablet would look like.
Either test them on a human, then dissect the human, and then kill the human....
I really hope the order of that is wrong.
Although there's a correlation between the two, I'd tend to agree with the other posters who have postulated that the pot was more likely attenuating interfering signals rather than boosting the desired ones.
Right. It's often better to have a weaker signal with little interference than to have a stronger signal with lots of interference.
All of that is taken care of by using a DNS provider with the basic amount of redundancy, ie, two locations. If a meteor takes out your email hoster's one location (which in my mind means you're probably just not going to do email for a bit) and one of your DNS hoster's locations, then you set up another email provider and change the SPF record at the DNS hoster's other location. I can't believe this isn't completely obvious to you.
No, it's not that bad.
Lies, and damn lies.
You are assuming that Rathakrishnan is telling the truth and there are not, in fact, any contracts. Some unheard of team from Singapore doesn't rate very high on my trust list. Of course, neither do lawyers, so I'm going with what's more likely.
It's all about plugin management. But considering they are the only ones that have managed to pull it off (and it is a rather valuable feature), I'd venture to say it's not an easy task.
Ooh, just found this in the Google Cache of Fusiongarage's blog (blog is now removed).
From January 19th, 2009
There is an air of excitement permeating through Fusion Garage at the moment. Michael Arrington of Techcrunch just wrote an update on the Techcrunch Tablet Prototype B.
It’s our software that is running on the tablet as demonstrated in the videos embedded in the article. We continue to work with Louis Monier on the feature set and the user experience. We are thrilled with this progress and would like to take the opportunity to thank Michael and Louis for giving us the opportunity to work with them on the Techcrunch Tablet.
Its early days yet but we are big believers of the Browser As An Operating System and the Techcrunch Tablet Initiative.
A nice way to begin 2009 here at FusionGarage !
And then February 4th, 2009
The collaboration with the Crunchpad project happened as a result of meetings we had with Mike Arrington and co, subsequent to TC50. We worked closely with Louis Monier in getting the software in shape for the hardware prototype B. We continue to work with them in getting the software in shape to make crunchpad a easy to use device. This is where we stand as of prototype-B: (Details over at TechCrunch’s update )
Then from the PCMag piece today,
Simply put, however, Arrington was unable to deliver, Rathakrishnan said. As a result, Fusion Garage completed the development of the OS, hired the necessary expertise to complete the hardware side of the equation, solved remaining technology issues, and worked on arrangements with OEMs.
Fusion Garage secured funding from its shareholders, which now totals $3 million, he said.
Rathakrishnan acknowledged that "many conversations" did take place with Arrington and that Arrington set up CrunchPad Inc., which would have been a vehicle for distribution of the device, but "ultimately nothing came out" of that. No contracts of any kind were ever signed, he said.
"TechCrunch didn't contribute a single line of code," Rathakrishnan said. "It was Fusion Garage that brought the device from the dead."
That doesn't sound very consistent with the blog posts.
Fusion Garage's explanation was basically "Arrington said he'd buy out our company, but never actually did anything." Arrington said,
Neither we nor Fusion Garage own the intellectual property of the CrunchPad outright. Fusion Garage has a team of 13 or so employees, currently working here in Silicon Valley out of a home they rented and in our office. Their team has mixed with our CrunchPad team, which is led by Brian Kindle, the former Vice President Hardware Engineering and Manufacturing at Vudu and an early hardware engineer at TiVo. Development expenses have been shared, and our team has spent time in Singapore and Taiwan, and their team has spent time here. We chose to work with Fusion Garage on Prototype C and the launch prototype after we finished Prototype B internally.
We jointly own the CrunchPad product intellectual property, and we solely own the CrunchPad trademark.
It's pretty obvious that Arrington would own the CrunchPad trademark, so that part at least we can count on being true. Tech Crunch also did a ton of free advertising for this thing, which wouldn't make a lot of sense if they didn't have some sort of stake in it other than a possible name.
At this point, I have a lot more reason to believe Arrington's reasoning than Rathakrishnan. Compared to Rathakrishnan, Arrington has provided a substantial amount of information, which Rathakrishnan never addressed. As far as I'm concerned, the ball is still in Rathakrishnan's court.
Besides, why do you feel any need at all to defend Michael Arrington? You owe him nothing. If he'd succeeded as he planned, he'd have made millions off of you and others. Your job as a consumer is to look out for yourself.
To play devil's advocate, Arrington did put the idea out there and get it a lot of press. Without the press, it's very likely Fusion Garage would not have gotten the venture capital or contacts with large companies for decently cheap mass production techniques. And on announcement, it may very well have been relegated to a blip on some tech blog somewhere, instead of being noted by the millions of people already following the CrunchPad. And if this helps to bring more small touch tablets to the market at a cheaper price that I can afford, then I do owe Arrington at least that thanks.
But yeah, it'll probably be 2015 before we have any idea who own the IP, and by that time Fusion Garage and Tech Crunch will likely have been bled dry by the lawyers.
It's a shame I don't have mod points, this is exactly what I was thinking. Apple sells primarily to the upper scale crowd, which traditionally has much higher profit margins.
Well...if flash would kindly use its own thread... The Linux version of flash is painfully slow. A separate core for rendering video is almost a necessity - but Adobe hasn't made that possible yet.
Google Chrome places Flash in its own process, so apparently it is possible, although as they are the only ones, it is probably extremely difficult.
In other words, somewhere that hasn't invested in IT (and likely has the doctors doing what they feel like, with 'homegrown' Access databases and applications, trusting what the vendors say when they produce shiny pamphlets, and either not hiring people who understand how business and tech should map, or not giving them the clout to be able to change the way the organisation works to successfully be able to change things so that they do.
It is pretty bizarre how many crappy home grown medical applications there that people are buying for tens of thousands of dollars. It is like all laws of capitalism and economics break down when you walk into a hospital.
though CFLs have brightnesses at all levels even far past equivalence to 100W incandescents.
I have a 300W equivalent CFL I picked up from Home Depot. It's a bit big to fit in most sockets, but it's pretty darned bright. I put it in our tiny bathroom, and with the white walls and giant mirror, it was like walking into the heart of the sun.
I've never had this issue either uploading or downloading that I can recall. I know I've often had uploads take 100% of the allotted bandwidth. I feel pretty certain that I've had downloads come in at least 8Mbps, or half, although that may just be my mind playing tricks on me. The upload speed I'm certain of though.
I have cable internet with 16Mbps down, and 1Mbps up, so I can't comment specifically about a symmetric load. For me on a old 1Ghz
"GenuineIntel" Id = 0x68a Stepping = 10
with a $10 Gb NIC and 512MB of RAM, I have no issue pulling maxing out my connection, and should be able to pull at least twice that amount based on CPU load (probably three times).
It sounds like you need to adjust your traffic shaper. If your router will handle the load, but not on a single connection, then the traffic shaper is probably purposefully limiting it.
2) Even if they have two choices, both could go through the same line/chunk of ground that the backhoe digs up. Nowadays with all the outsourcing and inter company deals, you might buy redundant links from two different companies, and later find out the hard way that they are all in the same cable!
For the small city that I work for, we could get AT&T ADSL, Time Warner Cable, or Time Warner Fiber. They all terminate into the same decades old AT&T building. It is certainly possible that Time Warner has their own fiber running between that AT&T building and the rest of the world, but I'd bet money that they just lease space on whatever data trunk AT&T pulled out there.
One misplaced backhoe is going to take out data and phone for the entire city, no matter who their provider is.
Possibly the type of cigarettes and amount of dust had an affect? I can't really say what makes the difference, just that when there is a smoker's machine with gunk in it, it is bad.
I can confirm seeing what the grandparent saw. Other commentors have commented the same as you, so there may be other variables. A different type of cigarette possibly? Smoke density?
Not from inside the gearings and grooves of a fan. Although it would be interesting to see how effected Acetone would be.
I can confirm the GP's experiences. I have seen this and the result is somewhat similar to the residue left by a burning building, although I think that the tar is stickier. The amount of smoke and ventilation may have affected how much was deposited for you.
You've obviously never seen tar buildup, let alone on computer parts. The tar is an extremely sticky residue and does not just blow off, or even wash off. You could run the inside of the system through the dish washer, and it wouldn't make any difference.
Oooooooh, that explains everything. Thanks.
Citation needed.
But for some strange reason Windows will not install on to them without a driver being supplied at install time. I've always wondered about that.