Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO
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I hated... HATED... "Natural Scrolling" when it first came out. But I gave it a week. You push up on the trackpad... screen goes up. You push down, screen goes down. It just feels.. natural.
Now when I use another computer the scrolling just feels weird.
I set "natural" on trackpad interfaces. I leave the mouse scroll to be "legacy".
Cops are used to that: they often have people "watching the watchers". Spies aren't used to it, they're used to keeping stuff secret, so they have way more trouble with it (:-))
As our "intelligence" community metastasizes into a totalitarian security-state, these two look to be merging with disastrous consequences to both policing and intelligence communities, not to mention our rights.
It's swarm behavior, each unit of the group has simple rules that follows.
It's not just a swarm - a swarm usually deals with members from the same hive or have some basis of affinity. How will we generate affinity between units securely? Auth?
For cars, the "swarms" will need to be created and modified ad-hoc (e.g.: car coming into right lane in highway from onramp, exiting, switching lanes, etc). That aspect of this seems very complex and the system needs to add in redundancy and robustness... not to mention, is there an analogue to ad-hoc swarms in nature?
Seriously, not a whole lot of zipping - more like ambling. I think they're going to need a whole lot better processing to handle movement at 45mph, much less 75mph. Still, emergent behavior is definitely a strong idea... just wondering how the "groups" form - what sort of negotiation is needed? Will it require some form of authorization/authentication? What happens when the "group" loses an individual (ie, power/comm failure)? What about rogue elements?
Lots of stuff to study and apply - but it still looks far off in implementation. I'd love to see this research combined with Google's driverless car tech:)
Heh, mentioning Carly gave me a depressing yet fascinating train of thought.
The cynic in me says....put her in. Watch MS stock decline. Buy. Force her out. Stock jumps 20%. Sell. You just made eleventy billion dollars
If you're a wall street power exec with influence of the MS board....its brilliant
No, you have to add another "sell" step if you're an insider (or have access to one), right before you install the Carly.F virus, you sell (or do a buy-write cover). This gives you the proceeds to do the next steps without a major loss.
More like "Brilliant people expose the trouble you're currently in". The security-state here keeps saying "if you don't have anything to hide, then you don't need privacy"
Well, if the NSA weren't doing shit that warranted whistleblowers, they wouldn't have the problems they currently do.
Why do some people seem to bummed that the screen isn't flexible? Considering it was just a few tech demos and a patent filing it's not like it's a major let-down or anything.
Because it's vaporware and only diminishes what shipping products today [1] have beat Samsung to doing. I hated the vapor-filled promises put forth by Microsoft in previous years and this year's vapor by Samsung isn't any different.
Freight hauling would be a great use-case for these... no mandatory rest periods which means much more effective use of time getting from location to location. If larger roads had dedicated freight lanes where the effective speed limit could be lower, then the extra "drive time" could be used to conserve fuel and road damage by operating freight vehicles at something a bit lower than typical highway speed.
Hmm.. freight hauling... no rest periods... dedicated freight lanes... effective speed limit is lower.... I sense there may be something that already exists to meet these requirements.
Won't be any worse than the same thing happening with human drivers today. But human or computer, if the guy behind you isn't stopping fast enough, and there's still room in front of you, you can brake a bit less, till all the slack is gone. I used to do that quite often when I drove a sports car, to avoid being rear-ended when traffic suddenly stopped, but a computer could get it right every time.
So you're thinking the computer can be both (a) incredibly efficient with
I'll repeat what I comment in this story somewhere else - either this is possible but you have oppressive authoritarian controls over your maintenance and repair schedules -or- accidents keep happening. If the latter, due to lawsuit pressures, companies will be forced to make their cars gimped, overconservative in estimating stopping distance and effectively drive like a granny.
Once a road is at capacity, no amount of 'perfect' driving is going to prevent the addition of more cars from causing traffic slowdowns and eventually traffic jams.
True, but networked computers would also be able to coordinate their entrances onto congested roadways. Quality of Service scheduling could be applied to cars on the road just like it currently gets applied to packets on a telephone network. (assuming nobody reprograms their software to 'cheat', anyway;))
Your throwaway joke is actually a very valid concern - either we get this kind of harmonious behavior with authoritarian lockdown on car modifications and (ie, car company and government nirvana), or we get a similar amount of traffic issues as we currently have, but caused by bugs, faulty/skipped maintenance and rogue players (ie, either hacked systems, or car companies that subtly cheat or allow cheating by negligence).
Of course, that's all assuming your average jesusland politician doesn't come out and say "all of these cars must be built in my state or God will take offense against the perversity of driverless cars".
No - you look again - NYSE:MS != NASDAQ:MSFT
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Though I agree with your sentiment, it'd be nice if you used actual facts and even looked at the company ticker symbol. Morgan Stanley is not Microsoft. Now retry your arguments with out the wrong facts.
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I think breaking up Microsoft would be for the better.... and the same with Apple, Google, and a whole bunch of other megacorporations. At some point that "unified vision" becomes a straightjacket preventing the various divisions from innovating and responding to the market, and all three of those are past that.
You don't break up random megacorps. You break up monopolies. Microsoft is a convicted coercive monopolist. Google has a monopoly on online advertising and search, but hasn't really used it "coercively" so aren't being subject to ant-trust... yet (and I'm guessing Google is smart enough to toe the line). Apple has no monopoly - some might argue they're a monopsonist (of flash memory and compoents) but that's a tougher argument to make. Apple has no overwhelming majority position and if they do, they're nowhere near as dominant and might be losing their leadership role very soon. (say iPad lead in tablets).
What alternative universe are you referring to?
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Well, while Windows Mobile used to be the best option for a smartphone out there
I don't think that was ever the case. From the inception of the PocketPC phones through Windows Mobile, there were always better options. Mostly Palm (though they ceded their market and eventually started putting WinMo on their Treos), but also RIM and some of Nokia's offerings.
Microsoft barely even had 20% of the smartphone market when Apple launched the iPhone. Who was the big player? Oh yeah, Nokia. Symbian was the #1 smartphone OS for a long time. And then, in 2011, Microsoft effectively acquired Nokia and smothered them with an Elop pillow... very belatedly accomplishing their goal of dethroning a smartphone leader.
Seriously, I only see this sort of thing being useful for a) folks who want to discipline themselves or b) sadistic overlords who think users need to not just be blocked, but punished for succumbing to their weaknesses.
In short, the target market is your average Megachurch.
Unless TechCrunch has a time machine, this is a work of speculative fiction. The dateline of July 25, 2023 should be a dead giveaway, but since when did the Slashdot edittors ever RTFA?
A speculative/. repost waiting to happen. I've now read it all. Brilliant way of guaranteeing page-hits and comment threads.
Clearly Google+Microsoft - folks who were wondering what the was missing in the Google+(...) equation now know. Microsoft's mountain view campus is right next to Google's and they both have "sharing plans" that involve your private data and the government.
While it was $99, it can play movies from a USB stick OR a NAS. Plus stream from my Netflix and AmazonPrime accounts. Not all that interested in the 100 other streaming services they offer. I bought it because I could plug in a USB stick and watch whatever. They added the NAS feature recently.
I've tried the USB-stick playing on my Roku2 and it never quite worked for me. Tried various formats converting my yoga video to Apple-friendly (.mp4), windows friendly (.avi) and the like, using dvd quality mpeg4 stream. A whole lot of nothing.
My AppleTV (though it's strict on formats) works like a breeze either streaming the iTunes content or casted via my iPad.
Has this changed recently with the Roku3 or updated Roku2 firmware updates?
Say my brother is in a band. How should I play this band's music? Besides, Google never explicitly said that users of Android phones could do specific things with the phones that apps eventually enabled.
Clearly, they should have uploaded to YouTube and/or G+... because everyone does that, right? I mean, it's not like it's common to see the music industry or government [1] to issue takedown requests, right? And it's not like these things can be faked or sent improperly [2].
But since every one is posting to YouTube and since YouTube is clearly a safe place to post almost anything, that's all Google needs to support. QED. Not sure why anyone is still complaining... it's as good as local!
This would seem to be the salient point from your response. And a rude awakening for many Fandroids.
Google, like Apple, Amazon and many others (Microsoft doesn't make my list because people knew they were money grabbers from day 1) are only interested in making money. Not changing the world (despite how visionary founders seem to convince us otherwise). This is ok - as long as you don't excuse any of their misbehaviors by citing their "vision". Let every action speak for itself. When Google decided it was ok to support anti-environment anti-science nujob neocons like OK SEN Coburn, I pretty much figured they would cave to the media industry quickly and compromise all their offerings like the Chromecast to suit the MAFIAA (GoogleTV, while capable, proved a failure and they "learned a lesson"). Apple and Amazon caved a long time ago.
Seems the only company recently worth the hype is Tesla, whose future seems reliant on disrupting our entire fossil-fuel consumer vehicle industry.
A better way for Facebook to handle this in the future, would be to set up some sandbox "hack me" accounts. Then someone with an exploit can demonstrate it, and ensure they will be taken seriously.
And any publicly available honeypot would need monitoring, espeically if it's running close-to-production codebase, as that will essentially give blackhats the perfect place to demo their exploits.
I can envision the next Hollywood producer seeing this, and proclaiming that all future productions will outdo each other in each of the relevant wikipedia statistics, even if those million monkey-keystrokes are immediately rolled back by beleaguered wikipedia editors.
see it this way... people that write malware, trojans, or what ever do so to make money and they pick the largest easiest target doesn't matter the OS or the software that runs on it but one way or another they will make money. You cannot make an OS secure enough to persuade them to do something else when there are so many gullible user to take advantage of. This is why there is now boat loads of malware, adware, crapware for android.
So iOS has more apps, more installs/downloads, and yet Android is the king of mobile malware. Why is this the case?
It's not like iOS is inherently more secure, and neither are iOS users smarter, so perhaps the issue is that Google just doesn't care to curate their Play store enough to prevent these apps from proliferating.
If you bring up side-loading, I'll bet you significant money that less than 1% of all installs are sideloaded.
I can tell you that the big cellular companies do push hard to crank out new sites or upgrades to existing sites, but it's ultimately up to the climbers / installers and site foreman to insure that safety standards are followed and gear is inspected and used properly
And therein lies the problem. I can bet you dollars to donuts that the cell companies reward the companies that cut corners because they don't have to care about the consequences.
The solution is to push some of the cost of the problem (wasted lives due to rushed timelines and scarce safety inspections) back onto the cell companies. Either force the companies to suffer a penalty (and thus work to avoid) each death or injury [1], or just improve regulations (and enforcement, which requires public funds and thus could be offset as a tax against the cell companies).
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I hated... HATED... "Natural Scrolling" when it first came out. But I gave it a week. You push up on the trackpad... screen goes up. You push down, screen goes down. It just feels.. natural.
Now when I use another computer the scrolling just feels weird.
I set "natural" on trackpad interfaces. I leave the mouse scroll to be "legacy".
Cops are used to that: they often have people "watching the watchers". Spies aren't used to it, they're used to keeping stuff secret, so they have way more trouble with it (:-))
As our "intelligence" community metastasizes into a totalitarian security-state, these two look to be merging with disastrous consequences to both policing and intelligence communities, not to mention our rights.
It's swarm behavior, each unit of the group has simple rules that follows.
It's not just a swarm - a swarm usually deals with members from the same hive or have some basis of affinity. How will we generate affinity between units securely? Auth?
For cars, the "swarms" will need to be created and modified ad-hoc (e.g.: car coming into right lane in highway from onramp, exiting, switching lanes, etc). That aspect of this seems very complex and the system needs to add in redundancy and robustness... not to mention, is there an analogue to ad-hoc swarms in nature?
Seriously, not a whole lot of zipping - more like ambling. I think they're going to need a whole lot better processing to handle movement at 45mph, much less 75mph.
Still, emergent behavior is definitely a strong idea... just wondering how the "groups" form - what sort of negotiation is needed? Will it require some form of authorization/authentication? What happens when the "group" loses an individual (ie, power/comm failure)? What about rogue elements?
Lots of stuff to study and apply - but it still looks far off in implementation. I'd love to see this research combined with Google's driverless car tech :)
Heh, mentioning Carly gave me a depressing yet fascinating train of thought.
The cynic in me says....put her in. Watch MS stock decline. Buy. Force her out. Stock jumps 20%. Sell. You just made eleventy billion dollars
If you're a wall street power exec with influence of the MS board....its brilliant
No, you have to add another "sell" step if you're an insider (or have access to one), right before you install the Carly.F virus, you sell (or do a buy-write cover). This gives you the proceeds to do the next steps without a major loss.
"Brilliant people get you in trouble.'"
More like "Brilliant people expose the trouble you're currently in".
The security-state here keeps saying "if you don't have anything to hide, then you don't need privacy"
Well, if the NSA weren't doing shit that warranted whistleblowers, they wouldn't have the problems they currently do.
Why do some people seem to bummed that the screen isn't flexible? Considering it was just a few tech demos and a patent filing it's not like it's a major let-down or anything.
Because it's vaporware and only diminishes what shipping products today [1] have beat Samsung to doing. I hated the vapor-filled promises put forth by Microsoft in previous years and this year's vapor by Samsung isn't any different.
[1] http://getpebble.com/
Freight hauling would be a great use-case for these ... no mandatory rest periods which means much more effective use of time getting from location to location. If larger roads had dedicated freight lanes where the effective speed limit could be lower, then the extra "drive time" could be used to conserve fuel and road damage by operating freight vehicles at something a bit lower than typical highway speed.
Hmm.. freight hauling... no rest periods... dedicated freight lanes... effective speed limit is lower.... I sense there may be something that already exists to meet these requirements.
Won't be any worse than the same thing happening with human drivers today. But human or computer, if the guy behind you isn't stopping fast enough, and there's still room in front of you, you can brake a bit less, till all the slack is gone. I used to do that quite often when I drove a sports car, to avoid being rear-ended when traffic suddenly stopped, but a computer could get it right every time.
So you're thinking the computer can be both (a) incredibly efficient with
I'll repeat what I comment in this story somewhere else - either this is possible but you have oppressive authoritarian controls over your maintenance and repair schedules -or- accidents keep happening. If the latter, due to lawsuit pressures, companies will be forced to make their cars gimped, overconservative in estimating stopping distance and effectively drive like a granny.
Once a road is at capacity, no amount of 'perfect' driving is going to prevent the addition of more cars from causing traffic slowdowns and eventually traffic jams.
True, but networked computers would also be able to coordinate their entrances onto congested roadways. Quality of Service scheduling could be applied to cars on the road just like it currently gets applied to packets on a telephone network. (assuming nobody reprograms their software to 'cheat', anyway ;))
Your throwaway joke is actually a very valid concern - either we get this kind of harmonious behavior with authoritarian lockdown on car modifications and (ie, car company and government nirvana), or we get a similar amount of traffic issues as we currently have, but caused by bugs, faulty/skipped maintenance and rogue players (ie, either hacked systems, or car companies that subtly cheat or allow cheating by negligence).
Of course, that's all assuming your average jesusland politician doesn't come out and say "all of these cars must be built in my state or God will take offense against the perversity of driverless cars".
Though I agree with your sentiment, it'd be nice if you used actual facts and even looked at the company ticker symbol. Morgan Stanley is not Microsoft. Now retry your arguments with out the wrong facts.
https://www.google.com/finance?cid=358464
I think breaking up Microsoft would be for the better.... and the same with Apple, Google, and a whole bunch of other megacorporations. At some point that "unified vision" becomes a straightjacket preventing the various divisions from innovating and responding to the market, and all three of those are past that.
You don't break up random megacorps. You break up monopolies. Microsoft is a convicted coercive monopolist. Google has a monopoly on online advertising and search, but hasn't really used it "coercively" so aren't being subject to ant-trust ... yet (and I'm guessing Google is smart enough to toe the line). Apple has no monopoly - some might argue they're a monopsonist (of flash memory and compoents) but that's a tougher argument to make. Apple has no overwhelming majority position and if they do, they're nowhere near as dominant and might be losing their leadership role very soon. (say iPad lead in tablets).
Well, while Windows Mobile used to be the best option for a smartphone out there
I don't think that was ever the case. From the inception of the PocketPC phones through Windows Mobile, there were always better options. Mostly Palm (though they ceded their market and eventually started putting WinMo on their Treos), but also RIM and some of Nokia's offerings.
Microsoft barely even had 20% of the smartphone market when Apple launched the iPhone. Who was the big player? Oh yeah, Nokia. Symbian was the #1 smartphone OS for a long time. And then, in 2011, Microsoft effectively acquired Nokia and smothered them with an Elop pillow... very belatedly accomplishing their goal of dethroning a smartphone leader.
Seriously, I only see this sort of thing being useful for a) folks who want to discipline themselves or b) sadistic overlords who think users need to not just be blocked, but punished for succumbing to their weaknesses.
In short, the target market is your average Megachurch.
Unless TechCrunch has a time machine, this is a work of speculative fiction. The dateline of July 25, 2023 should be a dead giveaway, but since when did the Slashdot edittors ever RTFA?
A speculative /. repost waiting to happen. I've now read it all. Brilliant way of guaranteeing page-hits and comment threads.
Well, don't leave us hanging! Which one is which?
Clearly Google+Microsoft - folks who were wondering what the was missing in the Google+(...) equation now know. Microsoft's mountain view campus is right next to Google's and they both have "sharing plans" that involve your private data and the government.
Clearly a merger signal.
While it was $99, it can play movies from a USB stick OR a NAS. Plus stream from my Netflix and AmazonPrime accounts. Not all that interested in the 100 other streaming services they offer. I bought it because I could plug in a USB stick and watch whatever. They added the NAS feature recently.
I've tried the USB-stick playing on my Roku2 and it never quite worked for me. Tried various formats converting my yoga video to Apple-friendly (.mp4), windows friendly (.avi) and the like, using dvd quality mpeg4 stream. A whole lot of nothing.
My AppleTV (though it's strict on formats) works like a breeze either streaming the iTunes content or casted via my iPad.
Has this changed recently with the Roku3 or updated Roku2 firmware updates?
Google never said you could stream local content
Say my brother is in a band. How should I play this band's music? Besides, Google never explicitly said that users of Android phones could do specific things with the phones that apps eventually enabled.
Clearly, they should have uploaded to YouTube and/or G+ ... because everyone does that, right? I mean, it's not like it's common to see the music industry or government [1] to issue takedown requests, right? And it's not like these things can be faked or sent improperly [2].
But since every one is posting to YouTube and since YouTube is clearly a safe place to post almost anything, that's all Google needs to support. QED. Not sure why anyone is still complaining... it's as good as local!
[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57581399-93/google-more-government-takedown-requests-than-ever-before/
[2] http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2013/08/01/the-increase-in-false-takedown-requests-calls-for-more-checks-and-balances.html
Google isn't unique.
This would seem to be the salient point from your response. And a rude awakening for many Fandroids.
Google, like Apple, Amazon and many others (Microsoft doesn't make my list because people knew they were money grabbers from day 1) are only interested in making money. Not changing the world (despite how visionary founders seem to convince us otherwise). This is ok - as long as you don't excuse any of their misbehaviors by citing their "vision". Let every action speak for itself. When Google decided it was ok to support anti-environment anti-science nujob neocons like OK SEN Coburn, I pretty much figured they would cave to the media industry quickly and compromise all their offerings like the Chromecast to suit the MAFIAA (GoogleTV, while capable, proved a failure and they "learned a lesson"). Apple and Amazon caved a long time ago.
Seems the only company recently worth the hype is Tesla, whose future seems reliant on disrupting our entire fossil-fuel consumer vehicle industry.
Which 'splodes first: RMS, or MS?
Multiple Sclerosis wins!
A better way for Facebook to handle this in the future, would be to set up some sandbox "hack me" accounts. Then someone with an exploit can demonstrate it, and ensure they will be taken seriously.
And any publicly available honeypot would need monitoring, espeically if it's running close-to-production codebase, as that will essentially give blackhats the perfect place to demo their exploits.
I can envision the next Hollywood producer seeing this, and proclaiming that all future productions will outdo each other in each of the relevant wikipedia statistics, even if those million monkey-keystrokes are immediately rolled back by beleaguered wikipedia editors.
Cargo-cult executive thinking to the rescue!
Getting sued for posting a bad review ON THE INTERNET has the "Internet" word in it, thus news for nerds.
In this case, ON THE INTERNET has big implications on the legality of the suit, and the netiquette of the guest.
Not to mention, I learned about Diatomaceous earth [1] from this posting (upthread).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
see it this way... people that write malware, trojans, or what ever do so to make money and they pick the largest easiest target doesn't matter the OS or the software that runs on it but one way or another they will make money. You cannot make an OS secure enough to persuade them to do something else when there are so many gullible user to take advantage of. This is why there is now boat loads of malware, adware, crapware for android.
So iOS has more apps, more installs/downloads, and yet Android is the king of mobile malware. Why is this the case?
It's not like iOS is inherently more secure, and neither are iOS users smarter, so perhaps the issue is that Google just doesn't care to curate their Play store enough to prevent these apps from proliferating.
If you bring up side-loading, I'll bet you significant money that less than 1% of all installs are sideloaded.
I can tell you that the big cellular companies do push hard to crank out new sites or upgrades to existing sites, but it's ultimately up to the climbers / installers and site foreman to insure that safety standards are followed and gear is inspected and used properly
And therein lies the problem. I can bet you dollars to donuts that the cell companies reward the companies that cut corners because they don't have to care about the consequences.
The solution is to push some of the cost of the problem (wasted lives due to rushed timelines and scarce safety inspections) back onto the cell companies. Either force the companies to suffer a penalty (and thus work to avoid) each death or injury [1], or just improve regulations (and enforcement, which requires public funds and thus could be offset as a tax against the cell companies).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild