Companies have been promising a all-in-one product for a long time but we still see people carrying an organizer, a laptop, a cellphone , a MP3 player and a pager !
Sometimes it makes me think the EM radiation combined from all the devices must be going over the safe threshold!
Also ever notice how the all in one product is never the first on the market? Just look at portable Music players. First they sold us cdmans; then they sold us MP3 players ; now they are trying to sell us the combined product and for cheaper than both the original products?
Now that we have a portable water heater free with our laptops maybe we could put it to good use
1) We use it as a coffee maker. Just add a USB (Ultra Strong Beans) port and let the laptop do its stuff
2)Power generation. Use the heat to make steam . use the steam to turn the mini turbines which can replace the fans and use the power generated to recharge your laptop.
3) Fight against terrorism. Add a nozzle for squirting super hot water. Any terrorist trying to take over a plane would face 20 streams of boiling hot water in his face.
As far as I know this spectrum was always reserved for Industrial devices. Whoever built a communication device for this band did it knowing the fact very clearly it was not their territory and took a risk that Microwave ovens would not become very popular.
Now the ghosts of that mistake are catching up with them.
And its not only industrial even medical applications use this band.
Does anybody have any idea if 802.11b will work in a hospital?
I would have thought this would get marked as flame bait or Troll. Instead it seems if u write a long enuff comment Slashdot editors/moderators will upgrade you interesting.
Since when did Slashdot become about quantity and not quality?
I work for a multinational Israeli Company based in Cyprus. We have projects all over the world especially a lot in the States. We have teams based in Seattle and in Cyprus. When the Cyprus team leaves work they list up the list of problems and info reqd and sends off emails. When the Seattle team comes to work 4 hours later they get to work on this and by the time the Cyprus team is back in the office the next day they can get on with their work without the delay of 1 day waiting for a local infra team to fix things. This allows us to meet deadlines much shorter than those possible by working at one site only.
Just to give one more example in a recent project for a client in Moscow the initial design was done in Israel,the coding in Cyprus and Prague, system testing in Prague and user testing in Moscow and it went off flawlessly so I believe the argument that multi site working doesnt work is false.
Frankly nowadays companies get some work done in India and the rest in US so everyone is happy . If US firms were to say IT work will be given only to US firms there would be 2 consequences
1 the companies would probably go out of business
2 if the US govt supported such companies they would be in violation of the WTO
And yes I am Indian.(and thus the enemy for some of you)
Frankly what is happening in the states is bound to happen . Its even happening in India , the jobs at the lower end of the spectrum are going to Thailand and China and we have Chinese engineers working in Bangalore working for lower pays.
The solution is not to crib but to try and upgrade your skills and get used to working hard and not having coffee breaks every hour and spending half the workday playing Doom or surfing Slashdot.
Note : I said "in the market" I am aware that test networks might probably have been setup at lots of places but NTT is offering it commercially with a large number of subscribers.
Next you will be propsing we all line up for ration cards which will have an amount of airtime entered in it for every month and we will only be able to use that much and doesnt matter if we are travelling businessmen or homemakers with a landline in the room.
Of course this will increase traffic and if that leads to downgradation of service then the company really sucks but to blame the technology itself?
I think that runs counter to the free market and the American spirit of enterprise..
NTT with their DoCoMo service launched 3G services a few months back.
One cool feature they are offering is if u (and the person u r speaking to) have a mobile phone with a camera and screen u can see the picture of whoever u r speaking to while u speak to them.
Mind u that is a still JPEG not moving video yet but we are getting to mobile video.
I think NTT is offering a limited type of videophones. U get to see the persons jpeg image while u talk to them. Also they are offering some entertainment services. More on their site Docomo
So now we can send first posts from Mobile Phones
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Is Verizon Up to Speed?
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I know we have had WAP for a long time but now true mobile Internet will arrive. Wonder what would happen to a site which gets Slashdotted from wireless phones.
Good for Verizon they at least gotto market with their 3G systems. I work in Telecom and most of our clients are European Telcom majors and they have spent so much on licenses they are now too cash poor to implement the system itself. And of course in this market they cant raise the money from stock
I wasnt referring to what happens at a lot of places. Everyone knows a lot of piracy takes place. I was referring to the viability of this service. This is pretty ridiculous if u r going to use dialup but maybe Indiatimes is putting the service in place for the day most Indians shift to broadband
A computer costs at a minimum Rs 20000. So if u have a comp to download with and an internet connection (which is like Rs 2 an hour for Dialup) u can download it. What everyone is ignoring is the speeds. Most Indians have Dialup so to download music would cost more in Telco charges than it is worth.(Yes telcos charge by the minute for internet access in India)
I have been seeing a lot of posts saying that when will this come to USA etc etc. Did ppl forget if its on the net its on the net? U just have to enter www.indiatimes.com and u r there. No need for a mirror site except for maybe improving download speeds. Speeds in India suck. And u can flame me all u want at p_ghosh@indiatimes.com
And where do u get the dust from? Unless its brought up on the Shuttles for the Soyuzs are pretty clean After all they have 14 years experience with MIR and more with the Salyuts. Not that the Americans cant contribute anything They are giving the money and also they can help the Russians in bringing down MIR After all they have great experience with Skylabs crash.
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"The first people to write databases did figure them out on the job."
The first people to figure these thing out took 20 years to reach the stage of an RDBMS. Do u seriously want the poor chap to reinvent the wheel.
Also the first people (sic) did not have week long deadlines and in todays world most CIS guys end up having managers who say -"The client needs this yesterday Get to work on it" Do u think in this situation anybody would be doing any "figuring out"???
U forgot India which has got a very active space program though more in remote sensing(best in the world The US military buys data from Indian Satellites) than in launch but thay could still help out.
Oh I almost forgot ! In any case the whole NASA effort too is mostly been run by Chinese and Indians;)
Let me get this straight . You are saying your complete life has been devoted to IC Engines and Petroleum based products and your complete field of expertise(as u claim) is limited to this narrow niche and unlike the other guy in this fight(yes unfortunately I have to call this a fight not a discussion given the standard of language used) you have absolutely no employable
skills in any other field.
Well I sure can understand why you would be hostile to anything that eliminates gasoline from the world economy and renders u unemployed and forced to take the commuter bus with all the other derelicts.
If u think the rural USA has a poor communications infrastructure u shld have an experience of Delhi,India where I live. Here even though Internet costs have come down in the last few years so that now it costs around Rs 7.5/hr for dial-up access at 56K the cost of local calls/Dial-up charges works out to Rs 24/hr($1=Rs 46) and it is the cost of Dial-up that is preventing the faster spread of the internet.
The irony is that the reason dial-up is so costly in urban areas is that we have to subsidise connections to rural areas which have teledensities which do not make economic sense to service but have to be serviced all the same as we cant expect 50% of the population to live without phones.
I believe what might hurt PC Sales more than saturation is the advent of new Non PC computing devices like Palms and intelligent Household appliances. Most people dont need a PC. The only advantage of a PC is that it can do everything but if the same jobs get divided between a palm,a mp3 player , a Net TV Box(which allows u to use yr TV and a wireless keyboard to surf the net) people wont have a need for new PCs.
This is also the reason I believe the thinking that "even if the US is saturated the other countries need PCs " reasoning is flawed. For unlike the PC which came to the States first and then went to the rest of the world , these new generation devices are coming up all over the world simultaneously in fact the Scandinavians and Japanese are much more ahead than the Americans in this field. So what might happen in a lot of 3rd world countries is that they may never go through the PC era and instead go from the Govt owning a few workstations to everyone owning a Palm without the phase where almost everyone wastes money on a PC
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Companies have been promising a all-in-one product for a long time but we still see people carrying an organizer, a laptop, a cellphone , a MP3 player and a pager !
Sometimes it makes me think the EM radiation combined from all the devices must be going over the safe threshold!
Also ever notice how the all in one product is never the first on the market? Just look at portable Music players. First they sold us cdmans; then they sold us MP3 players ; now they are trying to sell us the combined product and for cheaper than both the original products?
Icebergs
Now that we have a portable water heater free with our laptops maybe we could put it to good use
1) We use it as a coffee maker. Just add a USB (Ultra Strong Beans) port and let the laptop do its stuff
2)Power generation. Use the heat to make steam . use the steam to turn the mini turbines which can replace the fans and use the power generated to recharge your laptop.
3) Fight against terrorism. Add a nozzle for squirting super hot water. Any terrorist trying to take over a plane would face 20 streams of boiling hot water in his face.
Any other suggestions?
from a slashdot article to get a full post for yourself?
As far as I know this spectrum was always reserved for Industrial devices. Whoever built a communication device for this band did it knowing the fact very clearly it was not their territory and took a risk that Microwave ovens would not become very popular.
Now the ghosts of that mistake are catching up with them.
And its not only industrial even medical applications use this band.
Does anybody have any idea if 802.11b will work in a hospital?
I would have thought this would get marked as flame bait or Troll. Instead it seems if u write a long enuff comment Slashdot editors/moderators will upgrade you interesting.
Since when did Slashdot become about quantity and not quality?
As to my response look at my comment just below.
I work for a multinational Israeli Company based in Cyprus. We have projects all over the world especially a lot in the States. We have teams based in Seattle and in Cyprus. When the Cyprus team leaves work they list up the list of problems and info reqd and sends off emails. When the Seattle team comes to work 4 hours later they get to work on this and by the time the Cyprus team is back in the office the next day they can get on with their work without the delay of 1 day waiting for a local infra team to fix things. This allows us to meet deadlines much shorter than those possible by working at one site only.
Just to give one more example in a recent project for a client in Moscow the initial design was done in Israel,the coding in Cyprus and Prague, system testing in Prague and user testing in Moscow and it went off flawlessly so I believe the argument that multi site working doesnt work is false.
Frankly nowadays companies get some work done in India and the rest in US so everyone is happy . If US firms were to say IT work will be given only to US firms there would be 2 consequences
1 the companies would probably go out of business
2 if the US govt supported such companies they would be in violation of the WTO
And yes I am Indian.(and thus the enemy for some of you)
Frankly what is happening in the states is bound to happen . Its even happening in India , the jobs at the lower end of the spectrum are going to Thailand and China and we have Chinese engineers working in Bangalore working for lower pays.
The solution is not to crib but to try and upgrade your skills and get used to working hard and not having coffee breaks every hour and spending half the workday playing Doom or surfing Slashdot.
Sad but true!
Note : I said "in the market" I am aware that test networks might probably have been setup at lots of places but NTT is offering it commercially with a large number of subscribers.
Next you will be propsing we all line up for ration cards which will have an amount of airtime entered in it for every month and we will only be able to use that much and doesnt matter if we are travelling businessmen or homemakers with a landline in the room.
Of course this will increase traffic and if that leads to downgradation of service then the company really sucks but to blame the technology itself?
I think that runs counter to the free market and the American spirit of enterprise..
NTT with their DoCoMo service launched 3G services a few months back.
One cool feature they are offering is if u (and the person u r speaking to) have a mobile phone with a camera and screen u can see the picture of whoever u r speaking to while u speak to them.
Mind u that is a still JPEG not moving video yet but we are getting to mobile video.
I think NTT is offering a limited type of videophones. U get to see the persons jpeg image while u talk to them. Also they are offering some entertainment services. More on their site Docomo
I know we have had WAP for a long time but now true mobile Internet will arrive. Wonder what would happen to a site which gets Slashdotted from wireless phones.
I think the only true 3G in the market nowadays is NTT
But then the Japanese are always the first to adapt small interactive things ala Pokemon
Good for Verizon they at least gotto market with their 3G systems. I work in Telecom and most of our clients are European Telcom majors and they have spent so much on licenses they are now too cash poor to implement the system itself. And of course in this market they cant raise the money from stock
I wasnt referring to what happens at a lot of places. Everyone knows a lot of piracy takes place. I was referring to the viability of this service. This is pretty ridiculous if u r going to use dialup but maybe Indiatimes is putting the service in place for the day most Indians shift to broadband
A computer costs at a minimum Rs 20000. So if u have a comp to download with and an internet connection (which is like Rs 2 an hour for Dialup)
u can download it. What everyone is ignoring is the speeds. Most Indians have Dialup so to download music would cost more in Telco charges than it is worth.(Yes telcos charge by the minute for internet access in India)
Hilarious!!
I have been seeing a lot of posts saying that when will this come to USA etc etc. Did ppl forget if its on the net its on the net? U just have to enter www.indiatimes.com and u r there. No need for a mirror site except for maybe improving download speeds. Speeds in India suck.
And u can flame me all u want at p_ghosh@indiatimes.com
And where do u get the dust from? Unless its brought up on the Shuttles for the Soyuzs are pretty clean After all they have 14 years experience with MIR and more with the Salyuts. Not that the Americans cant contribute anything They are giving the money and also they can help the Russians in bringing down MIR After all they have great experience with Skylabs crash.
"The first people to write databases did figure them out on the job."
The first people to figure these thing out took 20 years to reach the stage of an RDBMS. Do u seriously want the poor chap to reinvent the wheel.
Also the first people (sic) did not have week long deadlines and in todays world most CIS guys end up having managers who say -"The client needs this yesterday Get to work on it" Do u think in this situation anybody would be doing any "figuring out"???
U forgot India which has got a very active space program though more in remote sensing(best in the world The US military buys data from Indian Satellites) than in launch but thay could still help out. ;)
Oh I almost forgot ! In any case the whole NASA effort too is mostly been run by Chinese and Indians
Actually thats funny!
Let me get this straight . You are saying your complete life has been devoted to IC Engines and Petroleum based products and your complete field of expertise(as u claim) is limited to this narrow niche and unlike the other guy in this fight(yes unfortunately I have to call this a fight not a discussion given the standard of language used) you have absolutely no employable
skills in any other field.
Well I sure can understand why you would be hostile to anything that eliminates gasoline from the world economy and renders u unemployed and forced to take the commuter bus with all the other derelicts.
If u think the rural USA has a poor communications infrastructure u shld have an experience of Delhi,India where I live. Here even though Internet costs have come down in the last few years so that now it costs around Rs 7.5/hr for dial-up access at 56K the cost of local calls/Dial-up charges works out to Rs 24/hr($1=Rs 46) and it is the cost of Dial-up that is preventing the faster spread of the internet.
The irony is that the reason dial-up is so costly in urban areas is that we have to subsidise connections to rural areas which have teledensities which do not make economic sense to service but have to be serviced all the same as we cant expect 50% of the population to live without phones.
I believe what might hurt PC Sales more than saturation is the advent of new Non PC computing devices like Palms and intelligent Household appliances. Most people dont need a PC. The only advantage of a PC is that it can do everything but if the same jobs get divided between a palm,a mp3 player , a Net TV Box(which allows u to use yr TV and a wireless keyboard to surf the net) people wont have a need for new PCs. This is also the reason I believe the thinking that "even if the US is saturated the other countries need PCs " reasoning is flawed. For unlike the PC which came to the States first and then went to the rest of the world , these new generation devices are coming up all over the world simultaneously in fact the Scandinavians and Japanese are much more ahead than the Americans in this field. So what might happen in a lot of 3rd world countries is that they may never go through the PC era and instead go from the Govt owning a few workstations to everyone owning a Palm without the phase where almost everyone wastes money on a PC