I agree that having options will help the Android market, but when you hit this many options I think you start to scare off a certain amount of the potential customers. One of the things Apple have going for them is the simplification of products. There are four iPod models, five if you count the phone, and they each serve noticeably different roles. Look at the laptops - there are four models, and very few configurable options per model. Compared to Dell who has effectively FIFTEEN starting points when shopping for a laptop for _home_, not to mention the 'business' store http://www.dell.com/home/laptops . Then you have to configure the bugger!
I've helped friends and family pick out computers in the past and they ALL say that the Dell website is overwhelming and there are too many options. You could spend an hour just trying to figure out what type of laptop you want. If you go to the Apple website you pick cheap, expensive, or lightweight, then crank up the memory and enter your credit card number.
Personally I prefer the options, but I don't think that is the case with the general populous.
If by fad you mean the Wii is a longstanding dominant force in the market then I agree. But that's pretty much the opposite of the standard use of the word fad.
Wii longstanding? It's been on the market less than three years!
Sounds like you're trying to take a DSL, cable, and possibly a T1 or other technology and trunk them for combined throughput. That isn't possible because you'd have packets in the same stream taking different routes and TCP/IP doesn't allow for that, that I know of. I don't think any technology allows for that. For example an 8mbit DSL, 6mbit cable, and a T1 can't be combined to make a 15.5mbit connection. I suppose the same would be true if you were wirelessly connected to multiple networks.
You can, however, use all three gateways independently with a variety of load balancing software so that when a new request is made from any host it is routed through the gateway with both the quickest response time and the most bandwidth available. I'll let you look that up on your own - there are lots of free options. The problem is that the load balancer needs to be smart enough to not fuck up your active sessions. If you were communicating with a host via one route, went idle for a bit but didn't end the session, then sent more data via another route the host on the other end will most likely (if written correctly) not accept your new packets.
The way we handled it at "The Geek House" with three internet gateways was to just permanently assign gateways based on the role of the host, and made sure not too many were on the slower gateways. It's not perfect, and certainly could have been geekier, but it worked and we didn't have to worry about shit breaking in the middle of a frag fest. And if one gateway was down the hosts configured with that gateway just had to change their gateway.
It's the same way with physical goods too. They're pricing to what they think the regional markets will bare. And I'm sure they've done a fair amount of market research to determine those variations.
What do you bet there are a few alternatives coming down the pipe soon? IBM, Apple, Intel, everybody coming out with the 'better wireless networking' technology.
'the positive actions of one company are no substitute for a government policy that protects openness and benefits consumers.'
At least when such openness benefits your business model and damages your competitor's.
I dislike Skype as much as I dislike AT&T. Come to think of it I dislike Apple as well. But really there aren't a lot of technology companies that I do like.
Well, it comes down to simple math. For the performance to get to 570-fold more than what it is now, in the same style package, either:
The GPU has to become 570-fold more efficient
The GPU has to become ~570-fold smaller so they can fit 570 of the things onto a card
Both seem highly unlikely.
You don't feel it could be a combination of both? Kind of like they did with multi-core CPUs? Make a single unit more powerful, then use more units... wow!
I don't doubt the prediction at all, I just have concerns about the vat of liquid nitrogen I'm going to have to immerse my computer in to keep that thing from overheating, and the power substation I'm going to need to build in my backyard to power it.
But GPUs today are somewhat more than 570x more powerful than they were several years ago and we haven't had to submerge them in a vat of liquid nitrogen yet, so what makes you think that's going to be the case in the next 570x power increase? (whenever that happens...)
In some markets the cable companies can't give away their service. My house would be one such market. I suggest you join our growing numbers and cancel your cable subscription. It's simply not worth it.
Turn off the TV and step outside. It's nice out there. Usually.
I think their test was excessive. The real travelers will have access to "television" and "internet". The latency will just suck nuts and the bandwidth won't be too awesome either.
I have griped about LCD PPI density for a very long time. Dell used to ship a 15" laptop, the 8000 series, that ran 1600 x 1200 resolution.
Yes. Your mind is blown.
Why can I not get that kind of resolution on a stand alone display? Why can I not get that kind of density on a 24" wide screen display? Not only is it not available at "consumer" levels, I haven't been able to find one for medical or other insanely over priced markets.
Once upon a time I posted a slew of stats that included that display along with others and their pixels per inch breakdowns. I don't feel like finding it again. But it was a great post;D
I personally deploy Lenovo hardware for clients and I do so from a custom made Windows image that I created by first formatting a computer and installing Windows from scratch, then adding necessary drivers. There is NO NEED for any of the Lenovo software.
The Lenovo brand hardware is actually pretty nice. We roll out T400 ThinkPad systems and so far they seem to be very rugged and perform quite well. You just have to get the Think(disad)Vantage shit off the system first.
I think it has more to do with the actual staff not wanting to have to learn how to do record keeping and retrieval a new way. Keep in mind these people have packed their brains with medical data and how to apply it to the point of doing much else isn't particularly easy. So they've learned how to track what they're doing one way and learning how to track it another way could be a royal pain in the ass. Not to mention the time it takes to convert old data to a new system.
But I agree that it needs to happen for a multitude of reasons. The people I know in the medical field, my wife included, who started into their practices after "the age of computers" are constantly complaining about all the paper work they have to do when it could all be done on a computer in a tenth the time, more accurate, and information could flow more easily between medical facilities.
Give it another 10 to 20 years and all the paper pushers will have retired. If you are a software engineer I suggest getting lined up for a huge market potential. They're going to have shit loads of cash and motivated decision makers.
Cheats are lame. I find that when I enable them in games (StarCraft / Warcraft 3 for example) I quickly become bored with the game and quit playing. There's no point in continuing. There's no challenge. It's no longer a game. It's a decided event from the moment you "god mode" and you are just blitzing the enemies.
But there are children who are being raised with life's "cheat mode" on now where they don't have to work at anything to make it to adult life because their parents make it too easy on them and give them anything they want. And they suck at being adults. And the rest of us have to put up with them. Sorry - had to throw that in.
...then use group policies to push out AV updates automatically & lock down the desktops remotely and automatically. Samba is a half-cut replacement for a proper Windows Server when it comes to Windows workstations (sorry samba guys; samba is good, but ultimately lags far behind what it's trying to imitate)
Windows XP is only really so vulnerable to viruses because normally it runs in "everything as root" mode; which, if you had a proper Windows server you could change in seconds (not that you couldn't do this manually, but with AD it's automatic network-wide).
As much as I dislike agreeing on this, I have to. If you're going to use a Microsoft environment you might as well use a Microsoft environment. When it's all set up properly it works like a charm. The only exception being Internet Explorer, of course;)
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I agree that having options will help the Android market, but when you hit this many options I think you start to scare off a certain amount of the potential customers. One of the things Apple have going for them is the simplification of products. There are four iPod models, five if you count the phone, and they each serve noticeably different roles. Look at the laptops - there are four models, and very few configurable options per model. Compared to Dell who has effectively FIFTEEN starting points when shopping for a laptop for _home_, not to mention the 'business' store http://www.dell.com/home/laptops . Then you have to configure the bugger!
I've helped friends and family pick out computers in the past and they ALL say that the Dell website is overwhelming and there are too many options. You could spend an hour just trying to figure out what type of laptop you want. If you go to the Apple website you pick cheap, expensive, or lightweight, then crank up the memory and enter your credit card number.
Personally I prefer the options, but I don't think that is the case with the general populous.
That's the most technologically advanced dildo I've ever seen ...
If by fad you mean the Wii is a longstanding dominant force in the market then I agree. But that's pretty much the opposite of the standard use of the word fad.
Wii longstanding? It's been on the market less than three years!
Sounds like you're trying to take a DSL, cable, and possibly a T1 or other technology and trunk them for combined throughput. That isn't possible because you'd have packets in the same stream taking different routes and TCP/IP doesn't allow for that, that I know of. I don't think any technology allows for that. For example an 8mbit DSL, 6mbit cable, and a T1 can't be combined to make a 15.5mbit connection. I suppose the same would be true if you were wirelessly connected to multiple networks.
You can, however, use all three gateways independently with a variety of load balancing software so that when a new request is made from any host it is routed through the gateway with both the quickest response time and the most bandwidth available. I'll let you look that up on your own - there are lots of free options. The problem is that the load balancer needs to be smart enough to not fuck up your active sessions. If you were communicating with a host via one route, went idle for a bit but didn't end the session, then sent more data via another route the host on the other end will most likely (if written correctly) not accept your new packets.
The way we handled it at "The Geek House" with three internet gateways was to just permanently assign gateways based on the role of the host, and made sure not too many were on the slower gateways. It's not perfect, and certainly could have been geekier, but it worked and we didn't have to worry about shit breaking in the middle of a frag fest. And if one gateway was down the hosts configured with that gateway just had to change their gateway.
It's the same way with physical goods too. They're pricing to what they think the regional markets will bare. And I'm sure they've done a fair amount of market research to determine those variations.
What do you bet there are a few alternatives coming down the pipe soon? IBM, Apple, Intel, everybody coming out with the 'better wireless networking' technology.
Are you down with the O.P.P.?
O is for Operation, P is for Phish don't you know, ...
The last P, well that's not so simple bro
'the positive actions of one company are no substitute for a government policy that protects openness and benefits consumers.'
At least when such openness benefits your business model and damages your competitor's.
I dislike Skype as much as I dislike AT&T. Come to think of it I dislike Apple as well. But really there aren't a lot of technology companies that I do like.
Did this get modded up so we could all marvel at the insanity of this person? Because those are some outrageously ignorant claims.
I would estimate I've done it about 30 times over the last 6 months of driving.
That is roughtly 30 times too much.
Give or take 0.
Well, it comes down to simple math. For the performance to get to 570-fold more than what it is now, in the same style package, either:
Both seem highly unlikely.
You don't feel it could be a combination of both? Kind of like they did with multi-core CPUs? Make a single unit more powerful, then use more units ... wow!
There is more than one way to skin a cat.
I don't doubt the prediction at all, I just have concerns about the vat of liquid nitrogen I'm going to have to immerse my computer in to keep that thing from overheating, and the power substation I'm going to need to build in my backyard to power it.
But GPUs today are somewhat more than 570x more powerful than they were several years ago and we haven't had to submerge them in a vat of liquid nitrogen yet, so what makes you think that's going to be the case in the next 570x power increase? (whenever that happens ...)
It's fairly common practice that companies don't lay claims to their products breaking. But I find Apple are some of the worst about it.
http://scifi.videosift.com/video/Reading-Rainbow-Star-Trek-Next-Generation-Behind-The-Scenes
Just to be sure, you are aware he did both shows at the same time and has always been the host of Reading Rainbow?
In some markets the cable companies can't give away their service. My house would be one such market. I suggest you join our growing numbers and cancel your cable subscription. It's simply not worth it.
Turn off the TV and step outside. It's nice out there. Usually.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, how the fuck is Real still in business?
I think their test was excessive. The real travelers will have access to "television" and "internet". The latency will just suck nuts and the bandwidth won't be too awesome either.
I have griped about LCD PPI density for a very long time. Dell used to ship a 15" laptop, the 8000 series, that ran 1600 x 1200 resolution.
Yes. Your mind is blown.
Why can I not get that kind of resolution on a stand alone display? Why can I not get that kind of density on a 24" wide screen display? Not only is it not available at "consumer" levels, I haven't been able to find one for medical or other insanely over priced markets.
Once upon a time I posted a slew of stats that included that display along with others and their pixels per inch breakdowns. I don't feel like finding it again. But it was a great post ;D
I personally deploy Lenovo hardware for clients and I do so from a custom made Windows image that I created by first formatting a computer and installing Windows from scratch, then adding necessary drivers. There is NO NEED for any of the Lenovo software.
The Lenovo brand hardware is actually pretty nice. We roll out T400 ThinkPad systems and so far they seem to be very rugged and perform quite well. You just have to get the Think(disad)Vantage shit off the system first.
I think it has more to do with the actual staff not wanting to have to learn how to do record keeping and retrieval a new way. Keep in mind these people have packed their brains with medical data and how to apply it to the point of doing much else isn't particularly easy. So they've learned how to track what they're doing one way and learning how to track it another way could be a royal pain in the ass. Not to mention the time it takes to convert old data to a new system.
But I agree that it needs to happen for a multitude of reasons. The people I know in the medical field, my wife included, who started into their practices after "the age of computers" are constantly complaining about all the paper work they have to do when it could all be done on a computer in a tenth the time, more accurate, and information could flow more easily between medical facilities.
Give it another 10 to 20 years and all the paper pushers will have retired. If you are a software engineer I suggest getting lined up for a huge market potential. They're going to have shit loads of cash and motivated decision makers.
That's because you're old ;)
Cheats are lame. I find that when I enable them in games (StarCraft / Warcraft 3 for example) I quickly become bored with the game and quit playing. There's no point in continuing. There's no challenge. It's no longer a game. It's a decided event from the moment you "god mode" and you are just blitzing the enemies.
But there are children who are being raised with life's "cheat mode" on now where they don't have to work at anything to make it to adult life because their parents make it too easy on them and give them anything they want. And they suck at being adults. And the rest of us have to put up with them. Sorry - had to throw that in.
Cheat modes are lame.
GB / $ ... that's awesome. Remember when it used to be $ / GB?
...then use group policies to push out AV updates automatically & lock down the desktops remotely and automatically. Samba is a half-cut replacement for a proper Windows Server when it comes to Windows workstations (sorry samba guys; samba is good, but ultimately lags far behind what it's trying to imitate)
Windows XP is only really so vulnerable to viruses because normally it runs in "everything as root" mode; which, if you had a proper Windows server you could change in seconds (not that you couldn't do this manually, but with AD it's automatic network-wide).
As much as I dislike agreeing on this, I have to. If you're going to use a Microsoft environment you might as well use a Microsoft environment. When it's all set up properly it works like a charm. The only exception being Internet Explorer, of course ;)
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.html
Play with it. It's smart.