Now the market has to be analysed as the 1990's PC market. Apple is Apple. Android is Windows and Windows is OS2, a late entry by an an over-arrogant computing incumbent.
This is precisely how it's looked to me, and you described it well. What I'm really hoping for, and I realize this is outside the scope of the analogy, is personalization of hardware in mobile. I want to see what happened with PC's happen to phones, and I'd hoped that the Goog+Moto arrangement would have led to that. Then you've got software choices (with Android being the dominant player) running on hardware chosen by users, while Apple continues to deploy iOS on a few, closed Apple devices.
Probably won't happen, but how cool would that be? I can already see the build-your-phone engine now... "pick your radio > pick your screen size > select storage option > pick your case > select your OS", etc.
Agreed, a spot for optional pin headers would have been nice... and it doesn't look to have that. It would've increased the utility of the device a lot. Though from rossum in the Hack A Day comments...
You can plug a SPI device into the microSD slot (there is something in the works on a.8mm pcb that does this) or if you are really stuck you can use the ISP port + overload the LED pin for device select.
Not the route I'd want to take, personally. Probably better off having your own board made if you're comfortable with smd work and want exposed points. Maybe ditch the accelerometer and do an i2c bus or something?
I'm only just starting to use gnome3 regularly, and it definitely took a little getting used to. I've found that it's much faster and easier negotiating lots of things at the same time. I have to imagine that was a big priority. I guess what some people call "taking away options", I consider tucking largely unused things away somewhere to declutter. To each their own, I guess.
Thus far I'm pleasently surprised, since I was running (screaming) away from Unity/Ubuntu.
I know we love our tech, but the best option is just a hard key for maintenance purposes. Then while the door is open you can hit a reset button on the electronic lock.
- No default/admin code problem
- Key is the forgotten pin bypass
- No hard key for guest to lose
- Still set their own pin (to deal with forgetfulness)
- Simple room reset for next guest
I like to think that, sometimes, when someone takes the time to do a reasonable, polite, well-considered analysis of some common horseshit... there can be a real benefit to other readers too.
Obviously the original troll isn't going to stop being an asshole, but someone else might read the response and learn something, or just see things in a different way. That can't be a bad thing.
I say "nice work" on keeping it level-headed. If I had cared enough to reply, I certainly wouldn't have been so decent about it.
I've found that with the iPhones, it's the 3g use that kills the batteries. I got all our employees set up so that their phones will preferentially hop on our public wifi at work and at their homes. Battery life was immediately extended from ~8 hours to around 2 days. I guess it makes sense... wifi is tx'ing for dozens of feet instead of hundreds.
My buddies all have android phones and claim they have the same problems, only worse. Most of them managed to tinker their way into better battery life though. I assume it's due to some preconfigured silliness from the vendors, beefier specs on the devices, larger displays, etc.
But either way it seems that operating the radio for high speed wireless is just a brutal draw on any device.:(
Sounds reminiscent of old file system type limitations. Didn't FAT16 have a 2gb partition limit? I seem to remember that there was an overlapping period when >2gb disks were out and people still had old dos systems around.
I'd guess the stores will be a little pissed about this, since it obviously got press. No doubt it started with some shitbrick Mall Ninja trying to feel important:
http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/
A 3rd party breakdown guesstimated it near a $10 loss. I find it more likely that they are selling it at cost. But "iPad competitor has to give them away to move units" sounds sexier when you go to print.
The smaller the company is, that may change, but fundamentally we all are cogs.
Very true. I've always worked for small companies, and it has a lot to do with not feeling like another number on a spreadsheet. I've never been let go from a company because someone was looking to increase margins. I've never had to fear "the people upstairs", or had to think about someone gunning for my job.
The trade-offs are big ones though. I make way less than most people like me. There have never been any financial ways for me to invest in the company outside of my salary (they're small and privately owned). I have to make an effort to get along with everyone who works for the company. You can't avoid people and you ultimately answer to everyone. And when someone calls me with a problem at midnight, I pick up the phone. If necessary, I drop what I'm doing and drive to work. There is no such thing as, "that's not my job". If I'm walking through a building and see garbage on the floor, I pick it up. If I'm the guy that knows how to fix a light fixture, I do it. I don't go home at 5 just because it's 5. There are no management positions to move in to one day, and I don't sit around feeling bad for myself because I don't make much.
It's a different world, but I chose this. And unless my situation became desperate, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Exactly. If you don't have anything to offer in the way of work and improvements, then you haven't really forked the project. If you don't have that, then worrying about how you're going to license your non-fork is dumb.;)
Any new maintainer will do as they please with it, regardless of what you do. The point is to advertise that an existing project needs maintainers.
I know the ATT uVerse version of this for XBox was an expensive addition. I don't know anyone that did it.
But assuming it's free for comcast or verizon users, the one thing this isn't, is a cord-cutting or cost saving move against your cable company... as was pointed out in a number of articles earlier in the week. It's another widget to try to keep you on board, just like their awful dvrs.
I'm not sure what the whole "seems like yet another step forward in killing traditional cable companies" thing is about. This is brought to you by the "traditional cable companies". The only difference is that your xbox gets to show you ads before comcast does... and you still get to pay both of them for the privilege.
I'm not sure that, "Screw it, we'll just go elsewhere." is really a problem. Amazon looked at what it would cost to operate there, decided there are better places, and left. And as far as I know every brick and mortar in CA is free to do the same if they think it's best for them.
Hell, companies decide where to incorporate, where to operate and what places they want to do business with every day. Always have. States have always had to consider what they're doing when they go fishing for money, because they know they're competing with other states. It's similar at county and city levels too.
This one's only news because CA is desperate, went after the deep pockets, and drove off a high-profile name.
Since you're more familiar with this than I'll ever be, I wondered if you could comment on the differences. Does everything published that way go through similar review processes? Or does everything go up, and review happens externally? If so, does that damage the utility of the open access sources?
Or in short, is there some benefit that the traditional outlets bring to the table that'll be lost here? I'm just curious. Because on the surface of it all, I can't see why anyone wouldn't prefer this, aside from the old publishers.
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Now the market has to be analysed as the 1990's PC market. Apple is Apple. Android is Windows and Windows is OS2, a late entry by an an over-arrogant computing incumbent.
This is precisely how it's looked to me, and you described it well. What I'm really hoping for, and I realize this is outside the scope of the analogy, is personalization of hardware in mobile. I want to see what happened with PC's happen to phones, and I'd hoped that the Goog+Moto arrangement would have led to that. Then you've got software choices (with Android being the dominant player) running on hardware chosen by users, while Apple continues to deploy iOS on a few, closed Apple devices.
Probably won't happen, but how cool would that be? I can already see the build-your-phone engine now... "pick your radio > pick your screen size > select storage option > pick your case > select your OS", etc.
Thanks, jerk. I'm going to have this song in my head for a month. ;)
I don't mean to be a brat, but that sounds like Chrome.
That's funny, there was lots of talk about the code being out there. I never had much interest in looking for it though... I guess it was all BS.
The threat was written by the same authors (or those that have access to the Stuxnet source code)
Erm, the stuxnet code was released online, no?
You can plug a SPI device into the microSD slot (there is something in the works on a .8mm pcb that does this) or if you are really stuck you can use the ISP port + overload the LED pin for device select.
Not the route I'd want to take, personally. Probably better off having your own board made if you're comfortable with smd work and want exposed points. Maybe ditch the accelerometer and do an i2c bus or something?
I'm only just starting to use gnome3 regularly, and it definitely took a little getting used to. I've found that it's much faster and easier negotiating lots of things at the same time. I have to imagine that was a big priority. I guess what some people call "taking away options", I consider tucking largely unused things away somewhere to declutter. To each their own, I guess.
Thus far I'm pleasently surprised, since I was running (screaming) away from Unity/Ubuntu.
Oh lord would I be pissed. There's no recourse for this?
I know we love our tech, but the best option is just a hard key for maintenance purposes. Then while the door is open you can hit a reset button on the electronic lock.
- No default/admin code problem
- Key is the forgotten pin bypass
- No hard key for guest to lose
- Still set their own pin (to deal with forgetfulness)
- Simple room reset for next guest
I like to think that, sometimes, when someone takes the time to do a reasonable, polite, well-considered analysis of some common horseshit... there can be a real benefit to other readers too.
Obviously the original troll isn't going to stop being an asshole, but someone else might read the response and learn something, or just see things in a different way. That can't be a bad thing.
I say "nice work" on keeping it level-headed. If I had cared enough to reply, I certainly wouldn't have been so decent about it.
Yeah didn't they kill the whole Zune line?
What's kindof interesting is, I played with a windows phone lately. To be honest, they're pretty slick.
I guess they just fell asleep at the wheel with the crappy old WinMo and showed up way too late for the current generation of smartphones.
I've found that with the iPhones, it's the 3g use that kills the batteries. I got all our employees set up so that their phones will preferentially hop on our public wifi at work and at their homes. Battery life was immediately extended from ~8 hours to around 2 days. I guess it makes sense... wifi is tx'ing for dozens of feet instead of hundreds.
:(
My buddies all have android phones and claim they have the same problems, only worse. Most of them managed to tinker their way into better battery life though. I assume it's due to some preconfigured silliness from the vendors, beefier specs on the devices, larger displays, etc.
But either way it seems that operating the radio for high speed wireless is just a brutal draw on any device.
Sometimes a kinda-practical application is just the context you need to realize what you forgot about on paper.
Doesn't mean you're going to try to sell the stuff you come up with.
Sounds reminiscent of old file system type limitations. Didn't FAT16 have a 2gb partition limit? I seem to remember that there was an overlapping period when >2gb disks were out and people still had old dos systems around.
The Bruce Wayne model?
I was waiting for a Crysis joke.
I'd guess the stores will be a little pissed about this, since it obviously got press. No doubt it started with some shitbrick Mall Ninja trying to feel important: http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/
A 3rd party breakdown guesstimated it near a $10 loss. I find it more likely that they are selling it at cost. But "iPad competitor has to give them away to move units" sounds sexier when you go to print.
The smaller the company is, that may change, but fundamentally we all are cogs.
Very true. I've always worked for small companies, and it has a lot to do with not feeling like another number on a spreadsheet. I've never been let go from a company because someone was looking to increase margins. I've never had to fear "the people upstairs", or had to think about someone gunning for my job.
The trade-offs are big ones though. I make way less than most people like me. There have never been any financial ways for me to invest in the company outside of my salary (they're small and privately owned). I have to make an effort to get along with everyone who works for the company. You can't avoid people and you ultimately answer to everyone. And when someone calls me with a problem at midnight, I pick up the phone. If necessary, I drop what I'm doing and drive to work. There is no such thing as, "that's not my job". If I'm walking through a building and see garbage on the floor, I pick it up. If I'm the guy that knows how to fix a light fixture, I do it. I don't go home at 5 just because it's 5. There are no management positions to move in to one day, and I don't sit around feeling bad for myself because I don't make much.
It's a different world, but I chose this. And unless my situation became desperate, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Exactly. If you don't have anything to offer in the way of work and improvements, then you haven't really forked the project. If you don't have that, then worrying about how you're going to license your non-fork is dumb. ;)
Any new maintainer will do as they please with it, regardless of what you do. The point is to advertise that an existing project needs maintainers.
I know the ATT uVerse version of this for XBox was an expensive addition. I don't know anyone that did it.
But assuming it's free for comcast or verizon users, the one thing this isn't, is a cord-cutting or cost saving move against your cable company... as was pointed out in a number of articles earlier in the week. It's another widget to try to keep you on board, just like their awful dvrs.
I'm not sure what the whole "seems like yet another step forward in killing traditional cable companies" thing is about. This is brought to you by the "traditional cable companies". The only difference is that your xbox gets to show you ads before comcast does... and you still get to pay both of them for the privilege.
* Taking his marbles, and playing somewhere sane.
When you figure out where that is, please let me know.
Well if you're generating that power and keeping your AC from kicking on, you could be looking at a win.
I'm not sure that, "Screw it, we'll just go elsewhere." is really a problem. Amazon looked at what it would cost to operate there, decided there are better places, and left. And as far as I know every brick and mortar in CA is free to do the same if they think it's best for them.
Hell, companies decide where to incorporate, where to operate and what places they want to do business with every day. Always have. States have always had to consider what they're doing when they go fishing for money, because they know they're competing with other states. It's similar at county and city levels too.
This one's only news because CA is desperate, went after the deep pockets, and drove off a high-profile name.
Since you're more familiar with this than I'll ever be, I wondered if you could comment on the differences. Does everything published that way go through similar review processes? Or does everything go up, and review happens externally? If so, does that damage the utility of the open access sources?
Or in short, is there some benefit that the traditional outlets bring to the table that'll be lost here? I'm just curious. Because on the surface of it all, I can't see why anyone wouldn't prefer this, aside from the old publishers.