OneNote is a pretty novel way of organizing and taking notes electronically. Much more intuitive than anything I have tried on Android or iOS. That is a Microsoft original product. The Metro UI is another Microsoft first UI/UX with some especially compelling features versus the "grid of [static] icons" we have had for 25 years. The ever popular Google Street View is a clear offshoot of Microsoft's original Photosynth research. Sharepoint existed long before "the cloud", Dropbox, et cetera, and has mostly failed to garner a huge consumer following because it is not a cheap (free) service nor is it aimed anywhere near the consumer market.
Acknowledging there is a time and place for a stylus on a touchscreen (Surface Pro) when the popular tech press will crucify you for it. Definitely have to give them props for realizing there are more use cases than playing Angry Birds and shooting off 2-3 line e-mail replies for the tablet market.
And of course you see a lot more Apple devices in coffee shops. Besides the douchbag hipster side effects, you have a place where people want to socialize and relax (in theory at least). Of course a content consumption device makes more sense than a content production and work device. At a sports bar you would expect to see LCD TVs everywhere, right. You don't see batting cages, chalk boards, and workout equipment at normal sports bars, the use case does not dictate those tools.
Apple has been and always shall be a passing fad. Right now we are at another zenith of popularity, but by the end of the 2nd quarter of 2013, their tablet market share will be in a nosedive and they will once again be folding in the face of stiff competition. Heck, even most people who have used Windows Phone 7 are happier, have fewer crashes, and a more seamless experience than iOS. Though, in all fairness, even Android is statistically more stable than iOS (scary, but true).
If it is a GMA 500/600 part, then you need to use the latest Intel OEM drivers. They enable screen scaling of 1024x768 to a 1024x600 screen. Other than the aspect ratio being silly, Windows 8 actually renders very nicely scaled. Most of the App Store programs run without a hitch, and everything looks perfectly fine.
I have been playing with Windows 8 on an HP Slate 500. Most niggles are from 2-4 year old hardware skus with Windows 7 drivers on an RP version of the OS. Otherwise, it is a pretty smooth experience. Windows 8 has a slightly longer getting to know your hardware and break-in cycle than 7 did. After a few days of use though, the battery usage drops, speed and smoothness skyrocket. The various smart caching technologies in Windows 7 & 8 really deserve a full examination by somebody with assembly level knowledge to let us know all the tricks. It's among the top reasons I like Windows 7 better than *nix.
A relatively simple method would be a feedback loop. The parasite could stimulate dopamine receptors whenever it is exposed to compounds linked to feline odor. Since the parasite is already in the nervous system, it would be pretty easy for it to be hanging around the blood-brain barrier or the nasal system to receive the odors first hand even.
Ever see the dumb shit people will do coked up? Now reduce the cognitive inhibitions to the level of a rodent. Chemically, it's all the same.
But will they encourage the implementers (chip makers) to create chips with architecture to truly support 64-bit computing. At the moment, most ARM architectures might as well be 16-bit when it comes to bus bandwidth and data transfer. No use having high speed RAM of 512-2048 MB when the interface to the storage (typically flash) can't even touch SATA 1.0 speeds.
Seriously, ARM would do more good for itself pushing vendors to adopt proper multi-channel PCIe (>x4) in their architectures to multiple devices.
Between this and the Vanity Fair piece about MS being in some kind of nosedive, I think we are seeing the Apple PR machine gearing up against Surface and Windows 8/RT. The timing is pretty remarkable and Apple has quite the history of playing dirty with PR and marketing. Vanity Fair / Conde Nast have a pretty well established extremist pro-Apple history. Some of the contract writers rotate between Conde Nast and Education Week. Looks like people running in the same circles.
Also, the Gates Foundation has given Education Week literally millions of dollars in the past...
I'm thinking that especially in the case of the vaccines and dealing with big pharma, it's very simple. These are the people who have the drugs / vaccines. There is no way to avoid their special kind of evil and still get those supplies to needy states. If anything the Gates Foundation doesn't have the power to move those industries and just has to try to make decent deals with them.
Indeed. I look forward to the book 5 years from now detailing how in 2013-2014 Apple lost every market they dominated. Fact is it's coming, and Apple doesn't have anything cards up it's sleeve anymore. Between WinRT and Android they are going to get squeezed out of the industry. The enterprise doesn't have their backs, in fact most enterprise admins will welcome being able to beat back the security brush fire of "bring your own pretentious device."
Much like the 80's, Apple is about to collapse under their own arrogance. I wonder what the expiration date is on their CPU contracts with Samsung. Now you want to talk about cannibalism, how about a company that is a preying mantis to every company that develops the difficult technology for them while they adapt their existing software to run on it.
Pretty much any on-screen display of an interface meant to mimic a physical device should go straight into the "not patentable, prior art" pile at every patent office. There is nothing original, novel, or non-obvious regarding user interfaces which are similar in operation to physical devices.
Patent offices are funded by the application fees and tax moneys in most jurisdictions. I suggest they add an additional revenue stream for patent spamming. Start really examining the patent applications and if a company makes over X number of applications per year with more than some threshold percentage denied for prior art or otherwise not meeting a high standard of patentability, begin charging a punitive fee for the additional scrutiny their patents will need due to patent spamming.
Copernic would pretty well qualify then as the prior art. I was using their unified search program in 1999 at least. Pretty much any search system which used multiple database tables and separate functions for each qualifies which would take you back to probably to what, probably the 70's.
Funny, I played a lot of PC versions of Xbox 1 titles on a Celeron OC'd to 464 MHz, a Geforce 2 MX, though I did have 256 MB RAM. Ran games great on XP.
Please stop with the FUD and utterly made up garbage.
I've always found the video quality of VLC on Windows to be really poor. Both regular WMP and MPC-HC produce vastly better color and less noise. I keep it installed though for the occasional 1 in 100 file that MPC-HC won't play. These days I'm using XBMC. It's an entirely different class of program though.
I came to post almost exactly this. A la carte channel selection would make targeted advertising easy, and likely more acceptable to most. I don't want a DVR box relaying back each show I watch for profiling. I would be fine if I received commercials profiled based on the channels I have selected for a given month.
Its the difference between advertising based on the style of one's house exterior and what can be seen in the yard from the street versus walking inside uninvited and taking a look around the personal belongings.
Derating power supplies and such is great, but microphones and light sensors to check on buzzers and lights is quite backwards. Both can be spoofed by ambient noise or light assuming simple to moderate detection models. Cheap, easy, and reliable would be to just measure the current and voltage drop across critical components. Bonus is that you can use one detection method and likely IC for multiple subsystems and that programming it into the software is trivial compared anything else.
The other method of hardware protection I prefer is just straight redundant systems where the redundant unit initiates a separate set of alarms once activated. For example, if a buzzer fails, the switchover triggers a backup buzzer plus flashing lights or error messages on display.
Programmers have desperately needed the backdrop of legal liability for the last 20 years. Unfortunately, I think the no liability clauses in illegal EULAs will continue unchallenged for quite some time. Whenever I hear the phrase, "tort reform," I always think the opposite of controlling legal liability and instead spreading the misery of lawyers on a variety of fields (mostly software development) until they can perform their jobs to the competency level of McDonald's. My pet peeve though is UI scalability and ADA compliance. How in the hell every software firm has ignored this with no class action lawsuits crushing them is beyond me.
Our best bet is for the extreme minority of highly skilled and competent programmers to develop AI suitable to writing the software on its own from wrote description. On the way there, we should have a competition between Watson and Wolfram Alpha to see which one can get their MCSE, RHCE, and CCIE certifications first.
If you are on the Release Preview, go to desktop, graphics properties and turn off transparency. Now switch color to white. It looks nearly identical to those shots.
Frankly I think Microsoft should bring back the Blackcomb and Whistler themes for Windows 8/RT desktop mode. I would be easy enough to gut the gaudy gradients from Blackcomb and pull what little 3D bordering Whistler had. Add in a selection of accent and title bar colors as defaults and they would be done while still maintaining aesthetic consistency with Metro apps.
I do have to agree with Microsoft pulling transparency and gradients. It makes a lot more sense when you realize they cost more power and battery life on ARM based CPUs and many of the accompanying GPUs. I like Aero Glass a lot, but I can definitely see the reasoning. I have to turn off transparency for a huge performance boost on my Atom based tablet though and have no gripes.
Terminals vs. full desktops is merely a cyclical trend. Eventually some of the truly interesting technology will come out to the masses and again, a local, low latency PC with dedicated processing power will be needed again. Consider when a local PC can be Watson (IBM) but needs all the resources of the i25 CPU and GTX 3000 to do it. Time-sharing PC resources via semi-dumb terminals only works because the current applications can't interact with the user and the user can't interact with the application fast enough for latency and power to be relevant right now.
It's just as cyclical as high speed serialization versus massive parallelization in CPUs, RAM, Storage, etc. RAMBUS vs DDR, PATA vs SATA, USB 2.0 vs. 3.0 vs Firewire vs Thunderbolt, ISA vs VLB vs PCI vs AGP vs PCI-X vs PCI-E, Sharding vs Instancing vs Singular Cluster. It all just cycles from one back to the other.
I agree with jmorris completely, and it's a point I've been making to people for months.
The only way I see such an infrastructure as a "good thing" is if there was a universal phone / pad dock and they run all of their REAL applications on some form of RDS / VDI / Citrix / VMware / HyperV farm. Also, in the case of tablets, the dock should be attached to the regular monitor as a second monitor. Sounds great until one considers the ridiculous cost any vendor would charge for a monitor with an MHL cable and universal tablet cradle. Not to mention all of the absurd costs to interface with any Apple iStuff.
Citrix at least sees this as a potential evolution vector with the relative quality of the Citrix Receiver betas for iOS and Android. Make the receiver (or similar secure RDP client) capable of recognizing the disconnect from wired ethernet and have it prioritize to Wifi then 3G/4G all while maintaining the session persistently, and you would have a heck of a tech demo.
At the current moment though, any business wanting to invest in making their workforce remote enabled, whether via web based cloud application fluff or proper virtualization, is much better served buying mainstream corporate grade laptops and docks. BYOD is pure status symbol and showing off, even now, 3 years in, and none of the productivity studies to date have been positive.
Assuming academia has taken notice and is doing long term testing, I predict the following results within the next 2-3 years regarding iPad and Android tablet use for "work" purposes after long term use (>1 year solid): 1) Productivity versus a laptop or desktop, loss of greater than 10% (likely as high as 15-20%, purely quantitative) across greater than 70% of workforce for all activities except e-mail. Loss would be higher, but reduced multitasking will actually benefit average ability / intellect workers, mitigating total loss by some degree. 2) User experience, highly divergent, 50% much more satisfied, 20% highly dissatisfied. The remainder won't have a strong opinion after long term use and will hover near neutral. Paradox of choice and worship of choice effects will manifest and the vast majority will still prefer having the option to use "alternative" devices regardless of impact. 3) Support costs: up by 15% or more for configuration and re-training needed. Does not include user retraining. 4) Infrastructure costs: up by 25-400% depending on the degree to which PC infrastructures are fully replicated to tablet and phone environments.
I wonder if some of the issue is actually Intel vetting approval from their legal department. A lot of people like to point at Intel engineering and point and say look at all the cool stuff they holding back and only offering as binary blobs. The reality is that their middle management business to business side keeps letting 3rd parties write horrific terms into contracts.
I know with Atom CPU development that the GPU is extremely encumbered by NDAs with PowerVR which prevent Intel from releasing any decent drivers for Linux or Android. There was even one support technician who commented on the fact that he compiled working Android x86 graphics drivers for GMA 500/600 based hardware only to find out from his boss that they could not be released because parts of the code tree where contaminated by bits of PowerVR code. The technician in question goes by "pinebud77" on YouTube and just "PineBud" on pocketables.com. At the time, about 2 years ago, Intel then and up through now, has had to completely rewrite their drivers for GMA graphics on both Windows and *nix platforms due to bad legal agreements. They've had to go so far as to reverse engineer drivers they had already paid for. It has even been questioned how much this killed Meego development in early stages.
I suspect there might be similar bad deals with partners hurting Intel here. The gist I have gotten is that they don't want to withhold drivers or technology, but even when they back up a Brinks truck of cash, they get screwed on contract terms by 3rd parties. The management folks don't have any clue why they might need rights to code they buy from Imagination Technology, Tungsten, or others.
I know the article is related to multi-threading CPU processes, which Intel definitely has a lot of their own engineering invested, but I wouldn't take the "I don't like doing R&D for competitors if they're not going to contribute themselves," as the sole reason. Further, seriously consider the current x86 vs ARM environment. If you look at the article comments and forums at many other tech news sites (namely arstechnica.com and theverge.com) there are a LOT of relatively ignorant people who seem to think various ARM architectures are vastly superior in computing power to x86 and trying to turn it into some kind of architecture holy war on the scale of AMD vs. Intel vs. Cyrix debates of years past. People who actually think that ARM has equivalent processing power to low end i5 CPUs, when top end quad core ARM CPU's can't even match the FPU performance of 4 year old ATOM single cores. It's even harder to explain to those crowds the massive issues ARM has with scaling and multitasking due to huge bandwidth to IO busses bottlenecks. All of these factors give Intel very good reasons not to share their undertakings with competitors who have brainwashed enough masses to no longer need to compete on merits. I'll give various ARM implementations the performance to battery use crown all day, it's a great CPU for something like a smartphone. When I hear derpity derp about ARM for high utilization clusters though, I vomit a bit in my throat.
Since Apple is making a big deal about dropping Google Maps for OpenStreetMap and having 3D display, but no street view, I think we really know what surveillance this drone was doing.
After all, the timing of the mission completion is pretty suspect. Unable to obtain his thermonuclear option for Android, clearly Jobs coordinated with the Air Force to "nuke it from space, it's the only way to be sure."
Never meant to say they couldn't buy more IPs. It would just be an interesting use of NAT to provide semi-anonymous use. They could get a block of 128 addresses and round robin them by port, figuring 80 for the resident units and the remaining 48 for Wifi APs, management, and anything else someone wants to run. Good point though, I missed saying this when I posted earlier. I was too enraptured at the time thinking of a fully symmetric, low latency pipe to a ring of fibre.
Did they analyze the average Bacon number of those within this tipping 1%? Since we are talking about influential people, perhaps they should have used the Christopher Lee geometric range index as well. Also, I wouldn't call it "a progressive series of 'tipping' incidents" if anything, tipping has been highly regressive for wages in the food service and hospitality industries.
If your association is full of tech heads (>50%) you could try to talk them into metro Ethernet.
If you are in a metropolitan area, you should be able to get a metro GbE Ethernet drop for around $5000 / month. Go straight to the top tier providers, probably your best bet is Level 3. Send me a message if you like, I know someone who does sales for them (not trying to plug, just being honest). Most of the competitors are just re-leasing Level 3, Comcast, etcetera's lines. Comes out to about $60-70 / month each unit, so it's not cheap. While 12 mbps per unit sounds like low DSL speeds, it would be a rarity to have more than 30-50% online pulling full bandwidth even during peak hours... unless absolutely everyone is heavy into Netflix and Hulu.
The downside, is that is before the other $5-10k or so of switching and routing equipment you need to regulate traffic and a few thousand more in line runs. You need to run at least one drop to each unit, possibly allow them to have it run to a utility closet or such and dropped into their own switch. I would really be looking at 2 drops per unit, one in a closet or bedroom, one in the living room.
Besides the obvious advantage of fully symmetric bandwidth, metro Ethernet never has any caps since it is a business class service. You could also roll a VoIP system in and have the installers pull the existing phone lines for their drops.
Level 3 is also in the business of selling virtualized cloud router service. The metro Ethernet drop from the DMARC goes straight to their hosted firewall, which you or they can manage to handle firewall, NAT, and routing of the resident drops. These are non-trivial, provider grade firewalls at that. I *think* they can handle the per port load balancing side of the equation, but I would have to check with my buddy just to be sure. The point is, you want to take as much maintenance and responsibility away from yourself as possible while getting the best quality and price of service.
All in all, it would be a great idea with a community that size to host a premium grade of service in house, but I suspect it is still a bit cost prohibitive. It would also add a small amount of legal protection for the residents should the RIAA or MPAA try to come after anyone. After all, it is 80 units behind a single IP. For resident privacy protection, your SLA could state that no logging be maintained except in the event of troubleshooting. I would verify with a lawyer that since it is community owned, that such lack of logging would be legal, since you are not an ISP.
I was going to say the same thing except use DVDs. They are substantially more physically durable and the number of shots he is talking, probably more likely to hold a day of shooting.
Kicking off the burn would only take 5 minutes from the laptop each night. If he's got a minimalist laptop with no optical storage, a USB model only runs $30-60 at NewEgg. Mailing home flash drives is the most durable option, but comes with the drawback that it is the highest cost, but even then, he's only looking at around $85 (14 days x $6) for two weeks at 8 GB / day for SD flash cards plus postage. On the flip side, he has all those flash cards ready for the next trip.
I would do Dropbox or rsync (or similar, up to taste) only when at a hotel with good Wifi as well, just for simplicity. If he's sleeping roughly the same hours each night he could make a scheduled task to launch and close at set time intervals -- done.
Women can be virtualized, but one must ensure that the time demands of each instance do not strain the resources. Women are very latency and resource sensitive. If resources become strained particularly a time-resource conflict, there is known flaw which will cause instances to become "aware" of the other instances. The resource contention causes a crash of all server hardware, and can cause a cascading failure of all network resources, including, but not limited to, other nearby servers, certainly any device on the same subnet is likely to see irrevocable damage. The end result always requires a full re-imaging and repair of hardware in question, but it is not uncommon for administrators of such systems to insist on attempting to spread resources to thin repeatedly.
The Church of Mormon, various drug dealers, rappers, and others have successfully virtualized many women to single physical node hardware through the process of paravirtualization. In this configuration each of the virtual machines are aware of the other virtual machines and employ a cooperative resource sharing model. Resource contention is mediated by the hypervisor who must keep their pimp hand strong in order to control resource allocation. Paravitualization requires a compatible personality kernel with a high affinity to co-dependence factors or exceptional repression based thread allocation and blocking.
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OneNote is a pretty novel way of organizing and taking notes electronically. Much more intuitive than anything I have tried on Android or iOS. That is a Microsoft original product. The Metro UI is another Microsoft first UI/UX with some especially compelling features versus the "grid of [static] icons" we have had for 25 years. The ever popular Google Street View is a clear offshoot of Microsoft's original Photosynth research. Sharepoint existed long before "the cloud", Dropbox, et cetera, and has mostly failed to garner a huge consumer following because it is not a cheap (free) service nor is it aimed anywhere near the consumer market.
Acknowledging there is a time and place for a stylus on a touchscreen (Surface Pro) when the popular tech press will crucify you for it. Definitely have to give them props for realizing there are more use cases than playing Angry Birds and shooting off 2-3 line e-mail replies for the tablet market.
And of course you see a lot more Apple devices in coffee shops. Besides the douchbag hipster side effects, you have a place where people want to socialize and relax (in theory at least). Of course a content consumption device makes more sense than a content production and work device. At a sports bar you would expect to see LCD TVs everywhere, right. You don't see batting cages, chalk boards, and workout equipment at normal sports bars, the use case does not dictate those tools.
Apple has been and always shall be a passing fad. Right now we are at another zenith of popularity, but by the end of the 2nd quarter of 2013, their tablet market share will be in a nosedive and they will once again be folding in the face of stiff competition. Heck, even most people who have used Windows Phone 7 are happier, have fewer crashes, and a more seamless experience than iOS. Though, in all fairness, even Android is statistically more stable than iOS (scary, but true).
If it is a GMA 500/600 part, then you need to use the latest Intel OEM drivers. They enable screen scaling of 1024x768 to a 1024x600 screen. Other than the aspect ratio being silly, Windows 8 actually renders very nicely scaled. Most of the App Store programs run without a hitch, and everything looks perfectly fine.
I have been playing with Windows 8 on an HP Slate 500. Most niggles are from 2-4 year old hardware skus with Windows 7 drivers on an RP version of the OS. Otherwise, it is a pretty smooth experience. Windows 8 has a slightly longer getting to know your hardware and break-in cycle than 7 did. After a few days of use though, the battery usage drops, speed and smoothness skyrocket. The various smart caching technologies in Windows 7 & 8 really deserve a full examination by somebody with assembly level knowledge to let us know all the tricks. It's among the top reasons I like Windows 7 better than *nix.
A relatively simple method would be a feedback loop. The parasite could stimulate dopamine receptors whenever it is exposed to compounds linked to feline odor. Since the parasite is already in the nervous system, it would be pretty easy for it to be hanging around the blood-brain barrier or the nasal system to receive the odors first hand even.
Ever see the dumb shit people will do coked up? Now reduce the cognitive inhibitions to the level of a rodent. Chemically, it's all the same.
But will they encourage the implementers (chip makers) to create chips with architecture to truly support 64-bit computing. At the moment, most ARM architectures might as well be 16-bit when it comes to bus bandwidth and data transfer. No use having high speed RAM of 512-2048 MB when the interface to the storage (typically flash) can't even touch SATA 1.0 speeds.
Seriously, ARM would do more good for itself pushing vendors to adopt proper multi-channel PCIe (>x4) in their architectures to multiple devices.
Between this and the Vanity Fair piece about MS being in some kind of nosedive, I think we are seeing the Apple PR machine gearing up against Surface and Windows 8/RT. The timing is pretty remarkable and Apple has quite the history of playing dirty with PR and marketing. Vanity Fair / Conde Nast have a pretty well established extremist pro-Apple history. Some of the contract writers rotate between Conde Nast and Education Week. Looks like people running in the same circles.
Also, the Gates Foundation has given Education Week literally millions of dollars in the past...
I'm thinking that especially in the case of the vaccines and dealing with big pharma, it's very simple. These are the people who have the drugs / vaccines. There is no way to avoid their special kind of evil and still get those supplies to needy states. If anything the Gates Foundation doesn't have the power to move those industries and just has to try to make decent deals with them.
Indeed. I look forward to the book 5 years from now detailing how in 2013-2014 Apple lost every market they dominated. Fact is it's coming, and Apple doesn't have anything cards up it's sleeve anymore. Between WinRT and Android they are going to get squeezed out of the industry. The enterprise doesn't have their backs, in fact most enterprise admins will welcome being able to beat back the security brush fire of "bring your own pretentious device."
Much like the 80's, Apple is about to collapse under their own arrogance. I wonder what the expiration date is on their CPU contracts with Samsung. Now you want to talk about cannibalism, how about a company that is a preying mantis to every company that develops the difficult technology for them while they adapt their existing software to run on it.
Pretty much any on-screen display of an interface meant to mimic a physical device should go straight into the "not patentable, prior art" pile at every patent office. There is nothing original, novel, or non-obvious regarding user interfaces which are similar in operation to physical devices.
Patent offices are funded by the application fees and tax moneys in most jurisdictions. I suggest they add an additional revenue stream for patent spamming. Start really examining the patent applications and if a company makes over X number of applications per year with more than some threshold percentage denied for prior art or otherwise not meeting a high standard of patentability, begin charging a punitive fee for the additional scrutiny their patents will need due to patent spamming.
Copernic would pretty well qualify then as the prior art. I was using their unified search program in 1999 at least. Pretty much any search system which used multiple database tables and separate functions for each qualifies which would take you back to probably to what, probably the 70's.
Funny, I played a lot of PC versions of Xbox 1 titles on a Celeron OC'd to 464 MHz, a Geforce 2 MX, though I did have 256 MB RAM. Ran games great on XP.
Please stop with the FUD and utterly made up garbage.
I've always found the video quality of VLC on Windows to be really poor. Both regular WMP and MPC-HC produce vastly better color and less noise. I keep it installed though for the occasional 1 in 100 file that MPC-HC won't play. These days I'm using XBMC. It's an entirely different class of program though.
I came to post almost exactly this. A la carte channel selection would make targeted advertising easy, and likely more acceptable to most. I don't want a DVR box relaying back each show I watch for profiling. I would be fine if I received commercials profiled based on the channels I have selected for a given month.
Its the difference between advertising based on the style of one's house exterior and what can be seen in the yard from the street versus walking inside uninvited and taking a look around the personal belongings.
Makes sense. The automotive carburetor came long after fuel injection and at the time was revolutionary for power production and fuel economy.
Derating power supplies and such is great, but microphones and light sensors to check on buzzers and lights is quite backwards. Both can be spoofed by ambient noise or light assuming simple to moderate detection models. Cheap, easy, and reliable would be to just measure the current and voltage drop across critical components. Bonus is that you can use one detection method and likely IC for multiple subsystems and that programming it into the software is trivial compared anything else.
The other method of hardware protection I prefer is just straight redundant systems where the redundant unit initiates a separate set of alarms once activated. For example, if a buzzer fails, the switchover triggers a backup buzzer plus flashing lights or error messages on display.
Programmers have desperately needed the backdrop of legal liability for the last 20 years. Unfortunately, I think the no liability clauses in illegal EULAs will continue unchallenged for quite some time. Whenever I hear the phrase, "tort reform," I always think the opposite of controlling legal liability and instead spreading the misery of lawyers on a variety of fields (mostly software development) until they can perform their jobs to the competency level of McDonald's. My pet peeve though is UI scalability and ADA compliance. How in the hell every software firm has ignored this with no class action lawsuits crushing them is beyond me.
Our best bet is for the extreme minority of highly skilled and competent programmers to develop AI suitable to writing the software on its own from wrote description. On the way there, we should have a competition between Watson and Wolfram Alpha to see which one can get their MCSE, RHCE, and CCIE certifications first.
If you are on the Release Preview, go to desktop, graphics properties and turn off transparency. Now switch color to white. It looks nearly identical to those shots.
Frankly I think Microsoft should bring back the Blackcomb and Whistler themes for Windows 8/RT desktop mode. I would be easy enough to gut the gaudy gradients from Blackcomb and pull what little 3D bordering Whistler had. Add in a selection of accent and title bar colors as defaults and they would be done while still maintaining aesthetic consistency with Metro apps.
I do have to agree with Microsoft pulling transparency and gradients. It makes a lot more sense when you realize they cost more power and battery life on ARM based CPUs and many of the accompanying GPUs. I like Aero Glass a lot, but I can definitely see the reasoning. I have to turn off transparency for a huge performance boost on my Atom based tablet though and have no gripes.
Terminals vs. full desktops is merely a cyclical trend. Eventually some of the truly interesting technology will come out to the masses and again, a local, low latency PC with dedicated processing power will be needed again. Consider when a local PC can be Watson (IBM) but needs all the resources of the i25 CPU and GTX 3000 to do it. Time-sharing PC resources via semi-dumb terminals only works because the current applications can't interact with the user and the user can't interact with the application fast enough for latency and power to be relevant right now.
It's just as cyclical as high speed serialization versus massive parallelization in CPUs, RAM, Storage, etc. RAMBUS vs DDR, PATA vs SATA, USB 2.0 vs. 3.0 vs Firewire vs Thunderbolt, ISA vs VLB vs PCI vs AGP vs PCI-X vs PCI-E, Sharding vs Instancing vs Singular Cluster. It all just cycles from one back to the other.
I agree with jmorris completely, and it's a point I've been making to people for months.
The only way I see such an infrastructure as a "good thing" is if there was a universal phone / pad dock and they run all of their REAL applications on some form of RDS / VDI / Citrix / VMware / HyperV farm. Also, in the case of tablets, the dock should be attached to the regular monitor as a second monitor. Sounds great until one considers the ridiculous cost any vendor would charge for a monitor with an MHL cable and universal tablet cradle. Not to mention all of the absurd costs to interface with any Apple iStuff.
Citrix at least sees this as a potential evolution vector with the relative quality of the Citrix Receiver betas for iOS and Android. Make the receiver (or similar secure RDP client) capable of recognizing the disconnect from wired ethernet and have it prioritize to Wifi then 3G/4G all while maintaining the session persistently, and you would have a heck of a tech demo.
At the current moment though, any business wanting to invest in making their workforce remote enabled, whether via web based cloud application fluff or proper virtualization, is much better served buying mainstream corporate grade laptops and docks. BYOD is pure status symbol and showing off, even now, 3 years in, and none of the productivity studies to date have been positive.
Assuming academia has taken notice and is doing long term testing, I predict the following results within the next 2-3 years regarding iPad and Android tablet use for "work" purposes after long term use (>1 year solid):
1) Productivity versus a laptop or desktop, loss of greater than 10% (likely as high as 15-20%, purely quantitative) across greater than 70% of workforce for all activities except e-mail. Loss would be higher, but reduced multitasking will actually benefit average ability / intellect workers, mitigating total loss by some degree.
2) User experience, highly divergent, 50% much more satisfied, 20% highly dissatisfied. The remainder won't have a strong opinion after long term use and will hover near neutral. Paradox of choice and worship of choice effects will manifest and the vast majority will still prefer having the option to use "alternative" devices regardless of impact.
3) Support costs: up by 15% or more for configuration and re-training needed. Does not include user retraining.
4) Infrastructure costs: up by 25-400% depending on the degree to which PC infrastructures are fully replicated to tablet and phone environments.
I wonder if some of the issue is actually Intel vetting approval from their legal department. A lot of people like to point at Intel engineering and point and say look at all the cool stuff they holding back and only offering as binary blobs. The reality is that their middle management business to business side keeps letting 3rd parties write horrific terms into contracts.
I know with Atom CPU development that the GPU is extremely encumbered by NDAs with PowerVR which prevent Intel from releasing any decent drivers for Linux or Android. There was even one support technician who commented on the fact that he compiled working Android x86 graphics drivers for GMA 500/600 based hardware only to find out from his boss that they could not be released because parts of the code tree where contaminated by bits of PowerVR code. The technician in question goes by "pinebud77" on YouTube and just "PineBud" on pocketables.com. At the time, about 2 years ago, Intel then and up through now, has had to completely rewrite their drivers for GMA graphics on both Windows and *nix platforms due to bad legal agreements. They've had to go so far as to reverse engineer drivers they had already paid for. It has even been questioned how much this killed Meego development in early stages.
I suspect there might be similar bad deals with partners hurting Intel here. The gist I have gotten is that they don't want to withhold drivers or technology, but even when they back up a Brinks truck of cash, they get screwed on contract terms by 3rd parties. The management folks don't have any clue why they might need rights to code they buy from Imagination Technology, Tungsten, or others.
I know the article is related to multi-threading CPU processes, which Intel definitely has a lot of their own engineering invested, but I wouldn't take the "I don't like doing R&D for competitors if they're not going to contribute themselves," as the sole reason. Further, seriously consider the current x86 vs ARM environment. If you look at the article comments and forums at many other tech news sites (namely arstechnica.com and theverge.com) there are a LOT of relatively ignorant people who seem to think various ARM architectures are vastly superior in computing power to x86 and trying to turn it into some kind of architecture holy war on the scale of AMD vs. Intel vs. Cyrix debates of years past. People who actually think that ARM has equivalent processing power to low end i5 CPUs, when top end quad core ARM CPU's can't even match the FPU performance of 4 year old ATOM single cores. It's even harder to explain to those crowds the massive issues ARM has with scaling and multitasking due to huge bandwidth to IO busses bottlenecks. All of these factors give Intel very good reasons not to share their undertakings with competitors who have brainwashed enough masses to no longer need to compete on merits. I'll give various ARM implementations the performance to battery use crown all day, it's a great CPU for something like a smartphone. When I hear derpity derp about ARM for high utilization clusters though, I vomit a bit in my throat.
Since Apple is making a big deal about dropping Google Maps for OpenStreetMap and having 3D display, but no street view, I think we really know what surveillance this drone was doing.
After all, the timing of the mission completion is pretty suspect. Unable to obtain his thermonuclear option for Android, clearly Jobs coordinated with the Air Force to "nuke it from space, it's the only way to be sure."
Never meant to say they couldn't buy more IPs. It would just be an interesting use of NAT to provide semi-anonymous use. They could get a block of 128 addresses and round robin them by port, figuring 80 for the resident units and the remaining 48 for Wifi APs, management, and anything else someone wants to run. Good point though, I missed saying this when I posted earlier. I was too enraptured at the time thinking of a fully symmetric, low latency pipe to a ring of fibre.
Did they analyze the average Bacon number of those within this tipping 1%? Since we are talking about influential people, perhaps they should have used the Christopher Lee geometric range index as well. Also, I wouldn't call it "a progressive series of 'tipping' incidents" if anything, tipping has been highly regressive for wages in the food service and hospitality industries.
If your association is full of tech heads (>50%) you could try to talk them into metro Ethernet.
If you are in a metropolitan area, you should be able to get a metro GbE Ethernet drop for around $5000 / month. Go straight to the top tier providers, probably your best bet is Level 3. Send me a message if you like, I know someone who does sales for them (not trying to plug, just being honest). Most of the competitors are just re-leasing Level 3, Comcast, etcetera's lines. Comes out to about $60-70 / month each unit, so it's not cheap. While 12 mbps per unit sounds like low DSL speeds, it would be a rarity to have more than 30-50% online pulling full bandwidth even during peak hours... unless absolutely everyone is heavy into Netflix and Hulu.
The downside, is that is before the other $5-10k or so of switching and routing equipment you need to regulate traffic and a few thousand more in line runs. You need to run at least one drop to each unit, possibly allow them to have it run to a utility closet or such and dropped into their own switch. I would really be looking at 2 drops per unit, one in a closet or bedroom, one in the living room.
Besides the obvious advantage of fully symmetric bandwidth, metro Ethernet never has any caps since it is a business class service. You could also roll a VoIP system in and have the installers pull the existing phone lines for their drops.
Level 3 is also in the business of selling virtualized cloud router service. The metro Ethernet drop from the DMARC goes straight to their hosted firewall, which you or they can manage to handle firewall, NAT, and routing of the resident drops. These are non-trivial, provider grade firewalls at that. I *think* they can handle the per port load balancing side of the equation, but I would have to check with my buddy just to be sure. The point is, you want to take as much maintenance and responsibility away from yourself as possible while getting the best quality and price of service.
All in all, it would be a great idea with a community that size to host a premium grade of service in house, but I suspect it is still a bit cost prohibitive. It would also add a small amount of legal protection for the residents should the RIAA or MPAA try to come after anyone. After all, it is 80 units behind a single IP. For resident privacy protection, your SLA could state that no logging be maintained except in the event of troubleshooting. I would verify with a lawyer that since it is community owned, that such lack of logging would be legal, since you are not an ISP.
I was going to say the same thing except use DVDs. They are substantially more physically durable and the number of shots he is talking, probably more likely to hold a day of shooting.
Kicking off the burn would only take 5 minutes from the laptop each night. If he's got a minimalist laptop with no optical storage, a USB model only runs $30-60 at NewEgg. Mailing home flash drives is the most durable option, but comes with the drawback that it is the highest cost, but even then, he's only looking at around $85 (14 days x $6) for two weeks at 8 GB / day for SD flash cards plus postage. On the flip side, he has all those flash cards ready for the next trip.
I would do Dropbox or rsync (or similar, up to taste) only when at a hotel with good Wifi as well, just for simplicity. If he's sleeping roughly the same hours each night he could make a scheduled task to launch and close at set time intervals -- done.
Women can be virtualized, but one must ensure that the time demands of each instance do not strain the resources. Women are very latency and resource sensitive. If resources become strained particularly a time-resource conflict, there is known flaw which will cause instances to become "aware" of the other instances. The resource contention causes a crash of all server hardware, and can cause a cascading failure of all network resources, including, but not limited to, other nearby servers, certainly any device on the same subnet is likely to see irrevocable damage. The end result always requires a full re-imaging and repair of hardware in question, but it is not uncommon for administrators of such systems to insist on attempting to spread resources to thin repeatedly.
The Church of Mormon, various drug dealers, rappers, and others have successfully virtualized many women to single physical node hardware through the process of paravirtualization. In this configuration each of the virtual machines are aware of the other virtual machines and employ a cooperative resource sharing model. Resource contention is mediated by the hypervisor who must keep their pimp hand strong in order to control resource allocation. Paravitualization requires a compatible personality kernel with a high affinity to co-dependence factors or exceptional repression based thread allocation and blocking.