in the future...
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Minority Report
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· Score: 5, Insightful
we'll have cars that drive themselves down the sides of buildings, be able to prevent crimes from happening in the future, have really sweet video processing systems with haptic interfaces.
But we'll still have to sneakernet media from one workstation to another via removable media. Nothing ever changes.
I agree with you. The APIs should abstract the network & it's quirks from the developer. However, with today's less-than-perfect networks "wireless programming" to me means writing applications that are able to cope with a high-latency, low-throughput, on again off again network.
The title of this book should be 'J2ME programming for devices' since there's nothing inherently 'wireless' about the material the author presents. There's no mention of programming for different wireless networks (GPRS, mobitex, flex...) or how to integrate w/existing popular wireless services (SMS).
I initially thought of a wiki, but there's navigational issues. Folks get lost navigating though a big hypertext without some sort of visual user cues about where they are, where they've been. Can you put attachments in wikis e.g. binary documents?
I agree. Email works too, but email isn't centrally archived and isn't searchable by everyone (except for the email admin, ideally).
The whole point of a KM solution is to act as a central repository for "stuff" (project status, project documents, FAQs, internal processes...) so that nothing gets lost, nothing goes floating off into space. I know it's not a silver bullet, but every little bit helps.
live with my girlfriend in a small apartment (about 65 sq yards)...
If my math is right (and it's early, so it might not be), but:
1sq yd = 3 sq ft
so:
65 sq yds = 195 sq ft
Which sounds about the size of two dorm rooms put together. I bet if you replaced the cat5 wires with 802.11b eveything would be all good. Make sure to use WEP (yeah I know it's not foolproof), MAC ACLs and SSH/VPN.
I see from the article that it's an 800mhz processor, but does anyone know how it compares in performance to other 800mhz processors? Yes, I did the requisite Google search but didn't come up with any hard data.
It sounds like a great litte box at a great price, but if it sucks to write/compile code on, it's little more than a shiny toy.
Big corporations are so pro-Intel <best Bill Lumbergh voice> Ah, uhm, I'm going to have to, ah, disagree with you there Bob. </best Bill Lumbergh voice>
IT departments of "big corporations" don't know an AMD from an Intel from a MC68K (trust me on this one). More importantly, they don't care. All they can differentiate is OEMs: Dell, Compaq, Toshiba, etc. The OEM is the entity that provides all of the post sales service/support for the machines, so large IT crews are more interested in this than the processor.
If "alternative" processor manufacturers want to make inroads into "big corporations" they are going to have to start buddying up to the OEM's that supply PCs to them and get their chips inside those putty boxes.
Re:Jabber : great concept, awful reality.
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Programming Jabber
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Problem Number One: The server sucks.
Feel free to write your own. The protocol is completely open and documented.
Problem Number Two: The gateways suck
Feel free to write your own. The Jabber protocol is completely open and documented. The other IM networks you'll have to reverse engineer for yourself. This is not a jabber problem.
Problem Number Four: It's not neccessary.
In this case, fax machines aren't necessary because we already have the post office. EMail isn't necessary because we have phones. Phones aren't necessary because we have the post office.
Take a look here, Ford just announced that the latest line of the Ford Focus will be a wireless car! Yes, that's right you'll be able to take the car anywhere you want without having to worry about those annoying connector cables.
The CERIAS program at Purdue University is one of the recipients of this NSF grant. Other recipients include: CMU, and the Naval Post Graduate School. But this isn't necessarily a slam dunk, you still have to be admitted to the program at the school you apply to.
A free education is nothing to sneeze at. Talk to a current grad student who is either teaching a class or picking up his prof's dry cleaning to pay the bills and they will tell you how they wish they could find a funding source like this.
The institutions that received this grant do cutting-edge research in security that will influence the field for years to come. Heck, I'd do it just to go and study w/Spaf.
The idea was to teach us to program, not to condition us for a life under redmond rule.
That's funny. When I was in college the idea was to teach us to solve problems using computers in any language. I wrote code in PERL, Java, C/C++, and LISP.
The point of college isn't to learn to program in different languages, but to acquire and hone basic problem solving skills that you can apply to whatever language/tool/solution best fits the bill.
Why yes, that's the very version I'm referencing. Soul Coughing rocks my world. After hearing 'Circles' I went out and downloaded everything I could find by them, and after wearing a hole in those MP3s, I went out and bought all the albums. TAKE THAT RIAA!
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we'll have cars that drive themselves down the sides of buildings, be able to prevent crimes from happening in the future, have really sweet video processing systems with haptic interfaces.
But we'll still have to sneakernet media from one workstation to another via removable media. Nothing ever changes.
I agree with you. The APIs should abstract the network & it's quirks from the developer. However, with today's less-than-perfect networks "wireless programming" to me means writing applications that are able to cope with a high-latency, low-throughput, on again off again network.
The title of this book should be 'J2ME programming for devices' since there's nothing inherently 'wireless' about the material the author presents. There's no mention of programming for different wireless networks (GPRS, mobitex, flex...) or how to integrate w/existing popular wireless services (SMS).
Here's Moby's original journal entry that started it all.
What seems to be the problem?
I initially thought of a wiki, but there's navigational issues. Folks get lost navigating though a big hypertext without some sort of visual user cues about where they are, where they've been. Can you put attachments in wikis e.g. binary documents?
And then just for fun
I agree. Email works too, but email isn't centrally archived and isn't searchable by everyone (except for the email admin, ideally).
The whole point of a KM solution is to act as a central repository for "stuff" (project status, project documents, FAQs, internal processes...) so that nothing gets lost, nothing goes floating off into space. I know it's not a silver bullet, but every little bit helps.
Like I said, it was early. I'm not qualified to do math or operate heavy machinery before my second cup of coffe.
live with my girlfriend in a small apartment (about 65 sq yards)...
If my math is right (and it's early, so it might not be), but:
1sq yd = 3 sq ft
so:
65 sq yds = 195 sq ft
Which sounds about the size of two dorm rooms put together. I bet if you replaced the cat5 wires with 802.11b eveything would be all good. Make sure to use WEP (yeah I know it's not foolproof), MAC ACLs and SSH/VPN.
we didn't have "network games." Heck, we didn't even have a network. But in college... this sort of activity would get you booted from the lab.
That is, if the lab admin ever looked up from his network game.
Kartoo surrenders.
Alright, alright, I'll say it.
YOUR KUNG FU IS BETTER THAN MINE.
There, I hope you're satisfied.
Yup. But you could buy it from me with this link.
1 9/ ref=pd_gw_qpt_1/104-0173505-5464702
OT:
In an Amazon URL:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/02017109
the element right after the ASIN is the "product id", everything after that is session tracking info.
Everyone knows Bookpool is the cheapest place in town.
I see from the article that it's an 800mhz processor, but does anyone know how it compares in performance to other 800mhz processors? Yes, I did the requisite Google search but didn't come up with any hard data.
It sounds like a great litte box at a great price, but if it sucks to write/compile code on, it's little more than a shiny toy.
Big corporations are so pro-Intel
<best Bill Lumbergh voice>
Ah, uhm, I'm going to have to, ah, disagree with you there Bob.
</best Bill Lumbergh voice>
IT departments of "big corporations" don't know an AMD from an Intel from a MC68K (trust me on this one). More importantly, they don't care. All they can differentiate is OEMs: Dell, Compaq, Toshiba, etc. The OEM is the entity that provides all of the post sales service/support for the machines, so large IT crews are more interested in this than the processor.
If "alternative" processor manufacturers want to make inroads into "big corporations" they are going to have to start buddying up to the OEM's that supply PCs to them and get their chips inside those putty boxes.
Problem Number One: The server sucks.
Feel free to write your own. The protocol is completely open and documented.
Problem Number Two: The gateways suck
Feel free to write your own. The Jabber protocol is completely open and documented. The other IM networks you'll have to reverse engineer for yourself. This is not a jabber problem.
Problem Number Four: It's not neccessary.
In this case, fax machines aren't necessary because we already have the post office. EMail isn't necessary because we have phones. Phones aren't necessary because we have the post office.
Ah the sweet smell of progress.
Yeah I biffed the link. O'Reilly's web server is case sensitive so this:
h 05 . tml
h 05 . tml
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/Jabber/chapter/c
is not the same as this:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jabber/chapter/c
The correct link is the second one.
Take a look here, Ford just announced that the latest line of the Ford Focus will be a wireless car! Yes, that's right you'll be able to take the car anywhere you want without having to worry about those annoying connector cables.
/. story on this one?
Where's the
Open standards for content distribution... If only certain other sites...
Ah, but they do
The CERIAS program at Purdue University is one of the recipients of this NSF grant. Other recipients include: CMU, and the Naval Post Graduate School. But this isn't necessarily a slam dunk, you still have to be admitted to the program at the school you apply to.
A free education is nothing to sneeze at. Talk to a current grad student who is either teaching a class or picking up his prof's dry cleaning to pay the bills and they will tell you how they wish they could find a funding source like this.
The institutions that received this grant do cutting-edge research in security that will influence the field for years to come. Heck, I'd do it just to go and study w/Spaf.
The idea was to teach us to program, not to condition us for a life under redmond rule.
That's funny. When I was in college the idea was to teach us to solve problems using computers in any language. I wrote code in PERL, Java, C/C++, and LISP.
The point of college isn't to learn to program in different languages, but to acquire and hone basic problem solving skills that you can apply to whatever language/tool/solution best fits the bill.
Why yes, that's the very version I'm referencing. Soul Coughing rocks my world. After hearing 'Circles' I went out and downloaded everything I could find by them, and after wearing a hole in those MP3s, I went out and bought all the albums. TAKE THAT RIAA!
Amazon charges full price ($49.95), bookpool has it for 20% off ($39.95).