I for one am very excited about the future of graphics. Many people seem to be thrilled with the ever-widening use and availability of HD tv. And with some measure, I am too. However, there are many more things to do with displays that would truely expand their usefulness in both the realm of quality and quantity. "Really there" video displays would make for some interesting experiences and shots from locations uninhabitable. Flat displays have plenty of room to expand into the markets of paper (you didn't think the newspaper was going to be back-lit, did you?)
Cheers for more/better display technology, the people that would bring them to the R&D table, and someday maybe the commercial market.
They're selling the hardware (lense). Great. How about "HAL" himself? Can I download the software? Will he be supported with future updates? What about scalability options? What payment options are there for site licensing?
Don't buy the hardware unless they support the software too.
When it comes down to the logistical standpoint of fighting crime (ala $) Top-Ten fugitives aren't very dangerous. Sure they might kill a handful of people but they can't compare to the relative mastermind it takes to generate a boatload of spam and get it past a few spam filters.
Now I don't mean to sound cold. I know that this certainly wouldn't make any difference if someone close to me were directly effected by the capture of a criminal, but the honest comparison is dozens of lives to thousands and thousands of people having to fight spam.
If I didn't know better, I'd think I've lost my soul for that comparison...:(
"Your sister was brutally murdered, but the guy who could have caught him had the option of Billy the Bludgeoner and that punk kid sending millions of annoying emails. He went to bank by helping capture the kid."
The customer service is what will doom Earthlink, not the R&D to fix network routing problems.
To quote what is on DSL Reports
"To dodge potential legal bullets, the company notes SIPShare is NOT a supported EarthLink product. 'It is more than anything else a manifestation of an idea,' says the company. 'So if you call our Tech Support with SIPshare questions, they will have no idea what you are talking about. So please, if you use SIPshare, you're on your own.'"
From the article: " If the net grows to 100 billion devices connected to it, our goal is to have a piece of Intel inside in every one of those hundred billion " Pat Gelsinger, Intel
An obvious point.
As for what they are planning to do about it, it seems they are trying to head in two directions at once. They want majority share in the heart of the beast, and they want each device to sport the "Intel Inside" sticker. While software and hardware capable of heading off worms and other malicious attacks would be ideally placed near or on routers, consumer-end devices would only benefit from firewall-like protection. Might as well use a standard router or linux box.
I see this being a potential useful feature. Granted it could be cracked, or virus-enforced and lock a home user out of their external drives, but for a network admin this has got to be a dream come true.
This would be great for a school environment taking the load off the sysadmins to find third party software to lock down the desktops. Being able to control what devices enter an environment like a school network can save time and money, neither of which sysadmins have in abundance.
what dedicated hardware can do. It's an proven fact and anyone that works with embeded systems can testify to the performance. We need to stop flaunting 3+ gigahertz processors using archaic instruction sets and focus on routing data to hardware that can handle the task.
If the CPU was nothing but a router and directed data to dedicated hardware (network cards, GPU with integrated physics engine, harddisk controller, etc) we can get away from inefficient execution tied up in an architecture that 99% of the market depends on.
Computers were built with modularity in mind. We need to get back to those roots as it's not only a good idea, but the only way we're going to get past some performance barriers.
"And in other news, id Software - the makers of the popular Doom3 title - announced today that rival software house Valve Studios has decided to delay their release of the much anticipated title "Half-Life 2" due to compromised code last year. With the new partnership the release of Half-Life 2 an unexpectedly new entry into a market that's as cold as the new liquid cooled Nvidia GeForce 256000 cards. The confirmed release date: 2243"
Modders will mod just about anything for the sake of modding. The fact that it's easy will attract some while repel others, and vice versa. The fact there is money tied to this particular competition puts it in the headlines but doesn't necessarily draw out anything that hasn't been seen elsewhere.
Viva la Mod! (posted with a ten-foot bamboo pole in a treehouse made from legos)
Heh, not to burst anyone's bubble about the #2 ISP, but Total Access 2004 (Earthlink's famous software) does not in fact remove spyware. Similar to some default settings in Ad-Aware it quarantines the software found malicious, but does not remove those files.
This could be a good thing because for a while there it was grabbing some critical files for TurboTax and you ended up on the phone with your favorite company of this month for a few hours trying to get it reactivated.
I can confirm the presence of monitoring software that is used soley for monitoring software crashes and bug reporting that is included in TA2k4.
Lastly, the entire software package is pretty helpful for what it costs in terms of time and system resources (and technical support fixing the thing). The #1 feature is the spam blocker which if you read the website you'll see that it's nothing revolutionary to the people that have been using email for 10+ years (are linux savvy and have their own mail server), but for the average user who doesn't have many more resources at their fingertips than the Start menu - it's pretty useful.
If you run windows there are registry keys used to track your usage of windows media player (unless you remove them) thus, the ratio is a lot closer to 1 : 1 of every windows computer out there, more so with more recent windows OSes. It's not the only program either, use a firewall and don't install software that you don't need.
they can make crippled products that won't print money, or they can make money you can't print. I'd think that if the government of any country is having enough of a problem with fake money they should move to digital money. They already do for bank transfers and credit cards, why not go all the way?
The browser is only the beginning. It's all those other things that people like installing that pollute the system with crap: desktop modifications (blinky christmas lights), cursors, giant icon collections, etc.
The less you install the more clean and stable the system - general rule-of-thumb for any windows box as anyone that's been intimate with their registry would know. One program I have to work with every day installs over 70 registry keys (which isn't too bad) but the uninstaller is lucky to find 4 of those.
...you must not be using IE. This has been happening for a while now and is pretty obvious if you're forced to use IE for any extended period of time.
There will be a popup or two with the not-so-subtle title 'SPYWARE DETECTED!' and enough flashing colors to make any experienced sufer wary. Spyware works best against the inexperienced, is this a surprise to anyone?
A lot of dialup providers have always sold 'unlimited' dialup with the footnote that unlimited equates to a maximum of 12 hours a day and maximum connection time of 2-4 hours in a session.
I suggest charging a minimum fee for the connection itself and start charging more for the service used.
The phone companies (as much as we love/hate them) have a pretty good system worked out for $20/mo you get a local phone line that includes emergency access and whatnot.
ISP's could probably swing a connection for $20/mo with (oh I don't know) 50-75 gb of transfer. Best to make it symetrical traffic too. Then, when someones goes over it, charge them per gb of traffic.
This addresses a few problems: * People complaining highspeed is too expensive * ISP's taking a hit because not many people sign up * People/ISP's happy with a balance of traffic vs billing
Unfortunately believable... The company pays for a brain upgrade that's enabled/disabled at the door and it makes for a more efficient and capable worker. Wrong or right?
I do plenty of old picture repair jobs and find that many other programs on the market (especially the ones bundled with digital cameras or new computers) are fall several steps short of being powerful and capable enough to fix old discolored and scratched up photos.
I don't remember recommending what they should price their software.
I did suggest the software as a whole would be more affordable if they didn't dump R&D $$s into copy protection that can be side-stepped by ctrl+c ctrl+v from mspaint.
Poorly supported and closed architecture protocols, formats, and designs, suck.
There is little problem with many formats - in fact more formats are desired in some cases - it's the transfering data between formats that is catching us later on.
It may be that he hasn't spent the time and effort to put into words what he's been praticing and developing.
Being someone that sounds like an abstract sequential thinker, it's likely not far from the truth that he probably comes up with many ideas and designs and simply has no explanation for how they work.
He knows they do, but couldn't explain it without much more time spent on the explanation than the furthering of the design.
Genius with a touch of insanity, it's what great thinkers are made of.
I seriously doubt Cali will ever overtake anything. On the other hand, with the Govinator in charge, they might take over the world, but that's only aquiring the power to rule, not replace. They might tell you how to make your cheese, but you're right when you say they'll never replace Wisconsin.
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I for one am very excited about the future of graphics. Many people seem to be thrilled with the ever-widening use and availability of HD tv. And with some measure, I am too. However, there are many more things to do with displays that would truely expand their usefulness in both the realm of quality and quantity.
"Really there" video displays would make for some interesting experiences and shots from locations uninhabitable. Flat displays have plenty of room to expand into the markets of paper (you didn't think the newspaper was going to be back-lit, did you?)
Cheers for more/better display technology, the people that would bring them to the R&D table, and someday maybe the commercial market.
They're selling the hardware (lense). Great. How about "HAL" himself? Can I download the software? Will he be supported with future updates? What about scalability options? What payment options are there for site licensing?
Don't buy the hardware unless they support the software too.
When it comes down to the logistical standpoint of fighting crime (ala $) Top-Ten fugitives aren't very dangerous. Sure they might kill a handful of people but they can't compare to the relative mastermind it takes to generate a boatload of spam and get it past a few spam filters.
:(
Now I don't mean to sound cold. I know that this certainly wouldn't make any difference if someone close to me were directly effected by the capture of a criminal, but the honest comparison is dozens of lives to thousands and thousands of people having to fight spam.
If I didn't know better, I'd think I've lost my soul for that comparison...
"Your sister was brutally murdered, but the guy who could have caught him had the option of Billy the Bludgeoner and that punk kid sending millions of annoying emails. He went to bank by helping capture the kid."
The customer service is what will doom Earthlink, not the R&D to fix network routing problems.
To quote what is on DSL Reports "To dodge potential legal bullets, the company notes SIPShare is NOT a supported EarthLink product. 'It is more than anything else a manifestation of an idea,' says the company. 'So if you call our Tech Support with SIPshare questions, they will have no idea what you are talking about. So please, if you use SIPshare, you're on your own.'"
From the article:
" If the net grows to 100 billion devices connected to it, our goal is to have a piece of Intel inside in every one of those hundred billion "
Pat Gelsinger, Intel
An obvious point.
As for what they are planning to do about it, it seems they are trying to head in two directions at once. They want majority share in the heart of the beast, and they want each device to sport the "Intel Inside" sticker.
While software and hardware capable of heading off worms and other malicious attacks would be ideally placed near or on routers, consumer-end devices would only benefit from firewall-like protection. Might as well use a standard router or linux box.
I see this being a potential useful feature. Granted it could be cracked, or virus-enforced and lock a home user out of their external drives, but for a network admin this has got to be a dream come true.
This would be great for a school environment taking the load off the sysadmins to find third party software to lock down the desktops. Being able to control what devices enter an environment like a school network can save time and money, neither of which sysadmins have in abundance.
what dedicated hardware can do. It's an proven fact and anyone that works with embeded systems can testify to the performance. We need to stop flaunting 3+ gigahertz processors using archaic instruction sets and focus on routing data to hardware that can handle the task.
If the CPU was nothing but a router and directed data to dedicated hardware (network cards, GPU with integrated physics engine, harddisk controller, etc) we can get away from inefficient execution tied up in an architecture that 99% of the market depends on.
Computers were built with modularity in mind. We need to get back to those roots as it's not only a good idea, but the only way we're going to get past some performance barriers.
warning beacon. I've been wondering when it would drift close enough to be detected.
STAY AWAY! Mostly Harmless (but they're getting worse).
As long as it's not Valve, we're ok!
"And in other news, id Software - the makers of the popular Doom3 title - announced today that rival software house Valve Studios has decided to delay their release of the much anticipated title "Half-Life 2" due to compromised code last year. With the new partnership the release of Half-Life 2 an unexpectedly new entry into a market that's as cold as the new liquid cooled Nvidia GeForce 256000 cards. The confirmed release date: 2243"
Modders will mod just about anything for the sake of modding. The fact that it's easy will attract some while repel others, and vice versa. The fact there is money tied to this particular competition puts it in the headlines but doesn't necessarily draw out anything that hasn't been seen elsewhere.
Viva la Mod!
(posted with a ten-foot bamboo pole in a treehouse made from legos)
Heh, not to burst anyone's bubble about the #2 ISP, but Total Access 2004 (Earthlink's famous software) does not in fact remove spyware. Similar to some default settings in Ad-Aware it quarantines the software found malicious, but does not remove those files.
This could be a good thing because for a while there it was grabbing some critical files for TurboTax and you ended up on the phone with your favorite company of this month for a few hours trying to get it reactivated.
I can confirm the presence of monitoring software that is used soley for monitoring software crashes and bug reporting that is included in TA2k4.
Lastly, the entire software package is pretty helpful for what it costs in terms of time and system resources (and technical support fixing the thing). The #1 feature is the spam blocker which if you read the website you'll see that it's nothing revolutionary to the people that have been using email for 10+ years (are linux savvy and have their own mail server), but for the average user who doesn't have many more resources at their fingertips than the Start menu - it's pretty useful.
If you run windows there are registry keys used to track your usage of windows media player (unless you remove them) thus, the ratio is a lot closer to 1 : 1 of every windows computer out there, more so with more recent windows OSes.
It's not the only program either, use a firewall and don't install software that you don't need.
they can make crippled products that won't print money, or they can make money you can't print.
I'd think that if the government of any country is having enough of a problem with fake money they should move to digital money. They already do for bank transfers and credit cards, why not go all the way?
The browser is only the beginning. It's all those other things that people like installing that pollute the system with crap: desktop modifications (blinky christmas lights), cursors, giant icon collections, etc.
The less you install the more clean and stable the system - general rule-of-thumb for any windows box as anyone that's been intimate with their registry would know. One program I have to work with every day installs over 70 registry keys (which isn't too bad) but the uninstaller is lucky to find 4 of those.
*sigh*
...you must not be using IE.
This has been happening for a while now and is pretty obvious if you're forced to use IE for any extended period of time.
There will be a popup or two with the not-so-subtle title 'SPYWARE DETECTED!' and enough flashing colors to make any experienced sufer wary. Spyware works best against the inexperienced, is this a surprise to anyone?
The dark side of hacking/phreaking hurts the customer as prices soar trying to protect a system.
On the flip side, systems are continually being secured tighter and tighter which makes systems better protected against the amature.
I guess it depends on how much you value one or the other: security and the cost to go with it or obscurity.
I don't know what the exact weight of the exact flash card they are using is, but I would think a ROM backup would be in order for future projects.
Just a thought.
A lot of dialup providers have always sold 'unlimited' dialup with the footnote that unlimited equates to a maximum of 12 hours a day and maximum connection time of 2-4 hours in a session.
I suggest charging a minimum fee for the connection itself and start charging more for the service used.
The phone companies (as much as we love/hate them) have a pretty good system worked out for $20/mo you get a local phone line that includes emergency access and whatnot.
ISP's could probably swing a connection for $20/mo with (oh I don't know) 50-75 gb of transfer. Best to make it symetrical traffic too. Then, when someones goes over it, charge them per gb of traffic.
This addresses a few problems:
* People complaining highspeed is too expensive
* ISP's taking a hit because not many people sign up
* People/ISP's happy with a balance of traffic vs billing
Unfortunately believable... The company pays for a brain upgrade that's enabled/disabled at the door and it makes for a more efficient and capable worker. Wrong or right?
I do plenty of old picture repair jobs and find that many other programs on the market (especially the ones bundled with digital cameras or new computers) are fall several steps short of being powerful and capable enough to fix old discolored and scratched up photos.
I don't remember recommending what they should price their software.
I did suggest the software as a whole would be more affordable if they didn't dump R&D $$s into copy protection that can be side-stepped by ctrl+c ctrl+v from mspaint.
Lost your wallet?
Lost the time?
Which do you value more? I hope the watch band is sturdy.
"Understand this: Monopolies suck. Monocultures suck."
Poorly supported and closed architecture protocols, formats, and designs, suck.
There is little problem with many formats - in fact more formats are desired in some cases - it's the transfering data between formats that is catching us later on.
It may be that he hasn't spent the time and effort to put into words what he's been praticing and developing.
Being someone that sounds like an abstract sequential thinker, it's likely not far from the truth that he probably comes up with many ideas and designs and simply has no explanation for how they work.
He knows they do, but couldn't explain it without much more time spent on the explanation than the furthering of the design.
Genius with a touch of insanity, it's what great thinkers are made of.
I seriously doubt Cali will ever overtake anything. On the other hand, with the Govinator in charge, they might take over the world, but that's only aquiring the power to rule, not replace. They might tell you how to make your cheese, but you're right when you say they'll never replace Wisconsin.