Why do we let the nerds specify this stuff? The correct phrase is "Alexa, let me talk to Cortana". When you're on the phone to your Mom, do you say "Mom, open Dad"???
There is no reason that listening on a socket needs to use ANY battery at all. It WOULD be wise to have a model for checking whether a packet is DoS/dealing with heartbearts before causing it to fire up the real app process, but given that, there is no reason why SIP can't be efficient. If the reasoning for this has anything to do with battery, then it's lazy.
This isn't entirely a mystery. For a technology to be widely adopted, it needs to be easy for everyone and provide demonstrable benefits. OR, it needs to provide benefits for a business who already has your custom. And there we begin to see the problem. There are two massive disincentives:
- Crypto doesn't play well with webmail - Encrypted email can't be scanned for advert keywords
So you will never see the likes of Google or Microsoft championing this. Apple - just maybe, as they would rather promote devices, and I gather they actually DO have decent end to end crypto on iMessage and so on. But even then, it's VERY hard to do in a way that customers would actually appreciate. No-one wants to get email working 95% of the time. It needs to be 100%. If you can't read 5% of your email, you're in trouble. Or you can't read email on the 5% of time that you need to access from a borrowed PC.
It seems to me that the keys to making this work are:
- Concentrate on signing before crypto. Get banks to sign email. Have different security levels; get to a stage where by default, only signed email will download embedded images, make links clickable without a warning, etc.. - Find a way to make it work with webmail. Can we do this with JS? Or do we need browser support? End to end crypto It would require a way for a part of a page to be sandboxed, accept a secret to decrypt your keys, and not allow the plaintext info out. End to end signing is a little easier. This might also include retrieving the private keys from a distinct cloud service. - Solve the centralized trust issue. Probably derive a format from S/MINE rather than GPG for email, but critically, signing of certs needs a community trust system so you can see who trusts who, and people can get their identities signed by people they know.
Finally, if that's widely deployed for signing then people can begin to encrypt with a hope of the other end being able to decrypt.
I've felt the same way for years. I had high hopes for Google Wave to fill the gap.
It's not the same thing, and scripting for end users would not have been the same, but we don't need a direct replacement. We need:
- Web based, cloud based. - Multi screen sized, flowable - The card stack model from HyperCard was GOOD for naive use - and perfectly carried into Google Wave - Simple scripting, but probably JavaScript not HyperTalk
In fact, my ideal system is somewhere in the middle of Wave, HyperCard, Lotus Notes, XSLT or similar and the web.
- Document templates that can be filled in. Let's get rid of MS Word and have more structured docs, but in a way that hobby developers can cope with. - Effective visual editing of templates; HTML template editing but much more like a good UI editor, - Somehow remove all the complexity from the scripting of events... HyperCard WAS good at this!!
I'm not going to mention SharePoint. MicroSoft NEVER understood groupware!
Options would have to be costed. Many things would feed into that. The problem of course is that for all of those costings, probability multiplied by survivability does not produce a linear outcome of quality of life value; you could assign a value of harm to each individual present, but you could not get a meaningful figure by summation.
It didn't matter whether it was last year or next...IP usage was accelerating into the wall anyway. The GOOD part about this is that now the US is out of addresses certain parts of the Internet industry are more likely to take IPv6 seriously.
Sadly, ISPs in other parts of the world have proven adept at further avoiding the problem by downgrading consumer connections to carrier-grade NAT, so we have another 5 years of eking out of old order before people REALLY have to take notice.
Surely for a few tens of thousands of pounds, it would have been better to publish and API for storing and modifying the info on (secured) web servers locally in a way that could be indexed and catalogued separately. Then, incentivize private firms to make and sell software to surgeries and hospitals that provide the API. Why do people always go for monolithic top down solutions for these things?
Sorry, I have no idea if there is a US version, and of course it it quite specific about taxes and so on. But it was the best day of my software experience life when I switched from SAGE to Clearbooks. Not only does it do everything we need, but it is the first accounts package I have ever seen that anticipates your needs - "this account isn't really suitable for this transaction, your probably want to use x instead". "This is a large capital purchase, so it's been added to your asset register pending approval". OMG it's wonderful!!!
Yes, I'm an evangelist. Most accounting packages are so bad that it's like night and day when you see a good one. It includes... - PAYE (uk equivalent of withholding) - VAT (EU equivalent of sales tax) - automated monthly importing of bank statements direct from bank websites - automated matching of statement items with purchases and vendors - automated asset management and depreciation - automated filing of govt tax forms for VAT, corporation tax and others - multicurrency, + international transactions in line with tax rules - quicky stuff like small business flat rate VAT, agricultural taxes, partnership tax rules, etc etc
I may no longer actually need an accountant. I could never say that with other software. With this, I am beginning to think that he adds no value whatsoever.
Tell you what I always wanted in a remake of Élite... nerd tools. An extension API, allowing scripts, GUIs/HUDs and possibly external connectivity. And the same facility to trade code and attachments that you see in something like Second Life.
Imagine.... - The universe really IS newtonian, but you can develop and trade control systems that make it appear otherwise and apply directed power to compensate for unwelcome inertia - Bots, autopilots, combat aids - Buy extra ships, develop swarm/formation flying control systems
What? Is this a desirable mash up? To me, it's the logical conclusion of real trading and real newtonian physics. Give the society the real ability to develop and create.
The challenge is to make sure that automated things don't dominate, and to create a playing society that can police the worst renegades. Rules are enforced by players, with bounties etc..
There's a lot of clap trap in these comments trying to sum out Ron Paul by his financial policies. It completely misses the point.
Ron Paul is a constitutionalist.
He believes that the federal govt overreaches. Financially, yes, but also militarily, socially, and almost every other sphere of influence. I'm sure he'd be fine about individual states offering loans - or transport systems, or healthcare, or abortions, or ID cards, or gay marriage or whatever. But these are not the job of the federal government. It's not rocket science - he is simply the only prominent politician who takes the limitation to legislate only over "commerce among the several states" seriously.
In practise, this all means that he has the only plan that can save the USA, being as the first step to solving the financial hole is to stop digging. And that means cuts to spending. I personally hope that he would do it in such a way that individual states can take over whichever programs they want in a clean and managed way. But this man is your only hope. Vote for him.
My own AFP experience with QNAP was terrible, due to the dodgy FOSS stack - I forget which one - that was included. There was no useful way to authenticate (no OpenDirectory, no Kerberos, no way to automate user import). I ended up with iSCSI between the QNAP and the Mac OS Server (ATTO iSCSI) and serving AFP from there, with a 5x speed improvement.
Was I doing something wrong? It doesn't seem to match the AFP figures in the article. Anyone else have similar awful real-world AFP performance?
Of course, it IS still just about possible for one of us to fix USENET. If we cared enough.
- A distributed ratings system that works, and allows matching of your preferences to people with similar preferences. - A better standard for signing articles, and ownership of virtual websites where threads or subforums can only be started by the owner - Standards for structured documents and so on. - Incorporation and acceptance into multiple CMS's so that you can actually read existing forums through NNRP
So far, in the 15 years since this has been an issue, noone has cared enough to fix it. Pity.
Data points are rumors are.... - Drop the Mac branding, eg "OS X Leopard" - Drop or minimise Carbon favor of Cocoa - PC version of Leopard, or 10.6 - Apple Software Update can push/strongly advise major new apple software features to Windows users
In my mind, these add up to the old YELLOW BOX - i.e., the ability to run Mac (Cocoa) Apps on Windows. Yellow box is a compatibility layer. This feature was advertised initially with Rhapsody, but wisely withdrawn. We are now in a very different place. There are many desirable Mac Apps, and OS X is a desirable place for developers. Businesses begin to want Mac Apps and maybe eventually the full MacOS but need a transition path.
There is now every reason to release the Yellow Box and no reason not to. - It provides the transition path - It provides for stealth killer apps to seep onto Windows users' radar - It will no longer dilute Mac Sales - because Microsoft's lustre and safety have gone
Personally, I know about Nokia cellphones and 3G. Personally would choose one with AT command set on the adaptor port (some still do this though some only have USB) and run a long serial cable to a router. You might just go with one of those funny US dedicated EVDO/USB devices though.
What I'd really like to see is figures for the broadcaster and the hidden costs to the ISP for each of....
- Unicast - Bittorrent - Multicast
Multicast is so obviously the best solution all round for the, what, at least 50% of a national TV station's audience that watch predictable and consistent shows week after week. It would be pretty trivial for PCs to grab a multicast overnight.
By the way, the BBC really tried to do this right, but ISPs were too stupid to see that it was in their best interests to cooperate. This is my reading of the evidence - I accept corrections.
I think for most people who have a 800MHz G4, they probably still have that one classic app that they don't want to get rid of anyway. And because Apple is stupid enough to dump Classic in Leopard, many PPC users may well be in for a painful shock down the line. Personally - I rarely fire up classic any more. But I'm a geek and seek out new software.
Why is Apple doing this anyway? How hard would it be just to leave it in?
I tend to have more sympathy with this guy who asserts that the sucrose packaging of fructose is the most evil. Hope this adds interesting info. Please ignore the fact that the extract is hosted by "Nexus", who do have some rather wild ideas of their own!
In 1957, Dr William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: When is a food a food and when is it a poison? His working definition of "poison" was: "Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease. Physically: Any substance which inhibits the activity of a catalyst which is a minor substance, chemical or enzyme that activates a reaction."1 The dictionary gives an even broader definition for "poison": "to exert a harmful influence on, or to pervert".
Dr Martin classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. "What is left consists of pure, refined carbohydrates. The body cannot utilize this refined starch and carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins, vitamins and minerals are present. Nature supplies these elements in each plant in quantities sufficient to metabolize the carbohydrate in that particular plant. There is no excess for other added carbohydrates. Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of 'toxic metabolite' such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing five carbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous system and the abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. These toxic metabolites interfere with the respiration of the cells. They cannot get sufficient oxygen to survive and function normally. In time, some of the cells die. This interferes with the function of a part of the body and is the beginning of degenerative disease."2
The closest thing that we see to slavery in most places now is economic slavery. I don't mean that people are poor; I refer to the situation where on accepting a contract, a person immediately accepts debt for the equipent or time or services that are provided up-front. In this context, if a person leaves without settling the debt, the power of the court (or the Mafia) can in many jurisdictions do exactly that and drag the person back or drag the person to jail. This situation is found in third world factories, in sex worker arrangments, and in music industry contracts to some extent. In all cases, there is hold over the individual that can be very real. You might also argue that the recent changes in US law to prevent private individuals filing for backruptcy amount to the reintroduction of slavery in the US for many of the underprivileged, because it allows an individual essentially to sell their freedom. If personal freedom is for sale then it is, by definition, no longer inalienable.
Another interesting fact about slavery is that it is approved of by all three major mono-theistic religions. As an example, the Bible defines slave trading as sinful, but not slave ownership. Slaves won through conquest or debt are considered just.
Broadcast Television is not the 4:3, it's not the number of people who see it, it's not who sends it. THe relevant things that make it special are:
It's channelized. A channel becomes popular or has an exclusive frequency, or one way or another acquires an audience that continue to trust it to produce consistent output. TV is push. People don't like to be surprised by a push of pornography in what they thought was a safe medium. Or by challenging ideas.
It's passive. People view it uncritically. People settle into Alpha brain wave patterns and become suggestible.
So broadcast TV is anything that with carefully crafted programming can influence large numbers of people very quickly. Of course - how it is desirable to control such a powerful medium looks like a different issue when you phrase it this way.
Bluetooth is used a lot more outside the US. Most US operators cripple bluetooth on the phones they sell. Try buying direct.
Despite this, it is already the preferred method for phone sync, phone management, wireless keyboards and some mice, headsets, sending business cards and photos mobile to mobile and for using your phone as a modem to your laptop.
Bluetooth is not perfect for lots of low power cheap devices
Every bluetooth device sold requires payment of a license fee to Ericsson.
It is all point to point. PC implementations end up layered over com ports. IP ends up layered over PPP. Many devices end up only being able to talk to a single partner device at one time. Pairing is painful, and other trust models could usefully be used. 802.11 WLAN is much easier to code for. Any bluetooth successor should start with IP on a broadcast WLAN, rather than IP being an afterthought. Bluetooth suffers from lots of stupid non-IP protocols being developed from scratch that noone can agree on for things that would be trivial over IP like filesharing, management, messaging and so on.
Per the article, battery usable could usefully be lower.
Per the article - the bluetooth PC, Mac and Linux software experiences areare substandard in one way or another
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Seriously, "Alexa, open Cortana"??
Why do we let the nerds specify this stuff? The correct phrase is "Alexa, let me talk to Cortana". When you're on the phone to your Mom, do you say "Mom, open Dad"???
There is no reason that listening on a socket needs to use ANY battery at all. It WOULD be wise to have a model for checking whether a packet is DoS/dealing with heartbearts before causing it to fire up the real app process, but given that, there is no reason why SIP can't be efficient. If the reasoning for this has anything to do with battery, then it's lazy.
Huwei. MAYBE with Cisco SDN control if Cisco play it perfectly.
http://www.answers.com/Q/Plane...
Perhaps it should be allowed to decay untouched. As a piece of history. A one time achievement. Like our space ambitions.
You underestimate the value of signing. It's not all about secrecy.
This isn't entirely a mystery. For a technology to be widely adopted, it needs to be easy for everyone and provide demonstrable benefits. OR, it needs to provide benefits for a business who already has your custom. And there we begin to see the problem. There are two massive disincentives:
- Crypto doesn't play well with webmail
- Encrypted email can't be scanned for advert keywords
So you will never see the likes of Google or Microsoft championing this. Apple - just maybe, as they would rather promote devices, and I gather they actually DO have decent end to end crypto on iMessage and so on. But even then, it's VERY hard to do in a way that customers would actually appreciate. No-one wants to get email working 95% of the time. It needs to be 100%. If you can't read 5% of your email, you're in trouble. Or you can't read email on the 5% of time that you need to access from a borrowed PC.
It seems to me that the keys to making this work are:
- Concentrate on signing before crypto. Get banks to sign email. Have different security levels; get to a stage where by default, only signed email will download embedded images, make links clickable without a warning, etc..
- Find a way to make it work with webmail. Can we do this with JS? Or do we need browser support? End to end crypto It would require a way for a part of a page to be sandboxed, accept a secret to decrypt your keys, and not allow the plaintext info out. End to end signing is a little easier. This might also include retrieving the private keys from a distinct cloud service.
- Solve the centralized trust issue. Probably derive a format from S/MINE rather than GPG for email, but critically, signing of certs needs a community trust system so you can see who trusts who, and people can get their identities signed by people they know.
Finally, if that's widely deployed for signing then people can begin to encrypt with a hope of the other end being able to decrypt.
I've felt the same way for years. I had high hopes for Google Wave to fill the gap.
It's not the same thing, and scripting for end users would not have been the same, but we don't need a direct replacement. We need:
- Web based, cloud based.
- Multi screen sized, flowable
- The card stack model from HyperCard was GOOD for naive use - and perfectly carried into Google Wave
- Simple scripting, but probably JavaScript not HyperTalk
In fact, my ideal system is somewhere in the middle of Wave, HyperCard, Lotus Notes, XSLT or similar and the web.
- Document templates that can be filled in. Let's get rid of MS Word and have more structured docs, but in a way that hobby developers can cope with.
- Effective visual editing of templates; HTML template editing but much more like a good UI editor,
- Somehow remove all the complexity from the scripting of events... HyperCard WAS good at this!!
I'm not going to mention SharePoint. MicroSoft NEVER understood groupware!
Options would have to be costed. Many things would feed into that. The problem of course is that for all of those costings, probability multiplied by survivability does not produce a linear outcome of quality of life value; you could assign a value of harm to each individual present, but you could not get a meaningful figure by summation.
It didn't matter whether it was last year or next...IP usage was accelerating into the wall anyway. The GOOD part about this is that now the US is out of addresses certain parts of the Internet industry are more likely to take IPv6 seriously.
Sadly, ISPs in other parts of the world have proven adept at further avoiding the problem by downgrading consumer connections to carrier-grade NAT, so we have another 5 years of eking out of old order before people REALLY have to take notice.
WTF?
Data wall by Dolores Umbridge.
Surely for a few tens of thousands of pounds, it would have been better to publish and API for storing and modifying the info on (secured) web servers locally in a way that could be indexed and catalogued separately. Then, incentivize private firms to make and sell software to surgeries and hospitals that provide the API. Why do people always go for monolithic top down solutions for these things?
http://www.clearbooks.co.uk/ - Completely cloud/web based accounting.
Sorry, I have no idea if there is a US version, and of course it it quite specific about taxes and so on. But it was the best day of my software experience life when I switched from SAGE to Clearbooks. Not only does it do everything we need, but it is the first accounts package I have ever seen that anticipates your needs - "this account isn't really suitable for this transaction, your probably want to use x instead". "This is a large capital purchase, so it's been added to your asset register pending approval". OMG it's wonderful!!!
Yes, I'm an evangelist. Most accounting packages are so bad that it's like night and day when you see a good one. It includes...
- PAYE (uk equivalent of withholding)
- VAT (EU equivalent of sales tax)
- automated monthly importing of bank statements direct from bank websites
- automated matching of statement items with purchases and vendors
- automated asset management and depreciation
- automated filing of govt tax forms for VAT, corporation tax and others
- multicurrency, + international transactions in line with tax rules
- quicky stuff like small business flat rate VAT, agricultural taxes, partnership tax rules, etc etc
I may no longer actually need an accountant. I could never say that with other software. With this, I am beginning to think that he adds no value whatsoever.
Tell you what I always wanted in a remake of Élite... nerd tools. An extension API, allowing scripts, GUIs/HUDs and possibly external connectivity. And the same facility to trade code and attachments that you see in something like Second Life.
Imagine....
- The universe really IS newtonian, but you can develop and trade control systems that make it appear otherwise and apply directed power to compensate for unwelcome inertia
- Bots, autopilots, combat aids
- Buy extra ships, develop swarm/formation flying control systems
What? Is this a desirable mash up? To me, it's the logical conclusion of real trading and real newtonian physics. Give the society the real ability to develop and create.
The challenge is to make sure that automated things don't dominate, and to create a playing society that can police the worst renegades. Rules are enforced by players, with bounties etc..
There's a lot of clap trap in these comments trying to sum out Ron Paul by his financial policies. It completely misses the point.
Ron Paul is a constitutionalist.
He believes that the federal govt overreaches. Financially, yes, but also militarily, socially, and almost every other sphere of influence. I'm sure he'd be fine about individual states offering loans - or transport systems, or healthcare, or abortions, or ID cards, or gay marriage or whatever. But these are not the job of the federal government. It's not rocket science - he is simply the only prominent politician who takes the limitation to legislate only over "commerce among the several states" seriously.
In practise, this all means that he has the only plan that can save the USA, being as the first step to solving the financial hole is to stop digging. And that means cuts to spending. I personally hope that he would do it in such a way that individual states can take over whichever programs they want in a clean and managed way. But this man is your only hope. Vote for him.
My own AFP experience with QNAP was terrible, due to the dodgy FOSS stack - I forget which one - that was included. There was no useful way to authenticate (no OpenDirectory, no Kerberos, no way to automate user import). I ended up with iSCSI between the QNAP and the Mac OS Server (ATTO iSCSI) and serving AFP from there, with a 5x speed improvement.
Was I doing something wrong? It doesn't seem to match the AFP figures in the article. Anyone else have similar awful real-world AFP performance?
Of course, it IS still just about possible for one of us to fix USENET. If we cared enough.
- A distributed ratings system that works, and allows matching of your preferences to people with similar preferences.
- A better standard for signing articles, and ownership of virtual websites where threads or subforums can only be started by the owner
- Standards for structured documents and so on.
- Incorporation and acceptance into multiple CMS's so that you can actually read existing forums through NNRP
So far, in the 15 years since this has been an issue, noone has cared enough to fix it. Pity.
Data points are rumors are....
:)
- Drop the Mac branding, eg "OS X Leopard"
- Drop or minimise Carbon favor of Cocoa
- PC version of Leopard, or 10.6
- Apple Software Update can push/strongly advise major new apple software features to Windows users
In my mind, these add up to the old YELLOW BOX - i.e., the ability to run Mac (Cocoa) Apps on Windows. Yellow box is a compatibility layer. This feature was advertised initially with Rhapsody, but wisely withdrawn. We are now in a very different place. There are many desirable Mac Apps, and OS X is a desirable place for developers. Businesses begin to want Mac Apps and maybe eventually the full MacOS but need a transition path.
There is now every reason to release the Yellow Box and no reason not to.
- It provides the transition path
- It provides for stealth killer apps to seep onto Windows users' radar
- It will no longer dilute Mac Sales - because Microsoft's lustre and safety have gone
You'll all see that I'm right
Get a cellphone connection with an unlimited data plan, and add an external antenna...
http://www.alternativewireless.com/cellular-antennas/connecting.html
Personally, I know about Nokia cellphones and 3G. Personally would choose one with AT command set on the adaptor port (some still do this though some only have USB) and run a long serial cable to a router. You might just go with one of those funny US dedicated EVDO/USB devices though.
What I'd really like to see is figures for the broadcaster and the hidden costs to the ISP for each of....
- Unicast
- Bittorrent
- Multicast
Multicast is so obviously the best solution all round for the, what, at least 50% of a national TV station's audience that watch predictable and consistent shows week after week. It would be pretty trivial for PCs to grab a multicast overnight.
By the way, the BBC really tried to do this right, but ISPs were too stupid to see that it was in their best interests to cooperate. This is my reading of the evidence - I accept corrections.
I think for most people who have a 800MHz G4, they probably still have that one classic app that they don't want to get rid of anyway. And because Apple is stupid enough to dump Classic in Leopard, many PPC users may well be in for a painful shock down the line. Personally - I rarely fire up classic any more. But I'm a geek and seek out new software.
Why is Apple doing this anyway? How hard would it be just to leave it in?
I tend to have more sympathy with this guy who asserts that the sucrose packaging of fructose is the most evil. Hope this adds interesting info. Please ignore the fact that the extract is hosted by "Nexus", who do have some rather wild ideas of their own!
SugarBlues
William Dufty © 1975
Extracted/edited from his book Sugar Blues
First published by Chilton Book Co. Padnor, PA, USA
Currently published by Warner Books, USA.
The closest thing that we see to slavery in most places now is economic slavery. I don't mean that people are poor; I refer to the situation where on accepting a contract, a person immediately accepts debt for the equipent or time or services that are provided up-front. In this context, if a person leaves without settling the debt, the power of the court (or the Mafia) can in many jurisdictions do exactly that and drag the person back or drag the person to jail. This situation is found in third world factories, in sex worker arrangments, and in music industry contracts to some extent. In all cases, there is hold over the individual that can be very real. You might also argue that the recent changes in US law to prevent private individuals filing for backruptcy amount to the reintroduction of slavery in the US for many of the underprivileged, because it allows an individual essentially to sell their freedom. If personal freedom is for sale then it is, by definition, no longer inalienable.
Another interesting fact about slavery is that it is approved of by all three major mono-theistic religions. As an example, the Bible defines slave trading as sinful, but not slave ownership. Slaves won through conquest or debt are considered just.
- It's channelized. A channel becomes popular or has an exclusive frequency, or one way or another acquires an audience that continue to trust it to produce consistent output. TV is push. People don't like to be surprised by a push of pornography in what they thought was a safe medium. Or by challenging ideas.
- It's passive. People view it uncritically. People settle into Alpha brain wave patterns and become suggestible.
So broadcast TV is anything that with carefully crafted programming can influence large numbers of people very quickly. Of course - how it is desirable to control such a powerful medium looks like a different issue when you phrase it this way.- Bluetooth is used a lot more outside the US. Most US operators cripple bluetooth on the phones they sell. Try buying direct.
- Despite this, it is already the preferred method for phone sync, phone management, wireless keyboards and some mice, headsets, sending business cards and photos mobile to mobile and for using your phone as a modem to your laptop.
Bluetooth is not perfect for lots of low power cheap devices