I was using G+ very heavy until the whole blow up about us of real names at which point I stopped using for about a month and while I look at it from time to time.. I don't use it hardly. 3 Minutes a month sounds about right. The other major reason I'm not using G+ is I hit the limit on the # of users I could follow.. it got boring after that..
Good Data is just that.. and it can make solid predictions. It's clear transparency is good for markets (e.g., stock markets, Etc.) but is it good for people? My own take is data mining and tracking isn't evil; if you do business with a company you should assume, for better or worse, that they will try to understand and learn about you. If you don't wish that to happen, you need to pay in cash, not give them your zip code and avoid reward clubs, etc.
The;) technical reason is in the monetization "stack;" think payola for hardware; if they are going to pay HTC or Samsung or internally Xbox to produce ARM hardware running Win 8, they want to make sure that only Windows 8 will ever run on that hardware.
While they could care about phones, I agree they care more about tablets and the XBox (the only ray of light in the quiver of tech arrows..). The bottom line is many of the devices with ARM will be subsidized and as Daengbo (and others note), you don't want someone changing the OS on hardware that you subsidized.
They can huff and puff as much as they want but this is about maintaining the monetization ecosystem of subsidized devices, otherwise you could give the user the key(s) to their device(s).
From the article it seems that one thing that we "just have to discover.. " we know it will be good at some applications but only actual use/engineering will fill in all the blanks..
Anything that helps reduce the # of bad patents helps here.
The Bottomline is any start up in the tech sector is going to face so much pressure from patent holders it clearly had a chilling effect on real innovation.
In the bad old days of computing you needed to put code into escrow if you lic'd it to insure that you had access to it in the event of a bankruptcy or the company just closing down, etc. With commercial products that also release to an open source project like Android there isn't as great a need, perhaps no need.
I think the bottom line here is that in the short, med and prob. long term it's not in Google's interests to play favorites and if they do Samsung and HTC (among others) have the resources to Fork Android continue on that path free from Google. They can do this at any time.. and I think that puts reasonable pressure on Google to behave
In terms of MSFT and Mango and future releases one has to not only consider the quality of the OS but also the cost of any licensing fees as well as it's popularity in the market place, it's performance, etc. Then even if MS doesn't buy Nokia there is certainly a tight relationship there and MSFT can certainly play favorites perhaps more easily than Google can.
Open Protocols for Social Media would be very helpful..
Think along the lines of Diaspora and Google+ but within a military context, where each command/outfit, etc. needs to own it's own data, various aspects of data needs to shared (nor not shared) based on a firm but flexible set of permissions and you have a fairly ideal way of allowing modern war fighting use social tools; all of those still on secure networks but having a wide range of secure sharing. This could include pushing data out to non secure networks from civilian to governmental (e.g, congress, white house, etc.) and NGOs or pushing data to other secure networks (e.g., CIA, NSA, etc.).
i STILL think they should leave the shuttle up there and use it as a test platform for testing new engines, and what not and as a great escape pod for the ISS, etc.
Microsoft has one major advantage that they have used again and again. It's not their money, their technology but rather last mover advantage. They know how make bundles of technology introduced while other players have dominate market shares and take away those shares. They did it search, in word processing, spreadsheets, servers and they are working their way on gaming systems and others.
They have the time and the money to get it right and the money to get out there. People are only locked into phones for a few years and that gives MS and their partners plenty of time to improve and extend their offering.
Android will always suffer (in a VERY GOOD way) from being open source.. but not all will see that as a virtual. Apple is a closed garden. MS will walk the middle path more open that Apple but not as "open" as Android. They will integrate completely with all their services from Hotmail to office. This type of integration they have thought about and planned for years and they will make small marginal improvements until they win.
That's assuming it do Zune.. or any of the other products they have canceled along the way. Can you say, "Bob."
Yes the tech is old and the computer systems highly dated, but boost them up one more time and leave them up where they can do a world of good. Like a used car they can't do the cannonball run any more but they have much more use in space then they do down the gravity well in a museum. With two of them up there you have lots of possibilities (and spare parts).
Up there they can be emergency escape pods, a space bound pick-up truck, they can use the robot arm(s) to help work on the space station and they could use the pair of them for other research: a test bed for new propulsion, communications, and life support systems.
In a fantasy world they could mod one to fly to the Moon (landing on a robot built landing strip) or sit in orbit around the moon to test space elevator technology (best to test on the Moon before testing on earth). In a super fantasy world you could tow one to Mars and let any crew working in orbit have a vehicle move around and deploy/fix communication and imaging satellites; or set up in auto pilot mode to fly extra supplies to the Moon or Mars; a slow and steady was to send packaged foods and toilet paper.
I think it's also a very hard concept that Good security can fail some times as well, so it's hard for some managers and others to understand the difference between good security failing and bad security having really never worked at all...
Good security can fail when new venerabilities are found, when risk assessments are not up dated in a timely manner, to do human / operator errors, etc.
While It might be old school dot com to start a business and "try to lose as much $$ as possible" it's clear that Google through YouTube has created something very valued, given the reach and impact YouTube has. What remains to be seen is through Google TV and other technologies can they bring this video from the desktop to the set top?
Also interesting will be to see if they can get as much corporate content as they already have consumer content. They did do away with Google Video service..
I would love it if YouTube/Google/Google TV was my one shop stop for searching on video content and then let the technology figure out how best to view it; also figure out the cheapest way. For example I subscribe to HBO on demand but on my cable box when I search for movies they will charge me for watching these movies unless I come in via the HBO interface.. I need a video search service that is looking to minimize my expenses not increase them.
Breaking it down.. I love the phone as it is, adding voice services is great, I am not sure I will use them. I can already dial via phone from my car. But it's certainly something I'll download and try running..
As a customer of say Verizon, I don't want them slowing anyone's traffic down... and I feel it's illegal to block traffic or even throttle it.
But I see no reason why a customer can't pay to prioritize their own traffic. Just don't steal any bandwidth away from the buffet...
It would help if there were good service level agreements between broadband providers and their customers so we can insure that prioritized content doesn't eat into the bandwidth used by the bit buffet (they all you can eat service that most of us broadband customers have).
There are many types of clients. Two big groups are those who want a serious long term vendor relationship and those who simply want a rock bottom price and are often willing to give up the value that would come from long term relationships (knowledge of the account, knowledge of the business and customers, etc.).
For those who are always looking for the rock bottom price, they are very taken care of by companies and web sites like 99designs; designers, like all companies selling a product need to segment the market place and find those customers who are not only motivated by the price.
There is other value for a company to use 99Design including getting to see creative from a variety of sources..
Let's hope they can figure out away to create something good from this.. and yet I wonder if the guy whose body they came from will get any piece of the profits.. Let's hope he does..
A network of friends in the same field is an other good reason to stay. I had not thought of that.
Even you had tons of money and could move and take your Mom with you, then she would be in a new city with zero friends, zero knowledge of the streets, the vendors, and cultural life, etc. While that would work for some, for most that would make them feel more isolated and dependent.
We are more Mobile but we also have to help take care of our family: our parents who live longer, and our other relations not to mention children and the need for parents or grand parents to help care for our kids, etc. Technology lets' us travel more, and stay connected when we do. It also helps us connect to our growing networks of friends and family.
However, there are many economic reasons to stay close to a birth location assuming that is near other family members. Of course there are exceptions including those who really want to "get away" and those who have the wealth or work need to relocate (say to SF or NY). These reasons can not helped or hurt by technology other than technology lets people live longer, and may help older people stay more independent longer.
Until there is a robot that can stay home with Mom and look after her, help her take her meds and buy her groceries, do light household and yard work, etc. Then there really isn't any other technology (besides money) that can help us.
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Shamelessly... at Commodore USA the only OS shipped in Linux variant (Commodore OS Vision).. Linux's day on the desktop will come..
I was using G+ very heavy until the whole blow up about us of real names at which point I stopped using for about a month and while I look at it from time to time.. I don't use it hardly. 3 Minutes a month sounds about right. The other major reason I'm not using G+ is I hit the limit on the # of users I could follow.. it got boring after that..
Good Data is just that.. and it can make solid predictions. It's clear transparency is good for markets (e.g., stock markets, Etc.) but is it good for people? My own take is data mining and tracking isn't evil; if you do business with a company you should assume, for better or worse, that they will try to understand and learn about you. If you don't wish that to happen, you need to pay in cash, not give them your zip code and avoid reward clubs, etc.
Exactly... Twitter can't have it both ways but are clearly trying..
The ;) technical reason is in the monetization "stack;" think payola for hardware; if they are going to pay HTC or Samsung or internally Xbox to produce ARM hardware running Win 8, they want to make sure that only Windows 8 will ever run on that hardware.
Yes, let's add a Shill Factor Mod... that would be reputation capital in action..
While they could care about phones, I agree they care more about tablets and the XBox (the only ray of light in the quiver of tech arrows..). The bottom line is many of the devices with ARM will be subsidized and as Daengbo (and others note), you don't want someone changing the OS on hardware that you subsidized.
They can huff and puff as much as they want but this is about maintaining the monetization ecosystem of subsidized devices, otherwise you could give the user the key(s) to their device(s).
From the article it seems that one thing that we "just have to discover.. " we know it will be good at some applications but only actual use/engineering will fill in all the blanks..
Anything that helps reduce the # of bad patents helps here.
The Bottomline is any start up in the tech sector is going to face so much pressure from patent holders it clearly had a chilling effect on real innovation.
In the bad old days of computing you needed to put code into escrow if you lic'd it to insure that you had access to it in the event of a bankruptcy or the company just closing down, etc. With commercial products that also release to an open source project like Android there isn't as great a need, perhaps no need.
I think the bottom line here is that in the short, med and prob. long term it's not in Google's interests to play favorites and if they do Samsung and HTC (among others) have the resources to Fork Android continue on that path free from Google. They can do this at any time.. and I think that puts reasonable pressure on Google to behave
In terms of MSFT and Mango and future releases one has to not only consider the quality of the OS but also the cost of any licensing fees as well as it's popularity in the market place, it's performance, etc. Then even if MS doesn't buy Nokia there is certainly a tight relationship there and MSFT can certainly play favorites perhaps more easily than Google can.
Open Protocols for Social Media would be very helpful..
Think along the lines of Diaspora and Google+ but within a military context, where each command/outfit, etc. needs to own it's own data, various aspects of data needs to shared (nor not shared) based on a firm but flexible set of permissions and you have a fairly ideal way of allowing modern war fighting use social tools; all of those still on secure networks but having a wide range of secure sharing. This could include pushing data out to non secure networks from civilian to governmental (e.g, congress, white house, etc.) and NGOs or pushing data to other secure networks (e.g., CIA, NSA, etc.).
i STILL think they should leave the shuttle up there and use it as a test platform for testing new engines, and what not and as a great escape pod for the ISS, etc.
Eeek, meant to say Browsers...
I'm a total Google Fanboy and yes I agree, but the article had Google still in the lead which I agree with.. it just has MS ahead of Apple..
Microsoft has one major advantage that they have used again and again. It's not their money, their technology but rather last mover advantage. They know how make bundles of technology introduced while other players have dominate market shares and take away those shares. They did it search, in word processing, spreadsheets, servers and they are working their way on gaming systems and others.
They have the time and the money to get it right and the money to get out there. People are only locked into phones for a few years and that gives MS and their partners plenty of time to improve and extend their offering.
Android will always suffer (in a VERY GOOD way) from being open source.. but not all will see that as a virtual. Apple is a closed garden. MS will walk the middle path more open that Apple but not as "open" as Android. They will integrate completely with all their services from Hotmail to office. This type of integration they have thought about and planned for years and they will make small marginal improvements until they win.
That's assuming it do Zune.. or any of the other products they have canceled along the way. Can you say, "Bob."
Yes the tech is old and the computer systems highly dated, but boost them up one more time and leave them up where they can do a world of good. Like a used car they can't do the cannonball run any more but they have much more use in space then they do down the gravity well in a museum. With two of them up there you have lots of possibilities (and spare parts).
Up there they can be emergency escape pods, a space bound pick-up truck, they can use the robot arm(s) to help work on the space station and they could use the pair of them for other research: a test bed for new propulsion, communications, and life support systems.
In a fantasy world they could mod one to fly to the Moon (landing on a robot built landing strip) or sit in orbit around the moon to test space elevator technology (best to test on the Moon before testing on earth). In a super fantasy world you could tow one to Mars and let any crew working in orbit have a vehicle move around and deploy/fix communication and imaging satellites; or set up in auto pilot mode to fly extra supplies to the Moon or Mars; a slow and steady was to send packaged foods and toilet paper.
Yes.. music used to pay radio shows illegal payments to promote their songs..
BitT will let Hollywood promote for free.. and I think it will be good for freedom and good for the Net.
I think it's also a very hard concept that Good security can fail some times as well, so it's hard for some managers and others to understand the difference between good security failing and bad security having really never worked at all...
Good security can fail when new venerabilities are found, when risk assessments are not up dated in a timely manner, to do human / operator errors, etc.
While It might be old school dot com to start a business and "try to lose as much $$ as possible" it's clear that Google through YouTube has created something very valued, given the reach and impact YouTube has. What remains to be seen is through Google TV and other technologies can they bring this video from the desktop to the set top?
Also interesting will be to see if they can get as much corporate content as they already have consumer content. They did do away with Google Video service..
I would love it if YouTube/Google/Google TV was my one shop stop for searching on video content and then let the technology figure out how best to view it; also figure out the cheapest way. For example I subscribe to HBO on demand but on my cable box when I search for movies they will charge me for watching these movies unless I come in via the HBO interface.. I need a video search service that is looking to minimize my expenses not increase them.
Breaking it down.. I love the phone as it is, adding voice services is great, I am not sure I will use them. I can already dial via phone from my car. But it's certainly something I'll download and try running..
As a customer of say Verizon, I don't want them slowing anyone's traffic down... and I feel it's illegal to block traffic or even throttle it.
But I see no reason why a customer can't pay to prioritize their own traffic. Just don't steal any bandwidth away from the buffet...
It would help if there were good service level agreements between broadband providers and their customers so we can insure that prioritized content doesn't eat into the bandwidth used by the bit buffet (they all you can eat service that most of us broadband customers have).
There are many types of clients. Two big groups are those who want a serious long term vendor relationship and those who simply want a rock bottom price and are often willing to give up the value that would come from long term relationships (knowledge of the account, knowledge of the business and customers, etc.).
For those who are always looking for the rock bottom price, they are very taken care of by companies and web sites like 99designs; designers, like all companies selling a product need to segment the market place and find those customers who are not only motivated by the price.
There is other value for a company to use 99Design including getting to see creative from a variety of sources..
Let's hope they can figure out away to create something good from this.. and yet I wonder if the guy whose body they came from will get any piece of the profits.. Let's hope he does..
A network of friends in the same field is an other good reason to stay. I had not thought of that.
Even you had tons of money and could move and take your Mom with you, then she would be in a new city with zero friends, zero knowledge of the streets, the vendors, and cultural life, etc. While that would work for some, for most that would make them feel more isolated and dependent.
We are more Mobile but we also have to help take care of our family: our parents who live longer, and our other relations not to mention children and the need for parents or grand parents to help care for our kids, etc. Technology lets' us travel more, and stay connected when we do. It also helps us connect to our growing networks of friends and family.
However, there are many economic reasons to stay close to a birth location assuming that is near other family members. Of course there are exceptions including those who really want to "get away" and those who have the wealth or work need to relocate (say to SF or NY). These reasons can not helped or hurt by technology other than technology lets people live longer, and may help older people stay more independent longer.
Until there is a robot that can stay home with Mom and look after her, help her take her meds and buy her groceries, do light household and yard work, etc. Then there really isn't any other technology (besides money) that can help us.