Sorry I blew it. It is MeeGo that has been picked by a lot of car companies for their new infotainment systems. Of course MeeGo was Moblin at one point.
Yea I blew that I meant to say if you are not storing video 32 GB is a lot of storage. I see the magic number not in GB but in $. And I will put that at around $50. I believe that it takes about $50 worth of stuff to make any hard drive. It doesn't matter how small. Once you put in the material, labor, packaging, shipping, manufacture profit, and reseller profit it just isn't possible to make a magnetic driver for cheaper than around $35. Any that you see for less I am guessing are probably on the way out the door. So if you want storage for less that you will probably use flash. The thing is that amount of storage will keep going up and up. When you are talking about mobile devices then you also have the extra value of ruggedness and power savings to add into it. I do agree about home NAS. I can see the value of a "Home server". I would be one box that is stores everything in your home. It could also be a home PBX/answering machine, DVR, WAP, alarm system, and firewall all in one. The thing is nobody has made a simple device that does all that for a low enough price. Also homes are not really set up for that yet.
As to cloud services I tend to agree about secure documents but who says the cloud can not be a local cloud. Your office could run a local cloud data server that they can control. Maybe you could as well with your personal home server. Some stuff you will want to have always on local storage but things like your video collection, music collection, and other massive data sets could be located on the network somewhere. To me the problems are not of control because a lot of the big data sets are not really security issues. To me the problems are reliability, performance, and cost. I will want access everywhere, I want it fast, and I want it cheap. It will be a long time before that really happens. But I think it will happen someday.
"Cops on duty shouldn't have any privacy. " No. Even while on duty they should have some right to privacy. They may get a call from their wife of children while one duty about family matters. I will assume that you agree with that but where just making a general sweeping statement. I would say that when acting in the line of duty they have no expectation of privacy and that those actions are public in nature. As to recording everything they do? Not really Maybe every stop should be recorded or even every interview they do but not every minute of every day. Would you want to be under that level of observation? I know that I wouldn't. Also you are not their employer they hold an office of public trust. Frankly they get more grief that you can imagine and must deal with the worst parts of society on a regular basis. There are some very good police officers out their. My brother in law is an excellent officer. He got an accommodation for preventing a man from taking his own life. He then got busted because he refused to reprimand an officer. The officer had a juvenile with a gun. The juvenile was threatening the officer and wouldn't drop the gun. The officer finally yelled at the teenager, "Drop the f'ing gun!" and the teenager did and nobody got hurt. The city wanted the officer reprimanded for using profanity on duty. The parents of the teen complained that the officer didn't have to use such foul language! The city wanted him reprimanded and my brother in law refused because he felt the officer had tried everything else and it ended up with nobody getting shot. So he was busted. As I said, there are a got of good men and women out there that are just trying to do a really terrible job. They deserve a little respect and consideration. Frankly when I have been stopped it is usually my fault. Most of the time when I am polite they are also and often I have gotten a warning. Twice I have run into jerks that and one of those times I got a tick for something I didn't do. I was from out of town and he was a jerk.
Or we reach good enough. How much storage do we really need on device? First of all flash has replaced Hard Drives below a certain size. I doubt that you can find a sub 50 GB hard drive these days. If you do they are pretty rare and the price per gigabyte will be really high. A lot of people don't need a lot more than 32 GBs of storage. If you are storing video 32 GBs is a huge amount of storage. When and if cloud storage and mobile broadband connections get cheap enough, reliable enough and with universal coverage just how much space do you think you will need on device? As far as work documents go again as long as you are not dealing with video you will be surprised just how big a few gigabytes really is. Flash will keep creeping up the food chain becoming good enough for more and more people. The speed, power, and reliability issues will keep pushing it in to more and more systems. I doubt that magnetic media will ever go away. If you need a lot of storage it will be the cheapest for a good long time. But eventually flash may become so cheap and hard drives so expensive that it will be cheaper to RAID flash drives than to buy hard drives.
Well now the local stations can charge the cable companies and they are required to carry them and I guess pay them. The Cable companies used to get what they could bet with an antenna for free. The local stations now charge them. To me we need to forget congress and concentrate on the local governments that grant the franchises. They should require X number of channels for a x price, X level of service, and if they are also an ISP net neutrality. Much simpler than going through congress and using laws. It is the free market solution. The local governments are the customer and we control them.
The problem is that this already isn't really a free market. The local Phone and Cable Companies have been granted in many cases FREE ride of way for their lines.
To me the problem comes from "double dipping". Which is a very old a profitable business model for cable companies. When cable first started you got cable. There was one cable package you got your localish channels. CATV didn't stand for cable. It stood for Community antenna TV. In places where you didn't get a lot of channels a company would put up a BIG antenna and amplifiers and everybody paid for access. You paid for the signal and the cable companies made money from providing the service. Then came HBO. Okay you paid to get the channel but that was because their where no commercials. It seemed fair enough but that was the start. Then came channels like TBS and other channels like that. Now the Cable company started to get money from the channels to carry them. Some would allow the companies to insert commercials to make money. Then came things like MTV and extra tiers. Now customers where PAYING to see commercials! The Cable companies just don't see why the internet is any different we have already seen ISPs inserting their own ads into pages as well as now wanting to charge us for tiers of service as well as charging websites.
Long ago we should have stopped cable companies from charging for extra channels that contain commercials. Our local governments grant these franchises to the cable companies. They are also the branches of the government that the individual have the most control over. Why are the local governments AKA your town and county not cracking down on this? Hey Comcast you want to be replaced? Maybe Verizon or CableVision will do better. At least we now have AT&T UVerse as compition to them.
Well lets take a look. XBOX 360. Huge hardware problems. Huge charge to fix the problems. Slow in replacing the hardware. Zune. What??? The original version had wifi but it was crippled by the RIAA. Microsoft played buddy buddy with the RIAA trying to get them to side with Microsoft vs Apple media player market. The result was a media player that could have had some brilliant features being a bland second or third place device. The ZuneHD is a really good media player. Maybe the best high end media player on the market... Who wants a high end media player today? Most people want a smart phone or an iPod touch which is really more of a PDA/Gaming device than a pure media player.
Window Mobile, Windows Phone, and the Kin. The Kin is really a tragedy. It had some interesting hardware. It had some nice and really innovative features. It was killed. It was killed by the company and by stupidity. Really folks what where you thinking. Twitter didn't work. No real app store. Smartphone data prices. You can not blame Verizon. They are very invested in the Droid name and why not push kids to a Smart phone if you can. The Kin would eat up a ton of bandwidth streaming and uploading video so why put on the network for cheap. Windows Mobile? How long did Microsoft have to get out a good version of it after the iPhone came out? Windows Mobile was just really left to sit and rot much like Palm OS. It predates the iPhone but never really inspired much love. It was frankly more of a hackers OS than Android was. People where cooking up custom roms, skins, and apps all over the place for it. But it just never really worked all that well. And now Windows Phone 7.... Yea Android, iPhone, and frankly even WebOS will have more apps available for them than WP7 will at launch. All the old WinMo users will be kind of left out in the cold. WP7 doesn't run their old apps but worry not because WM is staying around for also!!!!
Even Bing is a bit of flop. Does anyone use it? What about Microsoft Money? Is there an online version?
Don't forget the disaster that was Vista. Which frankly really helped Apple a lot.
Right now Microsoft is paying the price for having a terrible mobile strategy. Things are going to get worse. Moblin is now going to really start to challenge CE in the automotive informatics space. WP7 if it is anything less than an iPhone style smash will be seen as a total failure. Office sales are lack luster because Office has reached good enough long ago,OpenOffice.org is free, and Google Docs has a lot of buzz going for it. Even outlook and exchange are going to feel the pinch from web mail soon if they have no already.
We do seem to be coming to the point where for a lot of people the browser is the OS. Even their you have FireFox and Chrome really taking a bite out of IE and practically nobody is going to make "Best viewed in IE" sites anymore.
Microsoft maybe in the same position as Wright Aircraft Engines was in the late 1940s early 1950s. The president was sure that they wold be making the R3350 motors forever. Or maybe DEC in the late 70s? Things are changing and they are not.
The past is the past. There is now and that is the world you are living in. We all now live in a small town of several million people. And it is indexed. As the Kosh said, "The avalanche is upon us. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
Yes but we I have not had any issues with UPS at all. We get two stops a day at my office. Maybe it is where you live vs the service. Or just your perception of the people. I am not sure how you can look at someone and say that they are an ex con.
Well the thing is to remember what is public is really public. What you do at a party never really was private. Now a days you just have more eyes on your public life than before. Unless you where famous then it is the same.
What I worry about is that we are loosing the cultural filter of time. The golden rule is that 90% of everything is crap. Or these days about 99% of everything is crap. The problem is that really bad books went out of print, really bad movies where never shown again, really bad plays where never performed again, really bad TV shows didn't make it into syndication. Think about the classic TV shows of the 50s and then figure that only about 4 or 5 are still being shown. The rest have all just faded away. But now with hundreds of channels to fill on cable, Internet video, and DVD sales the crap will stay around forever! The fact that you can still get Ice Pirates is proof of that. Thank goodness that the 1960s Lost Horizons seems to have been lost to filter of time.
But you have a different idea of what is public and what is private. What you do at a party really is public behavior. You are out with people aka in public. What you do in your own home "not in front of a bunch of guests" is private. I did see the picture "pay wall" but I do agree that they may have over reacted in the case specified. This is our new reality. Everyone is basically being treated like they are famous. Just think about every time you hear about actor losing his cool in public, getting drunk, or just acting like a jerk. Welcome to their world because it is our world now.
Hey I don't drink, smoke, cheat on my wife, and try not to use foul language. Even then I have to work hard at keeping my private life separate from my professional one. I know that somebody will find my Facebook page and see that I am active in my church. Believe it or not that can be a negative for some people. I ride classic motorcycles. Some people look down on that. It will happen but that is just part of the new world. What worries me the most is that the younger people do not seem to understand this. Back in the dark ages when I was a teen no body had digital cameras or digital video cameras. A bunch of nice teenage girls having a sleep over today may record a pillow fight and put it up on YouTube. Next thing you know two million guys are drooling over it. I kid pretends that he is drunk on video goofing off and next thing you know family services is at the door. The thing is that you can not make people not care about these things. You can rant and vent and jump up and down but you can not change how people will view these actions. What everybody really needs to understand is when ever you post ANY photo or video on the web you are making those PUBLIC. It is probably wise and good manners to NOT post pictures of other people without their permission. You may never know what can bite someone in the butt. Oh and before I get flamed to death. Yes it would be nice if other people wouldn't judge people things as superficial as pictures or how they look. That is a problem that has been around for a lot longer then the internet. What I am suggesting is more just understanding the new reality and having good the good manners to not throw other people under the bus.
A summary and link is not the same. Yes copying the article word for word or even almost is wrong. It is called plagiarism.
I am all for copyright reform but I am not anti-copyright. To create takes a lot of work. Just because you can make a copy of that work easily doesn't decrease the value of the work. It is still stealing the fruits of somebody's labor. It is like going into someone garden and taking what they have grown. After all more will grow. People like to say that copying someone's work isn't depriving them of anything because they still have the original. That is a justification and nothing more. They it should be all right for any studio to make a movie out of any book they want and not pay the author. After all the author still has his book. Or any publisher to publish any book and pay the author nothing.
As I said reform yes. It should be completely legal for me to summarize and link to a news story. It should also be completely legal for me to comment on and link to any news story. But taking someone else's work is and will always be wrong.
Okay I don't know where you do your shipping but we don't have any of the problems you seem to have with UPS. We have had the same driver for years. Very nice gentleman and I doubt he is an ex-con. We ship a LOT. And have not had many damaged packages at all.
We are using the US postal service more now because they are cheaper and the service has been okay. If it isn't high priority it goes USPS.
There is some room for discussion on that one but we are talking about copying news stores. This is like burning copies of DVDs and selling them. When you cut and past this into your blog. You are in effect taking someone's work and making money from it "ads" and depriving them of their money "ads" with out their permission. That really is theft. But making a summary of it and linking to it is not just fair use but helpful to the author as it can drive readers to them and increase their earnings.
But each complex piece of code should only be written once. When I first started everybody had to know how to write sorts, btrees, and hash tables. If you where really into it you learned how to create a sparse array. So many of those things have been folded into libraries now which is a good thing. The real problem then becomes a massive collection of libraries. Which adds all sorts of new complexity.
I do think that c++ and java have gotten more complex than you need but mainly because of the growth of the standard libraries.
Of course I would really like to go with managed memory solutions but even that has it's limits. I wouldn't be really happy using those in an embedded situation.
Well I am banking on Fusion or a better replacement in 100 to 200 years. Which nuclear can easily buy us. Think about how much technology has improved between say 1810 and 2010 and imagine how much it will change between 2010 and 2210.
Carter blew it on nuclear and he should have known better. His support for alternative energy was mostly an expensive learning experience. What really happened under Carter was the massive switch from oil fired power plants to coal. What people don't remember is Carter was pushing for domestic power sources not carbon free ones. Clean coal became the electrical power source in the US starting with Carter and continuing with Reagan. I was around for those big ticket failures like the massive windmills in North Carolina. My family even put solar hot water panels on our house. Nuclear is the answer today. Thank goodness we are building them again. Now if we can just keep the Naysayers out of the way.
I can see the logic of that honor system. If you are resourced staved then seeing a spare system just sitting there seems like a huge waste. And to them it is. Maybe the solution would be to pay the people there such a high wage that value their job. If something walks you fire them.
Actually much different. If he really is just a harmless crack pot then I am thinking he will get a five year "suspended sentence" and time served. He will not go a super max prison but instead will end up in a minimal security prison. The real problem at this point with a suspended sentence is a matter of trust. The way a suspended sentence in the US works is you are on probation. You have some really strict limits on what you do. If you fail in any of the requirements you go to jail and serve out your full term. The question would be if a US court gave him that and allowed him to return to the UK would the UK honor those requirements?
As to the problems in US jails yes we do have them but your media doesn't really reflect reality of the US justice system.
To give you an example. An idiot that I know had a run in with the law. This is not a friend of mine in any way. He got into many altercations with a mentally challenged teen that lived on his street. He also had many arrests for domestic violence and problems with other people. He got hauled into court and got a restraining order slapped on him. Not one month latter he went to a store that this guy worked at and spit on the window he just washed. He got five months for violating the restraining order. He served one month. He then got out on probation. After a few other run ins with the law and breaking his probation by failing a drug test he got sentenced to 5 years but only served 4 months. I may have missed a few yelling at police, have the police coming to his home to break up fights, and I think he missed a few court dates. But you get the picture. To serve five years in prison you really have to make a real pain out of yourself. And frankly what do you do with idiots like the one I described?
The problems with the gangs is they do not start in the prisons but on the streets. Yes the us does have problems the UK doesn't but they are not as bad as what you see on TV. Frankly you really have to work at going to jail in the US. The few people I know of that ended up in jail where what I would call "volunteers".
Okay let's deal with case at hand. This person has confessed to committing a crime in the US. He may have been in the UK at the time but the system he illegally entered was in the US. The UK has an extradition treaty with the US. Now he has claimed to have damaged nothing. But that has not been proven in a court of law so we toss that out. You are concerned that he will be punished more than he should for the crime he has admitted at least in part to having committed. But he has not been tried or sentenced yet so we can toss that out. So using your own rules of " no maybe ifs, no fairies at the end of the garden, you only look at the actual offence and the proven valid damages." Until he has been tired in the US and been sentenced you have nothing to complain about. Because all of your concerns are in large that his punishment for the crimes he has not yet been to to trial for and has not been sentenced too will be too great for your taste.
I agree. Why Include the parties at all? And do you have a list of of the members of congress that oppose net neutrality? All of them?
I want to know of any of them from Florida are on the list so I can contact them and let them know how I feel about this subject. Maybe all of us should start contacting our senators about this no matter what party they are in.
Not in the US. You would be stuck with AT&T or TMobile but... Most phones only support 3G on AT&T or TMobile. Very few phones support it on both carriers including the iPhone.
My guess is you will be stuck with it on a launch carrier or you will get to pick your carrier. Maybe these are company phones? So they pay for the plan as well?
Frankly Microsoft's Zune Pass is really cool. The Zune HD is also a really nice device. With the Zune Pass for $15 a month you get all the music you want. You can then download $10 DRM free songs each month. Not a bad deal at all. If I just wanted a music player I would really be tempted to get a Zune. I wish that they offered it for my Android phone.
Yes I do not have a lot of hope for WinMo7 or WinPho7 or what ever they are calling it but in a way that is really too bad. They have some good ideas and can produce good stuff.
The us must prove someone guilty before he is put on trial? That is a new legal idea. You say that he only used default passwords? The US says that he didn't. Frankly that also doesn't matter legally. The password could have been 123. He says he didn't do any damage and deleted no files. He broke into US systems that where in the US. He just happened to be sitting in the UK when he did it.
So what if he wants to be tired in the UK? Really an admitted criminal wants to pick where he thinks he will get a lesser punishment. And being scared is not cruel and unusual punishment.
The protests over this boarder on the whacked. You are treating this criminal like a child. You also have a totally media driven view of the US justice system. What you are seeing are the maximum sentences. No body ever gets that. Well unless you do something really extreme. Also he is not going to go to some supermax. It costs a huge amount of money to put someone in a supermax. If he really only did what he claims He will go into a white collar minimal security "country club" prison like a famous tax evader would. It will probably be only for a few months if that. Most likely he will get a big slap on the wrist and probably a big fine.
But the president can not intervene before he is tried. He has admitted to breaking into US government systems so yes he should be extradited. He has admitted to the crime. That alone proves that he should be sent to the US. The court will determine how much damage was done. After the trial and the sentencing then the PM can try and work a deal with the President for having the sentence commuted or have him serve his time in the UK. Frankly right now that will be a hard sell in the US. The US doesn't have a lot of faith in European justice. The release of Megrahi and the refusal to return Roman Polanski "a convicted rapist" really makes the people in the US question your legal system. Scotland released a mass murder and the Swiss would not extradite a rapist that fled his sentencing. So I suspect that if this guy hacked US systems and did millions of dollars of damage. The UK court would sentence him to a parade, cupcakes, and a grant of 10,000 dollars as his punishment. He is going to go on trial in the US and will probably get a very light sentence. And frankly if the roles where reversed I doubt that anybody in the US would care if the UK asked for extradition.
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Sorry I blew it. It is MeeGo that has been picked by a lot of car companies for their new infotainment systems.
Of course MeeGo was Moblin at one point.
Yea I blew that I meant to say if you are not storing video 32 GB is a lot of storage.
I see the magic number not in GB but in $.
And I will put that at around $50. I believe that it takes about $50 worth of stuff to make any hard drive. It doesn't matter how small. Once you put in the material, labor, packaging, shipping, manufacture profit, and reseller profit it just isn't possible to make a magnetic driver for cheaper than around $35. Any that you see for less I am guessing are probably on the way out the door.
So if you want storage for less that you will probably use flash.
The thing is that amount of storage will keep going up and up.
When you are talking about mobile devices then you also have the extra value of ruggedness and power savings to add into it.
I do agree about home NAS.
I can see the value of a "Home server". I would be one box that is stores everything in your home. It could also be a home PBX/answering machine, DVR, WAP, alarm system, and firewall all in one.
The thing is nobody has made a simple device that does all that for a low enough price. Also homes are not really set up for that yet.
As to cloud services I tend to agree about secure documents but who says the cloud can not be a local cloud.
Your office could run a local cloud data server that they can control. Maybe you could as well with your personal home server.
Some stuff you will want to have always on local storage but things like your video collection, music collection, and other massive data sets could be located on the network somewhere.
To me the problems are not of control because a lot of the big data sets are not really security issues. To me the problems are reliability, performance, and cost.
I will want access everywhere, I want it fast, and I want it cheap.
It will be a long time before that really happens.
But I think it will happen someday.
"Cops on duty shouldn't have any privacy. "
No. Even while on duty they should have some right to privacy. They may get a call from their wife of children while one duty about family matters. I will assume that you agree with that but where just making a general sweeping statement.
I would say that when acting in the line of duty they have no expectation of privacy and that those actions are public in nature.
As to recording everything they do? Not really Maybe every stop should be recorded or even every interview they do but not every minute of every day. Would you want to be under that level of observation?
I know that I wouldn't.
Also you are not their employer they hold an office of public trust. Frankly they get more grief that you can imagine and must deal with the worst parts of society on a regular basis. There are some very good police officers out their.
My brother in law is an excellent officer. He got an accommodation for preventing a man from taking his own life.
He then got busted because he refused to reprimand an officer. The officer had a juvenile with a gun. The juvenile was threatening the officer and wouldn't drop the gun. The officer finally yelled at the teenager, "Drop the f'ing gun!" and the teenager did and nobody got hurt. The city wanted the officer reprimanded for using profanity on duty. The parents of the teen complained that the officer didn't have to use such foul language!
The city wanted him reprimanded and my brother in law refused because he felt the officer had tried everything else and it ended up with nobody getting shot. So he was busted.
As I said, there are a got of good men and women out there that are just trying to do a really terrible job. They deserve a little respect and consideration.
Frankly when I have been stopped it is usually my fault. Most of the time when I am polite they are also and often I have gotten a warning.
Twice I have run into jerks that and one of those times I got a tick for something I didn't do. I was from out of town and he was a jerk.
Or we reach good enough.
How much storage do we really need on device?
First of all flash has replaced Hard Drives below a certain size. I doubt that you can find a sub 50 GB hard drive these days. If you do they are pretty rare and the price per gigabyte will be really high.
A lot of people don't need a lot more than 32 GBs of storage.
If you are storing video 32 GBs is a huge amount of storage.
When and if cloud storage and mobile broadband connections get cheap enough, reliable enough and with universal coverage just how much space do you think you will need on device?
As far as work documents go again as long as you are not dealing with video you will be surprised just how big a few gigabytes really is.
Flash will keep creeping up the food chain becoming good enough for more and more people. The speed, power, and reliability issues will keep pushing it in to more and more systems.
I doubt that magnetic media will ever go away. If you need a lot of storage it will be the cheapest for a good long time.
But eventually flash may become so cheap and hard drives so expensive that it will be cheaper to RAID flash drives than to buy hard drives.
Well now the local stations can charge the cable companies and they are required to carry them and I guess pay them.
The Cable companies used to get what they could bet with an antenna for free. The local stations now charge them.
To me we need to forget congress and concentrate on the local governments that grant the franchises.
They should require X number of channels for a x price, X level of service, and if they are also an ISP net neutrality.
Much simpler than going through congress and using laws. It is the free market solution. The local governments are the customer and we control them.
The problem is that this already isn't really a free market.
The local Phone and Cable Companies have been granted in many cases FREE ride of way for their lines.
To me the problem comes from "double dipping". Which is a very old a profitable business model for cable companies.
When cable first started you got cable. There was one cable package you got your localish channels. CATV didn't stand for cable. It stood for Community antenna TV. In places where you didn't get a lot of channels a company would put up a BIG antenna and amplifiers and everybody paid for access.
You paid for the signal and the cable companies made money from providing the service.
Then came HBO. Okay you paid to get the channel but that was because their where no commercials. It seemed fair enough but that was the start. Then came channels like TBS and other channels like that. Now the Cable company started to get money from the channels to carry them. Some would allow the companies to insert commercials to make money.
Then came things like MTV and extra tiers. Now customers where PAYING to see commercials!
The Cable companies just don't see why the internet is any different we have already seen ISPs inserting their own ads into pages as well as now wanting to charge us for tiers of service as well as charging websites.
Long ago we should have stopped cable companies from charging for extra channels that contain commercials. Our local governments grant these franchises to the cable companies. They are also the branches of the government that the individual have the most control over.
Why are the local governments AKA your town and county not cracking down on this?
Hey Comcast you want to be replaced? Maybe Verizon or CableVision will do better.
At least we now have AT&T UVerse as compition to them.
Well lets take a look.
XBOX 360. Huge hardware problems. Huge charge to fix the problems. Slow in replacing the hardware.
Zune. What??? The original version had wifi but it was crippled by the RIAA. Microsoft played buddy buddy with the RIAA trying to get them to side with Microsoft vs Apple media player market.
The result was a media player that could have had some brilliant features being a bland second or third place device.
The ZuneHD is a really good media player. Maybe the best high end media player on the market... Who wants a high end media player today? Most people want a smart phone or an iPod touch which is really more of a PDA/Gaming device than a pure media player.
Window Mobile, Windows Phone, and the Kin.
The Kin is really a tragedy. It had some interesting hardware. It had some nice and really innovative features. It was killed.
It was killed by the company and by stupidity. Really folks what where you thinking. Twitter didn't work. No real app store. Smartphone data prices.
You can not blame Verizon. They are very invested in the Droid name and why not push kids to a Smart phone if you can. The Kin would eat up a ton of bandwidth streaming and uploading video so why put on the network for cheap.
Windows Mobile? How long did Microsoft have to get out a good version of it after the iPhone came out? Windows Mobile was just really left to sit and rot much like Palm OS. It predates the iPhone but never really inspired much love. It was frankly more of a hackers OS than Android was. People where cooking up custom roms, skins, and apps all over the place for it.
But it just never really worked all that well.
And now Windows Phone 7.... Yea Android, iPhone, and frankly even WebOS will have more apps available for them than WP7 will at launch.
All the old WinMo users will be kind of left out in the cold. WP7 doesn't run their old apps but worry not because WM is staying around for also!!!!
Even Bing is a bit of flop. Does anyone use it?
What about Microsoft Money? Is there an online version?
Don't forget the disaster that was Vista. Which frankly really helped Apple a lot.
Right now Microsoft is paying the price for having a terrible mobile strategy. ,OpenOffice.org is free, and Google Docs has a lot of buzz going for it.
Things are going to get worse. Moblin is now going to really start to challenge CE in the automotive informatics space.
WP7 if it is anything less than an iPhone style smash will be seen as a total failure.
Office sales are lack luster because Office has reached good enough long ago
Even outlook and exchange are going to feel the pinch from web mail soon if they have no already.
We do seem to be coming to the point where for a lot of people the browser is the OS. Even their you have FireFox and Chrome really taking a bite out of IE and practically nobody is going to make "Best viewed in IE" sites anymore.
Microsoft maybe in the same position as Wright Aircraft Engines was in the late 1940s early 1950s. The president was sure that they wold be making the R3350 motors forever. Or maybe DEC in the late 70s?
Things are changing and they are not.
The past is the past. There is now and that is the world you are living in. We all now live in a small town of several million people.
And it is indexed.
As the Kosh said, "The avalanche is upon us. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
Yes but we I have not had any issues with UPS at all. We get two stops a day at my office. Maybe it is where you live vs the service. Or just your perception of the people. I am not sure how you can look at someone and say that they are an ex con.
Well the thing is to remember what is public is really public. What you do at a party never really was private. Now a days you just have more eyes on your public life than before. Unless you where famous then it is the same.
What I worry about is that we are loosing the cultural filter of time. The golden rule is that 90% of everything is crap. Or these days about 99% of everything is crap.
The problem is that really bad books went out of print, really bad movies where never shown again, really bad plays where never performed again, really bad TV shows didn't make it into syndication.
Think about the classic TV shows of the 50s and then figure that only about 4 or 5 are still being shown. The rest have all just faded away.
But now with hundreds of channels to fill on cable, Internet video, and DVD sales the crap will stay around forever!
The fact that you can still get Ice Pirates is proof of that. Thank goodness that the 1960s Lost Horizons seems to have been lost to filter of time.
But you have a different idea of what is public and what is private.
What you do at a party really is public behavior. You are out with people aka in public.
What you do in your own home "not in front of a bunch of guests" is private.
I did see the picture "pay wall" but I do agree that they may have over reacted in the case specified.
This is our new reality. Everyone is basically being treated like they are famous. Just think about every time you hear about actor losing his cool in public, getting drunk, or just acting like a jerk. Welcome to their world because it is our world now.
Hey I don't drink, smoke, cheat on my wife, and try not to use foul language. Even then I have to work hard at keeping my private life separate from my professional one. I know that somebody will find my Facebook page and see that I am active in my church. Believe it or not that can be a negative for some people. I ride classic motorcycles. Some people look down on that. It will happen but that is just part of the new world.
What worries me the most is that the younger people do not seem to understand this. Back in the dark ages when I was a teen no body had digital cameras or digital video cameras.
A bunch of nice teenage girls having a sleep over today may record a pillow fight and put it up on YouTube. Next thing you know two million guys are drooling over it.
I kid pretends that he is drunk on video goofing off and next thing you know family services is at the door.
The thing is that you can not make people not care about these things.
You can rant and vent and jump up and down but you can not change how people will view these actions.
What everybody really needs to understand is when ever you post ANY photo or video on the web you are making those PUBLIC.
It is probably wise and good manners to NOT post pictures of other people without their permission. You may never know what can bite someone in the butt.
Oh and before I get flamed to death. Yes it would be nice if other people wouldn't judge people things as superficial as pictures or how they look. That is a problem that has been around for a lot longer then the internet. What I am suggesting is more just understanding the new reality and having good the good manners to not throw other people under the bus.
A summary and link is not the same.
Yes copying the article word for word or even almost is wrong. It is called plagiarism.
I am all for copyright reform but I am not anti-copyright. To create takes a lot of work. Just because you can make a copy of that work easily doesn't decrease the value of the work.
It is still stealing the fruits of somebody's labor.
It is like going into someone garden and taking what they have grown. After all more will grow.
People like to say that copying someone's work isn't depriving them of anything because they still have the original.
That is a justification and nothing more. They it should be all right for any studio to make a movie out of any book they want and not pay the author.
After all the author still has his book.
Or any publisher to publish any book and pay the author nothing.
As I said reform yes.
It should be completely legal for me to summarize and link to a news story.
It should also be completely legal for me to comment on and link to any news story.
But taking someone else's work is and will always be wrong.
No a knee jerk reaction but a truthful one.
Okay I don't know where you do your shipping but we don't have any of the problems you seem to have with UPS.
We have had the same driver for years. Very nice gentleman and I doubt he is an ex-con.
We ship a LOT.
And have not had many damaged packages at all.
We are using the US postal service more now because they are cheaper and the service has been okay.
If it isn't high priority it goes USPS.
There is some room for discussion on that one but we are talking about copying news stores.
This is like burning copies of DVDs and selling them.
When you cut and past this into your blog. You are in effect taking someone's work and making money from it "ads" and depriving them of their money "ads" with out their permission.
That really is theft. But making a summary of it and linking to it is not just fair use but helpful to the author as it can drive readers to them and increase their earnings.
But each complex piece of code should only be written once.
When I first started everybody had to know how to write sorts, btrees, and hash tables.
If you where really into it you learned how to create a sparse array.
So many of those things have been folded into libraries now which is a good thing.
The real problem then becomes a massive collection of libraries.
Which adds all sorts of new complexity.
I do think that c++ and java have gotten more complex than you need but mainly because of the growth of the standard libraries.
Of course I would really like to go with managed memory solutions but even that has it's limits. I wouldn't be really happy using those in an embedded situation.
I agree. Cut and paste is bad
Linking should be protected.
Well I am banking on Fusion or a better replacement in 100 to 200 years. Which nuclear can easily buy us.
Think about how much technology has improved between say 1810 and 2010 and imagine how much it will change between 2010 and 2210.
Carter blew it on nuclear and he should have known better. His support for alternative energy was mostly an expensive learning experience.
What really happened under Carter was the massive switch from oil fired power plants to coal. What people don't remember is Carter was pushing for domestic power sources not carbon free ones. Clean coal became the electrical power source in the US starting with Carter and continuing with Reagan. I was around for those big ticket failures like the massive windmills in North Carolina. My family even put solar hot water panels on our house.
Nuclear is the answer today. Thank goodness we are building them again.
Now if we can just keep the Naysayers out of the way.
I can see the logic of that honor system.
If you are resourced staved then seeing a spare system just sitting there seems like a huge waste.
And to them it is.
Maybe the solution would be to pay the people there such a high wage that value their job. If something walks you fire them.
Actually much different.
If he really is just a harmless crack pot then I am thinking he will get a five year "suspended sentence" and time served. He will not go a super max prison but instead will end up in a minimal security prison.
The real problem at this point with a suspended sentence is a matter of trust.
The way a suspended sentence in the US works is you are on probation. You have some really strict limits on what you do. If you fail in any of the requirements you go to jail and serve out your full term.
The question would be if a US court gave him that and allowed him to return to the UK would the UK honor those requirements?
As to the problems in US jails yes we do have them but your media doesn't really reflect reality of the US justice system.
To give you an example. An idiot that I know had a run in with the law.
This is not a friend of mine in any way.
He got into many altercations with a mentally challenged teen that lived on his street.
He also had many arrests for domestic violence and problems with other people.
He got hauled into court and got a restraining order slapped on him.
Not one month latter he went to a store that this guy worked at and spit on the window he just washed.
He got five months for violating the restraining order. He served one month.
He then got out on probation. After a few other run ins with the law and breaking his probation by failing a drug test he got sentenced to 5 years but only served 4 months.
I may have missed a few yelling at police, have the police coming to his home to break up fights, and I think he missed a few court dates.
But you get the picture. To serve five years in prison you really have to make a real pain out of yourself.
And frankly what do you do with idiots like the one I described?
The problems with the gangs is they do not start in the prisons but on the streets. Yes the us does have problems the UK doesn't but they are not as bad as what you see on TV.
Frankly you really have to work at going to jail in the US. The few people I know of that ended up in jail where what I would call "volunteers".
Okay let's deal with case at hand.
This person has confessed to committing a crime in the US. He may have been in the UK at the time but the system he illegally entered was in the US.
The UK has an extradition treaty with the US.
Now he has claimed to have damaged nothing. But that has not been proven in a court of law so we toss that out.
You are concerned that he will be punished more than he should for the crime he has admitted at least in part to having committed.
But he has not been tried or sentenced yet so we can toss that out.
So using your own rules of " no maybe ifs, no fairies at the end of the garden, you only look at the actual offence and the proven valid damages."
Until he has been tired in the US and been sentenced you have nothing to complain about.
Because all of your concerns are in large that his punishment for the crimes he has not yet been to to trial for and has not been sentenced too will be too great for your taste.
I agree.
Why Include the parties at all?
And do you have a list of of the members of congress that oppose net neutrality?
All of them?
I want to know of any of them from Florida are on the list so I can contact them and let them know how I feel about this subject.
Maybe all of us should start contacting our senators about this no matter what party they are in.
Not in the US.
You would be stuck with AT&T or TMobile but...
Most phones only support 3G on AT&T or TMobile. Very few phones support it on both carriers including the iPhone.
My guess is you will be stuck with it on a launch carrier or you will get to pick your carrier.
Maybe these are company phones?
So they pay for the plan as well?
Wish they would do that with the Kins.
Really what is Microsoft going to do with all those Kins?
They are really good hardware. Wish they ran Android.
Frankly Microsoft's Zune Pass is really cool. The Zune HD is also a really nice device.
With the Zune Pass for $15 a month you get all the music you want.
You can then download $10 DRM free songs each month.
Not a bad deal at all. If I just wanted a music player I would really be tempted to get a Zune.
I wish that they offered it for my Android phone.
Yes I do not have a lot of hope for WinMo7 or WinPho7 or what ever they are calling it but in a way that is really too bad.
They have some good ideas and can produce good stuff.
The us must prove someone guilty before he is put on trial?
That is a new legal idea.
You say that he only used default passwords? The US says that he didn't. Frankly that also doesn't matter legally. The password could have been 123.
He says he didn't do any damage and deleted no files.
He broke into US systems that where in the US. He just happened to be sitting in the UK when he did it.
So what if he wants to be tired in the UK? Really an admitted criminal wants to pick where he thinks he will get a lesser punishment.
And being scared is not cruel and unusual punishment.
The protests over this boarder on the whacked. You are treating this criminal like a child. You also have a totally media driven view of the US justice system.
What you are seeing are the maximum sentences. No body ever gets that. Well unless you do something really extreme.
Also he is not going to go to some supermax. It costs a huge amount of money to put someone in a supermax.
If he really only did what he claims
He will go into a white collar minimal security "country club" prison like a famous tax evader would. It will probably be only for a few months if that.
Most likely he will get a big slap on the wrist and probably a big fine.
But the president can not intervene before he is tried. He has admitted to breaking into US government systems so yes he should be extradited. He has admitted to the crime. That alone proves that he should be sent to the US. The court will determine how much damage was done. After the trial and the sentencing then the PM can try and work a deal with the President for having the sentence commuted or have him serve his time in the UK.
Frankly right now that will be a hard sell in the US. The US doesn't have a lot of faith in European justice. The release of Megrahi and the refusal to return Roman Polanski "a convicted rapist" really makes the people in the US question your legal system. Scotland released a mass murder and the Swiss would not extradite a rapist that fled his sentencing.
So I suspect that if this guy hacked US systems and did millions of dollars of damage. The UK court would sentence him to a parade, cupcakes, and a grant of 10,000 dollars as his punishment.
He is going to go on trial in the US and will probably get a very light sentence.
And frankly if the roles where reversed I doubt that anybody in the US would care if the UK asked for extradition.