"Microsoft wanted none of that, so they burned their bridges from the start, by stopping Xbox-1 production when the 360 was released. It was probably costing them too much to source those 5-year old PC parts anyhow." I think that Microsoft stopped production of the XBox for the same reason that Nintendo stopped production of the GC. Nobody was going to buy them. The PS2 is still selling because they are still releasing games for it. People are still writing for it because the PS3 didn't fly off the selfs.
The US has a several classes of Signal intelligence and Communication intelligence satellites. I would be shocked if they didn't already use an optical link to send their data to relay satellite for downloading to a ground station. An optical data link would make the satellite "silent" so their data link wouldn't interfere with there intercept receivers. Since both the satellites are in space you wouldn't need to worry about weather an since they are both in geostationary orbit you wouldn't need to worry about aiming. Of course the other benefit is that you could beam the data right from your recon satellite parked over Asia to a relay satellite parked over the US and then right down to a ground station in Virgina. No need to have a ground station in a friendly or not so friendly country.
The XBox was a failed console? Sorry but that is just weird view of the world. The XBox was very popular. Yes the PS2 out sold it but by that standard the PS3 is a total failure as is the PSP! I don't think it makes a lot of sense to release an A class title as an exclusive for your last generation console when your current generation console has been out for six months!
But you said, "If there was a truly open phone, with an SDK that allowed full network and display access, and users could install and run these apps without a carrier distribution aggrements, there would be many more mobile developers." You said "If", that implies that there are no phones with that are easy to develop for. Just pointing out that there are phones already do have a easy to access SDK. As far as I can tell they are not Open as in the FOSS use of Open but they are easy to develop for.
Buzz and FUD seem to be closely related. After all Google hasn't hit eveyone out the park. GTalk which is the only IM I use is not all that popular. Docs and Calc while nice little programs have not replaced Office or Openoffice. It could be really cool. Google has loads of money and talent so they have the potential to do great things. I will say one more time. THEY HAVE SHOWN NOTHING YET. So I will go into wait and see mode.
Will it be a port of the PS2 version? Sorry I just couldn't understand why GOW2 wasn't a PS3 Exclusive? It would be like Microsoft coming out with Halo 3 for the XBox.
Except. Everybody is all excited about... Well at this point nothing. What no screen shots? No docs? Not even a pretty phone to look at? I mean who really cares until they show SOMETHING! The Iphone is a nice IPod+browser+phone but until I can add real apps it isn't what I consider a smart phone. I still have not seen this SDK apple said was coming. Yea I have high hopes but I can understand those that are more than just a little annoyed at the hype.
"At a guess, maybe the Utah legislators sold it on a platform of being able to censor that intarweb thingy and protect the children?" Actually some ISP offer filtering and some do not. Your view of Utah is typical but frankly unfair. Utah is the home of Novell and Wordperfect. If you ever went there you would probably find a much higher percentage of people that have lived out of the country than just about anywhere else on the planet. Religiously they are very homogeneous but as a group they are actually pretty technically with it.
"What I'm curious about is what they would do if you went to them and said "I have a game, I would like you to sell it, we've been doing advertising and it should sell quite a bit, we can't afford to pay you for placement but we'll sell the actual copies to you for $15 less so you can actually make a profit on it". Would they give some of that front-and-center space over to it in the hopes of selling more, or would they just relegate it to the back shelves because it's not paying the bucks?" Back shelf. The simple reason is the old bird in the hand. They get the money up front for the product placement. Your game "should" sell well but it may not.
"Second, state law pretty much guarantees that the phone and cable companies are the only ones allowed to lay fiber to the premises" Change the law. As to the ease of hookup. Well the colleges and or apartment complexes can offer WiFi as part the deal. Same thing for the summer cottages. Outlawing the best possible solution is a problem but the solution to that problem is to change the law and not to use an expensive and less than optimal solution. Even with Wifi you will have to have some kind of supporting network to connect all the WAPS. You may as well just run fiber everywhere. An interesting solution to the legal problem is to redefine the definition of Right of way. Make the fiber the communication right of way and charge the companies for use of the said right of way. The thing is if the Utah/Provo valleys can do it why not other places? I mean Utah is as republican and conservative as you can possibly get. How is it other states seem to be more willing to sell of the citizens rights than Utah is?
The problem with SPI for this application is that you need a CS line per device. That could be a lot of lines and or wires. Length of run shouldn't be a problem for the sensors in a PC case. The limit is depends on the clock speed but you can easily get a few meters. So with a 6 to 12 foot limit one has to wonder just how big your case is! Motherboards already use the SMBus to monitor temps and fans. So why go with USB?
Exactly. A fiber infrastructure could allow competing cable providers and competing ISPs. It would give the city/county government a fiber WAN for phone, data, and even video. Heck individual companies could even use it for a VPN to connect branches. Fiber will always be faster than wifi and should last a lot longer. Sure put up Wifi hot spots at some locations like the main street/downtown area but there is no good reason to blanket a town with a technology that is isn't really that great of a solution.
Well six+ million dollars from a single album isn't too bad. Most bands probably make less then $2 per album so that would be three million albums sold. I have never heard anything by RadioHead. I almost want to download the a song or two and if I like them then pay for the album. The downside is I would be counted as both a no pay and as a pay.
Community WiFi != Community Internet. I never said that community internet was a bad plan. Take a look at the Utopia project out in Utah. Wifi is slow and shared fiber is a lot faster and I would bet cheaper to maintain in the long run. If I was a business I wouldn't trust wifi for my connection. Cheap fiber would attract me both as a business and at home.
Well I think of layout and packageing as being pretty much the same thing. Apple does have to deal with some heat and sound management issues but they are still pretty much an Intel motherboard.
Yepp. WiFi everywhere just isn't needed. It isn't an essential service. If you want city workers to have network access every where say for the police then data cards and a data plan from a cell company will be cheaper. If you want to provide access to the citizens then Hot Spots at community centers, libraries, and parks will get you 90% of the benefit for 5% of the cost. WiMax may change the cost benefit ratio but right now it costs a lot of money and provides very little benefit.
I don't see the need to use USB for this. Why not use I2C or SMbus which based on I2C? It already exists and is more than fast enough. Seems like there is already a solution in place that may just need to be improved and not replaced.
Sprint is one of the most "Open" of carriers when it comes to software. Unlike Verizon they don't lock out features of the the phone. Like the ability to transfer files over Bluetooth or use Bluetooth to link your notebook to your phone. They do allow 3rd party software on their phones. Now unlocking phones is a different matter. Most of the Cell companies don't want that because they tend to subsidize the cost of the phone to get you on their network.
Almost every PC is based off a reference design. Apple uses Intel's CPUs and chipsets. They often use Intel's GPUs. Except for the "BIOS" which is EFI and not really a BIOS they are about as plain vanilla as you can get. They do get innovative in packaging which is about the only place left for innovation these days.
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"Microsoft wanted none of that, so they burned their bridges from the start, by stopping Xbox-1 production when the 360 was released. It was probably costing them too much to source those 5-year old PC parts anyhow."
I think that Microsoft stopped production of the XBox for the same reason that Nintendo stopped production of the GC. Nobody was going to buy them. The PS2 is still selling because they are still releasing games for it. People are still writing for it because the PS3 didn't fly off the selfs.
The US has a several classes of Signal intelligence and Communication intelligence satellites. I would be shocked if they didn't already use an optical link to send their data to relay satellite for downloading to a ground station. An optical data link would make the satellite "silent" so their data link wouldn't interfere with there intercept receivers. Since both the satellites are in space you wouldn't need to worry about weather an since they are both in geostationary orbit you wouldn't need to worry about aiming. Of course the other benefit is that you could beam the data right from your recon satellite parked over Asia to a relay satellite parked over the US and then right down to a ground station in Virgina. No need to have a ground station in a friendly or not so friendly country.
The XBox was a failed console? Sorry but that is just weird view of the world. The XBox was very popular. Yes the PS2 out sold it but by that standard the PS3 is a total failure as is the PSP!
I don't think it makes a lot of sense to release an A class title as an exclusive for your last generation console when your current generation console has been out for six months!
But you said, "If there was a truly open phone, with an SDK that allowed full network and display access, and users could install and run these apps without a carrier distribution aggrements, there would be many more mobile developers."
You said "If", that implies that there are no phones with that are easy to develop for. Just pointing out that there are phones already do have a easy to access SDK. As far as I can tell they are not Open as in the FOSS use of Open but they are easy to develop for.
Buzz and FUD seem to be closely related.
After all Google hasn't hit eveyone out the park.
GTalk which is the only IM I use is not all that popular.
Docs and Calc while nice little programs have not replaced Office or Openoffice.
It could be really cool. Google has loads of money and talent so they have the potential to do great things.
I will say one more time. THEY HAVE SHOWN NOTHING YET. So I will go into wait and see mode.
Will it be a port of the PS2 version?
Sorry I just couldn't understand why GOW2 wasn't a PS3 Exclusive? It would be like Microsoft coming out with Halo 3 for the XBox.
Except. Everybody is all excited about... Well at this point nothing.
What no screen shots? No docs? Not even a pretty phone to look at? I mean who really cares until they show SOMETHING!
The Iphone is a nice IPod+browser+phone but until I can add real apps it isn't what I consider a smart phone.
I still have not seen this SDK apple said was coming.
Yea I have high hopes but I can understand those that are more than just a little annoyed at the hype.
Palm? WinCE?
Both offer full TCP/IP access last time I checked. Even the Blackberry now offers access to the TCP/IP in their SDK.
Well except that SMBus which is I2C is already used on motherboards for temperature sensors and fans so we know that it works.
"At a guess, maybe the Utah legislators sold it on a platform of being able to censor that intarweb thingy and protect the children?"
Actually some ISP offer filtering and some do not. Your view of Utah is typical but frankly unfair. Utah is the home of Novell and Wordperfect. If you ever went there you would probably find a much higher percentage of people that have lived out of the country than just about anywhere else on the planet. Religiously they are very homogeneous but as a group they are actually pretty technically with it.
I have never had that happen to me at my local EBGames. The people there are polite and actually seem to know about the games they sell.
"What I'm curious about is what they would do if you went to them and said "I have a game, I would like you to sell it, we've been doing advertising and it should sell quite a bit, we can't afford to pay you for placement but we'll sell the actual copies to you for $15 less so you can actually make a profit on it". Would they give some of that front-and-center space over to it in the hopes of selling more, or would they just relegate it to the back shelves because it's not paying the bucks?"
Back shelf.
The simple reason is the old bird in the hand. They get the money up front for the product placement. Your game "should" sell well but it may not.
"Second, state law pretty much guarantees that the phone and cable companies are the only ones allowed to lay fiber to the premises"
Change the law.
As to the ease of hookup. Well the colleges and or apartment complexes can offer WiFi as part the deal. Same thing for the summer cottages. Outlawing the best possible solution is a problem but the solution to that problem is to change the law and not to use an expensive and less than optimal solution.
Even with Wifi you will have to have some kind of supporting network to connect all the WAPS. You may as well just run fiber everywhere. An interesting solution to the legal problem is to redefine the definition of Right of way. Make the fiber the communication right of way and charge the companies for use of the said right of way.
The thing is if the Utah/Provo valleys can do it why not other places? I mean Utah is as republican and conservative as you can possibly get. How is it other states seem to be more willing to sell of the citizens rights than Utah is?
The problem with SPI for this application is that you need a CS line per device. That could be a lot of lines and or wires. Length of run shouldn't be a problem for the sensors in a PC case. The limit is depends on the clock speed but you can easily get a few meters. So with a 6 to 12 foot limit one has to wonder just how big your case is!
Motherboards already use the SMBus to monitor temps and fans. So why go with USB?
Exactly. A fiber infrastructure could allow competing cable providers and competing ISPs. It would give the city/county government a fiber WAN for phone, data, and even video. Heck individual companies could even use it for a VPN to connect branches. Fiber will always be faster than wifi and should last a lot longer.
Sure put up Wifi hot spots at some locations like the main street/downtown area but there is no good reason to blanket a town with a technology that is isn't really that great of a solution.
Well six+ million dollars from a single album isn't too bad. Most bands probably make less then $2 per album so that would be three million albums sold.
I have never heard anything by RadioHead. I almost want to download the a song or two and if I like them then pay for the album. The downside is I would be counted as both a no pay and as a pay.
Community WiFi != Community Internet.
I never said that community internet was a bad plan.
Take a look at the Utopia project out in Utah. Wifi is slow and shared fiber is a lot faster and I would bet cheaper to maintain in the long run.
If I was a business I wouldn't trust wifi for my connection. Cheap fiber would attract me both as a business and at home.
Well I think of layout and packageing as being pretty much the same thing. Apple does have to deal with some heat and sound management issues but they are still pretty much an Intel motherboard.
Yepp. WiFi everywhere just isn't needed. It isn't an essential service. If you want city workers to have network access every where say for the police then data cards and a data plan from a cell company will be cheaper. If you want to provide access to the citizens then Hot Spots at community centers, libraries, and parks will get you 90% of the benefit for 5% of the cost. WiMax may change the cost benefit ratio but right now it costs a lot of money and provides very little benefit.
Do you have a data plan?
That number is only supposed to be used by people with a dataplan.
I don't see the need to use USB for this. Why not use I2C or SMbus which based on I2C?
It already exists and is more than fast enough. Seems like there is already a solution in place that may just need to be improved and not replaced.
Sprint is one of the most "Open" of carriers when it comes to software. Unlike Verizon they don't lock out features of the the phone. Like the ability to transfer files over Bluetooth or use Bluetooth to link your notebook to your phone. They do allow 3rd party software on their phones. Now unlocking phones is a different matter. Most of the Cell companies don't want that because they tend to subsidize the cost of the phone to get you on their network.
Almost every PC is based off a reference design. Apple uses Intel's CPUs and chipsets. They often use Intel's GPUs. Except for the "BIOS" which is EFI and not really a BIOS they are about as plain vanilla as you can get. They do get innovative in packaging which is about the only place left for innovation these days.
It was Mr. Carlson. It was the last line of the show if I remember correctly.
No problem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o5L9jiIfbY if you want to see it :)