The trend that I expect to happen is to start deploying isolated "Black Boxes". For example - instead of installing redhat and deploying our software on top of it - just ship an already configured VM. I know there are license issues to work out - but in the end, just deploying specialized VM's may be the best case.
I shop this way !! I don't take pictures to read later, but take a picture of the cover or an picture that catches my eye (usualy a new product in an add) or something else I would like to buy (tearinng through Ikea with a camera). I almost always have my S110 with me.
The camera phone would have been great in one situation - I did emergency shopping for my wife - take a bunch of pictures, e-mail them, go back and buy what she wanted. I asked the store clerks, they just thought it interesting.
Lets see if you can pull it off. How much is a hearing aid ? Now put a mic on it, a mini-dsp for the delay, timing, feedback control - making sure you don't blow out the ear drum (ever had a Mosquito in your ear - it's hell !!).And then cram a battery in it so it will be usefull.
Oh yeah - don't forget to cover your egineering, marketing, tradeshows, testing, building, etc. Chances are these guys made a limited run of the core unit for 50-100K$, and then customise the shell for the user.
Things are only 2-4$ a run once you scale your manufacturng. But kt still won't be any lower than a hearing aid - the market s smaller.
I'm a canadian who worked for a swedish company in the US. Conflicts between the US and Swedish management were amazing...
US : "The customer wants this feature in the product" SW : "We shall discuss starting a pre-study then" US : "When when that be ?" SW : "We will get back to you next week" US : "So next week we will know if our feature will be in the product ?" SW : "Next week we will know when we can get together to discuss starting a pre-study on that feature"
Of course the rest of the conversation cannot be repeated...
Sweden had a very inclusive management style which was great, but slow - no single point of blame. The US had a very individualistic aproach, which was empowering and exciting and quick - and you knew who to fire !!
There are three ways to find out your position in a network. GPS is only one of them. Others do "triangulate" from towers (a little more complex than that). That was one of the requirements of E911 - to be able to find you WITHOUT a special phone.
The new thing presented in this article is about additional services to be provided (either for a fee or as an incentive to switch). For phones with GPS this is not that special, but for phones without it, access to network bassed positioning services might be pretty cool.
For more insight on these - look at the Qualcomm phone chipstets. Most of the new ones have a integrated GPS system on them. These are used in CDMA phones (in the US/CAN - Sprint, Verizon, Bell Mobility, Telus) - Qualcomm makes the chips for 90% of the CDMA phones on the market - Kyocera, Samsung, Qualcomm (duh).
http://www.geomar.de/sci_dpmt/umwelt/gas_hydr/ also look at google.
" Formed under conditions of high pressure and low temperature, the gas hydrates slowly decompose when brought to the surface releasing methane gas and water. As an impressive demonstration of their natural gas content, these snow-white 'icecubes' are flamable. "
I think I saw somthing like this. Current research was going on in the Artic (Canada-US research team). It was a gas that was dissolved in the ground - TONS of it.
The good part is these deposits are found either in Polar regions or just offshore. So nations like Japan would have a exploitable resource (I don't think they have many oil fields)
The bad part - this stuff is about a mile down and dissolved in a solid. So you can't "pump it" to the surface (its solid). The researchers were looking at ways of extracting this more easily.
Verizon uses CDMA technology... most of the new ericsson phones (Noka as well) are GSM/GPRS for "the larger market" (GSM: 100's of million of users, CDMA: 10's of millions ).
I also think the SIM cards help in user adoption - ie: I can easily switch phones WITHOUT asking the phone company. I have 3 phones - a business phone, a fun phone, a basc phone - changing from one to another is as simple as pulling out a card and placing it in the new phone.
J2ME gives you control over some SMS aspects, the GPRS data channels. If you want an example - head over to http://www.wireless-village.org to how they implement some of this over the SMS channel.
T68 has sync features as well (t39 also) - it is standards based SyncML (http://www.syncml.org) - iSync should work with most Ericsson phones since the T39, some just need cables (ie: no Bluetooth)
I think the cool thing is the J2ME on the phone !! eg: J2ME/Blutooth network games (GPRS as well, but that would incure costs and LAG)
The goal is value based selling. I charge you what you can afford to pay. I think that ISP's who tried to survive on costs based selling couldn't handle the rapid changes in cost structure. But they were probably also responsible for the drop in pricing.
Think the rate structures for long distance calls - why were they distance based ? Difference between business and residential rates, why ?
Think airline seats on traditional airlines vs. SouthWest. The airlines have seat blocks at different price ranges - while some of you may think business people who spend 2000$ for a ticket are "subsidising" the cheap 200$ tickets, if it wasnt for the cheap traveler, that segment would not exist for the business traveller to take.
Do you think it costs microsoft 200$ to create an XP CD ? All costs considered ? No... but other parts of the organisation need the money, and they can charge for it.
Thats what's so cool (business wise) in high-tech. Actualy, its how many businesses work.
An "average" can also mean "median" value. In that case you may be using more than most people (ie: the top 10% ?) - "average", does not realy have meaning in statistics - mean, mode, and median do - median being the arithmetic "average", mode being the most common and median meaning the middle value when all values are sorted. So while the "mean" person may have 1 testicles - I can assure you I have 2.
What you should do is go out and get some type of marketing course. Next job, make them notice you "Today, I saved the company infrastructure - see company B had an idiot and lost all there e-mail with this virus, we didn't. Customer file blew up when the data center in Huston flooded (again!!) but, unlike before I was hired, I implemented that IT business support contigency plan and offsite backup - did you notice the failure ? No ? I'm good eh? etc...."
You'll go to all the parties - and if you do get fired... someone will apreciate your stories and pay for it. You are also in it for the money - not just the CEO's !!
Holy Crap !! Deposit ? Half that cost is going to be wasted on managing the frickin program. Don't deal with individuals - deal with it a the manufacturing, just roll it into the manufacturing costs. If companies are forced to think about disposal costs like they must think of manufacturing costs - they would find better ways of doing it.
So how would it work ? Well if Foo Co. and Bar Co. manufacture a network card. If Foo's Card is better on the environment then it has less "Tax" and will be cheaper than Bar's Card.
Once companies are forced to think about recycling (like car manufacturers are) - recycling becomes cheaper and the environment will be saved.
An example - Why are flat panels becoming popular to manufacture ? Because they want you to use less power ? because they are costing less to manufacture ? because they weigh less ? because the companies want to be nice ? HELL NO !! Companies are making Flat panels because you can't make money on CRT's anymore !!! Since there is more money to be made on flat panels - more people make them. YOU want them for the above reasons (Smaller, lighter, Green, Cool), but they would not be making them if they could not make a buck.
Money talks... People WANT to make a buck (whatever your meaning of "a buck" is.
All of the Ericsson phones w/ BlueTooth also support SyncML - and you can go to the Sony Ericsson web site to download sync software. There are also a few other things - you can "Bluetooth" from phone to phone, Beam through IR etc.
Something else, that most people here seem to hate, who will pay for some of these systems ? If you look at cellular networks - billions of dollars are spent developing these.
The government also creates markets and wealth - Yes, cell companies have spent 17 billion on a slice of spectrum (look for the NextWave fiasco) and will be spending countless billions building up the networks. This provides over 500,000 jobs in the US alone !!! Plus, with the communications infrastructure developed - it helps create efficiency and wealth in other domains. With a cell phone, you now have more time and control over your communications (business and pleasure).
If you remove the exclusivity - who would have put cash on the table to build these networks ? The internet is kick ass because I can spread the cost of infrastructure accross a greater population - who remembers how much a leased line cost 10 years ago... a shit load !! I can do the same with my phone (because of the early ATT monopoly - a guarateed return), and my cell phone (because of spectrum ownership).
GSM Packet Radio Service - It's a quick inexpensive upgrade for GSM networks to get Packet data. GSM is currently Circuit Switched Data (CSD), you dial up an ISP. GPRS allows an "always on" connection. The data rate does not go up significantly - that is what EDGE ( Enhanced Datarates for GSM Evolution ) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecomunications System). UMTS actualy does more now - it will allow MobileIP, a full IP Core network for voice transport, Data roaming from Wi-Fi to GPRS. Not voice though - it requires "Hard Real Time" and QoS (Quality of Service) capabilities.
Many of the newer boards DO support HDTV frequencies.
There is an application called Powerstrip that is made for just that - you just need adapters (and Windows.. not a perfect world). Many HDTV's also come with a VGA-in plug.
As well remember that the X-Box will output to HDTV as well and the core is.... what... can't hear you... the nForce you say ?
It's now simpler for Cable modems in the US. There is the DOCSIS standard - they even sell Cable modems at Best Buy here in Dallas !!! But I rent mine anyway - 50$ Total for @HOME - loved it since Day 1... GTE/Verizon... They have sent me 2 Cable modems and my line is still hooked up - but nothing works. They cancelled the order but never asked for anything back or fixed anything.
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The trend that I expect to happen is to start deploying isolated "Black Boxes". For example - instead of installing redhat and deploying our software on top of it - just ship an already configured VM. I know there are license issues to work out - but in the end, just deploying specialized VM's may be the best case.
I shop this way !! I don't take pictures to read later, but take a picture of the cover or an picture that catches my eye (usualy a new product in an add) or something else I would like to buy (tearinng through Ikea with a camera). I almost always have my S110 with me.
The camera phone would have been great in one situation - I did emergency shopping for my wife - take a bunch of pictures, e-mail them, go back and buy what she wanted. I asked the store clerks, they just thought it interesting.
Oh yeah - don't forget to cover your egineering, marketing, tradeshows, testing, building, etc. Chances are these guys made a limited run of the core unit for 50-100K$, and then customise the shell for the user.
Things are only 2-4$ a run once you scale your manufacturng. But kt still won't be any lower than a hearing aid - the market s smaller.
Check out the mouse driver chronicles - and that's just a gadget !!!
I'm a canadian who worked for a swedish company in the US. Conflicts between the US and Swedish management were amazing ...
...
US : "The customer wants this feature in the product"
SW : "We shall discuss starting a pre-study then"
US : "When when that be ?"
SW : "We will get back to you next week"
US : "So next week we will know if our feature will be in the product ?"
SW : "Next week we will know when we can get together to discuss starting a pre-study on that feature"
Of course the rest of the conversation cannot be repeated
Sweden had a very inclusive management style which was great, but slow - no single point of blame. The US had a very individualistic aproach, which was empowering and exciting and quick - and you knew who to fire !!
Quick google searches reveal ...
... in 1976 (cost 8M$)
:
Here : http://www.thocp.net/hardware/cray_1.htm
Top speed 133 MFLOPS
And from : http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14840.html
CPU
PIII 1GHz: CPU: 2694 MIPS, FPU: 1333 MFLOPS
P4 1.5GHz: CPU: 2866 MIPS, FPU: 882 MFLOPS
Athlon 1GHz: CPU: 3111 MIPS, FPU: 1395 MFLOPS
Snooping around more
SGI Origin2000: 114 MFlops
Macintosh G3 ZIF/400: 93 MFlops
Macintosh G3/333: 77 MFlops
Intel Pentium II/450: 72 MFlops
Macintosh G3/300: 71 MFlops
Macintosh G3/266: 64 MFlops
Cray T3E-900: 63 MFlops
IBM SP2: 59 MFlops
iMac/233: 56 MFlops
Intel Pentium II/300: 48 MFlops
Intel Pentium Pro/200: 36 MFlops
Cray T3D: 17 MFlops
Of course, this is all rough - and depends on the software, memory etc.
War is not meant to be fair ... duh !! It's the muscle behind diplomacy.
... offtopic (this as well)
Anyway
There are three ways to find out your position in a network. GPS is only one of them. Others do "triangulate" from towers (a little more complex than that). That was one of the requirements of E911 - to be able to find you WITHOUT a special phone.
The new thing presented in this article is about additional services to be provided (either for a fee or as an incentive to switch). For phones with GPS this is not that special, but for phones without it, access to network bassed positioning services might be pretty cool.
For more insight on these - look at the Qualcomm phone chipstets. Most of the new ones have a integrated GPS system on them. These are used in CDMA phones (in the US/CAN - Sprint, Verizon, Bell Mobility, Telus) - Qualcomm makes the chips for 90% of the CDMA phones on the market - Kyocera, Samsung, Qualcomm (duh).
It was cool !! Metal wheels and magnets to pull itself along !! Never figured out how to stop it though.
ie : Bob just got fired ... to bad ... so sad ... pass the beer nuts !!
Here
http://www.geomar.de/sci_dpmt/umwelt/gas_hydr/
also look at google.
" Formed under conditions of high pressure and low temperature, the gas hydrates slowly decompose when brought to the surface releasing methane gas and water. As an impressive demonstration of their natural gas content, these snow-white 'icecubes' are flamable. "
I think I saw somthing like this. Current research was going on in the Artic (Canada-US research team). It was a gas that was dissolved in the ground - TONS of it.
The good part is these deposits are found either in Polar regions or just offshore. So nations like Japan would have a exploitable resource (I don't think they have many oil fields)
The bad part - this stuff is about a mile down and dissolved in a solid. So you can't "pump it" to the surface (its solid). The researchers were looking at ways of extracting this more easily.
Verizon uses CDMA technology ... most of the new ericsson phones (Noka as well) are GSM/GPRS for "the larger market" (GSM: 100's of million of users, CDMA: 10's of millions ).
I also think the SIM cards help in user adoption - ie: I can easily switch phones WITHOUT asking the phone company. I have 3 phones - a business phone, a fun phone, a basc phone - changing from one to another is as simple as pulling out a card and placing it in the new phone.
Hey - it has J2ME !! You can write it yourself !!
J2ME gives you control over some SMS aspects, the GPRS data channels. If you want an example - head over to http://www.wireless-village.org to how they implement some of this over the SMS channel.
T68 has sync features as well (t39 also) - it is standards based SyncML (http://www.syncml.org) - iSync should work with most Ericsson phones since the T39, some just need cables (ie: no Bluetooth)
I think the cool thing is the J2ME on the phone !! eg: J2ME/Blutooth network games (GPRS as well, but that would incure costs and LAG)
The goal is value based selling. I charge you what you can afford to pay. I think that ISP's who tried to survive on costs based selling couldn't handle the rapid changes in cost structure. But they were probably also responsible for the drop in pricing.
... but other parts of the organisation need the money, and they can charge for it.
Think the rate structures for long distance calls - why were they distance based ? Difference between business and residential rates, why ?
Think airline seats on traditional airlines vs. SouthWest. The airlines have seat blocks at different price ranges - while some of you may think business people who spend 2000$ for a ticket are "subsidising" the cheap 200$ tickets, if it wasnt for the cheap traveler, that segment would not exist for the business traveller to take.
Do you think it costs microsoft 200$ to create an XP CD ? All costs considered ? No
Thats what's so cool (business wise) in high-tech. Actualy, its how many businesses work.
An "average" can also mean "median" value. In that case you may be using more than most people (ie: the top 10% ?) - "average", does not realy have meaning in statistics - mean, mode, and median do - median being the arithmetic "average", mode being the most common and median meaning the middle value when all values are sorted.
So while the "mean" person may have 1 testicles - I can assure you I have 2.
What you should do is go out and get some type of marketing course. Next job, make them notice you "Today, I saved the company infrastructure - see company B had an idiot and lost all there e-mail with this virus, we didn't. Customer file blew up when the data center in Huston flooded (again!!) but, unlike before I was hired, I implemented that IT business support contigency plan and offsite backup - did you notice the failure ? No ? I'm good eh? etc...."
... someone will apreciate your stories and pay for it. You are also in it for the money - not just the CEO's !!
You'll go to all the parties - and if you do get fired
Micheal Keaton was good for Batman because he could pull off a better Bruce Wayne. Any idiot can play "Batman".
Holy Crap !! Deposit ? Half that cost is going to be wasted on managing the frickin program. Don't deal with individuals - deal with it a the manufacturing, just roll it into the manufacturing costs. If companies are forced to think about disposal costs like they must think of manufacturing costs - they would find better ways of doing it.
... People WANT to make a buck (whatever your meaning of "a buck" is.
So how would it work ? Well if Foo Co. and Bar Co. manufacture a network card. If Foo's Card is better on the environment then it has less "Tax" and will be cheaper than Bar's Card.
Once companies are forced to think about recycling (like car manufacturers are) - recycling becomes cheaper and the environment will be saved.
An example - Why are flat panels becoming popular to manufacture ? Because they want you to use less power ? because they are costing less to manufacture ? because they weigh less ? because the companies want to be nice ? HELL NO !! Companies are making Flat panels because you can't make money on CRT's anymore !!! Since there is more money to be made on flat panels - more people make them. YOU want them for the above reasons (Smaller, lighter, Green, Cool), but they would not be making them if they could not make a buck.
Money talks
Hey - what about Tesla ?
Wireless Electricity
All of the Ericsson phones w/ BlueTooth also support SyncML - and you can go to the Sony Ericsson web site to download sync software. There are also a few other things - you can "Bluetooth" from phone to phone, Beam through IR etc.
T68 and T39 also have POP3 mail clients.
Something else, that most people here seem to hate, who will pay for some of these systems ? If you look at cellular networks - billions of dollars are spent developing these.
... a shit load !! I can do the same with my phone (because of the early ATT monopoly - a guarateed return), and my cell phone (because of spectrum ownership).
The government also creates markets and wealth - Yes, cell companies have spent 17 billion on a slice of spectrum (look for the NextWave fiasco) and will be spending countless billions building up the networks. This provides over 500,000 jobs in the US alone !!! Plus, with the communications infrastructure developed - it helps create efficiency and wealth in other domains. With a cell phone, you now have more time and control over your communications (business and pleasure).
If you remove the exclusivity - who would have put cash on the table to build these networks ? The internet is kick ass because I can spread the cost of infrastructure accross a greater population - who remembers how much a leased line cost 10 years ago
Thats my take.
GSM Packet Radio Service - It's a quick inexpensive upgrade for GSM networks to get Packet data. GSM is currently Circuit Switched Data (CSD), you dial up an ISP. GPRS allows an "always on" connection. The data rate does not go up significantly - that is what EDGE ( Enhanced Datarates for GSM Evolution ) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecomunications System). UMTS actualy does more now - it will allow MobileIP, a full IP Core network for voice transport, Data roaming from Wi-Fi to GPRS. Not voice though - it requires "Hard Real Time" and QoS (Quality of Service) capabilities.
Many of the newer boards DO support HDTV frequencies.
There is an application called Powerstrip that is made for just that - you just need adapters (and Windows .. not a perfect world). Many HDTV's also come with a VGA-in plug.
As well remember that the X-Box will output to HDTV as well and the core is .... what ... can't hear you ... the nForce you say ?
It's now simpler for Cable modems in the US. There is the DOCSIS standard - they even sell Cable modems at Best Buy here in Dallas !!! But I rent mine anyway - 50$ Total for @HOME - loved it since Day 1 ... GTE/Verizon ... They have sent me 2 Cable modems and my line is still hooked up - but nothing works. They cancelled the order but never asked for anything back or fixed anything.