That's the basic idea behind cloud + web (or, I suppose, iCloud + iOS + Facebook). Your music, pictures, mail, chat, and documents are just sort of out there somewhere on the network. Do you really care where they are?
There's a point where when you're the 98% of users who just consume media, write emails, and Facebook you really have no use for a general purpose PC as it's understood today. That's the brutal truth. If you're a student you need more (word/excel), but for that mcjob - do you really use your PC to edit 1080p video or reencode your video library?
There aren't a lot of secrets in logistics, fulfillment, and assembly. There's a lot of technology, or a lot of labor, or both. If you can, head to Asia to a printing plant that does tip-ins. A ridiculous amount of stuff is built manually. There's no secret to it - you do it the hard way, either with machines or with lots of people.
You're getting caught up in the technical details. What he was thinking about was more high level ie how to build a phone carrier that was unencumbered by the high capital costs of building out infrastructure.
I suppose an MVNO wasn't in the cards, although there were rumors about that too.
With LTE, it'd be possible to do exactly what he wanted - have a global MVNO that Just Works. You'd sell your phone and it would be able to hop onto any LTE network, no contract required. At that point the carrier would be split into tower/backhaul and billing/marketing divisions. I mean really, the consumer side of the business is totally separate conceptually from the back-end. Backhaul is backhaul.
The summary says "Apple-approved commands to run in an iPhone's or iPad's memory."
I'm not sure if that's the normal slashdot misunderstanding/hyperbole, if it's another reporter ignorance/flamebait thing, or if that's actually in what cmiller posted.
Apps are Apple-approved. Apps can't use Apple's non-public frameworks. Saying you can't run non-Apple-approved commands is completely inaccurate.
Tim Porter may be a nice guy and all, but if it was Google with all those so-called bogus/lax patents he'd be up there talking about how the patent system is fine and the problem really is more that the enforcement process depends on endless litigation and how the determination of infringement needs to be more streamlined.
He's a lawyer, his job is to be an advocate/mouthpiece for his employer's interests.
That wasn't a FairPlay crack - what happened was that FairPlay was being applied on the user's computer instead of on the server; if you downloaded the file directly off Apple's server there was no FairPlay wrapper yet.
Well, once the student population drops, universities, colleges, etc will have to make a choice:
1. drop prices and capture more market 2. raise prices and go high margin to sustain themselves
They need to do this to stay in line with their financial structure. Their fixed costs (staff, buildings) won't change for a while, and given the budgetary conditions today, they won't be able to get state help to fill in the gap.
That said, the college/university cost structure is one of ever-increasing costs. They don't fire staff, and there's no real incentive to cut costs overall.
The thing is, the student loan program isn't really a cost driver. The loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy, and wages can be garnished. The determination was made that more college graduates are a public good, and given that the program is probably near a net-zero we should keep it.
RP's argument is that the government isn't in the business of providing that sort of public good, which is a totally different argument. He assumes that some other institution (or the private sector) will spring up to provide that good...but that's unlikely to happen on a large scale, given the risk involved.
I'd agree if it was Fannie/Freddie he was talking about, but this particular program has a marginal cost and a pretty decent benefit overall.
Life is apparently extremely unlikely, yet here we are.
How many astronomers do observations during the day today? Roll back 100+ years and the number likely drops tremendously. The guy is staring at the sun! Who does that on a daily basis?
Maybe if you actually read the patent and had some imagination you'd realize that there are different ways of doing things.
Apple's design process: let's do lots of research as to what works and doesn't, both in software and hardware. Samsung's design process: let's copy Apple's.
Can Samsung's UX team point out exactly how they designed all of Samsung's hardware and software? Why do their icons look that way? Why have the sheen/gloss instead of a flat look? Why not make the icons circular vignettes instead of rounded squares? Why taper the back of your device just so?
They can't, because their work is basically Apple's work.
Samsung's UX and R&D team are sitting in Cupertino inside 1 Infinite Loop. Their secondary teams are in a Samsung facility sitting around and changing some little things here and there.
Have you ever seen any interviews with their design and UX teams? No. That's because they don't exist.
Have you ever heard the name of their head UI person? You'd think that, given the success of the Samsung tablet, that the person would be giving interviews left and right. Anyone? Anyone?
Here's an analogy that even a closed-minded geek can understand. You have a Wii, XBox 360, and a PS3. Which one of them looks like the other? They all have an optical drive and a bunch of A/V output ports. Could you, at a glance, mistake one for another?
Traditionally, media companies charge more because they do the marketing. They're the distribution arm, after all.
Amazon can market authors much better than traditional publishers can. Good idea for everyone involved.
The problem in music is that people who try to do it alone don't have the marketing muscle. iTunes could be that marketeer, but it isn't. But if amazon succeeds, maybe iTunes will follow.
That would be a horrifying endgame for the labels.
I suspect that iTunes isn't doing that because, well, it doesn't want to be the music publisher for the world.
If RMS had his way, we'd all be using command lines with obscure syntax. And we'd still be waiting for HURD.
The FSF has co-opted the idea that software should be free (free as in unencumbered), but that idea was around before the FSF. Just look at the Bill Gates piracy letter way back when - he wrote that in response to the rampant piracy of the era.
The thing that the FSF gave the world was a compiler and toolchain that had decent performance, was free (as in you didn't have to license it), and was retargetable. They also created a legal framework that formalized the idea of unencumbered software - which probably is going to be their most important contribution to the software world.
What I personally remember about RMS/the FSF back in the day (vis-a-vis Apple) is that they were pissed that Apple refused to kiss their collective asses and give them free stuff/donations/technical support. I also specifically remember the FSF bad-mouthing and dropping their non-existent 'support' Apple during the Apple/MS copyright suit, while supporting Intel/x86 even though Intel was suing AMD for copyright of the x86 instruction set.
The FSF: you can't love them, you can't shoot them.
What you want is to use the Airport Extreme as a wireless bridge, then use your dd-wrt based device as the internet gateway.
That way, you don't have to deal with the lack of QoS and the "reboot when changing NAT/port forwarding" feature of the AE firmware. You get a really high-speed wireless access point. And you get all the features of dd-wrt that you know and love.
It's got GigE on the WAN/uplink, so that may slow you down if you're doing a lot of wireless/wireline traffic.
Seriously, Android is totally second tier. Android devices are for spec lovers, not for users. Every non-geek I know who has an android phone think it sucks compared to the iPhone. They didn't get an iPhone because it doesn't have a keyboard, or a bigger screen, etc. In the end, they have a crappy OS with crappy apps and a shitty user experience that they're not happy with. They'd exchange it if they could, but they can't.
If you want the Real Thing, get an iPhone or an iPad. If you want some crappy copy of the real thing, get an Android phone.
At least WebOS and Win7 phone tried to do something original.
It seems that the extra cell-level security is more of a capability, in that you can categorize (or add a label to) a cell and when you query you specify the access level you have...and the result is included or not depending.
I wonder how it deals with "lost security levels?" If you don't know the security level of a cell, you can't ask for it. If everyone forgets, then the data just sits around, waiting to be pruned. How can you tell the difference between a resource leak and unarchived classified documents that you can't get to?
I suppose that's one of those odd problems that only happens in government. "Why is the database only returning 10 results to me when the database itself is over 16PB?" More amusingly, if the total amount of data used by an NSA system is classified, who has enough information to order more storage?
You forgot to mention that at the end of the project, you have to explain what you learned to an Indian child. You'll then be fired and the other child will do you job for you and you'll have to collect unemployment.
From the summary: "suppliers that they believe are used by Apple"
Trolling by using Apple's name is a time-honored tradition in environmental groups. Yeah, they may be used by Apple...but they may not be. Maybe they're used by Dell? HP? Lenovo? GM? Ford? Chrysler? Qualcomm? Panda Express?
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That's the basic idea behind cloud + web (or, I suppose, iCloud + iOS + Facebook). Your music, pictures, mail, chat, and documents are just sort of out there somewhere on the network. Do you really care where they are?
There's a point where when you're the 98% of users who just consume media, write emails, and Facebook you really have no use for a general purpose PC as it's understood today. That's the brutal truth. If you're a student you need more (word/excel), but for that mcjob - do you really use your PC to edit 1080p video or reencode your video library?
Use the language of Money and buy someone to build it for you. Problem solved!
If you think that's interesting, watch the Ultimate Factory episode of UPS:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/213611/ultimate-factories-ups-worldport
There aren't a lot of secrets in logistics, fulfillment, and assembly. There's a lot of technology, or a lot of labor, or both. If you can, head to Asia to a printing plant that does tip-ins. A ridiculous amount of stuff is built manually. There's no secret to it - you do it the hard way, either with machines or with lots of people.
You're getting caught up in the technical details. What he was thinking about was more high level ie how to build a phone carrier that was unencumbered by the high capital costs of building out infrastructure.
I suppose an MVNO wasn't in the cards, although there were rumors about that too.
With LTE, it'd be possible to do exactly what he wanted - have a global MVNO that Just Works. You'd sell your phone and it would be able to hop onto any LTE network, no contract required. At that point the carrier would be split into tower/backhaul and billing/marketing divisions. I mean really, the consumer side of the business is totally separate conceptually from the back-end. Backhaul is backhaul.
Who would have thought aliens had QR code technology?
The summary says "Apple-approved commands to run in an iPhone's or iPad's memory."
I'm not sure if that's the normal slashdot misunderstanding/hyperbole, if it's another reporter ignorance/flamebait thing, or if that's actually in what cmiller posted.
Apps are Apple-approved. Apps can't use Apple's non-public frameworks. Saying you can't run non-Apple-approved commands is completely inaccurate.
Tim Porter may be a nice guy and all, but if it was Google with all those so-called bogus/lax patents he'd be up there talking about how the patent system is fine and the problem really is more that the enforcement process depends on endless litigation and how the determination of infringement needs to be more streamlined.
He's a lawyer, his job is to be an advocate/mouthpiece for his employer's interests.
It's amazing what people don't read.
That wasn't a FairPlay crack - what happened was that FairPlay was being applied on the user's computer instead of on the server; if you downloaded the file directly off Apple's server there was no FairPlay wrapper yet.
FairPlay still exists for video, if I remember right. FairPlay was never cracked.
Audible's drm scheme also is still going strong.
I guess you should find a less service-oriented position...like server engineering or devops.
Are you reading from an old data sheet?
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/FA_Exchange_ActiveSync_and_iOS4_Devices/Introduction/Introduction.html
If motivated financiers can't get their models correct, why do people believe that climate models are anywhere close to reality?
Well, once the student population drops, universities, colleges, etc will have to make a choice:
1. drop prices and capture more market
2. raise prices and go high margin to sustain themselves
They need to do this to stay in line with their financial structure. Their fixed costs (staff, buildings) won't change for a while, and given the budgetary conditions today, they won't be able to get state help to fill in the gap.
That said, the college/university cost structure is one of ever-increasing costs. They don't fire staff, and there's no real incentive to cut costs overall.
The thing is, the student loan program isn't really a cost driver. The loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy, and wages can be garnished. The determination was made that more college graduates are a public good, and given that the program is probably near a net-zero we should keep it.
RP's argument is that the government isn't in the business of providing that sort of public good, which is a totally different argument. He assumes that some other institution (or the private sector) will spring up to provide that good...but that's unlikely to happen on a large scale, given the risk involved.
I'd agree if it was Fannie/Freddie he was talking about, but this particular program has a marginal cost and a pretty decent benefit overall.
Life is apparently extremely unlikely, yet here we are.
How many astronomers do observations during the day today? Roll back 100+ years and the number likely drops tremendously. The guy is staring at the sun! Who does that on a daily basis?
Maybe if you actually read the patent and had some imagination you'd realize that there are different ways of doing things.
Apple's design process: let's do lots of research as to what works and doesn't, both in software and hardware.
Samsung's design process: let's copy Apple's.
Can Samsung's UX team point out exactly how they designed all of Samsung's hardware and software? Why do their icons look that way? Why have the sheen/gloss instead of a flat look? Why not make the icons circular vignettes instead of rounded squares? Why taper the back of your device just so?
They can't, because their work is basically Apple's work.
Samsung's UX and R&D team are sitting in Cupertino inside 1 Infinite Loop. Their secondary teams are in a Samsung facility sitting around and changing some little things here and there.
Have you ever seen any interviews with their design and UX teams? No. That's because they don't exist.
Have you ever heard the name of their head UI person? You'd think that, given the success of the Samsung tablet, that the person would be giving interviews left and right. Anyone? Anyone?
Here's an analogy that even a closed-minded geek can understand. You have a Wii, XBox 360, and a PS3. Which one of them looks like the other? They all have an optical drive and a bunch of A/V output ports. Could you, at a glance, mistake one for another?
Traditionally, media companies charge more because they do the marketing. They're the distribution arm, after all.
Amazon can market authors much better than traditional publishers can. Good idea for everyone involved.
The problem in music is that people who try to do it alone don't have the marketing muscle. iTunes could be that marketeer, but it isn't. But if amazon succeeds, maybe iTunes will follow.
That would be a horrifying endgame for the labels.
I suspect that iTunes isn't doing that because, well, it doesn't want to be the music publisher for the world.
If Siri works as advertised and spreads, google is basically dead.
Go Apple!
If RMS had his way, we'd all be using command lines with obscure syntax. And we'd still be waiting for HURD.
The FSF has co-opted the idea that software should be free (free as in unencumbered), but that idea was around before the FSF. Just look at the Bill Gates piracy letter way back when - he wrote that in response to the rampant piracy of the era.
The thing that the FSF gave the world was a compiler and toolchain that had decent performance, was free (as in you didn't have to license it), and was retargetable. They also created a legal framework that formalized the idea of unencumbered software - which probably is going to be their most important contribution to the software world.
What I personally remember about RMS/the FSF back in the day (vis-a-vis Apple) is that they were pissed that Apple refused to kiss their collective asses and give them free stuff/donations/technical support. I also specifically remember the FSF bad-mouthing and dropping their non-existent 'support' Apple during the Apple/MS copyright suit, while supporting Intel/x86 even though Intel was suing AMD for copyright of the x86 instruction set.
The FSF: you can't love them, you can't shoot them.
How much does it cost to defend against these sorts of lawsuits?
What you want is to use the Airport Extreme as a wireless bridge, then use your dd-wrt based device as the internet gateway.
That way, you don't have to deal with the lack of QoS and the "reboot when changing NAT/port forwarding" feature of the AE firmware. You get a really high-speed wireless access point. And you get all the features of dd-wrt that you know and love.
It's got GigE on the WAN/uplink, so that may slow you down if you're doing a lot of wireless/wireline traffic.
The small robot will be crushed by the big fruit!
Seriously, Android is totally second tier. Android devices are for spec lovers, not for users. Every non-geek I know who has an android phone think it sucks compared to the iPhone. They didn't get an iPhone because it doesn't have a keyboard, or a bigger screen, etc. In the end, they have a crappy OS with crappy apps and a shitty user experience that they're not happy with. They'd exchange it if they could, but they can't.
If you want the Real Thing, get an iPhone or an iPad. If you want some crappy copy of the real thing, get an Android phone.
At least WebOS and Win7 phone tried to do something original.
If an UFIA is rape, then an UFIV is rape as well. Plus, it's not like she only got UFIV'd once.
It seems that the extra cell-level security is more of a capability, in that you can categorize (or add a label to) a cell and when you query you specify the access level you have...and the result is included or not depending.
I wonder how it deals with "lost security levels?" If you don't know the security level of a cell, you can't ask for it. If everyone forgets, then the data just sits around, waiting to be pruned. How can you tell the difference between a resource leak and unarchived classified documents that you can't get to?
I suppose that's one of those odd problems that only happens in government. "Why is the database only returning 10 results to me when the database itself is over 16PB?" More amusingly, if the total amount of data used by an NSA system is classified, who has enough information to order more storage?
You forgot to mention that at the end of the project, you have to explain what you learned to an Indian child. You'll then be fired and the other child will do you job for you and you'll have to collect unemployment.
From the summary: "suppliers that they believe are used by Apple"
Trolling by using Apple's name is a time-honored tradition in environmental groups. Yeah, they may be used by Apple...but they may not be. Maybe they're used by Dell? HP? Lenovo? GM? Ford? Chrysler? Qualcomm? Panda Express?