...Your local loop provider does not want to deploy this technology...[snip]
Then somebody else is going to do that. I think people will go for the cheapest medium available to them, which satisfies their purpose. The Internet is going to be dictated by the demands of the masses, not by a few wealthy people. For instance, MP3 won the audio compression war because it was cheap, offered good quality, and served the core purpose (that of compression).
...reinforced PZT dimorph to capture heel-strike energy' and its potential to power 'wearable microelectronics'."...
This sounds like a great idea to me. Probably we could use the same principle for generating energy during keypresses on a keypad. This "piezoelectric" energy generation would be specially useful for handheld devices. For instance, many devices come out of idle mode, when a key is pressed, otherwise they doze off. Using this technology, the device can actually sleep, and whenever a key is pressed, energy is generated just to do that operation, and the cycle continues. This way, the main battery power would be consumed only for continuous tasks like song playback, or some calcuations etc. The possibilities are enormous...
ebook buyers won't be too eager to have to buy books with insane reader software and rights management software hassles.
I totally agree. And I feel that this will be a much more tougher problem to solve than the traditional technical problems of display/connectivity/input/output. None of the online models proposed in the music industry have worked successfully so far, and I wonder when this market picks up, and in what way. The only guy who seems to make money out of selling online books is stephen king!
I think nobody has ever gone to the site for mp3 licensing. You would be amazed that Thomson claims that Sonys Atrac-3, lucent's epac, also use their "patented" technology. The only reason why they havent sued these people is probably because these companies are equally big or even bigger than them.
Do you really think that Thomson will close its eyes if and when vorbis comes out into the mainstream?
I wonder if/when IBM and Toshiba would cooperate and combine technologies - or if the two technologies are mutual exclusive.
A lot of these chip architectures, including the ones we have been seeing lately from AMD, Intel, IBM etc have been concentrating on getting the most out of existing silicon. That is because industries do not want to write off existing fabs. A lot of research goes on interconnect technologies in Europe, and I wonder when all these technologies would be put together. At one point of time, the cost of productising any new technology will become too big even for the biggies, and then mergers will start happening, like in any other industry. Again, money wins.
The other alternative is to have completely different paradigms of computing like biochips and Quantum comps.
Well, Thomson (through STMicro)is the largest manufacturer of smartcards in the world at the moment, and officially they can stake claim to all this. The only issue is how the computer manufacturers are going to take it all. [not well, I would guess]. Heh, conflicting interests.
The article does not mention anything about which particular patent ATT is referrring to, as Bell Labs has just about every patent on earth about speech coding. However, Malvar (of M$) and his group has also contributed quite an amount to speech coding, and they would not go unnoticed. If AT&Ts claim is on a broad area clubbed as "speech compression", it should not be held valid at all. The result of this lawsuit should be of a lot of interest, specially as there are a lot of devices (portable) out there, like digital voice recorders, which use voice compression. What I dont understand though is, why they waited for 2 years before suing!!
Actually the main reason why copyrighted music has not come to the market en masse is that, the few companies (read MP3.com et al) who were ready to sell them could not get the labels to licence off music of their choice. Some labels refuse to licence their music, if the.com has partnered with another competing label. That is why the big 5 itself is split into two or three groups, one with universal, another with Sony, and the rest separate. With realnetworks also in the picture, we can hope to see more action on this front. Remember, all it takes for mass market adoption of such downloadable services is a reasonable cost, and low complexity..
Every time a company says "the smallest computer around", I guess/. runs a story on it. If v r really looking at the evolution of small computers, probably v should be looking at wearable computers themselves. Not at a groups of chips put together, and called as a cool device. There is more to miniaturisation than minimising the board size. Look at what people are doing on
expressive footwear for instance.
A company called mediasolv was trying to demonstrate a sub-25$ PDA. Any idea where it went?
I only guess that this is another way of intel trying to ease the developers plight by providing EVMs.
Well, cellphone technology has also been in this "miniaturising" rush, but as you can see, apart from watches incorporating cellphone functionality, the actual handheld cellphone has not diminished in size, just because somebody could make it the size of a coin.
..increase the use of wireless phones for machine-to-machine data transmissions..
Use wireless for machine-machine data Xmns? I remember a Pentium being able to saturate a 10Mbps network quite easily. While your other statements are quite right, this one is spoofy..
Ijoo desu
Thats it?
How is this different from mpegcar and all those mp3 players for cars with giga hdds and bluetooth connectivity, and linux based os's ? Rio recently took over mpegcar I remember, but what next?
BTW, if and when this becomes a success, all the mp3 patriarchs (read fhg, thomson et al) will crowd around and demand their royalty. I wonder whether mp3's are still needed with all its patent disadvantages. We should probly look to vorbis for this...
The fact that this protocol is realtime in nature might win hearts. However, a networking protocol gains more and more momentum not only by its technology, but also by the number of vendors developing products for the standard. The other alternative could be that the protocol should be opensource. Without either of these, I would doubt whether the company can push its product into the marketplace.
All the hype about the wireless broadband will become true only if we get good bandwidth AND good services. Any one of these without the other doesnt help. Unfortunately, both of them are related because, only if people start using more and more of these, will these telcos be able to invest more and deliver better bandwidth. So it is the first job of these guys to make us use these things. Concentrate on giving value added services like location specific data, instant messaging services etc. Then the usr base will grow. Then probly I will try one of them...
The idea of prioritising has been discussed for a long time, in various forms for VoIP networks (mainly). Now, how many such routers have been deployed today? Intel has them , cisco has them, others have them. But why hasnt the internet speeded up? I think the problem is not with being able to prioritise data, but with the infrastructure itself. Unless the entire backbone is changed, the present scenario wont change. But he is right in one thing. The dumb core - smart fringe idea has to be thrown out for this to fructify
Well, if you had been designing some rf-circuits, you would have known the pain in creating a frontend which meets specs, because half the assumptions which you can make in normal circuit design fail here. If what they claim is true to even a 10% degree, it would be great.
When is vorbis coming up? Instead of waiting and looking at what the labels are up to, I think we should look at setting up our own patent free compression/streaming audio mechanisms, which cannot be touched upon by any legal minefields..
They are not trying to compete with Sony...
Well. Everything converges, and Sony already has tied up with AOL for internet access to its devices. Xbox too. Everything else follows. Just having opensource tag may be good for us hackers, but guess it makes poor business sense. Or may be I am entirely wrong, and they are looking at a wholly different business model!
Having a nice business going for itself in the mobile sector, I think the Nok is doing something which doesnot make business sense. It doesnot have the financial muscle to wrest this market away from the likes of sony et al..It also doesnt take advantage of its existing leadership in mobiles, cos I dont see how the two businesses can reinforce each other. Having a closed source model in one of its businesses and an open source model in another doesnt help anybody. I think this is just a publicity gimmick..
Hey, we are talking about breaking 56 bit+ keys. Any idea what it takes to do it?
..Unless the values are stored in NVRAM or similar on the video card or in the monitor, which would be what I'd design in if I were trying to take all your rights away..
They might probably design something into the system, that would not play until it has checked that the key has not been revoked.
People can get around copy protection, but a company cannot come up with such drives as u mention, cos of the fear of litigation. If such a demand is there, big companies will try to stall off the standardisation itself, rather than having a standard and kicking it in the butt.
It doesnot look to be a sound business proposition sure, but on the other hand, it has been proven that somebody over there can build a complete product free from patent minefields. And nobody here thought of mentioning the GUI which can take care of local languages. Lets give credit where its due, shall we?
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Then somebody else is going to do that. I think people will go for the cheapest medium available to them, which satisfies their purpose. The Internet is going to be dictated by the demands of the masses, not by a few wealthy people. For instance, MP3 won the audio compression war because it was cheap, offered good quality, and served the core purpose (that of compression).
This sounds like a great idea to me. Probably we could use the same principle for generating energy during keypresses on a keypad. This "piezoelectric" energy generation would be specially useful for handheld devices. For instance, many devices come out of idle mode, when a key is pressed, otherwise they doze off. Using this technology, the device can actually sleep, and whenever a key is pressed, energy is generated just to do that operation, and the cycle continues. This way, the main battery power would be consumed only for continuous tasks like song playback, or some calcuations etc. The possibilities are enormous...
ebook buyers won't be too eager to have to buy books with insane reader software and rights management software hassles.
I totally agree. And I feel that this will be a much more tougher problem to solve than the traditional technical problems of display/connectivity/input/output. None of the online models proposed in the music industry have worked successfully so far, and I wonder when this market picks up, and in what way. The only guy who seems to make money out of selling online books is stephen king!
I think nobody has ever gone to the site for mp3 licensing.
You would be amazed that Thomson claims that Sonys Atrac-3, lucent's epac, also use their "patented" technology. The only reason why they havent sued these people is probably because these companies are equally big or even bigger than them. Do you really think that Thomson will close its eyes if and when vorbis comes out into the mainstream?
I wonder if/when IBM and Toshiba would cooperate and combine technologies - or if the two technologies are mutual exclusive.
A lot of these chip architectures, including the ones we have been seeing lately from AMD, Intel, IBM etc have been concentrating on getting the most out of existing silicon. That is because industries do not want to write off existing fabs. A lot of research goes on interconnect technologies in Europe, and I wonder when all these technologies would be put together. At one point of time, the cost of productising any new technology will become too big even for the biggies, and then mergers will start happening, like in any other industry. Again, money wins.
The other alternative is to have completely different paradigms of computing like biochips and Quantum comps.
Well, Thomson (through STMicro)is the largest manufacturer of smartcards in the world at the moment, and officially they can stake claim to all this. The only issue is how the computer manufacturers are going to take it all. [not well, I would guess]. Heh, conflicting interests.
The article does not mention anything about which particular patent ATT is referrring to, as Bell Labs has just about every patent on earth about speech coding. However, Malvar (of M$) and his group has also contributed quite an amount to speech coding, and they would not go unnoticed. If AT&Ts claim is on a broad area clubbed as "speech compression", it should not be held valid at all. The result of this lawsuit should be of a lot of interest, specially as there are a lot of devices (portable) out there, like digital voice recorders, which use voice compression.
What I dont understand though is, why they waited for 2 years before suing!!
Actually the main reason why copyrighted music has not come to the market en masse is that, the few companies (read MP3.com et al) who were ready to sell them could not get the labels to licence off music of their choice. Some labels refuse to licence their music, if the .com has partnered with another competing label. That is why the big 5 itself is split into two or three groups, one with universal, another with Sony, and the rest separate. With realnetworks also in the picture, we can hope to see more action on this front. Remember, all it takes for mass market adoption of such downloadable services is a reasonable cost, and low complexity..
Every time a company says "the smallest computer around", I guess /. runs a story on it. If v r really looking at the evolution of small computers, probably v should be looking at wearable computers themselves. Not at a groups of chips put together, and called as a cool device. There is more to miniaturisation than minimising the board size. Look at what people are doing on
expressive footwear for instance.
A company called mediasolv was trying to demonstrate a sub-25$ PDA. Any idea where it went? I only guess that this is another way of intel trying to ease the developers plight by providing EVMs.
Well, cellphone technology has also been in this "miniaturising" rush, but as you can see, apart from watches incorporating cellphone functionality, the actual handheld cellphone has not diminished in size, just because somebody could make it the size of a coin.
..increase the use of wireless phones for machine-to-machine data transmissions..
Use wireless for machine-machine data Xmns? I remember a Pentium being able to saturate a 10Mbps network quite easily. While your other statements are quite right, this one is spoofy.. Ijoo desu
Thats it?
and they do what everyone wants
I think you missed the "upgrade" part of the story. And what about the cost of the Nokia stb vs this?
How is this different from mpegcar and all those mp3 players for cars with giga hdds and bluetooth connectivity, and linux based os's ? Rio recently took over mpegcar I remember, but what next? BTW, if and when this becomes a success, all the mp3 patriarchs (read fhg, thomson et al) will crowd around and demand their royalty. I wonder whether mp3's are still needed with all its patent disadvantages. We should probly look to vorbis for this...
The fact that this protocol is realtime in nature might win hearts. However, a networking protocol gains more and more momentum not only by its technology, but also by the number of vendors developing products for the standard. The other alternative could be that the protocol should be opensource. Without either of these, I would doubt whether the company can push its product into the marketplace.
All the hype about the wireless broadband will become true only if we get good bandwidth AND good services. Any one of these without the other doesnt help. Unfortunately, both of them are related because, only if people start using more and more of these, will these telcos be able to invest more and deliver better bandwidth. So it is the first job of these guys to make us use these things. Concentrate on giving value added services like location specific data, instant messaging services etc. Then the usr base will grow. Then probly I will try one of them...
The idea of prioritising has been discussed for a long time, in various forms for VoIP networks (mainly). Now, how many such routers have been deployed today? Intel has them , cisco has them, others have them. But why hasnt the internet speeded up? I think the problem is not with being able to prioritise data, but with the infrastructure itself. Unless the entire backbone is changed, the present scenario wont change. But he is right in one thing. The dumb core - smart fringe idea has to be thrown out for this to fructify
Well, if you had been designing some rf-circuits, you would have known the pain in creating a frontend which meets specs, because half the assumptions which you can make in normal circuit design fail here. If what they claim is true to even a 10% degree, it would be great.
When is vorbis coming up? Instead of waiting and looking at what the labels are up to, I think we should look at setting up our own patent free compression/streaming audio mechanisms, which cannot be touched upon by any legal minefields..
They are not trying to compete with Sony...
Well. Everything converges, and Sony already has tied up with AOL for internet access to its devices. Xbox too. Everything else follows. Just having opensource tag may be good for us hackers, but guess it makes poor business sense. Or may be I am entirely wrong, and they are looking at a wholly different business model!
Having a nice business going for itself in the mobile sector, I think the Nok is doing something which doesnot make business sense. It doesnot have the financial muscle to wrest this market away from the likes of sony et al..It also doesnt take advantage of its existing leadership in mobiles, cos I dont see how the two businesses can reinforce each other. Having a closed source model in one of its businesses and an open source model in another doesnt help anybody. I think this is just a publicity gimmick..
These specs are put up on the digital-cp site itself. I dont think that they have been "leaked".
Hey, we are talking about breaking 56 bit+ keys. Any idea what it takes to do it?
..Unless the values are stored in NVRAM or similar on the video card or in the monitor, which would be what I'd design in if I were trying to take all your rights away..
They might probably design something into the system, that would not play until it has checked that the key has not been revoked.
People can get around copy protection, but a company cannot come up with such drives as u mention, cos of the fear of litigation. If such a demand is there, big companies will try to stall off the standardisation itself, rather than having a standard and kicking it in the butt.
It doesnot look to be a sound business proposition sure, but on the other hand, it has been proven that somebody over there can build a complete product free from patent minefields. And nobody here thought of mentioning the GUI which can take care of local languages. Lets give credit where its due, shall we?