that Google will be adding all sort of 'sensors' to the cameras and microphones using a special DSP chip to process the information. You won't just have voice commands, but you will be able to make gestures with your hands in an ASL type of control using the camera. It would come in handy for the deaf and possible it can translate ASL into text as well for faster typing. Non-Verbal commands I think is what they might call it. There will most likely be ASIC chips added for SHA-256 hashing so it could process Bitcoin mining and solve SHA-256 hashes for other reasons as well.
most Cable TV subscribers have the "Basic Package" of $20/month or whatever of 20 to 40 channels they hook up an old analog SD TV into without a box. They couldn't even figure out those HD encoder coupons or why they needed an encode for local TV. If the signal is scrambled and encrypted for the OTA channels they won't know what is happening and will call up the Cable company complaining about signal reception problems.
Yeah you need a box, we'll rent you one for $X/month, they'll claim. They'll send the box, and the customer won't figure out how to hook it up. Then the cable company will send a contractor out for $300 to install it for them. At that point they will just cancel cable TV because it is too expensive and complex to figure out.
You see Cable TV makes a lot of money with the basic subscription that only needs a coaxial cable installed for each TV because it is the simplest of ways to connect to watch TV and also the cheapest. People don't want Satellite because it needs a box, and also a Dish to align, and when it rains the signal is out. People don't want U-verse because it needs an Internet connection and also needs boxes and if the Internet connection goes out so does their TV signal. The basic cable setup is the cheapest and the simplest and it also works with old analog TV sets that are "cable ready". If the cable company complicates that by requiring a box, they will actually lose customers, and thus lose income.
For a majority of your customers, try to make it as simple as possible for them to install your service and use it.
We went from mainframes to minicomputers to desktop computers or PCs to mobile devices. Right now we are in the Post-PC era, where the PC is still used but mobile devices are the new tech. In the Post-Mobile device era will we have neurochips implanted in our heads, or perhaps something else?
about starting up their own company in their 40's and 50's. Everything these days is about the younger generation. How come Generation-X is ignored? I am in my 40's and tried to run my own small business a few times, and got sick and ended up on disability. What advice do you have for people like me to start up my own company and make it a success?
how did you feel about it as it worked differently than the Apple// series did? Did you feel the Apple// could run a GUI just as well as the original Macintosh, or that only a 68000 based system can run a GUI? How did you feel when GEOS came out for the Apple// series to give it a GUI? Did you feel like having an OS with a GUI was the future, or do you feel the command line operating systems are better?
computer did you learn about the simplicity of design from Atari and HP when you worked there, or did you develop that idea on your own?
When you worked on the Atari Breakout system, did that help you pick out the high quality and low cost chips like the MOS 6502 that was used in the Breakout system to use it in the Apple 1?
How did you feel when Atari made the Atari 400 and 800 8 Bit Computers that competed with the Apple// series but had better color and sound?
like say found Apple Computers all over again, in these modern days, after Steve Jobs passed away, knowing what you now know how would you start it up?
I would like to know specifically if you would develop your own hardware and software, or just use an existing design and go with that.
For example use the ATX Intel X86/X86 PC design, use the PowerPC chip and some other design, or make a mini ITX ARM system or make a custom one.
If you entered the mobile market, would you develop your own OS or license Android or Windows 8 Phone or something else like WebOS? Would there be a WozOS or would you use someone else's OS?
How would this new company compete with Apple and others?
no contract phones like Net10 and Tracfone. You just buy minutes and service days and each thing you use deducts a certain amount of minutes. No iPhone will do that yet that I know of.
Tracfone I have, I bought a $15 Motorola Tracfone 5 years ago and still use it, averages $7/month for me. I am thinking of switching to a different model, but no iPhones and Android phones are available for the Tracfone pre-paid service. They are more likely to use the Firefox OS phone because it is cheap.
Well The Bible does not explain The Internet or how it works either.
Is the story of creation in Genesis a parable instead of something to take literally? It does not say how the Earth and universe was created, it does not mention any theories or methods. Creationism was made by human beings as a theory, Evolution replaced it as a theory.
I am sure The Bible does not mention the theory of gravity either, but that is no reason to doubt it and be skeptical of it.
Office Ribbon, rejected almost as much as the MS-Office Assistant Paperclip and MS-BOB.
There were tiny buttons on the tool menu that did the same thing, all they did with the ribbon was make them bigger and rearrange them. I mean you had a button that looked like a floppy disk to save the file and nobody knew what it did or called it a "TV set" so trainers told them to "click on the TV set" button to save. Now this Office ribbon is rejected by users even if it was made to make it easier for them. You'd have built in speech to say "save file 'mywork1.docx' in my documents folder" and users still won't know how to use that either.
should have sued for civil rights violation and a hate crime of bashing religion. While the remarks about creationism are debate, the hate speech about religion is not.
I've seen this since the 1990's, most computer users even in a corporate environment don't know what the shortcut keys are. Even less know that the alt key plus the underline character in a menu can be make into a shortcut by holding down the alt key and the underlined letter as a shortcut.
I remember working for a FORTUNE 500 company and the help desk asking that the feature to search be added to my program, it already was, and I said "just try a control-f and the user can find any text in the edit area. the feature has been there since day one. Here is a FAQ file and the F1 key will load the help file to see more help." only to have them get mad at me and insist that the feature is not there and add it. They had no idea it was built into Windows, nor did the help desk, and that practically every program that uses a text box edit field has it. But for some reason it was my problem and I should add in the feature to my program in order to assist the users and help desk. They must have requested it hundreds of times, and had no clue it was always there, even with a "Find" on a button, and "Find" on the drop down menu, and control-F built into Windows.
Another thing was searching for active and inactive records, I had a drop down combo box that had active and inactive in it, it was on the main search page. They requested a feature to add in a search for inactive and active status for records, it too was in there since day one and part of the FAQ and help file. Still they claimed it was not.
But like always it was a programming problem, and written up on my performance review that I was not adding in features the users wanted, even if the features were always there since day one and fully documented. I later found out the trainers had skipped those areas because they were documented and they figured the users would read the FAQ or hit F1 to learn more about it.
It would require an ARM port to run on ARM tablet systems. Most tablets these days are ARM based. Microsoft wants Windows 8 to run on ARM tablets. If HaikuOS can run on ARM systems it will have a lower overhead than Windows 8 and thus run faster with less memory.
It has been a decade and still is in alpha release, if some major computer company was investing in it like they did the Mozilla Foundation we'd have a golden 1.0 release by now.
Just get an OEM copy of XP/Vista/7 from a friend who has one of the same type and use that and enter the COA key on your Windows PC or Laptop.
Works fine for me.
Why use a recovery disk and get bloated stuff you don't even need?
Ask your friends and relatives if they got an OEM Disk of Windows the same as you got, borrow it and install the COA key with that. If you ran out of activations call Microsoft say you reinstalled the Windows OS too many times and ask them nicely to reset the COA key so you get 12 more activation attempts.
Of course the best Recovery disk of all is a DVD-R of a Linux distro.:)
Oh yeah neat trick if someone's XP/Vista/7 computer gets fried ask for the case and everything else in it. The case has the OEM COA key for use on another PC called an "upgrade in hardware" and will activate. So you can buy broken XP/Vista/7 systems on eBay and other auctions to get legal possession of the OEM COA key and install it on another PC as an "Upgrade". Just make sure they didn't remove the COA key and sell it before you do. Cheapest way to get a legit and activated copy of XP/Vista/7 Windows.:)
Well I used an old XP laptop with no personal data on it. Got infected, and examined the virus using heuristics. Unknown virus sent a sample to AV web sites, remote control access got removed and a rootkit was on it as well. Apparently this research will be valuable even if I did not have time to set a Honeypot Linux system up to catch it. Either it was a spoofed Current message or a Current message that someone entered a link to a web site that infects Firefox as that is what I used figuring it was more secure than IE.
A credit card was stolen, but was never used on the laptop and not used in moths and never entered into the Internet. Some store I used it on must have had their database hacked and got it from there. So ID Theft tried for 15th time, they had an epic fail as it was a temp charge and the card just got made invalid and thus their order will be canceled.
This is why I am the person to write a book on ID theft and other things. I just spoiled yet another ID theft before it got approved. IP came from Chicago, Ill, but chances are using an infected system there.
Also they hacked my Slashdot account and change the password and as soon as I found out sent the password reset to my email to change it, log in and then stop them from using it. Slashdot runs Linux and this software for the Slashdot site is even vulnerable to someone hacking it. I had a complex password and now Slashdot gave me another complex password hard to figure out.
Well no viruses on my computer, running Fedora. Wifi router is based on Linux as well. Someone hacked into my Wifi router, sniffed out a few passwords and stole my accounts and tried to steal my ID for a 14th time. Wifi router has all the firmware updates and settings Cisco says to make to make it more secure. So I reset the password as the ID thief was too dumb to change the email, reported the IP to his/her ISP and a copy of the IP logs and others that show he/she hacked my router from Chicago, Ill and made posts with a Chicago IP, and I don't live in Chicago. He got stopped before he/she could steal my credit cards. So that is an epic fail.
Nope didn't even touch my PC, just the router which I was told is very secure and runs Linux and cannot be broken into, and had every setting the company that made it told me to set it to in order to prevent it. Every time this happens to me I will learn more about fighting it. I might even replace my router with an older PC running Fedora and Honeypot software to gather more evidence to catch this person.
Just my own views and opinions here, but Sony's business model is to make video games, movies, music, etc work on all they existing and planned hardware. Why not an eBook also?
Sony sells eBooks. The Nintendo DS has the ability to read eBooks, so why shouldn't the PSP Go that competes with it also read eBooks? If the Nintendo DS series has eBook carts and the PS3 is advertised to do everything and Sony does not make software to make it buy eBooks from the Playstation network, isn't that false advertising? If it does everything it should include eBooks and other stuff as well.
I always wanted to write eBooks and even came up with character names, ideas, and stuff I role played all over the Internet to see what people think and how to improve my writing skills and make corrections and changes.
Look first eBook attempt was by Microsoft in 1999/2000 or whatever and the Microsoft Reader software and books in LIT format that the MS Reader could read on Windows CE devices and Windows operating systems on PCs. But it flopped and once again Microsoft failed at trying to do something else besides selling software. Now we got a eBook reader price war, and I expect more mega-corps to enter the eBook reader market. In 3 to 5 years the eBook market will boom as we find a standard like PDF or RTF that most operating systems can read and most eBook Readers can convert to their own format. I hope that OpenOffice.Org and other FOSS office suite programs use the ODT format or something to replace PDF,
Look I know I am not the best writer and make my own mistakes, but I learn from my own mistakes. I need a hobby as I am disabled and out of work since 2002 and wrting FOSS eBooks sounds like a good hobby and I am not trying to earn money from FOSS eBooks just write them, hope for positive feedback and positive criticism and maybe others who can join me and help make the eBook better and add their name to the credits and authors and the like. I don't even mind if someone puts their name or names before mine. I am not doing this for attention, nor notability, nor profits, nor anything but trying to help out people, esp ones just getting into the eBook market that doesn't know a lot about IT and computers and wants to learn. But we slashdotters when we write stuff it goes over the novice's heads and they don't understand it. So a series of eBooks I will write for the people without our knowledge or experience and stuff and write it in a simple way like a cook book or step by step book. I am not writing these for the Slashdot readers but those new to IT and computers who want to learn something about it and cannot afford college and other things like books on it that cost too much to buy.
If it starts a trend then blogs and newspapers and others will get turned into eBooks as well. Starting off a chain reaction.
We can educate people to balance check books and learn how to save money, how to fix a Windows machine with virus infections, beginner's guide to programming in commercial and FOSS languages, and proof of that is right here as the State of California tries to make educational FOSS eBooks possible we can write FOSS eBooks some schools can use that cannot afford the cmmercial ones anymore and this save their money by using eBook readers, PCs, Macs, whatever to read them.
More than that Nintendo just make 100 classic books for the DS series, and why not make more eBook stuff for the other video game consoles? Playstation 3 Sony claims it does everything? Make it read eBooks and synch up with a PSP Go to put the eBooks on it to make it another eBook reader.
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that Google will be adding all sort of 'sensors' to the cameras and microphones using a special DSP chip to process the information. You won't just have voice commands, but you will be able to make gestures with your hands in an ASL type of control using the camera. It would come in handy for the deaf and possible it can translate ASL into text as well for faster typing. Non-Verbal commands I think is what they might call it. There will most likely be ASIC chips added for SHA-256 hashing so it could process Bitcoin mining and solve SHA-256 hashes for other reasons as well.
most Cable TV subscribers have the "Basic Package" of $20/month or whatever of 20 to 40 channels they hook up an old analog SD TV into without a box. They couldn't even figure out those HD encoder coupons or why they needed an encode for local TV. If the signal is scrambled and encrypted for the OTA channels they won't know what is happening and will call up the Cable company complaining about signal reception problems.
Yeah you need a box, we'll rent you one for $X/month, they'll claim. They'll send the box, and the customer won't figure out how to hook it up. Then the cable company will send a contractor out for $300 to install it for them. At that point they will just cancel cable TV because it is too expensive and complex to figure out.
You see Cable TV makes a lot of money with the basic subscription that only needs a coaxial cable installed for each TV because it is the simplest of ways to connect to watch TV and also the cheapest. People don't want Satellite because it needs a box, and also a Dish to align, and when it rains the signal is out. People don't want U-verse because it needs an Internet connection and also needs boxes and if the Internet connection goes out so does their TV signal. The basic cable setup is the cheapest and the simplest and it also works with old analog TV sets that are "cable ready". If the cable company complicates that by requiring a box, they will actually lose customers, and thus lose income.
For a majority of your customers, try to make it as simple as possible for them to install your service and use it.
This one?
http://www.casano.com/projects/hoverman/index.html
Any volunteers want to find out? Have at it, offer her a dinner and a movie first, don't be a douchebag.
We went from mainframes to minicomputers to desktop computers or PCs to mobile devices. Right now we are in the Post-PC era, where the PC is still used but mobile devices are the new tech. In the Post-Mobile device era will we have neurochips implanted in our heads, or perhaps something else?
about starting up their own company in their 40's and 50's. Everything these days is about the younger generation. How come Generation-X is ignored? I am in my 40's and tried to run my own small business a few times, and got sick and ended up on disability. What advice do you have for people like me to start up my own company and make it a success?
how did you feel about it as it worked differently than the Apple // series did? Did you feel the Apple // could run a GUI just as well as the original Macintosh, or that only a 68000 based system can run a GUI? How did you feel when GEOS came out for the Apple // series to give it a GUI? Did you feel like having an OS with a GUI was the future, or do you feel the command line operating systems are better?
Forget about Apple, what tech companies do you love and why?
computer did you learn about the simplicity of design from Atari and HP when you worked there, or did you develop that idea on your own?
When you worked on the Atari Breakout system, did that help you pick out the high quality and low cost chips like the MOS 6502 that was used in the Breakout system to use it in the Apple 1?
How did you feel when Atari made the Atari 400 and 800 8 Bit Computers that competed with the Apple // series but had better color and sound?
like say found Apple Computers all over again, in these modern days, after Steve Jobs passed away, knowing what you now know how would you start it up?
I would like to know specifically if you would develop your own hardware and software, or just use an existing design and go with that.
For example use the ATX Intel X86/X86 PC design, use the PowerPC chip and some other design, or make a mini ITX ARM system or make a custom one.
If you entered the mobile market, would you develop your own OS or license Android or Windows 8 Phone or something else like WebOS? Would there be a WozOS or would you use someone else's OS?
How would this new company compete with Apple and others?
no contract phones like Net10 and Tracfone. You just buy minutes and service days and each thing you use deducts a certain amount of minutes. No iPhone will do that yet that I know of.
Tracfone I have, I bought a $15 Motorola Tracfone 5 years ago and still use it, averages $7/month for me. I am thinking of switching to a different model, but no iPhones and Android phones are available for the Tracfone pre-paid service. They are more likely to use the Firefox OS phone because it is cheap.
Well The Bible does not explain The Internet or how it works either.
Is the story of creation in Genesis a parable instead of something to take literally? It does not say how the Earth and universe was created, it does not mention any theories or methods. Creationism was made by human beings as a theory, Evolution replaced it as a theory.
I am sure The Bible does not mention the theory of gravity either, but that is no reason to doubt it and be skeptical of it.
Considering that the Visual Studio 11 Express Edition will only develop Metro Apps the MonoDevelop is looking pretty good as an alternative.
Why did Constantinople get the works? Why is it nobody's business but the Turks?
New York was once New Amsterdam, why they changed it I don't know maybe they just liked it better that way?
Sure only if you can afford those same high priced lawyers that Century 21 Canada can afford.
Tada! BeBits!
Enjoy the BeBits archive, get a knife and fork so you can eat your words dinkypoo.
Office Ribbon, rejected almost as much as the MS-Office Assistant Paperclip and MS-BOB.
There were tiny buttons on the tool menu that did the same thing, all they did with the ribbon was make them bigger and rearrange them. I mean you had a button that looked like a floppy disk to save the file and nobody knew what it did or called it a "TV set" so trainers told them to "click on the TV set" button to save. Now this Office ribbon is rejected by users even if it was made to make it easier for them. You'd have built in speech to say "save file 'mywork1.docx' in my documents folder" and users still won't know how to use that either.
should have sued for civil rights violation and a hate crime of bashing religion. While the remarks about creationism are debate, the hate speech about religion is not.
I've seen this since the 1990's, most computer users even in a corporate environment don't know what the shortcut keys are. Even less know that the alt key plus the underline character in a menu can be make into a shortcut by holding down the alt key and the underlined letter as a shortcut.
I remember working for a FORTUNE 500 company and the help desk asking that the feature to search be added to my program, it already was, and I said "just try a control-f and the user can find any text in the edit area. the feature has been there since day one. Here is a FAQ file and the F1 key will load the help file to see more help." only to have them get mad at me and insist that the feature is not there and add it. They had no idea it was built into Windows, nor did the help desk, and that practically every program that uses a text box edit field has it. But for some reason it was my problem and I should add in the feature to my program in order to assist the users and help desk. They must have requested it hundreds of times, and had no clue it was always there, even with a "Find" on a button, and "Find" on the drop down menu, and control-F built into Windows.
Another thing was searching for active and inactive records, I had a drop down combo box that had active and inactive in it, it was on the main search page. They requested a feature to add in a search for inactive and active status for records, it too was in there since day one and part of the FAQ and help file. Still they claimed it was not.
But like always it was a programming problem, and written up on my performance review that I was not adding in features the users wanted, even if the features were always there since day one and fully documented. I later found out the trainers had skipped those areas because they were documented and they figured the users would read the FAQ or hit F1 to learn more about it.
It would require an ARM port to run on ARM tablet systems. Most tablets these days are ARM based. Microsoft wants Windows 8 to run on ARM tablets. If HaikuOS can run on ARM systems it will have a lower overhead than Windows 8 and thus run faster with less memory.
It has been a decade and still is in alpha release, if some major computer company was investing in it like they did the Mozilla Foundation we'd have a golden 1.0 release by now.
Just get an OEM copy of XP/Vista/7 from a friend who has one of the same type and use that and enter the COA key on your Windows PC or Laptop.
Works fine for me.
Why use a recovery disk and get bloated stuff you don't even need?
Ask your friends and relatives if they got an OEM Disk of Windows the same as you got, borrow it and install the COA key with that. If you ran out of activations call Microsoft say you reinstalled the Windows OS too many times and ask them nicely to reset the COA key so you get 12 more activation attempts.
Of course the best Recovery disk of all is a DVD-R of a Linux distro. :)
Oh yeah neat trick if someone's XP/Vista/7 computer gets fried ask for the case and everything else in it. The case has the OEM COA key for use on another PC called an "upgrade in hardware" and will activate. So you can buy broken XP/Vista/7 systems on eBay and other auctions to get legal possession of the OEM COA key and install it on another PC as an "Upgrade". Just make sure they didn't remove the COA key and sell it before you do. Cheapest way to get a legit and activated copy of XP/Vista/7 Windows. :)
Well I used an old XP laptop with no personal data on it. Got infected, and examined the virus using heuristics. Unknown virus sent a sample to AV web sites, remote control access got removed and a rootkit was on it as well. Apparently this research will be valuable even if I did not have time to set a Honeypot Linux system up to catch it. Either it was a spoofed Current message or a Current message that someone entered a link to a web site that infects Firefox as that is what I used figuring it was more secure than IE.
A credit card was stolen, but was never used on the laptop and not used in moths and never entered into the Internet. Some store I used it on must have had their database hacked and got it from there. So ID Theft tried for 15th time, they had an epic fail as it was a temp charge and the card just got made invalid and thus their order will be canceled.
This is why I am the person to write a book on ID theft and other things. I just spoiled yet another ID theft before it got approved. IP came from Chicago, Ill, but chances are using an infected system there.
Also they hacked my Slashdot account and change the password and as soon as I found out sent the password reset to my email to change it, log in and then stop them from using it. Slashdot runs Linux and this software for the Slashdot site is even vulnerable to someone hacking it. I had a complex password and now Slashdot gave me another complex password hard to figure out.
Well no viruses on my computer, running Fedora. Wifi router is based on Linux as well. Someone hacked into my Wifi router, sniffed out a few passwords and stole my accounts and tried to steal my ID for a 14th time. Wifi router has all the firmware updates and settings Cisco says to make to make it more secure. So I reset the password as the ID thief was too dumb to change the email, reported the IP to his/her ISP and a copy of the IP logs and others that show he/she hacked my router from Chicago, Ill and made posts with a Chicago IP, and I don't live in Chicago. He got stopped before he/she could steal my credit cards. So that is an epic fail.
Nope didn't even touch my PC, just the router which I was told is very secure and runs Linux and cannot be broken into, and had every setting the company that made it told me to set it to in order to prevent it. Every time this happens to me I will learn more about fighting it. I might even replace my router with an older PC running Fedora and Honeypot software to gather more evidence to catch this person.
Just my own views and opinions here, but Sony's business model is to make video games, movies, music, etc work on all they existing and planned hardware. Why not an eBook also?
Sony sells eBooks. The Nintendo DS has the ability to read eBooks, so why shouldn't the PSP Go that competes with it also read eBooks? If the Nintendo DS series has eBook carts and the PS3 is advertised to do everything and Sony does not make software to make it buy eBooks from the Playstation network, isn't that false advertising? If it does everything it should include eBooks and other stuff as well.
I always wanted to write eBooks and even came up with character names, ideas, and stuff I role played all over the Internet to see what people think and how to improve my writing skills and make corrections and changes.
I submitted an Ask Slashdot Story on how to write FOSS eBooks but it hasn't been voted on yet to be a real story.
Look first eBook attempt was by Microsoft in 1999/2000 or whatever and the Microsoft Reader software and books in LIT format that the MS Reader could read on Windows CE devices and Windows operating systems on PCs. But it flopped and once again Microsoft failed at trying to do something else besides selling software. Now we got a eBook reader price war, and I expect more mega-corps to enter the eBook reader market. In 3 to 5 years the eBook market will boom as we find a standard like PDF or RTF that most operating systems can read and most eBook Readers can convert to their own format. I hope that OpenOffice.Org and other FOSS office suite programs use the ODT format or something to replace PDF,
Look I know I am not the best writer and make my own mistakes, but I learn from my own mistakes. I need a hobby as I am disabled and out of work since 2002 and wrting FOSS eBooks sounds like a good hobby and I am not trying to earn money from FOSS eBooks just write them, hope for positive feedback and positive criticism and maybe others who can join me and help make the eBook better and add their name to the credits and authors and the like. I don't even mind if someone puts their name or names before mine. I am not doing this for attention, nor notability, nor profits, nor anything but trying to help out people, esp ones just getting into the eBook market that doesn't know a lot about IT and computers and wants to learn. But we slashdotters when we write stuff it goes over the novice's heads and they don't understand it. So a series of eBooks I will write for the people without our knowledge or experience and stuff and write it in a simple way like a cook book or step by step book. I am not writing these for the Slashdot readers but those new to IT and computers who want to learn something about it and cannot afford college and other things like books on it that cost too much to buy.
If it starts a trend then blogs and newspapers and others will get turned into eBooks as well. Starting off a chain reaction.
We can educate people to balance check books and learn how to save money, how to fix a Windows machine with virus infections, beginner's guide to programming in commercial and FOSS languages, and proof of that is right here as the State of California tries to make educational FOSS eBooks possible we can write FOSS eBooks some schools can use that cannot afford the cmmercial ones anymore and this save their money by using eBook readers, PCs, Macs, whatever to read them.
More than that Nintendo just make 100 classic books for the DS series, and why not make more eBook stuff for the other video game consoles? Playstation 3 Sony claims it does everything? Make it read eBooks and synch up with a PSP Go to put the eBooks on it to make it another eBook reader.