No more (coaxial) cable. Streaming MPEG4. Instead of putting analog (yuk!) cable in every house, you put 100 mbit tcp/ip. See the possibilities? ahhh..
Actually this device (or a close relative with a network plug) was mentioned in an article in danish PC World a while ago. A housing complex set up a switched 100 mbit network with drops in every apartment. They'd really like to end their crappy cable contract, but they would wait for this thing to surface.
They also decided that they weren't ready for voip, so they actually spend the extra money to wire up for phone, also. Thats just too bad. Or maybe it's because voip phones costs 100s of $$ when a simple analog is $10..
My boss told me about a time in the first half of the nineties, where he'd been sitting in/by a windows on the second floor and talked on his cellphone. He dropped it, it landed on a lawn. When he got to it, the connection was still open:)
Of course, the cellphones of the day wasn't called bricks for nothing.
This sounds alot like a recent offer at a major discount chain around here.. You can buy a canvas, paint and brushes etc.. but the canvas has been pre-printed with grey/white 'shadow' of classic paintings, so you can paint 'your own' classic Van Gogh and a few others.
I mean, it's the real thing, just not, and a little worse. It's a surrogate for creativity.. I'd rather go get a pre-recorded CD/poster and enjoy the work as the artist intended it to be, and if I were to enjoy making music/painting, I'd work on my own stuff or at least my own interpretations.
Derive is the software of IIRC the TI89. It does everything it does, including graphing, on a windows pc.. The interface is not fantastic, but useable.
If you ask me, it's not worth the effort, I used it in high school to format equations for math and physics, which is otherwise a bitch in Word. But I have since discovered LaTeX and AMSMath:)
That's about the amount I'd like to pay for music...
1. 1 song @ $.70 x 500000 downloads= $350,000
2. 1 album @ $7.00 x 500000 downloads = $3,500,000
3. Amount given to the sharks at the record companies = $0
4. Number of downloads to reach the "hypothetical" band's earnings: about 231,000 singles or 23,100 albums
5. The satisfaction gained from knowing you didn't get screwed by the recording industry: priceless
One thing though, you're missing bandwidth costs. No sane ISP would host such a site for free. My favorite hosting service charges $100 for 30 gb/month traffic.
A full OGG'd cd in high quality is about 60 mb, and would cost $0.02 in bandwidth to download. Times 500K is $100.000 out of the 'profit'. Add the actual, pysical hosting (another $100/month), setup fee ($400), physical promotion (most people can 'steal' access to a photo-copier somewhere, but 4-color offset printing is a nice touch)..
I agree totally with your fifth point, I'm just saying that 23.100 albums is indeed very conservative.
It's just using the system to the most, by playing by it's own rules.
The true flaw in the electoral college system in use in the US, is that it allows votes not to count. In Denmark, and I think a lot of other countries too, votes that is not a part of the majority, is put into a second pool, from which so-called "additional mandates" are distributed.
That being said - any system has flaws. When you've picked one, you have to stick with it. You can't go whining about how it should be, because it isn't. Bush is president, in spite of having a majority against him, because the system allows it to be so.
but what amount of code warrants a "you're stealing you son of a b*tch" title, and what warrants a "meh... it's not rocket science, hell, there's no other way to do it, even if he hadn't looked at the code, this is the logical solution anyone with half a brain would come to..."...???
That is a pretty good question.. If the GPL was enforced as some corporate IP agreements are - successfully - ever working on GPL'd code would forbid you to do even mildly related non-GPL work, at least for a year or so..
I mean.. I you work in any sort of development or engineering, your company owns any related thought you might have off the job, and you'll get in trouble working for a competitor within a period of time after leaving that job.
Being a relatively non-hardcore geek, I wonder how it is possible to actually prove that GPL'd code was used?
Once compiled and linked and what-know-I, the source would be rather obscure, and after all, other products seem to do the same tasks, yet not using GPL code..
Perhaps a punch card virus... ... taking over the card puncher, and in the dark of the night, punch 200 copies of it self, and FexExing those to everybody in the address book (surely mainframes have such) with " Cool! Check this out:D))) " printed on the envelope.
Well, that is an interesting grapic. It basically says, that if you a) have a good adminstrator b) use a good OS c) use good software (ie. not written by 'anyone':) ) and d) use good, redundant hardware
If I create (=grow) a flower in my greenhouse, I OWN this and is perfectly allowed to sell it, with or without stem and/or roots, at excatly the price and with the limitaions of its use I want to. I might not sell it, but that is my right.
If I sit down and create (=write and compile) a piece of software or write a book or an article, why should I not own the exclusive right to that piece of work? Why is it wrong of me to hire 200 lawyers to write a huge EULA, and charge for each use of this work? I understand, as a technician, that my program would benefit from being open source, but why is open source anything but a (technically) superior way to license your work?
How are basic human rights (free speech) at danger here?
Imagine someone setting up a web board, licensed as described. And this one circumventet girl from Somalia surfs by and signs up the week before she is forced to enter a marriage with a man her fater chose.
First, as already ponted out in serveral comments; predicting that exsiting, popular, yet still new, technologies will spread, is hardly predicting.
However, I see serveral lacks, many of which relate to privacy, which is arguable a big issue these days:... get a call from the repair center.. washing machine is using too much hot water.. information the washing machine has sent through the Net.. back to the factory where it was built
Well, as more and more machines become 'self-aware' in terms of maintenance (I rode in a taxi - Mercedes - in which the display flashed 'BRAKES NEED MAINTENANCE. VISIT SERVICE CENTER' Hmm..), the scenario is easy to imagine. However, I doubt they'll do more than tell you. They will perhaps offer to arrange for someone to call you up - but only on your request. Imagine spam emitting from this - "You're running ouf of [...] soon, would you like to try the new [...]?". This phone-home stuff is so upopular that even MS Windows XP doens't do it without asking you. "Word 2000 crashed for no apparent reason. Send report?".. Microsoft, folks...
Family, friends and co-workers will be able to instantly see where you are, thanks to wireless phones even tinier than what's available today and other devices with built-in GPS locators.
Tinier? It's going to be difficult to make anything much smaller than my Nokia 8310 that will still be useful - I doubt it. More features in the same sized unit, sure, but smaller?
GPS? The feature may be present for locate nearest, routeplanning etc - but publishing it? Sure, for purposes, like, Are any of my friends in the neighborhood so we can join up for lunch? But no way it will happen without the consent of the friend. I also see the build in opportunity to have the device lie - ex. be able to answer "Office" if you don't need to let your girlfriend that you are in the lingerie store at the mall - or other places less innocent.
The predicted controversy on access to the 'presence' people will not be that big of a deal. If you call in sick and go wherever you go, and you boss calls/'locate's you, you better answer "at home".
You'll be able to specify how you wish to be reached: by text if you're busy, by voice or video if you're free.
Yes! Let's have it! I've been waiting for this for years. I can reject a call seven times, and pick it up the eight time and - to the amusement of other participants at the meeting - say "Mother, I am in a meeting, I will call you back in an hour.". And the worst part? She does know how to send SMS/texts - she just doesn't want to have her cellphone on at home (?!).
Stores without doors will rely on RFID
Sure. I saw this on a trade fair two years ago. It'll happend anytime the RFIDs become affordable, which they do now, and the systems has passed real-world application hassels.
Every cable and satellite television receiver will include a hard disk for recording shows,
Uh, no. Everybody will pull whatever they want to watch down their (real) broadband connection, as soon af we get rid of those wuzz <2 mbit DSL toys.
conventional 30-second commercials will be rare because advertisers won't pay when most viewers can hit the fast-forward button
This is hardly news, much less a prediction. Sophisticated product placement, onset ads (like in sports) and pay-per-view is the financing of tomorrow.
Finally, we can talk to our computers
I doubt it. And I don't see the real-world application, letting out for people with disabilities. While it may happen, for the sake of happening, the more likely thing to happen, is that user interfaces become more intutive and intelligent. In the given gas-station example it is more likely that the computer will flash a low-gas warning somewhere, and upon being asked to do so, using a set of thumb buttons, will offer driving instructions to the nearest gasstation, while not diverting too much from the route.
That was more like $2 that two cents. I'll make it my 1.000.000 turkish lires then:-P
Or picture reading the local five-day weather forecast, checking the Dow Jones industrial average and finding a new chicken and rice recipe
Ok, we get computers in refridgerators so we can order groceries directly from the fridge door Wow! But it works GREAT from my desktop.
Why would I get my fat ass up and go the the kitchen to order groceries? And go to the fireplace-computer to see the weather forecast to know if i have to fire it up.. and to the lawnmover-computer to see how much the grass grows.. and so and so on..
The point of having a computer on the frigde would be as a virtual note-holder for the family and possibly to get recipes of the web with, but only because of its location.
While I can see the point in getting recipes on the cart (maybe even syncing with my inhouse inventory server, to see what ingredients I need), a stock ticker or the weather is about the last thing I need when shopping. D*mn! The DOW is down 0.5, I better get lots of oatmeal? People for whom that matters, get that kind of info pushed to their cellphones.
mountain dew is the one beverage that you NEVER get a discount on
Wrong. While your local store might try to pull a trick like this, the store five miles up the road will target you with their discounted Montain Dew - to make you come to and try that store out. And after a while your local store realizes that they are going to loose customers if they keep screwing them...
ahh.. the market regulating itself:)
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Hmm.. i seems that the guy really wanted you to have those money or whatever..
http://mail.uruklink.net:8383/ (google cache) looks like they are using iMail, which is a POP3 server. Thus, if mail in there is still there, it is not read, because then it would be gone.
I can also throw a box of DVD movies 13 stories down on the street in, what, 5 seconds? On an average 2 GB pr disk and 20 disks in the box, that's 8 GB/sec! And the box is like 20 cents, if not available free.
3com is selling their 1 Gbit stuff at, like, 100's of $$! Go home!:)
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Actually this device (or a close relative with a network plug) was mentioned in an article in danish PC World a while ago. A housing complex set up a switched 100 mbit network with drops in every apartment. They'd really like to end their crappy cable contract, but they would wait for this thing to surface.
They also decided that they weren't ready for voip, so they actually spend the extra money to wire up for phone, also. Thats just too bad. Or maybe it's because voip phones costs 100s of $$ when a simple analog is $10..
Of course, the cellphones of the day wasn't called bricks for nothing.
I mean, it's the real thing, just not, and a little worse. It's a surrogate for creativity.. I'd rather go get a pre-recorded CD/poster and enjoy the work as the artist intended it to be, and if I were to enjoy making music/painting, I'd work on my own stuff or at least my own interpretations.
Netto - derfor
From the interview:
.. just without the beepbeepbeeping!
I was like "What are you talkin' about? I'm not sick." Then someone explained it was a computer virus and I'm like "Oh."
She's, like, the new Ellen Feiss
Cool. Let's see a beowulf cluster of these in sovjet russia..
What the heck is a scheduler? What is it doing in a kernel, anyway?
If you ask me, it's not worth the effort, I used it in high school to format equations for math and physics, which is otherwise a bitch in Word. But I have since discovered LaTeX and AMSMath :)
What's so special about it? I see banner ads... ?
1. 1 song @ $.70 x 500000 downloads= $350,000
2. 1 album @ $7.00 x 500000 downloads = $3,500,000
3. Amount given to the sharks at the record companies = $0
4. Number of downloads to reach the "hypothetical" band's earnings: about 231,000 singles or 23,100 albums
5. The satisfaction gained from knowing you didn't get screwed by the recording industry: priceless
One thing though, you're missing bandwidth costs. No sane ISP would host such a site for free. My favorite hosting service charges $100 for 30 gb/month traffic.
A full OGG'd cd in high quality is about 60 mb, and would cost $0.02 in bandwidth to download. Times 500K is $100.000 out of the 'profit'. Add the actual, pysical hosting (another $100/month), setup fee ($400), physical promotion (most people can 'steal' access to a photo-copier somewhere, but 4-color offset printing is a nice touch) ..
I agree totally with your fifth point, I'm just saying that 23.100 albums is indeed very conservative.
It's just using the system to the most, by playing by it's own rules.
The true flaw in the electoral college system in use in the US, is that it allows votes not to count. In Denmark, and I think a lot of other countries too, votes that is not a part of the majority, is put into a second pool, from which so-called "additional mandates" are distributed.
That being said - any system has flaws. When you've picked one, you have to stick with it. You can't go whining about how it should be, because it isn't. Bush is president, in spite of having a majority against him, because the system allows it to be so.
but what amount of code warrants a "you're stealing you son of a b*tch" title, and what warrants a "meh... it's not rocket science, hell, there's no other way to do it, even if he hadn't looked at the code, this is the logical solution anyone with half a brain would come to..."...???
That is a pretty good question.. If the GPL was enforced as some corporate IP agreements are - successfully - ever working on GPL'd code would forbid you to do even mildly related non-GPL work, at least for a year or so..
I mean.. I you work in any sort of development or engineering, your company owns any related thought you might have off the job, and you'll get in trouble working for a competitor within a period of time after leaving that job.
- Ranger
Being a relatively non-hardcore geek, I wonder how it is possible to actually prove that GPL'd code was used?
Once compiled and linked and what-know-I, the source would be rather obscure, and after all, other products seem to do the same tasks, yet not using GPL code..
Please enlighten me!
- rnger
Now we don't have to imagine a beowolf cluster of these no more .. !
Perhaps a punch card virus... ... taking over the card puncher, and in the dark of the night, punch 200 copies of it self, and FexExing those to everybody in the address book (surely mainframes have such) with " Cool! Check this out :D))) " printed on the envelope.
Well, that is an interesting grapic. It basically says, that if you :) )
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a) have a good adminstrator
b) use a good OS
c) use good software (ie. not written by 'anyone'
and
d) use good, redundant hardware
your pc shouldn't crash more than a mainframe.
Hello, Linux users
If I create (=grow) a flower in my greenhouse, I OWN this and is perfectly allowed to sell it, with or without stem and/or roots, at excatly the price and with the limitaions of its use I want to. I might not sell it, but that is my right.
If I sit down and create (=write and compile) a piece of software or write a book or an article, why should I not own the exclusive right to that piece of work? Why is it wrong of me to hire 200 lawyers to write a huge EULA, and charge for each use of this work? I understand, as a technician, that my program would benefit from being open source, but why is open source anything but a (technically) superior way to license your work?
How are basic human rights (free speech) at danger here?
Please cut it out for me.
Imagine someone setting up a web board, licensed as described. And this one circumventet girl from Somalia surfs by and signs up the week before she is forced to enter a marriage with a man her fater chose.
Poor girl - But, hey! License violation!
First, as already ponted out in serveral comments; predicting that exsiting, popular, yet still new, technologies will spread, is hardly predicting.
... get a call from the repair center .. washing machine is using too much hot water .. information the washing machine has sent through the Net .. back to the factory where it was built
:-P
However, I see serveral lacks, many of which relate to privacy, which is arguable a big issue these days:
Well, as more and more machines become 'self-aware' in terms of maintenance (I rode in a taxi - Mercedes - in which the display flashed 'BRAKES NEED MAINTENANCE. VISIT SERVICE CENTER' Hmm..), the scenario is easy to imagine. However, I doubt they'll do more than tell you. They will perhaps offer to arrange for someone to call you up - but only on your request. Imagine spam emitting from this - "You're running ouf of [...] soon, would you like to try the new [...]?". This phone-home stuff is so upopular that even MS Windows XP doens't do it without asking you. "Word 2000 crashed for no apparent reason. Send report?".. Microsoft, folks...
Family, friends and co-workers will be able to instantly see where you are, thanks to wireless phones even tinier than what's available today and other devices with built-in GPS locators.
Tinier? It's going to be difficult to make anything much smaller than my Nokia 8310 that will still be useful - I doubt it. More features in the same sized unit, sure, but smaller?
GPS? The feature may be present for locate nearest, routeplanning etc - but publishing it?
Sure, for purposes, like, Are any of my friends in the neighborhood so we can join up for lunch? But no way it will happen without the consent of the friend. I also see the build in opportunity to have the device lie - ex. be able to answer "Office" if you don't need to let your girlfriend that you are in the lingerie store at the mall - or other places less innocent.
The predicted controversy on access to the 'presence' people will not be that big of a deal. If you call in sick and go wherever you go, and you boss calls/'locate's you, you better answer "at home".
You'll be able to specify how you wish to be reached: by text if you're busy, by voice or video if you're free.
Yes! Let's have it! I've been waiting for this for years. I can reject a call seven times, and pick it up the eight time and - to the amusement of other participants at the meeting - say "Mother, I am in a meeting, I will call you back in an hour.". And the worst part? She does know how to send SMS/texts - she just doesn't want to have her cellphone on at home (?!).
Stores without doors will rely on RFID
Sure. I saw this on a trade fair two years ago. It'll happend anytime the RFIDs become affordable, which they do now, and the systems has passed real-world application hassels.
Every cable and satellite television receiver will include a hard disk for recording shows,
Uh, no. Everybody will pull whatever they want to watch down their (real) broadband connection, as soon af we get rid of those wuzz <2 mbit DSL toys.
conventional 30-second commercials will be rare because advertisers won't pay when most viewers can hit the fast-forward button
This is hardly news, much less a prediction. Sophisticated product placement, onset ads (like in sports) and pay-per-view is the financing of tomorrow.
Finally, we can talk to our computers
I doubt it. And I don't see the real-world application, letting out for people with disabilities.
While it may happen, for the sake of happening, the more likely thing to happen, is that user interfaces become more intutive and intelligent. In the given gas-station example it is more likely that the computer will flash a low-gas warning somewhere, and upon being asked to do so, using a set of thumb buttons, will offer driving instructions to the nearest gasstation, while not diverting too much from the route.
That was more like $2 that two cents. I'll make it my 1.000.000 turkish lires then
Or picture reading the local five-day weather forecast, checking the Dow Jones industrial average and finding a new chicken and rice recipe
Ok, we get computers in refridgerators so we can order groceries directly from the fridge door Wow! But it works GREAT from my desktop.
Why would I get my fat ass up and go the the kitchen to order groceries? And go to the fireplace-computer to see the weather forecast to know if i have to fire it up.. and to the lawnmover-computer to see how much the grass grows.. and so and so on..
The point of having a computer on the frigde would be as a virtual note-holder for the family and possibly to get recipes of the web with, but only because of its location.
While I can see the point in getting recipes on the cart (maybe even syncing with my inhouse inventory server, to see what ingredients I need), a stock ticker or the weather is about the last thing I need when shopping. D*mn! The DOW is down 0.5, I better get lots of oatmeal? People for whom that matters, get that kind of info pushed to their cellphones.
mountain dew is the one beverage that you NEVER get a discount on
:)
Wrong. While your local store might try to pull a trick like this, the store five miles up the road will target you with their discounted Montain Dew - to make you come to and try that store out. And after a while your local store realizes that they are going to loose customers if they keep screwing them...
ahh.. the market regulating itself
Hmm.. i seems that the guy really wanted you to have those money or whatever..
:)
Too bad you threw it away
Life is bitter.
A digital camera is mentioned, so I guess there may be some form of computing device nearby.
Right, sure! We all know that the most important thing to have with you if you carry a digital camera is a computer.
http://mail.uruklink.net:8383/ (google cache) looks like they are using iMail, which is a POP3 server. Thus, if mail in there is still there, it is not read, because then it would be gone.
AFAIK they are mini-dvds that spin backwards. That's a tough one to copy.
:) .. and watch them come after Stanley .. uh-uh..
Are we hackers or what? Mod it to spin the right way and fix the size of the dvd-r with a boxcutter
I've amazed a few by taking a few ounces of nail polish cleaner in a glass and then dropping those foam-packaging chips in, one by one.
Won't work with anyone who took much interest in anything above 10th grad chemistry...
I can also throw a box of DVD movies 13 stories down on the street in, what, 5 seconds? On an average 2 GB pr disk and 20 disks in the box, that's 8 GB/sec! And the box is like 20 cents, if not available free.
:)
3com is selling their 1 Gbit stuff at, like, 100's of $$! Go home!