Somebody make an ipod clone with 802.11 mesh network and PTP capability. Proceed to make millions. It wouldn't even need the software right off the bat.. the market will fill the void.
Whoever puts this one out first with a slick interface to share music en route is going to make a lot of money. Then they can use that to thwart the **AA's of the world.
I had high hopes when I picked up the PSP, then I flipped it around, saw the stupid UMD drive, went 'oh', and put it right back on the shelf - where it will be relegated to the dustbin of history.
The device must be the same, exact form factor as the current gen ipod.
Make it out of aluminum or titanium with a matte or beadblasted finish.
The screen should be the entire front of the device.
It's only user input; the touchscreen and perhaps a single scroll wheel. NO MORE. Think about inertial input in a second release. MAYBE.
Put a video and headphone jack on it.
Put 802.11 on it and stop being a bitch to the media industries.
Make it with open programmable interface and a real OS.
The only user interface and application options should be just what the ipod has - a video player, audio player, and basic little apps like the ipod has.
Let the market fill in the gaps.
Sell millions. When you do, buy me a ferrari, ok thanks?
Talk to an astronaut, and they all understand the risks of manned space flight. It wouldn't stop them for a second, though.
How many people died discovering the new world? How many died in WWII defending western democracy?
Somebody is going to put men on mars and the moon. Maybe it'll be China or Japan instead of the USA. Maybe it'll be Russia. If we are unwilling to accept the risk, then we will not share in the reward.
I'm wondering when someone will hit the spot right..
I've carried a pad of engineering paper and a pencil around with me for 10 years. No display technology has come close in terms of flexibility. The peel-off-screen technology is really neat!
My guess for what would be right is something that could display a 8.5" x 11" piece of paper at 300dpi, have PC functionality, be around ~1cm thick, and run for a whole day on a battery charge. I don't think processor power is a requirement, just good wireless 802.11 connectivity. Unfortunately I don't think the technology is there yet.
I vowed never to upgrade after I found out that they took measures to discourage ripping of broadcasted mp3s.. ala streamripper. Nevermind I don't need ads, and the existing version works just great for my purposes. That was what, in 2000 or something.. I forget the exact details now.
Computers are about performing tasks, not running software. If it doesn't do new tasks, or old tasks (much better), why upgrade?
THAT is the point of VCast and every other lame attempt to avoid becoming just pure bandwidth providers.
Everybody loves selling things with zero marginal cost. I know I do.
Would you buy an operating system for your computer from Ford Motor Company? If you could, would you expect it to be produced efficiently and be a quality product? (perhaps I selected a bad example:-) ) Telcos are horrible at providing services and media, and they don't know what content or applications people want. Never mind they already have de-facto or legal monopolies on service already.
Where do you think wireless providers will be if someone actually deploys wi-fi throughout a city, or a new technology comes along that provides 5mbit download speeds anywhere?
There'd be no reason to deploy initially spotty wifi if you had affordable, reliable, available wireless broadband. You don't. So people get mad and roll their own solutions that just might obsolete you. But it's stupid and massively inefficient, because that bandwidth is there now.
Yeah.. it only took 5 years for SMS to become affordable in North America.:)
Is anyone actually using tv phone functionality?
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I see ads for this everywhere, but I've never seen ANYONE making use of this service. I don't even know when I would if I wanted to. My phone is for talking to people with and maybe SMS. I don't use the internet functionality because the rates are insane.
Telcos don't get it. Provide bandwidth, and let people build services that run on that bandwidth. Being greedy with the apps.. means you get to put a great big 3G waste of money in your pipe (and smoke it).
I can see an arguement from a practical standpoint for requiring notebooks, but this is not the angle taken most places. Given that most courses and communications are at least partly online, without ready access to a computer you're placed at a disadvantage, nevermind the ability to network with peers.
From an educational angle - at least in engineering - I'm not sure about the value. Engineering basics haven't changed in 100 years, and the advanced topics usually require specialty lab hardware, software, or some combination thereof.
One thing I wished was available was all my textbooks in PDF format, not some DRM crippleware crap. Lugging around a lot of books is NOT fun. My solution to this was to scan relevant chapters and take them with me in an image format for the road. This isn't going to happen until the basic textbooks are open.. I'm not sure why you need a new edition of a intro calc text every few years. Other, than of course the obvious.
The other, more nefarious side of me wonders if these notebooks are actually new, or are off-lease returns from corporations.
Blogs are like anything else; if it's someone who's insight is particularly good, you might pay to read it - or, I dunno, click on ads or something. If it's just some guy, then the blog probably isn't worth that much as a commercial tool.
Ask any columnist - it's pretty hard to come up with insight on a weekly basis people will pay to listen to. Hell, it's hard enough to get commentary modded up.. or maybe not.:-)
be stupid not to copy as much as I can get my paws on, eh?
I got mad enough before to start dreaming up "piracy booths", where you could burn cds from a "collection" - for free, of course, with your own hands. My understanding is this would be completely legal..
It's an ipod-factor device with a hard drive, and the whole front of the thing is a screen. It's got 802.11 built in, and has slick, idiot-proof syncing and maybe PTP functionality.
It plays music, videos, and doesn't do much else - but has a programming interface available. Perhaps a wheel on the side. It's no thicker than the current ipod, and if at all possible, it's much thinner.
I don't forsee ever running windows XP. I'm hoping to move to OSX running emulation for legacy and specialty applications, and staying the hell away from Vista. I don't know many shops prepared to make the hardware upgrades Vista is going to require, or the infrastructure changes.
The only feature I miss is remote desktop, and that's only of marginal utility.
I run Windows 2000 on a PC that's 3 years old.. I've got a gig of ram in it, and it works great. I've got Windows 2000 on two or three other old-ass PCs as well, and the only thing I did to make them faster.. was reinstall the OS, cruft-free, every 2-3 years. I still manage to get all my work done, and don't have a compelling reason to upgrade to Windows XP. As much as Microsoft would like me to think, AOE3 isn't enough justification.
I've got some PII class notebooks running Windows 2000 just wonderfully, even in ~128M memory.
Honestly, I don't see upgrading in the next year. All I've done is expand drive space, I put three monitors on this machine, it all works great.
So.. maybe try reinstalling on those old PCs and slobbing in some new memory, and save a few bucks?
My linux boxes, to their credit, haven't needed touching since I installed them - they just work, and in fact, I'm not even sure how they're configured anymore. They're running on P100 class hardware as described in the article.
This is where the problem lies - in the present industry there is little incentive for ambitious or abnormal projects.
It's called a startup.. you find investors, build a prototype, sell some, go after venture capital. I've been involved in a half dozen projects like that. Some work, some don't. Just like science experiments.
The more important distinction to make is between those project who have immediate practical benefit and those who do not. You can get funding if you want to work on a quantum computer from private industry, men in black vans, etc. You can't if you want to research the pioneer gravity effect.
Usually, when the science is ready, discoveries will happen. What might be different is they might happen in China, not here.
They're related, but very different animals. I notice a LOT of people on this thread are making this mistake.
The key to success in any field, managerial or technical is being able to network and work with people. The manager types know this. A lot of the technical people don't. The difference between someone who's a wildly successful engineer, and someone who is (an) engineer is likely to be how they interact with people.
PhD's are a different problem; it's quite possible you need to spend 45 years working to understand one problem enough to solve it. That is why we have universities, government grants, and corporate research labs. The problem is all three of those are subject to wild political influence.
I bill time around $85/hr. If I can make a board 5x4 and do it in 8h, or make it 2x1 and do it in a week, which do you think the client is going to prefer?
If there's no reason for a board to be crammed together, why make it crammed together? I'd say over 65% of the boards I do end up on a rack. There's oodles of space. It cools better and is easier to fix, you don't end up with massive grounding headaches, and it can be hand routed in a FRACTION of the time.
For the ~10% of stuff I do that is horribly size constrained with both sides of the board covered with SMT components, split internal planes, etc etc, Eagle is fine as well.
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Somebody make an ipod clone with 802.11 mesh network and PTP capability. Proceed to make millions. It wouldn't even need the software right off the bat.. the market will fill the void.
Whoever puts this one out first with a slick interface to share music en route is going to make a lot of money. Then they can use that to thwart the **AA's of the world.
I had high hopes when I picked up the PSP, then I flipped it around, saw the stupid UMD drive, went 'oh', and put it right back on the shelf - where it will be relegated to the dustbin of history.
I should be a product consultant.
Make what the mac people are crying for.
The device must be the same, exact form factor as the current gen ipod.
Make it out of aluminum or titanium with a matte or beadblasted finish.
The screen should be the entire front of the device.
It's only user input; the touchscreen and perhaps a single scroll wheel. NO MORE. Think about inertial input in a second release. MAYBE.
Put a video and headphone jack on it.
Put 802.11 on it and stop being a bitch to the media industries.
Make it with open programmable interface and a real OS.
The only user interface and application options should be just what the ipod has - a video player, audio player, and basic little apps like the ipod has.
Let the market fill in the gaps.
Sell millions. When you do, buy me a ferrari, ok thanks?
Talk to an astronaut, and they all understand the risks of manned space flight. It wouldn't stop them for a second, though.
How many people died discovering the new world? How many died in WWII defending western democracy?
Somebody is going to put men on mars and the moon. Maybe it'll be China or Japan instead of the USA. Maybe it'll be Russia. If we are unwilling to accept the risk, then we will not share in the reward.
we'll finally get an easy to install vmware?
I'm wondering when someone will hit the spot right..
I've carried a pad of engineering paper and a pencil around with me for 10 years. No display technology has come close in terms of flexibility. The peel-off-screen technology is really neat!
My guess for what would be right is something that could display a 8.5" x 11" piece of paper at 300dpi, have PC functionality, be around ~1cm thick, and run for a whole day on a battery charge. I don't think processor power is a requirement, just good wireless 802.11 connectivity. Unfortunately I don't think the technology is there yet.
Unfortunately, 500 million of those 6.5 billion live in nations that are armed to the teeth.
Interestingly enough, sans immigration, industrialized nations would have collapsing populations now.
Winamp version 5.old users, unite!
I vowed never to upgrade after I found out that they took measures to discourage ripping of broadcasted mp3s.. ala streamripper. Nevermind I don't need ads, and the existing version works just great for my purposes. That was what, in 2000 or something.. I forget the exact details now.
Computers are about performing tasks, not running software. If it doesn't do new tasks, or old tasks (much better), why upgrade?
Freedom is never taken all at once. ..just a little tiny piece at a time. TCM is one little piece that it starts with.
It ends with you needing a government license to buy a 500k gate FPGA.
I wish I was joking.
THAT is the point of VCast and every other lame attempt to avoid becoming just pure bandwidth providers.
Everybody loves selling things with zero marginal cost. I know I do.
Would you buy an operating system for your computer from Ford Motor Company? If you could, would you expect it to be produced efficiently and be a quality product? (perhaps I selected a bad example
Telcos are horrible at providing services and media, and they don't know what content or applications people want. Never mind they already have de-facto or legal monopolies on service already.
Where do you think wireless providers will be if someone actually deploys wi-fi throughout a city, or a new technology comes along that provides 5mbit download speeds anywhere?
There'd be no reason to deploy initially spotty wifi if you had affordable, reliable, available wireless broadband. You don't. So people get mad and roll their own solutions that just might obsolete you. But it's stupid and massively inefficient, because that bandwidth is there now.
Yeah.. it only took 5 years for SMS to become affordable in North America. :)
I see ads for this everywhere, but I've never seen ANYONE making use of this service. I don't even know when I would if I wanted to. My phone is for talking to people with and maybe SMS. I don't use the internet functionality because the rates are insane.
Telcos don't get it. Provide bandwidth, and let people build services that run on that bandwidth. Being greedy with the apps.. means you get to put a great big 3G waste of money in your pipe (and smoke it).
..and then we'll see where the hypocrites are when cures and treatments for horrible diseases appear.
I can see an arguement from a practical standpoint for requiring notebooks, but this is not the angle taken most places. Given that most courses and communications are at least partly online, without ready access to a computer you're placed at a disadvantage, nevermind the ability to network with peers.
From an educational angle - at least in engineering - I'm not sure about the value. Engineering basics haven't changed in 100 years, and the advanced topics usually require specialty lab hardware, software, or some combination thereof.
One thing I wished was available was all my textbooks in PDF format, not some DRM crippleware crap. Lugging around a lot of books is NOT fun. My solution to this was to scan relevant chapters and take them with me in an image format for the road. This isn't going to happen until the basic textbooks are open.. I'm not sure why you need a new edition of a intro calc text every few years. Other, than of course the obvious.
The other, more nefarious side of me wonders if these notebooks are actually new, or are off-lease returns from corporations.
Blogs are like anything else; if it's someone who's insight is particularly good, you might pay to read it - or, I dunno, click on ads or something. If it's just some guy, then the blog probably isn't worth that much as a commercial tool.
.. or maybe not. :-)
Ask any columnist - it's pretty hard to come up with insight on a weekly basis people will pay to listen to. Hell, it's hard enough to get commentary modded up
I just put my collection out by the curb. Where I work on my car..
be stupid not to copy as much as I can get my paws on, eh?
I got mad enough before to start dreaming up "piracy booths", where you could burn cds from a "collection" - for free, of course, with your own hands. My understanding is this would be completely legal..
Try putting that thing in your pocket.
It's an ipod-factor device with a hard drive, and the whole front of the thing is a screen. It's got 802.11 built in, and has slick, idiot-proof syncing and maybe PTP functionality.
It plays music, videos, and doesn't do much else - but has a programming interface available. Perhaps a wheel on the side. It's no thicker than the current ipod, and if at all possible, it's much thinner.
Hey, Palm. This is opportunity. Knock?
I don't forsee ever running windows XP. I'm hoping to move to OSX running emulation for legacy and specialty applications, and staying the hell away from Vista. I don't know many shops prepared to make the hardware upgrades Vista is going to require, or the infrastructure changes.
The only feature I miss is remote desktop, and that's only of marginal utility.
I run Windows 2000 on a PC that's 3 years old.. I've got a gig of ram in it, and it works great. I've got Windows 2000 on two or three other old-ass PCs as well, and the only thing I did to make them faster.. was reinstall the OS, cruft-free, every 2-3 years. I still manage to get all my work done, and don't have a compelling reason to upgrade to Windows XP. As much as Microsoft would like me to think, AOE3 isn't enough justification.
I've got some PII class notebooks running Windows 2000 just wonderfully, even in ~128M memory.
Honestly, I don't see upgrading in the next year. All I've done is expand drive space, I put three monitors on this machine, it all works great.
So.. maybe try reinstalling on those old PCs and slobbing in some new memory, and save a few bucks?
My linux boxes, to their credit, haven't needed touching since I installed them - they just work, and in fact, I'm not even sure how they're configured anymore. They're running on P100 class hardware as described in the article.
This is where the problem lies - in the present industry there is little incentive for ambitious or
abnormal projects.
It's called a startup.. you find investors, build a prototype, sell some, go after venture capital. I've been involved in a half dozen projects like that. Some work, some don't. Just like science experiments.
The more important distinction to make is between those project who have immediate practical benefit and those who do not. You can get funding if you want to work on a quantum computer from private industry, men in black vans, etc. You can't if you want to research the pioneer gravity effect.
Usually, when the science is ready, discoveries will happen. What might be different is they might happen in China, not here.
They're related, but very different animals. I notice a LOT of people on this thread are making this mistake.
The key to success in any field, managerial or technical is being able to network and work with people. The manager types know this. A lot of the technical people don't. The difference between someone who's a wildly successful engineer, and someone who is (an) engineer is likely to be how they interact with people.
PhD's are a different problem; it's quite possible you need to spend 45 years working to understand one problem enough to solve it. That is why we have universities, government grants, and corporate research labs. The problem is all three of those are subject to wild political influence.
I bill time around $85/hr. If I can make a board 5x4 and do it in 8h, or make it 2x1 and do it in a week, which do you think the client is going to prefer?
If there's no reason for a board to be crammed together, why make it crammed together? I'd say over 65% of the boards I do end up on a rack. There's oodles of space. It cools better and is easier to fix, you don't end up with massive grounding headaches, and it can be hand routed in a FRACTION of the time.
For the ~10% of stuff I do that is horribly size constrained with both sides of the board covered with SMT components, split internal planes, etc etc, Eagle is fine as well.
Thats too big to have any kind of effect on the brain.
I think some brains are capable of malfunctioning all on their own.
I've read the article, and this, I hope, is a joke.
There are many benefits to studying at Lakehead University. Ubiquitous wireless Internet access, however, isn't one of them.
I'm sure living in a grass hut is nice and all, and yes, everything (might) cause cancer.
This place deserves what's about to happen. I hope, maybe, that something was taken out of context. Maybe. Otherwise I don't even know where to start.
100% safe? NOTHING is 100% safe. Nothing is even 100% certain in science, except maybe that you will fail dynamics if you don't do your homework.. heh