> Wait.. is that guy using traceroute to see other people's "Ip addresses"
Have you never looked inside a router? Little Gnomes in every router, all watching in the same direction when a packet comes along. Thats why they are looking at the same website....
Nokia's market share for smartphones may be dropping but that is happening since they started to sell the Nokia 9000 communicator (Yes that thing could send email at a time when most people may just have heard of the net). Nokia is always having a few trial phones (e.g. the Nokia 9000 was one) to figure out if it works well, and then may decide for a radical switch in the second model (e,g, the 9210 switch to symbian), or trash the series. They have done that now with the N800/N900, so i think they will now pack the experiences frome these devices into a new one. The fact that some often sold symbian phones do not qualify as smart phones is no reason to write the platform off prematurely. I also have an Android device and i like it; however some things, e.g. the "everthing need to be linked to your gmail accocunt" idea to work correctly (e.g. sync/backup) is a little exaggerated. I already discovered some annoying things which my Nokia E61 from End of 2006 does, but my Android 2.2 device doesnt (connecting to an ad-hoc wireless network, using the PC via USB to conenct to the net - and yes there are situations when i dont need additional complications, namely when travelling. The E61 i still use connetc to everything to which it can connect).
I believe that meego paired with the philosophy of Nokia not to try to fuck the customer by forcing him into specific solutions but to just give the device all capabilities for connections which can be imagined will serve well. After seeing the many ways in which apple fucks the customers and google believe that they are not evil, i prefer companies selling me hardware (opposed to thinking of the Software they can put on the Hardware to "advertise" their services to me (or, in the case of Apple: force-feed me).
Yes. The biggest problem is that if the Product line does not make it for some reason their motivation for updates will be zero and since they would break the look and feel they imposed upon themselves by upgrading to the next standard version of android they even would not take the small cost of updating to the next android version (because the outcry of the customers would not be smaller).
Or you have to have spys in the Companies providing the parts. Siemens does not have a strong culture of being paranoid, especially not against western/pro-western secret services, with which they probably collaborate anyway when it comes to identifying industrial espionage from other services. I am pretty sure that the BND (German secret service) can ask them for plans and details quite openly (i guess you don't produce parts relevant for nuclear technology or military infrastructure without having liaison officer assigned to you), and probably also for the source code of the embedded SPS modules. For sure the same holds true for the manufacturer of the turbines. Since the Western secret services collaborate on an less prominent, informal level (see e.g. the BND agents in Baghdad during the war which reported back to the NATO headquarters, where obviously - no records exist - they helped clearing military targets in Iraq, despite Germany no being officially involved in the war).
I would guess that actually several secret services collaborated in this, but the "Cui Bono?" points to Israel.
China will be busy with settling internal Affairs (no - not Tibet and neither Taiwan; both are issues blown out of proportion by the US for political reasons.) and getting a stable modern country for another 50-100years. They are modernizing at an extreme rate, but in large parts of China there is still nothing (i.e. poor villages, no infrastructure, low income agricultural Jobs working like Farms in the US or in Europe would have 80 years ago).
Chinas top problems: 1) Stabilize the Demography of the cities 2) Stabilize the social development (e.g. they introduced a social insurance system recently) 3) Create better Jobs and increase the Salary of the poorer people 4) Manage the ethnic and religious conflicts in the northeast of China 5) Make the legal system working better (for Human rights reasons, but also for things like enhancing Trade and bigger investments from foreign countries)
Oh - and by the way: Should China not manage this, we all have a problem. Why do you think that the West complains about Tibet, but not so much about other regions in China with similar problems? Yes - because Tibet is actually quit unimportant...
yes, sometimes one may do so (urgent email during Holiday), but it should not be required.
I work in a physics lab and i do not bring (and buy) my own soldering iron. I do not buy and Autocad License to do the drawing at work. And if the multimeter at the company sucks i will not bring my private one (even if it would be better). I will go to my Boss and ask for the permission to buy what i need, and explain that if its not given the quality of my output will suffer. More often that not its approved in my experience, especially for hardware. If the way in which the approvals are decided is irrational (e.g. uninformed), it is usually to deeper problems of your boss with leadership (e.g. incompetence in delegating, weak guidance).
My former Boss usually said to me: "you are responsible for the detail, just tell me if you believe that some important Problem can be solved in a specific way, and explain briefly why you think so and why that is important. If we have the money and it solves the problem, do it" ()
My current Boss believes that he understand everything and delays thing where he does not understand the need of endlessly with irrational arguments. Things which he think he understand are bought easily even if they cost 10x more money thank what you asked for.
The funny think is that if i divide budget used per published journal article the ratio is in favor by roughly 20 to 1 for my former Boss (yes, i will leave soon).
The other option is: My company pays me at a freelancer rate, i bring my own stuff, do everything as i think it should be done and go. However i observe a discrepancy between the payment i get and the rate i would get as a freelancer. And this difference is exactly for the
please use and honour the TOS/DSCP/Traffic Class flags in IP packets. These seem to be there to avoid "bufferbloat"
Make high-latency, high-throughput, and high-reliability packets the users cost some fee and give the OS an indicator on which program requires how much money.
Bluettooth: Nice if they resolved that now - i'd say 4 years too late and i am not keeping track of which essential feature is added in each fw revision - as a normal co-user i only collide with the thing which should work, but dont. The last time i checked i was in trouble (to be precise: a Jabra 130 did not connect to the iphone of my GF in summer 2009. A BT keyboard not to the ipod of my trainee and neither to the iphone of my GF. and yes, they connected all other applicable devices i possess. A BT gps unit did not connect to the ipod of my trainee (for obvious reasosn i did not check that versus the iphone).
Vcards: the iphone is the only devices which does not react on vcards sent via BT from my phone. Anything else (from linux via android to S40 receives the card). I seem to be to stupid to find the function for sending it from the iphone (via bt).
Automatic configuration: i talked about the internet settings. Nokias have a "configuration wizard" which works with most sim cards and can extract internet APs automatically. Worked for me with at least 5 different providers - from poor development countries to premium providers. My GFs iphone makes trouble every time.
Trouble with EDGE/2g: -Some region in Guangzhou, where EDGE was recently upgraded - problems did not occur 1 year ago -Hongkong (even some unidentified trouble without EDGE, we resolved it by switching to 3g roaming - and only using in emergency) Symptom: Cant make calls/calls are dropped immediately
google for it, it seems some users in Canada and other places are also affected (it seems to have to do something with the inability to handle a call while packet data is active under certain circumstances, e.g. with recently upgraded edge towers). Since no other phone seems to have that problem, its *not acceptable*.
Its nice that apple recently eased the restriction on "no application shall replace what we deliver", but sorry guys, they did not guarantee this or something. They did that long after i made my buying decision.
To add another technical issue:iphones drain the battery on unstable cell networks. In the beginning you may think the behavior of Nokias (giving up after some time) is a bug, but i know quite a few iphone users who say its a feature (i happen to work in a building which is unhappily located in a small valley without coverage.) since their iphone drain the battery every day.
via bluetooth? tell me how and i will be grateful whenever i need to send a contact to my girlfriends phone. its practical when travelling from country to country without adjusting hte iphones internet setting manually (possible automatically in 1seconds on a nokia).
> Now, the entire process of establishing and maintaining a FaceTime connection is fairly complex and Apple has said that they will open the technology up to others at some point in the future
Uhm... right... fairly complex and will be opened up later. But it is nice that it contains some "open standards".
Vcards via bluetooth to any device - without involving any network.
There are two standards which are made for archiving/printing, where all the funny things are disabled and all the necessary thing are mandatory on board. How about not using the PDF standard when creating legal documents or other 100% perfect reproductions but PDF/A or PDF/X.
Everybody knows that PDF, as all formats which contain active (and nearly arbitrary) content are insecure.
My Girlfriend also has an iphone. I mean lets forget about fucked up blue tooth support, not being able to send vcards (as i have done from small device to small device since my first palm/mobile phone), and lets just accept that automatic configuration (which worked for me in all courntries i have been in recently) is a little bit complicated for a phone for approx. 500Euro). Lets also forget that video calls follow just apples standard.
But what really disappointed me in this incredibly immature device is that under certain conditions EDGE support from the mobile cell tower prevents making calls on the iphone (my nokia works fine at the same conditions). As long a a device call itself a phone thats an epic fail. (Oh yes, dear Steve, we tried to use an legally unlocked iphone with some provider who is not one of the customer-sucking premium provider you chose. We will ask you forgiveness when you present in the next keynote 'it took us a littl bit longer to get it right, but you you can place calls in all EDGE networks'.)
In the TOS Amazon also explicitly states that they will shut your service down if asked by an US official institution. Nothing about a court order or such. I guess that is to prevent costs for lawyers checking every request.
I guess the whole TOS of Amazon scream the following between the lines: Our main business is not web-hosting, let alone bullet-proof webhosting. We have computing centers which we had to build for other purposes. We are reselling the unused capacity really cheap, and many people liked it so we have a few more servers than we need. We do not like trouble for that. If you need a web-hoster who only takes you down after a court order we suggest you look for another one.
If you dont believe it, open your eyes. I saw them in: city administrations, insurances, university administrations. At many of these places the thin client runs a simple terminal applicaiton (up to around 2005 these places often had real terminals) to access the terminal-based solution (often more efficient than "web 2.0", especially when operated by somebody who knows the right key combinations since 20 years), plus now having the advantage of reading a word document if something slightly non-standard happens (and instead of filing a typewritter-written letter it now goes in the database), or of sending an email.
In short: People whose work requires only very well defined form of interaction and not watching videos.
Kids are Kids. They should play. The more they play the better. They can learn basic first, then the others.
While i personally always would use an opamp at work to build a precision measurement amplifier, if i had a kid i would start to teach them electronics by building a simple amplifier using one transistor or two.
So for sure you can tell me what the difference between the "roku box" and "any arbitrary linux" is? (I give you the small hint that the initial creation of a software by no way is the total cost)
I am pretty sure Netflix looks to Ubuntu to decide when the time is right to put out an Ubuntu client.
probably because they estimate that the cost per supported customer would shrink the revenue to 0. *I* would be willing to pay for a linux client and *I* would be willing to pay 50% more for being able to use linux. However taken the reaction which slashdot and parts of the FOSS community have towards things like that i would not want to invest enough in marketing to overcome the negative publicity by sensationalist biased slashdot article. I would rather think that doing something like that (providing a linux client for a price which covers the costs) would actually drive away customers due to the "they are making us pay more when using Linux" argument, which exposes that more than "oh, they dont have a linux client".
To many layers are always bad. be it when wrapping stuff in programming to distribute the responsibility between the different abstractions or when managing.
The funny thing is: Project leader/Manager is a fucking hard Job, if done right.
a) balance the team internally: Stressful because balancing means stepping on somebodies toes.
b) meet the deadline: stressful because driving the team is stepping on sombodies toes. missing the deadline despite of that mean that management steps on the own toes.
c) Organize the transition between projects: either involves working twice as much for some time or being seen as a failure.
Lets be realistic. Nobody wants to do that Job, if not for money or power.
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> Wait.. is that guy using traceroute to see other people's "Ip addresses"
Have you never looked inside a router? Little Gnomes in every router, all watching in the same direction when a packet comes along. Thats why they are looking at the same website....
I saw that when i was in China and Indonesia.
What kind of stupid article is that?
Nokia's market share for smartphones may be dropping but that is happening since they started to sell the Nokia 9000 communicator (Yes that thing could send email at a time when most people may just have heard of the net). Nokia is always having a few trial phones (e.g. the Nokia 9000 was one) to figure out if it works well, and then may decide for a radical switch in the second model (e,g, the 9210 switch to symbian), or trash the series. They have done that now with the N800/N900, so i think they will now pack the experiences frome these devices into a new one. The fact that some often sold symbian phones do not qualify as smart phones is no reason to write the platform off prematurely. I also have an Android device and i like it; however some things, e.g. the "everthing need to be linked to your gmail accocunt" idea to work correctly (e.g. sync/backup) is a little exaggerated. I already discovered some annoying things which my Nokia E61 from End of 2006 does, but my Android 2.2 device doesnt (connecting to an ad-hoc wireless network, using the PC via USB to conenct to the net - and yes there are situations when i dont need additional complications, namely when travelling. The E61 i still use connetc to everything to which it can connect).
I believe that meego paired with the philosophy of Nokia not to try to fuck the customer by forcing him into specific solutions but to just give the device all capabilities for connections which can be imagined will serve well. After seeing the many ways in which apple fucks the customers and google believe that they are not evil, i prefer companies selling me hardware (opposed to thinking of the Software they can put on the Hardware to "advertise" their services to me (or, in the case of Apple: force-feed me).
I think helping the secret service very motivated will help with the paperwork for the next export.
Yes. The biggest problem is that if the Product line does not make it for some reason their motivation for updates will be zero and since they would break the look and feel they imposed upon themselves by upgrading to the next standard version of android they even would not take the small cost of updating to the next android version (because the outcry of the customers would not be smaller).
Or you have to have spys in the Companies providing the parts. Siemens does not have a strong culture of being paranoid, especially not against western/pro-western secret services, with which they probably collaborate anyway when it comes to identifying industrial espionage from other services. I am pretty sure that the BND (German secret service) can ask them for plans and details quite openly (i guess you don't produce parts relevant for nuclear technology or military infrastructure without having liaison officer assigned to you), and probably also for the source code of the embedded SPS modules. For sure the same holds true for the manufacturer of the turbines. Since the Western secret services collaborate on an less prominent, informal level (see e.g. the BND agents in Baghdad during the war which reported back to the NATO headquarters, where obviously - no records exist - they helped clearing military targets in Iraq, despite Germany no being officially involved in the war).
I would guess that actually several secret services collaborated in this, but the "Cui Bono?" points to Israel.
China will be busy with settling internal Affairs (no - not Tibet and neither Taiwan; both are issues blown out of proportion by the US for political reasons.) and getting a stable modern country for another 50-100years. They are modernizing at an extreme rate, but in large parts of China there is still nothing (i.e. poor villages, no infrastructure, low income agricultural Jobs working like Farms in the US or in Europe would have 80 years ago).
Chinas top problems:
1) Stabilize the Demography of the cities
2) Stabilize the social development (e.g. they introduced a social insurance system recently)
3) Create better Jobs and increase the Salary of the poorer people
4) Manage the ethnic and religious conflicts in the northeast of China
5) Make the legal system working better (for Human rights reasons, but also for things like enhancing Trade and bigger investments from foreign countries)
Oh - and by the way: Should China not manage this, we all have a problem. Why do you think that the West complains about Tibet, but not so much about other regions in China with similar problems? Yes - because Tibet is actually quit unimportant...
yes, sometimes one may do so (urgent email during Holiday), but it should not be required.
I work in a physics lab and i do not bring (and buy) my own soldering iron. I do not buy and Autocad License to do the drawing at work. And if the multimeter at the company sucks i will not bring my private one (even if it would be better). I will go to my Boss and ask for the permission to buy what i need, and explain that if its not given the quality of my output will suffer. More often that not its approved in my experience, especially for hardware. If the way in which the approvals are decided is irrational (e.g. uninformed), it is usually to deeper problems of your boss with leadership (e.g. incompetence in delegating, weak guidance).
My former Boss usually said to me: "you are responsible for the detail, just tell me if you believe that some important Problem can be solved in a specific way, and explain briefly why you think so and why that is important. If we have the money and it solves the problem, do it" ()
My current Boss believes that he understand everything and delays thing where he does not understand the need of endlessly with irrational arguments. Things which he think he understand are bought easily even if they cost 10x more money thank what you asked for.
The funny think is that if i divide budget used per published journal article the ratio is in favor by roughly 20 to 1 for my former Boss (yes, i will leave soon).
The other option is: My company pays me at a freelancer rate, i bring my own stuff, do everything as i think it should be done and go. However i observe a discrepancy between the payment i get and the rate i would get as a freelancer. And this difference is exactly for the
please use and honour the TOS/DSCP/Traffic Class flags in IP packets. These seem to be there to avoid "bufferbloat"
Make high-latency, high-throughput, and high-reliability packets the users cost some fee and give the OS an indicator on which program requires how much money.
Good question. I always think acroread displaying a document as pdf/a should be enough.
The iphone of my gf is an iphone 3gs, i think.
Bluettooth: Nice if they resolved that now - i'd say 4 years too late and i am not keeping track of which essential feature is added in each fw revision - as a normal co-user i only collide with the thing which should work, but dont. The last time i checked i was in trouble (to be precise: a Jabra 130 did not connect to the iphone of my GF in summer 2009. A BT keyboard not to the ipod of my trainee and neither to the iphone of my GF. and yes, they connected all other applicable devices i possess. A BT gps unit did not connect to the ipod of my trainee (for obvious reasosn i did not check that versus the iphone).
Vcards: the iphone is the only devices which does not react on vcards sent via BT from my phone. Anything else (from linux via android to S40 receives the card). I seem to be to stupid to find the function for sending it from the iphone (via bt).
Automatic configuration: i talked about the internet settings. Nokias have a "configuration wizard" which works with most sim cards and can extract internet APs automatically. Worked for me with at least 5 different providers - from poor development countries to premium providers. My GFs iphone makes trouble every time.
Trouble with EDGE/2g:
-Some region in Guangzhou, where EDGE was recently upgraded - problems did not occur 1 year ago
-Hongkong (even some unidentified trouble without EDGE, we resolved it by switching to 3g roaming - and only using in emergency)
Symptom: Cant make calls/calls are dropped immediately
google for it, it seems some users in Canada and other places are also affected (it seems to have to do something with the inability to handle a call while packet data is active under certain circumstances, e.g. with recently upgraded edge towers). Since no other phone seems to have that problem, its *not acceptable*.
Its nice that apple recently eased the restriction on "no application shall replace what we deliver", but sorry guys, they did not guarantee this or something. They did that long after i made my buying decision.
To add another technical issue:iphones drain the battery on unstable cell networks. In the beginning you may think the behavior of Nokias (giving up after some time) is a bug, but i know quite a few iphone users who say its a feature (i happen to work in a building which is unhappily located in a small valley without coverage.) since their iphone drain the battery every day.
via bluetooth? tell me how and i will be grateful whenever i need to send a contact to my girlfriends phone. its practical when travelling from country to country without adjusting hte iphones internet setting manually (possible automatically in 1seconds on a nokia).
> Now, the entire process of establishing and maintaining a FaceTime connection is fairly complex and Apple has said that they will open the technology up to others at some point in the future
Uhm... right... fairly complex and will be opened up later. But it is nice that it contains some "open standards".
Vcards via bluetooth to any device - without involving any network.
There are two standards which are made for archiving/printing, where all the funny things are disabled and all the necessary thing are mandatory on board. How about not using the PDF standard when creating legal documents or other 100% perfect reproductions but PDF/A or PDF/X.
Everybody knows that PDF, as all formats which contain active (and nearly arbitrary) content are insecure.
My Girlfriend also has an iphone. I mean lets forget about fucked up blue tooth support, not being able to send vcards (as i have done from small device to small device since my first palm/mobile phone), and lets just accept that automatic configuration (which worked for me in all courntries i have been in recently) is a little bit complicated for a phone for approx. 500Euro). Lets also forget that video calls follow just apples standard.
But what really disappointed me in this incredibly immature device is that under certain conditions EDGE support from the mobile cell tower prevents making calls on the iphone (my nokia works fine at the same conditions). As long a a device call itself a phone thats an epic fail. (Oh yes, dear Steve, we tried to use an legally unlocked iphone with some provider who is not one of the customer-sucking premium provider you chose. We will ask you forgiveness when you present in the next keynote 'it took us a littl bit longer to get it right, but you you can place calls in all EDGE networks'.)
to
a) Not use the Internet while in class
b) Not play any animation while in class
c) Select Notebook Models with a decent low noise of the keyboard
d) Strictly use their notebooks for note taking, and possibly looking up old lectures.
People doing something else would be welcome to watch the powerpoint presentation whenever and wherever they want.
In the TOS Amazon also explicitly states that they will shut your service down if asked by an US official institution. Nothing about a court order or such. I guess that is to prevent costs for lawyers checking every request.
I guess the whole TOS of Amazon scream the following between the lines: Our main business is not web-hosting, let alone bullet-proof webhosting. We have computing centers which we had to build for other purposes. We are reselling the unused capacity really cheap, and many people liked it so we have a few more servers than we need. We do not like trouble for that. If you need a web-hoster who only takes you down after a court order we suggest you look for another one.
If you dont believe it, open your eyes. I saw them in: city administrations, insurances, university administrations. At many of these places the thin client runs a simple terminal applicaiton (up to around 2005 these places often had real terminals) to access the terminal-based solution (often more efficient than "web 2.0", especially when operated by somebody who knows the right key combinations since 20 years), plus now having the advantage of reading a word document if something slightly non-standard happens (and instead of filing a typewritter-written letter it now goes in the database), or of sending an email.
In short: People whose work requires only very well defined form of interaction and not watching videos.
Kids are Kids. They should play. The more they play the better. They can learn basic first, then the others.
While i personally always would use an opamp at work to build a precision measurement amplifier, if i had a kid i would start to teach them electronics by building a simple amplifier using one transistor or two.
Any organization with 50 people or more should consider the network compromised an segment it into isolated sections (That is VPNs not VLANs).
Can anybody explain the long-term business model of twitter?
So for sure you can tell me what the difference between the "roku box" and "any arbitrary linux" is? (I give you the small hint that the initial creation of a software by no way is the total cost)
I am pretty sure Netflix looks to Ubuntu to decide when the time is right to put out an Ubuntu client.
probably because they estimate that the cost per supported customer would shrink the revenue to 0. *I* would be willing to pay for a linux client and *I* would be willing to pay 50% more for being able to use linux. However taken the reaction which slashdot and parts of the FOSS community have towards things like that i would not want to invest enough in marketing to overcome the negative publicity by sensationalist biased slashdot article. I would rather think that doing something like that (providing a linux client for a price which covers the costs) would actually drive away customers due to the "they are making us pay more when using Linux" argument, which exposes that more than "oh, they dont have a linux client".
Non they did not. You must be wrong. If there was an mistake in the press statement of Amazon it is for sure corrected now.
To many layers are always bad. be it when wrapping stuff in programming to distribute the responsibility between the different abstractions or when managing.
The funny thing is: Project leader/Manager is a fucking hard Job, if done right.
a) balance the team internally: Stressful because balancing means stepping on somebodies toes.
b) meet the deadline: stressful because driving the team is stepping on sombodies toes. missing the deadline despite of that mean that management steps on the own toes.
c) Organize the transition between projects: either involves working twice as much for some time or being seen as a failure.
Lets be realistic. Nobody wants to do that Job, if not for money or power.