An important factor in innovation is the constraints applied. If you have infinite time, or infinite money, or infinite ingenuity, then you will not need to innovate.
Instead, what will happen here is that innovators will be focused on doing it in timely and a relatively inexpensive manner, which is probably one of the prize's hidden goals.
"Sharp seems to build their entire handheld software on Java"
How did you come to this conclusion??? Most of their software is based on Qt/Embedded and QPE, which is all C++ compiled to natively run on a StrongARM processor!
Many people are talking about lots of uses for this thing, but nothing yet struck me as in: "yeah, if it can do this, it will really make a difference"...
any examples?
This doesn't sound right to me. It would be hard for a wireless service to succeed, if one of their requirements is that you drive while using the network!!
Ricochet service is a radio service, it doesn't require a line of sight (that would be something line Irda).
But I agree with you that it's not fixed wireless, but mobile wireless, based on industry definitions of those terms.
Wireless is going to cause a revolution in our societies, geeks will start to mingle with normal people in the living rooms, and our world will change forever:-)
Well, that is exactly what they are hoping, that you have been affected enough by the attack for them to pass what they want from under your nose, with you thinking it's the right thing to do.
"Remember, the government wouldn't be watching you if it didn't have suspicions about you doing something wrong in the first place"
Suspicion is not enough to strip you of more and more of your civil rights. What if you are innocent, which is very possible, then you would have lost your privacy and few other civil rights because of "suspicion".
And if you are an associate of a terrorist, tough. You should be shadowed too, until proven innocent
Does that translate to "You should be guilty, until proven innocent"?
No, a terrorist is another criminal, some might argue that it's on another level, but that's not the point here. And what you are saying is that everyone associated with a crimial qualify to loose their civil rights!
Well... you are right, but they are faster and consume less power because they don't need to be constantly refreshed like DRAM (S for static and D for dynamic).
Which means that for some of the dream drives that the guys are talking about, you wouldn't need much power to keep it up until you store all of the data to a harddisk or some other permanent storage media.
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Instead, what will happen here is that innovators will be focused on doing it in timely and a relatively inexpensive manner, which is probably one of the prize's hidden goals.
so you did RTFA???
and the IIS isn't completed yet
I knew this smelled like conspiracy.. this is Bush's grand scheme to divert the public money to fund M$ projects
"Sharp seems to build their entire handheld software on Java"
How did you come to this conclusion??? Most of their software is based on Qt/Embedded and QPE, which is all C++ compiled to natively run on a StrongARM processor!
that the US will now get a HongKong-like statue? that would be funny :-)
Many people are talking about lots of uses for this thing, but nothing yet struck me as in: "yeah, if it can do this, it will really make a difference"... any examples?
This doesn't sound right to me. It would be hard for a wireless service to succeed, if one of their requirements is that you drive while using the network!!
Ricochet service is a radio service, it doesn't require a line of sight (that would be something line Irda).
But I agree with you that it's not fixed wireless, but mobile wireless, based on industry definitions of those terms.
Wireless is going to cause a revolution in our societies, geeks will start to mingle with normal people in the living rooms, and our world will change forever :-)
Well... you are right, but they are faster and consume less power because they don't need to be constantly refreshed like DRAM (S for static and D for dynamic). Which means that for some of the dream drives that the guys are talking about, you wouldn't need much power to keep it up until you store all of the data to a harddisk or some other permanent storage media.