Well, first and foremost China do not have a large oil lobby working hard to kill anything sustainable.
With 1300w/m2 incoming energy solar power is pretty darn good source of energy since its a passive source of energy if using photovoltics. Why the US is trying to warp solar power into heat plants running turbines i do not understand, must be some sort of compensation for small dicks or something.
Fusion is a pipe dream not really worth pursuing right now other than for scientific research.
The mistake people do is judging things out of their own personally perceived context without taking into account that the context itself can change thanks to the product. The internet itself changed our way of communicating in a way that was very hard to predict.
You cant really look at all products with only today's timeslice of our society in mind and expect to be right on the money.
This means there will be much less paid astroturfing on the internet and the ubuntu forums etc pushing for Mono when nobody really wants it. Mono wont come within ten miles of any server or desktop i manage.
Most people are pretty oblivious to Mono but those who are hate it, except for the new burger flippers they just sacked from Novell and Miquel de Microsoft.
I dont think the conspiracie crackpots are getting any better. Its just the release of old CIA and other intelligence records in conjunction with the Wikileaks cables that has shown us all reality being pretty much fscked up beyond most of our imaginations. What many discarded as total tinfoil dilerium back in the 70's was infact true to the letter but still in total opposition with normal media outlets at the time. When reading the wikileaks cables, its even more obvious since they hadnt been filtered and redacted before release.
Why not? Trust is something that slowly builds up. Anyone can earn trust but it sometimes takes a very long time, especially in times like these when you are in aboslute minoroty.
Many revelations in later years have show us that the news establishment don't care for the truth at all. Many of the things reveled in the wikileaks cables was known but not reported. The war against Iraq was totally baseless but nobody seemed to care in the media. All they did was distributing what officials told them, without even bothering a simple fact check. All in all i think the problem described comes from the total lack of moral fiber in the media.
When you know almost everybody is lying to you, its only human to be drawn to news you think sounds most plausible.
If you read the filing over at groklaw you see that the terms are anything but reasonable. Another thing that stands out is how intent they seem at keeping these deals secret. If the other companies that has already taken the license band together i really think they have a solid case against Microsoft and ample chance of getting huge damages because of lost sales and being forced to pay unreasonable amounts.
For starters, how about reasonable terms and prices? The terms seems very awkward, the licensees only get to use a specific version of Android.
This for a price that is double the per unit price of Windows Phone 7.
You either use WP7 for half the price of a per device patent license, or get stuck in a very awkward position where updating your phones to newer versions of Android becomes a very difficult and cumbersome process involving Microsoft, or you license WP7 instead, from Microsoft. This can actually be one of the reasons HTC and Samsung seems so reluctant to upgrade their phones. If thats not stifling innovation i dont know what is.
No, its really not uncommon. Sweden have a very large group of immigrants, more than 13% of its population is born outside Sweden according to official statistics.
Sorry about that, i was thinking about the fig leaf of peace. I'm also a Swede and English is my third language.
Corporations go into battle (or cooperation) with Microsoft with the best of intentions while MS only has one goal, to kill them. Barnes and Noble is one of the first that dares to take Microsoft head on. Since everyone else has lost against Microsoft their way is proven not working so it will be interesting to see how it works doing a full counter attack.
In Microsofts case i imagine the problem lies more with their reputation than their product. WP7 is behind the times, lacks many basic functions people take for granted in a smartphone and are just a "me too" product.
But, their biggest problem is that people regard Microsoft as a backwards, boring and utterly crappy company unable to release good products. Anyone who ever used a Windows Mobile Phone shy away from WP7 like a beaten dog from a stick. Anyone who has used Windows more or less expect WP7 being about as interesting as Windows 7 or Vista. The brand Microsoft is tarnished to the point almost no marketing in the world can save it.
We have over the years seen giants like even IBM carefully thread around Microsoft, pussyfooting while Microsoft uses a chainmail. Its very refreshing to see Barnes and Noble taking the leaf out of their mouth and speak out, saying what everyone already thinks but wouldnt dare say.
If this keeps up, the discovery phase could be very interesting. Imagine getting subpoenas out to Motorola, HTC, Samsung and the others being extorted for specifics about their collisions with Microsoft? I would imagine that being of enormous interest to the EU and the DOJ.
I have a really hard time caring about Windows 7. XP does what i want and i cant find any compelling reason to switch to Win7. Windows 8 would have to be orders of magnitudes better for me to care, and with 100% backwards compability. Something that seriously collides with the ARM support talk from Microsoft. Either MS is about to ditch win32, emulate win32 or Windows 8 is in reality a number of different operating systems with the same name slapped onto them.
Why do i have the feeling this is just a pre alpha concept that needs tons of work before it will even be considered for use? If Microsoft had enormous problems getting Vista out the door and had to ditch almost all improvements on the way id sure would like to know what has happened with their arcane build process that makes it possible to do radical stuff like this within a five year timespan.
I hereby predict that Duke Nukem Forever will be released before Windows 8.
Manning will be considered a hero in time, if not for his release then it will be for being the tinder lighting the fire under the US backed Dictators in the middle east. Once it was proven those had backroom dealings in total opposition to common views in their own countries, they were toast.
China is very much lending money to the US. Calling it a good investment is pretty funny considering the US is on the brink of economic collapse. China needs the US economy, much because the US has dismantled its own factories and because of this imports an insane amount of goods.
When China overtakes the US i for one will worry. A country without money or power but access to boatloads of weapons is something to really worry about, much more so than a shitty backwater country like Iran that seems pretty happy sitting in its own corner without bothering everyone like the US does (as the wikileaks release shows with painful clarity).
Im curious about their setup and config as i cant reproduce the same problem myself. Would be fun to find out how to mitigate the problem and release a nice workaround for others to use.
And i agree that its pretty strange Princeton has such problems with a service most of us just fix (implement a workaround) when a new problem comes up and continue our lives.
I would be very surprised if there wasn't any workaround available for this exact problem, which is my main point. Yes its perhaps a bug and yes the sky is falling but frankly, is it to much to ask that a network engineer be a network engineer and not just a button monkey reading rfcs and manuals to the letter?
My point is that no matter who is to blame its wrong to put the users of the network in the hot seat. Implement a workaround, notify Google and don't punish the owners of the devices unless absolutely necessary.
Im very familiar with how DHCP is supposed to work but kicking users out of a network just to prove a point would put me on line in the unemployment office in no time unless i had a very good reason and no usable workaround existed.
I dont know why they have such short lease times as 1-3 hours but i do know it often creates problems, especially if the reason for the short leases are lack of addresses on the subnet in question. In that case you have to chose between address conflicts or lack of a sufficient pool of avaliable addresses.
One of the problems seems to be that the lease times are shorter than most phones are in sleep mode and the easiest remedy would be extending the lease time for the affected Android devices. Banning them are just a knee jerk reaction that puts the users in the unpleasant position of being a battering ram against Google.
Personally i have never seen this behavior from an Android device, perhaps it has a connection to a specific DHCP implemenation. If an AD is connected it could very well be related to the DNS service as well. We have tons of problems with our AD connected DHCP/DNS combo for all kinds of non-windows devices, not only Linux based. Said problems do not show up on other DHCP servers with the same clients.
Steadily, stealthy? They've been screaming and ranting about it for a decade but has so far gotten nowhere despite numerous attempts. Their only advantage over other platforms are their win32 API and all the applications written for it. Take that away and you have a failed MS product.
If Win8 on ARM lacks full support for win32 its dead on arrival. That backwards compability is what makes the whole project next to impossible. The biggest error Microsoft can do is to scrap their only advantage over other platforms, the applications barrier. At the same time, thats the single most difficult issue to solve.
I have a strong suspicion this is really just IE10 running on Windows CE7. The road towards bringing Windows 8 onto ARM is a very long and hard path, unless all backwards compability is tossed out the window.
It actually seems like Windows 8 will be atleast two different platforms with one or two common development enviroments. One separate platform for ARM and a fundamentally different one for x64, and another beast for WP7 phones that shares some similarities with the ARM version.
As always when it comes to Microsoft much water will run under the bridges and many features will be scrapped before we see the real products so its not much use speculating yet.
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Well, first and foremost China do not have a large oil lobby working hard to kill anything sustainable.
With 1300w/m2 incoming energy solar power is pretty darn good source of energy since its a passive source of energy if using photovoltics. Why the US is trying to warp solar power into heat plants running turbines i do not understand, must be some sort of compensation for small dicks or something.
Fusion is a pipe dream not really worth pursuing right now other than for scientific research.
The mistake people do is judging things out of their own personally perceived context without taking into account that the context itself can change thanks to the product. The internet itself changed our way of communicating in a way that was very hard to predict.
You cant really look at all products with only today's timeslice of our society in mind and expect to be right on the money.
This means there will be much less paid astroturfing on the internet and the ubuntu forums etc pushing for Mono when nobody really wants it. Mono wont come within ten miles of any server or desktop i manage.
Most people are pretty oblivious to Mono but those who are hate it, except for the new burger flippers they just sacked from Novell and Miquel de Microsoft.
I dont think the conspiracie crackpots are getting any better. Its just the release of old CIA and other intelligence records in conjunction with the Wikileaks cables that has shown us all reality being pretty much fscked up beyond most of our imaginations. What many discarded as total tinfoil dilerium back in the 70's was infact true to the letter but still in total opposition with normal media outlets at the time. When reading the wikileaks cables, its even more obvious since they hadnt been filtered and redacted before release.
Why not? Trust is something that slowly builds up. Anyone can earn trust but it sometimes takes a very long time, especially in times like these when you are in aboslute minoroty.
Many revelations in later years have show us that the news establishment don't care for the truth at all. Many of the things reveled in the wikileaks cables was known but not reported. The war against Iraq was totally baseless but nobody seemed to care in the media. All they did was distributing what officials told them, without even bothering a simple fact check. All in all i think the problem described comes from the total lack of moral fiber in the media.
When you know almost everybody is lying to you, its only human to be drawn to news you think sounds most plausible.
SMTP is more or less a whitehat spam operation. /. says -"yay spam!" ?
If you read the filing over at groklaw you see that the terms are anything but reasonable. Another thing that stands out is how intent they seem at keeping these deals secret. If the other companies that has already taken the license band together i really think they have a solid case against Microsoft and ample chance of getting huge damages because of lost sales and being forced to pay unreasonable amounts.
For starters, how about reasonable terms and prices? The terms seems very awkward, the licensees only get to use a specific version of Android.
This for a price that is double the per unit price of Windows Phone 7.
You either use WP7 for half the price of a per device patent license, or get stuck in a very awkward position where updating your phones to newer versions of Android becomes a very difficult and cumbersome process involving Microsoft, or you license WP7 instead, from Microsoft. This can actually be one of the reasons HTC and Samsung seems so reluctant to upgrade their phones. If thats not stifling innovation i dont know what is.
No, its really not uncommon. Sweden have a very large group of immigrants, more than 13% of its population is born outside Sweden according to official statistics.
Well, one funny aspect is that Microsoft charges more per device for a couple of vague patents than they charge for the entire Windows Phone 7.
It would be bad enough if it was priced at a similar price as WP7 but double the price?
Sorry about that, i was thinking about the fig leaf of peace. I'm also a Swede and English is my third language.
Corporations go into battle (or cooperation) with Microsoft with the best of intentions while MS only has one goal, to kill them. Barnes and Noble is one of the first that dares to take Microsoft head on. Since everyone else has lost against Microsoft their way is proven not working so it will be interesting to see how it works doing a full counter attack.
In Microsofts case i imagine the problem lies more with their reputation than their product. WP7 is behind the times, lacks many basic functions people take for granted in a smartphone and are just a "me too" product.
But, their biggest problem is that people regard Microsoft as a backwards, boring and utterly crappy company unable to release good products. Anyone who ever used a Windows Mobile Phone shy away from WP7 like a beaten dog from a stick. Anyone who has used Windows more or less expect WP7 being about as interesting as Windows 7 or Vista. The brand Microsoft is tarnished to the point almost no marketing in the world can save it.
We have over the years seen giants like even IBM carefully thread around Microsoft, pussyfooting while Microsoft uses a chainmail. Its very refreshing to see Barnes and Noble taking the leaf out of their mouth and speak out, saying what everyone already thinks but wouldnt dare say.
If this keeps up, the discovery phase could be very interesting. Imagine getting subpoenas out to Motorola, HTC, Samsung and the others being extorted for specifics about their collisions with Microsoft? I would imagine that being of enormous interest to the EU and the DOJ.
I have a really hard time caring about Windows 7. XP does what i want and i cant find any compelling reason to switch to Win7. Windows 8 would have to be orders of magnitudes better for me to care, and with 100% backwards compability. Something that seriously collides with the ARM support talk from Microsoft. Either MS is about to ditch win32, emulate win32 or Windows 8 is in reality a number of different operating systems with the same name slapped onto them.
Why do i have the feeling this is just a pre alpha concept that needs tons of work before it will even be considered for use? If Microsoft had enormous problems getting Vista out the door and had to ditch almost all improvements on the way id sure would like to know what has happened with their arcane build process that makes it possible to do radical stuff like this within a five year timespan.
I hereby predict that Duke Nukem Forever will be released before Windows 8.
Manning will be considered a hero in time, if not for his release then it will be for being the tinder lighting the fire under the US backed Dictators in the middle east. Once it was proven those had backroom dealings in total opposition to common views in their own countries, they were toast.
China is very much lending money to the US. Calling it a good investment is pretty funny considering the US is on the brink of economic collapse. China needs the US economy, much because the US has dismantled its own factories and because of this imports an insane amount of goods.
When China overtakes the US i for one will worry. A country without money or power but access to boatloads of weapons is something to really worry about, much more so than a shitty backwater country like Iran that seems pretty happy sitting in its own corner without bothering everyone like the US does (as the wikileaks release shows with painful clarity).
Im curious about their setup and config as i cant reproduce the same problem myself. Would be fun to find out how to mitigate the problem and release a nice workaround for others to use.
And i agree that its pretty strange Princeton has such problems with a service most of us just fix (implement a workaround) when a new problem comes up and continue our lives.
I would be very surprised if there wasn't any workaround available for this exact problem, which is my main point. Yes its perhaps a bug and yes the sky is falling but frankly, is it to much to ask that a network engineer be a network engineer and not just a button monkey reading rfcs and manuals to the letter?
You mean you dont kick your customers off of the net for having buggy clients? How quaint!
Sersiously, i have the exact same view as you. You fix things instead of putting the users in the rough. Princeton could use your services =)
My point is that no matter who is to blame its wrong to put the users of the network in the hot seat. Implement a workaround, notify Google and don't punish the owners of the devices unless absolutely necessary.
Im very familiar with how DHCP is supposed to work but kicking users out of a network just to prove a point would put me on line in the unemployment office in no time unless i had a very good reason and no usable workaround existed.
I dont know why they have such short lease times as 1-3 hours but i do know it often creates problems, especially if the reason for the short leases are lack of addresses on the subnet in question. In that case you have to chose between address conflicts or lack of a sufficient pool of avaliable addresses.
One of the problems seems to be that the lease times are shorter than most phones are in sleep mode and the easiest remedy would be extending the lease time for the affected Android devices. Banning them are just a knee jerk reaction that puts the users in the unpleasant position of being a battering ram against Google.
Personally i have never seen this behavior from an Android device, perhaps it has a connection to a specific DHCP implemenation. If an AD is connected it could very well be related to the DNS service as well. We have tons of problems with our AD connected DHCP/DNS combo for all kinds of non-windows devices, not only Linux based. Said problems do not show up on other DHCP servers with the same clients.
Steadily, stealthy? They've been screaming and ranting about it for a decade but has so far gotten nowhere despite numerous attempts. Their only advantage over other platforms are their win32 API and all the applications written for it. Take that away and you have a failed MS product.
If Win8 on ARM lacks full support for win32 its dead on arrival. That backwards compability is what makes the whole project next to impossible. The biggest error Microsoft can do is to scrap their only advantage over other platforms, the applications barrier. At the same time, thats the single most difficult issue to solve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Embedded_Compact_7
I have a strong suspicion this is really just IE10 running on Windows CE7. The road towards bringing Windows 8 onto ARM is a very long and hard path, unless all backwards compability is tossed out the window.
It actually seems like Windows 8 will be atleast two different platforms with one or two common development enviroments. One separate platform for ARM and a fundamentally different one for x64, and another beast for WP7 phones that shares some similarities with the ARM version.
As always when it comes to Microsoft much water will run under the bridges and many features will be scrapped before we see the real products so its not much use speculating yet.