One of the biggest challenges facing the mobile phone operators is the continued non-adoption of global standards in the States. From one hand this means the States is the world's wireless backwater, but from the other the most valuable single market is too important to miss.
If the States creates its own standards yet again then this will increase development costs for the phone manufacturers.
However as it is estimated at 2 years at least before the States get a sniff at 3G it could be that the rest of the world will be too far ahead.
Its a quote from "To kill a Mockingbird" which is a top book. Writing in the general fashion makes either yourself or the writer of a modern literary classic look foolish....
Bit of a strange thing to do considering Toshiba were one of the original investors, but hey, thats corps for you
"Hey thats corps" what is this supposed to mean. Toshiba have one of the best hardware R&D arms around and were as stated one of the people behind Transmeta.
How about this for an idea....
Transmeta is good, but not that good, its not a revolution its just pretty good. The hype accorded to Transmeta is way out of kilter with its proven ability. Look at ARM, years of deployment from StrongARM 64 bit in servers down to hand-helds. So what have Transmeta actually DONE ? Very little indeed and yet judging by the hype hear on Slashdot they are the successor to Intel, they will triumph, their technology is much better than anyone elses.
Now look at how Microsoft hyped Win2K before and after its release. Do you see a difference ? The only one I see is that MS have delivered something.
While I applaud and Mozilla effort it is a shame that the newer browsers and the old all appear to require an excessive amount of if statements for the pages to all work the same. Plaudits to Slashdot for sticking with 3.2 but many sites suffer from code like the following:
browserName = navigator.appName;
browserVer = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
var browseR = "bad";
if (browserName == "Netscape" && browserVer >= 3)
browseR = "good";
if (browserVer >= 4)
browseR = "good";
And the rise of WAP has increased the problems. Roll on the days of XML and XSLT and at least things will be easier to manipulate even if they are still working differently.
Umm so we replace the JVM with "an embedded Linux version" so we are still using Java here as a programing language I'd assume.
Jini is far from dead, just because a press release doesn't mention Jini doesn't mean it won't be using it. The press release didn't mention using the english language but I'd be will to bet Ericsson will support it.
Probably nothing. Right now everyone is going wireless (With good reason) and looking at the best way forward. Linux has a large set of developer support which will help them in any sphere, but equally Symbian have the expertise and the parteners to work.
Personally (oh how dare I) I think that Symbian with their wealth of experience in this market are in a better position than Red Hat. What ever happens however one thing is pretty much for sure:
The wireless future belongs to Europe, its there that the next generation of communication devices will be deployed and developed. Especially with the hold up to G3 phones in the States.
Why is this news ? Surely this is exactly the same as insuring a standard company against burglary ?
Its just another case where everyone is suprised because the eWorld is the same as the normal world.
To use the real world, basic security is important, but investment in a patrolled compound to protect a pizza parlour is excessive, while spending $100 on insurance per year makes pretty good sense.
There is no "e" or "v" world, there is this world.
If you are aiming to make this work over the next few years then you need to look at broadband and IPv6. Current IPv4 and lowbandwith connections are worse than a current phone service. With the advent of IPv6 on the next generation of mobile phones the question also has to be asked...
Why bother ? If a mobile phone has perfect voice and a 2Mbps peak bandwith, why use a bulky PC ?
(NB this applies to Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, its probably not appropriate in the wireless backwaters of the world:-)
I know this sounds strange but when I'm looking at designing a high transaction application or site I don't even LOOK at Windows or Linux. Does it suprise me that Linux doesn't scale to the enterprise market ? No, its written by individuals for lowish demand systems that they require, rather than by Company A who is implementing for Company B something that will cost several million pounds of development.
These sort of tests are IMO unfair to Linux. Should you use NT/W2K or Linux for your high transaction application/site ? The choice is more normally "Should I use True64, AIX or Solaris ?".
Linux works great for me as a webserver, as a client who takes a limited number of hits at a cheap price. If you want to scale you buy more boxes.
On the back end use a large end server with lots of RAM that has a massive IO throughput.
Does Linux really want to compete at the levels of AIX and Solaris ? Why not go for the niche, of cheap, reliable, and easy to scale horizontally.
Newspapers, millions of pieces of information and they act as the filter to you. Read alot of newspapers from all over the globe and get all of the information.
This isn't a new idea, this is an old idea with the word "Open" put infront of it.
Just because people put an "e" or "Open" or any other buzzword of the day infront of a word doesn't mean that the concept or actions have changed.
Trusted, Assured, Safety Critical, these are all areas where IMO Open Source won't work. They require a level of discipline and upfront analysis and design that doesn't merge well with release early and often. OSS creates great software for large user bases, however it tends to create products rather than enterprise applications.
The key to trusted, assured or Safety Critical is the specification. You must know in advance what you have to prevent. Its no good after you've lost all of your data fixing the bug that allowed it open.
Not the quickest or most effective but traditional.
A new protocol for the previous generation (maybe I should RFC it)
1) Place a disk into a bottle, this should be an automatic email reader that encodes the recieved data an puts it into a file.
2) Put bottle in sea
3) Wait
4) When bottle is recovered the recoveree will place the disk in their online computer and the program will store all the current emails onto the disk.
Same deal in every place where the demand is high. In London £200,000 ($320,000) will get you a two bedroomed flat. In certain desirable places a 4 bed hous will hit 1 million pounds ($1.6million).
It sucks everywhere, people in Hong Kong and Tokyo are gasping at how cheap the Valley is.
I find it very amusing that HTML and WAP are still touted as the great e-business this and the great interface that.
This is static screens which you download from a server. This is the sort of technology that only someone on a limited connection could love. In two years time we'll have upto 2Mbs on a mobile phone, we'll have the same or much better at home.
Does anyone really think that HTML and WAP provide the sort of functionality that will be possible over a 2Mbs connection ? Ladies and gentleman, I await the stunning announcement from Sun, MS and IBM that the new way forward for the broadband generation is.... client server.
We've almost caught up with the Star project, just a couple more years to go.
One use of transparency is in the Air Traffic control industry. A military flight will be detailed as transparent as the Civilian controller wants to know it is there _all_ of the time, but also wants to be able see the civilian aircraft he is meant to be directing.
Many rulings in Europe do come about because of big company pressure, but this almost smacks of something else.
Prediction:It means that the European crypto stuff will become the world standard.
Thus all that US investment and current export regime which hurts the consumer in Europe as well as companies can be ignored as a free to export crypto will be more attractive to both US and European countries.
IMO this is an excellent move for Europeans, both in business and the consumers.
So maybe the EU did it _knowing_ it would piss the US off, and with the _express_ intention of reducing the US' control of crypto.
What are the legal differences in going after the individual ? Won't the level of costs be determine by how much the information was diseminated ? This would be a result of the ISP rather than the individual.
This however appears to be almost the individual as a corporation. As Maud'Dib was servicing requests from others (ooerr). Sort of like one individual on Napster acting as the sole copier of Metallica CDs.
Personally I think that these various cases addressing the different issues (negligence in the part of Napster, copyright violation by Napster users, and this one theft and distribution) are a good thing(tm) for us all. By allowing the LAW to determine what is right and wrong you can remove many problems associated with letting Politicians and "interested parties" defining the process.
The last thing we want is to have Linux corrupted by closed source, proprietary software, which by definition cannot be as good as open source
And the bells ring out for all to burn the heretics. Closed Source does NOT mean worse software. These people are paying for the rights to a produce a DVD player, the very least they should be able to do is recoup that cost. The holier than thou attitude that "if it ain't open source its rubbish" is just plain wrong. In Utopia everything is free and everything works. But sometimes you have to pay the bucks to get the quality.
As has been said before about databases, Oracle and DB2 are closed source, and reliability is definately not one of their problems.
Open your mind, this is a good progression.
And remember, CPUs are just hard coded software, and you don't complain about not having the schematic do you ?
I never quite understand why it is an act of macho bravado to work all night and live off pizza. It indicates two things 1) A badly run project and 2) poor maintainability in the code.
In one of my previous incarnations I worked on display systems for Air Traffic Control, where the quality level was also very high, where the performance requirements were exacting and the specifications precise.
Some would think that this means simple and boring... Of course not. Having to display a track from reception at the Radar to the display in 1/10th of a second isn't easy by any stretch of the imagination, and to do it so it works 100% of the time means you have to understand the problem properly rather than coding and patching.
If only more projects worked like that then there would be a lot less bugs in the world.
The early cold war years are often characterised by generals just itching to try out the new nuclear toy. With politicians often being the controlling factor preventing them.
Thats the scary bit, politicians acting as the only buffer.
Its amazing how little people understand about what goes into the large systems. Think Red Hat Linux. And I mean EVERY single product in the professional edition. Then multiply the complexity by 10.
Very confused about the legality of the form on Napster. I could fill that in (I don't even use Napster) with the name and address of a banned person. No signature, just text...
Another point. If I, as a British Citizen, were banned, how would the DMCA apply to me ? If the transaction took place between myself and a person in Germany why is a US rule being applied ?
The phrase "can of worms" comes to mind. And of Napsters form the phrase "half-arsed" presents itself.
If you use Apache you don't have to release your entire project under the Apache license. If you use Linux you don't have to release under the Linux license. If you modify or extend them as software tools you do. Most projects USE these tools, they do not modify or extend.
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One of the biggest challenges facing the mobile phone operators is the continued non-adoption of global standards in the States. From one hand this means the States is the world's wireless backwater, but from the other the most valuable single market is too important to miss.
If the States creates its own standards yet again then this will increase development costs for the phone manufacturers.
However as it is estimated at 2 years at least before the States get a sniff at 3G it could be that the rest of the world will be too far ahead.
Its a quote from "To kill a Mockingbird" which is a top book. Writing in the general fashion makes either yourself or the writer of a modern literary classic look foolish....
Bit of a strange thing to do considering Toshiba were one of the original investors, but hey, thats corps for you
"Hey thats corps" what is this supposed to mean. Toshiba have one of the best hardware R&D arms around and were as stated one of the people behind Transmeta.
How about this for an idea....
Transmeta is good, but not that good, its not a revolution its just pretty good. The hype accorded to Transmeta is way out of kilter with its proven ability. Look at ARM, years of deployment from StrongARM 64 bit in servers down to hand-helds. So what have Transmeta actually DONE ? Very little indeed and yet judging by the hype hear on Slashdot they are the successor to Intel, they will triumph, their technology is much better than anyone elses.
Now look at how Microsoft hyped Win2K before and after its release. Do you see a difference ? The only one I see is that MS have delivered something.
While I applaud and Mozilla effort it is a shame that the newer browsers and the old all appear to require an excessive amount of if statements for the pages to all work the same. Plaudits to Slashdot for sticking with 3.2 but many sites suffer from code like the following:
browserName = navigator.appName;
browserVer = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
var browseR = "bad";
if (browserName == "Netscape" && browserVer >= 3)
browseR = "good";
if (browserVer >= 4)
browseR = "good";
(from Dilbert)
And the rise of WAP has increased the problems. Roll on the days of XML and XSLT and at least things will be easier to manipulate even if they are still working differently.
Standards would be a nice idea
Umm so we replace the JVM with "an embedded Linux version" so we are still using Java here as a programing language I'd assume.
Jini is far from dead, just because a press release doesn't mention Jini doesn't mean it won't be using it. The press release didn't mention using the english language but I'd be will to bet Ericsson will support it.
Probably nothing. Right now everyone is going wireless (With good reason) and looking at the best way forward. Linux has a large set of developer support which will help them in any sphere, but equally Symbian have the expertise and the parteners to work.
Personally (oh how dare I) I think that Symbian with their wealth of experience in this market are in a better position than Red Hat. What ever happens however one thing is pretty much for sure:
The wireless future belongs to Europe, its there that the next generation of communication devices will be deployed and developed. Especially with the hold up to G3 phones in the States.
Why is this news ? Surely this is exactly the same as insuring a standard company against burglary ?
Its just another case where everyone is suprised because the eWorld is the same as the normal world.
To use the real world, basic security is important, but investment in a patrolled compound to protect a pizza parlour is excessive, while spending $100 on insurance per year makes pretty good sense.
There is no "e" or "v" world, there is this world.
If you are aiming to make this work over the next few years then you need to look at broadband and IPv6. Current IPv4 and lowbandwith connections are worse than a current phone service. With the advent of IPv6 on the next generation of mobile phones the question also has to be asked...
Why bother ? If a mobile phone has perfect voice and a 2Mbps peak bandwith, why use a bulky PC ?
(NB this applies to Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, its probably not appropriate in the wireless backwaters of the world:-)
I know this sounds strange but when I'm looking at designing a high transaction application or site I don't even LOOK at Windows or Linux. Does it suprise me that Linux doesn't scale to the enterprise market ? No, its written by individuals for lowish demand systems that they require, rather than by Company A who is implementing for Company B something that will cost several million pounds of development.
These sort of tests are IMO unfair to Linux. Should you use NT/W2K or Linux for your high transaction application/site ? The choice is more normally "Should I use True64, AIX or Solaris ?".
Linux works great for me as a webserver, as a client who takes a limited number of hits at a cheap price. If you want to scale you buy more boxes.
On the back end use a large end server with lots of RAM that has a massive IO throughput.
Does Linux really want to compete at the levels of AIX and Solaris ? Why not go for the niche, of cheap, reliable, and easy to scale horizontally.
And of course in French it means....
The End
Which for the MS Monopoly it could well be.
Newspapers, millions of pieces of information and they act as the filter to you. Read alot of newspapers from all over the globe and get all of the information.
This isn't a new idea, this is an old idea with the word "Open" put infront of it.
Just because people put an "e" or "Open" or any other buzzword of the day infront of a word doesn't mean that the concept or actions have changed.
Trusted, Assured, Safety Critical, these are all areas where IMO Open Source won't work. They require a level of discipline and upfront analysis and design that doesn't merge well with release early and often. OSS creates great software for large user bases, however it tends to create products rather than enterprise applications.
The key to trusted, assured or Safety Critical is the specification. You must know in advance what you have to prevent. Its no good after you've lost all of your data fixing the bug that allowed it open.
Not the quickest or most effective but traditional.
A new protocol for the previous generation (maybe I should RFC it)
1) Place a disk into a bottle, this should be an automatic email reader that encodes the recieved data an puts it into a file.
2) Put bottle in sea
3) Wait
4) When bottle is recovered the recoveree will place the disk in their online computer and the program will store all the current emails onto the disk.
5) Replace disk in bottle
6) Put bottle in sea
7) Pick up bottle, decrypt and read email
Error correction is left to the user.
Same deal in every place where the demand is high. In London £200,000 ($320,000) will get you a two bedroomed flat. In certain desirable places a 4 bed hous will hit 1 million pounds ($1.6million).
It sucks everywhere, people in Hong Kong and Tokyo are gasping at how cheap the Valley is.
I find it very amusing that HTML and WAP are still touted as the great e-business this and the great interface that.
This is static screens which you download from a server. This is the sort of technology that only someone on a limited connection could love. In two years time we'll have upto 2Mbs on a mobile phone, we'll have the same or much better at home.
Does anyone really think that HTML and WAP provide the sort of functionality that will be possible over a 2Mbs connection ? Ladies and gentleman, I await the stunning announcement from Sun, MS and IBM that the new way forward for the broadband generation is.... client server.
We've almost caught up with the Star project, just a couple more years to go.
One use of transparency is in the Air Traffic control industry. A military flight will be detailed as transparent as the Civilian controller wants to know it is there _all_ of the time, but also wants to be able see the civilian aircraft he is meant to be directing.
Many rulings in Europe do come about because of big company pressure, but this almost smacks of something else.
Prediction:It means that the European crypto stuff will become the world standard.
Thus all that US investment and current export regime which hurts the consumer in Europe as well as companies can be ignored as a free to export crypto will be more attractive to both US and European countries.
IMO this is an excellent move for Europeans, both in business and the consumers.
So maybe the EU did it _knowing_ it would piss the US off, and with the _express_ intention of reducing the US' control of crypto.
What are the legal differences in going after the individual ? Won't the level of costs be determine by how much the information was diseminated ? This would be a result of the ISP rather than the individual.
This however appears to be almost the individual as a corporation. As Maud'Dib was servicing requests from others (ooerr). Sort of like one individual on Napster acting as the sole copier of Metallica CDs.
Personally I think that these various cases addressing the different issues (negligence in the part of Napster, copyright violation by Napster users, and this one theft and distribution) are a good thing(tm) for us all. By allowing the LAW to determine what is right and wrong you can remove many problems associated with letting Politicians and "interested parties" defining the process.
The last thing we want is to have Linux corrupted by closed source, proprietary software, which by definition cannot be as good as open source
And the bells ring out for all to burn the heretics. Closed Source does NOT mean worse software. These people are paying for the rights to a produce a DVD player, the very least they should be able to do is recoup that cost. The holier than thou attitude that "if it ain't open source its rubbish" is just plain wrong. In Utopia everything is free and everything works. But sometimes you have to pay the bucks to get the quality.
As has been said before about databases, Oracle and DB2 are closed source, and reliability is definately not one of their problems.
Open your mind, this is a good progression.
And remember, CPUs are just hard coded software, and you don't complain about not having the schematic do you ?
I never quite understand why it is an act of macho bravado to work all night and live off pizza. It indicates two things 1) A badly run project and 2) poor maintainability in the code.
In one of my previous incarnations I worked on display systems for Air Traffic Control, where the quality level was also very high, where the performance requirements were exacting and the specifications precise.
Some would think that this means simple and boring... Of course not. Having to display a track from reception at the Radar to the display in 1/10th of a second isn't easy by any stretch of the imagination, and to do it so it works 100% of the time means you have to understand the problem properly rather than coding and patching.
If only more projects worked like that then there would be a lot less bugs in the world.
Your site uses rollovers at almost every opportunity.
What do they add to the users experience ?
The early cold war years are often characterised by generals just itching to try out the new nuclear toy. With politicians often being the controlling factor preventing them.
Thats the scary bit, politicians acting as the only buffer.
Umm ATC in a couple of weeks.
Its amazing how little people understand about what goes into the large systems. Think Red Hat Linux. And I mean EVERY single product in the professional edition. Then multiply the complexity by 10.
Then make it safety critical.
Its harder than rocket science
Very confused about the legality of the form on Napster. I could fill that in (I don't even use Napster) with the name and address of a banned person. No signature, just text...
Another point. If I, as a British Citizen, were banned, how would the DMCA apply to me ? If the transaction took place between myself and a person in Germany why is a US rule being applied ?
The phrase "can of worms" comes to mind. And of Napsters form the phrase "half-arsed" presents itself.
If you use Apache you don't have to release your entire project under the Apache license. If you use Linux you don't have to release under the Linux license. If you modify or extend them as software tools you do. Most projects USE these tools, they do not modify or extend.