Disclaimer: I have not used any of the SmartPhone SDKs before. "Applications can be woken via a WAP packet over SMS" is exactly the kind of mechanism that virus writers love. I hope this is not turned on by default, because it's exactly the wireless counterpart of the RPC DCOM exploit.
We all know that PDAs and mobile phones has been on the convergence path for a long time, with PDAs trying to be phones (O2 XDA) and phones trying to be PDAs (SonyEricsson P800), so I'm very surprised that Sony didn't include phone features into this uber PDA. Afterall, it seems like the perfect way to SMS (QWERTY keyboard) and MMS (large screen). Isn't it all about connectivity? Since it has WiFi, where's the IP-phone feature?
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I definitely remember your nick, but I cannot recall your real name or image: it's been too long!:)
Please fill me in with more info!
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For those of you who thought that the demo scene is only in the EU and US, this is to let you know that it spread as far as to Singapore (far-eastern island) way back in 1995, where we held our own demo parties in 1995 and 1996. My group, WaterLogic, has the winning entry for 1996 online at www.waterlogic.com.sg/demoscene/.
Getting into the demo scene has had profound effects on my online life and it is always a fond memory thinking back how I discovered the demo scene through a Waite Group Press's book+CD where they had Future Crew's Unreal and 2nd Reality in it back in 1994. I simply fell off my chair after the unreal experience.
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I'd much prefer to see Sun/SGI base their work on GL4Java (www.jausoft.com/gl4java) than starting from scratch all over again. The industry needs this now and needs it fast. Microsoft has already got DX9 bindings for.NET months ago, but Sun/SGI has only announced it -now-? GL4Java, which is open-source, has been around for a long time and is pretty mature. It has survived the competition from commercial offerings like Magician (which is now dead). In fact, last year, SGI (or was it Sun?) used a customized version of GL4Java to show off the new NIO features of Java, rendering a 300MB+ terrain dataset in real-time. The speed at which Sun/JCP develops Java, and the speed at which SGI/ARB develops OpenGL, is a shame, let's hope they change this tradition this time!
Microsoft's Talisman initiative also failed miserably. Talisman presentation: http://research.microsoft.com/MSRSIGGRAPH/96/Talis man. The now defunct 3Dfx Voodoo totally kicked its ass.
To begin with, you will need to be able to read SWF files directly. After that, you need to implement a better renderer than Flash's vector engine. After which you need to mirror ActionScript's functionality in SMIL, probably as an extension. Finally, you need a content creation tool that's very much like Flash's IDE to have a smooth migration tool for Flash developers.
testing the effects of putting mobile phones near your cranium? i sure don't want my brains to blow up someday after excessive exposure to GSM microwave radiation...
I hope China will work with NASA and ESO in a co-operative level instead of with a competitive nature. It will be a shameful waste of Earth's, humans' and economic resources to duplicate what NASA has done (i.e. those that have true scientific value) rather than a I-can-do-it-too. Also, with China's wages problems (mainly those in the agricultural industry) yet seeing results, why is it spending such insane sums of money in an area that will not bring tangible benefits to its people ans standard of living?
What about those savants with photographic memory?
I'm sure their mental images have much higher resolution than a camera phone.
Extrapolating, what about those with good aural memory who can playback a tune they heard, or even transcribe it onto musical score?
Ever wondered why you can set the ringtone type, or no sound, or even ignore for numbers in your phone book, but you can't do the same for receiving SMSs? It's trivial to implement that at the protocol level.
On the other hand, with costs ranging from 7-15 cents per SMS, spammers do have to think twice before blinding sending to sequential numbers ala Direct IP spamming.
U.S has placed robots on Mars, Venus and landed a satellite on Eros the asteroid but China has yet to place a man in space.
This is hardly a race, yet.
Well Sun has finally figured that it's futile to force M$ to include Java with its OS and has done a great job convincing the major PC makers to include Java instead. With the new logo and new website www.java.com designed for the average joe, Sun has finally decided to do something about its branding, and making Java a household name. The Christina Aguilera (sp?) promo was a smart move in collaboration with Motorola, but I feel the handset design was a disappointment. Sun may have lost the desktop war forever, but its enterprise presence (J2EE) is strong despite.NET's aggression and its mobile presence (J2ME) is way-ahead of WinCE/Windows Mobile. Nokia's debut of the first MIDP2 phone (6600) is a great win at this year's JavaOne. With its share prices dropping ~92% in 3 years, it's now going to be make or break for Sun.
Although originally designed for mobile web surfing, WAP is now used a lot by content vendors as delivery mechanism for pictures, ringtones and java games. Even Nokia does it with their Club Nokia WAP site and its insert-coin download stations.
The reason is simple. The users pay for the WAP pull, and all the vendor has to pay for is a simple OTA bookmark or something similiar.
So WAP is far from dead, and has found its usefulness in areas that it wasn't designed for. Just like what the WWW is.
Will there be objections if gorillas were the source of energy for the Matrix instead of humans? Afterall, all the Matrix wants is energy, raw and pure. Surely a silverback gorilla produces more watts than a human being. There are many organisms, or mammals if you want, that have higher metabolism rates -yet- smaller brains which are more efficient energy sources for the Matrix. The world according to gorillas is probably simpler, and thus the Matrix does not need the extra code to simulate psyche, self-awareness, self-preservation, and ultimately, consciousness and the concept of good and evil, thereby making sure a Saviour will not be born which threatens the survival of the Matrix itself. No wait, only realise that the humans are the Matrix in this real world, for we are doing to animals what the Matrix did to humans. Except we don't want energy from them: we keep pets to entertain us. we build zoos to entertain us. we breed lab mice to test our medicine. we sent monkeys to space first. we use dolphins to disarm sea-mines. snakes are delicacies. tiger penis are great tonics. shark's fins taste great. whales make great cosmetics. you get the idea.
There was once this Emergency Room game thats a doctor and surgeon simulator. I discovered my dormant sadism one day when I decided to poke a needle into the eye of a patient during an outpatient examination. The needle really was meant for testing skin sensation but the designers actually thought of that as they put in the most horrific, and loudest, screaming sound of a person having his eye pierced. Later, I found myself demonstrating the ritual to every friend that came to my house.
But, for the game that really affected me was Ultima Online. I played for a year during its first year, and again after 3 years break. The richness of experience, as a side-effect of such a multi-player game, is beyond what the box advertised. You can make real friends and enemies in the game. You observe and realise the extent of human behaviour. You see people play out their deepest fantasy which is otherwise hidden in the real world. You will find good leaders, honorable PKs, blue PKs, pure scumbags, worthless griefers, enterprising businessmen, the most determined thieves, clueless crybabies, social parasites, and highly organised mobsters, like the red guild 'Ragnarok' at the Formosa (Taiwan) shard I play in.
And when I stop playing for awhile, I miss my online friends. Nevermind the crappy graphics, sound, lag and bugs. The original vision of the designers withstood the test of time. You can probably even call it the Last Oldskool game.
http://www.seikowatches.com/customer_service/corp_ info/history/history03.html
http://www.seiko-kinetic-watches.com
Same technology has been used by watch-maker Seiko for at least 6 years (I still remember their TV advertisement). The latest is its Seiko Thermic watch which uses human's body heat as power.
XBox is Microsoft-proprietary, so it obviously offers ONLY the DirectX API. However, anyone who has read any of John Carmack's.plan knows that he uses OpenGL exclusively. Since XBox has no OpenGL, how can Doom3 run on XBox?
Just how safe is this?
Their data can be compromised and sold to other countries by greedy and unethical companies. Their protocols and encryption methods can be cracked and discovered. Think of the implications.
Why doesn't HotSpot have a bin dump of its 'insanely' optimized native code?
This way, you have a small and fast native app, and a smaller 'JVM' footprint that supplies the rest of the stuff you don't want natively compiled (like GC thread etc.)
Unless I miss something, I'm sure this is technologically achievable on Sun's part, but they're not doing it for political reasons.
Do people remember the days of JavaOS and Java chip? When the JVM is part of the OS, you can't call it 'virtual' anymore, and this subtle difference has a psychological effect on people so they will stop complaining about the JRE footprint etc: the JVM process is officially now part of the group of system kernel processes.
So then JavaOS becomes a platform by itself and who knows if it will be compatible with any other platforms out there, especially if it starts to gain a significant market share. Just face it: IT business is 99% about market share and locking users in.
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Disclaimer: I have not used any of the SmartPhone SDKs before. "Applications can be woken via a WAP packet over SMS" is exactly the kind of mechanism that virus writers love. I hope this is not turned on by default, because it's exactly the wireless counterpart of the RPC DCOM exploit.
We all know that PDAs and mobile phones has been on the convergence path for a long time, with PDAs trying to be phones (O2 XDA) and phones trying to be PDAs (SonyEricsson P800), so I'm very surprised that Sony didn't include phone features into this uber PDA. Afterall, it seems like the perfect way to SMS (QWERTY keyboard) and MMS (large screen). Isn't it all about connectivity? Since it has WiFi, where's the IP-phone feature?
Please fill me in with more info!
Getting into the demo scene has had profound effects on my online life and it is always a fond memory thinking back how I discovered the demo scene through a Waite Group Press's book+CD where they had Future Crew's Unreal and 2nd Reality in it back in 1994. I simply fell off my chair after the unreal experience.
'I'm an insensitive clod' - I second this idea!
I'd much prefer to see Sun/SGI base their work on GL4Java (www.jausoft.com/gl4java) than starting from scratch all over again. The industry needs this now and needs it fast. Microsoft has already got DX9 bindings for .NET months ago, but Sun/SGI has only announced it -now-? GL4Java, which is open-source, has been around for a long time and is pretty mature. It has survived the competition from commercial offerings like Magician (which is now dead). In fact, last year, SGI (or was it Sun?) used a customized version of GL4Java to show off the new NIO features of Java, rendering a 300MB+ terrain dataset in real-time. The speed at which Sun/JCP develops Java, and the speed at which SGI/ARB develops OpenGL, is a shame, let's hope they change this tradition this time!
Microsoft's Talisman initiative also failed miserably. Talisman presentation: http://research.microsoft.com/MSRSIGGRAPH/96/Talis man. The now defunct 3Dfx Voodoo totally kicked its ass.
To begin with, you will need to be able to read SWF files directly. After that, you need to implement a better renderer than Flash's vector engine. After which you need to mirror ActionScript's functionality in SMIL, probably as an extension. Finally, you need a content creation tool that's very much like Flash's IDE to have a smooth migration tool for Flash developers.
So did Robin Hood, and he's a hero.
testing the effects of putting mobile phones near your cranium? i sure don't want my brains to blow up someday after excessive exposure to GSM microwave radiation...
I hope China will work with NASA and ESO in a co-operative level instead of with a competitive nature. It will be a shameful waste of Earth's, humans' and economic resources to duplicate what NASA has done (i.e. those that have true scientific value) rather than a I-can-do-it-too. Also, with China's wages problems (mainly those in the agricultural industry) yet seeing results, why is it spending such insane sums of money in an area that will not bring tangible benefits to its people ans standard of living?
What about those savants with photographic memory? I'm sure their mental images have much higher resolution than a camera phone. Extrapolating, what about those with good aural memory who can playback a tune they heard, or even transcribe it onto musical score?
Ever wondered why you can set the ringtone type, or no sound, or even ignore for numbers in your phone book, but you can't do the same for receiving SMSs? It's trivial to implement that at the protocol level. On the other hand, with costs ranging from 7-15 cents per SMS, spammers do have to think twice before blinding sending to sequential numbers ala Direct IP spamming.
U.S has placed robots on Mars, Venus and landed a satellite on Eros the asteroid but China has yet to place a man in space. This is hardly a race, yet.
Well Sun has finally figured that it's futile to force M$ to include Java with its OS and has done a great job convincing the major PC makers to include Java instead. With the new logo and new website www.java.com designed for the average joe, Sun has finally decided to do something about its branding, and making Java a household name. The Christina Aguilera (sp?) promo was a smart move in collaboration with Motorola, but I feel the handset design was a disappointment. Sun may have lost the desktop war forever, but its enterprise presence (J2EE) is strong despite .NET's aggression and its mobile presence (J2ME) is way-ahead of WinCE/Windows Mobile. Nokia's debut of the first MIDP2 phone (6600) is a great win at this year's JavaOne. With its share prices dropping ~92% in 3 years, it's now going to be make or break for Sun.
Although originally designed for mobile web surfing, WAP is now used a lot by content vendors as delivery mechanism for pictures, ringtones and java games. Even Nokia does it with their Club Nokia WAP site and its insert-coin download stations. The reason is simple. The users pay for the WAP pull, and all the vendor has to pay for is a simple OTA bookmark or something similiar. So WAP is far from dead, and has found its usefulness in areas that it wasn't designed for. Just like what the WWW is.
'celebrate', not 'celebate', due to poor penmanship of the ancient priests...
Will there be objections if gorillas were the source of energy for the Matrix instead of humans? Afterall, all the Matrix wants is energy, raw and pure. Surely a silverback gorilla produces more watts than a human being. There are many organisms, or mammals if you want, that have higher metabolism rates -yet- smaller brains which are more efficient energy sources for the Matrix. The world according to gorillas is probably simpler, and thus the Matrix does not need the extra code to simulate psyche, self-awareness, self-preservation, and ultimately, consciousness and the concept of good and evil, thereby making sure a Saviour will not be born which threatens the survival of the Matrix itself. No wait, only realise that the humans are the Matrix in this real world, for we are doing to animals what the Matrix did to humans. Except we don't want energy from them: we keep pets to entertain us. we build zoos to entertain us. we breed lab mice to test our medicine. we sent monkeys to space first. we use dolphins to disarm sea-mines. snakes are delicacies. tiger penis are great tonics. shark's fins taste great. whales make great cosmetics. you get the idea.
There was once this Emergency Room game thats a doctor and surgeon simulator. I discovered my dormant sadism one day when I decided to poke a needle into the eye of a patient during an outpatient examination. The needle really was meant for testing skin sensation but the designers actually thought of that as they put in the most horrific, and loudest, screaming sound of a person having his eye pierced. Later, I found myself demonstrating the ritual to every friend that came to my house.
But, for the game that really affected me was Ultima Online. I played for a year during its first year, and again after 3 years break. The richness of experience, as a side-effect of such a multi-player game, is beyond what the box advertised. You can make real friends and enemies in the game. You observe and realise the extent of human behaviour. You see people play out their deepest fantasy which is otherwise hidden in the real world. You will find good leaders, honorable PKs, blue PKs, pure scumbags, worthless griefers, enterprising businessmen, the most determined thieves, clueless crybabies, social parasites, and highly organised mobsters, like the red guild 'Ragnarok' at the Formosa (Taiwan) shard I play in.
And when I stop playing for awhile, I miss my online friends. Nevermind the crappy graphics, sound, lag and bugs. The original vision of the designers withstood the test of time. You can probably even call it the Last Oldskool game.
http://www.seikowatches.com/customer_service/corp_ info/history/history03.html
http://www.seiko-kinetic-watches.com
Same technology has been used by watch-maker Seiko for at least 6 years (I still remember their TV advertisement). The latest is its Seiko Thermic watch which uses human's body heat as power.
All I saw was a transparent window after the site has been /.ed. And I'm using a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro!!
XBox is Microsoft-proprietary, so it obviously offers ONLY the DirectX API. However, anyone who has read any of John Carmack's .plan knows that he uses OpenGL exclusively. Since XBox has no OpenGL, how can Doom3 run on XBox?
Just how safe is this? Their data can be compromised and sold to other countries by greedy and unethical companies. Their protocols and encryption methods can be cracked and discovered. Think of the implications.
here's a pic of the Crab nebula: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap991122.html
Why doesn't HotSpot have a bin dump of its 'insanely' optimized native code? This way, you have a small and fast native app, and a smaller 'JVM' footprint that supplies the rest of the stuff you don't want natively compiled (like GC thread etc.) Unless I miss something, I'm sure this is technologically achievable on Sun's part, but they're not doing it for political reasons. Do people remember the days of JavaOS and Java chip? When the JVM is part of the OS, you can't call it 'virtual' anymore, and this subtle difference has a psychological effect on people so they will stop complaining about the JRE footprint etc: the JVM process is officially now part of the group of system kernel processes. So then JavaOS becomes a platform by itself and who knows if it will be compatible with any other platforms out there, especially if it starts to gain a significant market share. Just face it: IT business is 99% about market share and locking users in.