This was patented in 1993. Presumably the patent was filed for earlier. While innovative in that time period I seem to recall that there were many licesnce servers back then. So I don't think it will stand up.
Presumably Google will implement something like Apple originally planned, wherein they simply buy time in an auction from carriers. Apple had elaborateplans for a real time auction system, even letting consumers do it automaticallys (i.e. by apple) or choose a carrier to prefer.
If they do that competitivley presumably their rateplans will be less because they are not subsidizing the phone. If they can reduce the cost further with ads then their rate plan is going to beat everyone elses.
Guess what happens then? Well if my contract with XYZ-mobile is up, and I can move my existing phone over to the google network, then googles rates are going to be much more attractive than staying with XYZ mobile since there is no subsidy.
I note that recently T-mobile has new plans out for the Bring-your-own-phone crowd. They are slightly cheaper and offer more minutes that the "free-phone" plans.
On top of that, for people who do buy a google phone, then since they shelled out the cash already, they are going to stick with the unsubsidized google phone rate plan rather than sign up with a company offering "free" phones and pay a hidden subsidy they will never use? Thus this builds loyalty to google like airline miles do.
Finally there will be corporate fleets. If the google phone lets these corporations buy phones in bulk then it's going to be cheaper in the long ruin for these companies to go with unsubisdized google rates. on top of that if google lets in third party service providers (blackberry like enterprises) then these will be attractive to corprorate fleets who want to be in charge of their own network.
That all assumes google is buying at competitive rates on the open market from carriers.
No this is not speculation. It's a well known problem. It's exactly the reason Disney upped the frame rate on their theater systems. And it's also something anyone with $10 can go watch. GO see IceAge 3D and look at what happens when character's move fast: the 3D messes up and the image washes out. It's not subtle. Animation is the ideal case too since you could in theory try to make corrections to the motion you could not in live action.
yes but it's a tiny portion of the data. Nearly all the bits are in the RGB and these change in a slow mostly predictable way between the images. it takes very few bits to encode the unpredictable differences.
I forgot to mention: also no stupid shutter glasses.
And as for blue ray and 2x blue ray. first 3d info should not take double the bandwidth. There's only a little added information (depth usually) since the RGB and intensity (nearly all the bits) are the same for most objects in the scene. (things like velvet and pearlescence being exceptions that don't look right anyhow in Binocular vision 3D and can only be differentiated for foreground pixels anyhow.
Second for most 3D I would guess that HD resolution is pretty meaningless. Once you go to stereo systems all sorts of visual effects make things much less clear. When I want to watch a 3D movie I'm going for 3D not maximum resolution. DVD quality is going to be fine.
If you want to argue that point let me point out that for good resolution in 3D for any moving object you can't tolerate 120 HZ. Even 240 Hz that Disney films use is not good enough. So the displays just are not up to the task of undistorted motion in 3D at this time. you would be much better off foresaking all those extra HD pixels and going to lower resolution at higher frame rates.
Now for non-stereo vision. Yes I agree HD is the bomb.
So just give me a cheap 3D DLP movie projector running off a plain 120 HZ RGB cable using a conventional DVD disk or Blue Ray disk. Skip the speed doubling and do it now!!! This is not hard.
I'm not really interested in having a fancy pants 3D diplay on my computer or laptop. All I want it is on the wall and it seems to me the simplest way to get it there is DLP projection since you can decouple how the pixels are created from the display surface. i.e. just use a regular DLP at twice the frame rate. Have the rotating color wheel or a secondary wheel do the polarization flipping. That way there's no crazy polarizer the size of the display surface or a linticlar lens system to mess with. cheap and effective. The trick will be doubling (or quadrupleing) the DLP frame rate which is an easily forseable and incremental technology advance. Worst case is to use two DLP chips and a ploarizing beam splitter which could be done right now.
What's lacking for the consumer is a dvd format that stores the alternating frame info and standard that transmits via RGB or what ever to the projector with the proper left-right sync.
Why is this taking so long? and when will I be able to buy one.
If google has the DNS then Why doesn't google return the text-url when they could just return the numerical IP address in the link directly? That way you could skip the DNS step entirely. FOr sites you visit a lot they are probably already cached so a large fraction of uncached links come from google searches so this optimization might matter and it certainly would make google searches seem faster
Seriously, supposedly the reason apple has assiduously avoided background processes not to mention creating a centralized push notifier was to avoid battery life drain and process management headaches. Which OS get's to be the power manager? Or does that fall to the VM too? And then imagine the process management headache when I've got three different places to kill apps (the two OS and the VM). ANd did some one say virtual memory paging hell?
3. I'm sure the sites that will replace NewsCorp properties in the searches can't believe that Christmas came early.
this is the real point that will be tested. is there intrinsic value in news production and presentation or not? if so then google has been getting a free ride on others valuable content. if not then this will bear out as a failure for newscorp.
I suspect newscorp is right. but I could be wrong. Th eevidence for this is that cable will pay to have Fox. And people will pay to have the WSJ. ANd people were willing to pay for sky news even when BBC was free.
I;m a little confused if you are syncronizing, mirroring or backing up data. the title says synch, but time machine and jungle disk are more for backup, and at most can be used for mirroring a master rather than synching.
If you want to backup, take a look at Crashplan. It's got two unique features the other plans lack. 1) you can backup to your own physical media, not theirs. This solves the problem of how do you backup and restore say 200GB of data in less than a month to a remote service. if the disk is yours you do the initial backup locally, them move the disk to the remote location for incremental backups. And then you do the reverse when you need to do more than in incremental restore. 2) they will sell you just the software-- a one time cost-- and you don't have to pay for a monthly remote service cost unless you want to. in which case you just backup to a freinds computer that is hosting your disk. Your data is both safe and remote (and encypted) but you can also go get the drive is if you need it using your toyota rather than the internet.
On the other hand if you want syncronization then look into Unison. It appears the source forge project is not highly maintained but also mature enough to work well. it is cross platform and scriptable.
I have eaten many different animals (or at least parts of them), including rattlesnake, crocodile, alligator, iguana, turtle, and many different molluscs, arthropods, echinoids, and whatnot from sea or river. I have also eaten squirrel, bear, dog, and cat.
So, I can say I have eaten pussy, and you can interpret or misinterpret it any way you want. Oh, and woof-woof, too.
I'm sure I can tell 128 MP3 is not so good. it's sounds a bit hot to my ears. Oddly perhaps this happens especially when there is clipping in the music (see for example green day) or shreikin trebles ( "battle without mercy" kill bill sound track). At first this seemed counter intuitive to me since you think that adding more distortion would be the most easily hidden during distortion, right? My rationalization is that whatever the MP# psycho acoutic model is, it's best for music with harmonies and tonal trajectories in different registers (base, tenor, trebble) and not music that has all sorts of aliased frequencies randomly jumping around in volume. I dont' really know but I can hear it. With normal music you may not hear the change in intonation because it simply sounds equally good even if it is altered.
But By 192 MP3 I cannot tell the difference. 128 AAC seems to be about as good.
Where I live comcast promises 6 or 8 Mb/sec but can't sustain a netflix movie even once without rebuffering and quality degredations.
Is there some place on the planet where netflix actually does work over comcast?
I finally gave up on comcast lieing about 6Mb/sec (it works all day long till I and everyone lese gets home from work, then it barely makes 1Mb/sec) and when I went to quit they offered me their unadvertised 1Mb/sec line which costs far less. Now this one is capped but they actually can deliver that. So I'm at least getting what I pay for now. I pity all the idiots who pay comcast for their fictitious bandwidth.
No I'm not trying to be smug. I simply refuse to maintain windows computers. Linux is not an option for most people. Ergo, a mac. Someday perhaps macs will be rife with trojans too. I'm not living in a dream where macs are perfect. But the very problem raised here is solved by a mac. So why fart around. Is your time worth nothing? if not these folks can cough up $599 for a mac mini. You don't have to use a mac, cause you are not the one with the problem. But they do.
Some people say genius is achieved in a work of art when there is simply nothing more to add, others say it's achieved when there is nothing more to take away.
You can get rain in large enclosed spaces. it's condesate. You might not want that raining on you. everything from evaporated dog urine, to aerosol diesel exahust, to flu viruses coming back down. Of course that happens now, but it's dillluted and also purified by the UV.
Now that said. I don't see why a dome has to have an impermeable ceiling. You could arrange things so that natural rain could be let in.
You could make the roof like a salmon ladder on a dam. there is some exchange with the outside air. just not wide open.
I have a jailbroken iphone. But othet then the Cydia and ICY applicaions icons which are installed during the redsnow jailbrake I have not deliberately installed any other non-itunes apps. Do I have ssh running but not know it after I jail break?
If so how to I log into it and change the password?
look into ooma.com. besides their zany bussiness model (buy the voip console, get free basic phone service) they seem to be offering a lot of what you are asking for as add-on services( $110 per year). I own one and can say they do work as well as any other voip.
Updating my own post. After four clean sheet install attempts It worked. I got koala running nicely on my VirtualBox vm. What did I do differently. Nothing that should have made a difference but the two things were to ask for 900MB rather than 1.2GB of memory and I moved the installation to a different hard drive. Neither of these should matter as the drive is virtualized anyhow, and I have 4GB of memory available on the host. Anyhow this time it did boot.
I spend the last two evenings trying to install 9.10 ubuntu and 9.10kubuntu on the current virtual box. Random hangs. Basically it won't boot right after the install. Seeing the posts here about LTS I went and found LTS ubuntu but I can't find an LTS kubuntu. They even make it hard to find a Juanty. there dont' seem to be any links to the jaunty on the site. You can find it by editing the URLs from Koala to Jaunty however. But I never did find the LTS kubuntu.
Apple did try selling their OS to run on other platforms. That nearly put then out of business. I think they have a good clue what will work for them and for their customers. We dont' see a whole lot of OS only companies out there. BEOS? even Linux business are tiny compared to apple. Even Oracle bought Sun. Microsoft has Xbox.
Okay let's test the slashdot effect. monday: everyone reccomend sarah palin for the watch list tuesday: everyone reccomend Nancy Pelosi wednesday: Hannity thursaday: Harry reid friday: Lieberman.
either we'll slashdot the service or do the nation a favor.
Slashdot Mirror
This was patented in 1993. Presumably the patent was filed for earlier. While innovative in that time period I seem to recall that there were many licesnce servers back then. So I don't think it will stand up.
Presumably Google will implement something like Apple originally planned, wherein they simply buy time in an auction from carriers. Apple had elaborateplans for a real time auction system, even letting consumers do it automaticallys (i.e. by apple) or choose a carrier to prefer.
If they do that competitivley presumably their rateplans will be less because they are not subsidizing the phone. If they can reduce the cost further with ads then their rate plan is going to beat everyone elses.
Guess what happens then? Well if my contract with XYZ-mobile is up, and I can move my existing phone over to the google network, then googles rates are going to be much more attractive than staying with XYZ mobile since there is no subsidy.
I note that recently T-mobile has new plans out for the Bring-your-own-phone crowd. They are slightly cheaper and offer more minutes that the "free-phone" plans.
On top of that, for people who do buy a google phone, then since they shelled out the cash already, they are going to stick with the unsubsidized google phone rate plan rather than sign up with a company offering "free" phones and pay a hidden subsidy they will never use? Thus this builds loyalty to google like airline miles do.
Finally there will be corporate fleets. If the google phone lets these corporations buy phones in bulk then it's going to be cheaper in the long ruin for these companies to go with unsubisdized google rates. on top of that if google lets in third party service providers (blackberry like enterprises) then these will be attractive to corprorate fleets who want to be in charge of their own network.
That all assumes google is buying at competitive rates on the open market from carriers.
No this is not speculation. It's a well known problem. It's exactly the reason Disney upped the frame rate on their theater systems. And it's also something anyone with $10 can go watch. GO see IceAge 3D and look at what happens when character's move fast: the 3D messes up and the image washes out. It's not subtle. Animation is the ideal case too since you could in theory try to make corrections to the motion you could not in live action.
yes but it's a tiny portion of the data. Nearly all the bits are in the RGB and these change in a slow mostly predictable way between the images. it takes very few bits to encode the unpredictable differences.
I forgot to mention: also no stupid shutter glasses.
And as for blue ray and 2x blue ray.
first 3d info should not take double the bandwidth. There's only a little added information (depth usually) since the RGB and intensity (nearly all the bits) are the same for most objects in the scene. (things like velvet and pearlescence being exceptions that don't look right anyhow in Binocular vision 3D and can only be differentiated for foreground pixels anyhow.
Second for most 3D I would guess that HD resolution is pretty meaningless. Once you go to stereo systems all sorts of visual effects make things much less clear. When I want to watch a 3D movie I'm going for 3D not maximum resolution. DVD quality is going to be fine.
If you want to argue that point let me point out that for good resolution in 3D for any moving object you can't tolerate 120 HZ. Even 240 Hz that Disney films use is not good enough. So the displays just are not up to the task of undistorted motion in 3D at this time. you would be much better off foresaking all those extra HD pixels and going to lower resolution at higher frame rates.
Now for non-stereo vision. Yes I agree HD is the bomb.
So just give me a cheap 3D DLP movie projector running off a plain 120 HZ RGB cable using a conventional DVD disk or Blue Ray disk. Skip the speed doubling and do it now!!! This is not hard.
I'm not really interested in having a fancy pants 3D diplay on my computer or laptop. All I want it is on the wall and it seems to me the simplest way to get it there is DLP projection since you can decouple how the pixels are created from the display surface. i.e. just use a regular DLP at twice the frame rate. Have the rotating color wheel or a secondary wheel do the polarization flipping. That way there's no crazy polarizer the size of the display surface or a linticlar lens system to mess with. cheap and effective. The trick will be doubling (or quadrupleing) the DLP frame rate which is an easily forseable and incremental technology advance. Worst case is to use two DLP chips and a ploarizing beam splitter which could be done right now.
What's lacking for the consumer is a dvd format that stores the alternating frame info and standard that transmits via RGB or what ever to the projector with the proper left-right sync.
Why is this taking so long? and when will I be able to buy one.
Okay, but still why not return the IP already looked up right in the search and bypass the DNS.
If google has the DNS then Why doesn't google return the text-url when they could just return the numerical IP address in the link directly? That way you could skip the DNS step entirely. FOr sites you visit a lot they are probably already cached so a large fraction of uncached links come from google searches so this optimization might matter and it certainly would make google searches seem faster
battery life?
No they use virtual batteries.
Seriously, supposedly the reason apple has assiduously avoided background processes not to mention creating a centralized push notifier was to avoid battery life drain and process management headaches. Which OS get's to be the power manager? Or does that fall to the VM too? And then imagine the process management headache when I've got three different places to kill apps (the two OS and the VM). ANd did some one say virtual memory paging hell?
Google won't even talk to me. Have an ordinary day you undermensch!
3. I'm sure the sites that will replace NewsCorp properties in the searches can't believe that Christmas came early.
this is the real point that will be tested. is there intrinsic value in news production and presentation or not? if so then google has been getting a free ride on others valuable content. if not then this will bear out as a failure for newscorp.
I suspect newscorp is right. but I could be wrong. Th eevidence for this is that cable will pay to have Fox. And people will pay to have the WSJ. ANd people were willing to pay for sky news even when BBC was free.
I;m a little confused if you are syncronizing, mirroring or backing up data. the title says synch, but time machine and jungle disk are more for backup, and at most can be used for mirroring a master rather than synching.
If you want to backup, take a look at Crashplan. It's got two unique features the other plans lack. 1) you can backup to your own physical media, not theirs. This solves the problem of how do you backup and restore say 200GB of data in less than a month to a remote service. if the disk is yours you do the initial backup locally, them move the disk to the remote location for incremental backups. And then you do the reverse when you need to do more than in incremental restore. 2) they will sell you just the software-- a one time cost-- and you don't have to pay for a monthly remote service cost unless you want to. in which case you just backup to a freinds computer that is hosting your disk. Your data is both safe and remote (and encypted) but you can also go get the drive is if you need it using your toyota rather than the internet.
On the other hand if you want syncronization then look into Unison. It appears the source forge project is not highly maintained but also mature enough to work well. it is cross platform and scriptable.
I have eaten many different animals (or at least parts of them), including rattlesnake, crocodile, alligator, iguana, turtle, and many different molluscs, arthropods, echinoids, and whatnot from sea or river. I have also eaten squirrel, bear, dog, and cat.
So, I can say I have eaten pussy, and you can interpret or misinterpret it any way you want. Oh, and woof-woof, too.
Do you eat Cock and Hen as well?
I'm sure I can tell 128 MP3 is not so good. it's sounds a bit hot to my ears. Oddly perhaps this happens especially when there is clipping in the music (see for example green day) or shreikin trebles ( "battle without mercy" kill bill sound track). At first this seemed counter intuitive to me since you think that adding more distortion would be the most easily hidden during distortion, right? My rationalization is that whatever the MP# psycho acoutic model is, it's best for music with harmonies and tonal trajectories in different registers (base, tenor, trebble) and not music that has all sorts of aliased frequencies randomly jumping around in volume. I dont' really know but I can hear it. With normal music you may not hear the change in intonation because it simply sounds equally good even if it is altered.
But By 192 MP3 I cannot tell the difference. 128 AAC seems to be about as good.
Where I live comcast promises 6 or 8 Mb/sec but can't sustain a netflix movie even once without rebuffering and quality degredations.
Is there some place on the planet where netflix actually does work over comcast?
I finally gave up on comcast lieing about 6Mb/sec (it works all day long till I and everyone lese gets home from work, then it barely makes 1Mb/sec) and when I went to quit they offered me their unadvertised 1Mb/sec line which costs far less. Now this one is capped but they actually can deliver that. So I'm at least getting what I pay for now. I pity all the idiots who pay comcast for their fictitious bandwidth.
Yes but don't buy it in the boxed Boxed set. or you'll end up like Nazi's in an an Indiana Jones film.
No I'm not trying to be smug. I simply refuse to maintain windows computers. Linux is not an option for most people. Ergo, a mac. Someday perhaps macs will be rife with trojans too. I'm not living in a dream where macs are perfect. But the very problem raised here is solved by a mac. So why fart around. Is your time worth nothing? if not these folks can cough up $599 for a mac mini. You don't have to use a mac, cause you are not the one with the problem. But they do.
Some people say genius is achieved in a work of art when there is simply nothing more to add, others say it's achieved when there is nothing more to take away.
You can get rain in large enclosed spaces. it's condesate. You might not want that raining on you. everything from evaporated dog urine, to aerosol diesel exahust, to flu viruses coming back down. Of course that happens now, but it's dillluted and also purified by the UV.
Now that said. I don't see why a dome has to have an impermeable ceiling. You could arrange things so that natural rain could be let in.
You could make the roof like a salmon ladder on a dam. there is some exchange with the outside air. just not wide open.
I have a jailbroken iphone. But othet then the Cydia and ICY applicaions icons which are installed during the redsnow jailbrake I have not deliberately installed any other non-itunes apps. Do I have ssh running but not know it after I jail break?
If so how to I log into it and change the password?
look into ooma.com. besides their zany bussiness model (buy the voip console, get free basic phone service) they seem to be offering a lot of what you are asking for as add-on services( $110 per year). I own one and can say they do work as well as any other voip.
Updating my own post. After four clean sheet install attempts It worked. I got koala running nicely on my VirtualBox vm. What did I do differently. Nothing that should have made a difference but the two things were to ask for 900MB rather than 1.2GB of memory and I moved the installation to a different hard drive. Neither of these should matter as the drive is virtualized anyhow, and I have 4GB of memory available on the host. Anyhow this time it did boot.
I spend the last two evenings trying to install 9.10 ubuntu and 9.10kubuntu on the current virtual box. Random hangs. Basically it won't boot right after the install.
Seeing the posts here about LTS I went and found LTS ubuntu but I can't find an LTS kubuntu. They even make it hard to find a Juanty. there dont' seem to be any links to the jaunty on the site. You can find it by editing the URLs from Koala to Jaunty however. But I never did find the LTS kubuntu.
The Koala doesn't work even in a virtual machine.
Apple did try selling their OS to run on other platforms. That nearly put then out of business. I think they have a good clue what will work for them and for their customers. We dont' see a whole lot of OS only companies out there. BEOS? even Linux business are tiny compared to apple. Even Oracle bought Sun. Microsoft has Xbox.
Okay let's test the slashdot effect.
monday: everyone reccomend sarah palin for the watch list
tuesday: everyone reccomend Nancy Pelosi
wednesday: Hannity
thursaday: Harry reid
friday: Lieberman.
either we'll slashdot the service or do the nation a favor.