if your device has enough memory to hold it and is fast enough cpu-wise to sustain a decent gbit pipe.
Regular consumer pc having drives fast enough to get a dvd in a minute?
It's not about a device having enough memory to hold the download - it is about having a pipe that can push large amounts of data. Streaming video/audio, which will come to a handset or other mobile device thru the air.
I think the DVD comparison is more about size than content.
There is no need for movies to be gb's when viewed on a handset - As an example, my phone (Motorola E680i) plays.3gp video and the file size for an entire DVD is less than 50mb. I converted the Terminator DVD for use on my PSP (MP4) and it comes down to 287 mb, with stereo and wonderful clarity. No need to download 5+gb's just to watch a movie.
If you talk about a 7" widescreen LCD for use in a car, then you would see files larger, but again, nothing along the lines of 5+gb.
The content won't be targeted for download and storage, just streaming. Of course, some of us will find an excuse to archive it, but that's another story...
"Many claim to still see patterns as iTunes rambles through their music collection, but the majority of these patterns are simply multiple songs from the same artist. Think of it this way: If you have 2000 songs and 40 of them are from the same artist, there is always a 2% chance of hearing them next with random play. So right after one of their songs finishes, odds almost guarantee they will be played again within the next 50 songs and show a 50% chance they will play again within the next 25 songs. It's simply the mind's tendency to find a pattern that makes you think iTunes has a preference."
He claims "It's amazing how many day-to-day operations require the inadvertent use of Windows in our daily lives."
And then goes on to put things in his own micro-view.
That hand-held that runs CE was engineered on a Unix system...shipped to the US on a frieghter running another flavor of Unix. The packaging and user manual were designed on a Mac. Same goes for that laptop in the kitchen.
That ATM he mistakenly refers to ties into a network control center that runs on solaris.
I'd go on, but I have to get to work, and my pda phone that runs on Linux is telling me I'll miss the bus if I don't get moving.
This guy isn't capable of having an opinion on anything technical, much less an OS. It seems clear also that the damage done by 'daily' exposure to windows is in full swing, at the least.
It's simply a matter of doing the math, based on how long it takes signals to reach the handset from a couple of towers, vs. the known/fixed coordinates of the towers. Nearly as accurate as consumer GPS, but with the additional benefit of being able to work indoors:)
iPod Levy first came into our town. I'd heard a lot about Canadians from my Grandfather. He would always tell the same tale, about how every leap year, they would come down out of the North...10's of thousands of them, and take the cattle and the women...only the ugly women, tho. He said he could never eat Canadian beef again, after watching them load all those heifers onto railcars, one after the other...
When iPod Levy pulled up in front of the Wallgreen's, and the dust settled around his jet black Avanti, no one was sure what to do. Call the Sheriff? Look the other way? Introduce him to your ugly sister?
iPod went into the drugstore, and walked around to the self-serve counter, and waited patiently for the Pharmacist to come over.
I hid around behind a stack of plaid sun hats, and strained to listen, as Mr. Levy laid out his proposition to Howard, the pharmacist. "I'll bring in the same quality pain killers and beta-blockers as you're buying now, but for 1/2 price. All you have to do is sell me cheap chewing tobacco...is it a deal?"
After iPod left, well, months after he left, actually, the whole town seemed to perk up...sort of more alive, like. I'll never know if it had anything to do with iPod Levy's arrival, but one thing I'm sure of, we haven't seen an ugly woman around these parts for more than a generation...
Lived in North Highlands & Fair Oaks, Orangevale...Carmichael...Folsom...worked in various sectors, including Roseville and West Sac.
I've been in Asia for more than the last decade. Southern China at the moment. The Police here tend to leave me pretty much to myself. They don't see much need for the kinds of games the cops play in Sacto.
I doubt they'd appreciate the exposure./ really provides, eh?:)
I've been involved in my share of being chased by those guys...they don't take it very well when your hardware outclasses theirs. The Sac county CHP really gets upset when you outrun their slowpoke of an airborne officer.
...after living in Sacto for much too long, let me shed a bit of light on how this works.
When the time comes to discuss annual budgets at the Sheriff's department, or the CHP, as an example, these dopes head out and bust anyone they can find...and then get a headline in the paper. The point being to somehow rationalize their pitiful existance as supposed civil servants and keep themselves off the unemployment rosters.
I know I've helped sponsor a new wing on the CHP training academy.
You're arguing _with_ me now, you realize. Reminds me of that old Foghorn Leghorn cartoon... IS! ISN'T!... IS! ISN'T!... IS! ISN'T!... IS! ISN'T!... ISN'T!! IS!!...ok, if you insist...
It has always been known...that's what I'm disputing. We really have no idea how DNA defines good nor bad. 'it' is a man-made supposition, used to facilitate an argument that exists only in our minds. DNA could care less what conclusions we've come to as pertains to how things nucleic bend, break or bolster, yet we don't hesitate to tell it how to fold the map so it will fit back into the glovebox...again, hubris.
It is this type of 'traditional' logic that I'm disputing. I say we are not in any postition to outline what defines 'mutation'. How do we know that the DNA didn't 'damage' itself as part of a prescribed routine?
With Down's Syndrome routinely viewed as a mutation (defined as a defect), what is going to happen to all the 'science' that exists now when we find out that DS is really a pre-cursor to the next generation of mankind, and not a genetic malfunction (defect) at all? I say DS is simply one of many prototypes on the table, and not some code gone awry.
Current thinking lacks not only proper bias in observation, but the inherent ability to free itself from a stilted POV.
As a species, we demonstrate well-honed hindsight...we can't see the next leap because we don't have the inherent capabilities, not because we simply haven't asked the right questions just yet.
BTW, butterfiles exist as a side project to alert m'duh nature when the proposed vehicle (cocoon) works out. Only after such information is gathered will she decide where and how to apply it next.
This is a serious request for experienced technical writers willing to consider living and working in China. This means 5 years or more experience, with telecom industry experience preferred. Native English speakers only. No interns need apply, etc.
Please contact Ken at kmtkr@hotmail.com
Note there are currently three job openings at this level.
As for the book, I agree with those that see the value in the subject. I also agree with those pointing out that tech writers have little to fear from engineers suddenly becoming adept at writing for people outside their sphere. With most engineers believing that everyone speaks the way they do, good tech writers can look forward to long and prosperous careers.
"They're trying to learn lessons from their failure on the music side, where Apple blew them out of the water."
Remember now, this is the company head that penned a not-so-best seller titled 'The Road Ahead'. Billy missed the mark on all predictions, and there is no reason to see that changing any time soon.
Being run down by Apple shows they're nothing more than a deer in the headlights. Where's Bob? Isn't Clippy impressive? Remember the home video system named Tiger? How do you like being asked where you want to go today, instead of being given interesting options up front?
Gates and company want more out of consumer pockets, that's all. They're business model is finally being seen what it is by the masses, and the masses are moving on down the road...without Bob's help, by the way.
Dear bill they love you there in pakistan
you know how hard it is to be an also ran
and since the trial you've been working so hard on your tan
to do everything you think you duly can
to be doted on and smiled at by even just one fan
The EU said go away...China said come back another day, so now it's third world slumming for you while you pray that you don't end up in a pakistani jail where you'll get blown away. die bill die
...one of the major reasons this type of crap comes about, is due to MS's PowerPoint. Where BASIC has ruined more programmers than lack of sleep, PP has ruined more imaginations than acid.
At a previous but undetermined
timeframe, a single-family domestic domicile was inhabited by a young
girl, known as Little Red Riding Hood (LRRH), and her Maternal Parent
(MP). The Maternal Parent (MP) had once provided for the fabrication of
an article of clothing, a cloak in nature (including a "hood" or
protective covering for the head of the wearer), that was RGB code
[255,0,0] in hue (aka, "red"). As a result of this action, and the
resultant repeated usage of the "hood", the young girl was always known
as LRRH in substitution for the name identified on her birth
certificate and other identifying documentation.
During one 24-hour interval, a
request was issued by the MP for LRRH to deliver a package to the MP's
Maternal Parent (MPMP) (genealogically identified as the Grandmaternal
Unit (GU) with respects to LRRH). This package was to include:
Your postulations are stereotypical, sorry - they are completely out of touch with the reality as exists here in China.
I'm and American, and I live and work in China - for a large telecom, if that matters.
Make no mistake, the average Chinese internet user is very familiar with proxies (just for starters), and English is not the issue you assume it to be. Most Chinese that use the net also speak/read enough English to get on with things...there are also tons of site that will translate pages to/from many languages, and these are readily available to anyone on the net.
The Chinese are the most curious race on Earth, and the internet is a constant source of new things to discover...something as trivial as a proxy (I use one in Taiwan) or an English technical term (how many American internet users know what a proxy is?_ is hardly going to stand in the way of someone that wants to see what's just over the horizon.
We're talking about a culture that invented the sun-dial and mapped the planet and the solar system before European scholars left their own backyard. They study hard and learn fast.
As for English being the dominant language on the 'net, you can expect that to change by the end of the year, if not sooner. The good news is that English is still the #1 business language, and for now, that is not at risk of changing.
First one ran in the late '60s for the Olympics.
It's still online....
I was on a platform, on the bullet line, one time, outside Tokyo, about 1/4 mile from a tunnel entrance/exit. The tracks leading to the station platform were canted so the train could bank into the turn. You could feel the ion change in the air that preceded the train as it exploded out of the tunnel and blasted past the platform...the locals had one hand on the newspaper and the other wrapped around the nearest pole to counter the terrific buffering as the 1,000 seat wonder blew past. Inside, there are LCDs showing live telemetry - it's very hard to tell how fast you're really moving, since the ride is so smooth and quiet.
I saw a video on TV one time, showing how they run field tests of various sorts...one segment showed a technician putting on an old leather flying helmet and goggles. He climbed a small ladder and slid open a hatch in the roof and stuck his head out...while the train was hurtling along at full speed in the dark of night.
The trains shut down automatically if a quake threatens...they have to keep the lines a significant distance from buildings and roads, so when one of them goes down, it takes a portable bridge crew to get to them. They clean ice off the boggies with high-pressure steam cleaners mounted on bridges when the weather turns cold. Color cameras are mounted everywhere, so that the crew and central control can do visual checks at will.
When the bullets pull into Tokyo Station, the stews inside are just like on a 747, with a replacement crew lined up along the platform, waiting for shift change. All neat as a pin. The 'pilots' are dressed just like commercial airline staff, and draw huge crowds, with autograph seekers and train groupies galore. I had my photo taken with one, and he even let me wear his hat:)
They have a mini-shinkansen that goes up into the mountains for weekend ski trips that is the best looking...all smoked glass and dark gun-metal gray, with green pinstripes. The mega-shinkansen is a double-decker design, that looks a bit ungainly, yet it still manages speeds high enough to match domestic airline travel times.
You have to ride on one of these beasts to appreciate them.
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if your device has enough memory to hold it and is fast enough cpu-wise to sustain a decent gbit pipe. Regular consumer pc having drives fast enough to get a dvd in a minute?
.3gp video and the file size for an entire DVD is less than 50mb. I converted the Terminator DVD for use on my PSP (MP4) and it comes down to 287 mb, with stereo and wonderful clarity. No need to download 5+gb's just to watch a movie.
It's not about a device having enough memory to hold the download - it is about having a pipe that can push large amounts of data. Streaming video/audio, which will come to a handset or other mobile device thru the air.
I think the DVD comparison is more about size than content.
There is no need for movies to be gb's when viewed on a handset - As an example, my phone (Motorola E680i) plays
If you talk about a 7" widescreen LCD for use in a car, then you would see files larger, but again, nothing along the lines of 5+gb.
The content won't be targeted for download and storage, just streaming. Of course, some of us will find an excuse to archive it, but that's another story...
For those too lazy to go read for themselves...
"Many claim to still see patterns as iTunes rambles through their music collection, but the majority of these patterns are simply multiple songs from the same artist. Think of it this way: If you have 2000 songs and 40 of them are from the same artist, there is always a 2% chance of hearing them next with random play. So right after one of their songs finishes, odds almost guarantee they will be played again within the next 50 songs and show a 50% chance they will play again within the next 25 songs. It's simply the mind's tendency to find a pattern that makes you think iTunes has a preference."
BOFH podcasts....now that's a match made in digital heaven :)
Or how about a website that reads other sites and podcasts them automatically? You supply a url and the 'bot stufs it where iTunes can grab it.
He claims "It's amazing how many day-to-day operations require the inadvertent use of Windows in our daily lives."
And then goes on to put things in his own micro-view.
That hand-held that runs CE was engineered on a Unix system...shipped to the US on a frieghter running another flavor of Unix. The packaging and user manual were designed on a Mac. Same goes for that laptop in the kitchen.
That ATM he mistakenly refers to ties into a network control center that runs on solaris.
I'd go on, but I have to get to work, and my pda phone that runs on Linux is telling me I'll miss the bus if I don't get moving.
The ATM machine happens to run embedded Windows!
This guy isn't capable of having an opinion on anything technical, much less an OS. It seems clear also that the damage done by 'daily' exposure to windows is in full swing, at the least.
The telecom I work for here in China has mobile user locating data available now.
:)
It's simply a matter of doing the math, based on how long it takes signals to reach the handset from a couple of towers, vs. the known/fixed coordinates of the towers. Nearly as accurate as consumer GPS, but with the additional benefit of being able to work indoors
will cost me even more then the licenses alone...
...still paying license fees
...still not paying fees and questions are all answered.
...still paying license fees
...still not paying fees, and questions were all answered two years back.
...still paying license fees
...still not paying fees, and questions were all answered years ago.
2005 scenario 1: Keeping MS...paying license fees
2005 scenario 2: Switching to OO...answer questions alot. Not paying fees
2006 scenario 1 MS:
2006 scenario 2 OO:
2007 scenario 1 MS:
2007 scenario 2 OO:
2008 scenario 1 MS:
2008 scenario 2 OO:
iPod Levy first came into our town. I'd heard a lot about Canadians from my Grandfather. He would always tell the same tale, about how every leap year, they would come down out of the North...10's of thousands of them, and take the cattle and the women...only the ugly women, tho. He said he could never eat Canadian beef again, after watching them load all those heifers onto railcars, one after the other...
When iPod Levy pulled up in front of the Wallgreen's, and the dust settled around his jet black Avanti, no one was sure what to do. Call the Sheriff? Look the other way? Introduce him to your ugly sister?
iPod went into the drugstore, and walked around to the self-serve counter, and waited patiently for the Pharmacist to come over.
I hid around behind a stack of plaid sun hats, and strained to listen, as Mr. Levy laid out his proposition to Howard, the pharmacist. "I'll bring in the same quality pain killers and beta-blockers as you're buying now, but for 1/2 price. All you have to do is sell me cheap chewing tobacco...is it a deal?"
After iPod left, well, months after he left, actually, the whole town seemed to perk up...sort of more alive, like. I'll never know if it had anything to do with iPod Levy's arrival, but one thing I'm sure of, we haven't seen an ugly woman around these parts for more than a generation...
(-2)+(-3)=+1 is Slashdot Moderator Math
:)
finally...I knew someone would get the joke
If I tell you negative information, you'll know less.
So, if two people tell me negative information, I'll know more?
Lived in North Highlands & Fair Oaks, Orangevale...Carmichael...Folsom...worked in various sectors, including Roseville and West Sac.
I've been in Asia for more than the last decade. Southern China at the moment. The Police here tend to leave me pretty much to myself. They don't see much need for the kinds of games the cops play in Sacto.
I doubt they'd appreciate the exposure ./ really provides, eh? :)
I've been involved in my share of being chased by those guys...they don't take it very well when your hardware outclasses theirs. The Sac county CHP really gets upset when you outrun their slowpoke of an airborne officer.
...after living in Sacto for much too long, let me shed a bit of light on how this works.
When the time comes to discuss annual budgets at the Sheriff's department, or the CHP, as an example, these dopes head out and bust anyone they can find...and then get a headline in the paper. The point being to somehow rationalize their pitiful existance as supposed civil servants and keep themselves off the unemployment rosters.
I know I've helped sponsor a new wing on the CHP training academy.
I don't see the word 'defect'
...that's what I'm disputing. We really have no idea how DNA defines good nor bad. 'it' is a man-made supposition, used to facilitate an argument that exists only in our minds. DNA could care less what conclusions we've come to as pertains to how things nucleic bend, break or bolster, yet we don't hesitate to tell it how to fold the map so it will fit back into the glovebox...again, hubris.
You're arguing _with_ me now, you realize. Reminds me of that old Foghorn Leghorn cartoon... IS! ISN'T!... IS! ISN'T!... IS! ISN'T!... IS! ISN'T!... ISN'T!! IS!!...ok, if you insist...
It has always been known
"A mutation occurs when a DNA gene is damaged or changed in such a way as to alter the genetic message carried by that gene. A Mutagen is an agent of substance that can bring about a permanent alteration to the physical composition of a DNA gene such that the genetic message is changed. Once the gene has been damaged or changed the mRNA transcribed from that gene will now carry an altered message."
It is this type of 'traditional' logic that I'm disputing. I say we are not in any postition to outline what defines 'mutation'. How do we know that the DNA didn't 'damage' itself as part of a prescribed routine?
Forget gloves...put the arm and hand into a hardened waldo and let a full synthetic appendage do the work.
Having something as fragile as the human hand, inside something as complicated as what is being proposed, isn't a solution.
Mutations occur
Who's to say what is and isn't a 'mutation'?
With Down's Syndrome routinely viewed as a mutation (defined as a defect), what is going to happen to all the 'science' that exists now when we find out that DS is really a pre-cursor to the next generation of mankind, and not a genetic malfunction (defect) at all? I say DS is simply one of many prototypes on the table, and not some code gone awry.
Current thinking lacks not only proper bias in observation, but the inherent ability to free itself from a stilted POV.
As a species, we demonstrate well-honed hindsight...we can't see the next leap because we don't have the inherent capabilities, not because we simply haven't asked the right questions just yet.
BTW, butterfiles exist as a side project to alert m'duh nature when the proposed vehicle (cocoon) works out. Only after such information is gathered will she decide where and how to apply it next.
As long as you're playing list mom, why not frag someone over the real issue...redundant storie.
This is a serious request for experienced technical writers willing to consider living and working in China. This means 5 years or more experience, with telecom industry experience preferred. Native English speakers only. No interns need apply, etc.
Please contact Ken at kmtkr@hotmail.com
Note there are currently three job openings at this level.
As for the book, I agree with those that see the value in the subject. I also agree with those pointing out that tech writers have little to fear from engineers suddenly becoming adept at writing for people outside their sphere. With most engineers believing that everyone speaks the way they do, good tech writers can look forward to long and prosperous careers.
"They're trying to learn lessons from their failure on the music side, where Apple blew them out of the water."
Remember now, this is the company head that penned a not-so-best seller titled 'The Road Ahead'. Billy missed the mark on all predictions, and there is no reason to see that changing any time soon.
Being run down by Apple shows they're nothing more than a deer in the headlights. Where's Bob? Isn't Clippy impressive? Remember the home video system named Tiger? How do you like being asked where you want to go today, instead of being given interesting options up front?
Gates and company want more out of consumer pockets, that's all. They're business model is finally being seen what it is by the masses, and the masses are moving on down the road...without Bob's help, by the way.
Dear bill they love you there in pakistan
you know how hard it is to be an also ran
and since the trial you've been working so hard on your tan
to do everything you think you duly can
to be doted on and smiled at by even just one fan
The EU said go away...China said come back another day, so now it's third world slumming for you while you pray
that you don't end up in a pakistani jail where you'll get blown away. die bill die
This tweak at it, from off the 'net, of course, is a good example:
Little Red Riding Hood
At a previous but undetermined timeframe, a single-family domestic domicile was inhabited by a young girl, known as Little Red Riding Hood (LRRH), and her Maternal Parent (MP). The Maternal Parent (MP) had once provided for the fabrication of an article of clothing, a cloak in nature (including a "hood" or protective covering for the head of the wearer), that was RGB code [255,0,0] in hue (aka, "red"). As a result of this action, and the resultant repeated usage of the "hood", the young girl was always known as LRRH in substitution for the name identified on her birth certificate and other identifying documentation.
During one 24-hour interval, a request was issued by the MP for LRRH to deliver a package to the MP's Maternal Parent (MPMP) (genealogically identified as the Grandmaternal Unit (GU) with respects to LRRH). This package was to include:
Does Slashdot think Shanda will succeed where Microsoft thought it would fail?"
MS failed/fails because it is MS. Load of crap to think anything else.
Shanda will succeed because it knows it's markets...very simple.
Your postulations are stereotypical, sorry - they are completely out of touch with the reality as exists here in China.
I'm and American, and I live and work in China - for a large telecom, if that matters.
Make no mistake, the average Chinese internet user is very familiar with proxies (just for starters), and English is not the issue you assume it to be. Most Chinese that use the net also speak/read enough English to get on with things...there are also tons of site that will translate pages to/from many languages, and these are readily available to anyone on the net.
The Chinese are the most curious race on Earth, and the internet is a constant source of new things to discover...something as trivial as a proxy (I use one in Taiwan) or an English technical term (how many American internet users know what a proxy is?_ is hardly going to stand in the way of someone that wants to see what's just over the horizon.
We're talking about a culture that invented the sun-dial and mapped the planet and the solar system before European scholars left their own backyard. They study hard and learn fast.
As for English being the dominant language on the 'net, you can expect that to change by the end of the year, if not sooner. The good news is that English is still the #1 business language, and for now, that is not at risk of changing.
First one ran in the late '60s for the Olympics.
:)
It's still online....
I was on a platform, on the bullet line, one time, outside Tokyo, about 1/4 mile from a tunnel entrance/exit. The tracks leading to the station platform were canted so the train could bank into the turn. You could feel the ion change in the air that preceded the train as it exploded out of the tunnel and blasted past the platform...the locals had one hand on the newspaper and the other wrapped around the nearest pole to counter the terrific buffering as the 1,000 seat wonder blew past. Inside, there are LCDs showing live telemetry - it's very hard to tell how fast you're really moving, since the ride is so smooth and quiet.
I saw a video on TV one time, showing how they run field tests of various sorts...one segment showed a technician putting on an old leather flying helmet and goggles. He climbed a small ladder and slid open a hatch in the roof and stuck his head out...while the train was hurtling along at full speed in the dark of night.
The trains shut down automatically if a quake threatens...they have to keep the lines a significant distance from buildings and roads, so when one of them goes down, it takes a portable bridge crew to get to them. They clean ice off the boggies with high-pressure steam cleaners mounted on bridges when the weather turns cold. Color cameras are mounted everywhere, so that the crew and central control can do visual checks at will.
When the bullets pull into Tokyo Station, the stews inside are just like on a 747, with a replacement crew lined up along the platform, waiting for shift change. All neat as a pin. The 'pilots' are dressed just like commercial airline staff, and draw huge crowds, with autograph seekers and train groupies galore. I had my photo taken with one, and he even let me wear his hat
They have a mini-shinkansen that goes up into the mountains for weekend ski trips that is the best looking...all smoked glass and dark gun-metal gray, with green pinstripes. The mega-shinkansen is a double-decker design, that looks a bit ungainly, yet it still manages speeds high enough to match domestic airline travel times.
You have to ride on one of these beasts to appreciate them.