Interesting how the same folks who complain about losing jobs to Inda/China/wherever are wearing Nikes made in Philipines and listening to an iPod made in China and are probably running a Finnish OS on a computer mainly made in Taiwan or Korea. There's nothing special about geek jobs. They're the same as any other jobs. If they can be shipped overseas and done cheaper --- well that's what is going to happen. The only way to avoid this is to keep ahead of the pack or to get a job that can't be relocated (for now anyway). Crying about it does not help.
Become a plumber, house painter, doctor, whatever. It's probably going to be a long while before teleporting works well enough to take house repair and similar work overseas.
Now that Vista's getting so bloaty, perhaps it will be even slower than WINE. Imagine finding that the faster way to run your Vista apps is on WINCE. Now that would be cool!
Assuming Vista becomes the norm, this will help drive down the costs of gruntier CPUs and RAM. What is currently considered a premium gamers box will become vanilla.
That is entirely good because you will be running Linux and get a hell of a good box for vanilla prices.
Why should there be any reason to trust such an organisation? How do I know it is not just a big phishing scheme? Assuming it is genuine, it would only work until people start abusing it.
Think about it this way: what do eBay and Paypal sell? Nope they don't sell product, they sell trust (a trusted environment in which people can transact). Yet there are plenty people with very good ratings who have been phished. Then two things happen: 1) The good trust is abused to screw over some buyer. (2) The person who had a good rating loses their good rating and gets a black mark against them.
If you use Google to search for something and Google finds the finds for you, then that is just a data seach and hanpering this might be considered censoring. Suggesting implies providing some sort of judgement and giving advice. To clarify the diffeence: consider a school nurse handing out drug information vs handing out suggestions on what drugs to try.
Suggesting to people that they use illegal or inappropriate products or whatever is an irresponsible thing to do unless there's a capable person making the judgement.
Google could filter things, but not everything - because the bad guys put up new hosts so fast, but the bottom line is that if they cannot make the service work properly then they should not provide it at all.
After a certain pixel count, there's not much point in going much further in consumer devices. You're just adding data, but not improving the viewable image. Why have an image that is higher res than a monitor or your eyeball's ability to process data? Where is that cut-off?
A bit like sound... once you get to CD quality, there's not much point in going any further because the speakers, amplifiers etc cause the most distortion and any improvement at theCD end will not make it to your ears.
When you're a listed company, you're driven more by growth than profit. Profit, per se, does not drive up stock price, only growth can do that.
A company like TiVo grows while more and more people use their stuff, but after a while they hit a saturation point and their growth slows down which causes their stock to stagnate. So what to do now to increase growth? Customers won't pay more so the only real alternative is to find alternative revenue streams. The easy one is advertising.
The PC is just that, it is a hub for the devices to hang off for interfacing, connectivity etc. As devices become more capable, the need for a hub falls away.
For example, let's look at internet radio. First off you played it on your PC, then came a range of products that give you remote playing of streams via a PC - but still needed a PC; now a Nokia 770, Palm TX or similar or even a dedicated internet radio player can play internet radio without a PC in the loop.
I need a PC to download stuff from the internet onto an ipod. If the ipod got smart enough (which it probably will soon, or it will lose out to competing products), I'll be able to download podcasts etc directly from a Wifi connection with no PC involved.
As a hub, the PC will surely die just like the need for a ethernet switch falls off as Wifi takes over. Indeed, we're already seeing places where ADSL modem/router with integrated Wifi AP results in completely cable-free installations.
I'm even more shocked! Press journalists are known to be corrupt and inept, but a blogger screwing up.... well that really makes you spill your cup of tea!
In the US, quite a few phone features are turned off because the carriers don't want them available. For example, some phones that are internally wifi capable have the wifi disabled to prevent them meing used as VoIP handsets, thus forcing people to use regular (billable) phone services instead.
So if new apps start to threated revenue streams for the carriers you can expect them to be disbaled. Or, alternatively, you can expect the carriers to provide their own similar services. If you think about how MS destroyed 3rd party middleware developers you'll probably be on the right track.
The cost of setting up a very accurate NTP set-up is far more than the cost of setting up a GPS with a timing output. The GPS would be far more accurate too (accurate to tens of nanoseconds).
If someone initiates the compilation of a shim by executing a bash script, clicking a mouse or loading a CD surely makes no difference. One could argue that in all these cases the user initiated the shim compilation.
Now what about pre-installed Linux on a box with proprietary drivers like Linspire/Wallmart sell? What about those? In these systems the kernel & proprietary drivers are on the same medium (the boot disk).
Same goes for all them thar Linux cell phones, Nokia 770s etc. Proprietary stuff & Linux on the same medium (boot flash).
Kernel tainting is not illegal, it is just that if you send in an oops from a tainted kernel you'll get no support.
Forgetting for a moment that the article summary is wrong, IP "borrowing"/"theft" is as old as forever. Ogg started it when he hid behind a bush and watched how Ugg broke flint to make sharp edges. The Europeans stole mathematical, boat building and navigation technology from the Chinese 600+ years ago and from the Indians at least that long ago. Pythagoras (I can't be arsed checking the spelling) put his name on work that he got from others.
It's quite suprising that the current traffic fits down the wires we have. Billions of Joe Six packs watching video is obviously going to be an issue. Problem though is that internet costs (to the user) are too low, and there's not a lot of money to be made from providing bandwidth so there's very little motivation to improve the situation.
Roads essentially have, or have had, the same issues. These are funded by state/federal taxes and/or toll roads or some other per-use charges. Perhaps a model like this could work for the internet too.
As parent says, the cops already get too many false 999 calls. The manpower to deal with more calls ("Well his eyes are too close together, I bet he just mugged someobdy...") is likely going to be far higher than that required to get the same number of useful results if the cams were closed and watched by trained staff.
Reality TV has just got away with itself. What next? "Vigilante Grannies finger hoods for cash!"
Considering how unarned bobbies struggle to catch a running crim, one wonders how a couch-bound lard-ass is going to do it from the wrong side of an ethernet connection.
If they did this in USA then they could rig up remote controlled guns or such and get a better crime resolution rate.
In the 60's, the Space Race was a nice way to "win" in the cold war. People cared because it was all linked to national pride and semi-justified the fight against communism.
There is no national pride in an international space station. In fact it looks like the opposite. There's also nothing new and it all looks like been there, done that.
The only time most people will care is when it de-orbits and makes a nice firework display.
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Interesting how the same folks who complain about losing jobs to Inda/China/wherever are wearing Nikes made in Philipines and listening to an iPod made in China and are probably running a Finnish OS on a computer mainly made in Taiwan or Korea. There's nothing special about geek jobs. They're the same as any other jobs. If they can be shipped overseas and done cheaper --- well that's what is going to happen. The only way to avoid this is to keep ahead of the pack or to get a job that can't be relocated (for now anyway). Crying about it does not help.
maybe you won't mind going and picking my drycleaning... it's in Australia.
Become a plumber, house painter, doctor, whatever. It's probably going to be a long while before teleporting works well enough to take house repair and similar work overseas.
Sorry s/WINCE/WINE/
Now that Vista's getting so bloaty, perhaps it will be even slower than WINE. Imagine finding that the faster way to run your Vista apps is on WINCE. Now that would be cool!
That is entirely good because you will be running Linux and get a hell of a good box for vanilla prices.
Think about it this way: what do eBay and Paypal sell? Nope they don't sell product, they sell trust (a trusted environment in which people can transact). Yet there are plenty people with very good ratings who have been phished. Then two things happen: 1) The good trust is abused to screw over some buyer. (2) The person who had a good rating loses their good rating and gets a black mark against them.
Suggesting to people that they use illegal or inappropriate products or whatever is an irresponsible thing to do unless there's a capable person making the judgement.
Google could filter things, but not everything - because the bad guys put up new hosts so fast, but the bottom line is that if they cannot make the service work properly then they should not provide it at all.
A bit like sound... once you get to CD quality, there's not much point in going any further because the speakers, amplifiers etc cause the most distortion and any improvement at theCD end will not make it to your ears.
A company like TiVo grows while more and more people use their stuff, but after a while they hit a saturation point and their growth slows down which causes their stock to stagnate. So what to do now to increase growth? Customers won't pay more so the only real alternative is to find alternative revenue streams. The easy one is advertising.
someone had to say it
Now will RIAA sue me?
For example, let's look at internet radio. First off you played it on your PC, then came a range of products that give you remote playing of streams via a PC - but still needed a PC; now a Nokia 770, Palm TX or similar or even a dedicated internet radio player can play internet radio without a PC in the loop.
I need a PC to download stuff from the internet onto an ipod. If the ipod got smart enough (which it probably will soon, or it will lose out to competing products), I'll be able to download podcasts etc directly from a Wifi connection with no PC involved.
As a hub, the PC will surely die just like the need for a ethernet switch falls off as Wifi takes over. Indeed, we're already seeing places where ADSL modem/router with integrated Wifi AP results in completely cable-free installations.
I'm even more shocked! Press journalists are known to be corrupt and inept, but a blogger screwing up.... well that really makes you spill your cup of tea!
Just because we use email, or IRC or the phone to communicate does not really change anything.
The April (IIRC) issue clearly shows how to make aircraft blowing up special effects. This explains the long delay in getting something out.
So if new apps start to threated revenue streams for the carriers you can expect them to be disbaled. Or, alternatively, you can expect the carriers to provide their own similar services. If you think about how MS destroyed 3rd party middleware developers you'll probably be on the right track.
The cost of setting up a very accurate NTP set-up is far more than the cost of setting up a GPS with a timing output. The GPS would be far more accurate too (accurate to tens of nanoseconds).
Now what about pre-installed Linux on a box with proprietary drivers like Linspire/Wallmart sell? What about those? In these systems the kernel & proprietary drivers are on the same medium (the boot disk).
Same goes for all them thar Linux cell phones, Nokia 770s etc. Proprietary stuff & Linux on the same medium (boot flash).
Kernel tainting is not illegal, it is just that if you send in an oops from a tainted kernel you'll get no support.
Forgetting for a moment that the article summary is wrong, IP "borrowing"/"theft" is as old as forever. Ogg started it when he hid behind a bush and watched how Ugg broke flint to make sharp edges. The Europeans stole mathematical, boat building and navigation technology from the Chinese 600+ years ago and from the Indians at least that long ago. Pythagoras (I can't be arsed checking the spelling) put his name on work that he got from others.
Roads essentially have, or have had, the same issues. These are funded by state/federal taxes and/or toll roads or some other per-use charges. Perhaps a model like this could work for the internet too.
Reality TV has just got away with itself. What next? "Vigilante Grannies finger hoods for cash!"
If they did this in USA then they could rig up remote controlled guns or such and get a better crime resolution rate.
There is no national pride in an international space station. In fact it looks like the opposite. There's also nothing new and it all looks like been there, done that.
The only time most people will care is when it de-orbits and makes a nice firework display.
We know most of those make it through to keep a thriving market alive.