Cell phones are overhyped, they are just too limited
They're being hobbled on purpose. My phone has as much CPU and memory as most of the computers that ran Office 97 when it was released. With a dock that provided VGA and USB, it could connect to external hard drives, monitor, mouse/keyboard etc and become the core of a desktop machine.
There's a theshold effect here. Once a computer (including PDA, phone etc) has enough grunt to do email/office/web etc, it's enough of a computer for most users. This generation of PDA/Phones has reached that threshold, and I suspect the next generation will surpass it. All they need is connectivity to external display and input devices and they're a complete solution.
The need for the big box and grunty CPU is mostly marketing and mindset.
Control requires a centralized infrastructure, and that is exactly why government will make decentralized networks illegal.
That's the way its working out here. It looks like freenets will never have legal common carrier status. As a result, each node will be liable for the content of the traffic passing through it. If someone downloads a bomb recipe, the owner of each node the recipe passes through will have participated in an act of terrorism, and will be liable to prosecution.
That's why ad-hoc networks will be safer - if the mesh is established entirely in hardware, and connections are transient, it is much harder to determine and prosecute the owner of each node.
What I'd like to see is peer-to-peer community networks which use each device as a node. That would free us from this centralised manipulation of the market.
There are already fairly successful attempts to provide this with existing wifi hardware - http://www.e3.com.au/, for example. How hard would it be to design devices that would set themselves up in a self-managed mesh network which requires no centre?
Leaks viewing/listening history through firewall directly to MPAA/RIAA?
I love the way the most visible part of the screenshots is a threat;
Unauthorised reproduction or distribution of this computer program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.
Now for the bonus points, how much power would you need to generate to sustain flight at that speed? You'd need to make some assumptions about Cd, frontal area, mass etc, but that shouldn't be too hard.
Yep, if you start at midday and make sure you're travelling at 1669 kph (Mach 1.7), you'll have the sun overhead for the whole trip. Actually, by starting at sunrise and landing at dusk, you could travel a fair bit slower - about 1100kmh (Mach 1.1), I think. probably not achievable with solar power, but not that far out of reach either.
Perhaps that algae will also help solve the problem of the annual wine dumpings?
Good on 'em I say. I bin doin' my bit ta turn wine inta water, an' the more the merrier. Hic. Don't worry me one bit they're single-celled vegatables. Least they'll talk better than them kiwi rugby players. Hic.
If you want a quick summary of their conclusions though, people who commit evil do so because they do not feel the lives of their victims are of any consequence. Katherine Ramsland uses the term "You Exist For Me", an attitude I see mirrored only too frequently in corporate behaviour.
Their actual actions are constrained by their visibility, not by their consciences. That's why they are evil.
Sadly, you'll have to scratch Australia from that list. We've already had our government signals agency tapping phones and using aggregate data for political purposes. http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s479149.htm Since there were no repercussions from that instance of domestic spying, you'd have to say there's a strong probabliity they're still doing it.
All of these projects are not succeeding because they're "anti-microsoft", they're succeeding because they're good . Microsoft cannot and has not squashed these "free" projects, because they can compete with Microsoft, and win on the merits of their usefulness.
Projects are not formats. Projects will win on merits (eventually). Formats can be quashed forever if a monopoly player leverages their power.
Microsoft has done this before, and is in the process of doing it again with e-ink formats. The open InkML format http://www.w3.org/TR/InkML/ and the Jot interchange format http://unipen.nici.kun.nl/jot.html format, which Microsoft even participated in developing, have been abandoned for their own closed, proprietary and patent encumbered format in Tablet PCs.
Remember, this is the binary Ink format which ODF does not support, and which Microsoft states is one of the reasons they won't support ODF. This is all about leverage. Microsoft is leveraging its desktop monopoly to quash Jot. They're leveraging their monopoly to quash InkML. They're leveraging their monopoly to try to quash ODF.
They're doing this so that their customers cannot migrate to better alternatives when they're available, and developers like myself don't even try to compete, because we know those customers we might attract are nailed to Microsoft by those proprietary formats. That's wonderful for Microsoft, but bloody awful for customers and competitors.
Until the FOSS community in general gets over this "victimized" stance
Except what I've said is that it's not the FOSS community which is being victimised, it's all computer users.
ODF is the first opportunity for commercial and FOSS competition to break the Microsoft stranglehold on office formats. My own company makes a (commercial) reliability/risk management tool. Our customers would like it to export to a word-processable format, and until now that's been subject to the limitations of.RTF. Now, with ODF we have a way of giving our customers what they want with the security of knowing there are no nastly little patent "gotchas" in there.
The terms of this "battle" really do seem to be pitched by many as an ODF versus MSFT issue.
No, the battle has been MSFT against any potential competitor.
ODF has been defended by many because of Microsoft's attacks, but activities like pointing out the traps in Office-XML are more akin to signposting minefields than fighting battles, in that they benefit all potential competitors.
Do I not recall a successful test of the British and Australian built Hyshot III in Australia earlier this year
You do recall. In fact, all this bleating about lack of collaboration and pooling resources is just polemic. Hyshot IS a collaborative effort, and results ARE being shared.
You say,... "This allows ink to be viewed in applications that are not ink-enabled and maintain its full ink fidelity when it returns to an ink-enabled application."
I didn't say that, Microsoft did. It's a quote from their Tablet PC API documentation.
Microsoft Word uses technologies like 'Ink' and as well as even voice structure, in addition to rich media formats that there is no STANDARD way of storing this in an ODF.
"Ink" information can be stored in an ODF document using the Gif format as a metatdata container. This can be specified by using the Gif parameter of the Ink.Save Method.
From MSDN;
Gif
2
Specifies ink that is persisted by using a Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) file that contains ISF as metadata embedded within the file.
This allows ink to be viewed in applications that are not ink-enabled and maintain its full ink fidelity when it returns to an ink-enabled application. This format is ideal when transporting ink content within an HTML file and making it usable by ink-enabled and ink-unaware applications.
We've been using underground radio in Australian mines for decades. Leaky feeder systems are common in most mechanised mines, and personal emergency devices (PED) are available that use ULF signals to transmit text messages through the ground. If this guy has found a way to encode voice as well it's an improvement, but not groundbreaking (pun intended).
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They're being hobbled on purpose. My phone has as much CPU and memory as most of the computers that ran Office 97 when it was released. With a dock that provided VGA and USB, it could connect to external hard drives, monitor, mouse/keyboard etc and become the core of a desktop machine.
There's a theshold effect here. Once a computer (including PDA, phone etc) has enough grunt to do email/office/web etc, it's enough of a computer for most users. This generation of PDA/Phones has reached that threshold, and I suspect the next generation will surpass it. All they need is connectivity to external display and input devices and they're a complete solution.
The need for the big box and grunty CPU is mostly marketing and mindset.
Mr President, I'd like to be the first to welcome you to Slashdot...
That's the way its working out here. It looks like freenets will never have legal common carrier status. As a result, each node will be liable for the content of the traffic passing through it. If someone downloads a bomb recipe, the owner of each node the recipe passes through will have participated in an act of terrorism, and will be liable to prosecution.
That's why ad-hoc networks will be safer - if the mesh is established entirely in hardware, and connections are transient, it is much harder to determine and prosecute the owner of each node.
Thanks for that - very cool link.
There are already fairly successful attempts to provide this with existing wifi hardware - http://www.e3.com.au/, for example. How hard would it be to design devices that would set themselves up in a self-managed mesh network which requires no centre?
I love the way the most visible part of the screenshots is a threat;
You are Microsoft customers. Obey your masters.Yes, sir. I will now click "Submit"...
Really? I thought he was a real pissant who was very rarely stable.
They have that already. If one of those little accidents occurs, the SUS sytem turns pale yellow and starts smelling strange.
I rounded up...
Now for the bonus points, how much power would you need to generate to sustain flight at that speed? You'd need to make some assumptions about Cd, frontal area, mass etc, but that shouldn't be too hard.
Yep, if you start at midday and make sure you're travelling at 1669 kph (Mach 1.7), you'll have the sun overhead for the whole trip. Actually, by starting at sunrise and landing at dusk, you could travel a fair bit slower - about 1100kmh (Mach 1.1), I think. probably not achievable with solar power, but not that far out of reach either.
No, they used a Diebold AccuVote-TSX touch screen system...
Good on 'em I say. I bin doin' my bit ta turn wine inta water, an' the more the merrier. Hic. Don't worry me one bit they're single-celled vegatables. Least they'll talk better than them kiwi rugby players. Hic.
I love you guys. Hic.
You might like to read "Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil" by Fred Katz, and there's an essay here which discusses the genesis of criminal evil here http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psycholo gy/evil2/1.html.
If you want a quick summary of their conclusions though, people who commit evil do so because they do not feel the lives of their victims are of any consequence. Katherine Ramsland uses the term "You Exist For Me", an attitude I see mirrored only too frequently in corporate behaviour.
Their actual actions are constrained by their visibility, not by their consciences. That's why they are evil.
So if the movie industry wants its products to play on the most popular console in the business, they'll have to leave the DRM off?
Gee, how sad...
Sadly, you'll have to scratch Australia from that list. We've already had our government signals agency tapping phones and using aggregate data for political purposes. http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s479149.htm Since there were no repercussions from that instance of domestic spying, you'd have to say there's a strong probabliity they're still doing it.
Projects are not formats. Projects will win on merits (eventually). Formats can be quashed forever if a monopoly player leverages their power.
Microsoft has done this before, and is in the process of doing it again with e-ink formats. The open InkML format http://www.w3.org/TR/InkML/ and the Jot interchange format http://unipen.nici.kun.nl/jot.html format, which Microsoft even participated in developing, have been abandoned for their own closed, proprietary and patent encumbered format in Tablet PCs.
Remember, this is the binary Ink format which ODF does not support, and which Microsoft states is one of the reasons they won't support ODF. This is all about leverage. Microsoft is leveraging its desktop monopoly to quash Jot. They're leveraging their monopoly to quash InkML. They're leveraging their monopoly to try to quash ODF.
They're doing this so that their customers cannot migrate to better alternatives when they're available, and developers like myself don't even try to compete, because we know those customers we might attract are nailed to Microsoft by those proprietary formats. That's wonderful for Microsoft, but bloody awful for customers and competitors.
Yeah, and you do NOT want to know where Myspace ends up...
Except what I've said is that it's not the FOSS community which is being victimised, it's all computer users.
ODF is the first opportunity for commercial and FOSS competition to break the Microsoft stranglehold on office formats. My own company makes a (commercial) reliability/risk management tool. Our customers would like it to export to a word-processable format, and until now that's been subject to the limitations of .RTF. Now, with ODF we have a way of giving our customers what they want with the security of knowing there are no nastly little patent "gotchas" in there.
Amiga Workbench 2.04, released October 1991.
DEVS:narrator.device
L:speak-handler
LIBS:translator.library
C:Say
SYS:PREFS/Translator
SYS:PREFS/Translator.info
ENVARC:Sys/Translator.prefs
LOCALE:Accents/*.accent
SYS:STORAGE/DosDrivers/SPEAK
SYS:STORAGE/DosDrivers/SPEAK.info
Monopolies cost us much more than just money...
No, the battle has been MSFT against any potential competitor.
ODF has been defended by many because of Microsoft's attacks, but activities like pointing out the traps in Office-XML are more akin to signposting minefields than fighting battles, in that they benefit all potential competitors.
You do recall. In fact, all this bleating about lack of collaboration and pooling resources is just polemic. Hyshot IS a collaborative effort, and results ARE being shared.
The context I was replying to was the GP poster claiming there is no standard way of including Ink metadata in ODF.
There is. It has flaws, one of which you have identified here, but it exists.
I didn't say that, Microsoft did. It's a quote from their Tablet PC API documentation.
"Ink" information can be stored in an ODF document using the Gif format as a metatdata container. This can be specified by using the Gif parameter of the Ink.Save Method.
From MSDN;
Gif
2
We've been using underground radio in Australian mines for decades. Leaky feeder systems are common in most mechanised mines, and personal emergency devices (PED) are available that use ULF signals to transmit text messages through the ground. If this guy has found a way to encode voice as well it's an improvement, but not groundbreaking (pun intended).