It's GPS, it requires line of sight. It could be very simple to block the signal out and drive around for free.
They will also need to monitor you entering various parts of the cities and then do a cross-reference to your travel data. So they might as well just have a congestion charge system as used in London and save everyone the cost of messing up their cars by fitting overpriced GPS hardware (can you say monopoly).
What would you do if you went to the cinema and every 30 minutes they showed you adverts? you'd be a bit miffed.
Being able to skip the commercials is to me about not having my viewing pleasure interrupted by commercials for products I'm not going to buy. I don't need advertising to make an informed choice about buying a product.
Yeah and it's feasible to have a touch sensitive LCD table now, just expensive and not much good with coffee cups.
As for the keybord, yes I mean a keyboard where the symbols on the caps can change to suit the application. Be it LCD or some other tech. Obviously it'll be very expensive right now.
Hardware security solutions require software to work, software can be cracked, therefore hardware solutions don't work.
Look at dongles and other systems, they tend to be cracked. As long as you can snoop what's going on in the PC you can generally find a way of reading and injecting the required code.
Also what happens if your server in another country goes down and you can't get an engineer to sort it out as there's no local smartcard? why you use remote login with a smartcard. Therefore your access code will be sent down the Internet/VPN.
Bill needs to do some proper R&D instead of spouting obvious potential developments.
It's simple, here we go:
I predict the end of magnetic media.
The mouse will be replaced.
We will get tables where the whole surface is a touchscreen.
Keyboards with changing key caps, the keys alter to suit the application.
I can understand why they're keen to experiment with different architectures, but I think such ideas are often panic measures.
Intel knowing that it's 64-bit offering is a lame duck and seeing AMD's opteron cleaning up in many areas is panicing and hoping to produce something radically better.
It was the worry that 32-bit CPUs were going to deliver that gave birth to the whole transputer concept (in the UK of all places).
Have a good read about the concept, it's not too disimilar to what is being proposed today (except the cores are more advanced).
Very simple to implement for GAIM, it's just hard/impossible to implement for the "genuine" clients.
By their very nature IM clients are messaging systems. You just need to send a special messages between clients.
I don't think we'll have a proper P2P system where you can search the lists of people you aren't in contact with, but this will allow people to share their files with the people on their buddy list without any user intervention.
First up, Gentoo is a pain to install, but once it works I think it's one of the best distros.
Anyway, I've tried the following distributions:
Red Hat (and Fedora) Suse Debian Yoper Slackware Mandrake and more.
Gentoo and Debian are the only ones that don't get on my nerves. Slackware is too demanding (I don't have the patience to manually update my system).
Suse and Mandrake try to do everything with GUIs but their GUIs are poor at times, I had to configure my Wireless card by editing the config files directly, so why bother with GUIs if they don't do everything you want?
Also with Suse, Mandrake and other you have releases, you often have to download an ISO to update the system?!?!
Debian is ok (I'd run it now if I had a 32-bit CPU), but their AMD64 port is behind Gentoo in terms of installation and completeness. With Gentoo I emerged a few emulation layers and I was running 32-bit applications in no time. Even Wine works. Had no such luck witn Debian 64-bit.
I've rarely had any problems compiling code with Gentoo, that's one advantage with it, the compiler is required for installation and so the build environment is well configured.
While the core was an improvement on the previous chips the original PentiumPro was rather expensive and in my eyes didn't really offer the sort of performance gains to justify it. Likewise with the initial P4 processors.
Subsequent processors based on the core have been better. But going from a 750Mhz PIII to a 900Mhz Athlon was an incredible leap in performance, so I'd argue that AMD have forced Intel to buck up their ideas.
Itanium is too small a market for Microsoft to devote developer time to. They're better off getting longhorn ready than supporting an already dead platform. Itantium will go the way of the Pentium Pro, another hyped up CPU that never really delivered.
Seems like the Wintel alliance isn't so strong these days. Microsoft opting for IBM's PPC processor for XBox 2 is another example of how they're looking what hardware is best for the job, instead of what their traditional partners can offer.
Maybe not essential for learning the tracks etc.., but feedback from the car is a fairly essential part of the driving experience. You need to feel what's happening, ie. is the car about to understeer.
It's all about living out your fantasies and being able to play your sporting hero.
Of course they're hopelessly unrealistic, there's no g-force when driving a racing car, there's no wind rushing through your hair while you run around a football pitch etc..
Surely a file format can be patented, you tend to patent methods and a file format can be argued as a method for storing data. All you need is enough trickery in the method for representing the data int the file and you stand to make your format fairly safe.
Also you could also compress the data using a homegrown compression algorithm and then patent that algorithm. This would prevent people from being able to use your file format. See GIF for an example of what happens when the patent for compression used in a file format is enforced.
Well under current laws this wouldn't be allowed. You have to view the code, write down the basic specs on paper and then get someone else to write the code, or "Clean room design" as it's commonly known as:
Slashdot Mirror
Novell takes $2BN and settles the case.
Honestly, the only company that I believe has the resources to see through a case against Microsoft to the bitter end is Oracle.
It's GPS, it requires line of sight. It could be very simple to block the signal out and drive around for free.
They will also need to monitor you entering various parts of the cities and then do a cross-reference to your travel data. So they might as well just have a congestion charge system as used in London and save everyone the cost of messing up their cars by fitting overpriced GPS hardware (can you say monopoly).
What would you do if you went to the cinema and every 30 minutes they showed you adverts? you'd be a bit miffed.
Being able to skip the commercials is to me about not having my viewing pleasure interrupted by commercials for products I'm not going to buy. I don't need advertising to make an informed choice about buying a product.
Microsoft were late into the race, lets also not forget that earlier versions of Netscape were shareware, cost about $25 IIRC.
The feeling that your browser window was about to crash, the feeling of boredom while it loaded.
C'mon, Netscape of old was inferior to IE. With Firefox it's finally matured into something decent, both in terms of appearance and performance.
I'd almost say Netscape RIP, the brand does a diservice to Mozilla, people will remember the old clunky Netscape and think Firefox is like that.
Was just thinking that myself :)
:)
"We have Pentium 90 running at 2GHz"
Maybe they can put some mp3s on the computer, I'd like to see the RIAA tackle that one
Disney have progressively lost their magic, preferring the sequel route to making money than actually coming up with ideas.
It's not like they ever came up with many of the ideas anyway, some of their greatest works are based upon famous stories and bedtime stories.
I can understand Pixar's opinion on this, they're highly creative people who want to keep creating new characters and stories. Not rehashing old ones.
Why? because skipping adverts isn't stealing.
Yeah and it's feasible to have a touch sensitive LCD table now, just expensive and not much good with coffee cups.
As for the keybord, yes I mean a keyboard where the symbols on the caps can change to suit the application. Be it LCD or some other tech. Obviously it'll be very expensive right now.
Hardware security solutions require software to work, software can be cracked, therefore hardware solutions don't work.
Look at dongles and other systems, they tend to be cracked. As long as you can snoop what's going on in the PC you can generally find a way of reading and injecting the required code.
Also what happens if your server in another country goes down and you can't get an engineer to sort it out as there's no local smartcard? why you use remote login with a smartcard. Therefore your access code will be sent down the Internet/VPN.
Bill needs to do some proper R&D instead of spouting obvious potential developments.
It's simple, here we go:
I predict the end of magnetic media.
The mouse will be replaced.
We will get tables where the whole surface is a touchscreen.
Keyboards with changing key caps, the keys alter to suit the application.
etc..
I can understand why they're keen to experiment with different architectures, but I think such ideas are often panic measures.
Intel knowing that it's 64-bit offering is a lame duck and seeing AMD's opteron cleaning up in many areas is panicing and hoping to produce something radically better.
It was the worry that 32-bit CPUs were going to deliver that gave birth to the whole transputer concept (in the UK of all places).
Have a good read about the concept, it's not too disimilar to what is being proposed today (except the cores are more advanced).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
The main purpose of freezing the drive is to cool a malfunctioning chip, allowing it to function for a brief period of time.
Of course a can of freezer spray will probably do just as good a job.
Very simple to implement for GAIM, it's just hard/impossible to implement for the "genuine" clients.
By their very nature IM clients are messaging systems. You just need to send a special messages between clients.
I don't think we'll have a proper P2P system where you can search the lists of people you aren't in contact with, but this will allow people to share their files with the people on their buddy list without any user intervention.
First up, Gentoo is a pain to install, but once it works I think it's one of the best distros.
Anyway, I've tried the following distributions:
Red Hat (and Fedora)
Suse
Debian
Yoper
Slackware
Mandrake
and more.
Gentoo and Debian are the only ones that don't get on my nerves. Slackware is too demanding (I don't have the patience to manually update my system).
Suse and Mandrake try to do everything with GUIs but their GUIs are poor at times, I had to configure my Wireless card by editing the config files directly, so why bother with GUIs if they don't do everything you want?
Also with Suse, Mandrake and other you have releases, you often have to download an ISO to update the system?!?!
Debian is ok (I'd run it now if I had a 32-bit CPU), but their AMD64 port is behind Gentoo in terms of installation and completeness. With Gentoo I emerged a few emulation layers and I was running 32-bit applications in no time. Even Wine works. Had no such luck witn Debian 64-bit.
I've rarely had any problems compiling code with Gentoo, that's one advantage with it, the compiler is required for installation and so the build environment is well configured.
http://www.byte.com/art/9608/img/086bita2.htm
As you can see, PPro improved FPU performance quite a bit but integer wasn't improved that much.
2.1 vs 2.8 for integer. Of course the PPro could be used in dual CPU arrangements, but only with NT.
Interesting to see how far ahead and better the PowerPC processor was at that point.
While the core was an improvement on the previous chips the original PentiumPro was rather expensive and in my eyes didn't really offer the sort of performance gains to justify it. Likewise with the initial P4 processors.
Subsequent processors based on the core have been better. But going from a 750Mhz PIII to a 900Mhz Athlon was an incredible leap in performance, so I'd argue that AMD have forced Intel to buck up their ideas.
The original Pentium Pro CPU, not the subsequent processors based upon that line.
Itanium is too small a market for Microsoft to devote developer time to. They're better off getting longhorn ready than supporting an already dead platform. Itantium will go the way of the Pentium Pro, another hyped up CPU that never really delivered.
Seems like the Wintel alliance isn't so strong these days. Microsoft opting for IBM's PPC processor for XBox 2 is another example of how they're looking what hardware is best for the job, instead of what their traditional partners can offer.
Lets also not forget that business often sponsors research that puts certain products in a good light. Journalists love printing that kinda stuff.
"Wine is good for you"
"Coffee is good for you"
etc...
It's all distorted science to keep share prices up.
Maybe not essential for learning the tracks etc.., but feedback from the car is a fairly essential part of the driving experience. You need to feel what's happening, ie. is the car about to understeer.
It's all about living out your fantasies and being able to play your sporting hero.
Of course they're hopelessly unrealistic, there's no g-force when driving a racing car, there's no wind rushing through your hair while you run around a football pitch etc..
Surely a file format can be patented, you tend to patent methods and a file format can be argued as a method for storing data. All you need is enough trickery in the method for representing the data int the file and you stand to make your format fairly safe.
Also you could also compress the data using a homegrown compression algorithm and then patent that algorithm. This would prevent people from being able to use your file format. See GIF for an example of what happens when the patent for compression used in a file format is enforced.
Well under current laws this wouldn't be allowed. You have to view the code, write down the basic specs on paper and then get someone else to write the code, or "Clean room design" as it's commonly known as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
Commercially driven hackers?
Business rivals? (alleged code copying)
Open Source community? (alleged code stealing)
I'm sure they don't have many Linux using customers. Anyone with a clue about OSes will also have a clue about ISPs.