It's actually pretty different -- square is a simpler, passive device that essentially uses the mic and a tape head (remember those!) to read out the magnetic stripe on the card.
This is actually much more sophisticated, since it harvests enough power from the audio signal to power simple sensors and a microcontroller, as well as giving you two-way communication. Also, it's not iphone-specific -- there are billions of cheap devices that you can now target with the same hardware; from this point of view the advantages are similar to the square.
There are actually several implementations of IPv6 for very low power, embedded devices. Arch Rock (www.archrock.com) has developed a commercial implementation. At Berkeley, we've developed open-source hardware (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~prabal/projects/epic/) and software (ttp://smote.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/tracenv/wiki/b6loWPAN) for low power IPv6 networking. Both the Arch Rock and Berkeley stacks support robust multi-hop IPv6 routing to support a large number of devices.
They actually are increasing the Object ID to 64-bits. The announcement is confusingly written, given, but objects in their system are things like events, groups, and basically everything. It's easy to imagine that they would hit the 32-bit limit on these at some point.
Actually, the correct sentence ought to be:
'For all intents and purposes, you're right. It's sad that they're too stupid to improve their English and loose the bad grammar. It bugs me to no end!'
The original is almost commic, really. Also, it is obviously 'right' as in 'correct', not 'write' as in 'writing with a pen' (re: AC).
Also, re: Elbows, who corrects, 'their to stupid too improve', this correction is obviously not standard. This is hardly scientific, but his version has 1,980 Google hits, while the correct one has 2,680,000.
Now that this is out of the way, I'd like to point out that nacturation's improper use 'for all intensive purposes' is a good example of an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn/
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It's actually pretty different -- square is a simpler, passive device that essentially uses the mic and a tape head (remember those!) to read out the magnetic stripe on the card. This is actually much more sophisticated, since it harvests enough power from the audio signal to power simple sensors and a microcontroller, as well as giving you two-way communication. Also, it's not iphone-specific -- there are billions of cheap devices that you can now target with the same hardware; from this point of view the advantages are similar to the square.
There are actually several implementations of IPv6 for very low power, embedded devices. Arch Rock (www.archrock.com) has developed a commercial implementation. At Berkeley, we've developed open-source hardware (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~prabal/projects/epic/) and software (ttp://smote.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/tracenv/wiki/b6loWPAN) for low power IPv6 networking. Both the Arch Rock and Berkeley stacks support robust multi-hop IPv6 routing to support a large number of devices.
They actually are increasing the Object ID to 64-bits. The announcement is confusingly written, given, but objects in their system are things like events, groups, and basically everything. It's easy to imagine that they would hit the 32-bit limit on these at some point.
The original is almost commic, really. Also, it is obviously 'right' as in 'correct', not 'write' as in 'writing with a pen' (re: AC).
Also, re: Elbows, who corrects, 'their to stupid too improve', this correction is obviously not standard. This is hardly scientific, but his version has 1,980 Google hits, while the correct one has 2,680,000.
Now that this is out of the way, I'd like to point out that nacturation's improper use 'for all intensive purposes' is a good example of an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn/