i'd say the pressing need is integration with everything while staying in control of the content.
i don't want g+ to replace facebook, twitter and my private blog... i want it to become the tool to manage all my online presences/outlets.
example: that android image/video auto-push and later publish function is pretty cool. i would use it a lot, if i could publish uploaded media to youtube, facebook, flicker,... from the already uploded g+ cache.
example: i find a funny webcomic... i want to publish the url on twitter with a hashtag and since it's funny, i also want it to show up on facebook (with a thumbnai!)... so i should be able to use my g+ app or the webinterface to do that. nice sideffect for google: i would also automatically publish in g+.
over time it could be, that i discover, i don't really need twitter anymore, because meanwhile most interesting people i followed on twitter also double publish via g+. i can now directly follow them on g+ only.
another problem i see with g+ is, the integration of twitter style "only short messages and urls" and the blog/journal style "long story about something" messages in one feed. i am not interested in long text when browsing my circles for news and interesting stuff. (a la browsing reddit for stupid cat images and memes)... i want short text. so they should either create a separate feed-thingie for articles, or make reasonable small summaries (140 char has proven to work remarkably well in our short-attention-span times).
i could go on, but it all comes back to seamless integration. allright, now hire me and i tell you more...
"Most of all, though, if SMS and MMS really are “free” for a mobile carrier — if they really don’t conflict with voice and data traffic — perhaps the creator of Smozzy has *inadvertently stumbled* across an amazing, *untapped resource*."
also, sms go through control channels, but i always thought getting the data payload of an mms *does* require a data connection through grps or what ever means there are in your 2g or 3g network... but i could be wrong. (also this mms fetch traffic could be included in the t-mobile contract)
how about you and your colleagues on the other side of the world simply schedule meetings using utc?... instant-non-confusion!... meeting is at 10 utc... call is at 22:30 utc... put a utc clock on your desktop, buy a wristwatch with two zones and outlook converts the invitation to local time anyway... done.
you still use am/pm!? are stupid or something? the day has 24 hours. this and dst ware way more realistic things to get rid instead of forcing people to get up at 9pm in the morning and switch from eg. august 27th to 28th at 12pm during the first coffee break...
That's just sad... it should be landed on the moon. It it's too big in one piece, dismantle it and land the components. Even refurbishing as a "robot station" with just that robotic arm and the solar sails and some positioning systems for satellite repair or something would be better, than letting it all crash and burn. how about parking it in a different orbit... maybe around the moon?
RichiH obviously is more a Stallman guy asking for a diy and possibly opensource solution, that kept all his family data on privately owned systems...
so why all the jungle/dropbox/flickr answers? has slashdot sunken that deep?
what i do: - a fileserver with raid5 at my place and one at my parents' - nightly rsync replication of their data to my server and my data to theirs over ssh
-... so we always have two copies of the data and local redundancy
- allows fast access to all data even huge amounts in the hundreds of gigs dimension and also if internet is somehow slow or down - this of course is no backup in the classic meaning! however rsync does not delete data on the replication site if you don't tell it too, so you kind of have protection against mistakenly deleted data too (unlike with only raid)
too bad nokia did not invest in a better designer. the 770 looks much better imo. they should at least make a black version. also the hard cover of the 770 will be missed by some i guess.
microsoft has its "own", "complete" iptv solution (for real tv and video on demand and stuff) from streaming servers to set top box software. this is not windows mce and cannot be compared to mythtv.
if you had actually read the linked article before commenting you would have found this (http://www.microsoft.com/tv/IPTVEdition.mspx) link to microsofts product site.
you are just wrong. i thought about this a while now. my perspective: i was the last but one in my class to get a cellphone. that was about 7 years ago. today: the cphone is my always-on connection when i have no internet to get my work-emails, or need to organize my cinema dates or whatever. mobile phones are not a virus and not a religion: they are an artificaial extension of the human communication organs (voice/brain/listening).
cell phones, and especially: LIVING with cell phones could imo be seen as a step in the human evolution, because a basic need: the need to communicate, has extended its range enourmously.. unbelievably.. combined with the internet: globally, indefinetly.
its not cancer, not a virus, not evil, its one of the first steps to human-machine combination, which some people see as the most likely way of future human EVOLUTION.
since all content that is uploaded to utube grants all rights to utube... they should use their rights and take it all and create a moderated tv channel. broadcast over sat, cable and iptv -- 24/7. everybody loves that shows where people send home videos. this is the next generation of home videos. millions submit their videos, viewable online 24/7 in low quality and in sdtv or even higher resolution on tv.
statistics from online usage/viewage/country distribution/etc could be gathered to create localized tv programming... THIS is how u #tube can and imo will make huge amounts of money... a combination with google's interest and personalization based advertising systems extended to streaming video services would be a logical extension (to gain even more income).
ok, maybe i am just hallucinating, but since tv and the web WILL (and already is) merge(ing) in the near future(now) anyways, why not start with the most popular online video service there is?!
i just recently had a class about law and stuff.. and it was said there that for something to be patended, it needs to be "not comprised out of things already state of technology"... so just talking technology floating around and putting it together is not a new invention worthy of patent protection.
so why do all these software related patends ignore that? like scrollbars or progressbars.. they have been there since forever. they are common technology and not "new".
as with emoticons: they are based on the 70ties smiley, and just represent a way of "drawing" smileys with ascii charachters. drawing with ascii characters is also a pretty old "technology". result: not new.
if cingular's patent is all about the "replace image with ascii smiley to be transmitted in an sms, and then converted back"... well that has also been in icq & co for ages and not "new".
google serves web advertising that fits the viewer and the site they are placed on today. with to rise of iptv that could be expanded easily to the tv screen and our livingrooms. iptv providers just sell commercial time to google and they send the right ads to the right end-user.
there is no innovation at all. it has all been done before. microsoft has to offer a solution in this area. it has no choice. unfortunately for them they do not offer much besides the little media hype.
The rest of it ("instant channel changes"? My parents had that with a regular TV - it was called "Hey, kid, change the channel") is fluff.
this is important. not if comparing to normal tv, but when comparing microsofts iptv solution to others. changing to a different streamed channel is only possible at an i-frame (or else you get a screwed up or no image until the next one). with mpeg2 they come pretty often, with mpeg4 they come less often. with both you cannot switch imideately.
its pure flaming about something the user obviously has no idea of. old stuff is used and adapted all the time. without that nothing would evolve and be improved.
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wow, thank god i pay 10€/month for phone with 1k minutes, 1k sms, 1gb data and 20€/month for 25/1mbit internet.
however i'd say this is offtopic. the question is: do you need a smartphone, not can you afford one.
i'd say the pressing need is integration with everything while staying in control of the content.
i don't want g+ to replace facebook, twitter and my private blog... i want it to become the tool to manage all my online presences/outlets.
example: that android image/video auto-push and later publish function is pretty cool. i would use it a lot, if i could publish uploaded media to youtube, facebook, flicker, ... from the already uploded g+ cache.
example: i find a funny webcomic... i want to publish the url on twitter with a hashtag and since it's funny, i also want it to show up on facebook (with a thumbnai!)... so i should be able to use my g+ app or the webinterface to do that. nice sideffect for google: i would also automatically publish in g+.
over time it could be, that i discover, i don't really need twitter anymore, because meanwhile most interesting people i followed on twitter also double publish via g+. i can now directly follow them on g+ only.
another problem i see with g+ is, the integration of twitter style "only short messages and urls" and the blog/journal style "long story about something" messages in one feed. i am not interested in long text when browsing my circles for news and interesting stuff. (a la browsing reddit for stupid cat images and memes) ... i want short text. so they should either create a separate feed-thingie for articles, or make reasonable small summaries (140 char has proven to work remarkably well in our short-attention-span times).
i could go on, but it all comes back to seamless integration. allright, now hire me and i tell you more...
omg, so much stupid:
"Most of all, though, if SMS and MMS really are “free” for a mobile carrier — if they really don’t conflict with voice and data traffic — perhaps the creator of Smozzy has *inadvertently stumbled* across an amazing, *untapped resource*."
also, sms go through control channels, but i always thought getting the data payload of an mms *does* require a data connection through grps or what ever means there are in your 2g or 3g network... but i could be wrong. (also this mms fetch traffic could be included in the t-mobile contract)
how about you and your colleagues on the other side of the world simply schedule meetings using utc? ... instant-non-confusion! ... meeting is at 10 utc ... call is at 22:30 utc ... put a utc clock on your desktop, buy a wristwatch with two zones and outlook converts the invitation to local time anyway ... done.
you still use am/pm!? are stupid or something? the day has 24 hours. this and dst ware way more realistic things to get rid instead of forcing people to get up at 9pm in the morning and switch from eg. august 27th to 28th at 12pm during the first coffee break...
jeeez... /.
and how much fuel was already wasted to get the crap up where it is now?
my point is reusing what was already achieved. *everything* other than dropping it into the ocean is better.
That's just sad... it should be landed on the moon. It it's too big in one piece, dismantle it and land the components. Even refurbishing as a "robot station" with just that robotic arm and the solar sails and some positioning systems for satellite repair or something would be better, than letting it all crash and burn. how about parking it in a different orbit... maybe around the moon?
RichiH obviously is more a Stallman guy asking for a diy and possibly opensource solution, that kept all his family data on privately owned systems...
so why all the jungle/dropbox/flickr answers?
has slashdot sunken that deep?
what i do:
- a fileserver with raid5 at my place and one at my parents'
- nightly rsync replication of their data to my server and my data to theirs over ssh
- ... so we always have two copies of the data and local redundancy
- allows fast access to all data even huge amounts in the hundreds of gigs dimension and also if internet is somehow slow or down
- this of course is no backup in the classic meaning! however rsync does not delete data on the replication site if you don't tell it too, so you kind of have protection against mistakenly deleted data too (unlike with only raid)
depends on how fast ubunto & co include 3.x when the target group of an appication already has 3.x there is no need to maintain the 2.x branch
because of that
too bad nokia did not invest in a better designer. the 770 looks much better imo.
they should at least make a black version. also the hard cover of the 770 will be missed by some i guess.
microsoft has its "own", "complete" iptv solution (for real tv and video on demand and stuff) from streaming servers to set top box software. this is not windows mce and cannot be compared to mythtv.
if you had actually read the linked article before commenting you would have found this (http://www.microsoft.com/tv/IPTVEdition.mspx) link to microsofts product site.
no.
no, really.
no.
you are just wrong. i thought about this a while now. my perspective: i was the last but one in my class to get a cellphone. that was about 7 years ago. today: the cphone is my always-on connection when i have no internet to get my work-emails, or need to organize my cinema dates or whatever. mobile phones are not a virus and not a religion: they are an artificaial extension of the human communication organs (voice/brain/listening).
cell phones, and especially: LIVING with cell phones could imo be seen as a step in the human evolution, because a basic need: the need to communicate, has extended its range enourmously.. unbelievably.. combined with the internet: globally, indefinetly.
its not cancer, not a virus, not evil, its one of the first steps to human-machine combination, which some people see as the most likely way of future human EVOLUTION.
since all content that is uploaded to utube grants all rights to utube... they should use their rights and take it all and create a moderated tv channel. broadcast over sat, cable and iptv -- 24/7. everybody loves that shows where people send home videos. this is the next generation of home videos. millions submit their videos, viewable online 24/7 in low quality and in sdtv or even higher resolution on tv.
;)
statistics from online usage/viewage/country distribution/etc could be gathered to create localized tv programming... THIS is how u #tube can and imo will make huge amounts of money... a combination with google's interest and personalization based advertising systems extended to streaming video services would be a logical extension (to gain even more income).
ok, maybe i am just hallucinating, but since tv and the web WILL (and already is) merge(ing) in the near future(now) anyways, why not start with the most popular online video service there is?!
steal my ideas or hire me
and its not a tricorder either.
"Alcatel 5900 AmigoTV and Alcatel 5900 MyOwnTV"
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http://www.home.alcatel.com/vpr/vpr.nsf/DateKey/0
it will come...
it would be cool if they added the 1m data to google maps.
speaking the letters in german it would be...
s like _s_nake
u like in l_oo_k
s like _s_nake
e like _e_lephant
so soozee is probably right.
wrong. what do you think connects your imaginary free hotspots? yes: your local isp with its backbone network.
do you really think routing traffic of thousands or millions of users though a wlan only network would work?
i just recently had a class about law and stuff.. and it was said there that for something to be patended, it needs to be "not comprised out of things already state of technology"... so just talking technology floating around and putting it together is not a new invention worthy of patent protection.
so why do all these software related patends ignore that?
like scrollbars or progressbars.. they have been there since forever. they are common technology and not "new".
as with emoticons:
they are based on the 70ties smiley, and just represent a way of "drawing" smileys with ascii charachters. drawing with ascii characters is also a pretty old "technology". result: not new.
if cingular's patent is all about the "replace image with ascii smiley to be transmitted in an sms, and then converted back"... well that has also been in icq & co for ages and not "new".
wtf???
maybe collisions of junks that break apart or objects sent out that return?
how do posts liek this get score 2?
he has absolutely no idea what he is talking about and it is not funny.
google serves web advertising that fits the viewer and the site they are placed on today. with to rise of iptv that could be expanded easily to the tv screen and our livingrooms. iptv providers just sell commercial time to google and they send the right ads to the right end-user.
there is no innovation at all. it has all been done before. microsoft has to offer a solution in this area. it has no choice. unfortunately for them they do not offer much besides the little media hype.
The rest of it ("instant channel changes"? My parents had that with a regular TV - it was called "Hey, kid, change the channel") is fluff.
this is important. not if comparing to normal tv, but when comparing microsofts iptv solution to others. changing to a different streamed channel is only possible at an i-frame (or else you get a screwed up or no image until the next one). with mpeg2 they come pretty often, with mpeg4 they come less often. with both you cannot switch imideately.
microsoft uses a combination of unicast and multicast to get by this problem. check their site for more information: http://www.microsoft.com/tv/default.mspx
how is this +2 interesting?
its pure flaming about something the user obviously has no idea of. old stuff is used and adapted all the time. without that nothing would evolve and be improved.