I wonder, will they still rake me over the coals when I want to call Germany? I get the feeling they will. Just like their unlimited sms for only 20 bucks a month...when you get an incoming international sms...50 cents for each one. Fine print always excludes a reason not to be free or unlimited.
"...forced to deploy the same software as MySpace uses (Audible Magic) to filter illegal P2P traffic from the legal."
I don't remember P2P ever being illegal in any country. Perhaps trading copyrighted files are, but if I want to share my homemade sex videos or garage rock band tracks via P2P I can do it all day long..
Clearly, they have never seen my writing. No one is able to identify it, least of all me! Really..I never know how it will look. I can just imagine being trapped out of all my sites!
How many times did we crash on mars once we made it all the way there? And that was not even something complicated enough to carry creatures. Shit happens in space..At least it always seems to the case when I go.;)
Seems like I read about the launch of the product each year...
Here is just one example:http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase -announces-300gb-holographic-discs/
I am sure next year we will here the same...next year, 3TB holo-disks will ship.
On a serious note, I can not imagine that banks would use this. They are not normally the guy to adopt techs in the early stages, especially with regards to storing their important data.
I have tried both the beta and the full realease and I can say for me at least there was problem after problem after problem. I would say that anytime you need to spend several hours search the forums just to be able to get your system to give you a choice to display the proper resolution, that there is no way any normal person is going to switch from windows to this.
Beryl was also filled with bugs if you use NVIDIA. Hell you cant even resize windows anymore when using beryl. I would say..crap-tastic!
Did anyone actually look at the feature with RIM claims on the Bluetooth PICS? I guess not. Can it be that they are supporting the faster modulation? Even if it were bluetooth 2.0, they are not required to support 4-DPQSK and 8-DPSK. Basic GMSK modulation is all that is mandatory. It's not really possible to lower the speed in the ways they suggest actually.
It's clear that this person really knows nothing about Bluetooth at all.
Check out the core spec at bluetooth.com
Personally, the only way this can impact me is if they can somehow use this to make a car smaller then this..."http://www.livescience.com/technology/0510 20_nanocar.html"
I mean really...how many times a year do we have to hear about "iPod killers"? There has been so many and yet somehow the iPod share keeps going up and up....When will they learn, the war is lost and waisting money on more battles is just that..waisting money.
There is no iPod killer and there wont be until Apple releases one.
I would say the biggest reason is the whole cool factor thing. MS is just not cool. Not thing about it is cool. I mean nothing. Their software we use because we must if we want to be compatible with everyone else or play games. Take a look at that crappy zune! It really looks bad. The design is not bad, but the quality looks terrible. Bad materials and giant size. Now I have always used creative devices in the past and never really used online music stores other then occasional Russia website;). I just got my first ipod video a couple weeks ago when my creative died on me, and I have to say I really is better. It's faster, it feels better in my hand, I just get the "impression" of it being a quality product. Same with itunes. Ok, it's not as intuitive at first since I cant drag and drop like I could with my creative, but really...it always works. I don't know anyone who would buy a "zune" when they could have and ipod for about the same money. You will be that guy who is wearing the jeans which look like designer jeans only with a walmart logo and funky material, only you actually paid just as much. That's the way I see it anyhow.
Actually.
as long as the two BT's are bonded they can enter a sleep mode which pumps up the battery time...It's not BT in general thats bad for batteries, it's mis-implimentation of the spec.(much like my spelling)
Except they have bluetooth 2.0 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_2.0#Blueto oth_2.0)
It's basically the same unless you have the EDR part in which case it uses two new modualations.
The main problems with Bluetooth in my mind are complexity and cost. Qualifying a Bluetooth chip is a major pain in the butt. You need to qualify the radio part, the stack and profiles separately depending on what kind of product you have. And speaking of profiles, there are something like 30 Bluetooth profiles. Most of which overlap! So often time when you are implementing one profile you also cover all the mandatory features of another so you have to claim that one as well since you are seen as using that profiles IP! It's crazy. Then there is the cost. 10k to list your product. If you want to add something to it after you listed it...10k please. Not to mention the testing. 30k please. Bluetooth was going to be less then 2 bucks per radio. It's still almost double that. The Bluetooth SIG is way out of control. IMO Nokia is smart to jump ship. However, they cant go it alone. If they were able to get Motorola on board and perhaps Samsung, I can see no reason why a lower cost alternative would not work. Assuming that data rates are there.
UWB is a pretty cool, but I do see one problem in the way of wide spread use. Namely the cost of testing UWB. Interoperability testing of course would just as cheap as any other technology once there are few devices around. Until then you would have to sniff the layers to make sure it really doing what it should in the way that it should. The big cost in my mind is testing the physical layers in a radiated environment. UWB, just as the name implies has a huge bandwidth which makes it very difficult to capture on a spectrum analyzer in a usable way. Thus, doing measurements like over the air antenna performance become troublesome. I am not saying it's impossible, but the equipment needed is vastly more expensive then what's needed for say, GSM or Bluetooth.
Then again, there is really not hard fast rule yet to qualify a UWB's physical layers and who knows, maybe they will stick with just testing the application layers.
These Professional math guy are odd ducks. There is now telling why he did or did not do something. Who really cares in the end? The math establishment..that's about it.
I'm sure most people don't know how much politics actually take place in math and science. It's not hard to imagine this guys wants nothing to do with these people. Just see how they freaked out in mock horror that he would not take their uber prise.
Just let him solve his math problems and be happy...I know I will be happy whether or not he takes it.
who hopes this sparks a real space race? Although, it would be a shame it was all for the sake of going there and then doing nothing again for 40 years.
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I wonder, will they still rake me over the coals when I want to call Germany? I get the feeling they will. Just like their unlimited sms for only 20 bucks a month...when you get an incoming international sms...50 cents for each one. Fine print always excludes a reason not to be free or unlimited.
"...forced to deploy the same software as MySpace uses (Audible Magic) to filter illegal P2P traffic from the legal." I don't remember P2P ever being illegal in any country. Perhaps trading copyrighted files are, but if I want to share my homemade sex videos or garage rock band tracks via P2P I can do it all day long..
Clearly, they have never seen my writing. No one is able to identify it, least of all me! Really..I never know how it will look. I can just imagine being trapped out of all my sites!
How many times did we crash on mars once we made it all the way there? And that was not even something complicated enough to carry creatures. Shit happens in space..At least it always seems to the case when I go. ;)
Seems like I read about the launch of the product each year... Here is just one example:http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase -announces-300gb-holographic-discs/
I am sure next year we will here the same...next year, 3TB holo-disks will ship.
On a serious note, I can not imagine that banks would use this. They are not normally the guy to adopt techs in the early stages, especially with regards to storing their important data.
I have tried both the beta and the full realease and I can say for me at least there was problem after problem after problem. I would say that anytime you need to spend several hours search the forums just to be able to get your system to give you a choice to display the proper resolution, that there is no way any normal person is going to switch from windows to this. Beryl was also filled with bugs if you use NVIDIA. Hell you cant even resize windows anymore when using beryl. I would say..crap-tastic!
Seems cheaper to buy 4 50inch LCD's and drive them with your SLI config. Not to mention, I am sure such a screen has GIANT ghosts ;)
Actually, it would warm the earth when you slow that air current..but still..I get your joke. ;)
I agree, I wrote this tomorrow!
really, doesnt this seem like a lot of work to install something that doesnt work as well as what you have now? Just seems silly to bother..
Seriously, they should just shoot that stuff down. Sounds like a great business model ;)
seriously, that headline really freaked my out!! I had just eating like 18 cookies!! Doesn't look like this applies to me though. Thank god for that.
Did anyone actually look at the feature with RIM claims on the Bluetooth PICS? I guess not. Can it be that they are supporting the faster modulation? Even if it were bluetooth 2.0, they are not required to support 4-DPQSK and 8-DPSK. Basic GMSK modulation is all that is mandatory. It's not really possible to lower the speed in the ways they suggest actually. It's clear that this person really knows nothing about Bluetooth at all. Check out the core spec at bluetooth.com
Before you even try...Do NOT use this to masturbate!!! Seriously, you WILL regret it.
Remember england? That was hard, but we did it.
Personally, the only way this can impact me is if they can somehow use this to make a car smaller then this..."http://www.livescience.com/technology/0510 20_nanocar.html"
I mean really...how many times a year do we have to hear about "iPod killers"? There has been so many and yet somehow the iPod share keeps going up and up....When will they learn, the war is lost and waisting money on more battles is just that..waisting money. There is no iPod killer and there wont be until Apple releases one.
I would say the biggest reason is the whole cool factor thing. MS is just not cool. Not thing about it is cool. I mean nothing. Their software we use because we must if we want to be compatible with everyone else or play games. ;). I just got my first ipod video a couple weeks ago when my creative died on me, and I have to say I really is better. It's faster, it feels better in my hand, I just get the "impression" of it being a quality product. Same with itunes. Ok, it's not as intuitive at first since I cant drag and drop like I could with my creative, but really...it always works.
Take a look at that crappy zune! It really looks bad. The design is not bad, but the quality looks terrible. Bad materials and giant size.
Now I have always used creative devices in the past and never really used online music stores other then occasional Russia website
I don't know anyone who would buy a "zune" when they could have and ipod for about the same money. You will be that guy who is wearing the jeans which look like designer jeans only with a walmart logo and funky material, only you actually paid just as much. That's the way I see it anyhow.
Actually. as long as the two BT's are bonded they can enter a sleep mode which pumps up the battery time...It's not BT in general thats bad for batteries, it's mis-implimentation of the spec.(much like my spelling)
Except they have bluetooth 2.0 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_2.0#Blueto oth_2.0)
It's basically the same unless you have the EDR part in which case it uses two new modualations.
The main problems with Bluetooth in my mind are complexity and cost. Qualifying a Bluetooth chip is a major pain in the butt. You need to qualify the radio part, the stack and profiles separately depending on what kind of product you have. And speaking of profiles, there are something like 30 Bluetooth profiles. Most of which overlap! So often time when you are implementing one profile you also cover all the mandatory features of another so you have to claim that one as well since you are seen as using that profiles IP! It's crazy.
Then there is the cost. 10k to list your product. If you want to add something to it after you listed it...10k please. Not to mention the testing. 30k please.
Bluetooth was going to be less then 2 bucks per radio. It's still almost double that. The Bluetooth SIG is way out of control.
IMO Nokia is smart to jump ship. However, they cant go it alone. If they were able to get Motorola on board and perhaps Samsung, I can see no reason why a lower cost alternative would not work. Assuming that data rates are there.
It's about time! Now I have a reason to buy Intel's 80 core CPU!
UWB is a pretty cool, but I do see one problem in the way of wide spread use. Namely the cost of testing UWB. Interoperability testing of course would just as cheap as any other technology once there are few devices around. Until then you would have to sniff the layers to make sure it really doing what it should in the way that it should. The big cost in my mind is testing the physical layers in a radiated environment. UWB, just as the name implies has a huge bandwidth which makes it very difficult to capture on a spectrum analyzer in a usable way. Thus, doing measurements like over the air antenna performance become troublesome. I am not saying it's impossible, but the equipment needed is vastly more expensive then what's needed for say, GSM or Bluetooth.
Then again, there is really not hard fast rule yet to qualify a UWB's physical layers and who knows, maybe they will stick with just testing the application layers.
These Professional math guy are odd ducks. There is now telling why he did or did not do something. Who really cares in the end? The math establishment..that's about it. I'm sure most people don't know how much politics actually take place in math and science. It's not hard to imagine this guys wants nothing to do with these people. Just see how they freaked out in mock horror that he would not take their uber prise. Just let him solve his math problems and be happy...I know I will be happy whether or not he takes it.
who hopes this sparks a real space race? Although, it would be a shame it was all for the sake of going there and then doing nothing again for 40 years.