Agreed, now I need to be paranoid about degraded service. Such as my TruPhone app, which mysteriously crashes, or my alternative markets which seem to be having problems.
Further since I'm deploying these phoens I need to worry about Google breaking them in addition to users.
This is really a problem for them having corporate appeal.
Open Phones with custom Android Version Operating Systems and pre-configured VOIP over wifi/data. They're a little pricey but worth it for the openness and the feature of unlimited free calling (WOOHOO!)
Email phaistoscommunications@gmail.com... You'll get the details of the phone.
There is a competitor, http://www.voxcorp.net/. But they are much more expensive and have fewer application options...
When the telecoms control the lines and have repeated that no filtering is going on (a blatant lie).
I think having a company that roams about checking network speeds and ensuring that all types of data receive fair treatment is going to be necessary if we ever hope to enforce network neutrality on the telecos.
It would be nice if the government could do it, but Google releasing a report would be just as good.
There are many other benefits to having an accurate map of open wireless networks.
We are already trusting Google to maintain anonymous usage statistics in areas where privacy is a concern.
I think the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, though I also think governments should police Google's privacy policies.
|"Hundreds of millions of us now create, interact with, and share intensely visual digital content," said Rick |Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Product Group. "This explosion in multimedia requires |new applications and new ways to manage and manipulate data."
So people watch video and play video games, and it's still kinda pokey at times. We're way past diminishing marginal returns on improving graphical interfaces.
Well sure YOU DO, but your Gran still has a 5200 with "Turbo memory" (actually that's only 3 years old, she probably has worse). This will be the equivalent of putting audio on the motherboard, a low baseline quality but done with no cost.
I bring it up, because if you're trying to promote a technology that actually uses a computer to compute, you know, work with actual data, you are perpetually sidetracked by trying to make it look pretty to get any attention.
Bloat is indeed a big problem, programs are exploding into GIGABYTE sizes, which is insane. OTOH linux reusing libraries seems not to have worked. There is too little abstraction of the data so each coder writes their own linked list, red-black tree, or whatever algorithm instead of just using the methods from the OS.
Case in point: working on a project to track trends over financial data, there were several contractors competing. One had this software that tried to glom everything into a node and vector graph, which looked really pretty, but didn't actually do anything to analyze the data.
Sounds like a case of "not wanting to throw the baby out with the bathwater." If they have someone of moderate intelligence on staff, that person can find a way to pull useful information out of junk data. He/she will resist removing seemingly useless data, because they occasionally use it and routinely ignore it. A pretty presentation can also be very important in terms of usability, remember you have to look at the underlying code but the user has to look at the GUI, often for hours a day.
But to managers, all they see is that those guys have pretty graphs in their demos and all we had was our research into the actual data... all those boring details.
I can't comment on the quality of your management, but once again don't underestimate ease of use or even perceived ease of use (consider how long you will remain trying to learn a new tool if frustrated, the perception that something is as easy as possible is a huge boon... think iCrap).
Anyway back to Fusion, this is EXACTLY what Dell wants, bit lower power, less heat, significantly lower price and a baseline for their users to be able to run Vista/7 (7 review: better than Vista, don't switch from XP). So while it's true that this chip won't be dominant under ANY metric, and would therefore seem to have no customer base it's attractiveness to retail is such, that they will shove it down consumer throats and AMD will reap the rewards.
I'm curious about these things in small form factor, now that SD cards/MicroSD cards have given us nano-size storage we can get back to Finger sized computers that attach to a TV.
I'm not even in your country and I know, THIS CAME WAY TOO LATE.
Please also check out VOIP and sharing over a home network, various ISPs turn these features on and off at will when they feel threatened or just hostile.
You know you are truly fucked in terms of population density when technically renewable and basically unlimited resources like water start to be discussed as possible causes of war... Interesting times ahead, guys.
Yea, fortunately in this case I think it is just the Military Industrial flexing it's muscles. The potential for a global state is there (the European Union was created with a minimum of fuss).
Sinister intentions aside there is certainly the feeling of "end game." Which is weird, by my math Cadmium will be the first to run out, in a long time. I could definitely handle a couple centuries of nuclear, if we don't kill everything first. Silly prophecies:(
Seriously we have encryption, at some point we'll all have to share our access points if we want to move away from GPRS/3G. You understand bandwidth is a utility, they want to make it a "service."
I agree, this is something that should have been done a long time ago. It's a travesty that we don't have a map with GPS co-ordinates linked to SSIDs for open wifi. They tried to lock it down (AGAIN!) by saying that it's illegal to run an open wifi hotspot, unfortunately for them router makers have decreed that routers should ship open by default. Further complicating things is that while ISPS would love to say that only one mac address can be behind an IP at any given moment the implications are simply staggering and they'll never be able to enforce it.
Hopefully the outcome of this will be a new look at the only type of data the government has legtimately found to be harmful to the populance, child pornography. Remember that the reason we got such a nanny state is because there was a study which found that exposure to child pornography leads to the creation of pedophiles. There was a contrary study but these studies are hard to do and scientists are obviously a little reluctant to discuss where they got their materials and their research methods. Governments are happy with the result and until the pirate party comes to power we won't get more studies in this area.
What do I hope to get out of this? I'd really like to see some kind of bandwidth shaping/metering system implemented on the router, it can't be that hard to give each wifi user a 10k limit. So where's it at?
Of course "shotgunning" would have been increadibly useful for people suffering behind dial-up but we never got that either, if I had the money to pay a truly talented developer the world of internet access would look a little different, and function VERY different.
System restore, WTF. Here's what we want, all of our documents or other USER created changes (probably less that 5 MB saved, a record of all media (MP3, Wav,.AVI), probably just file names so we can restore our music when some RIAA shill app deletes them.
And a full system restore, just EVERYTHING, like EVERYTHING. If drivers need to be installed or verified we might need an application but this should be suplemental.
This is such a hassle it's starting to make me paranoid, but I suppose it has succeeded in making it so I don't buy a computer that comes with Opera, Open Office and a whole bunch of illegal production software like Adobe products.
So they reduce our ability to retain our information easily and receive modest success in supressing piracy... super.
Agree on the whole feeling awesome thing, for me the biggest thing was how quickly I could pull out a book on public transit.
Yea palm totally dropped the ball, the Palm V operating system was one of the best the world has ever seen, it incorporated file associations and it's "all programs stay running in RAM" feature was really amazing. Probbably a pain to do any development that relied on large data structures but in any case it was brilliantly done.
I'm sure the developers rebelled against the kind of memory footprint they needed to maintain to keep all their programs running in 16 megs of ram, on the other hand I can't figure out how most modern software is SO DAMN HUGE!
It would certainly be nice to have everything running in memory all the time again, so responsive.
So the reason regulaion doesn't fix anything, including this is because we can't do it? Sure we can! It's a piece of paper. I think what you're getting at is that people will find ways to push boundaries of the law, which is their prerogative and one of the reasons large companies can be competitive.
Regulation sets down the rules though, and we can certainly make rules that fix this problem. It's not as though we don't know what we want.
Filters, every fan should have one. I wish there were standard 120mm mounted filters. Think about all the dust that DOES end up in your case and you'll realize it's a great way to filter the air. Also dampening is awesome.... get with it case manufacturers.
Let's see if this rings a bell. Buy up all of the finite resource (wireless spectrum) charge your customers outrageous prices to use said resource (wireless service) profit forever... yay CAPITALISM.
See Tank Girl for a more entertaining journey into the wonderful nature of capitalism.
So you'll stop using telephony or you'll support the telecoms? An even worse bunch of litigious bastards?
VOIP threatens a trillion dollar industry and you assume there won't be battles to get it put in place?
You are very, very, foolish. Communications are valuable, and so people will extract costs from them regardless of how little they cost to provide, those high costs will go into preventing low cost options from becoming workable... All you're really doing is ensuring that your children end up paying into the telecom monopolies instead of restructuring telecommunications...
Wrong thing, the real problem is the different networks. Let's not let the idea of systematic lack of interoperability affect our perceptions of individual companies, unless they CREATE that systematic problem... like Microsoft.
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Agreed, now I need to be paranoid about degraded service. Such as my TruPhone app, which mysteriously crashes, or my alternative markets which seem to be having problems.
Further since I'm deploying these phoens I need to worry about Google breaking them in addition to users.
This is really a problem for them having corporate appeal.
Open Phones with custom Android Version Operating Systems and pre-configured VOIP over wifi/data. They're a little pricey but worth it for the openness and the feature of unlimited free calling (WOOHOO!)
Email phaistoscommunications@gmail.com... You'll get the details of the phone.
There is a competitor, http://www.voxcorp.net/. But they are much more expensive and have fewer application options...
Good luck! Let's squeeze the phone companies OUT!
True, I've just bought some modded phones with wi-fi skype. I'm finding it pretty useful.
Phaistoscommunications@gmail.com is selling them.
And you expect people to invest time in Science? Are you mad? The word is out, the rich are handicapping the smart every way they can...
Just act dumb and pound the flesh.
How are we going to enforce net Neutrality?
When the telecoms control the lines and have repeated that no filtering is going on (a blatant lie).
I think having a company that roams about checking network speeds and ensuring that all types of data receive fair treatment is going to be necessary if we ever hope to enforce network neutrality on the telecos.
It would be nice if the government could do it, but Google releasing a report would be just as good.
There are many other benefits to having an accurate map of open wireless networks.
We are already trusting Google to maintain anonymous usage statistics in areas where privacy is a concern.
I think the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, though I also think governments should police Google's privacy policies.
|"Hundreds of millions of us now create, interact with, and share intensely visual digital content," said Rick
|Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Product Group. "This explosion in multimedia requires
|new applications and new ways to manage and manipulate data."
So people watch video and play video games, and it's still kinda pokey at times. We're way past diminishing marginal returns on improving graphical interfaces.
Well sure YOU DO, but your Gran still has a 5200 with "Turbo memory" (actually that's only 3 years old, she probably has worse). This will be the equivalent of putting audio on the motherboard, a low baseline quality but done with no cost.
I bring it up, because if you're trying to promote a technology that actually uses a computer to compute, you know, work with actual data, you are perpetually sidetracked by trying to make it look pretty to get any attention.
Bloat is indeed a big problem, programs are exploding into GIGABYTE sizes, which is insane. OTOH linux reusing libraries seems not to have worked. There is too little abstraction of the data so each coder writes their own linked list, red-black tree, or whatever algorithm instead of just using the methods from the OS.
Case in point: working on a project to track trends over financial data, there were several contractors competing. One had this software that tried to glom everything into a node and vector graph, which looked really pretty, but didn't actually do anything to analyze the data.
Sounds like a case of "not wanting to throw the baby out with the bathwater." If they have someone of moderate intelligence on staff, that person can find a way to pull useful information out of junk data. He/she will resist removing seemingly useless data, because they occasionally use it and routinely ignore it. A pretty presentation can also be very important in terms of usability, remember you have to look at the underlying code but the user has to look at the GUI, often for hours a day.
But to managers, all they see is that those guys have pretty graphs in their demos and all we had was our research into the actual data... all those boring details. I can't comment on the quality of your management, but once again don't underestimate ease of use or even perceived ease of use (consider how long you will remain trying to learn a new tool if frustrated, the perception that something is as easy as possible is a huge boon... think iCrap).
Anyway back to Fusion, this is EXACTLY what Dell wants, bit lower power, less heat, significantly lower price and a baseline for their users to be able to run Vista/7 (7 review: better than Vista, don't switch from XP). So while it's true that this chip won't be dominant under ANY metric, and would therefore seem to have no customer base it's attractiveness to retail is such, that they will shove it down consumer throats and AMD will reap the rewards.
I'm curious about these things in small form factor, now that SD cards/MicroSD cards have given us nano-size storage we can get back to Finger sized computers that attach to a TV.
SFF Fusion for me!
No.
Thanks for your time, glad to inform.
I'm not even in your country and I know, THIS CAME WAY TOO LATE.
Please also check out VOIP and sharing over a home network, various ISPs turn these features on and off at will when they feel threatened or just hostile.
.txt has no image capacity and formatting is difficult.
You know you are truly fucked in terms of population density when technically renewable and basically unlimited resources like water start to be discussed as possible causes of war... Interesting times ahead, guys.
Yea, fortunately in this case I think it is just the Military Industrial flexing it's muscles. The potential for a global state is there (the European Union was created with a minimum of fuss).
:(
Sinister intentions aside there is certainly the feeling of "end game." Which is weird, by my math Cadmium will be the first to run out, in a long time. I could definitely handle a couple centuries of nuclear, if we don't kill everything first. Silly prophecies
You failed kindergarten sharing 101 didn't you.
Seriously we have encryption, at some point we'll all have to share our access points if we want to move away from GPRS/3G. You understand bandwidth is a utility, they want to make it a "service."
Paranoid people like you are holding us back.
Luddite.
I agree, this is something that should have been done a long time ago. It's a travesty that we don't have a map with GPS co-ordinates linked to SSIDs for open wifi. They tried to lock it down (AGAIN!) by saying that it's illegal to run an open wifi hotspot, unfortunately for them router makers have decreed that routers should ship open by default. Further complicating things is that while ISPS would love to say that only one mac address can be behind an IP at any given moment the implications are simply staggering and they'll never be able to enforce it.
Hopefully the outcome of this will be a new look at the only type of data the government has legtimately found to be harmful to the populance, child pornography. Remember that the reason we got such a nanny state is because there was a study which found that exposure to child pornography leads to the creation of pedophiles. There was a contrary study but these studies are hard to do and scientists are obviously a little reluctant to discuss where they got their materials and their research methods. Governments are happy with the result and until the pirate party comes to power we won't get more studies in this area.
What do I hope to get out of this? I'd really like to see some kind of bandwidth shaping/metering system implemented on the router, it can't be that hard to give each wifi user a 10k limit. So where's it at?
Of course "shotgunning" would have been increadibly useful for people suffering behind dial-up but we never got that either, if I had the money to pay a truly talented developer the world of internet access would look a little different, and function VERY different.
CIA outnumbers legit slashdotters 2 - 1.
System restore, WTF. Here's what we want, all of our documents or other USER created changes (probably less that 5 MB saved, a record of all media (MP3, Wav, .AVI), probably just file names so we can restore our music when some RIAA shill app deletes them.
And a full system restore, just EVERYTHING, like EVERYTHING. If drivers need to be installed or verified we might need an application but this should be suplemental.
This is such a hassle it's starting to make me paranoid, but I suppose it has succeeded in making it so I don't buy a computer that comes with Opera, Open Office and a whole bunch of illegal production software like Adobe products.
So they reduce our ability to retain our information easily and receive modest success in supressing piracy... super.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5476164/CBT_Nuggets_-_Linux_-_RH302
The pirate bay Example, note the DOWNLOAD button is an add and the download torrent link is RIGHT below it and in a smaller font.
This is not a good trend.
Yea they fixed that, now when you use a personal printer it inserts an "invisible" code onto the page, so they can identify you. Pretty slick eh?
Wonder what juices they have runniing through your operating system, perhaps ichor might be a better term.
Agree on the whole feeling awesome thing, for me the biggest thing was how quickly I could pull out a book on public transit.
Yea palm totally dropped the ball, the Palm V operating system was one of the best the world has ever seen, it incorporated file associations and it's "all programs stay running in RAM" feature was really amazing. Probbably a pain to do any development that relied on large data structures but in any case it was brilliantly done.
I'm sure the developers rebelled against the kind of memory footprint they needed to maintain to keep all their programs running in 16 megs of ram, on the other hand I can't figure out how most modern software is SO DAMN HUGE!
It would certainly be nice to have everything running in memory all the time again, so responsive.
I guess these aren't the guys who liscence stuff, how could they? It's not like they were handed, oh, $200 billion dollars, say.
A friend from Korea reports that the multi gigabit stuff is all the rage.
Guess what! People have copper!
So the reason regulaion doesn't fix anything, including this is because we can't do it? Sure we can! It's a piece of paper. I think what you're getting at is that people will find ways to push boundaries of the law, which is their prerogative and one of the reasons large companies can be competitive.
Regulation sets down the rules though, and we can certainly make rules that fix this problem. It's not as though we don't know what we want.
Yea, who cares about a specific model. What's up with Android?
The stupid vote.
Obviously they are working within the system for change, they're an official political party.
Chasing the stupid vote lead to the current set of... problems.
Filters, every fan should have one. I wish there were standard 120mm mounted filters. Think about all the dust that DOES end up in your case and you'll realize it's a great way to filter the air. Also dampening is awesome.... get with it case manufacturers.
Let's see if this rings a bell. Buy up all of the finite resource (wireless spectrum) charge your customers outrageous prices to use said resource (wireless service) profit forever... yay CAPITALISM.
See Tank Girl for a more entertaining journey into the wonderful nature of capitalism.
Get us this option, please.
So you'll stop using telephony or you'll support the telecoms? An even worse bunch of litigious bastards?
VOIP threatens a trillion dollar industry and you assume there won't be battles to get it put in place?
You are very, very, foolish. Communications are valuable, and so people will extract costs from them regardless of how little they cost to provide, those high costs will go into preventing low cost options from becoming workable... All you're really doing is ensuring that your children end up paying into the telecom monopolies instead of restructuring telecommunications...
Wrong thing, the real problem is the different networks. Let's not let the idea of systematic lack of interoperability affect our perceptions of individual companies, unless they CREATE that systematic problem... like Microsoft.