There are already talk about garage biotech labs echoing the startup environment of Apple and like.
What has kept nuclear weapons out of nutball hands is the cost in hardware and scarcity of refined raw materials. With biotech, that is not the case at all. Consider that a apparent, so far, random mutation can turn a very common throat bacteria into something that "eats" (more like kills the cells) flesh straight off the persons body.
Lately i have found some auto-installed "online scanner" from Symantec on various computers my relatives use, and it seems to operate in the most intrusive way possible. It basically pops up ever so often, nagging the user to run a update and scan but if a issue is found one must buy a full license from Symantec to get any removal going.
Setting it to keep quiet seems to do nothing, and uninstalling it just means it will show up again in short order.
My suspicion is that it comes down via facebook somehow, but i have never hung around long enough to see it actually install.
The future seems to be one service, multiple screens.
I suspect each service can only be accessed from one screen at the same time unless a family pack of some kind of bought, and you may well have to sign up for multiple services to get all the content you find on a premium cable or sat service.
How long before we start reading about various cable companies spinning off their physical holdings and focusing on IP streaming services?
Samsung talked about something they called a "evolution kit". From what i can tell it seems to be a small box at the back of the TV that holds all the smarts for their Smart TV platform. This box can then be detached and replaced with a different box over time. I think one may well consider it a very compact set top box with a dedicated set of IO ports to the TV.
Russia OTOH hasn't so much opted to be a second world country as it has no ability to get to first world status with the rampant corruption and mafia control of much of the country.
In other words, USA is sliding rapidly towards second world nation status?
Not so sure, given that what Canonical did is basically what MS is doing with their Metro ui.
That is, a single interface across the whole product range.
So if you have used Unity on a desktop, you should be quickly able to pick it up elsewhere. Or if your first brush with it is on TV or tablet, using it on desktop will take no transition time at all.
Nor will price, as Gates himself stated that MS basically looked the other way on home copying of their products. This because it made sure that more people was familiar with MS products, and so made MS products a easier sell to corporations.
It may also help that Apple is only releasing one new phone a year. The rest of their portfolio is basically last years high end demoted. The others instead release new products across all sections of the market each year. It may have become easier for them to push updates if this years cheap model was last years star attraction.
I wonder if we focus to much on firmware upgrades because of the behavior of one company.
Hell, most people using computers seems to not bother with upgrading windows. Unless they are buying a new computer where it comes pre-installed, that is.
One company, that happened to have a high media attention factor, happens to buck the trend and suddenly it should be expected?
I think the problem is that what one article means with fragmentation is not the same as another article.
Quite a few see the various Sense, Blur and Touchwiz interfaces as fragmentation.
Others see the variation in Android versions as fragmentation.
And the last bunch see the actual variation in formfactors and hardware internals as a fragmentation.
The first kind can be a problem for those that try to make app interfaces that blend in with the phones existing interface.
The second will be a issue for all those that want to make use of the latest nifty APIs.
The third becomes a issue if one try to optimize for performance, especially games and similar, via the NDK, or do not properly leverage the UI scaling tools built into Android.
But Google seem to be addressing all of these in various ways.
Recently they added a requirement for the 4.x theme to be present at all times (why this was not there from day one boggles the mind). And when they introduced the Fragments UI system they provided a lib that allowed such UIs to work on pre-Fragments version of Android (as far back as 1.6, iirc).
The NDK angle may be the most troublesome in the long run.
The guy that pissed off Anonymous, Aaron Barr, claimed to having identified some Anon "members" by matching facebook and other activity (timing and context, mostly).
I think there is a statement by RMS somewhere, claiming that the GPL could be done without copyright. But that copyright makes it easier, as it provided as foundation. I suspect that something equivalent of GPL could be done via contract law.
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There are already talk about garage biotech labs echoing the startup environment of Apple and like.
What has kept nuclear weapons out of nutball hands is the cost in hardware and scarcity of refined raw materials. With biotech, that is not the case at all. Consider that a apparent, so far, random mutation can turn a very common throat bacteria into something that "eats" (more like kills the cells) flesh straight off the persons body.
People doing taking care of private affairs during work hours is a old story.
If i was a betting man, i would put my money on "example of the american dream".
Especially as LTE is basically built on IP6.
Zagg seems to be marketing something similar these days.
http://hzo.me/
That and setting up the social system so that enlisting is a "good" choice for people one previously would have to draft.
And this is why Police and Military are two different jobs...
Lately i have found some auto-installed "online scanner" from Symantec on various computers my relatives use, and it seems to operate in the most intrusive way possible. It basically pops up ever so often, nagging the user to run a update and scan but if a issue is found one must buy a full license from Symantec to get any removal going.
Setting it to keep quiet seems to do nothing, and uninstalling it just means it will show up again in short order.
My suspicion is that it comes down via facebook somehow, but i have never hung around long enough to see it actually install.
1. Do not know why but i really want that cube computer!
2. When did /. start producing original content?!
The future seems to be one service, multiple screens.
I suspect each service can only be accessed from one screen at the same time unless a family pack of some kind of bought, and you may well have to sign up for multiple services to get all the content you find on a premium cable or sat service.
How long before we start reading about various cable companies spinning off their physical holdings and focusing on IP streaming services?
Samsung talked about something they called a "evolution kit". From what i can tell it seems to be a small box at the back of the TV that holds all the smarts for their Smart TV platform. This box can then be detached and replaced with a different box over time. I think one may well consider it a very compact set top box with a dedicated set of IO ports to the TV.
In other words, USA is sliding rapidly towards second world nation status?
there may be one company already making a fuzz about their pocket sized medical sensor.
Ah yes, found the article: http://singularityhub.com/2011/12/24/scanadu-raises-2m-for-medical-tricorder-video/
Not so sure, given that what Canonical did is basically what MS is doing with their Metro ui.
That is, a single interface across the whole product range.
So if you have used Unity on a desktop, you should be quickly able to pick it up elsewhere. Or if your first brush with it is on TV or tablet, using it on desktop will take no transition time at all.
Nor will price, as Gates himself stated that MS basically looked the other way on home copying of their products. This because it made sure that more people was familiar with MS products, and so made MS products a easier sell to corporations.
In other words, Canonical did what Microsoft is trying with Metro, before Microsoft. A single interface across all products Ubuntu can run on.
It may also help that Apple is only releasing one new phone a year. The rest of their portfolio is basically last years high end demoted. The others instead release new products across all sections of the market each year. It may have become easier for them to push updates if this years cheap model was last years star attraction.
I wonder if we focus to much on firmware upgrades because of the behavior of one company.
Hell, most people using computers seems to not bother with upgrading windows. Unless they are buying a new computer where it comes pre-installed, that is.
One company, that happened to have a high media attention factor, happens to buck the trend and suddenly it should be expected?
I think the problem is that what one article means with fragmentation is not the same as another article.
Quite a few see the various Sense, Blur and Touchwiz interfaces as fragmentation.
Others see the variation in Android versions as fragmentation.
And the last bunch see the actual variation in formfactors and hardware internals as a fragmentation.
The first kind can be a problem for those that try to make app interfaces that blend in with the phones existing interface.
The second will be a issue for all those that want to make use of the latest nifty APIs.
The third becomes a issue if one try to optimize for performance, especially games and similar, via the NDK, or do not properly leverage the UI scaling tools built into Android.
But Google seem to be addressing all of these in various ways.
Recently they added a requirement for the 4.x theme to be present at all times (why this was not there from day one boggles the mind). And when they introduced the Fragments UI system they provided a lib that allowed such UIs to work on pre-Fragments version of Android (as far back as 1.6, iirc).
The NDK angle may be the most troublesome in the long run.
And the public is carpet bombed by ads that double as video faq responses and "monkey see, monkey do" pre-purchase training manual...
I hope said card was properly disposed of, that is drenched in gasoline and set on fire, once the show was over.
Perhaps they can do like the Amiga, and set up a x86 daugherboard?
The guy that pissed off Anonymous, Aaron Barr, claimed to having identified some Anon "members" by matching facebook and other activity (timing and context, mostly).
I think there is a statement by RMS somewhere, claiming that the GPL could be done without copyright. But that copyright makes it easier, as it provided as foundation. I suspect that something equivalent of GPL could be done via contract law.
"dude, you're a barista" comes to mind...
there are more part time artists than there ever will be full time ones.