Hell, this is spreading to other parts of the world as well.
I ran into posting on a Norwegian forum that compared a law change (that basically would favor corporations) with communism, even tho writing laws that favor corporations would be closer to fascism.
Communism seems to have become a internet shorthand for government "over-regulation" in the eyes of the commenter using the world.
The question is if a manufacturing economy will remain that or transition to a IP economy given time (and law). There is likely a lot of people in Chinese factories that with a grasp of electronics and such can pull a Woz, stripping a design of redundant parts (a lot of what Woz did on the Apple I and II designs was finding ways to use a single chip for multiple tasks).
This echoes a similar move of USA after the revolution, where it ignored UK patents. This allowed a much quicker industrialization of the nation then would have happened if license fees was payed on every machine deployed.
Well the heavy number crunching is being pushed over to GPUs using CUDA and OpenCL. This then allows the CPU to be scaled back, much as seen in mainframes (where for instance storage is handled by its own "cpu", making the CPU more of a middle manager). I think a desktop "supercomputer" was demoed at Computex, containing 6-8 GPU cards.
Also, i think that Nvidia and others where toying with cranking the ARM core to 11. This ignores power frugality, replacing it with maximum computing ability.
And lets not forget that the next ARM upgrade, Cortex-A15 (Eagle), is heading towards default Quad core and increased computing power (pr core) in the same power drain envelope as the earlier Cortex cores.
Apple could expand the OSX server "upgrade" that they are applying to OSX Lion (you turn a plain install of OSX into a server install by downloading a upgrade package from OSX store), to iPad. This then would turn the iPad into a dev version with relaxed sandboxing to testing and debugging.
Hell, i have family that spend their computer use 90%+ in the web browser. Only time they do not is when they want to handle photos taken at some family event or other.
So if this can also provide good interaction with the file system, then everything required can be done in the browser.
Widely known, not so sure. Widely suspected however. It is one of the more plausible reasons for why the US government, no matter who is in charge, have leaned on just about everyone to get more draconian IP laws.
I do wonder if there are proper numbers as to the percentage of US exports that is non-physical, and how big an amount of dollars that covers.
The core is that people think it is just another IM system. but with the integration of calling to and from landline and mobile phones, at local call rates no less, it is something much much more.
1. IM 2. Video 3. voice 4. phonecalls to home or mobile phone, globally 5. phonecalls from home or mobile phone, globally 6. groups of the above
1, 2, 3 and 6 is most often talked about, while 4 and 5 is what has made Skype so popular. This in particular as you can do it from anywhere in the world if you can log onto the Skype service. And the rates are local rates.
Simple, Microsoft runs a massive ad blitz showing off the simple to use interface and demoing the various gestures along with it. This is how Apple have trained people in the iphone gestures from day one.
There was a article over at arstechnica.com that mentioned people would continue to believe what they where first told, even when presented with evidence of the contrary. Sadly i can not find the url for the article right now.
Another thing is that 2.5 development went on forever, to the point that Red Hat had backported a solid subset of the major new features.
It seems to me that any kind of numbering scheme runs into issues sooner or later. Hell, even simply incrementing a single number of each release runs into issues once people wants to maintain a stable branch that forgoes feature creep. Now all of a sudden you got two numbers, the number of the branch point, and the number incrementing for each release of updates to said branch.
Funny enough, it would appear that the system i describe above is where things are headed with Linux. Now they can increment to x.1 while the stable branches increment x.x.1.
Thanks. Goes to show that the details gets left out when one try to figure things out on ones own in the days before the net, and then do not bother to look up the details afterwards.
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The ease and timing of that makes me conspiratorial about the source, and the reasons.
interesting, Slashdot do not like the Euro sign...
The â attachment issue is spreading in Europe as well.
Hell, this is spreading to other parts of the world as well.
I ran into posting on a Norwegian forum that compared a law change (that basically would favor corporations) with communism, even tho writing laws that favor corporations would be closer to fascism.
Communism seems to have become a internet shorthand for government "over-regulation" in the eyes of the commenter using the world.
The question is if a manufacturing economy will remain that or transition to a IP economy given time (and law). There is likely a lot of people in Chinese factories that with a grasp of electronics and such can pull a Woz, stripping a design of redundant parts (a lot of what Woz did on the Apple I and II designs was finding ways to use a single chip for multiple tasks).
This echoes a similar move of USA after the revolution, where it ignored UK patents. This allowed a much quicker industrialization of the nation then would have happened if license fees was payed on every machine deployed.
Well the heavy number crunching is being pushed over to GPUs using CUDA and OpenCL. This then allows the CPU to be scaled back, much as seen in mainframes (where for instance storage is handled by its own "cpu", making the CPU more of a middle manager). I think a desktop "supercomputer" was demoed at Computex, containing 6-8 GPU cards.
Also, i think that Nvidia and others where toying with cranking the ARM core to 11. This ignores power frugality, replacing it with maximum computing ability.
And lets not forget that the next ARM upgrade, Cortex-A15 (Eagle), is heading towards default Quad core and increased computing power (pr core) in the same power drain envelope as the earlier Cortex cores.
Apple could expand the OSX server "upgrade" that they are applying to OSX Lion (you turn a plain install of OSX into a server install by downloading a upgrade package from OSX store), to iPad. This then would turn the iPad into a dev version with relaxed sandboxing to testing and debugging.
It is aimed at the same user group as ChromeOS.
Hell, i have family that spend their computer use 90%+ in the web browser. Only time they do not is when they want to handle photos taken at some family event or other.
So if this can also provide good interaction with the file system, then everything required can be done in the browser.
Widely known, not so sure. Widely suspected however. It is one of the more plausible reasons for why the US government, no matter who is in charge, have leaned on just about everyone to get more draconian IP laws.
I do wonder if there are proper numbers as to the percentage of US exports that is non-physical, and how big an amount of dollars that covers.
i think it is more live stream then recordings...
Sports is but the precedent. What they are really after is stronger protection related to all kind of IP export from USA to the world.
This would allow a small office to rake in worldwide license fees each time one of their "IP" are being used.
Have you observed the iphone tv advertisements?
it is basically the phone, a hand and a bunch of gestures.
one do not need to see many of those before one get the basics.
Knew i was likely missing something.
The core is that people think it is just another IM system. but with the integration of calling to and from landline and mobile phones, at local call rates no less, it is something much much more.
I think that is what people overlook about Skype.
1. IM
2. Video
3. voice
4. phonecalls to home or mobile phone, globally
5. phonecalls from home or mobile phone, globally
6. groups of the above
1, 2, 3 and 6 is most often talked about, while 4 and 5 is what has made Skype so popular. This in particular as you can do it from anywhere in the world if you can log onto the Skype service. And the rates are local rates.
For a while one could use Gizmo as a Google Voice endpoint. But then Gizmo was bought by Google and since then have stopped accepting new accounts.
What, not permanently installed? Oh wait, that would result in a catastrophic reduction of productivity...
Now i am thinking about mind worms, for Alpha Centauri...
Simple, Microsoft runs a massive ad blitz showing off the simple to use interface and demoing the various gestures along with it. This is how Apple have trained people in the iphone gestures from day one.
There was a article over at arstechnica.com that mentioned people would continue to believe what they where first told, even when presented with evidence of the contrary. Sadly i can not find the url for the article right now.
I so miss those arcade machines. Seems the only place they really still have a life is in Japan (go fig).
Another thing is that 2.5 development went on forever, to the point that Red Hat had backported a solid subset of the major new features.
It seems to me that any kind of numbering scheme runs into issues sooner or later. Hell, even simply incrementing a single number of each release runs into issues once people wants to maintain a stable branch that forgoes feature creep. Now all of a sudden you got two numbers, the number of the branch point, and the number incrementing for each release of updates to said branch.
Funny enough, it would appear that the system i describe above is where things are headed with Linux. Now they can increment to x.1 while the stable branches increment x.x.1.
link two seems to be dead.
mea culpa.
Thanks. Goes to show that the details gets left out when one try to figure things out on ones own in the days before the net, and then do not bother to look up the details afterwards.