I woke up this morning with a bad hangover
And my ENGINE was missing again.
This happens all the time.
It's detachable.
This comes in handy a lot of the time.
I can leave it home, when I think it's gonna get me in trouble,
or I can rent it out, when I don't need it.
But now and then I go to a party, get drunk,
and the next morning I can't for the life of me
remember what I did with it.
First I looked around my apartment, and I couldn't find it.
So I called up the place where the party was,
they hadn't seen it either. ....
I think we are entering into a period where the bandwidth is way more important than the processor
Siri.
Trivial amount of processing on the mobile device, consuming bandwidth to/from "the cloud", and presenting UI/results to the end user.
With significant increases in bandwidth and significant decreases in latency you will see the performance (and capabilities) of SIRI increasing geometrically.
Scaling CPUs in the cloud/server-farm is only a matter of throwing money at the problem to solve demand.
Repeat after me: NOBODY is going to build a cellular network which will *guarantee* actual real-world throughput of 150Mbps for every user in their footprint in anything even approximating the near future. Possibly not even in my lifetime.
The cost in towers, spectrum, and backhaul is economically prohibitive.
Sure they'll sell you "up to" mumble-something, but that's just an opportunity to let the network get congested at either the wireless or backhaul level and not care.
NO Wireless technology scales to compete with fibre-to-the-user when you consider *uncontended capacity*.
And THAT is why fibre-rollout projects are worth it in the long-term. (Heh, if nothing else, said fibre will be needed to support all them shiny-new cellular towers each of which covers less than 7 homes)
Standards are wonderful things, oddly enough almost nobody actually rolls into active service products meeting all these fancy numbers.
In Down Under Land (Oz tray Lee Uh) Telstra rolled out an LTE network. Sure In Theory LTE can deliver "Up To" 300Mbps. Despite Telstra being very much a PREMIUM service provider their shiny-new tech delivers speeds which are not even in the same city, let alone the same ballpark. (to use an Americanism)
Now don't get me wrong folks, LTE is MUCH better than HSPA+, but absolutely nobody on the Telstra LTE network is getting even HALF of the "maximum theoretical throughput of an LTE network".
So if "LTE can do 300Mbps" means end-users are getting maybe 35Mbps, then the JOYous claims of "up to 3.5Gbps" might maybe one day deliver 100-200Mbps of real-world actual throughput.
And while I'd hate to be the person who claimed that "640K is enough for anybody", I do honestly believe it will be quite some time yet before a mobile-handset (phone, iPad, etc) would need more than "one hundred megabits per second" (or thereabouts).
People driving WiFi gateways or using cellular communications from a "fixed location" scenario would. And that will lead to a two-tiered service, you can pay X for "mobile usage" which is FAST (by todays standards) but not pushing the limits of the technology, or you can pay XXXtra for Ludicrous Speed and the caveat being "not for mobile handsets".
This would keep the vast unwashed masses from snowing the network, and the premium/business-grade/etc users will still have plenty of capacity.
Sure this is just me making assumptions and I have never published a book via Apple but one would expect that the standard form legalese involved in the transaction would clearly state "I the undersigned claim copyright over the published work and indemnify Apple against any lawsuits" (or words to that effect).
If it doesn't then Apple deserve the resultant pain and suffering.
So can we stop being pompous jerks about photography so that I don't get chided for having poor composition skills and not understanding what f-stops are for?
Seriously, NO!
Photography is just about the last thing I have left to (at least vaguely) legitimately be a pompous jerk about.
I've probably spent more in glass than you spent on your last car!
Hell, they *invented* a new term for people like me! (Pro-Sumer aka people with more money and delusions of competence than any real-talent, although sheer force of good-luck does occasionally turn up some diamonds).
THIS! To say that by the time the market had turned they were too deeply embedded in THE OLD BUSINESS to ever have a snowballs hope in hell of changing is merely to say THEIR CEO WAS INCOMPETENT.
There's ONLY one real thing a CEO has to do, and do well, and that is STAY AHEAD OF THE MARKET.
What they have done is NO DIFFERENT to what the RIAA/MPAA are trying to do other than KODAK is not suing every man and their pet fleas attempting to prop up their no-longer-sustainable business.
Ok, so the *real * argument is that bitz-n-shits coinage like the one cent piece are A FRAUD PERPETRATED AGAINST THE COMMON MAN. It is *massively* inconvenient for mere-mortals to carry around such fractional coinage for the purposes of actual monetary transactions.
So this *money* gets lost, spilled or simply hoarded where it neither executes transactions nor earns interest - thereby *directly* providing *literally* negative value to The Common Man.
So... let me get this strait, in order to save $100 million our government can either:
A. Build 1 less tank/fighter jet
B. The president could stop using his own private Jet
C. We could delay invading Syria / Iran (whomever's next) by about 4hrs
D. Completely overturn the way our currency has functioned for over 200 years.
and we're choosing D?
For the same reason that most Americans appear to believe that their current political system *really works* - and by that I mean "really works for the BEST (not just the good) of the people".
Slashdot Mirror
What? Other than the fact that you've blown all your money vajazzling yourself?
I woke up this morning with a bad hangover
....
And my ENGINE was missing again.
This happens all the time.
It's detachable.
This comes in handy a lot of the time.
I can leave it home, when I think it's gonna get me in trouble,
or I can rent it out, when I don't need it.
But now and then I go to a party, get drunk,
and the next morning I can't for the life of me
remember what I did with it.
First I looked around my apartment, and I couldn't find it.
So I called up the place where the party was,
they hadn't seen it either.
Kinda reminds me of that song by King Missile.
These planets are Metal-Poor because the local sentient-life-form mined all the metals and uploaded their consciousness into machines.
I think we are entering into a period where the bandwidth is way more important than the processor
Siri.
Trivial amount of processing on the mobile device, consuming bandwidth to/from "the cloud", and presenting UI/results to the end user.
With significant increases in bandwidth and significant decreases in latency you will see the performance (and capabilities) of SIRI increasing geometrically.
Scaling CPUs in the cloud/server-farm is only a matter of throwing money at the problem to solve demand.
Repeat after me: NOBODY is going to build a cellular network which will *guarantee* actual real-world throughput of 150Mbps for every user in their footprint in anything even approximating the near future. Possibly not even in my lifetime.
The cost in towers, spectrum, and backhaul is economically prohibitive.
Sure they'll sell you "up to" mumble-something, but that's just an opportunity to let the network get congested at either the wireless or backhaul level and not care.
NO Wireless technology scales to compete with fibre-to-the-user when you consider *uncontended capacity*.
And THAT is why fibre-rollout projects are worth it in the long-term. (Heh, if nothing else, said fibre will be needed to support all them shiny-new cellular towers each of which covers less than 7 homes)
Standards are wonderful things, oddly enough almost nobody actually rolls into active service products meeting all these fancy numbers.
In Down Under Land (Oz tray Lee Uh) Telstra rolled out an LTE network. Sure In Theory LTE can deliver "Up To" 300Mbps. Despite Telstra being very much a PREMIUM service provider their shiny-new tech delivers speeds which are not even in the same city, let alone the same ballpark. (to use an Americanism)
Now don't get me wrong folks, LTE is MUCH better than HSPA+, but absolutely nobody on the Telstra LTE network is getting even HALF of the "maximum theoretical throughput of an LTE network".
So if "LTE can do 300Mbps" means end-users are getting maybe 35Mbps, then the JOYous claims of "up to 3.5Gbps" might maybe one day deliver 100-200Mbps of real-world actual throughput.
And while I'd hate to be the person who claimed that "640K is enough for anybody", I do honestly believe it will be quite some time yet before a mobile-handset (phone, iPad, etc) would need more than "one hundred megabits per second" (or thereabouts).
People driving WiFi gateways or using cellular communications from a "fixed location" scenario would. And that will lead to a two-tiered service, you can pay X for "mobile usage" which is FAST (by todays standards) but not pushing the limits of the technology, or you can pay XXXtra for Ludicrous Speed and the caveat being "not for mobile handsets".
This would keep the vast unwashed masses from snowing the network, and the premium/business-grade/etc users will still have plenty of capacity.
Sure this is just me making assumptions and I have never published a book via Apple but one would expect that the standard form legalese involved in the transaction would clearly state "I the undersigned claim copyright over the published work and indemnify Apple against any lawsuits" (or words to that effect).
If it doesn't then Apple deserve the resultant pain and suffering.
And the first night of hot-passion-and-burning-lust in your newly-automated pad leads to madness and chaos
Of course, some people prefer things that way....
Implementing Sesame Street For Fun And Profit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaXO3yg1REE
It's "somewhat similar" to a near-lethal dose.
Naturally slashdot'rs avoid it just like they avoid most other "near lethal" things.
Excellent!
I've been looking for Miss Wright for quite some time!
Someone found a good use for spiders!
Crossbows seeing sudden resurgence: Could unreliability of easy to make ammo be to blame?
Personally I blame incompentent and/or tyrannical governments for that one.
So can we stop being pompous jerks about photography so that I don't get chided for having poor composition skills and not understanding what f-stops are for?
Seriously, NO!
Photography is just about the last thing I have left to (at least vaguely) legitimately be a pompous jerk about.
I've probably spent more in glass than you spent on your last car!
Hell, they *invented* a new term for people like me! (Pro-Sumer aka people with more money and delusions of competence than any real-talent, although sheer force of good-luck does occasionally turn up some diamonds).
THIS!
To say that by the time the market had turned they were too deeply embedded in THE OLD BUSINESS to ever have a snowballs hope in hell of changing is merely to say THEIR CEO WAS INCOMPETENT.
There's ONLY one real thing a CEO has to do, and do well, and that is STAY AHEAD OF THE MARKET.
What they have done is NO DIFFERENT to what the RIAA/MPAA are trying to do other than KODAK is not suing every man and their pet fleas attempting to prop up their no-longer-sustainable business.
Ok, so the *real * argument is that bitz-n-shits coinage like the one cent piece are A FRAUD PERPETRATED AGAINST THE COMMON MAN.
It is *massively* inconvenient for mere-mortals to carry around such fractional coinage for the purposes of actual monetary transactions.
So this *money* gets lost, spilled or simply hoarded where it neither executes transactions nor earns interest - thereby *directly* providing *literally* negative value to The Common Man.
So... let me get this strait, in order to save $100 million our government can either: A. Build 1 less tank/fighter jet B. The president could stop using his own private Jet C. We could delay invading Syria / Iran (whomever's next) by about 4hrs D. Completely overturn the way our currency has functioned for over 200 years. and we're choosing D?
For the same reason that most Americans appear to believe that their current political system *really works* - and by that I mean "really works for the BEST (not just the good) of the people".
there is real value in tangible coins that paper and credit cards lack
Sure but that value is NEGATIVE, or at the very least, less than the face-value of the coinage.
Breast Implants Can hear What you're Thinking!
A classic example is payment upon the successful completion of a test.
Scientists types therefore design a test, run through the test procedure, collect data, pronounce "the test was a success".
Unfortunately the test completely failed to achieve the desired result, but that's NOT what they were paid for.
Surely them insects had to reverse-engineer the toxins before developing a successful workaround?
Lawyers Rejoice.
Except for the fact that insects have no money.
Seriously folks, stop bagging the man.
Crowd-Sourcing *obviously* wins out in the case of small-team-of-scientists vs almost-infinite-hords-of-breeding-bugs
...slashdot would be better off with a crowed sourced sarcasm counter.
Personally I'd MUCH rather a crowd-sourced directed-beam sarcasm discharge weapon. As long as I'm at the controls, naturally.
an enormous pain in the ass
Careful now, some people pay EXTRA for that kind of service.