Give me a phone where I can run an x86 operating system and x86 software.
That would be a very bad move since any x86 OS is both bloated, and not suited for a touch screen only interface.
This is pure BS. Look at the upcoming Moorestown and the OSes available to run on them. MeeGo runs on it - completely touch-based OS. And, Android also runs on it.
There is nothing inherent in the x86 to make it touch-averse. Where it has been lacking so far was performance for the limited power envelop. Moorestown will fix that. The next thing where it will still be lacking is not tight enough integration of communications capability - which is key to create a mobile platform that runs well with limited power consumption.
Osho
Mod parent up. Intel wi-fi chips drivers are open sourced and work reliably well. I have been using ipw2200 driver in my laptop for last 3 years and it has always worked well across multiple kernel versions.
Osho
High definition video formats such as HD-DVD and Blu-ray are doomed for failure from the beginning, IMHO. Apart from DRM, HDCP, different formats, expensive players, expensive media, limited availability of titles and the ongoing war between the two formats: the main reason for its failure is that for most customers it doesn't deliver anything. Most of the customers out there have 27" or smaller non-HD sets - the different in quality between DVD and HD-DVD/Blu-ray is negligible. DVD was so successful because it provided better picture quality for everyone - no matter what is the display. DVD picture was consistently better than VHS for all customer's displays, had superior navigation capabilities and was more reliable/long-lasting than the tapes (which deteriorated after multiple use/got tangled in player etc. etc.). Also, DVD manufacturing was much more cost-effective and that savings were passed on to customers (albeit a bit late).
Still, this war is going to be long and hard-fought. Ultimatley, both camps will lose to online video content delivery. And, just like for audio, online content will be of lower quality than the one on optical disks of various kinds; and still it would be the winner. MP3, AAC, WMA are all lossy compression format which are lower in sound quality than CD (let alone DVD-Audio, SACD etc.) but they are winning more than anything because of the content delivery innovation and content mobility.
There will be one saving grace for HD-DVD and Blu-ray though and I think that will be computers and gamers use. This format will be more popular for people to back up their data on due to their larger size. It will also work well for releasing games for consoles with amazing amount of data to create more real-world-like experience.
What is this guy talking about? My $8000 PS3 from eBay does 0/0 just fine! He must be still playing with Xbox360 and Wii - those poor little things that can't even do 0/0!!!
You are only saying this because the current state of the art is bandwith limited. It is much too trivialized generalization to say it "it is bandwith stupid!". Computer architecture and preformance is all about compromises, bottlenecks and parameter tuning. Not so far in future, there will be more bandwidth and then the limiting factor could be the speed/size of the memory. Or, it could be the power envelop of the entire system, Or, it could be back to the raw performance of CPUs. Or, it could be limiting opportunities for parallelization in most common workload for a typical office/home user. A little further out in future, there will be integrated GPUs, maybe even memory etc. and then it could be dinosaur hard-drive technology that may be limiting factors of overall system performance.
At any point of time in the history of computer performance, to say that, "it is stupid *anything*!" is much too simplistic point of view IMHO.
Has it occurred to you that in a place with a lower cost of living than Silicon Valley that you might actually be able to live better with a less than maximum salary?
Yes, I have been doing exactly that (achieving a better standard of living by being in a place with lower cost of living *and* where one can get very good salary too) for >5 years. And, that's why I have been thinking a lot about the questions that I raised. I have been thinking about the lack of growth and availability of other opportunities all the time recently.
There are interesting questions here. One could go for one of these highest paying jobs in obscure locations where few companies are there. However, what is the growth potential in such locations? How many companies are there to work for in such locations that can pay high salaries for specialized skills? How many companies can pay more than 100k in places like Idaho Falls, ID? And, what happens if that company goes bust/one is laid off in such areas?
I dislike the high cost of living, traffic, unaffordability of houses etc. in places such as Silicon Valley. But there are lot more companies where one can work for with decent salary. One's chances of finding another job with close to maximum salary in one's field are lot higher there without having to move.
These are not just idle concerns. I have been asking many such questions to myself recently as I am not in high-tech area such as Silicon Valley. There are no easy answers to such questions. These become even more difficult once one has family, house etc. and has established roots in one place.
There is gross misrepresentation here. One should really RTFA.
I qute here what was said:
"I believe '2' is a good number. '4' will be an interesting number for the high-end. Will we see eight cores in the client in the next two years? If someone chooses to do that, engineering-wise that is possible. But I doubt this is something the market needs."
Note that this talks about only next two years. Not forever. I agree with this. We will see 2 and 4-core machines in the future (that means 4 and 8 thread with hyperthreading). OS/Software industry will catch up with innovative new ways to use so many threads for a typical "end user" (I know there are specific applications that can use as many threads/cores as it is given - I am talking about Average Joe here). After those 2 years, there is no prediction here.
For all those who are wondering why should police care if *your* wireless network is secure or not.
1. Unprotected wireless access points are one of the main ways illegal porn, illegal software and various other data gets uploaded to the internet
2. it is one of the ways terrorists can communicate safely without any chance of being tracked
3. unprotected wireless access is an open invitation to hackers to steal important personal information (including financial info)
In this day and age, having unprotected wireless access is akin to having your home telephone line available to public. Imagine your surprise when police knocks on your door and tells you your home phone was used to call a remote cell phone to trigger a bomb and you please ignorance saying well it is available to everyone.
If you read the forbes article it mentions that a natural way to reduce the "bad" ap2 protein is to lose weight if you are over-weight and maintain a healthy weight. It is amazing how so many illnesses can be avoided by just staying in shape and regularly exercising.
And, this way is a lot safer that subjecting your body to pre-clinical drugs tried only on mice.
There were online music shops where you can download each track individually before iPod. And, there were players who could play those tracks.
It is primarily due to ipod's (and itune's) highly intuitive and easy-to-use interface that made it a real winner. It made it possible for anyone who would otherwise be afraid to touch a new high-tech gizmo, instantly comfortable with ipod. And Apple's marketing of ipod is another factor contributing to ipod's success. The initial buzz that was created with white earbuds was something many marketing teams dream about launching their products.
Of course, being able to buy a track at a time is a great thing and definitely helped ipod gain market-share. But, Apple didn't invent it. It was there before ipod.
I have heard "unofficial" reports that in some forums that costco tv does offer 1080p input (even though it may not be advertised). But yes, it does not offer it "officially".
What I am really looking forward is 1080p output capable HD-DVD players. 2006 year is going to be the year of 1080p HD Displays. Unfortunately, HDMI (as I understand) as a format does not have 1080p output well-defined (or defined at all for that matter). However, 1080p HD displays offer significantly better picture quality than 1080i/720p displays. Costco is offering a 37" flat screen 1080p for $1600. Other ~60 inches 1080p displays are pulling in under 5k at this time - which means they will "soon" come to under $2.5k budget. Once it reaches at that point, many of early HDTV adopters (about 1 million in US) will be itching to upgrade their gear to 1080p capable display. It would be a shame if HD-DVD players (without any valid technical reason) will limit its output to 1080i.
Anyone can provide more specifics on what exactly are these "laptop features"?
Osho
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What are you talking about? If you use Play launch firefox extension (with mplayer and mplayerplug-in), launch.yahoo.com works just fine. Heck, it works just fine on linux for me.
Now that there have been enough funny posts about this topic, here is something serious.
I was in the same boat as you when I graduated 6 years ago. The situation then was different than it is now. However, some elements are universal.
First, Decide if you want to do PhD or not. Do it only if you are *genuinely* interested in doing so. Do not concern yourselves with relative monetary benifits of MS vs. PhD. In the long run, it will not matter that much.
Then if you do want to start working, always find this about your career path and/or the company you want to work for.
1. The salary of your first job is important. Even if you don't need the money now, it is a "trend-setter" for your professional career.
2. Decide the segment of the computer industry you want to work on. Consider the short-term and long-term potentials of your choice of segments both in terms of job availability and potential for job growth.
3. If you think that you are likely to follow a technical career path (rather than switch to managerial one later on) then find out what is the average #of years of experience for someone on technical career path in the segment/company you are interested in. This can be a good indication of how viable that career path is.
4. Do not narrow your scope too much. Coming fresh out of school, keep your choices of platforms, technical skills wide open.
5. If you are thinking about doing MBA after a few years of experience, try to get a job that requires a lot of interaction with people of different personality, preferably direct interaction with customers of your company.
6. In the early parts of one's career, most motivated geeks work their heart out to impress their boss/earn more money/get a good job-satisfaction. If you plan to do that make sure that the work you signed up for is something that you find challenging.
7. It is relatively easy to become too narrow-focused and get your skills out-dated when you leave school and start doing real work. Whatever you do, always look for gathering new and emerging skills. That is the only way to not lose against your competition (the kids who are in their freshmen years now).
If your laptop has bluetooth, why not use MX900?
That's what I use with my laptop (which has bluetooth onboard) and it works so awesome without having to plug anything into any ports of the laptop.
Osho
You clearly have not used one of the newer laptops with ATI graphics card in them. If you are unfortunate enough to own one such and the card does not have 3D acceleration support in the XFree86/X.org free driver then your choices are tough ones.
Choice 1: Choose to run radeon free driver. You will have everything you want working but no 3D acceleration. That makes it a break deal for many uses.
Choice 2: Run ATI's fglrx driver. You have 3D acceleration, yeah!! But don't expect to ACPI suspend and resume your notebook because that will just crash linux.
Choice 3: Run ATI's fglrx driver. Disable 3D acceleration in driver!! Well, you have ACPI suspend and resume "partly" working but your laptop will be slow as hell after you resume.
Oh, and did I tell you that DVI output to LCD flat panel does not work with either Choice 2 or Choice 3??
So, we are stuck running the latest and greatest graphics chip from ATI in the laptop which performs worse than the chip they released 3 years ago (for which Opensource drivers have 3D acceleration support).
IMHO, such a law, even if it will be in place and patents will be rewarded based on it - the real test of it would be in a court room. Just as many people said that the real test of GPL is in a court room (and it was successfully defended in a German court) - the real test of this will be in court room. That's when the fine distinction of "existing state-of-art derived work" as opposed to something really oiginal will be put to test. As well as how really "patent-worty" software implementations are.
If this law passes, I will be the first one to patent boolean logic:).
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That would be a very bad move since any x86 OS is both bloated, and not suited for a touch screen only interface.
This is pure BS. Look at the upcoming Moorestown and the OSes available to run on them. MeeGo runs on it - completely touch-based OS. And, Android also runs on it. There is nothing inherent in the x86 to make it touch-averse. Where it has been lacking so far was performance for the limited power envelop. Moorestown will fix that. The next thing where it will still be lacking is not tight enough integration of communications capability - which is key to create a mobile platform that runs well with limited power consumption. Osho
Mod parent up. Intel wi-fi chips drivers are open sourced and work reliably well. I have been using ipw2200 driver in my laptop for last 3 years and it has always worked well across multiple kernel versions. Osho
Still, this war is going to be long and hard-fought. Ultimatley, both camps will lose to online video content delivery. And, just like for audio, online content will be of lower quality than the one on optical disks of various kinds; and still it would be the winner. MP3, AAC, WMA are all lossy compression format which are lower in sound quality than CD (let alone DVD-Audio, SACD etc.) but they are winning more than anything because of the content delivery innovation and content mobility.
There will be one saving grace for HD-DVD and Blu-ray though and I think that will be computers and gamers use. This format will be more popular for people to back up their data on due to their larger size. It will also work well for releasing games for consoles with amazing amount of data to create more real-world-like experience.
Osho
Osho
At any point of time in the history of computer performance, to say that, "it is stupid *anything*!" is much too simplistic point of view IMHO.
Osho
Osho
Yes, I have been doing exactly that (achieving a better standard of living by being in a place with lower cost of living *and* where one can get very good salary too) for >5 years. And, that's why I have been thinking a lot about the questions that I raised. I have been thinking about the lack of growth and availability of other opportunities all the time recently.
Osho
I dislike the high cost of living, traffic, unaffordability of houses etc. in places such as Silicon Valley. But there are lot more companies where one can work for with decent salary. One's chances of finding another job with close to maximum salary in one's field are lot higher there without having to move.
These are not just idle concerns. I have been asking many such questions to myself recently as I am not in high-tech area such as Silicon Valley. There are no easy answers to such questions. These become even more difficult once one has family, house etc. and has established roots in one place.
Osho
"I believe '2' is a good number. '4' will be an interesting number for the high-end. Will we see eight cores in the client in the next two years? If someone chooses to do that, engineering-wise that is possible. But I doubt this is something the market needs."
Note that this talks about only next two years. Not forever. I agree with this. We will see 2 and 4-core machines in the future (that means 4 and 8 thread with hyperthreading). OS/Software industry will catch up with innovative new ways to use so many threads for a typical "end user" (I know there are specific applications that can use as many threads/cores as it is given - I am talking about Average Joe here). After those 2 years, there is no prediction here.
Osho
1. Unprotected wireless access points are one of the main ways illegal porn, illegal software and various other data gets uploaded to the internet
2. it is one of the ways terrorists can communicate safely without any chance of being tracked
3. unprotected wireless access is an open invitation to hackers to steal important personal information (including financial info)
In this day and age, having unprotected wireless access is akin to having your home telephone line available to public. Imagine your surprise when police knocks on your door and tells you your home phone was used to call a remote cell phone to trigger a bomb and you please ignorance saying well it is available to everyone.
Osho
And, this way is a lot safer that subjecting your body to pre-clinical drugs tried only on mice.
Osho
It is primarily due to ipod's (and itune's) highly intuitive and easy-to-use interface that made it a real winner. It made it possible for anyone who would otherwise be afraid to touch a new high-tech gizmo, instantly comfortable with ipod. And Apple's marketing of ipod is another factor contributing to ipod's success. The initial buzz that was created with white earbuds was something many marketing teams dream about launching their products.
Of course, being able to buy a track at a time is a great thing and definitely helped ipod gain market-share. But, Apple didn't invent it. It was there before ipod.
Osho
I have heard "unofficial" reports that in some forums that costco tv does offer 1080p input (even though it may not be advertised). But yes, it does not offer it "officially".
What I am really looking forward is 1080p output capable HD-DVD players. 2006 year is going to be the year of 1080p HD Displays. Unfortunately, HDMI (as I understand) as a format does not have 1080p output well-defined (or defined at all for that matter). However, 1080p HD displays offer significantly better picture quality than 1080i/720p displays. Costco is offering a 37" flat screen 1080p for $1600. Other ~60 inches 1080p displays are pulling in under 5k at this time - which means they will "soon" come to under $2.5k budget. Once it reaches at that point, many of early HDTV adopters (about 1 million in US) will be itching to upgrade their gear to 1080p capable display. It would be a shame if HD-DVD players (without any valid technical reason) will limit its output to 1080i.
On the plus side, it would be easier to achieve cold fusion on pluto than previously thought :)
Osho
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?application=firefox&id=593
Osho
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/28/124525 8&tid=104&tid=130
This aims to do exactly what you are talking about and some more (as I understand it).
Osho
I was in the same boat as you when I graduated 6 years ago. The situation then was different than it is now. However, some elements are universal.
First, Decide if you want to do PhD or not. Do it only if you are *genuinely* interested in doing so. Do not concern yourselves with relative monetary benifits of MS vs. PhD. In the long run, it will not matter that much.
Then if you do want to start working, always find this about your career path and/or the company you want to work for.
1. The salary of your first job is important. Even if you don't need the money now, it is a "trend-setter" for your professional career.
2. Decide the segment of the computer industry you want to work on. Consider the short-term and long-term potentials of your choice of segments both in terms of job availability and potential for job growth.
3. If you think that you are likely to follow a technical career path (rather than switch to managerial one later on) then find out what is the average #of years of experience for someone on technical career path in the segment/company you are interested in. This can be a good indication of how viable that career path is.
4. Do not narrow your scope too much. Coming fresh out of school, keep your choices of platforms, technical skills wide open.
5. If you are thinking about doing MBA after a few years of experience, try to get a job that requires a lot of interaction with people of different personality, preferably direct interaction with customers of your company.
6. In the early parts of one's career, most motivated geeks work their heart out to impress their boss/earn more money/get a good job-satisfaction. If you plan to do that make sure that the work you signed up for is something that you find challenging.
7. It is relatively easy to become too narrow-focused and get your skills out-dated when you leave school and start doing real work. Whatever you do, always look for gathering new and emerging skills. That is the only way to not lose against your competition (the kids who are in their freshmen years now).
Osho
If your laptop has bluetooth, why not use MX900? That's what I use with my laptop (which has bluetooth onboard) and it works so awesome without having to plug anything into any ports of the laptop. Osho
What's the story in this? This is business as usual....
I wonder how meaningful the Acid2 test really is?
Osho
Osho
Choice 1: Choose to run radeon free driver. You will have everything you want working but no 3D acceleration. That makes it a break deal for many uses.
Choice 2: Run ATI's fglrx driver. You have 3D acceleration, yeah!! But don't expect to ACPI suspend and resume your notebook because that will just crash linux.
Choice 3: Run ATI's fglrx driver. Disable 3D acceleration in driver!! Well, you have ACPI suspend and resume "partly" working but your laptop will be slow as hell after you resume.
Oh, and did I tell you that DVI output to LCD flat panel does not work with either Choice 2 or Choice 3??
So, we are stuck running the latest and greatest graphics chip from ATI in the laptop which performs worse than the chip they released 3 years ago (for which Opensource drivers have 3D acceleration support).
Osho
If this law passes, I will be the first one to patent boolean logic :).
Osho