It seems like the threshold for an ISP to be part of the "launch" is for only 1% of their customers to have IPv6 service.
Yes, you read that right - only 1%.
Making this "World IPv6 Launch Day" nothing but a bunch of marketing hype so slacking internet service providers can make themselves look a lot better than they really are.
1% of your customers isn't a launch - it's severely limited test marketing.
Based on the comments I've seen from an ex-submariner earlier in the comments on this story:
Normally, a sub has multiple fire suppression and control systems that usually make fire control a situation of "close the hatches and deprive it of oxygen".
However, during a retrofit effort, the sub's configuration is anything but normal - In many cases seawater piping that is normally sealed and full of water is empty, dry, and providing a perfect source of outside air. Many of the hatches have cables and wiring running through them to support the retrofit efforts.
e.g. this would have been far less of a problem if the ship hadn't been in the middle of a major retrofit.
Except that the Android community I've been interacting with is the "outside Google" community.
I can only think of two Google employees doing Android-related work (Dianne Hackborn and JBQ) that I see posts from often. Maybe I'm just not following the rest - but I see a LOT of Android (and mobile in general) related discussion in between Dianne and JBQ's fairly rare posts. (And only a portion of Dianne's posts are in any way related to Android.)
GDI is nothing new, but it didn't become viable until recently.
Ford calls their turbocharged GDI engines EcoBoost - I was shocked at the mileage I got from a rental Ford Edge with one of these in it. Good mileage from a fairly large vehicle that also had great acceleration. Mazda calls it Skyactiv (Probably fairly similar to EcoBoost due to the historical close relationship between Ford and Mazda) Hyundai doesn't apply any fancy marketing terms for it, but they have had GDI engines in their non-turbo (and maybe the turbo too) Sonatas for 2-3 years now. 6-speed + GDI engine = car that hauls serious ass while still getting great mileage (Along with the Edge, the Sonata was one of the best rentals I've had in the past few years.)
Yeah... G+ has really evolved to start hitting a VERY different target market than Facebook.
Facebook is for those who want to keep in touch with personal friends.
G+ is for those who wish to engage with the world at large. Similar to you, I am almost always using G+, it's always open in a tab at home and I look at it more often than Facebook now. I'm now a Cyanogenmod maintainer for an Android device (Galaxy Note), and G+ has been an excellent way to connect with others in the Android community.
I post on Facebook and I also post on G+ - the content I post is VERY different. Also, many people may not post directly on their own profiles, but use G+ primarily to engage with other posters.
I honestly am seeing G+ as more of a competitor to blogging platforms than as a competitor to Facebook at this point.
So, in short, Google is acting shady because you didn't see two results from linkfarms - when Google has been quite transparent about their anti-linkfarm activities?
As I understand it, as shipped, CIQ wasn't too bad - the problem was that carriers were allowed to modify and extend it, and extend it they did such that it collected more information, and the user-accessible shutoff present in as-shipped CIQ software never was seen in a deployed phone.
They can hire all the privacy lawyers they want - no one is ever again going to trust a carrier to implement their software properly, and any attempt to reinsert their software into a device WILL result in a shitstorm.
Smaller tropical islands are very humid but often don't have enough rainfall to keep an adequate freshwater supply, and as a result use desalination plants.
A turbine like this would work quite well in such an environment.
Yup... Sideloading allows someone who wants to "dip their toes" into development to do so without risk.
Apple gets away with not having this due to the fact that they have high market share and a proven ecosystem - so they can afford to turn away some of the hobbyist/amateur developers.
MS can't - the last market share survey I saw indicated that WP7 still had lower market share than WM6.x. I also agree on the value of homebrew development keeping WM6 alive - half the apps I used on a regular basis were homebrew from XDA. Although of course, the real homebrew "killer app" for WM6.x was haret + Android. xdandroid kept my Tilt2 alive as a useful device for months longer than I could have tolerated without it.
Yeah... It was a fundamentally unstable plant and they were running a dangerous experiment on it, along with a "ACHIEVE GREAT SUCCESS!!! OR ELSE!!!" kind of pressure.
Chernobyl was not an accident - it is a perfect example of criminal negligence. Even after the explosion, with burning graphite on the ground, one of the plant supervisors continued insisting the reactor was still intact - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_involvement_in_the_Chernobyl_disaster - read the Dyatlov section.
I think that's MS's biggest misstep - In the process of redesigning their OS, they basically threw the entirety of their existing market out. Their Windows Mobile core userbase was more enterprise-oriented. WP7 was a massive step backwards for many WM6.x users - nearly all of whom went over to Android. So MS now has a "me-too" "shiny UI" OS, with very little app development, and little prospect of app development because they keep dicking around with developers - http://www.xda-developers.com/feature/enjoying-chevron-say-goodbye-to-your-developer-unlock/
Even though it was newer in time, because the Soviets were a bit behind the West in nuclear technology, it was way behind any Western power reactor in terms of safety. Chernobyl was a fundamentally dangerous reactor design that has NEVER been built in the USA. It had fundamental instabilities AND they decided not to bother with a containment building.
Fukushima was one of the oldest operating reactors on the planet. Unit I was originally scheduled for decommissioning prior to the disaster. For Fukushima to make, at most, a handful of people sick, it took a massive disaster that killed 25,000 people outright in a matter of hours. Newer plants with improved safety designs would have been able to shrug off that wave without damage, as the diesel generators are no longer safety critical in modern plants.
Look at the Boeing 777 and 787 - Other than the wing being attached near the lower portion of the fuselage (instead of at the top like in the B-52), they are largely similar to the B-52 in design.
This leaves very little that could be improved upon in the B-52: 1) Composite materials for reduced weight - matters less once you fill the aircraft up with bombs. Beneficial, but worth the cost? Not necessarily. 2) Re-engining with more efficient engines - I think this might have been proposed once, not sure. 3) Winglets
Most of these (except for composite materials) could likely be retrofit onto the existing fleet with a re-wing/re-engine program. Far more cost effective than designing a whole new aircraft.
It's not like he has to do anything with the grant money.
Also, one of the responses on Twitter made an excellent point - without DARPA, there would likely not be an Internet, without the Internet, DIYers and "independent" innovators wouldn't be where they are today.
I say "independent" because without the sharing of information on the Internet, many of today's innovators would be nowhere compared to where they are now.
This is the same thing that killed Microsoft. Windows Mobile wasn't great - but it wasn't horrible either.
However, going from Windows Mobile 6.5 to Windows Phone 7 was a major change for all users - and for many power users (which was Microsoft's core market with Windows Mobile), it was a massive step backwards.
The end result is that I believe WM6.x STILL has more market share than WP7. WM6.x customers would rather go to iOS or Android.
Wrong. Google C2DM is extremely efficient, and can be used for multiple purposes in addition to providing the genuine push email you claim that only BlackBerry has.
Now, Android with an Exchange server... that's a different story.
Historically, I/O attendees received giveaways that exceeded the ticket cost in value.
For example, 2011 attendees paid $350 I believe, and received, at a minimum, a tablet worth $500 (Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1).
This year, the ticket price was increased to $900, the question of course is - will the swag value increase or decrease? If it decreases or stays steady, it may not sell out so fast next year. If it increases to match the ticket price - this problem will continue because the conference becomes effectively free (with the exception of travel expenses of course.)
Yes. In the defense industry, we call this "situational awareness". Making things as easy to find as possible on the user interface for a display reduces operator workload and time spent looking at the screens to achieve a given task, and gives them more time for other tasks, such as avoidng controlled flight into terrain.
These proposed changes will, without any doubt, lead to more crashes, as we return to people driving at abnormally low speeds "where the hell is my turn", braking and turning suddenly "oh shit, that's my turn!", or not paying attention, "is this street sign the one I'm looking for?" - the little bit of distraction the display occasionally provides greatly reduces operator workload for a driver. In addition to increasing operator workload, these recommendations will make the display MORE distracting as drivers try to rectify the displayed information with their current vehicular situation.
The NHTSA's recommendation is a dangerous step backwards unless street signs are at least doubled in size for improved readability at a distance.
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It seems like the threshold for an ISP to be part of the "launch" is for only 1% of their customers to have IPv6 service.
Yes, you read that right - only 1%.
Making this "World IPv6 Launch Day" nothing but a bunch of marketing hype so slacking internet service providers can make themselves look a lot better than they really are.
1% of your customers isn't a launch - it's severely limited test marketing.
Based on the comments I've seen from an ex-submariner earlier in the comments on this story:
Normally, a sub has multiple fire suppression and control systems that usually make fire control a situation of "close the hatches and deprive it of oxygen".
However, during a retrofit effort, the sub's configuration is anything but normal - In many cases seawater piping that is normally sealed and full of water is empty, dry, and providing a perfect source of outside air. Many of the hatches have cables and wiring running through them to support the retrofit efforts.
e.g. this would have been far less of a problem if the ship hadn't been in the middle of a major retrofit.
Nowhere in the article is any mention that the DARPA employees would be doing TS work.
Periods processing of the sort required to do TS work at night in a facility used by civilians during the day is basically impossible...
Except that the Android community I've been interacting with is the "outside Google" community.
I can only think of two Google employees doing Android-related work (Dianne Hackborn and JBQ) that I see posts from often. Maybe I'm just not following the rest - but I see a LOT of Android (and mobile in general) related discussion in between Dianne and JBQ's fairly rare posts. (And only a portion of Dianne's posts are in any way related to Android.)
GDI is nothing new, but it didn't become viable until recently.
Ford calls their turbocharged GDI engines EcoBoost - I was shocked at the mileage I got from a rental Ford Edge with one of these in it. Good mileage from a fairly large vehicle that also had great acceleration.
Mazda calls it Skyactiv (Probably fairly similar to EcoBoost due to the historical close relationship between Ford and Mazda)
Hyundai doesn't apply any fancy marketing terms for it, but they have had GDI engines in their non-turbo (and maybe the turbo too) Sonatas for 2-3 years now. 6-speed + GDI engine = car that hauls serious ass while still getting great mileage (Along with the Edge, the Sonata was one of the best rentals I've had in the past few years.)
Yeah... G+ has really evolved to start hitting a VERY different target market than Facebook.
Facebook is for those who want to keep in touch with personal friends.
G+ is for those who wish to engage with the world at large. Similar to you, I am almost always using G+, it's always open in a tab at home and I look at it more often than Facebook now. I'm now a Cyanogenmod maintainer for an Android device (Galaxy Note), and G+ has been an excellent way to connect with others in the Android community.
I post on Facebook and I also post on G+ - the content I post is VERY different. Also, many people may not post directly on their own profiles, but use G+ primarily to engage with other posters.
I honestly am seeing G+ as more of a competitor to blogging platforms than as a competitor to Facebook at this point.
So, in short, Google is acting shady because you didn't see two results from linkfarms - when Google has been quite transparent about their anti-linkfarm activities?
As I understand it, as shipped, CIQ wasn't too bad - the problem was that carriers were allowed to modify and extend it, and extend it they did such that it collected more information, and the user-accessible shutoff present in as-shipped CIQ software never was seen in a deployed phone.
They can hire all the privacy lawyers they want - no one is ever again going to trust a carrier to implement their software properly, and any attempt to reinsert their software into a device WILL result in a shitstorm.
OLS has existed with a fully open source client for nearly a year at this point.
It seems to have a whole pile of new features - but it's not the first by any means.
Smaller tropical islands are very humid but often don't have enough rainfall to keep an adequate freshwater supply, and as a result use desalination plants.
A turbine like this would work quite well in such an environment.
Yup... Sideloading allows someone who wants to "dip their toes" into development to do so without risk.
Apple gets away with not having this due to the fact that they have high market share and a proven ecosystem - so they can afford to turn away some of the hobbyist/amateur developers.
MS can't - the last market share survey I saw indicated that WP7 still had lower market share than WM6.x. I also agree on the value of homebrew development keeping WM6 alive - half the apps I used on a regular basis were homebrew from XDA. Although of course, the real homebrew "killer app" for WM6.x was haret + Android. xdandroid kept my Tilt2 alive as a useful device for months longer than I could have tolerated without it.
Yeah... It was a fundamentally unstable plant and they were running a dangerous experiment on it, along with a "ACHIEVE GREAT SUCCESS!!! OR ELSE!!!" kind of pressure.
Chernobyl was not an accident - it is a perfect example of criminal negligence. Even after the explosion, with burning graphite on the ground, one of the plant supervisors continued insisting the reactor was still intact - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_involvement_in_the_Chernobyl_disaster - read the Dyatlov section.
I think that's MS's biggest misstep - In the process of redesigning their OS, they basically threw the entirety of their existing market out. Their Windows Mobile core userbase was more enterprise-oriented. WP7 was a massive step backwards for many WM6.x users - nearly all of whom went over to Android. So MS now has a "me-too" "shiny UI" OS, with very little app development, and little prospect of app development because they keep dicking around with developers - http://www.xda-developers.com/feature/enjoying-chevron-say-goodbye-to-your-developer-unlock/
Even though it was newer in time, because the Soviets were a bit behind the West in nuclear technology, it was way behind any Western power reactor in terms of safety. Chernobyl was a fundamentally dangerous reactor design that has NEVER been built in the USA. It had fundamental instabilities AND they decided not to bother with a containment building.
Fukushima was one of the oldest operating reactors on the planet. Unit I was originally scheduled for decommissioning prior to the disaster. For Fukushima to make, at most, a handful of people sick, it took a massive disaster that killed 25,000 people outright in a matter of hours. Newer plants with improved safety designs would have been able to shrug off that wave without damage, as the diesel generators are no longer safety critical in modern plants.
Look at the Boeing 777 and 787 - Other than the wing being attached near the lower portion of the fuselage (instead of at the top like in the B-52), they are largely similar to the B-52 in design.
This leaves very little that could be improved upon in the B-52:
1) Composite materials for reduced weight - matters less once you fill the aircraft up with bombs. Beneficial, but worth the cost? Not necessarily.
2) Re-engining with more efficient engines - I think this might have been proposed once, not sure.
3) Winglets
Most of these (except for composite materials) could likely be retrofit onto the existing fleet with a re-wing/re-engine program. Far more cost effective than designing a whole new aircraft.
That page does not have a single direct contact.
Attempts to contact Applie via info provided on that page apparently, according to Dr. Web, go nowhere.
Speaking of medevac - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nmcakF-NaI
It's not like he has to do anything with the grant money.
Also, one of the responses on Twitter made an excellent point - without DARPA, there would likely not be an Internet, without the Internet, DIYers and "independent" innovators wouldn't be where they are today.
I say "independent" because without the sharing of information on the Internet, many of today's innovators would be nowhere compared to where they are now.
This is the same thing that killed Microsoft. Windows Mobile wasn't great - but it wasn't horrible either.
However, going from Windows Mobile 6.5 to Windows Phone 7 was a major change for all users - and for many power users (which was Microsoft's core market with Windows Mobile), it was a massive step backwards.
The end result is that I believe WM6.x STILL has more market share than WP7. WM6.x customers would rather go to iOS or Android.
Wrong. Google C2DM is extremely efficient, and can be used for multiple purposes in addition to providing the genuine push email you claim that only BlackBerry has.
Now, Android with an Exchange server... that's a different story.
The fail is strong with this one.
Yeah, where's the damn Snapdragon datasheet?
And what's with the piles of binary blobs in handsets based on their hardware?
Oh, and the dual-licensing of the AR6000 WLAN driver that lets vendors like Samsung effectively release it as a proprietary module?
Historically, I/O attendees received giveaways that exceeded the ticket cost in value.
For example, 2011 attendees paid $350 I believe, and received, at a minimum, a tablet worth $500 (Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1).
This year, the ticket price was increased to $900, the question of course is - will the swag value increase or decrease? If it decreases or stays steady, it may not sell out so fast next year. If it increases to match the ticket price - this problem will continue because the conference becomes effectively free (with the exception of travel expenses of course.)
Yes. In the defense industry, we call this "situational awareness". Making things as easy to find as possible on the user interface for a display reduces operator workload and time spent looking at the screens to achieve a given task, and gives them more time for other tasks, such as avoidng controlled flight into terrain.
These proposed changes will, without any doubt, lead to more crashes, as we return to people driving at abnormally low speeds "where the hell is my turn", braking and turning suddenly "oh shit, that's my turn!", or not paying attention, "is this street sign the one I'm looking for?" - the little bit of distraction the display occasionally provides greatly reduces operator workload for a driver. In addition to increasing operator workload, these recommendations will make the display MORE distracting as drivers try to rectify the displayed information with their current vehicular situation.
The NHTSA's recommendation is a dangerous step backwards unless street signs are at least doubled in size for improved readability at a distance.
Throughout history - diversification is the key to survival.
If you don't diversify, if someone attacks your core market, you die.
Look at Kodak as a prime example of what happens when you choose one thing and focus on it.