OK, What exactly are they wanting to bill. They gotta have a billing plan, right?
Right now, they bill peers (other networks) based on traffic, users based on rate plan flavor-of-the-month (by amount of traffic, by bandwitdth or by flat rate, etc.)
What exactly are they wanting to bill now? can anyone describe how in the world they will calculate a bill? it sounds like they want to give a bill to high-traffic sites, but how will they calculate it? It seriously sounds like they are wanting to sell users (like some twisted resource) to these sites. Last time I heard, I'm not for sale. In fact, If they are "selling" me to big sites, they owe me a cut. And I'm gonna demand a contract that pays very well...after all, I'm a valuable player...er...user. I can generate traffic at the Pro level.
Either that, or it takes on the feel of "protection money": "...you've a mighty fine web site...be a shame if your connection started slowing down...."
On a related note, anyone hear anything more about PS3 supporting multiple TV's? I'm always in favor of more screen acreage.
On a related-related note: anyone know how expensive modulator's are to make? I'd love to see some game system supporting multiple TV's by broadcasting multiple channels. One coax output on the back and a splitter and you're in busniess! Sony? Listening?
Actually I'd hate for all watches to do that. For me my watch is a personal refernce. If I couldn't rely on it to stay a static refernce I wouldn't wear one. Sure, it's nice if you can buy watches that do that, but I would never buy one myself. For one reason I would rather be able to look at my watch and know that when it sais 2:00 that an hour ago it said 1:00 instead of being automatically adjusted from under me. For another reason, I don't trust the automatic settign working correctlyanyway. I bought one of those clock radios and it's wrong twice a year due to living in a state that doesn't do that DST time stuff. and THAT clock stays in one place...a watch travels from time zone to time zone with me.
A lot of the comments talk about the danger cell phones due to the person on the other end not being in sync with the stuff going on for the driver (i.e. hazards, heavy traffic, etc.). I keep wondering if there's an oddball solution there. Lots of phones have camera's built in. Is it possible for the person talking to someone who's driving to see the conditions they are driving in? bandwith and infrastructure-wise it hard right now, but is there some way to put that blasted camera to use?
This is something I've missed since Doom days myself. You could wonder all over the map in co-op and team up to fight a monster or go gather the keys while the other guy went looking for his favorite boom-stick. I haven't had that feeling of non-forced co-op since then in a game. Doom3 has co-op, but I keep wishing for it to combine the DeathMatch with the Co-op. Throw some monsters in there and let it be humans against demons. Or, even in regular co-op, I'd love to start a co-op game and head off on my own without being forced to follow or drag the other player along.
The first seems like a lost opportunity when they write games
the second is probably technically hard/impossible, but I keep hoping...
The two thigns that baffled me when reading this: the quote "What we need is a system that will continue to pack the corporate coffers yet be fair to music lovers" for starters. Why do we need to fill company coffers again? anyone?
2nd: the whole stock supply-demand pricing strategy only applies when you're talking about a limited resource, like stocks or goods. How in the world would this apply to downloaded music?? why up the price when something sells better? (I mean beyond the reason of "quick, consumers want it, drain 'em dry!" coming from the music company...)
I am pretty anti-MS and paranoid to boot, but this article comes of sounding hysterical and panicked even te me. Yeah, MS made the same ol' bad decision to get people to "try" new features by setting bad defaults. So, they messed that up again. But, invasion of privacy? Come on. His whole point seems to be centered around the new Live service showing things not related to games...yeah, and so? didn't he use the old Live? the only difference is it's closer to what they were aiming for already. The old one let you log on without running a game. it even showed you online. OMG! how dare it! To me, this is interesting both good and bad. Interesting bad that the defaults follow typical MS stupidity. interesting good that it makes it possible to actually interact with people online outside of a specific game. No more calling people to setup games. Check to see if they are online, then ask 'em to fire up your game, all from Live. (I know, it's not there yet, but it at least makes it possible).
Not saying MS isn't causing trouble with this, or at least opening the door to trouble, but the tone of the article is just ridiculous. If he's that shocked, then he's needs to use an IM client or something for a while before writing an article about this kind of thing.
I'm a linux user myelf. Wouldn't mind being more for it, but right now it's probably for the common good to keep me out of the code:) The hardware situation is pretty diappointing right now due to the driver problem. The thing is...I'm disapointed in the hardware vendors, not Linux or kernel devs. That's where the blame goes. I'm reading all these people saying, basically, binary drivers are how it works, linux coders shouldg et with the program. Sorry, try again. The reason it's not there is because the people who want the most of of there computer know that old model DOESN'T WORK.
The crap everyone is used to is not the best solution. Maybe open source isn't either, but at least it's an improvemnet. The way Linux works now, the system gets better by donation from every direction (you know, anyone who can code or help). How can locking out that possibility make anything better?? Yeah, I'm ranting. all these replies saying for Linux to "get with the times" is just annoying. How about the vendors get with the times instead.
For all those who program (except maybe for those who work in assembly) this will not impact you directly for a while. This is at the machine level and it's a different kind of architecture. It may need new complilers or even new languages. But, it's not there yet. Just because you program everyday doesn't mean this will apply to you. This is mainly for the folks are interested in more than just how to make loops in code.
So, if all you do is program computers, wait for the trickle down before claiming it's good or bad...
Thinking even more about this, this isn't a UN place. In the telecomunications arena, they don't control it. They control the ways countries interface telephone systems, but not how they deal out telephone numbers, etc.. Why not do the same with the internet? let countries dictate their own network, but set policies on how they interface. For example, a standard on top level country codes naming and how to access a server that is tied to another countries root DNS. This should be feasable. it might fracture the internet to some extent, but doesn't have to and probabaly won't in practice. If the US wants to allow everyone to access the way they do now, then they can. If some nation doesn't, then it's their problem and their citizens can register a web site with us!:)
At first glance, it kinda makes sense to have the internet controlled by some internationl organization (although as many have said, the UN doesn't look competent enough). Thinking brought up a question: Why don't the "interested parties" just create their own DNS roots, IP address policies, etc? Is it that the content they want control of is on the US part of the internet? This is a serious question to those outside of US. If the other countries took it over and the US said "fine, then don't talk to our internet" would it basically sour the deal? Is The US part of the network needed that bad to keep countries from just "routing around" US control? Can some non-US folks answer this one? I'm curious...
as a side note, I keep hoping someone will try just so SOMEONE can switch over to IPv6 since US won't...that and morbid curiosity to see how US would react to being cut out of the loop:)
You know, there's lot's of ways to do the "web services" approach to software, but most involve a client-server setup where the bulk of the app is on the server, right?
I'd really like to see that, and here's why: let's see MS try to run their own crap for while instead of package it and ship to us to install and support. Yeah, they can sell stuff, but they can't create solid software as far as I've seen. If the bulk of the app is sitting on their server and they have to keep it running, I think that would be a good punishment for them!
I haven't been following this as close as I could have, so maybe I missed this: Has Google said what they are going to do with the scans? I know they are going to build a search engine for this stuff, but then what? If they haven't announced who can get to it, it's not much yet. They could do tons with it: make a Google appliance for libraries and companies to buy, make a paid for service to the public or private, sell the thing to the government, etc. etc.
Point is, are they suing before there's anything to sue about? Or, can I get sued for scanning library books at home for my own personal search tool?
Again, if they already announced the intent/product I apologize, but I've missed it.
If you don't know what computer science is, then you're lost already. Studying the science of computers means you are going into a field of science dealing with the fundamentals of computers. No, it doesn't translate into a typical job, but it can be used for lots of jobs. CS plus other practical classes can give you an incredible edge. If you are trying for just getting a job, stay out of CS. In fact, PLEASE stay out of CS if that is all you want. CS is being deluted by that kind of attitude. A computer scientist advances computer theory and ideas, not just their paycheck.
Or you can just switch between the two buttons ("Satellite" and "Katrina" ) in the google maps web page. The positioning is the same there and gives an eerie comparison...
I've seen a lot of posts that say it's not small enough for a PDA, or it's not a laptop. When I looked at it, the first thing I thought was they were trying for the living room/portable internet access. That's just what it looked like from the start. reading the specs tells the same story. If you want to be able to get to the internet or other PC stuff from anywhere in the house this is your answer. Actually it is darn good for that....except for the price part (which is a bit high, but not unreasonable) this thing fits better than anything I've seen yet. Most people I've talked to have a wireless router on thier broadband. This thing lets you get that connection out of your home office and is useful in it's own right.
Am I the only one that thought they hit closer to the right design than most yet?
I've never considered him evil or stupid or considered him "bad" in a general sense, but he just made me drop him in the "clueless" category with that comment. Money can buy the resource you need, but it's far from being the only resource needed to innovate. Like a lot of things, we haven't found the magic formula that leads to innvoation, but the main ingredient seems to be people. Yeah, you can buy those, but that's not the only way to get it. what a crock.
I know this is an old post, but I just found this reply and couldn't ignore it....
Did you read MY post? My suggestion was EXACTLY to use hydrogen as the lowest common denominator just liek you said. You suggested electricity as a lowest common, but everythign else I said exactly describes what your post sais.
If it wasn't for the negatives in your reply, I'd say you were just agreeing with me, so if I misinterpreted your reply, I apologize. But, I got the distict impression you were disagreeing with me only to say
the exact same thing....
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Does "Live Aware" mean online playable? I hadn't seen that part of the info yet, but I thought that they were going to have your presense tracked the same way no matter what you were doing on the box (playing games, watching DVD's, chatting, etc.) Have they changed that? If I remember right, some of the current crop of Live games are "Live aware" but didn't have an online mode....it was just so they could download new content...The new one was susposed to allow that and a lot more.
Actaully, using wine is anit-windows OS if anything at all. Using Linux is not just a way to support OSS. in fact, if the only reason you're runnign Linux is to make a gesture towards a company because they put out closed source, I'd say you probably should take a better look at what your running because your missing a whole lot.
Actually, this is where hydrogen cars make more sense than just electric or gas. You get the cars using hydrogen (or some other fuel we can make ourselves from lots of places). Then you can switch EVERYTHING out except the fuel storage and transport. Like a combustion engine instead of battery? Burn the hydrogen. Like electric motors? Use a fuel cell. Want to produce it from solar instead of coal power plants? replace it. Want to transition from gas? have gas stations use the gas that's delivered burn it to produce hydrogen and then put it in the cars that stop by.
With hydrogen you can swap out how it's made AND how it's used.
At what point did we quit trying to find an answer to problems and start picking a good answer and just assuming it right?
I though progress in science and progress in general
was about finding answers. reading the arguments in the TFA and even reading the replies here
it looks like we gave up on finding answers and just picked some and decided to work just enough to
find some proof for those. I think we forgot something along the way...
Yeah, science has theories but the point of a theory is to make a mark in the sand until we can get far enough to make another mark.
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OK, What exactly are they wanting to bill. They gotta have a billing plan, right?
Right now, they bill peers (other networks) based on traffic, users based on rate plan flavor-of-the-month (by amount of traffic, by bandwitdth or by flat rate, etc.)
What exactly are they wanting to bill now? can anyone describe how in the world they will calculate a bill? it sounds like they want to give a bill to high-traffic sites, but how will they calculate it? It seriously sounds like they are wanting to sell users (like some twisted resource) to these sites. Last time I heard, I'm not for sale. In fact, If they are "selling" me to big sites, they owe me a cut. And I'm gonna demand a contract that pays very well...after all, I'm a valuable player...er...user. I can generate traffic at the Pro level.
Either that, or it takes on the feel of "protection money": "...you've a mighty fine web site...be a shame if your connection started slowing down...."
due to the time of year, the dried frog pills are hard to come by. We ran out. Don't worry, more have come in, so we should be good for while.
On a related note, anyone hear anything more about PS3 supporting multiple TV's? I'm always in favor of more screen acreage.
On a related-related note: anyone know how expensive modulator's are to make? I'd love to see some game system supporting multiple TV's by broadcasting multiple channels. One coax output on the back and a splitter and you're in busniess! Sony? Listening?
Actually I'd hate for all watches to do that. For me my watch is a personal refernce. If I couldn't rely on it to stay a static refernce I wouldn't wear one. Sure, it's nice if you can buy watches that do that, but I would never buy one myself. For one reason I would rather be able to look at my watch and know that when it sais 2:00 that an hour ago it said 1:00 instead of being automatically adjusted from under me. For another reason, I don't trust the automatic settign working correctlyanyway. I bought one of those clock radios and it's wrong twice a year due to living in a state that doesn't do that DST time stuff. and THAT clock stays in one place...a watch travels from time zone to time zone with me.
A lot of the comments talk about the danger cell phones due to the person on the other end not being in sync with the stuff going on for the driver (i.e. hazards, heavy traffic, etc.). I keep wondering if there's an oddball solution there. Lots of phones have camera's built in. Is it possible for the person talking to someone who's driving to see the conditions they are driving in? bandwith and infrastructure-wise it hard right now, but is there some way to put that blasted camera to use?
This is something I've missed since Doom days myself. You could wonder all over the map in co-op and team up to fight a monster or go gather the keys while the other guy went looking for his favorite boom-stick. I haven't had that feeling of non-forced co-op since then in a game. Doom3 has co-op, but I keep wishing for it to combine the DeathMatch with the Co-op. Throw some monsters in there and let it be humans against demons. Or, even in regular co-op, I'd love to start a co-op game and head off on my own without being forced to follow or drag the other player along.
The first seems like a lost opportunity when they write games
the second is probably technically hard/impossible, but I keep hoping...
The two thigns that baffled me when reading this: the quote "What we need is a system that will continue to pack the corporate coffers yet be fair to music lovers" for starters. Why do we need to fill company coffers again? anyone?
2nd: the whole stock supply-demand pricing strategy only applies when you're talking about a limited resource, like stocks or goods. How in the world would this apply to downloaded music?? why up the price when something sells better? (I mean beyond the reason of "quick, consumers want it, drain 'em dry!" coming from the music company...)
I am pretty anti-MS and paranoid to boot, but this article comes of sounding hysterical and panicked even te me. Yeah, MS made the same ol' bad decision to get people to "try" new features by setting bad defaults. So, they messed that up again. But, invasion of privacy? Come on. His whole point seems to be centered around the new Live service showing things not related to games...yeah, and so? didn't he use the old Live? the only difference is it's closer to what they were aiming for already. The old one let you log on without running a game. it even showed you online. OMG! how dare it! To me, this is interesting both good and bad. Interesting bad that the defaults follow typical MS stupidity. interesting good that it makes it possible to actually interact with people online outside of a specific game. No more calling people to setup games. Check to see if they are online, then ask 'em to fire up your game, all from Live. (I know, it's not there yet, but it at least makes it possible).
Not saying MS isn't causing trouble with this, or at least opening the door to trouble, but the tone of the article is just ridiculous. If he's that shocked, then he's needs to use an IM client or something for a while before writing an article about this kind of thing.
Strangly enough, it's also easier to install programs using this than it is to install them on a real windows machine!
:)
safer too, I might add
I'm a linux user myelf. Wouldn't mind being more for it, but right now it's probably for the common good to keep me out of the code :) The hardware situation is pretty diappointing right now due to the driver problem. The thing is...I'm disapointed in the hardware vendors, not Linux or kernel devs. That's where the blame goes. I'm reading all these people saying, basically, binary drivers are how it works, linux coders shouldg et with the program. Sorry, try again. The reason it's not there is because the people who want the most of of there computer know that old model DOESN'T WORK.
The crap everyone is used to is not the best solution. Maybe open source isn't either, but at least it's an improvemnet. The way Linux works now, the system gets better by donation from every direction (you know, anyone who can code or help). How can locking out that possibility make anything better?? Yeah, I'm ranting. all these replies saying for Linux to "get with the times" is just annoying. How about the vendors get with the times instead.
For all those who program (except maybe for those who work in assembly) this will not impact you directly for a while. This is at the machine level and it's a different kind of architecture. It may need new complilers or even new languages. But, it's not there yet. Just because you program everyday doesn't mean this will apply to you. This is mainly for the folks are interested in more than just how to make loops in code.
So, if all you do is program computers, wait for the trickle down before claiming it's good or bad...
Thinking even more about this, this isn't a UN place. In the telecomunications arena, they don't control it. They control the ways countries interface telephone systems, but not how they deal out telephone numbers, etc.. Why not do the same with the internet? let countries dictate their own network, but set policies on how they interface. For example, a standard on top level country codes naming and how to access a server that is tied to another countries root DNS. This should be feasable. it might fracture the internet to some extent, but doesn't have to and probabaly won't in practice. If the US wants to allow everyone to access the way they do now, then they can. If some nation doesn't, then it's their problem and their citizens can register a web site with us! :)
At first glance, it kinda makes sense to have the internet controlled by some internationl organization (although as many have said, the UN doesn't look competent enough). Thinking brought up a question: Why don't the "interested parties" just create their own DNS roots, IP address policies, etc? Is it that the content they want control of is on the US part of the internet? This is a serious question to those outside of US. If the other countries took it over and the US said "fine, then don't talk to our internet" would it basically sour the deal? Is The US part of the network needed that bad to keep countries from just "routing around" US control? Can some non-US folks answer this one? I'm curious...
:)
as a side note, I keep hoping someone will try just so SOMEONE can switch over to IPv6 since US won't...that and morbid curiosity to see how US would react to being cut out of the loop
You know, there's lot's of ways to do the "web services" approach to software, but most involve a client-server setup where the bulk of the app is on the server, right?
I'd really like to see that, and here's why: let's see MS try to run their own crap for while instead of package it and ship to us to install and support. Yeah, they can sell stuff, but they can't create solid software as far as I've seen. If the bulk of the app is sitting on their server and they have to keep it running, I think that would be a good punishment for them!
I haven't been following this as close as I could have, so maybe I missed this: Has Google said what they are going to do with the scans? I know they are going to build a search engine for this stuff, but then what? If they haven't announced who can get to it, it's not much yet. They could do tons with it: make a Google appliance for libraries and companies to buy, make a paid for service to the public or private, sell the thing to the government, etc. etc.
Point is, are they suing before there's anything to sue about? Or, can I get sued for scanning library books at home for my own personal search tool?
Again, if they already announced the intent/product I apologize, but I've missed it.
If you don't know what computer science is, then you're lost already. Studying the science of computers means you are going into a field of science dealing with the fundamentals of computers. No, it doesn't translate into a typical job, but it can be used for lots of jobs. CS plus other practical classes can give you an incredible edge. If you are trying for just getting a job, stay out of CS. In fact, PLEASE stay out of CS if that is all you want. CS is being deluted by that kind of attitude. A computer scientist advances computer theory and ideas, not just their paycheck.
Or you can just switch between the two buttons ("Satellite" and "Katrina" ) in the google maps web page. The positioning is the same there and gives an eerie comparison...
I've seen a lot of posts that say it's not small enough for a PDA, or it's not a laptop. When I looked at it, the first thing I thought was they were trying for the living room/portable internet access. That's just what it looked like from the start. reading the specs tells the same story. If you want to be able to get to the internet or other PC stuff from anywhere in the house this is your answer. Actually it is darn good for that....except for the price part (which is a bit high, but not unreasonable) this thing fits better than anything I've seen yet. Most people I've talked to have a wireless router on thier broadband. This thing lets you get that connection out of your home office and is useful in it's own right.
Am I the only one that thought they hit closer to the right design than most yet?
I've never considered him evil or stupid or considered him "bad" in a general sense, but he just made me drop him in the "clueless" category with that comment. Money can buy the resource you need, but it's far from being the only resource needed to innovate. Like a lot of things, we haven't found the magic formula that leads to innvoation, but the main ingredient seems to be people. Yeah, you can buy those, but that's not the only way to get it. what a crock.
I know this is an old post, but I just found this reply and couldn't ignore it.... Did you read MY post? My suggestion was EXACTLY to use hydrogen as the lowest common denominator just liek you said. You suggested electricity as a lowest common, but everythign else I said exactly describes what your post sais.
If it wasn't for the negatives in your reply, I'd say you were just agreeing with me, so if I misinterpreted your reply, I apologize. But, I got the distict impression you were disagreeing with me only to say the exact same thing....
Does "Live Aware" mean online playable? I hadn't seen that part of the info yet,
but I thought that they were going to have your presense tracked the same way no matter what you were doing on the box (playing games, watching DVD's, chatting, etc.) Have they changed that? If I remember right, some of the current crop of Live games are "Live aware" but didn't have an online mode....it was just so they could download new content...The new one was susposed to allow that and a lot more.
Actaully, using wine is anit-windows OS if anything at all.
Using Linux is not just a way to support OSS. in fact, if the only reason you're runnign Linux is to make a gesture towards a company because they put out closed source, I'd say you probably should take a better look at what your running because your missing a whole lot.
Actually, this is where hydrogen cars make more sense than just electric or gas. You get the cars using hydrogen (or some other fuel we can make ourselves from lots of places). Then you can switch EVERYTHING out except the fuel storage and transport. Like a combustion engine instead of battery? Burn the hydrogen. Like electric motors? Use a fuel cell. Want to produce it from solar instead of coal power plants? replace it. Want to transition from gas? have gas stations use the gas that's delivered burn it to produce hydrogen and then put it in the cars that stop by.
With hydrogen you can swap out how it's made AND how it's used.
At what point did we quit trying to find an answer to problems and start picking a good answer and just assuming it right? I though progress in science and progress in general was about finding answers. reading the arguments in the TFA and even reading the replies here it looks like we gave up on finding answers and just picked some and decided to work just enough to find some proof for those. I think we forgot something along the way...
Yeah, science has theories but the point of a theory is to make a mark in the sand until we can get far enough to make another mark.
"The turtle moves"
Sorry...couldn't resist...