At that price to go though, yowza. Then again, one of the nicer hotels in Miami, next year if it could be at the doubletree next to the airport, I might be able to afford it.
Maybe Olivetti?
http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/m10/guide/m10ug_toc.html
(though this isn't the one I was looking for, but still a 'portable computing device', they also did a far smaller version running a 286 with a very basic gui, but I can't remember the name of it now).
With keyboard/without, it's all portable/refining the tech surely?
I was thinking this too, but the amount of demand for Google Fiber here, shows it can be a very nice revenue source in it's own right.
When I hear 'they just want a pipe to deliver ads' I re-read their announcements and look at what they're delivering and see all their existing free products offered faster, and new tv services as being obvious to everything else they offer.
Where I think every other telco will have a huge problem isn't just the speeds offered, but the back end infrastructure. If you were deploying a new amazing service, the latest cool and trendy thing everyone's demanding, the new twitter/chat roulette/whatever, wouldn't you also want to use Google's servers too to provide the fastest service too? What'd be the point of going to anyone else when Google can give you some of the fastest servers, the fastest bandwidth, chance to promote in their app store(s)? Your other choices are Amazon's servers who don't provide bandwidth, or a co-locating with a telco who would prefer to just sell bandwidth. That's what I think will be the next worry for everyone, and what will be fought against by the usual Google competitors, all whilst they don't offer those services themselves, yet.
Apple's been a thorn in Google's side but there's a truce of sorts, it's the upcoming Oracle/Microsoft/Telco battles that are going to be the main event.
If I was rich enough to have to worry about getting a yacht, this is exactly the type I'd want to get (I think). Doesn't scream out 'hey, rich person here!', you can moor up in odd places and not stick out that some white and gold monstrosity would. I like it.
Because...
Uhm...
Yeah, I think all this takes to get sorted is a Google Exec wandering in with an unopened Android phone and showing how you can skip using the Google services (and it really does let you know this), connect up to an Exchange server, download a different browser, set the search to be Bing, and Google won't see a thing that you do.
Then open up the Kindle box, hand it over and say 'ok, this is Android too, where are we controlling what it does?'
Meeting over in 5 mins.
There's exclusive Android publishers? If there are, I'd think it'd be more likely that they find it simple to deploy on Android, not that they were being paid to avoid Apple surely?
First patent troll to stick their nose into your business, license with the proviso that now you've signed with them, any later actions by anyone else are on their head, then just point patent troll at patent troll. If they're that sure they own the patent and it's strong enough, then surely they'll be ok to step up and indemnify you from there on against others? If not, then they're not as sure of their validity as they hope and you refuse.
"Oh, hello there new troll, oh, you think you own that? Well, we just license it from them, they took all the money from us, and it's them you need to speak to"
and you get to the greener grass on the other side of the bridge.
I suspect that Google will relaunch the NexusQ as more of a gaming device and media, with better controller support built into the OS (soft gamepads similar to how the soft keyboards work, show up if you don't have the hardware, use the bluetooth/ir/wireless/wired devices if they are found).
Many of the games appear to be written knowing a controller exists,GoogleTV missed on on a trick to be a games machine as well.
You'll be able to show on your resume/cv that you've picked up what's needed to be done, worked with a fair few apps, and be able to apply what you've learned in all sorts of places. The stuff you're learning now will be invaluable for all later stuff, and you're lucky enough to be in an area that's also demanding high prices.
Could be a lot worse. Enjoy it, soak it all up, save for the next thing to learn, make contacts, keep libraries/fragments of code for later stuff.
I thought Manning shopped it around to all the big existing media and they didn't want to know, it was only after Wikileaks picked it up that THEN they came back.
And as to unedited, Wikileaks was working with the newspapers to get the redactions done until.. The Guardian in the UK started dropping unedited stuff?
Don't know for sure, a lot of finger pointing, but 99% of it always appears to be at Wikileaks and from what appeared to be going on at the time, they were doing the best they could to release slowly and carefully to avoid putting people into danger (though as pointed out, anyone who wanted this data probably already had it).
When I had... Pilot 5000, I remember finding on a palm forum some fantastic renders of 'what if' type devices.
Someone had taken a palm pilot and said 'ok, 10 years, what are we likely to get'. Full colour, glass screen, thin, internet access.
I so wish I'd saved them somewhere I could find again. It was some impressive designs for the future at the time, but of course in retrospect.
I think they hit the nail on the head though, if only they were still about, perhaps some of the 'look and feel' lawsuits going on might have prior art renders.
You could chroot BackTrack on a Nexus One a couple of years ago I thought. That gets you aircrack. If they've ported it over without needing that though? excellent.
So there'll be the inevitable food poisoning outbreak, nuke reactors not getting the full checks (one would hope they were doing it right before, anything less...), oh, and the weather warnings will be heavy hit with "NOAA expects 1,400 contractors would be let go, 2,700 positions would not be filled, and 2,600 employees would be furloughed." Well, that's one way for people to help deny climate change "What hurricane? I see no hurricane"
Sheer bloody idiots. They couldn't get their act together to get sensible budgets, so now we end up with this. Shame it's not tied into Politicians' pay, but they're probably getting their cuts of the pie from the people who will benefit from all this.
I'd (humbly) argue that they're just as evil as before, they're just not as good at is as they used to be. Everyone's on to them, so many people have been burned by their antics, and people see other routes to A) avoid falling into MS's trap again B) enjoy a bit of revenge.
It's not just Bill leaving, the company as a whole, just doesn't do evil as well.
YES! That's a far, far better way of doing it. You get to see it's doing stuff, if it's struggling, but it's all reported to the user, just as it should be. (then again, I'm not at the end of a tech support line listening to people complain the bar isn't as big this week as it was last week, is there a problem with the internets and does something need rebooting! perhaps this should be able to be turned off by a network admin).
Copying files.
Sure, get a list of the files to be moved, get the size, as files go across, start the % progress meter.
What if the network starts slowing down as you start to copy? New files are added. You used a rough calc to get a vague idea as it was 10x faster, but when you start copying, there's a lot of files bigger than you thought. Network's fast, but the end machine you're copying too is having problems keeping up. You start hitting cache, it was fast (and skewed the result) till then, now it's crawling.
Installations.
All the fun of copying files, but you're updating existing files too, file system may be fragmented, some of the.ini files as you get to may need extra work. Drivers to install may take longer than expected. Once installed, you have to generate/compile/download extra, that's more rough guesses.
As long as the hourglass/cursor/spinner is spinning, and the %'s is going up now and then, probably the best you can ask for. The trend for guesstimating time remaining seems to be diminishing, as surely the main thing most people want is to know 'is this still working or has it hung?' for anything else, logcat/catch stderr'more details' to find out what it's actually doing.
It COULD be more accurate perhaps, but you'd spend so long working it all out in advance, for 9/10 things, it'd have been quicker to just do it.
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I wish more things were explained using simple SQL.
Meet me at 1st torch.
Not to mention the weather info is sent around the world using Baudot code. 5 bit ticker tape. Awesome.
At that price to go though, yowza. Then again, one of the nicer hotels in Miami, next year if it could be at the doubletree next to the airport, I might be able to afford it.
Maybe Olivetti? http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/m10/guide/m10ug_toc.html (though this isn't the one I was looking for, but still a 'portable computing device', they also did a far smaller version running a 286 with a very basic gui, but I can't remember the name of it now). With keyboard/without, it's all portable/refining the tech surely?
Where I think every other telco will have a huge problem isn't just the speeds offered, but the back end infrastructure. If you were deploying a new amazing service, the latest cool and trendy thing everyone's demanding, the new twitter/chat roulette/whatever, wouldn't you also want to use Google's servers too to provide the fastest service too? What'd be the point of going to anyone else when Google can give you some of the fastest servers, the fastest bandwidth, chance to promote in their app store(s)? Your other choices are Amazon's servers who don't provide bandwidth, or a co-locating with a telco who would prefer to just sell bandwidth. That's what I think will be the next worry for everyone, and what will be fought against by the usual Google competitors, all whilst they don't offer those services themselves, yet.
Apple's been a thorn in Google's side but there's a truce of sorts, it's the upcoming Oracle/Microsoft/Telco battles that are going to be the main event.
If I was rich enough to have to worry about getting a yacht, this is exactly the type I'd want to get (I think). Doesn't scream out 'hey, rich person here!', you can moor up in odd places and not stick out that some white and gold monstrosity would. I like it.
Because... Uhm... Yeah, I think all this takes to get sorted is a Google Exec wandering in with an unopened Android phone and showing how you can skip using the Google services (and it really does let you know this), connect up to an Exchange server, download a different browser, set the search to be Bing, and Google won't see a thing that you do. Then open up the Kindle box, hand it over and say 'ok, this is Android too, where are we controlling what it does?' Meeting over in 5 mins.
There's exclusive Android publishers? If there are, I'd think it'd be more likely that they find it simple to deploy on Android, not that they were being paid to avoid Apple surely?
First patent troll to stick their nose into your business, license with the proviso that now you've signed with them, any later actions by anyone else are on their head, then just point patent troll at patent troll. If they're that sure they own the patent and it's strong enough, then surely they'll be ok to step up and indemnify you from there on against others? If not, then they're not as sure of their validity as they hope and you refuse. "Oh, hello there new troll, oh, you think you own that? Well, we just license it from them, they took all the money from us, and it's them you need to speak to" and you get to the greener grass on the other side of the bridge.
I suspect that Google will relaunch the NexusQ as more of a gaming device and media, with better controller support built into the OS (soft gamepads similar to how the soft keyboards work, show up if you don't have the hardware, use the bluetooth/ir/wireless/wired devices if they are found). Many of the games appear to be written knowing a controller exists,GoogleTV missed on on a trick to be a games machine as well.
You'll be able to show on your resume/cv that you've picked up what's needed to be done, worked with a fair few apps, and be able to apply what you've learned in all sorts of places. The stuff you're learning now will be invaluable for all later stuff, and you're lucky enough to be in an area that's also demanding high prices. Could be a lot worse. Enjoy it, soak it all up, save for the next thing to learn, make contacts, keep libraries/fragments of code for later stuff.
Differences. MS took Java, changed it, kept calling it Java. Google took the Java API's, changed it (where needed), didn't call it Java (Dalvik).
Nokia won't be around, after all the patents/engineers will be at MS by then.
I thought Manning shopped it around to all the big existing media and they didn't want to know, it was only after Wikileaks picked it up that THEN they came back. And as to unedited, Wikileaks was working with the newspapers to get the redactions done until.. The Guardian in the UK started dropping unedited stuff? Don't know for sure, a lot of finger pointing, but 99% of it always appears to be at Wikileaks and from what appeared to be going on at the time, they were doing the best they could to release slowly and carefully to avoid putting people into danger (though as pointed out, anyone who wanted this data probably already had it).
When I had... Pilot 5000, I remember finding on a palm forum some fantastic renders of 'what if' type devices. Someone had taken a palm pilot and said 'ok, 10 years, what are we likely to get'. Full colour, glass screen, thin, internet access. I so wish I'd saved them somewhere I could find again. It was some impressive designs for the future at the time, but of course in retrospect. I think they hit the nail on the head though, if only they were still about, perhaps some of the 'look and feel' lawsuits going on might have prior art renders.
The stumps were banned, the bat wasn't.
And through an odd technicality, English Cricket Bats were never banned.
10k wide? And we don't have Bruce Willis on stand by at ALL TIMES!?!?!?
You could chroot BackTrack on a Nexus One a couple of years ago I thought. That gets you aircrack. If they've ported it over without needing that though? excellent.
Sheer bloody idiots. They couldn't get their act together to get sensible budgets, so now we end up with this. Shame it's not tied into Politicians' pay, but they're probably getting their cuts of the pie from the people who will benefit from all this.
I'd (humbly) argue that they're just as evil as before, they're just not as good at is as they used to be. Everyone's on to them, so many people have been burned by their antics, and people see other routes to A) avoid falling into MS's trap again B) enjoy a bit of revenge. It's not just Bill leaving, the company as a whole, just doesn't do evil as well.
YES! That's a far, far better way of doing it. You get to see it's doing stuff, if it's struggling, but it's all reported to the user, just as it should be. (then again, I'm not at the end of a tech support line listening to people complain the bar isn't as big this week as it was last week, is there a problem with the internets and does something need rebooting! perhaps this should be able to be turned off by a network admin).
Copying files. Sure, get a list of the files to be moved, get the size, as files go across, start the % progress meter. What if the network starts slowing down as you start to copy? New files are added. You used a rough calc to get a vague idea as it was 10x faster, but when you start copying, there's a lot of files bigger than you thought. Network's fast, but the end machine you're copying too is having problems keeping up. You start hitting cache, it was fast (and skewed the result) till then, now it's crawling. Installations. All the fun of copying files, but you're updating existing files too, file system may be fragmented, some of the .ini files as you get to may need extra work. Drivers to install may take longer than expected. Once installed, you have to generate/compile/download extra, that's more rough guesses.
As long as the hourglass/cursor/spinner is spinning, and the %'s is going up now and then, probably the best you can ask for. The trend for guesstimating time remaining seems to be diminishing, as surely the main thing most people want is to know 'is this still working or has it hung?' for anything else, logcat/catch stderr'more details' to find out what it's actually doing.
It COULD be more accurate perhaps, but you'd spend so long working it all out in advance, for 9/10 things, it'd have been quicker to just do it.
ooo, nice one. I'll remember that for next time.