Although this seems like a mistake, Dell may actually be able to encourage the market on cheaper smart phones. The article, if you read, went into absolutely no detail about the phone but one can assume it is a smartphone. With competitive forces like Dell (which seems to be all dell is good at as of late) Treo and Blackberry are going to have a run for their money. I am all for more choices and better competition in this market, but to whom will they offer their services will be the next question. Will it be a brand specific deal, or will they provide to the masses and make it available to all major carriers?
This article although informative, didn't do the best job in
technical explanations, that is when I spotted the following line...
A PC maker, for example, would not have to equip its
computers with hard drives compatible with both formats.
I didn't realize the hard drive had to be made to be compatible.
I guess speed could somehow come into play, but no, never mind, they don't know
what they are talking about.
"It could take both camps some time to develop
products based on a new standard, which leaves the risk of development delays
for Sony's next-generation game console," Goldman Sachs analyst Yuji
Fujimori wrote in a note to clients.
Does this really matter? Couldn't Sony still release their
next PlayStation with BlueRay discs as their format? I mean, they did use UMD
for the PSP, and they isn't a common format. If you know more about this let me
know, but this to me would mean it could prevent more illegal copying of
game discs.
You see, if they made a web browser, and it started to compete with IE and Firefox, not to mention Safari, they would then incorporate all of their software with it. You would never have to download flash, shockwave, or acrobat again. Of course, those would probably be the only things this supposed web browser would display correctly.
This is a dangerous trend. Given the majority of these ad/spyware companies don't care what their products do to the "users" computer, they can leave security holes unnoticed and allow exploits without the user even knowing there is a flaw in their computer. Windows updates can only do so much, and with companies releasing software that intends to help the user, but instead can hurt them. All the while the user is unaware. This makes me sick. Let's support the companies that work off of donations and have open source programs. This is the only way to prevent this from spreading to all of the favorite anit-ad/spyware programs.
From what I understand, they will be using quite a bit of the bandwidth in this as well. Do we know how much data must be trasfered at once? Is this continuous data, or is it in chunks? How much ram would it take to hold all of this data until it can be placed unto a disk for storage?
I love it when a company releases a product specificly for overkill. But I love the idea of hacking through a pumkin with ease, just don't let the kids use it.
"Mom, look what I carved into danny's head!"
I find it interesting that they could have possibly intereacted with modern humans and their "species" could have overlapped with ours, but I agree with the scientist arguing over naming a new species. Let's rule out any major speculation before we go naming new evolutionary tree branches.
Yes, price is an important factor to think about, but also the use of the product. If they are marketing this towards the industrial market like the article says, then companies are willing to shell out a little more money for an item that is more efficient, smaller, and more powerful. The price isn't an issue right now, but when they decide this is better for the consumer market I guarantee the prices will come down to a much more competitive level. Say under $200, IMHO.
In the end, Brohn acknowledged, the licensing system as it is now envisioned will not fulfill its stated purpose of ensuring consumers that a licensed worker will have the skills that Brohn said are needed to set up the new computer-based media systems. By requiring little more than a fee and a letter from a boss or client, Brohn admitted, the board is doing little to control the quality of licensees.
"That is the problem with a grandfather clause," he said. "There is nothing that we can do about that."
Sure there is, don't license computer technicians!
I agree, there is almost no privacy in the US for this sort of thing. But if you have already given your information to be hoarded in databases, and cross linked with other databases, then there is little one can do to regain their privacy.
Wired Magazine a year or so ago, I remember, had a page on how to regain privacy. Some of those tips included: - Gaining access to a fake SSN - Not using a Cell phone - Never using a credit card - Do not have a mortgage
Something most Americans are incapable of doing without moving to the woods and living off the land.
Re:The Same News We Have Already Heard
on
Open Voting at OSCON
·
· Score: 1, Redundant
Bravo, somebody else gets it. In order to have an accurate voting system. It must have redundancy. And all fall backs must be check, how else would you know if it were inacurate or not?
Yes that would be possible, but also consider this.. The voting booths have to be verified just before the poles open. No longer than 24 hours in my neck of the woods. The systems are then locked down. I would suppose that it is possible for somebody to "patch" or change the code, but the person would have to be experienced with the code and also would have to bypass the second machine which is counting the ballot that was printed. This makes it much harder to do.
The Same News We Have Already Heard
on
Open Voting at OSCON
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
This is exactly what the voting system needs in order to become more accurate. A multi-system machine. Or multiple machines to record the votes. The primary machine to do it in real time through a computer, and the secondary machine to validate the votes to prevent fraud.
Of course, that is exactly what I said here as well. But that didn't fly to well with the slashdotters then either.
You can't lie to your potential investors, and when you're a big enough company every member the entire public is considered a potential investor.
No you can't lie to your potential investors, but maybe google never intends to become public now. They have more than enough money to beat out even the best Public companies.
Also, if they do decide for some odd reason to become a public company, nobody said they would have to lie, they could just simply not say anything that their records (that nearly nobody reads) already report. I wouldn't blame them either.
NASA nearly became Microsoft on this one. I suppose it wouldn't necessarily be easy to send an update of the software controllers to the satellite. Thankfully they are taking their time and making sure everything is good to go before they launch. I would hate to see this satellite become nothing more than a $700 million piece of space junk. Einstein would be rolling over in his grave if that were to happen.
Of course this would be a good thing for the consumers, up to a certain point. There are some nieche channels out there. The Golf Channel, The Catholic something or another channel, Hell, even TechTV. These types of channels would slowly start to fade away because of fewer and fewer viewers. I like the idea of a la carte, but I don't want some of the better, more nieche channels disappearing.
But since this is only been reserved for internet usage you will not have all of the other crap on this range as you do on the 2.4GHz band. Cell phones, portable handhelds, WiFi, 2-ways... etc. This list goes on, and companies keep building more items for them.
I read through the paper, but I don't remember seeing anything about how far the transmission would go. If it is being compared to bluetooth, is it 30 feet. Or is this something that could also take over WiFi and go hundreds of feet? I would love to have a home network with a +400Mbps bandwidth.
I find that users tend to prefer proprietary design because it is integrated into the OS. GUI applications are another story. A lot of open source projects are still command line, while very powerful and chocked full of information; they are not designed for people that are only used to Windows.
One of the items this paper doesn't seem to mention is that with Open Source, you tend to have less R&D money, if any at all. This is what has kept the likes of Microsoft and Apple at the top. They can afford to spend the money on intuitive, user-friendly design. That, and it would help if open source items, such as Linux, were pre-installed on the PC when it was bought. I know it is out there, but not as strong as it would need to be to succeed.
These cases look great, but whats new here? I have seen this done plenty of times. I think even the Screen Savers on TechTV did this before. I guess what I am trying to say is, why is this on/.?
From what I understand, he was in the public. Why is there such a big concern for privacy? If somebody shoots themselves in front of a large crowd, is their mother going to come out a few days later and say "all those people in the crowd should be sued for seeing my son shoot himself" I think not. This is not so much a privacy issue as it is an ethics issue.
The reason there needs to be two different companies is if you have the same companies that both produce the electronic voting booth, and a scanning machine, they may have the same flaws, or may have been paid off by one side or the other, with two different companies, while this is still possible, it is much more difficult.
Until there is a way to have two or three safety checks that are electronic, we are always going to see these problems. Have an electronic machine from one company send the vote to its database, and print a "receipt" for the vote out. Then, have they receipt scanned into a system built by a different company, and check the results. The voter can also look at the receipt and verify that is who they voted for, as well, as being double checked to veryify there are no "programming" errors.
Do they plan on releasing a firmware update? If so, how do we know they aren't going to put another backdoor into that and simply change the information? Is there a way they can make the firmware patch open source without giving away their other "proprietary" source?
Slashdot Mirror
Although this seems like a mistake, Dell may actually be able to encourage the market on cheaper smart phones. The article, if you read, went into absolutely no detail about the phone but one can assume it is a smartphone. With competitive forces like Dell (which seems to be all dell is good at as of late) Treo and Blackberry are going to have a run for their money. I am all for more choices and better competition in this market, but to whom will they offer their services will be the next question. Will it be a brand specific deal, or will they provide to the masses and make it available to all major carriers?
Did the script veer too far away from the source material or tie itself in knots trying to keep faith with it?
Bizarrely, I think the answer is both.
Funny, I was almost certain it was 42
I didn't realize the hard drive had to be made to be compatible. I guess speed could somehow come into play, but no, never mind, they don't know what they are talking about.
"It could take both camps some time to develop products based on a new standard, which leaves the risk of development delays for Sony's next-generation game console," Goldman Sachs analyst Yuji Fujimori wrote in a note to clients.
Does this really matter? Couldn't Sony still release their next PlayStation with BlueRay discs as their format? I mean, they did use UMD for the PSP, and they isn't a common format. If you know more about this let me know, but this to me would mean it could prevent more illegal copying of game discs.
You see, if they made a web browser, and it started to compete with IE and Firefox, not to mention Safari, they would then incorporate all of their software with it. You would never have to download flash, shockwave, or acrobat again. Of course, those would probably be the only things this supposed web browser would display correctly.
This is a dangerous trend. Given the majority of these ad/spyware companies don't care what their products do to the "users" computer, they can leave security holes unnoticed and allow exploits without the user even knowing there is a flaw in their computer. Windows updates can only do so much, and with companies releasing software that intends to help the user, but instead can hurt them. All the while the user is unaware. This makes me sick. Let's support the companies that work off of donations and have open source programs. This is the only way to prevent this from spreading to all of the favorite anit-ad/spyware programs.
From what I understand, they will be using quite a bit of the bandwidth in this as well. Do we know how much data must be trasfered at once? Is this continuous data, or is it in chunks? How much ram would it take to hold all of this data until it can be placed unto a disk for storage?
I love it when a company releases a product specificly for overkill. But I love the idea of hacking through a pumkin with ease, just don't let the kids use it. "Mom, look what I carved into danny's head!"
I find it interesting that they could have possibly intereacted with modern humans and their "species" could have overlapped with ours, but I agree with the scientist arguing over naming a new species. Let's rule out any major speculation before we go naming new evolutionary tree branches.
Yes, price is an important factor to think about, but also the use of the product. If they are marketing this towards the industrial market like the article says, then companies are willing to shell out a little more money for an item that is more efficient, smaller, and more powerful. The price isn't an issue right now, but when they decide this is better for the consumer market I guarantee the prices will come down to a much more competitive level. Say under $200, IMHO.
"That is the problem with a grandfather clause," he said. "There is nothing that we can do about that."
Sure there is, don't license computer technicians!
I agree, there is almost no privacy in the US for this sort of thing. But if you have already given your information to be hoarded in databases, and cross linked with other databases, then there is little one can do to regain their privacy.
Wired Magazine a year or so ago, I remember, had a page on how to regain privacy. Some of those tips included:
- Gaining access to a fake SSN
- Not using a Cell phone
- Never using a credit card
- Do not have a mortgage
Something most Americans are incapable of doing without moving to the woods and living off the land.
Bravo, somebody else gets it. In order to have an accurate voting system. It must have redundancy. And all fall backs must be check, how else would you know if it were inacurate or not?
Yes that would be possible, but also consider this.. The voting booths have to be verified just before the poles open. No longer than 24 hours in my neck of the woods. The systems are then locked down. I would suppose that it is possible for somebody to "patch" or change the code, but the person would have to be experienced with the code and also would have to bypass the second machine which is counting the ballot that was printed. This makes it much harder to do.
Of course, that is exactly what I said here as well. But that didn't fly to well with the slashdotters then either.
No you can't lie to your potential investors, but maybe google never intends to become public now. They have more than enough money to beat out even the best Public companies.
Also, if they do decide for some odd reason to become a public company, nobody said they would have to lie, they could just simply not say anything that their records (that nearly nobody reads) already report. I wouldn't blame them either.
Of course this would be a good thing for the consumers, up to a certain point. There are some nieche channels out there. The Golf Channel, The Catholic something or another channel, Hell, even TechTV. These types of channels would slowly start to fade away because of fewer and fewer viewers. I like the idea of a la carte, but I don't want some of the better, more nieche channels disappearing.
But since this is only been reserved for internet usage you will not have all of the other crap on this range as you do on the 2.4GHz band. Cell phones, portable handhelds, WiFi, 2-ways... etc. This list goes on, and companies keep building more items for them.
I read through the paper, but I don't remember seeing anything about how far the transmission would go. If it is being compared to bluetooth, is it 30 feet. Or is this something that could also take over WiFi and go hundreds of feet? I would love to have a home network with a +400Mbps bandwidth.
One of the items this paper doesn't seem to mention is that with Open Source, you tend to have less R&D money, if any at all. This is what has kept the likes of Microsoft and Apple at the top. They can afford to spend the money on intuitive, user-friendly design. That, and it would help if open source items, such as Linux, were pre-installed on the PC when it was bought. I know it is out there, but not as strong as it would need to be to succeed.
These cases look great, but whats new here? I have seen this done plenty of times. I think even the Screen Savers on TechTV did this before. I guess what I am trying to say is, why is this on /.?
From what I understand, he was in the public. Why is there such a big concern for privacy? If somebody shoots themselves in front of a large crowd, is their mother going to come out a few days later and say "all those people in the crowd should be sued for seeing my son shoot himself" I think not. This is not so much a privacy issue as it is an ethics issue.
The reason there needs to be two different companies is if you have the same companies that both produce the electronic voting booth, and a scanning machine, they may have the same flaws, or may have been paid off by one side or the other, with two different companies, while this is still possible, it is much more difficult.
Until there is a way to have two or three safety checks that are electronic, we are always going to see these problems. Have an electronic machine from one company send the vote to its database, and print a "receipt" for the vote out. Then, have they receipt scanned into a system built by a different company, and check the results. The voter can also look at the receipt and verify that is who they voted for, as well, as being double checked to veryify there are no "programming" errors.
Do they plan on releasing a firmware update? If so, how do we know they aren't going to put another backdoor into that and simply change the information? Is there a way they can make the firmware patch open source without giving away their other "proprietary" source?