Where I see the tablets making an impact is in the 'second computer' niche. Most people (or families/households) will have a proper computer in the classical sense because of the advantages they have. However, tablets will grow in use as the hand held browser that people can use from the sofa.
Some of my best times playing WoW was with a friend and his laptop at my place (or my laptop at his place). We'd get a case of beer and play WoW for the evening. It was fun to be able to laugh and joke with the other player in the same room. It was much more interesting than playing at home by myself.
There is something to be said for having friends in the same room.
Andy Rubin's response to Jobs (via twitter): the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"
These patents are absurd. We've debated the frivolousness of many patents here for a while, but a patent for "Receiver having concealed external antenna" is just laughable. It makes me wonder if there is a patent for have an non-concealed antenna.
I think it really comes down to whether or not their dominance over mobile apps is sufficient to count as a monopoly - and even if it isn't currently, it could well become one with expansion into the MID market with the iPad.
The 'monopoly' over mobile apps through the App Store still needs to be sold to me. Apple doesn't own the apps on the App store, so do they have a monopoly on them? Think for a second about that. The App Store is effectively a very specialized clearing house. Only Apple Blessed Apps may be sold in the Clearing House, but Apple does not own the Apps. So how can the App Store be construed to be a monopoly?
We still use floppies where I work for staffing annual performance reports on the workers. The data is considered too sensitive for the network so everybody has a file folder with a hardcopy of the report and a floppy in a envelope inside made up for them. The supervisors pass them to the managers and onwards up to the boss. Hundreds of file folders with hundreds of floppies. Every year. There is no plan move away from the system as it is perceived to be highly functional. Although, I suspect one day it will move to USB drives. We already had to buy a shit load of USB 3.5" drives when the new laptops came in...
Well, yes, that is an option. The point of the article is that people may have an expectation of privacy where none actually exists. This misunderstanding could be the source of problems down stream.
The whole idea is to create a new FF version that does the things that Opera or K-Meleon do but still carries the branding of Firefox. That name has a certain degree of reconizability and a lite version would be useful.
The use of multiplexing codes has not been fully exploited, yet. MIMO and others are used extensively in cellular networks (which are, let's face it, wireless networks too) but are less common in 802.11 and similar networks.
Perhaps the next generation of wireless will include UWB/CDMA based transmission.
This article is silly, I concede. But the enclosures being built by Apple are particularly good. No other OEMs bother to make desktops into ergonomic or stylish designs. This work by Apple is 'ground-breaking' in a sense. Although rumour and conjecture about up-coming designs is really not worth debating.
Should the customer be able to decide what games he/she plays on the machine they own? The only party that has fewer 'rights' in this case is the consumer. And that is bullshit.
I don't think they would be any more fragile that anyother glass structure in the city. The cost/availability of water strikes me as a limiting factor morse that anything else. The extra cost in real estate could conceiveably be recouped in smaller transport costs.
This is all a tempest in a teapot. Safari on Windows is not going to harm OSS browsers any more than Opera does. There is no reason to think that Safari is going to displace Firefox (or Konqueror or whatever). The users of those apps use them because they had a choice and found a product they liked.
Remember: more competition is always a good thing.
By the way, Safari isn't even the best browser on OS X (that honour goes to Camino) so I really can't see how it will have much impact on Windows.
I think another contributing factor is that the content is not appreciably aided by the higher video quality of Blu-Ray/HD-DVD. Even for a person with a top of the line TV capable of exploiting the better resolution, will it really enhance much of the content coming out of Hollywood?
I think the answer is no, for most people. DVDs are 'good enough'.
This is garbage (probaly...see below). Wi-Fi frequencies are in thr non-ionizing range, and as such will not cause any tissue mutations or changes. The radiation is absorbed by tissues (usually by the water therein) and creates heat -- this is how a microwave oven works. However, unlike an oven, the world is not a resonant cavity so the energy dissipates very quickly and poses no threat other than a heating/cooling cycle.
In the ionizing range the high energy radiation actually punches out nuclear particles and cause aplha or beta decay. This is the cancer causing bad sort of radiation. However, there are no communication technologies that use such high frequencies.
Having said all that, there is still a small collection of researchers who believe that long term exposure to non-ionising radiation is an issue. It is a very difficult thing to study because of the prevalence of EM radiation in the world (try and find a control!). Further, modeling a complex system like a human head -- having dozens of different dielectric and conductive tissues and substances -- is extraodiarily complex.
Most RF scientist have come to a consensus that non-ionising radiation is safe, but there is still some research to be done. But hey, that is just responsible science, no?
In the old days we had analog ushers to jam such things. Sadly, in the digital age, they are no longer deployed. One of the reasons I never go to the movies any more.
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Where I see the tablets making an impact is in the 'second computer' niche. Most people (or families/households) will have a proper computer in the classical sense because of the advantages they have. However, tablets will grow in use as the hand held browser that people can use from the sofa.
Some of my best times playing WoW was with a friend and his laptop at my place (or my laptop at his place). We'd get a case of beer and play WoW for the evening. It was fun to be able to laugh and joke with the other player in the same room. It was much more interesting than playing at home by myself.
There is something to be said for having friends in the same room.
Andy Rubin's response to Jobs (via twitter): the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"
These patents are absurd. We've debated the frivolousness of many patents here for a while, but a patent for "Receiver having concealed external antenna" is just laughable. It makes me wonder if there is a patent for have an non-concealed antenna.
I think it really comes down to whether or not their dominance over mobile apps is sufficient to count as a monopoly - and even if it isn't currently, it could well become one with expansion into the MID market with the iPad.
The 'monopoly' over mobile apps through the App Store still needs to be sold to me. Apple doesn't own the apps on the App store, so do they have a monopoly on them? Think for a second about that. The App Store is effectively a very specialized clearing house. Only Apple Blessed Apps may be sold in the Clearing House, but Apple does not own the Apps. So how can the App Store be construed to be a monopoly?
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We still use floppies where I work for staffing annual performance reports on the workers. The data is considered too sensitive for the network so everybody has a file folder with a hardcopy of the report and a floppy in a envelope inside made up for them. The supervisors pass them to the managers and onwards up to the boss. Hundreds of file folders with hundreds of floppies. Every year. There is no plan move away from the system as it is perceived to be highly functional. Although, I suspect one day it will move to USB drives. We already had to buy a shit load of USB 3.5" drives when the new laptops came in...
Well, yes, that is an option. The point of the article is that people may have an expectation of privacy where none actually exists. This misunderstanding could be the source of problems down stream.
You've missed the point entirely.
The whole idea is to create a new FF version that does the things that Opera or K-Meleon do but still carries the branding of Firefox. That name has a certain degree of reconizability and a lite version would be useful.
The use of multiplexing codes has not been fully exploited, yet. MIMO and others are used extensively in cellular networks (which are, let's face it, wireless networks too) but are less common in 802.11 and similar networks.
Perhaps the next generation of wireless will include UWB/CDMA based transmission.
Didn't Capt Picard have one of those?
Useless? No. But very application specific. However, there is a great appeal in making Personal Area Networks.
That and being able to connect a DVD player to a TV without a cable would be, in a purely geek way, quite elegant.
Technically speaking, at 60GHz, you'd be millimetrewaving your privates.
This article is silly, I concede. But the enclosures being built by Apple are particularly good. No other OEMs bother to make desktops into ergonomic or stylish designs. This work by Apple is 'ground-breaking' in a sense. Although rumour and conjecture about up-coming designs is really not worth debating.
Should the customer be able to decide what games he/she plays on the machine they own? The only party that has fewer 'rights' in this case is the consumer. And that is bullshit.
It strikes me that the best situation with such farms would to have a co-located market too.
The Line of Sight caveat is a rather significant point ommitted from the summary. This is still quite an achievement.
Agreed. A comprehensive waste management system (composter) in the basement seems like a must. Even that may not be sufficient.
I don't think they would be any more fragile that anyother glass structure in the city. The cost/availability of water strikes me as a limiting factor morse that anything else. The extra cost in real estate could conceiveably be recouped in smaller transport costs.
wheels that turn 360 degrees
Indeed, that is a revolution.
This is all a tempest in a teapot. Safari on Windows is not going to harm OSS browsers any more than Opera does. There is no reason to think that Safari is going to displace Firefox (or Konqueror or whatever). The users of those apps use them because they had a choice and found a product they liked.
Remember: more competition is always a good thing.
By the way, Safari isn't even the best browser on OS X (that honour goes to Camino) so I really can't see how it will have much impact on Windows.
They want to put stuff in his bum.
I think another contributing factor is that the content is not appreciably aided by the higher video quality of Blu-Ray/HD-DVD. Even for a person with a top of the line TV capable of exploiting the better resolution, will it really enhance much of the content coming out of Hollywood?
I think the answer is no, for most people. DVDs are 'good enough'.
And the oven is a resonant cavity. Huge difference.
This is garbage (probaly...see below). Wi-Fi frequencies are in thr non-ionizing range, and as such will not cause any tissue mutations or changes. The radiation is absorbed by tissues (usually by the water therein) and creates heat -- this is how a microwave oven works. However, unlike an oven, the world is not a resonant cavity so the energy dissipates very quickly and poses no threat other than a heating/cooling cycle.
In the ionizing range the high energy radiation actually punches out nuclear particles and cause aplha or beta decay. This is the cancer causing bad sort of radiation. However, there are no communication technologies that use such high frequencies.
Having said all that, there is still a small collection of researchers who believe that long term exposure to non-ionising radiation is an issue. It is a very difficult thing to study because of the prevalence of EM radiation in the world (try and find a control!). Further, modeling a complex system like a human head -- having dozens of different dielectric and conductive tissues and substances -- is extraodiarily complex.
Most RF scientist have come to a consensus that non-ionising radiation is safe, but there is still some research to be done. But hey, that is just responsible science, no?
In the old days we had analog ushers to jam such things. Sadly, in the digital age, they are no longer deployed. One of the reasons I never go to the movies any more.