Google, who along with other SV powerhouses tap their next biggest ideas from the universities, Stanford in particular. This move is definitely out in left field.
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Weird? maybe. Expected? likely. My [conspiracy] theory is that the VCs have realized that most of the academic-based ideas really don't reflect what the true public/consumer wants (i.e. ideas that don't make money). Google outsources idea generation to the universities, hands down. Google trying to go free/public ideas is just a focus group approach, basically, data mining and getting business intelligence from the consumer. That's what brick and mortar companies do in the biz dev dept (which is why the biz dev folks and P&G get paid millions).
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Hence, could this be a sign that Google's 'raw resources' of PhD superstars in the universities have finally dried up (not that it was a gold rush of successful ideas in the first place). Could it be that Google, who solely bet on academics folks for the next big think has realized it was costing too much in the first place?
Unless it's assumed all googlers are T-Mobile customers. Unless it's got AT&T or Verizon 3G support, it's pretty much a dev phone brick and will find its way to ebay. Well, unless... someone develops a Android Skype client!
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If they're 'eating their own dog food', I hope they realize how ridiculous the telcos are in being monopolists, telcos with gov't/FCC in their back pocket. And that googlers figure out a way to help us (mobile devs) take back the airwaves.
Just like Academia and Business Corporations (Harvard is a corporation BTW) fight amongst themselves in the philosophical fight of what "works", we are now seeing it in FOSS.
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Mozilla has had a 'microsoft monopoly' over the years and it's strategy has been divide and conquer, same a MS. I find this good as it puts two FOSS titans against each other to figure out what is FOSS in the business and mobile environments. We all know the benefits of FOSS on the home desktop.
Google-Chrome basically took the FOSS concept and used it to their advantage: competition doesn't go away and now Mozilla has 4 fronts to fight (Safari, Chrome, IE, and in most cases Opera).
This is the way FOSS works and if Mozilla doesn't get their butt in listening to non-firefox users and creating a high quality product, then they'll just have an extension framework (i.e. what everyone shouts as an advantage of Firefox over IE/Chrome/etc...) and that's pretty much it (in the end, do the IE users really care?)
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FOSS isn't about 'good' vs 'evil', nor 'right' vs. 'wrong'. It's about choice and innovation. I welcome the Google competition. Push the limits.
Well, these pranks/actions are just going to push gov't wonks to install real-time analysis of all traffic (i.e not just a camera, but VIDEO).
The technology is already there, it's just waiting for someone to abuse it.
Using video tracking, from a legal standpoint, someone can argue that these kids are impersonating a license plate--i.e. stoeln license plates and that's a real offense and the video will just do some data mining on the cars in question to find out make, model and eventually who did it. It's bound to happen and these kids, while being smart are just going to spoil it for then rest of us.
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Sure, the red light cameras are useless and may cause more harm, but disrespect for these stupid laws by being unlawful just gives more incentives to the gov't wonks to make stupider laws.
Hardware is a production line--the problems are narrow-focused, such that R&D can actually do something useful in the short and long terms (investigate a specific topic 100%, e.g. power usage). Software, on the other hand is not a production line yet. The problems are more generalized and can't be focused without wasting money. S/w problems get complex faster. And can never be focused because of the unpredictable user community (can't force them to use something of order of a standard 'plug'). And software problems change faster than hardware problems (where h/w problems are easier to focus on and fix).
Its purpose is to be an extremely versatile, scalable, and portable kernel for a unix-like operating system
I'll believe it when Linux has a 125 million user base. The average home/office user doesn't understand that description of Linux. Hence why Linux is only a niche OS at this point. Sure it can and in some cases powers the most critical, or high performance systems out there, but that's because of well-defined requirements--flexibility being one of them (free is other!).
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And ultimate critical systems still use IBM or flat Unix (HP/Sun/trusted *nix).
"The thing about imperious leaders is that they really get the job done" Huh?
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I can probably show you a list 10x larger of companies with imperious leaders that have failed vs. those with real talent. Just look at all those dotcom companies, the big 3 automakers, and wall street. A close example to me: SGI. All 100% ego (e.g. MY idea), 3/5ths successful, but was a recipe to go down in flames. And it did.
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As a former A-type, most big headed leaders either: a. leech off everyone to say ahead (providing 0-long term value), b. always makes short term choices, c. always pushes off work to others (greedy algorithm? true application of Charles Smith principles anyone?), d. bully their way into a high profile position (in search for that BIG raise) and e. always make it appear they did the whole job. Hmmm, could be why we're in this economic mess nowadays.
Basically, A-types are good salesmen--selling the appearance they are accomplishing something. That's why in the previous example, when your top honcho left, everything collapsed for months. She didn't build a proper organization--or (not to insult anyone) your co-workers are truly a bunch of lazy azzes?
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Sure hiring an A-type makes the choice easy: they usually make the choice for you! The world evolves around themselves. But does it get the job done, I think not. It's usually a leader (A-type, B-type, C-type, whatever) that has proper training and experiences to a. tap the strengths of their subordinates, b. champion the effort, and c. mitigate/balance the needs of the marketing & sales staff to keep their head stuck to reality on their products--e.g. don't polish a turd product.
Ellison & Gates were folks that had a good product and took advantage of the time (they were the 1st). Jobs takes advantage of 'time to market' and a huge, manipulative advertising campaign--case in point, look at how many commercials of the iPhone vs. the G1. Considering HTC will sell 1 million G1 in this quarter alone to near iPhone rates is pretty good in the sea of all those iPhone ads.
Assembly is the old language that everything is based on, sort of like the natural laws of Physics.
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Assembly: followers of "the force". They are part of the Jedi Knighthood. Others language follower stand in amazement of Assembly-language practitioners.
Note, the author is talking about Java programmers.
Just choosing XP, RAD, UDP, Scrum, etc... without sizing up how experienced, aside from just knowing Java, those developers are is just asking for trouble. If they are truly seasoned, they'd respect the need for software methodologies & such. Java sort of forces you to think in a more structured sense that you'll find managing the team will be easier than [cough] development in another language. Come on folks, Java puts you into a pretty structured mindset, and that does have its pros and cons. Start there and you'll be in good shape (for scheduling, budgeting, RA, deployment, etc..).
Rule of thumb, is if you're working on a software product, time is the determining factor and most of the Agile methods the developers [will] get if you manage in that fashion (causal meetings, thinking about features, letting them limit what features). If you building a solution, it going to be a mix of multiple methodologies, where your challenge will be getting the developers pay attention to the schedule (it's critical), so they can truly make informed technical/design decisions (you pay more of a mitigator, guiding role, and it's less causal).
I wonder what would have happened if they charged for ActiveSync (as an App) similar to the Google Market (i.e. some 3rd party apps, i.e. for MS exchange, go for $30). That would have opened the door.
iphone apps are pretty much stuck with $0.99 since Apple users are loyal followers such that a. it's the same paradigm as the itunes store (0.99 songs), it's all managed through itunes, and the current thousands of apps are less than $3 so the bar has been set.
ok, so they can open source symbian, but the symbian execution model just doesn't cut it for today's phone feature requirements. BUT the reason for AT&T make sense: it's not part of Android, not part of LiMo, not part of OpenMoko (which is likely rethinking Android as 2008.8 is just a toy distro), not part of [gasp] Palm/Access, or [gasp] BREW and they already sell WM6 and Symbian devices. Funny thing is they gain nothing with Symbian, development is just as slow and painful as the iphone... And that Apple's Grand Central change to OSX could easily split OSX into 2 versions--something Apple doesn't want I'm sure and likely brought it to AT&T's attention.
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Symbian can't compete against the newer OSes from a feature roll-out stand point. The speed of the G1 coming to market w/o many bugs is a different world from a Symbian release (i.e. releases are slower, and has more bugs usually).
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Looking at my G1 and Android OS, though not a google fanboy, I do admit they did an better than expected job and will be hard to beat.
See my post somewhere above. Unless Android has a slick way to show multimedia, or their own version of JavaFX, JavaFX is the way to go unless they add more on-board memory to devices like the G1. I'm already at 10MB left of onboard memory on my G1 due to local mail and apps!
But I do agree this a bandaid to save J2ME--Android did it the right way such that J2ME should evolve to something similar to Android (won't happen due to the JCP).
If JavaFx's footprint is smaller than Flash, I'd see a version on the G1 sooner than you think.
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I found the G1's paltry 70MB of usable space for apps crippling, especially when I'm uploading IMAP mail that's in the multiple MB range. Webapps is the future on the G1 unless they allow on-card loading of apps.
If it does come out, Koolu is the answer to your question. Unfortunately it's a bit immature though they promised a working version last month (didn't happen). It shows promise. I thought it was a pipe dream as they are late on delivery, BUT you can download the source here, which shows commitment at least.
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I'm running the openmoko Android version from Sean McNeil (check out openmoko's wiki) in dual boot mode, along with Qtopia and it shows promise too, though I think koolu's team of devs will likely reach a optimized distro quicker. Comparing both the G1 and Freerunner, Android runs faster on the G1 (of course), where as the Freerunner has the ArmV4 compatibility issue (DOH!) and the lack of keyboard (all OM touchscreen keyboards fail at this current time).
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I guess the onion tv bug [placement] is equivalent to a pie symbol?
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Great easter egg Onion....
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Weird? maybe. Expected? likely. My [conspiracy] theory is that the VCs have realized that most of the academic-based ideas really don't reflect what the true public/consumer wants (i.e. ideas that don't make money). Google outsources idea generation to the universities, hands down. Google trying to go free/public ideas is just a focus group approach, basically, data mining and getting business intelligence from the consumer. That's what brick and mortar companies do in the biz dev dept (which is why the biz dev folks and P&G get paid millions).
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Hence, could this be a sign that Google's 'raw resources' of PhD superstars in the universities have finally dried up (not that it was a gold rush of successful ideas in the first place). Could it be that Google, who solely bet on academics folks for the next big think has realized it was costing too much in the first place?
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We'll see how useful having a 40Bil network is...
Knowing the federal gov't, which never creates nor maintains, BUT exploits. It may look good on paper, I have a bad feeling about this.
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If they're 'eating their own dog food', I hope they realize how ridiculous the telcos are in being monopolists, telcos with gov't/FCC in their back pocket. And that googlers figure out a way to help us (mobile devs) take back the airwaves.
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Mozilla has had a 'microsoft monopoly' over the years and it's strategy has been divide and conquer, same a MS. I find this good as it puts two FOSS titans against each other to figure out what is FOSS in the business and mobile environments. We all know the benefits of FOSS on the home desktop.
Google-Chrome basically took the FOSS concept and used it to their advantage: competition doesn't go away and now Mozilla has 4 fronts to fight (Safari, Chrome, IE, and in most cases Opera).
This is the way FOSS works and if Mozilla doesn't get their butt in listening to non-firefox users and creating a high quality product, then they'll just have an extension framework (i.e. what everyone shouts as an advantage of Firefox over IE/Chrome/etc...) and that's pretty much it (in the end, do the IE users really care?)
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FOSS isn't about 'good' vs 'evil', nor 'right' vs. 'wrong'. It's about choice and innovation. I welcome the Google competition. Push the limits.
The technology is already there, it's just waiting for someone to abuse it.
Using video tracking, from a legal standpoint, someone can argue that these kids are impersonating a license plate--i.e. stoeln license plates and that's a real offense and the video will just do some data mining on the cars in question to find out make, model and eventually who did it. It's bound to happen and these kids, while being smart are just going to spoil it for then rest of us.
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Sure, the red light cameras are useless and may cause more harm, but disrespect for these stupid laws by being unlawful just gives more incentives to the gov't wonks to make stupider laws.
Hardware is a production line--the problems are narrow-focused, such that R&D can actually do something useful in the short and long terms (investigate a specific topic 100%, e.g. power usage). Software, on the other hand is not a production line yet. The problems are more generalized and can't be focused without wasting money. S/w problems get complex faster. And can never be focused because of the unpredictable user community (can't force them to use something of order of a standard 'plug'). And software problems change faster than hardware problems (where h/w problems are easier to focus on and fix).
"Arm-Chair Touch Controller" or
"Monday Morning Touch-Back"
I'll believe it when Linux has a 125 million user base. The average home/office user doesn't understand that description of Linux. Hence why Linux is only a niche OS at this point. Sure it can and in some cases powers the most critical, or high performance systems out there, but that's because of well-defined requirements--flexibility being one of them (free is other!).
And ultimate critical systems still use IBM or flat Unix (HP/Sun/trusted *nix).
"The thing about imperious leaders is that they really get the job done"
Huh?
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I can probably show you a list 10x larger of companies with imperious leaders that have failed vs. those with real talent. Just look at all those dotcom companies, the big 3 automakers, and wall street. A close example to me: SGI. All 100% ego (e.g. MY idea), 3/5ths successful, but was a recipe to go down in flames. And it did.
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As a former A-type, most big headed leaders either: a. leech off everyone to say ahead (providing 0-long term value), b. always makes short term choices, c. always pushes off work to others (greedy algorithm? true application of Charles Smith principles anyone?), d. bully their way into a high profile position (in search for that BIG raise) and e. always make it appear they did the whole job. Hmmm, could be why we're in this economic mess nowadays.
Basically, A-types are good salesmen--selling the appearance they are accomplishing something. That's why in the previous example, when your top honcho left, everything collapsed for months. She didn't build a proper organization--or (not to insult anyone) your co-workers are truly a bunch of lazy azzes?
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Sure hiring an A-type makes the choice easy: they usually make the choice for you! The world evolves around themselves. But does it get the job done, I think not. It's usually a leader (A-type, B-type, C-type, whatever) that has proper training and experiences to a. tap the strengths of their subordinates, b. champion the effort, and c. mitigate/balance the needs of the marketing & sales staff to keep their head stuck to reality on their products--e.g. don't polish a turd product.
Ellison & Gates were folks that had a good product and took advantage of the time (they were the 1st). Jobs takes advantage of 'time to market' and a huge, manipulative advertising campaign--case in point, look at how many commercials of the iPhone vs. the G1. Considering HTC will sell 1 million G1 in this quarter alone to near iPhone rates is pretty good in the sea of all those iPhone ads.
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Plate tectonics aside, looks like the Earth isn't an egg shell in a fragile sense.
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Assembly: followers of "the force". They are part of the Jedi Knighthood. Others language follower stand in amazement of Assembly-language practitioners.
And it's only available on the G1!
What happens if you stick a heavy metal plate in the path?...hmmm...
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Dang pesky 32-bit MacBooksPros!
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Though a big Java fan, Java plugin into a browser ==fail. They should scrap it and get us a 64-bit javafx plugin.
Just choosing XP, RAD, UDP, Scrum, etc... without sizing up how experienced, aside from just knowing Java, those developers are is just asking for trouble. If they are truly seasoned, they'd respect the need for software methodologies & such. Java sort of forces you to think in a more structured sense that you'll find managing the team will be easier than [cough] development in another language. Come on folks, Java puts you into a pretty structured mindset, and that does have its pros and cons. Start there and you'll be in good shape (for scheduling, budgeting, RA, deployment, etc..).
Rule of thumb, is if you're working on a software product, time is the determining factor and most of the Agile methods the developers [will] get if you manage in that fashion (causal meetings, thinking about features, letting them limit what features). If you building a solution, it going to be a mix of multiple methodologies, where your challenge will be getting the developers pay attention to the schedule (it's critical), so they can truly make informed technical/design decisions (you pay more of a mitigator, guiding role, and it's less causal).
If you haven't already, checking out "The Mythical Man Month" doesn't hurt too.
iphone apps are pretty much stuck with $0.99 since Apple users are loyal followers such that a. it's the same paradigm as the itunes store (0.99 songs), it's all managed through itunes, and the current thousands of apps are less than $3 so the bar has been set.
This we should have elected a PoliSci expert wonk to the position of president, than a lawyer (ok, a constitutional lawyer, but still a lawyer).
All those experts, lobbists, generals, etc... who know their field, and are usually right, get the smack-down from politicians every day.
huh? whatever happened to Orbital as a stopgap. Did they get too expensive?
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Face it, if you stay in the IT realm, you'll be programming app servers and some web dev.
8 out of 10 *enterprise* situations the language used is Java. I doubt you'll see much PHP/Python unless you *don't* want to make money.
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Unless you want to do h/w drivers, kernel dev, full integrated KDE/Gnome apps, or use all FOSS, then C is the way to go.
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Symbian can't compete against the newer OSes from a feature roll-out stand point. The speed of the G1 coming to market w/o many bugs is a different world from a Symbian release (i.e. releases are slower, and has more bugs usually).
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Looking at my G1 and Android OS, though not a google fanboy, I do admit they did an better than expected job and will be hard to beat.
But I do agree this a bandaid to save J2ME--Android did it the right way such that J2ME should evolve to something similar to Android (won't happen due to the JCP).
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I found the G1's paltry 70MB of usable space for apps crippling, especially when I'm uploading IMAP mail that's in the multiple MB range. Webapps is the future on the G1 unless they allow on-card loading of apps.
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I'm running the openmoko Android version from Sean McNeil (check out openmoko's wiki) in dual boot mode, along with Qtopia and it shows promise too, though I think koolu's team of devs will likely reach a optimized distro quicker. Comparing both the G1 and Freerunner, Android runs faster on the G1 (of course), where as the Freerunner has the ArmV4 compatibility issue (DOH!) and the lack of keyboard (all OM touchscreen keyboards fail at this current time).