As a result of reading this thread I opened a browser window, connected to google.com, and took a look at the network traffic. Lo and behold it was ipv6!
Then, at the (Windows/DOS) command line:
C:\Users\Roger>ping -6 google.com
Pinging google.com [2607:f8b0:4005:802::1006] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 2607:f8b0:4005:802::1006: time=21ms Reply from 2607:f8b0:4005:802::1006: time=13ms
The problem may be that the mega screens are (from what I've seen) video quality, and thus crazy expensive.
Nope. The cost of the display itself pales compared next to the cost of the digitizer.
Then same argument, different component: use digitizers with lower resolution to bring the cost down. You don't need smart-phone or Wacom quality for a whiteboard.
I'm waiting for whiteboard sized touch screens to make their appearance. I know Microsoft was working on this a couple of years back.
No you aren't. You're waiting for them to come down from astronomical prices. You can get them now.
The problem may be that the mega screens are (from what I've seen) video quality, and thus crazy expensive. What's needed for simple whiteboarding, with the equivalent of dry erase "markers" for drawing, could be much lower in resolution and be limited to 256 colors. I really just want to be able to do what I can on a real whiteboard: draw some flow charts and diagrams, write text visible across the room and erase what needs to be changed.
Bonus for the digital version would be some straightforward copy/pasting (ie, move part of a diagram to a different place on the board), recording, and, of course, the remote collaboration aspect. (Any solution that involves a camera aimed at a real whiteboard is going to fail the "remote collaboration" aspect.)
In short, the video and audio conferencing stuff has already been solved, as has document sharing. So let that run in parallel on different systems and just solve the shared whiteboard problem.
That's why no digital whiteboard will ever beat the real thing
I don't see any reasonable person claiming this. But if your team could use a quick session with another team that's 1000+ miles away, having a functional shared whiteboard is better than 1) taking three days for one team to fly back and forth, or, 2) not meeting at all because there's no point unless they can see the other team's facial tics.
now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running... faster than you can with most Windows systems
I can't count how many times I've read this same comment. And it is true, but do you really think the reason someone picks an operating system is because they can save a few minutes when they first install it? What I think would be most frustrating for end users is installing and updating software. For some apps that can be a nightmare.
In old newsreels (1930's) and old time radio, the announcer's voices were either stentorian and over the top (news) or ultra smooth (radio hosts).
In the 1970's the UHF stations would have the most horribly produced local ads... "I'M CRAZY HENRY HAVING A BLOW OUT SALE! COME ON DOWN BEFORE THEY TAKE ME AWAYYYYY!!!"
The original IBM PC had an electromechanical thingamagig of some sort (possibly for interfacing with the cassette?). A few very early DOS game makers abused this by turning it on and off quickly, thus making a noise that passed for a motorboat or similar, depending on the game.
From finding the.wav file and looking at it's properties I believe it was officially called "The Microsoft Sound" and composed by none other than Brian Eno, thus making it by far his most heard composition.
We didn't give our son a credit card. We didn't give him a cell phone. We gave him a Kindle Fire HD, and had no idea that by default he would be able to buy things with real money without our needing to put our password in.
After getting a huge charge from in app purchases I complained to Amazon and was immediately and cheerfully given a refund, with instructions for how to turn on the setting to require password for in app purchases.
Amazon knew what it was doing when they made the default setting "no password required for in app purchases". I'd be happy to see them get a massive fine for that greedy and disgusting decision.
"when customers told us their kids had made purchases they didn't want, we refunded those purchases."
True, at least in our case.
Still, I could have done without the shock of seeing the huge charge (over $200... more than the cost of the Kindle Fire HD!)... our 8-year old could have done without the stress of having his parents mad at him when he didn't realize he wasn't doing anything wrong... I could have done without having to spend time getting a refund.
And what about those who didn't jump through the hoops to get their refund?
Smart watch designers have to let go of their idea that it has to look like a watch. It's like the early years of automobiles, where cars were designed to look like carriages without the horse, or vegetarian food in the 1950's and 1960's which had to look like meat.
I want something long and more or less rectangular that wraps partly around my arm, starting from the wrist and going maybe halfway up the forearm up to the elbow. This would allow me to read text messages or notifications without having to squint at something tiny. It would open things up to a huge market for apps that just don't work on something about 1" across. It would allow me - eventually, once they were touchscreens - to press buttons or even type with one hand. And it would open up a huge market for digital tattoo "screensavers".
It's more than just not having your hands leave the keyboard... it's being able to navigate without moving your hands from the home position.. You can go forward a word with ctrl-f and back a word with ctrl-a, and up and down with ctrl-e and ctrl-x. (Nowadays you also need to remap the control key to be left of the A key where God intended it to be.)
Most modern word processors force you to lift your right hand and move it over to the arrow keys to navigate... It's true that many word processors can be configured to do the Wordstar diamond, but it can be a pain, and if it's not that way out of the box new users will never know about it, never learn it, and go on using the horribly inefficient arrow keys or even (shudder) the mouse.
The question is, what happens when literally everything of economic value that a person is capable of doing, can be accomplish more efficiently by a machine?
From a Woody Allen standup routine in the early 1960's:
My father worked for the same firm for twelve years. They fired him. They replaced him with a tiny gadget - this big - that does everything my father does, only it does it much better. The depressing thing is, my mother ran out and bought one.
So how 'bout if after making your list of books you'd like, you could just buy the e-books right there in the store, via a gift-card type thing? Then you could support the bookstore you enjoy browsing in.
So if bookstores can be a great place to discover books to read... but many people prefer reading on a Kindle... why not sell the e-book at the bookstore?
A customer could leaf through a physical book at the store, think "Hey, I'd like to read this" and take something like a gift-card up to the register to buy. At that point they'd run the card through something to activate it (just like buying a gift card anywhere these days) and the book would then appear in your Kindle library. The bookstore would get a cut of the sale.
In other words, let the bookstore sell (many) blades, not just one razor. The bookstores would have more customers actually spending money (as opposed to window shopping then ordering from home) and Amazon would have another way to sell you e-books.
I want a "watch" let's call it, or rather, something I wear on my wrist, that is connected (wirelessly, I mean...) to my phone as a slave but let's me do certain things without taking my phone out of my pocket!
Such as...
see what time it is
when somebody calls, see who's calling, and let me answer by touching the screen so I can talk on my Bluetooth headset
start/stop/pause next/prev controls for music
see if I have anything scheduled in the next few hours
see if I've gotten any texts, and what they are
see if I've gotten any emails, and let me see who it's from and the subject as well as maybe just the beginning of the content
Oh, and the form factor should be rectangular, landscape mode.
I could imagine "screensavers" (or, I guess, wallpapers) being a big deal on these things, too... as would photo rotation apps.
And once we get thing bendable color e-paper or oled displays or whatever you can have your whole forearm covered with a display. When you're not actively using it for viewing information it could be all colorful and arty, eliminating the need for tattoos.
While I'm at it, it could be cool if there were a simple standard for SMS messages that would allow pre-canned replies, kind of similar to how dialog boxes can be defined in programming.
Sender types:"Are you coming? y/n/m"
Recipient sees: Sees "Are you coming?" along with three touchable buttons, "Yes", "No", "Maybe"
This would be be easy to use on the wrist screen form factor, since no typing would be required.
I hate having to dig my phone out of my pocket just to:
- check the time - see if I have any messages - pause music, skip to next song, etc
So what I'd like is a rectangular screen (NOT a square or circular screen) on my wrist, worn like a watch. This would allow me to:
- check the time - see if I have any messages - pause music, skip to next song, etc
It would have some simple capabilities, such as showing text messages and at least the beginning of emails. But it would basically be a slave display for my smartphone, connected via Bluetooth. It would NOT have a cellular connection nor have WiFi capabilities.
I could imagine "screensavers" (or, I guess, wallpapers) being a big deal on these things, too...
I had a similar situation with my DSL... it was fast during the day but slowed dramatically in the evening. It turns out that there was a tap on the line someplace. The first two techs were clueless, but finally somebody brought out a special piece of diagnostic equipment and found that there was a tap on the line exactly 2200 feet (or whatever) from the house. (I would guess they send a burst down the line and wait for a reflection.) A day or two later they sent someone out to remove the tap and all was well.
Good luck!
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I'd rather charge to 100% in case I'm out and about and need my phone to stay alive.
I don't care if it impacts battery life. I'll the battery starts to die I'll just put in another one.
Of course this is only possible if your phone has a replaceable battery ...
Yawn!
Please wake me when they have a 16K screen.
If you had RTFA, the actual quote was "640 rat brains oughta be enough for anybody".
As a result of reading this thread I opened a browser window, connected to google.com, and took a look at the network traffic. Lo and behold it was ipv6!
Then, at the (Windows/DOS) command line:
C:\Users\Roger>ping -6 google.com
Pinging google.com [2607:f8b0:4005:802::1006] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 2607:f8b0:4005:802::1006: time=21ms
Reply from 2607:f8b0:4005:802::1006: time=13ms
So IPv6 is working for this Comcast customer.
The problem may be that the mega screens are (from what I've seen) video quality, and thus crazy expensive.
Nope. The cost of the display itself pales compared next to the cost of the digitizer.
Then same argument, different component: use digitizers with lower resolution to bring the cost down. You don't need smart-phone or Wacom quality for a whiteboard.
I'm waiting for whiteboard sized touch screens to make their appearance. I know Microsoft was working on this a couple of years back.
No you aren't. You're waiting for them to come down from astronomical prices. You can get them now.
The problem may be that the mega screens are (from what I've seen) video quality, and thus crazy expensive. What's needed for simple whiteboarding, with the equivalent of dry erase "markers" for drawing, could be much lower in resolution and be limited to 256 colors. I really just want to be able to do what I can on a real whiteboard: draw some flow charts and diagrams, write text visible across the room and erase what needs to be changed.
Bonus for the digital version would be some straightforward copy/pasting (ie, move part of a diagram to a different place on the board), recording, and, of course, the remote collaboration aspect. (Any solution that involves a camera aimed at a real whiteboard is going to fail the "remote collaboration" aspect.)
In short, the video and audio conferencing stuff has already been solved, as has document sharing. So let that run in parallel on different systems and just solve the shared whiteboard problem.
That's why no digital whiteboard will ever beat the real thing
I don't see any reasonable person claiming this. But if your team could use a quick session with another team that's 1000+ miles away, having a functional shared whiteboard is better than 1) taking three days for one team to fly back and forth, or, 2) not meeting at all because there's no point unless they can see the other team's facial tics.
Agreed wholeheartedly. I can understand the issue of distractions, but Kindle Paperwhite has none of that.
now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running ... faster than you can with most Windows systems
I can't count how many times I've read this same comment. And it is true, but do you really think the reason someone picks an operating system is because they can save a few minutes when they first install it? What I think would be most frustrating for end users is installing and updating software. For some apps that can be a nightmare.
In old newsreels (1930's) and old time radio, the announcer's voices were either stentorian and over the top (news) or ultra smooth (radio hosts).
In the 1970's the UHF stations would have the most horribly produced local ads ... "I'M CRAZY HENRY HAVING A BLOW OUT SALE! COME ON DOWN BEFORE THEY TAKE ME AWAYYYYY!!!"
The original IBM PC had an electromechanical thingamagig of some sort (possibly for interfacing with the cassette?). A few very early DOS game makers abused this by turning it on and off quickly, thus making a noise that passed for a motorboat or similar, depending on the game.
The Windows 95 startup sound
From finding the .wav file and looking at it's properties I believe it was officially called "The Microsoft Sound" and composed by none other than Brian Eno, thus making it by far his most heard composition.
We didn't give our son a credit card. We didn't give him a cell phone. We gave him a Kindle Fire HD, and had no idea that by default he would be able to buy things with real money without our needing to put our password in.
After getting a huge charge from in app purchases I complained to Amazon and was immediately and cheerfully given a refund, with instructions for how to turn on the setting to require password for in app purchases.
Amazon knew what it was doing when they made the default setting "no password required for in app purchases". I'd be happy to see them get a massive fine for that greedy and disgusting decision.
True, at least in our case.
Still, I could have done without the shock of seeing the huge charge (over $200 ... more than the cost of the Kindle Fire HD!) ... our 8-year old could have done without the stress of having his parents mad at him when he didn't realize he wasn't doing anything wrong ... I could have done without having to spend time getting a refund.
And what about those who didn't jump through the hoops to get their refund?
So, screw Amazon. Throw the book at them.
Smart watch designers have to let go of their idea that it has to look like a watch. It's like the early years of automobiles, where cars were designed to look like carriages without the horse, or vegetarian food in the 1950's and 1960's which had to look like meat.
I want something long and more or less rectangular that wraps partly around my arm, starting from the wrist and going maybe halfway up the forearm up to the elbow. This would allow me to read text messages or notifications without having to squint at something tiny. It would open things up to a huge market for apps that just don't work on something about 1" across. It would allow me - eventually, once they were touchscreens - to press buttons or even type with one hand. And it would open up a huge market for digital tattoo "screensavers".
It's more than just not having your hands leave the keyboard ... it's being able to navigate without moving your hands from the home position.. You can go forward a word with ctrl-f and back a word with ctrl-a, and up and down with ctrl-e and ctrl-x. (Nowadays you also need to remap the control key to be left of the A key where God intended it to be.)
Most modern word processors force you to lift your right hand and move it over to the arrow keys to navigate ... It's true that many word processors can be configured to do the Wordstar diamond, but it can be a pain, and if it's not that way out of the box new users will never know about it, never learn it, and go on using the horribly inefficient arrow keys or even (shudder) the mouse.
>> the new algorithm could lead to audio-visual e-books that generate music that reflects the mood on open pages
Oh, great. So along with movies that have music to constantly signal you how to feel, we'll have the same for books.
The question is, what happens when literally everything of economic value that a person is capable of doing, can be accomplish more efficiently by a machine?
From a Woody Allen standup routine in the early 1960's:
My father worked for the same firm for twelve years. They fired him. They replaced him with a tiny gadget - this big - that does everything my father does, only it does it much better. The depressing thing is, my mother ran out and bought one.
So how 'bout if after making your list of books you'd like, you could just buy the e-books right there in the store, via a gift-card type thing? Then you could support the bookstore you enjoy browsing in.
So if bookstores can be a great place to discover books to read ... but many people prefer reading on a Kindle ... why not sell the e-book at the bookstore?
A customer could leaf through a physical book at the store, think "Hey, I'd like to read this" and take something like a gift-card up to the register to buy. At that point they'd run the card through something to activate it (just like buying a gift card anywhere these days) and the book would then appear in your Kindle library. The bookstore would get a cut of the sale.
In other words, let the bookstore sell (many) blades, not just one razor. The bookstores would have more customers actually spending money (as opposed to window shopping then ordering from home) and Amazon would have another way to sell you e-books.
Then again this could have been unrelated ... the hooded gunmen could have been upset about the domino game.
I want a "watch" let's call it, or rather, something I wear on my wrist, that is connected (wirelessly, I mean ...) to my phone as a slave but let's me do certain things without taking my phone out of my pocket!
Such as ...
Oh, and the form factor should be rectangular, landscape mode.
I could imagine "screensavers" (or, I guess, wallpapers) being a big deal on these things, too ... as would photo rotation apps.
And once we get thing bendable color e-paper or oled displays or whatever you can have your whole forearm covered with a display. When you're not actively using it for viewing information it could be all colorful and arty, eliminating the need for tattoos.
While I'm at it, it could be cool if there were a simple standard for SMS messages that would allow pre-canned replies, kind of similar to how dialog boxes can be defined in programming.
Sender types:"Are you coming? y/n/m"
Recipient sees: Sees "Are you coming?" along with three touchable buttons, "Yes", "No", "Maybe"
This would be be easy to use on the wrist screen form factor, since no typing would be required.
I hate having to dig my phone out of my pocket just to:
- check the time
- see if I have any messages
- pause music, skip to next song, etc
So what I'd like is a rectangular screen (NOT a square or circular screen) on my wrist, worn like a watch. This would allow me to:
- check the time
- see if I have any messages
- pause music, skip to next song, etc
It would have some simple capabilities, such as showing text messages and at least the beginning of emails. But it would basically be a slave display for my smartphone, connected via Bluetooth. It would NOT have a cellular connection nor have WiFi capabilities.
I could imagine "screensavers" (or, I guess, wallpapers) being a big deal on these things, too ...
I had a similar situation with my DSL ... it was fast during the day but slowed dramatically in the evening. It turns out that there was a tap on the line someplace. The first two techs were clueless, but finally somebody brought out a special piece of diagnostic equipment and found that there was a tap on the line exactly 2200 feet (or whatever) from the house. (I would guess they send a burst down the line and wait for a reflection.) A day or two later they sent someone out to remove the tap and all was well.
Good luck!