Is this what we are in for? Hardware dependent on cloud services, essentially a dumb terminal with content pushed to it, an item relatively useless if there are no supporting cloud services. I realize at this point that description doesn't fully fit Fire, but mobile tech seems to be headed that way, seemingly turning the Internet into TV.
Everyone will have an FB login, it's going to be the hub of the Net (that's the plan quasi Internet Log-in) sharing and selling your data, and, can you imagine the psych profile they can do on you with all your different Web items authenticating thru FB?
Advanced high school? Seriously? This is something I would've done when I was 10, (in fact I did but there was no civilian GPS in 1970's and I used a 3.5 minute super 8 movie camera) this is one of the easiest off the shelf projects there is and frankly I expect more...wonder what other nations high school students are doing.
Instead of hardware why not program software for distributed computing (like SETI@home) then you need only write the software and get people to install it on their systems. (yes I said only) Perhaps set up the software so that other research groups could utilize the spare processing cycles thus getting a huge distributed processing set up for use by multiple Universities with different research needs brought together by a common processing software. Make it modular not all research has the same needs.
With the correct media spin it could happen, and I have always wondered why schools don't use their lab computers for distributed computing at night, like I did by installing Vue Infinite render nodes on all the math lab computers.
From where I sit on a consumer cable connection it isn't about max speed, it's about being able to carry the current customer load and no caps. So if a Gigabit network would solve or at least alleviate those issues then it is justified, the corps can't seem to figure out a way to charge you more for giving you what they initially promised to start with, so apparently it isn't justified from their point of view.
I am interested in what happens to the brick/online retail sector selling movies and music, did it increase? Stay the same? What effect dies this actually have on spending and sales?
Or, being irritated with their ISP, will customers now double their efforts to pirate through other means?
Video mask, make a mask of the material that conforms to your face and plays video of whatever, other peoples faces, maybe have a minicam on it and set it to mirror who ever you're talking to.
XP lasted me over 10 years, I skipped Vista and now I expect that Windows 7 will last another 10 (at least for personal use) so why would anyone bother with WIn8? and all I see in OS X Lion is a features upgrade for $30 so my Mac's will stay at Snow.
Side note: For those of you that think you need M$ online to get your OS working you don't.
When people come to me to ask what they should buy for a computer, I ask them "What do you want to do?" and with out fail the answer is web surfing, social media, email, video watching (and sometimes editing) and photos, all of these task could get by just fine on XP, (or Linux if they seem smarter than the average gnat) and any modern computer hardware and certainly none of them need a pricey Mac.
Apple drives product purchases thru design and excellent marketing, my opinion of M$ is that they don't know what they are doing, while some of M$'s products show promise the way the implement the product or the pricing makes it unattractive, but in the end the consumer seems to buy the shiniest object that bounces the most, and that behavior in a nut shell is what drives the whole fiasco.
Must be a personal preference thing (other than those reasons you stated) and it reminds me of people that like puzzles, I can't stand puzzles because they consist of unraveling someone's mess. That seems to appeal to a certain type of person, and that type seems to like single player mode.
Why do people enjoy playing against a computer? I play COD, Quake Live, Battlefield, and several others, never touched the single person mode, can't stand playing a computer, it isn't interesting. But playing people, much more fun (and aggravation) than any computer opponent, they learn and adapt, conversation is possible and the greatest blast of all, a pub game where your human team actually works together.
It should all be multiplayer IMO, but apparently some people like playing machines.
As with the previous article on selling CPU's with different speed unlocks to them, this is just some one new at Intel marketing trying to monetize all the little tidbits.
First I'll get the venom out of me, the fat cow should shut the fuck up. Second, all that is really desired here is attach the face, the data, to the real name, this would make Facebook the single largest name and face database in the World (that I know of) I will admit I enjoy "conspiracy theories" but with facial recognition what it is, DARPA Developing Video Parser, Police To Begin iPhone Iris Scans I can't help feel we are all being "herded", tagged and delivered and Facebook is one of the corrals. Why would Goldman Sachs want to value Facebook at 50 billion? Just think of what you can do with all that information and no restrictions, because the person freely gave the information to you. People used to fret that the would be implanted with an RFID tag or "The Mark of The Beast", but the reality is no one can live without their phones, and with iris scanning and facial recognition software, why they don't need to tag you.....you tagged yourself.
Joseph Goebbels knew this, FOX news knows this, marketing experts know this, and whether through intuition or intentional exploitation they all have, and do, take advantage of this phenomenon
"Mass Psychosis In the USA?" Yes it exist and effects nearly everyone in the population, it's called Television, don't laugh...how else can you explain FOX news or TV shows where a serial killer is the hero?
We have all been mislead, driven mad, outright lied too, and given values that have no depth and are meaningless, all by television.
8 or more hours a day of murder, rape, and stupidity eventually takes its toll.
Slashdot Mirror
A single point of control isn't always a good idea when dealing with humans.
I wanna ride it up to the store, maybe slap an animatronic wolf head with glowing heat seeking eyes too.
Hydrofluoric acid bath.
Is this what we are in for? Hardware dependent on cloud services, essentially a dumb terminal with content pushed to it, an item relatively useless if there are no supporting cloud services.
I realize at this point that description doesn't fully fit Fire, but mobile tech seems to be headed that way, seemingly turning the Internet into TV.
Everyone will have an FB login, it's going to be the hub of the Net (that's the plan quasi Internet Log-in) sharing and selling your data, and, can you imagine the psych profile they can do on you with all your different Web items authenticating thru FB?
Never get a good job again.
Advanced high school? Seriously? This is something I would've done when I was 10, (in fact I did but there was no civilian GPS in 1970's and I used a 3.5 minute super 8 movie camera) this is one of the easiest off the shelf projects there is and frankly I expect more...wonder what other nations high school students are doing.
Instead of hardware why not program software for distributed computing (like SETI@home) then you need only write the software and get people to install it on their systems. (yes I said only)
Perhaps set up the software so that other research groups could utilize the spare processing cycles thus getting a huge distributed processing set up for use by multiple Universities with different research needs brought together by a common processing software.
Make it modular not all research has the same needs.
With the correct media spin it could happen, and I have always wondered why schools don't use their lab computers for distributed computing at night, like I did by installing Vue Infinite render nodes on all the math lab computers.
No one ever noticed they were running.
From where I sit on a consumer cable connection it isn't about max speed, it's about being able to carry the current customer load and no caps.
So if a Gigabit network would solve or at least alleviate those issues then it is justified, the corps can't seem to figure out a way to charge you more for giving you what they initially promised to start with, so apparently it isn't justified from their point of view.
Hey what next moving pictures? I think they call that TV.
Of all the things I will miss if I live long enough a good printed paperback is very close to the top, maybe even higher up than cheese...
I am interested in what happens to the brick/online retail sector selling movies and music, did it increase? Stay the same?
What effect dies this actually have on spending and sales?
Or, being irritated with their ISP, will customers now double their efforts to pirate through other means?
Take the plunge buy an actual PC.
Video mask, make a mask of the material that conforms to your face and plays video of whatever, other peoples faces, maybe have a minicam on it and set it to mirror who ever you're talking to.
Comcast will still have a cap on my connection, lets address that first.
I've been waiting for this moment... GET a FREAKING PC and be done with it.
XP lasted me over 10 years, I skipped Vista and now I expect that Windows 7 will last another 10 (at least for personal use) so why would anyone bother with WIn8? and all I see in OS X Lion is a features upgrade for $30 so my Mac's will stay at Snow.
Side note: For those of you that think you need M$ online to get your OS working you don't.
When people come to me to ask what they should buy for a computer, I ask them "What do you want to do?" and with out fail the answer is web surfing, social media, email, video watching (and sometimes editing) and photos, all of these task could get by just fine on XP, (or Linux if they seem smarter than the average gnat) and any modern computer hardware and certainly none of them need a pricey Mac.
Apple drives product purchases thru design and excellent marketing, my opinion of M$ is that they don't know what they are doing, while some of M$'s products show promise the way the implement the product or the pricing makes it unattractive, but in the end the consumer seems to buy the shiniest object that bounces the most, and that behavior in a nut shell is what drives the whole fiasco.
Must be a personal preference thing (other than those reasons you stated) and it reminds me of people that like puzzles, I can't stand puzzles because they consist of unraveling someone's mess.
That seems to appeal to a certain type of person, and that type seems to like single player mode.
Why do people enjoy playing against a computer? I play COD, Quake Live, Battlefield, and several others, never touched the single person mode, can't stand playing a computer, it isn't interesting.
But playing people, much more fun (and aggravation) than any computer opponent, they learn and adapt, conversation is possible and the greatest blast of all, a pub game where your human team actually works together.
It should all be multiplayer IMO, but apparently some people like playing machines.
As with the previous article on selling CPU's with different speed unlocks to them, this is just some one new at Intel marketing trying to monetize all the little tidbits.
Nothing to see here but capitalism.
Goats.
I'm sure someone mentioned it already but it may be possible to shut off everyone's power at exactly the same time.
http://www.ioactive.com/services_grid_research.html
Imagine a worm spreading over the mesh setting all the smart meters in LA to pulse on and off...wonder what that would do...
for thousands of years.
I wonder how much the material out gasses...
First I'll get the venom out of me, the fat cow should shut the fuck up.
Second, all that is really desired here is attach the face, the data, to the real name, this would make Facebook the single largest name and face database in the World (that I know of)
I will admit I enjoy "conspiracy theories" but with facial recognition what it is, DARPA Developing Video Parser, Police To Begin iPhone Iris Scans I can't help feel we are all being "herded", tagged and delivered and Facebook is one of the corrals.
Why would Goldman Sachs want to value Facebook at 50 billion?
Just think of what you can do with all that information and no restrictions, because the person freely gave the information to you.
People used to fret that the would be implanted with an RFID tag or "The Mark of The Beast", but the reality is no one can live without their phones, and with iris scanning and facial recognition software, why they don't need to tag you.....you tagged yourself.
Joseph Goebbels knew this, FOX news knows this, marketing experts know this, and whether through intuition or intentional exploitation they all have, and do, take advantage of this phenomenon
Less Information
TSA "Screwing the American public since 2001"
"Mass Psychosis In the USA?" Yes it exist and effects nearly everyone in the population, it's called Television, don't laugh...how else can you explain FOX news or TV shows where a serial killer is the hero?
We have all been mislead, driven mad, outright lied too, and given values that have no depth and are meaningless, all by television.
8 or more hours a day of murder, rape, and stupidity eventually takes its toll.