So, when's this kind of crazy a55 speed going to make it's way down to the street? You know, when is grandma going to see wild speed when she's calling the grandkids? 1-2 years? More?
"2009" doesn't mean it makes it to grandma, at least in any affordable sense of the word. 1-2 years. Move along.
I plan on getting my parents a subscription to NetFlix for Christmas. It's like $50 for 6 months.
What's intersting is that 2-3 years ago people said, "NetFlix will die due to streaming and the web!" Well, that day has not come. NetFlix has innovated. Good for them. That's how it should work... Innovate or die!
If code's too transparent you see right through it to the bloody programmers and their coffee and Monster drinks. In fact, you might see into their dark hearts. You'll see little Guitar Heroes and Battlestar Gallacta action figures. Maybe even, gasp!, some Natalie!
Technology is rarely the true threat to security. Likewise, security is rarely the key way to keep things secure.
The real threat is people using the toys, guns, or other tools. Yes, this is basically the "People kill people!" argument but it's true. If other nasty humans didn't want to hurt other humans security wouldn't exist.
Google continues to crank out new services, products, APIs, tools, and more. It's really quite staggering, but they do have the cash and brains to do it. But the investments they make are huge. I'm talking about money, time and brainpower.
Is latest action to make the entire world's information accessible for cash in some way? Is it some sort of philanthropy? You know, another gift to the world? Or, is there some other plan for world domination?
Speaking of world domination...
Who will be the most angry about all of this?
* Aquaman * Poseidon * Neptune * Little Mermaid * The Mariner (Kevin Costner, Waterworld)
This isn't that surprising really. Apple is very much a hardware company these days. They must ensure that they have control over not only the software and external design of their products, but also the "guts" of their products.
Jobs is obviously a fanatic about design and as time goes on, we'll see more and more "vertical integration" like this. Also remember that Apple is growing and is relatively flush with cash.
This is perhaps a very solid investment (bean counting as it were), outside the realm of design, software, hardware, and other technical matters.
I was pointing out that SONY has a certain type of positioning. An attitude. Their posture is to choose 'closed' systems and formats when they can, so they can control.
SONY Loves Closed, Proprietary Systems
on
Sony to Buy Gracenote
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· Score: 1, Insightful
Sony's Obsession with Proprietary Formats -- "Obsessed with owning proprietary formats, Sony keeps picking fights. It keeps losing. And yet it keeps coming back for more, convinced that all it needs to do is push a bigger stack of chips to the center of the table."
I'm looking and looking and looking but I can't find anything where money is changing hands between these companies. Someone has to be making money on this deal but I can't figure it out. Either that, or BitTorrent has a lot of data to make Comcast look really bad. So, they are taking a path that keeps their "evil deeds" hidden. Does anyone have any insight here on the financial deal, if there is one?
Toshiba preps 128GB solid-state notebook drive -- "While manufacturers plow ahead with notebook-targeted SSDs, questions are arising as to whether they deliver a performance boost significant enough to justify the higher cost."
So much better than flipping, flipping, flipping through pages and waiting for reloads. It's the print version, so you can use it that way too -- long article so print and read offline.
* = Assumes you plan on actually reading the article.;-)
Much of the success of Apple has nothing to do with Apple itself or Steve Jobs. Instead, Apple allows people to directly reject Microsoft. Linux satisfies this anti-Microsoft position as well, but Apple actually markets itself and has the financial backing to push this branding.
With that said, Apple helps keep Microsoft out of even more legal hot water, for example, by directly backing Apple. It's a CYA tactic on the legal front.
Bottom line: Don't just drink the Kool-Aid on the Apple story without taking 1-2 steps back to look at the marketplace, cultures, and end users.
...and if you email usernames and passwords to yourself -- like many folks do -- man, you are looking to get punished like this. This is especially true if you use public terminals.
Here's the upside: Exploitation of existing technology. Shows real potential for the future of the internet. Further, these are services that would not have been possible for free (or cheap) even 3-4 years ago. This is building on what I call The Google Platform. Great PR for Google, right?;-)
Here's the downside: Since most of this is built on Google, these folks are building on an infrastructure that is mostly free. When you don't pay, you have no control. Further, there's no SLA's (service level agreements) in place, I bet. Imagine depending on these services then having an issue -- Google might say, "We're sorry that you are depending on our FREE services, they are not 100% reliable you know."
(Notice I didn't even get into the privacy issues? That's an entirely different dog.)
As I was reading the article I was trying to visualize what this looked like. I was pretty frustrated until I came back to/. and realized there was not only an image -- but a freakin' video.
So, bravo for including that video. It really added value. Thanks.
"The whole debate an extension of the years-old tussle over whether Net neutrality regulations, which would prohibit network operators from prioritizing traffic as they wish, are necessary to safeguard the Internet's historically open architecture."
Not perfect, but at least the article gets the core idea mostly right. Usually, it gets totally butchered, you know?
It's not this is revolutionary. It's part of the evolution -- not sudden at all. Let's look at some examples...
Consider how long we've all been able to browse content offline after seeing it online. Or, how we've been able to start and stop uploading (FTP) when connections go up and down. The "blur" between local and network has been happening for a while.
Oh, and another example: Microsoft Sharepoint. I'm not a huge fan, but non-geeks can't really tell if they are local or online. So again, no revolution, just evolution here.
How long does it typically take for memory and sotrage advances to make to end consumers? For example, when we first heard about "gigabytes" back in the day, how long did it take to get there once it was being done in the laboratory?
OK, here's the truth. I'm just wondering since I need more memory to carrying around the entire internet in my pocket. Right now, I can only fit Ron Paul fanatic postings on my USB stick. They are taking up a lot of room. (Nothing against Ron Paul, mind you.)
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So, when's this kind of crazy a55 speed going to make it's way down to the street? You know, when is grandma going to see wild speed when she's calling the grandkids? 1-2 years? More?
"2009" doesn't mean it makes it to grandma, at least in any affordable sense of the word. 1-2 years. Move along.
I plan on getting my parents a subscription to NetFlix for Christmas. It's like $50 for 6 months.
What's intersting is that 2-3 years ago people said, "NetFlix will die due to streaming and the web!" Well, that day has not come. NetFlix has innovated. Good for them. That's how it should work... Innovate or die!
If code's too transparent you see right through it to the bloody programmers and their coffee and Monster drinks. In fact, you might see into their dark hearts. You'll see little Guitar Heroes and Battlestar Gallacta action figures. Maybe even, gasp!, some Natalie!
Transparency? Shudder!
Technology is rarely the true threat to security. Likewise, security is rarely the key way to keep things secure.
The real threat is people using the toys, guns, or other tools. Yes, this is basically the "People kill people!" argument but it's true. If other nasty humans didn't want to hurt other humans security wouldn't exist.
Google continues to crank out new services, products, APIs, tools, and more. It's really quite staggering, but they do have the cash and brains to do it. But the investments they make are huge. I'm talking about money, time and brainpower.
Is latest action to make the entire world's information accessible for cash in some way? Is it some sort of philanthropy? You know, another gift to the world? Or, is there some other plan for world domination?
Speaking of world domination...
Who will be the most angry about all of this?
* Aquaman
* Poseidon
* Neptune
* Little Mermaid
* The Mariner (Kevin Costner, Waterworld)
This isn't that surprising really. Apple is very much a hardware company these days. They must ensure that they have control over not only the software and external design of their products, but also the "guts" of their products.
Jobs is obviously a fanatic about design and as time goes on, we'll see more and more "vertical integration" like this. Also remember that Apple is growing and is relatively flush with cash.
This is perhaps a very solid investment (bean counting as it were), outside the realm of design, software, hardware, and other technical matters.
I was pointing out that SONY has a certain type of positioning. An attitude. Their posture is to choose 'closed' systems and formats when they can, so they can control.
Sony's Obsession with Proprietary Formats -- "Obsessed with owning proprietary formats, Sony keeps picking fights. It keeps losing. And yet it keeps coming back for more, convinced that all it needs to do is push a bigger stack of chips to the center of the table."
I'm looking and looking and looking but I can't find anything where money is changing hands between these companies. Someone has to be making money on this deal but I can't figure it out. Either that, or BitTorrent has a lot of data to make Comcast look really bad. So, they are taking a path that keeps their "evil deeds" hidden. Does anyone have any insight here on the financial deal, if there is one?
Toshiba preps 128GB solid-state notebook drive -- "While manufacturers plow ahead with notebook-targeted SSDs, questions are arising as to whether they deliver a performance boost significant enough to justify the higher cost."
So...
There's also an issue related to ROI.
Read the entire article on one page... *
;-)
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-04/bz_apple?currentPage=all
So much better than flipping, flipping, flipping through pages and waiting for reloads. It's the print version, so you can use it that way too -- long article so print and read offline.
* = Assumes you plan on actually reading the article.
Much of the success of Apple has nothing to do with Apple itself or Steve Jobs. Instead, Apple allows people to directly reject Microsoft. Linux satisfies this anti-Microsoft position as well, but Apple actually markets itself and has the financial backing to push this branding.
With that said, Apple helps keep Microsoft out of even more legal hot water, for example, by directly backing Apple. It's a CYA tactic on the legal front.
Bottom line: Don't just drink the Kool-Aid on the Apple story without taking 1-2 steps back to look at the marketplace, cultures, and end users.
** damn your eyes! **
Yes, I tried. And yes, I just lost geek points. (-1)
"Natalie Portman + Linux" (+1)
We'll call it even, OK?
We need a nice, interactive "Google Saturn" to help us along the way.
...and if you email usernames and passwords to
yourself -- like many folks do -- man, you are
looking to get punished like this. This is
especially true if you use public terminals.
(I know, I know. Not the same thing. Still...)
Here's the upside: Exploitation of existing technology. Shows real potential for the future of the internet. Further, these are services that would not have been possible for free (or cheap) even 3-4 years ago. This is building on what I call The Google Platform. Great PR for Google, right? ;-)
Here's the downside: Since most of this is built on Google, these folks are building on an infrastructure that is mostly free. When you don't pay, you have no control. Further, there's no SLA's (service level agreements) in place, I bet. Imagine depending on these services then having an issue -- Google might say, "We're sorry that you are depending on our FREE services, they are not 100% reliable you know."
(Notice I didn't even get into the privacy issues? That's an entirely different dog.)
"Woz Takes Dump on iPhone" would have been much more funny as a subject line.
Yes, a little offtopic but if you're going to talk
about politics and law, why not religion too, right?
The image is slick...
Battlestar Galactica Last Supper
As I was reading the article I was trying to visualize what /. and realized there was not only an image -- but a
this looked like. I was pretty frustrated until I came back
to
freakin' video.
So, bravo for including that video. It really added value. Thanks.
I love how STABLE just sticks out, like BSD wasn't stable before. Ha!
It was damn stable and it'll be stable again, and again...
Google = big winner
Intern = small winner
Even when you add the small winners together, Google still wins. Lot's of outstanding brainpower for dirt cheap.
I guess everyone wins if the interns like the cash and see it as a resume builder, right?
"The whole debate an extension of the years-old tussle over whether Net neutrality regulations, which would prohibit network operators from prioritizing traffic as they wish, are necessary to safeguard the Internet's historically open architecture."
Not perfect, but at least the article gets the core idea mostly right. Usually, it gets totally butchered, you know?
"Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web"
It's not this is revolutionary. It's part of the evolution -- not sudden at all. Let's look at some examples...
Consider how long we've all been able to browse content offline after seeing it online. Or, how we've been able to start and stop uploading (FTP) when connections go up and down. The "blur" between local and network has been happening for a while.
Oh, and another example: Microsoft Sharepoint. I'm not a huge fan, but non-geeks can't really tell if they are local or online. So again, no revolution, just evolution here.
Taste the Rainbow (of atoms)!
Sorry, couldn't help myself. Marketing controls my mind. And yours.
How long does it typically take for memory and sotrage advances to make to end consumers? For example, when we first heard about "gigabytes" back in the day, how long did it take to get there once it was being done in the laboratory?
OK, here's the truth. I'm just wondering since I need more memory to carrying around the entire internet in my pocket. Right now, I can only fit Ron Paul fanatic postings on my USB stick. They are taking up a lot of room. (Nothing against Ron Paul, mind you.)