I mentioned this to BT (UK) a while ago...They have been putting these new payphones that have Broadband, text messaging, Phone, email, web all in a phone box. The logical extension to this would be to add a WiFi areial. This would be a minimal add-on in cost and provide great service for certain types of WiFi users.
They basically ignored the idea and thought it wouldn't work. I hope this proves them wrong. Imagine being able to pull up next to any payphone and get internet access. In my opinion this is one of the best ways to spread the range of hotspots at a cheap price. They don't even have to sign up the HotSpot locations as they own the spot already./b
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It is the same photograhper but the exhibition is on in London. I highly recommend it. The photos are absolutly mind blowing. The prints are about 12ft x 6ft.
Digital watermarking essentially puts a mark in the music that can be read by special software. It is meant to be non audable to the human ear but that is debatable.
Watermarking is probably the lesser of evils as it does not stop you copying the music (AFAIK). What it will do however is provide an audit trail of where the music came from. Say a street vendor was busted for selling pirated CD's. They could test the CD's and see that it came from UserX on the UMG service. They could then go to userX and asked him/her how the music ended up on thousands of pirated CD's.
It seems they are trying to create a balance between fully restrictive downloading and playing and free for all mp3/ogg files. Personally I think it is the wrong way to go but time will tell./b
You can only stream if you can cache enough of the content first before starting the movie. DVD's have a huge throughput that your average 512kbs connection would not handle. Just try and download a linux iso and repeat 10 times. Thats how long its gonna take to get your movie down.
Oh and if you live in Australia then they are gonna charge you for going over your bandwidth limit. So you have 3 choices. Netflix and 3 day lag, Download and possible data charges, or forsake quality and and download divx versions of the movies./b
Well, at least not anytime soon. Trust me. I'm in the sync business. The solution is to have a multipoint sync feature that allows all your 'devices' to sync to a central point. Where that central point is should not matter. Trust your ISP? Host it there. Trust Yahoo!? Leave it there. Want to stick it on your home network? No problem.
The next problem is getting the devices to talk with each other in a standard langauge...but that is not going to happen. you have to have an engine that can translate between the different devices. Take recurring appointments. Palm can handle certain features, Lotus Notes others and Outllok still others. What happens when you try and keep them all in sync? You have to allow for all the different capabilities. Not easy.
Then you have supported platforms. Just how many contact lists do you keep? For me I have the following...Palm, PocketPC, SyncML Phone, Outlook, Yahoo!, Hotmail, Evolution. That's seven different places to keep in sync. Then there are the bookmarks. I use Mozilla, IE, PocketIE, Konqueror and AvanteGo on several machines. I have bookmarks scattered about all of them.
Then there is filtering. Do you really need all of that information on one device? No. I only want my personal stuff on my home PC but both on my work PC./b
PS: When I say device I mean a data point. I.e Outlook is a device Lotus Notes is one, A Palm is one, etc.
PPS: If someone says just stick it all online and access when you need it; Wake up. When you are 100 miles from the nearest cell tower and you don't have coverage...thats when you want access the data that you have only stored online.
I went to school with Dean Barker who is Team New Zealands Skipper.
You can hardly say that it is just technology that wins. This guy has been sailing Optimists and P Classes since he was a young lad. You can hardly call a 1947 and a 1923 desgined boat state of the art. The optimist is a complete pig to sail and he still won in that, even though all the boats were one design
What makes him a good sailor is years of skill, practice and a city where sailing is part of your school ciriculum from when you are 10 years old.
Also technology is making the sport a lot better to watch check out the Virtual Spectator software. cool.
Rock on Team New Zealand and hope we can keep the cup again!
A mate and I tried to setup encrypted email a couple of months back. I use evolution and he uses Pine (I Think). The hardest part was setting up the public/private keys and getting all that working. We had to do that via the command line which 'end users' wouldn't find easy. Once we had done that then it is _really_ easy to use in evolution. Simply create a new email and select 'Security|PGP Encrypt' and its done. In pine the problem was reading the email I sent. my friend had to save the attachment and then decrypt it. However sending encrypted email from pine was easy.
I do agree though that once it is a seamless process from setup to use then it will become more popular./b
Some of the data transfer they might want will probably be very data and time sensitive. Wireless just won't cut it. Think if the Internet vs Internet2. Internet2 is need by certain apps just because of things like QOS, bandwidth, etc.
Oh and of course the power thing....but that has already been mentioned.
You might want to look at Satellite Forms Mobile App Designer from Pumatech Inc. We provides a RAD tool for Palm and PocketPC. Several users have built extensions for it to read/write to the serial port.
When you have people using FM spectrum for free you get a much wider variety of music played by people who really care. No ads, and no endless soft rock (unless the DJ wants to play soft rock...)
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Ticketmaster has these terms and conditions which specifically exclude these types of screen scrapes for commercial purposes
Quote from their TOC's...
Access and Interference
You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained thereon or for any other unauthorized purpose without our prior expressed written permission. You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Ticketmaster web site. You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content (except for your own person, non-commercial use) from our website without the prior expressed written permission of Ticketmaster
This I think would be something that a lot of sites would want to do (Not that I agree)
In movie theaters, you could put up a "have you turned off the ringer on your cell phone?" slide, and then make the things ring. Do this 4 or 5 times before the previews, etc., start.
Actually they have been doing this for at least the last couple of years in the UK. Twice before the mobvie starts they have an ad. The first one has about 10 phones ringing from all over the place (surround sound), the next one is a Wallace And Grommit ad.
They work to. Most times I rememeber to turn of my phone before I go into the theater but on the few occasions I don't the ads are a simple polite way to remind me to.
" If enacted as written, state agencies would be able to buy software only from companies that do not place restrictions on use or access to source code."
Well that would rule out the GPL then. It requires that you hand over any modifications to the sourcecode. That IS a restriction. The only true 'free' license would be Public Domain...
Oh and BTW my 2 cents worth...Forced Open Formats for public documents = good. Forced OSS software - Bad. Lets fight on perfomance. M$ (tries to) force companies to use their software, we don't have to.
I vote for love him. One of the best news jounalists in NZ. Hard News is one of the few things that keeps me informed about NZ politics while living abroad. I don't always agree with him but he does give time to anyone who is willing to put up a compelling augument, even if it isn't exactly what he thinks.
Americans would do well to listen to him as well. He gives a good take on what the rest of the world may think about George and co.
Of course that is because the research is being run by a market research company who is bound by certain ethical standards.
this prevents them from passing on identifiable data unless the respondent specifically says yes.
In most instances (99.9%) companies belonging to the MRA do follow this code. I used to work for a market research company who once tried to pass on data without permission but our group (Data processors) refused. we won as they had no moral right to make us do that.
I have to agree with the first post. Good sound is important. Have you been to Fabric London or The End in London?. 2 of the best club soundsystems I have ever heard. And you notice it. The highs are crisp and clear and you can actually hear the midrange...top this off with some thumping bass (Fabric has it coming straight through the floor) and you can't beat it. Trance, Hard Hou se, Drum 'n Bass or god forbid UK Garage it doesn't matter, a good system sounds excellent and if your source material sucks then the output is going to be bad
Although I do agree that song selction is key, how you mix them is also equally important. This may be easier or hard on turntables/mp3's depending on the music. You will find that most DJ's in the 'Hippy Trance' scene use CD's, its a pretty simple mixing technique that is used. However other genres need techniques particualry suited to turntables. (Hip Hop, Turntablism).
It's hard to picture myself executing government provided software on my workstation (we were supposed to be *increasing* the security of the PC's, right?)"
Remeber that the government has released security extensions to linux already. so don't be to quick to beat them down. If the software they provide is open and auditable then why not?
Google does a good job of indexing html and has added new types of content over the last few months.
My question is what other contents types do you want/plan to index?
For example I searched Google for about an hour today looking for a solution to my PHP compilation problem with no luck. I turned to IRC and got an answer in a couple of minutes. If Google archived that conversation then the next person to search for the error message would get an exact hit.
I have 12GB of music (all legally ripped from my own CD's thanks...) so 20GB is the minimum I want from my mp3 player. you never know when you want to hear some Mozart or some Merzbow. I want it all on one player. Can't the device makers get that? Why not sell it it with no drive and offer a 5, 10 and 20GB option?
With the massive number of applications available for Palm OS plus a large number of good thirdparty RAD tools. This could be great for schools. PalmOS/PalmOS based devices are great for the vertical market. Long barttery life, Simple interface, Simple API's.
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I mentioned this to BT (UK) a while ago...They have been putting these new payphones that have Broadband, text messaging, Phone, email, web all in a phone box. The logical extension to this would be to add a WiFi areial. This would be a minimal add-on in cost and provide great service for certain types of WiFi users.
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They basically ignored the idea and thought it wouldn't work. I hope this proves them wrong. Imagine being able to pull up next to any payphone and get internet access. In my opinion this is one of the best ways to spread the range of hotspots at a cheap price. They don't even have to sign up the HotSpot locations as they own the spot already.
Earth From The Air
It is the same photograhper but the exhibition is on in London. I highly recommend it. The photos are absolutly mind blowing. The prints are about 12ft x 6ft.
Digital watermarking essentially puts a mark in the music that can be read by special software. It is meant to be non audable to the human ear but that is debatable.
/b
Watermarking is probably the lesser of evils as it does not stop you copying the music (AFAIK). What it will do however is provide an audit trail of where the music came from. Say a street vendor was busted for selling pirated CD's. They could test the CD's and see that it came from UserX on the UMG service. They could then go to userX and asked him/her how the music ended up on thousands of pirated CD's.
It seems they are trying to create a balance between fully restrictive downloading and playing and free for all mp3/ogg files. Personally I think it is the wrong way to go but time will tell.
You can only stream if you can cache enough of the content first before starting the movie. DVD's have a huge throughput that your average 512kbs connection would not handle. Just try and download a linux iso and repeat 10 times. Thats how long its gonna take to get your movie down.
/b
Oh and if you live in Australia then they are gonna charge you for going over your bandwidth limit. So you have 3 choices. Netflix and 3 day lag, Download and possible data charges, or forsake quality and and download divx versions of the movies.
Well, at least not anytime soon. Trust me. I'm in the sync business. The solution is to have a multipoint sync feature that allows all your 'devices' to sync to a central point. Where that central point is should not matter. Trust your ISP? Host it there. Trust Yahoo!? Leave it there. Want to stick it on your home network? No problem.
/b
The next problem is getting the devices to talk with each other in a standard langauge...but that is not going to happen. you have to have an engine that can translate between the different devices. Take recurring appointments. Palm can handle certain features, Lotus Notes others and Outllok still others. What happens when you try and keep them all in sync? You have to allow for all the different capabilities. Not easy.
Then you have supported platforms. Just how many contact lists do you keep? For me I have the following...Palm, PocketPC, SyncML Phone, Outlook, Yahoo!, Hotmail, Evolution. That's seven different places to keep in sync. Then there are the bookmarks. I use Mozilla, IE, PocketIE, Konqueror and AvanteGo on several machines. I have bookmarks scattered about all of them.
Then there is filtering. Do you really need all of that information on one device? No. I only want my personal stuff on my home PC but both on my work PC.
PS: When I say device I mean a data point. I.e Outlook is a device Lotus Notes is one, A Palm is one, etc.
PPS: If someone says just stick it all online and access when you need it; Wake up. When you are 100 miles from the nearest cell tower and you don't have coverage...thats when you want access the data that you have only stored online.
You can hardly say that it is just technology that wins. This guy has been sailing Optimists and P Classes since he was a young lad. You can hardly call a 1947 and a 1923 desgined boat state of the art. The optimist is a complete pig to sail and he still won in that, even though all the boats were one design
What makes him a good sailor is years of skill, practice and a city where sailing is part of your school ciriculum from when you are 10 years old.
Also technology is making the sport a lot better to watch check out the Virtual Spectator software. cool.
Rock on Team New Zealand and hope we can keep the cup again!
A mate and I tried to setup encrypted email a couple of months back. I use evolution and he uses Pine (I Think). The hardest part was setting up the public/private keys and getting all that working. We had to do that via the command line which 'end users' wouldn't find easy. Once we had done that then it is _really_ easy to use in evolution. Simply create a new email and select 'Security|PGP Encrypt' and its done. In pine the problem was reading the email I sent. my friend had to save the attachment and then decrypt it. However sending encrypted email from pine was easy.
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I do agree though that once it is a seamless process from setup to use then it will become more popular.
Some of the data transfer they might want will probably be very data and time sensitive. Wireless just won't cut it. Think if the Internet vs Internet2. Internet2 is need by certain apps just because of things like QOS, bandwidth, etc.
Oh and of course the power thing....but that has already been mentioned.
Psion Teklogix is still in the market...
And Symbol still use Palm OS in their PDA's.
You might want to look at Satellite Forms Mobile App Designer from Pumatech Inc. We provides a RAD tool for Palm and PocketPC. Several users have built extensions for it to read/write to the serial port.
Disclaimer: I work for Pumatech...
A little off topic but relevant to above post....
When you have people using FM spectrum for free you get a much wider variety of music played by people who really care. No ads, and no endless soft rock (unless the DJ wants to play soft rock...)
check out Pirate Radio for more.
Ticketmaster has these terms and conditions which specifically exclude these types of screen scrapes for commercial purposes
Quote from their TOC's...
Access and Interference
You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained thereon or for any other unauthorized purpose without our prior expressed written permission. You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Ticketmaster web site. You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content (except for your own person, non-commercial use) from our website without the prior expressed written permission of Ticketmaster
This I think would be something that a lot of sites would want to do (Not that I agree)
In movie theaters, you could put up a "have you turned off the ringer on your cell phone?" slide, and then make the things ring. Do this 4 or 5 times before the previews, etc., start.
Actually they have been doing this for at least the last couple of years in the UK. Twice before the mobvie starts they have an ad. The first one has about 10 phones ringing from all over the place (surround sound), the next one is a Wallace And Grommit ad.
They work to. Most times I rememeber to turn of my phone before I go into the theater but on the few occasions I don't the ads are a simple polite way to remind me to.
Someone should put these pics up on Rate My Rack
Welcome to my place...Now sit down and watch this mindless f$%ing ad for the next 3 weeks on your morning commute....
Well that would rule out the GPL then. It requires that you hand over any modifications to the sourcecode. That IS a restriction. The only true 'free' license would be Public Domain...
Oh and BTW my 2 cents worth...Forced Open Formats for public documents = good. Forced OSS software - Bad. Lets fight on perfomance. M$ (tries to) force companies to use their software, we don't have to.
I vote for love him. One of the best news jounalists in NZ. Hard News is one of the few things that keeps me informed about NZ politics while living abroad. I don't always agree with him but he does give time to anyone who is willing to put up a compelling augument, even if it isn't exactly what he thinks.
Americans would do well to listen to him as well. He gives a good take on what the rest of the world may think about George and co.
Of course that is because the research is being run by a market research company who is bound by certain ethical standards.
this prevents them from passing on identifiable data unless the respondent specifically says yes.
In most instances (99.9%) companies belonging to the MRA do follow this code. I used to work for a market research company who once tried to pass on data without permission but our group (Data processors) refused. we won as they had no moral right to make us do that.
Who wants some rewind?
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I have to agree with the first post. Good sound is important. Have you been to Fabric London or The End in London?. 2 of the best club soundsystems I have ever heard. And you notice it. The highs are crisp and clear and you can actually hear the midrange...top this off with some thumping bass (Fabric has it coming straight through the floor) and you can't beat it. Trance, Hard Hou se, Drum 'n Bass or god forbid UK Garage it doesn't matter, a good system sounds excellent and if your source material sucks then the output is going to be bad
Although I do agree that song selction is key, how you mix them is also equally important. This may be easier or hard on turntables/mp3's depending on the music. You will find that most DJ's in the 'Hippy Trance' scene use CD's, its a pretty simple mixing technique that is used. However other genres need techniques particualry suited to turntables. (Hip Hop, Turntablism).
--End 6pm rant after last night at Peach--
Remeber that the government has released security extensions to linux already. so don't be to quick to beat them down. If the software they provide is open and auditable then why not?
I get back from the store with my new 10GB iPod...still in its sealed box...
F#$k. S#$t. wanker.
Its gone and infected every single line of code I've written for M$ Windows!
Google does a good job of indexing html and has added new types of content over the last few months.
My question is what other contents types do you want/plan to index?
For example I searched Google for about an hour today looking for a solution to my PHP compilation problem with no luck. I turned to IRC and got an answer in a couple of minutes. If Google archived that conversation then the next person to search for the error message would get an exact hit.
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A couple of books I've read or am reading at the moment.
Weaving the Web - Tim Berners-Lee
The Cathedral & the Bazaar - Eric S. Raymond
A good insight into how applications are developed and why the web _should_ exist. Good things to keep in mind while designing an application.
The Cluetrain Manifesto - Christopher Locke, Rick Levine
Rules for the new economy. Maybe not really IT related but should encourage you to think about your end users.
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I have 12GB of music (all legally ripped from my own CD's thanks...) so 20GB is the minimum I want from my mp3 player. you never know when you want to hear some Mozart or some Merzbow. I want it all on one player. Can't the device makers get that? Why not sell it it with no drive and offer a 5, 10 and 20GB option?
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With the massive number of applications available for Palm OS plus a large number of good thirdparty RAD tools. This could be great for schools. PalmOS/PalmOS based devices are great for the vertical market. Long barttery life, Simple interface, Simple API's.
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