The issue I have with this is that enterprise features are fairly well defined. It's not rocket science. In fact, many of these features already exist in their Mac OS applications (mail, ical, etc...) and just need to be implemented in the iPhone. Whereas, features that appeal to consumers are hardly defined and always in flux. It seems like Apple has a real advantage over RIM in this arena. So all they need to do is implement common enterprise features. I'd love to be able to flag my messages and have multiple signatures based on which account I'm using in my iPhone.
that was my first thought. I'd like to send myself an SMS and let myself have root access and change all the config files to do what I want them to do.
This is an excellent point, however, the problem with videoconferencing over the internet is not so much bandwidth but with the fundamentally broken application of video coding methods. Current videoconference codecs such as H.264/AVC, On2, etc... were not designed to work over packet switched networks. The reason your Skype video gets pixelized and breaks is not because you don't have enough bandwidth, it's because the packet loss that occurs over the internet causes the linear dependency chain of the codec to drop frames which the subsequent frames cannot recover from. You can EASILY do HD (720p) videoconferencing at well under 5Mbps on a dedicated network. There's only one company that I'm aware of that has begun to address this problem with a fundamentally different coding principle by using the H.264/SVC standard as opposed to AVC. We'll see where this goes.
This is painfully depressing for me. I am a member of Fly Clear. There's no question that this whole system is just a way for people to pay $100 to skip the security line. As I describe it to people, it's "First Class" for the security line. The background checks and vetting and biometrics are all just a smokescreen for being able to pay to skip the line. It in no way offers any additional security and we all just end up going through the same x-ray metal detectors and x-ray machines. On the other hand, as someone who gets on a plane every week, it's completely worth it. Until now... Earlier in the year, my personal info was stolen from an unencrypted, unsecure laptop from our HR outsourcing company, Administaff. I got a nice letter from them apologizing for it. Now I'm two for two.
yeah, I'm not entirely sure what the proprietors of torrent spy are actually stealing since they merely provide links to torrent files. and by innovate I mean create better and more efficiently designed web sites that allow you to search for torrents that span multiple sites, add easy to use ratings and comments systems, and integrate social networking features.
All very valid points. Tor works great for torrent spy. The thing to remember is not so long ago suprnova was the best torrent site out there and then it took itself down and the bit torrent world recovered quite resiliently. torrentspy is a great site but it's increasingly become an also-ran. also, every time something like this happens it just energizes the community who then takes it upon themselves to innovate and offer better solutions.
Actually, this is the prevailing theory of human evolution today. This article is merely throwing another rock on the pile. Check out Mapping Human History by Steve Olsen (2002).
So even if you track someone's movements within the Torrentspy site, that still doesn't prove they actually pirated anything. All it proves is that you clicked on a link to a.torrent tracker that's most likely being hosted on another site. It's not even evidence that you've actually downloaded the tracker and started received the file that the tracker points to. This seems like a highly dubious method to try to identify pirates.
It has nothing to do with whether or not you're legally doing anything with the internet connection. They expressly forbid "streaming" of any media. They probably figured it was an easy way to limit that total amount of traffic on EVDO.
I am no lawyer but this seems to be just like when a cop poses as a prostitute or drug deal and tries to get the john/user to make the purchase. The only difference is that I can see is the police doing this is legal, but some corporate organization doing it seems extremely dubious.
reason for liking vi...
I was a sys admin 12 or so years ago working in sun and solaris environments and used vi exclusively. As time went on I found myself navigating around in linux relatively infrequently as I worked in various different job capacities. But one thing that always amazed me was whenever I need to edit a file in unix, I could always rely on vi and the 2 or 3 commands I needed to know to function effectively. I could get anything done just by using "/", "x", "a" and "wq!".
I think this is a somewhat overblown scenario just because it's Microsoft. The reality is that most, if not all, of the software (not to mention individual components) in a car are manufactured by other companies. These OEM vendors have contracts with the auto companies that stipulate what their responsibilities are. In many cases, when small companies OEM software to very large corporations, they have contingencies if that company goes out of business or gets bought out, such as putting the code in escrow etc... In this case, I actually think that, all technical merits aside, it is ultimately safer to have MS develop a car's non-drive related software. The car company faces less of a risk that the OEM company will go out of business or have to dramatically change its development course to suit some other large corporation.
instead of searching for:
"how to broadcast interference over wifi 2.4 GHZ," "interference over wifi 2.4 Ghz," "wireless networks 2.4 interference," and "make device interfere wireless network."
he should have first searched for:
"how to surf anonymously," "how to delete my browser data," and "how to shower without dropping your soap."
a little company called Cisco. Cisco's main goal is to sell expensive networking hardware. Everything else they do is ultimately designed to put as many bits on the wire as possible so that you need more networking gear. There's a statistic that a company who switches to VOIP ends up spending 4$ to every 1$ for their network. And with video it goes up to 15$. I think Google is much the same. Anything that causes more people to hit web pages with Adsense powered ads brings them back to their core, money-making business.
This analogy illustrates a good point. Ford does not make its own brakes. In fact, many parts in their cars are designed and manufactured by other companies that Ford OEMs from. This is how most car companies work. They focus on their core competencies and then bring all the parts together and market and sell the end product. Whereas, Microsoft attempts to constantly design their own pieces of the OS and go as far as they can to prevent 3rd parties from adding value. The OS should be a framework on which applications can run. Not the framework AND the applications. If MS wants to write their own apps and bundle them with the OS, that's fine, but the OS and the apps should be decoupled. The apps that run on the OS should be chosen from a competitively balanced playing field, not forced down your throat while inhibiting other apps from running.
Phew... I was hoping someone would point this out. Initially, I was hoping that there would be some reason why this was posted again. For example, some new evidence regarding the voting machines, or a novel mathematical model that adds or subtracts from the validity of the exit poll claims.
who is amused by the fact that he has to use an old PC based laptop to actually operate the laser (I'm assuming they operating software was not available for OS X. I guess it would have been hard to etch the laptop while you were using it anyway.
There are a lot of things to take into consideration here. The video content available in iTunes is tiny resolution. There's still a long way to go before people see the value in burning something from iTunes to DVD. DVDs are MPEG-2 and iTunes files are H.264. Transcoding from H.264 to MPEG-2 further degrades the quality and takes a long time and a lot of CPU. It's impractical at best.
The ultimate goal of apple's is to eliminate the DVD player entirely and just use an iMac or some kind of networked set top box.
What I can't wait for is a video iPod adapter that is a tv tuner.
No. I pay Comcast a hefty monthly fee for mediocre cable modem speeds (nowhere near the 6Mbps advertised and terrible upstream). SF is surprisingly very poorly wired. There are not many free WiFi spots out here either. Apparently, there will be though.
I'm glad someone finally pointed out the hardware aspects of this. The article does say there are many reasons why Unix lost, but I think hardware was the main reason. In the early-mid 90's, there was still enough of a hardware differentiation between a Sun or SGI workstation and an x86 PC that for specialized needs (CAD, CGI), you had to buy an expensive Unix workstation. Also, at the time, Windows was still running on a 16 bit DOS kernel which severely limited its application scope. As Intel's chips started reaching the processing capabilites of the big Unix guys, and their cost was so dramatically lower, it started to make less economic sense to run Pro Engineer or CADDS5 when you could buy a PC and Autocad for a fraction of the cost. Also, no Unix OS had any clue what it was to be run as a desktop OS. They were designed as workstation OSes with very little intuitive usability. It's apples and oranges to compare Unix to Windows.
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The issue I have with this is that enterprise features are fairly well defined. It's not rocket science. In fact, many of these features already exist in their Mac OS applications (mail, ical, etc...) and just need to be implemented in the iPhone. Whereas, features that appeal to consumers are hardly defined and always in flux. It seems like Apple has a real advantage over RIM in this arena. So all they need to do is implement common enterprise features. I'd love to be able to flag my messages and have multiple signatures based on which account I'm using in my iPhone.
that was my first thought. I'd like to send myself an SMS and let myself have root access and change all the config files to do what I want them to do.
This is an excellent point, however, the problem with videoconferencing over the internet is not so much bandwidth but with the fundamentally broken application of video coding methods. Current videoconference codecs such as H.264/AVC, On2, etc... were not designed to work over packet switched networks. The reason your Skype video gets pixelized and breaks is not because you don't have enough bandwidth, it's because the packet loss that occurs over the internet causes the linear dependency chain of the codec to drop frames which the subsequent frames cannot recover from. You can EASILY do HD (720p) videoconferencing at well under 5Mbps on a dedicated network. There's only one company that I'm aware of that has begun to address this problem with a fundamentally different coding principle by using the H.264/SVC standard as opposed to AVC. We'll see where this goes.
This is painfully depressing for me. I am a member of Fly Clear. There's no question that this whole system is just a way for people to pay $100 to skip the security line. As I describe it to people, it's "First Class" for the security line. The background checks and vetting and biometrics are all just a smokescreen for being able to pay to skip the line. It in no way offers any additional security and we all just end up going through the same x-ray metal detectors and x-ray machines. On the other hand, as someone who gets on a plane every week, it's completely worth it. Until now... Earlier in the year, my personal info was stolen from an unencrypted, unsecure laptop from our HR outsourcing company, Administaff. I got a nice letter from them apologizing for it. Now I'm two for two.
yeah, I'm not entirely sure what the proprietors of torrent spy are actually stealing since they merely provide links to torrent files. and by innovate I mean create better and more efficiently designed web sites that allow you to search for torrents that span multiple sites, add easy to use ratings and comments systems, and integrate social networking features.
I guess Wang Computers wasn't available.
All very valid points. Tor works great for torrent spy. The thing to remember is not so long ago suprnova was the best torrent site out there and then it took itself down and the bit torrent world recovered quite resiliently. torrentspy is a great site but it's increasingly become an also-ran. also, every time something like this happens it just energizes the community who then takes it upon themselves to innovate and offer better solutions.
Actually, this is the prevailing theory of human evolution today. This article is merely throwing another rock on the pile. Check out Mapping Human History by Steve Olsen (2002).
So even if you track someone's movements within the Torrentspy site, that still doesn't prove they actually pirated anything. All it proves is that you clicked on a link to a .torrent tracker that's most likely being hosted on another site. It's not even evidence that you've actually downloaded the tracker and started received the file that the tracker points to. This seems like a highly dubious method to try to identify pirates.
It has nothing to do with whether or not you're legally doing anything with the internet connection. They expressly forbid "streaming" of any media. They probably figured it was an easy way to limit that total amount of traffic on EVDO.
Let's not forget that Apple created iTunes so they could sell iPods. The network, service, etc... is just a necessary part of selling these devices.
I am no lawyer but this seems to be just like when a cop poses as a prostitute or drug deal and tries to get the john/user to make the purchase. The only difference is that I can see is the police doing this is legal, but some corporate organization doing it seems extremely dubious.
reason for liking vi... I was a sys admin 12 or so years ago working in sun and solaris environments and used vi exclusively. As time went on I found myself navigating around in linux relatively infrequently as I worked in various different job capacities. But one thing that always amazed me was whenever I need to edit a file in unix, I could always rely on vi and the 2 or 3 commands I needed to know to function effectively. I could get anything done just by using "/", "x", "a" and "wq!".
I think this is a somewhat overblown scenario just because it's Microsoft. The reality is that most, if not all, of the software (not to mention individual components) in a car are manufactured by other companies. These OEM vendors have contracts with the auto companies that stipulate what their responsibilities are. In many cases, when small companies OEM software to very large corporations, they have contingencies if that company goes out of business or gets bought out, such as putting the code in escrow etc... In this case, I actually think that, all technical merits aside, it is ultimately safer to have MS develop a car's non-drive related software. The car company faces less of a risk that the OEM company will go out of business or have to dramatically change its development course to suit some other large corporation.
a new owner will have to obtain a new license in order to drive the car if he buys it used?
instead of searching for: "how to broadcast interference over wifi 2.4 GHZ," "interference over wifi 2.4 Ghz," "wireless networks 2.4 interference," and "make device interfere wireless network." he should have first searched for: "how to surf anonymously," "how to delete my browser data," and "how to shower without dropping your soap."
you've also been posting this exact same post for some time now: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=199715&cid=163 54223
a little company called Cisco. Cisco's main goal is to sell expensive networking hardware. Everything else they do is ultimately designed to put as many bits on the wire as possible so that you need more networking gear. There's a statistic that a company who switches to VOIP ends up spending 4$ to every 1$ for their network. And with video it goes up to 15$. I think Google is much the same. Anything that causes more people to hit web pages with Adsense powered ads brings them back to their core, money-making business.
This analogy illustrates a good point. Ford does not make its own brakes. In fact, many parts in their cars are designed and manufactured by other companies that Ford OEMs from. This is how most car companies work. They focus on their core competencies and then bring all the parts together and market and sell the end product. Whereas, Microsoft attempts to constantly design their own pieces of the OS and go as far as they can to prevent 3rd parties from adding value. The OS should be a framework on which applications can run. Not the framework AND the applications. If MS wants to write their own apps and bundle them with the OS, that's fine, but the OS and the apps should be decoupled. The apps that run on the OS should be chosen from a competitively balanced playing field, not forced down your throat while inhibiting other apps from running.
Phew... I was hoping someone would point this out. Initially, I was hoping that there would be some reason why this was posted again. For example, some new evidence regarding the voting machines, or a novel mathematical model that adds or subtracts from the validity of the exit poll claims.
who is amused by the fact that he has to use an old PC based laptop to actually operate the laser (I'm assuming they operating software was not available for OS X. I guess it would have been hard to etch the laptop while you were using it anyway.
There are a lot of things to take into consideration here. The video content available in iTunes is tiny resolution. There's still a long way to go before people see the value in burning something from iTunes to DVD. DVDs are MPEG-2 and iTunes files are H.264. Transcoding from H.264 to MPEG-2 further degrades the quality and takes a long time and a lot of CPU. It's impractical at best. The ultimate goal of apple's is to eliminate the DVD player entirely and just use an iMac or some kind of networked set top box. What I can't wait for is a video iPod adapter that is a tv tuner.
how does this get us closer to 3D holographic TV's in our homes?
No. I pay Comcast a hefty monthly fee for mediocre cable modem speeds (nowhere near the 6Mbps advertised and terrible upstream). SF is surprisingly very poorly wired. There are not many free WiFi spots out here either. Apparently, there will be though.
I'm glad someone finally pointed out the hardware aspects of this. The article does say there are many reasons why Unix lost, but I think hardware was the main reason. In the early-mid 90's, there was still enough of a hardware differentiation between a Sun or SGI workstation and an x86 PC that for specialized needs (CAD, CGI), you had to buy an expensive Unix workstation. Also, at the time, Windows was still running on a 16 bit DOS kernel which severely limited its application scope. As Intel's chips started reaching the processing capabilites of the big Unix guys, and their cost was so dramatically lower, it started to make less economic sense to run Pro Engineer or CADDS5 when you could buy a PC and Autocad for a fraction of the cost. Also, no Unix OS had any clue what it was to be run as a desktop OS. They were designed as workstation OSes with very little intuitive usability. It's apples and oranges to compare Unix to Windows.