This makes me sad. Web 2-point-Oh is such a waste of a perfectly good 8-core processor.
10 years ago if you had told me about an 8-core processor I would have imagined using it for kick-of-the-ass games, immersive virtual reality, editing 3D video and simulating newer, more deadly designs of chainsaw chain.
But noo, instead they are used to pump out inefficient JavaShit-based versions of the Desktop software we had in '93 with a shiny new rounded corner interface to web browsers around the world. Great.
Great, more JavaShit-ridden bloatware that stores all your stuff on someone else's server while feeding you a steady AJAX-based stream of ads.
The only reason this stuff is so popular now is because people won't pay $99.99 for a MS Office license anymore so instead MS/Google are writing server-side adware to try and get the $99 from advertisers over a couple of years. Stuff your anti-spyware scanner would automatically delete for you if it was being run locally.
In the town of Whyteleafe (Still within the M25 and quite close to Croydon/London) you will be lucky to get a 512/128k DSL connection.
If it was easier to set up a community-run WiMax scheme or some other long range wireless service getting access in remote areas wouldn't be such a problem. but of course the likes of Vodafone want to suppress long-range 'run your own AP' wireless services for as long as they can, which is why you can't run them on unlicensed spectrum.
A notable exception would be the TSA, DHS and NSA who of course have no problem rolling out the latest and greatest most technically advanced Big Brother surveillance technologies
People making bombs are hardly going to talk about it on Faceshit or other worthless social sites. They are already using encryption - probably one time pads, steganography, shared secret encryption with infinite-length keys and the like and will always be able to continue doing so.
This will more likely be used to convict people for sharing mp3's, using 'stolen' wifi, people who built a small extension to their house in the middle of nowhere without straight away notifying the local government so they can pay their new and increased rates of property tax. This will be used to implement an ultra-controlled very rigidly regulated society which most people if you talk to them seem to approve of.
Man's greatest addiction is controlling other people's lives
".... should be banned because it didn't work out so well for one person"
".... should not be allowed because it affects the view from my house"
".... should be taxed to death. Put those damn rich people back where they belong."
".... is evil, could lead to any number of bigger problems and should be banned."
".... cannot be installed by anyone other than a highly trained professional because one person died trying"
".... is bad for the environment and should not be allowed."
".... should not be allowed to sit in a playground by himself because he might be a future paedophile"
We have nobody to blame but ourselves for overregulation, we desire control, order and security so much that the government is scrambling to find ways to enforce the presently unenforceable. First the church was used as an excuse for ruining people's enjoyment, now its 'de children', the environment and the notion that 'mere humans' cant handle much freedom without losing the plot
There is so much streaming stuff out there now, torrents of stuff ripped from streams and paid downloaded movies that optical storage is not really necessary or useful anymore. I have never had more problems with optical media than anything else, discs that go bad after a certain time, coasters and silly copy protection schemes.
Blu-ray is the latest mainstream optical storage has to offer and it's a nasty proprietary format pushed forward by the notorious DRM worshippers that are Sony. The discs are too expensive and fewer people are going out to buy movies. There isn't much point either since when you buy it it's not even yours.
Unless low-cost holographic storage becomes available without restrictions or DRM I'd say optical storage has had it's day. and anyone developing optical storage these days has to be in the least position to force DRM on the market. The SD card guys have had much more luck with peddling DRM to the masses and I expect that SD-DRM usage will become widespread any day now
One would think that after sitting at the bottom of the salty ocean for 60+ years it's shell would have rusted through and the explosives saturated with water. if those mines are really still good then they are remarkably well engineered
How hard would it be to to have very low bandwidth (text only) low frequency but high range radios in cell phones that would allow them to message each other directly over several miles bypassing the cell infustructure? Now that would be incredibly useful but it will never see the light of day for obvious reasons.
Well low frequency probably wouldn't work so great unless you had a very long antenna, but the rest of it seems like a good idea. I have always wondered why there is no dual mode PMR-446 (EU equivalent of FRS) GSM phone around. Eventually such phones would support limited data transfer for location polling and presence info (like a long-range bluetooth scan) but unfortunately even the new digital PMR standard doesn't support this.
Maybe someday we can do away with money grabbing mobile phone networks altogether and use the mesh network for local calls with gigabit WiMax provided by home users for backhaul and keep Iridium around for very remote areas and as an extra backup
Because if they used any other protocol that doesn't involve sending huge amounts of redudant text and shiny graphics over a commercial telephone network it would never make the news.
Personally I'd find it much more amazing if some radio hobbyists managed to repair a transmitter from bits of scrap salvaged from the rubble and sent out a packet using that but we'd never hear about it because FB and Twitter were not involved
An obscure unpopular candybar-shaped brick, preferably with a non-standard keypad and an external antenna and a kick-ass field test app pre-installed. Kinda like the Nokia 6650, but with LTE. I'd cringe if the first production LTE phone was, for example an iPhone 4G or some Google Touchscreen phone that uses LTE to supply a continuous barrage of text based ads
But will this service be HTTP-only like the Wifi Google provides at some airports? After all protocols other than HTTP and maybe XMPP don't really fit into Google's way of doing business.
Maybe you are used to having phones that were closed box, but back in the day I went from having a phone that couldn't run any apps to having a phone that could install and run.jar and.jad J2ME applications and I had to go and look for them on the interwebs.
Unfortunately as time went on a lot of crapware J2ME got released that were basically just front-ends for commercial web services and a lot of the J2ME app sites got greedy, put all their sponsored crapware at the top and charged programmers to have their apps (even freeware) listed.
Even so, going from installing.jar/.jad and later.sis/.sisx seems to a limited 'app store' seems like a huge step backwards to me.
I prefer Gopher over today's JavaShit laden, ad infested, bloated, bandwidth wasting, privacy invading Web 2.0 world any day.
Gopher is like the web without the cruft. You only get the information you actually want to see and its so very fast even on a bad connection. There are more gopher servers online now than there were a few years ago so worth having a peek in gopher://gopher.floodgap.com if you are bored.
Gopher is quite a limited protocol compared to HTTP and thats a good thing - it means there is no rat race between site owners to have all the latest effects and gimmicks. I'm not saying the world should convert to gopher because then the protocol would likely be revised to allow for HTTP's annoyances but it is refreshing to use once in a while
technology has never been more accessible before. you can still buy a minimalist car (Ariel Atom, Lotus 2-11) and you can still build your own PC or embedded system. apple is just one company that wants to control what people do with their products after they have bought them
Since we still pump large amounts of light into space from street-lighting around the world would that not be easier to detect than a few encoded radio signals?
Even if they detect a digital signal they still have to demodulate it to this obscure 'base-2' encoding we use over here because it works well with our equipment they have either grown out of or never discovered, after that they might decide to visit asciitable dot com to find out what it actually means.
Maybe we can buy out Arecibo and continuously waste a few megawatts at broadcasting a "Hello?! Can you hear me now?" analogue recording
Since an ordinary cheap consumer electronic storage device will now store it's entire contents it would make sense that they would turn to writing bloatware to preserve their status
What exactly do they mean by this? can they recycle (nearly) all the material used to make the battery to make a new battery? how many cycles does it last?
And more importantly, since it's Apple have they managed to somehow wedge the battery in between the layers of the motherboard's PCB to enforce planned obsolescence? Does it shoot nails in your face if you attempt to open it and replace the battery yourself?
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2.4 jiggahertz jammer?
This makes me sad. Web 2-point-Oh is such a waste of a perfectly good 8-core processor.
10 years ago if you had told me about an 8-core processor I would have imagined using it for kick-of-the-ass games, immersive virtual reality, editing 3D video and simulating newer, more deadly designs of chainsaw chain.
But noo, instead they are used to pump out inefficient JavaShit-based versions of the Desktop software we had in '93 with a shiny new rounded corner interface to web browsers around the world. Great.
No I am waiting for the RU-x86_64
Great, more JavaShit-ridden bloatware that stores all your stuff on someone else's server while feeding you a steady AJAX-based stream of ads.
The only reason this stuff is so popular now is because people won't pay $99.99 for a MS Office license anymore so instead MS/Google are writing server-side adware to try and get the $99 from advertisers over a couple of years. Stuff your anti-spyware scanner would automatically delete for you if it was being run locally.
Web application == Remotely accessed spyware
In the town of Whyteleafe (Still within the M25 and quite close to Croydon/London) you will be lucky to get a 512/128k DSL connection.
If it was easier to set up a community-run WiMax scheme or some other long range wireless service getting access in remote areas wouldn't be such a problem. but of course the likes of Vodafone want to suppress long-range 'run your own AP' wireless services for as long as they can, which is why you can't run them on unlicensed spectrum.
A notable exception would be the TSA, DHS and NSA who of course have no problem rolling out the latest and greatest most technically advanced Big Brother surveillance technologies
People making bombs are hardly going to talk about it on Faceshit or other worthless social sites. They are already using encryption - probably one time pads, steganography, shared secret encryption with infinite-length keys and the like and will always be able to continue doing so.
This will more likely be used to convict people for sharing mp3's, using 'stolen' wifi, people who built a small extension to their house in the middle of nowhere without straight away notifying the local government so they can pay their new and increased rates of property tax. This will be used to implement an ultra-controlled very rigidly regulated society which most people if you talk to them seem to approve of.
Man's greatest addiction is controlling other people's lives
".... should be banned because it didn't work out so well for one person"
".... should not be allowed because it affects the view from my house"
".... should be taxed to death. Put those damn rich people back where they belong."
".... is evil, could lead to any number of bigger problems and should be banned."
".... cannot be installed by anyone other than a highly trained professional because one person died trying"
".... is bad for the environment and should not be allowed."
".... should not be allowed to sit in a playground by himself because he might be a future paedophile"
We have nobody to blame but ourselves for overregulation, we desire control, order and security so much that the government is scrambling to find ways to enforce the presently unenforceable. First the church was used as an excuse for ruining people's enjoyment, now its 'de children', the environment and the notion that 'mere humans' cant handle much freedom without losing the plot
Google: BAD
Microsoft: WORSE
Cark boiiiiiiiiii!!!
Well there's nothing wrong with that really, Web 2.0 sucks. It invades your privacy and is a huge waste of bandwidth/CPU
There is so much streaming stuff out there now, torrents of stuff ripped from streams and paid downloaded movies that optical storage is not really necessary or useful anymore. I have never had more problems with optical media than anything else, discs that go bad after a certain time, coasters and silly copy protection schemes.
Blu-ray is the latest mainstream optical storage has to offer and it's a nasty proprietary format pushed forward by the notorious DRM worshippers that are Sony. The discs are too expensive and fewer people are going out to buy movies. There isn't much point either since when you buy it it's not even yours.
Unless low-cost holographic storage becomes available without restrictions or DRM I'd say optical storage has had it's day. and anyone developing optical storage these days has to be in the least position to force DRM on the market. The SD card guys have had much more luck with peddling DRM to the masses and I expect that SD-DRM usage will become widespread any day now
mythbusters for example, I simply retrieve it from a friends house where I set them up a mythtv box
Well that would work fine for an episode of mythbusters but that does that mean I have to pull an episode of Top Gear out of an actual gear box?
One would think that after sitting at the bottom of the salty ocean for 60+ years it's shell would have rusted through and the explosives saturated with water. if those mines are really still good then they are remarkably well engineered
How hard would it be to to have very low bandwidth (text only) low frequency but high range radios in cell phones that would allow them to message each other directly over several miles bypassing the cell infustructure? Now that would be incredibly useful but it will never see the light of day for obvious reasons.
Well low frequency probably wouldn't work so great unless you had a very long antenna, but the rest of it seems like a good idea. I have always wondered why there is no dual mode PMR-446 (EU equivalent of FRS) GSM phone around. Eventually such phones would support limited data transfer for location polling and presence info (like a long-range bluetooth scan) but unfortunately even the new digital PMR standard doesn't support this.
Maybe someday we can do away with money grabbing mobile phone networks altogether and use the mesh network for local calls with gigabit WiMax provided by home users for backhaul and keep Iridium around for very remote areas and as an extra backup
Because if they used any other protocol that doesn't involve sending huge amounts of redudant text and shiny graphics over a commercial telephone network it would never make the news.
Personally I'd find it much more amazing if some radio hobbyists managed to repair a transmitter from bits of scrap salvaged from the rubble and sent out a packet using that but we'd never hear about it because FB and Twitter were not involved
An obscure unpopular candybar-shaped brick, preferably with a non-standard keypad and an external antenna and a kick-ass field test app pre-installed. Kinda like the Nokia 6650, but with LTE. I'd cringe if the first production LTE phone was, for example an iPhone 4G or some Google Touchscreen phone that uses LTE to supply a continuous barrage of text based ads
But will this service be HTTP-only like the Wifi Google provides at some airports? After all protocols other than HTTP and maybe XMPP don't really fit into Google's way of doing business.
Maybe you are used to having phones that were closed box, but back in the day I went from having a phone that couldn't run any apps to having a phone that could install and run .jar and .jad J2ME applications and I had to go and look for them on the interwebs.
.jar/.jad and later .sis/.sisx seems to a limited 'app store' seems like a huge step backwards to me.
Unfortunately as time went on a lot of crapware J2ME got released that were basically just front-ends for commercial web services and a lot of the J2ME app sites got greedy, put all their sponsored crapware at the top and charged programmers to have their apps (even freeware) listed.
Even so, going from installing
I prefer Gopher over today's JavaShit laden, ad infested, bloated, bandwidth wasting, privacy invading Web 2.0 world any day.
Gopher is like the web without the cruft. You only get the information you actually want to see and its so very fast even on a bad connection. There are more gopher servers online now than there were a few years ago so worth having a peek in gopher://gopher.floodgap.com if you are bored.
Gopher is quite a limited protocol compared to HTTP and thats a good thing - it means there is no rat race between site owners to have all the latest effects and gimmicks. I'm not saying the world should convert to gopher because then the protocol would likely be revised to allow for HTTP's annoyances but it is refreshing to use once in a while
or buy a brand new PIC or embedded system. actually there is no need, just install and start using nasm
technology has never been more accessible before. you can still buy a minimalist car (Ariel Atom, Lotus 2-11) and you can still build your own PC or embedded system. apple is just one company that wants to control what people do with their products after they have bought them
Since we still pump large amounts of light into space from street-lighting around the world would that not be easier to detect than a few encoded radio signals?
Even if they detect a digital signal they still have to demodulate it to this obscure 'base-2' encoding we use over here because it works well with our equipment they have either grown out of or never discovered, after that they might decide to visit asciitable dot com to find out what it actually means.
Maybe we can buy out Arecibo and continuously waste a few megawatts at broadcasting a "Hello?! Can you hear me now?" analogue recording
Since an ordinary cheap consumer electronic storage device will now store it's entire contents it would make sense that they would turn to writing bloatware to preserve their status
Touch screen is overrated, give me a good clit mouse any day clit mouse
What exactly do they mean by this? can they recycle (nearly) all the material used to make the battery to make a new battery? how many cycles does it last?
And more importantly, since it's Apple have they managed to somehow wedge the battery in between the layers of the motherboard's PCB to enforce planned obsolescence? Does it shoot nails in your face if you attempt to open it and replace the battery yourself?