The trick is to understand that you're NOT supposed to be able to see pixels. See pixels in the sky, do you? Computer displays should NEVER have used pixels. It was all an ugly hack because the performance wasn't available to treat everything as vector/3d graphics.
I don't think it's a tall order, but it's a crazy order. Exchanging messages, encrypted or not, via email generally leaves a pretty serious log of information: how much was sent, from which computer, on which date, which computers it went through (each of which will all have their own logging), which computer it was delivered to, which IP and client downloaded/read it, and when...
Combine a few emails like that with a few known details about a suspect and their activities, and you could quickly find yourself screwed just for asking a terrorist if he'd be willing to interview for a newspaper.
Nope. KDE 4 failed because the core developers saw themselves as smarter than their users. They saw KDE4 as a hobby project that they did for their own personal challenge; because they knew the code, they knew what it needed to become, users' needs (and expressed preferences) be damned.
If you used it as a chat program then you misused it and shouldn't be suprised that it failed as a chat program. It was supposed to give people a way to collaborate on documents and projects.
Are you sure about that?
My impression was that it was intended to be a replacement for email, im, and other realtime communication systems on the net. It wasn't an app to help with projects or conversations; it was a protocol/server platform for messaging, just like the SMTP protocol and mailserver that makes up email, but more flexible. I think the idea was to replace email, IM, web forums, twitter, etc. all with one flexible, scalable platform that could handle new kinds of data, provide gateways to disparate systems (connect your IM to your SMS, or your webcam to your audio-only phone, for instance), and to make it all expandable by bots which could do automated processing of messages.
It actually could have been very cool, but it was too big for the PITIFUL amount of weight google threw behind it. They didn't believe in their product. If they had, they would have built an exchange-killing open source mail/groupware server on top of it, which was fully backwards-compatible with Email, IM (including MSN as part of the exchange-killing thing), etc.
THAT needed to be a radical product launch. None of this beta crap; a SOLID, powerful, game-changing release of free server code for everyone to install and use. Where the gradual change comes in is integrating their translation engine to make global communication possible, integrating google voice, integrating reader, and generally taking the world by storm by combining all their existing products into one great solution that had ZERO competition.
Now that would have been radical. Launching a half-baked idea with a horrible web-ui and some code for a cut-down version that no one cared enough to look at? Not so much.
It has been known for quite awhile that it takes 20 years for new/radical technology to be adopted. They expected it to take less time because they are Google
I was going to say that, to be fair, they've pushed other tech to widespread adoption pretty quickly. Google Earth/Maps, Google Search,... however, the more I think about it, the less it seems that anything Google have done is really new tech. For examples:
Google Search = Altavista (although definitely bigger+better) Google Maps/Earth = GIS Gmail = a zillion other webmail apps Google Reader = just RSS Chrome = Webkit (= KHTML) Google Translate = Babelfish (although apparently using a much cooler statistical algorithm?) Mapreduce = Refresh of techniques that were considered outdated Google Talk = Jabber Google Voice = VOIP...
I don't think there are any great insights to draw from Google Wave; they worked on it, it got hyped up, it didn't catch on, bummer.
That would be true if whether something "caught on" was some unknowable black box. But whether things catch on is usually based on the opinion of people it could catch on with, which is easy to find out and learn from.
Why can't they make something radical, then add on compatibility stepping stones for a transition period? Would Wave have been so unused if you could read your normal POP3 mail in it and intercommunicate with traditional IM systems?
Exactly this is what I've been waiting been waiting for since I first read about wave. It's obvious....but too much hard work for... wait, google?
Yes such a blessing Linux is! Years before iphone/ipad didn't have flash. We didn't have it first!
This is probably more true than you'd think. Linux users were clamouring for Flash for years, as were Linux/PPC and Linux/AMD64 users. Linux and Linux/AMD64 Flash, at least, actually happened. So they probably all contributed to Flash's portability, paving the way for Flash on mobiles etc.
If I was buying a washed up av company like McAfee, I'd scrape the antivirus, scrap the management, scrap the sales people, but keep the hackers. Then again, I'm on/.:)
Did it ever occur to you that drive manufacturers and researchers work on all of those things, but don't magically make breakthroughs in a given area simply because a bunch of jackasses on slashdot want them to?
The research is about error bounds on coarse grained models. The smart phone is just hype.
And if there research gets lost, the credit claimed by someone else coming along later and doing the same thing again, all because they obscured their research behind misleading buzzwords? Tough.
nvidia outsource their boards? Most card companies (creative labs for instance) seem to at least start off buying components and creating boards based off reference board designs for chips. Were (and are) nvidia solely in the chip business?
Well, there's classified information that very few people have seen, and then there's classified information that several billion people have (potentially) seen, and that your battlefield enemies have very likely studied in some detail.
And then there's the classified information that would probably have soldiers going home and filing breach of contract suits against their government.
No. At least, hopefully not. Most of these things are controlled by raw material prices, production costs, taxes, upstream suppliers who also supply other stores, etc. The prices may seem to be fixed across lots of stores, but really lots of stores just share the same costs, and sell competitively, so prices end up much the same everywhere. For instance, most garages/petrol stations don't make much money on fuel; they make it on the snacks and cigarettes and groceries that people buy while they're paying for the fuel.
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The trick is to understand that you're NOT supposed to be able to see pixels. See pixels in the sky, do you? Computer displays should NEVER have used pixels. It was all an ugly hack because the performance wasn't available to treat everything as vector/3d graphics.
Oh please. Google KDE4 backlash and start reading, if you didn't follow the nightmares that KDE had at the time and the resulting exodus of users.
I don't think it's a tall order, but it's a crazy order. Exchanging messages, encrypted or not, via email generally leaves a pretty serious log of information: how much was sent, from which computer, on which date, which computers it went through (each of which will all have their own logging), which computer it was delivered to, which IP and client downloaded/read it, and when...
Combine a few emails like that with a few known details about a suspect and their activities, and you could quickly find yourself screwed just for asking a terrorist if he'd be willing to interview for a newspaper.
That's because it's composed of politicians who use scandal to get their way quite regularly.
Nope. KDE 4 failed because the core developers saw themselves as smarter than their users. They saw KDE4 as a hobby project that they did for their own personal challenge; because they knew the code, they knew what it needed to become, users' needs (and expressed preferences) be damned.
Are you sure about that?
My impression was that it was intended to be a replacement for email, im, and other realtime communication systems on the net. It wasn't an app to help with projects or conversations; it was a protocol/server platform for messaging, just like the SMTP protocol and mailserver that makes up email, but more flexible. I think the idea was to replace email, IM, web forums, twitter, etc. all with one flexible, scalable platform that could handle new kinds of data, provide gateways to disparate systems (connect your IM to your SMS, or your webcam to your audio-only phone, for instance), and to make it all expandable by bots which could do automated processing of messages.
It actually could have been very cool, but it was too big for the PITIFUL amount of weight google threw behind it. They didn't believe in their product. If they had, they would have built an exchange-killing open source mail/groupware server on top of it, which was fully backwards-compatible with Email, IM (including MSN as part of the exchange-killing thing), etc.
THAT needed to be a radical product launch. None of this beta crap; a SOLID, powerful, game-changing release of free server code for everyone to install and use. Where the gradual change comes in is integrating their translation engine to make global communication possible, integrating google voice, integrating reader, and generally taking the world by storm by combining all their existing products into one great solution that had ZERO competition.
Now that would have been radical. Launching a half-baked idea with a horrible web-ui and some code for a cut-down version that no one cared enough to look at? Not so much.
I was going to say that, to be fair, they've pushed other tech to widespread adoption pretty quickly. Google Earth/Maps, Google Search, ... however, the more I think about it, the less it seems that anything Google have done is really new tech. For examples:
Google Search = Altavista (although definitely bigger+better) ...
Google Maps/Earth = GIS
Gmail = a zillion other webmail apps
Google Reader = just RSS
Chrome = Webkit (= KHTML)
Google Translate = Babelfish (although apparently using a much cooler statistical algorithm?)
Mapreduce = Refresh of techniques that were considered outdated
Google Talk = Jabber
Google Voice = VOIP
That would be true if whether something "caught on" was some unknowable black box. But whether things catch on is usually based on the opinion of people it could catch on with, which is easy to find out and learn from.
Alas, now that the project is cancelled, we'll never really know what it was supposed to be ;)
Exactly this is what I've been waiting been waiting for since I first read about wave. It's obvious. ...but too much hard work for... wait, google?
This is probably more true than you'd think. Linux users were clamouring for Flash for years, as were Linux/PPC and Linux/AMD64 users. Linux and Linux/AMD64 Flash, at least, actually happened. So they probably all contributed to Flash's portability, paving the way for Flash on mobiles etc.
Err... yes, that. :D
I think you meant "shy away". Being an unfaithful dog has nothing to do with it... I mean... so I hear.
Also due to 600 of the participants being straight males, and the other just being there because the modelling agency made her do it.
If I was buying a washed up av company like McAfee, I'd scrape the antivirus, scrap the management, scrap the sales people, but keep the hackers. Then again, I'm on /. :)
No?
I think he's saying that this article does not qualify for reverse-engineering ;)
And if there research gets lost, the credit claimed by someone else coming along later and doing the same thing again, all because they obscured their research behind misleading buzzwords? Tough.
nvidia outsource their boards? Most card companies (creative labs for instance) seem to at least start off buying components and creating boards based off reference board designs for chips. Were (and are) nvidia solely in the chip business?
So if your server is in Nashville, all text should be in a southern accent, rest of the country be damned?
Newsflash: political boundaries are figments of the imagination.
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Yeah, and there's not many of those people either.
Fuck you, pipsqueak? ;)
And then there's the classified information that would probably have soldiers going home and filing breach of contract suits against their government.
No. At least, hopefully not. Most of these things are controlled by raw material prices, production costs, taxes, upstream suppliers who also supply other stores, etc. The prices may seem to be fixed across lots of stores, but really lots of stores just share the same costs, and sell competitively, so prices end up much the same everywhere. For instance, most garages/petrol stations don't make much money on fuel; they make it on the snacks and cigarettes and groceries that people buy while they're paying for the fuel.