How come I have a 100 meter Bluetooth WAP here on the desk then? You are wrong rzbx, Bluetooth spec allows for 3 cleasses/ranges:
Class 1 : 100 meters Class 2 : 10 meters Class 3 : 2 meters
I've used Bluetooth to get an internet connection with a Bluetooth WAP( using the LAN Profile ), connected to the my local LAN via a Bluetooth connection to my Linux PC( using the Serial Prifile and ppp ), and finally, connected to a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone for internet connectivity( using the DUN Profile ).
People really need to understand that Bluetooth is not for just connecting a headset to a phone 1 meter away.
And I've not even started messing the PAN( Personal Area Network ).
it really doesn't matter who microsoft hires these days anyway. Unless they are being hired for the PR positions. $50 billion buys alot of PHB's attention and buys them into many many 'partnerships'.
BTW, they are still trying to figure out how to move their Mt Fuji( Windows ). GNU/Linux is the newly forming mountain that's getting too much attention these days for them to just sit on their mountain.
The newer Tivo2 and the $100 one-time service upgrade gets you remote MP3 and picture viewing along with PC connectivity across a LAN. Hey, and it's Linux so you can hack and compile your own addons if your into that.
And it's got no keyboard but comes with an Ir remote.
geesh, they shipped the XScale PXA250 with only a 100MHz FSB so it's hardly faster than the existing 206MHz SA1110. But then again, there's not too much competition in the ARM market( go TI!;).
It's good they atleast pulled this CPU back Inside Intel. So THAT'S what "Intel Inside" means.;)
The name might be an indication of who/what company is at the heart of this 'group'. Wasn't it Microsoft who had to have a "Trustworthy Computing Day" to try to show that a Microsoft product COULD be trusted?
IMHO, there is an attempt being made to lock data to applications and those applications will be Microsfot applications. If they aren't to begin with, they will be eventually( as was the case with the browser ).
The EUL in MS XP already allows them to update the OS such that it can disable apps if they see fit. So watch out, this kind of stuff must fail or we'll have to wait til the leaders of MSFT retire or something else happens to them. IMHO.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for protecting ones data and rights/property but putting Microsoft in charge is plain stupid.
Microsoft was allowed in or they would have taken the group to court for stealing their idea( Trustworthy Computing ).;)
The DOJ was a Trustworthy Computing group in that they fought to smash Microsoft but George Dubba's gang disbanded THAT TC group.....
It appears that anything with the term "security", "trust", and "open" in it finds Microsoft cuddling up to it these days. Love their "open" XML in MS Office. NOT.
I guess that means they are hiring lawyers to read the licensing agreements... oh wait, they should be doing that anyways. I wonder how many lawyers will get fired over this 'oversight'.
Then again, Microsoft lawyers are gurus at inserting ambiguity in contracts and then showing that what was "REALLY" ment was Microsoft owns you.
I don't think anybody is getting any smarter with regards to Microsoft( Sendo.. ). Ok, the phone sector is pretty smart and some in hollywood movie studios but there are still really stupid companies out there who think they can actually work with Microsoft and come out ahead. I mean it just stunned me that Sun thought they could get Microsoft to play correctly with Java when history already showed they would not.
Microsoft has given out CD's at 'events' and used the list of attendees( actually, company names ) at trade events to show they are developing for Microsofts products. Even when those companies went just to see what Microsoft was doing and had no intention of developing software on Microsofts platform. Get the book "Startup".....
Microsoft is run by a bunch of crooks and snake-oil salesman. IMHO. They've lied in court and have absolutely no credibility in my book and if you could actually get most of their 'partners' to talk, I'd bet you'd be hard pressed to find two that disagree.
It's not likely that this is trick to prosecute these students but Microsofts past and present dealings easily can lead to this conclusion. EASILY.
the problem here is when a drink is brought to the table and you wanted another brand or not one at all. I was thinking that a button on the table could be used to indicate a refill was needed but you know how many false alarms there would be as people pushed buttons on other tables?
I think it would be far better to have a computerized tap station where you swipe your smartcard or iButton and get your drink and get billed at the same time. The Bartenders Unions might not like that and there's no cute waitress to interact with when your MoeJoe's not working.;)
WiFi in a handheld is dumb. Dumb because it doesn't work but for a very short period.
Go ahead and use WiFi on your handheld at Starbucks before your next meeting. Any more than 30 minutes of use and you had better hope you don't need your handheld for much of the meeting. Or it's a short meeting. I guess you could bring your battery charger with you to the meeting.;/
Makes a good demo but implementation/use is not there.
That's it guys, WiFi isn't going to enable the PDA and handheld. It's too power hungry and please don't try to tell me you can use WiFi on your existing handheld just fine. 1 hour of use and then back to the charger is NOT useful and only allows snake oil salesmen like Bill Gates to do demos. It's not usable in the business market or at home IMHO.
Bluetooth has alot of the answers. It enables PDAs, handhelds, laptops, etc to have internet connectivity on the road via Bluetooth -> mobile phone connections. Using a Bluetooth WAP, you can get the connectivity at the office or home.
In a class 2( 10meter ) configuration, you'll typically get 4x longer runtime than WiFi. Security becomes less of a problem because it's security-by-proximity( you can see who's trying to break in ). Heck, you want a secure meeting with wireless connectivity? Put a Class 3( 1-3meter) WAP in the middle of the meeting table.
IMHO, WiFi should be the secondary wireless system and Bluetooth the primary one.
do a search on Rosen Motors. The built and tested a car which used a compact turbine engine and a flywheel. When Detroit wouldn't buy into it, they closed down everthing but the turbine business. It's now called Capstone Turbines.
Sounds like the same talk they put out about the EVs. What ever came of that? Surely nothing commercially viable. Heck, there were/are people who would buy an EV1 but they won't sell them. Detroit even had the balls to have an "expert" tell CARB that they couldn't GIVE electric vehicles away and that consumers would have to be PAID $17,000 to take an EV.
It's a game people. A game to keep $$$ in the oil industries pockets. The hydrogen poster child is just a delay tactic to keep fuel consumption going. Can you imagine what the oil industry would say if Detroit started selling cars/trucks/SUVs which got just 25% better fuel economy? It's a game....
Is hydrogen going to be the next "Battery Powered" system from Detroit? The US government gave Detroit billions of dollars to come up with EVs and they failed( commercially viable EVs ).
As you said, it's all a plan to NOT do anything now and keep the pockets of oil men full of $$$$$$.
Corel had a good shot at the desktop with Corel Linux and all Corel applications they ported to Linux( via Wine but hey, it worked ).
I'd say Microsoft got alot for it's money. Corel on the other hand wasn't able to do much with the $135 million. I'm sure the agreement was that Corel only could do SO much anyways.
Bingo. Sun is really a hardware company and they need to decide if they can continue to be a hardware company.
They are now sitting on the fence without a direction of which side they are going to move to. And this is why the press release about Solaris being IP protected and the pausing of thier Linux strategies is so interesting.
Atleast Sun is smart enough to not become a DEC. DEC thought it could play with Microsoft and ended up giving up it's existance. Stuff like this SCO, IBM, Sun, etc mixup is only going to hurt the *nix chance of keeping MS Windows at bay. IMO.
OpenOffice was purchased for Solaris so Sun's customers wouldn't have to have a PC AND a Sparc workstation on every desk. IMO. They are trying to figure out if they can put a desktop/client together to help replace Windows/MS Office at some of it's customer sites but they are really afraid of losing Solaris. As far as Gnome goes, again, it's for Solaris and not to help Linux. BTW, when did my comments mention applications? I'm pretty sure it was GNU/Linux that I was talking about.
You're right on with respect to Sun attempting to keep Solaris around and that they don't know what/how to work with Linux.
Sun's statements about "pausing" their Linux strategies and that Solaris is safe from SCO is all about Sun promoting it's proprietary OS and hardware. I'd love to know what goes on inside those top level meeting at Sun on GNU/Linux.....
If Sun really could provide innovative software and hardware, they wouldn't be so afraid of putting their arms around GNU/Linux. IMO.
oh yeah and they are doing a great job at marketing Cobalt systems aren't they? There was alot going on with the Cobalt servers before Sun and after Sun, it's just not "out there" anymore. Microsoft purchased Coopers and Peters. Where are their products? Gone, that's where.
If YOU knew anything about the minicomputer market you would know about Apollo...HP ended up purchasing them BTW. Nuff said.
IMO, Sun was just a better marketing company compared to Apollo. They pulled a Microsoft in the UNIX/Workstation market with a mediocre product compared to the competition. Along comes Linux and Sun is having a hard time marketing it's expensive hardware and software against Linux and so it's using it's marketing team to take any pot-shot at Linux. This is all it is and because Sun can't see that it could leverage Linux against Microsoft then see ya Sun. IMHO
Wow, that's news to me. It seems like Sun is playing with Linux like Microsoft is playing with open standards. It's all lip service IMHO.
This is SCO's last deep breath before the long sleep. Sun and Microsoft will also learn that you must move or get out of the way when a disruptive market mover is coming. IMO.
AT&T has no vision IMO. The purchased the CDMA network I was using and forced me to change phones to a TDMA phone. The coverage was bad and we hated the "new" service. Then they start moving to GSM and we moved off of AT&T.
T-Mobile with T68i at a better rate too. So far so good.
ya just gotta love it. Microsoft comes in and says that it's cheaper to run Windows servers and people buy into it. Then they realize that they can't run much more than one server application per Box and end up with dozens of Boxs...
Now, people think it's "dangerous putting all the eggs"( server application consolidation ) in a single basket. That wasn't a problem on OS/2, UNIX, or Linux but then again, Microsoft sells to the PHB and not the technologist. Know wonder our economy is having trouble these days, to much is wasted on paying Microsoft and not enough on innovation, manufacturing, marketing.
The Connectix and/or VMWare solution to this Microsoft Windows problem is much like how that sector handles virus's. Spending more money on products to fix the OS problems and hope the next OS upgrade doesn't cost too much, break too much, happen too soon.
I almost feel sorry for the people who chose to be Windows admins. Almost...;)
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How come I have a 100 meter Bluetooth WAP here on the desk then? You are wrong rzbx, Bluetooth spec allows for 3 cleasses/ranges:
Class 1 : 100 meters
Class 2 : 10 meters
Class 3 : 2 meters
I've used Bluetooth to get an internet connection with a Bluetooth WAP( using the LAN Profile ), connected to the my local LAN via a Bluetooth connection to my Linux PC( using the Serial Prifile and ppp ), and finally, connected to a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone for internet connectivity( using the DUN Profile ).
People really need to understand that Bluetooth is not for just connecting a headset to a phone 1 meter away.
And I've not even started messing the PAN( Personal Area Network ).
LoB
it really doesn't matter who microsoft hires these days anyway. Unless they are being hired for the PR positions. $50 billion buys alot of PHB's attention and buys them into many many 'partnerships'.
BTW, they are still trying to figure out how to move their Mt Fuji( Windows ). GNU/Linux is the newly forming mountain that's getting too much attention these days for them to just sit on their mountain.
IMHO.
LoB
bummer. never mind. :/
LoB
The newer Tivo2 and the $100 one-time service upgrade gets you remote MP3 and picture viewing along with PC connectivity across a LAN. Hey, and it's Linux so you can hack and compile your own addons if your into that.
And it's got no keyboard but comes with an Ir remote.
Cool project though.
LoB
maybe hire the NetHere people to install a wireless LAN. NetHere re-launched Ricochet and it's gotta be cheaper than running fiber to every home.
Sounds like a win-win situation. NetHere gets a customer serious about networking and the town gets a less expensive installation.
LoB
geesh, they shipped the XScale PXA250 with only a 100MHz FSB so it's hardly faster than the existing 206MHz SA1110. But then again, there's not too much competition in the ARM market( go TI! ;).
;)
It's good they atleast pulled this CPU back Inside Intel. So THAT'S what "Intel Inside" means.
LoB
The name might be an indication of who/what company is at the heart of this 'group'. Wasn't it Microsoft who had to have a "Trustworthy Computing Day" to try to show that a Microsoft product COULD be trusted?
IMHO, there is an attempt being made to lock data to applications and those applications will be Microsfot applications. If they aren't to begin with, they will be eventually( as was the case with the browser ).
The EUL in MS XP already allows them to update the OS such that it can disable apps if they see fit. So watch out, this kind of stuff must fail or we'll have to wait til the leaders of MSFT retire or something else happens to them. IMHO.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for protecting ones data and rights/property but putting Microsoft in charge is plain stupid.
LoB
Microsoft was allowed in or they would have taken the group to court for stealing their idea( Trustworthy Computing ). ;)
The DOJ was a Trustworthy Computing group in that they fought to smash Microsoft but George Dubba's gang disbanded THAT TC group.....
It appears that anything with the term "security", "trust", and "open" in it finds Microsoft cuddling up to it these days. Love their "open" XML in MS Office. NOT.
LoB
I guess that means they are hiring lawyers to read the licensing agreements... oh wait, they should be doing that anyways. I wonder how many lawyers will get fired over this 'oversight'.
Then again, Microsoft lawyers are gurus at inserting ambiguity in contracts and then showing that what was "REALLY" ment was Microsoft owns you.
I don't think anybody is getting any smarter with regards to Microsoft( Sendo.. ). Ok, the phone sector is pretty smart and some in hollywood movie studios but there are still really stupid companies out there who think they can actually work with Microsoft and come out ahead. I mean it just stunned me that Sun thought they could get Microsoft to play correctly with Java when history already showed they would not.
LoB
Microsoft has given out CD's at 'events' and used the list of attendees( actually, company names ) at trade events to show they are developing for Microsofts products. Even when those companies went just to see what Microsoft was doing and had no intention of developing software on Microsofts platform. Get the book "Startup".....
Microsoft is run by a bunch of crooks and snake-oil salesman. IMHO. They've lied in court and have absolutely no credibility in my book and if you could actually get most of their 'partners' to talk, I'd bet you'd be hard pressed to find two that disagree.
It's not likely that this is trick to prosecute these students but Microsofts past and present dealings easily can lead to this conclusion. EASILY.
LoB
the problem here is when a drink is brought to the table and you wanted another brand or not one at all. I was thinking that a button on the table could be used to indicate a refill was needed but you know how many false alarms there would be as people pushed buttons on other tables?
;)
:)
I think it would be far better to have a computerized tap station where you swipe your smartcard or iButton and get your drink and get billed at the same time. The Bartenders Unions might not like that and there's no cute waitress to interact with when your MoeJoe's not working.
Somethings just shouldn't change.
LoB
what next? Shoe CAM's?
LoB
WiFi in a handheld is dumb. Dumb because it doesn't work but for a very short period.
;/
Go ahead and use WiFi on your handheld at Starbucks before your next meeting. Any more than 30 minutes of use and you had better hope you don't need your handheld for much of the meeting. Or it's a short meeting. I guess you could bring your battery charger with you to the meeting.
Makes a good demo but implementation/use is not there.
LoB
That's it guys, WiFi isn't going to enable the PDA and handheld. It's too power hungry and please don't try to tell me you can use WiFi on your existing handheld just fine. 1 hour of use and then back to the charger is NOT useful and only allows snake oil salesmen like Bill Gates to do demos. It's not usable in the business market or at home IMHO.
Bluetooth has alot of the answers. It enables PDAs, handhelds, laptops, etc to have internet connectivity on the road via Bluetooth -> mobile phone connections. Using a Bluetooth WAP, you can get the connectivity at the office or home.
In a class 2( 10meter ) configuration, you'll typically get 4x longer runtime than WiFi. Security becomes less of a problem because it's security-by-proximity( you can see who's trying to break in ). Heck, you want a secure meeting with wireless connectivity? Put a Class 3( 1-3meter) WAP in the middle of the meeting table.
IMHO, WiFi should be the secondary wireless system and Bluetooth the primary one.
LoB
do a search on Rosen Motors. The built and tested a car which used a compact turbine engine and a flywheel. When Detroit wouldn't buy into it, they closed down everthing but the turbine business. It's now called Capstone Turbines.
LoB
Sounds like the same talk they put out about the EVs. What ever came of that? Surely nothing commercially viable. Heck, there were/are people who would buy an EV1 but they won't sell them. Detroit even had the balls to have an "expert" tell CARB that they couldn't GIVE electric vehicles away and that consumers would have to be PAID $17,000 to take an EV.
It's a game people. A game to keep $$$ in the oil industries pockets. The hydrogen poster child is just a delay tactic to keep fuel consumption going. Can you imagine what the oil industry would say if Detroit started selling cars/trucks/SUVs which got just 25% better fuel economy? It's a game....
LoB
Is hydrogen going to be the next "Battery Powered" system from Detroit? The US government gave Detroit billions of dollars to come up with EVs and they failed( commercially viable EVs ).
As you said, it's all a plan to NOT do anything now and keep the pockets of oil men full of $$$$$$.
IMHO.
LoB
...wanted. IMHO.
Corel had a good shot at the desktop with Corel Linux and all Corel applications they ported to Linux( via Wine but hey, it worked ).
I'd say Microsoft got alot for it's money. Corel on the other hand wasn't able to do much with the $135 million. I'm sure the agreement was that Corel only could do SO much anyways.
LoB
Bingo. Sun is really a hardware company and they need to decide if they can continue to be a hardware company.
They are now sitting on the fence without a direction of which side they are going to move to. And this is why the press release about Solaris being IP protected and the pausing of thier Linux strategies is so interesting.
Atleast Sun is smart enough to not become a DEC. DEC thought it could play with Microsoft and ended up giving up it's existance. Stuff like this SCO, IBM, Sun, etc mixup is only going to hurt the *nix chance of keeping MS Windows at bay. IMO.
LoB
OpenOffice was purchased for Solaris so Sun's customers wouldn't have to have a PC AND a Sparc workstation on every desk. IMO. They are trying to figure out if they can put a desktop/client together to help replace Windows/MS Office at some of it's customer sites but they are really afraid of losing Solaris. As far as Gnome goes, again, it's for Solaris and not to help Linux. BTW, when did my comments mention applications? I'm pretty sure it was GNU/Linux that I was talking about.
You're right on with respect to Sun attempting to keep Solaris around and that they don't know what/how to work with Linux.
Sun's statements about "pausing" their Linux strategies and that Solaris is safe from SCO is all about Sun promoting it's proprietary OS and hardware. I'd love to know what goes on inside those top level meeting at Sun on GNU/Linux.....
If Sun really could provide innovative software and hardware, they wouldn't be so afraid of putting their arms around GNU/Linux. IMO.
LoB
oh yeah and they are doing a great job at marketing Cobalt systems aren't they? There was alot going on with the Cobalt servers before Sun and after Sun, it's just not "out there" anymore. Microsoft purchased Coopers and Peters. Where are their products? Gone, that's where.
If YOU knew anything about the minicomputer market you would know about Apollo...HP ended up purchasing them BTW. Nuff said.
LoB
IMO, Sun was just a better marketing company compared to Apollo. They pulled a Microsoft in the UNIX/Workstation market with a mediocre product compared to the competition. Along comes Linux and Sun is having a hard time marketing it's expensive hardware and software against Linux and so it's using it's marketing team to take any pot-shot at Linux. This is all it is and because Sun can't see that it could leverage Linux against Microsoft then see ya Sun. IMHO
LoB
Wow, that's news to me. It seems like Sun is playing with Linux like Microsoft is playing with open standards. It's all lip service IMHO.
This is SCO's last deep breath before the long sleep. Sun and Microsoft will also learn that you must move or get out of the way when a disruptive market mover is coming. IMO.
LoB
AT&T has no vision IMO. The purchased the CDMA network I was using and forced me to change phones to a TDMA phone. The coverage was bad and we hated the "new" service. Then they start moving to GSM and we moved off of AT&T.
T-Mobile with T68i at a better rate too. So far so good.
LoB
ya just gotta love it. Microsoft comes in and says that it's cheaper to run Windows servers and people buy into it. Then they realize that they can't run much more than one server application per Box and end up with dozens of Boxs...
;)
Now, people think it's "dangerous putting all the eggs"( server application consolidation ) in a single basket. That wasn't a problem on OS/2, UNIX, or Linux but then again, Microsoft sells to the PHB and not the technologist. Know wonder our economy is having trouble these days, to much is wasted on paying Microsoft and not enough on innovation, manufacturing, marketing.
The Connectix and/or VMWare solution to this Microsoft Windows problem is much like how that sector handles virus's. Spending more money on products to fix the OS problems and hope the next OS upgrade doesn't cost too much, break too much, happen too soon.
I almost feel sorry for the people who chose to be Windows admins. Almost...
LoB