We do not need huge carriers that produce individual networks.
Cell towers should run like WiFi access points, and the mobile device should handle the hand off between towers.
Each tower can even be run by an individual entity if desired.
Instead there would be entities that sell data credit.
A mobile device would have an account with a data credit reseller.
The mobile device can scan for access in its area and connect to a tower based on how the user priorities (cost, speed, signal strength...)
The tower would then charge the data credit reseller for the user's usage.
This setup allows for each cell tower to compete for users in an area.
This would allow start-up wireless companies to compete immediately.
Once enough individual towers went up then it would compete with the big carriers and force them to change.
We will always need a device attached to the big screen in the living room.
A PC interface is just not practical, the physical form factor generally not slick enough, and the hardware not subsidized.
Developers love the security of console DRM as well.
The set top box, console, whatever you want to call it will give us video and single-screen multi-player gaming for years to come.
The hope is that we can have the best of both worlds with PC and console gaming.
Console: power on and go, no worries, a monkey can do it.
PC: no generation hardware stagnation, modding, no vendor hardware lock in
Now if we can just be free of the OS, or have an open OS.
That is where Ouya and Android come in to play.
Hardware is getting powerful enough that a Virtual Machine layer with some Just In Time compiling will be delivering sufficient performance on dirt cheap hardware.
Now if we can only sell the developers on the platform and get them away from Sony and Microsoft's closed gardens.
Ouya may not be the final solution, and open or Linux consoles have been threatened before...but I am still hoping!
I will take a dozen if they come with a desktop optimized (mouse and physical keyboard) UI option for Android, an Android desktop section in the app market, and open source drivers.
Maybe this will prompt someone to come up with a better way to collect and distribute the news to people without charge.
It is called Twitter, enjoy...of course it still costs you a device, connectivity charge, and eventually whatever monetizing means Twitter comes up with.
We should not need to pay to find out what is going on in the world around us.
You do not need to pay, go out in the world and get it yourself.
Now if you expect someone to bring it to you on a platter with any level of quality, and reliability, trustworthiness then it will come at a cost.
That cost may be tax dollars in your socialist society that feeds, clothes, bathes, and medicates you, or from advertising views or pay-walls.
Of course I do not know of any news service that provides that caliber of news today for pay or free anyway, so Twitter should be sufficient for you.
Thanks! I figured Slashdot was long over due for this question to come up again.
The first project is a small GSM device. Another project involves FPGA devices for custom encryption algorithms and communication. Of course some quad-coptor and robotics fun after hours.
If I can justify it to my boss then I can get the budget for it, but perhaps not all in one lump sum. Of course justification is hard without specific project examples. The first project is a small GSM device. Another project on the board involves FPGA devices for custom encryption algorithms and communication. Sorry for being vague, I wanted to leave the question a little more open for fun, and for those with a more limited or greater budget. Thanks!
11' by 14' to start, but it can be expanded into the adjacent room of the same size.
2 - what sort of support services are around it (eg, is it a shed at the end of the garden with no power, a basement room with mains power, a barn......) ?
1903 built commercial building, second floor, stained concrete floor, electrical wiring with proper grounds, windows, brick wall, glass wall, and sheet rock wall.
3 - what sort of budget do you have to spend?
If I can justify it to my boss then I can get the budget for it. Of course justification is hard without specific project examples. The first project is a small GSM device for example. Another project involves FPGA devices.
Haha, perhaps I am a poser, I am for sure a sucker for a good troll; but at least I am not an Anonymous Coward today.
In retrospect I certainly could have posed the question better.
First, why do you capitalize "electrical engineer", when it is not a proper noun? I think it is just for show, and to try to sound more impressive.
I typed EE instead of Electrical Engineer, then changed it, that is why they ended up capital.
Second, if you were an electrical engineer, you would know what the hell you need to do your job, and you wouldn't be asking vague bullshit questions on Slashdot.
A valid accusation, I admit I am a bit rusty on hardware, but primarily I was trying to be concise with the question, not vague. I could have dumped my current shopping list of soldering irons to spectrum analyzers in the post but I did not want to scare anyone off with a TLDR question. My primary objective was to get more specific suggestions, models and distributors, but not limit responses to that either. I thought it would be fun to leave things a bit more open.
Third, what is the point of vague details such as "prototype some hardware"?
The company I work for is still fairly young and does contract work, we have a handful of electrical engineers on staff, myself included, who are itching to attract hardware projects and start some of our own. For a specific example, one project we are currently working on involves GSM radios. I do not want to limit the lab equipment to a specific hardware application so I was not more specific.
I am an Electrical Engineer who has been doing software development for a few years. The company I work for is looking to prototype some hardware for a project. I have put together my shopping list, but I am sure I am forgetting or missing something, especially in the furniture area. I have never really had to buy such equipment since it was always in place at school or the labs I worked in.
Interesting point. I did not think people would be interested in my life story so I kept my question as brief and to the point as possible. I am an Electrical Engineer who has been doing software development for a few years. The company I work for is looking to prototype some hardware for a project. I have put together my shopping list, but I am sure I am forgetting or missing something, especially in the furniture area. I have never really had to buy such equipment since it was always in place at school or the labs I worked in. So if I was a surgeon, I did not pay much attention to the brand of the hospital bed my patients were lying on and would be interested in what other surgeons have found they like now that I need to procure my own.
And I may agree with you, *IF* you are talking about the current Apple's status quo.
Yeah I am no Apple fan, but it is hard to argue with their revenue numbers and branding success.
For better or worse the Apple of the past died. Is Jobs culpable for that death? Perhaps.
1) It was the Apple II money that funded all the company in order to lead it where it is today.
Jobs burned that money and had to go to external sources, Ross Perot, to fund NeXT...
Now would NeXT ever had gotten off the ground without Apple funding? Perhaps not...
But what funded the start of Apple? I have no doubt Jobs would have found a way, we can see that in his past.
2) The Jobs that came back to Apple is not the same Jobs that was kicked out from it.
No doubt the Jobs that returned gained from his experience at Apple and from being pushed out of Apple and so forth.
But this in fact support my argument that is what not Woz but Jobs and his growth that created Apple.
The first Jobs' Era at Apple did not ended up very well.
My understanding was that Jobs wanted to go one direction, the direction he took NeXT, and those who were then in control of the company he created wanted to go another.
I would argue that Jobs succeeded in taking NeXT there, although not without causing the same problems he left Apple with before getting it right.
If Apple had not interfered with Jobs then he would have taken Apple exactly where NeXT ended up, and possibly quicker because he would not have been starting over and had more capital and branding.
But no, the present Apple would not existed at all without the money earned with Woz's Apple II. He started the whole thing.
Perhaps not, but I believe Steve would have found the money, he always did. The Apple money was used up before NeXT took off.
Remove Jobs and there is no Apple in the past, Woz stays at HP.
Remove Woz and perhaps there would be no Apple and we would have had Pixar earlier or something else, who knows.
But we would know one Steve no matter what, and that is Jobs.
I simply ask where was Woz when Jobs founded NeXT?
Where was Woz when NeXT technology replaced everything at Apple, when Apple today is essential NeXT, not the original Apple?
I am no Apple fan, I love Woz and his philosophies, but I am under no delusion that and know that Apple 99.9% Jobs.
It was when Jobs left Apple that it crumbled not Woz leaving, it was when Job returned to Apple that it was reborn and became the success it is today with Woz no where in sight.
Apple now is NOT next, but a combination of the old Apple, and NeXT, both are extremely important to what it is today.
What of the original Apple is left and what of NeXT is left? Let us look at what brings in the bacon today:
Mac OS X: NeXTSTEP, the big reason NeXT was acquired. Thank God OS 9 is gone.
iTunes: did not exist until Jobs returned, uses NeXT WebObjects
Mobile hardware (iPod, iPhone, iPad): Newton from Apple perhaps, it was based on RISC tech and had a screen...but it was axed and was any of it resurrected to build the iPod, iPhone, or iPad? iOS and iTunes arguably make these devices.
iOS: based on OS X see above...
PC hardware: x86, not PowerPC
Why did Apple flounder after Jobs left if the foundation was Woz and Jobs together, why did it bounce back with Jobs?
I will tell you why, like or not, Jobs nor Wos were the foundation.
Jobs however was the one that chose the pylons and struts and assembled them to make Apple what it is today.
Woz was a great strut, and it took 100 struts to replace him, but no one could replace the master architect that is Steve Jobs...
Perhaps I am misguided and it is silly to continue, but I am not yet convinced by your argument and entertained by the debate.
As far as I am aware Woz did not come along with Jobs to NeXT, and as far as I am concerned today the company know as Apple is simply NeXT with the Apple brand.
Is there anything in Apple today that is from Woz? His comments seem to suggest it in no way reflects him or his genius at this time and has not for awhile.
Honestly I would prefer Woz's Apple, but the Wheels of Zeuz (WoZ) did not quite make it.
I maintain, for better or for worse, that Steve Jobs was set on his path to creating Apple as it is today no matter who was with him...
Perhaps Jobs could never find someone as good or as patient with him as Woz, but I am still not convinced he needed him to succeed.
As far as I am aware Woz did not come along with Jobs to NeXT, and as far as I am concerned today the company know as Apple is simply NeXT with the Apple brand.
Is there anything in Apple today that is from Woz? His comments seem to suggest it in no way reflects him or his genius at this time and has not for awhile.
Honestly I would prefer Woz's Apple, but the Wheels of Zeuz (WoZ) did not quite make it.
I maintain, for better or for worse, that Steve Jobs was set on his path to creating Apple as it is today no matter who was with him...
Facebook has over 800 million users, and your friends and stalkers would not know who has paid their $10 that day so why would the revenue stream stop unless they had no stalkers?
Why not extract the user data from the hard drive, ideally with a non-Windows PC to avoid infection.
Then reformat the PC? No risk that MyCleanPC might miss something, no extra software like MyCleanPC left on the system.
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We do not need huge carriers that produce individual networks.
Cell towers should run like WiFi access points, and the mobile device should handle the hand off between towers.
Each tower can even be run by an individual entity if desired.
Instead there would be entities that sell data credit.
A mobile device would have an account with a data credit reseller.
The mobile device can scan for access in its area and connect to a tower based on how the user priorities (cost, speed, signal strength...)
The tower would then charge the data credit reseller for the user's usage.
This setup allows for each cell tower to compete for users in an area.
This would allow start-up wireless companies to compete immediately.
Once enough individual towers went up then it would compete with the big carriers and force them to change.
We will always need a device attached to the big screen in the living room.
A PC interface is just not practical, the physical form factor generally not slick enough, and the hardware not subsidized.
Developers love the security of console DRM as well.
The set top box, console, whatever you want to call it will give us video and single-screen multi-player gaming for years to come.
The hope is that we can have the best of both worlds with PC and console gaming.
Console: power on and go, no worries, a monkey can do it.
PC: no generation hardware stagnation, modding, no vendor hardware lock in
Now if we can just be free of the OS, or have an open OS.
That is where Ouya and Android come in to play.
Hardware is getting powerful enough that a Virtual Machine layer with some Just In Time compiling will be delivering sufficient performance on dirt cheap hardware.
Now if we can only sell the developers on the platform and get them away from Sony and Microsoft's closed gardens.
Ouya may not be the final solution, and open or Linux consoles have been threatened before...but I am still hoping!
I will take a dozen if they come with a desktop optimized (mouse and physical keyboard) UI option for Android, an Android desktop section in the app market, and open source drivers.
Maybe this will prompt someone to come up with a better way to collect and distribute the news to people without charge.
It is called Twitter, enjoy...of course it still costs you a device, connectivity charge, and eventually whatever monetizing means Twitter comes up with.
We should not need to pay to find out what is going on in the world around us.
You do not need to pay, go out in the world and get it yourself.
Now if you expect someone to bring it to you on a platter with any level of quality, and reliability, trustworthiness then it will come at a cost.
That cost may be tax dollars in your socialist society that feeds, clothes, bathes, and medicates you, or from advertising views or pay-walls.
Of course I do not know of any news service that provides that caliber of news today for pay or free anyway, so Twitter should be sufficient for you.
I don't want to live in post-nuclear wasteland.
Do not worry, you will die in the first wave.
Thanks! I figured Slashdot was long over due for this question to come up again.
The first project is a small GSM device. Another project involves FPGA devices for custom encryption algorithms and communication. Of course some quad-coptor and robotics fun after hours.
If I can justify it to my boss then I can get the budget for it, but perhaps not all in one lump sum. Of course justification is hard without specific project examples. The first project is a small GSM device. Another project on the board involves FPGA devices for custom encryption algorithms and communication. Sorry for being vague, I wanted to leave the question a little more open for fun, and for those with a more limited or greater budget. Thanks!
That's 10 grand for a start. Now how much have you left for the rest of the lab?
At least another 90K for the first round, what else you got?
1 - what size of space you are thinking of using?
11' by 14' to start, but it can be expanded into the adjacent room of the same size.
2 - what sort of support services are around it (eg, is it a shed at the end of the garden with no power, a basement room with mains power, a barn......) ?
1903 built commercial building, second floor, stained concrete floor, electrical wiring with proper grounds, windows, brick wall, glass wall, and sheet rock wall.
3 - what sort of budget do you have to spend?
If I can justify it to my boss then I can get the budget for it. Of course justification is hard without specific project examples. The first project is a small GSM device for example. Another project involves FPGA devices.
Thanks!
In retrospect I certainly could have posed the question better.
First, why do you capitalize "electrical engineer", when it is not a proper noun? I think it is just for show, and to try to sound more impressive.
I typed EE instead of Electrical Engineer, then changed it, that is why they ended up capital.
Second, if you were an electrical engineer, you would know what the hell you need to do your job, and you wouldn't be asking vague bullshit questions on Slashdot.
A valid accusation, I admit I am a bit rusty on hardware, but primarily I was trying to be concise with the question, not vague. I could have dumped my current shopping list of soldering irons to spectrum analyzers in the post but I did not want to scare anyone off with a TLDR question. My primary objective was to get more specific suggestions, models and distributors, but not limit responses to that either. I thought it would be fun to leave things a bit more open.
Third, what is the point of vague details such as "prototype some hardware"?
The company I work for is still fairly young and does contract work, we have a handful of electrical engineers on staff, myself included, who are itching to attract hardware projects and start some of our own. For a specific example, one project we are currently working on involves GSM radios. I do not want to limit the lab equipment to a specific hardware application so I was not more specific.
Any suggestions on a specific logic analyzer brand or model to use or avoid?
I am an Electrical Engineer who has been doing software development for a few years. The company I work for is looking to prototype some hardware for a project. I have put together my shopping list, but I am sure I am forgetting or missing something, especially in the furniture area. I have never really had to buy such equipment since it was always in place at school or the labs I worked in.
Interesting point. I did not think people would be interested in my life story so I kept my question as brief and to the point as possible. I am an Electrical Engineer who has been doing software development for a few years. The company I work for is looking to prototype some hardware for a project. I have put together my shopping list, but I am sure I am forgetting or missing something, especially in the furniture area. I have never really had to buy such equipment since it was always in place at school or the labs I worked in. So if I was a surgeon, I did not pay much attention to the brand of the hospital bed my patients were lying on and would be interested in what other surgeons have found they like now that I need to procure my own.
I made a rocket ship for the man! ellipse(200, 330, 30, 100); ellipse(185, 370, 30, 30); ellipse(215, 370, 30, 30);
Was the vibrating thing a dildo reference or a smartphone reference?
Or we could just make 5 louder...
And I may agree with you, *IF* you are talking about the current Apple's status quo.
Yeah I am no Apple fan, but it is hard to argue with their revenue numbers and branding success.
For better or worse the Apple of the past died. Is Jobs culpable for that death? Perhaps.
1) It was the Apple II money that funded all the company in order to lead it where it is today.
Jobs burned that money and had to go to external sources, Ross Perot, to fund NeXT...
Now would NeXT ever had gotten off the ground without Apple funding? Perhaps not...
But what funded the start of Apple? I have no doubt Jobs would have found a way, we can see that in his past.
2) The Jobs that came back to Apple is not the same Jobs that was kicked out from it.
No doubt the Jobs that returned gained from his experience at Apple and from being pushed out of Apple and so forth.
But this in fact support my argument that is what not Woz but Jobs and his growth that created Apple.
The first Jobs' Era at Apple did not ended up very well.
My understanding was that Jobs wanted to go one direction, the direction he took NeXT, and those who were then in control of the company he created wanted to go another.
I would argue that Jobs succeeded in taking NeXT there, although not without causing the same problems he left Apple with before getting it right.
If Apple had not interfered with Jobs then he would have taken Apple exactly where NeXT ended up, and possibly quicker because he would not have been starting over and had more capital and branding.
But no, the present Apple would not existed at all without the money earned with Woz's Apple II. He started the whole thing.
Perhaps not, but I believe Steve would have found the money, he always did. The Apple money was used up before NeXT took off.
Remove Jobs and there is no Apple in the past, Woz stays at HP.
Remove Woz and perhaps there would be no Apple and we would have had Pixar earlier or something else, who knows.
But we would know one Steve no matter what, and that is Jobs.
Ross Perot.
Gates is a whole other story.
I simply ask where was Woz when Jobs founded NeXT?
Where was Woz when NeXT technology replaced everything at Apple, when Apple today is essential NeXT, not the original Apple?
I am no Apple fan, I love Woz and his philosophies, but I am under no delusion that and know that Apple 99.9% Jobs.
It was when Jobs left Apple that it crumbled not Woz leaving, it was when Job returned to Apple that it was reborn and became the success it is today with Woz no where in sight.
Apple now is NOT next, but a combination of the old Apple, and NeXT, both are extremely important to what it is today.
What of the original Apple is left and what of NeXT is left? Let us look at what brings in the bacon today:
Mac OS X: NeXTSTEP, the big reason NeXT was acquired. Thank God OS 9 is gone.
iTunes: did not exist until Jobs returned, uses NeXT WebObjects
Mobile hardware (iPod, iPhone, iPad): Newton from Apple perhaps, it was based on RISC tech and had a screen...but it was axed and was any of it resurrected to build the iPod, iPhone, or iPad? iOS and iTunes arguably make these devices.
iOS: based on OS X see above...
PC hardware: x86, not PowerPC
Why did Apple flounder after Jobs left if the foundation was Woz and Jobs together, why did it bounce back with Jobs?
I will tell you why, like or not, Jobs nor Wos were the foundation.
Jobs however was the one that chose the pylons and struts and assembled them to make Apple what it is today.
Woz was a great strut, and it took 100 struts to replace him, but no one could replace the master architect that is Steve Jobs...
Perhaps I am misguided and it is silly to continue, but I am not yet convinced by your argument and entertained by the debate.
As far as I am aware Woz did not come along with Jobs to NeXT, and as far as I am concerned today the company know as Apple is simply NeXT with the Apple brand.
Is there anything in Apple today that is from Woz? His comments seem to suggest it in no way reflects him or his genius at this time and has not for awhile.
Honestly I would prefer Woz's Apple, but the Wheels of Zeuz (WoZ) did not quite make it.
I maintain, for better or for worse, that Steve Jobs was set on his path to creating Apple as it is today no matter who was with him...
Perhaps Jobs could never find someone as good or as patient with him as Woz, but I am still not convinced he needed him to succeed.
As far as I am aware Woz did not come along with Jobs to NeXT, and as far as I am concerned today the company know as Apple is simply NeXT with the Apple brand.
Is there anything in Apple today that is from Woz? His comments seem to suggest it in no way reflects him or his genius at this time and has not for awhile.
Honestly I would prefer Woz's Apple, but the Wheels of Zeuz (WoZ) did not quite make it.
I maintain, for better or for worse, that Steve Jobs was set on his path to creating Apple as it is today no matter who was with him...
Without Woz, Jobs would have been nothing and Apple would have been a failure.
I am no Apple fan, but I do respect Jobs and I am not convinced he ever "needed" Woz.
Woz is great, very smart guy, but without him Jobs simply would have found someone else.
This isn't the case, even Jobs admitted it, he said "It's the talented people at Apple that make the difference" or something like that.
This was Jobs gift, he had an eye for such talent, in Woz and the others he used, I mean hired.
Like it or not the mentality that Jobs had set him up for success.
Facebook has over 800 million users, and your friends and stalkers would not know who has paid their $10 that day so why would the revenue stream stop unless they had no stalkers?
Why not extract the user data from the hard drive, ideally with a non-Windows PC to avoid infection.
Then reformat the PC? No risk that MyCleanPC might miss something, no extra software like MyCleanPC left on the system.