All of the uses you list are possible with convential non-webserver-running phones....
Free/busy schedule -- let it run on an external server (perhaps even to show which members in a company group/team are away/busy at once).
business card --? Its called a website, no phone required.
Location information? Again, this is easily handled by an external webserver. The phone only needs to transmit its location, not a graphical JPG image of a map showing where it is. (Ham Radio operators have been doing this kind of tracking for a very long time -- APRS).
General Description about self --- again, its called a WEBSITE.
Form so people can send text messages to you directly? ALREADY HAPPENING -- have you looked at any cell provider's website lately? This is already there.
Instant messaging -- ALREADY there.. Centralized webserver keeps track of who is online, who isn't.
And for your "imagine this" scenario? running the webserver on the phone provides no advantage. (The phone's contact list *could* (and easily should) be integrated with an external server.... There are standardized extensions in Java for cell phone Java apps to access the phone's list of names/numbers (and other extensions for making wireless internet connections). So basically, your scenario is already possible with current technology (w/o breaking the TOS).
Also the webserver wouldn't get too much hits, since only people who know you will be downloading this information Ah, you've obviously never looked at logs on a webserver or heard of search engines... As for my own personal website (that I do host/run myself), it is highly rare for someone I do know to visit the page... Most visitors are not human.
If all cellphones at an internet IP address and a webserver hosting one's personal contact info, you would have to take out a 2nd mortage on your home just to pay the next phone bill (bots, spamers, etc).
Running a webserver on a phone just makes no sense, unless you want to make it something like a "USB stick with wireless web server". But the vast majority has no use for such things and the minority would actually rarely use it (despite much salivating to the contrary).
Why do i run my own webserver? Simple, I don't want the advertisments that free websites usually have. I will never run a webserver on my phone.
So Mr. LinuxDon, I hope you are full, because I just fed a Troll.
When I heard about a "techie fight club" that involved pummeling, I just assumed that it was two nerds sitting in front of their computers, running Quake3, and having their characters stand still and pummel each other to see who wins....
The chicks are geeks. Some of them are probably reading this now, and hoping to have a chance to check it out..... Like most geeks the chicks at MIT will want to see upgrades, new versions and bugfixes.
y your reasoning, it is inevitable that bridges have design defects in them, and that at some point (in their usable specified lifetime), will collapse.
well, I am not a Civil Engineer. But I would venture to say that it is the job of a Marketing Engineer (I use the term Engineer loosely) to specify the lifetime of the aformentioned bridge to be limited to a timeframe that elapses before the bridge would collapse.
Thus, no bridge collapses during its specified lifetime.
Sorry, the FFT of a time-domain signal does **NOT** indicate how the power (or energy) of the signal is distributed.
For the latter, you need a PSD (power spectral density) plot, which is obtained by finding the square of the magnitude of the freq-domain FFT (complex) outputs.
And the term "FFT" usually describes a specific class of algorithms that finds a Discrete Fourier Transform of a signal in much less than O(N^2) time, where N is the number of elements/samples considered.
However, the FFT is also useful to perform fast polynomial multiplication (and even fast multiplication of very very very long numbers). This application has nothing to do with power or frequencies in a signal.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's even more complex then any one person can concieve.
(for the non-creationists), this code is probably no so much as complex as just dis-organized....
I mean, we have code for parts that are no longer needed (appendix?). All sorts of codes for reflexes, etc that we no longer need. And even worse, there probably aren't any comments!!!
If we could read DNA like a program (e.g. truly understand it), we probably would find that it was worse than the equivalent of 100 drunk undergrads writing an operating system in perl... Amazingly it works, but it ain't pretty and would never pass a code review...
God might have been a civil engineer (recreation area and sewer area co-located), but he certainly is not a programmer.
C'mon cut it out will ya, soon they will brand humans multiplying without limits sucking up resources and scaring other animals away and out of existence : Biosphere terrorists?
No! Sending non-broadcast packets on an IP network is not Distribution.
That's like saying that mailing an envelope via postal mail is distribution!!
IP packets clearly specify the source and destination address. (i.e. their payload is to only be received by the specified recipent).
The only difference is that we do not have federal laws that make "opening the contents" of an IP packet to be illegal. Otherwise it is no different than the postal mail system.
Was the article getting those numbers from Time's own poll, or the recently released telephone poll of 502 (IIRC) Americans which there are plenty of problems with? This is exactly why the saying "there are lies, damn lies, and statistics" is applicable.
Is doesn't matter if the polls are inaccurate.... What is the majority of the masses *believe* the poll? They will change their opinions if they think that idea "X" is generally supported. Remember, most of the registered voters didn't even vote!
This is just an old marketing trick... Present the *image* that something is popular and that's what it will become (bandwagon advertising).
So the numbers that 60% of Americans would give up every constitutional right for the war on terrorism doesn't even matter.... What really matters is that 75% of Americans, upon hearing the 60% number, **WILL** give up their rights.
Actually, I don't think the shielding in the microwave is tuned to any particular frequency. Putting a phone in a grounded metal box should pretty effectively stop the signal regardless of the aperture size on a single screened face. But, it will probably work in some cases and not in others, just due to location of tower and such.
Well, I hope you're wrong.... I for one, would prefer to own a microwave whose shielding was designed for maximum attenuation at the frequency used by the microwave (somwhere in ~2-2.4ghz).
Otherwise, it means I'm getting cooked along with the food.
Yes, the metal walls on 5 sides probably attenuate most RF. But its the glass window in the front whose shielding concerns me most....
Avarice isn't too bad a theory, but I have trouble believing that the RIAA/MPAA could be so dumb. Sony is still in hot water over a badly designed piece of supposedly legitimate software. This is the kind of thing that could land people in JAIL. Suppose the virus gets onto a government computer and erases some legitimate files? What about a military computer? The US military has demonstratibly poor computer security. This could cause them huge problems if it got loose.
Are you forgetting we had a US President that was basically convicted of breaking and entering / burglary just so we could get a little bit ahead on the next election? (And he was going to win anyway).
Yes, I believe the RIAA is that stupid. They have already shown us their collective stupidity multiple times.
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Spending money on a good lawyer should not be a prequisite of being innocent.
I don't see many lawyers complaining about this.
All of the uses you list are possible with convential non-webserver-running phones....
Free/busy schedule -- let it run on an external server (perhaps even to show which members in a company group/team are away/busy at once).
business card --? Its called a website, no phone required.
Location information? Again, this is easily handled by an external webserver. The phone only needs to transmit its location, not a graphical JPG image of a map showing where it is. (Ham Radio operators have been doing this kind of tracking for a very long time -- APRS).
General Description about self --- again, its called a WEBSITE.
Form so people can send text messages to you directly? ALREADY HAPPENING -- have you looked at any cell provider's website lately? This is already there.
Instant messaging -- ALREADY there.. Centralized webserver keeps track of who is online, who isn't.
And for your "imagine this" scenario? running the webserver on the phone provides no advantage. (The phone's contact list *could* (and easily should) be integrated with an external server.... There are standardized extensions in Java for cell phone Java apps to access the phone's list of names/numbers (and other extensions for making wireless internet connections). So basically, your scenario is already possible with current technology (w/o breaking the TOS).
Also the webserver wouldn't get too much hits, since only people who know you will be downloading this information
Ah, you've obviously never looked at logs on a webserver or heard of search engines... As for my own personal website (that I do host/run myself), it is highly rare for someone I do know to visit the page... Most visitors are not human.
If all cellphones at an internet IP address and a webserver hosting one's personal contact info, you would have to take out a 2nd mortage on your home just to pay the next phone bill (bots, spamers, etc).
Running a webserver on a phone just makes no sense, unless you want to make it something like a "USB stick with wireless web server". But the vast majority has no use for such things and the minority would actually rarely use it (despite much salivating to the contrary).
Why do i run my own webserver? Simple, I don't want the advertisments that free websites usually have. I will never run a webserver on my phone.
So Mr. LinuxDon, I hope you are full, because I just fed a Troll.
I'm not surprised the Computer Society is publishing articles on how to debug a spreadsheet.
Their "Computer" magazine tends stay away from actual programming techniques and sadly focuses only on (human) management. It's crap.
Of course not....
Voyager I popped a hole in the bubble.
Voyager II noticed that it shrank as it was deflating.
When I heard about a "techie fight club" that involved pummeling, I just assumed that it was two nerds sitting in front of their computers, running Quake3, and having their characters stand still and pummel each other to see who wins....
Hey Doofus,
That's not a solid-state harddisk....
If a 32GB flash disk exists, it will probably cost more like $1600 than $160.
Every companies IT department would be buying only solid-state laptops if the cost of the solid-state disk was trivial.
Great....
Now instead of heart attacks from clogged arteries, people can get heart attacks from a kidney forming inside of their heart!
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The chicks are geeks. Some of them are probably reading this now, and hoping to have a chance to check it out. .... Like most geeks the chicks at MIT will want to see upgrades, new versions and bugfixes.
Have you really seen this???
Sounds too good to be true.
y your reasoning, it is inevitable that bridges have design defects in them, and that at some point (in their usable specified lifetime), will collapse.
well, I am not a Civil Engineer. But I would venture to say that it is the job of a Marketing Engineer (I use the term Engineer loosely) to specify the lifetime of the aformentioned bridge to be limited to a timeframe that elapses before the bridge would collapse.
Thus, no bridge collapses during its specified lifetime.
Yes, but the conditions on the moon aren't exactly STP, right?
Sorry, the FFT of a time-domain signal does **NOT** indicate how the power (or energy) of the signal is distributed.
For the latter, you need a PSD (power spectral density) plot, which is obtained by finding the square of the magnitude of the freq-domain FFT (complex) outputs.
And the term "FFT" usually describes a specific class of algorithms that finds a Discrete Fourier Transform of a signal in much less than O(N^2) time, where N is the number of elements/samples considered.
However, the FFT is also useful to perform fast polynomial multiplication (and even fast multiplication of very very very long numbers). This application has nothing to do with power or frequencies in a signal.
And where in hell do you get this?
I've driven to BOTH of those locations.
Cheyenne Mountain has a parking lot and the metropolis of Roswell is small enough to walk across.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's even more complex then any one person can concieve.
(for the non-creationists), this code is probably no so much as complex as just dis-organized....
I mean, we have code for parts that are no longer needed (appendix?). All sorts of codes for reflexes, etc that we no longer need. And even worse, there probably aren't any comments!!!
If we could read DNA like a program (e.g. truly understand it), we probably would find that it was worse than the equivalent of 100 drunk undergrads writing an operating system in perl... Amazingly it works, but it ain't pretty and would never pass a code review...
God might have been a civil engineer (recreation area and sewer area co-located), but he certainly is not a programmer.
Remember, PC = x86 compatible
PC = "Personal Computer".
These happened to exist long before the x86 series of processors and it PCs will continue to exist long afterward.
Its just a sad coincidence that most PCs lately are using x86 processors....
C'mon cut it out will ya, soon they will brand humans multiplying without limits sucking up resources and scaring other animals away and out of existence : Biosphere terrorists?
Nope. They're called Americans
(Yes, I'm from the US).
No! Sending non-broadcast packets on an IP network is not Distribution.
That's like saying that mailing an envelope via postal mail is distribution!!
IP packets clearly specify the source and destination address. (i.e. their payload is to only be received by the specified recipent).
The only difference is that we do not have federal laws that make "opening the contents" of an IP packet to be illegal. Otherwise it is no different than the postal mail system.
Was the article getting those numbers from Time's own poll, or the recently released telephone poll of 502 (IIRC) Americans which there are plenty of problems with? This is exactly why the saying "there are lies, damn lies, and statistics" is applicable.
Is doesn't matter if the polls are inaccurate.... What is the majority of the masses *believe* the poll? They will change their opinions if they think that idea "X" is generally supported. Remember, most of the registered voters didn't even vote!
This is just an old marketing trick... Present the *image* that something is popular and that's what it will become (bandwagon advertising).
So the numbers that 60% of Americans would give up every constitutional right for the war on terrorism doesn't even matter.... What really matters is that 75% of Americans, upon hearing the 60% number, **WILL** give up their rights.
THAT's the real problem.
Okay we're taking over your life, here is your itinerary for the day, don't alter this schedule. You have a bowel movement scheduled in 15 minutes
Oh my boss would love that. Imagine the increased productivity that would result!
Well, if they used LI-ION batteries in those ipods, then that would be quite a spectacle!
(lithium and water aren't exactly friends)
Here's hoping Google adds support for this sort of thing to Gmail.
Ah NO. The point of using GPG for encryption is that the data is encrypted **BEFORE** it leaves your computer.
Do we really want Google's servers performing encryption/decryption on our email?
I think not.
Actually, I don't think the shielding in the microwave is tuned to any particular frequency. Putting a phone in a grounded metal box should pretty effectively stop the signal regardless of the aperture size on a single screened face. But, it will probably work in some cases and not in others, just due to location of tower and such.
Well, I hope you're wrong.... I for one, would prefer to own a microwave whose shielding was designed for maximum attenuation at the frequency used by the microwave (somwhere in ~2-2.4ghz).
Otherwise, it means I'm getting cooked along with the food.
Yes, the metal walls on 5 sides probably attenuate most RF. But its the glass window in the front whose shielding concerns me most....
google doesn't need to validate... I'm sure they know how better index their own content for their own search engine.
8. DRM is declared illegal, DMCA revoked, and the RIAA dissolved.
Ha. Ha... That's a good one... I think it would take something on the scale of the Revolutionary War to accomplish that one.
Avarice isn't too bad a theory, but I have trouble believing that the RIAA/MPAA could be so dumb. Sony is still in hot water over a badly designed piece of supposedly legitimate software. This is the kind of thing that could land people in JAIL. Suppose the virus gets onto a government computer and erases some legitimate files? What about a military computer? The US military has demonstratibly poor computer security. This could cause them huge problems if it got loose.
Are you forgetting we had a US President that was basically convicted of breaking and entering / burglary just so we could get a little bit ahead on the next election? (And he was going to win anyway).
Yes, I believe the RIAA is that stupid. They have already shown us their collective stupidity multiple times.
Replace "Communist China" with "The United States" and it will be accurate...