Most of what is in the article has been invented without factual basis. There is a huge politic crisis in this (irrelevant) and weird country sitting in one of the most corrupt regions in this world, South America. Government is going down. Former corrupt president "Lula" and his congregates are going down. They are going to jail. Brazil suffered an incommensurable heist supported by local ignorant people. Now the country is moving toward a violent crash http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21684779-disaster-looms-latin-americas-biggest-economy-brazils-fall
So the source is nothing more than a corrupt gang going down screaming... At least this damned country is doing something.
Anyone can change to another operator. This is competition and open market. The problem is that there are only a few with the power to change something, and they are working in a cartelized way... as it happens these days. Operators get the information to work in a cartel way from market researches. They get all they need to operate fixing prices and offer, and protect themselves. The margins are absurd and operators are making a lot of money.
Unfortunately, dumb consumers who got satisfied with the miracle of telecom, don't understand and don't have enough power to fight. Thing about it: There is no free phone. This is a cartel like way to deceive it's customers, like many other things. I hope other technologies like White Space "Super WIFI" can give the consumers some power to battle. Also, there should be organizations working as Internet providers, idenpendently.
Think about it: Services operators, of all kinds, got the advantages of disruptive technology evolution without giving consumers. The regulated market (licensed frequencies) slows competition and we are more and more on their hands.
Why not non profits for Internet, etc? Why not cooperative Internet? Hmm.... with IPv6 and users talking with each other directly, without the need for a service like Skype? Many things should be re-thought. A few people can understand how things works. Well... would like to discuss this with people aware of this situation.
I mentioned in another comment: Nokia Communicator had it, I guess in 1999... first Nokia with Symbian. And Nokia 7650 had it too, in 2002 (I got an early prototype in my hands in 2001). All these UI components, including sliding components, were in an early Nokia tablet... don't remember the name.
Nokia 7650 with Symbian 6.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7650) in 2002 had it... I remember it was one the first things I tried. It was amazing... But the Nokia Communicator had it even before.
Hi. Based on a friend's investigation, Ruckus Wireless has a very compelling solution for distributed, planned wireless. I agree with some comments that nowadays, the only hotspots I get good connections are the very well planned ones. Places where a WIFI hotspot has been installed usually gets overloaded and doesn't work well.
No.... plain GPS receivers doesn't work in buildings, in the woods. But if there is data network, then things change. The new wave in LBS is merging A-GPS with social location information and other data. Mobile phones have A-GPS (Assisted GPS) and other technologies, like Cell ID based locations and WIFI Hotspots information. By merging all this information, "positioning systems" that are not simply GPS anymore are getting much better. A-GPS gathers Almanaque and Ephemeris data from the network, "making a weak signal stronger". Cell ID (from the operators' cell phone antennas, BTSs) and WIFI help in between buildings, inside places by applying algorithms using simple techniques. By gathering this information and crossing it, right now there can be pretty good results. I'm using a Nokia E63 WITHOUT a GPS receiver. With the help from Nokia location based servers (supl.nokia.com) , I get pretty accurate location information without a GPS.
Yes, you're both correct. Humans suck in almost everything. When they go right, humans are good creating meta-whatever, but never good in being precise. This is stupid public workers (or hired to stupid people) boring work, and would end up wrong.
Anyway, it's a FULL GPS. The A-GPS, A standing for assisted, would just make it much faster to get the first fix - first GPS position, like having the first fix in less than 10 seconds (it could be 1 sec in a really good network/info environment).
This phone is really good. It kicks ass... I went out to jogg using Nokia Sportstracker to log the exercise, listening to high quality MP3 via Bluetooth A2DP wireless headset, with my email/PIM in sync and with my phone. All included. Worked great. Really thing phone. Way better than the Nokia E61i.
As I've written before, the Open Source Movement is good for those who use software. Remember: Merchants, dealers, stores, factories, hospitals, lawyers: They can and will, more and more, use free software.
Now: Where from we'll make our money? We work for them for free. They get all the software benefits, for free. But for us, in the need of a product or service: Where the hell we get this for free? Will have to pay for it!
OSS looks like the dream of socialism/comunism in the 60s: it looks for just one side of the coin and is blind for the other...
THIS IS THE MOST NAIVE thinking I've ever seen. I prefer to see brazilians putting money on software than saving on it and wasting with construction, for instance.
The OSS will kill our job. At least, part of it.
I'M TRYING TO DEFEND THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS SIDE. LET THE USERS DEFEND THEIRS!
If you can think: Open Source is really bad for the software industry. First of all: Do you get goods in the supermarket for free? Is your medicine free? A lawyer? A doctor free? NO! But they are benefitted by the Open Source industry, How many software companies were seriously affected by this movement? I was explaining this do a doctor once, and he laughted.... If we want to revolute, let's do it for the world, not only for us. This hurts our industry, taking money from it (people don't buy) and send the money to other industries (people use the money to buy a best car).
Do you still think it's better to have software for free? EXPENSIVE SOFTWARE can employ lots of developers. Can generate good salaries!
Software developers, engineers and students: WAKE UP! THIS IS THE WORLD, NOT THE FUCKING INTERNET BUBBLE!
Let make software more slow, better tought, with more people and buying more technology! Why use PHP or Pearl if we can use paid software like Websphere? This generated JOBS for Websphere developers, for consultants, for everyone.
If you have further questions about "The Real Software Thing", tell me.
Where the hell you think our job comes from? Governments are good customers. They do Microsoft rich, but also do computer professionals make money. With open source, the money invested in our industry (software, for instance) will move towards other industries. Food, health, who knows? Isn't better keep it with us?
LET'S MAKE THE MONEY STAY IN OUR INDUSTRY! LET'S VALUE OUR MARKET!
Brazil has successfully implemented an eVoting system for at least 6 years.
Just like the electronic income tax system, this system reduced fraud rates. It has also increased voting and counting speed. It helps most of people's voting, using only number data-entry and photos for confirmation, with a simple interface. It's good for Brazilian unlettered people.
The project is a success, merging industry and government into a really secure voting system - from electronic ballot box to transport and automated counting.
Why not create a new, better protocol for file sharing from the scratch?
I'm not a Samba developer (!), but I think that if people had written Windows driver/Extensions for Explorer or whatever to access a new Samba protocol would have been easier and take less time than reverse engineering CIFS (and it's troubles)... that's probably boring...
It's been good using Linux and other REALLY INCREDIBLE software for free, for me and most of you. From this point of view, been able to use good quality stuff seems better then anything. I really see a lot of good things happening in the software industry, thanks to OSS.
But what about many other things, like medical assistence, medicine, lawyers, food, hardware and etc - Do you thing that any other industry will, someday, give things for you? For free?
The benefits of digital media are immeasurable. But what about intellectual rights? I've seen people stop buying CDs with this Napster stuff.
Where do you think musicians will take their money?
And what about people who work and study hard for creating good and intelligent software? How they'll be able to pay for those itens that are not free? It's hard to imagine...
Look - accelerating the world has advantages, but soon You'll see the counterparts. Have you seen those labor cuts in many companies. Maybe your job is the next...
Don't be such a stone-blind. If some company (like MS) is not been fair, do you think that many others in the OSS market are playing fair?
There are people benefiting more than you think on OSS, and they're not Linux or Cox.
Sorry, it's not well written - the important is the point.
Cmon guys, any Wap browser - ie, cell phones - have some sort of XML parser inside. It can be wmlc (Compiled (compressed) WML), text WML, gateway-converted WML, etc.
Hey, I saw the 3D on Comdex 2 days ago. It's really amazing. And look, it's not a computer effect - it's lens. They put a cilinder with lens around the monitor, and by 3 to 6 feet it looks like Obi Wan Kenoby (sic...).
The guy in the booth showed me a real, solid state ball (a real object) showed as a hologram. Then, he put a business card over the ball and both became a hologram.
Dear dotters,
I've been working with large site for a couple of time as systems engineer. I already used BroadVision 1to1 with SSJavaScripting and Corba, ASP with relational databases and MTS among others. All I know is that PHP is much better. It has a number of good libraries, support for a level of objects, and is extremely FAST and STABLE.
Now, it's my preferred platform. I don't want to use that snowball n-tier technologies anymore. It's sure a problem in the future.
HTML is only a Hiper textual markup language - you don't do logic operations with it (til now) - it's not a PROGRAMMING language. Just text formatting language!
Pilots are running "the same OS" since the beginning and is slow, poor in memory and is very pricey, but do the basics very well and has lots of apps. Depends on what you want. The best cost/capacity point to the CEs machines. Everex really has good ones. If you want it for hacking, you can check the LinuxCE.org project.
I can't understand Compadigital... Pilot begun with geeks buying lots and lots - Now everyone want's an Itsy running Linux with tilt sensors and etc - the apps will appear smoking. Why they don't sell it?
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Most of what is in the article has been invented without factual basis.
There is a huge politic crisis in this (irrelevant) and weird country sitting in one of the most corrupt regions in this world, South America.
Government is going down. Former corrupt president "Lula" and his congregates are going down. They are going to jail.
Brazil suffered an incommensurable heist supported by local ignorant people. Now the country is moving toward a violent crash
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21684779-disaster-looms-latin-americas-biggest-economy-brazils-fall
So the source is nothing more than a corrupt gang going down screaming... At least this damned country is doing something.
Anyone can change to another operator. This is competition and open market.
The problem is that there are only a few with the power to change something, and they are working in a cartelized way... as it happens these days. Operators get the information to work in a cartel way from market researches. They get all they need to operate fixing prices and offer, and protect themselves. The margins are absurd and operators are making a lot of money.
Unfortunately, dumb consumers who got satisfied with the miracle of telecom, don't understand and don't have enough power to fight. Thing about it: There is no free phone. This is a cartel like way to deceive it's customers, like many other things. I hope other technologies like White Space "Super WIFI" can give the consumers some power to battle. Also, there should be organizations working as Internet providers, idenpendently.
Think about it: Services operators, of all kinds, got the advantages of disruptive technology evolution without giving consumers. The regulated market (licensed frequencies) slows competition and we are more and more on their hands.
Why not non profits for Internet, etc? Why not cooperative Internet? Hmm.... with IPv6 and users talking with each other directly, without the need for a service like Skype? Many things should be re-thought. A few people can understand how things works. Well... would like to discuss this with people aware of this situation.
I mentioned in another comment: Nokia Communicator had it, I guess in 1999... first Nokia with Symbian. And Nokia 7650 had it too, in 2002 (I got an early prototype in my hands in 2001). All these UI components, including sliding components, were in an early Nokia tablet... don't remember the name.
Nokia 7650 with Symbian 6.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7650) in 2002 had it... I remember it was one the first things I tried. It was amazing... But the Nokia Communicator had it even before.
Hi. Based on a friend's investigation, Ruckus Wireless has a very compelling solution for distributed, planned wireless.
I agree with some comments that nowadays, the only hotspots I get good connections are the very well planned ones. Places where a WIFI hotspot has been installed usually gets overloaded and doesn't work well.
No.... plain GPS receivers doesn't work in buildings, in the woods. But if there is data network, then things change.
The new wave in LBS is merging A-GPS with social location information and other data.
Mobile phones have A-GPS (Assisted GPS) and other technologies, like Cell ID based locations and WIFI Hotspots information. By merging all this information, "positioning systems" that are not simply GPS anymore are getting much better.
A-GPS gathers Almanaque and Ephemeris data from the network, "making a weak signal stronger".
Cell ID (from the operators' cell phone antennas, BTSs) and WIFI help in between buildings, inside places by applying algorithms using simple techniques.
By gathering this information and crossing it, right now there can be pretty good results.
I'm using a Nokia E63 WITHOUT a GPS receiver. With the help from Nokia location based servers (supl.nokia.com) , I get pretty accurate location information without a GPS.
I'm a geek. I like sports :-)
Yes, you're both correct. Humans suck in almost everything. When they go right, humans are good creating meta-whatever, but never good in being precise. This is stupid public workers (or hired to stupid people) boring work, and would end up wrong.
Computers are great. Humans made mistakes.
tsk
Anyway, it's a FULL GPS. The A-GPS, A standing for assisted, would just make it much faster to get the first fix - first GPS position, like having the first fix in less than 10 seconds (it could be 1 sec in a really good network/info environment).
This phone is really good. It kicks ass... I went out to jogg using Nokia Sportstracker to log the exercise, listening to high quality MP3 via Bluetooth A2DP wireless headset, with my email/PIM in sync and with my phone. All included. Worked great. Really thing phone. Way better than the Nokia E61i.
As I've written before, the Open Source Movement is good for those who use software. Remember: Merchants, dealers, stores, factories, hospitals, lawyers: They can and will, more and more, use free software.
Now: Where from we'll make our money?
We work for them for free. They get all the software benefits, for free.
But for us, in the need of a product or service: Where the hell we get this for free? Will have to pay for it!
OSS looks like the dream of socialism/comunism in the 60s: it looks for just one side of the coin and is blind for the other...
THIS IS THE MOST NAIVE thinking I've ever seen. I prefer to see brazilians putting money on software than saving on it and wasting with construction, for instance.
The OSS will kill our job. At least, part of it.
I'M TRYING TO DEFEND THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS SIDE. LET THE USERS DEFEND THEIRS!
Let's see what happens in the future.
Our industry does what naive works do.
If you can think: Open Source is really bad for the software industry. First of all: Do you get goods in the supermarket for free? Is your medicine free? A lawyer? A doctor free?
NO! But they are benefitted by the Open Source industry,
How many software companies were seriously affected by this movement?
I was explaining this do a doctor once, and he laughted....
If we want to revolute, let's do it for the world, not only for us. This hurts our industry, taking money from it (people don't buy) and send the money to other industries (people use the money to buy a best car).
Do you still think it's better to have software for free? EXPENSIVE SOFTWARE can employ lots of developers. Can generate good salaries!
Software developers, engineers and students: WAKE UP! THIS IS THE WORLD, NOT THE FUCKING INTERNET BUBBLE!
Let make software more slow, better tought, with more people and buying more technology!
Why use PHP or Pearl if we can use paid software like Websphere? This generated JOBS for Websphere developers, for consultants, for everyone.
If you have further questions about "The Real Software Thing", tell me.
Lets make better for ALL US DEVELOPERS!
Where the hell you think our job comes from?
Governments are good customers. They do Microsoft rich, but also do computer professionals make money. With open source, the money invested in our industry (software, for instance) will move towards other industries. Food, health, who knows? Isn't better keep it with us?
LET'S MAKE THE MONEY STAY IN OUR INDUSTRY!
LET'S VALUE OUR MARKET!
Brazil has successfully implemented an eVoting system for at least 6 years.
Just like the electronic income tax system, this system reduced fraud rates. It has also increased voting and counting speed.
It helps most of people's voting, using only number data-entry and photos for confirmation, with a simple interface. It's good for Brazilian unlettered people.
The project is a success, merging industry and government into a really secure voting system - from electronic ballot box to transport and automated counting.
That's it.
Why not create a new, better protocol for file sharing from the scratch?
I'm not a Samba developer (!), but I think that if people had written Windows driver/Extensions for Explorer or whatever to access a new Samba protocol would have been easier and take less time than reverse engineering CIFS (and it's troubles)... that's probably boring...
...
Sure! Not only VI, but VIM! And you can choose a text-mode or graphic version!
I replaced Notepad and WRITE.EXE with Vim.
Get it at www.vim.org
Rod
It's been good using Linux and other REALLY INCREDIBLE software for free, for me and most of you. From this point of view, been able to use good quality stuff seems better then anything. I really see a lot of good things happening in the software industry, thanks to OSS.
But what about many other things, like medical assistence, medicine, lawyers, food, hardware and etc - Do you thing that any other industry will, someday, give things for you? For free?
The benefits of digital media are immeasurable. But what about intellectual rights? I've seen people stop buying CDs with this Napster stuff.
Where do you think musicians will take their money?
And what about people who work and study hard for creating good and intelligent software? How they'll be able to pay for those itens that are not free? It's hard to imagine...
Look - accelerating the world has advantages, but soon You'll see the counterparts. Have you seen those labor cuts in many companies. Maybe your job is the next...
Don't be such a stone-blind. If some company (like MS) is not been fair, do you think that many others in the OSS market are playing fair?
There are people benefiting more than you think on OSS, and they're not Linux or Cox.
Sorry, it's not well written - the important is the point.
Good luck for all,
RM
Cmon guys, any Wap browser - ie, cell phones - have some sort of XML parser inside. It can be wmlc (Compiled (compressed) WML), text WML, gateway-converted WML, etc.
It's not slow nor impossible
Hey, I saw the 3D on Comdex 2 days ago. It's really amazing. And look, it's not a computer effect - it's lens. They put a cilinder with lens around the monitor, and by 3 to 6 feet it looks like Obi Wan Kenoby (sic...).
The guy in the booth showed me a real, solid state ball (a real object) showed as a hologram. Then, he put a business card over the ball and both became a hologram.
Really good work.
Dear dotters,
I've been working with large site for a couple of time as systems engineer. I already used BroadVision 1to1 with SSJavaScripting and Corba, ASP with relational databases and MTS among others. All I know is that PHP is much better. It has a number of good libraries, support for a level of objects, and is extremely FAST and STABLE.
Now, it's my preferred platform. I don't want to use that snowball n-tier technologies anymore. It's sure a problem in the future.
Sigh.
((HTML == text_formatting_language)!=programming_language)
You can't put logic on it. Not without JavaScript, etc....
HTML is only a Hiper textual markup language - you don't do logic operations with it (til now) - it's not a PROGRAMMING language. Just text formatting language!
Pilots are running "the same OS" since the beginning and is slow, poor in memory and is very pricey, but do the basics very well and has lots of apps.
Depends on what you want. The best cost/capacity point to the CEs machines. Everex really has good ones.
If you want it for hacking, you can check the LinuxCE.org project.
I can't understand Compadigital... Pilot begun with geeks buying lots and lots - Now everyone want's an Itsy running Linux with tilt sensors and etc - the apps will appear smoking. Why they don't sell it?
Maybe this can go to poll section...