Posts by Mage
1789 posts • joined Friday 23rd November 2007 08:43 GMT
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Pippin
At least after years of loss making the Xbox is beating Pippin.
But MS had Smartphones YEARS before Apple did a phone and went down the drain years for befoore Symbian crashed. Windows phone (CE) was once 1st in USA, though never 1st worldwide. They then fell to less than 5% in USA
They also had PDAs and true Tablets over 10 years ago,
So they didn't fail to see the market, they were holding it wrong. Ballmer is useless. Most MS software in the last 10 years is either incremental or where there are big changes they are STUPID changes.
Re: Do the Windows Shuffle!
CP/M
DR Dos, (Servers Cromix, BSD UNIX, DR Multidos)
Win 3.11 WFWG 3.11 (Server NT 3.5, then Server NT 3.51)
NT 4.0 (Workstation and Enterprise Server). [Keep a PC with DOS and Win98 for specialist tools using Serial and/or parallel port]
(1999 test Linux Servers & Workstations start)
XP (2002)
(2006 Linux on one Laptop for ARM development)
( 2007 Update Server to 2K Advanced)
( 2011 Update Windows Server to Debian)
....?
2014 Maybe Linux for main Workstation, keep one XP for legacy apps?
Huh?
This isn't even new.
But 28GHz is more appropriate to feeding masts, car roofs from space or roof top aerials. My Broadband is by Fixed Wireless at 10.6GHz, the aerial panel (outdoors, high up) gets a Mast 14km away and has an array of 64 aerials in it. It's six years old.
There may be a 5G. But it won't be this.
Re: LEGO vs. Playmobile
Or the Cute version of Playmobile, Sylvanian Families. I like Lego, but Sylvanian Families is the Ultimate "Dolls House" toy to recreate "Tails of the Riverbank" without live animals? ;-)
That scheme was European.
Mullard was Philips' secret entry to the UK valve Cartel in 1928. No-one really noticed till 1939. EF36 etc isn't a British nomenclature.
There was the Marconi numbering scheme. That was British.
Also till about 1942 Ever Ready had their own scheme which replaced Lissen's in 1930s. They were mostly relabelled Mullard valves.
Some UK makers used the US scheme.
see Radiomuseum and National Valve Museum
Debian Makes Sense.
CentOs is essentially the Free Redhat so Ditto.
DRM on music
Pointless to stop real pirates
Option 1: Virtual Audio Cable
Option 2: Two sound cards or second computer.
Why does it worry me?
Eve is offering to sell me Quantum Hubs.
Re: Oh Dear
Nokia took the wrong turning sometime in 2002. Even without Elop they were doomed. As if he is slowing or accelerating the end, I don't know. But they are doomed. It's too late. They are now really just a Marketing and Distribution company. Maybe they should flog that bit and the name to someone instead of the long drawn out demise of Kodak and Polariod?
Posted in Oz chap blows his own Google Glass
Re: Do they come with a remote?
In the big open plan office ...
Replace
"Jimmy! How do you format your disk?"
--"Format C:" he shouts
"Are you sure?"
-- "YES!"
With "How do I do a factory Reset?"
Unless you are on your own (or some sort of disability) voice control is nearly as bad as the "Heart of Gold" gesture controls.
Radio China (Not they I listen to them usually)
Radio China last night had a very critical article on Foxconn. I remember wben Foxconn made dodgy 486 Mobos.
Of course a Taiwanese company isn't a PRC Comapany.
DVD Player
How many in NK have?
Electricity,
TV sets
DVD players
It's a baffling story. Hope my passport is where I left it.
Re: No
Yes, that's when you don't want to be taken seriously.
Re: True, but...
Yes, Watch faces have used Sapphire for maybe 50 years. Due to the fact it's much more scratch resistant. Cheap watches used to get quite poorly with scratches in a few months due to softness of the glass.
Re: Err, hang on a minute ...
Yes, Obviously Ian Fleming was paid to create Bond.
His brother though was probably a spy and reading his factual books the question that's in my mind is why was he there if he wasn't a spy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_from_Tartary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%27s_Company
" Peter and his brother Ian were commissioned by Colin Gubbins to help establish the Auxiliary Units. This was to be the "secret army" of civilian volunteers that would fight on, behind enemy lines, as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. [Peter ?] Fleming later served in Norway and Greece; his principal service, however, from 1942 to the end of the war, was as head of "D Division," in charge of military deception operations in Southeast Asia."
So Bond was a latter day "deception" exercise by Ian.
More about Peter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fleming_%28writer%29
I can't help thinking of Sherlock Homes and his less famous Brother.
Mine's the one with the "one time pads" on Rice Paper and Bubble gum.
Re: 1/3 of their market value as cash
Excellent point.
But that was Marketing clever, not innovation. Once that is out of the Bottle it helps every gadget maker. I had a Nokia Communicator N9210 Fortunately the office paid for it; handy being able to send and receive real Faxes as well as real email.
Actually I still can't justify a Mobile Data contract. I have to find a WiFi point when I travel.
Re: Mage
And Braun Radios.
Ives even has admitted that all the simple white Apple products inspired/copied Braun Products case designed by Dieter Rams. He is still alive and quite Chuffed.
Re: Erm... profits?
Yes, before the iPod they made a lot of profit from Premium price Macs when IBM was losing money on PCs.
iPod November 2001
Dell took over the top spot of PC manufacturer from Compaq in 2001
Compaq taken over by HP in 2002 (called a Merger)
IBM sold PCs to Lenovo in 2004
Apple was making huge margin on the Macs.
Apple still makes more profit on Macs (as they still command an Apple Premium) than other makers but Mac share is still at Windows Phone levels.
Unless there is a massive culture change in Apple they will still make 20%+ profit on a Niche Phone /Tablet /Mac etc when others make 5%+ profit or a loss in a commodity market.
1/3 of their market value as cash
But really there is a natural limit to how much you can polish an OS or Phone. The original wasn't actually revolutionary, the bits had just become economic and they added some 1950s Dieter Rams Style.
A lot of Jobsian Hype.
So they are reaching a natural plateau and without someone with MORE Reality Distortion Field and More vision than s. Jobs they can only make changes that make it worse (i.e. Apple Maps).
So far to soon to buy the shares. They will eventually be 1/10th of the peak 2012.
Logitech killed themselves
They started as the distributor for Modula-2 and one of the first Mouse makers (perhaps due to Lileth?).
But long ago their products became tacky and overpriced compared to better Asian ones. The "Universal" Remote idea is good but the Logitech ones are too expensive and actually not the best concept.
They need to seriously rethink their product lines.
Trumpet?
I remember hearing that. But I came late to the Web, though had used Prestel then various services via X.25 via 300 baud dialup PAD.
So though my first Browser was a Mosaic version, it used MS 32bit TCP/IP for WFWG 3.11. Dial up modem on the PC.
October 1995 we trashed our NT Server installing MS beta proxy (Catapult?) and after fixing it installed Wingate 1.0 to share the phone line Modem on demand to five PCs with WFWG3.11. We put Win95 on only 1 machine (for kids to game) and gradually added NT4.0 Workstations with Netscape in 1996 onward. A couple of Win98 PCs in 1999 for the kids to play games on.
Today an 11 year old Laptop with XP and Firefox connecting to Internet using my own design of Linux based Router & WiFi (108Mbps WiFi on Laptop) , cable modem to outdoor 10GHz 14km Microwave link (8Mbps/1Mbps speed). 2 x 1 Gbps switches for the rest of the Network. No MS Server, Linux Server, though we did have a Microsoft Server for nearly 18 years.
WE knew this 30 years ago
It was just too expensive then
Phone
More than 4.5" and you need to keep the width the same. maybe 2.4:1 rather than 1.85:1 (16:9) to get any bigger screen and still fit in pocket.
For Tablet overall size including case needs to be about Clipboard / Letter Size / A4, thus the 11" screen.
You need minimum 133dpi on a 11" or larger screen and about 266dpi minimum on a phone as it can be held closer.
Desktop/Laptop minimum either 15" 4:3 or 17" Widescreen, minimum 1200 pixels high, ideally more.
HDTV for 2.4m distance viewing, 42" screen. Needs quite large text and GUI that works without Touch, Mouse or QWERTY.
These need four different GUIs. Trying as per Win98 and WinCE *OR* as per Win8 to use the same "home screen" and GUI on the full range is stupidity.
Mine's the one with a Tablet pouch :-D
Harvey Norman
The local Harvey Norman has an 85" on display (I forget if LG or Samsung). Very nice too. €13,500 sounds a lot but much shorter life Plasma TVs with only 480 lines used to sell at €6,000.
Considering all else equal 84" panels will have about 4 times as many rejects as 42" panels and all the Electronics etc, you'd expect the 84" equivalent of top of the range 42" to be about £5000 rather than £35,000
Sure isn't everyone watching 4" and 7" screens now :-)
2.5%
How much of the R&D spending is researching and writing up all those patents? I'm sure that is on the R&D budget. I accept the ligation is a different budget.
Re: Another dodgy practice...
There are search rivals? Actual viable alternatives?
The issue?
1). Some people will need new aerials. All the TVs and boxes will work otherwise. Who pays?
2) Mobile needs to use the space above 800MHz in UK more efficiently. Large empty places in USA might be OK for 700MHz and 800MHz, Cell size too big.
3) DTT actually needs to keep the 700MHz and ought to have kept the 800MHz. Yes you can fit an SD channel in less space but when you want 40+ channels instead of 5, HD, 3D and later higher HD, it's short sighted to flog off a band to Mobile which is poor capacity for it anyway.
Next "innovation" in Macs
Will be one with ARM and OS X more like iOS.
Yes essentially an ipad with easier to use storage, keyboard (detachable?), bigger screen. Perhaps using a 6" iPad as mouse/touch pad replacement.
An more appliance like Mac looking cooler, with x4 battery life and better profit margin.
"Computer" is gone from their name and the Mac servers are gone.
Posted in Who coined the term 'App'?
AAPL
App is short for application, not Apple.
AAPL is Stock market Abbreviation for Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc. The dropping of "Computer" from the name is logical. They of course copied the name from UK Apple Corp (Beatles own label) and Logo also. Jonathan Ives copies 1950s Dieter Rams's designs for Braun.
Re: I like it !
Or is it a faked theft and Mr Plumpy is an accomplice to make the Blogger money from Porn?
Re: Counting
You are confusing decimal number counting with counting using "tuple" style numbers.
A variation is used for very large integers. if the sign bit isn't set then the rest of the word is the value (which can be what ever format you like). If the sign bit is set, then the rest of the word is the number of words to represent the number. Each "word" can be one part of a tuple or it can be a large binary number.
"word" can be software implementation defined number of bytes, need not be the hardware "word" size.
It would be less confusing if the delimiter used was other than decimal period which though "." in UK is "," in some countries. Mathematics usually uses the "," as tuple element delimiter rather than "." I guess a dot "." is more universal and less confusing than than ! | ¦ ^ # + - _ " ' ` etc as separators.
Re: Kicks to the what now?
I guess the legions of XP users need to be using Firefox, Safari, Opera then. (Chrome is Spyware).
Re: Simple
"So you could call something broadband which was actually slower than dial-up. "
No Absolutely not.
10x dual channel ISDN is 1.28 Mbps. Pretty slow, but minimum broadband. Mobile's minimum speed is about 120k bps. That's slower than dual channel ISDN dialup.
Mobile isn't Broadband and never will be.
Fast Broadband is more than 25Mbps, ideally 100Mbps +
25 billion won (£14.6m/$22.3m)
Wot US $ and £stg and no Euros?
Mainstream
No-one can afford to build the Grid to supply "mainstream" 'leccy" cars.
Simple
Ban the Unlimited word. No domestic service is "unlimited"
Ban Mobile operator describing their service as Broadband. It's not and even 4G will never be broadband. It's Internet Access.
Must list average and worst 20% users peak usage time speeds and 3AM speeds.
The ASA is too soft as is Ofcom.
All Mobile and Fixed Broadband is dishonestly marketed.
Satellite Internet is even worse for lies.
Everything that isn't dialup isn't automatically Broadband.
Broadband has
Always on (Mobile is connect on demand and can drop connections with no change in signal if people nearer mast connects or more voice call capacity is needed)
Low Latency (Mobile can be low, but can be over 500ms, Satellite is 550ms approx MINIMUM)
Minimum download speed about x10 faster than dual channel ISDN. Mobile can be easily slower than 128kbps
No non-transparent proxy. Mobile also often uses a Proxy with 1000s of people on same IP at same time
Supports Native TCP/IP. Satellite doesn't.
Supports any service such as VPN (Satellite only supports a VPN if the ISP implements it for you at their earth station).
Re: No wonder..
There is no HW or SW innovation on Apple Mac
Eye candy on top of BSD and it's practically Intel designed HW.
The eye catching styling is just that, styling. Even that Ives admits he pinches from Dieter Rams on most products.
They will make Macs more like iPads and more locked down when they can. Maybe with cheaper ARM cpu and charge more for the resulting longer battery life.
Idiot tax is right.
More locked down. Less applications and over priced.
More style than engineering innovation.
Slide to unlock
My 1950s radio has that for the lid.
Re: Indeed. It's called broadcasting for a reason
Beamforming works best on higher frequencies and smaller cells. Planning permissions and cost mitigate against any useful "Beamforming" on UHF. You need huge aerial arrays and much more electronics.
MIMO and Beamforming is way hyped and available on WiFi, 2G and 3G also but rarely deployed on Mobile.
When you have small cells (= higher capacity per area) then 2.1 to 2.6GHz bands are fine. There should be nearly 200MHz at 2.6Hz. Since the aerial size is less than 1/3rd size of 800MHz, MIMO and Beamforming is more practical. Also BECAUSE the 2.6 GHZ signal can't travel as far as 800MHz, frequency reuse to have higher capacity is 10 to 20 times more capacity.
But operators are more interested in maximizing revenue than performance and the Licence conditions let them. The most efficient use of any band is a SINGLE wholesale RAN, not Ofcom's and Comreg's pack in as many operators on separate channels (more licence revenue). On average a single RAN gives about x4 capacity or speed compared to splitting up the band the way Ofcom and Comreg do.
Re: Indeed. It's called broadcasting for a reason
Yes, it needs to be said. It may be stating the obvious but Governments and Regulators are ignoring the Obvious.
Mobile, Satellite, Fibre, IP etc is all wonderful but complementary to Radio & TV Broadcast.
It was greedy short-sighted stupidity to sell off part of the TV spectrum to Mobile. That part of spectrum is only good for larger cells and isn't enough channels big enough for decent 4G any better than 3G. A total waste.
Terrestrial TV needs the spectrum to compete with cable & satellite TV, which never can be portable or instantly available at a new location. Satellite is very vulnerable and cable only viable for Urban areas, both are tethered so though "Broadcast" are not replacements for Terrestrial TV, despite Ofcom's and Comreg's agenda to abolish Terrestrial TV entirely.
As we read this, Ofcom and Comreg are planning to reduce DTT further to sell off a 2nd block (even poorer mobile capacity and larger cells).
Mobile to give decent 4G coverage and speed needs MORE cells than 3G. This isn't possible on UHF.
Re: Home Use ??
Ditch/disable the stupid Browser PDF plugin and save the PDF, then open in Foxit or Adobe Reader or Ghostviewer
Price
They got too expensive.
Also possibly the ending of XP on them helps to kill them.
Tablet + optional BT keyboard maybe makes more sense too.
1080p
Rubbish resolution for Development work
1200 lines minimum.
Maybe as a 2nd machine?
Actually Cable is affected.
The Transmitter in the 4G Phone/Mobile can block reception on cable by leaking INTO the cable in the house. This can affect Broadband, TV , VOD etc cable services, which will continue to use 790MHz to 862MHz,
Cable companies already did testing and complained.
The 800MHz 4G will not be better than 2.1GHz 3G / HSPA+ when there are an economic number of customers, not enough bandwidth.
Meanwhile Terrestrial TV is crippled on expansion of services and new services such as 3D or higher quality HD. It's handing customers to Pay TV, especially Murdoch & UPC.
Misleading
They know about 15 but how many had issues and didn't complain, or were near the "Digital Cliff" and a change in weather etc will put them over the edge.
What was the methodology?
How realistic was the use of Mobile Sites?
Actually 15 in 22,000 might be very high. We can't tell from the article.
Simple
I'm looking at doing my own / finding existing alternative to Google docs for real time collaborative editing.
Google is too creepy and anti-privacy. I want it on my own rented hosting with only my authorised users, not Chocolate factory Wonkas..
Fruity?
How quick before Apple sue if they do a white version?
This is a "Meh" product.
I'm sure my Ansible is working
But does anyone else have one? I'm not getting any traffic.
Re: I , for one, am fascinated with this
Efficiency has increased somewhat and not as much as the hype. But interestingly not life. Also curiously if we consider volume and not weight NiMH is as good as Lithium when new and after 6 months of cycles may beat Lithium of same volume on capacity. Easily beat on life. Much heavier though.
Water heating at home from solar is still far better than photovoltaic and will repay costs without subsidy. The photovoltaic only repays cost for user if subsidised.
A photovoltaic aircraft is likely only suitable as high altitude "drone". Even at 100% efficiency the photovoltaic aircraft would not have commercial carrying capacity nor cope with weather to land and take off.
Re: Success? Weather
This was the problem with the US Airship "aircraft carriers". They were destroyed by weather.
