Yes.. but

Now if anyone can figure how to make this idea work...

Intel

If the lads and lassies in Intel are serious about Services this is what they should be doing. $7 Billion would be loads spare to spend doing it well.

Rather than buying a "Close the stable door after horse bolted" Marketing company.

Badgers

The Intel execs must be eating ones with BSE. I still don't get this.

1) Any security mechanism in Silicon has nothing to do with any McAfee product.

2) It's really only Windows specific

3) The whole concept of how McAfee and other like products work is flawed.

IBM 1970s era "FUD". Psychology, not Technology?

Huh?

They paid $7.7 Billion for a brand name.

There is zero McAfee product or IP that is anything that I would build into a chip. The whole concept of AV signature scanning is broken.

Ok, if nothing changes, in 4 years they break even and 5th year and later $2Billion profit a year.

Well they *DID* say they were expanding into services and software, to make chip making the minority sport. It's on their road map. I guess this is a "Service". Not one I'd ever buy.

1Gbps

Needs 100MHz channels and perfect signal. Not likely on any existing Mobile WiMax. or possibly ever on Mobile as a reasonable "cell" based system needs 3 channels and ideally 9. Getting 300MHz spectrum is likely only in Line Of Sight part of Microwave spectrum. Thus outdoor fixed aerials and dishes.

Might be good for big dish backhauls?

p per MByte

£240 per Gigabyte is how I'd think of 2.4p per MByte,

I welcome

our new sling shot wielding small overlord.

I wish them success. They need marketing and political luck as much as a good design.

So like Google then?

People have the mistaken idea that Android is FOSS development.

The Android road map is secret.

Google alone develops a new version of Android and *then* releases it as Open Source. Google decides what item of confectionery it will be called.

So Oracle has taken a leaf out of Google's book :-)

Choice

A pox on both their houses

Publisher Set Pricing

Didn't they make Publisher Set Pricing in UK illegal on Paper Books?

So now they bring back that nonsense on eBooks? Shame on them.

Till eBooks are 50% cheaper than PAPERBACKS (not Hardbacks) and a Reader is < €100 and the content can be used on my Laptop or a newer better eReader of different make via local back up, I'm not interested.

Broadcasters and Pay Platforms

It's enough that Sky has a virtual monopoly on pay TV via Satellite in Ireland and UK. They should be forced to sell off all their shares in Channels.

I think it's a good decision of Virgin Media to concentrate on being a Cable operator (pipe for VOD, BB, Broadcast pay TV and phone).

Re: Give them some credit

AC says: "As a Mac user ... I am not advocating they do an OSX, dump the current line and start from scratch,"

Well OS X is simply recycled UNIX from NeXt Step with a new shiny UI added. Nothing to be proud of and after 10 years is still < 5% market share. It's really an inferior security model, but just less attacked.

Certainly not from scratch. Suffers from the same bloat as Windows and Cruft and stupidity going back to 1976 that Linux has.

Windows 7 is latest version of a 17 year old OS based on work started in 1980s

OS X is an 10 year old OS based on work started in 1970s

I'll go now. Mines the one with Knuth's "Fundamental Algorithms" in the pocket.

C null terminated strings

C null terminated strings and similar stupidity.

C, C++ and all related languages suffer from this. Modula-2 you can put inline compiler directives to turn on or off RUN TIME array bound checking. Since 1983 or earlier.

Software engineering wise PC programming is still living in the 1970s. The only useful thing (misused) was C++ "objects" which is really just an automatic way of hiding a pointer to an instance of struct where some members are pointers to functions. 1987

Windows 7 is the latest version of NT3.1 (1993) based on 1985's IBM/MS OS/2 (MS had an OS/2 version of their own in 1989 with lan Manager added, hence NT first version is 3.1).

So OS programmers in MS (and Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X) have been knowingly writing insecure unreliable software even though "technology" existed since early 1980s to avoid this well known problem even then.

In 1986 you didn't just get an application error, Array bounds (buffer overflow) error did everything from rebooting the PC to erasing the disk.

Hmm. Broken

Seems they need to skip IPV6 and design IPV7 properly.

I'll stay with IP4 then thanks.

Exchange rate?

About 3 Shekel to the Dollar?

networks are congested as they are -

Because they *are* 3G.

A 3G sector only reasonably supports about 5 simultaneous users. Two maybe if you watching YouTube HD.

4G of course needs more spectrum to have any more capacity. 20MHz channel lets you have x4 more people at same speed (Operator's desire), or the same number of people at x4 speed (operator needs to charge x3 more then).

Coffin Nail on Mobile WiMax

I think this is as much about built in Modems on Netbooks, Laptops etc.

This

http://www.techtir.ie/node/1003503

Looks the two main Mobile WiMax rollouts and Imagine's Pseudo Mobile WiMax rollout in Ireland.

I think Fixed WiMax is a successful niche market, but low volume as it's one Radio set per building and one per gadget/laptop. (We have up to 2 Netbooks and 7 laptops, 3 smart phones, 4 handheld consoles and one Archos PMP all on two Wifi points, but only one outdoor Fixed Wireless Broadband radio.)

Mine's the one with LTE specification and roadmap in the pocket.

WS vs 4:3

I find WS too big if it's 1600 lines.

Many WS laptops and screens lack height resolution. 1200 vs 768, 1024 or 1080 makes a big difference.

I welcome it being a 4:3. Especially if you want a 2nd screen.

This is an interactive drawing board. When did you ever see a Wide Screen Drawing board?

The advantage of a light pen is of course anti-aliasing. Inherently a light pen works at lower than screen resolution and a touch panel with orientation and pressure stylus can work at higher resolution.

I think this is excellent for serious Artists, slightly less useful for regular CAD and not a good idea at all for people doing only occasional photo editing and no drawing/CAD.

It's a nice tool for professionals in addition to a regular screen, even maybe an addon to serious laptop.

Scanner

And a loop Aerial.

The Terrorists, Foreign governments and sundry Anoraked folk likely know the frequencies and locations of the ones that they are interested in.

It's the planners, competitors and Public that don't know.

UK Law

I thought there was a case thrown out because the Judge said it had to be substantially published in UK, or read by people in UK or UK law didn't apply. Apparently they couldn't prove than more than a handful in UK had read it.

or something...

Apple and mice

They have always hated mice.

It has to have a button. Three are needed at times. Jobs only reluctantly lets them have one.

A mac user I know was positively delighted when I showed her that a 2 button + scroll wheel "PC" USB mouse gave her more usability.

She put her apple mouse in the waste basket.

No doubt for later recycling :-)

The penguins have no truck with inferior mice.

Virgin

The fibre feeds a box of tricks that feeds coax. The coax is shared among a number of users. So while any user (unlike DSL) can get the full speed, once the number users and their activity exceeds the shared coax bandwidth, then it gets slower per person.

DSL is only shared at the exchange/ backhaul (equivalent to virgin's fibre), but the line speed drops dramatically with distance.

http://www.techtir.ie/comms/dsl-limits

Fixed Wireless (used more in Ireland) is like lower capacity coax. Mobile Wireless (i.e. 3G or 4G) is up to x10 or x16 worse than fixed Wireless, which is worse than Coax. So the 7.2Mbps or higher claims of Mobile phone networks are totally dishonest and make DSL claims look saintly!

http://www.techtir.ie/comms/fixed-wireless-broadband-better

see some comments & discussions

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055981258

and

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055978819

Mobile is advertised as Broadband, and compared to DSL or Cable, it's not remotely Broadband. A scandal.

3G on GSM frequencies

Madness.

Wasteful CDMA on frequencies better suited to OFDM.

It should be LTE, not 3G which is brain dead.

Ripping off

1) Camcorder through one lens of 3D glasses

2) There are "3D" Camcorders. put 3D glasses on it.

Probably they will bring a small person with camcorder fitted inside fake head?

Lost

I begin to wonder have MS lost the plot.

Buying Danger (Sidekick), cripple the design of new phone, release Kin and kill it 46 days later.

I suspect if Phone 7 is not a roaring success it and Zune will be gone by Easter.

Xbox wants to make a big profit (not just outsell Wii & PS3) or after Christmas it will be turfed out to the Animal shelter too.

Why on earth would they want to fiddle with CPU innards? Did someone click wrong box on ARM shopping trolly? Do they want to prove that they are better than Intel or Intrinic/PA Semi/Apple at fiddling with Silicon?

The Truth is out there.

The Ministry of Truth makes sure of that.

(mine's the one with the dog-eared copy of 1984)

Quick

Give Lewis Page a dried frog pill..

This is overwhelming him!

Either way

It's still a rubbish design where function is playing 2nd fiddle to appearance.

Symbian

Because the revamped Symbian will only be for feature phones. Not smart phones.

Nokia realised this was a problem so tested a Linux distro. This has "morphed" via 3 stages to Meego.

Meego is Nokia/Intel/Novell competitor to iOS4 and Android. Not Symbian

So

A new way of selling MS Cluster based Servers.

Clouds = Someone Else's server(s) you have little control over.

(Mines the one with the copy of "The emperor's new clothes" in the pocket.)

Bumpers, Cases

Why all the fuss about the styling of iPhone, iPod, iTouch when the 1st thing people get is a case or bumper?

No-one else's PMPs or Phones seem to need a 2nd case. The manufacturer's case is good enough. Though on many nokias you can change or replace most of the casing for the price of a couple of coffees.

5.25" full height?

I still have my external 8" drive

Snake oil

A hot hand-held radio crackling away gives a headache from holding it and heat. Not the 144MHz RF.

However peering into a waveguide or a running microwave oven with no door will eventually give you cataracts and cook your face. No cancer.

But

You can't really do real applications with web

the Web apps need a connection.

I don't want to go back to Mainframe + terminal but with connection replaced by unreliable Internet. It is giving up control of your application choice and data to the Cloud owners.

No Thanks.

Meh

We were discussing this in 1988-1989 and Xerox hade looked at it in 1970s.

Nothing new here.

Storybook weaver I think on win3.x in 1990s?

Patent Trolls. :-(

Next

If Zune and WinMo7 don't do good over Christmas 2010, maybe the whole phone & Zune division will be closed next year.

MS need to concentrate on what they do well *and* make money from.

Xbox could be in trouble too.

CE PSUs!

Here is a CE PSU sold by Maplin.

It's mysteriously missing all the filter parts that make it CE compliant.

It stops Homeplug and Comthingy Power networking

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=117779&d=1277236210

two chokes missing and jumpered

five capacitors missing

from http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=66559374

Aslo 150dpi can be 600dpi. sort of

200dpi on a fax (and some faxes are only 100dpi) is poor because it only uses black or white.

300dpi or 360dpi on a Laser or Inkjet too. Also the pitch may be 300dpi or 360dpi but the dots overlap/bigger.

with just 16 brightness levels instead of black and white, you can smooth the jaggies (anti aliasing) and have x4 the apparent sharpness.

also the gaps between pixels only important at lower DPI. At higher dpi gaps on pixels simply reduces brightness.

So really the 366dpi on a full colour display is a gimmick.

133dpi would be very good and 200dpi + excellent

Thanks

Another good overview

I've added it to the previous coverage here

http://www.techtir.ie/node/1001843

Info Gathering

It OUGHT to be illegal to gather anything other than public hotspot SSID & MAC.

If you have good enough lawyers and the right country, maybe it is illegal.

It's as moral as taking down number plate of every car in every home driveway or waiting till someone comes out in the morning and photographing them.

Hmm

They are very sorry..

Because they were caught?