Hi justone,
Well, I think you've conclusively changed my mind on the efficacy of multi-mode phones. It seems that there really is no limit to the towers of Babel we can create. I guess I'll have to revert back to a NIMBY argument. :) Here in my neck of the woods, as most places across the country, the ugliness of 160' tall cellular towers is very much on the minds of the citizenry. More modes + more towers = more controversy. :) We're currently having hearings locally, as American Tower, a capitalist and faceless organization, is trying to cram down towers into residential neighborhoods, much to the chagrin of the locals. Tastelessness, in the name of progress, isn't going down very well at the local level.
OK, so that was a minor and derivative argument and observation. But it is certainly on the minds of those who are impacted.
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Re: Claude Shannon and information theory. One of the charming aspects of Shannon's life is that in his later years he grew distant from the Bell Labs scene, having accomplished his goals and grown bored with his theorizing, prefering to spend his dotage on speculations on Wall Street. :)
As regards Information Theory, if anyone has URLs to share on the basic subject, I'd be much obliged. Particularly URLs that offer a concise yet thorough summarization of the aspects of the Theory. TIA
I did a search on Shannon's Law's and came up with yet another example of people claiming to have extended Shannon's basic work in ways that he hadn't anticipated. Here's an example:
ednmag.com
The Slashdot crowd expressed a lot of skepticism as to whether this VMSK/2 was actually real, or a variant on the snake oil theme:
slashdot.org
It does seem that VMSK/2 may well be too good to be true.
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Re: Moore's Observation - I dunno, justone, somehow it just doesn't seem to fit the soundbite mentality of the modern shakin' and stirred world, or is that whirrled? I agree, your phrase is more accurate.
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Re: Your list of howevers - One of the big problems with WAP is that it is a text only klugde. If you look at what Handspring has been able to do within the confines of the PalmOS with graphical features like the Tiger Woods Show, you realize that the future of handheld devices cannot be limited to text. The consumer won't stand for it. What I find to be a whole lot more suitable for future development is cHTML, a compact subset of HTML, which won't require the massive redeployment of developer talent that a completely incompatible WAP/XML world will suffer from. Given the choice, developers will follow the money and provide XML products creating a backwater of inferior services in the WAP environment.
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Re: Is this imitation, flattery*** or satire?
Doh? A failed attempt at wit? <w>
Yet another opinion........
Le Faineant
PS: ***Of course, I just love the succinctness of your by-line, and it's pith. :) |
