These drones are useless if you don't have the satellites that control them.
unless they plan on using it only under the satellite that they had recently launched.
I think this is propaganda without much truth to it - but you are correct that UAVs (currently) depend on a lot of infrastructure, especially satellites - gps and command/control stuff.
It seems that every author that writes about being in a bubble thinks that they are the only ones that can see it.
ignoring the fact that everyday an article hits front page of HN talking about being in a bubble and no one can see it.
So when everybody is saying that nobody is seeing the signs of a bubble does that mean that we are in a bubble?
The justifications for why we aren't in a bubble has been evolving over time. I remember when the reason that we weren't in a bubble is because none of the companies involved were publicly traded, and therefore a failure/depression wouldn't affect the average Joe. Now that we're seeing companies with astronomical valuations reaching for IPOs, I don't see this argument trotted out much anymore.
Skydrive is a sad joke that points out how many easy opportunities Microsoft has to leap frog Android and iCloud. They already have a huge cloud platform. They are have millions of Live users. They're finally integrating Live accounts as Windows accounts.
They refuse to add dropbox like functionality to SkyDrive to make it possible to just have a set of files synced between all Windows (8, specifically) and WP devices. I've been told and have read various different reasons, but none of them were good.
edit: Scrap this post, my information is embarrassingly outdated. Kudos to SkyDrive. Glad to see Microsoft utilizing their Live accounts.
edit: It appears I was simply misinformed or working with old information. I had been told at one point in time that Win8 would absolutely not receive dropbox functionality via SkyDrive. This article implies differently.
re: why did they drag their feet so long on integrating 'live' stuff into windows - there was this little outfit called the U.S. government that slapped them with a consent decree that prevented them doing stuff like this.....
Uh, they have a dropbox-like client coming out soon. Also, I far prefer their web interface to dropbox's. I see no reason to continue using dropbox once skydrive client comes out.
The beauty of Skydrive is, it's WebDAV. You can mount it in Windows, you can mount it in OSX, you can mount it in Linux. There isn't a native client yet, but it doesn't strictly need one to work at a basic level.
Actually, again to make up for my inaccurate post, I have to give them kudos. I believe they're rolling out an oAuth api for SkyDrive so someone could build a linux client.
Instagram was worth $500 million right before the purchase. it got doubled to 1bil
If nyt was gonna get bought it would get multiplied by 2 so around $1.9billion.
Yeah. It makes no sense. It's like comparing apples to oranges.
I'm not sure what you mean.
But Livemesh/skydrive is exactly like dropbox.
You choose a folder on your computer to sync and it syncs for you. I use the skydrive browser app on my android too.
The surprising thing is that it has been around for a long time. But like many msft products, it is not well promoted.
I have been using Microsoft LiveMesh/skydrive recently alongside dropbox and it has been working flawlessly.
What I like about is the huge space compared to dropbox and that you can sync multiple folders without plug-ins or anything hacky.
I use LiveMesh too, and I like it. One of the things that I like about it is that it doesn't follow symlinks. I really wish one of these sync services (maybe the upcoming Gdrive?) would treat symlinks properly. I.e., sync them opaquely rather than transparently.
In the meantime, I use scripts to sync my symlinks out of band. The only service I can do this with is LiveMesh, though, since at least it is nice enough to just ignore the symlinks, rather than do the wrong thing with them.
