Creating a New Internet

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  1. phlogistician Banned Banned

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    Technology available today, right now, already does the things you mention.

    You haven't invented anything.
     
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  3. phlogistician Banned Banned

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    Oh, and you use the term 'Inventing a new Internet' and the talk about the 'World Wide Web'. The two are linked, but not equivalent, noob.
     
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  5. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    SOFTWARE VENDING MACHINE
    My next great innovation is the Software Vending Machine.

    Downloading software applications is much faster and easier on the Progress Console. Still, users can obtain software instantly from the Software Vending Machine.

    Instead of wasting money on packaging and duplication, consumers can purchase software from a vending machine. Simply plug an SSSM into the port on the Software Vending Machine. Insert the payment, and choose the software. The SSSM will check if there is space for the software, and transfers it into the SSSM in the form from of VMs. A receipt is printed. You may also purchase SSSMs right from the vending machine.

    Software Vending Machines store software locally. The great thing is that Software Vending Machines can be updated remotely. The only time they need to be manually reloaded is when they run low on SSSMs.

    As an independent developer, you can upload your VMs onto the website, and sell them similar to selling music online. Customers can purchase and download your software directly from the Progress Console. Software Vending Machines are capable of accessing software from the online database as well. Costumers can purchase whatever isn't already stored locally on the Software Vending Machine. The Software Vending Machine simply downloads the software for transfer to the customer.

    Thanks to more progressive standards, open source software and file sharing can drive software prices down. It will become more and more difficult for patent monopolists such as Bill Gates to profiteer off of the small costs of software duplication. The fact of the matter is, the cost of developing software and mass producing media that the software is sold on is far less than the enormous cost of developing hardware and mass producing hardware. The easier it is for consumers and businesses to afford great powerful hardware, the more prevalent software development projects can be come. This along with the absence of mass media packaging will allow end users to purchase the best and highest quality software applications at much lower costs. In many cases even free.
     
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  7. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    Why get up and leave my house, when I can just download the software off the internet? Or go to the local software store and buy the disk.

    The machines would be too expensive to be practical. Again your re-inventing the wheel.
     
  8. GeoffP Caput gerat lupinum Valued Senior Member

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    Why do we need a new internet? We already have lots of places to put pornography on the first one.
     
  9. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    You just plug the SSSM into the Software Vending Machine to purchase your software, and insert the dough. Easier for customers and vendors than mass producing and shipping packaged optical disks. Even easier downloading it direct from the Progress Console much like many linux apps can be downloaded.
     
  10. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    Not enough.
     
  11. scifitm Registered Member

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    8 processors on a motherboard = skulltrail (2 quad cores)
    Intel also just released the first Petraflop capable super computer

    somehow I don't think it's the hardware that's not keeping up...
    also when/if the software quantum leaps to catch up, we are still going to remain human and as such can only process and input at the average human speed.

    I'm all in on creating a user experience that modifies daily life, enhancing and helping with human interactions - but I don't think making cooler websites is going to do anything but make another myspace that is rooted to your 20" cube. Cloud computing (basically your Nebula) is already in the works, and it offers seamless integration of information across any medium - so for example your "website" might be a user experience that overlays what you really see in reality - accessed from your cell phone while your walking through the park.

    In all you don't have a bad idea - just reach a little more. The future isn't rooted in boxes sitting on your desk (that would be the present) Collect what researchers are trying to do now and think about what you could do with that. There are some wicked cool things coming in the world of computers and there will be plenty of opportunites for innovation

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  12. EntropyAlwaysWins TANSTAAFL. Registered Senior Member

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    Innovation implies you are doing something new.

    It's not really possible to block out just one genre of media.
    It's possible to try but succeeding is technically infeasible, especially in the case of such a popular genre as this one.

    AIR is just a new way of deploying Flash and Flex apps written in AS3 and MXML.

    :bugeye: yes patents are quite the pesky things aren't they.

    My recommendation, learn AS3, learn MXML, go make some of those AIR apps.
    I can help you out with the AS3 part.
     
  13. phlogistician Banned Banned

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    Dude, I purchased and downloaded some software only last week.

    You got nothing new.
     
  14. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    From what vending machine?
     
  15. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    So how is buying software from a vending machine more convenient? Are they going to put one in my 7-11? Not trying to rain on your parade Lixluke, just playing devil's advocate.

    Vending machines are convenient because they are everywhere, but the demand for software isn't as great as for softdrinks, so it doesn't make any sense to distribute software that way.
     
  16. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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  17. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    My cousin develops webapps with Java. He says he doesn't want to develop AIR claiming that end-users would have to go through installations to use air apps. However, as far as I am aware, end users don't have to install anything more with AIR than you have to when installing Java, Flash, and Shockwave (the three basic browser plugins). Or no?

    (I have lots of ideas for developing nice application for email. Yahoo Mail, AIM Mail, Hotmail, and Gmail are still very limited.)

    What is your advice on getting started with Action Script 3?
     
  18. EntropyAlwaysWins TANSTAAFL. Registered Senior Member

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    Download Flash CS3 from: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/, you get a 30 day free trial.
    Read the documentation, also check out some flash forums such as:
    www.kirupa.com and http://www.actionscript.org/

    Getting some books on Actionscript s probably a good idea too:
    Wiley ActionScript 3.0 Bible and OReilly Essential ActionScript 3.0 are both good.

    If you have no programming experience at all then it may take a while to learn AS3 but if you do have some experience than it shouldn't be too difficult.
     
  19. phlogistician Banned Banned

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    The 'vending machine' concept is flawed. I downloaded the software directly in minutes. I paid for it electronically. A vending machine complicates a process that works already. IE, it's a stupid idea.
     
  20. Blindman Valued Senior Member

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    Hey lixluke.

    It is very clear that you know nothing about programming, hardware, and generally computers.

    You concept is flawed in to many ways to describe.

    I know you think you have a good concept but nothing you describe does not already exist.

    Apply your time at designing one gear in the machine not the entire machine, it is much more productive and rewarding.

    I guess you are young and don't realise how amazing computers are today. We stand on the shoulders of giants and it is impossible to build a new giant to beat the old one.

    So stop blowing hot air and take a deep breath.
     
  21. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    What are you talking about? Downloading is much faster off of the Progress Console. You still have not solved the problem of retail purchases.
     
  22. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    If so I have not seen it. All I see are single-processor PCs with no standard for user friendly standard for console to console communication.
     
  23. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    A. "The progress console" is a 3d drawing of a red box, and nothing more. Without specific design specifications, you can't claim this. Plus download speeds have almost nothing to do with the computer your on, but the network your connected to.

    B. Buying software from a retail store will soon be a thing of the past...just like the milkman.
     
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