Google Latitude - Hardware is Dead, Long Live The Software King

Ok, title is stupid.

But there is some truth inside. Hardware is necessary to evolve in front of software, physically it has to.

But in recent years we see the same old software just sitting on steep hardware improvement curve. Multiple CPU cores, APIs offering HUGE power of GPUs for general calculations, hard drives still increasing size exponentially, network bandwidths doubling every now and then.

And what software is doing in mean time? Doubling installation size. Adding meaningless features with huge speed impact, like idiotic menus inside Visual Studio. Each time you enter Debug menu, VS needs to search around your code for break points, analyze them, just to enable / disable features in menu.

Who in the hell cares if there are any break points in my files, when I want to delete them all. If there are any, delete otherwise just shut-up.

Providing that huge stream of pre and return information, about so many things that really nobody cares about, is making bloatware software.

And here is some fresh wind finally, Google Latitude.

Every mobile phone in five years will come with GPS, even today majority of better phones are GPS enabled. And what can you do with it?

See where you are? Great. What else? You can see map. Great. You can navigate somewhere? Great.

All that was possible 10 TEN years ago. What's new? They managed to put it into phone? So what. That phone has more processing power than supercomputers 20 years ago, when I was reading about supercomputers. And I not that old.

This article is not about Latitude, or about great hardware.

Instead it is simple cry for software being developed from people with absolutely no imagination. Most of today new software features are being developed just because they can be developed.

Come on people, stop typing code.
Start Imagining! Start Inventing!

MS Surface is getting out of a fun tech

Into great platform for next gen serious applications.

And what can be more death serious then heart surgery?

See this amazing demo HERE.

Skyfire - is there finally a decent mobile browser?

Maybe, I can't really tell, because it is gettable only in US and Canada. Too bad, it looks great on demo and specs. But please try, and give me some feedback :)

http://www.skyfire.com/

Reach out technology

http://on10.net/blogs/nic/Hands-On-With-Microsoft-TAG-Barcode-20/

How to connect physical world with digital info from internet, directly.
Easily - MS TAG Barcode.

Not yet another technology, but more a forerunner of digital info reaching out, and it will reach.

Be in first wave, develop with it. We will.

Live Mesh

So you already heard about it, maybe read few posts here and there, with conclusion what it is capable of, in general of course...

But have you seen it in action?
I didn't think so :) so HERE it is, great demo from colaab.

Enjoy

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This is what Microsoft can do :)!

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Just go there and play the video!