...a chalanger repeat would have a tremendously negative impact on pepsi...and considering the age/complexity of everything in these space programs, I still don't think that space travel should be thought of as an expensive flight on a jumbo jet, as people seem to think these days.
Installing windows when using a SCSI/IDE RAID/Misc Mass storage device that isn't supported out of the box requires a mfg driver floppy during install...and if you want said device to be your boot device, there is no way of putting this off...
Actually, for writing prose (i.e. e-mail, AIM), the text input on most phones is fairly decent for nine keys...you just type the numbers with the letters you want and the phone as a built in dictionary which it uses to figure out what word you are trying to spell...usually only one or two posibilities....i.e "dog" would be "364"...not "3, 666, 4"
I'm not holding my breath for _useable_ voice (i.e. speach recognition) enabled phones...the voice dialing on my i85s isn't even reliable...and I only have three voicenames programmed into it!
I have an i85s and aside from the color and the flip phone form factor, it has almost the same specs as the i95...The color is a big thing from implemenation standpoint, but not so much from usability. Unless they've made great strides in the UI design, the thing won't work that well as a PDA...I don't think any phone can be a good PDA without either a touchscreen or qwerty keyboard.
I wonder how much of this comes as a result of pressure from handset makers. By not allowing handsets to be transfered between wireless companies Motorola (or whoever) might get to sell two (possibly identical) handsets instead of one.
Also, this restricion might allow the wireless companies more better deals with the handset mfgs. As far as I can tell it would generally be in the best interest for the wirless company to allow any handset (lowering the barriers for cusomters to switch to their service).
So how much of this is the result of wireless companies being bullied by handset makers (just has PC mfgs are bullied by MS)?
There is nothing wrong with the reverse engineering part. It is the circumvention of a mechanism used to enforce copyright that the DMCA prevents. AMD gives you the same x86 instruction set you can get from Intel, but they don't circumvent any copyright enforcing mechansim in doing this.
Verio has been doing the same thing (also with FreeBSD) for quite some time. They give you a virtual kernel and call it a Virtual Private Server. 10-20 clients per machine, max. It works quite nicely, too.
Its not as cheap, but for around $150 / month I get
-2 phone lines
-Cable modem (don't know exact speed, it maxes around 200KBps)
-Cable TV
Since they consider this their premium package, the CaTV includes all channels, and the phone lines have all the extra junk like call waiting, caller id, free intrastate calls, etc...
It all runs over their fiber network, so in a sense its all the same...just not as cool with all VoIP stuff.
Yes, but of the ~.5% (I don't even know how accurate this is) you have some of the largest sites with the most information. I agree that is is useless to index dynamic pages (like a poll, or shopping cart), but a lot of database driven sites just use a database to ease the management of a whole lot of esentially static content (as web servers have spead up, you see less and less pre generation, and more and more pages created on the fly). The intermidiary is to get search engines to try to handle "dynamic" content better, but in the long run, it would be nice if a database driven site could provide hooks to its own search engine. Then, you could categorize a whole bunch of dynamic content with keywords. If a user searches for something matching those keywords, then the original search engine passes the search to the databased site's search engine, and displays the results as if they came from the main search engine in the first place.
PHP Builder ran an article describing how you can have Apache Webserver treat a certain "directory" as a script, using the Location directive. So if I had a script file name called www.mydomain.com/foo then I could access www.mydomain.com/foo/param1/param2 and the foo script would run, and could use environment variables to find the "path" foo/param1/param2. I tried it, and it works quite well. This hides get parameters as "paths" so that search engines don't think the pages are dynamic (this is how Amazon.com works)
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Damn, my BackUPS 500 CS was keeping my feet so nice and warm this winter, too...almost worth the risk of fire.
...a chalanger repeat would have a tremendously negative impact on pepsi...and considering the age/complexity of everything in these space programs, I still don't think that space travel should be thought of as an expensive flight on a jumbo jet, as people seem to think these days.
The last thing a tank commander expected to mutter:
"damn! they've adapted"
Kits like these have been around for a while...Do we really need to put up with stories that are just big ads now too?
...ya know
Installing windows when using a SCSI/IDE RAID/Misc Mass storage device that isn't supported out of the box requires a mfg driver floppy during install...and if you want said device to be your boot device, there is no way of putting this off...
~Adam
Actually, for writing prose (i.e. e-mail, AIM), the text input on most phones is fairly decent for nine keys...you just type the numbers with the letters you want and the phone as a built in dictionary which it uses to figure out what word you are trying to spell...usually only one or two posibilities....i.e "dog" would be "364"...not "3, 666, 4"
I'm not holding my breath for _useable_ voice (i.e. speach recognition) enabled phones...the voice dialing on my i85s isn't even reliable...and I only have three voicenames programmed into it!
I have an i85s and aside from the color and the flip phone form factor, it has almost the same specs as the i95...The color is a big thing from implemenation standpoint, but not so much from usability. Unless they've made great strides in the UI design, the thing won't work that well as a PDA...I don't think any phone can be a good PDA without either a touchscreen or qwerty keyboard.
Just my $0.02
~Adam
So, unlike RedHat, they have a legitimate reason for a major version increment?
...that I can fit inside a computer case for only $30.
Now I have a way to get rid of all that depleted uranium in my basement.
Double the bandwidth
Double the posts
Double the fun
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Its green for a reason.
Why didn't I post this anonymously.
I wonder how much of this comes as a result of pressure from handset makers. By not allowing handsets to be transfered between wireless companies Motorola (or whoever) might get to sell two (possibly identical) handsets instead of one.
Also, this restricion might allow the wireless companies more better deals with the handset mfgs. As far as I can tell it would generally be in the best interest for the wirless company to allow any handset (lowering the barriers for cusomters to switch to their service).
So how much of this is the result of wireless companies being bullied by handset makers (just has PC mfgs are bullied by MS)?
~Adam
Is the RIAA the only organization not blaming their trouble on the "slow economy?" Everyone needs their scapegoat.
There is nothing wrong with the reverse engineering part. It is the circumvention of a mechanism used to enforce copyright that the DMCA prevents. AMD gives you the same x86 instruction set you can get from Intel, but they don't circumvent any copyright enforcing mechansim in doing this.
Verio has been doing the same thing (also with FreeBSD) for quite some time. They give you a virtual kernel and call it a Virtual Private Server. 10-20 clients per machine, max. It works quite nicely, too.
Its not as cheap, but for around $150 / month I get
-2 phone lines
-Cable modem (don't know exact speed, it maxes around 200KBps)
-Cable TV
Since they consider this their premium package, the CaTV includes all channels, and the phone lines have all the extra junk like call waiting, caller id, free intrastate calls, etc...
It all runs over their fiber network, so in a sense its all the same...just not as cool with all VoIP stuff.
~Adam
Yes, but of the ~.5% (I don't even know how accurate this is) you have some of the largest sites with the most information. I agree that is is useless to index dynamic pages (like a poll, or shopping cart), but a lot of database driven sites just use a database to ease the management of a whole lot of esentially static content (as web servers have spead up, you see less and less pre generation, and more and more pages created on the fly). The intermidiary is to get search engines to try to handle "dynamic" content better, but in the long run, it would be nice if a database driven site could provide hooks to its own search engine. Then, you could categorize a whole bunch of dynamic content with keywords. If a user searches for something matching those keywords, then the original search engine passes the search to the databased site's search engine, and displays the results as if they came from the main search engine in the first place.
PHP Builder ran an article describing how you can have Apache Webserver treat a certain "directory" as a script, using the Location directive. So if I had a script file name called www.mydomain.com/foo then I could access www.mydomain.com/foo/param1/param2 and the foo script would run, and could use environment variables to find the "path" foo/param1/param2. I tried it, and it works quite well. This hides get parameters as "paths" so that search engines don't think the pages are dynamic (this is how Amazon.com works)