(It even sounds a bit better than that. If you manage to use a maximum of 1Gb a month you're down to ~$27/month - and if you exceed 1Gb you pay $70 instead and then it's unlimited for that month)
Wrong again. The FCT flag, optionally used on both HD DVD and Blu-ray, is up to the content publisher to use. It seems most won't - and at least not Sony - according to themselves.
Yes - albeit a crippled one. The Jaguar however had both a 64-bit bus and could perform 64-bit register manipulation. I've never understood the fanboys who desperately tried to claim it was something else:)
The rest of us, however, understands that "bitness" is irrelevant when talking about performance.
I wouldn't have posted my comment if it weren't for the fact that a lot of companies are using such phones. Contacts, calendar etc are important enough features for this to be (very) worthwhile even though you aren't using them for email.
The cell phones you mention are almost *never* used in enterprise deployments where over-the-air sync of email, calendar, and contacts are used for corporate purposes.
Please don't mistake the sorry state of cell phone use and features in the US with the rest of the world. My closed operating system (with excellent Java support) phone has no problems whatsoever using SyncML for wireless synchronization of mail, calendar, contacts etc over GPRS, EDGE and 3G.
With no notion of user access levels in the compact mobile operating systems, a lack of effective authentication, and no data encryption
Absolute bollocks. The extreme majority of cell phones are running closed operating systems, and the only exposed APIs are Java (Java ME, MIDP). They are a lot MORE secure than anything else we're currently using - even on our PCs. They contain access levels (only signed applications can access certain APIs without needing to prompt the user), and they store their data encrypted if it's on an exchangable memory card or else it's stored in the phone's own secure flash.
The extreme _miniority_ of phones so far running less secure operating systems are rapidly shifting in the same direction - look at the latest Symbian version as an example.
Umm. You do realise there's a LOT of people on Slashdot that suddenly got their moderating priviligies (but not meta-moderation interestingly enough) removed and, as far as I know, no one has ever been told why?
The economy of the United States of North America (USNA) is failing. [---] turn the USNA into a police state [---] revitalization plan (dubbed the Plan for Renewed National Purpose), sponsored by Senator Richard Ryder. The Plan calls for "renewed national purpose" through de-regulation of government and industry, military conscription, a unilateral approach to diplomatic relations, and a return to traditional and fundamental values.
This rat brain has been exposed to microwave fields similar to those from a mobile phone handset. The dark spots are albumen that has come into the brain through the blood-brain-barrier opened by the radiation.
Oh, one more thing... Good luck watching blueray discs on your friends DVD players.... you mean, like "good luck watching dvd discs on your friend's cd-player"?
I fail to see your point. Please don't tell me you think HD DVD is in any way more (or less) backwards compatible with DVD than Blu-ray.
So, the official US propaganda machine says CIA hasn't trained bin Laden.
So. Nice.
What do they have to say about the financing for 9/11 (part of it - Mohammed Atta) coming from CIA through Pakistan (ISI)?
(And what about the CIA meetings with bin Laden at a Dubai hospital a few months before 9/11 - when bin Laden allegedly was one of the world's most wanted men?)
Maybe there's enough there for a Fox News reality show even?
Sorry, I thought that was obvious from my previous post. When it's no longer economically feasible to perform all R&D yourself you start cooperating with other companies, sharing the costs.
This has been done already in a number of other high cost sectors (telecom) - why should the pharmaceutical industry need special treatment?
It can take up to a billion dollars to push a single drug from discovery, to lab testing, past regulation, and into production
The parts that are done secretly, while reinventing processes others in turn also have been inventing, fighting with tooth and nail to be a few months ahead, yes.
... but if I ask you to prove that's the most effective way, especially at/. where people immideately understands the benefit of open-source-do-not-reinvent-the-wheel-AGAIN, I think your pre-written sentences above will start to crumble.
Maybe I'm biased, working in software engineering. I regulary see patents being applied (and granted) for extremely trivial things. There might have been a time where patents lead to a net benefit, but I have had my doubts for several years that it's the case now (and yes - that's including the pharmaceutical industry, even if it means a slight change in how they work)
Correct. Some say that's why Iraq was invaded, and why Iran will soon be invaded. The first time the US government made up lies about WMDs, this time it's nuclear research.
I don't know where you live, but flat screen TVs and projectors very much capable of displaying the difference between TV/DVD and HDTV are both commonplace and cheap.
The only reason to buy an Xbox 360 instead of an Xbox is to play games in 720p instead of 480p. The difference justifies it.
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There are operators with unlimited data plans. The operator 3 (Tre) in Sweden has one for ~$70/month.
? id=19365
http://www.tre.se/templates/SubscriptionPlan.aspx
(It even sounds a bit better than that. If you manage to use a maximum of 1Gb a month you're down to ~$27/month - and if you exceed 1Gb you pay $70 instead and then it's unlimited for that month)
I can see the Wiimote working ok for some of these games, but would you honestly want to use one on the latest racing game or FPS?
.. yes? It's the perfect control for both those types of games. Have you seen Nintendo's E3 presentation?
Umm
Wrong again. The FCT flag, optionally used on both HD DVD and Blu-ray, is up to the content publisher to use. It seems most won't - and at least not Sony - according to themselves.
Btw, it's HDCP, not HDMI, you're talking about.
since Blu-Ray requires you have HDMI output
No.
Yes - albeit a crippled one. The Jaguar however had both a 64-bit bus and could perform 64-bit register manipulation. I've never understood the fanboys who desperately tried to claim it was something else :)
The rest of us, however, understands that "bitness" is irrelevant when talking about performance.
The Jaguar's CPU (and/or GPU, I don't remember) could perform 64-bit operations on 64-bit registers. That's "64-bit" in my book.
I wouldn't have posted my comment if it weren't for the fact that a lot of companies are using such phones. Contacts, calendar etc are important enough features for this to be (very) worthwhile even though you aren't using them for email.
OTOH, I'm quite biased.
The cell phones you mention are almost *never* used in enterprise deployments where over-the-air sync of email, calendar, and contacts are used for corporate purposes.
Please don't mistake the sorry state of cell phone use and features in the US with the rest of the world. My closed operating system (with excellent Java support) phone has no problems whatsoever using SyncML for wireless synchronization of mail, calendar, contacts etc over GPRS, EDGE and 3G.
With no notion of user access levels in the compact mobile operating systems, a lack of effective authentication, and no data encryption
Absolute bollocks. The extreme majority of cell phones are running closed operating systems, and the only exposed APIs are Java (Java ME, MIDP). They are a lot MORE secure than anything else we're currently using - even on our PCs. They contain access levels (only signed applications can access certain APIs without needing to prompt the user), and they store their data encrypted if it's on an exchangable memory card or else it's stored in the phone's own secure flash.
The extreme _miniority_ of phones so far running less secure operating systems are rapidly shifting in the same direction - look at the latest Symbian version as an example.
Nothing to see here - move along.
Karma: Excellent
Moderation: Never based on personal opinions
Other accounts: Of course not.
I have no problems with having lost my moderation priviligies - but I found CmdrTaco's indignation regarding Digg quite humorous in that regard.
(See other posts about "bitchslapping" for more info)
Umm. You do realise there's a LOT of people on Slashdot that suddenly got their moderating priviligies (but not meta-moderation interestingly enough) removed and, as far as I know, no one has ever been told why?
Yes, I'm one of them.
The Social Democratic Party has run Sweden for 65 out of a possible 74 years straight.
Members of the Party are more or less a new upper class, being able to do whatever they wish without actually getting penalized for it.
I'd say this is the scary part (from Wikipedia):
...
The economy of the United States of North America (USNA) is failing. [---] turn the USNA into a police state [---] revitalization plan (dubbed the Plan for Renewed National Purpose), sponsored by Senator Richard Ryder. The Plan calls for "renewed national purpose" through de-regulation of government and industry, military conscription, a unilateral approach to diplomatic relations, and a return to traditional and fundamental values.
Yeah, or the Project for a New American Century
Regarding the bots in the contest I've seen ones on IRC more capable of passing the turing test, but I guess that isn't the purpose here.
Yes (English translation of a Swedish article)
Microwaves open up the Blood Brain Barrier.
[---]
This rat brain has been exposed to microwave fields similar to those from a mobile phone handset. The dark spots are albumen that has come into the brain through the blood-brain-barrier opened by the radiation.
Steel the common name for the pure form of Iron
... Iron. You got it exactly backwards.
Uh no. Steel is the name given to various Iron alloys. Iron is the name for the pure form of
Yes, I'm a Mechanical Engineer.
1) No
;)
2) They have
Sorry
Oh, one more thing... Good luck watching blueray discs on your friends DVD players. ... you mean, like "good luck watching dvd discs on your friend's cd-player"?
I fail to see your point. Please don't tell me you think HD DVD is in any way more (or less) backwards compatible with DVD than Blu-ray.
Sony... the guys who brought us very expensive DVD players that wouldn't read CD-R/DVD+-R media (on purpose of course).
...
Bollocks. The Sony 715S was on the contrary one of the first high end DVD-players to both read CD-R and play VCD-content
Yes, I had one.
No - seriously. The backwards compatibility IS that bad - if it plays everything you have you should consider yourself very lucky.
FOXNews.com
So, the official US propaganda machine says CIA hasn't trained bin Laden.
So. Nice.
What do they have to say about the financing for 9/11 (part of it - Mohammed Atta) coming from CIA through Pakistan (ISI)?
(And what about the CIA meetings with bin Laden at a Dubai hospital a few months before 9/11 - when bin Laden allegedly was one of the world's most wanted men?)
Maybe there's enough there for a Fox News reality show even?
No :) Maybe you should look at other sectors - why not the one I mentioned - and see how cooperation together competition is done there?
Sorry, I thought that was obvious from my previous post. When it's no longer economically feasible to perform all R&D yourself you start cooperating with other companies, sharing the costs.
This has been done already in a number of other high cost sectors (telecom) - why should the pharmaceutical industry need special treatment?
The parts that are done secretly, while reinventing processes others in turn also have been inventing, fighting with tooth and nail to be a few months ahead, yes.
Maybe I'm biased, working in software engineering. I regulary see patents being applied (and granted) for extremely trivial things. There might have been a time where patents lead to a net benefit, but I have had my doubts for several years that it's the case now (and yes - that's including the pharmaceutical industry, even if it means a slight change in how they work)
Correct. Some say that's why Iraq was invaded, and why Iran will soon be invaded. The first time the US government made up lies about WMDs, this time it's nuclear research.
Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse
(Written almost a year ago, it still managed to predict the current nonsense being spread about Iranian nuclear research)
I don't know where you live, but flat screen TVs and projectors very much capable of displaying the difference between TV/DVD and HDTV are both commonplace and cheap.
The only reason to buy an Xbox 360 instead of an Xbox is to play games in 720p instead of 480p. The difference justifies it.
The same can be said for Blu-ray vs DVD.