Yeah, I applaud them for trying to find ways to help, but these really aren't "inventions," just re-applications of existing items and concepts. Isn't that what all inventions are?
My Cable broadband went tits up on Wednesday, so I've been stuck tethering to my Cingular 3125 for the last two days, using the EDGE network. Man, this crap is slow. 200 kbits/second, my ass. It's pretty much a wireless 56Kbps modem. That's what it feels like.
After seeing Paradise Lost, those shitheads (the wm3) really didn't do themselves any favors. I can understand how a case with so little evidence (real or otherwise) could get muddled by the actions of the accused. I have sympathy for them, but come on, dudes, pull your collective heads out of your asses!
The only carbon fibre I have around here is a $1000 flyrod and I'm not going to test that. Do you have to use a special adapter in order to use SAE flies?
This is totatlly going to be another Vanguard/SWG/Everquest-get-it-out-asap-without-it- being-finished deal. Screw SOE. They ruin everything they touch. It might be ready a year or two after release.
VPN sessions are much more time sensitive than other applications. Any latency caused by, oh say, packet retransmission due to interference will cause the session to be invalidated. Try connecting a VPN through a satellite connection (HughesNet), or through an access point in an area with lots of other wireless networks overlapping. You WILL lose your connections. Heck, I've had problems using some dial-up services even.
what's with this crap about the console makers dictating which games they will and will not allow console owners to play? The VCR and DVD manufacturers don't get to tell you which videos you can and cannot view on their devices. Why should Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have the privilege? Console manufacturers (ever since Atari was run into the ground by crap games) have put into place schemes to keep unauthorized software from running on their machines. It's not a privilege, as you put it, it's a design that's intrinsic to the systems. If you don't like, you can opt to not buy a console, plain and simple.
Ask yourself: what attracts gamers to one console over another? For the most part, it's the games. Some people buy consoles based solely on the specs (we'll call them PS3 owners) but for the most part, people buy consoles to play a game that they've seen and want to play. The games are the thing, and it's in the interest of the console manufacturers to make sure that every game makes the platform more desirable.
Recall seeing any keyboards on Star Trek? We have to make the move at some point in order to get into the future, and its not like Microsoft is going to usher in something new. I'm sorry to be the one to burst your bubble but Star Trek isn't real. It's version of a keyboardless future isn't real. This future comes from the same minds that gave us Tachyon Fields, Phasers, and Transporters (also not real). It's not the product of any real cultural/technological process in which keys were determined to be inefficient, ineffective, or obsolete. It's surprising how often I have to point out that Star Trek is fiction on Slashdot. It's sad, really.
I liked WoW, but it really isn't in the same category as even EQ1. I really, really wanted to like Vanguard, but they boned it up good by not finishing it before the release date. It might be good at some point, but who knows? I refuse to subsidize their development by paying money to take part in Vanguard's Open Alpha testing.
When my company (a large financial institution) was looking into smart phones, there were two requirements that were particularly hard for vendors to provide:
1) Encryption. Gotta have the e-mail, phonebook, and any files encrypted wherever they're stored. Doesn't do us any good to have an SD slot that someone can pop in any old card and move their messages to that is unencrypted.
2) Remote Wipe. Gotta be able to enforce a security policy that wipes a lost machine on demand.
So far, I haven't heard if iPhone supports either of these. We couldn't find ANY cell phone vendors that supported all of this out of the box, so we had to go to third party solutions. From everything I'm reading, that isn't an option with iPhone.
This is why I think that the iPhone will fail in the Enterprise. Period. Gotta open to third party solutions. I think the option of companies creating their own applications is unrealistic. Unless your entire organization is going to standardize on one handset and one vendor you're looking at a support nightmare. Even J2ME or.Net Compact Framework is a pain. You're better off making a Web-based application with a tiny interface.
Yeah, that's why I always refer to the platform as Linux-Perl-BASH-Apache-Xwindows-KDE-GNOME-GNU-Pyth on-Emacs-XEmacs. See if you just say 'Linux' then nobody knows what the hell you're talking about, and the purpose is to communicate, right?
I was in CompUSA and saw they were selling them for $349, with 20% off, during the great purge. I already had one, but at that price I had to get one for my brother.
I purchased a Samsung Q1 last November and truthfully, it's no where nearly as useful as the N800, and costs 3x as much.
Sales figures don't tell you the whole story either, so keep looking. Yeah, and most Mac users replace 3-4 PowerPC Macs with just one Intel Mac, so there's the explanation of why the numbers are changing. And you used to have to go to a page 2-3 times, whereas with an Intel Mac, you only have to go their once to get the same information. That would explain the drop in PowerPC Macs browser stats without a similar increase in Intel Macs.
Also, people who use Intel Macs are just not getting on the web because they're so busy making movies and recording their bands and stuff. That would explain the difference as well. And they're probably playing World of Warcraft, or some of the other great two year old games instead of getting on the web.
In fact, when I pictured what my own crew looked like, I pictured the crew shown on the cover. That chick in the back with the bare midriff is pretty hot! I'd buy the game just so I could imagine boning her!
Not only is it buggy, it's not finished. Many skills don't work. This is fraud, IMO. It's too bad, because from the descriptions, Vanguard was going to be the rightful successor to Everquest. Turns out, it's a scam.
As the PS3 suffers under far greater scrutiny here, I would postulate any problems with Westinghouse TVs would go largely unnoticed.
I don't for a second believe that the 200,000 PS3s in the world recieve more scrutiny than the Westinghouse LCDs. These TVs are quite popular amongst AV junkies because they are the most reasonably priced 1080p HDTVs available. If you think they aren't being agonized over by AV nerds, I'd suggest you take a look at AVSFORUM.COM. If I were in the tinfoil hat crew, I'd suggest that Sony was purposely trying to discredit Westinghouse's reasonable quality/low priced competitor to their own high-priced/highly-rated 1080p fare.
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This is perhaps the most well-crafted unsupported statement I've ever seen on Slashdot. Congratulations! Your Nobel Prize is in the mail.
Is there a vibrate mode on the iPhone? There is on my phone, and sometimes I call myself just for fun!
... and the withdrawal is a cake walk by comparison.
2400bps? Rich kid.
Yeah, like when Stalin put 7 million of his citizens into death camps. That's just like the US.
Grow up you fucking drama queen.
According to dslreports, I was getting ~155kbps. It's still too damn slow.
My Cable broadband went tits up on Wednesday, so I've been stuck tethering to my Cingular 3125 for the last two days, using the EDGE network. Man, this crap is slow. 200 kbits/second, my ass. It's pretty much a wireless 56Kbps modem. That's what it feels like.
After seeing Paradise Lost, those shitheads (the wm3) really didn't do themselves any favors. I can understand how a case with so little evidence (real or otherwise) could get muddled by the actions of the accused. I have sympathy for them, but come on, dudes, pull your collective heads out of your asses!
This is totatlly going to be another Vanguard/SWG/Everquest-get-it-out-asap-without-it- being-finished deal. Screw SOE. They ruin everything they touch. It might be ready a year or two after release.
VPN sessions are much more time sensitive than other applications. Any latency caused by, oh say, packet retransmission due to interference will cause the session to be invalidated. Try connecting a VPN through a satellite connection (HughesNet), or through an access point in an area with lots of other wireless networks overlapping. You WILL lose your connections. Heck, I've had problems using some dial-up services even.
Ask yourself: what attracts gamers to one console over another? For the most part, it's the games. Some people buy consoles based solely on the specs (we'll call them PS3 owners) but for the most part, people buy consoles to play a game that they've seen and want to play. The games are the thing, and it's in the interest of the console manufacturers to make sure that every game makes the platform more desirable.
Yeah, everyone knows that the CoCo is a much better choice for overclocking.
I liked WoW, but it really isn't in the same category as even EQ1. I really, really wanted to like Vanguard, but they boned it up good by not finishing it before the release date. It might be good at some point, but who knows? I refuse to subsidize their development by paying money to take part in Vanguard's Open Alpha testing.
When my company (a large financial institution) was looking into smart phones, there were two requirements that were particularly hard for vendors to provide:
.Net Compact Framework is a pain. You're better off making a Web-based application with a tiny interface.
1) Encryption. Gotta have the e-mail, phonebook, and any files encrypted wherever they're stored. Doesn't do us any good to have an SD slot that someone can pop in any old card and move their messages to that is unencrypted.
2) Remote Wipe. Gotta be able to enforce a security policy that wipes a lost machine on demand.
So far, I haven't heard if iPhone supports either of these. We couldn't find ANY cell phone vendors that supported all of this out of the box, so we had to go to third party solutions. From everything I'm reading, that isn't an option with iPhone.
This is why I think that the iPhone will fail in the Enterprise. Period. Gotta open to third party solutions. I think the option of companies creating their own applications is unrealistic. Unless your entire organization is going to standardize on one handset and one vendor you're looking at a support nightmare. Even J2ME or
Yeah, that's why I always refer to the platform as Linux-Perl-BASH-Apache-Xwindows-KDE-GNOME-GNU-Pyth on-Emacs-XEmacs. See if you just say 'Linux' then nobody knows what the hell you're talking about, and the purpose is to communicate, right?
I was in CompUSA and saw they were selling them for $349, with 20% off, during the great purge. I already had one, but at that price I had to get one for my brother.
I purchased a Samsung Q1 last November and truthfully, it's no where nearly as useful as the N800, and costs 3x as much.
Also, people who use Intel Macs are just not getting on the web because they're so busy making movies and recording their bands and stuff. That would explain the difference as well. And they're probably playing World of Warcraft, or some of the other great two year old games instead of getting on the web.
I never understood Steve Jobs insistence that you can do anything with your "bicycle for the mind" except have fun. What a 'tard.
Not only is it buggy, it's not finished. Many skills don't work. This is fraud, IMO. It's too bad, because from the descriptions, Vanguard was going to be the rightful successor to Everquest. Turns out, it's a scam.
As the PS3 suffers under far greater scrutiny here, I would postulate any problems with Westinghouse TVs would go largely unnoticed.
I don't for a second believe that the 200,000 PS3s in the world recieve more scrutiny than the Westinghouse LCDs. These TVs are quite popular amongst AV junkies because they are the most reasonably priced 1080p HDTVs available. If you think they aren't being agonized over by AV nerds, I'd suggest you take a look at AVSFORUM.COM. If I were in the tinfoil hat crew, I'd suggest that Sony was purposely trying to discredit Westinghouse's reasonable quality/low priced competitor to their own high-priced/highly-rated 1080p fare.