The one addition to this is that the terms should be spelled out clearly, and in understandable english (or your favorite language of choice). How many people just click through the licensing agreements on their MS software, knowing that even if they read that agreement, they still wouldn't understand what it means...
How long will this "cure" work? It seems that this designer virus will be very successful initially, but the HIV virus will become immune very quickly! Survival of the fittest
I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. It's nice to get new features every year, plus other benefits (more optimized kernel, etc), but each of these releases costs $129! A quick look through Apple's OS X site reveals no details on how long the OS will be supported.
IIRC, Windows XP Pro costs $199 (for an upgrade), and has been fully supported for those five years, plus MS does have a fairly straight forword support policy for their older OS's.
(Note: I'm not trying to argue the relative merits of each OS, but just to point out that 5 releases in 5 years might not be a good thing)
Last Sept. I purchased a 15" Aluminum G4 Powerbook. I am very happy with my purchase, however, IMHO, the battery life is one of the least desirable points of that purchase. I was expecting 4 or so hours of battery life (like on the Titanium G4), but was disappointed to discover I only get between 2 to 3 on normal usage. Granted, everybody uses their machines differently, and this may or may not be a problem for you...
IIRC, back in the day (during the boom), SourceForge was released under the GPL. After the bust, they changed the license of the SF software to proprietary, and tried to sell it to the highest bidder.
I think that Savannah was forked from the GPL-based Sourceforge...
As others have posted, the 800Mhz band is far more valuable to operators than the 1900 band. This is due to building penetration benefits that the 800 spectrum provides...
The reason that Verizon, et al, is so upset, is that they are offering new frequency to Nextel. From Daily Wireless: "Verizon Wireless remains ready to participate in an immediate auction of a nationwide license for the 10 megahertz (specifically the 1910-1915/1990-1995 MHz)."
According to the FCC Website: "Broadband PCS is allocated spectrum ranging from 1850-1910 MHz and 1930-1990 MHz. "
This would be a new subblock of the PCS band, that could be used _nationwide_, which is why Verizon has said it is worth 5 billion. Also, every time the FCC has released new spectrum for phone services, they've auctioned off those new services to the highest bidder.
I think that Nextel has made the decision in the long term to switch to CDMA. (Qualcomm gave them exclusive rights in the US to their "Qchat' functionality, which makes PTT work well on CDMA networks according to the marketing material)
Also, IMHO, it would be foolish to begin to roll out a GSM network right now. WCDMA is supposed to replace GSM in the (somewhat) near future. It seems that WCDMA or CDMA2000 would be a better route because those technologies are being actively developed, and are more "future proof'. Besides, roaming on another network costs lots of money!
Although, if you look at the new NERD album, you'll see that there are now a few tracks on it you can't download unless you buy the whole album. (IIRC, the album is $13.99, but there are only 10 tracks total)
Heh...a few years ago,/. made an April fools joke about Python and Perl merging into a new language called "Parrot" Apparently, some people liked the idea, and started the project. I have no idea of its status, though:-(
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Isn't Europa in Jupiter's radiation belts? In otherwords, a tiny amount of radiation released from a probe would probably be nothing compared to what the "ocean" experiences everyday? (I could be way off base, though)
First, let me say this: I think that it is important that we have more than one competing wireless standard! They will constantly try to out-innovate each other, leaving the consumer as the big winner.
1. Verizon has committed to rolling out EV-DO nationwide. I don't work for Verizon, so I don't know any exact dates, but I would guess a year from now would be reasonable to have major city coverage.
2. I doubt ATTWS has trial UMTS stations in all 7 markets. I work for a large cell phone manufacture in San Diego (one of the "initial rollout markets"), and I have used a UMTS device that can receive signals on the 1900MHz band. In San Diego, I have not seen any sort of UMTS pilot. (I know a trial network exists in Dallas, though)
3. You seem pretty optimistic that the ATTWS/Cingular merger is going to go through perfectly! I anticipate that this merger will slow things down for 6 months to a year.
4. IMHO, UMTS won't be ready to be rolled out until 2005 at the earliest in the US. By that time, Verizon and Sprint will likely have begun to roll out their 1xEV-DV networks, which (from what I've seen) competes very will with WCDMA. Also, there are rumors of a second-generation EV-DO, which likely will either be faster, or have a better latency (guessing)
The latency on CDMA 1xEV-DO isn't quite good enough to support VOIP. From the people I know who have used this service, it "feels" like a 56k modem in regard to its latency. (In a conversation on this site, Phil Karn pointed out that the latency isn't over the air interface, but elsewhere within the system)
In (I'm guessing) early 2005, Verizon, Sprint, should be rolling out a service based on 1xEV-DV. That will provide even higher data rates (in both directions), and (IIRC), voice calls will be VOIP by default!
That's a fair answer:-) I always assumed that the latency on 1xEV-DO was too high to run voice over IP. (The reviews I've read on Verizon's EV-DO seemed to imply that the latency was too high to handle VoIP...however, it still is better than GPRS/EDGE)
Also, (please correct me if I'm wrong), wasn't EV-DV designed to treat all (non-legacy) calls as data? (What I am asking is that all EV-DV calls are VoIP calls, and voice & data calls share the same service option number?) (I'm also of the assumption that EV-DV and EV-DO are two complementary (and incompatible) technologies, but I assume both use Turbo codes to maximize spectral efficiency?)
Again, outside of IS-95 and 1xRTT, my knowledge on CDMA is quite low! When your company makes money off of currently deployed technologies, there isn't much incentive to retrain until there is a larger market demand...plus I haven't seen many good EV-DO/EV-DV documents online:-)
Krakatoa was an enormous eruption. I don't doubt that...however the Long Valley/Yellowstone events (which did occur in pre-history times) were _much_ larger
For example, the URL you listed menioned that about 21 cubic km of "crud" was ejected in the Krakatoa eruption. This URL states "About 760,000 years ago a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in the area blew out 150 cubic miles of magma (molten rock) from a depth of about 4 miles beneath the Earth's surface." If Google's math is correct, that is about 625 cubic km of "crud":-)
IIRC, Yellowstone's Giant eruption was somewhere around 1,000 cubic km in size!
This relatively large block size is practical because 1xEV-DO is primarily designed for Internet access rather than voice.
Isn't EV-DO designed _only_ for data access? I thought the DO stood for Data Only. (I currently work on IS-2000 1xrtt applications right now, and I have very little knowledge of EV-DO and EV-DV interworkings)
While both Krakatoa eruptions were extremely large, they are not nearly on the scale of the giant Yellowstone & Long Valley eruptions.
The Long Valley explosion, which occurred ~760,000 years ago was significantly larger. Ash from that eruption was discovered as far away as Nebraska! It is theorized that the sound of the eruption was heard around the world, and that the sky was filled with ash for years afterwards. At the time of its eruption, the mountain was estimated at over 14,000 feet. Now the caldera rests at about 7,500 feet (above sea level)...of course, there has been many more eruptions since then
...And the Yellowstone eruption mentioned above was bigger!
Or, since financial information is somewhat out there, they could make a larger donation to a group fighting SCO. However, I still have not seen any evidence of that happening...at least that would somewhat clear their name...
IIRC it is China Unicomm that is rolling out CDMA in China.
Also, why does that not allow SIM card passing? CDMA phones support the R-UIM standard (which looks like a type 2 sim, and can read standard sim cards...kinda) Last I checked, all China Unicomm CDMA phones use R-UIM cards, and those cards are interchangable between Unicomm GSM and CDMA phones
However, the US CDMA providers see no reason to use these cards.
Why doesn't each machine print out who each person voted for? That way, a manual recount can occur, any counting errors in the software aren't a major issue, etc.
Agreed. Also, how long does water need to be "standing" for this to occur? It seems to me that there is the potential for a comet filled with ice to hit, have the water melt (assuming proper atmospheric conditions) and then have the minerals form over a few years before the water disappears (...I'd assume by having H20 bonds broken by radiation from the sun?)
I disagree with you. These plaintiffs had the opportunity to take workers comp to pay off some of their bills. While it isn't alot of money, it's better than none.
However, they went and played the lotto by forfeiting those rights, and sued for a bigger reward. They lost...so they get nothing.
While I disagree with IBM's tactics in their handling of the situation, I do also equally fault these people for suing, and losing...
TMobile uses 1900. They do not have a license to use 900 in the US. Since their spectrum is 1900 only, they sell phones that use 900/1800/1900 to maximize worldwide roaming.
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The one addition to this is that the terms should be spelled out clearly, and in understandable english (or your favorite language of choice). How many people just click through the licensing agreements on their MS software, knowing that even if they read that agreement, they still wouldn't understand what it means...
It seems the most fair "agreement" would be:
You get
*feature
*feature
We get
*Right
*Right
How long will this "cure" work? It seems that this designer virus will be very successful initially, but the HIV virus will become immune very quickly! Survival of the fittest
I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. It's nice to get new features every year, plus other benefits (more optimized kernel, etc), but each of these releases costs $129! A quick look through Apple's OS X site reveals no details on how long the OS will be supported.
IIRC, Windows XP Pro costs $199 (for an upgrade), and has been fully supported for those five years, plus MS does have a fairly straight forword support policy for their older OS's.
(Note: I'm not trying to argue the relative merits of each OS, but just to point out that 5 releases in 5 years might not be a good thing)
Last Sept. I purchased a 15" Aluminum G4 Powerbook. I am very happy with my purchase, however, IMHO, the battery life is one of the least desirable points of that purchase. I was expecting 4 or so hours of battery life (like on the Titanium G4), but was disappointed to discover I only get between 2 to 3 on normal usage. Granted, everybody uses their machines differently, and this may or may not be a problem for you...
IIRC, back in the day (during the boom), SourceForge was released under the GPL. After the bust, they changed the license of the SF software to proprietary, and tried to sell it to the highest bidder.
I think that Savannah was forked from the GPL-based Sourceforge...
As others have posted, the 800Mhz band is far more valuable to operators than the 1900 band. This is due to building penetration benefits that the 800 spectrum provides...
The reason that Verizon, et al, is so upset, is that they are offering new frequency to Nextel. From Daily Wireless: "Verizon Wireless remains ready to participate in an immediate auction of a nationwide license for the 10 megahertz (specifically the 1910-1915/1990-1995 MHz)."
According to the FCC Website: "Broadband PCS is allocated spectrum ranging from 1850-1910 MHz and 1930-1990 MHz. "
This would be a new subblock of the PCS band, that could be used _nationwide_, which is why Verizon has said it is worth 5 billion. Also, every time the FCC has released new spectrum for phone services, they've auctioned off those new services to the highest bidder.
I think that Nextel has made the decision in the long term to switch to CDMA. (Qualcomm gave them exclusive rights in the US to their "Qchat' functionality, which makes PTT work well on CDMA networks according to the marketing material)
Also, IMHO, it would be foolish to begin to roll out a GSM network right now. WCDMA is supposed to replace GSM in the (somewhat) near future. It seems that WCDMA or CDMA2000 would be a better route because those technologies are being actively developed, and are more "future proof'. Besides, roaming on another network costs lots of money!
Although, if you look at the new NERD album, you'll see that there are now a few tracks on it you can't download unless you buy the whole album. (IIRC, the album is $13.99, but there are only 10 tracks total)
Heh...a few years ago, /. made an April fools joke about Python and Perl merging into a new language called "Parrot" Apparently, some people liked the idea, and started the project. I have no idea of its status, though :-(
Isn't Europa in Jupiter's radiation belts? In otherwords, a tiny amount of radiation released from a probe would probably be nothing compared to what the "ocean" experiences everyday? (I could be way off base, though)
First, let me say this: I think that it is important that we have more than one competing wireless standard! They will constantly try to out-innovate each other, leaving the consumer as the big winner.
:-)
1. Verizon has committed to rolling out EV-DO nationwide. I don't work for Verizon, so I don't know any exact dates, but I would guess a year from now would be reasonable to have major city coverage.
2. I doubt ATTWS has trial UMTS stations in all 7 markets. I work for a large cell phone manufacture in San Diego (one of the "initial rollout markets"), and I have used a UMTS device that can receive signals on the 1900MHz band. In San Diego, I have not seen any sort of UMTS pilot. (I know a trial network exists in Dallas, though)
3. You seem pretty optimistic that the ATTWS/Cingular merger is going to go through perfectly! I anticipate that this merger will slow things down for 6 months to a year.
4. IMHO, UMTS won't be ready to be rolled out until 2005 at the earliest in the US. By that time, Verizon and Sprint will likely have begun to roll out their 1xEV-DV networks, which (from what I've seen) competes very will with WCDMA. Also, there are rumors of a second-generation EV-DO, which likely will either be faster, or have a better latency (guessing)
5. There is no 5
The latency on CDMA 1xEV-DO isn't quite good enough to support VOIP. From the people I know who have used this service, it "feels" like a 56k modem in regard to its latency. (In a conversation on this site, Phil Karn pointed out that the latency isn't over the air interface, but elsewhere within the system)
In (I'm guessing) early 2005, Verizon, Sprint, should be rolling out a service based on 1xEV-DV. That will provide even higher data rates (in both directions), and (IIRC), voice calls will be VOIP by default!
If it was on slashdot, then it _can't_ be wrong!!!! :-)
That's a fair answer :-) I always assumed that the latency on 1xEV-DO was too high to run voice over IP. (The reviews I've read on Verizon's EV-DO seemed to imply that the latency was too high to handle VoIP...however, it still is better than GPRS/EDGE)
:-)
Also, (please correct me if I'm wrong), wasn't EV-DV designed to treat all (non-legacy) calls as data? (What I am asking is that all EV-DV calls are VoIP calls, and voice & data calls share the same service option number?) (I'm also of the assumption that EV-DV and EV-DO are two complementary (and incompatible) technologies, but I assume both use Turbo codes to maximize spectral efficiency?)
Again, outside of IS-95 and 1xRTT, my knowledge on CDMA is quite low! When your company makes money off of currently deployed technologies, there isn't much incentive to retrain until there is a larger market demand...plus I haven't seen many good EV-DO/EV-DV documents online
Krakatoa was an enormous eruption. I don't doubt that...however the Long Valley/Yellowstone events (which did occur in pre-history times) were _much_ larger
:-)
For example, the URL you listed menioned that about 21 cubic km of "crud" was ejected in the Krakatoa eruption. This URL states "About 760,000 years ago a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in the area blew out 150 cubic miles of magma (molten rock) from a depth of about 4 miles beneath the Earth's surface." If Google's math is correct, that is about 625 cubic km of "crud"
IIRC, Yellowstone's Giant eruption was somewhere around 1,000 cubic km in size!
This relatively large block size is practical because 1xEV-DO is primarily designed for Internet access rather than voice.
Isn't EV-DO designed _only_ for data access? I thought the DO stood for Data Only. (I currently work on IS-2000 1xrtt applications right now, and I have very little knowledge of EV-DO and EV-DV interworkings)
While both Krakatoa eruptions were extremely large, they are not nearly on the scale of the giant Yellowstone & Long Valley eruptions.
...And the Yellowstone eruption mentioned above was bigger!
The Long Valley explosion, which occurred ~760,000 years ago was significantly larger. Ash from that eruption was discovered as far away as Nebraska! It is theorized that the sound of the eruption was heard around the world, and that the sky was filled with ash for years afterwards. At the time of its eruption, the mountain was estimated at over 14,000 feet. Now the caldera rests at about 7,500 feet (above sea level)...of course, there has been many more eruptions since then
Agreed...they could sue on breach of contract...
Or, since financial information is somewhat out there, they could make a larger donation to a group fighting SCO. However, I still have not seen any evidence of that happening...at least that would somewhat clear their name...
IIRC it is China Unicomm that is rolling out CDMA in China.
Also, why does that not allow SIM card passing? CDMA phones support the R-UIM standard (which looks like a type 2 sim, and can read standard sim cards...kinda) Last I checked, all China Unicomm CDMA phones use R-UIM cards, and those cards are interchangable between Unicomm GSM and CDMA phones
However, the US CDMA providers see no reason to use these cards.
Just to clarify, 900 and 1800 are used in most non-western-hemisphere countries. (The only one that uses 900 & 1800 is Brazil, AFAIK)
Maybe you are just overthinking it...
Why doesn't each machine print out who each person voted for? That way, a manual recount can occur, any counting errors in the software aren't a major issue, etc.
To me at least, this is the most obvious solution
Agreed. Also, how long does water need to be "standing" for this to occur? It seems to me that there is the potential for a comet filled with ice to hit, have the water melt (assuming proper atmospheric conditions) and then have the minerals form over a few years before the water disappears (...I'd assume by having H20 bonds broken by radiation from the sun?)
I disagree with you. These plaintiffs had the opportunity to take workers comp to pay off some of their bills. While it isn't alot of money, it's better than none.
However, they went and played the lotto by forfeiting those rights, and sued for a bigger reward. They lost...so they get nothing.
While I disagree with IBM's tactics in their handling of the situation, I do also equally fault these people for suing, and losing...
Batteries need to be replaced, too...
TMobile uses 1900. They do not have a license to use 900 in the US. Since their spectrum is 1900 only, they sell phones that use 900/1800/1900 to maximize worldwide roaming.