How much good quality video can you fit in to, say, 1gb? 0.5-3 hours, depending on quality?
Music? 10-20 hours?
And what about books? Well, you can fit hundreds of them in to a gigabyte. That's enough reading for a decade, at least.
I know bandwidth isn't that big of a problem these days, as it was before, but take what happened for me, for example:
I heard about this interesting science fiction book one day. It didn't sound interesting enough for me to rush to amazon.co.uk to order it, though, so out of a whim I decided to do a search on the pirate bay, just for fun. What I found was this torrent that was filled with science fiction books, a couple of gigabytes in size. It contained basically every single notable book by every single notable science fiction author.
The fact that downloading a whole genre of books is so trivial that it can be done in a half-an-hour these days makes me glad I'm not a science fiction author
We don't need another Apollo-like mission to the moon. We've already done those enough. It's just going to cost money without any substantial new information. The next mission to the moon should be bigger and a lot different from what we have done before. Either have the balls to commit yourselves and the money to something meaningful or don't do it at all. I'd also like to point out that the moon isn't going anywhere in the near future. If a meaningful mission would cost too much now, there's no shame in waiting for the technology to became more mature.
And let's say... three months ago (30.4.2009), with an exchange rate of 1.32, the EU MacBook would have cost $1031. 32$ Difference. Not that much difference now, right? The prices are a little bit higher to accommodate for changes in the currencies values.
Reading comprehension doesn't seem to be in fashion anymore... Read the GP again.
"If you are clever enough a user to want to right-click, it's simple enough to just go to the System Preference pane for your mouse and turn it on."
A small checkbox in the settings panel and the Apple mouse is a two-button mouse. Press the left side, you do a left click, press the right side, you do a right click. The left and right clicking work exactly like with a normal mouse.
These micro transactions have some ok poential uses, but some of the uses are just down-right silly. Like that FPS game Apple demoed, where you can pay some tens of cents to get a rocket launcher to get an advantage. I, personally, can't wait to see the Slashdot story about a kid who racked up tens of thousands of dollars of debt with his parents credit card by trying to be the best on a silly FPS server.
Maybe they already have something like that in place? Just because there is some sort of construction going on near a secret cable, doesn't mean it will certainly be cut. It would make sense to keep a close eye on construction projects that have a possibility to cut a black wire, but only step in when it actually happens. Telling everyone who does some construction near your secret cable to be careful not cut that secret cable that's not supposed to be there would seem to defeat the whole idea of a secret cable
And I used to play Doom on my Symbian S60 powered N-Gage in 2004-2005. So in this game of "Smartphone OS that got Doom ported to it first", Symbian beats both iPhone and Android hands on. I also bet that the controls of the N-Gage beat iPhone an G1 for gaming.
I don't know about windows, but at least on a Mac the Nokia Media Transfer application is far from being as usable as iTunes+iPod. You have to make a playlist for iTunes that is named specifically, put the music you want to sync in to it and then the seperate Nokia Media Transfer application uses some AppleScript magic to copy the files to the phone.
It's very cumbersome and after a few tries with it, I've ended up just copying the music manually from the library to the phone with Finder. Using the Nokia way, it always feels like something could break down any minute.
In the US, dates are written month first, day second. So 9/11 means 11th of september in the US.
In pretty much the rest of the world, dates are written day first, month second. So 9/11 means 9th of November in the rest of the world.
Thats the joke, if you didn't get it.
"I also imagine that these solar trees will function in all countries, not just Austria, or those in Western Europe."
Well, here in northern Europe (southern Finland, to be exact), the days during the winter are short, the sun travels very low and the sky is usually very cloudy. Go to Lapland (in the northernmost area of Finland) and you won't be seeing the sun almost at all during the winter.
Solar power is great, but there are places where it just doesn't work.
Yep. Error correction goes a long way with Digital TV signals. By the time the signal is so bad that annoying errors start to show up, normal analog signal would have been unwatchable for some time.
All you need is a cheap 3G phone with bluetooth and you can browse the internet via 3G with the N800/N810.
These things aren't supposed to replace your phone, they're made to work with your phone.
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How much good quality video can you fit in to, say, 1gb? 0.5-3 hours, depending on quality?
Music? 10-20 hours?
And what about books? Well, you can fit hundreds of them in to a gigabyte. That's enough reading for a decade, at least.
I know bandwidth isn't that big of a problem these days, as it was before, but take what happened for me, for example:
I heard about this interesting science fiction book one day. It didn't sound interesting enough for me to rush to amazon.co.uk to order it, though, so out of a whim I decided to do a search on the pirate bay, just for fun. What I found was this torrent that was filled with science fiction books, a couple of gigabytes in size. It contained basically every single notable book by every single notable science fiction author.
The fact that downloading a whole genre of books is so trivial that it can be done in a half-an-hour these days makes me glad I'm not a science fiction author
This isn't a TeX document either. That would be just wrong.
;)
After all, If we had a way to post readable formulas and uncommon chararacters, this wouldn't be the Slashdot comments section
He's describing the battle of the line, the final battle of the earth-minbari war from Babylon 5.
A company is actually listening what their customers have to say? Thats quite refreshing to hear during these days.
We don't need another Apollo-like mission to the moon. We've already done those enough. It's just going to cost money without any substantial new information. The next mission to the moon should be bigger and a lot different from what we have done before. Either have the balls to commit yourselves and the money to something meaningful or don't do it at all. I'd also like to point out that the moon isn't going anywhere in the near future. If a meaningful mission would cost too much now, there's no shame in waiting for the technology to became more mature.
Opera 10 on Mac does it, too.
And of course I meant two months ago, not three months. Silly me
And let's say... three months ago (30.4.2009), with an exchange rate of 1.32, the EU MacBook would have cost $1031. 32$ Difference. Not that much difference now, right? The prices are a little bit higher to accommodate for changes in the currencies values.
Reading comprehension doesn't seem to be in fashion anymore... Read the GP again.
"If you are clever enough a user to want to right-click, it's simple enough to just go to the System Preference pane for your mouse and turn it on."
A small checkbox in the settings panel and the Apple mouse is a two-button mouse. Press the left side, you do a left click, press the right side, you do a right click. The left and right clicking work exactly like with a normal mouse.
These micro transactions have some ok poential uses, but some of the uses are just down-right silly. Like that FPS game Apple demoed, where you can pay some tens of cents to get a rocket launcher to get an advantage. I, personally, can't wait to see the Slashdot story about a kid who racked up tens of thousands of dollars of debt with his parents credit card by trying to be the best on a silly FPS server.
Maybe they already have something like that in place? Just because there is some sort of construction going on near a secret cable, doesn't mean it will certainly be cut. It would make sense to keep a close eye on construction projects that have a possibility to cut a black wire, but only step in when it actually happens. Telling everyone who does some construction near your secret cable to be careful not cut that secret cable that's not supposed to be there would seem to defeat the whole idea of a secret cable
And I used to play Doom on my Symbian S60 powered N-Gage in 2004-2005. So in this game of "Smartphone OS that got Doom ported to it first", Symbian beats both iPhone and Android hands on. I also bet that the controls of the N-Gage beat iPhone an G1 for gaming.
I don't know about windows, but at least on a Mac the Nokia Media Transfer application is far from being as usable as iTunes+iPod. You have to make a playlist for iTunes that is named specifically, put the music you want to sync in to it and then the seperate Nokia Media Transfer application uses some AppleScript magic to copy the files to the phone. It's very cumbersome and after a few tries with it, I've ended up just copying the music manually from the library to the phone with Finder. Using the Nokia way, it always feels like something could break down any minute.
According to the autopsy a .22 rifle was used, not a shotgun, which makes a suicide a lot more believable.
In the US, dates are written month first, day second. So 9/11 means 11th of september in the US. In pretty much the rest of the world, dates are written day first, month second. So 9/11 means 9th of November in the rest of the world. Thats the joke, if you didn't get it.
Well, here in northern Europe (southern Finland, to be exact), the days during the winter are short, the sun travels very low and the sky is usually very cloudy. Go to Lapland (in the northernmost area of Finland) and you won't be seeing the sun almost at all during the winter.
Solar power is great, but there are places where it just doesn't work.
Yep. Error correction goes a long way with Digital TV signals. By the time the signal is so bad that annoying errors start to show up, normal analog signal would have been unwatchable for some time.
All you need is a cheap 3G phone with bluetooth and you can browse the internet via 3G with the N800/N810. These things aren't supposed to replace your phone, they're made to work with your phone.