Is when the products are used on countries where the language is not supported by the device. This is my only frustration with predictive texting on my Sony Ericsson phone. I assume the same would be true with this new Blackberry. Yes, english is just fine, but when I need to text using our native language (that is not supported) predictive texting is useless. Also, predictive text is kind of useless if you're texting a lot of techinical jargons.
Too bad this came in too late for Slashdot's previous poll regarding putting yourself on a robot body. Having these means we're one sep closer to becoming Borgs.
Years ago (1995-1997) when internet access was still expensive in my country, I did not really download MP3s because it takes a long time to download MP3s. But I think the 1st one I downloaded was Hell March from Red Alert (the RTS). Hell March was the theme song for Red Alert back then. Defintely not my first MP3. My first MP3 was ripped from a CD a borrowed but couldn't afford a CD burner those days so I ripped it. Man, it took a whole day to encode a CD on a 486!;)
Well... there are preachers that are scammers, but not all of 'em are. At least in my church everything is all accounted for and the books are open for all to see. At least we're sure where the money is going, wether it's really used for church activities (maintenance of facilities, feeding the hungry, medical missions stuff, etc).
It's really useless for pre-paid dial-up connections. Here in our country, we have a few dozen pre-paid ISPs. This is where you buy a card and scratch the silver thing on the back to get the user name and password. How can they bill you when you're almost anonymous.
While you from think that that is too low for compensation, programmers from Asia, like those from India, Philippines, whatever, will find $23 an hour to be something that will make them filthy rich. I'm not kidding. As someone who lives in a third world country.
1. Uses a properly designed antenna.
2. Still works after it's dropped.
3. Has covered buttons so that I don't accidentally dial when I sit down.
4. Has decent battery life.
Well, if what you need is a GSM phone, I suggest you get one of those m-series of Siemens (m45, m35, etc). Shock proof (my friends play catch with it), antenna is hidden but still has strong signal, and decent battery life. As for the cover, while it doesn't have a cover, it does have auto key-lock. It locks the keys after not using it within 30 seconds. Not enabled by default. Anyway, most new GSM phones that come out these days have the auto-keylock feature anyway. Me, I'm still using my old Ericsson R320.
I remember last year that their mail filtering system (I think it's the Interscan antivirus) that would block all messages with "!!!" claiming that it was spam. I knew a lot of people who complained about this because sometimes for informal discussion, to emphasize something you might use "!!!" in your message.
I just hope Interscan doesn't block slashdot because of this comment.;)
I think I will spend the next few years of my life learning how to speak fluent Modem.
Believe it or not, I was able to hand-shake with a modem 6 years ago. My friend and I were gonna play Doom that night, but was going to have some file trasnferred over a terminal program (zmodem stuff). You know the stuff, dial-in to his computer. I forgot to change some settings so I decided to make a voice call, but his modem was expecting a non-human caller. When I heard the sound of the modem, I just made some random noise, then, suddenly, "CONNECT 300" appeared on his side, along with some garbage on his side for a few seconds.;)
Seriously, I know several companies who relied a lot on IIS. After the Nimbda incident, they thought of migrating evrything from IIS to Apache. Today, most of their apps rin under Apache.
Most IM systems are OS agnostic. Do you think MS will publish their protocol?
Umm... I'm no M$ fan, isn't it that M$N Messeneger protocol is open? That's you can see a lot of M$N clients for *nix systems, like gaim. They released the protocol years ago because of the IM wars with AOL (because AOL won't let M$N clients connect to AIM).
And besides, isn't it that there's a group, with M$ as one of it's members, who submitted a draft (I think it's now an RFC) for a new, and open IM standard.
I know Mozilla has a native SVG-renderer. However, it seems that it's not moving fast and it seems that it won't be included anytime soon because of licensing isues (they're using a modified version of libart. I know it's LGPL'ed but it seems that in order for it to be included, it must be re-licensed to both GPL and MPL.
Maybe Mozilla can use this renderer instead. It would be cool that SVG would be more dominant than flash when it comes to vector images.
an SMS here costs PhP 1.00, or approx. 2 cents. Cheap compared to most countries.
Most people here are not in favor on puting tax on SMS because believe it or not, most of the SMS users are in the middle-class and below. It's because it's hard to get a land line here, and the cheapest way to get around it is to use SMS. Paying high bills is not a problem because most are using pre-paid systems.
I don't think it would push through because as of now, most of the law makers are againts it. And most are againts it not because we'll have to pay more, it's also because we're sick and tired of the dictations of the IMF.
I would have used Gentoo if it had a CD distribution that contains all the packages. It doesn't have to be the leatest versions. I'm not talking about stage 1 or 2 on CD, I'm talking about all the packages on a CD.
There are people like me who want to try it out but can't afford to have broadband.:( Having Gentoo packages on CDs will be of great help not only for me but might ease-up bandwidth requirements.
Try buying a video card with a built-in hardware video scaling. It can make a big difference. I once had a Pentium-II 300 that has a Nvidia TNT2 video card before and I could still play DVDs at full screen (1024x768) without the video being choppy, because the TNT2 does all the video scaling. Also use the XV driver for Xine to be able to use the hardware video scaler
I tried on a cheap S3 Trio3d card when my TNT broke down (I already updraded my motherboard and CPU to an Athlon 1.2 GHz a year ago) and it's really slow and takes up upto 95% of CPU load because the CPU does the video scaling to play it at full-screen. It is extremely choppy. But when I use a TNt or GeForce as my video card, CPU utilization is under 5%, and video plays smoothly.
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Yes, but does it include the very important character and scenes?
Yes... but does your motherboard manufacturer follow best practices like Feng Shui?
Is when the products are used on countries where the language is not supported by the device. This is my only frustration with predictive texting on my Sony Ericsson phone. I assume the same would be true with this new Blackberry. Yes, english is just fine, but when I need to text using our native language (that is not supported) predictive texting is useless. Also, predictive text is kind of useless if you're texting a lot of techinical jargons.
Now I can make a transparent tinfoil^H^H^H^H^H^H^Haluminum foil hat!
Too bad this came in too late for Slashdot's previous poll regarding putting yourself on a robot body. Having these means we're one sep closer to becoming Borgs.
One of the variants includes a copy of its source code as an attachment as it spreads via email.
;)
Just what we need. An Open Source Virus. And if it is somehow GPLed, we'll *really* have viral licensing.
Years ago (1995-1997) when internet access was still expensive in my country, I did not really download MP3s because it takes a long time to download MP3s. But I think the 1st one I downloaded was Hell March from Red Alert (the RTS). Hell March was the theme song for Red Alert back then. Defintely not my first MP3. My first MP3 was ripped from a CD a borrowed but couldn't afford a CD burner those days so I ripped it. Man, it took a whole day to encode a CD on a 486! ;)
Well... there are preachers that are scammers, but not all of 'em are. At least in my church everything is all accounted for and the books are open for all to see. At least we're sure where the money is going, wether it's really used for church activities (maintenance of facilities, feeding the hungry, medical missions stuff, etc).
It's really useless for pre-paid dial-up connections. Here in our country, we have a few dozen pre-paid ISPs. This is where you buy a card and scratch the silver thing on the back to get the user name and password. How can they bill you when you're almost anonymous.
I'm serious with what I'm about to say.
While you from think that that is too low for compensation, programmers from Asia, like those from India, Philippines, whatever, will find $23 an hour to be something that will make them filthy rich. I'm not kidding. As someone who lives in a third world country.
I'm still waiting for a phone that:
1. Uses a properly designed antenna.
2. Still works after it's dropped.
3. Has covered buttons so that I don't accidentally dial when I sit down.
4. Has decent battery life.
Well, if what you need is a GSM phone, I suggest you get one of those m-series of Siemens (m45, m35, etc). Shock proof (my friends play catch with it), antenna is hidden but still has strong signal, and decent battery life. As for the cover, while it doesn't have a cover, it does have auto key-lock. It locks the keys after not using it within 30 seconds. Not enabled by default. Anyway, most new GSM phones that come out these days have the auto-keylock feature anyway. Me, I'm still using my old Ericsson R320.
I remember last year that their mail filtering system (I think it's the Interscan antivirus) that would block all messages with "!!!" claiming that it was spam. I knew a lot of people who complained about this because sometimes for informal discussion, to emphasize something you might use "!!!" in your message.
;)
I just hope Interscan doesn't block slashdot because of this comment.
I think I will spend the next few years of my life learning how to speak fluent Modem.
;)
Believe it or not, I was able to hand-shake with a modem 6 years ago. My friend and I were gonna play Doom that night, but was going to have some file trasnferred over a terminal program (zmodem stuff). You know the stuff, dial-in to his computer. I forgot to change some settings so I decided to make a voice call, but his modem was expecting a non-human caller. When I heard the sound of the modem, I just made some random noise, then, suddenly, "CONNECT 300" appeared on his side, along with some garbage on his side for a few seconds.
including the thingy that spritzes hot water up your butt
That's because in most Asian countries, the preferred thing to do is not to wipe your butt after doing your "business" but to wash it.
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Watach gonna do, when he, runs wild on you!
Code Red and Nimbda wiped-put IIS. ;)
Seriously, I know several companies who relied a lot on IIS. After the Nimbda incident, they thought of migrating evrything from IIS to Apache. Today, most of their apps rin under Apache.
... I thought it read "Debian 0wn3d Sourceforge."
;)
Most IM systems are OS agnostic. Do you think MS will publish their protocol?
Umm... I'm no M$ fan, isn't it that M$N Messeneger protocol is open? That's you can see a lot of M$N clients for *nix systems, like gaim. They released the protocol years ago because of the IM wars with AOL (because AOL won't let M$N clients connect to AIM).
And besides, isn't it that there's a group, with M$ as one of it's members, who submitted a draft (I think it's now an RFC) for a new, and open IM standard.
Maybe Mozilla can use this renderer instead. It would be cool that SVG would be more dominant than flash when it comes to vector images.
Just a thought anyway.
Does this mean that in the near future, I can print not just images, but clones of pornstars for my own *user*? ;)
an SMS here costs PhP 1.00, or approx. 2 cents. Cheap compared to most countries.
Most people here are not in favor on puting tax on SMS because believe it or not, most of the SMS users are in the middle-class and below. It's because it's hard to get a land line here, and the cheapest way to get around it is to use SMS. Paying high bills is not a problem because most are using pre-paid systems.
I don't think it would push through because as of now, most of the law makers are againts it. And most are againts it not because we'll have to pay more, it's also because we're sick and tired of the dictations of the IMF.
With the source code out, I will now be able to find out why the Melnorme turns purple! Then I shall conquer the universe!
If hew was using Linux, BSD or any other *NIX like OS then we would have a real Ghost For Unix
I would have used Gentoo if it had a CD distribution that contains all the packages. It doesn't have to be the leatest versions. I'm not talking about stage 1 or 2 on CD, I'm talking about all the packages on a CD.
:( Having Gentoo packages on CDs will be of great help not only for me but might ease-up bandwidth requirements.
There are people like me who want to try it out but can't afford to have broadband.
Try buying a video card with a built-in hardware video scaling. It can make a big difference. I once had a Pentium-II 300 that has a Nvidia TNT2 video card before and I could still play DVDs at full screen (1024x768) without the video being choppy, because the TNT2 does all the video scaling. Also use the XV driver for Xine to be able to use the hardware video scaler
I tried on a cheap S3 Trio3d card when my TNT broke down (I already updraded my motherboard and CPU to an Athlon 1.2 GHz a year ago) and it's really slow and takes up upto 95% of CPU load because the CPU does the video scaling to play it at full-screen. It is extremely choppy. But when I use a TNt or GeForce as my video card, CPU utilization is under 5%, and video plays smoothly.