My phone can play MP3's and can be loaded from PC. You'd probably have to buy a MMC card to go with it though as I'm sure you'd want more files than the phone built-in space has room for.;)
I've never used the HotSpot access but I'm told (by T-Mobile) it's included in the plan so I just assume it is. If HotSpot access is $29 then it sounds like you get the unlimited data plan on your phone pretty much for free. Can't beat that deal. I'm thinking of getting the Nokia 770 which I think can use the same access to let me use it as a mobile but less limited Internet device than my phone and more portable than my laptop.:)
If you want to do anything besides change your font color with CSS then IE has severe bugs. It certainly makes it hard to place blocks in the right places and at times impossible to get the same effect in IE that you can in Firefox or Safari. About the best you can do is find a workable half-assed solution for IE that leaves 70% of your site's users unable to experience the site in the most effective way. IE7 does seem to fix some of the bugs but not all of them which leaves me having to support yet another half-assed variant as IE7 once again isn't standards complaint in even the important elements of CSS2 but also doesn't render pages the way IE6 does. That'd be less of a problem if they'd release IE7 for older versions of Windows but as they don't plan to that means we'll be supporting IE6 for years too.
No work around is easy. On a site with 50 different elements if it takes me ten minutes per element to figure out a work around I just spent 500 minutes making the site work in IE. That's pretty much a whole work day. If I have to do that for IE6 and IE7 now that means two work days. That is best case scenario too. Now and then I find an issue with IE that in itself takes me an entire day to work around. I'd say that for every website I produce I spend around a week just finding issues with non compliant browsers and finding work arounds. So figure it costs about $1200 per website to fix these problems. That is a lot of money when you figure I produce a dozen or more websites a year. Let's just say that in my work alone $15,000 a year is spent fixing problems with IE and that still doesn't make the websites look as good in IE as they do in Safari and Firefox. IE nearly doubles the amount of time it takes me to make a static website.
I boycott software from Microsoft but I don't really care if other people use it so long as it doesn't harm me. If all it does is erase their files every so often then I don't care. When it slows down major parts of the Internet and brings servers down because so many Windows machines are infected with the bug of the day then I care. Overall though I think I tolerate others.
I'd hope that if I can avoid what I dislike while being tolerate others can too but then maybe religious and racial issues are harder to keep control of due to all the inherit fear and anger.
I agree. I work quite a bit with students who've just been taught HTML by their schools and they really are taught nothing about CSS. These are comp sci and graphic arts students for which web developing is a major job skill and they know next to nothing about CSS. They certainly aren't being taught to do anything advanced and most still use out-dated HTML when CSS would work better. A lot of things I do all the time they simply think you can't do. Pretty limiting.
Strange. I can be online and using my phone for calls at the same time without any problems. I wonder if your limitation is in the service or in your phone.
For me, latency is a little high but not horrible as I still manage to use ssh without any major problems. For web and email I don't even notice the latency issue.
Yes, 115k seems to be the speed I get. Fast enough for web, email, and most things but not fast enough to download ISO files of your newest Linux distro. If you're in the field though and just need to check your email or look at Google maps then it works really well. I use it to ssh into servers from remote locations a lot.
There are very good reasons censorship is bad for everyone. It's really a two edged sword. If you censor other people you have to expect them to come back and censor you some day. The end result being that nobody can say anything because it could upset someone else. That is what being politically correct really is and it's a huge danger because it makes us so we can't have open and honest discussions. If we try we're likely to be burned at the social political stake.
I don't like racism but as long as it's in words and not actions I think it should be allowed because the alternative is a far worse danger for all of us.
They told me they raised the price to $30/month and added in HotSpots access. Fine I guess if you spend a lot of time at airports and Starbucks but for me the $20 plan is better. Even for $30/month though it's still a good deal I think.
I have an N-Gage QD with T-Mobile and use the phone as a modem for my laptop for $20/month. I had to get a little bluetooth adapter for about $20 from Fry's and it works really well. It's about two to three times faster than a normal modem it seems but not as fast as DSL. Still it works almost anywhere my phone works, is an unlimited plan, and I can even use my phone as a phone even while using it as a modem. Overall, I like it a lot.
Their billing department can be annoying but if you hassle them enough they can be made to work with you and they seem to only become an issue if you don't pay your bill on time.
Obviously they are used to dealing with big companies where billing issues are less complex.
Why? Slashdot marks what company the link goes to. I've been telling people to go with 1&1 long before they had any sort of affiliate program. I'd be a retard not to use the referral link when telling people to go to it wouldn't I? Okay people - if you want to sign up for 1&1 but don't want to give any credit, which costs you nothing, back to the guy that suggested it then type the URL into your browser bar by hand and ignore anything that comes after the domain name.
Regardless, they still have the best servers I've yet tried although I do have a non-1&1 server I'm working on setting up with a different company (which I won't provide a link to since it bothers you so much) because 1&1 doesn't offer servers with 1TB of drive space. If you're curious it costs about $250 a month for a dedicated server with 1TB of drive space. If you care the company I'm setting this server up with is, like 1&1, one of the biggest hosting companies in the world and the system is a custom job that is available only if you email them and ask if they can support bigger drives than they advertise. 600GB drives can be damn useful when put back to back with RAID.
Exactly. It's okay not to buy a product. It's even okay to let others of likemind know that they won't want to buy the product either. It's entirely different to go on some kind of religious attack to make a company change it's product. Simply don't buy the product but don't try to get rid of the product otherwise.
It's like when the religious nuts try to boycott adult stores. They don't just avoid shopping there but they actually go there and harass other people who do want to shop there and they try to make laws to have the shop closed down. That's censorship IMO.
Ever expecting all browsers to be 100% standards complaint is, I think, a bit of a pipe dream. It'd be great but I just don't think it's going to happen. First off, it's a hard standard to meet perfectly because it's based on how something looks which means bugs are found visually by users for the most part. Second, the biggest browser vendor has shown that they just don't care about being compliant and I think they probably actually don't want to be compliant because the Internet is a direct risk to their bottom line as an application vendor. Third, the standards keep evolving over time so it's a moving target. And last, there will always be smaller vendors that just don't have the resources to make sure they are fully compliant.
Doing it all server-side or with client-side scripting can work but are a bandaid fix which is ignoring the real problem. It isn't taking into account the reality of the situation faced by developers. In addition to browser hints I'd probably suggest canvas-size hints too such that if the screen goes below this size it changes to this stylesheet, if it goes above this size it changes to this other stylesheet, etc. One less thing I'd have to handle with client-side scripting.
If a browser doesn't support conditional comments then it just shows the wrong style (or no style) and doesn't work at all. Hardly my idea of a working system. I'm sick of having to hack around browser shortcomings anyway. It's bad enough needing four different stylesheets per site without having to use screwball methods to make them work.
One reason I use 1&1 is because they are one of the biggest hosting providers in the world and it shows. The speeds obtained when transfering files from my dedicated server are amazing and I'm the kind of person used to sitting on fat pipes at major universities and businesses. My users are amazed at how fast they could download large files from me. Hardly a little company.
Anything from Loki pretty much doesn't work anymore without a crap load of effort. If you can keep all of those games working without spending hours of effort doing so then you're doing better than me.
They should have put the parts tightly tied to the kernel and external libs in a place that could be easily upgraded later even if they went out of business.
Unfortunately commercial games written for Linux are still a pain as they don't usually get written in such a way as to keep working across major kernel versions. Probably just as well to just write an XBox emulator for Linux.
I do that but it doesnt seem like all browsers support that and its really spammy. My suggested method would match the syntax of defining the media format etc.
Im thinking of writing a small bit of Javascript that will check the stylesheet link tags for browser attributes and set the right stylesheet based on that. At least that would keep my HTML clean of the weird IEisms.
I just went ahead and checked the prices at 1&1, which I use, you can get a beginner account with PHP, 5GB space, and 250GB monthly transfer for US$3 a month. Pretty affordable and probably enough to get you started or double that for $5 a month or quadruple it for $10 a month. Even an evil code monkey from an alternate dimension should be able to cough that up.
Really you can get your own hosting with lots of bandwidth pretty cheap. No reason not to have your own server. I have a dedicated server for about $50/month. You can get a hosted account for under $15/month that has all the space and bandwidth you'd probably need.
So by not using the Internet we make it more usable? That seems to hardly make sense. I wouldn't use long distance as an example of a fair system either - the phone companies made a fortune off of it and a lot of the infrastructure was paid for by the taxpayer.
These idiots, combined with all the idiots who want to charge by the service and by the file, will just kill off the Internet or more likely will ruin their own businesses by chasing customers to alternatives that know how to adjust their business plan to the times without some hairbrained money grubbing scheme.
If they aren't making money then it's because they are doing something wrong and not because they aren't charging enough. Make your equipment cheaper, cheaper to operate, and more reliable. After I setup a network the traffic running over it is almost free to me. A small amount of money goes into maintainence and electricty but not much. How much more effecient and reliable is their industrial quality equipment? I find it hard to believe they need to spend a lot on keeping the traffic going - all the expenses should be in growing and updating their network which is why we pay for their services at all.
When they offer me gigabit DSL for a reasonable price I'll consider paying more. Until then I'm not going to. I purposely quite using Cox cable modem service because it wasn't unmetered. I'll do likewise to anyone else who tries to complicate my life by charging on a more complex system.
How long until people bypass the big carriers if they start into this bullshit. A lot of people would start thinking about using smaller carriers that aren't trying to pull this BS, some companies like Google might create their own carrier if needed, and mesh networking would no doubt get a large push from this kind of thing.
I think some small carriers would be glad to make some sort of deal with a community mesh network to create a backbone for an alternate network if enough people were willing to join the mesh network. Google has fiber and has experimented with providing wireless. That'd seem to be a major start.
So I say, F U to those big carriers. Screw with me and I'll take my money elsewhere.
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I have an N-Gage QD. The phone nobody else likes. ;) It does more than any of my other phones I've tried though. Only missing a camera to be perfect.
Odd, I've tried it on Debian and Fedora without success. What distro are you using?
My phone can play MP3's and can be loaded from PC. You'd probably have to buy a MMC card to go with it though as I'm sure you'd want more files than the phone built-in space has room for. ;)
Can you get a new phone? Mine was free with my newest plan and works just fine.
I've never used the HotSpot access but I'm told (by T-Mobile) it's included in the plan so I just assume it is. If HotSpot access is $29 then it sounds like you get the unlimited data plan on your phone pretty much for free. Can't beat that deal. I'm thinking of getting the Nokia 770 which I think can use the same access to let me use it as a mobile but less limited Internet device than my phone and more portable than my laptop. :)
If you want to do anything besides change your font color with CSS then IE has severe bugs. It certainly makes it hard to place blocks in the right places and at times impossible to get the same effect in IE that you can in Firefox or Safari. About the best you can do is find a workable half-assed solution for IE that leaves 70% of your site's users unable to experience the site in the most effective way. IE7 does seem to fix some of the bugs but not all of them which leaves me having to support yet another half-assed variant as IE7 once again isn't standards complaint in even the important elements of CSS2 but also doesn't render pages the way IE6 does. That'd be less of a problem if they'd release IE7 for older versions of Windows but as they don't plan to that means we'll be supporting IE6 for years too.
No work around is easy. On a site with 50 different elements if it takes me ten minutes per element to figure out a work around I just spent 500 minutes making the site work in IE. That's pretty much a whole work day. If I have to do that for IE6 and IE7 now that means two work days. That is best case scenario too. Now and then I find an issue with IE that in itself takes me an entire day to work around. I'd say that for every website I produce I spend around a week just finding issues with non compliant browsers and finding work arounds. So figure it costs about $1200 per website to fix these problems. That is a lot of money when you figure I produce a dozen or more websites a year. Let's just say that in my work alone $15,000 a year is spent fixing problems with IE and that still doesn't make the websites look as good in IE as they do in Safari and Firefox. IE nearly doubles the amount of time it takes me to make a static website.
I boycott software from Microsoft but I don't really care if other people use it so long as it doesn't harm me. If all it does is erase their files every so often then I don't care. When it slows down major parts of the Internet and brings servers down because so many Windows machines are infected with the bug of the day then I care. Overall though I think I tolerate others.
I'd hope that if I can avoid what I dislike while being tolerate others can too but then maybe religious and racial issues are harder to keep control of due to all the inherit fear and anger.
I agree. I work quite a bit with students who've just been taught HTML by their schools and they really are taught nothing about CSS. These are comp sci and graphic arts students for which web developing is a major job skill and they know next to nothing about CSS. They certainly aren't being taught to do anything advanced and most still use out-dated HTML when CSS would work better. A lot of things I do all the time they simply think you can't do. Pretty limiting.
Strange. I can be online and using my phone for calls at the same time without any problems. I wonder if your limitation is in the service or in your phone.
For me, latency is a little high but not horrible as I still manage to use ssh without any major problems. For web and email I don't even notice the latency issue.
Yes, 115k seems to be the speed I get. Fast enough for web, email, and most things but not fast enough to download ISO files of your newest Linux distro. If you're in the field though and just need to check your email or look at Google maps then it works really well. I use it to ssh into servers from remote locations a lot.
There are very good reasons censorship is bad for everyone. It's really a two edged sword. If you censor other people you have to expect them to come back and censor you some day. The end result being that nobody can say anything because it could upset someone else. That is what being politically correct really is and it's a huge danger because it makes us so we can't have open and honest discussions. If we try we're likely to be burned at the social political stake.
I don't like racism but as long as it's in words and not actions I think it should be allowed because the alternative is a far worse danger for all of us.
They told me they raised the price to $30/month and added in HotSpots access. Fine I guess if you spend a lot of time at airports and Starbucks but for me the $20 plan is better. Even for $30/month though it's still a good deal I think.
I have an N-Gage QD with T-Mobile and use the phone as a modem for my laptop for $20/month. I had to get a little bluetooth adapter for about $20 from Fry's and it works really well. It's about two to three times faster than a normal modem it seems but not as fast as DSL. Still it works almost anywhere my phone works, is an unlimited plan, and I can even use my phone as a phone even while using it as a modem. Overall, I like it a lot.
Their billing department can be annoying but if you hassle them enough they can be made to work with you and they seem to only become an issue if you don't pay your bill on time.
Obviously they are used to dealing with big companies where billing issues are less complex.
Why? Slashdot marks what company the link goes to. I've been telling people to go with 1&1 long before they had any sort of affiliate program. I'd be a retard not to use the referral link when telling people to go to it wouldn't I? Okay people - if you want to sign up for 1&1 but don't want to give any credit, which costs you nothing, back to the guy that suggested it then type the URL into your browser bar by hand and ignore anything that comes after the domain name.
Regardless, they still have the best servers I've yet tried although I do have a non-1&1 server I'm working on setting up with a different company (which I won't provide a link to since it bothers you so much) because 1&1 doesn't offer servers with 1TB of drive space. If you're curious it costs about $250 a month for a dedicated server with 1TB of drive space. If you care the company I'm setting this server up with is, like 1&1, one of the biggest hosting companies in the world and the system is a custom job that is available only if you email them and ask if they can support bigger drives than they advertise. 600GB drives can be damn useful when put back to back with RAID.
Exactly. It's okay not to buy a product. It's even okay to let others of likemind know that they won't want to buy the product either. It's entirely different to go on some kind of religious attack to make a company change it's product. Simply don't buy the product but don't try to get rid of the product otherwise.
It's like when the religious nuts try to boycott adult stores. They don't just avoid shopping there but they actually go there and harass other people who do want to shop there and they try to make laws to have the shop closed down. That's censorship IMO.
Ever expecting all browsers to be 100% standards complaint is, I think, a bit of a pipe dream. It'd be great but I just don't think it's going to happen. First off, it's a hard standard to meet perfectly because it's based on how something looks which means bugs are found visually by users for the most part. Second, the biggest browser vendor has shown that they just don't care about being compliant and I think they probably actually don't want to be compliant because the Internet is a direct risk to their bottom line as an application vendor. Third, the standards keep evolving over time so it's a moving target. And last, there will always be smaller vendors that just don't have the resources to make sure they are fully compliant.
Doing it all server-side or with client-side scripting can work but are a bandaid fix which is ignoring the real problem. It isn't taking into account the reality of the situation faced by developers. In addition to browser hints I'd probably suggest canvas-size hints too such that if the screen goes below this size it changes to this stylesheet, if it goes above this size it changes to this other stylesheet, etc. One less thing I'd have to handle with client-side scripting.
If a browser doesn't support conditional comments then it just shows the wrong style (or no style) and doesn't work at all. Hardly my idea of a working system. I'm sick of having to hack around browser shortcomings anyway. It's bad enough needing four different stylesheets per site without having to use screwball methods to make them work.
One reason I use 1&1 is because they are one of the biggest hosting providers in the world and it shows. The speeds obtained when transfering files from my dedicated server are amazing and I'm the kind of person used to sitting on fat pipes at major universities and businesses. My users are amazed at how fast they could download large files from me. Hardly a little company.
Anything from Loki pretty much doesn't work anymore without a crap load of effort. If you can keep all of those games working without spending hours of effort doing so then you're doing better than me.
They should have put the parts tightly tied to the kernel and external libs in a place that could be easily upgraded later even if they went out of business.
Unfortunately commercial games written for Linux are still a pain as they don't usually get written in such a way as to keep working across major kernel versions. Probably just as well to just write an XBox emulator for Linux.
I do that but it doesnt seem like all browsers support that and its really spammy. My suggested method would match the syntax of defining the media format etc.
Im thinking of writing a small bit of Javascript that will check the stylesheet link tags for browser attributes and set the right stylesheet based on that. At least that would keep my HTML clean of the weird IEisms.
I just went ahead and checked the prices at 1&1, which I use, you can get a beginner account with PHP, 5GB space, and 250GB monthly transfer for US$3 a month. Pretty affordable and probably enough to get you started or double that for $5 a month or quadruple it for $10 a month. Even an evil code monkey from an alternate dimension should be able to cough that up.
Really you can get your own hosting with lots of bandwidth pretty cheap. No reason not to have your own server. I have a dedicated server for about $50/month. You can get a hosted account for under $15/month that has all the space and bandwidth you'd probably need.
So by not using the Internet we make it more usable? That seems to hardly make sense. I wouldn't use long distance as an example of a fair system either - the phone companies made a fortune off of it and a lot of the infrastructure was paid for by the taxpayer.
These idiots, combined with all the idiots who want to charge by the service and by the file, will just kill off the Internet or more likely will ruin their own businesses by chasing customers to alternatives that know how to adjust their business plan to the times without some hairbrained money grubbing scheme.
If they aren't making money then it's because they are doing something wrong and not because they aren't charging enough. Make your equipment cheaper, cheaper to operate, and more reliable. After I setup a network the traffic running over it is almost free to me. A small amount of money goes into maintainence and electricty but not much. How much more effecient and reliable is their industrial quality equipment? I find it hard to believe they need to spend a lot on keeping the traffic going - all the expenses should be in growing and updating their network which is why we pay for their services at all.
When they offer me gigabit DSL for a reasonable price I'll consider paying more. Until then I'm not going to. I purposely quite using Cox cable modem service because it wasn't unmetered. I'll do likewise to anyone else who tries to complicate my life by charging on a more complex system.
How long until people bypass the big carriers if they start into this bullshit. A lot of people would start thinking about using smaller carriers that aren't trying to pull this BS, some companies like Google might create their own carrier if needed, and mesh networking would no doubt get a large push from this kind of thing.
I think some small carriers would be glad to make some sort of deal with a community mesh network to create a backbone for an alternate network if enough people were willing to join the mesh network. Google has fiber and has experimented with providing wireless. That'd seem to be a major start.
So I say, F U to those big carriers. Screw with me and I'll take my money elsewhere.