CDMA is actually deployed fully in the USA, Canada, South Korea, Hong Kong, Australia and Japan--that I know of. It's probably in many other countries too. I talked to the rep from my local CDMA company (Bell Mobility--the other CDMA company up here in Canada is Telus) and he rattled off a nice long list of countries that they have CDMA roaming agreements with.
The biggest problem with CDMA, though, is that the handsets aren't as consumer-friendly as the GSM handsets. If CDMA handsets had an equivalent of the GSM SIM chip, they'd eat GSM alive. I think that's a large part of why GSM is still kicking here--the phones are so much more hackable than the CDMA phones.
Me, I'm hedging my bets; I have a GSM handset and a CDMA handset. GSM because there's more choice available, and CDMA because it's techically superior, and it still works in analogue-only areas. If anything half as cool as KDDI's AU handsets turns up over here, my primary handset will be CDMA again.
Of course it's kinda old technology--that was the whole point of the article. He was arguing that, since the technology to quickly duplicate and play the media back is now cheap and ubiquitous, VCDs make a handy, inexpensive way to distribute educational media.
Not everything has to be new! and shiny! to be worth considering.
Do they realize how easy it is to make an ADC? Do they actually know what goes into 'em? (My guess is, they think it runs on magic, which is why they want to use magic to make it go away.)
I would've said "Get an HP Jornada," but the idiots at SRCAM are discontinuing them. They're just as powerful and half the size of an iPaq, and they have a REAL PCMCIA SLOT. iPaqs require that you put your handheld into an enormous sleeve to plug PCMCIA into them.
This has been another rant about Carly getting everything she can get her hands on utterly wrong.
The error messages from the compiler whenever anything goes wrong.
You know the ones I'm talking about, where the compiler unravels all of the levels of templates, leaving you with an error message that's about 20K long, most of it angle brackets.
Boy does Intel ever look like they're grasping at straws here. They funded a study which said basically that AMD's model-number game is kinda dumb. WE ALL KNEW THAT, GUYS, THANKS!
Then they went on to flat-out say, that, yes, they have pretty bad performance, but they sure have bigger numbers, so we should be paying attention to that instead. I've seen lots of companies treating their customers as if they didn't have the intelligence of rocks, but this is the first time I've seen a company actually asking its customers to be stupid.
The best part of the article was the last two paragraphs, though:
Both Intel and AMD subscribe to the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, but Dunford said it would be "misleading" to use its figures as a
replacement for clock speed.
Dunford also criticized AMD's "True Performance Initiative," announced last year, noting that the SPEC standard already has wide industry support. "If you're talking about an industry consortium to measure performance, (SPEC) looks like an industry consortium," he said.
Dunford actually flatly contradicted himself without even taking a breath! That's the most blatantly two-faced thing I've seen in the world of marketing for a really long time.
Off-topic, though--when I tried posting this as text, it would preview it just fine, but when I told it that it was HTML formatted, it complained incessantly that I had too many junk characters. Perhaps it doesn't like quotation marks or something? Why doesn't this activate with the standard Slashdot spelling of its?
Applications will include messaging (SMS, instant messaging and
email), information services and entertainment. Certain features
popular in Japan, such as cartoons, "just wouldn't sell here in
the States", and have been eschewed, Blasi said.
Yup, that's right, they're going to launch an i-Mode service,
but they're not going to include any of the things that make it cool! Because, of course, being big execs, they know what the
American people know better than the American people themselves do. That's why the portals were such roaring successes, after
all, right?
Oh wait, it's not even going to really be i-Mode:
"We plan to launch a consumer offering next month," AT&T
Wireless spokesperson Ritch Blasi said. "It's not i-mode, it's
based on i-mode - the technology and the methods DoCoMo uses in
terms of marketing."
Run that one by me again--it's going to be sorta like
i-mode, but not really actually i-mode? Just similar in terms of
marketing? What does that mean?
Oh, wait, here's what it means:
The US firm will not pay NTT DoCoMo license fees, unlike other NTT DoCoMo partners in Europe, including KPN Mobile in the Netherlands and Germany, both of which launched recently.
It means "We want to launch a service which is kind of like i-mode, only without any of that annoying cool stuff, and without having to pay NTT DoCoMo to license their technology. But we're pretending to be i-mode even while we're disclaiming that we're not so that we can get the right keywords into our press release."
I went to the University of Waterloo, where
they have successful labs full of thin clients.
And they've had them for ten years.
A lab full of X terminals is a lot easier to run than a lab full of individual workstations. Citrix is just a reimplementation of X, only done badly because the infrastructure just isn't there in Windows.
It looks like the CRTC up here in Canada foresaw something like this when they told broadband Internet providers that they couldn't charge more than C$50/mo for Internet access. Good call, guys.
Couldn't this kind of thing spark an anti-trust action? It sure looks like a monopoly is trying to consolidate its position here.
If the company does any kind of business with the US government--for instance, selling pharmaceuticals to state hospitals--then the company's facilities (including the web site) has to be ADA-compliant. This means that the site has to be accessible to all viewers, blind or otherwise.
I've found a lot, lately, that I treat my reading the same way I treat my web-surfing (and my music-listening, for that matter). I let myself see links between one thing and another.
For instance--if you start with Asimov, you'll notice that there's a science fiction magazine that's called Asimov's. As it turns out, Asimov's is an excellent magazine, and makes a great introduction to the world of science fiction. All the greats started by reading pulps, and these days, the good pulps are really good.
While you're reading Asimov's, there's a book-review section in the back of the magazine--go read it. Norman Spinrad and Baird Seales are both good book reviewers, and very rarely do they miss the mark--at least, I find myself agreeing with their reviews more often than not.
Oh, but if you want a specific recommendation from me, I'll just list one of my recent favorites (and last year's Hugo award winner for Best Novel): To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.
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CDMA is actually deployed fully in the USA, Canada, South Korea, Hong Kong, Australia and Japan--that I know of. It's probably in many other countries too. I talked to the rep from my local CDMA company (Bell Mobility--the other CDMA company up here in Canada is Telus) and he rattled off a nice long list of countries that they have CDMA roaming agreements with.
The biggest problem with CDMA, though, is that the handsets aren't as consumer-friendly as the GSM handsets. If CDMA handsets had an equivalent of the GSM SIM chip, they'd eat GSM alive. I think that's a large part of why GSM is still kicking here--the phones are so much more hackable than the CDMA phones.
Me, I'm hedging my bets; I have a GSM handset and a CDMA handset. GSM because there's more choice available, and CDMA because it's techically superior, and it still works in analogue-only areas. If anything half as cool as KDDI's AU handsets turns up over here, my primary handset will be CDMA again.
Maybe if there are enough people in Microsoft's .NET user groups, they'll actually be able to discover:
Then again, looking at the list of possible topics for future meetings for the Toronto DNUG, that might be being too optimistic.
--Dave
Not everything has to be new! and shiny! to be worth considering.
Hollyweird wants to outlaw resistors.
Do they realize how easy it is to make an ADC? Do they actually know what goes into 'em? (My guess is, they think it runs on magic, which is why they want to use magic to make it go away.)
I would've said "Get an HP Jornada," but the idiots at SRCAM are discontinuing them. They're just as powerful and half the size of an iPaq, and they have a REAL PCMCIA SLOT. iPaqs require that you put your handheld into an enormous sleeve to plug PCMCIA into them.
This has been another rant about Carly getting everything she can get her hands on utterly wrong.
--Dave, yeah yeah, score: -1, Offtopic
The error messages from the compiler whenever anything goes wrong.
You know the ones I'm talking about, where the compiler unravels all of the levels of templates, leaving you with an error message that's about 20K long, most of it angle brackets.
Boy does Intel ever look like they're grasping at straws here. They funded a study which said basically that AMD's model-number game is kinda dumb. WE ALL KNEW THAT, GUYS, THANKS!
Then they went on to flat-out say, that, yes, they have pretty bad performance, but they sure have bigger numbers, so we should be paying attention to that instead. I've seen lots of companies treating their customers as if they
didn't have the intelligence of rocks, but this is the first time I've seen a company actually asking its customers to be stupid.
The best part of the article was the last two paragraphs, though:
Dunford actually flatly contradicted himself without even taking a breath! That's the most blatantly two-faced thing I've seen in the world of marketing for a really long time.
Off-topic, though--when I tried posting this as text, it would preview it just fine, but when I told it that it was HTML formatted, it complained incessantly that I had too many junk characters. Perhaps it doesn't like quotation marks or something? Why doesn't this activate with the standard Slashdot spelling of its?
Hooray! i-Mode is coming to the USA at long last!
Oh wait:
Yup, that's right, they're going to launch an i-Mode service, but they're not going to include any of the things that make it cool! Because, of course, being big execs, they know what the American people know better than the American people themselves do. That's why the portals were such roaring successes, after all, right?
Oh wait, it's not even going to really be i-Mode:
Run that one by me again--it's going to be sorta like i-mode, but not really actually i-mode? Just similar in terms of marketing? What does that mean?
Oh, wait, here's what it means:
It means "We want to launch a service which is kind of like i-mode, only without any of that annoying cool stuff, and without having to pay NTT DoCoMo to license their technology. But we're pretending to be i-mode even while we're disclaiming that we're not so that we can get the right keywords into our press release."
Feh.
I went to the University of Waterloo, where they have successful labs full of thin clients.
And they've had them for ten years.
A lab full of X terminals is a lot easier to run than a lab full of individual workstations. Citrix is just a reimplementation of X, only done badly because the infrastructure just isn't there in Windows.
Looks like what you're actually looking for is Common Lisp.
It looks like the CRTC up here in Canada foresaw something like this when they told broadband Internet providers that they couldn't charge more than C$50/mo for Internet access. Good call, guys.
Couldn't this kind of thing spark an anti-trust action? It sure looks like a monopoly is trying to consolidate its position here.
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PS1="%{$(tput sc)$(tput cup 0 $[COLUMNS-9])%D{%H:%M:%S}$(tput rc)%}%(?,:),:() %B[%(4.;.../%3.;%3.)]%b%(#.#.) "
cl="$(tput sc)$(tput cup 0 $[COLUMNS-9])"
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Serves my purposes well enough. Spot the Clever ZSH-Specific Tricks. Spot the tricks which don't depend on zsh.
--Dave
Isn't that exactly what the Fox project's IP-over-DNS thing does? (As referenced in the Firewall Piercing Mini-HOWTO, 27 November 1998.)
--Dave
--Dave
I've found a lot, lately, that I treat my reading the same way I treat my web-surfing (and my music-listening, for that matter). I let myself see links between one thing and another.
For instance--if you start with Asimov, you'll notice that there's a science fiction magazine that's called Asimov's. As it turns out, Asimov's is an excellent magazine, and makes a great introduction to the world of science fiction. All the greats started by reading pulps, and these days, the good pulps are really good.
While you're reading Asimov's, there's a book-review section in the back of the magazine--go read it. Norman Spinrad and Baird Seales are both good book reviewers, and very rarely do they miss the mark--at least, I find myself agreeing with their reviews more often than not.
Oh, but if you want a specific recommendation from me, I'll just list one of my recent favorites (and last year's Hugo award winner for Best Novel): To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.
--Dave