If the guy's cell was connected to the proper cellsite his data would have probably gone over some form of landline or microwave link back to the backbone. Instead because the ship turned on their equipment early it went out over their ocean-serving satellite which is a much more limited resource. Seems to me that the higher bill is PARTIALLY justified, but that it should go to the company responsible for the employee who turned on the equipment. Still, I don't think the prices they charge for data roaming are ever really justified, at that price they could send someone out in a helicopter with the game on DVD.
War is not a necessity, we do not need war. War is inevitable. Whether it be a president, a dictator or a tribal chieftan any sizable group of people will put someone in control. Then, when groups meet the leaders will send their pawns to go fight. This is human nature.
War is too powerful of a tool for governments to ever let go. War is a means of obtaining what one wants without making it themselves. War is a means of instilling fear in your people, or hatred of the enemy thus keeping the people looking to the leader for protection and keeping their attention off of the leaders' own evils.
People banding together has not and will not eliminate war. Just look at the 60s. How popular was it to protest the Vietnam war? We didn't get an end to war out of that, just some good music, a lot of pot and the hippies who later turned in their ideals and became the yuppies.
The serfs did not wake up one day and throw off their monarchies. The monarchs became to secure in their positions. They allowed some families to become richer and more powerful then they were. These families along with some free minded "serfs" (there are always a few rare ones) stirred up the people and eliminated the monarch threat to their own position. Now they exist today in the form of the corporations and political parties which are slowly chipping away those freedoms returning the "Free World" to our more natural less free state.
Democracy is not a new idea which is suddenly sweeping the world. Democracy has existed at various times and places such as Ancient Greece and Rome. Yes, some parts of the world are currently becoming more free but surely by the time that the current dictatorships, monarchies, etc... are all replaced with democracies many of the existing democracies will be replaced with dictatorships and monarchies.
I only hope that mankind starts colonizing frontiers on other worlds before society on this one becomes so tightly controlled that natural selection starts taking away our brainpower and makes our descendants collective like ants. That I'm convinced is the future on this world. Only in open spaces where we can expand too thin for central control does human nature tend towards freedom.
That depends... how were the workers evaluated. Her recent performance was probably affected by her situation but this would not have lasted. If they did take this into consideration, and her pre-miscarriage performance was below the others then it certainly makes sense to chose her to go. Timing certainly sucks though... Was it so urgent that they get rid of someone that they couldn't just wait a month or so then get rid of her?
These two issues are old news and have plagued mankind since civilization began. What issue doesn't get thrown on the back burner to wait for solutions to never come.
We will always have poverty, we will always have war we cannot lose those as much as we would like to.
If we don't hold our politicians accountable while we still have a democracy that allows us to do so we will lose that.
I see, they are using an existing type accepted radio module. "the GM-862 GPRS" kind of like the CF modem idea but a bit more hands on. Very interesting. I will be checking this out, thanks!
Imagine Apple powered by RIAA lawyers. (Is it really that hard?) They would pay your phone carrier to monitor activity to and from your phone , building up their evidence of a jailbroken phone . When ready, their super expensive (better than you can afford) lawyers would write it all up and submit it to the court along with 100 or so other cases. As I understand it this is illegal but it's not like our government (US) has been keeping to it's own laws much lately.
Up till now you are clueless, happily enjoying your open device. Then you receive a registered letter informing you of the problem. The case is made against you before you even knew you needed to mount a defense.
Now, you are given a choice. Fork over a good amount of hard earned cash immediately, or face trial.
If you chose trial there will be a panel of highly paid lawyers of a different class than you can afford explaining their case to a probably technically incompetent appointed for life, answering to no one judge. Who will explain said "technobable" to him? Said lawyers of course. This trial will not be for the large lump of cash which was asked for previously in the settlement offer, it will be for a much larger amount that will probably keep you broken for life.
Yes, you are in the right. You were only using your device which you own as you see fit.
That would be fine too. I like the Zaurus option b/c of the USB host and microdrive, you could extend it to do just about anything with that but an IPAQ with SD+CF would be just fine. In fact, the same software could probably run on both!
Actually, even the old US sold Zauri (55/5600 series) which I mentioned not using would technically work for this as they have both CF and SD though I don't think you would want to carry them in your pocket and you could get so much more power from something newer.
Here in the US it's going to take the money of a large corporation to get the phone FCC type approved. I doubt it is much better elsewhere.
Even if you get past that the carriers won't touch it. They want to charge you for each program you install, each ringtone you download etc... Then they want to charge it again when you upgrade to a new phone. They won't let your open phone on their network.
What might work... a PDA with a CF cellular modem card. I think Cingular had CF cards for a while just before AT&T ate them. I'm not sure if you can get voice through it though. If not there is alway VoIP but it requires the data connection be on which will probably go through batteries faster than most people would want to deal with. Plus, any data plan I have seen forbids using it for VoIP (protecting that traditional phone revenue). You would always be at risk of getting noticed and turned off.
If you did this you would need a PDA with a CF slot. Since most PDAs only have one memory slot filling it with your cell modem kind of sucks. For that reason I would suggest a Sharp Zaurus. Not the ones which were released here in the US 10 years ago (too outdated) but the clamshell ones they only sold in Japan. Some of those had internal microdrives and USB host.
You might want to look into Opie and GPE. I think they both had phone editions, or at least phone apps. I would go with GPE as it's X based, you could port all sorts of stuff to it w/o much work. They could probably use some updated 3d eye candy though if this is to compete with the iPhone. GPE + compiz? Is it possible?
Of course, having a device with a CF card sticking out the top all the time is an invitation for breakage too if it catches on something...
Apple has always been more proprietary than Mickeysoft! Before OSS gained a real showing outside of academia Mickeysoft was the open, free choice over Apple because at least you could choose the hardware.
And yet... so many Mickeysoft hating OSS fans (me) also love Apple (not me). Not even PocketPC locks it's users into the one Mickeysoft marketplace. Leave it to Apple to come up with that.
Honestly, if you bought an iPhone, turn in your geek card immediately and seek rehabilitation! Myself, I'll hold onto my PocketPC until a REAL Linux phone is released. Something with X, GTK and Qt where I can actually port my Desktop apps over with no more than a UI shuffle to handle the small screen. Not a new (read no existing software base)Java API with a Linux kernel hiding under 10 layers of cruft as though someone was embarrassed of it(that means you GPhone)
I didn't see anything in the article where the author made a value statement, that it is bad (or good) that system calls are increasing. He was just pointing out that the trend is not towards simplicity in this area.
I would also point out, that ext4 is very new and ntfs may not be new but never has been quite completed so active feature development could explain away the upward curves in their call counts, though not the absolute values.
It would be strange for the filesystem to become fragmented this much all at once as the computer seems to have slowed down all at once but it might if there was a lot of software install/removal going on at the time or maybe if some large updates were installed.
Still, if you want to speed a Windows box up... Defrag it. Really!
The common perception these days on defraging is that it is no longer necessary, just an old DOS-Win9x thing. People also tend to buy new computers every couple of years or at least reformat. Hmmm.....
Here's the thing... Microsoft defrag is broken. It has been in every Windows version which came after Win98. Not that the ones in Win95/8 were that great either! If you run the defrag that comes with Windows it will probably not be much better after. People mistake this for meaning the computer didn't need it.
Get a third party defragger. I'm using Diskeeper. It works well. I've noticed a huge difference on my work PC (has to be Windows) since installing it. If you search Google there are many other defraggers out there but watch out. Many of them are just shells which run the Microsoft defrag in the background. Make sure the one you get actually is it's own defrag program.
Even if this doesn't fix the current problem it will make most Windows machines faster. At least it does if you use it like I do and install/remove a lot of stuff regularly. Maybe a simple email/word processing box wouldn't get so fragmented??? I'll probably never know.
It's not Linux/Windows. It's Verizon and a ton of other companies.
I have Verizon. I tether my phone to my laptop. What did it take? I added the "phone#", username, and password in KPPP plus selected the USB serial port (my phone). It's pretty much the exact same process people have been doing to get dialup in Windows since Dial Up Networking in Windows95. And no, it isn't really any different in Windows today.
The issue... Verizon documentation makes it sound like you need Windows. Sadly, this is common with many ISPs, hardware vendors, etc...
Still, it has nothing to do with ease of use of Linux or Windows.
And that is the problem Linux faces on the desktop.
Just about every argument I've read in the last 7 years or more against Linux being ready on the Desktop has revolved around "this piece of hardware is difficult to get working" or "I need X application because that's what my work, school, etc... uses".
First off, when a hardware vendor supports Linux either by writing the driver themselves or better yet by releasing enough info to allow the community to do so it is very rarely difficult to install. In fact, being experienced in both Windows and Linux I would say for supported hardware Linux is EASIER. An example, I recently upgraded my video card. Both new and old were nVidia. Know what I had to do in the software? NOTHING!! The nVidia driver supports all nVidia cards and setup is pretty much the same. I just pulled the old one out and put the new one in. In Windows I would have had to install a driver. Not the worlds most difficult task but... one more step than in Linux.
The problem is a chicken & egg problem. Linux will not be a mainstream desktop OS w/o the hardware support, it will not get the hardware support w/o being a mainstream desktop OS.
Then the software. Using Wine might still be a little much to ask of someone whith no inherent interest in computers, just a desire to do his/her homework. (To be fair it really isn't that hard though if you have even a little interest in learning) So, only considering apps that run natively in Linux is there really that large a percentage of people whom need something which isn't available in Linux?
Take MSOffice which seems to come up again and again as a "necessity". People argue endlessly over wether or not OpenOffice is full featured in comparison to MSOffice. Personally I have no idea. I rarely use an office suite beyond writing a simple letter or maybe typing up a list in a spreadsheet. I do know that both office suites have way more features than I will ever use. For that matter, so does KOffice, AbiWord/Gnumeric and I'm sure many others. Am I really so alone in this?
I can't believe more than 10% of MSOffice users use any more of the features than that. The only other app I hear about regularly... Adobe Photoshop. How many fingers do you need to count the number of people you know whom use Photoshop? And beyond the features found in Gimp? No, your answer doesn't count if you work in a large graphics shop. Most computer users don't.
So, what if the 90% whom could switch did so? Well, that would have to tip the scales enough to get the hardware vendors to support Linux better and proprietary software released w/ Linux versions (if you really need it).
I realize that untill this happens the majority of people have no real motivation to make it happen. This isn't an issue of Linux not being ready though, it's just momentum. Still, I can't believe that one company, which has only been around for one generation will dominate computers (which increasingly dominate society) so thouroughly as Microsoft currently does forever. But what will it take?
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If the guy's cell was connected to the proper cellsite his data would have probably gone over some form of landline or microwave link back to the backbone. Instead because the ship turned on their equipment early it went out over their ocean-serving satellite which is a much more limited resource. Seems to me that the higher bill is PARTIALLY justified, but that it should go to the company responsible for the employee who turned on the equipment. Still, I don't think the prices they charge for data roaming are ever really justified, at that price they could send someone out in a helicopter with the game on DVD.
War is not a necessity, we do not need war. War is inevitable. Whether it be a president, a dictator or a tribal chieftan any sizable group of people will put someone in control. Then, when groups meet the leaders will send their pawns to go fight. This is human nature.
War is too powerful of a tool for governments to ever let go. War is a means of obtaining what one wants without making it themselves. War is a means of instilling fear in your people, or hatred of the enemy thus keeping the people looking to the leader for protection and keeping their attention off of the leaders' own evils.
People banding together has not and will not eliminate war. Just look at the 60s. How popular was it to protest the Vietnam war? We didn't get an end to war out of that, just some good music, a lot of pot and the hippies who later turned in their ideals and became the yuppies.
The serfs did not wake up one day and throw off their monarchies. The monarchs became to secure in their positions. They allowed some families to become richer and more powerful then they were. These families along with some free minded "serfs" (there are always a few rare ones) stirred up the people and eliminated the monarch threat to their own position. Now they exist today in the form of the corporations and political parties which are slowly chipping away those freedoms returning the "Free World" to our more natural less free state.
Democracy is not a new idea which is suddenly sweeping the world. Democracy has existed at various times and places such as Ancient Greece and Rome. Yes, some parts of the world are currently becoming more free but surely by the time that the current dictatorships, monarchies, etc... are all replaced with democracies many of the existing democracies will be replaced with dictatorships and monarchies.
I only hope that mankind starts colonizing frontiers on other worlds before society on this one becomes so tightly controlled that natural selection starts taking away our brainpower and makes our descendants collective like ants. That I'm convinced is the future on this world. Only in open spaces where we can expand too thin for central control does human nature tend towards freedom.
That depends... how were the workers evaluated. Her recent performance was probably affected by her situation but this would not have lasted. If they did take this into consideration, and her pre-miscarriage performance was below the others then it certainly makes sense to chose her to go. Timing certainly sucks though... Was it so urgent that they get rid of someone that they couldn't just wait a month or so then get rid of her?
They aren't asking to see your bookmarks are they? Why do you expect them to show you theirs?
Poverty and War, boring, snore snore
These two issues are old news and have plagued mankind since civilization began. What issue doesn't get thrown on the back burner to wait for solutions to never come.
We will always have poverty, we will always have war we cannot lose those as much as we would like to.
If we don't hold our politicians accountable while we still have a democracy that allows us to do so we will lose that.
I see, they are using an existing type accepted radio module. "the GM-862 GPRS" kind of like the CF modem idea but a bit more hands on. Very interesting. I will be checking this out, thanks!
It's a great thing... An excuse to make a new one!
Wait right there, I'm grabbing my camera and plane tickets!
Sorry, strike the RIAA lawyer part, that's outdated. I believe those people are now correctly referred to as Obamma appointees. I am so disappointed.
Not so simple.
Imagine Apple powered by RIAA lawyers. (Is it really that hard?) They would pay your phone carrier to monitor activity to and from your phone , building up their evidence of a jailbroken phone . When ready, their super expensive (better than you can afford) lawyers would write it all up and submit it to the court along with 100 or so other cases. As I understand it this is illegal but it's not like our government (US) has been keeping to it's own laws much lately.
Up till now you are clueless, happily enjoying your open device. Then you receive a registered letter informing you of the problem. The case is made against you before you even knew you needed to mount a defense.
Now, you are given a choice. Fork over a good amount of hard earned cash immediately, or face trial.
If you chose trial there will be a panel of highly paid lawyers of a different class than you can afford explaining their case to a probably technically incompetent appointed for life, answering to no one judge. Who will explain said "technobable" to him? Said lawyers of course. This trial will not be for the large lump of cash which was asked for previously in the settlement offer, it will be for a much larger amount that will probably keep you broken for life.
Yes, you are in the right. You were only using your device which you own as you see fit.
Good luck with that.
That would be fine too. I like the Zaurus option b/c of the USB host and microdrive, you could extend it to do just about anything with that but an IPAQ with SD+CF would be just fine. In fact, the same software could probably run on both!
Actually, even the old US sold Zauri (55/5600 series) which I mentioned not using would technically work for this as they have both CF and SD though I don't think you would want to carry them in your pocket and you could get so much more power from something newer.
If the phone existed.... I don't think gnumeric would take long!
Sounds nice...
Good luck with that though...
Here in the US it's going to take the money of a large corporation to get the phone FCC type approved. I doubt it is much better elsewhere.
Even if you get past that the carriers won't touch it. They want to charge you for each program you install, each ringtone you download etc... Then they want to charge it again when you upgrade to a new phone. They won't let your open phone on their network.
What might work... a PDA with a CF cellular modem card. I think Cingular had CF cards for a while just before AT&T ate them. I'm not sure if you can get voice through it though. If not there is alway VoIP but it requires the data connection be on which will probably go through batteries faster than most people would want to deal with. Plus, any data plan I have seen forbids using it for VoIP (protecting that traditional phone revenue). You would always be at risk of getting noticed and turned off.
If you did this you would need a PDA with a CF slot. Since most PDAs only have one memory slot filling it with your cell modem kind of sucks. For that reason I would suggest a Sharp Zaurus. Not the ones which were released here in the US 10 years ago (too outdated) but the clamshell ones they only sold in Japan. Some of those had internal microdrives and USB host.
You might want to look into Opie and GPE. I think they both had phone editions, or at least phone apps. I would go with GPE as it's X based, you could port all sorts of stuff to it w/o much work. They could probably use some updated 3d eye candy though if this is to compete with the iPhone. GPE + compiz? Is it possible?
Of course, having a device with a CF card sticking out the top all the time is an invitation for breakage too if it catches on something...
Any better ideas???
Apple has always been more proprietary than Mickeysoft! Before OSS gained a real showing outside of academia Mickeysoft was the open, free choice over Apple because at least you could choose the hardware.
And yet... so many Mickeysoft hating OSS fans (me) also love Apple (not me). Not even PocketPC locks it's users into the one Mickeysoft marketplace. Leave it to Apple to come up with that.
Honestly, if you bought an iPhone, turn in your geek card immediately and seek rehabilitation! Myself, I'll hold onto my PocketPC until a REAL Linux phone is released. Something with X, GTK and Qt where I can actually port my Desktop apps over with no more than a UI shuffle to handle the small screen. Not a new (read no existing software base)Java API with a Linux kernel hiding under 10 layers of cruft as though someone was embarrassed of it(that means you GPhone)
And if Apple Corp. was suing you with some strange interpretation of the DMCA today and the legal dream team it must be able to afford...
What you be confident that the judge would sort it all out?
I didn't see anything in the article where the author made a value statement, that it is bad (or good) that system calls are increasing. He was just pointing out that the trend is not towards simplicity in this area.
I would also point out, that ext4 is very new and ntfs may not be new but never has been quite completed so active feature development could explain away the upward curves in their call counts, though not the absolute values.
"since you've waited for ages while it was being done"
Do you sit there and watch the grass grow in-between cuttings too? Just go do something else.
Defrag is not a bad idea at all.
It would be strange for the filesystem to become fragmented this much all at once as the computer seems to have slowed down all at once but it might if there was a lot of software install/removal going on at the time or maybe if some large updates were installed.
Still, if you want to speed a Windows box up...
Defrag it. Really!
The common perception these days on defraging is that it is no longer necessary, just an old DOS-Win9x thing. People also tend to buy new computers every couple of years or at least reformat. Hmmm.....
Here's the thing... Microsoft defrag is broken. It has been in every Windows version which came after Win98. Not that the ones in Win95/8 were that great either! If you run the defrag that comes with Windows it will probably not be much better after. People mistake this for meaning the computer didn't need it.
Get a third party defragger. I'm using Diskeeper. It works well. I've noticed a huge difference on my work PC (has to be Windows) since installing it. If you search Google there are many other defraggers out there but watch out. Many of them are just shells which run the Microsoft defrag in the background. Make sure the one you get actually is it's own defrag program.
Even if this doesn't fix the current problem it will make most Windows machines faster. At least it does if you use it like I do and install/remove a lot of stuff regularly. Maybe a simple email/word processing box wouldn't get so fragmented??? I'll probably never know.
that would be baking not cooking
Unless the alcohol consumer is a Malaysian Muslim.
1-1000 2-1000 3-1000.... Can I hit submit yet?
Lulfas - "This is the sort of thing that is going to happen when you give a normal person *nix. Sadly, in this case, Windows "just works."
Someone mod this back up!!
Personally I disagree with Lulfas' statement but it is a very common sentiment. How can it be addressed if it is burried?!?!
If moderating is used to push one's own opinions and keep others down then Slashdot becomes Digg!!!! Let's not go there!
Bah!
It's not Linux/Windows. It's Verizon and a ton of other companies.
I have Verizon. I tether my phone to my laptop. What did it take? I added the "phone#", username, and password in KPPP plus selected the USB serial port (my phone). It's pretty much the exact same process people have been doing to get dialup in Windows since Dial Up Networking in Windows95. And no, it isn't really any different in Windows today.
The issue... Verizon documentation makes it sound like you need Windows. Sadly, this is common with many ISPs, hardware vendors, etc...
Still, it has nothing to do with ease of use of Linux or Windows.
And that is the problem Linux faces on the desktop.
Just about every argument I've read in the last 7 years or more against Linux being ready on the Desktop has revolved around "this piece of hardware is difficult to get working" or "I need X application because that's what my work, school, etc... uses".
First off, when a hardware vendor supports Linux either by writing the driver themselves or better yet by releasing enough info to allow the community to do so it is very rarely difficult to install. In fact, being experienced in both Windows and Linux I would say for supported hardware Linux is EASIER. An example, I recently upgraded my video card. Both new and old were nVidia. Know what I had to do in the software? NOTHING!! The nVidia driver supports all nVidia cards and setup is pretty much the same. I just pulled the old one out and put the new one in. In Windows I would have had to install a driver. Not the worlds most difficult task but... one more step than in Linux.
The problem is a chicken & egg problem. Linux will not be a mainstream desktop OS w/o the hardware support, it will not get the hardware support w/o being a mainstream desktop OS.
Then the software. Using Wine might still be a little much to ask of someone whith no inherent interest in computers, just a desire to do his/her homework. (To be fair it really isn't that hard though if you have even a little interest in learning) So, only considering apps that run natively in Linux is there really that large a percentage of people whom need something which isn't available in Linux?
Take MSOffice which seems to come up again and again as a "necessity". People argue endlessly over wether or not OpenOffice is full featured in comparison to MSOffice. Personally I have no idea. I rarely use an office suite beyond writing a simple letter or maybe typing up a list in a spreadsheet. I do know that both office suites have way more features than I will ever use. For that matter, so does KOffice, AbiWord/Gnumeric and I'm sure many others. Am I really so alone in this?
I can't believe more than 10% of MSOffice users use any more of the features than that. The only other app I hear about regularly... Adobe Photoshop. How many fingers do you need to count the number of people you know whom use Photoshop? And beyond the features found in Gimp? No, your answer doesn't count if you work in a large graphics shop. Most computer users don't.
So, what if the 90% whom could switch did so? Well, that would have to tip the scales enough to get the hardware vendors to support Linux better and proprietary software released w/ Linux versions (if you really need it).
I realize that untill this happens the majority of people have no real motivation to make it happen. This isn't an issue of Linux not being ready though, it's just momentum. Still, I can't believe that one company, which has only been around for one generation will dominate computers (which increasingly dominate society) so thouroughly as Microsoft currently does forever. But what will it take?
Yeah, it will pretty much make it stop for ya.... permanently!
Then he wouldn't need the internet. That would defeat the whole purpose of this thread!
True, that's a pretty low barrier.
But So What?.....
Every half motivated tourist we don't get is money not in our (US) economy.
Let's lock the Department of Homeland FUD out and let the tourists in.