That's vonage by another name. I have vonage on my cable modem.
Advantages: good web integration v. cheap
Disadvantages: unreliable, although that's because of cable modem unreliability, not vonage. hard to plug into existing house phone system - you have to run a wire from the root of the phone lines in your house to your router
you're crazy, man. microsoft would be in favour of any new technology as it probably requires a windows upgrade for standard driver support.
i'm not a bluetooth fan myself, because it's not tcpip based. imho, this makes 802.11b easier to setup and develop for. i like the physical layer though, 802.11b is too biased in favour of speed over battery life. maybe an ideal solution would be for the 802.11b cards to have a lower power option where they can drop down to hundreds of Kbps.
Statistically, driving is almost like playing Russian roulette - possibly a trifle dramatic? I do better than 1 in 6 myself.
Also, maybe by people dying early, we will be losing their creativity, invention and experience which would enable us to thereby live more efficiently and wasting less resources?
Personally, I don't believe that most of our economic activity is devoted to digging stuff out of the ground, but rather finding better ways of using the stuff that we DO dig out of the ground. Look at your own jobs - how many of you directly extract the natural resources and how many of you find ways to use the resources more efficiently?
I think it would do well in London, for instance, where people can spend more than an hour a day on the tube, but not so well in the US - where people are (hopefully) paying attention to the road when they're communting:)
When I chose a permanent email a few years ago - this was my primary consideration - security. You don't want to be changing it every year or so.
I chose Yahoo because they're stable, free and had a POP3 interface at the time. The POP3 interface went away (kind of...see YahooPOPS) but all else remained as I'd hoped.
However, now I realize that what you really want to have control of is your address itself, which you can only get by having your own domain. You can always redirect the dns mail record thingy to point to yahoo after all, but you can't take your *@yahoo.com address with you if they wanting to start charging or something.
i personally blame that effect on the registry. either registry fragmentation or just filling up with a load of unused crap. try logging the size of your registry from install time to a few months later and watch it expand.
note that a lot of operations on windows look at the registry - eg right clicking on something in the file explorer.
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I want the tags to stay in...because I want to do inventory on _my_ stuff. Imagine - you can auto-generate your shopping list rather than checking all the various places where your wife has stashed the food.
Seems to me that it should be simple to write a library with the same interface as xlib, but which renders directly to the local machine.
almost all the apps you use probably talk to the Qt or GDK libraries rather than raw xlib, so if you wrote a new type of display system, making it compatible with these 2 is all you'd ever need to get momentum.
Most of the stages of loading a dll into your process aren't sped up by preloading everything into a foreign process. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0500/hood/default.aspx for more details. Maybe the only speedup would be at the kernel level - i.e. the dll file gets paged into memory, but even that would be messed up if your dll has to be rebased.
Another case where preloading would help would be if explorer.exe were to implement a bunch of COM object to be accessed out-of-process by other process. I don't think this technique is used though - it would have a lot of other disadvantages, e.g. the per-call overhead of cross-process calls.
I have 2 phones, a T193 (internal antenna, gsm) and a Sanyo SCP-5150 (external antenna, sprint pcs). The T193 is _far_ superior in quality and the sanyo keeps dropping the signal even though I'm sitting in the same place, and the signal strength was 4 bars only 30 seconds before.
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_obviously_ we should buy exit polling software from the same company to guarantee good integration :)
That's vonage by another name. I have vonage on my cable modem.
Advantages:
good web integration
v. cheap
Disadvantages:
unreliable, although that's because of cable modem unreliability, not vonage.
hard to plug into existing house phone system - you have to run a wire from the root of the phone lines in your house to your router
Poor parents => worse nutrition => shorter children
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Poor parents => worse education => poor children
I wonder if they controlled for that
you're crazy, man. microsoft would be in favour of any new technology as it probably requires a windows upgrade for standard driver support.
i'm not a bluetooth fan myself, because it's not tcpip based. imho, this makes 802.11b easier to setup and develop for. i like the physical layer though, 802.11b is too biased in favour of speed over battery life. maybe an ideal solution would be for the 802.11b cards to have a lower power option where they can drop down to hundreds of Kbps.
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Statistically, driving is almost like playing Russian roulette - possibly a trifle dramatic? I do better than 1 in 6 myself.
Also, maybe by people dying early, we will be losing their creativity, invention and experience which would enable us to thereby live more efficiently and wasting less resources?
Personally, I don't believe that most of our economic activity is devoted to digging stuff out of the ground, but rather finding better ways of using the stuff that we DO dig out of the ground. Look at your own jobs - how many of you directly extract the natural resources and how many of you find ways to use the resources more efficiently?
I think it would do well in London, for instance, where people can spend more than an hour a day on the tube, but not so well in the US - where people are (hopefully) paying attention to the road when they're communting :)
Are you joking? I thought this board was supposed to inhabited with math-clueful types.
Just so we're clear - there's no player edge on slots - it's advertised to go up to 97.8% payback and is more usually at 90%
When I chose a permanent email a few years ago - this was my primary consideration - security. You don't want to be changing it every year or so.
I chose Yahoo because they're stable, free and had a POP3 interface at the time. The POP3 interface went away (kind of...see YahooPOPS) but all else remained as I'd hoped.
However, now I realize that what you really want to have control of is your address itself, which you can only get by having your own domain. You can always redirect the dns mail record thingy to point to yahoo after all, but you can't take your *@yahoo.com address with you if they wanting to start charging or something.
Great idea - in fact we could extend it to solve some other problems...
maybe a license to send email?
how about a license to get on the internet in the first place - you have to be able to recognize spyware.
of course we'll have to expand government bureaucracy to deal with the licenses. and the police to track the new criminals.
i personally blame that effect on the registry. either registry fragmentation or just filling up with a load of unused crap. try logging the size of your registry from install time to a few months later and watch it expand.
note that a lot of operations on windows look at the registry - eg right clicking on something in the file explorer.
maybe you'd like to turn off your computer to save energy - or you don't want it making noise when it's not doing anything.
midori used to have a pretty fast parallel init system and it's a joy compared to debian.
unnecessarily slow bootup caused by lack of parallelism.
i'm making a tivo box and i know that the startup times will be appalling compared to windows.
Actually, T-mobile at least and, I think, ATT and Cingular both offer unlimited GPRS in the states.
cool - it's like a reference counting garbage collection scheme ala COM :)
that is a GREAT idea!
Also, perfect knives, garden tools, tiles, spectacle lenses.
Anything that you want to cut with, or you want to be unchippable.
maybe a crt projector solves both problems
I want the tags to stay in...because I want to do inventory on _my_ stuff. Imagine - you can auto-generate your shopping list rather than checking all the various places where your wife has stashed the food.
I presume that wireless via radio is power hungry because it's inefficient and that it's inefficient because the energy gets shared out over a sphere.
So my question is...why doesn't someone implement "tightbeam" radio links where the endpoints are able to adjust to changes in position?
2 things about "too late in the game":
Seems to me that it should be simple to write a library with the same interface as xlib, but which renders directly to the local machine.
almost all the apps you use probably talk to the Qt or GDK libraries rather than raw xlib, so if you wrote a new type of display system, making it compatible with these 2 is all you'd ever need to get momentum.
Socialist-leaning? Canada? :) Maybe relative to the USA, but that's hardly a centrist country
Most of the stages of loading a dll into your process aren't sped up by preloading everything into a foreign process. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0500/hood /default.aspx for more details. Maybe the only speedup would be at the kernel level - i.e. the dll file gets paged into memory, but even that would be messed up if your dll has to be rebased.
Another case where preloading would help would be if explorer.exe were to implement a bunch of COM object to be accessed out-of-process by other process. I don't think this technique is used though - it would have a lot of other disadvantages, e.g. the per-call overhead of cross-process calls.
In short, this looks like an anti-MS myth to me.
That's a generous friend - they are going to have to pay for the bandwidth they use too
I have 2 phones, a T193 (internal antenna, gsm) and a Sanyo SCP-5150 (external antenna, sprint pcs). The T193 is _far_ superior in quality and the sanyo keeps dropping the signal even though I'm sitting in the same place, and the signal strength was 4 bars only 30 seconds before.
Are internal antennas really that bad?
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