Being as calling a mobile number costs more than a land-line, telemarketing companies generally won't call them, so my mobile number is the one I always hand out. I'd prefer to have my mobile number listed over my land-line.
My Nokia 7650 has Bluetooth and a camera and will happily send pictures to my PC or a Pocket PC or even a Palm Pilot. Mostly I use it to send pictures to my HP printer, which also has Bluetooth, it took no setting up or drivers, just unpacked the phone, took a photo, pressed "send" and out it comes.
Do you really need 802.11 for your handheld? The iPaq comes with internal Bluetooth and it can be fitted to pretty much anything else. I found 802.11 useless on an iPaq (a Compaq PC-Card), it just consumes too much power. I have a Bluetooth Access Point for IP connectivity, though I use a direct connection to speak to my servers.
Some years ago I was at the National Exhibition of Broadcasters in Las Vegas, where the keynote talk was presented by Larry Ellison, which I thought might be of interest. Much music and effects (including 3-D glasses on every seat) introduced the man himself who cam on stage and started talking about home-banking, home-shopping and the like, all via your TV and all powered by Oracle. He then stated, clearly, that this was not the future, but the present, and that at the current time;
"Ordinary people in the UK are using their television every day to do these things with Sky TV"
...which was blatant, outright, fiction as Sky hadn't launched any kind of interactive TV at that time. He went on to introduce someone from Sky and the two of them talked about how users of Sky, through the power of Oracle, were able to bank, shop, etc. at the touch of their remote control. This was plainly untrue at that time, and I felt like standing up and shouting, but eventually just walked out in disgust.
It stunned me that someone like Larry Ellison would stand up in front of thousands of people and talk such bollocks, and such bollocks that was so easily provable to be bollocks. I've always wondered if he was miss-informed or knew he was lying.
Several people mentioned royality payments, but there is also an issue with processing power required. MPEG-4 has high requirments, which makes for more expensive players, we have the same issue with DTV, the boxes have to be as cheap as possible (especially if you're giving them away free).
I didn't see anything in the article about regionless players, just players breaching the patient.
I have an LG player, which is fully licensed, patients all paid up, but it can still be made regionles with a few button presses on the remote control. As far as I could see the article had nothing to do with regions, just unlicensed players, but every other posting seems to be talking about regions, have I missed something?
From what I remember about the Simon it's PDA capabilities were very limited, it was more about Fax than diarys and such. I also think it was released at a loss, to see if the market would buy such a thing? An experiement that didn't go perfectly, causing IBM to decide against such development.
I don't know where it was developed, but it's been out on the street here in London for at least a year (in Newham) randomly scanning the public for criminal matches (not with any success, I should point out.
Perhaps they are referring to it's use in public as being European, rather than it's development.
I don't think you can things have slowed down, certainly not in the last 10 years;
The use of the GSM network has changed business and home-life (I was recently involved in an argument about what percentage of school children in the UK had mobile phones, and I was arguing that it was under 50%).
DTV is changing television, 600 channels is only the start, Tivo changes the way you watch television (I've not seen an advertisment on TV for 4 months).
DTV has also changed things radically in the area of radio communications, with breath-taking research being done in signal amplification and compression.
Gene therepy is starting to be used, first lives already saved.
I think your problem is that innovation in the way the Internet works has slowed, but that's because it's getting boring and people have moved on to more interesting things:-)
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From my understanding of that work it was not intended to actually create black holes, but by slowing light down enough you could create a vortex in the material that would suck the slow moving light in, in the same way as a black hole.
This would allow lots of interesting studies of the effects, and would be a lot safer (read: less terminal) than actually creating a black hole.
This was from a New Scientist article relating to the same research.
People have tried to control Internet usage by geography before, but even the Chinese firewall leaks like mad.
I'm slightly confused about the comment about a Norwegian teenager being arrested, was he in the US or did Norway pass a similar law? In Europe we often laugh at the US with all it's silly laws (much as we try to pretend that ours aren't as silly) but I didn't think this one had spread outside the US. Of course, in the UK it's illegal in the same way to own equipment caperable of being used to decode television signals, such as a computer...
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Being as calling a mobile number costs more than a land-line, telemarketing companies generally won't call them, so my mobile number is the one I always hand out. I'd prefer to have my mobile number listed over my land-line.
Of course, that's only useful in Europe.
I saw it last night and played Tomb Raider, never been very good at that but it seemed to play OK.
Bluetooth games are fun, race against your friends, assuming your friends have one too.
I'm not a big game player, but the kit seemed OK, if they can get the network titles out early enough.
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> It's nice to talk about alternative fuels, but I have yet to see a gas station selling one of them.
Here in London (UK) just about every gas station sells LPG (making them really "Gas" stations). Not so common outside London thought.
My Nokia 7650 has Bluetooth and a camera and will happily send pictures to my PC or a Pocket PC or even a Palm Pilot. Mostly I use it to send pictures to my HP printer, which also has Bluetooth, it took no setting up or drivers, just unpacked the phone, took a photo, pressed "send" and out it comes.
Bluetooth is a truely wonderful thing.
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Bill Ray
Do you really need 802.11 for your handheld? The iPaq comes with internal Bluetooth and it can be fitted to pretty much anything else. I found 802.11 useless on an iPaq (a Compaq PC-Card), it just consumes too much power. I have a Bluetooth Access Point for IP connectivity, though I use a direct connection to speak to my servers.
Just a thought...
Some years ago I was at the National Exhibition of Broadcasters in Las Vegas, where the keynote talk was presented by Larry Ellison, which I thought might be of interest. Much music and effects (including 3-D glasses on every seat) introduced the man himself who cam on stage and started talking about home-banking, home-shopping and the like, all via your TV and all powered by Oracle. He then stated, clearly, that this was not the future, but the present, and that at the current time;
"Ordinary people in the UK are using their television every day to do these things with Sky TV"
...which was blatant, outright, fiction as Sky hadn't launched any kind of interactive TV at that time. He went on to introduce someone from Sky and the two of them talked about how users of Sky, through the power of Oracle, were able to bank, shop, etc. at the touch of their remote control. This was plainly untrue at that time, and I felt like standing up and shouting, but eventually just walked out in disgust.
It stunned me that someone like Larry Ellison would stand up in front of thousands of people and talk such bollocks, and such bollocks that was so easily provable to be bollocks. I've always wondered if he was miss-informed or knew he was lying.
Several people mentioned royality payments, but there is also an issue with processing power required. MPEG-4 has high requirments, which makes for more expensive players, we have the same issue with DTV, the boxes have to be as cheap as possible (especially if you're giving them away free).
I didn't see anything in the article about regionless players, just players breaching the patient.
I have an LG player, which is fully licensed, patients all paid up, but it can still be made regionles with a few button presses on the remote control. As far as I could see the article had nothing to do with regions, just unlicensed players, but every other posting seems to be talking about regions, have I missed something?
AOL/Time Warner publish quite a lot of DVD's? Perhaps it's just me, but I can't see them encoding anything in WMA.
Look! Real competition, not often that happens.
From what I remember about the Simon it's PDA capabilities were very limited, it was more about Fax than diarys and such. I also think it was released at a loss, to see if the market would buy such a thing? An experiement that didn't go perfectly, causing IBM to decide against such development.
Lots Of Love
Bill
I don't know where it was developed, but it's been out on the street here in London for at least a year (in Newham) randomly scanning the public for criminal matches (not with any success, I should point out. Perhaps they are referring to it's use in public as being European, rather than it's development.
I don't think you can things have slowed down, certainly not in the last 10 years;
:-)
The use of the GSM network has changed business and home-life (I was recently involved in an argument about what percentage of school children in the UK had mobile phones, and I was arguing that it was under 50%).
DTV is changing television, 600 channels is only the start, Tivo changes the way you watch television (I've not seen an advertisment on TV for 4 months).
DTV has also changed things radically in the area of radio communications, with breath-taking research being done in signal amplification and compression.
Gene therepy is starting to be used, first lives already saved.
I think your problem is that innovation in the way the Internet works has slowed, but that's because it's getting boring and people have moved on to more interesting things
Lots Of Love
Bill Ray
From my understanding of that work it was not intended to actually create black holes, but by slowing light down enough you could create a vortex in the material that would suck the slow moving light in, in the same way as a black hole.
This would allow lots of interesting studies of the effects, and would be a lot safer (read: less terminal) than actually creating a black hole.
This was from a New Scientist article relating to the same research.
Lots Of Love
Bill
People have tried to control Internet usage by geography before, but even the Chinese firewall leaks like mad.
I'm slightly confused about the comment about a Norwegian teenager being arrested, was he in the US or did Norway pass a similar law? In Europe we often laugh at the US with all it's silly laws (much as we try to pretend that ours aren't as silly) but I didn't think this one had spread outside the US. Of course, in the UK it's illegal in the same way to own equipment caperable of being used to decode television signals, such as a computer...