The attempts by people to badmouth CDMA never cease to amaze me. The original GSM was based on the horribly inefficient TDMA. Basically, the phones took turns talking to the tower, even if they had nothing to say. You got the same limited bandwidth whether you were the only phone connected to the tower, or if the tower were at capacity. If there were more phones than timeslices, you couldn't connect, period.
This is only true for active calls. Many more "idle" phones could be connected at once. There is a limit of 8 connections/cell (so usually 24/tower).
CDMA allows all phones to transmit simultaneously, they just use orthogonal codes which allow the tower to decipher which signal came from which phone. It's computationally more expensive, but it allows a single phone to use all the bandwidth if there are no other phones, while distributing the bandwidth equally if there are multiple phones. If there are more phones transmitting than bandwidth, you start getting dropouts (the volatility of SNR means there's no hard limit at which this happens, as with TDMA).
Completely true.
When carriers started adding data services, GSM was borked due to TDMA's inefficiency. That's why CDMA carriers rolled out 2G and 3G service about a year sooner than GSM carriers. GSM was forced to graft on a separate non-TDMA radio just to handle data traffic. (This is also why you can talk and use data simultaneously on GSM - the phones have two radios, one for voice, one for data. It's not a feature; it's a side-benefit to a fix which CDMA never needed. Most CDMA phones just have one radio which handles both voice and data.) The later GSM 3g data protocols used wideband CDMA. That's right, CDMA won - it was the better technology for data. GSM just incorporated it into their standard so it was still called GSM. If LTE is CDMA functionally dead-ending, then GSM dead-ended way back when cellular data services were first added.
No, GPRS (GSM's data bolt-on) does not need a separate radio. It uses the free timeslices (not used for voice) for transferring data between the handset and cell (tower). So if all of the 8 timeslots are busy, no data. If no one is talking, then you can (theoretically) use all that for data (though most phones have a limit of at most 4 or 5 of the 8 timeslots).
Sounds great, but many users have difficulty separating form (presentation) from content (data). Unless this separation can be done seamlessly or can be easily done incrementally, there's no chance if something powerful like this catching on. I mean, do you realize how many quite intelligent people still use word processors like a typewriter? And truthfully, sometimes that is the fastest and best approach for a one-off job.
No, direct deposit means the company transfers money (an employee's salary) directly to the employee's account. No checks involved. Prevalent in Europe--there's really no other common way to get that (legal) salary payment. Really, aside from novely checks, checks here no longer exist.
Then the price you are willing to pay should reflect your need. It's not easy but you really have to think in terms of how much that part is worth to you, not how much you're willing to pay.
I'm sure Vista would have a share greater than 24% of Internet-connected if people could actually manage to connect to the Internet. Seriously, I've worked with many OSs and Vista is the only one where my wireless network didn't just work. It seems to work on every other reboot. Thankfully the cable works (once I managed to dig it out).
Install sshfs. Then you can use a locally-installed editor (both emacs and vi work fine, as do others) to edit those remote files. Works great and needs very little bandwidth and even works with intermittent connections, such as trains rolling through the countryside. The newer Gnome gvfs with fuse export achieves pretty much the same thing and I believe KDE has had something similar for a much longer time.
Alternatively, emacs supports direct sftp access, but that's not as convenient for me.
If the ordinary experience is acceptable, try running background jobs or I/O intensive non-interactive jobs using the ionice command, such as ionice -c 3 apt-get update (Make it suid or run as root.)
It's nicer to have a standard based on something countable than just measurable. A second is defined as the duration of some number of Cesium vibrations. A kilogram would equivalent to the mass of a certain number of atoms in the proposed scheme, instead of equivalent to the mass of some prototype held in a safe.
So why is it that when I cycle and obey the laws (really, I do), do I have to put up with people treating me like you just described? I drive a car, too, and also hate cyclists that not only break the laws but also behave dangerously. But believe me, plenty of people in cars do that, too but you just don't notice it in the safety of a car.
I would guess they plan to use Cell Broadcast (think of it as SMS multicast), the same technology that some GSM operators use to tell you the approximate area (Area Info).
I currently live in Zurich. I've lived in many other cities, visited some more, and Zurich has by far the best public transportation I've seen anywhere. Personally, I don't like having to search for parking spaces downtown or in the closer suburbs--these are the places where public transport has an edge and is more flexible, in my opinion. A car is useful sometimes. I just rent it then, and this occasional cost is still much less than the cost of owning a car.
For unconditional email downloading, POP3 is slightly more efficient and easier to implement, but IMAP was designed with a clear separation between the headers and message body. This separation becomes most useful for accessing email from different clients. Which means that you can choose not to download that 500MB email, or download it only after you've read the smaller emails.
The switching is between GSM/UMTS networks and WiFi alright, but not just any WiFi network. It must owned by a (mobile phone) operator with their equipment on it. You get nominally the same service as on their radio network (including data encryption, authentication), albeit faster packet data transfer--and you also get charged appropriately. It's just a different air interface. See 3GPP TS 22.234, Requirements on 3GPP system to Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN) interworking.
Many toilets in Europe have two modes of flushing. However, the whole method of flushing differs: there's only a small amount in the bowl, and the water from the tank rushes down and does the flushing. In US toilets, the water from the tank causes the water in the bowl to swirl, which then causes the flush. You need a certain amount of water in the tank to enable effective swirling. So it'd be hard to design a US-based toilet with two modes of flushing.
I've noticed that *all* new electronic toys smell at first, but it shouldn't be too strong. Kinda like that smell, but I do realize it's probably not too healthy.
I remember my 15" Hitachi smelled for a month or two when I first got it--and I had to sleep in the same room with it!
There's always XMX - An X Protocol Multiplexor, but I couldn't get it to work when I tried it (though I didn't waste too much time). The only "fault" is that you must run your primary session through it if you want to later have windown appear on many desktops. Dunno about its overhead. I just use x0rfbserver when I'm in a bind.
"Right now, the rate of falsification on Web surveys is extremely high," Dr. Cavoukian said. Conservative estimates are 42 percent, but anecdotally the rates are far higher
Gee, considering that, the/. polls (even with their prominent disclaimers) seem to have more meaningful results than polls you see on websites, and probably even more than some "scientific" web polls. At least the results usually look right.
Musically speaking, the instrument was very limited; it was the equivalent of your run-of-the-mill-Casio-cheapo no velocity, no aftertouch keyboard. Beam free or beam cut, that's it. Very easy to implement in MIDI. What would be *very* cool would be to use the vertical position of the hand (the height at which the beam is cut) to modify factors such as signal amplitude (volume/tremolo), slight pitch alterations (vibrato), wave shape, etc. A hell of a lot harder to implement, but very interesting.
If you put two lasers and sensors almost together (with maybe 1mm distance), then you could determine how fast the player's hand plucks the string. You can then use this data to modify amplitute.
If they don't offer a direct MiniDV transfer, you can get a VHS transfer and then use a MiniDV camcorder with analog dubbing capabilities to go from VHS to MiniDV. I've tried this personally with our tapes, and you shouldn't lose anything along the lines of quality because the original film will be the limiting factor.
Do not go through the VHS route. My friend did this and the resulting quality was awful. Film has a much higher resolution than VHS.
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The attempts by people to badmouth CDMA never cease to amaze me. The original GSM was based on the horribly inefficient TDMA. Basically, the phones took turns talking to the tower, even if they had nothing to say. You got the same limited bandwidth whether you were the only phone connected to the tower, or if the tower were at capacity. If there were more phones than timeslices, you couldn't connect, period.
This is only true for active calls. Many more "idle" phones could be connected at once. There is a limit of 8 connections/cell (so usually 24/tower).
CDMA allows all phones to transmit simultaneously, they just use orthogonal codes which allow the tower to decipher which signal came from which phone. It's computationally more expensive, but it allows a single phone to use all the bandwidth if there are no other phones, while distributing the bandwidth equally if there are multiple phones. If there are more phones transmitting than bandwidth, you start getting dropouts (the volatility of SNR means there's no hard limit at which this happens, as with TDMA).
Completely true.
When carriers started adding data services, GSM was borked due to TDMA's inefficiency. That's why CDMA carriers rolled out 2G and 3G service about a year sooner than GSM carriers. GSM was forced to graft on a separate non-TDMA radio just to handle data traffic. (This is also why you can talk and use data simultaneously on GSM - the phones have two radios, one for voice, one for data. It's not a feature; it's a side-benefit to a fix which CDMA never needed. Most CDMA phones just have one radio which handles both voice and data.) The later GSM 3g data protocols used wideband CDMA. That's right, CDMA won - it was the better technology for data. GSM just incorporated it into their standard so it was still called GSM. If LTE is CDMA functionally dead-ending, then GSM dead-ended way back when cellular data services were first added.
No, GPRS (GSM's data bolt-on) does not need a separate radio. It uses the free timeslices (not used for voice) for transferring data between the handset and cell (tower). So if all of the 8 timeslots are busy, no data. If no one is talking, then you can (theoretically) use all that for data (though most phones have a limit of at most 4 or 5 of the 8 timeslots).
Actually I find analog gauges much more useful in cars. I don't want to have to interpret digits.
Sounds great, but many users have difficulty separating form (presentation) from content (data). Unless this separation can be done seamlessly or can be easily done incrementally, there's no chance if something powerful like this catching on. I mean, do you realize how many quite intelligent people still use word processors like a typewriter? And truthfully, sometimes that is the fastest and best approach for a one-off job.
No, direct deposit means the company transfers money (an employee's salary) directly to the employee's account. No checks involved. Prevalent in Europe--there's really no other common way to get that (legal) salary payment. Really, aside from novely checks, checks here no longer exist.
Then the price you are willing to pay should reflect your need. It's not easy but you really have to think in terms of how much that part is worth to you, not how much you're willing to pay.
America and other former UK colonies tend to have much worse insulation than continental Europe (at least the colder parts).
I know many people who like both Apple's and Google's products and I suppose the tensions between the two companies do not bode well for them.
I'm sure Vista would have a share greater than 24% of Internet-connected if people could actually manage to connect to the Internet. Seriously, I've worked with many OSs and Vista is the only one where my wireless network didn't just work. It seems to work on every other reboot. Thankfully the cable works (once I managed to dig it out).
No, but the a senator needs the media to be elected.
Their aim is to preserve the content found on the Web. They need the hardware for that. I assume they don't need much for the "serving users" part.
Install sshfs. Then you can use a locally-installed editor (both emacs and vi work fine, as do others) to edit those remote files. Works great and needs very little bandwidth and even works with intermittent connections, such as trains rolling through the countryside. The newer Gnome gvfs with fuse export achieves pretty much the same thing and I believe KDE has had something similar for a much longer time.
Alternatively, emacs supports direct sftp access, but that's not as convenient for me.
Compiles go through a remote SSH session.
If the ordinary experience is acceptable, try running background jobs or I/O intensive non-interactive jobs using the ionice command, such as
ionice -c 3 apt-get update
(Make it suid or run as root.)
It's nicer to have a standard based on something countable than just measurable. A second is defined as the duration of some number of Cesium vibrations. A kilogram would equivalent to the mass of a certain number of atoms in the proposed scheme, instead of equivalent to the mass of some prototype held in a safe.
So why is it that when I cycle and obey the laws (really, I do), do I have to put up with people treating me like you just described? I drive a car, too, and also hate cyclists that not only break the laws but also behave dangerously. But believe me, plenty of people in cars do that, too but you just don't notice it in the safety of a car.
I would guess they plan to use Cell Broadcast (think of it as SMS multicast), the same technology that some GSM operators use to tell you the approximate area (Area Info).
I currently live in Zurich. I've lived in many other cities, visited some more, and Zurich has by far the best public transportation I've seen anywhere. Personally, I don't like having to search for parking spaces downtown or in the closer suburbs--these are the places where public transport has an edge and is more flexible, in my opinion. A car is useful sometimes. I just rent it then, and this occasional cost is still much less than the cost of owning a car.
For unconditional email downloading, POP3 is slightly more efficient and easier to implement, but IMAP was designed with a clear separation between the headers and message body. This separation becomes most useful for accessing email from different clients. Which means that you can choose not to download that 500MB email, or download it only after you've read the smaller emails.
The switching is between GSM/UMTS networks and WiFi alright, but not just any WiFi network. It must owned by a (mobile phone) operator with their equipment on it. You get nominally the same service as on their radio network (including data encryption, authentication), albeit faster packet data transfer--and you also get charged appropriately. It's just a different air interface.
See 3GPP TS 22.234, Requirements on 3GPP system to Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN) interworking.
Many toilets in Europe have two modes of flushing. However, the whole method of flushing differs: there's only a small amount in the bowl, and the water from the tank rushes down and does the flushing. In US toilets, the water from the tank causes the water in the bowl to swirl, which then causes the flush. You need a certain amount of water in the tank to enable effective swirling. So it'd be hard to design a US-based toilet with two modes of flushing.
I've noticed that *all* new electronic toys smell at first, but it shouldn't be too strong. Kinda like that smell, but I do realize it's probably not too healthy.
I remember my 15" Hitachi smelled for a month or two when I first got it--and I had to sleep in the same room with it!
There's always XMX - An X Protocol Multiplexor, but I couldn't get it to work when I tried it (though I didn't waste too much time). The only "fault" is that you must run your primary session through it if you want to later have windown appear on many desktops. Dunno about its overhead. I just use x0rfbserver when I'm in a bind.
If you put two lasers and sensors almost together (with maybe 1mm distance), then you could determine how fast the player's hand plucks the string. You can then use this data to modify amplitute.
I live in Europe, so it's not like I don't care what happens here.
Do not go through the VHS route. My friend did this and the resulting quality was awful. Film has a much higher resolution than VHS.