I'm not really concerned about contact management, except that I like to be able to sync contacts with my laptop. I really just want the phone numbers and email addresses. I like having a camera to take pictures of gift ideas, stupid looking people, things I don't have time to write down. I also really like the new Java games and applications. My Dad thinks getting the weather radar on my phone is the coolest thing since color TV.
I had a Palm Tungsten W, which I hated using as a cell phone b/c of it's size and the requirement that I talked with the earbud. Now I carry a Moto v600 and use Bluetooth to allow my handheld a GPRS connection. The v600 has most of the features I need. The only thing more I could ask for is FM radio which would be nice at sporting events.
Okay, but don't you already give up that now. I don't expect any email I send out to be safe from prying eyes. I expect that any email I send to a friend at work will be scanned for objectional material and then still subject to sysadmins and mail administrators curiosity, and do you really trust Hotmail? I just don't expect email to be private at any time on any service.
Yes. The weight of flexable licensing is far greater than that of executive golf games and kickbacks. My company has never overlooked the technical merits of a product for a couple of free lunches. Ri-ight.
I'm interested in hearing what Slashdot readers think about product diversification opportunities that could arise from the purchase. FedEx is known for its commitment to technology and I am sure is exploring how to leverage the relationships that are already in place with business customers in both companies to provide new services. Any thoughts?
I guess our legal system thinks fraud is okay when you use a lawsuit to lend credibility your threats and invoices. I'll have to remember that one. Bastards.
Speaking of record stores, I read an article somewhere reciently on how groups apposed to antibiotic laden beef and poultry have used preasure on McDonalds as a way to enact reform in the producer industry.
Is this a model consumer groups could use through major retailers such as Tower Records, Best Buy, etc?
I'm with you that there are no simple answers, but I think the one that is going to take hold is hydrogyn, and I think that more efficient solar panels are critical to hydrogyn's success.
You're right, it does take electricity to create hydrogyn from water. We have to get that energy from somewhere, but I think everyone agrees the best solution here is not to extract energy from fossel fuels, only to store it in fuel cells, but to use renewable energy sources such as solar energy. If we are only 15-30% efficient in capturing that energy now, there is an enormous opportunity here for improvement in cost per unit of energy. Imagine if panels were efficient enough and cheap enough that it was feasable for land owners to install panels that feed the grid as a source of income. Imagine the possibilities for impoverished nations to take adavantage of their solar exposure and become suppliers of the world's hydrogyn market, but neither of these can happen unless there is enough research and government and public support to make panels dramatically more efficient and economically feasable.
Corp. welfare, well yes, but can any alternative fuel source that has to be mass-produced really make it without help from the government? Fossil fuels have the advantage of economies of scale that ethanol will not be able to achieve without help, and while the cleanliness of ethanol is up for debate, the reduction in our dependence on supply from foreign soil is obvious. It is amazing to me that a country that is so adamant about bringing down monopolies in the free market does not mind doing business with a cartel.
Yeah, maybe I do feel a little bad for taking for free the property of hard working artists. I feel bad when I take 60-90 cents out of their pocket for every ENTIRE album I download, but what I do not feel bad about is the remaining 14-20 bucks that would have gone to a record company that is suckering artists into signing over their work in exchange for pennies because the industry refuses to take adavantage of technological advances in the interest of protecting an antiquated distribution system that they have grown comfortable with.
Do I mind paying for music, no. Do I understand that production, marketing, and distribution of products cost money and the producers of such material are entitiled to a profit, yes. But, I also believe that there is a better way for everyone involved, and that the P2P revolution will tear apart our perception of intellectual property and our methods of distribution and protection of it.
The industry is going to try to throw laws and legal intervention at the problem, but as with any regulation, there is a price to pay for it. There is a competative business model out there that will bring more money and return control back to the artists, as well as provide a healthy profit for the companies that market and distribute the artists' works.
Free market economics are a lot like biological life. When things are left to be, normally the strong will survive and a balance that serves (most of) the interests of the participants will evolve. I believe what we will see is the extinction of the record company as we know it soon.
I'm not sure about using ATA66/100 cables for this eather. The reason they put more pins in there in the first place is to shield the active ones. I'm not an electrical engineer, but it seems putting these cables on top of one another like that should cause some problems. Some information from a Quantum ATA66 white paper:
"The addition of 40 extra ground lines to the Ultra ATA cable spec considerably reduces signal crosstalk and ringing between the data lines (Figs 2 & 3). That allows the lines to "settle down" much faster, thereby slashing setup times in half. And that is what enables the Ultra ATA/66 interface to transfer data at twice the Ultra ATA/33 rate without requiring any other significant changes to the Ultra ATA specification, especially to the DMA protocol.
The 80-conductor cable is mandatory for running Ultra ATA/66. The usual 40-conductor cable ATA cable cannot handle the higher speed, and because the cables are plug compatible, the system must determine the presence of the correct cable. "
Here is when it gets intresting: Consider having a device that you carry with you everywhere. We can call it your PCD(Personal Communication Device). With your PCD you can send and recieve voice calls (in the farther future video too), voice mail (video mail), and e-mail. We are just months away from a phone that does all of this, this is the important word here, "efficiently". Now while we do have devices that do all of this right now rates keep these devices from living up to their potiential. If I could afford it, I would disconnect my land line. Right now I pay $60 a month for 600 minutes (not for much longer though). Where it gets intresting is when we start creating different classes of usable PDA like devices that contain all of our communication functions and data functions. The kids (14+) could have a small, inexpensive, feature lacking wireless phone. The older kids (17+) would probably enjoy a version with a few more options, maybe e-mail, a mini calender for school assignments and a phone directory. The real difference comes when you start looking at professionals who want full featured messaging, customized push content, robust scheduling, and more contact storage. You can see how these devices can scale. When it becomes afforable enough to use these devices without breaking the bank, you will start to see these items being released in a scalable fashon. Besides, I like to sit in my room and do my work on a laptop with a 15" screen. Who wants to do a lot of stuff on a little tiny PDA that you can't hardly see?
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I'm not really concerned about contact management, except that I like to be able to sync contacts with my laptop. I really just want the phone numbers and email addresses. I like having a camera to take pictures of gift ideas, stupid looking people, things I don't have time to write down. I also really like the new Java games and applications. My Dad thinks getting the weather radar on my phone is the coolest thing since color TV.
I had a Palm Tungsten W, which I hated using as a cell phone b/c of it's size and the requirement that I talked with the earbud. Now I carry a Moto v600 and use Bluetooth to allow my handheld a GPRS connection. The v600 has most of the features I need. The only thing more I could ask for is FM radio which would be nice at sporting events.
Okay, but don't you already give up that now. I don't expect any email I send out to be safe from prying eyes. I expect that any email I send to a friend at work will be scanned for objectional material and then still subject to sysadmins and mail administrators curiosity, and do you really trust Hotmail? I just don't expect email to be private at any time on any service.
They are certainly working on it. Eg.:
H-ION Solar Inc.
Solar Hydrogen Research at the University of Central Florida
Yes. The weight of flexable licensing is far greater than that of executive golf games and kickbacks. My company has never overlooked the technical merits of a product for a couple of free lunches. Ri-ight.
I'm interested in hearing what Slashdot readers think about product diversification opportunities that could arise from the purchase. FedEx is known for its commitment to technology and I am sure is exploring how to leverage the relationships that are already in place with business customers in both companies to provide new services. Any thoughts?
Wouldn't circumventing spam protection for "use of a private network" (delivering email) be a DMCA violation?
Agreed! Take that cash and pay some teachers!
Technology in the classroom can be a wonderfull thing, but it can never replace the influence of a caring, motivated instructor.
JDO
8 million dollars worth of pain in our ass.
I don't mean that dirty you pervert.
Yea. Bill, a few SCO execs, and a bunch of lawyers are the only winners in this battle. Everyone else, including most of SCO's employees lose big.
I guess our legal system thinks fraud is okay when you use a lawsuit to lend credibility your threats and invoices. I'll have to remember that one. Bastards.
Speaking of record stores, I read an article somewhere reciently on how groups apposed to antibiotic laden beef and poultry have used preasure on McDonalds as a way to enact reform in the producer industry.
Is this a model consumer groups could use through major retailers such as Tower Records, Best Buy, etc?
Here is some history from the IANA
http://www.wbs.nokia.com/solution/index.html
I'm with you that there are no simple answers, but I think the one that is going to take hold is hydrogyn, and I think that more efficient solar panels are critical to hydrogyn's success.
You're right, it does take electricity to create hydrogyn from water. We have to get that energy from somewhere, but I think everyone agrees the best solution here is not to extract energy from fossel fuels, only to store it in fuel cells, but to use renewable energy sources such as solar energy. If we are only 15-30% efficient in capturing that energy now, there is an enormous opportunity here for improvement in cost per unit of energy. Imagine if panels were efficient enough and cheap enough that it was feasable for land owners to install panels that feed the grid as a source of income. Imagine the possibilities for impoverished nations to take adavantage of their solar exposure and become suppliers of the world's hydrogyn market, but neither of these can happen unless there is enough research and government and public support to make panels dramatically more efficient and economically feasable.
Corp. welfare, well yes, but can any alternative fuel source that has to be mass-produced really make it without help from the government? Fossil fuels have the advantage of economies of scale that ethanol will not be able to achieve without help, and while the cleanliness of ethanol is up for debate, the reduction in our dependence on supply from foreign soil is obvious. It is amazing to me that a country that is so adamant about bringing down monopolies in the free market does not mind doing business with a cartel.
Yeah, maybe I do feel a little bad for taking for free the property of hard working artists. I feel bad when I take 60-90 cents out of their pocket for every ENTIRE album I download, but what I do not feel bad about is the remaining 14-20 bucks that would have gone to a record company that is suckering artists into signing over their work in exchange for pennies because the industry refuses to take adavantage of technological advances in the interest of protecting an antiquated distribution system that they have grown comfortable with.
Do I mind paying for music, no. Do I understand that production, marketing, and distribution of products cost money and the producers of such material are entitiled to a profit, yes. But, I also believe that there is a better way for everyone involved, and that the P2P revolution will tear apart our perception of intellectual property and our methods of distribution and protection of it.
The industry is going to try to throw laws and legal intervention at the problem, but as with any regulation, there is a price to pay for it. There is a competative business model out there that will bring more money and return control back to the artists, as well as provide a healthy profit for the companies that market and distribute the artists' works.
Free market economics are a lot like biological life. When things are left to be, normally the strong will survive and a balance that serves (most of) the interests of the participants will evolve. I believe what we will see is the extinction of the record company as we know it soon.
I'm not sure about using ATA66/100 cables for this eather. The reason they put more pins in there in the first place is to shield the active ones. I'm not an electrical engineer, but it seems putting these cables on top of one another like that should cause some problems. Some information from a Quantum ATA66 white paper:
/whitepapers/wp_ultraata66.htm
"The addition of 40 extra ground lines to the Ultra ATA cable spec considerably reduces signal crosstalk and ringing between the data lines (Figs 2 & 3). That allows the lines to "settle down" much faster, thereby slashing setup times in half. And that is what enables the Ultra ATA/66 interface to transfer data at twice the Ultra ATA/33 rate without requiring any other significant changes to the Ultra ATA specification, especially to the DMA protocol.
The 80-conductor cable is mandatory for running Ultra ATA/66. The usual 40-conductor cable ATA cable cannot handle the higher speed, and because the cables are plug compatible, the system must determine the presence of the correct cable. "
Reference: http://www.quantum.com/ src
And when I want to actually backspace on a url, press what, the ctrl-b key? How does that help?
Here is when it gets intresting: Consider having a device that you carry with you everywhere. We can call it your PCD(Personal Communication Device). With your PCD you can send and recieve voice calls (in the farther future video too), voice mail (video mail), and e-mail. We are just months away from a phone that does all of this, this is the important word here, "efficiently". Now while we do have devices that do all of this right now rates keep these devices from living up to their potiential. If I could afford it, I would disconnect my land line. Right now I pay $60 a month for 600 minutes (not for much longer though). Where it gets intresting is when we start creating different classes of usable PDA like devices that contain all of our communication functions and data functions. The kids (14+) could have a small, inexpensive, feature lacking wireless phone. The older kids (17+) would probably enjoy a version with a few more options, maybe e-mail, a mini calender for school assignments and a phone directory. The real difference comes when you start looking at professionals who want full featured messaging, customized push content, robust scheduling, and more contact storage. You can see how these devices can scale. When it becomes afforable enough to use these devices without breaking the bank, you will start to see these items being released in a scalable fashon. Besides, I like to sit in my room and do my work on a laptop with a 15" screen. Who wants to do a lot of stuff on a little tiny PDA that you can't hardly see?