I love my Motorola Q, but that sucker locks up at least once a day. I'd be in heaven if it locked up once a week.
As bad as Palm based devices might be, Windows Mobile devices are far less stable. Many times, my calls go straight to voicemail without explanation. Often, it gets stuck in roaming mode, or 1xRTT mode, even when I know there is good EVDO signal around (powerdown-powerup resolves it). Most annoyingly, there is no way to get it out of "No Service" mode when you get back into an area with service without restarting it. This is a big issue for subway riders.
I own several unlocked GSM phones. I buy sim cards when I travel. What does that have to do with EVDO phones or EVDO data cards?
I really like my Nokia 7710 I picked up in England. I keep my contacts synced via OS X. I've got a little box where I keep all my various international SIM cards (U.K., Italy, Spain, France, UAE, Iran, and Ethiopia right now. I'm picking up a S. Korean one next week.)
Is it a prestige issue that you don't swap phones (only sim cards) when you leave the country? Or do you travel with your T-mobile SIM, paying the outrageous $0.99-$2.99 per minute?
Until you move past boring suburban America. I live in downtown Chicago (3 blocks from the loop), and I work out in an industrial southern suburb of Milwaukee. I travel by car and train, depending upon where I'm working that day.
My job takes me to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. I'm flying out to S. Korea next week. Don't try and paint me as a middle American housewife.
Beyond all this, there are GSM standards for 3G. UMTS can be plenty fast (14.4 Mbit/sec). But is that avaliable in the U.S. now? No.
So those of us that need to work while travelling domestically use EVDO, because of a lack of choice. But it works, and works well, and works everywhere I need it to work, from urban to rural areas.
Performance != pure bandwidth. That's why I stuck the latency in there.
EDGE is slightly better than bandwidth than dialup, with vastly worse latency. This is different, than, say, satellite, which has much better bandwidth that dialup, with worse latency.
The only reason you say that EDGE is much faster than GPRS is because you haven't used EVDO.
Do you feel like you are using a broadband connection when you are on EDGE? How do you feel about streaming video, downloading iTunes, playing games online, or downloading ISOs?
EVDO is like being on a cable modem or DSL. The difference is night and day. Having switched to EVDO, there is not a chance in the world I would ever use EDGE again for anything.
Tell me, what are your EDGE latencies? I'll guarantee they aren't anywhere near the sub-100ms latencies you get on the newer rev A EVDO networks. And this doesn't mention the 1 Mbps upload bandwidth you get over EVDO. Also, EVDO works brilliantly while you are moving, so being in the car or on the train doesn't affect your connection.
Go to a Sprint or Verizon store. Try out an EVDO card. It'll blow you away. I was a big T-mobile affecienado, and I love Apple, and I'm willing to pay $500+ for a phone, but not for an EDGE phone.
Today, it's Sprint or Verizon for me; simply because I wouldn't touch an EDGE device with a 10' pole.
If you've done this real-world test, I have to ask the followup question. Have you compared the other US 3g technology? Being as the iPhone is pretty much guaranteed not to be available on Verizon, the more relevant question would be whether the 3g speed boost is worth the wait
Grandparent poster doesn't know what he is talking about. EDGE is sub-dialup performance. EVDO is equivalent to DSL. The primary issue is latency, but EVDO's bandwidth is also superior by an order of magnitude.
Latency: EDGE 600-1000 ms roundtrip ping while idle 2000-8000+ ms roundtrip while connection is under load
EVDO rev 0 (legacy areas of Sprint's network) 150-300 ms roundtrip while idle 200-450 ms roundtrip while loaded
EVDO rev a (upgraded areas of Sprint's network, most metropolitan areas) 50-120 ms roundtrip while idle 90-200 ms while loaded
EDGE feels like a crappy satellite connection. EVDO is like being on DSL.
Bandwidth EDGE 200-270 Kbps real world downstream 30-90 Kbps real world upstream
EVDO rev 0 600-1500 Kbps real world downstream 90-150 Kbps real world upstream
EVDO rev A 800-2500 Kbps real world downstream 300-1200 Kbps real world upstream
Just from my experience, as a travelling IT guy would needs a connection everywhere I go (which is why I've worked with several EDGE and EVDO devices (data devices, not tethering to phones)), EDGE was a last resort. I would use it when I couldn't get connected any other way. EVDO is bliss. Up until we got dual T1s in our office, I would my EVDO card over our 6 Mbps DSL, because the upstream on my EVDO card was a good deal better.
I'm a big Apple fan. I've got iPods, the iPods boom box thing. I own a MacBook Pro, this is being typed on a dual G5 2.7, and I just converted my whole office to OS X. When I first heard about the iPhone, I salivated. The price didn't bother me.
But an EDGE only phone? No thanks, I'll pass. It's far more valuable for me to have high speed data on my phone, and now that I've used EVDO I will not, under any conditions, go back to EDGE.
EDGE is so inferior that if my company (which couldn't happen, since I'm involved in the decision making) forced me to switch to EDGE for my daily work, I'd probably resign. I've hand enough of the long latency, I've had enough of constantly reseting data devices to get them to work, and I've had enough of the overall general suckiness, from both T-mobile and Cingular.
I'm sorry, but I've extensively used both EDGE and EVDO modems from all 4 major carriers (Sprint, Verizon, Cingular, T-mobile).
The EVDO experience blows EDGE away. The primary issue is not bandwidth, but latency. EVDO latency is now always under 200 ms, and generally under 100 ms. EDGE latency averages above 1000 ms, and when the connection is loaded, or you're travelling (driving above 30 mph) I've seen latencies over 8000 ms, which is insane.
And you're horrifyingly wrong about the 20-30% faster bandwidth. My Sprint EVDO modem easily tests above 1 Mbps, anytime, anyplace. I've had tests as good as 2500 Kbps. And at my office my EVDO modem uploads at 900-1000 Kbps, which is faster than our DSL (not as fast as our new T1s, but still impressive). I've never seen EDGE test above 200-250 Kbps, and I've never seen uploads above 100 Kbps.
That's not 20-30%, that's an order of magnitude. And I've had extensive experience with this stuff. I'd be more than willing to bet my Lexus over this data.
I know that SuSE has taken a lot of crap for being the MS-Novell love child, but the distro (particularly the Open version) is sound.
Example: Partitioning.
If I remember correctly, if you have a standard, one partition Windows system, the partitioning screen doesn't even come up. Right after you select the "New Install" option, you get a list screen, which says, Software: Install Standard Desktop (click to change)
Partitioning: Resize Windows Partition to X GB Create / (root) partition of X GB Create/home (home) partition of X GB Create swap (swap) partition of X GB (click to change)
If you "click to change", you get a choice of either using a wizard to setup your partitioning (step-by-step asks questions), or using the partitioning tool with the suggested above setup (if you just want to tweak the sizes) or using the partitioning tool with your existing disk setup (if you want to create a new setup from scratch.
This is similar to the way Apple's install works. There's a sensible default (and particularly one that is capable of nondestructively resizing your Windows partition), there's a wizard that can help you change the default, and there's a fully functional partition tool for power users.
Note that it doesn't bug you with any technical details, but asks things like this by default "Your Windows partition takes up the whole disk, and there is no room to install Linux. Would you like to ()shrink your Windows partition, or ()delete your Windows partition".
Take a look at that link above; it illustrates all the install screens.
You should not be permitted to spam people from your hardware, regardless of whether or not you actively installed the spamware. If your computer is polluting the internet, it should be disconnected. End of story.
If this bothers you, a) stop getting infected, or b) switch to an OS that doesn't get infected.
Digging a little further, it seems that this series of super rocket was at one point explored by NASA. The larger versions of this would have had substantially better payload capabilities than either the Ares or Saturn 5s.
Additionally, there isn't any reason we can't develop better ways to clean, as well.
Completely inaccessible areas could be setup to flush themselves with ultraviolet light, and either an intensely antimicrobial coolant (fluid or gaseous) or a vacuum (possibly both). Anything else can be design to easily be taken apart and cleaned. This has the added benefit of making maintenance easier.
Food for thought: If you give an OLPC to each child in the developing world (lets exclude 1st world for a moment), the majority of computer users world wide will be running Linux.
Also, I think one of the project goals was to distribute laptops which would have easy to modify "guts". These things are supposed to be a breeze to do simple programming on, and I think that will be far more valuable to these children than learning how the Start menu works. Once you establish certain computing concepts it becomes far easier to transition to other environments.
This also excludes the whole discussion of whether or not its valuable to put them on XP, especially given that XP is no longer the "current" MS OS. Soon, 1st world users will not be able to buy systems with XP; why would we sling it off onto 3rd world users?
Not to mention the security debacle it would be; how would you deploy security updates?
Public Free Speech Rights != Private Free Speech Requirements.
Corporations are not required to observe rights to freedom of speech, nor are individuals. The 1st amendment says that, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
How the *fuck* does this apply to corporate sales disclosure? (Phone records are records of sales).
It's possible that Microsoft could borrow the money. They easily have the resources, and given then high gross revenue (and profit, for that matter) some of the larger financial instruments might have interest in loaning them the money.
It wouldn't be a bad deal to ride (as a bank) on Microsoft's back.
This just might give the Chinese EDVD or EVD or whatever its called a chance.
Which would you choose; a high-def player that just requires you to put disks in, or a crazy scheme that requires your player to stay "fully patched" otherwise risk being unable to play any disks at all?
Not to mention the possibility of something going wrong in the key revocation system, and knocking out a whole line of hardware players (requiring a recall).
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There isn't a single copyrighted line there. In fact, I don't believe there is as copyright line in any direction. Furthermore, each line is a minimum of 1/16th different from the actual copyrighted "text", which is more than the 5% rule that general applies to fair use.
This is my art. It's a drawing using glyphs. It's fair use, and the MPAA can shove it.
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to work on real ASCII art using similar sorts of stupidity; nevertheless, copyright does not apply (not to mention the absurdity of copyrighting a number to begin with).
What about a couple of satellites with 2-way data getups?
Look at Hughesnet; that works everywhere in North America. Stick a few satellite dishes on vans/boats and a mobile setup in a few emergency response planes, and you can drop in communication anywhere you want in the U.S.
Because if your Windows (or OS X) install craps out, Microsoft (or Apple) blames you, the user.
In this situation, Google has no one to blame but themselves. As such, they take a publicity beating.
The real question is MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures). Is your Google hosted app more like to fail, or XP? And, having failed, which one is easier to recover?
Obviously, this all is a learning experience for Google, because they haven't gone down this road yet. I expect Google to implement a "backup to your own system" feature for retaining most of your information locally.
Not to take the analogy too far, but I want to go from Jeffersonianet to Tesla-net.
I.E. Wireless, worldwide broadband which is cheap, ubiquitous and enabling of communication by anyone to anyone at any scale for any content.
Quite frankly, once you blanket everything in fiber, and deploy WiMax in all metropolitan areas, we'll be 90% of the way there. Switch to IPv6, and keep researching better iterations of Wireless data transmission, and these concerns we currently have about bandwidth won't make any sense to future generations. The internet is not like the road system. You don't have to displace thousands of home owners or businesses to expand capacity 10% (build more lanes). Deploying fiber everywhere increases capacity by two orders of magnitude; and there isn't any reason you can't realistically run bundles of fiber.
Combine that with increasingly better encoding schemes, and one can imagine ubiquitous, two-way gigabit connections; bandwidth which vastly exceeds current local system throughput for most users AND servers.
Even in terms of frequency spectrum, we've got plenty of space there. Elimination of the analog channels, and switching spectrum over to next-gen technologies like Flarion's OFDM, or the latter revisions of EVDO and WCDMA, and we'll see internet connections, both mobile and fixed, which exceed our expectations for local speeds.
Building an "Edison" net, AT&T style, will kill this. AT&T believes that 6 Mbps is enough for anyone, and they are working their damndest to bring back micropayments for data access. There's no reason for this, and there's no reason for service-based QoS and tiered connections. The technology exists, now, to swamp everyone in more bandwidth than you could possibly use; and building out "Edison" style literally means figuring out how NOT to do that, and restricting bandwidth (and IP space) to generate monopoly profits.
I suspect this article is written by someone with ties to AT&T, as AT&T is trying to figure out how to rebuild its monopoly position in order to slow down communication and increase rates to boot.
Why do people think you can legislate your way out of these issues? Spyware, spam, etc . . .
For e-mail, use a system that is not susceptible to spam (good filtering, and a white list).
For software, use a system that is not susceptible to spyware (OS X, or Linux).
Spyware doesn't bother me now, it hasn't bothered me in the past, and it won't bother me in the future. If you've got a problem with spyware, either stop buying products from the people who are infecting your system (ahem, Sony), of stop buying systems that are prone to infection (ahem, Microsoft).
If a company sells you an unsafe car, do you blame the government, or the car company? And having been sold 2 or 3 unsafe cars already, why would you go back to the same vendor?
Non issue. Something Congress shouldn't discuss or legislate about. Get over it, and stop being a slave to the MS monoculture.
Not perfect, but pretty good. You've got to purchase "The Missing Sync", from Markspace. Once you get that, however, it automatically syncs your Safari Bookmarks, Address Book, iCal, iTunes, iPhoto and several other neat things.
Works over bluetooth, yadda yadda. The only downside is it's a 3rd party app, so you have to buy it;(
Go use an EDGE phone, and then come back and say the speed thing is a lost argument. EDGE sucks big time. No one should be forced to use the internet over EDGE. Dial-up is vastly superior.
Talking about EDGE in terms of bandwidth understates how bad it is.
The low bandwidth is a very small part of the problem with GPRS/EDGE. The bigger problem is latency; with the connection loaded (i.e. approaching 10 KBps) you tend to see 2000+ ms roundtrip ping times. While driving (as a passenger), I would see 15000+ ms round trip pings.
Can you imagine how painful it is to do anything online with a 15 second ping time?
Even with the connection virtually idle, and with ideal single strength, you'll see ping times in the 800-1200 ms range. This compares very poorly to EVDO Rev 0's 100-200 ms, and far worse to EVDO Rev A's 60-180 ms pings. Sprint has EVDO Rev A in many markets(40% or so) *now*, and plans a nationwide rollout by the end of 2007.
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Common lock ups, at least once a week.
Har Har Har!
I love my Motorola Q, but that sucker locks up at least once a day. I'd be in heaven if it locked up once a week.
As bad as Palm based devices might be, Windows Mobile devices are far less stable. Many times, my calls go straight to voicemail without explanation. Often, it gets stuck in roaming mode, or 1xRTT mode, even when I know there is good EVDO signal around (powerdown-powerup resolves it). Most annoyingly, there is no way to get it out of "No Service" mode when you get back into an area with service without restarting it. This is a big issue for subway riders.
*shrug*
I own several unlocked GSM phones. I buy sim cards when I travel. What does that have to do with EVDO phones or EVDO data cards?
I really like my Nokia 7710 I picked up in England. I keep my contacts synced via OS X. I've got a little box where I keep all my various international SIM cards (U.K., Italy, Spain, France, UAE, Iran, and Ethiopia right now. I'm picking up a S. Korean one next week.)
Is it a prestige issue that you don't swap phones (only sim cards) when you leave the country? Or do you travel with your T-mobile SIM, paying the outrageous $0.99-$2.99 per minute?
Until you move past boring suburban America.
I live in downtown Chicago (3 blocks from the loop), and I work out in an industrial southern suburb of Milwaukee. I travel by car and train, depending upon where I'm working that day.
My job takes me to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. I'm flying out to S. Korea next week. Don't try and paint me as a middle American housewife.
Beyond all this, there are GSM standards for 3G. UMTS can be plenty fast (14.4 Mbit/sec). But is that avaliable in the U.S. now? No.
So those of us that need to work while travelling domestically use EVDO, because of a lack of choice. But it works, and works well, and works everywhere I need it to work, from urban to rural areas.
Performance != pure bandwidth. That's why I stuck the latency in there.
EDGE is slightly better than bandwidth than dialup, with vastly worse latency. This is different, than, say, satellite, which has much better bandwidth that dialup, with worse latency.
Why not go with Sprint or Verizon.
Sprint's SERO plans are incredibly affordable. Go to www.sprint.com/sero , and use the public email address "savings@sprint.com".
$30 for 600 minutes, and $50 for 1250 minute, with unlimited EVDO usage, and unlimited picture message is golden.
The only reason you say that EDGE is much faster than GPRS is because you haven't used EVDO.
Do you feel like you are using a broadband connection when you are on EDGE? How do you feel about streaming video, downloading iTunes, playing games online, or downloading ISOs?
EVDO is like being on a cable modem or DSL. The difference is night and day. Having switched to EVDO, there is not a chance in the world I would ever use EDGE again for anything.
Tell me, what are your EDGE latencies? I'll guarantee they aren't anywhere near the sub-100ms latencies you get on the newer rev A EVDO networks. And this doesn't mention the 1 Mbps upload bandwidth you get over EVDO. Also, EVDO works brilliantly while you are moving, so being in the car or on the train doesn't affect your connection.
Go to a Sprint or Verizon store. Try out an EVDO card. It'll blow you away. I was a big T-mobile affecienado, and I love Apple, and I'm willing to pay $500+ for a phone, but not for an EDGE phone.
Today, it's Sprint or Verizon for me; simply because I wouldn't touch an EDGE device with a 10' pole.
If you've done this real-world test, I have to ask the followup question. Have you compared the other US 3g technology? Being as the iPhone is pretty much guaranteed not to be available on Verizon, the more relevant question would be whether the 3g speed boost is worth the wait
Grandparent poster doesn't know what he is talking about. EDGE is sub-dialup performance. EVDO is equivalent to DSL. The primary issue is latency, but EVDO's bandwidth is also superior by an order of magnitude.
Latency:
EDGE
600-1000 ms roundtrip ping while idle
2000-8000+ ms roundtrip while connection is under load
EVDO rev 0 (legacy areas of Sprint's network)
150-300 ms roundtrip while idle
200-450 ms roundtrip while loaded
EVDO rev a (upgraded areas of Sprint's network, most metropolitan areas)
50-120 ms roundtrip while idle
90-200 ms while loaded
EDGE feels like a crappy satellite connection. EVDO is like being on DSL.
Bandwidth
EDGE
200-270 Kbps real world downstream
30-90 Kbps real world upstream
EVDO rev 0
600-1500 Kbps real world downstream
90-150 Kbps real world upstream
EVDO rev A
800-2500 Kbps real world downstream
300-1200 Kbps real world upstream
Just from my experience, as a travelling IT guy would needs a connection everywhere I go (which is why I've worked with several EDGE and EVDO devices (data devices, not tethering to phones)), EDGE was a last resort. I would use it when I couldn't get connected any other way. EVDO is bliss. Up until we got dual T1s in our office, I would my EVDO card over our 6 Mbps DSL, because the upstream on my EVDO card was a good deal better.
I'm a big Apple fan. I've got iPods, the iPods boom box thing. I own a MacBook Pro, this is being typed on a dual G5 2.7, and I just converted my whole office to OS X. When I first heard about the iPhone, I salivated. The price didn't bother me.
But an EDGE only phone? No thanks, I'll pass. It's far more valuable for me to have high speed data on my phone, and now that I've used EVDO I will not, under any conditions, go back to EDGE.
EDGE is so inferior that if my company (which couldn't happen, since I'm involved in the decision making) forced me to switch to EDGE for my daily work, I'd probably resign. I've hand enough of the long latency, I've had enough of constantly reseting data devices to get them to work, and I've had enough of the overall general suckiness, from both T-mobile and Cingular.
You're full of crap.
I'm sorry, but I've extensively used both EDGE and EVDO modems from all 4 major carriers (Sprint, Verizon, Cingular, T-mobile).
The EVDO experience blows EDGE away. The primary issue is not bandwidth, but latency. EVDO latency is now always under 200 ms, and generally under 100 ms. EDGE latency averages above 1000 ms, and when the connection is loaded, or you're travelling (driving above 30 mph) I've seen latencies over 8000 ms, which is insane.
And you're horrifyingly wrong about the 20-30% faster bandwidth. My Sprint EVDO modem easily tests above 1 Mbps, anytime, anyplace. I've had tests as good as 2500 Kbps. And at my office my EVDO modem uploads at 900-1000 Kbps, which is faster than our DSL (not as fast as our new T1s, but still impressive). I've never seen EDGE test above 200-250 Kbps, and I've never seen uploads above 100 Kbps.
That's not 20-30%, that's an order of magnitude. And I've had extensive experience with this stuff. I'd be more than willing to bet my Lexus over this data.
Suggestion: Try OpenSuSE.
/home (home) partition of X GB
n dex.html?page=/documentation/opensuse102/opensuse1 02_startup/data/sec_i_yast2_proposal.html#sec_i_ya st2_auswahl_part
I know that SuSE has taken a lot of crap for being the MS-Novell love child, but the distro (particularly the Open version) is sound.
Example: Partitioning.
If I remember correctly, if you have a standard, one partition Windows system, the partitioning screen doesn't even come up. Right after you select the "New Install" option, you get a list screen, which says,
Software: Install Standard Desktop
(click to change)
Partitioning: Resize Windows Partition to X GB
Create / (root) partition of X GB
Create
Create swap (swap) partition of X GB
(click to change)
If you "click to change", you get a choice of either using a wizard to setup your partitioning (step-by-step asks questions), or using the partitioning tool with the suggested above setup (if you just want to tweak the sizes) or using the partitioning tool with your existing disk setup (if you want to create a new setup from scratch.
This is similar to the way Apple's install works. There's a sensible default (and particularly one that is capable of nondestructively resizing your Windows partition), there's a wizard that can help you change the default, and there's a fully functional partition tool for power users.
The whole process is well documented by an illustrated install guide. Plus, the SuSE Install, User, and Admin guides are the probably the best set of documentation I've seen for any software package, bar none. Here's a sample of the Partitioning Instructions for installing, which I think exactly outlines your concerns: http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse102/i
Note that it doesn't bug you with any technical details, but asks things like this by default "Your Windows partition takes up the whole disk, and there is no room to install Linux. Would you like to ()shrink your Windows partition, or ()delete your Windows partition".
Take a look at that link above; it illustrates all the install screens.
Why every 3 months?
Why not daily? Why not constantly?
You should not be permitted to spam people from your hardware, regardless of whether or not you actively installed the spamware. If your computer is polluting the internet, it should be disconnected. End of story.
If this bothers you, a) stop getting infected, or b) switch to an OS that doesn't get infected.
Digging a little further, it seems that this series of super rocket was at one point explored by NASA. The larger versions of this would have had substantially better payload capabilities than either the Ares or Saturn 5s.
Reviewing the relevant wikipedia articles, it seems that the Ares V is superior to the Saturn 5 design, at least in terms of payload capacity.
Additionally, there isn't any reason we can't develop better ways to clean, as well.
Completely inaccessible areas could be setup to flush themselves with ultraviolet light, and either an intensely antimicrobial coolant (fluid or gaseous) or a vacuum (possibly both). Anything else can be design to easily be taken apart and cleaned. This has the added benefit of making maintenance easier.
*shrug*
Food for thought: If you give an OLPC to each child in the developing world (lets exclude 1st world for a moment), the majority of computer users world wide will be running Linux.
Also, I think one of the project goals was to distribute laptops which would have easy to modify "guts". These things are supposed to be a breeze to do simple programming on, and I think that will be far more valuable to these children than learning how the Start menu works. Once you establish certain computing concepts it becomes far easier to transition to other environments.
This also excludes the whole discussion of whether or not its valuable to put them on XP, especially given that XP is no longer the "current" MS OS. Soon, 1st world users will not be able to buy systems with XP; why would we sling it off onto 3rd world users?
Not to mention the security debacle it would be; how would you deploy security updates?
posters do.
Public Free Speech Rights != Private Free Speech Requirements.
Corporations are not required to observe rights to freedom of speech, nor are individuals. The 1st amendment says that, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
How the *fuck* does this apply to corporate sales disclosure? (Phone records are records of sales).
It's possible that Microsoft could borrow the money. They easily have the resources, and given then high gross revenue (and profit, for that matter) some of the larger financial instruments might have interest in loaning them the money.
It wouldn't be a bad deal to ride (as a bank) on Microsoft's back.
This just might give the Chinese EDVD or EVD or whatever its called a chance.
Which would you choose; a high-def player that just requires you to put disks in, or a crazy scheme that requires your player to stay "fully patched" otherwise risk being unable to play any disks at all?
Not to mention the possibility of something going wrong in the key revocation system, and knocking out a whole line of hardware players (requiring a recall).
Pain in the ass = loose the market.
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This is my art. It's a drawing using glyphs. It's fair use, and the MPAA can shove it.
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to work on real ASCII art using similar sorts of stupidity; nevertheless, copyright does not apply (not to mention the absurdity of copyrighting a number to begin with).
What about a couple of satellites with 2-way data getups?
Look at Hughesnet; that works everywhere in North America. Stick a few satellite dishes on vans/boats and a mobile setup in a few emergency response planes, and you can drop in communication anywhere you want in the U.S.
Because if your Windows (or OS X) install craps out, Microsoft (or Apple) blames you, the user.
In this situation, Google has no one to blame but themselves. As such, they take a publicity beating.
The real question is MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures). Is your Google hosted app more like to fail, or XP? And, having failed, which one is easier to recover?
Obviously, this all is a learning experience for Google, because they haven't gone down this road yet. I expect Google to implement a "backup to your own system" feature for retaining most of your information locally.
Not to take the analogy too far, but I want to go from Jeffersonianet to Tesla-net.
;-)
I.E. Wireless, worldwide broadband which is cheap, ubiquitous and enabling of communication by anyone to anyone at any scale for any content.
Quite frankly, once you blanket everything in fiber, and deploy WiMax in all metropolitan areas, we'll be 90% of the way there. Switch to IPv6, and keep researching better iterations of Wireless data transmission, and these concerns we currently have about bandwidth won't make any sense to future generations. The internet is not like the road system. You don't have to displace thousands of home owners or businesses to expand capacity 10% (build more lanes). Deploying fiber everywhere increases capacity by two orders of magnitude; and there isn't any reason you can't realistically run bundles of fiber.
Combine that with increasingly better encoding schemes, and one can imagine ubiquitous, two-way gigabit connections; bandwidth which vastly exceeds current local system throughput for most users AND servers.
Even in terms of frequency spectrum, we've got plenty of space there. Elimination of the analog channels, and switching spectrum over to next-gen technologies like Flarion's OFDM, or the latter revisions of EVDO and WCDMA, and we'll see internet connections, both mobile and fixed, which exceed our expectations for local speeds.
Building an "Edison" net, AT&T style, will kill this. AT&T believes that 6 Mbps is enough for anyone, and they are working their damndest to bring back micropayments for data access. There's no reason for this, and there's no reason for service-based QoS and tiered connections. The technology exists, now, to swamp everyone in more bandwidth than you could possibly use; and building out "Edison" style literally means figuring out how NOT to do that, and restricting bandwidth (and IP space) to generate monopoly profits.
I suspect this article is written by someone with ties to AT&T, as AT&T is trying to figure out how to rebuild its monopoly position in order to slow down communication and increase rates to boot.
Down with limited broadband! Up with speeds!
What's the deal?
Why do people think you can legislate your way out of these issues? Spyware, spam, etc . . .
For e-mail, use a system that is not susceptible to spam (good filtering, and a white list).
For software, use a system that is not susceptible to spyware (OS X, or Linux).
Spyware doesn't bother me now, it hasn't bothered me in the past, and it won't bother me in the future. If you've got a problem with spyware, either stop buying products from the people who are infecting your system (ahem, Sony), of stop buying systems that are prone to infection (ahem, Microsoft).
If a company sells you an unsafe car, do you blame the government, or the car company? And having been sold 2 or 3 unsafe cars already, why would you go back to the same vendor?
Non issue. Something Congress shouldn't discuss or legislate about. Get over it, and stop being a slave to the MS monoculture.
Not perfect, but pretty good. You've got to purchase "The Missing Sync", from Markspace. Once you get that, however, it automatically syncs your Safari Bookmarks, Address Book, iCal, iTunes, iPhoto and several other neat things.
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Works over bluetooth, yadda yadda. The only downside is it's a 3rd party app, so you have to buy it
Hmmm?
Go use an EDGE phone, and then come back and say the speed thing is a lost argument. EDGE sucks big time. No one should be forced to use the internet over EDGE. Dial-up is vastly superior.
"Lets face it, if it wasn't for the iPhone, America wouldn't even have a mobile phone that stands up to European/Japanese designs."
*shrug*
Motorola has made tremendous strides in mobile phone design lately. I (heart) my Moto Q.
Talking about EDGE in terms of bandwidth understates how bad it is.
The low bandwidth is a very small part of the problem with GPRS/EDGE. The bigger problem is latency; with the connection loaded (i.e. approaching 10 KBps) you tend to see 2000+ ms roundtrip ping times. While driving (as a passenger), I would see 15000+ ms round trip pings.
Can you imagine how painful it is to do anything online with a 15 second ping time?
Even with the connection virtually idle, and with ideal single strength, you'll see ping times in the 800-1200 ms range. This compares very poorly to EVDO Rev 0's 100-200 ms, and far worse to EVDO Rev A's 60-180 ms pings. Sprint has EVDO Rev A in many markets(40% or so) *now*, and plans a nationwide rollout by the end of 2007.