As a matter of fact...here's a post on the SprintDevelopers.com forum discussing this...http://sprintdevelopers.com/article23.html Looks like the Sprint implementation (or actually Qualcomm's QJAE) for midp 2.0 (what's on the EVDO A900) doesn't work right now anyway....Course it looks like that is an older discussion so it may be live (but I cannot get Garmin or TeleNav to work on my A900).
As stated above, there are plenty of uploaders out there that will allow you to upload your own programs. http://rumkin.com/tools/sprint/ is an uploader that will allow you to upload your own code (works with the A900...I've got one too). http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/ is the forum mentioned above that have a lot of Sprint phone user geeks...I'm sure a lot of people on there could help answer your questions. Here's a link to their page for alternate uploaders too: http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t= 83030
Although, most of this may be useless, because I see in this post http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t= 52772&page=1&pp=15 what you are talking about regarding the Verisign cert. You can run your own code, but to access the GPS stuff you are restricted. Hopefully someone in the above forums can help you out to bypass it. I'll keep an eye out, because that sounds like some pretty cool hacking to do.
Anybody buying a Mac after April 12th (the announcement of Tiger) can get the upgrade for free (+$9.95 media fees). It's on their website.
I will say, I'm in the same conundrum as you. I've been holding off buying a PowerMac G5 (dual 2.5) until the Tiger announcement...now I've gotta hold off to see what the new hardware is going to be.
I don't necessarily care about the hardware bumps (I was maxing the 2.5 GHz out) but I'm thinking the machine I was going to get will be a little cheaper now.
I recently wrote a multi-threaded socket based server that uses the NIO classes. This application uses not just the network portion, but also utilizes the DirectAllocate functions for memory allocation. DirectAllocate does use system calls to allocate memory directly in order to speed up all the manipulations of the buffers. I.E. Sun recognized the fact that when manipulating large buffers in memory....it can be slow when having to go through a translation layer. So, there are native libraries needed for this.
I developed the code using JDK 1.4.1 on Linux (Red Hat 9). Tested it on my workstation at work that ran Windows 2000 using both JDK 1.4.1 and 1.4.2, and have deployed it on two Solaris boxes and it has run under 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 (albeit better under 1.4.2).
There was no porting needed whatsoever. I used pretty much all of the NIO classes in my code.
According to the article it can decode both, however go to the referenced Digital Connections page in the summary (places you can buy it). Digital Connections has some warnings on there that QAM256 almost always works and that QAM64 is much more hit and miss.
I've also bought the extended warranties on my large purchase items. I purchased a 65" HDTV a Circuit City that needed to be replaced...they not only issued me credit on the TV, but also a pro-rated credit for the remainder of my purchased warranty.
The problem is coming now that I have the replacement. I purchased a completely different brand because of the difficulties I had with my previous TV (and other people having the same issues). Now I'm having problems with my current TV. They've come out twice to look at it and said nothing is the matter with it. I believe they think I'm just trying to get another new TV.
It's the people they mentioned in the article (and have been mentioned here on Slashdot) who intentionally break things to get an updated item that are causing some of these problems. If they didn't have to worry about people like that....they wouldn't have to suspect me of playing the same game.
I've got an N610C that I have had for several years. I've probably read well over 100 e-books on that. I love it. My wife recently got one of the SJ series (can't remember the exact number)...it was on clearance from CompUSA. It seems to have a slightly clearer screen than mine...probably because mine is so old.
I would definitely recommend checking out any of the Sony Clie's for this purpose.
The proposal for the one at UC Davis was dropped due to public opinion. Although the federal government is still looking at building a new one. There were several proposed sites, and that list was narrowed down and UC Davis dropped from that list.
Part of the site determination that the government is doing for this new one is the surrounding area public opinion of the lab. UC Davis and the surrounding Sacramento and bay area had a very negative reaction to a BSL-4 lab being created. Therefore the government determined that it would not be a good idea to build it here.
Columbia was only on it's 28th mission. The design specs of the shuttle was for it to complete 100 missions. I don't think this makes it absurdly old, and more than matches the equipment they needed.
Nobody knows yet what caused the shuttle to disintegrate, but this shuttle was completely overhauled in 1999, and was well below it's intended end of life.
Yeah, I drive by the one by Cap City Freeway daily. It's not bad during the day, but at night it's extremely distracting. They need to turn the contrast and brightness down on that sucker after 6:00 p.m.
I drove by it at 2:00 A.M. last Friday after working 19 hours...damn thing almost woke me up!
I recently had my RCA 61" HDTV replaced after having the capacitor's blow for the second time. Searching through several AV Forums yield that quite a few other RCA owners have had the same problems.
The repair guy, on the second repair, stated that they have had quite a few calls to fix blown capacitor's. He showed me mine, and the tops were completely blown open, which makes sense considering the pop they each made when they blew. Each set of these capacitors only lasted 5-6 months before having to be replaced.
I actually saw this robot in action and spoke with the developers when I was contracting for the company that makes them. They were going to use them in-house to deliver mail to the various mail stops around the buildings.
The fact that it "stops" when it no longer can move safely is simply a time-out. Given a few seconds, it tests to see if the way has been cleared, and if so, it will continue along. If after a certain number of re-try's, it still cannot move, it actually notifies the people in charge of it wirelessly, not simply stand there and say "I cannot go on".
And as said before, these robots do not carry the narcotics, important drugs. They are used to fill the time doses for that floor, i.e. antibiotics every couple of hours, etc. Some hospitals are using them to deliver food, and for more fully automated hospitals, it delivers refills of supplies that the pharmacy automatically tracks.
Andrew
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I re-read what I posted...it did come across kind of confusing...no, I'm a programmer...it's my wife who is the psychologist.:-)
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I said I was married to a psychologist. Being married to a psychologist, I have learned quite a bit about the more common mental illnesses, specifically schizophrenia which my wife treats quite a bit.
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My wife is a psychologist, and because she treats quite a few schizophrenics, I knew that a schizophrenic usually has their first "break" between the ages of 18 and 25 (with the exception of some women who have it in the mid-30's). That said, I was wondering the same thing...thinking he's getting a little old to start showing the symptoms. When they finally revealed it, it was like a slap to the forehead. It was kind of obvious all along, you just didn't realize it. I think it was a definite key point to the plot of the movie.
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Actually, some schizophrenics do see their manifestations. These type though are usually the worst of the worst, and are usually permanently hospitalized. My wife treats quite a few schizophrenics, several of which are committed, and a few of the very bad ones report actually seeing their manifestations.
Like I said, it is rare, and usually it is the very chronic patients. Those that even the medications don't help to completely remove the symptoms.
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I also thought the movie portrayed him a little too "Forrest Gumpish" like he was retarded in some way but they never made any reference to it.
As someone who is married to a psychologist, my wife came from this movie feeling that this movie very accurately portrayed a paranoid schizophrenic. The reason he seems a little "Forrest Gumpish" is that is the way schizophrenics act, both due to the illness and the medications that they are on.
I also liked how they made you believe these people were very real for so long. This is how a schizophrenic feels, and I think Ron Howard was trying to relay this sense of realness that a schizophrenic has.
HD Programming is already available, in quite a few markets via over the air (yep, plain old rabbit ears, like mom and dad used to use). CBS has something like 15 shows in HD (CSI rocks in HD), and several of the other networks are scrambling to follow suit.
There is HD Showtime on DISH and HD HBO on DirecTV and DISH. DirecTV also carries Mark Cuban's (owner of the Dallas Maverick's) HD-NET a 24-hour HD only channel. Both sat services also offer PPV HD movies.
Portions of the Olympics will be aired in HD. At least one NCAA football game every week was aired in HD. The SuperBowl has been aired in HD. Quite a few big name sporting events have been aired in HD.
Stating that "programming will be available" and that it "will be sold as a luxury service" shows just how uninformed the public is about HDTV. There is so much programming available now that many people feel that we have reached critical mass (i.e. 50% or more of the prime time lineup is in HD). Most of this programming is available free over the air, or included with your subscription price to your standard service or premium channel.
Comcast and Time Warner are also starting to provide terrestrial cable feeds of HD in several of their markets. From what I hear, this service is only $10-15 more per month to have right now, and that increase is just your standard increase to have "Digital Cable"...the HD is included in that package.
I say go for getting an HDTV. I bought my 61" widescreen HDTV about 6 months ago, and have never looked back. Probably one of the best "geek" purchases I have ever made.
I have a 61" RCA HDTV with a built-in DirecTV/OTA decoder that I paid $3200 for. I don't think that is too much to pay for the TV...especially when you see the true quality of HDTV.
The author mentions it is like watching a DVD all the time. He obviously does not have his TV calibrated correctly, because shows like Leno and CSI blow DVD quality away.
Actually, if you read the product specs, it does come with Linux syncing software. It simply does not sync up to Outlook on Linux (since Outlook doesn't run on Linux).
Actually, this might not be true. I have tried all versions of High Quality media and cheap generic media. I have a DVP-S550D, and it will only play CD-RW discs...I have never gotten any CD-R's to play in it, whether it be High Quality or not. Even generic CD-RW's play.
My future brother-in-law has the 300, and it plays everything.
Most of what I have read on this issue, it is almost always chalked up to laser type. And I'm not just talking material from Sony...I get three home audio magazines delivered and they have all said it at one point or another.
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As a matter of fact...here's a post on the SprintDevelopers.com forum discussing this...http://sprintdevelopers.com/article23.html Looks like the Sprint implementation (or actually Qualcomm's QJAE) for midp 2.0 (what's on the EVDO A900) doesn't work right now anyway....Course it looks like that is an older discussion so it may be live (but I cannot get Garmin or TeleNav to work on my A900).
As stated above, there are plenty of uploaders out there that will allow you to upload your own programs. http://rumkin.com/tools/sprint/ is an uploader that will allow you to upload your own code (works with the A900...I've got one too). http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/ is the forum mentioned above that have a lot of Sprint phone user geeks...I'm sure a lot of people on there could help answer your questions. Here's a link to their page for alternate uploaders too: http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t= 83030
= 52772&page=1&pp=15 what you are talking about regarding the Verisign cert. You can run your own code, but to access the GPS stuff you are restricted. Hopefully someone in the above forums can help you out to bypass it. I'll keep an eye out, because that sounds like some pretty cool hacking to do.
Additionally, http://www.howardforums.com/ has a lot of good information too. Here's an actual http://sprintdevelopers.com/ Sprint-centric development site too.
Although, most of this may be useless, because I see in this post http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t
Anybody buying a Mac after April 12th (the announcement of Tiger) can get the upgrade for free (+$9.95 media fees). It's on their website.
I will say, I'm in the same conundrum as you. I've been holding off buying a PowerMac G5 (dual 2.5) until the Tiger announcement...now I've gotta hold off to see what the new hardware is going to be.
I don't necessarily care about the hardware bumps (I was maxing the 2.5 GHz out) but I'm thinking the machine I was going to get will be a little cheaper now.
Andrew
I recently wrote a multi-threaded socket based server that uses the NIO classes. This application uses not just the network portion, but also utilizes the DirectAllocate functions for memory allocation. DirectAllocate does use system calls to allocate memory directly in order to speed up all the manipulations of the buffers. I.E. Sun recognized the fact that when manipulating large buffers in memory....it can be slow when having to go through a translation layer. So, there are native libraries needed for this.
I developed the code using JDK 1.4.1 on Linux (Red Hat 9). Tested it on my workstation at work that ran Windows 2000 using both JDK 1.4.1 and 1.4.2, and have deployed it on two Solaris boxes and it has run under 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 (albeit better under 1.4.2).
There was no porting needed whatsoever. I used pretty much all of the NIO classes in my code.
Andrew
According to the article it can decode both, however go to the referenced Digital Connections page in the summary (places you can buy it). Digital Connections has some warnings on there that QAM256 almost always works and that QAM64 is much more hit and miss.
Andrew
I've also bought the extended warranties on my large purchase items. I purchased a 65" HDTV a Circuit City that needed to be replaced...they not only issued me credit on the TV, but also a pro-rated credit for the remainder of my purchased warranty.
The problem is coming now that I have the replacement. I purchased a completely different brand because of the difficulties I had with my previous TV (and other people having the same issues). Now I'm having problems with my current TV. They've come out twice to look at it and said nothing is the matter with it. I believe they think I'm just trying to get another new TV.
It's the people they mentioned in the article (and have been mentioned here on Slashdot) who intentionally break things to get an updated item that are causing some of these problems. If they didn't have to worry about people like that....they wouldn't have to suspect me of playing the same game.
I've got an N610C that I have had for several years. I've probably read well over 100 e-books on that. I love it. My wife recently got one of the SJ series (can't remember the exact number)...it was on clearance from CompUSA. It seems to have a slightly clearer screen than mine...probably because mine is so old.
I would definitely recommend checking out any of the Sony Clie's for this purpose.
I didn't realize they were still going to try to put one in privately. I personally like the idea and will support it.
The proposal for the one at UC Davis was dropped due to public opinion. Although the federal government is still looking at building a new one. There were several proposed sites, and that list was narrowed down and UC Davis dropped from that list.
Part of the site determination that the government is doing for this new one is the surrounding area public opinion of the lab. UC Davis and the surrounding Sacramento and bay area had a very negative reaction to a BSL-4 lab being created. Therefore the government determined that it would not be a good idea to build it here.
Columbia was only on it's 28th mission. The design specs of the shuttle was for it to complete 100 missions. I don't think this makes it absurdly old, and more than matches the equipment they needed.
Nobody knows yet what caused the shuttle to disintegrate, but this shuttle was completely overhauled in 1999, and was well below it's intended end of life.
Yeah, I drive by the one by Cap City Freeway daily. It's not bad during the day, but at night it's extremely distracting. They need to turn the contrast and brightness down on that sucker after 6:00 p.m.
I drove by it at 2:00 A.M. last Friday after working 19 hours...damn thing almost woke me up!
Andrew
I recently had my RCA 61" HDTV replaced after having the capacitor's blow for the second time. Searching through several AV Forums yield that quite a few other RCA owners have had the same problems.
The repair guy, on the second repair, stated that they have had quite a few calls to fix blown capacitor's. He showed me mine, and the tops were completely blown open, which makes sense considering the pop they each made when they blew. Each set of these capacitors only lasted 5-6 months before having to be replaced.
Andrew
I actually saw this robot in action and spoke with the developers when I was contracting for the company that makes them. They were going to use them in-house to deliver mail to the various mail stops around the buildings.
The fact that it "stops" when it no longer can move safely is simply a time-out. Given a few seconds, it tests to see if the way has been cleared, and if so, it will continue along. If after a certain number of re-try's, it still cannot move, it actually notifies the people in charge of it wirelessly, not simply stand there and say "I cannot go on".
And as said before, these robots do not carry the narcotics, important drugs. They are used to fill the time doses for that floor, i.e. antibiotics every couple of hours, etc. Some hospitals are using them to deliver food, and for more fully automated hospitals, it delivers refills of supplies that the pharmacy automatically tracks.
Andrew
I re-read what I posted...it did come across kind of confusing...no, I'm a programmer...it's my wife who is the psychologist. :-)
I said I was married to a psychologist. Being married to a psychologist, I have learned quite a bit about the more common mental illnesses, specifically schizophrenia which my wife treats quite a bit.
My wife is a psychologist, and because she treats quite a few schizophrenics, I knew that a schizophrenic usually has their first "break" between the ages of 18 and 25 (with the exception of some women who have it in the mid-30's). That said, I was wondering the same thing...thinking he's getting a little old to start showing the symptoms. When they finally revealed it, it was like a slap to the forehead. It was kind of obvious all along, you just didn't realize it. I think it was a definite key point to the plot of the movie.
Andrew
Actually, some schizophrenics do see their manifestations. These type though are usually the worst of the worst, and are usually permanently hospitalized. My wife treats quite a few schizophrenics, several of which are committed, and a few of the very bad ones report actually seeing their manifestations.
Like I said, it is rare, and usually it is the very chronic patients. Those that even the medications don't help to completely remove the symptoms.
Andrew
I also thought the movie portrayed him a little too "Forrest Gumpish" like he was retarded in some way but they never made any reference to it.
As someone who is married to a psychologist, my wife came from this movie feeling that this movie very accurately portrayed a paranoid schizophrenic. The reason he seems a little "Forrest Gumpish" is that is the way schizophrenics act, both due to the illness and the medications that they are on.
I also liked how they made you believe these people were very real for so long. This is how a schizophrenic feels, and I think Ron Howard was trying to relay this sense of realness that a schizophrenic has.
Andrew
HD Programming is already available, in quite a few markets via over the air (yep, plain old rabbit ears, like mom and dad used to use). CBS has something like 15 shows in HD (CSI rocks in HD), and several of the other networks are scrambling to follow suit.
There is HD Showtime on DISH and HD HBO on DirecTV and DISH. DirecTV also carries Mark Cuban's (owner of the Dallas Maverick's) HD-NET a 24-hour HD only channel. Both sat services also offer PPV HD movies.
Portions of the Olympics will be aired in HD. At least one NCAA football game every week was aired in HD. The SuperBowl has been aired in HD. Quite a few big name sporting events have been aired in HD.
Stating that "programming will be available" and that it "will be sold as a luxury service" shows just how uninformed the public is about HDTV. There is so much programming available now that many people feel that we have reached critical mass (i.e. 50% or more of the prime time lineup is in HD). Most of this programming is available free over the air, or included with your subscription price to your standard service or premium channel.
Comcast and Time Warner are also starting to provide terrestrial cable feeds of HD in several of their markets. From what I hear, this service is only $10-15 more per month to have right now, and that increase is just your standard increase to have "Digital Cable"...the HD is included in that package.
I say go for getting an HDTV. I bought my 61" widescreen HDTV about 6 months ago, and have never looked back. Probably one of the best "geek" purchases I have ever made.
I have a 61" RCA HDTV with a built-in DirecTV/OTA decoder that I paid $3200 for. I don't think that is too much to pay for the TV...especially when you see the true quality of HDTV. The author mentions it is like watching a DVD all the time. He obviously does not have his TV calibrated correctly, because shows like Leno and CSI blow DVD quality away.
Actually, if you read the product specs, it does come with Linux syncing software. It simply does not sync up to Outlook on Linux (since Outlook doesn't run on Linux).
Actually, this might not be true. I have tried all versions of High Quality media and cheap generic media. I have a DVP-S550D, and it will only play CD-RW discs...I have never gotten any CD-R's to play in it, whether it be High Quality or not. Even generic CD-RW's play. My future brother-in-law has the 300, and it plays everything. Most of what I have read on this issue, it is almost always chalked up to laser type. And I'm not just talking material from Sony...I get three home audio magazines delivered and they have all said it at one point or another.