SprintPCS Vision is not really 3G, but is really "2.5G,"
wow, that's new. My mobile is a year old and supported GPRS (ie G2.5) on Orange out of the box. Granted I'm in the UK, but this isn't really new and it is defiantly not G3.
The huge problem with G2.5 is not bandwidth, but latency. If you try running TCPIP over GPRS, it all goes to pot due to the 2sec+ latency. TCP is just not optimised to work well with such a long delay. Hopefully G3 will perform better than this.
Oh and try to convince any european teenager that SMS is a waste of time. I have a contract which gives me loads of free off-peak min (to any network) but charges me a small fortune to make calls during the day. For me a 1 min call during the day to a mobile on a different network costs the same as 5 or 6 text messages.
I think the major break-through is that this implementation uses a "fixed-point decoder".
I believe the major problem with ogg was that it was very floating-point intensive, which doesn't suit the processors used in mp3 players and PDAs. theKompany must have developed or implemented a non floating point version of the decoder, thus enabling it to be used on the Zaurus without a huge cpu hit.
You are missing the point. Most people don't want email to there phone, SMS is what is known as a killer app for mobile phones in the UK/Europe.
I am a student, I text people all the time, for 5p I can send a quick message to any of my friends on any network at any time (as opposes to about 50p a min to call another network at peak time). Yes I can't get email (wap is a joke) but for "Going down the pub?" style messages who needs it.
Texting is a universal, I expect more people send text messages in the UK than use email regularly (approximately 1.4 billion text messages were sent in the UK last month http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1841000/1841942.stm.
The point is that the reason imode was a success in Japan was that it filled the same niche in Japan as SMS did in Europe. Why would I want to by a new phone to text my friends if I can already do it and they would have to get a new phone to do it as well. WAP has killed off most people's view of the "Internet" on a mobile, and unless you suddenly get BIG mobiles with BIG screens what is the point any way.
When was the last time you saw mobiles in the UK?
Ok I have a brick like phone, as I am a poor student and it is about 2 years old. But nearly all new phones are tiny. Most of my friends have phones like the Nokia 3310 (http://www.nokia.com/phones/3310/index.html ) which is not exactly huge.
Imode could work well in the US, but it is going to need more than text messaging to be a hit in the UK and Europe.
I am at cambridge, each department/college has to pay for its bandwidth costs.
I get unlimited accese (no firewall apart from the blocking of ftp and http serving unless permission for the server). I pay £20 per term (10 weeks) which is 1GB of transatlantic trafic per term which seems about right.
In the UK we have the Data Protection Act (1998), which makes it a crime for anyone to collect personal electronic data it without asking permission (this has to be a defiant opt-in ask not a check the box to opt-out). The person/company must be registered with the DPR (Data Protection Registrar) If data is collected the person must be informed of what data is being collected, what it is going to be used for and what the possible consequences of this is to the person.
If this not followed then, the data must be destroyed, the people compensated for damages, and the person/company is struck off the DPR. This makes it illegal for them to store or process any electronic personal data.
Interestingly, under the DPA it is illegal to export personal data from the UK, unless that country ensures an "adequate level of protection" for the rights of the data subjects. This does not include the USA as it has no DPA or equivalent only companies, which claim they will do so (but they are not legally obliged to do so)
IANAL so I don't know about the application of this law in a multi-country setting eg Internet spyware. I would assume that if some poor Norwegian kid can get arrested due to the DMCA, then the same should be true for US companies with UK data.
If anything is found not to be on the internet people will post about it here. Therefore it is now on the internet so the post is wrong and oppen for a flaming.
What is with the americans and GMS?
The rest of the world seems to love it. My phone has no line rental, cheap calls and i can't remember when i last had a poor qualilty line. The UK coverage seems to be almost total and with several phone companys all at each others throats for customers, the price of phones and calls are falling each month. EG last month my phone company (orange) asked me at which time in the day i would like my offpeek calls!
The americans should patch up there coverage, tell the army to give up the radio bands for GSM (the europe frequencys) and disband the analog network. The analog network in the uk was turnd off two months ago.
The change in orbit due to mass would be greater on earth since the fuelled rocket + rover(s) would have a significantly larger mass than that of the rover(s). Some parts of the rocket and some of the spent fuel (water + carbon dioxide) would not fall back to earth, therefore disrupting earths orbit moving it further away from the sun than mars would move away from the sun.
Also momentum must be conserve. As the earth will be accelerated away from mars by the launch, mars must be accelerated towards the sun in order to conserve momentum. But as the planets orbit the sun the small velocity will be only in a constant direction therefore not plunging ether of them in to the sun
Surly it would be harder. Newton 2 (or maybe 3) every action has an equal and opposite reaction. i.e. The earth gets pushed away from Mars every time we launch a rocket at Mars.
I have a 14" TFT screen on my laptop + Rage LT Pro 3D card. Quake I,II and III are sharp and clear. I get far less eye strain from my LCD than i do from nearly all CRT screens.
Surely this sort of molecular nesting could have medical uses. A modified buckyball could be used to selectively deliver medicines to specific parts of the body. This of course has the opposite arguments as it could be used in chemical warfare but for conditions such as cancer, internally targeted drug delivery systems could decrease the doses of chemotherapy and increase the effectiveness.
They are named after Buckminster Fuller, a arcitect who designed spherical structures out of hexagonal and octagonal frames. These were identical to the buckyballs (Carbon 60) structure.
I am using a school imac now. I am longing for my natural keyboard and intelie mouse with 2 buttons and a wheel at home. The imac/G3/G4 keyboard mouse design is atrocious. There is no "del" key so how do i clear multiple cells in excel with out my RMB. When will apple move with the time and adopt interchangeable peripherals with IBM PCs?
Only commercial setups have to pay for real player. This is not a war of cost or technical merit but one of publicity. Microsoft will use high profile publicity and general FUD tactics to force all competitors out of the market.
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wow, that's new. My mobile is a year old and supported GPRS (ie G2.5) on Orange out of the box. Granted I'm in the UK, but this isn't really new and it is defiantly not G3.
The huge problem with G2.5 is not bandwidth, but latency. If you try running TCPIP over GPRS, it all goes to pot due to the 2sec+ latency. TCP is just not optimised to work well with such a long delay. Hopefully G3 will perform better than this.
Oh and try to convince any european teenager that SMS is a waste of time. I have a contract which gives me loads of free off-peak min (to any network) but charges me a small fortune to make calls during the day. For me a 1 min call during the day to a mobile on a different network costs the same as 5 or 6 text messages.
The College that I attend in Cambridge has already implemented this. ;-)
It's true, I go to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.
I think the major break-through is that this implementation uses a "fixed-point decoder".
I believe the major problem with ogg was that it was very floating-point intensive, which doesn't suit the processors used in mp3 players and PDAs. theKompany must have developed or implemented a non floating point version of the decoder, thus enabling it to be used on the Zaurus without a huge cpu hit.
You are missing the point. Most people don't want email to there phone, SMS is what is known as a killer app for mobile phones in the UK/Europe.
0 /1841942.stm.
I am a student, I text people all the time, for 5p I can send a quick message to any of my friends on any network at any time (as opposes to about 50p a min to call another network at peak time). Yes I can't get email (wap is a joke) but for "Going down the pub?" style messages who needs it.
Texting is a universal, I expect more people send text messages in the UK than use email regularly (approximately 1.4 billion text messages were sent in the UK last month http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_184100
The point is that the reason imode was a success in Japan was that it filled the same niche in Japan as SMS did in Europe. Why would I want to by a new phone to text my friends if I can already do it and they would have to get a new phone to do it as well. WAP has killed off most people's view of the "Internet" on a mobile, and unless you suddenly get BIG mobiles with BIG screens what is the point any way.
When was the last time you saw mobiles in the UK?
Ok I have a brick like phone, as I am a poor student and it is about 2 years old. But nearly all new phones are tiny. Most of my friends have phones like the Nokia 3310 (http://www.nokia.com/phones/3310/index.html ) which is not exactly huge.
Imode could work well in the US, but it is going to need more than text messaging to be a hit in the UK and Europe.
I am at cambridge, each department/college has to pay for its bandwidth costs.
I get unlimited accese (no firewall apart from the blocking of ftp and http serving unless permission for the server). I pay £20 per term (10 weeks) which is 1GB of transatlantic trafic per term which seems about right.
In the UK we have the Data Protection Act (1998), which makes it a crime for anyone to collect personal electronic data it without asking permission (this has to be a defiant opt-in ask not a check the box to opt-out). The person/company must be registered with the DPR (Data Protection Registrar) If data is collected the person must be informed of what data is being collected, what it is going to be used for and what the possible consequences of this is to the person.
If this not followed then, the data must be destroyed, the people compensated for damages, and the person/company is struck off the DPR. This makes it illegal for them to store or process any electronic personal data.
Interestingly, under the DPA it is illegal to export personal data from the UK, unless that country ensures an "adequate level of protection" for the rights of the data subjects. This does not include the USA as it has no DPA or equivalent only companies, which claim they will do so (but they are not legally obliged to do so)
IANAL so I don't know about the application of this law in a multi-country setting eg Internet spyware. I would assume that if some poor Norwegian kid can get arrested due to the DMCA, then the same should be true for US companies with UK data.
If anything is found not to be on the internet people will post about it here. Therefore it is now on the internet so the post is wrong and oppen for a flaming.
No one is to say the "B" word phrase
What is with the americans and GMS? The rest of the world seems to love it. My phone has no line rental, cheap calls and i can't remember when i last had a poor qualilty line. The UK coverage seems to be almost total and with several phone companys all at each others throats for customers, the price of phones and calls are falling each month. EG last month my phone company (orange) asked me at which time in the day i would like my offpeek calls! The americans should patch up there coverage, tell the army to give up the radio bands for GSM (the europe frequencys) and disband the analog network. The analog network in the uk was turnd off two months ago.
I have an ultra fast config for Q3. My PII 266 with a 4mg ATI RAGE LT Pro (laptop) gets a huge 29 fps!! even higher if a server is used.
imagine a bew.. oh never mind
Is there anything like this but UK based. I'd love an old 486 or better for firewall/server duty (linux of course)
The change in orbit due to mass would be greater on earth since the fuelled rocket + rover(s) would have a significantly larger mass than that of the rover(s). Some parts of the rocket and some of the spent fuel (water + carbon dioxide) would not fall back to earth, therefore disrupting earths orbit moving it further away from the sun than mars would move away from the sun.
Also momentum must be conserve. As the earth will be accelerated away from mars by the launch, mars must be accelerated towards the sun in order to conserve momentum. But as the planets orbit the sun the small velocity will be only in a constant direction therefore not plunging ether of them in to the sun
(I think, maybe?)
MS also anownced that there new space program is to be named Space Explore 2.03 as SE 1 exploded on the lanch pad
Surly it would be harder. Newton 2 (or maybe 3) every action has an equal and opposite reaction. i.e. The earth gets pushed away from Mars every time we launch a rocket at Mars.
sorry, i should go on one for spelling
I have a 14" TFT screen on my laptop + Rage LT Pro 3D card. Quake I,II and III are sharp and clear. I get far less eye strain from my LCD than i do from nearly all CRT screens.
Surely this sort of molecular nesting could have medical uses. A modified buckyball could be used to selectively deliver medicines to specific parts of the body. This of course has the opposite arguments as it could be used in chemical warfare but for conditions such as cancer, internally targeted drug delivery systems could decrease the doses of chemotherapy and increase the effectiveness.
They are named after Buckminster Fuller, a arcitect who designed spherical structures out of hexagonal and octagonal frames. These were identical to the buckyballs (Carbon 60) structure.
I am using a school imac now. I am longing for my natural keyboard and intelie mouse with 2 buttons and a wheel at home.
The imac/G3/G4 keyboard mouse design is atrocious. There is no "del" key so how do i clear multiple cells in excel with out my RMB. When will apple move with the time and adopt interchangeable peripherals with IBM PCs?
Only commercial setups have to pay for real player. This is not a war of cost or technical merit but one of publicity. Microsoft will use high profile publicity and general FUD tactics to force all competitors out of the market.
Speaking as a teenager, I highly recommend the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Especially the fifth book Mostly Harmless.