At the same time, DoCoMo is also looking into the possibility of developing a standard based on an OS made by Symbian Ltd., a British firm whose OS is used widely in Europe and in some handsets in Japan.
(the above from the article.)
My wife's phone uses Symbian's OS. It's very, very nice. Unless someone comes out with a killer phone app requiring the linux kernel, I think DoCoMo would be better off with Symbian.
Although I would give a mint to be able to use regexps on my phone book.
Four boot floppies. Wee-hah. You're supposed to boot off of the damn CD nowadays. What's that? It doesn't boot? Get another CD-ROM drive. I just built a computer without any sort of floppy drive at all -- and it's up and running Windows XP Pro -- which, you may remember, is one CD.
Honestly, you sound like you've lost all grasp of reality. "Linux installs faster than Windows off of fewer disks!" I never in my life expected to hear anyone say that seriously. Windows XP is nearly a fully automated install. A blind man in a dark basement with Parkinson's can install it.
Seventeen-year-old John Q. Slashdotter was recently tracked from www.google.com to www.everything2.com to www.persiankitty.com. The malicious advertising company who tracked him indicated they plan to destroy his very soul with the information they gleaned from his supercookies.
No, wait, that makes no sense.
Network users who irresponsibly allow websites to run whatever scripting they want may face privacy issues with ANY SOFTWARE AT ALL.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Watch your back, or someone else will. This is nothing new.
I think that comparing fuel-injection to closed-source programming is a bit ridiculous. So it's not as easy to work on as a carburetor -- you can still buy a book and learn to work on your fuel injectors. Automobile engines have grown more complicated over time. All technology does.
Honda's decision that fuel-injection is more efficient than carburetion does not indicate they are trying to force you out from under your hood.
As for third-party ROM upgrades, these things are falling by the wayside because, among other reasons, most onboard computers use EEPROMS now, and when most people monkey with their engines they just wind up wrecking the timing and trashing the performance anyway.
And there's not reason to compare everything you dislike to Microsoft. That radio keylock is a Honda option, nobody forced you to buy it, nobody is keeping you from removing that option from your car, and so on. A little time with a pair of diags and a soldering iron will remove the problem forever.
As for leaving a spare key installed, what makes you think that's less secure than installing a remote starter? I built a little gadget not six months ago. It's a lot of fun. I go into a mall parking lot and press a button. A couple of 555 timers start cranking... and a few seconds later so do all the tricked-out imports in the parking lot. Granted, I still can't get in the vehicles, but I sure can start 'em up.
In conclusion, if you want to play with your engine, or your ignition system, or whatever, buy a car you know how to work on. If you buy a 2002 model and can't figure out how to monkey with it, don't blame the auto manufacturer for knowing more about cars than you.
Two or three pounds strapped to you won't really matter; in combat, you'll be carrying your M-16, which every soldier damn well knows the weight of, and you'll be wearing your Kevlar and LCE -- Load Carrying Equipment. With ammunition, full canteens, and a Big Heavy Helmet, you won't even notice the little computer battery behind you.
But there's something vital being missed here:
If bullets are hitting the soldier wearing this thing there is a vastly more immediate problem than "will my electronic device explode?" The questions consuming the soul of the servicemember will be "how can I stop getting shot?" and "who is shooting at me, that I may kill them?" Somehow, I don't think the wheet! of a round whistling past my ear will induce deep concern for my computer equipment.
Okay, buddy. I'm a newbie on E2 -- Level 2. I've run across a shitload of your nodes, lying here and there, and I haven't ever seen anything incredibly offensive.
Do you know what this says to me, as a new guy? The E2 editing system works. I usually don't read the comments on Slashdot; I don't feel like listening to didactic idiots swearing for ninety pages about insignificant trash. If you turn the filters on around here, you just get the party line in its pure form. So I just read the news.
On Everything, annoying shit goes away. It makes the site more of a pleasure to read. The trick to learn is this: if the baseball belongs to the batter, don't throw a curve. It's easier for me, since I tend to avoid arguments anyhow, but if the guys in charge don't agree with your stuff, why do you give a fuck? Just don't type that stuff in. Or don't sumbit it. But Mary Magdalene on a popsicle stick, it's a stupid thing to get worked up about.
The stuff of yours that remains on E2 is largely good shit. I like reading your nodes, although I don't talk about it. Ahem: Please note the second clause in the previous sentence. There's a creepy DMan stigma on E2, and I try to avoid that, too. But I upvote you. Even though you're not here. Most every goddam thing you wrote got C!hinged. Attrition? Perhaps. But there's older shit left uncooled, if you take my point.
In conclusion, calm your frantic ass down. It's just a web site.
I suspect that none of this bothers you as deeply as your incredibly vitriolic invective suggests. Maybe buy a G-rated thesaurus, Chuck.
I needed a new handle, way back in 1992 or 93. "Karma" was a guide word in "Harper's Encyclopedia of the Mystical and Paranormal" and "flux" was a guide word in "Webster's New World Dictionary." Viola.
Besides, my old one was inspired by (read: stolen from) the pencil-and-paper Shadowrun game.
Since when is Playboy "reality"? Half of those women don't even look like their pictures. (The other half... woah.)
Why hammer the Catholic church for filtering porn? Nobody yells at free ISPs for their incessant advertising. This is just the backswing of the pendulum, if I may invent words.
I'm sorry all those poor Phillipinos can't see Asian she-men peeing on lesbian Nazis. I'm sure their culture will recover from this glaring ommision.
And all this discussion about corruption in the church... not everyone can live up to the standard. That doesn't make it right, but it doesn't destroy the standard. There are depraved screwballs in every profession... but nobody hires them for their screwball depravity.
All this and I'm not even Catholic.
I think the world should rally behind a different, nobler cause: Popples.
Exactly the same, maybe? But with a cooler looking ui?
This sort of development seems to be exactly how open-source software development works. (Of course, I just hopped on this bandwagon a couple o' months ago.) From where I'm standing, Linux looks like you say Word is. It took over two weeks of pruning to get Rad Hat to install without X.
(Off topic, I still can't look at the word "hires" without thinking of that Apple II graphics mode.)
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So is this research sponsored by Jiffy Lube?
"Remember, get your oil and your small arterial shunt changed every three months or three thousand miles."
IE alternative, eh? Is that the new term for "web browser"?
This could be the start of something beautiful.
Compare this with that.
But this issue seems to be fraught with misunderstanding.
My wife's phone uses Symbian's OS. It's very, very nice. Unless someone comes out with a killer phone app requiring the linux kernel, I think DoCoMo would be better off with Symbian.
Although I would give a mint to be able to use regexps on my phone book.
So THAT'S why demo users have to renew every month.
FOR WIRELESS FIDONET!
Of course, not all college students are drug-addicted communists. I managed to get a clearance. Then again, I behaved responsibly.
Honestly, you sound like you've lost all grasp of reality. "Linux installs faster than Windows off of fewer disks!" I never in my life expected to hear anyone say that seriously. Windows XP is nearly a fully automated install. A blind man in a dark basement with Parkinson's can install it.
No, wait, that makes no sense.
Network users who irresponsibly allow websites to run whatever scripting they want may face privacy issues with ANY SOFTWARE AT ALL.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Watch your back, or someone else will. This is nothing new.
As for third-party ROM upgrades, these things are falling by the wayside because, among other reasons, most onboard computers use EEPROMS now, and when most people monkey with their engines they just wind up wrecking the timing and trashing the performance anyway.
And there's not reason to compare everything you dislike to Microsoft. That radio keylock is a Honda option, nobody forced you to buy it, nobody is keeping you from removing that option from your car, and so on. A little time with a pair of diags and a soldering iron will remove the problem forever.
As for leaving a spare key installed, what makes you think that's less secure than installing a remote starter? I built a little gadget not six months ago. It's a lot of fun. I go into a mall parking lot and press a button. A couple of 555 timers start cranking... and a few seconds later so do all the tricked-out imports in the parking lot. Granted, I still can't get in the vehicles, but I sure can start 'em up.
In conclusion, if you want to play with your engine, or your ignition system, or whatever, buy a car you know how to work on. If you buy a 2002 model and can't figure out how to monkey with it, don't blame the auto manufacturer for knowing more about cars than you.
Can I borrow your car?
But there's something vital being missed here:
If bullets are hitting the soldier wearing this thing there is a vastly more immediate problem than "will my electronic device explode?" The questions consuming the soul of the servicemember will be "how can I stop getting shot?" and "who is shooting at me, that I may kill them?"
Somehow, I don't think the wheet! of a round whistling past my ear will induce deep concern for my computer equipment.
//KhM
//Now with bleach!
Do you know what this says to me, as a new guy? The E2 editing system works. I usually don't read the comments on Slashdot; I don't feel like listening to didactic idiots swearing for ninety pages about insignificant trash. If you turn the filters on around here, you just get the party line in its pure form. So I just read the news.
On Everything, annoying shit goes away. It makes the site more of a pleasure to read. The trick to learn is this: if the baseball belongs to the batter, don't throw a curve. It's easier for me, since I tend to avoid arguments anyhow, but if the guys in charge don't agree with your stuff, why do you give a fuck? Just don't type that stuff in. Or don't sumbit it. But Mary Magdalene on a popsicle stick, it's a stupid thing to get worked up about.
The stuff of yours that remains on E2 is largely good shit. I like reading your nodes, although I don't talk about it. Ahem: Please note the second clause in the previous sentence. There's a creepy DMan stigma on E2, and I try to avoid that, too. But I upvote you. Even though you're not here. Most every goddam thing you wrote got C!hinged. Attrition? Perhaps. But there's older shit left uncooled, if you take my point.
In conclusion, calm your frantic ass down. It's just a web site.
I suspect that none of this bothers you as deeply as your incredibly vitriolic invective suggests. Maybe buy a G-rated thesaurus, Chuck.
Besides, my old one was inspired by (read: stolen from) the pencil-and-paper Shadowrun game.
Why hammer the Catholic church for filtering porn? Nobody yells at free ISPs for their incessant advertising. This is just the backswing of the pendulum, if I may invent words.
I'm sorry all those poor Phillipinos can't see Asian she-men peeing on lesbian Nazis. I'm sure their culture will recover from this glaring ommision.
And all this discussion about corruption in the church... not everyone can live up to the standard. That doesn't make it right, but it doesn't destroy the standard. There are depraved screwballs in every profession... but nobody hires them for their screwball depravity.
All this and I'm not even Catholic.
I think the world should rally behind a different, nobler cause: Popples.
Exactly the same, maybe? But with a cooler looking ui?
This sort of development seems to be exactly how open-source software development works. (Of course, I just hopped on this bandwagon a couple o' months ago.) From where I'm standing, Linux looks like you say Word is. It took over two weeks of pruning to get Rad Hat to install without X.
(Off topic, I still can't look at the word "hires" without thinking of that Apple II graphics mode.)
kfx