I think the general idea is to plan ahead: find out what the big mobile phone operators are, go to their web sites, hope for an english version:-p Then once you get there, go to one of their shops, there's usually one at airports.
Actually, I think a full Bluetooth implementation should be enough: - via tethering to your non-castrated phone, it give you 3G on your ereader. Sorry, iFans:-p - it can give you LAN access - if can give you ethernet acces at home via your PC
Physical activity is calming. Gaming, probably not.
Writing and Art are creative, and encourage insight and reflexion. Gaming, probably not.
Hence there are really 2 issues: - does gaming have a positive impact or not (and no, you can't extrapolate studies on writing, boxing...) ? - is that effect stronger than the alternatives' ?
1- do away with error messages. Have suggestions instead, like "You need to initialize a data file to do that", with whatever file initialization menu you have 2- automate error messages: have a very easy way to send the error log to the help desk, so that at least you don't have to re-walk the user through the whole error 3- have a good UI that actually helps users to avoid mistakes 4- show them how helpful error messages are, saving them time and the humiliation of having to call support. 5- bill for support 6- train your users to handle error messages at the same time you train them to use apps 7- belabor that point during support calls: don't solve the problem for them, show them how they can solve it by themselves
I think that drugs are evil, and I am for legalizing them.
The evil they do to their users is only a part of the evil they do to society: gangs fight for recruits and territory, users commit crime to fund their habit, terrorists get rich making and shipping the stuff... And even users may benefit from legalization, if done right, since it creates plenty of opportunities of engaging them, instead of alienating and criminalizing them.
The main issue with legalizing, is making sure nobody tries to turn us all into junkies, the way they do with cigarettes, fatty foods....
I am not aware of any such thing ever having happened, nor do I think it would, since killing your customers does not seem to make business sense.
We do have the slow version you started off with, and that's drugs, alcohol, tobacco, no-medicine religions, no-exercise lifestyles, fatty foods,... I'm not sure the random way in which governments target some and not others is justifiable, nor that it should inspire confidence.
I'm always puzzled by all those so-called crimes that have no victims: alcohol, drugs, certain religions in certain countries... Or rather, where the only potential victim is the criminal him/her-self.
To me, those are what more clearly mark the difference between freedom and tyranny. It really bothers me when western democracies engage in such repressive behaviour, and set such a bad example.
are we even sure there's a correlation between greenhouse gases and temperature ? And, if that's the case, what those gases are and where they come from ?
I've just listened to a 1-hour program on national radio, with kinda independent climatologists (a French luxury, where many scientists do work for the government), about climate change. These guys don't really seem to agree on anything, with one them them strenuously making the point that earth temperature was mainly linked to solar activity... to the point of making anything else irrelevant.
Actually smells like the SDI that precipitated the fall of the USSR.. only in reverse.
As long as we give billions of dollars to the military/security interests, to protect us against marginal or very distant threats, they, and the terrorists, win.
I was thinking more of an adapter cable to transform a proprietary (and very small) connector on the phone to a (larger) vga, hdmi or dvi one.
bluetooth could work in theory. Are you sure it has enough reliable bandwidth though ?
I failed to google up anything, apart form the sony-ericsson mmv-200, which seems discontinued. $110, max res 704x576 (which is not bad). It was kinda big though, did not run on battery, and was 1 more box to carry around, definitely not usb-dongle sized.
I'd be interested in any info you have on shipping products.
There's one difference this time around: Wintel PCs started off with geeks, then (not-so-successfully, cf Apple) widened their audience from geeks to the general public. Phones are going directly to the general public, which cares less about openness, even features, and more about ease of use and trouble-free operation, especially now that they've seen the mess the openness of the PC market has created.
it's not so much about actual bytecode than about features, bug fixes. Do you want the program you're writing to take advantage of 2.1 latest feature, or to be compatible with 1.5 ? How can I be sure that my software will run correctly on all those different phones (different screen sizes, different touch screens, different buttons...) without testing on all of them ? What if one android phone only has 128k RAM, and my app uses 130 ? What if my full screen games does not run well on phone XYZ which has a large screen, but a slow CPU ? and so on.
You mean, the plethora of Desktop Linux variants has worked well against MacOS's and Windows's unified approach. Or not...
The problems with multiple versions for the exact same devices and uses are: - developper confusion: should I target the lowest common denominator ? the latest one ? - consumer confusion: what is Android exactly ? Why doesn't my phone do what yours does ? - effort duplication. I dream about how good the Linux desktop would be if, instead of having 6-7 of them, all efforts had been poured into one or two. - incompatibility issues.
I think Google wanted to get something out the door very quickly, at the cost of screwing early adopters. We should see the versions waltz slow down soon, since Android seems to have more or less reached feature parity vs iPhone. I'm still holding out for a bit.
All those are custom PCs built by myself. All those machines were running XP perfectly, the first 3 still are (I just gave them away to an African school), lost track of the 4th.
- MSI 5351 (or is it 5315 ? i815, celeron 1200MHz, 512Mo) - Via Epia (C3 + chipset), 512 Mo - Original Athlon (SiS chipset, Asrock MB) - Athlon64 (don't remember the chispet, prolly nForce)
whoosh. The idea is: sex will happen anyway. The choice is between being educated (and hopefully at least a bit mature) about it, or the wild west US approach.
I'm not trying to be mean or disrespectful to AC, but there a re a lot of pompous assholes which, when asked 'I've learned such-and-such, what next', ramble on about how how totally useless you still are, which is both uninteresting, mean, unhelpful, stupid, and not the question.
I've spent more times listening to castrative bullshit spewed out by people with an ego and idiocy like his than I have having constructive, interesting conversations.
candidates need some signatures from town mayors (or equivalent elected officials I think; I don't remember if it's 200 or 500). That doesn't seem too onerous, I'm not sure I've ever heard of someone not making the count: if you're on the right, the left will gladly help you out, and conversely, with the goal of making life harder for the other side.
it's indeed 2-phase runoff.
how each party's candidate is chosen is left entirely to each party. there is a push for primary, which do sound better than the usual backroom deals, but it's by no way the rule, and the modalities vary widely.
Yep. France has a funnier system for presidential elections, with no official primaries, so the first round of presidential elections often has 10-15 candidates, with special-interest parties (hunting...), fringe ones (all the flavor of communists, several flavors of far right...) and several mainstream candidates (greens, socialists, center, right, often several candidates for each). We had a tragic episode a few years back when the mainstream-left party came in third to the mainstream-right and extreme right... That DID get a point across, though I'm not sure I actually liked the point being made.
Also, it's very strictly a one person = one vote system, which the US system isn't with the intermediate 'state' level.
the other way round: since 50%+1 (or less actually, given the way the US elections work, plus you've there's the young, the non-voters... my guess would be more like 25% of all US citizens) impose cumbersome+costly restrictions on ALL (not 50%+1) foreigners, imposing the same on ALL US citizens seems logical.
On the one hand (pun intended), I understand that if your employer has access control, everyone need to submit to it, otherwise it doesn't make much sense. Ditto if they use one system to record 'attendance', they won't set up a different system for students. That's part of the work experience you're getting, and submitting to it as a student is no worse than having to submit to it as a regular worker. Fingerprint scanners are very convenient for everyone: no card to lose, code to forget, no possibility of cheating...
On the other hand, yes, it's a bit scary, especially since you've got to assume that any data collected is neither safe nor secure, and will end up is with the worst possible people. Don't be swayed by the argument that the system only stores verification points: if the system is effective, this representation of your prints is as good as the real thing (otherwise the system is useless).
I'm not sure having a hissy fit about it is any use, and it WILL hurt you with future employers. If it's that important to you, find another employer. And check beforehand, next time.
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For France, here's what a quick search came up with:
- day pass @ 2 euros up to 10 megs, 8 euros then, for PC, need 3G dongle
- day pass @ 9 euros for mobile phone
- 15h pass @ 40 euros for mobile phone
from
http://www.sfr.fr/internet-mobile/offres-internet-mobile-cle-internet-3g/les-offres-internet-3g-?vue=00235e&addFilter=&usage=occasionnel&sfrintid=hbolmid_off_pass_bolmid
http://www.laboutique.bouyguestelecom.fr/forfaits-mobiles-offres-internet/forfaits-internet-mobile-3g-147_g.html#nogo
I think the general idea is to plan ahead: find out what the big mobile phone operators are, go to their web sites, hope for an english version :-p Then once you get there, go to one of their shops, there's usually one at airports.
would you rather have graffiti, or screeching, loud, bad quality classical music. As an old geezer, I vote 2-
Actually, I think a full Bluetooth implementation should be enough: :-p
- via tethering to your non-castrated phone, it give you 3G on your ereader. Sorry, iFans
- it can give you LAN access
- if can give you ethernet acces at home via your PC
Good. Go write "Paulatz wuz here" next to the HOLLYWOOD sign.
Physical activity is calming. Gaming, probably not.
Writing and Art are creative, and encourage insight and reflexion. Gaming, probably not.
Hence there are really 2 issues: ...) ?
- does gaming have a positive impact or not (and no, you can't extrapolate studies on writing, boxing
- is that effect stronger than the alternatives' ?
1- do away with error messages. Have suggestions instead, like "You need to initialize a data file to do that", with whatever file initialization menu you have
2- automate error messages: have a very easy way to send the error log to the help desk, so that at least you don't have to re-walk the user through the whole error
3- have a good UI that actually helps users to avoid mistakes
4- show them how helpful error messages are, saving them time and the humiliation of having to call support.
5- bill for support
6- train your users to handle error messages at the same time you train them to use apps
7- belabor that point during support calls: don't solve the problem for them, show them how they can solve it by themselves
I think that drugs are evil, and I am for legalizing them.
The evil they do to their users is only a part of the evil they do to society: gangs fight for recruits and territory, users commit crime to fund their habit, terrorists get rich making and shipping the stuff...
And even users may benefit from legalization, if done right, since it creates plenty of opportunities of engaging them, instead of alienating and criminalizing them.
The main issue with legalizing, is making sure nobody tries to turn us all into junkies, the way they do with cigarettes, fatty foods....
I am not aware of any such thing ever having happened, nor do I think it would, since killing your customers does not seem to make business sense.
We do have the slow version you started off with, and that's drugs, alcohol, tobacco, no-medicine religions, no-exercise lifestyles, fatty foods,... I'm not sure the random way in which governments target some and not others is justifiable, nor that it should inspire confidence.
I'm always puzzled by all those so-called crimes that have no victims: alcohol, drugs, certain religions in certain countries... Or rather, where the only potential victim is the criminal him/her-self.
To me, those are what more clearly mark the difference between freedom and tyranny. It really bothers me when western democracies engage in such repressive behaviour, and set such a bad example.
are we even sure there's a correlation between greenhouse gases and temperature ? And, if that's the case, what those gases are and where they come from ?
I've just listened to a 1-hour program on national radio, with kinda independent climatologists (a French luxury, where many scientists do work for the government), about climate change. These guys don't really seem to agree on anything, with one them them strenuously making the point that earth temperature was mainly linked to solar activity... to the point of making anything else irrelevant.
Actually smells like the SDI that precipitated the fall of the USSR.. only in reverse.
As long as we give billions of dollars to the military/security interests, to protect us against marginal or very distant threats, they, and the terrorists, win.
Mandatory gun deprivation would save more lives, currently lost to guns.
There's a tool to write the code.
Is there a tool to write the tool that writes the code ?
And then, there's the tool who writes the tool that writes the tool that writes the code.
I was thinking more of an adapter cable to transform a proprietary (and very small) connector on the phone to a (larger) vga, hdmi or dvi one.
bluetooth could work in theory. Are you sure it has enough reliable bandwidth though ?
I failed to google up anything, apart form the sony-ericsson mmv-200, which seems discontinued. $110, max res 704x576 (which is not bad). It was kinda big though, did not run on battery, and was 1 more box to carry around, definitely not usb-dongle sized.
I'd be interested in any info you have on shipping products.
There's one difference this time around: Wintel PCs started off with geeks, then (not-so-successfully, cf Apple) widened their audience from geeks to the general public. Phones are going directly to the general public, which cares less about openness, even features, and more about ease of use and trouble-free operation, especially now that they've seen the mess the openness of the PC market has created.
it's not so much about actual bytecode than about features, bug fixes. Do you want the program you're writing to take advantage of 2.1 latest feature, or to be compatible with 1.5 ? How can I be sure that my software will run correctly on all those different phones (different screen sizes, different touch screens, different buttons...) without testing on all of them ? What if one android phone only has 128k RAM, and my app uses 130 ? What if my full screen games does not run well on phone XYZ which has a large screen, but a slow CPU ? and so on.
that would be true if phones only offered calling, and maybe texting, a 1-line screen and number keys.
this is no longer the case.
You mean, the plethora of Desktop Linux variants has worked well against MacOS's and Windows's unified approach. Or not ...
The problems with multiple versions for the exact same devices and uses are:
- developper confusion: should I target the lowest common denominator ? the latest one ?
- consumer confusion: what is Android exactly ? Why doesn't my phone do what yours does ?
- effort duplication. I dream about how good the Linux desktop would be if, instead of having 6-7 of them, all efforts had been poured into one or two.
- incompatibility issues.
I think Google wanted to get something out the door very quickly, at the cost of screwing early adopters. We should see the versions waltz slow down soon, since Android seems to have more or less reached feature parity vs iPhone. I'm still holding out for a bit.
All those are custom PCs built by myself. All those machines were running XP perfectly, the first 3 still are (I just gave them away to an African school), lost track of the 4th.
- MSI 5351 (or is it 5315 ? i815, celeron 1200MHz, 512Mo)
- Via Epia (C3 + chipset), 512 Mo
- Original Athlon (SiS chipset, Asrock MB)
- Athlon64 (don't remember the chispet, prolly nForce)
whoosh. The idea is: sex will happen anyway. The choice is between being educated (and hopefully at least a bit mature) about it, or the wild west US approach.
I'm not trying to be mean or disrespectful to AC, but there a re a lot of pompous assholes which, when asked 'I've learned such-and-such, what next', ramble on about how how totally useless you still are, which is both uninteresting, mean, unhelpful, stupid, and not the question.
I've spent more times listening to castrative bullshit spewed out by people with an ego and idiocy like his than I have having constructive, interesting conversations.
candidates need some signatures from town mayors (or equivalent elected officials I think; I don't remember if it's 200 or 500). That doesn't seem too onerous, I'm not sure I've ever heard of someone not making the count: if you're on the right, the left will gladly help you out, and conversely, with the goal of making life harder for the other side.
it's indeed 2-phase runoff.
how each party's candidate is chosen is left entirely to each party. there is a push for primary, which do sound better than the usual backroom deals, but it's by no way the rule, and the modalities vary widely.
pat
Yep. France has a funnier system for presidential elections, with no official primaries, so the first round of presidential elections often has 10-15 candidates, with special-interest parties (hunting...), fringe ones (all the flavor of communists, several flavors of far right...) and several mainstream candidates (greens, socialists, center, right, often several candidates for each). We had a tragic episode a few years back when the mainstream-left party came in third to the mainstream-right and extreme right... That DID get a point across, though I'm not sure I actually liked the point being made.
Also, it's very strictly a one person = one vote system, which the US system isn't with the intermediate 'state' level.
the other way round: since 50%+1 (or less actually, given the way the US elections work, plus you've there's the young, the non-voters... my guess would be more like 25% of all US citizens) impose cumbersome+costly restrictions on ALL (not 50%+1) foreigners, imposing the same on ALL US citizens seems logical.
On the one hand (pun intended), I understand that if your employer has access control, everyone need to submit to it, otherwise it doesn't make much sense. Ditto if they use one system to record 'attendance', they won't set up a different system for students. That's part of the work experience you're getting, and submitting to it as a student is no worse than having to submit to it as a regular worker. Fingerprint scanners are very convenient for everyone: no card to lose, code to forget, no possibility of cheating...
On the other hand, yes, it's a bit scary, especially since you've got to assume that any data collected is neither safe nor secure, and will end up is with the worst possible people. Don't be swayed by the argument that the system only stores verification points: if the system is effective, this representation of your prints is as good as the real thing (otherwise the system is useless).
I'm not sure having a hissy fit about it is any use, and it WILL hurt you with future employers. If it's that important to you, find another employer. And check beforehand, next time.