Too bad this is not happening, unfortunately.
It's sad to see latest DoCoMo phones running up to $400 per handset in price, with horrible quality "2 megapixel" cameras that look shitty even downscaled to 640x480, 2 hours talk time, 24 hours on one charge, etc etc.
If any phone manufacturer is reading this,
I created a phone design I am willing to license to manufacturers: http://pbx.mine.nu/artwork/phone.png.
Please contact me for licensing information if you decide to produce such device.
the website says it has a touch screen, and stylus is included. There's USB 1.1 port, so you can probably plug a keyboard with a USB hub into it, and hook a mouse to that.
specifications (in japanese): http://www.hagakipc.jp/ba_spec.htm http://www.hagakipc.jp/ front page.
Notice the hit counter, this was probably "news" long before slashdot "found" the link.
It also supports CF microdrives, which should give you up to 4gb of storage.
By the way, firewire, at only 400mbit/sec compared to 480mbit of USB2, still beats USB2 to IDE bridges in terms of throuput.
You're looking at something like 27mb/sec for firewire bridge based on ox911 chipset, and about 22mb/sec or less for USB2 bridge. This is based on 1394a aka fw400, you're going to get about double that with 1394b/fw800. I believe ox921 or 922 is the chip that does 1394b to IDE bridging.
Why? Because USB has higher overhead and CPU usage.
So if you need faster external storage, firewire is the way to go.
Their FeLiCa technology is integrated into NTT DoCoMo 506i (and I think some 900i) models.
They are planning to use these for shopping, ticket purchases, etc, as "electronic cash".
Having seen the SDK for FeLiCa it seems it would be trivial for a programmer to write a utility similar to RFDump to edit/delete/modify data stored on the RFID chip inside the phone.
Shortly after XP SP2 release candidate came out I did a number of test installs inside VMWare to evaluate the new service pack. All these installs went through just fine, and I have not experienced any of the "problems" these people were talking about.
My guess as far as why they failed is precisely this - they had old XP machines that haven't been reinstalled since before SP1 (thats what, almost 2 years or more), which were then installed with SP2, and they expected it to work? What I have done (and various other IT departments have done same, I'm sure) is SP1 was integrated into the XP install and then machines were reinstalled and reimaged. That's what I did when SP1 was released. I plan to do same thing with SP2, because installing it on top of a 2 years old XP + SP1 + filled with crap machines is just asking for trouble.
Upcoming (it hasn't been cancelled, right?) Windows XP Reloaded will be almost same thing - XP + SP2 integrated and whatever other goodies they will throw in to make you buy it.
Recently released cellphones from F900 series have support for "FeLiCa" which is some type of RFID-like device. There are plans to use these for banking, shopping, as door keys (holding your phone next to the door to open it), etc.
And because Japland isn't filled with privacy freaks like say U.S., these things will happen and nobody will be complaining.
When HDTV copy protection was enabled in April 2004, few thousand people complained, then everyone shut up. I'd imagine most complaining people were probably foreigners living in Japan.
flat rate only to the handsets. you cannot use it for data. flat-rate "data" service to download ringtones and other garbage for $60 a month doesn't sound like a sweet deal to me.
quoting the article: Japan has been wary of offering flat rate mobile services because of the strain on the limited amount of spectrum available. Users to the new service has unlimited access to e-mail and data services available through KDDI's portal, including access to the Internet, but does not apply to the use of a handset to connect a notebook computer to the Internet.
WTL "source" has always been "open", in a sense that WTL is a C++ template library with all the code in the header files, which were the source bits you would get if you download WTL71.exe directly from microsoft.com.
The changes to WTL 7.5 hosted on sourceforge is inclusion of the source code for the WTL appwizard and some samples (which were available elsewhere before).
WTL, which is basically a one-person project at microsoft, doesn't really get enough attention of developers. It's a great lightweight wrapper around Win32 API, does not depend on any external DLLs (like MFC etc). The only problem with WTL, up to including this release, is that there is absolutely no documentation - there are a few projects documenting WTL3.0 or older exist, but they are not maintained anymore. Hopefully once this project is on sourceforge, people will be fixing bugs *and* writing documentation. I'm very looking forward to this.
It shouldn't matter. This all goes back to having a single standard. I should be able to turn the system on and use it without deciding which of the 3 audio drivers to use or which sound daemon to configure.
Oh no. Linux has been "overtaking windows in the next 3 years" for at least the last 6 years, probably more. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for running Linux on some non-critical servers. But on desktop it's a freaking joke. I mean, you still can't play multiple sounds in Linux at the same time (unless you use a laggy userland daemon that takes a second to unpause your mp3, or buy a "supported" audio card with hardware mixing). For some reason Linus has a problem with putting kernel audio mixer (something Windows had since Win98 (and probably '95 but I'm not too sure)) into kernel-mode, so now all "desktop linux" users are stuck with playing one audio stream at a time. Even FreeBSD, a much less "desktop" oriented OS (at least it isn't claiming to be "the windows killer" on the desktop every few months), has kernel audio mixing support since like 5.x-CURRENT. So this was one tiny nitpick about audio, something people on "desktop" will probably need sooner or later. How about video? Windows supports almost every known video card out of the box, while to get any kind of decent graphics in Linux you need to buy a "supported" video card. How many "corporate desktops" you know of that run on exotic "custom ordered" hardware? They all use precanned HP/Dell/Whatever desktops with generic onboard video and audio. Unless Linux will automatically without *any* problems installs on this class of hardware, forget using it for corporate desktops.
And to sum this up, I guess the real reason Linux isn't going to be overtaking anything "in the next 3 years", is the group mentality of Linux users in general. There are literally hundreds of half-assed "distributions" of Linux. And new ones seem to be popping up at an amazing speed. Compare that to the *BSD family, where there is only one "distribution" for each flavor (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) and once you know one, you should have no problems migrating to any other *BSD family. In Linux, every distribution seems to want to invent their own packaging system, configuration system, etc etc. People, this is not how you win users. You win users by creating a standard, easy to use system. Forget the 100's of distributions. Create a single standard and make everyone use it. Then, only then you might have some chance at a "desktop OS".
While there were legal methods to obtain optimizing compilers before (you could order media-cost-only Windows 2003 DDK cdrom and with that you'd have vc++ 7.0 compilers), but with this kit there's no longer any problems.
While VS.NET 7.1/2003 IDE is quite well developed, I'm sure projects such as eclipse or dev-c++ can benefit from this.
Also notice the important thing about this kit is it includes optimizing compilers, free command-line tools which were available for a while from the Microsoft.NET framework SDK did not have optimization command-line options enabled.
Before this, there were ways to obtain the optimizing version of vc++ compilers, by ordering a recent Windows 2003 DDK (it included vs.net 7.0 compilers, if I remember correctly). But now with this kit,
Is going to be your biggest problem.
I've had some EPSON-made TFT lcds from cellphones that even epson refused to give me datasheets to - most cellphone LCDs are custom jobs for each specific manufacturer, and they will not be telling you any information about them.
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Too bad this is not happening, unfortunately. It's sad to see latest DoCoMo phones running up to $400 per handset in price, with horrible quality "2 megapixel" cameras that look shitty even downscaled to 640x480, 2 hours talk time, 24 hours on one charge, etc etc.
If any phone manufacturer is reading this, I created a phone design I am willing to license to manufacturers:
http://pbx.mine.nu/artwork/phone.png.
Please contact me for licensing information if you decide to produce such device.
achurch is a known jap-loving faggot
incase the submitter didn't know,
jap universities have some of the most horrible connectivity ever.
incidentally, the server is now unreachable.
thanks for fucking it up for everyone!
you might have confused them with u.s. universities which actually have bandwidth.
Informative article?
On a BLOG?
Full of factual errors and void of any actual useful content?
Nothing to see here, please move along.
--
Save the internet, append -inurl:blog to all google searches!
the website says it has a touch screen, and stylus is included. There's USB 1.1 port, so you can probably plug a keyboard with a USB hub into it, and hook a mouse to that.
specifications (in japanese):
http://www.hagakipc.jp/ba_spec.htm
http://www.hagakipc.jp/ front page.
Notice the hit counter, this was probably "news" long before slashdot "found" the link.
It also supports CF microdrives, which should give you up to 4gb of storage.
By the way, firewire, at only 400mbit/sec compared to 480mbit of USB2, still beats USB2 to IDE bridges in terms of throuput.
You're looking at something like 27mb/sec for firewire bridge based on ox911 chipset, and about 22mb/sec or less for USB2 bridge. This is based on 1394a aka fw400, you're going to get about double that with 1394b/fw800. I believe ox921 or 922 is the chip that does 1394b to IDE bridging.
Why? Because USB has higher overhead and CPU usage.
So if you need faster external storage, firewire is the way to go.
xp sp2 torrent.
The one posted on suprnova is now dead (it was hosted on a cablemodem tracker).
Their FeLiCa technology is integrated into NTT DoCoMo 506i (and I think some 900i) models. They are planning to use these for shopping, ticket purchases, etc, as "electronic cash". Having seen the SDK for FeLiCa it seems it would be trivial for a programmer to write a utility similar to RFDump to edit/delete/modify data stored on the RFID chip inside the phone.
this is probably not a fp.
Shortly after XP SP2 release candidate came out
I did a number of test installs inside VMWare to evaluate the new service pack. All these installs went through just fine, and I have not experienced any of the "problems" these people were talking about.
My guess as far as why they failed is precisely this - they had old XP machines that haven't been reinstalled since before SP1 (thats what, almost 2 years or more), which were then installed with SP2, and they expected it to work? What I have done (and various other IT departments have done same, I'm sure) is SP1 was integrated into the XP install and then machines were reinstalled and reimaged. That's what I did when SP1 was released. I plan to do same thing with SP2, because installing it on top of a 2 years old XP + SP1 + filled with crap machines is just asking for trouble.
Upcoming (it hasn't been cancelled, right?) Windows XP Reloaded will be almost same thing - XP + SP2 integrated and whatever other goodies they will throw in to make you buy it.
Recently released cellphones from F900 series have support for "FeLiCa" which is some type of RFID-like device. There are plans to use these for banking, shopping, as door keys (holding your phone next to the door to open it), etc.
And because Japland isn't filled with privacy freaks like say U.S., these things will happen and nobody will be complaining.
When HDTV copy protection was enabled in April 2004, few thousand people complained, then everyone shut up. I'd imagine most complaining people were probably foreigners living in Japan.
Thanks for mentioning the bloody obvious truth, sir.
Are you on your spree to reach the karma kap by posting useless shit that everyone else can read by simply READING TEH ARTICLE?
Yours truly,
GNAA
haha, I thought I was the only one using bob@aol.com.
Poor bob!
flat rate only to the handsets.
you cannot use it for data.
flat-rate "data" service to download ringtones and other garbage for $60 a month doesn't sound like a sweet deal to me.
quoting the article:
Japan has been wary of offering flat rate mobile services because of the strain on the limited amount of spectrum available. Users to the new service has unlimited access to e-mail and data services available through KDDI's portal, including access to the Internet, but does not apply to the use of a handset to connect a notebook computer to the Internet.
But it isn't gonna happen.
Since every existing 3G network (kddi, docomo's foma) are billed per packet/per second for each connection.
While Verizon is charging something like $90 a month for unlimited 1xEVDO in south california.
How's the situation with 3G data in Europe?
Is it all flat-rate as well?
All terrestrial digital (that's ATSC for you) broadcasts in Japan have been copy protected since the day they started.
All Satellite (think Dish Network, etc) programming has been copy protected since April 4th 2004.
At least be happy you are living in a country where people can actually complain and make a difference.
I wonder, does anything from gnaa.us get long links?
what is this?
posted like 3 days ago.
WTL "source" has always been "open", in a sense that WTL is a C++ template library with all the code in the header files, which were the source bits you would get if you download WTL71.exe directly from microsoft.com.
The changes to WTL 7.5 hosted on sourceforge is inclusion of the source code for the WTL appwizard and some samples (which were available elsewhere before).
WTL, which is basically a one-person project at microsoft, doesn't really get enough attention of developers.
It's a great lightweight wrapper around Win32 API, does not depend on any external DLLs (like MFC etc).
The only problem with WTL, up to including this release, is that there is absolutely no documentation - there
are a few projects documenting WTL3.0 or older exist, but they are not maintained anymore. Hopefully once this
project is on sourceforge, people will be fixing bugs *and* writing documentation. I'm very looking forward
to this.
It shouldn't matter.
This all goes back to having a single standard.
I should be able to turn the system on and use it without deciding which of the 3 audio drivers to use or which sound daemon to configure.
Oh no.
Linux has been "overtaking windows in the next 3 years" for at least the last 6 years,
probably more. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for running Linux on some non-critical servers.
But on desktop it's a freaking joke. I mean, you still can't play multiple sounds in Linux
at the same time (unless you use a laggy userland daemon that takes a second to unpause your mp3,
or buy a "supported" audio card with hardware mixing). For some reason Linus has a problem with
putting kernel audio mixer (something Windows had since Win98 (and probably '95 but I'm not too sure))
into kernel-mode, so now all "desktop linux" users are stuck with playing one audio stream at a time.
Even FreeBSD, a much less "desktop" oriented OS (at least it isn't claiming to be "the windows killer"
on the desktop every few months), has kernel audio mixing support since like 5.x-CURRENT. So this
was one tiny nitpick about audio, something people on "desktop" will probably need sooner or later.
How about video? Windows supports almost every known video card out of the box, while to get any kind
of decent graphics in Linux you need to buy a "supported" video card. How many "corporate desktops"
you know of that run on exotic "custom ordered" hardware? They all use precanned HP/Dell/Whatever
desktops with generic onboard video and audio. Unless Linux will automatically without *any* problems
installs on this class of hardware, forget using it for corporate desktops.
And to sum this up, I guess the real reason Linux isn't going to be overtaking anything "in the next
3 years", is the group mentality of Linux users in general. There are literally hundreds of half-assed
"distributions" of Linux. And new ones seem to be popping up at an amazing speed. Compare that to
the *BSD family, where there is only one "distribution" for each flavor (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) and
once you know one, you should have no problems migrating to any other *BSD family. In Linux, every
distribution seems to want to invent their own packaging system, configuration system, etc etc.
People, this is not how you win users. You win users by creating a standard, easy to use system.
Forget the 100's of distributions. Create a single standard and make everyone use it. Then, only then
you might have some chance at a "desktop OS".
This is absolutely awesome.
.NET framework SDK did not have optimization command-line options enabled.
While there were legal methods to obtain optimizing compilers before (you could order media-cost-only Windows 2003 DDK cdrom and with that you'd have vc++ 7.0 compilers), but with this kit there's no longer any problems.
While VS.NET 7.1/2003 IDE is quite well developed, I'm sure projects such as eclipse or dev-c++ can benefit from this.
Also notice the important thing about this kit is it includes optimizing compilers, free command-line tools which were available for a while from the Microsoft
Before this, there were ways to obtain the optimizing version of vc++ compilers, by ordering a recent Windows 2003 DDK (it included vs.net 7.0 compilers, if I remember correctly). But now with this kit,
Is going to be your biggest problem. I've had some EPSON-made TFT lcds from cellphones that even epson refused to give me datasheets to - most cellphone LCDs are custom jobs for each specific manufacturer, and they will not be telling you any information about them.
You are better off trashing the screens you got and ordering some cheap LCDs from a place like http://www.mp3playerstore.com/stuff_you_need/speci al/index.html and connecting it to your car mp3/dvd/player whatever.