Not in Australia! Or any of the countries I'm interested in visiting or visited.
If you think it is "as obsolete as AMPS" you are an idiot.
I did say "to me". Since there was a CDMA network where I live, and it does not exist any longer, it is obsolete. My mother has a CDMA phone collecting dust the same way as the old AMPS bag phone - though 10 years of dust is more than 2 years, it is still collecting it. My Dad's GSM phone is about the same vintage as the CDMA phone and still works. Therefore GSM is far superior!
That list is out of date, from my skimming of it. None of the " more info" links I tried to follow work. Australia (Telstra) shut down its CDMA network for UMTS 850 in 2008. Yes, I know UMTS uses "code division multiple access" signalling, but as it uses a sim card it is much more like GSM.
So, to me, CDMA is as obsolete as AMPS, which was shut down in 2000.
One is that, in my opinion, commercial radio sucks.
That's why I only listen to a non-commercial radio station:) however its signal is not very strong on my mobile phone FM radio: entering a train kills it - though it does work on my car radio when I drive to work. I do like the idea of FM radio - it uses less battery power then playing an MP3 - but it doesn't tend to work very well in practice.
If FM is going to be required, maybe all phones should also be able to send/receive faxes? It is an equivalently-obsoleted technology. My phone plan in 2001 actually had a separate "fax number" but when someone called it all I could do was "reject" since my phone couldn't handle it. It didn't take me long to get it permanently blocked.
Wouldn't something like DAB+ reception be better than FM anyway? I've had FM reception in several of my phones, including my current one: they have all been (2G GSM) Nokias.
What would Apple need to do to support CDMA and is there any market for one outside the USA? I know they shut down the CDMA network here in Australia a few years ago as it was replaced with a 850MHz 3G network. FWIW the iPhone is available for all the networks here, but the iPhone 4 will be the first to support them all completely (and AFAICT the first phone (not just iPhone) to support both 850 and 900 UMTS).
There is already "email address portability": It's called "buying and using your own domain name". You can change providers as much as you want and keep your email address! I'm a little suspicious of any business (especially a tech business) using an ISP email address (or worse hotmail/gmail/yahoo). I have even had personal domain names for over 10 years now.
I'm a big fan of Ooffice, but all too frequently you'll open a [...] Powerpoint presentation in Microsoft Office and all kinds of stuff is broken.
Fixed that for you. Office often can't seem to elegantly open its own documents when transferred between differing computers. Unless it is a really simple document, formatting and layout can be completely off. I don't deal with Excel so much but I've seen PPTs and DOCs mangled horribly. I'm not saying ODF (or OOo) is perfect: I'm saying MS definitely isn't!
I think a netbook would have to be classified as a small, cheap ultraportable ideal for using the internet. This includes good wireless connectivity - I just got a Samsung NC10 with a built-in HSDPA modem so I have internet practically everywhere I go. I know not all "netbooks" have 3G but they "should" for great justice. It's like the laptop/notebook difference. I think there is one now (notebooks are smaller) but there wasn't always, as far as I knew anyway.
The wiimotes are being used to keep this article on the front page for days!! I keep refreshing and nothing new comes up - and this is from both my home and work computers. What is going on in Slashdot land?
Those conversions are all in the digital side and there would be no extra noise: G.711 (aka ulaw/alaw) is essentially the codec used on ISDN anyway: 64kbit uncompressed PCM (plus a little overhead). The only difference *might* be a little more latency due to the packetisation/serialisation of the data.
On a uncongested/QoS IP network VoIP can be better than POTS - you don't have several kilometres/miles of copper pair bringing in noise.
It's called a "reverse cycle air conditioner" and they are fairly common these days. I have one in my house and office and it can really work. One thing, if the outside temperature is below a certain number (I think about -5C) then it doesn't work properly. At those temperatures your refrigerator won't work either!
I know in Australia they have lifted the ban on surcharges when using a credit card. Many companies now charge 2%, though these are generally either greedy or cheap. Other companies advertise "less for cash" (though you can get cash price when using EFTPOS (debit cards))
TFA had Australia's socket "upside-down" as the earth pin should be at the bottom. Also it neglected to mention that standard amperage is 10A, with a 15 version relatively common (and I've seen a 20A version used for a coffee machine). For those reasons it should have beat the Italians!
In other news, the Japanese voltage is only 100V, and half the country is 50Hz and the other half 60Hz.
Then you can get stuck on a "up to 8mbit unless we feel like limiting you to 3mbit and allowing congestion so you get 500+ms pings" device.
My work DSL modem sync at 8160kbps but we have never seen transfers over 300KB/s down or 35KB/s up and pings vary wildly between 20ms and 1500ms, though normally in the 400-600 range. Thanks Telstra - for refusing to upgrade the network.
My el-cheapo USB webcam apparently works with Linux but I never managed to get it working. I haven't tried with Windows 7 but it only worked on XP after downloading a 50MB driver. I think it has some firmware that refuses to work in non-XP.
I borrowed a USB Logitech QuickCam once. It worked without worries on Ubuntu some years ago.
(BTW if my bank decided to make e-banking only work in Windows, I would change banks instantly. Especially after the Police have recommended against using Windows to access one's e-banking!)
Just after I read this comment Firefox popped up a warning dialog that there were dangerous add-ons installed and told me it had blocked the two Microsoft ones. So clearly Mozilla has figured it out, so it's all Microsoft.
In theory LEDs don't care about how many times they are switched. Normal LEDs are dimmed by adjusting the PWM - they are switched thousands of times per second - this is more efficient than simply using a bigger series resistor.
I say "in theory" because these LEDs could be different to "normal" LEDs. (Driver circuitry etc)
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CDMA is still being actively deployed today.
Not in Australia! Or any of the countries I'm interested in visiting or visited.
If you think it is "as obsolete as AMPS" you are an idiot.
I did say "to me". Since there was a CDMA network where I live, and it does not exist any longer, it is obsolete. My mother has a CDMA phone collecting dust the same way as the old AMPS bag phone - though 10 years of dust is more than 2 years, it is still collecting it. My Dad's GSM phone is about the same vintage as the CDMA phone and still works. Therefore GSM is far superior!
the rest of the world is standardized on GSM and 3G...
http://phone-solutions.pavemyway.com/Cdma-Operators/Cdma-Operators-List.php
That list is out of date, from my skimming of it. None of the " more info" links I tried to follow work. Australia (Telstra) shut down its CDMA network for UMTS 850 in 2008. Yes, I know UMTS uses "code division multiple access" signalling, but as it uses a sim card it is much more like GSM.
So, to me, CDMA is as obsolete as AMPS, which was shut down in 2000.
One is that, in my opinion, commercial radio sucks.
That's why I only listen to a non-commercial radio station :) however its signal is not very strong on my mobile phone FM radio: entering a train kills it - though it does work on my car radio when I drive to work. I do like the idea of FM radio - it uses less battery power then playing an MP3 - but it doesn't tend to work very well in practice.
If FM is going to be required, maybe all phones should also be able to send/receive faxes? It is an equivalently-obsoleted technology. My phone plan in 2001 actually had a separate "fax number" but when someone called it all I could do was "reject" since my phone couldn't handle it. It didn't take me long to get it permanently blocked.
Wouldn't something like DAB+ reception be better than FM anyway? I've had FM reception in several of my phones, including my current one: they have all been (2G GSM) Nokias.
What would Apple need to do to support CDMA and is there any market for one outside the USA? I know they shut down the CDMA network here in Australia a few years ago as it was replaced with a 850MHz 3G network. FWIW the iPhone is available for all the networks here, but the iPhone 4 will be the first to support them all completely (and AFAICT the first phone (not just iPhone) to support both 850 and 900 UMTS).
Too bad it would lose too much signal there.
Exactly!
There is already "email address portability": It's called "buying and using your own domain name". You can change providers as much as you want and keep your email address! I'm a little suspicious of any business (especially a tech business) using an ISP email address (or worse hotmail/gmail/yahoo). I have even had personal domain names for over 10 years now.
Just because the US is behind the rest of the world and they want to bring everyone backward with them :P
I'm a big fan of Ooffice, but all too frequently you'll open a [...] Powerpoint presentation in Microsoft Office and all kinds of stuff is broken.
Fixed that for you. Office often can't seem to elegantly open its own documents when transferred between differing computers. Unless it is a really simple document, formatting and layout can be completely off. I don't deal with Excel so much but I've seen PPTs and DOCs mangled horribly. I'm not saying ODF (or OOo) is perfect: I'm saying MS definitely isn't!
Isn't that Amaya?
You mean in September 1885, by a Mr Martin McFly (pseudonym Clint Eastwood)? In that case there's only 5 more years until I get my hoverboard!
I think a netbook would have to be classified as a small, cheap ultraportable ideal for using the internet. This includes good wireless connectivity - I just got a Samsung NC10 with a built-in HSDPA modem so I have internet practically everywhere I go. I know not all "netbooks" have 3G but they "should" for great justice. It's like the laptop/notebook difference. I think there is one now (notebooks are smaller) but there wasn't always, as far as I knew anyway.
The wiimotes are being used to keep this article on the front page for days!! I keep refreshing and nothing new comes up - and this is from both my home and work computers. What is going on in Slashdot land?
di.fm is my friend.
I've seen two-SIM phones before. I don't know about availability, cost, etc, but it would be a good idea for some people.
Those conversions are all in the digital side and there would be no extra noise: G.711 (aka ulaw/alaw) is essentially the codec used on ISDN anyway: 64kbit uncompressed PCM (plus a little overhead). The only difference *might* be a little more latency due to the packetisation/serialisation of the data.
On a uncongested/QoS IP network VoIP can be better than POTS - you don't have several kilometres/miles of copper pair bringing in noise.
It's called a "reverse cycle air conditioner" and they are fairly common these days. I have one in my house and office and it can really work. One thing, if the outside temperature is below a certain number (I think about -5C) then it doesn't work properly. At those temperatures your refrigerator won't work either!
Heh, reminds me of emailing out "+++ATH" that used to disconnect people using my uni's modems.
I know in Australia they have lifted the ban on surcharges when using a credit card. Many companies now charge 2%, though these are generally either greedy or cheap. Other companies advertise "less for cash" (though you can get cash price when using EFTPOS (debit cards))
Opera is European, and you just know that makes them better by default! :)
TFA had Australia's socket "upside-down" as the earth pin should be at the bottom. Also it neglected to mention that standard amperage is 10A, with a 15 version relatively common (and I've seen a 20A version used for a coffee machine). For those reasons it should have beat the Italians!
In other news, the Japanese voltage is only 100V, and half the country is 50Hz and the other half 60Hz.
Then you can get stuck on a "up to 8mbit unless we feel like limiting you to 3mbit and allowing congestion so you get 500+ms pings" device.
My work DSL modem sync at 8160kbps but we have never seen transfers over 300KB/s down or 35KB/s up and pings vary wildly between 20ms and 1500ms, though normally in the 400-600 range. Thanks Telstra - for refusing to upgrade the network.
My el-cheapo USB webcam apparently works with Linux but I never managed to get it working. I haven't tried with Windows 7 but it only worked on XP after downloading a 50MB driver. I think it has some firmware that refuses to work in non-XP.
I borrowed a USB Logitech QuickCam once. It worked without worries on Ubuntu some years ago.
(BTW if my bank decided to make e-banking only work in Windows, I would change banks instantly. Especially after the Police have recommended against using Windows to access one's e-banking!)
Just after I read this comment Firefox popped up a warning dialog that there were dangerous add-ons installed and told me it had blocked the two Microsoft ones. So clearly Mozilla has figured it out, so it's all Microsoft.
(BTW I got your sarcasm (hopefully))
In theory LEDs don't care about how many times they are switched. Normal LEDs are dimmed by adjusting the PWM - they are switched thousands of times per second - this is more efficient than simply using a bigger series resistor.
I say "in theory" because these LEDs could be different to "normal" LEDs. (Driver circuitry etc)