China is waging an all out war on the West, stealing every bit of IP it possibly can, while militarizing the South China Sea as part of its "One belt, one road" initiative, along with its 2025 and 2050 roadmap. It's about time America started recognizing that and responded appropriately.
So you're saying that it's just fine to require an ID to apply for a job or unemployment benefits, purchase alcohol or cigarettes, cash a check, open a bank account, apply for welfare or food stamps, rent a house, rent a hotel room, drive a car, get on an airplane, or even adopt a pet... But asking someone for an ID *to verify that they're a legitimate voter* is going too far?
Amazon's PE ratio is 289. These companies forego profit to invest in their infrastructure and R&D, so PE is expected to be high. Quarterly profits are not their current goal.
They literally invented CDMA, the foundational technology for 3G, and developed an outsized portion of both LTE and the forthcoming 5G network standards & protocols. If you don't like them for whatever reason, that's fine. But an entire industry has been created thanks to their research & development efforts. To say they don't innovate would be asinine.
Helio is a joint venture between South Korea's SK Telecom and EarthLink. They launched a slick new device (don't call it a phone =)) last week called the Drift that includes a hybrid GPS receiver (real GPS and A-GPS). It launched with a couple of GPS-enabled services: GPS-enabled Google maps and Buddy Beacon. The latter sounds pretty similar to Boost's solution, but takes a different approach to privacy.
With Buddy Beacon, users must intentionally broadcast their location to their friends list. It does not constantly track your whereabouts and auto-broadcast your new locale. It's more like "find me here" than "i'm searching for so-and-so..."
The way Mr Wizard told the kid that the results demonstrated her hearing was more sensitive than her vision really irked me and turned me off the show completely.
I loved Mr. Wizard, and that one experiment irked you that much? Man, in the absence of any other compelling shows geared at showing kids simple science experiments, I am thankful Mr. Wizard gave us the chance to think that critically - even about their methods.
So after it turned you off the show completely, what did you do to get your experiment fix? Watch Reading Rainbow out of protest? Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water.
"And the PSPs browser has no Flash support either..."
You say that like it's a bad thing. I have a 770 and a Nokia 7710 (the Series 90 phone to which the 770 is distantly related). Both have Flash, and I have yet to fond a Flash implementation on the Web which is at all usable on either. The slow OMAP processors absolutely kill the performance, and disabling Flash makes everything better.
Or just a shameless plug? I like how the author of the article in question, Philip Torrone, submits this story to Slashdot and writes the submission like he's somebody else...
Working for Nokia I've participated in several internal product testing (beta) programs over the last four years. The best advice I can give to someone considering a smartphone is this: Wait until the device has been on the market for a few months before you buy it.
Internal testing is pretty good at finding major bugs, but some always slip through and find their way into the hands of the consumer. Most of these become obvious after the device has been on the market for just a few weeks - the sheer volume of people using the devices means bugs are found quickly. Nokia is pretty good at taking that feedback and rolling out updated firmware - usually less than two months after the product's been on the market. (Gotta keep that field failure rate down!)
People looking for stability should avoid devices that use the initial firmware version, unless they mind taking their device in for an update a few months later.
It was the same with my Sony Ericsson P900. The initial firmware release (R1A) had some annoying problems which are well documented on enthusiast sites, but four revisions later (R4B) it's turned out to be a fantastic device.
"In a direct comparison between the old Pentium M 1.7 GHz and the new Dothan with 2.0 GHz, the newcomer clearly manages to gain the upper hand. In some of the benchmarks, the mobile CPU produced with 90-nm technology is up to 22% faster. Even if you only consider the difference in clock speed between the two CPUs, Dothan still offers a 5% advantage.
The results of the battery life benchmarks show the benefits of 90-nm process technology. The two test systems were identical, except for the CPUs, and gave nearly the same results."
* It's dual-band (EGSM 900/1800) -- no more 1900 support (the band we use in North America). No more GSM phone use in North America with N-Gage QD.
It actually comes in two versions - one for Europe (GSM 900/1800) and one for North America (GSM 850/1900), which means you'll have dual band support on both continents, which is great. The downside is that it'll no longer work when you're travelling across the pond.
Wouldn't FireWire be better, considering FireWire-IDE bridge enclosures are readily available and actual throughput is much faster usig the Oxford 911/922 chipsets?
Not sure about Canada, but the US got where it is today by:
1. Stealing land from others.
This tired old line is complete and utter bullshit. It's not like the settlers sneaked into the Western territories, under cover of night, and swiped the land right out from under the Indians' noses while they were sleeping. Pioneers fought and died for every inch of it. And those scalping Indians were every bit the savage in their attempt to drive the white man out.
That's the law of nature - that's survival of the fittest. And that's how the West was won. That bullshit you just wrote is nothing more than talking shit about the people who fought & died for those sweet fruits you're enjoying.
Here's a clue: Corporations don't rely on AOL for their VPN connections. There are lots of companies that most folks such as yourself probably haven't heard of, like UUNET (WorldCom), which offer local dial-ups globally, and exist for just this purpose.
Why is a Wells Fargo laptop accessing AOL's network? Most corporations (and especially financial institutions I'd venture) require users to access corporate Intranets through a VPN and in turn access the Internet through their proxies. There's no way in hell that laptop should be connecting to the public Internet using an AOL account.
If you really need to wedge the thing between your shoulder and your chin, you're screwed. In such case you really should be using a handsfree (Bluetooth or wired), or the speakerphone anyway. I haven't seen anyone wedge their mobile phone like that in the last few years anyway, since most are too small to hold that way. That's like trying to hold your wallet between your shoulder and your chin - not gonna work, and extremely uncomfortable.
64MB of internal RAM is plenty for a Symbian device! It's far more than any other has had to date, and four times as much as the last Nokia Communicator (9210i) had. 64MB is par for the course when using a Pocket PC, but that's absolutely massive for a Symbian unit. You're right about the 128MB MMC cards though, that stinks. Nokia should really be using the SD card format - which is cheaper and more expansive.
Your iPod is far and away the best mobile music player out there, but this thing is in a different league. It's got EDGE (384Kbps) capability, and a full Opera browser. It's got a digital TV receiver for Christ's sake. Nothing else compares at the moment.
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China is waging an all out war on the West, stealing every bit of IP it possibly can, while militarizing the South China Sea as part of its "One belt, one road" initiative, along with its 2025 and 2050 roadmap. It's about time America started recognizing that and responded appropriately.
So you're saying that it's just fine to require an ID to apply for a job or unemployment benefits, purchase alcohol or cigarettes, cash a check, open a bank account, apply for welfare or food stamps, rent a house, rent a hotel room, drive a car, get on an airplane, or even adopt a pet... But asking someone for an ID *to verify that they're a legitimate voter* is going too far?
Uh huh...
Amazon's PE ratio is 289. These companies forego profit to invest in their infrastructure and R&D, so PE is expected to be high. Quarterly profits are not their current goal.
They literally invented CDMA, the foundational technology for 3G, and developed an outsized portion of both LTE and the forthcoming 5G network standards & protocols. If you don't like them for whatever reason, that's fine. But an entire industry has been created thanks to their research & development efforts. To say they don't innovate would be asinine.
Wow, I love Australia. But as an American, the two points made in that single sentence evoke knee-jerk revulsion in me!
Helio is a joint venture between South Korea's SK Telecom and EarthLink. They launched a slick new device (don't call it a phone =)) last week called the Drift that includes a hybrid GPS receiver (real GPS and A-GPS). It launched with a couple of GPS-enabled services: GPS-enabled Google maps and Buddy Beacon. The latter sounds pretty similar to Boost's solution, but takes a different approach to privacy.
With Buddy Beacon, users must intentionally broadcast their location to their friends list. It does not constantly track your whereabouts and auto-broadcast your new locale. It's more like "find me here" than "i'm searching for so-and-so..."
I loved Mr. Wizard, and that one experiment irked you that much? Man, in the absence of any other compelling shows geared at showing kids simple science experiments, I am thankful Mr. Wizard gave us the chance to think that critically - even about their methods.
So after it turned you off the show completely, what did you do to get your experiment fix? Watch Reading Rainbow out of protest? Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water.
You say that like it's a bad thing. I have a 770 and a Nokia 7710 (the Series 90 phone to which the 770 is distantly related). Both have Flash, and I have yet to fond a Flash implementation on the Web which is at all usable on either. The slow OMAP processors absolutely kill the performance, and disabling Flash makes everything better.
That's nothing, I've had anti-gravity engines since the 30's. :-)
Remember the whole IBM/Linux graffiti fiasco?
My my dual 2.5Ghz Power Mac G5 is waiting for it. And by the way, MAC stands for Media Access Control. Mac, on the other hand, is short for Macintosh.
What's with the month old news? The linked articles were all published August 2nd through 4th.
Astroturf?
Or just a shameless plug? I like how the author of the article in question, Philip Torrone, submits this story to Slashdot and writes the submission like he's somebody else...
Bill Gates could buy each one of those bytes for a buck a piece and still have money to burn. Pretty staggering that.
Working for Nokia I've participated in several internal product testing (beta) programs over the last four years. The best advice I can give to someone considering a smartphone is this: Wait until the device has been on the market for a few months before you buy it.
Internal testing is pretty good at finding major bugs, but some always slip through and find their way into the hands of the consumer. Most of these become obvious after the device has been on the market for just a few weeks - the sheer volume of people using the devices means bugs are found quickly. Nokia is pretty good at taking that feedback and rolling out updated firmware - usually less than two months after the product's been on the market. (Gotta keep that field failure rate down!)
People looking for stability should avoid devices that use the initial firmware version, unless they mind taking their device in for an update a few months later.
It was the same with my Sony Ericsson P900. The initial firmware release (R1A) had some annoying problems which are well documented on enthusiast sites, but four revisions later (R4B) it's turned out to be a fantastic device.
There you go. GPRS/EDGE when you're out and about, and Wi-Fi at your favorite hotspot.
The results of the battery life benchmarks show the benefits of 90-nm process technology. The two test systems were identical, except for the CPUs, and gave nearly the same results."
From here.
It actually comes in two versions - one for Europe (GSM 900/1800) and one for North America (GSM 850/1900), which means you'll have dual band support on both continents, which is great. The downside is that it'll no longer work when you're travelling across the pond.
Wouldn't FireWire be better, considering FireWire-IDE bridge enclosures are readily available and actual throughput is much faster usig the Oxford 911/922 chipsets?
Not sure about Canada, but the US got where it is today by:
1. Stealing land from others.
This tired old line is complete and utter bullshit. It's not like the settlers sneaked into the Western territories, under cover of night, and swiped the land right out from under the Indians' noses while they were sleeping. Pioneers fought and died for every inch of it. And those scalping Indians were every bit the savage in their attempt to drive the white man out.
That's the law of nature - that's survival of the fittest. And that's how the West was won. That bullshit you just wrote is nothing more than talking shit about the people who fought & died for those sweet fruits you're enjoying.
Here's a clue: Corporations don't rely on AOL for their VPN connections. There are lots of companies that most folks such as yourself probably haven't heard of, like UUNET (WorldCom), which offer local dial-ups globally, and exist for just this purpose.
Why is a Wells Fargo laptop accessing AOL's network? Most corporations (and especially financial institutions I'd venture) require users to access corporate Intranets through a VPN and in turn access the Internet through their proxies. There's no way in hell that laptop should be connecting to the public Internet using an AOL account.
Yep, it's a taco. But it's not that bad, actually.
If you really need to wedge the thing between your shoulder and your chin, you're screwed. In such case you really should be using a handsfree (Bluetooth or wired), or the speakerphone anyway. I haven't seen anyone wedge their mobile phone like that in the last few years anyway, since most are too small to hold that way. That's like trying to hold your wallet between your shoulder and your chin - not gonna work, and extremely uncomfortable.
64MB of internal RAM is plenty for a Symbian device! It's far more than any other has had to date, and four times as much as the last Nokia Communicator (9210i) had. 64MB is par for the course when using a Pocket PC, but that's absolutely massive for a Symbian unit. You're right about the 128MB MMC cards though, that stinks. Nokia should really be using the SD card format - which is cheaper and more expansive.
Your iPod is far and away the best mobile music player out there, but this thing is in a different league. It's got EDGE (384Kbps) capability, and a full Opera browser. It's got a digital TV receiver for Christ's sake. Nothing else compares at the moment.
There's a bit more info about the Nokia 7700 available on TheFeature as well.