Yes, there definitley is... Think of your local diner. Chances are you go in, and the Waiter/ess asks you if you want your regular. You say yes. You get your food. Same idea... They recognize your identity and simplify the ordering procedure.
I have seen similar things with hits showing up from just an ad banner; my theory on this is that it is a result of the new fashion for iframe banner ads (that is the banner is on a separate html page in an iframe).
It seems like some browsers will just use the last html page visited on a page as the referrer.
Can't remember, but I'll accept that it was probably from some marketroid.
I think what is happening is that it is becoming very cheap for phone companies to add WAP to their phones, and it is the "flavour of the month", so they will do it (see the Siemens C35).
My impression is that any new phone introduced at the moment is WAP enabled, and this is likely to continue for the lifetime of GSM... It's simply becoming a standard feature like SMS.
9600 baud isn't really a problem, considering that the maximum page size is about 2700 bytes, less than three seconds, well within the accepted limits. Some of the phone companies (BT in particular) seem to have their gear set up a bit poorly, and I have occasionally seen quite slow connection starts. From casual observation Orange seems to do slightly better (I have been told that the Dixons group seems to set at least some of the BT phones they sell to Freeserve).
I have quite little confidence in GPRS or EDGE appearing in time to stop WAP from gaining temporary dominance of mobile "Internet" access.
To sum up, my main point should have been that if you want to position yourself for mobile applications in Europe, there is no point in moaning about WAP since you don't just have the choice, and neighter do the users (with the exception of the phones with MS Mobile Explorer which do a reasonable Lynx style rendering of HTML).
The estimate in Europe is that by the end of this year nearly 100% of all phones sold will be WAP capable (right now, it's around 50%).
The next big thing (packet based no doubt) will take at least until the middle of next year considering the (lack of) speed these companies operate at.
What this means is that for a content provider with compatible content (and admittedly there aren't a whole lot of those) there will be a sweet spot of about a year where there will be a huge number of people able to access WAP sites, but only a small number of really interesting sites.
The revenue model is difficult if you can't cut a deal with the phone company, since it's practically impossible to fit any ads.
It is also of course important to get in the field now to be well positioned once packet based / G3 services arrive. A lot of the challenges will be very similar.
The difficulty of developing in WML (WAP) is largely irrelevant; not only is WML actually fairly simple, the environment (very limited capability phones) means that the real challenge is in UI design anyway.
TFTs exist in two different colour pixel configurations, RGB and BGR (not quite since they are not in simple three pixel groups, but it will do for now), and Cleartype exploits the higher spatial resolution that can be gained from treating each colour pixel separately.
This of course means that ClearType needs to be told what configuration your panel uses, and if the wrong one is used it will indeed look horrible. Try mirroring the image, that should give you a better idea of what it should look like (presumably Whistler has a configuration option somewhere to set this).
Some ATX motherboards have a jumper to default to on after a power cycle, my own Gigabyte (not particularly hot otherwise but quite good on power features) certainly does anyway.
The reason why this isn't the default is that all PC's would turn themselves on after a power failure, even if you were on holiday. So this is only really desired for servers.
This report says that people who don't feel that they get enough support from their colleagues and superiors are more likely to report pain in their forearms.
Seems to me that if I don't get that kind of support I'd be more likely to have to resort to extended typing sessions so I think their conclusions are slightly dubios.
0 MHz basically means sleep mode, that is the CPU can be woken up with an interrupt (key press, network data, that kind of thing).
That's my understanding from the details they provided anyway.
There is quite a lot of information on Intels website.
But first I should mention that there is a port of Linux:
ArmLinux The BSD one seems to be delayed.
Now, to the technical stuff.
According to Intels site, they have added power management features to the chip that allow the clock speed to be adjusted from software. Yes, this is similar to Cruesoe, but it seems like they have taken the concept even further, allowing one to go from 0 (standby) to 1000MHz. Not bad.
They have also added a few DSP functions for multimedia applications. Further details:
I can understand putting/var and/tmp on separate partitions to control their size, and avoid everything dying when your logs get huge.
The same maybe for/home, if you're going to have many users (ISP style environment).
While we're at it, you didn't say what the machines are supposed to be used for... Are you doing another slashdot, or another geocities?
I've noticed that a lot on slashdot recently, asking a question like this without giving even a clue to the environment it's in... What kind of an answer do you expect?
/boot is obvious if you need it, but you probably won't (what with newer versions of lilo supporting big disks).
What do you expect to gain from sticking everything in separate partitions? My experience has always been that you will run out of space on the wrong partition, so for personal machines I only have a single root partition.
While DOS based programs won't work, I'm pretty sure that an equivalent program could be written for WinME...
After all, allowing those kind of tricks is the whole point of WinME, so dumping windows from memory should be possible (their are some OS functions under Windows that give unrestricted memory access).
The equivalent programs for WinCE had to deal with similar difficulties, after all there's no DOS mode there eighter.
Here in the UK, there's a system for charging directly to customers bank accounts (called Direct Debit).
The vendor can effectively charge at any time, however the customer has to give permission beforehand and can revoke this at any time (usually by going to the bank, but I've just noticed that my online banking account allows me to see all the permissions and revoke them instantly... Handy;)
Of course a similar system could be used for credit cards but in reality it would be practically impossible to change all existing systems. Nonetheless the credit card companies might be willing to give a discount on processing fees to merchants operating the new scheme since presumably their losses to fraud wuold be lower.
According to the FAQ, a dual license will be used (GPL+SISSL for most stuff, LGPL+SISSL for libraries). SISSL as far as I understand allows non-free derived works as long as all changes to the file formats are disclosed with open source (The idea here apparently is to ensure that there won't be any closed office file formats in the future by giving other companies the incentive of being able to use OpenOffice.org source code). Also, all copyright is meant to be assigned to SUN so that "the copyright is unified" and they can prosecute license violations more easily. I personally think these arrangements make sense but I'm sure a lot of people will be disappointed anyway.
Actually, StarDivision (the company that wrote StarOffice and was bought by SUN) wrote their own cross platform GUI library called StarVision (if I remember correctly). It's quite nice from what I remember (there was a developers version of this library available commercially at one point and I saw an introductionto it at the time). C++, Windows, Mac, X and also (back then) OS/2 compatible.
So presumably there would be no problem at opensourcing that.
However, back when I saw this, I don't think it supported X yet, so they may have chosen to use Bristol's library, yet that would have been a somewhat strange decision to take.
Actually, Foley and van Dam is not particularly useful here since it only describes the standard Bump Mapping technique which involves perturbing the normal vector before shading (page 744, second edition).
This requires per pixel shading and hence hasn't been used in games so far (the article suggests that Geforce 2 would support it).
Environment Mapped Bump Mapping is similar but offers more flexibility at some loss of shading accuracy (the distance from the light source cannot be represented).
However, the article does look like a bit of a rehash of material provided by Matrox and NVidia, but I guess there is no harm in that.
I know I'm just stating the obvious, but I don't believe such a scheme would catch on. Why would any company want to say "look us up on the web under FooBar(TM)" when foobar.com says just as much, and looks and sounds a lot 'cooler'? After all, this is why schemes like RealNames just added up as a search engine addon (I know you can use RealNames directly in most browsers but it just isn't much use for advertising).
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On its own, fine. Combined with passport.com, you get a very big problem indeed. Combine all of the web properties owned by MS...
Hmm. When did you last see a pizza shack that sold both Coke _and_ Pepsi? All the large chains have exclusive contracts with one or the other...
Yes, there definitley is... Think of your local diner. Chances are you go in, and the Waiter/ess asks you if you want your regular. You say yes. You get your food. Same idea... They recognize your identity and simplify the ordering procedure.
I have seen similar things with hits showing up from just an ad banner; my theory on this is that it is a result of the new fashion for iframe banner ads (that is the banner is on a separate html page in an iframe).
It seems like some browsers will just use the last html page visited on a page as the referrer.
> Where did you get the 50% figure?
Can't remember, but I'll accept that it was probably from some marketroid.
I think what is happening is that it is becoming very cheap for phone companies to add WAP to their phones, and it is the "flavour of the month", so they will do it (see the Siemens C35).
My impression is that any new phone introduced at the moment is WAP enabled, and this is likely to continue for the lifetime of GSM... It's simply becoming a standard feature like SMS.
9600 baud isn't really a problem, considering that the maximum page size is about 2700 bytes, less than three seconds, well within the accepted limits. Some of the phone companies (BT in particular) seem to have their gear set up a bit poorly, and I have occasionally seen quite slow connection starts. From casual observation Orange seems to do slightly better (I have been told that the Dixons group seems to set at least some of the BT phones they sell to Freeserve).
I have quite little confidence in GPRS or EDGE appearing in time to stop WAP from gaining temporary dominance of mobile "Internet" access.
To sum up, my main point should have been that if you want to position yourself for mobile applications in Europe, there is no point in moaning about WAP since you don't just have the choice, and neighter do the users (with the exception of the phones with MS Mobile Explorer which do a reasonable Lynx style rendering of HTML).
Janek
The estimate in Europe is that by the end of this year nearly 100% of all phones sold will be WAP capable (right now, it's around 50%).
The next big thing (packet based no doubt) will take at least until the middle of next year considering the (lack of) speed these companies operate at.
What this means is that for a content provider with compatible content (and admittedly there aren't a whole lot of those) there will be a sweet spot of about a year where there will be a huge number of people able to access WAP sites, but only a small number of really interesting sites.
The revenue model is difficult if you can't cut a deal with the phone company, since it's practically impossible to fit any ads.
It is also of course important to get in the field now to be well positioned once packet based / G3 services arrive. A lot of the challenges will be very similar.
The difficulty of developing in WML (WAP) is largely irrelevant; not only is WML actually fairly simple, the environment (very limited capability phones) means that the real challenge is in UI design anyway.
TFTs exist in two different colour pixel configurations, RGB and BGR (not quite since they are not in simple three pixel groups, but it will do for now), and Cleartype exploits the higher spatial resolution that can be gained from treating each colour pixel separately.
This of course means that ClearType needs to be told what configuration your panel uses, and if the wrong one is used it will indeed look horrible. Try mirroring the image, that should give you a better idea of what it should look like (presumably Whistler has a configuration option somewhere to set this).
http://grc.com/cleartype.html has some useful information and a little test program.Some ATX motherboards have a jumper to default to on after a power cycle, my own Gigabyte (not particularly hot otherwise but quite good on power features) certainly does anyway.
The reason why this isn't the default is that all PC's would turn themselves on after a power failure, even if you were on holiday. So this is only really desired for servers.
This report says that people who don't feel that they get enough support from their colleagues and superiors are more likely to report pain in their forearms.
Seems to me that if I don't get that kind of support I'd be more likely to have to resort to extended typing sessions so I think their conclusions are slightly dubios.
Actually, Project Gutenberg has a whole lot of bestsellers, only most of them where bestsellers about 100 years ago.
;)
Nonetheless, quite a few of these books have never disappeared from the bestseller lists entirely (Not to mention the bible
And a lot of it is still a better read than 99.9% of what you'd find in a bookshop today.
0 MHz basically means sleep mode, that is the CPU can be woken up with an interrupt (key press, network data, that kind of thing).
That's my understanding from the details they provided anyway.
But first I should mention that there is a port of Linux: ArmLinux
The BSD one seems to be delayed.
Now, to the technical stuff.
According to Intels site, they have added power management features to the chip that allow the clock speed to be adjusted from software. Yes, this is similar to Cruesoe, but it seems like they have taken the concept even further, allowing one to go from 0 (standby) to 1000MHz. Not bad.
They have also added a few DSP functions for multimedia applications. Further details:
I can understand putting /var and /tmp on separate partitions to control their size, and avoid everything dying when your logs get huge.
/home, if you're going to have many users (ISP style environment).
The same maybe for
While we're at it, you didn't say what the machines are supposed to be used for... Are you doing another slashdot, or another geocities?
I've noticed that a lot on slashdot recently, asking a question like this without giving even a clue to the environment it's in... What kind of an answer do you expect?
/boot is obvious if you need it, but you probably won't (what with newer versions of lilo supporting big disks).
What do you expect to gain from sticking everything in separate partitions? My experience has always been that you will run out of space on the wrong partition, so for personal machines I only have a single root partition.
While DOS based programs won't work, I'm pretty sure that an equivalent program could be written for WinME ...
After all, allowing those kind of tricks is the whole point of WinME, so dumping windows from memory should be possible (their are some OS functions under Windows that give unrestricted memory access).
The equivalent programs for WinCE had to deal with similar difficulties, after all there's no DOS mode there eighter.
Here in the UK, there's a system for charging directly to customers bank accounts (called Direct Debit).
;)
The vendor can effectively charge at any time, however the customer has to give permission beforehand and can revoke this at any time (usually by going to the bank, but I've just noticed that my online banking account allows me to see all the permissions and revoke them instantly... Handy
Of course a similar system could be used for credit cards but in reality it would be practically impossible to change all existing systems. Nonetheless the credit card companies might be willing to give a discount on processing fees to merchants operating the new scheme since presumably their losses to fraud wuold be lower.
According to the FAQ, a dual license will be used (GPL+SISSL for most stuff, LGPL+SISSL for libraries).
SISSL as far as I understand allows non-free derived works as long as all changes to the file formats are disclosed with open source (The idea here apparently is to ensure that there won't be any closed office file formats in the future by giving other companies the incentive of being able to use OpenOffice.org source code).
Also, all copyright is meant to be assigned to SUN so that "the copyright is unified" and they can prosecute license violations more easily.
I personally think these arrangements make sense but I'm sure a lot of people will be disappointed anyway.
Actually, StarDivision (the company that wrote StarOffice and was bought by SUN) wrote their own cross platform GUI library called StarVision (if I remember correctly). It's quite nice from what I remember (there was a developers version of this library available commercially at one point and I saw an introductionto it at the time). C++, Windows, Mac, X and also (back then) OS/2 compatible.
So presumably there would be no problem at opensourcing that.
However, back when I saw this, I don't think it supported X yet, so they may have chosen to use Bristol's library, yet that would have been a somewhat strange decision to take.
Actually, Foley and van Dam is not particularly useful here since it only describes the standard Bump Mapping technique which involves perturbing the normal vector before shading (page 744, second edition).
This requires per pixel shading and hence hasn't been used in games so far (the article suggests that Geforce 2 would support it).
Environment Mapped Bump Mapping is similar but offers more flexibility at some loss of shading accuracy (the distance from the light source cannot be represented).
However, the article does look like a bit of a rehash of material provided by Matrox and NVidia, but I guess there is no harm in that.
Actually, they have... All the big boys that use it are licensees, Microsoft, Adobe, ...
I know I'm just stating the obvious, but I don't believe such a scheme would catch on.
Why would any company want to say "look us up on the web under FooBar(TM)" when foobar.com says just as much, and looks and sounds a lot 'cooler'?
After all, this is why schemes like RealNames just added up as a search engine addon (I know you can use RealNames directly in most browsers but it just isn't much use for advertising).