That's just it... I remember using both the products you mentioned while playing Duke Nukem 3D! Now that there are services to push the VOIP onto the PTS, this is where things get interesting. Especially for example, if Phildelphia has wireless all over the city. All of a sudden you can have a VOIP portable phone... very interesting idea. Start adding in things like GPS, Internet, VOIP onto a single small handheld. That is where things should be headed.
Death threats may be going a bit far, but I don't really see a "legitmate" reason for a service like this. Telemarketers and debt collection agencies can NOT use services like this (at least where I am) and I really don't see a legitimate use for a service like this. I just wish it would be cancelled not sold to some other company.
No, its just not something I can really see a lot of use for. Now if you could add in GPS, and wireless Internet and actually have a wireless infrastructure in place, sure, this would be a really handy little device. But for now, no. I just can see a good reason for spending this much money. I'd rather spend a bit more and put a real DVD system in the mini-van for the kids or what have you.
Welcome to socialism:)
Okay kidding, I live in Canada, Saskatchewan to be specific. Our mandatory (auto) insurance comes from Saskatchewan Government Insurance. Its a regulated body. If they want to raise rates, they have to justify it. The most I have ever paid for insurance is $1000/year (for a '99 Sunfire GT in 99). There is a flat rate per car, not per driver. If you have a good driving record over the last few years, you get a small reduction up to I believe 7%. However, if you have a bad driving record, it can go over the base rate. It might not be perfect, but it does let safer drivers (or at least lucky ones) pay less than bad drivers.
I don't know, is it really that important to stay "in touch" with friends, family, or work over the duration of a flight? I would think that most flights are 3 hours or less as this will pretty much get you across NA, or Europe. Longer flights certainly happen on a regular basis, but I just don't see it being necessary to be available or be in contact for the duration of a flight.
Its amazing that companies still think this way. Look at the most popular games out there... Doom, Half Life, Unreal Tournament... they're popular because you can download new 'mods' for them. If I were trying to sell a new cell phone/pda I'd want it as open as possible. Release a pretty base funcitoning model, but allow developers to create skins, apps, etc. to it. Your development time is reduced, and people will flock to it if you can get developers interested.
I've never had one, had the opporunity once at work to get one and passed it up. What do people really use these for? I take notes at meetings and such by hand in a book... I don't think I'll be happy doing it any other way. I keep my contacts in a few places that I can access when I need to most. I guess if it had wireless internet it might be "neat" but I don't really have a need or a real good reason to buy one. So what do you folks actually use them for?
Since windmills are so popular, couldn't we use them to inflate a balloon at the bottom of one tank and cause pressure to start the flow. Then release the balloon which would reverse the flow (and still generate current, from what I understand) then repeat?
I just know that in some areas of the world, wind is a more steady source of power than solar.
This is sort of opposite to all those late night commercials for lawyers you see... don't pay us until we win money for you because you were talking on your phone and drove into a light post that had no business being there in the first place.
That might explain what our city did... sort of. They installed wireless metres in all homes an businesses. However, they have a very limited range. So instead of the metre reader having to walk into my yard and read the metre, they just drive passed and read the correct frequency to get my usage for the month.
But at the same time, there's the mod community that does produce open source work for a lot of games. I guess this could be called scratching an itch as well, since they see something lacking in a game.
No, but for those of us who weren't fans, or are too young, its a good pointer to who he was. Of course he also did an appearance on TNG (and maybe on DS9, but I can't be sure). This is really too bad, I'm sure he ranks as one of the favourite characters from TOS. Best of luck to you James.
There's a couple of reasons why (and its not just the FOSS community). The first is compatibility. I won't go into all the browser compatibility issues, but its easier to create a web page that works on multiple OS's than it is to create a desktop based application. Secondly, portability. A web based application means I can work from anywhere I have an internet connection. Now that's not to say a desktop application can't do the same thing.
In my experience (even if you're developing for a standard desktop environment) web based apps can be build faster. Then of course there's the issue of upgrades. Its easier to upgrade/update a website than multiple client machines.
Does it mean we've passed the spike... or that most of us have realized that the grass really isn't any greener on the other side of the fence. Of course, I might just be bitter as I found out I'm going through a reorg where I'll go from developing new services to patching services. WooHoo, excitement city.
Why is it that everytime there's an article about a new product that the slashdot community would have an obvious intrest in, someone has to make a comment that its an ad?
I'm sure a large number of slashdotters agree that we like seeing this types of times on slashdot. We don't always hear about them ourselves, and its always nice to get input of a few (hundred) similar minded folk.
I know I've considered attaching a jet engine to my mother in law before. Of course she's not in a wheel chair, but moving her a few hundred miles away quickly would be a desireable outcome!
Agreed, the company I work for had us evaluate JDS as a product, and while definitely better than MS, I still wouldn't use it over a properly setup Linux setup.
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That's just it... I remember using both the products you mentioned while playing Duke Nukem 3D! Now that there are services to push the VOIP onto the PTS, this is where things get interesting. Especially for example, if Phildelphia has wireless all over the city. All of a sudden you can have a VOIP portable phone... very interesting idea. Start adding in things like GPS, Internet, VOIP onto a single small handheld. That is where things should be headed.
Death threats may be going a bit far, but I don't really see a "legitmate" reason for a service like this. Telemarketers and debt collection agencies can NOT use services like this (at least where I am) and I really don't see a legitimate use for a service like this. I just wish it would be cancelled not sold to some other company.
No, its just not something I can really see a lot of use for. Now if you could add in GPS, and wireless Internet and actually have a wireless infrastructure in place, sure, this would be a really handy little device. But for now, no. I just can see a good reason for spending this much money. I'd rather spend a bit more and put a real DVD system in the mini-van for the kids or what have you.
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Welcome to socialism :)
Okay kidding, I live in Canada, Saskatchewan to be specific. Our mandatory (auto) insurance comes from Saskatchewan Government Insurance. Its a regulated body. If they want to raise rates, they have to justify it. The most I have ever paid for insurance is $1000/year (for a '99 Sunfire GT in 99). There is a flat rate per car, not per driver. If you have a good driving record over the last few years, you get a small reduction up to I believe 7%. However, if you have a bad driving record, it can go over the base rate. It might not be perfect, but it does let safer drivers (or at least lucky ones) pay less than bad drivers.
I don't know, is it really that important to stay "in touch" with friends, family, or work over the duration of a flight? I would think that most flights are 3 hours or less as this will pretty much get you across NA, or Europe. Longer flights certainly happen on a regular basis, but I just don't see it being necessary to be available or be in contact for the duration of a flight.
Now that's a good use for this item.. except if you have two kids, with the size of that screen, you're going to need two of them.
Its amazing that companies still think this way. Look at the most popular games out there... Doom, Half Life, Unreal Tournament... they're popular because you can download new 'mods' for them. If I were trying to sell a new cell phone/pda I'd want it as open as possible. Release a pretty base funcitoning model, but allow developers to create skins, apps, etc. to it. Your development time is reduced, and people will flock to it if you can get developers interested.
I've never had one, had the opporunity once at work to get one and passed it up. What do people really use these for? I take notes at meetings and such by hand in a book... I don't think I'll be happy doing it any other way. I keep my contacts in a few places that I can access when I need to most. I guess if it had wireless internet it might be "neat" but I don't really have a need or a real good reason to buy one. So what do you folks actually use them for?
I didn't realize that a new template was front page news here on slashdot... either that or its a VERY slow news day.
My site does the same thing....
Since windmills are so popular, couldn't we use them to inflate a balloon at the bottom of one tank and cause pressure to start the flow. Then release the balloon which would reverse the flow (and still generate current, from what I understand) then repeat?
I just know that in some areas of the world, wind is a more steady source of power than solar.
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This is sort of opposite to all those late night commercials for lawyers you see... don't pay us until we win money for you because you were talking on your phone and drove into a light post that had no business being there in the first place.
That might explain what our city did... sort of. They installed wireless metres in all homes an businesses. However, they have a very limited range. So instead of the metre reader having to walk into my yard and read the metre, they just drive passed and read the correct frequency to get my usage for the month.
But at the same time, there's the mod community that does produce open source work for a lot of games. I guess this could be called scratching an itch as well, since they see something lacking in a game.
Yes, because there's no possible way they could have upgraded anything about it right?
No, but for those of us who weren't fans, or are too young, its a good pointer to who he was. Of course he also did an appearance on TNG (and maybe on DS9, but I can't be sure). This is really too bad, I'm sure he ranks as one of the favourite characters from TOS. Best of luck to you James.
There's a couple of reasons why (and its not just the FOSS community). The first is compatibility. I won't go into all the browser compatibility issues, but its easier to create a web page that works on multiple OS's than it is to create a desktop based application. Secondly, portability. A web based application means I can work from anywhere I have an internet connection. Now that's not to say a desktop application can't do the same thing.
In my experience (even if you're developing for a standard desktop environment) web based apps can be build faster. Then of course there's the issue of upgrades. Its easier to upgrade/update a website than multiple client machines.
Does it mean we've passed the spike... or that most of us have realized that the grass really isn't any greener on the other side of the fence. Of course, I might just be bitter as I found out I'm going through a reorg where I'll go from developing new services to patching services. WooHoo, excitement city.
It would be interesting to compare the price/performance of these AMD chips versus the 12 cpu transmeta workstations we heard about yesterday.
Why is it that everytime there's an article about a new product that the slashdot community would have an obvious intrest in, someone has to make a comment that its an ad?
I'm sure a large number of slashdotters agree that we like seeing this types of times on slashdot. We don't always hear about them ourselves, and its always nice to get input of a few (hundred) similar minded folk.
Isn't there a law (at least in the US and Canada) that says telemarketers must make the call with real callerid information supplied?
I know I've considered attaching a jet engine to my mother in law before. Of course she's not in a wheel chair, but moving her a few hundred miles away quickly would be a desireable outcome!
Agreed, the company I work for had us evaluate JDS as a product, and while definitely better than MS, I still wouldn't use it over a properly setup Linux setup.