Samsung i500 is less than two weeks away
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The Samsung i500 is a cell phone (flip/clamshell format) that has an integrated Palm 4 PDA. It's a CDMA phone and will be on the Sprint network (maybe Verizon later, maybe not). Many, many people are chomping at the bit for this thing, even at the initial price of $600.
After over a year of waiting, the
consensus right now is that it will finally be released on Monday, June 30th. It's already starting to appear in the press -- WSJ review last week (glowing), BusinessWeek mag cover this week (Samsung prez is holding it), Business 2.0 mag spread in July issue that just started hitting the newstands and mailboxes.
To be honest I keep reading these posts because the +5 funny comments are damn hilarious. I mean come the jokes write themselves.
Yeah, Slashdot posters have such refined senses of humor that I have all "Funny" comments knocked down by a -2 modifier so I don't waste my time with them. Please. To paraphrase JWZ's famous comment about Linux, Slashdot is funny only if you're not terribly smart (still in high school).
[ducks]
[karma sinks like a rock]
Doesn't automagically skip comercials doesn't mean you can't do a 15/30 second skip or jump forward.
Most people end up checking out the replies to their own comment sooner or later, so maybe you'll see this, stanmann.
There aren't technically any double-negatives in that statement, but there might as well be. I'm sure the sentence made sense coming out of your head, but the spoken word and written word are two different things. Next time you have a lot of negatives in a sentence, you should try to re-write it so it's more a positive statement -- readers will be much more likely to follow it. The point of posting is to get your point across, right?
Just an idea... writing well (including scrupulously eliminating spelling and grammatical errors) will serve you well, if for no other reason because it keeps the reader focused on your ideas instead of your mistakes.
Dangit, where are mod points when I need them... I don't know that this is a +5 comment but it's certainly worth more than the +1 it's at now as I write this...
And just to clarify further, it's a "different receiver" mounted over the same BIG reflector surface that everyone else is using. There are some great pictures on the S@H site of their most recent visit -- the scale of that thing is amazing.
I spent a WHOLE YEAR in 1992-1993 reading Gravity's Rainbow and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
At the time it was just a mind-blowing coincidence with my life in general since A) I'm half-German and B) I'd just finished an aerospace engineering degree and C) I have a disgusted fascination with the entirety of the human race and D) I'm drawn to the absurd.
To this day, I still regularly recall the image of those underground factories in the shape of double integrals echoing the parabolic arc of the missiles...
whatever the seed companies reckon you should be forced to eat (and unless you grow your own food, you are eating it)
And even if you grow it yourself, you're still eating GMO food unless you can guarantee that the seeds are not GMO-contaminated. Which implies a chain of custody similar to the legal evidence process or a chain of certification similar to the NIST process. And so the discussion comes full circle! Ha!
Interesting that the first two posts in the thread had English syntax errors in their first sentences. We can still understand it, but compilers/CPUs would have problems. Seems that the real problem is the difference in the natures of wetware and hardware.
Actually, "syntax errors" like this DO cause a problem for wetware systems -- they cause the brain (well, mine at least) to kind of glaze over and take the remainder of the sentence/thought much less seriously. Kind of like aborting/returning out of a subroutine.
Here in the Slashdot world of "definately" and "righting", I've learned that any posted comment that makes high-school-level grammatical or spelling errors is not worth my time and I immediately skip the post. I've been doing this quite rigorously lately -- blah blah blah "seperate" PAGE DOWN.
OK now, everybody nod and think I'm talking about someone else's posts...
A single standard that makes everyone happy! Why didn't I think of that?
You're, like, 19 years old, right?
only one radio signal at a time
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Other capabilities...
ability to record several tracks at once, enabling recording of mmore than one frequency.
Nope. Typically a radio will have single receive stage with a single tuner (i.e. a single local oscillator) and so it can only be tuned into one station at a time. Of course, in the TV market there are now sets that have dual tuners so you can watch one show and PIP another (I looove this) but it doesn't exist for radio AFAIK. For one, there is no audio equivalent of PIP:) For two, recording radio hasn't been an option up to now.
Which brings up a head-scratcher for me: why haven't there been radio VCRs on the market before now? I've been dying for one for years -- a tuner, a tape deck, a clock -- how hard can it be?
Just as there are plenty of people who listen to NPR, the local Oi Oi Oi show and whatever other *scheduled* programming is out there left of 92.0 MHz, there are plenty of people who would have loved this product. Why did we have to wait until the mp3 revolution for it to happen? The technology has been in place since the late 70's.
The non-comm FM station I chief-engineered for several years started doing a running 7-day mp3 archive years ago and I can't imagine living without it...
Those direct links are for the FIRST episode (hence the "Episode1" in the URL). And post the sizes next to the links, these are HUGE (e.g. 140 MB). Better yet, just link to the page, it's really well done and quick.
In Atlanta, Zentech. You have to pay them $5-$10 to take the CRT, which is fair because it's toxic waste that they need to dispose of properly. In fact, the guy went into business precisely because he saw so much of this toxic electronics materials heading into landfills. I don't think he's getting rich off it, more like just trying to provide a service that keeps some of the waste stream out of, well, the water stream.
The electric car manufacturers tried inductive charging for years and gave up, in particular because the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in June 2001 decided to standardize on conductive. Now, this may only indicate a problem with inductive charging in high-power applications, and maybe gadget power is fine, but it's worth pointing out.
Resolution Refresh Rate (Integrated or progressive scan)
Uh, the "i" stands for interlaced. Getting that wrong betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of how "real" video (not PC video) works; hopefully this is a tech writer goof and not exposing basic video incompetence on the part of the designers.
Here's a [tortured] analogy:
computer video is to "TV" video
as
a 64 kbps MP3 is to vinyl played on a high-end analog audio system.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that your computer monitor (ostensibly higher resolution) can display video better than your TV. There are color gamut issues, as well as screen phosphor differences.
Just to give you a healthy respect for the sheer magnitude of information bandwidth carried in a high-quality (SD, not HD) video signal, the uncompressed digital video standard (601) is 270 Mbps, and that's only using 10 bit quantization (digital audio uses 16-24 bit).
"Real" video guys cringe at computer video. Gamut, color accuracy and aberrations, frame interlacing, human optical models, it's all a whole lot more complicated than pixel grids and color bit depth.
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After over a year of waiting, the consensus right now is that it will finally be released on Monday, June 30th. It's already starting to appear in the press -- WSJ review last week (glowing), BusinessWeek mag cover this week (Samsung prez is holding it), Business 2.0 mag spread in July issue that just started hitting the newstands and mailboxes.
Check out this cool little bit of flash: http://www.testflysamsung.com/i500/index.htm
Yeah, Slashdot posters have such refined senses of humor that I have all "Funny" comments knocked down by a -2 modifier so I don't waste my time with them. Please. To paraphrase JWZ's famous comment about Linux, Slashdot is funny only if you're not terribly smart (still in high school). [ducks] [karma sinks like a rock]
2400 kBytes per second? That's 19.2 megabits per second. Really? If not, please be more careful with your b's vs. B's next time.
Most people end up checking out the replies to their own comment sooner or later, so maybe you'll see this, stanmann.
There aren't technically any double-negatives in that statement, but there might as well be. I'm sure the sentence made sense coming out of your head, but the spoken word and written word are two different things. Next time you have a lot of negatives in a sentence, you should try to re-write it so it's more a positive statement -- readers will be much more likely to follow it. The point of posting is to get your point across, right?
Just an idea ... writing well (including scrupulously eliminating spelling and grammatical errors) will serve you well, if for no other reason because it keeps the reader focused on your ideas instead of your mistakes.
Dangit, where are mod points when I need them ... I don't know that this is a +5 comment but it's certainly worth more than the +1 it's at now as I write this ...
And just to clarify further, it's a "different receiver" mounted over the same BIG reflector surface that everyone else is using. There are some great pictures on the S@H site of their most recent visit -- the scale of that thing is amazing.
At the time it was just a mind-blowing coincidence with my life in general since A) I'm half-German and B) I'd just finished an aerospace engineering degree and C) I have a disgusted fascination with the entirety of the human race and D) I'm drawn to the absurd.
To this day, I still regularly recall the image of those underground factories in the shape of double integrals echoing the parabolic arc of the missiles ...
"A screaming comes across the sky"
... please, no points today. RTFA et cetera.
And even if you grow it yourself, you're still eating GMO food unless you can guarantee that the seeds are not GMO-contaminated. Which implies a chain of custody similar to the legal evidence process or a chain of certification similar to the NIST process. And so the discussion comes full circle! Ha!
Actually, "syntax errors" like this DO cause a problem for wetware systems -- they cause the brain (well, mine at least) to kind of glaze over and take the remainder of the sentence/thought much less seriously. Kind of like aborting/returning out of a subroutine.
Here in the Slashdot world of "definately" and "righting", I've learned that any posted comment that makes high-school-level grammatical or spelling errors is not worth my time and I immediately skip the post. I've been doing this quite rigorously lately -- blah blah blah "seperate" PAGE DOWN.
OK now, everybody nod and think I'm talking about someone else's posts ...
Computer, Heal Thyself
"Systems inevitably fail. The key to reliable computing is building systems that crash gracefully and recover quickly."
One (two) of our slogans:
- If you don't like like what you're hearing, wait 5 minutes.
- If you like what you're hearing, wait 5 minutes.
Turn off Clear Channel, turn on your brain.A single standard that makes everyone happy! Why didn't I think of that? You're, like, 19 years old, right?
Nope. Typically a radio will have single receive stage with a single tuner (i.e. a single local oscillator) and so it can only be tuned into one station at a time. Of course, in the TV market there are now sets that have dual tuners so you can watch one show and PIP another (I looove this) but it doesn't exist for radio AFAIK. For one, there is no audio equivalent of PIP :) For two, recording radio hasn't been an option up to now.
Which brings up a head-scratcher for me: why haven't there been radio VCRs on the market before now? I've been dying for one for years -- a tuner, a tape deck, a clock -- how hard can it be?
Just as there are plenty of people who listen to NPR, the local Oi Oi Oi show and whatever other *scheduled* programming is out there left of 92.0 MHz, there are plenty of people who would have loved this product. Why did we have to wait until the mp3 revolution for it to happen? The technology has been in place since the late 70's.
The non-comm FM station I chief-engineered for several years started doing a running 7-day mp3 archive years ago and I can't imagine living without it ...
You'll be interested in this bugzilla entry. They fixed it about a year ago, but since then holes have been punched through ...
- Fast (e.g. fast to market)
- Cheap (e.g. low priced)
- Good (e.g. high performance)
Pick two.Observe the world, and you'll find this comes up again and again in nearly all dilemmas.
Those direct links are for the FIRST episode (hence the "Episode1" in the URL). And post the sizes next to the links, these are HUGE (e.g. 140 MB). Better yet, just link to the page, it's really well done and quick.
I was just telling someone yesterday about Dark City. It's a great movie, and predates The Matrix by a year or two.
Bingo! No points today ...
That's really all I have to say. I'm sure somebody else will step in and explain why. Grow up. I'll earn my karma on other comments ...
Three episodes have been released: the one in the theaters now and the two online.
In Atlanta, Zentech. You have to pay them $5-$10 to take the CRT, which is fair because it's toxic waste that they need to dispose of properly. In fact, the guy went into business precisely because he saw so much of this toxic electronics materials heading into landfills. I don't think he's getting rich off it, more like just trying to provide a service that keeps some of the waste stream out of, well, the water stream.
- Bob Hope
The electric car manufacturers tried inductive charging for years and gave up, in particular because the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in June 2001 decided to standardize on conductive. Now, this may only indicate a problem with inductive charging in high-power applications, and maybe gadget power is fine, but it's worth pointing out.
- The specs for the Viewsonic box mention:
Uh, the "i" stands for interlaced. Getting that wrong betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of how "real" video (not PC video) works; hopefully this is a tech writer goof and not exposing basic video incompetence on the part of the designers.
- Don't fall into the trap of thinking that your computer monitor (ostensibly higher resolution) can display video better than your TV. There are color gamut issues, as well as screen phosphor differences.
- Just to give you a healthy respect for the sheer magnitude of information bandwidth carried in a high-quality (SD, not HD) video signal, the uncompressed digital video standard (601) is 270 Mbps, and that's only using 10 bit quantization (digital audio uses 16-24 bit).
"Real" video guys cringe at computer video. Gamut, color accuracy and aberrations, frame interlacing, human optical models, it's all a whole lot more complicated than pixel grids and color bit depth.Here's a [tortured] analogy:
computer video is to "TV" video
as
a 64 kbps MP3 is to vinyl played on a high-end analog audio system.