Re:The first US phone with a camera is Motorola T7
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First US Camera/Phone
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I just bought the T720 - overall it's a cool phone, tons of cool features. It is still a VERY new phone and therefore has a few glitches. I am waiting for the firmware update to get to the nearest stores so I can update it. In spite of the bugs, I still like the phone though.
One thing you're wrong on is that the Verizon Wireless T720 does NOT run 1xRTT Java, it runs BREW apps instead.
Right here you can find a picture of the digial camera attachment for the T720. Not sure if/when VZW ever plans to offer this. I would hope they would - they probably will if they can make a quick buck off it.
Ok it's internal pressure - you're part of it while I'm on the outside writing bugs and the occaisional testcase. I appreciate the clarification.
My concern though is that when it hits 1.0 that AOL will snap it up and make it part of the next release. This means the the web development community will have to live with this bug until it is fixed.
Mozilla is a great browser, as I said I use it as my primary browser and like it a lot - but I hate the fact I have to live with bugs like this one until 1.1 comes out.
Just the same, I congratulate you and the rest of the Mozilla team.
It is both good and bad that AOL has decided to use Mozilla in the next AOL release. Unfortunately they are applying pressure to the Mozilla team to wrap it up and get the product out the door.
Case in point, bug 99344. The Mozilla team has known about this one for at least six months, yet the bug still lives. Now it is unlikely the fix will be made before 1.0. The project managers are being pressured to "back burner" bugs like this one to ship the product.
Why rush? AOL pushing them is a bad thing since bugs like this one are now getting out the door and tarnishing what *has* to be a near perfect product. Rushing out the door will NOT recover any market share, it is far too late for that unless AOL/others plan to show us why everyone *must* use Mozilla/Netscape 6.x. instead of IE. For your normal "Joe Sixpack" websurfer it is going to be difficult if not impossible to convince him to change since IE works for 99.9% of what he likes to do, regardless of security holes.
On the whole I am very happy with Mozilla, I use it as my primary browser on all platforms. Still, I can't totally hide my disappointment that some knowns issues are going on neglected, leaving web developers, yet again, to deal with the bugs. *sigh* nothing changes. Things have gotten MUCH better, yet...
I'm a bit disillusioned with Whyachi now...it's walker really didn't work all that well, but it gave 'em an extra 50% of weight. I wonder what the bonus is for a bot that doesn't move at all...(a valid strategy for a spinner like Whyachi)
Actually during the competition the rubber feet had problems - this combined with floor debris further hampered SOW's ability to move around.
Even then, considering the rule changes, a bot like SOW can't compete again. It qualified as a walker but the rules were made a bit more explicit to qualify what a walker truly was (Wyachi/SOW are often described as "shufflebots"). For SOW to be entered - the locomotion system would have to be redesigned.
This offer does not include rights to the name, ranking or image of the bot, therefore it cannot be entered into any future BattleBots competitions.
Notice the "BattleBots" part... there are other smaller competitions for robots of this type you could probably enter it into. Though really I'd want to make my own if I were to compete.
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Intel's Tualatin P3
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The problem is that there are so many varients of the P3 and Athlon that the outside world still keeps these names to tell the difference.
Admittedly as clock speeds increase it's obvious what version it is (i.e. there is only one 1.3 GHz Athlon - for now). But oftentimes the overlap requires those who follow the industry to mention the development name so they know exactly which one they are talking about.
Right now you can call up most computer stores and say, "I want a 1.3 GHz Thunderbird." and they will know exactly what you want.
Until AMD and Intel come up with distinct names for each chip generation, the internal names will be known and used by people in the hardware business.
You believe the new Mac OS having a BSD base will encourage it BSD to become a bit more mainstream?
I run an OpenBSD box at home and I can say I was very impressed by it, very clean, very organized, and very simple to set up once you get past that archaic disk setup tool.
I had a run in with some spammer PSINet was hosting. He was forging the domain of the company I work for, spamming AOLers time and time and time again. As webmaster, I had to deal with ignorant AOL'ers expressing their at times extreme anger over being smut-spammed. I sympathized with the AOL'ers for the most part, but still, having to deal the a fuming mad father of an 8 year old girl...
Most of the time, this spammer was coming from BBNPlanet and PSINet. Attempts to get PSINet to help us rid ourselves of this nuisance were utterly futile.
BBNplanet, on the other hand, was very straight forward with what they needed. They had fax documents containing line for line what they needed to turn over the logfile data while Mr. Roger Traversa, PSINet's paralegal, was too interested in giving me the run-around.
I say BURN PSINet, BURN!! I would not piss on you if you were on fire. Take your spam and drown in it!
I didn't see anything that would forbid some limited autonomy. EMP is banned though:-).
The 1st person perspective would probably aid some in hitting stuff accurately - but I think this isn't done simply due to several issues:
cost
durability
bandwidth - these things are controlled via RF - getting a signal with visual data back with a good framerate can get pretty complicated.
If I were to use an OS on board I would have it handle some simpler tasks - like why not have a bot with some antennae around it - when a given antennae is touched, the weapon turns to that azimuth and strikes. Or something like that. Limit switches and other kind of sensors can make the bot react MUCH quicker than most humans can in that type of environment. Something of that nature should be possible.
A bounty is a good start... personally a baseball bat and I would love a few hours to beat the Purple Vein Snot out of these jerks that spam me. Laws are only the start of this though. Great, they've given us a tool to smite the spammer with. What isn't really being said is just how hard that can be. Basically to track down spammers we have:
Contact info in the email itself (po boxes, phone numbers, etc.)
Credit Card Clearing Houses - >rant< though some are VERY unhelpful such as Shopnow.com who has or had been willingly and knowingly harboring the Cyber Investigator spammer in spite of my numerous reports! >/rant<
ISPs the spammer's site is uploaded to
ISPs used to send the spam
Owners of the computers involved in the relay
Email host providors
Rookie spammers should be a comparable slam dunk - though they are the ones that will not likely carry much of a bounty. The pros on the other hand are a completely different matter. Say you get a spam from say, a modestly experienced spammer. First, you need to hack through all of the Javascript BS - some of them have gotten annoyingly proficient at using all kinds of stuff to thwart would-be reporters. OK great, you managed to hack through all the protection, now you need to track it back to his ISPs. Most ISP's I've dealt with require a subpoena to get the phone logs. I've never gotten a subpoena before, but I've heard it can be a lengthy process (I could be wrong), plus there are the fees. Next tracking the phone number down through the teleco. In most cases, this should be pretty easy. Now for what can go wrong and if this becomes law, you can guarantee spammers are going to do things like this more and more. Spammers already do quite a bit to obscure what their originating IP is. Some of them have gotten pretty good a burying it in the forged headers. Other times spammers use ISPs from outside of the USA. That or if they are successful in burying/eliminating the originating IP in the header all you have to work with is the relay site. Some ISPs/companies are very good about doing something about the open relay - while others are damn near impossible to dig up valid information on who even owns the IP! Even if you do get it down the phone number, I would guess a few of them have gone as far as to get unlisted numbers (if they don't already have them). This will likely require another subpoena to the phone company for them to turn over information about who they are. The law is only the start, tracking down a veteran spammer is hard work now (many have tried) and this law is bound to make them much more careful in what they do and how they do it. Securing the cooperation of ISPs, telecos, and other businesses and individuals involved with the spammer is the other challenge. Some I have run into can be very uncooperative. Good luck to those would be bounty hunters out there!
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I just bought the T720 - overall it's a cool phone, tons of cool features. It is still a VERY new phone and therefore has a few glitches. I am waiting for the firmware update to get to the nearest stores so I can update it. In spite of the bugs, I still like the phone though.
One thing you're wrong on is that the Verizon Wireless T720 does NOT run 1xRTT Java, it runs BREW apps instead.
Right here you can find a picture of the digial camera attachment for the T720. Not sure if/when VZW ever plans to offer this. I would hope they would - they probably will if they can make a quick buck off it.
Ok it's internal pressure - you're part of it while I'm on the outside writing bugs and the occaisional testcase. I appreciate the clarification.
My concern though is that when it hits 1.0 that AOL will snap it up and make it part of the next release. This means the the web development community will have to live with this bug until it is fixed.
Mozilla is a great browser, as I said I use it as my primary browser and like it a lot - but I hate the fact I have to live with bugs like this one until 1.1 comes out.
Just the same, I congratulate you and the rest of the Mozilla team.
Actually this bug may have been fixed, check out bug 130263.
It is both good and bad that AOL has decided to use Mozilla in the next AOL release. Unfortunately they are applying pressure to the Mozilla team to wrap it up and get the product out the door.
Case in point, bug 99344. The Mozilla team has known about this one for at least six months, yet the bug still lives. Now it is unlikely the fix will be made before 1.0. The project managers are being pressured to "back burner" bugs like this one to ship the product.
Why rush? AOL pushing them is a bad thing since bugs like this one are now getting out the door and tarnishing what *has* to be a near perfect product. Rushing out the door will NOT recover any market share, it is far too late for that unless AOL/others plan to show us why everyone *must* use Mozilla/Netscape 6.x. instead of IE. For your normal "Joe Sixpack" websurfer it is going to be difficult if not impossible to convince him to change since IE works for 99.9% of what he likes to do, regardless of security holes.
On the whole I am very happy with Mozilla, I use it as my primary browser on all platforms. Still, I can't totally hide my disappointment that some knowns issues are going on neglected, leaving web developers, yet again, to deal with the bugs. *sigh* nothing changes. Things have gotten MUCH better, yet...
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Even then, considering the rule changes, a bot like SOW can't compete again. It qualified as a walker but the rules were made a bit more explicit to qualify what a walker truly was (Wyachi/SOW are often described as "shufflebots"). For SOW to be entered - the locomotion system would have to be redesigned.
Notice the "BattleBots" part... there are other smaller competitions for robots of this type you could probably enter it into. Though really I'd want to make my own if I were to compete.
The problem is that there are so many varients of the P3 and Athlon that the outside world still keeps these names to tell the difference.
Admittedly as clock speeds increase it's obvious what version it is (i.e. there is only one 1.3 GHz Athlon - for now). But oftentimes the overlap requires those who follow the industry to mention the development name so they know exactly which one they are talking about.
Right now you can call up most computer stores and say, "I want a 1.3 GHz Thunderbird." and they will know exactly what you want.
Until AMD and Intel come up with distinct names for each chip generation, the internal names will be known and used by people in the hardware business.
One thing I would like to know is if they added lighting effects (ala D3D) for other cards other than 3DFX. Especially since 3DFX is gone now.
This has some potentially interesting implications for the p0rn industry...
:-)
I can imagine sharing computers will become a little unpopular.
Those of you who are BSD fans:
You believe the new Mac OS having a BSD base will encourage it BSD to become a bit more mainstream?
I run an OpenBSD box at home and I can say I was very impressed by it, very clean, very organized, and very simple to set up once you get past that archaic disk setup tool.
I had a run in with some spammer PSINet was hosting. He was forging the domain of the company I work for, spamming AOLers time and time and time again. As webmaster, I had to deal with ignorant AOL'ers expressing their at times extreme anger over being smut-spammed. I sympathized with the AOL'ers for the most part, but still, having to deal the a fuming mad father of an 8 year old girl...
Most of the time, this spammer was coming from BBNPlanet and PSINet. Attempts to get PSINet to help us rid ourselves of this nuisance were utterly futile.
BBNplanet, on the other hand, was very straight forward with what they needed. They had fax documents containing line for line what they needed to turn over the logfile data while Mr. Roger Traversa, PSINet's paralegal, was too interested in giving me the run-around.
I say BURN PSINet, BURN!! I would not piss on you if you were on fire. Take your spam and drown in it!
http://www.battlebots.com/rules.html
I didn't see anything that would forbid some limited autonomy. EMP is banned though
The 1st person perspective would probably aid some in hitting stuff accurately - but I think this isn't done simply due to several issues:
- cost
- durability
- bandwidth - these things are controlled via RF - getting a signal with visual data back with a good framerate can get pretty complicated.
If I were to use an OS on board I would have it handle some simpler tasks - like why not have a bot with some antennae around it - when a given antennae is touched, the weapon turns to that azimuth and strikes. Or something like that. Limit switches and other kind of sensors can make the bot react MUCH quicker than most humans can in that type of environment. Something of that nature should be possible.- Contact info in the email itself (po boxes, phone numbers, etc.)
- Credit Card Clearing Houses - >rant< though some are VERY unhelpful such as Shopnow.com who has or had been willingly and knowingly harboring the Cyber Investigator spammer in spite of my numerous reports! >/rant<
- ISPs the spammer's site is uploaded to
- ISPs used to send the spam
- Owners of the computers involved in the relay
- Email host providors
Rookie spammers should be a comparable slam dunk - though they are the ones that will not likely carry much of a bounty. The pros on the other hand are a completely different matter. Say you get a spam from say, a modestly experienced spammer. First, you need to hack through all of the Javascript BS - some of them have gotten annoyingly proficient at using all kinds of stuff to thwart would-be reporters. OK great, you managed to hack through all the protection, now you need to track it back to his ISPs. Most ISP's I've dealt with require a subpoena to get the phone logs. I've never gotten a subpoena before, but I've heard it can be a lengthy process (I could be wrong), plus there are the fees. Next tracking the phone number down through the teleco. In most cases, this should be pretty easy. Now for what can go wrong and if this becomes law, you can guarantee spammers are going to do things like this more and more. Spammers already do quite a bit to obscure what their originating IP is. Some of them have gotten pretty good a burying it in the forged headers. Other times spammers use ISPs from outside of the USA. That or if they are successful in burying/eliminating the originating IP in the header all you have to work with is the relay site. Some ISPs/companies are very good about doing something about the open relay - while others are damn near impossible to dig up valid information on who even owns the IP! Even if you do get it down the phone number, I would guess a few of them have gone as far as to get unlisted numbers (if they don't already have them). This will likely require another subpoena to the phone company for them to turn over information about who they are. The law is only the start, tracking down a veteran spammer is hard work now (many have tried) and this law is bound to make them much more careful in what they do and how they do it. Securing the cooperation of ISPs, telecos, and other businesses and individuals involved with the spammer is the other challenge. Some I have run into can be very uncooperative. Good luck to those would be bounty hunters out there!