Here's what *I* want a folding screen for... I very much want an all-singing, all-dancing little portable electronic utility that's a phone, a PDA, mp3 player, etc etc etc but that's a really workable form factor for all of the above. I've looked really seriously at the Handspring Treo and like devices, but I do not like the feel of holding that wide thing up to my head when I'm in phone mode.
However, a device that's more phone-shaped, and particularly that is phone-width, just isn't wide enough for an effective PDA screen. Beyond that, I've never been really satisfied with current PDA screens... I'm itching for something that's just a little bigger, maybe 30 - 50% bigger.
With an adequately cool folding screen, you could make something that's phone-shaped but that clamshells sideways to be half as thick and twice as wide when in PDA mode. HEAVEN. This is what I want.
All this stuff is perfectly legal, but can use up over 1Gb/month.
From the ISP's point of view, the question isn't really about legality, it's really about the cost of doing business. Quality news feeds suitable for broadband use (i.e. no bandwidth throttling) are relatively costly.
A traffic cap like this is a way the ISP can pass the costs of heavy newsgroup use on to the extremely small fraction of subscribers that incur them. The alternative has been seen again and again in the ISP business: you can't stay in business by serving customers at an ongoing loss.
You would expect the slashdot *editors* would have discovered the distinction between latency and troughput by now. 128 (or whatever) OC-12 running in parallell does not give you a lower ping-time than a single one. (unless your high ping is caused by congestion)
What it does is allow you to transfer more data. Consider this analogy: Sending a hundred postcards at once doesn't make your message get there faster, but it *does* give you space for a longer message.
Sure, but if you send a hundred postcards, and so does your next-door neighbor, and so does everyone else in your neighborhood, eventually your postman fills his bag up and has to go unload at the post office before he can pick any more up... thus a bandwidth issue feeds a latency issue. Bandwidth does not directly improve latency, but on today's internet the relationship has grown tighter.
I saw the picture of the windmill sticking out of the top of that thing and for I moment I could almost picture a DeLorean in the Honda's place... somehow I don't think that's gonna provide 1.21 gigawatts, though...
When, oh when, will they learn? There's a magic price point for consumer electronics, and that magic number is $300... which I think of as "the mad money you get twice a year when your biweekly pay cycle laps your monthly bill cycle". $300 is where average people start thinking about buying unneccessary electronic goodies.
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Here's what *I* want a folding screen for... I very much want an all-singing, all-dancing little portable electronic utility that's a phone, a PDA, mp3 player, etc etc etc but that's a really workable form factor for all of the above. I've looked really seriously at the Handspring Treo and like devices, but I do not like the feel of holding that wide thing up to my head when I'm in phone mode.
However, a device that's more phone-shaped, and particularly that is phone-width, just isn't wide enough for an effective PDA screen. Beyond that, I've never been really satisfied with current PDA screens... I'm itching for something that's just a little bigger, maybe 30 - 50% bigger.
With an adequately cool folding screen, you could make something that's phone-shaped but that clamshells sideways to be half as thick and twice as wide when in PDA mode. HEAVEN. This is what I want.
Can't wait...
All this stuff is perfectly legal, but can use up over 1Gb/month.
From the ISP's point of view, the question isn't really about legality, it's really about the cost of doing business. Quality news feeds suitable for broadband use (i.e. no bandwidth throttling) are relatively costly.
A traffic cap like this is a way the ISP can pass the costs of heavy newsgroup use on to the extremely small fraction of subscribers that incur them. The alternative has been seen again and again in the ISP business: you can't stay in business by serving customers at an ongoing loss.
Sure, but if you send a hundred postcards, and so does your next-door neighbor, and so does everyone else in your neighborhood, eventually your postman fills his bag up and has to go unload at the post office before he can pick any more up... thus a bandwidth issue feeds a latency issue. Bandwidth does not directly improve latency, but on today's internet the relationship has grown tighter.
It's looking like Taco's found a new way to harrass Kurt...
Film at eleven.
I saw the picture of the windmill sticking out of the top of that thing and for I moment I could almost picture a DeLorean in the Honda's place... somehow I don't think that's gonna provide 1.21 gigawatts, though...
When, oh when, will they learn? There's a magic price point for consumer electronics, and that magic number is $300... which I think of as "the mad money you get twice a year when your biweekly pay cycle laps your monthly bill cycle". $300 is where average people start thinking about buying unneccessary electronic goodies.