Puns aside, I do remember an article in Wired in the late 1990s about a company that was planning a global network of balloons for their cellular service, and were expected by some to beat Iridium into production.
Like that, I expect that this one will be a long forgotten dream in a few years time.
and Korea is #3 in the world for population density at well over 400
491, which makes it number 12 if you take out the islands and administrative areas that aren't considered countries in their own right (Hong Kong, Macau, Gibraltar, Gaza, West Bank...)
Now lets look at Canada (3), Australia (2) and other countries below the US with better broadband. Also look at Nasa's night time pictures of North America, and you'll see that the US population is concentrated towards the East and along the West Coast. All the arguments that you and others always use to excuse the US's low performance in broadband and mobile communications make me think that Slashdot is infested with US phone company shills. Instead of making excuses, ask why. Demand answers from your phone companies and politicians.
And the rest of the world will start putting "begin 644" at the beginning of all their mails. Bugs are present in all software, and I suspect Microsoft will lose that battle.
In fact, its a lot weaker than a password based scheme, since in 2% of cases where the phone is stolen (equivalent to requiring a 2 digit passcode with 1 retry allowed), it allows the thief to use the phone without a password.
You can't get rid of the password backup, what if you injure your leg and need to call for help?
The Akashi Kaikyo is 3910m in total. 1991m is just the length of the middle span. While impressive, the Millau viaduct has 8 spans over its 2460m length. And to the other poster who followed up, yes it is a suspension bridge.
It's not the GPL that is the problem, it is MySQL's interpretation of it (distributing your program on the same media as MySQL is listed in their FAQ as a reason why you would need a commercial license), and the fact that they GPL the client APIs.
Now we only have to reverse-engineer one protocol (instead of two) to work with twice as many users.
Or more likely, we keep reverse-engineering both protocols, but there's not as much of a rush to get a fix out when one of them introduces new "security features" into the protocol, since we have a backup route for getting to users of that system.
It's interesting that MSN and Yahoo IM clients are working together to get in on the pie that AOL currently has half of through text chat.
Maybe in the US. But I've got contacts in UK, France, Japan, Korea and New Zealand, and none of them use AIM. They're all either MSN or Yahoo users (many are both).
f my business goes down because of an e-mail virus that spreads due to a bug in Windows, and I lose, $100,000 per day for 3 days until I get it back up, and that forces me to lay off someone, then isn't there some 'hurt' involved too?
No more so than if your car breaks down due to a manufacturing defect, and you're late to the office, resulting in the loss of a $100,000 deal. Do you think the car manufacturer is going to pay out on that? Incidental losses are never covered. It is your responsibility to have a backup plan in case of critical infrastructure being taken out by a virus, lightening strike or whatever.
yahoo works for file transfers to/from Gaim too. The only people I've tried file transfers with who complained that they didn't get anything turned out to be using Trillian.
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I used to use GAIM on Windows until it broke because I did something as stupid as install Cygwin for some other developer tool.
You put Cygwin in your Windows PATH right? There are warnings pretty much everywhere not to do that. It breaks lots of applications, not just Gaim, and is caused by Cygwin DLLs being incompatible with anything non-Cygwin.
Just because it's open source, does that mean I waive any right to complain about lack of features or to request features for someone else to include?
As a developer of open source software, I welcome requests for features, but complaining about a missing feature which you were never promised, in software which you haven't paid a cent for nor contributed your own effort to, is not going to get you far.
There are lots of things that could be merged with a cell phone (mp3 player, voice recorder/dictaphone, PDA, thumb drive, etc). A camera is one thing that should not.
The 1.3Mpx camera in my phone gives about the same quality as a throwaway camera. With an auto-focus lens and 2 Mpx, you are probably getting close to the quality of compact film cameras that most of the population are happy with as their main camera. Still nowhere near a good digital compact or an SLR, but good enough for casual snapshots.
Mobile phones with wireless connectivity removed? Do they come in fashion colors to match my new clothes made from a special fabric that the unworthy cannot see?
I stopped buying Wired when the ad content overtook the article content in volume. That and the articles' target audience seemed to change from technical to dotCom business folk.
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Like that, I expect that this one will be a long forgotten dream in a few years time.
It appears the Martians have their own Area 51, where they hide evidence of extra-marital life from their fellow martians.
FFS. It was a slashdot post, not an academic paper.
If you're going to play comparison, at least get your numbers right.
The USA has a population density of 17
30 according to my source
Japan is like 325
Close enough, 337.
and Korea is #3 in the world for population density at well over 400
491, which makes it number 12 if you take out the islands and administrative areas that aren't considered countries in their own right (Hong Kong, Macau, Gibraltar, Gaza, West Bank...)
Now lets look at Canada (3), Australia (2) and other countries below the US with better broadband. Also look at Nasa's night time pictures of North America, and you'll see that the US population is concentrated towards the East and along the West Coast. All the arguments that you and others always use to excuse the US's low performance in broadband and mobile communications make me think that Slashdot is infested with US phone company shills. Instead of making excuses, ask why. Demand answers from your phone companies and politicians.
MI6/SIS => CIA
MI5 => NSA
And the rest of the world will start putting "begin 644" at the beginning of all their mails. Bugs are present in all software, and I suspect Microsoft will lose that battle.
You can't get rid of the password backup, what if you injure your leg and need to call for help?
Sorry, no its not. Its a cable stayed bridge.
The Akashi Kaikyo is 3910m in total. 1991m is just the length of the middle span. While impressive, the Millau viaduct has 8 spans over its 2460m length. And to the other poster who followed up, yes it is a suspension bridge.
I guess you've just discovered that it doesn't take much CPU to render 500 responses.
It's not the GPL that is the problem, it is MySQL's interpretation of it (distributing your program on the same media as MySQL is listed in their FAQ as a reason why you would need a commercial license), and the fact that they GPL the client APIs.
You mean Derby right? Because in case you didn't notice, we're talking about databases here.
Load is never that consistant in the real world. I wouldn't be surprised if 240000 hits/day meant peak loads well into the hundreds per second.
Or more likely, we keep reverse-engineering both protocols, but there's not as much of a rush to get a fix out when one of them introduces new "security features" into the protocol, since we have a backup route for getting to users of that system.
Maybe in the US. But I've got contacts in UK, France, Japan, Korea and New Zealand, and none of them use AIM. They're all either MSN or Yahoo users (many are both).
No more so than if your car breaks down due to a manufacturing defect, and you're late to the office, resulting in the loss of a $100,000 deal. Do you think the car manufacturer is going to pay out on that? Incidental losses are never covered. It is your responsibility to have a backup plan in case of critical infrastructure being taken out by a virus, lightening strike or whatever.
yahoo works for file transfers to/from Gaim too. The only people I've tried file transfers with who complained that they didn't get anything turned out to be using Trillian.
You put Cygwin in your Windows PATH right? There are warnings pretty much everywhere not to do that. It breaks lots of applications, not just Gaim, and is caused by Cygwin DLLs being incompatible with anything non-Cygwin.
As a developer of open source software, I welcome requests for features, but complaining about a missing feature which you were never promised, in software which you haven't paid a cent for nor contributed your own effort to, is not going to get you far.
The 1.3Mpx camera in my phone gives about the same quality as a throwaway camera. With an auto-focus lens and 2 Mpx, you are probably getting close to the quality of compact film cameras that most of the population are happy with as their main camera. Still nowhere near a good digital compact or an SLR, but good enough for casual snapshots.
Mobile phones with wireless connectivity removed? Do they come in fashion colors to match my new clothes made from a special fabric that the unworthy cannot see?
You mean SanDisk and rebadged OEM SanDisk?
Are there actually any other manufacturers of either Memory Sticks or SD cards?
I stopped buying Wired when the ad content overtook the article content in volume. That and the articles' target audience seemed to change from technical to dotCom business folk.