When I wrote a/. review of an O'Reilly book (CVS Pocket Reference), I got immediate feedback from the books editor. O'Reilly reads/. and if the reviewer left his email address he will get a response that covres the issues he raises.
Oh, so you mean they'll work anywhere in the entire world, except one country? I guess they ain't no use to anyone then. Darn it.
Sorry, I'm an American living in the US and I tend not to get excited about things until they're available in my own backyard. These phones are great, and I'm very excited about them, but I can't have one yet, and I don't plan to move to Asia/Europe just to have one.
Anyway, PCS is just a frequency variant of GSM, so to say that there are few GSM networks in the US is not really accurate.
Huh? So you're saying that I can just take my PCS phone to a GSM-only country, sign up for service w/a carrier and expect it to work? This is simply not true. In my original post, I provided a map of GSM coverage in the US by all carriers, check it out. Coverage is very sparse.
This is kool and the gang (esp. since I'm a java developer), but according to the website only the 6310i and the 7210 claim to actually work in America. They are GSM-only to boot, which means you'll have to find a GSM carrier in your area that has roaming partners where you travel. GSM is just getting a foothold in the US while in other parts of the world it's the dominant network infrastructure.
I agree with you here. I hate proprietary accessories, this is one big win with the ipaq: a huge array of cheap add-on modules (via PCMCIA).
<Yes, this next bit is offtopic, feel free to mod me down>
What would be even cooler than having 802.11b at home and at work would having it everywhere: the movie theatre (no need to stand in lines, just get in range and buy tickets from your handheld), the restaurant (check your place in line & get notified when you table is ready), the airport (check schedules, make sure your bags made it...), interstate tollbooths...
Of course this opens up all sorts of issues: security and privacy just to name a few, but I would still love it.
Ditto. Patience grasshopper. But GSM/GPRS is just getting off the ground with the US carriers w/VoiceStream and AT&T.
Once we have a decent rollout of devices & folks start to use it, we just have to wait for a little bit of competition so that the pricing plans get reasonable for mere mortals.
Since the Palm VII also uses Mobitex as the wireless network, I would think that you could either add your next i705 to your existing account, or create a new account and have them waive the activation fee.
I used a CDPD modem with my PalmV for a little while, and while it was neat, there was a small problem with the modem's form factor. If you were less than gentle while you were using it, the modem would shift a little bit and easily get disconnected from the palm and disconnected from the network. Then you would typically have to power cycle the unit and wait for it to handshake with the network. Kind of a pain just to read email.
The new palm mentioned in this article uses the Mobitex network. This is an 'always on' radio network that is also used by the very popular Blackberry devices by Research in Motion. Mobitex coverage in the US looks pretty good, and there's even Mobitex networks in other countries throughout the world.
Old yellow sodium lighting is disgusting too unless you go for that deserted carpark feel.
According to this snippet, Police have installed sodium lights to 'discourage' teens from cruising in certain areas. Apparantly it really makes the acne stand out.
I can't seem to find anything about it via Google, but this sounds similar to iridiums plan to provide calling service all over the world. Iridium relied on base stations that accepted the call and routed it onto the landline networks. They had a massive problem cutting deals with all of the these monopoly telcos (many of which are state owned in the developing regions of the country) and not losing their shirts in the process.
This smacks of the 6.02x10^23 different copy protection schemes employed by various games throughout the 80-90s. I remember all sorts of schemes from stupid (requiring a hidden file or special byte sequence at a certain address) to annoying (one of the wizardry series required you to type in a gibberish string from a 20 page booklet of gibberish strings. The annoying part was that the text was dark blue on a dark burgundy background and it was difficult to read in the best of light. But this also made it impossible to photocopy) and one by one they were cracked and scoffed at. The content (the game) still made it out into the open.
Unless the protection scheme's strength comes from the laws of science/nature (e.g. RSA) I think any scheme will be broken with enough time and CPUs applied to it.
I've migrated from NT 4.0 -> Win2k -> XP over the past 3 years and the XP install was by far the easiest, most trouble free and most painless.
My very vanilla config:
Intel 866EB
512MB RAM
10GB storage on 2 older UDMA drives (I know I should upgrade since drives are so cheap, but if it ain't broken...)
52x CDROM
Voodoo3 3k
Viewsonic 17"
NetGear 10/100 NIC + DSL
HP 5L parallel port
When I installed XP it properly detected and installed ALL of my devices (including my printer and my NIC/DSL connection) the very first time. From the first time it booted after installing, everything worked. I remember having to struggle to get devices (printers, NICs and modems most notably) to work under NT4, and I was thrilled to bits not to have to go through that circle of hell again. XP just works.
When my wife got a laptop and wanted to use the printer from her machine via our home LAN, all I had to do was click "share printer" and magically she can print from her WinME laptop. XP just works. I didn't have to fiddle with any config files in/etc/bin/usr/local/conf or any of that crap.
The last time I rebooted my XP machine was when the power went out about a month ago. I have had zero systems problems since installing XP.
I'm not saying that XP is better than Linux, or that every company should run out and upgrade, but I am saying that I have had a significantly lower cost of administration and higher reliability on my home development machine with windows XP than with any other OS I've ever used. And yes, I've used Mandrake 6.0 and RH 7.0 distros, and yes, they did finally work once I read many howtos and books. JWZ said it best: "Linux is free if your time has no value."
The killer app for fat pipes is location transparency. Whether I'm at work or at home, I want my view of the world not to change. I don't care where the data comes from, as long as it's quickly accessible when I need it. Thanks to my laptop + company VPN + DSL I can already achieve this, (except for the bad coffee and free soda machine) but I wish the throughput was higher and the latency lower.
Also, since I've had broadband I've noticed that my local software cache has dropped significantly. I used to download and keep Apache HTTPD, Tomcat, Sun's JDKs, JBosss on my local HD, but now that I can download them in under a minute from their respective websites, I don't have to cache them locally.
I've read longer haikus than some of those answers! I guess it makes sense though, he's the 2.4 kernel maintainer, not the 2.4 kernel spokesperson.
I have to agree with several posts that say inaccurate documentation is OSS Achilles' Heel. Sure, you could just jump in the fire and learn, but why not help folks out with some documentation?
What good is an OSS project if no devs join the construction effort and no users can figure out how to make it work? I'm not saying that you need a big fancy website and tons of UML diagrams, but don't just dump a pile of code and a makefile in my lap and expect me to be as giddy as a schoolgirl about the project.
I'm kind of surprised they didn't get Bobby Flay to be one of the Iron Chefs. He had 2 appearances on the original Japanese show against Iron Chef Japanese Masaharu Morimoto (one)(two), one of which was a bit controversial as Bobby was almost electrocuted during the battle and then at the end Masaharu claimed that Flay was not a true chef since a true chef wouldn't stand on his cutting board.
I wonder if Shatner will dress like Liberace to keep with the spirit of Chairman Kaga?
In other words: trying to get something for nothing...you're right, that is often the "truth in the industry."
Isn't this one of the points of open source development? Freely available, solid implementations of infrastructure components?
Most people will simply use them out of the box, others will contribute bugs, and fewer still will fix them. I think it's unreasonable to expect that everyone that uses an open source contribute back to the project via code/docs/$. Not everyone has time/interest in this. Slashdot gets over half a million hits/day, how many people actually submit bugs/patches?
In some sense you could say that the people who integrate and deploy with open source components are contributing a great deal to the project by spreading the word to their clients / customers / user communities that they have so much faith in the quality of these components that they are willing to ship them with their own software. This is grass-roots evangelization, and is extremely important for any open source component to acquire the critical mass of developers / users required to breathe life into a project.
My previous project (a commercial software product) evaluated the mjaor free DBs (postgreSQL, mySQL...) and we had to select mySQL because it was the only free DBMS with a large user base (for support), active development (again, for support), and a Windows port.
Our DBA wanted to use postgreSQL for some of the reasons mentioned in these fine posts. However, we had a requirement to be able to run in a pure Windows or Solaris 8.x environment. MySQL is the only major, free DBMS that fits that bill.
I know there's a million bitty-little open source/free ware dbms projets out there, but we didn't have time to fix any bugs/issues that we might've found. We had enough code of our own to write, we didn't have time to fix anyone else's product. I know this goes against the whole open source dogma, but sometimes it's the truth in industry.
Isn't this the perfect use of Gnutella/MojoNation... cooperative, decentralized, distributed filesharing?
I think someone should pick a file sharing app, put all of the WTC content they can find into it, tell people to use it and then let the tool do the work it was built for.
Slashdot Mirror
When I wrote a /. review of an O'Reilly book (CVS Pocket Reference), I got immediate feedback from the books editor. O'Reilly reads /. and if the reviewer left his email address he will get a response that covres the issues he raises.
Oh, so you mean they'll work anywhere in the entire world, except one country? I guess they ain't no use to anyone then. Darn it.
Sorry, I'm an American living in the US and I tend not to get excited about things until they're available in my own backyard. These phones are great, and I'm very excited about them, but I can't have one yet, and I don't plan to move to Asia/Europe just to have one.
Anyway, PCS is just a frequency variant of GSM, so to say that there are few GSM networks in the US is not really accurate.
Huh? So you're saying that I can just take my PCS phone to a GSM-only country, sign up for service w/a carrier and expect it to work? This is simply not true. In my original post, I provided a map of GSM coverage in the US by all carriers, check it out. Coverage is very sparse.
This is kool and the gang (esp. since I'm a java developer), but according to the website only the 6310i and the 7210 claim to actually work in America. They are GSM-only to boot, which means you'll have to find a GSM carrier in your area that has roaming partners where you travel. GSM is just getting a foothold in the US while in other parts of the world it's the dominant network infrastructure.
Now I know how folks that had a clost full of Laserdisc movies felt when DVD finally came out.
So where are you going to register?
I agree with you here. I hate proprietary accessories, this is one big win with the ipaq: a huge array of cheap add-on modules (via PCMCIA).
<Yes, this next bit is offtopic, feel free to mod me down>
What would be even cooler than having 802.11b at home and at work would having it everywhere: the movie theatre (no need to stand in lines, just get in range and buy tickets from your handheld), the restaurant (check your place in line & get notified when you table is ready), the airport (check schedules, make sure your bags made it...), interstate tollbooths...
Of course this opens up all sorts of issues: security and privacy just to name a few, but I would still love it.
Ditto. Patience grasshopper. But GSM/GPRS is just getting off the ground with the US carriers w/VoiceStream and AT&T.
Once we have a decent rollout of devices & folks start to use it, we just have to wait for a little bit of competition so that the pricing plans get reasonable for mere mortals.
Xircom makes an 802.11b module for the m5XX and M125 handhelds. They also have an 802.11b module for your Visor.
Since the Palm VII also uses Mobitex as the wireless network, I would think that you could either add your next i705 to your existing account, or create a new account and have them waive the activation fee.
I used a CDPD modem with my PalmV for a little while, and while it was neat, there was a small problem with the modem's form factor. If you were less than gentle while you were using it, the modem would shift a little bit and easily get disconnected from the palm and disconnected from the network. Then you would typically have to power cycle the unit and wait for it to handshake with the network. Kind of a pain just to read email.
The new palm mentioned in this article uses the Mobitex network. This is an 'always on' radio network that is also used by the very popular Blackberry devices by Research in Motion. Mobitex coverage in the US looks pretty good, and there's even Mobitex networks in other countries throughout the world.
Old yellow sodium lighting is disgusting too unless you go for that deserted carpark feel.
According to this snippet, Police have installed sodium lights to 'discourage' teens from cruising in certain areas. Apparantly it really makes the acne stand out.
I can't seem to find anything about it via Google, but this sounds similar to iridiums plan to provide calling service all over the world. Iridium relied on base stations that accepted the call and routed it onto the landline networks. They had a massive problem cutting deals with all of the these monopoly telcos (many of which are state owned in the developing regions of the country) and not losing their shirts in the process.
I hope this turns out better!
This smacks of the 6.02x10^23 different copy protection schemes employed by various games throughout the 80-90s. I remember all sorts of schemes from stupid (requiring a hidden file or special byte sequence at a certain address) to annoying (one of the wizardry series required you to type in a gibberish string from a 20 page booklet of gibberish strings. The annoying part was that the text was dark blue on a dark burgundy background and it was difficult to read in the best of light. But this also made it impossible to photocopy) and one by one they were cracked and scoffed at. The content (the game) still made it out into the open.
Unless the protection scheme's strength comes from the laws of science/nature (e.g. RSA) I think any scheme will be broken with enough time and CPUs applied to it.
I've migrated from NT 4.0 -> Win2k -> XP over the past 3 years and the XP install was by far the easiest, most trouble free and most painless.
/etc/bin/usr/local/conf or any of that crap.
My very vanilla config:
Intel 866EB
512MB RAM
10GB storage on 2 older UDMA drives (I know I should upgrade since drives are so cheap, but if it ain't broken...)
52x CDROM
Voodoo3 3k
Viewsonic 17"
NetGear 10/100 NIC + DSL
HP 5L parallel port
When I installed XP it properly detected and installed ALL of my devices (including my printer and my NIC/DSL connection) the very first time. From the first time it booted after installing, everything worked. I remember having to struggle to get devices (printers, NICs and modems most notably) to work under NT4, and I was thrilled to bits not to have to go through that circle of hell again. XP just works.
When my wife got a laptop and wanted to use the printer from her machine via our home LAN, all I had to do was click "share printer" and magically she can print from her WinME laptop. XP just works. I didn't have to fiddle with any config files in
The last time I rebooted my XP machine was when the power went out about a month ago. I have had zero systems problems since installing XP.
I'm not saying that XP is better than Linux, or that every company should run out and upgrade, but I am saying that I have had a significantly lower cost of administration and higher reliability on my home development machine with windows XP than with any other OS I've ever used. And yes, I've used Mandrake 6.0 and RH 7.0 distros, and yes, they did finally work once I read many howtos and books. JWZ said it best: "Linux is free if your time has no value."
The killer app for fat pipes is location transparency. Whether I'm at work or at home, I want my view of the world not to change. I don't care where the data comes from, as long as it's quickly accessible when I need it. Thanks to my laptop + company VPN + DSL I can already achieve this, (except for the bad coffee and free soda machine) but I wish the throughput was higher and the latency lower.
Also, since I've had broadband I've noticed that my local software cache has dropped significantly. I used to download and keep Apache HTTPD, Tomcat, Sun's JDKs, JBosss on my local HD, but now that I can download them in under a minute from their respective websites, I don't have to cache them locally.
I've read longer haikus than some of those answers! I guess it makes sense though, he's the 2.4 kernel maintainer, not the 2.4 kernel spokesperson.
I have to agree with several posts that say inaccurate documentation is OSS Achilles' Heel. Sure, you could just jump in the fire and learn, but why not help folks out with some documentation?
What good is an OSS project if no devs join the construction effort and no users can figure out how to make it work? I'm not saying that you need a big fancy website and tons of UML diagrams, but don't just dump a pile of code and a makefile in my lap and expect me to be as giddy as a schoolgirl about the project.
I'm kind of surprised they didn't get Bobby Flay to be one of the Iron Chefs. He had 2 appearances on the original Japanese show against Iron Chef Japanese Masaharu Morimoto (one)(two), one of which was a bit controversial as Bobby was almost electrocuted during the battle and then at the end Masaharu claimed that Flay was not a true chef since a true chef wouldn't stand on his cutting board.
I wonder if Shatner will dress like Liberace to keep with the spirit of Chairman Kaga?
Here you can download the original Apple II disk images and an emulator for windows/dos. There are also links to the SNES ports.
In wizardry I, don't forget the really good Bishop cheat. Create a Bishop (need right mix of stats), and then identify item 9 until you succeed.
*Excelsior!*
Machiavelli's 'The Prince' is a happy favorite. Or Adam Smith's 'Wealth Of Nations' is a fascinating (and useful) read.
In other words: trying to get something for nothing...you're right, that is often the "truth in the industry."
Isn't this one of the points of open source development? Freely available, solid implementations of infrastructure components?
Most people will simply use them out of the box, others will contribute bugs, and fewer still will fix them. I think it's unreasonable to expect that everyone that uses an open source contribute back to the project via code/docs/$. Not everyone has time/interest in this. Slashdot gets over half a million hits/day, how many people actually submit bugs/patches?
In some sense you could say that the people who integrate and deploy with open source components are contributing a great deal to the project by spreading the word to their clients / customers / user communities that they have so much faith in the quality of these components that they are willing to ship them with their own software. This is grass-roots evangelization, and is extremely important for any open source component to acquire the critical mass of developers / users required to breathe life into a project.
My previous project (a commercial software product) evaluated the mjaor free DBs (postgreSQL, mySQL...) and we had to select mySQL because it was the only free DBMS with a large user base (for support), active development (again, for support), and a Windows port.
Our DBA wanted to use postgreSQL for some of the reasons mentioned in these fine posts. However, we had a requirement to be able to run in a pure Windows or Solaris 8.x environment. MySQL is the only major, free DBMS that fits that bill.
I know there's a million bitty-little open source/free ware dbms projets out there, but we didn't have time to fix any bugs/issues that we might've found. We had enough code of our own to write, we didn't have time to fix anyone else's product. I know this goes against the whole open source dogma, but sometimes it's the truth in industry.
Umm... don't you guys remember this article?
This article defines & explains the afghani land mine problem in full. Excellent article!
Yes they are. And they're testing GPRS in Washington state. Here's the coverage map.
According to IMDB, Duchovny's appearance isn't uncredited. Check it out.
Isn't this the perfect use of Gnutella/MojoNation... cooperative, decentralized, distributed filesharing?
I think someone should pick a file sharing app, put all of the WTC content they can find into it, tell people to use it and then let the tool do the work it was built for.