I don't care about domains anymore. Whenever I need a web site, I swing by Yahoo and let it do the hard work. This is even built in to Ethernet Explorer - type "? nissan motors" to find the web site.
Sounds like almost all your arguements are flawed:
I agree, fear of litigation may be holding this field back. On the other hand, companies may be making so much money on those overpriced flash-based players that they don't want to touch the cheaper CD-based ones.
Alright, I'll grant that one too. DVD-RW is cheap per GB, but nobody's made one that can write true DVD's. Though I suspect suitable lasers are still expensive.
Is any wireless network fast? I haven't seen any that can hold a candle to my cable modem.
You're sounding like a government conspirist here... Most everybody is well-served by current technologies and those cute little phones... Iridium was too expensive for such a small increase in useful coverage.
Media protection is due to intellectual property rights as well as greed. Sony's not even based in the US.
Another conspiracy? Non-gas cars are never as fun as gas ones. (Guess what I drive? =^) I've also never seen a study that electric cars are actually cleaner; around here, 75% of our power is from coal. I'm not doubting the claims, I've just never seen an analysis.
[transmitters] No idea, but I don't think Mr. Mike had any trouble.
[phone pricing] Simple supply and demand, dude... LD is 10-50 cents/min (seen those prepaid cards??) because people are willing to pay that much.
The closest match I found at Egghead is: "Fujitsu/Siemens Scovery 211 Multifunctional Terminal, LINUX Workstation (New)". One search gave a price of $129, another $104, but neither yielded a working link. This appears to be an auction, and may already be ended.
At the home page for the machine, it appears the Scovery 110 is 200 MHz diskless Windows CE 8MB flash, while the Scovery xS is a reg'lar PC with Celeron or P3, optional disk, 32MB flash, Linux.
Would Timothy care to elaborate?
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You didn't do a very good search, as I got two hits, the second one being FIASCO!
- I agree, fear of litigation may be holding this field back. On the other hand, companies may be making so much money on those overpriced flash-based players that they don't want to touch the cheaper CD-based ones.
- Alright, I'll grant that one too. DVD-RW is cheap per GB, but nobody's made one that can write true DVD's. Though I suspect suitable lasers are still expensive.
- Is any wireless network fast? I haven't seen any that can hold a candle to my cable modem.
- You're sounding like a government conspirist here
... Most everybody is well-served by current technologies and those cute little phones ... Iridium was too expensive for such a small increase in useful coverage.
- Media protection is due to intellectual property rights as well as greed. Sony's not even based in the US.
- Another conspiracy? Non-gas cars are never as fun as gas ones. (Guess what I drive? =^) I've also never seen a study that electric cars are actually cleaner; around here, 75% of our power is from coal. I'm not doubting the claims, I've just never seen an analysis.
- [transmitters] No idea, but I don't think Mr. Mike had any trouble.
- [phone pricing] Simple supply and demand, dude
... LD is 10-50 cents/min (seen those prepaid cards??) because people are willing to pay that much.
-BThe closest match I found at Egghead is: "Fujitsu/Siemens Scovery 211 Multifunctional Terminal, LINUX Workstation (New)". One search gave a price of $129, another $104, but neither yielded a working link. This appears to be an auction, and may already be ended. At the home page for the machine, it appears the Scovery 110 is 200 MHz diskless Windows CE 8MB flash, while the Scovery xS is a reg'lar PC with Celeron or P3, optional disk, 32MB flash, Linux. Would Timothy care to elaborate? -0