But that's already the case. You CAN buy a phone with no network service, then buy a SIM card to fit. Even in the United States (I bought my last phone there to take advantage of the very weak dollar, which made the phone rather cheap). If you want a phone whose cost is subsidised by the carrier, then you'll have to accept the tradeoff of contract lock-in and being told what you can do with the phone. If you're prepared to spend extra to buy a phone outright (i.e. not subsidised), then buy service to go with the phone, you have more choice.
Whitelists don't have to be that restrictive. I doubt this guy's getting annoying calls from the same area code - so allow any call from your area code to ring the phone. That solves the stranded granny, friends calling from a friends house, the cute girl an 99.9% of the official calls.
The other poster pointed out that it's not vacuum that runs the compressor. However, what they didn't point out is that the metal of the car may as well be a window, too. It lets in a TREMENDOUS amount of heat into the car when the sun shines on it, and cars don't have meaningful insulation. So the entire surface area of the passenger compartment is absorbing heat. Yes, a car really does need an air conditioner that can cool a 700 sq ft. apartment.
Gosh, it's interesting to see how ARM International has been dying for the past decade or so then...when more ARM cores are sold than Intel and AMD put together.
The RIAA *don't* sue anyone. Quick multi choice quiz:
Question 1: The single mother who was being sued for alleged file sharing, was the case: a. RIAA -v- Andersen b. Atlantic Records -v- Andersen?
Question 2: A person called Arellanes, who lives in Texas is being sued for alleged copyright infringement. Is the case: a. RIAA -v- Arellanes b. Sony -v- Arellanes
A hint. If you answered A to any of the above, you were wrong. The RIAA doesn't sue anyone. The record companies themselves are doing the actual suing.
There is more than one Slashdotter. The people complaining that IBM are being ripped off are NOT NECESSARILY the same people who were laughing at Microsoft. It is to be expected that you will find contradictory views expressed in the comments, because Slashdot consists of more than one person.
But...she's still paying around $1500/year just for TV. I'm absolutely gobsmacked that anyone would pay that much each and every year to watch the box. That's more than I pay towards the fixed costs of a light aircraft!
Unless you're like 6 years old when it's being dug up - it's BLUE PETER, a children's programme! For small kids! So it's likely the ones watching it being dug up weren't even born when it was put in.
The best ones are the FAA tests for aviation - you often get a question, and then three right answers to pick from. It's just one answer is a little more right than the others!
My "favorite" multi-choice exams at school (or 'multi-guess' as we called them) were the ones where getting the first question in a series of several wrong, would doom you to getting all of the questions in the series wrong because the answers were all dependent on calculations from the answer of the first question! Of course, being multi-guess rather than long answer, they mark them automatically, so you can't get any credit for the correct calculations in the subsequent questions, like you would do in a long answer style exam. It's for this reason I vastly prefer 'long answer' exams.
You have to parallel park a Corolla. You can just drive the Smart into an on-street parking space nose in, and the back end won't extend past the SUVs you're parked next to.
$6 a gallon? It's over $8/usg here, but the economy is growing at around 6% (admittedly, we're a small island which has become very desirable to live in).
The solution? On any nice day, I ride my bicycle the 25 mile round trip to work. On a nice week I can save the equivalent of about US$40 in driving costs.
That's a terrible idea. Not only does it not take into account the hordes of infected Windows machines (which would then act as pick-up points), it also means the spammer has a really easy way of verifying whether an email address is live or not.
If this person is making a pure software product, firstly it's pretty clear that he's a one man band, and secondly, since he complains about dynamic linking (which is utterly trivial to do in Linux, Windows or BSD) being too hard, it's not that hard to come to the conclusion that at most he's "ordinarily skilled in the art" - more likely, he's a candidate for an appearance on The Daily WTF.
A one man closed source project that involves no particular genius is also susceptible to being duplicated since it won't be all that much effort for someone else to write the same thing from scratch.
So he either is filling a niche where no one else is likely to go (in which case, it doesn't really matter if he uses a closed or open source approach), or it's actually not pure software - perhaps a pre-packaged OS plus hardware plus support for an appliance type system. In which case, given the resources he has to hand, it still wouldn't really make any difference whether he goes closed or open source.
It's been going on for years - Oasis albums are basically unlistenable: horribly engineered, and they actually sound clipped. The newspapers wheeled out the example of Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers) last week and they are right. Not quite as bad as Oasis, but half of the tracks are unlistenable. It ruins good songs like Californication itself.
I also find it really annoying to have the volume level OK, then suddenly everything is too loud and distorted when the next album comes on, because some asshat of a recording engineer pushed the levels up until the waveforms clipped.
This device isn't suitable for a phone - it uses far too much power and makes far too much heat (the heat spreader sort of gives this away). Better suited ARM based devices have existed for some time. You can roll your own cellphone already (with efficient parts). The people at Spark Fun have already done it (making a rotary dial mobile phone) - and you can also get the chips there to make your own phone.
No it couldn't - it uses far too much power and makes far too much heat (the fact it needs a heat spreader is a dead giveaway - a mobile phone device must be efficient enough not to need to dissipate heat at all).
This kind of device is completely unsuitable for a cellphone - it uses far too much power and makes far too much heat. There are already devices out there that would work MUCH better (like small ARM-based devices). You can already buy the chips to do GSM and roll your own cellphone, and you have been able to for some time. The people at Sparkfun Electronics have already done it (and put it inside a rotary dial phone, complete with a proper ringer, and the electronics to turn pulse dialing into the commands to dial up over the GSM network).
I hate that Microsoft term "user experience". If I'm getting an "experience" from a desktop operating system, it is getting in my way. I don't want an experience. I want the OS to melt into the background so I hardly know I'm even using it. You can see this philosophy in Microsoft products - from the gaudy and "wow look at this" over the top transparency effects in Vista to the annoying bubbles that pop up on XP and badger you to death every time you move the mouse. It's trying to give me a "user experience". No thanks. Windows 2000 was more usable because it wasn't trying to force an "experience" on me.
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But that's already the case. You CAN buy a phone with no network service, then buy a SIM card to fit. Even in the United States (I bought my last phone there to take advantage of the very weak dollar, which made the phone rather cheap). If you want a phone whose cost is subsidised by the carrier, then you'll have to accept the tradeoff of contract lock-in and being told what you can do with the phone. If you're prepared to spend extra to buy a phone outright (i.e. not subsidised), then buy service to go with the phone, you have more choice.
Whitelists don't have to be that restrictive. I doubt this guy's getting annoying calls from the same area code - so allow any call from your area code to ring the phone. That solves the stranded granny, friends calling from a friends house, the cute girl an 99.9% of the official calls.
The other poster pointed out that it's not vacuum that runs the compressor. However, what they didn't point out is that the metal of the car may as well be a window, too. It lets in a TREMENDOUS amount of heat into the car when the sun shines on it, and cars don't have meaningful insulation. So the entire surface area of the passenger compartment is absorbing heat. Yes, a car really does need an air conditioner that can cool a 700 sq ft. apartment.
Gosh, it's interesting to see how ARM International has been dying for the past decade or so then...when more ARM cores are sold than Intel and AMD put together.
The RIAA *don't* sue anyone. Quick multi choice quiz:
Question 1:
The single mother who was being sued for alleged file sharing, was the case:
a. RIAA -v- Andersen
b. Atlantic Records -v- Andersen?
Question 2:
A person called Arellanes, who lives in Texas is being sued for alleged copyright infringement. Is the case:
a. RIAA -v- Arellanes
b. Sony -v- Arellanes
A hint. If you answered A to any of the above, you were wrong. The RIAA doesn't sue anyone. The record companies themselves are doing the actual suing.
There is more than one Slashdotter. The people complaining that IBM are being ripped off are NOT NECESSARILY the same people who were laughing at Microsoft. It is to be expected that you will find contradictory views expressed in the comments, because Slashdot consists of more than one person.
But...she's still paying around $1500/year just for TV. I'm absolutely gobsmacked that anyone would pay that much each and every year to watch the box. That's more than I pay towards the fixed costs of a light aircraft!
Unless you're like 6 years old when it's being dug up - it's BLUE PETER, a children's programme! For small kids! So it's likely the ones watching it being dug up weren't even born when it was put in.
The best ones are the FAA tests for aviation - you often get a question, and then three right answers to pick from. It's just one answer is a little more right than the others!
My "favorite" multi-choice exams at school (or 'multi-guess' as we called them) were the ones where getting the first question in a series of several wrong, would doom you to getting all of the questions in the series wrong because the answers were all dependent on calculations from the answer of the first question! Of course, being multi-guess rather than long answer, they mark them automatically, so you can't get any credit for the correct calculations in the subsequent questions, like you would do in a long answer style exam. It's for this reason I vastly prefer 'long answer' exams.
If you hit a concrete barrier at 70 mph in an SUV, the results are pretty much the same.
You have to parallel park a Corolla. You can just drive the Smart into an on-street parking space nose in, and the back end won't extend past the SUVs you're parked next to.
Probably solder paste too - I'd imagine that the application of the solder paste is automated.
But most of the assembly IS automated, that's what the pick-and-place machines are for, and the reflow ovens.
$6 a gallon? It's over $8/usg here, but the economy is growing at around 6% (admittedly, we're a small island which has become very desirable to live in).
The solution? On any nice day, I ride my bicycle the 25 mile round trip to work. On a nice week I can save the equivalent of about US$40 in driving costs.
They said all that about XP when it came out, too. Yet it was a roaring success. Vista will also be a roaring success.
That's a terrible idea. Not only does it not take into account the hordes of infected Windows machines (which would then act as pick-up points), it also means the spammer has a really easy way of verifying whether an email address is live or not.
If this person is making a pure software product, firstly it's pretty clear that he's a one man band, and secondly, since he complains about dynamic linking (which is utterly trivial to do in Linux, Windows or BSD) being too hard, it's not that hard to come to the conclusion that at most he's "ordinarily skilled in the art" - more likely, he's a candidate for an appearance on The Daily WTF.
A one man closed source project that involves no particular genius is also susceptible to being duplicated since it won't be all that much effort for someone else to write the same thing from scratch.
So he either is filling a niche where no one else is likely to go (in which case, it doesn't really matter if he uses a closed or open source approach), or it's actually not pure software - perhaps a pre-packaged OS plus hardware plus support for an appliance type system. In which case, given the resources he has to hand, it still wouldn't really make any difference whether he goes closed or open source.
Cool! 173 volts! Just right for powering nixie tubes - I won't need to build any more pesky 170v switch mode power supplies.
It's been going on for years - Oasis albums are basically unlistenable: horribly engineered, and they actually sound clipped. The newspapers wheeled out the example of Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers) last week and they are right. Not quite as bad as Oasis, but half of the tracks are unlistenable. It ruins good songs like Californication itself.
I also find it really annoying to have the volume level OK, then suddenly everything is too loud and distorted when the next album comes on, because some asshat of a recording engineer pushed the levels up until the waveforms clipped.
With the FAA, it was: "Hi, we're from the FAA and we're not happy 'till you're not happy!"
Pretty much the same with Microsoft.
It's still done with a magnetic field - it's just magnetic coupling, just like a transformer, i.e. induction.
Don't go near it with your credit cards or backup tapes though.
This device isn't suitable for a phone - it uses far too much power and makes far too much heat (the heat spreader sort of gives this away). Better suited ARM based devices have existed for some time. You can roll your own cellphone already (with efficient parts). The people at Spark Fun have already done it (making a rotary dial mobile phone) - and you can also get the chips there to make your own phone.
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No it couldn't - it uses far too much power and makes far too much heat (the fact it needs a heat spreader is a dead giveaway - a mobile phone device must be efficient enough not to need to dissipate heat at all).
This kind of device is completely unsuitable for a cellphone - it uses far too much power and makes far too much heat. There are already devices out there that would work MUCH better (like small ARM-based devices). You can already buy the chips to do GSM and roll your own cellphone, and you have been able to for some time. The people at Sparkfun Electronics have already done it (and put it inside a rotary dial phone, complete with a proper ringer, and the electronics to turn pulse dialing into the commands to dial up over the GSM network).
I hate that Microsoft term "user experience". If I'm getting an "experience" from a desktop operating system, it is getting in my way. I don't want an experience. I want the OS to melt into the background so I hardly know I'm even using it. You can see this philosophy in Microsoft products - from the gaudy and "wow look at this" over the top transparency effects in Vista to the annoying bubbles that pop up on XP and badger you to death every time you move the mouse. It's trying to give me a "user experience". No thanks. Windows 2000 was more usable because it wasn't trying to force an "experience" on me.