Of course for years many French folks, egged-on by French cultural icons, have been railing against and boycotting US products like fast food, movies and more not due to content but because they're American. That was kewl? Now that some Americans decide to show their disapproval with their feet as it were, they're rednecks and racists?
You don't get it. The upgrade path for GSM is GSM/GPRS and eventually W-CDMA.
The other upgrade path is CDMA 2000 CDMA 2000 1X Ev-Do etc.
Essentially two different 3G systems competing. W-CMA and CDMA 2000. They both have CDMA in the name which makes it confusing.
Sprint and others are going for the CDMA 2000 path, while Europe (and the US GSM providers like DeutscheT's T-Mobile and Cingular) are going towards W-CDMA.
CDMA 2000 3G is way ahead of W-CDMA in Japan, and Korea 9in terms of popularity, number of users) for many reasons I won't go in to.
Here in the US we'll have 3G way before Europe will. The CDMA type of 3G. Here we'll have vastly superior speeds up to the point where 3G will be commonplace. Remember, GPRS is an average of perhaps 40bps. Whoopeee not. But whoopeee right now is reasonable:
I'm doing the Sidekick GPRS thing now because the CDMA higher speed system's undergoing massive teething problems in this country. In a few months when that's all history this country will emerge way ahead of anything the Euros have, except that coverage may still be slightly better over there. But how many people live in Bohunk Iowa anyway?
(BTW I LOVE my Danger Sidekick!)
It's too soon to predict which will be the winner in all this come 5 years from now. But what's apparent already is that Euro Telcoms paid enormous sums to license technology that may fall by the competitive wayside. Most of them aren't even allowed to go the CDMA 2000 route to 3G by their governmental commissions.
Always the difference between top-down and bottom-up evolution. It's the same reason the French language has a minuscule vocabulary compared to English, which never had a top-down Academie Francaise ruling body to stifle innovation.
an MP is not the equivalent of a US Senator, it's the equivalent of a Representative. Our Senate is like your House of Lords, exacpt that all Senators are elected. Nex
Did the article say the batts were on the train? More likely along that special stretch they're demoing, alongside, absorbing excess power from the third rail. Trains brake at predictable places, which is where you put the flywheel batts. Nex
Plug two usb 1.1 devices on and they'll be sharing bandwidth making them both slower from what I've read. They may also take something from a usb 2 device but I'm not sure about that because I haven't done it.
However, One usb 1.1 device doesn't slow down any usb 2.0 devices on the same card. That I'm sure of because I do it daily. Nex
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Right, I agree. He was being 'kewl', just like most folks here are being kewl by saying how bad tv is. It's the kewl thing, yet they forget: they're mainstream. It's the mainstream thing to say. Not so kewl all of a sudden, is it?
In actual fact, if you (the general you) pick and choose a little, you can get away with watching half-decent stuff. Anywhere between 70 and 200 channels and it's all bad? I think most folks just watch too much and end-up watching trash.
Old movies. New movies. There are a Few good shows like L&O, CSI, Bickford and a couple of others. People's tastes differ. But hey, that accounts for 5 or 6 hours a week already. Add a few movies and we're up to what, 12? 15? In a single week? Okay, let's add a docu or two - history channel and discovery maybe. And an hour of Cspan on the weekend with a book review or perhaps John Le Carre or somebody vaguely interesting speaking. So we're up to 20 hours. And we haven't even scratched the surface of what our choices actually are. And if you have a PVR you're even farther ahead because you don't even have to be there.
Nah, don't give me that snobby, kewl crap about how bad tv is. There's bad and there's good. Be specific. And stop being so bleedin' mainstream all you slashdotters. It's boring already. Nex
PS: to the other guy who speculated this broadcast was the spinning wheel type? Nope - twas the cathode ray type.
Oh come on - if you know anything about DSL in the US, you know that an extremely common speed is 1.5 Mbits down, and you don't even include that in your poll - you jump from 1 to 2 Mbits. Nex
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Then get an Archos, I did. The Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 sports 20 gig, USB2 (a shade faster than firewire), is recognized as a drive letter upon attachment to a Winmachine, works fine with Linux from all accounts, records on the fly encoding with its own chip at 160 bits vbr max, has a digital coax port, an analog line in, uses standard replaceable NiMh rechargables the unit itself charges, and great sound. I've had mine for 2 months and it's been working flawlessly.
And reading on a bit, it's even more discouraging to see that few here really seem to get any of it. The point of the story is that mediocrity beguiles, takes people in all too easily through the use of short-sighted justification - magnification to the point of keeping the truly important, valuable stuff out of the new context.
Old bureaucratic trick that, a bit like magic, Take their eyes off the ball, then switcheroo.
What's inexcusable is not that some people do this, it's that so many get taken-in, usually through sheer mental laziness and self-indulgence. A bit like the reactions here. Nex
Admit it - you just don't like the guy. If you didn't care, you'd actually have something of substance to say. But no, nothing but slathering verbiage from you. Boooring.
Katz was simply trying to give his take on what it was, and what it is. Not terribly threatning, one would have thought. He remembers the BBS's, he remembers what the experience *felt* like. He relates to us how it feels now, and it clicks: it's a rather different experience now, just party because it's become mainstream, but also because of the many changes, and that includes the commercialization of the Net. No denying that. It's a fact.
The 'experience' is where you go completely shallow, because throughout your defensive little attacks, you demonstrate a complete ignorance of the differences between then and now. You don't get it.
There's _no need_ to defend now. It is what it is.
There's also no reason for you to denigrate what it was either, if you haven't a clue. And when somebody writes that they prefer how it was and you want to disagree, then at least offer-up something of substance - an intriguing theory even - rather that what you've been doing: blindly lashing out with bitty (that's with a 'b') little points that fail to score. Nex
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Of course for years many French folks, egged-on by French cultural icons, have been railing against and boycotting US products like fast food, movies and more not due to content but because they're American. That was kewl? Now that some Americans decide to show their disapproval with their feet as it were, they're rednecks and racists?
It's a hypocritical double standard. Nex
Can you say EV-DO? Nex
You don't get it. The upgrade path for GSM is GSM/GPRS and eventually W-CDMA.
The other upgrade path is CDMA 2000 CDMA 2000 1X Ev-Do etc.
Essentially two different 3G systems competing. W-CMA and CDMA 2000. They both have CDMA in the name which makes it confusing.
Sprint and others are going for the CDMA 2000 path, while Europe (and the US GSM providers like DeutscheT's T-Mobile and Cingular) are going towards W-CDMA.
CDMA 2000 3G is way ahead of W-CDMA in Japan, and Korea 9in terms of popularity, number of users) for many reasons I won't go in to.
Here in the US we'll have 3G way before Europe will. The CDMA type of 3G. Here we'll have vastly superior speeds up to the point where 3G will be commonplace. Remember, GPRS is an average of perhaps 40bps. Whoopeee not. But whoopeee right now is reasonable:
I'm doing the Sidekick GPRS thing now because the CDMA higher speed system's undergoing massive teething problems in this country. In a few months when that's all history this country will emerge way ahead of anything the Euros have, except that coverage may still be slightly better over there. But how many people live in Bohunk Iowa anyway?
(BTW I LOVE my Danger Sidekick!)
It's too soon to predict which will be the winner in all this come 5 years from now. But what's apparent already is that Euro Telcoms paid enormous sums to license technology that may fall by the competitive wayside. Most of them aren't even allowed to go the CDMA 2000 route to 3G by their governmental commissions.
Always the difference between top-down and bottom-up evolution. It's the same reason the French language has a minuscule vocabulary compared to English, which never had a top-down Academie Francaise ruling body to stifle innovation.
We'll see. Nex
an MP is not the equivalent of a US Senator, it's the equivalent of a Representative. Our Senate is like your House of Lords, exacpt that all Senators are elected. Nex
You're implying that if he'd spelt it correctly, he'd have been right. Nex
The Canadian bribe was just bigger. Nex
The Atari 800 wasn't better than the Amiga, it was Amiga's pappy. Jay Miner designed the custom chipsets for both. Nex
Just don't forget that you never actually know where an anonymous coward comes from. Nex
It's been happening in downtowns all across North America - the new aspect of this is that new suburban homes are being sold this way. Nex
Did the article say the batts were on the train? More likely along that special stretch they're demoing, alongside, absorbing excess power from the third rail. Trains brake at predictable places, which is where you put the flywheel batts. Nex
Put the blame where it belongs - Canadian Taxpayers. Way too easy to always blame everything on the 'Evil Americans'. Nex
Not actually true.
Plug two usb 1.1 devices on and they'll be sharing bandwidth making them both slower from what I've read. They may also take something from a usb 2 device but I'm not sure about that because I haven't done it.
However, One usb 1.1 device doesn't slow down any usb 2.0 devices on the same card. That I'm sure of because I do it daily. Nex
It's the 51st state. Nex
Excuse me? A pissed-off Quebec? And what about the Notwithstanding Clause then?
A little honesty about the Charter of 'rights'? Nex
I feel for you. I use the AJBR20 and she never Ever skips. I play 320 cbrs all the time with nary a burp.
Apparently earlier models had problems with high bitrate files from what I can glean from the forums. Fixed. Nex
That's simply because you're not familiar with the language of the US. Nex
Right, I agree. He was being 'kewl', just like most folks here are being kewl by saying how bad tv is. It's the kewl thing, yet they forget: they're mainstream. It's the mainstream thing to say. Not so kewl all of a sudden, is it?
In actual fact, if you (the general you) pick and choose a little, you can get away with watching half-decent stuff. Anywhere between 70 and 200 channels and it's all bad? I think most folks just watch too much and end-up watching trash.
Old movies. New movies. There are a Few good shows like L&O, CSI, Bickford and a couple of others. People's tastes differ. But hey, that accounts for 5 or 6 hours a week already. Add a few movies and we're up to what, 12? 15? In a single week? Okay, let's add a docu or two - history channel and discovery maybe. And an hour of Cspan on the weekend with a book review or perhaps John Le Carre or somebody vaguely interesting speaking. So we're up to 20 hours. And we haven't even scratched the surface of what our choices actually are. And if you have a PVR you're even farther ahead because you don't even have to be there.
Nah, don't give me that snobby, kewl crap about how bad tv is. There's bad and there's good. Be specific. And stop being so bleedin' mainstream all you slashdotters. It's boring already. Nex
PS: to the other guy who speculated this broadcast was the spinning wheel type? Nope - twas the cathode ray type.
Oh come on - if you know anything about DSL in the US, you know that an extremely common speed is 1.5 Mbits down, and you don't even include that in your poll - you jump from 1 to 2 Mbits. Nex
Then get an Archos, I did. The Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 sports 20 gig, USB2 (a shade faster than firewire), is recognized as a drive letter upon attachment to a Winmachine, works fine with Linux from all accounts, records on the fly encoding with its own chip at 160 bits vbr max, has a digital coax port, an analog line in, uses standard replaceable NiMh rechargables the unit itself charges, and great sound. I've had mine for 2 months and it's been working flawlessly.
Ipod Schmypod. Nex
Oops - forgot to mention who I was talking about - Rod Stewart. Nex
I don't especially like the guy, but hey, to see him called a 'Canadian Talent' is a surprise if it's indeed true. Nex
Perhaps you *are* a moron, because that's not what was said in the article.
You turned it into what you wanted it to say just for the purpose of telling everyone that you're a kewl kinda guy.
Fine. But at least be honest about it and don't do it at someone else's expense, because that's cheap. Nex
Well, at first the Amiga was rival to the ST as the Amiga came out (into the shops) after the ST. (I had both) Nex
Agreed.
And reading on a bit, it's even more discouraging to see that few here really seem to get any of it. The point of the story is that mediocrity beguiles, takes people in all too easily through the use of short-sighted justification - magnification to the point of keeping the truly important, valuable stuff out of the new context.
Old bureaucratic trick that, a bit like magic, Take their eyes off the ball, then switcheroo.
What's inexcusable is not that some people do this, it's that so many get taken-in, usually through sheer mental laziness and self-indulgence. A bit like the reactions here. Nex
Admit it - you just don't like the guy. If you didn't care, you'd actually have something of substance to say. But no, nothing but slathering verbiage from you. Boooring.
Katz was simply trying to give his take on what it was, and what it is. Not terribly threatning, one would have thought. He remembers the BBS's, he remembers what the experience *felt* like. He relates to us how it feels now, and it clicks: it's a rather different experience now, just party because it's become mainstream, but also because of the many changes, and that includes the commercialization of the Net. No denying that. It's a fact.
The 'experience' is where you go completely shallow, because throughout your defensive little attacks, you demonstrate a complete ignorance of the differences between then and now. You don't get it.
There's _no need_ to defend now. It is what it is.
There's also no reason for you to denigrate what it was either, if you haven't a clue. And when somebody writes that they prefer how it was and you want to disagree, then at least offer-up something of substance - an intriguing theory even - rather that what you've been doing: blindly lashing out with bitty (that's with a 'b') little points that fail to score. Nex