This (or something like this) may be huge as people become more dependant on their mobile phones.
No one wants to navigate some funky mobile web page looking for things like numbers, addresses or other things. People want instant information easily.
SMS is pretty easy to understand - send a message and interpet the results. No clunky (and inconsistant) navigation problems.
Heck - mobile mfg's (or OS designers) could put a search service into their phone that could utilize google's offerings automatically.
Regardless, I don't think its worth removing 150% of all prior discoveries of a species in scientific history on the assumption that it is the process that creates a rare witness to a species.
From the page: "Before our cruise, these were the only two records of this rare fish in the world. Its rarity lead to it being formally recognised as threatened. In one short trawl at around 90 m deep near Ball's Pyramid, we collected three specimens and excellent fresh photographs taken by Kerryn Parkinson."
With only two records of a fish in existance, you then "collect" three specimens to keep?
RedHat has already removed its MP3 players. Most MP3 players are free to begin with, WinAmp, Sonique, Windows Media Player.. you'll start to see a lot less freeware players in the future.
Hopefully we'll see another format step up and produce the same quality / compression as.mp3. Ogg is close, but not quite there yet.
The simple fact is, its easier to pull a patent out of your rear and start suing and profiting via licencing, then it is to create a truely innovative and profitiable product.
Its good to see some of these completely absurd lawsuits getting downturned. This needs to happen more, so we can legitimize patent law into something reasonable. All it does now is stifle market growth and create money for lawyers.
By the way the article is written, BT was using Prodigy as a "test case" for every ISP.
Could you imagine? Scary thing is, I wouldn't have been totaly shocked if it did pass.
Cost of cell phone with unlimited local: 34 dollars a month if you have cricket service in your area. Long distance is more, you prepay at like, 8 cents a minute or something around there. I don't have a POTS at my house. Cable + my cellular phone. I don't call LD anyway. This setup works fine for me. Best part is, I have yet to get a telemarketing call on my cellphone. I do believe it is illeagal to solicit on wireless phones, at least in my state.
"The CD will probably cause a system to crash, but it will not alter anything," the spokeswoman said. "And it won't eject properly, but that's just because the computer has crashed."
Crashes will not alter anything?
When did sony make computers that retain all their data after a crash?
Correct, just happened to be the wireless protocol of choice that came out of my fingers as I typed the message. 802.11 or something of that nature perhaps.
Cell phones, PDA's, perhaps new tools for people with vision disabilities, where it could pick up plain text via IR near busy intersections or information kiosks. Text is small, broadband wouldnt be required, since its all converted in real time on a chip. Since it is supposed to be low-powered, it would be great for devices that didnt need to be recharged often, like the pagers mentioned in the article.
I wonder how lifelike the voice is though. I don't think any text-speech tools are going to become very mainstream untill they sound better.
That would raise the overall cost of the price of a CPU per unit, and with the price wars going on at this time between AMD and Intel, that isnt going to happen.
Also figure in the fact that some people are Overclockers, some people arnt. The conditions that a proc would be under in a OC'ed situtation, with a GeForce3 that runs all kinds of hot running Quake 3, demands a different cooling application, as apposed to a computer that is surfing the internet and reading email 99% of the time.
Either you have a fan that meets all the above situations, and raises the overall cost for something that the 'internet' computer wouldnt need, or you would have a bundled fan that would be garbage by the overclocker. If it was 'bolted on'... even worse.
Not to mention that replacing a fan is maintence, akin to changing oil in your car, I usually replace mine once a year, give or take. Would you like your oil cap bolted together? I sure wouldnt.
(FYI if you buy a retail pacakged CPU, they do ship with a basic heatsink/processor, and for most applications they are fine.)
Its different in the fact that its not just there like a billboard is, its like you interacting with a toyota salesman for the purchase of a new car, and a honda salesman jumps between you with his own sales pitch.
This is not only distracting, but could also be confusing to some people new to ecommerce, which could lower sales across the board for both companies.
When will ad companies realize that your not going to have alot of positive interest in the product when all you do is annoy the userbase? They really need to find a medium for advertising that doesnt involve irritating the customer.
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If they are working with the FCC, why would it be considered 'vigilante'?
That's like a considering a car company working with a police forensics department to determine why a car did what it did 'vigilante'.
Or can I homebrew an OSX box? :)
That'd be nice.
This (or something like this) may be huge as people become more dependant on their mobile phones.
No one wants to navigate some funky mobile web page looking for things like numbers, addresses or other things. People want instant information easily.
SMS is pretty easy to understand - send a message and interpet the results. No clunky (and inconsistant) navigation problems.
Heck - mobile mfg's (or OS designers) could put a search service into their phone that could utilize google's offerings automatically.
Regardless, I don't think its worth removing 150% of all prior discoveries of a species in scientific history on the assumption that it is the process that creates a rare witness to a species.
From the page: "Before our cruise, these were the only two records of this rare fish in the world. Its rarity lead to it being formally recognised as threatened. In one short trawl at around 90 m deep near Ball's Pyramid, we collected three specimens and excellent fresh photographs taken by Kerryn Parkinson."
With only two records of a fish in existance, you then "collect" three specimens to keep?
What happens if you never see them again?
RedHat has already removed its MP3 players. Most MP3 players are free to begin with, WinAmp, Sonique, Windows Media Player.. you'll start to see a lot less freeware players in the future.
.mp3. Ogg is close, but not quite there yet.
Hopefully we'll see another format step up and produce the same quality / compression as
Isnt FatPort releasing CompactBSD sorta like Tony Little selling Krispy Kremes?
The simple fact is, its easier to pull a patent out of your rear and start suing and profiting via licencing, then it is to create a truely innovative and profitiable product.
So why did they sue an ISP, rather then say, W3C?
Its good to see some of these completely absurd lawsuits getting downturned. This needs to happen more, so we can legitimize patent law into something reasonable. All it does now is stifle market growth and create money for lawyers.
By the way the article is written, BT was using Prodigy as a "test case" for every ISP.
Could you imagine? Scary thing is, I wouldn't have been totaly shocked if it did pass.
Cost of cell phone with unlimited local: 34 dollars a month if you have cricket service in your area. Long distance is more, you prepay at like, 8 cents a minute or something around there. I don't have a POTS at my house. Cable + my cellular phone. I don't call LD anyway. This setup works fine for me. Best part is, I have yet to get a telemarketing call on my cellphone. I do believe it is illeagal to solicit on wireless phones, at least in my state.
Crashes will not alter anything?
When did sony make computers that retain all their data after a crash?
Correct, just happened to be the wireless protocol of choice that came out of my fingers as I typed the message. 802.11 or something of that nature perhaps.
Cell phones, PDA's, perhaps new tools for people with vision disabilities, where it could pick up plain text via IR near busy intersections or information kiosks. Text is small, broadband wouldnt be required, since its all converted in real time on a chip. Since it is supposed to be low-powered, it would be great for devices that didnt need to be recharged often, like the pagers mentioned in the article.
I wonder how lifelike the voice is though. I don't think any text-speech tools are going to become very mainstream untill they sound better.
That would raise the overall cost of the price of a CPU per unit, and with the price wars going on at this time between AMD and Intel, that isnt going to happen.
Also figure in the fact that some people are Overclockers, some people arnt. The conditions that a proc would be under in a OC'ed situtation, with a GeForce3 that runs all kinds of hot running Quake 3, demands a different cooling application, as apposed to a computer that is surfing the internet and reading email 99% of the time.
Either you have a fan that meets all the above situations, and raises the overall cost for something that the 'internet' computer wouldnt need, or you would have a bundled fan that would be garbage by the overclocker. If it was 'bolted on'... even worse.
Not to mention that replacing a fan is maintence, akin to changing oil in your car, I usually replace mine once a year, give or take. Would you like your oil cap bolted together? I sure wouldnt.
(FYI if you buy a retail pacakged CPU, they do ship with a basic heatsink/processor, and for most applications they are fine.)
Its different in the fact that its not just there like a billboard is, its like you interacting with a toyota salesman for the purchase of a new car, and a honda salesman jumps between you with his own sales pitch. This is not only distracting, but could also be confusing to some people new to ecommerce, which could lower sales across the board for both companies.
When will ad companies realize that your not going to have alot of positive interest in the product when all you do is annoy the userbase? They really need to find a medium for advertising that doesnt involve irritating the customer.