My T-Mobile phone works fine on AT&T's network, GSM and GPRS. The same should be true for AT&T phones, but they may not have all the bugs worked out yet (the agreement went through less than a month ago).
T-Mobile charges me $20 for unlimited GPRS and SMS.
Don't bet on it for long. There are now PowerPC emulators that can run Linux PPC. It's only a matter of time before there is a PPC mac emulator.
OK, it's not really "running" Mac OS X, but you get the point.
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Canterwood's Dual DDR400 and 800MHZ FSB also does a very good job of getting data to and from the processor. So do Opteron's DualDDR400 integrated memory controller and 3x 6.4Gbyte/sec HyperTransport links.
Remember, the G5 isn't the only processor with insane memmory and I/O bandwidth.
It's discontinued but you can still get it if you ask really nicely.
The new plans are different - $30 for unlimited GPRS/SMS (no voice), or $20 extra for unlimited SMS/GPRS on any plan. For $50, you can get unlimited night and weekend, 300 whenever, no roaming, no long distance, unlim GSM and GPRS.
Note that these plans are only good with the Sidekick (aka Danger Hiptop). It's a really nifty device - I'm typing this reply on it right now. It runs Java and you canget a free SDK. It has PIM functions and a very nice microbrowser, as well as a nice AIM client where you can have up to 10 conversations open at a time (it even does away messeges and smileys). The Sidekick multitasks very nicely, and it even syncs your PIM data to a website over the GPRS connection. It also has a great UI and a thumbkeyboard that beats the Blackberry's any day.
1: That's what this ruling is about. We'd have this feature long ago if the providers hadn't fought it so much (this regulation has been on the table for nearly 10 years)
2: Not true. Many phones here are GSM, in fact there are three major GSM providers here (AT&T, Cingular, and T-Mobile). Some phones are SIM locked, but you can usually harass customer support into unlocking your phone. The big reason that nobody cares over here is that most providers will give you a free phone with GPRS (or equivelent), a color screen, and all the newest goodies (camera, etc) if you sign up for a year. The Nokia 3650 is free here when you sign up for a year, I understand that it is $200-$300 elsewhere.
3: The cellular infastructure in the US was built 5+ years before it existed elsewhere. It was decided (at the time) that cellphones would get normal numbers (remember, landlines are ubiquidous in the US and there was no available number block for cellphones). If it looks like a regular number, it should be billed like a regular number and any excess charges should be paid by the cellphone user. Thus, recepient pays was the only logical choice. On the flipside, calling a cellphone in the US costs no more than calling a landline (local = free, long distance = a few cents a minute).
By the way, there *are* CPP providers and plans in the US. Nextel sells such a plan, as do some other providers. One day every plan may have CPP, just as roaming and long distance charges have disappeared from plans.
4: Numbers are geographically fixed, but you don't have to change when you move. Most companies are happy to give you a non-local number.
Cellular technology isn't playing catch-up in the US. We have GPRS and MMS and all of the features you have in Europe. SMS works fine, even between providers. My GSM phone works on nearly every GSM network in the country, and I never pay extra wherever I go in this country of 300 million. I get unlimited GPRS data (not billed by thr kilobyte), unlimited night/weekend minutes, unlimited SMS, unlimited calling to and from phones on the same provider, no long distance anywhere in the country, and 200 minutes anytime else. I pay $40 per month, and I think I get what I pay for.
Believe it or not, the US has more GSM towers deployed than Western Europe, and more CDMA towers than any other country. We also have more diversity than you might believe. One company offers a plan that only works in your home area (usually your city and suburbs, you can pay a buck or two to get your whole state) but gives you unlimited anytime minutes for $32 a month. AT&T has a plan that gives you unlimited anytime, anywhere minutes for $80 a month. Some providers have unlimited SMS or unlimited data. Some have unlimited off-peak minutes. Some have CPP. Some have unlimited minutes to others on the same network. Some have shared minute plans.
So, it's hard to sum up the US wireless market. GSM is the standard, but so is CDMA. CPP exists, but not always.
So, in conclusion, the US wireless market is different from anywhere else. Perhaps it is because of the prevelence of landlines, which are affordable and unlimited. Perhaps it is cultural. Perhaps it has to do wit the fact that we had cellphones 5 years before everyone else.
So we have to put up with some annoying things. But we also get some nice perks.
The US wireless market has been playing catch-up for seven years. Today, they have caught up. 8 years ago, there was no digital cellular service in the US. Now, GSM and CDMA are the standards. SMS is the sandard. And MMS and GPRS and 3G data services are the standards. The GSM providers are uniting against the CDMA providers. And with free phones and number portability, I wouldn't be surprised if CPP becomes the standard. Or if unlimited anytime minutes become the standard. Capitalism works best when there is fierce competition. That's why AMD and Intel produce faster CPUs for lower prices every year.
Such legislation would be insanely stupid. Imagine the billions of dollars it would cost Verizon or Sprint to convert their netwoek to GSM. It's not the government's job to force compatibility between networks. That's the purpose of a standards body.
As a sidenote, I am typing this on a GSM/GPRS device in the middle of the New Mexico desert (6 miles from the tiny town of Chimayo). And, yes, there is GPRS service here. My device even works on Cingular's and AT&T's GPRS/GSM network. Now, if it weren't SIM locked I could even switch to either of those carriers.
Oh well. I pay $40 for 200 whenever, 1000 weekend minutes. I get unlimited SMS and unlimited GPRS data, no roaming charges anywhere in a nation of 300 million people that's 3x larger than Western Europe, and no long distance charges in a similar area. Yes, I have to pay for incoming calls, but it's not really a big deal.
Intel has an 800mhz FSB, and AMD's Opteron/Athlon has an integrated DDR400 controller and a 6.4 GByte/Sec HyperTransport link, so memory and I/O bandwidth really isn't a problem on PCs anymore.
Unless you plan on running more than 4 gigabytes of RAM, there is no reason you need 64-bit hardware.
And the 64 bit consumer revolution has already hit. It's called Optron/Athlon64. 64-bit, integrated memory controller, 3x 6.4GBytes/Sec HyperTransport. Linux availabe now, Windows available this fall. Fully compatible with 32 bit x86 code at full speed.
Since the introduction of the P4, they've doubled the cache, shrunk the process, doubled the bus speed, added hyperthreading, doubled the clock, and introduced a very fast dual-DDR chipset.
P4 has gone from a turkey to the fastest CPU in the woeld (at least in specint).
"Another point is the digital cinema takes away the skill that comes with projecting a film"
Thank god. You may have projectionists in your area that "take pride" in their work, but most people do not. The projectionists around here regularly scratch, tear, and mishandle the prints. I see dust all of the time, and nasty scratches.
When I went to see "The Italian Job", the projector wasn't even focused correctly. It looked completely fuzzy.
The less projectionists can do to stand in the way of my film experience, the better.
"It was impressive for an emerging standard, but the quality wasn't quite as good as a well presented 35mm print and there's no way that even touches 70mm prints."
1: Most people have never seen and will never see a well presented 35mm print. The only way to see a well presented 35mm print is to have a good projectionist, and those are rare.
"Face it. It's all about the whole usability thing."
OK, I will face it. Pocket PCs are easier to use. Oh, that's not true? PROVE IT. Show me one usability study (not commisioned by Palm or Microsoft) that shows that people learn Palm OS faster or are more efficent using it.
I don't care what you think is more usable. You can think that DOS on a 286 is easier to use than Windows 2000 if you want.
I have a Palm Pilot Pro and a Palm III and a Palm Tungsten-T. The interface has not changed much from the first device to the last. I think it sucks. The crappy Grafitti (give me my fitaly softkeyboard any day). The stupid hotsync that interrupts your work. The lack of any real filesystem which makes loading graphics or MP3s a bear. The lack of any context menu,
"And WTF should anyone be happy about SD as a standard (kicks Palm in shin for same anti-consumerist mistake)?"
It's smaller than CF and less proprietary than XD, Memory Stick, or Smart Media.
"The PocketPC is overpriced, slow, kludgy and annoying."
Wrong answer. I got my 5 ounce, 64-megabyte, color screen, SD enabled Pocket PC (a Toshiba e335) for $125. And, no, it wasn't used. Most "low end" Pocket PCs cost $200-$300.
"As far as lamenting Palm's display resolution changes, my wife's Clie and my Palms swap apps just fine. Some don't go hi-res on her machine, but they work fine by automagically reverting to lower resolution. THEY JUST WORK!"
Yeah, they work, but they can't take advantage of the better hardware of the device. Pocket PCs haven't changed radically since their introduction in their hardware capabilities. They all still have the same wave output, the same screen resolution, etc., so the Pocket PC software that has been in development already supports high-res and WAV/MP3 sound.
"A year does not a market history make. Hardware has been known to last longer than a year, dude."
Yeah, I still have my old Pocket PC 2000 (iPaq 3650). And guess what? All the Pocket PC apps out there are compatible with all of it's hardware capabilities.
Yes, but it's not EVERY palm. And competing Palm devices have different resolutions. Palm developers now have to support three different resolutions, many different audio and video standards, two processor families, and a lot more.
That's why most Palm applications are still low-res and still written for the 68K and still do not support real sound.
"Permethrin, like all synthetic pyrethroids, is a neurotoxin. Symptoms include tremors, incoordination, elevated body temperature, increased aggressive behavior, and disruption of learning. Laboratory tests suggest that permethrin is more acutely toxic to children than to adults."
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified permethrin as a carcinogen because it causes lung tumors in female mice and liver tumors in mice of both sexes."
Perhaps you shouldn't be able to get it in the local drugstore after all. I'm all for products like loradatine (Claratin) and ibprofin (Advil)being OTC - they're relatively safe. Both are now generic and OTC. But permethrin can be dangerous if used improperly and should be given under the guidence of a physycian. That's what prescription drugs are for.
Oh, and you CAN buy permethrin over the counter in the US. It's just not sold OTC as a medical product - it's sold as an industrial pest repellent.
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Every airplane that uses a fly-by-wire system today has both hydraulic and mechanical backups.
Or you could fly with a 4.2 pound PC with a CD burner/DVD combo drive, 40GB drive, Athlon XP 1600+, and a 12" XGA TFT display for less than $900.
My T-Mobile phone works fine on AT&T's network, GSM and GPRS. The same should be true for AT&T phones, but they may not have all the bugs worked out yet (the agreement went through less than a month ago).
T-Mobile charges me $20 for unlimited GPRS and SMS.
Interesting... looking at the screenshot it appears that the left-column save dialog looks surprisingly similar to the dialogs in Windows XP.
I pay for neither, and I live in the US.
T-Mobile Sidekick.
$40 per month.
200 anytime minutes, 1000 weekend minutes.
No roaming or long distance charges anywhere in the USA.
Unlimited SMS.
Unlimited GPRS data service.
"GSM rest-of-world-only"
Oh, right. In the US we only have three nationwide GSM providers who all have roaming agreements with each other and all offer GPRS.
We have GSM, GPRS, SMS, and MMS. Isn't that amazing.
Oh, and we also have 3G CDMA. Two providers.
Hmmm... funny.
I pay nothing to recieve or send SMS.
I pay no roaming anywhere in the USA.
I pay no long distance anywhere in the USA.
Anyone calling me from my home town pays no more than a local call (which is free from a landline).
$40 per month, 200 anytime, 1000 weekends, unlimited SMS, unlimited GPRS data.
All on a nationwide GSM network.
Don't bet on it for long. There are now PowerPC emulators that can run Linux PPC. It's only a matter of time before there is a PPC mac emulator.
OK, it's not really "running" Mac OS X, but you get the point.
Adding to this: It is a breach of contract to publich SPEC benchmark results without first submitting them to SPEC.
Canterwood's Dual DDR400 and 800MHZ FSB also does a very good job of getting data to and from the processor. So do Opteron's DualDDR400 integrated memory controller and 3x 6.4Gbyte/sec HyperTransport links.
Remember, the G5 isn't the only processor with insane memmory and I/O bandwidth.
I have the T-Mobile Sidekick 200 plan.
It's discontinued but you can still get it if you ask really nicely.
The new plans are different - $30 for unlimited GPRS/SMS (no voice), or $20 extra for unlimited SMS/GPRS on any plan. For $50, you can get unlimited night and weekend, 300 whenever, no roaming, no long distance, unlim GSM and GPRS.
Note that these plans are only good with the Sidekick (aka Danger Hiptop). It's a really nifty device - I'm typing this reply on it right now. It runs Java and you canget a free SDK. It has PIM functions and a very nice microbrowser, as well as a nice AIM client where you can have up to 10 conversations open at a time (it even does away messeges and smileys). The Sidekick multitasks very nicely, and it even syncs your PIM data to a website over the GPRS connection. It also has a great UI and a thumbkeyboard that beats the Blackberry's any day.
Thanks for numbering, it makes replying easier:
1: That's what this ruling is about. We'd have this feature long ago if the providers hadn't fought it so much (this regulation has been on the table for nearly 10 years)
2: Not true. Many phones here are GSM, in fact there are three major GSM providers here (AT&T, Cingular, and T-Mobile). Some phones are SIM locked, but you can usually harass customer support into unlocking your phone. The big reason that nobody cares over here is that most providers will give you a free phone with GPRS (or equivelent), a color screen, and all the newest goodies (camera, etc) if you sign up for a year. The Nokia 3650 is free here when you sign up for a year, I understand that it is $200-$300 elsewhere.
3: The cellular infastructure in the US was built 5+ years before it existed elsewhere. It was decided (at the time) that cellphones would get normal numbers (remember, landlines are ubiquidous in the US and there was no available number block for cellphones). If it looks like a regular number, it should be billed like a regular number and any excess charges should be paid by the cellphone user. Thus, recepient pays was the only logical choice. On the flipside, calling a cellphone in the US costs no more than calling a landline (local = free, long distance = a few cents a minute).
By the way, there *are* CPP providers and plans in the US. Nextel sells such a plan, as do some other providers. One day every plan may have CPP, just as roaming and long distance charges have disappeared from plans.
4: Numbers are geographically fixed, but you don't have to change when you move. Most companies are happy to give you a non-local number.
Cellular technology isn't playing catch-up in the US. We have GPRS and MMS and all of the features you have in Europe. SMS works fine, even between providers. My GSM phone works on nearly every GSM network in the country, and I never pay extra wherever I go in this country of 300 million. I get unlimited GPRS data (not billed by thr kilobyte), unlimited night/weekend minutes, unlimited SMS, unlimited calling to and from phones on the same provider, no long distance anywhere in the country, and 200 minutes anytime else. I pay $40 per month, and I think I get what I pay for.
Believe it or not, the US has more GSM towers deployed than Western Europe, and more CDMA towers than any other country. We also have more diversity than you might believe. One company offers a plan that only works in your home area (usually your city and suburbs, you can pay a buck or two to get your whole state) but gives you unlimited anytime minutes for $32 a month. AT&T has a plan that gives you unlimited anytime, anywhere minutes for $80 a month. Some providers have unlimited SMS or unlimited data. Some have unlimited off-peak minutes. Some have CPP. Some have unlimited minutes to others on the same network. Some have shared minute plans.
So, it's hard to sum up the US wireless market. GSM is the standard, but so is CDMA. CPP exists, but not always.
So, in conclusion, the US wireless market is different from anywhere else. Perhaps it is because of the prevelence of landlines, which are affordable and unlimited. Perhaps it is cultural. Perhaps it has to do wit the fact that we had cellphones 5 years before everyone else.
So we have to put up with some annoying things. But we also get some nice perks.
The US wireless market has been playing catch-up for seven years. Today, they have caught up. 8 years ago, there was no digital cellular service in the US. Now, GSM and CDMA are the standards. SMS is the sandard. And MMS and GPRS and 3G data services are the standards. The GSM providers are uniting against the CDMA providers. And with free phones and number portability, I wouldn't be surprised if CPP becomes the standard. Or if unlimited anytime minutes become the standard. Capitalism works best when there is fierce competition. That's why AMD and Intel produce faster CPUs for lower prices every year.
Such legislation would be insanely stupid. Imagine the billions of dollars it would cost Verizon or Sprint to convert their netwoek to GSM. It's not the government's job to force compatibility between networks. That's the purpose of a standards body.
As a sidenote, I am typing this on a GSM/GPRS device in the middle of the New Mexico desert (6 miles from the tiny town of Chimayo). And, yes, there is GPRS service here. My device even works on Cingular's and AT&T's GPRS/GSM network. Now, if it weren't SIM locked I could even switch to either of those carriers.
Oh well. I pay $40 for 200 whenever, 1000 weekend minutes. I get unlimited SMS and unlimited GPRS data, no roaming charges anywhere in a nation of 300 million people that's 3x larger than Western Europe, and no long distance charges in a similar area. Yes, I have to pay for incoming calls, but it's not really a big deal.
I'm sure the 6.4 Gbytes/sec and Dual-DDR on the intel platform does a farily effective job of "getting data to the processor".
Intel has an 800mhz FSB, and AMD's Opteron/Athlon has an integrated DDR400 controller and a 6.4 GByte/Sec HyperTransport link, so memory and I/O bandwidth really isn't a problem on PCs anymore.
Unless you plan on running more than 4 gigabytes of RAM, there is no reason you need 64-bit hardware.
And the 64 bit consumer revolution has already hit. It's called Optron/Athlon64. 64-bit, integrated memory controller, 3x 6.4GBytes/Sec HyperTransport. Linux availabe now, Windows available this fall. Fully compatible with 32 bit x86 code at full speed.
Since the introduction of the P4, they've doubled the cache, shrunk the process, doubled the bus speed, added hyperthreading, doubled the clock, and introduced a very fast dual-DDR chipset.
P4 has gone from a turkey to the fastest CPU in the woeld (at least in specint).
Don't laugh at what you don't understand.
What happens when someone adds your email address to the blacklist by faking a messege to the honeypot?
RedHat 8 installed fine on my NForce system. I had to get special drivers for networking and sound, but otherwise everything worked out of the box.
No, IMAX-3D is most definately a shutter goggle system.
I have seen polorization systems (mostly at Walt Disney World). They're definately the way to go.
"Another point is the digital cinema takes away the skill that comes with projecting a film"
Thank god. You may have projectionists in your area that "take pride" in their work, but most people do not. The projectionists around here regularly scratch, tear, and mishandle the prints. I see dust all of the time, and nasty scratches.
When I went to see "The Italian Job", the projector wasn't even focused correctly. It looked completely fuzzy.
The less projectionists can do to stand in the way of my film experience, the better.
"It was impressive for an emerging standard, but the quality wasn't quite as good as a well presented 35mm print and there's no way that even touches 70mm prints."
1: Most people have never seen and will never see a well presented 35mm print. The only way to see a well presented 35mm print is to have a good projectionist, and those are rare.
2: 70mm prints are extremely uncommon these days.
"Face it. It's all about the whole usability thing."
OK, I will face it. Pocket PCs are easier to use. Oh, that's not true? PROVE IT. Show me one usability study (not commisioned by Palm or Microsoft) that shows that people learn Palm OS faster or are more efficent using it.
I don't care what you think is more usable. You can think that DOS on a 286 is easier to use than Windows 2000 if you want.
I have a Palm Pilot Pro and a Palm III and a Palm Tungsten-T. The interface has not changed much from the first device to the last. I think it sucks. The crappy Grafitti (give me my fitaly softkeyboard any day). The stupid hotsync that interrupts your work. The lack of any real filesystem which makes loading graphics or MP3s a bear. The lack of any context menu,
"And WTF should anyone be happy about SD as a standard (kicks Palm in shin for same anti-consumerist mistake)?"
It's smaller than CF and less proprietary than XD, Memory Stick, or Smart Media.
"The PocketPC is overpriced, slow, kludgy and annoying."
Wrong answer. I got my 5 ounce, 64-megabyte, color screen, SD enabled Pocket PC (a Toshiba e335) for $125. And, no, it wasn't used. Most "low end" Pocket PCs cost $200-$300.
"As far as lamenting Palm's display resolution changes, my wife's Clie and my Palms swap apps just fine. Some don't go hi-res on her machine, but they work fine by automagically reverting to lower resolution. THEY JUST WORK!"
Yeah, they work, but they can't take advantage of the better hardware of the device. Pocket PCs haven't changed radically since their introduction in their hardware capabilities. They all still have the same wave output, the same screen resolution, etc., so the Pocket PC software that has been in development already supports high-res and WAV/MP3 sound.
"A year does not a market history make. Hardware has been known to last longer than a year, dude."
Yeah, I still have my old Pocket PC 2000 (iPaq 3650). And guess what? All the Pocket PC apps out there are compatible with all of it's hardware capabilities.
Yes, but it's not EVERY palm. And competing Palm devices have different resolutions. Palm developers now have to support three different resolutions, many different audio and video standards, two processor families, and a lot more.
That's why most Palm applications are still low-res and still written for the 68K and still do not support real sound.
"Permethrin, like all synthetic pyrethroids, is a neurotoxin. Symptoms include tremors, incoordination, elevated body temperature, increased aggressive behavior, and disruption of learning. Laboratory tests suggest that permethrin is more acutely toxic to children than to adults."
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified permethrin as a carcinogen because it causes lung tumors in female mice and liver tumors in mice of both sexes."
Perhaps you shouldn't be able to get it in the local drugstore after all. I'm all for products like loradatine (Claratin) and ibprofin (Advil)being OTC - they're relatively safe. Both are now generic and OTC. But permethrin can be dangerous if used improperly and should be given under the guidence of a physycian. That's what prescription drugs are for.
Oh, and you CAN buy permethrin over the counter in the US. It's just not sold OTC as a medical product - it's sold as an industrial pest repellent.