T-Mobile uses UMTS for it's 3g network AT&T uses HSDPA and I think they are upgrading to yet a faster standard. Plus you have the issues with frequencies. Since TMobile is the smallest of the big three finding unlocked phones that support it's flavor of 3G GSM is a little more difficult I hear.
Right now the Pre is US only so no right now you can not tether it if you are on a none US carrier since none of them carry it. Tethering in the US seems to scar the daylights out of US carriers. Probably because the really want to sell you that data card with an extra line. I don't know of any US provider that offers tethering. You could probably pull it off with an unlocked GSM phone on AT&T or maybe TMobile but I don't know if you can get a 3g Tmobile phone unlocked.
Well because if you know you are suffering flu like symptoms you are supposed to tell them when you get off the plane. By taking the "fever reducers" you are knowingly masking the symptoms. Yea I think it is bit of a non story but I can see how it is cheating as well. Isn't Vietnam still a China style communist country? I admit that I don't keep up with their level of freedom and human right's laws.
Because they sure as shooting are not the same thing! Okay lets change this one up a bit. $inx='9'; a$[$inx]=10; $inx++; $a[$inx]=12;
so later if you us 9 instead of 9 and to a inc will you find the same value? Nope because 9 and "9" are NOT THE FREAKING SAME BLOODY THING! This isn't being smart it is allowing more and better bugs! That is a negative in a programing language.
bull it came down to marketing. An Amiga 1000 was cheaper than an AT. The ST was even cheaper. The Amiga 2000 was also cheaper than the same PC. When the 500, 600, and 1200 came out they where still cheaper. It came down to marketing and frankly the trade rags. With a number of PC makers buying ads you really couldn't say. Hey for less money than a PC running MS-DOS you can buy an Amiga with a full multitasking OS, Stereo sound, and color graphics. Ho and no silly 640 k limits or 33 MB partion limits like you had with Dos at the time. Also for software makers a bird in the hand like the PC was better than an Amiga, ST, or even Mac. Cheap PCs are actually a realtivly new thing. The Amiga and ST didn't loose on price they lost on marketing. Frankly if Commodore had bought KFC they would have changed the name to "Warm dead birds in a cardboard bucket".
Actually it was a shame there was a 286 at all. It really was a terrible design. Memory protection was very much underused on the desktop for many years. Heck even the 386s where mainly used to run DOS and Windows 3. The thing is that the 68k beat the x86 left right and sidways. The joke back in the day was. If you had to run DOS you used an x86 if you got to choose the cpu you ran a 68k. QNX is one of those things I wish I had time to play with. Of course in 86 I was running an Amiga with color and real multitasking. I remeber I was helping a local Sysop debug zmodem on his bbs. He asked me to download a gif as a test. Once the download was done I told him I would go check it. He chatted back that "I didn't have to hang up just to do that" He said he could wait until I was done reading my messages. He was shocked when I told him that I didn't have to hang up at all to check it! He thought that was so cool that I could actually lock at a GIF and run a terminal at the same time. I later showed him that I could play music, write a paper, and look at a Gif while downloading. He was shocked. Oh the good old days when 3 Megabytes of ram and 80 megabytes of disk space was a big machine.
I would like rid of the AC post all together. It makes a great way to flame without getting a Karma hit. That and I think people should stand behind what they say. On Slashdot your not going to go to jail for what you post so protection from the man really isn't a good reason. Of course a lot of people will not agree with me and that is fine. They have their views and I have mine.
Well for one thing the star would actually go boom. Since a Supernova throws off a lot of it's mass it would no longer be in a vacuum and there would be shock wave and there would be a boom if you where close enough. I have to admit that Slashdot does seem to be getting less geeky and political all the time. Pay to many stories that are clearly politics are being listed as News or other things. Helpful hint if the summary has the words Demarcate, Republican, Green Party, Congressman, or Congress woman in it then it is politics. I think part of the problem is that Slashdot is hard to make money on. What precentage of users are running ad blocking? 80% maybe? So if the get more of the masses they will make more money.
The memory protection on the 286 was terrible. It still used segments and wasn't a flat address space. I think the the 68010 came out around the time of 286 and you could add a real mmu that supported paging and had a flat address space. Also the 68020 came out during the time of the 286 so you could make the jump to true 32 bit. Of course the vast majority of 286s where used to run DOS so it's memory protection just wasn't that important. BTW the 68881 was an FPU the Motorola 68841 or 68851 where the MMUs.
Oh I wouldn't put it on an SD card I would put it right on the buss. 8 not enough? well you could go for 16 or 32 GB. Flash prices are dropping and I bet Nintendo can get it for well under $1 per GB right now. Yes give them an SD slot to expand it if they want but throw a bunch on the system board. I understand the idea of a hard drive on a console but they get hot, make noise, and are actually pretty fragile.
The fact that MS-DOS outsold the Amiga and Atari ST is proof that best doesn't always win. The x86 is a great example as well. The 68k chip was a much better CPU than the 8088,8086, and even the 80286. Only when the 386 hit the market did Intel really have a CPU that wasn't a freaking nightmare. Another example is PHP. Good grief $A[1]==$A['1'], that is just wrong. PHP, Windows, x86, and so much of what we live with are all examples of good enough. Not great but good enough.
VMS came after Unix so calling it a not very modern OS is kind of odd. X-Windows was never supposed to be Unix specific in fact there was even a version for DeskView way back when. WindowsNT really owes more to VMS than Unix the chief architect came from Digital. Tron also came after Unix as well. zOS is still an extremely important OS so just because it only runs on one CPU I wouldn't just thow it away as well. As to finding some Unix in zOS frankly you would probably find more zOS in modern Unix than the other way around. IBM really did pretty much invent everything that Bell Labs did not and they where their first. I really am not fond of the the write up about QNX. It is Unix like in someways and shares an API with it. but QNX is a micro kernel RTOS. And lets be very honest. Unix came from Multics. Every OS has built on and taken ideas from other OS's. None of them is the pure root source. I am a big Linux fan but I often wonder if we are too willing to keep Unix as our foundation. BeOS was a clean new OS and while I have never used it wonder if it may not be better than Linux and WindowsNT. It did some amazing things back in the day.
The good thing about the Wii is that Nintendo didn't make it bleeding edge. Sony and Microsoft are talking about a 10 year life for the 360 and PS3. Nintendo can if they need to make a Wii that could probably beat both those consoles right now and still sell it $249. The Wii uses a single PPC core so throw a multicore on it. No hard drive? Why use a hard drive? Put 8 or 10 GB of flash on it. ATI could provide a new GPU next week that would blow away the old one. Include the new WiiMotion with the new Wiimote and You have the new Wii HD. It will run cooler and quiter than the 360 and have more games than the PS3 What is really nice is that Nintendo doesn't have the massive RnD costs of the Cell to recover so it could build a new console tomarrow. I don't think people would even get all that upset over buying a new one. They line up for each new flavor of Gameboy. And if Nintendo wanted to get into the "media" side of it. Just get Hulu, NetFlix, and buy Boxee. Big N jumps to the front again. Of course people may keep buying the Wii for a very long time. But Nintendo doesn't seem to let things sit.
From what I have read the old PSP will play all the games the Go does so yea I just don't see it. If it was cheaper then it would be logical. What it will really do is kill used games. You will not have the option of selling your old games when you finish them. You will not have the option of trading them to your friends. I am also betting that it will be less hackable as well. Let's face it Sony and the other console makers HATE used games. I got a PS2 and I think I have bought 5 new games for it. Four of them where Singstar for my wife.
EZWriter, Multimate, DisplayWrite and the list can just keep going on. Before we one OS had 90% of the desktop we had a lot more choices. Maybe the market was too fragmented but I often feel like we settled on a standard way too soon. The X86/DOS lock in lead right to the Windows / X86 lock in. We have OS/X, Linux, and BSD now but they are still a very small part and only OS/X really seems to be doing well on the desktop.
As I said they where both very good movies but I would have to put Alien as possibly the best horror movie of all times. Aliens while very good just doesn't stand head and shoulders over other action movies they way Alien does IMHO. But I will agree that Aliens sure didn't disappoint me in any way.
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T-Mobile uses UMTS for it's 3g network AT&T uses HSDPA and I think they are upgrading to yet a faster standard.
Plus you have the issues with frequencies. Since TMobile is the smallest of the big three finding unlocked phones that support it's flavor of 3G GSM is a little more difficult I hear.
Right now the Pre is US only so no right now you can not tether it if you are on a none US carrier since none of them carry it.
Tethering in the US seems to scar the daylights out of US carriers. Probably because the really want to sell you that data card with an extra line.
I don't know of any US provider that offers tethering. You could probably pull it off with an unlocked GSM phone on AT&T or maybe TMobile but I don't know if you can get a 3g Tmobile phone unlocked.
Well because if you know you are suffering flu like symptoms you are supposed to tell them when you get off the plane.
By taking the "fever reducers" you are knowingly masking the symptoms.
Yea I think it is bit of a non story but I can see how it is cheating as well.
Isn't Vietnam still a China style communist country? I admit that I don't keep up with their level of freedom and human right's laws.
That you have no sense of humor.
Like anybody on Slashdot watches ESPN
You must be knew here.
Yea sure like it is hard to make an account to leak. Besides do you really listen to "Inside info from an AC on Slashdot?"
Talk about iffy at best.
Because they sure as shooting are not the same thing!
Okay lets change this one up a bit.
$inx='9';
a$[$inx]=10;
$inx++;
$a[$inx]=12;
so later if you us 9 instead of 9 and to a inc will you find the same value?
Nope because 9 and "9" are NOT THE FREAKING SAME BLOODY THING!
This isn't being smart it is allowing more and better bugs! That is a negative in a programing language.
bull it came down to marketing.
An Amiga 1000 was cheaper than an AT. The ST was even cheaper.
The Amiga 2000 was also cheaper than the same PC.
When the 500, 600, and 1200 came out they where still cheaper.
It came down to marketing and frankly the trade rags.
With a number of PC makers buying ads you really couldn't say. Hey for less money than a PC running MS-DOS you can buy an Amiga with a full multitasking OS, Stereo sound, and color graphics.
Ho and no silly 640 k limits or 33 MB partion limits like you had with Dos at the time.
Also for software makers a bird in the hand like the PC was better than an Amiga, ST, or even Mac.
Cheap PCs are actually a realtivly new thing. The Amiga and ST didn't loose on price they lost on marketing.
Frankly if Commodore had bought KFC they would have changed the name to "Warm dead birds in a cardboard bucket".
Actually it was a shame there was a 286 at all. It really was a terrible design. Memory protection was very much underused on the desktop for many years. Heck even the 386s where mainly used to run DOS and Windows 3. The thing is that the 68k beat the x86 left right and sidways. The joke back in the day was. If you had to run DOS you used an x86 if you got to choose the cpu you ran a 68k.
QNX is one of those things I wish I had time to play with. Of course in 86 I was running an Amiga with color and real multitasking.
I remeber I was helping a local Sysop debug zmodem on his bbs. He asked me to download a gif as a test. Once the download was done I told him I would go check it. He chatted back that "I didn't have to hang up just to do that" He said he could wait until I was done reading my messages. He was shocked when I told him that I didn't have to hang up at all to check it!
He thought that was so cool that I could actually lock at a GIF and run a terminal at the same time.
I later showed him that I could play music, write a paper, and look at a Gif while downloading. He was shocked.
Oh the good old days when 3 Megabytes of ram and 80 megabytes of disk space was a big machine.
Child. :)
It was Xenix and Microsoft loved unix. Most of it's developers used Xenix to write DOS.
I would like rid of the AC post all together. It makes a great way to flame without getting a Karma hit. That and I think people should stand behind what they say. On Slashdot your not going to go to jail for what you post so protection from the man really isn't a good reason.
Of course a lot of people will not agree with me and that is fine. They have their views and I have mine.
Well for one thing the star would actually go boom. Since a Supernova throws off a lot of it's mass it would no longer be in a vacuum and there would be shock wave and there would be a boom if you where close enough.
I have to admit that Slashdot does seem to be getting less geeky and political all the time. Pay to many stories that are clearly politics are being listed as News or other things. Helpful hint if the summary has the words Demarcate, Republican, Green Party, Congressman, or Congress woman in it then it is politics.
I think part of the problem is that Slashdot is hard to make money on. What precentage of users are running ad blocking? 80% maybe?
So if the get more of the masses they will make more money.
The memory protection on the 286 was terrible. It still used segments and wasn't a flat address space.
I think the the 68010 came out around the time of 286 and you could add a real mmu that supported paging and had a flat address space. Also the 68020 came out during the time of the 286 so you could make the jump to true 32 bit.
Of course the vast majority of 286s where used to run DOS so it's memory protection just wasn't that important. BTW the 68881 was an FPU the Motorola 68841 or 68851 where the MMUs.
Z/OS runs Unix as a service.
Oh I wouldn't put it on an SD card I would put it right on the buss.
8 not enough? well you could go for 16 or 32 GB. Flash prices are dropping and I bet Nintendo can get it for well under $1 per GB right now. Yes give them an SD slot to expand it if they want but throw a bunch on the system board.
I understand the idea of a hard drive on a console but they get hot, make noise, and are actually pretty fragile.
The fact that MS-DOS outsold the Amiga and Atari ST is proof that best doesn't always win. The x86 is a great example as well. The 68k chip was a much better CPU than the 8088,8086, and even the 80286. Only when the 386 hit the market did Intel really have a CPU that wasn't a freaking nightmare.
Another example is PHP. Good grief $A[1]==$A['1'], that is just wrong.
PHP, Windows, x86, and so much of what we live with are all examples of good enough. Not great but good enough.
VMS came after Unix so calling it a not very modern OS is kind of odd. X-Windows was never supposed to be Unix specific in fact there was even a version for DeskView way back when.
WindowsNT really owes more to VMS than Unix the chief architect came from Digital. Tron also came after Unix as well. zOS is still an extremely important OS so just because it only runs on one CPU I wouldn't just thow it away as well. As to finding some Unix in zOS frankly you would probably find more zOS in modern Unix than the other way around. IBM really did pretty much invent everything that Bell Labs did not and they where their first.
I really am not fond of the the write up about QNX. It is Unix like in someways and shares an API with it. but QNX is a micro kernel RTOS.
And lets be very honest. Unix came from Multics. Every OS has built on and taken ideas from other OS's. None of them is the pure root source.
I am a big Linux fan but I often wonder if we are too willing to keep Unix as our foundation. BeOS was a clean new OS and while I have never used it wonder if it may not be better than Linux and WindowsNT. It did some amazing things back in the day.
The good thing about the Wii is that Nintendo didn't make it bleeding edge. Sony and Microsoft are talking about a 10 year life for the 360 and PS3. Nintendo can if they need to make a Wii that could probably beat both those consoles right now and still sell it $249. The Wii uses a single PPC core so throw a multicore on it. No hard drive? Why use a hard drive? Put 8 or 10 GB of flash on it. ATI could provide a new GPU next week that would blow away the old one. Include the new WiiMotion with the new Wiimote and You have the new Wii HD. It will run cooler and quiter than the 360 and have more games than the PS3
What is really nice is that Nintendo doesn't have the massive RnD costs of the Cell to recover so it could build a new console tomarrow.
I don't think people would even get all that upset over buying a new one. They line up for each new flavor of Gameboy. And if Nintendo wanted to get into the "media" side of it. Just get Hulu, NetFlix, and buy Boxee.
Big N jumps to the front again.
Of course people may keep buying the Wii for a very long time. But Nintendo doesn't seem to let things sit.
From what I have read the old PSP will play all the games the Go does so yea I just don't see it.
If it was cheaper then it would be logical.
What it will really do is kill used games.
You will not have the option of selling your old games when you finish them. You will not have the option of trading them to your friends. I am also betting that it will be less hackable as well.
Let's face it Sony and the other console makers HATE used games. I got a PS2 and I think I have bought 5 new games for it. Four of them where Singstar for my wife.
Yes but they took out the micro usb connector so none of your wired stuff works anymore.
That would be one big bird. Props tend to be a lot more sturdy than turbine blades.
EZWriter, Multimate, DisplayWrite and the list can just keep going on. Before we one OS had 90% of the desktop we had a lot more choices. Maybe the market was too fragmented but I often feel like we settled on a standard way too soon. The X86/DOS lock in lead right to the Windows / X86 lock in.
We have OS/X, Linux, and BSD now but they are still a very small part and only OS/X really seems to be doing well on the desktop.
Or maybe etherium.
uberium.
SteveJobbsium.
Linuxium
novaium
or just stuff.
As I said they where both very good movies but I would have to put Alien as possibly the best horror movie of all times. Aliens while very good just doesn't stand head and shoulders over other action movies they way Alien does IMHO.
But I will agree that Aliens sure didn't disappoint me in any way.