Oh I dunno. If you can get $2.3 billion for a tired old search engine like AltaVista what do you think Rob & Jeff got for a dynamic & innovative site like slashdot (reaching thousands of dynamic & innovative people like us)? It's gotta be at least $25billion or so, doesn't it?
> If you have cable TV, see if you can get BBC News 24.
Why bother getting up to switch the TV on? Use their their " BBC News On-Air" Internet service. (You can even get Radio 4's wonderful "Today" news show in Real Audio format!)
> That Mobitex network also runs the Palm VII Hmm, what do you mean by "also" here? BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network != Novatel Mobitex network, AFAICS. Regards, Ralph.
The technically interesting stuff on the BlackBerry is to be found here. (Needs Acrobat Reader).
It uses BellSouth Wireless Data's "Intelligent Wireless Network" to "serve 93% of the urban U.S. business population, which covers 266 metropolitan statistical areas across the country, as well as major transportation corridors and more than 130 of the nation's top airports." Gosh.
But it looks like it's completely tied in to M$ Exchange/Outlook so Slashdotters should probably look elsewhere. (Or start doing some reverse engineering?)
From the original New Scientist article: Another problem that Moller must tackle is noise. Residential areas usually tolerate noise levels about the same as background traffic--up to 70 decibels--but the Skycar generates about 85 decibels. Moller is looking at ways to reduce noise, by carefully avoiding resonances and by using noise cancellation techniques. Even so, Moller admits it will be difficult to reduce noise levels to below 70 decibels.
And those "noise cancellation techniques" would only help the occupants of the Skycar, not the poor boogers in the street below.
On 13 Jan 1999 Freeserve announced that they had 900,000 customers... although The Register said they admitted that only 700,000 of these were active. Still somewhat more than 120,000...
True in UK too, for sure. As The Register points out, British Telecom are making $220 profit per second and have no intention of cutting the cost of Net access, let alone making it free.
> How do consumers identify the products they > need when software is constantly evolving and > there are no standard products that enable > users to share compatible information?
Who else thought they were talking about Microsoft products (Office 95/97/2000/etc.) here?
In one of Rob's stealth-Katz postings - "Katz v Taco: Futurama" - Katz writes: "This time, the target is us - nerds, geeks, the power of computing, the sci-fi culture and the insanely-hyped Millenium."
Maybe Rob meant to write that no-one other than Katz would claim him to be geek.:-)
Ain't it obvious guv'nor? UK hackers always wear unfashionable anoraks if and when they venture outdoors into the incessant drizzle. At least in the "popular imagination".
Tried out the Katz filter. His article disappeared but his name was still there - three times - on the index page.
Maybe a curse filter is the answer.
Regards, Ralph.
P.S. Kinda odd this filtering thing. Previously we've all been looking at the same/. We didn't all read the same parts but we knew they were there. What if Katz starts openly promoting bestiality and child sex the whole time and I don't know anything about it? I innocently tell someone I read/. and they call the police...
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Like the man said: "one of the reasons Windows 95 and Windows 98 are so "bloated" is so that they can run the old applications".
How big/bloated do you reckon Gnome/KDE/Window Maker will be by the time they really do what they're meant to do?
Regards, Ralph.
The UK hold the land speed record at the moment, BTW.
Regards, Ralph.
Oh I dunno. If you can get $2.3 billion for a tired old search engine like AltaVista what do you think Rob & Jeff got for a dynamic & innovative site like slashdot (reaching thousands of dynamic & innovative people like us)? It's gotta be at least $25billion or so, doesn't it?
:-)
Regards, Ralph.
Perhaps rather more interesting than these silly emails is Mindcraft's rebuttals to the reporting they received after the 1st "benchmark" tests.
Personally I'd be interested to see some rebuttals to these rebuttals ...
Regards, Ralph.
Info on the BBC's DAB system is available here.
(They're predicting internet over DAB by 2009, and radios that only play the music you like by 2020!)
Regards, Ralph.
From the screenshot in the review it looks like it can go down to 13MHz (or slower?).
Regards, Ralph.
> If you have cable TV, see if you can get BBC News 24.
Why bother getting up to switch the TV on? Use their their " BBC News On-Air" Internet service. (You can even get Radio 4's wonderful "Today" news show in Real Audio format!)
Regards, Ralph.
They seem to be traded on NASDAQ.
Regards, Ralph.
> Like Apple, I think that Inprise can bounce back
Yeah, like Apple, in whom Microsoft is a 10% shareholder.
Funny ain't it, M$ can only run their monopoly successfully if they maintain a veneer of a free market by financially supporting the competition.
Regards, Ralph.
(Sigh, I default to HTML formatted now, don't I!)
> That Mobitex network also runs the Palm VII
Hmm, what do you mean by "also" here?
BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network != Novatel Mobitex network, AFAICS.
Regards, Ralph.
> That Mobitex network also runs the Palm VII Hmm, what do you mean by "also" here? BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network != Novatel Mobitex network, AFAICS. Regards, Ralph.
The technically interesting stuff on the BlackBerry is to be found here. (Needs Acrobat Reader).
It uses BellSouth Wireless Data's "Intelligent Wireless Network" to "serve 93% of the urban U.S. business population, which covers 266 metropolitan statistical areas across the country, as well as major transportation corridors and more than 130 of the nation's top airports." Gosh.
But it looks like it's completely tied in to M$ Exchange/Outlook so Slashdotters should probably look elsewhere. (Or start doing some reverse engineering?)
Regards, Ralph.
"Offtopic" maybe, but "Troll" ... ?
From the original New Scientist article:
Another problem that Moller must tackle is noise. Residential areas usually tolerate noise levels about the same as background traffic--up to 70 decibels--but the Skycar generates about 85 decibels. Moller is looking at ways to reduce noise, by carefully avoiding resonances and by using noise cancellation techniques. Even so, Moller admits it will be difficult to reduce noise levels to below 70 decibels.
And those "noise cancellation techniques" would only help the occupants of the Skycar, not the poor boogers in the street below.
Regards, Ralph.
Read Permutation City by Greg Egan to get a pretty good idea how this will work in practice.
Regards, Ralph Bearpark.
On 13 Jan 1999 Freeserve announced that they had 900,000 customers ... although The Register said they admitted that only 700,000 of these were active. Still somewhat more than 120,000 ...
Regards, Ralph.
True in UK too, for sure. As The Register points out, British Telecom are making $220 profit per second and have no intention of cutting the cost of Net access, let alone making it free.
Regards, Ralph.
More info at Sensar who actually implemented the Nationwide system.
Regards, Ralph.
Every American schoolkid should carry one.
However, I guess it'll only be a matter of time before the bad guys start wearing lightening conductors.
Regards, Ralph.
The 7 words are apparently: c*cks*cker, c*nt, f*ck, m*therf*cker, p*ss, sh*t and t*ts.
:-))
(You Usians are such pr*des.
Regards, Ralph.
> How do consumers identify the products they
> need when software is constantly evolving and
> there are no standard products that enable
> users to share compatible information?
Who else thought they were talking about Microsoft products (Office 95/97/2000/etc.) here?
Regards, Ralph.
In one of Rob's stealth-Katz postings - "Katz v Taco: Futurama" - Katz writes: "This time, the target is us - nerds, geeks, the power of computing, the sci-fi culture and the insanely-hyped Millenium."
:-)
Maybe Rob meant to write that no-one other than Katz would claim him to be geek.
Regards, Ralph.
Ain't it obvious guv'nor? UK hackers always wear unfashionable anoraks if and when they venture outdoors into the incessant drizzle. At least in the "popular imagination".
Regards, Ralph.
> He's opposed manned spaceflight in Congress
He's right on that one at least. Manned spaceflight in a confined area like the Congress building would be very dangerous.
Regards, Ralph.
Tried out the Katz filter. His article disappeared but his name was still there - three times - on the index page.
/. We didn't all read the same parts but we knew they were there. What if Katz starts openly promoting bestiality and child sex the whole time and I don't know anything about it? I innocently tell someone I read /. and they call the police ...
Maybe a curse filter is the answer.
Regards, Ralph.
P.S. Kinda odd this filtering thing. Previously we've all been looking at the same