At least in gmail they are still around, and gmail will let you search for them easily. I am more worried about my university bouncing legit email as spam and I never see it... No way to find those.
I have friends that automatically bounce emails back for whitelist verification. This annoys me, but helps them. It also keeps them from getting a lot of needed email, like site automated site registration stuff. And the spammers would eventually beat that technology too.
Get a gmail account. It works. Our university spam filtering quality goes up and down, but I get maybe one spam a week in my inbox in gmail.
I used to periodically get some crazy communist manifesto spam, all in spanish. I miss that one...
I teach dynamics and control to chemical engineers in their senior year (mostly Laplace transform applications).
"Math is hard" is one of my favorite quotes because it is so totally ridiculous. I have to explain it to the students.
I may be crude and crass on occasion, but I even see that that is a crazy product. I can't believe they released it to the public and nobody realized it was a problem. I just wish I could catch one on Ebay.
Things are better now for women I think than three or four decades ago. My mom (math major, former NASA rocket scientist) was told by her father not to pursue graduate degrees, that was for men. I think fewer educators and parents are pushing women away from STEM.
At the same time, I want to cautiously say that men and women ARE different. The president of Harvard said something to this effect and got fired. Biochemistry amazingly does influence things inside your brain. Men and women have different biochemistry AFAIK in general. Maybe we are "wired" differently, but I don't think we are there even scratching the surface on understanding this in its entirety.
From personal experience, I can tell you my daughter is very "clingy" and cries when you leave the room. My son always pushed you away and does not care too much if you are around. Does this mean anything? N=2 so probably not.
From a professional standpoint, I work on research in computers and control (applied math) for chemical engineering systems. This area has very few women present in the research arena. Attending the American Control Meeting (a multi-disciplinary meeting) is probably 90%+ male. Mixing engineering+computing+math+graduate research apparently does not attract a lot of women. Or maybe the researchers in this area drive them all off. I don't know.
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You don't even need to crack audio, just run a cord into a machine and rip the song to a mp3 if you really want a non-DRM version.
I guess eventually they could downgrade the quality of all analog output to the point where it sounds like AM radio, requiring you to have digital speakers. But still, at some point you have to have an electric signal that could be tapped and recorded with minimal effort.
As for video, I can't wait to see someone sell a system capable of capturing 1080p video streams and remain HDCP compliant. I personally hate the HDMI HDCP thing, my cable box periodically and randomly pops up "DVI Cable not valid" messages when watching TV although I spent thousands on the latest HDCP compliant amp and TV, all version 1.2 or above. This angers me greatly to be watching a show and have it go black in the middle. You have to reset your TV, Amp, and Cable box then fast forward to where you were, unless it was live (and you are screwed, you lose). Maybe I get one of the new series III Tivos, but they don't do pay per view or on-demand.
I think the PVR box must be periodically checking the HDCP connection to make sure you did not secretly replace the TV with some sort of non-compliant recorder. You would think if something goes south once in the DRM verification (noise on the line, TV hiccup, Amp issue) they would verify a few times before crapping out your video stream and making me angry.
Academic engineering jobs can be financially competitive with industrial counterparts. Generally, most decent research institutions let you "consult" up to one day a week. That can help make up for the loss in $ or help you start your own business, something you could not do working a straight job at ExxonMobil. The big difference is industrial types usually get great benefits for retirement, and they are on 12 month salary (academics have to find research money to get paid in the summer).
We tried to get "differential tuition" but the upper administration did not want a two tier system. Instead we have "lab fees" that kick a few hundred bucks per student per lab. It really does not make up the difference, but it is a start. Although recently the state started giving an extra scholarship to STEM students (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math).
And you have to reconcile various differences between engineering and humanities. Recently I got promoted. Promotion raise is flat for all faculty. For me, it was like a cost of living increase, while it may be substantial in other disciplines.
And as my CS buddies always point out, starting salary is not the best indicator. Mean ten year out salary is a good indicator, CHE falls off in some cases (but is usually #1 starting).
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My 30 second easter egg recently disappeared due to a forced update.
And they need a web browser. My Wii is great, I can surf on my cell phone, why not a Tivo.
They need two way Cable cards so I can do on demand.
They need Tivo to go on series 3.
They need extra storage enabled.
The old extras were nice, browsing PC pictures, adding games, browsing online audio channels, etc. More cool stuff like that would be good.
We are doing HD (new sweet 50 inch 1080p LCD monster). Cable HD PVR was our only option for encrypted stuff. They don't encrypt local HD for us, only ESPN, HDNET movies, Discovery, etc.
I think we are not Mystro, but we have a variety of problems. They post an alert every time a new recording starts (even if you are watching recorded) although you don't need to know (no conflict resolution to handle, just starting and wanted to let you know). Things go missing, no recording. No season pass manager, so you never know what old season pass requests exist. Terrible terrible UI.
They do have a eSATA port enabled, so you could add a TB cheap. Encrypted on the disk, but that is ok.
And again, HDMI is a mess. All my stuff is 1.2 or 1.3, but they still flake out and you have to cycle the amp and PVR to get your show running again. Nothing makes me happy. I wish my Wii was a PVR, my Wii makes me happy (although laggy and not 1080p).
The TimeWarner SA 8300 is a load of garbage as well. The interface is terrible and it hangs on occasion. It gets confused on HDMI output and blacks the screen when it flakes on HDCP connections. It gets a black screen and becomes nonresponsive a lot, especially when recording two HD channels.
Why can't they just license the tivo software?
Sadly, the TIVO won't do on demand or pay per view stuff.
I love big physics as much as anyone, but I doubt the SSC would have significantly increased publications overall. Sure, they may find out some great fundamental information about the creation of the universe, but overall impact on society would probably be minimal. Unless the SSC could sort out time travel or make some sort of super-duper uber nuke... I doubt that anything practical or useful would come from the SSC (although some of the support technology would be practical and useful, similar to NASA impact).
NSF funding is generally quite difficult to obtain. Researchers often spend most of their time writing proposals. NSF claims high hit rates, but most areas I know of are well under 10% in reality. Assuming you are an average scientist, you have to submit ten proposals to get one funded. Usually that means one or two students for three years. If you double or triple that hit rate, you get more students and typically more publications and results. Even senior folks in my discipline are complaining about NSF hit rates; they had been funded for years and years, but now that had evaporated or diminished.
I did hear a couple of years back that NSF was going to double over the next few years. Hopefully that works out, but they may just spend it all on big physics...
From what I understand of the European systems in general, it is not quite the same. Graduate students in many cases are supported by the state. Money is given directly to the university or the "dean" and then researchers get a portion. This means they can focus more on getting papers out and developing students rather than submitting their 10-15 proposals per year.
I would like to see more industrial support, but industry in general has a much shorter horizon to look at. They want results in 3-6 months in many cases. It may take 3-6 years to get a graduate student to be truly productive. Some researchers do very well with industrial support, but in general it has diminished as well.
And as much as people lament earmarks, they come into play in the academic arena. Often an earmark is not some crazy bridge to nowhere, it is just a line-item specification in a funding bill for something reasonable. "Here DOE, here is a zillion dollars, however you need to spend a million bucks at some school on their favorite research topic." Otherwise, the program managers may just spend all their money however they want, so earmarks can steer money into projects mandated by senators and representatives rather than the government officials. Not ideal necessarily, but not super evil either.
Right. Once FPS on my PC got too complicated (beyond ASDW and mouse) I gave up on PC gaming. There is something to be said for a simple interface.
I personally wish Nintendo would release a high end game+Tivo+DVD system that ran at 1080p. The interface is terrific on the screen and the wiimote is intuitive, I just wish my PVR, DVD, and cable box were half as nice. The 480P looks ok, but it could be better still.
1080p and more GPU may satisfy the hardcore gamers, I would assume. Or do they need more buttons as well? Or maybe they just want to be hardcore in the sense that not everyone is doing it, so when Wii got popular it was not hardcore?
Most of that list was my observation of the iPhone.
The keyboard "stinks" for me. I could not type well, but I only gave it half an hour. I see a lot of frustration in my future if I get an iPhone.
Personal usage patterns? I don't follow. Everything on my list was a specific pro or con not related to my usage pattern. Either you can do something or you can't. I can't type on the iPhone keyboard, is that due to my usage pattern? Maybe I should give up typing...
As for shareware, I have a MP3 player and chess installed on my 650. I included links for some things that are available on the 755p, but not much is installed on my 650. The three others I want are the GPS addon, the stereo bluetooth, and the tether to PC option. Not a lot of additional cruft, but more than you can add to an iPhone.
Maybe I missed some pros of the iPhone, but there are specific pros there on the list. Thin, widescreen, better camera. The GUI comment was meant to be funny, because that really seems to be what is selling this thing. Rational arguments based on capability appear to be overridden by the GUI, and that was the point.
I have to keep my keyboard locked to avoid calling people. But for usefulness, the five way rocker is great. I don't need a stylus anymore, once you know how to get around in all the Palm applications.
You post something discussing iPhone limitations and get modded interesting, I post what I thought was a level-headed list of pros and cons and I get "Flamebait".
Maybe the iPhone hysteria is wearing off?
From last week:
played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.
-Keyboard stinks. Best way I could get anything typed accurately was hold it in one hand and point with the other. -No correction in web URLs and email addresses, so you have to be perfect. -No period in the keyboard (period,/, and.com buttons in web browser kbd) -Touch buttons too small. Although my Treo 650 screen buttons are often too small, but I rarely use them) -No removable media (Why switch to mini SD Palm? idiots) -No video recording -No editing MS word documents -No EVDO (Edge was slow when it worked, 755p may have EVDORevA at 600kbs) -No stereo bluetooth (http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/) -No third party applications (Chess, new browser, core media player, etc) -No laptop networking using phone (http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/) -No removable battery (Like 2x capacity third party) http://shop.treonauts.com/content/accessories/---2 512.htm [treonauts.com] -No way to quickly dial contacts -No way to navigate single handed (five way rocker rocks) -No tactile feedback (I like a click when I hang up the phone) -No GPS addons like http://hardware.smartphonetools.treobits.com/conte nt/accessories/10-95--2230.htm [treobits.com]
with free software links to free google maps http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=softw are.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&prodID=13173 5 [palmgear.com]
More iPhone limitations from http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/06/ why-the-iphone-.html [typepad.com] -No exchange integration for online calendering -No hacks for "push" email -No voice call recording -No voice dial -No cut and paste! -No task list! -No global find! -No file encryption -No podcast download over the air
iPhone does have: -Slick gui (that gets in the way, browsing on safari was stinky. Zoom and scroll, zoom and scroll, not too impressed. Sideways was nice) -Wifi built-in -Widescreen -More MP in camera (2.0 vs 1.2 in treo 755, both suck) -Thin form factor -Glass screen (more fragile than treo?) -Did I say sexy GUI?
Neither have- -Built in GPS -Flash in browser -Wireless networking for letting laptops online easily
So the Treo pros outweigh the cons. I am sticking with a new 755p as soon as I can get it, which looks like September.
This is iSlashDot, news for fans of the apple cult.
I did not even point out the cost of an iPhone. Maybe I should add that to my list...
Maybe I should work in some pro iraq war sentiment to get downmodded out of existence?
Even though the treo is dated, it works well in so many ways.
I played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.
-Keyboard stinks. Best way I could get anything typed accurately was hold it in one hand and point with the other. -No correction in web URLs and email addresses, so you have to be perfect. -No period in the keyboard (period,/, and.com buttons in web browser kbd) -Touch buttons too small. Although my Treo 650 screen buttons are often too small, but I rarely use them) -No removable media (Why switch to mini SD Palm? idiots) -No video recording -No editing MS word documents -No EVDO (Edge was slow when it worked, 755p may have EVDORevA at 600kbs) -No stereo bluetooth (http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/) -No third party applications (Chess, new browser, core media player, etc) -No laptop networking using phone (http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/) -No removable battery (Like 2x capacity third party) http://shop.treonauts.com/content/accessories/---2 512.htm [treonauts.com] -No way to quickly dial contacts -No way to navigate single handed (five way rocker rocks) -No tactile feedback (I like a click when I hang up the phone) -No GPS addons like http://hardware.smartphonetools.treobits.com/conte nt/accessories/10-95--2230.htm [treobits.com]
with free software links to free google maps http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=softw are.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&prodID=13173 5 [palmgear.com]
More iPhone limitations from http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/06/ why-the-iphone-.html [typepad.com] -No exchange integration for online calendering -No hacks for "push" email -No voice call recording -No voice dial -No cut and paste! -No task list! -No global find! -No file encryption -No podcast download over the air
iPhone does have: -Slick gui (that gets in the way, browsing on safari was stinky. Zoom and scroll, zoom and scroll, not too impressed. Sideways was nice) -Wifi built-in -Widescreen -More MP in camera (2.0 vs 1.2 in treo 755, both suck) -Thin form factor -Glass screen (more fragile than treo?) -Did I say sexy GUI?
Neither have- -Built in GPS -Flash in browser -Wireless networking for letting laptops online easily
So the Treo pros outweigh the cons. I am sticking with a new 755p as soon as I can get it, which looks like September.
Even though the treo is dated, it works well in so many ways.
I played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.
-Keyboard stinks. Best way I could get anything typed accurately was hold it in one hand and point with the other. -No correction in web URLs and email addresses, so you have to be perfect. -No period in the keyboard (period,/, and.com buttons in web browser kbd) -Touch buttons too small. Although my Treo 650 screen buttons are often too small, but I rarely use them) -No removable media (Why switch to mini SD Palm? idiots) -No video recording -No editing MS word documents -No EVDO (Edge was slow when it worked, 755p may have EVDORevA at 600kbs) -No stereo bluetooth (http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/) -No third party applications (Chess, new browser, core media player, etc) -No laptop networking using phone (http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/) -No removable battery (Like 2x capacity third party) http://shop.treonauts.com/content/accessories/---2 512.htm -No way to quickly dial contacts -No way to navigate single handed (five way rocker rocks) -No tactile feedback (I like a click when I hang up the phone) -No GPS addons like http://hardware.smartphonetools.treobits.com/conte nt/accessories/10-95--2230.htm
with free software links to free google maps http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=softw are.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&prodID=13173 5
More iPhone limitations from http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/06/ why-the-iphone-.html -No exchange integration for online calendering -No hacks for "push" email -No voice call recording -No voice dial -No cut and paste! -No task list! -No global find! -No file encryption -No podcast download over the air
iPhone does have: -Slick gui (that gets in the way, browsing on safari was stinky. Zoom and scroll, zoom and scroll, not too impressed. Sideways was nice) -Wifi built-in -Widescreen -More MP in camera (2.0 vs 1.2 in treo 755, both suck) -Thin form factor -Glass screen (more fragile than treo?) -Did I say sexy GUI?
Neither have- -Built in GPS -Flash in browser -Wireless networking for letting laptops online easily
So the Treo pros outweigh the cons. I am sticking with a new 755p as soon as I can get it, which looks like September.
Don't let a silly think like so-called "facts" slow down a reasoned and balanced view of politics. This is DailySlashDot, news for left-wing nerds.
Not to justify this action by W, but Clinton never served time for his crimes or for his pardons (many of which were linked to significant campaign donations).
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My 650 is pretty solid. A reset per month generally. Sounds like the 700 was a dog for you, but the 755 reviews appear pretty decent.
Lots of third party software is probably your problem, although sounds like you had problems with MP3s out of the box, so I don't know. Maybe Jobs has a point, don't let users install software, then they have less to complain about.
The new blackberry that will bluetooth to a laptop is a nice feature, too bad most phones don't unlock that feature.
I need a PDA with datebook and contact list, plus a crappy phone / video camera is nice to have. Sometimes a simple text editor is nice too, so a smartphone is nice. Swapping out batteries is a nice feature, as well as removable media. I just don't see the iphone hype yet. Maybe it will be like my Wii, after you use it you have to have it...
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I have a wife and two young kids too. I don't rip DVDs, but I do occasionally copy a few hundred MBs of MP3s onto a SD card to take on the plane. Laptop has a SD card, it is as easy as select, copy, paste.
I don't have unlimited video, but my wife gets it on her Q. We set up a orb.com box at home and she can stream recorded and live video to her phone to entertain the kids.
And I don't rip DVDs for my phone because I cracked the screen and I have been waiting for the 755 to come out. Maybe I will figure it out one day...
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Ask your friends to stop using subjects like:
"You will be able to penetrate deeper"
"15% discount automatically on BOTH watches!"
At least in gmail they are still around, and gmail will let you search for them easily. I am more worried about my university bouncing legit email as spam and I never see it... No way to find those.
I have friends that automatically bounce emails back for whitelist verification. This annoys me, but helps them. It also keeps them from getting a lot of needed email, like site automated site registration stuff. And the spammers would eventually beat that technology too.
Get a gmail account. It works. Our university spam filtering quality goes up and down, but I get maybe one spam a week in my inbox in gmail.
I used to periodically get some crazy communist manifesto spam, all in spanish. I miss that one...
I teach dynamics and control to chemical engineers in their senior year (mostly Laplace transform applications).
"Math is hard" is one of my favorite quotes because it is so totally ridiculous. I have to explain it to the students.
I may be crude and crass on occasion, but I even see that that is a crazy product. I can't believe they released it to the public and nobody realized it was a problem. I just wish I could catch one on Ebay.
Things are better now for women I think than three or four decades ago. My mom (math major, former NASA rocket scientist) was told by her father not to pursue graduate degrees, that was for men. I think fewer educators and parents are pushing women away from STEM.
At the same time, I want to cautiously say that men and women ARE different. The president of Harvard said something to this effect and got fired. Biochemistry amazingly does influence things inside your brain. Men and women have different biochemistry AFAIK in general. Maybe we are "wired" differently, but I don't think we are there even scratching the surface on understanding this in its entirety.
From personal experience, I can tell you my daughter is very "clingy" and cries when you leave the room. My son always pushed you away and does not care too much if you are around. Does this mean anything? N=2 so probably not.
From a professional standpoint, I work on research in computers and control (applied math) for chemical engineering systems. This area has very few women present in the research arena. Attending the American Control Meeting (a multi-disciplinary meeting) is probably 90%+ male. Mixing engineering+computing+math+graduate research apparently does not attract a lot of women. Or maybe the researchers in this area drive them all off. I don't know.
But is it NP-hard?
You don't even need to crack audio, just run a cord into a machine and rip the song to a mp3 if you really want a non-DRM version.
I guess eventually they could downgrade the quality of all analog output to the point where it sounds like AM radio, requiring you to have digital speakers. But still, at some point you have to have an electric signal that could be tapped and recorded with minimal effort.
As for video, I can't wait to see someone sell a system capable of capturing 1080p video streams and remain HDCP compliant. I personally hate the HDMI HDCP thing, my cable box periodically and randomly pops up "DVI Cable not valid" messages when watching TV although I spent thousands on the latest HDCP compliant amp and TV, all version 1.2 or above. This angers me greatly to be watching a show and have it go black in the middle. You have to reset your TV, Amp, and Cable box then fast forward to where you were, unless it was live (and you are screwed, you lose). Maybe I get one of the new series III Tivos, but they don't do pay per view or on-demand.
I think the PVR box must be periodically checking the HDCP connection to make sure you did not secretly replace the TV with some sort of non-compliant recorder. You would think if something goes south once in the DRM verification (noise on the line, TV hiccup, Amp issue) they would verify a few times before crapping out your video stream and making me angry.
Academic engineering jobs can be financially competitive with industrial counterparts. Generally, most decent research institutions let you "consult" up to one day a week. That can help make up for the loss in $ or help you start your own business, something you could not do working a straight job at ExxonMobil. The big difference is industrial types usually get great benefits for retirement, and they are on 12 month salary (academics have to find research money to get paid in the summer).
We tried to get "differential tuition" but the upper administration did not want a two tier system. Instead we have "lab fees" that kick a few hundred bucks per student per lab. It really does not make up the difference, but it is a start. Although recently the state started giving an extra scholarship to STEM students (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math).
And you have to reconcile various differences between engineering and humanities. Recently I got promoted. Promotion raise is flat for all faculty. For me, it was like a cost of living increase, while it may be substantial in other disciplines.
And as my CS buddies always point out, starting salary is not the best indicator. Mean ten year out salary is a good indicator, CHE falls off in some cases (but is usually #1 starting).
My 30 second easter egg recently disappeared due to a forced update.
And they need a web browser. My Wii is great, I can surf on my cell phone, why not a Tivo.
They need two way Cable cards so I can do on demand.
They need Tivo to go on series 3.
They need extra storage enabled.
The old extras were nice, browsing PC pictures, adding games, browsing online audio channels, etc. More cool stuff like that would be good.
Maybe someone will write drivers so the iPhone can do wireless stereo bluetooth like my Treo.
p hone
http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/
Maybe someone will write drivers so you could use a bluetooth or IR keyboard.
Maybe someone will write drivers so the iPhone can add some storage, like an SD card. May require soldering.
Maybe someone will write drivers so you can change the battery. May also require soldering.
Maddox loves his iPhone. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=i
I personally like tactile feedback. Maybe I have fat fingers, but the iPhone just did not work for me.
p hone
Right click can be useful too. Maybe even center and scroll. Call me nutty, but form follows function.
Maddox agrees:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=i
We are doing HD (new sweet 50 inch 1080p LCD monster). Cable HD PVR was our only option for encrypted stuff. They don't encrypt local HD for us, only ESPN, HDNET movies, Discovery, etc.
I think we are not Mystro, but we have a variety of problems. They post an alert every time a new recording starts (even if you are watching recorded) although you don't need to know (no conflict resolution to handle, just starting and wanted to let you know). Things go missing, no recording. No season pass manager, so you never know what old season pass requests exist. Terrible terrible UI.
They do have a eSATA port enabled, so you could add a TB cheap. Encrypted on the disk, but that is ok.
And again, HDMI is a mess. All my stuff is 1.2 or 1.3, but they still flake out and you have to cycle the amp and PVR to get your show running again. Nothing makes me happy. I wish my Wii was a PVR, my Wii makes me happy (although laggy and not 1080p).
The TimeWarner SA 8300 is a load of garbage as well. The interface is terrible and it hangs on occasion. It gets confused on HDMI output and blacks the screen when it flakes on HDCP connections. It gets a black screen and becomes nonresponsive a lot, especially when recording two HD channels.
Why can't they just license the tivo software?
Sadly, the TIVO won't do on demand or pay per view stuff.
I just found out about a crazy LUG community that probably overlaps with the old LUG community: Lego User Groups-
http://www.lugnet.com/
Or for the Lego train enthusiasts, they have separate Lego Train Club Organizations:
http://www.iltco.org/
I love big physics as much as anyone, but I doubt the SSC would have significantly increased publications overall. Sure, they may find out some great fundamental information about the creation of the universe, but overall impact on society would probably be minimal. Unless the SSC could sort out time travel or make some sort of super-duper uber nuke... I doubt that anything practical or useful would come from the SSC (although some of the support technology would be practical and useful, similar to NASA impact).
NSF funding is generally quite difficult to obtain. Researchers often spend most of their time writing proposals. NSF claims high hit rates, but most areas I know of are well under 10% in reality. Assuming you are an average scientist, you have to submit ten proposals to get one funded. Usually that means one or two students for three years. If you double or triple that hit rate, you get more students and typically more publications and results. Even senior folks in my discipline are complaining about NSF hit rates; they had been funded for years and years, but now that had evaporated or diminished.
I did hear a couple of years back that NSF was going to double over the next few years. Hopefully that works out, but they may just spend it all on big physics...
From what I understand of the European systems in general, it is not quite the same. Graduate students in many cases are supported by the state. Money is given directly to the university or the "dean" and then researchers get a portion. This means they can focus more on getting papers out and developing students rather than submitting their 10-15 proposals per year.
I would like to see more industrial support, but industry in general has a much shorter horizon to look at. They want results in 3-6 months in many cases. It may take 3-6 years to get a graduate student to be truly productive. Some researchers do very well with industrial support, but in general it has diminished as well.
And as much as people lament earmarks, they come into play in the academic arena. Often an earmark is not some crazy bridge to nowhere, it is just a line-item specification in a funding bill for something reasonable. "Here DOE, here is a zillion dollars, however you need to spend a million bucks at some school on their favorite research topic." Otherwise, the program managers may just spend all their money however they want, so earmarks can steer money into projects mandated by senators and representatives rather than the government officials. Not ideal necessarily, but not super evil either.
Yet almost nobody points out how idiotic the editors are for posting this carp. Or maybe they did, I browse at +4.
I may stop voting for Cowboy Neal in every poll. or not.
Maybe all the posts blaming the editors got modded down. Conspiracy! Fraud! I want my money back!
Until someone turns on a microwave.
Or you live in an apartment and your n nearest neighbors compete for bandwidth.
Or somebody nukes us and the EMP keeps you from watching American Idol.
Right. Once FPS on my PC got too complicated (beyond ASDW and mouse) I gave up on PC gaming. There is something to be said for a simple interface.
I personally wish Nintendo would release a high end game+Tivo+DVD system that ran at 1080p. The interface is terrific on the screen and the wiimote is intuitive, I just wish my PVR, DVD, and cable box were half as nice. The 480P looks ok, but it could be better still.
1080p and more GPU may satisfy the hardcore gamers, I would assume. Or do they need more buttons as well? Or maybe they just want to be hardcore in the sense that not everyone is doing it, so when Wii got popular it was not hardcore?
orb.com
Like MythTV running off a PC in your home, streaming to your wii.
Pictures, live and recorded TV, MP3s, other content too.
Most of that list was my observation of the iPhone.
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The keyboard "stinks" for me. I could not type well, but I only gave it half an hour. I see a lot of frustration in my future if I get an iPhone.
Personal usage patterns? I don't follow. Everything on my list was a specific pro or con not related to my usage pattern. Either you can do something or you can't. I can't type on the iPhone keyboard, is that due to my usage pattern? Maybe I should give up typing...
As for shareware, I have a MP3 player and chess installed on my 650. I included links for some things that are available on the 755p, but not much is installed on my 650. The three others I want are the GPS addon, the stereo bluetooth, and the tether to PC option. Not a lot of additional cruft, but more than you can add to an iPhone.
Maybe I missed some pros of the iPhone, but there are specific pros there on the list. Thin, widescreen, better camera. The GUI comment was meant to be funny, because that really seems to be what is selling this thing. Rational arguments based on capability appear to be overridden by the GUI, and that was the point.
I have to keep my keyboard locked to avoid calling people. But for usefulness, the five way rocker is great. I don't need a stylus anymore, once you know how to get around in all the Palm applications.
BTW, the EVDO on the current 755p runs a 500 Kbps link for a tethered laptop. EVDO Rev A may come on the 755p from Verizon, and it runs 600 to 1400 Kbps. Not sure what EDGE runs, but it looks like around 100.
http://www.evdoinfo.com/content/view/2009/63/
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9487/verizon-c
http://www.timeatlas.com/mos/Cell_Phones/Prospect
Maybe the iPhone hysteria is wearing off?
From last week:
So that is why Apple PCs dominate the market? Definitely easy to use...
Maybe better cost and broader functionality does have something to do with it?
This is iSlashDot, news for fans of the apple cult.
I did not even point out the cost of an iPhone. Maybe I should add that to my list...
Maybe I should work in some pro iraq war sentiment to get downmodded out of existence?
Even though the treo is dated, it works well in so many ways.
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I played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.
-Keyboard stinks. Best way I could get anything typed accurately was hold it in one hand and point with the other.
-No correction in web URLs and email addresses, so you have to be perfect.
-No period in the keyboard (period,
-Touch buttons too small. Although my Treo 650 screen buttons are often too small, but I rarely use them)
-No removable media (Why switch to mini SD Palm? idiots)
-No video recording
-No editing MS word documents
-No EVDO (Edge was slow when it worked, 755p may have EVDORevA at 600kbs)
-No stereo bluetooth (http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/)
-No third party applications (Chess, new browser, core media player, etc)
-No laptop networking using phone (http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/)
-No removable battery (Like 2x capacity third party)
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-No way to quickly dial contacts
-No way to navigate single handed (five way rocker rocks)
-No tactile feedback (I like a click when I hang up the phone)
-No GPS addons like
http://hardware.smartphonetools.treobits.com/cont
with free software links to free google maps
http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=soft
More iPhone limitations from
http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/06
-No exchange integration for online calendering
-No hacks for "push" email
-No voice call recording
-No voice dial
-No cut and paste!
-No task list!
-No global find!
-No file encryption
-No podcast download over the air
iPhone does have:
-Slick gui (that gets in the way, browsing on safari was stinky. Zoom and scroll, zoom and scroll, not too impressed. Sideways was nice)
-Wifi built-in
-Widescreen
-More MP in camera (2.0 vs 1.2 in treo 755, both suck)
-Thin form factor
-Glass screen (more fragile than treo?)
-Did I say sexy GUI?
Neither have-
-Built in GPS
-Flash in browser
-Wireless networking for letting laptops online easily
So the Treo pros outweigh the cons. I am sticking with a new 755p as soon as I can get it, which looks like September.
Crossposted from my comment on another board:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8918/verizon-t
Don't let a silly think like so-called "facts" slow down a reasoned and balanced view of politics. This is DailySlashDot, news for left-wing nerds.
Not to justify this action by W, but Clinton never served time for his crimes or for his pardons (many of which were linked to significant campaign donations).
My 650 is pretty solid. A reset per month generally. Sounds like the 700 was a dog for you, but the 755 reviews appear pretty decent.
Lots of third party software is probably your problem, although sounds like you had problems with MP3s out of the box, so I don't know. Maybe Jobs has a point, don't let users install software, then they have less to complain about.
The new blackberry that will bluetooth to a laptop is a nice feature, too bad most phones don't unlock that feature.
I need a PDA with datebook and contact list, plus a crappy phone / video camera is nice to have. Sometimes a simple text editor is nice too, so a smartphone is nice. Swapping out batteries is a nice feature, as well as removable media. I just don't see the iphone hype yet. Maybe it will be like my Wii, after you use it you have to have it...
I have a wife and two young kids too. I don't rip DVDs, but I do occasionally copy a few hundred MBs of MP3s onto a SD card to take on the plane. Laptop has a SD card, it is as easy as select, copy, paste.
I don't have unlimited video, but my wife gets it on her Q. We set up a orb.com box at home and she can stream recorded and live video to her phone to entertain the kids.
And I don't rip DVDs for my phone because I cracked the screen and I have been waiting for the 755 to come out. Maybe I will figure it out one day...