Great memories with this computer. And it was so far ahead of all competitors : even the predecessor of the Acorn BBC B (the Electron) already had 2Mhz and 32KB RAM and was networkable using a thing called Econet. The BBC B+ could be expanded up to 128KByte and had a second processor (we're talking 1986 !!!!), teletext-reader, lightpen that allowed you to draw by using a pen on your screen (think tablet !) and so on. And then Archimedes with its 32-bit RISC CPU came in 1987 (!), doing 4 MIPS and offering a Windowed operating system that booted from EEPROM instantly (switch it on and it's there).
Any mobile device with an ARM chip (think Android, tablets, Blackberry, etc.) is based on the architecture that was spawned in the 80s by Acorn (ARM = Acorn Risc Machine). I'm glad and privileged to have worked with those great devices !
Seems like that's another journalist who needs to take geography classes... first he talks about a company from Luxemburg, then he says it's located in Belgium... quite a difference !
Has the author considered that the percentage of support calls for hardware problems is higher because there are simply less calls for software issues ? Percentages don't mean a thing if you don't compare the total number of phones sold to the number of calls...
Lactose intolerance isn't uncommon in Europe. Although the milk-drinking Dutch only have 1% of their population having lactose intolerance, the average in Europe is around 20%. I'm happy there's at least 1 brand producing lactose-free products in Europe now, but it should be a standard for everyone !
Read and weep, Apple geek : http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173601/symbian_and_android_to_lead_mobile_os_market_in_2012.html And no, that's not an opinion story, it's a Gartner report.
The iPhones will end up in the bin as quickly as they were bought...
Funny that the first citywide mobile phone was introduced in Japan (1979) and Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1981. US followed 2 years later. And I'm not even talking about 2G, G3, G3+ and G4 standards, where the gap is even bigger. Oh and you probably think Nokia is an American company... and T-Mobile probably is American in your mind too ? Also noteworthy : the first American company on the list of largest mobile phone networks is at #13.
Wake up and look outside... there's more to see outside the US than inside !
So what happens if that small carrier gets 500.001 customers ? You can't use your iPhone on their network anymore ? So small carriers will need to stay small... ofcourse Verizon loves that idea, because then they can keep the status quo in the market !
"he had spent the profound sum in one pop at a nearby Mobil gas station -- his regular stop for Camel cigarettes" Smoking is bad for your health... and wallet;-)
Might want to think about encoding with lossless compression ? That brings it down a whole lot. You can get a 1080p movie down to 20-30GByte (sometimes even less).
Time to look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4
You will notice that the Internet is actually based on ARPANET, Cyclades (French network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES), CERNET (Swiss network), SERCNET/Janet (British) and several other commercial and non-commercial networks.
So ARPANET might have existed first, but it certainly isn't the absolute base on which the Internet was built, since technology from other networks was used to link up... technologies which eventually controlled the Internet. In that respect, you could say that ARPANET was replaced by a network based on global technologies.
TGV and Thalys (TGV brand) both have high speed Internet access on-board (http://www.thalys.com/de/en/practical-travel-guide/during/internet-on-board). Uplink is via satellite, G3 or Wifi when in stations.
Taking the Thalys (TGV train, just different brand) from Brussels to Paris takes just 1h15. You go to the station, walk up to the platform, get on the train and sit down. By car it takes about 3 hours (+ traffic jams). By plane it takes about 45 minutes, but you have to add about 2 hours for check-in, taxiing, etc.
So for anything shorter than 600km/400miles, TGV beats any other form of transport. For longer distances, planes are faster.
Eurostar also runs at 200mph between Brussels and the Eurotunnel, Paris and the Eurotunnel and London and the Eurotunnel. Speed inside the Eurotunnel is restricted to 100mph.
Explain this me : if evolution doesn't exist, why doesn't just the animal world, but even mankind come in all colors and shapes ?
Also, we know for a fact that no species can come from 2 individuals. Furthermore : if Adam and Eve have 3 children, all male, how did the human race survive ?
Genesis is a great story told by people who had no other ways of explaining where humankind came from. I'm certainly not discrediting everything that's in the Bible. I'm a religious person. But one has to separate fact from fiction. If the Vatican, who once put burned people alive for saying there were errors in the Bible, simply admits Genesis is a nice story, but evolution is a fact, how can you believe such a flawed story is fact ?
The Bible was not written to be a book of facts. It was written as a moral guideline for life. Once you realize science and religion can go hand-in-hand if you look past the actual words in the Bible, you will find the Bible has a much deeper meaning than those words, a meaning that science complements with facts.
Seriously, for the country that's supposed to be the most modern and have the best technology (all ofcourse delivered through scientific study), it remains unbelievable that evolution is even questioned.
No such thing in Europe. Not even the Vatican and the Church of England (both the foundations for the US churches) doubt evolution theory. They even support it !
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You're absolutely right !
Great memories with this computer. And it was so far ahead of all competitors : even the predecessor of the Acorn BBC B (the Electron) already had 2Mhz and 32KB RAM and was networkable using a thing called Econet.
The BBC B+ could be expanded up to 128KByte and had a second processor (we're talking 1986 !!!!), teletext-reader, lightpen that allowed you to draw by using a pen on your screen (think tablet !) and so on.
And then Archimedes with its 32-bit RISC CPU came in 1987 (!), doing 4 MIPS and offering a Windowed operating system that booted from EEPROM instantly (switch it on and it's there).
Any mobile device with an ARM chip (think Android, tablets, Blackberry, etc.) is based on the architecture that was spawned in the 80s by Acorn (ARM = Acorn Risc Machine).
I'm glad and privileged to have worked with those great devices !
Are you joking or do you need some geography as well ?
Seems like that's another journalist who needs to take geography classes... first he talks about a company from Luxemburg, then he says it's located in Belgium... quite a difference !
In fact, I have a solution to all their privacy problems. But maybe this time I should file for a patent first, otherwise my idea becomes Google++ ...
Has the author considered that the percentage of support calls for hardware problems is higher because there are simply less calls for software issues ?
Percentages don't mean a thing if you don't compare the total number of phones sold to the number of calls...
Has been working fine in Belgium for about 10 years or so. Several of the major stores offer this service for a small fee.
Lactose intolerance isn't uncommon in Europe. Although the milk-drinking Dutch only have 1% of their population having lactose intolerance, the average in Europe is around 20%.
I'm happy there's at least 1 brand producing lactose-free products in Europe now, but it should be a standard for everyone !
So was Atlantis originally located in the Mediterranean Basin ? ;-)
Or did I watch too much Stargate ?
Read and weep, Apple geek : http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173601/symbian_and_android_to_lead_mobile_os_market_in_2012.html
And no, that's not an opinion story, it's a Gartner report.
The iPhones will end up in the bin as quickly as they were bought...
Funny that the first citywide mobile phone was introduced in Japan (1979) and Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1981. US followed 2 years later. And I'm not even talking about 2G, G3, G3+ and G4 standards, where the gap is even bigger.
Oh and you probably think Nokia is an American company... and T-Mobile probably is American in your mind too ?
Also noteworthy : the first American company on the list of largest mobile phone networks is at #13.
Wake up and look outside... there's more to see outside the US than inside !
Uh ? Where have you been living ? Pluto ?
Yup, Frank The Winner :-)
Ah it's just teleportation :p
A Belgian is now commander of the ISS and president of the IOC... and next year probably chairman of the UN Security Council :-)
So what happens if that small carrier gets 500.001 customers ? You can't use your iPhone on their network anymore ?
So small carriers will need to stay small... ofcourse Verizon loves that idea, because then they can keep the status quo in the market !
"he had spent the profound sum in one pop at a nearby Mobil gas station -- his regular stop for Camel cigarettes" ;-)
Smoking is bad for your health... and wallet
Might want to think about encoding with lossless compression ? That brings it down a whole lot. You can get a 1080p movie down to 20-30GByte (sometimes even less).
Time to look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4
You will notice that the Internet is actually based on ARPANET, Cyclades (French network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES), CERNET (Swiss network), SERCNET/Janet (British) and several other commercial and non-commercial networks.
So ARPANET might have existed first, but it certainly isn't the absolute base on which the Internet was built, since technology from other networks was used to link up... technologies which eventually controlled the Internet. In that respect, you could say that ARPANET was replaced by a network based on global technologies.
TGV and Thalys (TGV brand) both have high speed Internet access on-board (http://www.thalys.com/de/en/practical-travel-guide/during/internet-on-board). Uplink is via satellite, G3 or Wifi when in stations.
Taking the Thalys (TGV train, just different brand) from Brussels to Paris takes just 1h15. You go to the station, walk up to the platform, get on the train and sit down. By car it takes about 3 hours (+ traffic jams). By plane it takes about 45 minutes, but you have to add about 2 hours for check-in, taxiing, etc.
So for anything shorter than 600km/400miles, TGV beats any other form of transport. For longer distances, planes are faster.
Eurostar also runs at 200mph between Brussels and the Eurotunnel, Paris and the Eurotunnel and London and the Eurotunnel.
Speed inside the Eurotunnel is restricted to 100mph.
Ever heard of Eurostar ? Travels at 200mph to London...
Explain this me : if evolution doesn't exist, why doesn't just the animal world, but even mankind come in all colors and shapes ?
Also, we know for a fact that no species can come from 2 individuals.
Furthermore : if Adam and Eve have 3 children, all male, how did the human race survive ?
Genesis is a great story told by people who had no other ways of explaining where humankind came from. I'm certainly not discrediting everything that's in the Bible. I'm a religious person. But one has to separate fact from fiction.
If the Vatican, who once put burned people alive for saying there were errors in the Bible, simply admits Genesis is a nice story, but evolution is a fact, how can you believe such a flawed story is fact ?
The Bible was not written to be a book of facts. It was written as a moral guideline for life. Once you realize science and religion can go hand-in-hand if you look past the actual words in the Bible, you will find the Bible has a much deeper meaning than those words, a meaning that science complements with facts.
Seriously, for the country that's supposed to be the most modern and have the best technology (all ofcourse delivered through scientific study), it remains unbelievable that evolution is even questioned.
No such thing in Europe. Not even the Vatican and the Church of England (both the foundations for the US churches) doubt evolution theory. They even support it !
Wake up, Americans :-)