I bought one of these last October when they first came out.
The form factor is great, battery life is good, and I don't miss a keyboard. The web browser is OK, but the Mail app does suck (very very slow with a reasonable sized imap mailbox).
The bigger problems are the lack of memory and processor speed. If you're running the mail app, you can only open a couple of web windows too before everything comes to a standstill.
I'm hoping that Nokia are going to do something with memory and speed optimisation with the next software release - but haven't seen anything from them since December. A new rev was due end of Q1, but that's been and gone. Anyone have any inside information on when a rev might be made?
It's a very small portable internet device and thin client. It's a bit slow - but it does successfully run Google maps.
I bought one, because I believe that AJAX and remote databases services will become very popular soon. Running a thin wireless internet client like this, rather than a PDA means that I have access to all my data, and I never need to sync.
So far I really like it. It connects reliably to my Apple Airoprt express, but I can't get it to bluetooth to my Sony P910i phone.
The crowser is good - javascript and flash support is good. Real player plays music fine, but video was less successful. The mail client is OK, but slow. I had to slim doen my IMAP account - the mail client was slow with an IMAP mailbox of 1500 mails, 400 is a lot faster.
Battery life seems good, and the screen is really great.
The London Stock Exchange called a Fast market, in reaction to the initial high volatility and volume caused by the situation (possibly over this secure channel).
As a result of the Fast Market call, banks are requested to turn off programmed trading systems. This removes the danger that computer trading triggers will be tripped and cause catastrophic selling - leading to a crash.
Seems like everything was handled pretty well. The London equity market stabilised quickly, and actually returned to peaks of 2 weeks before within the same day. I'm sure that the reason behind this was a feeling that the attack - although bad - could have been a whole lot worse.
The UK police now have special sim cards to enable them to continue talking even if civilian mobile networks are switched off.
The Madrid bombs were triggered remotely by mobile phones. I think this system is a direct reaction to that threat (and it makes good sense IMHO).
In this case the decision seems to have been taken not ot use the capability (or to use it in a limited way). You can't get a signal on most London underground lines - so that ruled out the possibility that these bombs were triggered by mobile.
Having messed around with RAID on the Mac, I don't think striping/RAID is worthwhile on Firewire 400. FW400 maxes out at around 30MB/s, which is easily acheivable using a modern hard drive.
Using FW800, I'm getting sustained read and write of around 50MB/s using single Seagate 7200.8 drives. To make a really good RAID stripe, you really need multiple FW800 channels, one for each disk.
I sympathise with what you're saying, but you're getting a fantastic deal here.
Just for the manpower to change over you'd be looking at $50k+, and that wouldn't include training, hiring etc. to get the right people to manage an open solution.
You might want to sell this to management using another reason (security?) but you definately can't make a case out of the cost saving, 'cos there isn't any.
Chinese markets are great places to get knocked off games, music and DVDs. Even legit music CDs are very cheap in China - I was there in November and picked up some Beatles CDs for $4 each.
As for pr0n - get yourself a nice Chinese girlfriend for chrissakes! You'll probably be seen as an impressive catch...
I learnt to ride last year - and really enjoy it. Get a proper bike (not a Harley) and you'll find that there's nothing that requires more concentration. Concentration, speed, skill and the sense of freedom could be a great thing to 'perk your interest'.
Japan is a fantastic, rich, first world country to visit (I've been there a few times), but I don't believe the Japanese see it that way.
Japanese people still have the remenants of their 1960s attitude that they MUST CATCH UP AT ALL COSTS. New is good and flashy technology is great. This is an attitude you find all over East Asia, since before the 1950s these countries were all seriously behind the west.
The US and Europe on the other hand have more of an old-world arrogance, and nothing to prove about their technology or 'modernness'. Conversely, there are many in the west who have a much more conservative approach. Our 1960s love of the new has been replaced with suspicion, and a desire for retro and traditional goods.
I love Japan and don't intent to criticise their approach and attitude, but I really think they should get over their need to modernise. They're seriously destroying their country by paving over mountains, covering their coastline with concrete defenses and lining all their rivers.
If you want to read a much better account of this, check out 'Dogs and Demons' by Alex Kerr:
It's great to have choice - but I just don't want to accept the concequence of my decision. It's this risk I can't deal with.
I love Linux - I'm a Unix programmer and I prefer the platform to Windows. But what apps should I choose? Which window manager, which mail app, which browser?
Open source projects die off, merge, interest shifts from one product to another. I haven't time for this - I just want to be productive, and be kept up to date. It's too much.
That's why I bought a Mac. I have one browser, one mail app, one address book. My addresses are entered once, and sync with my phone, palm, mail tool etc. It just works, it's Unix, it's all supported and it all gets updated regularly.
I don't care that it costs a bit more - it saves me time and anxiety over other solutions and that's worth the price.
Make book reading part of your life - really it's not too late. There's no reason to wait until you have spare time before reading - read as much as you can. A spare month is enough time to leisurely read 10+ books (depending on length...) and expanding your interests outside sci-fi/hacker would expand your mind more too...
My recommendation? I've bought 'The Art of Travel' by Alain De Botton for a few friends http://www.alaindebotton.com/ . It's a fantastic book, bringing philosophy to daily life. This book will get you into philiosophy and travel... both great things to expand your mind.
Wow. Bruce Cambell / Sam Raimi's Evil dead stuff was absolutely superb. I couldn't believe the end to EDII when I first saw it!
Darkman was also fantastic. Who can forget the explosion scene? The toy bird strikes light to the gas, the iris contracts, the explosion spreads in slow motion. Incredible inventiveness and attention to detail.
Sam Raimi is definately on topic for this forum! I await the film!
I just wanted to add a little background on this...
This action by Demon follows a court case earlier in the year, where a guy claimed that Demon were responsible for defamatory comments posted to their news servers about him (by Demon customers - not by Demon themselves). Demon LOST, and this has been a really worrying development for UK free speech. As I understand it, Demon is now appealing. The postings posted in this new dispute are about the same guy.
So Demon is unfortunately now having to delete posts/bar users in order to comply with a legal suit that they are appealing against.
In my experience, Demon have always been one of the best UK ISPs. They have had full news feeds etc. all the time, and seem to have complied with government censorship attempts just enough to stay out of trouble. They're pretty good technically too (always delivered mail by SMTP, always handed out static ip addresses, great support for Linux).
Iris scanning for ATMs aims at solving a symptom (reliable access to cash) to a problem (cash itself).
What we need is a reliable anonymous electronic payment system. I think Mondex is close to this (although I don't know too much about it myself). Something where you can charge an electronic card up with cash units from your credit card in the comfort of your own home would give you:
1/ Greater security, since you're not getting a large quantity of cash at an obvious crime target (static ATM). 2/ You don't need to carry so much anonymous money , since you can recharge at your leisure.
Differentiating between anonymous money and verified money is important. Verified money (with a good verification system) is difficult to steal (a signature on a credit card slip is verified but it's not a good system). Anonymous money is necessary for your privacy, but is more attractive to criminals. The convertion point where you exchange verified -> anonymous money carries the greatest security risk and the sooner it is removed from public places the better.
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I bought one of these last October when they first came out.
The form factor is great, battery life is good, and I don't miss a keyboard. The web browser is OK, but the Mail app does suck (very very slow with a reasonable sized imap mailbox).
The bigger problems are the lack of memory and processor speed. If you're running the mail app, you can only open a couple of web windows too before everything comes to a standstill.
I'm hoping that Nokia are going to do something with memory and speed optimisation with the next software release - but haven't seen anything from them since December. A new rev was due end of Q1, but that's been and gone. Anyone have any inside information on when a rev might be made?
Thanks!
> blah, blah, blah all good stuff from a responsible music lover etc.
amen - agree with you about getting single tracks & RIAA being evil
> I still listen to the three tapes (TAPES!) of Samantha Fox
ha ha ha ha ha
You are joking, right?
I have one too - I've had it just over a week.
It's a very small portable internet device and thin client. It's a bit slow - but it does successfully run Google maps.
I bought one, because I believe that AJAX and remote databases services will become very popular soon. Running a thin wireless internet client like this, rather than a PDA means that I have access to all my data, and I never need to sync.
So far I really like it. It connects reliably to my Apple Airoprt express, but I can't get it to bluetooth to my Sony P910i phone.
The crowser is good - javascript and flash support is good. Real player plays music fine, but video was less successful. The mail client is OK, but slow. I had to slim doen my IMAP account - the mail client was slow with an IMAP mailbox of 1500 mails, 400 is a lot faster.
Battery life seems good, and the screen is really great.
It's a great device.
The London Stock Exchange called a Fast market, in reaction to the initial high volatility and volume caused by the situation (possibly over this secure channel).
As a result of the Fast Market call, banks are requested to turn off programmed trading systems. This removes the danger that computer trading triggers will be tripped and cause catastrophic selling - leading to a crash.
Seems like everything was handled pretty well. The London equity market stabilised quickly, and actually returned to peaks of 2 weeks before within the same day. I'm sure that the reason behind this was a feeling that the attack - although bad - could have been a whole lot worse.
The UK police now have special sim cards to enable them to continue talking even if civilian mobile networks are switched off.
The Madrid bombs were triggered remotely by mobile phones. I think this system is a direct reaction to that threat (and it makes good sense IMHO).
In this case the decision seems to have been taken not ot use the capability (or to use it in a limited way). You can't get a signal on most London underground lines - so that ruled out the possibility that these bombs were triggered by mobile.
Having messed around with RAID on the Mac, I don't think striping/RAID is worthwhile on Firewire 400. FW400 maxes out at around 30MB/s, which is easily acheivable using a modern hard drive.
Using FW800, I'm getting sustained read and write of around 50MB/s using single Seagate 7200.8 drives. To make a really good RAID stripe, you really need multiple FW800 channels, one for each disk.
I sympathise with what you're saying, but you're getting a fantastic deal here.
Just for the manpower to change over you'd be looking at $50k+, and that wouldn't include training, hiring etc. to get the right people to manage an open solution.
You might want to sell this to management using another reason (security?) but you definately can't make a case out of the cost saving, 'cos there isn't any.
Chinese markets are great places to get knocked off games, music and DVDs. Even legit music CDs are very cheap in China - I was there in November and picked up some Beatles CDs for $4 each.
As for pr0n - get yourself a nice Chinese girlfriend for chrissakes! You'll probably be seen as an impressive catch...
Have fun!
Try a motorcycle rather than an RV.
I learnt to ride last year - and really enjoy it. Get a proper bike (not a Harley) and you'll find that there's nothing that requires more concentration. Concentration, speed, skill and the sense of freedom could be a great thing to 'perk your interest'.
Check out:
http://www.advrider.com/
Japan is a fantastic, rich, first world country to visit (I've been there a few times), but I don't believe the Japanese see it that way.
Japanese people still have the remenants of their 1960s attitude that they MUST CATCH UP AT ALL COSTS. New is good and flashy technology is great. This is an attitude you find all over East Asia, since before the 1950s these countries were all seriously behind the west.
The US and Europe on the other hand have more of an old-world arrogance, and nothing to prove about their technology or 'modernness'. Conversely, there are many in the west who have a much more conservative approach. Our 1960s love of the new has been replaced with suspicion, and a desire for retro and traditional goods.
I love Japan and don't intent to criticise their approach and attitude, but I really think they should get over their need to modernise. They're seriously destroying their country by paving over mountains, covering their coastline with concrete defenses and lining all their rivers.
If you want to read a much better account of this, check out 'Dogs and Demons' by Alex Kerr:
http://www.davidappleyard.com/japan/jp13.htm
> Geez, come one people, get a grip
quite...
It's great to have choice - but I just don't want to accept the concequence of my decision. It's this risk I can't deal with.
I love Linux - I'm a Unix programmer and I prefer the platform to Windows. But what apps should I choose? Which window manager, which mail app, which browser?
Open source projects die off, merge, interest shifts from one product to another. I haven't time for this - I just want to be productive, and be kept up to date. It's too much.
That's why I bought a Mac. I have one browser, one mail app, one address book. My addresses are entered once, and sync with my phone, palm, mail tool etc. It just works, it's Unix, it's all supported and it all gets updated regularly.
I don't care that it costs a bit more - it saves me time and anxiety over other solutions and that's worth the price.
I already have a full GPS system on my motorcycle - complete with autorouting etc.
:-)
You guys are living in the past!
One spare month and you want to read one book?
Make book reading part of your life - really it's not too late. There's no reason to wait until you have spare time before reading - read as much as you can. A spare month is enough time to leisurely read 10+ books (depending on length...) and expanding your interests outside sci-fi/hacker would expand your mind more too...
My recommendation? I've bought 'The Art of Travel' by Alain De Botton for a few friends http://www.alaindebotton.com/ . It's a fantastic book, bringing philosophy to daily life. This book will get you into philiosophy and travel... both great things to expand your mind.
Wow. Bruce Cambell / Sam Raimi's Evil dead stuff was absolutely superb. I couldn't believe the end to EDII when I first saw it!
Darkman was also fantastic. Who can forget the explosion scene? The toy bird strikes light to the gas, the iris contracts, the explosion spreads in slow motion. Incredible inventiveness and attention to detail.
Sam Raimi is definately on topic for this forum! I await the film!
I just wanted to add a little background on this...
This action by Demon follows a court case earlier in the year, where a guy claimed that Demon were responsible for defamatory comments posted to their news servers about him (by Demon customers - not by Demon themselves). Demon LOST, and this has been a really worrying development for UK free speech. As I understand it, Demon is now appealing. The postings posted in this new dispute are about the same guy.
So Demon is unfortunately now having to delete posts/bar users in order to comply with a legal suit that they are appealing against.
In my experience, Demon have always been one of the best UK ISPs. They have had full news feeds etc. all the time, and seem to have complied with government censorship attempts just enough to stay out of trouble. They're pretty good technically too (always delivered mail by SMTP, always handed out static ip addresses, great support for Linux).
...by a satisfied Demon user (for almost 5 years)
Iris scanning for ATMs aims at solving a symptom (reliable access to cash) to a problem (cash itself).
What we need is a reliable anonymous electronic payment system. I think Mondex is close to this (although I don't know too much about it myself). Something where you can charge an electronic card up with cash units from your credit card in the comfort of your own home would give you:
1/ Greater security, since you're not getting a large quantity of cash at an obvious crime target (static ATM).
2/ You don't need to carry so much anonymous money , since you can recharge at your leisure.
Differentiating between anonymous money and verified money is important. Verified money (with a good verification system) is difficult to steal (a signature on a credit card slip is verified but it's not a good system). Anonymous money is necessary for your privacy, but is more attractive to criminals. The convertion point where you exchange verified -> anonymous money carries the greatest security risk and the sooner it is removed from public places the better.