As you are only interested in Prepaid, use this link and change the amount of Mb per month at the end of the URL from 310 to what you need: http://www.teltarif.de/db/res-mobildaten.html?prepaid=1&von=Heimatnetz&mb=310
Can you read German? If so, look here: http://www.teltarif.de/mobilfunk/
For news like this: http://www.teltarif.de/tchibo-surfstick-30-euro/news/37951.html
There is no need for scare. * If ISP never really reaches the bandwidth they somehow promised or - god forbid advertised - he'll be sued, anyway. * For video? Have buffer time. DVB-T already lags analog cable two seconds on live events just for recoding and buffering. * Mesh radio concepts became technically viable before broadband became really cheap. * And those people in rural areas won't see a difference anyway
Or there might have been a *real* reason to go after Iraq, one that had to be hidden from the world.
There is a reason. Having a close eye on Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria and maybe even Turkey.
Saudi Arabia government can be seen as fragile and has to be followed closely.
Iran has an unfriendly government with a working nuclear program.
Syria is under gereral suspicion since ages.
Turkey recently got a smart as-islamistic-as-you-can-get-under-turkish-General s government.
Want some more?
What Bush really didn't care about and what I would say in Kerrys place is this:
Bush is a bad President because he knew before going into Iraq that this country would start a civil war as soon as Hussein was forced out of control and was not replaced immediately by an effective ruling. The american troops were fast as hell in Bagdhad, but they were only strong enough to secure the Oil Ministry. Hooray!
This will go down into history as one chapter lesson in how to alienate a newly conquered people and funnel a civil war.
Sorry, but this article - actually a very good one IMHO - does not talk about mobile phone manufacturers. It's talking about Semiconductor Manufacturers. The Companies providing the bits and pieces to assemble a digital device e. g. a mobile phone.
Their problem is that the mobile has the potential to suck up any other device one could lug around. This means that there are fewer opportunities to sell stuff for Semiconductor Manufacturers.
In addition to that the PC industry shows that some companies can do fairly well in such market conditions because they could position themselves at the top of the economic foodchain (Intel) while others are clearly below (DRAM maufacturers).
Regarding Mobile phones parts suppliers, the companies on top of the economic foodchain are ARM and Qualcomm. Chickenfood, display and other manufacturers are clearly at the low end.
The relationship between mobile phone manufacturers and Telcos is a totally different story.
RTFA, I had the impression of a man that is trapped in the wrong company.
Since active cynic Carly took over, there is no HP any more. It's NewAgeP: No more research needed - except for how to supress printer ink refilling. Product creation sold to Intel (when she notices the chipset guys are doing well, she'd sell those poor souls to Intel too). Corporate Culture vaporized. Business-is-adding-a-sticker attitude.
The whole stuff looked like Intel - having in mind wattguzzling superheated Prescot like processors in mind - thought about how to solve their portability problem: Ouch my laptop burned my pants.
And then this absolute confidence that one single machine type will be around the corner to execute own stuff brought along.
Of cause MSFT would be happy, but reality is someting different. And Emulation might be two orders of magnitude slower than the real thin (Itanium X86 anyone?)
These two alone would make the whole phantasy economically non viable alone.
And do not get me started on prices and availability of bandwidth.
Or possebilities and capacity of mobile datastorages (MRAM).
German GSM Operator O2 showed it off at CeBIT 2004. Worked flawlessly. O2 said to roll out a service using this thing this fall. The service is called surf@home, the box looks the same but is blue with an O2 logo.
Prices are unknown yet. They should be lower than 'regular' UMTS (whatever that'll mean) because the service is working only in the 'Homezone'.
This box&service makes it possible to cut off cables and ties to Deutsche Telekom for voice&data. An interesing proposition, if pricing is reasonable.
As the router is Linux based, addition of a SMB Server and adding an USB HDD should be possible.
Yummy.
btw, i don't even understand why there are religious parties in a democracy.
Well, this is for historic reasons. And actually it is an achievement in the political landscape of Germany after WWII.
Please note that Germany was divided along denominational borders for a very long time.
When general elections where introduced in Germany in the 19th century, there were political parties with a strong denominational background. I. e. there where different parties for catholic and protestant 'commons'. This divisions survived WWI and was part of the weakness of the Weimarer Republik - helping Hitler to power. After WWII CDU was founded as union of both protestant and catholic commons or bourgeois, closing this gap and today the 'C' in their name is a mere hint.
And if it comes to Bavaria, well it's sort of the german equivalent to Texas. With the difference, that the bavarians never fully wanted to be part of Germany. It went so far that the bavarian king Ludwig did not sign personally the Founding Treaty for the Deutsches Reich 1871 - instead he made secretary/chancellor/whatever fake his signature!
chess
is in these two paragraphs: The second distortion caused by conventional spreadsheets is more subtle. It's described in a 1980s paper, written by university researcher Jeffrey Kottemann and others concerning what they called "Performance, Beliefs, and the Illusion of Control." The paper described an experiment in which subjects were asked to perform a planning task using different tools, some of them with elaborate what-if capability and others without it.
The subjects whose tools invited them to imagine alternative scenarios believed they were doing a better job--even though statistical measures of their results showed no improvement in the actual quality of the forecasts. Those subjects did, however, take longer to perform the task. Isn't that the worst nightmare of those who must justify IT's return on investment--spending extra money on a more time-consuming product that yields absolutely no measurable improvement?
You see, an awful lot of the US gross national product (GNP) is based on the virtual factor "productivity gains by computers/software usage". The key point here being that software usage is thought to boost productivity. Which is exactly what the article denies.
So, not only ACME Inc lies to itself by believing in simplistic spreadsheet calculations, US key financial figures are most probably a myth/lie anyway. And (US) national debt is higher than thought.
Indeed. Not suprising.
Looking at my keyboard, I seem to tolerate more dirt there than on a toilet seat.
But at least it is my dirt & germs on the keyboard.
Now Excuse me while I get me a new keyboard. My old is just too... visually appaling.
chess
Well, err, actually You need an Internet Provider.
Unforunately they call themselves Internet Service Provider and tend to do silly things like: Swamping You with CDs containing superfluous Access Software and broken Browsers, harras You with Hard Coded Homepages that put you to their blinking, ad-infested unnecessary Portals.
On the plous side, You'll also get an E-Mail adress and some Web-Space.
So do not let confuse you by bells and whistles. Your ISP is really what you want.
In Europe, it is also usual to pay some Telco for the raw connectivity seperatley from the one that does the actual connection to the rest of the Internet.
And it surely is as well for the masses of people that have the Operating System "Word" at work and the Operating System "Internet Explorer" at home.
These kind of people may be able to understand CNN.com ( TV news), eBay ( flea market) and amazon ( mail order retail).
But I seriously doubt, if they ever understand the idea behind sites like slashdot or groklaw. And I suspect they thoroughly misunderstand P2P filesharing services.
Evidence: When BMG bought Napster, I thought they'll made it a subscription service for small money and just count (on the central servers) how often which song was downloaded and then routed the income accordingly to musicians and their expenses. But no, it was killed off. Which lead to decentralized filesharing systems. Seems like EFF is a little late? Or are Record Labels already distressed enough?
Sorry to come really late, but its not only simple marketing using gender cliches as many slashdotters propose in testosterone driven reasoning.
Knowing Germany, Public Sector Employees and Workers Councils too well, Id say its evil genious marketing.
You see, Public Sector and Workers Council is usually a guarantee _against_ change. In addition to that, the Workers Council is supposed to help employees if employers go to far - to put it neutrally.
See the EVIL now?
By showing off the - female - chairwoman of the workers' council, they shut off _any_ way to obstruct the adoption of Linux.
Well, if it has to be, German Leopard 2 may run on on anything combustible - including Schnaps. But diesel, kerosene or petroleum is the usual diet. And it's a huge turbocharged "diesel" engine.
US M1 seems to use a gas turbine that can be run with diesel fuel, any grade of gasoline, kerosene, or JP-1 jet fuel according to wikipedia.
The more I read about SCO's lawsuit against IBM and the more strange claims they sound off to the press and in legal filings, the more I have the feeling that McBride and Boies are doing sort of a pyramid scheme.
Of course this scheme does not work in money directly. Its working with legal claims. So basically, they have an unreasonable claim (IBM in breach of contract). That is backed up with a another claim that is even unreasonable (GPL is illegal), which is backed up with yet another even more unreasonable claim (Novell has a non-compete agreement). And to back that up, they don't hesitate to cross the border to the absurd and outright dangerous - sue UCB because of BSD. All along the way they threat every bystander to sue them for using Linux. And come next week, they'll sue somebody else.
And the funny thing is, Stock Markets like that pile of legal threats and drove up the share-prize of that amok running company.
And Boies already got money, because the SCO-IBM case will go on trial 2003-03-11. That's two years from start of the action. That should give McBride, his cronies and investors enough time to legally secure their share.
Then we'll see a case that drags on, because already now amount of paper to be read is enormous (millions). Plus a gazillion subpoenas. How long will it stay in court?
I don't know. But there are two things I know. Pyramid Schemes have an end, and the propper way to end an amok run is suicide.
The telecommunications Network - be it used for phone conversations, IP Packets or video transmissions is the biggest machine. It even streches into space.
And yes, I've RTFA: 1) All You need is a utility to tweak both inetd and init configuration. 2) This is funny. Numbered Runlevels may return as named "Service Profiles". 3) Change those pesky numbers after S and K!
Maybe even use make to minimize dependencies and speed up booting.
If You fear bored users, hide information, instead cue in fancy graphics and muzzak during boot time;-) 4) This is why he misses the concept. Linux is a reality on all sizes of Computers, from Supercomuters to watches. Having a bootstraping mechanism that is both simple, adaptable and not too specific across all system sizes and *NIX flavours is the key to administrability. Simplicity: One can debug with a very limited set of tools; try to debug code running in a VM when the shit has hit the fan. The less dependency on some infrastructure type of resources there is, the more robust the system will be. That's why there is a mode with few disks, a mode without networking and a non-graphical mode. Adaptability: Though there are differences, bash/sh scripts port rather well. This is because shell script just present the basic *NIX concepts in the most simple ways: files and pipes, forks and signals. No fancy stuff _any_ *nix does not understand, plus a natural way to execute external commands. chess
No it is not product placement. It is about the power of being close.
Just think about what the mainstream inhabitant of the developed world - be it female or male - carries in the pocket leaving home: - Keys - Money and ID card - mobile (cell phone)
So mobiles are closer to the average population than PCs or Handhelds (that's why MSFT _has_ to enter the market of mobile phones).
Plus: People grown up on Gameboy are likely to appreciate a gameboy rolled into a mobile and use it.
N'Gage is definetely worth a try today for Nokia.
Next things to eliminate from the mobile toting humans pocket are: Credit and other Cards and finally keys.
Slashdot Mirror
Easy.
Check Google Earth or similar.
Or the books of GE, ABB, Siemens & the usual suspects for building power plants.
Or go there and see what's attached to the cable ;->
Europe buys oil from Libya since ages.
No problem there.
You really need to think big.
It's a bonus that Morocco and Algeria are in this project.
These Countries need a decent source of income.
And if East Sahara is wired up, there will be no stopping wiring up Egypt, Jordan
Mauretania, Niger, Chad.
And why don't the Saudis add themselves to that grid?
The Chinese could tap into Taklamakan,
the US surely has some spare desert to make useful.
Coverage:
http://www.t-mobile.de/funkversorgung/inland/
http://netmap.vodafone.de/cover4internet/index.jsp?appprofile=UMTS-Maps
http://www.o2online.de/nw/support/mobilfunk/netz/index.html
http://eis03sn1.eplus-online.de/evportal/portal/umts
Speed:
T-Mobile, Vodaphone have HSDPA 7.2Gb/s, O2 has HSDPA 3.6Gb/s, Eplus has 384Mb/s (UMTS)
Price:
http://www.teltarif.de/mobilfunk/datenrechner.html
As you are only interested in Prepaid, use this link and change the amount of Mb per month at the end of the URL from 310 to what you need:
http://www.teltarif.de/db/res-mobildaten.html?prepaid=1&von=Heimatnetz&mb=310
Can you read German? If so, look here:
http://www.teltarif.de/mobilfunk/
For news like this:
http://www.teltarif.de/tchibo-surfstick-30-euro/news/37951.html
There is no need for scare.
* If ISP never really reaches the bandwidth they somehow promised or - god forbid advertised - he'll be sued, anyway.
* For video? Have buffer time. DVB-T already lags analog cable two seconds on live events just for recoding and buffering.
* Mesh radio concepts became technically viable before broadband became really cheap.
* And those people in rural areas won't see a difference anyway
Or there might have been a *real* reason to go after Iraq, one that had to be hidden from the world.
l s government.
There is a reason. Having a close eye on Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria and maybe even Turkey. Saudi Arabia government can be seen as fragile and has to be followed closely.
Iran has an unfriendly government with a working nuclear program.
Syria is under gereral suspicion since ages.
Turkey recently got a smart as-islamistic-as-you-can-get-under-turkish-Genera
Want some more?
What Bush really didn't care about and what I would say in Kerrys place is this:
Bush is a bad President because he knew before going into Iraq that this country would start a civil war as soon as Hussein was forced out of control and was not replaced immediately by an effective ruling. The american troops were fast as hell in Bagdhad, but they were only strong enough to secure the Oil Ministry.
Hooray!
This will go down into history as one chapter lesson in how to alienate a newly conquered people and funnel a civil war.
chess
Sorry, but this article - actually a very good one IMHO - does not talk about mobile phone manufacturers. It's talking about Semiconductor Manufacturers. The Companies providing the bits and pieces to assemble a digital device e. g. a mobile phone.
Their problem is that the mobile has the potential to suck up any other device one could lug around. This means that there are fewer opportunities to sell stuff for Semiconductor Manufacturers.
In addition to that the PC industry shows that some companies can do fairly well in such market conditions because they could position themselves at the top of the economic foodchain (Intel) while others are clearly below (DRAM maufacturers).
Regarding Mobile phones parts suppliers, the companies on top of the economic foodchain are ARM and Qualcomm. Chickenfood, display and other manufacturers are clearly at the low end.
The relationship between mobile phone manufacturers and Telcos is a totally different story.
chess
Outsourcing to Africa. That's great news. I thought it took more time to take outsourcing there.
Next on the list: Cuba and North Korea.
After which this outsourcing madness will - hopefully - stop.
chess
RTFA, I had the impression of a man that is trapped in the wrong company.
Since active cynic Carly took over, there is no HP any more.
It's NewAgeP: No more research needed - except for how to supress printer ink refilling. Product creation sold to Intel (when she notices the chipset guys are doing well, she'd sell those poor souls to Intel too).
Corporate Culture vaporized. Business-is-adding-a-sticker attitude.
What is this guy sitting for on his chair at HP?
chess
Yes, it is truly amazing what Intel doesn't get.
The whole stuff looked like Intel - having in mind wattguzzling superheated Prescot like processors in mind - thought about how to solve their portability problem: Ouch my laptop burned my pants.
And then this absolute confidence that one single machine type will be around the corner to execute own stuff brought along.
Of cause MSFT would be happy, but reality is someting different. And Emulation might be two orders of magnitude slower than the real thin (Itanium X86 anyone?)
These two alone would make the whole phantasy economically non viable alone.
And do not get me started on prices and availability of bandwidth.
Or possebilities and capacity of mobile datastorages (MRAM).
chess
German GSM Operator O2 showed it off at CeBIT 2004. Worked flawlessly. O2 said to roll out a service using this thing this fall. The service is called surf@home, the box looks the same but is blue with an O2 logo.
Prices are unknown yet. They should be lower than 'regular' UMTS (whatever that'll mean) because the service is working only in the 'Homezone'.
This box&service makes it possible to cut off cables and ties to Deutsche Telekom for voice&data. An interesing proposition, if pricing is reasonable.
As the router is Linux based, addition of a SMB Server and adding an USB HDD should be possible.
Yummy.
chess
[ ] You know the size of the MINI glove comparment.
chess
btw, i don't even understand why there are religious parties in a democracy.
Well, this is for historic reasons. And actually it is an achievement in the political landscape of Germany after WWII.
Please note that Germany was divided along denominational borders for a very long time.
When general elections where introduced in Germany in the 19th century, there were political parties with a strong denominational background. I. e. there where different parties for catholic and protestant 'commons'. This divisions survived WWI and was part of the weakness of the Weimarer Republik - helping Hitler to power. After WWII CDU was founded as union of both protestant and catholic commons or bourgeois, closing this gap and today the 'C' in their name is a mere hint.
And if it comes to Bavaria, well it's sort of the german equivalent to Texas. With the difference, that the bavarians never fully wanted to be part of Germany. It went so far that the bavarian king Ludwig did not sign personally the Founding Treaty for the Deutsches Reich 1871 - instead he made secretary/chancellor/whatever fake his signature! chess
is in these two paragraphs:
The second distortion caused by conventional spreadsheets is more subtle. It's described in a 1980s paper, written by university researcher Jeffrey Kottemann and others concerning what they called "Performance, Beliefs, and the Illusion of Control." The paper described an experiment in which subjects were asked to perform a planning task using different tools, some of them with elaborate what-if capability and others without it.
The subjects whose tools invited them to imagine alternative scenarios believed they were doing a better job--even though statistical measures of their results showed no improvement in the actual quality of the forecasts. Those subjects did, however, take longer to perform the task. Isn't that the worst nightmare of those who must justify IT's return on investment--spending extra money on a more time-consuming product that yields absolutely no measurable improvement?
You see, an awful lot of the US gross national product (GNP) is based on the virtual factor "productivity gains by computers/software usage". The key point here being that software usage is thought to boost productivity. Which is exactly what the article denies.
So, not only ACME Inc lies to itself by believing in simplistic spreadsheet calculations, US key financial figures are most probably a myth/lie anyway. And (US) national debt is higher than thought.
chess
Simple. I can not get sick anymore of the stuff.
Either because I am sick of it already (like e. g. You)
or
because my body has adopted to it already.
chess
Indeed. Not suprising. Looking at my keyboard, I seem to tolerate more dirt there than on a toilet seat. But at least it is my dirt & germs on the keyboard. Now Excuse me while I get me a new keyboard. My old is just too ... visually appaling.
chess
Wrong.
Of does Microsoft innovate.
Look at their ever evolving EULAs!
Each product, each version on each major system of jurisdictation gets an own.
Now, that costs!
chess
Well, err, actually You need an Internet Provider.
Unforunately they call themselves Internet Service Provider and tend to do silly things like:
Swamping You with CDs containing superfluous Access Software and broken Browsers, harras You with Hard Coded Homepages that put you to their blinking, ad-infested unnecessary Portals.
On the plous side, You'll also get an E-Mail adress and some Web-Space.
So do not let confuse you by bells and whistles.
Your ISP is really what you want.
In Europe, it is also usual to pay some Telco for the raw connectivity seperatley from the one that does the actual connection to the rest of the Internet.
chess
Of Course You have.
And it surely is as well for the masses of people that have the Operating System "Word" at work and the Operating System "Internet Explorer" at home.
These kind of people may be able to understand CNN.com ( TV news), eBay ( flea market) and amazon ( mail order retail).
But I seriously doubt, if they ever understand the idea behind sites like slashdot or groklaw. And I suspect they thoroughly misunderstand P2P filesharing services.
Evidence: When BMG bought Napster, I thought they'll made it a subscription service for small money and just count (on the central servers) how often which song was downloaded and then routed the income accordingly to musicians and their expenses.
But no, it was killed off.
Which lead to decentralized filesharing systems.
Seems like EFF is a little late? Or are Record Labels already distressed enough?
chess
Sorry to come really late, but its not only simple marketing using gender cliches as many slashdotters propose in testosterone driven reasoning.
Knowing Germany, Public Sector Employees and Workers Councils too well, Id say its evil genious marketing.
You see, Public Sector and Workers Council is usually a guarantee _against_ change.
In addition to that, the Workers Council is supposed to help employees if employers go to far - to put it neutrally.
See the EVIL now?
By showing off the - female - chairwoman of the workers' council, they shut off _any_ way to obstruct the adoption of Linux.
Fing Brilliant, do not let MSFT know.
chess
Well, if it has to be, German Leopard 2 may run on on anything combustible - including Schnaps. But diesel, kerosene or petroleum is the usual diet.
And it's a huge turbocharged "diesel" engine.
US M1 seems to use a gas turbine that can be run with diesel fuel, any grade of gasoline, kerosene, or JP-1 jet fuel according to wikipedia.
chess
The more I read about SCO's lawsuit against IBM and the more strange claims they sound off to the press and in legal filings, the more I have the feeling that McBride and Boies are doing sort of a pyramid scheme.
Of course this scheme does not work in money directly. Its working with legal claims.
So basically, they have an unreasonable claim (IBM in breach of contract). That is backed up with a another claim that is even unreasonable (GPL is illegal), which is backed up with yet another even more unreasonable claim (Novell has a non-compete agreement). And to back that up, they don't hesitate to cross the border to the absurd and outright dangerous - sue UCB because of BSD.
All along the way they threat every bystander to sue them for using Linux.
And come next week, they'll sue somebody else.
And the funny thing is, Stock Markets like that pile of legal threats and drove up the share-prize of that amok running company.
And Boies already got money, because the SCO-IBM case will go on trial 2003-03-11. That's two years from start of the action.
That should give McBride, his cronies and investors enough time to legally secure their share.
Then we'll see a case that drags on, because already now amount of paper to be read is enormous (millions). Plus a gazillion subpoenas. How long will it stay in court?
I don't know. But there are two things I know. Pyramid Schemes have an end, and the propper way to end an amok run is suicide.
chess
The telecommunications Network - be it used for phone conversations, IP Packets or video transmissions is the biggest machine.
It even streches into space.
chess
Can somebody please moderate this up?
And yes, I've RTFA:
1) All You need is a utility to tweak both inetd and init configuration.
2) This is funny. Numbered Runlevels may return as named "Service Profiles".
3) Change those pesky numbers after S and K!
Maybe even use make to minimize dependencies and speed up booting.
If You fear bored users, hide information, instead cue in fancy graphics and muzzak during boot time;-)
4) This is why he misses the concept. Linux is a reality on all sizes of Computers,
from Supercomuters to watches.
Having a bootstraping mechanism that is both simple, adaptable and not too specific across all system sizes and *NIX flavours is the key to administrability.
Simplicity: One can debug with a very limited set of tools; try to debug code running in a VM when the shit has hit the fan. The less dependency on some infrastructure type of resources there is, the more robust the system will be.
That's why there is a mode with few disks, a mode without networking and a non-graphical mode.
Adaptability: Though there are differences, bash/sh scripts port rather well. This is because shell script just present the basic *NIX concepts in the most simple ways: files and pipes, forks and signals. No fancy stuff _any_ *nix does not understand, plus a natural way to execute external commands.
chess
... trailing / in filenames now.
Usage of text editors as well, cat and echo will rule!
chess
No it is not product placement.
It is about the power of being close.
Just think about what the mainstream inhabitant of the developed world - be it female or male - carries in the pocket leaving home:
- Keys
- Money and ID card
- mobile (cell phone)
So mobiles are closer to the average population than PCs or Handhelds (that's why MSFT _has_ to enter the market of mobile phones).
Plus: People grown up on Gameboy are likely to appreciate a gameboy rolled into a mobile and use it.
N'Gage is definetely worth a try today for Nokia.
Next things to eliminate from the mobile toting humans pocket are: Credit and other Cards and finally keys.
chess