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Is Bluetooth Dead?
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"Bluetooth is dead" Rubbish!
In the last couple of weeks I've used my laptop (with built-in Bluetooth) to wirelessly connect to my Bluetooth enabled GPRS mobile phone and establish an Internet connection while travelling (as a passenger) in a car up the M1 motorway at 85mph. You can't do that with 802.11/whatever/. Its not broadband but it as good as dial up and therefore fine for a bit of browsing, or sending emails.
You don't get full coverage with 802.11 AP along the motorway (highway). And AFAIK 802.11 doesn't support seamless handover from AP to AP.
I can also vouch for the seamless syncing of calendars/reminders/telephone numbers. Its also convenient for downloading pictures and wav ring"tones" to from your mobile.
Finally as somebody has also said the UK law banning non-hands free mobile use while driving surely drive the convenient Bluetooth wireless car kits.
Summary Bluetooth is not 802.11 but it _does_ have its place!
I thought this too because looking at the phone it seems bigger than the T68i but then I checked the specs... The T610 is marginally smaller than T68i (2mm taller, 4mm less wide and 1mm thinner than the T68i).
I've currently got a T68i and I think that its is an awesome phone and it is still cuter than T610 if you ask me... The square styling doesn't work for me.
Remember, the "2nd slot" would normally (always?) be occupied by a PCI GFX card in a ATX form factor motherboard that features AGP. The AGP and PCI slot are usually (always?) mutually exclusive so the fact the GeForceFX card uses the unused back panel slot to vent 60W is a good idea IMO.
Creating them in the first place takes money though, who's going to do that if all the codecs have to be free of charge?
Lets be even more cynical;-)
1/. Universities (mix of public and commerical funding) do the basic research and share the knowledge around openly via publications etc -- the details are publicly avaliable for free (as in beer and speech) 2/. Healthly intellectual competetion between research establishments refine the technology. ("...upon the sholders of giants") 3/. Some company that orginally partially funded the research (as a long shot) spot the commerical oppertunity and hire the researchers and focus it towards product development. They try an lock-in value by patenting the refinements that haven't been disclosed yet. 4/. Commerical organisations discover that they have to collaborate (via a Standards body) to in order dive the adoption of the technolgy and because other companies (that backed the university research) have a vested interest. If they could they would do it alone. 5/. In the mean time some resreacher stay in industry and other take the orgianl idea and take it off into off in esoteric directions... 6/. Joe cumsumer eventually gets something useful.
I have no idea why anyone would ever need a TB drive at home...but if it comes down to betting, I'll bet with history, and bet they will.
Easy. Digital video.
1TB = 500 hours of MPEG2 video. 1TB = 100 hours of HiDef video. Avg TV viewing in UK approx 3hr/day/per-person = 90 hrs/month
Even with improved CODECs (H.264/MPEG4(part 10)) will improve the compressions by a factor of 2 to 3 for the same quality. It's deminishing returns after that for newer CODECs -- so far it usually been cheaper just to add a bigger disk.
Extract and populate the meta data from generating application would be a good and obvious starting point.
e.g. HTML: use TITLE as an ABOUT entry (and Hn blocks too), the URL as the SOURCE etc.. DOCUMENTS: use the XML schema for atributes PICTURES: The COLOUR DEAPTH and RESOLUTION can be simply extracted
Then let the user add/edit the attributes that have been automatically set. Not ideal but starting a point.
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"Bluetooth is dead"
Rubbish!
In the last couple of weeks I've used my laptop (with built-in Bluetooth) to wirelessly connect to my Bluetooth enabled GPRS mobile phone and establish an Internet connection while travelling (as a passenger) in a car up the M1 motorway at 85mph. You can't do that with 802.11/whatever/. Its not broadband but it as good as dial up and therefore fine for a bit of browsing, or sending emails.
You don't get full coverage with 802.11 AP along the motorway (highway). And AFAIK 802.11 doesn't support seamless handover from AP to AP.
I can also vouch for the seamless syncing of calendars/reminders/telephone numbers. Its also convenient for downloading pictures and wav ring"tones" to from your mobile.
Finally as somebody has also said the UK law banning non-hands free mobile use while driving surely drive the convenient Bluetooth wireless car kits.
Summary Bluetooth is not 802.11 but it _does_ have its place!
--- Rahul.
I thought this too because looking at the phone it seems bigger than the T68i but then I checked the specs... The T610 is marginally smaller than T68i (2mm taller, 4mm less wide and 1mm thinner than the T68i).
I've currently got a T68i and I think that its is an awesome phone and it is still cuter than T610 if you ask me... The square styling doesn't work for me.
... 2 slot card for "heat management"....
Remember, the "2nd slot" would normally (always?) be occupied by a PCI GFX card in a ATX form factor motherboard that features AGP. The AGP and PCI slot are usually (always?) mutually exclusive so the fact the GeForceFX card uses the unused back panel slot to vent 60W is a good idea IMO.
--- Rahul.
Creating them in the first place takes money though, who's going to do that if all the codecs have to be free of charge?
;-)
Lets be even more cynical
1/. Universities (mix of public and commerical funding) do the basic research and share the knowledge around openly via publications etc -- the details are publicly avaliable for free (as in beer and speech)
2/. Healthly intellectual competetion between research establishments refine the technology. ("...upon the sholders of giants")
3/. Some company that orginally partially funded the research (as a long shot) spot the commerical oppertunity and hire the researchers and focus it towards product development. They try an lock-in value by patenting the refinements that haven't been disclosed yet.
4/. Commerical organisations discover that they have to collaborate (via a Standards body) to in order dive the adoption of the technolgy and because other companies (that backed the university research) have a vested interest. If they could they would do it alone.
5/. In the mean time some resreacher stay in industry and other take the orgianl idea and take it off into off in esoteric directions...
6/. Joe cumsumer eventually gets something useful.
Just my observations....
--- Rahul.
I have no idea why anyone would ever need a TB drive at home...but if it comes down to betting, I'll bet with history, and bet they will.
Easy. Digital video.
1TB = 500 hours of MPEG2 video.
1TB = 100 hours of HiDef video.
Avg TV viewing in UK approx 3hr/day/per-person = 90 hrs/month
Even with improved CODECs (H.264/MPEG4(part 10)) will improve the compressions by a factor of 2 to 3 for the same quality. It's deminishing returns after that for newer CODECs -- so far it usually been cheaper just to add a bigger disk.
Dish Networks demo'ed a dual tuner HiDef integrated PVR at CES which has 250GB of disk and that's targeted for this year...
I can see myself watching all my TV through a PVR and keeping favorite film/series on tap on a big disk.
--- Rahul.
Extract and populate the meta data from generating application would be a good and obvious starting point.
e.g.
HTML: use TITLE as an ABOUT entry (and Hn blocks too), the URL as the SOURCE etc..
DOCUMENTS: use the XML schema for atributes
PICTURES: The COLOUR DEAPTH and RESOLUTION can be simply extracted
Then let the user add/edit the attributes that have been automatically set. Not ideal but starting a point.