I've seen some worthy news not present on Slashdot... But wasting bandwidth with something already debunked by Snopes hosted on a crap server that is slashdotted with only 8 comments... Argh!
Thanks for your concern dubiousmike. Even though the granparent poster was there, that was the second/. article pointing to our domain in the same day. So, regardless of the cited post, there was already a heavy traffic on the server anyway. It just happens that it didn't get slashdotted (even with two/. articles!) due to the hosting infrastructure (I beter thank my provider!)
As per the content, as someone else pointed out, the site is presenting the news. Most time the PR are sent out a day or so before company's sites are updated. This means that sometimes the breaking news are posted, nothing exists in the company website, but when visitors start seeing the articles then they have the impression that it's redundant. If this was the case then who would need the IT news sites? Just wait for all companies to update their sites and then someone will link to then. Ah, wait a minute, that's what IT news sites do anyway...
As per advertising, this is a business model. How many times I've posted things on Geekzone, saw that going to news.google.com just to be shown next to a link to other site that says "Subscription required". Why are they charging for the information I'm making freely available? Or better still, how can I make the information available for free, if someone else charges for it? You're right, because I (and so many other websites) have advertising.
Please support the model, otherwise everyone would have to pay to read on-line.
Perhaps this should be an Ask Slashdot new article?
AMD has announced the Alchemy Au1200 for Personal Media Players on 3 JAN, including price and date for availability... This CPU provides a DVD-quality display that can be scaled directly to larger screens. The Au1200 processor is designed to support industry-standard media formats, including MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV9, H.263 and DivX.
Spyware and adware infections will not stop by simply using Firefox... How many users are still going to download the cute p2p program full of dialers, spyware and adware, regardless of using Firefox, Mozilla, Internet Explorer or even Mosaic?
A lot of people still download and install programs manually...
Not many. The two ones are Thunderhawk (a server based compression with a client) and Access Netfront (Javascript, JVM, CSS). Netfront is in my opinion the best one on the Windows Mobile platform.
Netfront is also used as the engine behind the browser supplied with Palm OS.
Minimo was introduced 10 months ago (previous mention). It takes a long time for people on the mainstream media to pick a story:0
Anyway, their site says "The primary focus of Minimo to date has been system with ~32-64 MB of RAM, running Linux and using the GTK toolkit". Think that the latest Nokia based on Symbian OS 8.0 comes with only 7MB available, and most Pocket PC come with 64MB (sometimes only 50MB available after all loaded). This browser needs to be at most 5MB to be usable. Try using Access Netfront instead. They have embbeded browsers for a variety of platforms.
Many telcos are using VoIP in parallel with their PSTN backbones, and this is ok - most users don't even notice this behind the scenes VoIP application.
When it comes to services to end users, except for companies like Vonage and a few similar ones there's a huge gap. For example I've subscribed to Stanaphone just to find out that my account disappeared simply because I didn't use it for a month. Well, there's no way these companies can compete with operators if they keep this kind of policies in place. Could you imagine if you're enjoying a 45 days holiday in Europe (or in New Zealand, which is really cool!), and when back home find out your phone doesn't work anymore because of this kind of policy? No POTS operator would do this...
Are you sure it isn't a problem on your computer? I have a five years old Viewsonic VE-150 on my desktop and I play Day of defeat, Counter Strike and BF1942 and never had a problem.
I even play that game called Windows XP Pro SP2 and never noticed this on my computer.
Why is this special to be on Slashdot? These cards have been in the market for some time now, and this performance is available in the US, either through AT&T Wireless or Verizon.
Ok, being a geek, and editor of a site called Geekzone, I have access to quite a few bluetooth devices. I was going to list the ones I have, but then it would be considered a long list to be here. So just check Geekzone for a variety of Bluetooth devices, from LAN Access Points to Audio streaming kits, through GPS and more. I think the number of items is just a small sample (not included are the mobile phones, smartphones and Pocket PC, under other categories).
As someone noted before in this thread, Skype is just one form of VoIP, and it doesn't even follow open standard, instead it implements its own format. Stanaphone OTOH uses SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), not only allows outcalls to POTS/mobile, but it also assigns a phone number to each user, so users can actually receive phone calls as well. It works with Windows, Pocket PC and includes voice mail and call forwarding. And it can be used with SIP phones, which can be plugged directly to a LAN and be ready to use in seconds - no PC needed.
Of course there's Vonage, which can also be used from a Pocket PC (just install SJPhone and configure your account), and place/receive calls from POTS/mobile. The problem is that Vonage is only available to US customers, while Stanaphone is available to anyone anywhere.
Can someone explain how my comment, which is 100% related to how Ericsson approaches the Bluetooth thing, and how the article is wrongly talking about Sony Ericsson, can be modded to "offtopic"?
Ericsson created Bluetooth, but it is in the mainstream now, so the company no longer needs to "seed" the development of the technology. It can now licence what is needed, buy the silicon, whatever at much cheaper prices.
Also, Sony Ericsson is not Ericsson. Sony Ericsson makes mobile phones, Ericsson is another company, with interests in Sony Ericsson.
This mal"ware" will probably have a better beta test cycle than most of the soft"ware" released these days. It'll be idiot proof, so anyone can get infected...
I bought two DLINK AP a month ago and they'd freeze every 20 minutes. Only way was power down and up every 20 minutes. Not fun. DLINK said it was my network. Interesting enough I got a El Cheapo one for half price while waiting for a Belkin AP + router. Both the El Cheapo and Belkin work fine. Both DLINK were RMAed.
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I've seen some worthy news not present on Slashdot... But wasting bandwidth with something already debunked by Snopes hosted on a crap server that is slashdotted with only 8 comments... Argh!
Thanks for your concern dubiousmike. Even though the granparent poster was there, that was the second /. article pointing to our domain in the same day. So, regardless of the cited post, there was already a heavy traffic on the server anyway. It just happens that it didn't get slashdotted (even with two /. articles!) due to the hosting infrastructure (I beter thank my provider!)
As per the content, as someone else pointed out, the site is presenting the news. Most time the PR are sent out a day or so before company's sites are updated. This means that sometimes the breaking news are posted, nothing exists in the company website, but when visitors start seeing the articles then they have the impression that it's redundant. If this was the case then who would need the IT news sites? Just wait for all companies to update their sites and then someone will link to then. Ah, wait a minute, that's what IT news sites do anyway...
As per advertising, this is a business model. How many times I've posted things on Geekzone, saw that going to news.google.com just to be shown next to a link to other site that says "Subscription required". Why are they charging for the information I'm making freely available? Or better still, how can I make the information available for free, if someone else charges for it? You're right, because I (and so many other websites) have advertising.
Please support the model, otherwise everyone would have to pay to read on-line.
Perhaps this should be an Ask Slashdot new article?
Are they going to establish a security perimeter, put every virtual people in bubbles and then use radiation to remove the contamination?
Virtual CDAMC (Center for Disease and Appliance Malfunction Control) officer: Don't worry, we are from the government and we are here to help.
The problem is not Bluetooth. A GPRS connection is no more than 48Kbps these days. This is way lower tha Bluetooth max 721Kbps.
Actually most implementations use 115Kbps because of Serial drivers on the OS (Windows if you're using it).
AMD has announced the Alchemy Au1200 for Personal Media Players on 3 JAN, including price and date for availability... This CPU provides a DVD-quality display that can be scaled directly to larger screens. The Au1200 processor is designed to support industry-standard media formats, including MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV9, H.263 and DivX.
Spyware and adware infections will not stop by simply using Firefox... How many users are still going to download the cute p2p program full of dialers, spyware and adware, regardless of using Firefox, Mozilla, Internet Explorer or even Mosaic?
A lot of people still download and install programs manually...
Not many. The two ones are Thunderhawk (a server based compression with a client) and Access Netfront (Javascript, JVM, CSS). Netfront is in my opinion the best one on the Windows Mobile platform.
Netfront is also used as the engine behind the browser supplied with Palm OS.
Minimo was introduced 10 months ago (previous mention). It takes a long time for people on the mainstream media to pick a story :0
Anyway, their site says "The primary focus of Minimo to date has been system with ~32-64 MB of RAM, running Linux and using the GTK toolkit". Think that the latest Nokia based on Symbian OS 8.0 comes with only 7MB available, and most Pocket PC come with 64MB (sometimes only 50MB available after all loaded). This browser needs to be at most 5MB to be usable. Try using Access Netfront instead. They have embbeded browsers for a variety of platforms.
I spend spare time running my own website, geekzone.co.nz... It's nice to be involved in the community some way.
There's Australia, but not New Zealand... And it's not like it's a small place, it's the same size as UK.
Hope Lycos really check the URL by hand - would be bad for someone to report an innocent site just to cause problems.
Web != Internet.
There are some companies offering USB adapters for any handset and any computer: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=36 71
The Siemens model works only with a few handset models made by Siemens only... Pretty close I'd say.
Free to subscribe, but paid service nonetheless.
Many telcos are using VoIP in parallel with their PSTN backbones, and this is ok - most users don't even notice this behind the scenes VoIP application.
When it comes to services to end users, except for companies like Vonage and a few similar ones there's a huge gap. For example I've subscribed to Stanaphone just to find out that my account disappeared simply because I didn't use it for a month. Well, there's no way these companies can compete with operators if they keep this kind of policies in place. Could you imagine if you're enjoying a 45 days holiday in Europe (or in New Zealand, which is really cool!), and when back home find out your phone doesn't work anymore because of this kind of policy? No POTS operator would do this...
Are you sure you're talking about kilobytes? GPRS is only about 42kbps (this is kilobits)...
Are you sure it isn't a problem on your computer? I have a five years old Viewsonic VE-150 on my desktop and I play Day of defeat, Counter Strike and BF1942 and never had a problem.
I even play that game called Windows XP Pro SP2 and never noticed this on my computer.
Why is this special to be on Slashdot? These cards have been in the market for some time now, and this performance is available in the US, either through AT&T Wireless or Verizon.
"...with cheap VoIP people were able to call all over the world."
I'm sure the VoIP solution could be cheap to implement, but what about "...and a satellite IP uplink.".
I think this last bit would make the cost of this solution go up a little, wouldn't it?
Ok, being a geek, and editor of a site called Geekzone, I have access to quite a few bluetooth devices. I was going to list the ones I have, but then it would be considered a long list to be here. So just check Geekzone for a variety of Bluetooth devices, from LAN Access Points to Audio streaming kits, through GPS and more. I think the number of items is just a small sample (not included are the mobile phones, smartphones and Pocket PC, under other categories).
As someone noted before in this thread, Skype is just one form of VoIP, and it doesn't even follow open standard, instead it implements its own format. Stanaphone OTOH uses SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), not only allows outcalls to POTS/mobile, but it also assigns a phone number to each user, so users can actually receive phone calls as well. It works with Windows, Pocket PC and includes voice mail and call forwarding. And it can be used with SIP phones, which can be plugged directly to a LAN and be ready to use in seconds - no PC needed.
Of course there's Vonage , which can also be used from a Pocket PC (just install SJPhone and configure your account), and place/receive calls from POTS/mobile. The problem is that Vonage is only available to US customers, while Stanaphone is available to anyone anywhere.
I wonder how the police officee knew the priest was using wi-fi? A wi-fi sniffer or something like this?
Can someone explain how my comment, which is 100% related to how Ericsson approaches the Bluetooth thing, and how the article is wrongly talking about Sony Ericsson, can be modded to "offtopic"?
Ericsson created Bluetooth, but it is in the mainstream now, so the company no longer needs to "seed" the development of the technology. It can now licence what is needed, buy the silicon, whatever at much cheaper prices.
Also, Sony Ericsson is not Ericsson. Sony Ericsson makes mobile phones, Ericsson is another company, with interests in Sony Ericsson.
This mal"ware" will probably have a better beta test cycle than most of the soft"ware" released these days. It'll be idiot proof, so anyone can get infected...
- No need to call us, we'll infect you.
I bought two DLINK AP a month ago and they'd freeze every 20 minutes. Only way was power down and up every 20 minutes. Not fun. DLINK said it was my network. Interesting enough I got a El Cheapo one for half price while waiting for a Belkin AP + router. Both the El Cheapo and Belkin work fine. Both DLINK were RMAed.