It's interesting to note that this is where TiVo started out - the original project the TiVo pioneers worked on was the HSN cable network which offered exactly these features.
Meanwhile over in the UK we were promised similar features years ago but because our cable providers are cash strapped at the moment they've not yet appeared.
However Scott seems to have mentioned this and said that the SunRay is not a computer. Looks like they're getting the stuff the network I want a processor message from clients.
Take a look at www.freedom-mobiles.co.uk - I just ordered one for £39.99 on a £50 a month tarrif - only caveat is that you need to stay on that tarrif for 4 months - after than you can switch down.
Bluetooth includes encryption as standard and before a connection can be established both devices must approve.
This software only listens to a bluetooth connection from a specific device which has to have been paired with the Mac before hand.
It's quite safe - robably more so than having WiFi connections.
Think how many businessmen who use WiFi in Hotels etc have firewalls running. My Mac does all the time - even when I'm at home behind a hardware firewall.
Because when you're flying at however many feet your phone will see many more base-stations than it was meant to and may not work reliably and confuses the software in the networks.
... assuming they have laptops and more money than brains. A $5 magazine will "entertain" me just as well for a couple of hours.
Last I've been sent to three countries for business in the last couple of years and I've clocked up 56.5 hours of flying time. I always carry a laptop and I'm not a big business traveller.
To fill this with entertainment from magazines would cost $140 at your rate of $5 per magazine every two hours.
If the 3 long haul trips cost $25 each way to get internet access I'd have paid around $150 - throw in two magazines for the recent European trip and you've got $160 worth of entertainment.
Personally I think I'd prefer the Internet based entertainment as it enables me to keep up to date with the news (More and more important these days) and would enable me to get on with more work.
Compared to in-flight phones which can be used once or twice by a few people throughout a flight to get across important information (I had to cancel a mobile phone from a flight once as I had it stolen in the Airport) Internet access is a feature that offers long term benefits throught the entire length of a flight.
I welcome it. And thankfully B.A. and Lufthansa - my favourite airlines - are rolling it out:)
Hmmnnn. Do I want to carry a phone, a palm, a laptop. OR do I want to carry a PhoneDA and a Laptop.
My working life is spent with my laptop open on my desk, on my lap, on the train, in hotels etc - as such it is great. I connect into servers and configure stuff and fix problems - through my mobile or through a fixed phone line. But one thing it's crap for is storing my lists for shopping, phone numbers for quick reference and being used in cramped conditions - and I'm in those most mornings on the train to work.
I've already ditched the lead from the laptop to the phone using Bluetooth and that's a big enabler - if you've ever tried plugging cables in or lining up IRDA devices whilst on your lap or holding both with one hand while you use a stylus in the other you'll know what I mean - but this isn't enough.
I would dearly like a single device which keeps my in touch in the most basic ways - voice, SMS and email - and stores all the notes with a relatively big screen and easy text entry. A standard phone doesn't cut it but a PhoneDA does. I've looked at the Treo but it's a little clumsier than the P800 looks.
As for replacing it when the next big thing comes about, I do that with a single PDA or phone anyway - it's no more expensive (£299 for the P800 - £298 for a Palm Tungsten T, phones are usually free for me)
Err - All 4 GSM networks in the UK offer close to 99% population coverage of the UK. Most European countries are in a similar state.
Admittedly the USA is a bit bigger than most European countries but if you're slightly off the beaten track in the US you may have to use a different network and not be able to get the P800.
Why not? They have the insight to realise that people will put their stylus down and loose it and so include spares as standard.
To keep the weight down the stylus is plastic and a little easier to forget about than the relatively hefty Palm Tungsten T stylus which is a more memorable item.
The.NET framework is just that - a framework around which you can create an application. The language you use is totally up to you. VB.net, C#, C++ are all choices you may make - you do not have to learn all of them.
ASP.net is almost a container to these languages - it highlights a few different classes of the.NET framework and provides a method of writing web applications that are almost the same as a standalone version.
With.NET you learn the ins and outs of the framework and the syntax and grammer of the language you choose - if you decide to migrate to a different language you have the same framework.
With Perl you learn Perl's syntax and grammer and learn your way around CPAN, with Python you learn Python's syntax and grammer and learn it's framework. Same with other sets of libraries and frameworks.
In the UK we are paid to give our money to the bank for safekeeping.
There are no direct charges if you stay in credit, infact the bank pays you interest (Anything from 0.1% to 3%) and that's on a current account (You'll know it as a checking account)
Some accounts charge a fee per month or year but this usually covers extras such as insurance or "Gold" service - but these are in the minority.
Personally I only pay charges when I exceed my overdraft. The bank happily send me statements, provide on line and TV banking, telephone banking, counter service, provide cheque books, debit cards and even transfer money instantly between accounts in the same bank group - all free of charge.
Being a nominet member I can quite easily dispute this. It's £80. And that's for 2 years not 1.
If you renew through one of the agents (They are registry agents and not registrars as we don't hold any part of the registry) you can get huge discounts as the Nominet members' price is far lower thanks to the savings passed on through a members' use of the automation tools and Nominet not having to chase for money.
This charge can be as low as £5 - 6 for 2 years!
Also note that if you register with Nominet directly or fail to allow your existing agent to renew for you you must provide your own name servers.
This is because Nominet is not in competition with it's members - unlike the.com registry which is run by Verisign who not only allow members of the public to register domains and take services but actively want them too.
Visit http://www.nominet.org.uk and Nominet claim that to register a domain you need to use a member.
About 12 percent of the queries received by the root server on Oct. 4, were for nonexistent top-level domains, such as ".elvis", ".corp", and ".localhost". Registered top-level domains include country codes such as ".au" for Australia, ".jp" for Japan, or ".us" for the United States, as well as generic domains such as ".com", ".net", and ".edu". In addition, 7 percent of all the queries already contained an IP address instead of a host name, which made the job of mapping it to an IP address irrelevant.
Reading through it takes a couple of attempts to realise that they're not classing the ccTLDs and gTLDs as in the 12 percent of nonexistent TLDs but they're providing them as examples of what is a real domain - yet they take more of the paragraph to do this than to explain the nonexistent TLDs.
I was actually thinking of something along the lines of...
"The operating system about to be loaded does not have a valid security signature. As such it is not possible for the BIOS to prevent unsafe software from operating. Are you sure that you wish to continue loading this software."
I understand that there should be no problems running Linux systems on these new bioses but can you promise that there will be no nasty wordings that are likely to frighten off users who are trying Linux for the first time?
If you're talking about the cost of registering in a ccSLD against a gTLD then you're wrong. - In the UK all.uk domains are available from GBP5 per 2 years as compared to.com which are charged from around USD12 per year. Using the currency convertor at www.xe.com this makes.com at least 3 times more expensive than.uk
If you're talking about the cost of getting a new gTLD in place over a new ccSLD then you're also wrong - there is nothing like the USD50,000 charge to look at a proposal in the UK. The proposal just has to follow a set of guidelines, be in the interest of the Internet community and provide a good business case for supporting itself.
Just examples from the UK - I can't say for other countries.
If you didn't mean either oif these then my apologies - i misunderstood.
We have determined that your Web browser and/or computer's operating system may not support the navigation system of Quantum.com. We recommend that you either upgrade your Web browser to the most recent version or use our site map to browse our site.
Thank you,
--- The Quantum Web Team ---
If that's Quantum's support of alternatives to Microsoft I'm severely disappointed.
There may well be soon. Remember that the number of people who own mobile phones is numbered in billions.
If the trailers are free of charge or minimal charge kids, in the UK at least, will use the service and then video phone to their mates to arrange to see the film etc. etc. etc.
The issue here is for future market share available - not current market share. The estimates for increases in Linux desktop share are, I would imagine, far lower than the number of people expected to move to 3G mobile system in the next 3 years.
By getting Quicktime onto phones Apple provide a way to sell their encoders and lever Microsoft's format off of the mobile platform.
Well Karma is no longer measured in visible points for a start and the lst time it was mine was up at 50 - this highest it displays, and I never posted at 3.
This highest anyone posts at without moderation is, I believe, 2.
I was looking on the Mac site and it like said there were displays available but I clicked on the link and it went beep beep beep andlike ate my display. Bummer.
www.orange.com - Home page of Orange, Currently owned by France Telecom. Previously owned by Hutchison Whampoa and launced in the U.K. - if anything it's an Anglo French company hte most these days - not Asian.
Isn't the reason the shiny new Nokia only works on AT&T Wireless and not Sprint or Verizon because THAT shiny new Nokia is only for one type of mobile network?
The US has 4 different mobile phone technologies doesn't it? I'm sure it's at least 3. iDen, GSM (Crippled on a stupid frequency) and Sprint's PCS?
Why should Nokia make all their phones work on all the US networks when the market for them is the US and that's about it. They have better things to do making lots of lovely GSM 900/1800 dual band handsets for the hundred of GSM mobile networks around the works.
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It's interesting to note that this is where TiVo started out - the original project the TiVo pioneers worked on was the HSN cable network which offered exactly these features.
Meanwhile over in the UK we were promised similar features years ago but because our cable providers are cash strapped at the moment they've not yet appeared.
However Scott seems to have mentioned this and said that the SunRay is not a computer. Looks like they're getting the stuff the network I want a processor message from clients.
The article talks of a new desktop computer.
Looks like sun are trying to get into the low cost desktop platform providing Office-a-like features on a cheap and cheerful device.
It mentions Linux, Evolution, Gnome and Star Office - sounds like it's more of a re-packaging that anything.
Take a look at www.freedom-mobiles.co.uk - I just ordered one for £39.99 on a £50 a month tarrif - only caveat is that you need to stay on that tarrif for 4 months - after than you can switch down.
Sorry if it's a stupid question but I would have thought most internships are paid - at some level or another.
Or have I got the wrong view of this completely?
Actually using Mac OS X I've not seen the bomb icon.
:o)
M@t
Bluetooth includes encryption as standard and before a connection can be established both devices must approve.
This software only listens to a bluetooth connection from a specific device which has to have been paired with the Mac before hand.
It's quite safe - robably more so than having WiFi connections.
Think how many businessmen who use WiFi in Hotels etc have firewalls running. My Mac does all the time - even when I'm at home behind a hardware firewall.
Because when you're flying at however many feet your phone will see many more base-stations than it was meant to and may not work reliably and confuses the software in the networks.
To fill this with entertainment from magazines would cost $140 at your rate of $5 per magazine every two hours.
If the 3 long haul trips cost $25 each way to get internet access I'd have paid around $150 - throw in two magazines for the recent European trip and you've got $160 worth of entertainment.
Personally I think I'd prefer the Internet based entertainment as it enables me to keep up to date with the news (More and more important these days) and would enable me to get on with more work.
Compared to in-flight phones which can be used once or twice by a few people throughout a flight to get across important information (I had to cancel a mobile phone from a flight once as I had it stolen in the Airport) Internet access is a feature that offers long term benefits throught the entire length of a flight.
I welcome it. And thankfully B.A. and Lufthansa - my favourite airlines - are rolling it out
Hmmnnn. Do I want to carry a phone, a palm, a laptop. OR do I want to carry a PhoneDA and a Laptop.
My working life is spent with my laptop open on my desk, on my lap, on the train, in hotels etc - as such it is great. I connect into servers and configure stuff and fix problems - through my mobile or through a fixed phone line. But one thing it's crap for is storing my lists for shopping, phone numbers for quick reference and being used in cramped conditions - and I'm in those most mornings on the train to work.
I've already ditched the lead from the laptop to the phone using Bluetooth and that's a big enabler - if you've ever tried plugging cables in or lining up IRDA devices whilst on your lap or holding both with one hand while you use a stylus in the other you'll know what I mean - but this isn't enough.
I would dearly like a single device which keeps my in touch in the most basic ways - voice, SMS and email - and stores all the notes with a relatively big screen and easy text entry. A standard phone doesn't cut it but a PhoneDA does. I've looked at the Treo but it's a little clumsier than the P800 looks.
As for replacing it when the next big thing comes about, I do that with a single PDA or phone anyway - it's no more expensive (£299 for the P800 - £298 for a Palm Tungsten T, phones are usually free for me)
Err - All 4 GSM networks in the UK offer close to 99% population coverage of the UK. Most European countries are in a similar state.
Admittedly the USA is a bit bigger than most European countries but if you're slightly off the beaten track in the US you may have to use a different network and not be able to get the P800.
Just the facts as I seem 'em.
Why not? They have the insight to realise that people will put their stylus down and loose it and so include spares as standard.
To keep the weight down the stylus is plastic and a little easier to forget about than the relatively hefty Palm Tungsten T stylus which is a more memorable item.
Yes you're off the mark.
.NET framework is just that - a framework around which you can create an application. The language you use is totally up to you. VB.net, C#, C++ are all choices you may make - you do not have to learn all of them.
.NET framework and provides a method of writing web applications that are almost the same as a standalone version.
.NET you learn the ins and outs of the framework and the syntax and grammer of the language you choose - if you decide to migrate to a different language you have the same framework.
The
ASP.net is almost a container to these languages - it highlights a few different classes of the
With
With Perl you learn Perl's syntax and grammer and learn your way around CPAN, with Python you learn Python's syntax and grammer and learn it's framework. Same with other sets of libraries and frameworks.
In the UK we are paid to give our money to the bank for safekeeping.
There are no direct charges if you stay in credit, infact the bank pays you interest (Anything from 0.1% to 3%) and that's on a current account (You'll know it as a checking account)
Some accounts charge a fee per month or year but this usually covers extras such as insurance or "Gold" service - but these are in the minority.
Personally I only pay charges when I exceed my overdraft. The bank happily send me statements, provide on line and TV banking, telephone banking, counter service, provide cheque books, debit cards and even transfer money instantly between accounts in the same bank group - all free of charge.
Even Citibank does this in the UK.
Being a nominet member I can quite easily dispute this. It's £80. And that's for 2 years not 1.
.com registry which is run by Verisign who not only allow members of the public to register domains and take services but actively want them too.
If you renew through one of the agents (They are registry agents and not registrars as we don't hold any part of the registry) you can get huge discounts as the Nominet members' price is far lower thanks to the savings passed on through a members' use of the automation tools and Nominet not having to chase for money.
This charge can be as low as £5 - 6 for 2 years!
Also note that if you register with Nominet directly or fail to allow your existing agent to renew for you you must provide your own name servers.
This is because Nominet is not in competition with it's members - unlike the
Visit http://www.nominet.org.uk and Nominet claim that to register a domain you need to use a member.
Just my 2p/2 worth.
I was actually thinking of something along the lines of...
:o)
"The operating system about to be loaded does not have a valid security signature. As such it is not possible for the BIOS to prevent unsafe software from operating. Are you sure that you wish to continue loading this software."
But yours is just as good
I understand that there should be no problems running Linux systems on these new bioses but can you promise that there will be no nasty wordings that are likely to frighten off users who are trying Linux for the first time?
Sorry - I got confused by this one.
.uk domains are available from GBP5 per 2 years as compared to .com which are charged from around USD12 per year. Using the currency convertor at www.xe.com this makes .com at least 3 times more expensive than .uk
If you're talking about the cost of registering in a ccSLD against a gTLD then you're wrong. - In the UK all
If you're talking about the cost of getting a new gTLD in place over a new ccSLD then you're also wrong - there is nothing like the USD50,000 charge to look at a proposal in the UK. The proposal just has to follow a set of guidelines, be in the interest of the Internet community and provide a good business case for supporting itself.
Just examples from the UK - I can't say for other countries.
If you didn't mean either oif these then my apologies - i misunderstood.
There may well be soon. Remember that the number of people who own mobile phones is numbered in billions.
If the trailers are free of charge or minimal charge kids, in the UK at least, will use the service and then video phone to their mates to arrange to see the film etc. etc. etc.
The issue here is for future market share available - not current market share. The estimates for increases in Linux desktop share are, I would imagine, far lower than the number of people expected to move to 3G mobile system in the next 3 years.
By getting Quicktime onto phones Apple provide a way to sell their encoders and lever Microsoft's format off of the mobile platform.
Well Karma is no longer measured in visible points for a start and the lst time it was mine was up at 50 - this highest it displays, and I never posted at 3.
This highest anyone posts at without moderation is, I believe, 2.
I was looking on the Mac site and it like said there were displays available but I clicked on the link and it went beep beep beep andlike ate my display. Bummer.
www.orange.com - Home page of Orange, Currently owned by France Telecom. Previously owned by Hutchison Whampoa and launced in the U.K. - if anything it's an Anglo French company hte most these days - not Asian.
Isn't the reason the shiny new Nokia only works on AT&T Wireless and not Sprint or Verizon because THAT shiny new Nokia is only for one type of mobile network?
The US has 4 different mobile phone technologies doesn't it? I'm sure it's at least 3. iDen, GSM (Crippled on a stupid frequency) and Sprint's PCS?
Why should Nokia make all their phones work on all the US networks when the market for them is the US and that's about it. They have better things to do making lots of lovely GSM 900/1800 dual band handsets for the hundred of GSM mobile networks around the works.