The US is a heck of a lot bigger than these other countries (Japan etc). When one ISP can cover a country well, like the cell phone situation in Japan, it is very easy to be quick to market. When you are a huge country, in terms of area, it is a much slower, and more costly, process. The dead spots in between (area of minimal population) make it much less attractive for companies to spend the money on it, especially now after the dot-com fiasco.
How many people in the US can say they don't have cable TV? DSL is dependent on short range transmission, satellite has huge lag.
There are problems... we have to come up with the fixes...
According to Corel, when you look at the individual components of their Office 2002 Professional suite, all are supposed to be compatible with the MS equivalent.
I do not look up any patents on _principle_, because (a) it's a horrible waste of time and (b) I don't want to know.
The fact is, technical people are better off not looking at patents. If you don't know what they cover and where they are, you won't be knowingly infringing on them. If somebody sues you, you change the algorithm or you just hire a hit-man to whack the stupid git.
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This is the stuff that gets our community looked down upon. We have to acknowledge certain undeniable facts:
1 - Windows owns the desktop market. 2 - The US governmnet will patent anything. 3 - People are stupid, usually.
We must deal with these problems head-on. Avoiding them and making inflammatory statements does no good whatsoever.
Right now, my support goes directly to the developers of Moz and OO rather than some patent-filer mooching off of the efforts of Moz's and OO's developers
You do not understand the idea of OSS at all do you? THe idea is that anyone can use it, distribute it, modify it, sell it in somne modified form, or whatever. Tht is what OEone has beeen trying to do. How do you know that OO segfaults on HomeBase? Have you tried it?
Myself? I am using it right now... It has a few slick features, and a few that suck (DHCP support blows with my particula ISP and cable modem). They have taken something that is not supposed to be just a web browser (mozilla), modified it, freely distributed it, with source, as well as offering it for sale. That is the whole idea of OSS.
Hell, mozilla is being sued right now for infringing on the godzilla likeness and trademarked name...
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speaking of negatives, they were of no real importance until our society became on of currency. the barter system (still available for research in a few remote places) never gave us the idea of a 'minus.'
"Our interest is in helping to ensure that the government licenses its research in ways that take into account a stated goal of the U.S. government: to promote commercialization of public research."
When I was a little tyke, we used to have gym class. Started with stretching, then maybe a short job. Push-ups, sit-ups (or crunches if your back is not so good) and jumping jacks are always good. Jumping rope, if your ceiling is high enough, is very very good also.
And remember, basketball is a "team" sport, yet it can be played one-on-one.
It is not you mod'ing your PS that Sony is worried about. They are worried about the person that sold you the 'mod-chip'. It is a sale that involves the PS that Sony can't get a cut of.
I have many books older than I am (27yrs right now).
Remember the discussion involving the UK and those weird laser disc-like things that were nearly unreadable after only 10-15 years? Not only do the discs degrade, but the hardware to play it is not likely to still be in production, or working order in the not-near future.
Carved stone (Rosetta) is more usefull for long term than CD.
lost/stolen cards are usually reported by the owner as soon as it is noticed. even so, the credit card companies will remove bogus charges, usually in one phone call. i should know, i worked in a retail furniture store for nearly 4 years. customers, who were legit, but had a case of "buyer's remorse" could call their cc company and get the charges canceled, even though we had 2 sig's; one for the furniture (with a can't cancel clause after 3 days - CT law) and the other on the cc receipt. it doesn't matter, the cc companies all take the old view of AMEX, screw the business, we want to keep our customer.
It has been my experience, in the US, that Voicestream is very good. I live in CT, and it works fine in NYC, NY state, NJ, MA, ME, VT, and even in the middle of nowhere PA. Works fine in FL, GA, IL, and AZ.
A buddy of mine just got one in NJ, it seems that there if you are inland it was one service, and on the shore it was another. Turns out that Voicestream (soon to be T-Mobile) works good in both areas.
Problem with that is, I can get a portable version of the train schedule, in full color, already printed for me. It is in a nice format, the batteries never die, and it is free!
As previous posts have suggested, most of this new portable technology is more or less not 'needed' until after it goes to market. Cell phones and PDA's are both great examples. In the past, people took the time to be prepared, especially in the business world. Now, why bother? I can have my assistant fax/email/IM it to me or whatever other excuses people use (for people with horrible handwriting, I do think the advent of the computer was a good thing, but again, laziness).
When were they ever 2 grand or so? I recall 550's going for 2200, but i am prolly wrong. and that was when the 800's were imminent. iBooks were not mentioned before were they?
My only real problem with Apple (yes, I am currently drooling over 700MHz 12" iBook), is that they upgrade the OS to force people to buy more of their hardware. It is not a easy thing to upgrade a CPU in a Mac and get much more than 10 or 20% gain in performance. And, you have to pay several hundreds of dollars to do it. To upgrade my AMD, it costs $200 tops, and I can get 25% out of it.
"Oh, and you can get used powerbooks, even used tibooks, for less than a grand. They hold their value well."
Your statement implies that they do not hold their value well. 1/3 the cost after only a year or so? I think not. Even more so now that 10.2 is coming soon.
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The US is a heck of a lot bigger than these other countries (Japan etc). When one ISP can cover a country well, like the cell phone situation in Japan, it is very easy to be quick to market. When you are a huge country, in terms of area, it is a much slower, and more costly, process. The dead spots in between (area of minimal population) make it much less attractive for companies to spend the money on it, especially now after the dot-com fiasco.
How many people in the US can say they don't have cable TV? DSL is dependent on short range transmission, satellite has huge lag.
There are problems... we have to come up with the fixes...
According to Corel, when you look at the individual components of their Office 2002 Professional suite, all are supposed to be compatible with the MS equivalent.
This is the stuff that gets our community looked down upon. We have to acknowledge certain undeniable facts:
1 - Windows owns the desktop market.
2 - The US governmnet will patent anything.
3 - People are stupid, usually.
We must deal with these problems head-on. Avoiding them and making inflammatory statements does no good whatsoever.
email me your physical address and i will send it to you, i never did use it for anything. it is still in the original packaging.
chris at punchit dot net
You do not understand the idea of OSS at all do you? THe idea is that anyone can use it, distribute it, modify it, sell it in somne modified form, or whatever. Tht is what OEone has beeen trying to do. How do you know that OO segfaults on HomeBase? Have you tried it?
Myself? I am using it right now... It has a few slick features, and a few that suck (DHCP support blows with my particula ISP and cable modem). They have taken something that is not supposed to be just a web browser (mozilla), modified it, freely distributed it, with source, as well as offering it for sale. That is the whole idea of OSS.
Hell, mozilla is being sued right now for infringing on the godzilla likeness and trademarked name...
speaking of negatives, they were of no real importance until our society became on of currency. the barter system (still available for research in a few remote places) never gave us the idea of a 'minus.'
and now, we have Enron and Worldcom...
no shit sherlock.
that was a reference to us having karma in the past, but no longer. and know we want numerical karma for articles/stories?
best bet is a new type of article - "flagrant ad"
or some such thing...
Considering our karma no longer has a numerical score, the chances of articles being scored seem pretty low.
*sigh*
In essence, we get to decide who makes the money.
When I was a little tyke, we used to have gym class. Started with stretching, then maybe a short job. Push-ups, sit-ups (or crunches if your back is not so good) and jumping jacks are always good. Jumping rope, if your ceiling is high enough, is very very good also.
And remember, basketball is a "team" sport, yet it can be played one-on-one.
For "testing" of course. Go here.
Yeah.
Although when I bought it, the weight was listed as 3.3 pounds.
Kind of like the model rockets I used to fire up in the sky that had streamers instead of parachutes; very noisy flapping sounds.
It is not you mod'ing your PS that Sony is worried about. They are worried about the person that sold you the 'mod-chip'. It is a sale that involves the PS that Sony can't get a cut of.
The expected life of a CD is about 10 years.
I have many books older than I am (27yrs right now).
Remember the discussion involving the UK and those weird laser disc-like things that were nearly unreadable after only 10-15 years? Not only do the discs degrade, but the hardware to play it is not likely to still be in production, or working order in the not-near future.
Carved stone (Rosetta) is more usefull for long term than CD.
Books don't do this:
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1: Do you have that short story from Freshman year?
2: Sure, it is in my laptop.
1: Uhhh.... not anymore?
2: Sh$t.... BSOD?! Damnit!
Of course, ext2/ext3/rfs could flake out too.
Paper? Don't burn it, and don't get it wet. Sitting in the back seat of your '83 Accord (oh yes) for 3 years? Still 'works' fine.
Digital storage is not forever, and it is worse than dead tree storage
lost/stolen cards are usually reported by the owner as soon as it is noticed. even so, the credit card companies will remove bogus charges, usually in one phone call. i should know, i worked in a retail furniture store for nearly 4 years. customers, who were legit, but had a case of "buyer's remorse" could call their cc company and get the charges canceled, even though we had 2 sig's; one for the furniture (with a can't cancel clause after 3 days - CT law) and the other on the cc receipt. it doesn't matter, the cc companies all take the old view of AMEX, screw the business, we want to keep our customer.
It has been my experience, in the US, that Voicestream is very good. I live in CT, and it works fine in NYC, NY state, NJ, MA, ME, VT, and even in the middle of nowhere PA. Works fine in FL, GA, IL, and AZ.
A buddy of mine just got one in NJ, it seems that there if you are inland it was one service, and on the shore it was another. Turns out that Voicestream (soon to be T-Mobile) works good in both areas.
Of course this is IMO, and YMMV. IANAL.
for this year might have been down to all the "rumors" flying around stating that there was no G5.
.Mac) is all a recipe for a pretty boring expo.
"there was not much interesting at this year's expo" in NY, and that is a quote from an ex-Bungie employee.
no new hardware of tecchnological note, lame new software and services (iTunes and
it is no different than this year's linux expo on NYC being smaller, and far less interesting, IMO, than 2 years before.
just some more effects of the dotcom bubble bursting.
"Hell No, We Won't Go!..."
Problem with that is, I can get a portable version of the train schedule, in full color, already printed for me. It is in a nice format, the batteries never die, and it is free!
As previous posts have suggested, most of this new portable technology is more or less not 'needed' until after it goes to market. Cell phones and PDA's are both great examples. In the past, people took the time to be prepared, especially in the business world. Now, why bother? I can have my assistant fax/email/IM it to me or whatever other excuses people use (for people with horrible handwriting, I do think the advent of the computer was a good thing, but again, laziness).
When were they ever 2 grand or so? I recall 550's going for 2200, but i am prolly wrong. and that was when the 800's were imminent. iBooks were not mentioned before were they?
My only real problem with Apple (yes, I am currently drooling over 700MHz 12" iBook), is that they upgrade the OS to force people to buy more of their hardware. It is not a easy thing to upgrade a CPU in a Mac and get much more than 10 or 20% gain in performance. And, you have to pay several hundreds of dollars to do it. To upgrade my AMD, it costs $200 tops, and I can get 25% out of it.
"Oh, and you can get used powerbooks, even used tibooks, for less than a grand. They hold their value well."
Your statement implies that they do not hold their value well. 1/3 the cost after only a year or so? I think not. Even more so now that 10.2 is coming soon.
If the current version of Java came out first, shouldn't it be Mandrake that should work with Java?
He does whatever he wants. Why can't you?