..but the shouldn't. Or rather we (you, as I'm not in the US) shouldn't let them.
Not because it is Big Brother, but it would be all to easy to just add new taxes whenever the state needs money.
In that the taxpayer has to relate to his own taxes, instead of just paying another bill every month, there is a substatial amount of government control by the people.
How many you guys check your phonebills if it is $10 or even $20 above average one month? Sure, alot of people do, but even more just pays. You don't want this atitude towards taxes too!
The second you allow for twenty-one wives, someone with twentytwo wifes is going to show up.
You need a "People" table, with fields like "name", "is_married" and "age" field, and then a "Marriage" table with "groom_ref" and "wife_ref" field to link these people in marriage..
One to one (one wife) contra One to many (serveral wives)
A [innocent person] goes out to [do something not everybody would do, but still peaceful] and witnesses a murder, which is later ruled a suicide by the coroner's office in a massive political coverup. He has [evidence of the murder, possibly in a non-trivial geeky way], and shortly after he [hands the evidence] of the murder over to his uncle, a police detective, his uncle is then found dead, another "suicide." Then the kid realizes they'll be coming after him next, and a merry chase ensues.
I think one of the biggest reasons NGage will fail and all other devices that merge phone and game: air travel.
The Sony/Ericsson P{8,9}00 smartphones, and at least a few others, support an Airplane mode that shuts the RF and Bluetooth parts entirely off, while operating the rest of the features.
Scandinavian Airlines has seen the light, and allows these on (in the airplane-mode, obviously) during flight. Many more airlines will follow soon, due to popular demand..
It hasn't reached a break through yet, but why not?
Phone and PDA is melting into one, giving you the pocket room of one gadget less. Ericsson tried this way back (think, like, 2000) with the fiasco R380 (IIRC). Smartphone are (still) a hot potato.
NGage came out last year, and.. well.. give it some time. The idea might catch on when the child diseases are fixed and the next generation NGage hits the streets.
And while that might work for you, it won't for those of us who actually need to distingiush spam from ham.
I, for one, am not going to miss a business opportunity (as in a job, not transfereing money out of Nigeria), because the poor guy with the money and the standard Outlook setup sends me a HTML mail.
I might also just stop reading email, y'know.. ?
By the way - I send MIME-multipart mails with both the text and HTML version. And I reply above the quote. So shoot me.
I tried a pair of Sennheiser headphones some five or six years ago.
I believe they cost about $600 or even more, and they had really great sound. I don't have much experience in headphones, so I'm not sure if this basically would apply to any $200+ set... ?
Anyway, they lacked one big thing: The subwoofer. Half the surround experience is the feeling of the ultra low frequency in your stomach, and earphones just wont do that.
To be honest with you, I was merely fishing for a +1 or 2 'funny'..
Speaking without knowing, however, I think NASA's work is pretty open to any 'friendly' country with a bonafide space program..
Space research has some overlap with military research, and noone wants a nation like North Korea to progress any faster militarily than absolutely neccessary.
Usually, higher bandwith means higher frequency. Higher frequemcy means less range, since the waves is easilier interupted by obstacles, like trees. and so on.
Well, not in this case! The standard calls for a 300 mhz-range setup, broadcasting serveral 3.000 db signals.
[...] 'OpenSource Space Initiative' [...] And no, I don't mean, build things, more a 'Think Tank' group, who tries to focus on solving troubles/things, elaborating on ideas, finding solutions... etc; and at the end of they day, everything is Open to everyone, to comment on & contribute.
And five or six years down the line:
From: Nasa JPL To: project-leader@os-space.org Subj: Re: First OpenSpace rapport
Dear contributers,
Your ideas are good, and we greatly appreciate your effort.
However, your findings are not new to us. One of our hundreds of insanely intelligent scientists thought this up during lunch in october 1983, and had mathmatical proof why it won't work by the end of the day. I'm sorry I can't share it.
Best regards, Dr.Ph.d. N.N.
PS: Some of you guys seem bright. If only you'd not wasted your time doing this and come worked for us instead...
Nokia's s60 MIDP1.0 gives you network access (through WAP), altough the user has to accept each time the connection is brought up. Similar security could be applied to filesystem access...
..midp itself is lacking in when it comes to writing [...] some app that would require a lowlevel ui canvas mixed with text input
The GameCanvas does this, or am I not understanding you corretly?
My mission is not proving you wrong, rather than proving that I see absolutely no point in porting perl to the phones..
j2me can't access the filesystem and stuff like that directly, so that limits a lot what you can do with j2me java. [...] so it would be very nice to have some light(to write) scripting language that could access the whole hardware(for doing apps that do periodical file uploads, analyze some files or whatever).
This surely can't be the point of porting perl. The J2ME/MIDP1.0 implementation (of the 3650, anyway) is already "enhanced" (it does stuff that isn't in the MIDP specs - the whole com.nokia.* packages - and even gets the MIDP wrong in serveral places) - why not just add filesystem access to those, if they wanted developers to have filesystem access?
I could imagine this has to do with permissions. There is no way to 'trust' a J2ME program, unless it is signed by Nokia. But surely fixing this is easier than implementing a new language?
Prices of consumer electronics and cars (to mention a few) will leap to inconcievable levels. Serveral products will disappear completely, all the while economies will collapse and people will starve to death in terrifying numbers all over eastern asia.
Ah, what a wonderful world...
This is how it works.. change will come with time. China and other asian countries has very high rates of growth, and growth brings wealth, also to the common man. The turn-of-the-century labor reforms, were spearheaded by the unions, as mentioned by serveral - but made possible by the rate of growth provided by the industrialisation.
This is the change of society, China is going through, 100 years 'behind schedule'. Just give them 20-30 years...
(And no, that doesn't help every 10 year old in sweatshops today, but you can't solve problems of that magnitude with a snap of fingers.)
Well, that would be one application to connect to a bluetooth GPS device, and one doing some simple location stuff from the name of the cell. Probably useful, but nothing like GPS. Not at all.
GPS is about knowing where you are, not knowing that you're not where you were.
Slashdot: News from Tabloids, stuff that ignorant fools care about.
Please, a little thought here. The results from that meeting could decrease pollution by hundreds or millions of tons per year... They are not hippies arguing wether it is OK to eat an apple you got off a tree, or you have to wait until it falls, or else you'll disturb the fragile balance of nature.
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..but the shouldn't. Or rather we (you, as I'm not in the US) shouldn't let them.
Not because it is Big Brother, but it would be all to easy to just add new taxes whenever the state needs money.
In that the taxpayer has to relate to his own taxes, instead of just paying another bill every month, there is a substatial amount of government control by the people.
How many you guys check your phonebills if it is $10 or even $20 above average one month? Sure, alot of people do, but even more just pays. You don't want this atitude towards taxes too!
There are some things in life, that are simple, obvious and easy to do.
For everything else - there's Slashdot.
The 3650 does, anyway ..
The PC Suite provides "Syncronize", and SyncML "enables you to synchronize your calendar or contacts using a data connection to a remote server"
While searching for drivers for an HP printer that was given to me..
HP printers are textbook-example standards compliant. They don't use drivers.
Now, seriously, what were you doing on HP.com?
It's not.
But your $4000 printer ruining your prints, because an algorithm thinks it's a bank note is kinda crummy, y'know..
That's easy.. hit three unassigned ports, and you buy your IP-adress a nice firewall rule for an hour or so...
Your legit users (' software, anyway) usually knows how to connect to the real port first time.
Wife1
..
Wife2
Wife3
Wife4
etc..
Well, now, that would not be very relational
The second you allow for twenty-one wives, someone with twentytwo wifes is going to show up.
You need a "People" table, with fields like "name", "is_married" and "age" field, and then a "Marriage" table with "groom_ref" and "wife_ref" field to link these people in marriage..
One to one (one wife) contra One to many (serveral wives)
The Ericsson R380 wasn't a fiasco
;)
Besides not working (the tap-display) and being discontinued by the manufacturer within a year, IIRC, no, I presume not
Why on earth should I carry around both a PDA and a phone when my P800 does it all so well?
Well, you shouldn't.. Just as you won't carry a GameBoy and a cellphone when your [insert future edition of NGage] does both well.
Has this already been done?
Hmm.. let's see..
A [innocent person] goes out to [do something not everybody would do, but still peaceful] and witnesses a murder, which is later ruled a suicide by the coroner's office in a massive political coverup. He has [evidence of the murder, possibly in a non-trivial geeky way], and shortly after he [hands the evidence] of the murder over to his uncle, a police detective, his uncle is then found dead, another "suicide." Then the kid realizes they'll be coming after him next, and a merry chase ensues.
Yup, I've definitely see that one a few time.
I think one of the biggest reasons NGage will fail and all other devices that merge phone and game: air travel.
The Sony/Ericsson P{8,9}00 smartphones, and at least a few others, support an Airplane mode that shuts the RF and Bluetooth parts entirely off, while operating the rest of the features.
Scandinavian Airlines has seen the light, and allows these on (in the airplane-mode, obviously) during flight. Many more airlines will follow soon, due to popular demand..
It hasn't reached a break through yet, but why not?
.. well .. give it some time. The idea might catch on when the child diseases are fixed and the next generation NGage hits the streets.
Phone and PDA is melting into one, giving you the pocket room of one gadget less. Ericsson tried this way back (think, like, 2000) with the fiasco R380 (IIRC). Smartphone are (still) a hot potato.
NGage came out last year, and
And while that might work for you, it won't for those of us who actually need to distingiush spam from ham.
.. ?
I, for one, am not going to miss a business opportunity (as in a job, not transfereing money out of Nigeria), because the poor guy with the money and the standard Outlook setup sends me a HTML mail.
I might also just stop reading email, y'know
By the way - I send MIME-multipart mails with both the text and HTML version. And I reply above the quote. So shoot me.
This kid is going to make Slashdot again: When his new website is served of off his modded XBox
I tried a pair of Sennheiser headphones some five or six years ago.
I believe they cost about $600 or even more, and they had really great sound. I don't have much experience in headphones, so I'm not sure if this basically would apply to any $200+ set... ?
Anyway, they lacked one big thing: The subwoofer. Half the surround experience is the feeling of the ultra low frequency in your stomach, and earphones just wont do that.
To be honest with you, I was merely fishing for a +1 or 2 'funny'..
Speaking without knowing, however, I think NASA's work is pretty open to any 'friendly' country with a bonafide space program..
Space research has some overlap with military research, and noone wants a nation like North Korea to progress any faster militarily than absolutely neccessary.
Usually, higher bandwith means higher frequency. Higher frequemcy means less range, since the waves is easilier interupted by obstacles, like trees. and so on.
Well, not in this case! The standard calls for a 300 mhz-range setup, broadcasting serveral 3.000 db signals.
[...] 'OpenSource Space Initiative' [...]
And no, I don't mean, build things, more a 'Think Tank' group, who tries to focus on
solving troubles/things, elaborating on ideas, finding solutions... etc; and at the end of they
day, everything is Open to everyone, to comment on & contribute.
And five or six years down the line:
From: Nasa JPL
To: project-leader@os-space.org
Subj: Re: First OpenSpace rapport
Dear contributers,
Your ideas are good, and we greatly appreciate your effort.
However, your findings are not new to us. One of our hundreds of insanely intelligent scientists thought this up during lunch in october 1983, and had mathmatical proof why it won't work by the end of the day. I'm sorry I can't share it.
Best regards,
Dr.Ph.d. N.N.
PS: Some of you guys seem bright. If only you'd not wasted your time doing this and come worked for us instead...
Nokia's s60 MIDP1.0 gives you network access (through WAP), altough the user has to accept each time the connection is brought up. Similar security could be applied to filesystem access...
..midp itself is lacking in when it comes to writing [...] some app that would require a lowlevel ui canvas mixed with text input
The GameCanvas does this, or am I not understanding you corretly?
My mission is not proving you wrong, rather than proving that I see absolutely no point in porting perl to the phones..
j2me can't access the filesystem and stuff like that directly, so that limits a lot what you can do with j2me java. [...] so it would be very nice to have some light(to write) scripting language that could access the whole hardware(for doing apps that do periodical file uploads, analyze some files or whatever).
This surely can't be the point of porting perl. The J2ME/MIDP1.0 implementation (of the 3650, anyway) is already "enhanced" (it does stuff that isn't in the MIDP specs - the whole com.nokia.* packages - and even gets the MIDP wrong in serveral places) - why not just add filesystem access to those, if they wanted developers to have filesystem access?
I could imagine this has to do with permissions. There is no way to 'trust' a J2ME program, unless it is signed by Nokia. But surely fixing this is easier than implementing a new language?
WHEREUPON: 99.9999%
... ;)
NEOCONSERVATIVE: 99.9999%
LIBERAL: 74.3%
LIBERTY: 84.0%
MEGATON: 99.9999%
METHANE: 99.9999%
But I'm working for the neoconservative anti-liberal liberty lobby
... New York, London, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo, Mars ...
Change will come, alright.
.. change will come with time. China and other asian countries has very high rates of growth, and growth brings wealth, also to the common man. The turn-of-the-century labor reforms, were spearheaded by the unions, as mentioned by serveral - but made possible by the rate of growth provided by the industrialisation.
Prices of consumer electronics and cars (to mention a few) will leap to inconcievable levels. Serveral products will disappear completely, all the while economies will collapse and people will starve to death in terrifying numbers all over eastern asia.
Ah, what a wonderful world...
This is how it works
This is the change of society, China is going through, 100 years 'behind schedule'. Just give them 20-30 years...
(And no, that doesn't help every 10 year old in sweatshops today, but you can't solve problems of that magnitude with a snap of fingers.)
Well, that would be one application to connect to a bluetooth GPS device, and one doing some simple location stuff from the name of the cell. Probably useful, but nothing like GPS. Not at all.
GPS is about knowing where you are, not knowing that you're not where you were.
The Nokia Series 60 phones are not GPS capable.
Slashdot: News from Tabloids, stuff that ignorant fools care about.
Please, a little thought here. The results from that meeting could decrease pollution by hundreds or millions of tons per year... They are not hippies arguing wether it is OK to eat an apple you got off a tree, or you have to wait until it falls, or else you'll disturb the fragile balance of nature.
When you die, the coroner can now attach a Perl program to your brain and find out what you were thinking.
CSI is going to be very boring now.