I'll answer it the same way that I answer two common questions:
1. What car should I buy?
2. What computer should I get?
My answers:
1. What are you going to use it for?
2. How much are you planning to spend?
Without knowing the answers to those two questions, then the original poster's question can't be correctly answered. If you're looking for professional, poster-sized prints, then your answer is going to be different than if you're just looking for something to take snapshots during vacations. Ditto if you have a large budget/if you're a broke college student.
Answer those two questions first, and you'll get a more accurate reply.
Half a second to refresh? What are you doing with that thing? Running screensavers in the background.
THE ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. I have TWO HP 48S, and I used them to participate in High School UIL competitions, where speed was not only of the essence, but the determining factor. Ten minutes, a pencil, and a calculator, and may the best student win.
We ALL begged to get HP 48s from our school, cuz HP's always were the FASTEST thing out there, especially compared to those TI's other students were using.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. And I have two HP 48s to prove it.
Personally, this is the single biggest reason I can't stand conservatives. It bothers me to no end how capable they are of assuming that anybody in a bad situation is there because they deserve it.
So you respond to conservatives by being uncapable to assume that not every conservative thinks that way?
You just became guilty of the reasoning you just claimed to despise.
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that's where Qualcomm makes its millions: from Patents involving CDMA. What else is he going to say?
That's like asking a Republican for an interview, and reporting as news that he thinks Republicans will win the Senate in the elections. What else is he going to say?
Hmm.. make sure you post what it was you manufactured next time.;)
No, what I was saying was that you could confidently say that you were able to do the job yourself, which often entailed going in the middle of the night to work at a customer's site.
It was common to work as sort of an "understudy" for about a year and a half, and that's what I meant.
First of all, it shouldn't take four years to learn most of how any kind of networking works.
Yes, it does. And even more. I've worked for a telecom equipment maker for three years now, and the depth of this stuff can be mind numbing. It's a commonly uttered truism here that you need to be working for at least 1 1/2 years to be able to actually say you KNOW what you're doing, and it's not until you've been working with the same thing for around 5 years that you can be considered an expert. And that's living and breathing this stuff day in and day out, without English, arts, and all those other classes getting in your way.
While wireless is all "hip" and whatnot, you can't do everything wirelessly. Transmitting through thick rock and transmitting top secret data for example.
People shouldn't get into this because it's "hip". They should choose it for the same reason they choose ANY major: they should have a reasonable expectation that this is a line of work that they'll enjoy.
And we're not trying to do EVERYthing wirelessly. Just communicating.
However, if you're knowledgeable with both wired and wireless networks, you are of use to almost any company...
Heck, I could've been a janitor, and those are of use to any company. But again, that's not the point. People should major in this because it's something they think they'll enjoy doing.
Nope you're right... we ARE that far behind in the wireless world. That's why this is such a huge first step. Of course, in Suomi you've had this for a while cuz you've had Nokia Oyj leading the way.
Overe here in the States, standards are pretty much fragmented, and progress is coming in baby steps.
1. It IS true 3G, according to The 3G Partnership Project. If I recall correctly, the System had to offer speeds of 144K minimum to qualify, and the Sprint System does that, at least in theory.
2. Sprint is not the first one. Not even in the U.S. 3G has already been deployed in Japan and in Korea. In the U.S., Verizon has been offering it since the beggining of '02. What Sprint has done is be the first to offer it NATIONWIDE (meaning, wherever Sprint offers service), whereas Verizon offers it only in select markets, and it's slowly being rolled out nationwide.
3. There is no surprise. Even a full year ago, Sprint kept saying that they would roll out 3G in the Fourth Quarter of '01, which we in the industry [full disclosure: yes, I work in the telecom industry, but no, I have no dealings/stock/insider information/business with Sprint other than using them as my mobile phone provider.] thought was bull, and sure enough, they delayed it first to July 4th, when they were supposed to have a big promotional tie in with MIB2, but in June they postponed even that date and just said they'd go live somewhere in the "summer of '02".
Uh... not really. What AT&T rolled out was GPRS, which is 2.5 G, not 3G.
And before the flames arrive about what is 2G and what is 3G, that my granpa heard this columnist say it wasn't really 3G, and all that junk, there is an Industry Partnership that determines what consitutes 3G, and they determined a while back that 1XRTT (What Sprint is deploying) IS 3G.
PBS program he's talking about
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· Score: 5, Informative
IIRC, I read somewhere that the reason that telemarketers don't call cell phones is because most plans are "per-minute", meaning that time you spend on the phone is time that's costing you, unlike the flat-fee for unlimited phone usage on your house phone.
Because of this, telemarketers could be held monetarily liable for the minutes (which equal $$$ in mobile phone plans) that you "lost" talking to them.
Thanks for the thought. I appreciate your advice and your honesty.
However, I'm not going to do it because of propaganda. I'm going to do it because my first experience with an Open Source product (Mozilla), has been excellent. Especially the power to customize it to what I want it to do. This is the one thing that absolutely caught me off guard. I don't have to Beat It Into Submission like I've had to do with commercial to mold it to my liking.
From what I've read about Linux users, that it also a strength of Linux, and THAT'S why I'll probably give it a try.
IIRC, and I think there was a Slashdot story about this, I remember reading that one of the conditions that M$ put forth as a requirement for them to continue developing Office for the Mac, was that Apple had to stop using Netscape as the default browser, and replace it with IE.
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Otherwise known as the Willie Sutton principle.
Who's Willie Sutton?
I'll answer it the same way that I answer two common questions:
1. What car should I buy?
2. What computer should I get?
My answers:
1. What are you going to use it for?
2. How much are you planning to spend?
Without knowing the answers to those two questions, then the original poster's question can't be correctly answered. If you're looking for professional, poster-sized prints, then your answer is going to be different than if you're just looking for something to take snapshots during vacations. Ditto if you have a large budget/if you're a broke college student.
Answer those two questions first, and you'll get a more accurate reply.
That sounds like a press release if I ever read one.
I have no problem with press releases, but the submitter should *not* have claimed it was a review.
I agree with you on the matrix and form part.
That *was* slow....
however, for the pure arithmetic part, it IS fast.
Slow???
SayWha..???
Half a second to refresh? What are you doing with that thing? Running screensavers in the background.
THE ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. I have TWO HP 48S, and I used them to participate in High School UIL competitions, where speed was not only of the essence, but the determining factor. Ten minutes, a pencil, and a calculator, and may the best student win.
We ALL begged to get HP 48s from our school, cuz HP's always were the FASTEST thing out there, especially compared to those TI's other students were using.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. And I have two HP 48s to prove it.
so, how long do you think it takes before your ISP alters its TOS to make it illegal for you to use your PC for this?
Personally, this is the single biggest reason I can't stand conservatives. It bothers me to no end how capable they are of assuming that anybody in a bad situation is there because they deserve it.
So you respond to conservatives by being uncapable to assume that not every conservative thinks that way?
You just became guilty of the reasoning you just claimed to despise.
I don't know which one I have a harder time believing:
;-)
1. A person quoting their "Uncle Isaac."
2. Or a vapor-as-of-now console named "Phantom."
They're sure not gonna like this.
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Cuz most of the warez out there is for Windoze.
that's where Qualcomm makes its millions: from Patents involving CDMA. What else is he going to say?
That's like asking a Republican for an interview, and reporting as news that he thinks Republicans will win the Senate in the elections. What else is he going to say?
Hmm.. make sure you post what it was you manufactured next time. ;)
No, what I was saying was that you could confidently say that you were able to do the job yourself, which often entailed going in the middle of the night to work at a customer's site.
It was common to work as sort of an "understudy" for about a year and a half, and that's what I meant.
First of all, it shouldn't take four years to learn most of how any kind of networking works.
Yes, it does. And even more. I've worked for a telecom equipment maker for three years now, and the depth of this stuff can be mind numbing. It's a commonly uttered truism here that you need to be working for at least 1 1/2 years to be able to actually say you KNOW what you're doing, and it's not until you've been working with the same thing for around 5 years that you can be considered an expert. And that's living and breathing this stuff day in and day out, without English, arts, and all those other classes getting in your way.
While wireless is all "hip" and whatnot, you can't do everything wirelessly. Transmitting through thick rock and transmitting top secret data for example.
People shouldn't get into this because it's "hip". They should choose it for the same reason they choose ANY major: they should have a reasonable expectation that this is a line of work that they'll enjoy.
And we're not trying to do EVERYthing wirelessly. Just communicating.
However, if you're knowledgeable with both wired and wireless networks, you are of use to almost any company...
Heck, I could've been a janitor, and those are of use to any company. But again, that's not the point. People should major in this because it's something they think they'll enjoy doing.
Nope you're right... we ARE that far behind in the wireless world. That's why this is such a huge first step.
Of course, in Suomi you've had this for a while cuz you've had Nokia Oyj leading the way.
Overe here in the States, standards are pretty much fragmented, and progress is coming in baby steps.
1. It IS true 3G, according to The 3G Partnership Project. If I recall correctly, the System had to offer speeds of 144K minimum to qualify, and the Sprint System does that, at least in theory.
2. Sprint is not the first one. Not even in the U.S. 3G has already been deployed in Japan and in Korea. In the U.S., Verizon has been offering it since the beggining of '02. What Sprint has done is be the first to offer it NATIONWIDE (meaning, wherever Sprint offers service), whereas Verizon offers it only in select markets, and it's slowly being rolled out nationwide.
3. There is no surprise. Even a full year ago, Sprint kept saying that they would roll out 3G in the Fourth Quarter of '01, which we in the industry [full disclosure: yes, I work in the telecom industry, but no, I have no dealings/stock/insider information/business with Sprint other than using them as my mobile phone provider.] thought was bull, and sure enough, they delayed it first to July 4th, when they were supposed to have a big promotional tie in with MIB2, but in June they postponed even that date and just said they'd go live somewhere in the "summer of '02".
Uh... not really. What AT&T rolled out was GPRS, which is 2.5 G, not 3G.
And before the flames arrive about what is 2G and what is 3G, that my granpa heard this columnist say it wasn't really 3G, and all that junk, there is an Industry Partnership that determines what consitutes 3G, and they determined a while back that 1XRTT (What Sprint is deploying) IS 3G.
It was first broadcast about a year ago, part of a series called "Secrets of Lost Empires", and also included a nice Construction of a Chinese Rainbow Bridge.
The Trebuchet episode is scheduled to be rebroadcast on Tuesday, July 16, 2002, in the States.
IIRC, I read somewhere that the reason that telemarketers don't call cell phones is because most plans are "per-minute", meaning that time you spend on the phone is time that's costing you, unlike the flat-fee for unlimited phone usage on your house phone.
Because of this, telemarketers could be held monetarily liable for the minutes (which equal $$$ in mobile phone plans) that you "lost" talking to them.
1. The Obvious: "owning" another cell phone.
2. Radiation becomes a REAL risk, because the main broadcasting would be done by the phones, not the towers.
3. Battery life (ok, not so much a danger as a nuisance).
4. Spam (another nuisance).
5. Viruses.
I think I'll stick with my plain cell phone for now.
In my high school...
Teacher: Gambit, you didn't write this!
Gambit: uh, well...
Teacher: You COPIED this, didn't you?
Gambit: Well, maybe a little...
Teacher: That's PLAGIARISM! Where do you think you're going to end up if you just copy other people's article??
Gambit: Hopefully on Slashdot?
Thanks for the thought. I appreciate your advice and your honesty.
However, I'm not going to do it because of propaganda. I'm going to do it because my first experience with an Open Source product (Mozilla), has been excellent. Especially the power to customize it to what I want it to do. This is the one thing that absolutely caught me off guard. I don't have to Beat It Into Submission like I've had to do with commercial to mold it to my liking.
From what I've read about Linux users, that it also a strength of Linux, and THAT'S why I'll probably give it a try.
IIRC, and I think there was a Slashdot story about this, I remember reading that one of the conditions that M$ put forth as a requirement for them to continue developing Office for the Mac, was that Apple had to stop using Netscape as the default browser, and replace it with IE.