How is this unlike Google? Sounds exactly like how Google homepage works. There's also the nice feature of being able to add feeds to my Google homepage right from Firefox. Quite convenient.
Well, nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you use Yahoo's completely free service. They're the ones providing it for free to public, as far as I'm concerned they can do whatever they damn well want. Doesn't seem like Flickr is exactly unpopular, despite the Yahoo ID requirement. If you hate it that much, use something else, or run your own gallery website.
Yeah. I have this problem with whatever router it is that YahooBB!/Softbank uses over here. If I am doing some heavy torrenting, everything else that wants to use the net gets blocked easily, and the router often reboots itself.
Precisely. I used watch 10 to a maximum of perhaps 20 hours of television per month. $50/month for cable is just not worth it, especially if I have to sit through ads and don't get to choose when I see the show I want to watch.
Um, WHY does it need these high specs to accomplish said tasks? Here in Japan, everyone already does all the things listed from their cell phone, and as such many people don't even own PC's simply because it's not necessary.
As someone who works at a software company in Japan, I've never seen any resistance to Unicode here or from any of our partners. In fact we use it all the time.
Exactly! All the most successful and brightest (real-world smarts, not just good at getting high grades in their courses) people I've met throughout my university career are those that have a genuine passion for what they are doing, and a strong desire to learn. They do many projects outside the scope of their studies, and spend a great deal of time outside of their courses learning additional skills. I have no doubt that these people would be successful regardless of the structure of their program (Which, incidentally, in our case is a a decent mix of both hands-on work and theory).
While 30 million *is* a lot, even the low end Spartan-3 FPGA's from Xilinx start at 5 million gates these days. Hundreds of thousands would have been accurate for previous generation low end products.
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Also the caveat is that this is only true if you take in to account all the people who were ever part of the swarm. I guess it depends how far you extend your definition of "community"
Um, apparently you don't understand the concept of independent film studios. Nobody is saying that the technical people would be those responsible for handling marketing and distribution.
Actually, I'm sure the people making the films would be more than willing to deal with theater chains etc themselves and get a bigger cut of the profit, if it were not for the fact the MPAA has effectively monopolized that area.
My university, SFU, is in one of the rainiest regions of Canada and is built almost entirely out of concrete. We have some problems with leaks in the older buildings, but overall I haven't seen a whole lot of problems with mold...
I always considered email to be a pull medium on the client side. Nothing forces your client to receive an email from the server does it? You have to request them. You can filter out emails based on headers before you download them, I do so on my cellphone every day. By default it only downloads the headers from senders not in my address book, then I can judge by the header whether or not I want to get the full email and by that method filter out all sorts of undesirable messages. Now if only I didn't have to do it manually... but that's a design limitation of this particular phone.
Um, actually Newton's Law does NOT hold up, which is why we now have the theory of General Relativity (and even that doesn't cover everything). All it takes is one counterexample to prove a theory wrong.
No, I'm not kidding. Find a good school and go. You'll get tons of theory, and lots of hands on experience, and the opportunity to work on amazing projects with incredibly smart people. If you're really keen on it, that's what I suggest.
Funny, myself and all my other friends in Japan do all the things you describe on clamshell phones all the time. I got mine free with a 1 year contract, and it has a VGA display, GPS, radio, internet, etc.
One thing is, writing emails in Japanese is *way* easier than in English because the way the language works is very conductive to creating suggestion lists of words. I usually only have to enter about 2 or 3 characters to get a whole word come up and then get a list of grammatically connecting elements automatically based on the context. I've yet to see anything like that in any of the English language smartphones I've used back in North America.
Ever heard of a contact book? Voice activated dialing? Pretty much the only time I ever have to punch in a phone number in to my phone is when I enter it in, and then never again. And when I'm writing in to the address book, I certainly don't want to do THAT blind.
Or, what happens if your system clock goes wonky for whatever reason? I wouldn't trust my PC clock for such an application.
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You're right on the money with this comment. I worked on a cellphone product in the past and the sheer number of carrier-specific hooks and modifications provided in the firmware to allow or disable various features was overwhelming. Literally hundreds of flags to allow carriers to lock things down to their liking.
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Wow, Google is able to control the ranking of pages in their own search engine by tweaking their own algorithms? That's a surprise to me!
How is this unlike Google? Sounds exactly like how Google homepage works. There's also the nice feature of being able to add feeds to my Google homepage right from Firefox. Quite convenient.
Well, nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you use Yahoo's completely free service. They're the ones providing it for free to public, as far as I'm concerned they can do whatever they damn well want. Doesn't seem like Flickr is exactly unpopular, despite the Yahoo ID requirement. If you hate it that much, use something else, or run your own gallery website.
Yeah. I have this problem with whatever router it is that YahooBB!/Softbank uses over here. If I am doing some heavy torrenting, everything else that wants to use the net gets blocked easily, and the router often reboots itself.
Precisely. I used watch 10 to a maximum of perhaps 20 hours of television per month. $50/month for cable is just not worth it, especially if I have to sit through ads and don't get to choose when I see the show I want to watch.
No, they'll get a $0.50 coupon redeemable for a new sponge.
Um, WHY does it need these high specs to accomplish said tasks? Here in Japan, everyone already does all the things listed from their cell phone, and as such many people don't even own PC's simply because it's not necessary.
As someone who works at a software company in Japan, I've never seen any resistance to Unicode here or from any of our partners. In fact we use it all the time.
Exactly! All the most successful and brightest (real-world smarts, not just good at getting high grades in their courses) people I've met throughout my university career are those that have a genuine passion for what they are doing, and a strong desire to learn. They do many projects outside the scope of their studies, and spend a great deal of time outside of their courses learning additional skills. I have no doubt that these people would be successful regardless of the structure of their program (Which, incidentally, in our case is a a decent mix of both hands-on work and theory).
Er sorry, I misread the table here.. but the largest spartan is actually 5 million gates according to
With the smallest Spartan3 starting at 1.4 million.
While 30 million *is* a lot, even the low end Spartan-3 FPGA's from Xilinx start at 5 million gates these days. Hundreds of thousands would have been accurate for previous generation low end products.
Also the caveat is that this is only true if you take in to account all the people who were ever part of the swarm. I guess it depends how far you extend your definition of "community"
Well, there's a big difference between small associations and ones that control pretty much the entire industry such as the MPAA.
Um, apparently you don't understand the concept of independent film studios. Nobody is saying that the technical people would be those responsible for handling marketing and distribution.
Actually, I'm sure the people making the films would be more than willing to deal with theater chains etc themselves and get a bigger cut of the profit, if it were not for the fact the MPAA has effectively monopolized that area.
My university, SFU, is in one of the rainiest regions of Canada and is built almost entirely out of concrete. We have some problems with leaks in the older buildings, but overall I haven't seen a whole lot of problems with mold...
I always considered email to be a pull medium on the client side. Nothing forces your client to receive an email from the server does it? You have to request them. You can filter out emails based on headers before you download them, I do so on my cellphone every day. By default it only downloads the headers from senders not in my address book, then I can judge by the header whether or not I want to get the full email and by that method filter out all sorts of undesirable messages. Now if only I didn't have to do it manually... but that's a design limitation of this particular phone.
Um, actually Newton's Law does NOT hold up, which is why we now have the theory of General Relativity (and even that doesn't cover everything). All it takes is one counterexample to prove a theory wrong.
No, I'm not kidding. Find a good school and go. You'll get tons of theory, and lots of hands on experience, and the opportunity to work on amazing projects with incredibly smart people. If you're really keen on it, that's what I suggest.
Funny, myself and all my other friends in Japan do all the things you describe on clamshell phones all the time. I got mine free with a 1 year contract, and it has a VGA display, GPS, radio, internet, etc.
One thing is, writing emails in Japanese is *way* easier than in English because the way the language works is very conductive to creating suggestion lists of words. I usually only have to enter about 2 or 3 characters to get a whole word come up and then get a list of grammatically connecting elements automatically based on the context. I've yet to see anything like that in any of the English language smartphones I've used back in North America.
Ever heard of a contact book? Voice activated dialing? Pretty much the only time I ever have to punch in a phone number in to my phone is when I enter it in, and then never again. And when I'm writing in to the address book, I certainly don't want to do THAT blind.
Or, what happens if your system clock goes wonky for whatever reason? I wouldn't trust my PC clock for such an application.
You're right on the money with this comment. I worked on a cellphone product in the past and the sheer number of carrier-specific hooks and modifications provided in the firmware to allow or disable various features was overwhelming. Literally hundreds of flags to allow carriers to lock things down to their liking.
...try programming on a large project in VC6. It's enough to drive anyone to hate.