A lot of thise home media devices from people like linuksys and dlink just plain suck ass in terms of media support and options. Wehere as my chipped xbox (which ends up being cheaper than the brand name stand alone media devices) serves my needs very well. My 1 TB NAS servers DVD's all day
I have one of the first gens, and ill let the slahdot crowd know the problems I see.
1.) If you enter a non digital coverage area, bend over and take cause the phone becomes a paper weight due to the inability to cross over to nalog circuit. 2.) If you out of coverage area and you powerycle the phone (it is just randomly shuts off mine has been doing that) when you power back on all your pim data is gone! 3.) Phone breaks you are SOL to get your data without going on the T-Movile webstie to look it up. (What good is a SIM if it doesnt store anything?) 4.) Random hardware flakiness . As I said before mine randomly shuts off and I have to plug it into a charger for 10 seconds to get it to power back on. 5.) The battery is NON replaceable 6.) The general hardware on it just plain sucks, crappy radio in the current version. 7.) DO NOT let T-Mobile push an update to your phone! Im on my 3rd one due to the software the pushed killed the radio twice. 8.) The backend proxy is a joke it slow browsing to 14.4k land.
I myself having had a sidekick for over a year, will NOT be upgrading the motorola A630 looks like a better replacement. Sorry but I want a keyboard I hate a stylus.
A secure location to house computer equiptment consisting of multiple computers in lockable enclousures, optional raised flooring, independant climate control.
Multiple levels of physical security and independnt electrical grid for emergencies. I dub this concept a "data center"
Now send this to USPTO, then sue the USPTO for patent infringment long with the gov, that should get their attention.
All this is soo relative to clean code vs. not so clean code, II have looked at some of his benchmarks and read a lot of comments stating well this would be better if you used xx library in C++, the same can be said about the java that was written. Here is an example I read did the stringcat benchmark and get a avg runtime of 600 milliseconds
import java.nio.*; public class StringAppend { public static void main(String[] args) { long st = System.currentTimeMillis(); int n = Integer.parseInt(args[0]); CharBuffer cb = CharBuffer.allocate(n * 12); for (int i=n; i>n; i--) { cb.put("hello\n"); } System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis() - st); } }
Notice the difference? NIO buffers are very fast compared to stringbuffer.
What the real beef is not abolishing of all patents, just the concept of "business methods". This is a rather new concept in patent law in the US.
Court ruling critical
Critics blame a sluggish, understaffed federal patent office for the current litigation. Until the 1990s, the patent office generally didn't grant patents for software. A 1998 federal court ruling cleared the way for "business methods" patents.
there is the real problem, in not an invention, and doesnt even follow the spirit of patent law in the first place. However the USPTO doesnt seem to even state the patent should be new , inoated or non obvious to others in the field Here is a pdf of current rules. all the fees and formats but no real mention of what can and can't be patented.
just my 10 cents
For 3 PC's why bother with a rack? Go vmware GSX -- $2500 will easily support 3 virtual machines on a AMD Athlon 1700+ with a gig of ram.. Unless its just the spare heating you want in a rack.. I know form experience with a 42U rack in my den. If you go rack go all the way Rack, KVM, racked ups, rack monitor/keyboard/mouse and a switch. For 3 machines I would go gsx myself cost in the short term out weighs the long term costs and increased elecriticy and cooling, unless you want your own private data center.
From Miss Alice Churchil Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire West Africa
emailto:alicechurchil@702mail.co.za
Hi Sweatheart. I am Alice the only daughter of Mr& Mrs Churchil.
It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad year 25th.Febuary 2002.Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been master minded by an uncle of his, who travelled with him at that time. But God knows the truth!My mother died when I was just 6 years old,and since then my father took me so special.
Before his death on Febuary 25 2002 he called the secretary who accompanied him to the hospital and told him that he has the sum of Sixten million,seven hundred thousand United State Dollars.(USD$16.700,000) left in fixed deposit account in one of the leading banks in Africa.
He further told him that he deposited the money in my name,and finally issued a written instruction to his lawyer whom he said is in possession of all the necessary but legal documents to this fund and the bank.
I am just 21 years old and an university undergraduate and really don't know what to do.
Now I need an overseas account where I can transfer this funds and after the transaction i will come and live with you and i'm ready to do anything of your choice. This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast.
The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life and i wished to investe under your care please.
I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards.Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.
Now permit me to ask these few questions:-
1. Can you honestly help me?
2. Can I completely trust you?.
What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you after the money is in your account while i finalers my education? Please,Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible.
sincere regards,
Miss Alice
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If the game studios would pump out java byte code using swt or wxjava for their platforms linux we be an awsome platform to run.. most jvms ive used run faster on linux/unix variants than on windows..... Ummmm bytecode....
Why would they need the GPS to find your every cell tower transmists it long and lat, and your phone relays it anyway, so as long as the phone is powered on the, they could get a general location fix with 1 tower (within a could klicks) get 2 more towers and bam they got you anyway..
I point over to neverwinter nights, excellent RPG that allows players to add RP content to it. In my humble opinion it is an awsome RPG translated from pen and paper to the electronic medium.
Apache has change a bunch of their homepages to support the protest
Did you see the .NET clause?
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More MS EULA Fun
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Interesting if you saw if:
You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the.NET framework component of the OS Components to any thirdparty without Microsoft's prior written approval.
How about that, wonder what they are trying to hide? SP3 must contain some of the.NET framework stuff. I thought it was a seperate download, as it was BETA for W2k. No I know for sure I am not gona install this SP.
You gota love this one, a little nugget in the C# runtime, the use of COM/dlls with an unsafe keyword. Wonder how many M$ apps will use this for com libs, that will ummm not show up on mono (i.e. remain closed and guarded), so your linux app may run on.NET but I don't see Word.NET running on your linux box any time soon.
Compaq'2 product website for the IPaq shows a new Expansion sleeve that turns your IPaq into a phone see: http://www.compaq.com/products/handhelds/pocketpc/ options/expansion_packs.html for Details, though not sure if you can slot a CF or PC card at the same time. and It's GSM/GPRS system compliant.
Check out the hardware list used for each machine, you'll see the AMD box was robbed compared to the Intel box. My AMD at home smokes my P4 machine at work. The testers are a little Intel biased, shows in the the charts blowups as well
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A lot of thise home media devices from people like linuksys and dlink just plain suck ass in terms of media support and options. Wehere as my chipped xbox (which ends up being cheaper than the brand name stand alone media devices) serves my needs very well. My 1 TB NAS servers DVD's all day
I have one of the first gens, and ill let the slahdot crowd know the problems I see.
1.) If you enter a non digital coverage area, bend over and take cause the phone becomes a paper weight due to the inability to cross over to nalog circuit.
2.) If you out of coverage area and you powerycle the phone (it is just randomly shuts off mine has been doing that) when you power back on all your pim data is gone!
3.) Phone breaks you are SOL to get your data without going on the T-Movile webstie to look it up. (What good is a SIM if it doesnt store anything?)
4.) Random hardware flakiness . As I said before mine randomly shuts off and I have to plug it into a charger for 10 seconds to get it to power back on.
5.) The battery is NON replaceable
6.) The general hardware on it just plain sucks, crappy radio in the current version.
7.) DO NOT let T-Mobile push an update to your phone! Im on my 3rd one due to the software the pushed killed the radio twice.
8.) The backend proxy is a joke it slow browsing to 14.4k land.
I myself having had a sidekick for over a year, will NOT be upgrading the motorola A630 looks like a better replacement. Sorry but I want a keyboard I hate a stylus.
See enclosed Patent:
A secure location to house computer equiptment consisting of multiple computers in lockable enclousures, optional raised flooring, independant climate control.
Multiple levels of physical security and independnt electrical grid for emergencies. I dub this concept a "data center"
Now send this to USPTO, then sue the USPTO for patent infringment long with the gov, that should get their attention.
Sigs are for the weak
For 3 PC's why bother with a rack? Go vmware GSX -- $2500 will easily support 3 virtual machines on a AMD Athlon 1700+ with a gig of ram.. Unless its just the spare heating you want in a rack.. I know form experience with a 42U rack in my den. If you go rack go all the way Rack, KVM, racked ups, rack monitor/keyboard/mouse and a switch. For 3 machines I would go gsx myself cost in the short term out weighs the long term costs and increased elecriticy and cooling, unless you want your own private data center.
From Miss Alice Churchil
.
.
Gota love thse scams... I would love to post the HTML wrapper behind the image but Mimedefrang and filtering removed the html tags
Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire
West Africa
emailto:alicechurchil@702mail.co.za
Hi Sweatheart.
I am Alice the only daughter of Mr& Mrs
Churchil
It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in
France during one of his business trips abroad year
25th.Febuary 2002.Though his sudden death was linked
or rather suspected to have been master minded by an
uncle of his, who travelled with him at that time. But
God knows the truth!My mother died when I was just 6
years old,and since then my father took me so special.
Before his death on Febuary 25 2002 he called the
secretary who accompanied him to the hospital and told
him that he has the sum of Sixten million,seven
hundred thousand United State Dollars.(USD$16.700,000)
left in fixed deposit account in one of the leading
banks in Africa.
He further told him that he deposited the money in my
name,and finally issued a written instruction to his
lawyer whom he said is in possession of all the
necessary but legal documents to this fund and the
bank.
I am just 21 years old and an university undergraduate
and really don't know what to do.
Now I need an overseas account where I can transfer
this funds and after the transaction i will come and
live with you and i'm ready to do anything of your
choice. This is because I have suffered a lot of set
backs as a result of incessant political crisis here
in Ivory coast.
The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my
life and i wished to investe under your care please.
I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in
this regards.Your suggestions and ideas will be highly
regarded.
Now permit me to ask these few questions:-
1. Can you honestly help me?
2. Can I completely trust you?
What percentage of the total amount in question will
be good for you after the money is in your account
while i finalers my education? Please,Consider this
and get back to me as soon as possible.
sincere regards,
Miss Alice
<ecode>
! official Notice for all users of Citibank
Image is inlined but headers tell the story
Received: from ns-th2-15-82-64-237-11.adsl.proxad.net
</ecode>
If the game studios would pump out java byte code using swt or wxjava for their platforms linux we be an awsome platform to run .. most jvms ive used run faster on linux/unix variants than on windows.. ... Ummmm bytecode ....
Try a hiptop sidekick if you want phone + ssh works for me, and there is an SDK for it, a j2me device
Why would they need the GPS to find your every cell tower transmists it long and lat, and your phone relays it anyway, so as long as the phone is powered on the, they could get a general location fix with 1 tower (within a could klicks) get 2 more towers and bam they got you anyway..
I point over to neverwinter nights, excellent RPG that allows players to add RP content to it. In my humble opinion it is an awsome RPG translated from pen and paper to the electronic medium.
Apache has change a bunch of their homepages to support the protest
You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the .NET framework component of the OS Components to any thirdparty without Microsoft's prior written approval.
How about that, wonder what they are trying to hide? SP3 must contain some of theYou gota love this one, a little nugget in the C# runtime, the use of COM/dlls with an unsafe keyword. Wonder how many M$ apps will use this for com libs, that will ummm not show up on mono (i.e. remain closed and guarded), so your linux app may run on .NET but I don't see Word .NET running on your linux box any time soon.
Compaq'2 product website for the IPaq shows a new Expansion sleeve that turns your IPaq into a phone see: http://www.compaq.com/products/handhelds/pocketpc/ options/expansion_packs.html for Details, though not sure if you can slot a CF or PC card at the same time. and It's GSM/GPRS system compliant.
Check out the hardware list used for each machine, you'll see the AMD box was robbed compared to the Intel box. My AMD at home smokes my P4 machine at work. The testers are a little Intel biased, shows in the the charts blowups as well