The USA isn't big on advanced cells. Not like Europe or Asia.
None of the advanced features US providers are dreaming about will happen until we see a whole lot more flat-rate action. Americans simply will not pay what Asians and Europeans are willing to for stuff like GPRS, SMS/MMS, etc. LTIC most European plans are still per-minute with per-message charges in SMS and per-KB data transfer charges. No all-you-can-eat plans.
I can guarantee you that 'cellular data' will go nowhere until it's available flat-rate all-you-can-eat. Same goes for MMS, location-based services, etc. Americans just want flat-rate and are willing to wait for it. This may be happening with Sprint and ATT, but I believe all-you-can-eat data, sms/mms and local voice needs to be $50/mo for it to take off.
Ergo, those phones which enable those services will not be as appealing: why pay extra for something that is not affordable to use?
And it seems to be something the wireless companies need to learn over and over and over again.
The US is generally last to get new cellular toys because of the lack of a single standard. By letting the market fight it out, the FCC - whilst promoting competition amongst vendors - kinda hashed things up for the consumers.
OTOH our rates are much lower, so there is a benefit to competition. Keep in mind GSM was government mandated, and they just lucked out that it was as flexible as it was: government-selected standards rarely are.
They did it again with Digital TV too, mandating an arguably inferior standard that isn't used much elsewhere, so that the domestic TV manufacturers would be happy.
Does DVB go past 480p?
Now, if they'd gone with DVB-T, prices everywhere around the World for DTV tuners would be lower.
Personally, I think there's something to be said for allowing technologies to compete to a point, then letting the best value determine the 'standard' at some point. Government picking winners before the game is played is a hit-or-miss (mostly miss) proposition IMHO.
Fire up an old Apple ][ emulator and check it out..
Seriously though, starting in ASM is a GREAT way of weeding people out of CS. OTOH, unless you're developing hardware drivers or embedded systems software (or working for NASA), it's pretty much a waste at this point, and it is highly unlikely you can beat a modern compiler for optimized code anyway.
Seriously, I remember teaching RB to 4th-6th graders when I was in HS, and I'd end up playing it myself for hours, 'twas hella fun..
A. be able to record and stream a video and audio on the fly
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/broadcas te r/
B. allow the user to either tune-in, or play from the beginning.
I highly doubt a hack in which the broadcaster records to a file, which can then be configured separately from the 'live' stream couldn't be done in a reasonable amount of time.
Also, Darwin Streaming Server handles passwording a LOT better than Real's baroque security "model". I'd rather read apache htpasswds than deal with all of Real's nonsense....
The transition will therefore be as seamless as possible for the listeners -- a simple matter of "click here" and the program will play. No messing around with downloading new clients, configuring, or what have you.
WiMP doesn't play MP3 streams?
I'm not (entirely) facetious here: I really don't know the answer to that question.
iTunes and WinAmp are both quite happy with MP3 streams. There are several free streaming MP3-capable servers available. I think there was a payoff, incompetence, or just plain ignorance involved in this 'decision'.
The opensource nforce ethernet driver.. The patched nvnet driver didn't work too well but I've been having lots of success with forcedeth.. Can't wait for it to be pulled into the Linus kernel..
According to the intel site, these CPUs are fabricated using a 180nm process.. This can only get more interesting once they start migrating to 130nm or 90nm, reducing power needs even further..
What's the heat dissipation on something like this? Can it be safely encased in a waterproof housing without worrying about ventilation (or by using the housing as a radiator)?
Think of all the energy we could have saved if the war in Iraq had not taken place. And oh yea, we may have saved a few innocent human lives also.
Well, given that Saddam averaged 16,667 killed per year over his 24 year reign, we've actually reduced the death toll in Iraq significantly, at least among the innocent.
Kind of like how the first gulf war resulted in a cleaner persian gulf because of all the spilled oil that didn't get spilled in the normal course of shipping...
As long as Halliburton makes $40 per gallon transporting oil, there will never be a reason for cheaper anything.
Don't know much about the military, do you?
Who cares how much the fuel _costs_.. Requiring less fuel shrinks the logistics train significantly, and in our projected-force military logistics is more critical than just about anything besides training.
The B2 bomber might cost $2B (thanks to a reduced # of planes vs. a fixed development and tooling investment), but its reduced deployment support requirements (no escort fighters or anti-radar wild weasels, precision bombs for fewer runs and fewer bombs per run) bring down its operational costs in theory below those of a traditional B52.
If you could halve the number of fuel trucks (and concomitant supply officers, mechanics, fuel monkeys, etc) to support a particular mobile formation, you've made your combat forces much more effective, and the fuel savings are just a nice little side plus.
Additionally, imagine hybridized tanks and other vehicles: like diesel-electric subs they can run efficiently on fuel when in transition, and for the approach to contact they can switch to battery-only power for silent surprise.
Then figure in the codevelopment of civilian products (in this generation the military is heavily COTS oriented and would probably push its researchers to make hybrid technologies available for mass-production) which would bring down fuel use in the overall economy and you've got a huge win.
Hybrid power in the military is a huge win any way you look at it, unless you are a terrorist.
The Ultra10 would be a better choice for the expansion-minded, after adding a proper SCSI controller of course. The reason I like the U5/U10 is the cheap memory upgrades: prior to that Sun would require somewhat proprietary memory that even Kingston would charge too much for...
You want cult? Try a Sparc20 4-cpu.. Or a Sparc10 if you still have an ISDN connection... Last time I checked a 2x90 sparc20 was going for $9.95 on eBay...
ok then, how about this: wget -O - http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,84 07881%5E15841%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html 2>/dev/null|sed "s#literally#literally\\ #ig|grep -ci literally
Don't forget that crlf after the second backslash, since sed's newline substitution doesn't work at least in the sed I have...
That doesn't take into account the appearance of the keyword multiple times on a line.. You literally need something more like... wget -O - http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,84 07881%5E15841%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html 2>/dev/null| perl -e 'while() { s#literally#$i++#eg; print "$i\n"; }'
If you pop over to Europe or Asia you will see that cell phones are already offering these sort of features. I have a friend, in the UK, who managed to download and watch the highlights of a football match on his cell phone. And the format it uses is industry standard MPEG 4.
If you have the time and storage space, you can do this yourself with Quicktime Pro.. It supports 3GPP, which uses MPEG4/AAC. mencoder support for AAC is sketchy last time I checked, but I was able to fit a whole episode of Mr. Show in about 13MB for use with my P800..
(too bad SE is such shite they won't update their firmware to support larger memory stick duos, and a pox on Sony for the memory stick in the first place!!)
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The USA isn't big on advanced cells. Not like Europe or Asia.
None of the advanced features US providers are dreaming about will happen until we see a whole lot more flat-rate action. Americans simply will not pay what Asians and Europeans are willing to for stuff like GPRS, SMS/MMS, etc. LTIC most European plans are still per-minute with per-message charges in SMS and per-KB data transfer charges. No all-you-can-eat plans.
I can guarantee you that 'cellular data' will go nowhere until it's available flat-rate all-you-can-eat. Same goes for MMS, location-based services, etc. Americans just want flat-rate and are willing to wait for it. This may be happening with Sprint and ATT, but I believe all-you-can-eat data, sms/mms and local voice needs to be $50/mo for it to take off.
Ergo, those phones which enable those services will not be as appealing: why pay extra for something that is not affordable to use?
And it seems to be something the wireless companies need to learn over and over and over again.
Combo devices... Meh
Sorry, but you are wrong. Combo devices are the dog's bollocks.
The US is generally last to get new cellular toys because of the lack of a single standard. By letting the market fight it out, the FCC - whilst promoting competition amongst vendors - kinda hashed things up for the consumers.
OTOH our rates are much lower, so there is a benefit to competition. Keep in mind GSM was government mandated, and they just lucked out that it was as flexible as it was: government-selected standards rarely are.
They did it again with Digital TV too, mandating an arguably inferior standard that isn't used much elsewhere, so that the domestic TV manufacturers would be happy.
Does DVB go past 480p?
Now, if they'd gone with DVB-T, prices everywhere around the World for DTV tuners would be lower.
Personally, I think there's something to be said for allowing technologies to compete to a point, then letting the best value determine the 'standard' at some point. Government picking winners before the game is played is a hit-or-miss (mostly miss) proposition IMHO.
How does Linux-based HWR stack up against, say, Symbian's character-based entry or Newton 2.0's print recognizer?
Learning a new way to write is not on my list of things I want to do..
Fire up an old Apple ][ emulator and check it out..
Seriously though, starting in ASM is a GREAT way of weeding people out of CS. OTOH, unless you're developing hardware drivers or embedded systems software (or working for NASA), it's pretty much a waste at this point, and it is highly unlikely you can beat a modern compiler for optimized code anyway.
Seriously, I remember teaching RB to 4th-6th graders when I was in HS, and I'd end up playing it myself for hours, 'twas hella fun..
What about the health nuts like me that don't take in any caffeine/carbonated drinks? Where do I win in this situation?
You get a few extra years of life expectancy with which to revel in your smugness?
Seriously, if you're not buying their products, why do you feel entitled to win anything?
What, returning your Silk lid tabs for a chance to win a year's supply of extra-firm tofu not as exciting?
Mmm.. Time for brunch...
We need to:
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A. be able to record and stream a video and audio on the fly
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/broadca
B. allow the user to either tune-in, or play from the beginning.
I highly doubt a hack in which the broadcaster records to a file, which can then be configured separately from the 'live' stream couldn't be done in a reasonable amount of time.
Also, Darwin Streaming Server handles passwording a LOT better than Real's baroque security "model". I'd rather read apache htpasswds than deal with all of Real's nonsense....
Who said gearheads are stupid?
Nobody said gearheads were stupid.
However, if these guys are paying a penny for the Microsoft streaming software, then they're AT LEAST computer-ignorant.
There is only one valid reason for Microsoft to exist, and that is to provide deep schadenfreude as they die painfully, publicly and embarrassingly.
The transition will therefore be as seamless as possible for the listeners -- a simple matter of "click here" and the program will play. No messing around with downloading new clients, configuring, or what have you.
WiMP doesn't play MP3 streams?
I'm not (entirely) facetious here: I really don't know the answer to that question.
iTunes and WinAmp are both quite happy with MP3 streams. There are several free streaming MP3-capable servers available. I think there was a payoff, incompetence, or just plain ignorance involved in this 'decision'.
Indeed, after patching to 2.6.2-rc2-mm1 I was deligted to find forcedeth already in the tree..
And the new nvidia driver works pretty well, even with the installer..
Now to take a stab at the Mandrake 10.0 beta...
Well done Linux!!
The opensource nforce ethernet driver.. The patched nvnet driver didn't work too well but I've been having lots of success with forcedeth.. Can't wait for it to be pulled into the Linus kernel..
You had 3D acceleration?
(you can't run the lament screensaver (or glmatrix) without a decent 3D accelerator.. too slooowww..)
According to the intel site, these CPUs are fabricated using a 180nm process.. This can only get more interesting once they start migrating to 130nm or 90nm, reducing power needs even further..
What's the heat dissipation on something like this? Can it be safely encased in a waterproof housing without worrying about ventilation (or by using the housing as a radiator)?
Verry kewl....
My Symbian P800 has adequate English handwriting recognition (though 'x's and 'f's are a bit tricky).. Is there a project to bring good HWR to Linux?
(and I'm not gonna go and learn a new alphabet to communicate with my PDAfone.. it's technology's job to conform to me, not the other way round...)
Anyone thought about doing a run of particular covers as posters?
I'd particularly like the one where someone attempts to compile perl on a typewriter.. (underwood? I can't find it in a GIS..)
Think of all the energy we could have saved if the war in Iraq had not taken place. And oh yea, we may have saved a few innocent human lives also.
Well, given that Saddam averaged 16,667 killed per year over his 24 year reign, we've actually reduced the death toll in Iraq significantly, at least among the innocent.
Kind of like how the first gulf war resulted in a cleaner persian gulf because of all the spilled oil that didn't get spilled in the normal course of shipping...
As long as Halliburton makes $40 per gallon transporting oil, there will never be a reason for cheaper anything.
Don't know much about the military, do you?
Who cares how much the fuel _costs_.. Requiring less fuel shrinks the logistics train significantly, and in our projected-force military logistics is more critical than just about anything besides training.
The B2 bomber might cost $2B (thanks to a reduced # of planes vs. a fixed development and tooling investment), but its reduced deployment support requirements (no escort fighters or anti-radar wild weasels, precision bombs for fewer runs and fewer bombs per run) bring down its operational costs in theory below those of a traditional B52.
If you could halve the number of fuel trucks (and concomitant supply officers, mechanics, fuel monkeys, etc) to support a particular mobile formation, you've made your combat forces much more effective, and the fuel savings are just a nice little side plus.
Additionally, imagine hybridized tanks and other vehicles: like diesel-electric subs they can run efficiently on fuel when in transition, and for the approach to contact they can switch to battery-only power for silent surprise.
Then figure in the codevelopment of civilian products (in this generation the military is heavily COTS oriented and would probably push its researchers to make hybrid technologies available for mass-production) which would bring down fuel use in the overall economy and you've got a huge win.
Hybrid power in the military is a huge win any way you look at it, unless you are a terrorist.
The Ultra10 would be a better choice for the expansion-minded, after adding a proper SCSI controller of course. The reason I like the U5/U10 is the cheap memory upgrades: prior to that Sun would require somewhat proprietary memory that even Kingston would charge too much for...
You want cult? Try a Sparc20 4-cpu.. Or a Sparc10 if you still have an ISDN connection... Last time I checked a 2x90 sparc20 was going for $9.95 on eBay...
Are you sure this isn't intentional? They're supposed to be a squad talking over radios...
ok then, how about this:
4 07881%5E15841%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html 2>/dev/null|sed "s#literally#literally\\
wget -O - http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8
#ig|grep -ci literally
Don't forget that crlf after the second backslash, since sed's newline substitution doesn't work at least in the sed I have...
That doesn't take into account the appearance of the keyword multiple times on a line.. You literally need something more like...
4 07881%5E15841%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html 2>/dev/null| perl -e 'while() { s#literally#$i++#eg; print "$i\n"; }'
wget -O - http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8
I prescribe fire, and lots of it!
OK, enough whinging, so how do we make this Dock thing work better for us?
;)
Autohide and scaling under mouseover.
Pretty much perfect for me already
DNA also wrote for Dr. Who, during Tom Baker's reign..
If you pop over to Europe or Asia you will see that cell phones are already offering these sort of features. I have a friend, in the UK, who managed to download and watch the highlights of a football match on his cell phone. And the format it uses is industry standard MPEG 4.
If you have the time and storage space, you can do this yourself with Quicktime Pro.. It supports 3GPP, which uses MPEG4/AAC. mencoder support for AAC is sketchy last time I checked, but I was able to fit a whole episode of Mr. Show in about 13MB for use with my P800..
(too bad SE is such shite they won't update their firmware to support larger memory stick duos, and a pox on Sony for the memory stick in the first place!!)