> It's also cheaper, and I find using the thumb to type on that keyboard (ala Blackberry)
> is ALOT easier than using the communicator keyboard
This is the hardest part to believe, I have learnt to use a 6-finger input method on the 9210, which results into a decent input rate.
Also, you stated the Treo has longer battery life, the Nokia 9210 has talk time of 4-10 hours (which is what really counts) and standby time upto 230 h. Treo has 3 hours talktime and 150 hours standby.
Maybe you owned the previous version? It fits your description better. Good try, but I am still not convinced.
This Zaurus, and these other new PDAs look fancy and all, but as long as they do not have a quality mobile phone BUILT-IN atleast it is impossible to even consider buying one. Even though the Nokia Communicator is already dated, I still think it's the only real choice if you are looking for a combination of a phone & PDA (& mobile ssh client for me) - with emphasis on the phone side. Or, is there something else that works and which has a decent KEYBOARD built-in?
Competition is in the nature of human being, but it should be the time to release that these technologies are likely to complement - not compete each other. Good beginnings for understanding this, might be reading this and this
this clip is from Business 2.0:
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Ultimately, however, 3G and Wi-Fi should be able to coexist. "The technology is actually very complimentary, because they are not truly competitive technologies," King says. "I expect that mobile carriers will purchase some Wi-Fi providers, and we'll start to see some integration." </clip>
>Seriously though, IETF protocols once finalised tend to be very well thought out
Yes, I agree. And to be honest, I have not followed Jabber enough to base an opinion on whether it's in good phase to "IETFed".
SMTP and FTP examples of good work, but I think that when these were under consideration, IETFed still worked much more smoothly than it does today. There has been lots of discussion on stagnation, as for examle this and number of others state. But if Jabber is in good phase, a little slow down might not be that bad. And anyway, the would is better of WITH IETF than without it:)
My experiences with IETF and it's working groups are not just positive. The organisation seems to be very slow moving, full of politics - and also, full of clever minds. It is ofcourse good to get official recognition and other good things that can come out of it, but one of the obvious minuses I see is: it s..l...o...w.e..s. d...o...w...n . ..t..h..e d..e...v...e..l..o..p...m..e...n.....?
It would be interesting to know whether the movie file was leaked by someone who is part of the team - or if someone cracked into their system and stole it. I quess the cracker possibility could be quite potential too, because: they clearly use a lot of digital/computerized technology - even probably for communication within the team (so there probably would be the possibilities to do it) and because I doubt that the one who leaked the previous episode would have had the balls to do it again. If it was stolen by a system cracker - I would not like to be in the shoes of their sys.adm / infosec specialist who did not take enough action to make sure it does not happen again.
> but the idea that censorship forces you to form your own opinion is *ridiculous*
I agree with this 100 % - I put things to extreme just in effort to try to make people think and realize that the fact that they live in US, Europe, Australia or whatever considered as an "uncensored" country, does not mean that they do not need to use their brains to form their own opinion.
It's good that you made this comment, I was waiting for it to complete the story, thanks:)
> Why are you so certain that a 'censored' individual would draw this conclusion? I > lived in shanghai for 6 months and I did not get this impression
Well, in that case you have better insight on this than me. I, "just" assumed that educated people atleast would in todays world ave some connections to outer (uncensored) world and would have heard about censoring. I am probably mistaken in this:)
Anyway, even the well educated people in the "uncensored" world seem to not process - but just eat -unprocessed - the information that they receive and believe for example that what they hear from TV/Radio whatever, is unbiased and relevant information to be used to base one's own opinion on.
> if a country can't cope with its inhabitants having a wide range
> of views, it has problems all its own.
The problem is that majority of people think that they have formed their opinion after inspecting a wide range of views (as there's free speech, this must be the case, right?) - when in reality their opinion was formed by only 1 or 2 views that reflect the view of a very small interest group or they formed their opinion based on biased "information".
I don't like censorship. But I also don't like the fact that in the countries that allow free speech, the biggest megaphones are controlled by only a very small group of companies and individuals.
Basicly, if the media wants, they can brainwash majority of people in believing anything they want.
In the case of censorship, you know atleast, that you don't have access to unbiased information - and you know that if you want to create an unbiased opinion, you need to do it yourself.
But, as we have free speech, it is easy to leave thinking to the media, and let someone else form your opinion. So, to some extent, I think that the fact that media is controlled by tiny interest groups, is maybe even a bigger threat than censorship.
...I would use a list of allowed sites, instead a list of creating a black list. Also I would assume there would be more to block than allow. Use same principles as when setting up a firewall:)
Anyway, I wish China could realize and use this (internet) as a chance to stop censorship without loosing their face.
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> but $100 seems awfully expensive for something that has no practical application
I don't know if that turns it into capable of being used in practical applications - but I believe that if the bot was freely programmable (and controlled by for example CLinux) - you could enhance it's possibilities quite much.
if you provoke, scandalize and create hype about E-Terrorism;)
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> Like what, an R2 firewall? Or R2 Beowulf cluster?
Like R2, that follows your Slashdot postings and rates the comments made on them. Upon detecting comments like the one I am commenting to now, it would hop into an miniature airplane, fly to the other side of the world, recognize you by forming a profile based on vocabilary and image, flap you on the cheek, assimilate you, and fly back while playing the startwars theme on background.
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> This is a troll, right?
Hehe, this time, it was not a troll. If Hasbro replies to the request I sent to them and publishes the specs, you could really turn this into something fun - by replacing the software and maybe adding a few cheap new pieces of HW - you could get a rather good bot platform for $100.:)
> "1: Sell free software."
>
> To bad thats not practically possible.
> Why would I buy your free software when I can download it for free?:-)
Because I put in a fancy package, bundle it with some bells'n'whistles and 24 hour customer care line?;)))
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> whether they could publish the complete specs for the hardware on board
So far, the marketing video gives best source for quesses on the hardware.
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for an open source development project. It seems to be equipped well enough to do all kinds of things, if we just changed the brains to something more intelligent.
Actually, this is so interesting that I will try and approach Hasbro about whether they could publish the complete specs for the hardware on board(or if someone from Hasbro reads this, publish it here). Then, if we get the specs, I will publish a "R2D2 new brains challenge", at this site.
I don't get it, does MIT want to teach their students steal artwork and not even credit the original author? Is that like "company policy" there at MIT?
> finnish regulations are why Finland is such a creative place
Want to hear something even better, have a look at the notes sticked into any child toy, tobacco box, bike, car, condom, umbrella, mobile phone - anything sold in the US, and then think again - what is limiting the creativity in US ?:)
Can you get this kind of thing "registered" in the US or whatever you need to do to a vehicle before it gets the permission to hit public roads? I believe that atleast here in Finland it would be almost impossible to get it registered and to go anywhere else than your own backyard with this. Naturally, you can register custom creations, but I don't believe this one would pass the regulations in here.
How does this work in the US? Or is this just a backyard car?
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> is ALOT easier than using the communicator keyboard
This is the hardest part to believe, I have learnt to use a 6-finger input method on the 9210, which results into a decent input rate.
Also, you stated the Treo has longer battery life, the Nokia 9210 has talk time of 4-10 hours (which is what really counts) and standby time upto 230 h. Treo has 3 hours talktime and 150 hours standby.
Maybe you owned the previous version? It fits your description better. Good try, but I am still not convinced.
This Zaurus, and these other new PDAs look fancy and all, but as long as they do not have a quality mobile phone BUILT-IN atleast it is impossible to even consider buying one. Even though the Nokia Communicator is already dated, I still think it's the only real choice if you are looking for a combination of a phone & PDA (& mobile ssh client for me) - with emphasis on the phone side. Or, is there something else that works and which has a decent KEYBOARD built-in?
this clip is from Business 2.0:
<clip> Ultimately, however, 3G and Wi-Fi should be able to coexist. "The technology is actually very complimentary, because they are not truly competitive technologies," King says. "I expect that mobile carriers will purchase some Wi-Fi providers, and we'll start to see some integration." </clip>
Yes, I agree. And to be honest, I have not followed Jabber enough to base an opinion on whether it's in good phase to "IETFed".
SMTP and FTP examples of good work, but I think that when these were under consideration, IETFed still worked much more smoothly than it does today. There has been lots of discussion on stagnation, as for examle this and number of others state. But if Jabber is in good phase, a little slow down might not be that bad. And anyway, the would is better of WITH IETF than without it :)
My experiences with IETF and it's working groups are not just positive. The organisation seems to be very slow moving, full of politics - and also, full of clever minds. It is ofcourse good to get official recognition and other good things that can come out of it, but one of the obvious minuses I see is: it s ..l ...o ...w .e..s. d...o...w...n . . .t..h..e d..e...v...e..l..o..p...m..e...n.....?
It would be interesting to know whether the movie file was leaked by someone who is part of the team - or if someone cracked into their system and stole it. I quess the cracker possibility could be quite potential too, because: they clearly use a lot of digital/computerized technology - even probably for communication within the team (so there probably would be the possibilities to do it) and because I doubt that the one who leaked the previous episode would have had the balls to do it again. If it was stolen by a system cracker - I would not like to be in the shoes of their sys.adm / infosec specialist who did not take enough action to make sure it does not happen again.
I agree with this 100 % - I put things to extreme just in effort to try to make people think and realize that the fact that they live in US, Europe, Australia or whatever considered as an "uncensored" country, does not mean that they do not need to use their brains to form their own opinion.
It's good that you made this comment, I was waiting for it to complete the story, thanks :)
I > lived in shanghai for 6 months and I did not get this impression
Well, in that case you have better insight on this than me. I, "just" assumed that educated people atleast would in todays world ave some connections to outer (uncensored) world and would have heard about censoring. I am probably mistaken in this :)
Anyway, even the well educated people in the "uncensored" world seem to not process - but just eat -unprocessed - the information that they receive and believe for example that what they hear from TV/Radio whatever, is unbiased and relevant information to be used to base one's own opinion on.
> of views, it has problems all its own.
The problem is that majority of people think that they have formed their opinion after inspecting a wide range of views (as there's free speech, this must be the case, right?) - when in reality their opinion was formed by only 1 or 2 views that reflect the view of a very small interest group or they formed their opinion based on biased "information".
You saw it in TV news, it must be true - effect.
Basicly, if the media wants, they can brainwash majority of people in believing anything they want.
In the case of censorship, you know atleast, that you don't have access to unbiased information - and you know that if you want to create an unbiased opinion, you need to do it yourself.
But, as we have free speech, it is easy to leave thinking to the media, and let someone else form your opinion. So, to some extent, I think that the fact that media is controlled by tiny interest groups, is maybe even a bigger threat than censorship.
Anyway, I wish China could realize and use this (internet) as a chance to stop censorship without loosing their face.
I don't know if that turns it into capable of being used in practical applications - but I believe that if the bot was freely programmable (and controlled by for example CLinux) - you could enhance it's possibilities quite much.
if you provoke, scandalize and create hype about E-Terrorism ;)
Like R2, that follows your Slashdot postings and rates the comments made on them. Upon detecting comments like the one I am commenting to now, it would hop into an miniature airplane, fly to the other side of the world, recognize you by forming a profile based on vocabilary and image, flap you on the cheek, assimilate you, and fly back while playing the startwars theme on background.
Hehe, this time, it was not a troll. If Hasbro replies to the request I sent to them and publishes the specs, you could really turn this into something fun - by replacing the software and maybe adding a few cheap new pieces of HW - you could get a rather good bot platform for $100. :)
> "1: Sell free software." :-)
;)))
>
> To bad thats not practically possible.
> Why would I buy your free software when I can download it for free?
Because I put in a fancy package, bundle it with some bells'n'whistles and 24 hour customer care line?
So far, the marketing video gives best source for quesses on the hardware.
Actually, this is so interesting that I will try and approach Hasbro about whether they could publish the complete specs for the hardware on board(or if someone from Hasbro reads this, publish it here). Then, if we get the specs, I will publish a "R2D2 new brains challenge", at this site.
> There are several obstacles to overcome before they become in widespread use
> 2: ?
> 3: Drive solar car.
> 4: Profit!
No, no, no! that's completely wrong!
1: Sell free software.
2: Sell free software.
3: Sell free software.
4: Profit!
5: Drive solar car.
...for everyone who wants to travel across australia in less than 8.5 days ...when the sun is shining.
[jukal@host jukal]$ *BOOOOO!*
I don't get it, does MIT want to teach their students steal artwork and not even credit the original author? Is that like "company policy" there at MIT?
Want to hear something even better, have a look at the notes sticked into any child toy, tobacco box, bike, car, condom, umbrella, mobile phone - anything sold in the US, and then think again - what is limiting the creativity in US ? :)
How does this work in the US? Or is this just a backyard car?