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I believe there was debate at one point on the legality of giveing away a product for free and driving someone out of the market. Only then it was M$ giving away IE for free to kill Netscape...
Hmm... I believe you are forgetting something that programmers often do... Someone has to manage all of those programmers, someone also has to sort the bad code from the good (which assuming we have an exponential curve of some sort from good to bad code means there is always some that is "on the border" of whatever standard you set), someone has to provide support services to all those coders, someone has to provide machine resources to all those coders (most of which will be wasted by your own calculation), etc.
I'm sure there are hundreds of things I've left out.
If each coder writes, say, 10,000 lines of code (a short project?) you have 10 trillion lines of code to go over to find a usable (using 1%) 100 billion lines of code.
Actually the i95cl does support WAP graphics. Check out the CNN site on it. The color screen makes the menus a bit easier on the eyes, but it is most intended for the wallpapers and Java applications.
Actually, every single service you just listed operates in the WAP browser, not J2ME.
J2ME is great for Nextel customers (which are actually 85% businesses, not consumer) because it allows resident applications easily developed and integrated into backend systems. Espescially those written in J2EE.
Palm and Windows CE come with heafty liscensing fees, not to mention hardware requirements that would make the phone bigger and more expensive than J2ME. Going with J2ME is a gamble for the company, but our developers seem to love it. Sun/Motorola/Nextel are also operating under several joint development programs. (Someone has to fight M$)...
Basic Nextel service is $39.99 for the UPC 200 plan. That provides 200 minutes of cellular and UNLIMITED Direct Connect. Whatever plan you were on that didn't have unlimited radio was your own fault.
Also, I know ppl from NYC who will directly contradict your assertion that 1/4 of the city is blacked out. That's just BS.
We'll release a RIM device in October. Blackberry with fully qwerty keyboard, J2ME, Direct Connect, Cellular, etc. And it won't require a headset, you can hold it to your ear like any phone if you like.
The phone has actually been in stores for a month now (though we are having a hard time keeping it on the shelves). As for the customer service, it's not perfect, but we are rated as best in the industry. (tallest of the pygmies?)
I'd love to know where you are getting your information... I work for Nextel, and AFAIK we are under the stranglehold of Motorola when it comes to Handsets. While iDEN is a great technology, the big drawback is Motorola's patents and licensing.
It has taken us a very long time to get a handset manufactured by anyone else... Our first will arrive in October (from RIM).
This argument is starting to sound like Crossfire, easily one of the dumbest shows I've ever seen.
Why do people insist it is one side or the other? Isn't it more reasonable to say that deregulation of business combined with a failure of moral leadership might have led to these problems? And beyond that you might add in the business world's changes in incentives for executives (stock options, etc).
In most of these political finger pointings, you can find valid points about what went wrong. The real trick is to realize that in such a complex society, no ONE thing causes these problems. More likely, all sides are correct about what behaviors/laws/changes led to the problem and incorrect in their denials.
We (Americans) do seem to love conflict over consensus, and we love to stubbornly stand our ground and defend our party. In a separate thread on this article two people argued about whether the crimte rate declined due to the building of prisons (and retention of repeat offenders) versus the aging of the population and the availability of better economic opportunity... Isn't is most likely that these combined for the resulting effect?
Let's stop looking for cause -> effect and try factor + factor + factor -> effect.
Check out the Center for Internet Security where you will find posted the new Win2k and WinNT standard benchmark. Interestingly enough, there have already been benchmarks for other systems, such as Linux.
This makes me wonder about Apple's strategy.... Were this story true, it would seem to conflict with the approach to sell Macs to new and inexperienced internet users. The old concept that Macs were best for people who couldn't handle the technical stuff...
Its interesting for me to read these mac related posts... as an Apple shareholder, I'm happy to see people propose the product and support it, and that many are happy with it... But then again....
I no longer have a Mac. My last one was a Revision A iMac, which continually had hardware problems after 1 year. Being that there are a VERY few places that can service macs in Metro-Atlanta (espescially near me) and those places that can are very expensive, I had to give up on it when it most recently died (again).
I have toyed with the thought of my next computer being an OSX machine, but this last experience has totally burned me on the all-in-one boxes Apple sells (iMACs, eMACs?) as I can do almost no troubleshooting/repair on my own. I currently have three computers up, Win95, Win98 and Win2000.
My wife and I purchased a Toyota Prius and took delivery in March. We LOVE it! I highly recommend this car. At the rate that Toyota is subsidizing them, it is very affordable.
If you so choose, you can keep the energy monitor on and set goals for yourself on efficiency, etc. But if you just want a car that is better for the environment, you don't have to pay any attention. We are getting consistently about 47 mpg and over 500 miles per tank of gas.
No, in fact I am one. The simple fact is that male caucasion christians typically do not understand what it means to be in the minority, to be persecuted for things that cannot be changed.
I don't profess to understand the plight of racial minorities, but I was singled out as a child and persecuted for my religious beliefs -- Something that was only public knowledge because I refused to recite the words "Under God" in the pledge. It was an invasion of my privacy and placed me in front of a group of students (most of whom knew less about their religions than I did) who were being told by the "state" that I was different and 'wrong' compared to them.
Not to mention that if I can take apart a $100 bill molecule by molecule and record te process, I'm pretty sure that counterfitting new ones would be pretty darn easy molecule by molecule...
Games on wireless phones have been around for quite a while already. I'm not talking about snake or tic tac toe, but golf, motorcycle games, bowling, wrestling, etc. Sun's J2ME has been providing this technology on Nextel phones since March of 2001.
If you check out the games section of the iDEN Update Application Catalog you can see that many, many games can be downloaded to your phone today.
Now, graphically, these are nice. They will become compelling when Nextel releases it's next phone, the i95cl (press release here) which we should expect within the next 1-2 months. The primary benefit of the new phone being not only the color screen, but the ability to store many more applications through memory improvements as well as processor speed improvements.
I have seen GPS enabled multiplayer games in the works, and many other cool things to come from the Nextel developer community. If you are a developer, please check out the Nextel Developer Program and Motorola's iDEN Developer Program. Both sites have free registration, resources, and special pricing on some equipment for developers. Both also have procedures to establish co-marketing relationships.
You miss Text RPGs? How can you miss them, there are still thousands of MUDs out there, which are pretty close to old text RPGs and very multiplayer...
Wouldn't you already consider this system identifying the user to a great degree? I mean as soon as I start a download, my IP is provided. Given that the system for getting the file from the server to my house exists, we can also conclude the connection is traceable back to me.
There is simply a lack of interest on the part of law enforcement and the **AA groups to go after the end user. Otherwise, they could set up a server with all these files available for download and log everything. It wouldn't be difficult to prove a crime was in progress and get the court order (probably pre-issued for this type of sting operation) to force ISPs to provide their routing information.
Lol... in "the old days" he had to go to a web site... Ohmigosh... Funny I remember trading all sorts of files before the web existed. (usenet, bbs's, gopher links and archie/ftp)
Of course, the MP3 format didn't exist then either.
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I believe there was debate at one point on the legality of giveing away a product for free and driving someone out of the market. Only then it was M$ giving away IE for free to kill Netscape...
Have the tables turned on M$?
Hmm... I believe you are forgetting something that programmers often do... Someone has to manage all of those programmers, someone also has to sort the bad code from the good (which assuming we have an exponential curve of some sort from good to bad code means there is always some that is "on the border" of whatever standard you set), someone has to provide support services to all those coders, someone has to provide machine resources to all those coders (most of which will be wasted by your own calculation), etc.
I'm sure there are hundreds of things I've left out.
If each coder writes, say, 10,000 lines of code (a short project?) you have 10 trillion lines of code to go over to find a usable (using 1%) 100 billion lines of code.
Actually, I'm a Data Account Executive (DAE) supporting data products and services specifically and all GA Indirect channel dealers.
I do.
Actually the i95cl does support WAP graphics. Check out the CNN site on it. The color screen makes the menus a bit easier on the eyes, but it is most intended for the wallpapers and Java applications.
Actually, every single service you just listed operates in the WAP browser, not J2ME.
J2ME is great for Nextel customers (which are actually 85% businesses, not consumer) because it allows resident applications easily developed and integrated into backend systems. Espescially those written in J2EE.
Palm and Windows CE come with heafty liscensing fees, not to mention hardware requirements that would make the phone bigger and more expensive than J2ME. Going with J2ME is a gamble for the company, but our developers seem to love it. Sun/Motorola/Nextel are also operating under several joint development programs. (Someone has to fight M$)...
Really? The T68i has J2ME and unlimited 500 character two-way messaging? Oh, I'm sorry, you meant it makes phone calls.
Basic Nextel service is $39.99 for the UPC 200 plan. That provides 200 minutes of cellular and UNLIMITED Direct Connect. Whatever plan you were on that didn't have unlimited radio was your own fault.
Also, I know ppl from NYC who will directly contradict your assertion that 1/4 of the city is blacked out. That's just BS.
We'll release a RIM device in October. Blackberry with fully qwerty keyboard, J2ME, Direct Connect, Cellular, etc. And it won't require a headset, you can hold it to your ear like any phone if you like.
The phone has actually been in stores for a month now (though we are having a hard time keeping it on the shelves). As for the customer service, it's not perfect, but we are rated as best in the industry. (tallest of the pygmies?)
I'd love to know where you are getting your information... I work for Nextel, and AFAIK we are under the stranglehold of Motorola when it comes to Handsets. While iDEN is a great technology, the big drawback is Motorola's patents and licensing.
It has taken us a very long time to get a handset manufactured by anyone else... Our first will arrive in October (from RIM).
iDEN: Integrated Digital Enhanced Network.
This argument is starting to sound like Crossfire, easily one of the dumbest shows I've ever seen.
Why do people insist it is one side or the other? Isn't it more reasonable to say that deregulation of business combined with a failure of moral leadership might have led to these problems? And beyond that you might add in the business world's changes in incentives for executives (stock options, etc).
In most of these political finger pointings, you can find valid points about what went wrong. The real trick is to realize that in such a complex society, no ONE thing causes these problems. More likely, all sides are correct about what behaviors/laws/changes led to the problem and incorrect in their denials.
We (Americans) do seem to love conflict over consensus, and we love to stubbornly stand our ground and defend our party. In a separate thread on this article two people argued about whether the crimte rate declined due to the building of prisons (and retention of repeat offenders) versus the aging of the population and the availability of better economic opportunity... Isn't is most likely that these combined for the resulting effect?
Let's stop looking for cause -> effect and try factor + factor + factor -> effect.
Check out the Center for Internet Security where you will find posted the new Win2k and WinNT standard benchmark. Interestingly enough, there have already been benchmarks for other systems, such as Linux.
This makes me wonder about Apple's strategy.... Were this story true, it would seem to conflict with the approach to sell Macs to new and inexperienced internet users. The old concept that Macs were best for people who couldn't handle the technical stuff...
Its interesting for me to read these mac related posts... as an Apple shareholder, I'm happy to see people propose the product and support it, and that many are happy with it... But then again....
I no longer have a Mac. My last one was a Revision A iMac, which continually had hardware problems after 1 year. Being that there are a VERY few places that can service macs in Metro-Atlanta (espescially near me) and those places that can are very expensive, I had to give up on it when it most recently died (again).
I have toyed with the thought of my next computer being an OSX machine, but this last experience has totally burned me on the all-in-one boxes Apple sells (iMACs, eMACs?) as I can do almost no troubleshooting/repair on my own. I currently have three computers up, Win95, Win98 and Win2000.
My wife and I purchased a Toyota Prius and took delivery in March. We LOVE it! I highly recommend this car. At the rate that Toyota is subsidizing them, it is very affordable.
If you so choose, you can keep the energy monitor on and set goals for yourself on efficiency, etc. But if you just want a car that is better for the environment, you don't have to pay any attention. We are getting consistently about 47 mpg and over 500 miles per tank of gas.
No, in fact I am one. The simple fact is that male caucasion christians typically do not understand what it means to be in the minority, to be persecuted for things that cannot be changed.
I don't profess to understand the plight of racial minorities, but I was singled out as a child and persecuted for my religious beliefs -- Something that was only public knowledge because I refused to recite the words "Under God" in the pledge. It was an invasion of my privacy and placed me in front of a group of students (most of whom knew less about their religions than I did) who were being told by the "state" that I was different and 'wrong' compared to them.
Why am I suspiscious that you are a male caucasian too?
10) I wouldn't be able to tell between the lunatics talking to God and a Fortune 500 CEO in a conference call.
There's a difference?
Not to mention that if I can take apart a $100 bill molecule by molecule and record te process, I'm pretty sure that counterfitting new ones would be pretty darn easy molecule by molecule...
Hopefully we'll have done away with cash by then.
Games on wireless phones have been around for quite a while already. I'm not talking about snake or tic tac toe, but golf, motorcycle games, bowling, wrestling, etc. Sun's J2ME has been providing this technology on Nextel phones since March of 2001.
If you check out the games section of the iDEN Update Application Catalog you can see that many, many games can be downloaded to your phone today.
Now, graphically, these are nice. They will become compelling when Nextel releases it's next phone, the i95cl (press release here) which we should expect within the next 1-2 months. The primary benefit of the new phone being not only the color screen, but the ability to store many more applications through memory improvements as well as processor speed improvements.
I have seen GPS enabled multiplayer games in the works, and many other cool things to come from the Nextel developer community. If you are a developer, please check out the Nextel Developer Program and Motorola's iDEN Developer Program. Both sites have free registration, resources, and special pricing on some equipment for developers. Both also have procedures to establish co-marketing relationships.
You miss Text RPGs? How can you miss them, there are still thousands of MUDs out there, which are pretty close to old text RPGs and very multiplayer...
Such as Moral Decay
Wouldn't you already consider this system identifying the user to a great degree? I mean as soon as I start a download, my IP is provided. Given that the system for getting the file from the server to my house exists, we can also conclude the connection is traceable back to me.
There is simply a lack of interest on the part of law enforcement and the **AA groups to go after the end user. Otherwise, they could set up a server with all these files available for download and log everything. It wouldn't be difficult to prove a crime was in progress and get the court order (probably pre-issued for this type of sting operation) to force ISPs to provide their routing information.
Lol... in "the old days" he had to go to a web site... Ohmigosh... Funny I remember trading all sorts of files before the web existed. (usenet, bbs's, gopher links and archie/ftp) Of course, the MP3 format didn't exist then either.