There is an entire site based around the idea that cuecats can be useful. All you have to do is take a cheap piece of technology such as a cuecat, and find a use for it that actually makes sense.
Mediachest allows you to use your cuecat to scan in your collection of DVDs, Games, CDs, and Books to create a catalog and then enable real life file sharing(trading/lending out items you own with people near you for items that you want) that can never be shut down by the RIAA or MPAA.
Semacodes could be very useful in the near future as well. The right application in the right environment is all you need. I scan see them being very useful in museums and places where you can use your phone as an interactive guide based on items you are looking at.
I think the key issue here is that they are trying to make it easier for people with cell phones to put in URLs. I'd much rather scan a semacode than type a long url.
I help run a website that has social networking aspects, Mediachest.com and have looked around at all the other social networking sites, and they don't really seem to offer much. They either try to replace existing communities with a site that has fewer features than the original or they are worthless, slow lists of people who are essentially strangers.
Sure, it is nice if you want to look at profiles of girls without having to pay to contact them, but are any of the sites any more useful than that?
Mediachest is more about finding new people and sharing items. It is like the distributed library project but centralized so it is easier to find things. Social networking can be very valuable when trying to find a DVD to watch or a book to borrow. Social networking can be more than just dating.
Carl Kurlander wrote the movie St. Elmo's Fire when he was 24. For years afterward, he lived in Beverly Hills. He wanted to move back to Pittsburgh, where he grew up, to write books, but he was always stopped by the doubt, Would it really make any difference to write from Pittsburgh instead of from Beverly Hills? His books went unwritten. Last year, when a looming Hollywood writers' strike coincided with a job opening in the creative-writing department at Pitt, he finally summoned the courage to move. He says that being in academia is like "bathing in altruism." Under its influence, he wrote his first book,
a biography of the comic Louie Anderson.
For some reason I do not consider his progression to be a successful one. I think anyone could write a biography of Louie Anderson. It doesn't even matter if sucks, it is not like anyone is going to read it.
In Soviet Russie, Louie Anderson writes a biography about you!
They didn't seem to write about this at all. The real wireless market in Japan is dating sites. That is what all of the spam you get on your phone is advertising. So who uses these dating systems? Lonely guys and girls who are looking for financial support in return for quality companionship. Need to know what she is going to look like? Ask her to take a picture with her phone and send it to you first.
The first killer app for any medium is always adult oriented.
I remember seeing some stuff about these on slashdot a while back. I think something analog like this would be a cool present for my dad. He is surrounded by too many digital things. Plus people would probably ask him about it a lot and then he would be able to brag about his fathers day gift.
Now when you find corn kernels floating around in your toilet, you'll have to try to remember when you last ate corn or plastic. Too much to think about when most folks are on the toilet.
I'd be afraid of a situation like this. It is nice to get some training, but it could seriously put you in a nasty situation. Let's say the company has some financial problems in the near future, and they decide they need to get some money somehow. They could make you do something you would absolutely hate doing in order to get you to quit so they could take money back from you.
Although I doubt this kind of situation would happen often, it is something to keep in mind when taking training with a condition like the one mentioned. $50,000 seems a little excessive to me.
The little picture of the drive in the bottom left is there as a piece of advice for people who don't have Superdrives. It is an 80GB external HD that is 39,800 yen.
Ahh, but that is not the true reason behind the small flush lever.
I spent much time with the small flush, trying to flush my urine away, without much success. This bothered me quite a bit, as I thought the small flush had no reason. That was until I started having more girls over.
Japanese girls use the small flush to cover up the sound of them urinating. If there was no small flush, they'd use the big flush the entire time, which takes up more water.
I'd love to point out some articles that have written about the success of G3 in Japan, but I don't think any exist. If G3 can't make it in a technology crazy country like Japan, good luck for it finding a way to survive in the middle of nowhere USA.
If Ricochet couldn't survive providing faster access in areas of dense population, what makes you think that G3 will do any better.
4 billion bucks wasted on a worthless concept. Maybe Enron has something to do with this?
My phone here was subsidised, I have to pay 500 bucks or so if I cancel my contract within 7 months. My phone in America was also subsidised though.
I am not saying that 802.11b should replace technology used in current cell phones, but it should compliment it. Having the option to use 802.11b to browse the web/download data instead of using the cell phone when I am near a basestation makes a lot of sense.
What I am saying is that 3G is a waste of money. Whatever benefits it may provide are not worth the overall cost. Right now it costs 600 for the cheapest handset, and you can only use it in a limited area. for 600 you could buy two basestations and put them in the two areas you are most likely to need the bandwidth - work and home. The other services associated with FOMA(the service that NTT is offering with 3G) are worthless anyway. What good is video conferencing on a 1 and a half inch screen when you have to to have the phone at a weird angle just to be able to have the other person see you talking into a phone that you are holding a foot away from your face. Downloading music to a phone is nothing new, as there has been a phone on the market for quite a while now that uses sony's memory stick as a mp3 storage device
Cell phones should be more like storage devices than broadband browsing devices. How important is it for you to pay for packets as you recieve them in order to listen to a song or to watch a video when you could just as easily download a song or a video onto your PDA before you leave for work or school and listen to it while you are on the train? There is no real market for immediate access to multimedia. Paying a small amount for text based information is one thing, but heavy multimedia that costs more simply because you are downloading it to your phone, well that just doesn't make sense.
Japan has 3G if you consider a small part of Tokyo Japan. Japan is very high-tech when it comes to cell phones, but in the dark ages when it comes to pricing. For example, I have a JSH-03 cell phone. It has a built in digital camera which I can use to take and send pictures to my friends. This is a fun feature, especially in a cell phone that only cost me 50 bucks US. However, paying for the cell phone is a pain in the ass. I was on a plan that cost 5600 yen a month and gave me 2600 yen in free calls at the cost of 30 yen a minute. So esentially I got 86 minutes. But it also cost me 2 yen for each message I sent with my phone, and more money for using the phone to view websites. I was also charged for a full minute if I only used the phone for a fraction of a minute.
For a country that has a population density greater than just about everywhere in the world, why should I be paying so much money to use my phone. When I lived in America I had 250 minutes for 30 bucks a month. I didn't even have to worry about running out of free minutes, and if I ever were to run out of minutes I could spend another 10 bucks and get a whole bunch more minutes.
The thing that bothers me most is that 3G is going to be a failure, and the cost of that failure is going to be passed on to the users of regular cell phones.
What cell phone companies should do is incorporate 802.11b into their phones and allow people to use their own private networks as well as public(In train stations/convinience stores and the like) base stations to download videos/music on to their cell phones to be viewed whenever they feel like it. Although the idea of having a fast internet connection on the go seems like a great idea, the idea of paying for every packet you send/recieve is a very painful idea.
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There is an entire site based around the idea that cuecats can be useful. All you have to do is take a cheap piece of technology such as a cuecat, and find a use for it that actually makes sense.
Mediachest allows you to use your cuecat to scan in your collection of DVDs, Games, CDs, and Books to create a catalog and then enable real life file sharing(trading/lending out items you own with people near you for items that you want) that can never be shut down by the RIAA or MPAA.
Semacodes could be very useful in the near future as well. The right application in the right environment is all you need. I scan see them being very useful in museums and places where you can use your phone as an interactive guide based on items you are looking at.
I think the key issue here is that they are trying to make it easier for people with cell phones to put in URLs. I'd much rather scan a semacode than type a long url.
I help run a website that has social networking aspects, Mediachest.com and have looked around at all the other social networking sites, and they don't really seem to offer much. They either try to replace existing communities with a site that has fewer features than the original or they are worthless, slow lists of people who are essentially strangers. Sure, it is nice if you want to look at profiles of girls without having to pay to contact them, but are any of the sites any more useful than that? Mediachest is more about finding new people and sharing items. It is like the distributed library project but centralized so it is easier to find things. Social networking can be very valuable when trying to find a DVD to watch or a book to borrow. Social networking can be more than just dating.
For some reason I do not consider his progression to be a successful one. I think anyone could write a biography of Louie Anderson. It doesn't even matter if sucks, it is not like anyone is going to read it.
In Soviet Russie, Louie Anderson writes a biography about you!
They didn't seem to write about this at all. The real wireless market in Japan is dating sites. That is what all of the spam you get on your phone is advertising. So who uses these dating systems? Lonely guys and girls who are looking for financial support in return for quality companionship. Need to know what she is going to look like? Ask her to take a picture with her phone and send it to you first. The first killer app for any medium is always adult oriented.
I remember seeing some stuff about these on slashdot a while back. I think something analog like this would be a cool present for my dad. He is surrounded by too many digital things. Plus people would probably ask him about it a lot and then he would be able to brag about his fathers day gift.
Now when you find corn kernels floating around in your toilet, you'll have to try to remember when you last ate corn or plastic. Too much to think about when most folks are on the toilet.
Although I doubt this kind of situation would happen often, it is something to keep in mind when taking training with a condition like the one mentioned. $50,000 seems a little excessive to me.
The little picture of the drive in the bottom left is there as a piece of advice for people who don't have Superdrives. It is an 80GB external HD that is 39,800 yen.
I spent much time with the small flush, trying to flush my urine away, without much success. This bothered me quite a bit, as I thought the small flush had no reason. That was until I started having more girls over.
Japanese girls use the small flush to cover up the sound of them urinating. If there was no small flush, they'd use the big flush the entire time, which takes up more water.
Mind you, Docomo is quite evil.
If Ricochet couldn't survive providing faster access in areas of dense population, what makes you think that G3 will do any better.
4 billion bucks wasted on a worthless concept. Maybe Enron has something to do with this?
I am not saying that 802.11b should replace technology used in current cell phones, but it should compliment it. Having the option to use 802.11b to browse the web/download data instead of using the cell phone when I am near a basestation makes a lot of sense.
What I am saying is that 3G is a waste of money. Whatever benefits it may provide are not worth the overall cost. Right now it costs 600 for the cheapest handset, and you can only use it in a limited area. for 600 you could buy two basestations and put them in the two areas you are most likely to need the bandwidth - work and home. The other services associated with FOMA(the service that NTT is offering with 3G) are worthless anyway. What good is video conferencing on a 1 and a half inch screen when you have to to have the phone at a weird angle just to be able to have the other person see you talking into a phone that you are holding a foot away from your face. Downloading music to a phone is nothing new, as there has been a phone on the market for quite a while now that uses sony's memory stick as a mp3 storage device
Cell phones should be more like storage devices than broadband browsing devices. How important is it for you to pay for packets as you recieve them in order to listen to a song or to watch a video when you could just as easily download a song or a video onto your PDA before you leave for work or school and listen to it while you are on the train? There is no real market for immediate access to multimedia. Paying a small amount for text based information is one thing, but heavy multimedia that costs more simply because you are downloading it to your phone, well that just doesn't make sense.
Japan has 3G if you consider a small part of Tokyo Japan. Japan is very high-tech when it comes to cell phones, but in the dark ages when it comes to pricing. For example, I have a JSH-03 cell phone. It has a built in digital camera which I can use to take and send pictures to my friends. This is a fun feature, especially in a cell phone that only cost me 50 bucks US. However, paying for the cell phone is a pain in the ass. I was on a plan that cost 5600 yen a month and gave me 2600 yen in free calls at the cost of 30 yen a minute. So esentially I got 86 minutes. But it also cost me 2 yen for each message I sent with my phone, and more money for using the phone to view websites. I was also charged for a full minute if I only used the phone for a fraction of a minute. For a country that has a population density greater than just about everywhere in the world, why should I be paying so much money to use my phone. When I lived in America I had 250 minutes for 30 bucks a month. I didn't even have to worry about running out of free minutes, and if I ever were to run out of minutes I could spend another 10 bucks and get a whole bunch more minutes. The thing that bothers me most is that 3G is going to be a failure, and the cost of that failure is going to be passed on to the users of regular cell phones. What cell phone companies should do is incorporate 802.11b into their phones and allow people to use their own private networks as well as public(In train stations/convinience stores and the like) base stations to download videos/music on to their cell phones to be viewed whenever they feel like it. Although the idea of having a fast internet connection on the go seems like a great idea, the idea of paying for every packet you send/recieve is a very painful idea.