I have a Sony T616, which is a very small phone, too small to be used on its own realy. However I also have a bluetooth ear peice. Togehter they work great, the sound quality is perfect and I only need to take the phone out of my pocket to dial numbers which dont have a voice dial command setup. Add to that the fact that I can get on the internet with my PDA via the same bluetooth connection and the phone is a must have for the geek on the go.
In point of fact the are suposed to take your battery at the front door. Sounds like the security guard should have been fired, unless this "freind" was trying to sneak the phone in.
All I know is that I have a Sony T616 blue tooth GSM phone in one pocket and can surf the web with it on my 480x640 Toshiba e805 PDA while sitting on the train going to work. This to me is a good thing given that there is next to no one on the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, the train system in the San Francisco/Bay Area) that I want to talk to.
ATX is ill suited for many things. I for one would like to see a form factor standard that included a memory riser card or two so that we can make use of these dang 64bit CPUs.
No, a TRUE geek has low sperm count from sitting in front of their radiation belching 24 inch Sony CRT. Freakin LCDs, whats the point of a display that has a fixed resolution?
Do you not see the difference between something that is used primarily in an illegal way and something that is used primarily to make marks on paper (pencil)? If I was to release a product like ?infanticide in a can? should I not be held responsible? The question before the court is if the legitimate use of P2P networks outweighs its illegal use. And for what its wroth, I do think that gun manufactures that make cheap semi automatic guns advertised as having a ?fingerprint proof finish? should be locked up. They are clearly marketing their products for illegal use. Likewise, while many P2P networks are used for legitimate things and should be left alone, others such as Kazza seem to exist only to spread pirate software, Mp3s, and porn.
"Pringles cans can be used for directional attenae, generator power to support the nodes, Linux is a good OS to build it on, seems like it would be a nice fit to me!"
Right now I think most families over there would rather have the Pringles then the can.
From the parent: "Instead, why not make these machines effectively a "dumb terminal" and hook it in the Internet through a wireless connection, where it would interact with web services?"
You put the bluetooth card in, configure it to connect to your GSM/BT phone and your on the net.
Not true in fact. JSPs tend to be compiled once on the server unless they have self generating data that needs to be recompiled. Most JPS servers have a bunch of cached class files that are the results of the JPS pages being run for the first time. In fact, the JSP site tends to run REALY slow until these class files are generated as compiling for each client on each page takes up a LOT of CPU time. The last large JPS project I worked on had an automated testing script that would go through and hit each page to generate the compiled code before we would release a new version. Granted I think there are some better methods to do this these days but JSP is somthing I've been unable to keep up with.
"Let me be the first to set up an 'anti-bounty' that will pay $300000 to anyone who can name the Doom virus creator but promises not to tell SCO. I'll be setting up a pay pal account shortly to start receiving donations to this fund."
And then you can go to jail for obstruction of justice. Paying people to not turn in evidance of a crime is a federal offence.
So your saying I'm free to starve to death? Gee, thanks. Of course I am in fact NOT free to work for the wages US companies are paying since that would violate minimum wage laws. Bottom line is that unless the cost of living in the us drops ten fold there is no way for the US to compete. If no one in the US is working, there is no one to buy products, economy goes bye bye. The fact that India isn't letting go of these jobs (you can not, as an American, go to India and get one of these outsourced jobs) should be ample demonstration that they are smarter then the idiot CEOs sending them work. At this rate there will be no future for IT in the US, no more students taking CompSCI classes and no more inovation comming out of the US.
"Honestly, how many American programmers would want to move to India?"
Given the choice of moving to Indea or not working, which do you think people would pick? Right now the only choice my friends have (I'm the only person I know with a job) is to sell everything they own and hope that things get better.
So after years of school and experiance we should just go work at a fast food joint? Please explain why. Also, keep in mind that this is NOT free trade. It is a one way deal. They get our jobs, but we get nothing and cant go over there to work.
Rent, food, electricity, gas, water, garbage service, internet connection etc. These things cost money. To pay for them is why people have jobs. When you dont have a job you cant pay for them. So where are you living while you write this software?
I like food. I also like having a place to live. In addition I like having electricity to power my computer. While it is true you could just live at the bus station, eating pigeons and powering your laptop off of the utility outlets they have there. But that doesn't seem like the best environment to be creative in. In addition you would have to do a lot of panhandling inorder to get the legal costs of starting a software company covered.
You cant imagine someone not wanting to spend the extra 50$ (in my case it would be 150$) to get a MP3 player with moving parts and a short battery life thats too big to fit in their pocket? You must not have much imagination.
Dumb people. Problem is that dumb people make up a majority of internet users. This is the same reason that spam works as an advertising method. Its also why toner refills have warnings not to drink the contents and windex warns you not to spray it in your eyes.
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I have a Sony T616, which is a very small phone, too small to be used on its own realy. However I also have a bluetooth ear peice. Togehter they work great, the sound quality is perfect and I only need to take the phone out of my pocket to dial numbers which dont have a voice dial command setup. Add to that the fact that I can get on the internet with my PDA via the same bluetooth connection and the phone is a must have for the geek on the go.
In point of fact the are suposed to take your battery at the front door. Sounds like the security guard should have been fired, unless this "freind" was trying to sneak the phone in.
All I know is that I have a Sony T616 blue tooth GSM phone in one pocket and can surf the web with it on my 480x640 Toshiba e805 PDA while sitting on the train going to work. This to me is a good thing given that there is next to no one on the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, the train system in the San Francisco/Bay Area) that I want to talk to.
User stupidity is the bigist security hole there is. It is often exploited and east to patch with a ballpen hammer.
ATX is ill suited for many things. I for one would like to see a form factor standard that included a memory riser card or two so that we can make use of these dang 64bit CPUs.
No, a TRUE geek has low sperm count from sitting in front of their radiation belching 24 inch Sony CRT. Freakin LCDs, whats the point of a display that has a fixed resolution?
Do you not see the difference between something that is used primarily in an illegal way and something that is used primarily to make marks on paper (pencil)? If I was to release a product like ?infanticide in a can? should I not be held responsible? The question before the court is if the legitimate use of P2P networks outweighs its illegal use. And for what its wroth, I do think that gun manufactures that make cheap semi automatic guns advertised as having a ?fingerprint proof finish? should be locked up. They are clearly marketing their products for illegal use. Likewise, while many P2P networks are used for legitimate things and should be left alone, others such as Kazza seem to exist only to spread pirate software, Mp3s, and porn.
Right now I think most families over there would rather have the Pringles then the can.
Pet rocks came with a manual.
Chapter two covers plug&play, warm boots and hot swappable hardware.
Chapter 1: Insert tab A into slot B.
If you could understand it, it wouldn't be a technical manual, it would be documentation.
You put the bluetooth card in, configure it to connect to your GSM/BT phone and your on the net.
Not true in fact. JSPs tend to be compiled once on the server unless they have self generating data that needs to be recompiled. Most JPS servers have a bunch of cached class files that are the results of the JPS pages being run for the first time. In fact, the JSP site tends to run REALY slow until these class files are generated as compiling for each client on each page takes up a LOT of CPU time. The last large JPS project I worked on had an automated testing script that would go through and hit each page to generate the compiled code before we would release a new version. Granted I think there are some better methods to do this these days but JSP is somthing I've been unable to keep up with.
It has SDIO. What more do you want? Stick a 802.11 or bluetooth card in there and your ready to go.
And then you can go to jail for obstruction of justice. Paying people to not turn in evidance of a crime is a federal offence.
So your saying I'm free to starve to death? Gee, thanks. Of course I am in fact NOT free to work for the wages US companies are paying since that would violate minimum wage laws. Bottom line is that unless the cost of living in the us drops ten fold there is no way for the US to compete. If no one in the US is working, there is no one to buy products, economy goes bye bye. The fact that India isn't letting go of these jobs (you can not, as an American, go to India and get one of these outsourced jobs) should be ample demonstration that they are smarter then the idiot CEOs sending them work. At this rate there will be no future for IT in the US, no more students taking CompSCI classes and no more inovation comming out of the US.
Given the choice of moving to Indea or not working, which do you think people would pick? Right now the only choice my friends have (I'm the only person I know with a job) is to sell everything they own and hope that things get better.
So after years of school and experiance we should just go work at a fast food joint? Please explain why. Also, keep in mind that this is NOT free trade. It is a one way deal. They get our jobs, but we get nothing and cant go over there to work.
Get ready for these things to be banned because of fears that they'll find there way into salads.
Rent, food, electricity, gas, water, garbage service, internet connection etc. These things cost money. To pay for them is why people have jobs. When you dont have a job you cant pay for them. So where are you living while you write this software?
So at 10$ a day you would only have to do this 100 days a month to cover basic cost of living out in the real world.
I like food. I also like having a place to live. In addition I like having electricity to power my computer. While it is true you could just live at the bus station, eating pigeons and powering your laptop off of the utility outlets they have there. But that doesn't seem like the best environment to be creative in. In addition you would have to do a lot of panhandling inorder to get the legal costs of starting a software company covered.
You cant imagine someone not wanting to spend the extra 50$ (in my case it would be 150$) to get a MP3 player with moving parts and a short battery life thats too big to fit in their pocket? You must not have much imagination.
Dumb people. Problem is that dumb people make up a majority of internet users. This is the same reason that spam works as an advertising method. Its also why toner refills have warnings not to drink the contents and windex warns you not to spray it in your eyes.