IMO, tomshardware.com "jumped the shark" several years prior to this (2001?). Seemed like Tom stopped writing articles to focus on starting a corporate empire. Once all of the so called "editors" started putting their hands in the pie, the quality suffered quite a bit. Now it seems like everything on the site is targeted at the clueless newbie and paginated to maximize advertising revenue.
I agree with your feelings on Doom 3, but I wanted to point out something: The original Doom had sections which were completely dark (or flickering, even better!) and IMO they were among the scariest parts of the game (there's a part of E1M2 I'm thinking of...). The thing is though, they were the exception not the rule. ID went so overkill with unlit areas in Doom 3 that it quickly became annoying. What good are all those fancy lighting/shading algorithims if you can see anything?
Do you want to see a sequel to Thief? Or do you want a game which takes place in the Thief universe?
Deadly Shadows was the final chapter in a prophecy/story that took three games to tell. That being said, a sequel to Deadly Shadows doesn't make any sense, IMO, because it didn't leave any unanswered questions and there's nothing left to explain. What else is there to tell?
While I'm on the topic of Thief, what I wouldn't mind seeing is a remake of all three games using a modern graphics engine.
Reading this thread has piqued my interest in the Black Isle games. I hopped over to Amazon and saw this.
Anyone have any idea how well the original BG plays on WinXP? (Not at all? With hacks? No problems?)
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I purchased the Westinghouse LVM-37w1 a few months back from Best Buy for the then-low price of $1850 (I also got 18-months same-as-cash and $120 in gift certificates).
Most slashdotters would probably be surprised to find out that connecting their PC using the RBG or DVI inputs of most HDTVs isn't all it's cracked up to be. I probably spent a year or so researching my next television and something I learned (by visiting AV Science forums) was that using the analog input on most TVs limits you to to a 4:3 resolution of 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 1024. Using DVI was hit and miss: Depending on the make and model of the television, you'd either get a blank screen or be limited to 4:3 resolutions.
There didn't seem to be a television that was completely PC-friendly. Samsung DLPs seemed to be the closest to plug-and-play as you could get. You had to change some settings on the TV and mess around with your display drivers, but you could make full use of every pixel on the screen. The same couldn't be said with most other HDTVs on the market.
Anyway, when I went to check the Westy out it was next to a 37" Sharp AQUOS which is considered by many to be "the best" in it's category. But you know what? After I spent 40 minutes twiddling around with the settings on both televisions I came to the conclusion that while the Sharp had the better picture quality, it wasn't $2000 better. (The 37" Sharp was being sold at $4000 at the time.) There were other factors as well. The native resolution of the Sharp was 1366 x 768 (whereas the Westinghouse runs at 1920 x 1080) and from what I've read at the AVSForums, all the Sharp LCDs are unable to be used as PC monitors without purchasing a Gefen HDCP compliant DVI switch which "fixes" the EDID data coming from the display.
As a television, the "Westy" doesn't have the best picture quality I've seen. (It's black-levels could be better.) But it's not bad, either. As a PC monitor, it's untouchable. It's useful to have so much screen real-estate for coding. And for gaming? Well, Half-Life 2 at 1920 x 1080 is incredible.
Note: The westy doesn't have a tuner (HD or otherwise), hence why it's labeled as a "Video Monitor".
I can't for the life of me find the link now but I've read somewhere that he has little respect for video games as an entertainment medium. In general, he is not involved in the production of any of the franchises which bear his name (video games, novels, movies) in any capacity except to give the final 'okay' before they hit the masses. (The exception being the movies which he had no control over at all with the possible exception of 'The Sum of All Fears'.)
Of course, this doesn't apply to the novels he himself writes.
"The DVDs are more creative -- especially when it is a porn DVD. There is some code (or something) on the DVD that prevents you from doing a chapter skip."
Funny. You know what other company excessively uses the "no skip" flag to shove adverts in peoples faces?
Disney.
I think other studios do it. But I'm pretty sure Disney was the first (and worst) offender.
Seriously, I was pretty disappointed when they gave Kyle Katarn jedi powers in the sequels. I always felt they should've used another character instead.
Katarn, being a rough-and-tumble mercenary, struck me more as having a pragmatic Solo-ish attitude ("Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."). Now that I think about it, DF2 didn't really leave a lasting impression (the hokey cutscenes didn't help) and I didn't progress any further in the series.
Anyway, I went for a 6 month followup, things improved slightly. My left eye could read 20/40 on the chart, but things were very blurry. When I requested to see the surgeon again, the optometrist gently refused my request, Telling me I should come back in another 2 months. At this point, I was getting irritated but I figured "one last time". Before I went back though, I got a second opinion from a surgeon in the states. After running some tests, he told me the people in Canada overcompensated and that, as far as he could tell, it was easily fixable. So I went back 2 months later, looked at the chart and got the same results as last time (20/40, still blurry). I politely asked to schedule a time to see the surgeon. The optometrist citied their policy, saying that since I was 20/40 or better, I wasn't elegible for re-adjustment. I put my foot down and said it wasn't acceptable. What followed was a 10 minute conversation which almost escalated into a yelling argument. The optometrist relented somewhat and said that he'd discuss my case with the surgeon. 2 days later I got a phone call from the optometrist (still no surgeon!) saying I wasn't eligible for readjustment because my corneas were too thin!! The kicker here is that he couldn've told me this months prior and saved me 3 trips to Canada! Doh!
So there is my sad tale of woe. Fortunately, I don't require corrective lenses of any sort and I don't suffer from halos at night. But sometimes I suffer from annoying visual quirks because my eyes are so unbalanced.:o(
I live in upstate NY and a lot of people have been jumping the border because of the cheaper prices in Canada. Let me tell you something: PRICE ISN'T EVERYTHING! While my experience was mostly* positive, their level of post-op support was horrible. Whatever places you decide to look at, ask about their post-operation care. Do you see the surgeon for each of the post-op visits? If not, don't even ask any more questions, just walk out.
In hindsight, I realized that some places, LASIK MD in particular, work on the premise of volume. Their primary goal is to get as many people in and out of their office as possible.
*I had Zyoptix LASIK performed on both eyes just under a year ago. Both eyes were about 20/400 now. My right eye is about 20/15 now, but my left is hovering around a very fuzzy 20:50. Their quack optometrist kept on telling me to wait for it to heal. "It'll get better" he'd keep on saying. After 3 months, I started to request an 'adjustment' (covered under their 1-year warranty, which most places offer AFAIK), but I noticed an unusual amount of resistance. It was early, only 3 months after all, so I decided to be patient.
I'm teaching myself PHP/MySQL by building my own content management system type website. All the tutorials that I've read on the web store their (minimally marked up) content in the DB, which PHP then pulls, pasts in a template (which is a flat file) and the template references the CSS (another flat file) and then sends the resulting page to the client.
I'm no web guru, but it's seems like common web design commandment is "Thou shalt Minimize calls to the DB". Which is understandable. I've heard about some designs that store a copy of the page content in the DB *and* a flat file. (Use the flat file to create the page, but use the DB copy for searches?) Is this the approach you're talking about? But I've yet to see any examples/tutorials that illustrate this design approach and talk about it's pros/cons. Care to provide some links?
As pointed out in the CNN article, the overall NASA budget would stay at about 1 percent of the federal budget. Yes, Bush is contributing an additional 1 billion, but that's chump change considering what the military gets ($379 billion in 2003 and growing). NASA's total budget is less than the cost of one attack aircraft. As far as I'm concerned, this is a ploy to make Bush Jr. look generous. While everyone is looking up at the sky thinking of how great it would be to land on the moon again, Dubya and his cronies will be busy manipulating things on earth for their own benefit.
Open your eyes people. While I think it would be great to return to the moon and visit Mars, this isn't anything more than a PR tactic for re-election. The numbers speak for themselves.
Personally, I can't wait until we hit these limits. Then developers will be forced to write more efficient software instead of throwing more clock cycles at otherwise bloated code.
This is, of course, assuming they don't find a way to go even smaller than 16 nanometers. But by 2018, I'm sure they will...
Seriously, if you don't like what they're doing THEN STOP WATCHING TELEVISION! It boggles my mind that they're so upset over such an insignificant thing as how products are being advertised on television that they're trying to sic government bloodhounds on the people that make the shows that they're needlessly addicted to. I imagine that the people behind this are TV junkies that get fired up over any changes that threaten their little microcosm-of-the-mind. It kinda reminds me of a line from a movie that came out recently:
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around and what do you see? Businessmen, Teachers, Lawyers, Carpenters...the very minds of the people we're trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so innerred, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will that they will fight to protect it.
Aren't the 5xxx series of cards the first ones to incorporate 3dfx technology? I'm willing to bet this is one of the bigger reasons we're starting to see nVidia slide down the performance slope.
I've been a fan of nVidia since the TNT days, but once ATI gets their driver act completely cleaned up, I just might find myself jumping the fence since their performance seems to have surpassed that of their competitors.
I would love to purchase a multi-format DVD burner, but it's difficult (read: impossible) to find one with a SCSI interface. (I'm a SCSI purist, at least for one of my machines anyway.) In fact, the only SCSI DVD burners I've been able to find at all are a Pioneer one which only does DVD-R and cost ~$3000 and a Panasonic which costs ~$300 but only burns DVD-RAM.:o(
Anyone have any ideas as to when SCSI multi-format DVD burners will be made availible at a sub-$400 pricepoint. And if they won't be any ideas as to why not?
I worked in a software development group at a rather large corporation using.NET where the development mantra was "Ship It ASAP!" for the last two years. Such a mindset didn't allow for any true functional specs to be written, features were added/removed during development on an ad-hoc basis (then the UI spec would be updated to reflect this). I complained about the lack of functional specs in the beginning of May and was laid-off at the end of June. I was told it was for "Economic Reasons" but I knew otherwise. In hindsight, I probably should've just kept my mouth shut (I'm young and still learning) because from what I understand that group got the funding it did simply because it delivered despite the lack of process. Other groups seemed to be stuck in a rut simply because they were trying so hard to get things done the "right" way that they haven't delievered anything in a timely manner.
I just figured that I'd share my economically painful lesson. Cheers.:0)
The instructor for a Solaris Administration class I was taking. It was also in the textbook that came with the class. Either interpretation doesn't sound wholly unreasonable.
...and be confident that most of the knowledge that you pick up along the way will be transferrable to a different distro/system when or if you decide to do it.
Will it? I guess that's the problem. Is that true? How does Joe SixPack know? From what I've seen, that isn't always the case. Although the recent GNOME->KDE agreement on UI behavior you mention will hopefully go a long way towards fixing that.
I think that the open source community has proven itself to be self-correcting and evolution seems to happen in a timely and stable way
I'd have to disagree with you there. self-correcting? Yes. Timely? Maybe I'm just impatient...
The article illustrates one of the problems I see with the various distros out there. There's just SO much availible, I just don't know where to start. It's rather intimidating. Also, why should I have to learn the ins and outs of 2 or more DEs (KDE, Gnome and maybe others) to get all the functionality that should be availible in one. I think this is one of the reasons why people put up with Windows despite Microsofts draconian EULAs: there's a consistant look and feel there that just isn't availible on linux (yet).
And on a similar note, I definitly agree with the authors idea of changing default directory names to be more user friendly (it wasn't up until 2 years ago that I found out that/usr didn't mean USER but rather Unix System Resources. WTF?)
After the poor impression Episode I made on me...
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I signed up for the Vision service since it was free for 3 months (and since I already had the cable to sync to my PC, it was a easy decision).
In short: I live in Rochester, NY and I found the service to be rather slow and my connection intermittent. Now, mind you, on a good day (rare, but it happened), I could get between 10 - 14 KB/sec, so the potential was there.
I don't think the phone was the problem (I have a Sanyo SCP-4900) It's rarely dropped a call and voice quality tends to be pretty good. (As opposed to the POS Samsung I had last year, ugh!)
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Well, I don't really know, but it may have something to do with this:
Editor In Chief and CEO of Tom's Hardware Both Step Down
IMO, tomshardware.com "jumped the shark" several years prior to this (2001?). Seemed like Tom stopped writing articles to focus on starting a corporate empire. Once all of the so called "editors" started putting their hands in the pie, the quality suffered quite a bit. Now it seems like everything on the site is targeted at the clueless newbie and paginated to maximize advertising revenue.
I agree with your feelings on Doom 3, but I wanted to point out something: The original Doom had sections which were completely dark (or flickering, even better!) and IMO they were among the scariest parts of the game (there's a part of E1M2 I'm thinking of...). The thing is though, they were the exception not the rule. ID went so overkill with unlit areas in Doom 3 that it quickly became annoying. What good are all those fancy lighting/shading algorithims if you can see anything?
Do you want to see a sequel to Thief? Or do you want a game which takes place in the Thief universe?
Deadly Shadows was the final chapter in a prophecy/story that took three games to tell.
That being said, a sequel to Deadly Shadows doesn't make any sense, IMO, because it didn't leave any unanswered questions and there's nothing left to explain. What else is there to tell?
While I'm on the topic of Thief, what I wouldn't mind seeing is a remake of all three games using a modern graphics engine.
They are not related.
Reading this thread has piqued my interest in the Black Isle games. I hopped over to Amazon and saw this.
Anyone have any idea how well the original BG plays on WinXP? (Not at all? With hacks? No problems?)
I purchased the Westinghouse LVM-37w1 a few months back from Best Buy for the then-low price of $1850 (I also got 18-months same-as-cash and $120 in gift certificates).
Most slashdotters would probably be surprised to find out that connecting their PC using the RBG or DVI inputs of most HDTVs isn't all it's cracked up to be. I probably spent a year or so researching my next television and something I learned (by visiting AV Science forums) was that using the analog input on most TVs limits you to to a 4:3 resolution of 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 1024. Using DVI was hit and miss: Depending on the make and model of the television, you'd either get a blank screen or be limited to 4:3 resolutions.
There didn't seem to be a television that was completely PC-friendly. Samsung DLPs seemed to be the closest to plug-and-play as you could get. You had to change some settings on the TV and mess around with your display drivers, but you could make full use of every pixel on the screen. The same couldn't be said with most other HDTVs on the market.
Until I'd come across this thread.
Anyway, when I went to check the Westy out it was next to a 37" Sharp AQUOS which is considered by many to be "the best" in it's category. But you know what? After I spent 40 minutes twiddling around with the settings on both televisions I came to the conclusion that while the Sharp had the better picture quality, it wasn't $2000 better. (The 37" Sharp was being sold at $4000 at the time.) There were other factors as well. The native resolution of the Sharp was 1366 x 768 (whereas the Westinghouse runs at 1920 x 1080) and from what I've read at the AVSForums, all the Sharp LCDs are unable to be used as PC monitors without purchasing a Gefen HDCP compliant DVI switch which "fixes" the EDID data coming from the display.
As a television, the "Westy" doesn't have the best picture quality I've seen. (It's black-levels could be better.) But it's not bad, either. As a PC monitor, it's untouchable. It's useful to have so much screen real-estate for coding. And for gaming? Well, Half-Life 2 at 1920 x 1080 is incredible.
Note: The westy doesn't have a tuner (HD or otherwise), hence why it's labeled as a "Video Monitor".
I can't for the life of me find the link now but I've read somewhere that he has little respect for video games as an entertainment medium. In general, he is not involved in the production of any of the franchises which bear his name (video games, novels, movies) in any capacity except to give the final 'okay' before they hit the masses. (The exception being the movies which he had no control over at all with the possible exception of 'The Sum of All Fears'.)
Of course, this doesn't apply to the novels he himself writes.
"The DVDs are more creative -- especially when it is a porn DVD. There is some code (or something) on the DVD that prevents you from doing a chapter skip."
Funny. You know what other company excessively uses the "no skip" flag to shove adverts in peoples faces?
Disney.
I think other studios do it. But I'm pretty sure Disney was the first (and worst) offender.
The cases shown in the first link you mention only take MicroATX motherboards, which limits your options significantly.
Seriously, I was pretty disappointed when they gave Kyle Katarn jedi powers in the sequels. I always felt they should've used another character instead. Katarn, being a rough-and-tumble mercenary, struck me more as having a pragmatic Solo-ish attitude ("Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."). Now that I think about it, DF2 didn't really leave a lasting impression (the hokey cutscenes didn't help) and I didn't progress any further in the series.
Just my two cents...
Sorry, I accidently hit "submit".
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Anyway, I went for a 6 month followup, things improved slightly. My left eye could read 20/40 on the chart, but things were very blurry. When I requested to see the surgeon again, the optometrist gently refused my request, Telling me I should come back in another 2 months. At this point, I was getting irritated but I figured "one last time". Before I went back though, I got a second opinion from a surgeon in the states. After running some tests, he told me the people in Canada overcompensated and that, as far as he could tell, it was easily fixable. So I went back 2 months later, looked at the chart and got the same results as last time (20/40, still blurry). I politely asked to schedule a time to see the surgeon. The optometrist citied their policy, saying that since I was 20/40 or better, I wasn't elegible for re-adjustment. I put my foot down and said it wasn't acceptable. What followed was a 10 minute conversation which almost escalated into a yelling argument. The optometrist relented somewhat and said that he'd discuss my case with the surgeon. 2 days later I got a phone call from the optometrist (still no surgeon!) saying I wasn't eligible for readjustment because my corneas were too thin!! The kicker here is that he couldn've told me this months prior and saved me 3 trips to Canada! Doh!
So there is my sad tale of woe. Fortunately, I don't require corrective lenses of any sort and I don't suffer from halos at night. But sometimes I suffer from annoying visual quirks because my eyes are so unbalanced.
I live in upstate NY and a lot of people have been jumping the border because of the cheaper prices in Canada. Let me tell you something: PRICE ISN'T EVERYTHING! While my experience was mostly* positive, their level of post-op support was horrible. Whatever places you decide to look at, ask about their post-operation care. Do you see the surgeon for each of the post-op visits? If not, don't even ask any more questions, just walk out. In hindsight, I realized that some places, LASIK MD in particular, work on the premise of volume. Their primary goal is to get as many people in and out of their office as possible. *I had Zyoptix LASIK performed on both eyes just under a year ago. Both eyes were about 20/400 now. My right eye is about 20/15 now, but my left is hovering around a very fuzzy 20:50. Their quack optometrist kept on telling me to wait for it to heal. "It'll get better" he'd keep on saying. After 3 months, I started to request an 'adjustment' (covered under their 1-year warranty, which most places offer AFAIK), but I noticed an unusual amount of resistance. It was early, only 3 months after all, so I decided to be patient.
I'm teaching myself PHP/MySQL by building my own content management system type website. All the tutorials that I've read on the web store their (minimally marked up) content in the DB, which PHP then pulls, pasts in a template (which is a flat file) and the template references the CSS (another flat file) and then sends the resulting page to the client.
I'm no web guru, but it's seems like common web design commandment is "Thou shalt Minimize calls to the DB". Which is understandable. I've heard about some designs that store a copy of the page content in the DB *and* a flat file. (Use the flat file to create the page, but use the DB copy for searches?) Is this the approach you're talking about? But I've yet to see any examples/tutorials that illustrate this design approach and talk about it's pros/cons. Care to provide some links?
As pointed out in the CNN article, the overall NASA budget would stay at about 1 percent of the federal budget. Yes, Bush is contributing an additional 1 billion, but that's chump change considering what the military gets ($379 billion in 2003 and growing). NASA's total budget is less than the cost of one attack aircraft. As far as I'm concerned, this is a ploy to make Bush Jr. look generous. While everyone is looking up at the sky thinking of how great it would be to land on the moon again, Dubya and his cronies will be busy manipulating things on earth for their own benefit.
Open your eyes people. While I think it would be great to return to the moon and visit Mars, this isn't anything more than a PR tactic for re-election. The numbers speak for themselves.
Personally, I can't wait until we hit these limits. Then developers will be forced to write more efficient software instead of throwing more clock cycles at otherwise bloated code.
This is, of course, assuming they don't find a way to go even smaller than 16 nanometers. But by 2018, I'm sure they will...
Red Hat couldn't have pulled this off without technology stolen from SCO. It's a known fact that SCO owns IP on everything that makes linux useful.
drip...drip...
Excuse me, I've got sarcasm dripping from my chin...
...then tell TV producers how to advertise? Like, grant ridiculous trademarks, fight wars in the name of peace and use your money doing it?
Seriously, if you don't like what they're doing THEN STOP WATCHING TELEVISION! It boggles my mind that they're so upset over such an insignificant thing as how products are being advertised on television that they're trying to sic government bloodhounds on the people that make the shows that they're needlessly addicted to. I imagine that the people behind this are TV junkies that get fired up over any changes that threaten their little microcosm-of-the-mind. It kinda reminds me of a line from a movie that came out recently:
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around and what do you see? Businessmen, Teachers, Lawyers, Carpenters...the very minds of the people we're trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so innerred, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will that they will fight to protect it.
Aren't the 5xxx series of cards the first ones to incorporate 3dfx technology? I'm willing to bet this is one of the bigger reasons we're starting to see nVidia slide down the performance slope.
I've been a fan of nVidia since the TNT days, but once ATI gets their driver act completely cleaned up, I just might find myself jumping the fence since their performance seems to have surpassed that of their competitors.
I would love to purchase a multi-format DVD burner, but it's difficult (read: impossible) to find one with a SCSI interface. (I'm a SCSI purist, at least for one of my machines anyway.) In fact, the only SCSI DVD burners I've been able to find at all are a Pioneer one which only does DVD-R and cost ~$3000 and a Panasonic which costs ~$300 but only burns DVD-RAM. :o(
Anyone have any ideas as to when SCSI multi-format DVD burners will be made availible at a sub-$400 pricepoint. And if they won't be any ideas as to why not?
I worked in a software development group at a rather large corporation using .NET where the development mantra was "Ship It ASAP!" for the last two years. Such a mindset didn't allow for any true functional specs to be written, features were added/removed during development on an ad-hoc basis (then the UI spec would be updated to reflect this). I complained about the lack of functional specs in the beginning of May and was laid-off at the end of June. I was told it was for "Economic Reasons" but I knew otherwise. In hindsight, I probably should've just kept my mouth shut (I'm young and still learning) because from what I understand that group got the funding it did simply because it delivered despite the lack of process. Other groups seemed to be stuck in a rut simply because they were trying so hard to get things done the "right" way that they haven't delievered anything in a timely manner.
:0)
I just figured that I'd share my economically painful lesson. Cheers.
Who told you that??
The instructor for a Solaris Administration class I was taking. It was also in the textbook that came with the class. Either interpretation doesn't sound wholly unreasonable.
rmassa,
...and be confident that most of the knowledge that you pick up along the way will be transferrable to a different distro/system when or if you decide to do it.
Will it? I guess that's the problem. Is that true? How does Joe SixPack know? From what I've seen, that isn't always the case. Although the recent GNOME->KDE agreement on UI behavior you mention will hopefully go a long way towards fixing that.
I think that the open source community has proven itself to be self-correcting and evolution seems to happen in a timely and stable way
I'd have to disagree with you there. self-correcting? Yes. Timely? Maybe I'm just impatient...
The article illustrates one of the problems I see with the various distros out there. There's just SO much availible, I just don't know where to start. It's rather intimidating. Also, why should I have to learn the ins and outs of 2 or more DEs (KDE, Gnome and maybe others) to get all the functionality that should be availible in one. I think this is one of the reasons why people put up with Windows despite Microsofts draconian EULAs: there's a consistant look and feel there that just isn't availible on linux (yet).
/usr didn't mean USER but rather Unix System Resources. WTF?)
And on a similar note, I definitly agree with the authors idea of changing default directory names to be more user friendly (it wasn't up until 2 years ago that I found out that
P.S. Han shoots first!
I signed up for the Vision service since it was free for 3 months (and since I already had the cable to sync to my PC, it was a easy decision).
In short: I live in Rochester, NY and I found the service to be rather slow and my connection intermittent. Now, mind you, on a good day (rare, but it happened), I could get between 10 - 14 KB/sec, so the potential was there. I don't think the phone was the problem (I have a Sanyo SCP-4900) It's rarely dropped a call and voice quality tends to be pretty good. (As opposed to the POS Samsung I had last year, ugh!)
Just my 2 cents.