Sprint is CDMA Helio is a MVNO off Sprint's network (CDMA) Boost Mobile is the pay-as you-go for Sprint (CDMA) Virgin Mobile is a pay-as-you-go, or monthly, and CDMA off Sprint's network MetroPCS is a contract-less CDMA carrer in only certain metropolitan areas
You've just demonstrated what your phone-enabled world subtly wants, but only the rest of the world realized, mass transit.
Once you're not concentrating on the time-wasteful but sometimes fun driving, there's a whole new, different, connected world available.
Hell, if you troll Slashdot as you do already then you should understand why kids text each other now as the logical extension of IM. Not driving means more time doing something else, and not having to worry about getting killed, or killing yourself, doing it.
Crackberry guys already discovered it, although they're still doing the driving part.
The funny part is most of the expansive amounts of fully-featured phones in Japan are all about fashion from one season to the next. Even Korea. And they still pull it off with better phones, and cheaper prices than the USA.
It seems most of their throw-away phones are about the level of medium-tier phones here to boot. That's the embarrassment and that's the topic.
Off-topic, but I find it ironic that people on a Linux site are advocating "cathedral"-like standards to technology instead of the oft-lauded bazaar simply because of the simplicity standardization establishes.
I sometimes imagine what if the Linux kernel and userland where built like that; might end up like BSD.:P
If you're going to go with Verizon/Sprint then it's CDMA and you're shit out of luck. Most of the good phones are GSM/UMTS because that's what the rest of the world uses.
Now, if you're going to stick to GMS/UMTS (aka WCDMA), then just make sure it has 2100MHz UMTS for the rest of the world (Japan: Softbank | NTT Docomo's FOMA system, Europe, Asia), 850/1900MHz for at&t, and probably 1700MHz for T-Mobile if they ever announce what they're 3G network is, and you're set. That's how nice GSM/SIM tech is.
HTC Trinity supports quad-band GSM, tri-band UMTS. You could check pdadb.net for some of the phones, and Wikipedia for the rest of the information on the tech.
The simple answer is that we don't spend that much time on our phones compared to the Japanese and their keitai denwas.
One reason is because we have PCs. Huh? Japanese homes are usually small apartments with little room for something like a full-size AlienWare box, so that's why they prefer tiny laptops. Even offices generally are crunched to laptop room only. So what's the mostly reliable way to contact friends anywhere, lookup information, find your way along the unlabeled streets in this environment? Texting. What supports that? keitais. Notice SMS took off rest of the world whereas IM and email took off here in the USA besides how expensive SMS was/still-is here. Similar needs, different deployment.
Now that as a mobile company, you have users whom generally do not have PCs, but do have keitais and whom are demanding wireless access to more than just SMS. Many of these users also do not drive/own cars but spend much of their travel time, probably bored to death, riding on the trains surrounded by ads. Talking on keitais is generally frowned upon as being impolite, disruptive, and there's lots of noise on trains. So what's the solution and what do you give them? NTT's iMode, wireless web access, and now wireless tv on phones.
These people have a bit more money because they're not spending on road maintenance taxes, gas pump prices, insurance costs, registration fees, high priced bling-bling SUVs. They're also healthier because they spend some time walking every day to/from the trains instead of waddling out of their blings and homes, so probably lower health costs except for all that smoking.
Now these folks are already buying stuff with their train access swipe cards, why not combine it inside the keitai? They're already surrounded by ads in the train, why not give them some ocr through the camera on their phones so they can easy scan in the company phone number and web site address and troll through "services" while riding on the train? Why not also put these as quick-scan QR codes in magazines so users can whilst their time away reading, browsing, shopping your products? Since the phones are now debit card enabled, one-click shopping while standing up in a train is brought to new heights.
The keitai is the single most important convergence device in Japan due to environment, evolution, and demand.
So, unless the USA has less alternatives for web/email/IM access at home, convert to light-rail train/bus for most of our daily travel (or at least work/school commutes), have ubiquitous wireless access even underground in subways, roads, and buildings (or have spent 10 years demanding it because we have nothing better to do), the USA will take a very long time to approach awesome phones as the poster asks about.
at&t did take one of the first steps by making wireless web browsing almost a natural right and lower-priced, although it should be same price ($19 or less) for all phones and pdas.
Meanwhile, waiting for my Kaiser because USA finally got a Japanese/European compatible air interface (UMTS/WCMDA) through NTT's kicking of AT&T's ass.
The PIX (and the 510?) was EOL to me 5 years ago already... I replaced it with a white-box computer running FreeBSD and IPFW. You could probably do the same now with just OpenBSD and PF.
It not only handled more traffic and was more stable than IOS, but also modern functionality (QoS, IPSEC VPN, VLAN, failover, etc), as well as other trickles from OpenBSD. Steady stream of updates are free, hardware is cheap, and migration is easy.
If you can, dump the PIX, and go the white-box route.
Well, I recently did drive from SoCal to Fort Sumner in New Mexico (and back). It's 16 hours driving, or ~6 (2 security check, 2 flight, 2+.5 to drive to destination) hours by non-stop plane. Closest airport to Fort Sumner is 2 hours away in Albuquerque.
So, it costs $112 to flight one-way, plus ~$30 per day for rental car.
It costed me $70 in gas to drive my Prius there (each tank is 520 miles+ @ 48MPG @ 73MPH). Add $10 if you like for partial payment of oil replacement later.
So, 16 hours by the scenic route with my chips + iPod, or ~6 with part of it getting ass-realmed by airport security and the parking Nazis. HMMM.
I could've taken Amtrak train for about $80, but then it would've been 16 hours + 2 for rental car to get where I needed to go with most of it browsing on my laptop...
For a few times I would rather drive for the 10 hours & ~$80 difference, if I wasn't in a hurry, just for the convenience and price.
Since everybody knows that AMD outperforms Intel on a per-GHz basis, it does lead one to wonder why they chose that particular metric, but honestly no matter what metric they chose people would complain.
Is that still true considering that Woodcrest is based on the Core (not Netburst) architecture. Core should outperform Opteron per GHz quite a bit by now. Reading the comments on TFA confirms this without having to pull out some Anandtech benchmarks.
Well, assuming the time machine can move through time and space like say a TARDIS in some self-calculating black box, who's the say it wasn't a bunch of future slashdotters taking a joy-ride back, and then crashing due to the the stupidity of a lack of guidance systems to land the thing.
He's probably talking about a machine that isolates the traveler from movement of time and space which probably needs to be done in order to avoid the aging effects of traveling backward, such as traveling before you existed and built the time machine. Of course it then creates the paradox of extra mass appearing in the universe.
Your forward time machine obviously stays in the time-flow and allows Earth's gravity to keep it in the same space. Do you age in your machine or not?
The point seems to be smartphones, and the iPhone, won't be maxing out the bandwidth all the time because they can't run multi-tasked, bandwith intensive apps due to lack of CPU and battery power.
No Flash GooTube is good thing.
That reduces the throughput strain on AT&T's pathetic data network.
I actually kinda hope this gets super-fat sites like Disney.com, CNN, or the like, to pull-back their excessive and abusive site "enhancements" that have nothing to do with content delivery and "Web 2.0".
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Absolutely. When has Fedora been mom-friendly? Is this new build process mom-friendly?
As if using a UNIX os is supposed to be mom-friendly.
$ csup -gL2 standard-supfile $ make world $ make kernel $ reboot
I remember sharply in 1987 to add 1MB to an Apple IIGS for say an AST Ramstack Plus was $600. And they were selling this as a 6MB beastie with a 2MB expansion board.
Kicked all microcomputer ass for the day (Macs/PCs weren't there yet; maybe Amigas), but way pricey especially when converted into 2007 dollars.
Still got that 6MB board. Populated it all out when prices dropped closer to $100 per MB few years later.
Just dropped 1GB into the socket-A board about two years ago (for total of 1.5GB) for close to $70. WTF!:)
Only your first example has any relevance to copyright.
For the house example, yes, but it has nothing to do with copyright, but contractual obligations. I can mod it for solar and battery setup etc. For the car, yes I can but I have some non-contractual obligations to obey on the road. However, I can modify the car all I want and even resell it with the mods, as long as I don't represent it as from the original manufacturer.
Copyright is really about non-compete meaning you can purchase something and do anything you want to it as long as you don't "resell" it in a way that competes with the original author. I think this meaning has been entirely lost.
The way you do rename in cvs don't preserve history. Yes, the file will have a new name from now on, but it breaks any previous version builds. cp instead of mv fixes that. Then cvs remove the previous version when the rename is complete. Yes, it's clunky and you can't directly link the two files unless you symbolically link them, but it only a minor annoyance -- not a show stopper.
As for cvs admin -o, I have a Perl script that generates the necessary commands I need to delete the versions. It can even be done visually with WinCVS, so I don't consider this dangerous nor lacking; just incomplete.
However, SVN's method is IMO very complex, and basically unsupported when SVN is supposed to improve upon CVS, not remove features. Even db-based Perforce has full support for it, and some other other SCSs.
We have a need for binary obliteration because we store every single "test" framework release build. When the final version goes live, then there is no need to keep any of the previous prototype builds. For us, SVN is the improved CVS isn't really.
Thanks for the CVSNT link. Although I've been peripherally aware of its improvements over CVS, it almost matches SVN for many features and worth a harder look for the server setup.. Thanks!
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Congratulations Fedora/RedHat on discovering Ports/pkgsrc, and BSD's rebuilding from tagged CVS source.
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In the USA:
Sprint is CDMA
Helio is a MVNO off Sprint's network (CDMA)
Boost Mobile is the pay-as you-go for Sprint (CDMA)
Virgin Mobile is a pay-as-you-go, or monthly, and CDMA off Sprint's network
MetroPCS is a contract-less CDMA carrer in only certain metropolitan areas
Please name the rest of the dozen of GSM.
You've just demonstrated what your phone-enabled world subtly wants, but only the rest of the world realized, mass transit.
Once you're not concentrating on the time-wasteful but sometimes fun driving, there's a whole new, different, connected world available.
Hell, if you troll Slashdot as you do already then you should understand why kids text each other now as the logical extension of IM. Not driving means more time doing something else, and not having to worry about getting killed, or killing yourself, doing it.
Crackberry guys already discovered it, although they're still doing the driving part.
Are you one of the "get off my lawn"-type guys?
The funny part is most of the expansive amounts of fully-featured phones in Japan are all about fashion from one season to the next. Even Korea. And they still pull it off with better phones, and cheaper prices than the USA.
It seems most of their throw-away phones are about the level of medium-tier phones here to boot. That's the embarrassment and that's the topic.
Off-topic, but I find it ironic that people on a Linux site are advocating "cathedral"-like standards to technology instead of the oft-lauded bazaar simply because of the simplicity standardization establishes.
:P
I sometimes imagine what if the Linux kernel and userland where built like that; might end up like BSD.
4) Extra charges for receiving and sending SMS, as well as for having 911 and voice mail
At least your telcos didn't stick you with a tax, on this side of the border, to recoup the costs of a war that happened in the 1800s.
Dunno. $1-$2 dollars per minute International roaming rates vs around $0.10 per minute native. Dunno.
If you're going to go with Verizon/Sprint then it's CDMA and you're shit out of luck. Most of the good phones are GSM/UMTS because that's what the rest of the world uses.
Now, if you're going to stick to GMS/UMTS (aka WCDMA), then just make sure it has 2100MHz UMTS for the rest of the world (Japan: Softbank | NTT Docomo's FOMA system, Europe, Asia), 850/1900MHz for at&t, and probably 1700MHz for T-Mobile if they ever announce what they're 3G network is, and you're set. That's how nice GSM/SIM tech is.
HTC Trinity supports quad-band GSM, tri-band UMTS. You could check pdadb.net for some of the phones, and Wikipedia for the rest of the information on the tech.
The simple answer is that we don't spend that much time on our phones compared to the Japanese and their keitai denwas.
One reason is because we have PCs. Huh? Japanese homes are usually small apartments with little room for something like a full-size AlienWare box, so that's why they prefer tiny laptops. Even offices generally are crunched to laptop room only. So what's the mostly reliable way to contact friends anywhere, lookup information, find your way along the unlabeled streets in this environment? Texting. What supports that? keitais. Notice SMS took off rest of the world whereas IM and email took off here in the USA besides how expensive SMS was/still-is here. Similar needs, different deployment.
Now that as a mobile company, you have users whom generally do not have PCs, but do have keitais and whom are demanding wireless access to more than just SMS. Many of these users also do not drive/own cars but spend much of their travel time, probably bored to death, riding on the trains surrounded by ads. Talking on keitais is generally frowned upon as being impolite, disruptive, and there's lots of noise on trains. So what's the solution and what do you give them? NTT's iMode, wireless web access, and now wireless tv on phones.
These people have a bit more money because they're not spending on road maintenance taxes, gas pump prices, insurance costs, registration fees, high priced bling-bling SUVs. They're also healthier because they spend some time walking every day to/from the trains instead of waddling out of their blings and homes, so probably lower health costs except for all that smoking.
Now these folks are already buying stuff with their train access swipe cards, why not combine it inside the keitai? They're already surrounded by ads in the train, why not give them some ocr through the camera on their phones so they can easy scan in the company phone number and web site address and troll through "services" while riding on the train? Why not also put these as quick-scan QR codes in magazines so users can whilst their time away reading, browsing, shopping your products? Since the phones are now debit card enabled, one-click shopping while standing up in a train is brought to new heights.
The keitai is the single most important convergence device in Japan due to environment, evolution, and demand.
So, unless the USA has less alternatives for web/email/IM access at home, convert to light-rail train/bus for most of our daily travel (or at least work/school commutes), have ubiquitous wireless access even underground in subways, roads, and buildings (or have spent 10 years demanding it because we have nothing better to do), the USA will take a very long time to approach awesome phones as the poster asks about.
at&t did take one of the first steps by making wireless web browsing almost a natural right and lower-priced, although it should be same price ($19 or less) for all phones and pdas.
Meanwhile, waiting for my Kaiser because USA finally got a Japanese/European compatible air interface (UMTS/WCMDA) through NTT's kicking of AT&T's ass.
The PIX (and the 510?) was EOL to me 5 years ago already... I replaced it with a white-box computer running FreeBSD and IPFW. You could probably do the same now with just OpenBSD and PF.
It not only handled more traffic and was more stable than IOS, but also modern functionality (QoS, IPSEC VPN, VLAN, failover, etc), as well as other trickles from OpenBSD. Steady stream of updates are free, hardware is cheap, and migration is easy.
If you can, dump the PIX, and go the white-box route.
Well, I recently did drive from SoCal to Fort Sumner in New Mexico (and back). It's 16 hours driving, or ~6 (2 security check, 2 flight, 2+.5 to drive to destination) hours by non-stop plane. Closest airport to Fort Sumner is 2 hours away in Albuquerque.
So, it costs $112 to flight one-way, plus ~$30 per day for rental car.
It costed me $70 in gas to drive my Prius there (each tank is 520 miles+ @ 48MPG @ 73MPH). Add $10 if you like for partial payment of oil replacement later.
So, 16 hours by the scenic route with my chips + iPod, or ~6 with part of it getting ass-realmed by airport security and the parking Nazis. HMMM.
I could've taken Amtrak train for about $80, but then it would've been 16 hours + 2 for rental car to get where I needed to go with most of it browsing on my laptop...
For a few times I would rather drive for the 10 hours & ~$80 difference, if I wasn't in a hurry, just for the convenience and price.
Since everybody knows that AMD outperforms Intel on a per-GHz basis, it does lead one to wonder why they chose that particular metric, but honestly no matter what metric they chose people would complain.
Is that still true considering that Woodcrest is based on the Core (not Netburst) architecture. Core should outperform Opteron per GHz quite a bit by now. Reading the comments on TFA confirms this without having to pull out some Anandtech benchmarks.
I hear FreeBSD degrades gracefully also. Anybody want to comment?
It's right there in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ#Hutter_Prizes
It's forked from the PAQ8H series of compressors, stripped of anything but text handling, and is the 12th iteration of it.
Well, assuming the time machine can move through time and space like say a TARDIS in some self-calculating black box, who's the say it wasn't a bunch of future slashdotters taking a joy-ride back, and then crashing due to the the stupidity of a lack of guidance systems to land the thing.
He's probably talking about a machine that isolates the traveler from movement of time and space which probably needs to be done in order to avoid the aging effects of traveling backward, such as traveling before you existed and built the time machine. Of course it then creates the paradox of extra mass appearing in the universe.
Your forward time machine obviously stays in the time-flow and allows Earth's gravity to keep it in the same space. Do you age in your machine or not?
Yes. Gizmodo reported that it's called Operation Fine Edge.
Looks like asshat AT&T only bothered to upgrade their network for the iPhone, not the rest of us.
Thanks Jobs for busting their balls.
The point seems to be smartphones, and the iPhone, won't be maxing out the bandwidth all the time because they can't run multi-tasked, bandwith intensive apps due to lack of CPU and battery power.
No Flash GooTube is good thing.
That reduces the throughput strain on AT&T's pathetic data network.
I actually kinda hope this gets super-fat sites like Disney.com, CNN, or the like, to pull-back their excessive and abusive site "enhancements" that have nothing to do with content delivery and "Web 2.0".
Absolutely. When has Fedora been mom-friendly? Is this new build process mom-friendly?
As if using a UNIX os is supposed to be mom-friendly.
$ csup -gL2 standard-supfile
$ make world
$ make kernel
$ reboot
$ portupgrade -ai
I remember sharply in 1987 to add 1MB to an Apple IIGS for say an AST Ramstack Plus was $600. And they were selling this as a 6MB beastie with a 2MB expansion board.
:)
Kicked all microcomputer ass for the day (Macs/PCs weren't there yet; maybe Amigas), but way pricey especially when converted into 2007 dollars.
Still got that 6MB board. Populated it all out when prices dropped closer to $100 per MB few years later.
Just dropped 1GB into the socket-A board about two years ago (for total of 1.5GB) for close to $70. WTF!
That's ridiculous in the 640K days. Even on the Apple IIGS, you got a full desktop environment under 2MB. No wonder Bob died.
You mean DIVX. DivX is the video codec.
:-)
Yes, I'm being nitpicky.
Heard of the plug-in Prius? Lots of modified battery code there. Heard of ECU chips on Ebay?
Following road/FCC laws for the "operation" of the purchased item, again, is parallel to copyright.
qed
Only your first example has any relevance to copyright.
For the house example, yes, but it has nothing to do with copyright, but contractual obligations. I can mod it for solar and battery setup etc. For the car, yes I can but I have some non-contractual obligations to obey on the road. However, I can modify the car all I want and even resell it with the mods, as long as I don't represent it as from the original manufacturer.
Copyright is really about non-compete meaning you can purchase something and do anything you want to it as long as you don't "resell" it in a way that competes with the original author. I think this meaning has been entirely lost.
The way you do rename in cvs don't preserve history. Yes, the file will have a new name from now on, but it breaks any previous version builds.
cp instead of mv fixes that. Then cvs remove the previous version when the rename is complete. Yes, it's clunky and you can't directly link the two files unless you symbolically link them, but it only a minor annoyance -- not a show stopper.
As for cvs admin -o, I have a Perl script that generates the necessary commands I need to delete the versions. It can even be done visually with WinCVS, so I don't consider this dangerous nor lacking; just incomplete.
However, SVN's method is IMO very complex, and basically unsupported when SVN is supposed to improve upon CVS, not remove features. Even db-based Perforce has full support for it, and some other other SCSs.
We have a need for binary obliteration because we store every single "test" framework release build. When the final version goes live, then there is no need to keep any of the previous prototype builds. For us, SVN is the improved CVS isn't really.
Thanks for the CVSNT link. Although I've been peripherally aware of its improvements over CVS, it almost matches SVN for many features and worth a harder look for the server setup.. Thanks!
Congratulations Fedora/RedHat on discovering Ports/pkgsrc, and BSD's rebuilding from tagged CVS source.