If you have the latest and greatest hardware, yes, vista is a perfectly fine OS. However, if you try running it on a $300 walmart PC from two years ago you're in for a world of pain. I remember a year ago trying to use the business center in a hotel who had just installed Vista on their PCs (cheap Gateway machines). Starting up Internet Explorer took 6 minutes and nearly crashed the machine, and switching windows would make the machine freeze for 15 seconds. It was completely unusable.
As a geek I run a fairly high-end machine, but all my non-geek friends and relatives are running on machines that are 4-6 years old, and Vista would bring them to their knees. Computing isn't important enough for them to spend $1000 on a new machine every 2 years.
I doubt Sprint doesnt' allow streamin internet radio. On my Sprint Centro, which has a Sprint Firmware, a program is included that not only plays internet radio, but has a huge list of radio stations built in. AT&T specificaly disabled the internet-radio functionality of the included software, so it's clearly doable, but Sprint chose not to.
Sign up for Google Apps, and then you can have all mail sent to me@mydomain.com be handled by GMail. All you have to do is sign up at http://www.google.com/a/ and link your domain. Then point your domain's MX records to aspmx.l.google.com.
In the future, all you have to do in order to get your mail is to go to http://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.com/ instead of http://www.gmail.com (and you can even set it up so that http://mail.mydomain.com CNAMES to your email login page)
I was referring to the cost of calling a cell phone from a landline, which from my experience in europe was much more expensive than calling another landline.
And, to answer your second question, I pay Sprint US$30 a month for 500 daytime minutes, unlimited calls on weekends and between 5pm and 7am on weekdays, unlimited calls between my phone and a single number of my choice, unlimited long distance, unlimited 3G data and tethering, and unlimited text messages. Plus I got a free Palm Centro when I signed up.
In my experience the mobile-party-pays system is MUCH better than the calling-party-pays system.
In the calling-party-pays system, the person paying for calling the cell phone is NOT a customer of the cell phone company. Therefore the cell companies have NO incentive to provide competative rates for incoming calls. If you have to call someone, you aren't going to not call just because they are using company-x.
In the mobile-party-pays system, the person paying is the cell phone owner, who IS a customer of the cell phone company and can shop around or choose a different plan to get better rates. The cell phone companies have a huge incentive to offer competative minute plans since people tend to shop around when buying a phone. Also, because there is no difference in calling a cell phone, this system allows people to abandon their landline phone and use a cell phone only -- no need for two separate bills.
In the US most people have a plan that provides more than enough "free" minutes so that they never get a per minute charge. Plus, the incoming caller ID is displayed before we pick up, so we have the option of rejecting the call and not paying. What is the charge to call a cell phone in a calling-party-pays country? The equivalent of $0.15/minute? On my mobile-party-pays plan I have NEVER come close to going over my allocated minutes, so the marginal cost per minute is $0.00/minute.
In the calling-party-pays system, the person paying for calling the cell phone is NOT a customer of the cell phone company. Therefore the cell companies have NO incentive to provide competative rates for incoming calls. If you have to call someone, you aren't going to not call just because they are using company-x.
In the mobile-party-pays system, the person paying is the cell phone owner, who IS a customer of the cell phone company and can shop around or choose a different plan to get better rates. The cell phone companies have a huge incentive to offer competative minute plans since people tend to shop around when buying a phone. Also, because there is no difference in calling a cell phone, this system allows people to abandon their landline phone and use a cell phone only -- no need for two separate bills.
In the US most people have a plan that provides more than enough "free" minutes so that they never get a per minute charge. What is the charge to call a cell phone in a calling-party-pays country? The equivalent of $0.15/minute? On my mobile-party-pays plan I have NEVER come close to going over my allocated minutes, so the marginal cost per minute is $0.00/minute.
In the calling-party-pays system, the person paying for calling the cell phone is NOT a customer of the cell phone company. Therefore the cell companies have NO incentive to provide competative rates for incoming calls. If you have to call someone, you aren't going to not call just because they are using company-x.
In the mobile-party-pays system, the person paying is the cell phone owner, who IS a customer of the cell phone company and can shop around or choose a different plan to get better rates. The cell phone companies have a huge incentive to offer competative minute plans since people tend to shop around when buying a phone. Also, because there is no difference in calling a cell phone, this system allows people to abandon their landline phone and use a cell phone only -- no need for two separate bills.
In the US most people have a plan that provides more than enough "free" minutes so that they never get a per minute charge. What is the charge to call a cell phone in a calling-party-pays country? The equivalent of $0.15/minute? On my mobile-party-pays plan I have NEVER come close to going over my allocated minutes, so the marginal cost per minute is $0.00/minute.
Zero-G has a HUGE effect on anything relying on convective cooling. There is no convection in zero-g, so EVERY hot component needs forced air cooling, which you rarely find in a switch.
At closest approach, Solar Probe+ will be 7 million km or 9 solar radii from the sun. There, the spacecraft's carbon-composite heat shield must withstand temperatures greater than 1400o C and survive blasts of radiation at levels not experienced by any previous spacecraft.
I'm not saying 1400 degrees isn't hot, but it's not unmanagable.
Maybe it's a minority in terms of numbers, but from looking at the pictures a majority of the mass of this part was not printed. Basically the machine is made up of metal rods, motors, and wires all held together with plastic brackets and metal screws. All the machine made was the plastic brackets.
Maybe it's ready if you are a professional blogger and your business consists of word processing and web browsing, but in an engineering environment there is no way I could ever switch to Linux:
* My company uses Solidworks and Cosmos for CAD and FEA. While Pro/Engineer is available for linux, it is not 100% compatable with Solidworks (imported files cannot be edited parametrically), and SolidWorks does not play well with Wine. Plus my company would never shell out for Pro/E when we already have a SolidWorks site licence. Don't even get me started on Cosmos.
* My company uses proprietary CRM and MRP products for documentation control, inventory tracking, customer conversations sheets, job orders, and purchase reqs. Both systems require hooks into Microsoft Office, so neither play well with Wine. I'm not going to convince the company to switch to open source alternatives, as the migration costs would be astronomical.
The further back from your monitor you are the easier it is. I have to sit about 4 feet from my 19" monitor to be able to see the 3D easily in the cross-eyed one.
RealD glasses, at least here in the States, are "disposable" plastic glasses which you can keep. They do, however, use circular polarization instead of linear polarization (which is what is used in the cheap IMAX glasses). Since the circular polarization is angle independant, you can tilt your head. RealD is a single-projector system, since they use a liquid crystal filter in front of the projector to alternate between clockwise (right eye) and counter-clockwise (left eye) polarization.
What you are probably thinking of, in terms of glasses that need to be synchronized, are shutter glasses. These glasses have an LCD filter over each eye that electronically switches from clear to opaque so that each frame is only seen by one eye. Typically they will have IR sensors on them to sync up with the projector, and I've even seen them with built-in speakers for a surround-sound effect. I've only seen them used in the more upscale IMAX 3D theaters in the US, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're using them in regular theaters too.
Nice comment, but
(a) 3D movies have no more (or less) flashing lights than 2D movies
(b) No one reported seizures in 3D showings of Chicken Little, Monster House, Nightmare Before Christmas, Meet the Robinsons, Beowulf, etc.
(c) "Wall*e" is about lovelorn robots, "Up" is about a geriatric superhero
(d) Obama FTW
Did you RTFA? No, I guess not, this is slashdot after all. Anyway, here's your answer:
The new five fiber pair cable system can be expanded up to eight fiber pairs, with each fiber pair capable of carrying up to 960 Gigabits per second (Gbps). By having a high fiber count, Unity is able to offer more capacity at lower unit costs.
So that's 10 strands, expandable to 16. That probably means that the cable itself has 16 strands, but only 10 are lit.
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If you have the latest and greatest hardware, yes, vista is a perfectly fine OS. However, if you try running it on a $300 walmart PC from two years ago you're in for a world of pain. I remember a year ago trying to use the business center in a hotel who had just installed Vista on their PCs (cheap Gateway machines). Starting up Internet Explorer took 6 minutes and nearly crashed the machine, and switching windows would make the machine freeze for 15 seconds. It was completely unusable.
As a geek I run a fairly high-end machine, but all my non-geek friends and relatives are running on machines that are 4-6 years old, and Vista would bring them to their knees. Computing isn't important enough for them to spend $1000 on a new machine every 2 years.
I doubt Sprint doesnt' allow streamin internet radio. On my Sprint Centro, which has a Sprint Firmware, a program is included that not only plays internet radio, but has a huge list of radio stations built in. AT&T specificaly disabled the internet-radio functionality of the included software, so it's clearly doable, but Sprint chose not to.
Sign up for Google Apps, and then you can have all mail sent to me@mydomain.com be handled by GMail. All you have to do is sign up at http://www.google.com/a/ and link your domain. Then point your domain's MX records to aspmx.l.google.com.
In the future, all you have to do in order to get your mail is to go to http://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.com/ instead of http://www.gmail.com (and you can even set it up so that http://mail.mydomain.com CNAMES to your email login page)
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I was referring to the cost of calling a cell phone from a landline, which from my experience in europe was much more expensive than calling another landline. And, to answer your second question, I pay Sprint US$30 a month for 500 daytime minutes, unlimited calls on weekends and between 5pm and 7am on weekdays, unlimited calls between my phone and a single number of my choice, unlimited long distance, unlimited 3G data and tethering, and unlimited text messages. Plus I got a free Palm Centro when I signed up.
In my experience the mobile-party-pays system is MUCH better than the calling-party-pays system.
In the calling-party-pays system, the person paying for calling the cell phone is NOT a customer of the cell phone company. Therefore the cell companies have NO incentive to provide competative rates for incoming calls. If you have to call someone, you aren't going to not call just because they are using company-x.
In the mobile-party-pays system, the person paying is the cell phone owner, who IS a customer of the cell phone company and can shop around or choose a different plan to get better rates. The cell phone companies have a huge incentive to offer competative minute plans since people tend to shop around when buying a phone. Also, because there is no difference in calling a cell phone, this system allows people to abandon their landline phone and use a cell phone only -- no need for two separate bills.
In the US most people have a plan that provides more than enough "free" minutes so that they never get a per minute charge. Plus, the incoming caller ID is displayed before we pick up, so we have the option of rejecting the call and not paying. What is the charge to call a cell phone in a calling-party-pays country? The equivalent of $0.15/minute? On my mobile-party-pays plan I have NEVER come close to going over my allocated minutes, so the marginal cost per minute is $0.00/minute.
In the calling-party-pays system, the person paying for calling the cell phone is NOT a customer of the cell phone company. Therefore the cell companies have NO incentive to provide competative rates for incoming calls. If you have to call someone, you aren't going to not call just because they are using company-x.
In the mobile-party-pays system, the person paying is the cell phone owner, who IS a customer of the cell phone company and can shop around or choose a different plan to get better rates. The cell phone companies have a huge incentive to offer competative minute plans since people tend to shop around when buying a phone. Also, because there is no difference in calling a cell phone, this system allows people to abandon their landline phone and use a cell phone only -- no need for two separate bills.
In the US most people have a plan that provides more than enough "free" minutes so that they never get a per minute charge. What is the charge to call a cell phone in a calling-party-pays country? The equivalent of $0.15/minute? On my mobile-party-pays plan I have NEVER come close to going over my allocated minutes, so the marginal cost per minute is $0.00/minute.
In the calling-party-pays system, the person paying for calling the cell phone is NOT a customer of the cell phone company. Therefore the cell companies have NO incentive to provide competative rates for incoming calls. If you have to call someone, you aren't going to not call just because they are using company-x. In the mobile-party-pays system, the person paying is the cell phone owner, who IS a customer of the cell phone company and can shop around or choose a different plan to get better rates. The cell phone companies have a huge incentive to offer competative minute plans since people tend to shop around when buying a phone. Also, because there is no difference in calling a cell phone, this system allows people to abandon their landline phone and use a cell phone only -- no need for two separate bills. In the US most people have a plan that provides more than enough "free" minutes so that they never get a per minute charge. What is the charge to call a cell phone in a calling-party-pays country? The equivalent of $0.15/minute? On my mobile-party-pays plan I have NEVER come close to going over my allocated minutes, so the marginal cost per minute is $0.00/minute.
Zero-G has a HUGE effect on anything relying on convective cooling. There is no convection in zero-g, so EVERY hot component needs forced air cooling, which you rarely find in a switch.
But they're not entering the corona. From TFA:
I'm not saying 1400 degrees isn't hot, but it's not unmanagable.Maybe it's a minority in terms of numbers, but from looking at the pictures a majority of the mass of this part was not printed. Basically the machine is made up of metal rods, motors, and wires all held together with plastic brackets and metal screws. All the machine made was the plastic brackets.
Maybe it's ready if you are a professional blogger and your business consists of word processing and web browsing, but in an engineering environment there is no way I could ever switch to Linux:
* My company uses Solidworks and Cosmos for CAD and FEA. While Pro/Engineer is available for linux, it is not 100% compatable with Solidworks (imported files cannot be edited parametrically), and SolidWorks does not play well with Wine. Plus my company would never shell out for Pro/E when we already have a SolidWorks site licence. Don't even get me started on Cosmos.
* My company uses proprietary CRM and MRP products for documentation control, inventory tracking, customer conversations sheets, job orders, and purchase reqs. Both systems require hooks into Microsoft Office, so neither play well with Wine. I'm not going to convince the company to switch to open source alternatives, as the migration costs would be astronomical.
The further back from your monitor you are the easier it is. I have to sit about 4 feet from my 19" monitor to be able to see the 3D easily in the cross-eyed one.
I made up a 3D image of the landing leg by combining two of the published pictures. You can clearly see a mount that formed that makes it look like the lander slid as it touched down. The first version is 3D if you cross your eyes, the second version requires red-blue 3D glasses:
http://img294.imageshack.us/my.php?image=phoenixlegstereoug5.jpg
http://i27.tinypic.com/24yyfix.jpg
A fix for that bug was accepted about an hour ago, and should be included in the next build (8.04.1?)
Actually, they had to give 90%, and the school board is working out a deal to bring them back.
See http://www.motorists.org/blog/red-light-cameras/local-school-board-wants-ticket-camera-cash/
RealD glasses, at least here in the States, are "disposable" plastic glasses which you can keep. They do, however, use circular polarization instead of linear polarization (which is what is used in the cheap IMAX glasses). Since the circular polarization is angle independant, you can tilt your head. RealD is a single-projector system, since they use a liquid crystal filter in front of the projector to alternate between clockwise (right eye) and counter-clockwise (left eye) polarization.
What you are probably thinking of, in terms of glasses that need to be synchronized, are shutter glasses. These glasses have an LCD filter over each eye that electronically switches from clear to opaque so that each frame is only seen by one eye. Typically they will have IR sensors on them to sync up with the projector, and I've even seen them with built-in speakers for a surround-sound effect. I've only seen them used in the more upscale IMAX 3D theaters in the US, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're using them in regular theaters too.
Nice comment, but (a) 3D movies have no more (or less) flashing lights than 2D movies (b) No one reported seizures in 3D showings of Chicken Little, Monster House, Nightmare Before Christmas, Meet the Robinsons, Beowulf, etc. (c) "Wall*e" is about lovelorn robots, "Up" is about a geriatric superhero (d) Obama FTW
see http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1220&Itemid=224
Why Did They Feel The Need To Capitalize Every Word In That Article? It Made It Awkward To Read.
They didn't shut if off, they just restricted it to IP addressed belonging to Sprint. I can still access it from my Sprint Treo.
I've seen the orange TeleAtlas vans outfitted with an array of antennas and computers driving down I-290 in Massachusetts. I'm sure they exist.
The link to the EFF in the article is http://slashdot.org/href=, which doesn't work for obvious reasons.
They had over 200 stores, but they closed over half of them in February.