The benefit of stuffing your head before an exam is primarily that having known something once, reading up on it later will be much easier. This applies to most kinds of exams/certificates.
Personally, the combination of insights that "I'm supposed to know this", and "this sounds familiar", translates into a much quicker learning curve the second time over.
Brings me back to the summer of 2001, when my friends and I went on a road trip for a few weeks. In the vehicle we had a setup consisting of:
* 5 laptops * 802.11b network * 1 GPRS cell phone (~20 kBit, and free of charge at that time) * 1 Bluetooth card in one of the laptops, interfacing the cell phone.
So in essence all but one of the laptops relied on three separate radio links: WLAN to the gateway, bluetooth from the gateway to the cell phone, and GPRS/GSM to the "net". Funny thing was it actually worked surprisingly well.
We didn't do any serious latency or throughput tests, but everybody was able to use IM and email, and the more patient of us could even browse the net.
In many European countries, yes we are. Nativity is about 1.2 children per woman here in Sweden, and IIRC approximately the same in Germany for instance.
If Java is an option there are plenty of phones out there that support J2ME to some extent. However, to be able to do serious stuff, like TCP/IP you need a J2ME with MIDP 2.0, which is still quite rare.
Preventing you from doing a clean room re-implementation is absurd. They have in practice obtained even stronger protection than a patent would give them through this license, since they
(a) prevent you from replicating their ideas (b) prevent you from seeing their implementation
Ordinary patent law gives you the option of choosing one of the above. You either reveal what you've done in your patent application, and in return get protection for n years, or you keep everything secret by not applying for a patent, but instead get no protection.
I'd have a very hard time seeing how they could possibly limit my rights like that in Europe. (But then, as far as I understand it, EULAs are in general not valid here at all)
I'm curious as to how the American ISP market works. See, here in Scandinavia, dial up internet accounts have been free for years now.
That does however not include line usage, so you're still stuck with your telco's minute charge. In fact, there are (as far as I know) nobody selling "free" online hours with the service.
In central Europe, however, bundling a number of hours, or even an infinite number of hours, together with the service seems to be commonplace.
This is not a big issue here anymore, as DSL is now available for the vast majority of the population. Not like two years ago when I had to fight for my right to an internet service that was not charged per minute.
Actually, that's how Stewie in "Family Guy" got both his football shaped head, and his british accent. I believe it was in that episode when Brian and Stewie get glued together.
No, the p800 uses UIQ instead of Series 60.
They are both based on Symbian 7, but while Series 60 is mostly a cell phone UI adapted for PDA use, UIQ feels more like a PDA with a cell phone extension.
I'm sticking with GSM/GPRS for a few more years. We now have pretty much 100% GPRS-coverage in Sweden, and it works very well. Together with WAP it is quite a decent solution.
My phone is rated at 48kbps, and lives up to its promises. Personally, I'd rather have a stable 48kbps than a flaky 376 kbps.
Data rates has got to come down further. I get 3MB free and then pay 19 SEK (~2.1 EUR) for every additional MB, which certainly does not allow for web surfing.
I am fairly sure these guys used to run a company called Locomo here in Stockholm, that did Akamai-style hosting.
I am also fairly sure they went bankrupt.
Living la vida Locomo.
What would be good would be a browser that could work out what was interesting, and strip out all the rest. This is a nontrivial requirement though, and maybe I will just have to restrict my browsing to those sites that I know to be set up for my small screen.
This is exactly what XML could be really useful for, in theory. In the best of worlds proper content markup would enable you to browse your material in whatever way you wanted.
Sadly, McLuhan's ideas makes this pure utopia. The medium and presentation greatly affect the content in most situations, which make machine interpretation of whats "interesting" extremely difficult. We're shooting at a very moving target.
An example: The New York Times is excellent to read from dead trees. It also transfers reasonably to high resolution screens, but as everybody knows, reading long articles online just isn't as pleasant. Now transferring it to my 1.25" cell phone screen just isn't gonna cut it at all. Too many words, too little information.
The only papers that have been even remotely successful in going WAP here in Sweden are the tabloids. They write short pieces that convert well into a handful of WAP cards.
Oops, there I go rambling again.
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The benefit of stuffing your head before an exam is primarily that having known something once, reading up on it later will be much easier. This applies to most kinds of exams/certificates.
Personally, the combination of insights that "I'm supposed to know this", and "this sounds familiar", translates into a much quicker learning curve the second time over.
No, it inteprets "in" as inches, and the output defaults to SI. So it's correct.
Brings me back to the summer of 2001, when my friends and I went on a road trip for a few weeks. In the vehicle we had a setup consisting of:
* 5 laptops
* 802.11b network
* 1 GPRS cell phone (~20 kBit, and free of charge at that time)
* 1 Bluetooth card in one of the laptops, interfacing the cell phone.
So in essence all but one of the laptops relied on three separate radio links: WLAN to the gateway, bluetooth from the gateway to the cell phone, and GPRS/GSM to the "net". Funny thing was it actually worked surprisingly well.
We didn't do any serious latency or throughput tests, but everybody was able to use IM and email, and the more patient of us could even browse the net.
This sounds eerily similar to Orlok.
In many European countries, yes we are. Nativity is about 1.2 children per woman here in Sweden, and IIRC approximately the same in Germany for instance.
If Java is an option there are plenty of phones out there that support J2ME to some extent. However, to be able to do serious stuff, like TCP/IP you need a J2ME with MIDP 2.0, which is still quite rare.
It's only on /. that you can find a line like "She's a chick" moderated as "Informative".
Yeah, not to mention OS/2!
No, you're thinking about scammers, with a c.
OO.org has apparently been translated to Bork!
Nah, most likely you're browsing at a +5 threshold... :)
Is a license like that actually valid in the US?
Preventing you from doing a clean room re-implementation is absurd. They have in practice obtained even stronger protection than a patent would give them through this license, since they
(a) prevent you from replicating their ideas
(b) prevent you from seeing their implementation
Ordinary patent law gives you the option of choosing one of the above. You either reveal what you've done in your patent application, and in return get protection for n years, or you keep everything secret by not applying for a patent, but instead get no protection.
I'd have a very hard time seeing how they could possibly limit my rights like that in Europe. (But then, as far as I understand it, EULAs are in general not valid here at all)
Well, now that you have Java, why not just use Jython?
(Jython is a Python interpreter written in Java)
I'm curious as to how the American ISP market works. See, here in Scandinavia, dial up internet accounts have been free for years now.
That does however not include line usage, so you're still stuck with your telco's minute charge. In fact, there are (as far as I know) nobody selling "free" online hours with the service.
In central Europe, however, bundling a number of hours, or even an infinite number of hours, together with the service seems to be commonplace.
This is not a big issue here anymore, as DSL is now available for the vast majority of the population. Not like two years ago when I had to fight for my right to an internet service that was not charged per minute.
So how's the (average) situation in the USA?
All it needs now is a better text editor...
I HEARD THAT!
Actually, that's how Stewie in "Family Guy" got both his football shaped head, and his british accent. I believe it was in that episode when Brian and Stewie get glued together.
No, the p800 uses UIQ instead of Series 60. They are both based on Symbian 7, but while Series 60 is mostly a cell phone UI adapted for PDA use, UIQ feels more like a PDA with a cell phone extension.
I'm sticking with GSM/GPRS for a few more years. We now have pretty much 100% GPRS-coverage in Sweden, and it works very well. Together with WAP it is quite a decent solution. My phone is rated at 48kbps, and lives up to its promises. Personally, I'd rather have a stable 48kbps than a flaky 376 kbps. Data rates has got to come down further. I get 3MB free and then pay 19 SEK (~2.1 EUR) for every additional MB, which certainly does not allow for web surfing.
Or more formally you could say that you can always get arbitrarily astronomical implications for sufficiently infinitesimal odds of functionality.
I am fairly sure these guys used to run a company called Locomo here in Stockholm, that did Akamai-style hosting. I am also fairly sure they went bankrupt. Living la vida Locomo.
According to a study done at California State University, Slashdot editors post the same story over 100% more times than other editors.
This is exactly what XML could be really useful for, in theory. In the best of worlds proper content markup would enable you to browse your material in whatever way you wanted.
Sadly, McLuhan's ideas makes this pure utopia. The medium and presentation greatly affect the content in most situations, which make machine interpretation of whats "interesting" extremely difficult. We're shooting at a very moving target.
An example: The New York Times is excellent to read from dead trees. It also transfers reasonably to high resolution screens, but as everybody knows, reading long articles online just isn't as pleasant. Now transferring it to my 1.25" cell phone screen just isn't gonna cut it at all. Too many words, too little information.
The only papers that have been even remotely successful in going WAP here in Sweden are the tabloids. They write short pieces that convert well into a handful of WAP cards. Oops, there I go rambling again.
Yellow Dog Linux is dead! Long live Yellow Dog Linux!
Sucker! I've used dual screens for years!