Both GSM and iDEN (the Nextel system) are actually TDMA systems.
Time Division Multiple Access is a strategy for multiplexing radio access rather than a specific standard, though in the US the term TDMA is often used to refer to IS-136/D-AMPS. D-AMPS service is still provided in many parts of the country, by Cingular among others (my dad still has a D-AMPS phone).
Code Division Multiple Access is sort of a standard, except that it's not. Originally, there was IS-95 which everyone (i.e., Sprint and Verizon) supports. Unfortunately, they've put incompatible protocols on top of that such that they're unable to use one another's networks anymore - you cannot roam between networks with CDMA. I used to work at a place that sold cellular data modules, and provisioning CDMA customers always required a flash of the module firmware to support the network (as well as to set the ESN for the module). Of course, all the data functionality is not part of the IS-95 spec, so maybe you could get away with an unflashed handset if you were only interested in making calls. You'd probably lose most of the bells and whistles, though.
GSM is nice because it's made for easy portability of devices - you change SIMs and that's that. CDMA may be "better" from a technical perspective (it seems to attract fanboy zealots), but it suffers from real world implementation issues. Plus, you gotta pay the Qualcomm tax.
I figure the proportion from this study was about 25% of Americans can be considered intellectually curious. Frankly, until I went back to school, most of the people I dealt with on a daily basis weren't intellectually curious. Certainly, I'd say the number was under 25%, and that's with a job in computers (programming and consulting).
It's funny because he's a complete jackass. "Spelt" is a variant past tense of spell going back at least to 1750.
It's not even particularly variant, since it's pretty common to devoice a final (typically) voiced stop; in this instance, it'd be [d] > [t]. It's just an example of a "non-standard" orthographic representation adopted to more closely match the pronunciation in a given dialect.
I'm a grad student in linguistics, and LaTeX makes the things I have to do (using IPA, doing glosses, careful alignments of graphs and figures, nice looking citations of computer code, hell, even drawing syntactic and semantic trees) easier. I've tried Word, OpenOffice, and Abiword - they all suck for what I need in their own particular ways.
LaTeX definitely has a sharp learning curve, but it's worth it. I have a plugin for gVim which helps to automate a lot of rote things (like inserting lists and items, or adding diacriticals to characters).
But I'm a fan of the right tool for the job, too. If something came along that gave me significant advantages I'd probably give it a shot.
Yeah, if you have the need/money/mindset as a company to actually have a mainframe, then you're gonna fork out the money for DB2. Those things are weird and cool, so completely alien to the PC and Unix/Linux world.
Out of curiosity, which version of DB2 were/are you using?
BSDM is fantasy sexual play between consenting adults. It doesn't contain exhortations to go forth and perform said sexual acts on other people without consent; it merely allows people that like that kind of thing to get off. Which is their right and perogative.
I'm not personally into it, in the way that I'm not personally into white power, Christianity, kinitting, having children, gay sex, etc. But people liking any of those things is fine with me. And that's where I have a problem with community standards; people that want the government to regulate other people's consenting adult behavior (say with the sodomy statutes that were recently struck down) or other people's ability to discuss desires and interests, essentially want their particular perversities made law.
How about letting people say what they like? If it's inflammatory and an incitement to violence, then it's illegal because encouraging people to commit violent acts is a crime. But if it's just pictures of tits and men having sex with men, or Adolf Hitler, or a book about why you think Christianity, Islam, and Judiasm are all stupid and evil, then that's fine.
If you don't like the offensive speech, don't listen to it. Otherwise, shut the fuck up. Community standards is just another way of saying that a significantly large group of people can bully everyone else into shutting up about what they want to say.
Great, some people are offended by something on TV. Stop fucking watching TV, or when you see a promo and find out that the show will somehow involve teen sex orgies, don't tune in.
This isn't really a free speech issue. It's a "why is America so full of whiny-ass bitches who thing the whole world ought to cater exclusively to them" issue.
Why isn't there a mod option for "patronizing"?
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You've allowed the scientific achievements to be overshadowed by religious fundamentalism. The average person is neither a fundamentalist nor a scientist, both in the "western" and Islamic worlds (Islam comes from the same part of the world as Christianity and Judiasm, so calling them western as opposed to whatever Islam presumably is seems silly and/or historically illiterate).
Yes, the "muslim world" (again, a useless term in this regard, since it's large and heterogenous; take it to mean the "Arab world", which is still too vague) has fallen from where it once was in terms of intellectual prominence. That's unrelated to either the naure of Islam per-se or to the presence of religious fundamentalists.
Also, nobody's gonna attack you or your family because you post on slashdot. You stupid little bedwetting jackass.
I regularly use LaTex to do my Czech homework; also, being a linguistics student, I frequently use wierd charcters (a fair amount of Russian and German, as well as IPA) in my text. I've never had a problem. I can even get those nice example-gloss-translation blocks that are all lined up without a lot of hassle.
I started out using LyX like some of the other posters here, but I eventually just cut out the middle man and moved to plain LaTeX with vim as an editor. Get latex-suite for vim - it makes things a lot easier and faster. It took a little getting used to, but is now quite simple to use.
Yes, the first few pages only show pictures of the square. But page 3 of the search I saw showed pictures of protest organizers, and page 5 showed pictures of tanks. From domains within china
I don't doubt that the Chinese government would want information about the Tiananmen Square massacre kept quiet. But that search just doesn't show evidence that Google has been complicit in keeping the information out of the hands of the Chinese citizens.
Rather, I think it's mostly a fucnction of what the significance of Tiananmen Square is across cultures. Americans are generally only familiar with the place as the result of the protests and subsequent crackdown. For Chinese, it's an historical place and a center of national pride; it's got more associations to it than just the crackdown.
MySQL is fine for doing websites, or bulletin boards, or dinky little apps. The markets for Oracle and MySQL, though, basically don't overlap at all. Apart from companies which already have a significant infrastructure built to support and maintain Oracle databases, nobody's gonna use Oracle for most of the applications that MySQL is typically used for. More complex business applications require more functionality than MySQL provides. Oracle provides an assload of features, even in the lowest end version of their product, that most people writing the average web app just won't need.
MySQL isn't a competetor for Oracle in the space where Oracle is usually deployed. IBM DB2, MSSQL Server - those are the competetors for Oracle. And probably PostgreSQL is too. It provides a lot of functionality that you'd want in those kinds of applications, and its free. It has the problem, however, of overcoming entrenched attitudes towards 1) anything that's free, and 2) anything that's unfamiliar. Me? I'd use PostgreSQL for those apps, but that's me. Often, there's vendor platoform requirements that'd make that impossible, or management level edicts that prescribe platoforms.
If anything, the purchase of MySQL was intended to soften the image of Oracle and make it appear to be more of a player in the low end. They have (rightly) a reputation for being expensive, and this was probably a ploy at changing that. It's not fear of MySQL's technical prowess.
It's just about a different kind of knowing. There's no need for scientific evidence to know, for example, that you're in love or feeling depressed.
Knowledge has different modalities. It's possible to have knowledge about the world from different perspectives. The difference, though, is that some modes of knowledge have greater success in explaining and predicting given sets of phenomena. Science has done quite well in explaining the nature of the natural world, mostly through a reliance on method.
Another, perhaps more significant characteristic of scientifc knowledge is that it is more open to explicit change over time. Religions change over time as well, but a person that practices a religion (this doesn't go equally for all persons or religions, but is more a general trend) is apt to consider changes to the orthodox tennets of their religion as blasphemy. That's more a facet of human nature than a property of religious thinking, but it does tend to be more prevalent in that area.
How about fact that this suggestion effectively make abortion unavailable to the poor in the state of Texas?
This proposal is a raft of bullshit intended to get votes from Christian conservatives and frightened, reactionary idiots. And no doubt, one significant purpose of this proposal is a backdoor attempt to make abortion unavailable de facto to one segment of the population.
Pro- or anti- abortion, don't ignore the important issue - the videogame tax is a minor part of the significance of the proposal.
That's either utter bullshit or your HR staff is stupid (either is entirely possible, so this isn't stictly speaking an attack on you). Deliberately selecting a group based on ethnicity for hiring/firing is patently illegal. If employment decisions were carried out explicitly based on such recommendations, then the white people would have grounds a very successful lawsuit against your company.
The Dalai Lama is only a leading figure in a particular branch of Buddhism, the Tibetan part of the Vajrayana school. And, FWIW, he supposedly reincarnates because he's the current incarnation of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Bodhisattvas forgo their own enlightenment so help others acheive their own.
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Time Division Multiple Access is a strategy for multiplexing radio access rather than a specific standard, though in the US the term TDMA is often used to refer to IS-136/D-AMPS. D-AMPS service is still provided in many parts of the country, by Cingular among others (my dad still has a D-AMPS phone).
Code Division Multiple Access is sort of a standard, except that it's not. Originally, there was IS-95 which everyone (i.e., Sprint and Verizon) supports. Unfortunately, they've put incompatible protocols on top of that such that they're unable to use one another's networks anymore - you cannot roam between networks with CDMA. I used to work at a place that sold cellular data modules, and provisioning CDMA customers always required a flash of the module firmware to support the network (as well as to set the ESN for the module). Of course, all the data functionality is not part of the IS-95 spec, so maybe you could get away with an unflashed handset if you were only interested in making calls. You'd probably lose most of the bells and whistles, though.
GSM is nice because it's made for easy portability of devices - you change SIMs and that's that. CDMA may be "better" from a technical perspective (it seems to attract fanboy zealots), but it suffers from real world implementation issues. Plus, you gotta pay the Qualcomm tax.
Just an observation.
Yes, I was referring to TMM. And naturally, when posting a comment about spelling, I made a spelling error in the title.
It's funny because he's a complete jackass. "Spelt" is a variant past tense of spell going back at least to 1750.
It's not even particularly variant, since it's pretty common to devoice a final (typically) voiced stop; in this instance, it'd be [d] > [t]. It's just an example of a "non-standard" orthographic representation adopted to more closely match the pronunciation in a given dialect.
FWIW, I couldn't do without LaTeX either.
I'm a grad student in linguistics, and LaTeX makes the things I have to do (using IPA, doing glosses, careful alignments of graphs and figures, nice looking citations of computer code, hell, even drawing syntactic and semantic trees) easier. I've tried Word, OpenOffice, and Abiword - they all suck for what I need in their own particular ways.
LaTeX definitely has a sharp learning curve, but it's worth it. I have a plugin for gVim which helps to automate a lot of rote things (like inserting lists and items, or adding diacriticals to characters).
But I'm a fan of the right tool for the job, too. If something came along that gave me significant advantages I'd probably give it a shot.
The fact that you'd have to consider such a kluge should really make you reconsider your choice of databases.
Yeah, if you have the need/money/mindset as a company to actually have a mainframe, then you're gonna fork out the money for DB2. Those things are weird and cool, so completely alien to the PC and Unix/Linux world.
Out of curiosity, which version of DB2 were/are you using?
You might adopt different strategies in code to deal with storage layers that supported different levels of transactionality or locking atomicity.
I'm not personally into it, in the way that I'm not personally into white power, Christianity, kinitting, having children, gay sex, etc. But people liking any of those things is fine with me. And that's where I have a problem with community standards; people that want the government to regulate other people's consenting adult behavior (say with the sodomy statutes that were recently struck down) or other people's ability to discuss desires and interests, essentially want their particular perversities made law.
If you don't like the offensive speech, don't listen to it. Otherwise, shut the fuck up. Community standards is just another way of saying that a significantly large group of people can bully everyone else into shutting up about what they want to say.
More likely, however, is that your argument is stupid.
This isn't really a free speech issue. It's a "why is America so full of whiny-ass bitches who thing the whole world ought to cater exclusively to them" issue.
Yes, the "muslim world" (again, a useless term in this regard, since it's large and heterogenous; take it to mean the "Arab world", which is still too vague) has fallen from where it once was in terms of intellectual prominence. That's unrelated to either the naure of Islam per-se or to the presence of religious fundamentalists.
Also, nobody's gonna attack you or your family because you post on slashdot. You stupid little bedwetting jackass.
I started out using LyX like some of the other posters here, but I eventually just cut out the middle man and moved to plain LaTeX with vim as an editor. Get latex-suite for vim - it makes things a lot easier and faster. It took a little getting used to, but is now quite simple to use.
The page you linked to is the R700. This article is a review of the R800.
It's not a CoreDuo bug. It's a Microsoft driver bug. The CoreDuo doen't have any problem, just the software which was written to support it.
I'd give you mod points if I could.
I haven't; kindly post a URL for these benchmarks so I can see.
I don't doubt that the Chinese government would want information about the Tiananmen Square massacre kept quiet. But that search just doesn't show evidence that Google has been complicit in keeping the information out of the hands of the Chinese citizens.
Rather, I think it's mostly a fucnction of what the significance of Tiananmen Square is across cultures. Americans are generally only familiar with the place as the result of the protests and subsequent crackdown. For Chinese, it's an historical place and a center of national pride; it's got more associations to it than just the crackdown.
MySQL is fine for doing websites, or bulletin boards, or dinky little apps. The markets for Oracle and MySQL, though, basically don't overlap at all. Apart from companies which already have a significant infrastructure built to support and maintain Oracle databases, nobody's gonna use Oracle for most of the applications that MySQL is typically used for. More complex business applications require more functionality than MySQL provides. Oracle provides an assload of features, even in the lowest end version of their product, that most people writing the average web app just won't need.
MySQL isn't a competetor for Oracle in the space where Oracle is usually deployed. IBM DB2, MSSQL Server - those are the competetors for Oracle. And probably PostgreSQL is too. It provides a lot of functionality that you'd want in those kinds of applications, and its free. It has the problem, however, of overcoming entrenched attitudes towards 1) anything that's free, and 2) anything that's unfamiliar. Me? I'd use PostgreSQL for those apps, but that's me. Often, there's vendor platoform requirements that'd make that impossible, or management level edicts that prescribe platoforms.
If anything, the purchase of MySQL was intended to soften the image of Oracle and make it appear to be more of a player in the low end. They have (rightly) a reputation for being expensive, and this was probably a ploy at changing that. It's not fear of MySQL's technical prowess.
Knowledge has different modalities. It's possible to have knowledge about the world from different perspectives. The difference, though, is that some modes of knowledge have greater success in explaining and predicting given sets of phenomena. Science has done quite well in explaining the nature of the natural world, mostly through a reliance on method.
Another, perhaps more significant characteristic of scientifc knowledge is that it is more open to explicit change over time. Religions change over time as well, but a person that practices a religion (this doesn't go equally for all persons or religions, but is more a general trend) is apt to consider changes to the orthodox tennets of their religion as blasphemy. That's more a facet of human nature than a property of religious thinking, but it does tend to be more prevalent in that area.
That's probably the stupidest fucking thing I've read on Slashdot in a while. You can't nuke an egg with 2 cell phones and a hifi.
Jeezuz. Do you guys read and/or apply a 4 seconds of thought to these things before you post them?
How about fact that this suggestion effectively make abortion unavailable to the poor in the state of Texas?
This proposal is a raft of bullshit intended to get votes from Christian conservatives and frightened, reactionary idiots. And no doubt, one significant purpose of this proposal is a backdoor attempt to make abortion unavailable de facto to one segment of the population.
Pro- or anti- abortion, don't ignore the important issue - the videogame tax is a minor part of the significance of the proposal.
That's either utter bullshit or your HR staff is stupid (either is entirely possible, so this isn't stictly speaking an attack on you). Deliberately selecting a group based on ethnicity for hiring/firing is patently illegal. If employment decisions were carried out explicitly based on such recommendations, then the white people would have grounds a very successful lawsuit against your company.
The Dalai Lama is only a leading figure in a particular branch of Buddhism, the Tibetan part of the Vajrayana school. And, FWIW, he supposedly reincarnates because he's the current incarnation of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Bodhisattvas forgo their own enlightenment so help others acheive their own.