Also a good reason to buy a headset for your phone. Plus, probably not so good to hold a transmitter an inch from your brain.
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He'll be OK then until he gives content to someone else. He probably should "donate" his collection to a public library somehow to get some protection and legitamacy to being a historian.
While a worthy goal, I think its somewhat an impossible task. Much recorded music is not relased in a fashion that he's going to know about it (think about a band selling homemade CDs from a stage). But, if he gets some legitamacy he might be able to get lots of people to donate recordings to him.
Brings up another interesting question: what do the RIAA members do in the way of disaster recovery and historical preservation? Seems to me they have a responsibility to this since they're reaping all the profits from us.
Lastly, precincts in New Mexico gave provisional ballots that will never be counted to as many as 10% of all their voters.
Provisional ballots are given when valid voter registration cannot be determined. It is not common for them to be handed out in fairly large numbers when precincts have been redrawn or there is a large influx of newly registered voters. The point is to let them vote, then the validity of the specific registration will be determined later.
They are not counted on the first pass -- the valid registration votes are counted first. Then, like absentee ballots, the validity of the ballot is determined, then the ballot is counted. In some areas they may not be counted if they don't statistically influence the outcome of the election, and the rules for this are determined by local or state law governing elections. And, remember that "statistically influence" means all ballot issues for that precinct, not just president.
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It's corporate idiocy at its finest. Byte was the only magazine of its kind I think -- I always loved that the cover story would be high level, then drill into great detail. You kept reading until you had enough.
Then, the were bought, discontinued, and my subscription was replaced with "Business 2.0". Bleh. I went through serious remorse over this, but Jerry Pournelle showing up in Dr. Dobbs has made life a little brighter.
CMP bought Byte, although I think its just an on-line "magazine" now...
I find it hard to imagine that criminals in other countries have decided that they don't need an edge over the local law enforcement.
Comparing the US to England and New Zealand might draw us into false conclusions. The disparity of income and culture in the US is much more of a drive of crime than in most other countries, with deadly weapons or otherwise. Societies that are more homogeneous probably have less crime because there are less motivators -- people feel more alike each other and have the same general standard of living.
I'm not a gun owner, but the thought of someone breaking into my house with one is much more of a motivator for me to buy one than lobby for others to not have them.
Police studies indicated you have a vastly increased chance of being killed with a gun if you keep a gun in the house.
This always seems like a silly statistic. It's damn near impossible to be killed with a gun if there isn't one in the house, since it requires someone else bringing one in. I'm more interested in knowing how many intrusions/attacks are prevented if you don't have a gun. If this is much higher than expected it might be a better argument for not having a gun.
* Purchased Compaq in an ill advised grab for market share. Their reason: they wanted Digital's professional services...
I always thought this was a funny reason for HP to purchase Compaq, since a lot of the Digital professional services declined so much once Compaq bought DEC. I know there were still services left, but all the former DEC consultants I knew (and we worked with DEC a lot) started leaving and were disappointed with the merger and working for Compaq.
I believe the "current explanation" (and I wouldn't be the best debater of the argument since I am simply someone who has done some reading on the subject and not someone that is necessarily a proponent of the theories) is that there are certain elements of life which are not possible by random occurrence. The ID theory is not that there is no current explanation, but that there is _no possible_ explanation. Hence, the only way life occurred is by design.
Behe uses molecular chemistry in his book to promote the argument with a number of examples, mostly cascade reactions of one kind of another where the intermediaries are either non-viable for the end result or something that cannot exist in any of the intermediate stages. Some have disproved this through computer models, but these are computer models that have whatever relevance they have (some think none, some think some). Exploring ID through chemistry could point to someone creating life here (God, aliens, "spores from across the galaxy" - whose origin are unknown), or that this is part of a larger cosmic experiment.
Others (and my memory fails me on the specifics) use the balance of matter on an atomic level as their proof. The argument is that the fundamental building blocks of matter exist in mathmatically pure harmony, so the theory would be that "something" created all the primary matter in the first place. ID on this level seems to point to the creation being by God or equivalent, since they made the entire universe.
There is an offshoot of this, of course, that is related to reality itself, and that perhaps we're all part of some cosmic program running its course, simulating life's experience for us all (the "matrix" view of the universe). This implies that at the end we're a program who has run its course, or perhaps we are all part of God, enjoying the experience just like a couple of hours playing Counter Strike.
In reviewing some of the threads of messages in this topic, it's clear to me that a couple of things have collided. Of course, there are the usual people that have made up their mind in absolutes one way or the other and are throwing rocks at each other. I noticed (for the first time) that the "creationists" seem to have attached to the ID theory for the obvious reason that it lets them place "god" as the intellegence behind the design. I think this is unfair to the ID proponents, because they are not really advancing creationism by God but a form of creationism in a generic sense. And, many of them think some day the explanation will become clearer, as you point out. Even in Behe's book he points out that he is Catholic, but that he offers no explanation as to the designer since it can only be speculation at this point.
There's another level on this, which is how could the eye evolve on a cellular/chemical level? While there are a lot of chemical processes that are light sensitive, the specific chain of chemical events in the eye are a multi-step process that is difficult to imagine evolving, since any of the intermediate steps are worthless to the process. The analogy is to place eggs, flour, and sugar next to a geyser and come back and find a donut sitting there.
The components of the eye, while complex, could evolve from more rudimentary components. But the chemistry of the eye has no rudimentary components and is a complex chain reaction. Other body chemistry, like blood clotting, is even more complex.
The article starts off with the cell functioning, and seems to be more about its migration of purpose. Although it is a short, undetailed article, it doesn't address the cellular chemistry which was always the stickier issue with the eye example to me.
(You're not on crack - at least on this point. The complex mechanics of the eye were often thrown out by non-evolutionists as the argument against).
The wikipedia link in the original post contains a lot of the links to details and supporting theories - I recommend it (like all Wikipedia links). Also, the Wiki article references the Behe work (not sure of spelling - the writer of "Darwin's Black Box") which is interesting on the discussion of molecular biology.
Maybe the "intellegent design" was the balance of matter to make an atom work, and now he sits back to see what happens. Why would God waste his time with all that detail work on DNA and eyeballs?
I have a hard time believing any person can even imagine what God is trying to do, and an even harder time thinking that man could be his crowning acheivement.
In some ways, "creationists" are trying to hijack the "intellegent design" theories as a back door to getting creationism taught in schools (since their God could be one of the possible designers). But, strictly speaking, intellegent design theory is the exploration of those evolutionary black boxes regardless of who put us here.
And, we all know we got here due to meddling by Q anyway.
Hmmm, the most active article on Slashdot is about football and politics. It doesn't seem like "news for nerds" anymore, it seems more like "news for dorks".
A real nerd doesn't care about politics, since its run by all the popular rich guys that made fun of us all through school.
This is really unfair flaming. I've been using Windows ME ever since I bought a Dell box 4 years ago. I have never seen a BSOD. It locks up randomly without a BSOD. I believe its a feature to remind you to save your documents frequently.
It's also not just about switching to play certain games. People who have had a Mac for a while (and for other reasons) might want to play a game too. Why buy a second machine (as a Mac user) just to play a game? Why buy a copy of Windows (if I have Linux installed) just to play a game?
Part of this has been that the people writing the games probably knew one platform well, and there were tremendous technical hurdles to get the games going on the other machines. While there are still technical hurdles, I would think that there are less of them since the same graphics chips can be bought for multiple platforms now (not that I actually know anything about this). So, it might be interesting to see more of the business case for how many sales it takes to recover the R&D of game porting.
OK, that is clearer to me. I guess since ( at least domestic US) has a few large carriers focused on this (wasn't that the original "U" in "UUNET"?), someone could go after them. Servers could be offshore, I imagine, but it would limit anyone wanting to set up a server since they can't control content posted there.
Or would it be a "common carrier" type issue? Isn't there a legal issue among moderated vs. unmoderated posting? I thought unmoderated made the server a "common carrier", and like the phone company not responsible for illegal activity carried there.
I agree its probably an easy target. For me the mass trading of binariers over NNTP is impractical because of my 192K DSL line!:)
Is shutting USENET down something that is really going to happen? How would this be accomplished outside of blocking NNTP ports?
I understand it might seem old and outdated compared to web pages, but its still a pretty efficient method for posting and chatting with others, particularly when disconnected from the network.
What about companies running their own USENET sites for technical support?
No argument from me. The conversation left me with the impression that they only wanted residential customers (and, non-IT professional probably) for the service. I'm guessing that there is a Windows program that is the official "MSN Premium" activation function, and maybe the router management tools, but there's probably ways around all this.
If you want tech support that does not assume Windows, my experience has been to use more of a business class service than a residential class service. My SDSL service has 4 hour turnaround on problem resolution, they often take care of router setup for me, I have one fixed IP and can get more, and their staff is UNIX and Mac aware. But, this is a small business setup and I'm paying $100 a month for it.
I know that packets are packets, and I want access to that bandwidth at a cheaper rate than SDSL. But, the original post is to a service that seems to be a residential only service, and probably more about video over IP.
I just got off the phone with them -- I'm in Montgomery County and had the same question.
They "beta tested" in the area recently, but have no plans to expand this anymore. They are in roll out in California and Texas (I think Florida also) with plans to run up the east coast "sometime next year" (the person thought end of next year would be reasonable).
While the bandwidth is impressive, this is bundled with something called "MSN Premium" which sounded like a somewhat metered version of the Internet. You have to have a Microsoft Windows machine, and you must have your computer next to the router for a Cat5 cable. If the computer is not next to it, you must have Cat5 cable run "by a qualified Verizon engineer". You also need 100M of disk space on your computer for the software (sounded mostly like IE bundled stuff to control the "experience").
There are 9 Email accounts, there is 10 M web space available if you need to host HTML. Current Verizon DSL customers can "upgrade" with no penalty to their contracts and keeping the same Email accounts. I discussed the merits of Verizon DSL/Fios vs. my current DSL solution (Covad), and he ended his sales pitch as soon as I said I needed fixed IP for a server. The conversation was "why would you use a reseller instead of Verizon directly" and I said "I don't know -- is it the same fixed IP setup for my servers" and he said "Oh, OK".
I was hoping that I could migrate to this, but I'm concerned that they really don't want customers with a server in their home. Any thoughts on this?
so to talk about a free market here we would first have to let anyone who wanted broadcast on any frequency he wanted. if we do this, perhaps it will be ok to talk about a free market in this area.
If you did this, then no one would listen to the radio because it would be nothing but the noise of multiple transmitters on the same frequency. Aside from the public safety uses (police, fire, military, air traffic control), there would be no cell phones, no wireless internet, no commercial radio, no garage door openers, no cordless telephones, etc. etc. etc.
Everyone would transmit on whatever frequency they wanted, and if there was interference they would up the power on their transmitter to overwhelm each other until we could pop our popcorn by holding it out the windows of our metal foil covered homes. If you disagreed with a television or radio show, or wanted to knock out your competitors, you would send a signal out on their frequency to stop them -- giving every individual (and not the government) the power to censure anything they disagreed with.
So, to follow your plan we would not have a free market of programming, we would have no market of programming.
Government regulates radio spectrum because there is a finite amount of space that everyone needs to co-exist in. There are also technical reasons why different frequencies and power limits are there because they propogate differently, have wavelengths that can only carry so much information, and there are health risks to specific power levels and wavelengths. Every government regulates frequencies and they all collaborate because every person who works in the industry understands the technology and its limits and its need for regulation.
So, you can clarify how you would like to see bandwidth allocated as different regulations, but there is no technical argument for no regulation.
I've been using Picasa for a few months - downloaded it as part of the "Hello" service to post pictures to my Blogger account.
It's a little picture editor, but it also has some of the picture indexing functions of a product like Adobe Photoshop Album. It's a nice program, particularly for someone that is not really a graphics editor but just wants to clean up some snapshots. The Hello services works well too. They position it as a way to share pictures in an IM kind of way, and the post to Blogger happens by Blogger pretending to be one of your IM friends. Posts a reduced size picture to your blog article and an archive blog entry with the full size picture (you control sizes).
The pictures only serve to a blogspot domain site, I believe, so you can't use it to post pictures and then access them from another site.
Some limits, but it works well and is a nice quick solution for some needs.
4 G od HD space on a PDA isn't very 2002, is it?:-)
Not being Japanese it's hard for me to comment on how well this fits into their perception of a modern device on the wireless angle. But, I think the 4G of storage needs to be considered since much of our perception of the storage space on a PDA is related to all the data stored in that RAM for current products. If the 64M RAM and 16 M ROM is just OS and swap, this is more than enough for a Linux based device. I'm sure many readers have run a network Email server using a 16M RAM motherboard around here.
BPL will bring communications on par or better than amateur radio to the areas in which it's deployed. You won't need a license to use it, and you can do much more with it.
So long as it doesn't interfere with emergency freqs, it's a net gain.
And it will only cost you 59.99 a month. And be down in a storm. Or when the power is out. But you get lots of free porn. And you can play Counter-Strike.
And they'll put in that filter so it only interferes with ham bands, and not the 95% of the other things in those same parts of the spectrum.
Hmmm, and they use DSL to get the Internet to the last mile where it connects to the power wires to get into your house. I wonder why they don't connect it to that same phone cable that's already running into your house?
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Also a good reason to buy a headset for your phone. Plus, probably not so good to hold a transmitter an inch from your brain.
He'll be OK then until he gives content to someone else. He probably should "donate" his collection to a public library somehow to get some protection and legitamacy to being a historian.
While a worthy goal, I think its somewhat an impossible task. Much recorded music is not relased in a fashion that he's going to know about it (think about a band selling homemade CDs from a stage). But, if he gets some legitamacy he might be able to get lots of people to donate recordings to him.
Brings up another interesting question: what do the RIAA members do in the way of disaster recovery and historical preservation? Seems to me they have a responsibility to this since they're reaping all the profits from us.
Sure would like to read it:
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Yes! It's like Pac Man without patterns. Just reflex baby!
Provisional ballots are given when valid voter registration cannot be determined. It is not common for them to be handed out in fairly large numbers when precincts have been redrawn or there is a large influx of newly registered voters. The point is to let them vote, then the validity of the specific registration will be determined later.
They are not counted on the first pass -- the valid registration votes are counted first. Then, like absentee ballots, the validity of the ballot is determined, then the ballot is counted. In some areas they may not be counted if they don't statistically influence the outcome of the election, and the rules for this are determined by local or state law governing elections. And, remember that "statistically influence" means all ballot issues for that precinct, not just president.
It's corporate idiocy at its finest. Byte was the only magazine of its kind I think -- I always loved that the cover story would be high level, then drill into great detail. You kept reading until you had enough.
Then, the were bought, discontinued, and my subscription was replaced with "Business 2.0". Bleh. I went through serious remorse over this, but Jerry Pournelle showing up in Dr. Dobbs has made life a little brighter.
CMP bought Byte, although I think its just an on-line "magazine" now...
I find it hard to imagine that criminals in other countries have decided that they don't need an edge over the local law enforcement.
Comparing the US to England and New Zealand might draw us into false conclusions. The disparity of income and culture in the US is much more of a drive of crime than in most other countries, with deadly weapons or otherwise. Societies that are more homogeneous probably have less crime because there are less motivators -- people feel more alike each other and have the same general standard of living.
I'm not a gun owner, but the thought of someone breaking into my house with one is much more of a motivator for me to buy one than lobby for others to not have them.
I always thought this was a funny reason for HP to purchase Compaq, since a lot of the Digital professional services declined so much once Compaq bought DEC. I know there were still services left, but all the former DEC consultants I knew (and we worked with DEC a lot) started leaving and were disappointed with the merger and working for Compaq.
I believe the "current explanation" (and I wouldn't be the best debater of the argument since I am simply someone who has done some reading on the subject and not someone that is necessarily a proponent of the theories) is that there are certain elements of life which are not possible by random occurrence. The ID theory is not that there is no current explanation, but that there is _no possible_ explanation. Hence, the only way life occurred is by design.
Behe uses molecular chemistry in his book to promote the argument with a number of examples, mostly cascade reactions of one kind of another where the intermediaries are either non-viable for the end result or something that cannot exist in any of the intermediate stages. Some have disproved this through computer models, but these are computer models that have whatever relevance they have (some think none, some think some). Exploring ID through chemistry could point to someone creating life here (God, aliens, "spores from across the galaxy" - whose origin are unknown), or that this is part of a larger cosmic experiment.
Others (and my memory fails me on the specifics) use the balance of matter on an atomic level as their proof. The argument is that the fundamental building blocks of matter exist in mathmatically pure harmony, so the theory would be that "something" created all the primary matter in the first place. ID on this level seems to point to the creation being by God or equivalent, since they made the entire universe.
There is an offshoot of this, of course, that is related to reality itself, and that perhaps we're all part of some cosmic program running its course, simulating life's experience for us all (the "matrix" view of the universe). This implies that at the end we're a program who has run its course, or perhaps we are all part of God, enjoying the experience just like a couple of hours playing Counter Strike.
In reviewing some of the threads of messages in this topic, it's clear to me that a couple of things have collided. Of course, there are the usual people that have made up their mind in absolutes one way or the other and are throwing rocks at each other. I noticed (for the first time) that the "creationists" seem to have attached to the ID theory for the obvious reason that it lets them place "god" as the intellegence behind the design. I think this is unfair to the ID proponents, because they are not really advancing creationism by God but a form of creationism in a generic sense. And, many of them think some day the explanation will become clearer, as you point out. Even in Behe's book he points out that he is Catholic, but that he offers no explanation as to the designer since it can only be speculation at this point.
There's another level on this, which is how could the eye evolve on a cellular/chemical level? While there are a lot of chemical processes that are light sensitive, the specific chain of chemical events in the eye are a multi-step process that is difficult to imagine evolving, since any of the intermediate steps are worthless to the process. The analogy is to place eggs, flour, and sugar next to a geyser and come back and find a donut sitting there.
The components of the eye, while complex, could evolve from more rudimentary components. But the chemistry of the eye has no rudimentary components and is a complex chain reaction. Other body chemistry, like blood clotting, is even more complex.
The article starts off with the cell functioning, and seems to be more about its migration of purpose. Although it is a short, undetailed article, it doesn't address the cellular chemistry which was always the stickier issue with the eye example to me.
(You're not on crack - at least on this point. The complex mechanics of the eye were often thrown out by non-evolutionists as the argument against).
The wikipedia link in the original post contains a lot of the links to details and supporting theories - I recommend it (like all Wikipedia links). Also, the Wiki article references the Behe work (not sure of spelling - the writer of "Darwin's Black Box") which is interesting on the discussion of molecular biology.
Maybe the "intellegent design" was the balance of matter to make an atom work, and now he sits back to see what happens. Why would God waste his time with all that detail work on DNA and eyeballs?
I have a hard time believing any person can even imagine what God is trying to do, and an even harder time thinking that man could be his crowning acheivement.
In some ways, "creationists" are trying to hijack the "intellegent design" theories as a back door to getting creationism taught in schools (since their God could be one of the possible designers). But, strictly speaking, intellegent design theory is the exploration of those evolutionary black boxes regardless of who put us here.
And, we all know we got here due to meddling by Q anyway.
Hmmm, the most active article on Slashdot is about football and politics. It doesn't seem like "news for nerds" anymore, it seems more like "news for dorks".
A real nerd doesn't care about politics, since its run by all the popular rich guys that made fun of us all through school.
This is really unfair flaming. I've been using Windows ME ever since I bought a Dell box 4 years ago. I have never seen a BSOD. It locks up randomly without a BSOD. I believe its a feature to remind you to save your documents frequently.
It's also not just about switching to play certain games. People who have had a Mac for a while (and for other reasons) might want to play a game too. Why buy a second machine (as a Mac user) just to play a game? Why buy a copy of Windows (if I have Linux installed) just to play a game?
Part of this has been that the people writing the games probably knew one platform well, and there were tremendous technical hurdles to get the games going on the other machines. While there are still technical hurdles, I would think that there are less of them since the same graphics chips can be bought for multiple platforms now (not that I actually know anything about this). So, it might be interesting to see more of the business case for how many sales it takes to recover the R&D of game porting.
OK, that is clearer to me. I guess since ( at least domestic US) has a few large carriers focused on this (wasn't that the original "U" in "UUNET"?), someone could go after them. Servers could be offshore, I imagine, but it would limit anyone wanting to set up a server since they can't control content posted there.
:)
Or would it be a "common carrier" type issue? Isn't there a legal issue among moderated vs. unmoderated posting? I thought unmoderated made the server a "common carrier", and like the phone company not responsible for illegal activity carried there.
I agree its probably an easy target. For me the mass trading of binariers over NNTP is impractical because of my 192K DSL line!
Is shutting USENET down something that is really going to happen? How would this be accomplished outside of blocking NNTP ports?
I understand it might seem old and outdated compared to web pages, but its still a pretty efficient method for posting and chatting with others, particularly when disconnected from the network.
What about companies running their own USENET sites for technical support?
No argument from me. The conversation left me with the impression that they only wanted residential customers (and, non-IT professional probably) for the service. I'm guessing that there is a Windows program that is the official "MSN Premium" activation function, and maybe the router management tools, but there's probably ways around all this.
If you want tech support that does not assume Windows, my experience has been to use more of a business class service than a residential class service. My SDSL service has 4 hour turnaround on problem resolution, they often take care of router setup for me, I have one fixed IP and can get more, and their staff is UNIX and Mac aware. But, this is a small business setup and I'm paying $100 a month for it.
I know that packets are packets, and I want access to that bandwidth at a cheaper rate than SDSL. But, the original post is to a service that seems to be a residential only service, and probably more about video over IP.
More than Slashdotted....
www.sftalk.com Temporarily Unavailable
This account has surpassed its bandwidth allocation at the present time. You may reach the account administrator at www@www.sftalk.com
I just got off the phone with them -- I'm in Montgomery County and had the same question.
They "beta tested" in the area recently, but have no plans to expand this anymore. They are in roll out in California and Texas (I think Florida also) with plans to run up the east coast "sometime next year" (the person thought end of next year would be reasonable).
While the bandwidth is impressive, this is bundled with something called "MSN Premium" which sounded like a somewhat metered version of the Internet. You have to have a Microsoft Windows machine, and you must have your computer next to the router for a Cat5 cable. If the computer is not next to it, you must have Cat5 cable run "by a qualified Verizon engineer". You also need 100M of disk space on your computer for the software (sounded mostly like IE bundled stuff to control the "experience").
There are 9 Email accounts, there is 10 M web space available if you need to host HTML. Current Verizon DSL customers can "upgrade" with no penalty to their contracts and keeping the same Email accounts. I discussed the merits of Verizon DSL/Fios vs. my current DSL solution (Covad), and he ended his sales pitch as soon as I said I needed fixed IP for a server. The conversation was "why would you use a reseller instead of Verizon directly" and I said "I don't know -- is it the same fixed IP setup for my servers" and he said "Oh, OK".
I was hoping that I could migrate to this, but I'm concerned that they really don't want customers with a server in their home. Any thoughts on this?
If you did this, then no one would listen to the radio because it would be nothing but the noise of multiple transmitters on the same frequency. Aside from the public safety uses (police, fire, military, air traffic control), there would be no cell phones, no wireless internet, no commercial radio, no garage door openers, no cordless telephones, etc. etc. etc.
Everyone would transmit on whatever frequency they wanted, and if there was interference they would up the power on their transmitter to overwhelm each other until we could pop our popcorn by holding it out the windows of our metal foil covered homes. If you disagreed with a television or radio show, or wanted to knock out your competitors, you would send a signal out on their frequency to stop them -- giving every individual (and not the government) the power to censure anything they disagreed with.
So, to follow your plan we would not have a free market of programming, we would have no market of programming.
Government regulates radio spectrum because there is a finite amount of space that everyone needs to co-exist in. There are also technical reasons why different frequencies and power limits are there because they propogate differently, have wavelengths that can only carry so much information, and there are health risks to specific power levels and wavelengths. Every government regulates frequencies and they all collaborate because every person who works in the industry understands the technology and its limits and its need for regulation.
So, you can clarify how you would like to see bandwidth allocated as different regulations, but there is no technical argument for no regulation.
It's good, no doubt. Except it doesn't work at all on my Solaris box, and I can't find an OpenVMS driver anywhere.
And where's the Palm OS install kit for WTS so I can reboot from outside the building?
I've been using Picasa for a few months - downloaded it as part of the "Hello" service to post pictures to my Blogger account.
It's a little picture editor, but it also has some of the picture indexing functions of a product like Adobe Photoshop Album. It's a nice program, particularly for someone that is not really a graphics editor but just wants to clean up some snapshots. The Hello services works well too. They position it as a way to share pictures in an IM kind of way, and the post to Blogger happens by Blogger pretending to be one of your IM friends. Posts a reduced size picture to your blog article and an archive blog entry with the full size picture (you control sizes).
The pictures only serve to a blogspot domain site, I believe, so you can't use it to post pictures and then access them from another site.
Some limits, but it works well and is a nice quick solution for some needs.
4 G od HD space on a PDA isn't very 2002, is it? :-)
Not being Japanese it's hard for me to comment on how well this fits into their perception of a modern device on the wireless angle. But, I think the 4G of storage needs to be considered since much of our perception of the storage space on a PDA is related to all the data stored in that RAM for current products. If the 64M RAM and 16 M ROM is just OS and swap, this is more than enough for a Linux based device. I'm sure many readers have run a network Email server using a 16M RAM motherboard around here.
And it will only cost you 59.99 a month. And be down in a storm. Or when the power is out. But you get lots of free porn. And you can play Counter-Strike.
And they'll put in that filter so it only interferes with ham bands, and not the 95% of the other things in those same parts of the spectrum.
Hmmm, and they use DSL to get the Internet to the last mile where it connects to the power wires to get into your house. I wonder why they don't connect it to that same phone cable that's already running into your house?