I've used it several times to admin servers. Even over GPRS it works well enough. Obviously it works better over WiFi.
The 8830 is an excellent phone and data device. The only issue I have noticed is the "WiFi Browser" doesn't properly handle unclosed OPTION tags in SELECTs. The "Internet Browser" works fine, though. I don't know why they have both browsers included.
Pre-packaged CMSes are valuable. My problem with them is that, in general, if you want or need to extend them, you have to learn a sub-set of whatever language the CMS is written in. You're not writing a PHP module, you're writing a Drupal module, that if you want to continue to use through various Drupal versions you have to stick closely to the Drupal Way Of Doing Things. I don't have any experience with Joomla, but I imagine it's similar.
Contrast that with something like the Zend Framework. You're still writing PHP, but using ordinary PHP classes that implement useful things. At some level it's basically the same thing as Drupal or Joomla, but IMO the same effort results in a much more flexible application and less likely to break in exciting ways.
(If your needs are fully met by a CMS then it is foolish to reinvent the wheel. The CMSes have already encountered and solved many problems that you'll have to slog through with your homemade application.)
Resist the temptation to make this partisan. Democrats were perfectly willing to vote for the PATRIOT Act and then try to excuse their complicity after the fact. That is not a commendable act.
That's the OP's point. It IS metered, but they advertise it as if it were not. Most cable broadband actually limit you. You're not allowed under whatever "Fair Use" policy they cobbled together to peg your advertised bandwidth 24/7.
I'm using BBSmart's Email Viewer, and it works pretty well. Worth the $24 IMO. There's another that's only $10, but BBSmart's had good reviews. Annoying to spend $24 on something so simple? Sure. But then again, it's just $24.
I don't have much trouble with the Internet Browser on the BB Curve (8320). It works well enough. My biggest problem is my flakey wifi access point.
The BB Curve is a good device. Now if only there were a decent text editor...
Mapquest, as I recall, has something like 50% of the online maps and directions market. Google Maps is somewhere around 25%.
It's pretty clear to me that you don't really know anything and are just sticking up for Google based on raw emotions. Well, good for you, I guess. Me, I'll wait to pass judgement on how awesome an Android phone is until one actually, you know, exists.
It looks like google wants this, and they can make Android a success all by themselves.
Google couldn't make Google Video a success so they gave up and bought YouTube, dumping their paid service.
Google does search pretty well. For now, anyway. With all the focus on these non-search related businesses, I wonder how much longer Google's dominance in search will continue. Anybody else notice that Google doesn't return as many relevant answers as they used to? I now spend a lot more time than I used to tweaking searches to get what I really want and not googletroll sites. The other businesses that Google gets involved with aren't all rousing successes, even when they're intrinsically related to searching, such as Google Maps. Mapquest still dominates that market, IIRC.
Google has a lot of money, but that does not guarantee success. Microsoft has a lot of money too, and they can't even get their search off the ground.
I think part of the point of art is that it cannot be easily defined.
Video games have the potential to be art, I suppose. I'm more inclined to consider the process that produces a game more artistic than the result. But just because art goes into the production does not mean the product is therefore art. Great art went into Revenge of the Sith. The movie is a rotten piece of shit. There is great artistic skill exhausted on advertising, too.
I object to gamers who seem to find art in practically every game. I don't know whether they do this because they are not discerning, or whether they're trying to justify their obsessions by making them more significant than they are.
The plain fact is, people want to vote for a 'winner' and allow the MSM to dictate who that should be.
To be fair, nobody thought McCain was the preeminent Republican nominee. The MSM didn't dictate anything. I did think it was pretty annoying that every interview, article or column always said, "of course, he can't win." But the media didn't christen McCain. They sure didn't christen Huckabee, and he did pretty well with no money.
NWN also lets you get back in a game with your old D&D buddies no matter where they are. NWN 1 has such a low entry barrier these days nearly any laptop can handle it. Add Teamspeak and some good whiskey and you'll have a blast even if you're just playing some random non-DMed module.
It's also nice that your buddies won't be playing on their own and leveling up way beyond the rest of the party.
The problem with a gold standard, or any other commodity based currency, is that it is absolutely limited to your supply of the commodity, so you're essentially doomed to DEflation, and your goods and services are always going to be "cheaper" in actual dollars, but much more expensive in a relative sense.
That's not true at all. As you say, if a new gold mine is discovered, there is more gold to be had. The Spanish ran into this problem when they brought gold home from the New World. To put it in today's terms, the Aztecs were the Federal Reserve. You're not doomed to deflation because we become more efficient to produce goods and services. One of the primary values of a commodity-backed currency is the fact that is stable. Poaching the value of the dollar de-incentivizes people to save. Instead they invest, but investment on a massive scale means a lot of poor investments. If the dollar you saved when you were 20 was worth about the same when you're 60, then you're likely to keep the dollar rather than speculate.
Gold is a convenient commodity on which to base a currency. It worked pretty well in the past. I've seen comparisons where a buck in 1800 was worth a buck-twenty or thereabouts in 1900. But between 1900 and 2000, that buck turned into $20 or so. Our standard of living has increased, too, but the difference in quality of life between 1800 and 1900 was equally staggering.
Your point seems to be that the system is more complex than my goat herd example takes into account. Well, good job, I guess.
Currency inflation is a result of monetary policy. If you have dollars backed by assets it's harder to handwave away the fact that your goat-money doesn't have enough goats behind it to justify the amount of currency you have in circulation. But if you have dollars that are simply markers, which is what we have with fiat money, and if those dollars are ultimately controlled by a single institution, inflation inevitably occurs. The money supply outstripping the supply of goods is more like an effect than a cause. Talking about "the money supply" isn't complete until you account for the fact that the money supply has a distinct source. The Fed inflates because it really can't do anything else. It can't remove money from circulation. It can inflate a little, or it can inflate a lot. This is tied to the fractional reserve banking system, but all of it stems from monetary policy as set by the Fed.
(I suppose theoretically perfect control of the monetary supply is possible so that fiat money is as stable as money backed by assets. In practice it has never occurred. Just have a look at Fed policy today--rate changes at the window is fiddled with to keep the mortgage crisis from exploding. This isn't anything like a free market, it's a reaction to placate the loudest voices. Bankers, investment houses, politicians and the like. It is subsidizing an inefficient allocation of resources. Which is what the Fed's purpose is, when you get down to it. As a "lender of last resort" it helps prevent bad investments from going away and being reallocated more appropriately.)
This is important for the reasons above; cash circulating through the economy creates jobs and stimulates the economy.
That isn't really true. Wealth is generated when assets move from a lower value to a higher value. Money isn't really an asset. (Well, "money" in the strictest sense.) Wealth is created when you take your herd of goats and slaughter a few of them for meat and milk a few of them to make cheese. A herd of goats is valuable; a herd of goats being used for food is more valuable. Money is simply a convenient way to carry your herd of goats around when you want to buy a Nintendo Wii.
When you turn money into an asset in and of itself jobs and economic stimulation does occur. But the inflationary nature of this process leads to a boom-and-bust business cycle. You can't have economic growth through money without monetary inflation. You can't turn money into better money. You can only take money out of GoatCo and put it in CowCo, which gives better dividends or whatever. You're not the only guy doing this, though, so the profits have to come from somewhere. Thus the Fed "prints" more money, and soon milk is selling for $5/gallon.
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I've used it several times to admin servers. Even over GPRS it works well enough. Obviously it works better over WiFi.
The 8830 is an excellent phone and data device. The only issue I have noticed is the "WiFi Browser" doesn't properly handle unclosed OPTION tags in SELECTs. The "Internet Browser" works fine, though. I don't know why they have both browsers included.
You call him "Doctor Jones", doll!
Pre-packaged CMSes are valuable. My problem with them is that, in general, if you want or need to extend them, you have to learn a sub-set of whatever language the CMS is written in. You're not writing a PHP module, you're writing a Drupal module, that if you want to continue to use through various Drupal versions you have to stick closely to the Drupal Way Of Doing Things. I don't have any experience with Joomla, but I imagine it's similar.
Contrast that with something like the Zend Framework. You're still writing PHP, but using ordinary PHP classes that implement useful things. At some level it's basically the same thing as Drupal or Joomla, but IMO the same effort results in a much more flexible application and less likely to break in exciting ways.
(If your needs are fully met by a CMS then it is foolish to reinvent the wheel. The CMSes have already encountered and solved many problems that you'll have to slog through with your homemade application.)
Old school broadband. Latency still sucks, but you can't have everything.
Resist the temptation to make this partisan. Democrats were perfectly willing to vote for the PATRIOT Act and then try to excuse their complicity after the fact. That is not a commendable act.
Well, good for you.
That's the OP's point. It IS metered, but they advertise it as if it were not. Most cable broadband actually limit you. You're not allowed under whatever "Fair Use" policy they cobbled together to peg your advertised bandwidth 24/7.
Display HTML emails in a readable way.
BBSmart's Email Viewer turned that around, but it certainly isn't built-in. The next rev is supposed to address it, though.
Doesn't look so bad in light mode.
Wouldn't you rather have both the money and the Macbook Air?
I'm using BBSmart's Email Viewer, and it works pretty well. Worth the $24 IMO. There's another that's only $10, but BBSmart's had good reviews. Annoying to spend $24 on something so simple? Sure. But then again, it's just $24.
I don't have much trouble with the Internet Browser on the BB Curve (8320). It works well enough. My biggest problem is my flakey wifi access point.
The BB Curve is a good device. Now if only there were a decent text editor...
Mapquest, as I recall, has something like 50% of the online maps and directions market. Google Maps is somewhere around 25%.
It's pretty clear to me that you don't really know anything and are just sticking up for Google based on raw emotions. Well, good for you, I guess. Me, I'll wait to pass judgement on how awesome an Android phone is until one actually, you know, exists.
Google couldn't make Google Video a success so they gave up and bought YouTube, dumping their paid service.
Google does search pretty well. For now, anyway. With all the focus on these non-search related businesses, I wonder how much longer Google's dominance in search will continue. Anybody else notice that Google doesn't return as many relevant answers as they used to? I now spend a lot more time than I used to tweaking searches to get what I really want and not googletroll sites. The other businesses that Google gets involved with aren't all rousing successes, even when they're intrinsically related to searching, such as Google Maps. Mapquest still dominates that market, IIRC.
Google has a lot of money, but that does not guarantee success. Microsoft has a lot of money too, and they can't even get their search off the ground.
Finally, PRODUCT > !PRODUCT, almost every time.
So, a wildly popular handset doesn't look like a future winner, and a completely productless handset does?
You should go into the venture capital business.
I'm sure Apple is worried a lot about something that "looks like" a "potential", "future" winner.
John Sidgemore of UUNet used to talk about using balloons, too. ISPs sell infrastructure; they'll do okay.
I think part of the point of art is that it cannot be easily defined.
Video games have the potential to be art, I suppose. I'm more inclined to consider the process that produces a game more artistic than the result. But just because art goes into the production does not mean the product is therefore art. Great art went into Revenge of the Sith. The movie is a rotten piece of shit. There is great artistic skill exhausted on advertising, too.
I object to gamers who seem to find art in practically every game. I don't know whether they do this because they are not discerning, or whether they're trying to justify their obsessions by making them more significant than they are.
To be fair, nobody thought McCain was the preeminent Republican nominee. The MSM didn't dictate anything. I did think it was pretty annoying that every interview, article or column always said, "of course, he can't win." But the media didn't christen McCain. They sure didn't christen Huckabee, and he did pretty well with no money.
Will the DLT last for 99 years? Or is this a "let the next guy dump them out to holocrystals" thing?
NWN also lets you get back in a game with your old D&D buddies no matter where they are. NWN 1 has such a low entry barrier these days nearly any laptop can handle it. Add Teamspeak and some good whiskey and you'll have a blast even if you're just playing some random non-DMed module.
It's also nice that your buddies won't be playing on their own and leveling up way beyond the rest of the party.
The problem with a gold standard, or any other commodity based currency, is that it is absolutely limited to your supply of the commodity, so you're essentially doomed to DEflation, and your goods and services are always going to be "cheaper" in actual dollars, but much more expensive in a relative sense.
That's not true at all. As you say, if a new gold mine is discovered, there is more gold to be had. The Spanish ran into this problem when they brought gold home from the New World. To put it in today's terms, the Aztecs were the Federal Reserve. You're not doomed to deflation because we become more efficient to produce goods and services. One of the primary values of a commodity-backed currency is the fact that is stable. Poaching the value of the dollar de-incentivizes people to save. Instead they invest, but investment on a massive scale means a lot of poor investments. If the dollar you saved when you were 20 was worth about the same when you're 60, then you're likely to keep the dollar rather than speculate.
Gold is a convenient commodity on which to base a currency. It worked pretty well in the past. I've seen comparisons where a buck in 1800 was worth a buck-twenty or thereabouts in 1900. But between 1900 and 2000, that buck turned into $20 or so. Our standard of living has increased, too, but the difference in quality of life between 1800 and 1900 was equally staggering.
Your point seems to be that the system is more complex than my goat herd example takes into account. Well, good job, I guess.
Currency inflation is a result of monetary policy. If you have dollars backed by assets it's harder to handwave away the fact that your goat-money doesn't have enough goats behind it to justify the amount of currency you have in circulation. But if you have dollars that are simply markers, which is what we have with fiat money, and if those dollars are ultimately controlled by a single institution, inflation inevitably occurs. The money supply outstripping the supply of goods is more like an effect than a cause. Talking about "the money supply" isn't complete until you account for the fact that the money supply has a distinct source. The Fed inflates because it really can't do anything else. It can't remove money from circulation. It can inflate a little, or it can inflate a lot. This is tied to the fractional reserve banking system, but all of it stems from monetary policy as set by the Fed.
(I suppose theoretically perfect control of the monetary supply is possible so that fiat money is as stable as money backed by assets. In practice it has never occurred. Just have a look at Fed policy today--rate changes at the window is fiddled with to keep the mortgage crisis from exploding. This isn't anything like a free market, it's a reaction to placate the loudest voices. Bankers, investment houses, politicians and the like. It is subsidizing an inefficient allocation of resources. Which is what the Fed's purpose is, when you get down to it. As a "lender of last resort" it helps prevent bad investments from going away and being reallocated more appropriately.)
This is important for the reasons above; cash circulating through the economy creates jobs and stimulates the economy.
That isn't really true. Wealth is generated when assets move from a lower value to a higher value. Money isn't really an asset. (Well, "money" in the strictest sense.) Wealth is created when you take your herd of goats and slaughter a few of them for meat and milk a few of them to make cheese. A herd of goats is valuable; a herd of goats being used for food is more valuable. Money is simply a convenient way to carry your herd of goats around when you want to buy a Nintendo Wii.
When you turn money into an asset in and of itself jobs and economic stimulation does occur. But the inflationary nature of this process leads to a boom-and-bust business cycle. You can't have economic growth through money without monetary inflation. You can't turn money into better money. You can only take money out of GoatCo and put it in CowCo, which gives better dividends or whatever. You're not the only guy doing this, though, so the profits have to come from somewhere. Thus the Fed "prints" more money, and soon milk is selling for $5/gallon.
I like how I can't play the Virtual Apple games on Safari.
(To prevent the "game dumping" problem that occurred in the Atari generation.)
More important than people think, especially at the time. I remember 99 Atari games. Granted, they provided exactly 99 worth of entertainment.
There were a lot of junk games, and Nintendo was trying something relatively new--let's not let every dipshit with a PROM burner.