I recently sold my Vaio after owning it for less than a year. Memory had problems, seemed slow and just did not live up to expectations. I recently bought a Mac PowerBook G4, my first Mac laptop and I am extremely pleased with it. Airport Extreme 802.11G works flawlessly with my Linksys router using the G standard, I have Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, PhP and host of other apps installed all working flawlessly. If you're looking for a great UI with unix under the hood look no further.
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Shuttle Politics
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With regards to "There's also an interesting piece on testimony given by the first Shuttle program manager.", the author of this op ed is well known for wanting to scrap all human in space activities. This should be considered when reading the article.
I submitted this story late last night from the source that broke the story and which contains more details than anywhere else and what does Slashdot do? They rejected it. Now I see it posted from other sources with less details. Go figure!
From a technical perspective it appears that CDMA etc is making inroads on GSM and that indeed Europe is having some major problems with 3G. But what about the content providers? The article says that NTT "DoCoMo's name is mud" in Japan. This is simply not true. My company creates original online content, and at this time we are looking to expand into the mobile market. I recently returned went to Japan and Europe to evaluate how consumers in these two area are using their mobile phones to access content. In Europe, depending on where you are I noticed that fewer people were accessing content from their phones than in Japan. I also noticed much less phone usage than in Japan. While the mobile content market in Europe is just beginning to mature it is quite mature in Japan. I was astonished how many people used their phones to surf the web in Japan. I had one of these phone with DoCoMo service and I was extremely pleased with it. It is true DoCoMo has had problems with their 3G service and that their competitors are making inroads but from the content provider perspective I was excited at the thought of entering this market. For one thing they have an established business model for providers that WORKS. Content providers are making money in Japan. Whereas in the states there is no established business model. So while the states may be emerging with better technology it is still behind in the content business.
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I recently sold my Vaio after owning it for less than a year. Memory had problems, seemed slow and just did not live up to expectations. I recently bought a Mac PowerBook G4, my first Mac laptop and I am extremely pleased with it. Airport Extreme 802.11G works flawlessly with my Linksys router using the G standard, I have Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, PhP and host of other apps installed all working flawlessly. If you're looking for a great UI with unix under the hood look no further.
With regards to "There's also an interesting piece on testimony given by the first Shuttle program manager.", the author of this op ed is well known for wanting to scrap all human in space activities. This should be considered when reading the article.
I submitted this story late last night from the source that broke the story and which contains more details than anywhere else and what does Slashdot do? They rejected it. Now I see it posted from other sources with less details. Go figure!
From a technical perspective it appears that CDMA etc is making inroads on GSM and that indeed Europe is having some major problems with 3G. But what about the content providers? The article says that NTT "DoCoMo's name is mud" in Japan. This is simply not true. My company creates original online content, and at this time we are looking to expand into the mobile market. I recently returned went to Japan and Europe to evaluate how consumers in these two area are using their mobile phones to access content. In Europe, depending on where you are I noticed that fewer people were accessing content from their phones than in Japan. I also noticed much less phone usage than in Japan. While the mobile content market in Europe is just beginning to mature it is quite mature in Japan. I was astonished how many people used their phones to surf the web in Japan. I had one of these phone with DoCoMo service and I was extremely pleased with it. It is true DoCoMo has had problems with their 3G service and that their competitors are making inroads but from the content provider perspective I was excited at the thought of entering this market. For one thing they have an established business model for providers that WORKS. Content providers are making money in Japan. Whereas in the states there is no established business model. So while the states may be emerging with better technology it is still behind in the content business.