The 32GG 3GS may be number 1, but the article doesn't mention what sort of market share it takes to claim that spot. I was just in Japan for most of this summer, and I went looking at phones with some Japanese friends. There are just SO many feature-rich phone choices out there from all of the major carriers that no single model really seemed to stand out as a market leader. If the 32GB 3GS got even a small bump in sales, that could have pushed it into first place.
As for the swipe payment option, I expected to see things like Mobile Suica used by lots of people, but it really doesn't seem to be too common yet. Most people still seemed to pay for train and subway trips with regular Suica (or Pasmo, Icoca, etc.) cards in their wallets. It's certainly a cool feature, but it apparently hadn't been adopted by a large part of the population yet.
For most major marathons these days, the timing system depends on each participant wearing a small RFID tag on their shoelaces. At the start line, every runner passes over a mat to calculate their starting delay (from when the gun was fired).
I'm not sure how much different this example is from what you're talking about (since the reader in this case can be much larger than a hand-held wand), but at marathon start lines, there seems to be no problem keeping track of what is probably on the order of a thousand runners per minute.
I think one big problem with the proposed law is that (based on the details from the article) the game's ESRB rating is apparently used to determine its legality for being sold to minors.
But since the ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) is a self-governing organization of game developers, what's to stop them from making a gradual shift in their rating standards to evade the law and sell more games?
You seen those AOL commercials that began to show up a few weeks ago (during the baseball playoffs and world series)?
I never understood why AOL thought it would be a good idea to show a roaring mob of millions of customers outside company headquarters with ideas for "how to improve the Internet." I guess these ads show a pretty accurate picture of their recent status, with that many customers leaving...
What I've read (but I am a violinist, not an engineer...) is that typical OLED displays have a life of about 5-10,000 hours. These folks apparently market a 20,000-hour OLED panel, but I believe that's for the monochrome version. That measurement is the amount of time until the panel display reaches half-brightness, I believe.
Even a 10,000-hour display would give you a decent useful lifetime, but according to
this page, little things like exposure to air, humidity, and temperature extremes can reduce the display's lifetime.
Has any progress been made regarding the life of these displays? Last I heard, the longest these things would last was about a year or two before going too dim to be useful.
Unless Sony is figuring that the early adopters will be people who tend to buy new PDA's quite frequently anyway, and will therefore be willing to get rid of this one once the next generation comes out the following year...
Does anybody know how to make Thunderbird only display messages on an IMAP server that have not been marked as deleted?
I use Thunderbird on my laptop and Outlook on my desktop (have to use it there), and frequently I end up with quite a few messages in my inbox (most of which are deleted) by the time I check my mail again using Thunderbird. There has to be a better solution besides purging all my deleted messages before using Thunderbird every time-- since sometimes I screw up and need to recover deleted messages...
I've looked in the View-Messages-Customize menu option, but there doesn't seem to be a field for the message's IMAP deletion status- any ideas?
What I'd like to know is: which laptop's have the shortest battery life?
My old KDS Valiant (P3-800) laptop is pretty awful for battery life. Even when it was brand new, getting more than about an hour and a half with normal use would require divine intervention. Most of the time, however, it was plugged in, but when I needed the portability, it was not very dependable.
All of the people reporting long battery life so far have been using major-brand machines (Apple, Toshiba, IBM.. all companies with strong repurations for their laptops). But I'd be willing to guess that most other people with cheap-ass laptops like mine have had similar experiences; the rumor is that KDS wanted to cut corners cost-wise, so that used desktop CPU's instead of mobile ones, resulting in shamefully brief battery life and many warm-thigh moments.
SSL wouldn't make a difference in getting around port 25 limitations on people using the SMTP server of their choice. And the concern here is not my own convenience- I'm happy to use the VPN- it'll just be messy for all the established users who are more apprehensive about making changes to the way they are used to operating.
Yeah, I was wondering about this too--- particularly how this is going to work with things like universities. Where I just graduated from, you're only allowed to use their SMTP server if you are either on campus, use the VPN, or are using authentication over SSL from wherever. For everyone off campus, you are expected to use your ISP's SMTP server.... and often, you'd have to anyway, with ISP's blocking outgoing port 25 these days. So how then would a university, for example, implement SPF with people using whatever.edu 'From' addresses, but going through thousands of different ISP-owned SMTP servers?
Surely there's a better solution than to have people change their 'From' address based on who's providing their internet connection at that moment (a real challenge for wireless hotspot users.....), and just keep the Reply-To header constant.
Maybe I understand this wrong-- just wondering how it's all going to work.
I have absolutely no idea how this would be implemented realistically (or if it has, and I'm just an idiot), but I'd also be very impressed if there were a way to have a bridge go in the opposite direction... in other words, you'd be able to set up a miniature cellular tower that would be able to route everything through existing IP networks (through some kind of tunnel) onto the telecom carrier's voice or data network.
I know that this has sort of been discussed before, but what about on a much smaller scale? This would hopefully provide a seamless way to patch up holes in a wireless coverage area in a cost-effective way...
I'm really surprised that they're introducing something like this, so late in the game. Sure, the market for digital music players may be growing fast, but there are a lot of others in this market, too.
There doesn't seem to be any indication of price, but I think they're going to have a hard time grabbing any kind of market share at all unless these things are cheaper than air... since the feature list for the eVic [what kind of name is that, anyway?? short for Victrola?] looks fairly standard, they're going to have to compete mostly on price.
One potentially useful feature would be the recording capabilities, assuming the interface allows live monitoring of levels. The specs mention bitrates for "music" and "voice" recording, but with a 20GB hard drive in there, it would seem reasonable to have the option to record uncompressed as well.
My only question is: If they can't seem to patch their OS fast enough, what makes them think they can keep their AV software up to date?"
... Because there's a lot more pressure to keep AV software updated as fast as possible. If a user is not happy with the way Norton manages their AV updates, they can switch to McAfee with little inconvenience. But Microsoft is under no direct threat if they wait an extra day, delaying an OS patch, since switching operating systems is a much more serious undertaking.
Microsoft clearly has the resources together to put together a good product- look at Office, for example. They're not idiots, and I'm sure they realize the urgency of issuing timely AV updates. If they made that one of their priorities, they could probably do a very good job at it.
How hard would it be for Linksys and other manufacturers to create a random administration password for each access point they sell, and just plant a sticker on the owner's manual containing this password? (or even a sticker on the side of the access point would do, since you're screwed anyway if an unwanted person has physical access to your hardware)
It seems that this would solve some of the problems of access points being so insecure by default...
I know this isn't technically bartering, but this past year, I was a paid computer-fixer for a residential college at my university- I got paid well, too- but the rewards that meant the most to me were the simple thank-you notes that people wrote. Sure, in the course of a year, I ended up with a fair amount of cookies and beer, too... but a short note can convey so much more gratitude.
Most of the time, vows to pay me back with a lunch or dinner have turned out to be empty promises, unfortunately.
"Of course everything was not running very snappy; on their website they warn you: the emulated processor is about 40 times slower than the host processor."
Judging by that rough estimation, you would need a really fast/expensive box to get good speeds with this kind of emulation, so at that point, you're better off buying a real mac.
You don't have to use an Apple mouse on a Mac if you don't want to- OS X treats the right button of a two-button mouse as a control-click, which seems logical enough..
Right on, I guess it's just the difference in how we view these two companies. We're probably more doubtful of Amazon's intentions simply becuase they're in the business of selling stuff directly to us, but I think we might do better to fear the Google Toolbar's data collection more- Google has a lot of very smart people who are paid to recognize trends in huge amounts of data.
Or you could just use something like Firefox, which has its own Google toolbar functionality....
A bass is too big to fit in an extra airline seat. Cello, sure, but not a bass. All my friends who are bass players have these giant indestructible flight cases, and they protect the instrument well enough for it to go down with all the other luggage.
On a more terrestrial note, I believe that both bassists and harpists can get by just fine with station wagons- the old Volvos work well.
This seems like it might be helpful...More and more, I think car-makers are etching it in all kinds of places, like windows as well. But even if the car is ripped apart, I believe the VIN is embossed on enough parts of the car to keep track of it- that's how they identified the truck that was reponsible for carrying the Oklahoma City bomb a few years ago, if I remember right.... just by recovering the rear axle.
...Easy way to generate your very own stream-of-consciousness, free-form, surreal novel! You don't even have to think about what you're typing; at the end of a week, you've got a product you can sell!
I wonder if (with passwords removed) this could become some kind of weird blog subculture- every day, you dump the contents of your keylogger to a web page, for all to read.
for what piece of electronics is really fashionable to the level of clothing or accessories
I think you could argue that cell phones have reached this level, going possibly as far back as the Nokia 8810, which was released a good few years ago. If I remember right, it was the first small, sylish chrome-finished phone on the market, and it became quite the fashion accessory among people who could afford it.
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The 32GG 3GS may be number 1, but the article doesn't mention what sort of market share it takes to claim that spot. I was just in Japan for most of this summer, and I went looking at phones with some Japanese friends. There are just SO many feature-rich phone choices out there from all of the major carriers that no single model really seemed to stand out as a market leader. If the 32GB 3GS got even a small bump in sales, that could have pushed it into first place.
As for the swipe payment option, I expected to see things like Mobile Suica used by lots of people, but it really doesn't seem to be too common yet. Most people still seemed to pay for train and subway trips with regular Suica (or Pasmo, Icoca, etc.) cards in their wallets. It's certainly a cool feature, but it apparently hadn't been adopted by a large part of the population yet.
For most major marathons these days, the timing system depends on each participant wearing a small RFID tag on their shoelaces. At the start line, every runner passes over a mat to calculate their starting delay (from when the gun was fired).
I'm not sure how much different this example is from what you're talking about (since the reader in this case can be much larger than a hand-held wand), but at marathon start lines, there seems to be no problem keeping track of what is probably on the order of a thousand runners per minute.
I think one big problem with the proposed law is that (based on the details from the article) the game's ESRB rating is apparently used to determine its legality for being sold to minors.
But since the ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) is a self-governing organization of game developers, what's to stop them from making a gradual shift in their rating standards to evade the law and sell more games?
You seen those AOL commercials that began to show up a few weeks ago (during the baseball playoffs and world series)?
I never understood why AOL thought it would be a good idea to show a roaring mob of millions of customers outside company headquarters with ideas for "how to improve the Internet." I guess these ads show a pretty accurate picture of their recent status, with that many customers leaving...
a court has now ruled that Diebold wrongfully abused the DMCA
...So wait, is there a way to rightfully abuse the DMCA?
Or does simply using the DMCA count as abuse?
Or... you could use bluetooth instead, and keep the phone in your pocket- no duct tape required.
What I've read (but I am a violinist, not an engineer...) is that typical OLED displays have a life of about 5-10,000 hours. These folks apparently market a 20,000-hour OLED panel, but I believe that's for the monochrome version. That measurement is the amount of time until the panel display reaches half-brightness, I believe.
Even a 10,000-hour display would give you a decent useful lifetime, but according to this page, little things like exposure to air, humidity, and temperature extremes can reduce the display's lifetime.
Has any progress been made regarding the life of these displays? Last I heard, the longest these things would last was about a year or two before going too dim to be useful.
Unless Sony is figuring that the early adopters will be people who tend to buy new PDA's quite frequently anyway, and will therefore be willing to get rid of this one once the next generation comes out the following year...
Does anybody know how to make Thunderbird only display messages on an IMAP server that have not been marked as deleted?
I use Thunderbird on my laptop and Outlook on my desktop (have to use it there), and frequently I end up with quite a few messages in my inbox (most of which are deleted) by the time I check my mail again using Thunderbird. There has to be a better solution besides purging all my deleted messages before using Thunderbird every time-- since sometimes I screw up and need to recover deleted messages...
I've looked in the View-Messages-Customize menu option, but there doesn't seem to be a field for the message's IMAP deletion status- any ideas?
No, my guess is that it is Dunnottar, up in the northeast of Scotland.
What I'd like to know is: which laptop's have the shortest battery life?
My old KDS Valiant (P3-800) laptop is pretty awful for battery life. Even when it was brand new, getting more than about an hour and a half with normal use would require divine intervention. Most of the time, however, it was plugged in, but when I needed the portability, it was not very dependable.
All of the people reporting long battery life so far have been using major-brand machines (Apple, Toshiba, IBM.. all companies with strong repurations for their laptops). But I'd be willing to guess that most other people with cheap-ass laptops like mine have had similar experiences; the rumor is that KDS wanted to cut corners cost-wise, so that used desktop CPU's instead of mobile ones, resulting in shamefully brief battery life and many warm-thigh moments.
SSL wouldn't make a difference in getting around port 25 limitations on people using the SMTP server of their choice. And the concern here is not my own convenience- I'm happy to use the VPN- it'll just be messy for all the established users who are more apprehensive about making changes to the way they are used to operating.
Yeah, I was wondering about this too--- particularly how this is going to work with things like universities. Where I just graduated from, you're only allowed to use their SMTP server if you are either on campus, use the VPN, or are using authentication over SSL from wherever. For everyone off campus, you are expected to use your ISP's SMTP server.... and often, you'd have to anyway, with ISP's blocking outgoing port 25 these days. So how then would a university, for example, implement SPF with people using whatever.edu 'From' addresses, but going through thousands of different ISP-owned SMTP servers?
Surely there's a better solution than to have people change their 'From' address based on who's providing their internet connection at that moment (a real challenge for wireless hotspot users.....), and just keep the Reply-To header constant.
Maybe I understand this wrong-- just wondering how it's all going to work.
I have absolutely no idea how this would be implemented realistically (or if it has, and I'm just an idiot), but I'd also be very impressed if there were a way to have a bridge go in the opposite direction... in other words, you'd be able to set up a miniature cellular tower that would be able to route everything through existing IP networks (through some kind of tunnel) onto the telecom carrier's voice or data network.
I know that this has sort of been discussed before, but what about on a much smaller scale? This would hopefully provide a seamless way to patch up holes in a wireless coverage area in a cost-effective way...
I'm really surprised that they're introducing something like this, so late in the game. Sure, the market for digital music players may be growing fast, but there are a lot of others in this market, too.
There doesn't seem to be any indication of price, but I think they're going to have a hard time grabbing any kind of market share at all unless these things are cheaper than air... since the feature list for the eVic [what kind of name is that, anyway?? short for Victrola?] looks fairly standard, they're going to have to compete mostly on price.
One potentially useful feature would be the recording capabilities, assuming the interface allows live monitoring of levels. The specs mention bitrates for "music" and "voice" recording, but with a 20GB hard drive in there, it would seem reasonable to have the option to record uncompressed as well.
My only question is: If they can't seem to patch their OS fast enough, what makes them think they can keep their AV software up to date?"
... Because there's a lot more pressure to keep AV software updated as fast as possible. If a user is not happy with the way Norton manages their AV updates, they can switch to McAfee with little inconvenience. But Microsoft is under no direct threat if they wait an extra day, delaying an OS patch, since switching operating systems is a much more serious undertaking.
Microsoft clearly has the resources together to put together a good product- look at Office, for example. They're not idiots, and I'm sure they realize the urgency of issuing timely AV updates. If they made that one of their priorities, they could probably do a very good job at it.
How hard would it be for Linksys and other manufacturers to create a random administration password for each access point they sell, and just plant a sticker on the owner's manual containing this password? (or even a sticker on the side of the access point would do, since you're screwed anyway if an unwanted person has physical access to your hardware)
It seems that this would solve some of the problems of access points being so insecure by default...
I know this isn't technically bartering, but this past year, I was a paid computer-fixer for a residential college at my university- I got paid well, too- but the rewards that meant the most to me were the simple thank-you notes that people wrote. Sure, in the course of a year, I ended up with a fair amount of cookies and beer, too... but a short note can convey so much more gratitude.
Most of the time, vows to pay me back with a lunch or dinner have turned out to be empty promises, unfortunately.
According to the article...
"Of course everything was not running very snappy; on their website they warn you: the emulated processor is about 40 times slower than the host processor."
Judging by that rough estimation, you would need a really fast/expensive box to get good speeds with this kind of emulation, so at that point, you're better off buying a real mac.
You don't have to use an Apple mouse on a Mac if you don't want to- OS X treats the right button of a two-button mouse as a control-click, which seems logical enough..
Actually, HIV is "pretty to look at" - at least according to these guys.
I have their gonorrhea tie (given to me by my grandparents!), and it's pretty cool as well... fun site....
Right on, I guess it's just the difference in how we view these two companies. We're probably more doubtful of Amazon's intentions simply becuase they're in the business of selling stuff directly to us, but I think we might do better to fear the Google Toolbar's data collection more- Google has a lot of very smart people who are paid to recognize trends in huge amounts of data.
Or you could just use something like Firefox, which has its own Google toolbar functionality....
A bass is too big to fit in an extra airline seat. Cello, sure, but not a bass. All my friends who are bass players have these giant indestructible flight cases, and they protect the instrument well enough for it to go down with all the other luggage.
On a more terrestrial note, I believe that both bassists and harpists can get by just fine with station wagons- the old Volvos work well.
You mean the VIN?
This seems like it might be helpful...More and more, I think car-makers are etching it in all kinds of places, like windows as well. But even if the car is ripped apart, I believe the VIN is embossed on enough parts of the car to keep track of it- that's how they identified the truck that was reponsible for carrying the Oklahoma City bomb a few years ago, if I remember right.... just by recovering the rear axle.
...Easy way to generate your very own stream-of-consciousness, free-form, surreal novel! You don't even have to think about what you're typing; at the end of a week, you've got a product you can sell!
I wonder if (with passwords removed) this could become some kind of weird blog subculture- every day, you dump the contents of your keylogger to a web page, for all to read.
for what piece of electronics is really fashionable to the level of clothing or accessories
I think you could argue that cell phones have reached this level, going possibly as far back as the Nokia 8810, which was released a good few years ago. If I remember right, it was the first small, sylish chrome-finished phone on the market, and it became quite the fashion accessory among people who could afford it.