"For now, though, if you're "in the know," you can access the internet wirelessly from most urbanized areas in the United States for $10 per month, with only a threatened, unenforced restriction on usage."
Sounds like Sprint's got another 10,000 people "in the know" on their hands...
The author seems puzzled by the popularity of SMS in Europe, but it's just simple economics. With most plans I've come across in England in France, it's cheaper to send an SMS than to make a 1-minute call. Rates overall are also more expensive, so getting in the habit of sending an SMS rather than making a call lowers your bills.
The other advantage is that in noisy environments like buses, subways, crowded hallways, etc. you don't have to shout over the crowd to get the message across. This keeps your neighbors from strangling you and lets you say your message once rather than repeating it 3 times.
I'd be interested to see a comparison of civil liberties between the UK and the US. Video surveillance of public parks and streets is astoundingly common in England, as are photo-radar traffic cameras. However, based on what I've read I think the US has the upper hand in communications surveillance of net traffic and phone lines.
Does anyone know anymore about the antenna design on this chip? It seems to me that would be pretty difficult to engineer. The GSM is a secondary issue, but I know that Bluetooth and WiFi in close proximity can interfere with each other considering they're closer to the same frequency.
As a US citizen having spent the last 12 months outside the US, I can personally vouch for the fact that public opinion for the US has spiraled downwards recently. While I can see some justification for a conflict in Iraq, at what cost will it come?
I think TiVo should build an IR sensor into the front of the unit like the ones in auto-flush urinals. When youre playing back a recorded episode it could sense when you leave the room for a beer and automatically edit out the commericals...
Quote: A cognitive radio would pop up and say, 'Hey, you're only 10 minutes from work, and the enterprise LAN is free. How about if I hold off on the attachment until I get to work?'
Somehow I doubt service providers will be quick to pick up devices that automatically minimize charges to the user. Since when have service providers acted in the interest of the user? They make the money by catching people out in the details of the plan - night/day minutes, overages, roaming, 1 minute minimums, etc. If the devices get smarter, the networks will have to become more clever about billing:
Phone: If he finishes the call in under 5 minutes he'll only be using his free minutes! I'd better tell him...
Network: Shut up! It sounds like his girlfriend is mad at him; he'll need at least another 10 to patch things up...
Phone: Maybe if I play this sweet music in the background they'll get through it faster!
Network: Don't you dare, or I'll drop the S/N ratio until they can't hear above the static!
I really hope that SE has improved the antenna on this model. The t68i has mediocre reception, especially for initiating a call or sending an SMS. This has proved true both on T-Mobile and on foreign networks I have tried.
I appreciate a lot of the features on the latest SE phones, but why does it seem that every phone that comes out now builds in a digital camera? They have no optical zoom, poor resolution, and occupy lots of silicon real estate.
I'd say SE needs to tilt their R&D budget a few more degrees toward usability over bells and whistles.
No one is going to read a post this late, but for what it's worth:
I was having trouble getting autoredetect to work, but a few things helped out. First, go to the bluetooth serial connections utility and uncheck the iSync port. Second, do not put the computer to sleep. On my iBook, auto-redetect would work as long as the computer was not put to sleep (screensaver mode works fine). If the computer goes to sleep, it appears that the connection cannot be re-established until the computer has been restarted.
For some reason I can't get auto-redetect to work. Not just with the Clicker application, but anything. I have my phone and my iBook paired and both are set to discoverable, yet for some reason I always have to re-initiate contact between the two when I come back into BT range.
I noticed a note on the Clicker application that says that not all BT adapters support auto-redetect. However, I am using the standard DLink USB adapter.
Track your cell phone in real time?? I hope your not the cheating kind...although most slashdotters probably have enough trouble getting one girlfriend.
...is for the RIAA to take on Starbucks for its
Wifi hosting of illegal downloading. It'll be a cleansing of our culture that could only be rivalled by some sort of nuclear apocalypse!
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on a Mexican news site. The story is in Spanish and mostly talks about NASA's plans for the shuttle, but the video link was new to me. It seems to show the beginning of problems with the shuttle. I haven't seen this on any US news reports or sites. Does anyone know if it's legit?
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It'd be interesting to see if going public brings Google Censorship to a shareholder vote...
"For now, though, if you're "in the know," you can access the internet wirelessly from most urbanized areas in the United States for $10 per month, with only a threatened, unenforced restriction on usage."
Sounds like Sprint's got another 10,000 people "in the know" on their hands...
The author seems puzzled by the popularity of SMS in Europe, but it's just simple economics. With most plans I've come across in England in France, it's cheaper to send an SMS than to make a 1-minute call. Rates overall are also more expensive, so getting in the habit of sending an SMS rather than making a call lowers your bills.
The other advantage is that in noisy environments like buses, subways, crowded hallways, etc. you don't have to shout over the crowd to get the message across. This keeps your neighbors from strangling you and lets you say your message once rather than repeating it 3 times.
I'd be interested to see a comparison of civil liberties between the UK and the US. Video surveillance of public parks and streets is astoundingly common in England, as are photo-radar traffic cameras. However, based on what I've read I think the US has the upper hand in communications surveillance of net traffic and phone lines.
Does anyone know anymore about the antenna design on this chip? It seems to me that would be pretty difficult to engineer. The GSM is a secondary issue, but I know that Bluetooth and WiFi in close proximity can interfere with each other considering they're closer to the same frequency.
As a US citizen having spent the last 12 months outside the US, I can personally vouch for the fact that public opinion for the US has spiraled downwards recently. While I can see some justification for a conflict in Iraq, at what cost will it come?
I think TiVo should build an IR sensor into the front of the unit like the ones in auto-flush urinals. When youre playing back a recorded episode it could sense when you leave the room for a beer and automatically edit out the commericals...
An infrastructure for automated control of land-based vehicles already exists, and it's under bankruptcy protection.
They'd better hope that no one posts a link to their server or the whole town will be able to cook their fries in it too...
Anyone who works at a major corporation is probably sharing their web use records with the HR dept whether they know it or not...
I guess that would make it a war drive-through...
Boom Boom Ching
where do I plug the RJ-45 cable into my NES?
Maybe their address got used as a reply-to in the latest "$1000 per week from home" letter...
Quote: A cognitive radio would pop up and say, 'Hey, you're only 10 minutes from work, and the enterprise LAN is free. How about if I hold off on the attachment until I get to work?'
Somehow I doubt service providers will be quick to pick up devices that automatically minimize charges to the user. Since when have service providers acted in the interest of the user? They make the money by catching people out in the details of the plan - night/day minutes, overages, roaming, 1 minute minimums, etc. If the devices get smarter, the networks will have to become more clever about billing:
Phone: If he finishes the call in under 5 minutes he'll only be using his free minutes! I'd better tell him...
Network: Shut up! It sounds like his girlfriend is mad at him; he'll need at least another 10 to patch things up...
Phone: Maybe if I play this sweet music in the background they'll get through it faster!
Network: Don't you dare, or I'll drop the S/N ratio until they can't hear above the static!
I really hope that SE has improved the antenna on this model. The t68i has mediocre reception, especially for initiating a call or sending an SMS. This has proved true both on T-Mobile and on foreign networks I have tried. I appreciate a lot of the features on the latest SE phones, but why does it seem that every phone that comes out now builds in a digital camera? They have no optical zoom, poor resolution, and occupy lots of silicon real estate. I'd say SE needs to tilt their R&D budget a few more degrees toward usability over bells and whistles.
No one is going to read a post this late, but for what it's worth:
I was having trouble getting autoredetect to work, but a few things helped out. First, go to the bluetooth serial connections utility and uncheck the iSync port. Second, do not put the computer to sleep. On my iBook, auto-redetect would work as long as the computer was not put to sleep (screensaver mode works fine). If the computer goes to sleep, it appears that the connection cannot be re-established until the computer has been restarted.
That's funny, I always thought /. was the best way to keep up with the worst software...
For some reason I can't get auto-redetect to work. Not just with the Clicker application, but anything. I have my phone and my iBook paired and both are set to discoverable, yet for some reason I always have to re-initiate contact between the two when I come back into BT range.
I noticed a note on the Clicker application that says that not all BT adapters support auto-redetect. However, I am using the standard DLink USB adapter.
Any ideas what might be going on?
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1. Create DVD box set
2. Post on Slashdot
3. ?????
4. Profit!
Track your cell phone in real time?? I hope your not the cheating kind...although most slashdotters probably have enough trouble getting one girlfriend.
...is for the RIAA to take on Starbucks for its Wifi hosting of illegal downloading. It'll be a cleansing of our culture that could only be rivalled by some sort of nuclear apocalypse!
From littlepc.com:
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"We fit powerful solutions into tight little spaces"
Now there's a foreign concept to
Now when a network component fails I can worry about getting medium voltage power directly into my motherboard.
Didn't we learn a long time ago to separate power and signal wires?
BTW, here's another version of the story.I found this video on a Mexican news site. The story is in Spanish and mostly talks about NASA's plans for the shuttle, but the video link was new to me. It seems to show the beginning of problems with the shuttle. I haven't seen this on any US news reports or sites. Does anyone know if it's legit?