We spent an awful lot of time and effort in the area of efficient function design as well. The crucial problem was how to derive a precise 'enough' result in a given number of CPU cycles. We did all kinds of functional partial solutions in order to break down complex problems into 'do-able' chunks. The simple fact is that computers aren't that good at Real Analysis, Solid Analytic Geometry and multidimensional trigonometry. You have to crush all that down into composite problems that computers ARE good at.
The prices that is, on other phones. But they are typically very very very slow to do that. I doubt the Google phones they have now will come down in price for a year.
That's probably true in the mid term. As soon as it does though some new marginally better and far more expensive technology will be touted as the next breakthrough. For LCD screens though there was really only one period of time where the prices dropped rapidly. It was about 2.5 years ago. Since then prices have been flat or nearly flat.
Have you ever considered why Netbooks are what they are? Why is it that 'regular' laptops of less than stellar performance can't cost $300 new? Because there's no point in them selling a unit at that price when they can give you half of that unit for the same price and you're happy to own one.
SSD's will be like that. 10 years ago we were looking into SSDs to handle extremely large DNS zone transfers. SSD's barely had the performance we needed. We wound up not getting them because of the absurd cost. Today SSDs are at the performance level of the highest performance SSA disk drives, of a few years ago. And clearly the performance ceiling for current technology is just about as high as it can go. Oh I guess someone will make 20,000rpm drives or 50,000 rpm drives or something like that but they won't be reliable and someone will have to reinvent persistent memory at bus I/O speeds. And THAT will be the 'new' gadget.
Just when large CRT monitors became affordable albeit heavy, the companies rolled out smaller flat panels. Not only where they cheaper for them to make, they were cheaper to ship and had much lower field defect rates. So of course they charged more for them.
Similarly right when magnetic drives are near-free, the companies roll out smaller, and in some cases slower SSD's which are less expensive to make, cheaper to ship and over the long run (probably) have lower field defect rates born of their no moving parts. So of course they will charge more for them.
Everything old is new again. Wait and see companies that offer Netbooks with NO storage as an 'option' and then charge up the wazoo for a crappy sized SSD touted as 'premium'.
I see they are focusing on games, multimedia address book, web browsing and social networking. But a phone? well....maybe. It looks like an atomic powered Zune with a phone bolted on as an afterthought.
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What with being about 5x8" and maybe 3 lbs plus another 3 lb power supply.
There are two modes: 'anyone' or 'from a list'. Now 'anyone' means that any Sprint customer in range can use the device up to the preprogrammed maximum of 3 simultaneous calls. 'From a list' means that only the phone numbers from a pre selected list are allowed to access the box. The problem is that is if you are a Sprint customer and your # is not on the list you can't have ANY service at all. You are in a 'private network' and therefore excluded from BOTH the Airave and connections to a local tower.
Which is stupid.
At a minimum you should be required to log onto the Airave using a PIN code which expires after "X" hours. And anyone else, who happens to be a Sprint customer is simply ignored by the Airave and ignores it so that they can access a tower.
We're on year 10 or 11 of the obligatory "Business is GRRRRREEAAAAATTT!, you have to do without and you should be thrilled you have a job at all..." speech. My career plan is mostly made up of planning to listen to management about the importance of career planning. They stopped paying for training years ago, they don't pay for annual certificate membership dues, they don't even pay for broadband for at-home workers.
Yeah sadly those cheap Chinese scoots have some awful metallurgy going on. I've broken CVT cases, main bearings, bearing seats. Even tore out muffler mounting at the exhaust manifold. Live and learn, NEVER EVER mod a 4-stroke Mainland Chinese scoot. I know that Honda gets their engines from a Chinese company but clearly they're built to Honda standards.
But my USR 56kbaud modems were never able to exceed 33kbaud on my home POTS lines. The phone co, Southern Bell explained to be it had something to do with how their 'remote' CO was built. A remote CO is essentially a bunch of switches nailed to a telephone pole where there is a large cluster of endpoints more than 15 (or 18?) thousand feet from the nearest CO. In either case the remote CO, functioning like a giant glorified midspan repeater could not handle the constellation pattern of 56kbaud. Cheaped out, in other words. I suspect this had something to do with them trying to get me to buy FAKE ADSL - which, actually wasn't ADSL but instead they took 2 8bit ISDN lines, bonded them together for a single sync 128kbps channel. Of course everytime you picked up the phone, you lost half of your data bandwidth.. I never did get a good answer why they couldn't use two 7+1 channels with single sideband signaling for voice...oh well.
Well now we have cable and U-Verse and all sorts of stuff and my kids don't know what the modem handshake sound is.
Will go about 60mph on the flat and gets about 70-80mpg depending on conditions and riding style. Cost about USD$1500 but I can get it serviced. Technically it should be registered but since it's an over bored 50cc it doesn't have to be insured, plated, licensed or inspected.
An unrestricted 50cc 2 stroke 'should' be able to get 90-105mpg while topping out @ 40mph on the flat. Of course 2 stroke pollute a lot more than hybrids.....
I know of no young person who checks their own voicemail, ever. All they do is note who called and then call that person back, or not. I never leave a voicemail message for any young person any more. It's just a waste of my time. In fact the best thing, if it's not terribly urgent is you use Voice - SMS. Sprint has this feature where you can record and forward up to 2 mins of anything and then the receiver gets an SMS with a link to hear it. Otherwise leave a text SMS. But voicemail? No.
At least in the Triangle area in NC, TW pays the local municipalities a bribe, I mean an "Access Fee" that can approach something like 15% of the revenue. While their methods are all unsavory, they are rightfully angry that their bribe is underwriting a competitor.
It's like reading "they wandered for 40 years" in the Torah. It's just meant to signify a very long time that you're not really going to care about. In a few years it will be pushed out again, and again and again. You see we're NEVER going back to the moon and manned spaceflight will be a memory by 2020. The ISS will be gone. The Shuttle will be gone, The Russians and Chinese will have focused on satellites and space based weapons. The Indians will also be in the commercial satellite business. The Europeans will will simply declare space science an unaffordable luxury of the Evil White Man. With no heavy lifters, no missions and no stomach for the challenge and the risk, mankind will have seen the end of manned spaceflight. Perhaps in a hundred years we'll take another look at it, but who knows? It will probably be against Sharia by then.
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The Class A owners will sell off chunks of their space one B class at a time.
We spent an awful lot of time and effort in the area of efficient function design as well. The crucial problem was how to derive a precise 'enough' result in a given number of CPU cycles. We did all kinds of functional partial solutions in order to break down complex problems into 'do-able' chunks. The simple fact is that computers aren't that good at Real Analysis, Solid Analytic Geometry and multidimensional trigonometry. You have to crush all that down into composite problems that computers ARE good at.
When you can outsource them and pay them zero.
The prices that is, on other phones. But they are typically very very very slow to do that. I doubt the Google phones they have now will come down in price for a year.
That's probably true in the mid term. As soon as it does though some new marginally better and far more expensive technology will be touted as the next breakthrough. For LCD screens though there was really only one period of time where the prices dropped rapidly. It was about 2.5 years ago. Since then prices have been flat or nearly flat.
Have you ever considered why Netbooks are what they are? Why is it that 'regular' laptops of less than stellar performance can't cost $300 new? Because there's no point in them selling a unit at that price when they can give you half of that unit for the same price and you're happy to own one.
SSD's will be like that. 10 years ago we were looking into SSDs to handle extremely large DNS zone transfers. SSD's barely had the performance we needed. We wound up not getting them because of the absurd cost. Today SSDs are at the performance level of the highest performance SSA disk drives, of a few years ago. And clearly the performance ceiling for current technology is just about as high as it can go. Oh I guess someone will make 20,000rpm drives or 50,000 rpm drives or something like that but they won't be reliable and someone will have to reinvent persistent memory at bus I/O speeds. And THAT will be the 'new' gadget.
Just when large CRT monitors became affordable albeit heavy, the companies rolled out smaller flat panels. Not only where they cheaper for them to make, they were cheaper to ship and had much lower field defect rates. So of course they charged more for them.
Similarly right when magnetic drives are near-free, the companies roll out smaller, and in some cases slower SSD's which are less expensive to make, cheaper to ship and over the long run (probably) have lower field defect rates born of their no moving parts. So of course they will charge more for them.
Everything old is new again. Wait and see companies that offer Netbooks with NO storage as an 'option' and then charge up the wazoo for a crappy sized SSD touted as 'premium'.
I see they are focusing on games, multimedia address book, web browsing and social networking. But a phone? well....maybe. It looks like an atomic powered Zune with a phone bolted on as an afterthought.
What with being about 5x8" and maybe 3 lbs plus another 3 lb power supply.
There are two modes: 'anyone' or 'from a list'. Now 'anyone' means that any Sprint customer in range can use the device up to the preprogrammed maximum of 3 simultaneous calls. 'From a list' means that only the phone numbers from a pre selected list are allowed to access the box. The problem is that is if you are a Sprint customer and your # is not on the list you can't have ANY service at all. You are in a 'private network' and therefore excluded from BOTH the Airave and connections to a local tower.
Which is stupid.
At a minimum you should be required to log onto the Airave using a PIN code which expires after "X" hours. And anyone else, who happens to be a Sprint customer is simply ignored by the Airave and ignores it so that they can access a tower.
Trade in your burro for the 21st century. We get it; you're outraged. You wore an onion on your belt cuz that the style of the time.
I had the radiation oncologist review the status of every single treatment with me face to face 41 times.
We're on year 10 or 11 of the obligatory "Business is GRRRRREEAAAAATTT!, you have to do without and you should be thrilled you have a job at all..." speech. My career plan is mostly made up of planning to listen to management about the importance of career planning. They stopped paying for training years ago, they don't pay for annual certificate membership dues, they don't even pay for broadband for at-home workers.
In HS and many MANY college sociology, anthropology, ethnic studies, etc. his books are required reading. So he's not hurting either way.
Yeah sadly those cheap Chinese scoots have some awful metallurgy going on. I've broken CVT cases, main bearings, bearing seats. Even tore out muffler mounting at the exhaust manifold. Live and learn, NEVER EVER mod a 4-stroke Mainland Chinese scoot. I know that Honda gets their engines from a Chinese company but clearly they're built to Honda standards.
But my USR 56kbaud modems were never able to exceed 33kbaud on my home POTS lines. The phone co, Southern Bell explained to be it had something to do with how their 'remote' CO was built. A remote CO is essentially a bunch of switches nailed to a telephone pole where there is a large cluster of endpoints more than 15 (or 18?) thousand feet from the nearest CO. In either case the remote CO, functioning like a giant glorified midspan repeater could not handle the constellation pattern of 56kbaud. Cheaped out, in other words. I suspect this had something to do with them trying to get me to buy FAKE ADSL - which, actually wasn't ADSL but instead they took 2 8bit ISDN lines, bonded them together for a single sync 128kbps channel. Of course everytime you picked up the phone, you lost half of your data bandwidth.. I never did get a good answer why they couldn't use two 7+1 channels with single sideband signaling for voice...oh well.
Well now we have cable and U-Verse and all sorts of stuff and my kids don't know what the modem handshake sound is.
Will go about 60mph on the flat and gets about 70-80mpg depending on conditions and riding style. Cost about USD$1500 but I can get it serviced. Technically it should be registered but since it's an over bored 50cc it doesn't have to be insured, plated, licensed or inspected.
An unrestricted 50cc 2 stroke 'should' be able to get 90-105mpg while topping out @ 40mph on the flat. Of course 2 stroke pollute a lot more than hybrids.....
As always z/OS is the ratio sum ultra.
The Soviet Union of phone companies.
There's more to the world than NOVA. Unless you have ITAR requirements for government work.
It looks like all he means is the same form factor as today's laptops but much flatter. Maybe no more than the thickness of a legal pad.
I know of no young person who checks their own voicemail, ever. All they do is note who called and then call that person back, or not. I never leave a voicemail message for any young person any more. It's just a waste of my time. In fact the best thing, if it's not terribly urgent is you use Voice - SMS. Sprint has this feature where you can record and forward up to 2 mins of anything and then the receiver gets an SMS with a link to hear it. Otherwise leave a text SMS. But voicemail? No.
At least in the Triangle area in NC, TW pays the local municipalities a bribe, I mean an "Access Fee" that can approach something like 15% of the revenue. While their methods are all unsavory, they are rightfully angry that their bribe is underwriting a competitor.
That's really the point you know.
It's like reading "they wandered for 40 years" in the Torah. It's just meant to signify a very long time that you're not really going to care about. In a few years it will be pushed out again, and again and again. You see we're NEVER going back to the moon and manned spaceflight will be a memory by 2020. The ISS will be gone. The Shuttle will be gone, The Russians and Chinese will have focused on satellites and space based weapons. The Indians will also be in the commercial satellite business. The Europeans will will simply declare space science an unaffordable luxury of the Evil White Man. With no heavy lifters, no missions and no stomach for the challenge and the risk, mankind will have seen the end of manned spaceflight. Perhaps in a hundred years we'll take another look at it, but who knows? It will probably be against Sharia by then.
Yeah sure - the point is that only MS obsoletes MS products.