the Mylo has two advantages over the nokia, the ability to play wma secured(if you can call that an advantage), and increased battery life(still in need of independant real world testing).
No touch screen, a keyboard only a teenager can use(good thing they designed it for teenagers), limited image formats, smaller screen siz & resolution, etc.
at work I also have to enter information with all caps.(it actually looks better on our ancient invoice printer) so having a key which lock it on and off is nesscarry, but why does it have to be the same size as the enter key? It's not like it's used that often. It's either on or off. it can be the size of a function key, or the scroll lock or num lock key.
Speaking of odd keys how many people still use the scroll lock? I have never figured out what it's for on modern keyboards.
and by your numbers alone we have launched three times the number of people into space. So the US has a 6% failure rate. versus the russian 4% And if you don't count apollo one as they died during a training accident on the ground, your down to 5%. either way both countries have roughly the same failure rate. it just goes to show you, you can make numbers mean what ever you want them to mean. it also means the shuttle is more reliable than the russian soyuz as it can handle twice the number of people per trip just as safely.
Now cheaper well no, that it's not. The shuttle failed to live up to that part of it's design.
And yes while Apollo one is a tragic accident of the space agency, they weren't launching that day, it was just a pressure test that went horribly wrong. So can you really classify it as a space failure?
The planes that were crashed into the WTC where hijacked with carpet cutters
You know that never made sense to me. If someone started threatening me with a box cutter I would break his wrist and then poke his eyes out with a pen. Heck even with a standard pen knife the blade is only barely long enough to hit a vital area in an average sized adult male, let alone in an american overweight male. A box cutter is only effect againist the juglar or femoral artieries, both targets easily defended againist.
So as I said if someone threatened me with such a puny blade I would make him stab me, and then beat him to a pulp.
considering most cover bands are better than what the labels endorse these days I say get rid of the record labels and only let cover bands play. competition will drive out the sucky ones and the good ones can make money without selling their souls to the record labels.
That is called win win. of course since the labels lose money they call it lose lose.
Um ciggerattes are all but illegal in NY. No smoking in public buildings or restraunts or bars, unless a specific isolated room with it's own air ventaltion is created. If you want to smoke you have to go outside. In many cases you can't even smoke near the doors. Basically f you choose to be a smoker you can't go out and have fun as you have to leave in order to fullfill your addicition.
That's because AC will always give you a zap. I know this because I have been hit with 120, 208, and 277 volts, because it wasn't really off even though I tested it(damn meter). It's part of my job.
Your car door is a DC Conductor. That's right take a positive 12v line off the battery and it will spark when it hits the door. That's how car's are designed.
So Every day you touch DC conductors and don't feel a thing. You can grab the positive or negative terminal in your car without getting hurt. It's only when you touch them both that you die.
Now for the other part of your idiotic idea, that 0000awg cable would be used overhead or underground to deliver electricity to you, not in your house. We use AC because it is cheaper to run distances of miles and miles. But short distances say a building or a Ship DC would be safer for the average idiot to use. Effeicency wise it depends on what is being done. AC is also easier to generate than DC for Rotary Generators, while DC is easier out of fuel cells, solar cells, and chemical reactions(batteries). Nuclear, hydro, coal, oil all us rotary generators. It just makes sense to continue to use AC since that is what is normally being produced anyways.
That still doesn't change the fact that DC is generally safer, and AC is generally more effiecent.
DC is harmless unless it has a path to carry it. You can grab a 380 volt DC line and not feel a thing. now if you then touch a grounded object, or the return path you are dead. But you have to make the connection. AC is lethal at 220v. As others posted it does have the advantage of forcing the mucsles to spasm so you can let go of the wire, But still zaps you every time you touch the cable.
Go look up the history of Edison vs Westinghouse. Edison wanted DC power all around because it is inherently safer. a Broken AC wire can zap you, were as a broken DC wire can be touched with bare hands.
ah but that's the good thing about Linux that you can not say about MSFT.
You as a vendor only supports RHEL, but that means your customers can get their Linux from Red Hat, CentOS, White Hat, or any of the other firms that take RHEL sources remove the trademarks and redistribute the binaries.
Your still not locked to anyone vendor for support or services.
There is a major difference betwen a F/OSS beta and a MSFT beta.
F/OSS beta's are basically feature complete and are being error tested.
MSFT beta's don't even have the full feature set yet and are being error tested while new or rewritten componets are being set into place for the first time.
I have been using Firefox since the 0.3 days of Phoneix. Since that time it has maybe crashed 2 dozen times. Can you say the same about ANY MSFT product?
yea 200-400 at current use. Now multiply the number of people needing it for their cars, planes, and lights by 5-10 and see how long it lasts. Also Drilling the permafrost for oil, while possible is expensive, really expensive compared to drilling even in the ocean.
China is literally 4 times the popultion of the US alone. what about india? The problem with most of the long range prediction is that they assume that more oil won't be used in the future or use the modest growth rate of the US or europe. No one is figuring on a billion chinese needing cars or computers. Let alone their childern. On top of the UE or european growth rates.
well either exxon and BP get behind it today, or in 50 years they will be bankrupt as the rest of the world's oil supplies are bone dry. China is rapidly using up copper, aluminium, steel, and oil as they try to become a second or first world country. As china modernises the price of oil will skyrocket as supplies dwindle to new lows. That's a billion plus people trying to become like the west. The price of oil is high enough with just US's 300 million people. think about how high it will go when it needs to be split 3-4 billion ways with world wide supplies dwindling.
We have to begin moving off of Oil in the next couple of years, or we will face a complete power collapse as there won't be enough power for everyone. WW3 will be over Oil, and Electricty. We can't just continue to on spending resources and make our childern pay for them.
the RIAA isn't affilated with any artist. Just the lawyers athorized by their labels.
So the RIAA lawyers, and the riaa org. gets their cut, then the label's lawyers and the labels.
The artists themselves aren't worthy enough to recieve any moeny after those people take their cut.
it's really not that surprising. If the rumours are true for every download on itunes an artist recieves less than Apple's share. It's time for a music revolution.
well part of the Vorlon influence is shown talked about.
Not only did the Vorlon use their telepathic thought push. when you see a vorlon you see only what of them you can interpret. hence why humans see angels, Mimbari see valen, the centari see nothing.
Also the Vorlons had the ability to hide from scanner's(at least early style earth force ones) As shortly AFTER first contact with the mimbari Human telepaths began to be born.
I did I. I wis I could of used it more often(the lack of apps was the thing i missed)
IM members appear in tracker as files. Contacts got stored in such a way that you could search through them with the same program that you used to locate files, or documents. BeOS could display multiple movies at the same time back when running one with quicktime or real could slow down a box.
It's taken literally a decade for OS X and Windows to catch up and they still lag behind some of the innovated ideas that were in BeOS. Ideas that people would love to have if they only knew they existed.
I know one tech who in 1996 installed BeOS on a Quadra Mac for the lab tech at a local college. Every lab tech how used that machine loved at how stable and fast it was compared to Mac OS and Windows 95.
I loved Mac OS 8. I never really used OS 9 but by then it was going up againist win2k.
Mac OS 8 went head to head with win98. The only better choice at that time was BeOS . Yet another good OS killed by an illegal monopoly of a bad OS.
Hell BeFS featured a database File System of the likes MSFT still can't create. and they did it on hardware that even Linux would require recompile and lightweight window manager to run on.
MSFT to this day is still trying to copy cool features found in competitor's now old products.
Since when have futurists have gotten anything right? If we believe them we would all be enjoying our flying cars, that can interact with us using voice control. We would talk to each other using video phones(first designed in 1969? AT&T).
The event singularity doesn't have to happen because the futurists are always wrong.
Nope yahoo is going down the drain faster than a toliet flushes.
They have "improved" their message boards and the users are fleeing in terror. people complained yahoo told them the polite version of go fsck off. The investors who used to use Yahoo daily for information, are selling like mad and leaving in droves.
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well it comes with Sonicstage and atrac support. the rootkit is included with those.
the Mylo has two advantages over the nokia, the ability to play wma secured(if you can call that an advantage), and increased battery life(still in need of independant real world testing).
No touch screen, a keyboard only a teenager can use(good thing they designed it for teenagers), limited image formats, smaller screen siz & resolution, etc.
Just another product in search of a market.
at work I also have to enter information with all caps.(it actually looks better on our ancient invoice printer) so having a key which lock it on and off is nesscarry, but why does it have to be the same size as the enter key? It's not like it's used that often. It's either on or off. it can be the size of a function key, or the scroll lock or num lock key.
Speaking of odd keys how many people still use the scroll lock? I have never figured out what it's for on modern keyboards.
and by your numbers alone we have launched three times the number of people into space. So the US has a 6% failure rate. versus the russian 4% And if you don't count apollo one as they died during a training accident on the ground, your down to 5%. either way both countries have roughly the same failure rate. it just goes to show you, you can make numbers mean what ever you want them to mean. it also means the shuttle is more reliable than the russian soyuz as it can handle twice the number of people per trip just as safely.
Now cheaper well no, that it's not. The shuttle failed to live up to that part of it's design.
And yes while Apollo one is a tragic accident of the space agency, they weren't launching that day, it was just a pressure test that went horribly wrong. So can you really classify it as a space failure?
The planes that were crashed into the WTC where hijacked with carpet cutters
You know that never made sense to me. If someone started threatening me with a box cutter I would break his wrist and then poke his eyes out with a pen. Heck even with a standard pen knife the blade is only barely long enough to hit a vital area in an average sized adult male, let alone in an american overweight male. A box cutter is only effect againist the juglar or femoral artieries, both targets easily defended againist.
So as I said if someone threatened me with such a puny blade I would make him stab me, and then beat him to a pulp.
considering most cover bands are better than what the labels endorse these days I say get rid of the record labels and only let cover bands play. competition will drive out the sucky ones and the good ones can make money without selling their souls to the record labels.
That is called win win. of course since the labels lose money they call it lose lose.
Um ciggerattes are all but illegal in NY. No smoking in public buildings or restraunts or bars, unless a specific isolated room with it's own air ventaltion is created. If you want to smoke you have to go outside. In many cases you can't even smoke near the doors. Basically f you choose to be a smoker you can't go out and have fun as you have to leave in order to fullfill your addicition.
That's because AC will always give you a zap. I know this because I have been hit with 120, 208, and 277 volts, because it wasn't really off even though I tested it(damn meter). It's part of my job.
Your car door is a DC Conductor. That's right take a positive 12v line off the battery and it will spark when it hits the door. That's how car's are designed.
So Every day you touch DC conductors and don't feel a thing. You can grab the positive or negative terminal in your car without getting hurt. It's only when you touch them both that you die.
Now for the other part of your idiotic idea, that 0000awg cable would be used overhead or underground to deliver electricity to you, not in your house. We use AC because it is cheaper to run distances of miles and miles. But short distances say a building or a Ship DC would be safer for the average idiot to use. Effeicency wise it depends on what is being done. AC is also easier to generate than DC for Rotary Generators, while DC is easier out of fuel cells, solar cells, and chemical reactions(batteries). Nuclear, hydro, coal, oil all us rotary generators. It just makes sense to continue to use AC since that is what is normally being produced anyways.
That still doesn't change the fact that DC is generally safer, and AC is generally more effiecent.
So you also failed electrical theory, as well.
DC is harmless unless it has a path to carry it. You can grab a 380 volt DC line and not feel a thing. now if you then touch a grounded object, or the return path you are dead. But you have to make the connection. AC is lethal at 220v. As others posted it does have the advantage of forcing the mucsles to spasm so you can let go of the wire, But still zaps you every time you touch the cable.
Go look up the history of Edison vs Westinghouse. Edison wanted DC power all around because it is inherently safer. a Broken AC wire can zap you, were as a broken DC wire can be touched with bare hands.
while I agree with you on keyboards and mice, wireless net access? I downloaded a knoppx ISO, and burned it on my battery only in 30 minutes.
While it's slightly slower than my hardwired connection(I use both)it's still fast enough to play games online.
now with many connections it might slow down, but I limit those with WPA encryption.
ah but that's the good thing about Linux that you can not say about MSFT.
You as a vendor only supports RHEL, but that means your customers can get their Linux from Red Hat, CentOS, White Hat, or any of the other firms that take RHEL sources remove the trademarks and redistribute the binaries.
Your still not locked to anyone vendor for support or services.
There is a major difference betwen a F/OSS beta and a MSFT beta.
F/OSS beta's are basically feature complete and are being error tested.
MSFT beta's don't even have the full feature set yet and are being error tested while new or rewritten componets are being set into place for the first time.
I have been using Firefox since the 0.3 days of Phoneix. Since that time it has maybe crashed 2 dozen times. Can you say the same about ANY MSFT product?
and it will probably be safer too.
yea 200-400 at current use. Now multiply the number of people needing it for their cars, planes, and lights by 5-10 and see how long it lasts. Also Drilling the permafrost for oil, while possible is expensive, really expensive compared to drilling even in the ocean.
China is literally 4 times the popultion of the US alone. what about india? The problem with most of the long range prediction is that they assume that more oil won't be used in the future or use the modest growth rate of the US or europe. No one is figuring on a billion chinese needing cars or computers. Let alone their childern. On top of the UE or european growth rates.
well either exxon and BP get behind it today, or in 50 years they will be bankrupt as the rest of the world's oil supplies are bone dry. China is rapidly using up copper, aluminium, steel, and oil as they try to become a second or first world country. As china modernises the price of oil will skyrocket as supplies dwindle to new lows. That's a billion plus people trying to become like the west. The price of oil is high enough with just US's 300 million people. think about how high it will go when it needs to be split 3-4 billion ways with world wide supplies dwindling.
We have to begin moving off of Oil in the next couple of years, or we will face a complete power collapse as there won't be enough power for everyone. WW3 will be over Oil, and Electricty. We can't just continue to on spending resources and make our childern pay for them.
considering the post before that is from 7/25/2005 they have a few more months before I will give up hope.
Zero.
the RIAA isn't affilated with any artist. Just the lawyers athorized by their labels.
So the RIAA lawyers, and the riaa org. gets their cut, then the label's lawyers and the labels.
The artists themselves aren't worthy enough to recieve any moeny after those people take their cut.
it's really not that surprising. If the rumours are true for every download on itunes an artist recieves less than Apple's share. It's time for a music revolution.
well part of the Vorlon influence is shown talked about.
Not only did the Vorlon use their telepathic thought push. when you see a vorlon you see only what of them you can interpret. hence why humans see angels, Mimbari see valen, the centari see nothing.
Also the Vorlons had the ability to hide from scanner's(at least early style earth force ones) As shortly AFTER first contact with the mimbari Human telepaths began to be born.
badly flavoured sugar water or sugar water with bad flavouring.
I don't know about that, we are going down pretty damn fast.
Spoken like a person who never used BeOS.
I did I. I wis I could of used it more often(the lack of apps was the thing i missed)
IM members appear in tracker as files. Contacts got stored in such a way that you could search through them with the same program that you used to locate files, or documents. BeOS could display multiple movies at the same time back when running one with quicktime or real could slow down a box.
It's taken literally a decade for OS X and Windows to catch up and they still lag behind some of the innovated ideas that were in BeOS. Ideas that people would love to have if they only knew they existed.
I know one tech who in 1996 installed BeOS on a Quadra Mac for the lab tech at a local college. Every lab tech how used that machine loved at how stable and fast it was compared to Mac OS and Windows 95.
I loved Mac OS 8. I never really used OS 9 but by then it was going up againist win2k.
Mac OS 8 went head to head with win98. The only better choice at that time was BeOS . Yet another good OS killed by an illegal monopoly of a bad OS.
Hell BeFS featured a database File System of the likes MSFT still can't create. and they did it on hardware that even Linux would require recompile and lightweight window manager to run on.
MSFT to this day is still trying to copy cool features found in competitor's now old products.
You do relize that the PS2 is still outselling the xbox360 2 to 1. that's right the PS2 is selling more units than's MSFTs new toy.
If memory serves MSFt shipped 200,000 units for 450,000 PS2's. but that's just from bad memory.
Since when have futurists have gotten anything right? If we believe them we would all be enjoying our flying cars, that can interact with us using voice control. We would talk to each other using video phones(first designed in 1969? AT&T).
The event singularity doesn't have to happen because the futurists are always wrong.
Nope yahoo is going down the drain faster than a toliet flushes.
They have "improved" their message boards and the users are fleeing in terror. people complained yahoo told them the polite version of go fsck off. The investors who used to use Yahoo daily for information, are selling like mad and leaving in droves.
This token gesture is to little to late.