You quote $40 for 10MB, in the UK the prices are about £7($5) for 1MB if included in the price plan, or 2p/KB ($15/MB) if not, so it seems to be in line.
The problem with GPRS is that the suppliers are likely to kill the market by charging too much and restricting the accessable sevices to a few WAP sites which the supplier has a relationship with (I'm told at least one telco in the UK does this, but I havn't checked it out).
SMS used to be a service that was hardly ever used due to expensive prices and a restriction to the suppliers network, alot of people didn't even know their phones could do it. As soon as the prices dropped and the telcos opened gateways to each other, the volumes exploded, now SMS' are a large part of the telcos' income.
GPRS is something that will be kept in the WAP bracket of niche user base until telcos finally realise that people will use it if they can afford it. Ironically GPRS will solve the main problem with WAP, speed.
I think what Rob wants already exists here in the UK, Tiny Computers have released a product called the Takami TV that does what Rob is asking for, so Rob, your not the only one thinking along these lines.
It scares me that this information will be online, however isn't this similar to Credit Ratings Agencies? I don't know if it is the same in other countries, but in the UK, you can't get bank accounts, credit cards, mortgages, store cards etc. without the company involved scanning one of two credit ratings agencies (Equifax & Experion).
When they get some of your information wrong (which they usually do) you start getting refused financial products. Every couple of years I have payed to get my record (applications only by snail mail) from them so that I can request that they correct it.
Recently one of them got my wife's first and middle names the wrong way round on her electoral roll entry, meaning that as far as they were concerned, she didn't live there. Scariest of all, it gave us information about current residents at properties that we havn't lived at for many years including financial information.
In the UK the commentating is done by a well known (in the UK) commedian called Nick Hancock. He doesn't attempt the techie talk that is down to the bimbo and the contestants. I don't think that tech talk would interest most viewers, after all washing machine motors, radio control, drills, spikes, axes and circular saws are hardly what I'd call hi-tech.
This is very true if you just use entity beans, a common beginners mistake. Look at using session beans more, and remember that with BMP you can limit the number of SQL calls and your entities don't have to have a one-to-one relationship with database tables.
I havn't heard of anyone producing a production system using entities and CMP.
EJB rocks, you just have to work out how to use it properly.
Strangly enough we don't actually speak like Dick Van Dyke did in Mary Poppins. But then most Americans wouldn't know as they would never have met anyone british, only 5% of them have a passport, not exactly an adventurous population? In my experience, the only things americans don't understand when I talk is sarcasm, why else would their comedy shows have laughing in the background, someone must have to let them know which bits are funny.
Hey, this is the UK, we're not so obsessed with the car as other countries, our petrol is so expensive we can't afford to. Maybe mobiles havn't taken off in the US as much because they commute in the car more.
Most PocketPC models can play MP3's so it probably will be able to. I'm sure you will be able to surf Slashdot also. Wonder if anyone is writing a Napster Client or similar for this platform?
Orange. Been great for me, works nationwide (My nation anyway) and worldwide, although I hear coverage is not very good in the USA as they don't use the same system as the rest of the world. Apparently they are still stuck in analogue. Strangely I'm told mobiles only work in big cities!!! How wierd is that? The places where you are most likely to find a phone box are the only places covered. I bet by the time the rest of the world goes 3G, they will only just start using proper GSM. Anyone ever seen the poor selection of phones available to the US on the Nokia or Ericsson web-sites? It's worth a laugh.
I don't believe it, I got my Uncle to sell a couple of ZX81's for me on a trip to India in the late 80's as there was still a market for them then. I think he got about 50 quid ($75ish) for the two of them!!
Maybe this is more to do with Palm combining with the next version of the EPOC o/s from Psion's Symbian consortium, especially since Palm has had some link-up with Symbian. I heard a rumour that they would use the same core with different GUI's. Sounds like Wince may get shut out of the action.
This seems to be a much wider plan to totally shut java out of the set-top OS market, Microsoft have already this year I think bought large stakes in three of the largest UK cable providers. Sun better start buying Cable stock soon or it may find Microsoft has a stake in every cable provider.
Slashdot Mirror
You quote $40 for 10MB, in the UK the prices are about £7($5) for 1MB if included in the price plan, or 2p/KB ($15/MB) if not, so it seems to be in line.
The problem with GPRS is that the suppliers are likely to kill the market by charging too much and restricting the accessable sevices to a few WAP sites which the supplier has a relationship with (I'm told at least one telco in the UK does this, but I havn't checked it out).
SMS used to be a service that was hardly ever used due to expensive prices and a restriction to the suppliers network, alot of people didn't even know their phones could do it. As soon as the prices dropped and the telcos opened gateways to each other, the volumes exploded, now SMS' are a large part of the telcos' income.
GPRS is something that will be kept in the WAP bracket of niche user base until telcos finally realise that people will use it if they can afford it. Ironically GPRS will solve the main problem with WAP, speed.
I think the bank, Credit Suisse/CSFB is one of the biggest, it certainly has very close links with M$.
I think what Rob wants already exists here in the UK, Tiny Computers have released a product called the Takami TV that does what Rob is asking for, so Rob, your not the only one thinking along these lines.
It scares me that this information will be online, however isn't this similar to Credit Ratings Agencies? I don't know if it is the same in other countries, but in the UK, you can't get bank accounts, credit cards, mortgages, store cards etc. without the company involved scanning one of two credit ratings agencies (Equifax & Experion). When they get some of your information wrong (which they usually do) you start getting refused financial products. Every couple of years I have payed to get my record (applications only by snail mail) from them so that I can request that they correct it. Recently one of them got my wife's first and middle names the wrong way round on her electoral roll entry, meaning that as far as they were concerned, she didn't live there. Scariest of all, it gave us information about current residents at properties that we havn't lived at for many years including financial information.
In the UK the commentating is done by a well known (in the UK) commedian called Nick Hancock. He doesn't attempt the techie talk that is down to the bimbo and the contestants. I don't think that tech talk would interest most viewers, after all washing machine motors, radio control, drills, spikes, axes and circular saws are hardly what I'd call hi-tech.
This is very true if you just use entity beans, a common beginners mistake. Look at using session beans more, and remember that with BMP you can limit the number of SQL calls and your entities don't have to have a one-to-one relationship with database tables. I havn't heard of anyone producing a production system using entities and CMP. EJB rocks, you just have to work out how to use it properly.
Strangly enough we don't actually speak like Dick Van Dyke did in Mary Poppins. But then most Americans wouldn't know as they would never have met anyone british, only 5% of them have a passport, not exactly an adventurous population? In my experience, the only things americans don't understand when I talk is sarcasm, why else would their comedy shows have laughing in the background, someone must have to let them know which bits are funny.
Hey, this is the UK, we're not so obsessed with the car as other countries, our petrol is so expensive we can't afford to. Maybe mobiles havn't taken off in the US as much because they commute in the car more.
Most PocketPC models can play MP3's so it probably will be able to. I'm sure you will be able to surf Slashdot also. Wonder if anyone is writing a Napster Client or similar for this platform?
Orange. Been great for me, works nationwide (My nation anyway) and worldwide, although I hear coverage is not very good in the USA as they don't use the same system as the rest of the world. Apparently they are still stuck in analogue. Strangely I'm told mobiles only work in big cities!!! How wierd is that? The places where you are most likely to find a phone box are the only places covered. I bet by the time the rest of the world goes 3G, they will only just start using proper GSM. Anyone ever seen the poor selection of phones available to the US on the Nokia or Ericsson web-sites? It's worth a laugh.
I don't believe it, I got my Uncle to sell a couple of ZX81's for me on a trip to India in the late 80's as there was still a market for them then. I think he got about 50 quid ($75ish) for the two of them!!
A couple of other places you may want to complain to, the UK government's 'e-minister' and the 'e-envoy'. They also have an 'e-forum'
Maybe this is more to do with Palm combining with the next version of the EPOC o/s from Psion's Symbian consortium, especially since Palm has had some link-up with Symbian. I heard a rumour that they would use the same core with different GUI's. Sounds like Wince may get shut out of the action.
This seems to be a much wider plan to totally shut java out of the set-top OS market, Microsoft have already this year I think bought large stakes in three of the largest UK cable providers. Sun better start buying Cable stock soon or it may find Microsoft has a stake in every cable provider.