I'm not trying to be funny, I'm asking a question. There's clearly some difference, since the FCC can regulate content on broadcast TV and Radio, and can fine broadcasters hundreds of thousands of dollars for a nipple slip during the Super Bowl, but cable stations like HBO and Cinemax can show all the nipples they want. Not to mention the internet. So they don't have complete ability to control *everything* when it comes to communications. My question is do they have the authority / jurisdiction to regulate this?
A pity that they didn't put their efforts into improving J2ME instead.
Improving J2ME would mean updating he basic standards of what it takes to be considered a J2ME phone. Right now, the standards are so out of date as to be completely useless, so you end up writing for what you think will work on most current phones, and then testing to find out...available emulators don't adequately emulate phone limitations, and not all manufacturers publish all of the relevant implementation specifications, so testing requires actually having a wide array of phones, which can be pretty expensive.
That is why you can get emulators for different screen/phones and test.
The emulators I've found don't adequately emulate the various limitations of these phones. You're probably right that basic J2ME commands will work across most phones, but writing games, for instance, can be a huge headache.
behaving rather bizarrely by on the one hand warning about the problems of forking and then on the other releasing their own JVM Dalvik instead of using JavaME.
You've never written a JavaME (J2ME) app, have you? Getting a J2ME application to work properly on all phones is a huge nightmare. Just when you have it working on your phone, and all of your coworkers phones, you try it on your wife's phone, and find that it completely doesn't work. There's plenty of fragmentation just within J2ME, and it's made worse by the fact that it's almost impossible to test an application on every different phone that's out there. If Google can come up with an SDK that makes "write once run anywhere" a reality in the mobile world, I'm all for it.
How does having the antenna "disappear" effect it's ability to circumvent jamming?
I'm a bit foggy how it "disappears". Last I checked, you need some type of container to shape plasma into a cylinder, so while the plasma may disappear, the giant glass tube presumably will still be there...and why does the author keep calling plasma a gas? Yes, you get plasma by superheating a gas. You get gas by heating liquid. Doesn't make gas the same as liquid. Plasma isn't the same as gas either.
You do know that stuff you send over the Internet is not considered private, right??
Maybe not from a technical point of view, but from a legal point of view, you can certainly get into a lot of trouble intentionally intercepting private communications over the internet.
I think that charging more than that for, say, a Bose system is a bit overboard. The speakers are no better than what you get in the $60 system, the only difference I can discern is that Bose mangles audio in a way that "sounds bigger" by adding echoes and enhancing bass.
I generally agree with that, but that's because Bose is overpriced, and geared more toward making small speakers that sound good enough for idiots who don't know any better. There is a noticeable difference between a high-quality system and a $60-80 system, yes, even at low volume levels.
I'm not knocking budget-minded systems. And a refurb 5.1 receiver for $100 isn't really the same as a complete system with speakers for $60. You can probably get a decent receiver for $100, especially at refurbished prices. But calling a $60 complete system a "home theater", where the "subwoofer" is probably significantly smaller than a decent woofer, seems misleading...
Oh and if you're gonna listen to a Bose offering (typically not the best value for the price), really listen to the alternatives, you'll be surprised.
Have to agree with that. People tend to think Bose is top-notch, but judging by the Bose systems I've listened to, they really don't sound all that great for the money...there are usually much better alternatives at any price-point.
Just skimmed the first page, huh? Maybe you should read the rest of it and then comment on their speaker recommendations.
Maybe if they got to the point a little faster rather than burying it down several pages full of ads...and babbling about crappy systems from WalMart...
More than I would normally expect, at least. They happen when I'm trying to telnet/SSH into my Linux box from outside,
That's interesting. I have had resets when SSHing one specific Linux box that I use for work, whereas all others have been fine. I don't know if that box is on a Comcast connection or not. But I haven't had any troubles SSHing into my own box from elsewhere.
because it's sold as a system rather than as bits and pieces
You do realize that the majority of Windows machines are sold as a system, not as bits and pieces. It's a fairly small subset of the population that builds their own computers. And aside from the motherboard, everything else on a Mac is just as configurable / replaceable as with a Windows machine. Apple fans might tend to choose not to upgrade components, but there isn't any real reason that they can't (again, aside from the motherboard / mainboard)...
So thisb fhf could just be a case of someone trying to trick Best Buy and trying to use a grass roots campaign scam Best Buy.
I've found that the Best Buy near me has started to inspect returns far more than in the past. I'm used to return clerks taking things out of the box to make sure everything is there, but I returned a non-working MP3 player a few months ago, and had to wait like 20 minutes while they had a guy come over from the MP3 player department, take it out of the box, read the manual (like I hadn't tried that), grill me with questions about it, and try to get it working. They never did get it working (because it didn't work), and they eventually accepted the return, but I was amazed at how long it took. Of course, maybe they were just not very busy that day...
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I really only use Linux as a server, so I don't use the GUI much. Unfortunately, the nature of my work pretty much requires that I use Windows or OSX.
Dual screens are flakey
Since when? I haven't used less than two screens at work for about 5 years...never had a problem.
Are you serious or trying to be funny??
I'm not trying to be funny, I'm asking a question. There's clearly some difference, since the FCC can regulate content on broadcast TV and Radio, and can fine broadcasters hundreds of thousands of dollars for a nipple slip during the Super Bowl, but cable stations like HBO and Cinemax can show all the nipples they want. Not to mention the internet. So they don't have complete ability to control *everything* when it comes to communications. My question is do they have the authority / jurisdiction to regulate this?
Does the FCC have the authority to restrict throttling? I thought wired communications, like cable TV, were largely out of their control?
There will be people who really like it. I'm really psyched for this game, provided they do a good job, just based on the fact that it's Ghostbusters.
Too bad movie-themed games almost always suck...I'd love to see a good Ghostbusters game, but I don't have much hope that it will be any fun to play.
Nicely done ;-) I wish I had mod points.
Should be an interesting way to gauge your own speed. Besides using an odometer.
A lot of people find the speedometer easier to use than the odometer for determining their speed...
A pity that they didn't put their efforts into improving J2ME instead.
Improving J2ME would mean updating he basic standards of what it takes to be considered a J2ME phone. Right now, the standards are so out of date as to be completely useless, so you end up writing for what you think will work on most current phones, and then testing to find out...available emulators don't adequately emulate phone limitations, and not all manufacturers publish all of the relevant implementation specifications, so testing requires actually having a wide array of phones, which can be pretty expensive.
That is why you can get emulators for different screen/phones and test.
The emulators I've found don't adequately emulate the various limitations of these phones. You're probably right that basic J2ME commands will work across most phones, but writing games, for instance, can be a huge headache.
behaving rather bizarrely by on the one hand warning about the problems of forking and then on the other releasing their own JVM Dalvik instead of using JavaME.
You've never written a JavaME (J2ME) app, have you? Getting a J2ME application to work properly on all phones is a huge nightmare. Just when you have it working on your phone, and all of your coworkers phones, you try it on your wife's phone, and find that it completely doesn't work. There's plenty of fragmentation just within J2ME, and it's made worse by the fact that it's almost impossible to test an application on every different phone that's out there. If Google can come up with an SDK that makes "write once run anywhere" a reality in the mobile world, I'm all for it.
shielding the antenna in some kind of enclosure.
;-)
Some sort of metallic material, perhaps!
How does having the antenna "disappear" effect it's ability to circumvent jamming?
I'm a bit foggy how it "disappears". Last I checked, you need some type of container to shape plasma into a cylinder, so while the plasma may disappear, the giant glass tube presumably will still be there...and why does the author keep calling plasma a gas? Yes, you get plasma by superheating a gas. You get gas by heating liquid. Doesn't make gas the same as liquid. Plasma isn't the same as gas either.
You do know that stuff you send over the Internet is not considered private, right??
Maybe not from a technical point of view, but from a legal point of view, you can certainly get into a lot of trouble intentionally intercepting private communications over the internet.
Verizon just doesn't like anyone.
Well, that's convenient. I don't like Verizon.
I remember an article by Steve Ciarcia about how to make a camera with memory chip that wasn't actually designed to be a sensor, IIRC
I believe that would be the CMOS chip.
I think that charging more than that for, say, a Bose system is a bit overboard. The speakers are no better than what you get in the $60 system, the only difference I can discern is that Bose mangles audio in a way that "sounds bigger" by adding echoes and enhancing bass.
I generally agree with that, but that's because Bose is overpriced, and geared more toward making small speakers that sound good enough for idiots who don't know any better. There is a noticeable difference between a high-quality system and a $60-80 system, yes, even at low volume levels.
I'm not knocking budget-minded systems. And a refurb 5.1 receiver for $100 isn't really the same as a complete system with speakers for $60. You can probably get a decent receiver for $100, especially at refurbished prices. But calling a $60 complete system a "home theater", where the "subwoofer" is probably significantly smaller than a decent woofer, seems misleading...
Oh and if you're gonna listen to a Bose offering (typically not the best value for the price), really listen to the alternatives, you'll be surprised.
Have to agree with that. People tend to think Bose is top-notch, but judging by the Bose systems I've listened to, they really don't sound all that great for the money...there are usually much better alternatives at any price-point.
Just skimmed the first page, huh? Maybe you should read the rest of it and then comment on their speaker recommendations.
Maybe if they got to the point a little faster rather than burying it down several pages full of ads...and babbling about crappy systems from WalMart...
I think calling a $60 5.1 speaker system a "home theater" might be going a bit overboard...
More than I would normally expect, at least. They happen when I'm trying to telnet/SSH into my Linux box from outside,
That's interesting. I have had resets when SSHing one specific Linux box that I use for work, whereas all others have been fine. I don't know if that box is on a Comcast connection or not. But I haven't had any troubles SSHing into my own box from elsewhere.
I'm on Comcast, and haven't had any problems. Doesn't mean they're not doing it elsewhere, but they don't seem to be doing it here.
because it's sold as a system rather than as bits and pieces
You do realize that the majority of Windows machines are sold as a system, not as bits and pieces. It's a fairly small subset of the population that builds their own computers. And aside from the motherboard, everything else on a Mac is just as configurable / replaceable as with a Windows machine. Apple fans might tend to choose not to upgrade components, but there isn't any real reason that they can't (again, aside from the motherboard / mainboard)...
So thisb fhf could just be a case of someone trying to trick Best Buy and trying to use a grass roots campaign scam Best Buy.
I've found that the Best Buy near me has started to inspect returns far more than in the past. I'm used to return clerks taking things out of the box to make sure everything is there, but I returned a non-working MP3 player a few months ago, and had to wait like 20 minutes while they had a guy come over from the MP3 player department, take it out of the box, read the manual (like I hadn't tried that), grill me with questions about it, and try to get it working. They never did get it working (because it didn't work), and they eventually accepted the return, but I was amazed at how long it took. Of course, maybe they were just not very busy that day...
Brilliant ;-)