for a while I used Eudora and every month religiously took each piece of email and filed it away in suitable mail folders. After Eudora started declining and I got too busy, I stopped that, but even now, religiously every month I clean out my mailbox of all junk and unwanted attachments (trimming 60-100MB to usually 20-30MB) and then stack that months email away as a single mbox file, and start fresh with a new Inbox.
the old mailbox files are on an IMAP server that I can easily read emails from at least 10 years ago -- older with a little more effort. As single mbox files each, I can do greps on them also. Seems to be an okay way to keep the stuff, some of which has proven to be important over the years....
another big help: all semi-junky and non business emails I let Hotmail do the work (vendor stuff, Amazon orders, etc). Have been using Hotmail since before MS bought it. Works well as a place to direct mostly junky vendor stuff.
Really? the timing and frequency with which you communicate tells you something about your closeness to friends and associates... really? Perhaps who you call and calls you, and how often and how long...
Peoples and cultures that don't "believe" in the real world, nor operate based on empirical evidence, will be natually selected out... eventually. Unfortunately Darwinian selection can take a long time, and in the mean time, they can do a lot of damage...
A society or civilization that doesn't use the scientific method to guide its development won't survive the long haul... unfortunately in the US, with science education and career development at an all time low, science funding being slashed, and creationist museums and textbooks springing up, the US may also suffer the same fate. Certainly the Chinese have a keen appreciation for science and are playing out their role in natural selection...
But, in an ironic twist, smaller U.S. wireless rivals may suffer more if the deal is blocked than if it is approved...
1) the article's definition of "hurt" is apparently greater competition from a strengthened Tmobile. This is fallacious because: a) greater competition is not equivalent to "hurt" -- it can actually be beneficial and it certainly benefits consumers and competition is unlikely to be limited to just the low end of the market, b) Tmobile may not be strengthened at all. DT is likely to pocket the $3B and continue to find a buyer for Tmo. Nothing guarantees Tmo's improved position.
But the other piece that is stupid is that, in order to argue that smaller rivals are hurt more, you have to spell out "Compared with WHAT???" The whole rationale that Sprint and other smaller carriers have stated is that the duopoly formed by a gigantic AT&T and Verizon is that they will have so much market power that they will have power over handsets, backhaul agreements, marketing, etc, etc. The duopoly will be unstoppable. These are points that are TOTALLY ignored by the article when it saids that "smaller rivals may suffer more" without the Tmo buyout than with.
So, without Tmo buyout: more competition in the low end MAYBE, but with the Tmo buyout, DUOPOLY that strangles the market, likely eventually squeezing smaller carriers to death. Which situation "hurts more" ?
The article is hardly a revelation and apparently thinks that greater competition in the low end of the wireless market is bad. But of course greater competition is EXACTLY what stopping this Tmo merger buyout is all about. Furthermore, stopping the buyout is no guarantee that Tmo will stay as a low end carrier. DT has made it very clear that it wants out of the US market, so Tmo most certainly will change in major ways. It may be chopped up. It may be sold to another owner that would have an entirely different business model for it.
Finally, Sprint knew full well the pros and cons for this buyout and lobbying for stopping it. And Sprint's business is not the same as Tmo and does not seek to serve the same market segment as Tmo. Overall the article is plain rubbish.
well no, not Windows 1.0, which has essentially ZERO impact on the market. Even Windows 2.x had only a small market impact -- it was probably Excel on Windows 2.x that started the ball rolling though, that and the advantage of video and printer drivers. Windows 3.0 was a pig, hardly used but much prettier than Windows 2.x. Windows 3.1 is the really beginning of the end, or end of the beginning (of the monopoly). Before that, MS was coasting on its monopoly from MSDOS.
just because the MS vs Stacker settlement wasn't based on bundling doesn't mean that bundling wasn't an issue, a BIG issue at that time. Stacker was just one of several companies offering data compression solutions to MSDOS. In addition there were a number of other DOS utilities from 3rd parties, all of whom were making money on these add-on utilities, quite parallel to anti-virus add-ons of today. When MS decided to include many of their own utilities bundled as part of the then new DOS 6.0, there was a huge hew and cry from these 3rd parties about the unfairness of the OS monopolist MS bundling utilities thus obviating much of the need for 3rd party software.
Stacker was the only one that could squeeze something out of MS during this time, and as you say, because of a different reason. Not much that small software companies can do against MS... same is going to be true now with this antivirus thing... and probably VMs in Windows. MS also killed most of the backup software market, etc. That's what monopolists do... kill the smaller ancillary markets...
Stacker, IE, etc... now that the DOJ antitrust action/oversight against MS is complete...
Of course MS will argue that it *needs* to be integral to the OS, just as MS argued about Stacker (data compression) and IE. Stacker did win a pretty big settlement from MS... perhaps Norton and McAfee should take the money and run, far away...
I've had first hand experience with airport Xrays damaging/corrupting my electronics, specifically a instant-on mini laptop that used SRAM as its memory. It happened not just once or twice but three times. I believe it would have to do with the strength of the Xrays and the depth of the charge wells or the size of current that would need to be opposed in order to flip bits. This happened a while ago (15 years) and hasn't happened recently, although I think I remember airport Xrays also scrambling one of my old Palm Pilots once, so let's hope the intensity of the Xrays used has gone down and the memories used are more hardened against Xrays (or cosmic rays, etc).
I've been using laptops sans floppy or optical drivers for 18 years +/-. If memory serves, it dates back to the FIRST TFT active matrix laptops. Toshiba was a leader in "subnotebooks" and came out with the magic combination that would carry through to today: active matrix LCD screens and lithium batteries, the T3400, T3600, T610 and T620. These were 3-4lb subnotebooks without either floppy or CD drives. Prior to these models, everyone was using PASSIVE matrix screens (ugh) and NiMH batteries (double ugh).
So nothing new about running around without optical drives. Whenever I need to load software via CDROM, just use the network and a shared optical drive from a PC, etc....
can't find the real number in the smartphone numbers, BUT Apple is taking 60% of the profits in the TOTAL phone market (smart+dumb) in which it only has a 5% numbers marketshare. That's better than a 10X ratio of marketshare to profitshare -- yes real numbers. So Apple's PROFITshare is huge and disproportionately so compared with its marketshare.
in tablets, Apple has 75% marketshare (real numbers as of 11/2011), so I'm sure it is taking at least 90% profitshare in tablets...
Apple really isn't going to care, what with Amazon LOSING money with each Fire they sell. More Android phones are sold than iphones also, but Apple is making 90% of the PROFIT in the smartphone market.
If some random company buys webOS *without* Palm's IP/patents, they would be sued the second they actually used it in a product. These days, if you don't have a decent patent warchest, it doesn't matter how good your product or software is... webOS is a useless asset without the patents, either Palm's or already owning a similar rich set already.
For those that realize this, the list of possible buyers now becomes much, much smaller...
Don't forget that Windows 8 is supposedly moving to ARM CPUs for mobile/low power devices. So it won't run x86 binaries, though presumably MS Windows apps like Office could be ported...
so how do you implement a proxied browser that DOESN'T send the URL back to the proxy servers? Opera Mini is one such browser and is excellent, particularly for smart and dumb phones, providing for a big increase in speed. It works well for Android and WM devices. I'm quite sure that it sends every URL back to Opera's browsers for rendering.
I thought Dolphin did the same, at least in part, that it uses server acceleration, no?
How can someone with no technical knowledge, and no interest in knowing, run a technological company?
....mmmm the point I guess is that HE CAN'T.... its been none too obvious that MS has completely stagnated during the past DECADE. As an admitted stock holder of MSFT who is quite disappointed, I say this with all seriousness. Ballmer has got to go if MS is going to go anywhere itself...
I want to continue to use FF but its terrible memory leaks have pushed me to Chrome. Its ridiculous that a few browser windows and, over time FF climbs to 1.5GB. Chrome manages to stay under 500MB for the exact same usage.
Also there really not much in recent FF releases, of which there are far far too many, that I like.
Keep it small, fast and stable and I will come back.
Those who complain about being "the product", 1) have a choice not to be the product simply by stop using the services, 2) can be a bona fide customer, by definition, simply by starting to pay services. Where is the mystery or unfairness here?
the effort looks very worthwhile and may well be quite helpful, ie PROMISES... but the notion that rat physiology is EASILY programmed is so ridiculous as to be laughable. Perhaps some broad, gross strokes, which might be good for some things, but certainly not in any detailed, thorough way at the level of subtlety that many disease operate at. And yes, rat physiolog is very similar to human physiology, certainly at these levels and below. When the genome is 90+% identical, so is the physiology.
Quote: Originally Posted by monkeyboy I didn't see anyone say yet, but Moto *is* well endowed with patents for wireless technology, so it may be that in the end, Moto could gain an upper hand in this battle (relative to other Android makers). Quote: Originally Posted by sfhub MMI has about $6b market cap. Google was willing to pay $6b for Groupon which is just a glorified coupon company. What if Google just bought MMI and its patents for the benefit of all Android manufacturers?
Many GPS units do not have adequate filtering against RF interference from adjacent spectrum. LightSquared owns 1500Mhz spectrum that it wants to use for terrestial LTE networks. Currently it interferes with GPS, but it is really the GPS's industry's fault, not LightSquared. The implication is that we may have to re-buy much of the GPS units we now own, because current units will be worthless when LTE turns on their LTE network. The FCC is trying to figure out how to solve this problem, but it seems inescapable that at least partial blame is with the GPS industry.
In short, LightSquared claims that the GPS industry is ignoring the Department of Defense's recommended filtering standards, as well as ignoring the International Telecommunications Union's international standard for GPS receivers and transmitters. According to the DoD recommendations, GPS systems are supposed to employ filters to make sure GPS signals don't interfere with adjacent spectrum. The ITU's standard calls for a 4MHz guard band between GPS and the nearest spectrum.
The GPS industry has a responsibility to use its licensed spectrum in accordance with international and federal government standards – not for LightSquared’s sake, but for the sake of the American people who own the public airwaves and who fund the GPS satellite system.
"The GPS industry benefits from an estimated $18 billion taxpayer subsidy to offer a commercial service that is completely dependent on a government satellite system. Despite the federal handout, they have deliberately ignored Defense Department criteria for using the restricted system,” Carlisle said. “LightSquared remains committed to working in partnership with responsible members of the GPS industry and for the benefit of the public by creating good-paying jobs and economic opportunity at a time when America desperately needs both.”
So how exactly is the US going to fix these problems, given its current political, economical structure and corporate culture? Is there any hope of fixing all the big problems from within the system?
Why is what Zediva does any different than Slingbox? (Individuals rent DVDs and view remotely). Slingbox exactly allows for this, along with remote cable TV viewing as well. So Zediva is nothing more than renting the use of a Slingbox setup, including the DVD rental.
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Yup, almost exactly what I do and have been doing for 9 years. Of course its not something that most commonfolk can do.
back to ARPA mail and UUCP mail days...
for a while I used Eudora and every month religiously took each piece of email and filed it away in suitable mail folders. After Eudora started declining and I got too busy, I stopped that, but even now, religiously every month I clean out my mailbox of all junk and unwanted attachments (trimming 60-100MB to usually 20-30MB) and then stack that months email away as a single mbox file, and start fresh with a new Inbox.
the old mailbox files are on an IMAP server that I can easily read emails from at least 10 years ago -- older with a little more effort. As single mbox files each, I can do greps on them also. Seems to be an okay way to keep the stuff, some of which has proven to be important over the years....
another big help: all semi-junky and non business emails I let Hotmail do the work (vendor stuff, Amazon orders, etc). Have been using Hotmail since before MS bought it. Works well as a place to direct mostly junky vendor stuff.
Really? the timing and frequency with which you communicate tells you something about your closeness to friends and associates... really?
Perhaps who you call and calls you, and how often and how long...
this counts as news? Investigative Research 101?
Peoples and cultures that don't "believe" in the real world, nor operate based on empirical evidence, will be natually selected out... eventually. Unfortunately Darwinian selection can take a long time, and in the mean time, they can do a lot of damage...
A society or civilization that doesn't use the scientific method to guide its development won't survive the long haul... unfortunately in the US, with science education and career development at an all time low, science funding being slashed, and creationist museums and textbooks springing up, the US may also suffer the same fate. Certainly the Chinese have a keen appreciation for science and are playing out their role in natural selection...
1) the article's definition of "hurt" is apparently greater competition from a strengthened Tmobile. This is fallacious because: a) greater competition is not equivalent to "hurt" -- it can actually be beneficial and it certainly benefits consumers and competition is unlikely to be limited to just the low end of the market, b) Tmobile may not be strengthened at all. DT is likely to pocket the $3B and continue to find a buyer for Tmo. Nothing guarantees Tmo's improved position.
But the other piece that is stupid is that, in order to argue that smaller rivals are hurt more, you have to spell out "Compared with WHAT???" The whole rationale that Sprint and other smaller carriers have stated is that the duopoly formed by a gigantic AT&T and Verizon is that they will have so much market power that they will have power over handsets, backhaul agreements, marketing, etc, etc. The duopoly will be unstoppable. These are points that are TOTALLY ignored by the article when it saids that "smaller rivals may suffer more" without the Tmo buyout than with.
So, without Tmo buyout: more competition in the low end MAYBE, but with the Tmo buyout, DUOPOLY that strangles the market, likely eventually squeezing smaller carriers to death. Which situation "hurts more" ?
The article is hardly a revelation and apparently thinks that greater competition in the low end of the wireless market is bad. But of course greater competition is EXACTLY what stopping this Tmo merger buyout is all about. Furthermore, stopping the buyout is no guarantee that Tmo will stay as a low end carrier. DT has made it very clear that it wants out of the US market, so Tmo most certainly will change in major ways. It may be chopped up. It may be sold to another owner that would have an entirely different business model for it.
Finally, Sprint knew full well the pros and cons for this buyout and lobbying for stopping it. And Sprint's business is not the same as Tmo and does not seek to serve the same market segment as Tmo. Overall the article is plain rubbish.
well no, not Windows 1.0, which has essentially ZERO impact on the market. Even Windows 2.x had only a small market impact -- it was probably Excel on Windows 2.x that started the ball rolling though, that and the advantage of video and printer drivers. Windows 3.0 was a pig, hardly used but much prettier than Windows 2.x. Windows 3.1 is the really beginning of the end, or end of the beginning (of the monopoly). Before that, MS was coasting on its monopoly from MSDOS.
just because the MS vs Stacker settlement wasn't based on bundling doesn't mean that bundling wasn't an issue, a BIG issue at that time. Stacker was just one of several companies offering data compression solutions to MSDOS. In addition there were a number of other DOS utilities from 3rd parties, all of whom were making money on these add-on utilities, quite parallel to anti-virus add-ons of today. When MS decided to include many of their own utilities bundled as part of the then new DOS 6.0, there was a huge hew and cry from these 3rd parties about the unfairness of the OS monopolist MS bundling utilities thus obviating much of the need for 3rd party software.
Stacker was the only one that could squeeze something out of MS during this time, and as you say, because of a different reason. Not much that small software companies can do against MS... same is going to be true now with this antivirus thing... and probably VMs in Windows. MS also killed most of the backup software market, etc. That's what monopolists do... kill the smaller ancillary markets...
Stacker, IE, etc... now that the DOJ antitrust action/oversight against MS is complete...
Of course MS will argue that it *needs* to be integral to the OS, just as MS argued about Stacker (data compression) and IE.
Stacker did win a pretty big settlement from MS... perhaps Norton and McAfee should take the money and run, far away...
I've had first hand experience with airport Xrays damaging/corrupting my electronics, specifically a instant-on mini laptop that used SRAM as its memory. It happened not just once or twice but three times. I believe it would have to do with the strength of the Xrays and the depth of the charge wells or the size of current that would need to be opposed in order to flip bits. This happened a while ago (15 years) and hasn't happened recently, although I think I remember airport Xrays also scrambling one of my old Palm Pilots once, so let's hope the intensity of the Xrays used has gone down and the memories used are more hardened against Xrays (or cosmic rays, etc).
I've been using laptops sans floppy or optical drivers for 18 years +/-. If memory serves, it dates back to the FIRST TFT active matrix laptops. Toshiba was a leader in "subnotebooks" and came out with the magic combination that would carry through to today: active matrix LCD screens and lithium batteries, the T3400, T3600, T610 and T620. These were 3-4lb subnotebooks without either floppy or CD drives. Prior to these models, everyone was using PASSIVE matrix screens (ugh) and NiMH batteries (double ugh).
So nothing new about running around without optical drives. Whenever I need to load software via CDROM, just use the network and a shared optical drive from a PC, etc....
can't find the real number in the smartphone numbers, BUT Apple is taking 60% of the profits in the TOTAL phone market (smart+dumb) in which it only has a 5% numbers marketshare. That's better than a 10X ratio of marketshare to profitshare -- yes real numbers. So Apple's PROFITshare is huge and disproportionately so compared with its marketshare.
in tablets, Apple has 75% marketshare (real numbers as of 11/2011), so I'm sure it is taking at least 90% profitshare in tablets...
Apple really isn't going to care, what with Amazon LOSING money with each Fire they sell. More Android phones are sold than iphones also, but Apple is making 90% of the PROFIT in the smartphone market.
If some random company buys webOS *without* Palm's IP/patents, they would be sued the second they actually used it in a product. These days, if you don't have a decent patent warchest, it doesn't matter how good your product or software is... webOS is a useless asset without the patents, either Palm's or already owning a similar rich set already.
For those that realize this, the list of possible buyers now becomes much, much smaller...
Don't forget that Windows 8 is supposedly moving to ARM CPUs for mobile/low power devices. So it won't run x86 binaries, though presumably MS Windows apps like Office could be ported...
so how do you implement a proxied browser that DOESN'T send the URL back to the proxy servers?
Opera Mini is one such browser and is excellent, particularly for smart and dumb phones, providing for a big increase in speed. It works well for Android and WM devices. I'm quite sure that it sends every URL back to Opera's browsers for rendering.
I thought Dolphin did the same, at least in part, that it uses server acceleration, no?
....mmmm the point I guess is that HE CAN'T.... its been none too obvious that MS has completely stagnated during the past DECADE. As an admitted stock holder of MSFT who is quite disappointed, I say this with all seriousness. Ballmer has got to go if MS is going to go anywhere itself...
I want to continue to use FF but its terrible memory leaks have pushed me to Chrome. Its ridiculous that a few browser windows and, over time FF climbs to 1.5GB. Chrome manages to stay under 500MB for the exact same usage.
Also there really not much in recent FF releases, of which there are far far too many, that I like.
Keep it small, fast and stable and I will come back.
Those who complain about being "the product", 1) have a choice not to be the product simply by stop using the services, 2) can be a bona fide customer, by definition, simply by starting to pay services. Where is the mystery or unfairness here?
It would be nice to know what radios this thing has... CDMA? GSM? AWS? LTE?
the effort looks very worthwhile and may well be quite helpful, ie PROMISES... but the notion that rat physiology is EASILY programmed is so ridiculous as to be laughable. Perhaps some broad, gross strokes, which might be good for some things, but certainly not in any detailed, thorough way at the level of subtlety that many disease operate at. And yes, rat physiolog is very similar to human physiology, certainly at these levels and below. When the genome is 90+% identical, so is the physiology.
http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2585760&postcount=13
we shoulda bought Moto stock then...
posted 8/8/11:
Many GPS units do not have adequate filtering against RF interference from adjacent spectrum. LightSquared owns 1500Mhz spectrum that it wants to use for terrestial LTE networks. Currently it interferes with GPS, but it is really the GPS's industry's fault, not LightSquared. The implication is that we may have to re-buy much of the GPS units we now own, because current units will be worthless when LTE turns on their LTE network. The FCC is trying to figure out how to solve this problem, but it seems inescapable that at least partial blame is with the GPS industry.
http://www.lightsquared.com/press-room/press-releases/gps-industrys-failure-to-comply-with-department-of-defense/
In short, LightSquared claims that the GPS industry is ignoring the Department of Defense's recommended filtering standards, as well as ignoring the International Telecommunications Union's international standard for GPS receivers and transmitters. According to the DoD recommendations, GPS systems are supposed to employ filters to make sure GPS signals don't interfere with adjacent spectrum. The ITU's standard calls for a 4MHz guard band between GPS and the nearest spectrum.
So how exactly is the US going to fix these problems, given its current political, economical structure and corporate culture? Is there any hope of fixing all the big problems from within the system?
Why is what Zediva does any different than Slingbox? (Individuals rent DVDs and view remotely).
Slingbox exactly allows for this, along with remote cable TV viewing as well. So Zediva is nothing more than renting the use of a Slingbox setup, including the DVD rental.