Samsung Galaxy has been waterproof without removing the headphone jack...
Some early HTC / Dopod windows phones had no headphone jack. It was all pumped through the usb. And It sucked. It sucked hard core. I have no interest in ever buying a phone again without a headphone jack.
Dont rely on our Health Department to do anything sensible.
We are currently building a hospital in a city of 1.6 million people - which is to be the 3rd most expensive building in the world. Its more expensive than the Burj Khalifa. Even worse - we are doing it as a public private partnership. So instead of simply borrowing money (in an age where money is almost free) at a government level, we are paying a private enterprise to do that, and we essentially lease it off them for the next 30 years. They make a massive profit, we incur all the costs.
It does, but its buggy, incomplete, and not suited to a business. We seriously tried using it because Thunderbird as a mail client with IMAP servers worked so much better for us than Exchange. However, the calendar is just not up to it. Sharing calendars, shared calendars such as rooms, its just difficult, buggy, incomplete. If, the calendars were fixed up to properly support caldav, and in a way that would suit business, Thunderbird could be a rival to Outlook. But its not - Sogo and the like is trying, but when we last tried a couple of years ago, it just wasnt ready. We jumped shipped to Office 365. Calendar wise we never looked back - however with emails, I still miss the speed and efficiency of our globally distributed Cyrus IMAP servers and Thunderbird - they left Outlook for dead.
Even better was that if you had more than 512 entries in your start menu (which isnt hard, because that includes folders, readme's, uninstalls, utils, etc etc) most of your applications would not be displayed in your start menu. So you'd have a start menu, it would just be useless.
Ive been using BackupPC with compression and deduplication for well over 10 years now. Current pools stats show 35TB of backups compress down to 4TB in my pool.
The Australian Government tried exactly this 7 years ago (we even fought an election over this issue) in a national project called the NBN. Commercial interests combined with the Conservative side of politics fought this one down. It was costed, and going to provide a small commercial return. There were a few hickups in the early days, but it was going to be one of the largest national projects ever attempted. The NBN was to be wholesale access only, and you would chose the RSP (retailer) of your choice. However, the Murdoch media (News Ltd, Fox etc) provided the conservative side of politics not stop biased coverage to ensure they won an election to shut it down. Full Page Front Covers of major national news papers, title "This is your chance to vote this mob out". The national broadcaster gagged its reports from reporting effectively on the conservative proposals. The conservatives won the election. They changed the project from fibre to the home to VDSL. Many people get slower connections now than they did on ADSL. Many people are being shifted from ADSL to satellite. The project is costing more than the Fibre upgrade would have. The project is taking longer. Take up rates are attrocious, and this has substantially blown the costings to the point that it wont pay for itself nor will it make a return. Complaints are through the roof. Maintenance of the copper network is estimated to be in the order of $1billion (Fibre around ~100m) a year, with power and operating costs substantially higher than fibre as well. For this, the minister of communications was promoted to prime minister.
Moral: Dont think that the commercial end of town ever wants you to have good internet. Its not in their plans to allow substantial competition to their media interests.
the real cost is in the gear needed to light and amplify signals on the fiber
Not really. 10G SFP+ transceivers giving 10km distance are around US$30. (40km for $150). The costs for 10G really have come down. (Unless you look at HP and cisco list prices.)
Heck, Electronic Fuel Injection isn't on aircraft engines yet - yes, they've had fuel injection for around 25 years or so but it's generally of the continuous spray type.
Fuel Injection actually started in aircraft engines from 1906. Was extremely popular in particularly the German side in WW2. Its just that our current light aircraft industry has very little interest in innovation and are still pumping out the same designs from the 50's.
Cam Timing - having a camshaft is a forced pick the optimum cam timing for the entire rev range - you get one choice - open at a particular degree in the cycle, and close. Further more, you cant adjust the ramp up and ramp down rates. The mechanicals have a limit on how quickly they'll ramp up and down - high rpm you'll get valve float and valve bounce.
You can play around with it a little. Nissan in the 90's started with an actuator to shift the cam timing forward slightly at higher rev ranges. Honda and their VTEC - shift the camshaft to a more agressive mode at higher RPMS. But still, this is only playing at the fringes. Formula one has used pnuematic valve control for a while (camless). There is significant efficiency gains to allow higher revving engine, but more so to make sure the valve opening and closing timings are optmised for both the current engine rpm and load - which you can not do with a camshaft.
All of the easy gains have been made. To get further efficiency gains, we're going to have to look at the more complex options such as this.
The Northern Territory in Australia had no speed limits on some very long remote highways. However a few years ago they were forced by the Australian Government to implement them at 130kmh. The accident rate climbed massively. They have slowly been removing the speed limits and watching the accident rate fall again.
Furthermore, major architectural issues. Running a full copy of mysql per login per user? Great fun if your ~ dir is on NFS. Even better if they decide to login to 2 machines at once. I loved finding the surprise 7.1TB log file in a hidden directory from mysql crying about being unable to access its files.
Both Gnome and KDE have shown that they are only developing for a single machine desktop. No enterprise or terminal considerations at all. But barely even that. Putting log files into hidden directories? No managing those log files at all?
But to expand on your point - multiple displays gets ugly. Laptops and external displays being added and removed will bring you to tears real quick. Im not sure this is all KDE's problem - this is probably the limitations of X - and hence why wayland and the like now exists.
Not completely true. With 6 or 8tb drives, you are looking at a few days to a week or so of the raid rebuilding. During this time, you have the protection of raid 0 without the speed.
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Dont count on it to be too soon. Some rather basic features such as 'ping' (icmp) simply dont work due to the way the windows kernel works.
HTC3600i tried this - it was all part of the mini usb. And it sucked balls. Never again.
The HTC 3600i windows phones years ago did this. No headphone jack. They gave you a USB connected headphones or you could buy an adapter.
It sucked. I will never ever go back to that again. No headphone port on my phone, I will simply not buy it. Instant deal breaker.
Samsung Galaxy has been waterproof without removing the headphone jack...
Some early HTC / Dopod windows phones had no headphone jack. It was all pumped through the usb. And It sucked. It sucked hard core. I have no interest in ever buying a phone again without a headphone jack.
Dont rely on our Health Department to do anything sensible.
We are currently building a hospital in a city of 1.6 million people - which is to be the 3rd most expensive building in the world. Its more expensive than the Burj Khalifa.
Even worse - we are doing it as a public private partnership. So instead of simply borrowing money (in an age where money is almost free) at a government level, we are paying a private enterprise to do that, and we essentially lease it off them for the next 30 years. They make a massive profit, we incur all the costs.
And about 2 minutes after I posted this, I realised my error. You're right. UMTS/HSPA is WDCMA.
No, LTE is really a jacked up version of CDMA. Its known as WCDMA with W for Wide Band.
Also because your taillights have red reflectors built into them, so oncoming cars will recognise the rear of a car.
HtC tried it with their early windows mobiles such as the HTC3600i. Audio through the usb port. Either you use their headphones or an adapter.
It sucked. The market judged their idea and it failed.
It does, but its buggy, incomplete, and not suited to a business. We seriously tried using it because Thunderbird as a mail client with IMAP servers worked so much better for us than Exchange. However, the calendar is just not up to it. Sharing calendars, shared calendars such as rooms, its just difficult, buggy, incomplete.
If, the calendars were fixed up to properly support caldav, and in a way that would suit business, Thunderbird could be a rival to Outlook. But its not - Sogo and the like is trying, but when we last tried a couple of years ago, it just wasnt ready.
We jumped shipped to Office 365. Calendar wise we never looked back - however with emails, I still miss the speed and efficiency of our globally distributed Cyrus IMAP servers and Thunderbird - they left Outlook for dead.
I'm guessing that you are outside the US. This is most likely US only.
Even better was that if you had more than 512 entries in your start menu (which isnt hard, because that includes folders, readme's, uninstalls, utils, etc etc) most of your applications would not be displayed in your start menu.
So you'd have a start menu, it would just be useless.
Along with Internet Explorer for Unix.
Ive been using BackupPC with compression and deduplication for well over 10 years now. Current pools stats show 35TB of backups compress down to 4TB in my pool.
The Australian Government tried exactly this 7 years ago (we even fought an election over this issue) in a national project called the NBN. Commercial interests combined with the Conservative side of politics fought this one down. It was costed, and going to provide a small commercial return. There were a few hickups in the early days, but it was going to be one of the largest national projects ever attempted. The NBN was to be wholesale access only, and you would chose the RSP (retailer) of your choice.
However, the Murdoch media (News Ltd, Fox etc) provided the conservative side of politics not stop biased coverage to ensure they won an election to shut it down. Full Page Front Covers of major national news papers, title "This is your chance to vote this mob out". The national broadcaster gagged its reports from reporting effectively on the conservative proposals.
The conservatives won the election. They changed the project from fibre to the home to VDSL. Many people get slower connections now than they did on ADSL. Many people are being shifted from ADSL to satellite. The project is costing more than the Fibre upgrade would have. The project is taking longer. Take up rates are attrocious, and this has substantially blown the costings to the point that it wont pay for itself nor will it make a return. Complaints are through the roof. Maintenance of the copper network is estimated to be in the order of $1billion (Fibre around ~100m) a year, with power and operating costs substantially higher than fibre as well.
For this, the minister of communications was promoted to prime minister.
Moral: Dont think that the commercial end of town ever wants you to have good internet. Its not in their plans to allow substantial competition to their media interests.
the real cost is in the gear needed to light and amplify signals on the fiber
Not really. 10G SFP+ transceivers giving 10km distance are around US$30. (40km for $150). The costs for 10G really have come down. (Unless you look at HP and cisco list prices.)
The musical parts of that song were courtesy of Jamie Foxx and Ray Charles.
Ironically, referring back to the lyrics, she is now messing with a broke ....
Heck, Electronic Fuel Injection isn't on aircraft engines yet - yes, they've had fuel injection for around 25 years or so but it's generally of the continuous spray type.
Fuel Injection actually started in aircraft engines from 1906. Was extremely popular in particularly the German side in WW2. Its just that our current light aircraft industry has very little interest in innovation and are still pumping out the same designs from the 50's.
And I forgot an example link: http://www.formula1-dictionary...
Cam Timing - having a camshaft is a forced pick the optimum cam timing for the entire rev range - you get one choice - open at a particular degree in the cycle, and close. Further more, you cant adjust the ramp up and ramp down rates. The mechanicals have a limit on how quickly they'll ramp up and down - high rpm you'll get valve float and valve bounce.
You can play around with it a little. Nissan in the 90's started with an actuator to shift the cam timing forward slightly at higher rev ranges. Honda and their VTEC - shift the camshaft to a more agressive mode at higher RPMS. But still, this is only playing at the fringes.
Formula one has used pnuematic valve control for a while (camless). There is significant efficiency gains to allow higher revving engine, but more so to make sure the valve opening and closing timings are optmised for both the current engine rpm and load - which you can not do with a camshaft.
All of the easy gains have been made. To get further efficiency gains, we're going to have to look at the more complex options such as this.
And many of the major upgrades require large configuration rewrites - so enjoy that too.
The Northern Territory in Australia had no speed limits on some very long remote highways. However a few years ago they were forced by the Australian Government to implement them at 130kmh. The accident rate climbed massively. They have slowly been removing the speed limits and watching the accident rate fall again.
Furthermore, major architectural issues. Running a full copy of mysql per login per user? Great fun if your ~ dir is on NFS. Even better if they decide to login to 2 machines at once. I loved finding the surprise 7.1TB log file in a hidden directory from mysql crying about being unable to access its files.
Both Gnome and KDE have shown that they are only developing for a single machine desktop. No enterprise or terminal considerations at all. But barely even that. Putting log files into hidden directories? No managing those log files at all?
But to expand on your point - multiple displays gets ugly. Laptops and external displays being added and removed will bring you to tears real quick. Im not sure this is all KDE's problem - this is probably the limitations of X - and hence why wayland and the like now exists.
Not completely true. With 6 or 8tb drives, you are looking at a few days to a week or so of the raid rebuilding. During this time, you have the protection of raid 0 without the speed.
In Australia is because they have their locale set to en-au and they are using en-us media.
So far the upgrade process is a mess.