Windows NT used to support MIPS R3000 and R4000 and Alpha processors from Digital (both RISCs). Wikipedia page claims also PowerPC and RISC support but I never saw personally any of the two ports.
This could be a valid explanation, but do not explain the fact that, AFAIK, US mobiles pay also for receiving SMS. To me, it seems simply a weird and somewhat greedy contract.
I can confirm I can access the site (I'm in Italy, my ISP is Fastweb).
Just in case it is blocked by some Italian ISP, it seems that labaia.org is a new alias.;-)
What does OpenOffice offer the average user that Google Docs is lacking?
Not running in a browser on AJAX, the stupidest application 'platform' ever congealed?
Working reliably when offline?
Working reliably with large documents, with embedded images etc?
Performance? Even if you thought OO.o was slow, you'll be amazed at how badly you can bog things down if you implement it in mighty javascript, inside a browser. If you have something really mobile you'll be amazed at how badly OO.o can be on it (assuming it will work on it for RAM reasons). Google Docs is a reasonable compromise to edit a doc while you're not on a full fledged computer. Or when you're on a computer without your usual applications.
Of course the phone-modem connection isn't useful for any serious download, but I'm never helplessly disconnected from e-mail, news, slashdot Whoever has tried to read slashdot on anything less than an ADSL knows that it is way to big to read. Homepage alone is more than 500K. The same is true for accessing it via cell phone without a flat fee contract.
Zero for consumer direct use, agreed.
But there are companies that use the open sourced design to produce compatible processors: Simply RISC is one and, IIRC, also the Leon2-FT from ESA is a SPARC-derivative processor. There are many others around that, thanks to the GPL, are too open source.
If engineering cost of processors can be "shared" there will be good coming for consumers too. After all, why not a SPARC T1 derivative in your next phone?
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Windows NT used to support MIPS R3000 and R4000 and Alpha processors from Digital (both RISCs). Wikipedia page claims also PowerPC and RISC support but I never saw personally any of the two ports.
what is the purpose of this medium-sized iPhone?
You certainly aren't a hipster. I've studied their language and the prickish snooty word replacement for medium is "Grande". Nobody knows why.
Nobody also knows why the Italian word for "big" should mean "medium", btw...
This could be a valid explanation, but do not explain the fact that, AFAIK, US mobiles pay also for receiving SMS. To me, it seems simply a weird and somewhat greedy contract.
I can confirm I can access the site (I'm in Italy, my ISP is Fastweb). Just in case it is blocked by some Italian ISP, it seems that labaia.org is a new alias. ;-)
Zero for consumer direct use, agreed.
But there are companies that use the open sourced design to produce compatible processors: Simply RISC is one and, IIRC, also the Leon2-FT from ESA is a SPARC-derivative processor. There are many others around that, thanks to the GPL, are too open source.
If engineering cost of processors can be "shared" there will be good coming for consumers too. After all, why not a SPARC T1 derivative in your next phone?
Simply, this way EU can have the same data of US and use them if and when needed...