I have one as well - the later versions (when purchased w/ cingular service), are EDGE compatible, and the speeds are VERY impressive. doing a speed test, I was able to get DL speeds of around 100kbps, which is fairly decent considering.
Here are some points about the phone (pros, and cons)
p: solid - motorola despite any other problems makes some solid phones!
p: good reception - I was able to get reception on this thing in a colo 2 floors underground (granted, this is also a result of Cingulars increased coverage, but still...)
p: Macs can use them for a bluetooth modem (and with the EDGE capabilities mentioned above, it's quite nice)
c or p?: it's got a rubberized coating, which is great while in hand, but horrible if you're trying to dig it out of your pocket, seeing as it sticks to the fabric
c: horrible interface. I'm an interface nut, and motorola couldn't make a good one to save their life - looks like they're going Symbian in future phones, which will certainly help out
c: voice recognition uses too short a sound bite time, so you can't save very memorable voice numbers
To put it simply, for every increase in widespead accessibility to something like starting a business, making music, or making art, one single person isn't the only one to capitalize on the benefits. A larger audience is brought into the arena with these advances, and effectively you're back to square one, because you're at the same proportion of talent/no talent given that the numbers of both increase.
In previous generations, it might have been things like better farming equipment, cheaper building supplies, or the printing press - in all cases though, while the population was lifted as a whole, there were individuals in each case which outshined their less talented counterparts.
Going back to the main point, in all of history, I can't think of anything that's repeatedly eclipsed education as the best means to your end - this time in history is no different, anyone who thinks so must not remember the Dot Com bust and the promised revolution therein.
Remember if your idiot cousin from the cake shop wants the printer to work, she will phone rent-a-nerd. If you are lucky, she will wear a low cut blouse and very short skirt for the occasion.
Wow, I didn't know they had running water in the Ozarks, let alone computers!
While many of the 1,000 or so tracks now featured on the service...
You could literally have the best and most rights friendly (whose?) service on the planet, but if all you have is one thousand songs, and no deals with recognizable record companys, or artists (it'll never happen with their TOS), why should I care?
Really, this isn't a troll, but this just strikes me as being along the same lines as the truckloads of audio players that play a bjillion formats, but don't actually offer anything that I want.
To include "Moore's Law", which is an educated (and heretofore correct), guess at the progress of transistor design, with laws that consitently and correctly dictate how the world around us works, is silly.
The problem with an atomic assembler, is that the forces between the atoms/molecules, at that level will be extremely difficult, if not impossible to overcome without an amazing amount of energy - more energy than would be worth investing in making whatever it is that you're making by other methods (macro chemical fabrication etc...).
Wired Magazine (which is normally otherwise techno-fluff) had a story in a recent issue about how Drexler's been pushed to the side with his theories about non-assemblers - I think it's justifiable.
There are those who justifiably challenge the norms of science, and come out winners, and I'm not saying Drexler isn't a smart or educated man, but just because you're flying in the face of the status quo will not mean that your ideas will prove correct (see perpetual motion machines).
Even one of the latest issues of Scientific American had an article talking about how they've discovered periods in geologic history when the climate changed by 5-7 deg C in a decade (remembering roughly).
Wow, talk about selective reading. In that same article, they mention that it is known that human activities have been shown to make a difference in the climate.
Who actually believes that you can make statements about small (0.5%) variations in a system...
If I understand you, you're trivializing the temperature variations that have been mentioned, and equating them to an insignificant change just because they don't seem large numerically? Those small changes, if doubled or tripled (or contrary-wise, halved or divided by three), would have gigantic ramifications on our lives, both in the way we live, and the way the things around us live, upon which we depend; and that's ignoring their current effects as-is.
I suppose it highlights the difference in opinion, and the the subsequent dif ference in interpretation.
I mean, I was using VocalTec's Internet Phone in '96, and really, given todays general ample bandwidth, I don't understand why Skype is so big. I've seen Fortune articles on it, and this guys name used with some sort of business-man's reverence.
Once you get past the novelty of talking to random people by voice over the Internet, the novelty wears off, and all you've got is a VOIP that you can't actually use real phone with (granted, the end party can).
I have a Vonage line at home, and that form of VOIP seems all that much more interesting, if only because they've bridged the software/hardware gap. Is this really that much different from video chat, other than the fact that you can call to a MeatSpace phone (or is that the Big Deal?)?
That being said, this book might be useful for even non-Sun geeks to point out just how tightly the C implementation can be bound to the OS and hardware.
I think the key word here is "can".
The book which I referenced assumes gcc, so while yes, implementations of certain functions might be machine specific, the idea is that porting it from one platform to another, assuming that you're using good coding practice shouldn't be too bad.
Implying that a generally portable language on a generally standards compliant (POSIX) OS should be relegated to just one companies version of it just because it's the "defacto commercial standard" seems shortsighted, and bad practice.
It's one of the most generalized C/UNIX programming books I've been able to find; it doesn't pidgeon-hole itself into a particular *nix. After all, C in one Unix should ideally be portable to another Unix.
You do realize that there's a real vagina and penis (assuming that's what you're into) on the other end of the camera right? STDs, conception, rape, and abuse go on in the porn industry, so by these ppls logic, stopping the immoral demand will stop the immoral side-effects as well.
You can leverage the abilities of apt for just this purpose - many people have public apt repositories, though I realize this doesn't exactly answer the need.
Depending on the release of the RPM-based distro, apt works differently - the later the release, the more functionality. The problem you experienced might be caused by any number of things, though in general, RPM was not designed with apt in mind.
We've been able to successfully upgrade boxes in the field from RH 7.3 to Fedora Core 1, something that we'd have never dreamed of doing without apt. When you're in a production environment with hundreds of machines spread out all over the world, evengelism takes a back seat;)
So yeah, not the perfect solution, but you have to make compromises.
I went through this same discussion at my company, as Debian is my preferred distro as well. The thing is, beyond the distribution scheme, I really don't get to experience the true differences between the distros, as I'm usually running an unstable release anyways.
The link above also documents creating an apt RPM repository - we did this at my company, and to be honest, 99.9% of my gripes with RedHat went away completely.
I'd suggest looking into apt for RPM, it fixes a lot of the problems, and doesn't introduce those posed by a totally new distro on your production boxes.
I think that everyone into computers/engineering goes through a stage in their lives when they want to build things that rival the stuff you can buy off the shelves - yeah, they follow directions, and they're really not doing too much of the innovation, but they're happy to do it because it sets them apart, and on some level they learn something.
Then as time progresses, you get a full-time job, and you start hammering away at it - long hours and such. You come home, and you're exhausted. You learn to appreciate the several hours that you can just vegetate reading a book, or just listening to music.
Your free hours start becoming very valuable to you, and you start weighing the benefits of the "yay, I can follow directions" route, to the "plug and play, but lack some obscure feature" route, and generally the latter ends up winning out, and you realize you haven't really been missing all that much! Who knows, you might even start building stuff from scratch in order to relax...
Then again, were it not for your hacking, you wouldn't have gotten into the job you're at right now, and you wouldn't be at this crossroads in time management;)
The thing about the release of a product or a method which allows a larger audience to participate in creation is, that product is available to everyone, including the people who excelled at similar work with the previous methods. They can then take advantage of these tools, and have the experience of the past, and the ease/accessibility of the new product.
Talented musicians for example, will always be talented - sure, they might grow slightly in number, but for the most part, talent lies within the person, and not the tool.
I've held a fairly obvious view for a long time with regards to interface design (be it computer or otherwise):
Unless you're working under a predefined framework, chances are, your design is going to differ from someone elses when you both attempt an identical solution.
This isn't an answer on how to deal with this issue, as the answer(s) are everywhere, it's more of a thought process that keeps me from going crazy.
How many times have you worked with a piece of software or hardware only to move on to another one that was similar in concept, but totally different in execution? It's gotten to the point that I've stopped trying to become an expert at everything, and simply want things to work (maybe I'm just getting older, and have less time and/or memory).
Maybe that's why companies like Apple have a strong following, with a mantra of "it just works".
The next time that Joe Administrator is getting cocky with "oh, you didn't know how to configure file XYZ for ABC", remember, they're just being programmed to use an arbitrary interface, thought up arbitarily by some designer.
And that folks is why I'm working to get out of System Administration, and into programming;) [end rant]
I like using my laptop on the metro. The idea of connecting a firewire cable from my iPod to the laptop in order to listen to the music on it vs. using it from my bag seems like a no brainer. (I like to plug into the computer to listen other various sounds, if you're curious)
Hell, add a battery to any device you can think of (DVD burner, hard drive etc...), and the power cord issue goes away.
the force of the impact is equal to the mass of the object (a light notebook) multiplied by the acceleration of gravity.
velocity stays the same, but the force of impact is greater or smaller depending on the mass of the object. the original poster was correct if you take hard==force.
Reminds me of a game that I'd gotten for my Apple IIc (one of the last games I'd ever found for the box) Omega granted, I was 11 at the time, and similarly could only make the tank go straight and in circles;)
Let's take your comments apart, and explain to the dimwitted (or the jaded film
students who are currently working in retail), exactly why he deserves an award
for Best Director:
Its a big trilogy
To my understanding (from the extended DVDs), so big, that it took three
completely separate locations for filming (aside from the studio sets),
combining to stretch out over 14 months. For a single person to (follow
me here), direct this massive undertaking, and painstakingly boil it down
the the parts that matter requires great directing skills.
It has very nice CG
For which the pencil-to-paper decision making goes all the way back to 1997.
Again, Jackson was the goto guy that approved this stuff. For someone to put
together a team (Weta) that brought about the Ents (prior to which, few artists were
able to render to any likeable levels), and the unbelievably detailed Lothlorien, again, takes great directing skills.
Theme music is great
Well, it didn't come off of a CD. Again, much time was spent by (of all people)
Jackson, in choosing the music and directing its specifics with RE to
the movie.
But is this worthy of a "Best Director" award?
I can't think of a single movie made in the last decade that is as massive an
undertaking as LOTR was. Jackson was the man that directed all of it. Even if
you don't appreciate things like its character development, or the music, for one
person to be the nexus for this creation, IMO (and clearly, many other lowbrow
movie fans), certainly demands recognition.
ponce
n : someone who procures customers for whores (in England they
call a pimp a ponce) [syn: {pimp}, {procurer}, {panderer},
{pander}, {pandar}, {fancy man}] lev@levtop:~$
Make gasoline, or hydrogen at home, and then *make* the converter to turn it into electricity.
So yeah, space is really the only thing you'd need, and even then, just fly off to mars in your own custom-built spaceship. Really the only thing that'll cost money (possibly) are the directions for your atomic assembler.
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Here are some points about the phone (pros, and cons)
To put it simply, for every increase in widespead accessibility to something like starting a business, making music, or making art, one single person isn't the only one to capitalize on the benefits. A larger audience is brought into the arena with these advances, and effectively you're back to square one, because you're at the same proportion of talent/no talent given that the numbers of both increase.
In previous generations, it might have been things like better farming equipment, cheaper building supplies, or the printing press - in all cases though, while the population was lifted as a whole, there were individuals in each case which outshined their less talented counterparts.
Going back to the main point, in all of history, I can't think of anything that's repeatedly eclipsed education as the best means to your end - this time in history is no different, anyone who thinks so must not remember the Dot Com bust and the promised revolution therein.
Wow, I didn't know they had running water in the Ozarks, let alone computers!
You could literally have the best and most rights friendly (whose?) service on the planet, but if all you have is one thousand songs, and no deals with recognizable record companys, or artists (it'll never happen with their TOS), why should I care?
Really, this isn't a troll, but this just strikes me as being along the same lines as the truckloads of audio players that play a bjillion formats, but don't actually offer anything that I want.
To include "Moore's Law", which is an educated (and heretofore correct), guess at the progress of transistor design, with laws that consitently and correctly dictate how the world around us works, is silly.
Wired Magazine (which is normally otherwise techno-fluff) had a story in a recent issue about how Drexler's been pushed to the side with his theories about non-assemblers - I think it's justifiable.
There are those who justifiably challenge the norms of science, and come out winners, and I'm not saying Drexler isn't a smart or educated man, but just because you're flying in the face of the status quo will not mean that your ideas will prove correct (see perpetual motion machines).
Wow, talk about selective reading. In that same article, they mention that it is known that human activities have been shown to make a difference in the climate.
Who actually believes that you can make statements about small (0.5%) variations in a system...
If I understand you, you're trivializing the temperature variations that have been mentioned, and equating them to an insignificant change just because they don't seem large numerically? Those small changes, if doubled or tripled (or contrary-wise, halved or divided by three), would have gigantic ramifications on our lives, both in the way we live, and the way the things around us live, upon which we depend; and that's ignoring their current effects as-is.
I suppose it highlights the difference in opinion, and the the subsequent dif
ference in interpretation.
So I'm not quite sure what the big deal is here.
I mean, I was using VocalTec's Internet Phone in '96, and really, given todays general ample bandwidth, I don't understand why Skype is so big. I've seen Fortune articles on it, and this guys name used with some sort of business-man's reverence.
Once you get past the novelty of talking to random people by voice over the Internet, the novelty wears off, and all you've got is a VOIP that you can't actually use real phone with (granted, the end party can).
I have a Vonage line at home, and that form of VOIP seems all that much more interesting, if only because they've bridged the software/hardware gap. Is this really that much different from video chat, other than the fact that you can call to a MeatSpace phone (or is that the Big Deal?)?
The iBook 12", and the PowerBook 12" use the same exact LCD - Google it if you don't trust me ;)
I think the key word here is "can".
The book which I referenced assumes gcc, so while yes, implementations of certain functions might be machine specific, the idea is that porting it from one platform to another, assuming that you're using good coding practice shouldn't be too bad.
Implying that a generally portable language on a generally standards compliant (POSIX) OS should be relegated to just one companies version of it just because it's the "defacto commercial standard" seems shortsighted, and bad practice.
It's one of the most generalized C/UNIX programming books I've been able to find; it doesn't pidgeon-hole itself into a particular *nix. After all, C in one Unix should ideally be portable to another Unix.
You do realize that there's a real vagina and penis (assuming that's what you're into) on the other end of the camera right? STDs, conception, rape, and abuse go on in the porn industry, so by these ppls logic, stopping the immoral demand will stop the immoral side-effects as well.
You can leverage the abilities of apt for just this purpose - many people have public apt repositories, though I realize this doesn't exactly answer the need.
;)
Depending on the release of the RPM-based distro, apt works differently - the later the release, the more functionality. The problem you experienced might be caused by any number of things, though in general, RPM was not designed with apt in mind.
We've been able to successfully upgrade boxes in the field from RH 7.3 to Fedora Core 1, something that we'd have never dreamed of doing without apt. When you're in a production environment with hundreds of machines spread out all over the world, evengelism takes a back seat
So yeah, not the perfect solution, but you have to make compromises.
I went through this same discussion at my company, as Debian is my preferred distro as well. The thing is, beyond the distribution scheme, I really don't get to experience the true differences between the distros, as I'm usually running an unstable release anyways.
The link above also documents creating an apt RPM repository - we did this at my company, and to be honest, 99.9% of my gripes with RedHat went away completely.
I'd suggest looking into apt for RPM, it fixes a lot of the problems, and doesn't introduce those posed by a totally new distro on your production boxes.
I think that everyone into computers/engineering goes through a stage in their lives when they want to build things that rival the stuff you can buy off the shelves - yeah, they follow directions, and they're really not doing too much of the innovation, but they're happy to do it because it sets them apart, and on some level they learn something.
;)
Then as time progresses, you get a full-time job, and you start hammering away at it - long hours and such. You come home, and you're exhausted. You learn to appreciate the several hours that you can just vegetate reading a book, or just listening to music.
Your free hours start becoming very valuable to you, and you start weighing the benefits of the "yay, I can follow directions" route, to the "plug and play, but lack some obscure feature" route, and generally the latter ends up winning out, and you realize you haven't really been missing all that much! Who knows, you might even start building stuff from scratch in order to relax...
Then again, were it not for your hacking, you wouldn't have gotten into the job you're at right now, and you wouldn't be at this crossroads in time management
Chicken and the egg?
The thing about the release of a product or a method which allows a larger audience to participate in creation is, that product is available to everyone, including the people who excelled at similar work with the previous methods. They can then take advantage of these tools, and have the experience of the past, and the ease/accessibility of the new product. Talented musicians for example, will always be talented - sure, they might grow slightly in number, but for the most part, talent lies within the person, and not the tool.
I've held a fairly obvious view for a long time with regards to interface design (be it computer or otherwise):
;)
Unless you're working under a predefined framework, chances are, your design is going to differ from someone elses when you both attempt an identical solution.
This isn't an answer on how to deal with this issue, as the answer(s) are everywhere, it's more of a thought process that keeps me from going crazy.
How many times have you worked with a piece of software or hardware only to move on to another one that was similar in concept, but totally different in execution? It's gotten to the point that I've stopped trying to become an expert at everything, and simply want things to work (maybe I'm just getting older, and have less time and/or memory).
Maybe that's why companies like Apple have a strong following, with a mantra of "it just works".
The next time that Joe Administrator is getting cocky with "oh, you didn't know how to configure file XYZ for ABC", remember, they're just being programmed to use an arbitrary interface, thought up arbitarily by some designer.
And that folks is why I'm working to get out of System Administration, and into programming
[end rant]
I like using my laptop on the metro. The idea of connecting a firewire cable from my iPod to the laptop in order to listen to the music on it vs. using it from my bag seems like a no brainer. (I like to plug into the computer to listen other various sounds, if you're curious)
Hell, add a battery to any device you can think of (DVD burner, hard drive etc...), and the power cord issue goes away.
christ, you're right. this is at rest.
oh the embarrassment!
the force of the impact is equal to the mass of the object (a light notebook) multiplied by the acceleration of gravity.
velocity stays the same, but the force of impact is greater or smaller depending on the mass of the object. the original poster was correct if you take hard==force.
You mean, like OS X? Yeah, that's in there.
Reminds me of a game that I'd gotten for my Apple IIc (one of the last games I'd ever found for the box) Omega granted, I was 11 at the time, and similarly could only make the tank go straight and in circles ;)
Its a big trilogy
To my understanding (from the extended DVDs), so big, that it took three completely separate locations for filming (aside from the studio sets), combining to stretch out over 14 months. For a single person to (follow me here), direct this massive undertaking, and painstakingly boil it down the the parts that matter requires great directing skills.
It has very nice CG
For which the pencil-to-paper decision making goes all the way back to 1997. Again, Jackson was the goto guy that approved this stuff. For someone to put together a team (Weta) that brought about the Ents (prior to which, few artists were able to render to any likeable levels), and the unbelievably detailed Lothlorien, again, takes great directing skills.
Theme music is great
Well, it didn't come off of a CD. Again, much time was spent by (of all people) Jackson, in choosing the music and directing its specifics with RE to the movie.
But is this worthy of a "Best Director" award?
I can't think of a single movie made in the last decade that is as massive an undertaking as LOTR was. Jackson was the man that directed all of it. Even if you don't appreciate things like its character development, or the music, for one person to be the nexus for this creation, IMO (and clearly, many other lowbrow movie fans), certainly demands recognition.
lev@levtop:~$ dict ponce
1 definition found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ponce
n : someone who procures customers for whores (in England they
call a pimp a ponce) [syn: {pimp}, {procurer}, {panderer},
{pander}, {pandar}, {fancy man}]
lev@levtop:~$
You can have your circuit board my lad
Make gasoline, or hydrogen at home, and then *make* the converter to turn it into electricity.
So yeah, space is really the only thing you'd need, and even then, just fly off to mars in your own custom-built spaceship. Really the only thing that'll cost money (possibly) are the directions for your atomic assembler.