3G has been put off for a long time, i'm suprised it hasn't come until now. This (to the best of my knowledge) qualifies itself as 3G. From a company like verizon I believe it. Rikachet failed because it was a solo project of a company that relied on their wireless internet service only. Verizon is already well-established and doesn't need this to produce revenue immediately. As far as $80/month being too much, take a look at how many people pay $50/month to bluetooth through their cell-phone with increadibly long login time and unreliable service-coverage.
By the way, this article was written by a reporter who probably either didn't know very much about the technology or was addressing it as being nice and easy to use, even for lusers (the "difficult to get working in a PC" comment). He claims it works wonderfully without any problem, he hasn't been payed to say it, and didn't say very much of anything on the negative side about it. This technolgy is not new (look at japan) I suggest you save your tinfoil for annother day's hat.
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I may be wrong, but we're talking about integrated logic that will decide for itself when somthing went wrong and come up with the right way of dealing with it, right? I understand that this is deeper than an error-handler. I think that it sounds wonderfully useful. I don't, however, see it as an end-all solution. I think that it is a nice concept but what if you're making a request that will only be true 1 in 1 million times? Consider a conditional statement which is false 99.9% of the time, yet is extremely crucial to be checked in case it happens to be that.1% of the time. that means that you're adding redundancy to 99.9% of your requests. Alot of times errors occur because somthing is simply broken and requesting somthing again won't fix it, but slow down everything else.
I hope maybe I made some sense, I'm not an english major nor a philosopher, but it made sense in my mind.
I'm currently doing just that. I've wired a school uniform sweater with an ipod and wires running to a small speaker in the end of one sleeve and a little volume control in the other hand. Right now I'm having a friend sew the shirt collar and tie onto it and put elastic on the collar and then line it with a t-shirt material so it can come on and off like a t-shirt. I hope to next add an easily extendable earbud/microphone that's jacked into my cell-phone. bluetooth would be nice, so I wouldn't have to juggle my phone around any time I want to check/. from my laptop.
My final mod, I believe will be a simple RNG circuit and about 20 LEDs to look impressive (joke). Maybe if I get a better job i'll be able to put a wifi PDA in it somewhere and set up a few scripts to do specific tasks (send all jobs in queue on my person to a printer, close the garage door when I leave, open it when I come home etc.) I'm not sure how many other people have taken under projects like this, I'm pretty much just doing it for the fun of it.
One day the US government will make it law for every US citizen to wear clothes made out of these bendy wires, working as sensors. This way the government can monitor your every action.
"Why would the government need to monitor us? There aren't monitoring devices in your TV, they don't need them, they know exactly what you're doing, you're sitting there watching your TV. Why bother reading what you're thinking when it's so much easier to control it through the media?"
and technically they said "to over half of their original length" so it could be that they stretch to 1 mm longer than their original size, as that is still within the bounds of "over half of the original length." Then again, they could just as easily be saying that it stretches 12 parsecs. My guess is that they meant 1.5x their original length, though.
I work for a programming firm consisting only of my only friends. It sounded like a great idea: getting to spend more time with people you like, getting to work with people that understand you.
Let's just say that I was terribly wrong. All we talk about anymore is work-related. When we're not working we're talking about an upcoming project and how to manage it. We don't have social dialogue anymore. On one hand we're extremely efficient and know eachother's skills very well, we make a sizable ammount of money (given todays current outsourcing trends, not very much) but none of us have lives anymore. I'm extremely weary about your reference to hiring your girlfriend. I wouldn't expect to be together for very much longer if you were to ask me, work/relationships don't work, especially when you control her income and her work-load.
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I'm not sure where you went to law-school (probably not Cornell) but section 1008 mentions nothing of the importation or distrobution of the actual copyrighted material. Section 1008 simply protects CDRs Inc. from being brought to court because their customers were selling copyrighted music on their CDs.
In short: It states that the manufactures are not responsible for what the customers choose to do with their products. I don't know where you drew from this that the customers therefore have the right to "the "sharing" of digital music files".
That's because it's not I-Robot. They chose to use a script called "hardwired" instead of the script written by Harlan Ellison. The decision to name it 'I, Robot' was made by some fox execs after the fact.
There is no doubt that this is nothing more than Men In Black and Independence Day. Will smith is not a sci-fi actor and he shouldn't be. He turned sci-fi into a black commedy children's movie. I'm just glad that he declined the role of Neo in The Matrix, as he was originally casted to do.
I like this explination personally. Very technical but try and keep up
Two children are playing on a beach, filling up a plastic pail with sand. The first child uses a teaspoon to scoop sand into the pail. The second child uses a much larger toy shovel, moving a great deal more sand with each scoop and working more efficiently.
The same concept also applies to processor performance. A computer with a processor that does more work per cycle, like an AMD Athlon processor, can out perform the same computer with a less efficient processor
Now, if only other broadband ISPs would start policing their user base
Catch me where I err, But is it really a good thing when ISPs go around watching what you do? Don't make me put on my tin-foil hat. I'd rather use a spam-filter or an anti-virus program than know that my packets are being monitored for anything short of an FBI subpoena.
Honestly, you're an ISP and some of your customers are filling your pipe with spam from some script kiddie and you're getting complaints. What do you do? Kill the hostages? They'll just find more helplessly stupid broadband users. All you're doing is kicking off legal customers and outright telling the rest of your customers that you are monitoring them.
My small-business MSDN liscense keys include an unlimited use key for the 64-bit version of windows XP, yet the CD is nowhere to be found in the sets, nor is it available anywhere that I can find on the MSDN website. Anyone have this problem before? or maybe the solution that i'm clearly overlooking?
My guess is that we end users are going to pay much more than just a dime xtra for those CD medias..:(
I disagree. As simple and stupid as it may sound, I for one see this as a disruptive technology. Sometimes the DTs aren't the most innovative technologies, but ones that solve age-old problems. The technology itself doesn't seem to me as if it would cost more. So they aren't going to make HUGE profit margins by introducing this technology; but, when $10 extra buys a burner wish this technology, the average consumer would realize that it's not much more than the average CD-marker set.
Naturally, most all sales will be routed to this new technology and the producers that don't adapt will go under.
I suggest The Innovator's Dilemma as a wonderful look at the effects of disruptive technologies over time. It's all a matter of meeting the consumer demands where they are noticable (though may not seem important to you) to the consumer.
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I want one of these for some of my anatomy lectures. What? leukocytosis? *flip* can't hear you, sorry. *flip*
3G has been put off for a long time, i'm suprised it hasn't come until now. This (to the best of my knowledge) qualifies itself as 3G. From a company like verizon I believe it. Rikachet failed because it was a solo project of a company that relied on their wireless internet service only. Verizon is already well-established and doesn't need this to produce revenue immediately. As far as $80/month being too much, take a look at how many people pay $50/month to bluetooth through their cell-phone with increadibly long login time and unreliable service-coverage.
By the way, this article was written by a reporter who probably either didn't know very much about the technology or was addressing it as being nice and easy to use, even for lusers (the "difficult to get working in a PC" comment). He claims it works wonderfully without any problem, he hasn't been payed to say it, and didn't say very much of anything on the negative side about it. This technolgy is not new (look at japan) I suggest you save your tinfoil for annother day's hat.
I may be wrong, but we're talking about integrated logic that will decide for itself when somthing went wrong and come up with the right way of dealing with it, right? I understand that this is deeper than an error-handler. I think that it sounds wonderfully useful. I don't, however, see it as an end-all solution. I think that it is a nice concept but what if you're making a request that will only be true 1 in 1 million times? Consider a conditional statement which is false 99.9% of the time, yet is extremely crucial to be checked in case it happens to be that .1% of the time. that means that you're adding redundancy to 99.9% of your requests. Alot of times errors occur because somthing is simply broken and requesting somthing again won't fix it, but slow down everything else.
I hope maybe I made some sense, I'm not an english major nor a philosopher, but it made sense in my mind.
I'm currently doing just that. I've wired a school uniform sweater with an ipod and wires running to a small speaker in the end of one sleeve and a little volume control in the other hand. Right now I'm having a friend sew the shirt collar and tie onto it and put elastic on the collar and then line it with a t-shirt material so it can come on and off like a t-shirt. I hope to next add an easily extendable earbud/microphone that's jacked into my cell-phone. bluetooth would be nice, so I wouldn't have to juggle my phone around any time I want to check /. from my laptop.
My final mod, I believe will be a simple RNG circuit and about 20 LEDs to look impressive (joke). Maybe if I get a better job i'll be able to put a wifi PDA in it somewhere and set up a few scripts to do specific tasks (send all jobs in queue on my person to a printer, close the garage door when I leave, open it when I come home etc.) I'm not sure how many other people have taken under projects like this, I'm pretty much just doing it for the fun of it.
One day the US government will make it law for every US citizen to wear clothes made out of these bendy wires, working as sensors. This way the government can monitor your every action.
to quote the church of the subgenius' latest show:
"Why would the government need to monitor us? There aren't monitoring devices in your TV, they don't need them, they know exactly what you're doing, you're sitting there watching your TV. Why bother reading what you're thinking when it's so much easier to control it through the media?"
Excercize movies that respond to your activity. I can imagine it now...
"What the fuck are you doing?! you're just sitting there, the only muscles being excercised are your right arm and your... oh dear"
and technically they said "to over half of their original length" so it could be that they stretch to 1 mm longer than their original size, as that is still within the bounds of "over half of the original length." Then again, they could just as easily be saying that it stretches 12 parsecs. My guess is that they meant 1.5x their original length, though.
Thanks, I'll put that in my mental dictionary.
I work for a programming firm consisting only of my only friends. It sounded like a great idea: getting to spend more time with people you like, getting to work with people that understand you.
Let's just say that I was terribly wrong. All we talk about anymore is work-related. When we're not working we're talking about an upcoming project and how to manage it. We don't have social dialogue anymore. On one hand we're extremely efficient and know eachother's skills very well, we make a sizable ammount of money (given todays current outsourcing trends, not very much) but none of us have lives anymore. I'm extremely weary about your reference to hiring your girlfriend. I wouldn't expect to be together for very much longer if you were to ask me, work/relationships don't work, especially when you control her income and her work-load.
I'm not sure where you went to law-school (probably not Cornell) but section 1008 mentions nothing of the importation or distrobution of the actual copyrighted material. Section 1008 simply protects CDRs Inc. from being brought to court because their customers were selling copyrighted music on their CDs.
In short: It states that the manufactures are not responsible for what the customers choose to do with their products. I don't know where you drew from this that the customers therefore have the right to "the "sharing" of digital music files".
Sure, but I could also call the quran christian, as it revolves around basic christian principle.
That's because it's not I-Robot. They chose to use a script called "hardwired" instead of the script written by Harlan Ellison. The decision to name it 'I, Robot' was made by some fox execs after the fact.
There is no doubt that this is nothing more than Men In Black and Independence Day. Will smith is not a sci-fi actor and he shouldn't be. He turned sci-fi into a black commedy children's movie. I'm just glad that he declined the role of Neo in The Matrix, as he was originally casted to do.
running at 1THZ.
Those words make me orgasm
I like this explination personally. Very technical but try and keep up
Two children are playing on a beach, filling up a plastic pail with sand. The first child uses a teaspoon to scoop sand into the pail. The second child uses a much larger toy shovel, moving a great deal more sand with each scoop and working more efficiently.
The same concept also applies to processor performance. A computer with a processor that does more work per cycle, like an AMD Athlon processor, can out perform the same computer with a less efficient processor
I had just purchased the m6805 - amd 64 laptop
I found the problem
I love the packaging with the cow motif
I could blame Microsoft for this one, but the horrid restore-menu-architecture was the source of all my anguish.
I love the packaging with the cow motif
I love the packaging with the cow motif
For some reason I'm not blaming the software for this problem.
I think there was a message somewhere in your comment. Maybe it's annother language
It's sort of like saudi arabia, they're not afraid to cut off your hand (or head) if you break somthing.
Personally I'd like to try riding this robot around piggy-back style.
It's china, you touch it and you're as good as publically executed.
I can't wait until I get DOSed by google for running a non-terminating ping loop.
Or the Soviet version that DoSes you.
Now, if only other broadband ISPs would start policing their user base
Catch me where I err, But is it really a good thing when ISPs go around watching what you do? Don't make me put on my tin-foil hat. I'd rather use a spam-filter or an anti-virus program than know that my packets are being monitored for anything short of an FBI subpoena.
Honestly, you're an ISP and some of your customers are filling your pipe with spam from some script kiddie and you're getting complaints. What do you do? Kill the hostages? They'll just find more helplessly stupid broadband users. All you're doing is kicking off legal customers and outright telling the rest of your customers that you are monitoring them.
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My small-business MSDN liscense keys include an unlimited use key for the 64-bit version of windows XP, yet the CD is nowhere to be found in the sets, nor is it available anywhere that I can find on the MSDN website. Anyone have this problem before? or maybe the solution that i'm clearly overlooking?
My guess is that we end users are going to pay much more than just a dime xtra for those CD medias.. :(
I disagree. As simple and stupid as it may sound, I for one see this as a disruptive technology. Sometimes the DTs aren't the most innovative technologies, but ones that solve age-old problems. The technology itself doesn't seem to me as if it would cost more. So they aren't going to make HUGE profit margins by introducing this technology; but, when $10 extra buys a burner wish this technology, the average consumer would realize that it's not much more than the average CD-marker set.
Naturally, most all sales will be routed to this new technology and the producers that don't adapt will go under.
I suggest The Innovator's Dilemma as a wonderful look at the effects of disruptive technologies over time. It's all a matter of meeting the consumer demands where they are noticable (though may not seem important to you) to the consumer.