Yea, I also heard this is the year they're going to release Duke Nukem Forever and Spore. We're also going to see jetpacks, a cure for diabetes, AIDs, cancer, and a stronger unicorn.
I keep imagining that scene in the Truman Show where Truman's boat hits a wall painted like the sky.
My theory is that the terminal shock is just a big wall painted with stars and galaxies all over it. We're going to find out our solar system is just inclosed in a big ball and that we're part of some cosmic reality show.
The screen may be bigger, but that doesn't mean it should be more expensive. The resolution probably comparable (not sure of the exact numbers but my last palm was 320x320 - this thing is probably 480x640 or similar), and besides that each pixel only has to have 1 black point rather than the ability to do colors.
Besides that, we were promised vastly cheaper screens. This one is slightly higher resolution then a palm, but much less dense and more simple. I really don't think making the display a few inches bigger should have added that much to the cost.
Either they were wrong in their estimation that eInk would be incredibly cheap, or this thing is inflated for some other reason.
I agree, the thing is cool - but I still want to know the story behind the price.
Okay, seriously folks - how are they justifying the price of this thing? When eInk first announced these new paper-like displays, we were told they would be immensely cheaper then any current displays - especially for mobile devices.
So the screen is cheap - it must have some awesome functionality, right? No - this thing can't do anything a $99 Palm Pilot can't do. In fact, I would venture to guess a palm pilot can do a lot more.
So the screen is cheap, the underlying tech is cheap, how can this be $400? The EVDO? Consider that Sony's EVDO-less model is only $50 cheaper at ~$350. So you're getting a dumbed down palm pilot with less features and a cheaper screen for 3x-4x the price? Note: I'm not saying a Palm Pilot is better, I'm just pointing out that the eReaders coming out should be much cheaper.
So what gives? Can someone explain to me where the high price is coming from?
The processor used in the first Google phones will more likely be the Qualcomm 7200. This is the new chip going into the latest HTC phones (such as the AT&T Tilt/Kaiser/Tytn II/whatever). It is a dual CPU that integrates the Imageon hardware for 2d and 3d graphics acceleration. I believe this is HTC's current choice for their first "gPhone."
Although Qualcomm hasn't released a proper SDK for the processor yet, so hardware acceleration is not fully implemented.
Hmm. I see your point and have never thought about it that way. You may be right.
But shouldn't your "papers" as you define them be included in your personal effects? And, under your definition, shouldn't identity papers be included in the more all-encompassing definition of papers?
It's also worth noting that HTC appears to hate Windows Mobile. They've realized that Windows is not going to sell phones, so they've made considerable effort in writing all sorts of little apps that make it act more like a mobile phone should.
For example, they've got the HTC today screen plugins, touchflo (a 3d cube launcher), common tasks, a new screen keyboard, and more - all designed to be used with your finger instead of pulling out the stylus.
Their latest phones don't even carry the "certified for Windows Mobile" mark anymore. They've probably done something that Microsoft doesn't necessarily like - or at least realized that its the hardware, not the software, that is selling their phones. I'm sure they are eager to jump ship onto a better mobile platform as soon as one arrises and becomes available. Then the hardware AND the software could attract people.
All that said - Windows Mobile 6 is actually not THAT BAD. But its major design flaw is that they expect you to use a stylus for everything - which is retarded. Everything is so small and difficult to use. Besides that, it's quite slow compared to Palm OS or the iPhone. You get a lot of lag performing every day functions. The only way to survive with a WM6 phone is to go to xda-developers.com and find a nice cooked rom that runs remotely fast.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."
That's some wacky interpretation of the constitution you've come up with there. Imagine the founding fathers "We need to protect peoples rights! Yea! And their property, yes! And also their poetry and short story collections!" Um... No, the bill of rights here is referring to your papers as in your documents relating to identity, birth, etc.
In other words, a agent of the government (a cop, federal agent, etc.) cannot stop and ask you for your ID (aka papers) for no reason. We can't have checkpoints. We can't have tracking systems. We make an exception to this when a cop actually witnesses you do something illegal, or has reasonable evidence to suspect you of something illegal, but otherwise they are not allowed to ask for ID. You're not even required to have ID in the first place (unless you're driving).
I really hope you're not distorting the bill of rights as part of some sort of agenda. This is exactly the kind of talk I would expect to hear from a president who wants to take away people's rights and institute a police state. In your case, I will chalk it up to ignorance.
No, that's not what its for. Clearly you have been mislead.
"Under REAL ID, the government would have easy access to an incredible amount of personal data stored in one national database (or, according to the DHS description, 56 State and Territory databases, each of which can access all of the others)."
The senator from New Mexico (I believe it was New Mexico anyway) said that the ultimate goal is to track everything. Every time you buy something, even with cash, it will be entered into the national database. 7Eleven will require you to swipe your card for purchasing gas, a snickers bar, or explosives from their terrorist discount bin.
Real ID IS bad news. It has severe privacy implications. Please research before commenting. The quote above is from here.
The purpose of a driver's license is to show and prove proficiency in driving, not anything else. It is not meant as a defacto identification card or anything else. It is a license to drive, period.
The fourth amendment guarantees us security of papers. How can we have security of papers if all of our information is stored in every government database across the entire union? That sounds like the opposite of security of papers. We can refuse to show our papers, but it won't matter because the government will already have them.
Wait, wait, wait. You can't just go and release a $200 computer. You have to hype it up for a few years first. Tell everyone its going to be $100 and get a bunch of corporate sponsors and generate tons of interest. Talk about how you're going to save the world with your $100 computer. THEN you can release it for $200.
Those selfish bastards at Wal*Mart think they can just walk up and release something like this? Ha!
I'm not surprised, as this very same thing happened to me at Best Buy about many years ago. I was about 16 and had saved up for a sound card, which I happily bought from best buy. When I got home, I found that the sound card was, in fact, some other weird PCI card (it was a USB card, although I didn't know what USB was at that point - hadn't really been adopted yet).
I took the card back to best buy and asked them if I could exchange it. They accused me of stealing the card and refused to give me an exchange, store credit, or my money back.
It was only after I came back with a my father, who is a lawyer, that they made it right. But I had to drive to Best Buy (about 45 minutes each way) 3 times in one day and wait in long customer service lines twice. Huge waste of time.
I don't know what the current state of broadcom built in wireless cards is, but they were the source of endless frustration when trying to install linux on my last (HP) laptop. I had to use NDIS wrapper and it was never much fun.
You can either give up on an upgrade and do a fresh install or an archive/install. If you want to be able to upgrade, try this to manually get rid of APE:
Please note that this does involve manipulation of files from the root prompt. This is not for the faint-of-heart, or those who are unfamiliar with the UNIX file system/command structure.
1. Reboot into single-user mode (hold Cmd-S while booting machine)
2. Follow the directions OSX gives you when you get to the prompt (I think these were them - just type the two commands it tells you to):
fsck -fy //sbin/mount -uw /
3. Remove the following files:
rm -rf/Library/Preference Panes/Application Enhancer.prefpane
rm -rf/Library/Frameworks/Application Enhancer.framework
rm -rf/System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Application Enhancer.bundle
rm -rf/Library/Preferences/com.unsanity.ape.plist
4. Exit, to continue booting normally
exit
You've got to be kidding. I mean, I understand the concept of trying to teach your kid to follow the rules, that's great and all, but teaching them how to become entangled in legal red tape and bureaucratic nonsense will only teach them how stupid the whole system is.
On second though... proceed.
p.s Figure out a way to use the songs under fair use, then you don't have to talk to the pigs.
The "rate" was the amount of time it took the low frequencies to hit after the high frequencies. So one event took place 6 billion light years away, but the high frequencies traveled slightly faster, giving them a spread of 5 milliseconds. The "rate" isn't talking about the time in between these events.
At least thats how I understood it.
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Yea, I also heard this is the year they're going to release Duke Nukem Forever and Spore. We're also going to see jetpacks, a cure for diabetes, AIDs, cancer, and a stronger unicorn.
I keep imagining that scene in the Truman Show where Truman's boat hits a wall painted like the sky.
My theory is that the terminal shock is just a big wall painted with stars and galaxies all over it. We're going to find out our solar system is just inclosed in a big ball and that we're part of some cosmic reality show.
Oh don't worry, they'll come up with a way to justify the cost.
"See, we have a team working full time copying the bits by hand."
"Those people didn't die from radiation! They died of exposure when their skin fell off!"
The screen may be bigger, but that doesn't mean it should be more expensive. The resolution probably comparable (not sure of the exact numbers but my last palm was 320x320 - this thing is probably 480x640 or similar), and besides that each pixel only has to have 1 black point rather than the ability to do colors.
Besides that, we were promised vastly cheaper screens. This one is slightly higher resolution then a palm, but much less dense and more simple. I really don't think making the display a few inches bigger should have added that much to the cost.
Either they were wrong in their estimation that eInk would be incredibly cheap, or this thing is inflated for some other reason.
I agree, the thing is cool - but I still want to know the story behind the price.
Okay, seriously folks - how are they justifying the price of this thing? When eInk first announced these new paper-like displays, we were told they would be immensely cheaper then any current displays - especially for mobile devices.
So the screen is cheap - it must have some awesome functionality, right? No - this thing can't do anything a $99 Palm Pilot can't do. In fact, I would venture to guess a palm pilot can do a lot more.
So the screen is cheap, the underlying tech is cheap, how can this be $400? The EVDO? Consider that Sony's EVDO-less model is only $50 cheaper at ~$350. So you're getting a dumbed down palm pilot with less features and a cheaper screen for 3x-4x the price? Note: I'm not saying a Palm Pilot is better, I'm just pointing out that the eReaders coming out should be much cheaper.
So what gives? Can someone explain to me where the high price is coming from?
well, unless the citizens are carrying guns too. Which we are.
Ah you had me until you said "Kyoto protocols." Now I can never take you seriously.
Right. Not dual core. Dual CPU.
The processor used in the first Google phones will more likely be the Qualcomm 7200. This is the new chip going into the latest HTC phones (such as the AT&T Tilt/Kaiser/Tytn II/whatever). It is a dual CPU that integrates the Imageon hardware for 2d and 3d graphics acceleration. I believe this is HTC's current choice for their first "gPhone."
Although Qualcomm hasn't released a proper SDK for the processor yet, so hardware acceleration is not fully implemented.
I would mod you up if I had not already commented on this thread. :D
:)
And by "nice cooked rom" I meant "not an AT&T or other carrier rom," so I think we're in agreement!
Hmm. I see your point and have never thought about it that way. You may be right.
But shouldn't your "papers" as you define them be included in your personal effects? And, under your definition, shouldn't identity papers be included in the more all-encompassing definition of papers?
It's also worth noting that HTC appears to hate Windows Mobile. They've realized that Windows is not going to sell phones, so they've made considerable effort in writing all sorts of little apps that make it act more like a mobile phone should.
For example, they've got the HTC today screen plugins, touchflo (a 3d cube launcher), common tasks, a new screen keyboard, and more - all designed to be used with your finger instead of pulling out the stylus.
Their latest phones don't even carry the "certified for Windows Mobile" mark anymore. They've probably done something that Microsoft doesn't necessarily like - or at least realized that its the hardware, not the software, that is selling their phones. I'm sure they are eager to jump ship onto a better mobile platform as soon as one arrises and becomes available. Then the hardware AND the software could attract people.
All that said - Windows Mobile 6 is actually not THAT BAD. But its major design flaw is that they expect you to use a stylus for everything - which is retarded. Everything is so small and difficult to use. Besides that, it's quite slow compared to Palm OS or the iPhone. You get a lot of lag performing every day functions. The only way to survive with a WM6 phone is to go to xda-developers.com and find a nice cooked rom that runs remotely fast.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated ..."
That's some wacky interpretation of the constitution you've come up with there. Imagine the founding fathers "We need to protect peoples rights! Yea! And their property, yes! And also their poetry and short story collections!" Um... No, the bill of rights here is referring to your papers as in your documents relating to identity, birth, etc.
In other words, a agent of the government (a cop, federal agent, etc.) cannot stop and ask you for your ID (aka papers) for no reason. We can't have checkpoints. We can't have tracking systems. We make an exception to this when a cop actually witnesses you do something illegal, or has reasonable evidence to suspect you of something illegal, but otherwise they are not allowed to ask for ID. You're not even required to have ID in the first place (unless you're driving).
I really hope you're not distorting the bill of rights as part of some sort of agenda. This is exactly the kind of talk I would expect to hear from a president who wants to take away people's rights and institute a police state. In your case, I will chalk it up to ignorance.
Businesses are not allowed to require an ID to accept credit card transactions. Despite what you might think.
No, that's not what its for. Clearly you have been mislead.
"Under REAL ID, the government would have easy access to an incredible amount of personal data stored in one national database (or, according to the DHS description, 56 State and Territory databases, each of which can access all of the others)."
The senator from New Mexico (I believe it was New Mexico anyway) said that the ultimate goal is to track everything. Every time you buy something, even with cash, it will be entered into the national database. 7Eleven will require you to swipe your card for purchasing gas, a snickers bar, or explosives from their terrorist discount bin.
Real ID IS bad news. It has severe privacy implications. Please research before commenting. The quote above is from here.
The purpose of a driver's license is to show and prove proficiency in driving, not anything else. It is not meant as a defacto identification card or anything else. It is a license to drive, period.
The fourth amendment guarantees us security of papers. How can we have security of papers if all of our information is stored in every government database across the entire union? That sounds like the opposite of security of papers. We can refuse to show our papers, but it won't matter because the government will already have them.
We've already had exploding batteries, I don't think we want to risk exploding capacitors.
Wait, wait, wait. You can't just go and release a $200 computer. You have to hype it up for a few years first. Tell everyone its going to be $100 and get a bunch of corporate sponsors and generate tons of interest. Talk about how you're going to save the world with your $100 computer. THEN you can release it for $200.
Those selfish bastards at Wal*Mart think they can just walk up and release something like this? Ha!
I'm not surprised, as this very same thing happened to me at Best Buy about many years ago. I was about 16 and had saved up for a sound card, which I happily bought from best buy. When I got home, I found that the sound card was, in fact, some other weird PCI card (it was a USB card, although I didn't know what USB was at that point - hadn't really been adopted yet).
I took the card back to best buy and asked them if I could exchange it. They accused me of stealing the card and refused to give me an exchange, store credit, or my money back.
It was only after I came back with a my father, who is a lawyer, that they made it right. But I had to drive to Best Buy (about 45 minutes each way) 3 times in one day and wait in long customer service lines twice. Huge waste of time.
I don't shop at Best Buy any more.
I don't know what the current state of broadcom built in wireless cards is, but they were the source of endless frustration when trying to install linux on my last (HP) laptop. I had to use NDIS wrapper and it was never much fun.
You can either give up on an upgrade and do a fresh install or an archive/install. If you want to be able to upgrade, try this to manually get rid of APE: Please note that this does involve manipulation of files from the root prompt. This is not for the faint-of-heart, or those who are unfamiliar with the UNIX file system/command structure. 1. Reboot into single-user mode (hold Cmd-S while booting machine) 2. Follow the directions OSX gives you when you get to the prompt (I think these were them - just type the two commands it tells you to): fsck -fy / /sbin/mount -uw /
3. Remove the following files:
rm -rf /Library/Preference Panes/Application Enhancer.prefpane
rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Application Enhancer.framework
rm -rf /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Application Enhancer.bundle
rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.unsanity.ape.plist
4. Exit, to continue booting normally
exit
If the submitter actually watched the show, he would know they've already covered this.
You've got to be kidding. I mean, I understand the concept of trying to teach your kid to follow the rules, that's great and all, but teaching them how to become entangled in legal red tape and bureaucratic nonsense will only teach them how stupid the whole system is. On second though ... proceed.
p.s Figure out a way to use the songs under fair use, then you don't have to talk to the pigs.
He's just jealous because he sucks at Halo 3. Dude, you got pwnd, don't take it out on the whole industry.
The "rate" was the amount of time it took the low frequencies to hit after the high frequencies. So one event took place 6 billion light years away, but the high frequencies traveled slightly faster, giving them a spread of 5 milliseconds. The "rate" isn't talking about the time in between these events. At least thats how I understood it.