You make a very good point, and one which can be compared to the fact that Japan is even further ahead in terms of coverage.
Not being a technician of any sort in this field, I can't comment for sure, but while it's true that the US is (37 times) bigger than the UK, so is the population, and therefore the opportunity for investment. I'm sure I'm taking a over simplistic view though.
Which begs the question: why is coverage so poor? Do big companies like Sprint and Cingular (and Verison? I don't know any of these companies, just copying what others wrote), not feel the need to invest in better coverage? This brings us back to the original posters complaint.
No doubt you'll get plenty of replies saying the same thing: it's 2005! If you still have problems with the quality of reception on your mobile, you need to change providers. In the five years I've been a regular mobile user, I've never had any issues with quality or service. While I'm not likely to get a phone from Apple, this is still exciting technology, just because YOU are behind in other areas, don't begrudge others of benefits like this.
Disclaimer: I'm in the UK, which has comprehensive coverage, especially in urban areas. I suppose, if you live in the sticks, you will still have problems, but you don't give details of this, so I wouldn't know.
Do you think Microsoft haven't already thought about it? They're not (unlike you!) just some guy going "...hmmm, I think the XBox should be $299 for the basic system and $399 for the complete one..."
Market forces will have major impact on the pricing of the system, and not least of those (as others have repeated), the release timing and projected price of the PS3.
While everyone's opinion matters, how can you just say "MS are wrong", when they will surely have spent a small fortune (by other standards) just deciding how much to charge.
Do you propose that anything hard isn't worth doing? Maybe competing with Google seems ridiculous now, but if a company has the tech and starts small but with high ambitious...
Like everyone else, I like google way too much, but I'd never say to someone, "ah, don't even bother, you'll never compete with google".
I wonder sometimes, is slashdot/the editors thereof, having something of a joke about it's users? The dupes, the blatent adverts, the lack of editting control, and now this!? WTF is going on? It's not like this site is even that current, unless it's some MS-bashing story, or a Google/Apple-loving one. Sheesh!
Yeah... "you're" not a native english speaker. That would explain you misunderstanding some of the second post, but not the sentiment, and it doesn't explain you missing the fact that I was replying to a post of my own.
You're my first foe.:( is fine. you're sad WOULD be fine, but that was never actually used. You're post actually made me feel quite sad. is an incorrect usage.
The last example is the one the second post refers to and attacks.
I was likely going to write "you're sad" or something then didn't. is an explanation of sorts.
Man, I don't complain at other people (even though it annoys me), when I try to excuse myself for doing something I dislike, I get complained at! Not sure why I still come to slashdot.
Normally I don't like saying "just google it" or whatever, but this is such a well documented idea, that there's loads of info out there. Just find out for yourself, without raising the issue in a public forum on a different subject (this SPECIFIC "podcast").
Good music has theme, connects to reality, does something to make you care. Those days are long gone.
That's such a depressingly negative view to take.:( I don't think that music is any worse than it was years ago, but you may be led to believe this if you exclusively listen to commerical radio/tv or whatever. Music has become saturated as there's so much shitty pop out there, but if you're prepared to look, I'm sure you'd find something you'll like.
I'm not going to start spewing my own current interests in music, but EVERYONE can surely find something they like out there..?
Songs/tracks are simply not produced in the same way as software. It's a forward thinking idea, and I'm sure there will be examples to defeat my point, but this is just unworkable. Records tend to be written by a VERY small number of people (one, maybe two), and produced by a few more, just because that's how the creative process works. I don't understand at all how you could apply an OS development model to a creative process like this. Anyone got any examples to correct me? (Not a threat, am genuinely curious now.)
You gotta wonder about the names they use to describe things like this. I saw an "Emergency Ambulance" the other day. Yes, it's for emergencies, but as opposed to WHAT?
The real danger is with racing games. Try racing an Audi S4 around in Project Gotham all day, then hopping into a real S4 to go to the grocery store. Dangerous stuff.
That I agree with. I played Midtown Madness (can't remember which) for a few hours straight, then went straight out driving. It was such an effort to restrain myself at traffic lights, queues etc. That was the most I've ever been effected by a game I think.
(Of course, I'm a rational guy, it was actually somewhat reassuring to have realised quickly and checked myself in time. I wonder about other people I know however, and worse, people I don't know.)
wahey! I built a similar thing for my GCSE System's and Control final project a few years ago. Maybe you and I should get an award. I only got a B as it was!
It is a smart move, but it's not like Apple are "moving to mobile". They're just aware that Microsoft have a presence in the mobile market, they don't, and they're trying to keep their bases covered. As the blurb says, it does raise questions about Nokia's connections to linux.
Slashdot Mirror
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/06/177251 &tid=109/
It's, only being discussed, but still, a worthy comment. Whether this has any weight to it or not, it's on-topic (ish).
You make a very good point, and one which can be compared to the fact that Japan is even further ahead in terms of coverage.
Not being a technician of any sort in this field, I can't comment for sure, but while it's true that the US is (37 times) bigger than the UK, so is the population, and therefore the opportunity for investment. I'm sure I'm taking a over simplistic view though.
Which begs the question: why is coverage so poor? Do big companies like Sprint and Cingular (and Verison? I don't know any of these companies, just copying what others wrote), not feel the need to invest in better coverage? This brings us back to the original posters complaint.
No doubt you'll get plenty of replies saying the same thing: it's 2005! If you still have problems with the quality of reception on your mobile, you need to change providers. In the five years I've been a regular mobile user, I've never had any issues with quality or service.
While I'm not likely to get a phone from Apple, this is still exciting technology, just because YOU are behind in other areas, don't begrudge others of benefits like this.
Disclaimer: I'm in the UK, which has comprehensive coverage, especially in urban areas. I suppose, if you live in the sticks, you will still have problems, but you don't give details of this, so I wouldn't know.
Do you think Microsoft haven't already thought about it? They're not (unlike you!) just some guy going "...hmmm, I think the XBox should be $299 for the basic system and $399 for the complete one..."
Market forces will have major impact on the pricing of the system, and not least of those (as others have repeated), the release timing and projected price of the PS3.
While everyone's opinion matters, how can you just say "MS are wrong", when they will surely have spent a small fortune (by other standards) just deciding how much to charge.
Do you propose that anything hard isn't worth doing? Maybe competing with Google seems ridiculous now, but if a company has the tech and starts small but with high ambitious...
Like everyone else, I like google way too much, but I'd never say to someone, "ah, don't even bother, you'll never compete with google".
Well that backfired, eh?
I wonder sometimes, is slashdot/the editors thereof, having something of a joke about it's users? The dupes, the blatent adverts, the lack of editting control, and now this!? WTF is going on? It's not like this site is even that current, unless it's some MS-bashing story, or a Google/Apple-loving one.
Sheesh!
Yeah... "you're" not a native english speaker. That would explain you misunderstanding some of the second post, but not the sentiment, and it doesn't explain you missing the fact that I was replying to a post of my own.
:( is fine.
You're my first foe.
you're sad WOULD be fine, but that was never actually used.
You're post actually made me feel quite sad. is an incorrect usage.
The last example is the one the second post refers to and attacks.
I was likely going to write "you're sad" or something then didn't. is an explanation of sorts.
Man, I don't complain at other people (even though it annoys me), when I try to excuse myself for doing something I dislike, I get complained at! Not sure why I still come to slashdot.
Why don't you go find out?
Normally I don't like saying "just google it" or whatever, but this is such a well documented idea, that there's loads of info out there. Just find out for yourself, without raising the issue in a public forum on a different subject (this SPECIFIC "podcast").
Fucking hell "you're". I hate people who can't spell. I was likely going to write "you're sad" or something then didn't. Ah well.
You're my first foe. :(
I've never felt the need to use this feature before...
You're post actually made me feel quite sad.
Seriously, I've been seeing them for years.
Well yeah. It's the standard already in Europe...
You pay for the contract, but pay nothing (or a nominal fee) for the handset.
Dreamcast?
Thanks, yeah. (Well it would've if I hadn't looked for myself.)
Wouldn't take much for the submitter/editor to have put a basic intro in the blurb though. Oh wait...
You're sig website is hysterical. I'm now crying on the 5th page. Thank you for this!
Good music has theme, connects to reality, does something to make you care. Those days are long gone.
:(
That's such a depressingly negative view to take.
I don't think that music is any worse than it was years ago, but you may be led to believe this if you exclusively listen to commerical radio/tv or whatever. Music has become saturated as there's so much shitty pop out there, but if you're prepared to look, I'm sure you'd find something you'll like.
I'm not going to start spewing my own current interests in music, but EVERYONE can surely find something they like out there..?
Songs/tracks are simply not produced in the same way as software. It's a forward thinking idea, and I'm sure there will be examples to defeat my point, but this is just unworkable. Records tend to be written by a VERY small number of people (one, maybe two), and produced by a few more, just because that's how the creative process works. I don't understand at all how you could apply an OS development model to a creative process like this.
Anyone got any examples to correct me? (Not a threat, am genuinely curious now.)
NASA today issued a formal request for expressions of interest by non-NASA organizations
I'd like to use the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) please.
Contact details as above.
You gotta wonder about the names they use to describe things like this. I saw an "Emergency Ambulance" the other day. Yes, it's for emergencies, but as opposed to WHAT?
The real danger is with racing games. Try racing an Audi S4 around in Project Gotham all day, then hopping into a real S4 to go to the grocery store. Dangerous stuff.
That I agree with. I played Midtown Madness (can't remember which) for a few hours straight, then went straight out driving. It was such an effort to restrain myself at traffic lights, queues etc. That was the most I've ever been effected by a game I think.
(Of course, I'm a rational guy, it was actually somewhat reassuring to have realised quickly and checked myself in time. I wonder about other people I know however, and worse, people I don't know.)
wahey! I built a similar thing for my GCSE System's and Control final project a few years ago. Maybe you and I should get an award. I only got a B as it was!
If it was really a Thursday... (see post above).
Excellent point. Yeah, I'd actually read this whole discussion before, not sure why I didn't remember that. Cheers!
Surely brute force, will work, but only if computers become (unimaginably) more powerful. Wasn't that the point of the post?
It is a smart move, but it's not like Apple are "moving to mobile". They're just aware that Microsoft have a presence in the mobile market, they don't, and they're trying to keep their bases covered.
As the blurb says, it does raise questions about Nokia's connections to linux.