We need a better OS, a better Office and a better Exchange + Outlook.
And not only better but 100% compatible.
In fact "compatible" may be more important than "better". Therefore it's most important to break Microsofts monopoly on file (.doc,.xls,...) and protocol standards (e.g. MAPI, Active Directory, etc.).
But as a normal end user I can't. Which is really sad. Yes, I'm a tab collector (for later reading/blogging) and until I reach the point of a "tab sweep" I regulary hover around 100 to 120 open tabs. But FF shouldn't consume 14 GB RAM (had this on Monday) even under such extreme circumstances. And it should never consume 100% CPU which now is the normal behaviour when I return to office in the morning.
FF could be much better if a "debug and analyze" plugin was available. That plugin should collect memory and CPU usage of the different tabs so that I can close the tab that causes the problem. That would help a lot to bring up more cases where FF behaves strangely.
You can unlock every phone after your contract expires here in Germany. I don't think there's a way Apple and T-Mobile can change this.
It will be very interesting to see how much Orange will charge for an unlocked iPhone that it has to sell in accordance to frech laws.
And I'm astonished that Apple doesn't do this in all countries. Why not simply sell an iPhone for 400 Euros with T-Mobile contract and 800 Euro without a contract (like everybody else). Apple should make (a lot of) money in both cases.
Design: | Yes | Fugly as hell Manual: | 8p | 324 pages required reading Bunch af accessories | Nope | yes, everything you can dream of
But this is not the real reasons that I won't buy one (well it *might* be the Santa has one for me...):
The T-Mobile service plan sucks. We have to pay sth like 70 Dollars and get just 100 minutes, 40 SMS and a flatrate that will cripple to 64kbit/s after 200 MB data usage. My current plan is cheaper and I get more minutes and more data.
I might change my pov when the iPhone gets UMTS and/or GPS...
Come on, Netbeans and Java have really amde some progress in the last two and a half years.
Netbeans 6.0 (even in beta) is good. Everyone who isn't married to Eclipse should take some days to test Netbeans again. Performancewise I can't find any major differences between Netbeans and Eclipse.
a) is cheap and available b) has the highest energy density c) can't explode and can discharge fast d) can be charged very fast (1 min)
And now you can add technology e) to this list.
So all those lame comments about exploding batteries are well lame. I've even heard about most of those technologies here on Slashdot. Slashdot readers should know better...
First: The patent system is so complicated that you can be sure there is more than one problem...
But now to the article and the patent system:
Problem i) The patent officers are overwhelmed by patent applications. So the review is not as good as it should be. Problem ii) If a patent is granted, it's extremly complicated, expensive and costs a lot of money to invalidate it (just look at the One-Click patent from Amazon if you need an example).
A possible solution would be a sunrise period (e.g. 6 months) for new patents in which they can be openly discussed. The community of patent reviewers may find prior art etc. Only and only if the community does not find any major objections the patent will be granted.
Now the patent office is flooded with patent applications. Many of them are not worth the paper the are printed on... But even these have a good probability of getting through. And someday they are published, the world thinks: Holy shit, WTF is that? But the patent is there, stays there and may make someone a lot of money.
The idea is not mine, IIRC I have read it here on Slashdot.
"I honestly don't believe OpenMoko or the Neo1973 will go anywhere at all without carrier support, and they won't get carrier support while they're as powerful as they are."
US centric view. In Europe all GSM phones can be used in all networks. The iPhone will be the first exception and I'm sure that this kind of bundling won't hold up in the courts.
The iPhone is the coolest phone around but with three major cons (from a European pov):
a) Only one carrier b) No native apps c) no 3G
None of these cons in the 2nd generation of the OpenMoko phone. I'm seriously considering one of these.
Phones that were late. Very late. And still unstable.
Especially when they did something bigger and not one of the iterative improvements (new design + new form factor + 3 megapixel cam instead of 2).
So don't expect too much from Nokia.
This may look different from the US, where Nokia phones reach the market months later than here in Europe. Most of the time the phones are stable then, but Europeans had to make two or three firmware updates. And god did I hate Nokia for not allowing customers to upgrade their phones themselves IIRC Nokia changed this, but I've got an SonyEricsson now).
When Apple ditches the mini and doesn't replace it with something comparable, I will seriously consider going back to Linux.
A cube-like Mac with standard PC components (normal RAM, normal 3.5 " disk, normal size optical drive) and upgradable PCI-Express slots would be perfect. The cool thing about this: It is cheaper to built these PCs (600 Dollar for a Cube with a simple 50 Dollar ATI, a 250 GB disk and 2 Gb RAM is not a problem even with an Apple premium attached).
I've been invited early enough to get an @gmail.com addresse despite being from Germany. But new users from Germany get oegooglemail.com only for some time now.
The Logitech TrackMan Wheel was single best thing I've bought in the last 5 years or so.
While the new vertical mouse looks like a good idea, it doesn't look that revolutionary if you compare it with a normal trackball. Two more buttons, a taller design and well the "two-handed mode", which I can't think of using too often. In most cases I hate to move one hand to the trackball and therefore away from the keyboard. So I can't think of too many situations where I will like to move *both* hands away from the keyboard.
I think of this as a "Apple's version of XULRunner". Build your App for the iPhone. And now it will run on Windows and OSX too. Add a bit of modified HTML (or even better different CSS for different media) for the bigger screen. Done!
Even if every small move by Apple is viewed as the next big revolution, well, most of them aren't. They are just small steps. Like this one: Giving developers for iPhone Apps access to two more plattforms at virtually no added costs. Development for this new platform makes a lot more sense than before.
I've written this before and I will write it again...
I think that a Mozilla Summer of Code would be a good idea.
And the Mozilla Foundation should really put their money behind XULRunner. It's one of the oldest solutions that utilizes XML + Scripting on the desktop. But I "fear" that similiar technologies from Adobe (Apollo) and Microsoft (Quicksilver) will take the market by storm.
I couldn't find the Sirion in the list, but I've seen it and compared to my Polo the luggage volume is lower.
Btw. I'm sure, that if you compare cars in the same class there isn't anything major that differs by more than 25%. All cars are mostly equal.
And a 2nd btw: My second car is an Audi A2. Yes, the A pillars are thick. But they are thick in most (Mini)-Vans as well. At least for me the higher seating position in those kind of cars is more important than the thick A-pillars. But your mileage may vary (mine is 64.20 mpg:-) ).
Though there a gazillions of studies of what might cause osteoporosis the single strongest link is between sunlight and osteoporosis. Sunlight is needed to produce/convert Vitamin D. No sunlight, no Vitamin D. Osteoporosis is quite common in Scandinavia or the UK.
To be more precise it's not sunlight, but daylight. In New York, Berlin or Toronto 30 minutes of daylight are enough even on a cloudy day in winter with only your hands and face exposed to daylight. So that one is easy to solve.
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I think that even this is not enough.
.xls, ...) and protocol standards (e.g. MAPI, Active Directory, etc.).
MS got a bunch of monopolies:
a) OS
b) Office
c) Exchange+Outlook
Killing one without the other won't help.
We need a better OS, a better Office and a better Exchange + Outlook.
And not only better but 100% compatible.
In fact "compatible" may be more important than "better". Therefore it's most important to break Microsofts monopoly on file (.doc,
Bye egghat.
... are the root of all evil ...
But as a normal end user I can't. Which is really sad. Yes, I'm a tab collector (for later reading/blogging) and until I reach the point of a "tab sweep" I regulary hover around 100 to 120 open tabs. But FF shouldn't consume 14 GB RAM (had this on Monday) even under such extreme circumstances. And it should never consume 100% CPU which now is the normal behaviour when I return to office in the morning.
FF could be much better if a "debug and analyze" plugin was available. That plugin should collect memory and CPU usage of the different tabs so that I can close the tab that causes the problem. That would help a lot to bring up more cases where FF behaves strangely.
Bye egghat
Even after your contract expires in two years.
You can unlock every phone after your contract expires here in Germany. I don't think there's a way Apple and T-Mobile can change this.
It will be very interesting to see how much Orange will charge for an unlocked iPhone that it has to sell in accordance to frech laws.
And I'm astonished that Apple doesn't do this in all countries. Why not simply sell an iPhone for 400 Euros with T-Mobile contract and 800 Euro without a contract (like everybody else). Apple should make (a lot of) money in both cases.
Bye egghat
to make this list a bit less biased:
...):
...
Design: | Yes | Fugly as hell
Manual: | 8p | 324 pages required reading
Bunch af accessories | Nope | yes, everything you can dream of
But this is not the real reasons that I won't buy one (well it *might* be the Santa has one for me
The T-Mobile service plan sucks. We have to pay sth like 70 Dollars and get just 100 minutes, 40 SMS and a flatrate that will cripple to 64kbit/s after 200 MB data usage. My current plan is cheaper and I get more minutes and more data.
I might change my pov when the iPhone gets UMTS and/or GPS
Bye egghat
Cell phones adventures
March 27th, 2005 | John Carmack
Come on, Netbeans and Java have really amde some progress in the last two and a half years.
Netbeans 6.0 (even in beta) is good. Everyone who isn't married to Eclipse should take some days to test Netbeans again. Performancewise I can't find any major differences between Netbeans and Eclipse.
Bye egghat
There are various different technologies:
...
a) Lithium-ion-battery
b) Lithium-ion polymer battery
c) Lithium nanophosphate batteries from A123 systems
d) Lithium titanite batteries from Altair Nano
All have their own pros and cons.
a) is cheap and available
b) has the highest energy density
c) can't explode and can discharge fast
d) can be charged very fast (1 min)
And now you can add technology e) to this list.
So all those lame comments about exploding batteries are well lame. I've even heard about most of those technologies here on Slashdot. Slashdot readers should know better
Bye egghat
First: The patent system is so complicated that you can be sure there is more than one problem ...
... But even these have a good probability of getting through. And someday they are published, the world thinks: Holy shit, WTF is that? But the patent is there, stays there and may make someone a lot of money.
But now to the article and the patent system:
Problem i) The patent officers are overwhelmed by patent applications. So the review is not as good as it should be.
Problem ii) If a patent is granted, it's extremly complicated, expensive and costs a lot of money to invalidate it (just look at the One-Click patent from Amazon if you need an example).
A possible solution would be a sunrise period (e.g. 6 months) for new patents in which they can be openly discussed. The community of patent reviewers may find prior art etc. Only and only if the community does not find any major objections the patent will be granted.
Now the patent office is flooded with patent applications. Many of them are not worth the paper the are printed on
The idea is not mine, IIRC I have read it here on Slashdot.
Bye egghat
Well this is an idea from MS. What do you expect?
...
... this one was from ...
Apple puts the touchscreen on the front, MS on the back. Which one ist more intuitive?
Apple puts the help on Apple-?, MS on F1.
So, a touchscreen at the back of the device only makes sense if your design of the GUI is horribly wrong.
Aaam wait
Ahh, makes sense after all.
Bye egghat.
Perhaps you meant this one?
LifeStraw
or with some critical comments added: Wikipedia: LifeStraw
Bye egghat
"I honestly don't believe OpenMoko or the Neo1973 will go anywhere at all without carrier support, and they won't get carrier support while they're as powerful as they are."
US centric view. In Europe all GSM phones can be used in all networks. The iPhone will be the first exception and I'm sure that this kind of bundling won't hold up in the courts.
The iPhone is the coolest phone around but with three major cons (from a European pov):
a) Only one carrier
b) No native apps
c) no 3G
None of these cons in the 2nd generation of the OpenMoko phone. I'm seriously considering one of these.
Bye egghat
Phones that were late. Very late. And still unstable.
Especially when they did something bigger and not one of the iterative improvements (new design + new form factor + 3 megapixel cam instead of 2).
So don't expect too much from Nokia.
This may look different from the US, where Nokia phones reach the market months later than here in Europe. Most of the time the phones are stable then, but Europeans had to make two or three firmware updates. And god did I hate Nokia for not allowing customers to upgrade their phones themselves IIRC Nokia changed this, but I've got an SonyEricsson now).
Bye egghat
It's a smartphone with a touchscreen and well we're on Slashdot, so sth. comparable, but open source IS on topic.
Bye egghat.
My major gripe about GWT ist the use of Java, which I never liked.
...
So I want to give oyou two pointers to projects that could need help to transfer the idea of GWT from Java to Python and Ruby:
Python: pyjamas - build AJAX apps in Python (like Google did for Java).
Ruby: Blog Entry from Michael Neumann, who tries to port GWT to Ruby.
The Ruby stuff is in the very early stages
Bye egghat.
"Its hard to make a midi-tower sexy."
IMHO the Cube was rather sexy.
Bye egghat
e.g. cause my monitor is connected to two PCs.
When Apple ditches the mini and doesn't replace it with something comparable, I will seriously consider going back to Linux.
A cube-like Mac with standard PC components (normal RAM, normal 3.5 " disk, normal size optical drive) and upgradable PCI-Express slots would be perfect. The cool thing about this: It is cheaper to built these PCs (600 Dollar for a Cube with a simple 50 Dollar ATI, a 250 GB disk and 2 Gb RAM is not a problem even with an Apple premium attached).
But I'm not holding my breath.
Bye egghat.
Same here in Germany.
I've been invited early enough to get an @gmail.com addresse despite being from Germany. But new users from Germany get oegooglemail.com only for some time now.
Bye egghat
are the only words I can think of after reading this really weird, creepy story.
Bye egghat.
P.S. All my wishes to the kids.
Fully second this.
The Logitech TrackMan Wheel was single best thing I've bought in the last 5 years or so.
While the new vertical mouse looks like a good idea, it doesn't look that revolutionary if you compare it with a normal trackball. Two more buttons, a taller design and well the "two-handed mode", which I can't think of using too often. In most cases I hate to move one hand to the trackball and therefore away from the keyboard. So I can't think of too many situations where I will like to move *both* hands away from the keyboard.
Bye egghat.
I think of this as a "Apple's version of XULRunner". Build your App for the iPhone. And now it will run on Windows and OSX too. Add a bit of modified HTML (or even better different CSS for different media) for the bigger screen. Done!
Even if every small move by Apple is viewed as the next big revolution, well, most of them aren't. They are just small steps. Like this one: Giving developers for iPhone Apps access to two more plattforms at virtually no added costs. Development for this new platform makes a lot more sense than before.
Bye egghat.
I've written this before and I will write it again ...
I think that a Mozilla Summer of Code would be a good idea.
And the Mozilla Foundation should really put their money behind XULRunner. It's one of the oldest solutions that utilizes XML + Scripting on the desktop. But I "fear" that similiar technologies from Adobe (Apollo) and Microsoft (Quicksilver) will take the market by storm.
Bye egghat
MSOC would be a better idea IMHO. Money for new features.
Mozilla could even extend it far beyond Mozilla (why not KDE, Gnome, GCC, Perl (Javascript on Parrot?), etc. pp.?)
Btw. I think the deal with Google is *so* good, that e.g. the KDE guys (Konqueror) should do a similiar deal too.
Bye egghat.
I'd like to rant, but just 10 seconds of fact checkiing should be done before ...
:-) ).
luggage space (Kofferraumvolumen):
VW Polo 1.4 Comfortline 5-türig: 270 Liter (80 hp, 15.104 Euros)
Toyota Yaris 1.3 Sol 5-türig: 275 Liter (87 PS, 15.542 Euro)
Opel Corsa 1.2 Twinport Catch Me 5-türig285 Liter (80 hp, 15.080 Euro)
Nissan Micra 1.4 Acenta 5-türig251 Liter (88 hp, 15.090 Euro)
I couldn't find the Sirion in the list, but I've seen it and compared to my Polo the luggage volume is lower.
Btw. I'm sure, that if you compare cars in the same class there isn't anything major that differs by more than 25%. All cars are mostly equal.
And a 2nd btw: My second car is an Audi A2. Yes, the A pillars are thick. But they are thick in most (Mini)-Vans as well. At least for me the higher seating position in those kind of cars is more important than the thick A-pillars. But your mileage may vary (mine is 64.20 mpg
Bye egghat
Though there a gazillions of studies of what might cause osteoporosis the single strongest link is between sunlight and osteoporosis. Sunlight is needed to produce/convert Vitamin D. No sunlight, no Vitamin D. Osteoporosis is quite common in Scandinavia or the UK.
To be more precise it's not sunlight, but daylight. In New York, Berlin or Toronto 30 minutes of daylight are enough even on a cloudy day in winter with only your hands and face exposed to daylight. So that one is easy to solve.
Bye egghat
Read this yesterday in the New York Times. A small company from New Zealand has developed a method to convert CO to Ethanol with modified bacteria.
Carbon Gas Is Explored as a Source of Ethanol
Bye egghat.
Nope.
The iPhone will come out in Europe near the end of the year and in Asia even later. So that's a lot of (worldwide) momentum built in.
Bye egghat.