If it is your computer program and you give it the input you know is going to do what you want, you are responsible for it. This is a more similar to armed bandits coming in town and you telling the folk to come out and check out their guns. But all these analogies are pointless. It is well established that the stock market is a game and the big boys put expensive minds and machines to gain an advantage over the "common" players. It seems that these guys simply beat them at their own game, the "victim" in question did some bad trades, whether it was a live person doing them or the were pre-programmed (by a live - at the time of programming - person), that person lost money for his company - end of story.
I have lived both in the EU and the US (6 years) and there is no perfect place, however the privacy and civil liberty issues in the UK and the US are alone enough to make me uncomfortable in the prospect of spending more time in those two places. For years I would take the NYC subway to go to work and every single day those "subject to search" messages over the loudspeakers would, for at least a few seconds, make me feel I am trapped in an Orwellian future... Yeah, I know, it was for my own protection...
Even 500 is too much. Since July all EU countries have a hard limit for telecom bills. For my provider it is 64 Euro (my cell phone plan for voice and data comes up to about 20 euro/month). To go over that I actually have to sign a form and send it to them. So there is no longer a problem in Europe, the rest of the world should follow with similar laws.
Perhaps the next BluRay spec should include this technology so that when you watch ET you can select for the walkie-talkies to be erased and your choice of guns/rpg's etc to appear!
You haven't tried the N900. For geeks it is like a dream come true, a full linux machine on a phone. Now, if it gotten to the point that it was more than a Nokia experiment (seriously, enough with the Symbian stuff, get over it...) it could also be good for simple users. And if Android is freedom compared to the iPhone, Maemo or MeeGo (let's see if Intel behind it will add something) is on another level entirely.
"Carnivorous swamp beast"... Oh, come on! I was expecting something close to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal and all I go is a groundhog with better dental hygiene and a temper...
It is kind of like talking to a wall... You are talking about market size and seem oblivious to the fact that while you are not talking about nuclear winter-lands, they are sub 1-million markets. You can't go by area size when you talk about markets, it is population. The fact is, the N900 supports the fastest 3G Network in the US and it was the only 10Mbit device on a network that supported that speed in the US when it launched. Yes, it is only in big cities, but you know what? THAT'S WHERE MOST PEOPLE HAPPEN TO LIVE. If you chose not to live in a big city you have many advantages over the city folk, but apparently good 3G coverage is not one of them. Rural US is not the majority of North America nor of Slashdot. Get over it and be happy with your iPhone or whatever.
First you complain about a device that has a limited marketplace, and then you start listing South Dakota and Montana? Are you just trying to follow your user name, or is this really an attempt at an argument? And no, I am certainly no Nokia fanboy - it is the first Nokia phone I ever bought, I always thought their phones were overpriced for what they offer (at least in Europe). But it is one thing to complain about the N900's real shortcomings and another to be angry about a European phone supporting all the European networks and only some of the US. They have put from infrared to FM receivers and transmitters in there, perhaps an extra 3G band was too much for their engineers, maybe their market analysts said it is not worth the hassle, who knows? In any case the US seems iPhone happy, which is the exact opposite of the N900.
All these years there has been so much development in mice, but still we are nowhere near the feel of a real mouse. I mean the warm furry feeling of a live mouse, the little squeaks when you squeeze it just can't be substituted with any shape shifting, high-dpi laser mouse.
Wow... What ignorance. The "only a few European networks" you mention is basically all of Europe and that part of the world, no matter how remote and insignificant it seems to you, is where most of Nokia's customers are. But, where you are mostly wrong, is that the N900 DOES work on a fast 3G US network. I would get over 2mbps in Manhattan over T-Mobile's 3G network. Cell phone coverage in the US varies wildly so T-Mobile might not be the best in your area, but I lived in NY for 6 years and T-Mobile was great for me, plus it had the best policies (free unlocking of phones) and among the lowest prices. Furthermore, I don't know devices that can support all of the US 3G networks because almost every friggin' carrier uses a different one (of course even 2G service varies among carriers). Verizon (although abusive and expensive) has probably the best coverage, but it is a CDMA network. A CDMA N900 would basically work only on Verizon. Now, that would be restricting the marketplace. Ok, I guess they could have added the WCDMA 3G bands that AT&T uses since it is the only GSM carrier larger (not better) than T-Mobile (although no idea how easy/expensive it would be), but, hey, I thought everybody (with an iPhone) complained about AT&T's network;)
Or one of those people who like to use "crazy" keyboards with 101 or so regular sized keys. No, the "Fn" key is not among those 101.
BTW I used an IBM "clicky" keyboard (not the AT version, I had an IBM PS/2 machine) until around '96, but then I found that the "freaky" natural keyboards are much more relaxing and helped me type faster once I got used to them;)
I was like you. I always had the simplest phone that was good at making calls and sometimes carried with me a PDA (a Dell X51v) if I wanted to watch a movie, have gps etc or a linux netbook if I needed to keep connected with the machines at the office. Then the N900 came out. I always have with me a phone, a movie player, a gps and a linux machine. In addition, even with the netbook I never had the ability to SSH over 3G (I would have needed more than my simple phone for that, tether it etc), and I can do international calls that my voice plan prohibits (due to cost), since for the N900 calling via skype is as simple as hitting the key next to the phone call button. So, yeah, for domestic calls my old (and much smaller) phone was probably easier to use, but the N900 is not "bad" and saves me from carrying around extra devices, while doing things I couldn't in the past...
If your work is done on a laptop keyboard you obviously don't care about ergonomics so you can't start complaining about the ergonomics of the monitor!
Same thing here. 26" 1920x1200 is vertical (I am writing on it right now since it is great for the web as well), and most of my code writing is done on it, while a 19" 4:3 is next to it for having tools like terminals, debuggers, emulators etc visible at the same time.
This can easily be avoided if you charge the service cost for people who have not chosen to be subscribers. Similar to how it is done in other places in the US where there are no subscriptions at all. So, if you haven't paid your $75, they can still come, having warned you that it will be $2000 for a vehicle with full crew.
Hmm. Interesting. I have several pc's at home and at work, most of which run VM's on top and they are a good mix (Linux, Win XP, Win 7, Mac OS X). Yet each one has a specific purpose, so I browse on a couple, the rest are not for browsing the net. I mean, why would you have many browsing machines? Then, saying "the best browser changes every 6 months" is very strange. Do you always use the browser that at that point of time is the best in the ACID test or a java benchmark? Otherwise browsers don't change dramatically from one day to the next so switching browser often would seem counter productive to me. So while I don't understand why you would need to sync bookmarks on 10 OS's x 4 browsers each, I can just admit that for you, a very peculiar user, something like XMarks would make sense...
You guys use a service to sync your bookmarks? I thought the slashdot crowd had privacy concerns over such stuff. Especially when the manual sync is just an scp command away... Personally, I have a different set of bookmarks at work than at home and the only time I would sync (via the aforementioned scp command) would be after setting up a new machine. But the last couple of years or so I have stopped copying over my old bookmarks to new machines. My favorite sites come up by typing the first couple of characters and I bookmark only the few pages I need that don't come up in the first page of google results, which I usually won't need any longer by the time I switch to a new machine (ok, they still stay in a backup somewhere)...
Oh, the main reason I first opened a Citi account is for Citi global transfers. If you have Citibank accounts in two different countries, you can transfer money between them INSTANTLY and for a low or no fee. For example transferring Greece -> US was free, while US -> Greece was $5, and no waiting for the next business day (or three) etc!
Bank Of America allowed me to go back to 2 years I think, but it was such a lousy bank overall that I closed my account. Citibank lets me download statements from my entire history, which is 6 years so far. The only "catch" is that the last 4 months are available online at any moment, if you want older ones you click the months that you want (as many as you wish) and the next business day the links to the pdfs for those months are activated and stay on for at least a day. Also citibank has always had savings rates that were very competitive (well, right now rates are down everywhere, but for when they go up again...)
Bingo! It must be one of those 7 computers that still have a floppy drive! Now we'll just wait for the next time they connect to a bbs server to pinpoint their location and go investigate them!
Where I live, we only have church and low quality classical music on AM. But anyway, I guess if digital broadcasting brings good quality to AM it could become relevant again? Or as relevant as the rest of the radio broadcasts will be in a few years...
RTFA, it seems the fight is over the AM band! Interesting, given the fact that I am over 30 but still I don't remember a time when anyone cared about the AM band...
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If it is your computer program and you give it the input you know is going to do what you want, you are responsible for it.
This is a more similar to armed bandits coming in town and you telling the folk to come out and check out their guns.
But all these analogies are pointless. It is well established that the stock market is a game and the big boys put expensive minds and machines to gain an advantage over the "common" players. It seems that these guys simply beat them at their own game, the "victim" in question did some bad trades, whether it was a live person doing them or the were pre-programmed (by a live - at the time of programming - person), that person lost money for his company - end of story.
I have lived both in the EU and the US (6 years) and there is no perfect place, however the privacy and civil liberty issues in the UK and the US are alone enough to make me uncomfortable in the prospect of spending more time in those two places. For years I would take the NYC subway to go to work and every single day those "subject to search" messages over the loudspeakers would, for at least a few seconds, make me feel I am trapped in an Orwellian future... Yeah, I know, it was for my own protection...
Even 500 is too much. Since July all EU countries have a hard limit for telecom bills. For my provider it is 64 Euro (my cell phone plan for voice and data comes up to about 20 euro/month). To go over that I actually have to sign a form and send it to them. So there is no longer a problem in Europe, the rest of the world should follow with similar laws.
Perhaps the next BluRay spec should include this technology so that when you watch ET you can select for the walkie-talkies to be erased and your choice of guns/rpg's etc to appear!
At least he wasn't named Sue.
You haven't tried the N900. For geeks it is like a dream come true, a full linux machine on a phone. Now, if it gotten to the point that it was more than a Nokia experiment (seriously, enough with the Symbian stuff, get over it...) it could also be good for simple users. And if Android is freedom compared to the iPhone, Maemo or MeeGo (let's see if Intel behind it will add something) is on another level entirely.
"Carnivorous swamp beast"... Oh, come on! I was expecting something close to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal and all I go is a groundhog with better dental hygiene and a temper...
It is kind of like talking to a wall...
You are talking about market size and seem oblivious to the fact that while you are not talking about nuclear winter-lands, they are sub 1-million markets. You can't go by area size when you talk about markets, it is population. The fact is, the N900 supports the fastest 3G Network in the US and it was the only 10Mbit device on a network that supported that speed in the US when it launched. Yes, it is only in big cities, but you know what? THAT'S WHERE MOST PEOPLE HAPPEN TO LIVE. If you chose not to live in a big city you have many advantages over the city folk, but apparently good 3G coverage is not one of them. Rural US is not the majority of North America nor of Slashdot. Get over it and be happy with your iPhone or whatever.
First you complain about a device that has a limited marketplace, and then you start listing South Dakota and Montana?
Are you just trying to follow your user name, or is this really an attempt at an argument?
And no, I am certainly no Nokia fanboy - it is the first Nokia phone I ever bought, I always thought their phones were overpriced for what they offer (at least in Europe). But it is one thing to complain about the N900's real shortcomings and another to be angry about a European phone supporting all the European networks and only some of the US. They have put from infrared to FM receivers and transmitters in there, perhaps an extra 3G band was too much for their engineers, maybe their market analysts said it is not worth the hassle, who knows? In any case the US seems iPhone happy, which is the exact opposite of the N900.
All these years there has been so much development in mice, but still we are nowhere near the feel of a real mouse. I mean the warm furry feeling of a live mouse, the little squeaks when you squeeze it just can't be substituted with any shape shifting, high-dpi laser mouse.
Wow... What ignorance. ;)
The "only a few European networks" you mention is basically all of Europe and that part of the world, no matter how remote and insignificant it seems to you, is where most of Nokia's customers are.
But, where you are mostly wrong, is that the N900 DOES work on a fast 3G US network. I would get over 2mbps in Manhattan over T-Mobile's 3G network. Cell phone coverage in the US varies wildly so T-Mobile might not be the best in your area, but I lived in NY for 6 years and T-Mobile was great for me, plus it had the best policies (free unlocking of phones) and among the lowest prices.
Furthermore, I don't know devices that can support all of the US 3G networks because almost every friggin' carrier uses a different one (of course even 2G service varies among carriers). Verizon (although abusive and expensive) has probably the best coverage, but it is a CDMA network. A CDMA N900 would basically work only on Verizon. Now, that would be restricting the marketplace. Ok, I guess they could have added the WCDMA 3G bands that AT&T uses since it is the only GSM carrier larger (not better) than T-Mobile (although no idea how easy/expensive it would be), but, hey, I thought everybody (with an iPhone) complained about AT&T's network
Or one of those people who like to use "crazy" keyboards with 101 or so regular sized keys. No, the "Fn" key is not among those 101.
BTW I used an IBM "clicky" keyboard (not the AT version, I had an IBM PS/2 machine) until around '96, but then I found that the "freaky" natural keyboards are much more relaxing and helped me type faster once I got used to them ;)
I was like you. I always had the simplest phone that was good at making calls and sometimes carried with me a PDA (a Dell X51v) if I wanted to watch a movie, have gps etc or a linux netbook if I needed to keep connected with the machines at the office.
Then the N900 came out. I always have with me a phone, a movie player, a gps and a linux machine. In addition, even with the netbook I never had the ability to SSH over 3G (I would have needed more than my simple phone for that, tether it etc), and I can do international calls that my voice plan prohibits (due to cost), since for the N900 calling via skype is as simple as hitting the key next to the phone call button. So, yeah, for domestic calls my old (and much smaller) phone was probably easier to use, but the N900 is not "bad" and saves me from carrying around extra devices, while doing things I couldn't in the past...
Of course I have. I had a T22. Good keyboard FOR A LAPTOP. Desktop keyboard replacement? No, especially if you have a good desktop keyboard.
If your work is done on a laptop keyboard you obviously don't care about ergonomics so you can't start complaining about the ergonomics of the monitor!
Same thing here. 26" 1920x1200 is vertical (I am writing on it right now since it is great for the web as well), and most of my code writing is done on it, while a 19" 4:3 is next to it for having tools like terminals, debuggers, emulators etc visible at the same time.
This can easily be avoided if you charge the service cost for people who have not chosen to be subscribers. Similar to how it is done in other places in the US where there are no subscriptions at all. So, if you haven't paid your $75, they can still come, having warned you that it will be $2000 for a vehicle with full crew.
Hmm. Interesting. I have several pc's at home and at work, most of which run VM's on top and they are a good mix (Linux, Win XP, Win 7, Mac OS X). Yet each one has a specific purpose, so I browse on a couple, the rest are not for browsing the net. I mean, why would you have many browsing machines?
Then, saying "the best browser changes every 6 months" is very strange. Do you always use the browser that at that point of time is the best in the ACID test or a java benchmark? Otherwise browsers don't change dramatically from one day to the next so switching browser often would seem counter productive to me.
So while I don't understand why you would need to sync bookmarks on 10 OS's x 4 browsers each, I can just admit that for you, a very peculiar user, something like XMarks would make sense...
You guys use a service to sync your bookmarks? I thought the slashdot crowd had privacy concerns over such stuff. Especially when the manual sync is just an scp command away...
Personally, I have a different set of bookmarks at work than at home and the only time I would sync (via the aforementioned scp command) would be after setting up a new machine. But the last couple of years or so I have stopped copying over my old bookmarks to new machines. My favorite sites come up by typing the first couple of characters and I bookmark only the few pages I need that don't come up in the first page of google results, which I usually won't need any longer by the time I switch to a new machine (ok, they still stay in a backup somewhere)...
Oh, the main reason I first opened a Citi account is for Citi global transfers. If you have Citibank accounts in two different countries, you can transfer money between them INSTANTLY and for a low or no fee. For example transferring Greece -> US was free, while US -> Greece was $5, and no waiting for the next business day (or three) etc!
Bank Of America allowed me to go back to 2 years I think, but it was such a lousy bank overall that I closed my account.
Citibank lets me download statements from my entire history, which is 6 years so far. The only "catch" is that the last 4 months are available online at any moment, if you want older ones you click the months that you want (as many as you wish) and the next business day the links to the pdfs for those months are activated and stay on for at least a day. Also citibank has always had savings rates that were very competitive (well, right now rates are down everywhere, but for when they go up again...)
Only after they're done with iRan and iRaq...
Bingo! It must be one of those 7 computers that still have a floppy drive! Now we'll just wait for the next time they connect to a bbs server to pinpoint their location and go investigate them!
Where I live, we only have church and low quality classical music on AM. But anyway, I guess if digital broadcasting brings good quality to AM it could become relevant again? Or as relevant as the rest of the radio broadcasts will be in a few years...
RTFA, it seems the fight is over the AM band! Interesting, given the fact that I am over 30 but still I don't remember a time when anyone cared about the AM band...