This statements lends itself to the way you look at situations. It isn't about making it big, instead it is about making a sustainable positive flow income that one saves. "Big" people are dreaming just as much as those who believe in the lottery or making it to the NBA. Anyone can change their situation in life in America, despite who they know, if they are calculated and persistant.
Have you ever wondered why not every provider has carried phones from SE or phones with bluetooth? Unfortunately it was because of the lack of DRM.
You see a number of phone providers (HI SPRINT!) see ringtones, wallpapers, and such as an important revenue stream. They were terrified of the fact that with bluetooth you could easily just put stuff on and take stuff off the phone. SE, to sell phones to these providers, had to add DRM features.
emulators in Sun's Wireless Toolkit, and since their documentation is little more than sales pitch (that I've found at least) it appears they have no extended APIs to take advantage of sound or other phone specific features.
Uh because it is supporting the midlet standard. Hello, you are jumping down on them for following a spec? You wouldn't want java to take advantage of phone SPECIFIC features because then it is no longer a general, portable app but one tuned to a certain phone.
The P800 is a symbian based phone so of course they push that as the way to develop. There are already a few pretty impressive games out that featured 3d polygon worlds.
No, Doom 3 is what is right with the game industry.
By not releasing the game until it is really complete and the finished product matches the initial vision of the developers we are much more likely to get a quality effort (a few exceptions with standing). Too many developers are now driven by quarterly reports and rush shoddy efforts to the market.
What machines are you using in racks that require monitor/keyboard hookups?
Even with XP/NT you should be using some remote desktop software. Then you have a single monitor/keyboard on a small cart that you wheel around in dire emergencies when nothing else would do.
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If, on the other hand, you enjoy the randomness of being potentially screwed in every other game you play, well, go nuts with nethack.
This is why, when people ask, I say "nethack is more of a life simulator".
With Opera out for Symbian 6 devices you can use a real web browser to read/post to blogs if you desire. More importantly there are active working ports of Putty (ssh) as well, so now just go finagle a P800 and enjoy the net in your hand.
I used to absolutely abhor NASCAR. The only thing I'd ever watch were the wrecks. Now I'm the type of guy to leave some sort of sports on the teevee while tooling around online or playing games in MAME. But starting last year during a really bad cold I began to watch NASCAR. At first I was like okay this is at least as exciting as soccer. Then I watched some more and the wrecks were fricken awesome. Okay, one more race. More awesome wrecks. Then again. Next thing I knew I actually began to pay real attention (well in the same way I'd watch a BBall game) and suddenly it struck me. NASCAR is a hell of a lot smarter than I was giving it credit for.
Races play out a lot like a chess game, there is an immense amount of strategy involved. Hell there is a concerted effort going on with everyone at very high rates of reaction times... one fuckup and bam they all go down. NASCAR really gets a bum rap because of the stupid commercials, southern drawls and history. But for techies and people willing to look past it's somewhat boring motif there is a somewhat rewarding experience there.
Then again I also like any kind of car racing. Perhaps one too many hours of Gran Tourismo broked my brain.
Again your costs analysis are way off. This isn't about total bandwith used or a minimal amount of servers to pull it off. This is whats needed to give a certain level of service to every user, all the time. This requires fat pipes to handle load bursts, groups of servers, and some advanced caching mechanims in front (regardless of the dynamic nature of your service).
Just because your non-corporate run site handles such load on a low cost basis doesn't mean the costs scale the same for a company that has investors/board to answer to. They wanna know your DR plan, the survivability of your colo site, what happens during catastrophe X, Y and Z. Running a colo site for an internet based company is an expensive undertaking. Sure you can do large portions of it on the cheap but skimping on the costs at the colo level will have a dramatic affect on your uptime stats.
OK, let's look at this... Big picture stuff... Server co-location, $1000/month, tops.
BS. A decent amount of cagespace, with redundant 10mbit burstable lines, at a facility like C&W will set you back 8-14k depending on floor space usage.
Not everyone uses Jack's ServerRackEm to host their site, especially those that have outside investment to answer to.
(I still have no clue where all the cash went, they bought equipment during the internet goldrush when everyone should have been paying 60% on the dollar so at worst they could have only spent 3-4mil for a site hardware wise and thats including a lot of nice sun/cisco gear).
I love the keyboard, even though the US version has the larger keys compared to the Japanese imports. Then again it is probably because I type with three, sometimes four, fingers on each hand (still damn fast though). I can see how if you type properly the keyboard would kill you.
I've only had my P800 for a week. It is the Swedish release model with the most currunt stable rom. Overall I find the phone to be everything expected and a bit more.
First the bad:
* It is heavier than many of the current cellphones out and has larger dimensions. While it still fits in a pocket it feels like you are carrying a phone from '99. * Because you can install any number of random apps from the world the stability can be suspect thanks to installing some garbage (there is a signing feature but I have yet to see any signed apps). * The flip keypad actually just presses the screen. There are reports in the wild of people slapping the buttons hard and ruining their LCD screens. * The preferences are in silly locations, go ahead try finding where you change the tone for message alerts. * Doesn't seem to be a bluetooth networking protocol stack built in despite what some people have claimed. * The vibration isn't impressive for a phone of this size. My pager can outshake it any day of the week. * Reception is much better than the t68i but still seems prone to signal fade (then again maybe this is just something that happens extremely often with GPRS in tall cities). * All of the buttons are very small. * There doesn't seem to be a built in way to disable or reprogram the hard buttons on the right side of the unit (camera, internet). * You can use the jog dial to select and go into things but there isn't a hard button to back out, you must use the LCD. * Navigation of the phone without looking at it is nearly impossible. * Limited size and proprietary nature of Sony memory expansion. * Requires Outlook/Notes for address book sync. * Expensive dev kit for creating native Symbian apps.... whoa that was longer than I expected and now the Good:
* Oh Jesus, it is damn sexy. * Very powerful, one of the included games is a rather bland race car game that you can play networked. What is impressive about it is that it is all shaded polygons similiar to what one would see on the 1st gen of Atari Jaguar games. Nothing too special really but when it is in the palm of your hand, awesome. * The camera is much better than any one inclued in any cellphone so far. The max resolution is 640x480, there is no flash, but the camera seems to take pretty decent pictures. Comparable to any of the $75-$100 digital cams one can currently purchase. * You can use practically anything for a ringtone. In some strange conspiracy it seems to only not support using.mod files to announce calls or alerts. * Syncing (if you have msoft products) works well. Just hook up the phone and go. Combine with an external sync program like trusync and syncing through outlook to your favourite web service is a breeze. * Practically every midlet I have tried on it works. * Ports of games like DOOM and the emulator MAME if you are into that sort of thing. While they work I've found MAME to be more of a showoff than usable to play games. The stylus just doesn't lend itself to old arcade games. * The screen is bright and the clarity kicks ass. * Phone comes with 12meg Internal and one 16Meg stick, that holds a lot of stuff if you aren't trying to fill it full of mp3s. * Included headset (headphone/microphone) have suprisingly good sound. * Handwriting recognition is fast, accurate and easy to get used to. * Support for POP/IMAP. This is probably my favourite feature of the phone, there is something just damn cool about having the phone pulling your email for you every hour or so and replying wherever you are. * SMS becomes insanely more easy when you can just write out your responses. * Played with a beta of the Opera browser which comes out on Monday. It is a *real* browser in your hand. * Bluetooth file transfers with laptops seem to work well as does moving files from phone to phone. I can not get bluetooth syncing to work. * Did I mention it was sexy? * Speakerphone quality is amazing (and very loud). * In fact the phone is *very* loud. You can play an MP3 loud enough for an entire room to hear. * Easy to assign pictures to any contact info. * Quickdial screen features icons of pictures for your friends/family. Nothing like just touching someone's face to call them. * IRDA works. * Flight mode. * Better than expected battery life for such a complex device. * Great sound quality in calls. *...!
Okay I am tired. Suffice to say even with the downsides this is by *far* the best integrated solution to come along.
How long does it take you people to goto news.google and find a site that doesn't require registration or giving our personal info? (hint it took me about 5 seconds)
No, I don't care that you can lie or fill in false info. Linking to such a site helps them justify this behaviour because they use even the junk numbers in their evaluations of "should we keep this annoyingly useless registration around or not".
Although wireless networks offer slower bandwidth than their wired counterparts, they do offer one advantage over hard-connected ethernet: they don't suffer from the same saturation problems.
Uh, this isn't true. Wireless networks have a finite amount of bandwith that is shared by all the nodes at the same time. What, you think you can suddenly cram 300 full channels of data into a fixed amount of frequency space?
I found that an unidentified individual had accessed an account I was using at escape.com, from the Well's subnet.
This lead to the termination of a lot of "suspect" accounts on well.com of which mine was one. Pretty much anyone who had touched that shithole escape in any form (that could be proven) was given walking papers.
This would be awesome if the encryption chip was available to the OS, this would be an awesome boon for SSL performance. Maybe this is an angle manufactors can push to get people to upgrade? "BUILT IN ENCRYPTION SPEED!!!"
This is just a guy out looking for kicks and fun. If someone is "probing/attacking" your network thanks to a worm and you can't contact them, the solution is simple:
You simply block off their traffic.
Close your blinds, your door, or whatever real world analogy you would like to try and apply. You have the right to send the same traffic back to them, monkeyseemonkeydo, but in no way is it possible to justify altering the running of their machine. Doing so, is no better than the malicious process already causing the damage.
Apple is a strong company that is in no danger of being purchased.
Incorrect. Apple is in a very risky position where a hostile takeover could happen. Right now you could basically have Apple for near free, thanks to their stock price and their easily obtainable 4bill in near cash.
Go to their corporate site and check their numbers for last year. I posted once on ARS about this, but if you compare the hardware expenditures to the hardware profits lines (GC only) you can see where Nintendo is and has been making money on the hardware all along.
Why must everybody make this sort of silly comparison?
Okay, I'll field this. People make these sort of silly comparisons because in their own minds they are equivelant. Obviously to you they aren't but for many people such a comparison as the one above is completely valid.
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I've nearly "made it big" three times now
This statements lends itself to the way you look at situations. It isn't about making it big, instead it is about making a sustainable positive flow income that one saves. "Big" people are dreaming just as much as those who believe in the lottery or making it to the NBA. Anyone can change their situation in life in America, despite who they know, if they are calculated and persistant.
What gets me is the "registered iPod" bit...can't we do anything anonymously anymore? Geeze!
Uh didn't you lose your anonymous nature when you signed up for the pay service?
Have you ever wondered why not every provider has carried phones from SE or phones with bluetooth? Unfortunately it was because of the lack of DRM.
You see a number of phone providers (HI SPRINT!) see ringtones, wallpapers, and such as an important revenue stream. They were terrified of the fact that with bluetooth you could easily just put stuff on and take stuff off the phone. SE, to sell phones to these providers, had to add DRM features.
emulators in Sun's Wireless Toolkit, and since their documentation is little more than sales pitch (that I've found at least) it appears they have no extended APIs to take advantage of sound or other phone specific features.
Uh because it is supporting the midlet standard. Hello, you are jumping down on them for following a spec? You wouldn't want java to take advantage of phone SPECIFIC features because then it is no longer a general, portable app but one tuned to a certain phone.
The P800 is a symbian based phone so of course they push that as the way to develop. There are already a few pretty impressive games out that featured 3d polygon worlds.
No, Doom 3 is what is right with the game industry.
By not releasing the game until it is really complete and the finished product matches the initial vision of the developers we are much more likely to get a quality effort (a few exceptions with standing). Too many developers are now driven by quarterly reports and rush shoddy efforts to the market.
What machines are you using in racks that require monitor/keyboard hookups?
Even with XP/NT you should be using some remote desktop software. Then you have a single monitor/keyboard on a small cart that you wheel around in dire emergencies when nothing else would do.
If, on the other hand, you enjoy the randomness of being potentially screwed in every other game you play, well, go nuts with nethack.
This is why, when people ask, I say "nethack is more of a life simulator".
With Opera out for Symbian 6 devices you can use a real web browser to read/post to blogs if you desire. More importantly there are active working ports of Putty (ssh) as well, so now just go finagle a P800 and enjoy the net in your hand.
I used to absolutely abhor NASCAR. The only thing I'd ever watch were the wrecks. Now I'm the type of guy to leave some sort of sports on the teevee while tooling around online or playing games in MAME. But starting last year during a really bad cold I began to watch NASCAR. At first I was like okay this is at least as exciting as soccer. Then I watched some more and the wrecks were fricken awesome. Okay, one more race. More awesome wrecks. Then again. Next thing I knew I actually began to pay real attention (well in the same way I'd watch a BBall game) and suddenly it struck me. NASCAR is a hell of a lot smarter than I was giving it credit for.
Races play out a lot like a chess game, there is an immense amount of strategy involved. Hell there is a concerted effort going on with everyone at very high rates of reaction times... one fuckup and bam they all go down. NASCAR really gets a bum rap because of the stupid commercials, southern drawls and history. But for techies and people willing to look past it's somewhat boring motif there is a somewhat rewarding experience there.
Then again I also like any kind of car racing. Perhaps one too many hours of Gran Tourismo broked my brain.
Again your costs analysis are way off. This isn't about total bandwith used or a minimal amount of servers to pull it off. This is whats needed to give a certain level of service to every user, all the time. This requires fat pipes to handle load bursts, groups of servers, and some advanced caching mechanims in front (regardless of the dynamic nature of your service).
Just because your non-corporate run site handles such load on a low cost basis doesn't mean the costs scale the same for a company that has investors/board to answer to. They wanna know your DR plan, the survivability of your colo site, what happens during catastrophe X, Y and Z. Running a colo site for an internet based company is an expensive undertaking.
Sure you can do large portions of it on the cheap but skimping on the costs at the colo level will have a dramatic affect on your uptime stats.
OK, let's look at this... Big picture stuff... Server co-location, $1000/month, tops.
BS. A decent amount of cagespace, with redundant 10mbit burstable lines, at a facility like C&W will set you back 8-14k depending on floor space usage.
Not everyone uses Jack's ServerRackEm to host their site, especially those that have outside investment to answer to.
(I still have no clue where all the cash went, they bought equipment during the internet goldrush when everyone should have been paying 60% on the dollar so at worst they could have only spent 3-4mil for a site hardware wise and thats including a lot of nice sun/cisco gear).
I love the keyboard, even though the US version has the larger keys compared to the Japanese imports. Then again it is probably because I type with three, sometimes four, fingers on each hand (still damn fast though). I can see how if you type properly the keyboard would kill you.
Standard laptop PeeCee parts so enjoy putting whatever OS on it you want:
PC-UM10 from sharp
Sharp 2.9lb laptop: P3-600, 128meg ram, 20gig drive
I've only had my P800 for a week. It is the Swedish release model with the most currunt stable rom. Overall I find the phone to be everything expected and a bit more.
... whoa that was longer than I expected and now the Good:
.mod files to announce calls or alerts. ...!
First the bad:
* It is heavier than many of the current cellphones out and has larger dimensions. While it still fits in a pocket it feels like you are carrying a phone from '99.
* Because you can install any number of random apps from the world the stability can be suspect thanks to installing some garbage (there is a signing feature but I have yet to see any signed apps).
* The flip keypad actually just presses the screen. There are reports in the wild of people slapping the buttons hard and ruining their LCD screens.
* The preferences are in silly locations, go ahead try finding where you change the tone for message alerts.
* Doesn't seem to be a bluetooth networking protocol stack built in despite what some people have claimed.
* The vibration isn't impressive for a phone of this size. My pager can outshake it any day of the week.
* Reception is much better than the t68i but still seems prone to signal fade (then again maybe this is just something that happens extremely often with GPRS in tall cities).
* All of the buttons are very small.
* There doesn't seem to be a built in way to disable or reprogram the hard buttons on the right side of the unit (camera, internet).
* You can use the jog dial to select and go into things but there isn't a hard button to back out, you must use the LCD.
* Navigation of the phone without looking at it is nearly impossible.
* Limited size and proprietary nature of Sony memory expansion.
* Requires Outlook/Notes for address book sync.
* Expensive dev kit for creating native Symbian apps.
* Oh Jesus, it is damn sexy.
* Very powerful, one of the included games is a rather bland race car game that you can play networked. What is impressive about it is that it is all shaded polygons similiar to what one would see on the 1st gen of Atari Jaguar games. Nothing too special really but when it is in the palm of your hand, awesome.
* The camera is much better than any one inclued in any cellphone so far. The max resolution is 640x480, there is no flash, but the camera seems to take pretty decent pictures. Comparable to any of the $75-$100 digital cams one can currently purchase.
* You can use practically anything for a ringtone. In some strange conspiracy it seems to only not support using
* Syncing (if you have msoft products) works well. Just hook up the phone and go. Combine with an external sync program like trusync and syncing through outlook to your favourite web service is a breeze.
* Practically every midlet I have tried on it works.
* Ports of games like DOOM and the emulator MAME if you are into that sort of thing. While they work I've found MAME to be more of a showoff than usable to play games. The stylus just doesn't lend itself to old arcade games.
* The screen is bright and the clarity kicks ass.
* Phone comes with 12meg Internal and one 16Meg stick, that holds a lot of stuff if you aren't trying to fill it full of mp3s.
* Included headset (headphone/microphone) have suprisingly good sound.
* Handwriting recognition is fast, accurate and easy to get used to.
* Support for POP/IMAP. This is probably my favourite feature of the phone, there is something just damn cool about having the phone pulling your email for you every hour or so and replying wherever you are.
* SMS becomes insanely more easy when you can just write out your responses.
* Played with a beta of the Opera browser which comes out on Monday. It is a *real* browser in your hand.
* Bluetooth file transfers with laptops seem to work well as does moving files from phone to phone. I can not get bluetooth syncing to work.
* Did I mention it was sexy?
* Speakerphone quality is amazing (and very loud).
* In fact the phone is *very* loud. You can play an MP3 loud enough for an entire room to hear.
* Easy to assign pictures to any contact info.
* Quickdial screen features icons of pictures for your friends/family. Nothing like just touching someone's face to call them.
* IRDA works.
* Flight mode.
* Better than expected battery life for such a complex device.
* Great sound quality in calls.
*
Okay I am tired. Suffice to say even with the downsides this is by *far* the best integrated solution to come along.
How long does it take you people to goto news.google and find a site that doesn't require registration or giving our personal info? (hint it took me about 5 seconds)
No, I don't care that you can lie or fill in false info. Linking to such a site helps them justify this behaviour because they use even the junk numbers in their evaluations of "should we keep this annoyingly useless registration around or not".
Although wireless networks offer slower bandwidth than their wired counterparts, they do offer one advantage over hard-connected ethernet: they don't suffer from the same saturation problems.
Uh, this isn't true. Wireless networks have a finite amount of bandwith that is shared by all the nodes at the same time. What, you think you can suddenly cram 300 full channels of data into a fixed amount of frequency space?
Except the tivo didn't/doesn't force you to watch anything.
It uses space set asside by the OS so it doesn't even lower your capacity*.
* unless you were an early adopter which didn't have a space reserve
I found that an unidentified individual had accessed an account I was using at escape.com, from the Well's subnet.
This lead to the termination of a lot of "suspect" accounts on well.com of which mine was one. Pretty much anyone who had touched that shithole escape in any form (that could be proven) was given walking papers.
In these cases you should install the X virtual framebuffer only.
I cringe when developers try to dictate the COE on the production servers.
Good question.
This would be awesome if the encryption chip was available to the OS, this would be an awesome boon for SSL performance. Maybe this is an angle manufactors can push to get people to upgrade? "BUILT IN ENCRYPTION SPEED!!!"
It is a valid solution.
His "short work" is as flawed as his initial logic.
This is just a guy out looking for kicks and fun. If someone is "probing/attacking" your network thanks to a worm and you can't contact them, the solution is simple:
You simply block off their traffic.
Close your blinds, your door, or whatever real world analogy you would like to try and apply. You have the right to send the same traffic back to them, monkeyseemonkeydo, but in no way is it possible to justify altering the running of their machine. Doing so, is no better than the malicious process already causing the damage.
Apple is a strong company that is in no danger of being purchased.
Incorrect. Apple is in a very risky position where a hostile takeover could happen. Right now you could basically have Apple for near free, thanks to their stock price and their easily obtainable 4bill in near cash.
Go to their corporate site and check their numbers for last year. I posted once on ARS about this, but if you compare the hardware expenditures to the hardware profits lines (GC only) you can see where Nintendo is and has been making money on the hardware all along.
Why must everybody make this sort of silly comparison?
Okay, I'll field this. People make these sort of silly comparisons because in their own minds they are equivelant. Obviously to you they aren't but for many people such a comparison as the one above is completely valid.