MMS is priced the same way data is on most packages: by the KB. You can buy data packages and be covered by a flat rate up until you exceed your package's quota. SMS messages are charged a flat rate per message (they are not packet data, but they can be on some modern networks depending on your phone and what else you're doing on the phone at the time -- in this case you'd pay per KB), or similarly you can buy a package of messages and be covered until you exceed your quota.
It's the same for long distance telephone calls, internet hosting services, your car's warranty, what have you, yatta and etc. This is not a new business model.
Dinosaur edition! I'd watch that. What better use for these robots could make than the realistic recreation of prehistoric dinosaur battles, complete with simulated thumping and roaring (and flashing LED eyes)?
N-Gage has Bluetooth. Yeah, it's a little bricky, but it fits in my pocket easily anyway.
Certainly the Sony may be smaller, but it's also years late to the party, not just a couple of months. In the mean time, Nokia has also produced new models with the same capabilities as the Sony (without much fanfare) and I expect that there will be even further near-term revelations in this field given the success of the iPod and portable music.
Seems like all Sony's announcing is that this phone has the "Walkman" moniker given to it, which is neither exciting nor revolutionary. It's kind of lame and the phone seems like a half-assed attempt at anything Walkman-related.
I've been listening to MP3s on my N-Gage with a 512MB MMC card and stereo headphones for 1.5 years. Granted, I don't have a dedicated start/stop button.
On the subject of annoying behavior, yes, I can play songs over the loudspeaker and I can make MP3 files my ringtone should I ever need to annoy you.
We used to celebrate E-Week by hanging red Volkswagen Beetle husks from civic structures, however nobody knows who is responsible for any specific acts and the activity is denounced by the Engineering Undergraduate Society... *cough*
Not all that long ago, San Francisco woke up to a Beetle on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Leave it to a pile of scrap automobiles arranged to emulate a quasi-spiritual construction that we know little about to weather any storm and confound future generations. It'll be a real head scratcher!
Actually, Nokia has not locked itself into anything. Current models support MP3/WAV/AAC/AMR on the audio front and MPEG-4/H.263 on the video front, and Real formats as well.
The only value in this press release is the word "iTunes." Everything else has already been done by the competiton.
I used to see this sort of thing all the time, except it was even more confounding because there was often no apparent difference at all between the products. In the specific case of a large wholesaler/distributor like Tech Data, I often found the exact same model components with different part numbers, different volumes in stock and different prices. There was rarely any differentiation between one or the other as in the aforementioned Dell cases. They were just the same things in the same product categories for different prices! I also recall seeing French and English versions that would sometimes differ in price with English usually being cheaper.
With regards to Win2K, my understanding is that it doesn't support HT, or more specifically that it's not HT-aware. If you enable HT on your Win2K system it will see two processors and it will try to schedule to them the same way it would to two physical processors. Naturally, that's not ideal. I can't find the link at the moment and I don't remember if it came from Intel or Microsoft but you should avoid HT on Win2K. Couple this with the fact that these new chips won't support HyperThreading and your problems are solved on two fronts. If you want to use HyperThreading effectively, for whatever small benefit it really provides, I think you need to be using WinXP.
I don't necessarily see why that's a terrible surprise. Just because an author or writer is famous doesn't mean that everything he or she produces is worthy of print. Mediocre work by famous authors may still be published, though, because they have fan bases and established markets that publishers can sell into with confidence. A famous author is a brand name and people who're going out on a limb with their cash like investing in brands.
Being published as an unknown is very hard and you really have to produce high quality work to get bought. Once you've been published, though, you've got a proverbial foot in the door. For a best selling author doors are merely a formality, although I should mention that this doesn't exactly apply to genres like Science Fiction or Fantasy where, except for a few cases, readership is pretty shallow compared to the mainstream and there isn't enough money being made to support an open door policy.
Off the top of my head, Frank Herbert is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. His first novel was absolutely exceptional and it's a seminal work of Science Fiction. He had a lot of trouble getting it published. After Dune became a massive hit, though, people were bashing down Herbert's door for more and he delivered what one might argue was progressively worse work. The only notable books he has really ever written are all Dune related and none of them compare to Dune. Have you ever read the White Plague? It is among the few books I have ever put down unfinished.
About the discussion going on here is that at least it's not entirely full of hypocrites. A lot of people eagerly lambasted the N-Gage for its various flaws, which just like the PSP seem to include price, key functionality, media issues and size while totally ignoring its best features. Looks like Sony's getting the same shake from this community. Now that the final tally is rung, it apparently isn't what people were expecting and the sentiment is appropriately tempered. I, for one, am not surprised that the PSP did not turn out to be perfect.
For what it's worth, I wish the PSP had a phone...:P
In fact, the motherboard should have a power supply onboard. I don't know about the specific model in question, but other VIA motherboards do have integrated DC-DC power supplies which connect to an external brick.
Now, I never said that this was a worthwhile exercise. In fact I clearly stated that he certainly made no improvements, although goofing around is a reasonable enough justification for the project. It's widely known that VIA processors are slow and I totally agree that there is no reason to compare performance between the Mini and the bastardization because there is no comparison. I said nothing in defense of the PC to that effect. Where price is concerned you're wrong, though, because the PC probably falls in at around 1/2-2/3 the tab, minus the value of the chassis. Let's use Linux for the sake of argument.
I don't understand how my assertion that getting off the shelf components into that chassis is somehow being misconstrued as PC fanboyism or anything like that. I suspect that the fanboy is in you and for this reason I can't think that jamming a bunch of crap into a tiny space isn't pretty neat just for the sake of seeing it fit. My bad!
In terms of off the shelf, the point is that the motherboard is a standard form factor product which is designed to be sold as a standalone unit. Whether it's on the shelf now or not is irrelevant. The point is that the motherboard he used is not one that is custom designed for the chassis and that it's a miracle it fit at all. At least it will be on the shelf, which is a far cry from custom designed and never to see a shelf at all.
I maintain that the project is one of mild interest and that it at least proves that a PC can be built into a very tight space if so desired. If you put MSI or AOpen or Gigabyte or ASUS on the case I'm sure the results would have been much more positive. Whether it would sell into a PC market is a different story. As it stands, you can still buy a cube PC in the Mini's price range that will have similar favorable characteristics.
It's a pretty good effort considering that he's restricted to using off the shelf components. I'm certain that he doesn't have the resources to have a custom motherboard designed and fabricated for the Mini's chassis. Your macMiniScore++ statement needs to be qualified by an:
if (buildFunds >= appleFunds)
That said, he certainly didn't improve on the Mini in any way. That's no reason not to goof around, though.
High five for the Herman Miller crew! Woo hoo. When my employer moved buildings we left the soda fountain, one-cup coffee brewing machine, and fooseball table behind. At least we've got really good chairs...
Well, there is RAM that is stackable and the slightly different chip packages literally sit one on top of the other. This would be hard to implement with processors because of heat, although the articles indicate that a heat sink designed for the purpose may exist, high localized power requirements, and I imagine problems with PCB design (especially if the motherboards are still 4 layer), layout and mechanics.
Sounds a little off the wall to me, but then so does the suggestion that the chips will "fly along" at anything near 5-7GHz. I seem to recall that when the P4 was released, Intel was saying it would rapidly scale to 10GHz. Instead, the P4 rapidly hit a brick wall and its scaling became process dependent, which it still is.
They sold their mobile/multipleyer unit to Nokia, they sold their soul to Sammy and now this? Looks like Sega is being nudged out of business alltogether!
It has been available as a service on mobile phones for something on the order of two years. The same thing, called TuneTracker, is available in Canada now under the MuchMusic brand. Put your phone up to the mystery tune and you'll get the song title and artist's name back in an SMS message.
I'd like to see a search engine that can intelligently filter results for the word "review." When I search for a product review, I do not want some hole-in-the-net online store's product page with a link to 0 customer-submitted reviews.
The terminology surrounding the sound quality is quite confusing. Namely, suggesting that it is flat but has better bass response or that it is flat but has trouble "sustaining" big bass notes hardly makes sense.
Flat is flat. Either the old players are not flat and deficient in the low frequency spectrum, or the new player is not flat and has some kind of boost. The fact is that when most people hear flat they think, "Where's the bass?"
The article says nothing of the test data, equipment or methodology used to determine just how flat the frequency response is and "critical listening" on some mystery monitors hardly counts as valid.
I suspect that your headphone assertion is correct.
Then this is the finale for a project that showed us a universe we never knew existed and smashed preconceived notions of the nature of our existence. Time and time again, the HST has delivered evidence of things that once bordered on fiction. Its photographs have confounded our greatest minds and inspired our youngest ones. Far be it from me to say what the telescope is worth in dollars and cents, but it has to be worth more than this because in all other respects it is absolutely priceless.
Discoveries in physics and astronomy may be retarded by years or more. What's worse is that almost nobody seems to care.
We set up clear and concise terms and requirements in advance. We demand ownership of source code. We have a schedule of meetings with the outsourcing company during which they are responsible for presenting scheduled deliverables. We demand complete documentation from the outsourcing company including their test specs and results. We run acceptance tests on the outsourcing company's products.
Treat the outsourcing company like you would a department or person in your own company. You need to have a strong two way rapport or things will not work. I guess you'll have to fight your way our of this scenario so use it as a lesson.
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MMS is priced the same way data is on most packages: by the KB. You can buy data packages and be covered by a flat rate up until you exceed your package's quota. SMS messages are charged a flat rate per message (they are not packet data, but they can be on some modern networks depending on your phone and what else you're doing on the phone at the time -- in this case you'd pay per KB), or similarly you can buy a package of messages and be covered until you exceed your quota.
It's the same for long distance telephone calls, internet hosting services, your car's warranty, what have you, yatta and etc. This is not a new business model.
Dinosaur edition! I'd watch that. What better use for these robots could make than the realistic recreation of prehistoric dinosaur battles, complete with simulated thumping and roaring (and flashing LED eyes)?
It's some generic that I bought on eBay. Which did you buy that's giving you problems?
N-Gage has Bluetooth. Yeah, it's a little bricky, but it fits in my pocket easily anyway.
Certainly the Sony may be smaller, but it's also years late to the party, not just a couple of months. In the mean time, Nokia has also produced new models with the same capabilities as the Sony (without much fanfare) and I expect that there will be even further near-term revelations in this field given the success of the iPod and portable music.
Seems like all Sony's announcing is that this phone has the "Walkman" moniker given to it, which is neither exciting nor revolutionary. It's kind of lame and the phone seems like a half-assed attempt at anything Walkman-related.
I've been listening to MP3s on my N-Gage with a 512MB MMC card and stereo headphones for 1.5 years. Granted, I don't have a dedicated start/stop button. On the subject of annoying behavior, yes, I can play songs over the loudspeaker and I can make MP3 files my ringtone should I ever need to annoy you.
We used to celebrate E-Week by hanging red Volkswagen Beetle husks from civic structures, however nobody knows who is responsible for any specific acts and the activity is denounced by the Engineering Undergraduate Society... *cough* Not all that long ago, San Francisco woke up to a Beetle on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Looks like a lot of embedded system potential! The built in controllers should save designers a lot of time.
Leave it to a pile of scrap automobiles arranged to emulate a quasi-spiritual construction that we know little about to weather any storm and confound future generations. It'll be a real head scratcher!
God, can you imagine what people in a thousand years will think of that if it somehow manages to survive... Assuming the wealth of our data doesn't.
Actually, Nokia has not locked itself into anything. Current models support MP3/WAV/AAC/AMR on the audio front and MPEG-4/H.263 on the video front, and Real formats as well.
The only value in this press release is the word "iTunes." Everything else has already been done by the competiton.
I used to see this sort of thing all the time, except it was even more confounding because there was often no apparent difference at all between the products. In the specific case of a large wholesaler/distributor like Tech Data, I often found the exact same model components with different part numbers, different volumes in stock and different prices. There was rarely any differentiation between one or the other as in the aforementioned Dell cases. They were just the same things in the same product categories for different prices! I also recall seeing French and English versions that would sometimes differ in price with English usually being cheaper.
With regards to Win2K, my understanding is that it doesn't support HT, or more specifically that it's not HT-aware. If you enable HT on your Win2K system it will see two processors and it will try to schedule to them the same way it would to two physical processors. Naturally, that's not ideal. I can't find the link at the moment and I don't remember if it came from Intel or Microsoft but you should avoid HT on Win2K. Couple this with the fact that these new chips won't support HyperThreading and your problems are solved on two fronts. If you want to use HyperThreading effectively, for whatever small benefit it really provides, I think you need to be using WinXP.
I don't necessarily see why that's a terrible surprise. Just because an author or writer is famous doesn't mean that everything he or she produces is worthy of print. Mediocre work by famous authors may still be published, though, because they have fan bases and established markets that publishers can sell into with confidence. A famous author is a brand name and people who're going out on a limb with their cash like investing in brands.
Being published as an unknown is very hard and you really have to produce high quality work to get bought. Once you've been published, though, you've got a proverbial foot in the door. For a best selling author doors are merely a formality, although I should mention that this doesn't exactly apply to genres like Science Fiction or Fantasy where, except for a few cases, readership is pretty shallow compared to the mainstream and there isn't enough money being made to support an open door policy.
Off the top of my head, Frank Herbert is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. His first novel was absolutely exceptional and it's a seminal work of Science Fiction. He had a lot of trouble getting it published. After Dune became a massive hit, though, people were bashing down Herbert's door for more and he delivered what one might argue was progressively worse work. The only notable books he has really ever written are all Dune related and none of them compare to Dune. Have you ever read the White Plague? It is among the few books I have ever put down unfinished.
About the discussion going on here is that at least it's not entirely full of hypocrites. A lot of people eagerly lambasted the N-Gage for its various flaws, which just like the PSP seem to include price, key functionality, media issues and size while totally ignoring its best features. Looks like Sony's getting the same shake from this community. Now that the final tally is rung, it apparently isn't what people were expecting and the sentiment is appropriately tempered. I, for one, am not surprised that the PSP did not turn out to be perfect.
:P
For what it's worth, I wish the PSP had a phone...
In fact, the motherboard should have a power supply onboard. I don't know about the specific model in question, but other VIA motherboards do have integrated DC-DC power supplies which connect to an external brick.
Now, I never said that this was a worthwhile exercise. In fact I clearly stated that he certainly made no improvements, although goofing around is a reasonable enough justification for the project. It's widely known that VIA processors are slow and I totally agree that there is no reason to compare performance between the Mini and the bastardization because there is no comparison. I said nothing in defense of the PC to that effect. Where price is concerned you're wrong, though, because the PC probably falls in at around 1/2-2/3 the tab, minus the value of the chassis. Let's use Linux for the sake of argument.
I don't understand how my assertion that getting off the shelf components into that chassis is somehow being misconstrued as PC fanboyism or anything like that. I suspect that the fanboy is in you and for this reason I can't think that jamming a bunch of crap into a tiny space isn't pretty neat just for the sake of seeing it fit. My bad!
In terms of off the shelf, the point is that the motherboard is a standard form factor product which is designed to be sold as a standalone unit. Whether it's on the shelf now or not is irrelevant. The point is that the motherboard he used is not one that is custom designed for the chassis and that it's a miracle it fit at all. At least it will be on the shelf, which is a far cry from custom designed and never to see a shelf at all.
I maintain that the project is one of mild interest and that it at least proves that a PC can be built into a very tight space if so desired. If you put MSI or AOpen or Gigabyte or ASUS on the case I'm sure the results would have been much more positive. Whether it would sell into a PC market is a different story. As it stands, you can still buy a cube PC in the Mini's price range that will have similar favorable characteristics.
It's a pretty good effort considering that he's restricted to using off the shelf components. I'm certain that he doesn't have the resources to have a custom motherboard designed and fabricated for the Mini's chassis. Your macMiniScore++ statement needs to be qualified by an:
if (buildFunds >= appleFunds)
That said, he certainly didn't improve on the Mini in any way. That's no reason not to goof around, though.
High five for the Herman Miller crew! Woo hoo. When my employer moved buildings we left the soda fountain, one-cup coffee brewing machine, and fooseball table behind. At least we've got really good chairs...
Well, there is RAM that is stackable and the slightly different chip packages literally sit one on top of the other. This would be hard to implement with processors because of heat, although the articles indicate that a heat sink designed for the purpose may exist, high localized power requirements, and I imagine problems with PCB design (especially if the motherboards are still 4 layer), layout and mechanics.
Sounds a little off the wall to me, but then so does the suggestion that the chips will "fly along" at anything near 5-7GHz. I seem to recall that when the P4 was released, Intel was saying it would rapidly scale to 10GHz. Instead, the P4 rapidly hit a brick wall and its scaling became process dependent, which it still is.
They sold their mobile/multipleyer unit to Nokia, they sold their soul to Sammy and now this? Looks like Sega is being nudged out of business alltogether!
It has been available as a service on mobile phones for something on the order of two years. The same thing, called TuneTracker, is available in Canada now under the MuchMusic brand. Put your phone up to the mystery tune and you'll get the song title and artist's name back in an SMS message.
I'd like to see a search engine that can intelligently filter results for the word "review." When I search for a product review, I do not want some hole-in-the-net online store's product page with a link to 0 customer-submitted reviews.
The terminology surrounding the sound quality is quite confusing. Namely, suggesting that it is flat but has better bass response or that it is flat but has trouble "sustaining" big bass notes hardly makes sense.
Flat is flat. Either the old players are not flat and deficient in the low frequency spectrum, or the new player is not flat and has some kind of boost. The fact is that when most people hear flat they think, "Where's the bass?"
The article says nothing of the test data, equipment or methodology used to determine just how flat the frequency response is and "critical listening" on some mystery monitors hardly counts as valid.
I suspect that your headphone assertion is correct.
Then this is the finale for a project that showed us a universe we never knew existed and smashed preconceived notions of the nature of our existence. Time and time again, the HST has delivered evidence of things that once bordered on fiction. Its photographs have confounded our greatest minds and inspired our youngest ones. Far be it from me to say what the telescope is worth in dollars and cents, but it has to be worth more than this because in all other respects it is absolutely priceless. Discoveries in physics and astronomy may be retarded by years or more. What's worse is that almost nobody seems to care.
Like OMA DRM? There already is a common DRM standard supported by a lot of mobile product creators.
We set up clear and concise terms and requirements in advance. We demand ownership of source code. We have a schedule of meetings with the outsourcing company during which they are responsible for presenting scheduled deliverables. We demand complete documentation from the outsourcing company including their test specs and results. We run acceptance tests on the outsourcing company's products.
Treat the outsourcing company like you would a department or person in your own company. You need to have a strong two way rapport or things will not work. I guess you'll have to fight your way our of this scenario so use it as a lesson.
In the mean time, there's 165,000 acres of land wasting away. Free stay at the guest ranch with each space ticket purchase.