To get 100 pages worth you'd have to go...[opens oowriter]...in 12 pt font on letter sized paper...5237 [one page worth because I'm not insane] * 100 = 523700 levels of nesting.
Which would never happen. Even a page of parens is an obscene level of nesting. 10-14 isn't too bad, once you learn to balance parens in your sleep (eventually it happens, trust me). Until then, emacs balances them for you.
Yeah, out in the boonies it sucks. In major cities it works great. I went on a tour of the north east with my band and had no problems.
If you're visiting the DC area from Europe and just want to pop a prepaid SIM into your phone it's a good option since you'll have service everywhere in DC (and T-Mobile is 1900 only so you're phone will work on their entire...small...network). When I was last up in NY it worked fine on Manhatten and Long Island (I didn't go to the far end where all of the really rich people live though).
It works great. I'm not sure if it supports stereo operation (the standard Symbian sound device was mono-only until recently). If it doesn't, the source is there and everything is well documented so it shouldn't be too hard to change that.
My 7610 (Symbian/Series60) phone works great as a PDA. The PDA + Phone combo makes a lot of sense. The other stuff, less so...but it's still neat to have a camera on my phone (for snapping those quick pictures that you'll send to someone and throw away).
The problem is about user interface. If it takes six button presses to take a picture, the device doesn't work. If it is supposed to fit in your pocket, it can't have sixty buttons.
It takes two clicks on my Nokia 7610 (hit the camera button, click capture). Maybe three if I'm in another app and have to minimize it first (End + Left Soft Key + left soft key). On the newest Nokia's with a slide cover over the camera you just slide the cover down and it switches into camera mode. One click from there (does a slide count as a click?).
A few of my friends have Sony-Ericsson phones and they have a dedicated camera button on the side (click it to bring up the camera, click again to snap a pic).
I don't know what phone takes six clicks to take a picture.
I have a Nokia 7610 with a 512M RS-MMC card in it. I had to try really hard to fill that up:-). Anyway, I hacked a script together that rips dvds and re-encodes them as QCIF h.263 + AMR audio (3gpp videos) for my phone. You have to download some stuff from the 3g site and pass a few extra options to ffmpeg's./configure (the README documents it and it's not hard).
When I had a Real Job (tm) and I took my lunch breaks I'd prop the phone up and watch episodes of Futurama while eating lunch. It was nice.
For letterbox movies, I rip them to my HD first and crop them to 4:3 (on a 1.5" screen I'm more concerned with everything being big enough to see and couldn't care less about preserving the entire picture) first. On long car trips it keeps me busy (well, the few times I'm not driving).
The only downside is that it eats the battery. If I turn down the backlight to half strength it gets a little better, but I can still only get about a two hours movie in before the battery is too low to make calls with. I can almost fit a BL-6C from the N-Gage into my phone...that'd get me an extra half an hour. If I'm in the car the cigarette light adaptor works. Battery tech needs to advance more, damnit..
I bet you're lying about being in a band. If you were in a band, you'd know very well that bands make next to no money from albums. The real money is in touring and selling shirts. CDs are just a way of promoting your band so that your fans will come and see you live.
I bet you've never heard of my band but we made a couple hundred bucks on a short little two week tour last year playing in people's garages...You don't need thousands of dollars in marketing to make your music heard. You need to be good. That's it (note: RVG is not good, it's actually a joke band). It's a lot harder to be good, and it takes a lot longer to achieve success, but in the end you've done a better thing artistically than being a sellout whore who makes generic whatever is popular today music.
And honestly, if money matters more than any thing to you, you shouldn't be doing that thing. Especially music (or any form of art).
Coverage in the US is good if you live near a large city (e.g. I live between DC and Baltimore so I have excellent coverage). Once you get into less populated areas you are lucky to get any signal at all, much less a GSM one.
Some of this is because of stupid people who think that cell phone towers will give their children brain cancer. This is why I get about 50% signal strength in my house; there were plans to build a tower across the street but the stupid soccer moms killed the plan.
If you use Verizon then your chances of getting a signal are a lot better but they cost an arm and a leg and their smart phone selection is... I think they have one old Treo model now, *maybe* (and buying it requires a contract extension usually). Of course, Verizon's digital network isn't as large as they'd like you to believe. If you strip away the analog network then the GSM network is larger. It's interesting that so much of the network is still analog when the phones they push the most (LG Vx5500+) no longer support AMPS.
TDMA uses less power. CDMA is better when people are spread out. TDMA is better in heavily populated areas. 3G (UMTS) uses W-CDMA which is not the same kind of CDMA that Verizon and friends use.
It doesn't matter if W-CDMA was developed by an American company because we won't get widespread UMTS coverage until around ten years after the second coming of Christ. Damn Europeans and their superior cellular technology.
The lack of knowledge of what SMS is can partially be blamed on the cell phone companies--none of them call SMS SMS, they call them text messages. It is less confusing for the masses I guess. People don't send you an SMS, they text you.
It's worse for MMS since Multi-Media Message or even Picture Message (Picture Message is what most of the providers that offer MMS call it) takes way more time to type on a cell phone than MMS...
It's no different than email. You no longer have to rely on one company to provide service to you. The servers may not be entirely reliable, but it's better than relying on AOL to continue providing AIM to everyone for free forever. What happens when they decide to cut it off?
JabberD is a bitch to setup but I just installed ejabberd and had it up and running as a test server in less than five minutes. It's much easier to setup and I'll be migrating the hcoop.net server from jabberd to ejabberd over spring break. It even has a nice web interface.
It's nice having a single config file and not having to deal with configuring stuff. It can use ldap for auth if you want too (among other things). In the default config enabling most gateways is a matter of uncommenting the relevant lines and reloading the config.
I wish I could afford one 24" Cinema display. Right now I have a used 24" SGI Monitor (it distorts around the edges which isn't too noticeable, except that my windowmaker dock tiles aren't square).
It cost $300 but it weighs 90lbs and is two feet deep.
Me? I like club music in clubs. No matter how good a band is it doesn't have any energy on a stereo, no matter how much you spend on it. So if you make it to Nation in DC, I'll see ya. If not, keep on it.
Note for those who don't live near DC: This means that he wants to see the members of the band dead.
The House of Rock in White Marsh or Jaxx in Springfield are cooler and you won't get stabbed if you walk outside for a second...
Dude, I'm a card carrying member of the FSF (#114, Since 2002). I was talking more about an explanation of the the GNU Operating System being not-very-relevant in the opinion of most people to an interview with Linus Torvalds about the Linux kernel. If you read the article that the parent of my first post was referring to you will notice that there is no one usage of the word Linux in reference to GNU/Linux but rather the entire discussion is a technical discussion of the kernel.
Sure, it would be nice to have a little background on GNU (I would have left in the "...like GNU..." in Linus's quote for one), but not everyone agrees. Explaining what I thought someone's rational for not mentioning GNU in an article he wrote is not agreeing with it.
Note: Please don't mod this up, as it is off-topic (which is why I posted this and my other post with the karma bonus off...).
Seeing as GNU is mentioned zero times in the article, they probably cut it off to avoid having to explain to people what GNU was. Even though it is in Linux magazine I guess some readers may not know what GNU is, and a discussion of GNU is probably (depends on how you look at it) irrelevant to an interview with Linus Torvalds about kernel development.
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There are no trees in NY.
Maybe not, but the people they rear end and end up killing do.
To get 100 pages worth you'd have to go...[opens oowriter]...in 12 pt font on letter sized paper...5237 [one page worth because I'm not insane] * 100 = 523700 levels of nesting.
Which would never happen. Even a page of parens is an obscene level of nesting. 10-14 isn't too bad, once you learn to balance parens in your sleep (eventually it happens, trust me). Until then, emacs balances them for you.
Yeah, out in the boonies it sucks. In major cities it works great. I went on a tour of the north east with my band and had no problems.
If you're visiting the DC area from Europe and just want to pop a prepaid SIM into your phone it's a good option since you'll have service everywhere in DC (and T-Mobile is 1900 only so you're phone will work on their entire...small...network). When I was last up in NY it worked fine on Manhatten and Long Island (I didn't go to the far end where all of the really rich people live though).
It works great. I'm not sure if it supports stereo operation (the standard Symbian sound device was mono-only until recently). If it doesn't, the source is there and everything is well documented so it shouldn't be too hard to change that.
My 7610 (Symbian/Series60) phone works great as a PDA. The PDA + Phone combo makes a lot of sense. The other stuff, less so...but it's still neat to have a camera on my phone (for snapping those quick pictures that you'll send to someone and throw away).
iPod killer? No. iPod mini competitor? Yes.
The target market is obviously somewhat similar to Apple's target for the iPod Mini.
The problem is about user interface. If it takes six button presses to take a picture, the device doesn't work. If it is supposed to fit in your pocket, it can't have sixty buttons.
It takes two clicks on my Nokia 7610 (hit the camera button, click capture). Maybe three if I'm in another app and have to minimize it first (End + Left Soft Key + left soft key). On the newest Nokia's with a slide cover over the camera you just slide the cover down and it switches into camera mode. One click from there (does a slide count as a click?).
A few of my friends have Sony-Ericsson phones and they have a dedicated camera button on the side (click it to bring up the camera, click again to snap a pic).
I don't know what phone takes six clicks to take a picture.
Nokia 6021 (out soon, maybe even now [check the various online retailer]).
Bluetooth, no camera. There you go :-)
I have a Nokia 7610 with a 512M RS-MMC card in it. I had to try really hard to fill that up :-). Anyway, I hacked a script together that rips dvds and re-encodes them as QCIF h.263 + AMR audio (3gpp videos) for my phone. You have to download some stuff from the 3g site and pass a few extra options to ffmpeg's ./configure (the README documents it and it's not hard).
When I had a Real Job (tm) and I took my lunch breaks I'd prop the phone up and watch episodes of Futurama while eating lunch. It was nice.
For letterbox movies, I rip them to my HD first and crop them to 4:3 (on a 1.5" screen I'm more concerned with everything being big enough to see and couldn't care less about preserving the entire picture) first. On long car trips it keeps me busy (well, the few times I'm not driving).
The only downside is that it eats the battery. If I turn down the backlight to half strength it gets a little better, but I can still only get about a two hours movie in before the battery is too low to make calls with. I can almost fit a BL-6C from the N-Gage into my phone...that'd get me an extra half an hour. If I'm in the car the cigarette light adaptor works. Battery tech needs to advance more, damnit..
No, you are a retard. The 128M is virtual memory. It isn't mapped to physical memory unless it needs to be.
I bet you're lying about being in a band. If you were in a band, you'd know very well that bands make next to no money from albums. The real money is in touring and selling shirts. CDs are just a way of promoting your band so that your fans will come and see you live.
I bet you've never heard of my band but we made a couple hundred bucks on a short little two week tour last year playing in people's garages...You don't need thousands of dollars in marketing to make your music heard. You need to be good. That's it (note: RVG is not good, it's actually a joke band). It's a lot harder to be good, and it takes a lot longer to achieve success, but in the end you've done a better thing artistically than being a sellout whore who makes generic whatever is popular today music.
And honestly, if money matters more than any thing to you, you shouldn't be doing that thing. Especially music (or any form of art).
I mean when talking about it like ... "MMS me the picture" is a lot less typing (on a cell phone) than "Picture message me the picture."
Ack, yeah I got that backwards. Or ... something. It was seven a.m.
Coverage in the US is good if you live near a large city (e.g. I live between DC and Baltimore so I have excellent coverage). Once you get into less populated areas you are lucky to get any signal at all, much less a GSM one.
Some of this is because of stupid people who think that cell phone towers will give their children brain cancer. This is why I get about 50% signal strength in my house; there were plans to build a tower across the street but the stupid soccer moms killed the plan.
If you use Verizon then your chances of getting a signal are a lot better but they cost an arm and a leg and their smart phone selection is ... I think they have one old Treo model now, *maybe* (and buying it requires a contract extension usually). Of course, Verizon's digital network isn't as large as they'd like you to believe. If you strip away the analog network then the GSM network is larger. It's interesting that so much of the network is still analog when the phones they push the most (LG Vx5500+) no longer support AMPS.
So yeah, coverage in the US sucks balls.
TDMA uses less power. CDMA is better when people are spread out. TDMA is better in heavily populated areas. 3G (UMTS) uses W-CDMA which is not the same kind of CDMA that Verizon and friends use.
It doesn't matter if W-CDMA was developed by an American company because we won't get widespread UMTS coverage until around ten years after the second coming of Christ. Damn Europeans and their superior cellular technology.
The lack of knowledge of what SMS is can partially be blamed on the cell phone companies--none of them call SMS SMS, they call them text messages. It is less confusing for the masses I guess. People don't send you an SMS, they text you.
It's worse for MMS since Multi-Media Message or even Picture Message (Picture Message is what most of the providers that offer MMS call it) takes way more time to type on a cell phone than MMS...
It's no different than email. You no longer have to rely on one company to provide service to you. The servers may not be entirely reliable, but it's better than relying on AOL to continue providing AIM to everyone for free forever. What happens when they decide to cut it off?
Jabber!
I've been using it for over a year now.
JabberD is a bitch to setup but I just installed ejabberd and had it up and running as a test server in less than five minutes. It's much easier to setup and I'll be migrating the hcoop.net server from jabberd to ejabberd over spring break. It even has a nice web interface.
It's nice having a single config file and not having to deal with configuring stuff. It can use ldap for auth if you want too (among other things). In the default config enabling most gateways is a matter of uncommenting the relevant lines and reloading the config.
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You Sir, have entirely too much money.
I wish I could afford one 24" Cinema display. Right now I have a used 24" SGI Monitor (it distorts around the edges which isn't too noticeable, except that my windowmaker dock tiles aren't square).
It cost $300 but it weighs 90lbs and is two feet deep.
Me? I like club music in clubs. No matter how good a band is it doesn't have any energy on a stereo, no matter how much you spend on it. So if you make it to Nation in DC, I'll see ya. If not, keep on it.
Note for those who don't live near DC: This means that he wants to see the members of the band dead.
The House of Rock in White Marsh or Jaxx in Springfield are cooler and you won't get stabbed if you walk outside for a second...
Dude, I'm a card carrying member of the FSF (#114, Since 2002). I was talking more about an explanation of the the GNU Operating System being not-very-relevant in the opinion of most people to an interview with Linus Torvalds about the Linux kernel. If you read the article that the parent of my first post was referring to you will notice that there is no one usage of the word Linux in reference to GNU/Linux but rather the entire discussion is a technical discussion of the kernel.
Sure, it would be nice to have a little background on GNU (I would have left in the "...like GNU..." in Linus's quote for one), but not everyone agrees. Explaining what I thought someone's rational for not mentioning GNU in an article he wrote is not agreeing with it.
Note: Please don't mod this up, as it is off-topic (which is why I posted this and my other post with the karma bonus off...).
Seeing as GNU is mentioned zero times in the article, they probably cut it off to avoid having to explain to people what GNU was. Even though it is in Linux magazine I guess some readers may not know what GNU is, and a discussion of GNU is probably (depends on how you look at it) irrelevant to an interview with Linus Torvalds about kernel development.