Ok, the population density in Sweden, Japan, and South Korea, is more than the population density in USA taken as a whole. But we have many cities here, with a sufficiently high population density, i.e. at comparable levels to the urban areas in those countries, considering this, how can the density argument hold?
Even in those countries, it must not be the case that every nook and cranny of them is getting broadband at 100Mbps, probably many of the rural areas are still working on the low speed ones. Considering that our cities have a very high population density, what is stopping us from getting the 100Mbps broadband?
All those city governments rushing in to construct city wide wi-fi networks, need to think better and wait for the Wi-Max technology to become standardized (another 2-3 years). I would not be happy if my tax dollars are spent on a technology which might become a dinosaur by the time the network is fully rolled out.
Thinking about the logistics of implementing such a huge network, it looks like a big waste of money, think about installing all those transmitters or access points on all those lamp posts, interconnecting them, how about maintaining them. Given the bungling nature of the city governments, I would not like them to undertake a much complicated and expensive project like this.
This is much different than laying pipes for utilities like water or gas, the nature of these remain same for decades. But that is not the case with wireless internet access technologies, what is good today might not be sufficient tomorrow, there is already news that some homes in Japan are going for 100Mbps broadband.
Instead of wasting money on wi-fi, it would be better to implement a better suited technology like Wi-Max for this purpose. This is expected to have much higher range (>50miles), which translates to much less infrastructure costs.
Forget about the wi-fi, give me my roads. To set the priorities right, there are many other issues which need to be taken care of before wasting
(spending) money on wi-fi coverage. Apart from the actual utility of this project, it looks more like an attention grabber.
Before thinking about wi-fi, I expect my local government to concentrate on filling up all those potholes on the roads. There are far too important, insufficiently addressed problems like crime, high taxes, etc.
Bye, bye wi-fi, see you later, when philly becomes a better place to live.
MP3 was so wildly successful because, it was free at that time, its the first time you can have such a huge collection of songs in your library so cheaply, most of the songs which you want to have but cannot, because either it is very difficult to get them or they are so prohibitively expensive to buy them, and the usual hassles associated with the types of media (tape, cd, etc.). With MP3, for the first time you had the chance of collecting 1000s of songs, and storing them on your harddrive, and all of this for almost "no cost".
There is always a factor of the speed at which you are comfortable driving. Each person might be different in this aspect, depending on their driving skills, which includes their reaction times, concentration and other factors. Coming to my case my comfortable speed might be above the enforced speed limit or at times below it. The problem with driving slow is that you tend to get distracted which increases your chances of getting into an accident. At the same time, if you are driving faster than your comfortable speed, you have less time for reaction, which again increases your chance of accident.
Of the reasons for the popularity of the flip phones over the traditional 'block' phones, the first one is the better audio clarity. The reason being the absence of dense 'sound wave' absorbing electronic components and other structures near the earpiece speaker. So you get better acoustic properties, obviating the need to press the earpiece of the phone to your ear to hear better.
The second reason is the clamshell models have a better 'ear to mouth' length advantage, which is difficult to obtain with the 'block' design unless you want to make the phone 'thin and long' like one of those Sanyo models, which again are more prone to breakage.
The third reason is the 'ear frying' problem with some of the non-clamshell models (I have noticed this problem with many 'block' phones, atleast when they are new). Because of the proximity of the heat producing components to the earpiece and due to conduction, the region around the earpiece becomes quite warm to cause significant discomfort. But this problem is non-existant with the clamshell, because the bulk of the heat producing electronics is away from the earpiece with little or no conduction.
The fourth reason being the less scratch prone screen and buttons. Also you dont have the problem of accidental dialing from the speed dial buttons when carrying around, or the discharge of the battery from the frequent turn on due to the accidental key presses.
The case of Nokia is like a 'hare and tortoise' story, they were sleeping when the others were running. If you have observed the company, there was not much activity atleast for the past 18 months, not many new phones or variety (like clamshell or camera phones). Not much of advertising, so they were effectively getting erased from the collective memory of the consumers. They were in the hibernate mode, now you see the results.
Yes, I too have the same problem, same configuration as yours. Dont know the reason why, surprising that others dont have the same problem!!! seems that SP2 doesnt like HP pavilion ze4200 (496MB).
my problem is not as bad as what you are having, but I have noticed increased booting time and also it takes more time to get to a usable state after logging in. but everything is fine after that.
I have tried to uninstall SP2, but it didnt help (its Microsoft!! funkiness is built in). but a good suggestion for u, if u have the system restore turned on, roll it back to a state before SP2.
i tried turing off most of the unnecessary serives and start up programs, but no difference. probably its loading something else during the startup.
turning off firewall can be done through the 'security centre', virus checker should get turned off through the anti-virus program.
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Even in those countries, it must not be the case that every nook and cranny of them is getting broadband at 100Mbps, probably many of the rural areas are still working on the low speed ones. Considering that our cities have a very high population density, what is stopping us from getting the 100Mbps broadband?
Thinking about the logistics of implementing such a huge network, it looks like a big waste of money, think about installing all those transmitters or access points on all those lamp posts, interconnecting them, how about maintaining them. Given the bungling nature of the city governments, I would not like them to undertake a much complicated and expensive project like this.
This is much different than laying pipes for utilities like water or gas, the nature of these remain same for decades. But that is not the case with wireless internet access technologies, what is good today might not be sufficient tomorrow, there is already news that some homes in Japan are going for 100Mbps broadband.
Instead of wasting money on wi-fi, it would be better to implement a better suited technology like Wi-Max for this purpose. This is expected to have much higher range (>50miles), which translates to much less infrastructure costs.
Before thinking about wi-fi, I expect my local government to concentrate on filling up all those potholes on the roads. There are far too important, insufficiently addressed problems like crime, high taxes, etc.
Bye, bye wi-fi, see you later, when philly becomes a better place to live.
MP3 was so wildly successful because, it was free at that time, its the first time you can have such a huge collection of songs in your library so cheaply, most of the songs which you want to have but cannot, because either it is very difficult to get them or they are so prohibitively expensive to buy them, and the usual hassles associated with the types of media (tape, cd, etc.). With MP3, for the first time you had the chance of collecting 1000s of songs, and storing them on your harddrive, and all of this for almost "no cost".
There is always a factor of the speed at which you are comfortable driving. Each person might be different in this aspect, depending on their driving skills, which includes their reaction times, concentration and other factors. Coming to my case my comfortable speed might be above the enforced speed limit or at times below it. The problem with driving slow is that you tend to get distracted which increases your chances of getting into an accident. At the same time, if you are driving faster than your comfortable speed, you have less time for reaction, which again increases your chance of accident.
You must be kidding...
The second reason is the clamshell models have a better 'ear to mouth' length advantage, which is difficult to obtain with the 'block' design unless you want to make the phone 'thin and long' like one of those Sanyo models, which again are more prone to breakage.
The third reason is the 'ear frying' problem with some of the non-clamshell models (I have noticed this problem with many 'block' phones, atleast when they are new). Because of the proximity of the heat producing components to the earpiece and due to conduction, the region around the earpiece becomes quite warm to cause significant discomfort. But this problem is non-existant with the clamshell, because the bulk of the heat producing electronics is away from the earpiece with little or no conduction.
The fourth reason being the less scratch prone screen and buttons. Also you dont have the problem of accidental dialing from the speed dial buttons when carrying around, or the discharge of the battery from the frequent turn on due to the accidental key presses.
The case of Nokia is like a 'hare and tortoise' story, they were sleeping when the others were running. If you have observed the company, there was not much activity atleast for the past 18 months, not many new phones or variety (like clamshell or camera phones). Not much of advertising, so they were effectively getting erased from the collective memory of the consumers. They were in the hibernate mode, now you see the results.
A clean celeron 900MHz machine is better than a mighty Pentium 4, 3.8GHz, with tons of 'good intention' crap running in the background.
Yes, I too have the same problem, same configuration as yours. Dont know the reason why, surprising that others dont have the same problem!!! seems that SP2 doesnt like HP pavilion ze4200 (496MB). my problem is not as bad as what you are having, but I have noticed increased booting time and also it takes more time to get to a usable state after logging in. but everything is fine after that. I have tried to uninstall SP2, but it didnt help (its Microsoft!! funkiness is built in). but a good suggestion for u, if u have the system restore turned on, roll it back to a state before SP2. i tried turing off most of the unnecessary serives and start up programs, but no difference. probably its loading something else during the startup. turning off firewall can be done through the 'security centre', virus checker should get turned off through the anti-virus program.