There are few problems with WAP usages, at least from my personal point of view.
First is the cost, it's not that cheap to use it yet as most service providers are charging by the seconds or bytes.
Secondly, some phone designs are not good enough to use WAP comfortably, but I am sure this will change with more all-you-can-eat phones coming out.
On top of that, there isn't enough incentive for site owners to provide a WAP friendly interface, because there isn't much to make out of it.
Maybe if phone service providers start offering 'referral incentive' to sites, that is, to pay site owners $0.001 per visit via mobile phone, we might be seeing something very quickly.
Personally I believe providers make more than enough to pay that incentive, and with more sites becoming WAP friendly, more users will start using WAP, and the more the providers will make, and the more they can afford to pay site owners or lower the WAP access cost.
If words are parsed, other official might be interested in such surveillance, for instance, to keep track of bookies, or for (human) traffic management.
Is it a common practice nowadays to use shares (IPO even) for payment?
My understanding is that if a share is not sold, you don't have a cent yet in your pocket.
The article estimated that would net Yahoo as much as an additional $149 million at the high end of Google's expected IPO price range. However, could (and would) Yahoo sell all shares at the high end price though?
Wasn't there a joke that if users are required to change password every second, hackers just need to keep on trying the same password until users themselves changed to match the hacker's password?
According to the artcile, they're sort of recycling Soyuz that is already launched and attached to the ISS. They just launch additional modules (and passengers) up later.
At first I thought they're launching a Soyuz directly towards the moon and cleverly navigates its way around the moon (to see the dark side too), and back to earth.
Why would that waste money on such money while they can spend funds on building a high speed agile space shuttle so that whoever is interested in Homeland Security can jump onto one of these ships, and look at any surface on earth.
If they need a bigger area, just steer the ship toward the space a little, if they want a close-up, just descend as needed.
Like everything else, mobile phone started as a mobile phone, then one manufacturer made one smaller, so others followed and made their even smaller. Then another manufacturer added a camera, sure enough others had to stay competitive and added higher pixel camera, then the calendar, notes, voice recorder, maybe a PDA, bluetooh, WiFi etc.
All these are caused by the pressure to stay competitive, and more often than not, the pressure is from consumers (indirectly). If you are deciding on two phones, one with a camera and another without, all at the same price same other specs, you have to choose the one with a camera simply because it has more features.
I for one am totally against attaching non-related feature to a device, so until now I am still using my 4-year-old phone.
As consumers we really need to boycoutt these products to make them go away.
Ohh.. If one manufacturer removes one feature from a mobile phone and still manages to maintain sales, guess what? The reverse cycle might just begin and every manufacture will start stripping features to cut cost and stay competitive.
I would like to ask what would happen if, one day, Steve Jobs wasn't there for Apple anymore, will it still be as innovative as before? (not that I wish anything bad happens to him)
Maybe, just maybe, this is how Microsoft intends to do business in the future?
This kind of first-MS-then-Linux-finally-MS stunts by any company is going to give free publicity to Microsoft, and more and more companies will be attracted to buying MS products because they thought they're getting a discount now.
And frankly speaking, $375 per user is still better than $0 per user, and lose face to Linux.
I was actually thinking of winning it once, with some Powerball jackpot at over $200-$300 millions, I believe that's enough to carry on with my normal life, rather than doing the hard labour of sitting in a machine going back and forward multiple times risking a machine failure of some sort.
I think the core of the article implies that the company with most 'spendable' money will win by default in any case.
Patent Office will grant any plausible applications because "The feeling is that anything contentious can be sorted out in the courts."
And what happens in the courts? Small guys are burdened with legal fees, which is related to the time spent on preparation, which big guys can just throw a lot to you. If you don't hire enough lawyers to read each and every line properly, you might get caught even if you are the rightful owner of a patent.
So with or without a patent, big company will eventually monopolize the market by (1) holding a patent and scare everybody off or, (2) taking the patent-holding company to court or, (3) buy out small guys.
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If we ignore the 40 votes of 1 and 2 (these are probably idiots anyway), then the mean is 8.1 and the median is 9.
What happens if we also ignore the 43 votes of 9 and 10 (these are probably directors and producers anyway)?
One interesting line is that people cannot seem to be able to stay out of 'trouble'. If the characters can resist to interact with people and just get on with their businesses, nothing bad should happen.
However, why did they want to go back to past and buy index funds? Can't they just go forward and 'predict' a lottery number?
If going back to the past is the only option, here's one way to do it:
1. Rent a place to build the machine 2. Wait for 1-2 months to past 3. Move built machine to the rented place 4. Go back to 1-2 months 5. Interact with yourselves as much as you want since your past-self already know you're coming 6. Tell him/her to buy whatever index funds. 7. (Obligatory) Profit!!
always-on broadband Internet starts at $19.99 for 256 kbps, and unlimited mobile VoIP calling is $29.99
In countries where there is only one telo, this kind of deployment might be one way to get around the telephone grid and compete in the once-me-only market.
Surely a chip cannot keep self-healing indefinitely can't it?
If it's capable of re-routing certain path when something went wrong, it'll eventually run out of alternative path, or the performance will be degraded to next to useless.
However it's certainly a good pre-emptive tool for mission critical machines, provided it has a way of informing the admin that it's dying, rather than secretly degrading.
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For exploration that is a bit too far for proper communication, this might be a good idea.
However, if we're so worried about contaminating other planets biologically, what makes it okay to introduce AI into another planet?
I guess the answer is pretty obvious - no matter who initially paid for this, customers will be the ones shouldering the cost.
This has already happened to the airline industry, guess who is paying for the security tax7?
There are few problems with WAP usages, at least from my personal point of view.
First is the cost, it's not that cheap to use it yet as most service providers are charging by the seconds or bytes.
Secondly, some phone designs are not good enough to use WAP comfortably, but I am sure this will change with more all-you-can-eat phones coming out.
On top of that, there isn't enough incentive for site owners to provide a WAP friendly interface, because there isn't much to make out of it.
Maybe if phone service providers start offering 'referral incentive' to sites, that is, to pay site owners $0.001 per visit via mobile phone, we might be seeing something very quickly.
Personally I believe providers make more than enough to pay that incentive, and with more sites becoming WAP friendly, more users will start using WAP, and the more the providers will make, and the more they can afford to pay site owners or lower the WAP access cost.
If words are parsed, other official might be interested in such surveillance, for instance, to keep track of bookies, or for (human) traffic management.
Is it a common practice nowadays to use shares (IPO even) for payment?
My understanding is that if a share is not sold, you don't have a cent yet in your pocket.
The article estimated that would net Yahoo as much as an additional $149 million at the high end of Google's expected IPO price range. However, could (and would) Yahoo sell all shares at the high end price though?
According to this article, he did sign something.
It would seem MS is no longer interested in the browser business, they're updating it simply for protecting its general security "reputation".
However, more importantly, as IE is part of the OS, maybe IE will eventually becomes a more tightly integrated explorer for Windows?
Wasn't there a joke that if users are required to change password every second, hackers just need to keep on trying the same password until users themselves changed to match the hacker's password?
Yes! Typing is still a necessary skill, just like writing. There are always situation where you need a certain skill sets to accomplish certain tasks.
And I believe voice and handwriting recognition technology ain't quite there yet.
Google encourages employees to use 1 day per week on their own hobby/project, does that mean...?
Verbal statement is nothing, SCO could be planning for another lawsuit while everybody's relaxed enough to step into a trappy.
A trappy is like a trap except there's nothing in it, but this doesn't stop people from being frightened by it.
I must say if a company can lose more than $10 billion and still alive and kicking, it's actually not doing too badly.
According to the artcile, they're sort of recycling Soyuz that is already launched and attached to the ISS. They just launch additional modules (and passengers) up later.
At first I thought they're launching a Soyuz directly towards the moon and cleverly navigates its way around the moon (to see the dark side too), and back to earth.
Why would that waste money on such money while they can spend funds on building a high speed agile space shuttle so that whoever is interested in Homeland Security can jump onto one of these ships, and look at any surface on earth.
If they need a bigger area, just steer the ship toward the space a little, if they want a close-up, just descend as needed.
Like everything else, mobile phone started as a mobile phone, then one manufacturer made one smaller, so others followed and made their even smaller. Then another manufacturer added a camera, sure enough others had to stay competitive and added higher pixel camera, then the calendar, notes, voice recorder, maybe a PDA, bluetooh, WiFi etc.
All these are caused by the pressure to stay competitive, and more often than not, the pressure is from consumers (indirectly). If you are deciding on two phones, one with a camera and another without, all at the same price same other specs, you have to choose the one with a camera simply because it has more features.
I for one am totally against attaching non-related feature to a device, so until now I am still using my 4-year-old phone.
As consumers we really need to boycoutt these products to make them go away.
Ohh.. If one manufacturer removes one feature from a mobile phone and still manages to maintain sales, guess what? The reverse cycle might just begin and every manufacture will start stripping features to cut cost and stay competitive.
I would like to ask what would happen if, one day, Steve Jobs wasn't there for Apple anymore, will it still be as innovative as before? (not that I wish anything bad happens to him)
Maybe, just maybe, this is how Microsoft intends to do business in the future?
This kind of first-MS-then-Linux-finally-MS stunts by any company is going to give free publicity to Microsoft, and more and more companies will be attracted to buying MS products because they thought they're getting a discount now.
And frankly speaking, $375 per user is still better than $0 per user, and lose face to Linux.
I was actually thinking of winning it once, with some Powerball jackpot at over $200-$300 millions, I believe that's enough to carry on with my normal life, rather than doing the hard labour of sitting in a machine going back and forward multiple times risking a machine failure of some sort.
I think the core of the article implies that the company with most 'spendable' money will win by default in any case.
Patent Office will grant any plausible applications because "The feeling is that anything contentious can be sorted out in the courts."
And what happens in the courts? Small guys are burdened with legal fees, which is related to the time spent on preparation, which big guys can just throw a lot to you. If you don't hire enough lawyers to read each and every line properly, you might get caught even if you are the rightful owner of a patent.
So with or without a patent, big company will eventually monopolize the market by (1) holding a patent and scare everybody off or, (2) taking the patent-holding company to court or, (3) buy out small guys.
If we ignore the 40 votes of 1 and 2 (these are probably idiots anyway), then the mean is 8.1 and the median is 9.
What happens if we also ignore the 43 votes of 9 and 10 (these are probably directors and producers anyway)?
One interesting line is that people cannot seem to be able to stay out of 'trouble'. If the characters can resist to interact with people and just get on with their businesses, nothing bad should happen.
However, why did they want to go back to past and buy index funds? Can't they just go forward and 'predict' a lottery number?
If going back to the past is the only option, here's one way to do it:
1. Rent a place to build the machine
2. Wait for 1-2 months to past
3. Move built machine to the rented place
4. Go back to 1-2 months
5. Interact with yourselves as much as you want since your past-self already know you're coming
6. Tell him/her to buy whatever index funds.
7. (Obligatory) Profit!!
always-on broadband Internet starts at $19.99 for 256 kbps, and unlimited mobile VoIP calling is $29.99
In countries where there is only one telo, this kind of deployment might be one way to get around the telephone grid and compete in the once-me-only market.
Surely a chip cannot keep self-healing indefinitely can't it?
If it's capable of re-routing certain path when something went wrong, it'll eventually run out of alternative path, or the performance will be degraded to next to useless.
However it's certainly a good pre-emptive tool for mission critical machines, provided it has a way of informing the admin that it's dying, rather than secretly degrading.
Is it possible to make RFID write once read many? So the product info is in the tag, and price/special/discount is cross-referenced with a database.
Is there any advantage for embedding prices in the tag?
Next month they'll be regulating reality TV and EST (American's biggest bestest craziest funniest americans) on TV, now that's one thing I don't mind.