I was just wondering if it is possible to install the iPhone OS on another phone? When it comes down to it, it seems that the main selling point of the iPhone is the OS. I currently use WindowsMobile and hate it:(
One question I keep on asking myself is, why do we have lobbyist? Shouldn't it be illegal to have special groups (i.e. corporations) push special agendas? Shouldn't it also be illegal for law makers to vote on specific issues after they have received donations from various lobbyist.
I looked at some other albums and saw the one about diamonds. I'm not a big fan of precious stones, but am surprised to see that all these diamonds are procured and processed for peanuts and then sold for hefty sums. Kind of sad that ppl still pay so much for diamonds.
I think you are a bit misinformed. Vancouver, BC has no affordable housing, houses get more affordable as you move to the suburbs, but Van is still expensive. The suburbs are slowly getting more and more expensive.
The parent is right. There are more important things to be concerned about. Prostitution is very bad in Thailand and a lot of it is very open. I had gone to Bangkok a couple of years ago with my family. From the airport all the way to the markets I could see that things were not right. At times you would see a guy who is with a local woman come next to her and then just fondle her in front of everyone. A lot of young women walking with these men, but u know they are not in a relationship because the woman is walking 2 steps behind the guy. Most of these guys were 35+ white guys. Its pretty sad. I would rather see more enforcement on issues such as these then that about some guy who can't stand any criticism.
This reminds me of a lecture I had at my uni when I was taking e-business law and the topic was copyright and IP. The professor brought along this guy who said he came up with the concept of exciting the hydrogen atoms for imaging which is used in MRI's. The whole concept was the basis of his grad paper. While searching for a supervisor, his supervisor was reluctant to accept him based on the concept, but eventually did. After he finished his grad paper, his supervisor took credit for it. He said he let it go because he needed a reference. kind of sad that this stuff happens. This guy now has a bunch of MRI facilities and doing quite well, but he was really simple and humble which impressed me a lot.
I also remember another idea that I'm not sure was stolen. In my first year of Uni, everyone had to take an intro to business course. In the course we had to come up with a business plan for a concept and present it to venture capitalists and they would judge how valid our plans were. This one team presented the idea of software rental for the gaming industry. The venture capitalists told that team that the concept was flawed and not good. Then 2 yrs later I see that yahoo games came up with the same service where you pay a monthly fee and you can play x amount of games. I think what a lot of students in the tech industry need to do is get a minor in business.
"1. Since you're a student, if you're not being paid to do research and don't use university equipment, you keep whatever you discover. 2. If you are being paid, you're treated like an employee. Employees must sign all patents to the University. The University then decides if it wants to market the patent. If the patent is successfully licensed to someone and a profit is made, the profit is split between the inventor and the university (either 50-50 or 25-75 depending on the circumstances). Otherwise, the patent is returned to you."
Your wavier is partially right. I agree with #2, but not #1. If you are a student, you are paying a fee to be a student and use the equipment. Thus if you discover anything during that time, it should belong to you since you are paying. You are their customer and not their employee. If you pay a rental place to use their science equipment, and you make a discovery, do you hand out the rights of your discovery to the rental company? If you are using a cell phone to discuss an idea and come out with a marketable concept, do you hand the rights of you discovery to your cell phone company? The answer should be NO in both cases because you are the customer.
I was just wondering, how is GAIM funded in the first place. All that legal stuff had to be handled by some lawyer who obviously charged a bit of money.
What amazes me is how they found out the amount vitamin C in a product. I was pretty good in science when I was in Gr. 10, but I still have no idea how to find out the amount of vitamin C in a product. Any ideas?
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I am working at a company where we would like to actually enable users to view our charts and graphs on mobile devices with web connectivity. I have been looking into what the best way to deploy this is. We use chart director to develop our graphs/charts so that's not a problem. But rather how do we develop applications rapidly for use on any mobile with a web connection with/without java installed. What I want to implement is basically business intelligence on a mobile app. At a.NET conference I saw a demo where a small mobile application (no gui) was developed in a matter of 5 mins and it could be displayed on 5 different types of phones (non smart phones). What is the best way to go about this? At the root of it, I don't want the client to be dependent on any technology. But on the server side, I would prefer to stay with Java since most of our systems use RedHat.
I recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite XP Tablet PC. It came with 2 512MB modules and it is expandable to 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) modules. However in my case, here in Van, BC, Canada, a 2GB($500-600+CDN) RAM module costs more than 2 1GB RAM ($187-200CDN) modules. Anyone know why? My laptop is mainly for surfing the internet, using regular MS Office apps and programming in.NET and Java.
What I don't get is what the big deal is with XML web services, especially SOAP, sure it allows you to send data fairly easily, but it seems that we are adding computational complexity and bandwidth overload to the mix. I have used SOAP web services and am not sure why it is so popular compared to XML-RPC. Isnt there a more efficient way to send data than in XML?
I live in BC, Canada in the city of Surrey. It is one of the fastest growing cities in N. America. We have a bit of a crime problem in our down town area. Out mayor went to the UK to see how u guys combat crime and now plans to implement a bunch of your measures. I'm pretty sure we're gonna start seeing all those cameras here. She presented her idea to our conservative PM along with some RCMP officers and they all seemed to like the idea. It seems like all the so called free first world countries are emerging into a not so free big brother government.
Reminds me of movies like the Minority Report, V for Vendetta and Equilibrium. Kind of sad, the so called freedoms that everyone seems to be talking about having fought for are just ideologies right now.
I think the bigger problem here is that the legal system has become so complicated and expensive that the average Joe cannot fight back at this ridiculous bullying. What we need is a complete overhaul of the justice system and all those idiotic laws and new processes need to be established.
I am not sure if the height the guy mentions in the article can be attributed to the Romans. The romans weren't that tall. During the invasion of Britain, the average Roman soldier was about 5'6 at about 5x BC. Assuming that these ppl went to China around the same time, I would see their height staying relative to the chinese ppl there based on the food they eat and life style they lead.
By 'just started' I mean 'earlier this afternoon', so there's really nothing there, but the current address is openmechanics.netcipia.net -- if you know of a free wiki host that doesn't require outside users to register, let me know, I'd like this to be pretty open. The registration is free, btw. At any rate, there's really nothing there but a pseudo-mission statement, but I'm eager to build the thing, so stop on by, drop an email addy and we'll get started! hey EaglemanBSA, my e-mail addy is ecit12 at hotmail dot com I signed up on that site you posted, and posted a comment as well. Let me know whats up, k..
What I do is put my system on standBy all the time. I run WinXP at home and it takes about 10 seconds to start up again. Works like a charm..:) If u would like to completly save power.. just use hibernate mode, its a bit slower than standBy, but it does the job.
Now a days it seems that more than half the money of any lawsuit goes to lawyers. Fine ppl have to be paid for the work they do right?
But what I don't understand is, why in the world is the justice process so complicated that everyone has to require a lawyer to solve a problem? There should be a better way in place, where if a person decides to file a lawsuit against someone else, all they have to do is provide the right documents according to an easy to follow standard that has been outlined by the justice system. There shouldn't be a need to refer to past judgements, thats the job of the Judge who is deciding on the case. He should use knowledge of the current law and make a decision, not what other ppl did in the past.
Having never been involved in a legal proceeding, I might be a bit ignorant here. But my point is that laws were created to provide a guideline based on what legal decisions are made, why is the process involved to apply these laws so complicated?
I was just wondering, how much the batteries for such a device would cost. Are these the same type of batteries that are being used for wind/solar energy sources? How long would such a battery keeps its charge?
Come on, its funny how the UN hasn't figured this one out yet... Forget Software, which required most ppl to have access to computers and electricity which is not abundant in "rural areas" or third world countries.
A lot of ppl can't afford medicine in 1'st world countries itself, I live in Canada, and my Dad's medicines cost about 4G's a year. Imagine how bad it is in all these other countries.
Yes I know medicine takes up a lot of investment on the part of drug companies, but so does software.
If a lot of these nations can have affordable drugs, that would go a long ways than having open source software.
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I was just wondering if it is possible to install the iPhone OS on another phone? When it comes down to it, it seems that the main selling point of the iPhone is the OS. I currently use WindowsMobile and hate it :(
thanks for the link. their components are very decently priced.
Does anyone have a similar link to imaging and sound compression algorithms?
One question I keep on asking myself is, why do we have lobbyist? Shouldn't it be illegal to have special groups (i.e. corporations) push special agendas? Shouldn't it also be illegal for law makers to vote on specific issues after they have received donations from various lobbyist.
I looked at some other albums and saw the one about diamonds. I'm not a big fan of precious stones, but am surprised to see that all these diamonds are procured and processed for peanuts and then sold for hefty sums. Kind of sad that ppl still pay so much for diamonds.
I think you are a bit misinformed. Vancouver, BC has no affordable housing, houses get more affordable as you move to the suburbs, but Van is still expensive. The suburbs are slowly getting more and more expensive.
The parent is right. There are more important things to be concerned about.
Prostitution is very bad in Thailand and a lot of it is very open.
I had gone to Bangkok a couple of years ago with my family. From the airport all the way to the markets I could see that things were not right. At times you would see a guy who is with a local woman come next to her and then just fondle her in front of everyone. A lot of young women walking with these men, but u know they are not in a relationship because the woman is walking 2 steps behind the guy. Most of these guys were 35+ white guys. Its pretty sad. I would rather see more enforcement on issues such as these then that about some guy who can't stand any criticism.
This reminds me of a lecture I had at my uni when I was taking e-business law and the topic was copyright and IP.
The professor brought along this guy who said he came up with the concept of exciting the hydrogen atoms for imaging which is used in MRI's.
The whole concept was the basis of his grad paper. While searching for a supervisor, his supervisor was reluctant to accept him based on the concept, but eventually did. After he finished his grad paper, his supervisor took credit for it. He said he let it go because he needed a reference.
kind of sad that this stuff happens. This guy now has a bunch of MRI facilities and doing quite well, but he was really simple and humble which impressed me a lot.
I also remember another idea that I'm not sure was stolen. In my first year of Uni, everyone had to take an intro to business course. In the course we had to come up with a business plan for a concept and present it to venture capitalists and they would judge how valid our plans were. This one team presented the idea of software rental for the gaming industry. The venture capitalists told that team that the concept was flawed and not good. Then 2 yrs later I see that yahoo games came up with the same service where you pay a monthly fee and you can play x amount of games. I think what a lot of students in the tech industry need to do is get a minor in business.
"1. Since you're a student, if you're not being paid to do research and don't use university equipment, you keep whatever you discover.
2. If you are being paid, you're treated like an employee. Employees must sign all patents to the University. The University then decides if it wants to market the patent. If the patent is successfully licensed to someone and a profit is made, the profit is split between the inventor and the university (either 50-50 or 25-75 depending on the circumstances). Otherwise, the patent is returned to you."
Your wavier is partially right. I agree with #2, but not #1.
If you are a student, you are paying a fee to be a student and use the equipment. Thus if you discover anything during that time, it should belong to you since you are paying. You are their customer and not their employee.
If you pay a rental place to use their science equipment, and you make a discovery, do you hand out the rights of your discovery to the rental company?
If you are using a cell phone to discuss an idea and come out with a marketable concept, do you hand the rights of you discovery to your cell phone company?
The answer should be NO in both cases because you are the customer.
I was just wondering, how is GAIM funded in the first place. All that legal stuff had to be handled by some lawyer who obviously charged a bit of money.
thank you for the link... that was informative.. thats at least Gr.11 Chem in Canada. Very impressive indeed....
What amazes me is how they found out the amount vitamin C in a product. I was pretty good in science when I was in Gr. 10, but I still have no idea how to find out the amount of vitamin C in a product.
Any ideas?
Hi,
.NET conference I saw a demo where a small mobile application (no gui) was developed in a matter of 5 mins and it could be displayed on 5 different types of phones (non smart phones). What is the best way to go about this? At the root of it, I don't want the client to be dependent on any technology. But on the server side, I would prefer to stay with Java since most of our systems use RedHat.
I am working at a company where we would like to actually enable users to view our charts and graphs on mobile devices with web connectivity. I have been looking into what the best way to deploy this is. We use chart director to develop our graphs/charts so that's not a problem. But rather how do we develop applications rapidly for use on any mobile with a web connection with/without java installed. What I want to implement is basically business intelligence on a mobile app. At a
Thanks...
Quote: "Higher density RAM has always cost more than lower density RAM, no surprise there."
I know that.. its just a bit surprising that it costs more than 5x more....
I recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite XP Tablet PC. It came with 2 512MB modules and it is expandable to 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) modules. However in my case, here in Van, BC, Canada, a 2GB($500-600+CDN) RAM module costs more than 2 1GB RAM ($187-200CDN) modules. Anyone know why? .NET and Java.
My laptop is mainly for surfing the internet, using regular MS Office apps and programming in
Ok,
What I don't get is what the big deal is with XML web services, especially SOAP, sure it allows you to send data fairly easily, but it seems that we are adding computational complexity and bandwidth overload to the mix. I have used SOAP web services and am not sure why it is so popular compared to XML-RPC.
Isnt there a more efficient way to send data than in XML?
I live in BC, Canada in the city of Surrey. It is one of the fastest growing cities in N. America. We have a bit of a crime problem in our down town area. Out mayor went to the UK to see how u guys combat crime and now plans to implement a bunch of your measures. I'm pretty sure we're gonna start seeing all those cameras here. She presented her idea to our conservative PM along with some RCMP officers and they all seemed to like the idea. It seems like all the so called free first world countries are emerging into a not so free big brother government.
Reminds me of movies like the Minority Report, V for Vendetta and Equilibrium. Kind of sad, the so called freedoms that everyone seems to be talking about having fought for are just ideologies right now.
I think the bigger problem here is that the legal system has become so complicated and expensive that the average Joe cannot fight back at this ridiculous bullying. What we need is a complete overhaul of the justice system and all those idiotic laws and new processes need to be established.
I am not sure if the height the guy mentions in the article can be attributed to the Romans. The romans weren't that tall. During the invasion of Britain, the average Roman soldier was about 5'6 at about 5x BC. Assuming that these ppl went to China around the same time, I would see their height staying relative to the chinese ppl there based on the food they eat and life style they lead.
I signed up on that site you posted, and posted a comment as well.
Let me know whats up, k..
Cheers...
hey EaglemanBSA, what is the link to ur wiki for mechanical design. I would be really interested in openly engineered mechanical design.
What I do is put my system on standBy all the time. I run WinXP at home and it takes about 10 seconds to start up again. Works like a charm.. :)
If u would like to completly save power.. just use hibernate mode, its a bit slower than standBy, but it does the job.
Now a days it seems that more than half the money of any lawsuit goes to lawyers. Fine ppl have to be paid for the work they do right? But what I don't understand is, why in the world is the justice process so complicated that everyone has to require a lawyer to solve a problem? There should be a better way in place, where if a person decides to file a lawsuit against someone else, all they have to do is provide the right documents according to an easy to follow standard that has been outlined by the justice system. There shouldn't be a need to refer to past judgements, thats the job of the Judge who is deciding on the case. He should use knowledge of the current law and make a decision, not what other ppl did in the past. Having never been involved in a legal proceeding, I might be a bit ignorant here. But my point is that laws were created to provide a guideline based on what legal decisions are made, why is the process involved to apply these laws so complicated?
I was just wondering, how much the batteries for such a device would cost. Are these the same type of batteries that are being used for wind/solar energy sources? How long would such a battery keeps its charge?
Come on, its funny how the UN hasn't figured this one out yet... Forget Software, which required most ppl to have access to computers and electricity which is not abundant in "rural areas" or third world countries.
A lot of ppl can't afford medicine in 1'st world countries itself, I live in Canada, and my Dad's medicines cost about 4G's a year. Imagine how bad it is in all these other countries.
Yes I know medicine takes up a lot of investment on the part of drug companies, but so does software.
If a lot of these nations can have affordable drugs, that would go a long ways than having open source software.