which brings me to my point..You have to buy breakout boxes to get PVR functionality. Once this is built-in then it will really become part of the living room. Unfortunately for now you have to add on ugly extras to get recording of TV.
You make one up. US immigration forms require an address of where you will be staying. The easiest way is to put down the address of a local hotel chain. Look one up before you go. Something like 'Motel 6, Santa Monica" is usually enough but they might want an exact address. Better yet if you can make a booking that can be canceled with no penalty then do that and have proof of the booking. The more info you have then the better. Always just play nice with the immigration people. Most of them are actually OK if you are prepared with the correct forms and information.
You might want to check out these archives from the o-xml mailing list. The last could of weeks have had some good discussion on the issues/reasons for XML based langauges/transforms.
You might want to check out o-xml and srcML among others. The work that Martin is doing on MLML is pretty good. It doesn't mean you have to write XML as the source code format but you can incorporate unit tests, UML and documentation all in the one format.
In the UK you can file your return online directly with Inland Revenue. The only problem is it sucks to sign up and the forms are not very friendly but it does work. In the US I used one of the free online services to fill out the form and then paid the $10 for submission. The US online forms were way simplier as it asked you plain english questions about your inclome and expenses and had a bunch of online help.
I wish i could remember the name of the movie but it's been done. He sets up a radio station when he moves into town and rants on about life. The local kids start listening and someone commits suicide. The guy gets chased by the FCC if i remember rightly...
people may jump on these cars, but we Yanks like big cars to cart our big families around in.
So where in America exactly do you find cars with more than one person in them during peak times? Just drive down any freeway in peak times and the carpool lanes are pretty empty while the main lanes are full of oversized cars/SUV's. A Smart car is the perfect second family car. Sure if you have a family a people mover makes sense for one of the cars but the other one doesn't have to be big as well.
As the poster said the endgadget crowd are probably early adopters. Early adopters are...'Early Adopters' and are a good gauge of how things could develop. Please these people and they tend to tell all their not so tech savy friends about it. I think this is the point the poster was trying to make. Things are starting to change and given half a chance we will start to see a move towards Firefox by the general public.
Hey, if enough people got together and traded signals for different remotes then you could have a website where you could just look up your remote model and then download the playlist for it. Kind of like a CDDB for remotes...
All you would have to have then would be the $10 piece of hardware and no iPaq, etc.
Sure things take a while for prices to come down but WiFi has already been around for a while. A large number of places are already free in the US for WiFi. Wardriving down the Pacific Coast highway (Seattle-LA) we have passed huge numbers of open wireless networks that are based in Coffee Shops, Hotels, etc. The reason they are free is that they attract customers as a value add. The same would appply to trains. To get people off planes and out of cars the UK train services need to add value to the trip without increasing the already expensive tickets. WiFi is one way to go. Keep in mind that other Wifi providers supply access for 5GBP for 24hours in the UK and you get a better idea of what the cost stucture should be.
Do you charge the company for accepting calls on your personal phone? If you are then you are getting ripped off. Our company pays for all my mobile bill (including personal calls) and in return this is the way they can contact me whenever it is needed. Sure you get the occasional call at wierd hours but for the $$$ it saves every month who cares?
Also one thing to remember. Try and keep the phone personal and charge the company for the bill every month. This way when you leave the company they cannot keep your phone and number which saves you the hassle of changing numbers.
The big revenue stream for Opera is in the mobile/embedded space. They sell the browser to Nokia, etc. and make money there. The desktop space is probably a lot smaller in terms of market size for them.
I'm not sure what the difference is going to be here. If your computer has a bad A/D converter and electronics (and most do, really), then no piece of software is going to make this better. If Macs have sufficiently high quality A/D conversion for this purpose, then you should be able to use any recording software, and I believe there's plenty of it.
I'm not sure what the difference is going to be here. If you suck as a musician (and most do, really), then no piece of software is going to make this better. If Macs have sufficiently high quality musicians for this purpose, then you should be able to use any recording software, and I believe there's plenty of it.
In real terms here is the trip from London - Paris. My apartment (Zone 2 Subway) - Inner city paris apartment:
Flight:
20min Tube to Paddington 15min Train to Heathrow 1 hour checking before flight (45min is absolute minimum at heathrow) 1 hour flight 30 min baggage collection and walk to train 30 min train into the city 10 min tube ride to accomodation
3 hours 45 min total Train:
20min Tube to Waterloo International train station 20min Check in, security and train boarding 2:45 hours Train Journey 5min walk to tube 10min tube ride to accomodation
3 hours 40 minutes total
As you can see they come out about the same. However you are more likely to get congestion on the flight route than the train route (especially now they have opened the dedicated track on the UK side of the link).
I always try and take the train when travelling for work in the UK. It is usally faster and cheaper than driving (40p per mile expensed to my company). This just makes it even more inviting. Hopefully bosses will start demanding sales reps and onroad staff take the train so they can actaully work during the travel time. With this and the new driving with mobile/PDA rules in place it makes sense.
The only time it really makes sense to drive is when the customers site is to far from the station.
I worked from home for about 3 years. I ended up cashing in my stock, quiting, then getting fired (I had to work out my 3 months notice but getting fired meant I they let me go straight away and had to pay me).
Then I took a year off...well I am actually about 4 months into the year off and it has done wonders for my cabin fever.
What does this mean for the Symbian OS, which is currently an open OS?
Symbian is NOT an open system by most free/open source followers standards. It is an OS which can be licensed just like most others. Sure you get more access to the source code and internals but you cannot redistribute with no royalties and other advantages which traditional free/open software has.
That being said it is still a great OS for phones.
Qualcomm is the sole supplier of CDMA chipsets and have not released a BT chipset to work with their phones. Therfore all CDMA phones whether made by Nokia or someone else cannot ship with Bluetooth builtin. Nokia do make BT phones..Nokia N-Gage (GSM), 3650 (GSM), 3600 (GSM) and 7650 (GSM).
I know Nextel does not use the GSM and infact I _may_ be wrong in the fact that they use CDMA (maybe TDMA?). Just checking out their website it looks like all their phones are shit compared to whats available on the GSM networks.
Trust me, the Ericsson t610 for an everyday phone is great and if you want more PDA functionality then the p800/p900 is the way to go. Not to sure about the Nokias as I have been an Ericsson user for the last 3 years.
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which brings me to my point..You have to buy breakout boxes to get PVR functionality. Once this is built-in then it will really become part of the living room. Unfortunately for now you have to add on ugly extras to get recording of TV.
You make one up. US immigration forms require an address of where you will be staying. The easiest way is to put down the address of a local hotel chain. Look one up before you go. Something like 'Motel 6, Santa Monica" is usually enough but they might want an exact address. Better yet if you can make a booking that can be canceled with no penalty then do that and have proof of the booking. The more info you have then the better. Always just play nice with the immigration people. Most of them are actually OK if you are prepared with the correct forms and information.
You might want to check out these archives from the o-xml mailing list. The last could of weeks have had some good discussion on the issues /reasons for XML based langauges/transforms.
You might want to check out o-xml and srcML among others. The work that Martin is doing on MLML is pretty good. It doesn't mean you have to write XML as the source code format but you can incorporate unit tests, UML and documentation all in the one format.
Go for Fresh Mobile from The Carphone Warehouse. 15p any call cany network and 5p txt messages.
In the UK you can file your return online directly with Inland Revenue. The only problem is it sucks to sign up and the forms are not very friendly but it does work. In the US I used one of the free online services to fill out the form and then paid the $10 for submission. The US online forms were way simplier as it asked you plain english questions about your inclome and expenses and had a bunch of online help.
I wish i could remember the name of the movie but it's been done. He sets up a radio station when he moves into town and rants on about life. The local kids start listening and someone commits suicide. The guy gets chased by the FCC if i remember rightly...
So where in America exactly do you find cars with more than one person in them during peak times? Just drive down any freeway in peak times and the carpool lanes are pretty empty while the main lanes are full of oversized cars/SUV's. A Smart car is the perfect second family car. Sure if you have a family a people mover makes sense for one of the cars but the other one doesn't have to be big as well.
Is that the PC way of saying 13-18 year olds enjoy sweeter tastes? Because that's who drinks the alco-pop crap.
Just click on this link:
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No. They target rollerbladers, skiiers, scooter riders and every other lame sport.
Snowboarders, surfers and skaters are way to cool to wear such lame looking sunglasses
I think this thread has just gone over the heads of 99.9999% of the /. readers...
Being a shore boy I'm thinking of forking the firefox tree and releasing a series of 'Bay' releases.
As the poster said the endgadget crowd are probably early adopters. Early adopters are...'Early Adopters' and are a good gauge of how things could develop. Please these people and they tend to tell all their not so tech savy friends about it. I think this is the point the poster was trying to make. Things are starting to change and given half a chance we will start to see a move towards Firefox by the general public.
Well you could. But you would have to buy a DAB radio card as well to even get the stream in the first place.
Hey, if enough people got together and traded signals for different remotes then you could have a website where you could just look up your remote model and then download the playlist for it. Kind of like a CDDB for remotes...
All you would have to have then would be the $10 piece of hardware and no iPaq, etc.
Sure things take a while for prices to come down but WiFi has already been around for a while. A large number of places are already free in the US for WiFi. Wardriving down the Pacific Coast highway (Seattle-LA) we have passed huge numbers of open wireless networks that are based in Coffee Shops, Hotels, etc. The reason they are free is that they attract customers as a value add. The same would appply to trains. To get people off planes and out of cars the UK train services need to add value to the trip without increasing the already expensive tickets. WiFi is one way to go. Keep in mind that other Wifi providers supply access for 5GBP for 24hours in the UK and you get a better idea of what the cost stucture should be.
Do you charge the company for accepting calls on your personal phone? If you are then you are getting ripped off. Our company pays for all my mobile bill (including personal calls) and in return this is the way they can contact me whenever it is needed. Sure you get the occasional call at wierd hours but for the $$$ it saves every month who cares?
Also one thing to remember. Try and keep the phone personal and charge the company for the bill every month. This way when you leave the company they cannot keep your phone and number which saves you the hassle of changing numbers.
Nah, that's already taken by the Japanese KDE Quality Team. /b
The big revenue stream for Opera is in the mobile/embedded space. They sell the browser to Nokia, etc. and make money there. The desktop space is probably a lot smaller in terms of market size for them.
I'm not sure what the difference is going to be here. If you suck as a musician (and most do, really), then no piece of software is going to make this better. If Macs have sufficiently high quality musicians for this purpose, then you should be able to use any recording software, and I believe there's plenty of it.
In real terms here is the trip from London - Paris. My apartment (Zone 2 Subway) - Inner city paris apartment:
Flight:
20min Tube to Paddington
15min Train to Heathrow
1 hour checking before flight (45min is absolute minimum at heathrow)
1 hour flight
30 min baggage collection and walk to train
30 min train into the city
10 min tube ride to accomodation
3 hours 45 min total
Train:
20min Tube to Waterloo International train station
20min Check in, security and train boarding
2:45 hours Train Journey
5min walk to tube
10min tube ride to accomodation
3 hours 40 minutes total
As you can see they come out about the same. However you are more likely to get congestion on the flight route than the train route (especially now they have opened the dedicated track on the UK side of the link).
I always try and take the train when travelling for work in the UK. It is usally faster and cheaper than driving (40p per mile expensed to my company). This just makes it even more inviting. Hopefully bosses will start demanding sales reps and onroad staff take the train so they can actaully work during the travel time. With this and the new driving with mobile/PDA rules in place it makes sense.
The only time it really makes sense to drive is when the customers site is to far from the station.
I worked from home for about 3 years. I ended up cashing in my stock, quiting, then getting fired (I had to work out my 3 months notice but getting fired meant I they let me go straight away and had to pay me).
Then I took a year off...well I am actually about 4 months into the year off and it has done wonders for my cabin fever.
Symbian is NOT an open system by most free/open source followers standards. It is an OS which can be licensed just like most others. Sure you get more access to the source code and internals but you cannot redistribute with no royalties and other advantages which traditional free/open software has.
That being said it is still a great OS for phones.
Qualcomm is the sole supplier of CDMA chipsets and have not released a BT chipset to work with their phones. Therfore all CDMA phones whether made by Nokia or someone else cannot ship with Bluetooth builtin. Nokia do make BT phones..Nokia N-Gage (GSM), 3650 (GSM), 3600 (GSM) and 7650 (GSM).
I know Nextel does not use the GSM and infact I _may_ be wrong in the fact that they use CDMA (maybe TDMA?). Just checking out their website it looks like all their phones are shit compared to whats available on the GSM networks.
Trust me, the Ericsson t610 for an everyday phone is great and if you want more PDA functionality then the p800/p900 is the way to go. Not to sure about the Nokias as I have been an Ericsson user for the last 3 years.