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That over 1 billion text messages were sent in the UK alone last month. txt'ing is _the_ way to communicate for todays youth culture. Even us oldies in their late 20's send text messages on a regular basis. Looking through my phone I sent 12 messages this weekend. Organising places to meet people, drunken banter from the pub, etc. It is great, no need to talk to the person and it is normally cheaper than calling during peak times.
Also Bt Cellnet here in the UK has just signed a deal with msn (and soon yahoo!) where there will be seemless IM between phones and msn/yahoo, including full presence detection. (With the current ICQ setup you have to send the message to the phone, not just the persons icq account).
PS: When will the US just actually understand the importance of text messaging in todays youth culture?????
You make a joystick that plugas into the bottom of the iPaq and makes the whole device a gameboy style device.
Seriously until a good joystick comes along gaming on these devices suck. I've tried to play MAME games on it and can not make it past the first levels most of the time because of th shitty input interface
Nah, too much hassle. better to just lock yourself in your bedroom with a bucnh of porn mags for a couple of weeks, flick one off the wrist then piss of to goa and become a dirty hippie.
The Accept/Deny/Only this time cookie management idea that is turned on by default in Konquor is great (and an option in Mozilla). Once you have got through the first couple of weeks accepting cookies from the sites you trust/like and rejecting all the doubleclick and other ad site cookies you only have to accept/deny cookies every few days (depending on your surfing habits).
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Having Firewire as the _primary_ interface is great. Its fast, and thats what you need for moving large amounts of data in a hurry. And belive me it is painful waiting for a CD to download to your device when you are late for your train.
It would have been nice to see Bluetooth in there for 'ad-hoc' transfers. you the ones where somebody has a song on their Bluetooth enabled phone that you want to check out and they just 'beam' it to you. It would make the device more friendly to the non Mac world.
Has anyone hacked this yet? It would be great to see the upgrades come from the user community who know what they want and add interfaces to my music collection which I already have stored under the rimps system.
Also WLAN would definately be a plus. I don't have the ability to run CAT5 through my apartment...
Your forgetting the early adopter rule. That is you need the 10% of early adopters to love your product and promote it to the masses if it is to be successful. Look at TiVo, because it was hackable, had a bunch of features (some of which people might never use), and it was a great product it generated lots of press which in turn hyped the product.
Although a product may have way to many features than is needed by Joe Average these features are what get the publicity wheel going.
Can I play downloaded MP3 files on the Nokia 5510?
Yes, the Nokia 5510 can play MP3 files in protected format. Copies of the downloaded music files are added to the Nokia Audio Manager database. Nokia Audio Manager encrypts the music files and downloads the protected MP3 format to the memory of the Nokia 5510.
In what format is the music saved in my hard disk?
All the songs are saved in encrypted AAC format.
So it looks like the Audio manager encryps mp3's before they get sent to the device. Which also means that you probably can't download and play then on another machine. It also probably means that the format on the device is NOT mp3. more like AAC format, which is exactly the reason why I haven't got a Sony Memorystick walkman...
Maybe what you saw has been changed by the marketing folks to conform to 'industry standards'?
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I live in Brixton and have had a couple of bad experiences. After living there 2 weeks our house got broken into and a bunch of CD's and a couple of cameras got stolen. They tried to break in a year later as well but somebody was home at the time.
The next thing that happend. I was mugged right outside KFC in Brixton. This is the busiest corner in Brixton. I got away with my mates, we had a fight and then one of them pulled a knife so we ran back home. They threw pieces of wood through our front window. The cops didn't really care. They turned up half an hour later even though the guys were hanging outside our place for ten minutes after we called the police. CCTV Wouldn't have help there either, they said the quality of the pictures you get from them suck and wouldn't even pursue the issue.
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OH: And a funny/scary thing happened last night as we were going into a club in London. My friend took a piss down a side ally and over loud speakers you hear 'You are been monitored by closed circuit television by the police. you are been watched...'
I think the mangers want number on a systems where Linux is in the majority on the desktop. I mean IBM might have thousands of desktops running Linux but they are spread all over the world. However another company may have 1000 desktops running liunx and only 50 running windows in a single building.
The second example would prove to the managers that linux is a viable desktop alternative.
Strange just about everything he is saying is straight of a book called No Logo by Naomi Klein which i am about 3/4 of the way through. I suggest anyone who has an interest in this subject read it. It covers the whole history of branding and corporate work culture.
What if an idividual wants to become a respoistry for their own information and not trust it to a central place. That way I could carry the information with me knowing it is as secure as I want it to be.
WAP Push is a new feature in V1.2(?) of the specs that allows WAP pages to be pushed out to (willing) subscibers. This will make WAP _very_ usable.
Think about the issues now. Finding a page, typing in usernames/passwords, searching for content, and finally buying the goods...what a nightmare on current browsers with only a 9 digit keypad. If I could sign up for content I wanted on my phone and it pushed it out to me when it had updated info with a url embedded in the message that took me to exactly the page I wanted to view and allow me to action that in one or 2 clicks, then I would be happy.
Case in point: There are a bunch on bands I want to see in London but I can't be bothered checking the listings everyday and when I do finally find a band I want to see its normally an impulse buy. I would much rather it just sent a WAP page to my phone with a link back to a site where I could buy tickets right then. perfect.
Which also brings me onto the point that half the reason current WAP useage sucks is that the UI's that are being designed suck and require way to many clicks to get to the content you want. Also the Telcos are not making it easy enough for users to set up their WAP hoimepages and provide great content.
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We were discussing how well/. stayed up just last night and how other news servers seemed to melt. thanks.n you guys gave us people with no tv a valuable news source.
What also impressed me were the people who put up pics/videos/news stories on their own servers to help people get news, even if they only had a dsl connection. Of course these sites soon got/.'ed as well...
So that led me to a new feature idea for news sites like this:
- People 'donate' a section of their web site to be a mirror for overloaded news stories.
- Whenever a link is/.'ed these sites replicate the site and store the data on their server.
- Slashdot keeps track of what sites have replicated and changes the url each time it serves a page with that link in it. That way the orginal site is now spread across 100's of dsl connections instead of one.
- After a set time (say a week?) the mirrors then delete the site from there servers and deregister their site from the mirrors list.
- Of course all this could be scripted with no input from users. All the/. admin would need to do is add some form of switch to say 'mirror this link' and the process would be put in place to start the morroring process.
And then you have your own distributed news network that handles major news stories with out getting slashdotted as much.
The reason why there is no size fits all solution is that all phones support different standards. You have to find the best fit for your particular phone (if one even exists). The situation will get better in the next year or 2 when all phones will start supporting syncML which is a standard for syncing data (Calender (vCal) and address book (vCard) info only at the moment).
So you first need to look for a product that will either sync Outlook -> Phone or Palm -> Phone and another product that supports Palm -> Outlook. So lets look at these one by one...
Outlook -> Phone: I think there are a couple of options here. All products at the moment sync via a serail cradle or IR port. Look on the web for your phone and sync software, i'm sure you find something.
Palm -> Phone: Again a couple of options but it depends on your phone, note my experience with this software has been a little flaky. Make sure you have a backup of your palm first as you could end up with a bunch of dups. I tend not to use this software but just beam contacts to my phone aas I need them (I have a Nokia 7110 which supports multiple phone numbers per entry). The problem is getting those drunken 'girl at bar' numbers back to my PDA, I end up just trping them in the next morning if can remeber her name...;)
Palm -> Outlook: Well all PDA's seem to sync with outlook out of the box but if you want some decent software the go with some like Intellisync (plug, plug...) It offers better conflict resolution, filtering and more advanced features.
Those are your options right now. In the next year or 2 you will have true multi point sync up to a central web store where you can keep all devices in sync, filtered, conflicts resolved and applications on whatever device you happen to be carrying....but thats still a couple of years off before it gets really useful.
I find that I have about 20-30 CDR's and of those only 2 of them are mp3's. And guess what? those mp3's are from CD's I had ripped and were just for backup. Are they going to charge me extra for buying CDR's even when none of them are being used for illegal mp3's?
Yep, I'm sure your wrong for the simple reason that Infared is line-of-site only. Trust me holding your PDA to Mobile while travelling on a train is Just Not Fun(tm). Having your phone in your pocket while syncing email is a much, much better solution. If you don't believe me then go and try it yourself, a couple of days using Bluetooth will get you hooked. I don't want to pull out a cable everytime I go online, its just another accessory I would need to carry and lose.
Oh, and again, 802.11b just sucks too much power, it is not a Bluetooth killer and Bluetooth is not an 802.11b killer. Simple.
It seems like it is only in the files used to create PDF's (or only affects those that are using the PDF creator software) which really limits its scope.
Most people only have the viewer for obvious reasons so only a small number of people would be affected. Of course adding VBScript execution to the viewer would be just plain Stupid since PDF files are designed to be PRINTED and not viewed on screen...
It seems like a lot of it has got to do with luck, especially if you take a middle of the road approach to posting your email address. I have had a hotmail account for about 3 years and it gets spammed about once a day, however another account of mine gets spammed alot more than that and I have been accessing the same sorts of sites with both accounts (Shopping, discussion, news sites, etc). Somewhere along the line one of the sites must have 'leaked' my details...
Of course my third hotmail account was used for 'special websites' which generates 10 spams a day...
- Because they want to be able to deliver other applications over IM
Sounds like a good idea, but how much functionality are you looking for? And realistically, how much functionality can you provide over IM?
Games. (Notice how many people play snake on the morning commute?). Streaming news and info. (Wouldn't it be nice not to have to check/. every 1/2 for the latest story when it just IM's you?). Train times (You train is 10 minutes late. i.e no need to rush this morning. Hey in the UK this happens alot...)
- Because there doesn't yet exist an IM solution that will work on every device, and Jabber just might be the one to do that
So might any other piece of code. There's nothing special about Jabber that makes it particularly easier to port any more than any other IM software.
Yes, its open. and there are no licensing costs. How many people have mobile devices today? In the UK it is _over_50% of the population. that adds up to a lot of licensing costs for a telco who is alreadt burdened with a 7 Billion pound bill for the 3G license...
- Because its an Open Standard so it is more likely that third parties will devlop applications for it which FT can rebrand without the expense of developing apps themselves
First, it's doubtful that 3rd parties will develop anything for Jabber just because it is Open. Second, FT doesn't gain anything by donating money to Jabber, at least anything they couldn't have usurped without paying.
They will if the market is big enough. If the European 3G commitee said they were adopting jabber as a IM standard devlopers would flock to it in an instant. If they see the market they will develop and by promoting it FT helps make a free protocol the standard.
- And probably a bunch more reasons that I haven't mentioned
Because you're pulling these reasons out of your ass?
No, actually I work in the industry, I'm a Sales Engineer for Sync and Browsing software for mobile devices. Everyday I talk to the likes of Orange, Vodafone, BT and Large Enterprises looking to deploy mobile devices to their workforces. Trust me, you have only seen the beginning of mobile services, alot of the stuff Telcos are talking about is crap, but some of it will stick...
- Because current messaging is getting old. SMS is excellent for simple messaging between phones but thats about it.
- Because they want to be able to deliver other applications over IM.
- Because there doesn't yet exist an IM solution that will work on every device, and Jabber just might be the one to do that.
- Because its an Open Standard so it is more likely that third parties will devlop applications for it which FT can rebrand without the expense of developing apps themselves
- And probably a bunch more reasons that I haven't mentioned.
Slashdot Mirror
That over 1 billion text messages were sent in the UK alone last month. txt'ing is _the_ way to communicate for todays youth culture. Even us oldies in their late 20's send text messages on a regular basis. Looking through my phone I sent 12 messages this weekend. Organising places to meet people, drunken banter from the pub, etc. It is great, no need to talk to the person and it is normally cheaper than calling during peak times.
Also Bt Cellnet here in the UK has just signed a deal with msn (and soon yahoo!) where there will be seemless IM between phones and msn/yahoo, including full presence detection. (With the current ICQ setup you have to send the message to the phone, not just the persons icq account).
PS: When will the US just actually understand the importance of text messaging in todays youth culture?????
You make a joystick that plugas into the bottom of the iPaq and makes the whole device a gameboy style device.
Seriously until a good joystick comes along gaming on these devices suck. I've tried to play MAME games on it and can not make it past the first levels most of the time because of th shitty input interface
Nah, too much hassle. better to just lock yourself in your bedroom with a bucnh of porn mags for a couple of weeks, flick one off the wrist then piss of to goa and become a dirty hippie.
The Accept/Deny/Only this time cookie management idea that is turned on by default in Konquor is great (and an option in Mozilla). Once you have got through the first couple of weeks accepting cookies from the sites you trust/like and rejecting all the doubleclick and other ad site cookies you only have to accept/deny cookies every few days (depending on your surfing habits).
Taken from the Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22441.html
based on the beta site:
http://beta.msn.com
IE 3 : Upgrade needed
IE 4 : OK
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Konqueror 2.1 : Upgrade needed
* Crashes reported on version 4.61.
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Having Firewire as the _primary_ interface is great. Its fast, and thats what you need for moving large amounts of data in a hurry. And belive me it is painful waiting for a CD to download to your device when you are late for your train.
:)
It would have been nice to see Bluetooth in there for 'ad-hoc' transfers. you the ones where somebody has a song on their Bluetooth enabled phone that you want to check out and they just 'beam' it to you. It would make the device more friendly to the non Mac world.
BTW: Does it only have one mouse button?
Well given that I have 1500 mp3's and thats only about 1/10 of my CD collection (which I paid for)6500 mp3's is not that many.
Yes some of actually buy music...
Has anyone hacked this yet? It would be great to see the upgrades come from the user community who know what they want and add interfaces to my music collection which I already have stored under the rimps system.
Also WLAN would definately be a plus. I don't have the ability to run CAT5 through my apartment...
/b
Your forgetting the early adopter rule. That is you need the 10% of early adopters to love your product and promote it to the masses if it is to be successful. Look at TiVo, because it was hackable, had a bunch of features (some of which people might never use), and it was a great product it generated lots of press which in turn hyped the product.
Although a product may have way to many features than is needed by Joe Average these features are what get the publicity wheel going.
According to the FAQ:
Can I play downloaded MP3 files on the Nokia 5510?
Yes, the Nokia 5510 can play MP3 files in protected format. Copies of the downloaded music files are added to the Nokia Audio Manager database. Nokia Audio Manager encrypts the music files and downloads the protected MP3 format to the memory of the Nokia 5510.
In what format is the music saved in my hard disk?
All the songs are saved in encrypted AAC format.
So it looks like the Audio manager encryps mp3's before they get sent to the device. Which also means that you probably can't download and play then on another machine. It also probably means that the format on the device is NOT mp3. more like AAC format, which is exactly the reason why I haven't got a Sony Memorystick walkman...
Maybe what you saw has been changed by the marketing folks to conform to 'industry standards'?
/b
I live in Brixton and have had a couple of bad experiences. After living there 2 weeks our house got broken into and a bunch of CD's and a couple of cameras got stolen. They tried to break in a year later as well but somebody was home at the time.
The next thing that happend. I was mugged right outside KFC in Brixton. This is the busiest corner in Brixton. I got away with my mates, we had a fight and then one of them pulled a knife so we ran back home. They threw pieces of wood through our front window. The cops didn't really care. They turned up half an hour later even though the guys were hanging outside our place for ten minutes after we called the police. CCTV Wouldn't have help there either, they said the quality of the pictures you get from them suck and wouldn't even pursue the issue.
/b
OH: And a funny/scary thing happened last night as we were going into a club in London. My friend took a piss down a side ally and over loud speakers you hear 'You are been monitored by closed circuit television by the police. you are been watched...'
I think the mangers want number on a systems where Linux is in the majority on the desktop. I mean IBM might have thousands of desktops running Linux but they are spread all over the world. However another company may have 1000 desktops running liunx and only 50 running windows in a single building.
The second example would prove to the managers that linux is a viable desktop alternative.
/b
Strange just about everything he is saying is straight of a book called No Logo by Naomi Klein which i am about 3/4 of the way through. I suggest anyone who has an interest in this subject read it. It covers the whole history of branding and corporate work culture.
/b
MAME.
Dreamcast+MAME =A cheap arcade emulator with 2000 games. sweet.
What if an idividual wants to become a respoistry for their own information and not trust it to a central place. That way I could carry the information with me knowing it is as secure as I want it to be.
WAP Push is a new feature in V1.2(?) of the specs that allows WAP pages to be pushed out to (willing) subscibers. This will make WAP _very_ usable.
Think about the issues now. Finding a page, typing in usernames/passwords, searching for content, and finally buying the goods...what a nightmare on current browsers with only a 9 digit keypad. If I could sign up for content I wanted on my phone and it pushed it out to me when it had updated info with a url embedded in the message that took me to exactly the page I wanted to view and allow me to action that in one or 2 clicks, then I would be happy.
Case in point: There are a bunch on bands I want to see in London but I can't be bothered checking the listings everyday and when I do finally find a band I want to see its normally an impulse buy. I would much rather it just sent a WAP page to my phone with a link back to a site where I could buy tickets right then. perfect.
Which also brings me onto the point that half the reason current WAP useage sucks is that the UI's that are being designed suck and require way to many clicks to get to the content you want. Also the Telcos are not making it easy enough for users to set up their WAP hoimepages and provide great content.
We were discussing how well /. stayed up just last night and how other news servers seemed to melt. thanks.n you guys gave us people with no tv a valuable news source.
/.'ed as well...
/.'ed these sites replicate the site and store the data on their server.
/. admin would need to do is add some form of switch to say 'mirror this link' and the process would be put in place to start the morroring process.
What also impressed me were the people who put up pics/videos/news stories on their own servers to help people get news, even if they only had a dsl connection. Of course these sites soon got
So that led me to a new feature idea for news sites like this:
- People 'donate' a section of their web site to be a mirror for overloaded news stories.
- Whenever a link is
- Slashdot keeps track of what sites have replicated and changes the url each time it serves a page with that link in it. That way the orginal site is now spread across 100's of dsl connections instead of one.
- After a set time (say a week?) the mirrors then delete the site from there servers and deregister their site from the mirrors list.
- Of course all this could be scripted with no input from users. All the
And then you have your own distributed news network that handles major news stories with out getting slashdotted as much.
\well it sounds like a good idea...any comments?\
The reason why there is no size fits all solution is that all phones support different standards. You have to find the best fit for your particular phone (if one even exists). The situation will get better in the next year or 2 when all phones will start supporting syncML which is a standard for syncing data (Calender (vCal) and address book (vCard) info only at the moment).
;)
So you first need to look for a product that will either sync Outlook -> Phone or Palm -> Phone and another product that supports Palm -> Outlook. So lets look at these one by one...
Outlook -> Phone: I think there are a couple of options here. All products at the moment sync via a serail cradle or IR port. Look on the web for your phone and sync software, i'm sure you find something.
Palm -> Phone: Again a couple of options but it depends on your phone, note my experience with this software has been a little flaky. Make sure you have a backup of your palm first as you could end up with a bunch of dups. I tend not to use this software but just beam contacts to my phone aas I need them (I have a Nokia 7110 which supports multiple phone numbers per entry). The problem is getting those drunken 'girl at bar' numbers back to my PDA, I end up just trping them in the next morning if can remeber her name...
Palm -> Outlook: Well all PDA's seem to sync with outlook out of the box but if you want some decent software the go with some like Intellisync (plug, plug...) It offers better conflict resolution, filtering and more advanced features.
Those are your options right now. In the next year or 2 you will have true multi point sync up to a central web store where you can keep all devices in sync, filtered, conflicts resolved and applications on whatever device you happen to be carrying....but thats still a couple of years off before it gets really useful.
/b
I find that I have about 20-30 CDR's and of those only 2 of them are mp3's. And guess what? those mp3's are from CD's I had ripped and were just for backup. Are they going to charge me extra for buying CDR's even when none of them are being used for illegal mp3's?
/b
Yep, I'm sure your wrong for the simple reason that Infared is line-of-site only. Trust me holding your PDA to Mobile while travelling on a train is Just Not Fun(tm). Having your phone in your pocket while syncing email is a much, much better solution. If you don't believe me then go and try it yourself, a couple of days using Bluetooth will get you hooked. I don't want to pull out a cable everytime I go online, its just another accessory I would need to carry and lose.
Oh, and again, 802.11b just sucks too much power, it is not a Bluetooth killer and Bluetooth is not an 802.11b killer. Simple.
Because in the UK that spectrum is only allocated to non commercial use. You cannot setup a commercial wirless network in this spectrum.
It seems like it is only in the files used to create PDF's (or only affects those that are using the PDF creator software) which really limits its scope.
Most people only have the viewer for obvious reasons so only a small number of people would be affected. Of course adding VBScript execution to the viewer would be just plain Stupid since PDF files are designed to be PRINTED and not viewed on screen...
/b
It seems like a lot of it has got to do with luck, especially if you take a middle of the road approach to posting your email address. I have had a hotmail account for about 3 years and it gets spammed about once a day, however another account of mine gets spammed alot more than that and I have been accessing the same sorts of sites with both accounts (Shopping, discussion, news sites, etc). Somewhere along the line one of the sites must have 'leaked' my details...
Of course my third hotmail account was used for 'special websites' which generates 10 spams a day...
- Because they want to be able to deliver other applications over IM
/. every 1/2 for the latest story when it just IM's you?). Train times (You train is 10 minutes late. i.e no need to rush this morning. Hey in the UK this happens alot...)
Sounds like a good idea, but how much functionality are you looking for? And realistically, how much functionality can you provide over IM?
Games. (Notice how many people play snake on the morning commute?). Streaming news and info. (Wouldn't it be nice not to have to check
- Because there doesn't yet exist an IM solution that will work on every device, and Jabber just might be the one to do that
So might any other piece of code. There's nothing special about Jabber that makes it particularly easier to port any more than any other IM software.
Yes, its open. and there are no licensing costs. How many people have mobile devices today? In the UK it is _over_50% of the population. that adds up to a lot of licensing costs for a telco who is alreadt burdened with a 7 Billion pound bill for the 3G license...
- Because its an Open Standard so it is more likely that third parties will devlop applications for it which FT can rebrand without the expense of developing apps themselves
First, it's doubtful that 3rd parties will develop anything for Jabber just because it is Open. Second, FT doesn't gain anything by donating money to Jabber, at least anything they couldn't have usurped without paying.
They will if the market is big enough. If the European 3G commitee said they were adopting jabber as a IM standard devlopers would flock to it in an instant. If they see the market they will develop and by promoting it FT helps make a free protocol the standard. - And probably a bunch more reasons that I haven't mentioned Because you're pulling these reasons out of your ass? No, actually I work in the industry, I'm a Sales Engineer for Sync and Browsing software for mobile devices. Everyday I talk to the likes of Orange, Vodafone, BT and Large Enterprises looking to deploy mobile devices to their workforces. Trust me, you have only seen the beginning of mobile services, alot of the stuff Telcos are talking about is crap, but some of it will stick...
- Because current messaging is getting old. SMS is excellent for simple messaging between phones but thats about it. - Because they want to be able to deliver other applications over IM. - Because there doesn't yet exist an IM solution that will work on every device, and Jabber just might be the one to do that. - Because its an Open Standard so it is more likely that third parties will devlop applications for it which FT can rebrand without the expense of developing apps themselves - And probably a bunch more reasons that I haven't mentioned.