One Plus, owned by Oppo (which makes smartphones), owned by BBK Electronics (which makes TV sets), can easily enter this new market? Do you say that BBK wants to enter the Western TV market using a well-known brand? Incredible for sure
Free, a network operator in France, already offers the option to block ads on both their fixed (DSL and FTTH) and mobile networks. It was first implemented and enabled by default) three years ago when they were “fighting” with Google about who should pay for interco upgrades. It is now default-disabled and opt-in as they managed to reach an agreement with them.
Well, Motorola did that too (see http://wiki.openezx.org/EMU) without adding additional pins to USB. Granted, you can't charge an use audio at the same time.
France has approximately 31,939 km, or 19,845 miles, of track. The USA has approximately 233,000 miles of track, or over twenty times the track that France has. But the USA is only about 17.7 times the volume of France.
The problem isn't that we haven't put effort into the rail system, the problem is that the continental US is so much larger than France. France is 543,965 sq kilometers; the USA is 9,629,091 square kilometers, or about 17.7 times the volume. By both rail-km and rail-volume, we actually have more track than France.
Volumetry isn't the sole thing. Its usage and quality is also important.
Without the TGV, don't think that people would be using train that much - save for students of course. And that is solely R&D - that didn't happen in the USA. High-speed train is french, german or japanese, and that is almost 50 years old.
It just isn't enough -- nine million square kilometers is a huge area to serve, and it is area that developed at a rate that was different than the rate rail expanded. In addition, France's population density is hugely higher than the USA; you have 60 million people, about 110 per sq-km, while we have 300 million, about 31 per sq km (and actually, because we have very high density coasts, that number is way too high for the US interior and way too low for the coasts.)
Yes, fine. However, you're thinking too globally. Rome wasn't build in one day. Begin with intra-state lines (like what's doing California: the SF-LA high speed line is a great idea), then build around it.
First TGV line was Paris-Lyon (450km, commercial opening 1981), other lines opened afterwards thanks to its huge success. And much later, french and german networks were linked, for instance.
France and the USA present two entirely different rail problems, and the same strategies can't be used to solve both. It's not practical to set up a rail grid that serves the USA in an equally distributed way -- it wouldn't save money, or fuel - it would lose money and waste fuel.
We would benefit a great deal by moving to dual-track on many routes (the US hiline is one good example... many trains sit and wait for hours in sidings because there is only one track in many locations) and of course, with all that area, hi-speed rail would be lovely - but again, with 17x the area to serve, the amount of funding we're talking about is simply staggering.
That is kind of unfunding here - but fact is that train is not fashionable in the USA, so not that much funding and ticket revenue: vicious circle.
People are much more willing to take the plane because it's much faster. Availability of high-speed train almost killed plane traffic here, and I'm sure it will be the same after the SF-LA line opens.
This is actually the problem with the bad train infrastructures in the USA.
Here (in France), we have much more mass transportation infrastructures available. While I was a student, most used to take the train to go see their parents - not every week, mind you. Very few students have their own car (less than 10%, maybe 5% I'd say).
The USA most exclusively capitalized on personal transportation, whereas Europe has a much more interesting balance between cars and public transport.
Moreover, many cities are more and more reducing usage of personal cars on their centres by putting horrendous one-ways, speed limits, pedestrian-only streets, making people use tramways, buses, and cycles.
I recently bought some http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/freeagent_dockstar/ (they're really cheap nowadays, got them for 25€ each here in France, saw that you can have them for 20$ in the USA).
Same 1.2GHz ARM, 4 USBs, and GigE, but only 128MB of RAM.
I installed some ArchLinux-based distro on it (http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5?title=Portal:PlugBox_Linux), and thought it would happily serve as a web gallery server (written with C, using the EFLs).
Those things really miss some DSP or Neon instructions, the thumbnail generation is really slow as hell...
Enlightenment DR17 (http://www.enlightenment.org) lets you do that: virtual desktops are managed on a per-screen basis, and still you can move windows between screens.
Don't worry it is not "officially" released, it's really stable, I've not seen a crash or anything for months.
I know that Sony is one of the most evilest corporation for/.ers, and more generally geeks, but I just can't keep wondering why.
First, even the summary, as the linked article, is FUD : obviously, as InstantJet supports only ranges up to 3cm, it is not meant to be a competitor to Wireless-USB as all. It practically needs physical contact between appliances, it works with induction! Do you really think that Sony oughts to see this technology used to connect say a computer and a printer, which are obviously more than 3cm away?
Instead, it seems it is meant to be used between a camera and a printer: you lay the camera on the induction surface on the printer, you select the photos you want to print, and voilà! Of course, this use-case is not meant for smarter people, who will retrieve the photos on their computer thanks to Wireless-USB, and send them to their printer over Wi-Fi, and for geekier, who will connect using USB 3.0 (or retrieve the memory card and put it on their computer's slot), and send the photos to their printer thanks to 10Gb/s Ethernet.
I see this technology as being meant for Alice and Bob, who want to easily and wirelessly interconnect appliances without a computer. They get security for free (comparing to radio-based technologies).
But it seems not so much people sees that, and does instead see this news as a mean to keep on flaming on Sony.
AFAIK, all currently available Blu-ray drives were 12.5mm-high: that is the height of most laptop optical-drive units (for nearly every consumer-oriented laptop), whereas those that are professional-oriented (Lenovo and HP) are 9.5mm high. The question is that HP has been offering a Blu-ray drive on some of its laptops (8510w and 8710w) for several months, meaning that Blu-ray 9.5mm-drives have been already available for at least several months...
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That’s also the meaning in most (if not all) of Europe. That’s to prevent drivers from racing when the lights turn yellow.
One Plus, owned by Oppo (which makes smartphones), owned by BBK Electronics (which makes TV sets), can easily enter this new market?
Do you say that BBK wants to enter the Western TV market using a well-known brand? Incredible for sure
Actually, torrent in French means the exact same thing as “torrent” in English as it comes from the Latin word torrens.
The Sony Z4 Tablet, which is waterproof (IP 65/68), has a waterproof jack and micro-USB connector, and is 6,1mm thin. Is that still too much for you?
That’s because cards delivered in the USA are set to prefer chip + signature instead of chip + PIN.
I just checked https://busybox.net/license.ht...: it seems that BusyBox is still GPLv2.
Free, a network operator in France, already offers the option to block ads on both their fixed (DSL and FTTH) and mobile networks. It was first implemented and enabled by default) three years ago when they were “fighting” with Google about who should pay for interco upgrades.
It is now default-disabled and opt-in as they managed to reach an agreement with them.
THANK YOU.
I’ve been looking for this for years now, couldn’t get a hold of it.
Well, Motorola did that too (see http://wiki.openezx.org/EMU) without adding additional pins to USB. Granted, you can't charge an use audio at the same time.
Wait, what? There's been no 1st class in Paris metro since 1991.
Ask MacGyver!
France has approximately 31,939 km, or 19,845 miles, of track. The USA has approximately 233,000 miles of track, or over twenty times the track that France has. But the USA is only about 17.7 times the volume of France.
The problem isn't that we haven't put effort into the rail system, the problem is that the continental US is so much larger than France. France is 543,965 sq kilometers; the USA is 9,629,091 square kilometers, or about 17.7 times the volume. By both rail-km and rail-volume, we actually have more track than France.
Volumetry isn't the sole thing. Its usage and quality is also important.
Without the TGV, don't think that people would be using train that much - save for students of course. And that is solely R&D - that didn't happen in the USA. High-speed train is french, german or japanese, and that is almost 50 years old.
It just isn't enough -- nine million square kilometers is a huge area to serve, and it is area that developed at a rate that was different than the rate rail expanded. In addition, France's population density is hugely higher than the USA; you have 60 million people, about 110 per sq-km, while we have 300 million, about 31 per sq km (and actually, because we have very high density coasts, that number is way too high for the US interior and way too low for the coasts.)
Yes, fine. However, you're thinking too globally. Rome wasn't build in one day. Begin with intra-state lines (like what's doing California: the SF-LA high speed line is a great idea), then build around it.
First TGV line was Paris-Lyon (450km, commercial opening 1981), other lines opened afterwards thanks to its huge success. And much later, french and german networks were linked, for instance.
France and the USA present two entirely different rail problems, and the same strategies can't be used to solve both. It's not practical to set up a rail grid that serves the USA in an equally distributed way -- it wouldn't save money, or fuel - it would lose money and waste fuel.
We would benefit a great deal by moving to dual-track on many routes (the US hiline is one good example... many trains sit and wait for hours in sidings because there is only one track in many locations) and of course, with all that area, hi-speed rail would be lovely - but again, with 17x the area to serve, the amount of funding we're talking about is simply staggering.
That is kind of unfunding here - but fact is that train is not fashionable in the USA, so not that much funding and ticket revenue: vicious circle.
People are much more willing to take the plane because it's much faster. Availability of high-speed train almost killed plane traffic here, and I'm sure it will be the same after the SF-LA line opens.
Why "shocking"? Save for Flashblock and Tineye, I use no addon with Firefox - and am pretty happy with it.
This is actually the problem with the bad train infrastructures in the USA.
Here (in France), we have much more mass transportation infrastructures available. While I was a student, most used to take the train to go see their parents - not every week, mind you.
Very few students have their own car (less than 10%, maybe 5% I'd say).
The USA most exclusively capitalized on personal transportation, whereas Europe has a much more interesting balance between cars and public transport.
Moreover, many cities are more and more reducing usage of personal cars on their centres by putting horrendous one-ways, speed limits, pedestrian-only streets, making people use tramways, buses, and cycles.
The exact same thing happened to Sony's Qrio - that one was completely ditched, though.
I recently bought some http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/freeagent_dockstar/ (they're really cheap nowadays, got them for 25€ each here in France, saw that you can have them for 20$ in the USA). Same 1.2GHz ARM, 4 USBs, and GigE, but only 128MB of RAM. I installed some ArchLinux-based distro on it (http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5?title=Portal:PlugBox_Linux), and thought it would happily serve as a web gallery server (written with C, using the EFLs). Those things really miss some DSP or Neon instructions, the thumbnail generation is really slow as hell...
Enlightenment DR17 (http://www.enlightenment.org) lets you do that: virtual desktops are managed on a per-screen basis, and still you can move windows between screens. Don't worry it is not "officially" released, it's really stable, I've not seen a crash or anything for months.
The Freebox is not rent but lent, is remains Free property. Can we really say it is distribution?
Do you mean {CD, DVD}-R instead of -ROM?
I know that Sony is one of the most evilest corporation for /.ers, and more generally geeks, but I just can't keep wondering why.
First, even the summary, as the linked article, is FUD : obviously, as InstantJet supports only ranges up to 3cm, it is not meant to be a competitor to Wireless-USB as all. It practically needs physical contact between appliances, it works with induction! Do you really think that Sony oughts to see this technology used to connect say a computer and a printer, which are obviously more than 3cm away?
Instead, it seems it is meant to be used between a camera and a printer: you lay the camera on the induction surface on the printer, you select the photos you want to print, and voilà! Of course, this use-case is not meant for smarter people, who will retrieve the photos on their computer thanks to Wireless-USB, and send them to their printer over Wi-Fi, and for geekier, who will connect using USB 3.0 (or retrieve the memory card and put it on their computer's slot), and send the photos to their printer thanks to 10Gb/s Ethernet.
I see this technology as being meant for Alice and Bob, who want to easily and wirelessly interconnect appliances without a computer. They get security for free (comparing to radio-based technologies).
But it seems not so much people sees that, and does instead see this news as a mean to keep on flaming on Sony.
AFAIK, all currently available Blu-ray drives were 12.5mm-high: that is the height of most laptop optical-drive units (for nearly every consumer-oriented laptop), whereas those that are professional-oriented (Lenovo and HP) are 9.5mm high. The question is that HP has been offering a Blu-ray drive on some of its laptops (8510w and 8710w) for several months, meaning that Blu-ray 9.5mm-drives have been already available for at least several months...