That's funny, my Cingular 3G service lets me browse the "mobile web" all I want (and the "regular web" through Opera). The charges for data are a different matter, though...
It has to support ALL devices, with ALL hardware revisions and board layouts.
It's not like two sightly different boards need two vastly different firmware images. The firmware can just detect what hardware it's on and run a few different internal subroutines, and it'll all be packed inside one little image. Sure, devices X and Y might use different drivers/firmware, but Xa and Xb will probably be similar enough in hardware to use the same drivers.
Radio hasn't ALWAYS fascinated me, but growing up with those cheap toy walkie talkies and watching my father (tech class, K6MTT if anyone cares) with his radio equipment (he's collected a lot in the last couple of years), my eyes have opened to the fact that even the regular consume headsets at Radio Shack were peanuts if you devoted time and money to something like that. After I turned to wireless Ethernet, I really got excited to the possibilities of radio. Now that a requirement like this has been dropped, I've become more motivated to getting a license. However, I don't know where to start. Where WOULD I start if I wanted to get a license and, more importantly, the knowledge of radio?
Agreed. I dealt with the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) once at work to control user access to files and programs in explorer. From what I read as I went along, it was basically designed for developers to include a customized version of IE with their software. It wasn't limited to that, though, as there were a wide range of options that could be changed (I think my case, controlling user access, was another example of what the IEAK was made to do). So yes, this IS the intention of Microsoft. Think about it: whether it says Yahoo! or Google, it's still a Microsoft product.
I'm an ex-Virgin Mobile customer (Why? Family plan with Cingular lets us split the bill and pay less per month), and I've found my service satisfactory. My only issue (and it bugged me, believe me) was that my voice mail box broke twice (once on initialization and once just prior to my switch). The calls were expensive because I didn't talk a lot (25 cents per minute for the first 10 minutes, then 10 cents per minute for the remainder of the day), but text messages were a dime to send and free to receive. Like the parent, I got a calendar, calculator and all sorts of other trivial utilities. A data cable was also in the cards, but Kyocera (my phone manufacturer) sold it for $40, and the cable wasn't popular enough to be sold in any number of retailers.
Not sure if it's a Virgin Mobile issue or a Cingular issue, but I couldn't get my old VM number transferred to my new service. Also, whenever I did any set up through VM's system on my phone (voice mail box comes to mind), it seemed like the system was trying its best to make sure I burned time on it.
I still have my old cell phone, but I accidentally fell off my bike a month or so ago and cracked the screen (it's a slide phone, so the screen is on the outside), and I haven't sent it off to get recycled because I'm waiting to get data off of it.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: iTunes is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered iTunes community when IDC confirmed that iTunes market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all listeners. Coming close on the heels of a recent The Register survey which plainly states that iTunes has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. iTunes is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent The Register comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Steve Jobs to predict iTunes future. The hand writing is on the wall: iTunes faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for iTunes because iTunes is dying. Things are looking very bad for iTunes. As many of us are already aware, iTunes continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
The iTunes Store is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core customers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time iTunes Store customers Bob and Jill only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: iTunes Store is dying.
...
All major surveys show that iTunes has steadily declined in market share. iTunes is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If iTunes is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. iTunes continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save iTunes from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, iTunes is dead.
Fact: iTunes is dying
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That's funny, my Cingular 3G service lets me browse the "mobile web" all I want (and the "regular web" through Opera). The charges for data are a different matter, though...
You might want to see this then. Just hope that space has diesel stations...
It has to support ALL devices, with ALL hardware revisions and board layouts.
It's not like two sightly different boards need two vastly different firmware images. The firmware can just detect what hardware it's on and run a few different internal subroutines, and it'll all be packed inside one little image. Sure, devices X and Y might use different drivers/firmware, but Xa and Xb will probably be similar enough in hardware to use the same drivers.
Burma shave?
Professor: The atom is so rare that the nucleus alone is worth more than $50,000.
Bender: How much more?
Professor: $100,000.
I'll give you three guesses as to why regedit is not user friendly.
How will the world look in 100 years? 500 years?
Well, we already think we know what would happen if humans disappeared.
...is of course about:blank.
It's like finding the GOOD car in a used car lot!
Two words: trade embargo.
Radio hasn't ALWAYS fascinated me, but growing up with those cheap toy walkie talkies and watching my father (tech class, K6MTT if anyone cares) with his radio equipment (he's collected a lot in the last couple of years), my eyes have opened to the fact that even the regular consume headsets at Radio Shack were peanuts if you devoted time and money to something like that. After I turned to wireless Ethernet, I really got excited to the possibilities of radio. Now that a requirement like this has been dropped, I've become more motivated to getting a license. However, I don't know where to start. Where WOULD I start if I wanted to get a license and, more importantly, the knowledge of radio?
Agreed. I dealt with the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) once at work to control user access to files and programs in explorer. From what I read as I went along, it was basically designed for developers to include a customized version of IE with their software. It wasn't limited to that, though, as there were a wide range of options that could be changed (I think my case, controlling user access, was another example of what the IEAK was made to do). So yes, this IS the intention of Microsoft. Think about it: whether it says Yahoo! or Google, it's still a Microsoft product.
A certain browser named after a certain bushy animal comes to mind.
Oh, you mean this thing?
All I want for Christmas is a safe-ty strap.
For anyone that doesn't understand why it's funny instead of insightful or something: http://www.snopes.com/legal/privacy.htm
Flamebait? Gee mods, you can do better than that.
I'm an ex-Virgin Mobile customer (Why? Family plan with Cingular lets us split the bill and pay less per month), and I've found my service satisfactory. My only issue (and it bugged me, believe me) was that my voice mail box broke twice (once on initialization and once just prior to my switch). The calls were expensive because I didn't talk a lot (25 cents per minute for the first 10 minutes, then 10 cents per minute for the remainder of the day), but text messages were a dime to send and free to receive. Like the parent, I got a calendar, calculator and all sorts of other trivial utilities. A data cable was also in the cards, but Kyocera (my phone manufacturer) sold it for $40, and the cable wasn't popular enough to be sold in any number of retailers.
Not sure if it's a Virgin Mobile issue or a Cingular issue, but I couldn't get my old VM number transferred to my new service. Also, whenever I did any set up through VM's system on my phone (voice mail box comes to mind), it seemed like the system was trying its best to make sure I burned time on it.
I still have my old cell phone, but I accidentally fell off my bike a month or so ago and cracked the screen (it's a slide phone, so the screen is on the outside), and I haven't sent it off to get recycled because I'm waiting to get data off of it.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: iTunes is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered iTunes community when IDC confirmed that iTunes market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all listeners. Coming close on the heels of a recent The Register survey which plainly states that iTunes has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. iTunes is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent The Register comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Steve Jobs to predict iTunes future. The hand writing is on the wall: iTunes faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for iTunes because iTunes is dying. Things are looking very bad for iTunes. As many of us are already aware, iTunes continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
The iTunes Store is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core customers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time iTunes Store customers Bob and Jill only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: iTunes Store is dying.
...
All major surveys show that iTunes has steadily declined in market share. iTunes is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If iTunes is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. iTunes continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save iTunes from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, iTunes is dead. Fact: iTunes is dying
Shamelessly plagarized by me.
5 million what? People? Bytes? Ice cream cones?
A math teacher I had before called unlabeled numbers like that "naked numbers."
I hear the restaurant at the end of the universe is better.
I guess you, like me, read it as Roboerotica
Except Earth & Beyond may be coming back.
sort of calls their morals into question, eh?
That never got in their way before.
You see a package in front of you.
> OPEN
You cut yourself on a sharp edge and bleed terminally.
You are dead.
I'm waiting for Walter Cronkite instead.
"Hello, I am a Mac. And that's the way it is."