those tiny qwerty keyboards? Those are the last things I'd look for in a modern phone [...] If it allows me to efficiently work with my mail and calendar on the go and occasionally access the web, that's what I want
how do you plan to work efficiently with your mail on the go without a qwerty keyboard?
Sure a tiny one is a hell of a lot slower than a full size keyboard, but it's a hell of a lot faster than typing on a standard phone.
the swiss army knife is made by 2 companies victorinox and wegner. they buy 50% of their knives from each as they did not want to have to depend on a single manufacturer.
An very interesting analogy. Here's similar one: do what ibm did.
When they made the IBM PC they didn't want to be dependant on a single CPU manufacturer, so they forced Intel to license their CPU design so they could buy the CPUs from multiple vendors. This is how AMD got into the x86 market all those years ago.
Without boring anyone with a rather right-wing take on the social issue[...]The US desperately needs a "separation of bedroom and state".
Um that sounds like a social left wing attitude to me.
Left wingers want to regulate business and leave us free in our social choices.
Right wingers want to free our economic lives and regulate our social choices
PS, just installed linux at home after a long absence to windows at work and OSX at home, and damn the fonts in kubuntu are nice. Used to be fonts in linux were way behind windows, now i dare to say they are better
You are one of those people who don't seem to understand why we NEED lights on routers.
The the guy is talking about consumer equipment here, not enterprise level routers where you are in a cabinet and have no idea what is on the other end of the patch panel.
Servers in a server room, disk arrays, routers and switches, yes blinking lights are good.
End user stuff, desktop machines, mobile phones, home DSL modem/routers, laptops; they don't need loads of LEDs. The latest PC i put together, i simply didn't plug in any of the LEDs, problem solved. I don't need an LED to tell me the PC is on, because if it is on duh, it is on. I don't need to know when some background process has access the HDD while i'm typing an email, and i don't care to be informated about each and every packet that goes out the network card. The ones on the keyboard can stay though.
OK you got me confused now. I was talkign about funding it in the first place.
No. In the same way the writers institute of Japan couldn't fund a better wordprocessor then MS Word, Wordperfect, or openoffice etc. Free market competition and economies of scale.
Do you think the Association fo Computing Machinery could fund the best software development environment for their needs? Who needs gcc, eclipse, or Visual Studio? Better to centralise our efforts surely?
So you think a bunch of novelists are best qualified to implement a word processor, or a bunch of architects are best qualified to implement a CAD program?
Pray, let me not fly on a plane designed by the passengers.
Why would I, as a business owner, give my good, custom, closed software away to competitors that don't have anything like it, just in the hopes that my software will be marginally improved? In the meantime, assuming that my competition CAN improve my software, I'm giving my competition a huge advantage they didn't previously have. It's a LOT of risk, with minimal reward, for people who already have a software advantage.
Because in 12 months time your competitors will have a software advantage, either because they have pooled there resources together directly, or indirectly by purchasing the same software package. Unless you have 70% market share, or the pooled or 3rd party developer is rubbish, they will have better software.
Don't you think that The American Institute of Architects (for instance) could fund the development of a Free CAD application to suit their members needs for less than the members pay in licensing currently?
No. In the same way the writers institute of Japan couldn't fund a better wordprocessor then MS Word, Wordperfect, or openoffice etc. Free market competition and economies of scale.
Do you think the Association fo Computing Machinery could fund the best software development environment for their needs? Who needs gcc, eclipse, or Visual Studio? Better to centralise our efforts surely?
Event the soviets recognised the importance of competing design studios.
It really won't make a difference. When you forward a call from a mobile you're still using your airtime so your provider gets what they want. Overseas roaming charges originate from the expensive roaming agreements with the overseas provider, not from your carrier.
Have you noticed that the overseas provider is also a wireless carrier? So yes, wireless carriers are going to hate this.
To look at it the other way, when someone from this overseas provider is in my country, my provider in turn charges their provider a fortune for them to roam.
Either way wireless carriers are missing on on massive overcharging opportunities. The only ones that aren't going to care are those who operating in countries which don't have many foreign visitors.
How about migrating all their Linux boxes to one distro, and then telling us it's harder to manage.
Have you ever tried getting 30,000 IT staff working on 10,000 different IT projects across 80 operating countries to all agree on which linux distro is best?
You don't need a special phone for this, once you've practiced a little you'll be used to reading the screen upside down and will find it weird using a phone the conventional way.
If a company can turn a profit sooner rather than later, they will go for it.
Have you never looked at the track record of a fund before investing in it? I invest for the long term. Who cares if they are up 40% this year if they are down 30% next year?
Why not design a single supply board? Preferrably wide-range input (say 8 - 28V) and be done with it? These boards don't need +/- 12V anyway, and +5V or +3.3V is already regulated down to core voltages.
The picoPSU-120-WI-32 is the smallest snap-in 12-32V ATX dc-dc power supply. The picoPSU is compatible with an entire range of mini-itx motherboards as well as regular boards. The picoPSU-1200-WI-32 provides a cool, silent 120 Watts peak of power for small PC designs using a single 12-32V power source.
Because of the cost of the combo TVs, most of the people I know with broken equipment limp along, cursing it. For me, with all separate components, I switch individual compenents whenever I want
If you have a seperate system and the DVD player breaks, you spend $30 and buy a new DVD player.
If you have a combi system and the DVD player breaks, you spend $30 and buy a new DVD player.
If you have a problem with macrovision you go into the 'service menu' of the DVD player and turn macrovision off.
So, don't expect the market to take care of eventually solving all economical problems. Sometimes it does by chance, but actually there is no guarantee.
And even if every market where a theoretical free market, don't expect that free markets will solve all the worlds problems.
Image and praticallity. You can put your hand on a record to slow it down or speed it up a fraction so that the beat matches the record on the other deck that you are currently playing.
This is easily replicated in a non vinyl work with spinning turntable like disc. Only the disc doesn't play the music, rather the sample rate of the cd or whatever you are playing is slowed down by the amount you slowed down the spinning disc.
What I've wondered is if they can't set up a system to prioritize calls through the cell phone system during an emergency, to allow first responders to communicate
They already do that, at least for GSM equipment, not sure about the US stuff.
During the london underground bombings they turned off public access to the cells around aldgate.
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those tiny qwerty keyboards? Those are the last things I'd look for in a modern phone [...] If it allows me to efficiently work with my mail and calendar on the go and occasionally access the web, that's what I want
how do you plan to work efficiently with your mail on the go without a qwerty keyboard?
Sure a tiny one is a hell of a lot slower than a full size keyboard, but it's a hell of a lot faster than typing on a standard phone.
states that the server must be within a Windows domain controller architecture
Yes, and then later on down the road you upgrade that domain controller from Windows 2003 to ubuntu 8.10 without anyone realising.
If the former, consider that Tivos ship with 5500 RPM drives for several reasons:
Where can you buy 5500RPM drives?
I wanted one for my myth box for all the reasons you mention, but could only find a 40Gb drive, so i had to go with a 7200RPM drive.
the swiss army knife is made by 2 companies victorinox and wegner. they buy 50% of their knives from each as they did not want to have to depend on a single manufacturer.
An very interesting analogy. Here's similar one: do what ibm did.
When they made the IBM PC they didn't want to be dependant on a single CPU manufacturer, so they forced Intel to license their CPU design so they could buy the CPUs from multiple vendors. This is how AMD got into the x86 market all those years ago.
Without boring anyone with a rather right-wing take on the social issue[...]The US desperately needs a "separation of bedroom and state".
Um that sounds like a social left wing attitude to me.
Left wingers want to regulate business and leave us free in our social choices.
Right wingers want to free our economic lives and regulate our social choices
PS, just installed linux at home after a long absence to windows at work and OSX at home, and damn the fonts in kubuntu are nice. Used to be fonts in linux were way behind windows, now i dare to say they are better
Patent reform is honestly a more pressing issue than gay marriage or abortion
homosexuality and abortion are much bigger life changing events in my book, and touch a far greater proportion of the population than patent law.
Patent law reform, while it should still be addressed, pales in comparison to the big issues in society.
You are one of those people who don't seem to understand why we NEED lights on routers.
The the guy is talking about consumer equipment here, not enterprise level routers where you are in a cabinet and have no idea what is on the other end of the patch panel.
Servers in a server room, disk arrays, routers and switches, yes blinking lights are good.
End user stuff, desktop machines, mobile phones, home DSL modem/routers, laptops; they don't need loads of LEDs. The latest PC i put together, i simply didn't plug in any of the LEDs, problem solved. I don't need an LED to tell me the PC is on, because if it is on duh, it is on. I don't need to know when some background process has access the HDD while i'm typing an email, and i don't care to be informated about each and every packet that goes out the network card. The ones on the keyboard can stay though.
OK you got me confused now. I was talkign about funding it in the first place.
No. In the same way the writers institute of Japan couldn't fund a better wordprocessor then MS Word, Wordperfect, or openoffice etc. Free market competition and economies of scale.
Do you think the Association fo Computing Machinery could fund the best software development environment for their needs? Who needs gcc, eclipse, or Visual Studio? Better to centralise our efforts surely?
Fund it, not write it.
So you think a bunch of novelists are best qualified to implement a word processor, or a bunch of architects are best qualified to implement a CAD program?
Pray, let me not fly on a plane designed by the passengers.
Why would I, as a business owner, give my good, custom, closed software away to competitors that don't have anything like it, just in the hopes that my software will be marginally improved? In the meantime, assuming that my competition CAN improve my software, I'm giving my competition a huge advantage they didn't previously have. It's a LOT of risk, with minimal reward, for people who already have a software advantage.
Because in 12 months time your competitors will have a software advantage, either because they have pooled there resources together directly, or indirectly by purchasing the same software package. Unless you have 70% market share, or the pooled or 3rd party developer is rubbish, they will have better software.
Don't you think that The American Institute of Architects (for instance) could fund the development of a Free CAD application to suit their members needs for less than the members pay in licensing currently?
No. In the same way the writers institute of Japan couldn't fund a better wordprocessor then MS Word, Wordperfect, or openoffice etc. Free market competition and economies of scale.
Do you think the Association fo Computing Machinery could fund the best software development environment for their needs? Who needs gcc, eclipse, or Visual Studio? Better to centralise our efforts surely?
Event the soviets recognised the importance of competing design studios.
I can't think of a single product, excluding things like toilet paper, that are meant for every single possible purchaser or user on the planet.
You haven't travelled much have you? Many cultures do not use toilet paper.
It really won't make a difference. When you forward a call from a mobile you're still using your airtime so your provider gets what they want. Overseas roaming charges originate from the expensive roaming agreements with the overseas provider, not from your carrier.
Have you noticed that the overseas provider is also a wireless carrier? So yes, wireless carriers are going to hate this.
To look at it the other way, when someone from this overseas provider is in my country, my provider in turn charges their provider a fortune for them to roam.
Either way wireless carriers are missing on on massive overcharging opportunities. The only ones that aren't going to care are those who operating in countries which don't have many foreign visitors.
If HSBC thinks that Linux has a higher TCO than Windows, then why do they even have Linux machines?
because it's cheaper than old sk00l unix?
How about migrating all their Linux boxes to one distro, and then telling us it's harder to manage.
Have you ever tried getting 30,000 IT staff working on 10,000 different IT projects across 80 operating countries to all agree on which linux distro is best?
You don't need a special phone for this, once you've practiced a little you'll be used to reading the screen upside down and will find it weird using a phone the conventional way.
Do i get to claim prior art?
If a company can turn a profit sooner rather than later, they will go for it.
Have you never looked at the track record of a fund before investing in it? I invest for the long term. Who cares if they are up 40% this year if they are down 30% next year?
Why not design a single supply board? Preferrably wide-range input (say 8 - 28V) and be done with it? These boards don't need +/- 12V anyway, and +5V or +3.3V is already regulated down to core voltages.
http://www.mini-box.com/PicoPSU-120-WI-32V
The picoPSU-120-WI-32 is the smallest snap-in 12-32V ATX dc-dc power supply. The picoPSU is compatible with an entire range of mini-itx motherboards as well as regular boards. The picoPSU-1200-WI-32 provides a cool, silent 120 Watts peak of power for small PC designs using a single 12-32V power source.
Nope, it insists on an ATX format power plug.
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Exactly.
Lookout for pico PSUs if you want something small.
This one is DC-DC and takes up barely more space than the atx connector itself.
http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/it.A/id.417/.f?sc=8&
Because of the cost of the combo TVs, most of the people I know with broken equipment limp along, cursing it. For me, with all separate components, I switch individual compenents whenever I want
If you have a seperate system and the DVD player breaks, you spend $30 and buy a new DVD player.
If you have a combi system and the DVD player breaks, you spend $30 and buy a new DVD player.
If you have a problem with macrovision you go into the 'service menu' of the DVD player and turn macrovision off.
So, don't expect the market to take care of eventually solving all economical problems. Sometimes it does by chance, but actually there is no guarantee.
And even if every market where a theoretical free market, don't expect that free markets will solve all the worlds problems.
How much space is required to store the mirror configuration and other inputs that allow you to get anything out of the one pixel result?
why do dj's still prefer vinyl?
Image and praticallity. You can put your hand on a record to slow it down or speed it up a fraction so that the beat matches the record on the other deck that you are currently playing.
This is easily replicated in a non vinyl work with spinning turntable like disc. Only the disc doesn't play the music, rather the sample rate of the cd or whatever you are playing is slowed down by the amount you slowed down the spinning disc.
Also, since there is a huge potential number of votes (upto 500 Million), it can reduce the time taken for the counting by a huge amount.
The thing about countries with lots of peoples votes to count, is there are lots of people to count them.
It should in fact require less people per vote on average to count them (economies of scale).
What I've wondered is if they can't set up a system to prioritize calls through the cell phone system during an emergency, to allow first responders to communicate
They already do that, at least for GSM equipment, not sure about the US stuff.
During the london underground bombings they turned off public access to the cells around aldgate.