Actually, even before the BlackBerry it had been done much better as the Eatoni EQx.
That particular technology comes in 3 columns for very small devices or 6 columns for a bit wider devices. The 6 column is supposed to offer the same performance as a full keyboard (through predictive software), but I have used the 3 column one on a Nokia phone. I can't say I am a fan of T9, so this was a refreshing change (efficient at entering stuff that are not in dictionaries as well as entering symbols etc). According to the specs this "EQ3" keyboard is close to the performance of the BlackBerry (which uses 2 more columns!), but I've never tried the BlackBerry. I doubt though that the BlackBerry works well with things like "yahoooo" I was trying:)
In any case, I am not the type who would write SMS or emails on a phone, but I sure could appreciate how much of an imprevement the EQ3 thing was over a regular phone keypad. Maybe if the 6 column version could fit on a small enough device and allowed me to feel like I'm on my PC keyboard... Anyway, I guess all I can do now is try a demo.
Now, for another point that came up in some posts. Why would someone use a QWERTY keyboard on a phone? Well, in the case of MobileQuerty it simply does not make any sense (at least to me). As for the BlackBerry and the EQx the main reason is that they wanted familiarity. This is especially true to US users, as European users are also familiar with ABC (SMS fans). Moreover, if you notice the EQx designs they have slight changes over the qwerty order, plus non-symmetrical partitions. So, they tried to arrange things for high performance, but without having the user look at an alien keyboard and say "What the h... No way I can use that". I mean, they look much more familiar than Dvorak to most, don't they?
Ok, so while University students in most countries, including the US, occupy themselves in mostly peaceful research, the Korean students are building ED209??? I thought university students are, or at least ought to be, the most idealistic group. I guess I am wrong...
Well, if we wanted to put statistics in the vote counting, we wouldn't spend millions running elections, would we? I mean all it takes is a couple of thousand sample voters, and we have our result!
Regardless what you claim neither you nor many posters just above you did not RTFA (or pay any attention to it). The homeless people were staying in the lines for hours and hours. Then, a few minutes before the start of sale they get the money (and they are supervised for the next few minutes I assume).
And another bunch insisting that there is no reason to worry about such things, as it is well known that global warming will be eventually cancelled out by the nuclear winter.
You mention "fans" and "volunteers". This is the point, that viral marketing is supposed to involve people who are doing it for the movie/series they love. The studio will have to give them slack, for example they could make T-Shirts and sell them close to cost etc.
Then I go to the 11th hour website. Ok, they look nice, but $23 T-Shirts???? It is obvious they are not doing it to promote Serenity. They are more expensive than official Star Trek merchentise (and that should say something given Paramount's paramount greed). Serenity was just an opportunity they took advantage of, just like Universal took advantage of the REAL fans.
And to those that say there is no infringement, as there is no mention of Serenity, this is only AFTER the seller got a notice. So, if you sell bootleg stuff for a year and you get a notice, they can't ask you to provide details of how much you made and compensate the IP holder, just because you stop from the moment of the notice?
Wow, now I'll definatelly get one of those PS3's - no matter the cost - as I've always wanted to own something called "Sixaxis"! If you are into archeology you will notice that it is even cooler than the coolest sounding Persian names, like Xerxes or Artaxerxes. But I do hope the PS3 doesn't support six Sixaxis's...
I bet they had a Win 95/98 Password. You know, the uncrackable ones, unless you are a "well-versed hacker" using a keyboard with a functioning "Esc" key...
From TFA the new price of PS3 is just 49,980 NOT EVEN TWICE THE Wii!!! Wow, that's peanuts... around 200 pounds of peanuts to be precise... Now everyone will get one... in Japan!;)
Actually, no. He claims the authors distorted the facts, and he provides his own account of said facts as he sees them. How does this prove anything? What you're saying is no different from "I think this guy really raped that girl, because he acted too outraged when we accused him."
Actually, he's saying something like "I think this guy really raped that girl, because he threatened to rape us when we accused him."
My thoughts too. At first I found the thought of MS delivering Zune without support for its own DRM the funniest thing since Adam West started running with a huge bomb above his head. Then, I RTFA and I have the feeling EFF might have judged prematurely. I suggest we wait for MS's response on that. In any case, as an anti-DRM geek and iPod/iTunes hater, I really like the Zune and might consider carrying one around to replace my current media device (the latter also runs scummVM, so I won't give it up easily). And for me it is enought that it takes unprotected media, if it also supports MS DRM, it will just lose some funny points. Then, of course, I will find out you cannot just plug it in a Linux box and transfer files to it... Oh, well... Back to stopping that evil Purlple Tentacle!
Everybody on/. and their grandmother have always been complaining about how "broken" and "unsecure" Windows is. In fact MS is responsible for the security product market because it was so vulnerable. Now, they are trying to "fix" the OS, make it more secure, and EU yells foul!
As a European I cannot stand this sillyness. I want my OS to have built-in security out of the box, as I want it to be able to play all my music & videos without having to install inconvenient (Quicktime) or downright evil (Real player) software.
Exactly what I wanted to know. I will be upgrading in a few months, and I am certainly not going to run a 32bit OS (SUSE 64bit rulez!). The thing is I tested a while ago the cpu intensive programs we run at my university (computational biology) with my lab's new EMT64 Xeons and they would benefit by 30% by being compiled at 64bits (compared to the 32 bit platform), while at the same time my Athlon 64 would benefit by 80%. I remember exchanging a few emails with an Anandtech team that was testing Opteron vs Xeon at 64bit last year and they had similar results. If Conroe's 64bit implementation is still lacking compared to the AMD processors, the significant speed advantage might be lost when going to 64bits. I really don't understand why at least the popular hardware sites didn't do such tests...
This is obviously a bunch of BS. Novell is actually suing MS for using their OS monopoly to gain the word processor market, but if you read the court statement (http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/11/ complaint.pdf) you'll see that Novell wants $1 billion because MS "integrated it's browsing technologies into windows" and other such insubstantial claims. If they actuall had something relevant like the "speed bumps", they would use it.
It is very sad that the Russian Space agency has had automated systems working for decades. Apart from the Soyuz with rendez-vous abilities, may I remind you of the Buran (the Soviet space shuttle equivalent), which could launch, deploy satellites and land without a pilot. All that in the 80's. It is certain that NASA is underfunded. The military budjet skyrockets, the space science one goes down and is currently at 3% of the military budget (but only if we exclude war spending, just the basic military budjet!). Oh well... No Apollo for our generation, I guess!
> Actually, with the logic you are applying, it is _really_ wierd that either linux or Mac OSX haven't gained a bigger market share. They are in many ways superior to windows. But other than that, you are right AMD offerings currently are superior to Intels'. Tech savvy people here insist on AMD.:)
That is why I added "while at the same time being compatible". You can just replace an Intel CPU with an AMD one and your apps will run fine. You cannot switch from Windows to Mac OS with the same ease.
And right now Linux is indeed better for development (among other things), but (again due to the exact issue we are discussing;) it cannot stand as an HTPC, or a gaming machine. And don't start me with Mac OS X. You take linux, you remove some important stuff from the kernel that most distros give you (ok, you add some other stuff that I don't find useful), and you ship a single GUI that is made for people who like to look at how pretty their desktop is (and cannot use more than one mouse button).
It is incorrect that Mindstorms were "unsuccessful". They were simply out of Lego's plans for quite a while, a good article with speculation about this is here: http://www.techuser.net/lego.html .
Fortunatelly for the greatest toy ever, Lego came to their senses! Well, apart from their design team that gave us the ipod look!
> Kudos to you arhonta! But that is rather telling of the hoops you have to go through to do something that can be done somewhat trivially with, say, CSS!:) I'm not a pro web designer either, alot of friends of mine are. As for Greek Universities, my experience differs a bit. I would say my department may be 50%-50% Windows-Unix (Sun, linux, Irix), but the majority of profs are pro-Unix fortunately.
According to a couple of friends of mine who work in Greece, the job market is too MS-friendly, so I would be surprised that there are Univ's pro-Unix. That is a good thing though.
> They do not need to do anything. As long as there is a threat, it's enough to 'scare people away' from OpenGL. Not that I'm saying it is the main reason there are no commercial games for linux, it's not. Small user base is.
Again, it is unfair to condemn MS for this specific thing. All large companies have a large patent portfolio for their protection. If they start using them for devious purposes, then we blame them, not before. Imagine if a patent troll company bought these patents. You think the linux world would be safer?
>:) Now that the 'masks are off', I have been an 'AMD Fanboy' ever since the am486! But, IMHO, while intel is a bit anticompetetive, microsoft takes the cake in this area.:)
After my i80386sx I had over 10 cpus, all AMD (starting with am486 DX4), for the simple reason that when I was budget conscious they had the performance/price, and when I could afford expensive processors they had both the performance/price and max performance. Still, they have a small market share. It is obvious that intel has done something far worse than MS, because MS did not have someone outperforming them for years and years (while at the same time being compatible!)... Hmm, a Mac fanboy might jump into this now, but there are far too many reasons why Mac OS does not qualify as an AMD equivalent of the software world...
> Yeah, sorry about that. OTE bashing is rather common in Greece and rightfully so. It's no coincidence "kleftes" (thieves) in Greek brought up OTE.gr (funny google bombing). "Pseftes" (liars) still brings up the party that's in power currently and that promised lower rates in telephony.:) You may be right about Time Warner Cable, but last time I was in the States, it seemed competition was fierce between telcos. A far cry from what is happening in Greece currently. They were more annoying with phonecalls nagging you to change companies than not offering advantages. But you could be right. Why don't you just tell them 'na pa na gamitheite' (go fuck yourselves) and just jump ship?
I have no choice. They are currently the only cable provider serving my area.
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Actually, even before the BlackBerry it had been done much better as the Eatoni EQx. :)
That particular technology comes in 3 columns for very small devices or 6 columns for a bit wider devices. The 6 column is supposed to offer the same performance as a full keyboard (through predictive software), but I have used the 3 column one on a Nokia phone. I can't say I am a fan of T9, so this was a refreshing change (efficient at entering stuff that are not in dictionaries as well as entering symbols etc). According to the specs this "EQ3" keyboard is close to the performance of the BlackBerry (which uses 2 more columns!), but I've never tried the BlackBerry. I doubt though that the BlackBerry works well with things like "yahoooo" I was trying
In any case, I am not the type who would write SMS or emails on a phone, but I sure could appreciate how much of an imprevement the EQ3 thing was over a regular phone keypad. Maybe if the 6 column version could fit on a small enough device and allowed me to feel like I'm on my PC keyboard... Anyway, I guess all I can do now is try a demo.
Now, for another point that came up in some posts. Why would someone use a QWERTY keyboard on a phone? Well, in the case of MobileQuerty it simply does not make any sense (at least to me). As for the BlackBerry and the EQx the main reason is that they wanted familiarity. This is especially true to US users, as European users are also familiar with ABC (SMS fans). Moreover, if you notice the EQx designs they have slight changes over the qwerty order, plus non-symmetrical partitions. So, they tried to arrange things for high performance, but without having the user look at an alien keyboard and say "What the h... No way I can use that". I mean, they look much more familiar than Dvorak to most, don't they?
Ok, so while University students in most countries, including the US, occupy themselves in mostly peaceful research, the Korean students are building ED209??? I thought university students are, or at least ought to be, the most idealistic group. I guess I am wrong...
Well, if we wanted to put statistics in the vote counting, we wouldn't spend millions running elections, would we? I mean all it takes is a couple of thousand sample voters, and we have our result!
Regardless what you claim neither you nor many posters just above you did not RTFA (or pay any attention to it). The homeless people were staying in the lines for hours and hours. Then, a few minutes before the start of sale they get the money (and they are supervised for the next few minutes I assume).
And another bunch insisting that there is no reason to worry about such things, as it is well known that global warming will be eventually cancelled out by the nuclear winter.
Or they could load a Vista-only virus on all the iPods they sell and claim Vista is the most insecure OS ever!!!
You guys are missing the point. It is a truthful statement, there is no censorship in China.
Of course they have a lot of censolship, but that is another deal!
You mention "fans" and "volunteers". This is the point, that viral marketing is supposed to involve people who are doing it for the movie/series they love. The studio will have to give them slack, for example they could make T-Shirts and sell them close to cost etc.
Then I go to the 11th hour website. Ok, they look nice, but $23 T-Shirts???? It is obvious they are not doing it to promote Serenity. They are more expensive than official Star Trek merchentise (and that should say something given Paramount's paramount greed). Serenity was just an opportunity they took advantage of, just like Universal took advantage of the REAL fans.
And to those that say there is no infringement, as there is no mention of Serenity, this is only AFTER the seller got a notice. So, if you sell bootleg stuff for a year and you get a notice, they can't ask you to provide details of how much you made and compensate the IP holder, just because you stop from the moment of the notice?
If it supports "up to 7" then it most certainly does support 6.
And we come to my problem. How do you say "six Sixaxes's" fast?
Wow, now I'll definatelly get one of those PS3's - no matter the cost - as I've always wanted to own something called "Sixaxis"!
If you are into archeology you will notice that it is even cooler than the coolest sounding Persian names, like Xerxes or Artaxerxes.
But I do hope the PS3 doesn't support six Sixaxis's...
I bet they had a Win 95/98 Password.
You know, the uncrackable ones, unless you are a "well-versed hacker" using a keyboard with a functioning "Esc" key...
From TFA the new price of PS3 is just 49,980 NOT EVEN TWICE THE Wii!!! ;)
Wow, that's peanuts... around 200 pounds of peanuts to be precise...
Now everyone will get one... in Japan!
Actually, he's saying something like "I think this guy really raped that girl, because he threatened to rape us when we accused him."
On the other hand, if the PS3 includes one of those nice SONY batteries, it will totally blow!
My thoughts too. At first I found the thought of MS delivering Zune without support for its own DRM the funniest thing since Adam West started running with a huge bomb above his head.
Then, I RTFA and I have the feeling EFF might have judged prematurely. I suggest we wait for MS's response on that.
In any case, as an anti-DRM geek and iPod/iTunes hater, I really like the Zune and might consider carrying one around to replace my current media device (the latter also runs scummVM, so I won't give it up easily). And for me it is enought that it takes unprotected media, if it also supports MS DRM, it will just lose some funny points.
Then, of course, I will find out you cannot just plug it in a Linux box and transfer files to it... Oh, well... Back to stopping that evil Purlple Tentacle!
Everybody on /. and their grandmother have always been complaining about how "broken" and "unsecure" Windows is. In fact MS is responsible for the security product market because it was so vulnerable.
Now, they are trying to "fix" the OS, make it more secure, and EU yells foul!
As a European I cannot stand this sillyness. I want my OS to have built-in security out of the box, as I want it to be able to play all my music & videos without having to install inconvenient (Quicktime) or downright evil (Real player) software.
Exactly what I wanted to know. I will be upgrading in a few months, and I am certainly not going to run a 32bit OS (SUSE 64bit rulez!). The thing is I tested a while ago the cpu intensive programs we run at my university (computational biology) with my lab's new EMT64 Xeons and they would benefit by 30% by being compiled at 64bits (compared to the 32 bit platform), while at the same time my Athlon 64 would benefit by 80%. I remember exchanging a few emails with an Anandtech team that was testing Opteron vs Xeon at 64bit last year and they had similar results.
If Conroe's 64bit implementation is still lacking compared to the AMD processors, the significant speed advantage might be lost when going to 64bits. I really don't understand why at least the popular hardware sites didn't do such tests...
As a prophetic show noted, global warming will just be cancelled out by the nuclear winter and everything will be fine!
This is obviously a bunch of BS. Novell is actually suing MS for using their OS monopoly to gain the word processor market, but if you read the court statement (http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/11/ complaint.pdf) you'll see that Novell wants $1 billion because MS "integrated it's browsing technologies into windows" and other such insubstantial claims. If they actuall had something relevant like the "speed bumps", they would use it.
It is very sad that the Russian Space agency has had automated systems working for decades. Apart from the Soyuz with rendez-vous abilities, may I remind you of the Buran (the Soviet space shuttle equivalent), which could launch, deploy satellites and land without a pilot. All that in the 80's.
It is certain that NASA is underfunded. The military budjet skyrockets, the space science one goes down and is currently at 3% of the military budget (but only if we exclude war spending, just the basic military budjet!).
Oh well... No Apollo for our generation, I guess!
We should note that Intel's "new hardware" is inferior to what you consider ATI's "old hardware"...
Greek has already survived over 2500 years. It is definatelly gonna be at least recognized in another 10000 years:
-Hey, what are these markings here?
-Hmm, looks like Greek to me!
> Actually, with the logic you are applying, it is _really_ wierd that either linux or Mac OSX haven't gained a bigger market share. They are in many ways superior to windows. But other than that, you are right AMD offerings currently are superior to Intels'. Tech savvy people here insist on AMD. :)
;) it cannot stand as an HTPC, or a gaming machine. And don't start me with Mac OS X. You take linux, you remove some important stuff from the kernel that most distros give you (ok, you add some other stuff that I don't find useful), and you ship a single GUI that is made for people who like to look at how pretty their desktop is (and cannot use more than one mouse button).
That is why I added "while at the same time being compatible". You can just replace an Intel CPU with an AMD one and your apps will run fine. You cannot switch from Windows to Mac OS with the same ease.
And right now Linux is indeed better for development (among other things), but (again due to the exact issue we are discussing
It is incorrect that Mindstorms were "unsuccessful". They were simply out of Lego's plans for quite a while, a good article with speculation about this is here: http://www.techuser.net/lego.html .
Fortunatelly for the greatest toy ever, Lego came to their senses! Well, apart from their design team that gave us the ipod look!
> Kudos to you arhonta! But that is rather telling of the hoops you have to go through to do something that can be done somewhat trivially with, say, CSS! :) I'm not a pro web designer either, alot of friends of mine are. As for Greek Universities, my experience differs a bit. I would say my department may be 50%-50% Windows-Unix (Sun, linux, Irix), but the majority of profs are pro-Unix fortunately.
:) Now that the 'masks are off', I have been an 'AMD Fanboy' ever since the am486! But, IMHO, while intel is a bit anticompetetive, microsoft takes the cake in this area. :)
:) You may be right about Time Warner Cable, but last time I was in the States, it seemed competition was fierce between telcos. A far cry from what is happening in Greece currently. They were more annoying with phonecalls nagging you to change companies than not offering advantages. But you could be right. Why don't you just tell them 'na pa na gamitheite' (go fuck yourselves) and just jump ship?
According to a couple of friends of mine who work in Greece, the job market is too MS-friendly, so I would be surprised that there are Univ's pro-Unix. That is a good thing though.
> They do not need to do anything. As long as there is a threat, it's enough to 'scare people away' from OpenGL. Not that I'm saying it is the main reason there are no commercial games for linux, it's not. Small user base is.
Again, it is unfair to condemn MS for this specific thing. All large companies have a large patent portfolio for their protection. If they start using them for devious purposes, then we blame them, not before. Imagine if a patent troll company bought these patents. You think the linux world would be safer?
>
After my i80386sx I had over 10 cpus, all AMD (starting with am486 DX4), for the simple reason that when I was budget conscious they had the performance/price, and when I could afford expensive processors they had both the performance/price and max performance. Still, they have a small market share. It is obvious that intel has done something far worse than MS, because MS did not have someone outperforming them for years and years (while at the same time being compatible!)... Hmm, a Mac fanboy might jump into this now, but there are far too many reasons why Mac OS does not qualify as an AMD equivalent of the software world...
> Yeah, sorry about that. OTE bashing is rather common in Greece and rightfully so. It's no coincidence "kleftes" (thieves) in Greek brought up OTE.gr (funny google bombing). "Pseftes" (liars) still brings up the party that's in power currently and that promised lower rates in telephony.
I have no choice. They are currently the only cable provider serving my area.