On my G1 I play Solitaire, occasionally a Mahjongg solitaire game, Jewels which is Bedazzled knockoff, Tetroid (obvious) and my current fave, Bonsai Blast.
On a typical G1, you can drain the battery with 3 hours of Bonsai Blast. 2 hours if you have an original battery now.
"wouldn't it kind of make sense to have some fans to blow off the sand from the solar panels?"
It was only expected to go 90 days, and not expected to suffer much dust or winter over.
Another in the long line of 'why didn't they'. As in:
"Why didn't they build these things to last 6 years?" Answer: They weren't expected to.
"Why didn't they think of this or that?" Answer: The mission requirements did not include that.
"Why did they do this or that?" Answer: They exercised their best judgement at the time. So far, so good.
What part of exceeding your expectations by 24 times are you complaining about? Your GF expected a 1.0+ct diamond, and she got a 24-ct one? She complains it's VSS-1? That it's heavy? That it catches on her clothes? That it blinds people on the street?
And does she ask you how much you paid for it, and you end up telling her the truth, you paid for a 1/4 ct brilliant, and wow, 6 years later ya got this...
Again, no complaints about the Rovers. Spectacular performance. And NASA is scouting around for the next robotic mission. Ask some of these guys for ideas, anyone?
Used Lenovo X41 Tablet off Criagslist: $120 Restore CDs from Lenovo (pure vanity): $66 Open Source Pterm: $0
Total Cost: $186.
And it does other stuff also.
Any of the current crop of netbooks would run Pterm. You could mash up a decent distro to run the Linux version and make it reasonably simple for kids, and even give an out button to the older one so they could run a browser and all that.
Of course, building a real PLATo terminal would be pointless, but I suspect it could be done for not a lot of money. A bit more if you wished to use the color enhancements.
Everyone who has a comment on how the Rovers should have been designed differenty;
Everyone who has a comment on how the teams should have better ways to deal with this problem;
Everyone who has a comment on how the mission could have gone better;
Everyone who has a comment on how there must be a better way;
Shup Up. Now.
The 90-day mission is looing forward to its 8th YEAR. We have received data several orders of magnitude greater than hoped for. We've travelled much, much more than thought possible for thse Rovers. We've also learned a great deal about how to conduct robotic missions on other planets or moons in the solar system. We have gotten nothing short of a scientific miracle in the volume of information, learning opportunity, and pure information.
The teams running this show have done stellar work, overcoming incredible obstacles. Amazing work.
And your ideas about solving the current problem? As if it hasn't already been thought of, considered, even tried out in simulation.
Read a bit of the blogs from the teams. They are pretty damned incredible.
Me? I got no idea how to get it out of the sand. Tilting and waiting out the winter is a good plan, rather than taking chances when the Rovers are actually doing pretty well otherwise.
Honestly. This mission is delivering value way beyond expectations. I got no complaint.
The Soviets made some great engines. We should have taken a page or two from their designs, though it seems we bought some of the surplus stock.
Of course, ICBM technology is the basis of much of our most reliable vehicles, Atlas and Titan as examples, I believe. We're not so much into that now, so we'll ahve to design ELVs for their own sake.
You're not claiming that I ignore, condone, or support any of those people or their actions, are you?
More to the point, why is is important to answer allegations of left-wing actions with counterbalancing right-wing actions?
And more importantly, my point that the left is largely co-opted by terrorists, etc. is that even those terrorists should perhaps be collectively labeled as 'right-wing'. Since 'right-wing' generally is used to describe Conservative, religious views, Islamic terrorists certainly fulfill one of those criteria.
But let's be clear here. No one wants to think they are wrong about anything, me included.
"spending a shitload of money on books whose value depreciates faster than.. well anything"
Well, not faster than newspapers, the old-fashioned print kind. They are virtually worthless for anything but packing material, or tinder, or fishwrap mere hours after delivery.
At least a good book can be sold a few months after being published, sometimes years or even centuries. But a newspaper? Grocery stores knew them as more perishable than ice cream on the sidewalk in the summer.
If this phone only supports T-Mobile's 3G bands, there is little point to locking it in the first place.
Moving to AT&T gets you a 2G phone on EDGE, which is a very undesireable phone, especially if you want those data features that mean lots of data.
And taking it overseas is unlikely and risks the same problem - 2G in a 3G world.
In fact, only CDMA phones have significant competition that could inspire a user to take a phone to another carrier, and I wonder how incompatible Sprint's 3G network is with Verizon's.
The locking is less and less useful because of these incompatible, unique data network protocols.
Oh, and the point about an UNsubsidized rate plan? Brilliant! We b gettin screwed after our plan is completed, and no carrier dares actually put a price on the subsidy.
Well, some probably do, but it's the recruiters that see colleges as friendly territory.
Many a left-wing Progressive doesn't seem to realize that the Left is largely co-opted by what we right-wingers call terrorists. The ones that have given on politics and prefer to use violence to further their causes without the intervening diplomacy and posturing.
Mind you, the Right can resort to violence also. We just hate the labels.
You sould be asking why so many terrorists have college degrees.
It is not causality.
Colleges worldwide are infested with left-wing socialist professors. No surprise that their graduates are at least open to the suggestion that these views deserve their support and adoption.
And recruitment is greatly simplified, in an ostensibly open, 'free speech' environment. Tenure insulates many professors from productive criticism. Salt in a few motiviated believers, and most any political/religious movement has ready-made converts.
Except, of course, for the more conventional movements, which are of course discredited continually. But that's part of the process. Understood.
If the facts are what they appear, and I were on the jury, I would probably find for Nokia.
I might only want to award damages from now on, however. The past few years of infringments that were not challenged, well, let's call that water under the bridge.
Unless I think that a massive award would result in licensing agreements and the parties deciding to not collect, in which case it hardly matters what I award. Actually, I bet it rarely does. If a jury awards $10B to Novell from SCO, obviously SCO isn't going to PAY it - they can't. So award them 3x the loser's net worth and call it a day. Let the vultures pick the bones. Unless it wasn't really worth that much,and then you get to do math.
Wow. Jury duty may, in fact, be just like Grade School. That is sad...
There are some things the U.S. does and can make well;
Microprocessors. Yes, there are many Intel plants overseas, and AMD is pretty much 100% overseas (I THINK), but the US plants for Intel are competitive. And we design the best, so far. Design is important.
Entertainment. Sadly, this is mostly due to some wierd U.S. mystique, and Bollywood is cracking that egg. We may need to consider this vulnerable.
Commercial aviation. So far, though, we seem hell-bent on giving this away.
Food. This, however, is vulnerable also.
You make a geat point in passing, however. The 50s-60s were a great timer for America, and we built up quite a lead. We need to learn to compete on a more even playing field, as China and India are coming on strong.
And we export much, but mostly it seems we export services - financial, business, travel services, technical services. I'm not really comfortable with the U.S. becoming a services provider, but we may already be there.
As far as I can tell, Nike has never had a factory in the U.S.
Adidas, being a German company, need not have any plants in the U.S. to satisfy their nationalism. Puma fits in here also.
Converse was purchaeed by Nike in 2003, and is not made in the U.S. now.
Asics is a Japanese company, originally Onitsuka, which incidentally was what Nike imported before it started making its own shoes.
Under Armour probably has factories in Asia, or contracts.
Saucony closed its plant in Bangor, Maine (my hometown) in 2001. Offshore now. Some were being assembled in the U.S. in 2002, but I can find no report that they have any manufacturing in the U.S. now.
It is HARD to buy a sneaker made in the U.S. At least New Balance offers a choice, though I'm looking and haven't seen one with the Made in USA label for a while. Probably not the style I can find or want, so I'm stuck...
I can work with that. It will increase prices, but that's the point of tariffs. Higher prices should = higher wages.
Of course, multinational corporations are capable of manipulating this situation so that higher prices = higher profits. Notice I left wages out of that equation, not because I don't have a symbol to represent the relationship. It is because wages are not part of the equation.
As my economist lunch buddy reminds me, price has little to do with cost, but everything to do with the market.
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JavaScript is a feature that Adobe believes is useful enough to tolerate the security compromises.
Or to rephrase it, Adobe Reader is so good, security doesn't matter as much as features.
Yup. That's how they see it.
And Tiger.
BTW, thanks, man. I need something else to apoligize for and explain to my wife. Nice move.
Just give it Bluetooth and allow input method.
A keyboard, mouse, and headset. Not difficult.
But such a device would cut into iMac sales, so expect it to be a desktop device that goes in the crook of your arm when you're tired of the keyboard.
And give it wireless charging. This you can charge real money for.
And somehow I don't think OS X will be running on Atom processors in this future.
You mean as in the Neuromancer?
On my G1 I play Solitaire, occasionally a Mahjongg solitaire game, Jewels which is Bedazzled knockoff, Tetroid (obvious) and my current fave, Bonsai Blast.
On a typical G1, you can drain the battery with 3 hours of Bonsai Blast. 2 hours if you have an original battery now.
And more and more of everything.
More to break. Kinda sad.
"wouldn't it kind of make sense to have some fans to blow off the sand from the solar panels?"
It was only expected to go 90 days, and not expected to suffer much dust or winter over.
Another in the long line of 'why didn't they'. As in:
"Why didn't they build these things to last 6 years?" Answer: They weren't expected to.
"Why didn't they think of this or that?" Answer: The mission requirements did not include that.
"Why did they do this or that?" Answer: They exercised their best judgement at the time. So far, so good.
What part of exceeding your expectations by 24 times are you complaining about? Your GF expected a 1.0+ct diamond, and she got a 24-ct one? She complains it's VSS-1? That it's heavy? That it catches on her clothes? That it blinds people on the street?
And does she ask you how much you paid for it, and you end up telling her the truth, you paid for a 1/4 ct brilliant, and wow, 6 years later ya got this...
Again, no complaints about the Rovers. Spectacular performance. And NASA is scouting around for the next robotic mission. Ask some of these guys for ideas, anyone?
.... is the preposterous idea that Sun and/or Oracle care a whit about online petitions or email campaigns.
Unless Monty is just indulging in a popularity survey. In which case he forgot to ask us how we 'felt' about this.
I, BTW, feel like you've gotten your money and want your cake back as well. Good luck. Fork it and compete with your previous employer, ok?
sheesh.
My PLATO terminal cost me $200:
Used Lenovo X41 Tablet off Criagslist: $120
Restore CDs from Lenovo (pure vanity): $66
Open Source Pterm: $0
Total Cost: $186.
And it does other stuff also.
Any of the current crop of netbooks would run Pterm. You could mash up a decent distro to run the Linux version and make it reasonably simple for kids, and even give an out button to the older one so they could run a browser and all that.
Of course, building a real PLATo terminal would be pointless, but I suspect it could be done for not a lot of money. A bit more if you wished to use the color enhancements.
Everyone who has a comment on how the Rovers should have been designed differenty;
Everyone who has a comment on how the teams should have better ways to deal with this problem;
Everyone who has a comment on how the mission could have gone better;
Everyone who has a comment on how there must be a better way;
Shup Up. Now.
The 90-day mission is looing forward to its 8th YEAR. We have received data several orders of magnitude greater than hoped for. We've travelled much, much more than thought possible for thse Rovers. We've also learned a great deal about how to conduct robotic missions on other planets or moons in the solar system. We have gotten nothing short of a scientific miracle in the volume of information, learning opportunity, and pure information.
The teams running this show have done stellar work, overcoming incredible obstacles. Amazing work.
And your ideas about solving the current problem? As if it hasn't already been thought of, considered, even tried out in simulation.
Read a bit of the blogs from the teams. They are pretty damned incredible.
Me? I got no idea how to get it out of the sand. Tilting and waiting out the winter is a good plan, rather than taking chances when the Rovers are actually doing pretty well otherwise.
Honestly. This mission is delivering value way beyond expectations. I got no complaint.
The Soviets made some great engines. We should have taken a page or two from their designs, though it seems we bought some of the surplus stock.
Of course, ICBM technology is the basis of much of our most reliable vehicles, Atlas and Titan as examples, I believe. We're not so much into that now, so we'll ahve to design ELVs for their own sake.
It's still in the Market, and just needs a SIP acct. Workable.
Did they 'fix' WiFi? That's not really too big an issue for me, my data plan will let me crank it.
You're not claiming that I ignore, condone, or support any of those people or their actions, are you?
More to the point, why is is important to answer allegations of left-wing actions with counterbalancing right-wing actions?
And more importantly, my point that the left is largely co-opted by terrorists, etc. is that even those terrorists should perhaps be collectively labeled as 'right-wing'. Since 'right-wing' generally is used to describe Conservative, religious views, Islamic terrorists certainly fulfill one of those criteria.
But let's be clear here. No one wants to think they are wrong about anything, me included.
"spending a shitload of money on books whose value depreciates faster than .. well anything"
Well, not faster than newspapers, the old-fashioned print kind.
They are virtually worthless for anything but packing material, or tinder, or fishwrap mere hours after delivery.
At least a good book can be sold a few months after being published, sometimes years or even centuries. But a newspaper? Grocery stores knew them as more perishable than ice cream on the sidewalk in the summer.
If you're using Google Maps (expected on Google phone, mandatory almost on Android) then the maps can't be preloaded.
VOIP is not available with stock Android, but many custom ROMs will permit it if you can find an app.
Europe and the U.K. are very different from the U.S. market - nonsubsidized phones, unlocks, compatible networks.
More expensive phones, but less expensive service, usually, so they say.
If this phone only supports T-Mobile's 3G bands, there is little point to locking it in the first place.
Moving to AT&T gets you a 2G phone on EDGE, which is a very undesireable phone, especially if you want those data features that mean lots of data.
And taking it overseas is unlikely and risks the same problem - 2G in a 3G world.
In fact, only CDMA phones have significant competition that could inspire a user to take a phone to another carrier, and I wonder how incompatible Sprint's 3G network is with Verizon's.
The locking is less and less useful because of these incompatible, unique data network protocols.
Oh, and the point about an UNsubsidized rate plan? Brilliant! We b gettin screwed after our plan is completed, and no carrier dares actually put a price on the subsidy.
What?
Where do 'right wing fundamentalists' attack liberal 'free speech' societies?
Actually, start over. What is a liberal 'free speech' society?
Observation and experience.
Well, some probably do, but it's the recruiters that see colleges as friendly territory.
Many a left-wing Progressive doesn't seem to realize that the Left is largely co-opted by what we right-wingers call terrorists. The ones that have given on politics and prefer to use violence to further their causes without the intervening diplomacy and posturing.
Mind you, the Right can resort to violence also. We just hate the labels.
You sould be asking why so many terrorists have college degrees.
It is not causality.
Colleges worldwide are infested with left-wing socialist professors. No surprise that their graduates are at least open to the suggestion that these views deserve their support and adoption.
And recruitment is greatly simplified, in an ostensibly open, 'free speech' environment. Tenure insulates many professors from productive criticism. Salt in a few motiviated believers, and most any political/religious movement has ready-made converts.
Except, of course, for the more conventional movements, which are of course discredited continually. But that's part of the process. Understood.
I get your point.
If the facts are what they appear, and I were on the jury, I would probably find for Nokia.
I might only want to award damages from now on, however. The past few years of infringments that were not challenged, well, let's call that water under the bridge.
Unless I think that a massive award would result in licensing agreements and the parties deciding to not collect, in which case it hardly matters what I award. Actually, I bet it rarely does. If a jury awards $10B to Novell from SCO, obviously SCO isn't going to PAY it - they can't. So award them 3x the loser's net worth and call it a day. Let the vultures pick the bones. Unless it wasn't really worth that much,and then you get to do math.
Wow. Jury duty may, in fact, be just like Grade School. That is sad...
I'm not sure Canada has a Bill of Rights. Here in the U.S., it's worth as much as you want it to be.
Remember, the three boxes.
There are some things the U.S. does and can make well;
Microprocessors. Yes, there are many Intel plants overseas, and AMD is pretty much 100% overseas (I THINK), but the US plants for Intel are competitive. And we design the best, so far. Design is important.
Entertainment. Sadly, this is mostly due to some wierd U.S. mystique, and Bollywood is cracking that egg. We may need to consider this vulnerable.
Commercial aviation. So far, though, we seem hell-bent on giving this away.
Food. This, however, is vulnerable also.
You make a geat point in passing, however. The 50s-60s were a great timer for America, and we built up quite a lead. We need to learn to compete on a more even playing field, as China and India are coming on strong.
And we export much, but mostly it seems we export services - financial, business, travel services, technical services. I'm not really comfortable with the U.S. becoming a services provider, but we may already be there.
I'll take 25%. At least it's something.
As far as I can tell, Nike has never had a factory in the U.S.
Adidas, being a German company, need not have any plants in the U.S. to satisfy their nationalism. Puma fits in here also.
Converse was purchaeed by Nike in 2003, and is not made in the U.S. now.
Asics is a Japanese company, originally Onitsuka, which incidentally was what Nike imported before it started making its own shoes.
Under Armour probably has factories in Asia, or contracts.
Saucony closed its plant in Bangor, Maine (my hometown) in 2001. Offshore now. Some were being assembled in the U.S. in 2002, but I can find no report that they have any manufacturing in the U.S. now.
It is HARD to buy a sneaker made in the U.S. At least New Balance offers a choice, though I'm looking and haven't seen one with the Made in USA label for a while. Probably not the style I can find or want, so I'm stuck...
I can work with that. It will increase prices, but that's the point of tariffs. Higher prices should = higher wages.
Of course, multinational corporations are capable of manipulating this situation so that higher prices = higher profits. Notice I left wages out of that equation, not because I don't have a symbol to represent the relationship. It is because wages are not part of the equation.
As my economist lunch buddy reminds me, price has little to do with cost, but everything to do with the market.