1973 - Motorola phone used for first handheld mobile phone call. 1983 - DynaTAC 8000X, the 'brickphone', launched. 1989 - Motorola MicroTAC launched, flip phones come.
The MicroTAC changed the game by being pocketable.
1996 - Motorola StarTAC launched, smaller phones.Nokia 9000 Communicator launched, smartphones coming. 1990 - Motorola 'Bag Phone' launched, I used an Okidata bag phone then that used, incredibly, the same removable rechargeable batter as my portable VCR. 1993 - IBM Simon;launched, first 'smartphone', voice, pager, fax, PDA, touch screen, predictive typing, removable memory. SMS is also launched then.
Simon was well ahead of its time, but shows the way to others. Without a data network it was not useful, but it woke up the competitors.
1997 - Nokia 5110 (my favorite of the era)/6110 and Motorola StarTAC launched, 1999 - NTT DoCoMo launches mobile Internet service in Japan. First Blackberry launched. Mobile data is coming to the US. 2000-2002 - WCDMA networks launched in US, GPRS follows, EDGE shortly thereafter, Internet service expands globally. Nokia 3110 launched.
The 3110 was evolutionary, but revolutionary in that it was very very tough, had features people loved, and was reasonably affordable. More even than the 51xx series, this is a must-have phone globally.
2001 - Siemens S47 launched, TDMS/GSM combo phone. Mine worked as advertised. 2003 - PalmOne Trio Launched.
Color screen, PDA, very Blackberry-ish. Overwhelming success at the time until competitors blew past it.
2004 - Motorola Razr launched. Fashion. Sony Ericsson T637 launched, Bluetooth and fLoAt came to my life. 2006 - Nokia N95 launched, first 'modern' smartphone.
Not a success, but plainly showed the potential.
2006/7 - Apple iPhone launched. HTC Dream (TMobile G1) launched. Android is launched, and we know the rest of that.
Iconic phones were it seems either design successes or feature successes. But the 3110 was neither, just tough and better than expected. Back then just working was good enough. the iPhone brought design to a new level, sort of, but the software and interface was the real winner. I think the G1 was barely good enough to avoid killing Android. Now we are so spoilt that we argue over 0.1mm.
"computers can communicate at "a trillion bits per second", while humans, whose main communication method is typing with their fingers via a mobile device, can do about 10 bits per second"
Maybe he was mistaking interprocess or CPU interconnect speed with interface speed? Even then, while my output might reach 100WPM (8-9CPS) or by speech maybe 120WPM (there's that 10CPS, or 80BPS), what is the interprocess bandwidth of the typical human brain?
And what does any of this have to do with reality? The tech world is desperate for us to embrace AI before it impacts us so dramatically that we rebel. And we may anyways, if we perceive it as intended not for our benefit, but either for the benefit of the richer and more powerful, or more likely intended just because they could do it.
Or choosing between using your dialup ISP (the guy with a closet full of modems, table fans, and a DDS-2 uplink to a 'real' ISP with a T-1 and Livingston gateway) to hook up with IRC or AOL BYOA...
The choice?
- AOL: double-digit IQ, middle-school ethics, constantly 'enhancing your Internet experience'.
He should be able to reconcile it. When the government can force a third party to divulge your information and then prevent you from knowing about it, and then deny that third party from acting in your interest both as custodian of that information and as the only party aware of the request, clearly something is wrong.
Think it through, the government won't tell me it's taking my data, and then claims only I can challenge that. Huh?
I quit my job at the McDonald's register 40 years ago to move on to what I was trained for, electronics repair.
And concatenation is still not math. It's something else. Next thing you know, ALL Excel functions will be math. Calling your kitten 'biscuit' because it was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.
Ditto. Listening to the radio my 14yo daughter listens to, I hear the same rotation on all but two stations (gangsta rap/sucka noizez there*), with a 'new' song every two weeks and standards hanging on for months, intentionally marketing songs about rape, promiscuity, and random violence to teens too young to drive, a product placement I'm afraid I understand, hoping I'm wrong. I'm old enough to claim rock n roll stations did something similar to this decades ago chasing the Billboard Top 40 like a dog chases butt, though I listened to slightly more edgy rock then** and those stations seemed to hold on to stuff longer but cycled in new music for a trial before Billboard know how to spell the title.
Feh. The current hip-hop/rap music scene is so manufactured it's industrial.
* I don't let her listen to those two stations in my presence any more. I know she does when I'm not around, but she knows why I don't want her to hear that in the car with me. I cannot, literally cannot sit in the car with her when those lyrics come out. It's offensive, degrading, and I cannot permit it in my hearing.
** I listened to WLOB in Portland, Maine back in the late 60s and discovered metal late at night on my transistor with earphone, wiked decent***. When I moved 2 hours north and asked the local top radio DJ to play some Led Zeppelin, he told me 'Northern Maine isn't ready for that yet'. He was right. I was in hibernation for 3 years until I joined the service and re-entered civilization.
*** That radio also let me listen to space launches in school. And win arguments over technical details like abort plans, down range safety, and comms with my so-called science teacher. Thanks,Dad. I need to buy and rebuild a red ChannelMaster 6506 with the leather case and earphone pouch (:
What? Music, art, film, literature, publishing, journalism, all have exploded via the Internet. it's just that the Internet has disintermediated these markets. Incumbents unable to adjust have suffered.
Dispute all you want, but real news sources document the problems of immigration in Germany. Relying on rosy pronouncements by Merkel isn't honest. Google will provide you with ample citations if you care to look.
Note that quantum encryption is being challenged. I'm pretty sure proving it's not possible is evident. Now the question you should have asked was if successful attacks on systems could be completed in a meaningful period of time... Which is almost a stupid question.
So far, however, absolute security seems unattainable in practice. And those who are successful probably don't disclose it, so we don't know...
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1973 - Motorola phone used for first handheld mobile phone call.
1983 - DynaTAC 8000X, the 'brickphone', launched.
1989 - Motorola MicroTAC launched, flip phones come.
The MicroTAC changed the game by being pocketable.
1996 - Motorola StarTAC launched, smaller phones.Nokia 9000 Communicator launched, smartphones coming. ;launched, first 'smartphone', voice, pager, fax, PDA, touch screen, predictive typing, removable memory. SMS is also launched then.
1990 - Motorola 'Bag Phone' launched, I used an Okidata bag phone then that used, incredibly, the same removable rechargeable batter as my portable VCR.
1993 - IBM Simon
Simon was well ahead of its time, but shows the way to others. Without a data network it was not useful, but it woke up the competitors.
1997 - Nokia 5110 (my favorite of the era)/6110 and Motorola StarTAC launched,
1999 - NTT DoCoMo launches mobile Internet service in Japan. First Blackberry launched. Mobile data is coming to the US.
2000-2002 - WCDMA networks launched in US, GPRS follows, EDGE shortly thereafter, Internet service expands globally. Nokia 3110 launched.
The 3110 was evolutionary, but revolutionary in that it was very very tough, had features people loved, and was reasonably affordable. More even than the 51xx series, this is a must-have phone globally.
2001 - Siemens S47 launched, TDMS/GSM combo phone. Mine worked as advertised.
2003 - PalmOne Trio Launched.
Color screen, PDA, very Blackberry-ish. Overwhelming success at the time until competitors blew past it.
2004 - Motorola Razr launched. Fashion. Sony Ericsson T637 launched, Bluetooth and fLoAt came to my life.
2006 - Nokia N95 launched, first 'modern' smartphone.
Not a success, but plainly showed the potential.
2006/7 - Apple iPhone launched. HTC Dream (TMobile G1) launched. Android is launched, and we know the rest of that.
Iconic phones were it seems either design successes or feature successes. But the 3110 was neither, just tough and better than expected. Back then just working was good enough. the iPhone brought design to a new level, sort of, but the software and interface was the real winner. I think the G1 was barely good enough to avoid killing Android. Now we are so spoilt that we argue over 0.1mm.
Millimeters? You're off by a factor of 10.
And then many of us sheath our newest technological fragility in a bulk case. Oh, wait, Apple's silicone cases are elegant.
Gawd, I'm getting closer and closer to going over to the Dark Side and buying an iPhone. Gahhh!
Hopefully these will have something better than a WAP browser? maybe a 3390 version for the US?
Oh, probably not intended for the US.
So is the VT100... And VT52.
The first online game I played was Avatar on NovaNET.
"computers can communicate at "a trillion bits per second", while humans, whose main communication method is typing with their fingers via a mobile device, can do about 10 bits per second"
Maybe he was mistaking interprocess or CPU interconnect speed with interface speed? Even then, while my output might reach 100WPM (8-9CPS) or by speech maybe 120WPM (there's that 10CPS, or 80BPS), what is the interprocess bandwidth of the typical human brain?
And what does any of this have to do with reality? The tech world is desperate for us to embrace AI before it impacts us so dramatically that we rebel. And we may anyways, if we perceive it as intended not for our benefit, but either for the benefit of the richer and more powerful, or more likely intended just because they could do it.
Lynx? Or Gopher?
Or choosing between using your dialup ISP (the guy with a closet full of modems, table fans, and a DDS-2 uplink to a 'real' ISP with a T-1 and Livingston gateway) to hook up with IRC or AOL BYOA...
The choice?
- AOL: double-digit IQ, middle-school ethics, constantly 'enhancing your Internet experience'.
- IRC: grade-school ethics, lIce, eggdrop, smurfs, W/X/Y, multipart GIFs.
Or Gopher vs. Webcrawler.
FIDO.
Email delivery in single-digit days was shockingly cool.
ASCII pr0n.
Dial strings to coax another .5k baud out of that Hayes clone.
Anyone remember Don Lancaster's tinaja quests and Postscript contests?
Hey! The IBM 3270 was excellent! As was the 3290!
He should be able to reconcile it. When the government can force a third party to divulge your information and then prevent you from knowing about it, and then deny that third party from acting in your interest both as custodian of that information and as the only party aware of the request, clearly something is wrong.
Think it through, the government won't tell me it's taking my data, and then claims only I can challenge that. Huh?
And they would, having agreed to at least an oral contract.
I quit my job at the McDonald's register 40 years ago to move on to what I was trained for, electronics repair.
And concatenation is still not math. It's something else. Next thing you know, ALL Excel functions will be math. Calling your kitten 'biscuit' because it was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.
"and concatenation"
No, that's not really maths,
Ditto. Listening to the radio my 14yo daughter listens to, I hear the same rotation on all but two stations (gangsta rap/sucka noizez there*), with a 'new' song every two weeks and standards hanging on for months, intentionally marketing songs about rape, promiscuity, and random violence to teens too young to drive, a product placement I'm afraid I understand, hoping I'm wrong. I'm old enough to claim rock n roll stations did something similar to this decades ago chasing the Billboard Top 40 like a dog chases butt, though I listened to slightly more edgy rock then** and those stations seemed to hold on to stuff longer but cycled in new music for a trial before Billboard know how to spell the title.
Feh. The current hip-hop/rap music scene is so manufactured it's industrial.
* I don't let her listen to those two stations in my presence any more. I know she does when I'm not around, but she knows why I don't want her to hear that in the car with me. I cannot, literally cannot sit in the car with her when those lyrics come out. It's offensive, degrading, and I cannot permit it in my hearing.
** I listened to WLOB in Portland, Maine back in the late 60s and discovered metal late at night on my transistor with earphone, wiked decent***. When I moved 2 hours north and asked the local top radio DJ to play some Led Zeppelin, he told me 'Northern Maine isn't ready for that yet'. He was right. I was in hibernation for 3 years until I joined the service and re-entered civilization.
*** That radio also let me listen to space launches in school. And win arguments over technical details like abort plans, down range safety, and comms with my so-called science teacher. Thanks,Dad. I need to buy and rebuild a red ChannelMaster 6506 with the leather case and earphone pouch (:
What? Music, art, film, literature, publishing, journalism, all have exploded via the Internet. it's just that the Internet has disintermediated these markets. Incumbents unable to adjust have suffered.
Others have done very well indeed.
Dispute all you want, but real news sources document the problems of immigration in Germany. Relying on rosy pronouncements by Merkel isn't honest. Google will provide you with ample citations if you care to look.
Maybe 02deadbeef20, but that is the fallback...
"So in other words, out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place."
Or, more accurately, less than 5 backup/replication techniques were deployed.
I've seen this before. The backup strategy you didn't deploy didn't fail. It never existed except in documentation. And your unwarranted trust.
I do not miss sysadmin work so much.
That's not news.
Yes. I'll be praying for you, and not randomly.
"So who decides what's "sensationalist" or "false"?"
The herd decides. Or rather, they decided. Hehe.
It's not like Star Trek: The Next Generation is 'fake news'. C'mon, man.
Note that quantum encryption is being challenged. I'm pretty sure proving it's not possible is evident. Now the question you should have asked was if successful attacks on systems could be completed in a meaningful period of time... Which is almost a stupid question.
So far, however, absolute security seems unattainable in practice. And those who are successful probably don't disclose it, so we don't know...