holy cow! I got a real deal selling my 1990 oldsmobile for just over $1000! I wonder if the guy buying my car thought it was an antique and actually worth something.
I must've got ripped off though, my 2001 corolla still doesn't drive 7680mph yet.
there's a law that says consumers can keep their number even when they switch providers. It's just a lot of hassle, but if you really want to keep the number that you have, you can do it.
It has to be much better than this to get consumers to buy it. Usb? no way. You're much better off with bluetooth considering bluetooth adapters run for under $50 these days.
b. a decent, usable screen/browser
On those tiny cell phones you're never gonna have a decent usable screen/browser.... EVER! You might as well settle for bluetooth connectivity so that you can surf the web on your ipaq with the phone in your pocket.
c. a smallish form factor
Isn't the P800 small enough?
d. palm-like features
why not just buy a palm? if you need mobile connectivity, use bluetooth. How can you put all those features into one device and still maintain a smallish form factor? There is no way the screen will be readable with a smallish form factor and enough landscape to display your calendar. I honestly don't want a 160x160 palm display squished into the T68's display.
e. lots of third party developers and apps
P800 has that
f. total cost $100
yeah, maybe after every cell phone in the world has this. So just wait 10 years and you'll be able to buy it for today's equivalent of $100. Why not $50? 100 sounds like a nice round number?
j. 250 primetime minutes, free weekends/nights
Hey buddy, people expect more than 250 primetime minutes. By the time a palm/mobile phone device will cost $100, I'm sure they'll have near-unlimited talking minutes.
One sucky thing about T-mobile's GPRS is that they charge you by the megabyte rather than time. It's a dollar a meg and after getting through the spam in my email, it could cost me $2-3 everytime I check my email which is why GPRS is simply useless until the price goes down.
I had something similar to this, only it wasn't a contest. It was more of an incentive-based bet. My boss challenged me to finish the product by a certain date we both agreed on, and if I did meet the deadline, he's buy me whatever LCD monitor in my cube. (normally this couldn't be done since our company only buys products from IBM and I wanted a studio display:) )
You may even want to consider another completely opensource J2EE app server called Jonas. Unlike JBoss, they don't use dynamic proxies, instead they do some pre-compilation techniques so they don't have to do dynamic proxies. Take a glance at the JBoss/Jonas comparison here:
It shows Jonas-Jeremie getting a significant improvement over JBoss-RMI even under jdk 1.4! In the past there have been major flamewars over the JBoss and Jonas crowds, but they all have their own good reasons. So if you really wanted flaming speed, check out Jonas. They've even completely re-written their own JMS/RMI implementation called Jonathan.
Another nice thing about cell numbers is that you can easily change your number annually when your contract expires and you have the option of moving to a different wireless provider with a new number, usually at a better cost benefit too since providers are always competing each other out.
Ya know, they really haven't done anything with AOP yet. I mean, they do use the whole dynamic-proxies thing, but that isn't really AOP. They are about to "try" doing some AOP stuff but they're encountering lots of speed bumps because they're discovering that they can't create a custom class loader that the Sun class loader will actually load. (chicken-egg problem, see JBoss-AOP forums for more details). Basically they're trying to rewrite the Java system classes but are finding that they either have to hijack the Sun class loader, or they have to statically modify the classes beforehand. They're trying to use concepts of AOP so that they can (in the future) convert every single basic java object into an EJB and implement transparent caching features without the programmer explicitly specifying it in code. They are not actually using Aspects, AOP is just one of those buzzwords for anything dealing with reflective programming languages or MOP related. They're trying to make use of Chiba's Javassist package to do bytecode rewriting as their own form of AOP, but what they don't realize is that Javassist is just not capable of doing the things they want, yet they are too stubborn to try and use something like BCEL which may be harder to use, but can offer a lot more.
hello? some people don't use WinXP or even windows for that matter.... And two of my monitors aren't running windows, hence the basis of my question to begin with!!
Here at work I use 3 monitors controlled by one mouse and one keyboard by making use of x2x and x2vnc. Because of the large amount of desktop area, sometimes it's to easy to locate where my mouse is. I'd have to jerk my mouse around to see which part of the screen is moving.... and it gets even more confusing when one monitor is turned off. What I'd really like to do is hack their glowing-ball-protocol so I can have one ball on top of each monitor that changes color everytime my mouse was in that "area". It would probably require changes to x2x and x2vnc, but the software part doesn't look hard.
You should've left a backdoor open! Like install VNC with a hidden icon so you can sneak into her computer and accidentally "remove" a required dll driver file. Will she then say she is sorry and try to get back together again so you can "put back" that dll file? Or maybe she'll try to get with someone else and test them... if the new guy can figure out which dll file to replace, he becomes the new boyfriend, else the guy becomes "just friends."
hey broadband users in 2013 will be equivalent to the modem users today! And modem users in 2013 will be those annoying people that still like to live with nostalgia. "Back in my day, I had to drive to work in the snow! Uphill both ways!"
why can't they fix the timings? ie, make all computations last a maximum and a minimum of 5 seconds. That way, all computations will take the same amount of time, how could the program detect this?
I don't know, but these people sure don't think so. Though I don't think those hot supermodels would actually enjoy carrying around computers that are hot and cumbersome.
Unfortunately not. Where are you going to find half mile deep water anywhere but the ocean? Are we going to purify ocean water? It's far far more expensive to purify ocean water and remove the salt than it is to purify sewage. Unless you have a new invention that can remove the salt from the water at a really low cost. Islands like Hong Kong have tried that in the past and deemed it too expensive. Places like HK uses slightly purified ocean water for non-drinking purposes such as the toilet, shower, radiator, etc.
Do you really think boycotting Benetton will even cause them to give in a 15 minute thought? Benetton markets to non-geeks who have money to throw around. Most of these people don't know what rfid is and probably won't care if they also stuck a bluetooth device in every underwear. There are better solutions than a boycott coming from the slashdot crowd. A bunch of slashdot geeks boycotting Benetton is like a bunch of football players boycotting Transmeta.
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I got mine for $300 off some guy who got it at some flea market. It still works, just has a few chips here and there.
holy cow! I got a real deal selling my 1990 oldsmobile for just over $1000! I wonder if the guy buying my car thought it was an antique and actually worth something.
I must've got ripped off though, my 2001 corolla still doesn't drive 7680mph yet.
I think you're talking about GPRS which is probably only 2.5G. GPRS is the one with big latency... 3G has the cable modem speeds/latency.
there's a law that says consumers can keep their number even when they switch providers. It's just a lot of hassle, but if you really want to keep the number that you have, you can do it.
a. desktop synch
It has to be much better than this to get consumers to buy it. Usb? no way. You're much better off with bluetooth considering bluetooth adapters run for under $50 these days.
b. a decent, usable screen/browser
On those tiny cell phones you're never gonna have a decent usable screen/browser.... EVER! You might as well settle for bluetooth connectivity so that you can surf the web on your ipaq with the phone in your pocket.
c. a smallish form factor
Isn't the P800 small enough?
d. palm-like features
why not just buy a palm? if you need mobile connectivity, use bluetooth. How can you put all those features into one device and still maintain a smallish form factor? There is no way the screen will be readable with a smallish form factor and enough landscape to display your calendar. I honestly don't want a 160x160 palm display squished into the T68's display.
e. lots of third party developers and apps
P800 has that
f. total cost $100
yeah, maybe after every cell phone in the world has this. So just wait 10 years and you'll be able to buy it for today's equivalent of $100. Why not $50? 100 sounds like a nice round number?
j. 250 primetime minutes, free weekends/nights
Hey buddy, people expect more than 250 primetime minutes. By the time a palm/mobile phone device will cost $100, I'm sure they'll have near-unlimited talking minutes.
One sucky thing about T-mobile's GPRS is that they charge you by the megabyte rather than time. It's a dollar a meg and after getting through the spam in my email, it could cost me $2-3 everytime I check my email which is why GPRS is simply useless until the price goes down.
Who was that Quake guy that won Carmack's Ferrari? Didn't he also start-up www.firingsquad.com also? Shows that even 3D gamers have real talent.
I had something similar to this, only it wasn't a contest. It was more of an incentive-based bet. My boss challenged me to finish the product by a certain date we both agreed on, and if I did meet the deadline, he's buy me whatever LCD monitor in my cube. (normally this couldn't be done since our company only buys products from IBM and I wanted a studio display :) )
wow this is funny? in that case, let me make some additional jokes: %32, %65, %42
You may even want to consider another completely opensource J2EE app server called Jonas. Unlike JBoss, they don't use dynamic proxies, instead they do some pre-compilation techniques so they don't have to do dynamic proxies. Take a glance at the JBoss/Jonas comparison here:
_ scalability_ejb.pdf
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/DynaServer/perf
It shows Jonas-Jeremie getting a significant improvement over JBoss-RMI even under jdk 1.4! In the past there have been major flamewars over the JBoss and Jonas crowds, but they all have their own good reasons. So if you really wanted flaming speed, check out Jonas. They've even completely re-written their own JMS/RMI implementation called Jonathan.
Another nice thing about cell numbers is that you can easily change your number annually when your contract expires and you have the option of moving to a different wireless provider with a new number, usually at a better cost benefit too since providers are always competing each other out.
Ya know, they really haven't done anything with AOP yet. I mean, they do use the whole dynamic-proxies thing, but that isn't really AOP. They are about to "try" doing some AOP stuff but they're encountering lots of speed bumps because they're discovering that they can't create a custom class loader that the Sun class loader will actually load. (chicken-egg problem, see JBoss-AOP forums for more details). Basically they're trying to rewrite the Java system classes but are finding that they either have to hijack the Sun class loader, or they have to statically modify the classes beforehand. They're trying to use concepts of AOP so that they can (in the future) convert every single basic java object into an EJB and implement transparent caching features without the programmer explicitly specifying it in code. They are not actually using Aspects, AOP is just one of those buzzwords for anything dealing with reflective programming languages or MOP related. They're trying to make use of Chiba's Javassist package to do bytecode rewriting as their own form of AOP, but what they don't realize is that Javassist is just not capable of doing the things they want, yet they are too stubborn to try and use something like BCEL which may be harder to use, but can offer a lot more.
hello? some people don't use WinXP or even windows for that matter.... And two of my monitors aren't running windows, hence the basis of my question to begin with!!
stupid submit button!!
That should've read "...sometimes it's NOT easy to locate where the mouse is...."
Here at work I use 3 monitors controlled by one mouse and one keyboard by making use of x2x and x2vnc. Because of the large amount of desktop area, sometimes it's to easy to locate where my mouse is. I'd have to jerk my mouse around to see which part of the screen is moving.... and it gets even more confusing when one monitor is turned off. What I'd really like to do is hack their glowing-ball-protocol so I can have one ball on top of each monitor that changes color everytime my mouse was in that "area". It would probably require changes to x2x and x2vnc, but the software part doesn't look hard.
You should've left a backdoor open! Like install VNC with a hidden icon so you can sneak into her computer and accidentally "remove" a required dll driver file. Will she then say she is sorry and try to get back together again so you can "put back" that dll file? Or maybe she'll try to get with someone else and test them... if the new guy can figure out which dll file to replace, he becomes the new boyfriend, else the guy becomes "just friends."
That webdesigner also created a pretty interesting website that posts over-the-top job postings along with her own snazzy remarks about it.
When you say "metabrowser" are you talking about the dynabook conceived by Alan Kay in the mid-1970's? Where is the dynabook today?
hey broadband users in 2013 will be equivalent to the modem users today! And modem users in 2013 will be those annoying people that still like to live with nostalgia. "Back in my day, I had to drive to work in the snow! Uphill both ways!"
why can't they fix the timings? ie, make all computations last a maximum and a minimum of 5 seconds. That way, all computations will take the same amount of time, how could the program detect this?
I don't know, but these people sure don't think so. Though I don't think those hot supermodels would actually enjoy carrying around computers that are hot and cumbersome.
well, boycotting Benetton is like us boycotting SCO. ....
oh we're already boycotting SCO you mean?
Unfortunately not. Where are you going to find half mile deep water anywhere but the ocean? Are we going to purify ocean water? It's far far more expensive to purify ocean water and remove the salt than it is to purify sewage. Unless you have a new invention that can remove the salt from the water at a really low cost. Islands like Hong Kong have tried that in the past and deemed it too expensive. Places like HK uses slightly purified ocean water for non-drinking purposes such as the toilet, shower, radiator, etc.
Do you really think boycotting Benetton will even cause them to give in a 15 minute thought? Benetton markets to non-geeks who have money to throw around. Most of these people don't know what rfid is and probably won't care if they also stuck a bluetooth device in every underwear. There are better solutions than a boycott coming from the slashdot crowd. A bunch of slashdot geeks boycotting Benetton is like a bunch of football players boycotting Transmeta.
This is how you counter a survey telemarketer from now on:
telemarketer: hi we like to ask you a few questions about our new product versus the competing product X.
you: is this a survey?
telemarketer: yes
you: Ask me if I care.
*click!*