So Apple is a "crappy" company? you obviously are a anonymous coward - i still have my mac around. Some of the best ideas in computing came out of em, still today are better in some fields. Their risc processers are damn good, and their stock has made me money - so, how crappy exactly is crappy in ur book? Only cus they arn't a frontrunner?, so what - do u hate sun too? Sorry - u needed to be ranted to.
The ultimate would be to have the virtual desktop - adjust it as you need it. Instead of running your refresh rates low, perhaps you could use a better video devices? There are several on the maket that might help your "problem", they can be ordered in secracy.
What is the point of getting any bigger? I agree with the idea of 15-17 being satisfactory. Don't they realize that the larger u get the worse the LCD is? If you were to go off on a tangent, u would kno that plasma screens for theaters are not used often because of 2 reasons. Sheer expense, and the lack of color. The bigger you get the more "black tone" there is. It is hard to heat all that crystal. The expense comes from the filterization and disposal. I mean, there are literally millions of pixels in them things!, and to make sure that not one is bad is hard. All the bad ones need to be properly disposed of. Now, im not saying that we should resort to 3 lens projectors as our laptop screen's. Although it would be phat to just have a 100 inch screen projected anywhere, HDTV quality with phat picture. But a limit needs to be drawn somewhere..., perhaps people will realize that its too expensive, and not that great yet at those sizes.
Perhaps the real reason that the Chinese are even bothering with this is because its free. I mean, not to be stereotypical, but it is often assumed that Asians are cheap. There might be SOME truth to this, but nevertheless if you are a government that has to support the largest population of citizens int he world - you would be pretty concerned about cost too. Imagine paying for a 10,000 win2k licenses, as opposed to jus leaching off of the linux platform.
Microsoft already opened their first off U.S. office in India, there might be some truth to what you say. Althouhg, Pakistan would have to sign a deal with Apple, not Macintosh.
See, the problem is the FCC did make a declaration. They said that they want a free enterprise in the united states. They want alot of companies with different technologies. They wont allow more than a certain number of licenses for a medium in an area. In some cities there may be one provider for CDMA, another for TDMA, and one using analog only. This is because the FCC wont allow for them both to be on the same technology. Otherwise, a majority would use only CDMA as it is arguably the best. I dont agree with the FCC, they are stupid for doing this - this is why we cant have a standard. On a lighter note, HDD is a "add-on" for CDMA, so companies with CDMA may chose to use this. rahul
Well, the incentive for them to do it is alot of companies who dont pimp dsl or cable access (sprint pcs, nextel) will be offering it....so if they wana stay in the game they need to offer the access - this is a great way to do it. as for the stability of cell's i agree, it doesn't exist.
There seems to be some confusion about this, i was confused at one point too. Emm, it turns out that if you read further into the technology they are deploying - it is going to be a add on to the existing CDMA technology. Kinda like a bolt on... It is 2.4 megabit "HDR", there is info about it on qualcomm's site: http://www.qualcomm.com/hdr/hdr99/whatis.html
I have heard that Nippen Telephone and Telegraph of Japan has gotten the contract for their "G3" technology to be deployed as the next standard in Europe. Their technology seems to have the exact same amount of wireless data capability. So what does this do for the U.S? We have always been one step behind the Europeans in cell phone technology because we failed to adopt the standard, instead creating our own version(s). For example, now we have CDMA, TDMA, Analog, and whatever nextel uses as the main forms of communication. Europe on the other hand has GSM, and only GSM. Hence making it easier for wireless giants to develop better phones for the network, since they are not stuck making several versions of one phone to work on all the different mediums. Regardless if qualcomm has the technology, we will end up having issues as the past has shown.
I cant microsoft did that - i reccomend people to just flat out read their site, it is very insulting. if anyone wants to get together and make a page with the other side of the "myths" icq me. lol.
Why would it be bill gates fault? Bill gates would not risk his 50 million dollar investment going down the drain because all the users of slashdot went over there on a random tuesday night at 3 in the morn to design a computer run fire deploying system...randomly of course. j/k
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So Apple is a "crappy" company? you obviously are a anonymous coward - i still have my mac around. Some of the best ideas in computing came out of em, still today are better in some fields. Their risc processers are damn good, and their stock has made me money - so, how crappy exactly is crappy in ur book? Only cus they arn't a frontrunner?, so what - do u hate sun too? Sorry - u needed to be ranted to.
The ultimate would be to have the virtual desktop - adjust it as you need it. Instead of running your refresh rates low, perhaps you could use a better video devices? There are several on the maket that might help your "problem", they can be ordered in secracy.
What is the point of getting any bigger? I agree with the idea of 15-17 being satisfactory. Don't they realize that the larger u get the worse the LCD is? If you were to go off on a tangent, u would kno that plasma screens for theaters are not used often because of 2 reasons. Sheer expense, and the lack of color. The bigger you get the more "black tone" there is. It is hard to heat all that crystal. The expense comes from the filterization and disposal. I mean, there are literally millions of pixels in them things!, and to make sure that not one is bad is hard. All the bad ones need to be properly disposed of. Now, im not saying that we should resort to 3 lens projectors as our laptop screen's. Although it would be phat to just have a 100 inch screen projected anywhere, HDTV quality with phat picture. But a limit needs to be drawn somewhere..., perhaps people will realize that its too expensive, and not that great yet at those sizes.
Perhaps the real reason that the Chinese are even bothering with this is because its free. I mean, not to be stereotypical, but it is often assumed that Asians are cheap. There might be SOME truth to this, but nevertheless if you are a government that has to support the largest population of citizens int he world - you would be pretty concerned about cost too. Imagine paying for a 10,000 win2k licenses, as opposed to jus leaching off of the linux platform.
Microsoft already opened their first off U.S. office in India, there might be some truth to what you say. Althouhg, Pakistan would have to sign a deal with Apple, not Macintosh.
lol that SUCKS!
See, the problem is the FCC did make a declaration. They said that they want a free enterprise in the united states. They want alot of companies with different technologies. They wont allow more than a certain number of licenses for a medium in an area. In some cities there may be one provider for CDMA, another for TDMA, and one using analog only. This is because the FCC wont allow for them both to be on the same technology. Otherwise, a majority would use only CDMA as it is arguably the best. I dont agree with the FCC, they are stupid for doing this - this is why we cant have a standard. On a lighter note, HDD is a "add-on" for CDMA, so companies with CDMA may chose to use this. rahul
Well, the incentive for them to do it is alot of companies who dont pimp dsl or cable access (sprint pcs, nextel) will be offering it....so if they wana stay in the game they need to offer the access - this is a great way to do it. as for the stability of cell's i agree, it doesn't exist.
There seems to be some confusion about this, i was confused at one point too. Emm, it turns out that if you read further into the technology they are deploying - it is going to be a add on to the existing CDMA technology. Kinda like a bolt on... It is 2.4 megabit "HDR", there is info about it on qualcomm's site: http://www.qualcomm.com/hdr/hdr99/whatis.html
I have heard that Nippen Telephone and Telegraph of Japan has gotten the contract for their "G3" technology to be deployed as the next standard in Europe. Their technology seems to have the exact same amount of wireless data capability. So what does this do for the U.S? We have always been one step behind the Europeans in cell phone technology because we failed to adopt the standard, instead creating our own version(s). For example, now we have CDMA, TDMA, Analog, and whatever nextel uses as the main forms of communication. Europe on the other hand has GSM, and only GSM. Hence making it easier for wireless giants to develop better phones for the network, since they are not stuck making several versions of one phone to work on all the different mediums. Regardless if qualcomm has the technology, we will end up having issues as the past has shown.
I cant microsoft did that - i reccomend people to just flat out read their site, it is very insulting. if anyone wants to get together and make a page with the other side of the "myths" icq me. lol.
ditto
Someone mentioned that pictures of the house be added - why not add the choices of the females?
Why would it be bill gates fault? Bill gates would not risk his 50 million dollar investment going down the drain because all the users of slashdot went over there on a random tuesday night at 3 in the morn to design a computer run fire deploying system...randomly of course. j/k
yea yea..pictures...hopefully of when it was actually going on..j/k..
Doesn't anyone have anything to say about the poor cell phone? Wireless data? The poor thing..