why would a copyright holder want you to be able to easily copy it?
Naïve posters?
The copyright holder has the right to say who and how the material can be copied. If you want to copy it you have to get permission to do so, and perhaps pay for the privilege, unless the rights holder has already given you that permission. The other option is to vote with your feet.
If it could be suggested to the copyright holder that you will only buy the CD if it includes the right to copy it for personal use (and not let someone else use the CD in the meantime), that would be legal. Some BDs/DVDs come with digital download rights.
Won't it be only a little bit smaller with current pads?
If you keep the existing pad layout, you can only trim a few millimetres off one edge (with the orientation wedge).
I think you want something like a pin or nail with contacts (and securing notch) like a jack plug. Assuming you don't want to store your contacts on the SIM / PIM.
If some fraudster goes to a pensioners door and tells her he can fix her roof for £200, then spends an hour sitting on her roof eating his lunch. After his lunch, he takes the cash and leaves.
DRAM usually came as 8 chips (4k x 1, 16k x 1, 64k x 1) had row / column address time multiplexing, needed its tiny capacitors refreshing and 3 different power rails (+5, +12, -5). That is a lot of extra cost: four times as many holes drilled in the PCB for address lines (over one chip SRAM), extra chips for address multiplexing/refresh, complicated power-supply.
SRAM often came in one chip (1k x 8, 2k x 8), one power supply, static.
Re: RE: Hasn't the telephone system been a push notification system since... 1876?
For your push to work you would need a constant data connection like the bit of wire coming out of the POTS. Do people with ordinary telephones have to keep contacting the exchange to see if someone is ringing them? I think not.
The old fashioned phone sits there, and a +/- 50V signal from the exchange makes the phones bell ring, the user picks up the phone activating the current loop.
Although I agree the iPhone is a bit boring now and has too restrictive walled garden, how is the Windows Phone different? Don't you need Zune installed on your Windows PC instead of iTunes?
These SmartPhones are similar performance to a Netbook: ~1GHz, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD/flash, 800x480 screen, 3.9" touch pad... Why would you ever need to connect to a PC?
There does not currently seem to be any SmartPhones suitable for the discerning technical user, readily available. The European phone OS (Symbian, etc.) has been out marketed by the Yanks, unless you consider Linux a Finnish OS.
You know how the marketing types take several years to understand what the tech guys have been telling them, then everyone realises that by now it is old hat and nothing special, then the marketing man has to spin it in to something new and exciting.
Surely the cloud based client is going to be Java or JavaScript based with web-browser fall back. The help-desk ticket system is going to be a bowser-client database like email or a forum, with chat to talk to the customer, that could be used from an internet cafe.
The company loses all that compliance testing and the IT department's hardware department shrinks, as hardware becomes the employee's responsibility. The employer might point the employees at a company to spend their allowance with to rent kit. Company accountants love leasing: small fixed cost, no (non cash) capital/assets to manage, make the employee into a leasing company.
There will be special needs people: program developers, graphic designers, etc.; but often they have better knowledge than the IT department who want one size fits all.
The article shows that Linux needs a brand like Microsoft or Apple, it might have been Nokia before they fell on their own sword.
It is here already, you do not need to wait for Microsoft, Sun had been doing it for some time.
Google Docs is quite good for many tasks, until you go through a tunnel on the train, or Google change it. Google seems to be moving towards a version control system (perhaps with local short term copy), and this would seem a good idea, if they can crack merging back changes from several people in a user friendly way.
A hi-def touch screen like Nokia (and others) had before they copied Apple's lo-def touch sensor, could be almost as expressive as paper and pencil.
Since many compilers convert the source code, say for a for-loop, into machine code in only a few ways, one can often recognize the source idiom from the disassembly. Possibly at a higher level, one could write a program to recognize strings of machine code that correspond to the source code keywords/control structures.
Any optimization, that say removes code out of a loop*, would still leave the loop to be recognized.
* an empty for-loop can be replaced with code to set the loop variable to its final value
you have to press the "different route" (or whatever it is called now) button, else it tries to get you back on the original chosen route, assuming you missed a turn or something, even though it makes sense to go away from your destination.
when testing a safety procedure to see if the running down turbine could provide enough power to the coolant pumps while the diesel generators started up.
During the experiment the reactor got too cold and the fuel rods were withdrawn from the moderating graphite, but the system was slightly unstable and only keep under control by the automatic control system.
The slow moving coolant became superheated and started to boil in places. Some one hit the panic button which drops the fuel rods back into the moderating graphite, but the steam from the very hot rods into hot water blew the rods out of the graphite.
Things got so hot the graphite split the water into hydrogen and carbon monoxide and the pressure ruptured the vessel allowing the hot gases to react with the air (causing an explosion).
The iPhone is only easy to use if you have been shown how to use it.
I find my brother's iPhone frustrating to use: I don't know the commands/gestures, the touch screen does not respond to my finger nail or Biro cap, how would you know about voice command without seeing the advert.
or is there some useful (and efficient) purpose to these machines?
Surely, an array of synchronous gigahertz clocked dynamic logic based processor cores' energy consumption, is going to affect the weather prediction it is running.
Rather than having a single thread multifunction ALU, have many single function arithmetic and logic resources, shared by many threads. Use some sort asynchronous data-flow type configuration, and critical path optimisation. C source code to logic compilers have already started to appear, but it is difficult to describe multi-threaded algorithms in C, except for a small number of areas: terms of an expression can be paralleled, but iterations of a loop are not adequately described.
the graph shows sales flattened, they may be still going up, but the rate of increase has slowed, as is typical - a population curve, the iPhone market is saturating - it becomes increasingly difficult to find new buyers. Almost everyone who wants and can afford an iPhone, probably has one.
What conclusions you draw from this unreliable, short-term data is debatable.
Have Firefox 3.6 (desktop), and it refuses to use the desktop's window furniture: rolling it's own scroll bars (that are not as good as the built-in ones).
I was trying to point out to our Windows and Mac OS using cousins that what with Linux you get a range of choices from fast-simple to rich-slow(er). The fact the window decoration doesn't match, doesn't stop you logging in with the matching desktop - all your files are still there, not like dual boot extra hoop to jump through situation.
I run KDE 4.5 on a netbook and it is only about 20 seconds slower to login than a lighter desktop - I like the potential of the Plasma widget 'app store' , although I'm only running a weather and a calendar widget in addition to the standard ones.
Display build into your sunglasses, perhaps wireless and stereoscopic 3D, and a Dasher input system controlled by the position of your finger in the air in front of you, measured by the phone's camera.
One idea is you write your application in a sort of high level (3D iconic) script, and the parallel processing works out the best way to make it parallel.
An event driven web-page (RIA) is almost parallel: some animated objects are running by themselves (providing a human followable transition between states), while the user manipulates the space, while an calendar event fires, while your mobile device finds a better connection to the internet, while your location is used to find helpers or friends and alert you of their presence, ...
I'm sure many web browser users read one tab while another is loading.
The trick is simple processes, complex data space.
it seems Microsoft are, in effect, just making their SkyDrive into another network drive.
Microsoft have spent 30 years making operating-systems for personal computers, but now they are failing to adapt to impersonal computers.
If your documents were stored as a XML tree, different people could work on different branches of the tree. Perhaps, different branches could be stored on different computers with a cache snapshot of the last version stored locally. Unfortunately, Microsoft Office is a collection of widely different applications bundled together: internally they have different libraries and data-structures to do the same thing from a user's point-of-view. You can embed one type of document in another, but both applications have to run to support the different ways the same data is stored. (KOffice have tried to share colour setting, font setting, shape drawing, etc. amongst the different document types. The different office applications could degenerate to template managers and template filters. It seems nonsense to have two separate documents: slide-show and brochure: about the same subject, when they are just different representations of the same data.)
DNA finger printing just chops the DNA at a certain combination of molecules using an enzyme, this give strands of various lengths. The chip just measures the proportion of each size. It does not decode the DNA. The resultant display gives a signature that is not unique: like error checking.
Lots of people must have the same PIN as it is only four digit and there are 50+ million people in the UK.
I think the First Class refers to function objects like JavaScript (and PostScript) have. Functions that can passed about like other variables and created at run-time.
May be the idea is to compile JavaScript into Java, or to keep up with C#.
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Re: Fools!
There is a similar looking synchrotron near the Rutherford Labs near Didcot, Ox.
Perhaps instant travel will be available between Cupertino, Cheltenham and Didcot.
If you are not going to give them money
why would a copyright holder want you to be able to easily copy it?
Naïve posters?
The copyright holder has the right to say who and how the material can be copied. If you want to copy it you have to get permission to do so, and perhaps pay for the privilege, unless the rights holder has already given you that permission. The other option is to vote with your feet.
If it could be suggested to the copyright holder that you will only buy the CD if it includes the right to copy it for personal use (and not let someone else use the CD in the meantime), that would be legal. Some BDs/DVDs come with digital download rights.
Won't it be only a little bit smaller with current pads?
If you keep the existing pad layout, you can only trim a few millimetres off one edge (with the orientation wedge).
I think you want something like a pin or nail with contacts (and securing notch) like a jack plug. Assuming you don't want to store your contacts on the SIM / PIM.
If some fraudster goes to a pensioners door and tells her he can fix her roof for £200, then spends an hour sitting on her roof eating his lunch. After his lunch, he takes the cash and leaves.
It is still wrong to take money off a fool!
Re: Yes, DRAM
DRAM usually came as 8 chips (4k x 1, 16k x 1, 64k x 1) had row / column address time multiplexing, needed its tiny capacitors refreshing and 3 different power rails (+5, +12, -5). That is a lot of extra cost: four times as many holes drilled in the PCB for address lines (over one chip SRAM), extra chips for address multiplexing/refresh, complicated power-supply.
SRAM often came in one chip (1k x 8, 2k x 8), one power supply, static.
iBook
Two 7" side by side with a sort of hinge thing in the middle.
It could have lots of very thin double sided screens, all secured at the hinge.
Re: Ability to turn Start Screen OFF?
Don't the pre-releases run fast, but slow down when some of the missing features and bugs are fixed?
Re: RE: Hasn't the telephone system been a push notification system since... 1876?
For your push to work you would need a constant data connection like the bit of wire coming out of the POTS. Do people with ordinary telephones have to keep contacting the exchange to see if someone is ringing them? I think not.
The old fashioned phone sits there, and a +/- 50V signal from the exchange makes the phones bell ring, the user picks up the phone activating the current loop.
How do you touch an icon behind the screen
without breaking the screen?
Perhaps numbering in binary: 11 binary -> 3 decimal
that is all
Wot?
With reference to the linked article.
Although I agree the iPhone is a bit boring now and has too restrictive walled garden, how is the Windows Phone different? Don't you need Zune installed on your Windows PC instead of iTunes?
These SmartPhones are similar performance to a Netbook: ~1GHz, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD/flash, 800x480 screen, 3.9" touch pad... Why would you ever need to connect to a PC?
There does not currently seem to be any SmartPhones suitable for the discerning technical user, readily available. The European phone OS (Symbian, etc.) has been out marketed by the Yanks, unless you consider Linux a Finnish OS.
Isn't it HTML5 on everything?
You know how the marketing types take several years to understand what the tech guys have been telling them, then everyone realises that by now it is old hat and nothing special, then the marketing man has to spin it in to something new and exciting.
Re: Technology allowance...?
Surely the cloud based client is going to be Java or JavaScript based with web-browser fall back. The help-desk ticket system is going to be a bowser-client database like email or a forum, with chat to talk to the customer, that could be used from an internet cafe.
The company loses all that compliance testing and the IT department's hardware department shrinks, as hardware becomes the employee's responsibility. The employer might point the employees at a company to spend their allowance with to rent kit. Company accountants love leasing: small fixed cost, no (non cash) capital/assets to manage, make the employee into a leasing company.
There will be special needs people: program developers, graphic designers, etc.; but often they have better knowledge than the IT department who want one size fits all.
Linux needs a brand
The article shows that Linux needs a brand like Microsoft or Apple, it might have been Nokia before they fell on their own sword.
It is here already, you do not need to wait for Microsoft, Sun had been doing it for some time.
Google Docs is quite good for many tasks, until you go through a tunnel on the train, or Google change it. Google seems to be moving towards a version control system (perhaps with local short term copy), and this would seem a good idea, if they can crack merging back changes from several people in a user friendly way.
A hi-def touch screen like Nokia (and others) had before they copied Apple's lo-def touch sensor, could be almost as expressive as paper and pencil.
How / when did we lose the Britishness?
The .co.uk website asks for your DOB in US style.
@amanfromearth
Since many compilers convert the source code, say for a for-loop, into machine code in only a few ways, one can often recognize the source idiom from the disassembly. Possibly at a higher level, one could write a program to recognize strings of machine code that correspond to the source code keywords/control structures.
Any optimization, that say removes code out of a loop*, would still leave the loop to be recognized.
* an empty for-loop can be replaced with code to set the loop variable to its final value
Simple solution
Just (re)broadcast the affected channels on 4G and give those affected a 4G set-top-box,
oh wait...
Apple has iTunes, Nokia has Ovi
Ovi maps:
you have to press the "different route" (or whatever it is called now) button, else it tries to get you back on the original chosen route, assuming you missed a turn or something, even though it makes sense to go away from your destination.
Apple has iTunes
Samsung has Touchwiz
HTC has Sense
Nokia had Ovi
Re: The Snap Feature
Yes, I couldn't turn it off fast enough when KDE copied the 'feature'
In Chernobyl...
what is thought to have happened,
when testing a safety procedure to see if the running down turbine could provide enough power to the coolant pumps while the diesel generators started up.
During the experiment the reactor got too cold and the fuel rods were withdrawn from the moderating graphite, but the system was slightly unstable and only keep under control by the automatic control system.
The slow moving coolant became superheated and started to boil in places. Some one hit the panic button which drops the fuel rods back into the moderating graphite, but the steam from the very hot rods into hot water blew the rods out of the graphite.
Things got so hot the graphite split the water into hydrogen and carbon monoxide and the pressure ruptured the vessel allowing the hot gases to react with the air (causing an explosion).
Who gets developing world's financial services?
Nokia help provide banking services though SMS and local (phone) shops in some rural areas, surely this would be very valuable data.
Rubber Duck is luck*
Lame Duck is may be what you are after
* in my rhyming dictionary, I don't have
The iPhone is only easy to use if you have been shown how to use it.
I find my brother's iPhone frustrating to use: I don't know the commands/gestures, the touch screen does not respond to my finger nail or Biro cap, how would you know about voice command without seeing the advert.
What?
Not able to use ready available technology developed outside North America?
The badly named developing world seems to manage.
Probably yes
but you become responsible if it messes with your phone or data
Is this continent dick waving
or is there some useful (and efficient) purpose to these machines?
Surely, an array of synchronous gigahertz clocked dynamic logic based processor cores' energy consumption, is going to affect the weather prediction it is running.
Rather than having a single thread multifunction ALU, have many single function arithmetic and logic resources, shared by many threads. Use some sort asynchronous data-flow type configuration, and critical path optimisation. C source code to logic compilers have already started to appear, but it is difficult to describe multi-threaded algorithms in C, except for a small number of areas: terms of an expression can be paralleled, but iterations of a loop are not adequately described.
From a hardware point-of-view
probably fairly easy to put Android on these phones, if they don't sell - just change the touch screen and re-flash.
Flattened doesn't mean stopped or slowed
from
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/apr/21/apple-financial-results-analysis
the graph shows sales flattened, they may be still going up, but the rate of increase has slowed, as is typical - a population curve, the iPhone market is saturating - it becomes increasingly difficult to find new buyers. Almost everyone who wants and can afford an iPhone, probably has one.
What conclusions you draw from this unreliable, short-term data is debatable.
XScale was Intel's ARM based SoC
Intel had ARM?
x86 is Intel's legacy, and also runs Windows. Linux and Mac OS X don't care so much.
Audio Video Synchronization surely depends on the additional decoders and compensation applied in their drivers.
Does Firefox have NIH syndrome?
Have Firefox 3.6 (desktop), and it refuses to use the desktop's window furniture: rolling it's own scroll bars (that are not as good as the built-in ones).
Flight case
tough outer shell, soft sponge inside.
Isn't it the backlight
that uses all the power in LCD, trying to compete with the sun, doesn't my calculator have a reflective display?
Listen to cricket
or other midweek event, perhaps.
Surely it's for games and other software.
The disk all the large assets: textures, maps, etc. The flash holds save points and updates.
Nokia 1.2M units per day in 1Q10
from http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1372013
smart-phones per day
267k Symbian
117k RIM
93k iPhone OS
267,000 Symbian/smart-phones per day
267,000 Symbian/smart-phones per day
1,200,000 Nokia phones per day
S40 is not on Symbian, being J2ME based app platform (so like Android? without the coffee cup logo)
I agree
and I said as much six months ago or so.
I was trying to point out to our Windows and Mac OS using cousins that what with Linux you get a range of choices from fast-simple to rich-slow(er). The fact the window decoration doesn't match, doesn't stop you logging in with the matching desktop - all your files are still there, not like dual boot extra hoop to jump through situation.
I run KDE 4.5 on a netbook and it is only about 20 seconds slower to login than a lighter desktop - I like the potential of the Plasma widget 'app store' , although I'm only running a weather and a calendar widget in addition to the standard ones.
USA survey non-World view
If it is not made in North America it doesn't count as a smart-phone.
I'm with you
Perhaps Netbooks need an OS that does not cost 33% of the price.
That is all
KDE and Gnome and ...
You can install several window managers on the same machine, and choose which one you use at login time.
I would recommend the two big ones (KDE and Gnome) and a lightweight one ( Xfce ).
How about?
Display build into your sunglasses, perhaps wireless and stereoscopic 3D, and a Dasher input system controlled by the position of your finger in the air in front of you, measured by the phone's camera.
Re: Good luck with that
I cannot find my crystal ball, but...
One idea is you write your application in a sort of high level (3D iconic) script, and the parallel processing works out the best way to make it parallel.
An event driven web-page (RIA) is almost parallel: some animated objects are running by themselves (providing a human followable transition between states), while the user manipulates the space, while an calendar event fires, while your mobile device finds a better connection to the internet, while your location is used to find helpers or friends and alert you of their presence, ...
I'm sure many web browser users read one tab while another is loading.
The trick is simple processes, complex data space.
They already have network drives
it seems Microsoft are, in effect, just making their SkyDrive into another network drive.
Microsoft have spent 30 years making operating-systems for personal computers, but now they are failing to adapt to impersonal computers.
If your documents were stored as a XML tree, different people could work on different branches of the tree. Perhaps, different branches could be stored on different computers with a cache snapshot of the last version stored locally. Unfortunately, Microsoft Office is a collection of widely different applications bundled together: internally they have different libraries and data-structures to do the same thing from a user's point-of-view. You can embed one type of document in another, but both applications have to run to support the different ways the same data is stored. (KOffice have tried to share colour setting, font setting, shape drawing, etc. amongst the different document types. The different office applications could degenerate to template managers and template filters. It seems nonsense to have two separate documents: slide-show and brochure: about the same subject, when they are just different representations of the same data.)
Some title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits
Perhaps many people don't feel they can afford $500 for a mobile, but 18 x £35 is OK.
It is just a sieve
DNA finger printing just chops the DNA at a certain combination of molecules using an enzyme, this give strands of various lengths. The chip just measures the proportion of each size. It does not decode the DNA. The resultant display gives a signature that is not unique: like error checking.
Lots of people must have the same PIN as it is only four digit and there are 50+ million people in the UK.
Couldn't manage a noce graph?
That is all.
You can edit on Symbian !?
It's not pretty, but it is possible
Re: Absolutely NOT token ring.
Yes, not Token Ring, but more like packet switching like used in Cambridge Ring and cell phones
Re: 3D Camera
It has '3D' microphones, but only one image sensor. It determines depth by the size of the ball on the Move controller.
In reply to earlier post...
I have a wireless mouse and keyboard connected to my PS3, but I don't think many games support it.
Re: First Class Java Alternatives
I think the First Class refers to function objects like JavaScript (and PostScript) have. Functions that can passed about like other variables and created at run-time.
May be the idea is to compile JavaScript into Java, or to keep up with C#.
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