I'd go a step further to say that there were many different models of the RAZR. I have one of the higher end ones (second hand) and it easily keeps up with moden phones.
And functionality wise it does pretty well too. It's easy to teather, browse (I use opera) and run Java applications.
The OP may not like their phone, but if you read the wikipedia page, you can see the original RAZR easily makes it into the definition of a smart phone.
That would be an interesting competition.
reporter: With me now is Tom who has just booted a computer inside a computer, insiiiiide a computer sixTEEN times!
tom: Yes, it took about a year to boot the last layer of nesting and takes nearly 2 hours to run ell ess, but it was totally worth it. I'm really excited.
reporter: And what do you want to do with it now?
tom: In a couple of years, I hope to be up to 17 layers, and it's my life ambition to get up to 32.
Seriously though, if I was to do such a thing, I'd put it in a VM to begin with. So at least then I could pause and resume the VM on different hardware so that I could continually upgrade the hardware as newer stuff became available. Now what would be really cool, is to implement hibernate (or suspend to ram and dump the ram) so that the browser could be changed out without rebooting the JSVM. Now that persistent storage is sorted, perhaps that isn't too hard?
The next thing I'd do is try to automate as much as possible. Because once it starts slowing down, it would be pretty frustrating to interact with.
As soon as someone figures out a more useful way to access the internet than simply tunneling through http/s, this will effectively provide rooted-box-in-a-box. Ie stuff-all effort to get a huge number of hosts at your disposal. Persistent storage provides an easy way to resume where you left off.
US is not another availability zone -- it's a different region. There are multiple AZs per region and -- if Amazon is doing their job -- a lightning strike should not take down more than one AZ in a region.
Correct, except that it was only one availability zone that went down. That AZ maps to one of 3 different labels for different customers. For us it was eu-west-1a, for one of our customers, it was eu-west-1b. The AZs did their job exactly as they were supposed to.
I think every mobile phone I've owned in close to a decade has had a built-in email client.
Which on a personal phone, is fine for your personal mail. Not work work email as well.
And on the ones I've used (Ranging from motorola e770v to a sony erricson with android 2.1) have not handled high quantities or sizes of messages well.
You don't have to use your hardware my way, just like I don't have to use my hardware your way. You have to be careful with sweeping statements like the one posted a few posts back. They rarely bare any resemblance to reality, but not always. For if you were to tell me that sitting on tacks is not fun, I'd be inclined to agree with you.... Darn, I can think of someone who would disagree (no seriously!).
Web mail is for homeless people to use in libraries
Are you trolling? Or are you serious?
I recently broke my collar bone and am frequently visiting the hospital. Web mail is one more valuable tools I can use to keep working on my phone while I wait for my appointment that is running late because the health system is over loaded. It's also great on an over-crowded train where a laptop simply isn't viable.
Without having read the article, I imagine the aim is to give the companies something they will have to compete with, which they can be held to. They have to compete on it because if their numbers are lower than someone else's, then that is a disadvantage. But if their numbers are higher they have to follow through.
While we can be pedantic about the words in a summary, it's probably missing the point.
I like your thoughts on the avg and max speeds as well.
How they are saved depends on the distro. If you use something like Fedora before this, then whether using a gui or command line, you are effectively editing a file and then reload that file by restarting a sudo service. If you use something like gentoo, then it saves your firewall on shutdown or at your request.
Irrelevant to the context of this thread. But if you want, this is what "reloading the whole firewall" refers to.
I guess you replied before you got to the third sentence?
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