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Comment Re:Perhaps .. (Score 1) 289

Let's not forget, too, that until recently, the only carrier selling Android handsets in the US was T-Mobile.

While I love my T-Mobile, getting companies like Sprint and Verizon to sell Android phones is going to make a huge difference. It may not bring sales to iPhone levels, but the market share will increase dramatically. I

know that Verizon launched its first Android phone, the Droid, this month, and I think that Sprint has one on the market too, or will soon.

Let's see what this looks like again in six months.

Comment Re:Exercise while you work. (Score 1) 865

With regards to time to cook on days you work:

I work a part time job a couple evenings a week, and weekends or other commitments don't leave me a ton of time to cook, either. Still, cooking your own meals can make a difference. So, once or twice a week, I cook myself a proper meal. Since I don't feed anyone else, I have plenty of leftovers, but doubling the recipe would be equally easy if you have others to feed.

Do not put any of the meal in the fridge. Portion it into four containers and freeze all four. Now, you have one meal a week for the next month taken care of. Next week, do the same. Now you have two meals a week taken care of for the next three weeks and one for the following week. By week five, you should have something cooked for each day of the week and keeping up is as simple as one meal a week.

Frozen isn't quite as good as the first time, but it's still pretty good, and if you're eating frozen TV dinners anyway, you're surely one up on this.

Comment Re:The vapor cloud (Score 1) 511

You know, OnLive reminds me of Sony's Remote Play. The difference is that when I play a game over Remote Play on my PSP is that I still own the game either in downloadable form or on physical media and if I can't play the game right now because of network conditions (that's been my only experience so far), I can always play it without any network issues at home when I get there. I think this is the best compromise that we're going to see on this type of technology for a long while. While it may reduce development costs, I just don't see it performing well enough to get anyone to actually use it.

Wireless Networking

Submission + - Bluetooth & Wi-Fi co-existence

Shakrai writes: "A question for those with more experience with Bluetooth then I have: Has anybody noted/worked-around/been-able to solve co-existence problems with bluetooth and 802.11b/g WLANs? I'm playing around with the T-Mobile T-Mobile HotSpot @ Home service at the office for our directors and while the service works great, the heavy network traffic on the wireless lan renders bluetooth headsets unusable. Short pops of static occur about ten times a second. The WLAN itself doesn't even seem to notice.

Given that Bluetooth's design purposefully uses the entire range of unlicensed channels on 2.4Ghz I'd given up on trying to get it to co-exist with WLANs. But I've noted that Bluetooth 1.2 includes support for "Adaptive frequency-hopping spread spectrum", which theoretically will remove crowded channels from the hopping sequence. Given that a single 802.11b/g access point only uses a portion (roughly 1/3) of the band available to Bluetooth, wouldn't it stand to reason that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi can be made to peacefully co-exist?

Perhaps the problem lies with the cheap headsets that my company is providing us? Does anybody have any experience with particular models of Bluetooth headsets used in a heavy wi-fi environment? Or any experience with the actual HotSpot service and the phones that T-Mobile offers? Does any model of phone or headset stand out as being better at co-existing then the others?"

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