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Opera had always been the “good guys” before Firefox came around and stole the limelight. The company has been run by the same people for ten and a half years by now - the founders - and they’ve had a clear vision. They wanted to bring the web to everyone, to give them choice.

Unlike Mozilla, Opera has always had make money, and that in a situation where they’ve had less than one per cent of the market. So Opera hasn’t been able to take “shortcuts” and rely on donations until it turned out that searches could actually pay for development, alongside other deals of course.

That hurt Opera a bit, I think. You have to pay for Opera while the others were free. Then you could choose ads instead, but most people don’t like those. So Opera never got a huge following.

Opera was also a power user program for many years. It is not until recently that Opera has cleaned up the default user interface to make it easy for newbies to start using it as well.

While the payware, the ads, and so on were necessary to keep the company afloat, it has also hurt Opera. Firefox could come around to steal the thunder at exactly the right time, and backed by a massive marketing campaign. Firefox’s timing was incredible. They released 1.0 when everyone was talking about how dangerous it was to use Internet Explorer.

While Firefox was free as in beer, easy to use, and ready for the masses (more or less), Opera still had to rely on ads, and had to charge for the browser. But they cleaned up the UI, and last year Opera was released for free-as-in-beer.

Some may say “too little too late”, but Opera has never been huge. There isn’t much of a market share to lose! Opera has a small but loyal following, and it’s still smaller, faster, and it has more functionality out of the box than Firefox.

Now that Opera has simplified the UI and removed the ads, it can only grow. It will need proper marketing, though, and it will need to differentiate itself from Firefox and establish an identity which gives people a clear vision of what Opera is about, and why they should use it instead of something else.

Opera has always been the “browser innovator”. Most features in Firefox were available in Opera ages before Firefox did it, and some were even invented by Opera. But these days Firefox takes all the credit, and that’s partly because it can rely on others who have done everything, so it can simply pick and choose from other browsers’ innovations. And it can avoid the pitfalls too, because Firefox already made those mistakes back when it was “Netscape”. Firefox obviously benefits from being Netscape’s “successor”. All web designers know about Netscape, after all. So they can’t ignore it when designing pages.

Opera has done a lot, but one wouldn’t think so just by looking at its market share. It’s a pity, really. Opera was the only independent browser, and they put real money into open standards. IE was Microsoft and Mozilla/Firefox was AOL/Sun/Nokia/IBM/etc. Everyone else was in some major corporation’s pockets, but not Opera.

Now Firefox has stolen the thunder, partly deserved, partly undeserved. But I think Opera can make it too. They just need to get the marketing right.

From: Slashdot

IBM公司近日表示,他们已经生产出一种基于802.15.3c规范的无线芯片,可以在5-10米的范围内传输大容量文件或其它内容.目前的样品可以提供超过600Mbps的传输速率,而IBM的目标是1.4-1.5Gbps.

来自IBM的这种无线芯片使用了30-300GHz的毫米频段.这一波段现在多用于军事设备,因为相关设备非常昂贵,而且生产困难.Brian表示他们已经可以在硅片上这么做,因此可以考虑将其用于消费应用市场.
IBM研究员Brian Gaucher介绍说:”这种芯片将面向消费应用领域,如高清视频文件传输.它可以覆盖一个房间,不过我们没有考虑穿过墙壁等障碍物的问题.”
目前的UWB无线芯片在32英尺范围内可以实现110Mbps的数据传输,10英尺范围内则可提高至480Mbps.显然,IBM将提供高得多的速度.
IBM已经向准备在自己产品中使用这种芯片的厂商提供了样品.客户可以向IBM购买芯片,也可以购买许可技术后自己生产.同时,IBM还提供了包含整合天线的套装,从而有助于降低成本和功耗.
在短距离内快速无线传输文件一直是科技业界的梦想,但至今没有一种很好的方案能被广为接受.蓝牙技术经过很多年才有了标准,但尽管已经用于多种产品,却一直没能成为被广泛采纳的通用标准,也没有成为互联网接入技术的标准.Universal WideBand也在标准化方面麻烦不断.

Many students, and other young people, have little in the way of cooking skills but can usually get their hands on a couple of mobile phones. So, this week, we show you how to use two mobile phones to cook an egg which will make a change from phoning out for a pizza. Please note that this will not work with cordless phones.

To do this you will need two mobile phones -they do not have to be on the same network but you will need to know the number of one of them. The only other items you will need are:

An egg cup, (make sure that the egg cup is made of an insulating material such as China, wood or glass - plastic will do. DO NOT use stainless steel or other metal).
A radio, AM or FM - you can also use your hifi.

A table or other flat surface on which to place the phones and egg cup. You can place the radio anywhere in the room but you might as well put it on the table.

How To Do It:

1. Take an egg from the fridge and place it in the egg cup in the centre of the table.

2. Switch on the radio or hifi and turn it up to a comfortable volume.

3. Switch on phone A and place it on the table such that the antenna (the pokey thing at the top) is about half an inch from the egg (you may need to experiment to get the relative heights correct - paperbacks are good if you have any - if not you may be able to get some wood off cuts from your local hardware shop).

4. Switch on phone B and ring phone A then place phone B on the table in a similar but complementary position to Phone A.

5. Answer phone A - you should be able to do this without removing it from the table. If not, don’t panic, just return the phone to where you originally placed on the table.

6. Phone A will now be talking to Phone B whilst Phone B will be talking to Phone A.

7. Cooking time: This very much depends on the power output of your mobile phone. For instance, a pair of mobiles each with 2 Watts of transmitter output will take three minutes to boil a large free range egg. Check your user manual and remember that cooking time will be proportional to the inverse square of the output power for a given distance from egg to phone.

8. Cut out these instructions for future reference.

Note: We cooked our egg during the evening using free local calls, if you were to cook an egg for lunch it would cost �.00 - not cheap but you do have the convenience.

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这个东西很好玩，TC的更新历史还有简单的评语，给感兴趣的看看哦。
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