Wait a second, aren't these internet enabled devices? Aside from ring tones, there's really no reason most users can't get their services delivered to them online. Go forth and be creative.
Stupid users, network congestion, user experience....they're all justifications for MORE MONEY!!! Silly rabbits, we all know open source is a dead end alley that doesn't make anyone any money...well, anyone that matters anyway...heh.
So long as the west has something that third world psychos want but don't have, like guns, money, and the means to control other people, the west will be a target of third world psychos. This isn't about the west 'meddling' in the affairs of foreign countries, it's about psychopaths trying to use us to get what they want.
Ahh, the testament to any civilized society, guns, money and the means to control other people. Maybe it's the freedom FROM those things they seek.
I actually heard a pilot come on the loudspeaker and tell someone to turn their phone off before. Now, it could have just been a ruse, but he said it, so it's possible it does cause some kind of problem with radios (probably more along the lines of that handshake noise close to speakers than jamming).
I've landed and noticed my phone was on and we didn't fall out of the sky on the way, so that's good news.
People trying to figure out what happened during 9/11 flight 93 noted that most calls fail from airplanes at altitude anyway.
Will people be loud talking on a mobile on the plane? You ever try to hear anything on a plane? Especially in coach? Imagine that, coupled with bluetooth headsets, coupled with normal loud mobile talker jackassery and it's a major mess (and yes, I'm a proponent of earplugs and noise cancellation). We should just be more like the Japanese and just not tolerate it as a society.
Amen brother. Between noise cancellation headphones and earplugs I can pretty much tune anyone on the plane out.
"Yes, I would actually like to hear about your trip to the Over 80's nudist colony, but I can't quite hear you, see if THAT guy wants to hear about it"
Now if I could just find my odor blockers and humongous-guy-in-the-middle-seat zapper along with my destroy-all-kids-kicking-seats-on-6am-flights button I'd more than welcome Wi-Fi on the plane.
10 minutes after the first Wi-Fi plane takes off:
"Sir, I'm going to have to ask you not to bring up Videobox while seated next to other patrons!"
20 minutes later (After the queue at the lav gets longer and longer)
*knock* *knock* "That's not quite what I meant either sir."
GB? When's the last time you looked at all the cameras that are pointed at you in the US? A friend of mine and I were walking around San Francisco and I told him to count the amount of cameras he saw while walking around town. Just about everywhere we went (admittedly, in nice parts of town, not so much in say, the Tenderloin) we could see some form of camera that could possibly be pointed at us. To make matters worse, I got stopped on the street by a crew of people shooting a video for a handheld video camera (only making things worse because it was ironic we were just talking about being recorded in public).
Now look at school initiatives to place cameras in all classrooms. Our children are being raised with digital eyeballs on them. When they get older, they won't know any better than having cameras pointed at them.
Tin foil hat stuff...heh. Remember when Greenpeace was a bunch of stinky hippies on a boat? Now a former presidential candidate is running around talking about global climate problems.
Conspiracies aside, there are tons of information gathering tools in use by the government. At this time the good news is that you're still protected by the constitution, unless of course, an executive order trumps that in times of "emergency".
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Wait a second, aren't these internet enabled devices? Aside from ring tones, there's really no reason most users can't get their services delivered to them online. Go forth and be creative. Stupid users, network congestion, user experience....they're all justifications for MORE MONEY!!! Silly rabbits, we all know open source is a dead end alley that doesn't make anyone any money...well, anyone that matters anyway...heh.
You mean like budget constraints?
I've landed and noticed my phone was on and we didn't fall out of the sky on the way, so that's good news.
People trying to figure out what happened during 9/11 flight 93 noted that most calls fail from airplanes at altitude anyway.
Will people be loud talking on a mobile on the plane? You ever try to hear anything on a plane? Especially in coach? Imagine that, coupled with bluetooth headsets, coupled with normal loud mobile talker jackassery and it's a major mess (and yes, I'm a proponent of earplugs and noise cancellation). We should just be more like the Japanese and just not tolerate it as a society.
"Yes, I would actually like to hear about your trip to the Over 80's nudist colony, but I can't quite hear you, see if THAT guy wants to hear about it"
Now if I could just find my odor blockers and humongous-guy-in-the-middle-seat zapper along with my destroy-all-kids-kicking-seats-on-6am-flights button I'd more than welcome Wi-Fi on the plane.
10 minutes after the first Wi-Fi plane takes off:
"Sir, I'm going to have to ask you not to bring up Videobox while seated next to other patrons!"
20 minutes later (After the queue at the lav gets longer and longer)
*knock* *knock* "That's not quite what I meant either sir."
GB? When's the last time you looked at all the cameras that are pointed at you in the US? A friend of mine and I were walking around San Francisco and I told him to count the amount of cameras he saw while walking around town. Just about everywhere we went (admittedly, in nice parts of town, not so much in say, the Tenderloin) we could see some form of camera that could possibly be pointed at us. To make matters worse, I got stopped on the street by a crew of people shooting a video for a handheld video camera (only making things worse because it was ironic we were just talking about being recorded in public). Now look at school initiatives to place cameras in all classrooms. Our children are being raised with digital eyeballs on them. When they get older, they won't know any better than having cameras pointed at them. Tin foil hat stuff...heh. Remember when Greenpeace was a bunch of stinky hippies on a boat? Now a former presidential candidate is running around talking about global climate problems. Conspiracies aside, there are tons of information gathering tools in use by the government. At this time the good news is that you're still protected by the constitution, unless of course, an executive order trumps that in times of "emergency".