I think AT&T is the best. I'm yet to see another carrier that misses more calls and drops more calls. I think the excel at that. They also have an accurate system to send you text messages reminding you, you're not on the most expensive data plan, as you consume your economy one, with the bloated devices they sell.
About more than one year ago, I got a toshiba portege, i5, 6G RAM, 600G hdd, really light, fair battery life, for a little more than US$700, I'm guessing it looked cheap to you, because it wasn't on your comparison. I'm curious you placed a lot of importance in the RAM, but go ahead with a non upgradeable one.
Glad you said that. Remember when Google used Navteq before it was acquired by Nokia? Yes, Nokia got all those products and worked off-line way before any other cellphone manufacturer.
Quite odd certain Slashdot readers don't know about that.
What I was trying to imply, is that your list is a bunch of items of why a computer may perform better. I thought distraction and concentration are one key point in the current driving environment. A computer, probably shouldn't get distracted by mundane activities, random events or being tired/frustrated. That seems to be a permanent in the list, and not just "intermediate". Did I misunderstood your list?
Let me also clarify something that some people take as a given:
6) I also expect the auto-driver concentrated on its job instead of reading a book or checking the news off its tablet or talking on the phone or texting or staring the hot guy/chick.
Well... now it makes sense. If they used the same people releasing these numbers to craft the maps, I can imagine bigger map tiles causing all those bumps on the roads and airports after stitching.
So you want to replace a card with stored balance, with a whole wireless network infrastructure that would considerably increase fares.
Honestly, I think a better solution is to have unique ticket identifiers (that don't follow sequences of course), carry the current balance on the card, but update the balance when the bus is near a paying station or in the parking lot (during shift change). At some point, you can actually invalidate the cards that seem fraudulent due to updates with similar values.
Overall, you're right. I wonder if they can also be thinking about the "perceived" power consumption. I'm guessing the phone tower transmitting to you may also transmit enough power such that it can power your phone for long enough, and even re-charge it if the whole system is efficient.
In addition to it, my sensor software seems to be very poorly written. It pushes the core speed from 60bpm to up to 140bpm, draining all the energy of the system!
Intelligence wins elections. It just depends what kind of intelligence, what I get from geeks is that they tend to defend their point of view, politicians on the other hand, they win intelligently, because they say what people want to hear, not what they really think. When they say what they think, they normally lose votes.
You bring a very interesting point. I've been traveling a lot, and I've seen people that text during landing, and others that just tap the power button of their device thinking that's enough to power it off.
Since this behavior cannot be controlled and it's certainly not enforced, maybe the FAA should really look into it.
I would also pay! Absolutely! But only if they make sure this money goes to all those kind non-profit broadband organizations, such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, which have been helping more and more the American citizens to get better services for less and less money!
Oh wait... this was intended for another parallel universe... the dotslash forum.
And in other news, Comcast and AT&T said they will charge sh** loads of money for that service as well, and they will cap it (if you exceed 10GFrames per mo, they will only deliver at 5fps).
Also, nobody said they will all transmit at once... that would cause not just a massive packet crash, but likely the car crash as well if the system is not properly designed.
But as you said, engineers probably have thought of what happens if data reliability turns to zero, but also implement some of the Ad-hoc/Mesh networking routing techniques to properly propagate sufficient data (it's not like all the 3000 vehicles will start transmitting HD video to each other, right?).
To the GP, this experiment will probably behave more like a sensor network, rather than a P2P torrent network.
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I think AT&T is the best. I'm yet to see another carrier that misses more calls and drops more calls. I think the excel at that. They also have an accurate system to send you text messages reminding you, you're not on the most expensive data plan, as you consume your economy one, with the bloated devices they sell.
About more than one year ago, I got a toshiba portege, i5, 6G RAM, 600G hdd, really light, fair battery life, for a little more than US$700, I'm guessing it looked cheap to you, because it wasn't on your comparison. I'm curious you placed a lot of importance in the RAM, but go ahead with a non upgradeable one.
Glad you said that. Remember when Google used Navteq before it was acquired by Nokia? Yes, Nokia got all those products and worked off-line way before any other cellphone manufacturer.
Quite odd certain Slashdot readers don't know about that.
I concur, also retransmissions seem to be pretty efficient, if you failed to "acknowledge" the first one!
What I was trying to imply, is that your list is a bunch of items of why a computer may perform better. I thought distraction and concentration are one key point in the current driving environment. A computer, probably shouldn't get distracted by mundane activities, random events or being tired/frustrated. That seems to be a permanent in the list, and not just "intermediate". Did I misunderstood your list?
Let me also clarify something that some people take as a given:
6) I also expect the auto-driver concentrated on its job instead of reading a book or checking the news off its tablet or talking on the phone or texting or staring the hot guy/chick.
With bacon scarcity and the Russians finding diamonds, I guess the roles now are that women will be proposing to men with bacon rings.
Well... now it makes sense. If they used the same people releasing these numbers to craft the maps, I can imagine bigger map tiles causing all those bumps on the roads and airports after stitching.
So you want to replace a card with stored balance, with a whole wireless network infrastructure that would considerably increase fares.
Honestly, I think a better solution is to have unique ticket identifiers (that don't follow sequences of course), carry the current balance on the card, but update the balance when the bus is near a paying station or in the parking lot (during shift change). At some point, you can actually invalidate the cards that seem fraudulent due to updates with similar values.
Sounds awesome:
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You non-believer. Don't you see that now it's not impossible, but perhaps just 99% impossible? You'll see!
Overall, you're right. I wonder if they can also be thinking about the "perceived" power consumption. I'm guessing the phone tower transmitting to you may also transmit enough power such that it can power your phone for long enough, and even re-charge it if the whole system is efficient.
And, I have had the "breakthrough" panorama capability in my Samsung Galaxy S for 2+ years already.
In addition to it, my sensor software seems to be very poorly written. It pushes the core speed from 60bpm to up to 140bpm, draining all the energy of the system!
Excuse my ignorance, I thought we all humans ran the same OS. How did you unlocked your bootloader? Do you have any link to the binaries?
Also, where to I do I find an early ROM, I recently got a baldness bloatware update and haven't been able to remove it.
At least you know help is on the way if you see:
you, 911 and 3 other people liked this.
And when part of the crowd starts to follow... they make a turn, towards their own desired destination. ;-)
Intelligence wins elections. It just depends what kind of intelligence, what I get from geeks is that they tend to defend their point of view, politicians on the other hand, they win intelligently, because they say what people want to hear, not what they really think. When they say what they think, they normally lose votes.
Great! Just what the wife needed, something that can weight her at molecular level!
I do put mine in airplane mode, but I think the GP may be including some people that don't even know about the airplane mode in cellular devices.
I've even seen people texting during approach and landing.
You bring a very interesting point. I've been traveling a lot, and I've seen people that text during landing, and others that just tap the power button of their device thinking that's enough to power it off.
Since this behavior cannot be controlled and it's certainly not enforced, maybe the FAA should really look into it.
I would also pay! Absolutely! But only if they make sure this money goes to all those kind non-profit broadband organizations, such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, which have been helping more and more the American citizens to get better services for less and less money!
Oh wait... this was intended for another parallel universe... the dotslash forum.
And in other news, Comcast and AT&T said they will charge sh** loads of money for that service as well, and they will cap it (if you exceed 10GFrames per mo, they will only deliver at 5fps).
But then editors would not work as hard as they do, because they will just talk (in a video).
:-)
Now, if they can make the comment section look like a cartoon... that I would love to see^H^H^H read.
Also, nobody said they will all transmit at once... that would cause not just a massive packet crash, but likely the car crash as well if the system is not properly designed.
But as you said, engineers probably have thought of what happens if data reliability turns to zero, but also implement some of the Ad-hoc/Mesh networking routing techniques to properly propagate sufficient data (it's not like all the 3000 vehicles will start transmitting HD video to each other, right?). To the GP, this experiment will probably behave more like a sensor network, rather than a P2P torrent network.