Faster data rates just mean that you will finish your download faster. The data doesn't get any bigger. If you are downloading the same content you would have downloaded at a slower rate you won't hit your cap any faster at the higher rate.
It's like calling electrons around a proton a "perpetual motion machine". You get perpetual motion, so long as you don't extract energy from it. In fact, from that definition, the heat death of the universe is itself a perpetual motion machine, as everything will be vibrating/moving in entropy. No work may be extracted.
By that definition everything is a perpetual motion machine.
I heard (or I think I heard) about some system where you could play out a rope from a plane and, if the rope was long enough, the plane could circle and somehow the end of the rope would be held over a certain spot on the ground. Apparently (again, if I recall correctly) it could be used to gently lower equipment to the ground, where the receiver could just reach up and unhook the shipment from the rope while the plane was circling overhead. Has anyone ever heard of anything like that?
I remember what you describe on TV when I was younger for both picking up and dropping off equipment. I'm pretty sure they even picked up a stunt man using this technique to demonstrate how gentle it was..
This was a large problem for my wife. My mother in law is evil. My wife wants nothing to do with her mother (just an example, she killed my wife's cat and put an illegal lien on my house because we were moving and taking her grandson far away, and yes, it sabotaged a sale in progress). But my wife talks to her sisters. But if she posts on her sister's wall, or vice versa, then her mother can see some non-public information. For example, wife posts "I went to XXX today" Her sister, friends with her mother, posts "sounds like fun" then MIL can now read the original "private" post. There exists no way (well, didn't last I checked) to "block" a person or group of people. My wife has enemies, real ones. And she wants to be able to share information with some people without it getting inappropriately seen by others.
You should tell your wife about this thing I heard of called "Email". It's apparently pretty new, not many people know about it.
Maybe I'm missing something, but if the loophole here is that you can be added to a group without your involvement or active consent, then surely that gives you an out when your ignorant homophobe of a father sees that you're associated with a queer choir group - say it was a case of mistaken identity or a prank or a troll or anything else you like.
That said, I don't think it's a non-issue when group membership can leak actual or apparent private information; ought to be a simple fix to make it ask before you're added to any group and then the whole problem goes away without anyone getting interrogated about groups they're attached to. The existence of potential deniability doesn't remove the issue, just provides at least some way of coping with problems casued until it's actually fixed.
Ignorant homophobes don't often require much proof.
I wonder, since you can pretty much figure out what city you are in through ordinary radio and wifi beacons, not to mention the help you could get from having a clock and a sun locator, couldn't you really use GPS on the road with just two or three satellites?
Not with any kind of accuracy. the math involved in GPS calculations requires specific known timings between highly synchronized systems. Those other sources may help you get a location fix more quickly, but they aren't going to help with accuracy.
Though I am fairly sure you can get a positional fix with just 3 satellites, not 4. The 4th is required if you want altitude along with it.
Are there any consumer gear that can receive Galileo?
I don't see how this could possibly be called a Chicken and the Egg type problem, as the satellites are are already in space to support consumer devices. They obviously didn't need consumer device support to get things started at all.
I love Windows 8. Let me tell you why. The start menu is supposed to be an efficient program launcher. Ok, so to launch programs with the start menu, you have to click the start button, click "all programs", click your app folder, then click the application to start it. That's 4 clicks. To start a program in Windows 8, I click the start screen area, then click the application, that's two clicks
You can start a program from the start menu with 1 click in windows 7. Hold mouse down over start menu without releasing the button, and drag to the program you want to start, and release. Mouse down + mouse up = 1 click.
Generally agree with one caveat: While you pin some apps on the task bar, it starts to become a PITA when you do so for full screen games. (Basically it's a matter of alt-tabbing out, pinning it, and going back in, which takes a little effort, you don't do it as a "You know, I'm always running this, let's make sure it's always pinned" thing.)
Or you could just drag the shortcut to the task bar before running it.
Compare to any other website where people hold your hand asking stupid questions, you have to wade through copious amounts of stupid questions that far outnumber any post with value.
I've been on boards where the community happily answers stupid questions, and on other boards where they yell about "USE THE SEARCH NOOB!" I have seen no difference in the number of stupid questions at all. The only difference I have seen is that on the former there tends to be more useful information. Those boards are also much nicer places to "hang out".
Can you please explain how banning smoking would increase government efficiency? I am at a loss. I am thinking you have the dangers and costs of smoking far higher then they actually are.
I posted this above but here's what I see (maybe I'm missing something so help me out). So that assumption of danger here is what? Someone walks down the street bumping into random strangers repeatedly hoping that:
1) The bump into the side where the strangers phone was being held. 2) The two phones are perfectly at the same height (presumably in a pocket). 3) The strangers phone is vulnerable. 4) They have NFC enabled. 5) They could hold the phones in contact for the about of time necessary to transfer both an overloaded filed (presumably exceeded a buffer limit) and THEN also transfer the app compromised app that allows the actual hack to work (over a connection with a maximum bandwidth of a few hundred kbits/s). 6) Then after the hack succeeded they remained in contact long enough for the data from the strangers phone to be transferred back to the hackers phone.
All with anyone noticing? That's all assuming they fix whatever issue was causing it to need to be run 185 times before it finally worked? Assuming those 185 times were the incremental transfers of all the data needed? Again I'm still not scared. And this is fixed in Jelly bean (which my S3 is running...doom on you close talking random guy on the street thinking you finally found someone with an S3 to stand uncomfortably close to!).
This could be done similar to the way Bank Card Skimmers work. Place a fake nfc device in a situation where a real one would be likely (gas station pump for example). Then sit and wait for people to try and use it.
...so long as they alone know who they really are so the data aggregated goes in the right buckets.
Nothing's stopping Google+ from offering a secondary ID you can become, while Google still knows who you are.
Except for people like me who would leave if we had to interact with "MonkeyFucker-69" and the rest of their ilk. Some of us like the higher level of civility that results from real names.
If you allow only real names, then you preclude the second group..
And I'm perfectly OK with that. In fact it's why I use Google+ and not other social networks. There are dozens of other social networks that allow anonymous accounts, if you have something that can only be said anonymously then go use one of those, some of them even have more users, and larger audiences than Google+. In the mean time I'll enjoy a network free from the likes of "MonkeyFucker-69"; one where people behave better.
I'm not seeing the distinction between what you said and what I said.
My main point was to counter that claim that the parent poster made that you can only purchase apps from the android device, when you can actually use virtually any browser on any computer.
The big difference is that you can only buy apps directly on your Android device so Google Play knows what you have. The iTunes store on my devices also exclude items that won't work with the device I'm buying with.
But if you're using iTunes on the desktop, how is it supposed to know which device of yours you're getting the app for? You could have 15 devices registered, some which would work, others that wouldn't. Every app on the store though lists the required hardware and OS version.
Not true. You can go to the Android store on a browser from any computer while signed in to your account and purchase / install any application directly from the pc. Google will push the application out to the selected device without any user intervention. It knows what devices you have and what features it supports and will filter the applications accordingly.
It's impossible to do it *legally*. You can not download them from a reputable source, and you can't backup the ones that came with your phone if your phone didn't come with them in the first place.
I pulled some apps (mainly Wallet) from my Nexus 7 and installed them on my Galaxy Nexus (Verizon) running Cyanogen Mod. I could do the same thing with any of the "GApps". This is perfectly legal.
So it's OK for you if your daughter can't call the police to come help her when she has an accident on the highway because 5 or 100 other users in the same cell are downloading porn right now?
Wireless providers *have* to throttle to protect the voice network for public-safety purposes.
It's not ok, but that wouldn't be the "porn downloaders" fault. It would be the fault of the network operators who oversold services they couldn't adequately provide. If they have too many customers in an area they need to build more towers. If you sell someone a service you need to provide what you sold them.
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Wisdom is the last thing I think of when I think of crowds.
I can learn how to climb a fence at the zoo to pet the tigers too. That doesn't mean that it's a good idea, or that I will enjoy the experience.
Faster data rates just mean that you will finish your download faster. The data doesn't get any bigger. If you are downloading the same content you would have downloaded at a slower rate you won't hit your cap any faster at the higher rate.
Mandatory drug tests for every single college student in America! /sarcasm
What about the ones who are married or dating?
You might remember those days, when everyone complained about how expensive Apple hardware was.
Yesterday?
so at least mechanically, nothing is happening.
It's like calling electrons around a proton a "perpetual motion machine". You get perpetual motion, so long as you don't extract energy from it. In fact, from that definition, the heat death of the universe is itself a perpetual motion machine, as everything will be vibrating/moving in entropy. No work may be extracted.
By that definition everything is a perpetual motion machine.
I heard (or I think I heard) about some system where you could play out a rope from a plane and, if the rope was long enough, the plane could circle and somehow the end of the rope would be held over a certain spot on the ground. Apparently (again, if I recall correctly) it could be used to gently lower equipment to the ground, where the receiver could just reach up and unhook the shipment from the rope while the plane was circling overhead. Has anyone ever heard of anything like that?
I remember what you describe on TV when I was younger for both picking up and dropping off equipment. I'm pretty sure they even picked up a stunt man using this technique to demonstrate how gentle it was..
This was a large problem for my wife. My mother in law is evil. My wife wants nothing to do with her mother (just an example, she killed my wife's cat and put an illegal lien on my house because we were moving and taking her grandson far away, and yes, it sabotaged a sale in progress). But my wife talks to her sisters. But if she posts on her sister's wall, or vice versa, then her mother can see some non-public information. For example, wife posts "I went to XXX today" Her sister, friends with her mother, posts "sounds like fun" then MIL can now read the original "private" post. There exists no way (well, didn't last I checked) to "block" a person or group of people. My wife has enemies, real ones. And she wants to be able to share information with some people without it getting inappropriately seen by others.
You should tell your wife about this thing I heard of called "Email". It's apparently pretty new, not many people know about it.
Maybe I'm missing something, but if the loophole here is that you can be added to a group without your involvement or active consent, then surely that gives you an out when your ignorant homophobe of a father sees that you're associated with a queer choir group - say it was a case of mistaken identity or a prank or a troll or anything else you like.
That said, I don't think it's a non-issue when group membership can leak actual or apparent private information; ought to be a simple fix to make it ask before you're added to any group and then the whole problem goes away without anyone getting interrogated about groups they're attached to. The existence of potential deniability doesn't remove the issue, just provides at least some way of coping with problems casued until it's actually fixed.
Ignorant homophobes don't often require much proof.
I wonder, since you can pretty much figure out what city you are in through ordinary radio and wifi beacons, not to mention the help you could get from having a clock and a sun locator, couldn't you really use GPS on the road with just two or three satellites?
Not with any kind of accuracy. the math involved in GPS calculations requires specific known timings between highly synchronized systems. Those other sources may help you get a location fix more quickly, but they aren't going to help with accuracy.
Though I am fairly sure you can get a positional fix with just 3 satellites, not 4. The 4th is required if you want altitude along with it.
Are there any consumer gear that can receive Galileo?
I don't see how this could possibly be called a Chicken and the Egg type problem, as the satellites are are already in space to support consumer devices. They obviously didn't need consumer device support to get things started at all.
Please name one dramatic breakthrough that exists today that did not exist in 1997.
Remember you said dramatic. And despite Jobs' product speeches, the iPhone does not count as dramatically different.
Not the iPhone specifically, but the rise of general purpose smart phones with data access to the internet practically everywhere..
Most of you will hate this, so fair warning.
I love Windows 8. Let me tell you why. The start menu is supposed to be an efficient program launcher. Ok, so to launch programs with the start menu, you have to click the start button, click "all programs", click your app folder, then click the application to start it. That's 4 clicks. To start a program in Windows 8, I click the start screen area, then click the application, that's two clicks
You can start a program from the start menu with 1 click in windows 7. Hold mouse down over start menu without releasing the button, and drag to the program you want to start, and release. Mouse down + mouse up = 1 click.
Generally agree with one caveat: While you pin some apps on the task bar, it starts to become a PITA when you do so for full screen games. (Basically it's a matter of alt-tabbing out, pinning it, and going back in, which takes a little effort, you don't do it as a "You know, I'm always running this, let's make sure it's always pinned" thing.)
Or you could just drag the shortcut to the task bar before running it.
Compare to any other website where people hold your hand asking stupid questions, you have to wade through copious amounts of stupid questions that far outnumber any post with value.
I've been on boards where the community happily answers stupid questions, and on other boards where they yell about "USE THE SEARCH NOOB!"
I have seen no difference in the number of stupid questions at all. The only difference I have seen is that on the former there tends to be more useful information. Those boards are also much nicer places to "hang out".
Can you please explain how banning smoking would increase government efficiency? I am at a loss. I am thinking you have the dangers and costs of smoking far higher then they actually are.
No more 10 minute smoke breaks every hour.
I posted this above but here's what I see (maybe I'm missing something so help me out).
So that assumption of danger here is what? Someone walks down the street bumping into random strangers repeatedly hoping that:
1) The bump into the side where the strangers phone was being held.
2) The two phones are perfectly at the same height (presumably in a pocket).
3) The strangers phone is vulnerable.
4) They have NFC enabled.
5) They could hold the phones in contact for the about of time necessary to transfer both an overloaded filed (presumably exceeded a buffer limit) and THEN also transfer the app compromised app that allows the actual hack to work (over a connection with a maximum bandwidth of a few hundred kbits/s).
6) Then after the hack succeeded they remained in contact long enough for the data from the strangers phone to be transferred back to the hackers phone.
All with anyone noticing? That's all assuming they fix whatever issue was causing it to need to be run 185 times before it finally worked? Assuming those 185 times were the incremental transfers of all the data needed? Again I'm still not scared. And this is fixed in Jelly bean (which my S3 is running...doom on you close talking random guy on the street thinking you finally found someone with an S3 to stand uncomfortably close to!).
This could be done similar to the way Bank Card Skimmers work. Place a fake nfc device in a situation where a real one would be likely (gas station pump for example). Then sit and wait for people to try and use it.
By 'upgrade', you mean the new handset that you get for 'free' when you sign my two-year service contract, right consumer?
Cyanogen Mod.
...so long as they alone know who they really are so the data aggregated goes in the right buckets.
Nothing's stopping Google+ from offering a secondary ID you can become, while Google still knows who you are.
Except for people like me who would leave if we had to interact with "MonkeyFucker-69" and the rest of their ilk. Some of us like the higher level of civility that results from real names.
If you allow only real names, then you preclude the second group..
And I'm perfectly OK with that. In fact it's why I use Google+ and not other social networks. There are dozens of other social networks that allow anonymous accounts, if you have something that can only be said anonymously then go use one of those, some of them even have more users, and larger audiences than Google+. In the mean time I'll enjoy a network free from the likes of "MonkeyFucker-69"; one where people behave better.
I'm not seeing the distinction between what you said and what I said.
My main point was to counter that claim that the parent poster made that you can only purchase apps from the android device, when you can actually use virtually any browser on any computer.
The big difference is that you can only buy apps directly on your Android device so Google Play knows what you have. The iTunes store on my devices also exclude items that won't work with the device I'm buying with.
But if you're using iTunes on the desktop, how is it supposed to know which device of yours you're getting the app for? You could have 15 devices registered, some which would work, others that wouldn't. Every app on the store though lists the required hardware and OS version.
Not true. You can go to the Android store on a browser from any computer while signed in to your account and purchase / install any application directly from the pc. Google will push the application out to the selected device without any user intervention. It knows what devices you have and what features it supports and will filter the applications accordingly.
It's impossible to do it *legally*. You can not download them from a reputable source, and you can't backup the ones that came with your phone if your phone didn't come with them in the first place.
I pulled some apps (mainly Wallet) from my Nexus 7 and installed them on my Galaxy Nexus (Verizon) running Cyanogen Mod. I could do the same thing with any of the "GApps". This is perfectly legal.
Digital course materials will be better for student learning, but only if they are free (as in speech).
Why?
So it's OK for you if your daughter can't call the police to come help her when she has an accident on the highway because 5 or 100 other users in the same cell are downloading porn right now?
Wireless providers *have* to throttle to protect the voice network for public-safety purposes.
It's not ok, but that wouldn't be the "porn downloaders" fault. It would be the fault of the network operators who oversold services they couldn't adequately provide. If they have too many customers in an area they need to build more towers. If you sell someone a service you need to provide what you sold them.