Well of course they advertise video streaming - what else do you really need that speed for, when using a phone? Mind you 4G offers >20 Mbps, that's more than your typical ADSL or cable home connection of 5-10 Mbps, and those provide Internet feeds to high powered computers, that can handle much more data.
Downloads... Well put them in the background and considering the small storage on phones doesn't take long anyway.
E-mail... Most messages are text only and tus relatively small. Even a 50 kbps GPRS connection does the job pretty well, good enough as backup for when you really need to see that e-mail *now* and you really can not find a wifi link.
Web browsing... I see many people play with Facebook on the train, on their iPhones. Some operators even sell specific facebook+gmail data plans, allowing for the mobile versions of those two. Those pages are pretty light. Not much bandwidth needed. Other pages are heavier, still 3G is fast enough. I recently tried Google Maps over good old GPRS to get a map of my surroundings, not a speed wonder but still very usable. 3G would be great; 4G overkill.
And then there is video. That needs bandwidth. Though video on 3G should work just fine, especially for the relatively low resolution mobile phone screens. Even here 4G seems to me nice but not a necessity.
The thing of newer technologies is always that they cost more than the previous generation. In practice the newer tech gets the price of the previous system, and the price for the older one is lowered.
Companies have GPRS installed: it's there, doesn't cost much, probably fully written off by now, can sell cheap plans.
They have the 3G in place too: largely written off, can lower price.
4G however: new investment, new equipment to be installed, possibly data links to the mobile phone towers need to be upgraded, high cost, high fees needed to make up for it.
Most likely your first competitor to give cheap unlimited access will be the one on the previous generation network - 3G networks likely. Possibly even the one that does not do 4G, just to attract customers.
Having a good 4G mobile connection could be a replacement for a fixed ADSL connection, as the speed is on par. It should in principle even be cheaper as they do not have to lay out that "last mile" cable - it's just that all cables are in place already and again don't cost much anymore.
Advertisers target to have their audience see an ad about 10-20 times, that's when the ad is most effective. Any less and the watcher doesn't remember much about it or the product advertised; any more and it becomes a waste of money from the side of the advertiser.
Especially when I'm looking for a certain service or product, I'm going looking at ads. It gives you an idea what's around, what offers there are available, etc.
I've even specifically unblocked AdBlockPlus for Google's search results because, believe it or not, I missed the ads (and they're not intrusive or distracting anyway). This as when looking to buy something, those ads are often really relevant. The general search results give you info about the product, the ads are the actual sellers.
So this "other stuff" is there, does not interact with itself, but does interact with OTHER matter (light in this case) to create a gravity lens?
I may miss something but to me it seems to contradict. How can its gravity interact with light, but not with itself or the non-dark matter in those colliding galaxies? If it produces that much gravity to create a gravitational lens, why doesn't it pull the rest of the galaxy with it?
Dark matter interacts or it doesn't. It holds galaxies together, creates gravitational lenses, but doesn't interact with itself nor with other galaxies.
It probably depends on what you're talking about really, from WP:
dark matter accounts for 23% of the mass-energy density of the observable universe, while the ordinary matter accounts for only 4.6% (the remainder is attributed to dark energy).[2] From these figures, dark matter constitutes 80% of the matter in the universe, while ordinary matter makes up only 20%.
So ordinary matter accounts for 4.6% (1/20th) of all mass+energy in the universe - this I suppose has to do with Einstein's E=mc2 that allows for mass to be converted to energy and the other way around. And looking at actual mass, not taking the energy into account, this would end up at 1/5th. So both numbers are in a way correct, depending on context. I thought actually it was about 90% dark matter, so let's call that number the average. Then at least I'm not wrong myself.
Now I don't really know what they mean with the "dark energy" part or how that's measured, the "dark matter" I understand somewhat as it has to do with gravity.
Anyway this whole "dark matter" thing sounds to me like the hypothetical "aether" - we don't know what it is so make up something to make the formulas work. So now we found that there is 3-4 times as much "visible" matter in our universe than we thought before. Oh well that's quite some "dark matter" that has come to light. I'm quite sure the rest will follow sooner or later.
They check everything before publishing to make sure it's original material. And with their rising profile the submissions have gone up so much that they can not really keep track of it.
Read the linked interview - it's quite interesting.
Even with WL the media still need to do their job, WL only makes it easier. WL is a source of information for regular media outlets, it's not a site that the regular Joe visits. Regular Joe reads his daily news paper and watches the TV news though.
Who is Assange to judge who is innocent and who is not? His business is to release information, not to judge. That part he leaves to the rest of the world.
With any luck it will take down the entire global banking cartel.
While I support your feelings there, bringing down the banking system will cause a major recession. If you really start bringing banks down, then 2008 was just a minor introduction.
I'm surprised too, but for a slightly different reason.
Microsoft's stronghold is businesses. They always try to market as a one stop shop, providing all software from servers to desktops. Standardise on Microsoft is what many companies do. And MS seems to know that and cater to their needs with corporate installation keys, allowing companies to run their own update servers, etc.
And bigger companies of course have their own internal applications as well - Microsoft should know that very well.
It's only logical to me that MS would market their phones to businesses first: it's also from MS so relative easy to market, and presumably relative straightforward integration in existing networks. Don't bother too much with the consumer market, but make sure that when a company needs to issue phones to its workers, that this are Windows phones.
But then naturally support for internal applications follows. It seems they do not even have a way for companies to set up their internal app store, and that's the part that surprises me most. Because that's where they could get big companies to go for their phones over the competition.
That should work. After all, in large businesses, the decision makers are not the end users.
Wikileaks isn't done for sure. There will be more leaks in the future.
And above all, they have been building up profile. You and I may have known about this site since the beginning, Joe Sixpack didn't until recently. Everyone knows it now.
I believe these leaks will only increase. Not because there is more to leak, but because the potential leakers now have a platform to leak to. Five years ago there wasn't such a well known and accessible platform to leak stuff onto.
There are always lots of people that have access to classified information. Some need it for their jobs, others inadvertedly are given access, yet others gain access on their own. Especially the second group I can imagine is going to leak more: many people must have toyed with the idea of leaking stuff they found, stuff they shouldn't know, stuff that can be interesting/ embarrassing/ whatever. But they didn't have an easy platform - now they have. Wikileaks is in everybody's mind, giving people ideas, giving them a reason, and giving them the opportunity to have their leaks noticed.
All the more reasons for a.o. the US government to want them shut down.
The latest that I know is that Assange currently is being prosecuted for rape charges. He was accused, then charges were dropped, later charged again. So as far as I know he is currently a formal suspect, even accused of the crime.
And his defence: he says he has had consensual sex with the two women involved, however the women turned against him when they found out about each other. Sounds to me like a love triangle, the only special is that one of the people involved has a pretty high profile.
This I read about in the newspaper quite recently, but info may be outdated again. I'll leave it to the relevant authorities to figure out who's right and who's lying. No matter what it's something that of course plays right in the hands of Assange's enemies.
Saying "no" should do the job indeed, but of course is not always accepted.
And instead of immediately starting to hit out at your child, try ignoring. May take a little longer (though being hit usually also doesn't exactly silence a child), but is at least as effective, if not more so.
Yes... like all those baby toys rated "3+" with small parts warning... while no small parts to be found... that's just manufacturers covering their ass against law suits.
When reaching higher ages (say 5+) then in my experience the recommended ages aren't that far off.
Well at least the guy should be able to save a lot of cost by not having to hire himself a lawyer. Though that's off-set by a loss in potential earnings of course.
The other thing I did is I setup his mac in the living room, facing a wall.
THAT is to me the most important part of your set-up. Make it easy to keep an eye on what they're doing, without having to actually watch them every single moment.
By his third birthday my kid was already playing happily with the small size version of Lego. He never really had the habit of sticking stuff in his mouth, that helps. But before his fourth birthday the Duplo was already largely ignored.
For most children four years is a little young for Lego, but also getting a bit old for Duplo (which is iirc rated 2-5 by the manufacturer).
Ultimately, you want something that is going to be low maintenance and not terribly prone to accidental malware infections.
If that's what you really worry about start by not using Windows. A kid not knowing better won't realise it's not "the real thing".
And for the rest I wouldn't worry too much either. Set Google to return "safe search" results only and the chances of accidentally running into anything you may call objectionable are about as slim as with a self-maintained filter.
I've been taking my kid (now also 4) along for shopping all the time. No problem, especially grocery shopping is fine actually, walking shop to shop, buying this here, that there, lots to see, very interesting.
There are worse things for a child than grocery shopping, like yesterday when we went out to buy tea. We've been sitting in that shop for 1 1/2 hours talking and tasting various teas before leaving with a nice set. That was planned, so the kid was with his grandparents to the beach. And we all enjoyed ourselves.
The cause of misbehaviour with children lies with the parents at least as much if not more than with the children themselves, so you should really look at your parenting if your child can't even behave himself during a supermarket visit. Maybe you should consider taking him to the playground more, instead of parking him at home in front of a computer. Getting rid of all that surplus energy makes them behave much better afterwards.
But as long as you take only your own needs into account behaviour problems are bound to happen.
They should raise the fees by that amount, and then offer a discount for the version with extra ads. And then the discounted version is the same cost as the old price. And of course advertise the hell out of the "discounted" price as if that's the new "enhanced" service.
Encrypted e-mail maybe, encrypted storage in general will work.
But not your https connection. Or ssl connection. For those there are no keys stored: they are created time and again, and dropped when done. "Listened" in to an encrypted VoIP conversation? Well good luck getting keys to decrypt that.
Wah... you were really born in the wrong era... in my time, sneakernet used to provide mainly high-res images, printed on glossy paper.
That said I do recall I had some "strip poker" game but it was broken... the part where it got interesting the images were all broken or simply not there.
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Well of course they advertise video streaming - what else do you really need that speed for, when using a phone? Mind you 4G offers >20 Mbps, that's more than your typical ADSL or cable home connection of 5-10 Mbps, and those provide Internet feeds to high powered computers, that can handle much more data.
Downloads... Well put them in the background and considering the small storage on phones doesn't take long anyway.
E-mail... Most messages are text only and tus relatively small. Even a 50 kbps GPRS connection does the job pretty well, good enough as backup for when you really need to see that e-mail *now* and you really can not find a wifi link.
Web browsing... I see many people play with Facebook on the train, on their iPhones. Some operators even sell specific facebook+gmail data plans, allowing for the mobile versions of those two. Those pages are pretty light. Not much bandwidth needed. Other pages are heavier, still 3G is fast enough. I recently tried Google Maps over good old GPRS to get a map of my surroundings, not a speed wonder but still very usable. 3G would be great; 4G overkill.
And then there is video. That needs bandwidth. Though video on 3G should work just fine, especially for the relatively low resolution mobile phone screens. Even here 4G seems to me nice but not a necessity.
The thing of newer technologies is always that they cost more than the previous generation. In practice the newer tech gets the price of the previous system, and the price for the older one is lowered.
Companies have GPRS installed: it's there, doesn't cost much, probably fully written off by now, can sell cheap plans.
They have the 3G in place too: largely written off, can lower price.
4G however: new investment, new equipment to be installed, possibly data links to the mobile phone towers need to be upgraded, high cost, high fees needed to make up for it.
Most likely your first competitor to give cheap unlimited access will be the one on the previous generation network - 3G networks likely. Possibly even the one that does not do 4G, just to attract customers.
Having a good 4G mobile connection could be a replacement for a fixed ADSL connection, as the speed is on par. It should in principle even be cheaper as they do not have to lay out that "last mile" cable - it's just that all cables are in place already and again don't cost much anymore.
Advertisers target to have their audience see an ad about 10-20 times, that's when the ad is most effective. Any less and the watcher doesn't remember much about it or the product advertised; any more and it becomes a waste of money from the side of the advertiser.
Yes there are.
Especially when I'm looking for a certain service or product, I'm going looking at ads. It gives you an idea what's around, what offers there are available, etc.
I've even specifically unblocked AdBlockPlus for Google's search results because, believe it or not, I missed the ads (and they're not intrusive or distracting anyway). This as when looking to buy something, those ads are often really relevant. The general search results give you info about the product, the ads are the actual sellers.
So this "other stuff" is there, does not interact with itself, but does interact with OTHER matter (light in this case) to create a gravity lens?
I may miss something but to me it seems to contradict. How can its gravity interact with light, but not with itself or the non-dark matter in those colliding galaxies? If it produces that much gravity to create a gravitational lens, why doesn't it pull the rest of the galaxy with it?
Dark matter interacts or it doesn't. It holds galaxies together, creates gravitational lenses, but doesn't interact with itself nor with other galaxies.
It probably depends on what you're talking about really, from WP:
dark matter accounts for 23% of the mass-energy density of the observable universe, while the ordinary matter accounts for only 4.6% (the remainder is attributed to dark energy).[2] From these figures, dark matter constitutes 80% of the matter in the universe, while ordinary matter makes up only 20%.
So ordinary matter accounts for 4.6% (1/20th) of all mass+energy in the universe - this I suppose has to do with Einstein's E=mc2 that allows for mass to be converted to energy and the other way around. And looking at actual mass, not taking the energy into account, this would end up at 1/5th. So both numbers are in a way correct, depending on context. I thought actually it was about 90% dark matter, so let's call that number the average. Then at least I'm not wrong myself.
Now I don't really know what they mean with the "dark energy" part or how that's measured, the "dark matter" I understand somewhat as it has to do with gravity.
Anyway this whole "dark matter" thing sounds to me like the hypothetical "aether" - we don't know what it is so make up something to make the formulas work. So now we found that there is 3-4 times as much "visible" matter in our universe than we thought before. Oh well that's quite some "dark matter" that has come to light. I'm quite sure the rest will follow sooner or later.
Is that a problem of the pdf format or a problem of one specific pdf reader?
They check everything before publishing to make sure it's original material. And with their rising profile the submissions have gone up so much that they can not really keep track of it.
Read the linked interview - it's quite interesting.
Even with WL the media still need to do their job, WL only makes it easier. WL is a source of information for regular media outlets, it's not a site that the regular Joe visits. Regular Joe reads his daily news paper and watches the TV news though.
Who is Assange to judge who is innocent and who is not? His business is to release information, not to judge. That part he leaves to the rest of the world.
With any luck it will take down the entire global banking cartel.
While I support your feelings there, bringing down the banking system will cause a major recession. If you really start bringing banks down, then 2008 was just a minor introduction.
Because the community would rather have stable tested apps over the freedom to write and deploy their own apps...
You mean the apps that end up in the various stores are actually tested? Beyond "it installs" and checking the description given by the developer?
I'm surprised too, but for a slightly different reason.
Microsoft's stronghold is businesses. They always try to market as a one stop shop, providing all software from servers to desktops. Standardise on Microsoft is what many companies do. And MS seems to know that and cater to their needs with corporate installation keys, allowing companies to run their own update servers, etc.
And bigger companies of course have their own internal applications as well - Microsoft should know that very well.
It's only logical to me that MS would market their phones to businesses first: it's also from MS so relative easy to market, and presumably relative straightforward integration in existing networks. Don't bother too much with the consumer market, but make sure that when a company needs to issue phones to its workers, that this are Windows phones.
But then naturally support for internal applications follows. It seems they do not even have a way for companies to set up their internal app store, and that's the part that surprises me most. Because that's where they could get big companies to go for their phones over the competition.
That should work. After all, in large businesses, the decision makers are not the end users.
Wikileaks isn't done for sure. There will be more leaks in the future.
And above all, they have been building up profile. You and I may have known about this site since the beginning, Joe Sixpack didn't until recently. Everyone knows it now.
I believe these leaks will only increase. Not because there is more to leak, but because the potential leakers now have a platform to leak to. Five years ago there wasn't such a well known and accessible platform to leak stuff onto.
There are always lots of people that have access to classified information. Some need it for their jobs, others inadvertedly are given access, yet others gain access on their own. Especially the second group I can imagine is going to leak more: many people must have toyed with the idea of leaking stuff they found, stuff they shouldn't know, stuff that can be interesting/ embarrassing/ whatever. But they didn't have an easy platform - now they have. Wikileaks is in everybody's mind, giving people ideas, giving them a reason, and giving them the opportunity to have their leaks noticed.
All the more reasons for a.o. the US government to want them shut down.
The latest that I know is that Assange currently is being prosecuted for rape charges. He was accused, then charges were dropped, later charged again. So as far as I know he is currently a formal suspect, even accused of the crime.
And his defence: he says he has had consensual sex with the two women involved, however the women turned against him when they found out about each other. Sounds to me like a love triangle, the only special is that one of the people involved has a pretty high profile.
This I read about in the newspaper quite recently, but info may be outdated again. I'll leave it to the relevant authorities to figure out who's right and who's lying. No matter what it's something that of course plays right in the hands of Assange's enemies.
Saying "no" should do the job indeed, but of course is not always accepted.
And instead of immediately starting to hit out at your child, try ignoring. May take a little longer (though being hit usually also doesn't exactly silence a child), but is at least as effective, if not more so.
Yes... like all those baby toys rated "3+" with small parts warning... while no small parts to be found... that's just manufacturers covering their ass against law suits.
When reaching higher ages (say 5+) then in my experience the recommended ages aren't that far off.
Well at least the guy should be able to save a lot of cost by not having to hire himself a lawyer. Though that's off-set by a loss in potential earnings of course.
The other thing I did is I setup his mac in the living room, facing a wall.
THAT is to me the most important part of your set-up. Make it easy to keep an eye on what they're doing, without having to actually watch them every single moment.
By his third birthday my kid was already playing happily with the small size version of Lego. He never really had the habit of sticking stuff in his mouth, that helps. But before his fourth birthday the Duplo was already largely ignored.
For most children four years is a little young for Lego, but also getting a bit old for Duplo (which is iirc rated 2-5 by the manufacturer).
Ultimately, you want something that is going to be low maintenance and not terribly prone to accidental malware infections.
If that's what you really worry about start by not using Windows. A kid not knowing better won't realise it's not "the real thing".
And for the rest I wouldn't worry too much either. Set Google to return "safe search" results only and the chances of accidentally running into anything you may call objectionable are about as slim as with a self-maintained filter.
I've been taking my kid (now also 4) along for shopping all the time. No problem, especially grocery shopping is fine actually, walking shop to shop, buying this here, that there, lots to see, very interesting.
There are worse things for a child than grocery shopping, like yesterday when we went out to buy tea. We've been sitting in that shop for 1 1/2 hours talking and tasting various teas before leaving with a nice set. That was planned, so the kid was with his grandparents to the beach. And we all enjoyed ourselves.
The cause of misbehaviour with children lies with the parents at least as much if not more than with the children themselves, so you should really look at your parenting if your child can't even behave himself during a supermarket visit. Maybe you should consider taking him to the playground more, instead of parking him at home in front of a computer. Getting rid of all that surplus energy makes them behave much better afterwards.
But as long as you take only your own needs into account behaviour problems are bound to happen.
Then at least give the correct link: https://www.startssl.com/?app=1!
Bad marketing.
They should raise the fees by that amount, and then offer a discount for the version with extra ads. And then the discounted version is the same cost as the old price. And of course advertise the hell out of the "discounted" price as if that's the new "enhanced" service.
That works only in a few situations.
Encrypted e-mail maybe, encrypted storage in general will work.
But not your https connection. Or ssl connection. For those there are no keys stored: they are created time and again, and dropped when done. "Listened" in to an encrypted VoIP conversation? Well good luck getting keys to decrypt that.
Wah... you were really born in the wrong era... in my time, sneakernet used to provide mainly high-res images, printed on glossy paper.
That said I do recall I had some "strip poker" game but it was broken... the part where it got interesting the images were all broken or simply not there.