Oh, man. I'm really glad I still have an unlimited data plan. Can you imagine dumping 2GB of memory on a regular basis? That'd eat up most data plans really fast!
Yeah, but he can use the same excuses that all other psychics use:
a. "I don't need the money." - He certainly doesn't. b. "It isn't worth my time." - If you calculate his hourly rate, it probably isn't. c. "It's not about the money." - Well... okay. He can't use this one. d. "I don't need to prove my gift to anyone. You just have to have faith." - Faith, and AAPL stock.
That sounds like a really good way to lose the sale entirely. I've worked in electronics retail just enough to know that people who can't be bothered to research things like "names of products" don't want to be corrected. The sale is far more likely to happen if you make an educated guess as to what they want and let them tell you if it's not what they wanted.
That's the one where the older you get, the worse it is. I've never been clear on why that is, but if you didn't have it as a kid or get immunized for it and then contract it as an adult, it's a serious problem.
There are valid medical reasons that some people can't get immunized. (Allergies, compromised immune systems, etc.) Those people benefit from herd immunity.
Sounds wonderful until it decides that the fastest route is through the bad area of town. Or it decides that an address is about two miles away from where it actually is. Or the road washed out and the car can work out that it can't go that way but can't route around it since the map says it should work. Or it takes me to the foot of a two mile long driveway and stops.
All things that have happened to me with GPS navigation. Not saying we need pedals and a steering wheels to solve those problems, but they are a really good solution to those problems.
I could go through a laundry-list of problems I have with every OS I currently use (Ubuntu 12.04 & 14.04, Windows 7, FreeBSD 9 & 10, several builds of OpenEmbedded) and what I did to fix them or work round them, but that wouldn't be particularly productive unless this happened to be the mailing list for those projects.
But then again, it seems it's fairly easy to convince legislators that it's essentially the same thing, so I guess you could be forgiven for making the same mistake.
For my part, I'm still going with the company that marginally less anti-consumer than the other.
In two months, I'm moving to a new home that has both Comcast and FiOS available. At that point, my cable modem will go live in a cardboard box until I move again.
While I don't believe for a second that Verizon won't jump on the data cap bandwagon once everyone else is doing it, they haven't spent the last few years pushing data caps onto their customers.
The crazy part about that is that the car doesn't actually need to be present to get the key made, nor do they need a key to copy from.
When I got the key on my '96 Z3 replaced, all they needed was a copy of my registration (with VIN) and an ID. A couple days later, I picked the key up.
Most jammers work by blasting noise on whatever channels you are trying to block.
Perfect band pass filters are not a thing the exist, especially not for transmitters. Especially not for transmitters cobbled together by some guy on the cheap. The assumption that they do is why they (rightfully) smacked down LightSquared.
See that slot right below "Cellular?" You know, that cut-away that has all the "Public Safety" allocations? Now, let's look at a quote from the FCC posting: "According to deputies from the Sheriff’s Office, communications with police dispatch were interrupted as they approached Mr. Humphreys’ vehicle."
The jammer was blocking police radio. Not just cell phones. He was actively interfering with public safety communications. NON-CELLULAR public safety communications.
Personally? $48,000 is getting off easy. I'd add another order of magnitude onto it.
Why invest milions of dollars into a platform that only a handful of people are going to use?
Omega Smartwatch: No apps because the few hundred people who have them aren't really enough of a market to bother developing for. Especially not when [whatever smartwatch platform ends up winning in the end, if any] has two or three orders of magnitude more users.
Far more likely scenario: Let the Pebbles and the Samsungs and the rest duke it out for marketshare, then partner with them. What do you bet Pebble would jump at the change to make the "Rolex Smartwatch based on the Pebble platform?"
But no, you can't run Windows applications on a Windows RT or Windows Phone device.
iOS runs the same kernel as Mac OS X, but you can't run OS X applications on iOS. Android uses the Linux kernel, but you can't run Linux Desktop applications on Android. (At least, not without a lot of work adding the needed libraries and recompiling everything for ARM.)
"Same kernel" doesn't mean "all the applications are interoperable."
I was curious about historical results of this poll, so I did some digging.
2009 - AIG - Bailed out in 2008, makes big news for giving executives $165M in executive bonuses, $1.2B in total bonuses. 2010 - Comcast - Makes big news by buying NBCUniversal in 2009. 2011 - BP - Deepwater Horizon happened in 2010 2012 - EA - Mass Effect 3 (Not sure how much news this generated, but someone mentioned it above.) 2013 - EA - SimCity's problems made news. Not on the same level as, say BP in 2010, but it certainly came up outside of tech and gaming sites occasionally. 2014 - Comcast - Makes news by trying to buy TWC.
I'm noticing a bit of a pattern here. (Though there does seem to be a bit of a tech bias, unless someone did something particularly egregious.)
"We absolutely support your ability to have one remote control for everything... so long as it's produced by us and we lease it to you for a nominal monthly fee." -- Every programming provider ever.
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Oh, man. I'm really glad I still have an unlimited data plan. Can you imagine dumping 2GB of memory on a regular basis? That'd eat up most data plans really fast!
And then I accidentally rooted it.
And then I accidentally installed CyanogenMod on it.
Will no company save me from this vicious cycle of accidentally doing things to my phone?
Yeah, but he can use the same excuses that all other psychics use:
a. "I don't need the money." - He certainly doesn't.
b. "It isn't worth my time." - If you calculate his hourly rate, it probably isn't.
c. "It's not about the money." - Well... okay. He can't use this one.
d. "I don't need to prove my gift to anyone. You just have to have faith." - Faith, and AAPL stock.
... why would they do that?
That sounds like a really good way to lose the sale entirely. I've worked in electronics retail just enough to know that people who can't be bothered to research things like "names of products" don't want to be corrected. The sale is far more likely to happen if you make an educated guess as to what they want and let them tell you if it's not what they wanted.
That's the one where the older you get, the worse it is. I've never been clear on why that is, but if you didn't have it as a kid or get immunized for it and then contract it as an adult, it's a serious problem.
There are valid medical reasons that some people can't get immunized. (Allergies, compromised immune systems, etc.) Those people benefit from herd immunity.
Sounds wonderful until it decides that the fastest route is through the bad area of town.
Or it decides that an address is about two miles away from where it actually is.
Or the road washed out and the car can work out that it can't go that way but can't route around it since the map says it should work.
Or it takes me to the foot of a two mile long driveway and stops.
All things that have happened to me with GPS navigation. Not saying we need pedals and a steering wheels to solve those problems, but they are a really good solution to those problems.
Yeah, pretty much this.
I could go through a laundry-list of problems I have with every OS I currently use (Ubuntu 12.04 & 14.04, Windows 7, FreeBSD 9 & 10, several builds of OpenEmbedded) and what I did to fix them or work round them, but that wouldn't be particularly productive unless this happened to be the mailing list for those projects.
I tried to RTFM, but TFM just says I need to RTFM. :(
Lucky you.
They all suck, including the one I use!
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Verizon FiOS. Not Verizon Wireless.
But then again, it seems it's fairly easy to convince legislators that it's essentially the same thing, so I guess you could be forgiven for making the same mistake.
For my part, I'm still going with the company that marginally less anti-consumer than the other.
In two months, I'm moving to a new home that has both Comcast and FiOS available. At that point, my cable modem will go live in a cardboard box until I move again.
While I don't believe for a second that Verizon won't jump on the data cap bandwagon once everyone else is doing it, they haven't spent the last few years pushing data caps onto their customers.
The crazy part about that is that the car doesn't actually need to be present to get the key made, nor do they need a key to copy from.
When I got the key on my '96 Z3 replaced, all they needed was a copy of my registration (with VIN) and an ID. A couple days later, I picked the key up.
I'm... not entirely sure how I feel about that.
Make sure you use the correct hand so you don't break your wrist.
In 30 years or so when I inherit my parents' home in Missoula, I'll be sitting pretty.
In the mean time, I can go visit them and enjoy the pre-Fairfax/Loudoun County-ized state of the area.
This seems like a win-win situation to me.
Most jammers work by blasting noise on whatever channels you are trying to block.
Perfect band pass filters are not a thing the exist, especially not for transmitters. Especially not for transmitters cobbled together by some guy on the cheap. The assumption that they do is why they (rightfully) smacked down LightSquared.
So, let's do a little exercise:
First, look at the 800 MHz Band Plan
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedi...
See that slot right below "Cellular?" You know, that cut-away that has all the "Public Safety" allocations? Now, let's look at a quote from the FCC posting:
"According to deputies from the Sheriff’s Office, communications with police dispatch were interrupted as they approached Mr. Humphreys’ vehicle."
The jammer was blocking police radio. Not just cell phones. He was actively interfering with public safety communications. NON-CELLULAR public safety communications.
Personally? $48,000 is getting off easy. I'd add another order of magnitude onto it.
*"Change" was meant to be "chance."
Remember, kits. All way use you're spell check cur.
Why invest milions of dollars into a platform that only a handful of people are going to use?
Omega Smartwatch: No apps because the few hundred people who have them aren't really enough of a market to bother developing for. Especially not when [whatever smartwatch platform ends up winning in the end, if any] has two or three orders of magnitude more users.
Far more likely scenario: Let the Pebbles and the Samsungs and the rest duke it out for marketshare, then partner with them. What do you bet Pebble would jump at the change to make the "Rolex Smartwatch based on the Pebble platform?"
Forgot to log in before I posted that...
Yes, it's true. They run the same kernel.
But no, you can't run Windows applications on a Windows RT or Windows Phone device.
iOS runs the same kernel as Mac OS X, but you can't run OS X applications on iOS.
Android uses the Linux kernel, but you can't run Linux Desktop applications on Android. (At least, not without a lot of work adding the needed libraries and recompiling everything for ARM.)
"Same kernel" doesn't mean "all the applications are interoperable."
I was curious about historical results of this poll, so I did some digging.
2009 - AIG - Bailed out in 2008, makes big news for giving executives $165M in executive bonuses, $1.2B in total bonuses.
2010 - Comcast - Makes big news by buying NBCUniversal in 2009.
2011 - BP - Deepwater Horizon happened in 2010
2012 - EA - Mass Effect 3 (Not sure how much news this generated, but someone mentioned it above.)
2013 - EA - SimCity's problems made news. Not on the same level as, say BP in 2010, but it certainly came up outside of tech and gaming sites occasionally.
2014 - Comcast - Makes news by trying to buy TWC.
I'm noticing a bit of a pattern here. (Though there does seem to be a bit of a tech bias, unless someone did something particularly egregious.)
"We absolutely support your ability to have one remote control for everything... so long as it's produced by us and we lease it to you for a nominal monthly fee." -- Every programming provider ever.
That would have been hilarious and I wish I had thought of it.
If government busybodies in the UK are anything like they are here in the US, all this means is this:
"Horray! Another year of not having to do anything to fix the problem!"