You are of course assuming that making sense is something Glen Beck attempts to do. Have you ever watched one of the shows where he grabs a chalkboard? It's fascinating in a I-can't-believe-people-buy-into-this kind of way.
Eh? My E51 from 2007 came with 3G on UTMS 850 - see Wikipedia for full specs. Australia's largest network, Telstra, uses the 850 band, and they were giving these away free on basic plans.
Maybe these weren't sold in the US because every man and his dog was getting a RAZR, but I can see why Nokia stopped producing CDMA. Outside two carriers in the US, China is probably the only market that uses CDMA, and even Nokia openly acknowledges they can't compete with the low-margin Chinese brands.
The $45/month plan just happens to be on the one network that is makes AT&T look good. The caps distort the competition in many ways - the rates make it increasingly easy to chew through the "cap credit", especially with Telstra's decision to switch to per-minute billing from March.
I'm not saying the SMS-to-verify method won't work here - I've used that method with Google Local to verify identity - but rather that the mobile market doesn't have a cost-price reflection at all visible to the end-user.
But, there's still no connection between actual cost and price.
When has there ever been? In Australia, we pay 90 cents a minute with a 35 cent "flagfall" to call from a domestic mobile to another domestic mobile, while a friend working in India gets 20c-a-minute per-second billing with no flagfall to call from India to Australia. We're obviously a captive market, but the international carriers aren't. We don't pay for roaming or incoming calls thanks to the consumer watchdog, but even with three major carriers competition is non-existant.
I can only assume they're going to replace the most visited with the Chrome-style "speed dial" screen. I do have a couple of custom smart folders to separate personal bookmarks from work bookmarks without requiring manual intervention, but I guess that's on the way out.
But the voting was almost entirely on party lines,
Not really, depending on your threshold for that. The numbers (stolen from a comment above):
GOP: 210/26 (y/n) -> 89% DEM: 67/122 (y-n) -> 32%
... so 11% of GOPs and 32% of Dems didn't vote "entirely on party lines". Compared to the Westminster system, for instance, where voting along party lines is the customary thing to do and "crossing the floor" is liable to get you kicked out of your party, this is a huge degree of freedom.
RTFA - it's about using proteins, which happen to be found in spinach, to catalyse solar power reactions that produce Hydrogen, not burning the damn spinach. Yeesh.
So, what are we building? Firefox Front End
* Simple Sharing
* Animations in the user interface...
* Remove Smart Search functionality from Bookmark Manager
* Electrolysis...
What does sharing in the front end mean? Why the hell are you animating my user interface? Why is smart search being removed? What the hell is electrolysis?
JavaScript Engine
* tbd
"TBD"? Really?
Add-Ons, Plugins, Customizations...
* Add support for Greasemonkey like scripts via JetPack?
* Addons story that doesn't suck / good metrics / disable-as-soon-as-it crashes
* Fix PFS
o simple update path for plugins
o simple discovery & install path for plugins
* need better policy around expectations
* need better support and enforcement for versioning expectations
* not a lot of vendors come to MDC
* improving IPC / sandboxing
* NaCl? some vendor push, here, mostly from Adobe
Oh for the love of...! This isn't so much a roadmap as a scrawling in the sand. "Addons story that doesn't suck" gets us nowhere. A roadmap should be something more substantial than a brainstorm.
Developer Tools
* Console & Inspector
* Providing Diffs
* Integration with GitHub
* How it meshes with open web app ecosystem
Why oh why is Firefox providing diffs? Should these things not be some sort of official plugins for those that need it, rather than baked-in features? and I can only assume the integration with GitHub is for the back-end, because otherwise that's not a feature my grandma needs. Someone sort this feature list out first before we can move on to sorting out whatever genius thinks moving major version numbers makes a difference.
First off, it's "paid", not payed. and it's "companies", not company's.
Secondly, chances are the only way you paid for these lines via the government was the government allowing near-monopolies in the telephony market. In America, the infrastructure was built by the companies - the original being Ma Bell. Subsequent upgrades are also courtesy of the telecoms and ISPs.
Surely you could still be prosecuted for accessory to the crime? aiding and abetting?
And that of course leaves aside all the moral questions about whether it would be right - do you buy off the freedom afforded by assisting something which is wrong, morally and legally?
There is a mechanism for marking portions of the text as unattributed, and it is widely used and applied. I've had a similar experience to the story in GP, and I've walked away from all but minor spelling and formatting edits. When people have something to contribute, use it constructively and request a follow-up. If the person who made the edits can't substantiate with sources after being contacted about it, fine, revert it or flag it as unreliable and needing follow-up research by someone else. A simple bureaucratic delete discourages contribution.
I guess the county could argue that they are not restricting your right to do so, but that they require notification of it beforehand in the interests of public safety. It'd follow the letter of the law, if not the spirit.
The issue is not that desktop applications can't access a network service - indeed, an increasing majority of desktop programs appear to be doing so - but that web "apps" provide a certain advantage from a development perspective. It's the thick-client-vs-thin-client for the GUI world - a web "app" gives you all the following basically for free: - cross-platform - get the browser independence right, and you don't have to account for the vagaries of Windows, Mac and Linux. - globally accessible - log in anywhere with a "terminal" in the form of a browser window (see: e-mail) - lightweight versioning and updating - no need to roll out updates to each and every user, just update the pages served (see: Facebook) - familiarity - everyone understands the language of hyperlinks, or can be taught to very quickly.
Some apps will not migrate to the web for some time yet - games, system and basic utilities like text editors, and heavyweight programs that need serious access to hardware. "Productivity" stuff can move over pretty damn easily.
I'm sorry, you seriously think there's no bribery or potential to pay people off in the US? In other countries, the sums may be trifling, the bribes obvious; we're just better at extracting more and doing it in hidden or subtler ways. You-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours works in many ways.
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His argument makes no sense.
You are of course assuming that making sense is something Glen Beck attempts to do. Have you ever watched one of the shows where he grabs a chalkboard? It's fascinating in a I-can't-believe-people-buy-into-this kind of way.
Eh? My E51 from 2007 came with 3G on UTMS 850 - see Wikipedia for full specs. Australia's largest network, Telstra, uses the 850 band, and they were giving these away free on basic plans.
Maybe these weren't sold in the US because every man and his dog was getting a RAZR, but I can see why Nokia stopped producing CDMA. Outside two carriers in the US, China is probably the only market that uses CDMA, and even Nokia openly acknowledges they can't compete with the low-margin Chinese brands.
The problem with that all-too-cute headline is that it may be way off the mark.
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 16, @08:41AM from the patch-it-up dept
Byline too small for you?
The $45/month plan just happens to be on the one network that is makes AT&T look good. The caps distort the competition in many ways - the rates make it increasingly easy to chew through the "cap credit", especially with Telstra's decision to switch to per-minute billing from March.
I'm not saying the SMS-to-verify method won't work here - I've used that method with Google Local to verify identity - but rather that the mobile market doesn't have a cost-price reflection at all visible to the end-user.
But, there's still no connection between actual cost and price.
When has there ever been? In Australia, we pay 90 cents a minute with a 35 cent "flagfall" to call from a domestic mobile to another domestic mobile, while a friend working in India gets 20c-a-minute per-second billing with no flagfall to call from India to Australia. We're obviously a captive market, but the international carriers aren't. We don't pay for roaming or incoming calls thanks to the consumer watchdog, but even with three major carriers competition is non-existant.
(sorry for OT rant)
Trains are pretty damn ubiquitous in Europe, and the worst you get is a metal detector when going under the Channel.
I can only assume they're going to replace the most visited with the Chrome-style "speed dial" screen. I do have a couple of custom smart folders to separate personal bookmarks from work bookmarks without requiring manual intervention, but I guess that's on the way out.
But the voting was almost entirely on party lines,
Not really, depending on your threshold for that. The numbers (stolen from a comment above):
GOP: 210/26 (y/n) -> 89%
DEM: 67/122 (y-n) -> 32%
... so 11% of GOPs and 32% of Dems didn't vote "entirely on party lines". Compared to the Westminster system, for instance, where voting along party lines is the customary thing to do and "crossing the floor" is liable to get you kicked out of your party, this is a huge degree of freedom.
Their redeeming feature is incompetence
Making them just like the other lot. Ah, democracy.
Except that's wrong.
RTFA - it's about using proteins, which happen to be found in spinach, to catalyse solar power reactions that produce Hydrogen, not burning the damn spinach. Yeesh.
It's not that - it's the smart search within the bookmarks, such as "Recently Bookmarked".
What does sharing in the front end mean? Why the hell are you animating my user interface? Why is smart search being removed? What the hell is electrolysis?
"TBD"? Really?
Oh for the love of...! This isn't so much a roadmap as a scrawling in the sand. "Addons story that doesn't suck" gets us nowhere. A roadmap should be something more substantial than a brainstorm.
Why oh why is Firefox providing diffs? Should these things not be some sort of official plugins for those that need it, rather than baked-in features? and I can only assume the integration with GitHub is for the back-end, because otherwise that's not a feature my grandma needs. Someone sort this feature list out first before we can move on to sorting out whatever genius thinks moving major version numbers makes a difference.
First off, it's "paid", not payed. and it's "companies", not company's.
Secondly, chances are the only way you paid for these lines via the government was the government allowing near-monopolies in the telephony market. In America, the infrastructure was built by the companies - the original being Ma Bell. Subsequent upgrades are also courtesy of the telecoms and ISPs.
Surely you could still be prosecuted for accessory to the crime? aiding and abetting?
And that of course leaves aside all the moral questions about whether it would be right - do you buy off the freedom afforded by assisting something which is wrong, morally and legally?
The difference is that this image is CC-BY-NC .
Yes but even 4chan wouldn't be so ignorant as to not know V's mask is a Guy Fawkes mask. At least, I assume they can google.
Sir, if your penis can fit in a USB slot... I'd speak to your doctor.
There is a mechanism for marking portions of the text as unattributed, and it is widely used and applied. I've had a similar experience to the story in GP, and I've walked away from all but minor spelling and formatting edits. When people have something to contribute, use it constructively and request a follow-up. If the person who made the edits can't substantiate with sources after being contacted about it, fine, revert it or flag it as unreliable and needing follow-up research by someone else. A simple bureaucratic delete discourages contribution.
No doubt some nutbag will read that and come to the conclusion that the issue is not vaccines for kids but school.
I guess the county could argue that they are not restricting your right to do so, but that they require notification of it beforehand in the interests of public safety. It'd follow the letter of the law, if not the spirit.
(not a constitutional lawyer)
The issue is not that desktop applications can't access a network service - indeed, an increasing majority of desktop programs appear to be doing so - but that web "apps" provide a certain advantage from a development perspective. It's the thick-client-vs-thin-client for the GUI world - a web "app" gives you all the following basically for free:
- cross-platform - get the browser independence right, and you don't have to account for the vagaries of Windows, Mac and Linux.
- globally accessible - log in anywhere with a "terminal" in the form of a browser window (see: e-mail)
- lightweight versioning and updating - no need to roll out updates to each and every user, just update the pages served (see: Facebook)
- familiarity - everyone understands the language of hyperlinks, or can be taught to very quickly.
Some apps will not migrate to the web for some time yet - games, system and basic utilities like text editors, and heavyweight programs that need serious access to hardware. "Productivity" stuff can move over pretty damn easily.
What did you get charged with?
I'm sorry, you seriously think there's no bribery or potential to pay people off in the US? In other countries, the sums may be trifling, the bribes obvious; we're just better at extracting more and doing it in hidden or subtler ways. You-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours works in many ways.