Ok so Verizon, who currently uses EVDO CDMA, is going to beat ATT to 4G by putting in 100% new installations of UMTS towers, and getting LTE running on all of them above 14,000 Kbps, before ATT can use its map (shown in the ads) of EXISTING UMTS towers, and upgrade them to LTE?
If Verizon jumps to UMTS (which is what LTE is based on) how will they be in front of ATT? Who only needs ground bandwidth, and processing at their existing towers to get 14,000 Kbps? Not to mention they only need software upgrades (and ground level bandwidth) to implement HSPA+ which has ~50Kbps speed.
ATT is also stated moving to LTE.
I'll stick with my almost fully HSPA+ T-Mobile though.
Yes '3G' and OMFG '4G' HOLY SHIT !!!!!111!!11!!1eleven!!!11!!
3G does NOT MEAN ANYTHING!
And yes Verizon has upgrade all of it's towers to '3G'. That is because it is just an extention of their '2G' technology.
They didn't have any large hardware upgrades. It was programming and processing at their sites. ATT/TMoble had to basically install new towers everywhere.
And Sprint's '4G', which I assume is what Verizon will roll out (both being EVDO), isn't really that much faster than ATT 3G. Sprint advertizes 3-6 Mbps, which is on par with ATTs 3.6Mbps HSDPA network.
Sounding best is not a measure if one can tell the difference between formats!
Best is subjective. And if someone picks 320kbps MP3 as 'best' over FLAC 4/5 times there IS a NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE.
I can (with most tracks) easily pick out the 128bit MP3 in my car, or on my home stereo. I don't even have to listen back to back. I think it sounds bad. 160kbps and well I can't tell for the most part.
I used T-Moblie pre-paid for about 8 months (10cents/min, plus unlimited internet which was not supposed to happen). I ported my number from Verizon Plan, and then ported it to a T-Mobile plan. No problems.
I am so glad to have T-Moblie service (and Android for over a year). Not because they have great coverage (it is really good in Atlanta but bad other places), because Verizon does. I am so glad because they give the best customer service, in both the stores and on the phone.
I had huge problems with Verizon refurbished phones not working properly (went through 5 phones in 8 weeks). Three of the five didn't work properly out of the store. The other two had either the speaker or LCD mess up within a week. Every time I went to get a replacement I had to call the 800 number, hand the phone to the desk person so they would give me the replacement. PITA. I ended up forwarding my number to a Pre-Paid T-Mobile phone for 5 months before my contract ended (it was cheaper to pay the $10 a month for the family line, than the $175 break fee). I moved my number the day my contract ended. The other 3 family lines got moved within 5 days.
Sorry for the rant. VerizonWireless, and Comcast will never get a dime from me, they both offer nice products (well just Verizon), but their service is not worth the hassle. I also know a Verizon Wireless employee (accounting) that forgoes the discounted rates also 100% due to the fact their customer service sucks.
The sun is being occulted, the reflection of the rings are seen on the dark side of Saturn. Not to mention the little faint blue dot just below the thickest part of the outer bulry ring, on the left side is supposedly Earth.
Except it isn't inexpensive. The government has to foot a huge bill to enforce laws. And libertarians don't like to pay taxes. See the disconnect here.
You get better efficiency with trying to cool a warmer enviroment. And you get better efficiency trying to cool with a colder outside temperature. The the smaller the delta T (assuming Cooler inside, warmer outside) the better your efficency.
I didn't mean to say that having a clutch makes for economical/better/faster driving. Just that it adds components to driving that are lost without it.
I drive and enjoy it. I enjoying spinning the wheels when I want (and don't have the power without clutching up, sure it is wastefull but so is driving a SUV.
F1 and other racing cars are designed to put as much power down as possible, have tremendous power. You want a fully engaged clutch to do that, and a highly advanced traction control to prevent wheelspin. The speed of shifting, especially downshifting, with a DSG type gearbox is a definate performance advantage.
And well a clutch is useful if you don't have a highly powered car (or engine with narrow powerband). But it also is quite useful in any 'low-grip' situation. I can greatly reduce, and control wheel slip on ice and snow versus a automatic transmission.
You are joking. But really the reson for 'shock absorbers' in cars was not for comfort (that is a byproduct). They were origionally to prevent the car from ratteling apart. And secondly to mantain tire contact with the road. It is chance that the better you feel (less up and down) the better the car stays together.
Ok there is a problem with the plane analogy for bracing. You see the plane has to 'bank' in a turn. It changes its camber and well you are supposed to be pushed down, not left and right. A car has no control over its camber, and thus you get pushed left and right a LOT.
This is why airplanes have a tiny dish for cup holders, and your car has cavernous buckets.
Yeah and your manu-matic resoponds SECONDS after you put in an input.
Yes automatically controlled cluteches are the future of automatic transmissions, and yes they can upshift faster, and downshift insanely faster that a person can. But there is a BUNCH of control you can get witha clutch pedal. Rocking back and forth waiting for a light to change (cant do that without a clutch pedal) clutching up the engine speed (to spin up a turbo) or just to hit your power band, not without my clutch pedal. Easy modulation for powering out of a corner, easy with the clutch.
I was very close to purchising a VW GTI with a DSG, due to the stupidly fast downshifting. But the one with the stick was just more fun. I can spin wheels whenever I want. I can rev my engine whenever it pleases me, even during hard braking. Sure a lot of these things do not help 'driving' and some are immature at best, but they are not accomplished without a clutch.
But a clutch pedal gives the driver a variable power delivery to the drive wheels, independant of engine speed and turbo boost. There is a LOT you can do with such control.
Yeah nothing that NASA has done has affected your life in the positive. Lets just wait for private enterprise to go there.
The only reason private enterprise is able to *think about* real space travel is because they are using the ~40 years of NASA knowledge and research.
Being on Mars is really cool, and we have learned a lot about it. But as for usefulness it tells us maybe mining Mars wouldn't be that profitable (but did we know that before). But all the stuff they used to get to Mars, that shit trickels down FAST. I mean I personally believe that SSDs on the rovers are wat put them into the main stream. They lasted in a super harsh enviroment orders of magnitude longer than they were supposed to. So keep thinking all NASA produces is cool photos.
Not to mention that the single company running the physical layer is already GROSSLY OVERSELLING the existing bandwidth. How can they sell what they have already OVERSOLD.
I paid ~20$ a month in fees (including my favorite 8$ convience fee), and about 0$ a month in gas for about 8 months of the year. As I live in Georgia, and I only had gas heat.
I was thinking about getting my gas disconnected and reconnected every winter, but I can't lock in a decent rate that way. And I pay ~75$ to disconnect (i.e. turn a valve, meter is electronic), and then 75$ to reconnect (turn the valve back on), and another 40$ account setup fee.
And there really weren't better options out there. Regulated monopoly replaced by, Regulated Monopoly (guy who owns the pipes), and UNREGULATED Ogliopoly. WIN FOR THE CONSUMER.
I see what you did there.
You threatened some people online.
Thus this would be 3rd degree felony.
But you only threatened people that think what you wrote is a felony.
So in order for this TO BE a felony, someone would have to think it was a felony first.
But if it is a felony, it should be a felony.
But then all we would have to do is put in some more parcitles. Fire it up. And then random e/m force fucking it up again?
Magnents breaking might be more probable than double or n-times random e/m force.
Also there is nothing saying we have to be observing the most probable outcome. We could be in a very improbable timeline.
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Ok so Verizon, who currently uses EVDO CDMA, is going to beat ATT to 4G by putting in 100% new installations of UMTS towers, and getting LTE running on all of them above 14,000 Kbps, before ATT can use its map (shown in the ads) of EXISTING UMTS towers, and upgrade them to LTE?
If Verizon jumps to UMTS (which is what LTE is based on) how will they be in front of ATT? Who only needs ground bandwidth, and processing at their existing towers to get 14,000 Kbps? Not to mention they only need software upgrades (and ground level bandwidth) to implement HSPA+ which has ~50Kbps speed.
ATT is also stated moving to LTE.
I'll stick with my almost fully HSPA+ T-Mobile though.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSPA%2B
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution#Carrier_adoption
Text messages don't travel over the 'data' streams. They use the talk stream.
You can send and recieve texts without 'data access'.
And don't get me wrong, all those iPhone users are clogging up ATT's bandwidth.
Yes '3G' and OMFG '4G' HOLY SHIT !!!!!111!!11!!1eleven!!!11!!
3G does NOT MEAN ANYTHING!
And yes Verizon has upgrade all of it's towers to '3G'. That is because it is just an extention of their '2G' technology.
They didn't have any large hardware upgrades. It was programming and processing at their sites. ATT/TMoble had to basically install new towers everywhere.
And Sprint's '4G', which I assume is what Verizon will roll out (both being EVDO), isn't really that much faster than ATT 3G. Sprint advertizes 3-6 Mbps, which is on par with ATTs 3.6Mbps HSDPA network.
Sorry for the shitty flash intro: http://now.sprint.com/nownetwork/mbbProductPage.html?id9=vanity:4G
http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/why/technology/3g-umts.jsp
More != Better.
Verizon's EVDO CDMA '3G' network is much slower than the HSDPA GSM '3G' that ATT has.
Becides Edge is in the '3G' spec, so it should be '3G' too.
The real problem is that '3G' is 100% meaningless. We should get maximum working bandwidths, then compare them.
And I really hate Verizon, and dislike ATT. I use T-Mobile. They have worse coverage, but so much better customer service!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths#Mobile_telephone_interfaces
EVDO revA is what Verizon is advertizing. HSDPA is what ATT has. Edge is also technically in the '3G' spec, and well should be shown in the Verizon ads. But honestly 3G doesn't mean shit.
Sounding best is not a measure if one can tell the difference between formats!
Best is subjective. And if someone picks 320kbps MP3 as 'best' over FLAC 4/5 times there IS a NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE.
I can (with most tracks) easily pick out the 128bit MP3 in my car, or on my home stereo. I don't even have to listen back to back. I think it sounds bad. 160kbps and well I can't tell for the most part.
I used T-Moblie pre-paid for about 8 months (10cents/min, plus unlimited internet which was not supposed to happen). I ported my number from Verizon Plan, and then ported it to a T-Mobile plan. No problems.
Which is a VERIZON UI.
MOD PARENT UP!
I am so glad to have T-Moblie service (and Android for over a year). Not because they have great coverage (it is really good in Atlanta but bad other places), because Verizon does. I am so glad because they give the best customer service, in both the stores and on the phone.
I had huge problems with Verizon refurbished phones not working properly (went through 5 phones in 8 weeks). Three of the five didn't work properly out of the store. The other two had either the speaker or LCD mess up within a week. Every time I went to get a replacement I had to call the 800 number, hand the phone to the desk person so they would give me the replacement. PITA. I ended up forwarding my number to a Pre-Paid T-Mobile phone for 5 months before my contract ended (it was cheaper to pay the $10 a month for the family line, than the $175 break fee). I moved my number the day my contract ended. The other 3 family lines got moved within 5 days.
Sorry for the rant. VerizonWireless, and Comcast will never get a dime from me, they both offer nice products (well just Verizon), but their service is not worth the hassle. I also know a Verizon Wireless employee (accounting) that forgoes the discounted rates also 100% due to the fact their customer service sucks.
Ok so I messed up. The Cassini orbiter took the photos. The Huygens probe fell through the atmosphere of Titan.
I also saw this launch in person. It was pretty sweet night launch.
The Cassini Huygens probe. It has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004. It also took some very nice pictures of Jupiter on the way to Saturn.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/missiondetails.cfm?mission=Cassini
It will probably end up replacing my previous one
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA08329.jpg
The sun is being occulted, the reflection of the rings are seen on the dark side of Saturn. Not to mention the little faint blue dot just below the thickest part of the outer bulry ring, on the left side is supposedly Earth.
Except how are any 'tube' providers going to get a pipe to your house? The government lets them use 'their' right of way.
Except it isn't inexpensive. The government has to foot a huge bill to enforce laws. And libertarians don't like to pay taxes. See the disconnect here.
You get better efficiency with trying to cool a warmer enviroment. And you get better efficiency trying to cool with a colder outside temperature. The the smaller the delta T (assuming Cooler inside, warmer outside) the better your efficency.
I didn't mean to say that having a clutch makes for economical/better/faster driving. Just that it adds components to driving that are lost without it.
I drive and enjoy it. I enjoying spinning the wheels when I want (and don't have the power without clutching up, sure it is wastefull but so is driving a SUV.
F1 and other racing cars are designed to put as much power down as possible, have tremendous power. You want a fully engaged clutch to do that, and a highly advanced traction control to prevent wheelspin. The speed of shifting, especially downshifting, with a DSG type gearbox is a definate performance advantage.
And well a clutch is useful if you don't have a highly powered car (or engine with narrow powerband). But it also is quite useful in any 'low-grip' situation. I can greatly reduce, and control wheel slip on ice and snow versus a automatic transmission.
You are joking. But really the reson for 'shock absorbers' in cars was not for comfort (that is a byproduct). They were origionally to prevent the car from ratteling apart. And secondly to mantain tire contact with the road. It is chance that the better you feel (less up and down) the better the car stays together.
Ok there is a problem with the plane analogy for bracing. You see the plane has to 'bank' in a turn. It changes its camber and well you are supposed to be pushed down, not left and right. A car has no control over its camber, and thus you get pushed left and right a LOT.
This is why airplanes have a tiny dish for cup holders, and your car has cavernous buckets.
Yeah and your manu-matic resoponds SECONDS after you put in an input.
Yes automatically controlled cluteches are the future of automatic transmissions, and yes they can upshift faster, and downshift insanely faster that a person can. But there is a BUNCH of control you can get witha clutch pedal. Rocking back and forth waiting for a light to change (cant do that without a clutch pedal) clutching up the engine speed (to spin up a turbo) or just to hit your power band, not without my clutch pedal. Easy modulation for powering out of a corner, easy with the clutch.
I was very close to purchising a VW GTI with a DSG, due to the stupidly fast downshifting. But the one with the stick was just more fun. I can spin wheels whenever I want. I can rev my engine whenever it pleases me, even during hard braking. Sure a lot of these things do not help 'driving' and some are immature at best, but they are not accomplished without a clutch.
But a clutch pedal gives the driver a variable power delivery to the drive wheels, independant of engine speed and turbo boost. There is a LOT you can do with such control.
THis needs to be modded up. The only good post so far.
This is an article about short supply of vaccine. And almost everyone here is saying that everyone needs a shot. The shots are NOT THERE.
Nurses should not get the shot. People at high risk of serious illness from H1N1 should get the shot. So kids.
If you are willing to risk getting the flu then don't get the shot.
Yeah nothing that NASA has done has affected your life in the positive. Lets just wait for private enterprise to go there.
The only reason private enterprise is able to *think about* real space travel is because they are using the ~40 years of NASA knowledge and research.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/ten-nasa-inventions.htm
Ok so this is really basic, but also aerogel, and a laundry list of other things.
Being on Mars is really cool, and we have learned a lot about it. But as for usefulness it tells us maybe mining Mars wouldn't be that profitable (but did we know that before). But all the stuff they used to get to Mars, that shit trickels down FAST. I mean I personally believe that SSDs on the rovers are wat put them into the main stream. They lasted in a super harsh enviroment orders of magnitude longer than they were supposed to. So keep thinking all NASA produces is cool photos.
Not to mention that the single company running the physical layer is already GROSSLY OVERSELLING the existing bandwidth. How can they sell what they have already OVERSOLD.
+ like 5000
I paid ~20$ a month in fees (including my favorite 8$ convience fee), and about 0$ a month in gas for about 8 months of the year. As I live in Georgia, and I only had gas heat.
I was thinking about getting my gas disconnected and reconnected every winter, but I can't lock in a decent rate that way. And I pay ~75$ to disconnect (i.e. turn a valve, meter is electronic), and then 75$ to reconnect (turn the valve back on), and another 40$ account setup fee.
And there really weren't better options out there. Regulated monopoly replaced by, Regulated Monopoly (guy who owns the pipes), and UNREGULATED Ogliopoly. WIN FOR THE CONSUMER.
I see what you did there.
You threatened some people online.
Thus this would be 3rd degree felony.
But you only threatened people that think what you wrote is a felony.
So in order for this TO BE a felony, someone would have to think it was a felony first.
But if it is a felony, it should be a felony.
Yeah and mouse faster. I will NOT BUY a USB1.0 mouse EVER. I need 2.0 or 3.0!!!
But then all we would have to do is put in some more parcitles. Fire it up. And then random e/m force fucking it up again?
Magnents breaking might be more probable than double or n-times random e/m force.
Also there is nothing saying we have to be observing the most probable outcome. We could be in a very improbable timeline.