They also seem to think that inputting your password with an on-screen html keyboard using your mouse will provide *ANY* extra security.
The one thing that i'm happy about is that unlike commonwealth bank, they are not integrating facebook with their online banking system. Just let that one sink in a little bit.... integrating FaceBook with your online banking
Preferential voting is way better, it allows you to vote for your preferred minor party rep without missing out on your descision in the Red vs Blue battle.
Although there are some downsides, such as in the Australian senate where there are around 50 cadidates for each state in a half-senate election. Compared to the house of reps, where there are generally 4-8 candiates per electorate. I don't think our solution to the "number all boxes from 1-50" problem is perfect, but most people would refuse to vote if they had to do that.
If your phone had a robust backup procedure you wouldn't care either.
If i lose/break/whatever my iphone I can walk into an apple store, get a new one and leave with all my data (minus my music which will be added next time i tether since i dont' pay for itunes match) and applications restored to the phone using their wifi.
Of course if you have a retail license that doesn't even matter, you get somethign like 5 motherboard upgrades before you have to call them up to activate but they rarely question it.
I used to write software for a major mobile phone manufacturer, and had access to dozens of prototype handsets, Guess which prototypes were the ones with broken USB ports that we'd have to open up and solder new sockets onto?
Micro USB is terrible and i'm glad apple aren't using it. In fact the first time i plugged a cable into one my first thought was about how flimsy the socket was and sure enough after a few weeks of constant use they break, i'm sure it had a lot to do with having to hold the phone and move it areound while it was plugged into a PC
The connector is designed to be plugged in and left still on a table with no stresses on the cable, which is exactly what is NOT going to happen on a portable device. In fact the connector was way less sturdy than the JTAG debugging ports that were added onto some of the iDEN phones we worked on, and those were added by hand after the phone was manufactured.
There are valves you can get from 0.25psi upwards that will do it mechanically, and i'm sure there are digital probes that will measure specific gravity. If not you could make one with a float, a webcam and some crude image processing.
Are you saying you would prefer competition at the last-mile infrastructure level?
Doing that you will either end up with many small regional monopolies with no incentive to offer the best service because of their captive audience AND lose efficiencies of scale.
- OR - You will have multiple sets of last-mile infrastructure which are horrendously expensive to build and maintain, which means that you will end up higher prices and/or longer payback times on your capital expenditure.
NBNCo is only providing network between the customer and the nearest of 120 points of interconnect, the ISP is tasked with renting/purchsing/installing backhaul from there to their own network. They are also responsible for marketing, peering, international transit, connecting voip calls and all the other things that an ISP does that are above the last mile layer2 network. They have set pricing that is available to any ISP that wishes to purchase from them, just becuase they will be a monoply (because nobody would be stupid enough to try and compete with them just like nobody is stuipd enough to overbuild telstra's PSTN copper) does not mean they are not a wholesaler only.
In practice they do pay more for your money than from the central bank, as money from the central bank is only loaned for very short periods. Our current central bank rate is at 3.5%
Here is an example from my bank for savings account
Standard base variable interest rate 0.01% Standard variable bonus 5.25% deposit $50 and make no withdrawals Earn up to 5.26%
Stop splitting hairs, there are very few democracies in the world if you are going to stick to Pluto's definition.
There is a list of countries that are considered to be democracies, I only looked at about half the list but they are pretty much all contitutional monarchys or republics. Pepper those terms with "parliamentary" and "presidental" and you cover the lot of them.
2 years to 80% capacity is not "very limited" when people replace their phones at that time anyway. If you are using a phone longer than that then apple provide a service where they replace the battery for around $100.
I have been using mobile phones for around a decade and have not once had to replace a battery before the phone broke or became outdated, i have had to replace broken battery COVERS many times however.
The interesting thing is that "center" is actually the anglicised version of "Centre" which is a french word used in it's original form by the UK/Australia/NZ and others.
normal adjective 1. conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural. 2. serving to establish a standard.
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not normal. Also, just because it has a TV resolution does not make it a TV. Televisions are defined by their built in tuners that conform to broadcast standards, any screen that does not supply it's own video signal is considered a monitor.
I will give you the crappy resolution thing, but we are finally getting that pushed into the market thanks to apple. Although i'm skeptical about your "10 year old high resolution units" being much more than 1080p. Most of those panels that weren't stupidly expensive were still the same number of horizontal pixels as 1080p but were 16:10 instead of 16:9
Kryptonite: Large number of customers with little knowledge of the issues protecting something cheap with something cheap, this warranty will likely not be taken up enmasse assuming the locks aren't already lost or rusting in a shed.
Onity: Relatively small number of customers with large numbers of locks and highly likely to find out about the flaw who also likely pay for maintenance contracts.
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They also seem to think that inputting your password with an on-screen html keyboard using your mouse will provide *ANY* extra security.
The one thing that i'm happy about is that unlike commonwealth bank, they are not integrating facebook with their online banking system.
Just let that one sink in a little bit.... integrating FaceBook with your online banking
Hydraulic and transmission oil is changed far less frequently than engine oil.
Also all-electric cars don't have the same complex tranmissions since electric engines don't have the same narrow power band
Preferential voting is way better, it allows you to vote for your preferred minor party rep without missing out on your descision in the Red vs Blue battle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
Although there are some downsides, such as in the Australian senate where there are around 50 cadidates for each state in a half-senate election. Compared to the house of reps, where there are generally 4-8 candiates per electorate.
I don't think our solution to the "number all boxes from 1-50" problem is perfect, but most people would refuse to vote if they had to do that.
I would be shocked if the batteryi's are exposed from below.
Pun intended?
Depends on the app.
Many .net apps either
1) use winforms
2) include unmanaged calls
3) use 3rd party toolkits that suffer from 1 and 2
Wpf apps shouldn't be too hard to port, but the UI paradigms are quite different so you will have to perform major surgery on that part of the app
If your phone had a robust backup procedure you wouldn't care either.
If i lose/break/whatever my iphone I can walk into an apple store, get a new one and leave with all my data (minus my music which will be added next time i tether since i dont' pay for itunes match) and applications restored to the phone using their wifi.
Of course if you have a retail license that doesn't even matter, you get somethign like 5 motherboard upgrades before you have to call them up to activate but they rarely question it.
I used to write software for a major mobile phone manufacturer, and had access to dozens of prototype handsets, Guess which prototypes were the ones with broken USB ports that we'd have to open up and solder new sockets onto?
Micro USB is terrible and i'm glad apple aren't using it. In fact the first time i plugged a cable into one my first thought was about how flimsy the socket was and sure enough after a few weeks of constant use they break, i'm sure it had a lot to do with having to hold the phone and move it areound while it was plugged into a PC
The connector is designed to be plugged in and left still on a table with no stresses on the cable, which is exactly what is NOT going to happen on a portable device.
In fact the connector was way less sturdy than the JTAG debugging ports that were added onto some of the iDEN phones we worked on, and those were added by hand after the phone was manufactured.
Why open a valve electrically?
There are valves you can get from 0.25psi upwards that will do it mechanically, and i'm sure there are digital probes that will measure specific gravity. If not you could make one with a float, a webcam and some crude image processing.
Most consumer embedded devices that were built with ipv4 in mind don't have the memory to handle ipv6 adressing.
In fact last time i checked my router is actually within 10 bytes of using 100% of the eeprom
I remember singing that in school as a kid, although even though i was only 10 I wondered why we were singing commercial brands in music class.
Are you saying you would prefer competition at the last-mile infrastructure level?
Doing that you will either end up with many small regional monopolies with no incentive to offer the best service because of their captive audience AND lose efficiencies of scale.
- OR -
You will have multiple sets of last-mile infrastructure which are horrendously expensive to build and maintain, which means that you will end up higher prices and/or longer payback times on your capital expenditure.
NBNCo is only providing network between the customer and the nearest of 120 points of interconnect, the ISP is tasked with renting/purchsing/installing backhaul from there to their own network. They are also responsible for marketing, peering, international transit, connecting voip calls and all the other things that an ISP does that are above the last mile layer2 network.
They have set pricing that is available to any ISP that wishes to purchase from them, just becuase they will be a monoply (because nobody would be stupid enough to try and compete with them just like nobody is stuipd enough to overbuild telstra's PSTN copper) does not mean they are not a wholesaler only.
In practice they do pay more for your money than from the central bank, as money from the central bank is only loaned for very short periods.
Our current central bank rate is at 3.5%
Here is an example from my bank for savings account
Standard base variable interest rate 0.01%
Standard variable bonus 5.25% deposit $50 and make no withdrawals
Earn up to 5.26%
Stop splitting hairs, there are very few democracies in the world if you are going to stick to Pluto's definition.
There is a list of countries that are considered to be democracies, I only looked at about half the list but they are pretty much all contitutional monarchys or republics. Pepper those terms with "parliamentary" and "presidental" and you cover the lot of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Communist doesn't mean what you think it does.
2 years to 80% capacity is not "very limited" when people replace their phones at that time anyway.
If you are using a phone longer than that then apple provide a service where they replace the battery for around $100.
I have been using mobile phones for around a decade and have not once had to replace a battery before the phone broke or became outdated, i have had to replace broken battery COVERS many times however.
The interesting thing is that "center" is actually the anglicised version of "Centre" which is a french word used in it's original form by the UK/Australia/NZ and others.
I kinda take my previous statement back.
I guess you were talkign about TFA, and I was talking about Haiku in general.
It's not a port, it is a binary compatible cleanroom reimplementation of the kernel
Yes, I miss my CRTs too.
However this conversation was about LCD panels and they were always a tradeoff between small dot pitches and compact size
normal
adjective
1. conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
2. serving to establish a standard.
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not normal.
Also, just because it has a TV resolution does not make it a TV. Televisions are defined by their built in tuners that conform to broadcast standards, any screen that does not supply it's own video signal is considered a monitor.
I will give you the crappy resolution thing, but we are finally getting that pushed into the market thanks to apple. Although i'm skeptical about your "10 year old high resolution units" being much more than 1080p. Most of those panels that weren't stupidly expensive were still the same number of horizontal pixels as 1080p but were 16:10 instead of 16:9
A normal computer monitor controls it's brightness in the exact same way nowdays.
LED backlighting has replaced cold cathode flourescent backlighting pretty much universally
There is a difference here:
Kryptonite: Large number of customers with little knowledge of the issues protecting something cheap with something cheap, this warranty will likely not be taken up enmasse assuming the locks aren't already lost or rusting in a shed.
Onity: Relatively small number of customers with large numbers of locks and highly likely to find out about the flaw who also likely pay for maintenance contracts.
What name do verizon operate under in australia?
sorry, i meant to say FIRST party insurance.. 3rd party insurance is already fairly cheap