I have as much of a mixed environment as anyone (2 Android Tablets, 1 android phone, 1 win8 desktop, 1 win8 laptop, 1 win7 tablet, 1 linux desktop), so I really have no preference one way or the other. However, the "funny" moderation of your post aside, as a developer, I think it's a bit unfair to categorize MS developers this way. After all, they were only writing what management told them to.
I haven't done all my reading on the new BB10 setup, but I know previous devices not only used RIM's servers to fetch email before passing it on to the device, but actually tunneled all internet traffic through their system. Now, from the article (or at least Google's translation of it), it sounds like BB10 says that setup is no longer used for the push email. However, are they still tunneling through RIM?
The article also seems to make a jump in assuming that RIM is storing this data (who else may be listening in along the way is another discussion entirely). The only reference that I saw in the article was to the connection occurring immediately after setting up the account. This could just as easily point to a "test, then throw away" procedure as part of e-mail setup on BB10. Unless there is additional information showing a series of connections over a period of time after setting up the account, there doesn't appear to be any indication that RIM is actually keeping this data.
OK, the early termination fee is meant to recoup the cost of the subsidy on the phone if you back out of the contract early. I don't necessarily like the practice, but I understand the reasoning behind it. However, the current wording of most(all?) cell phone contracts is that if you pay the ETF, you are released from the contract. By extension, would that then fall under the no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation stipulation you quoted?
I think the catch is that it would be easy for Time Warner to automate checking for who has a particular IP address right now. However, depending on how frequently they change IP addresses(do they change every time the modem requests a DHCP renewal, or on some other interval?), the problem lies in figuring out who had that IP at a particular point in the past. The historical information as far as who had what IP might not even be logged.
Also, with TW in particular(and probably other companies as well), because a large part of their growth has been acquisitions of other companies, not all the systems are fully tied together. Because of this, a request may take some time to get routed from whatever office it was sent to the actual office that has the information needed.
I had to once work on a computer for someone who had an app that installed off of a dozen or so floppies, and on the last one, it moved a file off the floppy to the hard drive, rather than copying it. If you told the program to uninstall itself, you were actually prompted to insert that last floppy, so the license file could be moved back. Unfortunately, the person who had the computer did not know enough to back up the computer, or even the floppy set, so when their computer crashed, we were unable to reinstall that program without jumping through a bunch of hoops with the company who sold it...
I'm not sure if the changes in the bill I linked to were passed, however, the link I sent was a bill to modify the existing law, which had a 14 day time frame rather than the 7 days in the text I quoted(or maybe the other way around, I don't remember what the quote said ATM)...
State that if the owner of the vehicle or lienholder has not properly retrieved it and paid all
reasonable charges for its towing, storage and repair within 7 days from the publication, ownership
of the vehicle passes to the owner of the premises where the vehicle is located
I'm guessing what happened in this case is that AT&T had other users who had logged into their Facebook accounts as well, and after logging in, the wires essentially got crossed, and the wrong Facebook data got sent to each handset.
While I don't know of any that are airline-specific, I knew a family who had a son who was so allergic to a number of things, that he could not even walk into the kitchen where any of his particular allergens were without having trouble breathing...
Maybe Apple will pull a coup this time around and offer a large tablet interface that's easily dockable. I know for many people the option to snag their interface and take it to a meeting down the hall or at the coffee shop would be pretty valuable
The first thing that came to mind when I read this was interfaces like you see in Minority Report or Avatar where you can dock a smaller display(roughly the size of your average tablet) into your main display and actually drag information to the tablet display. You can then undock the tablet and continue working with whatever data you moved to the tablet display. I could see where something like this would have its uses.
The reason for Y2K bugs is pretty ridiculous tho, someone had to see it coming. It's not even like the amount of available IPv4 addresses, it would had required some imagination back then to understand there would be so many internet connected machines today. But years you just saw coming.
If I remember correctly, the systems that many were concerned about were those systems that had been in place for 10,15,20 years or more that, when they were designed, were not expected to still be in use when Y2K became an issue. Personally, even looking at the computer advances that have taken place since Y2K, I could understand someone thinking a program that they wrote in, say, 1985, would no longer be in use in 2000.
One thought for a potential use would be to make it easier to see who is saying what...for example:
For argument's sake, let's say you're showing a scene of 4 people sitting each on one side of a table talking. With "conventional" subtitles, they are limited to being overlaid on the scene as a whole, making it difficult at times to figure out which character is saying what, especially if you can not see the lips of one or more characters to determine if they are talking.
With a 3d subtitle system, you could place the subtitles properly in the environment to denote who is saying what. Picture a cross between the speech bubbles on a comic, and that new video game(for the life of me, I can't remember which game it is right now, and Google was no help) that projects messages regarding new missions, etc. directly into the environment - such as onto the side of a building.
I'd used AdSweep in its very early days, and I ran into some weird issues, like it would chop off the first few letters of every ad on a local classified ad site(http://www.unclehenrys.com). I just tested it, and it still appears to do this...thankfully, I don't use that particular site as often any more.
On my computer, Chrome just auto-updated today to 4.0.239.30(Windows Version) and in the "new tab" display, it advertises at the bottom that extensions are now available. No reliable ad-blocking solution yet(just a couple with dodgy reviews), but I imagine its only a matter of time. There was one specifically to remove the ads on Facebook profiles, which does seem to work quite well so far.
Ideally, a nationwide VOIP transition would be done at the backbone level, such that the end users would not see a difference in their equipment - essentially keeping the last mile a standard POTS system. However, if they decide not to go that route, I think it's important that the service be a separate entity from a person's choice of broadband service - i.e., not dependent on one having existing broadband service as VOIP is today.
As far as the power issues go, that could be handled one of two ways, in the event that the last mile is switched over as well:
PoE - much like the current phone handsets are, it should be simple enough for the providers to inject power into the wires much like the current system does. This way, new phones could simply pull power off the wire like current phones do. Under this type of setup, it would be assumed that whatever equipment was providing the power injection would be connected to the same backup systems(UPS, generators, etc) as the switching equipment
Battery backup locally - it would also be feasible, in the event that phones under this new system required a separate power source at the user equipment, simply to provide a means to install a backup battery, similar to how hard wired smoke detectors still want you to install a 9-volt in the event of a power loss. Based on my experiences as far as how often I've lost power, if the equipment was designed to use as little energy as possible, one battery should be able to last for quite some time. Obviously, YMMV depending on where you live, but there could be an indicator on the phone that would let you know when the battery needed to be replaced.
(Disclaimer: I actually DID used to work for a place that set systems like this up, and have designed several myself as well)
To determine what you need, a little bit more information is needed. Do you simply want on/off speakers in each room, all listening to the same thing? Or, are you looking for a system that lets you listen to different sources in each room?
If you want different sources/songs/whatever in each room, you're actually looking for what is called a "multi-zone" system, which is where you start seeing the higher price tags. You mention you've already found the Russound products, which is actually quite a flexible system that gives you a lot of options. It looks like they recently came out with what they are calling their Collage system, which will pull music from any uPNP server on your network. In addition, the keypads have a FM reciever, and built-in intercom between keypads. It also uses HomePlug for communications between the various keypads and the media source, so once your individual keypads are connected to power, they will not require any additional wiring for data. The keypads also have a built in amplifier, so all you will need to add beyond the cost of each keypad and the HomePlug adapter for your server are speakers and wire from the keypad to the speakers. Russound has older systems that are quite cheaper, but not all of them are designed to handle the music being on a server like you currently have. It appears that Collage is specifically designed for this type of setup. The downside is that the cheapest price I could find for keypads was $549USD.
Not the case, at least from my experience...
At several stores I've shopped and/or worked at, both in the midwest and New England, bananas, for example, have always been PLU code 4011. Most others have been the same as well, except, for example, in specialty items that are not available everywhere.
I think it's more likely that we will see the cost of games stop going up...the latest generation (at least for PS3 and 360), broke the 49.99 price point that most console games have been at for basically as long as I can remember.
At the time, the reason they told me made at least some sense. That first delay was, I was told, due to calling late in the week just before they were scheduled to do the final switchover from Verizon's system. I've been part of major computer network overhauls in the past when I worked as a contractor, and could understand where that would cause delays. After that, I only stuck with it because I didn't really have much of a choice - I needed the service.
Unfortunately, I didn't have much of a choice at the time, as I needed internet and couldn't get Time Warner to come in because I had to catch up an old bill with them first. However, I should finally be able to pay off TW in the next few weeks, and will be looking to switch at that point. It will be the lesser of two evils I think...
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I have as much of a mixed environment as anyone (2 Android Tablets, 1 android phone, 1 win8 desktop, 1 win8 laptop, 1 win7 tablet, 1 linux desktop), so I really have no preference one way or the other. However, the "funny" moderation of your post aside, as a developer, I think it's a bit unfair to categorize MS developers this way. After all, they were only writing what management told them to.
Not sure about others, but I know the Galaxy S3 does...
I haven't done all my reading on the new BB10 setup, but I know previous devices not only used RIM's servers to fetch email before passing it on to the device, but actually tunneled all internet traffic through their system. Now, from the article (or at least Google's translation of it), it sounds like BB10 says that setup is no longer used for the push email. However, are they still tunneling through RIM? The article also seems to make a jump in assuming that RIM is storing this data (who else may be listening in along the way is another discussion entirely). The only reference that I saw in the article was to the connection occurring immediately after setting up the account. This could just as easily point to a "test, then throw away" procedure as part of e-mail setup on BB10. Unless there is additional information showing a series of connections over a period of time after setting up the account, there doesn't appear to be any indication that RIM is actually keeping this data.
OK, the early termination fee is meant to recoup the cost of the subsidy on the phone if you back out of the contract early. I don't necessarily like the practice, but I understand the reasoning behind it. However, the current wording of most(all?) cell phone contracts is that if you pay the ETF, you are released from the contract. By extension, would that then fall under the no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation stipulation you quoted?
I've used AndroLib for this in the past. Not the best, but a bit better at least...
I think the catch is that it would be easy for Time Warner to automate checking for who has a particular IP address right now. However, depending on how frequently they change IP addresses(do they change every time the modem requests a DHCP renewal, or on some other interval?), the problem lies in figuring out who had that IP at a particular point in the past. The historical information as far as who had what IP might not even be logged. Also, with TW in particular(and probably other companies as well), because a large part of their growth has been acquisitions of other companies, not all the systems are fully tied together. Because of this, a request may take some time to get routed from whatever office it was sent to the actual office that has the information needed.
Ummm, maybe because they're looking for more to connect to it than just a computer/charger?
I had to once work on a computer for someone who had an app that installed off of a dozen or so floppies, and on the last one, it moved a file off the floppy to the hard drive, rather than copying it. If you told the program to uninstall itself, you were actually prompted to insert that last floppy, so the license file could be moved back. Unfortunately, the person who had the computer did not know enough to back up the computer, or even the floppy set, so when their computer crashed, we were unable to reinstall that program without jumping through a bunch of hoops with the company who sold it...
I'm not sure if the changes in the bill I linked to were passed, however, the link I sent was a bill to modify the existing law, which had a 14 day time frame rather than the 7 days in the text I quoted(or maybe the other way around, I don't remember what the quote said ATM)...
I'm guessing what happened in this case is that AT&T had other users who had logged into their Facebook accounts as well, and after logging in, the wires essentially got crossed, and the wrong Facebook data got sent to each handset.
While I don't know of any that are airline-specific, I knew a family who had a son who was so allergic to a number of things, that he could not even walk into the kitchen where any of his particular allergens were without having trouble breathing...
In some cases, if the allergy is severe enough, it's enough to be in the same room/space as whatever you are allergic to.
Maybe Apple will pull a coup this time around and offer a large tablet interface that's easily dockable. I know for many people the option to snag their interface and take it to a meeting down the hall or at the coffee shop would be pretty valuable
The first thing that came to mind when I read this was interfaces like you see in Minority Report or Avatar where you can dock a smaller display(roughly the size of your average tablet) into your main display and actually drag information to the tablet display. You can then undock the tablet and continue working with whatever data you moved to the tablet display. I could see where something like this would have its uses.
The reason for Y2K bugs is pretty ridiculous tho, someone had to see it coming. It's not even like the amount of available IPv4 addresses, it would had required some imagination back then to understand there would be so many internet connected machines today. But years you just saw coming.
If I remember correctly, the systems that many were concerned about were those systems that had been in place for 10,15,20 years or more that, when they were designed, were not expected to still be in use when Y2K became an issue. Personally, even looking at the computer advances that have taken place since Y2K, I could understand someone thinking a program that they wrote in, say, 1985, would no longer be in use in 2000.
For argument's sake, let's say you're showing a scene of 4 people sitting each on one side of a table talking. With "conventional" subtitles, they are limited to being overlaid on the scene as a whole, making it difficult at times to figure out which character is saying what, especially if you can not see the lips of one or more characters to determine if they are talking.
With a 3d subtitle system, you could place the subtitles properly in the environment to denote who is saying what. Picture a cross between the speech bubbles on a comic, and that new video game(for the life of me, I can't remember which game it is right now, and Google was no help) that projects messages regarding new missions, etc. directly into the environment - such as onto the side of a building.
I'd used AdSweep in its very early days, and I ran into some weird issues, like it would chop off the first few letters of every ad on a local classified ad site(http://www.unclehenrys.com). I just tested it, and it still appears to do this...thankfully, I don't use that particular site as often any more.
On my computer, Chrome just auto-updated today to 4.0.239.30(Windows Version) and in the "new tab" display, it advertises at the bottom that extensions are now available. No reliable ad-blocking solution yet(just a couple with dodgy reviews), but I imagine its only a matter of time. There was one specifically to remove the ads on Facebook profiles, which does seem to work quite well so far.
As far as the power issues go, that could be handled one of two ways, in the event that the last mile is switched over as well:
(Disclaimer: I actually DID used to work for a place that set systems like this up, and have designed several myself as well) To determine what you need, a little bit more information is needed. Do you simply want on/off speakers in each room, all listening to the same thing? Or, are you looking for a system that lets you listen to different sources in each room? If you want different sources/songs/whatever in each room, you're actually looking for what is called a "multi-zone" system, which is where you start seeing the higher price tags. You mention you've already found the Russound products, which is actually quite a flexible system that gives you a lot of options. It looks like they recently came out with what they are calling their Collage system, which will pull music from any uPNP server on your network. In addition, the keypads have a FM reciever, and built-in intercom between keypads. It also uses HomePlug for communications between the various keypads and the media source, so once your individual keypads are connected to power, they will not require any additional wiring for data. The keypads also have a built in amplifier, so all you will need to add beyond the cost of each keypad and the HomePlug adapter for your server are speakers and wire from the keypad to the speakers. Russound has older systems that are quite cheaper, but not all of them are designed to handle the music being on a server like you currently have. It appears that Collage is specifically designed for this type of setup. The downside is that the cheapest price I could find for keypads was $549USD.
Not the case, at least from my experience... At several stores I've shopped and/or worked at, both in the midwest and New England, bananas, for example, have always been PLU code 4011. Most others have been the same as well, except, for example, in specialty items that are not available everywhere.
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I think it's more likely that we will see the cost of games stop going up...the latest generation (at least for PS3 and 360), broke the 49.99 price point that most console games have been at for basically as long as I can remember.
At the time, the reason they told me made at least some sense. That first delay was, I was told, due to calling late in the week just before they were scheduled to do the final switchover from Verizon's system. I've been part of major computer network overhauls in the past when I worked as a contractor, and could understand where that would cause delays. After that, I only stuck with it because I didn't really have much of a choice - I needed the service.
Unfortunately, I didn't have much of a choice at the time, as I needed internet and couldn't get Time Warner to come in because I had to catch up an old bill with them first. However, I should finally be able to pay off TW in the next few weeks, and will be looking to switch at that point. It will be the lesser of two evils I think...