For one, the 3G spec does say "simultaneous voice AND data" which is something 3G CDMA (aka evdo) providers (sprint and verizon) have completely ignored.
You are a serious enthusiast. I am loved my first Android phone, as well as my recent one, and I plan on getting the Mytouch HD now that is has been released, but I never came; it didn't even get me hard.
You are overlooking the possibility that he is a sentient smartphone and was merely referring to the software which was preloaded at birth...
If you have genuine security needs (and concerns) like I do, you wouldn't touch a rooting system and hacked rom with a 10 meter patch cord. Hoping for increased security by running "newer" code from completely untrusted sources... What could possibly go wrong?
it seems hard to condemn companies too harshly for using a marketing catch-phrase.
Really? The whole purpose of the FTC is to insure companies don't use misleading catch-phrases. If a company sells 4G service, and another company falsely claims they do and gains customers, then yes, the first company is injured.
The problem then is that no company to date has "4g" service. Hell, most of them have 3G service only by a very loose definition. It seems that, so far no consumer has been mislead into thinking one particular service is better than another; they all stink!
In case you are new to Android: the notion that the bugs are "fixed" in the Android source is one thing, the notion that they are "fixed" in a ROM available for a particular handset is *another* thing, and thinking that the fixes will make their way with *any* speed at all to the official carrier software for an android phone that stands a partial chance at making it onto a majority of the handsets is basically like waiting for Duke Nukem Forever to be released.
Facebook, most of wikipedia, and select parts of certain high profile news sites are the ones that get blocked. Slashdot, (at least when I was there) is certainly not consequential enough to bother blocking. FYI.
The accident rate may go down but you can bet that the fatal accident rate will go up... Is that what you want? To kill anyone who makes the slightest mistake? They got rid of death-trap cars (those with poorly designed gas tanks, plate glass windows, hard metal dash boards, little/no door frame rigidity)... And I don't think I remember "they caused too few accidents" being cited as a reason.
Hold your breath for the odds that one (or a handful) of companies want to be directly responsible for the 20% of accidents that are left over. It's not about being a luddite, it's about not wanting the risk involved. With individual drivers making mistakes (that admittedly add up to a lot of accidents) you still have a low risk/responsible party ratio. If every single fatal accident that happened (even if the count were reduced by 80%) resulted in a lawsuit claiming the car was at fault because the human inside had little/nothing to do with operating it, the car companies wouldn't be around for long. We have already witnessed this with things like preventive braking and adaptive cruise control. The technology has been available for decades to allow it to supplement the driver's ability, but the corporate lawyers took one look at it and said "haaaaaaaahaha go ahead and sell one, WE won't get rich but all the other lawyers in the country will!"
That is the illogical attitude you are referring to.
Basically, model it on the Internet. But without the packet loss, or routing loops. Or collisions.
The success of the Internet thus far has been thanks to the fact that every few years we manage to develop another novel way to pack a digital signal into a tenth of the space it once occupied. If your series of tubes are to be successful, we are going to need miniaturization (of the passengers) and a LOT of it. Sadly the trend (in the US at least) is for the average passenger to get larger over time, not smaller.
That's become the problem with ABS, traction control, airbags and many other safety features: make drivers feel like they're safer, they will drive more like idiots.
Never mind the fact that traffic deaths (in the US at least) have been decreased INCREDIBLY with the aforementioned technologies. Some do choose to drive like increasingly effective idiots, but not nearly enough to outweigh the safety benefits. I will go with the safety technology versus the notion that the sword of Damocles is effective at preventing accidents, thank you very much.
There is a reason why very few companies last over 100 years, the longer it exists the harder it is to change.
Speak for yourself (or rather, for the media companies) trying to make a living by being increasingly more vile middlemen between the talent and the consumer. You don't have to lookveryfar to find companies that have been around for near or over 100 years and are to THIS DAY still innovators and business leaders. The media companies are making a VERY bad example of an industry aging gracefully; instead of realizing they need to be ready to put hard work into staying on top, they put litigation into staying on top. I for one can't wait for their petty tactics to catch up with them so they can crash and burn like they deserve, and give way to real innovators willing to embrace change.
Do you really think Bermuda or Ireland have ANYTHING AT ALL to do with their earnings? FUCK NO. The US government (and the rest of the nation) IS going to hell thanks to underhanded "perfectly legal" practices like this. Companies that try to play by the rules and contribute to a stronger nation are penalized because they have to compete with companies who take advantage of tax rate arbitrage by earning money in one place and claiming it in another. Taxes pay for the infrastructure to make Google possible. Their earnings are because of the US government's (like it or not) business climate. They don't want to pay their share back into said climate and so to keep the books square (not that they are even close anyway) the taxes on everyone else has to go up.
Unless the entire lot of Americans plan on retiring in Bermuda (the island won't hold that many people, first off) then this practice NEEDS to stop.
Well, we should not simply block the sun. We should switch it off. * It runs on nuclear (fusion) power. * It generates radioactivity. * It is responsible for many cases of skin cancer. * It is the power source for hurricanes, which cause lots of damage. * Its radiation plays a major role in the chemical processes which cause the ozone hole. * It is already known that one day it will destroy the Earth.
Not to mention all that, but it's vile radiation spawned and provided nutrition for some of the worst atrocities the solar system has ever seen! Hitler! Pol Pot! Al Qaeda! American Idol!. We need to switch it off lest it's reign of terror continue!
How many slashdotters *don't* spend more than 100 bucks a month on their evil carrier overlord of choice...
Go ahead, ask around, I will wait.
I know I don't, and anyone with a smartphone is lucky if they are under the 100 mark (god help them if they have a family)... Smartphones are the new geek gold standard, and I for one want to keep an eye on carriers. They are up to some sneaky shit.
Tis the season for the government to crack down on abusive practices by your secretly evil national wireless carrier
That is the worst kept secret EVER. They are all evil, every last one of them, and if you don't know this by now then you must not have ever had a cellphone before.
What could be better than a fridge that lights itself up as long as it's stocked with yogurt? I can finally stop replacing that damn bulb that I keep knocking into with the milk jug.
We are never quite as good at judging risk when it's our own butt on the line vs. someone elses'. Why do you think there are car accidents, household accidents, sports accidents, etc. on a daily basis that kill a LOT of people. All this would take is one "containment accident" and all of a sudden the next super-swine-flu is among us with no warning and no borders to close to protect us from it's spread.
What happens when your neighbor releases his new organism by accident?
You'll end up with green flourescent beer and bread.
Seriously though, microbes are not rabid dogs, most of them are not virulent, most of them don't live in humans, and even if they do they have quite a few problems before they can colonize you. And if you're to suffer from them they need to produce some kind of toxins. And if you're to wreak havoc with them you need to weaponize them, and if you're at this stage you've probably done enough to see a FBI-sponsored surge in the profits of the local take-away coffee chain.
*Most* of them, huh... Why am I still not comfortable after your reassurance...
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For one, the 3G spec does say "simultaneous voice AND data" which is something 3G CDMA (aka evdo) providers (sprint and verizon) have completely ignored.
You are a serious enthusiast. I am loved my first Android phone, as well as my recent one, and I plan on getting the Mytouch HD now that is has been released, but I never came; it didn't even get me hard.
You are overlooking the possibility that he is a sentient smartphone and was merely referring to the software which was preloaded at birth...
If you have genuine security needs (and concerns) like I do, you wouldn't touch a rooting system and hacked rom with a 10 meter patch cord. Hoping for increased security by running "newer" code from completely untrusted sources... What could possibly go wrong?
it seems hard to condemn companies too harshly for using a marketing catch-phrase.
Really? The whole purpose of the FTC is to insure companies don't use misleading catch-phrases. If a company sells 4G service, and another company falsely claims they do and gains customers, then yes, the first company is injured.
The problem then is that no company to date has "4g" service. Hell, most of them have 3G service only by a very loose definition. It seems that, so far no consumer has been mislead into thinking one particular service is better than another; they all stink!
Surprisingly, /twotarts/twotarts.html is *not* a thoroughly indecent page! I was worried upon first clicking.
He hates the actual left-wing groups, *and* he hates the Nazis (mostly because they weren't Christian enough)... What more connection do you need?
If I don't survive, tell my wife, "Hello".
In case you are new to Android: the notion that the bugs are "fixed" in the Android source is one thing, the notion that they are "fixed" in a ROM available for a particular handset is *another* thing, and thinking that the fixes will make their way with *any* speed at all to the official carrier software for an android phone that stands a partial chance at making it onto a majority of the handsets is basically like waiting for Duke Nukem Forever to be released.
Facebook, most of wikipedia, and select parts of certain high profile news sites are the ones that get blocked. Slashdot, (at least when I was there) is certainly not consequential enough to bother blocking. FYI.
The accident rate may go down but you can bet that the fatal accident rate will go up... Is that what you want? To kill anyone who makes the slightest mistake? They got rid of death-trap cars (those with poorly designed gas tanks, plate glass windows, hard metal dash boards, little/no door frame rigidity)... And I don't think I remember "they caused too few accidents" being cited as a reason.
Hold your breath for the odds that one (or a handful) of companies want to be directly responsible for the 20% of accidents that are left over. It's not about being a luddite, it's about not wanting the risk involved. With individual drivers making mistakes (that admittedly add up to a lot of accidents) you still have a low risk/responsible party ratio. If every single fatal accident that happened (even if the count were reduced by 80%) resulted in a lawsuit claiming the car was at fault because the human inside had little/nothing to do with operating it, the car companies wouldn't be around for long. We have already witnessed this with things like preventive braking and adaptive cruise control. The technology has been available for decades to allow it to supplement the driver's ability, but the corporate lawyers took one look at it and said "haaaaaaaahaha go ahead and sell one, WE won't get rich but all the other lawyers in the country will!"
That is the illogical attitude you are referring to.
Basically, model it on the Internet. But without the packet loss, or routing loops. Or collisions.
The success of the Internet thus far has been thanks to the fact that every few years we manage to develop another novel way to pack a digital signal into a tenth of the space it once occupied. If your series of tubes are to be successful, we are going to need miniaturization (of the passengers) and a LOT of it. Sadly the trend (in the US at least) is for the average passenger to get larger over time, not smaller.
That's become the problem with ABS, traction control, airbags and many other safety features: make drivers feel like they're safer, they will drive more like idiots.
Never mind the fact that traffic deaths (in the US at least) have been decreased INCREDIBLY with the aforementioned technologies. Some do choose to drive like increasingly effective idiots, but not nearly enough to outweigh the safety benefits. I will go with the safety technology versus the notion that the sword of Damocles is effective at preventing accidents, thank you very much.
There is a reason why very few companies last over 100 years, the longer it exists the harder it is to change.
Speak for yourself (or rather, for the media companies) trying to make a living by being increasingly more vile middlemen between the talent and the consumer. You don't have to look very far to find companies that have been around for near or over 100 years and are to THIS DAY still innovators and business leaders. The media companies are making a VERY bad example of an industry aging gracefully; instead of realizing they need to be ready to put hard work into staying on top, they put litigation into staying on top. I for one can't wait for their petty tactics to catch up with them so they can crash and burn like they deserve, and give way to real innovators willing to embrace change.
Do you really think Bermuda or Ireland have ANYTHING AT ALL to do with their earnings? FUCK NO. The US government (and the rest of the nation) IS going to hell thanks to underhanded "perfectly legal" practices like this. Companies that try to play by the rules and contribute to a stronger nation are penalized because they have to compete with companies who take advantage of tax rate arbitrage by earning money in one place and claiming it in another. Taxes pay for the infrastructure to make Google possible. Their earnings are because of the US government's (like it or not) business climate. They don't want to pay their share back into said climate and so to keep the books square (not that they are even close anyway) the taxes on everyone else has to go up.
Unless the entire lot of Americans plan on retiring in Bermuda (the island won't hold that many people, first off) then this practice NEEDS to stop.
Do I still feel like they're shafting me? Yes.
Was it the "double Irish" or the "Dutch sandwich" used? Because those are technically legal. Sorry.
You're either a genius (who really has solutions) or someone who hasn't thought this through well enough.
Of course he has! He's going to use a neutrino beam that will clear out the pollution, fix the roads, and implant literacy into the populace!
Haven't you seen Star Trek? Neutrino beams fix everything!
That's going to take a lot of polarity reversal... Better be sure a damn good deflector dish is included in the spec.
I think I saw a low flying... wait there it goes again... WHOOooSH!
(at least I, and a handful of mods, certainly found the GP to be 100% tongue-in-cheek)
Well, we should not simply block the sun. We should switch it off.
* It runs on nuclear (fusion) power.
* It generates radioactivity.
* It is responsible for many cases of skin cancer.
* It is the power source for hurricanes, which cause lots of damage.
* Its radiation plays a major role in the chemical processes which cause the ozone hole.
* It is already known that one day it will destroy the Earth.
Not to mention all that, but it's vile radiation spawned and provided nutrition for some of the worst atrocities the solar system has ever seen! Hitler! Pol Pot! Al Qaeda! American Idol!. We need to switch it off lest it's reign of terror continue!
Those were both before the recent events of a certain Las Vegas hotel and their shiny new Death Ray... http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/09/29/las_vegas_death_ray/
Now, it's less 'myth' and more 'national security crisis'...
How many slashdotters *don't* spend more than 100 bucks a month on their evil carrier overlord of choice...
Go ahead, ask around, I will wait.
I know I don't, and anyone with a smartphone is lucky if they are under the 100 mark (god help them if they have a family)... Smartphones are the new geek gold standard, and I for one want to keep an eye on carriers. They are up to some sneaky shit.
Tis the season for the government to crack down on abusive practices by your secretly evil national wireless carrier
That is the worst kept secret EVER. They are all evil, every last one of them, and if you don't know this by now then you must not have ever had a cellphone before.
What could be better than a fridge that lights itself up as long as it's stocked with yogurt? I can finally stop replacing that damn bulb that I keep knocking into with the milk jug.
We are never quite as good at judging risk when it's our own butt on the line vs. someone elses'. Why do you think there are car accidents, household accidents, sports accidents, etc. on a daily basis that kill a LOT of people. All this would take is one "containment accident" and all of a sudden the next super-swine-flu is among us with no warning and no borders to close to protect us from it's spread.
What happens when your neighbor releases his new organism by accident?
You'll end up with green flourescent beer and bread.
Seriously though, microbes are not rabid dogs, most of them are not virulent, most of them don't live in humans, and even if they do they have quite a few problems before they can colonize you. And if you're to suffer from them they need to produce some kind of toxins. And if you're to wreak havoc with them you need to weaponize them, and if you're at this stage you've probably done enough to see a FBI-sponsored surge in the profits of the local take-away coffee chain.
*Most* of them, huh... Why am I still not comfortable after your reassurance...