Yeah, but the price that they are selling the chips at vs what apple is making a profit on the iPhone at is significantly smaller. Apple is making a killing. Also I would imagine that apple has patents on some of those chips or agreements with Samsung, so that Samsung will not use the design or chips, or possibly similar chips in its own phones, IF they are custom chips for Apple. I say if, to exclude the ARM processor or flash.
I'm not talking about some of the batteries having a short life. That is not a defective battery, it is a bad battery, there is a difference. I'm talking about what will they do if the batteries are found to be 'defective' and they have to recall all the devices. By defective I mean, if they leak or short out and have to recall a bunch of devices that were in a bad lot. Think Sony battery defective ( hot and exploding ). They cannot easily replace the battery in these devices, so they would have to recall all the defective ones and issues new iPhones or someone is going to be doing a lot of soldering.
They did not make it easy to change the SIM card or the battery in this device. While it is a really cool phone/camera/internet doom-a-flitchy device, I have to wonder what they will do if the battery is found to be defective or something. What is rather funny is that all the main chips in the device seem to be made by samsung for apple.
.. I think these people need to get a first life before they can have a second life... I guess the reality of being a plumber sucks and his real fantasy is to be selling sex toys... dude f*** the lawsuit and start selling sex toys on line 4 real!
From what I remember about enzymes, our bodies create and use lots of them to take the food that we eat and convert it into cells. That includes duplication of DNA.
I don't see why a computer controlling nanites that are producing enzymes wouldn't be able to alter a persons DNA on the fly. Alternatively, it could be a computer generating the sequence of enzymes, the doses and time to inject into someone to alter a person.
You wouldn't do this using biology alone, but you would be using biology.
Just because your mind is to small to conceive it doesn't mean it is impossible. People once thought that the earth was flat and the sun and planets revolved around the earth.
You think it is to much information now. Once Bill Gates said 64k will be more memory than anyone will ever need. Some day we may have computers that can compute how to replace the entire human genome and nanites that are capable of doing it.
If you can replace 1 gene, then replacing a series of genes would not be that far behind. Then how long before entire chromosomes could be rewritten? If you had a delivery system that could rewrite someones entire dna, their penis would not 'fall off' but it could be possible that it morphed into a vagina.
It would then be possible to remove some or all of those 'markers'. Maybe you can't make that Czech an Italian, but you might be able to make someone who looks 'black or asian' look more like a Czech.
... it would be move valuable than gold! If you could suddenly change peoples dna, not only would this be dangerous as to where it goes, but it could be invaluable. People who have genetic diseases could all be cured, by replacing parts of their dna. People who wanted sex changes could have their dna changed also. The scary part is that people who did not like a certain race of people could change that race genetically. The possiblities are endless.
.. I use hotmail. then MS bought them, and converted over to IIS. They promptly lost some of my email. When I contacted them about it, they said, sorry, we cannot recover it. Ever since then I have not trusted MS with my email, so I can't see trusting them with my documents either.
Also consider that for less than $40 USD, you can get a 4Gig usb drive, why do you really need this online storage?
when I went to school in florida, the state school only allowed you to retake 2 classes and then did an average between any other classes. So if you have a semester ( 4 or 5 classes ) that you messed up or even 2 semesters, then retaking the year, you would have to get A's in order to really affect your GPA. For Example a D and then a retake getting a B would be a C. It would help, but not as much as you would think. I had a similar problem, as I worked 2 part time jobs ( 30 hrs each ) while going to college.
If you are planning on going to graduate school, right after college, then I would say retake them. If you are not going to graduate school soon, then get your degree and start work. After a year or two of work, grades are not important at most employeers.
.. I get the impression they are thinking people will use the iphone to read news and things.
I also got the impression that it may not be as bad as people think. A swipe across a page vs a drag and drop action are two different actions. DND is slower than swipe, so if the UI is tuned to that then there should not be a problem. I could be wrong. CSS menues should work fine, because mouse over == finger on, and mouse click == finger tap. There are finger taps that simulate double click and single click.
Also you should be designing your UI for the visually impaired anyway. If your site is done properly, then it should not be a problem.
I can't wait to see how much iPhones go for sale on ebay! (ROTFLOL.. you know they will)
I could see some web site publisher visiting their web site and finding ads on the page that are not theirs and suing the ISP for changing their content, and also revenue on a page that should be theirs. Consider that many web publishers already are putting ads in pages, and probably testing to see how many ads they can put before the page load slows, only to have an ISP widen their load and make the site unusable.
I could also see a class action lawsuit against an ISP. If they are selling you 1.5Mbs, and not delivering that bandwidth and then injecting content that will slow your bandwidth even more, I'm sure some lawyer could come up with something about this.
All I have to say, is that this can't end good, but also, I think his could open the door for more need of filtering proxy/firewalls. Instead of just a netgear router/firewall, you would have a ad filtering proxy in there, that you could configure.
= this.. it makes perfect business sense to me. if at&t is getting a peice of the apple, then this would be a step to making sure that people are not getting pirated software and they are getting itunes or legit music. if people are downloading from phones, which is probably using the same backbone as their internet, they probably figure it is easier to block all pirated stuff across the board then just for their phone traffic.
I have a hunch that this is going to filter across to all major ISP that do wireless phones, internet and tv.
equals a really bad sci fi movie. I guess that depends on how you liked terminator or R.O.T.O.R. . I'm sure there are many others and they usually end pretty bad. Like some terrorist getting their hands on the robot and reprogramming.
But if it saves human lives, then it is a good thing. Until they decide they are better than us and hunt us all down.
"Commiecast" would kind of indicate that they were communists. Communists, in its purist state, would have not class. Thus there would be only one level of service and all the customers would get it and it would be part of the community. Comcrap has several levels of service and analog is the bottom tear and they want to get rid of that, which is what you are seeing.
Personally I like to call them comcrap, because all they do is shuve a bunch of s*** up a cable to my house and over charge me.
In San Bruno, CA, the cable company is a municipality. From what I hear it is cheaper as it is city ( or county ) owned.
Below is an experience me and my roommate has with comcrap.
Saturday October 07 2006
Today My roommate and I went to Comcast to exchange one of out cable box. It was acting a little funny. On certain channels, the picture was coming in blocky and pixelized. When I called them up about this I was told to exchange the box. Today we went in to exchange the box. The current box is a Motorola box. This is the newer box. The box they gave me was a Digital Instruments machine, which they no longer make.
When I said to the lady that it looked biger, she said it wasn't. When I said it looked like an older box I had traded in 2 years ago ( because it was slow and buggy ) she said they are all the same.
THEY ARE NOT THE SAME BOX! The clerk deliberately lied to me. In my opinion this was deliberate and she should be fired for blatently lieing to customers. Apparently we are not the only ones they lied to though.
When we got the box home we found IT was bigger than the original box we had ( we have 2 cable boxes ). This exchanged box was very slow too.
My roommate was so pissed he had me unhook the box and he took it back to them and complained to get the old box back.
I'm so pissed at Comcast, I'm tempted to do a commercial for Direct TV!
If I could only convince my roommate to get Direct TV now, as the place is in his name.
I'm just wondering who talks on the phone if no one has answered the phone? If the phone is still ringing then are you really talking?
Isn't caller ID good enough? And if someone blocks their phone, isn't waiting till they leave a message to pick up acceptable? Why do I need this on my answering machine?
I guess I could see this useful for telmarketers. They would then be able to tell who answered and say hello is your mother home.
When you look back at things it is so much easier to predict the past:D..
So what does she say out odds are of winning the 'war on terrorism'?
Hmm, first we had 76% chance of winning the war in Iraq, and now it is 26%?
I'm not trying to be a troll, but this post sounds more like reviewing historical data and coming to obvious conclusions about what is already known. I've always heard that statistics can be used to say anything.
What are the odds of my post being modded up to a 5? What are the odds of my post being modded down to a -1?
Well when you do patent anti-matter/matter mixer using crystals, make sure your claims are not so broad that they can be interpreted to cover anything!
The first claim in this patent does not specify internet, nor does it specify satalite array. It is so broad that ANY GPS falls under this claim. That's the problem!
The first claim is so broad that star trek's onboard 'computer' and 'neural networks' ( yes they did have networks ) could do the same thing. They did use this computer system to scan planets and track lifesigns and also to map out where they could beam an away team down to a planet. That concept was thought about back in the 60's if not earlier.
The claim of a patent is supposed to precisely descibe the invention so it is not confused with other inventions. As it stands, star trek's system is covered under claim #1. If you knew anything about patent law you would understand that.
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Yeah, but the price that they are selling the chips at vs what apple is making a profit on the iPhone at is significantly smaller. Apple is making a killing. Also I would imagine that apple has patents on some of those chips or agreements with Samsung, so that Samsung will not use the design or chips, or possibly similar chips in its own phones, IF they are custom chips for Apple. I say if, to exclude the ARM processor or flash.
I'm not talking about some of the batteries having a short life. That is not a defective battery, it is a bad battery, there is a difference. I'm talking about what will they do if the batteries are found to be 'defective' and they have to recall all the devices. By defective I mean, if they leak or short out and have to recall a bunch of devices that were in a bad lot. Think Sony battery defective ( hot and exploding ). They cannot easily replace the battery in these devices, so they would have to recall all the defective ones and issues new iPhones or someone is going to be doing a lot of soldering.
.. an ASSS why do I need thiers? (ROTFLOL)
.. a bull and a matador.. let's see who slays who! will the bull kill the matador or will the matador kill the bull?
They did not make it easy to change the SIM card or the battery in this device. While it is a really cool phone/camera/internet doom-a-flitchy device, I have to wonder what they will do if the battery is found to be defective or something. What is rather funny is that all the main chips in the device seem to be made by samsung for apple.
ROFLOL
... were people are selling sex toys in a VR world, the name of this satellite just seems wrong! (ROTFLOL)
I don't see why a computer controlling nanites that are producing enzymes wouldn't be able to alter a persons DNA on the fly. Alternatively, it could be a computer generating the sequence of enzymes, the doses and time to inject into someone to alter a person.
You wouldn't do this using biology alone, but you would be using biology.
You think it is to much information now. Once Bill Gates said 64k will be more memory than anyone will ever need. Some day we may have computers that can compute how to replace the entire human genome and nanites that are capable of doing it.
It would then be possible to remove some or all of those 'markers'. Maybe you can't make that Czech an Italian, but you might be able to make someone who looks 'black or asian' look more like a Czech.
Small minds think small, big minds think big.
... it would be move valuable than gold! If you could suddenly change peoples dna, not only would this be dangerous as to where it goes, but it could be invaluable. People who have genetic diseases could all be cured, by replacing parts of their dna. People who wanted sex changes could have their dna changed also. The scary part is that people who did not like a certain race of people could change that race genetically. The possiblities are endless.
Also consider that for less than $40 USD, you can get a 4Gig usb drive, why do you really need this online storage?
If you are planning on going to graduate school, right after college, then I would say retake them. If you are not going to graduate school soon, then get your degree and start work. After a year or two of work, grades are not important at most employeers.
I also got the impression that it may not be as bad as people think. A swipe across a page vs a drag and drop action are two different actions. DND is slower than swipe, so if the UI is tuned to that then there should not be a problem. I could be wrong. CSS menues should work fine, because mouse over == finger on, and mouse click == finger tap. There are finger taps that simulate double click and single click.
Also you should be designing your UI for the visually impaired anyway. If your site is done properly, then it should not be a problem.
I can't wait to see how much iPhones go for sale on ebay! (ROTFLOL.. you know they will)
I could also see a class action lawsuit against an ISP. If they are selling you 1.5Mbs, and not delivering that bandwidth and then injecting content that will slow your bandwidth even more, I'm sure some lawyer could come up with something about this.
All I have to say, is that this can't end good, but also, I think his could open the door for more need of filtering proxy/firewalls. Instead of just a netgear router/firewall, you would have a ad filtering proxy in there, that you could configure.
... that would mean that jeb is dumber than george.. ROFLOL...
I have a hunch that this is going to filter across to all major ISP that do wireless phones, internet and tv.
If they can't secure their own office, how can they secure a country and how can WE trust them with the info they collect on us?
But if it saves human lives, then it is a good thing. Until they decide they are better than us and hunt us all down.
ROTFLOL
Personally I like to call them comcrap, because all they do is shuve a bunch of s*** up a cable to my house and over charge me.
In San Bruno, CA, the cable company is a municipality. From what I hear it is cheaper as it is city ( or county ) owned.
Below is an experience me and my roommate has with comcrap.
... before or after it gets mysterioously hit with a hammer a few times? ..lol..
Isn't caller ID good enough? And if someone blocks their phone, isn't waiting till they leave a message to pick up acceptable? Why do I need this on my answering machine?
I guess I could see this useful for telmarketers. They would then be able to tell who answered and say hello is your mother home.
So what does she say out odds are of winning the 'war on terrorism'?
Hmm, first we had 76% chance of winning the war in Iraq, and now it is 26%?
I'm not trying to be a troll, but this post sounds more like reviewing historical data and coming to obvious conclusions about what is already known. I've always heard that statistics can be used to say anything.
What are the odds of my post being modded up to a 5? What are the odds of my post being modded down to a -1?
If their spam will be guaranteed to be delivered, and they choose to pay for it, what good is a spam filter on a server for?
The first claim in this patent does not specify internet, nor does it specify satalite array. It is so broad that ANY GPS falls under this claim. That's the problem!
The first claim is so broad that star trek's onboard 'computer' and 'neural networks' ( yes they did have networks ) could do the same thing. They did use this computer system to scan planets and track lifesigns and also to map out where they could beam an away team down to a planet. That concept was thought about back in the 60's if not earlier.
The claim of a patent is supposed to precisely descibe the invention so it is not confused with other inventions. As it stands, star trek's system is covered under claim #1. If you knew anything about patent law you would understand that.