(I bought that model FOR it's antenna figuring it wouldn't hurt, and might help). Adding that plastic antenna got them a marketing and competitive advantage. How many people were, like yourself, sold on the fact that "this adapter has an antenna, so it probably has better range!" and used this 'fact' to make their decision? I wouldn't necessarily consider it fraud, as you never know what internal design iterations the device went through. Maybe the initial design called for an actual antenna and the casing was designed around that. Perhaps later testing showed the antenna provided no actual gain and it was removed, but the cases were already in production. Perhaps a later revision removed the antenna, but the plastic case kept it in order to keep the device recognizable as part of the Freecom brand.
You immediately attribute to malice and fraud that which could be explained plausibly in several other ways. If the device worked as expected, real antenna or not, I fail to see the justification for your complaint. At worst, the design is a smart marketing decision; at best, it is a vestigial part from an earlier design iteration.
http://cleversafe.org/ I did some benchmarking of it for a project a while ago. While it is slow and still appears to be in its infancy, the product does work.
In my experience, few things can improve on keyboard shortcuts for navigating between windows depending on the amount of windows open. Reaching for the mouse just adds more time.
of course... its not because they're using phones that don't have verizon specific firmware.. while they do use the same tech, there ARE differences in the implementations and specifics. so yeah, you can use a sprint phone on verizon for voice, but you can't use the rest of the features. sprint also frequently releases firmware upgrades, and verizon's phone have always been, in my experience, pieces...
That is essentiall what I was trying to say. A lot of connections via UUNET are made without an ISP relationship - so even though they own the block of IPs, etc - it's not their responsibility.
While I advocate extreme violence against spammers, I do feel that it is the responsibility of an ISP to stop spam at the source.
However, if the spammer is merely leasing an IP/Dedicated connection from the ISP, this involves placing restrictions on the actual line - which isn't called for.
In essence, if you are leasing directly from an upstream provider, they aren't so much an ISP in that case. If the customer was grandfathered in under an old contract, the provider could be left without any legal recourse against the person.
However, if a customer is in violation of their AUP and the AUP was agreed upon at the initiation of the transaction (leasing the line, buying the connection, etc), then the ISP should be held to enforcing that, be it by terminating service or installing filters, etc.
I suppose the most difficult thing is when someone leases a line to run a dedicated server serving legitimate mailing lists, etc.
This becomes a case of "How Draconian do you want your ISP to be?"
I know I can deal with the spam. I hate it, but I'd rather deal with spam than be incredibly restricted by my AUP.
Step 1: Buy an aluminum baseball bat. Step 2: Find spammer. Step 3: Beat spammer with aluminum baseball bat. Step 4: Sell what is left of spammer to Hormel, makers of spam. Step 5: Deposit money into legal fund for defense against spam. (Baseball bat Distribution center)
As the days and months go by, it really seems as though IBM is serious about its support of OSS. Is this truly the case? Most likely. If you examine the past, all the PC software IBM has produced has either failed miserably or been defeated in the market by other software. Perhaps IBM has realized that an investment into OSS is more cost efficient than paying to develop their own closed source software.
Opening Java systematically would make it more appealing to a wider user base - No longer would it's major uses have to be confined to web, Sun, or CS classes at major universities.
Sun made a nice start on Java, but like most closed, standardized software, a better alternative could probably be written.
Kudos to IBM for their support. Hopefully Sun will accept their offer and a better, OSS version of Java will be released.
So what happens when they come to rely on these techniques - people develop addictions to VR, just like they develop addictions to painkillers?
Sounds scary to me. Picture a person who can't live in the outside world because they have developed a psychological disorder based on the fact that the outside world only gives them pain.
Or the Slashdot reader who wants to experience VR so badly that he lights himself on fire... that last one is definitely more likely, isn't it?
Coming from New Jersey, also a state that doesn't allow motorists to pump their own gas, I take offense to your final statement. The major reason for laws such as these is the insurance premiums paid by gas stations. They are lower if each consumer isn't permitted to pump gas.
you're a very confused person when it comes to wireless tech.
of the list of wireless standars you list, at least 3 of them are made up, or bastardizations of ones already on the list.
Why do you think providers love the heavily fragment market of CDMA, TDMA, CDMA PCS, TDMA PCS, Sprint PCS, iDEN & GSM in the U.S.? Switching is hell.
Lets see. PCS stands for Personal Communications Services. CDMA PCS==CDMA TDMA PCS==TDMA Sprint PCS==CDMA. iDEN works over TDMA. So, you list 7 different cellular network types. I'm telling you there are really only 3 in the US. Unless you want to count plain old analog cellular.
uh...yeah. see thats what the FCC is trying to MAKE a law in the US. who cares about those other countries? do i live there...? NO. you're completely offtopic, since this is about the US.
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You immediately attribute to malice and fraud that which could be explained plausibly in several other ways. If the device worked as expected, real antenna or not, I fail to see the justification for your complaint. At worst, the design is a smart marketing decision; at best, it is a vestigial part from an earlier design iteration.
http://cleversafe.org/
I did some benchmarking of it for a project a while ago. While it is slow and still appears to be in its infancy, the product does work.
You'd probably end up with better results running in 800x600, as that is 1/4 of your monitors resolution.
Tools->Preferences->Conversations->Tab placement:
Top
Bottom
Left
Right
Left and right are vertical tabs.
heh. I'm selling mine for $600, bought it for $525. amazingly fun little car though.
Kuiper Belt.
Not Koopers belt.
And if you're looking for some better performance with nearly all the advantages. Check out the Suzuki Swift GTi :).
No one said anything about designing anything. I'm talking specifically about navigation between open windows. Learn to read.
In my experience, few things can improve on keyboard shortcuts for navigating between windows depending on the amount of windows open. Reaching for the mouse just adds more time.
like...a cell phone?
of course ... its not because they're using phones that don't have verizon specific firmware..
while they do use the same tech, there ARE differences in the implementations and specifics. so yeah, you can use a sprint phone on verizon for voice, but you can't use the rest of the features. sprint also frequently releases firmware upgrades, and verizon's phone have always been, in my experience, pieces...
That is essentiall what I was trying to say. A lot of connections via UUNET are made without an ISP relationship - so even though they own the block of IPs, etc - it's not their responsibility.
On a slightly more serious note:
While I advocate extreme violence against spammers, I do feel that it is the responsibility of an ISP to stop spam at the source.
However, if the spammer is merely leasing an IP/Dedicated connection from the ISP, this involves placing restrictions on the actual line - which isn't called for.
In essence, if you are leasing directly from an upstream provider, they aren't so much an ISP in that case. If the customer was grandfathered in under an old contract, the provider could be left without any legal recourse against the person.
However, if a customer is in violation of their AUP and the AUP was agreed upon at the initiation of the transaction (leasing the line, buying the connection, etc), then the ISP should be held to enforcing that, be it by terminating service or installing filters, etc.
I suppose the most difficult thing is when someone leases a line to run a dedicated server serving legitimate mailing lists, etc.
This becomes a case of "How Draconian do you want your ISP to be?"
I know I can deal with the spam. I hate it, but I'd rather deal with spam than be incredibly restricted by my AUP.
The easiest way to stop spam is as follows:
Step 1: Buy an aluminum baseball bat.
Step 2: Find spammer.
Step 3: Beat spammer with aluminum baseball bat.
Step 4: Sell what is left of spammer to Hormel, makers of spam.
Step 5: Deposit money into legal fund for defense against spam. (Baseball bat Distribution center)
As the days and months go by, it really seems as though IBM is serious about its support of OSS. Is this truly the case? Most likely. If you examine the past, all the PC software IBM has produced has either failed miserably or been defeated in the market by other software.
Perhaps IBM has realized that an investment into OSS is more cost efficient than paying to develop their own closed source software.
Opening Java systematically would make it more appealing to a wider user base - No longer would it's major uses have to be confined to web, Sun, or CS classes at major universities.
Sun made a nice start on Java, but like most closed, standardized software, a better alternative could probably be written.
Kudos to IBM for their support. Hopefully Sun will accept their offer and a better, OSS version of Java will be released.
So what happens when they come to rely on these techniques - people develop addictions to VR, just like they develop addictions to painkillers?
Sounds scary to me. Picture a person who can't live in the outside world because they have developed a psychological disorder based on the fact that the outside world only gives them pain.
Or the Slashdot reader who wants to experience VR so badly that he lights himself on fire...
that last one is definitely more likely, isn't it?
OH NO! I have all these programs that use the same bits!
God help my 0s and 1s.
Purely tongue in cheek.
:-p.
As for slave trading racists, those were the days, weren't they!?
And most of the Australians I've met were savage racist thugs - they all consider Aussies to be better
For the humor-impaired:
I like cheese. Do you like cheese?
Ah, but what you fail to mention is that at one time, Australia was a penal colony, and had 100% of its population permanently incarcerated.
So HA.
What exactly is ridiculously overpriced? I pay $10 for unlimited data on top of my regular plan with sprint. I would say thats quite reasonable.
Also, since sprint includes text messaging, etc in their data count, I have unlimited text, unlimited AIM, pretty much anything I want on the phone.
If the need arises, Its also very easy to hook my phone up to my laptop and go online remotely.
Yay for $10 a month being overpriced. As long as people think that, thats all I have to pay.
what you missed was that the reduction was from over $100 million to $500,000.
So 2,290*50,000+500,000=previous salary.
Coming from New Jersey, also a state that doesn't allow motorists to pump their own gas, I take offense to your final statement. The major reason for laws such as these is the insurance premiums paid by gas stations. They are lower if each consumer isn't permitted to pump gas.
actually, the standard that i learned was k=kilobit K=kilobyte. :)
so you'd be wrong by that.
you're a very confused person when it comes to wireless tech.
of the list of wireless standars you list, at least 3 of them are made up, or bastardizations of ones already on the list.
Why do you think providers love the heavily fragment market of CDMA, TDMA, CDMA PCS, TDMA PCS, Sprint PCS, iDEN & GSM in the U.S.? Switching is hell.
Lets see. PCS stands for Personal Communications Services. CDMA PCS==CDMA TDMA PCS==TDMA Sprint PCS==CDMA. iDEN works over TDMA. So, you list 7 different cellular network types. I'm telling you there are really only 3 in the US. Unless you want to count plain old analog cellular.
Thanks for playing.
uh...yeah.
see thats what the FCC is trying to MAKE a law in the US.
who cares about those other countries?
do i live there...?
NO.
you're completely offtopic, since this is about the US.