Google has publicly stated that Froyo (Android 2.2) came out 6 months ahead of schedule. And yet... there seems to be no timeline for their improvement of the UI or accessibility and organization of the market place. While freedom is important, a little standardization would go a long way in improving the Android platform for both developers and consumers.
That's just ridiculously stupid misinformation. Bandwidth is extremely cheap for a large carrier. For cable carriers it constitutes like $1/month/person.
In fact the cheapest place to deploy fiber is in suburban areas, since urban areas are often so densely packed that running fiber into a building becomes a complex task of navigating narrow spaces in existing structures.
The gap between the rich and poor has steadily widened since 1980. What we need is an increase in progressiveness in taxation. But what can you do when the voting populace continually votes down any attempt to raise taxes on the rich? It's the voters' own fault for being so stupid as to believe they're better off letting the rich get richer.
That's hardly fair. Often a child may not have the emotional support of his parents to feel confident enough to stand up to bullies. Emotions play a large role in this, and you aren't born with a healthy diet of emotional balance.
Fining the families of the 11 dead men?! Are you insane? What kind of a sociopath are you you freak? Your defense of BP is inexcusable and sickening, and your strawman arguments are nonsensical.
He's talking about the 5 nukes the Russians used, 4 of which succeeded. Of course the Russian oil wells were surrounded by hard, brittle rock, while the leak in the Gulf is surrounded by mud. Different environment leads to different results.
Reagen had very, very few good ideas. His deregulatory policies ushered in an age of corporation-wedded government that has severely widened the gap between rich and poor in this country, shifted the entire political spectrum to the right- at complete odds with the rest of the world- and resulted in massive deficits that we are continuing to pile up.
In fact Gore won the election. What are you going to do when Supreme Court judges overstep their boundaries and hand the presidency to Republicans? Gore also has extremely progressive views on technology and the economy that would have greatly helped our nation out.
I can't believe you linked to the Cato Institute. Do you realize how much they lie and distort the truth? I also can't believe spun was labelled flamebait for calling out Cato on their lies. Pathetic.
Marrying cousins doesn't result in genetic defects significantly more than marrying non-relatives. I recommend you read up a little on the topic. South Asians have been doing it for thousands of years without problems.
Buzzard you're making a very egocentric mistake. If you would look outside of your own tiny bubble of a world, or simply talk to people from any other developed country, you would soon realize how accurate everything sqrt(2) has said is.
Look, here's the real issue. If you bring your own phone in the US, you pay the same price as everyone else. In the EU almost everyone brings their own phone by buying one outright because monthly plans are MUCH cheaper that way. Only idiots or uneducated fools agree to 2 year contracts for smartphones because you end up paying much, much more per month and over the lifetime of the contract.
The US carriers have brainwashed people into thinking they're getting a "subsidy" with the 2 year contract. They're not: it's a LOAN for the phone that you must pay huge interest rates on. There are two problems with this:
1. Invoices do not break down the monthly plans to show the cost of that loan, so there's no way to know how much you're actually spending over 2 years on the phone.
2. People who bring their own phone and thus don't need the loan, *still have to pay for the loan*.
The first point is important because people have no way of knowing that they're being gouged by carriers with unwanted loan schemes.
The second point is important in that this is extortion, and is illegal. The government is simply too weak-kneed to take on the telecom industry. As a consequence there is absolutely no incentive to bring your own phone in the US or buy them outright. In Europe buying outright saves you thousands of dollars over two years. In the US it does nothing for you. Americans thus make the rational economic choice by going for the contracts.
I really hope this service succeeds. I'm just concerned that the abuse of communications markets around the world done by telecom incumbents will render this service defunct by "ahead of its time" default.
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Google has publicly stated that Froyo (Android 2.2) came out 6 months ahead of schedule. And yet... there seems to be no timeline for their improvement of the UI or accessibility and organization of the market place. While freedom is important, a little standardization would go a long way in improving the Android platform for both developers and consumers.
That's just ridiculously stupid misinformation. Bandwidth is extremely cheap for a large carrier. For cable carriers it constitutes like $1/month/person.
4G is unlimited. 3G and 4G on the EVO are both unlimited (although you have to pay an extra $10/month).
Along with the recent news of the creation of an artificial cell, it seems like biotechnology is the truly "hot" field these days.
You have no friggin' idea what you're talking about. 12.7 million *homes* have FIOS. How many households exist in the the US?
And rural fiber is similar in cost to urban and suburban fiber. http://www.dslprime.com/fiber-news/175-d/1755-cost-of-rural-fibe-tv-1500-dropping
In fact the cheapest place to deploy fiber is in suburban areas, since urban areas are often so densely packed that running fiber into a building becomes a complex task of navigating narrow spaces in existing structures.
The gap between the rich and poor has steadily widened since 1980. What we need is an increase in progressiveness in taxation. But what can you do when the voting populace continually votes down any attempt to raise taxes on the rich? It's the voters' own fault for being so stupid as to believe they're better off letting the rich get richer.
Well then how do you explain the amount of studying graduate level or medical school students do every day?
Lol. You win the internets!
Try not to overgeneralize. You're taking a screwed up, social Darwinistic approach based on your personal experience.
Slashdotter brags about his physical strength, demonstrating his emotional immaturity. News at 11!
That's hardly fair. Often a child may not have the emotional support of his parents to feel confident enough to stand up to bullies. Emotions play a large role in this, and you aren't born with a healthy diet of emotional balance.
Fining the families of the 11 dead men?! Are you insane? What kind of a sociopath are you you freak? Your defense of BP is inexcusable and sickening, and your strawman arguments are nonsensical.
Look, you're a braindead idiot who knows nothing about human psychology. Get off your high-horse and smell the real world grass.
He's talking about the 5 nukes the Russians used, 4 of which succeeded. Of course the Russian oil wells were surrounded by hard, brittle rock, while the leak in the Gulf is surrounded by mud. Different environment leads to different results.
Reagen had very, very few good ideas. His deregulatory policies ushered in an age of corporation-wedded government that has severely widened the gap between rich and poor in this country, shifted the entire political spectrum to the right- at complete odds with the rest of the world- and resulted in massive deficits that we are continuing to pile up.
In fact Gore won the election. What are you going to do when Supreme Court judges overstep their boundaries and hand the presidency to Republicans? Gore also has extremely progressive views on technology and the economy that would have greatly helped our nation out.
I can't believe you linked to the Cato Institute. Do you realize how much they lie and distort the truth? I also can't believe spun was labelled flamebait for calling out Cato on their lies. Pathetic.
Marrying cousins doesn't result in genetic defects significantly more than marrying non-relatives. I recommend you read up a little on the topic. South Asians have been doing it for thousands of years without problems.
Staggered rollout is the best way to avoid massively distributed issues inadvertently cropping up all at once. Smart move I think.
Maybe it's an honest mistake. Maybe. We'll find out with how Google reacts to this discovery.
Buzzard you're making a very egocentric mistake. If you would look outside of your own tiny bubble of a world, or simply talk to people from any other developed country, you would soon realize how accurate everything sqrt(2) has said is.
There is no "extreme left" in the United States. Liberal in the US is the equivalent of centrist to slightly conservative in Europe.
Look, here's the real issue. If you bring your own phone in the US, you pay the same price as everyone else. In the EU almost everyone brings their own phone by buying one outright because monthly plans are MUCH cheaper that way. Only idiots or uneducated fools agree to 2 year contracts for smartphones because you end up paying much, much more per month and over the lifetime of the contract.
The US carriers have brainwashed people into thinking they're getting a "subsidy" with the 2 year contract. They're not: it's a LOAN for the phone that you must pay huge interest rates on. There are two problems with this:
1. Invoices do not break down the monthly plans to show the cost of that loan, so there's no way to know how much you're actually spending over 2 years on the phone.
2. People who bring their own phone and thus don't need the loan, *still have to pay for the loan*.
The first point is important because people have no way of knowing that they're being gouged by carriers with unwanted loan schemes.
The second point is important in that this is extortion, and is illegal. The government is simply too weak-kneed to take on the telecom industry. As a consequence there is absolutely no incentive to bring your own phone in the US or buy them outright. In Europe buying outright saves you thousands of dollars over two years. In the US it does nothing for you. Americans thus make the rational economic choice by going for the contracts.
I really hope this service succeeds. I'm just concerned that the abuse of communications markets around the world done by telecom incumbents will render this service defunct by "ahead of its time" default.
The gusher will be closed off until... Republicans get back into power.