Even phones that have the FM feature enabled don't have an internal antenna, because it would be too small to be useful. FM band is very roughly 100MHz (actually below that). Do the math of what a quarter wave antenna looks like at that frequency. That's why phones that support FM require you to have earphones attached;-they use the cable as the FM antenna.
Ironic that this story surfaces at the same time as Norway announces an analog FM sunset date. Probably in ten years there won't be any FM stations in first world countries at all.
I used to have a phone that would receive FM radio. It used the wired headphones as the FM antenna. Didn't work very well with Bluetooth headphones...
And don't forget that NONE of the wireless carriers in the US would want the phone to have this feature, because it means the user can be listening to music that they are streaming to their phone FOR FREE, and the carrier would be making no money from it at all.
Which explains why I can't just copy MP3s directly to the flash memory on my phone. Oh, wait. I have about 30GB of ripped MP3 files on my phone.
Of course the reason I carry a large portion of my music library with me is to avoid having to listen to FM radio.
Although I haven't figured out who did it or why, I think Benghazi was an elaborate Pavlovian experiment to cause Fox News viewers to foam at the mouth.
No, because it will require 10 years experience for a technology that was first released in 2013 and HR will reject all applicants that don't have 10 years experience and can prove it.
Or, we could just throw similar amounts of money at general purpose research, some of which might also be useful in military applications. Call it the "War on not Having Flying Cars"
No, We need to have a 'War on balanced budgets'. Based on the way previous 'wars on...' have went we'll have the deficit eliminated in 20 years!
I'm not from the USA, but politicians everywhere are known for promising their electors that they will "increase employment" and other such claims.. Employment for the locals such as this, is pork. The politician doesn't care if its worthwhile or not, just that their electors are enriched.
There is a reason why the F-35 is sourced from about 45 different states...
$10 Billion? They wasted far more than that on this turkey alone.
If it is a Vogon starship it is part of the construction fleet that has come to destroy the Earth in order to build a hyperspace bypass so shooting it won't make matters any worse anyway. I can't believe that Slashdot missed that story yesterday...
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Even phones that have the FM feature enabled don't have an internal antenna, because it would be too small to be useful. FM band is very roughly 100MHz (actually below that). Do the math of what a quarter wave antenna looks like at that frequency. That's why phones that support FM require you to have earphones attached;-they use the cable as the FM antenna. Ironic that this story surfaces at the same time as Norway announces an analog FM sunset date. Probably in ten years there won't be any FM stations in first world countries at all.
I used to have a phone that would receive FM radio. It used the wired headphones as the FM antenna. Didn't work very well with Bluetooth headphones...
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And don't forget that NONE of the wireless carriers in the US would want the phone to have this feature, because it means the user can be listening to music that they are streaming to their phone FOR FREE, and the carrier would be making no money from it at all.
Which explains why I can't just copy MP3s directly to the flash memory on my phone. Oh, wait. I have about 30GB of ripped MP3 files on my phone.
Of course the reason I carry a large portion of my music library with me is to avoid having to listen to FM radio.
Yes, and Godwin too.
Never race a GT-R. Not unless you are in another GT-R.
Oh, you meant THAT Godzilla.
Although I haven't figured out who did it or why, I think Benghazi was an elaborate Pavlovian experiment to cause Fox News viewers to foam at the mouth.
Hey, it sounded good on the golf course.
A true Libertarian would cringe at that comment. A neo-Libertarian (like the Republicans pandering to the Tea Party) Don't have a problem with that.
Lets not give him any ideas for another horrible Transformers movie...
Sounds like a lot of Fox News viewers I know.
...claim that the test questions could be useful for terrorists so it's a matter of national security?
I shouldn't have had that second helping of beans at that little diner in Arizona...
No, because it will require 10 years experience for a technology that was first released in 2013 and HR will reject all applicants that don't have 10 years experience and can prove it.
Like a Pierson's Puppeteer from the 'Ringworld' books by Larry Niven?
1. Only $25M for that egregious violation??
2. And that is the *LARGEST* penalty ever????
Token penalties like that are equivalent to declaring a free-for-all-big-corps.
Yeah it's basically .018 cents per dollar revenue and .4 cents per dollar of net income. AT&T must be smarting!
AT&T to employees: STOP RIPPING OFF OUR CUSTOMERS!!!! That's OUR job!
Or, we could just throw similar amounts of money at general purpose research, some of which might also be useful in military applications. Call it the "War on not Having Flying Cars"
No, We need to have a 'War on balanced budgets'. Based on the way previous 'wars on...' have went we'll have the deficit eliminated in 20 years!
I'm not from the USA, but politicians everywhere are known for promising their electors that they will "increase employment" and other such claims.. Employment for the locals such as this, is pork. The politician doesn't care if its worthwhile or not, just that their electors are enriched.
There is a reason why the F-35 is sourced from about 45 different states...
$10 Billion? They wasted far more than that on this turkey alone.
And Wierd Al wrote a song about it. Long after Bugs Bunny kept taking wrong turns there of course.
Hell, look at all of the people who can't tell black and blue from white and gold.
Just wait until Verizon sends you a $50k phone bill...
Why? Can't slow the production enough to keep from having to rent more storage room for unsold units?
No, All the storage is taken up by unsold Surface tablets and Nokia phones.
$.50 credit and an additional 'completely unrelated' fee of $3.79
Sure they can: "Because... Terrorism".
It's pretty easy to rip closed captioning from a DVD without resorting to OCR.
...And Google somehow found a place where they aren't prohibited from offering service by local and/or state laws.
If it is a Vogon starship it is part of the construction fleet that has come to destroy the Earth in order to build a hyperspace bypass so shooting it won't make matters any worse anyway.
I can't believe that Slashdot missed that story yesterday...