Well, it wouldn't be legal in EU or Aus if it doesn't allow an emergency call even when the phone is locked. My S3 has an emergency call button on the lock screen. Tapping it gives you a keypad where you have to dial a number. If it's a recognised emergency number, the phone initiates emergency call; if it's a user-designated emergency contact's number, the call is allowed; if it's neither, the you're returned to the lock screen. All the phones with hardware keypads recognise emergency numbers and allow them to be dialled when locked, too.
No seriously, the phone and SIM card have a list of emergency numbers stored in them. On most Nokia handsets, the emergency numbers in the phone are 112 and 911. The emergency numbers in most Australian SIM cards are 000 and 112. If you dial any number in either list, the phone doesn't send the digits at all - it does a special call initiation sequence for emergency calls. This is routed to the local emergency response service by the network. But it's true that for recognised emergency numbers, the actual digits never go further than the phone recognising it as an emergency number.
Even if all they put into orbit is dead weight, it's hard not to be at least a little excited about it. In the face of idiotic domestic policy, sanctions, and enemies on all sides they've managed to build a multi-stage rocket and put something into orbit with it.
What about OPNET? I thought it would've been obvious, but I haven't seen it mentioned below. It may not be cheap, but it's a professional-quality tool, and it lets you easily design and simulate protocols by drawing state machines. I used this while working on 802.11n proposals back in the day, and I'd still recommend it.
The days of Nokia having a meme associated with their quality of build are gone with their factories to china in part of Elops [continuing] cost cutting exercise.
Oh I'm under no illusion that the legendary Nokia quality of the '90s and early '00s will ever be back, but they've always been. I just said they're better than Motorola. I know that's not saying much, considering how bad Motorola phones have been at least as far back as the v2088.
You're comparing Motorola to Nokia. That's always going to come out favouring Nokia, as they've always been better at building phones. A Nokia Android phone would make a Motorola Windows phone look bad, too (if such things existed). Flagship means nothing - it was just the most expensive phone made by Motorola for a while. Motorola can easily make a shit phone expensive.
Itâ(TM)s also rubbish. The examples of words in context are pulled from random web sites, and often server to confuse more than anything else, for example.
When I'm in a country where I have severely limited vocabulary in the local language, a good dictionary application is one of those can't-live-without things that I actually do depend on for getting by. I haven't seen how good this application is/isn't, but I'd pay more than $50 for a great dictionary app. Also, a mobile version is more valuable than a desktop version. I know from experience what it's like pulling a notebook computer out of a bag when I get stuck trying to read a sign or communicate with a stranger. I'll give you a hint: it's not as practical as pulling a phone out of your pocket.
No way man! The best eyecandy desktop would have to have boobs on it! I see no boobs in TFA! (I know, I'm not supposed to read it, but the there was the promise of eyecandy!)
They'll arrive. There are already devices that can receive both Soviet GLONASS and GPS (e.g. Galaxy SIII) to get better positional accuracy. Soon the new devices will receive Galileo as well, for triple redundancy and improved accuracy.
Staying away from Verizon won't help unless you actually manage to stay on 2G GSM the whole time. If you're on 3G, you're on some form of CDMA and will have to deal with these issues.
No, he's talking out his arse. For one, his talk about CDMA use is nonsense - Korea, Japan and Vietnam all use US-style CDMA, and Australia did for a while before dropping it. The most widespread 3G system is W-CDMA (called UMTS when it's run at 2.1GHz), so all the world is using a form of CDMA.
On the technical front, he's talking crap, too. The way CDMA works is that everyone on a channel transmits on the same frequency at the same time, but everyone's signal is scrambled using a different permutation of the "convolution code". This means that to each user, every other user's signal appears as noise. The scrambling needs to be precisely synchronised for this to work properly, hence the need for high-accuracy, (typically GPS-derived) time in base stations. It also means that adding more users to a channel just degrades the signal for everyone and gradually reduces the effective coverage area of the base. This is sold as an advantage, as you don't need as many bases to get coverage of the same size area if users are sparse.
The complication comes in when you have a nearby mobile and a more remote mobile: assuming they have the same transmission power capability, if both transmit as full power, the nearby mobile's signal, appearing as noise when the base is trying to decode the remote mobile's signal, will totally swamp it. The base has to actively manage the transmit power of all mobile stations so that each one is transmitting at the lowest power at which it can receive a reliable signal. This is a complicated optimisation problem that uses lots of CPU power in the base station. It sends literally hundreds of transmit power management messages each second to each mobile. W-CDMA, with wide 5MHz channels, also gives the base station freedom to assign different size parts of the code tree to different mobiles, allowing bandwidth and reliability to be traded off on yet another level.
The reason you can get dropouts is that a bad decision by the base, or a badly behaved mobile that's closer to the base than you can cause the base to lose your signal. Also, excessive users on the channel (i.e. network operator not building enough base stations for number of users) will tend to cause the people with marginal signal to lose their connection.
By comparison, in a TDMA system (like GSM, iDEN or TETRA) each active mobile is assigned a timeslot, and they only transmit/receive in their allocated timeslot. Once you have a timeslot (making a call or establishing a CSD connection), it's yours until you give it up as long as you'e in the cell. If there are too many active users in the cell, you can't get a timeslot and therefore can't make a call. GPRS/EDGE packet data uses dynamically allocated timeslots that are assigned for brief periods - just long enough to send/receive a few packets at a time. There's also the issue of control channel capacity - control channels are used for call establishment sequences, SMS, cell broadcast packet timeslot negotiation, and authentication/keep-alive traffic. Control channels are a limited resource that can be over-utilised by having too many users, too many data connections, or too much SMS traffic.
Sounds simpler, right? Well, it isn't quite so easy. Remember the speed of radio wave propagation isn't infinite? If everyone was the same distance from the base, getting the timeslots to line up would be easy, but as they aren't the more distant a mobile is from the base, the earlier they have to transmit, so that the signal arrives at the right moment as seen by the base ("timing advance"). If this isn't managed correctly, received signals will overlap and corrupt each other, particularly if the signal from one (presumably closer) mobile is far stronger than the signal from another (presumably more distant) mobile. There's also a limit to how much timing advance a base can manage, meaning that under ideal signal propagation conditions there will be a distance lockout point where you will be cut off abruptly (IIRC it's typically configured for 15km, 35km or 50km for GSM, depending on user density and cell layout - it loses some capacity when configured for longer lockout distances).
Anyway, it's not that either system is designed to drop your call, they just have different trade-offs.
UNIX operating systems used to do that, too. This was happening as recently as early releases of OSX. Only eight characters of passwords were significant.
Please enlighten me on how converting to/from USD would serve as a money laundering strategy. Note that I'm not agreeing with people who fret over the "threat" of Bitcoin - I just fail to see the point of your post.
You have to be somewhat subtle about political commentary. You can't just print it on the front page of the newspaper. However, there are certain soap operas on TV that are obviously thinly veiled criticism of government figures and policies. Corruption is rife, there's a bit gap between the richest and the poorest, health care is expensive but it doesn't bankrupt anyone, they're even stricter on drug crimes than US (death penalty for possession of over 500g). It's not a bad place to live if it's where you want to live, just different trade-offs.
I have yet to meet anyone who actually writes code for a living who refers to themselves in these terms.
I write code for a living. Well kind of - I spend as much or more time doing product management and team lead stuff these days, but I still occasionally crank out a few thousand lines of code. I describe myself as a "rockstar" developer, and my team call themselves "ninjas". Now this is the finance industry - we also have development teams calling themselves "pirates" and "Sonic" (as in the hedgehog), and there's a fair bit of pressure, so work hard/play hard is expected, not just amongst traders, but amongst everyone to some degree. I do actually act like a rock star, though: I wear what I want, show up and leave the office at random times, occasionally rant and abuse co-workers, drink coffee as long as my biggest problem is staying awake and switch to alcohol when my biggest problem becomes nerves/stress, and I occasionally work all night without sleeping (usually over VPN). But at the same time, I have to be there for my team whenever they need me, shield them from crap coming from higher-ups, make sure they can get their jobs done without interference, reward them when they're doing well, coach them when they need to improve, and present the face of the company when dealing with brokers and exchanges. If you want to hire a "rockstar" developer, you need to be prepared to end up with me, and you need to be able to keep me interested. The places advertising positions for "rockstar" developers probably wouldn't do either.
A hypothetical child porn party would probably not be permitted to register and for election in Australia. Google could just refuse to run political ads from anyone other than a registered political party. But no, they pick and choose which parties they will or won't run ads for.
I am sick of hearing about frivolous patents and their knock-on effects. It makes my depression ever worse than it would otherwise be. However, I would like to know whether judge Lucy Koh is hot. Does anyone have links to pictures to allow me to make up my mind on this important issue?
Well, it's been shown that, at the least, CANDU reactors can be modified to produce weapons-grade plutonium. India got the plutonium for the bomb used in Operation Smiling Buddha from a modified CANDU reactor.
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Well, it wouldn't be legal in EU or Aus if it doesn't allow an emergency call even when the phone is locked. My S3 has an emergency call button on the lock screen. Tapping it gives you a keypad where you have to dial a number. If it's a recognised emergency number, the phone initiates emergency call; if it's a user-designated emergency contact's number, the call is allowed; if it's neither, the you're returned to the lock screen. All the phones with hardware keypads recognise emergency numbers and allow them to be dialled when locked, too.
No seriously, the phone and SIM card have a list of emergency numbers stored in them. On most Nokia handsets, the emergency numbers in the phone are 112 and 911. The emergency numbers in most Australian SIM cards are 000 and 112. If you dial any number in either list, the phone doesn't send the digits at all - it does a special call initiation sequence for emergency calls. This is routed to the local emergency response service by the network. But it's true that for recognised emergency numbers, the actual digits never go further than the phone recognising it as an emergency number.
Even if all they put into orbit is dead weight, it's hard not to be at least a little excited about it. In the face of idiotic domestic policy, sanctions, and enemies on all sides they've managed to build a multi-stage rocket and put something into orbit with it.
Scarily, even Fedora doesn't have vi installed by default these days. One has to install it using the package manager.
What about OPNET? I thought it would've been obvious, but I haven't seen it mentioned below. It may not be cheap, but it's a professional-quality tool, and it lets you easily design and simulate protocols by drawing state machines. I used this while working on 802.11n proposals back in the day, and I'd still recommend it.
Oh I'm under no illusion that the legendary Nokia quality of the '90s and early '00s will ever be back, but they've always been. I just said they're better than Motorola. I know that's not saying much, considering how bad Motorola phones have been at least as far back as the v2088.
You're comparing Motorola to Nokia. That's always going to come out favouring Nokia, as they've always been better at building phones. A Nokia Android phone would make a Motorola Windows phone look bad, too (if such things existed). Flagship means nothing - it was just the most expensive phone made by Motorola for a while. Motorola can easily make a shit phone expensive.
Itâ(TM)s also rubbish. The examples of words in context are pulled from random web sites, and often server to confuse more than anything else, for example.
When I'm in a country where I have severely limited vocabulary in the local language, a good dictionary application is one of those can't-live-without things that I actually do depend on for getting by. I haven't seen how good this application is/isn't, but I'd pay more than $50 for a great dictionary app. Also, a mobile version is more valuable than a desktop version. I know from experience what it's like pulling a notebook computer out of a bag when I get stuck trying to read a sign or communicate with a stranger. I'll give you a hint: it's not as practical as pulling a phone out of your pocket.
No way man! The best eyecandy desktop would have to have boobs on it! I see no boobs in TFA! (I know, I'm not supposed to read it, but the there was the promise of eyecandy!)
I think he was probably referring to Merrimac after her rebirth as Virginia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Virginia
Haha that's actually a damn good description of the eyesore. Thanks for expressing it in words.
They'll arrive. There are already devices that can receive both Soviet GLONASS and GPS (e.g. Galaxy SIII) to get better positional accuracy. Soon the new devices will receive Galileo as well, for triple redundancy and improved accuracy.
Staying away from Verizon won't help unless you actually manage to stay on 2G GSM the whole time. If you're on 3G, you're on some form of CDMA and will have to deal with these issues.
No, he's talking out his arse. For one, his talk about CDMA use is nonsense - Korea, Japan and Vietnam all use US-style CDMA, and Australia did for a while before dropping it. The most widespread 3G system is W-CDMA (called UMTS when it's run at 2.1GHz), so all the world is using a form of CDMA.
On the technical front, he's talking crap, too. The way CDMA works is that everyone on a channel transmits on the same frequency at the same time, but everyone's signal is scrambled using a different permutation of the "convolution code". This means that to each user, every other user's signal appears as noise. The scrambling needs to be precisely synchronised for this to work properly, hence the need for high-accuracy, (typically GPS-derived) time in base stations. It also means that adding more users to a channel just degrades the signal for everyone and gradually reduces the effective coverage area of the base. This is sold as an advantage, as you don't need as many bases to get coverage of the same size area if users are sparse.
The complication comes in when you have a nearby mobile and a more remote mobile: assuming they have the same transmission power capability, if both transmit as full power, the nearby mobile's signal, appearing as noise when the base is trying to decode the remote mobile's signal, will totally swamp it. The base has to actively manage the transmit power of all mobile stations so that each one is transmitting at the lowest power at which it can receive a reliable signal. This is a complicated optimisation problem that uses lots of CPU power in the base station. It sends literally hundreds of transmit power management messages each second to each mobile. W-CDMA, with wide 5MHz channels, also gives the base station freedom to assign different size parts of the code tree to different mobiles, allowing bandwidth and reliability to be traded off on yet another level.
The reason you can get dropouts is that a bad decision by the base, or a badly behaved mobile that's closer to the base than you can cause the base to lose your signal. Also, excessive users on the channel (i.e. network operator not building enough base stations for number of users) will tend to cause the people with marginal signal to lose their connection.
By comparison, in a TDMA system (like GSM, iDEN or TETRA) each active mobile is assigned a timeslot, and they only transmit/receive in their allocated timeslot. Once you have a timeslot (making a call or establishing a CSD connection), it's yours until you give it up as long as you'e in the cell. If there are too many active users in the cell, you can't get a timeslot and therefore can't make a call. GPRS/EDGE packet data uses dynamically allocated timeslots that are assigned for brief periods - just long enough to send/receive a few packets at a time. There's also the issue of control channel capacity - control channels are used for call establishment sequences, SMS, cell broadcast packet timeslot negotiation, and authentication/keep-alive traffic. Control channels are a limited resource that can be over-utilised by having too many users, too many data connections, or too much SMS traffic.
Sounds simpler, right? Well, it isn't quite so easy. Remember the speed of radio wave propagation isn't infinite? If everyone was the same distance from the base, getting the timeslots to line up would be easy, but as they aren't the more distant a mobile is from the base, the earlier they have to transmit, so that the signal arrives at the right moment as seen by the base ("timing advance"). If this isn't managed correctly, received signals will overlap and corrupt each other, particularly if the signal from one (presumably closer) mobile is far stronger than the signal from another (presumably more distant) mobile. There's also a limit to how much timing advance a base can manage, meaning that under ideal signal propagation conditions there will be a distance lockout point where you will be cut off abruptly (IIRC it's typically configured for 15km, 35km or 50km for GSM, depending on user density and cell layout - it loses some capacity when configured for longer lockout distances).
Anyway, it's not that either system is designed to drop your call, they just have different trade-offs.
UNIX operating systems used to do that, too. This was happening as recently as early releases of OSX. Only eight characters of passwords were significant.
Please enlighten me on how converting to/from USD would serve as a money laundering strategy. Note that I'm not agreeing with people who fret over the "threat" of Bitcoin - I just fail to see the point of your post.
You have to be somewhat subtle about political commentary. You can't just print it on the front page of the newspaper. However, there are certain soap operas on TV that are obviously thinly veiled criticism of government figures and policies. Corruption is rife, there's a bit gap between the richest and the poorest, health care is expensive but it doesn't bankrupt anyone, they're even stricter on drug crimes than US (death penalty for possession of over 500g). It's not a bad place to live if it's where you want to live, just different trade-offs.
I write code for a living. Well kind of - I spend as much or more time doing product management and team lead stuff these days, but I still occasionally crank out a few thousand lines of code. I describe myself as a "rockstar" developer, and my team call themselves "ninjas". Now this is the finance industry - we also have development teams calling themselves "pirates" and "Sonic" (as in the hedgehog), and there's a fair bit of pressure, so work hard/play hard is expected, not just amongst traders, but amongst everyone to some degree. I do actually act like a rock star, though: I wear what I want, show up and leave the office at random times, occasionally rant and abuse co-workers, drink coffee as long as my biggest problem is staying awake and switch to alcohol when my biggest problem becomes nerves/stress, and I occasionally work all night without sleeping (usually over VPN). But at the same time, I have to be there for my team whenever they need me, shield them from crap coming from higher-ups, make sure they can get their jobs done without interference, reward them when they're doing well, coach them when they need to improve, and present the face of the company when dealing with brokers and exchanges. If you want to hire a "rockstar" developer, you need to be prepared to end up with me, and you need to be able to keep me interested. The places advertising positions for "rockstar" developers probably wouldn't do either.
A hypothetical child porn party would probably not be permitted to register and for election in Australia. Google could just refuse to run political ads from anyone other than a registered political party. But no, they pick and choose which parties they will or won't run ads for.
They said that about fuel injection, ABS, electronic ignition, etc. It just requires a different set of skills.
I am sick of hearing about frivolous patents and their knock-on effects. It makes my depression ever worse than it would otherwise be. However, I would like to know whether judge Lucy Koh is hot. Does anyone have links to pictures to allow me to make up my mind on this important issue?
Well, it's been shown that, at the least, CANDU reactors can be modified to produce weapons-grade plutonium. India got the plutonium for the bomb used in Operation Smiling Buddha from a modified CANDU reactor.
You win one internet. That's not funny, it's insightful.
Nah, these days most of them are actually operating out of Europe. Nederland is a big base for them for some reason.