Not everyone is able to hook up to a work wifi network, or have access to a desktop to stream music. For many people these are just not an option leaving streaming completely up to their cellphone plan. As for the data rate, I don't know what the rate is on Last.fm for my phone, didn't check.
As for your 25GB of your music, sometimes people want the radio, because its something a group of people can agree to, not just yourself.
And the 100MB barrier, as more people find out the more neat things they can do online, the more they will want to use them. Its like the internet on your computer. 5 years ago, many people wouldn't have ever broke the 3-5GB barrier. Now, many people break that in a few days without even knowing it thanks to YouTube, Netflix, Steam, ect...
About how hard it was for Apple to the their iPhone 4 through normal use case scenarios for things like antenna reception. Sometimes random things are missed, mixed with what was the testing area like? Might have caused unforeseen fixes (a la iPhone 4 was tested near a cell tower if I remember right, why they missed the antenna reception issue.). Also, it seems most of the complaints are from US users, not global users so it could be something up with how the US carriers are handling the phones, which wouldn't come up in a normal use scenario. Maybe US carriers are trying to ping the phones and the pings are accidentally sending more information then they should?
On a completely side note, is it just me or does Ballmer look really haggered and worn in that photo? Maybe all is not going well for him at Microsoft and its really starting to wear on him?
Things like Skype, uploading videos to YouTube, download videos from video websites, Netflix, streaming internet radio. All these come to my mind for the need of more then 2GB. I would love unlimited internet just for internet radio streaming but I the best I can get is a 2GB for too much money. (I had unlimited for 2 months because they wanted me to get hooked on the online functions. I think with the streaming radio I went through like 400MB a day at work. Was streaming Last.fm to my Android phone when I was doing that.)
I'm pretty sure thats been the exact same logic most people have used about terrorist groups that use various bombing techniques in the Middle East for decades. Worked wonders for them.
I was using my brain, as I said many we should try using a non-violent manner like this article is about, we might have a better long term result. Now you use your fucking brain, and learn to read before you hit that Reply button, because if you had read you'd have noticed that I mentioned that already. Every knee jerk reaction shouldn't be kill them all. Its that thinking that has caused so many problems in the Middle East, many of the slums in the US, ect...
Not every commercial is a TV commercial. Radio, mail fliers and internet ads tend to be text based. While people prefer to use attractive individuals to sell their products, it's not the only way.
Pretty much every commercial is a random dude saying more or less 'buy this' and millions are likely to. All because some random dude told them 'buy this.
Somalia needs a unitified government for that to happen. At the moment there are 2 major groups (which are at war) trying to control Somalia. On one side you have the Islamic Courts Union which is an Islamic group wanting to push Sharia Islamic law on the people. The other group is the Transitional Federal Government, which isnt a liberal democracy and is made up of the most powerful warlords (which sprang up during the last unitified Somalia government fall in 1991). With peace and these factions not fighting the people would more likely stop piracy (also if the ruling group is good to the people).
And thank you for a textbook example of taking something and going completely left field with it in hopes of spreading mis-information. I pointed out that when you get violent with people, regardless of their position, they can get desperate and violent (please, read my post, it said "it might cause the pirates to become more desperate and violent" Now, when the violence happened, lo and behold, like I pointed out, they got violent. As in, they reacted to your actions. Now, maybe, just maybe, if you tried to thwart the pirates off by, oh I don't know, in a non-violent manner (like the post is about), maybe, just maybe, they won't get as violent. But hey, lets just shoot first and let everyone kill eachother instead. That will be better, huh?
I know it sounds crazy, but some people have moral hangups about killing people unnecessarily.
If you don't shoot the pirates then you may get away, but they'll attack the next ship. If you do kill them then they're no longer a problem, and it will help to discourage the others.
What's 'moral' about running away and letting these people attack someone else?
Yeah, but can you fit 4 to 6 pirates armed with weapons like AKM assault rifles, RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and semi-automatic pistols on your 2 meter ship? I would be worried of the RPG maybe tipping a boat that small when fired.
I was mentioning that because you said that according to your linked article (and your posts title), iOS is #1 in the US (and might have been in the middle of Nov), but by the end of Nov Android was #1 in the US.
Here's hoping your current ISP doesn't feeling like suing your community. While for that town it went ok in the end, it would still be expensive for the town and your town might not want to pony up the legal fee's to fight it.
The article you posted seems to being using information that was released sometime in Nov, while the/. article is using data from the end of Nov, making it the newer report.
Most likely it wasn't noticed sooner because it seems that in South Africa power failures are common. Guess people just assumed it was another power issue and ignored it guessing they'd come back on at some other time.
Finland and France say it is. As more government information and services are being offered online, the more of a basic right it becomes as you can't shield people away from knowing and participating in government offerings and legal information that concerns them.
You don't seem to realize that all this has only happened in the last 3 decades. Yes, China's government has given our government a bunch of loan money, but their government got all the money with which to give us loans from our private sector.
Citation needed.
Find the nearest object to your person. Locate "Made in China" imprint.
"Made in China" imprint says it was made in China. Thats says little to nothing, let alone that it got money from the private sector. Maybe some to a lot of its money came from selling to the public sector, but that happens everywhere with people selling there wares. Be it to their own local populace or to foreign countries. I also have things that say "Made in Koera", "Made is Japan" and "Made in Germany". Or are all these countries loaning the US money too? Business is business, regardless of place in the world. I also have things that say "Made in the USA".
Not their private sector. Their private sector has no fucking money.
The wealthy businessmen in the private sector aren't broke, you're right. The teenagers working for technology manufacturing aren't broke, you're right. Everybody else is broke, though. There is a major income inequality between the rich and the poor in China, and you thought it was bad in the US.
So the rich are rich, the youth with no dependents in the higher paying jobs have money and the poor and poor. Welcome to reality, its like this everywhere. Even in the US.
It's their government that has money. Their economy doesn't have any money, our economy is giving them money. And their government (and the government-controlled and government-controlling coporations) keep it all (and loan it back to us).
They have been deregulating a lot of that in that past few years. No, their government doesn't control everything, their economy has money.
Deregulating a lot of what? What are you talking about? Are you trying to say that the Chinese government is voluntarily dropping their stranglehold on the Chinese economy and selling the huge numbers of shares they have in nearly every powerful Chinese corporation? Are you simple?
*sigh*.... let me guess, you refused to read the link I posted before this paragraph that mention "But in recent years, the republic has been "liberalising and deregulating" to make it easier for Chinese monies to go out." Please go back and read some of the information. And you'll note, not every business in China is government owned (again, if you have read the link, you'd have known that.)
You don't seem to realize that all this has only happened in the last 3 decades. Yes, China's government has given our government a bunch of loan money, but their government got all the money with which to give us loans from our private sector.
Citation needed.
Not their private sector. Their private sector has no fucking money.
It's their government that has money. Their economy doesn't have any money, our economy is giving them money. And their government (and the government-controlled and government-controlling coporations) keep it all (and loan it back to us).
They have been deregulating a lot of that in that past few years. No, their government doesn't control everything, their economy has money.
without us it would return to its sorry state, because they don't know how to survive without us.
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Not everyone is able to hook up to a work wifi network, or have access to a desktop to stream music. For many people these are just not an option leaving streaming completely up to their cellphone plan. As for the data rate, I don't know what the rate is on Last.fm for my phone, didn't check.
As for your 25GB of your music, sometimes people want the radio, because its something a group of people can agree to, not just yourself.
And the 100MB barrier, as more people find out the more neat things they can do online, the more they will want to use them. Its like the internet on your computer. 5 years ago, many people wouldn't have ever broke the 3-5GB barrier. Now, many people break that in a few days without even knowing it thanks to YouTube, Netflix, Steam, ect...
About how hard it was for Apple to the their iPhone 4 through normal use case scenarios for things like antenna reception. Sometimes random things are missed, mixed with what was the testing area like? Might have caused unforeseen fixes (a la iPhone 4 was tested near a cell tower if I remember right, why they missed the antenna reception issue.). Also, it seems most of the complaints are from US users, not global users so it could be something up with how the US carriers are handling the phones, which wouldn't come up in a normal use scenario. Maybe US carriers are trying to ping the phones and the pings are accidentally sending more information then they should?
On a completely side note, is it just me or does Ballmer look really haggered and worn in that photo? Maybe all is not going well for him at Microsoft and its really starting to wear on him?
Verizon will offer unlimited data, until they don't want to anymore.
So, like a month after they start selling the iPhone? (like AT&T did with the iPad)
Things like Skype, uploading videos to YouTube, download videos from video websites, Netflix, streaming internet radio. All these come to my mind for the need of more then 2GB. I would love unlimited internet just for internet radio streaming but I the best I can get is a 2GB for too much money. (I had unlimited for 2 months because they wanted me to get hooked on the online functions. I think with the streaming radio I went through like 400MB a day at work. Was streaming Last.fm to my Android phone when I was doing that.)
I call bullshit. We should all know the marketing definition of
kinda like when hosting companies promote "unlimed bandwidth"
I don't know... I've never had unlimed bandwidth... I might fall for that. Mmmmm.... just a hint of lime...
I'm pretty sure thats been the exact same logic most people have used about terrorist groups that use various bombing techniques in the Middle East for decades. Worked wonders for them.
I was using my brain, as I said many we should try using a non-violent manner like this article is about, we might have a better long term result. Now you use your fucking brain, and learn to read before you hit that Reply button, because if you had read you'd have noticed that I mentioned that already. Every knee jerk reaction shouldn't be kill them all. Its that thinking that has caused so many problems in the Middle East, many of the slums in the US, ect...
Not every commercial is a TV commercial. Radio, mail fliers and internet ads tend to be text based. While people prefer to use attractive individuals to sell their products, it's not the only way.
If reality ever changes so that it's like the world of "World of Warcraft" than I'm re-rolling Horde. They have flying sharks with lasers.
Pretty much every commercial is a random dude saying more or less 'buy this' and millions are likely to. All because some random dude told them 'buy this.
So in short, the book Metro 2033 will become reality.
Somalia needs a unitified government for that to happen. At the moment there are 2 major groups (which are at war) trying to control Somalia. On one side you have the Islamic Courts Union which is an Islamic group wanting to push Sharia Islamic law on the people. The other group is the Transitional Federal Government, which isnt a liberal democracy and is made up of the most powerful warlords (which sprang up during the last unitified Somalia government fall in 1991). With peace and these factions not fighting the people would more likely stop piracy (also if the ruling group is good to the people).
And thank you for a textbook example of taking something and going completely left field with it in hopes of spreading mis-information. I pointed out that when you get violent with people, regardless of their position, they can get desperate and violent (please, read my post, it said "it might cause the pirates to become more desperate and violent" Now, when the violence happened, lo and behold, like I pointed out, they got violent. As in, they reacted to your actions. Now, maybe, just maybe, if you tried to thwart the pirates off by, oh I don't know, in a non-violent manner (like the post is about), maybe, just maybe, they won't get as violent. But hey, lets just shoot first and let everyone kill eachother instead. That will be better, huh?
I know it sounds crazy, but some people have moral hangups about killing people unnecessarily.
If you don't shoot the pirates then you may get away, but they'll attack the next ship. If you do kill them then they're no longer a problem, and it will help to discourage the others.
What's 'moral' about running away and letting these people attack someone else?
Well the problem is that it might cause the pirates to become more desperate and violent. Pirates don't kill often (only in the movies do they do that). And this has happened. In 2009, pirates took over the Maersk Alabama US Navy ship and demanded money. In the end, the US killed 3 of the pirates and the pirates claimed "After the action they took yesterday (the sniping of the 3 pirates), we will respond with action, We're warning the owners of the other ships that if they try to attack, we will kill the crews and burn their ships." Now according to a U.N. report released in Nov 2010, a year and a half later, U.N. report says pirates more violent. Maybe shooting pirates wasn't the most 'moral' idea in the end?
Yeah, but can you fit 4 to 6 pirates armed with weapons like AKM assault rifles, RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and semi-automatic pistols on your 2 meter ship? I would be worried of the RPG maybe tipping a boat that small when fired.
World of Warcraft has an Undead guy riding with a mounted laser gun mounted on a flying shark. I think they have insiders...
Yeah, WoW does have a flying shark with a frikken laser beam. We are so screwed... THE END IS NIGH!!!!
Well the link more accurately says the power failures are common in Johannesburg, and the missing SIM cards are from the lights in Johannesburg.
I was mentioning that because you said that according to your linked article (and your posts title), iOS is #1 in the US (and might have been in the middle of Nov), but by the end of Nov Android was #1 in the US.
Here's hoping your current ISP doesn't feeling like suing your community. While for that town it went ok in the end, it would still be expensive for the town and your town might not want to pony up the legal fee's to fight it.
I can't believe you'd even admit to downloading Mariah Carey. Thats just embarrassing...
The article you posted seems to being using information that was released sometime in Nov, while the /. article is using data from the end of Nov, making it the newer report.
Most likely it wasn't noticed sooner because it seems that in South Africa power failures are common. Guess people just assumed it was another power issue and ignored it guessing they'd come back on at some other time.
Finland and France say it is. As more government information and services are being offered online, the more of a basic right it becomes as you can't shield people away from knowing and participating in government offerings and legal information that concerns them.
You don't seem to realize that all this has only happened in the last 3 decades. Yes, China's government has given our government a bunch of loan money, but their government got all the money with which to give us loans from our private sector.
Citation needed.
Find the nearest object to your person. Locate "Made in China" imprint.
"Made in China" imprint says it was made in China. Thats says little to nothing, let alone that it got money from the private sector. Maybe some to a lot of its money came from selling to the public sector, but that happens everywhere with people selling there wares. Be it to their own local populace or to foreign countries. I also have things that say "Made in Koera", "Made is Japan" and "Made in Germany". Or are all these countries loaning the US money too? Business is business, regardless of place in the world. I also have things that say "Made in the USA".
Not their private sector. Their private sector has no fucking money.
Thats why the next investment wave from China is coming from it's private sector. Because they are broke...
The wealthy businessmen in the private sector aren't broke, you're right. The teenagers working for technology manufacturing aren't broke, you're right. Everybody else is broke, though. There is a major income inequality between the rich and the poor in China, and you thought it was bad in the US.
So the rich are rich, the youth with no dependents in the higher paying jobs have money and the poor and poor. Welcome to reality, its like this everywhere. Even in the US.
It's their government that has money. Their economy doesn't have any money, our economy is giving them money. And their government (and the government-controlled and government-controlling coporations) keep it all (and loan it back to us).
They have been deregulating a lot of that in that past few years. No, their government doesn't control everything, their economy has money.
Deregulating a lot of what? What are you talking about? Are you trying to say that the Chinese government is voluntarily dropping their stranglehold on the Chinese economy and selling the huge numbers of shares they have in nearly every powerful Chinese corporation? Are you simple?
*sigh*.... let me guess, you refused to read the link I posted before this paragraph that mention "But in recent years, the republic has been "liberalising and deregulating" to make it easier for Chinese monies to go out." Please go back and read some of the information. And you'll note, not every business in China is government owned (again, if you have read the link, you'd have known that.)
You don't seem to realize that all this has only happened in the last 3 decades. Yes, China's government has given our government a bunch of loan money, but their government got all the money with which to give us loans from our private sector.
Citation needed.
Not their private sector. Their private sector has no fucking money.
Thats why the next investment wave from China is coming from it's private sector. Because they are broke...
It's their government that has money. Their economy doesn't have any money, our economy is giving them money. And their government (and the government-controlled and government-controlling coporations) keep it all (and loan it back to us).
They have been deregulating a lot of that in that past few years. No, their government doesn't control everything, their economy has money.
without us it would return to its sorry state, because they don't know how to survive without us.
Considering their global investments, I doubt it.