insiders have confirmed that the iPhone nano is not yet in the testing labs at AT&T, Marshal says, leading him to believe that the launch will most likely be with a non-US carrier.
Seems to me that you don't need to know how to configure the devices for that test... You merely need to know how to use proper version control for your switch configurations.
When I used to run a Cisco shop (one where too many engineers had access to the configuration), I never bothered to troubleshoot configuration issues. I just reverted to the last known good configuration. Way easier than figuring out which bit sombody had flipped.
Certs suck. They're cash cows for the certifying company, and a crutch for managers that don't know how to conduct a good job interview. I never bother with them, because the types of companies that require them are the types of companies that I wouldn't want to work for anyway...
I predict a growth in marketshare for this site.... They're starting to master the "sensationalistic troll" article, so they should be gaining impressions despite the poor layout and navigation.
I was going to post something here about just not clicking through to sensationalist articles anymore as a form of protest... But then I remembered that this is Slashdot, and nobody clicks through to the article anyway, so I was wasting words... I'm not even sure why I'm still posting this.
Yeah, I had a 650p for 4+ years. The keyboard finally wore out, and they replaced it with a 700p (with the battery from the 650p). That's what prompted my iPhone purchase.
Having gone from a Treo 700p with a 4 year old battery to an iPhone, I have to say that the iPhone battery life is crap. I would charge the Treo on Saturday. As in, use the phone all week, and charge it on the weekend. I need to charge the iPhone every night, or it will be dead part of the way through the next day. I may use the iPhone a bit more, but not 7x more.
The keyboard is subjective, yes... But the Treo keyboard was better in my opinion.
I still prefer the iPhone to my old Treo, but I wish Palm had released this new phone about a year sooner. I'd have rather gotten this, instead of the iPhone.
The vast majority of Poe's music was from the '90s.
There has been a ton of good music in this decade too. There just hasn't been very much good "popular" music. A good portion of the altrock/indie rock bands out there make great music, but their style is straight from the mid '90s.
Certain manufacturers let you do that, but not all... The best that many will do is show you the list of what they're getting into stock and when, and let you reserve a car off it.
That said, I've never bought a car that wasn't either used, exactly what I want off the lot, ordered to spec, or discounted sufficiently to make me like what it came with.
Optional like On-Star? When I visited the local Saab dealership when I was buying my last car (I didn't end up with a Saab), every car on the lot had the On-Star "option". Sure, it wasn't a standard feature, and sure they wouldn't deduct the price of it just because you didn't want it and they had installed it anyway. But they couldn't have you saying that a recurring-revenue feature was forced on you, could they? And people wonder why GM is having troubles... I bought a Honda (Acura). They put what I wanted in the car. No more, no less.
I'm sure it will be the same with this Lexus "option". If people don't choose the option, and they can make additional money in the future off the customer for having the option, you can bet it'll be installed in every car whether they call it a standard feature or not.
Maybe after the Democratic smear campaign successfully tricked the majority of the American public into thinking that McCain was Bush, they decided that the only way to get McCain elected was to get the people who elected Bush on board?
Let's be honest here. Almost every single person who claims that they didn't vote for McCain because of Palin had already decided not to vote for McCain before he picked her.
Well he hired a good portion of the Clinton administration, who also started wars on highly suspect grounds, so who knows.... At the very least he's not off to a good start.
The nuclear option is politically viable. It could be sold to the public by a strong leader. Unfortunately we just elected a strong leader who is anti-nuclear.
I'll probably cancel my Netflix subscription after the second month.
The two big problems.... Selection... There's not a lot of good stuff that is streamable. When there is good stuff, it's only available for a limited time.
Quality... The quality blows. I get full quality based on the little meter that comes up on the screen. I would liken the quality to VHS, except that instead of analog noise you get digital compression and motion artifacts. I know that these don't bother some people, but my eye jumps right to them every time. It's not like I'm watching on a huge screen either. It's a 27" 720p 16:9 LCD from about 12' away. Compared to Amazon Unbox video, it's like night and day (Amazon's video is way better). But Amazon is Pay-per-view, so I don't want anything to do with that either.
It was nice to watch a few old TV series that I wanted to catch up on, but I'll be done with those soon and have no reason to keep paying for the service. Unless they signifigantly improve the quality/quantity of movies available, but that doesn't look promising right now.
If it weren't for the patent, this guy would have zero incentive to develop this technology. If he did, one of the established manufacturers would simply copy it and profit from his idea while he went broke struggling to build the infrastructure they already had.
There's lots wrong with patents, but granting *this* patent is a terrible example of squashing innovation.
Especially at MIT, most graduate students are *not* paying for the resources. Their work is subsidized by endowments, patents like these, and (mostly) undergraduate tuition. Most are on full scholarship as well as stipend.
Incidentally, this is exactly why you should never pay to go to a big-name school as an undergraduate. Go somewhere cheap, then go to the big name school as a grad student.
Fat lot of consolation that would be for the whiplash, and sub-replacement cost payout for your vehicle from an insurance company (you almost always get book-value, not replacement cost. These can be quite different on any newish car).
The proper way to deal with somebody breaking the rules of the road is to accommodate them. Move out of their way, and let them pass if they insist on riding your ass. It's called defensive driving, and in most places it is just as much the law as following at a reasonable distance.
Any driver should be able to brake as hard as they want, at any time, safely. If you don't think this is always a safe maneouver then you are a tailgater.
I don't think it's a safe maneuver. But I'm not a tailgaiter. I would also place a safe bet that you're an unsafe driver.
Why?
I acknowledge that tailgaiters exist, thus it's not always safe to brake as hard as possible. I understand that it's important to drive defensively, which means taking into account the other drivers on the road, even if they're not following the rules. I understand that conditions might indicate that slamming on the breaks would result in loss of control to the vehicle. Slamming on the brakes as had as you want is rarely a safe thing to do. It should be reserved for emergency situations.
You, however, have demonstrated that you can't see past your own self righteousness enough to put practicality ahead of name-calling. Thus it's almost certain that you put others at risk on the road.
When you're in the air, very little gets in the way of your radar. You can load up a big plane with all sorts of mobile air traffic control equipment, and feed data to all your planes to keep them from getting in each other's way. Once you start flying "under the radar", all bets are off in terms of automated collision detection.
Imagine "ground traffic control". Every tree, hill, truck, building... All getting in the way of the dirt simple positioning systems that your "leprous gerbil" could run.
Getting the picture?
So you put the radar in each vehicle instead of in a single central control location.... Suddenly it's not as simple as the one unified radar signal. It's a huge pain in the ass instead.
This isn't a technological problem. It's a social problem. We allow bad drivers on the road. Bad drivers make poor decisions (holding extended conversations on their phones, tailgating, driving faster than their vehicle and conditions can safely support, weaving, etc...) or fail to execute in crucial moments (slamming the breaks in a skid, etc..). Instead of spending fuel to lug around a technological solution, we should remove the bad drivers from the road. Make the road test have some meat to it. Make the written test about more than what you can get fined for. Make drivers re-take the test every time their license expires instead of making renewal about a government cash-cow.
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Alternate explaination: A US carrier other than AT&T. Perhaps T-Mobile.
insiders have confirmed that the iPhone nano is not yet in the testing labs at AT&T, Marshal says, leading him to believe that the launch will most likely be with a non-US carrier.
Simpler explaination: It doesn't exist.
Seems to me that you don't need to know how to configure the devices for that test... You merely need to know how to use proper version control for your switch configurations.
When I used to run a Cisco shop (one where too many engineers had access to the configuration), I never bothered to troubleshoot configuration issues. I just reverted to the last known good configuration. Way easier than figuring out which bit sombody had flipped.
Certs suck. They're cash cows for the certifying company, and a crutch for managers that don't know how to conduct a good job interview. I never bother with them, because the types of companies that require them are the types of companies that I wouldn't want to work for anyway...
I predict a growth in marketshare for this site.... They're starting to master the "sensationalistic troll" article, so they should be gaining impressions despite the poor layout and navigation.
I bet you hadn't even heard of them until now.
Yeah, turning hazardous junk into artificial reefs can't possibly fail.
Oh wait...
Since it's not implemented in my client, the "recall" notifications tell me which messages I should look for the "good stuff" in.
Combine that with a filter that sends all "important" and "urgent" flagged messages to the trash, and it's perfect....
I was going to post something here about just not clicking through to sensationalist articles anymore as a form of protest... But then I remembered that this is Slashdot, and nobody clicks through to the article anyway, so I was wasting words... I'm not even sure why I'm still posting this.
It can only be an improvement. I'd prefer "malfunctioning waste treatment plant" over "jet exhaust".
I'm hoping it smells like "fish tank".
Yeah, I had a 650p for 4+ years. The keyboard finally wore out, and they replaced it with a 700p (with the battery from the 650p). That's what prompted my iPhone purchase.
Having gone from a Treo 700p with a 4 year old battery to an iPhone, I have to say that the iPhone battery life is crap. I would charge the Treo on Saturday. As in, use the phone all week, and charge it on the weekend. I need to charge the iPhone every night, or it will be dead part of the way through the next day. I may use the iPhone a bit more, but not 7x more.
The keyboard is subjective, yes... But the Treo keyboard was better in my opinion.
I still prefer the iPhone to my old Treo, but I wish Palm had released this new phone about a year sooner. I'd have rather gotten this, instead of the iPhone.
The vast majority of Poe's music was from the '90s.
There has been a ton of good music in this decade too. There just hasn't been very much good "popular" music. A good portion of the altrock/indie rock bands out there make great music, but their style is straight from the mid '90s.
If only...
Certain manufacturers let you do that, but not all... The best that many will do is show you the list of what they're getting into stock and when, and let you reserve a car off it.
That said, I've never bought a car that wasn't either used, exactly what I want off the lot, ordered to spec, or discounted sufficiently to make me like what it came with.
Optional like On-Star? When I visited the local Saab dealership when I was buying my last car (I didn't end up with a Saab), every car on the lot had the On-Star "option". Sure, it wasn't a standard feature, and sure they wouldn't deduct the price of it just because you didn't want it and they had installed it anyway. But they couldn't have you saying that a recurring-revenue feature was forced on you, could they? And people wonder why GM is having troubles... I bought a Honda (Acura). They put what I wanted in the car. No more, no less.
I'm sure it will be the same with this Lexus "option". If people don't choose the option, and they can make additional money in the future off the customer for having the option, you can bet it'll be installed in every car whether they call it a standard feature or not.
Maybe after the Democratic smear campaign successfully tricked the majority of the American public into thinking that McCain was Bush, they decided that the only way to get McCain elected was to get the people who elected Bush on board?
Let's be honest here. Almost every single person who claims that they didn't vote for McCain because of Palin had already decided not to vote for McCain before he picked her.
Well he hired a good portion of the Clinton administration, who also started wars on highly suspect grounds, so who knows.... At the very least he's not off to a good start.
The other problem is that they seemingly learned what "Economies of Scale" are from Slashdot comments.
You're in for a shock then...
Just wait. The "pop crap" will be the $0.69 tracks to boost their chart ratings. The less popular stuff will be more expensive.
The nuclear option is politically viable. It could be sold to the public by a strong leader. Unfortunately we just elected a strong leader who is anti-nuclear.
I've been using it on my S3 a lot lately too..
I'll probably cancel my Netflix subscription after the second month.
The two big problems.... Selection... There's not a lot of good stuff that is streamable. When there is good stuff, it's only available for a limited time.
Quality... The quality blows. I get full quality based on the little meter that comes up on the screen. I would liken the quality to VHS, except that instead of analog noise you get digital compression and motion artifacts. I know that these don't bother some people, but my eye jumps right to them every time. It's not like I'm watching on a huge screen either. It's a 27" 720p 16:9 LCD from about 12' away. Compared to Amazon Unbox video, it's like night and day (Amazon's video is way better). But Amazon is Pay-per-view, so I don't want anything to do with that either.
It was nice to watch a few old TV series that I wanted to catch up on, but I'll be done with those soon and have no reason to keep paying for the service. Unless they signifigantly improve the quality/quantity of movies available, but that doesn't look promising right now.
If a $75k fee is enough to destroy this guy's business plan, his plan was already broken.
He doesn't even have to pay them until he's ready to ship product. All he has to do is negotiate terms.
If it weren't for the patent, this guy would have zero incentive to develop this technology. If he did, one of the established manufacturers would simply copy it and profit from his idea while he went broke struggling to build the infrastructure they already had.
There's lots wrong with patents, but granting *this* patent is a terrible example of squashing innovation.
Especially at MIT, most graduate students are *not* paying for the resources. Their work is subsidized by endowments, patents like these, and (mostly) undergraduate tuition. Most are on full scholarship as well as stipend.
Incidentally, this is exactly why you should never pay to go to a big-name school as an undergraduate. Go somewhere cheap, then go to the big name school as a grad student.
Fat lot of consolation that would be for the whiplash, and sub-replacement cost payout for your vehicle from an insurance company (you almost always get book-value, not replacement cost. These can be quite different on any newish car).
The proper way to deal with somebody breaking the rules of the road is to accommodate them. Move out of their way, and let them pass if they insist on riding your ass. It's called defensive driving, and in most places it is just as much the law as following at a reasonable distance.
Any driver should be able to brake as hard as they want, at any time, safely. If you don't think this is always a safe maneouver then you are a tailgater.
I don't think it's a safe maneuver. But I'm not a tailgaiter. I would also place a safe bet that you're an unsafe driver.
Why?
I acknowledge that tailgaiters exist, thus it's not always safe to brake as hard as possible. I understand that it's important to drive defensively, which means taking into account the other drivers on the road, even if they're not following the rules. I understand that conditions might indicate that slamming on the breaks would result in loss of control to the vehicle. Slamming on the brakes as had as you want is rarely a safe thing to do. It should be reserved for emergency situations.
You, however, have demonstrated that you can't see past your own self righteousness enough to put practicality ahead of name-calling. Thus it's almost certain that you put others at risk on the road.
When you're in the air, very little gets in the way of your radar. You can load up a big plane with all sorts of mobile air traffic control equipment, and feed data to all your planes to keep them from getting in each other's way. Once you start flying "under the radar", all bets are off in terms of automated collision detection.
Imagine "ground traffic control". Every tree, hill, truck, building... All getting in the way of the dirt simple positioning systems that your "leprous gerbil" could run.
Getting the picture?
So you put the radar in each vehicle instead of in a single central control location.... Suddenly it's not as simple as the one unified radar signal. It's a huge pain in the ass instead.
This isn't a technological problem. It's a social problem. We allow bad drivers on the road. Bad drivers make poor decisions (holding extended conversations on their phones, tailgating, driving faster than their vehicle and conditions can safely support, weaving, etc...) or fail to execute in crucial moments (slamming the breaks in a skid, etc..). Instead of spending fuel to lug around a technological solution, we should remove the bad drivers from the road. Make the road test have some meat to it. Make the written test about more than what you can get fined for. Make drivers re-take the test every time their license expires instead of making renewal about a government cash-cow.