And since Apple exercises control over what they allow in the App Store, they should ethically, and perhaps even legally, be blocking games aimed at young children that have in-app purchases.
There's the problem. You're rewarding bad behavior
Not if he gets in before the bad behaviour starts. Toddlers don't have long term memory, so they have no idea that this "reward" is a consequence of last week's tantrum in the checkout line.
One of the biggest things people complain about with Microsoft (and other companies as well, including even Apple sometimes) is that they invent their own "standards" (or implement standards in ways that aren't in fact standard) and ruin the possibility of interoperability with products from other companies.
If you RTFA, that is exactly what Apple are doing - going off and creating their own walled garden version of NFC while other companies are working towards an open standard. Apples "fears over lack of an industry standard" amount to fearing that there won't be any such lack if they don't quickly fragment the market.
As long as Apple refuses to implement it, they can claim there is no consensus within the major manufacturers to implement the standard, and all their fans will lap it up.
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One of the advantages to having this built into a phone, and not as a standalone card, is that you have input devices which can be used for authentication before releasing funds to third parties.
The problem seems to be that by the time 4G networks are here, the network providers have managed to squeeze roughly the same amount of bandwidth out of their 3G networks for download (but not upload). So the marketing department wants to call their 3G networks "4G" too, because they don't understand why the definition should mean anything more than download speed.
EDGE is not 3G. It came along after UMTS, which was the 3G replacement for GPRS. EDGE is just a way to use multiple GPRS channels to get more bandwidth without having to get new frequency allocations for UMTS. Outside the US, it wasn't deployed much until the iPhone came along because UMTS networks were already in place, so there wasn't much point. Only when there was a bandwidth hungry phone on the market that was not equipped with a 3G radio was there any demand for it.
EDGE is not 3G, it is referred to as 2.75G, as GPRS was already 2.5G, and UMTS (HSDPA) 3G when it came out. It was a way for mainly US GSM networks to get more bandwidth out of their 2G networks when they couldn't yet get frequency allocations for UMTS. It was rolled out on some European networks as well after the release of the original iPhone, as that did not have a 3G radio and was pretty much useless at standard GPRS. 3.5G is using similar multi-channel techniques to EDGE to squeeze more bandwidth out of 3G networks. 4G originally (back in 2006 or so) referred to the pure-IP network technologies that were expected to be the successors to UMTS and CDMA2000. Putting a lower bandwidth limit on it is a more recent thing that seems to have come too late, as there are numerous WiMax and other networks already deployed and advertised as 4G with about the same bandwidth as 3.5G technologies.
News reports say a couple of undersea cables between Japan and China are out, but nothing on the US side. Most of your international bandwidth problems are probably caused by the upsurge in people watching NHK online.
Actually one of the first actions of the Japanese Self-Defense Force (are they still called that?) I heard about after the quake was sending a bunch of fighter jets on a reconnaissance mission.
Isn't it about time you guys updated your constitution to reflect the fact that you are a modern democracy now with very little chance of a military coup if you allow the Army to undertake civil defense operations within your own borders.
Now if GNOME would not put my laptop to sleep every time I shut the lid.
That's not GNOME doing that, it is handled in the ACPI configuration. You can change it to hibernate or shutdown if you prefer, or if you really want, you can overheat your laptop by leaving it running with the lid closed, though you'll probably have to disable some more ACPI triggers to avoid suspending and obtain the ultimate Windows experience of a system crash when the CPU or GPU decides to protect itself against overheating (or not, in the case of some NVIDIA GPUs from a few years back).
With Clearwire, you are limited to 10GB / month (after the first 2 of you being their customer) before you are throttled down to 256Kbps.
Going with one of their business plans will up that to 25GB, but that still isn't all that much before you find yourself with a phone that no longer goes ring, ring, ring.
It might not be much if you are downloading a lot of video, but there are a lot of users (the majority even) for whom 10GB is more than ample.
Something is seriously wrong with your volume calculation. At room temperature, 1 litre of water = 1kg. It expands a bit with temperature, but not by a factor of 1500 at 50degC.
Well, pushing software that has no hardware support
This argument has no basis in fact. VP8 has started to appear in the lists of hardware accelerated codecs from most ARM SoC manufacturers already. Some even have firmware upgrades to enable it in chips they have already shipped.
Those huge and popular servers do not discriminate between Bcc, Cc or To. If the mail is going to too many users on their server (because they can't see who on other servers it is going to until later in the spam processing process) they will reject it before it is sent.
I'm sure nobody will mind you celebrating pi day on 31 April instead. You can even take the day off work, on full pay, without asking your boss if you like.
Which is an irrelevant dismissal, when the ones in the linked story use capacitive touch screens.
It is not in the same league as the iPad, and I think it is way overpriced.
Nothing will ever be in the same league as an iPad to the fanboys, the original point was that people were expecting Android tablets retailing for less than $300 by the end of 2011. And my point is, passable devices are already at that price point ($299 RRP for a 8GB 10.1" Archos, selling for $249 in some shops), they only need to improve a little bit (higher contrast screen, GPS, more solid casing) to be truely comparable with the iPad.
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And since Apple exercises control over what they allow in the App Store, they should ethically, and perhaps even legally, be blocking games aimed at young children that have in-app purchases.
Not if he gets in before the bad behaviour starts. Toddlers don't have long term memory, so they have no idea that this "reward" is a consequence of last week's tantrum in the checkout line.
If you RTFA, that is exactly what Apple are doing - going off and creating their own walled garden version of NFC while other companies are working towards an open standard. Apples "fears over lack of an industry standard" amount to fearing that there won't be any such lack if they don't quickly fragment the market.
As long as Apple refuses to implement it, they can claim there is no consensus within the major manufacturers to implement the standard, and all their fans will lap it up.
One of the advantages to having this built into a phone, and not as a standalone card, is that you have input devices which can be used for authentication before releasing funds to third parties.
The problem seems to be that by the time 4G networks are here, the network providers have managed to squeeze roughly the same amount of bandwidth out of their 3G networks for download (but not upload). So the marketing department wants to call their 3G networks "4G" too, because they don't understand why the definition should mean anything more than download speed.
EDGE is not 3G. It came along after UMTS, which was the 3G replacement for GPRS. EDGE is just a way to use multiple GPRS channels to get more bandwidth without having to get new frequency allocations for UMTS. Outside the US, it wasn't deployed much until the iPhone came along because UMTS networks were already in place, so there wasn't much point. Only when there was a bandwidth hungry phone on the market that was not equipped with a 3G radio was there any demand for it.
EDGE is not 3G, it is referred to as 2.75G, as GPRS was already 2.5G, and UMTS (HSDPA) 3G when it came out. It was a way for mainly US GSM networks to get more bandwidth out of their 2G networks when they couldn't yet get frequency allocations for UMTS. It was rolled out on some European networks as well after the release of the original iPhone, as that did not have a 3G radio and was pretty much useless at standard GPRS. 3.5G is using similar multi-channel techniques to EDGE to squeeze more bandwidth out of 3G networks. 4G originally (back in 2006 or so) referred to the pure-IP network technologies that were expected to be the successors to UMTS and CDMA2000. Putting a lower bandwidth limit on it is a more recent thing that seems to have come too late, as there are numerous WiMax and other networks already deployed and advertised as 4G with about the same bandwidth as 3.5G technologies.
News reports say a couple of undersea cables between Japan and China are out, but nothing on the US side. Most of your international bandwidth problems are probably caused by the upsurge in people watching NHK online.
Actually one of the first actions of the Japanese Self-Defense Force (are they still called that?) I heard about after the quake was sending a bunch of fighter jets on a reconnaissance mission.
NHK has switched back to calling it 8.8, so there doesn't seem to be consensus yet.
Isn't it about time you guys updated your constitution to reflect the fact that you are a modern democracy now with very little chance of a military coup if you allow the Army to undertake civil defense operations within your own borders.
The movements propagated from the other side of the Pacific plate already.
That's not GNOME doing that, it is handled in the ACPI configuration. You can change it to hibernate or shutdown if you prefer, or if you really want, you can overheat your laptop by leaving it running with the lid closed, though you'll probably have to disable some more ACPI triggers to avoid suspending and obtain the ultimate Windows experience of a system crash when the CPU or GPU decides to protect itself against overheating (or not, in the case of some NVIDIA GPUs from a few years back).
It might not be much if you are downloading a lot of video, but there are a lot of users (the majority even) for whom 10GB is more than ample.
It's not only forgetting that is a problem. I discovered on a recent flight that my phone will power itself back on to alert me of an appointment.
The 737 Next Generation is 15 years old.
Something is seriously wrong with your volume calculation. At room temperature, 1 litre of water = 1kg. It expands a bit with temperature, but not by a factor of 1500 at 50degC.
This argument has no basis in fact. VP8 has started to appear in the lists of hardware accelerated codecs from most ARM SoC manufacturers already. Some even have firmware upgrades to enable it in chips they have already shipped.
Those huge and popular servers do not discriminate between Bcc, Cc or To. If the mail is going to too many users on their server (because they can't see who on other servers it is going to until later in the spam processing process) they will reject it before it is sent.
I'm sure nobody will mind you celebrating pi day on 31 April instead. You can even take the day off work, on full pay, without asking your boss if you like.
In South Australia, "this" would be 31 April? I'm sure that would be employers' favourite public holiday.
Which is an irrelevant dismissal, when the ones in the linked story use capacitive touch screens.
Nothing will ever be in the same league as an iPad to the fanboys, the original point was that people were expecting Android tablets retailing for less than $300 by the end of 2011. And my point is, passable devices are already at that price point ($299 RRP for a 8GB 10.1" Archos, selling for $249 in some shops), they only need to improve a little bit (higher contrast screen, GPS, more solid casing) to be truely comparable with the iPad.
Some specialists in smaller hospitals are always on call.
And the doctor with his phone discretely on vibrate, who gets called to an emergency in the middle of the movie?