Everybody is giving you shit about being an asshole, which can be the impression seen from the drivers who just sat in the long line, but research in traffic has shown that this is exactly the most efficient way to navigate such a condition. Unfortunately, it requires alert drivers, so it doesn't apply to most humans.
I've always found it annoying that everyone slows down at bottlenecks. Bernoulli would recommend that we all speed up to keep the traffic from snarling.;)
You do realize that propping up those industries likely prevented a 1930s style collapse? And that the safeguards which were removed (and safeguards which were not put into place) occurred during the 14 years that the Republicans controlled both houses of congress? And that it was President Bush who bought out the banking industry?
The problem with this particular law is that we don't need it. The president has this power in the event of an immanent attack or war anyway. IMHO, this is posturing - and counterproductive.
Development tools "on launch" and a small installed userbase means several months for complex applications (like Pocket Informant, my calendaring favorite, or a relatively complete Golf GPS app like GolfShot).
I saw an early demo (same video as everyone else), and I had high hopes. But really, without the 3rd party apps that draw from a multi-million handset market, it's going to be pretty sparse.
Oddly enough, it's the little utilities that Apple has that I (ashamedly) like. There's a one-octave piano I use for checking intervals and as a pitch pipe. The HP48Gx calculator emulator is much better than the WM implementation. The Pandora app works (it won't in WM - AT&T charges a separate $10/mo fee). I don't use much, but it really is the little things that are nice. We'll see if the MW7 marketplace can break out of the $30 per application price that really hobbled the WM platform.
That's absolutely true. Take the iPhone, for example. A good condition 3Gs handset, still locked to AT&T and not jailbroken, can fetch upwards of $400. That's about 80% of what a new one (w/o) subsidy would run.
That's the crazy thing about the iFanbois - they'll pay almost anything to get the stupid hardware. Hell, it's half the reason I bought one - if I didn't like it, I could resell it very easily for almost no loss. (Actually, I ended up with a repo'd 3Gs, so I could probably sell mine for a couple dollars profit)
Hardly. It takes a lot of usage to hit 2GB. You need to, realistically, be streaming audio/video for a large portion of the day.
My wife and I don't stream, except the very occasional Pandora, but we both have calendar/work + personal email/golf gps (google earth downloads)/very light surfing and we have _combined_ for 120MB of download in the past 25 days.
(on AT&T) Tethering has always been more. There have always been limits
-tethering was limited by the TOS
-a USB modem plan was $55 for 5GB (which is what the iPad is)
-a USB modem plan was $30 for 200MB Apple forced a sweetheart deal on data with the iPhone so it would really shine (can you imagine an iPhone without data?), and AT&T's reputation suffered as a result of the onslaught of data usage.
..and there have always been limits on data with tethering on AT&T.
Now, that doesn't mean that you couldn't skirt the rules if you were careful. I "tethered" (via WMWiFiRouter) on my Fuze for the last 1.5 years using a $20 legacy data/msg plan that I had on my account from 4 years ago. I didn't use much data, so I never got caught.
But, by rights, I should have had a $30 data plan and a $20 tethering surcharge - it's right on the mobile website billing page. And tethering accounts have always had 5GB limits.
iPhone users take a shitload of bandwidth, and I suspect that AT&T has found out that iPad users are even worse (not surprising, it's a better surfing platform). Now, they're going to let all those Coffee House surfers tether to their MacBooks? Talking about shitting a brick sideways.
The question is - will they use the money to build out the network, or will it just line the CxO pockets? I suspect a bit of both.
Screw AT&T - take your Nexus One you've got on AT&T's network and get a plan from Verizon!
Oh, it doesn't work on Verizon. Well, fuck that - go to Sprint!
Oh, it doesn't work on Sprint either. Damn it, go use T-moboile!
Oh, it won't do data on their high speed network.
See, even if you buy your own hardware, the lack of cellular data standards will fuck you over anyway. Unless, of course, you want to buy another unsubsidized phone, in which case you can pay an extra $600 (=$25/mo for two years) to switch.
Doubtful. I'm pretty far from an Apple fanboi, but MS is going to have to do better than they've done with any product they've ever released.
Why? MS is going to release version 1.0 (God, at least I hope it's got a non-zero first digit on release) on their "next" try. It has nothing in common with Windows Mobile, except the platform. The internals, goals, UI are all completely new. An MP3 player (Zune) is not even close to meeting the complexity of running a phone. WM6.5, and more importantly most of the productive applications, were stylus based and meant for a PDA. Those ideas and methods work very poorly with a touch interface.
The iPhone OS is much more mature, as is Android. Also, there will be precious little in terms of third party (aka "app") support. Even the iPhone is of marginal use without third party extensions.
I'm not even considering a WM7 handset this fall. I'll take a look in two years. If W7 is of any real use
Disclaimer - almost everything I know about security I learned on/. Okay, that out of the way, the most interesting thing I've heard is that security should be comprised of three things - something you are (biometric, unchanging, ideally a function of a live process, like the capillary pattern under your fingerprint), something you have (given by a known authority), and something you know (which can easily be changed). It's not infallible, but it eliminates nearly all of the attack vectors except very, very exceptional cases.
If we can make each of the "fixed" parts (biometric and token) useless without the other two, the fact that either is public knowledge is not a security breach and all of a sudden it doesn't matter that everyone can get your thumbprint (or your SSN, or whatever the ID du jour is).
So does the US, afaik. I wonder how this will play with the "everything must be stowed during take off and landing to prevent your hiding a bomb in your lap" directive in the US.
No he's not, at least not when taken out of context. There are a lot of things I don't want people to know. I color my hair, for example. I'd rather people just think I'm not quite as old as I am (or conversley, I'd rather people not think I'm older than I really am). Hair coloring isn't an illegal act, or even immoral for that matter.
Put into context:
If you shouldn't do something, or don't want people to know about something, you probably shouldn't do it in public.
Now, if you were to substitute "public web site" or "public places on the internet" or even "in a business establishment" for public, you'd be talking about the same thing. See, these are public places, and there's really no expectation of privacy except a wink and a nod.
Now, lets change that and make it a place you own. Your own bedroom. Your own living room. Your cabin in the mountains. Your own server. You can do just about anything you want. Clip that ugly toenail. Watch Glee. Revel in mounted animal heads. Store all your balloon porn. But if you're going to go do those things in the local pub, you probably shouldn't be thinking that they are private.
See, most of these sites are "free" (as in beer). Even if they didn't make money on selling your eyeballs and preferences for marketing, they still wouldn't be private places. There are places on the internet which are private. You can sign up and encrypt all your stuff, and keep the key. But they're not convenient for sharing. Just as drinking a fifth of Jack in your kitchen isn't nearly as much fun as drinking it in a bar with fifty friends.
Privacy isn't dead, it just needs a bit of explaining. Just remember - if you didn't pay for it, it's probably not a private place.
Most users don't even know they're multitasking because it just works.
Interesting. Having just gotten in iPhone (after 4 years of WM devices), I didn't realize I wasn't multi-tasking. When I switched to another program, and then, back I was right where I was. I listen to mostly my music and podcasts, and iTunes works with another program, while the calendar runs in the b/g. Clearly a shortcoming to not be able to listen to Pandora while doing something else (typing notes, maybe, or checking facebook - most other things require separate audio).
The phone updates its own apps without any bother.
So does my iPhone. I go to the app store on the phone, and it tells me how many apps have updates available. I click on the ones I want to update, and they do. No iTunes madness.
If the iPhone limits keep stupid things (like making my phone impossible to answer, like my WM6 Fuze) from happening, I'm good with that. My phone is both a business device and a personal device for me. I want it to work my way. Still, I'm not sure I really want enough rope laying around to make my own noose. The arbitrary limits in the iPhone are annoying, but very workable. In return, the "simple" things (phone, web, calendar*, utility apps) work very well.
*Okay, the calendar sucks, as does the awful kludge of remote alarms necessary for 3rd part calendar apps. They promise to fix that in 4.0. Until then, surprisingly, the kludge works well and I get my Pocket Informant I so dearly love for a real calendar app.
That's what I thought, too, until I bought an iPhone. If you think it's the useless, but cute, device they released ~3 years ago, you're dead wrong. Is it perfect? Hell, it isn't even close. But it's functional with VERY little setup time. I was going to address every point above, but suffice it to say that - short of tethering - none of the rest of it matters enough to, well, matter.
More importantly, most phones won't operate on all the US carriers - there are at least four different, incompatible high speed data options. The only difference with the iPhone is that there isn't a "similar" model for Verizon just around the corner. But you can't get an Incredible on AT&T, or a Nexus One on Verizon (at least not as of a few weeks ago).
And I don't really care that Steve will announce the phone on June 7th, except that I know that it will be out in time for me to get it subsidized by AT&T as soon as I'm eligible. I mean, if they're going to charge me every f'in month as if I'm using a subsidized phone, they may as well pony up with new hardware every 20 months.
What I really want is the successor to the Nexus One to play with side by side. The iPhone is far more useful than it was 2 years ago, but I'll go with whatever works the best*.
*Windows Mobile "7", version 1.0, need not apply. Get back to me when you've had a _working_ finger-based touch screen phone for 2 years and I'll take a look.
The amateur rocketry hobby is alive and well. It does have some minor barriers to entry (i.e. obtaining a Low or - preferrable high - explosives manufacturing permit), but many hobbyists have surmounted that hurdle. And, hey, it's a lot of fun!
Replace the federal income tax with a gross receipts tax. 3-4% should cover it. Anything you receive has a 3-4% tax on it. Heck, that's less than you pay some bored housewife with a high school diploma to take out a 2 line ad in the local paper to sell the largest asset you own*.
For most of us, it would mean squat. For people who try to "game the system" and take advantage of the "spread", adding practically nothing of value, it would cost them dearly. It would also reward short, efficient supply chains (local farmers selling wares would be 3-4 transactions better than major chains buying through distribution companies). It would punish shell corporations, requiring the tax be paid at each level of separation.
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Move from AT&T to where*? Jobs only does simple. GSM works everywhere in the world. If he goes with Verizon, he's got a complete new radio. Well, that and Verizon won't let him have his way, which is the real reason.
*Yes there are other GSM carriers in the US, but their coverage makes AT&T look seamless.
I guess, maybe. I just use my AT&T branded+locked Fuze with WMWiFiRouter and *bang* I'm surfing on my netbook. Even better, I have a legacy data plan that's $20/mo with 200 text messages and "unlimited" data. I use so little data on my phone nobody ever notices. Unfortunately, in getting my phone to connect via BT to my car, I fucked something up. Everything works perfectly, except for the ability to answer a call on the handset. I've tried 6-7 ROMs, including the official one. Since that's a pretty key feature of a phone, I'm giving up and getting an iPhone and a usb modem. If I hate it, I'll pick up an android handset and see if that sucks, too. It probably will...
I wish I had mod points for you. This is a classic tradoff, as most designs are limited buy the number of passengers on one level. There was a small jet co back in the early 90s that make a (composite? partially composite?) airframe that was elliptical. They traded off a slight increase in structural weight for the reduction in cross sectional area per passenger. It's been so long I can't remember who did it, and never found out if it was a financial success.
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Everybody is giving you shit about being an asshole, which can be the impression seen from the drivers who just sat in the long line, but research in traffic has shown that this is exactly the most efficient way to navigate such a condition. Unfortunately, it requires alert drivers, so it doesn't apply to most humans.
I've always found it annoying that everyone slows down at bottlenecks. Bernoulli would recommend that we all speed up to keep the traffic from snarling. ;)
You do realize that propping up those industries likely prevented a 1930s style collapse? And that the safeguards which were removed (and safeguards which were not put into place) occurred during the 14 years that the Republicans controlled both houses of congress? And that it was President Bush who bought out the banking industry?
The problem with this particular law is that we don't need it. The president has this power in the event of an immanent attack or war anyway. IMHO, this is posturing - and counterproductive.
Development tools "on launch" and a small installed userbase means several months for complex applications (like Pocket Informant, my calendaring favorite, or a relatively complete Golf GPS app like GolfShot).
I saw an early demo (same video as everyone else), and I had high hopes. But really, without the 3rd party apps that draw from a multi-million handset market, it's going to be pretty sparse.
Oddly enough, it's the little utilities that Apple has that I (ashamedly) like. There's a one-octave piano I use for checking intervals and as a pitch pipe. The HP48Gx calculator emulator is much better than the WM implementation. The Pandora app works (it won't in WM - AT&T charges a separate $10/mo fee). I don't use much, but it really is the little things that are nice. We'll see if the MW7 marketplace can break out of the $30 per application price that really hobbled the WM platform.
That's absolutely true. Take the iPhone, for example. A good condition 3Gs handset, still locked to AT&T and not jailbroken, can fetch upwards of $400. That's about 80% of what a new one (w/o) subsidy would run.
That's the crazy thing about the iFanbois - they'll pay almost anything to get the stupid hardware. Hell, it's half the reason I bought one - if I didn't like it, I could resell it very easily for almost no loss. (Actually, I ended up with a repo'd 3Gs, so I could probably sell mine for a couple dollars profit)
Hardly. It takes a lot of usage to hit 2GB. You need to, realistically, be streaming audio/video for a large portion of the day.
My wife and I don't stream, except the very occasional Pandora, but we both have calendar/work + personal email/golf gps (google earth downloads)/very light surfing and we have _combined_ for 120MB of download in the past 25 days.
(on AT&T)
Tethering has always been more.
There have always been limits
-tethering was limited by the TOS
-a USB modem plan was $55 for 5GB (which is what the iPad is)
-a USB modem plan was $30 for 200MB
Apple forced a sweetheart deal on data with the iPhone so it would really shine (can you imagine an iPhone without data?), and AT&T's reputation suffered as a result of the onslaught of data usage.
..and there have always been limits on data with tethering on AT&T.
Now, that doesn't mean that you couldn't skirt the rules if you were careful. I "tethered" (via WMWiFiRouter) on my Fuze for the last 1.5 years using a $20 legacy data/msg plan that I had on my account from 4 years ago. I didn't use much data, so I never got caught.
But, by rights, I should have had a $30 data plan and a $20 tethering surcharge - it's right on the mobile website billing page. And tethering accounts have always had 5GB limits.
iPhone users take a shitload of bandwidth, and I suspect that AT&T has found out that iPad users are even worse (not surprising, it's a better surfing platform). Now, they're going to let all those Coffee House surfers tether to their MacBooks? Talking about shitting a brick sideways.
The question is - will they use the money to build out the network, or will it just line the CxO pockets? I suspect a bit of both.
Screw AT&T - take your Nexus One you've got on AT&T's network and get a plan from Verizon!
Oh, it doesn't work on Verizon. Well, fuck that - go to Sprint!
Oh, it doesn't work on Sprint either. Damn it, go use T-moboile!
Oh, it won't do data on their high speed network.
See, even if you buy your own hardware, the lack of cellular data standards will fuck you over anyway. Unless, of course, you want to buy another unsubsidized phone, in which case you can pay an extra $600 (=$25/mo for two years) to switch.
Doubtful. I'm pretty far from an Apple fanboi, but MS is going to have to do better than they've done with any product they've ever released.
Why? MS is going to release version 1.0 (God, at least I hope it's got a non-zero first digit on release) on their "next" try. It has nothing in common with Windows Mobile, except the platform. The internals, goals, UI are all completely new. An MP3 player (Zune) is not even close to meeting the complexity of running a phone. WM6.5, and more importantly most of the productive applications, were stylus based and meant for a PDA. Those ideas and methods work very poorly with a touch interface.
The iPhone OS is much more mature, as is Android. Also, there will be precious little in terms of third party (aka "app") support. Even the iPhone is of marginal use without third party extensions.
I'm not even considering a WM7 handset this fall. I'll take a look in two years. If W7 is of any real use
Damnit, I hate feeding trolls.
Disclaimer - almost everything I know about security I learned on /. Okay, that out of the way, the most interesting thing I've heard is that security should be comprised of three things - something you are (biometric, unchanging, ideally a function of a live process, like the capillary pattern under your fingerprint), something you have (given by a known authority), and something you know (which can easily be changed). It's not infallible, but it eliminates nearly all of the attack vectors except very, very exceptional cases.
If we can make each of the "fixed" parts (biometric and token) useless without the other two, the fact that either is public knowledge is not a security breach and all of a sudden it doesn't matter that everyone can get your thumbprint (or your SSN, or whatever the ID du jour is).
So does the US, afaik. I wonder how this will play with the "everything must be stowed during take off and landing to prevent your hiding a bomb in your lap" directive in the US.
Based on the reproductive responsibility I've seen in the US, we might want to start getting this into the domestic food supply first.
No he's not, at least not when taken out of context. There are a lot of things I don't want people to know. I color my hair, for example. I'd rather people just think I'm not quite as old as I am (or conversley, I'd rather people not think I'm older than I really am). Hair coloring isn't an illegal act, or even immoral for that matter.
Put into context:
If you shouldn't do something, or don't want people to know about something, you probably shouldn't do it in public.
Now, if you were to substitute "public web site" or "public places on the internet" or even "in a business establishment" for public, you'd be talking about the same thing. See, these are public places, and there's really no expectation of privacy except a wink and a nod.
Now, lets change that and make it a place you own. Your own bedroom. Your own living room. Your cabin in the mountains. Your own server. You can do just about anything you want. Clip that ugly toenail. Watch Glee. Revel in mounted animal heads. Store all your balloon porn. But if you're going to go do those things in the local pub, you probably shouldn't be thinking that they are private.
See, most of these sites are "free" (as in beer). Even if they didn't make money on selling your eyeballs and preferences for marketing, they still wouldn't be private places. There are places on the internet which are private. You can sign up and encrypt all your stuff, and keep the key. But they're not convenient for sharing. Just as drinking a fifth of Jack in your kitchen isn't nearly as much fun as drinking it in a bar with fifty friends.
Privacy isn't dead, it just needs a bit of explaining. Just remember - if you didn't pay for it, it's probably not a private place.
Most users don't even know they're multitasking because it just works.
Interesting. Having just gotten in iPhone (after 4 years of WM devices), I didn't realize I wasn't multi-tasking. When I switched to another program, and then, back I was right where I was. I listen to mostly my music and podcasts, and iTunes works with another program, while the calendar runs in the b/g. Clearly a shortcoming to not be able to listen to Pandora while doing something else (typing notes, maybe, or checking facebook - most other things require separate audio).
The phone updates its own apps without any bother.
So does my iPhone. I go to the app store on the phone, and it tells me how many apps have updates available. I click on the ones I want to update, and they do. No iTunes madness.
If the iPhone limits keep stupid things (like making my phone impossible to answer, like my WM6 Fuze) from happening, I'm good with that. My phone is both a business device and a personal device for me. I want it to work my way. Still, I'm not sure I really want enough rope laying around to make my own noose. The arbitrary limits in the iPhone are annoying, but very workable. In return, the "simple" things (phone, web, calendar*, utility apps) work very well.
*Okay, the calendar sucks, as does the awful kludge of remote alarms necessary for 3rd part calendar apps. They promise to fix that in 4.0. Until then, surprisingly, the kludge works well and I get my Pocket Informant I so dearly love for a real calendar app.
That's what I thought, too, until I bought an iPhone. If you think it's the useless, but cute, device they released ~3 years ago, you're dead wrong. Is it perfect? Hell, it isn't even close. But it's functional with VERY little setup time. I was going to address every point above, but suffice it to say that - short of tethering - none of the rest of it matters enough to, well, matter.
More importantly, most phones won't operate on all the US carriers - there are at least four different, incompatible high speed data options. The only difference with the iPhone is that there isn't a "similar" model for Verizon just around the corner. But you can't get an Incredible on AT&T, or a Nexus One on Verizon (at least not as of a few weeks ago).
What about the one where you had to create a physical model of it to fit in a 1'x1'x1' cube?
"That's a whole lot of stupid."
And I don't really care that Steve will announce the phone on June 7th, except that I know that it will be out in time for me to get it subsidized by AT&T as soon as I'm eligible. I mean, if they're going to charge me every f'in month as if I'm using a subsidized phone, they may as well pony up with new hardware every 20 months.
What I really want is the successor to the Nexus One to play with side by side. The iPhone is far more useful than it was 2 years ago, but I'll go with whatever works the best*.
*Windows Mobile "7", version 1.0, need not apply. Get back to me when you've had a _working_ finger-based touch screen phone for 2 years and I'll take a look.
The amateur rocketry hobby is alive and well. It does have some minor barriers to entry (i.e. obtaining a Low or - preferrable high - explosives manufacturing permit), but many hobbyists have surmounted that hurdle. And, hey, it's a lot of fun!
I don't have any concept of how large it is unless it's expressed in football fields. Or, perhaps, Volkswagen Beetles placed end to end.
Replace the federal income tax with a gross receipts tax. 3-4% should cover it. Anything you receive has a 3-4% tax on it. Heck, that's less than you pay some bored housewife with a high school diploma to take out a 2 line ad in the local paper to sell the largest asset you own*.
For most of us, it would mean squat. For people who try to "game the system" and take advantage of the "spread", adding practically nothing of value, it would cost them dearly. It would also reward short, efficient supply chains (local farmers selling wares would be 3-4 transactions better than major chains buying through distribution companies). It would punish shell corporations, requiring the tax be paid at each level of separation.
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Oh, I know it when I see it. ;-)
PS - I'm planning on being the next SCOTUS nominee, so I'm brushing up on my high court history.
Move from AT&T to where*? Jobs only does simple. GSM works everywhere in the world. If he goes with Verizon, he's got a complete new radio. Well, that and Verizon won't let him have his way, which is the real reason.
*Yes there are other GSM carriers in the US, but their coverage makes AT&T look seamless.
I guess, maybe. I just use my AT&T branded+locked Fuze with WMWiFiRouter and *bang* I'm surfing on my netbook. Even better, I have a legacy data plan that's $20/mo with 200 text messages and "unlimited" data. I use so little data on my phone nobody ever notices. Unfortunately, in getting my phone to connect via BT to my car, I fucked something up. Everything works perfectly, except for the ability to answer a call on the handset. I've tried 6-7 ROMs, including the official one. Since that's a pretty key feature of a phone, I'm giving up and getting an iPhone and a usb modem. If I hate it, I'll pick up an android handset and see if that sucks, too. It probably will...
I wish I had mod points for you. This is a classic tradoff, as most designs are limited buy the number of passengers on one level. There was a small jet co back in the early 90s that make a (composite? partially composite?) airframe that was elliptical. They traded off a slight increase in structural weight for the reduction in cross sectional area per passenger. It's been so long I can't remember who did it, and never found out if it was a financial success.