if not then major FAIL. Netflix streams HD to real TV's that real people watch. Youtube seems to be aimed at people watching short videos while they are bored. some of the TV implementations are OK like on LG TV's. the Playstation version of youtube is crap
there are already thousands of radios, gps units and other RF devices on the battlefield. the plusses of this are too much to ignore.
20 years ago if a unit made contact with an enemy they would radio to their next level HQ and so on and so on. with this you plot the location on the map and the data is available to everyone. also reduces radio chatter and frees up the radio networks for important traffic.
same with orders. no need to talk on the radio with a lot of static. just send the orders digitally
these little POS solutions suddenly become the most critical production apps without anyone telling IT. this means you have to buy clustering, SAN storage and all other expensive and overpriced crap
or suddenly a restore of data is needed and it's IT's fault that it wasn't magically backed up
few years ago we started doing database snapshots because our SQL replication was kind of whacky at the time. it was simply for people to do simple data lookup. next thing we hear someone tried to use the snapshot copy for an executive demonstration to a client for new software right at the time that the snapshot was scheduled to go down for a refresh of data.
and Access is the worst of the crap i have to deal with. it's notorious for locking millions of rows of data to update one or two rows. and some people leave for the night with a linked table open causing blocking that screws up the nightly maintenance.
they probably have blackberries and i bet it's against HIPAA regulations to allow personal phones on the corporate network or put corporate data on them. i know people who work in HIPAA environments and they are very strict about this
some of the complaints are that promised features were never implemented. learned this a long time ago. buy on the feature set at the time of sale, don't ever trust a company to implement new promised features. after the sale they are thinking about selling the next version, not paying developers to code software you already paid for
i've lived in the US since 1981 and it's always been like this. in the 1980's it was Japan was going to rule us. now it's china. PBS even has the transcript of a 1989 Frontline program about how Japan is going to rule the US and we're going to be just an economic colony.
yes a lot of stuff is made in china, but if you look closely most of the money stays in the US. we pay the chinese very little for menial assembly work. all the real expensive work is done in the US. the net profit margins of foxconn are something like 4%. food companies make more than that. apple pays more out in patent royalties on the iphone than they pay the chinese to build it.
so? make an image, expose it to a super computer and brute force your way in. it's not like battlefield communications where real time is a big plus. in this case if it takes you a month you will still get evidence from it
yep, the tech heads salivate over this stuff and pay a lot of money
in the 1990's it was the fastest PC with the voodoo2. today it's the newest phone or tablet. my home internet at 15mbps is fast enough for netflix on my 40" TV yet the tech heads are salivating at paying crazy money for LTE to be used on a device 1/10 the size of most TV's. MP3's and AAC was playable on devices almost 15 years ago yet you go to anandtech and people will try to prove to you that you need dual or quad core to listen to music and check email at the same time.
that's the business model difference between iphone and android. apple makes money on the hardware, accessories and applecare. with android the carriers make money on the accessories, ad revenue sharing, the crap ware and the monthly insurance that some people buy
i bet if someone stole the algorithms they keep secret they would be suing under trade secret laws and taking out mafia hits to keep the information secret
that's pretty much with everything now including x-box and TV's. the main purchase item is sold at a loss or break even and the profits made on the warranty and accessories. with iCrap almost everyone gets accessories like my $60 ipad case i bought or my wife's iphone 4 case. with TV's and other electronics most people avoid accessories and warranties like the plague.
my ipad 2 cost me $762 with tax included. that's $700 to Target minus credit card fees which are probably $25. $675 gross revenue plus they have to pay apple. and these idiots didn't have any ipad 2 cases the day of the launch.
i bet they use Single Instance Storage from EMC or someone else. its been around for backups since 2006 or so and there are products on the market that will dedupe live data. technically it's separate files but in the end the system deletes all the common data except for one copy
if i had to guess then i'd say that when you upload your music to amazon they dedupe it so that it only takes a tiny amount of space. and technically it's a separate file so they can just argue that they are providing cloud storage and you're streaming your unique content. when in the end it's all deduped common data. intel x86 hardware is powerful and cheap enough these days to probably process the deduped data on the fly when people want to stream it
i remember the days when we had a dozen cell carriers in the US. expensive service, crappy reception almost everywhere you went. as the competition dried up we've had prices drop and better phones come out. 10 years ago when i got my first cell phone in the US i paid $40 a month for 450 minutes. these days the same $40 buys you 450 minutes but the night/weekend minutes and anyone on the same carrier is free minutes. and with some plans you can call any mobile number and not use up your minutess
and 10 years ago i had to buy my phone for $200. these days i can get a "free" smartphone when signing up for a contract. only thing that changed was that the contracts went to 2 years
anyone can patent almost anything these days for a few thousand $$$. it's suing people who you think ripped off your patent is hard. takes lots of money and years of time
just ask i4i, kodak, apple, oracle, google, MS and others. you need to pay lawyers almost 24/7 and have employees always available for discovery motions and depositions
if i want to text someone from my email i just text it to number@vtext.com. every carrier has this except Google as i found out recently.
after using GV it's nice for anonymous things like selling on craigslist and the VM transcription is pretty good, but absolutely useless in the real world for most cell phone uses. don't really care about having a single number for all my phones. when i sold my old iphones it annoyed my wife that the house phone was ringing all the time and i took it off from GV.
i guess it's cool if you're single and have no kids
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if not then major FAIL. Netflix streams HD to real TV's that real people watch. Youtube seems to be aimed at people watching short videos while they are bored. some of the TV implementations are OK like on LG TV's. the Playstation version of youtube is crap
there are already thousands of radios, gps units and other RF devices on the battlefield. the plusses of this are too much to ignore.
20 years ago if a unit made contact with an enemy they would radio to their next level HQ and so on and so on. with this you plot the location on the map and the data is available to everyone. also reduces radio chatter and frees up the radio networks for important traffic.
same with orders. no need to talk on the radio with a lot of static. just send the orders digitally
MS has family accounts when multiple people share the same console. what if one kid loves a game and the other one hates it?
these little POS solutions suddenly become the most critical production apps without anyone telling IT. this means you have to buy clustering, SAN storage and all other expensive and overpriced crap
or suddenly a restore of data is needed and it's IT's fault that it wasn't magically backed up
few years ago we started doing database snapshots because our SQL replication was kind of whacky at the time. it was simply for people to do simple data lookup. next thing we hear someone tried to use the snapshot copy for an executive demonstration to a client for new software right at the time that the snapshot was scheduled to go down for a refresh of data.
and Access is the worst of the crap i have to deal with. it's notorious for locking millions of rows of data to update one or two rows. and some people leave for the night with a linked table open causing blocking that screws up the nightly maintenance.
they probably have blackberries and i bet it's against HIPAA regulations to allow personal phones on the corporate network or put corporate data on them. i know people who work in HIPAA environments and they are very strict about this
some of the complaints are that promised features were never implemented. learned this a long time ago. buy on the feature set at the time of sale, don't ever trust a company to implement new promised features. after the sale they are thinking about selling the next version, not paying developers to code software you already paid for
which is why anyone would want it on their phone anyway. works very nicely on my HTC Inspire
i've lived in the US since 1981 and it's always been like this. in the 1980's it was Japan was going to rule us. now it's china. PBS even has the transcript of a 1989 Frontline program about how Japan is going to rule the US and we're going to be just an economic colony.
yes a lot of stuff is made in china, but if you look closely most of the money stays in the US. we pay the chinese very little for menial assembly work. all the real expensive work is done in the US. the net profit margins of foxconn are something like 4%. food companies make more than that. apple pays more out in patent royalties on the iphone than they pay the chinese to build it.
i know it's more than just a cheap wifi router, but how many people care and are willing to pay the $180 price tag?
as a rule lawyers cannot introduce false evidence into court. since this is probably a lie the former lawyer can talk about it all he wants.
you can defend your client, but have to do so within the bounds of factual evidence or dispute the government's evidence
so? make an image, expose it to a super computer and brute force your way in. it's not like battlefield communications where real time is a big plus. in this case if it takes you a month you will still get evidence from it
yep, the tech heads salivate over this stuff and pay a lot of money
in the 1990's it was the fastest PC with the voodoo2. today it's the newest phone or tablet. my home internet at 15mbps is fast enough for netflix on my 40" TV yet the tech heads are salivating at paying crazy money for LTE to be used on a device 1/10 the size of most TV's. MP3's and AAC was playable on devices almost 15 years ago yet you go to anandtech and people will try to prove to you that you need dual or quad core to listen to music and check email at the same time.
seriously, what do you expect from a free app that streams licensed music that they had to pay for? a bunch of ads no one clicks on?
this is how google makes money, metrics. everyone is doing it as well.
that's the business model difference between iphone and android. apple makes money on the hardware, accessories and applecare. with android the carriers make money on the accessories, ad revenue sharing, the crap ware and the monthly insurance that some people buy
not really, if you can prove prior art then the patent is worthless. google just needs to announce whatever they patent without patenting it
i bet if someone stole the algorithms they keep secret they would be suing under trade secret laws and taking out mafia hits to keep the information secret
my HTC Inspire has more RAM than my ipad 2. yet the ipad is faster and a lot less laggy to use.
specs is not everything
Mac's come with the software included. with a PC by the time you add the same upgrades/features and the software the price is about the same as a Mac
that's pretty much with everything now including x-box and TV's. the main purchase item is sold at a loss or break even and the profits made on the warranty and accessories. with iCrap almost everyone gets accessories like my $60 ipad case i bought or my wife's iphone 4 case. with TV's and other electronics most people avoid accessories and warranties like the plague.
my ipad 2 cost me $762 with tax included. that's $700 to Target minus credit card fees which are probably $25. $675 gross revenue plus they have to pay apple. and these idiots didn't have any ipad 2 cases the day of the launch.
i bet they use Single Instance Storage from EMC or someone else. its been around for backups since 2006 or so and there are products on the market that will dedupe live data. technically it's separate files but in the end the system deletes all the common data except for one copy
if i had to guess then i'd say that when you upload your music to amazon they dedupe it so that it only takes a tiny amount of space. and technically it's a separate file so they can just argue that they are providing cloud storage and you're streaming your unique content. when in the end it's all deduped common data. intel x86 hardware is powerful and cheap enough these days to probably process the deduped data on the fly when people want to stream it
i remember the days when we had a dozen cell carriers in the US. expensive service, crappy reception almost everywhere you went. as the competition dried up we've had prices drop and better phones come out. 10 years ago when i got my first cell phone in the US i paid $40 a month for 450 minutes. these days the same $40 buys you 450 minutes but the night/weekend minutes and anyone on the same carrier is free minutes. and with some plans you can call any mobile number and not use up your minutess
and 10 years ago i had to buy my phone for $200. these days i can get a "free" smartphone when signing up for a contract. only thing that changed was that the contracts went to 2 years
anyone can patent almost anything these days for a few thousand $$$. it's suing people who you think ripped off your patent is hard. takes lots of money and years of time
just ask i4i, kodak, apple, oracle, google, MS and others. you need to pay lawyers almost 24/7 and have employees always available for discovery motions and depositions
if i want to text someone from my email i just text it to number@vtext.com. every carrier has this except Google as i found out recently.
after using GV it's nice for anonymous things like selling on craigslist and the VM transcription is pretty good, but absolutely useless in the real world for most cell phone uses. don't really care about having a single number for all my phones. when i sold my old iphones it annoyed my wife that the house phone was ringing all the time and i took it off from GV.
i guess it's cool if you're single and have no kids
the contract you sign for the service says that if you want to tether you have to buy the service