each way the release is tested and signed off on. little things are tested like making sure that the financial transactions are OK and customers are overcharged or undercharged. One time we had a case where we undercharged customers for years, then sent them a bill for a few years services and ended up in a lawsuit.
other times code works on developer laptops but somehow it doesn't work in production
i'm at the point where unless you're facebook or someone big i never report issues. i just use your competition. if you want to deploy buggy code, go ahead. you just better be the only guy doing whatever you're doing or watch your customers flee
the legit stuff is audited during manufacture. all the US based brand owners spend lots of money to audit everything they make to make sure its up to spec.
sometimes i wonder why not make it in the US and worry less about auditing your factories
i know google play is into this always streaming thing but with itunes when i buy media i have a local copy and can play them without going to the internet
even if i had a 250GB cap like comcast is testing i'm sure i can be well within it and let the heavy users pay up
are you pointing to google dns or something similar?
netflix has their data inside the ISP's networks. unless you live way out in the boonies the data is already close to you and its not like you have to go to the internet to get it
google and some of the other dynamic DNS's will cause crazy routing issues for content if they route your DNS queries far away
i remember when onlive first came out i dumped my xbox and all my games in the garbage to join up. i mean gaming in the cloud is so much better than doing from a hard drive
i know you end up paying more than owning physical games, but its da cloud. its the future and so much cooler
Apple has the iphone Samsung has the Galaxy S3 verizon has droids
people know these names. HTC used to release a new phone a month on different carriers under different names with slightly different specs. diluted the brand because people didn't know what they were buying
i replaced an iphone 3GS with a HTC Inspire 4G over a year and a half ago
first i had to put the battery in and it took 20 minutes to open the cover. i thought it was going to break. missed the iphone right there and its non-removable battery then set up my work email. no push to subfolders? ok, android email is crap i'll just leave my gmail on there then google Nav only worked when the phone was near the windshield. why did my 3GS seem to get positioning lying in the seat next to me?
and a long list of things that don't work on android like they do on iOS
anyway AT&T came through and i was eligible for an upgrade 6 months later and i got the iphone 4S the day it came out. once in a while i get the i want something different bug and go the at&t store just to see how bad the android phones are
the photos look just like some of the descriptions from the last few decades. probably explains the lights too. if its US Government then they have to follow most of their own laws and put lights on an aircraft so others can see it
why would aliens put flashing lights on an interstellar space craft? what is the point of glass and flashing lights in space other than to be broken by tiny particles
because even though my family lives out in the boonies it only takes an hour to drive from the airport. where i live its only like 10-15 minutes and with electronic boarding passes and curbside baggage you don't need to get there 2 hours prior. if you send all your info to the TSA you can get faster security line access at a lot of airports depending on the airline.
and with the USA and suburban living the high speed rail has to stop at the suburban stations or there won't be anyone to ride it. check out the Acela stops. some stops are like 10 minutes apart
i'm sure an advanced civilization will master Star Trek type fusion tech before doing something ridiculous like building a starlight collector.
the earth compared to the sun is like a grain of sand to a beachball. where would you get enough matter to build something around a star if the same or similar size ratio will exist in other star systems?
metroPCS is a prepaid carrier as far as i know. the customer base is there for the cheapest phones and the cheapest plans that are barely profitable. i was looking at them for my wife's 80 year old grandmother to get rid of her landline.
no family plans means these people will leave you for another carrier to save a penny
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each way the release is tested and signed off on. little things are tested like making sure that the financial transactions are OK and customers are overcharged or undercharged. One time we had a case where we undercharged customers for years, then sent them a bill for a few years services and ended up in a lawsuit.
other times code works on developer laptops but somehow it doesn't work in production
i'm at the point where unless you're facebook or someone big i never report issues. i just use your competition. if you want to deploy buggy code, go ahead. you just better be the only guy doing whatever you're doing or watch your customers flee
the legit stuff is audited during manufacture. all the US based brand owners spend lots of money to audit everything they make to make sure its up to spec.
sometimes i wonder why not make it in the US and worry less about auditing your factories
i know google play is into this always streaming thing but with itunes when i buy media i have a local copy and can play them without going to the internet
even if i had a 250GB cap like comcast is testing i'm sure i can be well within it and let the heavy users pay up
are you pointing to google dns or something similar?
netflix has their data inside the ISP's networks. unless you live way out in the boonies the data is already close to you and its not like you have to go to the internet to get it
google and some of the other dynamic DNS's will cause crazy routing issues for content if they route your DNS queries far away
so?
almost anything you can do in the cloud you can do locally for the same price
i remember when onlive first came out i dumped my xbox and all my games in the garbage to join up. i mean gaming in the cloud is so much better than doing from a hard drive
i know you end up paying more than owning physical games, but its da cloud. its the future and so much cooler
Apple has the iphone
Samsung has the Galaxy S3
verizon has droids
people know these names. HTC used to release a new phone a month on different carriers under different names with slightly different specs. diluted the brand because people didn't know what they were buying
i replaced an iphone 3GS with a HTC Inspire 4G over a year and a half ago
first i had to put the battery in and it took 20 minutes to open the cover. i thought it was going to break. missed the iphone right there and its non-removable battery
then set up my work email. no push to subfolders? ok, android email is crap i'll just leave my gmail on there
then google Nav only worked when the phone was near the windshield. why did my 3GS seem to get positioning lying in the seat next to me?
and a long list of things that don't work on android like they do on iOS
anyway AT&T came through and i was eligible for an upgrade 6 months later and i got the iphone 4S the day it came out. once in a while i get the i want something different bug and go the at&t store just to see how bad the android phones are
50% gross margins is ok which is what about pandora pays. Along with spotify
PC didn't kill off the mainframe, just more PC's and cheapo servers took a lot of the market as well
just like mobile won't kill off the PC
Moto threatened to sue all the other android manufacturers into oblivion
same thing except kids will always be dumb and think that whatever is happening today is totally new and has never happened before
so? everyone has different shipment schedules. the galaxy s3 has 2 or 3 versions. apple had to wait on the new qualcomm LTE chip
not like the iphone 5 was thought up, designed and tested only after the S3 came out
the b2 has advantages over other designs. what is the advantage of a flying saucer compared to wing based aircraft? at least on earth
the photos look just like some of the descriptions from the last few decades. probably explains the lights too. if its US Government then they have to follow most of their own laws and put lights on an aircraft so others can see it
why would aliens put flashing lights on an interstellar space craft? what is the point of glass and flashing lights in space other than to be broken by tiny particles
idevices i can play spotify, pandora and playlists through my car's USB port and control via the steering wheel
with my android phone it seems it only plays the music on the memory card in alphabetical order, not in the playlist order
because even though my family lives out in the boonies it only takes an hour to drive from the airport. where i live its only like 10-15 minutes and with electronic boarding passes and curbside baggage you don't need to get there 2 hours prior. if you send all your info to the TSA you can get faster security line access at a lot of airports depending on the airline.
and with the USA and suburban living the high speed rail has to stop at the suburban stations or there won't be anyone to ride it. check out the Acela stops. some stops are like 10 minutes apart
In the USA we have airplanes
When I went to visit family 1600 away two months ago it took me all of 4 hours to fly there
We have airplanes
Wtf is the point in spending all that money building metal lines On the ground when you can just fly instead
Actually Siri sucks and I hate it
The most useless feature I've tried to use
every carrier has free on contract phones and cheap phones. and there is a used market for every carrier's phones
i'm sure an advanced civilization will master Star Trek type fusion tech before doing something ridiculous like building a starlight collector.
the earth compared to the sun is like a grain of sand to a beachball. where would you get enough matter to build something around a star if the same or similar size ratio will exist in other star systems?
No one wants toxic waste dumped here in the USA
metroPCS is a prepaid carrier as far as i know. the customer base is there for the cheapest phones and the cheapest plans that are barely profitable. i was looking at them for my wife's 80 year old grandmother to get rid of her landline.
no family plans means these people will leave you for another carrier to save a penny
Every smartphone I've had in the last 8 years has done this
They bought the cases cheap and got some pr out of it