Actually - those are prototype Galaxy IV's - which incorporate all of Apple's suggestions as to how not to violate their (trivial/obvious) patents and copyrighted look and feel.
While from what I know of him, I probably disagree with him on quite a bit. I do, however, agree with pretty much every argument he made against censorship, why it won't work in the long run, and how it will backfire on politicians.
So, do you understand what the definition of bandwidth is? It's real simple: bandwidth = data / time
If they lower bandwidth, they have to be either lowering data (meaning not unlimited within the constraints of 3G or 4G), or they are increasing time (which obviously is impossible).
Furthermore, the throttling was not in the older contracts; those got changed without grandfathering. And the text concerning the redefinition of unlimited, while present, is buried pretty deep in the contract.
Ice this cake with the sort of advertisements shown, the aps show cased (streaming video, watching the game wherever you are, etc) along with the whole push of fastest network capabilities and such, and absolutely a false picture is generated.
You wouldn't accept an all you can eat buffet that you can only remove food from one teaspoon at a time, unless it was made abundantly clear to you before hand that this was the case. And even then, you'd look askance at anyone offering such a deal with a name like "unlimited food" or "all you can eat".
So, bandwidth is data divided by time (by definition).
If they are reducing bandwidth there are two possibilities. They are either decreasing the amount of data involved (meaning that data is not unlimited) or increasing time (in which case, they're God and I'm in a world of hurt for criticizing).
I understand that they can't support some of the usage. And while I do think that they should be putting more into infrastructure than they are, I also realize that you can't build the level of systems that they run overnight. It's the deception that bothers me. Especially for those of us who had a pre-throttle unlimited plan and didn't get any sort of grandfathering. It's deceitful and it's unethical.
Good analogy; I like the "all you can eat buffet one" myself. The first plate is fine, but after that, you have to go to the back of a long line, and are only allowed to take a single spoonful of food back to your table. And no eating in line.
And while you're doing this, you have to look at the posters on the walls proclaiming how yummy the food is, how much better your life is because you're eating it, and how filling it is.
They don't change the contract. t-mobile and AT&T just redefine "unlimited data" to mean "all the data you can get, but at 5% of the maximum speed that your 4G device can deliver it".
Which may keep them in the letter of the law and contract, but absolutely not in the spirit. Especially if you take into account the inherent and explicit promises of their advertisements.
If the network is so limited, they should stop selling "unlimited data" and then saying that bandwidth is not the same as data (which is their core argument).
t-mobile does the same thing, and it is absolutely false advertising. The level of deceit is amazing - they have showboat aps on their front webpage for streaming video and TV, they show ads with people watching the game in a restaurant, but if you do these things, you're going to get throttled to the point that your smartphone becomes useless.
It's like going to an all you can eat buffet, and getting your first plate of food with no problem, but each subsequent bite of food has to be acquired spoonful by spoonful after waiting in line each time.
Maybe instead of spending all their money on tricking customers and attempted mergers, they should, oh, I don't know, build out their infrastructure to meet the level of use that is to be expected with the products they sell?
If you don't see the moral and ethical problem here, you are part of the increasing number of ethically stunted and morally retarded people with whom the rest of us have to share the world. Please don't hesitate to refrain from reproducing.
That would make a good sci-fi story - a post-crash world, where no one could read all the books/literature about how to rebuild the world because it was all locked down.
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Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
Not the dreaded No True Slashdotter fallacy....
They've got rounded corners.
There will be trouble. And the shame of it is, they could have avoided it if they'd just taken a look at this.
Actually - those are prototype Galaxy IV's - which incorporate all of Apple's suggestions as to how not to violate their (trivial/obvious) patents and copyrighted look and feel.
As was the war in Iraq.
Sure it is. Because notepad is the second buffer of the Windows clipboard.
Ad hominem argument.
While from what I know of him, I probably disagree with him on quite a bit. I do, however, agree with pretty much every argument he made against censorship, why it won't work in the long run, and how it will backfire on politicians.
Well written, and aligned with my own thoughts. (Though, my initials aren't any sort of known TLA for the most part...)
... need to learn their place.
They should be building what they're told, not telling people about the harm that might be caused. Especially if it gets in the way of profits.
So - secure communications is part of the liberal conspiracy?
What are you smoking?
So, do you understand what the definition of bandwidth is? It's real simple: bandwidth = data / time
If they lower bandwidth, they have to be either lowering data (meaning not unlimited within the constraints of 3G or 4G), or they are increasing time (which obviously is impossible).
Furthermore, the throttling was not in the older contracts; those got changed without grandfathering. And the text concerning the redefinition of unlimited, while present, is buried pretty deep in the contract.
Ice this cake with the sort of advertisements shown, the aps show cased (streaming video, watching the game wherever you are, etc) along with the whole push of fastest network capabilities and such, and absolutely a false picture is generated.
You wouldn't accept an all you can eat buffet that you can only remove food from one teaspoon at a time, unless it was made abundantly clear to you before hand that this was the case. And even then, you'd look askance at anyone offering such a deal with a name like "unlimited food" or "all you can eat".
So, bandwidth is data divided by time (by definition).
If they are reducing bandwidth there are two possibilities. They are either decreasing the amount of data involved (meaning that data is not unlimited) or increasing time (in which case, they're God and I'm in a world of hurt for criticizing).
I understand that they can't support some of the usage. And while I do think that they should be putting more into infrastructure than they are, I also realize that you can't build the level of systems that they run overnight. It's the deception that bothers me. Especially for those of us who had a pre-throttle unlimited plan and didn't get any sort of grandfathering. It's deceitful and it's unethical.
Good analogy; I like the "all you can eat buffet one" myself. The first plate is fine, but after that, you have to go to the back of a long line, and are only allowed to take a single spoonful of food back to your table. And no eating in line.
And while you're doing this, you have to look at the posters on the walls proclaiming how yummy the food is, how much better your life is because you're eating it, and how filling it is.
Sure they do. When you buy a 3G or 4G device, you are buying bandwidth capability. Plain and simple.
They don't change the contract. t-mobile and AT&T just redefine "unlimited data" to mean "all the data you can get, but at 5% of the maximum speed that your 4G device can deliver it".
Which may keep them in the letter of the law and contract, but absolutely not in the spirit. Especially if you take into account the inherent and explicit promises of their advertisements.
If the network is so limited, they should stop selling "unlimited data" and then saying that bandwidth is not the same as data (which is their core argument).
t-mobile does the same thing, and it is absolutely false advertising. The level of deceit is amazing - they have showboat aps on their front webpage for streaming video and TV, they show ads with people watching the game in a restaurant, but if you do these things, you're going to get throttled to the point that your smartphone becomes useless.
It's like going to an all you can eat buffet, and getting your first plate of food with no problem, but each subsequent bite of food has to be acquired spoonful by spoonful after waiting in line each time.
Maybe instead of spending all their money on tricking customers and attempted mergers, they should, oh, I don't know, build out their infrastructure to meet the level of use that is to be expected with the products they sell?
If you don't see the moral and ethical problem here, you are part of the increasing number of ethically stunted and morally retarded people with whom the rest of us have to share the world. Please don't hesitate to refrain from reproducing.
And then the company rebrands, rinses and repeats with the next app.
Thank you for actually generating a measurable drop in average IQ of the species.
... who are against abortion will want to make this mandatory for users.
... that the Robert's court will overturn this.
Only after Bruce Lee showed him how. Twice.
That would make a good sci-fi story - a post-crash world, where no one could read all the books/literature about how to rebuild the world because it was all locked down.
I'd note that the true function of compiled code can be obfuscated and hidden just as can source.
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