And even on android its a small problem... if you have a million iphones and a million androids, and of them 3 iphones have malware, and 97 androids have malware, that's still 97% of malware is on android -- but its still a very minor problem, that only affects people who do REALLY stupid things.
I think you missed the part of the original posting where the 3% of the non-Android malware referred to Symbian. There were no instances of malware on iOS.
T-Mobile would be worse off without a merger since they are treading water as it is. They have no ability to invest in LTE deployment.
DT is dropping them and there will likely be no T-Mobile.
If the DOJ blocks the AT&T merger with them, they sure as hell won't allow Sprint to buy them on the very same grounds regarding reducing competition, etc.
T-Mobile is hardly the victim here, nor AT&T the aggressor, it is T-Mobile's parent company that wants to get rid of them. Since AT&T is the most logical buyer, how can you blame them?
I don't understand how anyone can draw the conclusion that the merger caused Verizon to drop the unlimited plan. If anything I would think it would encourage them to keep the unlimited plan to directly compete with the new merger.
Seems to me that it is more greed for money that caused the change.
I've been using Amazon Fresh for a couple of years now and it is a great service. I usually use the unattended pre-dawn delivery (shows up on my doorstep between 4 and 6AM). Saves me lugging groceries up a few flights of stairs.
The delivery charge is reasonable (approx $6 - $7, I think) but delivery is free if you order at least $200 a month.
The minimum order is $30.
I don't know if they intend to expand beyond of the Seattle area.
Why on earth do folks persist in the rumor that AT&T (and all other major carriers) are not spending many billions of dollars every quarter on cell towers and backhaul improvements? That notion is ludicrous.
I'm not sure that you can actually "buy" customer service improvements, though I doubt it would cost billions.
Look AT&T, if you're going to lie you should at least make it a plausible lie. Nobody who uses AT&T (or has to call people on AT&T) is going to believe your ridiculously low 0.1%.
AT&T was misquoted. They never claimed that they had a dropped call rate of 0.1% - they said that "our dropped call rate is within 1/10 of a percent – the equivalent of just one call in a thousand – of the industry leader.”
The article that Slashdot linked to does not state what Slashdot says in their summary above - try to actually read your sources first Slashdot!
Sounds like excellent stats to me.
Personally, I've never had a single dropped call with AT&T.
Makes you wonder if most folks that take these surveys actually have had dropped calls with AT&T (or have even ever used AT&T!) or are merely repeating what they've heard from others.
Yes, but the marketshare over DVD is still only 12%. When do you think it will overtake DVD - by 2020? That would be far too late and I doubt it will ever happen.
If I saw those numbers, I'd declare Blu-ray dead too, just as Jobs and the Xbox head did.
In the telecommunications industry, at least at the company that I work at, of the tens of thousands of Unix servers, over half of the servers are Sun, roughly a quarter are HP-UX, most of the last quarter are Linux and a very tiny sliver are IBM running AIX.
No one is buying new IBM servers. There has been a slight rise in Linux over the last few years, but the continuing growth is on Solaris/Sun.
I think you are thinking of HD DVDs, which have no region coding.
Blu-rays most certainly do have region coding: A, B and C.
From wikipedia:
* Region A includes most North, Central and South American and Southeast Asian countries plus Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.
* Region B includes most European, African and southwest Asian countries plus Australia and New Zealand.
* Region C contains the remaining central and south Asian countries, as well as China and Russia.
Some distributors don't use it much, and others are very strict about it. Criterion only is in region A, and Disney tends to only distribute for region A.
It's also not a problem with either the iPhone or the users. The phone works just fine on other carriers' networks in other countries.
There have been numerous stories of the iPhone performing poorly as a phone on almost all European carriers. It is definitely not an AT&T-specific problem.
No wonder AT&T is complaining about Verizon's "we have 5x more 3G" campaign when Verizon's 3G is the same as AT&T's 2G (which does have more coverage than Verizon's 3G).
The truth is that the provider's definition of "*G" is what ever their marketing departments say it is. There is no absolute standard of comparison on the marketing front. You have to dig into the actual specs to do so.
I think that there are three distinct "universes" of OS: Desktop (and maybe phones now), Enterprise (support for the Desktop: Exchange, intranet web servers, etc.) and Production.
Solaris is for production and it serves that purpose very well indeed. I think you'd be surprised at the percentage of Solaris use for production use by the Fortune 500 companies. And nothing else is seriously considered except for HP-UX, Linux and AIX, at least at the company I work for (well over half, around 20,000 or so, are Solaris; Linux is in third at around 12%).
I have used all of them and I like Solaris and Linux the most and I find them the most similar to one another by far. HP-UX is very solid, also, but a little quirky.
AIX is the least standard of any Unix-like OS out there, IMO. It is almost like IBM completely rethought Unix from the ground up, but at the cost of consistency with all other implementations.
No, he's not. By the same Wikipedia article you linked to, the AT&T Broadband company was sold to Comcast in 2002 and is not in any way the same AT&T that exists today.
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And even on android its a small problem... if you have a million iphones and a million androids, and of them 3 iphones have malware, and 97 androids have malware, that's still 97% of malware is on android -- but its still a very minor problem, that only affects people who do REALLY stupid things.
I think you missed the part of the original posting where the 3% of the non-Android malware referred to Symbian. There were no instances of malware on iOS.
My point was that there would be only three major carriers in either case. That is the DOJ's objection.
Sizes of the companies is irrelevant.
T-Mobile would be worse off without a merger since they are treading water as it is. They have no ability to invest in LTE deployment.
DT is dropping them and there will likely be no T-Mobile.
If the DOJ blocks the AT&T merger with them, they sure as hell won't allow Sprint to buy them on the very same grounds regarding reducing competition, etc.
T-Mobile is hardly the victim here, nor AT&T the aggressor, it is T-Mobile's parent company that wants to get rid of them. Since AT&T is the most logical buyer, how can you blame them?
...think that Sprint's suit for "advocacy on behalf of consumers" carries just a wee bit less weight than that of the DOJ's suit?
No, they *are* going out of business because Deutsche Telekom is getting rid of their US operations.
It is split up now - between Verizon and AT&T. They both are comprised of Baby Bells.
I don't understand how anyone can draw the conclusion that the merger caused Verizon to drop the unlimited plan. If anything I would think it would encourage them to keep the unlimited plan to directly compete with the new merger.
Seems to me that it is more greed for money that caused the change.
I agree - I just don't see the connection.
I've been using Amazon Fresh for a couple of years now and it is a great service. I usually use the unattended pre-dawn delivery (shows up on my doorstep between 4 and 6AM). Saves me lugging groceries up a few flights of stairs.
The delivery charge is reasonable (approx $6 - $7, I think) but delivery is free if you order at least $200 a month.
The minimum order is $30.
I don't know if they intend to expand beyond of the Seattle area.
I view this as doubleplusungood.
... Linux runs it!
Dr. Evil, there isn't that much money in the entire world!
Why on earth do folks persist in the rumor that AT&T (and all other major carriers) are not spending many billions of dollars every quarter on cell towers and backhaul improvements? That notion is ludicrous.
I'm not sure that you can actually "buy" customer service improvements, though I doubt it would cost billions.
Cool. The chart's origin is from the Reed Research Reactor staff.
Fun fact: the research reactor at Reed College is the only nuclear reactor in a private college in the US.
I'm a Reedie alumnus and proud of it!
Look AT&T, if you're going to lie you should at least make it a plausible lie. Nobody who uses AT&T (or has to call people on AT&T) is going to believe your ridiculously low 0.1%.
AT&T was misquoted. They never claimed that they had a dropped call rate of 0.1% - they said that "our dropped call rate is within 1/10 of a percent – the equivalent of just one call in a thousand – of the industry leader.”
The article that Slashdot linked to does not state what Slashdot says in their summary above - try to actually read your sources first Slashdot!
Sounds like excellent stats to me.
Personally, I've never had a single dropped call with AT&T.
Makes you wonder if most folks that take these surveys actually have had dropped calls with AT&T (or have even ever used AT&T!) or are merely repeating what they've heard from others.
Yes, but the marketshare over DVD is still only 12%. When do you think it will overtake DVD - by 2020? That would be far too late and I doubt it will ever happen.
If I saw those numbers, I'd declare Blu-ray dead too, just as Jobs and the Xbox head did.
For me, the additional glasses over my own were extremely uncomfortable.
I think it depends on how much of your nose is left to perch the 3D glasses on. I didn't have much left of mine to do so!
In the telecommunications industry, at least at the company that I work at, of the tens of thousands of Unix servers, over half of the servers are Sun, roughly a quarter are HP-UX, most of the last quarter are Linux and a very tiny sliver are IBM running AIX.
No one is buying new IBM servers. There has been a slight rise in Linux over the last few years, but the continuing growth is on Solaris/Sun.
I think you are thinking of HD DVDs, which have no region coding.
Blu-rays most certainly do have region coding: A, B and C.
From wikipedia:
* Region A includes most North, Central and South American and Southeast Asian countries plus Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.
* Region B includes most European, African and southwest Asian countries plus Australia and New Zealand.
* Region C contains the remaining central and south Asian countries, as well as China and Russia.
Some distributors don't use it much, and others are very strict about it. Criterion only is in region A, and Disney tends to only distribute for region A.
It's also not a problem with either the iPhone or the users. The phone works just fine on other carriers' networks in other countries.
There have been numerous stories of the iPhone performing poorly as a phone on almost all European carriers. It is definitely not an AT&T-specific problem.
No wonder AT&T is complaining about Verizon's "we have 5x more 3G" campaign when Verizon's 3G is the same as AT&T's 2G (which does have more coverage than Verizon's 3G).
The truth is that the provider's definition of "*G" is what ever their marketing departments say it is. There is no absolute standard of comparison on the marketing front. You have to dig into the actual specs to do so.
I think that there are three distinct "universes" of OS: Desktop (and maybe phones now), Enterprise (support for the Desktop: Exchange, intranet web servers, etc.) and Production.
Solaris is for production and it serves that purpose very well indeed. I think you'd be surprised at the percentage of Solaris use for production use by the Fortune 500 companies. And nothing else is seriously considered except for HP-UX, Linux and AIX, at least at the company I work for (well over half, around 20,000 or so, are Solaris; Linux is in third at around 12%).
I have used all of them and I like Solaris and Linux the most and I find them the most similar to one another by far. HP-UX is very solid, also, but a little quirky.
AIX is the least standard of any Unix-like OS out there, IMO. It is almost like IBM completely rethought Unix from the ground up, but at the cost of consistency with all other implementations.
Huh? In what world did Samba ever replace NFS?
No, he's not. By the same Wikipedia article you linked to, the AT&T Broadband company was sold to Comcast in 2002 and is not in any way the same AT&T that exists today.
On the AVS forum, no fewer that six native Chinese speakers confirmed that the news release was referring to HD DVD.