The article says "people buying a car in 2011". Maybe the shoppers either had not had the car long enough to see the difference, or had older hybrids that were not as magical. He is in the cult of Prius, but my brother did the math and his car would pay for the hybrid upgrade if he keeps the car for a certain number of years. Not 20 years, but more than 2 or 3 for sure. Less time than he expected to keep the car. I know his math was also based on fuel prices less than we have seen in the few years he has had his Prius, so he should be ahead of the estimates. He's also somebody that does not flinch at the concept of keeping a car for 10 years. One thing environmental car people say is that the more efficient car is probably the one that already exists, and not the one you are building from scratch. Buying a new Prius every 2 years is maybe not the best thing for the world (unless the used car is trickling down to somewhere replace super gas guzzlers). In the purely environmental impact sense you are better with an 80s VW diesel or an older little Honda.... because they are already built.
In the Philadelphia PA (USA) region (burbs too) diesel is about 30 MORE per gallon than regular grade gasoline. I'm not sure if that is due to state fuel taxes or location or what.
Well, if this is true, Apple is actively building prototypes with AMD. I have also recently heard that Apple considered AMD when they did the x86 switch... unless that rumor was actually the first leaks of this report. Either way, it seems Apple has been working plan B (if not also C, D and E). We also just learned Job devoted a lot of resources into using WiFi to create a virtual cell service without using a traditional carrier for the iPhone. Those rumors circulated months before the iPhone was officially unveiled, so it's interesting to get slightly more info about those rumors a few years later.
Does Apple care that much about a GPU for the Air? I wonder what the split is for machines like the Mac Mini where you can get the GPU upgrade.
I don't discount the delivery volumes being a major factor, depending on why they could not ensure delivery. It's kind of interesting because if the AMD chip had benefits that Apple saw as a major advantage, they could have thrown them a ton of cash to improve production. We know Apple gets first grab of components by using that stockpile of cash to pre-pay for parts. The big manufacturers can buy a lot of chips, but how fast will they take delivery, and more importantly, be able to pay for them?
As a freelancer I have a few clients that pay me on the day I work, and one that has taken almost 90 days to pay (and many in between). You can guess which ones I give priority to when booking my schedule.
This trial has been going on for a while in PA. The Twitter/Facebook story hit on Sunday, but today (Monday) he was found guilty on 137 counts and they did not replace that juror. I am guessing that will be among the things his lawyers put in his appeal? Something about it being unfair. 137 counts of corruption and i bet they cray about something posted on facebook.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=6711443
there are still a LOT of people that don't have email on their cell phones. there is still a weird disconnect between some people's phones. some phone (iphones and more) can't receive or send picture messages, many don't have email. i suppose the issue is when you try to send a picture to a few people at once. say you have something like a Treo that supports picture messages and emails. you have to split the people up into delivery options. If your Treo is on Verizon (like mine is), then they strip out all incoming email attachments if you use the built-in email client... and being Verizon you do not have the same 3rd party app options as other people. Yes, it's a first world problem, but it's just stupidity of the carriers. The US had the same issue some years back when you could only send a text message to people on your network. I actually had to think who had the same carrier as i did before i sent a message.
I think the problem is that they were slow to get this set up. The big corporations already had footholds in the business (as opposed to old school local dialup ISPs). There are also too many ways to provide internet access... and frankly, the government would screw it up anyway. The only reason we see speed increases now is that cable modems fight DSL and FIOS and maybe eventually WiMax and whatever else. At least here in Philadelphia, there was major opposition to the project coming from corporations like Comcast (who has their HQ a few blocks from City Hall). They were crying about how it might cost them some customers that wouldn't want to pay $50/month for hardwired internet access. It's possible Verizon was crying too. Add to that *some* source of misinformation that this would cost the taxpayers tons of money, and that's why the whole project took forever to get going. As of today, Philadelphia taxpayers didn't put up $1 for the project. We always had free access in many parts of the city, like the Convention Center, Reading Terminal Market (same building complex), City Hall, Love Park and along the Parkway down to the Art museum. I think other parks were included. Hopefully they can pull this together. I would probably keep my higher speed wired access at home, but it will be nice to have the option.
I posted below, but when i hopped on today it just worked. No more of those pages you mention. We'll see what happens in a few months. People with iPhones, or iPod touch sized screens, don't really have room for ads.
Good news for iPhone1.0 owners? Wi-Phi should be faster than AT&T's 3G..... and AT&T's EDGE coverage blows in Philly.
Around town we all heard they would be using some form of ad-supported net access. I hopped on it (using an old 802.11b equipped iBook) to see if it really was free and open, and it was. I was not in a place with good coverage, but it was pretty usable. I know where the base stations are, and I was located *just* at the edge of where they stopped putting them up. I didn't see any ads, but i was using Safari with ad blocker installed. Not sure if that removed them or they just didn't put them in yet? Maybe the ads thing is a rumor. It also let me run iChat without a hitch.
If there are details about the new system, i have not seem them yet. One report on the radio said the new company will be selling wired broadband to businesses and that will subsidize all or some of the network? This article says companies would have to pay for their employees to use the otherwise free Wi-Fi? Not sure what that's about, or how it will work out. People seemed to get very different info from the same press conference. 80% of the city is already covered in (802.11b) base stations. some neighborhoods will give you the ability to see half a dozen networks.
Email and web browsing. I don't have a desk job, so being able to get emails on my phone is a bonus, and shoot quick replies. Having a good web browser is kind of awesome for those random moments that you want to look something up. Honestly i will often borrow an iPhone before using the browser on my Treo650.... but i appreciate having one with me.
I agree. I know maybe one person that bought a blackberry on their own. Most people bought Treos, and that's shifting to iPhones as they upgrade. I did notice a lot of people that bought iPhones had previously owned a standard phone. They were aware that things like a Treo existed, but never took the plunge. From my observation they use the email and web browser extensively.... not just the built-in iPod functionality. For the record, i do know a lot of freelancers in a few different fields, so having constant access to email can make the difference in getting a job, or keeping a client happy.
I had my mom sign up pretty soon after the site went live (accepting requests) and she got her coupons a few weeks ago. I can only guess it's like tax refunds, the delay goes up steeply the longer you wait to send in your request.
Somebody could donate $99 so that iPhone apps on something like sourceforge could all get access to iPhones. Maybe i didn't read enough into this, but it seems that something like that would be valid. When iTMS first launched, the small indie labels used a middleman to deal with Apple. Actually, i guess a lot of the small labels still do it that way.
I think they mean some sort of "pulse" would return a signal from a cell phone, even without battery. While i am not sure it would give anything more than what band it uses, it might somehow give back some info that there are a bunch of cell phones in that one little building? This same "pulse" idea would not matter if the towers are powered down though.... unless it serves as a reminder to save batteries and power down?
I'm pretty sure that anything you could avoid by shutting off the towers could also be done by popping a battery. By turning off the towers, powered up cell phones are just going to try harder to find a signal and give off more info about where they are. I would think something like a drone or unmanned blimp could easily detect something like 15 phones in one rural spot all looking for signal.
what do you mean by "in a real setting"? honestly i see a lot of them. i am talking about around town, restaurants, bla bla bla. I personally know about as many people that own iPhones that own Treos, and by that i mean people i interact with on a daily/weekly basis that is not just for work (family, friends etc).
I have no idea how many active Treos are out there, but i guess iPhones are at about 4 or 5 million... and we can assume they are mostly all still functional. We know they are not being given out by corporations the way blackerrriers are (were?). of all the smartphone users i know (that picked one out themselves) i know one or two people that have blackberries, a few Windows Mobile ones and the bulk of them are Treos and iPhones.
i know there are some major iPhone issues, and not having copy/paste may make me go nuts. the SDK is due this month, and that *may* change things. the thing that kills me about my (Verizon) Treo is the browser. I have had to borrow an iPhone to use their browser because mine is useless. that's just a real world fact. it's also a fact that the iPhone is about 1/3 the thickness of the Treo. The iPod functionality as actually unimportant to me because i already have music players (ipods actually).
i used to carry various Palm IIIs back 7+ years ago, so i love having that functionality on my phone. I just wish Palm would take a major leap and make the phone a lot smaller.
i basically want a phone that makes calls, has a web browser, has email and syncs with my Mac. if it can't talk to OS X reliably, then it's also kind of worthless. i can't handle it purging random contacts the way some smartphones seem to.
i don't mean to rant, but i'm just posting my observations. i should say most of the people i am talking about are not as nerdy as i am, but they are getting the phones for things like constant email access (for freelance work etc).
I *think* they meant that cooling will drawing more energy in the daytime, at least in a place when daytime temps are a good bit higher. the servers themselves, and general building uses, will be fairly even 24/7.
then again why not go even farther north and just open some windows? offsetting the air conditioning costs has to be appealing to the suits. maybe deep underground where the temperature is pretty even. a little geothermal technology has to help.
The iPhone is important because it made the smartphone concept mainstream. Tech nerds aside, before the iPhone it was common to see business people with Blackberries. There was some sort of stigma from that masses that they could never escape the office because they were always in touch. The iPhone somehow succeeded where Palm failed to..... make a smart phone seem really freakin useful and fun. Let's face it, Palm took the basic handheld they have been selling for 10+ years and added a phone to it. Windows Mobil phones are just Microsoft's version of that, and again often an extension of the office. The iPhone may have the best mobile browser out there, and that matters. I can't tell you how many times we will be out to dinner and randomly want to look something up online. It's always the iPhone that has the best browsing results.
I know a lot of people that freelance, and want/need email and some sort of web access in their pocket. The Treo still seems to dominate that world, but maybe it will change? These are people picking out their own phones and paying for their own plans, not issued by work. *Most* iPhone owners i know are new to a smartphone. The second biggest group are people that upgraded from a Treo.
I write this as a Treo owner, and a Mac user.... but if the iPhone was CDMA, i would probably own one. The iPhone's Safari is the app i want more than anything. Having a Verizon/BREW Treo it does not seem like i have 3rd party options for browsers that are anywhere near Safari (operamini doesn't run on my phone).
When i saw this mentioned elsewhere, the article said that Rush would not specify (to the public) how he was handling his mail. It was unclear what app he uses to read it, and if he downloads the mail, or leaves it on a server. That's an obvious question before anyone could troubleshoot. It kind of makes it a non story to everyone he is squawking to. I would assume he has some sort of IT helper that would point out obvious things, like that Time Machine won't backup IMAP? Other people have said Time Machine works fine with Mail.app. I have Time Machine running and use Mail.app, but i have not tried to resurrect old emails.
that 2002 movie Phone Booth was supposed the be in the last phone booth in NYC, i'm sure prop houses can stockpile them for the ever important suspension of disbelief. then again, there will be a similar problem when horror movies eventually acknowledge that most people have cell phones. most of the classic horror movies work around the premise that you can't just call somebody and the cast has to continually walk into some sort of trap.
would that mean every cell phone in the US is guaranteed interference? when the FCC tests a phone, what do they test? obviously not if it interferes with surrounding equipment. i've even heard the GSM noise on my TV at home (and i have a CDMA phone), so it either comes from the cable company, or the TV station. seriously... as somebody that works doing professional audio work i effectively can not have a GSM phone because they emit that noise even through shielded cables. they interfere with industry standard wireless systems. i like having a phone i can leave on when working (often over 12 hours per day), but every GSM phone i come across seems to cause interference problems. i don't just mean with wireless mics, but even if they are in a bag laying on, or next to, mic cables, they will bleed through. that is the #1 reason i can't buy an iPhone or anything else from AT&T/T-Mobile./rant
i don't know about the national level, but on a state/local level the rules are often kind of vague. technically the primary is just an easy way for the people of the Democrat, or Republican, party to select who they will put up in the actual November election. on a local level the party officials can often legally swap out a candidate on their own and effectively ignore the popular vote. they would have to do that before they officially submit their list of candidates to the November election, but it can usually be done. there is nothing *making* you vote for that one party.
the same thing goes for the party officials saying they do not want a particular candidate running for their party, or in their debates. generally that's legal. the easy fix is to stop voting for that party and force them to wake up.
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The article says "people buying a car in 2011". Maybe the shoppers either had not had the car long enough to see the difference, or had older hybrids that were not as magical. He is in the cult of Prius, but my brother did the math and his car would pay for the hybrid upgrade if he keeps the car for a certain number of years. Not 20 years, but more than 2 or 3 for sure. Less time than he expected to keep the car. I know his math was also based on fuel prices less than we have seen in the few years he has had his Prius, so he should be ahead of the estimates. He's also somebody that does not flinch at the concept of keeping a car for 10 years. One thing environmental car people say is that the more efficient car is probably the one that already exists, and not the one you are building from scratch. Buying a new Prius every 2 years is maybe not the best thing for the world (unless the used car is trickling down to somewhere replace super gas guzzlers). In the purely environmental impact sense you are better with an 80s VW diesel or an older little Honda.... because they are already built.
In the Philadelphia PA (USA) region (burbs too) diesel is about 30 MORE per gallon than regular grade gasoline. I'm not sure if that is due to state fuel taxes or location or what.
Well, if this is true, Apple is actively building prototypes with AMD. I have also recently heard that Apple considered AMD when they did the x86 switch... unless that rumor was actually the first leaks of this report. Either way, it seems Apple has been working plan B (if not also C, D and E). We also just learned Job devoted a lot of resources into using WiFi to create a virtual cell service without using a traditional carrier for the iPhone. Those rumors circulated months before the iPhone was officially unveiled, so it's interesting to get slightly more info about those rumors a few years later.
Does Apple care that much about a GPU for the Air? I wonder what the split is for machines like the Mac Mini where you can get the GPU upgrade. I don't discount the delivery volumes being a major factor, depending on why they could not ensure delivery. It's kind of interesting because if the AMD chip had benefits that Apple saw as a major advantage, they could have thrown them a ton of cash to improve production. We know Apple gets first grab of components by using that stockpile of cash to pre-pay for parts. The big manufacturers can buy a lot of chips, but how fast will they take delivery, and more importantly, be able to pay for them? As a freelancer I have a few clients that pay me on the day I work, and one that has taken almost 90 days to pay (and many in between). You can guess which ones I give priority to when booking my schedule.
You and your 20th century terminology!
This trial has been going on for a while in PA. The Twitter/Facebook story hit on Sunday, but today (Monday) he was found guilty on 137 counts and they did not replace that juror. I am guessing that will be among the things his lawyers put in his appeal? Something about it being unfair. 137 counts of corruption and i bet they cray about something posted on facebook. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=6711443
there are still a LOT of people that don't have email on their cell phones. there is still a weird disconnect between some people's phones. some phone (iphones and more) can't receive or send picture messages, many don't have email. i suppose the issue is when you try to send a picture to a few people at once. say you have something like a Treo that supports picture messages and emails. you have to split the people up into delivery options. If your Treo is on Verizon (like mine is), then they strip out all incoming email attachments if you use the built-in email client... and being Verizon you do not have the same 3rd party app options as other people.
Yes, it's a first world problem, but it's just stupidity of the carriers. The US had the same issue some years back when you could only send a text message to people on your network. I actually had to think who had the same carrier as i did before i sent a message.
I think the problem is that they were slow to get this set up. The big corporations already had footholds in the business (as opposed to old school local dialup ISPs). There are also too many ways to provide internet access... and frankly, the government would screw it up anyway. The only reason we see speed increases now is that cable modems fight DSL and FIOS and maybe eventually WiMax and whatever else.
At least here in Philadelphia, there was major opposition to the project coming from corporations like Comcast (who has their HQ a few blocks from City Hall). They were crying about how it might cost them some customers that wouldn't want to pay $50/month for hardwired internet access. It's possible Verizon was crying too.
Add to that *some* source of misinformation that this would cost the taxpayers tons of money, and that's why the whole project took forever to get going.
As of today, Philadelphia taxpayers didn't put up $1 for the project. We always had free access in many parts of the city, like the Convention Center, Reading Terminal Market (same building complex), City Hall, Love Park and along the Parkway down to the Art museum. I think other parks were included.
Hopefully they can pull this together. I would probably keep my higher speed wired access at home, but it will be nice to have the option.
Today's Philadelphia Inquirer has an article on it:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20080618_Investors_picking_up_wireless_Internet_plan.html
I posted below, but when i hopped on today it just worked. No more of those pages you mention. We'll see what happens in a few months. People with iPhones, or iPod touch sized screens, don't really have room for ads.
Good news for iPhone1.0 owners? Wi-Phi should be faster than AT&T's 3G..... and AT&T's EDGE coverage blows in Philly.
Around town we all heard they would be using some form of ad-supported net access. I hopped on it (using an old 802.11b equipped iBook) to see if it really was free and open, and it was. I was not in a place with good coverage, but it was pretty usable. I know where the base stations are, and I was located *just* at the edge of where they stopped putting them up.
I didn't see any ads, but i was using Safari with ad blocker installed. Not sure if that removed them or they just didn't put them in yet? Maybe the ads thing is a rumor. It also let me run iChat without a hitch.
If there are details about the new system, i have not seem them yet. One report on the radio said the new company will be selling wired broadband to businesses and that will subsidize all or some of the network? This article says companies would have to pay for their employees to use the otherwise free Wi-Fi? Not sure what that's about, or how it will work out. People seemed to get very different info from the same press conference. 80% of the city is already covered in (802.11b) base stations. some neighborhoods will give you the ability to see half a dozen networks.
Email and web browsing. I don't have a desk job, so being able to get emails on my phone is a bonus, and shoot quick replies.
Having a good web browser is kind of awesome for those random moments that you want to look something up. Honestly i will often borrow an iPhone before using the browser on my Treo650.... but i appreciate having one with me.
I agree. I know maybe one person that bought a blackberry on their own. Most people bought Treos, and that's shifting to iPhones as they upgrade.
I did notice a lot of people that bought iPhones had previously owned a standard phone. They were aware that things like a Treo existed, but never took the plunge. From my observation they use the email and web browser extensively.... not just the built-in iPod functionality.
For the record, i do know a lot of freelancers in a few different fields, so having constant access to email can make the difference in getting a job, or keeping a client happy.
Not sure what smartphone keypad you are talking about. I find the iPhone easier to type on that my Treo.... and i own a Treo.
I had my mom sign up pretty soon after the site went live (accepting requests) and she got her coupons a few weeks ago. I can only guess it's like tax refunds, the delay goes up steeply the longer you wait to send in your request.
Somebody could donate $99 so that iPhone apps on something like sourceforge could all get access to iPhones. Maybe i didn't read enough into this, but it seems that something like that would be valid.
When iTMS first launched, the small indie labels used a middleman to deal with Apple. Actually, i guess a lot of the small labels still do it that way.
I think they mean some sort of "pulse" would return a signal from a cell phone, even without battery. While i am not sure it would give anything more than what band it uses, it might somehow give back some info that there are a bunch of cell phones in that one little building? This same "pulse" idea would not matter if the towers are powered down though.... unless it serves as a reminder to save batteries and power down?
I'm pretty sure that anything you could avoid by shutting off the towers could also be done by popping a battery. By turning off the towers, powered up cell phones are just going to try harder to find a signal and give off more info about where they are. I would think something like a drone or unmanned blimp could easily detect something like 15 phones in one rural spot all looking for signal.
what do you mean by "in a real setting"? honestly i see a lot of them. i am talking about around town, restaurants, bla bla bla. I personally know about as many people that own iPhones that own Treos, and by that i mean people i interact with on a daily/weekly basis that is not just for work (family, friends etc).
I have no idea how many active Treos are out there, but i guess iPhones are at about 4 or 5 million... and we can assume they are mostly all still functional. We know they are not being given out by corporations the way blackerrriers are (were?). of all the smartphone users i know (that picked one out themselves) i know one or two people that have blackberries, a few Windows Mobile ones and the bulk of them are Treos and iPhones.
i know there are some major iPhone issues, and not having copy/paste may make me go nuts. the SDK is due this month, and that *may* change things. the thing that kills me about my (Verizon) Treo is the browser. I have had to borrow an iPhone to use their browser because mine is useless. that's just a real world fact. it's also a fact that the iPhone is about 1/3 the thickness of the Treo. The iPod functionality as actually unimportant to me because i already have music players (ipods actually).
i used to carry various Palm IIIs back 7+ years ago, so i love having that functionality on my phone. I just wish Palm would take a major leap and make the phone a lot smaller.
i basically want a phone that makes calls, has a web browser, has email and syncs with my Mac. if it can't talk to OS X reliably, then it's also kind of worthless. i can't handle it purging random contacts the way some smartphones seem to.
i don't mean to rant, but i'm just posting my observations. i should say most of the people i am talking about are not as nerdy as i am, but they are getting the phones for things like constant email access (for freelance work etc).
i'm talking about lawyers, politicians etc. what do you see them carrying?
I *think* they meant that cooling will drawing more energy in the daytime, at least in a place when daytime temps are a good bit higher. the servers themselves, and general building uses, will be fairly even 24/7.
then again why not go even farther north and just open some windows? offsetting the air conditioning costs has to be appealing to the suits. maybe deep underground where the temperature is pretty even. a little geothermal technology has to help.
The iPhone is important because it made the smartphone concept mainstream. Tech nerds aside, before the iPhone it was common to see business people with Blackberries. There was some sort of stigma from that masses that they could never escape the office because they were always in touch. The iPhone somehow succeeded where Palm failed to..... make a smart phone seem really freakin useful and fun. Let's face it, Palm took the basic handheld they have been selling for 10+ years and added a phone to it. Windows Mobil phones are just Microsoft's version of that, and again often an extension of the office. The iPhone may have the best mobile browser out there, and that matters. I can't tell you how many times we will be out to dinner and randomly want to look something up online. It's always the iPhone that has the best browsing results.
I know a lot of people that freelance, and want/need email and some sort of web access in their pocket. The Treo still seems to dominate that world, but maybe it will change? These are people picking out their own phones and paying for their own plans, not issued by work.
*Most* iPhone owners i know are new to a smartphone. The second biggest group are people that upgraded from a Treo.
I write this as a Treo owner, and a Mac user.... but if the iPhone was CDMA, i would probably own one. The iPhone's Safari is the app i want more than anything. Having a Verizon/BREW Treo it does not seem like i have 3rd party options for browsers that are anywhere near Safari (operamini doesn't run on my phone).
When i saw this mentioned elsewhere, the article said that Rush would not specify (to the public) how he was handling his mail. It was unclear what app he uses to read it, and if he downloads the mail, or leaves it on a server. That's an obvious question before anyone could troubleshoot. It kind of makes it a non story to everyone he is squawking to.
I would assume he has some sort of IT helper that would point out obvious things, like that Time Machine won't backup IMAP? Other people have said Time Machine works fine with Mail.app. I have Time Machine running and use Mail.app, but i have not tried to resurrect old emails.
that 2002 movie Phone Booth was supposed the be in the last phone booth in NYC, i'm sure prop houses can stockpile them for the ever important suspension of disbelief.
then again, there will be a similar problem when horror movies eventually acknowledge that most people have cell phones. most of the classic horror movies work around the premise that you can't just call somebody and the cast has to continually walk into some sort of trap.
would that mean every cell phone in the US is guaranteed interference? when the FCC tests a phone, what do they test? obviously not if it interferes with surrounding equipment. i've even heard the GSM noise on my TV at home (and i have a CDMA phone), so it either comes from the cable company, or the TV station. /rant
seriously... as somebody that works doing professional audio work i effectively can not have a GSM phone because they emit that noise even through shielded cables. they interfere with industry standard wireless systems. i like having a phone i can leave on when working (often over 12 hours per day), but every GSM phone i come across seems to cause interference problems. i don't just mean with wireless mics, but even if they are in a bag laying on, or next to, mic cables, they will bleed through. that is the #1 reason i can't buy an iPhone or anything else from AT&T/T-Mobile.
i don't know about the national level, but on a state/local level the rules are often kind of vague. technically the primary is just an easy way for the people of the Democrat, or Republican, party to select who they will put up in the actual November election. on a local level the party officials can often legally swap out a candidate on their own and effectively ignore the popular vote. they would have to do that before they officially submit their list of candidates to the November election, but it can usually be done. there is nothing *making* you vote for that one party.
the same thing goes for the party officials saying they do not want a particular candidate running for their party, or in their debates. generally that's legal. the easy fix is to stop voting for that party and force them to wake up.