CDMA is not dead. Current LTE is a more advanced version of CDMA and called something else because Qualcomm submitted it to a standards body.
LTE has no relationship at all with CDMA - neither the Qualcomm standard or the air interface concept. It didn't originate from Qualcomm. Indeed Qualcomm initially worked on a rival system before throwing in the towel. LTE is the fourth generation of GSM.
what you call GSM is the old voice only TDMA tech which was competing with CDMA for voice
No, he said 3G GSM. Only one version of GSM, 2G GSM, uses a time division multiple access air interface. 3G used W-CDMA, a code division multiple access air interface unrelated to that used in Qualcomm's standards but similar. 4G GSM is LTE and uses an OFDMA air interface.
It's amazing how many people out there still can't get over the fact that CDMA wasn't actually a good standard, and that Qualcomm's version in particular was awful and a dead end.
Yeah apparently they don't even have a domain name any more (or if they do it's not pointing at a functional website); seems kinda odd, but change happens I guess.
I remember a Two Ronnies joke where Ronnie Corbett did his "Sitting in a chair telling a joke in a really tedious way for five minutes" thing, and at one point gave a date and said "I remember it well, it was the one day Allied Carpets wasn't having a sale."
At this point, I suspect a good 75% of even the British readers of this comment are saying "Who the fuck are the Two Ronnies"? Exactly. They were popular comedians in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. That gives you some idea of how old I am, and how old the jokes about DFS and Allied Carpets are.
Question for AmiMojo (who I think has said in the past he's Gen X like me, and so is probably one of the few here who's heard of the aforementioned comedians), is Allied Carpets still a thing?
I demand a YOUTUBE VIDEO that TALKS about a screenshotted pastebin with the title SOMETHING OR OTHER BUSTED! (which should be in large comic sans text over the preview frame)
Ads in magazines I never had a problem with. Byte, Computer Shopper, and Personal Computer World were about 70-90% ads, and it was fine, because the magazines were also massively thick reflecting the fact that the ads didn't mean less content, and it wasn't as if the ads were interrupting your reading.
TV on the other hand, hell even 25% ads is a problem because those ads are shortening the content and interrupting the content. If a TV show that runs for 60 minutes is barely over 40 minutes long because the network needs to ensure there's more than 15 minutes available for advertising, it's a problem.
Thinking about it, I should have picked another name rather than Notepad 2, which isn't Microsoftish enough. What about "Microsoft Notepad 2018 Professional Edition for Windows"?
It isn't FUD. You will have to pay $225 to file formal complaints. You can file informal complaints for free, but what the hell is the point? Arguing that this means they're still free is like arguing it's free if you yell your complaint at a wall.
You do know what muckraking is, in respect to journalism, right? Calling any journalist a muckraker is a compliment.
For what it's worth, Gawker did do muckraking from time to time, so you're right even though you meant something completely different. Despite everyone's desire to depict Gawker as the worst thing ever, it had both ups and downs: it was the first publication, for example, to investigate and report on what Harvey Weinstein was doing to aspiring actresses.
Bizarrely, the thing that lead to its death (no, not the Hogan sex tape, if Gawker hadn't published that Thiel would still have killed it using the strategy he pursued) was actually part of an attack on homophobia in Silicon Valley. It didn't reveal anything that wasn't already widely known, but it was inconvenient for Thiel.
That's a distinction without a difference in practice. If a business cannot afford to buy labor with certain talents at the going rate, then labor with those talents might as well not exist as far as that business is concerned.
The only conservatives that have been banned were those who repeatedly violated the ToS. Perhaps you should explain why the rules should only apply to liberals and other non-conservatives, and conservatives should be given a free pass? Are conservatives incapable of acting like rational, decent, human beings?
Really interesting post to read! However, allow me to disagree *slightly*. I dont believe the issue lies in Lineage itself (as your wording seemingly suggest). I believe the issue lies in the media you used to burn the Lineage image to. Unless you use high quality DVD-R/+R discs, you're likely to get a corrupted image. Perhaps you'd find your install would work more reliably with better media. Nonetheless, I appreciate the insightful comment!
No, the way they put it is fine. It's the oldest color in the world. Not in the universe. Not ever. Just in the world. Whether that's right or not is a reasonable question, but they do clearly define the scope.
The voltage may be double the US voltage, but it doesn't really impact plug sizes in any meaningful way. Remember that the hazard associated with high voltages (but same wattages - the same size fridge plugged into a US socket will draw the same wattage as one plugged into a UK socket, it'll just draw double the amps) generally is that it may travel more easily through non-conductive mediums, and thus spark.
Now, if sparking were a serious concern with UK vs US sockets, you'd see the power cables themselves designed differently, as, like the US, the earth (ground) and neutral wires are usually twisted together with the live (hot) wire. If 240V made it necessary to put plug prongs further apart, you'd definitely need more than a millimeter between neutral and live wires.
The other problem is that somehow after the merger, despite AOL buying TW, it was TW's management who were left in charge, with AOL turning into just another division. And TW wasn't exactly run by people who understood the potential of what they had.
This is a very odd post, a smug attack on adults who read comic strips that literally boasts about having a limited imagination at the age of 5, and being unable to hold an interest in fantasy past the age of 12.
And yet it kinda explains itself in some ways, the equivalent of a torture advocate claiming that he was beaten as a kid "and it never did me any harm!"
I'm going to get cancer AND I'm going to change insurer so it becomes a pre-existing condition that can legally not be covered next time the Republicans remove something from Obamacare, all to own the libs. That'll teach them for caring about stuff!
The EPA is why every car doesn't smell like that banged up 1980s Chrysler "Antique" you drove behind the other day. It's why LA isn't full of smog. It's part of the same movement that removed lead from gasoline, causing a reduction in brain damage and, according to all available evidence, ultimately causing a massive reduction in crime since the 1980s.
No, it doesn't need to be curtailed, most of us want clean air and water. You may be the exception, you may even like brain damage, I have no idea, but you're the exception.
ISPs have been blocking port 25 since the late 1990s and nobody's thought to demand they open that port for network neutrality reasons despite it having far more pernicious and negative consequences (I'm not saying it's not done for good reasons, just that there are also very serious privacy issues with having to route all your email via your ISP) than throttling video to a reasonable rate to ensure a network remains usable for all other users.
If that's what Wikipedia is claiming, then Wikipedia is just wrong on this issue.
No, it doesn't. Discrimination is illegal, but the legality of talking about why one might discriminate is much more uncertain.
The statement probably doesn't help IBM, but right now we've heard one side of the story, and we don't know what's true and what isn't.
We do know that boomers are - with exceptions obviously - entitled jackasses who expect the world to revolve around them, refuse to learn new technologies, and who complain endlessly about everyone else being the problem. It's entirely possible that, despite the formula used to calculate this guy's bonus implying he was valuable, that he did, in fact, cost IBM far more than they gained through his continued employment.
That might sound harsh, but you might want to ask why IBM fired him in the first place.
And before you answer that, consider that you, as a Slashdotter, are in tech. You can probably name at least one utter asshole in every single company you've worked for who made life a misery for everyone else, who was surly, obstructive, and who had zero communication skills - if he was a programmer, he was probably what we refer to as a "rockstar programmer". And nobody got rid of him, despite HR knowing of huge numbers of people who left the company because they couldn't deal with his BS any more.
It is very, very, hard to convince a company to get rid of the jackasses, to rid themselves of those productivity blackholes who bleed the company of its morale.
Yet you want me to believe that IBM let go of a profitable salesguy because he was 60?
You'll need to provide me with more evidence than some contradictory crap picked by the plaintiff.
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For the benefit of the mods who think the above is a troll, I'm referring to an incident on Sunday in which Musk accused the diver who saved the kids trapped in caves in Thailand a pedophile because he said Musk's submarine wouldn't have helped. It was a bizarre baseless attack on a legit hero.
LTE has no relationship at all with CDMA - neither the Qualcomm standard or the air interface concept. It didn't originate from Qualcomm. Indeed Qualcomm initially worked on a rival system before throwing in the towel. LTE is the fourth generation of GSM.
No, he said 3G GSM. Only one version of GSM, 2G GSM, uses a time division multiple access air interface. 3G used W-CDMA, a code division multiple access air interface unrelated to that used in Qualcomm's standards but similar. 4G GSM is LTE and uses an OFDMA air interface.
It's amazing how many people out there still can't get over the fact that CDMA wasn't actually a good standard, and that Qualcomm's version in particular was awful and a dead end.
...but it's quite possible Munro just didn't want to be baselessly accused of pedophilia for the crime of criticizing his holy Muskness.
Yeah apparently they don't even have a domain name any more (or if they do it's not pointing at a functional website); seems kinda odd, but change happens I guess.
I remember a Two Ronnies joke where Ronnie Corbett did his "Sitting in a chair telling a joke in a really tedious way for five minutes" thing, and at one point gave a date and said "I remember it well, it was the one day Allied Carpets wasn't having a sale."
At this point, I suspect a good 75% of even the British readers of this comment are saying "Who the fuck are the Two Ronnies"? Exactly. They were popular comedians in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. That gives you some idea of how old I am, and how old the jokes about DFS and Allied Carpets are.
Question for AmiMojo (who I think has said in the past he's Gen X like me, and so is probably one of the few here who's heard of the aforementioned comedians), is Allied Carpets still a thing?
I demand a YOUTUBE VIDEO that TALKS about a screenshotted pastebin with the title SOMETHING OR OTHER BUSTED! (which should be in large comic sans text over the preview frame)
Ads in magazines I never had a problem with. Byte, Computer Shopper, and Personal Computer World were about 70-90% ads, and it was fine, because the magazines were also massively thick reflecting the fact that the ads didn't mean less content, and it wasn't as if the ads were interrupting your reading.
TV on the other hand, hell even 25% ads is a problem because those ads are shortening the content and interrupting the content. If a TV show that runs for 60 minutes is barely over 40 minutes long because the network needs to ensure there's more than 15 minutes available for advertising, it's a problem.
Thinking about it, I should have picked another name rather than Notepad 2, which isn't Microsoftish enough. What about "Microsoft Notepad 2018 Professional Edition for Windows"?
It isn't FUD. You will have to pay $225 to file formal complaints. You can file informal complaints for free, but what the hell is the point? Arguing that this means they're still free is like arguing it's free if you yell your complaint at a wall.
You do know what muckraking is, in respect to journalism, right? Calling any journalist a muckraker is a compliment.
For what it's worth, Gawker did do muckraking from time to time, so you're right even though you meant something completely different. Despite everyone's desire to depict Gawker as the worst thing ever, it had both ups and downs: it was the first publication, for example, to investigate and report on what Harvey Weinstein was doing to aspiring actresses.
Bizarrely, the thing that lead to its death (no, not the Hogan sex tape, if Gawker hadn't published that Thiel would still have killed it using the strategy he pursued) was actually part of an attack on homophobia in Silicon Valley. It didn't reveal anything that wasn't already widely known, but it was inconvenient for Thiel.
The thing that bothers me is that there's a non-zero chance that Microsoft had the same idea.
Hello Notepad 2 and its 250Mb footprint...
That's a distinction without a difference in practice. If a business cannot afford to buy labor with certain talents at the going rate, then labor with those talents might as well not exist as far as that business is concerned.
The only conservatives that have been banned were those who repeatedly violated the ToS. Perhaps you should explain why the rules should only apply to liberals and other non-conservatives, and conservatives should be given a free pass? Are conservatives incapable of acting like rational, decent, human beings?
Really interesting post to read! However, allow me to disagree *slightly*. I dont believe the issue lies in Lineage itself (as your wording seemingly suggest). I believe the issue lies in the media you used to burn the Lineage image to. Unless you use high quality DVD-R/+R discs, you're likely to get a corrupted image. Perhaps you'd find your install would work more reliably with better media. Nonetheless, I appreciate the insightful comment!
The innoshent hash noshing to hidesh!
Also how dare my ISP share records of my web traffic with the MPAA and RIAA!
No, the way they put it is fine. It's the oldest color in the world. Not in the universe. Not ever. Just in the world. Whether that's right or not is a reasonable question, but they do clearly define the scope.
The voltage may be double the US voltage, but it doesn't really impact plug sizes in any meaningful way. Remember that the hazard associated with high voltages (but same wattages - the same size fridge plugged into a US socket will draw the same wattage as one plugged into a UK socket, it'll just draw double the amps) generally is that it may travel more easily through non-conductive mediums, and thus spark.
Now, if sparking were a serious concern with UK vs US sockets, you'd see the power cables themselves designed differently, as, like the US, the earth (ground) and neutral wires are usually twisted together with the live (hot) wire. If 240V made it necessary to put plug prongs further apart, you'd definitely need more than a millimeter between neutral and live wires.
The other problem is that somehow after the merger, despite AOL buying TW, it was TW's management who were left in charge, with AOL turning into just another division. And TW wasn't exactly run by people who understood the potential of what they had.
This is a very odd post, a smug attack on adults who read comic strips that literally boasts about having a limited imagination at the age of 5, and being unable to hold an interest in fantasy past the age of 12.
And yet it kinda explains itself in some ways, the equivalent of a torture advocate claiming that he was beaten as a kid "and it never did me any harm!"
Really? You're telling me that alcoholic drinks aren't healthy? Who knew?
I'm going to get cancer AND I'm going to change insurer so it becomes a pre-existing condition that can legally not be covered next time the Republicans remove something from Obamacare, all to own the libs. That'll teach them for caring about stuff!
The EPA is why every car doesn't smell like that banged up 1980s Chrysler "Antique" you drove behind the other day. It's why LA isn't full of smog. It's part of the same movement that removed lead from gasoline, causing a reduction in brain damage and, according to all available evidence, ultimately causing a massive reduction in crime since the 1980s.
No, it doesn't need to be curtailed, most of us want clean air and water. You may be the exception, you may even like brain damage, I have no idea, but you're the exception.
ISPs have been blocking port 25 since the late 1990s and nobody's thought to demand they open that port for network neutrality reasons despite it having far more pernicious and negative consequences (I'm not saying it's not done for good reasons, just that there are also very serious privacy issues with having to route all your email via your ISP) than throttling video to a reasonable rate to ensure a network remains usable for all other users.
If that's what Wikipedia is claiming, then Wikipedia is just wrong on this issue.
You'd burn most of that energy anyway, it only becomes polluting if you're creating new people purely so they can be used as bicycle motors.
No, it doesn't. Discrimination is illegal, but the legality of talking about why one might discriminate is much more uncertain.
The statement probably doesn't help IBM, but right now we've heard one side of the story, and we don't know what's true and what isn't.
We do know that boomers are - with exceptions obviously - entitled jackasses who expect the world to revolve around them, refuse to learn new technologies, and who complain endlessly about everyone else being the problem. It's entirely possible that, despite the formula used to calculate this guy's bonus implying he was valuable, that he did, in fact, cost IBM far more than they gained through his continued employment.
That might sound harsh, but you might want to ask why IBM fired him in the first place.
And before you answer that, consider that you, as a Slashdotter, are in tech. You can probably name at least one utter asshole in every single company you've worked for who made life a misery for everyone else, who was surly, obstructive, and who had zero communication skills - if he was a programmer, he was probably what we refer to as a "rockstar programmer". And nobody got rid of him, despite HR knowing of huge numbers of people who left the company because they couldn't deal with his BS any more.
It is very, very, hard to convince a company to get rid of the jackasses, to rid themselves of those productivity blackholes who bleed the company of its morale.
Yet you want me to believe that IBM let go of a profitable salesguy because he was 60?
You'll need to provide me with more evidence than some contradictory crap picked by the plaintiff.