I'm pretty surprised at how many/.ers are willing to buy data in the form of voice minutes and SMS at extorsionate rates but not a proper data plan. Since voice and SMS are data anyway, why not get a data-only plan? I set up a tablet data plan and use it on my smartphone and even with the addition of premium VoIP service (from voip.ms, great service) I'm saving $40/month over my old voice+data plan.
Agreed, I can't imagine how this would be better than 60GHz. Mind you I don't see a lot of point in either at home. Maybe someday I'll want to instal a device in every room so I can stream 4k video from a mobile device, but it sure as hell won't be anytime soon.
So Adobe is in a bit of a PR pinch now because of this — Do you tell all the thousands of people who have downloaded CS2 products in the last 48 hours that 'you cannot use these products without paying us'?
What you do is wait for Apple to cave because the web is simply unusable without your product and no one will go without it.
No it doesn't. I think VoIP runs at about 12kbps so a 1GB data plan would give you over 12,000 minutes. I dunno what you pay for data down there but here in Canada I get 6GB for $30.
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We're quoting CNET now? What is the world coming to?!?!
No. See TFA.
I'm pretty surprised at how many /.ers are willing to buy data in the form of voice minutes and SMS at extorsionate rates but not a proper data plan. Since voice and SMS are data anyway, why not get a data-only plan? I set up a tablet data plan and use it on my smartphone and even with the addition of premium VoIP service (from voip.ms, great service) I'm saving $40/month over my old voice+data plan.
The Chinese government are certainly hypocrites, and liars as well, but personally I don't think hacking is as bad as bombing.
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Agreed, I can't imagine how this would be better than 60GHz. Mind you I don't see a lot of point in either at home. Maybe someday I'll want to instal a device in every room so I can stream 4k video from a mobile device, but it sure as hell won't be anytime soon.
The other way around IS the news. TFA is clearly tongue-in-cheek.
How about the freedom to make a phone call without it being monitored without a warrant?
Here's a handy chart of Air Quality Index and a description of some of the more noxious substances:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/graphic/2013/jan/15/what-in-beijing-polluted-air
But you can turn them into dollars. The government can't see where the bitcoins came from so it can't prevent you from exchanging bits for cash.
So Adobe is in a bit of a PR pinch now because of this — Do you tell all the thousands of people who have downloaded CS2 products in the last 48 hours that 'you cannot use these products without paying us'?
What you do is wait for Apple to cave because the web is simply unusable without your product and no one will go without it.
Oh, sorry, wrong Adobe product.
Either way, clearly he did not enter it on a tablet :)
An iPad would have autocorrected that.
No it doesn't. I think VoIP runs at about 12kbps so a 1GB data plan would give you over 12,000 minutes. I dunno what you pay for data down there but here in Canada I get 6GB for $30.
Actually they are. I get 6GB for $30/month. At ~12kbps for voice, if my math is right that's about 4.2 million minutes.
Just one of the reasons I'm about to go data-only on my phone.
Most of the world uses Celsius. Maybe you should travel more :)
If more than 5% of the world were American that might be a good reason.
I'm the only hatchling and I do it all baby!
I don't know whether to pity you or mock you.
Why choose? They deserve both.
haha silly /. giving fandroids mod points :D
You're thinking of Samsung, they spend way, way more on advertising than Apple.
Just tried a bunch of others and I can bring it up with the shortcut on them all. Weird!
It does sound like a bug, worth reporting.
I primarily use smart playlists too. I just checked and I can enable the column browser while viewing one in list view.
why would syncing be the same as backing up?
Because when you've synced everything on a device to another device, you've backed it up.
But then you have to buy the same stuff four or five times so everyone in the family can have it.
Ah yes, the family license that RIAA is always promoting.