Our building in is in a very hilly area which means your coverage is pretty bad. As in there are roads higher than us because of the landscape. I can watch cars drive at an elevation higher than us.
So we had the building wired by one of the wireless companies with repeaters. When two of them went out in one area it was battery life hell. From going the whole work day to dead right after lunch.
I would love to know why they spend so much time looking, aren't they smart enough to know their location isn't changing often
this is not just a trait of those in one region of the world, though living in constant threat of your life from your government and those around you does tend to spur innovation. Even Slashdot has been replete with stories of people creating their own drones, shooting off rockets, and the like.
The difference comes down to scale and integration. Anyone can put up a model plane and find things they are supposed to find. Now, having the ability to do so in varied weather conditions, varied terrains, and coordinate the search and response with related elements is there the process bogs down. It bogs down because of dependencies, something this contest did not cover. (Besides there is a good number of small drones out there in the hands of many countries)
The are two messages here. First, smart and innovative exist world wide, and second the pace and spread of technology is outstripping the ability for many people to comprehend.
Well there is a third reason, Iran's government needs to impress. Impress their own people more than others btw.
In any armed uprising in the United States your bound to have many of those military and police on the side of those resisting the government. Having been in the military and know friends still in it, there is America and there is the Government. You serve the later versus foreign enemies, your serve the former at all times.
Get this out of the way, we deficit spend the equivalent of NASA's budget in about week now. That is how insignificant their budget is. I know , I know, but daddy its good for points to bash Republicans and claim they are ignorant of science. Sorry, doesn't fly. Both sides are after one goal, to buy off the most voters they can with whats in the pot. The trouble is they are looking outside the pot for money too and there wasn't any, so they just pretend the pot is bigger.
I suggest you just read over Wikipedia's page on NASA budgets then come back and tell us who doesn't like to fund them. Please do.
This site is filled with such ignorant diatribes all based on politics, is that what we have become, name calling one side or another? Did so many fall to the politician's ploy? While your having your little one up contest both sides are wrecking this country. Its time you realize anytime you vote for an incumbent your most likely contributing to the problem, when you vote D or R your most likely contributing to the problem.
The US is what, 2nd or 3rd highest in the world, let alone taxing profits made over seas? Top it off with a capital gains tax on those profits for investors increases the true tax on profit to 52%. Why would you want to expand your business here?
Yes the news is replete with stories about how certain corporations manage to work down to a tax bill of zero (hint, look who they know in Washington, who their boards have lunch with) but in the end we have begun to punish if not vilify success.
There is nothing in the tax code to benefit businesses to ship jobs overseas, out source, or the like. In fact the only benefit to corporation about "going overseas" is if the relocate themselves there.
We have taxed,regulated, and demonized ourselves out of competitiveness. The last part is the constant railing from certain politicians against success, success they preserve for themselves and their cronies but do their damn best to exclude us from. (insider trading, special home loans, election laws permitting their own super pacs, etc).
Get the corporate tax rate down, remove the special exceptions many of them employ (looking at Google/GE and others), end the taxing of overseas profits, and reign in the regulators.
You want people to invest here, then fine, make it worth their while. Artificially propping up numbers with tax dollars has no return on investment, not taking those dollars and letting people decide to spend them does.
they are just like the Apple App store... the prices are lower but you are forever stuck with the purchase, you cannot sell it.
Heck I can't even sell the apps I bought with my iPad should I choose to never have an Apple product again, the apps don't go with with iPad. When I sold my iMac recently I had to revert it to Snow Leopard because when I asked Apple, Lion belonged to my account, not that machine I bought it for (the new machine came with Lion)
So how low must the prices be before its acceptable to give up the option of resale?
Its obvious we are more than willing to create it for them. Ratting out people who offend you is a story as old as history, the problem being is that you can find someone who will take offense for any action you can imagine.
but to which country does a multinational corporation show fealty/loyalty too?
Should companies be required to locally produce items for each market? Yes I understand that Apple is based in the United States; so am I; but does that require them to make their products there?
The middle class has chosen, they chose China for their goods. Don't tell me we didn't choose. We had a choice every single day we went to the store for electronics and we had every choice when we bought our cars.
We bought the product of other people. We did it to save a buck, we did it because we perceived better quality, we did because they made something we wanted. We had industries here that made many of these items. However many priced themselves out of the market, a market we defined by who we purchased our items from.
and here I thought that nice Doctor wrote down I was psychic.... damn those Doctors and their unintelligible writing, just wait till I get my hands on him
It sounds nice, it sounds like "DUH, they should be able to get into municipal broad band"...
but everyone forgets that one detail.
Government.
So what did we end up with, lots of money spent, crap service WHERE you could get it, and you end up with the same politicized process that governs road construction and maintenance in many small towns. Meaning, commissioner X gets the potholes filled on his street, to hell with you.
So, it might make sense; for cities who cannot get a broad band provider; but far too many times you end up with a plan that looks good on paper getting rewritten so many times post approval and having so many exceptions that no one gets the service expected, let alone when, and definitely not for the agreed upon price.
I can fire AT&T and Comcast, I cannot fire my city government, and no elections don't fix it.
because I have yet to see anything smart about pay nearly a hundred a month to use a cell phone that happens to connect to the net. So the word Smart in automotive brings to mind on their abysmal little car.
They will definitely need something other than Smart... because I doubt you can ever disassociate it from the existing car.
As for these battery only solutions, not going to work. Not until they can be charged without actually having to lift a finger, like pulling into a parking space and having a charge plate underneath the car rise up and do the work. Even then range extenders like the Volt and upcoming Fusion and Prius PHEV cars are the near term future.
We need another battery revolution to make battery only cars work, as in 1K range because then people won't have to be so careful. People love to claim 100 or even 200 is enough, but you really have to get it 300+ to get equivalent and 500+ when you look at highway miles (My Golf TDI does 540 between fill ups)
we just have too highly a politicized process for people to understand that.That includes members of this site who one day will cheer someone/something on and the next day vilify it.
I have read many stories about how Apple has been trying to get local and state governments to buy iPads (at one time the Macbooks) and use them in schools. These new tools simply provide more leverage.
See, Apple knows where the real money is, government. With good marketing, which Apple is king of, you can bet they will get your tax dollars in large amounts to "fix education" and any attempts to deny entry will be branded as racist or worse because they will always point to some little kid and guilt you.
Just like Segway made most of their money off of government agencies Apple is aiming for it too. They have nearly tapped out the tablet market and worse for them, Android tablets are catching up. So they need to get in this market and get there now while they are the hot name on everyone's lips.
So, be prepared over the next year or so where politicians line up to associate their name with Apple... and the ghost of Steve Jobs
Why not after the day of scaring the public that these sites simply block IP addresses known to serve US government interests. That way if those people want to use the resources of the web they can do so at home.
which will benefit anyone but the middle class or poor. High Speed rail rarely if ever pays for itself and never benefits those who the politicians claim its aimed at. If anything it has been shown in countries like Spain is that in concentrates wealth in already wealthy cities because it gives greater ease of mobility to those who already have the wealth. Think, businessmen no longer needing to live in the city they work in but instead they can live in a resort style city or coastal city usually connected by these systems.
No, most of these newer rails systems are feel good projects usually funneling money into some favored groups pocket and then to the politicians who sponsor them. The Economist did some great articles on these systems many months ago. What ends up happening is the losses incurred by the communities where the trains don't stop are higher than the gains achieved. Worse, there is a never ending subsidy for those riding the trains which is a reverse transfer of wealth (to the wealthy). I have nothing against the wealthy, I just don't see why we don't call it out for what it is.
Because if carrier lock down is not permitted for subsidized phones then that market will end very quickly. As such it would not be something I would want to come to the US. One of the reasons for the explosion in smart phone popularity other than marketing is that buyers never had to pay for the phone up front.
How is this handled in Chile? Was there ever a subsidized market? If so, what happens to it?
Never applaud a regulation quickly as side effects are not always known or improperly dismissed.
Iran is doing what all failing governments do, redirecting the ire of their people to someone other than itself. Granted they have had their "Great Satan" for many many years the uprisings and home grown terrorism does show the state cannot control all factions present within its borders.
So they need to have their people believe that all fault is outside of the country while at the same time explaining the lack of living standards and such is the great sacrifice needed to uphold Iranian values and freedom in the face of the great enemies abroad. Wow, sounds like North Korea as well.
Iran is the dog on the other side of the fence, barking and slavering to get at you. Yes it has teeth and yes it will hurt, but its going to get such an ass kicking it really enjoys that fence as much as you do.
With all the exaggerated press in the US about war mongering politicians its not exactly reassuring to see that there are still so many crazies abroad to give the locals reason. Iran is threatening more than the US with this boast of closing the straights. Perhaps they are trying to wake their Iman they so desperately need.... most likely a failing leader most likely needs the crisis and possibly the war to stay in power.
Not sure how much markup Apple thinks it can get, the 46 and below market is very saturated and Apple is going to have to work hard to make people believe that TV can be different. Different enough to matter.
Considering the slew of voice activated TVs coming next year I am not sure where Apple thinks it can differentiate or offer value while holding a profit.
I certainly would not feel the need to pay more to use my TV, I know how to use a remote and I really heading towards consuming most of my content via the computer. I would assume they will try to move that interaction people are just starting with their computers for consuming content back to their TV.
What I do want I do not necessarily want built in my TV, that being the ability to record the shows I want to watch when I want. I do not need "extra" hardware in there that may only just break. They could alleviate some of that with a SSD based DVR but the costs would be prohibitive the screen sizes given. There just isn't enough slack to have a premium brand, even Apple's name.
Now, get into the 60+ realm and you hit people with more money and some are more concerned with perception than value. You could sell them anything in aluminum with a logo on it.
and he is no real hero nor the people who dispensed the information. A real hero would have taken the time to scrub names of people who are informants and such in hostile areas. A real hero would always be on the look out for the the little guy, not simply acting out of anger or spite. A real hero does not act as Manning did.
Yes, there were some good outcomes from what he is accused of doing, however we will never know how many lives were lost because of it. Granted we may not know of lives saved, but I am pretty sure those lost are real.
368m for three tabs, really Firefox what gives. Let alone on both my Mac and W7 machines it has started to freeze on occasion to the point I actually have force quit it instead of waiting for it to wake up.
They are pulling a Netscape 4.xx lately and that isn't a good thing.
This is twice the submitter is from the site that has the story, worse its nearly identical if not the same one (ain't going to read this slashvertisement) where they were went off on IT departments enforcing standards.
and they do their damn best to keep it quiet. Look at how quickly stories about Congress and their staffs using insider information was quashed. It went from being front page to gone in days, as if it didn't exist. Similar to how Fast and Furious vanished.
We need an OKS, Occupy K-Street, Wall Street is fully enabled by Washington. They just pay their dues and Washington insiders reap the real rewards.
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Our building in is in a very hilly area which means your coverage is pretty bad. As in there are roads higher than us because of the landscape. I can watch cars drive at an elevation higher than us.
So we had the building wired by one of the wireless companies with repeaters. When two of them went out in one area it was battery life hell. From going the whole work day to dead right after lunch.
I would love to know why they spend so much time looking, aren't they smart enough to know their location isn't changing often
this is not just a trait of those in one region of the world, though living in constant threat of your life from your government and those around you does tend to spur innovation. Even Slashdot has been replete with stories of people creating their own drones, shooting off rockets, and the like.
The difference comes down to scale and integration. Anyone can put up a model plane and find things they are supposed to find. Now, having the ability to do so in varied weather conditions, varied terrains, and coordinate the search and response with related elements is there the process bogs down. It bogs down because of dependencies, something this contest did not cover. (Besides there is a good number of small drones out there in the hands of many countries)
The are two messages here. First, smart and innovative exist world wide, and second the pace and spread of technology is outstripping the ability for many people to comprehend.
Well there is a third reason, Iran's government needs to impress. Impress their own people more than others btw.
the one fact you did not raise.
In any armed uprising in the United States your bound to have many of those military and police on the side of those resisting the government. Having been in the military and know friends still in it, there is America and there is the Government. You serve the later versus foreign enemies, your serve the former at all times.
Get this out of the way, we deficit spend the equivalent of NASA's budget in about week now. That is how insignificant their budget is. I know , I know, but daddy its good for points to bash Republicans and claim they are ignorant of science. Sorry, doesn't fly. Both sides are after one goal, to buy off the most voters they can with whats in the pot. The trouble is they are looking outside the pot for money too and there wasn't any, so they just pretend the pot is bigger.
I suggest you just read over Wikipedia's page on NASA budgets then come back and tell us who doesn't like to fund them. Please do.
This site is filled with such ignorant diatribes all based on politics, is that what we have become, name calling one side or another? Did so many fall to the politician's ploy? While your having your little one up contest both sides are wrecking this country. Its time you realize anytime you vote for an incumbent your most likely contributing to the problem, when you vote D or R your most likely contributing to the problem.
Karma to burn
The US is what, 2nd or 3rd highest in the world, let alone taxing profits made over seas? Top it off with a capital gains tax on those profits for investors increases the true tax on profit to 52%. Why would you want to expand your business here?
Yes the news is replete with stories about how certain corporations manage to work down to a tax bill of zero (hint, look who they know in Washington, who their boards have lunch with) but in the end we have begun to punish if not vilify success.
There is nothing in the tax code to benefit businesses to ship jobs overseas, out source, or the like. In fact the only benefit to corporation about "going overseas" is if the relocate themselves there.
We have taxed,regulated, and demonized ourselves out of competitiveness. The last part is the constant railing from certain politicians against success, success they preserve for themselves and their cronies but do their damn best to exclude us from. (insider trading, special home loans, election laws permitting their own super pacs, etc).
Get the corporate tax rate down, remove the special exceptions many of them employ (looking at Google/GE and others), end the taxing of overseas profits, and reign in the regulators.
You want people to invest here, then fine, make it worth their while. Artificially propping up numbers with tax dollars has no return on investment, not taking those dollars and letting people decide to spend them does.
they are just like the Apple App store... the prices are lower but you are forever stuck with the purchase, you cannot sell it.
Heck I can't even sell the apps I bought with my iPad should I choose to never have an Apple product again, the apps don't go with with iPad. When I sold my iMac recently I had to revert it to Snow Leopard because when I asked Apple, Lion belonged to my account, not that machine I bought it for (the new machine came with Lion)
So how low must the prices be before its acceptable to give up the option of resale?
Its obvious we are more than willing to create it for them. Ratting out people who offend you is a story as old as history, the problem being is that you can find someone who will take offense for any action you can imagine.
Evolution in Action
but to which country does a multinational corporation show fealty/loyalty too?
Should companies be required to locally produce items for each market? Yes I understand that Apple is based in the United States; so am I; but does that require them to make their products there?
The middle class has chosen, they chose China for their goods. Don't tell me we didn't choose. We had a choice every single day we went to the store for electronics and we had every choice when we bought our cars.
We bought the product of other people. We did it to save a buck, we did it because we perceived better quality, we did because they made something we wanted. We had industries here that made many of these items. However many priced themselves out of the market, a market we defined by who we purchased our items from.
So who do we blame? Well just look in the mirror.
and here I thought that nice Doctor wrote down I was psychic.... damn those Doctors and their unintelligible writing, just wait till I get my hands on him
I used to live in two of the cities mentioned.
It sounds nice, it sounds like "DUH, they should be able to get into municipal broad band" ...
but everyone forgets that one detail.
Government.
So what did we end up with, lots of money spent, crap service WHERE you could get it, and you end up with the same politicized process that governs road construction and maintenance in many small towns. Meaning, commissioner X gets the potholes filled on his street, to hell with you.
So, it might make sense; for cities who cannot get a broad band provider; but far too many times you end up with a plan that looks good on paper getting rewritten so many times post approval and having so many exceptions that no one gets the service expected, let alone when, and definitely not for the agreed upon price.
I can fire AT&T and Comcast, I cannot fire my city government, and no elections don't fix it.
because I have yet to see anything smart about pay nearly a hundred a month to use a cell phone that happens to connect to the net. So the word Smart in automotive brings to mind on their abysmal little car.
They will definitely need something other than Smart... because I doubt you can ever disassociate it from the existing car.
As for these battery only solutions, not going to work. Not until they can be charged without actually having to lift a finger, like pulling into a parking space and having a charge plate underneath the car rise up and do the work. Even then range extenders like the Volt and upcoming Fusion and Prius PHEV cars are the near term future.
We need another battery revolution to make battery only cars work, as in 1K range because then people won't have to be so careful. People love to claim 100 or even 200 is enough, but you really have to get it 300+ to get equivalent and 500+ when you look at highway miles (My Golf TDI does 540 between fill ups)
we just have too highly a politicized process for people to understand that.That includes members of this site who one day will cheer someone/something on and the next day vilify it.
I have read many stories about how Apple has been trying to get local and state governments to buy iPads (at one time the Macbooks) and use them in schools. These new tools simply provide more leverage.
See, Apple knows where the real money is, government. With good marketing, which Apple is king of, you can bet they will get your tax dollars in large amounts to "fix education" and any attempts to deny entry will be branded as racist or worse because they will always point to some little kid and guilt you.
Just like Segway made most of their money off of government agencies Apple is aiming for it too. They have nearly tapped out the tablet market and worse for them, Android tablets are catching up. So they need to get in this market and get there now while they are the hot name on everyone's lips.
So, be prepared over the next year or so where politicians line up to associate their name with Apple ... and the ghost of Steve Jobs
Why not after the day of scaring the public that these sites simply block IP addresses known to serve US government interests. That way if those people want to use the resources of the web they can do so at home.
which will benefit anyone but the middle class or poor. High Speed rail rarely if ever pays for itself and never benefits those who the politicians claim its aimed at. If anything it has been shown in countries like Spain is that in concentrates wealth in already wealthy cities because it gives greater ease of mobility to those who already have the wealth. Think, businessmen no longer needing to live in the city they work in but instead they can live in a resort style city or coastal city usually connected by these systems.
No, most of these newer rails systems are feel good projects usually funneling money into some favored groups pocket and then to the politicians who sponsor them. The Economist did some great articles on these systems many months ago. What ends up happening is the losses incurred by the communities where the trains don't stop are higher than the gains achieved. Worse, there is a never ending subsidy for those riding the trains which is a reverse transfer of wealth (to the wealthy). I have nothing against the wealthy, I just don't see why we don't call it out for what it is.
the uses of his name in Science Fiction novels.
People will find ways to honor him because people respect him, some are in awe, but he is truly a rare person.
is when I get interested
how does the law handle those?
Because if carrier lock down is not permitted for subsidized phones then that market will end very quickly. As such it would not be something I would want to come to the US. One of the reasons for the explosion in smart phone popularity other than marketing is that buyers never had to pay for the phone up front.
How is this handled in Chile? Was there ever a subsidized market? If so, what happens to it?
Never applaud a regulation quickly as side effects are not always known or improperly dismissed.
and for the government to prevent mean old companies like them from doing this EVER again....
don't expect the youth of this nation to do what you expect.
When there are so many too choose from abroad?
Iran is doing what all failing governments do, redirecting the ire of their people to someone other than itself. Granted they have had their "Great Satan" for many many years the uprisings and home grown terrorism does show the state cannot control all factions present within its borders.
So they need to have their people believe that all fault is outside of the country while at the same time explaining the lack of living standards and such is the great sacrifice needed to uphold Iranian values and freedom in the face of the great enemies abroad. Wow, sounds like North Korea as well.
Iran is the dog on the other side of the fence, barking and slavering to get at you. Yes it has teeth and yes it will hurt, but its going to get such an ass kicking it really enjoys that fence as much as you do.
With all the exaggerated press in the US about war mongering politicians its not exactly reassuring to see that there are still so many crazies abroad to give the locals reason. Iran is threatening more than the US with this boast of closing the straights. Perhaps they are trying to wake their Iman they so desperately need.... most likely a failing leader most likely needs the crisis and possibly the war to stay in power.
Price points most likely.
Not sure how much markup Apple thinks it can get, the 46 and below market is very saturated and Apple is going to have to work hard to make people believe that TV can be different. Different enough to matter.
Considering the slew of voice activated TVs coming next year I am not sure where Apple thinks it can differentiate or offer value while holding a profit.
I certainly would not feel the need to pay more to use my TV, I know how to use a remote and I really heading towards consuming most of my content via the computer. I would assume they will try to move that interaction people are just starting with their computers for consuming content back to their TV.
What I do want I do not necessarily want built in my TV, that being the ability to record the shows I want to watch when I want. I do not need "extra" hardware in there that may only just break. They could alleviate some of that with a SSD based DVR but the costs would be prohibitive the screen sizes given. There just isn't enough slack to have a premium brand, even Apple's name.
Now, get into the 60+ realm and you hit people with more money and some are more concerned with perception than value. You could sell them anything in aluminum with a logo on it.
and he is no real hero nor the people who dispensed the information. A real hero would have taken the time to scrub names of people who are informants and such in hostile areas. A real hero would always be on the look out for the the little guy, not simply acting out of anger or spite. A real hero does not act as Manning did.
Yes, there were some good outcomes from what he is accused of doing, however we will never know how many lives were lost because of it. Granted we may not know of lives saved, but I am pretty sure those lost are real.
368m for three tabs, really Firefox what gives. Let alone on both my Mac and W7 machines it has started to freeze on occasion to the point I actually have force quit it instead of waiting for it to wake up.
They are pulling a Netscape 4.xx lately and that isn't a good thing.
This is twice the submitter is from the site that has the story, worse its nearly identical if not the same one (ain't going to read this slashvertisement) where they were went off on IT departments enforcing standards.
and they do their damn best to keep it quiet. Look at how quickly stories about Congress and their staffs using insider information was quashed. It went from being front page to gone in days, as if it didn't exist. Similar to how Fast and Furious vanished.
We need an OKS, Occupy K-Street, Wall Street is fully enabled by Washington. They just pay their dues and Washington insiders reap the real rewards.