1. Indeed, it's about 16 USD 2. Going by the currency, GP is from the UK. Phones can actually be bought cheaply without selling your soul for 2 years, because you don't have to buy from your provider, you can get it at a shop and pop in your SIM.
I agree that anyone who jailbroke their phone was an idiot for allowing updates.
On the other hand, the difference between "Ooops, your changed binary got patched in the wrong place" and "if AuthenticBinary() then NukeDevice() else Patch()" is roughly the same as what happens to a burglar when he steps on the broken glass after breaking into my house Vs me planting bear traps next to each of my windows.
The first is schadenfreude, the latter legally actionable.
The question is more like "put devs on Android and make Y money" or "put devs on Iphone and have X chance of making 400*Y and (1-X) of making $0 and losing their investment"
As long as X is bigger than.0025, they should make a bunch of Iphone games and take their chances.
These boxes won't have 0 local storage, just no mechanical disks.
Retail, you can get 32 gigs of 'meh' flash for $60(cheaper if you risk buying overseas). The smallest laptop disk I could find in a few minutes of searching was 80 gigs and cost $45, but spend another $15 and you could get 320 gigs.
I get the impression that we won't get rotational media for much cheaper(total price, not price per bit), barring currency screwups, because the metal and mechanics cost more than the rust stuck to the platter.
Flash needs to get several generations larger & cheaper before it really displaces rotational media, but I already only use disks for NAS and backups. Everything else(phone, laptop, car stero, etc) is flash-based
Truth in advertising, IMHO, would be served if Verizon was required to put a tagline to the effect that "Note: Normal cellular calling coverage may extend outside the 3G-covered area".
They didn't have that initially, but after ATT made some growling noises, they put it under the map in tiny letters.
Why on earth would you bother with monitoring random houses to see if they are on vacation, when you could just query the database to see which houses have had statistically lower power usage for a few days but are still current on their bills.
No, but they could say something like "paying 5% to the destination state prevents that state from going after you"
Much like current mail order houses flock to low-population states, they would flock to any state that didn't enact a law to contradict the federal rule.
You may need to greatly reduce the length of time an entry is in your router's NAT table. Some badly-configured routers will keep an entry for a whole day.
Also, as others have said, reduce the number of connections in your client, but that won't necessarily help if your node is popular, because denied connections still count.
Epic Fail, dude. SSH into your home linux box and do the update there. There are many remote desktop apps for the iPhone, and you could use Lynx on a Linux box in a pinch.
And you'll have pre-scouted the area for an open wifi node, I assume? Because if your iphone's cell connection isn't off, the cops will wonder why your phone handshaked with a tower 13 miles from your house.
It will be implemented badly. They've already stated it will only do gross motions and have limited resolution. It's the 2d camera version of the Sega Activator.
While a lot of people like flailing about, I rather prefer to be a tool and play from the couch.
Finger/hand tracking would be awesome. Limb tracking, not so much.
One could, I suppose, construct a sort of Schrodinger's baby scenario to determine percent humanity based on probability of successful birth, but what's the point?
Easy enough test. Induce labor, stick the results in an incubator. If it lives, it's human. Otherwise, it counts as a miscarriage.
Some cultures with high child mortality extended this idea over all births, and until the child could speak.
And that's why a cheap, low-power computer or hackable router is awesome. Just run your own nameserver.
My ISP isn't horrible, but they hijack DNS with a "friendly" error message when there is more than a little network congestion, which sticks until the cache is flushed. That was enough to get me to stop using their server.
What is it with Sony fanboys that they are the most neurotically defensive gamers around? They're beating even the gloating Nintendo fanboys of the 80s, the paranoid Sega fanboys of the 90s and the smug Amiga fanboys.
When you are spending 2-3 times as much for your console, you have to justify it to yourself. Obviously, if it cost that much, it must be at least that much better, otherwise you might have *horrors* been ripped off.
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1. Indeed, it's about 16 USD
2. Going by the currency, GP is from the UK. Phones can actually be bought cheaply without selling your soul for 2 years, because you don't have to buy from your provider, you can get it at a shop and pop in your SIM.
Doh!
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I agree that anyone who jailbroke their phone was an idiot for allowing updates.
On the other hand, the difference between "Ooops, your changed binary got patched in the wrong place" and "if AuthenticBinary() then NukeDevice() else Patch()" is roughly the same as what happens to a burglar when he steps on the broken glass after breaking into my house Vs me planting bear traps next to each of my windows.
The first is schadenfreude, the latter legally actionable.
The question is more like "put devs on Android and make Y money" or "put devs on Iphone and have X chance of making 400*Y and (1-X) of making $0 and losing their investment"
As long as X is bigger than .0025, they should make a bunch of Iphone games and take their chances.
These boxes won't have 0 local storage, just no mechanical disks.
Retail, you can get 32 gigs of 'meh' flash for $60(cheaper if you risk buying overseas). The smallest laptop disk I could find in a few minutes of searching was 80 gigs and cost $45, but spend another $15 and you could get 320 gigs.
I get the impression that we won't get rotational media for much cheaper(total price, not price per bit), barring currency screwups, because the metal and mechanics cost more than the rust stuck to the platter.
Flash needs to get several generations larger & cheaper before it really displaces rotational media, but I already only use disks for NAS and backups. Everything else(phone, laptop, car stero, etc) is flash-based
They didn't have that initially, but after ATT made some growling noises, they put it under the map in tiny letters.
Why on earth would you bother with monitoring random houses to see if they are on vacation, when you could just query the database to see which houses have had statistically lower power usage for a few days but are still current on their bills.
Saves lots of time.
No, but they could say something like "paying 5% to the destination state prevents that state from going after you"
Much like current mail order houses flock to low-population states, they would flock to any state that didn't enact a law to contradict the federal rule.
Many states have different sales taxes by type of good(e.g. 0% on bread, 15% on caviar)
So 50 states*1000s of categories.
The claim that Barnes & Noble collecting sales tax disproves Amazon's argument is bogus because B&N sells substantially fewer categories of goods.
Depends on the state and how many yard sales you have, many only require sales taxes after the first one in a year.
The idea is to keep you from running a small business on your lawn.
You may need to greatly reduce the length of time an entry is in your router's NAT table. Some badly-configured routers will keep an entry for a whole day.
Also, as others have said, reduce the number of connections in your client, but that won't necessarily help if your node is popular, because denied connections still count.
And you'll have pre-scouted the area for an open wifi node, I assume? Because if your iphone's cell connection isn't off, the cops will wonder why your phone handshaked with a tower 13 miles from your house.
It'd allow you to take four 3 megapixel pictures in extremely rapid succession.
Unless they break first.
It will be implemented badly. They've already stated it will only do gross motions and have limited resolution. It's the 2d camera version of the Sega Activator.
While a lot of people like flailing about, I rather prefer to be a tool and play from the couch.
Finger/hand tracking would be awesome. Limb tracking, not so much.
I believe they told them to re-enable logging.
No, lets do convince them to bring it back. I could use some free/subsidized barcode readers. Especially if they make them non-contact this time.
Wow... I bet they sometimes leave the fridge open to cool the break room.
Use it to listen to internet radio for 8 hours a day?
Easy enough test. Induce labor, stick the results in an incubator. If it lives, it's human. Otherwise, it counts as a miscarriage.
Some cultures with high child mortality extended this idea over all births, and until the child could speak.
But so many people support abortion after the 57th trimester...
If I'm OCD enough to set up my own DNSd, why do you assume I'd not think about that?
True, most people don't have hardware on another network, but virtual servers are silly cheap if you are only using it for DNS and SSH redirection.
And that's why a cheap, low-power computer or hackable router is awesome. Just run your own nameserver.
My ISP isn't horrible, but they hijack DNS with a "friendly" error message when there is more than a little network congestion, which sticks until the cache is flushed. That was enough to get me to stop using their server.
When you are spending 2-3 times as much for your console, you have to justify it to yourself. Obviously, if it cost that much, it must be at least that much better, otherwise you might have *horrors* been ripped off.