That might be a cultural thing.. in the US (because everything revolves around the US).. car salespersons are commissioned, they don't sell, they don't eat, with such things as working 5-6 12 hour days at some dealerships being common.
There's also an adversarial arrangement at many of them where the customer is expected to negotiate for the price of the car with an unseen sales manager with a 10-20 minute wait each time, so just agreeing on a price can take hours.
Than there's the financing, where they can and do steer you towards loans that are higher interest rates or worse terms than you might otherwise qualify for because the dealership makes money from the bank on the front end. This is especially true if the purchaser doesn't have very good credit.
All this to say, buying a car can be an arduous, mentally draining process here...
That's a false equivelancy because in your example, those jobs that were displaced were recreated doing something else in a similar field.
With automation, those jobs are gone.. poof.. no similar spot to take its place.
In an ideal world, everyone else would just work less hours, but that won't get around the reality of it being easier to push the remaining people harder than it is to lessen their load at the bosses expense.
You are assuming enough transparency and objective metrics to know what was working well in the first place.
You are also assuming that it is better to let things fail than let them succeed.
The opposite is true, those functions that continue to work well, despite and interuption are exactly those functions that worked well in the first place.
Effectively you are suggesting to keep the stuff that is broken and shut down the stuff that works, which is a good enough metaphor for this administration as I've heard.
The synopsis left out a critical detail.. the fact that the US can either intentionally degrade the accuracy of the resulting signal by hundreds of meters.
Or they can disable its functionality completely over a certain area.
That's all on the whim of the US government. They haven't degraded the signal for decades, but they can and would in areas like a war theater or over an arbitrary "enemy" nation / region.
Under normal circumstances I would never expect the US to do so, but with the current government being as erratic as it is, you never know, and that uncertainty is certainly enough to have other nations redoubling their efforts to build competing systems.
HSPA+ is far inferior to LTE in the most important aspect.. capacity.
e.g. with a pretty standard 5mhz channel, HSPA will spit out 14.4mb/s. That same channel in LTE is ~25-30mb/s, with a lot of other factors like lower latency, more resource blocks and more users able to use that resource being among them, to say nothing of 256QAM, MIMO, beamforming, carrier aggregation that only really applies to LTE.
The term you are looking for on multiple towers is called soft handoff, and yes HSPA has soft handoff.
I remember as an Netware admin, a bunch of us built a Netware server with multiple NIC in it to segment the network, just so the department could play Doom/Quake/Descent on the LAN without noticeably slowing down the office.
This was of course in the day before "every port is a switch, every port is it's own collision domain".
This games release also pushed untold numbers of us to learn what ethernet was, what IPX was, how to configure DOS autoexec.bat and config.sys files to eek out enough memory to play them.
Or even how to perform basic PC hardware maintenance like upgrading video cards, processors, etc.. if not for the fact that we _needed_ to do those things to play the game better than your friend.
The selection of device makes a huge difference for TMO.
Pretty much only the latest generations of Galaxy S8 or higher (or Apple Iphone X) support all of the bands they use to the fullest extent.
e.g. for rural coverage, they might deploy only band 71// 600mhz band for LTE coverage, rather than putting GSM/UMTS out, simply because there's not enough demand for the closer tower spacing required for 1900 coverage.
I drove for Lyft for a short period of time.. interesting to say the least.
At least they are relying on their drivers desire to do a better job by constantly sending text messages, emails, in app popups to try and get drivers to never decline a trip, and chastising them with "it's better for the community" messages when they don't take trips or their ratings go down.
That's all well and good,except it flies in the face of the reality of driving for them, that is, only accepting trips that are close, only working high demand areas, only working when there's a fare multiplier in effect.
e.g. what's good for the company isn't necessarily good for the driver.. she is not an employee, yet they expect her to act like one.
Open up your GPS information page.. you'll see that your phone's receiver is able to "see" a dozen or more satellites at once with a clear view of the sky.
Dedicated receivers can outperform a phone of course, but that's not the point of your post.
First off, countries like Germany have been working with solar for decades as part of their infrastructure without issue.
The other is that renewables are a multiheaded thing.
E.g. you don't just build solar, you also build wind, you build hydroelectric, you build stored energy plants like water pumps during the night, you interconnect the power grids so a shortfall in one source means drawing on other sources.
e.g. same idea as today, just with more power sources.
Government is _exactly_ what's needed for necessary things like power and gas delivery.
What makes you think a company that answers to shareholders will do things more efficiently, and includes their profit margin, than a public utility that has no profits to generate.
E.g. your assumption that a public utility is inherently wasteful, or that too much money goes to pensions isn't supported by the large number of agencies that operate utilities very efficently.. the pensions and waste you cite are red herrings.
Most all public utilities have regulations in place that almost all of the money collected go towards providing the service being regulated.
There might be surcharges or forward fees in your bill for new infrastructure or power plants, but again, those things are for he use of the rate payers, not the profit margins of the shareholders.
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Opening a bank account, obtaining a license and using public transportation are not constitutionally enumerated rights.
The constitution is very very sparse on the specifics of many different things .. but unencumbered access to the ballot box _is_
How can we be talking about internet RFCs without mentioning the most important one?
The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite
How else would we get the collective works of Shakespeare with an infinite supply of monkeys/typewriters/bananas?
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...
Which US gear are you referring to?
Nokia is Nokia-Alcatel-Lucent, not sure which is dominant, other than Nokia is Norway, Alcatel was French
Ericsson is Sweden
Samsung is Korean
That's most of your LTE infrastructure vendors, and all are not US based.
I work in telecommunications and can say without hesitation that there's very little new money in actual phone conversations.
Have you noticed that even the bare bones $15 per month cellular plans are either unlimited calls, or have a large bucket of minutes assigned to them?
The cost and profit is so low that it realistically costs more to generate an itemized bill than it does to nickle and dime people for service.
Is 1,207 megawatts sufficiently close to 1.21 to say
1.21 JIGGAWATTS!
?
That might be a cultural thing .. in the US (because everything revolves around the US) .. car salespersons are commissioned, they don't sell, they don't eat, with such things as working 5-6 12 hour days at some dealerships being common.
There's also an adversarial arrangement at many of them where the customer is expected to negotiate for the price of the car with an unseen sales manager with a 10-20 minute wait each time, so just agreeing on a price can take hours.
Than there's the financing, where they can and do steer you towards loans that are higher interest rates or worse terms than you might otherwise qualify for because the dealership makes money from the bank on the front end. This is especially true if the purchaser doesn't have very good credit.
All this to say, buying a car can be an arduous, mentally draining process here...
50-80mhz is not common .. at least in the US, the FDD allocations are more like 5x5, 10x10, 15x15 and rarely 20x20.
Carrier aggregation is a thing, but different frequency bands have different characteristics, and a mobile antenna is only _so_ versatile.
It's like everywhere else has recognized that the cost of deploying renewables are now cheaper than their equivalent fossil fuels counterparts.
It makes more economic sense to be green than it does to be dirty...
The article is about literal greening of areas of course, but the underlying reason is similar.
"The company is reacting to the wave of economic uncertainty that the new governor has brought with his administration."
That's a funny way of saying "will of the people", as in the citizens didn't like what the Republican governor was doing, so they replaced him.
That's a false equivelancy because in your example, those jobs that were displaced were recreated doing something else in a similar field.
With automation, those jobs are gone .. poof .. no similar spot to take its place.
In an ideal world, everyone else would just work less hours, but that won't get around the reality of it being easier to push the remaining people harder than it is to lessen their load at the bosses expense.
You are assuming enough transparency and objective metrics to know what was working well in the first place.
You are also assuming that it is better to let things fail than let them succeed.
The opposite is true, those functions that continue to work well, despite and interuption are exactly those functions that worked well in the first place.
Effectively you are suggesting to keep the stuff that is broken and shut down the stuff that works, which is a good enough metaphor for this administration as I've heard.
The synopsis left out a critical detail .. the fact that the US can either intentionally degrade the accuracy of the resulting signal by hundreds of meters.
Or they can disable its functionality completely over a certain area.
That's all on the whim of the US government. They haven't degraded the signal for decades, but they can and would in areas like a war theater or over an arbitrary "enemy" nation / region.
Under normal circumstances I would never expect the US to do so, but with the current government being as erratic as it is, you never know, and that uncertainty is certainly enough to have other nations redoubling their efforts to build competing systems.
HSPA+ is far inferior to LTE in the most important aspect .. capacity.
e.g. with a pretty standard 5mhz channel, HSPA will spit out 14.4mb/s. That same channel in LTE is ~25-30mb/s, with a lot of other factors like lower latency, more resource blocks and more users able to use that resource being among them, to say nothing of 256QAM, MIMO, beamforming, carrier aggregation that only really applies to LTE.
The term you are looking for on multiple towers is called soft handoff, and yes HSPA has soft handoff.
PIDdoom .. careful what you kill, else crash the host.
I remember as an Netware admin, a bunch of us built a Netware server with multiple NIC in it to segment the network, just so the department could play Doom/Quake/Descent on the LAN without noticeably slowing down the office.
This was of course in the day before "every port is a switch, every port is it's own collision domain".
This games release also pushed untold numbers of us to learn what ethernet was, what IPX was, how to configure DOS autoexec.bat and config.sys files to eek out enough memory to play them.
Or even how to perform basic PC hardware maintenance like upgrading video cards, processors, etc .. if not for the fact that we _needed_ to do those things to play the game better than your friend.
The selection of device makes a huge difference for TMO.
Pretty much only the latest generations of Galaxy S8 or higher (or Apple Iphone X) support all of the bands they use to the fullest extent.
e.g. for rural coverage, they might deploy only band 71 // 600mhz band for LTE coverage, rather than putting GSM/UMTS out, simply because there's not enough demand for the closer tower spacing required for 1900 coverage.
You mean COMDEX isn't being held anymore?
Oh wait, it's not 2002.
Those frequencies are among the most likely to be reallocated to 5G cellular service.
They might service a prototype plan, but not anything going longer term.
I drove for Lyft for a short period of time .. interesting to say the least.
At least they are relying on their drivers desire to do a better job by constantly sending text messages, emails, in app popups to try and get drivers to never decline a trip, and chastising them with "it's better for the community" messages when they don't take trips or their ratings go down.
That's all well and good,except it flies in the face of the reality of driving for them, that is, only accepting trips that are close, only working high demand areas, only working when there's a fare multiplier in effect.
e.g. what's good for the company isn't necessarily good for the driver .. she is not an employee, yet they expect her to act like one.
It means that for some, they'll be able to make OK .. not good .. ok money.
For people trying to do it full time, forget it.
By OK money I mean doing it when surge pricing is in effect for Uber, and no other times.
For the vast majority of gig economy jobs, it means making minimum wage for no benefits.
Open up your GPS information page .. you'll see that your phone's receiver is able to "see" a dozen or more satellites at once with a clear view of the sky.
Dedicated receivers can outperform a phone of course, but that's not the point of your post.
Odd, every phone I've had over the last several years has had no problem receiving GLONASS telemetry data.
If I remember correctly, it's required to sell phones in Russia without paying an exhorbitant tax.
Want to see for yourself? -- go download "GPS Status" on the android app store and see how many non US-GPS satellites it hears.
First off, countries like Germany have been working with solar for decades as part of their infrastructure without issue.
The other is that renewables are a multiheaded thing.
E.g. you don't just build solar, you also build wind, you build hydroelectric, you build stored energy plants like water pumps during the night, you interconnect the power grids so a shortfall in one source means drawing on other sources.
e.g. same idea as today, just with more power sources.
How many straw men can you get in one post?
Government is _exactly_ what's needed for necessary things like power and gas delivery.
What makes you think a company that answers to shareholders will do things more efficiently, and includes their profit margin, than a public utility that has no profits to generate.
E.g. your assumption that a public utility is inherently wasteful, or that too much money goes to pensions isn't supported by the large number of agencies that operate utilities very efficently .. the pensions and waste you cite are red herrings.
Most all public utilities have regulations in place that almost all of the money collected go towards providing the service being regulated.
There might be surcharges or forward fees in your bill for new infrastructure or power plants, but again, those things are for he use of the rate payers, not the profit margins of the shareholders.