Unless you're blind, or happen to be looking the other way when the drunk in a prius bears down on you. Which is why some sort of fake engine noise will eventually be mandated (if it hasn't been already).
When you're in front of a car, you don't hear much engine noise. Especially since there is very little load on the engine at speeds fast enough to hurt people (unless they're testing their 0-60 time). What you DO hear is road noise from the tires, which is not any different between electric and ICE vehicles.
The Nissan Leaf, for instance, makes an artificial electric vehicle noise until about 20 mph... after that you wouldn't be able to hear the fake engine noise over the wind and tires. Go listen to one drive around a parking lot though, and you'll mostly hear it leaving.
I'm kind of against the noise in general, as I don't think many blind people are being saved by the artificial noise (but rather from aids, the real sounds, etc), and short of the driving honking, some fake engine noise isn't going to save you from a drunk prius bearing down on you.
I was talking with someone who gave additional reason to cut cord from Comcast is HD from OTA is far superior than on cable which is highly compressed to transmit all those channels down the coax.
I long suspected Cox cable re-compressed our local stations, but then found out all the stations are sharing 2 HD stations per transmitter, some with an extra SD subchannel. So even over the air, all my locals are less than 9 Mbps. Cox has the dirty work done for them already, and just sends out the same signal.
In my area, many of our OTA network stations share a channel (due to financial issues, not to free up spectrum). Fox/ABC, CBS/CW, NBC/myTV.
I think most programs have no issues with 12+ Mbps, which usually leaves room for a SD sub-channel. However, shoving two HD programs into a 6 MHz channel leaves each ~9 Mbps. Sports programs suffer significant blocking and pixelation on fast action and pans. Live shows such as America's Got Talent also block and pixelate. Studio shows fare better.
I believe the problem may vary based on market since, I assume, the broadcasts are re-compressed locally and we're at the mercy of the capability of whatever system my money-starved stations purchased. NBC and CBS are the worst here, and I'm not sure if it's their choice of compression hardware or just that 1080i suffers more than 720p.
So basically on these shared channels, you suffer from limited bandwidth, re-compression artifacts (going form 12-18 Mbps down to 9), and local hardware limitations (poor quality compressor, no pre-processing/single-pass only, etc).
To be fair, the US prisons on that list were elaborate clean facilities, unlike most of the rest. One made the list for "brutal" guards, and the other for being so secure the prisoners want to kill themselves. Sounds like a different level of "bad" than rampant AIDS outbreaks or occasional massacres of the entire population.
Exactly. He had "Microsoft Studios Creative Director" as his title on Twitter. If you don't want to appear to be speaking for the company you work for, don't slap your title on there.
A lot of people are using this as an excuse to complain about all the junk mail they get. Why don't you do something about it? Cancel all the catalogs and crap you're getting.
If the EU had standardized on a free (no royalties) Lightning connector, everyone would be crying foul over government mandates and how it stifles innovation.
The goal was to get rid of large power bricks attached to proprietary connectors. Apple has for MANY years supplied a power plug with a standard USB connector and used the same cable/connector for 10 years. THAT has reduced waste. What other phone manufacturer has stuck with their plugs that long? How many phones will charge from a 10 year old cable?
What about all those phones that include a micro-USB port for charging, but then have ANOTHER port or a ANOTHER special proprietary cable to get audio/video out?
AT&T bought Cingular, honored the contract and here we are today.
Actually, Cingular bought AT&T Wireless, then renamed itself AT&T Mobility. Even though they spent all that money to come up with "Cingular", "AT&T" still had more brand power.
Read the original Engadget post and the court documents are weaselly. They are simply saying that customers should not expect phone unlocks because USA Today made it public knowledge that there was a 5 year contract. They did NOT reveal the actual contract as part of the court documents, nor did they go on record confirming the contract. USA Today never said the contract started in 2007, that's just when they reported it. Lot's of assumptions being made.
I suspect the "5 year agreement" started earlier than 2007... say end of 2005 when Apple wanted to lock down a network/carrier to try out their new revenue system.
None of the previous rumors have involved Pegatron already tooling up for production of an iPhone. Granted, that leak was right before their IPO--so I'd says there's an even chance that someone made it up to boost the stock, or they really are producing an iPhone under secrecy and needed to leak the info to boost the stock.
I'd say if we're going to hear something official, it will be at the September iPod event. If Pegatron really is going to produce iPhones, it will be hard to keep it a secret, so I would be shocked if Apple didn't plan to reveal something until Nov-Jan timeframe (which would coincide with VZW's LTE announcements).
Show me the signatures on that contract and the date it was signed. Their "confirmation" is a referral to general knowledge of an exclusivity deal because USA Today published wording to that effect. Basically they're using weasel wording so they don't have to disclose the actual contract--which suggests the whole truth is missing. Further, who's to say the 5 year exclusivity deal started the day the iPhone went on sale, and not 18 months earlier when Apple was looking to lock a network? You think they designed, built, and shipped a phone with a contract that didn't start until they reached customer's hands?
And the other is that the last time I checked, Verizon doesn't have GSM. Why would Apple manufacture two different devices, and one that can't be used in all the other world markets? I'm not trying to start a GSM/CDMA holy war, just acknowledging that Apple is doing just fine with AT&T and GSM. Why would they go through all that trouble just to get Verizon customers?
Especially since Verizon seems to insist on branding all phones they offer--I don't see how Steve would accept that either.
Verizon has nearly 93 million subscribers, a large percentage of which have expressed interest in an iPhone. Apple is expected to sell 16 million iPhones this year to AT&T's 83 million subscribers, which is nearly half of their total sales. Why wouldn't Apple jump at the earliest opportunity to further increase sales by another 50%? It's not a big technical feat for them to design a CDMA iPhone, other manufacturers with much less money at stake than Apple produce multiple models on CDMA, GSM, euro-specific frequencies, AT&T frequencies, and T-Mobile frequencies. After Apple's done with VZW, there's also China and Canada, along with Sprint, Cricket, and MetroPCS in the US all with decent numbers of CDMA subscribers. In all, world CDMA subscribers are something like 462 million, even if that's only 14% of the mobile market.
Can't see a CDMA iPhone at this late stage. It's been end-of-lifed for quite some time.
Yeah, because no one else makes new CDMA phones these days. It would be stupid to design something like a Droid X CDMA-only phone and try to sell that in this market... or a Samsung Galaxy S... etc.
Seriously, its not that hard for Apple to make a CDMA version of the iPhone--its more a matter of their exclusivity contract.
To say that CDMA is EOL, is just plain dumb. LTE is being deployed on 700 MHz, and not replacing CDMA on 850/1900 for MANY years. Consider that most people don't keep a smart phone for more than 2 years, often just 1, and Apple could release a couple generations of CDMA-only iPhones and still make bank on the sales.
I'll hope like everyone else that if VZW gets an iPhone in 2011 that it will support CDMA+LTE much like the EVO 4G support WiMax, but I wouldn't be surprised if they released a CDMA-only version and then caught everyone for an upgrade a year later to the 4G version. Was no one around in 2007 when they released the original iPhone with no 3G?
Absolutely! That is one of the major points TFA makes. The top 5 passwords account for 1.75% of all the accounts, and the top password alone accounts for 0.9% of accounts.
If a hacker would have used the list of the top 5000 passwords as a dictionary for brute force attack on Rockyou. com users, it would take only one attempt (per account) to guess 0.9% of the users passwords or a rate of one success per 111 attempts. Assuming an attacker with a DSL connection of 55KBPS upload rate and that each attempt is 0.5KB in size, it means that the attacker can have 110 attempts per second. At this rate, a hacker will gain access to one new account every second or just less than 17 minutes to compromise 1000 accounts. And the problem is exponential. After the first wave of attacks, it would only take 116 attempts per account to compromise 5% of the accounts, 683 attempts to compromise 10% of accounts and about 5000 attempts to compromise 20% of accounts.
Anyone who spends any significant amount of time on that utter e-cesspool of amateur gossip queens attention seekers and other undesirable groups of society who for some reason can't or refuse to socialise in real life can't possibly have the bare minimum of intelligence required to be in college.
Facebook IS real life. It isn't any less real than emailing all the same people that live 300 miles away from me. And with FB, they can choose when to be assaulted by pictures of my kids rather than receiving them in their email, buried between their Amazon.com order confirmation, and an ad for some really good spyware remover. I'm certainly not going to go get prints made of the pictures and use the USPS to send a pack of 50 pictures to 300 people.
Seriously, why can't people realize their friends list is their ACL?
What if the ex-boyfriend is the mortuary science professor?
BTW, please read the Star-Tribune account before assuming the Slashdot synopsis is the full account of the FaceBook posting... you know if you're not already trained to not RTFA.
Ideally, you would create a new standard for your battery and it would get a number assigned. Then anyone who wanted to use your new battery would be able to grab the free specs and send you an order for 1000s of them. Then another manufacture would also get your specs and start producing their own version of the battery using their own technology, but perhaps offering 80% capacity for 70% price. You would be prompted to optimize your process, cut costs, etc, and voila, competition.
Instead, you'll produce your fancy technology in a copyrighted, trademarked, restricted form factor and charge an arm and a leg for it. You won't make any money until another manufacturer tries to produce one that fits and you sue them to hell. Meanwhile, a Chinese manufacturer will produce a cheap knockoff with 25% of the performance, but for pennies on the dollar and still make some change.
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Watching and trading CP improves the PC economy. The more kiddie porn being watched, the more lucrative it is to make it. Supply and Demand.
Source: I watch a lot of Law and Order: SVU.
Unless you're blind, or happen to be looking the other way when the drunk in a prius bears down on you. Which is why some sort of fake engine noise will eventually be mandated (if it hasn't been already).
When you're in front of a car, you don't hear much engine noise. Especially since there is very little load on the engine at speeds fast enough to hurt people (unless they're testing their 0-60 time). What you DO hear is road noise from the tires, which is not any different between electric and ICE vehicles.
The Nissan Leaf, for instance, makes an artificial electric vehicle noise until about 20 mph... after that you wouldn't be able to hear the fake engine noise over the wind and tires. Go listen to one drive around a parking lot though, and you'll mostly hear it leaving.
I'm kind of against the noise in general, as I don't think many blind people are being saved by the artificial noise (but rather from aids, the real sounds, etc), and short of the driving honking, some fake engine noise isn't going to save you from a drunk prius bearing down on you.
I was talking with someone who gave additional reason to cut cord from Comcast is HD from OTA is far superior than on cable which is highly compressed to transmit all those channels down the coax.
I long suspected Cox cable re-compressed our local stations, but then found out all the stations are sharing 2 HD stations per transmitter, some with an extra SD subchannel. So even over the air, all my locals are less than 9 Mbps. Cox has the dirty work done for them already, and just sends out the same signal.
In my area, many of our OTA network stations share a channel (due to financial issues, not to free up spectrum). Fox/ABC, CBS/CW, NBC/myTV.
I think most programs have no issues with 12+ Mbps, which usually leaves room for a SD sub-channel. However, shoving two HD programs into a 6 MHz channel leaves each ~9 Mbps. Sports programs suffer significant blocking and pixelation on fast action and pans. Live shows such as America's Got Talent also block and pixelate. Studio shows fare better.
I believe the problem may vary based on market since, I assume, the broadcasts are re-compressed locally and we're at the mercy of the capability of whatever system my money-starved stations purchased. NBC and CBS are the worst here, and I'm not sure if it's their choice of compression hardware or just that 1080i suffers more than 720p.
So basically on these shared channels, you suffer from limited bandwidth, re-compression artifacts (going form 12-18 Mbps down to 9), and local hardware limitations (poor quality compressor, no pre-processing/single-pass only, etc).
For the younger readers I-Paq is nothing to do with Apple :)
Other than the fact that Compaq was jumping on Apple's iMac naming?
Many are overlooking the second page... including me.
To be fair, the US prisons on that list were elaborate clean facilities, unlike most of the rest. One made the list for "brutal" guards, and the other for being so secure the prisoners want to kill themselves. Sounds like a different level of "bad" than rampant AIDS outbreaks or occasional massacres of the entire population.
were --> where
then --> than
their --> they're
payed --> paid
its --> it's
(I skipped the regular typos and sentence structure issues.)
How is the grammar education in that low class school district that's only 10 miles away?
Exactly. He had "Microsoft Studios Creative Director" as his title on Twitter. If you don't want to appear to be speaking for the company you work for, don't slap your title on there.
A lot of people are using this as an excuse to complain about all the junk mail they get. Why don't you do something about it? Cancel all the catalogs and crap you're getting.
Start here: http://www.optoutprescreen.com/
If you get stuff with pre-paid return envelopes, send back a note asking to be removed from their mailing list.
If the EU had standardized on a free (no royalties) Lightning connector, everyone would be crying foul over government mandates and how it stifles innovation.
The goal was to get rid of large power bricks attached to proprietary connectors. Apple has for MANY years supplied a power plug with a standard USB connector and used the same cable/connector for 10 years. THAT has reduced waste. What other phone manufacturer has stuck with their plugs that long? How many phones will charge from a 10 year old cable?
What about all those phones that include a micro-USB port for charging, but then have ANOTHER port or a ANOTHER special proprietary cable to get audio/video out?
Is modern supposed to imply a website designed to be 1024 pixels wide?
Is it really such a big problem if neither iOS or Android "win"? I'd much rather have choice and competition from here until eternity.
I saw how things stagnated when Microsoft dominated.
AT&T bought Cingular, honored the contract and here we are today.
Actually, Cingular bought AT&T Wireless, then renamed itself AT&T Mobility. Even though they spent all that money to come up with "Cingular", "AT&T" still had more brand power.
Been covered before. Palm and Android can talk and surf as long as you're on WiFi. Current EVDO, not so much.
I have identified you as a non-dumb person. Thank you for reminding me that someone else in the world understands turn lanes.
Read the original Engadget post and the court documents are weaselly. They are simply saying that customers should not expect phone unlocks because USA Today made it public knowledge that there was a 5 year contract. They did NOT reveal the actual contract as part of the court documents, nor did they go on record confirming the contract. USA Today never said the contract started in 2007, that's just when they reported it. Lot's of assumptions being made.
I suspect the "5 year agreement" started earlier than 2007... say end of 2005 when Apple wanted to lock down a network/carrier to try out their new revenue system.
None of the previous rumors have involved Pegatron already tooling up for production of an iPhone. Granted, that leak was right before their IPO--so I'd says there's an even chance that someone made it up to boost the stock, or they really are producing an iPhone under secrecy and needed to leak the info to boost the stock.
I'd say if we're going to hear something official, it will be at the September iPod event. If Pegatron really is going to produce iPhones, it will be hard to keep it a secret, so I would be shocked if Apple didn't plan to reveal something until Nov-Jan timeframe (which would coincide with VZW's LTE announcements).
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100617PD215.html
How can anyone post this when we have the exclusive deal confirmed? http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Show me the signatures on that contract and the date it was signed. Their "confirmation" is a referral to general knowledge of an exclusivity deal because USA Today published wording to that effect. Basically they're using weasel wording so they don't have to disclose the actual contract--which suggests the whole truth is missing. Further, who's to say the 5 year exclusivity deal started the day the iPhone went on sale, and not 18 months earlier when Apple was looking to lock a network? You think they designed, built, and shipped a phone with a contract that didn't start until they reached customer's hands?
And the other is that the last time I checked, Verizon doesn't have GSM. Why would Apple manufacture two different devices, and one that can't be used in all the other world markets? I'm not trying to start a GSM/CDMA holy war, just acknowledging that Apple is doing just fine with AT&T and GSM. Why would they go through all that trouble just to get Verizon customers?
Especially since Verizon seems to insist on branding all phones they offer--I don't see how Steve would accept that either.
Verizon has nearly 93 million subscribers, a large percentage of which have expressed interest in an iPhone. Apple is expected to sell 16 million iPhones this year to AT&T's 83 million subscribers, which is nearly half of their total sales. Why wouldn't Apple jump at the earliest opportunity to further increase sales by another 50%? It's not a big technical feat for them to design a CDMA iPhone, other manufacturers with much less money at stake than Apple produce multiple models on CDMA, GSM, euro-specific frequencies, AT&T frequencies, and T-Mobile frequencies. After Apple's done with VZW, there's also China and Canada, along with Sprint, Cricket, and MetroPCS in the US all with decent numbers of CDMA subscribers. In all, world CDMA subscribers are something like 462 million, even if that's only 14% of the mobile market.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/06/piper_15_8m_us_iphone_sales_in_2010_even_without_verizon.html
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20070215/127796/
Can't see a CDMA iPhone at this late stage. It's been end-of-lifed for quite some time.
Yeah, because no one else makes new CDMA phones these days. It would be stupid to design something like a Droid X CDMA-only phone and try to sell that in this market... or a Samsung Galaxy S... etc.
Seriously, its not that hard for Apple to make a CDMA version of the iPhone--its more a matter of their exclusivity contract.
To say that CDMA is EOL, is just plain dumb. LTE is being deployed on 700 MHz, and not replacing CDMA on 850/1900 for MANY years. Consider that most people don't keep a smart phone for more than 2 years, often just 1, and Apple could release a couple generations of CDMA-only iPhones and still make bank on the sales.
I'll hope like everyone else that if VZW gets an iPhone in 2011 that it will support CDMA+LTE much like the EVO 4G support WiMax, but I wouldn't be surprised if they released a CDMA-only version and then caught everyone for an upgrade a year later to the 4G version. Was no one around in 2007 when they released the original iPhone with no 3G?
Absolutely! That is one of the major points TFA makes. The top 5 passwords account for 1.75% of all the accounts, and the top password alone accounts for 0.9% of accounts.
If a hacker would have used the list of the top 5000 passwords as a dictionary for brute force attack on Rockyou.
com users, it would take only one attempt (per account) to guess 0.9% of the users passwords or a rate of one
success per 111 attempts. Assuming an attacker with a DSL connection of 55KBPS upload rate and that each
attempt is 0.5KB in size, it means that the attacker can have 110 attempts per second. At this rate, a hacker will
gain access to one new account every second or just less than 17 minutes to compromise 1000 accounts. And the
problem is exponential. After the first wave of attacks, it would only take 116 attempts per account to compromise
5% of the accounts, 683 attempts to compromise 10% of accounts and about 5000 attempts to compromise 20%
of accounts.
I hate how British people use plural verbs for singular group nouns.
Target is A company, not Target ARE a company.
Anyone who spends any significant amount of time on that utter e-cesspool of amateur gossip queens attention seekers and other undesirable groups of society who for some reason can't or refuse to socialise in real life can't possibly have the bare minimum of intelligence required to be in college.
Facebook IS real life. It isn't any less real than emailing all the same people that live 300 miles away from me. And with FB, they can choose when to be assaulted by pictures of my kids rather than receiving them in their email, buried between their Amazon.com order confirmation, and an ad for some really good spyware remover. I'm certainly not going to go get prints made of the pictures and use the USPS to send a pack of 50 pictures to 300 people.
Seriously, why can't people realize their friends list is their ACL?
What if the ex-boyfriend is the mortuary science professor?
BTW, please read the Star-Tribune account before assuming the Slashdot synopsis is the full account of the FaceBook posting... you know if you're not already trained to not RTFA.
Ideally, you would create a new standard for your battery and it would get a number assigned. Then anyone who wanted to use your new battery would be able to grab the free specs and send you an order for 1000s of them. Then another manufacture would also get your specs and start producing their own version of the battery using their own technology, but perhaps offering 80% capacity for 70% price. You would be prompted to optimize your process, cut costs, etc, and voila, competition.
Instead, you'll produce your fancy technology in a copyrighted, trademarked, restricted form factor and charge an arm and a leg for it. You won't make any money until another manufacturer tries to produce one that fits and you sue them to hell. Meanwhile, a Chinese manufacturer will produce a cheap knockoff with 25% of the performance, but for pennies on the dollar and still make some change.