If your "over powered wifi antenna" exceeds legal limits, radiates outside your property lines, and interferes with local emergency communications, your neighbors medical equipment, overhead air traffic communications, and/or etc., one certainly hopes that FCC authorized agents can break in and take down this illegal interference before someone gets hurt.
just make sure you house is a good Faraday cage, and the public need not worry.
This is a typical case where pure laissez-faire capitalism can go against the best interests of the consumer. It reminds me of the personal computer industry of the early 1980s,
That's right. Think how much better off we would be if the government standardized on the S-100 bus, CP/M, and Z80 CPUs for all future PCs. Or, for even more compatibility with all the existing software at the time, systems based on IBM's new 360-on-a-chip.
Yes, and that's important, because of the dozens and dozens of computer companies from back then trying to do something unique and interesting, they are one of the very few companies actually still independent, and still in business.
(IBM's still in business, but they no longer make PC's).
I don't think the Secret Service is going to let the prez carry around a homing device with a known frequency and easily traceable/trackable radio fingerprint. They're going to force him to use some military pocket radio device capable of anti-detection countermeasures.
Maybe his White House legal counsel will allow him to relay his SMS messages though this magic device and some White House firewall before going into the cloud... or Canada.
The reason the telcos push plans has to do with the greater business value of more consistent and predictable revenue streams. People don't cancel or change phone plans anywhere near as often as they vary their phone usage from month-to-month, and that has financial value to the phone company.
That's the reason for the pricing model. SMS has to be priced high enough to make sure its use doesn't grow faster than voice.
The telcos want to balance the profit they make from the use of both channels, voice and signaling, while being backward compatible and not having the expense of updating the protocol to use the data channel(s).
Same way as the Feds do it. Physical security. Faraday cage rooms. Locked buildings. Fences. Armed guards. X-Ray machines and strip searches. Camera phones laptops, and electronics confiscated at the door. Then observe and log everyone in the same room as the document in question. Etc.
One of these days the FSF will go after some organization big enough to buy enough legislators or legislation to take the teeth of U.S. copyright law (but only as it applies to the more psuedo-coercive OSS licenses. e.g. not the way Stallman dreams).
Every product or service is in a race towards the minimum price at which it can be physically produced and delivered (price including any available manpower and start-up capital needed).
Every stand-alone software product only has value until its function and value can be reproduced or supplanted (by patent expiration, stolen trade secrets, the time it takes to reinvent or develop from scratch, the time it takes to equal the original products reputation, the time it takes competitors to make/build/package your open source, etc.) To have a non-zero revenue window, you need to make sure the time you offer something unique is non-zero.
Of course, humans are stupid, and this allows you to use their lack of information to create some additional value. If potential customers think your brand name implies something better than the identical bits under some other name (e.g. Coke vs. generic cola), then you might be able to maintain a non-zero pricing.
There are several types of licenses one can buy from ARM. The most expensive type, the type Apple is rumored to have acquired, is an architectural license, which allows one to design ones own CPU core. Why would Apple buy this expensive of a license if all they were going to do was "connect-the-dots"?
Actually, teach Basic. It's the only language that's actually had a decent success in getting a large percentage of ordinary computer users to learn to program. There were whole magazines full of Basic code for your Apple II, TRS-80, Pet, BBC, etc. on regular news stands. After Basic was superseded by "better" programming languages, computer literacy among high school students and the general public took a nose dive. The criticism against the Basic language (as a learning tool) is greatly overrated. Kids would rather get their hands dirty with spitballs and goto statements than learn abstract design.
If I read this right, does that mean developers still can't publicly bitch about their apps being rejected from the store?
Note that this announcement is about the SDK agreement. It says nothing about the App store agreement, which might still cover communications from Apple about submitted apps.
Don't hire them. Most of them continue to live in squalor down on the farm.
Pay them more. Some of your shareholders temporarily applaud. End up with a product that's overpriced or unprofitable compared to the competition. Go out of business. Lay them all off and they go back to their squalor. Your majority shareholders fire you.
Pay them peanuts. Your customers get your product at a competitive price. They live better than they would without your jobs... and you also get to keep your job (and big stock options and bonuses for keeping the shareholders happy as well).
It actually becomes $160 more expensive over the life of the contract.
Not if you include interest rates and projected inflation. Money has time value. It's worth more in your pocket now except in rare deflationary periods.
There are low-end but fully-fledged laptops (i.e. 10s of gigs, 512MB-1GB, 13"+ screen) of the OEM-unbranded type in this price range selling all over the Web in the UK. For 50 quid more, you get an Acer. And they all come with 12 month warranties, often extensible. Who actually wants the eepc?
Anyone who cares a bit more about weight than price and performance.
If the signalling channel is so limited why they are not using the data channel-I mean the voice channel to send SMS. Second SMS is not delivered real time. So you can always provision enough BW for dialling and ringing the 911. Nobody stops Telecos & Mobile phone companies to modify the standard to send SMS or ASMS-Advanced SMS!!!! as paid data . But why there is no alternative:)
SMS is sent in the signaling channel for backwards compatibility with a protocol that's understood by several gazillion existing cell phones, as designed before SMS became as popular as it is now.
The average amount of SMS messages sent per unit time has to not exceed the channel bandwidth or else traffic will eventually back up in the store and forward network, and incur unacceptable delay (you would not want to get your urgent messages hours late).
The cell phone signaling channel has a limited bandwidth, and that's what's used for SMS as well as call setup and tear-down. Any SMS use has to allow enough bandwidth left over to allow for near immediate dialing and ringing. You wouldn't want people text messaging to block you from dialing 911.
Raising the price is one way to discourage SMS usage enough so that on average, messages won't build up a backlog after throttling their rate down low for the available channel. It's standard econ 101. If you don't want to sell out some item in your store, then you gradually raise prices until the quantity sellers are willing to buy goes down to match the stock you have available on average. As long as SMS gets more popular, the rates will go up. Until SMS gets less popular, or some new protocol comes along.
The percentage of people with only genetic risk factors who can do something to reduce the cost exposure of their insurance pool is far less than the percentage of people who have certain other risk factors, of which some are likely related to behavioral issues. The amount of certain detrimental behavioral health factors related to cost risk factors in a population might be reduceable statistically by pricing (higher insurance costs) or fear (being uninsurable and risking bankruptcy as well as illness).
You can't steal it, but if you are able to make an exact replica of it while still leaving my car right where it is, please: be my guest!
If you have a nice car and were hoping that it has a good resale or trade-in value... whoops. That value is now zero, since everybody who would have wanted to buy one from you now has an exact replica or three.
I've been using various PalmPilot's with serial cables and IR modems to telnet and ssh into unix boxes for years. The pssh PalmOS application on a Treo or Centro cell phone works just fine, although the font is microscopic for an 80 character terminal.
The word "computer" referred to not a type of machine, but a profession before WWII. Computers was the job title of people who calculated function, navigation and astronomical tables before the age of digital electronics. So, if someone can find the oldest book with the exact algorithm or methodology to hand compute some type of table (maybe in a manuscript that someone, such as Kepler, wrote up for his observatory assistant), that would get my vote for the oldest written "computer" program.
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Why would there be an import tax on something manufactured in Shenzhen?
But note that US copyright law can be (and has been) changed by Congress, with those changes even upheld by the Supreme Court.
If Disney can buy^H^H^Hinfluence Congress and copyright laws, why can't the newspaper companies?
If your "over powered wifi antenna" exceeds legal limits, radiates outside your property lines, and interferes with local emergency communications, your neighbors medical equipment, overhead air traffic communications, and/or etc., one certainly hopes that FCC authorized agents can break in and take down this illegal interference before someone gets hurt.
just make sure you house is a good Faraday cage, and the public need not worry.
This is a typical case where pure laissez-faire capitalism can go against the best interests of the consumer. It reminds me of the personal computer industry of the early 1980s,
That's right. Think how much better off we would be if the government standardized on the S-100 bus, CP/M, and Z80 CPUs for all future PCs. Or, for even more compatibility with all the existing software at the time, systems based on IBM's new 360-on-a-chip.
9: 50% profit margins and proud of it!
Yes, and that's important, because of the dozens and dozens of computer companies from back then trying to do something unique and interesting, they are one of the very few companies actually still independent, and still in business.
(IBM's still in business, but they no longer make PC's).
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I don't think the Secret Service is going to let the prez carry around a homing device with a known frequency and easily traceable/trackable radio fingerprint. They're going to force him to use some military pocket radio device capable of anti-detection countermeasures.
Maybe his White House legal counsel will allow him to relay his SMS messages though this magic device and some White House firewall before going into the cloud... or Canada.
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Maybe next they'll invent some way to dial a phone with just some sort of rotary wheel...
The reason the telcos push plans has to do with the greater business value of more consistent and predictable revenue streams. People don't cancel or change phone plans anywhere near as often as they vary their phone usage from month-to-month, and that has financial value to the phone company.
as long as it is proportional to voice usage
That's the reason for the pricing model. SMS has to be priced high enough to make sure its use doesn't grow faster than voice.
The telcos want to balance the profit they make from the use of both channels, voice and signaling, while being backward compatible and not having the expense of updating the protocol to use the data channel(s).
Same way as the Feds do it. Physical security. Faraday cage rooms. Locked buildings. Fences. Armed guards. X-Ray machines and strip searches. Camera phones laptops, and electronics confiscated at the door. Then observe and log everyone in the same room as the document in question. Etc.
There's no other way.
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One of these days the FSF will go after some organization big enough to buy enough legislators or legislation to take the teeth of U.S. copyright law (but only as it applies to the more psuedo-coercive OSS licenses. e.g. not the way Stallman dreams).
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Every product or service is in a race towards the minimum price at which it can be physically produced and delivered (price including any available manpower and start-up capital needed).
Every stand-alone software product only has value until its function and value can be reproduced or supplanted (by patent expiration, stolen trade secrets, the time it takes to reinvent or develop from scratch, the time it takes to equal the original products reputation, the time it takes competitors to make/build/package your open source, etc.) To have a non-zero revenue window, you need to make sure the time you offer something unique is non-zero.
Of course, humans are stupid, and this allows you to use their lack of information to create some additional value. If potential customers think your brand name implies something better than the identical bits under some other name (e.g. Coke vs. generic cola), then you might be able to maintain a non-zero pricing.
IMHO. YMMV.
Stallman's definition of "free": stuff he likes. His definition of "not free": stuff he doesn't like.
There are several types of licenses one can buy from ARM. The most expensive type, the type Apple is rumored to have acquired, is an architectural license, which allows one to design ones own CPU core. Why would Apple buy this expensive of a license if all they were going to do was "connect-the-dots"?
Actually, teach Basic. It's the only language that's actually had a decent success in getting a large percentage of ordinary computer users to learn to program. There were whole magazines full of Basic code for your Apple II, TRS-80, Pet, BBC, etc. on regular news stands. After Basic was superseded by "better" programming languages, computer literacy among high school students and the general public took a nose dive. The criticism against the Basic language (as a learning tool) is greatly overrated. Kids would rather get their hands dirty with spitballs and goto statements than learn abstract design.
If I read this right, does that mean developers still can't publicly bitch about their apps being rejected from the store?
Note that this announcement is about the SDK agreement. It says nothing about the App store agreement, which might still cover communications from Apple about submitted apps.
It's very simple.
Don't hire them. Most of them continue to live in squalor down on the farm.
Pay them more. Some of your shareholders temporarily applaud. End up with a product that's overpriced or unprofitable compared to the competition. Go out of business. Lay them all off and they go back to their squalor. Your majority shareholders fire you.
Pay them peanuts. Your customers get your product at a competitive price. They live better than they would without your jobs... and you also get to keep your job (and big stock options and bonuses for keeping the shareholders happy as well).
It actually becomes $160 more expensive over the life of the contract.
Not if you include interest rates and projected inflation. Money has time value. It's worth more in your pocket now except in rare deflationary periods.
There are low-end but fully-fledged laptops (i.e. 10s of gigs, 512MB-1GB, 13"+ screen) of the OEM-unbranded type in this price range selling all over the Web in the UK. For 50 quid more, you get an Acer. And they all come with 12 month warranties, often extensible. Who actually wants the eepc?
Anyone who cares a bit more about weight than price and performance.
If the signalling channel is so limited why they are not using the data channel-I mean the voice channel to send SMS. Second SMS is not delivered real time. So you can always provision enough BW for dialling and ringing the 911. :)
Nobody stops Telecos & Mobile phone companies to modify the standard to send SMS or ASMS-Advanced SMS!!!! as paid data .
But why there is no alternative
SMS is sent in the signaling channel for backwards compatibility with a protocol that's understood by several gazillion existing cell phones, as designed before SMS became as popular as it is now.
The average amount of SMS messages sent per unit time has to not exceed the channel bandwidth or else traffic will eventually back up in the store and forward network, and incur unacceptable delay (you would not want to get your urgent messages hours late).
The cell phone signaling channel has a limited bandwidth, and that's what's used for SMS as well as call setup and tear-down. Any SMS use has to allow enough bandwidth left over to allow for near immediate dialing and ringing. You wouldn't want people text messaging to block you from dialing 911.
Raising the price is one way to discourage SMS usage enough so that on average, messages won't build up a backlog after throttling their rate down low for the available channel. It's standard econ 101. If you don't want to sell out some item in your store, then you gradually raise prices until the quantity sellers are willing to buy goes down to match the stock you have available on average. As long as SMS gets more popular, the rates will go up. Until SMS gets less popular, or some new protocol comes along.
The percentage of people with only genetic risk factors who can do something to reduce the cost exposure of their insurance pool is far less than the percentage of people who have certain other risk factors, of which some are likely related to behavioral issues. The amount of certain detrimental behavioral health factors related to cost risk factors in a population might be reduceable statistically by pricing (higher insurance costs) or fear (being uninsurable and risking bankruptcy as well as illness).
If you have a nice car and were hoping that it has a good resale or trade-in value... whoops. That value is now zero, since everybody who would have wanted to buy one from you now has an exact replica or three.
I've been using various PalmPilot's with serial cables and IR modems to telnet and ssh into unix boxes for years. The pssh PalmOS application on a Treo or Centro cell phone works just fine, although the font is microscopic for an 80 character terminal.
The word "computer" referred to not a type of machine, but a profession before WWII. Computers was the job title of people who calculated function, navigation and astronomical tables before the age of digital electronics. So, if someone can find the oldest book with the exact algorithm or methodology to hand compute some type of table (maybe in a manuscript that someone, such as Kepler, wrote up for his observatory assistant), that would get my vote for the oldest written "computer" program.