Guess you didn't even read the summary, eh? Data's not being sent. The phone keeps track of the size of all small transfers that occurred during the day, adds them up, and tells AT&T the total overnight.
My bills (if I didn't get them electronically), are already 10+ double-sided pages long full of data transfers. I can't imagine how huge they'd be if they didn't do this, and it was filled with things like "120 bytes - 9:30am... 600 bytes... 9:31am."
A dollar per second? That's insane. There'd be a revolt if providers in the US charged that much. To think my current $30/month would only buy me 30 seconds of data if I lived in Europe?
Not really. Not by me, anyway. I run with mine all the time, but it's still a phone. I don't want to sacrifice screen size and battery life that are nice when calling and using apps for an activity that only occupies a handful of hours a week.
It's not particularly bulky in the first place, and it's never bothered me while running. Considering it takes the place of a phone, iPod, and Forerunner, it's not a bad size at all.
Well, as I said in a later post, you can improve it by changing the theft of the property to simply the viewing of the property. Then it's much more appropriate.
Exactly, the analogy holds for the case the AC presents. No security method is foolproof, but you made a reasonable effort to secure your belongings.
Leaving it out in the open for others to find is not such an effort. Of course, I suppose to make analogy even more accurate it wouldn't involve taking belongings, but rather merely viewing them and protecting them from view.
I wouldn't call putting something up on the internet, completely out in the open with no protection whatsoever, and then simply hoping no one will find it because you didn't announce its presence, "essentially a password".
If the internet is a forest and I protect my valuables by sitting them underneath a tree far from civilization and tell no one they're there, should I be mad if someone looking around the forest for valuables takes them all? No. Either you don't put your valuables in the forest or you put them in a big honking safe that no one can break into or walk off with.
Perhaps, I'm not familiar with the tax laws in the various EU countries. I do know that there are many states that have taxes that vary by county. Counties are not easily discernible by zip codes, which makes it very difficult to accurately determine the buyer's location. You can't trust the buyers to do it, either, because if given the option they'll choose the one with the lowest tax.
Add in the fact that each county has different taxes for different items (cigarettes, alchohol, ammo, soft drinks, even junk food in some) and you have yourself a mini nightmare of tax law. Ohio, for example, has 88 counties, all of which tax differently. Not only can these taxes change at any time, it's not unheard of to redraw county lines. You can see where online retailers are going to need an army of tax lawyers to make sense of it all and keep it up to date.
Either way, Amazon probably has the resources to do so, but do all online retailers? I doubt it...
Yea, what were they thinking? No one ever names their products! Apple's iSight, Microsoft's LifeCam, and Logitech's QuickCam should all just be renamed "camera"
I've done about 8 years total of various Engineering classes. The first year or two I used strictly pen and paper. The issue there, is your work isn't search able. You may have some idea where what you want is based upon when in the class it may have been covered, but searching is crucial.
On the other hand, as has been mentioned, there are really no perfect solutions for equations and images. I settled into a hybrid approach. Sentences and text got typed into my laptop using a note editor of some type. I used AquaMinds' NoteTaker (Mac only), but One Note seemed to work equally well. Equations and pictures were numbered and handwritten on a separate page, later scanned into PDF and inserted into the notes for the day. It worked reasonably well and was essentially free, given you have a computer and a scanner available. With the quality of built-in laptop cameras improving, that may even be an option as a rudimentary document scanner.
The Pulse pen, while looking pretty nifty, is expensive and requires special paper. Not exactly ideal, either.
The courts were not involved, only the FCC. Comcast appealed, specifically citing that they don't believe the FCC had the right to enforce these restrictions on it. Only a month or two back did they sue the FCC over it, and the case is still pending. It's anything but clear that existing law covers this case, as the FCC's very ability to enforce these regulations is being called into question.
Of course, you're specifically against Net Neutrality and would actually prefer traffic discrimination. This case would be better solved by ISPs not overselling their bandwidth which would reduce latency by not saturating their lines, but it's an interesting idea.
There are plenty of examples, you just choose to ignore them. The most blatant in recent years in the US was Comcast, who blocked P2P traffic across its network. They only backed down because the FCC threatened to consider additional regulation over the matter, which it has now chosen to do anyway.
And I suppose you've been deaf to the comments of nearly all major telecoms about how Google and other web sites are getting a "free ride?" On numerous occasions they've said they would like to charge web sites more to allow traffic to flow to them. It does not matter to them that Google pays their ISP and you pay yours, they're pushing for a system where you both pay both ISPs for the same traffic (which is typically referred to as 'double-dipping').
Then you've got the cellular data networks, which discriminate against practically all traffic that's not web-based.
We love our Samsung. A 3 years back I picked up a CLP-510 for $120. Having color laser support and a built-in duplexer for only a few dollars more than a decent-quality inkjet practically made the decision for us. Last year when Best Buy clearanced the toner to $10 a cartridge, I stocked up.
It warms up quickly and produces nice quality prints. I couldn't go back to a printer without a duplexer now. It's a little on the large side, but we'll live.
Current Windows, OS X, and Linux support. It doesn't do PS so it's probably not a solution for the OP (beyond the fact that it's no longer sold), but newer Samsungs do. I'd give them a look.
According to other posts here, the BBC segment was based around statements from Ian Lee, who is indeed under Microsoft payroll. While the BBC may be impartial, their source is not.
We have a bunch of Latitude D820s and D830s from 2007/2008, some D800s from 2004, and a spattering of IBM Thinkpad G41s from 2005 that all use the Figure 8s, so they're definitely out there.
It wasn't until the E4300s early this year that we started to see Mickey Mouse connectors on the Latitude power supplies.
I don't know if I'd say that. Maybe it's a difference between the Dell's Business and Home lines. We have hundreds of laptops of various vintage from the Latitude line purchased over the last 5 years or so that all use the Figure 8s. Going back further, they used the IEC C13/C14. I don't think we started seeing the Mickey Mouse connectors until about 6 months or so ago on Dell's newest machines. I haven't seen the in-line 3-socket connector klui mentioned, even on the ones that arrived as recently as a few weeks ago.
Maybe Dell's the oddball, though, and everyone else has been using them longer.
I've driven in a number of their bordering states, but never in any of the states you mentioned. I would not have expected that. In fact, I think a lot of modern engines would choke on gas with octane ratings that low.
Craziness... always learning something new on Slashdot.
That's a standard "figure 8" connector typically associated with AC transmission. You see them on everything, but the place a Slashdot reader is most likely to have seen them is on the cord that goes between the AC wall outlet and a laptop's power supply. Dell uses them a lot.
I see nothing that would indicate an external power supply, and in fact the presence of that connector would imply the opposite.
I have rarely seen 85, and have never seen 83 octane in the US. Typically the grades are 87 for regular, 89 or 90 for plus, and somewhere between 91 and 94 for premium depending on the region.
As far as differences between the octane ratings in other countries, there's actually a difference in the formula used to calculate the octane content of the gas. The units are "the same", but its calculation is different, so you can't compare them directly without conversion.
I do remember the FedEx delivery now, but I went back and re-watched the bedroom scenes and didn't see JVC on the radio anywhere. I guess maybe if you knew it was a JVC by its design?
The worst one I was thinking of was Blade: Trinity, which I see is on that list. The Island is on there too, which would have been my #2. Those were far worse than I, Robot, IMO.
I have seen it, and all I can recall is that Audi created an impressive prototype to be used in the movie, and that Will Smith's character purchased a pair of Converse All-Stars. There have been far worse examples than I Robot.
I'm not surprised, given the HD-DVD fire sales pretty much all retailers had. If you're just counting the number of units, 5 HD-DVDs picked up for $5 each looks a lot better than 1 $25 Blu-Ray. When they were near price equilibrium with Blu Rays they didn't do very well, which is why the format is dead.
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what "previous ex-blu-ray-early-adapter" even means. You were a Blu Ray early adopter, then you weren't (the 'ex-' part), then you were again (the 'previous' part, as in you were previously but are not anymore)?
How could you even be an ex-early-adopter anyway? Even if you no longer support the format, you were still an early adopter.
Computer Engineering != CS. Computer engineering is a part of EE.
Most places I looked treated a MS like a BS + 3 years experience.
I have to agree on both points (and am amazed at the number of people who don't understand your first point). I have a Masters in CompE and found this to be true. At my employer, those with a Masters qualify for a given promotion 3 years before someone with a BS. To reach some of our higher levels, a Masters is a requirement.
I don't know if having your MS will help you significantly in the hiring process, but it may open some doors for you later.
How does "Apple may be more likely to work with us once we roll out LTE" invalidate the fact Apple approached Verizon before AT&T? Verizon's VP confirmed they turned Apple down when the two companies couldn't agree on a deal.
phantomfive is exactly correct. Even swapping out the chipsets is relatively straightforward. There are hundreds or thousands of phones that do just that, many from companies smaller than Apple. The hurdle is not technical, as you imply.
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Guess you didn't even read the summary, eh? Data's not being sent. The phone keeps track of the size of all small transfers that occurred during the day, adds them up, and tells AT&T the total overnight.
My bills (if I didn't get them electronically), are already 10+ double-sided pages long full of data transfers. I can't imagine how huge they'd be if they didn't do this, and it was filled with things like "120 bytes - 9:30am... 600 bytes... 9:31am."
A dollar per second? That's insane. There'd be a revolt if providers in the US charged that much. To think my current $30/month would only buy me 30 seconds of data if I lived in Europe?
Craziness. There's no way that can be right.
That's what I was thinking. I bought a old refurbished S10 netbook awhile back that had it. It's probably 1-2 years old now.
Not really. Not by me, anyway. I run with mine all the time, but it's still a phone. I don't want to sacrifice screen size and battery life that are nice when calling and using apps for an activity that only occupies a handful of hours a week.
It's not particularly bulky in the first place, and it's never bothered me while running. Considering it takes the place of a phone, iPod, and Forerunner, it's not a bad size at all.
Well, as I said in a later post, you can improve it by changing the theft of the property to simply the viewing of the property. Then it's much more appropriate.
Exactly, the analogy holds for the case the AC presents. No security method is foolproof, but you made a reasonable effort to secure your belongings.
Leaving it out in the open for others to find is not such an effort. Of course, I suppose to make analogy even more accurate it wouldn't involve taking belongings, but rather merely viewing them and protecting them from view.
I wouldn't call putting something up on the internet, completely out in the open with no protection whatsoever, and then simply hoping no one will find it because you didn't announce its presence, "essentially a password".
If the internet is a forest and I protect my valuables by sitting them underneath a tree far from civilization and tell no one they're there, should I be mad if someone looking around the forest for valuables takes them all? No. Either you don't put your valuables in the forest or you put them in a big honking safe that no one can break into or walk off with.
Perhaps, I'm not familiar with the tax laws in the various EU countries. I do know that there are many states that have taxes that vary by county. Counties are not easily discernible by zip codes, which makes it very difficult to accurately determine the buyer's location. You can't trust the buyers to do it, either, because if given the option they'll choose the one with the lowest tax.
Add in the fact that each county has different taxes for different items (cigarettes, alchohol, ammo, soft drinks, even junk food in some) and you have yourself a mini nightmare of tax law. Ohio, for example, has 88 counties, all of which tax differently. Not only can these taxes change at any time, it's not unheard of to redraw county lines. You can see where online retailers are going to need an army of tax lawyers to make sense of it all and keep it up to date.
Either way, Amazon probably has the resources to do so, but do all online retailers? I doubt it...
Yea, what were they thinking? No one ever names their products! Apple's iSight, Microsoft's LifeCam, and Logitech's QuickCam should all just be renamed "camera"
I've done about 8 years total of various Engineering classes. The first year or two I used strictly pen and paper. The issue there, is your work isn't search able. You may have some idea where what you want is based upon when in the class it may have been covered, but searching is crucial.
On the other hand, as has been mentioned, there are really no perfect solutions for equations and images. I settled into a hybrid approach. Sentences and text got typed into my laptop using a note editor of some type. I used AquaMinds' NoteTaker (Mac only), but One Note seemed to work equally well. Equations and pictures were numbered and handwritten on a separate page, later scanned into PDF and inserted into the notes for the day. It worked reasonably well and was essentially free, given you have a computer and a scanner available. With the quality of built-in laptop cameras improving, that may even be an option as a rudimentary document scanner.
The Pulse pen, while looking pretty nifty, is expensive and requires special paper. Not exactly ideal, either.
The courts were not involved, only the FCC. Comcast appealed, specifically citing that they don't believe the FCC had the right to enforce these restrictions on it. Only a month or two back did they sue the FCC over it, and the case is still pending. It's anything but clear that existing law covers this case, as the FCC's very ability to enforce these regulations is being called into question.
Of course, you're specifically against Net Neutrality and would actually prefer traffic discrimination. This case would be better solved by ISPs not overselling their bandwidth which would reduce latency by not saturating their lines, but it's an interesting idea.
There are plenty of examples, you just choose to ignore them. The most blatant in recent years in the US was Comcast, who blocked P2P traffic across its network. They only backed down because the FCC threatened to consider additional regulation over the matter, which it has now chosen to do anyway.
And I suppose you've been deaf to the comments of nearly all major telecoms about how Google and other web sites are getting a "free ride?" On numerous occasions they've said they would like to charge web sites more to allow traffic to flow to them. It does not matter to them that Google pays their ISP and you pay yours, they're pushing for a system where you both pay both ISPs for the same traffic (which is typically referred to as 'double-dipping').
Then you've got the cellular data networks, which discriminate against practically all traffic that's not web-based.
We love our Samsung. A 3 years back I picked up a CLP-510 for $120. Having color laser support and a built-in duplexer for only a few dollars more than a decent-quality inkjet practically made the decision for us. Last year when Best Buy clearanced the toner to $10 a cartridge, I stocked up.
It warms up quickly and produces nice quality prints. I couldn't go back to a printer without a duplexer now. It's a little on the large side, but we'll live.
Current Windows, OS X, and Linux support. It doesn't do PS so it's probably not a solution for the OP (beyond the fact that it's no longer sold), but newer Samsungs do. I'd give them a look.
According to other posts here, the BBC segment was based around statements from Ian Lee, who is indeed under Microsoft payroll. While the BBC may be impartial, their source is not.
It probably is a Home/Business difference, then.
We have a bunch of Latitude D820s and D830s from 2007/2008, some D800s from 2004, and a spattering of IBM Thinkpad G41s from 2005 that all use the Figure 8s, so they're definitely out there.
It wasn't until the E4300s early this year that we started to see Mickey Mouse connectors on the Latitude power supplies.
I don't know if I'd say that. Maybe it's a difference between the Dell's Business and Home lines. We have hundreds of laptops of various vintage from the Latitude line purchased over the last 5 years or so that all use the Figure 8s. Going back further, they used the IEC C13/C14. I don't think we started seeing the Mickey Mouse connectors until about 6 months or so ago on Dell's newest machines. I haven't seen the in-line 3-socket connector klui mentioned, even on the ones that arrived as recently as a few weeks ago.
Maybe Dell's the oddball, though, and everyone else has been using them longer.
I've driven in a number of their bordering states, but never in any of the states you mentioned. I would not have expected that. In fact, I think a lot of modern engines would choke on gas with octane ratings that low.
Craziness... always learning something new on Slashdot.
That's a standard "figure 8" connector typically associated with AC transmission. You see them on everything, but the place a Slashdot reader is most likely to have seen them is on the cord that goes between the AC wall outlet and a laptop's power supply. Dell uses them a lot.
I see nothing that would indicate an external power supply, and in fact the presence of that connector would imply the opposite.
I have rarely seen 85, and have never seen 83 octane in the US. Typically the grades are 87 for regular, 89 or 90 for plus, and somewhere between 91 and 94 for premium depending on the region.
As far as differences between the octane ratings in other countries, there's actually a difference in the formula used to calculate the octane content of the gas. The units are "the same", but its calculation is different, so you can't compare them directly without conversion.
I do remember the FedEx delivery now, but I went back and re-watched the bedroom scenes and didn't see JVC on the radio anywhere. I guess maybe if you knew it was a JVC by its design?
The worst one I was thinking of was Blade: Trinity, which I see is on that list. The Island is on there too, which would have been my #2. Those were far worse than I, Robot, IMO.
I have seen it, and all I can recall is that Audi created an impressive prototype to be used in the movie, and that Will Smith's character purchased a pair of Converse All-Stars. There have been far worse examples than I Robot.
I'm not surprised, given the HD-DVD fire sales pretty much all retailers had. If you're just counting the number of units, 5 HD-DVDs picked up for $5 each looks a lot better than 1 $25 Blu-Ray. When they were near price equilibrium with Blu Rays they didn't do very well, which is why the format is dead.
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what "previous ex-blu-ray-early-adapter" even means. You were a Blu Ray early adopter, then you weren't (the 'ex-' part), then you were again (the 'previous' part, as in you were previously but are not anymore)?
How could you even be an ex-early-adopter anyway? Even if you no longer support the format, you were still an early adopter.
Computer Engineering != CS. Computer engineering is a part of EE.
Most places I looked treated a MS like a BS + 3 years experience.
I have to agree on both points (and am amazed at the number of people who don't understand your first point). I have a Masters in CompE and found this to be true. At my employer, those with a Masters qualify for a given promotion 3 years before someone with a BS. To reach some of our higher levels, a Masters is a requirement.
I don't know if having your MS will help you significantly in the hiring process, but it may open some doors for you later.
How does "Apple may be more likely to work with us once we roll out LTE" invalidate the fact Apple approached Verizon before AT&T? Verizon's VP confirmed they turned Apple down when the two companies couldn't agree on a deal.
phantomfive is exactly correct. Even swapping out the chipsets is relatively straightforward. There are hundreds or thousands of phones that do just that, many from companies smaller than Apple. The hurdle is not technical, as you imply.