Well, having written both Android and iPhone applications, I can tell you that one OS was intended to run things like services and background processes, and the other was not. Apple likes to blame everyone else for their problems (or claim that everyone else has them), but creating a 'sort of' hybrid multi-tasking methodology of course leads to a problem like this. To be fair, the problem should be alleviated relatively shortly because app developers WILL learn how to live with the iOS shortcomings.
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Well then, I guess you won't be advertising your server room as a place for people to work then, will you?
You can't even create a daemon/service on iOS for iPad or iPhone. How bass-ackwards is that in this day and age? BTW, inevitable Apple fanbois, there's nothing wrong with daemons/services - Apple runs plenty of them on your phone for you already, they just don't let anyone else do it.
Doh, missed it in the specs, sorry (I did read the article but somehow missed "Power Supply Transmitter: DC 5V, 2A adapter or USB power" - when I check the product website it didn't mention that, just the supply for the receiver.
...a power adapter in case you want to use it without a USB port? Looking into it so far it seems like it requires USB power instead of USB power being optional (probably to force usage with PCs - although my DVD carousel has USB w/power). This product seems to conflict with their, roughly twice as expense, HDMI 'source' version (which has worse performance as well.)
The receiver has a power adapter of course. Anyone from brite-View in here? Thanks.
data plans is biting you in the a** when it comes time to deliver, perhaps you should stop selling people unlimited or huge data plans... Arguing that not being able to control exactly how people use their data plan when you've advertised and sold them on the idea that they can do just about whatever they want seems sort of silly.
I'm not arguing that these phones/devices don't have the potential to cause huge problems, obviously they do, but you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Yes, it very much is deceitful. They knowingly and willingly used an unapproved metric to advertise using a common fuel consumption metric that sounded absolutely fantastic. People keep trying to confuse misleading and/or deceitful with illegal or technically incorrect.
It doesn't matter that they used some unapproved approach for measuring MPG, what matters is that they knew that it was incredibly misleading. You didn't see Nissan claiming (except as a joke at GM's expense) that the Leaf gets 367mpg - although technically they could. Why didn't they? Because they didn't want to be dishonest.
What a ridiculous apologist you are. You first suggest that it isn't deceitful for them to make a claim THEY KNOW TO BE FALSE because they're worried they can't convey something else appropriate. Then you suggest there isn't a straight forward way for GM to represent the mileage of this car because they government hasn't given them a way - that's baloney. It's quite simple. Mile Per Gallon refers to fuel efficiency and/or consumption, electric range is something completely different. GM knew this and knows it now, but that doesn't matter to them. They can act like they didn't realize it was totally misleading - apparently people like yourself don't find it misleading at all.
You didn't see Nissan lying their a**es off by seriously claiming 367mpg (they brought it up as a joke after GM made idiots out of themselves.)
Testing has shown that the Volt actually gets 32mpg in the city and 36mpg on the highway, and that electric range was at most (during these tests) 35 miles. This means that with a 9.8 gallon tank the total range of the vehicle is (assuming 40 miles EV driving - which is generous) only 393 miles.
So, a car with almost 10 gallons of gas in it and a range of less than 400 miles is not being intentionally misleading by claiming 230mpg? LOL.
None of this makes the Volt a bad car because by all accounts its a great (if a little heavy and expensive) step towards an EV future, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about deceitful and deliberately misleading advertising.
Sorry, but if Timken isn't diversified enough to survive the bankruptcy of ONE of their customers then Timken has the problem, not me. If Timken bankrupted, they'd reorganized and so on and so on down until you get a workforce and income realignment and can move on. You seem to be under the impression that bankruptcy means a company is destroyed. I don't think YOU have any clue about what you're talking about. Different types of bankruptcies yield different results.
If you think the government isn't already dependent upon suppliers outside of the US, then I would suggest you're the fool.
The would have bankrupted, reformed, settled on debts, and been roughly in the same position they are now except probably much more profitable. Yes, it would have spread the pain, but the bailout did the same anyhow - just to everyone who didn't bet on the auto industry.
Actually it isn't unfair and/or idiotic at all. If you use a commonly used metric to describe an attribute of your car and that commonly used metric doesn't mean anything close to what you're using it for, you're being deceitful.
Saying 230mpg is dishonest. Saying "carbon footprint equivalent of 230mpg" (or some variant thereof) is not dishonest. It is quite obvious to everyone why they elected to go the dishonest route, but I'll spell it out anyhow - "it makes for amazing headlines and PR, and we can explain it away later..."
It's like if I advertised a new HDD as being 25000RPM when what I actually meant is "it has the carbon footprint of a HDD that would go 25000RPM, it doesn't actually go that fast..."
I'm interested to see how politicians, who backed the GM bailout for reasons advertised as being related to the Volt, respond to this. GM could be in a spot of bother if congress thinks they've been hoodwinked some...;)
...did they benefit from because of this misrepresentation.
There can be absolutely zero doubt that they knew they were being deceitful, although the purpose may have been relatively innocuous; however, when you add this to the other deceitful tactics they've already employed and have been debunked (230mpg anyone?) a pattern of behavior seems to emerge that would require seriously mitigating circumstances which aren't readily apparent.
Well, considering how he can probably manage to plug a USB drive into any computers in his office or offices he visits, I'm sure it would be quite simple for them to force him to distribute malware throughout Akamai's corporate headquarters. Then you get to monitor executives with real clout, catch a few of them cheating on their wives or surfing kiddie porn and pressure them into helping you, et cetera, ad nauseum.
Yes, in light of his apparently 'lack of mental balance' they figured they'd have a loose cannon on their hands. As a poster replying to my initial post pointed out, it seems very likely that the country in question is Israel. I figured that the people most likely to benefit from this type of information would be China (and I was apparently wrong.)
I agree about what he offered, the problem is, dancing with the devil is dangerous. As soon as he'd turned over 'relatively innocent items', they'd immediately be able to pressure him into giving them things they'd really be interested in. Pressure him into doing things he wasn't initially prepared to do, et cetera.
I'm sorry but you're extraordinarily naive about big business if you don't think that some countries, like China - oops - I mean Country X, don't use state resources (people/money/intelligence) to assist their economy illegally. The likely reason that 'Country X' turned this moron in is because they have this information in some other fashion and thought that political capital to be gained from burning this guy was worth it.
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Well, having written both Android and iPhone applications, I can tell you that one OS was intended to run things like services and background processes, and the other was not. Apple likes to blame everyone else for their problems (or claim that everyone else has them), but creating a 'sort of' hybrid multi-tasking methodology of course leads to a problem like this. To be fair, the problem should be alleviated relatively shortly because app developers WILL learn how to live with the iOS shortcomings.
Steve is that you or just another of your sycophants with their heads stuck up your...?
Well then, I guess you won't be advertising your server room as a place for people to work then, will you?
...Shirley.
You can't even create a daemon/service on iOS for iPad or iPhone. How bass-ackwards is that in this day and age? BTW, inevitable Apple fanbois, there's nothing wrong with daemons/services - Apple runs plenty of them on your phone for you already, they just don't let anyone else do it.
...great, just what people need.
Doh, missed it in the specs, sorry (I did read the article but somehow missed "Power Supply Transmitter: DC 5V, 2A adapter or USB power" - when I check the product website it didn't mention that, just the supply for the receiver.
If you look at what makes AMIMON special, you'll see that they deliver 3GPS uncompressed signals.
http://www.amimon.com/PDF/Compressed_or_Uncompressed.pdf
...a power adapter in case you want to use it without a USB port? Looking into it so far it seems like it requires USB power instead of USB power being optional (probably to force usage with PCs - although my DVD carousel has USB w/power). This product seems to conflict with their, roughly twice as expense, HDMI 'source' version (which has worse performance as well.)
The receiver has a power adapter of course. Anyone from brite-View in here? Thanks.
data plans is biting you in the a** when it comes time to deliver, perhaps you should stop selling people unlimited or huge data plans... Arguing that not being able to control exactly how people use their data plan when you've advertised and sold them on the idea that they can do just about whatever they want seems sort of silly.
I'm not arguing that these phones/devices don't have the potential to cause huge problems, obviously they do, but you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Yes, it very much is deceitful. They knowingly and willingly used an unapproved metric to advertise using a common fuel consumption metric that sounded absolutely fantastic. People keep trying to confuse misleading and/or deceitful with illegal or technically incorrect.
It doesn't matter that they used some unapproved approach for measuring MPG, what matters is that they knew that it was incredibly misleading. You didn't see Nissan claiming (except as a joke at GM's expense) that the Leaf gets 367mpg - although technically they could. Why didn't they? Because they didn't want to be dishonest.
What a ridiculous apologist you are. You first suggest that it isn't deceitful for them to make a claim THEY KNOW TO BE FALSE because they're worried they can't convey something else appropriate. Then you suggest there isn't a straight forward way for GM to represent the mileage of this car because they government hasn't given them a way - that's baloney. It's quite simple. Mile Per Gallon refers to fuel efficiency and/or consumption, electric range is something completely different. GM knew this and knows it now, but that doesn't matter to them. They can act like they didn't realize it was totally misleading - apparently people like yourself don't find it misleading at all.
You didn't see Nissan lying their a**es off by seriously claiming 367mpg (they brought it up as a joke after GM made idiots out of themselves.)
Testing has shown that the Volt actually gets 32mpg in the city and 36mpg on the highway, and that electric range was at most (during these tests) 35 miles. This means that with a 9.8 gallon tank the total range of the vehicle is (assuming 40 miles EV driving - which is generous) only 393 miles.
So, a car with almost 10 gallons of gas in it and a range of less than 400 miles is not being intentionally misleading by claiming 230mpg? LOL.
None of this makes the Volt a bad car because by all accounts its a great (if a little heavy and expensive) step towards an EV future, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about deceitful and deliberately misleading advertising.
Oooh, now you're talking crazy talk ;)...
Sorry, but if Timken isn't diversified enough to survive the bankruptcy of ONE of their customers then Timken has the problem, not me. If Timken bankrupted, they'd reorganized and so on and so on down until you get a workforce and income realignment and can move on. You seem to be under the impression that bankruptcy means a company is destroyed. I don't think YOU have any clue about what you're talking about. Different types of bankruptcies yield different results.
If you think the government isn't already dependent upon suppliers outside of the US, then I would suggest you're the fool.
The would have bankrupted, reformed, settled on debts, and been roughly in the same position they are now except probably much more profitable. Yes, it would have spread the pain, but the bailout did the same anyhow - just to everyone who didn't bet on the auto industry.
Stop cheering me up...
Actually it isn't unfair and/or idiotic at all. If you use a commonly used metric to describe an attribute of your car and that commonly used metric doesn't mean anything close to what you're using it for, you're being deceitful.
Saying 230mpg is dishonest. Saying "carbon footprint equivalent of 230mpg" (or some variant thereof) is not dishonest. It is quite obvious to everyone why they elected to go the dishonest route, but I'll spell it out anyhow - "it makes for amazing headlines and PR, and we can explain it away later..."
It's like if I advertised a new HDD as being 25000RPM when what I actually meant is "it has the carbon footprint of a HDD that would go 25000RPM, it doesn't actually go that fast..."
I'm interested to see how politicians, who backed the GM bailout for reasons advertised as being related to the Volt, respond to this. GM could be in a spot of bother if congress thinks they've been hoodwinked some... ;)
...did they benefit from because of this misrepresentation.
There can be absolutely zero doubt that they knew they were being deceitful, although the purpose may have been relatively innocuous; however, when you add this to the other deceitful tactics they've already employed and have been debunked (230mpg anyone?) a pattern of behavior seems to emerge that would require seriously mitigating circumstances which aren't readily apparent.
You sound like Tom Clancy's girlfriend.
I think it is important to remember the maxim "Nations do not have friends, they have interests..." ;)
Well, considering how he can probably manage to plug a USB drive into any computers in his office or offices he visits, I'm sure it would be quite simple for them to force him to distribute malware throughout Akamai's corporate headquarters. Then you get to monitor executives with real clout, catch a few of them cheating on their wives or surfing kiddie porn and pressure them into helping you, et cetera, ad nauseum.
Yes, in light of his apparently 'lack of mental balance' they figured they'd have a loose cannon on their hands. As a poster replying to my initial post pointed out, it seems very likely that the country in question is Israel. I figured that the people most likely to benefit from this type of information would be China (and I was apparently wrong.)
I agree about what he offered, the problem is, dancing with the devil is dangerous. As soon as he'd turned over 'relatively innocent items', they'd immediately be able to pressure him into giving them things they'd really be interested in. Pressure him into doing things he wasn't initially prepared to do, et cetera.
I'm sorry but you're extraordinarily naive about big business if you don't think that some countries, like China - oops - I mean Country X, don't use state resources (people/money/intelligence) to assist their economy illegally. The likely reason that 'Country X' turned this moron in is because they have this information in some other fashion and thought that political capital to be gained from burning this guy was worth it.
They can see your house? YOU DESERVE MONEY!