There is another bandwidth saving feature on that phone, phone browsers that take that approach are almost always terribly crappy and people stop using them as much as possible, saving on their monthly bill.
Comic Sans is utterly despised by anybody who cares about fonts, but for everybody else it's just another option that they can choose if they feel like it. Lisa Randall is in the latter group, she's too busy discovering the secrets of the universe to care what font would win her the most esteem among people who give a shit about fonts.
The problem is that higher frequencies don't propagate very well, and lower frequencies can't carry enough bits to make it worthwhile, there is really a pretty narrow slice of the spectrum that makes sense for cell phone users. That spectrum is shared by many many other services like satellite communications, navigational equipment, remote control systems, etc...
Your shared tower scheme is interesting, but it requires someone to invest the billions of dollars building towers and then just give them up to anybody who wants to use them. I don't really see a way to make that work short of having the Government just take over AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint and then mass upgrade every tower in the network. I can guarantee that such a plan would be met with sheer unbridled rage and is about as likely to happen as the government handing out a free flying unicorn to every single American tomorrow.
You would be surprised how many people drop email addresses regularly though. Generally they're calling Customer Service because they need their password reset and the "email your password" doesn't work because they don't have that account anymore. Maybe it was their old ISP, maybe they forgot the password, maybe they shut it down because it got too much spam, but people lose email addresses all the time.
Judging from the noise I hear during hunting season, most of them. It was rare to hear a single crack of a rifle, generally it was a rapid succession of shots. As I understand it, the favored way of hunting was to stomp around the woods making a bunch of noise, and when a deer gets startled and bolts, that's when they pump it full of lead.
This always sounded a bit unsportsmanlike and dangerous to me (It's hard to verify that the area behind the deer is clear when you're snapfiring at it), but you have to understand that most of the hunters in my area were rednecks. If you want to talk about hunters that you can respect, you had to wait for bowhunting season.
It's not like it's exactly hard to get a gun into DC. Virginia is right across the bridge and has lax gun laws. Getting a gun into the city isn't some major accomplishment or anything.
Um, the barriers to entry for a wireless carrier are hardly artificial. They're limited by spectrum, a shared and extremely limited resource that they're granted a monopoly over by the government. That's why you can't just start up your own competing cell company, the spectrum is already allocated to the incumbents. That's why most countries regulate their cell providers, because the monopoly situation makes it impossible for proper competition to form. That's also why countries with lax regulation end up with sky high cell phone prices and poor service.
The graphics driver is both monstrously large and operates at a very low level, there are going to be tons and tons of security problems with it when people start seriously looking at it. As John Carmak put it: I agree with Microsoft’s assessment that WebGL is a severe security risk. The gfx driver culture is not the culture of security.
Also remember that this far out the polls are effectively meaningless. It's just something for talking heads to blabber on about so they can fill the airtime.
I guess the real question is: What else does that app do? You don't need people installing executables on their phone to receive a text message, it must have other features that made it worth the development effort on Mitt's part. It could have a donate button, but most of his donations are going to 529 groups anyway, so that's not a huge win (it will be there anyway). What is the point of this app?
Heck, there are instructions online for building your own AK-47 using nothing but a sheet metal press and a couple of parts you can get in kit form. The quality won't even be too much worse than many of the factory versions of the same weapon, although it will look a fair bit more rugged.
It's worse than that, when you sign on with Facebook, a lot of times that means whatever site you are using then has total access to your account, including making posts as you that you won't even see on the main page. You have to drill down into your account to see what those companies are posting in your name.
Better than the old days where the buggy and broken games were just buggy and broken forever because you can't patch a cartridge or a CD. I've fallen through the map of many a PSx and PS2 game, and looking through history sites will show you the mountains of bugs you could dig up on any popular cartridge back in the day. This isn't just for crappy unknown developers either, Nintendo's first party titles had plenty of bugs in them, as did Square's, Rare, etc... Super Mario Brothers had wallhacks and the negative world for instance. Final Fantasy 6 had the infamous dup bugs and mimic bugs and wild animal bugs that could corrupt your save files if you weren't careful. Battletoads was literally impossible to beat in two player mode.
Microsoft's testing is probably limited to scanning the game to make sure it doesn't use any forbidden APIs or try to use the box in some unapproved way. The process is probably mostly automated, although a person does probably have to give it a once over sanity check. I seriously doubt they have actual game testers in there playtesting the thing.
My guess is that Microsoft set the price point high to avoid the PS3 problem, where every time you turn the damn thing on it has some patch that needs you to read yet another EULA and hit ok before it will apply. I don't know how people read all of the EULAs a PS3 tosses up without going blind.
Most of the gear you have should already support IPv6 unless you're in some sort of computing museum. There are some things that hate IPv6 still (VPN hardware annoyingly), but it's pretty rare. Even crappy home equipment supports IPv6 a lot more often than you might expect.
For what it's worth, the number of addresses they would need to scan (assuming you use the default "turn my MAC into my IPv6 addr) scheme is not quite as big. At worse you only need to scan 281,474,976,710,656 addresses. You could make some assumptions that would cut down the number of addresses you need to search too, like the first octect being 00 (common for physical NICs, although not a guarantee anymore).
Still, brute force scans on IPv6 are not going to be very common I think.
I am still using the same tube of Arctic Silver 2 I bought ages ago. I hear that it isn't supposed to be as good as the more modern stuff, but my CPUs have never had overheating issues so I am in no hurry to upgrade.
The flipside of this is that a lot of the proposals to replace HTTP suffer badly from the second system effect, where the protocol designer decides to add proper support for all of the edge cases and ends up with a protocol that is gigantic and difficult to implement.
It's right out of the Reality TV Bible. Despite the relatively low production costs, there is still a lot of hand wringing over the success of any particular show, so producers feel forced to inject "drama" regardless of the actual situation. It drives me nuts when you have shows with otherwise interesting premises like Project Runway or Face Off that have an opportunity to show creative people doing interesting things, and instead spend most of their time playing up some off-hand remark and cutting away to the confession camera to learn just how much someone's feelings were hurt and how their mother really wants them to succeed because blah blah blah.
It's like they're all edited by gossipy Jr. High school girls.
The problem is, both sides and neither side have the position of strength here. Viacom obviously wants the big bucks from the cable/satellite company, and the cable/satellite companies don't want people cancelling because you dropped the channels they care about. Maybe that's why there has been such a push for 2 year contracts on these services as of late. If the consumers are locked in the company could have a lot more leverage over the content producers.
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There is another bandwidth saving feature on that phone, phone browsers that take that approach are almost always terribly crappy and people stop using them as much as possible, saving on their monthly bill.
That sounds like your problem, not a problem with the font. I can blow through documents in either font with no trouble.
Comic Sans is utterly despised by anybody who cares about fonts, but for everybody else it's just another option that they can choose if they feel like it. Lisa Randall is in the latter group, she's too busy discovering the secrets of the universe to care what font would win her the most esteem among people who give a shit about fonts.
The problem is that higher frequencies don't propagate very well, and lower frequencies can't carry enough bits to make it worthwhile, there is really a pretty narrow slice of the spectrum that makes sense for cell phone users. That spectrum is shared by many many other services like satellite communications, navigational equipment, remote control systems, etc...
Your shared tower scheme is interesting, but it requires someone to invest the billions of dollars building towers and then just give them up to anybody who wants to use them. I don't really see a way to make that work short of having the Government just take over AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint and then mass upgrade every tower in the network. I can guarantee that such a plan would be met with sheer unbridled rage and is about as likely to happen as the government handing out a free flying unicorn to every single American tomorrow.
You would be surprised how many people drop email addresses regularly though. Generally they're calling Customer Service because they need their password reset and the "email your password" doesn't work because they don't have that account anymore. Maybe it was their old ISP, maybe they forgot the password, maybe they shut it down because it got too much spam, but people lose email addresses all the time.
So if you need to reset your password you keep calling until you get someone who sounds cute?
It would seem to be a problem when you call and the person on the other end picks up with "Hello, this is Biff-Joe, I will be helping you today."
Judging from the noise I hear during hunting season, most of them. It was rare to hear a single crack of a rifle, generally it was a rapid succession of shots. As I understand it, the favored way of hunting was to stomp around the woods making a bunch of noise, and when a deer gets startled and bolts, that's when they pump it full of lead.
This always sounded a bit unsportsmanlike and dangerous to me (It's hard to verify that the area behind the deer is clear when you're snapfiring at it), but you have to understand that most of the hunters in my area were rednecks. If you want to talk about hunters that you can respect, you had to wait for bowhunting season.
It's not like it's exactly hard to get a gun into DC. Virginia is right across the bridge and has lax gun laws. Getting a gun into the city isn't some major accomplishment or anything.
Um, the barriers to entry for a wireless carrier are hardly artificial. They're limited by spectrum, a shared and extremely limited resource that they're granted a monopoly over by the government. That's why you can't just start up your own competing cell company, the spectrum is already allocated to the incumbents. That's why most countries regulate their cell providers, because the monopoly situation makes it impossible for proper competition to form. That's also why countries with lax regulation end up with sky high cell phone prices and poor service.
The graphics driver is both monstrously large and operates at a very low level, there are going to be tons and tons of security problems with it when people start seriously looking at it. As John Carmak put it: I agree with Microsoft’s assessment that WebGL is a severe security risk. The gfx driver culture is not the culture of security.
Also remember that this far out the polls are effectively meaningless. It's just something for talking heads to blabber on about so they can fill the airtime.
I guess the real question is: What else does that app do? You don't need people installing executables on their phone to receive a text message, it must have other features that made it worth the development effort on Mitt's part. It could have a donate button, but most of his donations are going to 529 groups anyway, so that's not a huge win (it will be there anyway). What is the point of this app?
Heck, there are instructions online for building your own AK-47 using nothing but a sheet metal press and a couple of parts you can get in kit form. The quality won't even be too much worse than many of the factory versions of the same weapon, although it will look a fair bit more rugged.
It's worse than that, when you sign on with Facebook, a lot of times that means whatever site you are using then has total access to your account, including making posts as you that you won't even see on the main page. You have to drill down into your account to see what those companies are posting in your name.
Better than the old days where the buggy and broken games were just buggy and broken forever because you can't patch a cartridge or a CD. I've fallen through the map of many a PSx and PS2 game, and looking through history sites will show you the mountains of bugs you could dig up on any popular cartridge back in the day. This isn't just for crappy unknown developers either, Nintendo's first party titles had plenty of bugs in them, as did Square's, Rare, etc... Super Mario Brothers had wallhacks and the negative world for instance. Final Fantasy 6 had the infamous dup bugs and mimic bugs and wild animal bugs that could corrupt your save files if you weren't careful. Battletoads was literally impossible to beat in two player mode.
Microsoft's testing is probably limited to scanning the game to make sure it doesn't use any forbidden APIs or try to use the box in some unapproved way. The process is probably mostly automated, although a person does probably have to give it a once over sanity check. I seriously doubt they have actual game testers in there playtesting the thing.
My guess is that Microsoft set the price point high to avoid the PS3 problem, where every time you turn the damn thing on it has some patch that needs you to read yet another EULA and hit ok before it will apply. I don't know how people read all of the EULAs a PS3 tosses up without going blind.
Most of the gear you have should already support IPv6 unless you're in some sort of computing museum. There are some things that hate IPv6 still (VPN hardware annoyingly), but it's pretty rare. Even crappy home equipment supports IPv6 a lot more often than you might expect.
For what it's worth, the number of addresses they would need to scan (assuming you use the default "turn my MAC into my IPv6 addr) scheme is not quite as big. At worse you only need to scan 281,474,976,710,656 addresses. You could make some assumptions that would cut down the number of addresses you need to search too, like the first octect being 00 (common for physical NICs, although not a guarantee anymore).
Still, brute force scans on IPv6 are not going to be very common I think.
I am still using the same tube of Arctic Silver 2 I bought ages ago. I hear that it isn't supposed to be as good as the more modern stuff, but my CPUs have never had overheating issues so I am in no hurry to upgrade.
The thermal pad probably comes with a root kit.
The flipside of this is that a lot of the proposals to replace HTTP suffer badly from the second system effect, where the protocol designer decides to add proper support for all of the edge cases and ends up with a protocol that is gigantic and difficult to implement.
You sir, are an optimist. I applaud Comcast's deployment of IPv6, but the rest of the industry is still dragging their heels quite badly.
None that I've met so far.
It's right out of the Reality TV Bible. Despite the relatively low production costs, there is still a lot of hand wringing over the success of any particular show, so producers feel forced to inject "drama" regardless of the actual situation. It drives me nuts when you have shows with otherwise interesting premises like Project Runway or Face Off that have an opportunity to show creative people doing interesting things, and instead spend most of their time playing up some off-hand remark and cutting away to the confession camera to learn just how much someone's feelings were hurt and how their mother really wants them to succeed because blah blah blah.
It's like they're all edited by gossipy Jr. High school girls.
The problem is, both sides and neither side have the position of strength here. Viacom obviously wants the big bucks from the cable/satellite company, and the cable/satellite companies don't want people cancelling because you dropped the channels they care about. Maybe that's why there has been such a push for 2 year contracts on these services as of late. If the consumers are locked in the company could have a lot more leverage over the content producers.