You know, we spent over 80 billion dollars on homeland security during the year of katrina. This includes FEMA, which was the agency responsible for providing disaster relief for disasters. Hurricanes come every year. Sure Katrina was bad, but their total lack of response for DAYS while people DIED is totally unfuckingacceptable. I mean some third world shithole in asia has a tsunami with hundreds of thousands dead and we had fucking air drops mobilized there the very next day (don't know how true that is, but I know it was pretty rapid.....). I mean this is Homeland Security...FEMA.....what would happen if a major US city were to be attacked leaving hundreds of thousands refugees? Is this how they plan on handling future disasters? If so, where the fuck is all our money going? They didn't have any real plan to deal with people stuck in New Orleans. That's somewhat acceptable, but to just leave them there to rot (literally) without fresh food or water for days is just downright criminal. If that was a bunch of white people from the Chicago suburbs, would they have gotten the same treatment?
You know....I thought the comcast caps seemed a little draconian but sort of understandable. I mean 250 gigs is a tremendous amount of data to consume in one month. 2 gigs though? Jesus. Imagine those 2 gigs being all the internet you have every month. Kind of reminds me of the old dialup days where you were restricted to a few hours a month before you started paying through the nose.
Yes, and if their business model makes any sense growing usage should bring the company more revenue which they can then use to finance network improvements. Anything else some CEO has to say about the matter is merely a diversionary tactic to draw the public away from the fact that they are raking in cash hand over fist and not facing any real reasons or pressure to improve their network. Look at the EVO 4G. Spring wants people to spend and extra $10 a month for the dataplan over the top of the rest of what they pay even if they don't offer 4G service in the area you bought the phone in. I really don't hope this is our future.
What about the billions the telcoms fleeced us for network improvements? Why would the government even subsidize profitable business? If they cannot afford to upgrade their networks, then something is dramatically wrong. Look at text messages. It costs them NOTHING to send them as they are sent over the control signal, yet they feel a need to charge upwards of.25 for one. This is all about fleecing the consumer and stifling innovation so they can get away with their rick shaw networks for another 5 years while the rest of the world outpaces us. How long did it take for 3g to come into america? Why are our cell phone plans so much more expensive than the european options? If they could get away with charging $100 for a 200 megabyte cap they'd totally try it.
I browsed the web for a few hours last night while listening to pandora via a 3g wireless tether to my G1. It didn't take long to break 100 megs. No multiply that times 30 and you start to see that it wouldn't take long to exceed a 2gig limit. 5gb or so seems fair, and I've almost exceeded that a few times with video and whatnot. I mean I understand that this isn't the same as a wired connection that has oodles of bandwidth available in the local loop. I understand that each cell site takes a dedicated connection and that costs a great deal. What bothers me is this whole bait and switch. A lot of people bought ipads on the premise of unlimited internet. Sure they are grandfathered, but for how long? It was the reason I decided to finally pony up the $100 a month a T-mobile contract costs me with android. If T-mobile went to a 2gig cap, I'd be really considering just paying the early termination fees and going back to the laptop+hotspot. Life wouldn't end necessarily.
To me it seems inevitable that in 5 years even 10gigs would likely not be enough. Especially at the 7-20mpbs the next generation of networks is supposed to start pumping out anytime now outside of new york and boston. Its like giving someone a Lamborghini with only a 5 gallon tank that you can only fill up once a month. I mean, what's the point really? Once android starts taking over the smartphone market with flash enabled those few gigs sure won't last long after you watch some 480p video or listen to some streaming music.
This is a really bad deal for consumers. One would hope that some of the other telcos don't follow suit and competition will hopefully sort things out. I won't hold my breath.
Actually M$ has certainly made statements about what data WGA collects. I don't know if I would necessarily trust that, BUT I am typing this on windows 7 and I have an android phone, so I guess I gave up certain aspects of my privacy a long time ago.
It seems like the patent lies in the use of metadata that is attached to the words the fonts display. They took tagging and added the concept to font animation. Not a terribly innovative solution if you ask me, but I guess it would be patentable. You could easily code around this if you came up with a different mechanism to control the animation. Maybe instead of tags, just use a database. I mean you could correlate this a lot of different ways.
Would they? If you made a program that animated type, would it infringe on this patent? Seems like there is plenty of prior art for doing text transformations in say video or in real time. What makes this patent different? Emotional text? This is akin to patenting digital animation and saying that it is something innovative. When is the USPTO going to finally say "ok, no more patents on software?" I mean it seems like you can cobble together the most vague ideas and throw in the magical pc device (the real fucking innovation here) and badda bing you have something like the 1-click patent. I mean, really....1 click? Amazing concept there. Right up there with the electric lightbulb and A/C power. I'm amazed that nobody patented web browsing or e-mail. I mean look at all these missed opportunities. What about a social network that is decentralized? I'm sure that will become popular one day. What about connecting to your friends based upon your own personal directory of people you have some sort of relationship with, including people that you just meet, who can be added with a simple handshake? I mean the way things are going, in 5 years mostly anyone with a cell phone will be carrying some sort of smart phone. There are pretty limitless possibilities for that kind of connectivity. Time to get the patents rolling. Why sit around and watch all these other cocksuckers rake in the cash when you can troll on your own private portfolio of patents?
No. Not strictly broadcasting an SSID, but open, unencrypted networks are much more of a grey area. Did someone leave the AP open so they could share? Is it a businesses AP for their customers and anyone else that might be able to get it? Consider that just about every new ap out there has encryption enabled by default. Obviously someone had to open up the AP, or they are running an ancient 802.11b device. Anymore open APs are pretty much the exception the the norm. I say if its open, you might as well try to get a signal if you can. I love my G1 for that since an AP is generally a lot faster than the 1mbit, 500ms latency 3g connection.
Yeah. This can be a totally sealed brick. Since they announced that android will be onboard, I'm actually somewhat interested. We'll have to see what the sepcs are like when it finalizes. If its 800mhz ARM8 or so with at least 256mb, I'm totally sold.
For the cost of one of those monstrosities, you could buy 32 OLPC XO-3s at $75 a piece. You could also buy a macbook pro. Interesting how one macbook pro costs the same as 32 XO-3s. Surely it does not cost 32x as much to produce the macbook pro.
2 years ago these specs would have been exciting, but with smartphones already pushing over 1ghz and 512mb ram, I don't see the appeal. Pandora seems destined to be an emulator lover's delight and not much more. Sure you can run android on it, but it only has a 600mhz processor and 256mb ram. The same specs as a motorola droid. I guess $300 is an ok price to play every console game before the playstation, but my laptop does that and has a nice big screen too. 2 years ago I would have drooled at this machine (and I did), but anymore it seems like it will be so radically obsolete in a short period of time. My phone is already portable internet enough for me. If anything, I'd much rather have a nice 8-10" tablet that I can share my phone's 3g connection with. Once the tablets start getting near the $300 price point, I think things will get pretty interesting. I guess you could say that the pandora is like the ultimate portable console, but only if you don't want to play any newer games.
Yeah, for air breathing engines you would need a long run in the atmosphere to get anywhere near escape velocity. I don't think we are anywhere near the mach 25-30+ we would need. Air friction is a serious problem. Even the SR-71 was highly designed to cope with the increased temperatures. The X-15 basically flew into the very upper reaches of the atmosphere (to the point of nearly losing any sort of control, and a few of them did) just to contend with the heat and friction. Look at the shielding capsules use for reentry and the apollo capsules came in at a mere 17,000 mph or so. It is FAR easier to launch a rocket straight up to space have have it do most of its acceleration once it leaves the atmosphere.
"The prone pilot's emergency escape involved an extremely complex procedure which included jettisoning the rudder pedals, crawling backward to an escape hatch and retracting the nose wheel. Fortunately, this system was never used."
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Are you trolling or being sarcastic? One core can multitask just fine.
I don't think there is a pad big enough! I mean have you seen the goatse guy?!
Of course! Whatever they say must be true because the iPhone is MAGICAL!
You know, we spent over 80 billion dollars on homeland security during the year of katrina. This includes FEMA, which was the agency responsible for providing disaster relief for disasters. Hurricanes come every year. Sure Katrina was bad, but their total lack of response for DAYS while people DIED is totally unfuckingacceptable. I mean some third world shithole in asia has a tsunami with hundreds of thousands dead and we had fucking air drops mobilized there the very next day (don't know how true that is, but I know it was pretty rapid.....). I mean this is Homeland Security...FEMA.....what would happen if a major US city were to be attacked leaving hundreds of thousands refugees? Is this how they plan on handling future disasters? If so, where the fuck is all our money going? They didn't have any real plan to deal with people stuck in New Orleans. That's somewhat acceptable, but to just leave them there to rot (literally) without fresh food or water for days is just downright criminal. If that was a bunch of white people from the Chicago suburbs, would they have gotten the same treatment?
You know....I thought the comcast caps seemed a little draconian but sort of understandable. I mean 250 gigs is a tremendous amount of data to consume in one month. 2 gigs though? Jesus. Imagine those 2 gigs being all the internet you have every month. Kind of reminds me of the old dialup days where you were restricted to a few hours a month before you started paying through the nose.
Yeah....BUT if you have 200 people on one hose you should be able to afford a bigger hose.
Yeah, but how do they make more money with that plan?
Yes, and if their business model makes any sense growing usage should bring the company more revenue which they can then use to finance network improvements. Anything else some CEO has to say about the matter is merely a diversionary tactic to draw the public away from the fact that they are raking in cash hand over fist and not facing any real reasons or pressure to improve their network. Look at the EVO 4G. Spring wants people to spend and extra $10 a month for the dataplan over the top of the rest of what they pay even if they don't offer 4G service in the area you bought the phone in. I really don't hope this is our future.
What about the billions the telcoms fleeced us for network improvements? Why would the government even subsidize profitable business? If they cannot afford to upgrade their networks, then something is dramatically wrong. Look at text messages. It costs them NOTHING to send them as they are sent over the control signal, yet they feel a need to charge upwards of .25 for one. This is all about fleecing the consumer and stifling innovation so they can get away with their rick shaw networks for another 5 years while the rest of the world outpaces us. How long did it take for 3g to come into america? Why are our cell phone plans so much more expensive than the european options? If they could get away with charging $100 for a 200 megabyte cap they'd totally try it.
I browsed the web for a few hours last night while listening to pandora via a 3g wireless tether to my G1. It didn't take long to break 100 megs. No multiply that times 30 and you start to see that it wouldn't take long to exceed a 2gig limit. 5gb or so seems fair, and I've almost exceeded that a few times with video and whatnot. I mean I understand that this isn't the same as a wired connection that has oodles of bandwidth available in the local loop. I understand that each cell site takes a dedicated connection and that costs a great deal. What bothers me is this whole bait and switch. A lot of people bought ipads on the premise of unlimited internet. Sure they are grandfathered, but for how long? It was the reason I decided to finally pony up the $100 a month a T-mobile contract costs me with android. If T-mobile went to a 2gig cap, I'd be really considering just paying the early termination fees and going back to the laptop+hotspot. Life wouldn't end necessarily.
To me it seems inevitable that in 5 years even 10gigs would likely not be enough. Especially at the 7-20mpbs the next generation of networks is supposed to start pumping out anytime now outside of new york and boston. Its like giving someone a Lamborghini with only a 5 gallon tank that you can only fill up once a month. I mean, what's the point really? Once android starts taking over the smartphone market with flash enabled those few gigs sure won't last long after you watch some 480p video or listen to some streaming music.
This is a really bad deal for consumers. One would hope that some of the other telcos don't follow suit and competition will hopefully sort things out. I won't hold my breath.
I always hit peak wood in the morning.
Actually M$ has certainly made statements about what data WGA collects. I don't know if I would necessarily trust that, BUT I am typing this on windows 7 and I have an android phone, so I guess I gave up certain aspects of my privacy a long time ago.
It seems like the patent lies in the use of metadata that is attached to the words the fonts display. They took tagging and added the concept to font animation. Not a terribly innovative solution if you ask me, but I guess it would be patentable. You could easily code around this if you came up with a different mechanism to control the animation. Maybe instead of tags, just use a database. I mean you could correlate this a lot of different ways.
Would they? If you made a program that animated type, would it infringe on this patent? Seems like there is plenty of prior art for doing text transformations in say video or in real time. What makes this patent different? Emotional text? This is akin to patenting digital animation and saying that it is something innovative. When is the USPTO going to finally say "ok, no more patents on software?" I mean it seems like you can cobble together the most vague ideas and throw in the magical pc device (the real fucking innovation here) and badda bing you have something like the 1-click patent. I mean, really....1 click? Amazing concept there. Right up there with the electric lightbulb and A/C power. I'm amazed that nobody patented web browsing or e-mail. I mean look at all these missed opportunities. What about a social network that is decentralized? I'm sure that will become popular one day. What about connecting to your friends based upon your own personal directory of people you have some sort of relationship with, including people that you just meet, who can be added with a simple handshake? I mean the way things are going, in 5 years mostly anyone with a cell phone will be carrying some sort of smart phone. There are pretty limitless possibilities for that kind of connectivity. Time to get the patents rolling. Why sit around and watch all these other cocksuckers rake in the cash when you can troll on your own private portfolio of patents?
I can see the future now! Genetically modified foil bees!!
No. Not strictly broadcasting an SSID, but open, unencrypted networks are much more of a grey area. Did someone leave the AP open so they could share? Is it a businesses AP for their customers and anyone else that might be able to get it? Consider that just about every new ap out there has encryption enabled by default. Obviously someone had to open up the AP, or they are running an ancient 802.11b device. Anymore open APs are pretty much the exception the the norm. I say if its open, you might as well try to get a signal if you can. I love my G1 for that since an AP is generally a lot faster than the 1mbit, 500ms latency 3g connection.
Yeah. This can be a totally sealed brick. Since they announced that android will be onboard, I'm actually somewhat interested. We'll have to see what the sepcs are like when it finalizes. If its 800mhz ARM8 or so with at least 256mb, I'm totally sold.
For the cost of one of those monstrosities, you could buy 32 OLPC XO-3s at $75 a piece. You could also buy a macbook pro. Interesting how one macbook pro costs the same as 32 XO-3s. Surely it does not cost 32x as much to produce the macbook pro.
my=you..... too early in the morning
my might be sol. I don't think any of the android phones have a host mode on their usb ports.
Yeah, the danger spl had me pause. apparently all is well if you make sure the radio is current before you flash, but I'm still a bit leery.
I believe droid supports bluetooth controllers. Look it up if you are curious.
2 years ago these specs would have been exciting, but with smartphones already pushing over 1ghz and 512mb ram, I don't see the appeal. Pandora seems destined to be an emulator lover's delight and not much more. Sure you can run android on it, but it only has a 600mhz processor and 256mb ram. The same specs as a motorola droid. I guess $300 is an ok price to play every console game before the playstation, but my laptop does that and has a nice big screen too. 2 years ago I would have drooled at this machine (and I did), but anymore it seems like it will be so radically obsolete in a short period of time. My phone is already portable internet enough for me. If anything, I'd much rather have a nice 8-10" tablet that I can share my phone's 3g connection with. Once the tablets start getting near the $300 price point, I think things will get pretty interesting. I guess you could say that the pandora is like the ultimate portable console, but only if you don't want to play any newer games.
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gg allin playlist
Yeah, for air breathing engines you would need a long run in the atmosphere to get anywhere near escape velocity. I don't think we are anywhere near the mach 25-30+ we would need. Air friction is a serious problem. Even the SR-71 was highly designed to cope with the increased temperatures. The X-15 basically flew into the very upper reaches of the atmosphere (to the point of nearly losing any sort of control, and a few of them did) just to contend with the heat and friction. Look at the shielding capsules use for reentry and the apollo capsules came in at a mere 17,000 mph or so. It is FAR easier to launch a rocket straight up to space have have it do most of its acceleration once it leaves the atmosphere.
"The prone pilot's emergency escape involved an extremely complex procedure which included jettisoning the rudder pedals, crawling backward to an escape hatch and retracting the nose wheel. Fortunately, this system was never used."
I think I'll pass.