Except that the two carriers use two different bands for 3g data and T-Mobile customers could already roam on AT&Ts network, but at edge only speeds.
This is bad. As a t-mobile customer I'm going to be awfully sad the day I have to give up my unlimited tethered internet. Sprint is looking like the only real option left and I really detest the $10 smartphone tax just on fucking principle.
The promise of unlimited wireless internet is looking bleaker and bleaker by the day.
No. This is the correct answer. Also dalvik allows them to compile android for any hardware and it should in theory just run all of the apps anywhere. What's interesting is that a lot of arm chips can run java bytecode natively (my g1's arm6 for example), but since dalvik is its own implementation, this would of course not work. I'm pretty sure you can run native code in android as well. Doesn't the browser run natively as well as flash? At least with ARM specific instructions? My point is that the portability of android is what makes it so appealing and I think over time as the hardware gets even more ridiculously faster and efficient that the performance penalties will be minimized over time.
This is kind of my thought on the matter. We would it most certainly be hearing from torvalds and co if they had issue with what google is doing. I would imagine that google's contributions to the kernel would easily negate any bad feelings about them perhaps changing some headers. I don't know much about the standards of this sort of thing in respect to the gpl, but it seems that nothing all that bad is going on here, especially since all this stuff is happening in userspace and outside of the kernel anyways. But what do I know? I just read slashdot. This story has made it through several large news organizations already now (boy is slashdot getting behind the times) and I don't know why the fud keeps getting passed around. There is a lot of stuff that is downright disinformation going on right now, and it is becoming increasingly hard to sort out what is real and not, especially when all sorts of people are posing as "experts" just to fucking perpetuate the disinfo. Now we have the US government doing it, and things are going to start getting pretty distorted. Its interesting to read the world news and to realize how much americans have been looking at the world through rose colored shades. Can't articles on slashdot get downvoted once they are published? It would seem like a good way to cut out a lot of the crap. Of course it would be a lot harder for them to keep up the slashvertisments..............
"* Alert - This is Not Really a good idea - do NOT send money * There was a court case on this. Peter made several million out of the settlement between him and M$ over Winsock. He used it to set up Trumpet Software international and the TrumpNet ISP. Trumpet Software created a number of ill-conceived software packages which did not sell, and burned all the capital. After splitting with his wife he lost a lot of money to her, and the TrumpNet business. His ex then destroyed Trumpnet by refusing to upgrade it to support ADSL and only supplying dial-up. Dont' be sucked in by this. A number of my friends worked fro TSI and I worked for TrumpNet at one point - so sad to watch it all die. Don't give Peter any more hard-earned money to lose."
I'm guessing there is a kernel of truth to that. Also winsock was the worst tcp/ip stack I've ever had the displeasure of using. I never had to run it directly (thank god!), but in my experience with windows 3.1 systems, it was abysmal. It used to be the butt of many a joke. I really don't know if we should feel like we owe this guy anything.
My thoughts exactly. Half the time it would be a flip of the coin to see what service pack 3 would break on XP. Win2000 never seemed to break like that.....hmmmm....
Clearly you don't know much about HDR. You can also use HDR to create very natural looking images, and in fact, this is one of its primary uses. Also you don't need an HDR display because any HDR you see on the web is presented to you in boring 8-bit jpeg for the most part. Most screens cannot adequately display the 32-bit color necessary for true HDR to really shine. That being said, even at 8- bit jpegs, HDR will typically give you a much larger dynamic range than what most sensors are capable of. One day, hopefully, camera sensors and display technology will evolve to 32-bits and all this HDR stuff will seem like old hat when you can get the same results in just one shot.
Same with T-mobile here. At least with flexpay. When I signed the contract I asked what they were capping at, and he said no caps period. If they break contract and start capping, I'll just walk away. I've already transferred easily over 10 gigs this month so far.
We deserve whatever is coming and that is sad. I don't think I can defend the average american anymore. I look at this country quickly become overcome with disgust. We let this happen. We even voted the people that made it all so into power. I can't wait for people to start hitting really hard times and start wondering how we got there exactly.
I would argue that two engines makes for a superior plane since they can at least fly back on one, have better acceleration, outperform single engine planes in a myriad of ways, etc, etc, but hey what do I know? I just stayed at a Holiday Inn.
A single engine fighter is very counter to the historical navy philosophy that all carrier based planes have two engines for redundancy as well. I'm guessing its because bailing out over water hundreds of miles from your carrier, when you could have limped back home can make for quite a miserable experience.
I would take an F-15C over any F-16 any day of the week. The F-35 is in no way comparable to the F-22, and it looks like they are going for something that can compete with the F-22.
They are slowly moving away from that in case you haven't noticed. 6th gen fighters will likely be mostly UAVs. There are a lot of advantages to having humans in the sky that are not so easily dismissed. Communications can be jammed, whereas a manned plane at least has some chance of carrying out a mission in such a situation. In fact, it wouldn't take much tech to likely ground UAVs, but that's really just a game of cat and mouse. Also you make heat seeking missiles sound like some kind of foolproof technology that cannot be thwarted. Flares and counter-maneuvers have proven effective since the Vietnam war. A missile cannot turn nearly as fast as a fighter and well placed flares can easily blind the best technology, giving the pilot an opportunity to perform some evasive action.
I would argue that radar targeted missiles can be a bigger threat, but hey I'm not going to nitpick.
I've had this happen on my g1 with the ported MyTouch 3G Froyo OTA, but I don't think this is the bug they are talking about. In fact, I've sent txts to the wrong people, because of it, but it was really because I didn't look at the thread and started typing away.
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Look at his comment history.....don't feed the troll......
Except that the two carriers use two different bands for 3g data and T-Mobile customers could already roam on AT&Ts network, but at edge only speeds.
This is bad. As a t-mobile customer I'm going to be awfully sad the day I have to give up my unlimited tethered internet. Sprint is looking like the only real option left and I really detest the $10 smartphone tax just on fucking principle.
The promise of unlimited wireless internet is looking bleaker and bleaker by the day.
No. This is the correct answer. Also dalvik allows them to compile android for any hardware and it should in theory just run all of the apps anywhere. What's interesting is that a lot of arm chips can run java bytecode natively (my g1's arm6 for example), but since dalvik is its own implementation, this would of course not work. I'm pretty sure you can run native code in android as well. Doesn't the browser run natively as well as flash? At least with ARM specific instructions? My point is that the portability of android is what makes it so appealing and I think over time as the hardware gets even more ridiculously faster and efficient that the performance penalties will be minimized over time.
You must have a hard time talking with Steve Ballmer's cock in your mouth.
Actually it is 3 million....
http://www.knowyourcell.com/news/811040/windows_phone_7_sales_soar_in_february.html
Compared to android which is sitting at 67M for 2010 alone and Apple at 46M......
http://www.knowyourcell.com/news/811040/windows_phone_7_sales_soar_in_february.html
The 10,000 apps means nothing. Apple's app store has over 366,000 apps. Android over 250,000.
Which market do you think has developers the most excited?
I didn't even mention the huge blackberry userbase.
Amazing! WP7 has more apps than users!
This is kind of my thought on the matter. We would it most certainly be hearing from torvalds and co if they had issue with what google is doing. I would imagine that google's contributions to the kernel would easily negate any bad feelings about them perhaps changing some headers. I don't know much about the standards of this sort of thing in respect to the gpl, but it seems that nothing all that bad is going on here, especially since all this stuff is happening in userspace and outside of the kernel anyways. But what do I know? I just read slashdot. This story has made it through several large news organizations already now (boy is slashdot getting behind the times) and I don't know why the fud keeps getting passed around. There is a lot of stuff that is downright disinformation going on right now, and it is becoming increasingly hard to sort out what is real and not, especially when all sorts of people are posing as "experts" just to fucking perpetuate the disinfo. Now we have the US government doing it, and things are going to start getting pretty distorted. Its interesting to read the world news and to realize how much americans have been looking at the world through rose colored shades. Can't articles on slashdot get downvoted once they are published? It would seem like a good way to cut out a lot of the crap. Of course it would be a lot harder for them to keep up the slashvertisments..............
So you are saying you are running an arm HTPC and you can stream netflix? How does that work exactly?
Sometimes I wish I could retract comments on slashdot. I don't know why someone would post something that would smear him if it were untrue.
The first comment on the page:
"* Alert - This is Not Really a good idea - do NOT send money *
There was a court case on this. Peter made several million out of the settlement between him and M$ over Winsock. He used it to set up Trumpet Software international and the TrumpNet ISP. Trumpet Software created a number of ill-conceived software packages which did not sell, and burned all the capital. After splitting with his wife he lost a lot of money to her, and the TrumpNet business. His ex then destroyed Trumpnet by refusing to upgrade it to support ADSL and only supplying dial-up. Dont' be sucked in by this. A number of my friends worked fro TSI and I worked for TrumpNet at one point - so sad to watch it all die. Don't give Peter any more hard-earned money to lose."
I'm guessing there is a kernel of truth to that. Also winsock was the worst tcp/ip stack I've ever had the displeasure of using. I never had to run it directly (thank god!), but in my experience with windows 3.1 systems, it was abysmal. It used to be the butt of many a joke. I really don't know if we should feel like we owe this guy anything.
not only that... facebook now owns all your pictures, epic fail
They do? I think US copyright laws would have something to say about that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
Now was that so fucking hard?
+4 insightful? It took insight to come to this conclusion? :P
Yeah, because the 10% loss in performance would make that big of a difference.
My thoughts exactly. Half the time it would be a flip of the coin to see what service pack 3 would break on XP. Win2000 never seemed to break like that.....hmmmm....
Not if you are flexpay. I've transferred probably over 30 gigs already this month. :P
Why?
I'm reading this while downloading a windows 7 iso over my G1's 3g connection at 4mbps. The image is well over 2 gigs. No caps for me. :)
Clearly you don't know much about HDR. You can also use HDR to create very natural looking images, and in fact, this is one of its primary uses. Also you don't need an HDR display because any HDR you see on the web is presented to you in boring 8-bit jpeg for the most part. Most screens cannot adequately display the 32-bit color necessary for true HDR to really shine. That being said, even at 8- bit jpegs, HDR will typically give you a much larger dynamic range than what most sensors are capable of. One day, hopefully, camera sensors and display technology will evolve to 32-bits and all this HDR stuff will seem like old hat when you can get the same results in just one shot.
Same with T-mobile here. At least with flexpay. When I signed the contract I asked what they were capping at, and he said no caps period. If they break contract and start capping, I'll just walk away. I've already transferred easily over 10 gigs this month so far.
So one out of 30 worldwide windows *cough* phone 7 users isn't burning through data, Shocking really.
We deserve whatever is coming and that is sad. I don't think I can defend the average american anymore. I look at this country quickly become overcome with disgust. We let this happen. We even voted the people that made it all so into power. I can't wait for people to start hitting really hard times and start wondering how we got there exactly.
I would argue that two engines makes for a superior plane since they can at least fly back on one, have better acceleration, outperform single engine planes in a myriad of ways, etc, etc, but hey what do I know? I just stayed at a Holiday Inn.
A single engine fighter is very counter to the historical navy philosophy that all carrier based planes have two engines for redundancy as well. I'm guessing its because bailing out over water hundreds of miles from your carrier, when you could have limped back home can make for quite a miserable experience.
I would take an F-15C over any F-16 any day of the week. The F-35 is in no way comparable to the F-22, and it looks like they are going for something that can compete with the F-22.
They are slowly moving away from that in case you haven't noticed. 6th gen fighters will likely be mostly UAVs. There are a lot of advantages to having humans in the sky that are not so easily dismissed. Communications can be jammed, whereas a manned plane at least has some chance of carrying out a mission in such a situation. In fact, it wouldn't take much tech to likely ground UAVs, but that's really just a game of cat and mouse. Also you make heat seeking missiles sound like some kind of foolproof technology that cannot be thwarted. Flares and counter-maneuvers have proven effective since the Vietnam war. A missile cannot turn nearly as fast as a fighter and well placed flares can easily blind the best technology, giving the pilot an opportunity to perform some evasive action.
I would argue that radar targeted missiles can be a bigger threat, but hey I'm not going to nitpick.
I've had this happen on my g1 with the ported MyTouch 3G Froyo OTA, but I don't think this is the bug they are talking about. In fact, I've sent txts to the wrong people, because of it, but it was really because I didn't look at the thread and started typing away.