So once you have your phone, and your lengthy contract, there is no incentive for the vendor/carrier to perform an upgrade. They are technically delivering you your phone service with some "smart" features tacked on. All vendors are doing this, so there is churn at the end of contracts, but it will probably be a wash with everyone leaving their respective carrier for another one. Upgrades introduce regressions, and fixing those costs money, and that would eat into profits.
If the underlaying OS and the DE were split apart, or better yet, there was a firmware hooks to the radios that had standard calls from the OS, maybe there'd be a chance of some success here.(I'm thinking of how the original Xbox loaded the dashboard for XBMC) As long as you're tied to your vendors to provide your upgrades to you, you might as well be as closed source as anything that Microsoft puts out.
This is very true, unfortunately, in practice is seldom the case.
I work mainly with 3 groups, comprised of 12 SA's, and oddly enough, 20+ setups. SAs seem to thing that 'their way' is always the best way. Each one wants to setup their servers differntly because of this or that reason, and in turn sacrifice uniformity.
If you got a vendor configured OS out of the box, some of them might be more inclined to leave the settings, as the engineers at Oracle are probably getting paid more than they are for good reason. However for the same reason, you might end up with an SA hell bent on their way just like before.
Less configurables == less choice, and in this case it hopefully would be a good thing.
Maybe Debian needs to think more about it's policy on branding. There should be special consideration given to artwork that isn't libre, but is gratis. It could squash that pesky bug about it's own logo at the same time...
I support the Debian effort, but, in the long term, this is an issue that will stife the porting of apps that will want to have their branding left intact.
Everyone jaws about growing linux, but people that use their branding to generate revenue in situations where the actual software is free would suffer for not enforcing branding. This case in particular makes the Debian team look like asshats: "We want all of your work, we want it for free, and we want to modify it however we like, even if it is detrimental to you and your brand"
Are there really the resources in the public system at this time to make this a reality?
When I was in grade school, one of my classes had 2 students in my grade becuase it was rural, we were given a lot of attention because the teacher was in charge of 3 grades but only ~12 students. As things go, the school closed and I was moved to a regional school with ~25-30 other students. Turns out, I had already comlteted half of the material for that grade in my previous school, and had much higher understanding of the material. This lead me to being put in a higher level of class(no gifted programs) that was designed for students at a higher level, without skipping a grade. I think I got a better education than most because my learning was aided by lots of attention in the early stages, rather than me being smart(really hate to say that...).
When you hit the level of genius kids, not just the ones that are well above average, I'm sure it is a whole different story. They will be easier to spot, but who's to say that they will contribute more to society in the long run?
I'd have to say that the hardest workers are the biggest segment to benifit society, not the smartest, but hey, that's just me.
i'm glad others have started this topic, because it is the logical thing.
who's to say that the arch will be x86 in the end anyhow? that would surely stop home installations on generic PC hardware. The procs and board simply will not be available publicly, and that kinda kills the whole idea.
The PC industry could take a stab at killing off some legacy support
if the building is going to get cold, as in -5 C as already posted LCD's are a bad idea, but also the battery that holds the fun little things for the BIOS die quite quickly.
We killed so many of the thin watch batteries, we eventually started to wire up AA's in series just because then were cheaper and more readily available.
CCTV in the UK is massively useful, and shown to be a useful tool and deterent when dealing with crime.
my mouth runnuth over.... that comment wasn't adequetly researched, but when i did more looking i found stories in both directions. Usually the governments saying they are great, and somone opposed for whatever their reason may be saying that cameras hadn't solved anything
Pick one option belive it, or go middle ground if you feel the need.
Why should anyone have a problem being seen on camera while in public? It just confirms that you are in public, and if you didn't want to be seen, then you wouldn't be in public anyhow. If it's hijacked so what? Somone who wasn't suppoed to see you say you, but since you were in public, why should you care?(barring the case of a tech savvy stalker..... but just waiting outside of your house would probably be more useful for them)
CCTV in the UK is massively useful, and shown to be a useful tool and deterent when dealing with crime.
How long before actual voice conversations are going to be stored, then be admissable in court? I can see server logs existing of the transmission, but logging the actual content seems to be privacy invasion.
Why aren't text messages treated the exact same way as voice, and simply track the transmission for billing purposes?
PS- this girl always wanted to be famous.... now she's getting her wish
with floating excnage rates, the iTunes store can be somewhat volatile for canadian users. i for one would be much more inclined to use a service that billed in CAD, and i'm sure that there are others are out there that agree with me on this one.
Canada is regarded in this way by many american companies though, and really do we have an option? Well, we do, and that is pay in USD or go without
I can hardly wait till they start reporting "There seems to be a massive traffic jam in the first year psych class on campus" because 500 people didn't turn their phones off.
What about all of the pedestrian traffic? At least half the people on the steet have phones, which will probably rival the people that have them turned on in their car. The data will show cars running over people all of the time, and other fun stuff like that.
The name may be boring right now, but hopefully they won't call it Indiana Jones : Episode 1, Phantom Menace (By menace, I mean that annoying as hell Jar Jar Binks, latex injected, jabba the hut wannabe)
If anyone has read the latest Red Herring, then they already know what I am about to say.
In the US, 3G is where the DOD operates, meaning, nobody else can play there. All of the wireless companies overpaid by a tremendous amount the last time they could buy the airways, and aren't going to bay the billions of dollars that it will take to locate the DOD to another freq. range. Any with the state of the US right now, is congress really going to try and piss off the military? I think not...
Damn Cold Fusion! I was starting to really enjoy the rolling blackouts, besides the super long coffee breaks, I got to grope the hot intern in the copy room when the lights went out.
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Although it might allow them to get greater penetration in the Catholic priest market segment.
Typically it isn't the priest being penetrated...
So if you can't crack it, but you can bypass the challenge, do you still win?
http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp
So once you have your phone, and your lengthy contract, there is no incentive for the vendor/carrier to perform an upgrade. They are technically delivering you your phone service with some "smart" features tacked on. All vendors are doing this, so there is churn at the end of contracts, but it will probably be a wash with everyone leaving their respective carrier for another one. Upgrades introduce regressions, and fixing those costs money, and that would eat into profits.
If the underlaying OS and the DE were split apart, or better yet, there was a firmware hooks to the radios that had standard calls from the OS, maybe there'd be a chance of some success here.(I'm thinking of how the original Xbox loaded the dashboard for XBMC) As long as you're tied to your vendors to provide your upgrades to you, you might as well be as closed source as anything that Microsoft puts out.
This is very true, unfortunately, in practice is seldom the case.
I work mainly with 3 groups, comprised of 12 SA's, and oddly enough, 20+ setups. SAs seem to thing that 'their way' is always the best way. Each one wants to setup their servers differntly because of this or that reason, and in turn sacrifice uniformity.
If you got a vendor configured OS out of the box, some of them might be more inclined to leave the settings, as the engineers at Oracle are probably getting paid more than they are for good reason. However for the same reason, you might end up with an SA hell bent on their way just like before.
Less configurables == less choice, and in this case it hopefully would be a good thing.
Maybe Debian needs to think more about it's policy on branding. There should be special consideration given to artwork that isn't libre, but is gratis. It could squash that pesky bug about it's own logo at the same time...
I support the Debian effort, but, in the long term, this is an issue that will stife the porting of apps that will want to have their branding left intact.
Everyone jaws about growing linux, but people that use their branding to generate revenue in situations where the actual software is free would suffer for not enforcing branding. This case in particular makes the Debian team look like asshats: "We want all of your work, we want it for free, and we want to modify it however we like, even if it is detrimental to you and your brand"
This could be the ultimate game of dodgeball in the future? Imagine seeing the look on the fat kids face at the moment of impact?
Dammit, I'm the fat kid.
Are there really the resources in the public system at this time to make this a reality?
When I was in grade school, one of my classes had 2 students in my grade becuase it was rural, we were given a lot of attention because the teacher was in charge of 3 grades but only ~12 students. As things go, the school closed and I was moved to a regional school with ~25-30 other students. Turns out, I had already comlteted half of the material for that grade in my previous school, and had much higher understanding of the material. This lead me to being put in a higher level of class(no gifted programs) that was designed for students at a higher level, without skipping a grade. I think I got a better education than most because my learning was aided by lots of attention in the early stages, rather than me being smart(really hate to say that...).
When you hit the level of genius kids, not just the ones that are well above average, I'm sure it is a whole different story. They will be easier to spot, but who's to say that they will contribute more to society in the long run?
I'd have to say that the hardest workers are the biggest segment to benifit society, not the smartest, but hey, that's just me.
i'm glad others have started this topic, because it is the logical thing.
who's to say that the arch will be x86 in the end anyhow? that would surely stop home installations on generic PC hardware. The procs and board simply will not be available publicly, and that kinda kills the whole idea.
The PC industry could take a stab at killing off some legacy support
They use a thermal ink system which is guaranteed to break down in only 2 or 3 refills
Actually, 1.5 is what we were told in our HP product training, so you don't even get one good refill before die.
Paper and ink are the only profitable consumer products that HP makes, the rest is to support the sales of these items
But the question remains, can I wipe my ass with it?
Sure you can, it all comes down to how much you want to pay for toilet paper.
if the building is going to get cold, as in -5 C as already posted LCD's are a bad idea, but also the battery that holds the fun little things for the BIOS die quite quickly.
We killed so many of the thin watch batteries, we eventually started to wire up AA's in series just because then were cheaper and more readily available.
how can i argue with a 'anything is dumb and it's just dumb'
i bow down to your superior/inferior ways
grown up land? try the US, the world would use 1 000
CCTV in the UK is massively useful, and shown to be a useful tool and deterent when dealing with crime.
my mouth runnuth over.... that comment wasn't adequetly researched, but when i did more looking i found stories in both directions. Usually the governments saying they are great, and somone opposed for whatever their reason may be saying that cameras hadn't solved anything
Pick one option belive it, or go middle ground if you feel the need.
Before everyone starts quoting 1984...
Why should anyone have a problem being seen on camera while in public? It just confirms that you are in public, and if you didn't want to be seen, then you wouldn't be in public anyhow. If it's hijacked so what? Somone who wasn't suppoed to see you say you, but since you were in public, why should you care?(barring the case of a tech savvy stalker..... but just waiting outside of your house would probably be more useful for them)
CCTV in the UK is massively useful, and shown to be a useful tool and deterent when dealing with crime.
"We will allow the optimization of all aspects of the system simultaneously,"
Isn't that what MS claims about their service packs?
How long before actual voice conversations are going to be stored, then be admissable in court? I can see server logs existing of the transmission, but logging the actual content seems to be privacy invasion.
Why aren't text messages treated the exact same way as voice, and simply track the transmission for billing purposes?
PS- this girl always wanted to be famous.... now she's getting her wish
with floating excnage rates, the iTunes store can be somewhat volatile for canadian users. i for one would be much more inclined to use a service that billed in CAD, and i'm sure that there are others are out there that agree with me on this one.
Canada is regarded in this way by many american companies though, and really do we have an option? Well, we do, and that is pay in USD or go without
I can hardly wait till they start reporting "There seems to be a massive traffic jam in the first year psych class on campus" because 500 people didn't turn their phones off.
What about all of the pedestrian traffic? At least half the people on the steet have phones, which will probably rival the people that have them turned on in their car. The data will show cars running over people all of the time, and other fun stuff like that.
The name may be boring right now, but hopefully they won't call it Indiana Jones : Episode 1, Phantom Menace (By menace, I mean that annoying as hell Jar Jar Binks, latex injected, jabba the hut wannabe)
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If anyone has read the latest Red Herring, then they already know what I am about to say. In the US, 3G is where the DOD operates, meaning, nobody else can play there. All of the wireless companies overpaid by a tremendous amount the last time they could buy the airways, and aren't going to bay the billions of dollars that it will take to locate the DOD to another freq. range. Any with the state of the US right now, is congress really going to try and piss off the military? I think not...
Damn Cold Fusion! I was starting to really enjoy the rolling blackouts, besides the super long coffee breaks, I got to grope the hot intern in the copy room when the lights went out.