It's been pointed out above, than BGAN is only useful for stationary vessels, it cannot be used on the open ocean. For that you need FleetBroadband also from Inmarsat. Needless to say, it's even more expensive.
Yes you do. 0.8% is fatal and honestly, by consuming even everclear, I don't think you could ingest it fast enough to get your BAC to.8% before you die. Only way to hit.8% before you die is to inject it directly into your veins.
Okay, I missed a zero.
Frighteningly, wikipedia reckon a few folk have managed to surpass 0.8%.
In a small a Director is usually someone who sits on the board.
In a large company like an S&P500 one, a director is usually a management position with responsibility for a specific business area.
The titles are the same but the meaning different. I'm assuming from the size of business the poster described (50 employees) that he is in the former category of Director.
Does and doesn't. Shouldn't be making up titles that don't fit an IT department size of 2 or 3.
I see no evidence that he made up a title. Typically in business, Director has a meaning - that the holder is on the board responsible for running the company. In a small business they will often be one of the shareholders too.
Titles like CIO would indeed be superfluous in a small company, but Director has a specific meaning and its use could be entirely appropriate.
I'm sure I'm not the only code monkey who shudders at the implications of this statement.
Well, it depends on the size of the company does it not? Perhaps they employ fifteen to twenty staff with an IT department of 2 or 3, mostly focused on hardware and user support. Then it would be much more reasonable for the Director of IT to be a coder who is also taking management responsibility.
You're right that if the company grows, management should be the focus and a decent DBA employed, but until then like many small companies the poster may have to be a jack of all trades. At least they're showing incentive in seeking to master at least one of their areas of responsibility.
Given they wrote a script to automatically generate SIM IDs which could then be passed to retrieve another email address, I suspect they were well aware that this was data they should not be accessing.
There was no need to retrieve over 100,000 addresses before notifying AT&T nor was there any need to share the security hole with others as was also done.
The leak shouldn't have been there, but the responsible thing to do upon discovery is report it, not exploit it.
I would imagine the vast majority of the 2 million were purchased by people who owned an iPhone or iPod Touch and therefore had a pretty good idea of what they were getting.
It certainly wasn't as big an unknown as the first iPhone.
It's an optional thing for a developer to include in his app
Indeed adverts are. Adblock Plus is a browser plugin so that adds are an optional thing a user can choose to accept. I'm unclear as to what way graphics heavy adverts will be 'win-win for... iOS users' given that as of today it is no longer possible to start an unlimited data contract.
Will a user be winning when an ad for an ap that would have cost $1.99 for the ad-free version sends them over their monthly cap and results in a $10 bill from AT&T?
All ads have done is resulted in a proliferation of free apps with limited functionality and lots of adverts. It's cluttered the marketplace and made it difficult to distinguish between applications and value. It's not immediately obvious how much paid or versions of similar apps cost, making price comparisons more difficult for the user. Where's the 'win' in that?
Apple have distinct carrier contracts. What would have been innovative would have been to negotiate with carriers, make bandwidth to Apple's Ad servers not count as part of a user's allowance and have the advertiser pick up the cost of serving their Ad.
Would you watch network television if you were billed for each ad you see?
A bit of a 'meet too' reply, but I've also had a similar amount from them.
Can't say I'm surprised the program is ending, though I am disappointed. I'm still not sure how much Microsoft actually shelled out other than in admin costs, I suspect the promotions themselves may have been paid for by retaillers.
Normally, the display is gray scale because an e-ink display is used which causes less of a draw on power and extends out the battery life to a week. I'm guessing that the 10-our battery life is a conservative estimate. Otherwise your standard eee-pc/iPad clone outperforms such a device because they're color, available now at 300$, and last up to 10 hours.
The specs make this look like a note taking / annotation device. That's something the kindle sucks at. Jobs won't allow a stylus near the iPad, so they're avoiding that market altogether. Netbooks are fine for typists as long as your notes are all text. As soon as diagrams are involved they suck too.
So really this is a $$$ replacement for a pad of lined paper. That said, if the applications are well put together, it might well have a market even if that market doesn't include you or me.
WTF is the point of a digicam with a grayscale screen?
It's an e-reader device. I imagine the camera might be useful for taking a picture of diagrams you have drawn by hand on paper or your lecturer has drawn on the blackboard. I don't see any reason why the photos shouldn't be in colour either - my samsung laser printer only does black and white, but the built in scanner does colour.
As a/. reader, you're not seriously suggesting you represent an average you tube viewer?
To watch in HD you need a relatively modern computer, a decent internet connection and a some knowledge that HD even exists. That simply doesn't reflect the majority of internet users.
Most of the web video content will be moving towards 720p or 1080p too, so you should really compare future codec candidates towards those.
Unless something dramatic happens in screen resolution, you are assuming everything will be watched full screen. I don't think that's the case with youtube and most other browser based video. People watch videos on facebook while reading their wall, people watch in youtube while reading user comments. Smaller video on a computer lets you multitask, full screen means you can't continue working while you watch and listen.
replying to myself, the person with the emacs comment flipped but didn't negate. With the toyota example you negated but didn't flip. Both need to be done to make the logic correct.
Contraposition only works with "if and only if", aka . Otherwise I could say "If it's a Toyota, then it's a car. If it's NOT a Toyota, then it's NOT a car".
No, it doesn't require if and only if. Your logic is wrong.
(local taxes) + (U.S. taxes) - (some exceptions meant to avoid double-taxation) = (still more than you would pay in either country if you were taxed only by that country)
When the other country you're living in is a European country with a very high tax rate (e.g. France, Sweden, etc.), you end up paying a lot more in taxes than you are getting in return benefits.
Most Western countries have taxation treaties. Generally you would not pay US tax on earnings in, for example, a more highly taxed European country - only if you were paying less tax than you would in the US would you pay the balance to the IRS.
The guy's at Amazon cloud should be prepared for predictable problems like a power outage, specially when one of their selling arguments is service continuity.
If you're looking for service continuity and using Amazon EC2, I'd hope you read their SLA first, since they offer a 99.95% SLA over 365 days for availability in a particular region. That's about four and a half hours downtime per year.
Amazon will do their bit to meet that goal. If you want something more reliable, you need to host your service in more than one location. The Amazon cloud allows you to do this.
Seriously, Amazon screwed up in a fairly major way with this.
What more upsetting is this: If Amazon doesn't have working disaster recovery, what do other websites/companies have?
What on earth leads you to suggest they don't have working disaster recovery? The experienced some disparate power outages and say they're implementing changes to improve their power distribution.
I've hosted in data centers where the UPS was regularly tested, yet on a real live incident switchover failed. Even though the UPS did come up there was a brief outage shutting down all the racks. Each rack needs brought back online one at a time to prevent overloading. Immediately you're looking at significant downtime.
I've hosted in another data center where someone hit the BIG RED BUTTON underneath the plastic case, cutting off power to the floor.
I'm sure Amazon could have done thing better and will learn lessons. That's life in a data center.
Nonetheless, Amazon allow you to keep your data at geographically diverse locations. As a customer you can pay the money and get geographic diversity that would have mitigated. If you don't take advantage of that, you can hardly blame Amazon for your decision.
I agree with you, but would you say the beer manufacturer should get sued too?
No, they should not. Just as Linksys or Netgear or whoever made the access point wasn't sued in this case.
I disagree with the ruling, but if Germany has some law that says you have a responsibility to ensure your internet connection is secured then obey the law while you campaign for its change.
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It's been pointed out above, than BGAN is only useful for stationary vessels, it cannot be used on the open ocean. For that you need FleetBroadband also from Inmarsat. Needless to say, it's even more expensive.
Yes, for near global coverage it looks like Immarsat still rules.
Here's some pricing:
http://www.ocens.com/inmarsat/inmarsat_FB_airtime.htm
Looks like you'd need to be on a fairly good gig, or fill the boat with similarly employed geeks!
Almost every transatlantic airline offers Premium Economy with exactly what you are asking for.
Is that not available on trans-continental flights?
Okay, I missed a zero.
Frighteningly, wikipedia reckon a few folk have managed to surpass 0.8%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content#Limits_by_country_.28BrAC:_Breath_Alcohol_Content.29
You don't accidentally get your blood alcohol level to 0.8. These folk are not otherwise safe drivers, their a liability on wheels traveling at 60mph.
I sure don't want my premiums to be subsidizing their accidents.
In a small a Director is usually someone who sits on the board.
In a large company like an S&P500 one, a director is usually a management position with responsibility for a specific business area.
The titles are the same but the meaning different. I'm assuming from the size of business the poster described (50 employees) that he is in the former category of Director.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_title describes both types of director.
I see no evidence that he made up a title. Typically in business, Director has a meaning - that the holder is on the board responsible for running the company. In a small business they will often be one of the shareholders too.
Titles like CIO would indeed be superfluous in a small company, but Director has a specific meaning and its use could be entirely appropriate.
Well, it depends on the size of the company does it not? Perhaps they employ fifteen to twenty staff with an IT department of 2 or 3, mostly focused on hardware and user support. Then it would be much more reasonable for the Director of IT to be a coder who is also taking management responsibility.
You're right that if the company grows, management should be the focus and a decent DBA employed, but until then like many small companies the poster may have to be a jack of all trades. At least they're showing incentive in seeking to master at least one of their areas of responsibility.
Given they wrote a script to automatically generate SIM IDs which could then be passed to retrieve another email address, I suspect they were well aware that this was data they should not be accessing.
There was no need to retrieve over 100,000 addresses before notifying AT&T nor was there any need to share the security hole with others as was also done.
The leak shouldn't have been there, but the responsible thing to do upon discovery is report it, not exploit it.
I would imagine the vast majority of the 2 million were purchased by people who owned an iPhone or iPod Touch and therefore had a pretty good idea of what they were getting.
It certainly wasn't as big an unknown as the first iPhone.
Indeed adverts are. Adblock Plus is a browser plugin so that adds are an optional thing a user can choose to accept. I'm unclear as to what way graphics heavy adverts will be 'win-win for ... iOS users' given that as of today it is no longer possible to start an unlimited data contract.
Will a user be winning when an ad for an ap that would have cost $1.99 for the ad-free version sends them over their monthly cap and results in a $10 bill from AT&T?
All ads have done is resulted in a proliferation of free apps with limited functionality and lots of adverts. It's cluttered the marketplace and made it difficult to distinguish between applications and value. It's not immediately obvious how much paid or versions of similar apps cost, making price comparisons more difficult for the user. Where's the 'win' in that?
Apple have distinct carrier contracts. What would have been innovative would have been to negotiate with carriers, make bandwidth to Apple's Ad servers not count as part of a user's allowance and have the advertiser pick up the cost of serving their Ad.
Would you watch network television if you were billed for each ad you see?
What would be interesting is Adblock Plus for the iPhone.
A bit of a 'meet too' reply, but I've also had a similar amount from them.
Can't say I'm surprised the program is ending, though I am disappointed. I'm still not sure how much Microsoft actually shelled out other than in admin costs, I suspect the promotions themselves may have been paid for by retaillers.
The specs make this look like a note taking / annotation device. That's something the kindle sucks at. Jobs won't allow a stylus near the iPad, so they're avoiding that market altogether. Netbooks are fine for typists as long as your notes are all text. As soon as diagrams are involved they suck too.
So really this is a $$$ replacement for a pad of lined paper. That said, if the applications are well put together, it might well have a market even if that market doesn't include you or me.
It's an e-reader device. I imagine the camera might be useful for taking a picture of diagrams you have drawn by hand on paper or your lecturer has drawn on the blackboard. I don't see any reason why the photos shouldn't be in colour either - my samsung laser printer only does black and white, but the built in scanner does colour.
Do schools still have blackboards?
As a /. reader, you're not seriously suggesting you represent an average you tube viewer?
To watch in HD you need a relatively modern computer, a decent internet connection and a some knowledge that HD even exists. That simply doesn't reflect the majority of internet users.
Unless something dramatic happens in screen resolution, you are assuming everything will be watched full screen. I don't think that's the case with youtube and most other browser based video. People watch videos on facebook while reading their wall, people watch in youtube while reading user comments. Smaller video on a computer lets you multitask, full screen means you can't continue working while you watch and listen.
Given the recent post about a German being fined for having an unsecured wireless router, I don't envisage they'll be queuing up to sue Google.
replying to myself, the person with the emacs comment flipped but didn't negate. With the toyota example you negated but didn't flip. Both need to be done to make the logic correct.
No, it doesn't require if and only if. Your logic is wrong.
Toyota => car
!car => !Toyota
You need to flip and negate. You only negated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraposition
p => q
!q => !p
No, you forgot how contraposition works.
a => b
!b => !a
So:
Traditional OS => Run compiler
!Run compiler => !Traditional OS
Most Western countries have taxation treaties. Generally you would not pay US tax on earnings in, for example, a more highly taxed European country - only if you were paying less tax than you would in the US would you pay the balance to the IRS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_treaty#Double_Tax_Relief
Actually, I'd rather Google's privacy policy for Voice http://www.google.com/googlevoice/privacy-policy.html over Facebook's privacy policy any day of the week.
If you're looking for service continuity and using Amazon EC2, I'd hope you read their SLA first, since they offer a 99.95% SLA over 365 days for availability in a particular region. That's about four and a half hours downtime per year.
Amazon will do their bit to meet that goal. If you want something more reliable, you need to host your service in more than one location. The Amazon cloud allows you to do this.
What on earth leads you to suggest they don't have working disaster recovery? The experienced some disparate power outages and say they're implementing changes to improve their power distribution.
I've hosted in data centers where the UPS was regularly tested, yet on a real live incident switchover failed. Even though the UPS did come up there was a brief outage shutting down all the racks. Each rack needs brought back online one at a time to prevent overloading. Immediately you're looking at significant downtime.
I've hosted in another data center where someone hit the BIG RED BUTTON underneath the plastic case, cutting off power to the floor.
I'm sure Amazon could have done thing better and will learn lessons. That's life in a data center.
Nonetheless, Amazon allow you to keep your data at geographically diverse locations. As a customer you can pay the money and get geographic diversity that would have mitigated. If you don't take advantage of that, you can hardly blame Amazon for your decision.
No, they should not. Just as Linksys or Netgear or whoever made the access point wasn't sued in this case.
I disagree with the ruling, but if Germany has some law that says you have a responsibility to ensure your internet connection is secured then obey the law while you campaign for its change.