The emptiness of 4G was highlighted last week, when people who installed the latest iPhone 4S operating system upgrade noticed something that seemed too good to be true: The network indicator on their phones began displaying “4G” rather than “3G.” This change occurred only for people who use AT&T’s cellular service; Verizon iPhone users who installed the upgrade still saw the 3G indicator. Some people took the change to mean that their phones had gotten faster wireless Internet access, but that wasn’t true—the OS upgrade did nothing to change how your phone communicates with cell towers. All that changed was AT&T’s marketing. Early last year, essentially overnight, AT&T began rebranding its 3G network as a 4G network. So now that tired old 3G phone is fresh again—lucky you, you’ve got 4G!
It's a decent arrangement, but there are pluses and minuses. You get regular interruptions from your 1-year-old, but at the same time you get to see your 1-year-old so frequently -- and she gets to see you!
I do miss lunches with co-workers, though. On the day I go onsite, I'm usually too busy, packing in a week's worth of face-to-face meetings into one day.
I don’t know if the editors of The Atlantic have found a goldmine of reader interest in the topic or if they are just irritated by their kids being online all the time, but once again we read in their pages that the Internet is destroying the good life. In 2008 Google was making us stupid; last year Facebook was making us lonely (it isn’t); and now online dating is “threatening monogamy.”
Half the engineers in my dept of this telecom equipment company I used to work for were getting their MBA's at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management or at the U of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.
They were all freakin' brilliant, but being a staff engineer wasn't all they wanted to be. They wanted to start their own companies or run one from a very high perch. I kept in touch with a few of them over the years, and sure enough, they all ended up doing those things. I even started a company with one of them.
So, again. It all depends on what you take out of it, as well as where you go and how seriously they treat you. If you walk in thinking it's a piece of cake and nothing more than a piece of paper to wave at people, then it'll be worth far less than others who take it seriously and use what they learned effectively. (Choose the right school, too, of course.)
> Short answer... if there was some wondrous green technology that could save us, it hasn't been invented yet, or some guy would be making a million dollars a day on it. Yay Capitalism!
It may exist, but like all other things that vie for marketshare, there needs to be a considerable amount of promotion/marketing involved.
I'd say it isn't. I was scammed into helping what I thought was a stranded student who'd got his wallet stolen and needed some cash to go home to a far suburb. It was early in my life working downtown, and I believed the guy. I was totally fooled.
How did I know this? Three weeks later, i saw the same kid walking around doing the exact same thing soliciting help for cash, only a few blocks away from where I gave him ten bucks. Motherfucker, I thought.
I had the MessagePad 2100. I thought it was superb and beat the pants off the Palm. Even though I worked for the company that at one time ownned it (U.S. Robotics), I didn't believe my co-workers' raves.
But one thing this new hardware would need that the old one didn't have is to have much better syncing.
Standard of living means the money people earn and spend to lead a certain kind of life. E.g. a country where everyone earns 8000$ a month and pays 6000$/month for necessities has ten times the standard of living a country with 800$/month income and 600$/month necessities. It doesn't mean that the life is of higher quality, just that more money changes hands.
Your post isn't as silly as you thought. people in south America had to pay north American corporations for clean drinking water not so long back. If they refused to pay, their water was just cut off.
I don't recall the company, or country involved, I saw a documentary on it last year.
Company was a subsidiary of Bechtel. Country was Bolivia.
First, this assumes that everyone will pay the new fees instead of finding alternative unlicensed content (that is free or Creative Commons or other similar content).
This also assumes that internet radio companies will remain in business to pay those fees. It's likely that many cannot. www.radioparadise.com's argument is that they will not be able to afford to continue operating if this were to happen.
I can't wait to see people hanging out at the grocery store or at the local mall, just walking around with those hideously ugly glasses, completely oblivious to their surroundings and watching some tv show. I can see how it can be useful in some situations, but to the folks that I'm sure I'll see walking about in crowded shopping areas, I ask what the point of all that is, other than to simply show off?
It is not true. There was an announcement here to all students and teachers that the media has gotten this very wrong. As an English teacher said, "We try to teach them good spelling and grammar, and then the media does this. What is the point of teaching if kids would be allowed to do that?"
I used it on trans-Pacific flights ssh-ing to machines in the States (over a vpn), and it worked quite well for me, save for a 20~30 -minute period of no access. Of course latencies were ever-present, but overall I was pretty pleased, especially since I managed to be so productive. And IM-ing was pretty smooth, too.
Considering your experiences, mileage does vary, it seems, but my experience was quite positive, so I'm very disappointed that they're taking it down. But this won't be the last we hear of this service. Sure enough, the Chicago Tribune says Lufthansa "might try to offer similar service after Boeing phases out Connexion. The carrier installed it on 62 of its 80 long-haul aircraft and planned to outfit the rest by year's end."
Admittedly I was trying to do email using pine/ssh and it probably would have been more bearable if I had been using a caching IMAP client rather than an interactive shell one. But not all that much better I think. And no, browsing the web didn't work for me at all. As I said, the connection seemed to be going up and down for minutes at a time, and when it was routing at all it was really too slow to even load a webpage.
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They did this with 4G. Here's a quote from an article from 2012:
The emptiness of 4G was highlighted last week, when people who installed the latest iPhone 4S operating system upgrade noticed something that seemed too good to be true: The network indicator on their phones began displaying “4G” rather than “3G.” This change occurred only for people who use AT&T’s cellular service; Verizon iPhone users who installed the upgrade still saw the 3G indicator. Some people took the change to mean that their phones had gotten faster wireless Internet access, but that wasn’t true—the OS upgrade did nothing to change how your phone communicates with cell towers. All that changed was AT&T’s marketing. Early last year, essentially overnight, AT&T began rebranding its 3G network as a 4G network. So now that tired old 3G phone is fresh again—lucky you, you’ve got 4G!
New owners, new developers. All that's left is a brand.
It's a decent arrangement, but there are pluses and minuses. You get regular interruptions from your 1-year-old, but at the same time you get to see your 1-year-old so frequently -- and she gets to see you!
I do miss lunches with co-workers, though. On the day I go onsite, I'm usually too busy, packing in a week's worth of face-to-face meetings into one day.
*punishing those without kids, that is.
No one is talking about punishing those with kids. It's an observation based on the "quiet of my own home" quote.
> Published: January 14, 1987
> it'd better be Korean
> Kia... LG television... Samsung Galaxy.
Ok, Korean. Because Korean products. Fine.
> the land of the rising sun
huh?
> porn cartoons, bullet trains, samurai, bukakke, karoake, and all that shit
wtf? That's Japan, idiot.
> sheeple
I'm so tired of this word....
Exactly what this guy says, as well. From the article:
I don’t know if the editors of The Atlantic have found a goldmine of reader interest in the topic or if they are just irritated by their kids being online all the time, but once again we read in their pages that the Internet is destroying the good life. In 2008 Google was making us stupid; last year Facebook was making us lonely (it isn’t); and now online dating is “threatening monogamy.”
There's no question to beg.
Reference: http://begthequestion.info/
Depends on the school and the student.
Half the engineers in my dept of this telecom equipment company I used to work for were getting their MBA's at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management or at the U of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.
They were all freakin' brilliant, but being a staff engineer wasn't all they wanted to be. They wanted to start their own companies or run one from a very high perch. I kept in touch with a few of them over the years, and sure enough, they all ended up doing those things. I even started a company with one of them.
So, again. It all depends on what you take out of it, as well as where you go and how seriously they treat you. If you walk in thinking it's a piece of cake and nothing more than a piece of paper to wave at people, then it'll be worth far less than others who take it seriously and use what they learned effectively. (Choose the right school, too, of course.)
> Short answer... if there was some wondrous green technology that could save us, it hasn't been invented yet, or some guy would be making a million dollars a day on it. Yay Capitalism!
It may exist, but like all other things that vie for marketshare, there needs to be a considerable amount of promotion/marketing involved.
I'd say it isn't. I was scammed into helping what I thought was a stranded student who'd got his wallet stolen and needed some cash to go home to a far suburb. It was early in my life working downtown, and I believed the guy. I was totally fooled.
How did I know this? Three weeks later, i saw the same kid walking around doing the exact same thing soliciting help for cash, only a few blocks away from where I gave him ten bucks. Motherfucker, I thought.
I had the MessagePad 2100. I thought it was superb and beat the pants off the Palm. Even though I worked for the company that at one time ownned it (U.S. Robotics), I didn't believe my co-workers' raves.
But one thing this new hardware would need that the old one didn't have is to have much better syncing.
We always keep beer in our fridges, but generally we don't consume it till late afternoon on Fridays.
Standard of living means the money people earn and spend to lead a certain kind of life. E.g. a country where everyone earns 8000$ a month and pays 6000$/month for necessities has ten times the standard of living a country with 800$/month income and 600$/month necessities. It doesn't mean that the life is of higher quality, just that more money changes hands.
Isn't that cost of living?
I don't recall the company, or country involved, I saw a documentary on it last year.
The company was a Bechtel subsidiary. And the country was Bolivia. Check out this piece that PBS did on the water crisis in Bolivia.
Your post isn't as silly as you thought. people in south America had to pay north American corporations for clean drinking water not so long back. If they refused to pay, their water was just cut off.
I don't recall the company, or country involved, I saw a documentary on it last year.
Company was a subsidiary of Bechtel. Country was Bolivia.
Here's a link to a piece by PBS.
First, this assumes that everyone will pay the new fees instead of finding alternative unlicensed content (that is free or Creative Commons or other similar content).
This also assumes that internet radio companies will remain in business to pay those fees. It's likely that many cannot. www.radioparadise.com's argument is that they will not be able to afford to continue operating if this were to happen.
The guy kind of reminds me of Tony Stark.
Celebrities should be seen not heard.
What about radio celebrities?
I can't wait to see people hanging out at the grocery store or at the local mall, just walking around with those hideously ugly glasses, completely oblivious to their surroundings and watching some tv show. I can see how it can be useful in some situations, but to the folks that I'm sure I'll see walking about in crowded shopping areas, I ask what the point of all that is, other than to simply show off?
The Japanese call it Keitai.
To quote a friend working in IT for St. John's College in New Zealand:
It is not true. There was an announcement here to all students and teachers
that the media has gotten this very wrong. As an English teacher said, "We
try to teach them good spelling and grammar, and then the media does this.
What is the point of teaching if kids would be allowed to do that?"
Blame seems to go to the Associated Press of America.
I used it on trans-Pacific flights ssh-ing to machines in the States (over a vpn), and it worked quite well for me, save for a 20~30 -minute period of no access. Of course latencies were ever-present, but overall I was pretty pleased, especially since I managed to be so productive. And IM-ing was pretty smooth, too.
Considering your experiences, mileage does vary, it seems, but my experience was quite positive, so I'm very disappointed that they're taking it down. But this won't be the last we hear of this service. Sure enough, the Chicago Tribune says Lufthansa "might try to offer similar service after Boeing phases out Connexion. The carrier installed it on 62 of its 80 long-haul aircraft and planned to outfit the rest by year's end."
Admittedly I was trying to do email using pine/ssh and it probably would have been more bearable if I had been using a caching IMAP client rather than an interactive shell one. But not all that much better I think. And no, browsing the web didn't work for me at all. As I said, the connection seemed to be going up and down for minutes at a time, and when it was routing at all it was really too slow to even load a webpage.