I've been to a Gamestop here in the US, a used copy of a game was $14 and the new one was $12 in the same store and the clerks still tried to pursued me to buy used. They were unable to give a satisfactory reason beyond their profit margins are better (oh, and it's worth more customer loyalty points).
I'm pretty good at keeping up with British words we don't use (in that way) here in the US but that went too far. "Entered administration" - bankruptcy? I've read up on "made redundant" - BOFH has used that enough I already studied the term. I'm well ahead of the average US citizen on keeping up with those terms but this one really made me think.
When I was new to Houston in 98 I was handed a Key Map and expected to use it while driving a stick shift on a crowded freeway in a city I didn't know. I used it all the time.
I would have killed for my current ability to just stick my Evo on my windshield and have a map point the way.
The fact Houston has three names for every freeway certainly doesn't help newbies either.
That was General Motors trucks from the early 80's, like the 1983 Sierra Classic I used to drive. The one with a gas tank on either side so you actually had to leave the pump and turn around to finish filling up.
"the principal issues remain the technical superiority of our proposal and that Apple's proposal does not meet the pre-agreed ETSI requirements... Apple's proposal for royalty free licensing seems no more than an attempt to devalue the intellectual property of others."
That last part of it, about devaluing the IP of others looks like Nokia wants the licensing fees for their patents. Apple's no saint, but in this case I'm either with Apple or a third design that belongs to neither of them.
I don't know much about it. I do know they very rarely use the one in the simulator and I think the use the real one about as much, but I'm not really certain.
The old socket 8 Pentium Pro has got to be the most hearty processor built in the past 15 years or so. Setup correctly those things didn't crash for anything. I actually had an ultra rare Socket 8 Pentium II that was meant to upgrade those systems. All the stability only the blazing fast 333 Mhz speed!
Actually I'm impressed with modern stability.
The best things to happen to computers in a long time is the reduction in chipset offerings. No longer do we have to decide between a dozen concurrent chip sets among half a dozen or more manufacturers, and we've benefited greatly.
Back in the socket seven days there were several Aladdin, at least three or four Intel, maybe a few AMD if you were lucky, a couple of cirrus, some off names I can't recall, heck I even saw DEC chipsets used on socket 7's, and they were crap. Part of the game became matching which chip and which CPU worked best together. Computers were nothing but horrible crash fest and the face it was Windows 95 and 98 in that era was only partially to blame! (The rock solid Pro I mentioned ran 98 and never friggin crashed).
Take the relative simplicity and undeniable efficiency of a modern Atom CPU, scale the fab process up so the chip becomes physically larger with larger dies even though it will lose some of it's power efficiency that would be a bullet proof CPU worth looking at for reliability purposes. I'm an AMD fanboy and I'm saying this. Put BSD on it and now we're talking.
We're better equipped now than ever to make ultra reliable CPU's. The fact we're trying to cram more into less space is holding back to ultra-reliability part, but our designs really are picking up in the reliability field. Make any modern CPU that was designed with power efficiency, not performance, in mind, scale it up in size using manufacturing process sizes of a couple of generations back and you have an incredibly hearty bullet proof system that still has performance that's way more than you need for most mundane life support task.
We actually have custom built Think Pads that are soldered to/the equivalent to IPC Level 3 cert, they aren't off the shelf even though they're quite similar to off the shelf ones - more like "extra carefully manufactured" versions. For training in the simulators they have IPC Level 2 cert laptops (basically off the shelf versions) with stickers on them that say they are only for training and not for orbital use.
What's really interesting is our custom built printers, they look a lot like off the shelf models but with a unique color variant and twist lock USB cables that are built to the same standard as the rest of the hermetically sealed round connectors on the station. Even though I haven't really messed with the printers too much (I'm usually ops side but recently cross trained over at the simulation facility) I'm sure there's something in there to make sure the ink droplets don't float off. I recently had to make a bunch of custom VGA cables that used the same connectors for the simulator.
Sit back, think of the basics of how most everything works in the computer industry, then replace nearly every cable with a round hermetically sealed twist lock version then you've got an idea of how the station operates. (thankfully not Ethernet cables)
and how poorly their service works in some places Sprint truly is planning to be the next AT&T.
Seriously, WiMax coverage seems to work specifically in upscale neighborhoods and dense metro areas with practically none outside of there. Heck, I live in a reasonably nice area, but WiMax stops right at NASA Parkway and doesn't go much South of there. Up North it works in the main parts of Kingwood, but not the outskirts.
Their 3G coverage is similarly sparse. The fact I actually saw a Sprint store in Baton Rouge surprised me as claiming to have 3G coverage in the Baton Rouge metro is stretching the truth a bit, Galveston is right on par with Baton Rouge. If you so much as leave 3G on when you're in Galveston or most of Louisiana your battery will pay a steep price for it.
I love my Evo, Sprint 3G works great in most places I spend my time, save Louisiana and Galveston, but they're going to piss a lot of Hipsters off if they don't really step up their service before they start selling this phone.
I'm glad Sony, Nintendo, HTC, RIM, Motorola, LG, Nokia, Samsung, and Kyocera all made better battery choices, or, I don't know, put the chip in the freaking device?
Something you overlooked. The Nintendo stuff didn't need the chip and the cables work fine, the pirated chips kill iPhones. Wonder what happens if you eliminate the need for a chip and just use a USB cable? (like My old Motorola Q, or my old Blackberry, or my Evo, or my PSP 2000)
I'm still wondering just how many problems Nintendo has with those after-market cheaply made USB to whatever proprietary connector the Nintendo device in front of you in particular has? I've never heard of a problem with them and they charge Nintendo devices just fine.
No, Apple isn't protecting the consumer. They are protecting their license fee at the expense of consumer convenience. No amount of arguing is going to change my mind and I'm sure you can find a significant number of Slashdotters on my side with this issue (assuming they've recovered from the grammar Nazi stroke-athon)
Pecosdave the Prophet calls it again! Sort of. I really should get around to writing another prophecy post (you can find my really good ones with Google)
My objection is not the $3, it is the agility that goes with it. In my case I unexpectedly stayed the night somewhere with no Apple blessed anything nearby but I had a laptop and a power outlet. My phone was dead the next day despite being plugged into a USB port for 8 hours. I wasn't glad Apple protected me from the evil Linux, I was pissed my phone wouldn't charge despite having a perfectly good and safe USB port that I still use on my Android phone today.
My district can now charge Apple devices. It's a moot point to me, it always supported well documented USB ways of dealing with power request and graceful fallback to lower power levels if needed.
You're probably a paid shill, that's fine, you keep playing the bitch defending your abusive master, I'll keep charging my Android phone in any convenient USB port, even ones on cable boxes and the like if I need.
Yes, there really was a time in my life where I could wind up not going home for a week at a stretch with absolutely no warning. I carried a backpack with most needs covered
Of course that could be managed by something akin to the Nintendo Seal of Quality every gamer knew about in the 80's and early 90's. Apple could use their own Seal of Quality and it can be reinforced with something like the popup I got when I plugged my iPhone into my JBL speakers which very plainly said they were made for iPhone. When I plugged my iPhone into those JBLs I got a popup saying they weren't made for iPhone (ignore the packaging!) but it would still charge, you just have to deal with the noise when it talked on the phone network. Instead of refusing to charge it could say "this charger is not approved, you charge at your own risk, we're setting the tattle tale bit in two minutes!".
I admitted the sentence could be easily misinterpreted, I even offered up a Mojo Jojo inspired correction. What is your and the other grammar Nazis obsession with wanting to grovel, beg for forgiveness, and worship at your feet for being better at grammar than I am on occasion? I refuse. The sentence could be easily misinterpreted, I offered up an alternative, but none the less the bottle of hand moisturizer I've provided is empty from all the Nazis borrowing it to stroke off while ridiculing the word choices of another, many such as your self hours after the correction was offered.
Why don't we talk about the fact Apple is a walled garden, they want to trap people into coming back into their stores by making their products intentionally difficult to work on with planned obsolescence and the ethics of licensing 5V of electricity in chargers instead of my less than stellar choice of wording?
I simply tried to use a standard PC with Linux on it before the kernel patch to charge iDevices came out.
In what way are Apple approved electrons different from unapproved electrons, other than having paid for the license chip that is?
The requirement to license that regulator are among the top reasons to not go Apple in my book. Never mind the fact certified chargers are everywhere, that's fine, they'll charge my Android phone too.
I actually got one of those double sized batteries that requires a different back (that comes with it). Then I got the armor that fits over it. I'm good for extended warfare.
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I've been to a Gamestop here in the US, a used copy of a game was $14 and the new one was $12 in the same store and the clerks still tried to pursued me to buy used. They were unable to give a satisfactory reason beyond their profit margins are better (oh, and it's worth more customer loyalty points).
Apparently it translates to "Flamebait" and "Offtopic" on Slashdot.
I'm pretty good at keeping up with British words we don't use (in that way) here in the US but that went too far. "Entered administration" - bankruptcy? I've read up on "made redundant" - BOFH has used that enough I already studied the term. I'm well ahead of the average US citizen on keeping up with those terms but this one really made me think.
When I was new to Houston in 98 I was handed a Key Map and expected to use it while driving a stick shift on a crowded freeway in a city I didn't know. I used it all the time.
I would have killed for my current ability to just stick my Evo on my windshield and have a map point the way.
The fact Houston has three names for every freeway certainly doesn't help newbies either.
That was General Motors trucks from the early 80's, like the 1983 Sierra Classic I used to drive. The one with a gas tank on either side so you actually had to leave the pump and turn around to finish filling up.
"the principal issues remain the technical superiority of our proposal and that Apple's proposal does not meet the pre-agreed ETSI requirements... Apple's proposal for royalty free licensing seems no more than an attempt to devalue the intellectual property of others."
That last part of it, about devaluing the IP of others looks like Nokia wants the licensing fees for their patents. Apple's no saint, but in this case I'm either with Apple or a third design that belongs to neither of them.
I don't know much about it. I do know they very rarely use the one in the simulator and I think the use the real one about as much, but I'm not really certain.
The old socket 8 Pentium Pro has got to be the most hearty processor built in the past 15 years or so. Setup correctly those things didn't crash for anything. I actually had an ultra rare Socket 8 Pentium II that was meant to upgrade those systems. All the stability only the blazing fast 333 Mhz speed!
Actually I'm impressed with modern stability.
The best things to happen to computers in a long time is the reduction in chipset offerings. No longer do we have to decide between a dozen concurrent chip sets among half a dozen or more manufacturers, and we've benefited greatly.
Back in the socket seven days there were several Aladdin, at least three or four Intel, maybe a few AMD if you were lucky, a couple of cirrus, some off names I can't recall, heck I even saw DEC chipsets used on socket 7's, and they were crap. Part of the game became matching which chip and which CPU worked best together. Computers were nothing but horrible crash fest and the face it was Windows 95 and 98 in that era was only partially to blame! (The rock solid Pro I mentioned ran 98 and never friggin crashed).
Take the relative simplicity and undeniable efficiency of a modern Atom CPU, scale the fab process up so the chip becomes physically larger with larger dies even though it will lose some of it's power efficiency that would be a bullet proof CPU worth looking at for reliability purposes. I'm an AMD fanboy and I'm saying this. Put BSD on it and now we're talking.
We're better equipped now than ever to make ultra reliable CPU's. The fact we're trying to cram more into less space is holding back to ultra-reliability part, but our designs really are picking up in the reliability field. Make any modern CPU that was designed with power efficiency, not performance, in mind, scale it up in size using manufacturing process sizes of a couple of generations back and you have an incredibly hearty bullet proof system that still has performance that's way more than you need for most mundane life support task.
We actually have custom built Think Pads that are soldered to/the equivalent to IPC Level 3 cert, they aren't off the shelf even though they're quite similar to off the shelf ones - more like "extra carefully manufactured" versions. For training in the simulators they have IPC Level 2 cert laptops (basically off the shelf versions) with stickers on them that say they are only for training and not for orbital use.
What's really interesting is our custom built printers, they look a lot like off the shelf models but with a unique color variant and twist lock USB cables that are built to the same standard as the rest of the hermetically sealed round connectors on the station. Even though I haven't really messed with the printers too much (I'm usually ops side but recently cross trained over at the simulation facility) I'm sure there's something in there to make sure the ink droplets don't float off. I recently had to make a bunch of custom VGA cables that used the same connectors for the simulator.
Sit back, think of the basics of how most everything works in the computer industry, then replace nearly every cable with a round hermetically sealed twist lock version then you've got an idea of how the station operates. (thankfully not Ethernet cables)
On out of date IBM (yes IBM, not Lenovo) Think Pads? I think not.
(I think there may be a couple of Lenovos up there now, but still not the bulk)
But at least it was spot-on.
and how poorly their service works in some places Sprint truly is planning to be the next AT&T.
Seriously, WiMax coverage seems to work specifically in upscale neighborhoods and dense metro areas with practically none outside of there. Heck, I live in a reasonably nice area, but WiMax stops right at NASA Parkway and doesn't go much South of there. Up North it works in the main parts of Kingwood, but not the outskirts.
Their 3G coverage is similarly sparse. The fact I actually saw a Sprint store in Baton Rouge surprised me as claiming to have 3G coverage in the Baton Rouge metro is stretching the truth a bit, Galveston is right on par with Baton Rouge. If you so much as leave 3G on when you're in Galveston or most of Louisiana your battery will pay a steep price for it.
I love my Evo, Sprint 3G works great in most places I spend my time, save Louisiana and Galveston, but they're going to piss a lot of Hipsters off if they don't really step up their service before they start selling this phone.
Huh?
Cut a potato into 1/8th's and fry them up, I love steak fry's done that way! Cast iron is the ONLY way to do that right!
(have some really good stainless cookware also, I rarely use the frying pan out of that set though)
I'm glad Sony, Nintendo, HTC, RIM, Motorola, LG, Nokia, Samsung, and Kyocera all made better battery choices, or, I don't know, put the chip in the freaking device?
protects people from low end hardware
Like Toshiba Laptops.
Something you overlooked. The Nintendo stuff didn't need the chip and the cables work fine, the pirated chips kill iPhones. Wonder what happens if you eliminate the need for a chip and just use a USB cable? (like My old Motorola Q, or my old Blackberry, or my Evo, or my PSP 2000)
I'm still wondering just how many problems Nintendo has with those after-market cheaply made USB to whatever proprietary connector the Nintendo device in front of you in particular has? I've never heard of a problem with them and they charge Nintendo devices just fine.
No, Apple isn't protecting the consumer. They are protecting their license fee at the expense of consumer convenience. No amount of arguing is going to change my mind and I'm sure you can find a significant number of Slashdotters on my side with this issue (assuming they've recovered from the grammar Nazi stroke-athon)
Pecosdave the Prophet calls it again! Sort of. I really should get around to writing another prophecy post (you can find my really good ones with Google)
My objection is not the $3, it is the agility that goes with it. In my case I unexpectedly stayed the night somewhere with no Apple blessed anything nearby but I had a laptop and a power outlet. My phone was dead the next day despite being plugged into a USB port for 8 hours. I wasn't glad Apple protected me from the evil Linux, I was pissed my phone wouldn't charge despite having a perfectly good and safe USB port that I still use on my Android phone today.
My district can now charge Apple devices. It's a moot point to me, it always supported well documented USB ways of dealing with power request and graceful fallback to lower power levels if needed.
You're probably a paid shill, that's fine, you keep playing the bitch defending your abusive master, I'll keep charging my Android phone in any convenient USB port, even ones on cable boxes and the like if I need.
Yes, there really was a time in my life where I could wind up not going home for a week at a stretch with absolutely no warning. I carried a backpack with most needs covered
Of course that could be managed by something akin to the Nintendo Seal of Quality every gamer knew about in the 80's and early 90's. Apple could use their own Seal of Quality and it can be reinforced with something like the popup I got when I plugged my iPhone into my JBL speakers which very plainly said they were made for iPhone. When I plugged my iPhone into those JBLs I got a popup saying they weren't made for iPhone (ignore the packaging!) but it would still charge, you just have to deal with the noise when it talked on the phone network. Instead of refusing to charge it could say "this charger is not approved, you charge at your own risk, we're setting the tattle tale bit in two minutes!".
Indeed
Your only real skill is in posting Unholy Shit and Goatse links, don't deny, I see your user name on all of those.
I admitted the sentence could be easily misinterpreted, I even offered up a Mojo Jojo inspired correction. What is your and the other grammar Nazis obsession with wanting to grovel, beg for forgiveness, and worship at your feet for being better at grammar than I am on occasion? I refuse. The sentence could be easily misinterpreted, I offered up an alternative, but none the less the bottle of hand moisturizer I've provided is empty from all the Nazis borrowing it to stroke off while ridiculing the word choices of another, many such as your self hours after the correction was offered.
Why don't we talk about the fact Apple is a walled garden, they want to trap people into coming back into their stores by making their products intentionally difficult to work on with planned obsolescence and the ethics of licensing 5V of electricity in chargers instead of my less than stellar choice of wording?
I simply tried to use a standard PC with Linux on it before the kernel patch to charge iDevices came out.
In what way are Apple approved electrons different from unapproved electrons, other than having paid for the license chip that is?
The requirement to license that regulator are among the top reasons to not go Apple in my book. Never mind the fact certified chargers are everywhere, that's fine, they'll charge my Android phone too.
Brilliant post. Too bad you got lost in a sea of grammar Nazis.
I actually got one of those double sized batteries that requires a different back (that comes with it). Then I got the armor that fits over it. I'm good for extended warfare.