Tech companies are terrible at naming things, see FaceBook's "Chat Heads". I'm sure a "screen top" is an equivalent to sharing your desktop, except that you don't have a desktop on a tablet / phone, so they had to come up with something relevant, yet familiar.
Well, I imagine it allows you to do it with anyone using BBM, which would now include all Blackberry, iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch, and Android. That's at least more than iMessages on iOS does. I'm not tied into the Android ecosystem enough to know if there is an equivalent there, and if it is cross-platform or not.
Or, it's an admission that the current product is crap, nobody is willfully buying it, and that they have to give everyone this "free" update just to make the product desirable.
Honestly, after the last week of headlines, I'm wondering if there is any other meaningful way that this administration can fuck up, without causing wars or prompt economic disaster.
So it outsold the 7-series (top end full-size full-luxury sedan), the S-class (top end full-size full-luxury sedan) and the Audi A8 (full-size full-luxury sedan), which even BMW, Mercedes, and Audi would admit make up a small fraction of their overall sales, and this is a win?
When you outsell the 5-series, the E-class, and the Audi A6, then you'll have something to talk about, as all three manufacturers sell an order of magnitude more of those.
The problem with these strategies, is that even the grade school dropouts on the ghetto corners know to use disposable cellphones for illegal phone calls, because the ability to tap them in time before the account goes dead is quite difficult. That's for known traffickers of narcotics.
Using a disposable cellphone to leak information would be practically impossible, unless the leaker has a history of it; in which case there are easier methods of tracking them down.
Part of the problem here is that there probably weren't any subpoenas, which is why this is tantamount to an illegal wiretap. No, they didn't actually tap calls (or, at least, that hasn't been reported yet), but obtaining phone records still requires a subpoena.
The press won't let this one be swept under a rug, because they're the victim here. They're more than willing to give this administration a pass on all the other transgressions as long as they weren't affected. As the cliche goes, don't pick a fight with someone that buys ink by the barrel.
This is commonly referred to as a pen register - it's the data associated with the call: was it inbound or outbound, how long did it last, what phone numbers were involved, what time / date did it occur.
This information is available with a subpoena signed by a judge, given probable cause. Why do I have a feeling that no judge or subpoena was involved in this one?
The initial launch of Haswell will be a 2-chip setup. At this time, it's unclear what that second chip is - perhaps it's the fancy-schmantzy VRM. The one-chip Haswell is due in Q3.
A phone with a battery will never put out the amplitude that a radar gun wired into the car's electrical can put out. The radar gun would win that one every time.
A man that spends time thinking about mortality doesn't do shloads of LSD, go on some whack-a-nut "frutarian" diet, and put off tumor removal surgery for months.
Many things can be said about Jobs, but rational concern for his own health was not one of them.
LTE Advanced already does that if is has around 67MHz of bandwidth available, and you are the only one using the cell.
Don't forget "and the cell mast has the backhaul to actually support 1Gbps."
My guess is that the majority of LTE towers deployed (at least in North America) have multi linked 100Mbps metro ethernet as the backhaul, because the telcos are incapable of seeing past a horizon of about 6 months.
The spectrum isn't the issue. Yay, a phone that can do 1Gbps. Now get 10 of them doing that on the same tower. Then 100. Then do 100 on 50 different towers. Then do that in 100 metro service areas.
At least here in North America, the telco's barely have the backhaul to deliver service that could be classified as 4G. They aren't going to be dropping in multi-link 10GbE into every cell tower just because people want to browse the FaceTubes that much faster.
Has it occurred to you that breaking up the forced bundling of channels actually creates a free market solution?
If nobody wants shitty channels, nobody pays for shitty channels, and shitty channels cease to exist. Right now they are subsidized by the channels people give half a shit about.
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Tech companies are terrible at naming things, see FaceBook's "Chat Heads". I'm sure a "screen top" is an equivalent to sharing your desktop, except that you don't have a desktop on a tablet / phone, so they had to come up with something relevant, yet familiar.
They failed.
Well, I imagine it allows you to do it with anyone using BBM, which would now include all Blackberry, iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch, and Android. That's at least more than iMessages on iOS does. I'm not tied into the Android ecosystem enough to know if there is an equivalent there, and if it is cross-platform or not.
But, multi platform, Real Soon Now(tm).
How many of them are in the scrapheap of yesteryear's technology though? The same question could be asked of iPhone.
Just because they shipped that many, doesn't mean they are still in use.
Or, it's an admission that the current product is crap, nobody is willfully buying it, and that they have to give everyone this "free" update just to make the product desirable.
This is the best reason to never impeach I've ever heard. Kind of like why no one took a shot at Bush - it would have left Darth Cheney in charge.
Honestly, after the last week of headlines, I'm wondering if there is any other meaningful way that this administration can fuck up, without causing wars or prompt economic disaster.
It doesn't, unless the operator of the Windows box is either lacking for creativity, or running ancient versions of both iOS and iTunes.
You know that mDNS /is/ a standard for network discovery, right? http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927
Microsoft is listed in the RFC, but haven't bothered to implement, as they bet on the uPNP horse with WinXP way back when.
So it outsold the 7-series (top end full-size full-luxury sedan), the S-class (top end full-size full-luxury sedan) and the Audi A8 (full-size full-luxury sedan), which even BMW, Mercedes, and Audi would admit make up a small fraction of their overall sales, and this is a win?
When you outsell the 5-series, the E-class, and the Audi A6, then you'll have something to talk about, as all three manufacturers sell an order of magnitude more of those.
The problem with these strategies, is that even the grade school dropouts on the ghetto corners know to use disposable cellphones for illegal phone calls, because the ability to tap them in time before the account goes dead is quite difficult. That's for known traffickers of narcotics.
Using a disposable cellphone to leak information would be practically impossible, unless the leaker has a history of it; in which case there are easier methods of tracking them down.
Part of the problem here is that there probably weren't any subpoenas, which is why this is tantamount to an illegal wiretap. No, they didn't actually tap calls (or, at least, that hasn't been reported yet), but obtaining phone records still requires a subpoena.
The press won't let this one be swept under a rug, because they're the victim here. They're more than willing to give this administration a pass on all the other transgressions as long as they weren't affected. As the cliche goes, don't pick a fight with someone that buys ink by the barrel.
This is commonly referred to as a pen register - it's the data associated with the call: was it inbound or outbound, how long did it last, what phone numbers were involved, what time / date did it occur.
This information is available with a subpoena signed by a judge, given probable cause. Why do I have a feeling that no judge or subpoena was involved in this one?
It depends.
The initial launch of Haswell will be a 2-chip setup. At this time, it's unclear what that second chip is - perhaps it's the fancy-schmantzy VRM. The one-chip Haswell is due in Q3.
A phone with a battery will never put out the amplitude that a radar gun wired into the car's electrical can put out. The radar gun would win that one every time.
A man that spends time thinking about mortality doesn't do shloads of LSD, go on some whack-a-nut "frutarian" diet, and put off tumor removal surgery for months.
Many things can be said about Jobs, but rational concern for his own health was not one of them.
Bring on the vatburgers! It's not like McDonalds is using high-grade meat anyway - their patties have the consistency of wallboard.
Because there is clearly a correlation between omnivores eating both meat and plants, and lower IQ, right?
Pot, meet kettle.
LTE Advanced already does that if is has around 67MHz of bandwidth available, and you are the only one using the cell.
Don't forget "and the cell mast has the backhaul to actually support 1Gbps."
My guess is that the majority of LTE towers deployed (at least in North America) have multi linked 100Mbps metro ethernet as the backhaul, because the telcos are incapable of seeing past a horizon of about 6 months.
So when a police uses his radar gun in a speed trap, everyone loses data signal because they operate in the same frequency.
Win / Win!
(Yes, I know that the Ka band is like 15Ghz wide, and that phones could work around existing devices)
The spectrum isn't the issue. Yay, a phone that can do 1Gbps. Now get 10 of them doing that on the same tower. Then 100. Then do 100 on 50 different towers. Then do that in 100 metro service areas.
At least here in North America, the telco's barely have the backhaul to deliver service that could be classified as 4G. They aren't going to be dropping in multi-link 10GbE into every cell tower just because people want to browse the FaceTubes that much faster.
Has it occurred to you that breaking up the forced bundling of channels actually creates a free market solution?
If nobody wants shitty channels, nobody pays for shitty channels, and shitty channels cease to exist. Right now they are subsidized by the channels people give half a shit about.
In which case the free market has spoken?
Because the cable companies were granted easements and right-of-way by the government, in exchange for government regulation.
You know, the kind of regulation that is administered by the Federal Communications Commission. The kind of regulation that this bill proposes.