What separates the medicine you get at the corner store and the medicine you get at a hospital is the fact you find it yourself on the store shelf rather than a highly trained pharmacist finding it, and passing it on to a highly trained nurse to give it to you and make sure you are the right person, because the liability of delivering the wrong medication to the wrong patient is huge.
Closed consoles can buy parts in bulk. There's only one SKU of the Wii... you either get the default hardware or you can't call it a Wii. This makes programming a whole lot easier, because you know exactly what hardware your program is going to be running on.
That's actually offered by AT&T under the term "A-List", Sprint under "Any network any time", and T-Mobile as "MyFaves"... all require their higher plans.
What determines the price of a scale is not just its equipment or accuracy.. but also the insurance the manufacturer has to carry in case something goes wrong. That's why medical devices are more expensive... you're also paying for the liability of somebody being misdiagnosed by a technical malfunction. Highly unlikely, but the money that has to be paid when that happens and gets proven is huge.
Where are you headed? The USA is a big place, and not all areas are served equally by the cell phone companies.
If you're in an area where there's good coverage for all carriers, then the question is which network are your friends and family using? Mobile-to-mobile call rates will drop your usage of "anytime" minutes.
That's easy. Some people did a wardriving scan of the entire nation, noticing what MAC address was given even on WAP/WPA encrypted WiFi systems and where they were when it was detected. Yep... your home WiFi now can tell your laptop you're at home and the work WiFi indicates where the office is. People could do a mass router swap and disable this stuff, but nobody seems to have bothered.
Because if you're wanted or missing and have your MiFi with you, it's easier to find you.
Manhunts have gone down like crazy since the popularity of a cell phone means if you are wanted on a warrant for something as insignificant as skipping jury duty, they can ask your cell company where you are right now.
This isn't the FBI's failure as much as it is one man that the FBI hired committing middle school level plagiarism by grabbing a photo off the Internet in place of doing original work.
And there's the problem... with only contact to one tower, you don't have an exact direction... just a distance and a 120 degree range. That creates an arc on the map, all of which has to be checked to find you. E911 would much rather have a GPS point.
Since the MiFi is such a novel concept, people might not think it includes anything not related to data connections. By making this mistake and it landing on Slashdot and such, it's advertising the GPS... plus giving notice so nobody can sue them and claim they didn't know they were carrying a device that would reveal their location.
Because you're on a cellular network and the company providing service wants to know where its users are using them so they can plan the network. Furthermore, if you are missing and need to be rescued, your MiFi giving out your location might be a good thing.
I can't say I've WTFV like I usually RTFA before you get to see it... but I can tell you this: The first four minutes of the video are spent asking which topic the room wants to see. No need to watch that part. Then it gets more interesting.
Post anything negative to a Twitter-aware company like Comcast, and they connect you with somebody from corporate who will set right whatever you're complaining about. What's the difference between that and the Air Force wanting to debate people spreading inaccurate information about them?
If you allow comments on your blog... that's something who disagree with you can use.
The resulting file size. YouTube already helped spark Internet speed increases because we were "clogging the tubes" with MPEG-4 video implemented in Flash. Ogg's file size is larger, so it requires more bandwidth. Do you want more usage caps?
Google's doing what the DMCA requires... what would be nice is if they had to provide proof they hold a copyright on something, and therefore reveal their identity so false claims could be taken to court.
Re:HTML5 for the win? Sorry, that's not a codec.
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Now, technically, if they went with Theora, it could be supported everywhere -- every browser which supports HTML5 supports Theora out of the box, except Safari, and it's trivial to install a QuickTime plugin. But the question then becomes whether it's worth it for Google to do HTML5 at all, if they have to transcode everything to get the best browser coverage.
There we are. You need to tell YouTube to use Theora. As somebody else posted, if YouTube picks a codec, that codec will have enough support to win the format war that's currently raging. If you want to endorse HTML5 go ahead, but please tell them about Theora because that's much more important to them.
1) YouTube: look up the term "aspect ratio". One would think somebody at Google would have heard of this. Many of their videos are uploaded in the wrong ratio. Let us override the specified ratio so we can watch videos in the correct proportions.
Can we also fix the "Tilt yer Head" series of videos? This isn't Google's problem... it's a PEPKAC situation. Users fail.
2) Multiple monitor support. It turns out that some people these days have more than one monitor. Some of these people might want to do something else with their computers while using one to watch a full screen video. So don't minimize the full screen video unless we tell you to. Bonus points for supporting more than one screen of video.
Again, not YouTube's problem. Your browser is doing this for you. They need to fix it.
3) The More From and Related Videos boxes should scale to take advantage of big screens, both horizontally and vertically. Since often one is searching for other videos in a series, put them in some kind of order-- alphabetical would be a nice option.
Again, user error. If it's a series, it should be uploaded in order. Go to the user's page. Related episodes sorts the series by content, not sequence. More form this user gives you the most recent episodes. If you want the back catelog, you want the user page.
Yep, so that's a better question to debate than HTML5 over HTML4... what's the best codec available now that they can use?
Re:Any move away from flash video is fine by me
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You get the point. Flash is a patent-encumbered format that is slowing down the growth of YouTube... new players are coming out that don't want to implement flash such as TiVo and iPhone, so YouTube has got to re-encode videos to play on this, and that's a mess they'd rather have a better solution to.
So, really it's a codec war. If there's something more universally accepted than flash... please stand up.
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What separates the medicine you get at the corner store and the medicine you get at a hospital is the fact you find it yourself on the store shelf rather than a highly trained pharmacist finding it, and passing it on to a highly trained nurse to give it to you and make sure you are the right person, because the liability of delivering the wrong medication to the wrong patient is huge.
Tell Washington, DC about that. If companies are charging a monopoly rent, they should be regulated.
Closed consoles can buy parts in bulk. There's only one SKU of the Wii... you either get the default hardware or you can't call it a Wii. This makes programming a whole lot easier, because you know exactly what hardware your program is going to be running on.
People have been clamoring for years about "Health Reform" and "Tort Reform" without realizing those issues are linked.
That's actually offered by AT&T under the term "A-List", Sprint under "Any network any time", and T-Mobile as "MyFaves"... all require their higher plans.
What determines the price of a scale is not just its equipment or accuracy.. but also the insurance the manufacturer has to carry in case something goes wrong. That's why medical devices are more expensive... you're also paying for the liability of somebody being misdiagnosed by a technical malfunction. Highly unlikely, but the money that has to be paid when that happens and gets proven is huge.
You are confused. Jailbroken means that you can run non-Apple approved apps. You need to unlock in order to get a phone off of its default network.
Where are you headed? The USA is a big place, and not all areas are served equally by the cell phone companies. If you're in an area where there's good coverage for all carriers, then the question is which network are your friends and family using? Mobile-to-mobile call rates will drop your usage of "anytime" minutes.
They called to say "permission denied"... twice!
That's easy. Some people did a wardriving scan of the entire nation, noticing what MAC address was given even on WAP/WPA encrypted WiFi systems and where they were when it was detected. Yep... your home WiFi now can tell your laptop you're at home and the work WiFi indicates where the office is. People could do a mass router swap and disable this stuff, but nobody seems to have bothered.
Because if you're wanted or missing and have your MiFi with you, it's easier to find you.
Manhunts have gone down like crazy since the popularity of a cell phone means if you are wanted on a warrant for something as insignificant as skipping jury duty, they can ask your cell company where you are right now.
This isn't the FBI's failure as much as it is one man that the FBI hired committing middle school level plagiarism by grabbing a photo off the Internet in place of doing original work.
And there's the problem... with only contact to one tower, you don't have an exact direction... just a distance and a 120 degree range. That creates an arc on the map, all of which has to be checked to find you. E911 would much rather have a GPS point.
This isn't using cell tower strengths, it's a GPS chip being planted in the device despite the fact some people would rather not have it.
Nope. That works only when you can contact multiple towers... hard to triangulate a location with only one vector to play with.
Here's one from the conspiracy theory file:
Since the MiFi is such a novel concept, people might not think it includes anything not related to data connections. By making this mistake and it landing on Slashdot and such, it's advertising the GPS... plus giving notice so nobody can sue them and claim they didn't know they were carrying a device that would reveal their location.
Because you're on a cellular network and the company providing service wants to know where its users are using them so they can plan the network. Furthermore, if you are missing and need to be rescued, your MiFi giving out your location might be a good thing.
I can't say I've WTFV like I usually RTFA before you get to see it... but I can tell you this: The first four minutes of the video are spent asking which topic the room wants to see. No need to watch that part. Then it gets more interesting.
Post anything negative to a Twitter-aware company like Comcast, and they connect you with somebody from corporate who will set right whatever you're complaining about. What's the difference between that and the Air Force wanting to debate people spreading inaccurate information about them?
If you allow comments on your blog... that's something who disagree with you can use.
The resulting file size. YouTube already helped spark Internet speed increases because we were "clogging the tubes" with MPEG-4 video implemented in Flash. Ogg's file size is larger, so it requires more bandwidth. Do you want more usage caps?
Google's doing what the DMCA requires... what would be nice is if they had to provide proof they hold a copyright on something, and therefore reveal their identity so false claims could be taken to court.
Now, technically, if they went with Theora, it could be supported everywhere -- every browser which supports HTML5 supports Theora out of the box, except Safari, and it's trivial to install a QuickTime plugin. But the question then becomes whether it's worth it for Google to do HTML5 at all, if they have to transcode everything to get the best browser coverage.
There we are. You need to tell YouTube to use Theora. As somebody else posted, if YouTube picks a codec, that codec will have enough support to win the format war that's currently raging. If you want to endorse HTML5 go ahead, but please tell them about Theora because that's much more important to them.
1) YouTube: look up the term "aspect ratio". One would think somebody at Google would have heard of this. Many of their videos are uploaded in the wrong ratio. Let us override the specified ratio so we can watch videos in the correct proportions.
Can we also fix the "Tilt yer Head" series of videos? This isn't Google's problem... it's a PEPKAC situation. Users fail.
2) Multiple monitor support. It turns out that some people these days have more than one monitor. Some of these people might want to do something else with their computers while using one to watch a full screen video. So don't minimize the full screen video unless we tell you to. Bonus points for supporting more than one screen of video.
Again, not YouTube's problem. Your browser is doing this for you. They need to fix it.
3) The More From and Related Videos boxes should scale to take advantage of big screens, both horizontally and vertically. Since often one is searching for other videos in a series, put them in some kind of order-- alphabetical would be a nice option.
Again, user error. If it's a series, it should be uploaded in order. Go to the user's page. Related episodes sorts the series by content, not sequence. More form this user gives you the most recent episodes. If you want the back catelog, you want the user page.
Yep, so that's a better question to debate than HTML5 over HTML4... what's the best codec available now that they can use?
You get the point. Flash is a patent-encumbered format that is slowing down the growth of YouTube... new players are coming out that don't want to implement flash such as TiVo and iPhone, so YouTube has got to re-encode videos to play on this, and that's a mess they'd rather have a better solution to.
So, really it's a codec war. If there's something more universally accepted than flash... please stand up.