Who said anything about abandoning earth?? Hawking says we need to expand, not just put all our eggs in one basket. Obviously, that does not mean leave earth and all go some other place, since that would be putting all the eggs in a different basket.
It seems pretty fucking simple to me. The more planets you occupy, the greater your chance of surviving any particular catastrophe.
Seriously, we could get hit by another planetoid like we did when the moon got formed. I don't think any amount of underground concrete is gonna help you out there.
I am all for getting off this rock. Sure..people will die trying, but who cares. Greater good and all that. Before you ask, yes, I would be the first in line.
Seriously, do you guy know how hard it is to find "real" Chinese porn?? If you bring attention to them then the Chinese government will have to shut them down. Damn, I am sick of always looking and Japanese porn.
Apple collects such data from customers who have approved the use of location-based capabilities on the phone and who actually use an application that requires GPS."
So basically there is a 13 page document that someone should read when prior to initially powering on the GPS? Most folks and if I'm honest, myself included would not assume that my using and navigation program would have in any way constituted my intention to let Jobs know where I am and what I am doing.
What's interesting to me is how much this company lies to people and yet so many folks defend them. Take this situation for example, is it true that Apple has buried a "technically" accurate description of that they are doing in their T&C's? Most assuredly. It is also assuredly true that it's written in such a way that the laymen would be oblivious to the fact. Based on that, there will be many out there who say, Jobs didn't then and fuck you if you ever call him a liar!" To these people I must ask, where do you come from? I was raised to know that deliberately trying to deceive a person for group of people, whether I use technically accurate information or not, is still lying. I recon these are the same folks who discipline their children with a harsh time-out and no PS3 for 6 hours. Still, it is indicative of our culture.
This is what really pisses me off; people take this attitude that, hey..I don't have extra bags, I don't want the food, so I am flying cheaper! Well guess what stupid, you're not flying cheaper. I travel very often so I have a fair idea of how the traveling costs trend and what I notice is that I get fucked harder and harder by the airlines, but since there is price fixing, there's not a damn thing I can do about it.
Don't get me wrong, if the tickets WERE actually cheaper by not including the bags, than I would be fine with that. BUT, they are not cheaper. If anything, they are more expensive AND you pay your extra 100 bucks for bags. WTF?
You want to go by weight? I weight 160lbs and my wife is 105lbs. Why should she pay the same like me? Why can't she have an extra bag? Why can that fat as fuck American sitting next to me get the same price?
They should chance the whole thing to per lbs, yourself and bags included. That is whats fair.
Now, as much as Apple annoys me, and they do enough that I stopped using my iPhone and got an HTC desire, I do feel compelled to point something out to you folks, most of whom are not in the wireless industry.
Apple, and to that extent, all wireless manufactures must perform TRP and TIS testing as laid out in the CTIA Test Plan for Mobile Station Over the Air Performance, which I think are currently at 2.2.2. The thing is, OTA testing takes a long time and is actually a lot of money. Please note, that for certification, a company can NOT perform this testing on their own. They must use a PTCRB test house, which is independent for what should be obvious reasons.
As I mentioned, the CTIA test plan looks at both TRP (Total radiated power) and TIS (total isotropic sensitivity) under a few conditions, which are head adjacent(left and right cheek) and free space. This is done in all bands and all modes. That's to say you test the 850 band in GSM. GPRS, EGPRS and UMTS(3g). Each band is tested in full on three channels, the low, mid and highest of the band. Then a single point offset method is applied to all intermediate channels relative to the 3 primary channels in both position and power level to save time. This still takes a LONG time. A GSM 850 L/M/H TRP in free space takes about 1 hour in a non stargate system (note almost no labs use this system since it uses power meters which have trouble to properly trigger a EGPRS pulse) about the same for the same conditions in TIS. UMTS though takes about 4 hours for the TIS. Now, you take a phone like the iPhone and account for charge times and the like and you are looking at about 3 - 4 weeks of lab time since you can only use 1 phone! I also assume that would be lots of cash in lab time. Granted, that's crackers to Apple. The point is, all phones on a PTCRB network, to witch ATT is, MUST pass these requirements. This means that Apple had to have passes ALL requirements. They did was they were required to do. It just goes to show what you can't catch everything with this testing, but given that it's a rare problem..you can catch most.
The loss of 20dB is actually a lot! The decibel (dB) is a logarithmic unit of measurement that expresses the magnitude of a physical quantity. (wiki quote, not mine) Keep in mind that most phones have a TIS (Total isotropic sensitivity) of between -102.5 to -110dBm depending on the band. I can assure you that with a TIS of -82 to-90dBm, no network carrier in the world would allow that phone on their network for dropped call issues.
Tests have shown that both the UL and DL speeds drop to a crawl, so presumably the phone's TRP (Total radiated Power) would also drop quite a bit. Certainly not 20dB though since that would be really a lot in terms of power output.
I am really amazed that this company is able to do so many different thing. From post-it notes to medical equipment. Not bad for a company that started in 1902 selling minerals to the east.
I also though my 15Mbs was enough while I was living in Orange county. I paid about 50 pucks per month for that on top of my 60 per month for the standard HD package. Since I moved to Germany, I pay 27 Euro per month for 50Mbs on top of my 20 Euro per month for my ridiculous amount of sat channels.
There is no way I would ever go back to that stupid COX cable modem. No way in hell. You're 10-25 may be fine if it's only you, but my wife and I both watch most shows online and DL a lot. Only with 50 Mbs do we not notice the slowdown. I don't even know how you can have a modern connected life with 1.5 - 4Mbs, you may as well have dialup.
(nokia stock holder) I mean sure, Nokia's current OS situation is total chaos and sure, Nokia's OVI store is 100% shit and sure, the N900 is stupidly expensive, but that's not the real reason why people are jumping ship in terms of smartphone adoption. Quite simply, it's support. (Lack of) Nokia builds their phones to be just barely powerful enough to run the OS and just barely enough ROM to hold the OS. What does this mean? It means that you need to toss that POS 1 year later when Nokia released the next symbian OS just there is no freaking way it would fit on your phone or that you processor could make it usable if it could fit. Nokia's smartphones have always been expensive. Hell, I have gotten a lot of them, but the last Nokia I bought, and ever will buy was the N95 which is in a box in the basement someplace in the case visitors come and want a phone with Navi. (As a side note, I took the phone out last month and I could not believe how user unfriendly that phone was compared to my HTC Desire. How did we manage?;) ) The thing is, as expensive as that N95 was, there will never be an OS update. Sure, there were bug fixes and a couple added features when they sent out firmware updates, but never will I be able to use a newer OS. So, once Nokia stops selling that particular cell, the support is over. No more updates. Now look at the iPhone. The 2G iPhone, was and still is IMO a crap phone. Yet the suckers that got that crap phone run the same OS version as my wifes 3GS and the same OS as the newest iPhone 4G. Sure, it does not have all the features since it's not physically able to run them, but it always has the latest and greatest.
When I bought my HTC Desire two weeks ago (fucking love it!) the biggest thing in my mind was, will HTC's sense interface keep me from getting newer android OSs? Had I not seen how one could still load plain android on there to be sure to get the latest and greatest, I would not have gotten the phone. Nokia still has not gotten the message that folks are not interested in buying a 600$ throw away phone. They will continue to not support their phones. Just watch, the N8 will not be upgradable.
On slashdot, we see many of these bogus patent articles as well as several patent troll litigation articles. On everyone we see the same tired arguments, hey, this was done since the 80's or that company implemented it long long before that! Sometimes we even hear, hey this company just bought the unused patent from a dead guy and doesn't even make a product, which invalidates the patent.
Well, non of that crap matters in the US. Seriously, how often do these patent trolls win? Almost always. That patent / legal system is so fucked up that actual law matters very little anymore. This is one big reason that companies continue to pull out of the US.
Just do a quick Google search for "broken patent system" or "out of control patent system" and you will see this has been going on for years. Hell, back in 2000 folks were sure any time now there would be patent reform, yet the we are no closer to it.
It's time for you to get involved people. It's time to write to your representatives to demand reform. The US patent system is a drain on our economy and seriously hampers proper innovation. Something must be done soon, time is running out for the US. Well..at least IMO.
Make no mistake, it has nothing to do with concerns for the customers. This is about money. It would take massive resources for an ISP to monitor what all the users are up to. On top that of that, it would offer a thick layer of liability to the ISP if and when they miss a customers illegal actions. This, no doubt would result is legal actions being taken against the ISP. Then of course there is legal action from the customer with the ISP has wrong concluded an illegal action has taken place on the part of the customer and turned them over. No, no ISP cares about you, only for profit.
To me, that really brought to light just how much the people at Top Gear are biased towards the cars that they like and against the cars that they don't.
As opposed to most people who have no bias towards car they like and against those which they don't like?
The electric part they like. It's the extremely heavy, negative handling characteristics or the massive batteries which they don't like.
Really, why is anyone surprised by this. You can say troll if you like, but these D-Bags buy an iPad because Jobs told them they need one in addition to their iPhone and iPods, and like fucking sheep...they open their wallets. So when Jobby says you have to buy this 100.00 shit speaker and this SIM card people act shocked that the above mentioned D-Bags open their wallet again... Well..I didn't think I needed, but if Steve says I do, then I must!
Seriously. You can mod this a troll if you feel better. But I would much rather there be a small area of radiation from a tactical nuclear explosion, than the entire gulf coast destroyed the biggest oil spill in the history of mankind and one that will just keep on going and keep getting worse. I know folks have bad feeling about nukes, but for fucks sake..it worked 4 out of 5 times for the Russians. It's time to do it before it's too late! http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/62992,news-comment,news-politics,deepwater-horizon-gulf-mexico-oil-spill-should-bp-nuke-the-leak-like-the-russians
Good! Though, the school is the wrong establishment to fight. It high fucking time Americans start fighting back against the government that established these and other ridiculous guidelines. Let the people of Greece be a lesson. When you see something is wrong, stand up and fight for what you believe.
This actually will hurt the little guys and make sure that only mega corps can own the world. I think a better way would be to assign the fee AFTER the patten goes through. Basically, if a patent is found to erroneous or false in some way, the fee would be EXTREMELY high. This would be encourage less crap patents and make sure people do a patent search before trying to patent their crap. Finally, the fees for the approved patents can be based on the company's yearly revenue weighted against the market value of the patent. I think that would be more fair.
It's really amazing how often this line is repeated on Slashdot and other fanboy hangouts. You see time and time again, "it's Apple's store. They can do what ever they want." Naturally, it's these same guys who scream anti-Microsoft whenever they can. Well, it's Microsoft's OS. They can do what ever they want! No, they cannot. Any person who can say with a straight face that Apple is not engaged in anti competitive behavior is either a liar or stupid.
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Who said anything about abandoning earth??
Hawking says we need to expand, not just put all our eggs in one basket. Obviously, that does not mean leave earth and all go some other place, since that would be putting all the eggs in a different basket.
It seems pretty fucking simple to me. The more planets you occupy, the greater your chance of surviving any particular catastrophe.
Seriously, we could get hit by another planetoid like we did when the moon got formed.
I don't think any amount of underground concrete is gonna help you out there.
I am all for getting off this rock. Sure..people will die trying, but who cares. Greater good and all that.
Before you ask, yes, I would be the first in line.
"selfish elites." = Douche-bag
..shows that individuals tend to avoid stress-causing relationships..
You see, this is the real reason why slashdoters don't have wives and girl friends. It's natural to avoid stress causing relationships. :)
Seriously, do you guy know how hard it is to find "real" Chinese porn?? If you bring attention to them then the Chinese government will have to shut them down. Damn, I am sick of always looking and Japanese porn.
Apple collects such data from customers who have approved the use of location-based capabilities on the phone and who actually use an application that requires GPS."
So basically there is a 13 page document that someone should read when prior to initially powering on the GPS?
Most folks and if I'm honest, myself included would not assume that my using and navigation program would have in any way constituted my intention to let Jobs know where I am and what I am doing.
What's interesting to me is how much this company lies to people and yet so many folks defend them. Take this situation for example, is it true that Apple has buried a "technically" accurate description of that they are doing in their T&C's? Most assuredly. It is also assuredly true that it's written in such a way that the laymen would be oblivious to the fact.
Based on that, there will be many out there who say, Jobs didn't then and fuck you if you ever call him a liar!" To these people I must ask, where do you come from?
I was raised to know that deliberately trying to deceive a person for group of people, whether I use technically accurate information or not, is still lying. I recon these are the same folks who discipline their children with a harsh time-out and no PS3 for 6 hours.
Still, it is indicative of our culture.
This is what really pisses me off; people take this attitude that, hey..I don't have extra bags, I don't want the food, so I am flying cheaper! Well guess what stupid, you're not flying cheaper.
I travel very often so I have a fair idea of how the traveling costs trend and what I notice is that I get fucked harder and harder by the airlines, but since there is price fixing, there's not a damn thing I can do about it.
Don't get me wrong, if the tickets WERE actually cheaper by not including the bags, than I would be fine with that. BUT, they are not cheaper. If anything, they are more expensive AND you pay your extra 100 bucks for bags. WTF?
You want to go by weight? I weight 160lbs and my wife is 105lbs. Why should she pay the same like me? Why can't she have an extra bag?
Why can that fat as fuck American sitting next to me get the same price?
They should chance the whole thing to per lbs, yourself and bags included. That is whats fair.
Now, as much as Apple annoys me, and they do enough that I stopped using my iPhone and got an HTC desire, I do feel compelled to point something out to you folks, most of whom are not in the wireless industry.
Apple, and to that extent, all wireless manufactures must perform TRP and TIS testing as laid out in the CTIA Test Plan for Mobile Station Over the Air Performance, which I think are currently at 2.2.2.
The thing is, OTA testing takes a long time and is actually a lot of money.
Please note, that for certification, a company can NOT perform this testing on their own. They must use a PTCRB test house, which is independent for what should be obvious reasons.
As I mentioned, the CTIA test plan looks at both TRP (Total radiated power) and TIS (total isotropic sensitivity) under a few conditions, which are head adjacent(left and right cheek) and free space. This is done in all bands and all modes. That's to say you test the 850 band in GSM. GPRS, EGPRS and UMTS(3g). Each band is tested in full on three channels, the low, mid and highest of the band. Then a single point offset method is applied to all intermediate channels relative to the 3 primary channels in both position and power level to save time.
This still takes a LONG time.
A GSM 850 L/M/H TRP in free space takes about 1 hour in a non stargate system (note almost no labs use this system since it uses power meters which have trouble to properly trigger a EGPRS pulse)
about the same for the same conditions in TIS.
UMTS though takes about 4 hours for the TIS.
Now, you take a phone like the iPhone and account for charge times and the like and you are looking at about 3 - 4 weeks of lab time since you can only use 1 phone!
I also assume that would be lots of cash in lab time. Granted, that's crackers to Apple.
The point is, all phones on a PTCRB network, to witch ATT is, MUST pass these requirements. This means that Apple had to have passes ALL requirements.
They did was they were required to do. It just goes to show what you can't catch everything with this testing, but given that it's a rare problem..you can catch most.
The loss of 20dB is actually a lot! The decibel (dB) is a logarithmic unit of measurement that expresses the magnitude of a physical quantity. (wiki quote, not mine)
Keep in mind that most phones have a TIS (Total isotropic sensitivity) of between -102.5 to -110dBm depending on the band.
I can assure you that with a TIS of -82 to-90dBm, no network carrier in the world would allow that phone on their network for dropped call issues.
Tests have shown that both the UL and DL speeds drop to a crawl, so presumably the phone's TRP (Total radiated Power) would also drop quite a bit. Certainly not 20dB though since that would be really a lot in terms of power output.
I am really amazed that this company is able to do so many different thing. From post-it notes to medical equipment. Not bad for a company that started in 1902 selling minerals to the east.
Oh.....You mean something more like this??? I know it's not a "site" but rather an App with politics contrary to Apples likely, unlike iFart, which is cool.
http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/mark-fiore-can-win-a-pulitzer-prize-but-he-cant-get-his-iphone-cartoon-app-past-apples-satire-police/
So, where are you kids exactly?
Cheers,
MS employee
"...It was a good effort, but it's time to pack it in. This is no longer a fight we can win."
History would indicate this is actually the case.
I also though my 15Mbs was enough while I was living in Orange county. I paid about 50 pucks per month for that on top of my 60 per month for the standard HD package.
Since I moved to Germany, I pay 27 Euro per month for 50Mbs on top of my 20 Euro per month for my ridiculous amount of sat channels.
There is no way I would ever go back to that stupid COX cable modem. No way in hell. You're 10-25 may be fine if it's only you, but my wife and I both watch most shows online and DL a lot. Only with 50 Mbs do we not notice the slowdown.
I don't even know how you can have a modern connected life with 1.5 - 4Mbs, you may as well have dialup.
(nokia stock holder) ;) )
I mean sure, Nokia's current OS situation is total chaos and sure, Nokia's OVI store is 100% shit and sure, the N900 is stupidly expensive, but that's not the real reason why people are jumping ship in terms of smartphone adoption.
Quite simply, it's support. (Lack of)
Nokia builds their phones to be just barely powerful enough to run the OS and just barely enough ROM to hold the OS.
What does this mean?
It means that you need to toss that POS 1 year later when Nokia released the next symbian OS just there is no freaking way it would fit on your phone or that you processor could make it usable if it could fit.
Nokia's smartphones have always been expensive. Hell, I have gotten a lot of them, but the last Nokia I bought, and ever will buy was the N95 which is in a box in the basement someplace in the case visitors come and want a phone with Navi.
(As a side note, I took the phone out last month and I could not believe how user unfriendly that phone was compared to my HTC Desire. How did we manage?
The thing is, as expensive as that N95 was, there will never be an OS update. Sure, there were bug fixes and a couple added features when they sent out firmware updates, but never will I be able to use a newer OS. So, once Nokia stops selling that particular cell, the support is over. No more updates.
Now look at the iPhone. The 2G iPhone, was and still is IMO a crap phone. Yet the suckers that got that crap phone run the same OS version as my wifes 3GS and the same OS as the newest iPhone 4G. Sure, it does not have all the features since it's not physically able to run them, but it always has the latest and greatest.
When I bought my HTC Desire two weeks ago (fucking love it!) the biggest thing in my mind was, will HTC's sense interface keep me from getting newer android OSs? Had I not seen how one could still load plain android on there to be sure to get the latest and greatest, I would not have gotten the phone.
Nokia still has not gotten the message that folks are not interested in buying a 600$ throw away phone. They will continue to not support their phones. Just watch, the N8 will not be upgradable.
On slashdot, we see many of these bogus patent articles as well as several patent troll litigation articles. On everyone we see the same tired arguments, hey, this was done since the 80's or that company implemented it long long before that! Sometimes we even hear, hey this company just bought the unused patent from a dead guy and doesn't even make a product, which invalidates the patent.
Well, non of that crap matters in the US. Seriously, how often do these patent trolls win? Almost always. That patent / legal system is so fucked up that actual law matters very little anymore.
This is one big reason that companies continue to pull out of the US.
Just do a quick Google search for "broken patent system" or "out of control patent system" and you will see this has been going on for years. Hell, back in 2000 folks were sure any time now there would be patent reform, yet the we are no closer to it.
It's time for you to get involved people. It's time to write to your representatives to demand reform. The US patent system is a drain on our economy and seriously hampers proper innovation. Something must be done soon, time is running out for the US. Well..at least IMO.
Make no mistake, it has nothing to do with concerns for the customers.
This is about money. It would take massive resources for an ISP to monitor what all the users are up to. On top that of that, it would offer a thick layer of liability to the ISP if and when they miss a customers illegal actions. This, no doubt would result is legal actions being taken against the ISP.
Then of course there is legal action from the customer with the ISP has wrong concluded an illegal action has taken place on the part of the customer and turned them over.
No, no ISP cares about you, only for profit.
To me, that really brought to light just how much the people at Top Gear are biased towards the cars that they like and against the cars that they don't.
As opposed to most people who have no bias towards car they like and against those which they don't like?
The electric part they like. It's the extremely heavy, negative handling characteristics or the massive batteries which they don't like.
Really, why is anyone surprised by this. You can say troll if you like, but these D-Bags buy an iPad because Jobs told them they need one in addition to their iPhone and iPods, and like fucking sheep...they open their wallets. So when Jobby says you have to buy this 100.00 shit speaker and this SIM card people act shocked that the above mentioned D-Bags open their wallet again...
Well..I didn't think I needed, but if Steve says I do, then I must!
Seriously. You can mod this a troll if you feel better. But I would much rather there be a small area of radiation from a tactical nuclear explosion, than the entire gulf coast destroyed the biggest oil spill in the history of mankind and one that will just keep on going and keep getting worse.
I know folks have bad feeling about nukes, but for fucks sake..it worked 4 out of 5 times for the Russians. It's time to do it before it's too late!
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/62992,news-comment,news-politics,deepwater-horizon-gulf-mexico-oil-spill-should-bp-nuke-the-leak-like-the-russians
Good! Though, the school is the wrong establishment to fight. It high fucking time Americans start fighting back against the government that established these and other ridiculous guidelines. Let the people of Greece be a lesson. When you see something is wrong, stand up and fight for what you believe.
This actually will hurt the little guys and make sure that only mega corps can own the world.
I think a better way would be to assign the fee AFTER the patten goes through. Basically, if a patent is found to erroneous or false in some way, the fee would be EXTREMELY high. This would be encourage less crap patents and make sure people do a patent search before trying to patent their crap.
Finally, the fees for the approved patents can be based on the company's yearly revenue weighted against the market value of the patent.
I think that would be more fair.
""Years of heavy use of the broad spectrum herbicide Roundup has led to the rapid growth of superweeds".
Quick..someone mix this "Superweed" with normal weed! They wont be able to make that illegal! We can't be stopped!
I mean hell, the morons in Washington can't even decide if we should build any kind of space ship.
It's really amazing how often this line is repeated on Slashdot and other fanboy hangouts. You see time and time again, "it's Apple's store. They can do what ever they want."
Naturally, it's these same guys who scream anti-Microsoft whenever they can.
Well, it's Microsoft's OS. They can do what ever they want!
No, they cannot.
Any person who can say with a straight face that Apple is not engaged in anti competitive behavior is either a liar or stupid.