Actually, A-GPS is better than normal GPS as A-GPS equipment can work on its own to find a satellite or it can use the network to gain a headstart on traditional GPS units.
It doesn't rely on it, it uses it in addition to the same techniques used by other GPS units.
Formatting failure.... let's repeat my part of that:
So I get fired up by believers because I find the whole thing threatening? FUCK YOU.
I get fired up because of religious idiocy. I get fired up because of the teaching of creationism over evolution in schools, I get fired up because of discrimination against homosexuals on religious grounds. I get fired up because magical thinking causes all sorts of problems and is a force for the advancement of stupidity and cruelty across the entire fucking world.
Don't talk to me about morals and religion, religion is used to justify whatever backward-facing immorality the "person of faith" feels like at the time.
I'm sorry, I didn't want to get involved in this whole thing, but now you're just being dumb.
"it teaches that man is not the highest power in existence and that we have a moral obligation to a higher being. that goes head to head against humanism. Why do you think people get so fired up against bible believers?"
So I get fired up by believers because I find the whole thing threatening? FUCK YOU.
I get fired up because of religious idiocy. I get fired up because of the teaching of creationism over evolution in schools, I get fired up because of discrimination against homosexuals on religious grounds. I get fired up because magical thinking causes all sorts of problems and is a force for the advancement of stupidity and cruelty across the entire fucking world.
Don't talk to me about morals and religion, religion is used to justify whatever backward-facing immorality the "person of faith" feels like at the time.
I'm not qualified to talk about the wife thing, but about work and mornings -
SOME OF US ARE NOT MORNING PEOPLE.
Short of giving me a good snort of cocaine in the AM, all I want is to be left alone with a coffee. I might cheer up in the afternoon. By evening I feel good. By 10pm I could take on the world.
I enjoy work sometimes, I like my coworkers, several of whom also are not morning people. I think if anyone tried this smile measurement treatment on me I'd either quit or go insane. Being made to smile for a job I didn't enjoy would destroy me.
(Isn't it funny the distributors will sell US films cheaper overseas, but won't reduce prices on imports to the US proportionately? The US consumer's job is to bear markups no one else has to bear, and keep paying full price when the economy sucks while that results in price drops eleswhere.).
As a European I'd like to say this - you think you've got it hard? Prices are usually translated from dollars to euros with no exchange rate factored in. As a Brit I'll take it one further and say that on computer hardware, music, movies and a whole load of other stuff tyhey do the same trick from dollars to pounds.
It's sickening, especially when you then have the likes of Sony utterly destroying in court any parallel importers of hardware from the far east.
So I agree with everything you say, but wanted add - You think you are being ripped off?
In other parts of the world, a few GB download is not that hard to achieve. Couple that with the far superior compression methods we have today and it doesn't take all that much.
Hell, my own connection maxed out (at the speed it runs at rather than the quoted speed) would take only about quarter of an hour per (roughly 1.4GB) movie. I'm only on a 24Mbit connection (12-15 actual), and it's not like connections are going to get slower or compression worse. A 720p movie usually only comes in at about 3 times that.
Now, I'm not saying this is a reason not to touch copyright law, I think it needs a lot of reform, but saying "they'll still make money because of connection speeds is silly.
"If we are correct, and a SIM based plug-n-go model really is better for the consumer, then it will be a competitive edge for a company which comes along and does this in the United States where CDMA is the largest standard for mobile telecom (Verizon)."
If enlightened self interest actually existed, this would be true.
As it is, people are fooled by "free handsets!" and all the other crap and will continually end up with a worse product as a result.
The free market requires perfect consumers. Most consumers are dolts, and even of the ones that aren't, many are confused by "free" when combined with small print.
How's about no tracking at all. How about, and I know this is a radical idea, a petrol tax? Bear with me here, I know this is a strange, crazy and new idea, but how about adding some tax to petrol that goes toward road maintenance?
That way you don't need to pull this big brother crap, you HAVE a usage tax and you've already got built in scaled charges by vehicle efficiency so that heavier and more polluting vehicles pay more than light and/or efficient ones!
I know it's never been tried before, but I really think I'm on to something here!
And Usenet.com is something entirely different - I'm guessing one of these usenet portals that advertises itself as a portal to safe, unlimited copyright material.
The blogosphere is renowned for being full of people who think they're important because other bloggers read and comment on their stuff. It's almost the epitome of a circle-jerk. This is the way I think about the iPhone app store too.
Sure, but if you're planning to get into online opinion/news publishing, you're going to enter the blogosphere, and become one of "those involved".
Yes, and few people bother to do that, and out of those that don't publish, very few give a crap about the bloggings of others.
"if you're one of those outsiders without and iPhone really interested in running apps on your phone, you're most likely going to get an iPhone."
Yeah, but I don't think outsiders are really interested.
"What you've said is sort of like saying "sports is the best thing EVAR only to sports fans"."
Other than questions of scale - I don't for a minute think there are as many iPhone fans as there are sportsfans - yes. I have no interest in sports either...
I think the app store is fine, but a bit like the blogosphere.
I mean, it's the best thing EVAR to those involved, and they get excited about it and there's a lot of activity and a lot of vibrancy and life within the scene.
Actually, I kinda like their menu interface on the PSP and PS3. If they brought that (or an adapted, touch friendly analogue to a phone somehow I think it could work.
Whilst he does explain it ass-backward, you would anticipate a greater resistive effect from thee air on multiple smal grains of sannd, with a proportionally large surface area, wouldn't you?
Well, they still aren't opening it up, which would be compliance with the license.
Also, I've got to wonder - is ScummVM entirely the work of the two guys mentioned in TFA? Because if it isn't then they need permission from ALL other contributors too. Or at least all other copyright stakeholders.
I mean, I wasn't even an early adopter and I had a home wireless setup before they filed this, and a computer that would present a list of hotspots by SSID.
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Actually, A-GPS is better than normal GPS as A-GPS equipment can work on its own to find a satellite or it can use the network to gain a headstart on traditional GPS units.
It doesn't rely on it, it uses it in addition to the same techniques used by other GPS units.
Formatting failure.... let's repeat my part of that:
So I get fired up by believers because I find the whole thing threatening? FUCK YOU.
I get fired up because of religious idiocy. I get fired up because of the teaching of creationism over evolution in schools, I get fired up because of discrimination against homosexuals on religious grounds. I get fired up because magical thinking causes all sorts of problems and is a force for the advancement of stupidity and cruelty across the entire fucking world.
Don't talk to me about morals and religion, religion is used to justify whatever backward-facing immorality the "person of faith" feels like at the time.
I'm sorry, I didn't want to get involved in this whole thing, but now you're just being dumb.
I'm not qualified to talk about the wife thing, but about work and mornings -
SOME OF US ARE NOT MORNING PEOPLE.
Short of giving me a good snort of cocaine in the AM, all I want is to be left alone with a coffee. I might cheer up in the afternoon. By evening I feel good. By 10pm I could take on the world.
I enjoy work sometimes, I like my coworkers, several of whom also are not morning people. I think if anyone tried this smile measurement treatment on me I'd either quit or go insane. Being made to smile for a job I didn't enjoy would destroy me.
As a European I'd like to say this - you think you've got it hard? Prices are usually translated from dollars to euros with no exchange rate factored in. As a Brit I'll take it one further and say that on computer hardware, music, movies and a whole load of other stuff tyhey do the same trick from dollars to pounds.
It's sickening, especially when you then have the likes of Sony utterly destroying in court any parallel importers of hardware from the far east.
So I agree with everything you say, but wanted add - You think you are being ripped off?
Err, most internet connections in the US, maybe.
In other parts of the world, a few GB download is not that hard to achieve. Couple that with the far superior compression methods we have today and it doesn't take all that much.
Hell, my own connection maxed out (at the speed it runs at rather than the quoted speed) would take only about quarter of an hour per (roughly 1.4GB) movie. I'm only on a 24Mbit connection (12-15 actual), and it's not like connections are going to get slower or compression worse. A 720p movie usually only comes in at about 3 times that.
Now, I'm not saying this is a reason not to touch copyright law, I think it needs a lot of reform, but saying "they'll still make money because of connection speeds is silly.
Price?
Ratings?
Who the hell cares about those?
Oh right, people that write "useful" applications like iFart.
"If we are correct, and a SIM based plug-n-go model really is better for the consumer, then it will be a competitive edge for a company which comes along and does this in the United States where CDMA is the largest standard for mobile telecom (Verizon)."
If enlightened self interest actually existed, this would be true.
As it is, people are fooled by "free handsets!" and all the other crap and will continually end up with a worse product as a result.
The free market requires perfect consumers. Most consumers are dolts, and even of the ones that aren't, many are confused by "free" when combined with small print.
I've got a better one.
How's about no tracking at all. How about, and I know this is a radical idea, a petrol tax?
Bear with me here, I know this is a strange, crazy and new idea, but how about adding some tax to petrol that goes toward road maintenance?
That way you don't need to pull this big brother crap, you HAVE a usage tax and you've already got built in scaled charges by vehicle efficiency so that heavier and more polluting vehicles pay more than light and/or efficient ones!
I know it's never been tried before, but I really think I'm on to something here!
And Usenet.com is something entirely different - I'm guessing one of these usenet portals that advertises itself as a portal to safe, unlimited copyright material.
Actually, I meant a little more than that too.
The blogosphere is renowned for being full of people who think they're important because other bloggers read and comment on their stuff. It's almost the epitome of a circle-jerk. This is the way I think about the iPhone app store too.
Sure, but if you're planning to get into online opinion/news publishing, you're going to enter the blogosphere, and become one of "those involved".
Yes, and few people bother to do that, and out of those that don't publish, very few give a crap about the bloggings of others.
"if you're one of those outsiders without and iPhone really interested in running apps on your phone, you're most likely going to get an iPhone."
Yeah, but I don't think outsiders are really interested.
"What you've said is sort of like saying "sports is the best thing EVAR only to sports fans"."
Other than questions of scale - I don't for a minute think there are as many iPhone fans as there are sportsfans - yes. I have no interest in sports either...
I think the app store is fine, but a bit like the blogosphere.
I mean, it's the best thing EVAR to those involved, and they get excited about it and there's a lot of activity and a lot of vibrancy and life within the scene.
To everyone else it's just kinda "meh".
Actually, I kinda like their menu interface on the PSP and PS3. If they brought that (or an adapted, touch friendly analogue to a phone somehow I think it could work.
That was a phone company with no gaming track record.
OTOH, I agree that Nokia make good interfaces and good devices and perhaps we could have expected that particular gamble to do a little better.
I know, I know, it's hip on /. to hate Sony for their DRM and rootkits, and their music division *can* go screw themselves in the eye over that one.
But I like their consumer electronics, they're pretty and they're slick. A game device/phone coming from such a giant could be a huge thing.
Whilst he does explain it ass-backward, you would anticipate a greater resistive effect from thee air on multiple smal grains of sannd, with a proportionally large surface area, wouldn't you?
But yeah, the statement as it stands is bullcrap.
Is dual US/British citizenship not an option?
I know the UK government doesn't have a problem with this. In a couple of years I intend to be a UK/Aus dual citizen.
The mainframe is a dead relic of times past surely?
I love the cyclical nature of all this stuff.
They just changed something.
Well, they still aren't opening it up, which would be compliance with the license.
Also, I've got to wonder - is ScummVM entirely the work of the two guys mentioned in TFA? Because if it isn't then they need permission from ALL other contributors too. Or at least all other copyright stakeholders.
"ScummVM's developers would love to see ScummVM running on the Wii,"
All they have to do is install the Homebrew channel :)
Of course, commercial games want an embedded ScummVM and to use official Nintendo SDKs, so that doesn't fly here. But it's there for the hacker.
Speak for yourself!
The UK went metric years ago!
Yeah.
I mean, I wasn't even an early adopter and I had a home wireless setup before they filed this, and a computer that would present a list of hotspots by SSID.
This is nuts.
Those were awesome.
K5 is likewise dead to me, and has been for a while now. Shame, in the old days I did have some great arguments. Some fun flamewars too...