Never mind that USA can get up to all kinds of tricks to get their contracts.
When Norway was evaluating Eurofighter, F-35 and Saab JAS 39 Gripen, the Gripen was held back by radar performance issues. Later on it is found that Saab was in talks with Lockheed or some other US company about buying radars, but the final contract was held back by Washington until after said evaluation.
At times i wonder if the F-35 is an attempt at rescuing the US economy...
Maybe not for USA, but India borders China and Pakistan. And neither of those are really on good terms with India.
Seriously, Outside of ICBMs and submarines, nothing can really touch USA directly. And i wonder how uppity the international politics will become if ever USA develops a reliable ICBM shield.
It was developed by the same organization, made to be able to hand of to GSM (allowing for a transition period of both networks operating), and likely share some higher level stuff with GSM. But on the radio interface level i am not sure there is much in common.
Motorola was going down the tube until they went all in with Android and manage to land the first Droid phone for Verizon. RIM, as others have pointed out, is Canadian, and seems to have shown up in Europe only in recent years. Palm did so so, but mostly thanks to picking up Handspring and going WinMobile (hello HTC). Only Apple really stands out, but then they basically leveraged their iPod/ITMS silo (and their media attention). Feature wise there was phones already on the market for a number of years that could do anything the iPhone could do when it showed. It was only really the touch interface that was anything new, and i suspect Nokia had passed on that because it is hard to operate such a interface at -20C (much easier in +20C).
I wonder if coverage is more a function of frequency than protocol. the CDMA2k in US use the 450MHz range, right? At least in Scandinavia that was originally used for NMT, and so was unavailable for use with GSM when it first launched. Since then there have been a CDMA2k push on the now available NMT band, but it is only really used for rural (and boat to shore) data connectivity.
Better known as UMTS. Never mind that the CDMA in US is CDMA2000. So while UMTS and CDMA2k shares the base layer encoding, the higher layers are very different. Also, CDMA2k is more in line with GSM. For instance, can CDMA2k handle data and voice at the same time? That is a problem it shares with GSM, but that UMTS does not have (originally there for the video call feature, but these days more used for allowing various data services while also handling calls).
Odd thing is, a lot of people create entertainment for free during their spare time (a very modern concept in its own right). Consider the amount of time people have contributed to the *nix ecosystem simply because they have the time, knowledge and a itch to scratch? Also, why do the creator need to take on debt? Consider Kickstarter, where someone can put up a draft of what they hope to make and provide a means for a group fundraiser. Afterwards the production costs have been covered, the creator have created what he hoped to create and can then put it up for download for anyone interested. The cost of creation 1000 extra copies once the master have been finalized is basically zero these days, with torrents or similar it is the downloaders that are fronting the cost once a swarm is properly formed. It used to be that corporations have very specific task to perform and was dissolved once that task was performed. As such, the recording labels and studios are an artifact of a time when distribution and duplication was a very mechanical undertaking. This is no longer the case. Also, i wonder how many of the current generations have no familiarity with the backlog of creations that sit in some vault because the copyright duration have been continually extended. I keep finding as much in the decades past as i find in the present, but i am forbidden to legally partake because of the duration of a certain law.
Even more so, nothing is lost. End result is that it is more sharing than stealing. If you could share a apple with someone hungry without loosing it, why would you refuse? Any sane person under those circumstances would stop trying to sell apples, unless they could provide some kind of scarce value add to the whole.
Seems some are working on bringing ARM into the server rack, and we can see the reason when we read about the kinds of power and cooling issues there are around some of the larger server farms.
Well, there is always the option of buying no-brand Android devices out of China. One loose out on the Market access, but gain in openness. A fair trade in my view.
Was there not someone that was accused as either a hacker or terrorist, because he had a terminal window open on his laptop while visiting a coffee shop? by a cop that walked by, no less?
Media sales via the Android Market in general, more like it.
And it echoes a statement made by Nokia regarding Maemo/Meego, where they said the then upcoming phone would have a dual mode boot loader. One mode would check signatures on vital OS components, but would allow media purchases via the Nokia Ovi store. The other mode would allow people to tinker with the OS internals, but would lock them out of the mentioned store and any media bought from there.
I wonder if this is why we see the hoopla about UEFI cryptographic boot in Win8, because MS is trying to set up a Window online store themselves and big media is demanding "trusted computing" before they put anything into the store.
Could be a number of things, side effects from emancipation, a media that keeps harping the antihero middle-fingering the law as the ultimate person to be, the rush of continual instant gratification, and maybe something completely different. Or none at all...
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Never mind that USA can get up to all kinds of tricks to get their contracts.
When Norway was evaluating Eurofighter, F-35 and Saab JAS 39 Gripen, the Gripen was held back by radar performance issues. Later on it is found that Saab was in talks with Lockheed or some other US company about buying radars, but the final contract was held back by Washington until after said evaluation.
At times i wonder if the F-35 is an attempt at rescuing the US economy...
Maybe not for USA, but India borders China and Pakistan. And neither of those are really on good terms with India.
Seriously, Outside of ICBMs and submarines, nothing can really touch USA directly. And i wonder how uppity the international politics will become if ever USA develops a reliable ICBM shield.
It was developed by the same organization, made to be able to hand of to GSM (allowing for a transition period of both networks operating), and likely share some higher level stuff with GSM. But on the radio interface level i am not sure there is much in common.
Motorola was going down the tube until they went all in with Android and manage to land the first Droid phone for Verizon. RIM, as others have pointed out, is Canadian, and seems to have shown up in Europe only in recent years. Palm did so so, but mostly thanks to picking up Handspring and going WinMobile (hello HTC). Only Apple really stands out, but then they basically leveraged their iPod/ITMS silo (and their media attention). Feature wise there was phones already on the market for a number of years that could do anything the iPhone could do when it showed. It was only really the touch interface that was anything new, and i suspect Nokia had passed on that because it is hard to operate such a interface at -20C (much easier in +20C).
I wonder if coverage is more a function of frequency than protocol. the CDMA2k in US use the 450MHz range, right? At least in Scandinavia that was originally used for NMT, and so was unavailable for use with GSM when it first launched. Since then there have been a CDMA2k push on the now available NMT band, but it is only really used for rural (and boat to shore) data connectivity.
Better known as UMTS. Never mind that the CDMA in US is CDMA2000. So while UMTS and CDMA2k shares the base layer encoding, the higher layers are very different. Also, CDMA2k is more in line with GSM. For instance, can CDMA2k handle data and voice at the same time? That is a problem it shares with GSM, but that UMTS does not have (originally there for the video call feature, but these days more used for allowing various data services while also handling calls).
Odd thing is, a lot of people create entertainment for free during their spare time (a very modern concept in its own right). Consider the amount of time people have contributed to the *nix ecosystem simply because they have the time, knowledge and a itch to scratch? Also, why do the creator need to take on debt? Consider Kickstarter, where someone can put up a draft of what they hope to make and provide a means for a group fundraiser. Afterwards the production costs have been covered, the creator have created what he hoped to create and can then put it up for download for anyone interested. The cost of creation 1000 extra copies once the master have been finalized is basically zero these days, with torrents or similar it is the downloaders that are fronting the cost once a swarm is properly formed. It used to be that corporations have very specific task to perform and was dissolved once that task was performed. As such, the recording labels and studios are an artifact of a time when distribution and duplication was a very mechanical undertaking. This is no longer the case. Also, i wonder how many of the current generations have no familiarity with the backlog of creations that sit in some vault because the copyright duration have been continually extended. I keep finding as much in the decades past as i find in the present, but i am forbidden to legally partake because of the duration of a certain law.
Even more so, nothing is lost. End result is that it is more sharing than stealing. If you could share a apple with someone hungry without loosing it, why would you refuse? Any sane person under those circumstances would stop trying to sell apples, unless they could provide some kind of scarce value add to the whole.
Seems some are working on bringing ARM into the server rack, and we can see the reason when we read about the kinds of power and cooling issues there are around some of the larger server farms.
Well, there is always the option of buying no-brand Android devices out of China. One loose out on the Market access, but gain in openness. A fair trade in my view.
I swear, USA seems to have done more to destabilize the world in the hunt of red ghosts than any actual communist agents could dream of doing.
One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_PBSUCCESS
Was there not someone that was accused as either a hacker or terrorist, because he had a terminal window open on his laptop while visiting a coffee shop? by a cop that walked by, no less?
What better disguise is there for a terrorist than that of a tourist? /s
Witches, reds, drugs, terrorists...
I will file fuckers under mentally ill, as they are highly likely to be sociopaths or narcissists. Either condition being a textbook mental illnesses.
So much for the forth state power...
the trash can of higher education
Right alongside Economics and MBA?
I recall reading something about that recently, that like seemed to cluster with like.
I think it was hiding out in a anthropological book on debt, of all things:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
Thanks, very interesting indeed!
1. this is a enthusiast project and so is likely bootstrapped on a shoestring budget.
2. they are trying to get all drivers into the kernel proper, no blobs and similar. This means finding a supplier that can go along with that.
Android have none of these issues, and so can get the latest and greatest.
In the end one have to decide what is more important, principles or instant gratification.
Media sales via the Android Market in general, more like it.
And it echoes a statement made by Nokia regarding Maemo/Meego, where they said the then upcoming phone would have a dual mode boot loader. One mode would check signatures on vital OS components, but would allow media purchases via the Nokia Ovi store. The other mode would allow people to tinker with the OS internals, but would lock them out of the mentioned store and any media bought from there.
I wonder if this is why we see the hoopla about UEFI cryptographic boot in Win8, because MS is trying to set up a Window online store themselves and big media is demanding "trusted computing" before they put anything into the store.
I think the normal is the majority behavior, but that is not something set in stone as the generations come and go.
So can we look forward to people communicating by way of curse storms as seems to be the way things are done on in-game voice chats?
Could be a number of things, side effects from emancipation, a media that keeps harping the antihero middle-fingering the law as the ultimate person to be, the rush of continual instant gratification, and maybe something completely different. Or none at all...
Some of the worst criminals come in a suit, because they have learned how to play the empathic strings of the human mind to their benefit.