Their national average according to speedtest is just ~25 Mbit.
I think what is important is not the average speed users get, but the speed that is available to them if they choose to pay for it. Not everyone will have use for a fast connection so many users will opt for a cheaper plan, but I think everyone should at least have the option to get a fast connection.
I live in the Netherlands, average speed according to speedtest is 27Mbit. Relatively fast internet (100Mbit+) is available to most people in the country, but many choose slower and cheaper connections and that's fine. I don't believe the goal should be to have broadband in every home, it should be to have broadband available as an option for anyone who chooses to have it. Lots of places simply don't have an option to get fast internet, and I think that is a more important metric than average internet speeds across the country.
1MBit is not exactly broadband and I don't think 3Mbit should be called that either.
The problem is that what could be considered broadband is a moving target, so we need a more flexible definition: e.g. 10% of the most current standard speed for home networking equipment. (So that would be 10% of 1Gbit = 100Mbit right now, which seems reasonable).
But you need only 1 HDMI on your TV, it only needs to connect to your A/V receiver. What is the point of a nice TV if you're not getting an equally nice surround sound system ?
It's the cornerstone of Samsung's case that Apple didn't invent the idea of a rectangular phone with a touchscreen and that they had been developing the same design idea at the time.
If it's such an important piece of evidence, why did they wait until after the deadline to submit it ?
Either their lawyers are incompetent or they wanted Apple's lawyers to have less time to prepare their case based on this evidence and gambled that the judge would allow the evidence anyway. I expect Samsung to have hired a bunch of very expensive lawyers so I'm assuming they just gambled and lost.
The annual fee is $99, which is probably just enough to cover costs. Compared to all the other costs involved in developing an application it's negligible.
My bank uses a token that require me to insert my debit card into the token, enter my PIN and type in resulting code to log in. For transferring money I need to insert my card, enter PIN, enter code from the screen into token and then type in code from token.
Never heard of a proper bank requiring just a password.
"the land of the free and the home of the brave" we really mean, the Netherlands, right? i mean first the anders attack which by all indications the entire populous outright refused to be intimidated by at all.
You know the whole Anders Breivik thing happened in Norway, not the Netherlands; right ?
No, it's a manufacturer warranty, but generally handled by the retailer, who acts as a go-between for the customer and manufacturer.
Not really. I as the consumer enter a contract with the retailer. I pay them money and they provide me with a product, they are responsible for delivering a decent product and therefore have to give a warranty. Where they got the product from and how they provide the warranty is none of my concern, I didn't enter a contract with the manufacturer, as far as I know they don't exist.
How is this a screw you ? All retailers were already required to offer 2 years warranty, if you buy directly from Apple they are the retailer and thus required to provide the warranty. It was just Apple not complying with the law, which has now been corrected.
If you buy at a retailer, you pay more than the retailer pays Apple, part of that difference is the warranty the retailer is supposed to provide. If you pay full price to Apple the same applies.
the same way that Siri is technically capable of working on the iPhone 3/4 but is only available on the 4s.
The 4S contains better hardware for isolating voices and suppressing background noise at a distance, this is supposedly needed to make the Siri UX good enough for Apple's standards.
#3) Yes, yes, yes, we all love wine, good food, long walks on the beach. Tell me what's unique about you, not what makes you the same as everyone else!
The court order says they have to block the pirate bay under penalty of 10k euro/day if they don't up to a maximum of 250k euro. They could have just ponied up the 250k and be done with it.
Except that I'm sure there will be more competition to create the HTML5 export than there was for Flash.
That competition will exist wether Adobe decides to join the HTML5 camp or not. And with Flash' horrible UX on mobile the competing products that output to HTML5 will have a very good selling point compared to Adobe's proprietary player. I think this is a very good move by Adobe, their tools are ahead of the rest now, best to stay in the lead instead of losing market share to a new player that offers HTML5 functionality.
No. Much to do about something. Apple fan boys love to scream that apple's jsut work when the reality is they have been plague with their own problems all along.
It's never good enough for some people. If this is indeed caused by iStat's fan control, then people who installed this had to give this app root access to modify the SMC.
So what is Apple to do ? Lock down OSX like iOS ? People like you would start screaming that Apple users don't own their own machine, Apple is evil, bla bla bla. Just like they do for iPhone/iPad. On the Mac you can get access to the whole system if you want, and when people do and break their system is Apples fault too ?
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Yes, all improvements to the web are thanks to the ad companies, it has nothing to do with technological progress.
Was e-ink ever gone ? No LCD beats it for long reading sessions.
I'm actually looking forward to that illuminated display.
Their national average according to speedtest is just ~25 Mbit.
I think what is important is not the average speed users get, but the speed that is available to them if they choose to pay for it. Not everyone will have use for a fast connection so many users will opt for a cheaper plan, but I think everyone should at least have the option to get a fast connection.
I live in the Netherlands, average speed according to speedtest is 27Mbit. Relatively fast internet (100Mbit+) is available to most people in the country, but many choose slower and cheaper connections and that's fine. I don't believe the goal should be to have broadband in every home, it should be to have broadband available as an option for anyone who chooses to have it. Lots of places simply don't have an option to get fast internet, and I think that is a more important metric than average internet speeds across the country.
1MBit is not exactly broadband and I don't think 3Mbit should be called that either.
The problem is that what could be considered broadband is a moving target, so we need a more flexible definition: e.g. 10% of the most current standard speed for home networking equipment. (So that would be 10% of 1Gbit = 100Mbit right now, which seems reasonable).
But you need only 1 HDMI on your TV, it only needs to connect to your A/V receiver. What is the point of a nice TV if you're not getting an equally nice surround sound system ?
If it's such an important piece of evidence, why did they wait until after the deadline to submit it ?
Either their lawyers are incompetent or they wanted Apple's lawyers to have less time to prepare their case based on this evidence and gambled that the judge would allow the evidence anyway. I expect Samsung to have hired a bunch of very expensive lawyers so I'm assuming they just gambled and lost.
They care about uptime of a service, not of individual servers.
Programming for the closed platform iOS is actually a lot more fun than for the open platform Android.
The open or closedness of a platform doesn't say a thing about the quality of the SDK, API's and development tools.
The annual fee is $99, which is probably just enough to cover costs. Compared to all the other costs involved in developing an application it's negligible.
My bank uses a token that require me to insert my debit card into the token, enter my PIN and type in resulting code to log in. For transferring money I need to insert my card, enter PIN, enter code from the screen into token and then type in code from token.
Never heard of a proper bank requiring just a password.
They probably see it as a new manufacturing process (die shrink) comes before a new architecture designed with that process in mind.
"the land of the free and the home of the brave" we really mean, the Netherlands, right? i mean first the anders attack which by all indications the entire populous outright refused to be intimidated by at all.
You know the whole Anders Breivik thing happened in Norway, not the Netherlands; right ?
Mostly cabs in europe.
No, it's a manufacturer warranty, but generally handled by the retailer, who acts as a go-between for the customer and manufacturer.
Not really. I as the consumer enter a contract with the retailer. I pay them money and they provide me with a product, they are responsible for delivering a decent product and therefore have to give a warranty. Where they got the product from and how they provide the warranty is none of my concern, I didn't enter a contract with the manufacturer, as far as I know they don't exist.
How is this a screw you ? All retailers were already required to offer 2 years warranty, if you buy directly from Apple they are the retailer and thus required to provide the warranty. It was just Apple not complying with the law, which has now been corrected.
If you buy at a retailer, you pay more than the retailer pays Apple, part of that difference is the warranty the retailer is supposed to provide. If you pay full price to Apple the same applies.
the same way that Siri is technically capable of working on the iPhone 3/4 but is only available on the 4s.
The 4S contains better hardware for isolating voices and suppressing background noise at a distance, this is supposedly needed to make the Siri UX good enough for Apple's standards.
This makes me wonder why they didn't team up with a firm that is known globally and can handle traffic like e-bay or amazon?
Because Farnell and RS deal in electronics, they not only sell the Raspberry Pi's, they also produce them.
Can you not activate videos unless and until I click 'Play'? Not everybody has unlimited broadband
Seems to me like you're trying to solve the wrong problem.
Neither of those are allowed on the autobahn.
#3) Yes, yes, yes, we all love wine, good food, long walks on the beach. Tell me what's unique about you, not what makes you the same as everyone else!
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FTFA:
Ziggo and XS4ALL, meanwhile, are expected to enforce the blockade this coming Wednesday, February 1st.
They may not have just yet but it appears they will.
As a Ziggo customer I can confirm they have implemented the blockade.
They have also put up a website with a small FAQ. which includes as one of the questions
(Translated from Dutch):
Q: Can the blockade be circumvented ?
A: Yes, the blockade of The Pirate Bay can be easily circumvented.
The court order says they have to block the pirate bay under penalty of 10k euro/day if they don't up to a maximum of 250k euro. They could have just ponied up the 250k and be done with it.
That competition will exist wether Adobe decides to join the HTML5 camp or not. And with Flash' horrible UX on mobile the competing products that output to HTML5 will have a very good selling point compared to Adobe's proprietary player. I think this is a very good move by Adobe, their tools are ahead of the rest now, best to stay in the lead instead of losing market share to a new player that offers HTML5 functionality.
Also, people from North Brabant aren't really considered Dutch. They're spare Belgians.
It's never good enough for some people. If this is indeed caused by iStat's fan control, then people who installed this had to give this app root access to modify the SMC.
So what is Apple to do ? Lock down OSX like iOS ? People like you would start screaming that Apple users don't own their own machine, Apple is evil, bla bla bla. Just like they do for iPhone/iPad. On the Mac you can get access to the whole system if you want, and when people do and break their system is Apples fault too ?