When G1 was first introduced, it became painfully clear that it was severely hamstrung by the carrier-dictated limitations on software features.
The Bluetooth stack was totally castrated, leaving out not only tethering and PAN, but also voice features, as well as file transfer.
There are a lot of these glaring omissions in G1s software, that were clearly dictated by T-mobile. My question is this... now that Android has been open-sourced, will Google and T-mobile team up to block 3rd parties from filling in these features? Because as it stands, the G1 actually has less features than the competition, in clear contrast to the wealth of features and freedom of alteration that was touted as the hallmark of the Android platform.
The NIH standard salary for a post-doc is something like $34'000/year. Six figures where?
As for doctors, why don't you think about NET income, rather than gross. Subtract paying off the $400'000 debt, and $30-75'000 for malpractice insurance.
My fiance's cousin is an ER attending and he has two separate malpractice insurance policies, which wind up eating about half of his net.
If you think IT is bad, try biomedical sciences, medicine, and science academia.
The concept of overtime does not exist for >90% of the workers in these fields. It's not uncommon to ASSUME that a 12-hour day is normal, at 6 days per week.
And yes, I am including students... because if your training extends into your 30s, you're an employee.
Oh, and by the way, ask your nearest ER resident (or even a junior attending) when was the last time they had a 40-hour week. Most of the time, the answer will be "high school".
The G1 is so full of dealbreakers, it's simply sad.
Instead of an open platform, this is just another locked-down money-sink.
No tethering? Even my Samsung Blackjack does it... running WM 5.0.
No video? Every other handset can record video.
No exchange support? Why in the world not?
But to me, it's the tethering issue that really breaks the bank. Does T-mobile really think that consumers will pay upwards of $50/month for each internet-capable device they own?
Look at the laptop broadband market - it's almost strictly businessmen who both need dedicated access, and can write it off as an expense. What makes T-mobile think that all these people will suddently jump up and hand several hundred dollars per year to T-mobile. People adapt... people realize that they could live without such broad internet mobility, and they stop buying thigs... which is exactly the opposite of what T-mobile needs.
This is yet another example of unadulterated and shortsighted greed and the willingness to shoot yourself in the foot.
So this device was 80% successful at picking up suspicious activity from PEOPLE WHO WERE ASKED TO LOOK SUSPICIOUS.
Wow, amazing! Something any police officer who has served a couple of years would be able to do with 100% (or nearly so) accuracy.
What is missing is an assay of how many people it would flag if they were told to behave as if they were SCARED. You know... scared of being flagged for behaving abnormally, strip-searched, tortured, and never seeing their families again. Something tells me that the rate of false positives on this machine will overshadow the rate of false negatives by a very large margin.
So if you come home and find some homeless person have broken your window and is working his way through your fridge, you shoot him in the head?
The answer to that may be "yes"... if I feel threatened in ANY way at all.
It's not the people who want my property that worry me - it's what they're prepared to do to access the said property. It is likely that they wouldn't mind smashing my fiance's head with a baseball bat to get an extra ten minutes to grab my stereo and empty the jewelry box.
When my family is sleeping next door, I will gladly take the risk of killing a non-violent thief, over the risk of having harm come to my loved ones.
Whoever wrote the original "... wrong with the USA..." lacks the basic instincts necessary for survival, and will undoubtedly become extinct.
They have slightly less capacity than the top of the line regular NiMH (2000mAh vs 2700mAh), but they can output upwards of 3A with no problem, and are Low Self Discharge cells. They can be recharged >500X, have no memory effect to speak of, and only lose 15% of the charge PER YEAR at 70F.
With Hybrid LSD cells such as these, there is really no excuse to use alkaline batteries any more.
P.S. You can get a pack at Costco for $30 that includes the charger, 2xAAA, 8xAA batteries, plus 2xC and 4xD sized adapters, that let you use the AA cells in devices that take C or D batteries.
They use the same thought process that they use before they purchase "Airborne".
As a medical scientist, I cannot help but cringe any time I walk through the cashier aisle of a drug store, that is inundated with glorified sugar pills that claim to do anything from giving you more energy, to curing sleeplessness, to providing you with more stamina in bed, curing cancer or getting you pregnant (*the last couple may have been made up).
I did pull them out of my ass. I do, however, have a gift for making up numbers that turn out to be right.
All you really need is a factual number to start from, a large pool of general knowledge, and some common sense... and usually you can guestimate to within one order of magnitude or... within a log2 of the answer, as I did.
Well, a single silicon atom has a radius of 110pm. I assume silicon dioxide molecule is ~500pm, which is something like 40X smaller than the 22nm process.
However, silicone dioxide is not perfectly stable and can "leak", as far as I understand it, which limits the process somewhat.
Again, assuming you need something 100X larger area-wise, you're looking at maybe a factor of 4X remaining until the process can't be shrunk any further.
This isn't trying to be friendly to consumers, and work out a common ground.
Instead, it's music execs trying to figure out how they can continue profiting from mediocrity, while also making it even more difficult for independent artists to find an audience and be compensated for their work.
How do you think this is going to work? Most likely, the pool would be divided among the RIAA member companies, and allocated based on the artsts whose music got played or downloaded more. Considering that they are going to be the same artists that are going to be promoted by the RIAA, and the same artists whose music will be forced into my skull through paid arrangements (do we really deserve the punishment of hearing the same song on the radio 20 times per day?).
Under such an arrangement, RIAA can just deposit their "proteges" into the playlist by paying the radio stations, and then proceed to collect 99% of all money from the pool, which will then be allocated by them - 99% to the company, 1% to the artist... and only a few artists are going to see that 1%. In other words, the system will be even more skewed and broken than it is now!
Somebody mark this comment "Insightful" would you please. It certainly deserves to be modded up, and possibly forwarded to the services that allow this kind of an attack to occur.
This would be a rather simple way to protect their clients against such an attack.
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This is about as worthy of a "+5: Insightful" as a post can be.
In the 1960s, we used to have parades that celebrated astronauts. Let me say this again - we had PARADES... for... ROCKET SCIENTISTS... To become one was something that was considered the height of a child's aspirations. No wonder we were sending people to the moon with a pocket calculator and a roll of duct tape.
And what are we left with now - an utter disdain for anyone and anything that displays the traits of having even a shade of reason. Even more importantly, we've managed to "democratize" science. The "intelligent design", "vaccines and autism", and "global warming is a myth" campaigns are only the tip of the iceberg of targeted ignorance, that aims to teach the public, and especially the younger generation, that on one hand science is a mysterious black art, to be feared and distrusted, and on the other, it's little more than a game of weak, impotent men and women, that can be played by anyone... a medium where all voices are equal.
As a result, we have a number of situations, where people's beliefs are shaped not by scientific fact, but by whoever screams the loudest. Add to that an overall atmosphere of distrust of "the system", and you have a society where scientific "rogues" that spout senile and frequently openly fallacious concepts, are treated as heroes by much of the population.
How can we hope to fix education in such circumstances?!
Not to rant further, but the other major problem we've run into, that must be resolved if our educational system is to be salvaged, is one of unrealistic expectations. When kids dreamed of being "rocket scientists" in the 60s, it was understood that not everyone was going to achieve this dream. Which was more of a reason to pursue it! Instead, we now say that everyone must go to college, and everyone must achieve an X level of educations, which is... let's face it... unrealistic. But what these expectations HAVE done, is devalue higher learning, by trying to push everyone into the same bracket. And since you certainly can't raise the expectations for people who simply cannot meet them, we just lowered the bar for everyone, most likely leading many talented kids off the right path. In terms of primary education, there have probably been few policies as harmful as "no child left behind".
If we didn't acquire this dream of equality of mental condition, and didn't fight so hard to accomplish it, perhaps we would have less problems with education, and less 2 (and even 4-) year colleges with a level of education that does not even meet high school requirements.
The people who put up their $150+ million to set the box-office record for the "Dark Knight" are not the same people who would be watching bad camcorder videos. The latter don't mind waiting an extra 38 hours, and certainly do mind $12/ticket.
Every download or bootleg DVD != movie ticket.
Maybe if the movie and music executives finally understand that the pirates are not potential customers, they'll focus on improving the satisfaction of actual customers, and thus earn more money. Instead, they are beating a horse that's not only already dead, but is rather decayed at this point.
I wonder what the possible effects of a coordinated disinformation attack of such nature would be, if it managed to deliver said news to a large segment of the world's population (that have access to email). If such an act was coupled with a successful hacking operation on even one of the major news network's websites, serious consequences may erupt.
I think the "arrogant asshole" term applies far more to yourself.
If you can't afford the Rolex, it's because you haven't made the money to do it. Don't hate people who are wealthier than you are, simply for having more money. If you must hate someone, hate yourself for being the kind of loser who would dub ANYONE who owns a Rolex an "arrogant asshole".
If you had any kind of self-respect, you'd at least have posted this under "anonymous coward".
P.S. I make $25'000/year at the moment, and I am unlikely to purchase a Rolex for MANY years to come.
I could explain things to you, but I feel that it will be about as useful as trying to run a car using water, so I will simply skip to where the discussion would inevitably end:
So let me see - if I am paying for bandwidth (which will soon be metered), and my ISP in injecting its ads into the webpages I am requesting, then the ISP is running down my bandwidth on purpose?
Isn't that sort of like someone from the electrical company who breaks into your house to turn the lights on while you're gone?
I won't even mention the privacy issues, cause those aren't "in" nowadays, nor are they likely to be a sufficient cause to nip this practice in the bud. Cheating people out of money, on the other hand, is always a great way to apply the US tort law to the cause.
It's a good thing that most Linux distributions use Vector fonts, and allow you to set the screen resolution in dpi.
Actually, such a high resolution on such a small screen means super-smooth fonts, and easy readability... which thus far could only be obtained on high-resolution laptops (1650x1080 on 15" and 1920x1200 on 17").
Considering that the cheap Inspirons have 1280x800 on a 15" screen, just imagine the improvement.
In open air, with no fans blowing air PAST a hot object, it will cool much slower than inside an enclosure where air is brought to the object and is actively exhausted.
This isn't readily apparent in most modern equipment because hot components have their own active cooling, and the ambient air is cooler outside the case.
However, if I turn up my 3-speed 120mm case fans to Max, as opposed to Min, my CPU temperature will drop below what I am able to achieve outside.
But that is only possible when the wiring has been carefully managed to avoid heat traps.
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When G1 was first introduced, it became painfully clear that it was severely hamstrung by the carrier-dictated limitations on software features.
The Bluetooth stack was totally castrated, leaving out not only tethering and PAN, but also voice features, as well as file transfer.
There are a lot of these glaring omissions in G1s software, that were clearly dictated by T-mobile. My question is this... now that Android has been open-sourced, will Google and T-mobile team up to block 3rd parties from filling in these features? Because as it stands, the G1 actually has less features than the competition, in clear contrast to the wealth of features and freedom of alteration that was touted as the hallmark of the Android platform.
Somebody get this man a beer for the funny... or at least an mod-up...
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Sorry to hear that you failed to get into medical school. Maybe if you weren't such a dick...
The NIH standard salary for a post-doc is something like $34'000/year. Six figures where?
As for doctors, why don't you think about NET income, rather than gross. Subtract paying off the $400'000 debt, and $30-75'000 for malpractice insurance.
My fiance's cousin is an ER attending and he has two separate malpractice insurance policies, which wind up eating about half of his net.
If you think IT is bad, try biomedical sciences, medicine, and science academia.
The concept of overtime does not exist for >90% of the workers in these fields. It's not uncommon to ASSUME that a 12-hour day is normal, at 6 days per week.
And yes, I am including students... because if your training extends into your 30s, you're an employee.
Oh, and by the way, ask your nearest ER resident (or even a junior attending) when was the last time they had a 40-hour week. Most of the time, the answer will be "high school".
The G1 is so full of dealbreakers, it's simply sad.
Instead of an open platform, this is just another locked-down money-sink.
No tethering? Even my Samsung Blackjack does it... running WM 5.0.
No video? Every other handset can record video.
No exchange support? Why in the world not?
But to me, it's the tethering issue that really breaks the bank. Does T-mobile really think that consumers will pay upwards of $50/month for each internet-capable device they own?
Look at the laptop broadband market - it's almost strictly businessmen who both need dedicated access, and can write it off as an expense. What makes T-mobile think that all these people will suddently jump up and hand several hundred dollars per year to T-mobile. People adapt... people realize that they could live without such broad internet mobility, and they stop buying thigs... which is exactly the opposite of what T-mobile needs.
This is yet another example of unadulterated and shortsighted greed and the willingness to shoot yourself in the foot.
So this device was 80% successful at picking up suspicious activity from PEOPLE WHO WERE ASKED TO LOOK SUSPICIOUS.
Wow, amazing! Something any police officer who has served a couple of years would be able to do with 100% (or nearly so) accuracy.
What is missing is an assay of how many people it would flag if they were told to behave as if they were SCARED. You know... scared of being flagged for behaving abnormally, strip-searched, tortured, and never seeing their families again. Something tells me that the rate of false positives on this machine will overshadow the rate of false negatives by a very large margin.
Dell Ubuntu installs already come with legal codecs (not all of them, but certainly some).
Just Google for "Dell Ubuntu DVD Playback".
I am sure it'll become "all" shortly.
The answer to that may be "yes"... if I feel threatened in ANY way at all.
It's not the people who want my property that worry me - it's what they're prepared to do to access the said property. It is likely that they wouldn't mind smashing my fiance's head with a baseball bat to get an extra ten minutes to grab my stereo and empty the jewelry box.
When my family is sleeping next door, I will gladly take the risk of killing a non-violent thief, over the risk of having harm come to my loved ones.
Whoever wrote the original "... wrong with the USA..." lacks the basic instincts necessary for survival, and will undoubtedly become extinct.
Try Sanyo Eneloop.
They have slightly less capacity than the top of the line regular NiMH (2000mAh vs 2700mAh), but they can output upwards of 3A with no problem, and are Low Self Discharge cells. They can be recharged >500X, have no memory effect to speak of, and only lose 15% of the charge PER YEAR at 70F.
With Hybrid LSD cells such as these, there is really no excuse to use alkaline batteries any more.
P.S. You can get a pack at Costco for $30 that includes the charger, 2xAAA, 8xAA batteries, plus 2xC and 4xD sized adapters, that let you use the AA cells in devices that take C or D batteries.
They use the same thought process that they use before they purchase "Airborne".
As a medical scientist, I cannot help but cringe any time I walk through the cashier aisle of a drug store, that is inundated with glorified sugar pills that claim to do anything from giving you more energy, to curing sleeplessness, to providing you with more stamina in bed, curing cancer or getting you pregnant (*the last couple may have been made up).
I did pull them out of my ass. I do, however, have a gift for making up numbers that turn out to be right.
All you really need is a factual number to start from, a large pool of general knowledge, and some common sense... and usually you can guestimate to within one order of magnitude or... within a log2 of the answer, as I did.
Don't be intimidated by numbers.
Well, a single silicon atom has a radius of 110pm. I assume silicon dioxide molecule is ~500pm, which is something like 40X smaller than the 22nm process.
However, silicone dioxide is not perfectly stable and can "leak", as far as I understand it, which limits the process somewhat.
Again, assuming you need something 100X larger area-wise, you're looking at maybe a factor of 4X remaining until the process can't be shrunk any further.
But I am not an engineer.
Exactly.
This isn't trying to be friendly to consumers, and work out a common ground.
Instead, it's music execs trying to figure out how they can continue profiting from mediocrity, while also making it even more difficult for independent artists to find an audience and be compensated for their work.
How do you think this is going to work? Most likely, the pool would be divided among the RIAA member companies, and allocated based on the artsts whose music got played or downloaded more. Considering that they are going to be the same artists that are going to be promoted by the RIAA, and the same artists whose music will be forced into my skull through paid arrangements (do we really deserve the punishment of hearing the same song on the radio 20 times per day?).
Under such an arrangement, RIAA can just deposit their "proteges" into the playlist by paying the radio stations, and then proceed to collect 99% of all money from the pool, which will then be allocated by them - 99% to the company, 1% to the artist... and only a few artists are going to see that 1%. In other words, the system will be even more skewed and broken than it is now!
Somebody mark this comment "Insightful" would you please. It certainly deserves to be modded up, and possibly forwarded to the services that allow this kind of an attack to occur.
This would be a rather simple way to protect their clients against such an attack.
This is about as worthy of a "+5: Insightful" as a post can be.
In the 1960s, we used to have parades that celebrated astronauts. Let me say this again - we had PARADES... for... ROCKET SCIENTISTS... To become one was something that was considered the height of a child's aspirations. No wonder we were sending people to the moon with a pocket calculator and a roll of duct tape.
And what are we left with now - an utter disdain for anyone and anything that displays the traits of having even a shade of reason. Even more importantly, we've managed to "democratize" science. The "intelligent design", "vaccines and autism", and "global warming is a myth" campaigns are only the tip of the iceberg of targeted ignorance, that aims to teach the public, and especially the younger generation, that on one hand science is a mysterious black art, to be feared and distrusted, and on the other, it's little more than a game of weak, impotent men and women, that can be played by anyone... a medium where all voices are equal.
As a result, we have a number of situations, where people's beliefs are shaped not by scientific fact, but by whoever screams the loudest. Add to that an overall atmosphere of distrust of "the system", and you have a society where scientific "rogues" that spout senile and frequently openly fallacious concepts, are treated as heroes by much of the population.
How can we hope to fix education in such circumstances?!
Not to rant further, but the other major problem we've run into, that must be resolved if our educational system is to be salvaged, is one of unrealistic expectations. When kids dreamed of being "rocket scientists" in the 60s, it was understood that not everyone was going to achieve this dream. Which was more of a reason to pursue it! Instead, we now say that everyone must go to college, and everyone must achieve an X level of educations, which is... let's face it... unrealistic. But what these expectations HAVE done, is devalue higher learning, by trying to push everyone into the same bracket. And since you certainly can't raise the expectations for people who simply cannot meet them, we just lowered the bar for everyone, most likely leading many talented kids off the right path. In terms of primary education, there have probably been few policies as harmful as "no child left behind".
If we didn't acquire this dream of equality of mental condition, and didn't fight so hard to accomplish it, perhaps we would have less problems with education, and less 2 (and even 4-) year colleges with a level of education that does not even meet high school requirements.
The people who put up their $150+ million to set the box-office record for the "Dark Knight" are not the same people who would be watching bad camcorder videos. The latter don't mind waiting an extra 38 hours, and certainly do mind $12/ticket.
Every download or bootleg DVD != movie ticket.
Maybe if the movie and music executives finally understand that the pirates are not potential customers, they'll focus on improving the satisfaction of actual customers, and thus earn more money. Instead, they are beating a horse that's not only already dead, but is rather decayed at this point.
I wonder what the possible effects of a coordinated disinformation attack of such nature would be, if it managed to deliver said news to a large segment of the world's population (that have access to email). If such an act was coupled with a successful hacking operation on even one of the major news network's websites, serious consequences may erupt.
I think the "arrogant asshole" term applies far more to yourself.
If you can't afford the Rolex, it's because you haven't made the money to do it. Don't hate people who are wealthier than you are, simply for having more money. If you must hate someone, hate yourself for being the kind of loser who would dub ANYONE who owns a Rolex an "arrogant asshole".
If you had any kind of self-respect, you'd at least have posted this under "anonymous coward".
P.S. I make $25'000/year at the moment, and I am unlikely to purchase a Rolex for MANY years to come.
I could explain things to you, but I feel that it will be about as useful as trying to run a car using water, so I will simply skip to where the discussion would inevitably end:
FUCK OFF.
I suspect you have a different perception of time, and are likely vastly off in your estimation.
My friend's desktop, that has 4GB of RAM, a Quad-core intel, takes at least 2 minutes to fully boot into vista (until the HD stops thrashing).
So let me see - if I am paying for bandwidth (which will soon be metered), and my ISP in injecting its ads into the webpages I am requesting, then the ISP is running down my bandwidth on purpose?
Isn't that sort of like someone from the electrical company who breaks into your house to turn the lights on while you're gone?
I won't even mention the privacy issues, cause those aren't "in" nowadays, nor are they likely to be a sufficient cause to nip this practice in the bud. Cheating people out of money, on the other hand, is always a great way to apply the US tort law to the cause.
It's a good thing that most Linux distributions use Vector fonts, and allow you to set the screen resolution in dpi.
Actually, such a high resolution on such a small screen means super-smooth fonts, and easy readability... which thus far could only be obtained on high-resolution laptops (1650x1080 on 15" and 1920x1200 on 17").
Considering that the cheap Inspirons have 1280x800 on a 15" screen, just imagine the improvement.
I think it's safe to assume that the mysterious substance used to train dogs to smell for cocaine... is... ... ... ...
cocaine.
In open air, with no fans blowing air PAST a hot object, it will cool much slower than inside an enclosure where air is brought to the object and is actively exhausted.
This isn't readily apparent in most modern equipment because hot components have their own active cooling, and the ambient air is cooler outside the case.
However, if I turn up my 3-speed 120mm case fans to Max, as opposed to Min, my CPU temperature will drop below what I am able to achieve outside.
But that is only possible when the wiring has been carefully managed to avoid heat traps.