Because 99% of the population can't keep viruses off their desktop computers, why do you think they are smart enough to keep them off their cell phones.
if software in a car causes it to crash and kill people liablity goes back to the manufacture, however if your tinkering with your phone and the liablity comes down on you personally because you installed the next version of angry birds free from a random link on a website, and that version contained a trojan. You are now liable for murder for installing a game for your kids(or yourself).
People can't keep their desktop's and laptop virus free. do you really want the equivalnt of the slammer virus going around on cell phones shutting down huge parts of the cell network?
and if that user(or a virus that was only able to work because of changes the user made) then accidentally turns their phone into a jammer, should he be liable too when someone else can't call emergency services and someone dies as a result?
We expect phones to work as phones 100% of the time.
Planned obsolescence works for dumb phones, but for smart phones especially right now it doesn't make much sense as the smart phones of just 2 years ago didn't have the processing abilities they do now.
Maybe in 4-5 more years when the majority of major changes have been done and we are all using multi-core 28nm processors in our smart phones you can say it is planned obsolescence however right now things are moving far to fast, for that.
And that's the difference right there. Apple will provide you with software support and patches for 2-3 years that will work.
Motorola, HTC, Samsung, give varing levels of support depending on how many units sold. the flag ship line might get 2 years, but you are lucky to get a single update to other phones. Or those updates are blocked by the carrier.
The carriers need to be locked out of phones other than sim cards. I was going to get an Atrix, but seeing how crippled it is because of AT&T I am changing my mind.
what about radio frequencies? should those be restricted? Do you know how trivial it really would be for a a virus to turn a cell phone into a cell phone jammer? In order to get the most flexibility some things have to be done in software however that flexibility comes at a price. your walking around with a cell phone jammer all it needs to do is a few software tweaks.
should that be allowed too? you don't want anything restricted right?
Well that and it is 2% for Visa, but for American Express it is 3-4%. However American Express also doesn't normally collect interest on the monthly payments(yes there are exceptions).
Visa and Mastercard really make their money on the fact that so many people have continuos rolling debt every month that builds interest.
Um, Nuclear reactors need lots and lots of water readily available, and will warm up small enough lakes over time. They also have to be generally pretty close to the point of consumption. Since electricity can't be stored, and due to resistance loses amps to heat over distances.
The great lakes have something like 30 nuclear reactors built around them as they are large bodies of water, near population centers.
Nothing has a perfect saftey record. ever. The longer something is around the more likely problems will develop. Here they were hit not only a major quake which as saftey indicates they shut down for, but then got hit by a wave of water strong enough to move a cargo ship miles in shore.
No wall would have stopped that, as the wave would go around, the wall and then flood back into the wall still destroying the generators. That's if the wall wasn't knocked down on top of said generators by the shear force of the wave to begin with.
the IOS UI feels and responds better even under load than android does. think about it, a first generation iphone does smoothly what android needs gigerbread and twice the processor to accomplish.
Sure the newer phone loads websites better, but the UI is so under performing that it causes all that "saved" time to be wasted again.
the Ipad(first) and the Xoom is the same way. Sure the Xoom is loads faster at individual tasks, however, the interface lags such that it doesn't seem that way. It is really noticable on a galaxy tab, however that is running far outdated(and never to be updated) software anyways.
of course that is because apple can tweak the software to run better on a given set of hardware, than anyone else too. Allowing Apple to do more with less.
when 99% of politicians are bad, just because that 1% comes around every so often doesn't mean you can treat the 99% that are bad better.
Besides all power corrupts. the longer you give a person power the more it will corrupt them.
The greatest thing George Washington did wasn't defeat the british, or shape the government, but step down after 8 years and let someone else do it. That is the part most new countries fail at. It wasn't that at the time Saddam was a bad person, but the fact he stayed in office. When one person is in office so long that they begin to think that it is theirs then they have been there twice as long as they should have been.
Letting politicians police themselves is stupid. look at how many pay raises they give themselves already. I don't get an annual pay raise. I am non union. but elected officials give themselves pay raises and their staff raises and then complain the country has no money.
If they can't be trusted with paying themselves how can we trust them to stay in office?
Because being in office for 30-50 years shouldn't be allowed. it creates a situation where those in office longest have more power and influence when in reality they are equals.
Being in congress should be a career. Some of these people had one career, and then get a second one being in office for decade after decade. What is needed is more fresh thought, not the same old bullshit that put us in this mess to begin with.
Besides it would cost lobbyist a lot more money if they have to bribe all new people every 10 years.
you do realize AT&T haven't enabled full $G HSUPA speed for the atrix yet right?
I was thinking of getting one until I realized i would end p witht he same 3G/ edge mixture that I have to deal with now.
At least it is better than verzion. Where the speeds just taper off to uselessness without telling you why.
The xoom doesn't have flash either. Adobe hasn't approved it yet it might be available some time in April only 2-4 weeks behind the original schedule of mid march.
The xoom shipped with a nonfunctional SD card slot .
The big problem with android is there are to many hardware choices leading to huge gaps in functionality, which vastly screws up the available software.
any iphone app will work on an ipad, but not every android app will work on a honeycomb tablet.
I find this sucks. while I like the ipad as it is a lot smoother interface than android, I find it is to large for my personal tastes. So I have to wait for 12-18 months for some company to come out with a decent wifi only android tablet.
Not really, offshore wind means long cables to get power to shore, having to see ugly towers standing off shore, then you have to deal with boats and the navigation hazard the wind mills generate.
There isn't one bet, we need to do it all. Ultimately what we need is either micro fusion(say max 15 or 20KW output) or an enhanced battery pack capable of storing 15-20KW of power.
That way every home doesn't need a spike of power unless there is a major outage. Combine with roof mounted solar, and wind generators and homes can be mostly self sufficient.
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Because 99% of the population can't keep viruses off their desktop computers, why do you think they are smart enough to keep them off their cell phones.
if software in a car causes it to crash and kill people liablity goes back to the manufacture, however if your tinkering with your phone and the liablity comes down on you personally because you installed the next version of angry birds free from a random link on a website, and that version contained a trojan. You are now liable for murder for installing a game for your kids(or yourself).
People can't keep their desktop's and laptop virus free. do you really want the equivalnt of the slammer virus going around on cell phones shutting down huge parts of the cell network?
and if that user(or a virus that was only able to work because of changes the user made) then accidentally turns their phone into a jammer, should he be liable too when someone else can't call emergency services and someone dies as a result?
We expect phones to work as phones 100% of the time.
1 &3 I agree with but not 2.
Planned obsolescence works for dumb phones, but for smart phones especially right now it doesn't make much sense as the smart phones of just 2 years ago didn't have the processing abilities they do now.
Maybe in 4-5 more years when the majority of major changes have been done and we are all using multi-core 28nm processors in our smart phones you can say it is planned obsolescence however right now things are moving far to fast, for that.
And that's the difference right there. Apple will provide you with software support and patches for 2-3 years that will work.
Motorola, HTC, Samsung, give varing levels of support depending on how many units sold. the flag ship line might get 2 years, but you are lucky to get a single update to other phones. Or those updates are blocked by the carrier.
The carriers need to be locked out of phones other than sim cards. I was going to get an Atrix, but seeing how crippled it is because of AT&T I am changing my mind.
what about radio frequencies? should those be restricted? Do you know how trivial it really would be for a a virus to turn a cell phone into a cell phone jammer? In order to get the most flexibility some things have to be done in software however that flexibility comes at a price. your walking around with a cell phone jammer all it needs to do is a few software tweaks.
should that be allowed too? you don't want anything restricted right?
my 2.5 year old iphone 3G goes 2-4 days between charges depending on usage too.
It takes a lot of talking to wear the battery down during one day.
because the government doesn't share it's information that it has about you with other parts of the government willingly.
that is called bureaucracy.
Well that and it is 2% for Visa, but for American Express it is 3-4%. However American Express also doesn't normally collect interest on the monthly payments(yes there are exceptions).
Visa and Mastercard really make their money on the fact that so many people have continuos rolling debt every month that builds interest.
It may not be the year of Linux on the Desktop but it WILL be the Year of the Linux on your Mobile.
That's not a bad idea actually? how much data can be shoved into a QR code anyways? could you do a whole Vcard?
hmm now i have to look
Um, Nuclear reactors need lots and lots of water readily available, and will warm up small enough lakes over time. They also have to be generally pretty close to the point of consumption. Since electricity can't be stored, and due to resistance loses amps to heat over distances.
The great lakes have something like 30 nuclear reactors built around them as they are large bodies of water, near population centers.
Nothing has a perfect saftey record. ever. The longer something is around the more likely problems will develop. Here they were hit not only a major quake which as saftey indicates they shut down for, but then got hit by a wave of water strong enough to move a cargo ship miles in shore.
No wall would have stopped that, as the wave would go around, the wall and then flood back into the wall still destroying the generators. That's if the wall wasn't knocked down on top of said generators by the shear force of the wave to begin with.
That's generally it too.
the IOS UI feels and responds better even under load than android does. think about it, a first generation iphone does smoothly what android needs gigerbread and twice the processor to accomplish.
Sure the newer phone loads websites better, but the UI is so under performing that it causes all that "saved" time to be wasted again.
the Ipad(first) and the Xoom is the same way. Sure the Xoom is loads faster at individual tasks, however, the interface lags such that it doesn't seem that way. It is really noticable on a galaxy tab, however that is running far outdated(and never to be updated) software anyways.
of course that is because apple can tweak the software to run better on a given set of hardware, than anyone else too. Allowing Apple to do more with less.
Why does that sound suspicously like emacs?
when 99% of politicians are bad, just because that 1% comes around every so often doesn't mean you can treat the 99% that are bad better.
Besides all power corrupts. the longer you give a person power the more it will corrupt them.
The greatest thing George Washington did wasn't defeat the british, or shape the government, but step down after 8 years and let someone else do it. That is the part most new countries fail at. It wasn't that at the time Saddam was a bad person, but the fact he stayed in office. When one person is in office so long that they begin to think that it is theirs then they have been there twice as long as they should have been.
Letting politicians police themselves is stupid. look at how many pay raises they give themselves already. I don't get an annual pay raise. I am non union. but elected officials give themselves pay raises and their staff raises and then complain the country has no money.
If they can't be trusted with paying themselves how can we trust them to stay in office?
Because being in office for 30-50 years shouldn't be allowed. it creates a situation where those in office longest have more power and influence when in reality they are equals.
Being in congress should be a career. Some of these people had one career, and then get a second one being in office for decade after decade. What is needed is more fresh thought, not the same old bullshit that put us in this mess to begin with.
Besides it would cost lobbyist a lot more money if they have to bribe all new people every 10 years.
Well that is one of the advantages of the USA over others. term limits on the president.
Now we just need term limits for all elected officials and maybe we can finally start making some progress.
I have thought about it, but the whole point of having to fix something I just spent hundreds of dollars on just to make it usable is annoying.
you have to root a nook if anything just to install a decent web browser, and to fix the interface issues
The funny thing is MS Office isn't 100% compatible with itself. Older document versions don't always open the same. Usually it is formatting issues.
I use open office because I dont have $300 for a license for software that gets used occasionally.
No you just have to travel outside the cities, and major highways, and all cell networks disappear rapidly.
in some places you go as little as 5 miles from the major highways and verizon and AT&T both cut your cell phones down to phone calls only.
Multi million dollar homes, property values in the $100,000 an acre, and cell phone coverage of something equal to edge on the best of days.
you do realize AT&T haven't enabled full $G HSUPA speed for the atrix yet right?
I was thinking of getting one until I realized i would end p witht he same 3G/ edge mixture that I have to deal with now.
At least it is better than verzion. Where the speeds just taper off to uselessness without telling you why.
Your car right now has 2-5 CPU's in it for engine management, and control systems.
Unless you bought a car before the year 1995, and even then they still had a few microprocessors on board.
The xoom doesn't have flash either. Adobe hasn't approved it yet it might be available some time in April only 2-4 weeks behind the original schedule of mid march.
The xoom shipped with a nonfunctional SD card slot .
The big problem with android is there are to many hardware choices leading to huge gaps in functionality, which vastly screws up the available software.
any iphone app will work on an ipad, but not every android app will work on a honeycomb tablet.
I find this sucks. while I like the ipad as it is a lot smoother interface than android, I find it is to large for my personal tastes. So I have to wait for 12-18 months for some company to come out with a decent wifi only android tablet.
what do you think that caused the tsunami that hit the Pacific. It was Atlantis landing. They just came down near japan instead of Frisco.
Not really, offshore wind means long cables to get power to shore, having to see ugly towers standing off shore, then you have to deal with boats and the navigation hazard the wind mills generate.
There isn't one bet, we need to do it all. Ultimately what we need is either micro fusion(say max 15 or 20KW output) or an enhanced battery pack capable of storing 15-20KW of power.
That way every home doesn't need a spike of power unless there is a major outage. Combine with roof mounted solar, and wind generators and homes can be mostly self sufficient.