while I agree with you some what. the US military measures equipment life in decades, and locations of it's forces in decades as well. Should the full specs on the B-52 bomber be released when the airframes are expected to fly for 100 years with upgrades in between? Or Aircraft carriers which serve for 50+ years under a half a dozen different commanding officers.
Iraq and Afghanistan are relative short deployments of US troops, since we have been in Korea for 60 years. Japan for 70 years, Germany for 70 years. While the roles and troops change, the deployments do not.
So just how does one define limited time, when the military thinks in decades.
you want just plain silly the computer models they use are different from the ones in use by the weather dept. The weather Dept is only good for about 3 days ahead. If our current setups are good for just days in advance why do they think that their models are accurate over thousands of years?
technically that is what part of the update does. It forces the computer to always choose the brake over the accelerator when both pedals are registering. So if the car does accelerate a tap on the brakes should disengage it.
adjusting the overall interface for touch screen , not just big controls but proper controls. you can have sliding buttons, etc. You need an on screen keyboard that works the same across all applications, with built in spell check that picks up words as they are entered. Applications themselves need to be able to rotate to deal with changes in resolutions. You need to setup a method of switching to various applications without keyboard combos or other hardware buttons. You need to add gesture support into the ENTIRE interface and every app to allow more input methods.
Oh and you need to make all of that work the same across every app and every interface element that needs or could make sensible use of it.
That is the point Android and current windows mobile fail so badly at. They are still designing interfaces for desktops. Not for multi touch based tablets. People like you who think there is only two steps to make s touch based app to consider when designing the interface, is why apple is kicking android's ass.
Shhh! Don't tell the conservatives that if they would have listened to bill Clinton the debt would be mostly paid off. I say mostly as 9/11 and this recession would have slowed it down some what.
Never trust a republican with some one elses money. They will spend every dime and max out all available credit.
Your still only talking about cities. once you get outside of a major area/ road verizon drops their data speed for range. massively drops to the point were AT&T's edge is faster. So yes while verizon is all "3G" not all locations actually get 3G data speeds. In fact only a map area about the size of AT&T's 3G area gets those speeds. Stop talking about the tech and actually go for a drive into the country some day. The difference is very obvious.
The only other good point about your post is that with LTE both companies will be basically in the same band. and we will have real competition between them. Not to mention the abaility to move between them and keep existing phones.So the iphone 4G won't be limited to just AT&T for technical reasons.
Where does verizon cost less? My last price comparisonshad verizon priced higher with data caps to limit data. Theworse is while they have a 3g network they often deliver dialup speeds outside of main roads and cities.
As a comparison my company is just about to switch to AT&T for cell phones as it is estimated to save us 30% a year compared to what verizon was willing to work with us. Almost literally saving the wages for a minimum wage worker for the year.
While AT&T are bad verizon is just as bad if not worse. Ihave watched verizons 3G network slow to a crawl.
To date the spyware and hacks that have been succesful only target jail broken phones. Why because people are stupid and install things wrong.
With apples current approach the buck stops with apple. If an approved app or other malicous software does hit the mass iPhone population apple becomes the only company to blame. Unlike the recent windows virus found on HTC models where HTC can blame any one else. I am waiting for apples tight control to bite them back.
true but this is for wireless light transmission. You see IEEE has been watching old sci fi series and thought they needed more blinking lights in the real future. So each one of those blinky lights is in reality an active data connection for some device.
you haven't driven a vehicle that was built in the last 10 years? Anti- lock brakes? just how do you think a mechanical linkage would rapidly adjust the braking?
the technology has been slowly inserted into the cars as the pricing comes into the target range for the designers and builders.
How about fuel air mix? there is software in there to get the best out of fuel efficiency. What about cruise control? there is software that monitors the current speed and adjusts the fuel flow automatically.
if you want a gas guzzlling, monster car with linkages that have a habit of wearing out, then go by a car form the 50's personally today's cars are far safer than anything from back then.
Exactly. at my work a coworker has a non bluetooth wireless mouse. it comes with a USB extension because if the usb dongle isn't within 3-4 feet of the mouse it doesn't work at all.
what's the point of having a wireless mouse if you have to have a wire running up to the damn mouse anyways?
MSFT has been doing tablets for almost a decade. however it took apple to design a smart phone with a tablet interface.
the ipad will blow away windows based tablets because you can't take a desktop GUI and shove it onto a tablet and call it a tablet OS. it is something that no one else seems willing to fully do but apple.
It will take MSFt 3 years to duplicate the iphones major interface elements for touch screens. MSFt spends $9 billion in R&D and they get crap for it.
yep, and if you read the previous article, you would know developers are having problems coding for android as you never know what kind of hardware you will get.
so you can have a dozen third party mail clients but only two of them will work on your android phone cause it has a different screen that doens't work quite right with the other apps.
did you miss the part where in order to prove an andriod app will work on a given set of hardware they have to buy the phone.
Even if they pay $1000 a year to apple for said subscription paying $5000 a year for andriod hardware to make sure your app works across them all equally as well isn't cost effective.
it doesn't matter if the development environment is free if the QA testing costs you $5000 a year, as no 2 android phones are the same even from the same manufacturer. Especially when apple provides an emulator for all their hardware platforms.
Except in this case the industry hasbeen moving away from just such things. Drive firmware, os drive interface, file system, os file system API, etc.
While it may not be what he wants. I can basically say that it probably has been tried before and it sucked back then and it still sucks now. Manually editing 8 trillion bytes plus error correction found on the typical 100gb hard drive just sounds like he is asking for something stupid and expensive.
If he had any real idea of what is involved he would be asking seagate or western digital not slashdot. Therefore he is a moron
that's just it they paid retail for tickets so the artist and the stadiums made the money they thought they were going to anyways.
scalpers usually buy tickets at normal prices and then sell them for more. now sometimes they do under cut the theaters or staduims but most of their money is on big games. were the $30 cheep seats suddenly become worth $70 or more.
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while I agree with you some what. the US military measures equipment life in decades, and locations of it's forces in decades as well. Should the full specs on the B-52 bomber be released when the airframes are expected to fly for 100 years with upgrades in between? Or Aircraft carriers which serve for 50+ years under a half a dozen different commanding officers.
Iraq and Afghanistan are relative short deployments of US troops, since we have been in Korea for 60 years. Japan for 70 years, Germany for 70 years. While the roles and troops change, the deployments do not.
So just how does one define limited time, when the military thinks in decades.
not to say things like the temperature is going up by 3 degrees over the last 50 years it isn't.
I can bet there isn't a climate model that would say that virginia would get more snow then New York. yet that is exactly what happened this year.
you want just plain silly the computer models they use are different from the ones in use by the weather dept. The weather Dept is only good for about 3 days ahead. If our current setups are good for just days in advance why do they think that their models are accurate over thousands of years?
technically that is what part of the update does. It forces the computer to always choose the brake over the accelerator when both pedals are registering. So if the car does accelerate a tap on the brakes should disengage it.
no quite a bit of it is lit by fiber optics.
adjusting the overall interface for touch screen , not just big controls but proper controls. you can have sliding buttons, etc. You need an on screen keyboard that works the same across all applications, with built in spell check that picks up words as they are entered. Applications themselves need to be able to rotate to deal with changes in resolutions. You need to setup a method of switching to various applications without keyboard combos or other hardware buttons. You need to add gesture support into the ENTIRE interface and every app to allow more input methods.
Oh and you need to make all of that work the same across every app and every interface element that needs or could make sensible use of it.
That is the point Android and current windows mobile fail so badly at. They are still designing interfaces for desktops. Not for multi touch based tablets. People like you who think there is only two steps to make s touch based app to consider when designing the interface, is why apple is kicking android's ass.
Best way is a vm that reloads itself from read only memory during every boot.
Patching becomes harder but at least viruses won't take hold for long
Shhh! Don't tell the conservatives that if they would have listened to bill Clinton the debt would be mostly paid off. I say mostly as 9/11 and this recession would have slowed it down some what.
Never trust a republican with some one elses money. They will spend every dime and max out all available credit.
Your still only talking about cities. once you get outside of a major area/ road verizon drops their data speed for range. massively drops to the point were AT&T's edge is faster. So yes while verizon is all "3G" not all locations actually get 3G data speeds. In fact only a map area about the size of AT&T's 3G area gets those speeds. Stop talking about the tech and actually go for a drive into the country some day. The difference is very obvious.
The only other good point about your post is that with LTE both companies will be basically in the same band. and we will have real competition between them. Not to mention the abaility to move between them and keep existing phones.So the iphone 4G won't be limited to just AT&T for technical reasons.
Where does verizon cost less? My last price comparisonshad verizon priced higher with data caps to limit data. Theworse is while they have a 3g network they often deliver dialup speeds outside of main roads and cities.
As a comparison my company is just about to switch to AT&T for cell phones as it is estimated to save us 30% a year compared to what verizon was willing to work with us. Almost literally saving the wages for a minimum wage worker for the year.
While AT&T are bad verizon is just as bad if not worse. Ihave watched verizons 3G network slow to a crawl.
To date the spyware and hacks that have been succesful only target jail broken phones. Why because people are stupid and install things wrong.
With apples current approach the buck stops with apple. If an approved app or other malicous software does hit the mass iPhone population apple becomes the only company to blame. Unlike the recent windows virus found on HTC models where HTC can blame any one else. I am waiting for apples tight control to bite them back.
true but this is for wireless light transmission. You see IEEE has been watching old sci fi series and thought they needed more blinking lights in the real future. So each one of those blinky lights is in reality an active data connection for some device.
probably tied together. one won't fail(other than blade damage) without the other one failing at the same time.
Nothing however when you plug it into your windows box that computer will be infected.
Sexond if that kind of virus can slip through what other virii will make it on to the phone?
And to join the parade of apple fans. Isn't thatwhy mounting the phoneas a drive is dangerous?
you haven't driven a vehicle that was built in the last 10 years? Anti- lock brakes? just how do you think a mechanical linkage would rapidly adjust the braking?
the technology has been slowly inserted into the cars as the pricing comes into the target range for the designers and builders.
No it is called Digital Restrictions Management. They restrict how often you can play as per the current demands of parental and religious groups
How about fuel air mix? there is software in there to get the best out of fuel efficiency. What about cruise control? there is software that monitors the current speed and adjusts the fuel flow automatically.
if you want a gas guzzlling, monster car with linkages that have a habit of wearing out, then go by a car form the 50's personally today's cars are far safer than anything from back then.
Exactly. at my work a coworker has a non bluetooth wireless mouse. it comes with a USB extension because if the usb dongle isn't within 3-4 feet of the mouse it doesn't work at all.
what's the point of having a wireless mouse if you have to have a wire running up to the damn mouse anyways?
MSFT has been doing tablets for almost a decade. however it took apple to design a smart phone with a tablet interface.
the ipad will blow away windows based tablets because you can't take a desktop GUI and shove it onto a tablet and call it a tablet OS. it is something that no one else seems willing to fully do but apple.
It will take MSFt 3 years to duplicate the iphones major interface elements for touch screens. MSFt spends $9 billion in R&D and they get crap for it.
yep, and if you read the previous article, you would know developers are having problems coding for android as you never know what kind of hardware you will get.
so you can have a dozen third party mail clients but only two of them will work on your android phone cause it has a different screen that doens't work quite right with the other apps.
did you miss the part where in order to prove an andriod app will work on a given set of hardware they have to buy the phone.
Even if they pay $1000 a year to apple for said subscription paying $5000 a year for andriod hardware to make sure your app works across them all equally as well isn't cost effective.
it doesn't matter if the development environment is free if the QA testing costs you $5000 a year, as no 2 android phones are the same even from the same manufacturer. Especially when apple provides an emulator for all their hardware platforms.
Except in this case the industry hasbeen moving away from just such things. Drive firmware, os drive interface, file system, os file system API, etc.
While it may not be what he wants. I can basically say that it probably has been tried before and it sucked back then and it still sucks now. Manually editing 8 trillion bytes plus error correction found on the typical 100gb hard drive just sounds like he is asking for something stupid and expensive.
If he had any real idea of what is involved he would be asking seagate or western digital not slashdot. Therefore he is a moron
Not in the US. AT&T's network can barely handle the iphone data, let alone a laptop which can download multiple pages at the same time.
that's just it they paid retail for tickets so the artist and the stadiums made the money they thought they were going to anyways.
scalpers usually buy tickets at normal prices and then sell them for more. now sometimes they do under cut the theaters or staduims but most of their money is on big games. were the $30 cheep seats suddenly become worth $70 or more.
don't worry apple will introduce a $299 extra soft case accessory for the ipad that will make it every better than a text book for sleeping.
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