I've yet to see a corporate wi-fi deployment that required less work on behalf of the network guy/gal(s) than a similar wired user base.. maybe I'm just naive?
Agreed.
"....they will deploy wireless and no longer need cabling or current levels of network engineering services."
Extremely wrong. Cable is plug-n-play, you plug it in and you're on the network, no issues. Wireless will always need to be password protected so there will always be at least password problems. I worked tech support at a 7,000 employee company where many of them had laptops and almost half our calls were wifi password questions which means about 6 people had jobs just for wireless networking support. I don't think we ever got a call with wired networking issues, if we did I didn't hear about it. Along with wifi password you have "Which router do I connect to?" which is not a issue on cable and "Will my device connect to the wifi network?" which again is not a issue with cable.
I have to say that's probably the most inaccurate statement I've ever read in a/. article description, I can see why it was posted by AC.
I'm getting to the point where I no longer like Google, nor it's products. Verify this, Google+ that, really now.
Agreed, but isn't this better than what they were doing?
Before they would ban everyone they thought was fake. Now it appears they'll let you be fake, but you get a extra "This is a REAL Person!" badge if they verify you.
This is a GOOD thing. So now you can have your fake and anonymous profiles for those that are worried what they say on the internet will get back to their job, and you can have your "real name" accounts for family and friends.
Non Apple Tables are priced roughly $200-300 too expensive. Get them around $199-$299 and they'll sell like gangbusters just like it did for Android phones in the mobile market.
That's only half true. I have seen plenty of android tablets under $200, some even under $100. Problem is they're generic off brand tablets with slow CPUs and bad screens that give android a bad name. What they need is a major manufacture like HP or HTC to sell $150 tablets with decent specs. But that will never happen because no manufacture wants to devalue their brand name by selling inexpensive merchandise, they all want to say "yes we sell a tablet and it's just as good as the iPad that's why it's the same price as an iPad". Actually forget the decent specs because people don't look at tablet specs they look at brand name, all it really needs is to run as well as the original iPad (apps respond quickly, etc) and not be buggy. Any major computer brand name could do this tomorrow since they won't really be making it, they'll have some chinese company make it just like Apple does with foxxcon, they just need to oversee the project and make sure its decent before putting their brand name on it.
+1, insightful.
They shot themselves in the foot on this one. Had they just dropped the price to $99 and said nothing about being discontinued everyone would have bought it, communities would have sprung up devoted to it, developers would flock to it and they might have been a real iPad competitor. But they didn't. Fail.
He's AC and he's obviously trolling saying something as stupid as buying "obsolete" hardware is wrong at any price. This is/., most of us probably have hardware we bought at one point that was obsolete just to tinker with.
Honestly I think this move is to prepare for iOS 5 and built-in iChat which some are calling "free texting" for iPhone and iPad users. If theres an android app that allows communication thru an API or something then I really dont see why most people would need a text plan since 99% of my text are to people with iOS or android, I'll pay the $1 for the ten text a month to those without iOS/android.
Exactly. AT&T seems to be increasing the price before they've killed their competitors. Verizon and Sprint are still alive and good. You don't survive by chasing your customers away, you survive by dropping your prices lower than everyone and taking their customers until they're out of business and then jack the prices way up. Unless.... unless AT&T is worried they're becoming a monopoly, and they are purposely chasing customers away, but that sounds tinfoil hat to me
Yes, I know the artist claims the painting is not a representation of what actually happened at Tiananmen (it's just "inspired" by Tiananmen), but it's pretty clear the men are being executed, I don't care if they're laughing or not. That artist is incredibly brave.
At our technological level, we pose no danger to anything off this planet.
It would be like saying you'll sterilize a grain of sand to protect the planet.
Such a silly scenario...
If we ever develop interstellar travel that is fast, cheap and practical, maybe then this scenario starts to have legs.
We've made huge strides in the past hundred years, going from first flight to the moon, and we could have gone to mars already if we had the financial means. When you look at the 200,000 year timeline of humans 100 years is just the last little speck, so if I was an alien race looking at man I'd be thinking "WTF they already made it to their nearest moon?! Ok we better do something, no telling where they'll be in another speck or two."
That was my first thought too, then I thought WTF could we do to stop them? Seriously who knows what technology they'd have, could be nearly invincible like independence day or die from a simple virus like War of the Worlds. And we can't even figure out how to stop using our US Govt credit card, if aliens do come to destroy us it's probably because they were tired us hearing us ask for a loan.
You do know there's other countries on this planet that could be exploring space. When your credit score drops it is not a good time to be buying shiney new cars and speeding around in them.
I kind of agree. Maybe the next step for Nintendo and Sony should either be:
1) Open the platform for indie development and offer an online store where people can submit games (similar to Xbox live games)
Agreed. Apple has actually made a mistake in one department: the latest generation iPod Touch only has 256mb RAM compared to the iPhone 4's 512mb RAM. This makes many games that are compatible with the iPhone 4 not compatible with the latest iPod Touch. Most parents won't buy their children iPhones due to the expensive monthly data plans but a ~$200 iPod Touch is no problem, but since they can't play the latest games it's no good. Why Apple did this is beyond me but it locks out many potential buyers.
But you're right about one thing: any gaming device, console or portable, better have a well-stocked app store if they want to survive. They better beg, borrow or steal to get developers to make thousands of games if they want to compete with Apple. Apple's App Store might not have the best quality games or the latest 3D hardware but they have millions of paying customers and those millions of customers translate into millions of dollars for developers. Raise your hand if you want millions of dollars. I thought so, so what does Nintendo have? Do they have millions of customers using their Wii Shop Channel? Where's the Wii Shop Channel millionaires?There's plenty of App Store millionaires, and that's what draws developers. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft need to turn average joe game programmers into millionaires in a hurry if they want to survive against Apple. Honestly, I think they're SOL. App Store has been around for 3 years and in that time Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft just looked at it with a blank stare while their sales have suffered while Apple gathered 200 million iOS users downloading over 15 billion apps and paying developers $2.5 billion dollars. How many more years are they gonna wait? Really disappointed, it's like they saw the tidal wave coming and they sat in shock rather than move out of the way.
Intel will offer Intel-branded cooling solutions for the new chips, they just won't package them with the chips.
^----- This has been confirmed: "Intel has decided to offer own brand coolers for the platform, it's just that they won't come in the box with the CPU."
Please explain to me why a society in which protesters are allowed to effectively shut down my transportation to blare their political statements is morally superior to one in which they can assemble in the nearby concourse where everyone will be able to hear what they're saying and read their signs just as well. Also, please post your address, so that I can setup a protest in your living room. (certainly you would not dare to designate a private area restricted from public expression!)
Didn't you read BART's response? ""There are areas in the BART system that are designated free-speech areas. We support that," BART spokesman Jim Allison said."
wow bart, really? Your damage control sucks, you dug yourself a hole and now you've jumped in and started burying yourself. "Free speech? Oh yeah, I've heard of that, its a good idea sometimes, but only when you stand over there inside the 'free speech' area."
I condemn their DDOS, but I would surely support them if they were to call for a sit-in protest (just as in this case). Too bad, I live 200 miles from the nearest BART station. 'They' may be Anonymous, ?chans,or anybody, I would support them.
Agreed. I don't agree with most of the things they do but if I lived closer I would join them in this fight. This was a smart call by anon, I hope they stage more protests for this kind of thing, might make the public think more positively of them since it certainly improved my opinion.
Exactly. The protestors should be arrested, especially the ones causing trouble, but shutting off the cellphone towers was not the solution because look at the fallout, it brought more attention to BART then any protest would and now it makes the Bay Area look like a police state. BART knew they were coming, why didn't they just alert the police? But maybe the more important question is how many more privately owned towers are out there and who gets to decide the reason to shut them off?
All-electric vehicles pay taxes on the electricity, and it will be many years before everyone is driving all electric vehicles. Honestly I don't think we will ever be all-electric, I think electric with a gas-electric generator will be the preferable option, at least until they can fit ~50 miles of electricity into a 2 gallon gas can
100km = 60 miles, unless the gas is significantly cheaper it's not worth spending a few gallons of gas to save 10 cents a gallon.
A neighboring state to me has gas that is about 20 cents more per gallon than where I live because of taxes. If you're within 10 miles of the border it makes sense to come here to fill-up, since 20 miles roundtrip is ~1 gallon of gas and would save about $4.00 in a 20 gallon tank (20 gal * 20 cents = $4).
Though you've got to wonder what the effect of one individual with a GPS jammer in a city centre at rush-hour would be?
^---- This.
Right now you don't have a choice, if you buy gasoline you pay the tax, but as soon as the government puts the monitoring system in the hands of the people there will be people that will attempt to disable it somehow, and given how poor GPS works in my vehicle and smartphone I'm thinking it won't be too difficult to circumvent.
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I've yet to see a corporate wi-fi deployment that required less work on behalf of the network guy/gal(s) than a similar wired user base.. maybe I'm just naive?
Agreed.
/. article description, I can see why it was posted by AC.
"....they will deploy wireless and no longer need cabling or current levels of network engineering services."
Extremely wrong. Cable is plug-n-play, you plug it in and you're on the network, no issues. Wireless will always need to be password protected so there will always be at least password problems. I worked tech support at a 7,000 employee company where many of them had laptops and almost half our calls were wifi password questions which means about 6 people had jobs just for wireless networking support. I don't think we ever got a call with wired networking issues, if we did I didn't hear about it. Along with wifi password you have "Which router do I connect to?" which is not a issue on cable and "Will my device connect to the wifi network?" which again is not a issue with cable.
I have to say that's probably the most inaccurate statement I've ever read in a
I'm getting to the point where I no longer like Google, nor it's products. Verify this, Google+ that, really now.
Agreed, but isn't this better than what they were doing?
Before they would ban everyone they thought was fake. Now it appears they'll let you be fake, but you get a extra "This is a REAL Person!" badge if they verify you.
This is a GOOD thing. So now you can have your fake and anonymous profiles for those that are worried what they say on the internet will get back to their job, and you can have your "real name" accounts for family and friends.
Really they should have been doing this since the beginning but better late than never, and this is the first feature they've added that has not been a direct copy from Facebook since Facebook still bans people that they think are fake even though they're real.
Good job Google+, I might switch to you yet.
Specs came out in January and have been on Wikipedia for over 7 months now
Ouch, there's thousands of them.
Non Apple Tables are priced roughly $200-300 too expensive. Get them around $199-$299 and they'll sell like gangbusters just like it did for Android phones in the mobile market.
That's only half true. I have seen plenty of android tablets under $200, some even under $100. Problem is they're generic off brand tablets with slow CPUs and bad screens that give android a bad name. What they need is a major manufacture like HP or HTC to sell $150 tablets with decent specs. But that will never happen because no manufacture wants to devalue their brand name by selling inexpensive merchandise, they all want to say "yes we sell a tablet and it's just as good as the iPad that's why it's the same price as an iPad". Actually forget the decent specs because people don't look at tablet specs they look at brand name, all it really needs is to run as well as the original iPad (apps respond quickly, etc) and not be buggy. Any major computer brand name could do this tomorrow since they won't really be making it, they'll have some chinese company make it just like Apple does with foxxcon, they just need to oversee the project and make sure its decent before putting their brand name on it.
+1, insightful. They shot themselves in the foot on this one. Had they just dropped the price to $99 and said nothing about being discontinued everyone would have bought it, communities would have sprung up devoted to it, developers would flock to it and they might have been a real iPad competitor. But they didn't. Fail.
He's AC and he's obviously trolling saying something as stupid as buying "obsolete" hardware is wrong at any price. This is /., most of us probably have hardware we bought at one point that was obsolete just to tinker with.
Honestly I think this move is to prepare for iOS 5 and built-in iChat which some are calling "free texting" for iPhone and iPad users. If theres an android app that allows communication thru an API or something then I really dont see why most people would need a text plan since 99% of my text are to people with iOS or android, I'll pay the $1 for the ten text a month to those without iOS/android.
Exactly. AT&T seems to be increasing the price before they've killed their competitors. Verizon and Sprint are still alive and good. You don't survive by chasing your customers away, you survive by dropping your prices lower than everyone and taking their customers until they're out of business and then jack the prices way up. Unless.... unless AT&T is worried they're becoming a monopoly, and they are purposely chasing customers away, but that sounds tinfoil hat to me
I was about to point out that "Tank Man" is supposedly censored due to "China's stance on information" but somehow the execution painting is not censored from the article.
Yes, I know the artist claims the painting is not a representation of what actually happened at Tiananmen (it's just "inspired" by Tiananmen), but it's pretty clear the men are being executed, I don't care if they're laughing or not. That artist is incredibly brave.
At our technological level, we pose no danger to anything off this planet.
It would be like saying you'll sterilize a grain of sand to protect the planet.
Such a silly scenario...
If we ever develop interstellar travel that is fast, cheap and practical, maybe then this scenario starts to have legs.
We've made huge strides in the past hundred years, going from first flight to the moon, and we could have gone to mars already if we had the financial means. When you look at the 200,000 year timeline of humans 100 years is just the last little speck, so if I was an alien race looking at man I'd be thinking "WTF they already made it to their nearest moon?! Ok we better do something, no telling where they'll be in another speck or two."
That was my first thought too, then I thought WTF could we do to stop them? Seriously who knows what technology they'd have, could be nearly invincible like independence day or die from a simple virus like War of the Worlds. And we can't even figure out how to stop using our US Govt credit card, if aliens do come to destroy us it's probably because they were tired us hearing us ask for a loan.
You do know there's other countries on this planet that could be exploring space. When your credit score drops it is not a good time to be buying shiney new cars and speeding around in them.
This sounds a lot like the solar cell that powers the shitty old calculator I got back in the 1980s.
And now you can buy a solar powered netbook, but this time it's not so shitty with a dual core Atom, 802.11n, 14.5 hr battery life and a fairly reasonable $400 price tag.
Solar panel isn't just for show either, they claim for every two hours in the sun the solar panel charges the battery for one hour of use.
I kind of agree. Maybe the next step for Nintendo and Sony should either be: 1) Open the platform for indie development and offer an online store where people can submit games (similar to Xbox live games)
Agreed. Apple has actually made a mistake in one department: the latest generation iPod Touch only has 256mb RAM compared to the iPhone 4's 512mb RAM. This makes many games that are compatible with the iPhone 4 not compatible with the latest iPod Touch. Most parents won't buy their children iPhones due to the expensive monthly data plans but a ~$200 iPod Touch is no problem, but since they can't play the latest games it's no good. Why Apple did this is beyond me but it locks out many potential buyers.
But you're right about one thing: any gaming device, console or portable, better have a well-stocked app store if they want to survive. They better beg, borrow or steal to get developers to make thousands of games if they want to compete with Apple. Apple's App Store might not have the best quality games or the latest 3D hardware but they have millions of paying customers and those millions of customers translate into millions of dollars for developers. Raise your hand if you want millions of dollars. I thought so, so what does Nintendo have? Do they have millions of customers using their Wii Shop Channel? Where's the Wii Shop Channel millionaires? There's plenty of App Store millionaires, and that's what draws developers. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft need to turn average joe game programmers into millionaires in a hurry if they want to survive against Apple. Honestly, I think they're SOL. App Store has been around for 3 years and in that time Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft just looked at it with a blank stare while their sales have suffered while Apple gathered 200 million iOS users downloading over 15 billion apps and paying developers $2.5 billion dollars. How many more years are they gonna wait? Really disappointed, it's like they saw the tidal wave coming and they sat in shock rather than move out of the way.
Intel will offer Intel-branded cooling solutions for the new chips, they just won't package them with the chips.
^----- This has been confirmed: "Intel has decided to offer own brand coolers for the platform, it's just that they won't come in the box with the CPU."
So Intel will offer coolers, they're just sold separately, probably because these are cpus designed for enthusiast ("The E range (which stands for ‘enthusiast’") so they're meant for people that overclock and buy separate coolers rather than use the "stock" cooler that comes with the cpu.
Pricing of the CPUs has also been released:
_name__core__threads__freq__turbo freq__L3__TDP__price_
Core i7-3820 4 8 3.6 GHz 3.9 GHz 10 MB 130 Watt $294
Core i7-3930K 6 12 3.2 GHz 3.8 GHz 12 MB 130 Watt $583
Core i7-3960X 6 12 3.3 GHz 3.9 GHz 15 MB 130 Watt $999
Please explain to me why a society in which protesters are allowed to effectively shut down my transportation to blare their political statements is morally superior to one in which they can assemble in the nearby concourse where everyone will be able to hear what they're saying and read their signs just as well. Also, please post your address, so that I can setup a protest in your living room. (certainly you would not dare to designate a private area restricted from public expression!)
Do you think the civil rights movement didn't shut down transportation? Do you think the civil rights movement would have been as effective if they stood on street corners with signs and handed out flyers? Seriously I'm concerned this was given 5, Insightful.
The US is founded on civil disobedience. I'm sure the Boston Tea Party disrupted a few people's normal day. As a US citizen you have the right to protest, so if you don't like protests you should probably move to a country that does not allow them.
Didn't you read BART's response?
""There are areas in the BART system that are designated free-speech areas. We support that," BART spokesman Jim Allison said."
wow bart, really? Your damage control sucks, you dug yourself a hole and now you've jumped in and started burying yourself. "Free speech? Oh yeah, I've heard of that, its a good idea sometimes, but only when you stand over there inside the 'free speech' area."
I condemn their DDOS, but I would surely support them if they were to call for a sit-in protest (just as in this case). Too bad, I live 200 miles from the nearest BART station. 'They' may be Anonymous, ?chans,or anybody, I would support them.
Agreed. I don't agree with most of the things they do but if I lived closer I would join them in this fight. This was a smart call by anon, I hope they stage more protests for this kind of thing, might make the public think more positively of them since it certainly improved my opinion.
Exactly. The protestors should be arrested, especially the ones causing trouble, but shutting off the cellphone towers was not the solution because look at the fallout, it brought more attention to BART then any protest would and now it makes the Bay Area look like a police state. BART knew they were coming, why didn't they just alert the police? But maybe the more important question is how many more privately owned towers are out there and who gets to decide the reason to shut them off?
All-electric vehicles pay taxes on the electricity, and it will be many years before everyone is driving all electric vehicles. Honestly I don't think we will ever be all-electric, I think electric with a gas-electric generator will be the preferable option, at least until they can fit ~50 miles of electricity into a 2 gallon gas can
In taxes, yes, but the SUV is still using more fuel so it would still cost far more to drive.
100km = 60 miles, unless the gas is significantly cheaper it's not worth spending a few gallons of gas to save 10 cents a gallon.
A neighboring state to me has gas that is about 20 cents more per gallon than where I live because of taxes. If you're within 10 miles of the border it makes sense to come here to fill-up, since 20 miles roundtrip is ~1 gallon of gas and would save about $4.00 in a 20 gallon tank (20 gal * 20 cents = $4).
Though you've got to wonder what the effect of one individual with a GPS jammer in a city centre at rush-hour would be?
^---- This.
Right now you don't have a choice, if you buy gasoline you pay the tax, but as soon as the government puts the monitoring system in the hands of the people there will be people that will attempt to disable it somehow, and given how poor GPS works in my vehicle and smartphone I'm thinking it won't be too difficult to circumvent.