I suppose this announcement kills the future continued usage of all of my WM6.x phones... no more wireless calendar sync for them (which is essential for me)...
what's this mean about various versions of Android using ext4? I think I just flashed my tablet to use ext4 (ugh)... really don't want corruption my tablet...
ugh, and I suppose you want SSN's to be like DNS, and invoice numbers to be like DNS too...complete with tinyurl's to shortcut around the very thing you think is great about DNS...
I really don't get **ME as being "vanity" numbers...
as long as phones still use a 0-9#* dialpad for dialing, vanity numbers will be numbers that are easy to remember AND dial, like 111-1111. Having to dial **ME XYZ is hardly an easy thing to dial, particularly if you are doing it by touch (no seeing) and with one hand. And worse, its not your real number, just an alternative alias. Texting, etc still comes under your real number.
finally, I think speed dialing combined with contact lists pulling up the caller's identity, plus CID pretty much has all the bases covered.
But I like my "vanity number", a XYZ-9000 and wouldn't give it up anyways...
Survival of the fittest doesn't mean the organism that is at the top of the food chain actually survives...
look at poor T.Rex...
Ebola is one of the deadliest viruses known, but its TOO deadly. It kills to efficiency and quickly and therefore has little chance to propagate far and wide.
When a strong organism dominates too effectively, it may have no one or thing left to support its dominance.
I "cut" my teeth on Bell Labs Unix, beginning with Version 5 in the universities (circa 1974). Migrated through most of the Research versions of Unix and BSD's. Played with the PWB line of Unix, which sorta led to System V, but hated them compared with the BSDs. So it was natural to stick with the BSDs (and SunOS 4.X and now FreeBSD) rather than jump to Linux.
Back when I was deciding between the free Unixes, not only was it more natural to choose FreeBSD, but at least back then, Linux was a mess in terms of documentation and consistency of the distribution(s). I chose FreeBSD and never looked back.
... which isn't to say that I *don't* use Linux, of course I do, hard to avoid, between Android, Tomato, webOS and just times when Linux has better driver support, etc. But by in large, still a BSD guy...
I think this statement is fairly clear as to the definition of "lifetime". No they could re-incorporate, etc so that the old "they" no longer exists, but otherwise... I'd say that its time for a lawsuit, or at least start by having a lawyer-friend draft a simple letter that threatens a lawsuit...
uh Ting is a Sprint MVNO, which is CDMA, which means that the OP could not use his GSM phone, as he specified...
the better options are Tmo, Simple Mobile or Straight Talk. You probably want ST with the AT&T SIM for the best coverage... that is what most iphone folks go for... a Tmo plan or Tmo MVNO will not support 3G data (yet) on most non-Tmo phones.
There *is* a certain logic to this ruling. Supposing I communicated to my friends with smoke signals, or a searchlight in the sky (Bat signal?), would I expect privacy for my broadcasting these "signals"? A cell phone does the same thing.
OTOH, the same could be said of radio signals, TV broadcasts, HBO via satellite, etc. These are also broadcast whose raw signals are available for ANYONE to pick up. Yet it is deemed illegal to decode these radio signals, or listen in on cell phone conversations.
These two notions are contradictory to me. Either broadcasted energy/information has NO expectation of privacy or other limitations that prohibit listening, decoding, etc. *or* broadcasted signals of whatever type *do* represent a PRIVATE, non-public channel of information that has an expectation of privacy. Can't be both...
- no way it will reduce cybersecurity issues down to anything close to zero.
- will isolate not only the people, but those Iranians working on science and technology, which will slow down their progress dramatically. Can't have it both ways...
Our future predictions are largely based on extrapolated endpoints which are at least somewhat reliably based on understanding the potentials of known science and technology. However, we are much worse at predicting RATES of progress, i.e. how long it might take to get to these endpoints, because the rates are not based on known fact, but on things like politics, social trends, economics, etc, that in the best of cases are themselves rates, and therefore you are trying to guess about rates based on rates -- huge errors there.
We can't even predict the stock market a year in advance, or the results of political forces, so we can't possibility predict rates and the timing of endpoints that are based on such factors...
It doesn't matter whether Samsung came up with similar designs all by themselves and earlier than the iPhone debut. What matters, in patent issues is:
a) Apple owns a patent, Samsung does not, b) Does Samsung's product look and smell like Apple's patent?
patent != copyright. If we both invented the transistor, but I patent it, too bad, I get to control your usage of it.
My boss handed me the hard drive from his laptop. He said it was totally fried. It had ALL his work on it, no backups.
What had happened was that he had some minor NTFS corruption problem, so he went to our IT dept. Some IT monkey removed the laptop drive and tried to hook it up to a SATA - IDE converter. However he managed to wire up the power backwards. That fried the drive, but actually all it really did was burn/short the power polarity protection diode.
So with magnifying glass and soldering iron, I simply removed the shorted diode, and voila (not wahlah or viola), the drive was working again. I was then able to easily clean up the NTFS problem. Boy was he happy to get all his stuff back.
Known proven oil/gas resources/reserves global are a lleast FIVE times greater than the amount needed to raise the temperature 2degs C, a rise generally viewed as borderline disasterous. This means that we shouldnt come anywhere near "running out", if we know whats good for us. This fact has serious implications for the current valuation of our oil companies.
Most folks at our institution (including myself) are still using Office 2000 and get annoyed with any.DOCX files that we get.
Honestly, although I have access to newer versions of Office, I don't see the point. Not a single thing I want from a newer version of Office, and the bloating hardware requirements makes it that much easier to just say NO...
most folks still sending out.DOC files as well, only those with no clue are saving Word files as.DOCX.
This sort of epic failure is hardly unique. For example, in the early days following the debut of the Apple iPhone, vendor and carriers tried to fight the success of the AT&T/Apple iphone. One of the first such iphone "killers", notable for its total failure, was the Samsung Instinct, released by Sprint. It was actually a dumb "featurephone", although in those days, the iphone was also not considered a smartphone.
The low $199 price of the iphone really caught most carriers off guard -- the standard pricing for smartphones in those days was around $350 *with* contract. So the Instinct's original pricing of $179 had to be lowered to $129. Sprint HEAVILY marketed this thing, with many ads showing the "advantages" of the Instinct over the iphone. Hesse, CEO of Sprint, spent $100mil on marketing the Instinct.
However the Instinct (or In-stink as its customers would come to call it), was really a terrible product -- terrible web browser, lame features, AND worse, required Sprint's brand new, and very pricey (for Sprint), data plans.
Sprint refuses to release real sales numbers, but estimates by analysts were in the 350K range -- perhaps after a year it might have hit 500K. So that is at best $200 of MARKETING COSTS for each Instinct sold.
Hesse would never again stink that much into marketing a phone. Indeed some blame that burn episode for Sprint's rather poor marketing of the Palm Pre, a much better device that never was really given a proper chance...
You can choose not to drive. Unless you put a gun to your head, you can't choose not to live.And that's precisely what this law is: a government mandated fee (NOT a tax, that's also BS) for simply being alive.
This is true. But the point is WHEN you become sick or injured (not IF), I and other tax payers CANNOT choose to allow you to go untreated.
Our society has already decided that it is not ethical or human or acceptable NOT to treat a sick or injured person (or even just one claiming to be so) even if that person cannot pay for the treatments. ERs would be and are sued if they turn away patients. Therefore since I'm FORCED to pay for your health care, the gov't needs to force you to contribute some money to that pot to defray the costs of WHEN you need health care.
If this country allowed hospitals to turn away patients without coverage, then, great, nobody should be forced to have coverage. But they are not...
I have many thousands of purchased CDs and LPs. I have no problem with buying music, obviously. But here is a problem I do have, at least somewhat...
Supposing you want to support children living in poverty in Africa, and so you look up one of the many children's funds for such purposes. But then you learn that that foundation only ends up giving 10% of your donations to those children and it keeps 90% of donations for itself, "admin overhead", salaries for the foundation, etc, etc. Are you likely to give to such a foundation?
The figures that I have heard of the proportion of a $10 CD that *actually* gets sent to the musicians and artists is ABYSMALLY low, LESS than 10%, LESS that 5%. The standard metric for non-profit orgs is 85% should go to actual programs with only 15% overhead. Of course I realize that music is for profit, but if less than 5% of the revenue goes to the artists, well I *do* have a problem with it. Sorry I am not interested in 50-60% of the costs of a CD going to music exec salaries. I want to see at least 50% of the price of an album go to the artists. I don't think this is unreasonable...
This is a why I find it harder to connect with the notion that music piracy hurts the artists... of course it does, but it is diluted by that 0.05 factor and the most "hurt", 90-95%, is on the music execs, labels, MAFIAA, etc... which frankly I don't care about...
A good picoprojector will cost you as much if not more than a perfect good netbook ($200-250). Its hard to beat a netbook for 1) universality of software (i.e. you can run most anything), 2) all that you need in a ultraportable package (screen, keyboard, mouse, CPU/mem, disk, etc, 3) battery life -- be sure to get a netbook with a 6-cell battery (6-12 hours). ASUS is still tops, last year's model will be cheaper. Acer also decent.
Its silly to mess with anything else -- a tablet will be terrible for software development and *product*ivity, its good for consumpion not production....
The recs, if implemented, would actually have a huge dampening effect on numbers of grad students, both directly and indirectly...
- rec to reduce or prohibit grad student funding on research grants, shifting them to training grants. There is NO WAY that the numbers of slots on training grants, even if you quadrupled those grants, would amount to even just 5% of the numbers of grad students paid off of research grants. This rec would slashing the numbers of grad students (and graduate programs), by at least 80%.
- rec to pay postdocs more, ok but HOW, where does the money come from? The rec amounts to a 30-50% increase in the COST of a postdoc, once you add in the benefits packages proposed. This rec simply means reducing the numbers of postdocs by 30-50% (there isn't more money available anywhere). And this reduction in postdoc slots would in turn reduce the numbers of grad students. Not to mention that it is a stupid recommendation because postdocs are the MOST productive members of any decent lab.
- rec to increase staff scientists (nevermind the question of how to pay for them since such positions costs 4-5X as much as a grad student). This rec also would directly reduce the numbers of grad students since the point is to have staff scientists do the lab work that grad students now do.
All these proposals not only reduce the numbers of grad students trained, but, more importantly, would INCREASE the cost of doing research (or reduce the amount of results given the same funding levels), all at a time when NIH funding is flat and may well be slashed (as Romney is proposing). All bad moves in my view...
What we need to do is stop pouring so much money into the military... the monies that all these proposals affect amount to just a few bombs and missles...
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I suppose this announcement kills the future continued usage of all of my WM6.x phones... no more wireless calendar sync for them (which is essential for me)...
what's this mean about various versions of Android using ext4? I think I just flashed my tablet to use ext4 (ugh)... really don't want corruption my tablet...
sometimes numbers are just easier
as long as phones still use a 0-9#* dialpad for dialing, vanity numbers will be numbers that are easy to remember AND dial, like 111-1111. Having to dial **ME XYZ is hardly an easy thing to dial, particularly if you are doing it by touch (no seeing) and with one hand. And worse, its not your real number, just an alternative alias. Texting, etc still comes under your real number.
finally, I think speed dialing combined with contact lists pulling up the caller's identity, plus CID pretty much has all the bases covered.
But I like my "vanity number", a XYZ-9000 and wouldn't give it up anyways...
look at poor T.Rex...
Ebola is one of the deadliest viruses known, but its TOO deadly. It kills to efficiency and quickly and therefore has little chance to propagate far and wide.
When a strong organism dominates too effectively, it may have no one or thing left to support its dominance.
Back when I was deciding between the free Unixes, not only was it more natural to choose FreeBSD, but at least back then, Linux was a mess in terms of documentation and consistency of the distribution(s). I chose FreeBSD and never looked back.
I think this statement is fairly clear as to the definition of "lifetime". No they could re-incorporate, etc so that the old "they" no longer exists, but otherwise... I'd say that its time for a lawsuit, or at least start by having a lawyer-friend draft a simple letter that threatens a lawsuit...
uh VM is a Sprint MVNO (owned by Sprint itself), which is CDMA, which means that the OP could not use his GSM phone, as he specified...
the better options are Tmo, Simple Mobile or Straight Talk. You probably want ST with the AT&T SIM for the best coverage... that is what most iphone folks go for... a Tmo plan or Tmo MVNO will not support 3G data (yet) on most non-Tmo phones.
OTOH, the same could be said of radio signals, TV broadcasts, HBO via satellite, etc. These are also broadcast whose raw signals are available for ANYONE to pick up. Yet it is deemed illegal to decode these radio signals, or listen in on cell phone conversations.
These two notions are contradictory to me. Either broadcasted energy/information has NO expectation of privacy or other limitations that prohibit listening, decoding, etc. *or* broadcasted signals of whatever type *do* represent a PRIVATE, non-public channel of information that has an expectation of privacy. Can't be both...
So is it possible to somehow grab a copy of Android Flash now that would be installable in the future?
- will isolate not only the people, but those Iranians working on science and technology, which will slow down their progress dramatically. Can't have it both ways...
We can't even predict the stock market a year in advance, or the results of political forces, so we can't possibility predict rates and the timing of endpoints that are based on such factors...
no I'm not, just to be clear, I think what is going on is ridiculous and is against the original purpose of patents...
Because the victim did not agree to it. FORCING a victim to keep quiet is repugnant and violates her rights to free speech.
patent != copyright. If we both invented the transistor, but I patent it, too bad, I get to control your usage of it.
What had happened was that he had some minor NTFS corruption problem, so he went to our IT dept. Some IT monkey removed the laptop drive and tried to hook it up to a SATA - IDE converter. However he managed to wire up the power backwards. That fried the drive, but actually all it really did was burn/short the power polarity protection diode.
So with magnifying glass and soldering iron, I simply removed the shorted diode, and voila (not wahlah or viola), the drive was working again. I was then able to easily clean up the NTFS problem. Boy was he happy to get all his stuff back.
Known proven oil/gas resources/reserves global are a lleast FIVE times greater than the amount needed to raise the temperature 2degs C, a rise generally viewed as borderline disasterous. This means that we shouldnt come anywhere near "running out", if we know whats good for us. This fact has serious implications for the current valuation of our oil companies.
Honestly, although I have access to newer versions of Office, I don't see the point. Not a single thing I want from a newer version of Office, and the bloating hardware requirements makes it that much easier to just say NO...
most folks still sending out .DOC files as well, only those with no clue are saving Word files as .DOCX.
The low $199 price of the iphone really caught most carriers off guard -- the standard pricing for smartphones in those days was around $350 *with* contract. So the Instinct's original pricing of $179 had to be lowered to $129. Sprint HEAVILY marketed this thing, with many ads showing the "advantages" of the Instinct over the iphone. Hesse, CEO of Sprint, spent $100mil on marketing the Instinct.
However the Instinct (or In-stink as its customers would come to call it), was really a terrible product -- terrible web browser, lame features, AND worse, required Sprint's brand new, and very pricey (for Sprint), data plans.
Sprint refuses to release real sales numbers, but estimates by analysts were in the 350K range -- perhaps after a year it might have hit 500K. So that is at best $200 of MARKETING COSTS for each Instinct sold.
Hesse would never again stink that much into marketing a phone. Indeed some blame that burn episode for Sprint's rather poor marketing of the Palm Pre, a much better device that never was really given a proper chance...
Ethanol makes much faster work, taking the Coke/sugar with it as well as any water, and evaporates quickly.
This is true. But the point is WHEN you become sick or injured (not IF), I and other tax payers CANNOT choose to allow you to go untreated.
Our society has already decided that it is not ethical or human or acceptable NOT to treat a sick or injured person (or even just one claiming to be so) even if that person cannot pay for the treatments. ERs would be and are sued if they turn away patients. Therefore since I'm FORCED to pay for your health care, the gov't needs to force you to contribute some money to that pot to defray the costs of WHEN you need health care.
If this country allowed hospitals to turn away patients without coverage, then, great, nobody should be forced to have coverage. But they are not...
Supposing you want to support children living in poverty in Africa, and so you look up one of the many children's funds for such purposes. But then you learn that that foundation only ends up giving 10% of your donations to those children and it keeps 90% of donations for itself, "admin overhead", salaries for the foundation, etc, etc. Are you likely to give to such a foundation?
The figures that I have heard of the proportion of a $10 CD that *actually* gets sent to the musicians and artists is ABYSMALLY low, LESS than 10%, LESS that 5%. The standard metric for non-profit orgs is 85% should go to actual programs with only 15% overhead. Of course I realize that music is for profit, but if less than 5% of the revenue goes to the artists, well I *do* have a problem with it. Sorry I am not interested in 50-60% of the costs of a CD going to music exec salaries. I want to see at least 50% of the price of an album go to the artists. I don't think this is unreasonable...
This is a why I find it harder to connect with the notion that music piracy hurts the artists... of course it does, but it is diluted by that 0.05 factor and the most "hurt", 90-95%, is on the music execs, labels, MAFIAA, etc... which frankly I don't care about...
Its silly to mess with anything else -- a tablet will be terrible for software development and *product*ivity, its good for consumpion not production....
- rec to reduce or prohibit grad student funding on research grants, shifting them to training grants. There is NO WAY that the numbers of slots on training grants, even if you quadrupled those grants, would amount to even just 5% of the numbers of grad students paid off of research grants. This rec would slashing the numbers of grad students (and graduate programs), by at least 80%.
- rec to pay postdocs more, ok but HOW, where does the money come from? The rec amounts to a 30-50% increase in the COST of a postdoc, once you add in the benefits packages proposed. This rec simply means reducing the numbers of postdocs by 30-50% (there isn't more money available anywhere). And this reduction in postdoc slots would in turn reduce the numbers of grad students. Not to mention that it is a stupid recommendation because postdocs are the MOST productive members of any decent lab.
- rec to increase staff scientists (nevermind the question of how to pay for them since such positions costs 4-5X as much as a grad student). This rec also would directly reduce the numbers of grad students since the point is to have staff scientists do the lab work that grad students now do.
All these proposals not only reduce the numbers of grad students trained, but, more importantly, would INCREASE the cost of doing research (or reduce the amount of results given the same funding levels), all at a time when NIH funding is flat and may well be slashed (as Romney is proposing). All bad moves in my view...
What we need to do is stop pouring so much money into the military... the monies that all these proposals affect amount to just a few bombs and missles...