Only but it's only a matter of time before an open competitor appeals more to the community and users
Citation needed.
Seriously, show me where in the computer world that is the case.
BetaMax vs VHS... neither were open, one was just fucked up more by Sony and it lost, I assure you the BS reasons you've heard of are just that, BS. BetaMax was simply too short on recording time.
Mac vs Windows... They are more or less equally open from a user perspective, I guess the reference is to hardware being closed, but you have to be a complete moron to make this statement since you'd be ignoring the fact that MS is known to use other underhanded tactics to beat out competition. You're just not recognizing how closed Windows is. Its so incredibly open that people outside of Slashdot use something other than Word for a word processor... really they do, I saw I guy once who didn't read slashdot AND used OO. It was amazing. But back to reality, people use Windows precisely because of things that AREN'T OPEN and hence, CAN'T BE USED ELSEWHERE. This is example of closed products determing the winner, which appears at a distance to be 'more open'... but as soon as you look at it with any sort of detail you realize its the same thing.
IP? Open, sure but used not because people 'wanted it' but because the government built it and a massive amount of infrastructure before anyone realized they wanted something like it. So it was already there ready to be used and there wasn't an acceptable alternative. However.... IPv6 which is better than IPv4 is most ways (not all) is going no where until its basically going to be forced to move to it, even though everything that matters to end users supports it now. IP won because it was already there when people realized they wanted it, not because it was open.
What open products are flat out beating everything else in there category like Apple is doing in its categories. Sure, if you want to compare EVERY android phone, you beat the iPhone... of course none of them are truely open, especially from the perspective of your average end user (not the slashdot geeks who are more than willing to root their phones).
Everyone can keep saying that open will win, but history disagrees. It wins about the time its no longer profitable.
I can have open, and end up following with a product that isn't as good as the one I want to use... or I can have closed with a product that has all the new features now, AND every possible advantage of open... if it seems appropriate to take that route
From an end user perspective, open offers disadvantages they care about (not all the wizbang features of closed/patented tech) and no advantages (closed/proprietary stuff still gets all the benefits of open stuff)
The best mix you'll get until society goes all 'StarTrek/We don't use money anymore' is a closed product with all the features of anything thats 'open' as well as features only they have the rights to give you.
The only way closed can lose against open is if the leadership is entirely incompetent, otherwise its just a matter of time before the closed group will win since they can do everything the open product can do, and some things their competition can't.
They don't HAVE to open up their iTunes model, you can't give one reason why they should that would actually justify doing it. 'I want' isn't enough since most people are very happy with iTunes. iTunes is more or less Walmart for music.
Not everyone gives a shit about the things that geeks care about and are very happy with their device/products with limited feature sets... because its the feature sets that do what they want and they don't care HOW it does it.
The media and the panic of crowds. The media blew the whole thing WAY out of proportion because there was little else to talk about, which paniced people too stupid to realize that nothing that effected them was really happening. The only reason the stock market effects anyone outside of New York and the wealthy is because people get scared, otherwise it means almost nothing. The recession didn't exist until the media told us it did and that it was scary and the worst since yesterday... Then they managed to find some douche bags living in a tent city because they were too fucking stupid to move out of California or go to McDonalds and respond to the now hiring signs.
housing bubble burst
Mostly over paid idiots. Some of the over paid idiots worked at banks and lenders, allowing loans to be processed that even a 4 year old wouldn't have known not to allow. Some of the over paid idiots were the ones that paid 5 times more than a home was worth because it was in some expensive subdivision only to find out a year later that no one living there could afford their mortgages and oh yea... its not worth what you paid for it so good luck selling it.
WHO REALLY SHOT the CARIBOU
I did but it was 20 years ago, and we made sure to use all of the animal. No waste.
LETS ALL IGNORE THE THIRD GOVERNMENT TO FALL TO MUSLIM EXTREMISTS SINCE B. HUSSEIN OBAMA BECAME "the first immigrant MUSLIM president" "Big Ears McChicken Legs" (AKA Obama) said his experience running a bussiness was his "Campaign".....I'd call it more of a reign of terror than a business.
I don't really know if you're being funny or not, and I can't tell if you're for or against Obama since I can't figure out if you're being sarcastic but... I could give a fuck what religion a country is really. I have a few muslim associates and you know what? They are just as likely to be nut jobs as the people I went to church with growing up. Religion doesn't define you as a fanatic, while its a common them for people to be religion fanatics, they aren't mutually inclusive. Fanatics are fanatics regardless of religion, and all religions have them, that includes the religion of 'science'... where people get so fanatical about science that they actually get violent at people who are religious... which is pretty common on slashdot.
Sarah Palins family has several businesses, she has been a Community Prganizer (not a real job) Councilman, Mayor, Governor, Board Member, Vice Presidential Candidate, Fishery Owner, and Mom.
Yes yes, but I was in clubs in high school that had more people in it than she had under her at any given point in time. Doesn't make her good or bad, but it just shows how meaningless that statement is. I've had a few jobs myself and the reason I don't have a couple of those jobs is because I sucked at them. Just naming jobs people have says nothing about the person unless you say they've only have ever had one job or they've had a new job every week of their life, in which case you can make a few safe bets about them but other than that, your list doesn't mean shit either way.
Obama on the other hand, know one really knows where he went to school, or grew up. He "worked" for Tony Rezko (known criminal) was friends with Jeremy Ayers.
I used to work as a clerk in a store for one of my friends mom.
Turns out she was selling cocaine and pot right in front of me without me noticing, and the last time I saw her she was in a hurry out the door to deal with a family emergency... which translated too... she had to drive across town, severally beat a man, then throw him off a bridge to his death for somet
A buddy and me have permenantly "loaned" each other copies of several books we bought off Amazon in this manner.
Thats not impressive, it just makes you a thief.
I'm all for stripping off DRM, and I have no problem sharing digital data when you're actually sharing, not just duplicating someone elses work, but your sort of ignorant comments and actions just justify why they do it. Please don't tell others you do this, it just makes it harder on those of us who do it for legitimate legal reasons, not because we feel like ripping someone off and calling it a 'permanent loan'...
Will owning an eReader of some sort be like owning a car? Or a phone?
If you consider a car, a phone or an eReader a necessity, you have a serious disconnection from reality. I suggest you take your spoiled ass off your segway and go for a camping trip or a hike just to remind you that people are fully capable of functioning without technology.
Considering the majority of the people on the planet seem to be able to survive just fine without any of those things, I think you might want to take a step back and get some perspective.
Last time I used Amazon (which I now avoid like the plague) I was unable to buy a product from them. I was able to find plenty of products sold by someone else ON Amazon, but not actually anything sold from Amazon themselves.
Seems too me they've been outsourcing all the physical items for years anyway and just taking a cut and the tax breaks. I don't really see how you can use this as a useful measurement.
Yes, Amazon, which is doing everything in its power to not ship physical items and move its core business to moving bits of data around is selling fewer physical books than ebooks.
Tesla Motors has sold more all electric cars than it has gasoline powered cars... yet that has absolutely nothing in relation to the gasoline car market does it?
Okay, so not having a clue was clearly an exaggeration, and I got that the idea was to separate the two to provide more functionality for special cases...
Someone forgot to notice however from a practical perspective.
Show me a real world example of where the two are not used interchangeably.
Language is only useful if we all mean the same thing when we use the same sounds.
You don't get to randomly make up new words and still communicate effectively unless you communicate the definition of the word as well somehow.
While a starfish may not be a fish, everyone still knows what you mean because we've established a definition elsewhere in our lives.
It doesn't matter if you Abremarlereed. The word is useless if you don't know what it means. Names and categories are not useful unless they define a set of parameters that they match. Names are typically completely arbitrary parameters that can be applied to anything willy nilly but the name is useless until the list of what it applies too is well known between those who communicate. Do you know what Abremarlereed means? No? See what happens when you just make up words?
Scientists need to know what things are called so they can effectively communicate their ideas. What good is science to anyone if the knowledge can not be communicated effectively and clearly. To do so, we need to parameterize things so we can generally classify objects into useable groups. Without doing so, every scientific test would have to test everything in the known universe because we'd have no parameters to use to throw out things we know we don't need to test.
In order for a scientist to tell you how something works both of you need to know what the words mean.
Contrary to the popular opinion of random people on the Internet, Anarchy doesn't work no matter how many times you say it.
Because it comes preinstalled on millions of computers year and has recurring revenue due to its subscription model?
Its worth money due to shear volume, the recurring revenue from the uneducated who don't realize they're getting shafted by 'renewing' it instead of getting some software that doesn't suck means they have a very large potential for incoming even if they aren't making a fortune right this instant.
We replaced B with STRONG and I with EM which are effectively the exact some thing. If you think its different, sorry you're confused.
Tell me why exactly we needed to change tags?
Explain to me how change the name of a tag from B to STRONG actually made it so your screen reader worked better. I'm pretty sure if it knew the difference between B and STRONG it could do whatever it want with text and wouldn't care if the tag was B or STRONG.
Some douche's in a commitee sat down and decided the B was a display thing and STRONG was a speech thing and they are different and should be handled as such... except... they are used for the exact same thing. Same with EM and I.
An intelligent solution would have been much simpler... 'when people use B they mean to make that part strong and stand out, lets treat it as such.' instead of 'hey, lets create a new tag, that is visually identical to B out of the box, but has a different name, so that way we can identify it... unlike bold where we have no way to identify it at all!'
EM and STRONG are shining example of retarded changes to a protocol because some people involved in the discussion don't have a clue.
We worry that kids are not engaging in politics and then arrest them when they voice concern - pffft, it is a crazy world.
Its not unreasonable to want our children to understand how politics effect them and to make an effort to proactive while at the same time expecting them to act within reason.
This wasn't a protest where they stood in front of the store and made noise, this was more along the lines of going inside and turning all the water on and clogging the drains so the store floods and no one can use it for some period of time while costing the company some sum of money.
My children know what 'reasonable response' means. Too bad you don't.
Actually, it wasn't a troll. I just made a blindly obvious and completely stupid suggestion from a security perspective.
The good thing is, I have someone else making sure the work I do is secure before it goes into production. Although, its probably more embarrassing doing it here.
AT&Ts network has improved significantly since the iPhone was originally released, all likely due to the iPhone unlimited data plan.
By the time they dropped the unlimited data, the network was just about to the point of supporting what they had reliably everywhere most of the time. You'd still have issues if something happened that caused a lot of people to use their phones or put more people in an area than normal but for the most part, day to day, they caught up.
The reason you don't hear much about it is because... well... no one noticed. Which is kind of expected. You make a phone call and you expect it to work so you don't think anything of it when everything goes as planned. It leaves no mental marker. When you make a call and something goes wrong, it stands out, you make a mental marker. When it stops happening, no new mental markers, no new events for your brain to process to realize and think about the fact that AT&T is better.
To follow that up, its important to note that they dont' really deserve praise for fixing their network, since we actually EXPECTED it to work as they claimed in the first place.
Was there already a faster space craft to get to the moon when we landed on the moon?
By the time you get the first one built, the second one may be under construction, but it will be built using knowledge gained from building the first. And as the first sets out on its mission, and things go right or wrong, that knowledge will be integrated into build #2 (or #3 or whatever).
If you keep saying 'wait 50 years and we'll have something so much better that it'll be quicker than waiting 50 years'... you'll always be waiting 50 years and you'll never actually go anywhere.
What about the knowledge we'll learn about long term space flight on the first ship trying to get to some far off place? If we keep waiting to get there quicker, we'll never know what the situation is.
We can now fly all the way around the world in a matter of days. Do you really think the original human sailors and travelers should have waited till the last 100 years to start moving around the world because it would be so much faster now?
The company I work at offers software as a service, we provide a email marketing add on... think company wide letterhead for your email messages from individual users in a company to individual users elsewhere, not bulk/spam mail.
Of course we use the service our selves, duh, and as a developer worried about this exact sort of problem I can tell you that... no one can change high profile users within our organization without direct access to the database server hosts themselves. Their information is more or less hard coded and immutable to everyone outside of myself and an envelope with password reset instructions should I get hit by a bus.
Is it a dirty hack? Yes, but it'll save face in most cases... not all of course.
My point is that I can't imagine why someone like facebook wouldn't have done this to protect themselves.
I set up a fake facebook site, when you go to login, I forward the request to face book so I get your pictures and answers, then when your done, I get your password anyway.
So anything local can steal your password and any phishing site can do it as well if they put 2 seconds of effort into it, they can also use an existing botnet to proxy the requests to the real facebook site so it doesn't all come from one phishing site host.
If this is a replacement for captchas just stop. Require a valid credit card and a sign up fee of some tiny amount one time and freaking be done with it. Requiring a credit card is less of a hassle and more reliable even for people who don't currently own a card. Effective captchas are practically unreadable to most humans and the new 'throw random friends pictures at you' is worse since it will end up throwing you pictures like the back of someones head or some random person that happens to be in one of your photos but you really have no clue who they are.
This doesn't solve any problems and makes use more annoying. Sounds like a win-win as long as it only applies to facebook.
Last night's State of the Union Address contained ten things (and four outrages) technical professionals need to know about the President's plans, and how his policies might affect you, your employer, and your family well into the future.
Thanks for telling me how I should feel about political issues, but go fuck yourself.
So far I've thought Obama has been a tool for most things, but useful for some. The irony of it all is, theres always someone telling me he's a bad guy for it, the only factor that determines which things are bad is the political orientation of the source.
I, nor does anyone else, need zdnet to tell me what to get pissed off about. If you weren't already upset about this things, don't be. You were ignorant before a zdnet manipulated you by carefully feeding you portions of a speech in order to promote their view point, you should stay that way. Get the truth if you can find it, but that often means you have to keep an open mind and carefully consider the source and their political agenda, but we'll all end up a whole lot better off if we start voting for politicians who actually DO what we WANT them to do, rather than telling us they'll do one thing or someone else telling us they'll be the right guy for the job.
If you want to be pissed off about what you think he's doing, fine, listen to the address and make your own decisions, but for the love of god don't go read some manipulative spew from some (especially in this case) opinion article publication presented as if its a public service announcement for the dangers coming at us from the president.
I'm not saying he didn't make some douchebag statements, but you need to make the determination about what makes him a good guy or a douche bag yourself, not because ZDNet told you too. People voting because of what someone else told us to do because of a newspaper, magazine, or TV endorsement because they are lazy and ignorant are part of the problem that put us in the mess to begin with.
Yes but that privacy feature will regularly repeat doing the following things:
Break, completely ignoring your privacy settings and using your image anyway Change the privacy settings to a new name and automatically re-enable the use of your picture... and not tell you they changed anything so you don't bother to look to see your settings changed... its a bug, oops. Be completely ignored by advertisers are facebook will ad a new API feature for Farmville that will completely ignore your privacy settings... and after everyone has grabbed the images, they'll find the 'bug' or change their mind and turn it off.
I don't get nerdrage over facebook though, only idiots with facebook accounts... you get what you deserve
Shuttle or not, other space operations will go one at Kennedy space center, its a nice spot at a low latitude for the US so its got a good amount of speed already built in.
The main pads will just no longer be set aside for the shuttle. Eventually they'll recycle them for something else. Same with the buildings. We'll need them for something else crazy in a couple years.
Yes, you experienced what most of us experienced with the transition from local BBSes to the Internet in the mid 90s.
Communities vanish sadly. On the Internet is happens in less than a generation fairly often, which is abnormal since in the normal world communities typically take generations for form and disappear barring a catastrophe or war.
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Citation needed.
Seriously, show me where in the computer world that is the case.
BetaMax vs VHS ... neither were open, one was just fucked up more by Sony and it lost, I assure you the BS reasons you've heard of are just that, BS. BetaMax was simply too short on recording time.
Mac vs Windows ... They are more or less equally open from a user perspective, I guess the reference is to hardware being closed, but you have to be a complete moron to make this statement since you'd be ignoring the fact that MS is known to use other underhanded tactics to beat out competition. You're just not recognizing how closed Windows is. Its so incredibly open that people outside of Slashdot use something other than Word for a word processor ... really they do, I saw I guy once who didn't read slashdot AND used OO. It was amazing. But back to reality, people use Windows precisely because of things that AREN'T OPEN and hence, CAN'T BE USED ELSEWHERE. This is example of closed products determing the winner, which appears at a distance to be 'more open' ... but as soon as you look at it with any sort of detail you realize its the same thing.
IP? Open, sure but used not because people 'wanted it' but because the government built it and a massive amount of infrastructure before anyone realized they wanted something like it. So it was already there ready to be used and there wasn't an acceptable alternative. However .... IPv6 which is better than IPv4 is most ways (not all) is going no where until its basically going to be forced to move to it, even though everything that matters to end users supports it now. IP won because it was already there when people realized they wanted it, not because it was open.
What open products are flat out beating everything else in there category like Apple is doing in its categories. Sure, if you want to compare EVERY android phone, you beat the iPhone ... of course none of them are truely open, especially from the perspective of your average end user (not the slashdot geeks who are more than willing to root their phones).
Everyone can keep saying that open will win, but history disagrees. It wins about the time its no longer profitable.
I can have open, and end up following with a product that isn't as good as the one I want to use ... or I can have closed with a product that has all the new features now, AND every possible advantage of open ... if it seems appropriate to take that route
From an end user perspective, open offers disadvantages they care about (not all the wizbang features of closed/patented tech) and no advantages (closed/proprietary stuff still gets all the benefits of open stuff)
The best mix you'll get until society goes all 'StarTrek/We don't use money anymore' is a closed product with all the features of anything thats 'open' as well as features only they have the rights to give you.
The only way closed can lose against open is if the leadership is entirely incompetent, otherwise its just a matter of time before the closed group will win since they can do everything the open product can do, and some things their competition can't.
They don't HAVE to open up their iTunes model, you can't give one reason why they should that would actually justify doing it. 'I want' isn't enough since most people are very happy with iTunes. iTunes is more or less Walmart for music.
Not everyone gives a shit about the things that geeks care about and are very happy with their device/products with limited feature sets ... because its the feature sets that do what they want and they don't care HOW it does it.
Yea, out side of Nokia's test labs, you've probably got the only one in existence.
You've clearly never watched Stargate SG-1.
Apophis has tried to wipe out life on Earth on multiple occasions, though someone else tried to do it by throwing an asteroid at us.
From a sci-fi perspective, Apophis is a perfect name :)
The media and the panic of crowds. The media blew the whole thing WAY out of proportion because there was little else to talk about, which paniced people too stupid to realize that nothing that effected them was really happening. The only reason the stock market effects anyone outside of New York and the wealthy is because people get scared, otherwise it means almost nothing. The recession didn't exist until the media told us it did and that it was scary and the worst since yesterday ... Then they managed to find some douche bags living in a tent city because they were too fucking stupid to move out of California or go to McDonalds and respond to the now hiring signs.
Mostly over paid idiots. Some of the over paid idiots worked at banks and lenders, allowing loans to be processed that even a 4 year old wouldn't have known not to allow. Some of the over paid idiots were the ones that paid 5 times more than a home was worth because it was in some expensive subdivision only to find out a year later that no one living there could afford their mortgages and oh yea ... its not worth what you paid for it so good luck selling it.
I did but it was 20 years ago, and we made sure to use all of the animal. No waste.
I don't really know if you're being funny or not, and I can't tell if you're for or against Obama since I can't figure out if you're being sarcastic but ... I could give a fuck what religion a country is really. I have a few muslim associates and you know what? They are just as likely to be nut jobs as the people I went to church with growing up. Religion doesn't define you as a fanatic, while its a common them for people to be religion fanatics, they aren't mutually inclusive. Fanatics are fanatics regardless of religion, and all religions have them, that includes the religion of 'science' ... where people get so fanatical about science that they actually get violent at people who are religious ... which is pretty common on slashdot.
Yes yes, but I was in clubs in high school that had more people in it than she had under her at any given point in time. Doesn't make her good or bad, but it just shows how meaningless that statement is. I've had a few jobs myself and the reason I don't have a couple of those jobs is because I sucked at them. Just naming jobs people have says nothing about the person unless you say they've only have ever had one job or they've had a new job every week of their life, in which case you can make a few safe bets about them but other than that, your list doesn't mean shit either way.
I used to work as a clerk in a store for one of my friends mom.
Turns out she was selling cocaine and pot right in front of me without me noticing, and the last time I saw her she was in a hurry out the door to deal with a family emergency ... which translated too ... she had to drive across town, severally beat a man, then throw him off a bridge to his death for somet
Thats not impressive, it just makes you a thief.
I'm all for stripping off DRM, and I have no problem sharing digital data when you're actually sharing, not just duplicating someone elses work, but your sort of ignorant comments and actions just justify why they do it. Please don't tell others you do this, it just makes it harder on those of us who do it for legitimate legal reasons, not because we feel like ripping someone off and calling it a 'permanent loan' ...
If you consider a car, a phone or an eReader a necessity, you have a serious disconnection from reality. I suggest you take your spoiled ass off your segway and go for a camping trip or a hike just to remind you that people are fully capable of functioning without technology.
Considering the majority of the people on the planet seem to be able to survive just fine without any of those things, I think you might want to take a step back and get some perspective.
Then why do we still loose probes because someone forgets to convert between measurement systems that are well defined?
Last time I used Amazon (which I now avoid like the plague) I was unable to buy a product from them. I was able to find plenty of products sold by someone else ON Amazon, but not actually anything sold from Amazon themselves.
Seems too me they've been outsourcing all the physical items for years anyway and just taking a cut and the tax breaks. I don't really see how you can use this as a useful measurement.
Yes, Amazon, which is doing everything in its power to not ship physical items and move its core business to moving bits of data around is selling fewer physical books than ebooks.
Tesla Motors has sold more all electric cars than it has gasoline powered cars ... yet that has absolutely nothing in relation to the gasoline car market does it?
Okay, so not having a clue was clearly an exaggeration, and I got that the idea was to separate the two to provide more functionality for special cases ...
Someone forgot to notice however from a practical perspective.
Show me a real world example of where the two are not used interchangeably.
Language is only useful if we all mean the same thing when we use the same sounds.
You don't get to randomly make up new words and still communicate effectively unless you communicate the definition of the word as well somehow.
While a starfish may not be a fish, everyone still knows what you mean because we've established a definition elsewhere in our lives.
It doesn't matter if you Abremarlereed. The word is useless if you don't know what it means. Names and categories are not useful unless they define a set of parameters that they match. Names are typically completely arbitrary parameters that can be applied to anything willy nilly but the name is useless until the list of what it applies too is well known between those who communicate. Do you know what Abremarlereed means? No? See what happens when you just make up words?
Scientists need to know what things are called so they can effectively communicate their ideas. What good is science to anyone if the knowledge can not be communicated effectively and clearly. To do so, we need to parameterize things so we can generally classify objects into useable groups. Without doing so, every scientific test would have to test everything in the known universe because we'd have no parameters to use to throw out things we know we don't need to test.
In order for a scientist to tell you how something works both of you need to know what the words mean.
Contrary to the popular opinion of random people on the Internet, Anarchy doesn't work no matter how many times you say it.
Because it comes preinstalled on millions of computers year and has recurring revenue due to its subscription model?
Its worth money due to shear volume, the recurring revenue from the uneducated who don't realize they're getting shafted by 'renewing' it instead of getting some software that doesn't suck means they have a very large potential for incoming even if they aren't making a fortune right this instant.
We replaced B with STRONG and I with EM which are effectively the exact some thing. If you think its different, sorry you're confused.
Tell me why exactly we needed to change tags?
Explain to me how change the name of a tag from B to STRONG actually made it so your screen reader worked better. I'm pretty sure if it knew the difference between B and STRONG it could do whatever it want with text and wouldn't care if the tag was B or STRONG.
Some douche's in a commitee sat down and decided the B was a display thing and STRONG was a speech thing and they are different and should be handled as such ... except ... they are used for the exact same thing. Same with EM and I.
An intelligent solution would have been much simpler ... 'when people use B they mean to make that part strong and stand out, lets treat it as such.' instead of 'hey, lets create a new tag, that is visually identical to B out of the box, but has a different name, so that way we can identify it ... unlike bold where we have no way to identify it at all!'
EM and STRONG are shining example of retarded changes to a protocol because some people involved in the discussion don't have a clue.
Its not unreasonable to want our children to understand how politics effect them and to make an effort to proactive while at the same time expecting them to act within reason.
This wasn't a protest where they stood in front of the store and made noise, this was more along the lines of going inside and turning all the water on and clogging the drains so the store floods and no one can use it for some period of time while costing the company some sum of money.
My children know what 'reasonable response' means. Too bad you don't.
Actually, it wasn't a troll. I just made a blindly obvious and completely stupid suggestion from a security perspective.
The good thing is, I have someone else making sure the work I do is secure before it goes into production. Although, its probably more embarrassing doing it here.
And of course you get modded down because a bunch of ignorant spoiled brats on slashdot have no idea just how great they have it.
Yes, just no one noticed.
AT&Ts network has improved significantly since the iPhone was originally released, all likely due to the iPhone unlimited data plan.
By the time they dropped the unlimited data, the network was just about to the point of supporting what they had reliably everywhere most of the time. You'd still have issues if something happened that caused a lot of people to use their phones or put more people in an area than normal but for the most part, day to day, they caught up.
The reason you don't hear much about it is because ... well ... no one noticed. Which is kind of expected. You make a phone call and you expect it to work so you don't think anything of it when everything goes as planned. It leaves no mental marker. When you make a call and something goes wrong, it stands out, you make a mental marker. When it stops happening, no new mental markers, no new events for your brain to process to realize and think about the fact that AT&T is better.
To follow that up, its important to note that they dont' really deserve praise for fixing their network, since we actually EXPECTED it to work as they claimed in the first place.
Not sure what the limit is for AT&T, but I've regularly brake 5G and have hit as high as 10G a couple months.
History proves that simply isn't true.
Was there already a faster space craft to get to the moon when we landed on the moon?
By the time you get the first one built, the second one may be under construction, but it will be built using knowledge gained from building the first. And as the first sets out on its mission, and things go right or wrong, that knowledge will be integrated into build #2 (or #3 or whatever).
If you keep saying 'wait 50 years and we'll have something so much better that it'll be quicker than waiting 50 years' ... you'll always be waiting 50 years and you'll never actually go anywhere.
What about the knowledge we'll learn about long term space flight on the first ship trying to get to some far off place? If we keep waiting to get there quicker, we'll never know what the situation is.
We can now fly all the way around the world in a matter of days. Do you really think the original human sailors and travelers should have waited till the last 100 years to start moving around the world because it would be so much faster now?
The company I work at offers software as a service, we provide a email marketing add on ... think company wide letterhead for your email messages from individual users in a company to individual users elsewhere, not bulk/spam mail.
Of course we use the service our selves, duh, and as a developer worried about this exact sort of problem I can tell you that ... no one can change high profile users within our organization without direct access to the database server hosts themselves. Their information is more or less hard coded and immutable to everyone outside of myself and an envelope with password reset instructions should I get hit by a bus.
Is it a dirty hack? Yes, but it'll save face in most cases ... not all of course.
My point is that I can't imagine why someone like facebook wouldn't have done this to protect themselves.
I set up a fake facebook site, when you go to login, I forward the request to face book so I get your pictures and answers, then when your done, I get your password anyway.
So anything local can steal your password and any phishing site can do it as well if they put 2 seconds of effort into it, they can also use an existing botnet to proxy the requests to the real facebook site so it doesn't all come from one phishing site host.
If this is a replacement for captchas just stop. Require a valid credit card and a sign up fee of some tiny amount one time and freaking be done with it. Requiring a credit card is less of a hassle and more reliable even for people who don't currently own a card. Effective captchas are practically unreadable to most humans and the new 'throw random friends pictures at you' is worse since it will end up throwing you pictures like the back of someones head or some random person that happens to be in one of your photos but you really have no clue who they are.
This doesn't solve any problems and makes use more annoying. Sounds like a win-win as long as it only applies to facebook.
Thanks for telling me how I should feel about political issues, but go fuck yourself.
So far I've thought Obama has been a tool for most things, but useful for some. The irony of it all is, theres always someone telling me he's a bad guy for it, the only factor that determines which things are bad is the political orientation of the source.
I, nor does anyone else, need zdnet to tell me what to get pissed off about. If you weren't already upset about this things, don't be. You were ignorant before a zdnet manipulated you by carefully feeding you portions of a speech in order to promote their view point, you should stay that way. Get the truth if you can find it, but that often means you have to keep an open mind and carefully consider the source and their political agenda, but we'll all end up a whole lot better off if we start voting for politicians who actually DO what we WANT them to do, rather than telling us they'll do one thing or someone else telling us they'll be the right guy for the job.
If you want to be pissed off about what you think he's doing, fine, listen to the address and make your own decisions, but for the love of god don't go read some manipulative spew from some (especially in this case) opinion article publication presented as if its a public service announcement for the dangers coming at us from the president.
I'm not saying he didn't make some douchebag statements, but you need to make the determination about what makes him a good guy or a douche bag yourself, not because ZDNet told you too. People voting because of what someone else told us to do because of a newspaper, magazine, or TV endorsement because they are lazy and ignorant are part of the problem that put us in the mess to begin with.
Yes but that privacy feature will regularly repeat doing the following things:
Break, completely ignoring your privacy settings and using your image anyway ... and not tell you they changed anything so you don't bother to look to see your settings changed... its a bug, oops. ... and after everyone has grabbed the images, they'll find the 'bug' or change their mind and turn it off.
Change the privacy settings to a new name and automatically re-enable the use of your picture
Be completely ignored by advertisers are facebook will ad a new API feature for Farmville that will completely ignore your privacy settings
I don't get nerdrage over facebook though, only idiots with facebook accounts ... you get what you deserve
Yes, if you happen to have mod points at that point in time, there is something you can click.
just launch the shuttle.
Shuttle or not, other space operations will go one at Kennedy space center, its a nice spot at a low latitude for the US so its got a good amount of speed already built in.
The main pads will just no longer be set aside for the shuttle. Eventually they'll recycle them for something else. Same with the buildings. We'll need them for something else crazy in a couple years.
Yes, you experienced what most of us experienced with the transition from local BBSes to the Internet in the mid 90s.
Communities vanish sadly. On the Internet is happens in less than a generation fairly often, which is abnormal since in the normal world communities typically take generations for form and disappear barring a catastrophe or war.