It has a say in the process, a tower can reject you, but the phone can also reject the tower and choose another as it sees fit. The negotiation can be rejected by either party, but has to be accepted by both tower and phone.
What YOU expect and reality are two different things. There is no 'full roaming', there is only 'unconfigured', and that ends the instant your phone connects to a network and is considered active. The preference list will be sent to your device before you make the first normal voice call. If you never activate a phone, you may not have a preference list, but thats extremely unlikely in america as pretty much every phone is sold in a way that its biased towards one of the major providers, even with no contract and 'unlocked'.
Your phone has a preference list, the preference list is one of the very first things your phone will get when it connects to the cellular network and finds a provider that considers it active. It comes with one preprogrammed (See above) and I would challenge you to find a phone that doesn't come with that preference list already populated (there are some, but I bet you have no idea which ones they are)
It will use that preference list with or without a sim card. Without a sim card, if the network it talks to accepts the phone to make the 911 call, it will use that network, but the network doesn't have to. Okay, legally it does, but we're not talking about legality we're talking about real world technicality.
If your phone no longer has service, it STILL has the last preference list it was sent, until it can authenticate (based on a valid sim card) with a network to get a new preference list.
Your sim card has a preference as well, based on the provider the sim card came from.
The only way your phone doesn't have a preference list is if its brand new, never been activated on anyones network and never had a sim card in it.
Then it will contact any network tower that will let it communicate, and that communication lasts just long enough for the phone to determine if its an active device with service or not, and if active, what towers it should prefer based on the provider ID of the tower.
Your phone communicates with multiple towers at any given time if they are in range.
Cell phones don't ALWAYS use the strongest signal, in fact, I don't know of any cell phone in the US which is set to use signal strength as the highest value in its tower selection.
Provider comes first. Your phone will select a weaker but usable tower from a list the provider provides it over a flawless signal from a tower that would cost it 'roaming' charges.
So it really doesn't matter what these boxes put out from a signal strength. Your phone will listen to the tower, maybe even exchange some info with it, then determine its not part of your providers network or the tower 'rejects' your phone and your phone will continue using a real tower.
At no point is your phone stupid enough to talk to some random signal exclusively, UNLESS it has all the authentication information required for your phone to believe it is a tower from your provider specifically unless it can't find a tower from your provider.
Caveat: These boxes could authenticate themselves as your provider (Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, etc), but there is no need to do so to get the IMEA number of your device so there is no reason for them to fake being a real provider.
Nope, can't see it. The Gnome foundation is fucking retarded. And so are you if you think this is the right thing to have happened.
Anyone who knows what EITHER of these systems are is not going to be confused. I knew about the Gnome POS long before I knew that the gnome foundation had some sort of touch interface and I've been following Linux since the late 90s.
That alone should be grounds for the GNOME Project's case.
No, it is of no value to them. The Gnome project doesn't have a case, not a leg to stand on.
Gnome (the environment) is not a POS system. They are in no way competing with or associated with Gnome (the POS). Just using the same name is not trademark violation. Trademark's come into issue when the public may get confused, there is pretty much 0 chance of that happening here. Anyone who knows what EITHER of these products are is going to know which one you are referring to and will have no difficulty keeping the two seperate.
Coca-cola doesn't get to sue coal companies for using the word Coke just because they own the trademark on the word Coke.
The fact that you're even implying Gnome (the environment) just shows how utterly ignorant so many people are of the way trademarks work.
The fact that you're modded to +5 just shows that slashdot is ruled by a bunch of ignorant fanboys who think Gnome is being abused, but rant and rave if the roles are reversed.
Any argument you could have had was utterly destroyed when you showed your ignorance and fanaticism.
The energy range for the particle detected fell almost exactly in-between the values expected for super symmetry and the values expected for the standard model.
I don't think you've been paying attention if you think it matched up perfectly with everything already thought about the standard model. It most certainly did not.
Uhm, the particle at CERN had properties that didn't match either of the predicted properties of the Higgs boson. The particle they detected fell almost exactly in the middle of where the competing theories said it should have been.
In other words, they got it WAY fucking wrong, or this is a different particle. It is CERTAINLY NOT LEAVING THE SAME EVIDENCE AS THE PREDICTED POSSIBILITIES FOR A HIGGS BOSON.
The Linux that runs on it by default? Want to run something other than Linux such as your own OS? CAN'T! Proprietary GPU Boot blob that requires you to essentially be a Broadcom employee to know anything about it.
A few basic tasks. Saying many is pushing the definition of many.
it is small
Compared to what? Its not really that small, there are certainly smaller in the same class and for less money. Realistically though, for experimentation its exactly the wrong size. For requiring a pin header to do anything, it should be way smaller, and its too small to do anything directly on the board. They picked essentially the exact wrong size.
cheap
Again, compared to what? In its class, its not that cheap. Its average at best, a bit pricey if you have to wait for it since you can get cheaper ones on a slow boat from china for better prices. This comes up every time some fanboy tries to make out like the Raspberry Pi is worth a shit. Its not. Stop trying to pretend its got good value. Its not the cheapest and the hardware is fundamentally flawed from the start because apparently making a minor rev to the board takes 5 years or more.
widely available
Is it? After waiting several years for it to finally get to the point where it wasn't constantly out of stock everywhere, I moved on. Perhaps its widely available now because anyone else who matters did as well.
well documented
Bullshit. The GPU is STILL locked down, and thats the part of the device thats actually useful. Broadcom released some specs a while back about the GPU that everyone went ape shit over... but wasn't useful for actually doing anything and nothing at all actually came to fruition from it.
well supported.
Well supported? What? Seriously, what are you talking about? A bunch of random idiots on some forum that don't know jack shit about the hardware or the software does not make it well supported.
Just stop trying to pretend the Pi is awesome. It was an awesome idea before it came out, everything since then has been horrible. Production delays, lack of supply (Seriously, how the fuck can you not meet demand for years on end), bad hardware design, closed source GPU blobs that only work on specific linux distros and NOTHING ELSE.
Its crap. Wake up and smell the shit on your nose.
And that has exactly dick to do with Aarpm Swartz.
He didn't expose you to some massive cover up. He was a common criminal who couldn't handle the fact that he got caught. Any 'good' he did was by dumb luck and coincidental, not intentional.
He was not a hero. Stop pretending he was or bullshitting about what he did, you just cheapen the actions of those who have done heroic deeds.
Do you even know what he did and why he got in trouble? I don't think you do.
Good for you, you created your own unique ID that can be used to track you just as effectively as the one they use themselves. What were you trying to accomplish?
Except ATSC IS better than the Internet for distributing large amounts of video over regional areas. Streaming video over the Internet, as its done now, is extremely wasteful from a resource perspective. Each viewer requires its own duplicate stream, rather than just sharing the same stream as everyone else.
Switch the Internet to IP multicast, THEN you MIGHT have a comparison... not really, but at least you're getting into the same ballpark.
ATSC over the air broadcast can effectively serve as many receives as there are in its range without additional resources. Serving 1 or 1 billion is the same resource usage, only distance determines required resources. You do not need more bandwidth for more viewers. With IP (without using multicast), you still have the distance issue, but you also need an additional resource share for each additional view and there is no savings for larger numbers of viewers either. It just gets worse as you add viewers.
Drop GPL v3, most everyone I know isn't going to touch you with a 10 foot pole if you use GPLv3. Just like using GPL is a matter of principle, NOT using v3 is a matter of principle for many people. Yes, some people like GPLv3, most don't. Do you really want your entire user base to be composed of rabid fanboys?
Fix your shitty website. You point people to source forge... which is crappy by modern standards, and then link to your website... which has basically no useful information what so ever on the front page... and a link back to sourceforce... wtf?
Your website uses arrow keys to navigate? Seriously? Not sure how you could make it any less usable. This alone tells me I don't want to bother with your software any further, you clearly have no concept of staying within established design paradigms and think you can do something better than the standard when you clearly can't. I don't have to go any further to know that you are bad at designing something. You're changing things for the sake of change, not because it does something better. Have you actually used the Internet in the last 10 years? This website is a shining example of how to do it wrong... and you're trying to push technology when you clearly don't know how to use technology? To use words that match your dated website... epic fail.
You're deriving your template language from XL? No point in bothering to continue this discussion, you... like the authors of XL... don't get it. Just stop.
His point (not one that I agree with) is that not too many people invest millions of dollars into companies who want to make climbing Everest a product.
Your just stupid if you didn't know this already since its regularly brought up as a shitty thing that android lacks.
And you've never used an iOS device either... Since the OS asks you before allowing the app to do things. It's a system that requires you to opt in, and the app has to work if you opt-out or it gets rejected from the App Store unless the functionality is central to the app.
A camera app will not get approved if it won't work when denied access to your contacts, as an example.
Android is designed to pretend you have options when you don't. It's all or nothing and the permissions aren't even fine grained anymore, they are broken into large groups so updates can do all sorts of stuff that they didn't originally.
Android is decidedly anti-owner in this respect where as iOS is the opposite, decidedly pro-owner
That'd probably raise some anti-trust issues, though.
Whats good for the goose is good for the gander. CurrentC stores in the CurrentC consortium (thats what it is, regardless of what they call it) are actively blocking NFC cards, one of which allowed it to occur for a period of time and then when a competitor hit the market before them, they actively worked to disable the ability to use the service.
Any sort of anti-trust issue that arises from Google and Apple banning their apps is the same as CurrentC users banning the use of NFC. They lost this battle when they took active steps to stop a working system. They might have had an argument about 'not upgrading to equipment with NFC' for various reasons, but thats not what they did. CVS has NFC capable equipment and WAS accepting it, then turned it off.
You need to stop acting like you understand something when you clearly don't.
The pope is not infallible.
You simply will not have it held against you on judgement day if he is wrong and you follow that bit of being wrong.
And of course... A corrupt pope a while ago is the one who made that decree, So throwing your responsibilities to behave properly out the window just because 'the pope says its ok' is pretty stupid and I doubt it would fly come judgement day. You don't let your children get by with that sort of logic, neither would 'the father'
With that said, there is nothing in science that conflicts with catholism (which is the only one I know well enough to comment on). And for the record just because Hawking has an opinion it doesn't magically become fact OR science.
I own 2 model B's, I've yet to find a use for them other than the one I have functioning as an NTP server with a GPS hooked to it. Anything more processor intensive and its pretty much not useful for the purpose.
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It has a say in the process, a tower can reject you, but the phone can also reject the tower and choose another as it sees fit. The negotiation can be rejected by either party, but has to be accepted by both tower and phone.
What YOU expect and reality are two different things. There is no 'full roaming', there is only 'unconfigured', and that ends the instant your phone connects to a network and is considered active. The preference list will be sent to your device before you make the first normal voice call. If you never activate a phone, you may not have a preference list, but thats extremely unlikely in america as pretty much every phone is sold in a way that its biased towards one of the major providers, even with no contract and 'unlocked'.
Your phone has a preference list, the preference list is one of the very first things your phone will get when it connects to the cellular network and finds a provider that considers it active. It comes with one preprogrammed (See above) and I would challenge you to find a phone that doesn't come with that preference list already populated (there are some, but I bet you have no idea which ones they are)
It will use that preference list with or without a sim card. Without a sim card, if the network it talks to accepts the phone to make the 911 call, it will use that network, but the network doesn't have to. Okay, legally it does, but we're not talking about legality we're talking about real world technicality.
If your phone no longer has service, it STILL has the last preference list it was sent, until it can authenticate (based on a valid sim card) with a network to get a new preference list.
Your sim card has a preference as well, based on the provider the sim card came from.
The only way your phone doesn't have a preference list is if its brand new, never been activated on anyones network and never had a sim card in it.
Then it will contact any network tower that will let it communicate, and that communication lasts just long enough for the phone to determine if its an active device with service or not, and if active, what towers it should prefer based on the provider ID of the tower.
Never?
Your phone communicates with multiple towers at any given time if they are in range.
Cell phones don't ALWAYS use the strongest signal, in fact, I don't know of any cell phone in the US which is set to use signal strength as the highest value in its tower selection.
Provider comes first. Your phone will select a weaker but usable tower from a list the provider provides it over a flawless signal from a tower that would cost it 'roaming' charges.
So it really doesn't matter what these boxes put out from a signal strength. Your phone will listen to the tower, maybe even exchange some info with it, then determine its not part of your providers network or the tower 'rejects' your phone and your phone will continue using a real tower.
At no point is your phone stupid enough to talk to some random signal exclusively, UNLESS it has all the authentication information required for your phone to believe it is a tower from your provider specifically unless it can't find a tower from your provider.
Caveat: These boxes could authenticate themselves as your provider (Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, etc), but there is no need to do so to get the IMEA number of your device so there is no reason for them to fake being a real provider.
Nope, can't see it. The Gnome foundation is fucking retarded. And so are you if you think this is the right thing to have happened.
Anyone who knows what EITHER of these systems are is not going to be confused. I knew about the Gnome POS long before I knew that the gnome foundation had some sort of touch interface and I've been following Linux since the late 90s.
This is a bullshit case of bulling.
Yea, its sad that the development world has turned to multi-process instead of fixing their damn code
That alone should be grounds for the GNOME Project's case.
No, it is of no value to them. The Gnome project doesn't have a case, not a leg to stand on.
Gnome (the environment) is not a POS system. They are in no way competing with or associated with Gnome (the POS). Just using the same name is not trademark violation. Trademark's come into issue when the public may get confused, there is pretty much 0 chance of that happening here. Anyone who knows what EITHER of these products are is going to know which one you are referring to and will have no difficulty keeping the two seperate.
Coca-cola doesn't get to sue coal companies for using the word Coke just because they own the trademark on the word Coke.
The fact that you're even implying Gnome (the environment) just shows how utterly ignorant so many people are of the way trademarks work.
The fact that you're modded to +5 just shows that slashdot is ruled by a bunch of ignorant fanboys who think Gnome is being abused, but rant and rave if the roles are reversed.
Any argument you could have had was utterly destroyed when you showed your ignorance and fanaticism.
The energy range for the particle detected fell almost exactly in-between the values expected for super symmetry and the values expected for the standard model.
I don't think you've been paying attention if you think it matched up perfectly with everything already thought about the standard model. It most certainly did not.
Uhm, the particle at CERN had properties that didn't match either of the predicted properties of the Higgs boson. The particle they detected fell almost exactly in the middle of where the competing theories said it should have been.
In other words, they got it WAY fucking wrong, or this is a different particle. It is CERTAINLY NOT LEAVING THE SAME EVIDENCE AS THE PREDICTED POSSIBILITIES FOR A HIGGS BOSON.
Breathing isn't a function of the brain proper. The top of your spinal cord handles those responsibilities for the most part.
The Linux that runs on it by default? Want to run something other than Linux such as your own OS? CAN'T! Proprietary GPU Boot blob that requires you to essentially be a Broadcom employee to know anything about it.
rpi is fast enough to do many tasks
A few basic tasks. Saying many is pushing the definition of many.
it is small
Compared to what? Its not really that small, there are certainly smaller in the same class and for less money. Realistically though, for experimentation its exactly the wrong size. For requiring a pin header to do anything, it should be way smaller, and its too small to do anything directly on the board. They picked essentially the exact wrong size.
cheap
Again, compared to what? In its class, its not that cheap. Its average at best, a bit pricey if you have to wait for it since you can get cheaper ones on a slow boat from china for better prices. This comes up every time some fanboy tries to make out like the Raspberry Pi is worth a shit. Its not. Stop trying to pretend its got good value. Its not the cheapest and the hardware is fundamentally flawed from the start because apparently making a minor rev to the board takes 5 years or more.
widely available
Is it? After waiting several years for it to finally get to the point where it wasn't constantly out of stock everywhere, I moved on. Perhaps its widely available now because anyone else who matters did as well.
well documented
Bullshit. The GPU is STILL locked down, and thats the part of the device thats actually useful. Broadcom released some specs a while back about the GPU that everyone went ape shit over ... but wasn't useful for actually doing anything and nothing at all actually came to fruition from it.
well supported.
Well supported? What? Seriously, what are you talking about? A bunch of random idiots on some forum that don't know jack shit about the hardware or the software does not make it well supported.
Just stop trying to pretend the Pi is awesome. It was an awesome idea before it came out, everything since then has been horrible. Production delays, lack of supply (Seriously, how the fuck can you not meet demand for years on end), bad hardware design, closed source GPU blobs that only work on specific linux distros and NOTHING ELSE.
Its crap. Wake up and smell the shit on your nose.
That would still be theft of service, its still theft even if you don't want to recognize it as such.
And that has exactly dick to do with Aarpm Swartz.
He didn't expose you to some massive cover up. He was a common criminal who couldn't handle the fact that he got caught. Any 'good' he did was by dumb luck and coincidental, not intentional.
He was not a hero. Stop pretending he was or bullshitting about what he did, you just cheapen the actions of those who have done heroic deeds.
Do you even know what he did and why he got in trouble? I don't think you do.
Good for you, you created your own unique ID that can be used to track you just as effectively as the one they use themselves. What were you trying to accomplish?
Except ATSC IS better than the Internet for distributing large amounts of video over regional areas. Streaming video over the Internet, as its done now, is extremely wasteful from a resource perspective. Each viewer requires its own duplicate stream, rather than just sharing the same stream as everyone else.
Switch the Internet to IP multicast, THEN you MIGHT have a comparison ... not really, but at least you're getting into the same ballpark.
ATSC over the air broadcast can effectively serve as many receives as there are in its range without additional resources. Serving 1 or 1 billion is the same resource usage, only distance determines required resources. You do not need more bandwidth for more viewers. With IP (without using multicast), you still have the distance issue, but you also need an additional resource share for each additional view and there is no savings for larger numbers of viewers either. It just gets worse as you add viewers.
WTF aren't we using multicast dammit.
This 'story' is just a copy/paste from Ars Technica used to get the submitters URL/username on the front page of slashdot.
Drop GPL v3, most everyone I know isn't going to touch you with a 10 foot pole if you use GPLv3. Just like using GPL is a matter of principle, NOT using v3 is a matter of principle for many people. Yes, some people like GPLv3, most don't. Do you really want your entire user base to be composed of rabid fanboys?
Fix your shitty website. You point people to source forge ... which is crappy by modern standards, and then link to your website ... which has basically no useful information what so ever on the front page ... and a link back to sourceforce ... wtf?
Your website uses arrow keys to navigate? Seriously? Not sure how you could make it any less usable. This alone tells me I don't want to bother with your software any further, you clearly have no concept of staying within established design paradigms and think you can do something better than the standard when you clearly can't. I don't have to go any further to know that you are bad at designing something. You're changing things for the sake of change, not because it does something better. Have you actually used the Internet in the last 10 years? This website is a shining example of how to do it wrong ... and you're trying to push technology when you clearly don't know how to use technology? To use words that match your dated website ... epic fail.
You're deriving your template language from XL? No point in bothering to continue this discussion, you ... like the authors of XL ... don't get it. Just stop.
Let me guess ... you're a democrat ...
Seriously, pot meet kettle, you're both black as night.
His first plane design, the VariViggen [wikipedia.org] was an astonishingly different design than anything out there before;
So a design based on an existing military aircraft, only smaller ... is astonishingly different?
He didn't invent the canard or delta wing.
I think you might want to read the first paragraph of the article you linked too.
His point (not one that I agree with) is that not too many people invest millions of dollars into companies who want to make climbing Everest a product.
Settings->Privacy->AppName
Your just stupid if you didn't know this already since its regularly brought up as a shitty thing that android lacks.
And you've never used an iOS device either ... Since the OS asks you before allowing the app to do things. It's a system that requires you to opt in, and the app has to work if you opt-out or it gets rejected from the App Store unless the functionality is central to the app.
A camera app will not get approved if it won't work when denied access to your contacts, as an example.
Android is designed to pretend you have options when you don't. It's all or nothing and the permissions aren't even fine grained anymore, they are broken into large groups so updates can do all sorts of stuff that they didn't originally.
Android is decidedly anti-owner in this respect where as iOS is the opposite, decidedly pro-owner
That'd probably raise some anti-trust issues, though.
Whats good for the goose is good for the gander. CurrentC stores in the CurrentC consortium (thats what it is, regardless of what they call it) are actively blocking NFC cards, one of which allowed it to occur for a period of time and then when a competitor hit the market before them, they actively worked to disable the ability to use the service.
Any sort of anti-trust issue that arises from Google and Apple banning their apps is the same as CurrentC users banning the use of NFC. They lost this battle when they took active steps to stop a working system. They might have had an argument about 'not upgrading to equipment with NFC' for various reasons, but thats not what they did. CVS has NFC capable equipment and WAS accepting it, then turned it off.
They (CurrentC) loses
You need to stop acting like you understand something when you clearly don't.
The pope is not infallible.
You simply will not have it held against you on judgement day if he is wrong and you follow that bit of being wrong.
And of course ... A corrupt pope a while ago is the one who made that decree, So throwing your responsibilities to behave properly out the window just because 'the pope says its ok' is pretty stupid and I doubt it would fly come judgement day. You don't let your children get by with that sort of logic, neither would 'the father'
With that said, there is nothing in science that conflicts with catholism (which is the only one I know well enough to comment on). And for the record just because Hawking has an opinion it doesn't magically become fact OR science.
Since when were package managers a UNIX thing?
I own 2 model B's, I've yet to find a use for them other than the one I have functioning as an NTP server with a GPS hooked to it. Anything more processor intensive and its pretty much not useful for the purpose.