Its like the story of the 2 bakers that had stores next door to each other, so were both not making much money. One put his prices up, the other put his prices down. Guess which one survived?
AT&T is the short-sighted baker who is still trying to charge you $10 for a loaf of bread and lock you into only doing business with them, because to do so makes them more money per customer.
T-Mobile has broken ranks with the price-fixing collusion of the big carriers, and are now trying to charge a fairer price and not lock people in, on the basis that Americans aren't actually stupid so will switch to a better deal. Honestly I'm not as sure as they apparently are about that one. T-mobile now make less money per customer, but are gambling on ending up with way more customers and it being a net win. I hope T-Mobile are proved righ and do win because companies like AT&T badly need to be given a black eye for their sleazy price gouging and nickel-and-diming practices.
>> some people are wondering if humanity has already gone through The Great Filter and miraculously survived or if it's still on our horizon and may lead to our extinction."
I think the Great Filter is almost certainly a "survival through intelligence" test. Species on planets that successfully survive inevitable global threats that come along with technological advancement (such as nuclear wars, runaway global warming etc) are the ones that pass simply by surviving.
They only survived because they were smart enough to all take a long-term view and actively resolve problems, rather than avoid change, live in denial and/or not take responsibility for their own actions just so a few individuals can make/retain more money/power in the short term.
Unfortunately I don't see humanity even coming close to a chance of passing such a test, so it can't be that we've already gone through it.
>> There are already 128GB internal memory phones on the market. (Admittedly they are still rare.) But surely that would also be better than your S3, despite not having an sd slot.
No, because its no trouble to carry more than 1 SD card should I ever have the need.
The 128GB ( minus system space) is a hard memory limit with internal-only phones. There is no hard memory limit with a phone that can also take SDs.
Its a cool toy but its only that. I think the reason 3D printing hasn't become more ubiquitous is that there really is no need to print much in the average home. I'm having a hard time trying to imagine what the average person would need to print often enough to justify buying a 3D printer for.
Even as a geek I'm having a hard time coming up with more than a couple of things I would ever like to print myself, especially given the resolution of hot plastic deposition technology still isn't upto printing very fine/small gears or other highly detailed parts.
For me at least, the current situation is that for the 2 or 3 things I would ever want to print, it still works out both cheaper and better print quality for me to pay someone with a commercial 3D printer to do a run for me, rather than buying my own makerbot or whatever.
Your logic is all based on the assumption that a phone that supports SD necessarily also has a smaller (read: inadequate) internal space for just apps, when comapred to phones without SD slots.
I don't think that is even close to true. Furthermore for me at least any currently available phone that only has internal memory already isn't big enough for all my needs.
Your example of making too-small partitions isn't even close to being a logical equivalent of having the abiltiy to also plug in an SD card.
>> You are arguing with me about a phone that is now 2 generations old. We're talking new phones and the future here: USB3 (and beyond).
Not as far as I'm concened. My whole point is that I have a 2 generations old phone that nothing newer can compete with, because most don't support SD.
>> Surely you don't re/re your SD card everytime you need to add another 2 dozen new songs to the card or copy the latest 2 dozen photos off it.
No, but if I want to put a couple more movies on it I do. I don't even have that option with any phone that only has internal memory.
Are you sayting this is a common probem? (I wouldn't know because I've never personally expereinced it or even heard of it until now). Does it only happen if you install the app on SD rather than internal memory?
>> You need more than 64GB, and that's fine but you just need more than 64GB... it doesn't really matter if its internal or not does it.
You are so badly short of common sense and misunderstanding all my points I'm thinking you must be trolling. Let me try one more time to spell it out: One big advantage of having a completely separate volume (i.e SD card) for media is that you can even fill up the SD card completely, and still have no fear that the phone will become unstable because the os or some installed app tried and failed to grab a few more bytes of storage, potentially making the whole system unstable.
>> Would you prefer the system's smaller internal storage filled up and unable to install anything new, even though you've got 10s of gigabytes free on the add on card?
OK you REALLY must be trolling here. Are you really setting the same scenario I just described above, and then against all logic and common sense trying to justify that running out of system memory is somehow less likely to happen if you also put all your media on internal memory too?
>> The limiting factor is the SD card write speed, not USB3. Moving it back and forth for speed will steadily be less relevant. Maybe still relevant this generation of phones/computers... probably not for the next.
Rather than try and prove me wrong by just hypothjesising I must be, why don't you actually try it? At least with my Galaxy S3, the write performance difference is factors of 10-100 times slower to store stuff on the SD card via plugging the phone into USB over plugging in the SD card directly into my PC. Presumably the MTP emulation by the phone OS, and/or just having the extra step of a whole other processor (i.e. the phone itself) in between the transfer between a PC and the SD card is what is adding a significant extra latency/performance cost.
All Google has done is to force badly behaved apps to stop writing all over SD cards. As far as I understand, this is a good thing with no downsides, unless you happen to be one of the clueless developers that are hacking sloppy apps together.
I didn't see anything in the article that would or should lead to the "deprecation" of SD storage itself, in fact now it is less likely to get trashed by ill-behaved apps, its use should be more supported, not less.
A policy of deprecation of SD, if it exists at all, sounds far more like a marketing strategy that is designed to make/save more corporate money, rather than being actually in the best interest of the users themselves or the actual usefulness of their phones.
Sorry whatever is left over from 64gb after system and apps have taken their chunks wont cut it for me.
I also like having my stuff on a totally different and removeable media for several reasons: 1) I can completely fill up my SD card with my crap without also worrying about putting my phone system or apps out of storage space, because they use the internal memory no the SD card.
2) Its easier to see exactly what you have if you keep your media on the SD card, as its the only thing on there, whereas the phone's internal storage is filled up with all sorts of crap from the system too.
3) I can transfer large files/lots of data to/from my phone a lot quicker by removing and using the SD card directly, than using a USB connector via the phone, which would be the only choice for internal memory.
Just to let you know, no Google/Nexus phones have SD slots either. That's another range of phone models to avoid.
I did read somewhere that it was actually a (very retarded) conscious decision by Google to not have SD slots on their phones, the intent being to force you to store everything in the cloud and stream it as-needed instead. I guess the moron who thought of that one didn't even consider how people would watch a DVD or do anything else while in-flight or anywhere out of cell range, or the added load/cost that would put on your data plan.
I guess they also didn't consider many people were smart enough to think about that ahead of time.
I'm frankly surprised not many other people here seem to be all over the lack of an SD slot.
I like having my entire music collection, my entire photo library and 1 or 2 movies with me just in case. I also like being able to use my phone as a USB stick if I need to....and in case anyone suggests it, storing it all in the cloud just doesn't cut it.
Being a millionaire is nothing. Lets assume the average age of a developer is young 30's. by the time they retire, a million won't buy much at all.
Given inflation if someone currently aged 30 starts a mortgage on an average house now, they will probably be a millionaire in property assets alone by the time they retire.
Since Snowden's revelation about the NSA's clandestine $10 million contract with RSA,
I hope that as well as checking that the code implements some known encryption algorithm properly, that they also confirm that the algorithm itself is mathematically unadulterated (by the NSA or whoever).
wow I'm amazed that so many people are sooo desperate to pay a staggering $1500 just for a beta version of a head mounted camera that freaks other people out and makes you look like a twat. I think I'll save $1500 and just duct tape my phone to my forehead.ï
Yeah autobahns are cool but am I right in thinking that German car insurance has clauses that it becomes invalid over about 90mph? When I worked in Bavaria some years ago I was told yes you can drive at 100+mph but if you have an accident it could financially ruin your life as at that speed its out of your pocket.
It used to be 35hrs a long time ago, however 40+ hours has been the norm in France since maybe the 90's, however compared to the US, all countries in the EU especially France get a lot more holidays days and vacation time as standard.
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nah, Laser Videodisc is the future.
Its like the story of the 2 bakers that had stores next door to each other, so were both not making much money.
One put his prices up, the other put his prices down.
Guess which one survived?
AT&T is the short-sighted baker who is still trying to charge you $10 for a loaf of bread and lock you into only doing business with them, because to do so makes them more money per customer.
T-Mobile has broken ranks with the price-fixing collusion of the big carriers, and are now trying to charge a fairer price and not lock people in, on the basis that Americans aren't actually stupid so will switch to a better deal. Honestly I'm not as sure as they apparently are about that one. T-mobile now make less money per customer, but are gambling on ending up with way more customers and it being a net win.
I hope T-Mobile are proved righ and do win because companies like AT&T badly need to be given a black eye for their sleazy price gouging and nickel-and-diming practices.
I think this is just another example of how badly the US has slipped in the world standings in just the last decade.
The US now can't even get people up to the space station that just 15 years ago they were taking a lead position in creating.
>> some people are wondering if humanity has already gone through The Great Filter and miraculously survived or if it's still on our horizon and may lead to our extinction."
I think the Great Filter is almost certainly a "survival through intelligence" test. Species on planets that successfully survive inevitable global threats that come along with technological advancement (such as nuclear wars, runaway global warming etc) are the ones that pass simply by surviving.
They only survived because they were smart enough to all take a long-term view and actively resolve problems, rather than avoid change, live in denial and/or not take responsibility for their own actions just so a few individuals can make/retain more money/power in the short term.
Unfortunately I don't see humanity even coming close to a chance of passing such a test, so it can't be that we've already gone through it.
Because its retarded to have to carry all that shit about just because a phone doesn't support SD.
>> There are already 128GB internal memory phones on the market. (Admittedly they are still rare.) But surely that would also be better than your S3, despite not having an sd slot.
No, because its no trouble to carry more than 1 SD card should I ever have the need.
The 128GB ( minus system space) is a hard memory limit with internal-only phones. There is no hard memory limit with a phone that can also take SDs.
Its a cool toy but its only that.
I think the reason 3D printing hasn't become more ubiquitous is that there really is no need to print much in the average home. I'm having a hard time trying to imagine what the average person would need to print often enough to justify buying a 3D printer for.
Even as a geek I'm having a hard time coming up with more than a couple of things I would ever like to print myself, especially given the resolution of hot plastic deposition technology still isn't upto printing very fine/small gears or other highly detailed parts.
For me at least, the current situation is that for the 2 or 3 things I would ever want to print, it still works out both cheaper and better print quality for me to pay someone with a commercial 3D printer to do a run for me, rather than buying my own makerbot or whatever.
Your logic is all based on the assumption that a phone that supports SD necessarily also has a smaller (read: inadequate) internal space for just apps, when comapred to phones without SD slots.
I don't think that is even close to true. Furthermore for me at least any currently available phone that only has internal memory already isn't big enough for all my needs.
Your example of making too-small partitions isn't even close to being a logical equivalent of having the abiltiy to also plug in an SD card.
>> You are arguing with me about a phone that is now 2 generations old. We're talking new phones and the future here: USB3 (and beyond).
Not as far as I'm concened. My whole point is that I have a 2 generations old phone that nothing newer can compete with, because most don't support SD.
>> Surely you don't re/re your SD card everytime you need to add another 2 dozen new songs to the card or copy the latest 2 dozen photos off it.
No, but if I want to put a couple more movies on it I do. I don't even have that option with any phone that only has internal memory.
45mph doesn't actually sound very fast to me, especially going down.
Are you sayting this is a common probem? (I wouldn't know because I've never personally expereinced it or even heard of it until now). Does it only happen if you install the app on SD rather than internal memory?
>> You need more than 64GB, and that's fine but you just need more than 64GB... it doesn't really matter if its internal or not does it.
You are so badly short of common sense and misunderstanding all my points I'm thinking you must be trolling. Let me try one more time to spell it out:
One big advantage of having a completely separate volume (i.e SD card) for media is that you can even fill up the SD card completely, and still have no fear that the phone will become unstable because the os or some installed app tried and failed to grab a few more bytes of storage, potentially making the whole system unstable.
>> Would you prefer the system's smaller internal storage filled up and unable to install anything new, even though you've got 10s of gigabytes free on the add on card?
OK you REALLY must be trolling here. Are you really setting the same scenario I just described above, and then against all logic and common sense trying to justify that running out of system memory is somehow less likely to happen if you also put all your media on internal memory too?
>> The limiting factor is the SD card write speed, not USB3. Moving it back and forth for speed will steadily be less relevant. Maybe still relevant this generation of phones/computers... probably not for the next.
Rather than try and prove me wrong by just hypothjesising I must be, why don't you actually try it? At least with my Galaxy S3, the write performance difference is factors of 10-100 times slower to store stuff on the SD card via plugging the phone into USB over plugging in the SD card directly into my PC. Presumably the MTP emulation by the phone OS, and/or just having the extra step of a whole other processor (i.e. the phone itself) in between the transfer between a PC and the SD card is what is adding a significant extra latency/performance cost.
All Google has done is to force badly behaved apps to stop writing all over SD cards. As far as I understand, this is a good thing with no downsides, unless you happen to be one of the clueless developers that are hacking sloppy apps together.
I didn't see anything in the article that would or should lead to the "deprecation" of SD storage itself, in fact now it is less likely to get trashed by ill-behaved apps, its use should be more supported, not less.
A policy of deprecation of SD, if it exists at all, sounds far more like a marketing strategy that is designed to make/save more corporate money, rather than being actually in the best interest of the users themselves or the actual usefulness of their phones.
Sorry whatever is left over from 64gb after system and apps have taken their chunks wont cut it for me.
I also like having my stuff on a totally different and removeable media for several reasons:
1) I can completely fill up my SD card with my crap without also worrying about putting my phone system or apps out of storage space, because they use the internal memory no the SD card.
2) Its easier to see exactly what you have if you keep your media on the SD card, as its the only thing on there, whereas the phone's internal storage is filled up with all sorts of crap from the system too.
3) I can transfer large files/lots of data to/from my phone a lot quicker by removing and using the SD card directly, than using a USB connector via the phone, which would be the only choice for internal memory.
I for one read your first post as implying it specifically had to be a prepaid plan.
Just to let you know, no Google/Nexus phones have SD slots either. That's another range of phone models to avoid.
I did read somewhere that it was actually a (very retarded) conscious decision by Google to not have SD slots on their phones, the intent being to force you to store everything in the cloud and stream it as-needed instead. I guess the moron who thought of that one didn't even consider how people would watch a DVD or do anything else while in-flight or anywhere out of cell range, or the added load/cost that would put on your data plan.
I guess they also didn't consider many people were smart enough to think about that ahead of time.
>> if you take us down, you could take the entire cloud storage industry down with us.
For me that alone is a good enough reason to shut them down right there.
No SD slot == No Thanks.
I'm frankly surprised not many other people here seem to be all over the lack of an SD slot.
I like having my entire music collection, my entire photo library and 1 or 2 movies with me just in case. I also like being able to use my phone as a USB stick if I need to. ...and in case anyone suggests it, storing it all in the cloud just doesn't cut it.
So "slacking off" is anything under 50 hours/week now? Thats retarded.
Thanks :-)
Being a millionaire is nothing.
Lets assume the average age of a developer is young 30's. by the time they retire, a million won't buy much at all.
Given inflation if someone currently aged 30 starts a mortgage on an average house now, they will probably be a millionaire in property assets alone by the time they retire.
>> 56 percent expect to become millionaires in their lifetime.
yeah and 99% of software engineers also seriously believe their initial time estimate to have that feature implemented by was actually realistic.
Since Snowden's revelation about the NSA's clandestine $10 million contract with RSA,
I hope that as well as checking that the code implements some known encryption algorithm properly, that they also confirm that the algorithm itself is mathematically unadulterated (by the NSA or whoever).
wow I'm amazed that so many people are sooo desperate to pay a staggering $1500 just for a beta version of a head mounted camera that freaks other people out and makes you look like a twat. I think I'll save $1500 and just duct tape my phone to my forehead.ï
Yeah autobahns are cool but am I right in thinking that German car insurance has clauses that it becomes invalid over about 90mph?
When I worked in Bavaria some years ago I was told yes you can drive at 100+mph but if you have an accident it could financially ruin your life as at that speed its out of your pocket.
It used to be 35hrs a long time ago, however 40+ hours has been the norm in France since maybe the 90's, however compared to the US, all countries in the EU especially France get a lot more holidays days and vacation time as standard.