Keep digging that hole, and it will get larger than the one you already are.
First, you're confusing time with frequency. Second, you're making up terms. Third, cell sites do require absolute time synchronization, and although they could have picked any random epoch, GPS time is used because it is conveniently provided by the GPS system which they use to achieve that synchronization.
CDMA requires accurate time synchronization among all base stations and mobile stations. The accuracy must be within a few microseconds among base stations because the pilot code phase is used to distinguish them. When a mobile station is communicating with a base station they must be synchronized to within a fraction of a chip (814 ns). And the "clocks" (the PN generators) that must be synchronized have a period of 37 centuries...System time is referenced to Global Positioning System (GPS) time.
Finally, you're unsuccessfully arguing against a single point in my original post, and there were four, any/all of which falsify your original argument, not that it takes much to find completely incorrect statements in what you post.
Just to correct my above comment before you do decide to use Google. CDMA (one and 2000), UMTS-TDD, OFDMA (LTE) cell sites require timing synchronization in the single digit microsecond range, which the vast majority receive from GPS. W-CDMA does not.
You're obviously ignorant of how modern cell phone infrastructure works. CDMA and W-CDMA (used by UMTS) require cell sites to be synchronized to the microsecond level. They use GPS timing receiver to do that.
NTP will get you in the millisecond range across a WAN, but not the microsecond precision needed for cellular systems to function.
Multitouch long predates Apple's patents, which amount to "we put multitouch on a flat screen device," as if that's not an obvious thing to do at the point where the cost/maturity make it economic/practical.
Civilians, on the other hand have no critical dependency on GPS.
What a load of rubbish.
Much of the cell phone infrastructure derives it's necessary precision timing from GPS. There are multiple scientific needs which depend on GPS (think VLBI). Marine users are dependent on GPS, older systems like LORAN have been, or are being, decommissioned. Mobile E911 service has a life critical dependency on GPS.
Heck, if you post publicly, you're everyone's intellectual property. At least you know Facebook is keeping info, but how many others are scraping Facebook and collecting info, and you don't even know?
Right on this page - Related Links - "77 Million Accounts Stolen From Playstation Network." And, as the summary says, this is about more than that - "PlayStation Network, Sony Entertainment Network, and Sony Online Entertainment."
So, yes, 93 million accounts is reasonable, based solely on information found on the same page you posted to.
The first part of the law should state "This is the problem we are trying to resolve."
Then let judges determine whether or not the executive (or a plaintiff) is using that law for that particular purpose.
Yea, that will work.
Like the way many federal laws start with "...interstate commerce..." (one of the few federal powers, so it's the justification for many federal laws), and then go on to legislate on things which aren't interstate commerce, and the courts play along. Wickard v. Filburn, as a single egregious example.
Apparently, IBM hasn't discovered the concept of filter, which can organize emails automatically. Hopefully, when they do, there won't be a new patent forthcoming.
Actually, the GSM crowd has already recognized the superiority of CDMA, that's why it's the most widely adopted air interface for UMTS (W-CDMA).
OFDM, which LTE uses, is better still, which is why everyone is moving to it.
But, the OP appears confused, since they compared GSM with CDMA, which is apples to oranges. They apparently meant to compare either GSM with CDMAone, or UMTS with CDMA2000. Or maybe TDMA with CDMA. It's not clear.
"wtf is Android doing exposing the device IMEI number, SIM serial numbers and files, contents of Contacts lists and SMS message stores, etc to any sort of app for in the first instance?"
Well, in the first place, an app has to demand access, and receive permission from the user before it can access such things. Every time you install an app, a list of permissions to be granted is present to the user for their permission. Now, it may be the case that most users just blindly hit "accept," but that's not an OS issue.
An app may use the IMEI or s/n for licensing (to lock itself to a specific phone or user). If it's a dialer app, it would be about useless without permission to see contact info, one might want an app which could be controlled by sending it an SMS. Why should Android limit the way a device is used, as long as the user is still in ultimate control?
You could at least not be so obvious when making up numbers.
In the US, for 2008 (the last year data is available for), the top 1% of earners (those making more than $380K AGI) paid 38% of all income taxes, paying at a rate of 23%. Those in the bottom 50% of earnings (<$33K AGI), paid 2.7% of the total, at a rate of 2.6%. Those in the "UMC," making $67-114K, (between the 10 and 25th percentiles), paid 16% of the total, at a rate of 9%.
Point to point? That's already how cell phone networks connect - cell phone to cell site.
Peer to peer? That only works if the person you happen to call is very local, cell phones don't have the power to go far.
I think you probably meant to ask why not create a mesh network, and that brings up issues of security and power consumption, without really helping the bandwidth. (Power consumption, because it would require more phones to be actively operating, rather than being idle, to work).
Although you can't get to the paywalled article, there is a barely legible chart, which shows the specific capacity, in mAh/g, to be ~2200. Current Li-Ion batteries, which use a graphite based anode, have a specific capacity of ~350 mAh/g. So 2200/350= ~6 times the capacity.
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First, you're confusing time with frequency. Second, you're making up terms. Third, cell sites do require absolute time synchronization, and although they could have picked any random epoch, GPS time is used because it is conveniently provided by the GPS system which they use to achieve that synchronization.
- cdg.org
Yes, cell sites did have GPS timing receivers prior to E911 location requirements. E911 location wasn't even a requirement until the end of 1995, and aging GPS timing receivers from cell sites were present on the surplus market years before that.
Finally, you're unsuccessfully arguing against a single point in my original post, and there were four, any/all of which falsify your original argument, not that it takes much to find completely incorrect statements in what you post.
Just to correct my above comment before you do decide to use Google. CDMA (one and 2000), UMTS-TDD, OFDMA (LTE) cell sites require timing synchronization in the single digit microsecond range, which the vast majority receive from GPS. W-CDMA does not.
You're obviously ignorant of how modern cell phone infrastructure works. CDMA and W-CDMA (used by UMTS) require cell sites to be synchronized to the microsecond level. They use GPS timing receiver to do that.
NTP will get you in the millisecond range across a WAN, but not the microsecond precision needed for cellular systems to function.
You probably have too much hubris to use Google.
was this done with his permission? He presumably holds the copyright, and took them down for reasons apparently only known to himself.
Multitouch long predates Apple's patents, which amount to "we put multitouch on a flat screen device," as if that's not an obvious thing to do at the point where the cost/maturity make it economic/practical.
What a load of rubbish.
Much of the cell phone infrastructure derives it's necessary precision timing from GPS. There are multiple scientific needs which depend on GPS (think VLBI). Marine users are dependent on GPS, older systems like LORAN have been, or are being, decommissioned. Mobile E911 service has a life critical dependency on GPS.
Heck, if you post publicly, you're everyone's intellectual property. At least you know Facebook is keeping info, but how many others are scraping Facebook and collecting info, and you don't even know?
that we'll see some changes to G+ shortly which (make it more clear)/(ask for confirmation) when posting publicly.
"Sony has over 93 million accounts?"
Right on this page - Related Links - "77 Million Accounts Stolen From Playstation Network." And, as the summary says, this is about more than that - "PlayStation Network, Sony Entertainment Network, and Sony Online Entertainment."
So, yes, 93 million accounts is reasonable, based solely on information found on the same page you posted to.
Yea, that will work.
Like the way many federal laws start with "...interstate commerce..." (one of the few federal powers, so it's the justification for many federal laws), and then go on to legislate on things which aren't interstate commerce, and the courts play along. Wickard v. Filburn, as a single egregious example.
Apparently, IBM hasn't discovered the concept of filter, which can organize emails automatically. Hopefully, when they do, there won't be a new patent forthcoming.
Actually, the GSM crowd has already recognized the superiority of CDMA, that's why it's the most widely adopted air interface for UMTS (W-CDMA).
OFDM, which LTE uses, is better still, which is why everyone is moving to it.
But, the OP appears confused, since they compared GSM with CDMA, which is apples to oranges. They apparently meant to compare either GSM with CDMAone, or UMTS with CDMA2000. Or maybe TDMA with CDMA. It's not clear.
"it's pretty clear that GSM is superior to CDMA "
+1 Funny
anything by Don Norman.
Peter Frampton said he wants to go.
"Actually a google search indicates that Innovatio IP Ventures, LLC is being used by"
I'm guessing you're dyslexic, and that should be "sued."
A hollow voice says "Plugh."
"wtf is Android doing exposing the device IMEI number, SIM serial numbers and files, contents of Contacts lists and SMS message stores, etc to any sort of app for in the first instance?"
Well, in the first place, an app has to demand access, and receive permission from the user before it can access such things. Every time you install an app, a list of permissions to be granted is present to the user for their permission. Now, it may be the case that most users just blindly hit "accept," but that's not an OS issue.
An app may use the IMEI or s/n for licensing (to lock itself to a specific phone or user). If it's a dialer app, it would be about useless without permission to see contact info, one might want an app which could be controlled by sending it an SMS. Why should Android limit the way a device is used, as long as the user is still in ultimate control?
It's HtcLoggers.apk, at least on my phone (or was :-) ). Case matters.
You could at least not be so obvious when making up numbers.
In the US, for 2008 (the last year data is available for), the top 1% of earners (those making more than $380K AGI) paid 38% of all income taxes, paying at a rate of 23%. Those in the bottom 50% of earnings (<$33K AGI), paid 2.7% of the total, at a rate of 2.6%. Those in the "UMC," making $67-114K, (between the 10 and 25th percentiles), paid 16% of the total, at a rate of 9%.
Source - http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html
Quick! We have to tax them, so they pay their fair share!
What do you mean by P2P?
Point to point? That's already how cell phone networks connect - cell phone to cell site.
Peer to peer? That only works if the person you happen to call is very local, cell phones don't have the power to go far.
I think you probably meant to ask why not create a mesh network, and that brings up issues of security and power consumption, without really helping the bandwidth. (Power consumption, because it would require more phones to be actively operating, rather than being idle, to work).
is brought to you by the Avogadro number.
Although you can't get to the paywalled article, there is a barely legible chart, which shows the specific capacity, in mAh/g, to be ~2200. Current Li-Ion batteries, which use a graphite based anode, have a specific capacity of ~350 mAh/g. So 2200/350= ~6 times the capacity.
"Switching from a steam locomotive to an Audi destroys muscle- and spatial- memory"
Witness the unintended acceleration associated with the Audi 5000. Casey Jones, you better watch your speed.