So, you have some inside knowledge of exactly which piece of edge metal does what - which are trim, which are antennae. Please share, or your claim makes no sense. What does make sense is that both Verizon and Apple were aware of issues with the GSM iPhone design, and would want to make changes to correct that.
Because Verizon said they had to fix the antenna issue which AT&T users complained about, obviously. It's not because of CDMA, it's because they had to design new phone anyway, and while doing so fixed the problem. The feature set/iOS may be fundamentally the same, but it's new phone.
But, marketspeak-wise, Apple can't come right out and say they fixed a problem they claimed they never had.
ATT & Verizon both use the 800 MHz (traditional cellular band) and 1900 MHz ("PCS" band) frequencies, just with different protocols (CDMA vs. GSM). There was no need for new iPhone antennae based on the frequencies they have to handle. Any Apple claim that it was done because of CDMA is just marketing BS.
Sorry to have screwed up the joke for you. I don't program in C, just used the first "hello world" I found, copied the GPL header, and used bash style comments.
Other than you, I think most people understood it.
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. # #include <stdio.h> main() {
for(;;)
{
printf ("World peace!\n");
} }
"don't ask a public or private ER to treat you at their or taxpayer's expense...On one there is personal freedom, on the other is personal responsibility and accountability. Pick both or neither."
Well, yes, but I'd argue that the dichotomy is between freedom/liberty, and feeling an entitlement to have others assume responsibility for you. I'd hope that people would be responsible/accountable, and still have their freedom.
The fundamental issue, ISTM, is that people want to legislate morals (vs. ethics). Saying no one should be denied ER treatment is one thing, expecting to force that belief on everyone ("taxpayers") to pay for it is another. This is not the proper role of government. Healthcare isn't a right. (Well, it is so far as the gov't has no authority to say you can't barter for healthcare on a private basis - you have a right to pay for, and receive, healthcare, but no right to demand that others pay for yours).
It isn't proper for the government of a free society to say that no one can be refused ER treatment, it's the responsibility of those who believe no one should be denied it to provide it themselves through private charity.
"Need I remind you of what the state of the market was before Apple introduced the iPhone?
Considering the iPhone was introduced (January 2007) more than a year and a half before Android (October 2008), the state of the Android Market was obviously "nonexistent," so it's not surprising there were "NO APPS!"
Your point was...that competition from the iPhone invigorated stagnant Android application development???
Or, maybe, you're referring to the overall marketplace for PDA-type device apps, and conveniently ignoring Palm, RIM, and WinMo, even Newton, for which there were plenty of apps, especially when one considers the lower available bandwidth and higher data transport costs at the time. Even if you restrict it to smartphones, Palm, RIM and WinMo were out with available apps when there were NO APPS for the iPhone (i.e. before it was released).
"You cannot get a computer without Windows in the first place."
www.apple.com HTH! HAND!
"Plus you need Microsoft Word and Excel to get your work done or to communicate with the government. Plus you need Windows to play the games out there. You even need Windows to pay your taxes."
You're fabricating things. My in-laws do all those things, and don't even have a computer.
Microsoft (in its best Groucho Marx voice): Have you ever seen any pictures of yourself in the nude?
User (sounding like Margaret Dumont): Why, good gracious, no!
Microsoft: Well then, would you like to buy some?
The market disagrees with you, as customers continue to purchase, and MS continues to profit from, their software offerings. Pricing is only relative to the market. From a purely economic perspective, it might be overpriced if by reducing the price they get greater profits from an increase in sales. But, I suspect that MS is pretty sharp about finding the price points which maximize profit.
"I paid over a hundred bucks for XP"
In fact, you disagree with yourself, unless you're claiming that MS somehow forced you to buy it. You had a choice, you chose to pay. If you would have paid "over a hundred bucks"+1, then it was underpriced for you. Ferraris are overpriced for me, but not for the market, since they're still a profitable business.
RIM is losing market share to both Apple and Android-based smartphones. The number in use (installed base) doesn't matter as much as how many new ones they're selling (market share). Use caution when looking up the numbers - some research firms (Nielsen, for one) incorrectly label installed base as "market share."
Well, if you make up words, I guess you get to define them to mean whatever you want. If "Android wins on customability," then iPhone wins on appleability.
How is this news? The year old Motorola Droid (also using an ARM Cortex A8 core) was overclocked to 1.2 GHz quite a while ago (as with all overclocking, it works fine with some units, not so well with others). I understand the Hummingbird has had some microcode tweaks, and so is a bit more efficient than the OMAP (5-10%), but that's mice nuts. This isn't news, or even very interesting outside of Nexus S owner circles.
you get what you pay for. If email is valuable to you, back it up yourself, or get a service which provides an SLA (uptime, backup, etc). MS's Hotmail specifically says they're not responsible for loss of data. But, people use it because it's free, then want to bitch when there's a problem.
It depends on which timezone you're in. 2011 started at different (relative) times in different places. The OP was correct, based on the timezone of/.'s servers (I don't see any timezone setting for my account, so I'm assuming the times and date divisions which/. shows are local to the server - EST) . The most accepted "world time" is UTC, and in that timezone, the first article was "Four IT Consultants Charged With $80MM NYC Rip-Off."
The text for the second slide twice incorrectly states that there were 40 platters. In fact, the IBM 350 had 50.
And it wasn't 5 MB (or MiB, either) in the modern sense, it was 5 million 6 bit (+ 1 parity bit) characters. Due to the head design, which placed two moveable heads between platters, I suspect that there were only 98 surfaces available, so it was probably 2% short of an actual 5 million characters.
LOL. Are you seriously trying to claim that the under $100 filing fees of a few dozen candidates, pays for the cost of a statewide primary? That doesn't even pay for printing the ballots. I'll give the benefit of the doubt that you're not really that stupid, but just flailing yourself trying to defend your (incorrect) point.
Here's the Michagan Law, which makes it clear that presidential primaries are funded by the state government.
Texas goes so far as to allow paying parties for their internal costs: "state funds may be spent as provided by this chapter to pay expenses incurred by a political party in connection with a primary election." - Texas Election code, section 173.001.
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And the open alternative to Flash is....? (Other than the subset provided by HTML5/WebM)
So, you have some inside knowledge of exactly which piece of edge metal does what - which are trim, which are antennae. Please share, or your claim makes no sense. What does make sense is that both Verizon and Apple were aware of issues with the GSM iPhone design, and would want to make changes to correct that.
Because Verizon said they had to fix the antenna issue which AT&T users complained about, obviously. It's not because of CDMA, it's because they had to design new phone anyway, and while doing so fixed the problem. The feature set/iOS may be fundamentally the same, but it's new phone.
But, marketspeak-wise, Apple can't come right out and say they fixed a problem they claimed they never had.
ATT & Verizon both use the 800 MHz (traditional cellular band) and 1900 MHz ("PCS" band) frequencies, just with different protocols (CDMA vs. GSM). There was no need for new iPhone antennae based on the frequencies they have to handle. Any Apple claim that it was done because of CDMA is just marketing BS.
Sorry to have screwed up the joke for you. I don't program in C, just used the first "hello world" I found, copied the GPL header, and used bash style comments.
Other than you, I think most people understood it.
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
for(;;)
{
printf ("World peace!\n");
}
}
"don't ask a public or private ER to treat you at their or taxpayer's expense ...On one there is personal freedom, on the other is personal responsibility and accountability. Pick both or neither."
Well, yes, but I'd argue that the dichotomy is between freedom/liberty, and feeling an entitlement to have others assume responsibility for you. I'd hope that people would be responsible/accountable, and still have their freedom.
The fundamental issue, ISTM, is that people want to legislate morals (vs. ethics). Saying no one should be denied ER treatment is one thing, expecting to force that belief on everyone ("taxpayers") to pay for it is another. This is not the proper role of government. Healthcare isn't a right. (Well, it is so far as the gov't has no authority to say you can't barter for healthcare on a private basis - you have a right to pay for, and receive, healthcare, but no right to demand that others pay for yours).
It isn't proper for the government of a free society to say that no one can be refused ER treatment, it's the responsibility of those who believe no one should be denied it to provide it themselves through private charity.
If you have control over the network infrastructure, you can give a host DHCP/DNS info which might not be right and make it go where you want.
Major automotive security alert!!11!!! If someone steals your car, they get the stuff inside, too.
"Need I remind you of what the state of the market was before Apple introduced the iPhone?
Considering the iPhone was introduced (January 2007) more than a year and a half before Android (October 2008), the state of the Android Market was obviously "nonexistent," so it's not surprising there were "NO APPS!"
Your point was...that competition from the iPhone invigorated stagnant Android application development???
Or, maybe, you're referring to the overall marketplace for PDA-type device apps, and conveniently ignoring Palm, RIM, and WinMo, even Newton, for which there were plenty of apps, especially when one considers the lower available bandwidth and higher data transport costs at the time. Even if you restrict it to smartphones, Palm, RIM and WinMo were out with available apps when there were NO APPS for the iPhone (i.e. before it was released).
You lost/broke something, and chose to replace it. You're confusing "want" and "need."
"You cannot get a computer without Windows in the first place."
www.apple.com HTH! HAND!
"Plus you need Microsoft Word and Excel to get your work done or to communicate with the government. Plus you need Windows to play the games out there. You even need Windows to pay your taxes."
You're fabricating things. My in-laws do all those things, and don't even have a computer.
Microsoft (in its best Groucho Marx voice): Have you ever seen any pictures of yourself in the nude?
User (sounding like Margaret Dumont): Why, good gracious, no!
Microsoft: Well then, would you like to buy some?
The market disagrees with you, as customers continue to purchase, and MS continues to profit from, their software offerings. Pricing is only relative to the market. From a purely economic perspective, it might be overpriced if by reducing the price they get greater profits from an increase in sales. But, I suspect that MS is pretty sharp about finding the price points which maximize profit.
"I paid over a hundred bucks for XP"
In fact, you disagree with yourself, unless you're claiming that MS somehow forced you to buy it. You had a choice, you chose to pay. If you would have paid "over a hundred bucks"+1, then it was underpriced for you. Ferraris are overpriced for me, but not for the market, since they're still a profitable business.
RIM is losing market share to both Apple and Android-based smartphones. The number in use (installed base) doesn't matter as much as how many new ones they're selling (market share). Use caution when looking up the numbers - some research firms (Nielsen, for one) incorrectly label installed base as "market share."
Well, if you make up words, I guess you get to define them to mean whatever you want. If "Android wins on customability," then iPhone wins on appleability.
move along.
How is this news? The year old Motorola Droid (also using an ARM Cortex A8 core) was overclocked to 1.2 GHz quite a while ago (as with all overclocking, it works fine with some units, not so well with others). I understand the Hummingbird has had some microcode tweaks, and so is a bit more efficient than the OMAP (5-10%), but that's mice nuts. This isn't news, or even very interesting outside of Nexus S owner circles.
"So it installs flash?"
Steve Jobs, is that really you?!
Of course. sans = Storage Area NetworkS, which is obviously where the author thinks the problem lies.
you get what you pay for. If email is valuable to you, back it up yourself, or get a service which provides an SLA (uptime, backup, etc). MS's Hotmail specifically says they're not responsible for loss of data. But, people use it because it's free, then want to bitch when there's a problem.
It depends on which timezone you're in. 2011 started at different (relative) times in different places. The OP was correct, based on the timezone of /.'s servers (I don't see any timezone setting for my account, so I'm assuming the times and date divisions which /. shows are local to the server - EST) . The most accepted "world time" is UTC, and in that timezone, the first article was "Four IT Consultants Charged With $80MM NYC Rip-Off."
The text for the second slide twice incorrectly states that there were 40 platters. In fact, the IBM 350 had 50.
And it wasn't 5 MB (or MiB, either) in the modern sense, it was 5 million 6 bit (+ 1 parity bit) characters. Due to the head design, which placed two moveable heads between platters, I suspect that there were only 98 surfaces available, so it was probably 2% short of an actual 5 million characters.
"Hope those states have good lawyers. They're going to need them."
Why? They have the judges in their pocket.
LOL. Are you seriously trying to claim that the under $100 filing fees of a few dozen candidates, pays for the cost of a statewide primary? That doesn't even pay for printing the ballots. I'll give the benefit of the doubt that you're not really that stupid, but just flailing yourself trying to defend your (incorrect) point.
"Foley says it's a team of about six people who operate and take care of the ball year round."
They must be members of the Ball Handlers Union.
Making shit up doesn't work well as an argument.
Here's the Michagan Law, which makes it clear that presidential primaries are funded by the state government.
Texas goes so far as to allow paying parties for their internal costs: "state funds may be spent as provided by this chapter to pay expenses incurred by a political party in connection with a primary election." - Texas Election code, section 173.001.