Are voice calls over LTE handled similar to VoIP? If so, does this mean calls will have the same pricing as data (because they are the same). Does this entirely change the mobile phone business model?
It's about time someone develops a pure data phone for GSM, and not sell it through one of the carriers. But instead sell it independently, and have the users get their own SIM through a carrier and sign up for a data only plan. Then have VoIP, or whatever, I'm not a techie, but someone could figure it out.
Why phones remain tethered to carriers is beyond me. They give away the phones so they can ream you with the monthly charge. I got pay-as-you-go via t-mobile & I pay much less, and without a contract, than a monthly plan.
My condo assn had DTV in the dues, so I got the 2-tuner TiVo, and all was well. 2 years in the power supply went out & I went to get another DTivo. Well, this was right after the switch to DTV Crap DVR. I was still SD at the time, and was curious if Tivo was really that much better than the generic ones, so I picked up Crap DVR SD 2-tuner at Bestbuy.
WOW! Talk about a nightmare! The interface was slow & many of the subtle features of Tivo were gone. (ever notice on Tivo when you're fast forwarding then press play, it'll rewind a few seconds cause it knows you've bypassed the part you want? Other DVRs dont have that feature).
So I returned Crap DVR and was able to track down one of the last DTivos in retail stores.
was that a Zune-brown turtleneck Steve was wearing?
Totally, I noticed that too. He's usually wearing U2 iPod black. Maybe he's jealous MSFT got hip on the new color before iPod could capitalize on the new Nano.
I was thinking more of keeping my data private from the nefarious plans of others, and likewise our mis-trust of them. Because I need to OnStar car, ADT my home, V-chip my kids, and now DriveTrust my data. All to make me feel secure.
It's all irrational fear perpetrated by the bogeyman.
I'm well aware of my own nihilism, and am helpless against it. How can I place meaning in anything that isn't chosen by me to have it, therefore having no inherent meaning. And without anything greater than me to guide my actions, I'm reduced to simple hedonism.
Or am I? Without artificial bounds, and in spite of meaninglessness, I'm free to live life as I please, or become whatever I want. And ultimately, my outcome is entirely my own responsibility. If I decide to become a WoW addict, I may, and accept the benefits and consequences of such. I may also decide to live life to it's fullest, whatever that means to me.
Clearly CAPTCHA's are working as intended, to increase the cost of spamming. Before, the costs of spamming was close to zero, now it costs $0.60 an hour, for say 1000 spams per hour, or $0.0006 per spam. $0.0006 >> $0
Inefficient spam that returns less than $0.0006 will be stopped. Want to further reduce spam? Increase the time it takes to solve a CAPTCHA, instead of 5 letter, use 10 or 15 or 30! At some point legitimate posters will not be bothered, and all but the most efficient spam will be removed.
I got a DS lite for my wife last week with Brain Academy & Animal Crossing. She was pretty disappointed when she found out I bought it. She's not a video game player.
Lets say she's hooked on Animal Crossing now. I never believed it could happen. She's all over collecting sea shells, bugs, paying off the mortgage, designing clothes & decorating.
Now I know what it looks like when I play WoW all day. Pretty soon I'm gonna want my wife back (and play WoW a little less too).
As I mentioned in my post below, MSFT will never support an AdBlock feature in IE7. They get substantial revenue (and growing) from online advertising, and would never jepordize that. Reason #1 I will never use IE7.
IE7 will never implement or allow a plugin (if they even have plugin's, I haven't bothered to check), that has the functionality of adblock. MSFT gets substantial revenues from online advertising, and enabling users to block their own ads would be counterproductive.
Sort of like when Sony wouldn't allow MP3's to play on any of their electronic devices because they also own Sony Records.
This is why I'll never use IE again (and stopped buying Sony too).
I'm not going to be converted to some life insurance, or a box of cookies, so why am I watching ads for those things? Rather, why are these people throwing money away on me if it's not going to turn into a conversion for them?
Advertising works. Maybe not for every product for every person, but for some products for some people. Why else would they spend billions of dollars on it?
EVE Online anyone? Why split resources between MMORPG's? They seriously benefit from economies of scale - so spliting players between nearly identical style games would only make two medicore games instead of one truly awesome one.
Bought my copy today. Reading the WoW VN boards gives the impression that the players are scared that GW will be better than WoW. Given that WoW has a poor endgame, a real level grind to 60 & non-implemented Battlegrounds; and GW already has a PvP oriented endgame, I think it's going to steal quite a bit of Blizzards business.
Nearly all those things most necessary for survival and betterment in the USA do not get counted in the CPI (Consumer Price Index) -- things like health care, housing, heating, and higher education have been increasing at nearly double digit rates.
Check your sources. All those things are included in the CPI. It's just that their increases are being offset by lower prices for consumer goods (the Wal-Mart effect) and factory farming. The net change is that fixed costs (the things you mentioned) have increaed while discretionary costs have gone down. High fixed costs increase the risk of going bankrupt as when someone looses their job, giving up the "frills" isn't enough to stay finacially afloat.
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Are voice calls over LTE handled similar to VoIP? If so, does this mean calls will have the same pricing as data (because they are the same). Does this entirely change the mobile phone business model?
Of course we've always been at peace with Eurasia, what were you thinking?
It's about time someone develops a pure data phone for GSM, and not sell it through one of the carriers. But instead sell it independently, and have the users get their own SIM through a carrier and sign up for a data only plan. Then have VoIP, or whatever, I'm not a techie, but someone could figure it out.
Why phones remain tethered to carriers is beyond me. They give away the phones so they can ream you with the monthly charge. I got pay-as-you-go via t-mobile & I pay much less, and without a contract, than a monthly plan.
FYI, this frequency is an E note 15 octaves below middle C (C5). Well below the perceptible frequency of the human ear (10Hz+).
My condo assn had DTV in the dues, so I got the 2-tuner TiVo, and all was well. 2 years in the power supply went out & I went to get another DTivo. Well, this was right after the switch to DTV Crap DVR. I was still SD at the time, and was curious if Tivo was really that much better than the generic ones, so I picked up Crap DVR SD 2-tuner at Bestbuy.
WOW! Talk about a nightmare! The interface was slow & many of the subtle features of Tivo were gone. (ever notice on Tivo when you're fast forwarding then press play, it'll rewind a few seconds cause it knows you've bypassed the part you want? Other DVRs dont have that feature).
So I returned Crap DVR and was able to track down one of the last DTivos in retail stores.
Totally, I noticed that too. He's usually wearing U2 iPod black. Maybe he's jealous MSFT got hip on the new color before iPod could capitalize on the new Nano.
Give me the blue pill.
I was thinking more of keeping my data private from the nefarious plans of others, and likewise our mis-trust of them. Because I need to OnStar car, ADT my home, V-chip my kids, and now DriveTrust my data. All to make me feel secure.
It's all irrational fear perpetrated by the bogeyman.
DriveMisTrust sounds more like it.
How long until internet addition replaces the Mel Gibson defense?
I'm well aware of my own nihilism, and am helpless against it. How can I place meaning in anything that isn't chosen by me to have it, therefore having no inherent meaning. And without anything greater than me to guide my actions, I'm reduced to simple hedonism.
Or am I? Without artificial bounds, and in spite of meaninglessness, I'm free to live life as I please, or become whatever I want. And ultimately, my outcome is entirely my own responsibility. If I decide to become a WoW addict, I may, and accept the benefits and consequences of such. I may also decide to live life to it's fullest, whatever that means to me.
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Clearly CAPTCHA's are working as intended, to increase the cost of spamming. Before, the costs of spamming was close to zero, now it costs $0.60 an hour, for say 1000 spams per hour, or $0.0006 per spam. $0.0006 >> $0
Inefficient spam that returns less than $0.0006 will be stopped. Want to further reduce spam? Increase the time it takes to solve a CAPTCHA, instead of 5 letter, use 10 or 15 or 30! At some point legitimate posters will not be bothered, and all but the most efficient spam will be removed.
Try using an alogrithm to compute the spin of an electron.
I got a DS lite for my wife last week with Brain Academy & Animal Crossing. She was pretty disappointed when she found out I bought it. She's not a video game player.
Lets say she's hooked on Animal Crossing now. I never believed it could happen. She's all over collecting sea shells, bugs, paying off the mortgage, designing clothes & decorating.
Now I know what it looks like when I play WoW all day. Pretty soon I'm gonna want my wife back (and play WoW a little less too).
As I mentioned in my post below, MSFT will never support an AdBlock feature in IE7. They get substantial revenue (and growing) from online advertising, and would never jepordize that. Reason #1 I will never use IE7.
IE7 will never implement or allow a plugin (if they even have plugin's, I haven't bothered to check), that has the functionality of adblock. MSFT gets substantial revenues from online advertising, and enabling users to block their own ads would be counterproductive.
Sort of like when Sony wouldn't allow MP3's to play on any of their electronic devices because they also own Sony Records.
This is why I'll never use IE again (and stopped buying Sony too).
I'm not going to be converted to some life insurance, or a box of cookies, so why am I watching ads for those things? Rather, why are these people throwing money away on me if it's not going to turn into a conversion for them?
Advertising works. Maybe not for every product for every person, but for some products for some people. Why else would they spend billions of dollars on it?
With CableCARD 2.0, the tech would be there to make this possible. They could even prevent programs from being DVR'd in the first place.
EVE Online anyone? Why split resources between MMORPG's? They seriously benefit from economies of scale - so spliting players between nearly identical style games would only make two medicore games instead of one truly awesome one.
Actually, the founding fathers were "diests", not "theists". All Christians would qualify as theists.
"nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation"
And says nothing about private property be taken for private use, therefore this isn't protected by the 5th.
Bought my copy today. Reading the WoW VN boards gives the impression that the players are scared that GW will be better than WoW. Given that WoW has a poor endgame, a real level grind to 60 & non-implemented Battlegrounds; and GW already has a PvP oriented endgame, I think it's going to steal quite a bit of Blizzards business.
It'll probably take mine.
Don't worry, it will be on PC within a year.
Makes me wish I never purchased my XBox, as all the games I want to play eventually end up on the PC.
Nearly all those things most necessary for survival and betterment in the USA do not get counted in the CPI (Consumer Price Index) -- things like health care, housing, heating, and higher education have been increasing at nearly double digit rates.
Check your sources. All those things are included in the CPI. It's just that their increases are being offset by lower prices for consumer goods (the Wal-Mart effect) and factory farming. The net change is that fixed costs (the things you mentioned) have increaed while discretionary costs have gone down. High fixed costs increase the risk of going bankrupt as when someone looses their job, giving up the "frills" isn't enough to stay finacially afloat.
I wonder why He made Number Theory incomplete...