Is there no end to the usefulness of these 'carbon nanotubes'? And, umm...how many decades before we actually see something commercially viable that uses them?
I have been pretty lucky with the banks I use. Years ago, I suddenly had some transactions from Ireland show up on my card. I went to a local branch and talked to someone. I simply filled out a form, they gave me a new card and refunded the money right there.
More recently, I went on vacation and made one transaction with my debit card. About an 30 minutes later I got a call from a strange number, so I let it go to VM. The next time I tried to use the card it was declined. Annoyed I listened to my Vm and it was the bank (TD bank) asking me to call them back. I did and they asked me to confirm the area I was at and what my recent transactions were, once I confirmed them, they reactivated the card. Actually pretty nice of them.
+1!! God damn it annoys me when people start whining about the second "page flip". 99% of people don't read fast enough for this to be an issue anyway.
No. It depends on the business. I work for a financial services company and our LOB is about 130 bodies with ~50 dedicated to IT. That includes DBAs/INF/Devs/Arch/PMs. We don't even provide help desk services. And we are drinking through a fire hose with the workload from the business. The LOB, of course, is a web based financial management service with a lot of demanding clients. But our parent company (a bank) has about 25K employees with 4K that are considered IT which isn't nearly the ratio we are but is much higher than 60/1.
Fairness would be selling the phones at standard unlocked prices and letting people buy their contracts ala carte. Of course that would also mean much higher phone prices, how many people would buy the iphone or Droid at $600? In the long run consumers would be better off for it, but many seem to want the latest and greatest but don't want to pay more than a couple hundred bucks to get it.
Sure, and in "fairness" if you buy a phone at full price, your bill would be less the cost of the ETF each month..right? Oh, sorry, you do not get a discount for paying the "retail" price of any device. So, i guess if the monthly charge is the same either way I'll take the discount.
I'm not trying to be a nudge here, but I'm confused about the two screens thing....When you are reading a typical novel, you are probably reading one page at a time. So why exactly is only seeing one page at a time such an issue? You get the same view without all the awkward shape and pages flapping about. Granted, if your consuming pages quicker than the reader can refresh it might be an issue, but few people read that quickly, especially for pleasure.
They want to push some color, flashy, embedded video having, online capable version of a magazine? Hmmm.. I think I've seen that somewhere..oh, yeah, like a fucking website? WTF?
This already exists, its called the web and no, it will not "threaten" the kindle, whatever that means. The kindle is pretty good at one thing, books and the eInk is great for extended reading. Not text books or big picture books, but regular ol books, you know, the majority of books. If you want some type of hybrid web enabled, color/video-ized,futuristic media delivery medium then I suggest you wait until apple releases its tablet next year. Oh, and let them help you design it, dummies.
Sort of.. lifetime access is rolled into the cost of the device(and probably a sliver of each paid d/l). But you would never call sprint(kindle) or Att(nook) for any reason whatsoever about the device. You can even crudely browse the web with the kindle with no additional charge. So there is no "lock", the data provider is black box to you, the ebook delivery is simply magic and really, its not a cell phone.
I was actually hoping the Kindle would be the start of the Wireless cartel becoming what they should be, dumb pipes.
They(Sprint/Clearwire) have been trying to push Wimax for 4g mobile networks forever now and a lot of dummies have bought into it. LTE is going to be the 4g wireless standard. About the only thing Wimax is good for is last mile fixed position connectivity. Which is probably not a bad niche to service. But even Clearwire just said recently that they could easily flip to LTE with just a software push, so even they are hedging their bets.
Whether global warming is true or not really doesn't matter much.
YES IT DOES, RTFA!!!!
Also the UK government didn't buy any salt for the snow we had this week because they thought global warming wasn't going to make it cold enough. Another example of why it matters when people lie about global warming.
umm.. one would have thought they didn't buy salt because they hadn't received snow like that in a decade... But I'm sure you're right, because it makes sense for them to base the decision some sensationalist headline on -insert some website here-.
However, considering even in the "mega-opolis" of DC to Boston, almost no one, has 100/10 FTTH. Even VZW's FIOS is only 15/5 generally. And with tv costs more than the OPs 55Eu cost. His point was spot on- We are getting screwed by our ISPs. Hard. And its easy because there is little to no competition.
PS. I pray daily for FIOS in my area so I can tell Comcast to F off. I f-ing hate their guts and hope they go under.
Sure.. it's different, and just about useless, they might as well say you can have an Exabyte for all it matters. Unless you're in one of the few areas TMo actually has 3g you'll be crawling along at EDGE speeds or even GPRS.. Good luck using up that 10GB at 50kbps. I'd take the 5GB/60$ for 5GB that I could actually use
The OP forgot to mention this is about GADGETS, not "Technology" as a whole. If it were, it would be an embarrassing list. As it stands, a couple of the items are interesting, and most are more about implementation of fairly common ideas being the "breakthrough".
Too bad no one will ever know because no one actually RTFA.
Isn't the whole "magnetoshpere" going away anyways? Shouldn't we be spending time looking at how to save the planet from becoming Mars V2? Or it could just be those silly poles flipping again..
Actually I would think that would indeed make him a great "politician".. after all, if they do that and manage to get elected/re-elected, they will continue to be a politician. Which is of course the only goal of a politician.
a. they are teaming with Sprint. Sprint?! Sprint is a sinking ship
b. Comcast & Time Warner? blood sucking shithole companies whose employees I hope choke on their own vomit. Nothing good can come from their involvement. Roberts can go fuck himself in particular.
Furthermore, what is the supposed advantage of WiMax over LTE in the mobile comunications space? It sucks without LOS. When moving the performance is dismal. It's not the long term plan for the vast majority of mobile operators, including VZW. If the goal is fixed last mile access, maybe it's viable. But for cell phones, it's just weak.
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Simply garbage, which is not surprising considering the source. That is all.
Is there no end to the usefulness of these 'carbon nanotubes'? And, umm...how many decades before we actually see something commercially viable that uses them?
Sure..probably in 2018 when vzw/AT&T might have LTE coverage over most of their footprint and they are selling LTE only devices.
I have been pretty lucky with the banks I use. Years ago, I suddenly had some transactions from Ireland show up on my card. I went to a local branch and talked to someone. I simply filled out a form, they gave me a new card and refunded the money right there. More recently, I went on vacation and made one transaction with my debit card. About an 30 minutes later I got a call from a strange number, so I let it go to VM. The next time I tried to use the card it was declined. Annoyed I listened to my Vm and it was the bank (TD bank) asking me to call them back. I did and they asked me to confirm the area I was at and what my recent transactions were, once I confirmed them, they reactivated the card. Actually pretty nice of them.
bzzzzt. Sorry, that's incorrect. I turn off the network connection and still could not play either COD or AC2. This is a disgrace. F Sony.
+1!! God damn it annoys me when people start whining about the second "page flip". 99% of people don't read fast enough for this to be an issue anyway.
No. It depends on the business. I work for a financial services company and our LOB is about 130 bodies with ~50 dedicated to IT. That includes DBAs/INF/Devs/Arch/PMs. We don't even provide help desk services. And we are drinking through a fire hose with the workload from the business. The LOB, of course, is a web based financial management service with a lot of demanding clients. But our parent company (a bank) has about 25K employees with 4K that are considered IT which isn't nearly the ratio we are but is much higher than 60/1.
Fairness would be selling the phones at standard unlocked prices and letting people buy their contracts ala carte. Of course that would also mean much higher phone prices, how many people would buy the iphone or Droid at $600? In the long run consumers would be better off for it, but many seem to want the latest and greatest but don't want to pay more than a couple hundred bucks to get it.
Sure, and in "fairness" if you buy a phone at full price, your bill would be less the cost of the ETF each month..right? Oh, sorry, you do not get a discount for paying the "retail" price of any device. So, i guess if the monthly charge is the same either way I'll take the discount.
I'm not trying to be a nudge here, but I'm confused about the two screens thing....When you are reading a typical novel, you are probably reading one page at a time. So why exactly is only seeing one page at a time such an issue? You get the same view without all the awkward shape and pages flapping about. Granted, if your consuming pages quicker than the reader can refresh it might be an issue, but few people read that quickly, especially for pleasure.
They want to push some color, flashy, embedded video having, online capable version of a magazine? Hmmm.. I think I've seen that somewhere..oh, yeah, like a fucking website? WTF? This already exists, its called the web and no, it will not "threaten" the kindle, whatever that means. The kindle is pretty good at one thing, books and the eInk is great for extended reading. Not text books or big picture books, but regular ol books, you know, the majority of books. If you want some type of hybrid web enabled, color/video-ized,futuristic media delivery medium then I suggest you wait until apple releases its tablet next year. Oh, and let them help you design it, dummies.
Sort of.. lifetime access is rolled into the cost of the device(and probably a sliver of each paid d/l). But you would never call sprint(kindle) or Att(nook) for any reason whatsoever about the device. You can even crudely browse the web with the kindle with no additional charge. So there is no "lock", the data provider is black box to you, the ebook delivery is simply magic and really, its not a cell phone. I was actually hoping the Kindle would be the start of the Wireless cartel becoming what they should be, dumb pipes.
They(Sprint/Clearwire) have been trying to push Wimax for 4g mobile networks forever now and a lot of dummies have bought into it. LTE is going to be the 4g wireless standard. About the only thing Wimax is good for is last mile fixed position connectivity. Which is probably not a bad niche to service. But even Clearwire just said recently that they could easily flip to LTE with just a software push, so even they are hedging their bets.
I'm a sorcerer level 40 and I already have this ad free, oh and several hundred AutoM8s under my control..
in 2009.. I guess we'll have super 3G!!
He is correct.
YES IT DOES, RTFA!!!!
Also the UK government didn't buy any salt for the snow we had this week because they thought global warming wasn't going to make it cold enough. Another example of why it matters when people lie about global warming.
umm.. one would have thought they didn't buy salt because they hadn't received snow like that in a decade... But I'm sure you're right, because it makes sense for them to base the decision some sensationalist headline on -insert some website here-.
If they can't afford a digital television, then they'd probably be better off without one for a while. What are they going to do? Riot? over TV?
However, considering even in the "mega-opolis" of DC to Boston, almost no one, has 100/10 FTTH. Even VZW's FIOS is only 15/5 generally. And with tv costs more than the OPs 55Eu cost. His point was spot on- We are getting screwed by our ISPs. Hard. And its easy because there is little to no competition.
PS. I pray daily for FIOS in my area so I can tell Comcast to F off. I f-ing hate their guts and hope they go under.
Sure.. it's different, and just about useless, they might as well say you can have an Exabyte for all it matters. Unless you're in one of the few areas TMo actually has 3g you'll be crawling along at EDGE speeds or even GPRS.. Good luck using up that 10GB at 50kbps. I'd take the 5GB/60$ for 5GB that I could actually use
The OP forgot to mention this is about GADGETS, not "Technology" as a whole. If it were, it would be an embarrassing list. As it stands, a couple of the items are interesting, and most are more about implementation of fairly common ideas being the "breakthrough".
Too bad no one will ever know because no one actually RTFA.
Isn't the whole "magnetoshpere" going away anyways? Shouldn't we be spending time looking at how to save the planet from becoming Mars V2? Or it could just be those silly poles flipping again..
Actually I would think that would indeed make him a great "politician".. after all, if they do that and manage to get elected/re-elected, they will continue to be a politician. Which is of course the only goal of a politician.
a. they are teaming with Sprint. Sprint?! Sprint is a sinking ship
b. Comcast & Time Warner? blood sucking shithole companies whose employees I hope choke on their own vomit. Nothing good can come from their involvement. Roberts can go fuck himself in particular.
Furthermore, what is the supposed advantage of WiMax over LTE in the mobile comunications space? It sucks without LOS. When moving the performance is dismal. It's not the long term plan for the vast majority of mobile operators, including VZW. If the goal is fixed last mile access, maybe it's viable. But for cell phones, it's just weak.
"It works on my machine" from your lexicon. It only makes you seem like a jackass to everyone else.
That SUCKS FAT DONKEY DICK. I thought it was just our resident testing monkeys. Apparently it's an industry wide problem.. Good to know.