having lived in a various areas of the country "served" by comcast, I can assure you it sucks ass massively in some places and it is actually quite well done in others. probably due to the fact that comcast is mostly a lot of smaller companies that got consolidated into one horrible thing.... some of the smaller companies did a good job with infrastructure, some did not, and comcast just uses whatever the last guy did. their customer service is universally shit, but i've had a few places where that did not matter due to the service itself working near perfectly.
700,000 is more than there used to be, quite a bit more, hence the "not dying out". Whether the hobby justifies itself in terms of cost to people served is another question altogether, but when a hobby is adding new members at an increasing rate each year, hard to say that hobby is dying.
sorry, your rationalizations and guesses do not have any foundation in reality.
ham radio has been growing steadily for the past 6 years, with more new licenses issued each year than the last.. all during the same timeframe that social web sites became popular. Last year saw twice as many new ham licenses issued as 5 years prior. So.. the hobby doubled it's rate of new members during social networking's biggest boom. Doesn't seem to me that the communications options available online are having much effect on hma radio's popularity, although perhaps the increases in new hams would have been even larger if it weren't for the net (I am not sure myself, communicating via ham radio is quite a different thing than via the net and really serves a different role for the participant).
The lack of anonymity may be unappealing to some, but personally I appreciate the respectful and polite on air environment we currently enjoy and suspect personal accountability is a fundamental part of that. No one is forced, coerced or tricked into becoming an amateur radio operator. We transmit of our own free will, with full knowledge that we will be identifiable (or when chasing DX, the hope that we will be, at least:) We know that absolutely anyone of any age could be listening, licensed or not, perhaps anywhere in the world, and for the most part (with some unfortunate but well known exceptions) we act with respect for that. Being held personally responsible for how we use the privileges the license affords is part of the bargain, clearly explained from the beginning to all who become involved, and in my opinion makes the hobby better.
Compared to the nearly hidden, shady legalese you agree to when you use most online communications, where apparently confidential or anonymous communication may in fact not be at all either through intentional or criminal actions, I prefer simple rules that are clearly stated (and in fact well known to all members because we are tested on our knowledge of them prior to being allowed to participate).
"The fist iMac was the first PC ever not requiring a Monitor adjustment and setup - something most novices were not capable of"
Firstly.. the fist iMac? Sounds even more painful that the bending over you get from the typical Apple product.
And second, perhaps more seriously, monitor adjustment and setup? WTF is that? Color correction and crap like that? Novices (and an awful lot of experts) don't do that simply because they don't need to, not because of any particular difficulty found in the process.
most people simply plug the screen into the CPU box thingy and get on with their day.
I'm sure I disagree with a lot of other things you said, but quit reading after that line.
VPS is a temporary "fix" at best, as nearly all mail providers are now starting to list VPS-land IP space in the same category as residential/dynamic IP space. Any advantage using a VPS gives you in delivery is about to go away.
The cheap VPS providers where you need nothing more than a credit card (easily stolen) are abused by bulk emailers as much if not more than compromised home accounts, and email providers know this.
Probably not a big deal. Time just isn't that important. For instance the iPhones have screwed up simple time shifts multiple times, and noone seems that concerned about it.
How exactly is Google "selling" your information? It makes for a nice little quip, but I don't see truth here.
You know, there was a time when publications would not sell you a subscription without your *full mailing address* (the horror). Is a name, email and zip code really that big of a deal?
"It won't be limited to Android, either. Google says that One pass "offers payments in mobile apps, in instances where the mobile OS terms permit transactions to take place outside of the app market". Not the iPhone then, but it's possible we could see One Pass on BlackBerry OS, WebOS, Windows Mobile or even Symbian."
Sounds like the payments are done in the apps, not the OS. If so, should work fine on older Android systems, no need for an update from oems.
no, apple looks at existing tech and says "ok, how do we make money from selling essentially the same thing?". then they package it up in a form that appeals to the lowest common denominator and step 3, profit.
one problem with your proposal is that it takes nearly 3 minutes to transfer 10MB at 500Kbps, so the 128kpbs limit would never be imposed. Fix the math, most likely increase the sampling period to more like 5 or 10 minutes, add a huge amount of equipment on the carrier side to track all this in real time, pass the cost of said equipment on to the consumers, and it just might work
..some way to represent my vehicle as being about 10 feet behind and in front of where it actually is. cut me off, ride my ass, and maybe your car will complain.
Perhaps the bias against Oracle has more to do with how they've handled the situation. If this is indeed something that can be reasonably explained as a mistake and something that happened in code which is trivial/not part of the actual shipping Android product, then Oracle's behavior seems completely out of line. Google did not benefit from use of this code, and Oracle did not lose anything from it being in Google's sources, license changed or not.
This type of thing can be corrected easily and without the need for legal action. Restore the correct license, remove the files, etc.. exactly what Google has done. It seems that Oracle's motivation here is not to defend their rights but instead to seek profit from any violation of them, no matter how minor.
I just got my ticket last year, wish I hadn't waited so long. There is a lot more to the hobby than I think most people realize, certainly more than enough interesting applications that are using cutting edge technology to keep a person interested and learning for a long, long time.
I would imagine hams will be exploring new ways to do things with the radio spectrum for as long as the radio spectrum continues to exist.
Here's an example of fine Slashdot submissionship. In the idle section, they just submitted a picture for our readers. They left an anonymous submission that links to a picasa album displaying their own name , blamed the entirely wrong people, failed to identify the correct people despite apparently knowing who they are, and generally wasted everyone's time with a crap story. And if you're wondering — ah fuck it, thats as far as I can go with this.
perhaps a small point, but wasn't he fired by Apple's board for sucking the life out of Apple during his first shot at running the place? Expensive failures like the Apple III and Lisa, overspending on advertising for the Mac that didn't generate any sales, etc?
your experience is atypical. task killers are well known to reduce battery life, degrade performance, cause instability, and to just generally be a silly thing to do. Everyone from the Android development team to ROM hackers to multiple "experts" say the same thing: Don't run a task killler. Don't take my word for it...
and i mistyped 10 when i wanted to mean 14 million sold in Q4. would have been a stronger point, that apple sold more phones in Q4 10 than this 13 million additional gamers the article was talking about. oh well.
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having lived in a various areas of the country "served" by comcast, I can assure you it sucks ass massively in some places and it is actually quite well done in others. probably due to the fact that comcast is mostly a lot of smaller companies that got consolidated into one horrible thing.... some of the smaller companies did a good job with infrastructure, some did not, and comcast just uses whatever the last guy did. their customer service is universally shit, but i've had a few places where that did not matter due to the service itself working near perfectly.
700,000 is more than there used to be, quite a bit more, hence the "not dying out". Whether the hobby justifies itself in terms of cost to people served is another question altogether, but when a hobby is adding new members at an increasing rate each year, hard to say that hobby is dying.
and PS, I'm not some old cranky asshole defending his ancient hobby, I'm 33 (i guess maybe thats old to some :) and became a ham last year.
sorry, your rationalizations and guesses do not have any foundation in reality.
ham radio has been growing steadily for the past 6 years, with more new licenses issued each year than the last.. all during the same timeframe that social web sites became popular. Last year saw twice as many new ham licenses issued as 5 years prior. So.. the hobby doubled it's rate of new members during social networking's biggest boom. Doesn't seem to me that the communications options available online are having much effect on hma radio's popularity, although perhaps the increases in new hams would have been even larger if it weren't for the net (I am not sure myself, communicating via ham radio is quite a different thing than via the net and really serves a different role for the participant).
The lack of anonymity may be unappealing to some, but personally I appreciate the respectful and polite on air environment we currently enjoy and suspect personal accountability is a fundamental part of that. No one is forced, coerced or tricked into becoming an amateur radio operator. We transmit of our own free will, with full knowledge that we will be identifiable (or when chasing DX, the hope that we will be, at least :) We know that absolutely anyone of any age could be listening, licensed or not, perhaps anywhere in the world, and for the most part (with some unfortunate but well known exceptions) we act with respect for that. Being held personally responsible for how we use the privileges the license affords is part of the bargain, clearly explained from the beginning to all who become involved, and in my opinion makes the hobby better.
Compared to the nearly hidden, shady legalese you agree to when you use most online communications, where apparently confidential or anonymous communication may in fact not be at all either through intentional or criminal actions, I prefer simple rules that are clearly stated (and in fact well known to all members because we are tested on our knowledge of them prior to being allowed to participate).
"The fist iMac was the first PC ever not requiring a Monitor adjustment and setup - something most novices were not capable of"
Firstly.. the fist iMac? Sounds even more painful that the bending over you get from the typical Apple product.
And second, perhaps more seriously, monitor adjustment and setup? WTF is that? Color correction and crap like that? Novices (and an awful lot of experts) don't do that simply because they don't need to, not because of any particular difficulty found in the process.
most people simply plug the screen into the CPU box thingy and get on with their day.
I'm sure I disagree with a lot of other things you said, but quit reading after that line.
if we prevent the stupid from killing themselves we will never advance as a species, and will always have to deal with stupid people
I am going to have to buy one of these toys just so everything I do will become newsworthy
First up, I'm going to eat a sandwich WITH AN IPAD!!!
Next, I will do some dishes WITH AN IPAD!!!!
I'll take suggestions on what I can do after that, WITH AN IPAD!!!
(and sure, fuck right off is a valid suggestion, so long as its to fuck right off WITH AN IPAD!!!)
VPS is a temporary "fix" at best, as nearly all mail providers are now starting to list VPS-land IP space in the same category as residential/dynamic IP space. Any advantage using a VPS gives you in delivery is about to go away.
The cheap VPS providers where you need nothing more than a credit card (easily stolen) are abused by bulk emailers as much if not more than compromised home accounts, and email providers know this.
Probably not a big deal. Time just isn't that important. For instance the iPhones have screwed up simple time shifts multiple times, and noone seems that concerned about it.
How exactly is Google "selling" your information? It makes for a nice little quip, but I don't see truth here.
You know, there was a time when publications would not sell you a subscription without your *full mailing address* (the horror). Is a name, email and zip code really that big of a deal?
From another article:
"It won't be limited to Android, either. Google says that One pass "offers payments in mobile apps, in instances where the mobile OS terms permit transactions to take place outside of the app market". Not the iPhone then, but it's possible we could see One Pass on BlackBerry OS, WebOS, Windows Mobile or even Symbian."
Sounds like the payments are done in the apps, not the OS. If so, should work fine on older Android systems, no need for an update from oems.
no, apple looks at existing tech and says "ok, how do we make money from selling essentially the same thing?". then they package it up in a form that appeals to the lowest common denominator and step 3, profit.
one problem with your proposal is that it takes nearly 3 minutes to transfer 10MB at 500Kbps, so the 128kpbs limit would never be imposed. Fix the math, most likely increase the sampling period to more like 5 or 10 minutes, add a huge amount of equipment on the carrier side to track all this in real time, pass the cost of said equipment on to the consumers, and it just might work
that'll be $0.02
When Apple said 1984 wouldn't be like "1984", everyone just assumed this was because Apple was against the idea.
As it turns out, they are totally into it. They just didn't have the tech ready then.
..some way to represent my vehicle as being about 10 feet behind and in front of where it actually is. cut me off, ride my ass, and maybe your car will complain.
In all seriousness, I'd be interested to know why they chose an Android device over the iPhone.
Perhaps the bias against Oracle has more to do with how they've handled the situation. If this is indeed something that can be reasonably explained as a mistake and something that happened in code which is trivial/not part of the actual shipping Android product, then Oracle's behavior seems completely out of line. Google did not benefit from use of this code, and Oracle did not lose anything from it being in Google's sources, license changed or not.
This type of thing can be corrected easily and without the need for legal action. Restore the correct license, remove the files, etc.. exactly what Google has done. It seems that Oracle's motivation here is not to defend their rights but instead to seek profit from any violation of them, no matter how minor.
I just got my ticket last year, wish I hadn't waited so long. There is a lot more to the hobby than I think most people realize, certainly more than enough interesting applications that are using cutting edge technology to keep a person interested and learning for a long, long time.
I would imagine hams will be exploring new ways to do things with the radio spectrum for as long as the radio spectrum continues to exist.
And you must be new here if you're unfamiliar with the pointless poorly done parody post.
Now that we have that established, I'd suggest our relative uids leave little doubt as to who is "newer".
Here's an example of fine Slashdot submissionship. In the idle section, they just submitted a picture for our readers. They left an anonymous submission that links to a picasa album displaying their own name , blamed the entirely wrong people, failed to identify the correct people despite apparently knowing who they are, and generally wasted everyone's time with a crap story. And if you're wondering — ah fuck it, thats as far as I can go with this.
perhaps a small point, but wasn't he fired by Apple's board for sucking the life out of Apple during his first shot at running the place? Expensive failures like the Apple III and Lisa, overspending on advertising for the Mac that didn't generate any sales, etc?
your experience is atypical. task killers are well known to reduce battery life, degrade performance, cause instability, and to just generally be a silly thing to do. Everyone from the Android development team to ROM hackers to multiple "experts" say the same thing: Don't run a task killler. Don't take my word for it...
http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
http://www.droid-den.com/android-guides/android-guide-should-i-use-a-task-killer
http://androinica.com/2010/05/07/google-and-cyanogen-comments-imply-task-killermanager-apps-are-pointless/
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/android-task-killers-explained-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
http://androidspin.com/2010/05/25/why-you-dont-need-a-task-killer-app-with-android/
etc...
mostly this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter.svg
and i mistyped 10 when i wanted to mean 14 million sold in Q4. would have been a stronger point, that apple sold more phones in Q4 10 than this 13 million additional gamers the article was talking about. oh well.
Ok.. so there is even more than 100 million.
Stil no answer to the question: how does adding 13 to (more than 100 million) = double your market??
oh.. you're just going on some unrelated rant. ok then.