Yes. Mental note. If I want to play their shitty game (which I don't) I had better pirate it rather than buy it just in case they arbitrarily decide to prevent me from playing a game I paid them money for. Glad they cleared up that moral ambiguity for me.
I am sure they fight legitimate copyright cases as well, but the one in question is BS, and considering the media companies track record in this type of activity I have (and likely many people) zero sympathy for these guys.
I know its not about right and wrong, but about getting the maximum return for clients, but somewhere along the way I think justice got lost.
N900 would have GPS assist not a true GPS. You could use GPS via cell towers to triangulate position. Not sure about your bluetooth. Depends on how dense the tree cover is.
I know some wippersnappers would be talking about accuracy, and they would be arguing about 30cm stuff, and I would cut them off saying that it was me walking with an external antenna that's a meter long, and the point is where the signal is received not where the device is actually located, so its moot.
GPS does not work through solid objects period. Cell with GPS assist in a 3G area, however might work, not as accurate, but for their purposes likely... however a hog on the battery life, which is probably why they found the thing as apparently it had a battery pack the size of a large pipe bomb, and even then would have a very limited effective time span, not exactly the best design.
Well in terms of hosting, just about anywhere. The only cravat is that since it is a physical system, some physical person qualified needs to be there to run it. I mean technically you can run it all remotely, some someone has to be there for physical upgrades, maintenance, security, etc....
Most will be served by internet type companies, like hosting services, and network companies, however if you are a big company and don't want to be dependent on somebody else, then you would have to make, and staff your own. Which means moving staff to the new location, or hiring locals. Hiring locals only works if there is enough supply to meet demand. I suspect in 10-20 years this won't be a problem in most places.
Now that is not to say that once the US sees a mass exodus and the accompanying loss of control that it won't start moderating some of the crazy policies that seem to be coming up the last couple of years. I don't think I am along, when I think most companies wouldn't really appreciate some of the internet kill switch, homeland security DNS auto take down, court ordered no privacy BS, etc... policies that seem to be accumulating. Not to mention the whole media industry trying to do all sorts of nasty things to the network for their own ends.
At some point it will hit a threshold, where companies will be making the decision about risk and draconian policies VS the cost and ease of implementation. As soon as that starts tipping in the direction of cheaper, easy, safe, and less hassle, you can bet companies will start moving in droves. Once it starts, those that move will then likely have a competitive advantage, which will then spur on more to move in a snowball effect. Question is will the government see this trend in the next 10 years and do anything about it?
Though after commenting, I realized what they are likely doing is using a cell, GPS-assist and 3G to do it. While you wouldn't get a GPS signal down there, you could use a cell with GPS-assist to triangulate location from GPS cell towers, and transmit location data via 3G.
Way to go innovation! Making it easier to spy on me!
Pretty soon the US is going to see all parts of the internet hosted on non-US soil, to avoid all the US BS. Companies will follow suit. As will Jobs.
Then the US will just be a tiny speed bump on the information superhighway. I mean the great thing about the internet is that it is distributed, it doesn't actually have to exist in a certain place and thus be subject to its stupid laws. Just move the physical bits somewhere nicer.
To be honest I am not sure how it worked, unless they ran an antenna... GPS requires line of sight to satellites to actually work. Probably some super secret FBI technology!
Also how would they get the data out of it? Radio? Unlikely. It probably has a physical datalogger attached to it, which would require an agent to actually go and retrieve it. Its not like they are repositioning satellites to watch you in real time like Enemy of the State or anything. Unless they have some magic FBI technology (which I would suggest they do not), this is fairly passive intelligence. Which is why they want it back, because otherwise they have nothing.
I would say the opposite it true. Most younger folks I know, just want it to "work" and have no idea how that takes place. They deal with and depend on many magic black boxes.
My generation grew up through the development of all this stuff, so if you were interested you followed the whole creation and have at least a bit of understanding of how it came to be.
They may not be idiots in the sense they they can pick something up and intuitively know how to use it, because they grew up with people designing stuff for them, whereas someone grandmother won't have a clue. That doesn't mean they actually know anything about it other than I can click this button that does that.
They likely can't meet the standard for USB. I mean maybe they can't get 5v off the battery, unless perhaps it is plugged in, and then perhaps the whole system isn't made for handling that. Or they don't want people complaining that the battery doesn't last 10 hours when you hook it up to a 2.5" external hard drive sucking down all the juice. Would be useful I would admit, at least while plugged in and changing.
Not having an SD slot is just about product tiers and making money from planned obsolesce by limiting what you users can do. So yeah, that one is pure douchery.
Ya I did the calculations as well its pretty ridiculous and hypocritical to offer someone a 12MB/S account, with a MONTHLY Data up/down CAP of 60GB.
So that's 720MB/Min or 43200MB/Hour. So if you take 60000/43200, that's 1.38 hours of time before you exceed your Monthly CAP. That Doesn't even include Uploads, which you are also on the hook for. So even assuming that they are totally full of BS, and your 12MB account really can only every do half of that, that's still only about 3 hours of time until you are over your CAP paying 1.25$ a GB.
My favorite example was that it is actually cheaper the buy the most expensive SSD drive on the market, fill it full of data, and snail mail it to yourself, and when you get it, download the data, and throw the SSD away. If that is the actual state of our broadband, then it is being horribly mismanaged and should be taken away.
What enemy? All of them! Plus any we might ever have in the future. Yes our future enemies! Like T1000 was a future enemy to John Connor! Muhahaha! Mutter Mutter Mutter. Baseballs. Turnip. Frazzaldas. Twirp.
Does ANY body pay any attention to this anymore. Its been a joke for years. Canada has been on the list for years. The USA is the worst offender, yet not counted on its own list. The entire purpose is to try and throw fodder on the fire to introduce insane US friendly copyright law in Canada and others, mostly at the behest of the US media which have lobbyists and US politicians in their pockets.
I will NEVER vote for any government that supports this. Not even looking at the details of copyright, this is another country, being overly influenced by corporations and greed, trying to influence law in my country and infringing on our national sovereignty.
You can take you list and shove it. This type of action is not endearing your largest trading partner.
I mean there was a scandal up here, where it was found that the reports surrounding piracy, the government recommendations, AND the actual bill itself was largely authored, word for word, by the US media industry. I mean if it wasn't so sad it would be ironic (in that they copied the copyright material).
I will not shed one single tear for those companies, they can take off eh?
Not to mention the hypocrisy of these same company's selling there wears with promises of super fast downloads, streaming video, movies, fastest network, etc....
Oh but don't dare actually use it, you're a pirate then!
They are like some sort of petulant child, that's also crazy...
Are you really going to plug in 5 speakers and a sub to your 10" tablet? You going to carry around 5.1 speakers? Is anyone going to actually use this feature?
Yes I know you could dock it into a stereo setup at home for entertaining, but really....
HD Video is nice, though a bit limited. As you could fit like two movies on your 32GB model. Which means you have to stream it all....
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Yes. Mental note. If I want to play their shitty game (which I don't) I had better pirate it rather than buy it just in case they arbitrarily decide to prevent me from playing a game I paid them money for. Glad they cleared up that moral ambiguity for me.
Boo Hoo.
I am sure they fight legitimate copyright cases as well, but the one in question is BS, and considering the media companies track record in this type of activity I have (and likely many people) zero sympathy for these guys.
I know its not about right and wrong, but about getting the maximum return for clients, but somewhere along the way I think justice got lost.
Not that it is a big surprise coming from a media company.
Wait! We were talking about the US Dollar right?
N900 would have GPS assist not a true GPS. You could use GPS via cell towers to triangulate position. Not sure about your bluetooth. Depends on how dense the tree cover is.
I know some wippersnappers would be talking about accuracy, and they would be arguing about 30cm stuff, and I would cut them off saying that it was me walking with an external antenna that's a meter long, and the point is where the signal is received not where the device is actually located, so its moot.
GPS does not work through solid objects period. Cell with GPS assist in a 3G area, however might work, not as accurate, but for their purposes likely... however a hog on the battery life, which is probably why they found the thing as apparently it had a battery pack the size of a large pipe bomb, and even then would have a very limited effective time span, not exactly the best design.
Well in terms of hosting, just about anywhere. The only cravat is that since it is a physical system, some physical person qualified needs to be there to run it. I mean technically you can run it all remotely, some someone has to be there for physical upgrades, maintenance, security, etc....
Most will be served by internet type companies, like hosting services, and network companies, however if you are a big company and don't want to be dependent on somebody else, then you would have to make, and staff your own. Which means moving staff to the new location, or hiring locals. Hiring locals only works if there is enough supply to meet demand. I suspect in 10-20 years this won't be a problem in most places.
Now that is not to say that once the US sees a mass exodus and the accompanying loss of control that it won't start moderating some of the crazy policies that seem to be coming up the last couple of years. I don't think I am along, when I think most companies wouldn't really appreciate some of the internet kill switch, homeland security DNS auto take down, court ordered no privacy BS, etc... policies that seem to be accumulating. Not to mention the whole media industry trying to do all sorts of nasty things to the network for their own ends.
At some point it will hit a threshold, where companies will be making the decision about risk and draconian policies VS the cost and ease of implementation. As soon as that starts tipping in the direction of cheaper, easy, safe, and less hassle, you can bet companies will start moving in droves. Once it starts, those that move will then likely have a competitive advantage, which will then spur on more to move in a snowball effect. Question is will the government see this trend in the next 10 years and do anything about it?
Yes it would.
Though after commenting, I realized what they are likely doing is using a cell, GPS-assist and 3G to do it. While you wouldn't get a GPS signal down there, you could use a cell with GPS-assist to triangulate location from GPS cell towers, and transmit location data via 3G.
Way to go innovation! Making it easier to spy on me!
While you were writing that comment, Stephen King just finished and published 18 books. So there!
and what? Die? That's a tad insensitive even for Slashdot. I know we are all emotionless robots here but come on...
Don't post stuff in the USA.
Pretty soon the US is going to see all parts of the internet hosted on non-US soil, to avoid all the US BS. Companies will follow suit. As will Jobs.
Then the US will just be a tiny speed bump on the information superhighway. I mean the great thing about the internet is that it is distributed, it doesn't actually have to exist in a certain place and thus be subject to its stupid laws. Just move the physical bits somewhere nicer.
I mean anyone that uses GPS knows that it can be foiled by simple things like "leaves"....
Put it in a box. Bury it.
To be honest I am not sure how it worked, unless they ran an antenna... GPS requires line of sight to satellites to actually work. Probably some super secret FBI technology!
Also how would they get the data out of it? Radio? Unlikely. It probably has a physical datalogger attached to it, which would require an agent to actually go and retrieve it. Its not like they are repositioning satellites to watch you in real time like Enemy of the State or anything. Unless they have some magic FBI technology (which I would suggest they do not), this is fairly passive intelligence. Which is why they want it back, because otherwise they have nothing.
Likely the best response would be "What Box?"
I would say the opposite it true. Most younger folks I know, just want it to "work" and have no idea how that takes place. They deal with and depend on many magic black boxes.
My generation grew up through the development of all this stuff, so if you were interested you followed the whole creation and have at least a bit of understanding of how it came to be.
They may not be idiots in the sense they they can pick something up and intuitively know how to use it, because they grew up with people designing stuff for them, whereas someone grandmother won't have a clue. That doesn't mean they actually know anything about it other than I can click this button that does that.
They likely can't meet the standard for USB. I mean maybe they can't get 5v off the battery, unless perhaps it is plugged in, and then perhaps the whole system isn't made for handling that. Or they don't want people complaining that the battery doesn't last 10 hours when you hook it up to a 2.5" external hard drive sucking down all the juice. Would be useful I would admit, at least while plugged in and changing.
Not having an SD slot is just about product tiers and making money from planned obsolesce by limiting what you users can do. So yeah, that one is pure douchery.
Name one advantage.
Its not like it is made faster, or smaller. Its about product pricing tiers, and planned obsolesce.
Basically I am saying the only reason it is done is to limit what the user can do so they can make more money of them.
Ya I did the calculations as well its pretty ridiculous and hypocritical to offer someone a 12MB/S account, with a MONTHLY Data up/down CAP of 60GB.
So that's 720MB/Min or 43200MB/Hour. So if you take 60000/43200, that's 1.38 hours of time before you exceed your Monthly CAP. That Doesn't even include Uploads, which you are also on the hook for. So even assuming that they are totally full of BS, and your 12MB account really can only every do half of that, that's still only about 3 hours of time until you are over your CAP paying 1.25$ a GB.
My favorite example was that it is actually cheaper the buy the most expensive SSD drive on the market, fill it full of data, and snail mail it to yourself, and when you get it, download the data, and throw the SSD away. If that is the actual state of our broadband, then it is being horribly mismanaged and should be taken away.
That's perfectly sane and understandable.
What enemy? All of them! Plus any we might ever have in the future. Yes our future enemies! Like T1000 was a future enemy to John Connor! Muhahaha! Mutter Mutter Mutter. Baseballs. Turnip. Frazzaldas. Twirp.
Exactly what enemy are they referring to? Them? Adjusts Tinfoil hat.
Does ANY body pay any attention to this anymore. Its been a joke for years. Canada has been on the list for years. The USA is the worst offender, yet not counted on its own list. The entire purpose is to try and throw fodder on the fire to introduce insane US friendly copyright law in Canada and others, mostly at the behest of the US media which have lobbyists and US politicians in their pockets.
I will NEVER vote for any government that supports this. Not even looking at the details of copyright, this is another country, being overly influenced by corporations and greed, trying to influence law in my country and infringing on our national sovereignty.
You can take you list and shove it. This type of action is not endearing your largest trading partner.
I mean there was a scandal up here, where it was found that the reports surrounding piracy, the government recommendations, AND the actual bill itself was largely authored, word for word, by the US media industry. I mean if it wasn't so sad it would be ironic (in that they copied the copyright material).
I will not shed one single tear for those companies, they can take off eh?
LOL. I bet it would run just great reflecting all the heat back inside!
Not to mention the hypocrisy of these same company's selling there wears with promises of super fast downloads, streaming video, movies, fastest network, etc....
Oh but don't dare actually use it, you're a pirate then!
They are like some sort of petulant child, that's also crazy...
More people are buying smart phones over time... Crazy.
Are you really going to plug in 5 speakers and a sub to your 10" tablet? You going to carry around 5.1 speakers? Is anyone going to actually use this feature?
Yes I know you could dock it into a stereo setup at home for entertaining, but really....
HD Video is nice, though a bit limited. As you could fit like two movies on your 32GB model. Which means you have to stream it all....
Of those involving Facebook, 100% involved Farmville.
If we are going to nominate conceptual things, why not go big and just nominate "Peace" for the Peace Prize?