T-Mobile just introduced a data cap of 5GB per month. If they're offering 5GB, who cares how they use it? The network will give them the bandwidth available, and once they hit the cap they're done. You can't have your cake and eat it to, Tmo.
Wait, wait. Let me take a guess. T-Mobile gets a cut of the apps sold out of their own branded app store. Amirite?
I think you mean wikileaks is taking the right approach, at least from a marketing perspective. The government sneezes and wikileaks screams bloody murder.
You can't punch someone in the face multiple times, then call yourself a victim when they punch you back. When Wikileaks changed from a neutral harbor to an anti-American spin machine I stopped caring about them. Wikileaks should go back to neutrality and leave the sensationalism and slant to the media.
One of the coolest aspects of auto-driving cars that I haven't seen discussed much (and I don't know if Google is working on) is having RANs - or road area networks. Imagine if every car on the freeway was auto-driving and mesh-networked. A deer runs in front of the car 1/4 mile up and your car immediately knows about and starts correcting for it by slowing down. An accident has happened (caused by a non-auto driving car, of course) and the system automatically merges traffic into available lanes, and calculates a percentage of traffic to redirect through a different route. Automatic traffic detections systems sense all possible routes on your morning commute and always pick the quickest one, correcting in real time for updated traffic statistics. A computer can manage traffic better than a bunch of individual drivers.
I'm sure there is even more potential that I haven't even considered. What else could you do with a totally sweet and functional RAN?
So you're saying only and organization like Fox News with a figurehead like Glenn Beck could lead to really real social change? I for one DON'T welcome our new overzealous extremist overlords.
I know that if my plane is going down, my first reaction would be to get as many bras off of as many ladies as possible. Now I can just say I'm doing it for safety.
The only time the data is given to the browser is when you've already started typing it. Iirc you have to enter one field and then tab to the next. So if you're giving this data anyway it's not really a vulnerability. The only potential victims are people who start entering data and then decide not to. Worth paying attention to, but not exactly a huge problem.
I can't tell if you're trying to be sarcastic, but I'll bite. You really think that paying $99 a year is a good way to have a 3rd party application environment? How does that enable a community of any kind? Seems like you're probably only able to install apps that you write at that point and that is nothing compared to being able to access a development community. What if your business model doesn't match Apple's rigid App store?
What good is tethering if you're not allowed to do it? It's effectively the same problem. What good is multitasking if you STILL can't do instant messaging? What good is even having instant messaging if you still don't have anything even close to a reasonable notifications system?
You cherry picked a few things out of a long list and even those are pretty piss poor substitutes.
Look, I love the iPhone and I love iOS, but if you're trying to defend it as being open then you're delusional. I own an iPad. It's a toy. I would never accept an OS like that on my phone.
1. The iPhone for is our most successful iPhone ever. First day sales figures. 2. iPhone 4 has better reception than any phone we've shipped. 3. The reports of problems have been massively overblown. 4. Still, even though there is not a problem, you can have a $30 giftcard and buy a bumper with it if you want. 5. Some unrelated but big announcement to redirect attention (iPhone on Verizon, it will now come in green, etc.)
Even a locked down self destructing Android phone is 10x more open then an iPhone. You know you can still install your own applications, right? You know you can use your locked up tight Android phone for streaming podcasts (over 3G no less!), tethering, instant messaging, multi-tasking, wifi metering/sniffing, file management, accessing FTP servers, playing non hardware-supported media types, google latitude, free theft protection, customizable home screens, widgets, porn(!), universal file system, change the default launcher, use skype, flash, use non-webkit browsers, use a full bluetooth stack, VOIP, tight google voice integration, expandable memory, remote or local torrent control, reading around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne, offensive apps, installing apps outside the app store, listen to nine inch nails, use alternative music players/music stores, dope wars, watch south park, use alternative keyboards, voice texting/typing, plenty of navigation apps, replace the battery, alternative SMS/alerts/quick reply apps, search emails, apply custom themes, console emulation (nintendo, sega, super nintendo, ps, etc.), sample apps and return them if they suck. The iPhone does none of those things (or does them in some sort of crippled way) so who is laughing at who?
Also, you can pull the airbag system out of your car all you want.
How is blowing a fuse within your phone protecting anyone? Isn't the idea to protect people from broken phones and massive amounts of returns? Isn't the first goal to give people something that hopefully won't break? What is the goal more important than a functional device that is justification for the eFuse?
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What is the difference between control protocol and regular transfer?
T-Mobile just introduced a data cap of 5GB per month. If they're offering 5GB, who cares how they use it? The network will give them the bandwidth available, and once they hit the cap they're done. You can't have your cake and eat it to, Tmo.
Wait, wait. Let me take a guess. T-Mobile gets a cut of the apps sold out of their own branded app store. Amirite?
Sounds like this snail works well ...
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(puts sunglasses on)
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under pressure.
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......
(Sorry I seem to have gotten lost on my way to reddit...)
Your 18 month old thinks a tree is human?
Alright, I'm going to stop trusting scientific studies - starting with this one.
Robots have successfully passed the 18 month old turring test. That's actually pretty cool.
I think you mean wikileaks is taking the right approach, at least from a marketing perspective. The government sneezes and wikileaks screams bloody murder.
You can't punch someone in the face multiple times, then call yourself a victim when they punch you back. When Wikileaks changed from a neutral harbor to an anti-American spin machine I stopped caring about them. Wikileaks should go back to neutrality and leave the sensationalism and slant to the media.
This is the patent equivalent of Nostradamus. Basically you patent a bunch of nonsense, and every once in a while something is bound to hit.
Was this patent application written by the schwa corporation or what?
http://www.google.com/patents?id=P4MpAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=5251294&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q&f=false
One of the coolest aspects of auto-driving cars that I haven't seen discussed much (and I don't know if Google is working on) is having RANs - or road area networks. Imagine if every car on the freeway was auto-driving and mesh-networked. A deer runs in front of the car 1/4 mile up and your car immediately knows about and starts correcting for it by slowing down. An accident has happened (caused by a non-auto driving car, of course) and the system automatically merges traffic into available lanes, and calculates a percentage of traffic to redirect through a different route. Automatic traffic detections systems sense all possible routes on your morning commute and always pick the quickest one, correcting in real time for updated traffic statistics. A computer can manage traffic better than a bunch of individual drivers.
I'm sure there is even more potential that I haven't even considered. What else could you do with a totally sweet and functional RAN?
Redundancy. Give me 3 or 4 redundant hearts and I'll be feeling pretty good about things.
Steve Jobs of today would reject the contributions of Steve Jobs of yesterday.
So you're saying only and organization like Fox News with a figurehead like Glenn Beck could lead to really real social change? I for one DON'T welcome our new overzealous extremist overlords.
I know that if my plane is going down, my first reaction would be to get as many bras off of as many ladies as possible. Now I can just say I'm doing it for safety.
I'm pretty sure Google isn't pushing Android for tablets because they don't have a good plan for supporting resolutions that high.
A pink car will not only deter thieves. Trust me, if you have a pink car, it's the only pink thing you'll be seeing.
My two year old could run Microsoft better than Balmer, and I don't even have a two year old.
Yea - so they have to guess my name first. Might as well be a password - I'm really not to worried.
1. AT&T is retarded
2. That update didn't kill root access.
The only time the data is given to the browser is when you've already started typing it. Iirc you have to enter one field and then tab to the next. So if you're giving this data anyway it's not really a vulnerability. The only potential victims are people who start entering data and then decide not to. Worth paying attention to, but not exactly a huge problem.
I can't tell if you're trying to be sarcastic, but I'll bite. You really think that paying $99 a year is a good way to have a 3rd party application environment? How does that enable a community of any kind? Seems like you're probably only able to install apps that you write at that point and that is nothing compared to being able to access a development community. What if your business model doesn't match Apple's rigid App store?
What good is tethering if you're not allowed to do it? It's effectively the same problem. What good is multitasking if you STILL can't do instant messaging? What good is even having instant messaging if you still don't have anything even close to a reasonable notifications system?
You cherry picked a few things out of a long list and even those are pretty piss poor substitutes.
Look, I love the iPhone and I love iOS, but if you're trying to defend it as being open then you're delusional. I own an iPad. It's a toy. I would never accept an OS like that on my phone.
Someone who is not Steve Jobs takes the stage...
1. The iPhone for is our most successful iPhone ever. First day sales figures.
2. iPhone 4 has better reception than any phone we've shipped.
3. The reports of problems have been massively overblown.
4. Still, even though there is not a problem, you can have a $30 giftcard and buy a bumper with it if you want.
5. Some unrelated but big announcement to redirect attention (iPhone on Verizon, it will now come in green, etc.)
Even a locked down self destructing Android phone is 10x more open then an iPhone. You know you can still install your own applications, right? You know you can use your locked up tight Android phone for streaming podcasts (over 3G no less!), tethering, instant messaging, multi-tasking, wifi metering/sniffing, file management, accessing FTP servers, playing non hardware-supported media types, google latitude, free theft protection, customizable home screens, widgets, porn(!), universal file system, change the default launcher, use skype, flash, use non-webkit browsers, use a full bluetooth stack, VOIP, tight google voice integration, expandable memory, remote or local torrent control, reading around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne, offensive apps, installing apps outside the app store, listen to nine inch nails, use alternative music players/music stores, dope wars, watch south park, use alternative keyboards, voice texting/typing, plenty of navigation apps, replace the battery, alternative SMS/alerts/quick reply apps, search emails, apply custom themes, console emulation (nintendo, sega, super nintendo, ps, etc.), sample apps and return them if they suck. The iPhone does none of those things (or does them in some sort of crippled way) so who is laughing at who?
Just because you can make a car analogy doesn't make it a valid analogy. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_analogy
Also, you can pull the airbag system out of your car all you want.
How is blowing a fuse within your phone protecting anyone? Isn't the idea to protect people from broken phones and massive amounts of returns? Isn't the first goal to give people something that hopefully won't break? What is the goal more important than a functional device that is justification for the eFuse?