Fifteen years someone's been trying to get the gadget that would be an online viewing device, tablet, NetPC, whatever. Michael "why won't they let me fly back on the Google Plane" Arrington is just one more arrogant joker, posing as a visionary in a high-profile spot, wanting to crack open the notebook/tablet/ultra-something marketplace. He'll fail, too.
I have to counter with the fact that the pump up in oil prices is artificial, and was started when the money ran out of the mortgage and hedge fund markets. This money needs to make money, and is always looking for a bull market. It found oil and other commodities.
While we'll also agree that oil consumption is overall a bad thing, and has done great damage to the environment, it is an artificial crisis, and bears no resemblance to supply and demand other than the limitations imposed on oil refinery capacity in the US. The limited capacity has the effect of amplifying the current trend, and every oil/political news sparrow fart of an RSS alert drives the price up. That's because there's a huge lump of money that needs to be making money as long as it is perceived that we'll continue to buy. No, it's not natural supply and demand. It's a squeeze job.
Look at what happened when GB the elder left office. Oil dropped in 1993 dramatically, to under $1/gal in most places. At the end of his term, it shot up, but nothing like what happened in late 2001. It dipped, then followed war. When the war in Iraq was artificially over, it dropped again as the mortgage and hedge funds were pumped (after all, there were no dot-coms to fund with exaggerated exuberance).
That money started leaving in 2006 because of all of the negative signs and that's when oil started to rise in price. Any old explosion in Nigeria or bellowing from a Venezuelan blow-hard president-for-life would cause a nice little bump up. Sneeze in the currency market? Bump. Look at the sneezes, follow the money.
You've been seduced by the pimps of the oil companies and the US press, which plays along like a lapdog with their huge benefactors, just as Washington, Inc., does.
But my sig represents not only the economy of peace, also the morality of it. I long for the day of great energy that doesn't pollute, but also a world that plans for the resources of the many that don't get to eat at night, or sleep under a roof, or get to know the luxuries of what we in the west call 'the basics'.
Goldman Sachs IT, eh? Yesterday it was Gartner. These are guys with funded track records of largely failure, IMHO. I wouldn't give them much creedence. The industry is ripe and rife with change, be it the blossoming of mobiles/cells to the enormous competitiveness of online commerce platforms, incredible changes in entertainment delivery systems, etc.
There's a small problem in the US economy that will actually be improved no matter who is elected US president, as it always is a honeymoon between investors and the new government every four years. And it's very likely that with a new regime will come a drastic cut in oil prices.... further spurring money back into tech, where we've made the most gains in the past few decades.
Gotta love a doom sayer; it's done so they can by the stock cheaper now, then sell it higher later. This is called capitalism, and the propaganda is called marketing.
Web 2 techniques aren't grounded in the older data processing profile at all, and coding techniques are perceived to allow wicked security holes if underlying data sources aren't totally bolted down.
The concept of hot mashes makes sense, but a lot of web apps are based on browser screen scrapes with forms handling parsers and forms retrieval. When you add layers on top, it's possible to both mangle data and mis-represent what's going on in the back end. Translation: a layer of disconnect with potentials for abuses occurs if standards aren't enforced, and QA is taken out of the loop. Worse, with big hammers you can break anything and with the number of php advisories I've seen as an indicator, corpdevguys are going to face a lot of audit problems.
Satellites can do this now. How do you think we detect who's developing nuclear power? It can't be the bunglers at the CIA. It's a bit of a non-issue, a conjecture better discussed in pubs.
Consider the chaos of other countries that have even small portions of open spectrum. Nothing works subsequently, and you'll get some trucker with a 10kw transmitter in Arkansas over powering your TV, radio, cell phone, and WiFi because of the broadband noise produced.
Free spectrum would be like removing the lines on the highway and the lane markings at intersections. Go ahead.
The emasculated, non-functional FTC should jump in the middle of this and do a slapdown on Apple. What's wrong with the fundamental morality in the computer biz? Has it just evaporated? Apple has no injury here, just a monopoly.
We just followed orders..... against one of the hallmark components of liberty in the US Constitution. Rationalizing privacy and which laws you get to follow leads to an uncivil society, and we're obligated to be bound by both the law (in letter and in spirit).
The telecom bribers of Congress and the White House are trying to get away with a very onerous crime. Voting with FISA legislation was cowardly, and Obama jumped into the coward's camp as far as I'm concerned. Now, for me, he's the lesser of two evils.
There are already patented schemes that use locational indirection tables to offset the write problem. Reducing volatility is yet another advance. Woody Norris, the crazed inventor, contributed to one of the patented methods, and there are more. Still, the advanced number of write cycles (and the fact that writes must be blocks rather than discrete mallocs) is a wonderful thing.
Does this mean we need to buy VIA and AMD? And maybe their STOCK???? How embarrassing for Intel. How maniacal for the rest of us that now need to patch most things we've bought in the past few years. Perhaps buying a G4 Mac was a good idea after all.....
When organizations lose customers, their revenues go down, as does their share price. Look at Sprint for directions, here.
A cell phone bill of rights confers status on those poor schleps, us. We're the one that has to put up with boorish practices. The operating costs are absorbed by us anyway, why not make them open rather than hidden, and favor good customer relations and customer retention rather than the crap we must face now? Many people have become so hardened to bad and monopolistic practices that they've forgotten what good service is like. Find me a cell carrier that makes customers smile these days. I dare you.
There is no suicide, maybe a revolution in good, open, honest relationships between phone makers, carriers, service providers, and the ALL IMPORTANT CUSTOMER, rather than enslaving the customer. As a sage once said, you get more flies with honey than vinegar.
If you're on Slashdot, and you're ostensibly a nerd, you need a vocabulary improvement, as well as one with manners, although manners are optional here.
If you can't speak the language, don't abuse me, improve your vocabulary.
#1 means troubleshooting a lot of equipment, usually not the CPE. The cellphone in this case IS the CPE.
#3 do your own research. Bogus moisture detectors aid carriers ability to needlessly void warranties, IMHO
#10, we disagree. A bricked phone can be rejuvenated, just like a locked one. The difference is only the degree of difficulty. You're mincing words.
#14 1. treble damages? Why don't you ask a real source? TRIPLE 2. FU == fuck ups, my apologies if you're faint of obscenity 3. See the research again, as in do some.
I speak plain English. I'm not trying to sell my points to those incapable of understanding the subject matter, yet insist on arguing its points, lacking the context. But this is slashdot. We are all kinds, and no offense to you, but I'll bet you're having trouble understanding all of this because you aren't a follower of tech subjects, at least in this area. Good luck.
As regards #2, they have to be held to the fire, otherwise they'll let inventory drops and other lame excuses cause lots of pain for people that really need their phones as they have no landlines
As regards #3, there are bogus moisture detectors on phones. Google it.
As regards #10, locking and bricking are the same things. Remote locks are important to prevent bogus use charges and the black market for hot phones.
As regards #14, treble means triple damages for carrier slamming and other inter-carrier FUs. Predatory conversions of phones ought to additionally entail jail time for the CEO.
1. Expose the full minimum costs (including taxes) for the deal over its life 2. Provide overnight replacement of defective phones, and have remote diagnostics to prove it 3. Bogus charges of moisture sensors should be grounds for no-fault contract termination 4. No charge for instant termination if your bill is paid on time 5. Full backup of user data services at no charge at the carrier on-line 6. No extra charges for text, data, or voice (they're all the same anyway) 7. User-selected least-call-cost routing 8. Users can put any app on their phone they want, so long as they take responsibility for it 9. No throttling of service by type; all user controlled. 10. User password-controlled kill switches to brick stolen phones 11. One single mini-USB jack for charging purposes and sub-mini audio plug standard on all phones 12. No charges for directly uploading and downloading any media or datafiles to the phone within its capacity 13. Destroy all 'deals' between phone vendors and carriers; reveal the true cost of using all services on each contract 14. Allow treble damages for carrier slamming 15. Mandate unbundled deals, so that true costs can be assessed by consumers
Cell phones need to leave the telco world and enter the computer world. Ok. Whew. I'll get off my soapbox. Now for the barrage.
You call me a secularist, but I'm not, by implication.
We have no arguments that the US was founded by people with deep conviction. It's also a fact that by four votes, we speak English instead of German. These facts are a matter of history.
Your interpretation of the writers varies from their writings, which I suggest you read, especially Payne, Franklin, Jefferson, and later leaders.
My family fled religious persecution and famine. I do not want anyone's flavor of creation mythos to be taught to my children under the aegis of public education-- it's my job, and it's not the job of the government to sanction one religious view over another, and 'creationism" along with "ID" are a specific religious view that should not be foisted upon children without the specific direction of their parents. It therefore is in my opinion and the opinion of many others, that this execution of educational will upon the public violates the trust that separates church and state. Both are mythos, unless parents specifically consent-- and under that aegis, I would agree, but it is not. It's the imposition of religion in a public context sanctioned by the State of Louisiana.
Well, that's been the crux of expensive litigation for centuries now. In the end, were it me on SCOTUS, it would be clear that the science class room has room for various creation theories. It would put the madness to rest, and each can be treated with the referential facts that they contain. But to teach creationism in public schools is brutish, unless it's in the context of all of the creation mythos. Treat them all fairly.
I haven't seen anyone yet that has a corner on God.
And nothing would have been the right move. Obama caved in on this topic and it's just as evil and just as stinky as what his opponent has done.
If you're going to use altruism and idealism as "values", then you have to stick by them. That's what Obama sold me, and now he's taken them back. Now he's the lesser of two evils. That sucks.
It's your mythos, and I don't want my children getting your mythos passed off as fact. Freedom also means freedom from mythos-expostulating nutcases, and that includes all of the proselyters, evangelists, and other teachers of mythos. I get to choose what my children learn; it is my duty, responsibility, and gift, not yours, or other religious peoples.
Through so many enforcements of the constitution, SCOTUS has interpreted...Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment... to mean that one religion (in this case, the orthodox/literal translation advocacy) doesn't get to play.
If you "don't understand why" then you haven't researched all of the other creation myths out there, and there are many. You can believe what you like, but you can't teach my children your mythos. You're entitled to your beliefs, but you're not entitled to your facts.
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Fifteen years someone's been trying to get the gadget that would be an online viewing device, tablet, NetPC, whatever. Michael "why won't they let me fly back on the Google Plane" Arrington is just one more arrogant joker, posing as a visionary in a high-profile spot, wanting to crack open the notebook/tablet/ultra-something marketplace. He'll fail, too.
I understand your well-reasoned reply.
I have to counter with the fact that the pump up in oil prices is artificial, and was started when the money ran out of the mortgage and hedge fund markets. This money needs to make money, and is always looking for a bull market. It found oil and other commodities.
While we'll also agree that oil consumption is overall a bad thing, and has done great damage to the environment, it is an artificial crisis, and bears no resemblance to supply and demand other than the limitations imposed on oil refinery capacity in the US. The limited capacity has the effect of amplifying the current trend, and every oil/political news sparrow fart of an RSS alert drives the price up. That's because there's a huge lump of money that needs to be making money as long as it is perceived that we'll continue to buy. No, it's not natural supply and demand. It's a squeeze job.
Look at what happened when GB the elder left office. Oil dropped in 1993 dramatically, to under $1/gal in most places. At the end of his term, it shot up, but nothing like what happened in late 2001. It dipped, then followed war. When the war in Iraq was artificially over, it dropped again as the mortgage and hedge funds were pumped (after all, there were no dot-coms to fund with exaggerated exuberance).
That money started leaving in 2006 because of all of the negative signs and that's when oil started to rise in price. Any old explosion in Nigeria or bellowing from a Venezuelan blow-hard president-for-life would cause a nice little bump up. Sneeze in the currency market? Bump. Look at the sneezes, follow the money.
You've been seduced by the pimps of the oil companies and the US press, which plays along like a lapdog with their huge benefactors, just as Washington, Inc., does.
But my sig represents not only the economy of peace, also the morality of it. I long for the day of great energy that doesn't pollute, but also a world that plans for the resources of the many that don't get to eat at night, or sleep under a roof, or get to know the luxuries of what we in the west call 'the basics'.
Goldman Sachs IT, eh? Yesterday it was Gartner. These are guys with funded track records of largely failure, IMHO. I wouldn't give them much creedence. The industry is ripe and rife with change, be it the blossoming of mobiles/cells to the enormous competitiveness of online commerce platforms, incredible changes in entertainment delivery systems, etc.
There's a small problem in the US economy that will actually be improved no matter who is elected US president, as it always is a honeymoon between investors and the new government every four years. And it's very likely that with a new regime will come a drastic cut in oil prices.... further spurring money back into tech, where we've made the most gains in the past few decades.
Gotta love a doom sayer; it's done so they can by the stock cheaper now, then sell it higher later. This is called capitalism, and the propaganda is called marketing.
Web 2 techniques aren't grounded in the older data processing profile at all, and coding techniques are perceived to allow wicked security holes if underlying data sources aren't totally bolted down.
The concept of hot mashes makes sense, but a lot of web apps are based on browser screen scrapes with forms handling parsers and forms retrieval. When you add layers on top, it's possible to both mangle data and mis-represent what's going on in the back end. Translation: a layer of disconnect with potentials for abuses occurs if standards aren't enforced, and QA is taken out of the loop. Worse, with big hammers you can break anything and with the number of php advisories I've seen as an indicator, corpdevguys are going to face a lot of audit problems.
Satellites can do this now. How do you think we detect who's developing nuclear power? It can't be the bunglers at the CIA. It's a bit of a non-issue, a conjecture better discussed in pubs.
Consider the chaos of other countries that have even small portions of open spectrum. Nothing works subsequently, and you'll get some trucker with a 10kw transmitter in Arkansas over powering your TV, radio, cell phone, and WiFi because of the broadband noise produced.
Free spectrum would be like removing the lines on the highway and the lane markings at intersections. Go ahead.
The emasculated, non-functional FTC should jump in the middle of this and do a slapdown on Apple. What's wrong with the fundamental morality in the computer biz? Has it just evaporated? Apple has no injury here, just a monopoly.
Oh, right.....
We just followed orders..... against one of the hallmark components of liberty in the US Constitution. Rationalizing privacy and which laws you get to follow leads to an uncivil society, and we're obligated to be bound by both the law (in letter and in spirit).
The telecom bribers of Congress and the White House are trying to get away with a very onerous crime. Voting with FISA legislation was cowardly, and Obama jumped into the coward's camp as far as I'm concerned. Now, for me, he's the lesser of two evils.
There are already patented schemes that use locational indirection tables to offset the write problem. Reducing volatility is yet another advance. Woody Norris, the crazed inventor, contributed to one of the patented methods, and there are more. Still, the advanced number of write cycles (and the fact that writes must be blocks rather than discrete mallocs) is a wonderful thing.
Up to this point, there hasn't been a single Anonymous Coward to post on a thread that's about anonymo.us
Splendid!
Does this mean we need to buy VIA and AMD? And maybe their STOCK???? How embarrassing for Intel. How maniacal for the rest of us that now need to patch most things we've bought in the past few years. Perhaps buying a G4 Mac was a good idea after all.....
No... wait....
When organizations lose customers, their revenues go down, as does their share price. Look at Sprint for directions, here.
A cell phone bill of rights confers status on those poor schleps, us. We're the one that has to put up with boorish practices. The operating costs are absorbed by us anyway, why not make them open rather than hidden, and favor good customer relations and customer retention rather than the crap we must face now? Many people have become so hardened to bad and monopolistic practices that they've forgotten what good service is like. Find me a cell carrier that makes customers smile these days. I dare you.
There is no suicide, maybe a revolution in good, open, honest relationships between phone makers, carriers, service providers, and the ALL IMPORTANT CUSTOMER, rather than enslaving the customer. As a sage once said, you get more flies with honey than vinegar.
Your anger is your problem.
CPE stands for Customer Premises Equipment.
Treble damages are triple damages.
If you're on Slashdot, and you're ostensibly a nerd, you need a vocabulary improvement, as well as one with manners, although manners are optional here.
If you can't speak the language, don't abuse me, improve your vocabulary.
Sigh.
#1 means troubleshooting a lot of equipment, usually not the CPE. The cellphone in this case IS the CPE.
#3 do your own research. Bogus moisture detectors aid carriers ability to needlessly void warranties, IMHO
#10, we disagree. A bricked phone can be rejuvenated, just like a locked one. The difference is only the degree of difficulty. You're mincing words.
#14 1. treble damages? Why don't you ask a real source? TRIPLE
2. FU == fuck ups, my apologies if you're faint of obscenity
3. See the research again, as in do some.
I speak plain English. I'm not trying to sell my points to those incapable of understanding the subject matter, yet insist on arguing its points, lacking the context. But this is slashdot. We are all kinds, and no offense to you, but I'll bet you're having trouble understanding all of this because you aren't a follower of tech subjects, at least in this area. Good luck.
No customers==no stockholders. They're monopolies, and bribers of legislators and presidents, IMHO.
As regards #2, they have to be held to the fire, otherwise they'll let inventory drops and other lame excuses cause lots of pain for people that really need their phones as they have no landlines
As regards #3, there are bogus moisture detectors on phones. Google it.
As regards #10, locking and bricking are the same things. Remote locks are important to prevent bogus use charges and the black market for hot phones.
As regards #14, treble means triple damages for carrier slamming and other inter-carrier FUs. Predatory conversions of phones ought to additionally entail jail time for the CEO.
Maybe a key, like Yubico, or a credit card or a combo could do the remote bricking. Imagine: teenagers out of control.... no-wait.
1. Expose the full minimum costs (including taxes) for the deal over its life
2. Provide overnight replacement of defective phones, and have remote diagnostics to prove it
3. Bogus charges of moisture sensors should be grounds for no-fault contract termination
4. No charge for instant termination if your bill is paid on time
5. Full backup of user data services at no charge at the carrier on-line
6. No extra charges for text, data, or voice (they're all the same anyway)
7. User-selected least-call-cost routing
8. Users can put any app on their phone they want, so long as they take responsibility for it
9. No throttling of service by type; all user controlled.
10. User password-controlled kill switches to brick stolen phones
11. One single mini-USB jack for charging purposes and sub-mini audio plug standard on all phones
12. No charges for directly uploading and downloading any media or datafiles to the phone within its capacity
13. Destroy all 'deals' between phone vendors and carriers; reveal the true cost of using all services on each contract
14. Allow treble damages for carrier slamming
15. Mandate unbundled deals, so that true costs can be assessed by consumers
Cell phones need to leave the telco world and enter the computer world.
Ok. Whew. I'll get off my soapbox. Now for the barrage.
You call me a secularist, but I'm not, by implication.
We have no arguments that the US was founded by people with deep conviction. It's also a fact that by four votes, we speak English instead of German. These facts are a matter of history.
Your interpretation of the writers varies from their writings, which I suggest you read, especially Payne, Franklin, Jefferson, and later leaders.
My family fled religious persecution and famine. I do not want anyone's flavor of creation mythos to be taught to my children under the aegis of public education-- it's my job, and it's not the job of the government to sanction one religious view over another, and 'creationism" along with "ID" are a specific religious view that should not be foisted upon children without the specific direction of their parents. It therefore is in my opinion and the opinion of many others, that this execution of educational will upon the public violates the trust that separates church and state. Both are mythos, unless parents specifically consent-- and under that aegis, I would agree, but it is not. It's the imposition of religion in a public context sanctioned by the State of Louisiana.
Well, that's been the crux of expensive litigation for centuries now. In the end, were it me on SCOTUS, it would be clear that the science class room has room for various creation theories. It would put the madness to rest, and each can be treated with the referential facts that they contain. But to teach creationism in public schools is brutish, unless it's in the context of all of the creation mythos. Treat them all fairly.
I haven't seen anyone yet that has a corner on God.
And nothing would have been the right move. Obama caved in on this topic and it's just as evil and just as stinky as what his opponent has done.
If you're going to use altruism and idealism as "values", then you have to stick by them. That's what Obama sold me, and now he's taken them back. Now he's the lesser of two evils. That sucks.
It's your mythos, and I don't want my children getting your mythos passed off as fact. Freedom also means freedom from mythos-expostulating nutcases, and that includes all of the proselyters, evangelists, and other teachers of mythos. I get to choose what my children learn; it is my duty, responsibility, and gift, not yours, or other religious peoples.
Through so many enforcements of the constitution, SCOTUS has interpreted ...Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment... to mean that one religion (in this case, the orthodox/literal translation advocacy) doesn't get to play.
If you "don't understand why" then you haven't researched all of the other creation myths out there, and there are many. You can believe what you like, but you can't teach my children your mythos. You're entitled to your beliefs, but you're not entitled to your facts.
We agree, especially orthodox, dogmatic injections into curriculum.