Bolt cutters about a foot long? The poster I responded to was talking about using wire cutters, which certainly wouldn't work. Also, how easy is it to slip foot long bolt cutters into a coat pocket without being conspicuous?
Have you seen one of these cables? They are actually quite thick and strong, so wirecutters would not have any effect other than slicing the outer skin.
However, I'm sure there are tools for this job available at your local Home Depot or other hardware emporium. Just remember to make the cut nice and messy.
That kind of eliminates the point of having the RSS at all, as the user no longer gets up-to-the-minute information.
Also, I doubt that the major problem here is bandwidth, more the number of requests the server has to deal with. RSS feeds are quite small (just text most of the time). The server would still have to run that PHP script you suggest.
That would be Sprint's Free and Clear America. Fair and Flexible is the name of their new plan that charges overages in cheaper blocks as opposed to per minute.
"No Roaming" is a tricky thing. I don't know about Alltel, but with a Sprint phone it will try to hold onto the Sprint signal for as long as it can before switching to Verizon/Alltel/USCC/what-have-you. This means that if you have an extremely congested Sprint network, as would be the case at a large event where these COWs would be useful, your Sprint phone will NOT operate on Verizon as long as it can find a Sprint signal. You can force the phone to choose the roaming carrier first, but this would involve manually editing the phones PRL, which, while possible (others have done it, do a search on howardforums), is not something the average or even above-average user can do.
Of course, YMMV, since some phones will switch over to roaming before others.
While I welcome new data services as much as the next geek, shouldn't Cingular be focusing on improving their voice service (primary business) before implementing UMTS? Also, what about the task of merging theirs and AT&Ts GSM networks?
I have two phones, a Verizon phone for voice and a T-Mobile for data. The T-Mobile is a ridiculously good deal, since I'm on the EasySpeak prepaid with the $25 card that lasts for a year, and EasySpeak now includes unlimited GPRS, but that's beside the point. Since I live in L.A., the T-Mobile phone runs on Cingular's network, and I have to say that, while their service is pretty good, they still have some catching up with Verizon to do. They've also had some major problems with their network in the past. AT&T (when I had it) was better, so when the merger goes through Cingular will probably get better in my area, too, assuming the network fusion goes well.
Great story. It really shows the tradeoff you make when doing serious low level optimizations.
I had a similar situation where I was lost some points on a CS exam, even though I followed the instructions to the letter. After typing in the code and running it (the exam was hand-written), it worked perfectly and did exactly what it was supposed to. I went up and asked the professor why I had lost points, and he said it was because the linked list the program used was empty when my program exited. I told him that it didn't matter, since the linked list would be destroyed when the program exited either way. He still didn't give me credit.
My grandparents can get 10Mbps down/1Mbps up cable service from Optimum Online, which is much better than my 3Mb/256Kb line I have at home, but they have 56K. It costs them around nothing a month through access4free, and they're perfectly happy with the speed. They don't have to deal with ads on their service, either, since they just establish a PPP connection on their eMac and use Apple's Mail.app to get their Hotmail email. Couldn't be better for them, honestly.
I assume these pigeons were carrying microdrives (4GB), so it follows that as the microdrive got bigger the pigeon would be able to transfer much more data per flight. Therefore, a pigeon carrying an 8GB microdrive would have a transfer rate of 4.54Mbps. 16GB = 9.08Mbps, and so on.
The possibilities for pigeon data transfer are limitless!
Yeah, I guess they only make exceptions when you don't have the opportunity to de-authorize the computer. In my case, my iBook died and they refused to fix it (later turned out to be a loose cable, but that's another story for another day).
If you send an email to iTunes Support, and ask them nicely, they will de-authorize all the computers on your account automatically. Just tell them you no longer have the computers you authorized and cannot de-authorize them the normal way.
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Bolt cutters about a foot long? The poster I responded to was talking about using wire cutters, which certainly wouldn't work. Also, how easy is it to slip foot long bolt cutters into a coat pocket without being conspicuous?
Have you seen one of these cables? They are actually quite thick and strong, so wirecutters would not have any effect other than slicing the outer skin.
However, I'm sure there are tools for this job available at your local Home Depot or other hardware emporium. Just remember to make the cut nice and messy.
I think he's just sour over the AOL/Time Warner catastrophe.
That kind of eliminates the point of having the RSS at all, as the user no longer gets up-to-the-minute information.
Also, I doubt that the major problem here is bandwidth, more the number of requests the server has to deal with. RSS feeds are quite small (just text most of the time). The server would still have to run that PHP script you suggest.
Since this is intended for labs, where people are able to see your screen anyway, I doubt this would be that much of an issue.
Must be running their server off an iPod mini.
Actually a lot of studios no longer release screeners (DVD or VHS) in wide circulation, due to piracy concerns.
A friend of mine was supposed to get Kill Bill Vol. 1 as a screener soon after the release of the film in theaters, but didn't.
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That would be Sprint's Free and Clear America. Fair and Flexible is the name of their new plan that charges overages in cheaper blocks as opposed to per minute.
"No Roaming" is a tricky thing. I don't know about Alltel, but with a Sprint phone it will try to hold onto the Sprint signal for as long as it can before switching to Verizon/Alltel/USCC/what-have-you. This means that if you have an extremely congested Sprint network, as would be the case at a large event where these COWs would be useful, your Sprint phone will NOT operate on Verizon as long as it can find a Sprint signal. You can force the phone to choose the roaming carrier first, but this would involve manually editing the phones PRL, which, while possible (others have done it, do a search on howardforums), is not something the average or even above-average user can do.
Of course, YMMV, since some phones will switch over to roaming before others.
While I welcome new data services as much as the next geek, shouldn't Cingular be focusing on improving their voice service (primary business) before implementing UMTS? Also, what about the task of merging theirs and AT&Ts GSM networks?
I have two phones, a Verizon phone for voice and a T-Mobile for data. The T-Mobile is a ridiculously good deal, since I'm on the EasySpeak prepaid with the $25 card that lasts for a year, and EasySpeak now includes unlimited GPRS, but that's beside the point. Since I live in L.A., the T-Mobile phone runs on Cingular's network, and I have to say that, while their service is pretty good, they still have some catching up with Verizon to do. They've also had some major problems with their network in the past. AT&T (when I had it) was better, so when the merger goes through Cingular will probably get better in my area, too, assuming the network fusion goes well.
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Great story. It really shows the tradeoff you make when doing serious low level optimizations.
I had a similar situation where I was lost some points on a CS exam, even though I followed the instructions to the letter. After typing in the code and running it (the exam was hand-written), it worked perfectly and did exactly what it was supposed to. I went up and asked the professor why I had lost points, and he said it was because the linked list the program used was empty when my program exited. I told him that it didn't matter, since the linked list would be destroyed when the program exited either way. He still didn't give me credit.
Hi Bill.
Wouldn't that be spelling nazi? You insensitive clod!
My grandparents can get 10Mbps down/1Mbps up cable service from Optimum Online, which is much better than my 3Mb/256Kb line I have at home, but they have 56K. It costs them around nothing a month through access4free, and they're perfectly happy with the speed. They don't have to deal with ads on their service, either, since they just establish a PPP connection on their eMac and use Apple's Mail.app to get their Hotmail email. Couldn't be better for them, honestly.
I assume these pigeons were carrying microdrives (4GB), so it follows that as the microdrive got bigger the pigeon would be able to transfer much more data per flight. Therefore, a pigeon carrying an 8GB microdrive would have a transfer rate of 4.54Mbps. 16GB = 9.08Mbps, and so on.
The possibilities for pigeon data transfer are limitless!
Unfortunately programming cannot be substituted for sex.
I'll just get back to programming now...
Yeah, I guess they only make exceptions when you don't have the opportunity to de-authorize the computer. In my case, my iBook died and they refused to fix it (later turned out to be a loose cable, but that's another story for another day).
If you send an email to iTunes Support, and ask them nicely, they will de-authorize all the computers on your account automatically. Just tell them you no longer have the computers you authorized and cannot de-authorize them the normal way.
Worked for me.